Chapter 446 - Point (1/2)

Chapter 446 - Point

TL: LifeisaJourney

Cai Hao Chen was able to sense something wasn’t right. He did his best to resurface and swim to the closest shore. With his body temperature dropping rapidly, he started hallucinating. He thought he was swimming hard, but in actuality, he was merely floating in the water.

At this time, he heard splashing noise and felt an arm wrap around his body. Someone was pulling him toward the shore and rubbing his back so that he could regain his body heat.

That person was Lord Liu!

“Hey! Are you crazy? Why did you jump into the ice-cold water?” Ana shouted.

Cai Hao Chen head cleared up once he was warmer. He wasn’t hallucinating about being rescued by Lord Liu! Ana, Liu Kang, Stratos and Star Yu were also there.

Liu Kang showed up in the nick of time, as Liu Gan and the three others were about to split up to look for him. Liu Kang told them about finding a new quest by the lake. As a result, the five of them rushed toward the lake. They saw the elder, but Cai Hao Chen wasn’t around.

Liu Gan’s vision was better than everyone else's, so he saw Cai Hao Chen floating in the lake in the distance. He didn’t hesitate to take action and immediately swam out to fetch the unresponsive Cai Hao Chen.

“Quest… find the watch. Watch strikes twelve, will produce a song… I think it is in that area underneath the ice. Song sounds like…” Cai Hao Chen started mumbling, but halted by Liu Gan.

“You did great, relax now. I will take over now,” Liu Gan patted Cai Hao Chen on the shoulders.

Then, Liu Gan jumped right into the lake.

Liu Gan’s cold resistance was much higher than Cai Hao Chen’s. To top if off, he also had the Dermal Respiration ability. He wouldn’t need to resurface for air, so his searching efficiency was much higher.

Liu Gan had to confirm the area Cai Hao Chen had pointed out before heading down to the lakebed. Junk in the lake was kicked up as Liu Gan was moving around. Liu Gan jumped into the water, created unnecessary splashes which made the water become even murkier. Now it was impossible to see underwater.

These quests had an increasing difficulty after each successive completion. Now that they had completed the first quest, it would be a waste if they didn’t complete the second quest. So, regardless of difficulty, Liu Gan felt that he had invested a lot of time and effort in this instance. Giving up was not an option for Liu Gan.

It didn’t take long for Liu Gan to realize that he wasn’t alone in the lake. A Crocodile had crawled in from another shore, but was heading towards Liu Gan. The Crocodile was faster in water than on land; it truly was an amphibious creature!

Liu Gan was at a disadvantage in the water, he expended a lot more stamina by staying there. Without any good means of fighting, Liu Gan chose to evade the Crocodile’s assaults as best as he could, while slowly retreating back to shore.

Once Liu Gan was on the sandy shore, the Crocodile followed suit. Both man and creature started fighting on the beach. Liu Gan spent the next half an hour killing the creature over and over again, right up until the ninth time, when the Crocodile became enraged.

With the earlier chain of fights lasting up to an hour, this fight took only half an hour since Liu Gan was getting used to the way the Crocodile attacked. It was such a primitive creature that it didn’t have a lot of variety behind those assaults; it merely had the strength to overwhelm its prey. Liu Gan decided that the reward would go to Cai Hao Chen, for demonstrating unrelenting bravery.

Cai Hao Chen said that he had a pact with Liu Kang to split the reward, so he wanted to hand over this level-up reward to Liu Kang. While it was a honorable gesture by Cai Hao Chen, Liu Kang didn’t feel right about claiming it. Under Liu Gan’s direct order, Cai Hao Chen ended up picking up the greataxe to kill the Crocodile.