Chapter 14: Unyielding Mad Dragon (1/2)

Beneath the bronze-colored walls, a group of five people was standing on Floating Ice Bridge. I knew them well, their IDs all had the prefix “Mad Dragon” before their names. The man standing at the forefront was called Roaming Dragon, and he was the first enemy I encountered in this game. I didn’t expect to meet him here after the fight at Sunshine Forest.

Roaming Dragon glared hatefully at my Forest Green Blade before sneering at me. “The Iron-grade Forest Green Blade is the 7th strongest weapon on Floating Ice City’s weapon ranking list. If I’m not mistaken, it was also the sword dropped from the Green Praying Mantis King, wasn’t it?”

I didn’t deny it. Raising my eyebrows, I asked, “Yep. So what?”

“So what?!” Roaming Dragon uttered through gritted teeth before threatening, “Leave the Forest Green Blade now and maybe I’ll spare your life. Otherwise, your days in Floating Ice City are over.”

I snorted. “Are you joking? Who are you to decide whether I spend my time here?”

Roaming Dragon suddenly smiled until his handsome face was almost fully-distorted. “Is that so? Why don’t we test that theory then?”

He then shouted angrily, “Brothers, eliminate this dirty Night Creature!”

The Mad Dragon members immediately pulled out their weapons. One of them was a Bard, and he pulled up a bamboo flute and played a short tune. Roaming Dragon’s head was immediately surrounded by a green halo. It was Bard’s basic skill, Forge! It was a buff that enhanced the targets’ hit rate by 25%!

There was a large number of players standing at the city gate, and the commotion had caught their attention. Many of them were even pointing at me and gossiping.

“What the fuck! He’s a Night Creature! You can even see a tinge of red in his ID!”

“What? Aren’t the Night Creatures our enemies? Why is he here at Floating Ice City?”

“Let’s kill him! Maybe we can get him to drop the seventh strongest weapon of Floating Ice City…”

The situation was very bad for me. If I stayed here any longer I might not be able to escape intact.

That was why I strode imposingly toward the Mad Dragons and pointed toward the direction of breaking dawn, the east. Then, I shouted, “Look, a butterfly!”

While everyone was looking up, I rushed out of the city without ever turning back. Roaming Dragon immediately gave chase, but warrior-type class like mine had good movement speed. There was no way a low-level magic knight without a mount could catch up.

Flustered and exasperated, the twenty-five-year old hedonist shouted, “Brothers, this kid is too cunning! Let us enter Frost Forest together and get the Iron-grade weapon that rightfully belongs to us!”

Twenty or so people answered his call and chased after me.

I arrived at the edge of the forest and vanished into the thick undergrowth in no time. My pursuers could only see the disturbed plants I passed through, but not me.

Roaming Dragon led his band of twenty to the edge of the forest. Green with fury, he shouted, “Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand, you’ve touched Mad Dragon’s reverse scale! I don’t care if you’re the goddamned emperor, today I’m ripping you to shreds and skinning you alive, no matter what!”

I stopped calmly under a lush birch and laughed loudly. “Mad Dragon’s reverse scale? You actually dare call yourselves dragons, you third-rate actors? If you’re mad dragons, then I’m the dragon slayer who’ll pull out all your so-called reverse scales until there is nothing left!”

“Fuck!”

Roaming Dragon roared angrily. “Brothers, he’s southeast of us. Head in that direction, kill him and let everyone in Floating Ice City know that the Mad Dragon guild’s rule is inviolable!”

“Yes, boss!”

The players quickly rushed at me.

I quickly identified their positions and noted that they had organized themselves into a triangular formation. Fighting them head-on would be a bad choice because they had all learned their class skills, and none of these skills was particularly weak.

Rustle rustle...

A birch’s leaves swayed, and I vanished from my original spot.

While I was running, a sense of danger suddenly hit me. Here they come!

Swoosh!

A cold gleam appeared out of nowhere. Naturally, only an Assassin could pull off an ambush like this.

Instead of retreating, I took a lightning fast step to the right and swung my sword at the same time. The glowing blade clashed loudly against the enemy’s dagger.

“What?! So fast…”

The dagger wielder looked slightly surprised. He was Level 17, and his ID was “Unyielding Mad Dragon”. He looked around twenty years old and a bit childish. His technique wasn’t bad, he just hadn’t reached the level of a first-rate Assassin yet.

My eyes turned cold. This man obviously fought for Roaming Dragon, even his ID was a reflection of his guild’s name. I cannot allow him to live!

I abruptly shortened the distance between us and swung my sword. Unyielding Mad Dragon clenched his teeth and shouted, “You are courting death!”