Chapter 89: Beiming Xue (1/2)
I went back online after nighttime arrived.
Swhoosh!
My vision was covered in fog until I appeared at a graveyard that was close to the Violet Camp. As a brave warrior of the Night Creatures, it was my motto to never buy a tent if there was a graveyard nearby. Money was precious after all.
First, I looked at my experience bar and noted that it was almost empty. I could definitely stand to do better.
Next, I brought up the Floating Ice City’s Heavenly Ranking and noticed that the Top 10 spots had changed drastically. Dominating Heaven Blade and Dominating Warrior God were the only players from the Domination Clan who still clung onto their spots. The rest had dropped out of sight due to the incident in the morning.
NameLevelClass
Wind Fantasy
54
Light Wanderer
Dominating Heaven Blade
52
Warrior
Clear Perfume
51
Archer
Gui Guzi
51
Undead Knight
Purple Marquis
50
Warrior
Beiming Xue
50
Dark Archer
Dominating Warrior God
49
Warrior
Zi Chuanyu
49
Magic Knight
Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand
49
Undead Swordsman
Yun Biyue
49
Mage
……
Shit, the competition is so fierce! All the players ranging from the 7th to 24th are at Level 49! If I had taken my time and come in an hour or two later, I would’ve fallen out of the Heavenly Ranking myself! No no no, this can’t happen. I am the pillar of the Bloody Mercenaries, and it’s my duty to show my face on the Heavenly Ranking! I might not be able to enter the Top 3, but I mustn’t fall out of the Top 10 no matter what!
The grind continues. Level 50 comes before anything else!
I summoned the Dark Wasp and pounced toward a nearby Violet Undead Knight, killing it in less than 5 seconds. The Ghost Ice Soul was a Level 50 Gold-grade weapon, and its attack power was crazy-high. It almost felt like I was chopping vegetables, not a horde of deadly Level 55 mobs. That was true for the opposite case too actually, but the difference was that I was too fast for them to kill me before I killed them.
Pop!
The very first mob I killed dropped a Big Magic Stone. I threw it into my bag and went searching for my next target. All the while, the Dark Wasp buzzed excitedly at the activity.
A while later, I received a system notice: Your friend “Wind Fantasy” has come online!
Oh? It’s been an entire day. What took her so long to log in?
I was about to send her a greeting message, but to my surprise she messaged me first. “Lu Chen, Qingqing told me she saw you dating an extremely sexy woman at Silver Fir Cafe this morning. Is that true?”
“Er…” I replied quickly, “It wasn’t a date, okay? It… it was just a normal meetup...”
Lin Yixin turned on voice call and laughed. “You can stop explaining now. I’m not the United States Pacific Fleet, and it’s not like your date has anything to do with me.”
“Then why are you asking in the first place?” I countered.
Caught off-guard, Lin Yixin stuttered for a couple of seconds before replying, “I was just curious why someone that pretty would want to date someone like you.”
“Fuck. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me!”
“Heehee…”
Lin Yixin was happy, and I had no way to deflate her good mood. What could I do, call her poor and ugly? God would probably smite me himself if I actually said that to her face.
I turned off the voice call and went back to grinding!
One by one, I and my sword cut down skeletal knights of Violet Forest. I didn’t forget to absorb their undead sparks. At the current stage of the game, evolving on the path of the Night Creatures didn’t give me any substantial benefits aside from revitalizing my appearance, but I knew that such an expansive system wouldn’t remain just a cosmetic feature forever. Once I reached a certain threshold, it was sure to boost my stats!
Crack crack!