Chapter 219: Dragonfall Lake (2/2)

Spring Mud smiled. “Don’t worry, it’ll take one hour max before a thousand-man team comes charging over. The tower in the lake is ours, no one can snatch it from us!”

“Mn!”

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My heart skipped a beat. Tower in the lake? What map is that? What do they mean?

Whoosh!

I summoned the Dark Wasp. I’ve made my resolve to exterminate them all. One True Love, Spring Mud, and their team numbered only twenty people. No matter how powerful their mages were, they didn’t have any high-level archers. With an element of surprise on my side, I should be able to kill them all. Traitor Spring Mud aside, that Chen Sheng was complete trash. Who did he think our Lil Beiming was? Rape? That little piece of shit. Enough was enough!

However, I had second thoughts when I realized that I couldn’t deal any fatal damage to their guild, even if I disposed of their small team. Even then, I would be met with their first important full-force mobilization. It had something to do with that “tower in the lake” thing. I wondered if it was a high-level map.

It has to be, or else Li Le wouldn’t be moving a thousand-man team here.

After weighing in the pros and cons, I finally made my decision. I’ll keep these guys alive first. It’d be brainless to alert the enemy before the time was ripe. I might be a bit hot-headed at times, like when Beiming Xue was getting bullied by Chen Sheng, but I was still able to control myself in the game. I have to hit them where it hurts, and I don’t have to make a move now.

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Once I made up my mind, I opened the world map and saw a lake region in front of me. The tower had to be somewhere there.

I circled around the party and then made a run for it. Not even ten minutes later, the faint smell of fresh lakewater floated over.

Ding~!

System Notice: You have entered a neutral map—Dragonfall Lake!

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I parted the forest leaves and a boundless lake came into view. The lakeshore was full of reeds, with enough cattails to make a forest. The lakewater rippled under the moonlight, reflecting clear water.

I grimaced. Players entering a water region could swim, but if it was deep enough, a breath meter would appear. Once said breath meter ran out, a player would drown. This lake was extremely deep. The chances of dying were high if I went in!

I gazed into the distance and could faintly see an island in the middle of the lake under the moonlight. On the island was a lone, pitch-black, tower. That was the tower in the lake!

There was no doubt that it was an unexplored map. There was no data on the official forums when I searched Dragonfall Lake or this tower in the lake.

I shouldn’t worry yet. Since I couldn’t find a passageway, then those guys from Flower Room wouldn’t find it either.

I didn’t dare to walk around the lake. It’d be too easy for me to get discovered. With Spring Mud’s shrewdness, there had to be assassins patrolling the lake. My intentions would be exposed the moment I was found.

I traveled through the forest area beside the lake and encountered some tree fairy–type monsters there. I pretty much ignored most of them by circling around. Those that I couldn’t, I cut down. In tandem with my Dark Wasp’s damage potential, killing a few trash mobs under Level 80 wasn’t too hard a task.

Ten minutes or so later, a little bloody patch suddenly appeared in front of me on the map, making me wild with delight. I finally found a temporary NPC camp beneath the mountain range.

I started a mad dash through the dense forest and to my surprise, the crude camp before me wasn’t a Night Creature encampment, but a Blood Dance Legion one!

An aged skeleton mage stood under a simple tent and on both of his sides stood armored undead knights. There was also an alchemist sitting by a furnace concocting some kind of smelly potion.

All of the four NPCs’ shoulders were adorned with the emblem of the Blood Dance Legion. I also had the same one on my shoulder but I was way cooler because I had Blood Dance Legion’s, Floating Ice City’s, and Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls’. Neatly lined up in a row, they made me look like some five-star general.

The old skeleton mage trembled in place as it leaned on its bone staff. It looked at a loss and a line of words floated above its head.

Prophet Bly (Dark Gold Rank Boss)

Level: 85