Chapter 353: Chest Armor of Barbaric Strength (2/2)
It was at this moment I received a message from Murong Mingyue. “Lu Chen, Warsky put a bounty to your head, didn’t he? Did he catch you?”
“No, not yet. What’s wrong, sis?”
“No, just asking if you would like to have lunch together.”
“Not this time, sis. I’m grinding right now!”
“I bet it’s a wonderful experience to grind with Beauty Lin, huh?”
“And how did you know that?”
“Hmph hmph, she leveled up twice in a morning. What would you think if you were in my place?”
What the heck? Lin Yixin leveled up twice already? I turned around to look at Lin Yixin, and it was exactly as Murong Mingyue said. The girl had leveled up from 97 to 99, but I was only at 78%. As I thought, the amount of experience needed to level from 99 to 100 was insane!
Murong Mingyue said in an aggrieved tone, “You haven’t grinded with me for a long time, you heartless bastard…”
Feeling a bit apologetic, I replied, “I should be able to hit Level 100 by today, so I’ll grind with you and Beiming Xue after I finish my fourth promotion, okay?”
“Mn. It’s a promise!”
“Yeah!”
After bidding Murong Mingyue goodbye, I shifted my focus back to grinding. She contacted me probably because she was worried about the bounty Warsky had put on my head, but it was probably unnecessary. There were Level 115 mobs all over the place, and even Warsky himself would be hard-pressed to make it to our location safely. Suppose that he brought 1000 players to the mountain, he would be lucky to lose only 900 by the time he reached us.
Back to the grind. I’m not quitting until I hit Level 100 today!
Our equipment, pots, and magic consumables declined steadily as we dispatched the second horde of Snow Rabbits in another two hours or so. Unfortunately, I had hit the max limit on my bagspace, and I was forced to throw away some trash equipment to fit all the Snow Rabbit Meat I gathered. In the end, 500 slots still weren’t enough to meet my needs. If only I could have a bag with unlimited space...
When I shared my thoughts with Lin Yixin, she immediately retorted with scathing criticism. Even now, most players in the world still didn’t have a bag and had to struggle with 20 slots every day. She said that my dream to have unlimited space was absolutely insensitive...
It wasn’t long before I had 350 stacks of Snow Rabbit Meat in my bag, enough to last me for months without returning. The rest of the ingredients necessary to make the Rank 8 Magic Consumables—Green Pepper, Garlic, and Salt—could be purchased for cheap at the market, so I obviously wasn’t going to bother foraging them myself.
For a time, I felt like my senses were flooded by an overwhelming sense of happiness. Right now, my bag was filled to the brim with 350 stacks of Snow Rabbit Meat, 40 stacks of Magic Consumables, 40 stacks of potions, and top-tier equipment. Tsk tsk, I couldn’t wait to count the money I earned after the sale!
……
As it turned out, Lin Yixin was even more excited than I was. She grabbed my sword handle and laughed. “That’s four complete sets of Frozen Earth set! We’re rich, we’re rich!! Hehe!!”
I nodded. “Yes, we are. We can practically eat at a restaurant every day after this!”
“Mn!”
Lin Yixin looked at herself to check her equipment’s durability. After six to seven hours of hardcore grinding, her weapon had less than 50% durability, and her equipment had less than 20% durability left. My weapon was even worse off than her equipment, however. Thousand Mirage Slash was a powerful skill, but it also cost an insane amount of durability because every hit counted as an attack, meaning that I was losing 9 times the durability every time I used it. As a result, my Purgatory Sword was sitting at less than 10% durability right now.
“We’re almost all out of durability. Should we head back?” Lin Yixin asked with a smile.
I looked at my experience bar and noted that I was sitting at 98%, literally 2% away from hitting Level 100, so I said, “Can we continue just a bit longer until I hit Level 100?”
“Sure!”
Lin Yixin nodded and started walking back to the other side of the cliff. However, a couple of figures suddenly appeared at the horizon, and they were no Snow Rabbits. They were players!
There were four of them in total. One of them was even a familiar face. The guy at the front of the party was a high-level warrior clad in excellent armor. He wielded a sword that glowed with wavy light, and his features seemed to be permanently etched with a pair of gloomy eyes and a small but disgusting smile. His shoulder was shining with an ugly ass guild insignia, and the line of text floated above his head stated—
Pillar of the Nation LV-89 Silver Warrior
Guild: Hegemon Palace
Guild Position: Leader
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“OMG, it’s Hegemon Palace. I guess our plan is busted now…” Lin Yixin whispered.
I was too busy staring at the cyan-armored warrior walking behind Pillar of the Nation to respond to her though. This man was utterly silent, and he was gripping a huge cyan sword. The name above his head was even more astonishing—
Little Piglet LV-95 Silver Cold Wind Swordsman
Guild: Hegemon Palace
Guild Position: Vice Leader
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