Chapter 453: Fireblade Helme (1/2)

Bang!

The Fireblade Warhorse raised its front hooves before bringing them down on me with a Stampede. The small shockwave caught both me and the Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf.

1893!

3092!

I had Ghost Deity Armor, so I was doing fine. My pet however took almost twice the amount of damage I took. Stampede was a pretty powerful skill. The Fireblade Warhorse also had two skills called Haste and Fireblade Thrust. Haste was a negligible skill that increased its movement speed. Fireblade Thrust was just an offensive skill with increased Attack that I could Guard easily. I didn’t try to parry the skill because the Fireblade Warhorse’s level was much higher than mine. Even if I had the skill to do it, it could result in failure due to the hidden Attack formulas and variables.

I swung the Heaven-stealing Sword up and down and deleted the Fireblade Warhorse’s HP rapidly. At the same time, I absorbed 14% of the damage with every swing as health. I basically dealt over 5000 damage and absorbed around 700 HP with every attack, and my attack speed was high enough that I didn’t even need to drink health potions.

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The Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf and I attacked the Level 135 shadow-rank mob ferociously. Less than two minutes later, the Fireblade Warhorse let out a death groan and collapsed heavily on the ground. It dropped a horn that glowed fiery orange, and it was none other than the quest item I was supposed to collect, the Fireblade Warhorse Horn.

I happily picked up the horn and left to seek out the next mob. Once I gathered 100 horns, the S Rank quest would officially be complete. According to the game rules concerning quest rewards, S Rank quests had a 20% chance to reward me with an equipment drop, and there was a 20% chance that this item would be of the Purple Gold grade. This meant that I had a 4% chance to receive a Purple Gold–grade item upon completing this quest. I believed that technically, even Spirit-grade reward was possible, although I had no idea what the chance of that was.

That being said, I can’t forget that a player’s Luck affected all chance-based calculations such as reward chance. On the surface, it looked like I only had a 4% chance to obtain a Purple Gold–grade equipment. In reality, my chance was much higher than 4% because I had a whopping 22 points of Luck. It could be as high as 10% for all I know.

Luck was meant to represent a player’s soft accumulation of strength. Luck was incredibly hard to obtain because it was rewarded only to a player who did well in a large-scale battle or a huge tournament, or killed a super boss. Long story short, the longer the list of glorious achievements under one’s belt, the higher their Luck, and the better their in-game karma would become. It was a kind of strength any player worth their salt must have.

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A scorching hot wind suddenly swept across the area and caused a nearby shrubbery to shake violently. Its branches swayed just enough to reveal the back of the hill. The Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf was stretching its paw lazily without a care for the world.

My eyes lit up in excitement, however. It was because I saw a brawnier, brighter Fireblade Warhorse grazing at a depression on the ground on the opposite side of the shrubbery. It was none other than the Rare and capturable version of the Fireblade Warhorse!

Fireblade Warhorse (Silver Rare)

Level: 135

Attack: ???

Defense: ???

HP: ???

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Property: Can be tamed by players above Level 105

Introduction: As the rulers of Fireblade Valley, Fireblade Warhorses are extremely heat-resistant as their diet consists mainly of fire-attribute vegetation. Over time, the fire energy accumulating inside their body caused a mutation and grew a blade of fire on their foreheads. No wild beast had dared to challenge them since.

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A Silver Rank mount? Not bad! It was nothing compared to Dark Gold or Purple Gold Rank mounts, but it was definitely better than 99% of the existing mounts right now!

Moreover, it had a level requirement that matched the current average level of magic knights. Provided that there weren’t too few of them, it wasn’t a pipe dream to create a Fireblade Cavalry in just a short period of time!

Excited, I charged the Rare mount with the Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf and carefully brought it down to almost 30% health. Then, I stopped attacking and let my pet deal the rest of the damage because my crit rate was too high. I would cry if it died to an unfortunate critical hit.

Knowing what I was plotting, the Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf attacked cautiously until the Fireblade Warhorse only had 10% health left. This is my chance!

I stopped my pet from attacking and took out a Sealing Stone. Then, I locked onto the Fireblade Warhorse and began the sealing process!

Swhoosh!

The magical energy of the Sealing Stone broke free from its container and transformed into a purple magic formation beneath the mob’s hooves. Then, it attempted to drag it into the black hole at the center of the magic formation. However, the ingrate struggled mightily and broke free of the magic, foiling my first sealing attempt!

The process repeated itself. The Sealing Stone continued pulling the Fireblade Warhorse with its magical shackles, and the Fireblade Warhorse struggled valiantly to break free from them. In the end, when the fifth sealing attempt began, the mob finally relented and lay down quietly at the center of the magic formation itself. It transformed into a white light and entered my Sealing Stone, turning the translucent object bright red and fiery. I could even see a shrunken Fireblade Warhorse inside the Sealing Stone. This meant that the sealing was successful, and the player could now check its stats whenever they wished!

I excitedly waved a hand across the Sealing Stone and brought up the Fireblade Warhorse’s stats—

Fireblade Warhorse (Silver Rank Mount)

Strength: +110

Stamina: +100

Attack Increase: +9%

Defense Increase: +5%

Attack Speed: +20%