Chapter 587: My Reputation (1/2)

Lin Yixin rolled her eyes at me before retorting, ”I did no such thing, you bastard. I… I just accepted a quest from him, that’s all. Anyway, go talk with him and accept the quest to kill the Corrosive Worms already. With the two of us together, we should be able to turn in the quest once per 30 minutes. Since the quest is repeatable, it should amount to a sizable amount of experience!”

”You’ve fought here before?”

”Mn, but I was alone and it was too dangerous to lure more than one to three Corrosive Worms at a time, so it took me half a day just to kill a total of 1000 Corrosive Worms. With you and your firepower though, we should be able to hit that quota much faster.”

”Okay!”

I walked up to the scout captain and said, ”Don’t shoot, captain! It’s me!”

The scout captain glared at me. ”Hi, boy. I don’t remember seeing you before. Is that beautiful lass over there your woman?”

I grinned. ”Yep! She has the face, the tits, the ass, everything! Not bad, right?”

The scout captain licked his lips before replying, ”I suppose. She doesn’t understand love though, if you get what I mean. The women at the inn in the southwest area of Sky City though, are amazing! When night falls, they are as wet as a rainy season. Even better, you get to enjoy three women for the price of 10 gold only! So risk your life and kill the Corrosive Worms, boy! Remember, every three Corrosive Worms equal one amazing woman!”

I replied with great interest. ”Got it, captain. But where is this inn you speak of, exactly?”

The scout captain had to wipe away his saliva before replying, ”It’s at the west gate where—”

Lin Yixin was literally stomping her foot in anger at this point. She pulled out her Blade of Purple Thunder and pressed the sharp end against the back of my head. ”Lu Chen, if you’ve accepted the quest already then go! I’ll kill you if you stay here any longer!”

Astonished, I turned around and pushed the blade away. ”What’s the hurry? I just received the quest, didn’t I? Alright then, let’s go kill some Corrosive Worms. Don’t worry, I’ll protect you!”

Lin Yixin shot me a glare before following me.

Unbeknownst to us, the scout captain stared at Lin Yixin’s back for a long time before murmuring to himself, ”This is the first time ever that I, captain Loque, the connoisseur of womenfolk was wrong about a woman. She doesn’t know love? Quite the opposite, she’s… tsk tsk, that lucky boy…”

……

”Yiyi, did you accept the quest already?”

”Yes, yesterday.”

”What’s the attack pattern of these Corrosive Worms? It shouldn’t be too difficult, right?”

”Hehehe, you’ll know once you’ve fought one yourself…”

I found out the answer soon after. As usual, I kicked off my attack with a Dragon Slaying Slash to the head. The Corrosive Worm I attacked had immediately pounced toward me like a ferocious bulldog. When it got close enough, it jumped into the air toward my face, its small mouth growing bigger as the distance between us closed.

I was going to stab the Corrosive with my sword as a matter of course, but its mouth suddenly widened without warning!

Thud!

My vision darkened, and my mind couldn’t quite catch up to what was going on. What the heck? Did the Corrosive Worm just swallow my entire head? A jolt of pain from my shoulders told me that that was the case. I took a sizable amount of damage—

2594!

—but it definitely didn’t exceed my limits of endurance. I was buffed by Bombshell after all. That being said, I must look horrible right now. In fact, I could hear Lin Yixin’s delighted laughter even from inside the mob.

I swung my fist and canceled the devoured state with a Magic Piercing Punch. After it fell on the ground, I immediately followed up with a Universe Break, a Burning Blade Slash and a couple of basic attacks to finally kill it. Then, I stomped on its corpse repeatedly while swearing, ”You think you could eat me, you little shit? Huh? Huh?”

At this point, Lin Yixin’s face was red with exertion. She looked like she was about to collapse from laughter.

I glared at her. ”Why didn’t you help me earlier?”

”Why should I?” She puffed up her chest proudly with a wide grin. ”I even took a screenshot just now! Who would’ve thought that the legendary CGL Hall of Famer and Protoss Genius would get eaten by a little worm one day? Hehe, this is so much fun! Do you want me to upload this to the forums?”

”Fuck, my reputation…”

I groaned out loud before going on the attack suddenly. ”Hey, you must’ve been swallowed before, haven’t you? There’s no way you could know that it swallows people otherwise. Using Corrosive Worm saliva as your face cream? Man, your tastes are so hardcore…”

Lin Yixin immediately let out a cute whine. ”Can we not talk about the painful past already…”