Chapter 42

Five pieces of equipment. The moment the adventurers from the Warring Dragon Guild heard this, they all broke into a cold sweat.

For them, who were not too rich, the types of equipment were obtained by repeatedly running Instance Dungeon, and it took a lot of time to slowly collect them one by one. But only running the Instance Dungeon would require countless hours of grinding unless one was in an extremely powerful group and if one was extremely lucky. Hence, other than following the dungeon-hunting group, there was another way, which was to slowly accumulate gold coins and buy equipment that others didn’t want anymore.

Now, the Warrior actually dropped five pieces at once. Although the guild would reimburse for some of the costs, it was impossible to compensate for five pieces at once. The Warrior did not know how long it would take to get his pieces of equipment back again.

But the tragedy obviously did not just extend to the Warrior adventurer. The forty-odd members of the Warring Dragon Guild had all attacked Ye Chen maliciously! They were eliminated without a trace by Ye Chen’s counterattack, and everyone dropped a piece of equipment without exception!

Ye Chen’s footsteps continued from one corpse to another. More than forty adventurers of the Warring Dragon Guild screamed wordlessly as Ye Chen picked one piece of equipment after another. The grin on his face couldn’t grow any wider.

“Fuck me, this is so worth it!”

The vicious counterattack had killed more than forty malicious attackers, and all of them had disappeared without a trace. There were more than fifty pieces of equipment lying about the ground, and all of them were at least of Silver-grade and above!

After most Bosses in the game were killed, they will only drop a few pieces of Silver-grade equipment at most. The drop rate of Gold-grade equipment was pitifully low. With this item explosion, more than fifty pieces of Silver-grade equipment popped out, which was equivalent to the feat of killing ten Boss monsters at once!

With every piece of equipment being calculated at a minimum rate of 200 gold coins, this time, he made a killing of 10,000 gold coins!

If he could pick up another one or two more gold outfits, the harvest this time… Ah, ah, a spring breeze seemed to be singing in his heart at the thought!

As these happy thoughts ran through his mind, Ye Chen picked up a Level 49 Warrior Gold-grade weapon from the ground!

“I HIT THE JACKPOT!” His eyes narrowed into a squint due to how wide his grin was, and Ye Chen laughed boisterously.

Weapons were the most valuable equipment in the game. This was especially so for Warrior weapons. The price was sky-high!

Now, this seemed to be the cream of the crop, and he estimated that selling it for three thousand gold coins will not be a problem!

Hell, selling all these pieces of equipment would garner him more money than he ever made from working on the construction site for three months. The costs for the indoor monitoring equipment game support package had drastically fallen now, so he was able to go out and have fun with two little Lolis.

For an avid video game lover, apart from finally successfully wooing the girl of one’s dream, and the two of them lovingly preparing for XXOO, there was nothing in the game that gets one’s adrenaline pumping more than facing a ground filled with valuable pieces of equipment, especially when one of them was extremely valuable.

Ye Chen was experiencing this feeling of being on cloud nine right now, and with this ecstasy driving him, the speed that he swept across the battlefield was also amazingly fast.

Although the system would generally refresh five minutes after equipment was dropped, it only took Ye Chen less than three minutes to completely sweep his surroundings clean. It was as though a plague of locusts had descended and raided the battlefield.

“A total of fifty-four pieces of equipment, three pieces of Gold-grade, forty-seven pieces of Silver-grade, and four pieces of Black-Iron grade. Warring Dragon Guild is indeed deserving of its title of the ‘top’ guild in the game; its members’ equipment are indeed excellent!” Counting the equipment that he picked up, Ye Chen couldn’t help but exclaim with wonder.

If it were members of any other guilds, dropping forty or fifty pieces of Black-Iron grade equipment would already be a shocking sight.

“Haha, thank you!” Waving ecstatically to the souls of the Warring Dragon Guild’s members around, Ye Chen took out a Town Return Scroll and activated it to return to the city.

“Has everyone revived?” Walking out from the return point, Ye Chen flagged down a carriage, and as he walked toward the nearest warehouse, he sent a message on the team channel.

“I’m back.”

“At the resurrection point.”

“Boss, the skill book I just got dropped!”

The voices of several people came one after another. Dharma, in particular, wailed miserably and unhappily cried out his grievances.

“If you drop it, then just let it go. At most, we can loot it in the future. Be optimistic. Turn your thoughts to the Meteor Arrow Shower that you’ve gotten today. Countless others could only dream of getting it, then you won’t be so depressed. Well, let me send over a few pieces of equipment.” Ye Chen comforted the unlucky guy.

“That’s true. Thank you, Boss!”

This Dharma kid was rather straightforward. After hearing Ye Chen’s words, he also felt that he actually made a lot of money. He managed to acquire a rare range-attack skill, not to mention that his level had also increased by two. When he heard that Ye Chen would be sending him equipment, he immediately buzzed with excitement.

“Cough, I have something to say first, though. The Warring Dragon Guild failed this mission and lost much of its dignity. It was even completely wiped out by me a while ago. This matter may still be spread, and I think we have already thoroughly offended the Warring Dragon Guild. According to the style of the Warring Dragon Guild, they will not let us go that easily. You three must be careful during this time.” Ye Chen briefly explained the current situation for the few people.

“Hmph! I am not afraid. This game is so big, what’s there to be afraid of!” Newborn calves were not afraid of tigers. Purple Olive perfectly demonstrated this right now. After getting her hands on two skill books, she was in a fantastic mood and did not put the Warring Dragon Guild in her eyes.

“Anyway, there’s nothing wrong with prudence. Don’t say that I didn’t remind you.” Ye Chen didn’t say too much. At this time, it was useless to say anything. Only after she personally experienced the strength of the top guild in the game would she know that if someone could become the top guild, it indeed possessed that strength to match its lofty title. With the terrifying numbers of the Warring Dragon Guild, finding someone was not as difficult as she imagined.

“Boss, what are you going to do now?” Dharma asked. After seeing Ye Chen’s awesomeness, this kid had made up his mind to throw in his lot with Ye Chen.

“It’s almost dawn outside. I’ll dispose of the equipment I picked up, then I will be going offline for an hour or two after I obtain my deputy Profession. Although I can play during the day, I can’t play through the night like yesterday. What are your plans?” Ye Chen talked about his situation before asking again in the team.

There were so many things happening in the Gray Stone Forest. Obviously, it was impossible to go back. This didn’t just apply to the Gray Stone Forest, but having offended the Warring Dragon Guild, some of the other more popular leveling locations have to be avoided temporarily as well.

Although, after possessing the Durian Bomb Tree skill, Ye Chen’s leveling speed has dramatically increased as an early-stage Botanist. But acquiring the seeds of the Durian Bomb Tree would ultimately remain a problem unless he could find an area planting the Durian Bomb Tree, like in the Gray Stone Forest. Otherwise, by himself, the remaining forty seeds were absolutely not sufficient to sustain him. Moreover, as the levels of other hostile characters and monsters increase, the level of the Durian Bomb Tree skills could not be improved due to the lack of seeds for practice. The role of the Durian Bomb Trees would soon hit their limits.

Before solving the limitations of the seeds, it was necessary to set up a leveling team, and the current three adventurers were excellent candidates for teammates.

Although, at present, the prerequisite was that the three of them must not be playing casually like Xiao Ai.

“In addition to eating and going to the toilet, I’m basically here all day long. Boss, whatever activities you have, be it leveling or killing monsters, you must definitely call me!” Dharma quickly said.

“I am in a similar situation, but I’m already reserved.” Purple Olive’s primary objective was not leveling or killing monsters. She always seemed to suffer a loss following Ye Chen’s side. It appeared that she was hatching some plot to become famous.

Although Ye Chen did not know the motivation behind Purple Olive, he had no intention of keeping her forcefully. Some things cannot be forced, after all. Moreover, the position of a Priest in the team was not essential. He just needed to find a Priest to keep the Durian Bomb Tree from dying, so that he could quickly level up.

“I’m basically online all the time. Call me whenever you need me,” the Queen of the Night said aloofly as always.

“Well, everyone can disperse to take care of your own business. Be careful of the Warring Dragon bunch.” Ye Chen just left it at that and disbanded the team. At this time, the carriage also arrived at a warehouse in the Titan Megacity.

Walking down from the carriage, Ye Chen looked at the skill rewarded from the mission, “Planting: Quartz Flower.”

[“Planting: Quartz Flower”: Auxiliary-type plant, Quartz flowers can be planted. When the Quartz flowers are present, all surface of all the Botanist’s plants will be quartzite, and damage received will be reduced.]

“It’s actually Quartz Flower, this is a pretty formidable auxiliary skill. With it, the survivability of plants will significantly increase. Unfortunately, only Botanists above Level 20 can learn auxiliary plant skills.” Ye Chen looked at Quartz Flower’s skill description and couldn’t help but feel ripples of excitement.

For Botanists, Quartz Flowers was one of the most valuable and practical auxiliary-type plants. With the presence of quartz flowers, the life of the plants will definitely have more guarantee.

However, the Botanist needed to at least be at Level 20 to grow auxiliary plants. The auxiliary-type plants were very different from the attack-type plants. Now Ye Chen’s Level was still insufficient, and he was unable to learn the auxiliary plant skill.

After storing Afterimages of the Angel and the skill book in the warehouse, Ye Chen retrieved the equipment that he had previously stored inside the warehouse. He picked three pieces of Silver-grade equipment and sent them to Dharma, before heading to the Trade Lobby.