Chapter 44

These adventurers were naturally the members of the WDG. After losing their equipment, they were naturally compensated for them immediately. Otherwise, they would not be able to do anything. They flocked to the Trade Lobby in droves, intending to acquire some random equipment to tide them over first. However, to their unexpected horror, it wasn’t long after they entered that they found out that the equipment, which had been looted from them barely ten minutes ago, had appeared in the Trade Lobby. The bastard called Page of Lingering Dust certainly moved quickly! It was to the point where they had the uncontrollable urge to vomit blood!

“Fuck! Where’s that bastard?” This group of adventurers gritted their teeth and wanted to look for Ye Chen, but after looking everywhere, they still couldn’t catch a glimpse of Ye Chen’s figure.

“That punk got off easy. If he is found, he must be blocked to prevent him from leaving the city gate!” an adventurer spat out, his words dripping with unconcealable wrath and resentment. He stared at his beloved equipment, which he dropped and was now sitting proudly on display in the booth, with bloodshot eyes.

“The equipment isn’t being sold at an expensive price, do you want to buy it back?” After the group of people sentenced Ye Chen to death several hundreds of times in their heads, an adventurer fell silent for a while. He looked at the equipment’s price and suddenly spoke.

In order to sell these pieces of equipment quickly, Ye Chen’s quoted price was slightly lower than usual. Although it was only marginally lower, the price was quite attractive for adventurers in dire need of equipment.

At first, the group had blood rushing to their heads, and rage clouded their judgment, hence not paying much attention. However, after someone reminded them, they were stunned and realized the problem.

To repurchase it or not?

It seemed that if they bought it back, it would be benefiting the bastard, but if they didn’t buy it, they would be suffering a loss instead. The group was stuck in a dilemma. The feeling of being robbed of their equipment and having to pay to buy it back was truly discomforting.

“Fuck! My bracer was bought by someone else!” But they didn’t get to be conflicted for long before someone bought a piece of equipment from Ye Chen’s booth.

“We’ll let this kid off easy this time! Next time we’ll kill him until all the items drop from his body!”

“Yeah!”

…

With the sense of crisis that their equipment might be bought by others, the ragtag bunch no longer hesitated. Casting aside their harsh words of resentment, they quickly repurchased their equipment. The equipment in Ye Chen’s booth had barely been displayed for ten minutes before being swept clean. The adventurer who had just notified his friend was slack-jawed at the scene. “Holy hell, the owner of this stall is so godly! How come everything he sold was something so on-demand?”

Ye Chen didn’t know that in such a short period, the equipment he put up was almost sold out. At this time, he had just arrived outside the gate of a manor outside Titan Megacity.

This was the place to apply for the Deputy Profession Landscaper. There was a female Landscaper NPC named Karma inside the manor. Ye Chen was mentored by her last time. Hence, it was easy to have a conversation with her.

Karma was a serious middle-aged woman who paid utmost attention to etiquette. Before entering, Ye Chen first knocked on the door before pushing open the door and entering.

Although Karma may not have heard the knock, under the conditions set by the system, if he did not knock on the door to enter, the Profession change assignment received would become incomparably difficult.

“Master Karma, I want to be a Landscaper.”

Many beautiful plants decorated the manor. Ye Chen found Karma under a resplendent tree, blooming with silver leaves.

“Very good, the Landscaper is a … Damn! A dark practitioner dares to appear in front of a believer of light like me? He’s really looking for death! Holy Light Prison!” Hearing his words, Karma turned her head, preparing to admonish this newcomer aspiring to become a Landscaper, as per her usual settings. However, when she looked at Ye Chen, a trace of suspicion flashed in her pale yellow eyes, and then she pointed towards him, crying out loudly.

Just as Karma’s voice fell, a silver staff suddenly appeared in her hand. The staff swiftly waved, and several shining cylindrical holy pillars descended to form a box around Ye Chen. Ye Chen was trapped inside!

Fuck! What exactly is going on?! Although Ye Chen’s reaction was much faster than the average adventurer, in the face of Karma, an advanced NPC of God-knows-what-level, everything he planned to do was in vain. He was immediately locked inside the Holy Light Prison.

“Accursed dark practitioner, I will let you die without a corpse today!” Looking at Ye Chen, Karma coldly spat out, and her staff waved again. A massive ball of holy light gradually condensed in front of her!

Die without a corpse? Ye Chen heard her words and couldn’t help a foul premonition sweeping over him!

Under these exceptional circumstances, being killed by an NPC and being killed by an adventurer was definitely different, especially when the old woman also said he would die without a corpse. If he was killed, it would definitely not be as simple as dying, and who knows what kind of tragic, unknown losses he will suffer?!

Is there any way to escape? Town Return Scroll?

Impossible! He was currently in a state of battle!

Ye Chen’s brain whirled rapidly, thinking frantically on how to escape, but in the current situation, he did not have any means to escape!

Seeing that the massive ball of holy light in front was about to fully materialize, a black light suddenly flashed on Ye Chen’s neck!

It was Solia!

Ye Chen clearly did not carry the Afterimages of the Angel on his body, nor did he use the last summon of the Afterimages of the Angel. However, Solia still came out on her own accord!

“Hey, a light believer who dares to make an enemy of Solia? Truly overestimating your own capabilities! Break for me!”

Solia, who was shrouded in darkness, glared at Karma with contempt. She coldly sneered, and her slender fingers curled into a claw, shattering the Holy Light Prison holding Ye Chen!

“A Fallen Angel with only a pitiful amount of power left that is on the verge of croaking, what’s there to be afraid of! Annihilation of Light!”

Karma’s massive holy light projectile had condensed into an enormous glowing ball with a diameter of one meter. The staff in her hand slammed toward Solia!

“Is that so? Then, I will let you see, just how powerful this poor Fallen Angel with a pitiful amount of power is hehe!”

In the face of such a giant ball of light, Solia merely nonchalantly chuckled. Her obsidian steel-like wings suddenly flared out, distorting into a shape like electricity, and shot towards the giant ball of Holy Light!

BOOM!

There was a faintly muffled noise, an explosion of light enveloped everything in his vision, and Ye Chen closed his eyes subconsciously!

The intense light gradually faded away. Ye Chen rapidly opened his eyes again, but he could only stare in astonishment as Karma’s incredulous eyes widened, and she collapsed onto the ground. Hadn’t she died without a shadow of a doubt?!

[System Notice: You have killed the Landscaper Karma of Titan Megacity. If the matter is detected by other NPCs, you will be exiled for half a year game-time!]

Fuck me! Ye Chen dumbfoundedly stared at this system notice and almost spurted out blood!

Exile was the most severe punishment that an NPC could sentence an adventurer to within the game. Only adventurers with a crime value of more than 500 points can enjoy this “luxur” treatment. The adventurers who had experienced such treatment in the game were only a handful!

Under exile, one was not allowed to trade with any NPC or adventurers in the game. Even the potions voluntarily dropped by adventurers or loots from dying cannot be picked up. The only way for exiled adventurers to get potions was to kill monsters! The adventurers in exile had absolutely no human rights at all, so any adventurers could attack them at will. After dying, every item in his backpack will drop, and more than half of this currently-equipped equipment would drop!

“Stupid bitch, you are the death of me!” Ye Chen was almost vomiting blood, and he was vilely cursing at Solia with no heed to propriety!

“How is it my fault? In the past, on the mainland, who did not know that after forming a contract with a Fallen Angel, they should not approach a believer of light within one day!” Solia placed her arms akimbo and righteously declared, rolling her eyes at Ye Chen.

“The present is the future of the past. The times are different, okay? Anyway, I have never heard of this!” Ye Chen was speechless. He was actually trolled to this miserable extent.

“How would I know that? You didn’t even mention it!” Solia still showed no signs of repentance.

“Forget it, get out of my sight!” Wasting any more words on arguing was useless. Ye Chen quickly walked towards Karma’s corpse.

What’s done is done. Since he already killed her, he must loot all the good stuff from this Landscaper, else he will have lost out big-time!

“Hmph! This time I can only save you because due to the residual bit of power in the contract rune when I contracted with you. But that will only let me emerge once. Today, don’t approach any more believers of light, or no one can save you!” Solia warned, her figure disappeared.

Ye Chen ignored her, intently searching through Karma’s body.

[System Notice: You have obtained the item “Divine Sprinkler of Blessings”!

Divine Sprinkler of Blessings (Legendary): A sprinkler showered blessing from God. Owned by Landscaper Karma.

Attributes: Use this sprinkler to irrigate plants. Reduce plant growth time by 10%, reduce plant disease probability by 20%, reduce the occurrence probability of weeds by 20%, reduce the occurrence probability of pests by 20%, increase plant yield by 10%, and increase plant productivity by 10%, Botanist’s planting proficiency gain increased by 10%. Every time it is fully filled with water, it can be sprinkled 50 times, and the irrigation cooling time is 12 hours. Unique item. Only dropped upon death.

Occupation limitation: Landscaper.]

“Holy shit!” Ye Chen glanced at the loot, which popped out of Karma’s corpse, and could no longer maintain his composure!