Chapter 1140: Mad Leopard (1/2)

And so, Xu Yang led the main guild back to Sky City for grinding and instances while Gui Guzi grinded in Lost Forest with 10000 Dragonlight Cavalrymen and 30000 Zephyr Cavalrymen. Both types of cavalry were all-rounders, and War God Recovery was enough to deal with the monsters most of the time. They only needed to resupply once every 24 hours, meaning that they could spend most of their time in Ice River Canton.

He Yi, Beiming Xue and Lin Yixin kept me company instead of leaving with the main guild. A while later, Murong Mingyue and Lian Xin showed up as well.

Lian Xin had walked out of a forest together with Beiming Xue. When she saw me, she grew so excited that she even tossed her scepter to the side, jogging up to me and jumping into my lap. A smiling Murong Mingyue crossed her arms in front of her chest and greeted me, ”You look a lot tougher compared to the last time we met, boy…”

I simply opened my arms and said, ”Give me a hug, sis…”

Murong Mingyue calmly put away her scepter and wrapped her arms around my neck. She asked smilingly, ”Has any of the girls given you a public kiss yet?”

”Nah…” I shook my head.

”That’s a shame. Well, I’ll do it…”

Before anyone could react, she pecked me on the cheeks and smiled like the Chesire Cat. Both Lin Yixin and He Yi rolled her eyes before Lin Yixin said, ”She’s just kissing his cheeks. It’s nothing, right Sister Eve?”

”Mn.” He Yi acknowledged.

Murong Mingyue smiled wider at their comment before standing on her toes again and kissing me on the lips. She turned toward the two girls and asked, ”How is this?”

”Fuck!” Lin Yixin raised her fists menacingly.

He Yi hurriedly held her down. ”Calm down, this is just the way Mingyue is. You’ll eventually understand that there’s no point getting angry over it…”

Lin Yixin pouted. ”You sure are calm…”

”How can I not be? Just look at the type of environment I live in. This is nothing at all…”

Lin Yixin: ”...”

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In the end, Lin Yixin, He Yi, Beiming Xue, Lian Xin and Murong Mingyue formed a party and left to clear the S2 instance. They wouldn’t clear the S3 instance without me because I was the only one strong enough to be the MT in there. According to the rumors, the very first boss of the S3 instance, the Martial God Hall, was ridiculously powerful, so much so that Warsky, Song of Ice and Fire, God Bone and more couldn’t defeat it even after three tries. Naturally, they weren’t able to lay their grubby hands on the S3 equipment set, the Martial God set.

The Martial God set was a Level 200 Immortal-grade equipment set, something everyone and their mothers dreamed of getting. Of course, obtaining it wasn’t easy at all. Even a player at Song of Ice and Fire’s level had been two-shot by the very first boss of the instance.

While the girls were clearing the S2 instance, I went to the materiel officer to receive my quest. I needed to grind 100 glory points before I could resupply here.

After I initiated a dialogue with him, the materiel officer immediately raised his giant axe and said, ”Hello, warrior from distant lands! Welcome to our humble camp! Here at Black Cavalry Scout Battalion, we promise to make you suffer more than you have ever suffered before! What? You wish to serve the camp? Very well. We are building the walls right now, but we lack the necessary stones to make it work. More specifically, it needs to be tough enough to withstand an attack. You can find these stones at the foot of the mountain range, but the place is crawling with brutal wild bears. Don’t say I didn’t warn you, but let your guard down, and their tongues will lick the shit out of you!”

Ding!

I accepted the A Rank quest. The task was to gather 10 chunks of top-quality Stone (quality higher than 85) and turn it in to the materiel officer. If I succeeded, I would obtain 5 glory points. Easy peasy.

……

I climbed onto my dragon and set off right away.

I descended at the foot of a mountain range where a bunch of shiny rocks were embedded in the walls. Their shiny appearance meant that they could be extracted for materials. Of course, just as the materiel officer had mentioned earlier, the area was crawling with Bloodthirsty Black Bears—Level 235 fiend-rank monsters—brutal things if it wasn’t for the fact that its Level was fairly low. At this level, even a hundred-man party made up of casual players could grind it with some difficulty. If this was a Level 250 fiend-rank mob from Iron Skull Wilderness, the average fighter would’ve been one-shot easily. It was why the players of Iron Skull Wilderness always fell behind in terms of levels. The mobs there were either stupidly powerful or stupidly weak.

Swhoosh!

I summoned the apparition and made it fight the mobs with the Phantom Wolf King. I myself jumped off the Ancient Divine Dragon and started digging.

I walked up to the closest rock and stabbed my sword into the edges. I exerted a bit of strength and, pop! The whole rock jetted out of its original spot. I put it into my bag, but...

Dark Stone: Quality 57, average quality.

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Dammit, this wasn’t good enough to meet the quest requirement. Next!

I moved on to the next rock, and this time it was a hit.

Red Stone: Quality 94, top quality.

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