Chapter 821 - 776: Tachiusu Recruiting Troops and Horses
The Dawn Goddess Tavern in the capital of the Elf Kingdom, Farolan, the highest-grade tavern in the Elf Kingdom.
Here, there are elegant and noble elf bartenders like goddesses, there are graceful and gentle lovely bar maids, here is the most cutting-edge secret information in the game, and the heroes refreshed here every week are the highest level in the entire city’s taverns, and also the hardest to recruit.
Additionally, players wanting to enter this tavern must have a respected reputation in Farolan City, players in this tavern must order a drink, even if it’s the cheapest, it still costs 2000 Gold Coins, and then for every minute a player stays, they are charged for the time.
So, those who can hang out in this tavern are none other than the top-tier and most generous players of the Elf Kingdom. Among these players, Blood Slaughter is certainly one of the most devoted and fanatical patrons of the tavern. Unlike ordinary bar-hopping players who go out to level up when they have nothing to do, Blood Slaughter spends a long time, even with no purpose, staring dazedly at the continuously refreshing bulletin board in the bar all night long.
The bulletin board is equivalent to a large in-game forum where players from various taverns can spend coins to post buy-and-sell bounty information. Of course, the information posted by players can be seen on all tavern bulletin boards, but the information posted by NPCs can only be seen by players of specific taverns.
For instance, the NPC information posted by the Dawn Goddess Tavern can only be seen in this tavern. However, most of this information exceeds the current players’ handling abilities, and what Blood Slaughter seeks is the fun of challenging extreme missions.
Blood Slaughter is purely a solo treasure-hunting player, someone who follows the creed of an assassin to the extreme. He has no interest at all in recruiting Vice Heroes with troops. In his view, it’s utterly ridiculous and laughable for a hero with a few hundred health that could be instantly headshot by his two arrows to bring so many soldiers!
For Blood Slaughter, I may not have as much money as you, or as high a status, I may not have troops, territory, or followers, but I want to be able to kill you at any time! No one can act cool in front of me!
However, ever since the assassination attempt on Da Fei failed a few days ago, Blood Slaughter’s belief began to take a hit. (See Chapter 521 "Buying Skeletons with Gold"), having less money, lower status, fewer troops or territory than him, none of that mattered. The key point was, he couldn’t kill him, instead, he was instantly killed by Da Fei’s explosive lucky shot!
These past few days, Blood Slaughter has been anguished, debating whether Da Fei’s luck exploding shot that ignored his Master-level Sword Dance dodge was really just good luck, or if he had already comprehended the Master-level Luck Skill sub-skill "Lucky Hand".
The latter is something Blood Slaughter can’t accept no matter what, as an assassin, Blood Slaughter craves the pursuit of Master-level Luck Skill like a hungry person, but he can’t grasp it yet. If Da Fei understood it so early, what does that say?
It says that even his intelligence and ability are inferior to Da Fei! Not to mention Da Fei’s suspected God-level Reconnaissance Technique’s Stealth effect shown in the European Union Zone, once again crushing his self-esteem as a top assassin.
This is utterly unbearable! Are the differences between him and me, both being players, so great? But let that be, the key factor was that in that battle, Da Fei exposed a component of the Silencer Set, the "Silencer’s Dagger", which led to his power being affected. As a result, he dared not easily attempt the extreme missions filling the tavern bulletin board, the agony and resentment could well be imagined.
Moreover, what’s more infuriating is that now the bar forum is filled with betting threads, betting on whether Da Fei can win the championship in the 4 o’clock final, whether Da Fei will donate the prize money, whether Da Fei can survive and return from the European Union Zone Hell, the moment Blood Slaughter sees the two words Da Fei, he feels disgusted and wants to vomit.
Therefore, every time Blood Slaughter sees Da Fei’s name on the friend’s list, he wants to blacklist it immediately, but for some reason, he hesitates every time. Perhaps it’s because Blood Slaughter feels he has quite a few things he should take the opportunity to ask Da Fei about, after all, no matter how unconvinced he is, the other’s achievements are there, the other has already exited the national service and walked into the world.
Amidst this depression, the Farolan city channel suddenly bustled: "Hey, hey, everyone look at that, the Flower Demon Hero is on the street! Together with Da Fei’s Vice Hero!"
"It’s the Flower Demon Hero that appeared in the Saint Paul Knight Order yesterday morning!"
"Hey, hey, hey, it’s a rare race and a beauty again, just how high-end could this Flower Demon Hero be? Could it be Da Fei’s again?"
"Is there any justice in the world, Da Fei doesn’t let even one Female Hero go, and we’ve never even seen one Female Hero!"
It’s Da Fei again! Truth be told, the dense "Da Fei bombing" of these one or two days does have its benefits, which is that Blood Slaughter can finally remain as calm as an unmoving pool of water. As for beautiful Vice Heroes, Blood Slaughter isn’t interested either, in his view, these are just traps set by game developers to lure players into the pit.
However, even though Blood Slaughter isn’t interested in Vice Heroes, it doesn’t stop him from profiting off reselling information about hiring heroes in taverns and the required quest items.
At this moment, someone shouted on the city channel: "Da Fei’s hero has brought the Flower Demon Hero into the Dawn Goddess Tavern!"
With that shout, all the bar-hopping players in the tavern, even Blood Slaughter, couldn’t help but turn their eyes to the doorway.
"Welcome!" greeted by the enthusiastic maid at the door, with a squeak, the door opened, and a Ranger named "Da Fei’s Vice Hero Alicia" in a splendid military uniform led a glowing Flower Pollen Hero floating through the doorway, outside, there was a large crowd of onlookers not qualified to enter the tavern.