Chapter 874 - 826: True Skill Lies in Anti-submarine Mastery
After solving Ma Yinglong’s issue, the next one to deal with is the beauty Bloodrose Rosa. Although Da Fei doesn’t really like this woman, her looks can’t be denied, beauty is beauty, deserving of a perfect ten, but right now it’s zero.
Da Fei replied: "Thank you so much, I’ve been so busy completing tasks handed over by NPCs, I just couldn’t stop!"
Soon enough, Bloodrose Rosa replied: "Sorry, Brother Fei, we were surrounded by monsters at the foot of the mountain and couldn’t make it back in time to welcome you. Have you revived the Banshee Hero, Brother Fei?"
Da Fei chuckled and said, "Thanks to you all, I have."
Bloodrose Rosa smiled and said, "That’s great, Brother Fei. I’ve heard that you’ve helped the European Union Zone a lot. Now almost 300 people there have officially gained Crusader status, not to mention summoning so many Angels—the European Union Zone’s elite strength has surpassed the world by a big margin. All players from the China Region are worried on the forums, Brother Fei, you can’t play favorites. You should also help the China Region, otherwise, we’ll be thrashed by the European Union Zone in future national wars."
Da Fei raised an eyebrow, 300 in the European Union Zone advanced? Damn, are these Crusaders carrots being sold wholesale? Although I had no plans to help the European Union Zone during my single trip there, I intended to watch them fend for themselves, but still ended up involved. The so-called "worry" must be hacking at me on-site, calling me a traitor on forums?
Come on, have these dogs seen a traitor who donated a million US dollars? Da Fei could only sigh: "To be honest, I also received a Vice Hero task to get to Divine Punishment City. I don’t even know how I got there. Those three crucifixes were task rewards along the way, other than that, I really have no means to bring people into Divine Punishment City."
Bloodrose Rosa chuckled: "Brother Fei, help who you can, right?"
Oh, so after fighting monsters, they finally found out how daunting Divine Punishment City is, and now they’re asking me? A beauty is indeed a beauty, speaking so naturally about such things. Fine, aren’t the three of you now like my wife and sister?
Da Fei thought for a moment, then chuckled: "Let’s do it this way, maybe around three or four o’clock I need to return to Divine Punishment City; I’ll lend you over twenty Angels for development."
Bloodrose Rosa was overjoyed: "You’re truly Brother Fei, thank you so much, Brother Fei!"
Da Fei chuckled and said, "We can’t just watch the European Union Zone basking in glory, right? Okay, you guys get busy first. If you have time, see if you can look after the blacksmith shop’s business; there might be tasks, which are certainly better than just grinding monsters."
Hmph, a lone blacksmith rushing out 51 sets of military armor in a day must be crazy busy, likely to send out tasks like the pharmacy owner to apprentice helpers. Let my sister and the others learn some smithing after gathering. Multiple skills are advantageous; knowing nothing but foolishly grinding monsters leads nowhere.
As expected, Bloodrose Rosa caught on: "Alright, thanks for the tip, Brother Fei, take your time with your work!"
"You guys keep busy, you guys keep busy!"
Seeing the supposedly proud and wealthy Bloodrose boss lady speaking so politely, Da Fei felt sentimental. Just days ago, the upper ranks of Bloodrose’s women disdained talking to me directly; even cursing me personally was beneath them—they’d send underlings to disgust me.
But now, when beauties are eager to align with you, there’s nothing more to say. Ultimately, as a man, you might lack poise or even face or credibility, but you can’t lack true skills. Of course, I’m a different person now, with higher pursuits, and poise and credibility have become necessary. As long as we cooperate and don’t disrupt, I won’t dwell on past trivialities.
Now, there’s Shenlan’s proposed collaboration with Ninth Heaven; they’ve always extended olive branches. However, I genuinely can’t help—fine, truth be told, as pro players, they should realize some things they must rely on themselves.
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While Da Fei was chit-chatting, the Dwarf Mayor shouted: "Warrior, ahead lies the Chimera Forest in the valley. Our task is to build an outpost at the valley entrance, so we can control and station long-term, but the Chimeras inside are numerous and more powerful. Warrior, it’s all up to you."
So it was a forest within a valley, the kind of easily defensible terrain perfectly suited for a player-prepared enclosed poaching prevention park? No wonder it’s a mission issued by the Prince.
Da Fei smiled faintly: "As many as come, as many will die!"
The dwarves cheered excitedly: "Truly a warrior!"
In the midst of conversations, around a dozen Chimeras flew over the forest at once. Coming this way, Da Fei was well-acquainted with these Chimeras’ combat capability—far exceeding level 7 soldiers, potentially reaching level 8 strength, with very high intelligence and sly ranged bombardment. But having experienced hellish battles, for Da Fei, this strength and environment posed no challenge.
There was no need for words; the "female Demon" corps swiftly finished them off.
Then the Dwarf Mayor heartily exclaimed: "Charge! Hurry to build!"
"Yeah!!!" Hundreds loudly cheered, and the convoy advanced uniformly to the valley entrance to unload and start work. It was clearly a ruin, with signs of previous construction?
Da Fei asked the Mayor: "Lord Mayor—"
The Mayor immediately said: "Warrior, just call me Maliki."
Da Fei exclaimed, "Mayor Maliki, what’s up with these ruins?"
The mayor sighed longly, "We’ve tried controlling this area multiple times before, but either the chimeras would directly drive us back before we could finish building outposts, or we’d finish building them but couldn’t hold them for long. In the end, we had to abandon them."
Da Fei was stunned on the spot! What the hell, does this mean we have to guard this forest long-term? Or do the monsters here respawn really fast?
Then the mayor’s tone became incredibly enthusiastic, "But now things are different. Now that we have a warrior here, no matter how many chimeras come, they’re dead!"
Ah, crap! Who has the time to mess around with you all? Once I clear this forest, I’m out of here! But the problem is, if I don’t deal with the Chimera, leaving Forest Demon and Flower Demon here means they’re obviously not its opponents! Never mind then, I’ll just kill as many as I can for now and cover them while they finish building the base.
So, Da Fei started advancing deep into the forest, clearing it as he went. The chimeras in the forest seemed to be under some command, not dying meaninglessly but gathering in the forest farther away towards the canyon.
They are organized. Don’t tell me there’s a Hero Level Chimera King here? This is troubling Da Fei.
To solve this, there’s only one way, as the guild leader, I have the right to turn certain individual tasks into guild tasks, allowing other guild members to complete them, just like dispatching Da Wei, Bai Huasha, and the others to assist Spielberg with the Sea Monster Hunter task. Plus, any territory management-related tasks can usually be converted to guild tasks.
This is precisely why the biggest value of a guild leader is running around the city accepting tasks, and then letting guild members complete them. That’s why Bloodrose Rosa and Sea and Sky squat in the city all the time without going out to fight monsters. Of course, once converted to guild tasks, the task rewards are adjusted by the system and awarded to the members who complete them. A portion of the reputation goes to the guild.
——System Prompt: Unfortunately! You cannot convert Prince Alberon’s task ’Security and Defense of Chimera Canyon Forest’ into a guild task!
Ah, crap! Da Fei spat a mouthful of saliva! So this can’t be converted? Is it a personal assessment specifically for me?
What now? Actually, it’s okay if the task isn’t completed, but I should at least get someone to help maintain the situation here. The problem is, I just called them out to sea, who can I call over? Recruit more people? With my soaring reputation in the China Region, others are dying to squeeze into my guild!
While pondering, the Blood Eagle Radar suddenly flashed golden light, Da Fei raised his brow, treasure?
Da Fei then controlled the Blood Eagle to fly to the location on the radar with the golden light, and there it was, a golden pine cone under the snow at the base of a tree! The Blood Eagle swooped down and snatched it with a claw!
——System Prompt: Your reconnaissance spirit eagle Little Fei has seized a "Mysterious Golden Pine Cone"!
Whoa! There’s actual loot here? But this thing has no attribute description, which suddenly reminds Da Fei of when he picked seeds all over the Holy Vine Space. This means that the forest that both Prince and Chimera fancy has deeper meanings than it seems, this is definitely a treasure land!
Oh right, I almost forgot about someone!
Da Fei then had the Blood Eagle fly back to the canyon entrance to look for that expert tracking him.
First, Da Fei was certain of one thing, this expert couldn’t possibly be here to assassinate him. An expert who reaches this level wouldn’t be foolish enough to challenge my entire army alone. There are only two possibilities, one, he’s scouting for a large-scale siege against me. Two, he wants to take advantage of me clearing the way to follow and sneak in for some easy gains. Otherwise, even if he’s pretty good at Stealth, he wouldn’t be able to traverse the snowy terrain unnoticed without Chimera’s eyes.
If it’s the first case, I’ll oblige, but it feels like a wild encounter, not likely. If it’s the second case, I’ll need to have a talk with him and charge a protection fee. Anyway, I should uncover him.
So Da Fei’s Blood Eagle flew to the canyon entrance and instantly became dumbfounded! The ground was covered with countless footprints from Dwarf NPCs, sleigh wheel tracks. Crap! How can I possibly trace footprints here? Maybe he slipped into the forest while I was spacing out earlier?
As for the forest, the snow cover isn’t as thick as outside, making footprints hard to leave, plus the tree canopy might conceal him, Blood Eagle might not spot a Stealth expert after all. Damn it! I got careless!
No way. As the world’s top expert, I can’t let myself be used like a fool. Da Fei immediately remembered the treasure he obtained after instant-killing the stealth hero at Hell Pier:
——Ground Listener: S-level strategic equipment, detection instrument. Placing this instrument on the ground effectively detects lurking underground enemies within a radius of 100 meters, and can listen to footsteps of medium-sized creatures hundreds of meters away.
Come on! Being a badass at stealth isn’t truly badass, being badass at anti-submarine is. If I don’t make you bow down and sing ’Conquer’ around me, I’ll let down my title as the world’s top expert!
The machine starts!
Then a whole bunch of red dots appeared on the machine radar! Da Fei looked back in disbelief, it’s the construction site at the canyon entrance! Damn! The machine being too sensitive is frustrating!
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