Chapter 23: Dead Fish Eye
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Blue put out the fire in the forging furnace, and donning a pair of Anti-Demon Gloves, he took out a piece of burning hot-red shield from the furnace. The mont the shield’s surface ca in contact with the surrounding air, a loud hissing steam sound was heard.
The Dark Iron Dwarf transford its torso to stone imdiately and held the shield in its bosom.
After a full five minutes, the steam from the shield finally dissipated completely. The dwarf then placed the shield on the table and turned to scold Blue. “For Superior Smithing, not only do you need to be careful in the smithing process, but knowing how to best preserve the created equipnt’s attributes is also of utmost importance. Or else, the attributes of the equipnt will decrease significantly. Do you understand?”
Blue nodded his head obediently, repeating it for a few tis. “Yes, yes.”
Putting on a straight face, he handed the shield to Lin Jie and bowed deeply. “Thank you, respectful Viscount. Please forgive my impudence just now. If you need to repair any equipnt in the future, I will use my salary to pay for you.”
——’The Blacksmith Blue from the Blacksmith’s Shop’s favorability of you has risen to Respect level. You can enjoy free repairing fees for your equipnt at the Blacksmith’s Shop by Blue till the maximum cap of 120 gold coins.’
Lin Jie raised his brows. ‘Free repairing fees for equipnt?’ Moreover, the cap was set at Blue’s maximum amount of savings—Blue was indeed a magnanimous chap.
‘120 gold coins!’
Going by the market price now, Lin Jie could save up to almost a few hundred thousand dollars worth of repair fees!
The mont Lin Jie took the shield from Blue’s hands, Blue’s status changed to a High-level Blacksmith. That was an indication that Blue had completed the custor’s request. There were not a lot of high-level blacksmiths in The New Age, and almost all of them had their own guilds or schools and were regarded as highly-esteed advisors. Blue was only high-level Blacksmith still working at a shop. As such, the Blacksmith’s Shop in the City of Light would be able to sell Bronze equipnt from then on.
Shield of Courage (Gold)
Requires: Level 0, Strength 80.
Defense: 39 – 75
Health Points: 100
Endurance: 10
Block: 7%
Additional effect: Shield Strike
The Shield of Courage allowed its holder to gain the additional skill, Shield Strike. This was a skill like the Shield Strike ability of Shield Specialists, and also had the sa attacking power, but the pros were that it existed as an independent skill in spite of the holder. In other words, if a Shield Specialist owned this shield, he would be able to activate two Shield Strike skills without having the limitation of cooldown period. Just imagine how strong would that be!
It was a pity that the Strength requirent of this shield was so high as 80 Strength points, which was definitely hard to obtain. Even if players owned passive skill books that allowed them to increase their Strength capacity, not many players would be able to get 80 Strength points. Moreover, the Skill column of every player had limitations. One needed to spend a lot of money just to forget one skill. To spend so much money only for brief monts of enjoying limitless Shield Strike benefits was definitely not reasonable.
The success rate of forging the Shield of Courage was around 35%. Even high-level Blacksmiths could not guarantee that they would be able to forge it successfully, let alone a mid-level Blacksmith like Blue. Lin Jie had deliberately requested for Blue to forge this shield in order to rip off the shop.
However, the shield was forged successfully and with excellent attributes. It even had 100 more Health points and 10 more Endurance points than regular Shields of Courage. If Lin Jie could equip himself with it, he would not be killed even with 10 people attacking him all at once.
“Are you using Blade Aura Executioner?” asked the dwarf. His na was finally revealed, Master Blacksmith Guran.
Lin Jie did not deny it and nodded his head in reply.
“Since the Wind Rider Sword Saint has appeared again, I guess it should not be far off for the others?” Guran shook his head and walked into the inner chambers, reminiscing the old days.
Lin Jie’s eyes lit up as he had activated a mission. After exchanging a few words with Blue, he left the shop.
After Lin Jie left for about half an hour, a group of players walked into the Blacksmith’s Shop and were astonished to see the Bronze equipnt displayed. NPCs had the intelligence to discern players’ levels. Thus, they would display the equivalent grades of equipnt that matched the levels of most players in the ga.
The attributes of equipnt displayed in the equipnt column of the shop were comparable, if not better than that of those in the auction house, but their prices were around the sa. This piece of good news was spread among the players, and soon nurous players rushed to the Blacksmith’s Shop in the City of Light and almost purchased all of the items on sale. Blue hastily put up the sign for limited purchases, and only put up a limited amount of equipnt for sale each day.
Due to this incident, the prices of equipnt put up for auction by players in the auction house decreased significantly. Many profiteers who had originally stocked up large numbers of equipnt to sell off at high prices made huge losses and were nearly bankrupted.
At the sa ti, more players flocked to the City of Light. In fact, it was later made known that the traffic of players entering the City of Light had increased multiple tis. In Lin Jie’s previous life, the City of Light had originally been just a second-tiered small town. But now, it began to gain the popularity of players since Lin Jie’s encounter at the Blacksmith’s Shop. This was sothing he would never have expected.
Indeed, who could ever prevent the Butterfly effect from taking place?
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The Rogaland Mountains were situated south off from the Autumn Waters Town, which was also known as the Town of Mages. It had lush scenery and healthy biodiversity, with many different types of herbs and dicinal plants. This was an ideal training ground for players who wanted to practice and refine their Potioneering skills.
Lin Jie followed various mountain trails and plucked several herbs along his journey. The most important aspect of perfecting Potioneering skills would be to accumulate herbs of all kinds. One would never know when each herb might co in handy.
Half an hour ago, the Autumn Waters Town had witnessed the arrival of large groups of players. Although those players seed unrelated to each other and dispersed around that area upon their arrivals, Lin Jie was not beguiled. Those were players from the Ironwall Empire.
There was only one monster below Level 10 which would spawn the Guild Base Token, and yours truly here was now stepping on it—yes, in actual fact, the entire Rogaland Mountains was one huge monster. It was nad the Mountain Giant. Giants moved at a very slow speed, but they generally had high HP levels and also strong attacking powers. However, they had a common Achilles’ heel—they were afraid of Mana attacks.
Lin Jie had just finished plucking a dicinal plant when sothing shiny caught his eyes. It was a treasure chest, hidden within the midst of thick bushes not far off from where Lin Jie was standing, and hence was not easily spotted.
‘Let’s go!’
Lin Jie jogged over, rubbed his hands and prepared to open the treasure chest.
At that mont, he suffered a hard blow at the back of his head, and his body dropped to the ground.
That was due to Bandit’s skill, the Stealth Hit!
The Stealth Hit could only be used when the player was not in battle mode. It would stun the target for 10 seconds, but once the target was attacked again, the dizzy spell would be lifted. This was a much-despised skill of Bandits, who would normally use it against others in the urban areas. Should they be irritated by the sight of particular players, they would use the Stealth Hit on them and stun them for at least half an hour.
However, that Bandit did not seem to have any intentions of killing Lin Jie.
Indeed, a dull-eyed bandit clad in a black catsuit and covered with a mask appeared in front of Lin Jie. He squatted in front of the treasure chest, took out a self-made key and started picking the lock. Bandits’ Lock Picking Skill could allow them to open a treasure chest faster. Once they got more proficient at it, they could open any doors.
In Lin Jie’s previous life, there was a guild known as the Astounding Magical Bandits which was made up of 25 Bandits. They had offered services which had caused havoc for many guilds by picking open the guilds’ warehouses doors or worst, their money vaults.
That group of bandits had claid that they abode by the professional ethics of Bandits—they would never steal from the vaults they helped to open. However, that did not an the other mbers in the guild would not take the opportunity to pocket so gains when their guild’s vaults were opened. It was a matter of ti before discord was sown within the guild. In fact, so mbers had even kept watch near their guild’s common vaults so they could nab so items when the common vaults’ doors were opened. That eventually had led to the disbandnt of many guilds, and Lin Jie rembered many opposing guilds had made use of this tactic to attack each other.
‘This person… he seems familiar.’
Lin Jie furrowed his brows and tried to recall who this guy was. anwhile, the bandit stood up, panting from his attempts of picking the lock. It did not seem like the process went smoothly. The effects of Stealth Hit would be wearing off soon, so he made another Stealth Hit at the back of Lin Jie’s head again…
Lin Jie felt like crying at his own fate. This was the tragedy of not having a skill to dispel abnormal effects.
The bandit picked away at the lock, stopped halfway through the process again to make another Stealth Hit at Lin Jie, then continued on his work. 10 minutes later, he received a notification.
“Dead Fish Eye, stop hitting with Stealth Hit! I won’t fight with you for the treasure chest!”
The bandit threw a surprised look at Lin Jie. He stood in front of him, twirling his daggers effortlessly in both of his hands; one dagger in the clockwise direction, the other in the counterclockwise direction. This action confird Lin Jie’s suspicions.
The Stealth Hit was deactivated. The bandit kept a close watch on Lin Jie’s hands. As long as he made any actions, he would imdiately activate his Crowd Control skills to manipulate this guy!
“Rawr!”
Outraged Roar!
Dead Fish Eye’s eyes rolled back in his head and fell into a dizzy spell. He regained consciousness after five minutes and saw Lin Jie beaming at him. “Ha, we are even now.”
Dead Fish Eye snorted beneath his mask, squatted down and continued picking open the treasure chest.
Lin Jie made no movents and waited quietly at the side. In his previous life, Dead Fish Eye had been a famous personality. He had been given the nickna of ‘Kind Grim Reaper’, and he had a legendary lone ranger. Though he had been the most well-known bandit in The New Age, Dead Fish Eye had kept a low profile. He had only gotten his nickna because although he made a series of astonishing achievents, he had never killed any players without good reasons during the five years he had played the ga. He had only been interested in opening treasure chests. If other players wanted to snatch his treasure chest, Dead Fish Eye would make use of his skills, equipnt and all sorts of unthinkable tools to put them under his Crowd Control spells until they begged for pardon.
Other than that, Dead Fish Eye also had a strong sense of righteousness. Should he witness sothing unfair, he would cast his Crowd Control skills upon the evil-doers, which would make them unable to go anywhere for at least two to three hours. His Crowd Control abilities had the power to prevent one from going offline or move anywhere.
The most famous of his stories was one involving a small team from the Kingdom of Glory. That particular team had tried to clear players off a map, and Dead Fish Eye had used his Crowd Control skills to freeze them and their nurous supporting mbers who ca over to rescue them for hours, without giving a damn to his own HP levels. They had only been released from his control spells after Eighteen Massacres had rushed over in person to help them.
As such, all players had guessed that the entirety of Dead Fish Eye’s skills and possessions must have been made up of Crowd Control and passive skills which helped to increase his HP levels. Along with that, he must also have equipnt which had independent Crowd Control attributes. How else would he have been able to conduct such a grand Crowd Control feat?
As for his nickna of the Grim Reaper, it had been gained from his spectacular feat at the Castle of the Sky map. During the sixth year of playing the ga, it was announced that there was a Legendary Treasure Chest at the Castle of the Sky, and of course, it had attracted the attention of Dead Fish Eye. Every player had equal opportunities to get the Legendary Treasure Chest, and almost all the players who were nearby the Castle of the Sky had laid their eyes on it and rushed over imdiately. Chaos had ensued, and due to the obstruction of a second-class guild, Dead Fish Eye had been unable to get his hands on the treasure chest. In his rage, he had wiped out hundreds of players from that guild and hence landed himself with the infamous alias of “Hundreds Killer”.
Unafraid to fight for justice, abilities tested and proven true—that would be the ‘Kind Grim Reaper’ Dead Fish Eye for you.
Lin Jie would never have recalled this person if he had not been held under his control spells for so long.
Creak-
The treasure chest opened finally. Dead Fish Eye took out his gains satisfactorily, pondered for a mont and threw a gem to Lin Jie.
Augnting Gem: It is used to enhance your equipnt. If the enhancing process is unsuccessful, there is a fixed chance that your equipnt will be damaged or decrease in grade.
Lin Jie owned a few pieces of augnting gems. He knew that the market price of one augnting gem would be as high as five silver coins, and that was considered expensive.
“I don’t know you,” Dead Fish Eye held his fists and saluted to Lin Jie, “but I owe you a favor. If you need , just ssage , and I will help you once.”
Lin Jie smiled. “Oh, I have sothing that will require your help now.”
“Shoot.”
“The Ironwall Empire is trying to kill an Overlord…”
Dead Fish Eye knowingly nodded his head, and replied calmly, “I get it. We will kill them together. I will be in charge of attacking the Overlord and the items spawned will belong to .” His tone sounded like this arrangent was a sure bet.
Lin Jie shook his hand. “No, I will be in charge of killing the Overlord, and I get the items spawned.”
Dead Fish Eye’s pupils shrank and seed surprised. “You can kill an Overlord?”
Lin Jie nodded his head earnestly. “I can. I am just afraid you are not up to it.”
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