Chapter 48 - Ginseng Earthworm
Rustle…
The freezing wind howled through the forest and pounded of the city walls of Dragon City, making a frozen whirlpool. Two people could be seen walking through it. One with a burly physique and carrying a heavy chain and another with a staff and a tiny bee.
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”Sir, what’s the main responsibility of a scavenger in Dragon City?”
Dalin dragged the chains behind him, and smiled, answering: “Our main responsibility is to clean up the surrounding area of Dragon City from anything that would either pose a threat towards Dragon City or the ordinary soldiers transporting goods to or from Dragon City.”
I nodded, thinking back to the ti when Dalin killed the Cyclops with a single blow. If I had to hunt down such creatures, I’d probably die before scratching them.
“Moreover…” Beast Tar Dalin looked into the distance with a cold look in his eyes: “There is another important duty.”
“What duty?”
“Co with !”
“Okay!”
Dalin leaped forward, traveling more than a hundred yards in a single leap. I rushed after him with my staff, until I ca to an earth slope which had large lumps of steaming hot excrent. So were even giving off small sparks on the top while the others were frozen solid. The pile had a radius of around 1 ter from the top to the button.
“What is this?” I was quite startled.
Beast Tar Dalin was looking in the sky, pretty curious, I looked as well: “Kid, what you see is the excrent of the phoenix. The phoenix’s main food is the fruit that grows in volcanoes. This causes the phoenix’s body to store lots of energy, which causes its excrent to be high quality and good for heating. Since the winters are unusually harsh in Dragon City, we must store lots of excrent to keep Dragon City warm in the winter.”
Suddenly Dalin’s chains danced in the air and compacted the excrent before he started dragging them towards Dragon City.
I was completely astonished, was this my duty?
“Kid, don’t just stand around. That side has lots of frozen Wild Boar excrent, carry it away.”
“Uhh… Yeh…Yes…Yes sir!……”
I glanced towards a huge pile of excrent. Was this really poop? How big were these Wild Boars? When I entered the ranks of Dragon City, I expected to beco a mighty Dragon warrior or Dragon knight. Instead my profession turned out to be an excrent mover…
Although there was a difference between the types of work, every job was vital, let’s work!
Paa!
I stuck my staff directly into the excrent and made an effort to pick up the frozen excrent to carry back to the camp. The camp was extrely simple only consisting of a tent that could barely contain Dalin. I had to stand outside by the bonfire!
Next to our camp was a huge pit where we threw the excrent. I flicked my staff through the air and the excrent looked magnificent as it entered the pit.
“Ding!”
System Notification: Congratulations, you have successfully cleaned up debris and obtained 900 points of experience.
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Very unexpectedly I also gained experience by doing this? I couldn’t help but laugh, the experience was almost as good as hunting monsters. The only downside was that there was no chance of dropping equipnt or illustration cards.
I kept walking back and forth between the excrent and the pit together with Dalin. This area belonged to Dragon City’s territory and since it was more than an hour’s walk from any major city with extrely high-leveled monsters, normal players would never venture here. This ant that I was alone in doing these humiliating tasks.
As I continued to move the excrent, I quickly got to 27% experience. I was striving to reach level 30 today. Then I would be able to wield Jade City Sword and Silver Locked Battle Boots, which would dramatically increase my strength.
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Rustle…
On the way uphill, Dalin quickly raised his arm in sign for to stop and quietly said: “Kid, stop.”
I narrowed my eyes as I looked around: “What’s going on?”
“A jackpot’s coming!”
“Oh?”
The soil suddenly parted and a chubby head erged. It looked a lot like an insect and a mont later my theory was confird, as the entire insect climbed out of the hole. It looked and moved like a sea cucumber. Its status displayed “Ginseng Earthworm” and its rank was unclear, which ant it was at least level 35.
“I am truly lucky today.”
The Beast Tar Dalin was almost drooling while looking at it: “Kid, this Ginseng Earthworm is very high quality food. Within Tian Ling Empire a pound of its flesh can be sold for a hundred gold coins because of its rare taste and abundance of nutrition. In addition, it’s one of the best foods to fight against the cold. Such a big Ginseng Earthworm can feed the entirety of Dragon City for a week.”
He firmly gripped his chains while staring at the mouthwatering Ginseng Earthworm. With a quick flourish, he pulled out so dried fish from his backpack: “Ginseng Earthworms have a fancy for fish, so I will lure it over here. You circle around it and ambush it, but be careful to not let it escape down into the hole. Once it’s down in the earth it’s as agile as a fish in the water and impossible to catch.”
I nodded as I raised my staff and called Baby Bobo to circle around the worm.
Dalin quickly ran up the hill and dropped the fish before concealing himself. Less than half a minute later the heavy earthworm had waddled over and began stuffing himself with the fish. Suddenly Dalin jumped up towards it and yelled: “This ti you will not escape!”
Chu!
The iron chains pierced directly into the Ginseng Earthworm and blood splattered in all direction. It was making an endless struggle and wriggled in an attempt to get free, before finally a snapping sound was heard. It had torn its own body through the iron chain and escaped. It took a huge chunk of damage, but that didn’t stop it from rushing towards and the hole.
“CO ON, GET IT!”
I crossed my staff as I prepared to encounter it, anwhile I commanded Baby Bobo to rush towards it. Baby Bobo imdiately used [Combo] and dealt over a 1000 points of damage. Hmm, the defense of the worm wasn’t even decent.
“Good, kid, stop it, STOP IT!” Dalin yelled as he prepared to throw his chains again.
The Ginseng Earthworm was desperately rushing forward, I attempted to stop it, but it simply bashed away. Baby Bobo was still furiously attacking and even though the worm’s defense was low and it only had around a total of 5000 health, we were unable to kill it within such a limited ti period.
Ka ka……
In a blink of an eye the Ginseng Earthworm was back in the ground and gone. The chance was gone. You could hear how disappointed and bitter Baby Bobo was from his buzzing.
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Shortly afterwards, and Dalin both stood in front of the hole. Dalin was looking quite sad and disappointed as he said: “Damn, it actually escaped, such a sha………… Kid, it’s not your fault…………”
I pursed my lips: “I didn’t say that it was my fault…”
“Alright, there are a few giant boars up ahead, we will hunt those. As the winter draws closer, our employed convoys are often intercepted by either wild animals or bandits, so we cannot depend on them. We have to gather supplies ourselves.This is why we hunt.”
I nodded but I asked: “Sir, as there are many strong generals in Dragon City, why don’t they also hunt?”
Dalin smiled as he said : “There are many outstanding people in Dragon City, but they are either ditating or practicing martial arts and combat. They have no ti to hunt for animals. This is our responsibility and also one of the reasons Captain Frost allowed you to beco a mber of Dragon City. You could say that we are food providers to Dragon City’s kitchen.”
A bit disappointed, I looked towards Dragon City and asked: “Sir, are there really dragons in this frozen wasteland?”
“Ah?!”
Dalin thought about it for a couple of monts before answering: “Who knows, it has been a couple of hundred years since anyone has seen a Dragon. I think the last ti a Dragon was seen was 500 years ago in the war of empires. Maybe Dragons have since then lost the god’s blessing and beco a fable to never appear again.”
I took a deep breath. Looked like I wouldn’t get the chance to fight a Dragon.
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We continued forward and soon encountered huge boars at the forest’s edge. Dalin was the main attack force, while I supported him. Less than 15 seconds later the boar dropped to the ground disturbing a huge cloud of dust.
“Even though this at is very tough, it’s also quite a treasure in winter tis.”
Dalin threw his chains around the boar and dragged it back to the camp. When we arrived, there were already more than a dozen black armored Dragon warriors waiting. One of the n with a bunch of excrent in one hand, turned around respectfully asking: “ Dalin, did you find so more food?”
Dalin laid down the boar: “Yeah, it’s around a 500 kilo boar, you may take it. After all there is nothing like bacon, and a pot of wine in the winter. That is the good life.”
“Haha, thank you sir.”
When we handed over the porcupine a system ssage appeared.
“Ding!”
System Notification: Congratulations, you have successfully delivered food and received 3000 experience points.
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I felt joy, unspeakable joy! I also got experience from delivering dead monsters! This ant that I could get experience both from killing monsters as well as delivering them to the pit. Also it was giving reasonably more experience than simply throwing excrent into the pit.
If I was lucky the experience reward might increase further if I was doing it on my own. Either way, and Dalin continued hunting and dragging monsters to the awaiting Dragon soldiers.
As the afternoon light dimd, my experience had increased to 87%. I was extrely close to level 30 and beca anxious, not wanting to get another setback.
“Kid, I’ll take a break now, go ahead and continue cleaning up the wilderness.”
Dalin laid down inside his ripped tent, enjoying the little extra shelter and warmth it gave.
I walked away with my Baby Bobo, it was ti to solo hunt.
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