Chapter 65 – Addicted to Money
This chapter was sponsored by William Wang and Johannes Ganghofner!
“Time to go…”
I took a deep breath and held onto my sword. A level 40 Tigerman. The only thing I was afraid of was that its attack was higher than the Bearman’s. On a side note, the Tigerman’s form was a lot cooler than the Bearman’s. The Bearman was just a huge bear crawling on the ground while the Tigerman was a human form warrior with the face of a tiger!
“If I kill him then my mission will be 0.1% finished!”
I activated [Haste] and [Defense] and then grasped my sword and dashed towards it. Killing monsters didn’t require extensive body control, so this guy shouldn’t be a problem. Before I even got close to the Tigerman, a golden hexagram started to appear on my sword, level 4 [Combo]!
Bang bang bang…
With the attacks of the [Combo], all 3 sword strikes landed, but the attacks weren’t as effective as I had hoped——
“247!”
“229!”
“221!”
Damn! Even after 3 strikes, I only did 700 or so damage. Was my sword falling apart? No, it was still at 100% Durability!
The Tigerman suddenly stood up and revealed a sinister smile. It raised its claws and laughed, “Ignorant human! You are looking to die if you invade my territory!”
Whoosh!
The claws magically extended 2-3 yards out. This was the monster’s attack?!
I had no way of dodging it and I felt a pain blossom on my shoulder; I lost a huge chunk of HP——
Tick!
Battle Notification: You’ve been struck by the Tigerman’s 【Violent Sweep】 and lost 311 HP!
……
I almost fainted from the pain. Although I didn’t get killed instantly, I lost 311 of my HP with only one strike. What kind of attack damage was that?
My body trembled slightly and Bobo re-positioned himself. I rushed towards the other side of the Tigerman and with a whoosh, a ray of light appeared under me. I started my custom combo, [Strength of a Thousand Men]!
“78!”
“98!”
“82!”
“117!”
“614!”
……
A series of attack damage numbers flew up and I regained some confidence. [Strength of a Thousand Men]’s [Wind Blade] was still a reliable attack. Even though the Tigerman had such a high defense, it still couldn’t go against my [Wind Blade]!
At the same time, I felt a wave of pain on my shoulder. The Tigerman’s attacks were extremely fast and it finished two strikes in an instant. It even bellowed loudly, trying to scare me!
Whoosh!
“+600”
I cast [Heal] to recover 600 HP and returned to a safe HP range where I was not in danger of dying. Unless the Tigerman had another trick that could instantly kill me, I could live if I had good control over my pet and myself!
Using the 12 pet-man tactics that Wan Er gave me, I slowly gained deeper and deeper into understanding on how the game works and the differences between it and reality. It went without saying that as I understood more and more, my power in game became stronger and stronger.
At the same time as I was using [Strength of a Thousand Men], my mind lingered on something else. How was Jian Feng Han able to break my combo, making my 4th strike miss? Now that I thought of it, the biggest weakness in my combo was my pause between strikes. Although I learned the combo, it didn’t mean that it was omnipotent. In fact. every combo would have some imperfection and since Feng Han’s insight and control were both top-class, it was fairly normal for him to break my combo.
Whoosh!
My sword sliced through the air and as soon as I finished my 3rd strike of [Strength of a Thousand Men] on the Tigerman, I rushed next to the Tigerman. Thus, when the 4th strike, my ram, landed, the Tigerman had no time to react and he got stunned for at least 1 second. As I thought, by rushing towards my target, the time between the 3rd and 4th strike got shortened. At the same time I heard a ring next to my ear——
“Ding!”
System Notification: Player has successfully realized secret arts, harmony with your combo 【Strength of a Thousand Men】 has increased by 0.9%!
……
Oh? Harmony?!
I finally understood! After creating a custom combo, there was still this thing called harmony. Now I was even more certain that the programmers who participated in creating were skilled in real life; or else they would not have possibly been able to make these small details. Mm, this game was getting more and more interesting!
……
Growl!
Yet another Tigerman fell dead in front of me and I picked up the silver coins and threw them into my bag. I looked at my mission progress: 14/1000. It looked like I needed to spend the entire morning here. But, from fighting so many Tigerman, I had figured out a couple knacks. The behavior of the Tigermen were indeed very violent, not only did they have strong skills such as [Violent Sweep], they also had another one called [Mountain Sink], which raised defense 10 times; which was why I couldn’t seem to able to scratch these Tigerman.
Well, I continued anyways, kill kill kill!
I kept on going until 10 o’clock in the morning and finally with a clang, after I killed off the 419th Tigerman, besides the black-iron and green equipment, it dropped a shiny item. An Illustration card, a blood-red illustration card. It was the Tigerman’s illustration! As I held the card in my palm, my face was full of tears. Ahh, thank you God…
Whoosh!
The seal disappeared in my palm and it entered as one in my seal window. From now on I could seal Tigermen whenever I wanted!
【Tigerman】
Attack: ★★★★☆
Defense: ★★★★☆
Health: ★★★☆
Agility: ★★★☆
Magic: ★★☆
Skills: 【Violent Sweep】【Mountain Sink】
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