Chapter 78 – Exactly the Same
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TL: Conservative estimate for today – 2 chapters.
My heart drops. What does this old guy want? Usually he would tell me to go hunt, drag poop around, find people, but today, today he wants to have a drink with me? Perhaps he also knows that I’m nearing level 40 and going for a
promotion soon, so “Scavenger” is no longer the appropriate job for me?
Whoosh!
“Experience +7000”
Immediately after I put down the two porcupines, a ray of light appears, and I gained a decent amount of experience. I also take out the peppers from my bag, throw them in the sky, and unsheathe my sword. With a flash of the sword, the peppers get shattered, and the smell of the spicy peppers flood the air as they fall with other spices onto Dalin’s barbeque pig. The flavor gets absorbed, and without a doubt, the pig must be very tasty.
Whoosh!
“Experience +5000”
Another ray of light and my experience rises by another chunk. Hehe, leveling up like this, it’s really a method that is to be liked!
I give a porcupine to the army officer, and I get another thousand of experience points in return. I drag the other one to a nearby river to skin and discard the dissolving fur. After that, I find some green onions and stick it through the porcupine and return to the camp. I start another campfire and before long, the juices from the porcupine start seeping out. They crack as they fall into the fire and a pleasant aroma starts to spread as well.
I sit across to Dalin, and respectfully grasp my sword.
“Come boy…”
Dalin throws something at me and a water bag made out of a wild goat’s stomach lands on me. Good wine is filled inside it but inside the game drinking wine doesn’t add any stats, and it’s just for taste. Just some virtual stuff.
I open the cap, and raise my head to take a drink. The sweet taste of the wine spreads around in my mouth. It is indeed good.
“How’s the taste?” Dalin laughs.
I nod, “Mm, very strong taste, good wine…”
Dalin strokes his beard, and smiles, “That’s natural, this is the fine wine brewed by the palace wine masters, and not a lot of people in the world can even drink it. Hmph, if I didn’t have to rush last time, I would have grabbed more from Fire Cloud City’s palace!”
I’m shocked, “You stole this?”
“Cough cough, just borrowing!”
“Okay…” I raise my head to drink some more, then stand up with my sword in hand and say, “Instructor, give some more missions to me, I want to do some more things for you!”
Dalin bends over, stretches, grabs a pig leg, and takes a huge bite. Drinking the wine, he laughs, “Boy, my [Binding Chains] is an original skill; I hope you won’t put it to waste. I’ve traveled around the continent for my life, but I haven’t learned a huge bunch. I’m most proficient in [Binding Chains], so I can only teach you this…”
“I understand. Instructor, give me the mission…”
“Okay!”
Dalin stands up, looks at me, and says, “First mission, a prehistoric huge bird has taken a crap 5 miles south-west of Dragon City. The poop has a radius of 7 meters, bring it back. Second mission, there’s a small town called “Bysickle” straight south of Dragon City. In the small town, there’s a woman called Heisha that sells tofu. She lost her pet white cat, so you help her find it. Third mission, at the bottom of Dragon City there’s a blind old soldier who has a broken leg and is going to die soon from sickness. He has always been single and his only death wish is to touch a woman’s breast. You are to help him to find a woman. Fourth mission…”
I quickly hold my hand out, “Wait wait, hold on instructor. 3 missions is enough, let me finish them first…”
“Okay boy, I’ll be expecting good things…”
“I got it…”