NOVPUBChapter 65: Chapter 68: Moat_1
Chapter 65 -68: Moat_1
“[You take a leap, jumping into a filthy, stinking river.]
[The ‘Subspecies Sea Dragon Orb’ you carry emits a soft blue glow. You gain the ability to breathe underwater. Your fighting capabilities are unaffected underwater.]
[Do you want to search the bodies floating in the river?]
Is that even a question? I promptly click ‘Yes’.
[You recall the ‘picture of a blind merchant’ stored in your memory, combing through bloated corpses floating on the water.]
[Searching…]
[You’ve found dirty boots (junk)]
[Searching…]
Searching for half a day, all I found was junk. The text did not show I found the ‘Blind Merchant’.
[Do you want to continue exploration underwater?]
[Having found nothing, you decide to dive into the river.]
[The freezing river is murky, tainted yellow and black. You can barely see anything beyond your immediate surroundings.]
[The ability to breathe underwater allows you to clearly smell the rancid stench of the decay in the river.]
[Several ‘Fallen Scavengers’ lurking in the river spot the light emitted by the ‘Subspecies Sea Dragon Orb’ and swiftly swim toward you.]
[Do you want to attack them?]
Just by their name, I know that these monsters are like the ‘Fallen Crawlers’ in the sewers of Saint Lance; they’re just small fry offering an experience boost.
Seeing that there are only a few of these small monsters coming towards me, Lin Xun clicked “Yes”.
[You wield your sharp limbs, commencing a brutal slaughter…]
[You’ve defeated the ‘Fallen Scavenger’, resulting in a small gain in experience.]
[You’ve found ‘rotting flesh’ (junk)]
[You’ve defeated the ‘Fallen Scavenger’, resulting in a small gain in experience.]
[You’ve defeated…]
[You look at the shell of the ‘Fallen Scavenger’ in front of you…]
[Fallen Scavenger: a sort of carrion-eating humanoid. Having devoured too many mutants, it was also corrupted by profane forces. Cause of Death: A crisp throat slit. Compatibility: 82% (+35%)]
With the dancer shell in hand, Lin Xun quickly realized that his shell inventory, 5/5, was full. Each shell he had served a different purpose and wouldn’t be worth discarding for a weak monster.
“I wonder if the female supervisor could reward me with another divine item, my shell slot is kind of inadequate.”
After wiping out several small fry, the text continues to display.
[You keep killing ‘Fallen Scavengers’. Their black and red blood are blending into the river water…]
[The smell of blood attracts a large group of shadows swimming towards you. The looming shadows are so dense that they block out the sunlight from the river surface. A vast swarm of ‘Fallen Scavengers’ is approaching.]
“Shit!”
In true underworld game fashion, Lin Xun knew he’d hit a horrifying monster pile-up event.
He quickly opens the menu and selects ‘Blood Shadow Dance’.
[You use ‘Blood Shadow Dance’, smoothly swimming away. Your shell’s figure slowly disappears.]
[You are now invisible.]
[The incoming swarm of scavengers did not notice your existence.]
[They cruelly begin to devour the bodies of their own kind, intensifying the foul smell in the water.]
Having escaped a catastrophe, Lin Xun breathes a sigh of relief.
[Do you want to continue your exploration or resurface to the bank?]
Just as Lin Xun was about to click to continue his search for the merchant’s body, a thought flashed in his mind.
He decisively chose to resurface to the bank.
[Scared out of your wits by the swarming ‘Fallen Scavengers’, you hurriedly make your way to the surface. You scramble onto the metal suspension bridge.]
Lin Xun sneers, possessing the body of the Yellow Bishop.
He opens the interface and unleashes the ‘Profane Sunlight’ into the river.
[…]
[Emboldened by disgrace, you, the apostle, raise the ‘Thunder Dragon Staff Spear’ and murmur an incantation facing the dense mass of monsters in the water….]
[A red light flashes…]
[The crimson sunlight pierced through the water, triggering a vast expanse of mist.]
[You have defeated the ‘Fallen Scavenger’, experience value slightly increases.]
[You have defeated the ‘Fallen Scavenger’, experience value slightly increases.]
[You have defeated the ‘Fallen Scavenger’, experience value slightly increases.]
…
The text was vigorously bouncing, sweeping across the screen.
The experience value skyrocketed crazily.
[Seems like the scavengers in the river can only survive in water and are unable to come ashore. Confronted with the corpses of their fallen companions, they chose to continue to feast.]
“It’s harvesting time again!”
Seeing that he could reap again, Lin Xun decided to pause the process of finding the merchant temporarily.
He continued to click on his skills…
After unleashing ‘Profane Sunlight’ seven or eight times in a row, he finally eliminated all the beasts in the river.
[The power within your Shell starts to boil, the Shell level of ‘Fallen Yellow Bishop of the White Moon Church’ has increased. Current Shell level: 19]
“Ah, that feels great!”
Since he could reap plentifully, Lin Xun did not act courteously.
Returning to the Rest Page to refresh, he cleared two more waves of monsters.
[The power within your Shell starts to boil, the Shell level of ‘Fallen Yellow Bishop of the White Moon Church’ has increased. Current Shell level: 20]
After a long time without levelling up, he extinguished the Scavengers three times and raised his Shell level directly to 20.
He reverted back to the Dancer’s Shell and dove into the river again.
[You dive to the bottom of the city moat. Dark long water plants are growing on the riverbed in the mud, swaying with the waves like demons flourishing their limbs.]
[You move over the mud and discover many bleached bones scattered on the riverbed.]
[There seems to be something glowing within the pile of bones. You quickly swam forward to check it out.]
[You have obtained a ‘Crimson Flame Pot Fragment’ (Junk)]
What?
Isn’t the Crimson Flame Pot the item sold by the ‘Blind Merchant’?
Why was it here, and even in fragments, which suggests it has been used.
Lin Xun was puzzled and made up various scenarios in his mind.
[You continue exploring the riverbed and find an ancient and massive chest buried in the mud.]
[Do you want to come forward and open the chest?]
Lin Xun skillfully opened the panel and clicked on attack.
Only when he saw the chest was normal did he click ‘yes’.
[You open the huge ancient chest…]
[You have obtained an ‘Unknown Large Chunk of Spirituality’ *1]
[You have obtained a ‘Middle-ranked Forging Stone’ *1]
[You have obtained a ‘Cross of Deceased Wife’ (Key)]
“This chest is a bit stingy…”
Lin Xun complained silently, opened his item list, and checked the items.
He first stored the 200 points of spirituality, the middle-ranked Forging Stone could strengthen equipment below the epic level, he still had two of them.
[Cross of Deceased Wife (Key) A pendant of someone’s deceased wife. The end of the cross is in the shape of a key, presumably it can open correspondingly keyed mechanisms.]
Lin Xun still had another key, which fell from the Dancer.
Clicking to continue searching the riverbed, he spent quite some time this round, but he couldn’t find anything valuable. It was all junk.
It looked like the merchant’s corpse wasn’t in this location.
The most valuable item in the city moat should be the ‘Cross of Deceased Wife’.
[You resurface, climbing up the metal suspension bridge…]
