Chapter Five: Honeybees
My heart skipped a beat with excitement! Today is really a lucky day! Before I even looked for a task, one came knocking on my door!
The archery instructor looked me up and down, smiled faintly, and said, "Recently, I discovered that in the lost woods north of Irusa Village, there is a kind of wild giant bee. The sharp stingers at the end can be polished to make arrows, which are very effective when killing enemies. Can you help me run an errand and get some of those stingers back?"
"Ding Dong!" System Prompt: "Do you accept the task [Acquire Bee Stinger]?"
He agreed on the spot without needing further persuasion.
Get Bee Stingers: At the request of Instructor Viren, a scout from Ilsa Village, go to the Lost Woods and kill wild bees to obtain 20 stingers from their tails. Bring them back to Viren to complete the task. Task difficulty: Ordinary level 6.
After receiving the task, I didn't leave the village directly, but went to a grocery store in the village.
The owner of the grocery store was a middle-aged dwarf, only over one meter tall. Seeing me coming in, he was very enthusiastic: "Young friend, welcome to buy goods here! You've found the right place, my goods are really cheap and affordable!"
I'm telling you, bro, don't try to fool me, I've played virtual games before. Are the things NPCs sell cheap?
After a brief conversation with him, a list of grocery items popped up, which happened to have the two things I needed.
[Primary Red Potion]: Restores 12 health per second for 10 seconds.
Unit price: 10 copper coins
Cooling time: 15 seconds.
【Low-grade Blue Potion】: Restores 10 magic points per second for 10 seconds.
Unit price: 10 copper coins
Cooling time: 15 seconds.
This price is really shocking, I took a look at my backpack and there are only 3 silver coins left. The cost of magic for Backstab and Combo Strike is very low, after all they are physical skills. So buying blue potions isn't necessary, if it's really not enough just sit on the floor. But red potions must be bought in large quantities, those are life-saving items.
Without saying another word, he handed over all the silver coins and bought 30 bottles of red medicine. Only three copper plates were left in his pocket, and he returned to Liberation Front again.
I took a look at the price of the seal removal stone, and it made my heart skip a beat. This swindler actually dared to sell one seal removal stone for 2 gold coins! How about he goes and robs instead?! Moreover, this one seal removal stone can only unseal one sealed hole!
But all these are not what I should think about now, because my body is basically useless, two holes are used to see things, two holes are used to hear things, one hole is used to eat things, and another two holes are used to discharge things, and there is still a hole that can be used to fart when I am bored.
Seems like we've gone off topic.
After buying the red medicine, I walked out of the village quickly and turned back to look, surprised to find that no one had come out of this village yet!
Running down the slope at the south entrance of the village, opening the map to take a look, the lost forest that Viren said is not far from here. In front of my line of sight, within a few hundred meters, I can already see a dense thicket.
The monsters around haven't changed much, except that the people of Brüg are locusts. It seems that the Kingdom of Seyno is having a pretty bad year this time around.
I jogged for about three minutes before I finally entered the woods.
The bees described by Veeren were very conspicuous, hovering around the deciduous trees near the forest path. These bees were not small in size, each one was as big as a piglet, flapping their transparent wings as large as electric fan blades, and their heads full of compound eyes scanning back and forth.
Jungle Bees
Rank: Common Monster
Level: 6
Blood Volume: 700
Physical Attack: 24~28
Physical Defense: 80
Magic Defense: 70
Skills: Bee Sting
……
I also took a glance at my own attributes——
Not ordinary
Race: Human
Occupation: Scout
Rank: 5
Blood Volume: 150
Physical Attack: 282~307
Physical Defense: 10
Magic Defense: 10
Critical Hit Rate: 1%
Reputation value: 5
Lucky value: 0
……
The attack power is enough, breaking through the physical defense of this bee is no problem at all. The key is that the attack power of this bee can also break through my current physical defense, which makes me a bit worried.
But I bought the red potion for what? It's just to pull away from my own level and the main force here!
I casually pulled out a bottle of red medicine from my backpack and put it to my mouth, approaching the nearest bee to me.
It's harmonious that this bee is actually a passive monster.
Thank goodness, I finally got the chance to burst into tears!
I took advantage of the situation and pulled out a dagger from my waist, stabbing it forcefully into its buttocks!
"445!" I was shocked, full force added and it was really too awesome, instantly killing half of the bee's blood!
The bee was in pain and let out a "buzz" sound, raised its tail and gave a piercing sting!
My body went numb and a negative status immediately popped up on my head -
Poison Sting: Takes poison damage, losing 20 health every 2 seconds for 10 seconds.
I didn't hesitate, "gulp" and swallowed the red medicine in one go! Tianye's sword sliced through the air with a swoosh, striking twice at its head!
“MISS！”
“124！”
Dizzy, the first slash of Linked Slash actually missed! This is the consequence of not being agile enough! However, I'm not discouraged. Although I didn't hit, the damage from my second slash is enough to take down many, many scouts of the same level with just two or three hits!
The bee ate the pain without hesitation, its tail raised again, and it launched a normal attack at me, my life value dropped by 24 points! This guy's attack power is not low at all!
I gritted my teeth and swung the knife at it again, this time with precision, beheading it in one swift motion!
“259！”
I didn't even have time to take care of my own bee sting, and I rushed towards the second bee, entangling with it. This bee was like a lawfully crafted cannon, raising its tail thorn and stinging me again! However, the sudden system prompt made me overjoyed!
"Ding!" The system prompts: "Due to the negative status of 【Bee Sting】 on your body, this effect cannot be stacked, so you resisted the giant bee's 【Bee Sting】 skill!"
Taking advantage of the bee's sluggishness after releasing its skill, I struck it with two consecutive horizontal slashes, taking away nearly 500 points of its health. This pure strength boost is just too awesome!
Soon, this bee was also cut down by me. At this time, the effect of my red medicine had also disappeared. I took a look at the blood volume I had left and couldn't help but feel relieved - 110, what a lucky number.
I also picked up the two bees that had fallen to the ground, and together they dropped 40 copper coins. I only drank a 10-copper coin medicine, so I made a profit of 30 coppers.
However, a bee's stinger falls off just one root, and the drop rate is really not good.
As I killed the first two bees, my movements became more and more skilled. In fact, compared to many players of the same age as me, I have an advantage because after the "Faith" server collapsed, virtual online games were in a blank period for over three years, and many players returned to traditional online games again. I was fortunate enough to come into contact with "Faith" when I was 18 years old and spent less than two years inside, so my understanding of virtual games is deeper than that of many young players. Moreover, at that time, I often PKed with high-level assassin players in the "Jiatianxia" team, so I am not unfamiliar with the position of assassins. By the way, assassins are thieves in "Holy War". Generally, classmates who have played online games all have this common sense.
My experience grows rapidly, and red medicine is consumed very quickly. Basically, every time I get a bee sting, I consume one bottle of red medicine.
However, luck was still on my side. After killing for a while, I finally found the equipment again in the dropped items, and this time it was greaves, a part with defense power second only to chest armor. Although it was also grayish-white in color, its attributes had increased significantly.
Lost Shin Guard
Rank: Iron
Equipment Type: Leather Armor
Usage level: 5
Basic Attributes:
Physical Defense +12
Magic Defense +12
Additional points:
Agility +3
Non-Soul-Sealing Equipment
……
After all, it's a greave that is two levels higher than the chest armor, so its attributes are actually slightly higher than the chest armor. After equipping it, my physical defense has already reached 22 points. With this bee's attack, it's no longer enough to break through my physical defense on a large scale.
I quickly took them out to experiment, and once again I circled around a bee's backside. After a backstab that dealt 453 damage, I was stung by the bee again. This time, the negative status effect showed that my blood loss every two seconds had decreased to only 6 points.
As a result, I saved a lot of my red medicine.
After a series of killings by me, the level quickly jumped to 6th, and the number of bee stings also slowly accumulated.
But just as I was about to leave the lost forest and return to hand in my task, a loud buzzing sound came from behind me. This buzzing was much louder than the other bees' sounds. I turned around and was shocked! The head of this bee was much larger than those of the forest bees, its body was more than half a meter long, and its two wings were flapping wildly, almost as wide as my arm span! Moreover, it looked even more ferocious, flapping its wings back and forth in a threatening manner.
My heart is racing, could this guy be a BOSS?
However, as its properties were read out by me, I was slightly disappointed —
Bumblebee in the jungle
Monster Class: Enhanced Monster
Rank: 8
Blood Volume: 3000
Physical Attack: 39~46
Physical Defense: 130
Magic Defense: 120
Skills: Sting, Heavy Blow
……
Looking at this worker bee, a kind of excited melancholy immediately surged up in my heart. If I were to kill it, the experience would be simply overflowing!
As soon as I thought of this, I immediately sat on the floor, quickly replenished my own blood bar, and then grabbed a red potion and rushed towards it, charging straight at its abdomen!
But what I didn't expect was that this guy suddenly turned his head around, lifted his butt and stabbed me in the chest!
Suddenly, a sour numbness hit his chest, and a piece of flesh was torn off!
“59！”
