Chapter 16: Equipment Dropped Again

Sun Fei forced himself to hold back his anger. He gritted his teeth and slowly asked his third question: “I want to know, can I take the items I get here back to my own world? Honorable Sister Acarra, you understand what I mean, right?”

Sun Fei was ready.

If this woman said ‘divine will’ or ‘I don’t know’ one more time, he would pounce and brutally punch the face under the nun’s hood… as for the consequences? Damn it, he couldn’t care less!

Fortunately, Acarra’s answer was not like that—

“Young adventurer, you must always remember this rule: in this world, to get something, you must pay the corresponding price… hehe, as long as you can offer something that satisfies the god, anything can happen!”

“You mean, as long as I can afford the price, I can choose any items to take out, right?”

“Young man, does that count as your fourth question?”

Damn woman, would you die if you weren’t so stingy? Sun Fei cursed in his heart.

But he didn’t show his inner thoughts at all. His face remained respectful. He rubbed his chin and thought for a moment, then resolutely shook his head and said, “No, of course not. What a joke…” To be honest, Sun Fei was scared by Acarra’s greediness. He quickly asked his long-prepared fourth question: “Why was I forced to leave this world? What was that voice in my head?”

“That was the god guiding you forward… child, when your Mental Power is strong enough to support your consciousness in this world, you can exist here forever. But right now, obviously not. With your current Mental Power level, you can only stay in this world for four hours!”

Mental Power?!

So that’s how it was!

Sun Fei suddenly understood.

After listening to Acarra, Sun Fei turned and left without hesitation.

He was afraid that if he stayed any longer, he might do something to the greedy Aunt Acarra that would outrage both gods and men. Which bastard said NPCs were dumb and only answered questions to push the plot? Sun Fei had believed that and let his guard down, only to be tricked badly by this greedy NPC.

“Adventurer, you still have one more question…” Aunt Acarra shouted gleefully behind him.

“I’ll save that opportunity for later. When I think of a question truly worth 2,000 Gold Coins, I’ll come ask you then!”

Sun Fei almost fled in panic.

…

“It seems I really need to be careful when dealing with NPCs in the World of Diablo from now on. Otherwise, these vampires will eat me until not even my bones are left. Damn it, each one is more troublesome than the monsters in the wilderness…”

After leaving Acarra, Sun Fei decided to continue leveling up to improve his strength.

The situation in Shampoo City in the real world was severe. He had to improve his strength as quickly as possible. Even if he couldn’t truly protect Shampoo City, he should still be able to protect his own life and the lives of those around him.

The fastest way to improve strength wasn’t killing monsters non-stop, but taking on quests and receiving the experience rewards after completing them.

So before leaving the Rogue Encampment, Sun Fei, relying on his memories from the previous life’s computer game, found Kashya, the armed leader of the Rogue Encampment.

From Kashya, he accepted his second quest—eliminate the traitor Blood Raven.

Kashya was the leader of the Mercenaries in the Rogue Encampment.

Under her command were many female Rogues who had undergone strict training, each possessing unique skills. In the previous life’s computer game, after the player completed the ‘eliminate the traitor Blood Raven’ quest, the gamer would gain Kashya’s trust. This armed leader of the Rogue Encampment would then freely give a female Rogue to protect you as a quest reward.

“Hehe, I wonder if these female Rogue ladies are as fresh and beautiful as in the computer game?” Whenever he thought of pretty ladies, Sun Fei’s EQ often plummeted straight down like China’s stock market crashing, without him even realizing it.

He sneakily peeked a few times toward the large tent behind Kashya.

The tent was the resting and living quarters for the female Rogues. From inside, occasional giggles of young women could be heard, pleasant like silver bells. It felt like a kitten scratching at Sun Fei’s heart, making it itchy, numb, and his whole body go weak.

But that damn tent flap covered everything, preventing Sun Fei from seeing anything.

He left the Rogue Encampment, looking back every few steps.

…

The Rogue Encampment’s traitor ‘Blood Raven’ was entrenched deep in a cemetery in the Cold Plains. She was surrounded by many monster guards.

Sun Fei set out from the camp, passed through the Blood Moor, and killed countless monsters along the way. After walking for about two hours, amidst the suddenly falling chilly rain, he stepped into the Cold Plains.

By this time, Sun Fei had finally leveled his Barbarian character to level 7.

Like in many role-playing computer games, the higher the level, the more experience points were needed to level up, and the longer it took. Going from level 0 to level 5 took Sun Fei less than 3 hours, but from level 5 to level 7 had already taken him almost two hours.

The Cold Plains was much colder than the Blood Moor.

It was like suddenly going from a temperate zone to a frigid zone.

Moreover, the types of monsters were more complex. Besides the Fallen and Fallen Shaman monsters he had seen before, the newly appeared Dark Hunters were much stronger—these monsters, resembling human females, were fully armored, carrying spears and shields. They would actively swarm adventurers, charging over in large groups. Before dying, they would let out piercing, mournful shrieks to call their companions. Like wasps, they came in huge swarms, overwhelming and quite difficult to deal with.

Facing such group-living monsters, there was no way to hide or avoid them, and no other good methods to deal with them. The only way was to confront them head-on—charge forward and kill a path through.

Sun Fei hacked and slashed his way through, advancing with difficulty amidst the monster’s blood and screams.

After another hour, Sun Fei fought his way to the cemetery where ‘Blood Raven’ was located.

He calculated the time. There was less than 1 hour left before the four-hour limit of leaving the World of Diablo. This time should be more than enough to kill ‘Blood Raven’ and complete the quest.

However, before that, Sun Fei checked his own status. He decided to do another thing first—

Return to the camp, repair equipment, and buy supplies.

After the battles along the way, the armor and weapons on Sun Fei’s body were already tattered. Their durability and power had greatly decreased. In such a nearly half-crippled state, directly confronting the chief boss of the Cold Plains, ‘Blood Raven’, would be no different from poking a tiger’s butt with a wooden stick—it was suicidal.

As the saying goes, to do a good job, one must first sharpen one’s tools.

Sun Fei decided and acted immediately. He opened his backpack and consumed a Town Portal Scroll without hesitation.

Blue light flashed. A Portal appeared with a soft hum. Sun Fei stepped into it and passed through the Portal back to the Rogue Encampment.

According to his memories from the previous life’s computer game, equipment repair was done by a female NPC blacksmith named Charsi in the Rogue Encampment.

Sun Fei checked the map to figure out the direction, passed through a few tents, and quickly found Charsi.

Charsi was a young woman, about eighteen years old, with a pretty face, a slender figure, and golden hair tied simply behind her head like a waterfall. Perhaps because of long hours of blacksmithing, she didn’t have the fragile feeling of ordinary women. Instead, she seemed heroic and spirited, though her brows were furrowed with worry, as if something was troubling her.

Charsi wasn’t too surprised by Sun Fei’s arrival.

After some inquiries, Sun Fei spent 20 Gold Coins to repair his armor, helmet, gloves, boots, and Two-Handed Greataxe. He also sold some equipment he didn’t need at the moment, obtained from killing monsters, to this frowning female blacksmith.

During this process, Sun Fei was surprised to find that the same equipment could always be sold for about ten more Gold Coins here with Charsi than with Sister Acarra.

“That old nun really is no good!”

After discovering this, Sun Fei’s resentment towards Acarra increased even more. He secretly swore that he would never, ever sell any equipment to that woman greedier than a vampire again.

Seeing that Charsi didn’t seem willing to interact much with him, Sun Fei, after repairing his equipment, sensibly thanked her and left. He then used the Portal again to return to the cemetery in the Cold Plains, ready to start surrounding and killing ‘Blood Raven’.

He didn’t have much time left.

…

Fifty-some minutes later.

Aaaaaah—!!

A piercing female voice suddenly screamed.

The cry was like an arrow piercing through the clouds, breaking the relative calm of the Cold Plains.

Sun Fei stood in the center of the cemetery, covered in wounds, his nose crooked and eyes askew. After a thrilling and bitter battle, ‘Blood Raven’—the demon that the once most powerful Rogue had become after her fall—finally, after being ‘teased’ by Sun Fei’s tactics of ‘enemy advances, we retreat; enemy retreats, we advance; enemy tires, we attack; enemy camps, we harass’, fell into the pool of blood at Sun Fei’s feet, wailing with deep resentment.

As ‘Blood Raven’ died, countless lightning bolts suddenly shot out from her corpse. Instantly, the sky and earth flashed with thunder. The electric light grew stronger and stronger, quickly enveloping the entire cemetery, as if the end of the world had come.

However, Sun Fei, bathed in the lightning, didn’t feel any harm at all.

The lightning seemed to have no offensive power.

After a while, the lightning finally disappeared.

Strange phenomena appeared one after another—above ‘Blood Raven’s corpse, an ethereal female figure appeared. Her posture was graceful, like an angel. It clearly looked like a beautiful Rogue warrior.

Sun Fei thought to himself: This poor woman should be Isabella’s soul before she fell, right? Hehe, so it seems, by killing her, I did a good deed, better than building a seven-story pagoda?

Amitabha! Buddha bless you, poor girl…

Sun Fei looked solemn but incongruously chanted a Buddhist invocation in the World of Diablo.

The next second, this bastard immediately reverted to his true nature. With a lecherous face and drooling, he eagerly began searching ‘Blood Raven’s corpse. Theoretically, a super boss like ‘Blood Raven’ should definitely drop a few yellow items.

Sure enough, looking over, the ground glittered with yellow light.