Translator: Larbre Studio
Editor: Larbre Studio
Chen Bing felt that Shadow Slime was severely underrated. Its true strength was not realized by the players.
Speaking of its rarity, Shadow Slime might have been one of the rarest slime pets out there. It was just that it did not have a high rating, therefore it did not attract the attention of the other players. Even though if one got lucky and hatched a Shadow Slime, it did not really feel satisfying.
As for the Shadow of Slime, Chen Bing had many ideas. However, now was not the time to try them out.
After Jiang Yan died, the old wooden box he stole was dropped. Chen Bing walked over quickly to pick up the box.
The Warrior Slime jumped over to the Shadow Slime’s side, its curious eyes staring at the Shadow Slime, wondering how it did it.
“System: Received ‘Bo En’s Diary’ (Missing Pages)”
“Item: Bo En’s Diary (Missing Pages)”
“Type: Mission Item, Dropped Upon Death”
“Able to bring back to Homeland: No”
“Explanation: A part of the research logs of Alchemist Bo En. The text which contains some information is written with a language you don’t know. Find some linguists on the island and you shall obtain the meaning of the text.”
As Chen Bing opened the wooden box, he saw a piece of mottled paper.
“A mission item?”
Chen Bing was a bit shocked. Nobody ever mentioned this in the forum.
However, upon further thought, only several players ever got this missing page of the diary, so it would make sense for them not to tell anyone. The news would only be spread around in a small area.
The player who snuck in using stealth undoubtedly knew what was going on, or else he would not have snuck in to steal the wooden box only and leave.
“Something’s wrong. He can’t steal the box by himself, he must have had friends!”
Chen Bing realized this at the spur of the moment.
The Dark Fog only had a diameter of about 10 or so meters. Even after leaving the fog, the players could not have gotten out of the rat cave.
That person had teammates. However, he realized someone else was here, and he was the first to sneak in.
As he thought about it, Chen Bing quickly moved towards the den of the rat leader.
There probably was something else there.
“System: Received ‘Rat Trap’!”
“System: Received ‘Rat Poison’!”
“System: Received ‘Wolf Leather Shoes’!”
…
“Item: Rat Trap”
“Type: Special Consumables”
“Quality: Normal”
“Able to bring back to Homeland: No”
“Usage: A trap that could be used to catch small animals. It can cause damage to the feet to middle-sized animals and decrease their speed. Useless against large-sized animals”
“Explanation: An item used by the villagers to catch rats that ended up as loot by the rat leader”
…
“Item: Rat Poison”
“Type: Special Consumables”
“Quality: Rare”
“Able to bring back to Homeland: No”
“Usage: A poisonous drug powder. Must be placed in water to be effective”
“Explanation: There is quite a lot of it here, and it’s a prized possession of the rat leader”
…
Chen Bing found three items from the grass pile in the rat’s den. He was speechless after seeing those items.
Two of the items were used to exterminate rats, but they ended up in the possessions of a rat leader.
Fortunately, there was still a piece of decent equipment. However, these Wolf Leather Shoes were just a pair of normal shoes. Physical Defense 2, Movement Speed 1, Level 3 item. At least it was better than nothing.
“Hide with me!”
He dared not be careless, as he did not know how many enemies he would be facing.
Even though the Warrior Slime, Shadow of Slime and the rat leader were present, the enemy would not be someone normal. If he was not careful, he would lose everything.
Chen Bing, Warrior Slime and the rat leader had small bodies. They easily found a hole near a wall to hide.
It would be hard to spot them with that little light.
Not long after, a few figures rushed over.
Leading them was Tou Tuo, and he tried to contact Jiang Yan mid-journey to ask about his progress. When Jiang Yan failed to respond, he felt something was not right.
“Be careful in front, there might be an ambush.”
His instinct told him that something was wrong with the hole near the wall, and he quickly shouted to the others.
Sheesh, these people are alert!
Seeing that Tou Tuo and his gang were slowing down, Chen Bing knew that there was no chance for a surprise attack.
“Charge!”
However, seeing that it was just five people, Chen Bing did not have much to worry about.
These people would only be Level 3 to 4 at most, and they would be easy pickings for both slimes and the rat leader.
After Tou Tuo came closer, Chen Bing immediately gave the order to both slimes and rat leader.
Three figures approached from the dark side of the cave.
“Careful!”
One of the players that were aimed at did not manage to evade their attacks.
Without any gear or equipment, the Level 3 player only had 70 hitpoints. The player was insta-killed by the Warrior Slime, Shadow of Slime and rat leader.
‘What is this sh*t!” one of the players shouted angrily.
They would not have even thought that it would be a combination of slimes and the rat leader. Moreover, this combo was so strong that it insta-killed anyone in their path.
These were not normal players. The player which was killed had a healing skill and life potion.
Unable to use his skill and the life potion, he was killed just like that.
Just as the players were furiously screaming, the three of them moved again, and another player was killed.
“Run!”
Tou Tuo was afraid. The situation in front of him was more than what he had imagined it to be, and he understood why Jiang Yan lost contact just now.
Under such a combo, Jiang Yan would have no chance at all.
However, Tou Tuo was confused as to why Jiang Yan was still unable to get out even after using Dark Fog, but he did not have any more time to think about that. If he did not retreat immediately, he would be dead meat.
They could not do anything at all towards such a combo.
Seeing as Tou Tuo tried to leave, Chen Bing rushed from the dark side of the cave and blocked his path.
In “Evolution Island”, there would not be any equipment or money dropped when one defeated a monster. He would not let any player walk away unscathed, seeing that it was rare to meet a player with some stuff in their pockets.
“Kill him!”
Seeing Chen Bing coming out from the hole, Tou Tuo knew that it was useless to talk more about it. He wanted to exterminate them, and with a command, he clashed towards Chen Bing.
Chen Bing swayed his body aside and landed beside Tou Tuo. The other two players were unable to damage Chen Bing without using any abilities; only Tou Tuo’s melee attack could damage him.
Chen Bing was not concerned by his attack alone.
He used his arm to deflect some of the damage.
The only other players left were Tou Tuo and another critically damaged player, which would die from even just a little damage by Chen Bing.
“You guys don’t need to come in anymore. Get out of the rat cave immediately!”
Sakura, which was stealthily sneaking from afar, was sweating nervously.
She wanted to ambush them after they were done with their business.
She certainly did not expect to see such a situation.
The rat leader was recruited by the player, and the attributes of the slimes were shockingly overpowered.
Tou Tuo’s gang was not weak, but they were all killed instantly.
It would not have been any different if it was her gang. If they came in, they would not have gotten the page either. Instead, they would die immediately.
“Little Sakura, what happened?” Sakura’s partner immediately asked her.
“I’m fine, but the person who had the missing page was clearly stronger, and Tou Tuo’s gang was exterminated!”
“Who’s that person?”
The teenagers that just entered the rat cave could not help but be shocked by all of this.
“You guys know him too. It’s that strange guy who had a string of *’s for his name!” Sakura replied.
In “Magic World: Essence”, she followed Absolute Beauty around and had seen Chen Bing before. At first, she did not have any recollection about Chen Bing, however, after he obtained the “Grand Legendary Master” rank, she remembered her, and now she remembered him at first glance.
“Him? What should we do, just give up like that?”
The few teenagers were surprised and replied with dissatisfaction.
“We have no choice. He’s too strong, and we won’t have much of a chance even if we ambush him. We’ll just die one by one. It’s probably hopeless to snatch away the missing page from him, but we can still do some backup precautions. Retreat to a safer place and meet me there.”
Sakura spoke quickly as she knew that they were no match. She simply gave up the idea of ambushing Chen Bing.