Chapter 65 - 66 – Annoying Travels.
[Sand Chasing Necromancer Set]
[Rarity: Rare]
[1555 Armor]
[+420 Intelligent]
[+635 Mana]
[+1000 Necro Mastery]
[Decrees a cost of summoning or making undeads by 13%]
[Increases the resistance against the hot weathers by 20%.]
[Increases the resistance against the cold weathers by 20%.]
[Staff Of The Sand Chasing Necromancer]
[Rarity: Rare]
[Attack Power: 320 - 454]
[+150 Intelligent]
[+200 Mana]
[+290 Necro Mastery]
[Decrees a cost of summoning or making undeads by 5%]
[Your skeleton servants as well as their variants under your control will have bonus 3.5% all stat bonus.]
[Restrictions: Level 210 / Class skill [Advance Necromancy] / Mana Base Stat: 500 / Intelligent Base Stat: 500.]
"I've got to say Blueberry, you did a very good job making these." – said ClownFrog.
"An on top of that, this symbol is a cake on top of all that." – said Oron.
On the equipment of the Purple Hyena guild, there was a symbol of the purple hyena with blood colored eye that was crushing the white bone in its mouth.
"I've been wondering about something recently. Online I saw many different guilds making their own logos and stuff and then putting them on their equipment. So I've been wondering, maybe we should do it too?" – said Blueberry.
"Well, we did provided with some ideas like you asked, but damn. Just look at this details. This well made logo. Are an artist or something?" – asked Shri.
"W-well… Kind of?" – replied Blueberry.
"Still. You did a good job. Now we have some logo. Do you mind if I make this our official guild logo?" – asked ClownFrog.
"Sure! If anything, I will be more than glad to!" – replied Blueberry.
"Thanks."
"Anyway, now that we have a proper equipment and everything, now what? We spend a lot of money to get the materials necessary, but now we don't have enough money to buy 3 of those sand running lizards for us." – said GreyHunt.
"We need to earn money, but obviously there is nothing to do here, since there are no monsters, we can't do any jobs or take request. We have to get to the different settlement or something."
"Well, its not like we didn't know that. Look around for the transport. Ask around the merchants. When you find something, inform the others." – said ClownFrog.
[Sometime later.]
"There is no transport?!" – said Shri.
"Yea. Sorry but the closest settlement from here is a Blue Sand City. However, the road from here to there is quite dangerous." – said the fat merchant.
"Normally there is a large transport where many merchants and merceries travel together around every 4th day or maybe a week depending on the situation."
"Unfortunately for you. The merchants group departed two days ago. You can wait for another 2 days, but there is a chance you may end up waiting even longer."
"Fuck…. Just our rotten luck… Say. How long it would take us to that Blue Sand city?" – asked Shri.
"I say, one or two days of walking?"
"Wait. Really? Huh. I though it would take much longer than that." – said Shri.
"Well…. Right now, I'm talking how long it would take on the foot. But because of high dangerous area between the two cities is, you would run into monsters nonstop. It doesn't matter if you have top class sand running lizards, you would have to fight them." – said the merchant.
"Because of that, it may even take you 3 or 4 days and in the worst case scenario maybe 5."
"Oh, son of…. Fuck!" – said Shri.
"Well, its not all that bad. We do need to hunt monsters to earn some money, so I guess it couldn't hurt?" – said ClownFrog.
"Yea. I mean, how hard it could possible be." – said Shri.
[Few moments later.]
"I think I may have spoked too soon." – shouted Shri.
A group of the giant scorpion monster had surrounded the entire group.
[Murder Scorpion – Level 220] X 15
"For fuck sake! What the hell is that?!" – said Rampage.
(As soon as we left the city, there was no monsters. We began thinking that merchant was extravagating things with his story about the monsters.)
(But as soon as we got here this happened?! These bastards just emergent out of the sand as if they were waiting for us to come!) – though Shri.
"Well, this guys probably all they have is their numbers. They are probably no big deal." – said Shri.
Suddenly, the massive amount of sand was suddenly launched into the air and from beneath it all an even bigger scorpion monster appeared alongside the other scorpions.
[Murder Scorpion – Level 220] X 5
[Murder Scorpion King – Level 220]
"…"
"You just had to say something, didn't you?" – said GreyHunt while looking directly at the Shri.
"…"
"Wait… He isn't a boss?" – said Shri.
"What?" – said Oron.
Shri looked directly at the gigantic scorpion.
"…Say. If he is strong, can I tame him?" – asked Shri.
"…For fuck sake. You can think about taming that fucker after we first deal orange ones, you can than think about taming that giant red fucker!" – said ClownFrog.
The giant orange scorpions tails suddenly extend and their stings came straight towards the party.
"!"
Before the attack reached the party members, Rampaged raised her shield and deployed a barrier while ClownFrog summon his undeads to act as the meat shield.
ClownFrog and Rampage manage to block all of the attacks that were launched at them.
"…"
"Okay. They have tricks. Perfect." – said ClownFrog.
"Kill them all!"
"But spare the red one!" – said Shri.
"Then deal with that fucker yourself!" – said ClownFrog.
ClownFrog summon the rest of his undeads along side the skeleton servants before sending them all at the giant scorpion creatures.
The undead bandits gorillas jumped straight at the scorpion monsters and began exchanging blows with them instantly, however moments later after the battle began, undead monsters were getting killed at fast rate by either being crushed by the scorpion pincers or demolished with the scorpions tails.
"?!"
(I know these monkeys aren't the strongest, but they shouldn't get taken out so fast!)
"Careful! These guys aren't small flies!" – shouted ClownFrog.
"Oh!"
"Okay! Its decided! I'm taming the big fucker over there then!" – said Shri with excited look.
"For fuck sake! Fine! Deal with the big one by yourself!" – shouted ClownFrog.
"!"
"Thanks!" – replied Shri before running straight to the scorpions leader.
"…"
"For fuck sake."
"Meh. Let her have her fun." – replied Rampage.
"If she dies like an idiot, we can just laugh at her." – said GreyHunt.
The party continues fighting the giant scorpions and after the while, all of the monsters were defeated.
"Fuck me…. Not only they were strong but they also had numbers." – said GreyHunt.
"Yea. And to make the matters worse, we are nowhere near the Blue Sand, so it will be probably not be the last time we will be fighting." – said Oron.
"Oh, don't worry about this. Besides, we will earn some money from dealing with those monsters." – said Shri.
"You are only saying that only because you got a new monster!" – said GreyHunt.
"Well… What can I say. This bastard was tough like hell, but I can definitely say it was worth it." – replied Shri while petting a giant red scorpion.
[Murder Scorpion King – Malio]
"I wonder what other powerful monsters I can find in here?!" – said excited Shri.
"For fuck sake. Get a grip. I know that you are excited since you- "
Before ClownFrog could finish speaking, another group giant scorpion monsters appeared and surrounded the group.
"…"
"Oh, for fuck sake." – said ClownFrog.
[3 days later.]
"…"
"F-fuck me… IN A FUKING ASS! What the hell was that?!" – shoted extremely annoyed Rampage.
"Yea… Not only these guys were strong but also there was a shit lot of them everywhere." – said Oron.
"Fuck. I think this is the first time I had to deal with so many monsters nonstop. I think there was even more of them then those zombies we found in that Forgotten Bride dungeon." – said Rampage.
"Y-yea… I think so too." – said ClownFrog.
"?"
"Hey! You there!" – shouted a male voice.
"?"
Suddenly a guard approached the party.
"Hey! Did you by any chance just arrived here?" – asked the guard.
"…Em… Yes? Is there something wrong?" – asked Oron.
"Are you crazy?! The murder scorpions are currently breeding!"
"…What." – said everybody.
"Like I said, the murder scorpions are currently in their breeding season. All the travels between Red Sand and Blue Sand cities are prohibited for the week because of the danger. Didn't you heard the warnings you idiots?!" – said the guards.
"…No… We did FUKING NOT HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT THIS! WE ASKED AROUND ABOUT THE TRANSPORT BUT NOBODY SAID ANYTHING ABOUT THE GOD DAMMED BREEDING SEASON!" – said extremely angry Rampage.
"…"
"Oh…. Em… Have a good day then?" – said the guard before quickly running away.
"…"
"Say. Do you remember that fat merchant we talked with before?" – said Rampage.
"You want to kill him?" – asked Oron.
"Of course I fuking want to murder his ass! When I will see him next time, I will shove my lance into- "
"Okay. Calm the heck down! You can have your revenge later on. As for now, lets focus our current objective. We have shit tons of materials from those god dammed scorpions. Let's just look for the adventure guild so we can sell this things and look for some quests there." – said ClownFrog.
"It's the best of our interest to get those sand running lizards ASAP if we want to travels the dessert."
"He is right. We need to get these lizards now. We have a proper equipment now thanks to Blueberry, so earning money shouldn't be that big of a problem." – said GreyHunt.
After we finally manage to get to the Blue Sand city after bullshit amount of monster encounters, we head straight to the adventure guild in order to sell the stuff we got from the scorpions and find any interesting quests we can do.
"That will be 2455 gold coins." – said the adventurer guild worker while handing the bag of money.
"Huh. That is a lot of money." – said Blueberry.
"Well, our inventories were literally full with this crap!" – said GreyHunt.
"…"
"Excuse me, but I couldn't help but to notice… Did you by any chance came here from the Red Sand city?" – asked adventurer guild worker.
"Yea we did. We didn't freaking knew that there was a breading season or anything like that if you are wondering." – said ClownFrog with tired voice.
"O-oh…"
"Well. Considering how many materials you had from the murder scorpions, I'm wondering if by any chance did you manage to hunted down the king or queen scorpions?" – asked the adventurer guild worker.
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"Why are you asking that?" – asked ClownFrog.
"Well, these two variants of the murder scorpions are quite rare, however the materials from both of them are extremely valuable. If you have any, then please considering selling them to our adventurer guild." – said the adventurer guild worker.
"…"
(Well… We did encounter a few… But Shri got excited because how strong each one of them was so she tamed all of them.)
[Shri new tamed monsters]
[Murder Scorpion King] x2
[Murder Scorpion Queen] x2
"Sorry, but we do not have any materials from either king or the queen." – said ClownFrog.
"Tch. Fuck."
"?"
"N-no! Don't worry! Its just the materials from the murder scorpion king can be used to make powerful armors or weapons while the organs from the queen can be made into high grade medicine."
"The merchants keep demanding the materials from them non stop and we kind of already run out of them long time ago. However, their nagging won't stop and they are extremely annoying."
"For fuck sake. "Just hunt this and that you useless trash!". I'm just sick and tired of these fuckers!"
"…"
"!"
"Ah! Sorry! Just forget everything I just said right now! Please!" – said the adventurer guild worker in panic.
"Em… Sure?" – replied Oron.
"By the way. Is there any good paying quests right now we can take or something? We kind of need to earn a lot of money right now." – said Oron.
"Well, there are few. There are a lot of the quests on the board over there and there are also quite few that pays quiet well. Take a look." – said the adventurer guild worker while pointing with her finger to the board hanging on the wall.
"Okay. Thanks!" – replied the Oron.
The entire party walked towards the quest board and began inspecting it.
"…"
"Huh. She wasn't kidding. There are some that pays pretty well. I think we should be able to earn the necessary funds quite fast." – said GreyHunt.
"Yea, but make sure that some of them are not scam quests. Ask around first about the material cost and other stuff." – said ClownFrog.
"Oh. I kind of forgotten about that fact. I can kind of see one or two of these quests being scams, considering how many of them are here." – said GreyHunt.
"Just make sure that everything is….?"
"…"
"Hey, what is it?" – said GreyHunt.
"Well… Take a look at this." – said ClownFrog.
[Lamia Extermination Request.]