Hail the King Chapter 90

Chapter 90: Thoughts on Strength Improvement

As an absolute show-off, Fei really enjoyed the worship of a plump and vibrant beauty like Qiaxi. So, when he saw the female blacksmith Qiaxi’s jaw-dropping expression, he suddenly felt that the spurge was all worth it with a desired return.

So he unabashedly became excited.

“Hehe, haha, yes, it’s just for you to use for practice, don’t have the slightest pressure. Even if you waste them all, it’s fine because I collected large quant.i.ty of this kind of gems, haha, you just need to give it your all and master the power of the magic iron hammer as fast as possible, and improve your forging skill’s level… Hehe, I’m still waiting for the great blacksmith Ms. Qiaxi, to forge powerful magic equipment for me.”

“That… Well, master Fei, I… don’t know what to say… Thank you so much… From now on… any repair or forging services for you, I won’t charge you a single coin.” Big chest blacksmith Qiaxi was completely moved by Fei’s generosity at the moment, and she became a little incoherent and thanked, “Dear master, any piece of equipment or weapon here, you can take your pick.”

Fei was overjoyed.

To be honest, ever since he could enter the second big map in the diablo world [Lut Gholein], the equipment here at Qiaxi’s place is a bit behind for Fei. The reason Fei is being this nice to Qiaxi, it’s because he in fact care about Qia Xi as a person —- or to be a bit specific, it’s Qiaxi’s blacksmith ident.i.ty.

Everything he did before was to win this big chest pretty lady Qiaxi’s friendship, a blacksmith that can forge magic equipment, whether it’s in the Diablo world or Azeroth continent’s Chambord city, is both a treasure that can’t be ignored. Although Qiaxi right now is just a normal blacksmith, but she possesses a mysterious iron hammer, and she’s also very talented herself with limitless future development. Now that she gained Fei’s support, future career advancement from ordinary blacksmith to Forger is not impossible. That way, she will play a vital role in Fei’s future plan.

This is a pre-investment for the future.

The so-called element gems in the Diablo world is priceless, considered as legendary treasure, but it’s not uncommon in the Azeroth continent, otherwise Zola and Luciano the 3-star power church members wouldn’t be able to get such a large chest of it.

The two were chatting and smiling, the pretty mercenary Elena already finished packing and waved in the distant. Fei’s tight on time, he said goodbye to Qaxi, turned around and left.

But when he got to Elena he was shocked.

He just saw that the beautiful mercenary Elena not only prepared equipment and weapons, but also carried many other things in big and small bags. There’s black little pot for making rice, refined steel support, some firewood, all sorts of  vegetables and dry meet, and a few pieces of thick tarps for tent-making, and tent poles and etc. For easier carrying, Elena even got a white milk cow with yellow patterns from the rogue camp and pulled a medium wooden cart.

More than a dozen beautiful young girls surrounded the wooden cart and stood beside Elena with tears, reluctantly saying goodbye to sister Elena.

“Uh… What are you guys doing?” Fei suddenly had black lines on his head. (TL: it’s like the sticker of a guy with vertical black lines on his head)

“These are things that will come in handy on the journey to [Lut Gholein]…” A pet.i.te and lovely little girl used a look that’s for looking at idiots and looked at Fei, said in a nature of things, “The journey crosses numerous mountains and cliffs, as well as the vast desert of death, very dangerous, two thousand miles of journey, you guys are probably have to take 2 to 3 months. Can’t be careless on the supply aspect.”

“Yes, Master Fei, you must take good care of sister Elena…” Other Lolitas were also concerned and said, “Of course, master, you must be careful yourself as well. I heard that Diablo blocked the mountain road, and the journey will be very dangerous and entrenched countless demons and monsters!”

Fei, “…”

He didn’t have time to explain too much, reached out and pulled Elena’s slender and jade-like hands, ignored others’ blushing exclaims and other little girls’ applause, they ran all the way to the front of the boat operator Warriv,  picked the [Go east] option in the dialogue, and then light flashed, the two and blue clothed Warriv suddenly disappeared in the crowd’s attention.

Other people were all stunned.

“So after killing Anderson Keli’er, that most useless man in the encampment Warriv, actually obtained such amazing ability… That’s too amazing, don’t know if we can go to [Lut Gholein] through him too?”

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[Lut Gholein]

Elena curiously checked out this city that only existed in Rogue Encampment’s legend.

However, what made her a little disappointed is that the “Pearl of the desert” city isn’t as bustling prosperous as described by the touring journalists, but rather filled with bleak atmosphere, the wind blew with yellow sand, the magnificent street cannot conceal the messy street. There are very little pedestrians, and the few people they occasionally meet are dull and lifeless, even worse than the people at [Rogue Encampment].

But Fei’s time in the Diablo world is limited, he didn’t have time for Elena to check out this “Pearl of the Desert” and took her straight out of the city into the wilderness, going all the way north to trek through the [Rocky Waste], ultimately found the [Halls of the Dead] located at the [Dry Hills], and then habitually began endless killings.

The quest this time is to find the [Horadric Cube] inside [Halls of the Dead]’s underground maze.

This incredible cubical box is an indispensable thing to complete other quests. Beside that, to Fei, this stone box also has other more important roles, such as synthesizing Azeroth Continent’s high level sorcerer’s stones and other important equipment and supplies.

Countless monsters wandered in the [Halls of the Dead]’s underground maze.

The monsters here are much higher than Rogue Encampment’s level in both attack and defense, and most of them are all new faces, some look like a skeleton called [Revived Souls], some are tanky and burst poisonous mists after death named [zombie], and some look exactly like the past life Egypt mythology’s death G.o.d mummy which has the ability to summon skeletons.

The endless killings staged.

Time flew during the endless shrill screaming, blood splashing, bone stubble flying, and potions and equipment were constantly dropped.

Just when Fei’s 4 hour time limit is about to come, the two of them finally made their way into the underground maze’s 3rd level, which is only a few chambers away from the biggest boss [Blood Witch the Wild] which keeps the [Horadric’s cube]

Fei calculated the time, estimate that he wouldn’t be able to kill the boss before he is forced to leave Diablo world, so he might as well stop right now and used the transportation portal and directly returned to [Lut Gholein], then found blue cloth Warriv, chose [Go west] and instantly teleported back to [Rogue Encampment].

He gave the equipment collected from this killing to Elena to let her take care of it, then Fei found a quiet place, traded some portion from the mysterious cold voice, the time just ended and he opened the portal and directly left the Diablo world.

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Chambord City, King’s Hall.

Fei seate highly on the throne, and was rethinking his leveling strategy.

In just 4 hours, the barbarian character finally slowly reached level 21, Fei gave that one skill point to Brutal Strike, and his strength is improved once again.

But it’s also during this process, Fei begun to realize, after reaching level 20, the exp needed for the character to level is higher and higher, so the leveling process became slower and slower. In the past, 4 hours of time is enough to level up 2 or 3 times, but now 4 hours isn’t enough to level once, even when he entered higher level maps, his leveling speed is still overwhelmingly reduced, and that means Fei’s increase in strength in the real world inevitably became harder and slower.

“Maybe I should change my perspective, temporarily hold off leveling the barbarian character and start leveling the other 6 cla.s.ses…” The idea flashed in Fei’s mind.

After all, in Diablo, every cla.s.s has its speciality and have many unique skills, but they all have their own advantages and disadvantages, but if Fei can use knight, priest, druid, necromancer, amazon and rogue these 6 characters to all master the [Rogue Encampment] map, and gather all 7 professions’ skills to one to complement each other, then the strength would probably be stronger than just focusing on barbarian. This can be seen by how you need multiple players of different profession to work together in order to kill bosses, and in the previous battle in Chambord there was also an obvious example – during the stone bride battle, Fei relied on the priest and barbarian skill combo and killed 3-star sword man Langde was a very good example.

And, Fei also guessed, if he can really beat the [Rogue Encampment] map with 7 professions, maybe he can get some huge reward from that mysterious voice, and that’s more worth the wait.

Of course, in adition, Fei also thought of other ways.

To Diablo world’s characters, one’s own strength isn’t really depend on one’s level, the quality of equipment is also very important. A powerful set of equipment can enhance a character’s strength significantly, and in a stand-alone game like this, if you want to get good equipment, in addition to the normal monster grinding, buying powerful equipment from NPC merchants is also a great shortcut.

However, here comes the question, where can he can large amount of gold coins?

Fei eventually had his eyes set on the [Horadric’s Cube] and the sorcerer’s stone. Now, Fei need to get information on something and then he could determine whether his idea is workable. If it’s really what he thought, then Fei can have countless gold coins.