VRMMO Botanist - Chapter 12

Translator: Larbre Studio

Editor: Larbre Studio

The rest of the team looked at the Loli Priestess.

“Well… Come to think of it, I still have something to do, and I will be going offline in a few minutes. You should call more people over.” The Loli Priestess looked up at the sky. She seemed to struggle to wrack her brains, before suddenly clapping her palm together violently, giving an explanation as though suddenly enlightened.

The faces of the several people were black, and even a fool could tell that this was an excuse that she had just painstakingly come up with.

“Then I’ll be going. Everyone, good luck in killing monsters!” The Loli Priestess clenched her tiny fists and punched them into the air, giving an adorable cheer, before hugging her big sandalwood staff and happily skipping away.

“Fuck! Without a Priest, how do we continue hunting?” The Warrior angrily kicked the tree beside him.

In the Boundless World, a Priest was an essential profession. As long as the Priest was not a beginner, he basically would not need to worry about the formation of a team. An outstanding Priest was a prized commodity that the guilds of various sizes would actively strive to recruit.

Although there were various medicines in the game that can restore HP, the price of these medicines had always been high, and almost all these medicines would result in resistance to the drug. For example, the HP recovery potion used for Level 10 sold in the system store had the following description: “After use, restore 20 HP per second for 10 seconds. The cooldown of the potion is 30 seconds and increases resistance by 30 points.”

The meaning of drug resistance was straightforward, which was to make players resistant to the effects of potions. Within a day, when the resistance reached a certain level, the potion would not have any effects.

If the player was not equipped with specialized equipment that increased the upper limit of drug resistance, under normal circumstances, within a day, the upper limit of the potion’s drug resistance was merely 1000 points. Take the level 10 HP recovery potion sold in the system store. Within a day, only 33 bottles could be used, so the quantity was quite restrictive.

Of course, if it was the other types of HP recovery potions, they could still be used. After all, the maximum resistance of the potions that each player can use every day was 3000 points. For example, if the resistance of the Level 20 HP recovery potion has reached 1000. But if the drug resistance of the Level 10 HP recovery agent was not full yet, you could still use the Level 10 HP recovery potions. However, for the players who far surpassed these levels, they obviously have to choose to do so begrudgingly.

Although there were many Potion Masters in the game, some even produced potions with a lower drug resistance raising effect than the ones sold in the system store. However, generally, they still increased drug resistance by around 20 to 25 points. Without a Priest and just downing bottles of potions for recovery was akin to trying to use a cup of water to put out a spreading wildfire.

Without potions, one could only sit on the ground and meditate to recover. Although the speed of meditation and recovery could still be considered rather fast, it simply could not be compared with the presence of a Priest.

“I’m going too, you can call one more person over!” After the Warrior scolded angrily, he also withdrew from the team.

There were no Knights in the team, and now also Priest-less, no amount of potions was enough. Moreover, the Warrior had no good impression of Chu Bailong. If he hadn’t thought that it was just another night of grinding and he just had to bear with it, he would have long left.

Now that even the Loli Priestess had left, it was even more pointless staying on the team.

After withdrawing from the team, the Warrior directly used the Town Return Scroll, leaving the remaining four party members.

“What the hell can four people even do? We’re leaving as well.” Of the remaining four, the other two glared at Chu Bailong with looks of dissatisfaction and directly left the team.

“Brother Long, what should we do now, do we go back to the city and find another team?” Of the remaining two people, one of them was obviously a friend of Chu Bailong, and he could only ask helplessly.

Chu Bailong’s small pale face twitched slightly, and a chilling glint appeared in his eyes.

“No! Go and kill that bitch!” Chu Bailong looked in the direction of the Loli Priestess leaving. If it weren’t for her, he wouldn’t need to face the others’ displeasure.

The other Mage sighed slightly, as though he knew things would turn out like this, but he could only go along with it.

“Big Brother, wait! Party with me.”

Ye Chen hadn’t gone too far a distance before the Loli Priestess caught up.

Ye Chen turned around and recognized that she was the Priest in the team just now, and asked strangely, “What’s wrong, weren’t you in that team? How come you came to find me?”

“I don’t like that guy. It’s uncomfortable to even watch him. Big Brother, you have no party, that’s so pitiful! Hence, the brimming-with-affection Xiao Ai, which is me, has decided to help Big Brother. How is it, don’t you feel very touched?” The Loli Priestess wrinkled her tiny nose, then her lively eyes flashed with excitement, and she laughed boisterously.

“Well, it is very touching. Come, what is your in-game name? I’ll party with you.” Ye Chen smiled. Although he had met many interesting people in the game over the past few years, he did not expect to encounter such an interesting loli here.

“Bai Xiao Ai.”

Ye Chen nodded and gave her a team invitation.

Although a Priest also had no damage output, with one around, the plants planted by Ye Chen would not have to worry about dying, and he could save a lot of time to complete his mission.

As for having one more person to share experience, Ye Chen didn’t care at all. After completing the apprentice trial mission and learning the Durian Bomb Tree skill, levelling was just a trivial matter. It was more important to quickly achieve the mission now.

“Very good, the adulterous pair are together, saving us time! Giant Mountain, kill the two together!”

Ye Chen and Xiao Ai had just formed a team, and Chu Bailong chased from behind. Seeing the two coming together, Chu Bailong harrumphed coldly. If he had to pick a culprit, he always thought it was the Botanist in front of him. If he didn’t pass by, the team would never be disbanded!

“No problem.” Giant Mountain, who was standing next to him, shrugged his shoulders slightly. He knew the character of Chu Bailong best. He knew whatever he said at this time would only be in vain. If he wasn’t careful, he might even accidentally redirect his anger to himself.

“Attack, kill the Priest first, then we slowly cook the Botanist,” Chu Bailong said. Both of them lowered their staves in one fell swoop, each person sending a fireball barreling towards Xiao Ai.

Woosh!

The two secretly launched an attack from behind. The fireballs roared, the light in the woods slightly distorted. Ye Chen’s eyes twitched slightly, and he made a sharp, abrupt turn. At the instant he saw the two fireballs, his foot moved sideways, blocking the pathway of the two fireballs.

-37! -39!

Two fireballs slammed and burst on Ye Chen’s body, causing more than two damage values of over thirty to rise above his head.

“Fuck! This Botanist sure reacts quickly!”

Although the sneak attack was successful, it hit an entirely different target, and Chu Bailong couldn’t help cursing angrily. He knew that Xiao Ai’s equipment was not very good, and aiming for Xiao Ai would result in higher damage.

“Be careful, don’t let down your guard. Try to replenish my HP while protecting yourself.”

Ye Chen also saw Xiao Ai’s equipment were rather standard, thus deciding to help her resist the two magic attacks. If Xiao Ai were to receive the fireballs, he was afraid that nearly half of her HP would be knocked off.

Although a Priest’s Magic Defense was relatively high, it was under the prerequisite that they had the corresponding equipment quality to keep up. Xiao Ai’s equipment was only average. Even if she had allocated all her attribute points to raising her Spirit, her Magic Defense was at most equivalent to a well-equipped player.

“Okay.” Xiao Ai nodded, understanding clearly her role in this battle, and her staff was swiftly swung down in Ye Chen’s direction. A strange light enveloped his body, and his HP immediately recovered by 50 points.

Ye Chen could not help secretly marvel when he saw it. Although the Priest’s healing would have the system’s guidance in locking onto the target, it was only restricted to slow-moving targets. If the Priest wanted to heal the target while it was engaged in high-speed movement, he would need extremely acute judgment. In fact, Xiao Ai was able to accurately replenish his HP while he was rapidly approaching Chu Bailong and Giant Mountain. Thus, it could be seen that Xiao Ai did not only have a cute look but was actually a genuinely competent Priest.

After his HP was successively restored, Ye Chen’s threw aside his notion of drinking an HP potion.

“What is this Botanist running over to us, is he looking for death? No matter, Giant Mountain, kill this guy first!”

Chu Bailong didn’t know what Ye Chen was thinking by running towards them. However, he was still infuriated over the fact that Ye Chen blocked their attacks and hollered to Giant Mountain.

The two men once again rose their staves, wanting to launch another attack, but at this time, several shadowy figures appeared around the two people, and the several cold light blades of a dagger flashed!

Several damage values floated above their heads at practically the same time. Chu Bailong and Giant Mountain were instantly killed by these Assassins!

“Haha, you two are fortunate. If it weren’t for us, you two would have been killed.”

There were a total of six Assassin players, the exact number to form one team. Several of them were leaning over to pick up the items dropped by Chu Bailong and Giant Mountain.

“Thank you.” Ye Chen knew that the real purpose they killed Chu Bailong was not to help them while saving him and Xiao Ai was just an afterthought.

The reason was straightforward. In the Boundless World, the PK rules between players were different from the traditional games. As long as the level difference between players did not exceed five levels, one could attack at will, and their crime value would not rise.

As long as the level allowed for it, an active intention to kill others did not increase one’s crime value. But if the party that actively initiated the attack was killed before the end of the aggro state, a piece of equipment from the backpack would have a guaranteed chance of dropping. Furthermore, the chances of items dropping would be much higher than usual.

Chu Bailong’s pieces of equipment were quite good. When he actively initiated an attack, he was spotted by the team of Assassins passing by here. Of course, the Assassin team would not hesitate to kill them. After all, who knew how many monsters they had to kill to grind out a single decent piece of equipment.

However, Ye Chen still politely thanked them. Otherwise, if they really end up fighting, he would have to waste many potions and time.

“We’re going.”

After several Assassins had finished collecting the dropped loot, they continued to head for their original destination and vanished from Ye Chen and Xiao Ai’s eyes.

“Big Brother Dust, they are so weird. They should all be Level 15, right? Their levels are so advanced, so what did they assemble a whole team of Assassins to do in the Kobold Forest?” Xiao Ai asked.

“I estimate that the Kobold Leader is about to respawn.” Ye Chen stared deep into the Kobold Forest.