VRMMO Botanist - Chapter 54

After entering the Arena, Ye Chen directly launched an attack.

He had chosen Random Battle, and the moment the battlefield opened, he planted a Durian Bomb Tree seed in advance and went straight to the center of the competition map.

One minute later, Ye Chen approached the central area of the Arena, and there was already an adventurer standing there.

This was a Mage adventurer. After seeing that the opponent was a Botanist, the Mage adventurer was beyond overjoyed, a smile hanging on his face. The victory was right in front of him! The Mage adventurer couldn’t hold himself back and directly rushed to Ye Chen!

The distance between the two rapidly narrowed. The Mage’s attack range was greater than the Botanist, and this water-attribute Mage immediately launched an ice arrow.

Ice-type Mages’ attacks had a chance of slowing, and the Mage was obviously trying out his luck and probing the opponent’s strength.

Facing the ice arrow that was rapidly flying over, Ye Chen did not make any unnecessary actions to avoid it, striking the ice arrow directly.

Ice Arrow had a homing function, so escape was in vain. But more importantly, Ye Chen wanted to save time and win the game at the fastest speed!

The ice-attribute attack definitely possessed a terrifying might and a damage value of more than seventy floated above Ye Chen’s head.

The Mage saw this and could not help secretly rejoicing in his heart. He knew that this Botanist only possessed average equipment. He waved his staff again, launching another skill at Ye Chen.

This was the ice skill “Ice Edge Trail”, which formed a jagged path of sharp ice. If one were to pass through it, one would undoubtedly sustain damage over time, and if one were to break out of the jagged ice path, one would also receive damage.

“Haha, so stupid. How come he can’t even dodge this Icy Edge Trail?” The Mage was surprised to see that the Botanist was actually hit by the skill. In the Arena, it was not easy to use this skill to land a hit on other adventurers. The average person would definitely avoid it if he was hit.

“Continue!” The Ice-type Mage saw that more than half the health of the Botanist had been shaved away, believing with three more or so skills, it would definitely finish off the opponent.

Such an efficient and low-effort method of combat could only appear when facing a total noob like this. This was the first time that the Mage ever encountered such a situation, and it left a pleasant sensation in his heart.

He raised his staff again and just as the Mage was ready to launch another skill, he noticed that the Botanist’s staff actually moved before his!

Then… a plant which he had never ever seen before started to proliferate from the ground beneath him. It was not to his left or right, but rather grew out from right underneath him and forcefully squeezed him to one corner! He wanted to escape, but he abruptly found to his horror that his body was no longer under his control!

This all happened in an instant. However, just as he desperately issued a command for his body to move, his character moved a little. The feeling of losing control of his body seemed like a mirage, and a deception of his senses!

The Mage didn’t care too much about it though, anxiously wanting to find somewhere to hide. It was at this moment when the loud sounds of explosions reverberated in his eardrums. Before he could even make sense of what was happening, the scenery before his eyes changed abruptly. He was booted out of the competition map and a banner displaying “DEFEAT” flashed before his eyes!

The entire battle, from start to end, didn’t even take 70 seconds!

“Not bad, at this rate, perhaps I can finish 40 matches within an hour!” Ye Chen took note of the time and was pleased with his current speed. The Durian Bomb Tree that was boosted by Illusions of Time simply had too fearsome killing power.

If it weren’t for the fact that growing plants required one minute, perhaps the actual time of combat might not have even lasted 30 seconds!

This was truly regrettable, but it couldn’t be helped. Ye Chen didn’t overthink it and merely started a new match.

This time, he was matched against a Warrior. This pitiful Warrior didn’t even have the chance to get close to Ye Chen before the Durian Bomb tree turned him into a vengeful ghost.

Next…

With the superhuman speed of a minute plus per match, Ye Chen started his frenzy of sweeping through the Arena matches.

For adventurers of this level range, the number of experts was simply too scarce. The more skilled adventurers would have long ago shot past this level range. No one could interrupt Ye Chen’s frenzied warpath. They couldn’t escape from the devastating clutches of the Durian Bomb Tree much less cause any hints of trouble for Ye Chen.

In a blink of an eye, over three hours had passed. At this time, Ye Chen had created a record of over 160 consecutive winning streak with his bloodthirsty killings.

The system assigned another opponent for him again. Ye Chen planted a seed and directly headed for the center of the map. To his surprise, he saw a female adventurer who was busy dancing enticingly.

“Hehe, Beauty Little Olive, your moves aren’t too bad!”

The one who was dancing in the center of the map was none other than Purple Olive, who had just obtained the Secondary Profession of Dancer.

Ye Chen stared at Purple Olive, who was clad in a fluttery, light-gray gauze-like outfit.

Under the translucent black, gray, and black silk, Purple Olive’s generous bosom was almost half-exposed, and her hips were slightly twisted into an entrancing arch. One look was enough to captivate anyone who gazed at her.

“So unlucky, how can I be matched against you…? What are you looking at, pervert!” She actually encountered Ye Chen. Purple Olive couldn’t help but cursed her misfortune loudly. After forming a team with Ye Chen for two days, she knew she was not Ye Chen’s opponent. And seeing Ye Chen’s eyes sweeping up and down her body, Purple Olive couldn’t help but flush red, and angrily hollered at him!

It would be fine if she was seen by someone she didn’t know. However, being stared at by the people around her or even the lustful gaze of Ye Chen left Purple Olive wanting to find a hole somewhere and bury her head.

“What do you mean pervert? Have a taste of my hands plucking a flower!” Ye Chen also had his fill of looking. Without wasting any more time on Purple Olive, he directly used Single Transplantation, transplanting the Durian Bomb Tree, and instantly killed her.

“That… THAT BASTARD!!!” Purple Olive was left in a state of shock for a while, but after realizing that she was dead beyond the shadow of a doubt, she started cussing out at Ye Chen with murderous rage.

She would never have expected that the bastard, who was still looking at her slightly lecherously just a while ago, would actually kill her so decisively. He didn’t even say anything before doing so! That bastard was too wicked!

The cooldown of the Dancer’s dance skills was quite long. Purple Olive had just learned a dance skill that temporarily increased the HP limit, “Melody of Life.”

Melody of Life had a cooldown of 30 minutes. Every instance of using the dance consumed 20 stamina points. Purple Olive couldn’t complete the inauguration task until the afternoon. It also took some time to practice the dance movements of the Melody of Life by following the system tutorials. Only then did she formally begin to use the skills.

In the Arena, as soon as the Melody of Life skill went off cooldown, Purple Olive immediately put on the Dancer’s costume and initiated the Melody of Life dance. This was to ensure that she used up all the stamina points for today.

Just a while back, when she arrived at the center of the Arena, her skills had just gone off cooldown. She had just adorned the Dancer’s clothes, but she didn’t expect that just as she started dancing, Ye Chen would pop out from nowhere.

But what annoyed Purple Olive most and made her want to tear out her hair in frustration was that the bastard actually killed her like that!

“Hmph! One day, I will do you in for good!”

Come to think of it, ever since she was acquainted with the bastard, he would find numerous ways to bully and tease her! At this thought, Purple Olive couldn’t help gnashing her teeth with murderous rage overflowing in her eyes.

However, Ye Chen paid no heed to Purple Olive. The moment he won the match, he directly initiated the next battle.

The four thus spent their time like this until midnight. As the clock struck 12 o’clock, Ye Chen had already established a legendary record of close to 300 consecutive victories!

Looking at the time, Ye Chen rushed towards the public garden and directly harvested the Crystal Apples, before planting a new set of seeds for the Crystal Apples. After doing so, he resold the Crystal Apples to the system store and directly contacted Dharma and the other two.

“Let’s end things here for today. It’s not a good solution to linger in the Arena. Now, let’s go and level. When we are leveling, I want you guys to think back to your experiences in the Arena and the various possible combinations interplay between the skills. If you don’t understand, just ask me, it’ll be easier to make progress that way.”

In fact, Ye Chen should have long taken three people to level up, but Ye Chen was simply having a ball of a time harvesting Arena Points, and unknowingly, the time arrived at midnight.

“Alright boss, let’s go leveling!”

The three had stayed inside the Arena for the entire day, and they all had the urge to vomit.

The Queen of the Night was still alright and was torturing the lower-skilled adventurers most of the time. The ratio of Dharma was half to half, while Purple Olive was the one being tortured most of the time.

But the primary purpose for Ye Chen to ask Purple Olive to enter the Arena was to let her be abused.

Purple Olive was not a combat-oriented Priest. She had limited attack power and as for wanting her to kill someone? Unless she encountered another Priest, she would only face the fate of being killed.

The task that Ye Chen gave Purple Olive was to face Professions other than the Priest and try to stay alive as long as possible. While entangling with the enemy, on the other hand, she would be mastering the timing and rhythm of using her various Priest skills. This was especially so in the face of melee-type enemies. How to protect herself and ensure her survival was the most important thing.

The location they were hunting monsters was still in Big Snowy Mountain. Although it was a little far away, a key advantage was that no one else would compete for monsters with them, and was quiet enough.

“Next up, please invite our great beauty, Little Olive, to dance the Melody of Life!” Ye Chen the punk said with a smile, after arriving at the location where the monsters were at.

“I won’t dance!” Purple Olive gave this guy an evil eye.

Although she said that, after Ye Chen transplanted the two Durian Bomb Trees, Purple Olive still changed into a more exposing Dancer uniform and began to dance.

“Boss! Boss! Her dance is so alluring!” As Dharma watched Purple Olive twirl her sexy body amidst the snow, his saliva almost drooled out of his mouth.

“Two big perverts!”

Purple Olive glared at them impolitely.

“Call me a pervert again! Be careful that I’ll really become a pervert!” Ye Chen threatened menacingly.

“Hmph! Come, I’m only afraid that you won’t succeed!” However, Purple Olive was not intimidated at all.

If his words were said in reality, she might still be a little frightened. But this was just a game, who was afraid of who? Purple Olives continued her dance for another three minutes. After three minutes, Ye Chen and the other four, including the two Durian Bomb Trees, had their HP limit increased by 100 points!

“Not bad!” Ye Chen saw the effects and couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise.

The Level 1 Dance skill, Melody of Life dance, could increase 50 to 100 points of HP if successful. The dance effect of Purple Olive actually achieved the maximum result at once, which was quite an amazing feat.

“What’s there to be surprised by? I am quite proficient at dancing!” Purple Olive could not conceal the glee on her face and boasted proudly.

The three of them started hunting monsters like yesterday. After deciding to ignore the life and death of the Durian Bomb Tree, Ye Chen and the other two managed to attract more Ice Bears than yesterday.

The monsters were attracted in greater numbers. Despite this, the four of them still felt at ease when dealing with the monsters after spending a day in the Arena. The Durian Bomb Tree was not as fragile as Ye Chen’s imagination and died after killing a few monsters. After all, there was still a powerful Priest called Purple Olive around.

The experience proficiency of the four people was soaring faster than even yesterday. In the process, Ye Chen was observing the movements of the other three and gave some suggestions from time to time. For example, when was the best time to use a skill, which actions were unnecessary, the calculation of the time to ingest a potion, and etc.

Time passed quickly, and it was almost morning in the blink of an eye. Ye Chen’s level rose to Level 20 after finishing another wave of Ice Bears!