Chapter 35: Third Place!
Editor: Atlas Studios
Beside the campfire in the Bandit Camp, a group of people was waiting in anticipation for Fatty to share the loot.
After Fated Sky had taken over drawing away the Boss, there had basically been no suspense. Thanks to the loss of two Elites, it was not hard to kill the Boss. This time, Fatty had indeed found a good party. Fated Sky was a good main tank. Not only could he tank, but he also had enough experience to deal with possible unexpected situations. Plus, Fatty had gritted his teeth to release the poison on the Boss. Therefore, after making some effort, everyone had cleared the dungeon with a daunting experience and no mishaps whatsoever.
The rewards were very generous. Two Elite Deputy Bandit Chiefs had dropped three Crafting Blueprints of Level 10 and above and a Skill Book. Boss Gerov had also dropped three Skill Books, two Crafting Blueprints, and a potion recipe.
Apart from that, everyone in the party had obtained 3,250 EXP after killing two Elites and one Boss. Most of the EXP had actually been provided by Gerov. This also allowed Fatty to level up.
In addition to the EXP and blueprints, the dungeon was also the focus of players who wanted to earn money. The two Elites gave them a total of 4 Silver Coins, while Gerov was even more impressive and gave them 10 Silver Coins! There were 14 Silver Coins in total, which made everyone very envious.
Fatty scoffed as though they had not gotten any money. This was just a few Silver Coins, yet they were staring at them. If they knew that he had obtained 40 Silver Coins in the Novice Village, how would they feel?
There was a total of five Crafting Blueprints, which were allocated based on class needs. Fated Sky obtained a Heavy Armor Helmet Crafting Blueprint, while Crayon Knife obtained a Dagger Crafting Blueprint. The other two Cloth Armor Crafting Blueprints were obtained by Fatty and Black Snail. Since Luo Moling had already obtained a Cloth Shoe Crafting Blueprint upon killing the three Human Bandits in the beginning, she was allocated an Arrow Crafting Blueprint.
There were four Skill Books. One was the Dark Hunter's Calibration Shot, which was a passive skill that would add accuracy rate, while the other was the Death Knight's Rune Crafting. The other two books were the Thief's Deboning and the Shield Warrior's Shield Strike.
Except for the Dark Hunter's Calibration Shot, the other three were very good Skill Books. Although Fated Sky had learned the Rune Crafting, there were many Death Knight players in the game. This book could still be sold at a very good price. The Thief's Deboning Skill was an ending technique that a Thief had to learn. The Shield Warrior's Shield Strike Skill was a status skill with a stun effect. If it was sold at the market, it would probably make many Shield Warrior players go after it.
However, there were only four Skill Books, so they couldn't be evenly allocated. In that case, they could only split them according to the Party Contribution.
There had originally been a party leader bonus, so Fatty had the highest Party Contribution, followed by Fated Sky. Theoretically, Fatty could choose the most valuable one out of these four books. However, after he saw the last potion recipe, he started to hesitate.
This potion recipe was actually a recipe with a low drop rate!
Yes. Although he had learned Poison Crafting, without a recipe, Fatty couldn't craft a Poisonous Potion. The drop rate for poison recipes in the game had always been low, so its price was actually much higher than the price of the other four Skill Books.
The reason for the high price of the poison made by a Venomancer was that there were relatively fewer Venomancers. Second, it was because it was hard to obtain a poison recipe.
The poison recipe before his eyes turned out to be a Slowdown Poison Recipe that was hardly seen in the early stage!
It might be because the Boss Gerov was also from the Thief Class, which was why such a recipe had been dropped. Although Fatty's Party Contribution Points were the highest, he couldn't use these points to grab two items. Therefore, if he chose the Skill Book, he could only give up this poison recipe.
Eventually, after giving it some thought, he took the recipe.
Although a Skill Book could now be sold for a good price, such a transaction was a one-off. However, the recipe was different. After learning it, he could craft it as long as he had the materials. After Level 20, the Thief Class's Venom Skill would probably appear. Then, this Slowdown Poison could bring more benefits to Fatty.
In the end, Fated Sky took the Rune Crafting Skill, Crayon Knife took his finishing Deboning Skill Book, Black Snail took the Shield Strike Skill, while Luo Moling took the Calibration Shot.
In combination with the distributed Silver Coins, everyone had gained around 20 Silver Coins for the dungeon this time, which was a big harvest.
Everyone was very happy and they were all talking happily on the way out of the dungeon.
"I'll go out and find someone to forge my Dagger Blueprint!" Crayon Knife said happily, "I hope it will be a good weapon!"
"Me too! Except that mine's cloth armor. I need to find a tailor!" Snail of Darkness said with a smile.
"Little Knife!" Fatty added, "I can help you forge your weapon. You just need to find the materials!"
"You can?" Before Crayon Knife could answer, Luo Moling said with a snort, "Don't end up forging a Normal Rank weapon. That would be a big loss!"
"What are you saying?" Fatty was suddenly angry. This chick actually doubted his profession's standards?
"Let me tell you something! Before we entered the dungeon, I had just forged a Superior dagger!" Fatty said pleasantly. "It might even have been the first Superior weapon in the game!"
"Is that true?" Everyone was really surprised. If Fatty had said that he had forged a Refined Rank weapon, this might not have been surprising. After forging many times, a Refined Rank weapon would be forged once or twice as long as the system randomized that probability. However, the Superior Rank was not that easily accomplished. It was purely based on luck!
"Ha ha… Who are you trying to fool?" Fatty was proud. While he pointed at the distant sky, he said, "Oh, that's right. Didn't you obtain a Heavy Armor Helmet Blueprint? Bring it to me to forge it as well!"
In addition to forging weapons, the forging skill could also forge heavy armor equipment. As for fur armor, light armor, and cloth armor, it was made by tailors.
"Sure!" Fated Sky, who was also very straightforward, nodded his head in agreement. "Oh, that's right. July also learned how to tailor. You guys can let her tailor your blueprints. One does not allow benefits created by one's own work to stem from others!"
No matter which life skills one learned, proficiency was a huge problem. How fast players increased their proficiency determined whether they could earn things with the skill learned. Fatty's forging proficiency was only 110 points. Although he had yet to reach Level 20, he needed to be prepared, and so did Luo Moling.
Thus, everyone happily agreed to this suggestion. Since they could let Fatty and the rest increase their proficiency, they could also forge their items for free. What could they have against that?
As everyone was talking happily and walking out of the dungeon, the system prompt appeared.
"Congratulations on clearing the dungeon. The time you spent inside was 1 hour 4 minutes 36 seconds. Your party has entered the leaderboard. You currently rank third. Please check it out. The additional dungeon points obtained are 35. You have also obtained a total of 60 points. You can go to Asgarod City and find the Supreme Presbyterian Church Observation Group's Hidro to receive this reward!"
As soon as this prompt appeared, everyone froze. Although they had known they could be on the list after clearing the dungeon, they hadn't expected to rank third!
Such a result was somewhat unexpected. According to the system, this seemed to mean that they could find a certain NPC to receive additional rewards, which was simply an unexpected surprise.
When they came back to their senses, everyone looked at Fatty.
If he hadn't walked everyone through the gathering place of the pack of wolves without a battle, they basically wouldn't have ranked so high…
Fatty also found it unbelievable. In fact, going around the pack of wolves instead of fighting with them was only a bright idea of his that had appeared suddenly. He hadn't expected that it would shorten everyone's time and help them reach such a rank.
After opening the leaderboard page, Fatty saw their dungeon ranking. As expected, his party ranked third and their names were stated. Party Leader: Chicken Sugar. Members: Fated Sky, Crayon Knife, Black Snail, July. The time it had taken them to complete the dungeon was also noted afterward.
Fatty suddenly noticed the name of the party in the first place and realized that the party was led by Night Blood Phoenix!
"How did they do it?" Fatty was puzzled. "Don't tell me they also went around the pack of wolves like us?"
In fact, what Fatty didn't know was that the dungeon's leaderboard had been refreshed. Their newly-emerged party also attracted the attention of many people, especially those who were on the leaderboard…
"Who is Chicken Sugar? He actually silently squeezed down the original party in the third place, which was led by Owl Wolf?"
"Yes. Who's this guy? I don't think I've heard his name. Is he a closed beta player?"
"I don't think so. I never saw such a name during the closed beta trial!"
"No matter who it is, this party is not simple. I suppose they have a full body of Refined equipment?"
Fatty had misunderstood. None of the top 10 parties on the leaderboard had chosen the same way he had. Most of these parties were players from various guilds, so these were the main parties of the guild. When they'd entered the dungeon, they hadn't chosen to go around the pack of wolves. In fact, they hadn't even known about this method. These parties had gathered the Refined Rank equipment from a large number of guild players. Then, they had created a professional party with strong equipment and strength that could forcibly enter the dungeon.
They judged others based on themselves, so the players of these parties all thought that Fatty had led his party just like them. However, they hadn't expected that he had used a completely different method…
Fatty didn't know any of this. Plus, they were not at a loss for a long time. This was just a ranking. Besides making others envy them, there were no other benefits. Receiving the additional rewards was obviously more exciting for them.
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