Chapter 7: Chrysanthemum Spirit

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Mo Fan quickly reached the depths of the forest. He could no longer see any players.

The monsters here were all level 8 and above chrysanthemum spirits, unlike the scarecrows from before.

Moreover, there were a lot of wild monsters wandering around this part of the forest.

One could encounter a wild monster every few steps.

It was impossible for an average player in the current stage of the game to farm in this location.

Mo Fan looked at the small wooden stick in his hand. Then, he looked at the nearby chrysanthemum spirit with a strange expression.

A chrysanthemum spirit looked like a huge chrysanthemum flower that was also as tall as a human being. Its roots were similar to the legs of a human person for it could move.

He was currently Level 6 and the chrysanthemum spirit was Level 8.

He did not know if these chrysanthemum spirits were easy to deal with.

Mo Fan checked his stats.

When he was farming players outside the beginner village, he did not have time to upgrade his bloodline nor undergo Star Ascension.

He had to do it right now before engaging in a fight in this part of the forest.

[Character ID Tag: Bunao Biaoyin]

[Character Name: Sturdy Scarecrow]

[Star Level: 2]

[Sturdy Trait: Max HP +20%, damage received -10%.]

[Level: 6 (Progress: 102,455/120,000)]

[Strength: 61]

[Constitution: 59]

[Dexterity: 61]

[Attack Power: Physical Attack 38-71]

[Health: 4500]

[Defense: Physical Defense 23]

[Talent “Medium Scarecrow Bloodline”: Normal attacks have an 8% chance of causing bleeding, dealing damage that is 10% of your maximum health. Duration: 3 seconds.]

[Talent “Inferior Human Bloodline”: Strength+1%, Dexterity+1%, Constitution-1%]

[Scarecrow Bloodline Fragment: 436/1000 (Grade 0 Fragment)]

[Human Bloodline Fragment: 1029/10 (Can Be Fused)]

[Star Level Fragment: 1462/1000 (Star Ascension Possible)]

[Monster Reputation: 1029]

[Player Reputation: 543]

He only needed slightly more than 10,000 Spiritual Energy Points to level up to Level 7.

The bloodline fragments and star fragments he had gathered were already sufficient for their respective upgrades.

Mo Fan first raised his ‘Inferior Human Bloodline’ to ‘Lower Human Bloodline’.

A mysterious power stirred in his body and his innate talent immediately changed.

[Talent “Lower Human Bloodline”: Strength+2%, Dexterity+2%]

The effect of [Constitution-1%] was finally gone.

His HP also increased by 200, and his Defense increased by 1.

In other words, the scarecrow’s bleeding talent would no longer be restricted by the human bloodline.

“At last! Who would dare to risk getting bleed from my attacks now? Hahaha!”

Mo Fan looked at his attributes. He could not help but feel proud.

[Human Bloodline Fragment: 1019/100 (Can Be Fused)]

Mo Fan looked at the button that could still be upgraded and pressed it.

The mysterious power that stirred in his body changed his ‘Lower Human Bloodline’ into ‘Medium Human Bloodline’.

[Talent “Medium Human Bloodline”: Strength+3%, Dexterity+3%, Constitution+1%]

[Human Bloodline Fragment: 919/1000 (Grade 0 Fragment)]

After upgrading his bloodline, his Strength and Dexterity had increased once again. His Constitution had also increased by 1%.

It could be said that the effects of the human talent were truly at their prime now.

After all, this was an increase of three attributes in percentages.

The higher the percentages, the more attributes would be added.

The number of Human Bloodline Fragments he had remaining was also close to the requirement for the next upgrade. After killing 81 players, he would be able to raise his bloodline to the next level.

At that time, his attributes were bound to increase significantly.

When he was done upgrading his bloodlines, Mo Fan underwent Star Ascension.

A golden light flashed from his feet as he became Star Level 3.

His character name changed from “Sturdy Scarecrow” to “Sturdy-Agile Scarecrow”.

[Character ID Tag: Bunao Biaoyin]

[Character Name: Sturdy-Agile Scarecrow]

[Star Level: 3]

[Sturdy Trait: Max HP +20%, damage received -10%.]

[Agile Trait: Attack Speed +20%, Movement Speed +10%]

[Level: 6 (Progress: 102,455/120,000)]

[Strength: 93]

[Constitution: 91]

[Dexterity: 93]

[Attack Power: Physical Attack 75-126]

[Health: 6300]

[Defense: Physical Defense 49]

[Talent “Medium Scarecrow Bloodline”: Normal attacks have an 8% chance of causing bleeding, dealing damage that is 10% of your maximum health. Duration: 3 seconds.]

[Talent “Medium Human Bloodline”: Strength+3%, Dexterity+3%, Constitution+1%]

[Scarecrow Bloodline Fragment: 436/1000 (Grade 0 Fragment)]

[Human Bloodline Fragment: 919/1000 (Grade 0 Fragment)]

[Star Level Fragment: 466/10,000 (Star Level 0 Fragment)]

[Monster Reputation: 1029]

[Player Reputation: 543]

After Star Ascension, there was an additional agile trait that greatly increased Attack Speed and Movement Speed.

Furthermore, his three attributes increased by a large margin, causing his Attack, Defense, and HP to increase significantly with it.

“Awesome! My maximum attack has already exceeded 100, and my HP has also exceeded 6300! Be afraid of this scarecrow’s bleeding talent! Hehehe!”

Mo Fan could not help but fantasize; he was being surrounded by many players with fierce looks on their faces. But he remained undaunted for he had his bleeding talent!

“But why has my name became longer? Sturdy-Agile Scarecrow? Can’t you give me a more handsome-sounding name?”

If Mo Fan wanted to obtain more Scarecrow Bloodline Fragments, he had to kill more scarecrows. But there were many players around, it would be troublesome if they found out where he was considering that he was now public enemy number one.

The scarecrow skin required 1000 Player Reputation Points.

Although he had more fragments to spare, Mo Fan still did not want to pay for it that easily.

It has been eight hours since he entered the game, but he still could not log off.

His priority was to log out of the game.

However, the system kept reminding him that he could not log off since his level was too low for him to do so.

“Forget it, I’ll level up first! Let’s see if I can log off after I’ve reached Level 10.”

Mo Fan approached a chrysanthemum spirit.

He immediately attacked with his stick.

-113

After being attacked, the chrysanthemum spirit immediately shot out a petal and struck Mo Fan.

-35

Then, the petal that the chrysanthemum spirit used to attack reappeared back onto its body.

[Weak Chrysanthemum Spirit (Level 8) HP: 2187/2300]

Looking at the chrysanthemum spirit’s HP, Mo Fan was a little surprised.

It was just a Weak Chrysanthemum Spirit, but its attack and HP were already so high.

If it wasn’t a Weak one but an Ordinary one, what would happen then?

“No matter how high your attack is, it’s not as high as mine. No matter how high your HP is, it’s not as high as mine!”

Mo Fan continued to attack the chrysanthemum spirit.

-97 [Damage dealt to the chrysanthemum spirit]

-27 [Damage dealt to Mo Fan]

-121 [Damage dealt to the chrysanthemum spirit]

-102 [Damage dealt to the chrysanthemum spirit]

-36 [Damage dealt to Mo Fan]

Mo Fan’s attack speed was slightly faster than the chrysanthemum spirit.

As a result, the chrysanthemum spirit’s DPS could not keep up with him.

Not long after, Mo Fan finally ended the chrysanthemum spirit’s life with his small wooden stick.

[Weak Chrysanthemum Spirit (Level 8) has been killed. Obtained 673 Spiritual Energy Points, 1 Chrysanthemum Spirit Bloodline Fragment (Grade 0), 1 Star Fragment (Star Level 0), and 1 Player Reputation Point.]

[Chrysanthemum Spirit Bloodline Fragment: 1/10 (Grade 0 Fragment)]

“Bloodline of a chrysanthemum spirit? Will a chrysanthemum pop out of my head if I fused with it?” Mo Fan looked at the Chrysanthemum Spirit Bloodline Fragment that he had just received. A strange look was on his face.

But he eventually shook his head and continued to farm.

He approached the next chrysanthemum spirit.

These Weak chrysanthemum spirits had high Attack and HP, but Mo Fan’s DPS was just far too high compared to the spirits. As a result, Mo Fan could kill one of them once every ten seconds.

After killing six chrysanthemum spirits, a piece of equipment dropped.

[Torn Pants (Gray)]

[A pair of pants that nobody wants. The crotch area is a little torn, it can barely be worn.]

[Defense: 0-1]

“F*ck, I just got new equipment?!”

Mo Fan held onto the piece of equipment, his heart became filled with excitement.

The drop rate of this game was simply too low, especially for normal monsters.

Almost none of them dropped equipment.

Other than the Broken Wooden Stick, he had not heard of anyone getting any other equipment.

Players from the beginner village were equipped with wooden swords and plainclothes that had no attributes added to them.

Moreover, both the wooden sword and the cloth robe had Durability.

Once the durability was exhausted, the players wound found themselves naked with only their undergarments covering their bodies.

As a result, the prices of these trash equipment became extremely high.

In the previous PK battle in front of the beginner village, most of the participating players had lost their wooden swords and clothing, as a result. They were forced to fight naked with nothing but their undergarments.

The durability of Mo Fan’s clothing that came with the human skin was also mostly depleted after that battle.

He put on his’ Torn Pants’ and winced at the torn area near the crotch.

Fortunately, he was a wild monster. It did not matter if there was a tear on that area.

He was very shameless.

And to begin with, these were just torn pants, who had not worn one before?

Looking at the nearby chrysanthemum spirits, Mo Fan’s face reddened.

He looked as if he was looking at a scarecrow.

These chrysanthemum spirits could drop equipment!

Mo Fan pounced towards a chrysanthemum spirit once again.

…

Not long after, he finally gathered the amount of Chrysanthemum Spirit Bloodline Fragments that he needed.

[Chrysanthemum Spirit Bloodline Fragment: 10/10 (Can Be Fused)]

“Sigh… Let’s fuse with it!”

Mo Fan clicked on the fuse button and closed his eyes helplessly.

A mysterious power stirred in his body.

Mo Fan felt something growing behind him.

He quickly turned around to take a look!

“F*ck!”

“F*ck~”

“F*ck!!!”

“What the f*ck, what’s happening?”

A bright-colored chrysanthemum flower grew out from behind him.

It swayed left and right along with his body.

Mo Fan had thought of many scenarios after the fusion, but he never expected that a flower would grow from that place.

That…

It was just like… that… it looked just like that…

“Oh my goodness, how can I ever face anyone in the future?!”

He suddenly felt his body tense up as his heart turned cold.

Mo Fan quickly chased away the weird thoughts in his head and looked at the new talent that he had just obtained.

[Talent “Inferior Chrysanthemum Spirit Bloodline”: Normal attacks have a 5% chance of creating a crack, causing 50% cleave1 damage. The range of the cleave attack is 180 degrees in front, and the distance is equal to the attack range.]

“Damn it, creating crack? Did you mean b*tt crack?! Why call it that?!”

“What is this garbage game? Is someone out there playing with me?!”

Although Mo Fan was cursing, he actually liked this talent very much.

It was, after all, an area-of-effect talent.

Mo Fan looked at the chrysanthemum spirits wandering around and his mood, which was ruined by the fusing of the bloodline, suddenly became better.

These chrysanthemum spirits not only dropped equipment, but they could also upgrade his talent and provide a large amount of Spiritual Energy.

Thinking of this, Mo Fan became energized.

He waved his small wooden stick and began his farming.

After about half an hour, Mo Fan reached Level 7 and his stats increased once again.

After reaching Level 7, the amount of Spiritual Energy that he needed to level up became as high as 200,000.

The higher the level, the more Spiritual Energy was required for a level-up.

After reaching Level 7, Mo Fan tried to log off once again, but he still could not do it!

“Looks like I’ll have to reach Level 10 first!”

“Chrysanthemum spirits, wash your necks!”