Sun Fei suppressed his raging anger, gritted his teeth, and asked his third question one word at a time: "I want to know, can I take the items I obtain here back to my own world? Esteemed Sister Akara, you understand what I mean, don't you?"
Sun Fei was ready.
If this woman said "God's will" or "I don't know" one more time, he would pounce on her and beat the face beneath her nun's hood to a pulp... The consequences? Damn it, he couldn't care about that anymore!
Fortunately, Akara's answer was different-
"Young adventurer, you must always remember this law: in this world, you must pay a corresponding price for anything you wish to obtain... Hehe, as long as you can offer something that satisfies God, anything can happen!"
"You mean that as long as I can afford the price, I can choose anything to take out, right?"
"Young man, is that your fourth question?"
Damn woman, would it kill you not to be so stingy? Sun Fei cursed inwardly.
But he showed none of what he was thinking. Wearing a thoroughly respectful expression, he rubbed his chin, thought for a moment, and firmly shook his head. "No, of course not. What a joke..." To be honest, Akara's greed had frightened Sun Fei. He hurriedly asked the fourth question he had been considering for a long time: "Why am I forced to leave this world? What's with that voice in my head?"
"That is the deity guiding you forward... Child, when your spiritual power is sufficient to sustain your conscious activity in this world, you can exist here forever. But right now, clearly, it is not. At your current level of spiritual power, you can only remain in this world for four hours!"
Spiritual power?!
So that was it!
Sun Fei finally understood.
As soon as Akara finished speaking, Sun Fei turned and left without hesitation.
He was afraid that if he stayed any longer, he wouldn't be able to stop himself from doing something to that greedy old woman Akara that would outrage both gods and men. What bastard had said NPCs were stupid, only answered questions, and existed solely to move the plot along? Sun Fei had believed that and let his guard down too much, only to be thoroughly screwed over by this greedy NPC.
"Adventurer, you still have one question left..." Old woman Akara called after him, sounding almost gleeful at his misfortune.
"I'll save it for now. When I think of a question that's actually worth 2,000 gold coins, I'll come back and ask you!"
Sun Fei practically fled.
"Looks like I really need to be careful when dealing with the NPCs in the Diablo World from now on. Otherwise, those vampires will devour me, bones and all. Damn it, every one of them is harder to deal with than the monsters in the wilderness..."
After leaving Akara, Sun Fei decided to continue leveling up and increasing his strength.
The situation in Chambord City in the real world was dire, and he had to grow stronger as quickly as possible. Even if he couldn't truly protect Chambord City, he should still be able to protect his own life and the lives of those around him.
The fastest way to grow stronger wasn't to kill monsters nonstop, but to accept quests and collect the experience rewards for completing them.
So before leaving the [Rogue Encampment], Sun Fei followed his memories of the computer game from his previous life and sought out Kashya, the [Rogue Encampment]'s military leader.
From Kashya, he accepted his second quest: eliminate the traitor Blood Raven.
Kashya was the leader of the [Rogue Encampment]'s mercenaries.
She had a large number of rigorously trained female Rogues under her command, each with exceptional skills. In the computer game from his previous life, after a player completed the quest to "eliminate the traitor Blood Raven," they would earn Kashya's trust, and the [Rogue Encampment]'s military chief would give them a female Rogue to protect them for free as a quest reward.
"Hehe, I wonder if those Rogue girls are as fresh and pretty as they were in the computer game?" Whenever Sun Fei thought of pretty girls, his emotional intelligence often plummeted without his noticing, like the Chinese stock market in a mad free fall.
He sneaked a few glances at the large tent behind Kashya.
The tent was where the female Rogues lived and rested. From time to time, young women could be heard giggling inside, their laughter as sweet as silver bells. It was like kittens scratching at Sun Fei's heart, leaving him tingling and weak all over.
But that damned tent flap covered everything, leaving Sun Fei unable to see a thing.
He left the [Rogue Encampment], looking back every few steps.
The [Rogue Encampment]'s traitor, Blood Raven, had taken up residence in a graveyard deep in the [Cold Plains], with a large number of monsters guarding her.
Sun Fei set out from the encampment and passed through the [Blood Moor], killing countless monsters along the way. After walking for about two hours, he stepped into the [Cold Source] amid a chilling rain that had suddenly begun to fall again.
By then, Sun Fei had finally raised his barbarian character to level seven.
As in many role-playing computer games, the higher the level, the more experience and time it took to advance. Sun Fei had taken less than three hours to go from level zero to level five, but going from level five to level seven had already taken him nearly two hours.
The [Cold Plains] was much colder than the [Blood Moor].
It was almost as if he had suddenly gone from a temperate zone to a frigid one.
The variety of monsters was also greater. Besides the [Fallen], [Fallen Shamans], and other monsters he had encountered before, the newly encountered [Dark Hunters] were considerably tougher. These monsters resembled human women, wore armor from head to toe, and carried spears and shields. They would actively swarm adventurers, charging in large groups. Before dying, they let out piercing screams to summon their companions, and like hornets, they came in vast swarms that filled the sky and covered the ground. They were extremely difficult to deal with.
There was no avoiding these monsters that lived in groups, and no other good way to deal with them. He could only take them head-on and fight a bloody path through.
Sun Fei hacked and slashed his way forward with difficulty amid the monsters' blood and screams.
Another hour later, Sun Fei fought his way to the graveyard where Blood Raven was.
He calculated the time. Less than an hour remained before he reached the four-hour limit and had to leave the world of Diablo. That should be more than enough time to kill Blood Raven and complete the quest.
But before doing so, Sun Fei checked his condition and decided to do something else first-
Return to the encampment, repair his equipment, and buy supplies.
After all the fighting along the way, Sun Fei's armor and weapons were battered, their durability and power greatly reduced. To confront Blood Raven, the [Cold Plains]' chief boss, in such a near-crippled state would be like poking a tiger in the rear with a wooden stick. It was no different from courting death.
To do a job well, one must first sharpen one's tools.
Sun Fei acted on the thought immediately. He opened his inventory and used a [Scroll of Town Retrieval] without hesitation.
Blue light flashed, and a portal appeared with a soft hum. Sun Fei stepped through it and returned to the [Rogue Encampment].
According to his memories of the computer game from his previous life, equipment could be repaired by a female NPC blacksmith named Charsi in the [Rogue Encampment].
Sun Fei consulted the map, got his bearings, and passed several tents before quickly finding Charsi.
Charsi was a young woman of about eighteen, with delicate features, a slender figure, and beautiful golden hair loosely tied behind her head like a waterfall. Perhaps because she had spent so much time working at the forge, she lacked the frailty of ordinary women and instead looked spirited and heroic. Yet a worried frown hung over her face, as if something were troubling her.
Charsi wasn't particularly surprised by Sun Fei's arrival.
After asking a few questions, Sun Fei spent 20 gold coins to repair his armor, helmet, gloves, boots, and two-handed great axe. He also sold the worried-looking blacksmith some equipment he had obtained from killing monsters that he had no use for at the moment.
In the process, Sun Fei was surprised to discover that the same equipment always sold for about ten gold coins more to Charsi than to Sister Akara.
"That old nun really is no good!"
After discovering this, Sun Fei's resentment toward Akara grew even stronger. He swore to himself that whatever equipment he had in the future, he wouldn't sell it to that old woman who was greedier than a vampire, even if it killed him.
Seeing that Charsi didn't seem willing to talk to him much, Sun Fei tactfully thanked her and left after his equipment was repaired. He went back through the portal to the graveyard in the [Cold Plains], ready to begin hunting down Blood Raven.
He didn't have much time left.
More than fifty minutes later.
"Aaaaah-!!"
A woman suddenly let out a piercing scream.
The scream was like an arrow piercing the clouds, shattering the relative calm of the [Cold Plains].
Covered in wounds and with his face battered out of shape, Sun Fei stood in the very center of the graveyard. After a grueling, harrowing battle, Blood Raven-the demon that the once-mightiest Rogue had become after falling-had finally collapsed at his feet in a pool of blood, wailing in utter unwillingness after being thoroughly "teased" by Sun Fei's tactics of "retreat when the enemy advances, advance when the enemy retreats, attack when the enemy tires, and harass when the enemy rests."
With Blood Raven's death, countless bolts of lightning suddenly burst from her corpse. In an instant, lightning flashed and thunder roared across the heavens and earth. The lightning grew increasingly intense and soon engulfed the entire graveyard, as if the end of the world had come.
But though Sun Fei was bathed in lightning, he felt no damage at all.
The lightning didn't seem to have any offensive power.
After a while, the lightning finally disappeared.
Strange sights followed one after another. Above Blood Raven's corpse appeared the illusory figure of a woman, graceful as an angel. From the look of her, she was unmistakably a beautiful Rogue warrior.
Sun Fei thought to himself, This poor woman must be Isabella's soul from before she fell? Hehe, in that case, killing her counts as a good deed greater than building a seven-story pagoda?
Amitabha! May Buddha bless you, poor girl...
With a solemn expression, Sun Fei incongruously chanted Buddha's name in the Diablo World.
The next second, the rascal immediately reverted to his true nature. Wearing a lecherous expression and drooling, he eagerly began searching Blood Raven's corpse. In theory, a super boss like Blood Raven was certain to drop a few pieces of yellow equipment.
Sure enough, yellow light glittered on the ground as far as he could see.
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