Bald Monk in the City - Chapter 24

Chapter 24: Fist of Awe

Translator: Exodus Tales

Editor: Exodus Tales

“Will you open Brown Tooth Boar’s copper chest?”

　　”Yes!”

　　”You obtained 100 Integrated Network Coins.”

　　Yi Qiu, “???”

　　After looking at the information that appeared on his retina screen, Yi Qiu’s heart skipped a beat, he actually only received 100 Integrated Network Coins.

　　Then, he opened the stats interface.

　　Looking at the 10 Luck points, Yi Qiu touched his bald head and then judged that the problem was with the chest…

　　”Will you open the Barren Gold Mine Card Chest (White)?”

　　”Yes!”

　　Barren Gold Mine Card Chest (White):

　　Origin: Barren Gold Mine Dungeon Card

　　Quality: White

　　Description: Dungeon specific chest from the Dungeon Card, able to obtain any Barren Gold Mine related item and also a small chance to obtain a white card.

　　”You obtained card: Dog-Head Man’s candle?”

　　Dog-Head Man’s candle:

　　Type: Card

　　Origin: Eroded Rock

　　Quality: White

　　Card effect:

　　After use, obtains a layer of candle light, candle light is a magical spiritual light, able to chase away demons and dark shadows. When the effect is removed or lasts for the longest time (30 natural days), character will obtain a layer of extinguished candle buff. When extinguished candle buff stacks to three levels, it will awaken an unknown presence.

　　PS: Cards can be seen as consumables like scrolls and spells. You can use cards to obtain magical effects, from injecting energy in to summon the monster in the cards. When the monster is summoned, it will fight for you, work, even die for you.

　　PS: “Cards can summon useful monsters!”- Integrated Network Newbie Manual 217

　　Along with a white light pillar, a card with a bad candle drawing appeared in Yi Qiu’s hand.

　　”As expected, it really is the chest, why am I just so unlucky?” Yi Qiu touched his bald head and used the Dog-head Man’s candle.

　　After an invisible tremor, Yi Qiu’s… bald head started to give off a dim magical light!

　　He used his phone to take some photos and only after realizing that nothing changed, he was at ease.

　　Although the effect didn’t seem useful at the moment, it was good to have 30 days of skin effects…

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　　After opening the chest, Yi Qiu felt really good.

　　Yi Qiu was now a Level 4 Monk. Based on the Integrated Network, he needed 10,000 Experience to level up.

　　With his current experience, 10,000 wasn’t a small sum. Yi Qiu had spent that amount getting from Level 1 to Level 4.

　　For these 10,000 experience points, Yi Qiu spent half a month clearing dungeons. With his current efficiency, to level up would take him another half a month.

　　However, due to Yi Qiu’s increase in level, he gained more experience in the dungeons and so it would be much more efficient.

　　When he reached Level 5, Monks would have a special skill: Purity of Body!

　　As a tanky class, a Monk’s physique wouldn’t be too low and thus their chances of falling sick were also low.

　　What was worth mentioning was that strength wouldn’t allow you to get any illness immunity at all.

　　Strong people wouldn’t get sick easily, but it wasn’t because of their strength but their health.

　　In DND, Purity of Body wasn’t a skill with much presence. Even when he was at parties, this skill would only allow him to not have the excuse to ask female healers to heal him. (PS: If your party has a female that removes debuffs, then just ignore that!)

　　However, in real life, this skill was really useful! Even if its chance was low, there was still a chance. Especially when Yi Qiu suffered from soul weakness, it was really easy for him to fall sick.

　　Think about it, you don’t have to worry about chickenpox, swine flu, you can eat whatever you want; fried chicken, barbecue, you can eat as much as you want, just thinking about it made him drool…

　　Which was why Yi Qiu was really motivated to level up. However, Yi Qiu was prepared to use experience to get some skills first.

　　Currently, his attack skills consisted of opening the Gate of Opening and then charging up and using Flurry of Blows. If he felt like he couldn’t beat the opponent, then he would open up the Gate of Healing. If he still couldn’t win, then that was it. He would back out and then in the next wave, after opening the Gate of Opening, he would try using the pepper spray and quicklime. 

　　Speaking of which, although he was used to quicklime and pepper spray, he felt like it wasn’t really cool. 

　　As they say, ‘Whether you are handsome or not depends on your blood, but whether you are cool or not is something that affects your life’. 

　　Monk’s had a controlling ability which was Fist of Awe!

　　Fist of Awe required 1,000 Experience to learn. If he was at Level 2, Yi Qiu definitely wouldn’t learn it. At Level 3 he would hesitate a little…

　　Now that leveling needed 10,000 Experience, Yi Qiu felt that 1,000 wasn’t much. 

　　”Will you learn Fist of Awe? Learning this technique consumes 1,000 Experience!”

　　”Yes!”

　　”Deducting 1,000 Integrated Network Experience, you have learned skill: Fist of Awe!”

　　Fist of Awe (Cannot be leveled):

　　After using this skill and striking an enemy, there is a chance you will stun the enemy.

　　Fist of Awe was a special use of Ki, the theory behind it was to mix Ki with some intent to bind to the area that you attack. After hitting the enemy, the Ki will enter the enemy’s consciousness and then it would feel like someone smacking you on the back of the head with a stick.

　　It was said that someone called Garen in the fields of Valoran was good at this move, but he buffed it on the sword.

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　　As they say, ‘When one has a weapon, one would be tempted to kill’. With a new technique, Yi Qiu’s hand was really itchy and he felt like doing something. 

　　He had already passed the Barren Gold Mine dungeon and it turned into the Barren Gold Mine card. He just cleared the Pumpkin Field Ravaged by Wild Boar, the Wolf Pup Cave was on a cooldown so Yi Qiu was really stumped.

　　His fist was a little itchy and he really wanted to smash something!

　　Thinking about it, Yi Qiu started to scroll the Rotten Apple Playground Forums.

　　He saw that City C had a comic fair today!

　　Speaking of comic fair, Yi Qiu loved to go to them in the past.

　　A nerd who didn’t go to comic fairs wasn’t complete and one who went and couldn’t get any girls was an even bigger failure.

　　However, Yi Qiu now felt that all those 36D, those cosplays, those cat ears and foxtails, all those were nothing.

　　Stillness of Mind, he let things pass by him, but he maintained his purity!