Destiny Online: Halo Paladin - Chapter 18

Chapter 18: Uncontrollable Fishing Soul!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Acquired: Rookie Short Short, Rookie Shield, Skill Book: Holy Smite.”

[Rookie Short Short (Great)]

[One-handed Sword]

[8 ~ 15 damage]

[+2 Strength]

[+2 Stamina]

[Requirement: Level 10]

[Rookie Shield (Great)]

[Offhand Shield]

[87 Armor]

[+2 Strength]

[+4 Stamina]

[Requirement: Level 10]

[Skill Book: Holy Smite (Paladin)]

[Holy Smite]

[Instant Cast (6 Seconds Cooldown)]

[Attack a target, inflict (Strength x 0.5) x (1+Skill Level x 0.1) of physical damage, (Intelligence x 0.5) x (1 + Skill Level x 0.05) holy damage. (Holy damage ignores armor and magical resistance but can be mitigated by damage reduction and magic immune)]

[Requirement: Level 5]

Judging from the items he got from the box, it seemed to be similar to everyone’s clear reward.

The devs must be worried about players not getting suitable gear to clear dungeons or kill monsters, therefore putting a set of basic gear and a skill book at the end of the class change dungeon.

After getting the treasure box, Nocturne sized up the puddle beside it. He noticed the puddle from the start and he somehow paid extra attention to it since he got addicted to fishing. 

The fishing soul in him was going out of control.

The puddle was dark and bottomless, it looked mysterious because it was not big in size but its depth was immeasurable and no one knew what was inside.

Nocturne sat down beside the puddle, took his fishing rod out, put on the bait and cast the line.

The moment the line was cast, the float sank and the fishing rod shook furiously. 

Nocturne quickly grabbed the rod. He did not know what took the bait, he only knew it was strong and hungry.

Shockingly, even after he pulled his fishing rod into a beautiful arc, the fish that took the bait did not budge.

He immediately stopped fishing and released the line. If he fought the fight head on, the line and the fishing rod might snap altogether.

He had to follow the fish’s movement, drain out its stamina and when the fish got tired, it would be his chance to reel it in.

Nocturne waited until it felt weaker before he reeled it in again to force the fish to continue moving. The continuous fight with the strong fish was exhausting, he was already drained before he could even see the fish.

However, right before he pulled the fish out of the water, the unexpected happened: the rod failed him.

Snap! The fishing rod snapped, his efforts fell short.

“Your fishing rod snapped.”

“F*** How am I going to fish now?!”

He actually had another rod in his bag, the newbie fishing rod that he had before the Strengthened Fishing Rod, but since even the Strengthened Fishing Rod snapped, the newbie fishing rod would not stand a chance.

“Now, I have to think of something. Right, the instructor did give me a bottle of holy water! I got so carried away in killing the skeletons that it slipped my mind!”

Nocturne had a hunch about the fish in the deep water puddle. Right before his fishing rod snapped, he was able to catch a glimpse of the fish’s body and a pair of blue flames burning in the water.

If the blue flames could burn under water, given how the skeleton warriors looked, the answer became obvious: it was a skeleton fish.

“Undead skeletons and holy water? Hehehe… Whether I get it or not, I’ll poison you first! It should be correct, holy water is like poison to the undead!”

Nocturne rubbed his hands and got closer to the puddle, he poured the entire bottle of holy water inside and ran away immediately.

In less than two seconds, the fish in the puddle struggled and caused the water to splash everywhere.

It took the puddle a full five minutes to calm down.

Nocturne slowly got closer and checked the puddle. He then took his newbie fishing rod, put on the bait and casted the line.

He had a feeling that the skeleton fish in the water was still alive. The holy water might be effective but pouring it into water diluted it a lot. Fortunately, even if it could not kill the fish, it would have weakened it.

As expected, after he cast the line, the float sank again. He felt a powerful pull from his rod but it was a lot weaker than the first time.

Nocturne went according to plan, fighting the fish back and forth. The skeleton fish’s power was a lot weaker, so after a short fight, he was able to pull it out of the water.

The skeleton fish got hooked at its mouth and it was struggling in the air.

The skeleton fish looked just like its name, the skeleton alone was more than a meter long and it had lost every bit of its flesh and organs, leaving its eye sockets with two flickering blue flames.

Judging from the flickering blue flames, Nocturne had a feeling that it would die soon.

When the skeleton fish stopped struggling, Nocturne got closer and poked it with his fishing rod.

To his surprise, the skeleton fish struggled again and started to chomp everything within its sight.

“Damn it! It tricked me?! It doesn’t even have a brain and it faked its death?!”

If Nocturne was not cautious enough to poke it with his fishing rod, he might have been bitten. Even though he had no idea what would happen if he got bitten, he did not wish to find out.

When the skeleton fish stopped moving again, Nocturne poked it again and finally, it really stopped moving.

He sighed a breath of relief and picked up the fish.

“Acquired: Megabone Fish”

“Acquired 5 Mastery Points in Fishing.”

[Megabone Fish]

[Crafting Material]

[Note: The presence of the Undead turned a once large fish into an Undead fish through time. It is a great ingredient for potions]

Judging from the description, it should be a kind of alchemy ingredient. As for whether or not it was edible, if it was edible, Nocturne would use it to make soup since it did not have flesh.

In Destiny Online, cooking with a recipe would grant the dish a buff. One could also cook without a recipe but it would not add mastery points or have any healing effects, it would be just a normal dish.

After putting the Megabone Fish away, Nocturne continued to fish around the puddle.

There should only be one Megabone Fish in the area but the water might have something else.

As expected, his rod shook again and this time, he was able to reel it in a lot faster than before.

“Acquired: Waterproof Box.”

“Used Waterproof Box. Acquired: Bone Fishing Rod, Old Fisherman’s Hat.”

[Bone Fishing Rod (Refined)]

[Character Bind]

[Two-handed Fishing Rod]

[8 ~ 16 damage]

[+5 Shadow resistance]

[Increase Fishing Mastery by 30 points.]

[Requirement: Fishing (100)]

[Old Fisherman’s Hat (Refined)]

[Character Bind]

[Headdress]

[4 Armor]

[+3 Stamina]

[Increase Fishing Mastery by 10 Points]

[Increase the chances of fishing a rare fish by 1%, special item by 1%]

[Requirement: Fishing (100)]

…

Looking at the two items, Nocturne could already picture the fall of another fisherman on the spot. He just did not know whether the fisherman died and became the Megabone Fish or the Megabone Fish had killed the fisherman.

“Amitabha… Wait, it should be ‘rest in peace’ since it’s Taoism.”

“Anyway. Rest in peace, senior, I’ll take good care of your belongings.”

Nocturne then checked the items that he got. He realized the Bone Fishing Rod was a fishing rod designed for the sea. Sea fishing rods were unlike a normal handheld rod, it had guides along the rod and a spinning reel at its waist. It could cast and reel at ease and it was designed to fight larger fish.

If he had the sea fishing rod in hand, he might not even need to use the holy water on the Megabone Fish, all he needed was a little more time to fish it up.

As for the Old Fisherman’s Hat, Nocturne surprisingly realized that it had the same design as the mino that the old man wore, maybe it was another piece of the same set.

Nocturne’s Fishing Mastery had reached 108. After putting on the hat and the rod, his Fishing Mastery surged again.

He continued to fish around but got nothing else. It seemed like the puddle was drained of its surprises.

He reeled the rod in. He then checked the area carefully but found nothing of interest.

He then tapped on escape and left the class change dungeon.