Destiny Online: Halo Paladin - Chapter 28

Chapter 28: Earned A Ton

When the day got brighter, Nocturne partied up with Fu Wei and started their dungeon run.

[Player ArrogantSoul requested to join the party. Yes/No?]

“I didn’t expect you to use your own name. You even got on the ranking list twice!” Fu Wei was shocked when he saw Nocturne’s IGN.

“I didn’t expect your IGN to be this… arrogant as well.”

“That makes two of us. I originally wanted to be a great healer but God must have played a joke with me and gave me an alchemy talent.”

The two of them started their dungeon run after some chit-chat.

The normal monsters at the front were not much of a problem, even Nocturne could take them down alone.

With Fu Wei, the Holy Priest, behind him, they managed to press on just fine. Even though the healer was a little inexperienced, Nocturne’s own Defense and HP regen was quite high. Other than progressing slower than normal, everything was fine.

The two of them managed to take down Black Claw, the first mini boss. It dropped a piece of leather armor and a piece of light armor. Fu Wei took the light armor and kept the leather armor for auction.

Next would be the main event.

Nocturne found the fishing hole and skillfully cast his line inside.

“You got the Fire Scale Fiery Tail Fish here? I must say, this hole is really inconspicuous, I didn’t notice anything different at all. It’s so dark and you can’t see anything, how did you know that there are fish behind the cave?” Fu Wei was curious about Nocturne’s strange fishing method.

“Crazy right. I have a skill to locate fishing spots, no fishing spots can ever escape my sight.”

“Awesome!” This time around, it was Fu Wei who called Nocturne awesome.

A while later, Nocturne got four Fire Scale Fiery Tail Fish and a Waterproof Box. Of course, he also got something good out of the box.

[Recipe: Fire Scale Fiery Tail Soup]

[Required Ingredients: Fire Scale Fiery Tail Fish x 1, Seasoning.]

[Usage: Consume it and recover 300 Mana in 18 seconds. Acquire 10 points increase in Fire resistance. 60 minutes duration. Unavailable during combat.]

[Level: 15]

[Requirement: Culinary (100)]

With the recipe in hand, when coupled with the potions that they were going to craft, the exploration teams would surely be interested.

The thought motivated Nocturne, he ran the dungeon with Fu Wei until midnight before they decided to call it a day and go to bed.

After a day of running dungeon, they got around 40 fish, some gear and miscellaneous items, they even got a Mage skill book.

On the second morning, a call from Fu Wei woke Nocturne up.

“Stop sleeping you lazy piece of shit!”

“You mofo…”

“Come on! If you are not motivated in earning money, what else can motivate you? Hurry up and sell the potion, otherwise someone else might beat us to it!”

Nocturne was forced to wake up early. He quickly fed himself and Chubby Blue before jumping back into the game to farm materials.

The second round lasted an entire day and he only came back to the real world for dinner before he jumped back in to make potions and dishes with Fu Wei.

After everything, Nocturne contacted Beitang Meng.

“Hey wealthy lass, I got something good again! Are you interested?” Nocturne then showed Beitang Men the potion and the dish.

“Is it a steady output? How much do you have?” Beitang Meng finally replied after a while.

“I got around 80 potions and 30 dishes and I can guarantee the same amount every single day. If my gear gets better, I might be able to increase the output.”

“Okay then, I’ll take them all. I’ll pay you 500 real money for a single piece. The condition is before the market is flooded with these potions and dishes, you can only sell them to me.”

“Deal.”

“Great. Send me your email address and your bank account, I’ll make the transfer.”

“Okay. My bank account number is…”

Right after the negotiation, Fu Wei anxiously asked, “How’s it? How much did she offer?”

“500 per piece,” Nocturne said as he sent the things to Beitang Meng via email.

“Holy sh*t! That’s a lot! Beitang Meng is really a rich woman!” Fu Wei was aroused when he heard the price.

“On one condition: we can only sell the items to her before the items flooded the market, so she has literally monopolized the market now. Anyway, she did pay quite the price.”

“I think she’s trying to keep her progress during the early stage of the game. If she can stay ahead of the other guilds, money is a small cost that she would be more than happy to pay.”

“Mhmm. We should get the money later, so let’s split it 50-50.”

“You found the secret and you got the ingredients, I don’t think I deserve half of the payment,” Fu Wei said while waving his hands as a sign of rejection.

“Come on, we are friends. There’s no need for us to be this calculative. Moreover, if you didn’t join the party, I’m certain that I wouldn’t be able to get this much. Besides, you did all the potion crafting, it’s much more valuable than the raw ingredients.”

“Even blood brothers should be clear with each other, especially when it comes to money. I’ll just take 20% as a tiny fee.”

…

At the same time in a sudden death dungeon, where Beitang Meng and her party were just wiped out, something changed.

Beitang Meng tapped on her party member’s shoulder and said, “Change of plans. Inform everyone we no longer have to hold back on our leveling. Level up to 15 as fast as possible and we will start pushing Level 15 dungeon, Blazing Valley.”

“What happened, Sister Beitang? We’ve been pushing the sudden death difficulty for so long and we are giving up now?” Mayday was a little confused.

“You should know that the last boss’ Slash is a pain in the ass for us. Our priest still doesn’t have any group healing skill, a slow healing won’t make it. Elven Druids have Rejuvenation, they have the advantage in this because two Rejuvenation skills from them and they will mitigate the Bleed effect. Meanwhile Human Priest’s Recovery and Power Word: Shield are only available at Level 15. There’s only a slim chance of getting First Blood now, so we should be focusing on leveling to 15 and get that dungeon’s First Blood.”

A Druid’s Rejuvenation was an instant cast skill with no cooldown, the target would recover a portion of his HP within 8 seconds.

“Okay. I wonder how hard Blazing Valley is.” Mayday sighed and looked dispirited.

“Don’t worry, I got ourselves a bunch of Fire Resistance potions, it should be easier with increased Fire Resistance.” Beitang Meng waved her hand as though she had everything under control.

“Wow, no wonder you were so decisive, Sister Beitang, you got potions!”

…

Back at Nocturne’s side, he was not a calculative person, especially to his friend. After a minor discussion, he decided to give Fu Wei 30% of the profit.

It was then that the money got transferred to his bank account. After giving 30% to Fu Wei, they planned to continue their dungeon run but Nocturne got mail instead.

Nocturne accessed the mailbox and realized it was Beitang Meng, she had sent him two items.

[Nimble Dagger] (Refined)

[One-handed Sword]

[19-24 Damage]

[+4 Strength]

[+7 Stamina]

[Special Effect: Landing a successful hit will have a certain chance to inflict 50 extra damage.]

[Requirement: Level 13]

[Skill Book: Judgement (Paladin)]

[Judgement]

[Instant Cast (12 Seconds cooldown)]

[Cast judgement on your target. Inflict ((Strength + Intelligence)) x 0.5 x (1 + Skill Level x 0.1) holy damage to target.]

[Requirement: Level 12]

“Geez, Beitang Meng really doesn’t want to owe anyone a favor does she?”

He had just sold her the potions and she gave him a big present in the blink of an eye, as a present to repay his favor.

Nocturne accepted the presents happily because it would decrease his dungeon run time, which would result in increased output of the raw ingredients. It would be a win-win situation.

After getting the gear and the skill book, Nocturne continued running the dungeon with Fu Wei.

They ran the dungeon until it was late night. Before they went to bed, they already had a ton of ingredients, gear and other miscellaneous items.

Nocturne even got lucky and got his third halo skill.