Chapter 82 - Recruiting Talent

Chapter 82: Recruiting Talent

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Then it’s fine, I can’t afford it.” Pretty Good Mood sighed.

Li Yi paused momentarily before saying, “If you really want this, I do have a plan.”

“Of course I want it, what’s the plan?”

“Join my guild, and sell your body to repay the debt.”

“Err… Sell my body?”

“In other words, come work for my guild. Go to dungeons, participate in some guild activities, etc. Once you earned enough Guild Points, then your debt will be cleared.”

After Li Yi’s explanation, Pretty Good Mood finally understood.

“Really?”

“Do I need to lie to you?”

Pretty Good Mood started to feel excited. “Alright, where are you? I’ll join immediately!”

“No problem!” Li Yi was secretly giggling with glee as he sent Pretty Good Mood a guild invite.

System Notification: [Pretty Good Mood agreed to join Little Drunk Cats Guild.]

‘Done! It’s settled!’

In his past life, when other guilds wanted to invite this great commander, without a minimum of twenty thousand Gold Coins it was impossible for them to get him on board. Now, Li Yi did not even have to use a single cent in this endeavor, he managed to recruit him at the measly cost of one Contract of Fire.

Li Yi passed the Contract of Fire to Pretty Good Mood and advised him, “There’s a volcano nearby Inferno Mountain with the approximate coordinates of 112342, 118773. Every 12 hours there would be a respawn of a Blackfire Elemental. That thing has a decent ATK, so you should definitely consider taking it as your pet.”

“Thank you…”

Pretty Good Mood received the Contract of Fire whilst his body was still trembling with joy. He followed Li Yi’s instructions and picked up the Guild Return City Stone, heading towards Shattered Frost City to report to Chen Yang.

Whenever you join a guild, you would automatically receive a Guild Return City Stone with a cooldown of 3 hours. No matter where a guild member may be, as long as they used the Guild Return City Stone, they would immediately return to the guild home station. (Little Drunk Cats Guild’s home station was set by Li Yi to be Shattered Frost City.)

Before anyone becomes a celebrity, there was a time where everyone was just an average player.

Li Yi was extremely relieved.

After patrolling a few rounds in the Silver Moon Celestial Capital and accepting a few missions, he successfully raised his Reputation Value to achieve Recognition in the Silver Moon Celestial Capital.

The rewards from the first boss kill would have increased the Reputation Value in each major city for every playable race. So, Li Yi’s Reputation Value at the Silver Moon Celestial Capital had already long passed the threshold for Recognition. However, if he did not complete a couple of quests to increase the friendship with the NPCs, the NPCs would have a cold attitude towards him.

After that, Li Yi rushed over to the White Elf Priest and accepted the quest [Find the missing Elf Princess].

“I have heard of your amazing feats since a long time ago. Three years ago, the beautiful and kind Princess Sif was abducted by the evil Black Dragon. She’s been missing ever since. If you can find and rescue Princess Sif, the Elf race shall forever be in your debt.”

[Quest Prerequisites: Attain at least 5 Pantheon Hall of Fame Events, achieve Recognition.]

[Quest Requirement: Find the Elf Princess Sif and bring her back to the Elves’ Celestial Capital to meet the Elf Queen.]

[Upon completing the quest, the player shall be rewarded with 200000 EXP points, +3000 Reputation Value with the Elf race.]

[Quest Description: Go investigate the Black Dragon Cave, you might find clues about the missing Elf Princess.]

‘I successfully accepted it, it’s settled.’

Rescuing the Elf Princess Sif was a series of quests. Though the final reward of a gold-colored accessory had a decent attribute, it was nothing compared to the rewards of the special quest given by Princess Sif.

In his past life, he witnessed a lot of players who did not know about it immediately bought over Sif in joy as soon as they found her at the Slave Market. Then, they immediately brought her over to the Elves’ Celestial Capital. This rewarded them with EXP points and Reputation Value, but they would not get the gold-colored accessory. What’s worse, they could no longer hire the Elf Princess, in other words, they would never have the chance to accept the princess’ special quest.

Li Yi ran out into the wilderness of the Silver Moon Celestial Capital and started grinding the Level 15 little monster Elemental Elf.

The Mysterious Egg needed to absorb monster essence to be able to hatch. Last time after defeating the Earth Attribute Barren Lord, the Hatching progress reached 79%. The elemental creatures nearby Shattered Frost City could never give you monster essence, so since he came all the way to Silver Moon City, he might as well use this opportunity to get the egg’s Hatching Progress to full.

“Hmph! Hmph!”

Now that the Mutated Small Wild Boar reached Level 26, it had become ferocious. A Level 15 Elemental Elf could not even scratch its defenses. On the other hand, with just one tackle, it could instantly one-shot an Elemental Elf. Li Yi did not even have to move a finger. He just stood idly as colorful essence Light Balls continually flew towards his Backpack, instantly being absorbed by the Mysterious Egg.

The Hatching progress slowly increased to 80%… 81%… 82%…

At this rate, the egg will probably hatch within the next 4 hours.

No one knew what pet would hatch out of a Mysterious Egg, there was no pattern that could be observed. If you had good luck, it was not impossible to hatch a God-tier pet; whereas if you had bad luck, you might only get some useless trash pets like frogs and squirrels.

‘Will I get a God pet? A dragon? Phoenix? Kirin?’

Looking at the Hatching Progress slowly rise, Li Yi’s mind drifted off in his imagination.

For someone with a class revolving around pets, who would not want a God pet?

Within Pantheon, there were only two classes that allowed you to get permanent pets, the archer and the summoner. If you get a legendary pet, you could easily increase your combat power by multiples.

Li Yi could remember a certain Pet Archer in his past life. Going into battle with only his Divine Bird Phoenix, simply using the finisher Blazing Fields could easily wipe out more than 100 opposing players. He could also remember a certain Contract Summoner who spent a total of four years to finally get a successful contract with the Level 80 boss Dragon of Windstorms. Whenever she participated in City Invasion Battles, all she had to do was place the Dragon of Windstorms at the city gates and no one would dare to charge the gate.

Of course, it was extremely rare to have these one-man-army situations appearing in the game. Within the 8 years since King of Pantheon came out, out of more than hundreds of millions of players, there is merely a handful of them…

“Bro, aren’t you way out of line here? Look at you with all your equipment over Level 20, why are you still here grinding in a Level 15 monster zone stealing kills? Can you even get any EXP from this anymore?”

Just as the Mysterious Egg’s Hatching progress reached 95%, a round-faced White Elf youth clad in Cotton Clothes walked up to Li Yi.

“Stealing kills?” Li Yi was stunned.

The White Elf youth replied angrily, “Yeah, that pig that you’re using, it kills off everything so quickly that I don’t even have a chance to grind any levels.”

“What level are you?”

“Level 12.”

“Then why not go to the Frost Dungeon? It’s so slow to grind levels here.”

The White Elf youth sighed. “I picked the wrong class so no one wants to party with me. I want to reset my skill points but don’t have the funds. If I were to start a new character from scratch that would just take too much time.”

Li Yi looked over at the youth, then said, “A class that no one wants that wears cotton clothes… Are you a Curse Priest?”

“Looks like you know your stuff…” The White Elf helplessly shook his head.

The priest class had three paths, the Light Priest, Darkness Priest, and Curse Priest.

A Light Priest specializes in healing, it was one of the most profitable classes in King of Pantheon. A Darkness Priest specializes in Evil and Black Magic, their ATK was comparable to that of a wizard class. However, a Cursed Priest had an unusual path, they could not heal and did not have M-ATK. They relied on various types of shrewd curse spells to attack their enemies.

Weakening Curse, Ring of Fear, Blood Stasis, all of these skills would have their unique uses. In the late game, almost every party attempting large-sized Instance Dungeons would need a couple of Cursed Priests.

In other words, even though this class was unpopular, it was an indispensable part of any party headed to a large-size dungeon. There should not be too many Cursed Priests at the party, but there definitely cannot be too few.

“Right now all I can do is Blood Stasis, so defeating a monster will take around 2 or 3 minutes. All I can do is to slowly grind myself. If I start a party, no one would want me.”

Blood Stasis will attach a Leech Seed on the target’s body, continuously reducing their health. The effect time and damage was proportionate to the INT. If their INT was higher, the damage would also be higher.

“I’m just here grinding these monsters for a quest, I’m almost done. If you don’t mind getting less EXP, we can party for a while.”

Li Yi sent a party invite to this White Elf youth.

“I don’t mind, I don’t mind.” The White Elf youth almost instantly accepted the invite.

“How nice, having a per class must be nice.”

In a two-man party, the EXP that the White Elf youth got was surely lower, but with the Mutated Small Wild Boar and Li Yi’s attacks, it was several times faster than him grinding solo.

“Bro, you’re not a bad guy, let’s add each other as friends.” The White Elf youth sent Li Yi a friend request.

‘One Big Bun, where have I heard that name before…”

Looking at the White Elf youth, Li Yi suddenly remembered something.

The Curse Priest One Big Bun, the God of Decomposition!

This was another famous player from his past life.

However, the reason he was famous was completely unrelated to his main class. The reason he was famous was for his lifestyle class, Decomposition Master.

Decomposition Master, just as the name implies, can gain materials from decomposing equipment.

Decomposition Master was a lifestyle class that was crucial in the late game because the materials that you get from decomposing equipment had a wide range of uses. It was used in building, sewing, refining, smithing, and other functions of the lifestyle classes.

The way to level up to Decomposition Master was simple. You can start from decomposing trash Level 1 white-colored equipment. Every time you succeed, your mastery would increase by one point, but if you fail, your mastery would not increase. No matter if you fail or succeed, the equipment will always disappear after you decompose it.

If you thought the Apothecarist was an extremely resource-consuming class, the Decomposition Master would be the worst class.

This White Elf Youth One Big Bun standing right in front of him was one most infamous characters within the world of Decomposition.

In order to increase his mastery, he would decompose everything on sight. The most infamous incident revolving him was when joined an internal auction party 1  to fight the Level 80 Ice Dragon Instance Dungeon. Spending nearly half a month to finally succeed in completing Hard Mode.

The party leader’s luck when it came to looting was amazing. When he looted the Ice Dragon’s corpse, he got a purple-colored Frost Wizard Staff. At the time, a wizard bid for it with 100000 Gold Coins, but he outbid him with a bid of his own at 120000 Gold Coins. When he got the staff, he immediately decomposed it, enraging the wizard with the 100000 bid so much he nearly burst an artery.

After decomposing numerous purple-colored equipment, his infamy rose to five stars. In the “100 Pantheon players I hate the most” poll, this young man was voted to the top for, second only to the Big Cheater Li Yi.

Li Yi asked, “Do you have a guild?”

“Who’d want me?” One Big Bun scratched his head, seemingly helpless.

“Then join our guild. Although we don’t have any benefits as of yet, it still shouldn’t be a problem when it comes to forming parties for dungeons.”

“Really?” One Big Bun’s long sharp ears suddenly perked up.

Li Yi said no more, immediately sending him a guild invite.

System Notification [One Big Bun has joined Little Drunk Cats Guild.]

‘I got another one.’

Although this player was famous for being infamous, he still would need a lot of decomposition materials for his on apothecary. If he got him into the guild, next time he would not have to worry anymore about decomposition materials.

One Big Bun was completely ecstatic. “I’m truly grateful for you. Who would’ve thought, someone with a useless class like me would be able to join a guild.”

“There are no useless classes in King of Pantheon, only useless players. Slowly play on, once you get the hang of playing as a Curse Priest, you wouldn’t even want to change classes even if given the opportunity.”

“Let’s hope so, hehe!”

As the two were speaking, the Mysterious Egg in his backpack suddenly let out a ray of golden light.

The egg has hatched!