Free Web NovelChapter 90: Chapter90-Fanatic Guild
On the other side, Crimsonflame City.
On the scorching plains, the air was filled with the smell of sulfur and scorched earth. From time to time, boiling magma bubbles burst from cracks in the ground, making sharp crackling sounds.
A figure dodged the pounce of a Crimsonflame Bear in a miserable state. When he rolled across the ground, he kicked up a cloud of crimson dust.
Isol wiped the sweat from his face and looked at the Crimsonflame Bear slowly turning away. He nearly wanted to throw the saber in his hand onto the ground.
An entire day.
For an entire day, he had been hacking away like this, one slash at a time. He could not use any skills and had to rely purely on saber technique to grind them down.
But the Agility attribute of the Crimsonflame Bears was absurdly high. Those beasts seemed to predict the trajectory of every single slash in advance, dodging left and right, slippery as loaches.
From morning until dusk, he had only hunted three of them.
On the Hidden Quest progress bar, the target of ten thousand remained stubbornly stuck at "3/10000." Just looking at it was enough to drive someone insane.
"This is way too slow..."
Isol gritted his teeth and looked at the Crimsonflame Bear leisurely walking away. He stomped his foot angrily.
"If I had a mount, even just enough to catch up and land two more hits would be good!"
Just as he was losing his mind, a system notification suddenly rang out.
Isol irritably glanced at the message panel. He originally thought it was another reminder from the guild, but when he focused, he froze.
A speed-type Mount Egg had been listed in the trading auction?
Spatial Elephant Mount Egg?
Starting price, one hundred gold coins?
Isol froze for a moment. Then his eyes widened.
Almost instantly, he opened the trading panel and clicked into the details page of that Mount Egg. frёewebηovel.cѳm
When his gaze swept across the line "Movement Speed +50%, possesses short-distance spatial traversal ability," his breathing suddenly quickened.
A speed-type mount that could also perform short-distance spatial traversal?
Wasn’t this exactly what he needed to solve the problem of not being able to catch the Crimsonflame Bears?
Without the slightest hesitation, Isol directly entered one thousand gold coins and clicked buyout.
As the notification of gold coins being deducted sounded, he gritted his teeth and clicked accelerated incubation three times in a row.
First time, one thousand gold coins.
Second time, two thousand gold coins.
Third time, four thousand gold coins.
Altogether, he had thrown in a full eight thousand gold coins. Normally, he would definitely feel pain over that for quite a while.
But right now, there was only one thing in his mind: the repeated instructions of his guild master.
"This game is special. You must become stronger as quickly as possible, no matter the cost."
Isol clenched his fists and stared fixedly at the silver-white giant egg gradually cracking open on the incubation interface.
Crack.
A fissure spread down from the top of the eggshell.
Immediately afterward, more cracks covered the entire surface of the egg like a spiderweb. Silver-white light poured out from the gaps, growing brighter and brighter, hotter and hotter.
Boom!
The eggshell suddenly exploded, and a giant elephant covered entirely in silver-gray scales stepped out from within.
Silver light flowed at the end of its long trunk, and visible spatial ripples wrapped around its body. With every step it took, the air twisted slightly.
Isol raised his head and stared at the enormous creature, which was more than twice his height. His mouth fell open, and only after a long while did he squeeze out three words.
"So... so... so cool!"
All his pain, frustration, and unwillingness vanished like smoke in that instant.
He could not help reaching out and patting the Spatial Elephant’s thick leg. The giant elephant lowered its long trunk and gently rubbed his shoulder.
"So worth it. So worth it..."
Isol muttered several times. Then he suddenly remembered that the auction listing had shown two eggs available, so he hurriedly opened the trading panel again and clicked buyout on the second one without hesitation.
...
At the same time, inside the Space Sever Mountain Range.
John was just about to close the trading panel when he received another buyout notification.
He glanced at the buyer ID.
Fanatic_Bomb.
It was this guy again.
John raised an eyebrow slightly and casually clicked accept.
One thousand gold coins arrived in his account, clean and simple.
However...
Fanatic Guild?
This name stirred a distant memory in him.
In his previous life, before John ascended to godhood, he had once been surrounded and hunted down. He had been blocked inside a desperate dungeon.
At that time, he had not yet grown to the invincible level of the late stage. Facing the siege of dozens of high-level players, even if he could break out, he would definitely have to pay a terrible price.
But at that moment, a small squad happened to pass by and made a move.
There were not many people in that squad, and their combat strength was not top-tier either. Yet the person leading them rushed forward without a word and helped him stop the pursuers.
After throwing out the words, "What are you standing there for? Run!" that person charged straight into the enemy formation without even looking back.
On the chest of that squad’s members was a crimson flame emblem.
Fanatic Guild.
At the time, John had not even had the chance to thank them before that person shoved him out.
Later, after he ascended to godhood, he had wanted to go back and thank that squad in person. But because the divine war erupted, he never got the chance again.
He had always remembered this matter.
Fanatic Guild might not have been some top-tier force, but that kindness was something he acknowledged.
It was precisely because of this that when John saw the ID "Fanatic_Bomb," he agreed to the trade so decisively.
In my previous life, you protected me once.
In this life, I’ll give you an early opportunity.
Just as he closed the trading panel, the friend request system rang.
Applicant: Fanatic_Bomb.
The corners of John’s lips lifted slightly, and he clicked accept.
The instant the friend request was approved, Isol’s messages popped up like firecrackers.
"Boss Outlander?! Is it really you?!"
"Damn, when I saw the seller ID just now, I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me!"
"Boss, do you still have any Spatial Elephant eggs? I’m willing to buy them for one thousand gold coins each! I’ll take as many as you have!"
John looked at the rapid-fire messages and calmly replied with one word.
"Yes." ƒrēewebnovel.com
"How many do you have left?" Isol asked.
"One hundred and thirty-nine."
After the message was sent, the other end of the communication fell silent for several breaths.
Then came a bombardment of exclamation marks.
"One hundred and thirty-nine???"
"Boss, did you raid an entire Spatial Elephant nest???"
On Isol’s side, he sucked in a sharp breath.
One hundred and thirty-nine Mount Eggs. At one thousand gold coins each, that was nearly one hundred and forty thousand gold coins in transaction volume.
Who exactly was this person? How could he casually take out resources of this scale?
Most importantly, he was actually willing to sell them to him at one thousand gold coins each.
Although Isol looked carefree on the surface, anyone capable of becoming a core member of Fanatic Guild was not slow-witted.
Almost immediately, he realized one thing.
This Outlander was definitely someone they had to win over.
This transaction alone was enough to prove that the other party possessed monster-farming efficiency and resource channels far beyond ordinary players.
If they could pull someone like this into Fanatic Guild, or even just establish a long-term partnership, it would be an enormous help to the guild.
Isol silently raised "winning over Outlander" to the level of an official mission.
In the following conversation, his tone became noticeably more enthusiastic. From time to time, he probed indirectly, asking whether John had any intention of joining a guild.
He even hinted that the benefits offered by Fanatic Guild were quite good.
