Chapter 23 – Screwed Himself Over

In the eyes of players, there was essentially no difference between Tiger King Angus' clones. However, this was different in the monster circle. Everyone knew that Tiger King Angus had been caught by a bear trap when he was younger, so the back of one of his legs had a scar on it.

The clones of the Tiger King were all without blemish, so only the real one had this special mark. However, Su Mo definitely would not tell anyone; after all, he was not that good of a person. Once everyone knew this secret, it would spread and everyone would be coming to kill Tiger King Angus.

Hearing Su Mo's order, everyone felt doubtful and prepared to watch him make a joke of himself.

However, they would still listen to him for now. If things went badly, they would choose to run; no one was willing to die and lose EXP.

After two minutes, the clones disappeared.

Only one Tiger King remained, and everyone did not feel much hope as they looked at the Tiger King's HP. They were shocked to find that it had lost a significant chunk of its HP.

Su Mo had gotten it right!

No one was willing to believe that this was because of Su Mo's instructions, and even Omnipresent Brightness, who had a decent relationship with Su Mo, thought so as well.

When the Tiger King's HP fell to 60%, it once again summoned its clones.

"Attack the one I marked, don't attack the others or I won't bring you out to play in the future." 

Su Mo, who had been lousily commanding, became serious again. Given what had happened last time, even if everyone felt that Su Mo had guessed right because of dumb luck, they still had a trace of hope in their hearts.

But it was only a trace!

"How did you know which one was the real body?"

He had once again gotten it right!

Omnipresent Brightness could not help but ask; if he didn't, he would feel incredibly uncomfortable inside.

"Observe it closely and you'll also be able to tell. I believe in you," Su Mo replied earnestly before starting to lousily command again.

They repeated this a few times, and they finally reached the stage where the Tiger King wanted to run away.

Another reason why this Boss was quite difficult to deal with was that it was quite intelligent. When seeing that it could not win, it would run away. Players would dumbly chase behind it, and when they caught up, it would be at full HP again.

"What should we do, captain?"

No matter how confused they felt, the people present were all convinced by Su Mo.

"It's simple, surround it so it can't escape."

It sounded quite simple, but everyone felt that their intelligence was being tested. If it was really so simple, why did no one else try it?

The reason was because for the Tiger King to escape, it had to choose a gap where there was no one, and the gap needed to be at least six units wide. If there was no gap of at least six units, the Tiger King would not be able to escape.

This was not something that Su Mo had asked as Lafu but something he had read while lurking in the chat.

That day, the Tiger King sighed in the channel…

"I say, why did the system only give me a six unit gap to escape from? As a cat-type creature, I should be able to jump over the heads of players or I should at least be able to knock them out of the way. I can throw them so far away with a single paw…"

Grey Headed Wolf King Pease: "Haha, look at you. Why don't you try acting cute?"

This then brought everyone in the chat onto a tangent.

In actuality, the Tiger King had felt quite proud when saying that. He was showing off because other small creatures did not have the opportunity to escape.

On this day, the Tiger King suffered a miserable defeat.

He never would have thought that he had screwed himself over.

The EXP was quite abundant, and even though 20 people had participated, everyone obtained a lot of EXP.

Bosses in New World gave quite a lot of EXP, but this did not mean that everyone would receive more if there were fewer people.

This was the same principle as with a hidden quest. There were limits to how much EXP one could receive fighting solo and fighting in a party.

Seeing that he had instantly gained 3% of his EXP bar, Su Mo felt quite pleased as he walked towards the Boss' corpse.

He found one material and two pieces of equipment.

One of the equipment was the famous Tigerskin Kilt; even though the Tiger King was difficult to kill, that did not mean no one had ever killed it before. As long as there were enough people, it was possible to kill it while it was running away.

The Tigerskin Kilt was a leather armor, and it could be equipped by Assassins, Rangers, Archers, and Puppeteers.

Based on the Tigerskin Kilt's stats, Su Mo felt that he had won the lottery today. It increased a Puppeteer's puppet's damage by 5%, and it was as if it was forcing Unidentified Neighbor to cough up money.

When Su Mo revealed the equipment's stats, Unidentified Neighbor could not stay calm.

"Brother, I'll return the money for the pet slot; sell this equipment to your brother."

This fellow was so desperate!

Su Mo was unable to say anything; couldn't this guy give him a chance to do some business?

Yes, you're rich, but don't think you can do whatever you want just because you're rich!

No matter how exquisite the Tigerskin Kilt was, it was only a Silver grade equipment, the same grade as Su Mo's arm cannon and fatal Octopus' magic staff.

Su Mo planned to sell Fatal Octopus' staff for $1,000, while he had already earned $20,000 for this Tigerskin Kilt.

Su Mo had been planning to sell it for $5,000, maximum $8,000.

He looked at the others. Even though they all looked at him with admiration, no one thought that the Tigerskin Kilt and a pet slot were at all equal in value.

In actuality, Su Mo was only thinking from a market perspective; he did not truly understand the mentality of rich people or high-end players. The Tigerskin Kilt was dropped from a high-level Boss like Tiger King Angus, and it was among the top-tier equipment that players could get their hands on right now.

Once one put on the best equipment, the value of the equipment did not have much to do with the market anymore.

Moreover, this was equipment for Puppeteers, and currently, the most expensive equipment was for Puppeteers and Bishops.

Thinking about Unidentified Neighbor's mecha that was worth over $1 million, spending $20,000 for a piece of equipment was not that crazy.

"From now on, you're my good friend!" Su Mo tightly shook Unidentified Neighbor's hand with a gaze that made Unidentified Neighbor feel disgusted, and he mercilessly shook off Su Mo.

"Don't think I'm an idiot; I know how absurd that price is. If there's anything good in the future, you'd better bring it to me."

This time they did not need a middleman, and the money quickly arrived in Su Mo's account.

Tiger King Angus also dropped a Blue grade equipment. Currently, Blue grade was considered low-tier, Silver and Gold were considered mid-tier, and Dark Gold was considered high-tier.

This was a Level 30 Blue grade plate armor equipment, and the only profession that could equip plate armor was Guardians.

Fallen Maple spent $600 for this piece of equipment; this was the true market price.

The original party of five then went to find Beporti to hand in the quest.

The others may have received a bit more or a bit less, but Su Mo received 9% of his EXP bar. Adding on the 3% from the Boss, this hidden quest had given him 12% of his EXP bar in total.

If he could continuously do hidden quests, levelling up would not be very difficult.

Moreover, apart from the EXP, Su Mo had also received a pet slot and $15,000.

What he was looking for was the equipment reward from the hidden quest. They had helped Beporti kill Tiger King Angus, who had slaughtered countless innocents. There would definitely be an equipment reward.