Chapter 24 – I'm Just A Wolf

Beporti was a Beast Tamer, which was from the Hunter branch; it was possible that she would give exquisite equipment for the Hunter branch.

The quest reward would be given to whoever triggered the quest, and others would not receive an equipment reward. The $3,000 that they paid to Su Mo was not including the equipment reward; even the things that the Boss dropped belonged to Su Mo.

"Thank you for everything you've done. I don't have much to repay you, but here are some pants that I've used before; I'll give it to you." Beporti took out a piece of equipment and handed it over to Su Mo.

The five of them silently stared at Beporti, not knowing what to say.

Some of them even gulped down some saliva.

A beautiful woman gifting pants, and ones that she had used before; should he accept or not?

Rubbish, Su Mo did not even hesitate to accept them.

At least they were not like the shorts that Beporti was wearing, or else Su Mo would never be able to wear them outside. After all, he had once been a soldier and he could not have his brothers-in-arms feeling ashamed of him.

Some equipment in New World were gender-locked and others were not.

At the very least, the quest rewards given to players would be usable by them, so the pants that Beporti gave were not gender-locked.

Forest Ranger (Silver): Armor +90, Agility +70, Constitution +12, Evasion +12. Special Effect: Tumble, allows one to quickly tumble backwards or forwards a certain distance, will fail if the user collides into obstacles. Cooldown Time: 2 hours. Equipment requires Level 25, Durability: 6/38.

Not bad, as expected of pants used by Beporti before.

Even though Tumble was not very elegant and often resulted in one's face rubbing against the ground, it was one of the best Special Effects currently. These were pants with a Special Effect, and one of the best Special Effects at that—it would be worth at least $3,000.

Blue grade equipment almost never had Special Effects, and Silver grade equipment rarely had them.

The others all drooled. Even though they all had many pieces of Silver equipment, who would not want more?

However, everyone was very satisfied with this operation, and they all added each other as friends, including Su Mo.

After splitting from these people, Su Mo thought about the Monster Tower that was going to spawn the next day.

If he wanted to go into the Monster Tower, the most important thing right now was to figure out how to fight in the wolf's body.

Su Mo first went through the ten or so maps that had been released and chose Kerni Fishing Port.

This was a fishing port where people could fish, look at the sea, and farm monsters, so it should be incredibly crowded with people. However, there was something wrong with the heads of the developers, and they made it so that this place was always filled with fog. When it was bad, one could not even see one's outstretched hand. As such, this place was incredibly unpopular.

Su Mo endured the pain and spent a few gold coins to teleport there so that he did not have to waste any time in getting here.

"Owner, open a room for me; this is the rent money. Don't let anyone disturb me." Su Mo gave a gold coin to the inn owner. With that much money, he could stay here for ten days—because of how bad Kerni Fishing Port's economy was, the inns were very cheap.

"Oh, don't worry son, I promise no one will disturb you," the overweight proprietress said as she grinned and took the gold coin.

Su Mo nodded, took his room card, and walked up the creaky stairs.

On the side closer to the sea, there was a small balcony. Su Mo lay on the bed and changed to his pet's account.

After making the switch, Su Mo used his paw to scratch his character on the bed, but there was no reaction, as if he was dead.

Trying to issue commands to his character was useless too.

He had thought that he might be able to bring along a human pet while in his wolf form. What a pity.

The Savage Wolf Lafu jumped down from the bed and ran to the balcony to jump around.

　　-147!

Bonk, ow…

Fudge, Su Mo hit the ground face-first. He was not very used to this body, and he whimpered in pain as he started to limp and run.

Thanks to the fog, no one discovered that there was a wolf running about the fishing port.

After leaving Kerni Fishing Port, one would be able to see Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals. The Shrimp Soldiers were Level 15 monsters while Crab Generals were Level 20, and there were some other monsters between those levels. Kerni Fishing Port had Level 10 or so to Level 30 or so monsters, and places further away would have higher level monsters.

Su Mo chose a Level 15 monster and cautiously dragged it to a place where no other monsters spawned before swiping at it with his paw.

-147!

It was pretty high damage, but Su Mo realized that this was normal because Lafu was the same level as Su Mo. A Level 25 wolf hitting a Level 15 monster would definitely deal high damage.

The Level 15 monster only had 400 or 500 HP, and it was quickly swiped to death.

Su Mo was hit twice and only lost a tiny bit of HP.

After dying, the monster dropped three copper coins. Su Mo picked them up with his paws with great difficulty before feeling stunned—what was he going to do with the drops? Should he have brought a bag with him?

Since he had already come out, going back to get a bag was not very convenient, and Level 10 to Level 20 monsters would not drop anything good anyways.

Su Mo put the three copper coins to one side and leapt at another Shrimp Soldier.

He could not collect all of the money and he did not gain any EXP; he just came here to get used to Lafu's body so that he could have the opportunity to fight in the Monster Tower tomorrow.

After entering the Monster Tower, it was impossible for there to be no battles.

Monsters and players were the same—if they wanted to obtain better things, they would have to work harder.

After killing a few Shrimp Soldiers, Su Mo started to attack Crab Generals.

There was not much difference between the attack patterns of the Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals; the only difference was that Crab Generals had an Ice Arrow ability. If one was hit, one's Movement Speed would be reduced; this made it quite difficult to move as Lafu.

It was already difficult for Su Mo to move, and after being hit, it became even more difficult.

It was very difficult for a Level 25 Wolf to defeat a Level 20 Crab General, and this made the agile Su Mo feel quite thwarted.

However, he knew that there was not much he could do about this.

It was already very difficult for a person who was used to walking on two legs to all of a sudden walk with four legs, and this was even more so when fighting.

It would take some time to get used to it.

Su Mo just hoped that after getting out of the game, he would not get used to being on all fours. If he was seen by anyone else, his life would end.

After fighting for one hour or so, Su Mo finally grasped some basic battle techniques, and he became proficient at using three of Lafu's skills. One was Claw Strike, which was a single target attack, and it had a certain chance to cause a Bleed effect. The second was Thick Skin, which could increase his Defense for a short amount of time. The third was Sweep, which was essentially an AOE version of Claw Strike, and it could attack targets 180 degrees in front of himself.

The first two skills were not too hard to use, but he was still not too proficient with the third skill. After all, spinning 180 degrees was half a spin, and Su Mo felt a bit dizzy when using it.

He started to test if he could reduce the range of Sweep, or do a full 360 degrees spin. As for the dizziness, he could only slowly get used to it.