Chapter 31 – Can We Spar

It was said that Sagra's talent at magic was ordinary, but he had a very intelligent brain.

Sagra worked hard for decades while the Papacy suffered from infighting. Archbishop Augustine led a large group of Papacy elites out of the Western Continent, causing the Papacy to suffer an unprecedented blow. The Sartre Empire soon crumbled and was split into three.

However, some people said that Sagra was already a Mage God; it was just that he liked using his head more than a magic staff.

Some people said that in order to cause great chaos, Sagra had used the power of demon blood to create a bridge to other worlds, resulting in experts from other worlds appearing in the continent.

In actuality, no matter what the lore was, it had nothing to do with Su Mo; he came to Lota Royal City to buy antidotes.

Currently, players could not make any good antidotes, and only the Royal City's Potion Master Association had high-grade potions like this for sale. If one wanted to buy these kinds of potions, apart from having to spend gold coins, one would also have to spend a certain amount of Reputation.

Reputation was gained through doing quests and killing Bosses.

Moreover, one could only make one purchase per week, three potions per purchase. Mage professions could buy five bottles—after all, this was the capital city of the magic kingdom, so Magicians naturally enjoyed benefits.

As such, even if one had large amounts of gold coins and Fame, they would not be able to buy as much as they wanted. This was most likely to make the game more balanced so that those with money could not do whatever they wanted.

Su Mo bought a potion that increased resistance against poison, as well as two instant-effect antidotes.

The three potions used up nearly half of the Fame he had earned in recent times and three gold coins.

In order to force the Green Kingsnake out, Su Mo had also bought some other things. Even though they were quite cheap, he needed a large amount of them.

This made the poor Su Mo even poorer. He was poor to the extent that even if a girl fell for him, he would not have enough money to take her to a hotel.

Su Mo and Lafu darted through the jungle and soon saw a small lake formed by a mountain stream.

The scenery here was quite good; the grass was very green and there were many small flowers around the lake. The lakewater was green like jade, and no one would have guessed that there was an extremely poisonous Green Kingsnake hiding in the water.

Su Mo paced around for a bit, and seeing that no one else was around, he took out bags of chili powder.

He first covered his face, and after hesitating, he found a piece of cloth to cover up Lafu's face.

Su Mo began to pour the bags of chili powder into the small lake. Fortunately, the small lake was not very big, or else Su Mo would have to bankrupt himself to fill this lake with chili powder.

Afterwards, Su Mo and Lafu squatted by the lake and waited.

The human and wolf squatted and waited for five or six minutes before seeing ripples on the surface of the lake. Soon, a jade-green snake leapt out of the water.

The snake's eyes were red, looking quite adorable.

However, Su Mo and Lafu both felt a dense killing intent.

Lafu's instincts kicked in and he stealthily moved away from Su Mo. It was almost as if he was pointing at Su Mo and saying, "Nothing to do with me, it was all this person."

"What are you running away for? Go and attack, can you be a bit braver please?" Su Mo took two steps back and nocked an arrow on his bow.

Lafu howled as he rushed up before being whipped flying by the Green Kingsnake. Even though the snake was quite big, it was only as thick as a child's arm; Su Mo had never thought that it would have such great strength.

Following this, Su Mo discovered something, which was that he had to Off-Tank.

Because of the Boss' Tail Whip skill, Lafu would frequently be sent flying away and would not be able to attract too much aggro. Moreover, Su Mo had switched to his Gold grade bow, which made it even harder for Lafu to draw aggro.

Before too long, the big snake started to rush at Su Mo.

Su Mo could only unequip his bow and take out his arm cannon, firing a shot at the Boss' head before turning and running.

He had to fight by kiting and hope that no one would try to steal the Boss. When kiting, the worst thing that could happen was having someone interrupt, resulting in him losing his life and rewards.

Hunter professions were the best profession for kiting, better than even Mage professions.

After all, their Frost Arrow could reduce the targets' Movement Speed, and their Slidestep skill could also help him maintain distance between them and the boss. Even though Mage professions had Blink, they did not have a skill similar to Frost Arrow. Their Ice Arrows were only effective against players and ordinary monsters, and they were ineffective against Bosses.

What was key was that Hunter professions also had pets that could help draw aggro.

After firing, Su Mo immediately turned and ran. After opening up some distance, he once again turned and shot. If the Boss attacked Lafu, Su Mo would take out his bow to attack.

In actuality, if he had a good crossbow, he would not have to use his arm cannon; his arm cannon's range was not great.

Hunter professions relied on weapons the most. Even if all of their equipment were White grade, they had to have good weapons. If they had bad weapons, everything else would be useless.

Green Kingsnake Marsha was continuously kited and toyed with, but she was unable to do anything about it.

As Su Mo fought the Boss, his gaze suddenly became sharp—he noticed that a person had appeared in the distance.

That person was riding on a jet-black horse and was silently watching Su Mo jump about like a monkey. He did not leave, nor did he come closer to interrupt.

"Hey, brother, what are you looking at?" Su Mo asked.

"You have good technique; I'm learning from you." 

Seeing that Su Mo had discovered him, that person did not react awkwardly at all.

"I'll give you five gold coins if you pretend you didn't see this Boss; how about that?" Seeing that the Boss did not have much HP left, Su Mo planned to stall for time. Once he used the sealing scroll, things would be over.

"Five gold coins for a Level 20 Boss? Looks like it must drop something good," the person said.

"Haha, looks like you're not planning to give up on it?" Su Mo did not fear him. If it was a party, he could only give up, but since the other person was alone, Su Mo could take him. Surely not every random person he met would be an expert.

"I already said, I'm not interested in your Boss, I just want to learn from you," the person said.

I'd be an idiot to trust you. However, Su Mo could not do anything about him. That person had full health, and he could not instantly kill him with a Charged Shot. Moreover, that person had stayed out of his range from the beginning.

After a few minutes, Su Mo took out a scroll from his bag and tore it open.

A green light shined out from the scroll, quickly covering Green Kingsnake Marsha's body. The Green Kingsnake struggled but was gradually dragged into the scroll.

If that person wanted to interfere, this would be the perfect time.

Su Mo had already ordered Lafu to stand guard. If that person came any closer, Lafu would rush up to attack him.

However, in the end, that person did not move until Green Kingsnake was sealed, as if he really was just spectating.

"Are you done?" that person called out.

"I'm done, it's too late for whatever you wanted to do," Su Mo said as he smiled and put the sealed pet into his bag before summoning his Snow Mountain Warg.

"Can we spar?" that person asked.

If it was under normal circumstances, Su Mo would have ignored him; how could he have time to fight? After all, there was nothing in it for him. However, that person had watched Su Mo fight the Boss and had not interfered; in a sense, he had shown mercy to Su Mo.

"I need to hand in my quest—there's a time limit. If you can trust me, wait for me here. I'll be back after handing in the quest."

"Alright, I'll wait for you."