Nie Yan placed the Lion King Shield on the trading panel.
“This shield should be worth more than twenty silver coins. If you can offer twenty silver coins, I’ll sell it to you,” Nie Yan said.
“This shield dropped from the Lion King?” After seeing the attributes of the Lion King Shield, Cui Can Dao Guang (Cui Can Daoguang) felt shocked. This Lion King Shield was incomparably superior to the Lion Shield he currently held; they were simply not in the same league.
Nie Yan furrowed his brows. How did Cui Can Dao Guang know he was farming the Lion King?
“Sorry for prying, but don’t worry, I won’t say anything about it,” Cui Can Dao Guang noticed Nie Yan’s displeasure and explained. Then he turned his gaze back to the Lion King Shield, “This Lion King Shield is definitely worth more than twenty silver coins. On the market, it probably wouldn’t go for less than twenty-five silver coins. But right now I don’t have that much money. Could I wait until I go back to town to raise the funds?”
“That’s fine,” Nie Yan nodded.
“I also have some rogue-related items in my warehouse. Some of them are quite decent and I think you might like them. Could I use them to cover part of the cost?” Cui Can Dao Guang asked.
“Anything I can use is acceptable,” Nie Yan replied. He had been worried about not finding rogue items, and now Cui Can Dao Guang had some, which was perfect.
“Great, then I’ll contact you after I’ve raised the money. Please don’t sell the Lion King Shield to anyone else,” Cui Can Dao Guang said anxiously.
“I’ll hold onto it for a day. If you still haven’t raised enough money after a day, then I’ll have no choice but to sell it to someone else,” Nie Yan thought. Among the people he knew, only Baik Kaishui and other shield warriors from the Yulan team were potential buyers, but judging from Baik Kaishui’s financial status, he definitely couldn’t raise twenty silver coins. If he put it up for auction, Nie Yan would feel reluctant too, as he didn’t want the profit to go to outsiders.
“One day is enough,” Cui Can Dao Guang quickly agreed.
Cui Can Dao Guang was a straightforward person and didn’t try to haggle with Nie Yan. He understood that twenty silver coins was already a very low price. If Nie Yan sold it to others, he wouldn’t sell it for less than twenty-five silver coins, and even selling it for more than thirty silver coins was possible. However, twenty silver coins was still a bit too much for Cui Can Dao Guang, so he probably had no choice but to take on debt to cover the cost.
Cui Can Dao Guang eagerly prepared to return to town to raise the money.
“One more thing, is Hei Zhuo your friend?” Nie Yan asked. After careful consideration, he decided to warn Cui Can Dao Guang. Nie Yan despised people who betrayed their friends the most. Since Hei Zhuo was Cui Can Dao Guang’s friend, yet secretly having an affair with Cui Can Dao Guang’s girlfriend behind his back, Nie Yan found such behavior despicable.
“Yes, how do you know?” Cui Can Dao Guang was taken aback and asked.
“Hei Zhuo seems to have a rather bad reputation. A friend of mine has some bad blood with him. In the Night’s Enchantment Bar in Carol City, my friend encountered him with a woman named Zhiyan, and they had an argument…” Nie Yan glanced at Cui Can Dao Guang. In the previous life, Cui Can Dao Guang had discovered Hei Zhuo and Zhiyan’s affair at Night’s Enchantment. Nie Yan decided to shift all the blame onto Hei Zhuo.
Sure enough, after hearing Nie Yan’s words, Cui Can Dao Guang’s expression changed slightly.
Zhiyan was Cui Can Dao Guang’s girlfriend. They had met in the game and later started living together. If she was doing something with Hei Zhuo in Faith, it would indeed be hard for him to find out.
Hei Zhuo and Zhiyan were the two people Cui Can Dao Guang trusted the most. He refused to believe what Nie Yan said was true and didn’t want to believe it, but deep down, he had an ominous feeling.
Could Nie Yan’s words actually be true? Cui Can Dao Guang shook his head. That was absolutely impossible.
“If I encounter Hei Zhuo again, we’ll be enemies, though that’s not your concern,” Nie Yan simply wanted to give Cui Can Dao Guang a heads-up. After all, it wasn’t him who would end up wearing the green hat. “If one day you decide to leave Hengzong Tianxia, feel free to find me.” After saying this, Nie Yan walked away into the distance.
“I will never leave Hengzong Tianxia,” Cui Can Dao Guang coldly replied, viewing Nie Yan as someone trying to poach him.
Indeed, Nie Yan had come precisely to poach Cui Can Dao Guang. If he could successfully bring him over, that would be a great gain. However, Nie Yan didn’t expect immediate results. The seeds of distrust had already been planted in Cui Can Dao Guang’s heart and would gradually grow. Eventually, Cui Can Dao Guang would discover Hei Zhuo’s underhanded deeds. When that day came and he finally understood everything, he would remember Nie Yan’s invitation, and that would be enough.
Nie Yan didn’t explain further. He activated his stealth ability and disappeared from Cui Can Dao Guang’s sight.
Cui Can Dao Guang stood there in a daze for a moment before beginning to use his recall scroll. A beam of white light flashed, and he vanished.
Nie Yan sprinted across the Vermilion Dream Plains. In the distance, at the foot of a mountain, stood a massive tree, dozens of yards tall, requiring six or seven people to encircle its trunk. Its enormous canopy was like a cover, blocking out the sunlight, making it particularly conspicuous on the Vermilion Dream Plains.
The ogre devourer Nie Yan was looking for was over there. It was a level-eight sub-elite monster. In terms of strength, Nie Yan was definitely no match for the ogre devourer. However, defeating a monster didn’t necessarily require direct confrontation.
The ogre devourer’s location wasn’t fixed; it roamed around this area. One could easily encounter it. Unlike the famous Lion King Kado, it wasn’t well-known, its dropped equipment was slightly inferior, and its thick skin and tough hide made it difficult to deal with. Moreover, it possessed a petrifying gaze skill that could immobilize its target. Ordinary players tried to avoid encountering ogre devourers at all costs.
Nie Yan stealthily advanced through the jungle. His stealth attribute wasn’t low, making it difficult for monsters or other players to detect him once he was hidden.
At the foot of the mountain, the wind howled, and the air carried a faint scent of blood.
The sound of rustling leaves in the wind carried faint footsteps. Nie Yan quickly hid himself in the nearby jungle and looked toward the source of the sound. A large, fat ogre appeared in Nie Yan’s field of vision. It was over two meters tall, with light blue skin and two heads on its neck.
The ogre wielded a giant club. Its movements were clumsy, its two heads constantly swiveling, and it took a long time for it to finally take a step forward.
At a glance at the ogre’s size, Nie Yan knew it was merely an ordinary ogre, not the ogre devourer.
Nie Yan had no interest in farming these minor monsters now. He avoided this ogre and continued his search. After searching the jungle for quite some time, heavy footsteps echoed from deep within the jungle.
Judging from the sound, the approaching creature was larger in size than the ordinary ogres.
The ogre devourer was coming. Nie Yan headed toward the large tree not far away. He estimated the distance to be about eighty yards. Beside that large tree were six smaller night cypress trees, all quite thick, requiring two people to encircle each.
Those trees were the key to Nie Yan’s plan to defeat the ogre devourer.
In his previous life, a level-five rogue player’s entire process of defeating an ogre devourer, a level-eight sub-elite monster, gradually resurfaced in Nie Yan’s memory. At that time, the game had been launched for more than two years, but a level-five rogue defeating a level-eight sub-elite ogre devourer still caused quite a stir.
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