Second World

After finished with the distribution of the loots, Jack said to them, ”well, I did say we split the drops here because all of us contributed. I am going to go there now and pick up loots from the giant spider monster who fought with the drake. Now that one is entirely my work, so I will get them all. No one has any objection, right?”

”Sure, sure.”

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”No objection.”

Everyone was happy already that Jack divided the drakeʼs loots with them. Swellgoing was about to protest but Jeanny shut him down.

Although they agreed for the spiderʼs loots to be Jackʼs alone, they still followed after him out of curiosity. It was another titanic monster capable of going toe-to-toe with the drake. Its drops shouldnʼt be lower in quality.

On their way to the place where the Grandmother spider had died, John didnʼt stop twirling his new staff around. Bowler grew more irksome the more he saw it.

”Can you please stop that?!” He shouted.

”Iʼm sorry, are you jealous of my super rare staff?” John asked with a derisive tone. ”I must say, I canʼt stop admiring it. I am probably the first player to have gotten a super rare staff. No, I am the only player to have a super rare staff at this stage! Hahaha. None of you can compare with me!”

Even Jeanny started to feel irritated with him, she said to him, ”do you want me to remove you from the party again?”

”Sister Jeanny, you are too serious,” John said teasingly.

Jack had been ignoring them. He had arrived at the place where the Grandmother spider had died. He looked at the drops, raised his eyebrows, then picked one of them up. ”What a surprising coincidence,” he said as he projected the itemʼs description to the others.

Rapid Dazing Staff, level: 25/55 (super rare magic weapon)

Magical damage: 122

Range: 15 meters

Attack speed 1

Energy: 128

Intelligence +8

Standard attack has a 5% chance to cause Confused status effect for 10 seconds (effect does not stack)

Rapid Attack: Each standard attack shot out three projectiles (this ability can be turned on or off)

Another Super Rare magic staff? The others were dumbfounded. As Jack had said, what a surprising coincidence.

”Wahahaha!” Bowler suddenly laughed hysterically. ”Who just now said he is the only player to have a super rare staff? What are you going to say now?”

”I will say, that fate has granted the two best players in this world with two first super-rare staffs,” John replied nonchalantly.

”You know you wonʼt hurt him with words, donʼt you? So why do you even bother?” The Man said to Bowler.

After reviewing this staffʼs description, Jack actually preferred this staff compared to the one John had gotten. Although the damage was lower and the attribute increased was less. Its abilities were better. The Rapid Attack ability was like having the burst mode of a gun. Combined this burst mode with the chance of each attack to cause a Confused effect, enemies would be in trouble even against just his standard ranged attack.

He had learned the effect of status effects from Peniel, this Confused effect caused the afflictedʼs spells or skills to have a chance to fail.

The downside of using burst mode was that his staffʼs energy would deplete faster. But he had ample stock of magic stone, so this would not be a problem.

Jack changed his currently equipped Red Dawn staff with this Rapid Dazing staff. He then picked up the other loots. They were fewer and lower quality compared to the drops from the drake, but the drake was originally much stronger, so he thought that it made sense.

The other loots were rare medium armor pants, but it was still not better than his Shadow Bear Tasset, so he just chucked it into his inventory, then an alchemy recipe and one gross ingredient, a large poison gland. The remaining were two gemstones, one rare amber and one uncommon diamond. He put them all into his inventory, he would review them later. For the coins and mana cores, he got 3 gold and 74 silver coins, and 12 mana cores.

After seeing Jack finished picking up the loots, Jeanny could not contain her curiosity any longer. She asked Jack, ”how come those two monsters fought each other anyway? No way you just stumbled onto them when they duke it out, did you?”

Answering her question, Jack told her about the continuation of his quest after they helped him out last night. He didnʼt feel the need to keep the quest a secret.

”Damn! You are one nutty fellow to think of bringing those two monsters into conflict,” Giant Steve commented.

”Kill with a borrowed knife, I like it. But still, you are crazy!” John said.

”As expected from my boss!” The Man exclaimed.

”Only a lunatic like you can think of something so risky like that,” Swellgoing cursed.

”You really bring risk-taking to a whole new level,” Jeanny added.

”There were many factors that had made me try that. If there was another option, I wouldnʼt have taken the risk. Please donʼt praise me for it,” Jack told them.

”We are not praising you!!” All except The Manʼs group yelled.

”As I said, we should truly think twice the next time he invited us,” John said.

They then walked back towards the capital. Chatting merrily as they were all glad to have survived such a dangerous battle. Jack checked on his Container of Soul as they chatted, he almost fell to the ground when he saw the number of souls inside. He might have gained amazing experience points and equipment from the two titanic monsters, but now he found out his greatest reap was the soul points. The container now had 221,298 soul points!

ʼSo much!ʼ He exclaimed in his mind. It was enough for him to upgrade an elite skill two times. Sadly he possessed no elite skill yet at the moment.

”The experience and the equipment dropped had been the standard of the drake in its weaker condition, but its soul was still a rare elite level 55 with a draconic lineage, it was not really that strange to get that many souls,” he heard Penielʼs explanation.

He could not decide which skill to level up with this many souls. He would decide it later in the inn.

As they were walking, they realized the direction they were heading to was not the town gate. They turned to Jack who was in the lead.

”Where are you taking us?” Giant Steve asked.

”I still have another unfinished business,” Jack informed them.

They looked at each other apprehensively. John was the first to said, ”okay, I wish you good luck,” he then strolled away towards the town gate.

”Um, I also realize I have some other matters to attend to,” Weird Trap said.

”Sis Jeanny, letʼs go first before we get dragged again into another perilous situation,” Swellgoing said.

Jack shook his head. ”Iʼm not going to do another dangerous thing again. There is just one last thing I need to do for my quest. You all can go back to the town first if you want. Itʼs fine.”

”Sis Jeanny, since he said it is not dangerous. Let him do it by himself. We should go first,” Swellgoing said.

This guy was asking for another beating, Jack thought as he glared at him.

”Are you truly fine?” Jeanny asked.

”Yeah, no worry. This last thing is a piece of cake. Iʼm fine all by myself,” Jack assured her.

”If you say so, all right. We will leave first,” she said.

While the others were ready to depart, a large group of people was coming over. Jack had noticed them on his radar but he was not too concerned as they were all green dots. They saw the incoming group and saw it to be Captain Salem and Sunset Walking on the lead.

”You all are fine?” Sunset Walking asked with surprise when he saw them. ”Did you guys manage to escape as well? I thought you were all caught by the drake already since I saw no one was around when I looked back. I immediately looked for the army to come help.”

”See? He did not abandon us,” Jack said to Bowler.

”Is everything all right?” Captain Salem asked.

”Yeah, everything is fine,” Jack answered.

”What about the drake?” Sunset Walking asked.

”It died,” Jack answered.

Sunset gave an expression that showed his disbelief. He then scanned everyone. His disbelief expression changed to astonishment when he saw their levels. He had no problem seeing their levels since they were in the same party.

”It really has died?” He asked. It was the only explanation to explain their sudden spike in levels.

The others just grinned at him.

Bowler said to him, ”you shouldnʼt have been so eager to run every time you find yourself in a dangerous situation. You should stick with us more if you want to get more benefits.”

Since they were not in danger anymore, Captain Salem took his army back to their camps. Most of the players also went back to the town, leaving only Jack and a few others who walked towards the cave where the Grandmother spider had come out from.

Jack looked back at the ones following him. They were The Man, Bowler, and surprisingly Viral Cora.

”You can go back first if you want. Iʼm really fine by myself,” he said to them.

”I am with you all the way, bro,” Bowler declared. Jack wanted to slap him, wasnʼt he so eager to leave him before when they found the stream?

”I am curious about your quest,” Viral Cora replied.

”Iʼm just bored,” The Man admitted.

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