Worthless Profession: Dragon Tamer

Chapter 719, Red Ghosts

Translator: Silavin

Very quickly, Lu Fan rode upon Xing Chen and advanced forward for about a thousand kilometres.

The Monsters below gradually grew stronger, changing from Level 100 White Ghosts to Level 110 Red Ghosts.

The so-called ‘Red Ghosts’ were actually the same as White Ghosts. Both were Ape-like Monsters. However, unlike the White Ghosts, the Red Ghosts had completely crimson fur, and their bodies were more than three times larger than the White Ghosts.

Generally speaking, the fur colour of creatures would be similar to their surrounding environment. This way, whether escaping from natural predators or concealing their forms to hunt weaker prey, they would be naturally camouflaged.

The White Ghosts were exactly this. With their white fur, they only needed to lie down to blend in completely with the heavy snow. Without Detection Skills, it would be very difficult to discover them.

The Red Ghosts were quite the opposite. With their red fur, they stood out like dancing flames against the heavy snow. They could not be more conspicuous.

As for why they were so special, Lu Fan thought it might be because of their great strength. In other words, they simply did not need white fur for camouflage.

Compared to White Ghosts, although Red Ghosts were only 10 Levels higher, their Attributes had dramatically skyrocketed!

Moreover, while White Ghosts’ Range Attack methods were relatively limited, Red Ghosts were different. They possessed powerful Magic Attack Skills, which acted in contrast to their thick and hardy skin.

Each one of them was formidably strong and well-balanced, with virtually no particular weakness. In terms of Strength, Agility, and Defence, they were all stronger than White Ghosts.

At the same time, their Mana Attribute were equally high, and they possessed at least three Magic Attack Skills!

Lu Fan had truly never seen Monsters such balanced All Four Attributes, completely without weaknesses.

[To think such powerful Monsters appear on the Despair Ice Plains. No wonder those from the Griffin Legion had to retreat.]

Unfortunately, although these Red Ghosts were far stronger than White Ghosts, Lu Fan and Xing Chen’s attacks still easily exceeded their Defence.

Meanwhile, although Red Ghosts were also Pack Monsters, when facing an enemy like Lu Fan who was like a bomber, even if some Monsters in their groups had opportunities to strike at Lu Fan and unleash some Skills, what use was it?

Still, it had to be said that Red Ghosts’ Skills were quite peculiar. What they released were ice crystals formed from condensed red snowflakes.

According to his Appraisal, these ice crystals would cause a Burn Effect, which truly left Lu Fan full of question marks.

[Monsters from the Far North normally release Ice Element Skills, yet you inflict Burn Damage? What kind of setting is this?]

Although the Red Ghosts’ Skills were somewhat absurd, when Lu Fan thought about it, it sort of made sense. If Players really came here and encountered Red Ghosts without understanding them, they might really suffer a major setback.

After all, coming to the Far North, most people would definitely use various Skills and Potions to max out their Ice Element Resistance. But as it turned out, when Red Ghosts attacked, they used Skills with Burn Effect instead.

Would that not be surprising? Would that not be unexpected?

If it were an ordinary team of Players, they would probably cry their eyes out.

But now, the one who came here was Lu Fan, and the only ones who would cry were the Red Ghosts.

Lu Fan brought Xing Chen along, carpet bombing all the way with Starfall. The Red Ghosts were utterly powerless to stop them, all turning into Experience Points just like the White Ghosts, flowing into Lu Fan’s Experience Bar.

As for their attacks, they felt neither painful nor itchy when they landed on Lu Fan and Xing Chen.

After all, what Burn Damage? They had 100% Debuff Resistance.

Lu Fan had originally thought that in the journey ahead, Red Ghosts would also be like White Ghosts, gradually increasing in number and becoming more numerous.

But as it turned out, continuing forward, Lu Fan did not see more Red Ghosts.

Lu Fan speculated, [Could it be that Red Ghosts are counted as predators? That sort of makes sense, considering they are stronger.]

And according to laws of survival, the number of predators could never exceed that of the prey.

So White Ghosts were numerous, while Red Ghosts were relatively much fewer in number?

Just as he was thinking this, Lu Fan suddenly discovered that ahead on the snowy ground, another patch of crimson red appeared.

Just as Lu Fan was excited about encountering another pack of Red Ghosts, he suddenly realised that this pack was no longer living, all were dead

Furthermore, it was a fairly large Red Ghost pack with over a hundred Red Ghosts.

Lu Fan had seen Red Ghost packs chase after White Ghost packs and knew that over a hundred Red Ghosts like these could probably easily tear apart thousands of White Ghosts!

However, such a powerful pack was now all dead.

The crimson red patch that Lu Fan saw was not just their fur, but also the fresh blood they had shed.

Despite such low temperatures, their blood still had not coagulated, obviously proving this massacre had just occurred.

This made Lu Fan alert as he began thinking about what exactly had killed so many Red Ghosts.

[Could there be another Players here? But that shouldn’t be possible… This place is equivalent to a Forbidden Zone. From Dragon Country’s direction, reaching this place would require one to cross the Falling Star Ice Lake. Just based on this point alone, ordinary teams of Players would not be able to set foot here.]

[In that case, could it be a team from some other country? But that shouldn’t be the case. The Far North is boundlessly vast. According to currently known Maps, this is still much closer to Dragon Country than any other countries.]

The other two directions did indeed have other countries bordering the Far North, but for people from these countries to reach here, it should be even more troublesome than coming here from Dragon Country.

Lu Fan did not believe that other countries would have people capable of reaching such a place.

That left only one possibility.

[It must be another Monster from the Despair Ice Plains, a Boss?]

Being able to kill Red Ghosts was not exactly a proud achievement for Lu Fan.

However, Lu Fan’s experience in the Wilderness told him that once anything unusual occurred, he must maintain the highest vigilance and guard against everything around him.

Because who knew whether a High Level Wandering Boss might appear in a Low Level Map?

Being a bit more careful was never a bad thing.

Lu Fan slowed his flying speed while also having Xiao Cui cast over forty Jade Shields on himself and Xing Chen.

Continuing forward, Lu Fan successively saw three more waves of Red Ghost packs that had died unnatural deaths.

However, Lu Fan increasingly felt that he seemed to be getting closer and closer to whatever had massacred the Red Ghost packs.

Because although the last wave of Red Ghost pack was already dead, their carcasses were still warm, obviously they had just died.