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Second World – Chapter 79 - 79. Forced To Cooperate

Chapter 79 - 79. Forced To Cooperate

"Where do you find that flower?!" Bowler exclaimed.

"Oh, just some part around here," John answered, "but don't bother to go searching. You won't find the same flower like this. There is only one in the entire area."

"And how do you know that?" Jack asked.

"Because I have done the same quest from Adventurers Association that asked for this flower two days ago. I can only find one after going around the entire foot of this hill searching for it. I came back here again for another of the Association's quest yesterday, and found the flower at the same spot again. I guess that after I submit the quest, the flower respawned. I then pick it up just due to curiosity, but it didn't respawn even after one day had passed. I assume that as long as I hold this flower, it won't respawn."

"Then you know we need that flower for our quest. please give it to us, will you?" Bowler asked in a friendly tone.

"No. I won't give it to you," John replied calmly. "Not unless you do me a favor."

"Are you blackmailing us!?" Bowler couldn't stay calm anymore.

"Oh, Indeed I am," John replied without a hint of guilt.

"You really have balls to pull this stunt! Can't you see that you are alone while there are three of us? What stop us from just killing you and take the flower?"

"Then you are still ignorant of the rule in this world. When we die outside of the safe zone, we lose all our items, but it doesn't mean that we drop all our items for others to take. We will only drop some random one or two items. So the chance of you getting this flower was minuscule at best."

"IIf so, then the flower will disappear and it will respawn, right?"

"I don't think so. I think it will only respawn if you declare the quest fail and retake it again after. But you are welcome to try if you like," John said indifferently.

"You are really a detestable fellow," Bowler told him as he lost his temper.

John replied with a shrug.

'Is he telling the truth?' Jack directed his question to Peniel in his mind.

"It's more or less as he said. But I will add that a quest item taken by unaffiliated party will be automatically removed from their possession after five days had passed. Same thing as if it disappears due to the owner getting killed, it will respawn after three days. Or you can do as he said, cancel the quest and reapply the same quest again."

All options were the same where they have to waste time. The fastest would be to cancel the quest and reapply, but that would have them return to the capital and came back again later.

"Let's just kill this prick!" Bowler said to Jack in anger.

Jack thought about it for a bit. He then asked John, "what kind of favor do you need?"

"That sounds more like it," John grinned. "Nothing much, I just need help clearing a cave from monsters dwelling inside. You see, it's for my quest. So you help my quest, I help yours. Everyone got their happy endings."

"What help, you are clearly hindering ours!" Bowler was unwilling.

John shrugged again, he said, "think about it. If you look for this flower yourself, you might spend the entire day just searching for it. Trust me, because it had happened to me. Now if you help me clear the cave, not only you save time running around the hill searching for a single flower, but you would also get experience from killing the monsters in that cave. Won't that be more profitable?"

"Profitable my ass, I just don't like your attitude!"

Jack gestured to Bowler to calm him down, then he said to John, "come over and let's talk more about this cave then. Oh, and tell your two friends back there to come over as well. There is no need to sneaky."

John frowned when he heard Jack, but his expression soon returned to his calm demeanor. He glanced back and yelled some words, then he came down to where Jack and the others made their camp. Not long after another two people came to view, from their garments, one was also a Magician, another was a Ranger.

"This is Pointy Tip, that one is Weird Trap," John introduced the Magician and the Ranger as they approached. "And I am Saint John."

He then took the liberty to sit down near the bonfire, and invited everyone to take a seat as well.

"Who makes you the host?" Bowler said unhappily as he sat down.

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"Don't be too hung up on the details," John said. "Come, let's discuss about the plan to raid the cave."

Jack Inspected John's two comrades. Both of them were level 11. He then said, "first thing first, we are not going to help you for free, and that flower doesn't count. The drops from the monsters will be divided, with us taking priority, as our group is averagely higher in level."

"I'm only interested in clearing the quest," John said. His two comrades turned to him with wide eyes. Jack assumed they were unhappy with this condition, but oddly they didn't voice out any objection.

"That is generous" Jack said with suspicion. "Seeing as you are looking for reinforcement, I reckon that you have ventured into the cave? And the monsters inside are too strong for you to handle?"

"The monsters inside are strong," John nodded. "But they are not the main problem, we can still eradicate them with patience. The problem is there is a boss-like monster inside. And we can't be considered to have cleared the cave as long as that boss is still inside."

"How strong is it?" Jack asked.

"Level 20," John answered.

"F**k me! Level 20?" Bowler exclaimed, "you go and find other people to help you complete that suicide quest of yours. How the heck you get an Adventurers Association's quest that gave out such an impossible mission?"

"I took the mysterious quest, the one with many question marks on it."

"Why would you do that?"

"I'm curious," John shrugged.

"Only a fool took a quest that is so ambiguous!" Bowler scolded.

Jack coughed.

He thought about the level 25 Priest of Phobos who he had fought before. This time it was level 20. He had no chance to defeat the level 25 elite NPC, but if it was level 20, perhaps he could still cope? He asked Peniel, 'do you think we can win against this level 20 boss?'

"Depends whether it was an Elite or a Special Elite," Peniel answered.

'The boss is only 6 levels difference from me, with my double attributes increase from dual-class, our attributes difference shouldn't be that far off, right?'

"If it is monster below level 15, then yes, it should be. But after level 15, attributes increase for each level are higher than before level 15. This is to cope with Adventurers who had upgraded to Advanced class, their attributes increase per level are also higher. So if it is a Special Elite level 20 Boss inside, I would say that the difficulty will be somewhat similar to that level 25 Elite Priest you fought."

"Did you see if that level 20 Boss is an Elite class or is it Special Elite?" Jack asked John.

"I don't have time to do an Inspect. We ran the hell out once we found out it was level 20," John answered.

"Then how do you know it is level 20?" Flame asked.

"well There were in fact four of us originally. The missing one was a Fighter who did the Inspect. He blurted out level 20 before he got squashed by the monster. And hence we immediately escaped."

"Then ask that friend of yours, he should resurrect in town already, shouldn't he?"

"He is not my friend, we just met at the Adventurers Association and we formed a party together for this quest. After he died, he disappeared from the Party list. So I have no way to contact him now."

John looked at his other two comrades. "Did either of you happen to add him as a friend?" He asked them.

His two comrades shook their heads.

Jack sighed, "well, I guess there is no other way but to go see for ourselves. Let's go then."

"Now?" Bowler complained, "I thought we are going to rest."

"Why waste time? I'm not tired yet. Are you?" Jack replied. "We didn't continue searching for the flower because it is too dark to do the search. But the cave is dark anyway. So it makes no difference if we go in by day or by night."

"Actually" John interjected. "We should still wait till tomorrow morning, we have another party coming for reinforcement."

Chapter end

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Catalogue
Chapter 1 - 1. Second World Beta Test
Chapter 2 - 2. First Combat
Chapter 3 - 3. Second Soul Remnant
Chapter 4 - 4. Second Class
Chapter 5 - 5. Skill Practice
Chapter 6 - 6. Skeleton Thug
Chapter 7 - 7. Second Day
Chapter 8 - 8. Another Player
Chapter 9 - 9. First Encounter With An Elite
Chapter 10 - 10. Power Of An Elite
Chapter 11 - 11. Kiting Strategy
Chapter 12 - 12. Cat And Mouse Through The House
Chapter 13 - 13. Simultaneous Level Up!
Chapter 14 - 14. Blade Of Haste
Chapter 15 - 15. Invisible Wall
Chapter 16 - 16. Come To Our Place
Chapter 17 - 17. Ambush In The Night
Chapter 18 - 18. Equipment Upgrade
Chapter 19 - 19. Mad Grinding
Chapter 20 - 20. Goblin Packs
Chapter 21 - 21. Return To Trigitech Building
Chapter 22 - 22. Lizardman Boss Fight
Chapter 23 - 23. Competing In Speed
Chapter 24 - 24. The Block Puzzle
Chapter 25 - 25. The Lady In White
Chapter 26 - 26. Goddessa Gifts
Chapter 27 - 27. Storm Breaker
Chapter 28 - 28. Second Round With The Lizardman Blood Guard
Chapter 29 - 29. Overlimit
Chapter 30 - 30. Where Should I Go?
Chapter 31 - 31. Tutorial Period
Chapter 32 - 32. Rescue
Chapter 33 - 33. A Friend?
Chapter 34 - 34. Three Men And A Girl
Chapter 35 - 35. Verbal Assault
Chapter 37 - 37. The Tough Girl
Chapter 38 - 38. Friends System
Chapter 39 - 39. Toll Fee
Chapter 40 - 40. Weary Wolf Gang
Chapter 41 - 41. Frightened To Submission
Chapter 42 - 42. Return Of An Enemy
Chapter 43 - 43. Bullying With Numbers
Chapter 44 - 44. Not Interested
Chapter 45 - 45. Level 13
Chapter 46 - 46. Map System
Chapter 47 - 47. Preparing An Ambush
Chapter 48 - 48. Red Haired Ranger
Chapter 49 - 49. Range Sneak Attacks
Chapter 50 - 50. Three-Pronged Attack
Chapter 51 - 51. Fox’s Demise
Chapter 52 - 52. Retreat
Chapter 53 - 53. Gatherings
Chapter 54 - 54. Tutorial Rankings
Chapter 55 - 55. First Rank!
Chapter 56 - 56. Ranking Rewards
Chapter 57 - 57. Transformation Box
Chapter 58 - 58. Gate To The Main World
Chapter 59 - 59. The Main World
Chapter 60 - 60. Entering The Capital
Chapter 61 - 61. Bronze Badge
Chapter 62 - 62. Taking A Quest
Chapter 63 - 63. Clue About The Cult
Chapter 64 - 64. Finding The Cult
Chapter 65 - 65. Infiltrating The Warehouse
Chapter 66 - 66. Cell Key Retrieval
Chapter 67 - 67. Container Of Souls
Chapter 68 - 68. Dominated In Close Combat
Chapter 69 - 69. Life Burning Art
Chapter 70 - 70. Fragment Of Map
Chapter 71 - 71. Advance Class Choices
Chapter 72 - 72. Submitting The Quest
Chapter 73 - 73. A Call For Help
Chapter 74 - 74. Taking Advantage Of The Loophole
Chapter 75 - 75. Utilizing The System
Chapter 76 - 76. Picking Up A Group Quest
Chapter 77 - 77. Pack Of Silver Wolves
Chapter 78 - 78. You Looking For This Flower?
Chapter 79 - 79. Forced To Cooperate
Chapter 80 - 80. Men Of Solidarity
Chapter 81 - 81. Deciding About Loots Distribution
Chapter 82 - 82. Strategy Meeting
Chapter 83 - 83. Horned Ogre
Chapter 84 - 84. Taking Turns To Attack
Chapter 85 - 85. Running Out Of Potions
Chapter 86 - 86. Slaying The Ogre
Chapter 87 - 87. You Will Be The Boss!
Chapter 88 - 88. Lockpicking The Treasure Chest
Chapter 89 - 89. Take One For Tribute
Chapter 90 - 90. Ambushing The Ambushers
Chapter 91 - 91. Another Skilled Ranger
Chapter 92 - 92. Death Associates’ Plans
Chapter 93 - 93. Silver Grade Adventurer
Chapter 94 - 94. Applying For Advance Class
Chapter 95 - 95. Class Change Test
Chapter 96 - 96. Placing Bets
Chapter 97 - 97. Breaking Through The Combat Puppets
Chapter 98 - 98. Warrior Class
Chapter 99 - 99. Shadow Bear Tasset
Chapter 100 - 100. Learning Skills From Technique Books
Chapter 101 - 101. Joining Hunters Association
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