MMO: Pierce Heaven Til' It Breaks Chapter 132 - Fishing Grand Prix

Chapter 132: Fishing Grand Prix

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
When Scumbag Wang assumed the position as the Castellan of Wind Capital, it caused numerous people to move houses. The NPCs moved and so did the players. Within a short period of a few days, Wind Capital which was initially unimaginably prosperous turned into a ghost town with a sparse population.
Unlike Wind Capital, Shattered Frost City’s population suddenly skyrocketed, but there was nothing they could do about it. Who could they blame for locating these two cities within the nearest distance from each other?
Recently, the number of guilds that applied for sieges had surpassed more than several thousand within a few days. Although everyone knew that the odds of success were not in their favor, they still harbored traces of wishful thinking in their hearts. They hoped that some minor bugs or something like that would appear in the System again so that they would have a good chance of taking the Castellan’s position in one go.
In the end, all of the guilds failed. After experiencing Scumbag Wang’s incident, the System launched automatic repairs that patched all of the bugs and loopholes that could occur.
There were no more bugs to exploit.
On the other hand, Scumbag Wang’s circumstances were not very desirable either because his only Castellan right that remained was Patrol. Presently, other than the ability to move back and forth throughout Wind Capital instantly, there was nothing else he could do.
It was irrelevant that he did not have several million Gold Coins because even if he did, the System would not permit him to repair the major city as he lacked that Castellan’s right.
On the third day of Scumbag Wang’s occupation of Wind Capital, Star Fire launched a siege against them.
The side that initially took the city would be allocated with a recuperation period for one month that prevented anyone else from attacking them but as the result of exploiting a bug, this rule became ineffective.
All the members of Huashan Guild stood before the city gates and calmly faced Star Fire’s attack.
During the altercation between these two guilds, 59 people from Star Fire died while Huashan Guild was eradicated.
Star Fire Guild had just gotten rid of Huashan Guild’s members but had yet to even charge through the city gates. Vice Castellan Leghar led the weakened NPC soldiers forward to intercept them but after a bloody battle, it was Star Fire Guild’s turn to suffer total annihilation…
“If we had known earlier that the NPC soldiers could help us, why would we still block off the city gates like goalkeepers? Go and level up, brothers!”
When he saw how impressive the NPCs were, Scumbag Wang did not even guard the city anymore. Instead, he led a group of his Weak Red Name subordinates and leveled up on the Outskirts map.
The power of the NPC soldiers had weakened tenfold but the strength of the original Castellan Leghar had not declined. He still had 90,000,000 HP and the scariest part was that he had a unique skill that allowed him to repeatedly summon new NPC soldiers to support him as long as he did not die.
Star Fire Guild suffered a crushing defeat during the siege and this outcome automatically made the other guilds temporarily abandon their intentions of attacking.
…
In four days, Li Yi had successfully advanced to Level 44 and ranked first on the ranking board. Lonely Semi City had already advanced to Level 41 while the other players were too far behind. Other than the person at second place who had reached Level 39, the rest of them were all Level 38 and below.
The distance between them was increasing little by little.
After glancing at the date, Li Yi stopped leveling up temporarily and returned to Shattered Frost City.
As King of Pantheon’s most popular event, the once in a year Fishing Grand Prix would be held tomorrow, he returned to prepare for that.
Other than the common quests, there were also numerous festive activities in King of Pantheon. As long as one could complete them, the rewards that they obtained would greatly exceed those that they would normally receive.
For instance, the rewards of the yearly Fishing Grand Prix were extremely abundant. Thus, they were loved not only by the players in the lifestyle class but also by the players in the pure combat class.
Anyone could enter it. Only 1 Silver Coin was required to sign up and they would be rewarded just by entering. As long as they could stay on the competition’s main map for 3 hours, they would receive a reward of 1 Gold Coin without even having to do anything.
They would not necessarily obtain 1 Gold Coin after 3 hours if they went out to farm monsters on the Outskirts normally while the Fishing Grand Prix did not require them to do anything. It did not matter even if they did not want to go fishing because it was fine as long as they stood on the map. They would receive a Gold Coin once every 3 hours while a multiplier of one would be added to their number of Gold Coins once they had received it more than 3 times.
Of course, the rich players did not care about the quantity of Gold Coins, but the items that they could obtain by entering the Fishing Grand Prix were enough to drive them crazy.
Li Yi informed his guild members and stated that those who could enter the Fishing Grand Prix definitely had to participate because they would have to wait another year if they missed this opportunity.
Li Yi had given an impassable command to people like Fire Ice who, similar to Chen Yang, had a pretty good relationship with him and said that they certainly needed to go.
“Brother Yi, I’ve seen the rewards of the Fishing Grand Prix on the official page. The reward for first place seems to be an All-class Weapon Purple-colored Quality fishing rod while second place is a gold rod, third place is a green rod, and the others after that are all blue rods. I haven’t discovered any other better items?”
“The bags, dummy.”
Chen Yang checked the official page once again and finally found the bags that Li Yi was talking about.
[Tattered Treasure Bag: Rare item that only drops on the special water area maps where the Fishing Grand Prix is being held. It can randomly produce different types of valuable items such as equipment, gems, Treasure Maps and so on.]
“What could appear in this?”
“Purple-colored equipment.”
“I’ll return to the city immediately!”
…
Li Yi completed fishing quests for half a day and obtained a large amount of fishing bait. He also spent 100 Gold Coins and bought a blue fishing rod with +10 fishing skill before he ran outside Shattered Frost City and stood beside the moat to practice the Mastery of his fishing skill.
Increasing his Fishing Mastery was fairly easy because his Mastery would increase by 1 point each time he fished an item successfully. As his Mastery increased, so would the probability of fishing a good item.
Soon, Fire Ice also brought one of the most common white-colored fishing rods and joined the team. Shortly after, Moonlight Ocean had accompanied them as well and the three of them stood beside the river and fished together.
Ever since Old Li Flying Dagger fell from the ranking board, Moonlight Ocean was not seen for a long time too. Li Yi fished while considering Moonlight Ocean carefully. The more he looked her up and down, the stronger the suspicions in his heart grew.
On the surface, Moonlight Ocean and the mysterious girl in black who was the leader of Platinum Hand looked exactly alike. Similarly, they both belonged to the Thief class and wore black clothes and a mask. The most important part was that both of them seemed to like using the typing method to chat. The mysterious girl in black was slightly better because she had spoken a little before but Moonlight Ocean who was before his eyes had never even said one sentence before and had always been typing as a means to communicate with others.
There was another point. When Moonlight Ocean was online, the mysterious girl in black would definitely be offline and vice versa.
Could it be that Moonlight Ocean was the mysterious girl in black? Li Yi’s heart stirred when he thought of a plan.
Li Yi said, “Ocean, are you free tomorrow?”
Moonlight Ocean nodded.
“Then we should form a group together and enter the Fishing Grand Prix tomorrow.”
Moonlight Ocean nodded again.
“Then… Then what about me?” asked Fire Ice on the side quietly.
Li Yi stared blankly for a short while before he smiled and said, “Together with you, of course.”
Li Yi messaged Ye Yingbing again and said, “Your leader is away, right? Can you contact her? Tell her that we’re forming a group with her to enter the Fishing Grand Prix tomorrow.” Li Yi pondered before adding, “This is my request so if your leader can’t fulfill it, my requests will double next time.”
“Alright, I’ll inform her when she comes up later.”
It was settled.
The bobber shook violently at this moment and Li Yi spared no effort to pull it before he managed to fish out a broken box.
System Notification: [You open the box carefully. To your surprise, there’s apparently a Half-bottle of Wine left inside.]
[Half-bottle of Wine: Miscellaneous item, type: trash.]
Li Yi simply flung it away.
Since his Mastery was still too weak now, he could not bring out the strength of the Wind-battered Fishing Hat at all.
Fire Ice’s bobber shook as well. As Fire Ice cried out in alarm, an Armored Crocodile that was over five meters long was dragged up.
Li Yi and Fire Ice came forward together and killed the Armored Crocodile quickly.
Situations like these would easily appear when one’s Mastery was low…
“Hi!”
On the other side of the moat, a bare-chested youth who was fishing rushed towards the three people and greeted them. When he raised the fishing rod in his hand, a Red-whiskered Grass Carp was hooked upwards.
This was the outcome of a normal Fishing Mastery.
When Li Yi saw the bare-chested youth, he immediately smiled broadly and said, “Snickersnee, come over and join our group.”
Snickersnee laughed happily and suddenly dove before plunging into the water. When he emerged, he had already approached the trio.
In comparison to Li Yi and the two others, Snickersnee’s fishing skills were worth being called as Ultimate Moves because he would definitely obtain something when he cast his rod. If it was not a fish, it would be an item, and this made the trio look at him with a gaze of extreme admiration.
In the King of Pantheon game, other than the items that were clearly indicated as “trash”, every other item had its uses. For instance, the Red-whiskered Grass Carp which was one of the fishes that could be hooked would produce a result of a 5 point increase to one’s own STR that could last for 30 minutes when it was directly used. Meanwhile, for the players in the lifestyle class who were experts in cooking, the braised Red-whiskered Grass Carp dish would result in an automatic 20-point increase of their own STR that could last for 1 hour.
“Snickersnee, remember to form a group with us to join the Fishing Grand Prix tomorrow.”
“Don’t worry, I won’t forget,” laughed Snickersnee before he lifted his hand and obtained another Red-whiskered Grass Carp.
Li Yi fished while browsing the official page.
Although the first Fishing Grand Prix had attracted the interest of numerous players, it had still yet to reach the extent where the entire population wanted to participate in it. Many people rushed towards the reward of 1 Gold Coin every 3 hours but their idle and casual attitudes meant that they were simply prepared to stroll around once and did not have any intention of entering the competition at all.
When he saw the posts on the official page that were written by numerous players who were complaining about this trashy event, Li Yi nevertheless laughed but remained silent because he knew that once the competition started tomorrow, the players who cursed the fishing event and called it trashy would automatically shut their mouths.
The aspect of the Fishing Grand Prix that was really attractive was definitely not the purple-colored fishing rod, but that unassuming Tattered Treasure Bag instead.
…
The next day, the Fishing Grand Prix officially began at exactly 10 o’clock in the morning, in-game time.
The System’s red-words-spam appeared and all of the online players received a message that said, [Enter the Fishing Grand Prix?]
[Yes, No.]
Li Yi selected “Yes” immediately before he was teleported to the competition venue, one of Pantheon’s Seven Secret Places, Water World.
Li Yi appeared on a small island that was surrounded by boundless waters. As more and more players were teleported here, the small island was suddenly filled with people.
As the number of players increased continuously, the size of this little island in the middle of the waters began to mysteriously enlarge accordingly.
As the number of people increased, so did the size of the little island. These strange changes made the players exclaim in shock again and again.
“F*ck, why are there foreigners?”
“These people play Pantheon too?”
“No way, there are people from island nations as well?”
“F*ck!”
As the number of people who were teleported here increased, the chaotic noises between the players started becoming louder as well.
Anyone could enter the Fishing Grand Prix and it was naturally not limited to only one continent. On the contrary, all the players from three continents would participate in the contest together.
Most of the people did not even know that the Pantheon game also existed in another three continents. Thus, they were immediately shocked when they saw the blonde-haired, blue-eyed people and the black men.
Was there any need to be so surprised when the King of Pantheon ran throughout the entire world?
Li Yi completely ignored the foreigners and quickly ran to the edge of the island before sitting in a boat.
The System’s red-words-spam appeared at this moment.
[Player Wind-chasing Godkiller has opened a Tattered Treasure Bag. To their surprise, they discover that an ancient scroll is stored inside. A ray of golden light shoots out and shrouds Wind-chasing Godkiller’s body. After waiting until the golden light has flashed away, Wind-chasing Godkiller is pleasantly surprised to discover that their Skill Points have increased by 1 point.]
[Player An Yi has opened a Tattered Treasure Bag. To their surprise, they discover that an ancient scroll is stored inside. A ray of golden light shoots out and shrouds An Yi’s body. After waiting until the golden light has flashed away, An Yi is pleasantly surprised to discover that their Skill Points have increased by 1 point.]
Damn! How were they so quick?
Li Yi invited his friends to get in the boat and increased his speed while rowing towards the depths of the waters.