Chapter 19

Chapter 19: Ly’s Growth (5)

TL: Haku

Editor: Stealth

Mother Nature’s Staff

Classification: Staff

Rank: Heroic

Equip Limit: Over Lv 20, Strength over 40

Offensive Power: 150-165

Durability: 201/201

Option: Intellect +21

Leadership +35

Affinity +20

Increases Offensive Power +35% for all Familiars summoned . Increases Critical Strike Chance +15% for the Summoner .

‘Err… I need to think about this…’

Staves were weapons . The moment he picked the staff, Ian’s archery skills would become meaningless .

However, he decided to think about it after he purchased it .

“Purchase!”

Maybe it was because the level limit was lower than the headband, he was able to buy the product for about 100,000 gold .

Ian was locked away in his thoughts while looking at the staff in his inventory .

‘Truthfully, right this moment, the bow has more merit…’

It was an obvious . If he was to use the staff, all the passives related to the Archer would become useless and Ian’s combat skills with the bow would totally be unusable .

However, there was the important truth that he would eventually be unable to use the bow at some point .

‘It is a little early but with this opportunity, it might not be bad to change my fighting style and get used to it . ’

Fortunately, he felt little reassurance from the fact that his ‘Weak Point Capturing’ skill, which he raised its proficiency by a lot, was a common, passive skill from his previous class that could be invoked even without using a bow .

Also, the advantage of using a weapon in the classification ‘Staff’ had a characteristic where all skills’ cooldown time and mana consumption would reduce by 10% .

‘I need to raise Ly to be a little stronger . I also need to think about raising another Familiar eventually . ’

Ian, who decided on using the staff, put his bow up in the auction shortly after .

This impressive drive was one of Ian’s virtues .

“Now that I’m holding a staff, it’s kind of awkward, hmph…”

It was obviously going to be awkward since it was his first time holding a staff as he had only used a bow from the moment he started Kailran .

Ian searched for several more minutes, but he couldn’t find any more items that had the modifier ‘Mother Nature’ . So he left the auction without any lingering feelings .

Right then, an alarm rang from inside Ian’s bag .

Ring- . Ring- .

“Oh, right . ”

Ian, who heard that sound, immediately summoned ‘Ly’ .

“Ly, Summon!”

As soon as Ly was summoned, he was about to howl as usual before flinching .

It looked as if he felt awkward being summoned in a big city after always being summoned in the forest . Ian immediately used the Intermediate-level Training skill .

You have used the skill ‘Intermediate-level Training’ (Cooldown Time: 25 minutes) . For 10 minutes, Familiar ‘Ly’ will better understand your commands and learn them . As training is repeated, the Familiar’s ‘Potential will increase . Familiar ‘Ly’s current Potential: 98

Ian’s alarm was none other than an alarm matched to the cooldown time of the Intermediate-level Training skill .

‘Whew, it was a good thing I set an alarm . I would have forgotten if it wasn’t for that . ’

Ian had no thoughts on wasting away even non-combat time . You would never know how big of a difference it would have on Potential once non-combat time piled up . He felt as if he would be so depressed that he wouldn’t be able to sleep if he had wasted 10 minutes without knowing that the cooldown time had ended .

“Ly, this isn’t a hunting ground, so you need to be well-behaved and just follow me . ”

Grr- . Grrr- .

As if Ly was saying he understood, he nodded his head and stuck closely to Ian’s side . It looked as if he was nervous at his new surroundings .

“Wow, look at that, that person’s a Summoner!”

As there were not a lot of Summoners, there were people who stared in fascination .

“He uses a Wolf as his Familiar . He must not be that high of a level yet . ”

“They say that the level of difficulty to leveling up a Summoner is atrocious . I haven’t seen someone who’s hit lv 15 yet . ”

“Oh, really?”

As this kind of attention was burdensome, he didn’t usually summon Ly but if it was for the Training skill, he believed that he could endure this much trouble .

‘Shall we go get a quest now?’

Ian knew of one good quest that could get him from lv 20 to lv 30 in an instant . Of course, it was a quest that a normal user over lv 40 would challenge .

‘Where did the Goblin Camping Ground Suppression Quest begin again?’

Truthfully, people had greatly divided opinions about the Goblin Camping Ground Quest . This was because its level of difficulty was overwhelming compared to quests around the same rank and its reward wasn’t that good when you looked at the money aspect .

However, Ian was considering a different part .

‘If I remember correctly, while doing the Goblin Camping Ground Quest, you get two times the EXP when you kill a goblin . ’

It was the enormous EXP .

‘Before resetting, I wasn’t as composed so I hunted alongside punitive forces… This time I’ll wipe them by myself . ’

The average Goblin in the Goblin Camping Ground was just below lv 40, Goblin Warriors were in the early lv 40s, while the Boss-rank monster, the Goblin Chief, was a lv 45 Shaman-like monster .

Cases where Goblins characteristically gathered together in dozens were common but Ian was planning on gathering EXP there .

With another reason to quickly raise his level right now, hesitation was a luxury .

‘I found it . ’

Ian discovered a middle-aged man strolling the outskirts of the village at dawn and headed towards him . It was Lapierre, the vigilante leader that would give him the Goblin Camping Ground Suppression Quest .

“Lapierre, it’s been a while . ”

Ian approached Lapierre in a friendly manner .

‘The NPC wouldn’t have forgotten about me because I reset, right?’

Fortunately, it seemed that Lapierre remembered Ian .

“Oh, who’s this . If it isn’t Ian . ”

“You’ve been well, right?”

Like the position of a vigilante leader, Lapierre was an important NPC that would give quite a lot of quests during the beginning and the middle stages .

‘It seems like the affinity you’ve collected with an NPC doesn’t reset . What a relief . ’

While watching Ian, who was feeling relieved on the inside, Lapierre spoke again .

“Of course, thanks to you killing the Ogre Warrior the other day, I even received a thank-you from Phillip, haha . ”

Phillip was a vigilante leader from another region and before resetting, there was a time when Ian had taken care of his request .

Ian had no thoughts of talking with the NPC for an extended time .

“I see . Director, by any chance, are the Goblins quiet lately?”

At his words, Lapierre’s complexion brightened immediately .

“Oh, speaking of which the Goblin Camping Ground has become a bit of a headache lately… the punitive forces have been lacking military power . Is there possibly an incredible mercenary that you could introduce to me?”

“I was planning on doing it myself . ”

“You yourself? Oh… If that’s the case, then I’m all for it! However, I would be happier if there were more people…”

At that moment, the quest notification that Ian was waiting for rang .

Ring- .

Saumur Canyon’s Goblin Camping Ground Suppression

Lucain Town’s vigilante leader Lapierre is recruiting people for the Goblin Camping Ground punitive force . Join the punitive force and sweep the Goblin Camping Ground .

Quest Difficulty Level: E

Quest Condition: A party of 2+ people

Reward: You will gain gold proportional to your level of contribution . During the quest, you will be able to gain double the EXP when you kill a Goblin .

Will you accept this quest?