Chapter 632: 632

Chapter 632 Bad Boy

A month and a half passed in the blink of an eye .

Zhang Heng finally set up his new home, including a two-story building, a cowshed, and a horse pen . Initially, he wanted to start a vegetable garden, but the land wasn’t suitable for crops . Even if he were given the seeds and took good care of them, he wouldn’t obtain a good yield . In the end, Zhang Heng gave up .

He was not an expert in building stuff or had very high requirements for the quality of life . Mainly because Matthew gave him a large piece of land, but there was nothing on it but grass . He had no choice but to build everything himself .

Fortunately, he had not wholly forgotten the building techniques he learned from the short man in the novice dungeon he entered . After getting paid for killing Cook, he hired two more helpers and a mason .

Most houses in the town were made of brick and wood . The advantage of building a house like that was that it could be completed relatively fast; the cost of building could be controlled easily . However, after Zhang Heng asked the drunk sheriff about the bounty, he decided to build it with his own money . He decided to replace all the wood with metal, meaning his house would be sturdier and had a lower chance of catching fire . As for its shortcomings… it was expensive .

The iron and construction materials were produced in factories on the east coast and transported to the town by train . By the time they reached him, their prices would be hiked up several times . Since Zhang Heng had not received the bounty reward yet, he could only borrow the money from Matthew first .

Fortunately, the outcome looked pretty good . The design of his house closely resembled his house in Black Sail . He even took some reference from the design of other houses in the town . With a total area estimated to be about 200 square meters, it really wasn’t that large . It was, however, more than enough for him since he would be living alone . Hence, after construction was completed, Zhang Heng also received an Lv . o construction skill and 20 game points, which was an unexpected gain .

Zhang Heng took two steps back and admired the house he would be staying in for the next few years .

Although there were still several hours before sunset, he paid the helpers and masons a day’s worth of wages and let them off early . Zhang Heng then found his Radish leisurely munching on the grass beside the house . Grabbing his steed, he rode to Matthew’s house next door . Wendy was in front of the door, already waiting for him to come .

“What do you think? Do you want to try it today?” When Wendy saw him, she got up and patted the dust off her skirt .

Zhang Heng nodded .

“Then I’ll call my father . ” Wendy briskly rushed into the room .

Two minutes later, the three of them were standing in front of the stable . “Are you ready?” Matthew asked .

“Hmm, let’s start . ” Zhang Heng took a deep breath, pushed open the stable’s gate, stepped in, then lowered the wooden latch .

There was only one horse in the stable . It was jet black with dark and shiny fur . According to Matthew, it was initially the leader of a large herd of wild horses on the grasslands . It was the most grumpy and difficult horse to be domesticated, getting into serious trouble less than a week after it got here . The stubborn horse destroyed the stable’s door and escaped with other horses .

After that, Matthew had to spend several days to get it back . He subsequently built a personal stable for it, and Wendy named it Bad Boy . According to Wendy’s promise, Bad Boy now belonged to Zhang Heng . However, after a month and a half later, he still couldn’t ride it .

Zhang Heng had suffered a lot from the Bad Boy’s temper . Thanks to the impossible horse, he was dragged five-meters on the ground like a ragdoll . The scratches on his arm were still visible .

But before he even got better, Zhang Heng had come to rechallenge Bad Boy . After a month and a half of Matthew’s intensive training, Zhang Heng was no longer the man who could not even control Radish . His horseback riding had now officially reached Lv . 1 .

However, in the repeated fighting of wits and courage with Bad Boy, Zhang Heng realized that Lv . 1 horse-riding skill was nowhere good enough to tame this wild dark horse . Despite the odds, he did not give up . After experiencing so many quests, he had mastered skill after skill . Zhang Heng came to realize that the most valuable skill a human possessed was the ability to learn . Gathering experience from past failures and continually finding solutions to problems was a skill many creatures possessed . However, only humans could fully utilize this ability .

When first playing “Sekiro,” the player would be defeated by various bosses again and again . Just like attending classes, after all the teacher’s knowledge had been gathered, it was time for the graduation exam .

Zhang Heng took off his hat, grabbed the noose thrown by Matthew, and swung it over his head .

On the other side, Bad Boy seemed to know that his old nemesis was coming to get him . Immediately, it stopped strolling around and began to scratch the ground with its hooves . And at the same time, its ears turned down, and it was showing his teeth .

Before Zhang Heng could even make a move, it rushed toward Zhang Heng with full force . If Zhang Heng failed to dodge it, it meant everything that he learned during his umpteen years of piracy was just a waste . When Bad Boy approached him, he swiftly dodged aside, avoiding the brutal attack easily .

Bad Boy, however, was not going to stop there . It turned its head around and tried to bite Zhang Heng . Zhang Heng hesitated for a split second, then hurriedly squatted to avoid the bite .

This time, Bad Boy’s attack revealed its weakness . The last time Zhang Heng caught its fault, he got dragged on the ground for five meters after throwing the lasso around its neck .

This trick was extremely effective against the ordinary horses, but it wasn’t about to trick Bad Boy into submission . The ill-tempered black horse had an incredible will . After such a long time of training, Zhang Heng’s strength had improved, but he was nowhere nearly as strong as a horse . Each time, he got dragged and thrown around by the creature’s brute strength .

So this time, Zhang Heng did not make any rash moves . Instead, he let the horse think that it had gained the upper hand in this battle . Meanwhile, he would keep looking out for the golden opportunity to control it .

The black horse’s attacks were limited . Zhang Heng had been having fun taming it, even naming those skills by drawing references to the games he played . There was Brutal Ramming, Death Trampling, Diving Dragon Swipe, Ultimate Kick, and even the Furious Bite .

Other than that, Bad Horses would step on your feet while you were not paying attention . If that happened, it would pretend to enjoy the beautiful scenery around it and take a deep breath of the fresh air . And the person had to suffer 400 to 500 pounds of weight being crushed on the feet .

Although Bad Boy was born of a violent nature, its attack methods would always repeat .

After performing a set of (Brutal Ramming) + [Divine Dragon Swipe) + (Furious Bite] + [Ultimate Kick), it would enter cool-down period . It then turned around and looked at Zhang Heng triumphantly . If it could speak, it would have gone along the lines of “Stupid humans, you are not worthy of riding me yet!”

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