Rebirth of the thief who roamed around the world (BOOK 1)

Chapter 116 - Arcane Fairy

Once in position, he ordered Fighter #2 to charge toward it.

「Bang!」Fighter #2 rushed up and struck the Kodo with its battle axe.

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With a furious roar, it puffed more breaths of hot air before striking the Skeleton Fighter with the sharp horn on its head.

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A terrifyingly high damage value appeared above the Skeleton Fighter's head before slowly drifting up and fading away.

Nie Yan was alarmed. The Skeleton Kodo's attack was far too frightening. His Skeleton Fighters would only be able to take three hits each at most!

He neared the Kodo and cast Undead Rite, whereupon a queer energy struck the creature, halting its movements. However, an instant later, the Kodo rammed into the Skeleton Fighter once more and sent it flying back.

「System: Undead Rite has failed!」

Seeing Undead Rite fail, Nie Yan didn't dare to stick around any longer. He activated Swift Retreat and hastily fled from the Kodo's line of sight while it was still preoccupied with the Skeleton Fighter.

Fighter #2 soon returned to the earth as it was beaten senseless like a ragdoll under the relentless assault of the Kodo.

He waited for Undead Rite to come off cooldown before making his second attempt by sending Fighter #3 toward the Kodo.

Following the death of Fighter #4, he still wasn't able to successfully control the Skeleton Kodo. For lack of a better option, he brought Fighter #1 with him as he once more headed to the east. There, he would gather another four Skeleton Fighters before returning.

So long as he kept at least one Skeleton Fighter alive, recruiting more with Undead Rite wouldn't be too difficult. Nonetheless, doing it this way was still a huge waste of time. And so, after countless attempts, all of which resulted in failure, a full day had passed.

Once the servers shut down, Nie Yan took off his game helmet.

Although he had some free time on his hands before the servers reopened, Tang Yao had been dragged out by his father to do hard labour and the rest of his good friends from school were all in other parts of the country. Besides, his hometown was indeed a damnable place, definitely not somewhere a person would want to live. The environment wasn't good, and the public security was a mess. If anyone had a little money, they'd definitely buy a house somewhere else and move out.

Thus, Nie Yan stayed home all day exercising and studying. Such a routine was also pretty satisfying. At certain times during the day he would think of his father and mother. He was also looking forward to starting his final year of high school, which was just around the corner.

Like this, the day quickly passed and 5:00 pm soon arrived. He placed the game helmet back on his head and continued off where he had stopped on the previous day.

After an hour or so, he eventually gathered another party of Skeleton Fighters and set off towards the Skeleton Kodos again. Getting just one of those Skeleton Kodos under his control was extremely crucial to the success of his plan.

「Nie Yan, how are things on your side? Did you get what you needed to do done?」Tang Yao messaged.

「No, not yet. I encountered some trouble.」

「Ah... Anyway, when you get back, send me a message. Also, try and guess what I just found? Hehe...」Tang Yao giggled mischievously, almost unable to hold back his excitement.

「What? What did you get?」

「An Arcane Soul Crystal...」

「Really, what rank!?」Nie Yan asked in surprise. He even managed to pick up an Arcane Soul Crystal? First the Meteor spell and now this, just how lucky can he get? Very few items were capable of holding his attention this early in the game. The only ones he cared for were the chapters from the Book of Order, the Featherfall Jewel, the Silk Spinner Ring, the Crawler Ring, and Sulgata's Shadow. As for an Arcane Soul Crystal, it was a top quality item for Arcane Mages and not an ordinary one at that!

They existed in the form of a crystal and only dropped from Arcane Fairy monsters. However, the chances of this item dropping was frighteningly low. Though, on the off chance an Arcane Mage obtained one, they could use it as a catalyst to beckon an Arcane Fairy to their side. The fairy was the same as a summon. Its health was proportionate to the summoner's, its defenses were slightly lower, and it was incapable of attacking. Another downside was that the crystal was a one-time use item, and if the summon died, it would be gone forever. Even then, these fairies were still extremely useful since they were able to significantly improve an Arcane Mage's mana recovery rate and shorten both cooldowns and cast times. Naturally, the higher rank the Arcane Fairy, the more valuable it was.

An Arcane Fairy was a great boon to any Arcane Mage lucky enough to obtain it. In the future, numerous top class Arcane Mages would compare their fairies to see who was better. Having an Arcane Fairy following by one's side was certainly a matter to be proud of. Attributing to the fact that these fairies would disappear forever once they were killed, they became even more valued by Arcane Mages.

「It's Rank 1. You know what it's used for?」Tang Yao asked in a surprised manner.

「I found some information about it in the library,」Nie Yan replied.

「Ah, I see. It seems I should pay a visit to the library to check as well.」

「Be careful, once you summon the fairy, don't let it die. If you can raise it to Rank 3, it'll become even more valuable. If you can get it to Rank 5, then it'll be priceless,」Nie Yan cautioned. Higher ranked Arcane Fairies would give Arcane Mages better bonuses. However, since they were so fragile, very few players were able to raise their fairies to Rank 3, let alone Rank 5. He had only ever seen a Rank 5 Arcane Fairy once during his ten years of playing the game. At that time, he was killing monsters in the wilderness when he ran into a Level 135 Great Arcanist. The two of them got into a scuffle, and even though he was a level 165 Great Thief, he ended up being beaten like a dog, narrowly escaping with his tail tucked between his legs. Foolishly, he had underestimated the abilities of an Arcane Mage with a Rank 5 Arcane Fairy as he had thought that the level discrepancy would pull the fight in his favour. That Great Arcanist was basically a machine gun that fired magic as he recklessly shot spells everywhere, seemingly losing no mana in the process. It was simply too terrifying.

「Just don't end up getting killed. Wait for me to finish things on my side, then I'll help you raise your Arcane Fairy's rank,」Nie Yan said. If they had a Rank 2 Arcane Fairy, levelling would become much easier.

「No problem! Hurry up already!」Tang Yao broke into a fit of excitement after hearing Nie Yan's words and couldn't help but become a little impatient.