Chapter 71: The Mysterious Invitation

  "Warriors, hurry up and hold the lihis Ferocious Wild Boar is almost out of health!"

  Someone shouted.

  Mantou held a standard iron sword, staring at the wild boar in front of him.

  It was a filthy and fierce Ferocious Wild Boar, massive in size, weighing several hundred kilograms.

  Its body was covered with hard and sharp bristles, two long tusks protruding from its head, emitting a foul stench. At this moment, it appeared lethargic as if asleep, its body covered with wounds, seemingly on the verge of death.

  In Mantou's eyes, this was a big heap of walking experiend money.

  "Whatever, let's do it!"

  Gritting his teeth, Mantou stepped forward and thrust his sword into the wild boar's side.

  The iron sword pierced through the tough hide, deeply into the flesh, causing blood to spurt from the wound.

  "Hit it!"

  The pyers cheered loudly.

  Suddenly, the wild boar's zy, sleepy eyes turned blood-red. It exhaled a foul-smelling white breath, the muscles us thick fat bulged abruptly, and its plump body erupted with an unimaginable powerful force.

  "Damn, don't tell me this thing has a sed form!"

  Mantou awkwardly pulled out his blood-stained iron sword, cold spearing on his forehead, feeling that he might be giving up first blood.

  The Ferocious Wild Bred fiercely at Mantou, its sturdy hooves scraping the ground, kig up clouds of dust.

  "Humph humph humph—Ah—"

  The Ferocious Wild Boar let out a low roar and charged straight at Mantou, making all the pyers feel the ground tremble.

  Although Mantou was not among the top pyers, he was sidered a professional high-level pyer in immersive games. Seeing this terrifying charge, he instinctively rolled to the side.

  Dust flew up from the ground; Mantou narrowly dodged the charge.

  The Ferocious Wild Boar crashed into the rock behind him, even causing spiderweb-like cracks on the cliff face.

  "So 'Ferocious' means it goes berserk at low health, huh?"

  "This destructive power could definitely one-shot me."

  Mantou couldn't help but pin, but the Ferocious Wild Boar's charge had already arrived amidst flying dust, and Mantou had been forced into a er with o hide.

  "Looks like I'm finally going to give up first blood?"

  Mantou skillfully opehe panel and turhe pain perception to the lowest setting.

  "Holy Sanctuary!"

  A clear female voice came.

  A thin yer of light appeared around Mantou. The wild boar had clearly charged right up to him—even Mantou could hear its heavy breathing and smell its stinking odor—but it couldn't attack Mantou and could only crash into the nearby cliff again.

  This time, the charge was full of power; the boar's thick, long tusks became embedded in the cliff wall, uo be pulled out for a moment.

  "Whoosh—"

  An arrow shot from the side, pierg the wild boar's heart.

  It struggled weakly a few times and finally lost its vitality.

  "I've always said, Bow Warriors are the future."

  A male voice came.

  Mantou turned his head and saw three pyers approag together.

  He reized these three people; they were famous professional pyers in the immersive gaming unity.

  They were the hardcore strategy master "Singo", the super popur professional female pyer with millions of fans "Summer Night Autumn Rain", and the expert who had battled in virtual game petitions for ten years and was said to be able to kill all oppos, "Born Battle Maniac".

  Their current csses were Warrior, Priest, and Barbarian—a very plementary three-person team.

  In front of them, Mantou felt himself shrink; although he also called himself a professional pyer and had tens of thousands of fans, he really couldn't pare with these famous big shots.

  So he said somewhat awkwardly, "Thank you all. Did you e to see me for something?"

  Summer Night Autumn Rain said, "We've watched your videos; they're very good."

  "You're too kind."

  Mantou scratched his head rather embarrassedly.

  Singo got straight to the point: "Mantou, you had fold s when you st logged off, right?"

  "Ah, yes, just lucky."

  Fold s didn't sound like much, but this was genuine gold.

  That was equivalent to 100 silver s, 400 copper s; a hardcrinding pyer taking on all avaible quests day and night without rest would need almost ten days to accumute that, while Mantou purely had dumb luck, finding the gold s that a miner had secretly stashed in the mine.

  Born Battle Maniac said, "Ied in doing a quest with us? We just happen to hat money."

  Mantou was a bit fused: "Why don't you go to those big guilds? They should be happy to have you; this amount of money shouldn't be a problem."

  Although it was still ia testing phase, those wealthy pyers had already formed small guilds, such as "Sword Pavilion", "Golden Club", and "Royal Authority". These small anizations had up to nearly fifty members, many of which became the prototypes of ter big-name guilds.

  Speaking of guilds, Born Battle Maniac got angry and cursed, "Those bastards are really shameless. Every day they have people hogging the quest board, snatg all the good money-making quests, leaving us solo pyers with tribution tasks like moving bricks and repairing walls."

  Singo nodded in agreement, "Guilds? I wouldn't join one even if I were a dog."

  He liked to use the word "dog" when he spoke, which was one of the reasons his haters called him "Singo the Dog". Another important reason was that he remained single.

  Mantou thought for a moment and said:

  "What do you hese gold s for? I'll think about it."

  Summer Night Autumn Rain showed Mantou a produformation.

  【The Mysterious Invitation】

  Number of users: 4 people

  "This invitation burns fiercely, never extinguishing. It take you to unknown realms; what awaits you may be danger or opportunity."

  Product price: 10 gold s

  "This is a em that appeared in the exge; there should be limited stock. Those guilds haven't noticed it yet. We've scraped together only six gold s, so we came to you," Summer Night Autumn Rain added.

  [Lientionally left bnk.]

  "Damn, what kind of invitation is so expe could buy several sets of equipment," Mantou couldn't help but pin.

  Singo said bluntly, "This is the gap between you and top professional pyers. Ten gold s may be very important in the early stages, but they're nothing in the mid to te game."

  "If you use it to buy equipment, you'll only get a pile of scrap metal. But if you buy this kind of quest item, you seize the initiative everywhere and keep winning."

  Summer Night Autumn Rain couldn't help but mediate, "Say a bit less, will you?"

  Singo said expressionlessly, "If he doesn't agree, it only proves he cks vision; we find someone else."

  Mantou smiled awkwardly; he finally uood why this game strategy master was excellent in all aspects yet remained single.

  However, after carefully sidering Singo's words, he felt there was some truth to them, so he readily agreed.

  "Alright, I'll join, but since my share is rger, you o give me more privileges in the subsequent quests."

  "No problem."

  Born Battle Maniac chuckled and readily agreed.

  FAL