The Amber Sword

Chapter 124 – The observer in the back (1)

The clear laughter pierced through the quiet forest.

Brendel and Ekman raised their heads to the source of the voice, and discovered a short girl sitting on top of a branch. She looked like she was fourteen or fifteen years old, and had twin ponytails that were slightly curled. She supported her round face with both hands and looked at Brendel with interest.

The girl’s clear green eyes was also filled with mirth. She wore traditional leather armor and shook her boots subconsciously.

“Mister Brendel, do you need any help?” The girl asked with a big smile.

“Who are you?” Brendel asked after a moment and narrowed his eyes. The little girl was somehow familiar to him.

“Rauze.” The girl said.

“Rauze?”

Brendel looked at her in silence.

“I wanted to ask you a question but I’m not sure if I want to ask you . If I ask you the question, then I can get the satisfaction of getting the answer, but if I don’t ask you I can get the satisfaction of guessing the answer. It’s so annoying and so conflicting. But if that naughty puppy killed you, wouldn’t I lose that satisfaction? No, no, no!”

[My god. Ekman died in such a horrible manner. Why does it sound like, ‘Well shit, I’m in a bad mood today, I’m doing whatever I want, so fuck you—‘? No matter how I look at it, this girl sounds like the unwelcomed and unreasonable dragon race in the continent.]

“And?” Brendel said.

“I changed my mind. I thought about it enough, and I decided that I want to ask you this question—”

“So you’re going to lose your fun of guessing?”

“Didn’t I say I changed my mind.”

“Very well, what do you want to ask me?”

Rauze pointed at the Golden Apple.

“It has something to do with this?” Brendel looked at her incredulously.

“Mister Brendel, you should very well know the value of the Fairy’s apple, have you not thought about eating it?”

He shook his head. He had already planned his path ahead of him. However, the girl’s attitude had raised his suspicions. He looked at the apple in his hand and wondered if it was fake or if there was some other problem to it.

He never believed that something good would just happen out of nowhere.

“Are you worried that I’m lying to you? Don’t worry, there’s no poison to it this time, but I did add something interesting to it—” The girl answered.

Brendel felt his back grow cold with sweat. It was lucky that he was careful.

“What interesting thing?” He asked, but it seemed like Rauze did not wish to answer.

Instead, she parted the bushes and ran to Ekman’s corpse, then dragged the gigantic monster over like she was dragging a small animal. She knocked it around a few times, then suddenly discovered a longbow before throwing it to the sides.

“Strange, the mana around it is dissipating so quickly. And why is it carrying a longbow?”

[Shit, stop messing the body with your unlucky hands!]

Players discovered in the game that monsters’ drops were affected by the rate of mana disappearing. A bound Magic Weapon could even be damaged from the disappearing mana, and it was dependent on luck as to how many items could be gotten.

Brendel was the called the King of Luckless Hands because the monsters’ mana usually disappeared quickly when he messed around with their bodies. The only person who had even worse luck was his female senior, and her level was at the instant evaporation of mana, leaving almost no items behind. He had the sensibility to leave the looting of corpses to other people, but she was really into looting as though she wanted to defeat the fate of being luckless.

In the end, she failed in her challenge.

But this time Brendel witnessed another person who was as luckless as she was.

A level 65 Boss in a berserk state that was killed perfectly when he was at level 25, yet the first item was a longbow at a Brass-rating (Magic) rarity as a reward.

– Shale Longbow, Brass-rating (magic).

[Please stop, please……! What happened to my promised pauldrons at the Gold-rating (Fantasy) rarity?!] Brendel’s heart was bleeding with tears.