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Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 31 - Quick Guild Wipe

“The tower was in the wilderness,” Veyra continued. “It wasn’t marked as a safe zone. If we teleport there now, Syntrix is free to kill us.”

“Did they also get the quest from Heywin?” I asked. “Was that shown on the forums?”

“They did,” Veyra said. “And they have an egg. Heywin gave them the same deal as us. Eight frostfang feathers and four fire seeds, and Heywin gets to keep the pet.”

I thought about our options. “We could try to sell the materi...

B3 Chapter 61 - Evolve Skills

Within the next four hours of slashing monsters, Vivi obtained four skill wisps. Two common, two rare.

The common skills were essentially useless. One of them was another Basic Ascension, and the other was Voice Amplify, a skill that did just what its name implied. It was essentially a voice amplifier in skill form, and very much useless, considering Lucius could already amplify her voice without the skill. He said its sale price was around a thousand ether, which was low enough that Vi...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 30 - My Brain Is Stupid

I could not sleep.

For the life of me, I could not sleep for a single minute, and it had nothing to do with the hard floor mattress provided by The Cave. I felt like I was about to explode with stress. I rolled around on the mattress, getting the blanket all jumbled up.

The two hamsters running my brain were occupied by two all-consuming dreams.

The first one was imagining a really nice and wholesome hug with a certain person, who had an amazing smile—and the second one wa...

B3 Chapter 60 - Twisted

The events in Paradise marked the end of Vivi’s resting period. She no longer had the urge to wander around and smile at people. Instead, her drive to get things done returned with full force.

The first thing she did after waking up was to tell Lucius to send three consecutive signals to Essi to confirm that she hadn’t been killed.

It took ten long and nervous seconds, but Essi did respond with three signals. She was, at the very least, alive. In trouble with her hunting compa...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 29 - Improve Together

Veyra had been right. Dungeon hunting was seriously fun.

Or, well, it wasn’t really the dungeon hunting that was fun. Every monster here was level 350 at minimum, and the rooms only grew more cluttered monsters as we descended. Fighting monsters was stressful and insanely difficult.

Really, the fun came from our teamwork. The dungeon itself was a massive hurdle, but beating that hurdle together was the most fun I’d had in years.

The next room in the cry...

Assassinate Wonderwind Interlude 1 - Quest Surveillance

“Has the Ray Dragon event been received well so far?” Lee Hyunwoo, the Chairman of Wind Virtual Games asked from his seat at the end of the long rectangular table.

The meeting was held directly in Seoul, Korea, and each executive of his developers was present face-to-face. The lights were dim to let the projector better display colors. And generally, Hyunwoo thought the dim lights added to the atmosphere. Wind Virtual was a game developing company, after all.

“Players have c...

B3 Chapter 59 - Practice Partner

There was a reason why Vivi chose the same tree as her spawning point. The chance was slim, but if she was lucky, tonight’s practice session would be far more pleasant. Productive, perhaps not, but fun. She opened her eyes under the scorching sun, squinting as she checked her surroundings.

She felt a presence in the forest. Not a hostile aura of a monster, but more like a calm street lamp in the middle of night. As Vivi spawned, the feeling shifted, as if the lamp was distracted from ...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 28 - Stunlock

Rampant spells greeted me right away as [Arrow Of Time] shot like a cannonball.

This time, I knew it was coming and side-stepped. The arrow was still impossibly fast. If I made a single mistake, it would one-shot me. And that spell would be coming every five seconds.

Veyra wasn’t just watching from the side anymore. She entered with me, her staff held ready. “The next time it starts casting a spell, I’ll lock it in place,” she said.

I noted that in my head, but I had...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 27 - Dream Set

I performed three whole push-ups.

Then I fell under my weight.

Yeah. Three push-ups. And that’s coming from a skinny guy. I was pretty much a skeleton in real life. I definitely needed to start improving my health and physique from now on. For a start, I could probably do push-ups and squats and whatever bodyweight exercises existed. If I didn’t need equipment, I wouldn’t need to leave The Cave, which would be optimal.

I checked the internet for a workout routine, when...

B3 Chapter 58 - Break

Storm season wasn’t over by the time Vivi was back on her feet, though it had calmed down. All twenty-seven storms had broken, their monsters scattering across the level. All that was left was cleanup, killing the remaining wandering monsters.

So, all they had to do was kill around a billion ether worth of monsters.

For now, Shivenar merely defended, while preparing the expedition into the desert that Coshi had planned. The ballistics team was strong enough to deal with almost a...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 26 - Heart Emoji

The air rippled and the walls pulsed upon the monster’s spell. Colors were inverted, and any dust stuck between ceiling bricks fell from the force. This was by far the most violent [Time Eruption] I’d seen.

I instinctively [Shadow Dashed] back. The time eruption moved faster than my dash, and precisely thanks to that speed, the damage passed through my shadowed figure. During [Shadow Dash], my physical body turned into a shadow, letting me avoid damage. I returned to the stairs next...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 25 - Obsessed Assassin

As always, we first checked if any frostfang feathers or fire seeds were listed in the auction house. If they were expensive, we wouldn’t pay for them, but it never hurt to check. And by knowing which player was selling them, we could possibly track them to see where they’d hunted them.

To our surprise, neither item had ever been listed for the auction for any price.

“So,” Veyra said as we entered our room in the same tavern. “Nobody has ever obtained either of these ite...

B3 Chapter 57 - Aftermath

Lucius placed Vivi into deep sleep soon after that and focused on recovery. She had no clue how long the process lasted for. To her, it was all just sleep.

She did see a few dreams. Actual dreams away from Paradise. The type that made no sense, such as swimming in tomato soup, or meeting a faceless mother, or hugging those who were important to her. Vivi’s dreams had never made much sense, but she saw a lot of them, her mind making work of the passing time.

When she came aware o...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 24 - Hermit Mage

[You have arrived in the Wizard’s Tower]

[You are in the Wilderness. The average monster level here is 315.]

A strong scent of old books and scrolls filled my nose. The wood creaked underneath. Around us, the circular walls were covered either by bookshelves or sturdy brick walls. Most bookshelves were full to the brim, but one spot had been saved for a white puffy cat, who watched us suspiciously.

Veyra quickly read the system message of ...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 23 - Who Actually Listens To Lore?

Amolinn, Elder of the Cursed Walkers (NPC, Level 280) was a wretched figure like the rest of the townsfolk, but she wore a much nicer silk robe and a crooked staff. Being level 280, if we messed with her, there was a good chance she’d blast us back to the menu screen.

She sat on her knees on a floor pillow behind a round table, which was so low to the floor that my knees touched its edge when I stood. More pillows were set up for us to sit. The five of us barely fit i...

B3 Chapter 56 - Secrets

“W…” Vivi stuttered in disbelief. “What? Grandpa?”

“Surprised?” Grandpa asked, grinning like some mastermind. “Sorry, I’ve been keeping a few secrets.”

“How are you here?” Vivi asked, her voice barely coming out.

Is he fake? Vivi asked. Is someone tricking us?

“No, skills that change appearance like that don’t exist,” Lucius said, his voice in just as much awe as Vivi’s. “Not even in Paradise. Only spirit...