Novel Bin Chapter 134 - Wind-battered Fishing Hat
Chapter 134: Wind-battered Fishing Hat
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
[Player Windcloud Temptation has successfully reached the finals and entered the depths of the Water World.]
[Player Maylia has successfully reached the finals and entered the depths of the Water World.]
[Player Cat in Tiger’s Clothing has successfully reached the finals and entered the depths of the Water World.]
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However, the players currently could not even exclaim in time because another ten players were teleported one after another into the finals map after Li Yi.
Li Yi’s Wind-battered Fishing Hat was indeed very powerful but he was not a pure lifestyle player after all. Nonetheless, the number of pure lifestyle players in King of Pantheon was not insignificant because even if there were less than one million people, they were still over five hundred thousand. They were certainly not up to par in regards to PK but Li Yi could not surpass them in terms of fishing skills.
White light flashed before his eyes as Li Yi appeared in the depths of Water World.
This map had a little island as its center, but the difference between it and the first map was that the ponds could be found everywhere around the little island before him. He could also see various species of fish that were happily swimming around.
Li Yi took out a small piece of fresh meat from his Backpack and hung it on his fishing hook. Then, he cast it into one of the ponds below his feet.
There was a school of strange fish with tiger stripes that was swimming around in the pond below his feet. This type of fish was called the Tigerskin Fish and it was a fish species that was so distinctive to the depths of Water World that it could only be hooked and baited with fresh meat.
The fishing bait violently vibrated while Li Yi spared no effort to lift it horizontally before he pulled up a Tigerskin Fish.
Li Yi did not stop to rest at all after he had hooked the Tigerskin Fish. Instead, he took hurried steps forward before he rushed into a pond downwards.
Suddenly, Li Yi’s heart dropped when he opened the Fishing Grand Prix ranking board.
The placings on the Fishing Grand Prix ranking board were frequently changing. Right now, Snickersnee was ranked at first place with a result of 695 points, along with Windcloud Temptation was ranked second with 679 points while Li Yi was ranked thirteen with 551 points — he could not even enter the top ten.
F*ck this group of OPs!
Despite wearing a Wind-battered Fishing Hat on his head and knowing very well the fishing spots’ respawning locations, he had yet to actually drag these OP players down, which was truly unbelievable.
Li Yi complained while simultaneously increasing his fishing speed. He had used his Fiery Boots special skill, Crimson Tiger King, and basically all of the accelerating items.
The scores on the ranking board intensely fluctuated. Windcloud Temptation who ranked second quickly caught up after that and overtook Snickersnee in five short minutes. He was currently ranked at first place with a score of 700 points!
Although Li Yi did all he could to pursue them, it was tragic that his ranking did not improve. Instead, it dropped by one ranking as well.
“Bang!”
Li Yi hooked up a long-tailed Atlantic blue marlin and his ranking immediately went up. It leaped five rankings forward which then put him at ninth place.
One’s points would increase by 20 every time they hooked one type of fish. If it was a rare type, their points would be multiplied once. However, if they continuously caught a single type of fish, that fish would only give them one measly point.
So, they had to constantly hook new species of fish. They were in for a good time if they hooked rare ones time and time again because in that case, they could leap to the first five places after two or three times.
As the Fishing Grand Prix was anxiously ongoing, the players that were being teleported to this map increased. Fortunately, Li Yi had successfully left the little island before all of the great forces arrived.
When Li Yi ran to the edge of the little island to take a look, he was so angered to the point where he did not know how to react.
One player was stood on each of the boats that had respawned on the side of the island. Yet these players neither fished nor rowed away. They simply stood still on their boats.
They were too shameless.
They had occupied all the boats but did not want to row or move them. By doing this, no more new boats could respawn or appear while other players would have no way of competing with them.
“Windcloud Dummy, Windcloud Laughter, Windcloud Bebe... F*ck, they’re all members of the Windcloud Clan.”
Although the people who stood on the boats had hidden their names, Li Yi could recognize who they were when he saw their faces.
Without an exception, all of them were from the most prestigious family in the Western Continent, the Windcloud Clan.
Their rankings were not low either but to protect Windcloud Temptation’s position in the first place, they had actually given up on advancing. This really made Li Yi speechless.
So, Li Yi jumped into the water and swam forward.
He could not get himself entangled with them. Otherwise, the distance between them would only grow further.
Li Yi swam further and further away. He gradually left the little island but he immediately stopped when he discovered a fishing spot. He fished while his body was still half-immersed in the water.
Although he was very unhappy with this current method of fishing, this was the only way he could do it without a boat.
Snickersnee’s ranking had risen again but nobody knew what he had caught for his points to take a sudden leap to 780 points. With that, it allowed him to directly overtake Windcloud Temptation’s 776 points and take the lead successfully.
Li Yi currently had 650 points and was lacking by over a hundred points.
He still needed to increase his efforts!
Li Yi had no other alternative but to fish in the water. Since ground mounts could not be used in the water, he could only rely on swimming as a way to go forward.
Damn Ice Toad King, it was really annoying that it could not swim even though it was a toad.
Li Yi cursed a few times before he swam forward with great effort.
The mist before his eyes gradually vanished before Li Yi saw two people in front of him.
The bare-chested youth who was riding a tortoise while fishing was actually Snickersnee while the other person was a female player. She rode a blue seahorse and had an exquisite little face that could be as seductive as she wanted. In the words of an expert, this girl had the face of a mistress.
She was none other than one of the Windcloud Clan’s key figures, Windcloud Temptation.
This was what they called a pure lifestyle class player.
Li Yi helplessly sighed before flinging his rod away.
The Tortoise Mount was fairly unconventional but its appearance was definitely considered trendy. Perhaps it only had one function because even though it could be used to fish with a hook and rod, the probability of hooking something was realistically too difficult.
With this item, you could hook something up even if you did not place your rod properly. All you need was explosive luck. However, if you were unlucky, it was quite a normal situation if you still failed to hook something after an extremely long period of time.
This was the item that was known to be something that could not be hooked even with a million rods. It was also known as something that had made numerous pure lifestyle class players cry and a God-tier mount that made the main tank class weep.
The Tortoise Mount’s SPD on land was 20% while its SPD in water was 100%. Of course, this was unimportant while the crucial part was that it would passively increase its owner’s basic HP limit by 10%.
To be able to hook up a God-tier mount like this, He was truly a powerful individual.
When he looked at Windcloud Temptation’s Seahorse Mount again, Li Yi envied it even more. This item could not be used on land but its SPD in the water could reach 150%. It was faster than the tortoise and it could passively give its owner a 100 point increase in INT. Though the method of obtaining it was even harder than getting a Tortoise Mount.
The Seahorse Mount could only be obtained by fishing in the deep sea. Moreover, if a player did not have a Tortoise Mount or other types of water mounts, they would not be able to withstand the water pressure in the deep sea even if they took potions to help them breathe underwater. They could stay there for 1 minute at most before they had to get out of the deep sea, or else they would drown to death.
There was only one way to do it, and that was to purchase an expensive potion to let them move above the water. This would allow them to float on the surface of the water while they engaged in fishing with a line and hook.
Even if they desired to obtain a Seahorse Mount, it was definitely an impossible task if they did not have amazing willpower or conditions.
“Your Tortoise is really great.” Windcloud Temptation smiled sweetly at Snickersnee.
“So is your Seahorse.” Snickersnee teasingly smiled but purposely avoided looking at her.
Li Yi directly sidestepped both of them and went forward to fish.
When the people without water mounts were fishing with those who had mounts, the pressure was huge.
Now, the points of those who were ranked at the top ten on the ranking board were extremely close. Li Yi was constantly going back and forth between ninth and tenth place. Even though he was desperately pursuing it, he remained at a standstill.
By looking at it from the surface, Li Yi’s current performance was very exhausting. Yet in reality, his Fishing Mastery was increasing at lightning speed while his Wind-battered Fishing Hat required the support of an extremely high Mastery for it to display its true power.
Now that he had obtained this godlike hat, it would be really disappointing if he could not even advance and enter the top ten.
The bobber moved back and forth in the water, and that meant that a big fish had bitten the hook.
Li Yi held his breath and pulled it back in a roundabout manner while he spared no effort in raising it upwards.
System Notification: [The fish has broken free from the hook...]
F*ck!
On the other hand, Snickersnee and Windcloud Temptation were comparatively energetic. Both of them were competing and advancing all along; wherever one went, the other would follow. Their fishing scores were also the same as their points moved up and down. One of them would always be ahead of the other and vice versa. They were fighting quite intensely even though both of their scores had greatly surpassed the player in third place by over a hundred.
The benefits of owning an underwater mount were becoming clearer. Its SPD was fast, and the success rate of fishing while sitting on a mount was much higher than soaking half of your body in the water.
By fishing on this map, the drop rates of Tattered Treasure Bags increased again. Within a short period of time, Li Yi had obtained more than 100 Treasure Bags. Though, he did not open them. Instead, he accumulated them all this while because he was waiting to open all of them in one go after collecting a few more.
More than ten types of rare items had already appeared on the System’s announcements such as Reinforced Resurrection Spell Skill Tomes, Forbidden Spell Skill Tomes, and gold-colored rare equipment among other things had all appeared already.
That item was the only thing that was lacking.
Li Yi kept staring at the System’s announcement spam.
When the ranking board’s total score had reached 1000 points, the players would be teleported to the final map, Ultimate Water World to engage in the final ranking battle.
The final map only allowed the first ten players on the ranking board to enter, and this was the reason as to why Li Yi had been frantically advancing his ranking all along.
Up until the present, that item had yet to be discovered by anyone. So, only one possibility was left, that it was completely impossible for that item to appear in the Treasure Bags that were produced on the last two maps, and it would only be produced on the final map. If this was truly the case, then he really could not lose.
The System’s rainbow-colored messages appeared again. Windcloud Temptation was the first one to enter the Ultimate Water World map before Snickersnee was also teleported inside about 7 seconds later.
At this moment, Li Yi’s ranking dropped again to the 11th place.
Fishing and PK were two completely different things. Li Yi’s PK skills were definitely first-class, but when it came to fishing, he was lacking in more ways than one. Without angling experience over a long period of time, he would only lose out despite wearing the godlike Fishing Hat.
[Player Maylia has successfully reached the grand finals and entered the Ultimate Water World. The current number of places left: 3/10.]
Two minutes later, the player who was ranked third was teleported inside, followed by fourth place, fifth place...
Li Yi lifted his fishing rod but as another big fish escaped, it caused his ranking to drop by another place again. That instantly discouraged him.
F*ck, he was actually going to lose.
Li Yi listlessly flung his rod into the water while his mood turned gloomy.
A player named Inhuman’s Popularity greatly exploded when he actually hooked a super rare Seal Mount!
A System Notification in bold red letters appeared. That player named Inhuman who was previously ranked at the 19th place now experienced a lucky turn of events when he hooked the Seal Mount because his ranking immediately soared by 10 spots straight to the ninth place!
F*ck!
Including Inhuman, 9 players had already entered the Ultimate Map while his current ranking had presently dropped to 15th place.
There was no more hope and he had truly lost tragically.
Ding!
When Li Yi had completely lost his will to fight, the sound of a cheerful System Notification echoed beside his ear. [Your hook has been bitten by a super rare species of fish...]
Li Yi stared blankly before he pulled it out from the water with a gust of great strength. It dragged him a few hundred meters forward when he pulled it but he did not stop at all...
It was a super rare big fish!
Li Yi was suddenly ecstatic.