4 - Despised Career

Translated by rabbitrisu

[Application Rejected]

[Application Rejected]

……

The message that the application to join the team was rejected swept across his screen. Xiao Ran, who had been dazzled by love, now had a thick black cloud above his head.

The Shen Bi career was embarrassing.

In terms of long-range spell damage output, it was inferior to the Spirit Fox and Immortal Scholar. In terms of crowd controls and buffs, it was inferior to the Holy Monk, and for summoning, it was inferior to Puppeteers…

It’s said that they have the highest degree of freedom, and they have the most free skills, but prior to Levels 40 and 60 when their professional talents are unlocked, it was meaningless.

It took an entire 15 minutes to be recruited. Xiao Ran entered and was kicked by 5 or 6 teams, and was now finally waiting to meet his teammates in front of the snowfield.

The captain of his team was a Spirit Fox player. He was followed by a Dragon Power Knight, Divine Doctor, Holy Monk, and an Immortal Scholar, who seemed to be reliable with standard equipment.

If the team didn’t speak too much and just paid the bill, 1 it would be great. If they were overly picky, he would retaliate against society.

Xiao Ran thought secretly, then heard the Spirit Fox player speak: “Do you have Blood Ink Slaughter? If not, the Ink Bamboo Skill is also okay. You should have at least one, right? Otherwise, why are you still here. Our team doesn’t accept soy sauce.” 2

Xiao Ran: “……”

The team had low output from the long-range, mt, healers, and support. Blood Ink Slaughter was a skill that allowed the Shen Bi to exchange blood for a high damage output in a short period of time, whie the Ink Bamboo Skill was a small group attack skill. In general, a Shen Bi in lower level groups would be equipped with the Ink Bamboo Skill, providing the team with spell damage output.

Xiao Ran glanced at the One Thousand Troops and Horses in his skill bar that was countless times more rare than the Ink Bamboo Skill, then glanced at the Spirit Fox player who was full of doubt, and suddenly asked: “Then do you have the Holy Monk’s Root Removal and the Spirit Fox’s Illusion Arrows?”

The Xue Qiu Elites in Han Bing Xue Field had two tricky skills, freezing and cloning, so the Holy Monk’s Root Removal and the Spirit Fox’s Illusion Arrows would benefit the team’s survival rate.

If they had those two skills, why would they accept someone into their team after only a fraction of a minute?

But—

“Of course we have it!”

Xiao Ran’s expression was too ugly, and the Spirit Fox player had to bite the bullet and say it.

The heaven-blessed boss glanced at their skill bars wickedly using his NPC perspective, then smiled coldly.

Spirit Fox player: “……”

There was suddenly a feeling as if he had been stripped naked in public.

Xiao Ran continued twisting the knife: “Why didn’t you bring either of those two skills? I’m not on a soy sauce team.”

When did you hear that we don’t have those two skills? I fucking said that we have them! Is there a problem with your ears! How can it be fixed!

The Spirit Fox player vomited blood in anger: “Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go! Let the heavens know who he’s talking to!”

“That… Captain, he’s already fled.”

“Ei?”

He withdrew from the team, turned around, and fled all in one go.

Ha! It’s so exciting to flee after you’re done!

Our boss was in a good mood.

Xiao Ran left the Han Bing Xue Field instance area and went next door.

There was nobody in the Level 39 Han Bing Xue Field. Were they afraid that they couldn’t enter and went to the Level 34 Xue Village?

Xiao Ran, who suffered from the wintry chill in Han Bing Xue Field, found the meaning of life again in Xue Village.

Of course, it would be better if he didn’t have to work so hard.

“Xiao Ma-gege! Someone is chasing me! Save me, ah! Ei? They’re dead? Thank you, ah.”

“Xiao Ma-gege! I accidentally attracted a lot of enemies! 3 Oh? You have group attack skills, ah.”

“Xiao Ma-gege! The swordsman is about to ot 4 now! Why did you rush up, aaaahhhhh….. emmmmm, such scary defense.”

……

Outside the instance—

“It’s so easy, oh. This Xue Village isn’t that hard, should we do it again?”

Xiao Ran glanced at the five girls and apathetically refused. “No, I have to leave early.”

After struggling the whole morning, he finally entered an instance, but it was a terrible experience. He could deal damage, buff, control monsters, and defend from the boss, ah. How lonely, being invincible… So why doesn’t he do it alone?

As a tragic Shen Bi, Xiao Ran opened the door to a new world by himself.

A white light flashed, and Xiao Ran successfully teleported to the teleportation point in Xue Village.

Under the grey and white sky, cotton-like snowflakes fluttered down in pieces, forming a thick blanket of snow on the ground.

This type of snow layer required the player to operate a certain way. If they didn’t master the skill well enough, they would not be able to pull away after stepping into the snow. It would hinder their speed to some extent, but for the skillful and strong boss, was it an obstacle? Never.

Xiao Ran’s teleportation point was at the foot of a mountain, surrounded by forests and hills. The branches to either side of him were hung with crystalline ice flowers that were very clear and beautiful.

There was only one path leading to an abandoned cottage at the top of the mountain. The cottage had long been abandoned by humans, so now there were just some wild beasts inhabiting it and using it as a safe haven.

There were nine waves of monsters in Xue Village. The attackers were mainly agile stray dogs and snow foxes. Those two monsters were fast and affected players in the snow layer. They ran on top of the snow as if they were on the ground. It was truly difficult for players who weren’t in good positions.

Since he had already played the Xue Village instance once, Xiao Ran didn’t observe too much. He shook the snowflakes off of his hanfu, then rushed forward with his brush.

Xiao Ran’s weapon was a small Level 20 orange brush.

The brush looked cumbersome, but its attack speed was actually very fast. Ciao Ran shot a Hibiscus Trick 5 and hit a stray dog in the middle of the path. With a low bark, the wild dog rushed down on flexible legs from the hillside in Xiao Ran’s direction. Since the timing was right, no more stray dogs were attracted.

The monsters in Xue village were relatively scattered. With the right skills, the monsters could be kited 6 to death without disturbing the monsters next to them. That was why Xiao Ran was so relieved to attract just one.

Xiao Ran ran. While running, he cast his spell skills one by one, causing the stray dog to scream.

The defensive and agile Chiyu Siyuan suit was powerful. Xiao Ran relied on his playful positioning and sharp skills to grind the stray dog to death before it got too close.

The stray dog dissipated as a little golden light, leaving three silver coins.

Xiao Ran picked up the silver coins and continued walking to the next stray dog.

After he spent half an hour clearing three waves of stray dogs, he encountered the first elite miniboss.

The miniboss’s speed was much faster than that of an ordinary stray dog. When it rushed to the front of the hill from the hillside, Xiao Ran didn’t hesitate to cancel the Writing Chapters spell he was casting and switched to the Reed Painting skill. A wall of intertwined vines rose from the miniboss’s feet, blocking its path, and also completely dispelled the the attack bonus brought by the high-speed charge.

Toss the Brush to Break the Spell!

At the location where the brush pointed, Xiao Ran’s figure flashed past, teleporting behind the miniboss. At the same time, the painted vine wall expanded and exploded, and blast wounds floated above the miniboss’s head. 7

Toss the Brush to Break the Spell: teleport to the specified location and cause 100 points of damage within 5×5 meters of painted objects. Increases the damage value of Shen Bi Ma Liang’s paintings. 8

Before the miniboss had time to scream, there was a sharp tingling pain in his spine. It was the pain of a sharp weapon piercing its body!

Stabbing, cutting bone!

Xiao Ran held the brush in his hands at both ends, then with a twisted and a tug, a thick shaft suddenly emerged from the middle. The entire large brush was transformed into a black spear!

The tip of the spear, which was originally a soft brush tip dipped in ink, was erect. It was as hard as a long needle, then came quickly to a closed point. Although it still held the same shape as the brush tip, the material was as hard as iron, and it shone with a cold light.

The Level 20 brush was called an artifact. In addition to its high attack speed, it could be transformed into a spear. The most important reason was to circumvent the weakness of the Shen Bi who had no strength to fight back in close quarters!

After the brush turned into a spear, his attack power was sharpened. The spears’ inherent skills as well as the five second bleeding effect after cutting through bone caused the miniboss’s blood volume to instantly drop below the blood line, and it was frenzied!

This ‘frenzy’ meant that after the target’s blood volume dropped to a certain level, changes would occur and some new tricks would be introduced to deal with the player. In Oracle of the Gods, monsters above the elite level would have the possibility for a frenzy, but not every kind of elite monster would frenzy, and the bloodline of each boss’s frenzy was different. It depended on the player’s understanding of the monster or their consciousness of gameplay operations.

Xiao Ran saw the right time, and before the elite stray dog’s fur could turn red, he used a rare floating skill ‘Floating Flower’ on the spear to push it into the air. At the same time, he started backing up, rapidly retreating to a safe distance, then continued to bombard the miniboss with one spell after another in midair.

The elite stray dog’s frenzy was interrupted by the floating skill. After falling, it ran furiously toward Xiao Ran, but without the rushing speed bonus, how could it surpass our boss?

Five minutes later, the elite stray dog very unwillingly turned into a pile of experience points and dissipated in the snowy forest.

Nothing burst. Tsk, this terrible luck.

Xiao Ran curled his lips, holding his large brush that automatically reverted to its original form. When he was about to continue down the road, a voice request suddenly appeared.

Xiao Ran stared at the ID for a few seconds before remembering it was the Spirit Fox player from earlier.

“Hey?”

“Eh, what are you doing, ma?” The other party’s severe tone was mixed with three quarters of embarrassment.

Footnotes

do what needs to be done useless person aggro is attention from enemies pull aggro (attention) from the tank skill name to kite is to pull something to attack you in a specific location or without letting it reach you Damage taken is displayed as numbers above an enemy’s head in many games reference to the fairy tale