Battle Online: My Luck Is So High It's Basically Cheating

"Ding! You have accepted the quest: The Last Divine Dragon in the World."

Quest Description: Legend has it that the last Divine Dragon remains within the Xuanming Pagoda. Bring it out of the Xuanming Pagoda.

Quest Reward: Boundary Breaking Talisman.

Seeing Lucien accept the quest, a flash of pleasant surprise crossed Tidal Merman Nami’s eyes.

"Then when will you set out?" Tidal Merman Nami asked impatiently.

Lucien thought for a moment and said, "Hmm, I probably still need a month! I’ll go once I reach level thirty; it’s safer that way. There’s only one chance, so I can’t afford to miss it."

"Fine, then work hard on your cultivation! I’ll give you this boundary breaking talisman first. Once you bring out the Divine Dragon, the restriction on it will lift by itself!"

After saying that, Tidal Merman Nami left directly.

Watching Tidal Merman Nami’s retreating back, Lucien felt that something was not quite right.

Even though the boundary breaking talisman had been tampered with, for Lucien, being teleported to Japan didn’t seem like a big deal.

He might as well continue leveling up!

After thinking this, he looked at the monsters that had gathered together again since Tidal Merman Nami’s departure.

However, this time there were no Mermen among the monsters, only some other underwater creatures remained.

He looked toward the monster closest to him.

It was a carp emitting a three-colored glow.

Seven-Colored Fish

Level 35

HP: 50,000

Attack Power: 1,500

Skills: Bubble Attack, Rapid Movement

Description: The Seven-Colored Fish has extremely delicious meat, but because it moves so fast, few people can catch it.

Lucien also knew about this Seven-Colored Fish; a single catty of its meat had a unit price as high as ten gold coins.

And that was just for the most common Seven-Colored Fish meat.

The price for mid-quality meat was as high as a hundred gold coins.

However, to obtain higher quality Seven-Colored Fish meat, one could only use physical attacks or directly catch the fish with a fishing rod.

Using magic attacks would ruin the quality of the Seven-Colored Fish’s meat, resulting in only the most common meat.

It could be said that Seven-Colored Fish was definitely one of the most popular ingredients on the market.

But obtaining Seven-Colored Fish was far too difficult.

Taking advantage of the one hour he had left, he launched an attack on a Seven-Colored Fish.

However, just as he got within one meter of the fish and his sword was about to strike, the Seven-Colored Fish, like a startled bird, instantly swam far away.

In less than a second, the Seven-Colored Fish had appeared several hundred meters away.

Seeing this situation, Lucien’s face darkened.

This fish is way too timid!

I haven’t even gotten close, and you’ve already run away?

And the speed of this Seven-Colored Fish is just too fast!

Even with Lucien’s own Agility of over a thousand, he couldn’t keep up with the opponent’s speed at all.

He then looked at other Seven-Colored Fish, but they were all about the same; as soon as he got slightly close, they would immediately swim into the distance.

Left with no choice, he could only attack other monsters that moved a bit slower.

...

On the other side, Tidal Merman Nami was currently following the river toward the Boundless Sea.

The speed of a level forty Immortal Rank BOSS was definitely not to be underestimated; in just a few hours, she arrived at an exceptionally magnificent palace on the seabed of the Boundless Sea.

No one knew that such a palace actually existed under the sea.

Inside the palace, there were a large number of Mermen patrolling everywhere.

If Lucien were here, he would see that even a common patrolling Merman’s level would definitely not be lower than sixty.

And those leading the Mermen were all dark gold rank BOSSes above level sixty.

However, as soon as these squad leaders saw Tidal Merman Nami, they immediately bowed slightly.

"Princess, you’ve returned!"

Tidal Merman Nami merely nodded indifferently.

Then she swam directly toward the depths of the palace.

In the depths of the palace, sitting upon a throne, was a Merman with a bloated body, wearing a crown, and possessing a loathsome appearance.

"Father, I have returned," Tidal Merman Nami said to the Merman on the throne.

"How are things going?" the Merman on the throne asked lazily.

"Everything is settled. I have found Falling into the Human World. As long as he can take the dragon egg from the Xuanming Pagoda—the one suppressing Japan’s Mount Fuji—our clan will definitely be able to suppress the Fishman Clan."

"Hmm, not bad. This Japan actually dares to interfere in the affairs of our aquatic tribes. If we don’t give them a lesson, I suppose Japan really thinks our Merman Clan is easy to bully!"

It turned out that what Tidal Merman Nami had told Lucien was only half-true.

The war between their Merman Clan and the Fishman Clan was real, and the external help sought by the Fishman Clan was also real.

The Fishman Clan’s external help was the people of Japan.

Because of Japan’s involvement, the Merman Clan had been suffering continuous losses on the battlefield.

This caused the Merman Clan to harbor direct hatred toward the nation of Japan.

Thus, they sent Tidal Merman Nami to the Xuanming Pagoda.

The dragon egg within the Xuanming Pagoda was the key item suppressing Mount Fuji.

Without the dragon egg constantly absorbing Mount Fuji’s energy, Mount Fuji would have erupted long ago.

In fact, it wasn’t just the dragon egg; every country had a dungeon with items that counterbalanced each other.

It was just that only the Merman Clan, because of their relationship with the Divine Dragon Clan, had a slight understanding of these matters.

Unfortunately, because Tidal Merman Nami herself had already exceeded level thirty, she could not enter the Xuanming Pagoda.

And only a very few individuals could reach the top floor of the Xuanming Pagoda.

Those people were all chosen ones, and it was impossible for them to cooperate with the Merman Clan.

Only players, having recently entered Battle Online, could be utilized by the Merman Clan.

However, since the players had arrived in Battle Online, no one had cleared a Hell-difficulty dungeon.

Even though the Merman Clan had been searching Jiuzhou for players with formidable talent.

But for some reason, all those talented players would always meet with various accidents.

She had originally lost hope, but Lucien’s appearance gave Tidal Merman Nami a renewed sense of possibility.

Ever since Lucien cleared the Goblin Dungeon on Hell-difficulty, she had been searching for him.

This time, she was just resting at Tianxing Lake and happened to run into Lucien by chance.

Fearing that Lucien might disagree, she hadn’t told the whole truth.

If Lucien had known, Tidal Merman Nami wouldn’t have needed to plot at all.

Lucien was actually very interested in invading other countries.

If for nothing else, the initial attribute points gained from clearing dungeons in different countries were something Lucien simply couldn’t refuse.

The higher the initial attribute points, the higher his combat power growth would be.

How could he possibly refuse Tidal Merman Nami’s boundary breaking talisman!

Moreover, that dragon egg inside the Xuanming Pagoda was a rare existence that one could only dream of encountering.

Tidal Merman Nami looked at the Merman King as if she had something more to say but was hesitating.

Seeing his daughter’s expression, the Merman King said, "Is there something else?"

Tidal Merman Nami said, "When I was in Jiuzhou, I encountered ninjas from Japan. They seemed to be searching for the legendary national artifact of Jiuzhou, the nine tripods of Jiuzhou."

"If they find the nine tripods of Jiuzhou first and the issue with Mount Fuji is resolved, I’m afraid our plans will fall through."

The Merman King said nonchalantly, "Let them look! If the nine tripods of Jiuzhou were that easy to find, they wouldn’t have been lost for thousands of years."

"The imperial family of Jiuzhou has never given up searching for the nine tripods of Jiuzhou for all these years, yet they’ve come up empty-handed."

"So many people haven’t been able to find them for such a long time; do they think they can find them from that tiny scrap of land?"