Retrograde Gaming - Chapter 23
Chapter 23: Dungeon
Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
In the mountain forest region, east of the City of Divine Protection, at the entrance of the dungeon, Viper Cave. The three main forces of the Red Detachment of Women guild, Guild Leader Red Moon, Rogue Red Bloodstain, and Mage Red Dust Misty Rain were already at the entrance of the dungeon.
Red Moon was a defensive warrior in a suit of martial light armor, on top of a confident smile, she also gave people a favorable impression and made them feel that she was trustworthy.
Red Bloodstain was a woman in her thirties, her age seemed to be greater than the guild leader’s by a few years, her class was Rogue, and she was in a suit of black leather armor, the design of what she was wearing looked somewhat gloomy. However, she had quite a sweet smile on her face—overall, she could be categorized as a high-class domineering older sister.
The last person was the chilly, cold beauty, Red Dust Misty Rain. The three women each had their own charming points, this added another attractive scenery to the originally lively dungeon entrance.
“Misty Rain, is Little Water really dragging over the expert, Kickass Brother?” Red Moon asked to confirm this. Yesterday night, she heard that Little Water actually accompanied an expert on a robbing spree, and they had even successfully robbed over 20 Gold Coins. This shocked her a little. At first, she didn’t know what to do with the money, but afterward, when she read the thread on the forum, she finally knew what had happened. Although she found it a little strange, since the Kickass Brother, who supposedly lacked money, actually split half of it with Little Water. She still accepted the money nevertheless—after all, she was the leader of a guild, such a large amount of money in the early-stages was greatly beneficial to a guild’s development. Besides, Kickass Brother was pursuing Red Dust Misty Rain, who was in her guild—giving a little money was a must.
Originally, they prepared to uncover the Viper Cave dungeon today. The guild’s main Hunter, Red Pennant, was already level 14, she was a little short of leveling up to level 15. They originally planned to party together and level up in the morning, bringing Red Pennant to level 15, and then uncover the dungeon in the afternoon. However, unexpectedly, they received Red Face Drinks Waters call in the morning—she said she was dragging an expert over and had them gather and wait at the dungeon’s entrance.
“That little lass…” Red Dust Misty Rain was a little angry. Yesterday, her younger cousin said that she wouldn’t find that pervert, but in the end, she went behind her back this morning. After recalling how her younger cousin was so obedient yesterday, she figured that all of this was already planned.
“Guild leader, don’t worry, isn’t he pursuing Little Sister Misty? He’ll definitely rush over here eagerly,” Red Bloodstain suddenly laughed and said.
“Second Sister, you…” Red Dust Misty Rain stomped her feet anxiously. It was all that pervert’s fault! How was she going to explain herself now?
As they were chatting, Red Face Drinks Water’s loud and clear voice could suddenly be heard from very far away, “Here! Here! Sister Moon, Sister Bloodstain, and older cousin! I’ve dragged the man here! Over here! over here!”
The three girls turned their heads, and as expected, Red Face Drinks Water came over with a young man in a three-piece plain cotton clothing outfit—this entrance style was indescribable.
After seeing the three girls in front of him, Li Huailin was confused. Weren’t they surrounded by people from a large guild? It didn’t seem like it. Did they come late? Was the matter already taken care of?
“I assume that this is Kickass Brother. I’m the Red Detachment of Women’s Guild Leader, Red Moon. It’s nice to meet you.” Guild Leader Red Moon stepped forward in a very natural way, and at the same time she extended her right hand in a handshake posture.
“Oh, hello.” Li Huailin also reached out with his right hand and held the other side’s hand lightly. However, he laughed on the inside—the guild leader of the Red Detachment of Women’s name also started with the word red. He really guessed right.
“I’m called Red Bloodstain, and I’m the deputy leader,” Red Bloodstain didn’t intend to shake hands with Li Huailin, but she still spoke and introduced herself.
“I’m Open-Minded Like A Forest. You guys can call me Huailin,” Li Huailin also introduced himself. “Oh that’s right, weren’t you guys surrounded by people from a large guild? What happened? Where are they?”
“A large guild?” After Red Moon heard this, she was baffled. “There’s such a thing?”
With this said, the three girls all understood something and immediately turned their gazes toward Red Face Drinks Water. “Little Water!”
“Cough! Cough…” Red Face Drinks Water immediately hid behind Red Dust Misty Rain. “Oh right! Sister, brother-in-law was quite concerned about you, so he immediately rushed over once he heard you were surrounded, and he even said he would cut down those who surrounded you into eighteen sections.”
Li Huailin was really caught between laughter and tears now. He naturally also understood that he was actually tricked by this little girl. It was mainly because he found the best way to die that he didn’t think much about this matter in a moment of joy, he became careless.
“Oh? He ran over once he heard we were surrounded?” Red Bloodstain coyly smiled at Red Dust Misty Rain as she said this.
“Sigh… this…” Li Huailin was also startled. At first, he ran over to provoke a large guild, but now, his objective seemed a little ambiguous.
Even Red Dust Misty Rain was a little embarrassed now, she couldn’t help but blush out.
“Sorry about this Huailin, Little Water told us that she called on you to help us with a dungeon, I honestly didn’t know you were duped into coming here,” Red Moon said, a little embarrassed.
“Oh right, brother-in-law, let’s do a dungeon together! It’ll definitely be fun to do a dungeon with brother-in-law.” Red Face Drinks Water immediately jumped out again, “And, if we do this dungeon together, you’ll be spending more time with my sister, isn’t that great?”
“Dungeon…” Li Huailin considered this for a short while. “Does this dungeon give a lot of experience?”
“Experience given by the monsters in the dungeon isn’t all that much, but a large amount of experience can be obtained according to the rank evaluation at the end, it should be quite a lot overall. However, our main purpose here is to acquire equipment, the matters with the evaluation and other things won’t be considered for the time being.” Red Moon was quite forthcoming about their plans.
“Okay…” Li Huailin was at a loss. He didn’t respond for the time being.
“Ah, Sister, hurry up and tell Brother-in-law. If you put in a word, brother-in-law will definitely go!” Upon seeing Li Huailin hesitate, Red Face Drinks Water immediately nudged Red Dust Misty Rain.
“Yeah, persuade him quickly, the guild needs your power.” Red Dust Bloodstain continued to tease her.
“This…” Red Dust Misty Rain considered for a short while, and then she looked at Guild Leader Red Moon, who was currently waiting for her to declare her position, she clenched her teeth. “Hey, pervert, let’s go together.”
Li Huailin was still considering the gains and losses. He thought that since he couldn’t level (seek) up (death) right now, he would roam around, and when after seven days was up, he could just die two times to make up for the experience lost. Besides, it didn’t seem suitable to leave right now. As he just happened to hear someone say ‘let’s go together’, he responded without thinking, “Alright, let’s go.”
“Oh~” Red Bloodstain called out strangely. “You two… have a thing going on…”
“I…” Red Dust Misty Rain was anxious all of a sudden, she immediately asked Li Huailin, “Why did you agree?”
“Huh?” Li Huailin was baffled as he once again replied thoughtlessly, “I love; therefore I agree.”
“Oh~ Love~” Red Bloodstain immediately found the perfect key-word.
“You!” Red Dust Misty Rain’s beautiful eyes swept a fierce glare at Li Huailin, she turned away and didn’t speak anymore.
“Okay, okay, you two quarrelsome but loving couples, please wait until we first do the dungeon before you get back to your murmuring endearments,” Guild Leader Red Moon also couldn’t help but tease her.
“There’s no such thing… he…” Red Dust Misty Rain was quite flustered, she wanted to explain but couldn’t properly do so.
“Yeah, yeah, let’s clear the dungeon first.” Li Huailin was also quite troubled by this, he hurriedly changed the topic, “Let’s go! Let’s go and get it done quickly.”
“Wait…” Red Moon looked at Li Huailin, who was heading into the dungeon. She immediately stopped him and asked, “Huailin, you’re going in the dungeon with that equipment?”
“Hm?” Li Huailin was at a loss for a moment, he then looked down at his newbie three-piece outfit. “I only have this set of equipment. What else would I wear?”
“What?! You only have this set of equipment? Didn’t you rob over 20 Gold Coins yesterday? What was all that money spent on?” Red Bloodstain couldn’t help but shout out.
“For me, wearing equipment is…” Li Huailin almost wanted to say ‘equipment will drop when I die, so it’s no use,’ but he hurriedly sealed his mouth and changed his lines to, “It’s mainly because I’m just too kickass. It even feels a little like I’m bullying the monsters—if I wear equipment, I would feel sorry for hitting them.”
“What?” The four girls were really all at a loss, they’d never heard this kind of explanation before.
“Don’t worry, you’ll see my ways,” Li Huailin said with complete confidence. After finishing this statement, he wanted to enter the dungeon again.
“Wait!” Red Moon spoke again to stop Li Huailin.
“What’s the matter now… Lord Guild Leader…” Li Huailin turned his head again.
“You haven’t partied up with us yet…” Red Moon looked at Li Huailin, who even forgot to party up with them. She began to worry even more—was this truly an expert?
“Oh, I forgot,” Li Huailin had never partied up before; he didn’t even party up yesterday when Red Face Drinks Water was going on a robbing spree with him. “You guys invite me.”
System Notice: Red Moon invites you to join the party. Do you accept, Yes or No?
“Yes.”
System Notice: You have joined a party.
“What? Level 12?!” A burst of cries in surprise could be heard.
