Chapter 138: Hatching the Mount Egg!

Xiao Feng separated from his friends in Giant Elephant City.

Xing Yun Miao and the others went first to level up; he needed to prepare to turn in the main quest.

Actually, before turning in the quest, there's no need to prepare for as long as one hour.

The reason I let Shen Di and the others meet up an hour later is just to free up time to study the mount egg.

If the Fury Thunder Divine Eagle's egg hatches successfully, it will definitely be the strongest, coolest, most eye-catching mount since the launch of The Heavens.

Xiao Feng found a system tavern, booked a private room, and took out the mount egg.

The eagle egg, over half a meter in size, looks like its shell is exceptionally thick and hard, emitting a weak lightning effect all over, shining brightly and very cool.

"How do you hatch this thing and bind it as a mount?" Xiao Feng thought to himself.

The eagle egg's hatching progress has reached 88%, only 12% away from hatching.

If he cannot complete the binding before then, binding after hatching might be more troublesome.

Currently, The Heavens' official side has not released any mount-related cultivation system or acquisition method, meaning he can only figure it out himself.

The mount egg's attribute description states that the way to bind it is to inject 1,000,000 points of mana.

Xiao Feng currently has a mana limit of over 6500, which seems a bit low, so it should take quite a while.

He tried reaching out to touch the huge eagle egg.

Sss~

A bolt of lightning appeared on the eggshell's surface, striking his hand and causing a slight numbness.

At the same time, a system prompt sounded.

"Inject mana to help the mount egg hatch?"

Upon hearing that, Xiao Feng suddenly realized.

"Originally, the binding and hatching process are the same; just injecting mana will do."

He chose to agree.

The system received the command, and the eagle egg immediately emitted a suction force, beginning to draw Xiao Feng's mana.

Mana -100, -100 deducted each time, every 1 second a deduction; the speed is not fast but not slow either.

Xiao Feng's robe has a built-in 50 mana regeneration effect, so the actual mana loss per second is only 50 points.

6500 points of mana lasted over two minutes before being drained.

After the mana was exhausted, Xiao Feng checked the mount egg's attributes again.

The hatching progress had increased from 88% to 88.13%, and the binding progress now showed a shortage of 987,000 mana points.

Calculated, every 100,000 mana points equals 1% progress, so 12% equals 1,200,000.

Without taking mana potions, with a mana recovery speed of 50 points per second, Xiao Feng would need 400 minutes to hatch this mount egg.

"This is too long… Is there a faster way?" he thought to himself.

The mount egg absorbs mana at a rate of 100 points per second; if he constantly takes mana potions so that absorption and regeneration balance, the time can be halved, hatching after 200 minutes.

After roughly calculating the cost, Xiao Feng ultimately decided to spend that money!

The mana potion has a 30-second cooldown, recovering 50 mana per second, requiring a total recovery of 1500 points.

The system store currently doesn't have such a large mana potion, but players' secondary profession "Alchemist" can craft higher-quality potions, and dungeon bosses also have a chance to drop premium potions.

Xiao Feng immediately contacted the president of the Treasure Merchant Association, Gao Cai Shen, to inquire about related news.

Gao Cai Shen checked market news for a moment and replied: "The largest mana potion currently on the market is the +1000-point Holy Grade Mana Potion, costing about 10 gold coins each, with limited supply. There is also a percentage recovery potion that restores 30% plus 500 mana, called the 【Source Spring Magic Potion】, priced at 20 gold coins."

Xiao Feng calculated.

With 30% plus 500, that equals over 2450 mana points, which is more than enough.

He only needs to take one bottle every 49 seconds to ensure the mount egg's hatching progress never stops.

As for the cost…

Looking at the unit price, it seems expensive; eating one mouthful costs over a hundred cash, which is outrageous.

But actually, it's only over 170 bottles total; at most a few thousand gold coins, which is nothing to him.

Xiao Feng decisively ordered 200 bottles of Source Spring Magic Potion from Gao Cai Shen.

The Treasure Merchant Association's work efficiency is high; in less than five minutes, the potion was ready.

Xiao Feng made a trip to the shop to complete the transaction, and by the way threw the useless items and scrolls gained from dungeons onto the auction house for consignment.

After all that hassle, it took about twenty minutes total.

With the remaining time, Xiao Feng didn't go anywhere; he just stayed in the system tavern, hatching the egg while waiting for the meeting time to arrive.

Thirty to forty minutes passed, and the mount egg's hatching progress gradually increased to around 91%.

Looking at the time, the agreed-upon meeting time with Shen Di and the others was approaching.

Xiao Feng had no choice but to temporarily put away the mount egg and leave the system tavern.

"Xiao Feng bro, where are you now? Where should we meet?" Zhu Long asked first.

"Flying Bird City Teleportation Array, I'll wait for you there." Xiao Feng replied, and sent the same message to Shen Di and Zhan Tian.

Flying Bird City is the large city nearest to the Level 2 Main City War City.

Xiao Feng was the first to arrive at the Flying Bird City Teleportation Array.

Just as he appeared, an NPC soldier aggressively walked over from the side and shouted his signature line: "Get out of the way! Don't block the path!"

Moreover, his attitude was even worse than before!

Before, he would just shout; at most he'd bump past Xiao Feng's position and do nothing else.

But this time, seeing Xiao Feng not move aside, he actually swung his spear and struck Xiao Feng's arm, forcibly pushing him aside!

-500

A damage number appeared above Xiao Feng's head.

Holy crap, that's over the top!

NPCs are beating people in the street—is there any law left?

The worst part is, if a player attacks someone they get wanted, but when an NPC attacks them they can't even retaliate—the opponent's health bar is green, and unless you turn on hostile attack mode, you can't hit them!

"Xiao Feng bro, what's going on? Bullied by NPCs again?" Zhan Tian had just happened to arrive at Flying Bird City as well; seeing this, he couldn't help but laugh.

Many people know about Xiao Feng's curse, and he has also seen Xiao Feng being given dirty looks by NPC soldiers more than once.

But this level of aggression? This is the first time.

Xiao Feng said helplessly: "After learning that Necromancer Forbidden Spell, I ended up like this. Sigh, I feel I should join the Abyss and go against those god followers."

The idea of tearing down the main city has occurred to him before—it's not the first time.

These NPCs have terrible attitudes; if it weren't for the fact that he doesn't want to harm other players out of loyalty to his Longguo nationality, he would have already gone to war with them!

Even a demigod-level city lord might not be able to stop him!

Because he can directly unleash an apocalyptic calamity where he stands!

An apocalyptic calamity with 15 times the scale and 10,000 times the power is enough to destroy any system structure!

... At the very least, destroying it for a few seconds is no problem; whether it can recover is unknown.

"Zhan Tian, Zhu Long, you've both come."

Shen Di and Zhu Long's figures almost simultaneously appeared in the Teleportation Array.

The three guild leaders and Xiao Feng met up, and a small party was instantly formed.

"Xiao Feng bro, you lead the team; we'll just wait to get rich!" Zhu Long said with a smile.

The amount of gold coins these three people carry is immeasurable; if placed in the real world, they'd basically be three walking bank vaults!

Yeah, go, first teleport to Level 4 Chengshi Canglu City.

Xiao Feng nodded, as team leader he took the initiative to set the teleport destination, pulling his teammates along.

After arriving at Canglu City, he said again: "We need to exit the West City Gate and head west for 980 kilometers to reach War City. The road is a bit far; you guys should get speed boots to make the journey faster."

What did you say?

980 kilometers???

Holy crap, run 980 kilometers on foot?

Hearing his words, the three guild leaders stared in shock, eyes wide open.