Lilim Heritage Online 183 Power Difference

After Misha was aware that she could not farm diamonds from the casual server, she looked into another means to acquire diamonds, buying from the market.

'I still have 40 billion MWD in the bank. Since diamonds are cheap ATM, I should stock them before the price goes up when the game gets more popular.'

Misha temporary logged out of the game to see her grandmother, asking her for assistance to buy diamonds with her MWD. 

Grandmother Min had a wry smile when she heard of Misha's plan. The diamond price dropped after the Milky Way Government sold all of their diamonds to prevent the sudden economic crisis. From a million dollar for one diamond, the price was 250,000 dollars for a diamond, and the trending revealed that it would drop further. 

"They will drop to less than 100,000 MWD per diamond soon since Lilith has disabled all VRMMO mining channels. Are you sure you want to buy all the diamonds in the market now?"

"Will it expose our current location to MWG?"

"Obviously, they'll find us the moment you move your bank money. But you don't have to worry. I don't think they have enough resources and manpower to wage war with us. I doubt they can support a fleet anymore without VRMMO mining."

"Okay. Then, help me buy diamonds. Use all of my money."

"That's 40 fucking billion dollars. Are you really sure? That's all your saving money."

"Do it, please."

"… Okay, but I won't buy everything at once. Do you need diamonds right away?"

"No. I just want to invest in diamonds before LHO gets popular."

Min's expression turned solemn when Misha mentioned LHO. Since Mia got stuck in the game and was taking the role of the main villain, she also wanted to rescue him and bring him home. 

"Is it still a death game?"

"I'm playing on the casual server. No death or injury can apply to our real body. But I have to get my in-game character stronger than my current power, so I can use it to bring Mia back."

"I reckon that he's on the hardcore server, though."

"A character from the casual server can migrate there. It's safer to build a fake avatar for a rescue mission."

"I doubt that your character and your life won't link together after you migrated to the hardcore server."

"I know. But it's better than joining the hardcore server and risk my life in there without any info."

Grandmother Min sighed, "Did you try to contact Mia by bribing Lilith?"

Misha was shocked, "We can!?"

"We can, you bonker banana! Try to contact him if you care for him! He might have his own reasons to roleplay as the game villain. If Lilith asks for a high price, tell me. Then, I'll give you some money and diamonds."

Misha was enlightened. She consulted Min about how she could contact Lilith in detail. 

Without further ado, she contacted Lilith from her real dimension for the first time with grandmother Min's assistance. 

[Hah? Misha? What do you want?]

"Hello, Miss Lilith. Can I ask you for a favor?"

[Favor costs money. Depends on the favor, I'll charge you some diamonds.]

"Oh, I know. Can you be a medium, so I can communicate with Maou Mia? I meant … Mia, the Demon King in the hardcore server."

[Can't do. All details about Mia is classified.]

"Can't you help? We are your good customers, you know? We are VIP10."

[Can't do. Won't do. And too lazy to do any time soon. Also, tell your grandmother that this trick won't work. She had also pestered me about this matter too many times already, and I can't disclose any information about what he is doing.]

Lilith cut off their communication. 

Misha turned to her grandmother, who had heard the conversation. 

Min sighed and shook her head. She confessed. 

"I'm sorry, Misha. I had already tried my luck. Since it doesn't hurt to have you try for once, I didn't tell you."

Misha saddened. She wanted to know if he was alright in that world. 

Min patted her head, "Don't worry about him. Since he's that strong in the hardcore server, I doubt anyone can harm him."

"… Okay."

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Finished with the diamond investment, Misha went to see Shurka next to explain about the game details and the oddness of this game. 

Shurka was relieved that it would not be that dangerous anymore. She agreed to join Misha in the game, so they could play together. Also, she was curious about the soul room that Misha had warned her. 

Misha wanted to train Shurka first. But since the girl was enthusiastic and said that she was confident in her imagination power, Misha let her do what she wanted. 

Thus, Misha returned into the game again. 

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When Misha got back, she returned to the dark forest where she had logged out. 

Walter and Arthur had already disappeared from their trailer, but Misha knew that they should have been around here somewhere. 

*Mew!* (Mish, let's grind our level. We didn't grind our regeneration skill because of those bananas. Let's get hurt and get stronger!)

It sounded wrong and weird, but Misha agreed with Tama. 

"Let's bait a monster with 1000 power range, so we won't get in trouble."

*Mew* (Use your free attributes, too. Do you want to save it and cook them into meth?)

"…"

Misha was embarrassed. She forgot about her free status points. 

Since the free attribute points were included in her total strength when the game calculated their gained EXP, there was no reason to leave it unassigned. 

As usual, Misha put everything into her VIT to increase her survivability. 

Her VIT changed from 65 to 141, and her max HP became 141, the same as her VIT. 

*Mew* (We're ready. Let's go.)

"I'll have to rely on your tentacles, Tama."

*Meh-Heh Mew!* (Count on me! I'm an engineer!)

"And I'm a cook. Hahaha!"

*Meh* (Yeah, right. A meth cook.)

The duo slowly entered the forest in caution, looking around for a monster. 

Misha tried to use her 3D sense, just like Mia usually did. 

It worked. She could sense life signatures of many strong monsters in the area. 

After Misha had checked everything in the range of 500 meters in the forest, she found a prey. 

It was a corroding zombie, a black zombie that Misha had to run away in the early days during the closed beta test. 

She checked its strength. Its total power was 1500, which could spell trouble for someone with 456 strength. 

Still, it was the weakest monster in the surrounding area as the average power was in the 2000s. The strongest one was a mutated tree, with a unique tag [Boss] on its head. It had a staggering 5000 in overall stats. 

Misha picked a rock and threw it at the 1500-power zombie's head. 

The corroding zombie screeched in anger. Its head split open, revealing its flower mouth as it ran toward Misha like a cheetah. 

From 300 meters away, it got closer to Misha by 250 meters within nine seconds. With 50 meters more, it would reach her. 

In the next second, the zombie leaped at Misha with its mouth wide open. 

*MYA!*

Tama's tentacles burst from Misha's chest and skewered the zombie. 

The monster's HP bar reduced by half while Misha lost 40 HP as a price of Tama's attack.

*SCREECH*

The monster spasmed and screamed, attracting more monsters into the area. 

Misha's blood also left a strong iron scent, which got the attention of many predators. 

As suggested by Arthur, Misha took out a small meth crystal in her hand. 

"Tama, hurry!"

*Mew* (Damn, it's tough. Give me a second. I can't pull out my arms.)

"Tendril it. Make your arms barbed and spin it like a drill!"

*MYA!* (Good idea!)

Tama treated her tentacles as if they were the main blood veins. She created more branches around her arms like capillaries as she made those small thin branches into sharp blades as grinders.

Then, Tama spun her tentacles, turning them into drills with grinders. 

Meat juices shredded from the zombie's body as Tama damaged its inner organs. 

The improvising worked as the corroding zombie's HP bar was empty. 

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Thanked the VIP10 Privilege, the EXP bonus helped a lot. 

Still, it was not the time to celebrate because all hell was coming to Misha. 

Followed Arthur and Walter's advice, she flashed a meth crystal and waved it around to show it to the monsters. 

As expected, the monsters paused and stared at the small crystal, drooling. 

At that moment, Misha threw it away as far as she could, "GO FETCH!!"

The action was absurd, stupid, silly, and questionable on many levels. Yet, monsters chased after the small crystal as if it was a treasure. 

Using this chance, Misha ran as if her life depended on it. 

*ROAR*

Not every monster was stupid. Some of them were not into meth, but blood. Five bear zombies with 2500 power tags chased after Misha. 

*Mew!* (Mish, incoming from six o'clock!)

"Can you use acid fluid? Spray it and buy me some time!"

Misha took a green gel and passed it to Tama, hoping that she could energize herself with it. 

Tama did not betray Misha's expectations. She transformed the wings behind Misha into two tubes, spitting acid bullets at the bear zombies as if they were pea shooters from a certain Pl*nt VS Zombie game. 

The acid got to their eyes, and they cried in pain. However, Tama let one of them got closer on purpose. 

*Mew Mew* (Keep running at that speed, Mish. I have a plan! And do me a favor, put all your new points into STR. I need strength boost!)

"OKAY!"

Misha put 40 points into her STR right away, increasing it from 50 to 90.

Tama could feel her strength soared. Using this opportunity, she spat two more acid bullets at one of the bear's eyes. 

Then, she transformed her two tentacles from Misha's back into two blades. She chopped them down onto the bear. 

*SWUA*

*SWUA*

1!

1!

The two blades slashed down and got stuck into the bear's skull. Yet, its HP only reduced by one per hit, which shocked Tama. 

*MYA!* (Holy cat! It's tough!)

"We're almost 2000 power apart! Why are you fighting it!?"

*Mew* (That thing is a huge walking EXP! If we kill it, we can get about 29k EXP, you know? That's several levels at once!)

"Don't be greedy. Prioritize our survival first and grinding second!"

Tama pulled back her tentacles and spat acid at the bear again. 

The bear was blinded and stopped chasing Misha. 

At that moment, she could have turned around and fought the bear, but more zombies and other weird creatures were coming at them because of the commotion and the smell of Misha's blood. 

Panicked, both Misha and Tama's brain.exe temporarily stopped working as they only focused on fleeing into the city.

Chapter end