Rebirth of the Legendary Guardian

by Stayrr

The phoenix is a creature of legends, a wonder of the world, an imagery of life and destruction. This fabled creature signifies the rise of a hero in a virtual world where battles occur for the sake of honor and glory! Zhang Yang was a professional gamer in the first and most fantastic game that revolutionized the world: God’s Miracle. A game where traditional knowledge in RPGs di

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Chapter 141: Aura Effect

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The centaur warrior let out a series of roars in rage, once again flailing the long spear in his hands about, finally drawing first blood on Zhang Yang.

'-1,312!'

The attack was really ferocious, it's basic damage must have gone up to 2,000!

But Zhang Yang had help from [Servant: Clear Lotus, his damage per second has exceeded 1300. To strike down the mere 35,000 HP of the centaur warrior would only take about 30 seconds or so! With all sorts of survival skills activated, he could blast the centaur warrior to death without budging an inch.

"Ding! You have defeated the Centaur Warrior, received 100000 experience points, centaur reputation 125!"

After attempting to speak further to Andark Kukulo garnered no response, Zhang Yang stepped up to his face. The centaur finally said, "The warriors are resting now, you should come back another time!"

Since he had much time to spare, Zhang Yang went out to the outskirts of the valley to train and level-up. After an hour, he would go back for another challenge. Within a day, his experience bar had increased to 91% of level 32, but his centaur reputation had only increased by 1,500 points, it would take some time before it reaches 6,000 points.

On the other hand, without Zhang Yang as their main tanker, Han Ying Xue and the gang did not adjust well, they could barely handle the dungeons, but they could at least still clear the Hardcore Mode of the Garden dungeon. Zhang Yang had initially intended to let Fatty Han lead other dungeon parties, he was happy to see them slowly adjusting without him being around.

Another two days had passed. Zhang Yang had his centaur reputation at 'friendly' level, with 5,250 points at hands, he was about to break through into 'respectful'. Moreover, he had trained himself up to level 34, being the same level as Hundred Shots, leaving Han Ying Er and the gang speechless.

On the third day at 3.pm, Zhang Yang defeated the 48th centaur warrior, and a green light flashed through his body, indicating that his centaur reputation had finally reached another tier!

After delivering the quest to Andark Kukulo, the NPC said, "Human, you truly are a wonder that surprised me well! In just a few days, you have beaten many brave centaur warriors! Oh my, do you have the slightest idea on how much herbs are being wasted on us?"

Zhang Yang burst into laughter, and he said, "The centaur is a sturdily strong race, such scratches shouldn't hurt them at all!"

Andark Kukulo smiled wryly at the indirect gloat and said, "Alright, you have proven your strength, and now, you have earned the right to speak to our chief, she may have some quests awaiting you! However, human, I must warn you. Do not ever have any improper thoughts towards our chief, because the most beautiful female centaur can only be married to the greatest male centaur!"

Improper thoughts my arse! Even if I ingested all the aphrodisiac that the world can offer, there is no way that I will be turned on by a horse's ass!

After leaving Andark Kukulo, Zhang Yang was back to see Maya Kukulo.

"Very good, human, very good indeed! We now consider you a friend to the centaurs! However, to further win your favor over, you must put more effort in contributing!" Maya Kukulo looked at Zhang Yang and said, "Human, do you know why our camp have so few of us here that we even need outsiders to help us prepare food and clothes in anticipation of the winter upon us?"

"Why?" Zhang Yang asked back at her.

"About 2 months ago, there evil souls were constantly rising from the ground in the area of the second half of this valley, and they launched their assaults on our camp! To protect our home, we centaurs were forced to send most of our bravest warriors to the front line to defend against the undead!" Maya Kukulo expression turned dark, and she said, "The prospects are not looking good for us, we need more warriors, so, human, are you willing to help us?"

"Ding! Maya Kukulo has given you a quest: The Crisis of the Centaur. Will you accept it?"

[The Crisis of the Centaur] (Difficulty: Rank-B)

Description: The constantly rising of the undead is slowly invading the defense line of the centaur, they are desperately in need of your help! Slay all the evil undead, lay ease upon the stressful situation of the centaur!

Progress: Reputation Level for Centaur race at Respect / Admire

Upon accepting the quest, Maya Kukulo kicked Zhang Yang out of her tent. Fortunately, it wasn't literal.

Zhang Yang headed to Tulong Kukulo before anything else, having his reputation at 'respectful', he could finally buy something from the reputation shop.

[Roasted Meat] (Consumable)

Use: Recovers 8,000 HP and 4,000 Mana in 30 seconds. Can only be used under non-combat situation, any movement or entering combat would disrupt the consuming effect.

Required: Centaur reputation - Friendly.

Level required: 30

Bound on acquire.

The [Sweet Bread] in Zhang Yang's backpack heals 2,000 HP and 1,000 mana points, which is vastly inferior! Without having second thoughts, he immediately threw the [Sweet Bread] away and purchased two sets of [Roasted Meat].

One set of [Roasted Meat] contained 200 pieces, so 400 pieces should last him for a while. He was mainly limited by the space of the backpack, he could not afford to have the snacks occupying all the space. The price for one set is 2 gold coins, which is already equal to 10 dollars.

[Powerful Whetstone] (Consumable)

Use: Use a weapon on it, increases critical strike rate by 1%.

Requirement: Respectful centaur reputation.

Required level: 30

Bound on acquire.

But, although the [Powerful Whetstone] looks promising, it's effect was still not as good as the [Level 2 Whetstone]. Because, even skills that had the highest damage output such as Horizontal Sweep and Destructive Smash, would only range between 1,586 - 1,701. 1% of that was only equivalent to 15-17 points. On the other hand, the [Level 2 Whetstone] increases 20 damage points at most, so it was still more effective than the [Powerful Whetstone]

However, as Zhang Yang updates his equipment, the addition of a 1% critical strike rate that the [Powerful Whetstone] offers will surpass the effects of the [Level 2 Whetstone]. Any item that adds effect by percentage are categorized as progressive type items, where the higher the basic stats, the higher the value will become after the amplification based on the percentage presented.

Without hesitating, he bought the [Powerful Whetstone]. This place is far off, it isn't easy to travel here, so purchasing a set and depositing them into the bank for the moment until there is a need for them can save him the trouble of traveling back to this location.

After the necessary preparations, Zhang Yang summoned his [Skeletal War Horse] and traveled all the way down to the bottom of the valley.

The place was fortified with guards, not only with a dozens of sturdy and strong centaur guard, but also with rows of spiked wooden walls, it was truly amazing. A few days back, Zhang Yang came by and he was held back by the guards there. That made him believed that they were actually guarding the [Fountain of the Souls] all along!

"Human warrior, you are hereby declared qualify to enter the battleground!" While Zhang Yang was riding by, one of the centaur guard shouted at him, saying that, "Hey, human, you better not die in there! Rumors told me that you have bested many centaurs, but those aren't elites! The greatest centaur warrior is standing right in front of you! When you come back alive, I shall teach you a thing or two about the true strength of the centaur!"

"Pui, the greatest centaur warrior is me, Bala Kukulo!"

"Bullsh*t it is, I dare to swear on the name of the prettiest Maya Kukulo, Kukulo, Chief of the Centaur Tribe, only I, Nianba Kukulo, am the greatest Warrior of all centaurs!"

The centaurs were in dispute of who is the greatest, shouting among each other.

Zhang Yang rode past the level and entered a brand new area.

This area is actually a part of the valley too! The centaur camp was located in the valley corner of a gourd. The area was divided into two parts, the front half and the back half of the valley, and the level is located just in between!

But, at the moment he entered the back half of the valley, Zhang Yang instantly felt a strong silent murderous intent! Not far from him, there were hundreds of centaur warriors formed in a straight line of defense, battling and fending off a variety of undead creatures. There were many kinds of undead creatures, a variety of beasts, and there was even undead centaur warriors among them!

It was obvious that the centaurs had the upper hand of the situation. With centaur warriors in the front line sweeping the undead army with their spears, the centaur archers can focus on releasing their arrows onto their enemies from afar. Moreover, the spawning undead creatures are just normal grade monsters, with not much HP on them. Before they could even touch the front line, they had already lost half of their HP, a few more stabs and slices from the spears, finished them off swiftly.

Suddenly, an undead creature with a very huge body slowly approached from afar, it looked humanoid, albeit at least five meters tall, and being obese as f*ck. It's belly was hollowed out, and puddles of green slime constantly dripped out from the hole. Other than the two normal arms, there was a limb hanging right behind it's back. Upon a closer look, it was apparent that this monster's body was stitched together with the metal wires. On the way to the front line, it left behind puddles of green gas, which took a pretty long period of time to slowly disappear.

[Amalgamation of Hate] (Elite, undead)

Level: 35

HP: 100000

The Amalgamation of Hate had a vast area of aggro. Unexpectedly, it had already entered into combat mode with the centaurs being 30 meters away, increasing it's movement speed, spilling the green slime on the ground all the way through.

The centaur warriors had also taken note Amalgamation of Hate, surrounding the monster up to initiate their attacks. However, the moment when centaur warriors got near the Amalgamation of Hate, they were receiving a damage of '-200' for every second they stood around that monster.

As Zhang Yang was gazing upon the scene, he discovered that the monster was constantly surrounded by an effect, it was called Decay Aura.

[Decay Aura: Causes 200 natural damage in every seconds to targets within a range of 2 meter diameter.

So it is an aura!

An aura is a kind of very special skill, and it was unobtainable from instructors, this kind of skill can only be acquired through skill books. Aura does not differentiate professions, in theory, any players with any professions or classes can learn any kind of aura skills. But the truth is, the aura skill books have minimum rate of falling, making the number of players with aura skills poorly low!

In conclusion, there are two types of aura: One affects oneself and the friendlies around, the other affects the enemies around.

For example, Vigor Aura increase 10% strength of the friendlies within the range of 30-meter radius, and for the other example, Weaken Aura lowers 5% damage dealt by enemies within the range of 30-meter radius.

If any wild dungeon party can get a player with aura skill, it would lower the difficulty of the dungeon by 10% at least! Therefore, players with aura skills were like big bosses, they were very popular no matter where they went, every single one of them will be have their *sses kissed up to the top of the world!

Aura skill books will only fell from bosses that were at least level 50 or above. Therefore, Zhang Yang knew that it was extremely rare to see a level 35 Amalgamation of Hate having aura effect around it!

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Chapter 142: The Fall of the Evil Necromancer Zac

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What's weird should remained weird.

Zhang Yang unsheathe his blade and dashed towards the monster, joining the centaur fight against the weird Amalgamation of Hate.

"-160!"

The moment Zhang Yang got close to the monster, Zhang Yang received a damage tick.

Amalgamation of Hate was an elite tiered monster, which was far stronger than a regular monster. However, no matter how strong it was, it could not last for long under the focus fire of so many NPC and Zhang Yang's powerful attacking power. It died swiftly.

'Ding! You have killed Amalgamation of Hate. Reward based on damage contribution: Obtained 27491 Experience Points. Obtained 50 Centaur Reputation Points!'

It was a pity that the monster only dropped several [Cotton Cloth]s and 78 Copper coins, and it definitely did not drop the skill book that Zhang Yang was hoping for.

After killing Amalgamation of Hate, all the centaurs returned to their original posts and reformed the absolute defense line. There, they continued to hold back the endless incoming spectres. However, after the battle, the centaurs had sustained heavy damage and had only little HP left. They could not last long against a single wave of spectral assault. Casualties started to increase as more and more spectres engaged the centaurs.

Zhang Yang took the liberty to attack the spectres on his own. The incoming spectres were so weak that Zhang Yang had only need to slash 2 to 3 times to kill one. However, he only obtained experience points and no reputation points.

To obtained the required reputation level to "Worship" Zhang Yang would need to kill 240 Amalgamations of Hate to obtain the required reputation points. The worst part of this quest was that the spawn time for each Amalgamation of Hate was 15 minutes. In an hour he would only encounter 4 of them, which would only earn him 200 Reputation Points.

To properly sum this up, excluding the time he eats and sleep, he would need to fight for at least 15 hours a day to farm 3,000 Reputation Points, for at least 4 days continuously. To make matters worse, the monsters around here were all spread everywhere. Once they appear, the centaurs will immediately react to their aggro and fight. Zhang Yang wanted to draw them all together and kill them all in one go. However, since they were drawn in by the centaurs, he was unable to lure them all and had to fight them one by one. It took him really long to simply grind and thus reducing his grinding speed tremendously. What that would usually take him a day has now turned into 2 days to gain a single level.

What could have been done, had been done. There was nothing else that could make things quicker.

4 days passed by in a blink of an eye and Zhang Yang had managed to raised his Reputation to Admire and he level to 36 with 2% experience points.

After submitting his quest, the most beautiful centaur in the camp had been ignoring Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang tried to take with every NPC with a name tag but none of them had any quests for Zhang Yang to complete. Zhang Yang then proceed on to talk to Tulong Kukulo and bought the [Recipe: Beginner Power Potion] and learned it. Zhang Yang could not find any other quest around and had to rely on killing Amalgamations of Hate to further raise his reputation. Zhang Yang felt that killing monsters alone for 4 days straight was as dull as ever. However, he was able to procure the recipe out of the mess. It made him slightly satisfied.

[Beginner Power Potion] (Consumable)

Use: Increases all attack by 20%. Lasts for 15 seconds.

Cool down time: 2 minutes.

Note: The cooldown period is shared among all other types of potions when using a potion.

Level Requirement: 30

Zhang Yang was unable to return to the city, thus he entrusted Han Ying Xue and the rest of his friends to help him buy ingredients for the power potion and mailed them to him. Once "Dwarf's Warning" was gone, he could immediately start making the potion to sell them at his Little Merchandize Shop.

It had been several days since he had returned to White Jade Castle. He would not have known how the shop was doing. Was Natalie harassed by any nerds or bypassers? Luckily, Zhang Yang had premade an absurd amount of [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] to begin with. It should last for a few days since the demand was not that high. Since Natalia was instructed to buy all sorts of ingredient and sell them at the price similar to the ones in the auction house, the shop would not be empty for a while now.

After what seemed to be 7 days of hacking and slashing, Zhang Yang was already sick of the sight of spectres. By then, his centaur Reputation had reached Admire at 20999/21000 to Worship. No matter what he did, it just would go any higher! At first, he had not realized it. He was so rigid and robotic-like that he had spent 2 hours wasting his energy and time on killing more Amalgamations of Hate. By the time he realized, it was already too late.

How does he get the last point of Reputation?

Zhang Yang turned back around to Maya Kukulo. There, he found a yellow exclamation mark hovering on top of her head!

Finally! If he could complete that one quest, he could raise his reputation to Worship! And only then, he could buy that [Bottle of Holy Water] and completed the "Fountain of Soul" quest. He could then finally be rid of the annoying "Dwarf's Warning" and return to White Jade Castle!

With tears rolling down his cheek, he had been circling around for god knows how long! He can finally see a glimmer of hope of returning home!

"Human. Your timing is just right. I have an important task which only you could complete!" Maya Kukulo raised her head and spoke loudly when she saw Zhang Yang.

"O great chief! Please!"

"After sending off my precious warrior to search for clues, I have obtained information at the price of their precious life!"

Maya Kukulo faced darkened in rage as she continued her speech. "I have found out that these evil spectres were the creation of a certain Evil Necromancer! He is hiding deep in the valley! In the Castle Ruins!"

"Castle Ruins? Chief?" Zhang Yang tried to clarify.

"A few hundred years ago, we, the centaurs were a mighty race. We were split into 17 tribes but were united nevertheless, under one king! The brave Jean Lostark! However, like thunder, an earthquake struck the castle without any warning. The castle was destroyed and sunk into the earth!"

Maya Kukulo suddenly turned solemn. "The great king and all of his successors had perished! After the incident, all 17 tribe leaders started to fight for the king's position. Eventually, the war and torn us apart! The kingdom was lost! Yet we, the Kukulo tribe remained here! To serve the king and protect the Castle Ruins!"

"That wretched Evil Necromancer! How dare he disturb the souls of the palace! He had turned them into restless spectres! I will never forgive his impudence!" Maya shook with fury. "That one named Zac, the Evil Necromancer must die!"

'Ding! Maya Kukulo has a quest for you: To Protect the Holy Land. Will you accept it?'

'Ding! Main Story Quest: Hunt down the Evil Necromancer Zac! Completed. The proceeding quest had been activated: The Last Strike!'

[The Last Strike] (Difficulty Level: S)

Quest Description: Kill the Evil Necromancer Zac! The sinner of the world has to pay for his crime! Bring your friends! Zac is very strong!

Progress: Kill Evil Necromancer Zac 0/1

Zhang Yang was stunned. He would have never thought that he would stumble upon the main story quest here! After he recovered from the surprise of having unexpectedly progressed in the main story quest, he quickly accepted the quest offered by Maya Kukulo.

"Hey! Stupid Yu! I saw the main story quest suddenly changing!"

"Noob tank! What did you do? Why did the main story quest suddenly change?"

"Little Yang. Did you notice any changes with the main story quest?"

Everyone's private messages came flooding in.

Zhang Yang instinctively added all of them into his party and told them the situation.

"I've just discovered a quest to kill Zac. That was why the search for Zac quest had completed. I found him! Now it has turned into a kill! Get over here! Let's complete the main story quest!"

"Little Yang. Sky High and The Dominators have already started to explore the Shadowmoon Castle: Castle Interior Hardcore Mode! If we get distracted with the main story quest, we might not be able to claim the First Clear Achievement!" said Fatty Han worriedly.

Zhang Yang smiled. "It's not that big of a deal. Honestly, the Castle Interior is very strong. I think the guilds might need to take about 10? 20 days maybe, to even try defeating it. Let's leave it there. For now, we'll complete the main story quest and get awesome rewards! We might even get stronger to kill the dungeon boss easier!"

Even though Sun Xin Yu did not trigger the main story quest, Zhang Yang had still invited her to the party! Zhang Yang had let them complete the "Escort Bangar Kukulo" quest to gain a certain amount of reputation. Otherwise, they could not enter the Kukulo Centaur tribe area safely without having their Reputation status changed from Hostile to Unfriendly.

The escort quest could be done with many people simultaneously. The party, except Zhang Yang, had gathered at the Sivar Hills and waited at the path where they would stumble upon the wimpy Bangar Kukulo. When they had arrived at the tribe camp, they saw what the Reputation Shop items have and lit up in excitement. They even scolded Zhang Yang for not telling them earlier.

Zhang Yang rolled his eyes. He had actually invited them to come over to join him several days ago but neither of them had expressed their willingness to join. Yet now they are pushing the blame on him instead! Zhang Yang was completed dumfounded but he was too lazy to even argue with them.

Zhang Yang checked the quest and found that the rest of the party had been able to proceed on with the quest "To Protect the Holy Land". He could not help but felt a little cheated. He had spent so much time and energy just to farm the ridiculous amount of Reputation only to have the party leech off from him!

[To Protect the Holy Land] (Difficulty Level: S)

Quest Description: Kill the Evil Necromancer Zac and protect the Holy Land of the Centaurs!

Progress: Kill the Evil Necromancer Zac 0/1

Both quests overlapped in mutual conclusions, both of them required the killing of Zac! Thankfully neither of the quests asked them to submit the beheaded head of Zac, or else they would not know which one to submit first!

The time was already 5pm. Zhang Yang prompted the party to log out of the game and to reconvene at 7pm after having their dinner!

Zhang Yang logged off as well. He took off the gaming helmet and stretched his neck to the left and right, rubbing his eyes. He was a little tired after all. He blinked his eyes and searched for his wallet. He picked up the flatten leather pouch and open it, only to find he had only 7 pieces of 10 dollar bills. Even though he had at least 8 digits in his savings account, he could not use his card to purchase box lunch for a street stall. 70 dollars was enough for him to last for at least 5 to 6 days. After that, he had to visit the bank to withdraw some hard-cold cash.

"It is time for me to change a place to live? Or perhaps I should get a car?"

In his previous life, Zhang Yang had entered the A-tier Professional League and became one of the few rich men in China, having a large summer house somewhere and a luxurious car. Truth be told, Zhang Yang had missed that life. More importantly, he missed the car. Which man in the world would not love cars?"

"Argh…perhaps some other time! There will be another chance for me to earn a fortune when the Level 50 dungeon Flame Poison Land is released! The more capital I have, the better money I could make!"

Level 50 Flame Poison Land party dungeon was the second dungeon that was used to farm the game's second set-equipment. Outside the dungeon, there will be an NPC standing at the entrance. He will grant a buff that will grant immunity to Flame Poison at the cost of a [Solid Iron bar]

No matter how strong the party is, without the buff, setting foot inside the dungeon alone would kill you, let alone fighting the boss!"

Which is why [Solid Iron Bar] was a must-have item if you wanted to raid the dungeon!

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[Solid Iron Bar] is a composite item. The materials needed to craft a [Solid Iron Bar] are 100 [Iron Bar, and they had to go through a process known as Smelting, similar to it's real-life counterpart.

As this goes, the original price of [Iron Bar] will increase. The highest price for 200 bars was 50 gold coins. The price will fluctuate and eventually stabilize at 10 gold coins for 200 bars later. This is part of the game's system to prevent gold coin inflation.

After an update patch in the future, [Iron Bar] sorted out to 200 bars a stack compared to the previous 20 bars a stack. So far in the game, a majority of the players had already reached level 30 on average. Their Profession must have reached to at least Amateur or higher. [Iron Bar] was a basic ingredient that would not have any demand as players' Profession level rose. As the demand drops, the price would drop as well. Since the item had been lacking in demand and interest, the prices that once begun 5 gold coins for 200 bars had dropped to 2 gold coins for 200 bar.

However, the moment players started to take part in the Flame Poison Land dungeon raid, the price for [Iron Bar] would be raised up to 10 gold coins for 200 bars! That's 5 times the original value!

If Zhang Yang invested 40,000,000 gold coins, the money will multiply itself to 200,000,000!

The only problem Zhang Yang faced now was the shortage in storage! The total storage unit that Zhang Yang had so far were his own personal bank storage at 400 slots, the guild's secondary storage at 1000 slots, and the Little Merchandize Shop storage at 1000 slots. All of them would total up to 2400 slots of storage space.

Zhang Yang had first planned to buy a few more storage slots for the guild storage. He also planned to level up the Little Merchandize Shop to increase its storage space. He was willing to spend all his money to upgrade it all! The more he spends, the more he stands to earn!

However, the guild storage expansion fees will be at 1,000,000 gold coins per page1. Even though the exchange rate of the game currency to real life currency has dropped to 1:4, it was at least 4,000,000 dollars! That's a crazy amount of money for expansion! Since the rate will continue to drop even further, Zhang Yang thought that he should wait for a while before he purchase any inventory expansion. Until the inventory space was completely used up, he should not make any hasty decision.

7pm, and the party of 6 logged in together at the same time. The team then proceeded to venture deeper into the valley. So far, the team status was: Zhang Yang at level 39, Fatty Han at level 40, Hundred Shots at level 38, Sun Xin Yu at level 40, Han Ying Xue at level 40, and Wei Yan Er at level 40.

After the team entered the entrance of the valley, they were greeted with a large cave entrance. The inside of the cave was so dark that they could not see how deep it went.

"WAAAA..."

"KYAAA..."

Just as when Zhang Yang was about to signal the party to go in, they heard a sudden wail, followed by two loud "Thud!". Two mangled, bloody bodies of players dropped right in front of them.

The party instinctively looked up at the peak of the valley. The height of the little hill was at least 200 to 300 meters tall. Anyone would have their head rolling off their body if they had a fall from that height!

The two deceased had already released their souls to respawn. The bodies that remained there still had their name tag hovering over.

Endless Starlight, Dwarf Defender, Male, Level 38

Daffodil Daydream, Human Pyromancer, Female, Level 39

Neither of them were in a guild.

Zhang Yang was stunned! It's them!

Endless Starlight! The outstanding character that was sought out by many super guild as the best tank there is! It turned out that Endless Starlight did not want to leave his own guild and it led to the alliance of 3 super guilds to sabotage his guild to the point where he had deleted his account.

Daffodil Daydream was ranked last in the Top 10 Spellcaster in the entire China server in Zhang Yang's previous life. She was one of the top players in China where everyone would know her name!

In this turn of events, Zhang Yang would have never thought that he would meet these two superstars here! What sort of twisted, weird, and crazy story would lead them to fall out of the sky?!

Zhang Yang quickly cried out to Han Ying Xue, "Revive them!"

Curious, Han Ying Xue was lost in her own thoughts, thinking as of how these two weirdos would fall down from the peak. She quickly cast Resurrection and revived the two of them.

20 seconds later, the two of them were revived one after the other. However, once Daffodil opened her eyes and saw Endless Starlight standing in front of her, she immediately cast a Fire Blast and almost killed Endless Starlight who only had 20% of HP at upon revival.

"Stop! Stop! Stop!" Zhang Yang quick stepped in and stood in front of Endless Starlight to protect him. "I don't know what kind of fight you guys had before, but why do you have to kill?"

Daffodil had a beautiful appearance but what stood out the most was her long, slim legs that could intoxicate any one with that kind of fetish to dub her as the "Leg Goddess".

Angry and puffing steam out of her nostrils, Daffodil strafed left and right to get past Zhang Yang in order to get a clear shot. But when Zhang Yang proved that he was much better at covering the poor man, she gave up and finally spoke.

"I was fighting a boss at the peak when suddenly, this guy appeared out of nowhere and was under my feet! I was too surprised to even realize that I was running away in the wrong direction! That was how I fell down from the top of that cliff!"

Zhang Yang turned around and his back facing Daffodil and asked Endless Starlight. "What's your story?"

Endless Starlight was staring back and forth between Daffodil, Han Ying Xue, Sun Xin Yu, and Wei Yan Er before he realized that Zhang Yang talking to him.

"I was at the top of the hill taking a nice walk. You know...to explore the area. And then! Just like that! As if the goddess had descended upon me! There, standing right in front of my eyes were two perfect, beautiful, flawless legs, the best I have ever seen! I chased after the miracle that was bestowed to me and before I knew it, I was dead..."

The moment Endless Starlight had mentioned "goddess" Zhang Yang and the girls were already frowning.

Fatty Han was laughing loudly and patted Endless Starlight's shoulder and said, "Brother! You're one brave one! You have my respect!"

"Hahahahaha! It's nothing really!" Endless Starlight replied with a pervert smile on his face. "To chase after the perfect beauty is every man's dream!"

"Well said! Brother!"

"We're the same!"

"HAHAHAHAHAHA" both of them laughed even louder.

This...this was the guy? The man who was fought over 3 super guilds? The one who had raged quit the game? The Endless Starlight?! Zhang Yang could not help but to have thousands of doubts in his mind. He turned around to face Daffodil Daydream. "Sigh...Just...Just forget about this stupid fool. It's not worth your anger."

Daffodil stomped the ground angrily and screamed. "Why shouldn't I? That bastard had me waste a boss kill! I have to kill him! At least once!"

"Kill me! O goddess! I would die for you!" said Endless Starlight while kneeling down with a face of ecstasy.

Just as she was about to cast Fire Blast, Daffodil shuddered and failed the cast, frightened by his perverted expression.

Zhang Yang laughed it off and said, "Alright! Keep calm guys! Daffodil, it's just a boss! How about this? We are actually on our way to kill a Gray-Silver boss for our quest. How about we team up for a bit?"

Everyone on Zhang Yang's party was stunned. They turned to look at Zhang Yang, thinking that he might have an interest in Daffodil Daydream.

Indeed, Zhang Yang was interested in Daffodil, but not in that kind of way!

She was one of the Top 10 Spellcasters of all China! If Zhang Yang could recruit her to his side, his future would be brighter than ever! He could obtain all First Clear Achievements! He could win Professional Leagues! She was the big bag of gold found at the end of the rainbow!

"Gray-Silver boss?! Woah! I want! Invite me! Invite me!" Before Daffodil could react Endless Starlight had already crying out like Wei Yan Er would.

Zhang Yang noticed that Daffodil had showed a slight interest in his suggestion but did not manage to react in time. Zhang Yang smiled and sent them both a party invite.

'Ding! Player Endless Starlight had joined the party!'

'Ding! Player Daffodil Daydream had joined the party!'

Both of the accepted the invitation rather quickly.

"Hmm? Aren't you guys the party that got those First Clear Achievement?" said Endless Starlight as he got excited. Other than Fatty Han, the rest of the party had picked up Zhang Yang's habit and hid their personal profile information. Daffodil was more subtle than Endless Starlight but her eyes betrayed her awe.

Zhang Yang laughed it off. "Let's go!"

He tried to share the quest [To Protect the Holy Land] to the two new members but neither of them could accept the quest. Looks like they must complete the prerequisite escort quest and raise their Centaur's Reputation to be able to share the quest.

As the party moved into the dark pathway, Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight were position at the most front as both of them were tanks.

"Damn son! I'm so jealous of you! Look, you have the ice-cool lady, a boobalicious babe, and a little spicy loli! Holy cow! I'd wish I had the girls like you have! Imagine living the life, surrounded by girls! Aww Yiss! I would not want to be a king without his harem!" Endless whispered to Zhang Yang.

"..." Zhang Yang was completely speechless.

"I'll tell ya! My dream is to make my own harem guild! Every day, I would bring those girls along with me into the dungeon and fight those monsters! Dude! That's the dream!" said Endless Starlight with a strong sense of justice.

Zhang Yang was stunned. This guy...Did he delete his account because the guild was disbanded, and he could not have any girls by his side? Pfft... if that was the case then, it much have been a real shocker!

The moment Zhang Yang had laid eyes on these two new members of the party, he already had plans to recruit them into Lone Desert Smoke. Endless Starlight was a strong tank. He could lead a separate team as an exploration team! Daffodil Daydream on the other hand was to fill the empty slot of the main party, she could be one of the core member in the battle team for the Professional League!

As they walked for about 7 to 8 minutes into this dark pathway, the party had walked out of the darkness and into the bright day light. They were standing by a huge hillside. There, by the side of the hill, stood a majestic castle, albeit in ruins. The entrance door of the castle had the carvings of two huge Centaurs. One of them was wielding a spear and was in an attacking stance. The other was drawing a huge a long bow. Both of them looked like they were gods immortalized into art. Surrounding the entire hillside were burning torches stabbed into the ground to illuminate the surrounding.

"Let's go!" Zhang Yang unsheathe his sword and took the lead.

'Ding! You have entered the Centaur Castle! The Castle has 5 floors. The Evil Necromancer Zac is located at the highest floor of the Castle! You have to survive each test at each floor to defeat the Evil Necromancer Zac!'

Everyone's mini-map display had changed into the castle interior.

"This is the land of the dead slumbers...Anyone who dares to intrude shall die!" A husky voice echoed from afar. No one could tell whether the voice belonged to a female or male.

"Damn. This place is spooky. I'm getting the creeps here!" said Endless Starlight. He had successfully taken over Fatty Han's role of being the party's most annoying, talkative person.

Everyone proceeded further into the massive castle and was shocked to what they saw. There were so many monsters around they could not contain their tense intake of breath upon sighting them. The place was so huge that it could fit 10 thousand people and still have the space to play soccer! The worst part of this place was that it was completely filled with monsters, squeezed tightly like sardine in a can!

The monsters around here only comprised of one type. They were all centaurs, presumably the royal guard. They were all undead, walking skeleton, some of them still having rotting flesh dangling from their skeletons.

[Centaur Royal Guard] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 40

HP: 80,000

The HP was not much but their numbers were.

"Nice! There's so many monsters here! Grinding would be a piece of cake!" Fatty Han cried out excitingly. Even since they had reach level 30, Fatty Han had never got the chance to be enlisted into the Level Ranking Board. Since there were so many monsters around to kill, the amount of experience point to be obtained here was luxurious!

Zhang Yang stopped and thought for a moment before saying, "Fatty, use Barrage and get the monster's aggro to start the fight. Run behind me after that!'

"Ok!" Fatty Han immediately cast Barrage and attack the furthest region. A wave of arrows was shot into the sky and landed on the monster.

"-307!"

"-310!"

"-301!"

...

Various damage text floated over and over 10 monsters stomped their hooves and charged towards Fatty Han.

"Good lord! How did you pull so many monsters! I can't handle that much!" Endless Starlight cried. He thought that Zhang Yang and the rest of the party knew he was a Defender, who excelled in mass crowd control, that was why the party had pulled that many monsters in one go!

Even though he was a future super star, but as of now, he was just a new player who had only joined the game for only 2 months. The moment he saw there were more than 10 monsters charging towards the party, his heart sank. However, he did not budge from his stance, as a tank, even if he had to die, he must die in the front line!

Zhang Yang saw how Endless Starlight was behaving and laughed. "Honey dear, give me a shield!"

Han Ying Xue gave Zhang Yang a stare, but nevertheless waved her hand, casting a Holy Shield on him.

Zhang Yang activate Blood Rage and gained 30 Rage points. He quickly used Charge and dashed towards the incoming monsters.

Thunder Strike!

Horizontal Sweep!

With two AoE attack skill unleashed, all incoming monsters were inflicted with "-262!", and "-1550!". Every monster that had their aggro on Fatty Han instantly turned towards Zhang Yang.

"Start the attack!"

Zhang Yang commanded. The verbal command was for Endless and Daffodil. Everyone else had already got used to Zhang Yang's attacking pattern. They would automatically attack without him needing to command.

Endless Starlight was attacking the monsters but when he noticed that neither of the monster had their aggro on him, he cried out. "Zhan Yu! You're one strong dude! You could still handle all the aggro properly when there are so many monsters! Honestly, I'm so confused right now! Which class was the one supposed to be good at handling mass aggro control again?"

Daffodil Daydream was being cautious. She was so afraid that her attack would OT. However, after one Rain of Fire, the monster had completely ignoring her! She was both surprised and happy at the same time. She was surprised that Zhang Yang could handle the aggro so well after a Pyromancer attacked. As a high DPS class player, she had never felt the joy of casting all her demolishing spells without the worry of OT!

Zhang Yang was not standing statically in the field, instead, he used Thunder Smash to slow the monsters around before rounding them up together to maximize the damage caused by the team's AoE skill. While he was doing that, he used Block to nullify the monster's attack. Still, he was taking some light damage, but he was not worried for even a second as there was a super healer standing behind him!

If he had to, he could unleash all his skill and could still heal over what Han Ying Xue could!

Endless Starlight charged into the fight as well. As a professional tank, he never broke the rhythm. He activated Devotion, Justice Bash, Strong Hammer and a series of AoE skills to attack the monsters.

1Page: Page here refers to the windows tab. Usually a tab would have a fixed amount of storage slots. Zhang Yang had already expanded page which means one page will be 500 inventory slots.

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Chapter 144: Another One!

Endless Starlight's first thought was, once all the skills were out, even if he could not capture all the monster's aggro, he could at least capture 3 monster's attention. However, he was surprised that not a single monster had turned to face him!

Pro!

As a tank, especially a Defender tank, Endless Starlight understood clearly the difficulty at maintaining a mass aggro! As a Defender that was said to excel in mass aggro control, whenever he faced a large group of monsters, there was bound to be one or two monster that would slip pass his fingers and cause trouble to the attacking players. It cannot be helped, even if a Defender is supposed to be strong at mass control, they had only Devotion and Spike Shield, the rest of a Defender's skills could only hit a maximum of 3 targets. That was why when a Defender and pulled a group of monsters, he must not focus on one but all monsters simultaneously. A Defender had to switch his target constantly to make sure that all monster had an equal amount of aggro.

Zhan Yu here on the other hand was an odd existence. Not only he had managed to prevent anyone from OT, he could even prevent a Defender from getting ahold of any monster's aggro! This guy is extremely strong, beyond epic proportions!

Even though the Centaur Royal Guards were elite monster, they did not last long when everyone was attacking together! Since players obtain their AoE skill at level 20, as long as the tank could hold on to the monster's aggro firmly, they could attack to their heart content, and increase their killing efficiency to its maximum! One minute later, monsters started to drop dead, after another 30 seconds, all 16 monsters had died and dropped the first battle loot.

'Ding! You have kill Centaur Royal Guard. Obtained 10,050 Experience Points (50 point party bonus!)!'

'Ding! You have kill...'

Everyone heard the repetitive rings of the notification as their experience point rose up like the beanstalk. Everyone had obtained at least 160,000 experience points!

"Woah! My experience points rose up like a rocket!" Daffodil Daydream smiled from ear to ear. Her skills were good. She had been depending on the AoE skill Rain of Fire to kill monsters at a fast pace. However, she could only handle 7 to 8 normal tier monster at most! The experience point was not fast compared to this. No matter how fast she could skill, this method was much faster than her working alone! These were elite monsters! Their HP was at least 20 times the HP of a regular normal monsters. The experience points she had just obtained was at least 20 times more!

Fatty Han laughed. "Haha! When we had done with these monsters here! I can get myself into the Level Ranking Board again!"

So far, in White Jade Castle, the first place was held by Ashen Reborn at level 42, Puppy Soldier from at level 41 being the last. Do not underestimate them for the fact that they were only 2 levels ahead of Fatty Han. Once players had reached the level 40 threshold, gaining another level from there was even harder and ever. Under normal circumstances, player would have to at least spend 5 days to gain just one level!

The fastest way to gain levels was to fight and kill monsters in groups! If those monsters were elite tier, the leveling speed will be much faster. That was why Fatty Han was so confident.

Zhang Yang grined and cried out. "Fatty, do your thing again!"

Since the first wave of monster was rather smooth, Fatty Han tried a little better and aim Barrage at the center among the crowds of monsters. This would not only attract the monsters that are attacked, it would also trigger the nearby monsters. This time, he had pulled 21 monsters.

Zhang Yang turned to Endless Starlight and said, "Starlight, let's compete. Let's see who could pull more monsters this time?" Professionals are all a little egoistical. If you want to convince them, you'll have to display a better performance than they could.

Zhang Yang had a few seconds head start at the first waves of monsters, and inflicted a good amount of aggro. This time, Starlight was confident. He strafed along with Zhang Yang side by side. Even if he could not be as good as Zhang Yang, he could still hold on to several monster's aggro firmly.

He immediately replied, "Ok! But neither of us can use Provoke!"

He then raised his shield in his hand and tossed the shield before he was anywhere near the monsters.

Zhang Yang nodded and activated Blood Rage. He gained 30 Rage and used Charge after a few steps forward to get into range. The range of Charge was shorter than Shield Toss.

Horizontal Sweep!

With a single stroke, his damage output was instantly spiked! A Guardian's Shield Oath could provide additional 20% aggro value. Even if his attack were not aggro-inducing type, he had cause 1,000 over damage, his aggro value would be the same as other classes' 1,200 worth of damage aggro value!

Every monster around turned their heads to Zhang Yang instantly.

Thunder Strike! Slow!

Another chain of attacks was unleashed, all crowded and concentration like fireworks in the sky! Zhang Yang lead the monsters around circling.

Starlight was frustrated at his failure. No matter how many skills he threw out, not a single monster would even turn their head to look at him! As if he was reliving a psychological nightmare that he experienced in his past, Starlight turned solemn.

Zhang Yang smiled warmly and said, "Starlight, do you know why all the monsters attack me instead?"

"..."

"That's because a tank efficiency depends not only on skills and technique. You'll also need strong equipment to back you up! Even two of your attacks couldn't' compare to one of mine! How do you expect the monsters to be lured towards you?!" Zhang Yang laughed.

Wei Yan Er laughed as well. "Hehe! You must have that kind of perverted face as well! That's why the monster won't even want to look at you! Unless you have the looks of a beauty lady like me, my cousin sister, Sister Sun, and this beautiful Daffodil lady here!"

Zhang Yang turned around and raised an eye brow. "Little brat! The rest are fine, but you're way too far from being a lady!"

Wei Yan Er could not help but to lower her head and stare at her own flat chest. She then got angry and bared her teeth at Zhang Yang.

"Yan Er, don't mind him! He is just a little boy! Only a little boy would pick a fight with little girls!" Han Ying Xue consoled her.

Wei Yan Er nodded but twitched her eyes when she felt that something was wrong with her cousin sister's statement. "Hey! Why'd you call me a little girl!?"

Everyone laughed happily and the tension in the air was dispersed and replaced with warm comradeship. After a while, the second wave of monsters were killed. This time, they were lucky. There were many Level 40 Black-Steel equipment. Even though the equipment were weak but they were at level 40! They could fetch a few gold coins in the Little Merchandize Shop!

Endless Starlight was not a numbskull. He understood what was Zhang Yang trying to explain to him. Yet, he sighed heavily. "My equipment is bad and I can't find a way to upgrade them. Even time I joined a dungeon, I would find a random party. Let's not even mention a field boss!"

He would have been safe if he had not mention field boss. But when he did, Daffodil twitched and almost blasted him away with a Fire Blast.

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "Our guild, Lone Desert Smoke had recently decided to build a secondary dungeon raiding team. You could try and be the main tank for that team!"

The moment Zhang Yang had said that, the rest of his gang raised an eyebrow. Since when we were building a second team?

Zhang Yang noticed them but remained quiet.

I had that thought when I saw Endless Starlight!

Endless Starlight was stunned and expressed a face that was both happy and suspicious.

Lone Desert Smoke was now at big hit in the community. They had successfully obtained 4 First Clear Achievement. Even though their standard operating procedure was not as strong and efficient as a super guild, they could still outperform their own expectations and raise on to the top and beyond! There were sayings among the players around that anyone who could join Lone Desert Smoke would be leaping in a huge gap of performance. There were even players from other major cities had sent their request for an interview to join the guild. As long as the guild would accept them into the guild, anyone would be willing to run from anywhere around the globe just to be in White Jade Castle.

However, under Zhang Yang's strict "Only Elites" rule, Lone Desert Smoke showed a slower expansion rate. Because of that, many players were proud to be in the guild. To them, it was a display of both power and capability!

However, a true professional would not just walk up to your door step and volunteer themselves to the guild. A diamond would shine bright on its own, as long as them could perform better than the rest of the players around, other guild would naturally send their invitation instead! So far, Lone Desert Smoke had recruited close to 2,000 players of high-level players, but neither of them were players that was one of the professionals Zhang Yang could recognized in his previous life.

However, at that moment, Endless Starlight was touched! Zhang Yang had expressed his sincerity! Even though the secondary dungeon raid party is not the best team, he was still offered a position as the second team main tank in the guild! This was an achievement better than he could ever have!

"Join us! Join our guild!" Striking the metal while it's hot, Zhang Yang sent a guild invitation over with a warm smile.

Endless Starlight was already wavering; and when Zhang Yang had offered him a place among his side, he accepted it grudgingly.

Just like that, Zhang Yang had effortlessly obtained a strong future tank.

Next...

Zhang Yang turned around and faced Daffodil Daydream and smiled kindly.

"Daffodil, since you do not have a guild, why don't you join us as well? We are playing a game, might as well get along together!"

Wei Yan Er had goosebumps the moment she saw Zhang Yang's weird smile. "Noob tank, that kind of face are you wearing...You look like those weird uncles who goes around in their vans to kidnap little girls."

"Nah...I think that he looked more like one of those pimps who kidnap young girls for their own business!" said Han Ying Xue.

Daffodil scoffed. "I do not wish to be in the same guild as that freak!"

Zhang Yang laughed lightly and desisted. Since he had the time of his life, he could slowly lure her in later.

Fatty Han continued to fire Barrage and the party slowly proceed in deeper. Sun Xin Yu had gone off alone in stealth to search for the second-floor entrance. She came back after quite some time and reveal the location at the end of this floor! There was even a level 40 boss guarding it!

Everyone got excited when they know that there was a boss waiting for them! Level 40 boss means level 40 equipment!

The team killed and killed their way in. Every one put their backs into proceeding further down the floor but the monsters here was just too many for them to handle. They had fought until 12 midnight and had only cleared one third of the entire monsters around.

Zhang Yang had been hearing some sneezes from behind and found out that the girls, especially Wei Yan Er, Han Ying Xue, and Daffodil Daydream had been sneezing. He then sighed worriedly and announced. "Alright, let's call it a day! Let's find a safe spot and log off then. We'll continue this tomorrow!"

"Ok!" Even the men were shaking their heads, trying their best to stay awake this whole time. They would have skipped their bed time if they knew that the Castle had only one floor. It's better to rest properly if they wanted to clear the entire Castle properly since there were 5 floors to go! Normally, there would be a mini-boss on every floor, and the last one on the 5th floor would be the last boss! If the rest of the floors were as jam packed as the first floor, the party would need to spend at least 3 to 4 days if they were to clear the entire Castle!

Zhang Yang had decided that it would be better for the party to have their proper rest. Tomorrow, they shall fight with all their might!

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Chapter 145: Continuous Grinding

The next morning, Zhang Yang did his daily training and had his breakfast soon after. He visited the official site to read updates and news and the forums.

In the dungeon fight topic discussion, many guilds had posted their own battle results there to promote themselves and attract the attention of players and possible future alliances. Popularity is the main factor that would directly impact the revenue of a sponsored guild!

So far, everyone had started raiding the level 40 dungeon, Shadowmoon Castle: Castle Interior. Most of the post here in this discussion forum were about the bosses in the Castle Interior. About 5 days back, there were guilds that had started to gather level 40 players to raid the Hard mode of the Castle Interior dungeon to gather information and experience to facilitate the Hardcore mode.

So far, majority of the guilds around had already defeated the first 2 bosses of the Hardcore mode, and in the progress of defeating the third boss. Furthermore, the guild that have the first kill of the two bosses of the dungeon was Crimson Rage.

It looked like after Crimson Rage had successfully defeated Chalvos the Mountain Giant, their ability and strength had rose to a higher level. It enabled them to forcefully stand on top of other guild in the entire China server.

There was another discussion in the forum that had reports on each super guild's progress in the game. The report was rather in-depth; there was news on which guild has the last boss's first kill, news about which guild had the potential to claim the dungeon First Clear! The post was rather long and detailed; it contained a long discussion and explanation and summarized a prediction.

A player named "Martian Homeland" had predicted that the guild that will obtain the Castle Interior dungeon First Clear Achievement was Radiance. His reasons explained that the guild master, Sword of Light was the main tank of the guild, and had strong skills and capabilities. A strong tank is the main factor to win the 5-man dungeon.

The next in line was Crimson Rage. This all-female guild has performed extraordinary in the first two bosses of the dungeon. They had the leading advantage and could raid the dungeon successfully if they could maintain their performance.

Next in line was The Glory, Yellow Flame, Sky High and so on. Lone Desert Smoke had only appeared after the 10th position.

According to Martian Homeland, he had high hopes for Lone Desert Smoke and had them placed at the third place. However, he explained that the recent quiet behavior of Lone Desert Smoke depicts that they had no intention to fight for the latest dungeon's First Clear Achievement! That was the reason why he had place Lone Desert Smoke down the ranking list. It even went even lower when Lone Desert Smoke did not perform any other significant actions!

His discussion had led to many players to take part in his discussion. There were many players who agreed to his explanation, and some others who presented a counter argument. In the argument, those players brought up the Marzerway's Lair. Initially, many other guilds were leading in advance and even managed to fight all the way into the last boss. Lone Desert Smoke were a little slower than the rest of the guild. However, when they started the dungeon, they had successfully conquered the entire dungeon in a day!

The argument example that the opposition side had triggered another argument from the government side, saying that Marzerway's Lair was a special case. The 5th stage of the final boss could only be beaten with the help of the [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion]. Without it, no one could survive the stage. Lone Desert Smoke party had defeated the boss with the help of the potion instead of their own strength!

Lone Desert Smoke supporters started to counter back with their arguments. To begin with, did the Hardcore mode require any special item to successfully raid it? It is would, almost every guild that had reported their progress would had reported about it! There was no new battle information about the dungeon for a few days now!

Both sides continued with their heated arguments. Neither of them showed any signs of backing down from their stance. The post got larger and had already exceeded 4,000 comments and posts!

Zhang Yang smiled a little. He checked the time and logged into the game at 9am sharp. Once he was in the game, he saw Fatty Han and Endless Starlight was at a corner talking about something. A fat guy and a skinny dude was an odd combination but both of their faces showed the same pervert grin. Looks like both of them were getting along just fine. Zhang Yang thought that they might work together perfectly when they start leading the secondary party.

Zhang Yang walked close and could hear a glimpse of their conversation.

"...and that is why a rotten carrot and a pregnant woman is the same of a kind. Both of them were the result of delayed pull outs!"

That was what Zhang Yang had heard, coming out from Endless Starlight mouth.

Fatty Han was stunned was clearly impressed. "Deep! That's deep bro!" He exclaimed, impressed.

"I know right!? Oh by the way, what were we talking about before we stray off topic?"

"...Good morning guys!"

"Erhm...Oh! Morning!" Both of them grinned sheepishly.

"...I'm not going to ask what you were talking about."

After a while, Hundred Shots logged into the game. All four of the dudes gathered together at a corner of the field. After a night, all monsters that were killed yesterday had respawned, filling back the empty space around and causing the field to be as crowded as ever. If they were to walk a few steps forward, they would ultimately cause an uproar.

The girls were a little late. Zhang Yang had already asked them to gather here at 9am sharp. The earliest one to logged in was Daffodil Daydream at 9.09am. Sun Xin Yu was the second, at 9.11 am. Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er logged in together at 9.15am.

Zhang Yang could not help but asked the ladies, "What happened? Didn't I say 9am? What took you so long?"

Han Ying Xue rolled her eyes at Zhang Yang. "I need time for make-up. Duh!"

Zhang Yang was stunned, infuriated at her reply. "You are playing 'God's Miracle'. A VRMMOPRG! Why would you need to have make-up for?! What are you expecting? An audience watching you wearing the gaming helmet, lying on the bed doing nothing?!"

The moment he said that, all the girls were angered immediately. Zhang Yang instantly understood that everyone here was doing their make-up.

Sigh...Man and woman's thinking were so different that they might start a war with each other like Alien Vs Predator!

"Argh...Forget about it, let's go clear the monsters, shall we?"

If this place was not for a quest, it was still an excellent place to grind. The experience points here were really abundant! However, to properly utilize this field of experience points, one must have a strong team! You'll need a strong tank to handle the monsters aggro and also a strong healer to support the tank!

After a series of attacks, monsters had dropped uncountable amounts of [Cotton Cloth, useless items, and coins. Naturally, tasked to pick items were Wei Yan Er and Han Ying Xue. Whoever dares to take the job away from them would be public enemy number 1! However, the number of monsters around were overwhelming both their inventories! Items besides equipment could be stacked up to 200 count a stack, however, equipment on one hand took up one slot each.

Unable to continue on, Wei Yan Er and Han Ying Xue had to let someone else to loot the items.

The collected goods were above average. There were many Black-Steel tier equipment but there were also a number of Level 40 Green-Copper! Both Endless Starlight and Daffodil Daydream were players who have never seen such a luxurious loot were drooling endlessly. Zhang Yang had the equipment distributed to them but since neither of them had reached level 40, they had to keep their equipment in their inventory instead.

However, that was only a matter of time. Since the party had killed many monsters and gain a sum of experience points yesterday, even though it was not enough to level up, they were close to it. Daffodil would level up in just another hour while Endless Starlight would take a little longer. Once the party had cleared every monster in this floor, level 40 was just a few steps ahead.

After last night's experience, Endless Starlight and Daffodil Daydream were able to match with the party of Zhang Yang and gang. Another hour passed, and Zhang Yang, Daffodil, Starlight, and Hundred Shots had leveled up.

Zhang Yang invested his SP on Block and maximized the skill to level 10. Even though the skill had been nerfed exponentially, it was still a Guardian's bread and butter. It had to be the first skill to maxed before any other skill.

[Player: Zhan Yu] (Guardian)

Level: 40

HP: 6320

Defense: 360

Strength: 285

Melee damage: (729 - 781) x 110%

He had equipped the [Heart of Fallen Warrior]. Even though it did not have any bonus attributes, it possesses a skill that could temporary add 2000 Defense! Any boss below Gray-Silver tier would definitely deal nullified damage!

As the team fought with increasing synchronicity, Zhang Yang started to pulled more and more monsters. He started at 10 a time and rose to 20 and even 30 monsters in one breath!

However, once the monsters started to increase to 20 counts and more, Zhang Yang had to depend on a long cool down skill or an equipment skill to survive. Still, Zhang Yang had more skills hiding under his sleeves. If Shield Wall had been used, he could use Berserker's Heal. There were still other skills such as the Lover's Sword Lifesteal, Merlina's Shadow, [Servant]'s Substitute, Heart of Fallen Warrior, and when everything had been used, Shield Wall would have already finished its cool down and its ready to use!

Be it his damage or his skills, Zhang Yang's outstanding performance left Endless Starlight breathless. He truly believed that Zhang Yang alone could have kill every monster here with all his skills. He had never known that a tank's potential could be raise to such a level! Zhang Yang's display of power had left him a burning passion! The little boy was too excited that, he imagine that he could be as strong, and as prominent as Zhang Yang, he could imagine his life being surrounded by beautiful girls slobbering all over him! Endless Starlight was not the only one, even those who were closer to Zhang Yang were left speechless.

"Noob tank! You're just unbelievable!" said Wei Yan Er with a straight face. "Ah! Don't misunderstand, I'm praising you!"

Zhang Yang sighed heavily and said, "In that case, let me return the favor. You are unbelievable! Your entire family is unbelievable!"

Han Ying Xue immediately interjected with both her hands on her waist. "Hey! Stupid Yu! Who's unbelievable now?"

Oh crap! He had forgot that this b*tch was in the same family as Wei Yan Er!

Zhang Yang quickly swung his sword around and cried, "L-Let's go! OOOOO!"

The team had started the floor at 9am and had only managed to clear half of the first floor at 12 noon. Zhang Yang called for the team to log out and take 1 hour off to have their lunch and come back at 1pm sharp.

He quickly added a sentence before they disappeared. "Those of you that need to do your make-up thing. Please come 5 minutes earlier!"

Han Ying Xue snickered. "Dummy. One look and I know that you are completely oblivious to how a woman behave!"

Daffodil added. "Actually, I had started at 8.30am and I could not make it in time!"

Zhang Yang dripped cold sweat.

...

The team gathered back at 1pm sharp. Luckily the girls were punctual this time since neither of them needed to redo their make-up.

With the uncountable number of monsters killed and the luxurious amount of experience points to everyone, those who were already at level 40 had rose by a level while Endless Starlight and Hundred Shot who were the lowest levels among the party members had reached level 40.

The time was already 7pm and the team had only a certain distance to reach the end of the floor. They would probably need to clear a few more monsters to reach the first floor's mini boss.

Zhang Yang thought for a while and said, "Everyone! Let's have a break and eat dinner! Don't come back with an empty stomach! The body is the most important asset! You're not you when you're hungry! Eat a snicker or something! I don't want the team to make a mistake!"

After Zhang Yang had ordered the team to gathered back after one hour, everyone logged out and took a break.

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Chapter 146: First Boss of the Castle

Right after dinner, the team gathered to clear the floors; all the way until they have met the first boss.

[Captain Guard Gail Baghdad, Legendary Centaur Hero] (Gray-Silver, Spectre)

Level: 41

HP: 820,000

The male centaur was huge, with his white horse body, along with a muscular human half. With just one look, you would know that he was a formidable one, having emitting strong hostility and strength that even his attackers would doubt their capabilities. He wielded a long spear on his right hand, with a long bow hanging from his back.

His face stoic and rigid, with eyes glowing emerald flames burning evilly as the only noticeable movement around his complexion! Rather than feeling fear, Endless Starlight and Daffodil Daydream were both excited as they had never encountered a Gray-Silver boss before.

Looking at the boss, Fatty Han asked, "Am I seeing things, or is that a spear AND a bow? I'm pretty sure players could only use only one type of weapon, no?"

Zhang Yang scratched his chin and replied, "That boss is a legendary hero. He could be the combination of both Warrior and Hunter classed!"

Fatty immediately became envious. "F*ck! How could that be? Damn! I wish players could have double classes as well!"

Zhang Yang laughed a little and said, "If players could have more and one class, then what's the use of having class specializations in the first place?"

"How do we fight it?" Sun Xin Yu interjected abruptly. The Ice Queen did not like to waste time.

Only now, had Zhang Yang realized that the world of 'God's Miracle' was just too large for him. Taking the Underground Tower as an example, Zhang Yang had never heard nor took part in the raid before in his previous life!

As to Sun Xin Yu's sudden interjection, Zhang Yang had to think for a moment before he could say anything. "As we can clearly see the boss possibly having weapons of two classes, I can only conclude that he should have both the Warrior and Hunter's skills!"

"There's no battle plan to formulate now. Let's give it a shot and have a better understanding after." Zhang Yang unsheathed his sword and moved forward. The surrounding coast was clear; no more monsters around to interrupt the battle. As according to game mechanics, elite-tier monsters should have a 5-hour respawn time. They would not have to worry about monsters being around for the time being.

Gail Baghdad's effective aggro trigger range was rather large, and he smiled evilly at Zhang Yang even when they were 20 meters apart from each other. He stomped his hooves and thrust his spear at Zhang Yang.

"You dare to enter the domains of the Castle? Your living essence will pollute this land for the slumbering death! Begone!"

Zhang Yang used Charge.

Block!

'-702!'

'-1,504!'

Gail Baghdad growled loudly as he effortlessly spun his spear in the air, as if it was weightless. With the speed of lightning, the spear burst forward. Zhang Yang could barely move away, but fortunately with his skills, he managed to dodge with his face only an inch away from the tip of the spear.

KIIIINnnnng!

The sound of sharp metal connecting to its target, accompanied with the sparks that were generated from his armor scraping.

'-2,912!'

He was hit! Gail Baghdad's physical attack was more then 4,000, and Zhang Yang still received approximately 3,000 damage even after accumulating the damage reductions.

Endless Starlight jumped in shock. "Damn! I always knew that a Gray-Silver boss was strong, but I never knew that it could be THIS strong! If I were to take that damage... I could die in just two seconds!"

Endless Starlight wore a full set of Level 30 Green-Copper equipment. Even with a shield, his HP was only at around 4,000.

Sun Xin Yu and the rest of the attacking team had begun their assault. Arrows, Fire Balls, all sorts of flashy skills were in the air, making what was once an empty sky into utter chaos in just a matter of seconds.

Wei Yan Er had a full Gray-Silver tier equipment on her, coupled with the ultra-slow two-handed weapon with 3.8 seconds attack interval, which made her one time normal attack devastatingly powerful. With Zhang Yang's Cripple Defense fully stacked on the boss, her damage could reach around 1,200! Excited with her all-time strength, she spammed her skills repeatedly while crying "OH YEA OH YEA" all the way.

Zhang Yang could not help but to be amused by her childish acts and said, "Little brat, it's about time you're returning to school now right? What a shame! Even though you still have holidays left, you'll have return to school the day after tomorrow! You might not even make it to the last boss!"

"You villain!" cried the little girl as she rolled her eyes at Zhang Yang. She wielded her weapon tighter in her hand and used Tornado Cleave, dealing 1,825 damage to the boss. In retrospect to a single attack damage count (skills or attack that attacks 1 instant of damage), her damage was much stronger than Zhang Yang's Destructive Smash and Horizontal Sweep collectively. She had been following Zhang Yang all these time and obtained many "First Clear" Achievements that awarded her with plenty of skill points. She had invested them all to Tornado Cleave.

[Tornado Cleave] (Level 9): Waves the weapon in your hands like a tornado. Causes 160% melee damage to surrounding targets within 3 x 3 meters range.

Cost: 20 Rage.

Cooldown time: 6 Seconds.

Requirement: Melee Weapon.

When the skill is maxed out, the cooldown time will be reduced to 5.5 seconds and the damage will be increased to 170%. This was a Beserker's main attacking skill.

Daffodil was a Spellcaster; a Pyromancer to be precise. She always had the pride of having better attack damage as compared to others. They say that grass was always greener on the other side, but when she compared her own damage to Sun Xin Yu, she was considered as a puny little noob player! As a woman of pride, she could never express her dissatisfaction. She only focused harder and fought faster with an unrelenting heart.

99%, 97%, 95%... the boss HP dropped down faster than ever with everyone trying their best to have the highest damage.

"Bunch of pests! I'll show you my true power!" Gail lifted his spear and spun it around, creating a circular radiance.

'Ding! Gail Baghdad has used Tornado Cleave!'

'-3,712!'

'-4,123!'

'-4,940!'

'-4,963!'

Everyone around the boss' melee range received instant damage. Aside from Zhang Yang, Sun Xin Yu, Endless Starlight, and Wei Yan Er were killed instantly!

"What a strong Tornado Cleave!" Zhang Yang had already guessed that Gail would have several Warrior skills, but he could never have guessed that the boss' skill damage would be any higher than 5,000!

Sun Xin Yu and Wei Yan Er were both having full set of Gray-Silver equipment, yet their maximum HP were only around 4,600 HP. Since neither of them had any damage reduction skills, they were killed in just one single stroke of the spear.

That skill did not have any progress bar; so the team thought that the boss was only taunting them instead of casting anything! Wei Yan Er's death was as expected, but Endless Starlight and Sun Xin Yu both had skills to protect them, they were just not able to anticipate the boss' skill.

Aside from the strong attacking power, the boss' skill also contained a knockback effect, pushing Zhang Yang back 3 to 4 feet away from him.

"Wuu... Cousin! I died!" cried Wei Yan Er.

"Sigh... I told you to be a Spellcaster instead of a Berserker! You're the one who insisted to be a Warrior!" Han Ying Xue sighed.

With the loss of two strong attackers, the party's attacking power dropped by a huge gap, slowing down the boss' HP loss.

Gail laughed happily and said, "Ahh! Souls! What wonderful souls! I can feel my strength growing!"

'Ding! Gail Baghdad has absorbed the power of the soul. All attacks increase by 50% for 10 seconds!'

'Ding! Gail Baghdad has absorbed the power of the soul. All attacks increase by 100% for 10 seconds!'

'Ding! Gail Baghdad has absorbed the power of the soul. All attacks increase by 150% for 10 seconds!'

Gail Baghdad's body glowed in a bloodied red color! Frightening and disgusting! Laughing maniacally, the boss' spear flew across the air and thrust towards Zhang Yang.

'Block!'

Without hesitation, Zhang Yang activated Shield Wall.

Another attack struck through, tearing the air around it.

'-1,928!'

Even under the Shield Wall, the boss could still inflict close to 2,000 damage to Zhang Yang. Obviously, after obtaining the buff, the boss' attack was now close to 10,000 damage!

Han Ying Xue quickly cast a Holy Shield and healed his HP back.

10 seconds later, Shield Wall ended and the red hue on the boss' body faded away, returning its attack back to normal.

"Crap! If there was any more melee fighters around, they will be killed off by that Tornado Cleave. I don't even dare to think how strong the boss would be!" said Fatty Han.

"That is why I had once said, the number of party members doesn't determine certain victory with a field boss!" said Zhang Yang.

If he had recruited several more people, and have them die off, the boss' increased damage would surely break through the defenses, and none of them would even survive even if Zhang Yang used Shield Wall. If the tanks and melee attackers perish, the next one who would suffer the same fate would be the ranged attackers. With the boss devastating attacks, everyone will surely die as well. It would only end with a complete wipe.

After a while, Gail Baghdad used another Tornado Cleave. Zhang Yang calculated the time and figured that the boss will use the skill after every 20 seconds.

For then on, Zhang Yang did not dare to use Block. If the boss made a combo with normal attack and the Tornado Cleave, the instance itself would deal more than 6,600 damage which exceeded his current maximum HP! If he wanted to survive the boss fight, he had to keep the skill ready to use anytime he needed it.

90%, 80%, 70%...

Once Zhang Yang solved the Tornado Cleave conundrum, Gail was really not a tough enemy to defeat. After all, he was just a mini-boss, the weakest among the 5 bosses!

50%!

Gail Baghdad stopped attacking suddenly. He then switched his weapon to the bow that was behind his back. He holstered the spear horizontally on the side of his horse body.

"Weak little beings, I have underestimated you all! You have forced me, the great Gail Baghdad to this end!"

Pew!

The boss shot an arrow towards Zhang Yang at melee range and immediately Dazed him! He then quickly galloped away from Zhang Yang and attacked from the maximum ranged distance.

'-2,112!'

Another arrow landed, causing significant yet lowered damage.

So, he has finally switched from a Warrior to a Hunter.

Zhang Yang had a sudden thought and quickly kicked his feet to chase the boss.

'-2,112!'

'-2,112!'

Even though it was lowered, the attack interval was shortened! Before the change, the attack interval was 3 seconds once; now it was faster at 2 seconds an arrow! The accumulated damage would still be higher! To make things worse, ranged attack could not be negated with Block, ultimately putting a stress on Han Ying Xue's healing load.

Merlinda's Shadow

Zhang Yang had to cast the special ring skill to temporary ease the burden of Han Ying Xue.

Hunter-type monster's weakness was that once any player got close to it, it could no longer attack!

However, Zhang Yang was worried that the boss might have the Tumble skill. He did not dare to use Charge to get closer to the monster, instead, he had to only rely on his own regular movement speed. This 4-legged boss' speed proved to be something else. He could attack and run at the same time! As his speed was no slower than Zhang Yang himself, coupled with the vast area of the floor, Zhang Yang could be kited to death!

Zhang Yang could no longer let things run like this any longer. If he did not use Charge now, he would not even need to wait for the boss to use Tumble and just die before that!

Once Zhang Yang was close to him, the boss did not use any other Hunter skills on him, aside from Breaking Shot and a fist to his face.

'Block!'

Zhang Yang raised his shield to block the incoming fist.

"Split up! As long as you can attack and can be healed, spread out as far as you can!" said Zhang Yang in the party channel.

If the boss could use Tornado Cleave in his Warrior state, that meant that he could use Barrage in his Hunter state to counter overwhelming odds.

His party obliged immediately and spread out into a half moon shape to surround the boss. Han Ying Xue was behind them to make sure none of her team mate lost too much HP! She made sure that she could heal anyone the moment they received damage!

"Feeble little beings! Let the rain of arrow crush your souls!" Gail Baghdad shot an arrow into the sky suddenly, a progress bar appeared on his head. Rain of arrows suddenly started to appear towards Hundred Shots.

'Ding! Gail Baghdad is channeling Barrage. Every target in 5 x 5-meter range will receive 3,000 natural every 2 seconds for 10 seconds!'

Hundred Shots' reaction was rather fast; once he saw an arrow head coming towards him, he ran to the side to evade. However still, he was still not as fast as the arrow that was raining down on him. He had only received 3,000 damage. Luckily, the second wave of arrow would only attack after 2 seconds. Hundred Shots had already left the effective area.

Han Ying Xue cast Regeneration on him instead of casting a long casting healing spell. Since the boss would rarely attack a non-tank player in the field, she estimated that she could save some time instead to allow the Regeneration slowly heal Hundred Shots over time.

Zhang Yang summoned [Servant: Clear Lotus] now since he had used Barrage. While the boss was still in Warrior state, Zhang Yang did not want to waste Clear Lotus as she would die from Tornado Cleave too.

10 seconds later, Barrage ended. Gail Baghdad immediately shot a Breaking Shot and caused Zhang Yang to enter Dazed state once again.

Zhang Yang came up with a quick idea and commanded Clear Lotus to attack him.

'-1!'

Clear Lotus attacked Zhang Yang from the front, causing a nullified damage value. Zhang Yang did not mind the damage. The importance of the attack was to quickly dispel Dazed!

Charge!

Thunder Smash!

Zhang Yang slid through the field and slowed the boss down.

Unable to get away from Zhang Yang even after running left and right, Gail could only fight him with his fist.

Block!

Zhang Yang finally laughed. Comparing Gail when was in his Warrior state to now, it was easier to fight Gail in his pitiful Hunter state.

Everyone was gaping when they saw Zhang Yang's series of impressive maneuver. Even Daffodil Daydream was impressed.

"As expected from a legend. Zhan Yu really lives up to his name!"

40%, 30%... Gail Baghdad's HP was dropping even faster!

In that period, the boss had used several Barrage, but everyone was quick enough to react, taking only 1 instance of the attack each! Excluding Fatty Han, the rest of the party were all future professional players. Their reaction speed and intuition were strong. Moving around while avoiding attacks was just a walk in the park!

Though, on one hand, Fatty Han had been with Zhang Yang and received indirect training, therefore his reaction speed was also commendable.

20%... 10%... Gail Baghdad HP was almost dropping to zero!

Finally!

'Ding! You and the party members around have killed Gail Baghdad. Obtained 163,050 Experience Points. (50 points party bonus)!'

THUD!

Gail Baghdad's humongous horse body fell, slamming heavily onto the ground.

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Chapter 147: Harmonious and Loving Party

"We did it!"

The party channel was suddenly filled with cheers and laughter, but Endless Starlight and Daffodil Daydream were even more excited than the others could be. After all, they had never seen a Gray-Silver boss, much more participate in a party to kill one! This first achievement meant more to them than to Zhang Yang's gang.

Hmph. This future-to-be superstar is now considered to be in my hands! Zhang Yang took notice that Daffodil was always wearing a smile on her face, which made Wei Yan Er look a little more annoyed. It somehow reminded her about a cartoon she watched when she was a kid, about a weird older gentleman and a young girl.

"Little brat! Get our prize!" Zhang Yang quickly gave her something to do when he noticed that Wei Yan Er was itching around after the battle ended.

"Aye aye, captain!" Wei Yan Er jumped with joy and hopped to the boss.

[Lunar Sol Magic Staff] (Gray-Silver, Staff)

Magic Attack: 690 - 750

Unbound

Level Requirement: 40

"Little Snow! Daffodil! Both of you roll for it!" said Zhang Yang grinning widely.

Daffodil's expression changed instantly when Zhang Yang addressed her. She crossed her hands and said, "No, no, no, no! It's okay! I'm already very happy with defeating a Gray-Silver boss! I even leveled up! I can't ask for more!"

Han Ying Xue smiled warmly and replied her. "Girl, you've worked your way here! You deserve to get the equipment as well! Come, don't be shy!"

Fatty Han and Wei Yan Er persuaded her as well. Daffodil only rolled for the equipment while being so abashed that her face was turning into a round peach fruit, and felt like if she did not accept the role, she would betray the nation and everything she stood for. In the end, Han Ying Xue rolled 74 points while Daffodil had only rolled 16 points.

Now that she lost her chance, she breathed a sigh of relief and smiled sincerely.

Han Yin Xue crossed her arms trying to think of a better way. She equipped the [Lunar Sol Magic Staff] and gave her Level 30 Silver-Gray staff to Daffodil. Even though the new staff was still Unbound, the magic attack alone was 180 points higher than her previous staff. It was an obvious upgrade.

Daffodil wanted to reject the gift but in the end, she could not reject the sincerity of Han Ying Xue and accepted the second-hand equipment with red cheeks. Her original weapon was a Level 30 Green-Copper staff, when she switched to the new equipment, she gained 270 magic attack! That was an obvious upgrade!

It was a Gray-Silver tier Level 30 equipment after all! You could not buy it even if you had the money! Daffodil could not express her immense gratitude to Han Ying Xue, but only to hold on to her hands, shaking them endlessly. Han Ying Xue then moved closer and the two of them were whispering. Zhang Yang was wondering what they were talking about...

Han Ying Xue suddenly turned around and Zhang Yang saw a warm and charming eye. She then sent a private message to Zhang Yang saying, "Hmph! Dummy! You should think of a way to thank me!"

"Huh? What should I thank you for?"

"Haha! Dummy! I saw your wavering heart! The heart that reeks of romance! I've helped you to set things up now! Now, how do you plan to repay my generosity?"

Huh?! Romance? Me?!

Zhang Yang was bewildered. He then pieced the puzzle together and finally understood. Han Ying Xue misunderstood the entire situation! She thought that Zhang Yang had a thing for Daffodil Daydream!

"You misleading sow! Don't stir things up when everything was fine! Yes! I was interested in her! But not sexually! I had an eye for her skills and capabilities! That was why I wanted to recruit her into the guild! What the hell have you done now? Don't point things out that are not even there! You might make things awkward for me!" Zhang Yang quickly warned her.

"Hehehe! She's quite cute though."

What are you still doing?! Sigh!

Zhang Yang sighed heavily. "Please, you're pretty cute yourself!"

Zhang Yang had to resort to attack instead of playing safe. Fight fire with fire!

"Haha! Dummy! You're 1,000 years too early if you want to try your luck on me!"

Phew! Even though he was not sure of the result, at least the topic was no longer about Daffodil.

While they were talking privately, Wei Yan Er opened another loot.

[Devotion of the Soul] (Silver-Gray, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 20

Vitality: 96

Strength: 48

Intelligence: 16

Unbound

Level Requirement: 40

Zhang Yang cried out, "Hah! Look at that! Starlight, you're quite lucky to have a Knight class equipment!"

Even though it was a Heavy Armor, but the additional 16 Intelligence attribute automatically made it an armor that was suitable for Knights.

Knights were a special class. To make things clear, Guardians and Berserkers fell under the Warrior main class. Defenders, Sacred Knights, and Templars were under the Knight's main class. Even though both Defenders and Templars use melee weapons to attack, most of their attacks were Holy damage which was affected by the Intelligence attribute.

Endless Starlight was an outgoing man, with a slightly higher ego than the rest. Even though he only joined Lone Desert Smoke for just a day, he made it as his own home and helped himself to the armor, laughing all the way cheerfully!

[Skill Book: Breaking Shot]

Use: Teaches you Breaking Shot.

Class Requirement: Hunter.

Level Requirement: 30

"Good stuff!" Praised Zhang Yang. Even though the skill did not provide much damage after leveling it up, it was extremely useful in PK. A Hunter has the pet tanking for them in the front line, and along with their own Fake Death aggro clearing skill, a Hunter would not need to worry about having a monster coming to close to him. But in PK, a player would not behave as stupid as a monster! A player would automatically ignore the pet and aim directly at the player himself. Once a monster got close to a Hunter, 90% of his skill and damage would be rendered useless. To forcefully create a gap between the Hunter and the target, he or she could use either Tumble or use Breaking Shot.

Fatty Han denied the item immediately. "This thing is useless for me! I don't even PK to begin with! Give this to Hundred Shots!"

Zhang Yang had a conversation with Fatty Han a few days back. Knowing that Zhang Yang wanted to build a PK party, Fatty Han would naturally support his brother without even knowing what it meant. To put it bluntly, Fatty Han could fight monsters all day long without flinching but PK was his kryptonite. He would be a sitting duck in the battle arena! Furthermore, Fatty Han's main purpose in playing this game was to earn a fortune. He achieved that goal with Zhang Yang's personal help now, earning at least 2,000,000 dollars a month! What more could he ask for?

Breaking Shot was considered to be a PK type skill, and naturally Hundred Shots got the priority over it. Before he could negotiate with Fatty Han, Zhang Yang gestured him to just accept the book. Hundred Shots obeyed Zhang Yang and learned the skill when he got it.

After witnessing the event that happened in front of his eyes, Endless Starlight was truly moved. "Looks like I've made the right choice to join you guys! What harmonious and loving team mates I have! Honestly, I have never seen such a team in my entire gaming life! To express my feeling, I want to dedicate a song to all of you called 'D*ck in a box' by Lonely Island. Ready? ARGH!"

Before he could start singing, he was brutally smacked in the head with a shoe and behaved himself.

The boss had several more items but the rest were only Green-Copper tier. None of them were interested in the equipment. They kept it and decided to sell it off at Zhang Yang's Little Merchandize Shop.

The team moved on to the next floor. After walking up a long flight of stairs, they encountered a mixture of monsters along the way. Aside from the Royal Guards, there was a new monster.

[Centaur Maid] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 42

HP: 60,000

MP: 40,000

When there was MP, there was bound to be a magic spell. If you only paid attention to the top half of these Centaur Maids, those that had not decayed were quite pleasing in the eye. Most of them were rather beautiful; having magnificent chests and all. Looking at the lower half, however, shaking their huge horse bodies as they walked around, you might just be turned off.

Fatty Han sighed and shook his head disappointingly. However, Endless Starlight started to stroke his chin and observed the female Centaurs like a wise old philosopher. "Honestly, a horse ass is quite plump and well formed!" Fatty Han immediately bowed down in respect to him.

Killing Royal Guards was fine, but killing Centaur Maids were a little troublesome. Their main attack was Frost Arrow which could deal 2,400 damage an instant. If they gathered a bunch of it in a go, even Zhang Yang would be killed instantly.

As the team proceed further up, the magic type monsters began to dominate the numbers. When the party was in the second floor, the huge space was completely filled with Centaur Maids. Luckily, they were not all that crowded as the first floor. They could lure in a maximum of two to three monsters at a time.

Endless Starlight was finally given a chance to shine. After provoking the monster, Starlight would mainly hold on to one monster while Zhang Yang would take care of the other two. Since Centaur Maids were the magic attack type, they would not need to chase around to attack Zhang Yang. The problem was that when there was more than one monster, having them standing apart would be efficient since they would not need to move around to attack. Luckily, the team had many "Interrupters". Once the Centaur Maid started to cast a spell, the player would interrupt the spell. The Centaur Maid would have no choice but to rely on its physical attack to damage Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang took the chance to move around and kite the monsters. That way, he could gather the monsters into one spot to utilize Thunder Strike, Tornado Cleave, Horizontal Sweep and other AoE skills to properly attack.

Sun Xin Yu entered Stealth and began to search around the floor for the 3rd floor entrance. Once she was sure of the direction, the team moved on towards it. As they could not properly multi-kill the monsters around, the pushing speed was very much reduced down to a snail's pace. They could only cover 10% of the entire place by midnight.

Zhang Yang then ordered the party to disband and have a good night rest before they continued the floor tomorrow morning at 9:00. Those who needed to make up were reminded to wake up half an hour earlier!

The extra reminder had Han Ying Xue, Wei Yan Er and Daffodil laughing their butts off.

The next day, every one gathered around 9:00 in the morning. The ladies were slightly earlier than yesterday but were still late by around five minutes or so. Daffodil Daydream was rather shy for her lateness and immediately apologized when she logged in. "I'm so sorry for my tardiness! I was so absorbed in doing my makeup and totally forgot about the time!"

Once everyone arrived, the party then moved forward.

Fatty Han suddenly got angry and cried out.

"Little Yang! There are so many guilds that have already taken down the first two bosses in the Castle Interior! I've picked up another disturbing news in the forums this morning! There were many players around that had been saying that we, the Lone Desert Smoke had been sucking on luck! Now that we have not made any progress, they said that they finally exposed our real trick! We were scared to fight the other guilds now! Damn! I'm so freaking pissed off!"

Seeing Fatty Han puffing with angry steam, Zhang Yang could only smile. "I think that those people who mocked us were all under super guilds. They are purposely trying to slander us! However, keep your cool, Fatty. Let's deal with this quest quickly and raid the Castle dungeon!"

"Ok. The early bird gets the worm. We will take the "First Clear" Achievement! That will teach them a lesson!"

Wei Yan Er giggled playfully and said, "Pervy Fatty! I'd never knew that you could use idiom!"

Fatty Han stared back at her wide-eye and said, "I've been reading so many philosopher books that I can even read it back to you! Erhm... for example, "Sun Tzu Art or War" or "100 ways to Improve Your Sex Life", or "What a Woman Wants"!"

"Fatty...you've revealed all your secrets again..."

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Chapter 148: The Prince

Any magic type monster was weak and could be easily defeated as compared to a physical attack type monster, but when fighting with multitude of them, it did not matter how strong you were, the blast from the arcane magic was enough to send you to the grave!

The party did not dare to pull too many monsters in at one go and only took two or three at a time. Even though the killing speed was faster than killing one at a time, the efficiency was much lower than killing a large bunch like in the first floor. Thus, the progress was obviously slower, and the accumulation of experience points was slow as well. Still, this was just between the first and second floor, and the progress was better than grinding alone.

In just one day, the party had already made it through half of the floor. By then, almost everyone had their inventory packed with items. They had to discard some of the items to make room for more valuable ones. The two misers in the party, Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er were troubled and disturbed. If only they could just use the [Teleportation Scroll] and head back to town to sell them... But, if they did, they would have to start from the beginning, which was just a waste of time and effort!

Zhang Yang could not help but sighed heavily. "If only Hundred Shots could learn to make the [Portable Bank]..."

[Portable Bank]

Use: Summons a mobile bank, allowing players to deposit and withdraw items from their personal storage. The Portable Bank will disappear after 10 minutes.

Cooldown time: 1 hour.

Requirement: Master Engineering.

Zhang Yang then explained the description of the [Portable Bank]. Everyone was impressed by its use and one by one, they all encouraged Hundred Shots to quickly increase his Engineering mastery.

The difficulty of raising one's mastery to Master-tier was tough, but the recipe for the [Portable Bank] was so rare that no one had owned it by then! Everyone was excited but eventually accepted the harsh reality that it was still an impossible feat for them.

After clearing the floor for the entire day, the team finally managed to push a little towards the center. Zhang Yang called it a day and disbanded the party. Everyone logged off and had their rest for tomorrow.

At the brink of dawn, Zhang Yang started his training and went on to buy breakfast with the remaining 40 dollars in his wallet. Zhang Yang was so preoccupied with the Centaur Palace that he did not have time to visit the bank to withdraw cash! By the time he was done with the quest, the first thing he would do was to withdraw some cash. Any more delay and he would have literally no money left to buy food!

The team logged in and gathered together at 9:00 in the morning and proceeded as normal.

The team and cleared the pathway to the boss at 10:00 at night and arrived at the second floor's boss.

[Prince Chateau Turk] (Gray-Silver, Spectre)

Level: 44

HP: 880,000

The Centaur prince was standing majestically at the entrance to the 3rd floor. He was wielding a long spear with his right arm. As Zhang Yang approached him, he noticed a certain glimmer on his body with the shape of a sharp sword. When the glimmer appeared, Chateau Turk's head had a buff icon.

[Reflect Sword: Counter any attack inflicted at 300% damage.

The buff was rather complicated and frequent. It was estimated to appear once every 30 seconds and would last for at least 10 seconds.

"Remember to stop your attacks when the [Reflect Sword] appears!"

Zhang Yang took the lead.

"The boss seems to be a Warrior class. Melee attackers stay away for now! You might get killed by the Tornado Cleave! I don't want to see any of you lying dead on the floor the whole time!"

Inching closer to the boss, Chateau Turk's appearance changed from a handsome majestic complexion to a nasty, irritated, and angry appearance.

"Why have you entered this land of the dead? The sinner should remain buried with their sins! Why must you exhume their hatred?!"

He picked up his spear and kicked off his hooves, charging towards Zhang Yang.

Charge!

Zhang Yang slid across the floor with his sword aiming directly at the prince.

'-702!'

Cripple Defense!

'-1,504!' Destructive Smash.

'-1,618!' Horizontal Sweep.

Charge gave him 10 Rage, followed by a normal attack with 37 Rage, and Block that granted him 30 Rage. Zhang Yang spent it all on Cripple Defense, Horizontal Sweep, and Destructive Smash, generating a bigger aggro.

Zhang Yang was the only one attacking the boss so far. The rest of the melee attackers were still waiting behind for the Tornado Cleave to proc, to guess and estimate the frequency of the skill.

Among them, Wei Yan Er, a fighter to be at least, was always the one who could not wait to attack. Gripping the weapon in her hand firmly, she could not help but mutter alone on the side.

"Damn! Damn you all! Why did you came here! Why! Why did you wake me?!" 15 seconds into the fight, Chateau Turk bellowed angrily. "Die! Just die!"

Shuush!

He took up the spear in the air and spun it around, creating a shadowy image of a spear in the air.

'Ding! Chateau Turk has used Tornado Cleave. All targets within 5 x 5 range will receive 6,000 physical attack!'

'-4,512!'

Wham! Zhang Yang took a hit.

Block!

Zhang Yang frantically activated Block to block off the next incoming damage and made room for Han Ying Xue to heal him.

"Hold on! Wait for the next Tornado Cleave! Make sure to know the skill interval duration before you can start fighting!" Zhang Yang warned Wei Yan Er when he noticed she was fidgeting to swing her weapon. Wei Yan Er heard his call and behaved. Before he looked away, Wei Yan Er quickly bared her teeth at Zhang Yang.

"Heh. Little brat."

10 seconds later, the bright glow suddenly radiated on the boss and formed sword like objects.

'Ding! Chateau Turk has gained Reflect Sword!'

Zhang Yang immediately pulled back. He then relied on Block and physically moving around to evade attack. If he continued to attack, he would be damaged from the reflect skill. Zhang Yang would be facing the boss and 3 additional Zhang Yang fighting against himself. Unless Han Ying Xue could triple her healing speed, she could not save him in time.

10 seconds passed and the buff expired. The boss cast another Tornado Cleave after 3 seconds.

With that, the party had obtained their battle plan and understood the boss' mechanics. Both Tornado Cleave and Reflect Sword would trigger every 30 seconds.

"Go! Melee attacker go! Remember to stop your attack in time!"

Wei Yan Er let out a loud battle cry and rushed into the fight with Charge.

10 seconds into the fight, Chateau Turk gained the reflect damage buff. Many of them were a little slow in stopping their attack and had to "eat" triple the amount of damage that they had inflicted on the boss. Han Ying Xue was suddenly pushed to her limit.

"Melee fighters back down now! When Reflect Sword ends, don't rush in back! A Tornado Cleave will be activated shortly after! Whoever is still in its range will surely die!" Zhang Yang cried in the party channel.

All melee attackers obliged and withdrew from the front line. Ranged attackers had only needed to stop attacking and wait until Reflect Sword ended. Now that the attacking cycle had to pause now and then, it reduced their attacking period down to only 2/3, especially since the melee attackers needed to move away to avoid the Tornado Cleave and to wait for Reflect Sword to end, severely affecting their attacking speed. The boss' HP dropping rate was even slower than Zhang Yang had ever experienced.

Chateau Turk's attack were strong to begin with, and now that the entire party had to slow down and drag the fight longer than they had initially expected, Han Ying Xue and Zhang Yang was pushed beyond their limit! It was lucky that Zhang Yang had many life preserving skills like Berserker's Heal, Lover's Sword Lifesteal, Merlinda's Shadow, and the 2,000 Defense accessory skill! He was too far from death to claim him!

Once the battle had stablized, and everyone was doing what they could do without a problem, Zhang Yang summoned [Clear Lotus] and controlled her to fight along with the party.

90%, 80%, 70%...

It was tough and excruciatingly long, but the party managed to slowly drag down the boss' HP.

"You pest! Wretched beings! Monsters! Die! Just die and rot in hell!" The majestic Centaur cried out. His tone was so enraged that you could feel the tremor of destructive intent from his voice.

"The boss is being a little too dramatic, don't you think?" said Endless Starlight.

Fatty Han pout his lips. "We must have come in the wrong time! Perhaps he was in the middle of having a good time with his maids! Blowing of his steam, leaving him hanging, of course he'd be crazy!"

"Direct hit Fatty bro! Genius!" said Endless Starlight with admiration.

"Starlight, direct is what I am good at! You know, there was a folktale describing the first night of the maid and the prince, they say..."

"SHUT THE F*CK UP! BOTH OF YOU!"

Everyone else cried out in unison.

Fatty Han and Starlight exchanged and look and was baffled at their scream.

"...I had become the laughing stock of the Centaurs, and you... the other races would even want to make fun of me?" Chateau Turk growled and thrust his spear to the ground and unleashed massive 2-meter-tall blast waves that discharged everywhere.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

4 melee attackers were knocked back and was stunned for as long as 10 seconds!

'Ding! Chateau Turk has used Earth Crash.'

The boss moved a step forward and attacked Zhang Yang with his spear.

Unable to activate Block in stun status, Zhang Yang could only take everything the boss had to give. Han Ying Xue was unable to heal Zhang Yang in time! Furthermore, Tornado Cleave was about to activate soon, if he were to stand there motionless, the rest of the melee attackers would definitely be killed!

Zhang Yang immediately came to a decision and used Substitute.

At the same time, Endless Starlight activated Sacred Protection to remove all negative status aliments and cast Justice Bash and Provoke he then immediately ran far away! He knew that the boss was about to cast Tornado Cleave, which was why he has to keep his distance from the boss.

Impressive sense of judgement! Zhang Yang's eyes gleamed with hope and admiration. Only under the unexpected situation would a player's talent and capability be demonstrated.

Being provoked by Endless Starlight, Chateau Turk turned around and galloped toward him.

Zhang Yang quickly chased after him and said, "Starlight, continue running! Don't drag the boss! Let me! You can't tank the Tornado Cleave!"

"Ok!" Endless Starlight did not want to compete with Zhang Yang in the first place. He only wanted to help when Zhang Yang was rendered powerless under stun. He had to do something until Zhang Yang could return to normal!

Similarly, Zhang Yang used Provoke and lur the boss to him.

'Ding! Chateau Turk has used Tornado Cleave. All targets within 5 x 5 range will receive 6,000 physical attack!'

Block!

After Tornado Cleave, Zhang Yang was prepared for the next incoming attack and deflected it with Block.

Shriiing! Han Ying Xue healed Zhang Yang back to full health and they managed to survive this sudden turn of event.

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Chapter 149: Family Vengeance

"This guy must be suffering from a massive trauma! He's been acting all crazy!" muttered Endless Starlight.

The boss had been constantly screaming "Bastard!", "Pathetic!", "Dreadful!", "Wretched!" along with other kind of insults.

"Perhaps he was in love with a handsome young centaur like himself and the society stopped them from being together! However, in search for true love, the young prince went through hell and back to be together with his lover! Once the king knew about this, he had the prince's lover killed to maintain his status! Thus, the angered prince cast a curse and sunk the entire castle down to ruins in order to be together with his lover forever!" said Daffodil Daydream with a yearning face.

Zhang Yang and everyone else exchanged a look and came to a conclusion. "Fujoshi1!"

Fighting this boss would undoubtedly require a whole lot of patience and stamina, no matter what class you were! The attacking classes must always pay attention to the boss' Reflect Sword status while Thieves and Berserkers would have to run away from the boss to evade the Tornado Cleave! The tank would have to always be ready to cast his life preserving skills to prevent them from wasting their hard work if he were to die! The healer was the worst; having to constantly maintain the tank's HP! If the spell was slower, even by a micro second, the tank would die and would end up in a team wipe.

40%, 30%, 20%...

It was luck that the boss did not have any other skills aside from Reflect Sword and Tornado Cleave, and the multi target blast wave he used when he was at 50% HP! However, just with two skills alone, Zhang Yang and the team had their hands full! Neither one of them dared to relax for even a second!

15%, 10%, 5%!

Finally, after what seemed to be a whole lifetime of attacking, the boss' HP was approaching to its end. The party got lively and cheered all the way.

"Don't let your guard down just yet! A dead boss is the safest boss!" said Zhang Yang.

3%, 2%, 1%, 0%!

'Ding! You and the party members around have killed Chateau Turk. Obtained 110,050 Experience Points. (50 points party bonus)!'

Phew!

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and plopped down on their butts! They were completely worn out!

Shush! A white light flashed by and a figure stood at the top of the boss' body. It was Chateau Turk!

Everyone was shock onto their feet!

"Z-z-z-z-z-zombie!" cried Wei Yan Er.

"Crap! A dead boss is still not safe, yo!"

"Calm down!" Zhang Yang cried out. "Look at him properly. Don't you see that he is now just a Level 1 ghost?"

Everyone selected on him and was relieved when they had checked on his properties.

[Soul of Chateau Turk] (Normal)

Level: 1

HP: 0/50

Zhang Yang once faced a similar event in the Underground Tower, which was why he remained calm upon encountering Chateau Turk's soul.

There was a yellow exclamation mark on top of his head, indicating a quest ready to be received.

"...It seems that you have defeated me, foreigners!" This time, his tone was completely different than before. A majestic look and royalty aura emitted all over him even when he was just a ghostly figure.

Zhang Yang asked. "My lord prince, what had happened here? What caused this castle to fall?"

Chateau Turk's ghost remained silent for a while before he began to move his lips. "I thought that I could have ended it all with the destruction of the castle. Never had I thought that I would be reincarnated by a Necromancer and had my soul trapped in a body full of anger, despair, and vengeance!"

He wavered a little before he spoke again. "I have a request for you! I want you to kill two people!"

Was it the two people that caused this prince to turn into a mindless and raging spectre?

Zhang Yang nodded and said, "My lord prince, who do you need us to kill?"

Chateau Turk went silent again for some time before talking again. "My father, Kinglose Turk and...the princess, Annie Balrum!"

WTF!? Internal affair?

The "fujoshi" inside Daffodil Daydream burned with a raging passion. She quickly asked, "My prince, they are both your close family! Why would you do so?"

Chateau Turk's face turned sour, expressing anger and menace. He angrily waved his arms out and replied. "They are not worthy! That lowly b*itch! I treated her as my treasure! I provided her with anything that she could ask for! No matter what or how ridiculous her requests were, I tried my very best to satisfy her! But... but... she would dare to cheat on me! With my father!"

"The moment I had caught them in the act, my heart was broken into smithereens! How could it have happened?! How could she betray me? My father, of all people in the world! Why would he...! GRAHHH!!! Ha... Ha... hahaha. In the end, I activated the Castle's restricted magic. This magic was to be used when all else have failed during an enemy invasion. To bring down the enemy along with the centaurs! The castle was then sunk deep into the earth, killing... everyone!"

"I will not become the laughing stock of the Centaur race! This shame! This humiliation shall be cleansed only through death!"

Everyone stared with a blank look in their eyes when they found out that it was just a family dispute! Daffodil was the most disappointed among all. She actually hoped for the forbidden love drama to appear here!

Chateau Turk looked to the crowd and said, "Now that both of them have been reincarnated by the Necromancer, they even have the shame to live together! Adventurer! I ask for your help! Kill them for me!"

'Ding! Chateau Turk has a quest for you: Kill Them Both! Will you accept it?'

Since they would need to kill them either way, might as well take a quest for it!

[Kill Them Both!] (Difficulty Level: A)

Quest Description: Kill the King Kinglose Turk and the Princess Annie Balrum! These shameless creatures should not be alive! Send them down to hell!

Progress: Kill King Kinglose Turk 0/1 Princess Annie Balrum 0/1

"Take this spear with you! In it, remains a fragment of my soul. I want to see them die right in front of my very eyes!" said Chateau Turk menacingly.

'Ding! You have obtained the item "Chateau Turk's Spear"'

[Chateau Turk's Spear] (Quest Item)

Use: Summons Chateau Turk vengeance spirit to witness the death of The King Kinglose Turk and the Princess Annie Balrum! Who knows what would happen? He might lend a hand!

Cool down time: 30 minutes.

After accepting the quest and the item, Chateau Turk's ghostly figure disappeared.

"Little brat! Time for our loots!" said Zhang Yang as he gestured towards the boss.

Wei Yan Er quickly ran around and reached out her timid hands.

[Sharp Rotten Tooth] (Gray-Silver, Dagger)

Weapon Attack: 274 - 334

Attack Interval: 1.9 seconds.

DPS: 160

Unidentified

Level Requirement: 40

"Woah! 1.9 seconds attack interval! This is a good item! If you use this to attack from behind, I think you might deal more than 1,000 damage, no?" Zhang Yang praised.

There was only one Thief class player in the party, and that was Sun Xin Yu. The Ice Queen took the dagger and equipped it. She then applied poison on the blade and it gave off a greenish hue glimmer.

"I have some thought in my head for a while now that I could never understand." Fatty Han had been quiet for some time now. He opened his fat lips after he could no longer hold it in.

Everyone turned around to look at him, expecting some sort of rubbish topic.

"...The Centaur are all 4 legged, aren't they? So how could they...do it? No matter how hard I could think, it just doesn't make sense!"

"..."

[Genuine Love] (Gray-Silver, Ring)

Vitality: -20

Intelligence: 60

Unidentified

Note: Friend, you've been blinded by the power of love! It's time for you to replenish your intelligence for a change!

"How strange! It reduces your vitality and HP?" asked Hundred Shots.

Zhang Yang scratched his chin a while and explained. "It actually a worth trade off. Rings usually have 2 attribute bonus. For example, Vitality 15 and Strength 15. A Level 40 Gray-Silver ring should have 20 both attribute. If you look closely at the attribute arrangement of the ring, it was an even trade! You must know that Vitality is the "cheapest" attribute among all. To trade off 40 Vitality for 40 Intelligence is worth double its value!"

Everyone understood the significance of the ring once Zhang Yang explained it. Still, if you could make sure you won't receive any damage, having 100 HP and 10,000, HP would make a difference! However, having extra 40 Intelligence points was worth 400 MP and 40 magic attack damage! This was definitely a strong damage and healing endurance upgrade!

This magic type ring was rolled by Han Ying Xue and Daffodil. This time, Daffodil had a change of luck and obtained the ring at 89 points while Han Ying Xue had only rolled 67 points.

[Skill Book: Crash Magic]

Use: Teaches you Crash Magic.

Class Requirement: Guardian, Defender

Level Requirement: 30

Before Zhang Yang could say anything, Endless Starlight gave up his roll for the item, saying, "I would have rolled for the item if it was an equipment, since we're fighting a Level 40 boss that will drop a Gray-Silver Level 40 equipment. Based on the party strength, I'm sure it would be a walk in the park! But a skill book is a whole different matter, it would only appear once in a lifetime. There's even a chance that it will not appear again!"

What Endless Starlight said was the cold bitter truth. Equipment were easily discarded after obtaining a stronger one. But a skill could be used from Level 1 to Level 300! A skill may seem to be useless at first but in certain situations, it could be used to obtain certain victory!

Zhang Yang laughed. "Thank you, Starlight!" Zhang Yang rolled and obtained the skill book. Zhang Yang immediately learned the skill.

[Crash Magic: Use your shield to strike the target. If the target was casting a spell, the spell will be interrupted and the target would not be able to cast any skill for the next 3 seconds!

Requirement: Shield

Cost: 10 Rage.

Cool down time: 10 seconds.

He had finally learned an interruption skill! Zhang Yang was happy. He would not have to fight as hard the next time he faced a magic type; especially elite magic type monsters!

The team kept 10 or more Green-Copper equipment and moved on.

After a long flight of stairs, the team fought many more Centaur Maids and arrived at the 3rd floor.

Compared to the 1st and 2nd floor, the 3rd floor had fewer monster count. Zhang Yang scanned the area and had only observed many Spectre Saber Tooth Tigers patrolling around. Some of them had their skins impaired, while some other had exposed rotten, dried innards and white bones. All of their eyes were the same; glowing in green emerald color flame!

[Saber-Tooth Skeleton Tiger] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 43

HP: 86,000

Majority of wild beast had the skill called Mangle. This skill was a form of DoT skill which would cause high damage per second if they were stacked. Zhang Yang did not know whether or not these zombie-like tigers had that skill. So, instead of going commando and taking on a bunch of these monsters, Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight went on and took one monster each to test it out.

'Ding! You have received Mangle (stack 1). Receiving 100 Bleeding damage every 3 seconds for 15 seconds!'

'Ding! You have received Mangle (stack 2). Receiving 200 Bleeding damage every 3 seconds for 15 seconds!'

'Ding! You have received Mangle (stack 3). Receiving 300 Bleeding damage every 3 seconds for 15 seconds!'

'Ding...'

As expected, even after turning into a spectre, the tiger still retained the Mangle skill. To make matters worse, the skill did not have a stack limit! The initial damage was small but once the skill stacked to about 10 layers or so, any player could definitely feel its pain.

If that was the case, the party could not lure a bunch of monsters to kill them all in one go! If they did, who was going to kill who?

The party targeted the monsters that Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight had attack and killed it quickly, turning it into a pillar of light. The monster dropped a few pieces of [Tiger's Fang] and [Tiger's Bone].

"Hundred Shots, take this Tiger's Bone and take it with whiskey! I hear that it can cure "flabbiness"!" said Fatty Han as he handed over a large bone to Hundred Shots.

Hundred Shot did not say anything but rolled his eyes at Fatty Han.

Endless Starlight quickly interjected. "Hundred Shots bro is probably already a "man"! If he took anymore supplements, who knows, he might really be a father tomorrow!"

"Alright, break it up guys! Or else, I'll ask Hundred Shots to shoot your ass inward!" Zhang Yang gestured the team to move forward with him as the lead.

Even though they could not multi-kill the monsters on this floor, they were making a rather quick progress since the number of monsters around here was just a few. By the time they had defeated the prince, it was already 10:00 at night. Now that they had progressed further into the floor, and covered approximately a quarter of the area, the time was already reaching past midnight.

Zhang Yang then quickly disbanded the party and ordered the team to continue tomorrow morning.

Zhang Yang recalled that it was almost time for students to return to school. And since, tomorrow was a Monday, Zhang Yang had to ask Wei Yan Er. "Little brat, looks like you really can't make it tomorrow huh?"

Wei Yan Er stuck out her tongue and blew a raspberry. "Just wait and see!"

After the night, everyone logged in and gathered together at 9:00 in the morning. Surprisingly, Wei Yan Er was there.

Zhang Yang asked suspiciously. "Little brat! Did you skip school?!"

"Skip school?" Wei Yan Er patted her flat chest and said proudly: "I took leave like an honest person!"

Han Ying Xue quickly interjected her. "Yan Er, lighter! Not so hard! If you pat any harder it might concave in!"

"HAN YING XUE!" The little brat was triggered ever so easily. Like a cat's tail being stepped on suddenly.

"How did you even manage to apply a leave? Did you really say you wanted to play some games?" Zhang Yang asked while resisting his laughter.

Wei Yan Er looked at Zhang Yang with a hidden message "You're an idiot" and said, "My cousin called the school principle and said that I had a fever! That settled it!"

Zhang Yang turned over and stared at Han Ying Xue, who was still wearing a smug on her face. "What kind of cousin are you? Are you purposely trying to destroy the budding flower of the country? You'd know that this little brat is already stupid! Why did you stopp her from actually learning?"

"Hey! Noob tank! Who says I'm stupid!" Wei Yan Er stomped the ground, throwing a fit.

Han Ying Xue pout her lips and said, "Tch. What can you learn in school anyway? It's not like you're actually going to apply everything you've learnt in school! Tell me, when have you ever used the triangular formulae, or even the force or acceleration... that kinda thing... something about periodic graph or table...Widely taught but not of any importance! So tell me what's the use of learning it in the first place? Yan Er will one day take over her father's business! She only needs to learn what she needs to learn! To be frank, she went to school to learn about people and business relationship! That's the important lesson that could only be learned on the job!"

Wei Yan Er was grinning all the way and scoffed Zhang Yang provocatively.

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1Fujoshi is a self-mockingly pejorative Japanese term for female fans of novels that feature romantic relationships between men (Yaoi).

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Chapter 150: 3rd Floor

Zhang Yang sighed heavily. "Only second generation youngsters from wealthy families could do such things at no consequence! You have your entire future laid out for you! All you have to do is to simply follow the yellow brick road, and your life will as comfortable as you can ever imagine!"

"Don't be jealous dummy! You are also considered a millionaire right now! First generation millionaires like you have so much more impact that second generations!"Han Ying Xue shot back without pause.

As Endless Starlight listened to their conversation, a nagging instinct tugged at his heart. With a sudden jump, he was completely flat on the ground, hugging Zhang Yang's feet. "Big bro Zhan Yu! Please take care of me!"

"Scram! If Little Yang ever wants to take care of anyone, they better be someone as pretty as Little Snow or the perfect sister Yu here! As for you? Just stay here with me and be my underling!" said Fatty Han as he reached out with his flabby arms and patted Endless Starlight's shoulders.

Han Ying Xue and Sun Xin Yu were furious

"Dirty minded pig! Don't expect me to heal you again!"

The other woman disappeared with a "poof!" and entered Stealth. She reappeared a few seconds later behind Fatty Han, stunning him as star circled around his head. The blade in her hands gleamed brightly as light reflected off the blade like a disco ball as she danced around. After Ambush and Kidney Shot ended, Fatty Han was left with a tiny bit of HP. Sun Xin Yu's gears were at their best yet. A single complete combo of Ambush and Kidney Shot could instantly kill off any non-tank class player! There's no need to start a new combo at all!

At the current stage of the player's progress, cases of instant kills were very common. A Gray-Silver equipment could provide more damage than it could provide Vitality. That was why the overwhelming damage could easily kill anyone off.

Once players around had started to put on Yellow-Golden tier equipment, the situation will change. Since Yellow-Gold tier equipment could provide much more Vitality, similarly leveled players could fight and not have duels end in seconds. It was still not impossible to instantly kill someone, but it would be more dependent on luck. A Lucky Strike dealing 6 times the normal amount of damage was an example!

When Fatty Han had only around 100 HP left, Sun Xin Yu stopped her blade and slid it back into the sheathe at her waist. A pair of annoyed, furious eyes stared into him and she said, "If I ever hear you speak of such things again, I will make sure that you permanently remain at level 41!"

If they were to have a real fight, in the real world, with Fatty Han's body and fist, he could have been more than a match to Sun Xin Yu! But if they were to battle in the game, with the rules and mechanics of the game, Fatty Han could only bow down to her. Any pro player could easily toy with him till his death! Fatty Han knew this, and he treasured his current level the most as he still had the ambition to be in the Level Ranking board again, even if it was just to brag in front of the Message Parlor girls.

Like a cat getting his tongue, Fatty Han was rendered as silent as a mouse by Sun Xin Yu.

The party went forward with the force of a thousand-man army to the 4th floor.

As they mad their way through about one third of the castle area, the monsters had gradually changed into multiple variations of wolves.

[Berserk Skeleton Wolf] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 44

HP: 88,000

MP: 44,000

"I guess Berserk Skeleton Wolves and Berserk Wolves have about the same skills!" Zhang Yang guessed.

Shuush!

He slid across the floor and stunned one of the wolf monsters with Charge. He chained his attack with a normal attack.

"-921!"

"-1200!"

The wolf recovered from the stun and immediately counterattacked with a bite, causing visible physical damage to Zhang Yang. Following closely was a Fire Ball that came blasting out from its mouth, dealing magical damage.

Zhang Yang nodded and call out to Endless Starlight. "Starlight, take on one monster as well. I see that the damage is not that powerful. Continue to kite more of them to increase our speed."

The two tanks began working together, resulting in a faster raiding pace. It helped that this floor had significantly lesser monsters than the two previous floors. They only took about 3 hours to slay every Berserk Skeleton Wolf in their path. After a while, they entered a new area with a new type of monster.

[Blazing Skeleton Bird] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 45

HP: 60,000

MP: 50,000

This is a huge bird-like creature. Everyone was staring in awe at the bird monster that somehow remained in the air by flapping its boney wings.

"Eh...How is that bird able to fly? I mean...look at it! Those wings are just bones! It doesn't make sense!" asked Wei Yan Er.

Zhang Yang frowned so hard that wrinkles started to appear on his forehead. "Little brat, it's just a game. I bet that even pigs could fly. What's so strange about that?"

"Boo..." Wei Yan Er crossed her arms and pouted her lips.

Zhang Yang went up to the monster to start the fight while the remaining party members followed a moment after.

The monster responded with a loud shriek and spewed a very long beam of flame out from its mouth. It aimed at Zhang Yang first and quickly spun around by 360 degrees, hitting every melee attacker with strong damage. Everyone received at least 1000 damage.

"This attack is about the same as the 3rd boss in the Bangar Crypt. It's called Dragon Breath or something like that...If only players could learn the same skill. That would be sick!" said Fatty Han.

Zhang Yang replied him after a moment of silent. "If I remember correctly, there's a similar skill for Spellcasters. It could even stun a player for 3 seconds! However, the flame's duration is rather short. You would need excellent control if you wanted to hit every target in the area!"

Daffodil Daydream got excited and cried. "Is it obtainable from the Class Instructor or from a skill book?"

"I think it comes from a skill book." Zhang Yang was not as well-versed in other classes besides Guardians.

The party made quick progress. No matter how strong the Blazing Skeleton Bird was, it could not withstand the party's overwhelming attack for long. The team went on hacking and slashing away and made it to the end of the 3rd floor and the entrance of the 4th floor.

In front of the entrance was a female centaur seated like horse; with her legs folded beneath her body. Surrounding her were 3 beasts, a Saber-tooth Skeleton Tiger, a Berserk Skeleton Wolf, and a Blazing Skeleton Bird. The fierce beasts that they encountered before this were wild and ferocious, but the beasts close to the Centaur were surprisingly tame. The Skeleton Tiger and Wolf were lying on their backs, submissively revealing their bellies to their owner. From the looks of it, appearances aside, they behaved exactly like domesticated cats and dogs.

[The Queen, Shimalue Gutan] (Gray-Silver, Spectre)

Level: 46

HP: 920,000

MP: 500,000

The tiger, wolf, and bird were respectively called Tai Tai, Wu Wu, and Gu Gu, with 10,000 HP each.

"What's the plan?"

Everyone turned their heads to face Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang stepped back, raising his hands. "What are you looking at me for? You guys think that I know everything?!"

Everyone exchanged a look and nodded their heads repeatedly.

"F*ck!" Zhang Yang was so annoyed by that fact, he nearly broke his teeth from gnashing them together. He sighed heavily and said, "The tiger has the stackable Mangle skill, so he has to be the first to go! We cannot target the others yet since the skill could take out any tank if we let it stack too many times."

He paused to think for a while and said, "Starlight, you're to pull the bird out of the..."

"BLEH..."

Zhang Yang was suddenly interrupted by Fatty Han and Hundred Shots. Fatty Han was a little overdramatic. Grabbing his tummy and laughed, he said. "Starlight, pull your bird1 out!"

Endless Starlight immediately picked up his hammer and wanted to smash Fatty Han's face when Zhang Yang quickly tugged Starlight back.

"Stop! Stop! Stop!"

"Sigh... can you guys at least let me finish my explanation? The Blazing Skeleton Bird is a magic type, therefore Starlight would be more suitable to handle it! You'll need to get the monster alone to one side before we can attack it. Our targets will start with the tiger, the wolf and lastly, the bird. We will fight the boss only when all other 3 beasts are taken out!"

"Okay!" Everyone nodded their heads

"Starlight! I will start the fight, you'll come in after a bit and use Provoke to pull the monster away!"

"Roger that!" said Endless Starlight.

"Let's get started then!" said Zhang Yang as he ran towards the monsters with the sword gleaming in his hand,

"Foreigners!? How dare you invade this grand castle of the Centaurs!?" Shimalue Gutan stood up on her hooves immediately. "Guards! Kill the invaders!"

After a silent respond, Shimalue Gutan cried out in anger when there as no one appeared to her aid. "Tai Tai, Wu Wu, Gu Gu! The Queen orders you to kill these invaders!"

All 3 beasts roared and shrieked in their own manners, charging towards Zhang Yang.

Charge!

Zhang Yang slammed into the Saber-Tooth Skeleton Tiger and quickly used Blood Rage to bring up his Rage and followed up with a Horizontal Sweep.

"-702!"

"-759!"

"-738!"

Damage texts popped up from all 3 beasts. Endless Starlight quickly cast Taunting Fist on the bird monster and dragged the miniboss away.

Taunting Fist is a Defender's skill unlocked at level 30. It is a provoking type of skill that forces the target to forcefully engage the caster for 2 seconds, and deals an additional 100% Holy damage based on Strength.

After Endless Starlight had successfully lured the bird away, Zhang Yang immediately cast Thunder Strike, slowing two beasts down, and headed straight for the boss herself.

The boss was a magic attack type monster. While commanding the beasts to attack, the boss concurrently started a chant for a spell and cast Punishment Ray.

"-1613!"

Zhang Yang immediately received damage. The damage value was not low, but considering the fact that Shimalue Gutan was a boss, it was low by boss standards!

"1984!"

Han Ying Xue used Brilliant Light to heal a huge amount of HP. This skill was found by Han Ying Xue herself during one of her window shopping sprees. After she had asked Zhang Yang about the skill's effect, she bought the skill book for 100,000 gold coins and learned the skill soon after.

In the end, after she bought the skill book, Han Ying Xue tried to beat around the bush to avoid returning Zhang Yang's 90,000 gold coins. Her reason being, "This girl here learned this skill for your sake! I was already nice enough to pay for a portion of it! Besides, that money was for my wedding dress!"

Sigh...All in all, the skill was a very powerful healing spell alright.

[Brilliant Light] (Level 1): Invokes the blessing of the light. Heals a target by 200% magic attack.

Cool down time: 15 seconds.

Casting Time: 2 seconds

Once the skill is maxed out, it would reduce the cool down time to only 6 seconds. Truly an OP skill.

"-744!"

Zhang Yang dashed towards the main boss and slashed his sword across her body, sending a stream of fresh blood gushing out.

"How dare you attack the Queen!? Only death could cleanse your sins!" bellowed Shimalue Gutan furiously.

Boom!

"-1603!"

Another Punishment Ray struck him.

Huh! This boss' attack sure was not as strong as he had thought.

No sooner after that thought, the tiger and the wolf came charging towards Zhang Yang and attacked him simultaneously.

Cripple Defense! Cripple Defense! Cripple Defense!

Zhang Yang first targeted the Saber-Tooth Skeleton Tiger and stacked 5 layers of Cripple Defense. He then cast Thunder Strike to slow the monsters down and tried his best to reduce the total damage he would receive by kiting them around, so that only one of the monster would be able attack him at a time. As for the boss, slowed down or not, she would not need to move around to attack him, it would not make any difference.

1Bird - The Chinese tend to refer to the male reproductive organ as bird in their native language.

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Chapter 151: The Queen of Centaurs

Fuush!

The Saber-Tooth Skeleton Tiger leaped up, vanishing into thin air, before reappearing behind Zhang Yang. With a massive slash of its sharp claws, the tiger dealt huge damage on Zhang Yang's back.

"-1552!"

'Ding! You have received Mangle (5 stacks). Receive 1500 HP damage every 3 seconds for 15 seconds!'

Zhang Yang could not help but flick his middle finger at lady luck. The current 4 stacks of Mangle was just about to expire but he had received a fresh, new Mangle that could refresh the skill's effect! He never had thought that the tiger would have a skill similar to a Thief's Shadow Step to immediately teleport behind someone's back. Not only had the Mangle been refreshed to 15 seconds, he now had 5 stacks of Mangle! He now had to take additional, unnecessary damage for the next 15 seconds!

Even though the Saber-Tooth Skeleton Tiger was strong, it was vastly outclassed by the party's DPS! So far, Fatty Han and the gang had each exceeded 1000 DPS. Daffodil Daydream was slightly behind at around 800 DPS. The overall DPS strength was enough to kill the tiger with 100,000 HP in just 20 seconds!

"Don't worry! Tai Tai! I will heal your wounds!" Shimalue Gutan cried out all of a sudden and chanted a healing spell and healed the tiger by 25,000 HP.

The spell casting duration was so fast that it only took half a second for her to finish the spell. Those that had interruption skills could not even react in time. Before they even realized it, the spell was already complete and they could only stare at the boss healing the monster that was already at the brink of death.

Fortunately, the tiger was inflicted with the Destructive Smash debuff that would reduce healing effect by 75%. If that wasn't the case, the healing spell would have completely healed the tiger back to full health.

"Noob tank! You're too slow! Why didn't you stop her spell when you have an interruption skill! Hmph! You've lost my respect!" said Wei Yan Er. She always did try her best to poke fun at him.

Zhang Yang laughed and shot back, "I wasn't the only one here who was unable to interrupt her spell. Why aren't you scolding the others?"

"Because you're the only one that has a stupid face!" said Wei Yan Er with full honesty.

"Don't die! Tai Tai!" Even when the boss attempted to heal the tiger again, the team's combined attack simply overruled her efforts. It was like tossing the contents of a cup of water into a raging inferno. The tiger's HP was drained down in almost no time at all. Shimalue Gutan could only shriek at the top of her lungs.

"Somehow, I pity this queen. Her husband was cheating with her son's wife and she only has her pets to accompany her!" said Daffodil mournfully, her eyes already showing signs of tears.

Zhang Yang scoffed. "In that case, let's spare her."

"...No. We kill. Living is much more painful for her!" said Daffodil as she made up her mind. "We are giving her a mercy killing, not just for equipment and whimsical desires!"

Everyone laughed instantly.

"Tai Tai..." Shimalue Gutan cried and chanted another healing spell.

Crash Magic!

Zhang Yang was ready for it this time. He quickly bashed her with his shield.

The spell was instantly interrupted and she had received Silent for 3 seconds. Silent had rendered her unable to cast any spells for 3 seconds.

'Ding! You and the party members around have killed Tai Tai! Obtained 12,550 Experience Points. (50 points party bonus)!'

"NOOOO...!" cried Shimalue Gutan.

The boss suddenly glowed red. She had gone berserk.

"Damned intruders! I will crush your skull with my bare hands and throw your mangled copses into the abyss! May you forever burn in the raging flames of hell! Wu Wu! Gu Gu! Kill them! Avenge Tai Tai!"

'Ding! Shimalue Gutan has gained Enraged (1 stack). All attacks and healing effects will be increase by 33%!'

'Ding! Wu Wu has gained Enraged (1 stack). All attacks and healing effects will be increase by 33%!'

'Ding! Gu Gu has gained Enraged (1 stack). All attacks and healing effects will be increase by 33%!'

An increment by 33% in damage had made the boss stronger by a noticeable amount. The Punishment Ray had its damage increased to 2600 or more, with Zhang Yang's damage reduction lowering that amount down to 2000.

"Pick up the pace!" Zhang Yang screamed.

The boss was not the only one that had suddenly ingested an overdose of steroids and went all crazy! Han Ying Xue had to take care of two tanks, which made her roll her sleeves up, taking things seriously.

The party then shifted their targets to the bird monster Gu Gu and managed to bring it down to critical health in a short time.

"Gu Gu!" Shimalue Gutan cried in anguish as she started to chant a healing spell. However, Zhang Yang was quicker and bashed her with Crash Magic, stopping her healing.

'Ding! You and the party members around have killed Gu Gu! Obtained 12,550 Experience Points. (50 points party bonus)!'

"ARGHH...!" The boss screeched in such a high pitch that everyone had to cover their ears. She stood with her hind hooves and screamed at no one in particular, dramatically rearing her head about like the tragic heroine of an opera.

"I WILL KILL YOU ALL! I WILL KILL! KILL!" Bellowed the boss.

'Ding! Shimalue Gutan has gained Enraged (2 stack). All attacks and healing will be increase by 67%!'

'Ding! Wu Wu has gained Enraged (2 stack). All attacks and healing will be increase by 67%!'

"-2672!"

"-2004!"

The boss fired a Punishment Ray, while the wolf concurrently spat out a Fire Ball. Both attacks struck Zhang Yang at the same time, causing him to have only around 1000 HP left!

What power!

Zhang Yang frantically cried, "Starlight! Provoke Wu Wu and get him off me!"

"OK!"

Endless Starlight quickly complied and cast Taunting Fist, dragging Wu Wu away from Zhang Yang.

Half a minute later, Wu Wu turned into a pillar of light and falls defeated.

"WU WU!!!" Shimalue Gutan was enraged beyond compare. Her dark, charcoal hair started to spread out and floated up mystically. Her eyes glowed with intense green, emerald flames.

'Ding! Shimalue Gutan has gained Enraged (3 stack). All attacks and healing will be increased by 100%!'

"Damn! We're cruel!" Fatty Han cried crocodile tears. "When her husband had found a new toy to play with, she had managed to find herself a few loyal companions! Yet, we just killed them! Aiyaya...Looks like this poor woman had to depend on cucumbers to accompany her during the dark, lonesome nights!"

"Fatty...You know...If you don't speak up, no one would think that you're a mute."

"Ah..."

Fatty Han turned around and saw the 4 ladies staring at him with eyes that could swallow him whole. Fatty Han turned his gaze away sheepishly. "Eh...ladies, I know that you have the hots for the big Fatty. But please, control your passion! You have to know that you're all Little Yang's main dishes, and that there's a saying: "a brother wife is off limit..."

The ladies were furious enough as it is, but when Fatty Han added fuel to the fire, it brought their fury round by a full circle, dissuading them as they felt that there was no point directing their wrath at Fatty Han.

"-3212!"

The boss cast Punishment Ray and blasted Zhang Yang with powerful, enhanced damage. Even though he could stop the boss from healing, but he still had to take the Punishment Ray head on!"

"2015!"

"402!"

Han Ying Xue's Brilliant Light and Regeneration ticked at the same time and healed almost half of his HP. However, it was still insufficient in coping with the loss of his HP!

Only half a minute passed, and Zhang Yang had to depend on Berserker's Heal to recover from his dangerously low HP back to full health. The boss' damage had exceeded the healing that Han Ying Xue could provide, therefore Zhang Yang had to depend on himself to deal with the excessive damage he received.

Health potion, Berserker's Heal, Lover's Sword Lifesteal, Merlinda's Shadow, Shield Wall, Substitute, he had to use everything he had to survive! Zhang Yang had planned the skill cycle out and prioritized the ones with the lowest cool down times to maximize the effect.

The good thing was that even if Shimalue Gutan's attack was strong, her HP did not match up to the strength of her attacks. She did not have any large AoE multi-target skill as well. After lasting for another 2 minutes or so, she shrieked and fell defeated.

Haaa! Phew...

Everyone drew in a deep breath and let out a long breath of relief. The fight with this boss did not take long, but the boss' attack was so strong that many of them had held their breaths, witnessing Zhang Yang being close to death for many times. They could only relax and let down their guard only when the boss was down.

"It's finally over. Man! I was freaking out there!" said Endless Starlight as he wiped his forehead; even when there was no sweat.

Zhang Yang could not help but sigh. The period of the Gray-Silver equipment was once known as the weak period. It was even applicable to the boss as well! Shimalue Gutan was one such example, her strong attack could easily kill a tank with one or two hits! However, she was a glass cannon who lacked durability! When players started to put on Yellow-Gold gears with damage reduction set skills, there would be lesser cases of instant kills.

Han Ying Xue was so completely worn out that she laid her head on Wei Yan Er lap. While stroking her cousin sister's silky hair, she stared angrily at Zhang Yang and cried. "Noob tank! Look at what you've done! You've completely drained my cousin sister out!"

"WOOOOAHHH!" Zhang Yang, Hundred Shots, Fatty Han, and Endless Starlight broke out in surprised laughter.

"Little brat! Don't say something like that..." Even a person as flirtatious as Han Ying Xue would feel some shame when Wei Yan Er said something that could be interpreted very differently in such manner.

Turning around, Wei Yan Er was confused, but when no one cared to explain her fault she snapped, "You guys are bullies! Hmph! I'm not talking to you guys anymore!" She got up to her feet and went to the boss for the loots.

[Blaze War Hammer] (Gray-Silver, One handed Hammer)

Weapon Attack: 403 - 461

Attack Interval: 2.7 seconds.

DPS: 160

Unidentified

Level Requirement: 40

"Oh yeah! This is good sh*t!" Endless Starlight cried as he inspected the item. His current weapon was still a level 30 Green-Copper tier with only 60 DPS. He would definitely experience a huge difference if he were to equip this item!

Zhang Yang saw his reaction and smiled gently. "Take it!" Zhang Yang gave up his roll.

Endless Starlight wavered a little and said, "H-How could I...I mean...your weapon is just a level 30 Gray-Silver tier. The hammer is much better!"

Zhang Yang shook his head sadly. "When you reached level 40, you were still here. What you didn't know was that you could get a level 40 skill from the Class Instructor. At level 40, a Defender could learn a skill called Hammer Mastery. It could increase all damage by 5% only when a hammer-type equipment is worn! That is why a Hammer is a specialized weapon for Defenders!"

Wei Yan Er nodded her head and said, "That right! I have already learned the skill Axe Mastery. All attacks are increased by 5% when I'm equipping an axe weapon! That is why, no one is to take away my axe! Any two-handed axes that ever appear in the boss loots are all mine!"

Endless Starlight smiled gratefully and accepted the hammer. With this, his attack and ability to pull aggro would be greatly increased. All of this was thanks to Zhang Yang! His respect for him has only grown stronger! He knew that the original party members did not need him to join. He knew that he would make little difference to them!

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Chapter 152: An Incestophile and Cinderella

Zhang Yang noticed a look of gratitude flashed across Endless Starlight's face. Zhang Yang smiled secretly and thought in his heart, looks like this future icon of a tank has already started to feel indebted to Lone Desert Smoke. As long as they do more raids together, then Zhang Yang would not need to doubt Endless Starlight's loyalty to Lone Desert Smoke.

Wei Yan Er was preoccupied with digging about for further loots since the first item was already distributed. She kept an eye out for the valuable white gleam. Green-Copper items have longed been ignored by her.

[Feather Skirt] (Gray-Silver, Cloth Armor)

Defense: 4

Vitality: 96

Intelligence: 48

Spirit: 16

Unidentified

Level Requirement: 40

Han Ying Xue smiled and said, "Give this to Daffodil Daydream first, I'm wearing a full set of equipment and I do not want to ruin the set equipment effect just yet!"

She gave up her roll, so Daffodil Daydream embarrassingly received the skirt and equipped it.

Zhang Yang said: "In fact, Level 30 Gray-Silver equipment cannot replace set equipment, but 3 pieces of Level 40 Gray-Silver equipment can replace the 5-piece set equipment's 10% damage increment! Most importantly, Level 20 equipment simply gives too little HP, and to clear future Hardcore Mode Castle dungeons, your HP needs to be up to at least 5,000!"

"5,000..." Fatty Han rolled both of his eyes and said, "My HP is only 4,300!"

"Didn't I tell you to keep one set of equipment from the Garden? Have you sold it already?" Zhang Yang glanced at him.

"No, it is still in the Bank!" Fatty Han laughed as he replied.

Zhang Yang let out a sigh of relief after hearing Fatty Han's reply. After clearing here, they would need to explore the dungeon of the Castle. Everyone was strictly required at least 5,000 HP to fight the fourth boss. If any single person did not make it, the party would be annihilated!

[Skill Book: Beast Rage]

Use: Grants the skill Beast Rage

Class Requirement: Hunter

Level Requirement: 30

Zhang Yang could help but laugh in joy and said, "Fatty and Hundred Shots, this skill is really good! It can increase the damage dealt by your pet temporarily like Shimalue Gutan's pets just now!"

Hundred Shots said: "Fatty, let's roll the dice!"

Both of them rolled the dice and Fatty Han obtained the skill book.

Beast Rage: Increases the damage dealt by your pet by 50%. Last for 15 seconds. Cool time down: 2 minutes.

"This skill is really useful for Beastmaster!" Hundred Shots could not help but exclaim when he saw the skill description posted by Fatty Han.

Fatty Han said delightedly, "With this skill, my damage output going to increase once again! Who else in the world could defeat me?!"

'Shing', Sun Xing Yu pulled out both of her daggers, the sound crystal clear in the silent atmosphere, and she glanced at Fatty Han coldly.

Fatty Han could not help but feel intimidated, he trembled in fear of this lady.

The gang was not interested in the remaining eight Green-Copper items so they just simply threw it into their inventories and continued moving forward.

They arrived at the fourth level after clearing a few skeletal tiger and skeletal wolf monsters at another long stone stairway.

It was empty within the resplendent palace, except for the huge pillars, which needed to be held up together by three men, set up a distance from each other.

"No monsters?" Daffodil Daydream could not help but feel delighted.

It was already 11 P.M. at night. The gang was thought of having a look at the fourth level before logging off and retiring for the night before continuing with the following two levels tomorrow. But if there were no monsters, they could fight the boss directly which would save up a lot of time!

"Wait!"

Zhang Yang and Sun Xing Yu yelled at the same time.

Han Ying Xue could not help but laughed and said: "Both of you really have an unspoken bond!"

"Like husband like wife!" Wei Yan Er also laughed.

"F*ck" Zhang Yang rolled his eyes at that two gloating ladies and said, "It might be stealth monster! Starlight, you'll have to take one for the team, go in front!"

Endless Starlight looked as if he was about to cry, and plaintively said, "Why me?"

"Nonsense, you have a solid defense!"

"Then why don't you go in front?"

"I need to pull the monsters!"

Poor Endless Starlight, who was sold to the monster by the gang, held on his shield and walked in front. After he walked for seven to eight steps, he stopped suddenly and rotating stars appeared above his head which represented a stun status.

A person in black appeared from the back of Endless Starlight and he raised his two swords and stabbed Endless Starlight's back, each stab took about 1,000 of Endless Starlight HP.

[Shadow Assassin] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 46

HP: 92,000

Unexpectedly, it was not a centaur but an elf... a dead one.

Endless Starlight was about 8 meters away from the gang, which was also the range of Charge so Zhang Yang immediately rushed towards him with Charge.

'-752!'

'-1554!'

After Shadow Assassin recovered from being stunned, Shadow Assassin immediately changed his target and attacked Zhang Yang with his two gleaming swords.

'Block!'

'-212!'

'-80!'

Due to the monster having double physical attacks, even if Zhang Yang used Block, he still received an attack. But this attack was caused by off-hand weapon which also inflicted 80 points of poison damage.

In 'God's Miracle', off-hand attacks are reduced by 50% and its damage was much lesser compared to one handed attacks. In general, weapons with long attack intervals would be equipped in one hand slot to increase damage of single hit skills. While weapons with shorter attack intervals would be equipped in off-hand slots, in order to trigger some passive skills or poison effects.

"Why is there an elf in centaur's palace? Could it be..." Daffodil Daydream was psyched. Daffodil Daydream was a "Fujoshi", and she started to fantasize about a boys' love scenario.

"You'll find all manner of evil sorcerers in this dungeon, it won't be surprising to have a few elf thieves!" Zhang Yang laughed and said.

Daffodil Daydream was disappointed, she pursed her lip and stopped talking.

With the strong ability of team's damage dealing, this Shadow Assassin could only live for 10 seconds and died, dropping a few pieces of clothes and a Black-Steel item.

Poor Endless Starlight continued walking in front of the gang, acting as bait to attract the attacks of stealth monsters and reveal themselves.

This level was full of thief type monsters with stealth abilities. Theses undead were members of several races such as humans, beasts, dwarves, elf and even goblins and trolls! The team moved on for a while before Zhang Yang announced that today's activity would end here and that they would continue tomorrow.

Zhang Yang logged on the game the next morning, and Yan Wei Er showed up in the team as expected.

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "Little brat, were you planning to apply for leave continuously until we done with this main quest?"

"En!" Yan Wei Er nodded her head determinedly.

"Don't the kids nowadays wish to go the school and play with their friends?" Zhang Yang thought that it was odd. When he was studying, he also wished for holidays but after a long holiday, he would also wish to go back to the school, as it was more lively and fun!

Yan Wei Er pursed her lip with a disdainful expression and said, "What is fun in playing with those childish little brats?"

Zhang Yang was suddenly taken aback and looked at Han Ying Xue, he determined that Yan Wei Er had to have been influenced by this devilish woman.

Han Ying Xue noticed Zhang Yang looking at her so she looked back Zhang Yang with her seductive eyes and said, "Silly Yu, please just say so that you like me, don't steal glances at me like that, otherwise, you're going to develop a cross-eye!"

Yan Wei Er asked, "Sis, what is a cross-eye?"

Han Ying Xue squinted, briefly crossing her eyes and made Yan Wei Er laugh out loudly.

All members of the gang soon showed up and the gang continued moving forward.

The higher the level, the lesser the monsters spawned. So the gang only used five hours to clear the fourth level. The first level took two days to clear, the second and third level which took more than a day each to clear. So, these five hours were considered a very short period!

Halfway through the passage, Zhang Yang and Daffodil Daydream gained a level once again and both of them were now Level 41. The rest of the members were not far from achieving Level 42 as well.

There were two bosses.

[King Kinglose Turk] (Gray-Silver, Spectre)

Level: 48

HP: 960,000

[Princess Annie Balrum] (Gray-Silver, Spectre)

Level: 47

HP: 940,000

MP: 470,000

This incestuous couple was snuggled together and passionately kissed like a loving husband and wife from time to time.

"F*ck, these incestous b*stards!" Fatty Han scolded.

"It just so happens that we have two tanks, so each tank for each boss!" Zhang Yang thought of it and said, "Princess is a magic-type monster, so Starlight, you tank the princess and I will tank the king!"

"We have only one healer. Will she be able to heal the two of you together?" Yan Wei Er said.

"Quest item!" Sun Xing Yu interrupted suddenly.

The gang recalled that they had received a quest spear from a quest of killing the king and princess which would be needed to use when fighting the king and princess.

Yan Wei Er impatiently took out the spear from her inventory immediately and chose to use the spear. Instantly, an illusory centaur figure appeared in front of everyone, it was the Prince Chateau Turk of centaur race!

[Shadow of Revenge] (Elite, Soul)

Level: 44

HP: 100,000

Once this Chateau Turk's [Shadow of Revenge] had appeared, he stared at that incestuous couple in anger and roared then stomped his hoofs and rushed towards them.

Zhang Yang selected the quest spear in his inventory but the system showed that one [Shadow of Revenge] already existed, invalid to use temporarily. He pulled out his sword and said, "Don't worry about the strategy, let's try them out first, at least we'll find out what the skills of these bosses are!"

"B*tch, I want to kill you!" [Shadow of Revenge] rushed towards Princess Annie Balrum angrily.

"Chateau, you dickless trash! Even in death you persist to bother us!" Annie Balrum said with contemptuous laughter. She waved her right hand and a wand appeared, which she directed towards the [Shadow of Revenge] and a flash of flaming fire burst from the wand.

"B*tch, if it was not for me marry you, you would still be a commoner, is this how you repay me?!" [Shadow of Revenge] roared again and started fighting with Annie Balrum.

"So it is the Prince and Cinderella! Unfortunately, their marriage has changed!" Endless Starlight muttered.

Zhang Yang saw that they were fighting and said immediately, "Starlight, don't pull the princess yet, let [Shadow of Revenge] pester her!"

Slash!

'Charge!'

Zhang Yang dashed towards Kinglose Turk and smashed on him immediately.

'653!'

After a normal attack, a low-valued damage text appeared above Kinglose Turk's head. Zhang Yang frowned as Kinglose Turk's Defense value was about 300, which was very high! But he was not in fear as he had Eagle Eye and the rest of the members could rely on Cripple Defense which reduced 150 Defense value on Kinglose Turk, it would greatly aid the damage output.

Kinglose Turk yelled angrily, pulled out a spear and struck Zhang Yang: "Little human, how dare you provoke the great king of centaur, I'll hack you into pieces!"

"Incestophile, go to hell!" Yan Wei Er yelled, dashed forward by using Charge and whirled her weapon.

"Little brat, you learned a new word in no time, huh!" Zhang Yang laughed.

Yan Wei Er answered arrogantly, "I hate trash like this guy who uses people and throws them aside for anything new. I'll kill this shameless fellow!"

At the other side, [Shadow of Revenge] fought with Annie Balrum.

[Shadow of Revenge] pierced Annie Balrum by using his spear but it did not cause any damage to Annie Balrum. Yet, [Shadow of Revenge] was still the first who held the aggro. So, even if Han Ying Xue healed continuously, the HP recovery would not exceed [Shadow of Revenge]'s aggro.

Annie Balrum was a Spellcaster, she used a chain of DOT first, then damage reduction debuff, followed by Soul Burst and Shadow Whip which assaulted [Shadow of Revenge]'s HP. Luckily [Shadow of Revenge] had 100,000 HP, and with Annie Balrum's damage output, she would need to attack for quite some time before she could kill [Shadow of Revenge].

Back at Zhang Yang's side, Sun Xing Yu and the rest already started to deal damage in full force towards the incestuous king, causing the king's HP to drop dramatically.

"Guards! Guards! Kill all the intruders!" Kinglose Turk shouted loudly.

Fatty Han laughed loudly and said, "Keep shouting, nobody is going to help you even if you cough your throat out!"

"Ding! Kinglose Turk has released [Summoned Guard]!"

Eight strong centaurs appeared in formation at the back of Kinglose Turk.

"Pervert Fatty, you have such a bad mouth!" Yan Wei Er said angrily.

"Coincidence! This must be a coincidence!" Fatty Han quickly claimed that he was innocent.

[Summoned Guard] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 45

HP: 90,000

"I will kite them all, you guys use AoE skills to kill them all quickly!" Zhang Yang used Horizontal Sweep followed by Thunder Strike to reduce the monsters' movement speed, before leading them in circles.

However, Kinglose Turk movement speed was still faster than Zhang Yang, even if his movement speed was reduced by 50%, Zhang Yang unable to flee from him! Luckily, Zhang Yang's plan was to reduce the elite monsters movement speed only, thus, it did not matter if Kinglose Turk was unhindered.

They killed all the eight monsters within a minute and the field was back to normal after the chaos.

But Kinglose Turk' HP dropping became slower, Kinglose Turk' HP dropped only by about 100,000. The guards had reduced the party's damage output by 67%!

"Guards! Guards! Kill all the intruders!" Kinglose Turk deserved to be called a king indeed, as he continuously summoned guards and stabbed repeatedly with his spear.

Eight strong centaurs appeared at the back of Kinglose Turk once again.

Based on Zhang Yang's speculation, Kinglose Turk would summon the number of guards according to the number of people who held the aggro! Thus, this was actually beneficial to an elite team like them as if there was a 100-man team, Kinglose Turk would instantly summon 100 elite guards which will quickly wipe them out.

The gang continued using AoE skills and they killed the second round of summoned guards instantly. However, AoE skills drained a huge amount of MP from Spellcasters. After killing two rounds of summoned guards, Daffodil Daydream's MP had depleted. Bandits and Hunters would recover their energy and Focus point in a fixed time. Warriors had it even easier, they functioned on Rage, where it did not matter whether they were attacking or being attacked by others, they would regain their Rage.

After another round of guards, Daffodil Daydream's MP dried out once again, so she could only stand aside and spectate.

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Chapter 153: Kill Them Both

The battle went back and forth with Kinglose Turk continuously summoning the guards and the gang repeatedly slaying them all. Because Kinglose Turk summoned the guards so frequently, the gang had no time to focus fire on Kinglose Turk alone.

The overall damage for AoE skill was high but still weaker than a single hit damage, thus, Kinglose Turk's HP dropped at a snail's pace. The gang had to drag the battle without realizing it!

Luckily, Han Ying Xue had a great talent for healing and she was already an expert in MP before she reached Level 30. After she had gained Divine Soul, her healing power was further improved, which almost made her MP inexhaustible.

On the other side, [Shadow of Revenge]'s HP was high but Annie Balrum did decent damage, so [Shadow of Revenge]'s HP depleted rapidly. Han Ying Xue wanted to heal [Shadow of Revenge] but the system showed that it was invalid to cast spell towards the target, so she could only helplessly gaze at [Shadow of Revenge]'s HP dropping.

"Ha ha, Chateau, you useless crap, you were useless when you was living, you are also as useless in death!" Annie Balrum fired Soul Burst at [Shadow of Revenge] to destroy its last drop of HP and she wore a contemptuous expression.

After losing [Shadow of Revenge] who held the highest aggro, Annie immediately turned her target to Han Ying Xue because nobody had attacked her before and certainly Han Ying Xue, who performed mass healing would become her target as she held the highest aggro.

Zhang Yang had been keeping an eye on the other battle, so he hurriedly took out the quest spear from his inventory and selected it.

Suddenly, Chateau Turk's soul appeared once again with full HP. The centaur prince immediately dashed towards Annie Balrum, raised his spear and roared, "B*tch, I'll kill you!" It was the same action with the same dialogue as before.

Annie Balrum was stunned, and stopped attacking Han Ying Xue after she fired a single Soul Burst at Han Ying Xue. Annie Balrum turned around to deal [Shadow of Revenge, crying out, "Impossible! You are already dead! I just killed you, you are already dead!"

"B*tch, you betrayed me, you betrayed love and you even want to kill me now!" [Shadow of Revenge] roared with anger, "Go to hell!"

This pair of nominally couple started to fight once again.

90%, 80%, 70%... Kinglose Turk's HP dropped slowly. He summoned the guards continuously and the gang cleared the summoned guards repeatedly in a cycle.

Poor Kinglose Turk had the esteemed title of being a boss, but was subjected to repeated AoE skills as if he was just another minion.

20%, 10%... 3%, 2%, 1%!

"No! No!" Kinglose Turk howled loudly in anguish and rage, clinging on to his life, "I'm the King of centaurs, I will dominate the world, the land is all mine! All the beauties are also mine! I'm immortal, I'm imm..."

Pa, the huge and tall body crashed down. This King had died hundreds of years ago but the evil sorcerer had used undead magic to resurrect him. Now, he faced death again.

"Ding! The party you are in has killed Kinglose Turk. Obtained 120,050 EXP (50 points Party Bonus)!"

"It was really exhausting killing this old fellow, if not for him summoning so many minions, I suppose we would have killed him earlier!" Now only did Endless Starlight dare to discuss the strategy after killing Kinglose Turk.

"Kinglose..." Annie Balrum howled shrilly, countless black light surged from her body and eight dark stripes appeared on her beautiful face. It was another kind of sexy.

"Pa!" She threw another Soul Burst towards [Shadow of Revenge, instantly killing him, even when he still had about 40,000 HP!

"F*ck, after her father-in-law died, she releases her anger on her husband. This woman is really cruel!" Fatty Han shouted.

Another [Shadow of Revenge] was summoned again, shouting something among the lines of, "B*tch, I'll kill you!" and dashed towards Annie Balrum. Before he could reach her, he was already slashed to pieces by Annie Balrum's Shadow Whip!

"No need to summon anymore!" Zhang Yang rushed forward Annie Balrum, "Kinglose Turk has died and [Shadow of Revenge] is not useful anymore. The developer won't let us defeat Annie Balrum so easily!"

If [Shadow of Revenge] could be used, then there would be no healing stress for the team because they could defeat Annie Balrum easily.

"What if we had hit Annie Balrum first?" Yan Wei Er blinked her eyes and asked.

"She may have been immune to damage probably had a full HP recovery ability before death, who knows?! Doesn't matter anymore!" Zhang Yang continued rushing towards Annie Balrum and threw a chain of skills at her.

Han Ying Xue still held the highest aggro, so Annie Balrum totally ignored Zhang Yang. Annie Balrum cast Dark Anguish, Touch of Weakness and Soul Decay, three debuffs on Han Ying Xue, followed by Soul Burst and Shadow Whip. Many texts and debuffs floated above Han Ying Xue's head.

'-2,000!'

'-1,000!'

'-1,000!'

'1,802!'

'-300!'

'-1,000!'

'363!'

'-500!'

Han Ying Xue had only about 4,300 HP so only had about 600 HP after being struck by Annie Balrum. She was petrified in fear and hurriedly cast Holy Shield while yelled at the same time, "Silly Yu, help me!"

Zhang Yang couldn't help but laugh in his heart, looking at her somewhat comical predicament. He threw a Vanguard's Aggression at Han Ying Xue and her received damage was reduced by 90% immediately!

As a result, Annie Balrum's attacks towards Han Ying Xue were not harmful anymore and Han Ying Xue immediately casted healing spells, recovering her own HP to full!

Zhang Yang dared not take any chances and hurriedly summoned [Servant: Clear Lotus] to cause high damage output in order to hold the highest aggro! Otherwise, the effect of Vanguard's Aggression would end after 10 seconds, and without any immunity and lifesaving skill, Han Ying Xue would not survive much longer.

8, 7, 6... 2, 1!

Ten seconds of Vanguard's Aggression effect ended and the barrier shielded around Han Ying Xue disappeared immediately!

Han Ying Xue still held the highest aggro. Annie Balrum threw another Soul Burst towards Han Ying Xue and took out half of Han Ying Xue's HP.

'-2,000!'

"Ah! Silly Yu, faster get your aggro, I'm going to die!" Han Ying Xue screamed.

Yan Wei Er rarely ever saw Han Ying Xue with such an embarrassing expression, she could not help but laughed along with Zhang Yang.

'-3,440!'

'Destructive Smash Critical Strike!'

After a high damage output, Annie Balrum had finally turned around and stared at Zhang Yang with her eyes full of grudge and anger: "Foreigners, you killed my beloved man, I want all of you buried together with my beloved man!"

"Damn, this shameless woman still dares to talk like that! How did the previous Prince and Queen deal with such a character?!" Endless Starlight muttered.

"Ding! You have received the effect of Dark Anguish. Receiving 500 Shadow Damage every 3 seconds for 18 seconds!"

"Ding! You have received the effect of Touch of Weakness. All your attacks and healing effect will be reduced by 5% for 1 minute!"

"Ding! You have received the effect of Soul Decay. Receiving 300 Shadow Damage every 2 seconds for 24 seconds!"

A chain of system alerts flooded his log, and a row of debuffs appeared above Zhang Yang's head. His body was surrounded by black colour air which was the same as Han Ying Xue.

Luckily Zhang Yang had regained the aggro in time!

"Ding! Annie Balrum has released Soul Burst!"

'-1,600!'

Another damage text floated across Zhang Yang's head once again. Annie Balrum's Soul Burst was instantaneous and had high damage value. Luckily it needed 6 seconds of cool down time. Otherwise, Zhang Yang would not withstand a Soul Burst coming at him every second!

"Ding! Annie Balrum is channeling Shadow Whip. Dealing 1,000 Shadow Damage every second for 3 seconds!"

Annie Balrum wielded her wand, a ray of black light instantly twined around Zhang Yang's body and '-640' damage text floated across his head every second.

'Crash Magic!'

Immune!

Zhang Yang was unable to interrupt Annie Balrum's casting and took its damage!

"Sis, let me avenge you!" Yan Wei Er shouted and whirled her weapon, stabbing the back of Annie Balrum which caused a chain of attacks, thus, many damage texts appeared across Annie Balrum's head.

"Little brat, weren't you laughing happily just now?" Han Ying Xue said angrily.

Yan Wei Er smiled and said, "No, that must have been your imagination!"

The gang started to deal damage forcefully and hacked away at Annie Balrum.

Although Annie Balrum had cast many skills, the damage value was not horrible. Her DPS was just about 1,200, but it was still higher than Han Ying Xue's healing value. However, Zhang Yang could use lifesaving skills! These were the differences between a tank and a healer!

If they dragged the battling time any longer then Zhang Yang's skills' cool down time would not be enough. Annie Balrum's HP was only about 900,000, with the team's DPS at above 5,000 and Annie Balrum could not last for more than 3 minutes! Zhang Yang started a chain of attack with Berserker's Heal followed by the Lover's Sword life steal effect, [Shadow of Merlinda, and Shield Wall which outlasted Annie Balrum.

"No... No!" Annie Balrum yelled madly before dying, "I cannot die! I'm the prettiest centaur, the Queen of centaurs, I cannot die..."

0%!

Annie Balrum crashed down.

"Ding! The party you are in has killed Annie Balrum. Obtained 117,550 EXP (50 points Party Bonus)!"

"Ding! You have completed the quest: Kill Them Both. Gained 100,000 EXP!"

"Yes, we did it!" Endless Starlight and Daffodil Daydream got excited and jumped up.

Hang Ying Xue and the usual party members showed dull expression as they already killed a lot of Gray-Silver bosses so they were not excited at all.

"Sigh, they are all Gray-Silvers, why don't they release a few Yellow-Gold bosses for us to kill?!" Fatty Han sighed.

"Yes, yes, yes, I want Yellow-Gold items!" Yan Wei Er eyes shone.

Thanks to the Yellow-Gold ring that Zhang Yang had obtained, the gang was drooling and looked forward to Yellow-Gold items!

Zhang Yang thought for a while and said: "Yellow-Gold bosses will appear when we are above Level 50. Based on the assumption that higher leveled Castle dungeons equals higher leveled bosses, the final level's boss is probably a Yellow-Gold boss as Kinglose Turk is already Level 48!"

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Chapter 154: Centaur Guard

"Yellow-Gold boss?"

The gang spluttered out in unison, hardly able to mask their excited expressions.

Zhang Yang nodded his head and said, "Kinglose Turk is already Level 48, so the final boss could be above Level 50! In general, the final boss is stronger so it is likely to be a Yellow-Gold boss!"

Han Ying Xue thought about it and said, "Like Cave of Bones, wasn't there a few bosses at the front of the dungeon that were Green-Copper followed by the Gray-Silver boss appearing at the end?"

"Yes, it is!"

Yan Wei Er excitedly said, "Then will that boss drop a skeletal war horse?"

When players reach Level 40, they could buy mounts from the Mount Shop at the Capital. The mounts were just the normal generic mount where they could choose between white, brown or black colour horses. They could buy the mount at 10 gold coins only, so it was common that every player had a normal horse as a mount!

Besides, the horses sold in Mount Shop only increased movement speeds by 200%, unlike [Skeletal War Horse]'s 300% riding speed!

Although they had been killing Shurian many times, it still never dropped any [The Leash of Skeletal War Horse]. So, Yan Wei Er had been in great anticipation of the [Skeletal War Horse] since long ago!

Zhang Yang smiled and said, "I don't know about that but if the final boss is Yellow-Gold boss, then it will be the first Yellow-Gold boss in China server, even for the global eight servers. So, it definitely will drop best items!"

"Let's go, let's kill ourselves a Yellow-Gold boss!" Yan Wei Er shouted with excitement.

Zhang Yang saw Yan Wei Er started stepping forward, he shook his head and sighed, "Evil Snow, is this little brat really suitable for trading in businesses? Aren't you afraid that she will give the whole company to others on a whim?"

Han Ying Xue didn't take offense at the nickname "Evil Snow". On the contrary, she quite liked it. When she saw Yan Wei Er putting out such behaviour, she also sighed and said, "Yan Er, don't you want to loot boss' corpses?"

"Ah!" Yan Wei Er only recalled she had not yet looted the two boss' corpses, she hurriedly turned back and ran towards the boss' corpses and said, "Don't fight! Don't fight! The boss' corpses are mine!"

Daffodil Daydream laughed and said, "Yan Er is really funny!"

Yan Wei Er ignored the comment but looted Annie Balrum's corpse first.

[Circlet of Sacrificial Abyss] (Gray-Silver, Cloth Armor)

Defense: 4

Vitality: 96

Intelligence: 48

Spirit: 16

Unidentified

Level Requirement: 40

"Amazing, so many Vitality points from this equipment!" Daffodil Daydream muttered. [Circlet of Sacrificial Abyss] was terrifying compared to her Level 30 Green-Copper helmet which added only 36 Vitality points!

Two people with Spellcaster classes demanded the loot together, this time it was Han Ying Xue's turn to be luckier, and she won the roll.

[Ring of Honesty] (Gray-Silver, Ring)

Vitality: 20

Intelligence: 20

Unidentified

Level Requirement: 40

Note: Treasure of centaur race, gifted by Chateau Turk.

"Poor Chateau, you must find a good lover in your next lifetime!" Fatty Han pretended to be emphatic, when he read the note showed on the post of [Ring of Honesty]'s description.

"He had bad luck in finding women!" Endless Starlight started to response.

Daffodil Daydream immediately refuted, "As a woman, of course, we have the power to pursuit happiness!"

"Damn, Annie Balrum had an affair and she is still in the right?" Endless Starlight said immediately.

Daffodil Daydream stated drearily with a far-away look in her face, "Perhaps the evil Prince liked Annie due to her beauty and forced her to marry him!"

"Then what about her getting entwined with the King?" Hundred Shots also joined the discussion.

"Why should women have to submit to humiliation, do they deserve to be held down under your body?" Daffodil Daydream spoke loudly, "If any guy dares to force me and I could not fight against him, maybe I would also seduce another guy and make him a cuckold!"

Daffodil Daydream deserved to be called as "Fujoshi" as she dared to speak anything.

Instantly, the discussion reached a heated peak.

Yan Wei Er didn't pay much attention to it and continued to loot Annie Balrum's corpse.

[Recipe: Limitless Cape]

Use: You learn how to craft [Limitless Cape].

Requirement: Advance Tailoring

Again it's Han Ying Xue and Daffodil Daydream. Both of them had Advanced Tailoring. Finally, Daffodil Daydream won the roll this time. After she had learnt the recipe, she posted [Limitless Cape]'s attributes.

[Limitless Cape] (Gray-Silver, Cape)

Vitality: 30

Strength: 20

Equipment: Absorbs 50 Damage value for every attack dealt.

Level Requirement: 50

True Justice set equipment for tanks had made an appearance!

Endless Starlight's eyes shone immediately and said, "Sister Daffodil, you must craft one for me!"

Daffodil Daydream pursed her lip and said, "I will craft for anyone but not you!"

Zhang Yang also said, "If you could craft this cape, it could be sold at a good price at Auction House!"

"Really?" Daffodil Daydream asked dubiously, as absorbing 50 Damage value for every attack dealt did not seem much to her.

Zhang Yang laughed, "It is pretty mediocre for just one piece of equipment, but what if you gather into set equipment?"

Set equipment? Then it could actually absorb... 500 to 1000 Damage value already!

Hundred Shots said, "That's mean, there will be a huge damage reduction set equipment in the future?"

"Yes!" Zhang Yang nodded and said, "After Level 50, True Justice set equipment for tanks will appear with additional high damage absorption attribute. Berserkers and Templars finally do not need to compete for the equipment against Guardians and Defenders anymore!"

"Hais, finally I can relax a little bit!" Han Ying Xue said with a feeling of relief.

Zhang Yang smiled secretly and said in his mind, if the tank equipped more damage reduction equipment, the stress from healer to heal tank would be lesser. But the bosses in the future would mostly use AoE skills, so healers would still have to work harder for the party!

He left the evil Snow to her happiness for a while and kept that information to himself.

They already picked up the good loots from Annie Balrum's corpse and now Yan Wei Er went to loot Kinglose Turk's corpse.

[Seal of the Empire] (Gray-Silver, Shield)

Defense: 400

Vitality: 160

Unidentified

Level Requirement: 40

"Wow, they actually used the seal to make as shield, it is so creative!" Fatty Han said happily.

Zhang Yang glanced at Endless Starlight who was looking at [Seal of the Empire] with a most hungry expression, smiled and said, "Starlight, take the shield!"

Endless Starlight immediately showed a grateful but in fearful expression and said: "How can that be the case, you are still using a Level 30 shield! Why don't you take this [Seal of the Empire] and give the [Bones of the Chimera] to me!"

Zhang Yang shook his head and said, "Your current equipment is too rudimentary and shield is the best to increase defense and HP! With the hammer you looted earlier and this shield, you can stand alone in the future! I would not have to worry and I will be confidently able to leave the second team to you!"

Having said that, Zhang Yang gave up his roll.

Endless Starlight was touched and almost cried in tears, he sniffled and accepted the request. Endless Starlight equipped the shield solemnly and swore secretly that he would lead his own "second team" with distinction, in order to repay Zhang Yang's trust!

"Silly Yu, not bad huh, wheedling people in that way to be loyal to you!" Han Ying Xue sent a private message to Zhang Yang.

This evil Snow had really seen through Zhang Yang's mind and knew that he was trying to capture people loyalty! Zhang Yang replied her private message, "When did I wheedle you and make you loyal to me? According to my conscience, there is nothing between you and me!"

"Bastard!" Now only Han Ying Xue realized the sentence she used just now could had left much to the imagination. It could have been referring to others or even herself so Zhang Yang won this war of words.

After Endless Starlight equipped [Seal of the Empire, his Defense value increased to 430 which exceeded Zhang Yang's Defense value! Besides, his HP also spiked up to more than 5,800, but it was still slightly lesser than Zhang Yang's HP a little bit! His aggro ability had substantially gone up as well, as he had a Level 40 Gray-Silver weapon!

It was easy to beef up a tank before Level 50 as long as the tank had a good weapon and a good shield like now, he was just a step towards being a beefed up tank! After Level 50, tanks needed to search around for damage reduction equipment which would be a tiring process.

Zhang Yang nodded his head in satisfaction. The next time when they explore 5-man and 10-man dungeons, they could call out two teams at the same time! They could also go for 20-man, and even 50-man dungeon raids by combining two teams into one! However, to become a strong guild, two fast progressing teams were still not enough, they needed at least three to four fast progress teams before they could surpass the same level of hardcode mode dungeon teams.

We should develop slowly and surely, it is impossible that we would achieve that in the blink of an eye!

"Wa, I loot a good item!" Yan Wei Er yelled excitedly.

[Servant: Centaur Guard] (Copper-Tier Servant)

Use: Summons a Centaur Guard to fight for you and lasts for 5 minutes. Cool down time: 1 hour. You can only summon a servant at the same time. If you summon any servant then other servants will share the same cool down time.

Level Requirement: 40

"Little brat, it's just a Copper-Tier Servant and you're celebrating like that?" Zhang Yang laughed and said

"Tch, you won't understand us because you already have a Silver-Tier Servant!" Yan Wei Er rolled her eyes at Zhang Yang, before she politely bowed to the gang and said, "Brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts, please give me this servant, thank you!"

Endless Starlight and Daffodil Daydream were the new members of the gang and they also obtained many good items from them, and were greatly satisfied, so they would not fight with Yan Wei Er for that servant. Yan Wei Er had always been highly favoured by the gang, so Sun Xing Yu, Fatty Han and Hundred Shots also gave up on their rolls.

Zhang Yang already had Silver-Tier Servant, so he would not fight for a Copper-Tier Servant as well. He gave up his roll as well.

But Han Ying Xue put up one of her fingers, showing it to Yan Wei Er and said, "One week worth of housework!"

Yan Wei Er immediately jumped up and said, "Han Ying Xue, you are fishing in dangerous waters, I'll cut off ties with you!"

"Two weeks of housework!" Han Ying Xue put up two of her fingers.

"... One week!" Yan Wei Er gritted her teeth in silent fury.

"Deal!" Han Ying Xue gave up her roll.

This Copper-Tier Servant finally belonged to Yan Wei Er.

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Chapter 155: Gigantic Skeleton

Although she betrayed herself of her one week effort, but the joy of acquiring a servant put a great smile on Wei Yan Er's face, and with a swoop, she summoned her servant out.

[Centaur Guard Antola] (Copper grade servant)

Level: 48

HP: 3,100

Under comparison, this servant was so much taller than Clear Lotus, with a long spear in his right arm, constantly having his upper body turning around, looking at the surroundings, appearing desperate for a fight.

"Little girl, what's the damage output for this servant? What particular skill sets does he have?" Zhang Yang asked. The details of the servant's attributes were only shown to their masters.

Wei Yan Er paused for a moment and said, "Melee damage range is in between 524-584. Attack interval is 3.6 seconds, damage per second is 154, and only one skill called Force Strike, effects similar to the Warrior's!"

Zhang Yang nodded. The average attack of this servant was the same as a Level 48 player wearing a Level 40 Black-Steel tier equipment, it was still not as good as his Level 36 silver grade servant. Besides, it was much more inferior when in comparison to their skills, especially the Substitute skill; that was among the best!

As Wei Yan Er was busy with her new servant, Han Ying Xue took her place in touching the remaining loots from the boss.

[Sol Brave Chest Plate] (Gray-Silver armor)

Armor: 20

Vitality: 96

Strength: 48

Agility: 16

Unidentified

Required level: 40

This piece of equipment should be given to Wei Yan Er, to increase her maximum HP, stepping up every member of the main party to exceed the maximum HP of 5,000.

After salvaging the remaining seven to eight pieces of Green-Copper equipment, the party went through the long stone steps to the fifth floor, which was the final palace floor as well. Thinking that the final boss might be a Yellow-Gold boss, everyone was a little thrilled.

"If we can take out a Yellow-Gold rank boss, will it be announced in the system announcement?" Fatty Han spoke with his face showing that he had been longing for it. Ever since the "First Clear" in the Garden interior, it had been so long since his name was published on the system announcement. No wonder this swagger could not endure that loneliness inside him.

Zhang Yang nodded his head and said, "It should be, after all, no team has defeated any Yellow-Gold rank boss before, ever!"

Endless Starlight and Daffodil Daydream instantly had a shine in their eyes. For the two of them, at where they were right now, having their names well-known on the server was like a far-fetched dream to be fulfilled. But it seemed that in this one moment, that dream could be fulfilled, which led their hearts to jump very violently.

There were no monsters along the way, and the gang had arrived at the fifth floor of the palace in no time.

Compared to the fourth floor, the last floor looked more like an attic that was a 50 meters long square structure. In the middle of the attic, there was a gigantic skeleton structure, with a huge scythe in its right hand. In front of it was a very short person in a black robe, waving a wand, channeling some sort of pitch-black light into the body of that giant skeleton.

The person in the black robe was no taller than a meter, with the magic staff in his hand being way taller than he was, making it very uncomfortable to look at.

[Evil Necromacer Zac] (Yellow-Gold, undead)

Level: 50

HP: 2,000,000

Mana: 1,000,000

"It... It's real... A Yellow-Gold-tier boss!" the gang spoke in unity.

Endless Starlight was filled with tears all over his face, and said, "Not only have I defeated a Gray-Silver boss, but to also see a Yellow-Gold boss with my own eyes... No regrets! No regrets even to death!"

"Look at your unworthy face!" Fatty Han spoke with his scorned face, "Do not forget, how many beauties and pretty faces in the world are waiting for us to comfort them!"

"Hey, so what is the deal with that skeleton structure?" Wei Yan Er asked while pointing her fingers at the gigantic skeleton structure.

[Gigantic Experimental Skeleton] (Elite, undead)

Level: 50

HP: 0/1,000,000

"The game company will never place something useless like that in the game!" Zhang Yang frowned and said, "Something's fishy about this! The skeleton might get up during battle!"

"How do we fight, then?"

Zhang Yang gave it some thought and said, "Starlight and I will draw the boss together, if the skeleton ever gets up, I will block that skeleton monster. Whichever monster has a higher attack, we kill it first! Starlight currently has the aggro ability and has his HP up high, dealing with a boss won't be any issue for him!"

Endless Starlight instantly blushed, with endless excitement. Before meeting them, he had never seen a Gray-Silver boss before, what more a Yellow-Gold boss! Now that he actually had a chance to tank against a Yellow-Gold boss, it was naturally hard for him conceal his excitement.

"Little Snow, give Starlight a shield and let's get a move on!" Zhang Yang said.

Han Ying Xue lifted her arm to instantly cast Holy Shield on Starlight.

Endless Starlight drew out his mace and shield, kept his emotion in check and said, "Let's begin!" After saying it, he ran straight to the boss.

"Eh? The breath of a lively soul!" Zac had a vast aggro range, as he already noticed Starlight approaching from afar. He suddenly turned around, revealing a face full of wrinkles and pimples. Although the face looked dry and deflated, but it was still distinguishable that he was a human rather than a dwarf when he was still alive.

Chiang chiang chiang! The sound of the clashing metals rung, and an iron fence descended on the entrance, blocking the way out. It was pretty obvious that no player could leave the fifth floor now before the battle ended.

"Die you piece of dwarf!" Getting the rare chance to be the protagonist, Endless Starlight was caught in his moment of excitement, and with a wave, he threw his shield straight out.

'-1!'

What a high defense, Shield Toss could not do the trick in breaking the defenses!

Although Endless Starlight had an increasingly large amount of melee damage with a Level 40 weapon, the strength value only provided a fixed damage, which required accumulation of equipment pieces to enhance the damage output. Having approximately 190 strength, he could only stare and do nothing when encountering a boss with super high armor.

"Zhan Yu, what a high armor this boss has!" Endless Starlight exclaimed in shock.

Zhang Yang nodded and said, "200 at the least!"

"Oh, oh, oh, just so it happens, I still need some souls to complete my darling!" Zac pointed his staff towards the ground, as he instantly floated into the air and landed onto the shoulder side of that skeleton structure. "My darling, open your eyes, it is time for a massacre!"

Boom!

A kindle of greenish flame appeared within the gloomy eye sockets of the gigantic skeleton almost immediately. Klak klak klak, every bon of the structure was making the sound of bursting cracks! "100,000" "100,000", with the continuous appearance of green healing numerical value appearing above its head, the HP bar of the monster was recovering very swiftly!

The whole process did not even take a second, just half a second! Just in a blink of an eye, the gigantic skeleton was already in the state of full health. Even if Zhang Yang wanted to charge forward to use Destructive Smash, it was already too late!

"Owh..." the gigantic skeleton suddenly probed its skull forward and let out a burst of deafening roar.

'Oh oh oh, come and get a taste of my darling's power!" Zac smiled viciously on the shoulder side of the skeleton and continued to say, "Darling, kill them! Kill all of the lively souls!"

Searching out with its arm, the gigantic skeleton picked up the scythe by the ground, with the front edge of the blade charging up with a bright red glow, emitting a horrifying breath of blood! It abruptly waved its scythe and gave a heavy slash at Endless Starlight who was charging at the front.

Divine Shield!

Endless Starlight immediately activated his skill. This was a similar skill as the Warrior's Block, with the effect of increasing 50% rate to absorb one hit and deflect a holy damage equal to the strength value. Although it was not a 100% rate, it could be effective against all assault types. This was also why Defenders were more familiar in drawing magic type monsters.

'-192!'

Endless Starlight was lucky, that attack was successfully absorbed and caused a deflective damage of 192 to the gigantic skeleton.

However, the momentum of the attack from the gigantic skeleton was immense. Although it was successfully absorbed by Endless Starlight, but the remaining shock waves drove all melee combatants such as Zhang Yang and Sun Xiang Yu upside down.

Strong Hammer! Justice Bash! Judgment!

Endless Starlight entered the attack range, instantly unleashing a series of attacks onto the monster.

This was the advantage of Knights being a tank; the skills were fueled by the mana points rather than rage points, so as long as the skills were not on a cool down period, the player could create a huge aggro value in just an instant.

The gigantic skeleton stormed the stage with its incredible roar again, waving its scythe at Endless Starlight and sliced him.

'-3,026!'

A huge damage text appeared on Endless Starlight.

You would never know if you have never experienced it yourself. Without being a tank yourself, you would never know how strong the monster is! Endless Starlight was instantly shocked, and he said, "What a ferocious monster, the basic attack should be above 4,000 already!"

Zhang Yang regained his stance right after he fell, and he charged into the front line and clashed into the monster. Although the gigantic skeleton was just an elite, but it was equipped with immunity to control skills, therefore it was not affected by the stun effect of Charge.

'-653!'

With a swing of his sword, Zhang Yang estimated silently in his heart that the armor of the monster was about 300 or so, so he instantly prioritized to throw 5 stacks of Cripple Defense onto the monster. To avoid dispersing Endless Starlight's aggro value, Zhang Yang had to keep his shield into his backpack. In this way, the passive skill Shield Oath immediately lost its role, so that his attack no longer gave him and additional 20% extra hatred.

"Head to the rear of the monster and unleash your damage, monster's attacks have split and knock down effect!"

"Oh oh oh, puny souls, die!" Zac was shouting from above, from time to time, he would throw a Shadow Arrow down towards the gang, without any specific target, it was totally random. Every arrow brought about 1,000 damage, though the rate of the attack was not that high.

The gigantic skeleton suddenly issued a roar full of rage, storming its right foot onto the ground, and a radius of about five meters of black circle appeared beneath its leg, with countless skulls vaguely seen constantly emerging from the beneath ground.

'Ding! You have received Decaying Abyss, deals 1,000 shadow damage every 3 seconds, the effect will last until you leave the effective area of the Decaying Abyss!'

Endless Starlight was smart. He had already drew the gigantic skeleton towards the side even before Zhang Yang had to speak, so he left the effective area of the Decaying Abyss in time. But inevitably, all melee combatants that were still in the effective area had to suffer one time of 1,000 damage after 3 seconds had passed.

Han Ying Xue immediately cast Healing to every member, and she quickly threw any healing skills available at the moment onto Endless Starlight.

In just a few seconds, the gigantic skeleton stormed its foot onto the ground, once again unleashing Decaying Abyss, forcing Endless Starlight to corner of the sides.

The skill was activated on an extremely frequent rate, with the interval of not more than 10 seconds, which basically only gave the gang just a few short seconds to unleash their damage onto the monster in peace before they were forced to shift around.

Without much effort, the small area was almost occupied by circles of Decaying Abyss.

Zhang Yang became cautious, and said, "Starlight, don't stray too far while dodging the Decaying Abyss, because they won't disappear and if the battle is prolonged, there will not be a spot to dodge anymore!"

Endless Starlight immediately read the situation and said, "Understood!"

Pang, pang, pang! The gigantic skeleton gave the ground a consecutive storm, leaving one circle of abyss after another, in just a short moment, one third of the fifth floor area was occupied with circles of Decaying Abyss!

"The key to victory in this battle will be based on the damage output of each sides, we must take out the monster before it covers the whole area with Decaying Abyss, or it would be us who will suffer the horror of the abyss and die a horrible death!" Zhang Yang shouted, while summoning [Servant Clear Lotus] to increase their damage output. His initial intention was to reserve her until the boss battle, but her Substitute was just so convenient for him!

Wei Yan Er can only stare blankly as her servant had already exceed its time and vanished. To summon it again, player was required to wait for another 50 minutes!

Every single one of them had unleashed their skills with long cooldowns, trying their very best to take out the gigantic skeleton as swiftly as possible after hearing Zhang Yang. "Oh oh oh, Puny souls, I sense your fear! Wonderful, it is just wonderful, I just love preys with desperate helpless eyes, that's the sensation that is limited only to killing!" Zac laughed continuously in a weird manner, without forgetting his role to throw a Shadow Arrow at the players in every few seconds.

90%, 80%, 70%!

The damaging output of the gang was not disappointing at all, but the skeleton monster had a very thick armor, even with five stacks of Cripple Defense that lowered 50% of its armor, there was still 150 points of armor left. It would largely affect the damage output of a dual-wielding profession class, especially [Servant Clear Lotus] who only caused 1 physical damage with her secondary weapon. She could only cause some descent damaging output with her primary weapon attack and her skills.

60%, 50%!

The breathing space of the fifth floor was getting smaller by the second, and the Decaying Abyss had shrouded more than half of the area, with the first abyss that was placed on the ground showing no sign of disappearing!

40%, 30%!

The breathing space for the gang continued to be reduced into the size of one to six of the original size of the fifth floor.

"Speed! Speed! Hit harder!" Zhang Yang cried out intensely.

20%!

10%!

The gang had to retreat for two or three more round!

7%! The gigantic skeleton had only 72,841 HP left.

There was no way to pull back anymore! Every one of them had been circled up around the foot of the monster as that was the only area that was not shrouded by the Decaying Abyss.

"Come together! I am activating Vanguard's Aggression! Within this 10-second gap, it's either him or us!" Zhang Yang shouted.

Pang! With another storm from the foot of the gigantic skeleton, another decaying abyss appeared!

Zhang Yang reequipped his shield, activated Vanguard's Aggression covering the whole gang. At the same instant, he activated Substitute.

'-100!'

'-100!'

'-100!'

'...'

Although he used Vanguard's Aggression which left him to receive double damage, his Substitute gave him a 5-second invincibility, making Zhang Yang able to hold up strong. The moment his invincibility faded, he was damaged with '-1,600', '-1,600' overtime. With a few skills in play, Han Ying Xue brought his HP back up.

60,000! 50,000! 40,000! 30,000!

The effect of Vanguard's Aggression faded, leaving the team vulnerable to begin losing 1,000 HP as every second passed. However, the HP of the gigantic skeleton was emptied out, leaving it to shriek and turn into a bunch of bones, crumbling down to the ground!

At the same instant, all of the Decaying Abyss vanished without leaving a sign on their own!

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Chapter 156: Engaging Zac

"Oh oh oh, what a bunch of puny souls! To be able to take out my darling, it seems that I have underestimated you!" Zac descended straight from the air, with only a wave of his staff, he landed softly on the ground.

He grinned and revealed two rows of yellowish teeth and said: "Since you murdered my darling, then I shall pull out all your bones and make a new darling!"

While he was all having the conversation, Han Ying Xue has seized the opportunity to heal everyone with recovery skills, activating Holy Prayers and Healing Bond, trying her best to fill up every single one of their HP bars.

Zhang Yang did not charge forward immediately, because that was most probably the introductory remark made by the boss, which provided the gang some precious gap of time to recover their stance for the coming battle. Charging blindly into hitting the boss would only result in provoking the boss to instantly initiate his attacks!

However, this introductory remark was just too short for them, after a few arrogant words coming from Zac, he aimed his staff right at Endless Starlight. In his aggro list, although everyone was having the same value that was zero, but because they were affected by the gigantic skeleton monster, his primary target that he locked on at the moment was Endless Starlight.

Shoof! Zhang Yang used Charge to tackle himself into the boss.

'-553!'

Slashing through with his sword, Zhang Yang was left breathless wondering how thick of a skin does the boss have!

'-1,356!'

'-1,421!'

Clashing with a Destructive Smash followed with a Horizontal Sweep, he swiftly completed accumulating his first round of the aggro value.

Zac suddenly went raging, switching his target onto Zhang Yang and started chanting his spell.

Naturally, Sun Xin Yu and the others rounded up on the boss and unleashed their attacks as their first move.

'-89!'

'-1!'

Although Sun Xin Yu scratched deep with her dual daggers, but the two hits could only do insignificant damage value! Bear in mind that Sun Xin Yu was equipped with a Level 40 dagger, and her main weapon could deal an average damage of 600, give or take. But she could only deal an insignificant damage of 89, and her secondary weapon attack could even barely scratch the surface of the armor!

So how thick of a skin does the boss actually have?

Although the skills of most of the thieves had the attribute to ignore defenses, and the attack value was also much higher than ordinary attacks leaving the effect of the amour to minimal, the mana value was still limited! The ratio of normal attack indicated in white texts occupied a very large portion of the damage output of thieves!

Sun Xin Yu immediately made a demand on Zhang Yang, "Quickly, use Cripple Defense!"

Zhang Yang could not help himself but chuckle, to think that the cold icy queen would even beg him for a moment! Although Sun Xin Yu's tone voice had a huge difference from what he had in mind, but Zhang Yang still treated it as her begging him, having his vanity greatly satisfied.

Cripple Defense! Cripple Defense! Cripple Defense! Cripple Defense! Cripple Defense!

Truth to be told, even if Sun Xin Yu did not request for it, Zhang Yang would have still smashed 5 stacks of Cripple Defense onto the boss with the goal to boost the damage output of the whole gang!

'337!'

'-1!'

With 5 stacks of Cripple Defense in play, the damage output of the main weapon of Sun Xin Yu had soared so much higher than before, but the damage output of her secondary weapon was still not ideal. For an agile thief, the damage output of secondary weapons is not important, its main purpose was to be used for poisoning!

But it was still not enough for Sun Xin Yu, who was constantly craving to be the best! The secondary had also contributed a damage of 135 for every second that passed; a portion of damage that should not be taken lightly as well!

Eagle Eye! Sun Xin Yu silently thought about it, thinking that she must acquire that skill!

The higher the armor a monster had, the more it affected a weapon that attacks swiftly, especially to those agile Thieves. Equipped with two of the swiftest daggers in the whole of 'God's Miracles', the damage per second was not low at all, but the single attack was down to the definition of very low. Therefore, this profession class really needed a skill that could decrease the monster's armor!

"Puny souls, give up on avoiding the inevitable, return yourself to womb of death! Only death is eternity, then there is immortality!" With a touch of his staff, he completed his Shadow Arrow spell and threw it straight onto Zhang Yang.

'-3,212!'

The attack damage of Zac was totally different from phase 1, with the damage output increasing by threefold!

"Oh oh oh, puny souls, can you feel death?" Zac could be categorized as a garbage-talk kind of a boss, going on with such nonsense!

"Argh!" Wei Yan Er wildly swung her weapon around and said, "I cannot take it anymore, let's just slay this stupid boss and be done with this, or else we are going to be dead by his annoying words!"

"Oh oh oh, slay me you say? You puny bunch of people, trying to slay Zac the great? Dream on with your pathetic daydream! Let me, Zac the great tell you about greatness!" the boss waved his staff around and, bam, bam, bam, shooting one Shadow Arrow after another.

Zhang Yang could not help but smile, then he said, "This is indeed a Yellow-Gold boss, its AI is somewhat sketchy, and it reacts to players' emotion accordingly!"

A regular NPC would only react according to the script when it was triggered by events. If a player did not speak the keywords that triggered them, the NPC would just repeat, saying irrelevant words. Only NPCs with higher AI would react accordingly to any words from the players.

Fatty Han was pumped at the moment, so he said, "Hey shorty, ugly ass, come and get me!"

"An elf as fat as a pig? Oh oh oh, how could there be such a vulgar creature from the aristocratic tribe of the elves!" Zac rolled both of his eyes around, revealing a contempt look on his face, "Is it a boar pig that raped a female elf and gave birth to a half-bred bastard? Or some male elf forced himself down with a few hundred pounds of aphrodisiac to rape a female boar?"

This... is just outrageous!

The gang could not help themselves but to give a moment of silence for Fatty Han.

Fatty Han was surprised for a moment, with his face flushed into red soon, he shouted with rage, "You retarded f*ck face! You're the bastard, you and all our family members are!"

Even a wretched person like Fatty Han himself suffered losses from the mouth of the boss, so the gang kept silent to avoid being cursed by this garbage-talk kind of boss. Channeling their rage into strength, they made haste on bringing down the HP bar of the boss.

98%, 96%, 94%... Due to the high armor of the boss, the total damage output of the gang which mostly consisted of physical damage was being brought down by a level of effectiveness!

Coupled with the boss's bloody high HP, the percentage of the HP was decreased in a very slow manner.

"Puny souls, the time for games is over!" Zac pointed his staff at Zhang Yang and instantly shot a dark light that later shrouded him whole.

'Ding! You have received Darkness Amplifying effect, increase all damage by 100%, increase damage received by 50%, last for 10 seconds!'

'-1,533!'

'-3,281!'

'-9,506!'

Satisfying! Normal attacks exceeded a thousand, with Horizontal Sweep reaching about 3,000 damage, and Destructive Smash was a lucky strike, dealing a critical damage that went beyond 9,000!

Staring at the damage he did, the gang was left without words.

Wei Yan Er quickly shouted, "Hey dwarf boss, hurry up and give me a Darkness Amplifying as well!"

'-4,813!' A swift land of a Shadow Arrow inflicted a very high damage value on Zhang Yang.

While having his damage multiplied many times over, the damaged received was also multiplied over many times. Although it could not take out Zhang Yang in one hit, but it was enough to make him suffer a lot!

But Han Ying Xue suffered a fate far worse, seizing the time of three seconds where the boss was chanting to cast shields and heal, maintaining Zhang Yang's HP up above the safety line of 5,000.

'2,039!'

'402!'

Bam! The boss threw another Shadow Arrow at him.

'-2,801!'

The Holy Shield took precedence to absorb a damage of 20,00, but the attack still took Zhang Yang's HP right off to less than 2,000.

The boss used a Shadow Arrow once in every 3 seconds, so only 3 shots could be released within the 10 seconds duration of the Darkness Amplifying effect! Zhang Yang made a decisive decision, activating his Berserker's Heal.

'6,380!'

A large green numerical value appeared right above his head, instantly gaining back his full health!

"Noob tank, you know you can consider to change your role to healer!" Wei Yan Er giggled.

'-4,891!'

During the duration of the Darkness Amplifying effect, the last Shadow Arrow hit right onto Zhang Yang.

Han Ying Xue healed in time, shoof shoof shoof, raising Zhang Yang's HP and they finally made their way through a tough time.

"That almost had my heart out!" Han Ying Xue patted her plumping chest, sending her dual peaks constantly changing shapes and then restoring back to their initial shape, showing a surprising flexibility.

The waves of shaking boobs instantly sent the four men in the gang into a shock for a moment there.

Wei Yan Er looked at Han Ying Xue's marvelous boobs with admiration, she did a duck face and said, "Be careful not to spoil them with your patting, sis!"

"Yan Er, are you trying to repeat your mistakes again? Please watch out as there might not be any dinner for you!"

Wei Yan Er showed no fear, so she said, "If you dare to starve me, I will call that Mr. Luo, I am sure he is very eager to treat us with dinner!"

Han Ying Xue lost her breath for a second, revealing her disgusted face, and she said, "Do not ever bring up that disgusting name of his in front of me!"

Zhang Yang recalled that he had heard the name before form the 2 ladies, so he asked, "Little sister, so what's the deal with this Mr. Luo?"

"Cousin's admirer! He started going after my cousin since high school, and then until the university time, my cousin has grown scared of him and hid in UK to study!" Wei Yan Er did not even blink or look at Han Ying Xue, and without the slightest hesitation, she betrayed her cousin's secret to the public, "That Mr. Luo Yang Ming intended to pursue her to Cambridge, but luckily enough, the university refused to accept him because of his results. So he tried to solve his problem with money like he always does. So he ended up being expelled from the university, being blacklisted by Cambridge University! So he finally sneaked back to the country. That really had me laughing!"

"You b*tch, you're so dead!" Han Ying Xue could not shut Wei Yan Er's mouth, all she could do was threaten her with some nasty words from aside.

Wei Yan Er giggled, and she said, "Sister Sun, it seems like I will need to beg for dinner at your place tonight!"

"No problem!" Sun Xin Yu was always this straightforward.

As they were talking, the HP of the boss was decreasing. Zac had been using only Shadow Arrow and Darkness Amplifying all the time. The threat was great, but the pressure was only felt by the tanker and the healer, while the damage output gang was totally like chopping piles of woods, having no pressure on them!

90%, 80%, 70%... 40%, 30%, 20%!

"You damn souls, how can you all be still alive?! I am mad, I am really mad!" Zac spoke fiercely, revealing his impatient look on his face, "Then it is time for me to do this the serious way!"

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Chapter 157: Killing a Yellow-Gold boss

Zac raised his long staff up above his head, and a magic array immediately emerged from just beneath his head.

Crash Magic!

'Immune'!

Zhang Yang shook his head a couple times as the chanting could not be interrupted. What kind of devilish Crash Magic is this?!

The chanting time for that skill was really short, as it only took 2 seconds before a dark light instantly burst out from the staff, radiating towards all directions.

'-2,000!'

For the first time in the attack, a numerical value appeared right on top of Zhang Yang's head.

'-2,500!'

'-2,500!'

'-2,500!'

As the dark light emitted through, the other gang members also received a damage of up to 2,500 points! Only Endless Starlight, a Knight tank, received the least damage, taking only 1,875 points.

'Ding! Zac has unleashed Shadow Burst!'

Zac had already begun his chanting for Shadow Burst while the voice announcement was made in the system.

"Stupid boss, this is god damn tiring!" Han Ying Xue was provoked to the point that she was shouting; it was totally causing her lots of trouble! Holy Prayers could only heal Zhang Yang for 2,000 HP, while healing others for 500 HP. It was so insignificant to even look at!

'-2,000!' '-2,500!' '-2,500!'

Zac used another Shadow Burst to cause a massive area of splash attack, and then... another Shadow Burst. It seemed that the boss would not stop until everyone is dead!

Wei Yan Er started to cry very loudly, "This stupid boss is shamelessly strong, how are we going to fight this?"

Actually, a boss with this amount of HP such as Zac that only triggered their AOE (Area Of Effect) skills indefinitely was considered easy already! The upcoming bosses in the field would be equipped with aura skills. Once the players were within the effective radius of the skills, they will lose their HP like wild gooses! It will also mean that they will lose a lot of firepower! It will become a battle that required thousands of players, having one wave after another of the players to sacrifice themselves in exchange for a few thousands of damage dealt on the boss, using the advantage of numbers and time to wear the bosses down to their demise!

It was just like in his previous life when Zhang Yang was battling a big boss to compete an Inheritance quest. It came with a Flame Aura, scorching all players who were within 30 meter radius of the area with 5,000 damage per second! Normal players would just die burning within 10 seconds within the effective area, and the boss did not have to activate any other skills!

What should I do? Zhang Yang quietly asked himself.

"Snow, give up on the others and use your Healing Bond on me!" Zhang Yang had finally made a decisive call.

[Healing Bond: Heal both the caster and the target at the same time. Recover 100% HP based on magic attack. Cast time: 1 second, Cool down time: 1 second.

Priests were known to be good in group healing. With the appearance of healing skills such as Healing Shower and Fountain of Light in the near future, the healing capability of a Priest could reach their healing up to 10 or 20 players at a time, but a Level 40 priest only had Healing Bond to stick with.

Han Ying Xue's magic output was around 1,000, with a continuous spam of Healing Bond onto Zhang Yang and some healing skill, while casting a Holy Shield on herself, she should never die. And Zhang Yang had a passive skill of 20% of damage reduction, so they might just hold on long enough till the end as long as Healing Bond and some Heal were in play!

The only disadvantage was the incredible consumption of Mana Points of Healing Bond, can they really last until finishing the boss?

This was the spirit of the Warriors breaking their wrist! It was not that they did not care for their own hands, but they cherished their own lives even more! To keep everyone alive would only end up dying together, but maintaining Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue alive in the battle still provided them a glimpse of hope in defeating the boss!

It was really easy for Han Ying Xue to understand with her level of intelligence, so she immediately gave up healing the others and focused only on healing Zhang Yang and herself, then she would cast the Healing Bond afterwards.

"Hey sis! Give me a Heal please!" Wei Yan Er was already at the bottom of her HP bar. With both of her teary eyes, she tried for Han Ying Xue's sympathy, "Sis, you are flesh and bones to me, you can't leave me to die!"

"It's cousin!" Han Ying Xue quickly corrected.

"Wow, Han Ying Xue, you dates-before-sisterhood b*tch! I want to unfriend you!" Wei Yan Er went raging about.

Others had also understood that the armor of the boss was just too high. Under the impression of damage output, it should be Zhang Yang who had Cripple Defense and Eagle Eye at the same time that was without a doubt, the strongest attacker among them! Furthermore, he also possessed many live-saving skills that made him the strongest survivor among the others!

Everyone was trying their best to deal as much damage as possible before they met their demise, with only one goal, to ease the stress for Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue!

'Ding! Player Daffodil Daydream has deceased!'

It did not take long for Daffodil Daydream to pass out, followed by Wei Yan Er, Hundered Shots, and Fatty Han, all to fall short of the battle. Sun Xin Yu managed to perform a well-timed Vanish, buying her an extra 3-second to deal a little more damage before she fell. The last one to fall was Endless Starlight, after using up his Sacred Protection and Sacred Heal, he fell down to the ground, lying dead.

"Little Yang, pretty Snow, we are counting on you guys!"

"Do your best!"

"The first clear of Yellow-Gold boss is within our grasp!"

The gang were pumped to encourage Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue.

"Hmph! You treacherous pair of paramours!" Wei Yan Er pursed her lips in displeasure.

The boss was left with 400,000 HP, and Zhang Yang could deal about 1,000 damage in every second. If nothing would go wrong, they only needed to maintain the same pace for another 400 seconds to secure their final victory! But the problem was, could Han Ying Xue's mana hold on for that long?

With Han Ying Xue having Heart of Light, the mana consumption for all healing skills were reduced by 75%, but casting group magic consumed quite a large amount of mana. There might not be a problem for her to hold for 4 to 5 minutes, but 400 seconds was about nearly seven minutes!

"Reserve the shield for your own use, and heal yourself later, I will activate every single one of my life-saving skills once, that way I can strive to activate them later for more than a few times!" Zhang Yang said to Han Ying Xue. The more frequent he could activate his skills, the more Han Ying Xue could save up on her Mana Points for later use.

Berserker's Heal, shoof, recovering to full health, bought a six-second gap. Activating the special effect of the [Lover's Sword] recovered another 4,000 HP, prolonging another 4 seconds. Activating Shadow of Merlinda gave another 10 seconds! Activating Shield Wall, another buff of 10 seconds!

And there was also red potions and the ring's Lifesteal effect, adding up to a sum of 5,600 HP recovery within 2 minutes, which was not much lesser than what Berserker's Heal could offer!

18%, 15%, 11%... The boss' HP bar was depleting, and the Han Ying Xue's mana was too!

The outcome of this battle will be based on whether Zhang Yang could kill the boss first, or Han Ying Xue finishes her last drop of mana, leaving both of them vulnerable die by the boss!

8%, 6%, 3%!

Han Ying Xue had used up all her mana about 2 seconds ago, but luckily the cooldown for blue potion had been refreshed! She consumed a grade 1 Mana Potion, swezz, gaining 1,000 mana points as a bonus!

It was the key to ensure their victory!

'1,012!'

'1,012!'

With a Healing Bond in play again, both Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue received an abundance of green healing values over their heads.

2%!

"You're almost there!"

"Noob tank, why haven't you killed the boss yet? I despise you!"

"Zhan Yu, just a little more!"

"Little Snow, hold on!"

Victory was upon them, everyone could not resist their urge to scream and shout.

1%!

"Slash! With your full might! Forget about me, just get rid of him!"

"We're about to win!"

"The first clear of Yellow-Gold boss, here we come!"

"Hahaha, we are the best!"

41,734!

25,923!

9,134!

4,121!

812!

0!

"We did it!"

'Ding! You and your party have slain the Evil Necromacer Zac, acquired 1,000,050 Experience Points (50 reward points for team effort)'

'Ding! You and your party have completed the "First Clear" of the Yellow-Gold boss, this result will be recorded in the Glorious Achievement List! As the party leader, please key in your team name, for the world to praise!'

'Ding, you have competed the main quest: Final Blow! Automatically redirect to new quest: Report back to Grand Magus Anthony Faylon. Hustle back to White Jade City to claim your reward!'

Pak! The midget body of Zac made a turn around and fell onto the icy-cold ground facing up to the sky. The fiery red staff on his hands fell off afar.

Phew! Zhang Yang took breath of relief, they managed to pull this off because of his high damage output and Han Ying Xue's large healing capability. If it was up to others, they would not have held on for such a long period of time! Even if they could have held on for so long, they would not have enough fire power (damage output) to put down the boss for good!

Zhang Yang conveniently entered the name 'Lone Desert Smoke' into the entry box and selected the confirm button, allowing the server to begin making the announcement.

'Server Announcement: The Lonely Desert Smoke has succeeded in acquiring "First Clear" for killing Yellow-Gold boss Zac. This great deed will be registered onto the Glorious-deed list (China Region).'

'Server Announcement: Player Zhan Yu (Leader) has succeeded in acquiring "First Clear" for killing Yellow-Gold boss Zac, acquired server reward 10 gold coins, luck attribute 1, All alliance reputation increased by 500 points!'

'Server Announcement: Player Endless Starlight (member) has succeeded...'

Every corner of the global channel was full of server announcements in red, and once again that shook every single player in the China region!

"So what's the situation now? A Yellow-Gold boss?"

"You must be joking!"

"No wonder the Lone Desert Smoke had not been exploiting the Death Mode of the dungeons lately, so this is what they have been up to, killing a Yellow-Gold boss!"

"That's right! The castle interior is full of only Gray-Silver bosses, if it's up to me, I would have went straight for the Yellow-Gold boss as well!"

"I'm so envious now! I wonder what kind of equipment will a Yellow-Gold boss drop out?"

"Brother Zhan Yu, I am currently 28, as beautiful as the flowers, with an exotic body, pure as a virgin, please take me!"

"Pure as a virgin? That means no more a virgin then?"

"Didn't you hear I am currently 28? It is really super hard to find a virgin nowadays, you can find one in the nursery school!"

"F*ck, this is totally out of topic!"

"..."

Han Ying Xue started to revive the gang one after another. The gang were so agitated after their revival!

This was the first clear for killing a Yellow-Gold boss!

Noticing Sun Xin Yu staring at him by a quick glance, Zhang Yang smiled, "If you are very excited to the point that you are thinking of giving me a hug, just come at me!"

The moment he finished his words, a shadow instantly flew into his arms, clinging to him very tightly.

Zhang Yang quickly said, "I was not talking to you! Argh!"

It was Endless Starlight, with tears streaming down his face, crying, "Zhan Yu, I'm so excited right now!"

"... I can see that!"

"Am I becoming famous now?"

"... Most probably!"

"Then my dream of creating a harem environment is finally becoming possible now!" Endless Starlight was sobbing too much to speak.

"... F*ck off!"

"The loot, the loot!" Wei Yan Er did not care so much whether she would become famous or not, but what she loved the most was the looting.

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Chapter 158: Quest Complete

As a Yellow-Gold boss, the equipment drop would not be any lesser. Moreover, it was the first clear for killing the boss, which in fact, was genuinely a big bang (news) for everyone!

There were already four pieces of Gold grade equipment, seven pieces of Silver grade equipment, seventeen pieces of Bronze grade equipment, and several Red and Green-ish skill books. Everyone was drooling just by looking at them!

"Golden fortune! Although the midget has grown out to be crooked, but the loots he left behind match the status of the Yellow-Golden boss!" Fatty Han was beamed with delight.

As the natural habit of Wei Yan Er, she always picked up the coins carefully from the floor first, before checking out the equipment drop.

Although Zac was a Yellow-Golden boss, there was no sign of any golden coins, only 92 pieces of silver coins, which after were equally dividing, gives each player only 11 pieces of silver coins, or maybe a little more for some of them.

[Harbinger Staff] (Yellow-Gold, Staff)

Magic damage: 1,340-1,540

Unidentified

Level required: 50

Looking at the terrifying magic damage value, everyone lost their cool, having smiles on their faces and took a breath in. This Level 50 equipment was worthy of the title of Yellow-Gold grade!

Han Ying Xue smiled and said, "Daffodil Daydream, you should keep the staff!"

Daffodil Daydream quickly shook her hands and said, "Honestly, I am eager to have the staff, but to challenge a Yellow-Gold boss side by side with you, that was way more than I can ask for! Besides, I have already taken a few pieces of fine equipment, I would feel sorry if I had it! Sister Snow, please have it!"

Han Ying Xue smiled again and said, "The staff requires Level 50 players to be eligible to equip it, according to a normal level up speed, it will take about 40 days to reach that level! In these days, it will be enough time to farm on this midget boss for a few rounds already!"

Daffodil Daydream insisted and shook her head, then she said, "The equipment might not drop every time as this was also a first clear reward; there might not even be a staff among the next time around!"

Zhang Yang interrupted and said, "How about this, the staff will belong to Little Snow for now! After the boss has respawned, we shall be back to repeat this, then the second staff will belong to Daffodil Daydream!"

Daffodil Daydream immediately nodded.

Zhang Yang was grinning deep down his heart, as long as this chick stayed with the gang, there would be no doubt about her becoming a member of his gang!

[Dragon Tooth Battle Axe] (Yellow-Gold, one-handed axe)

Attack: 796-996

Attack interval: 2.8 seconds

DPS (Damage per second): 320

Unidentified

Level required: 50

In comparison, the 310-362 damage output of the [Lover's Sword] was overwhelmingly out of the picture!

"Axe! Axe!" Wei Yan Er shouted in her own excitement.

"Little sis, what are you so excited about? This is a one-handed weapon!" Zhang Yang laughed.

"Ah..." Wei Yen Er instantly dulled down.

Both Defenders and Guardians could use an axe, but Warriors had the Axe Mastery while Knights had the Mace Mastery. So long as the difference was not that bad, a player would generally choose their weapon of mastery.

There was no doubt that the [Dragon Tooth Battle Axe] would belong to Zhang Yang. But it was such a shame, he would need to get 9 more levels before he could equip it.

[Magician's Brooch] (Yellow-Gold, accessory)

Use: Increase 700 magic damage, last for 10 seconds. Cool down: 3 minutes

Level required: 50

"Accessory!" The gang widened their eyes for a bit there.

The accessory with 2,000 armor that Zhang Yang had right now was categorized as a defensive type of equipment, and this [Magician's Brooch] was an offensive type!

Daffodil Daydream insisted not to make any demand, and Han Ying Xue could only smile.

[Helm of Eternal Darkness] (Yellow-Golden, leather armor)

Defense: 24

Vitality: 240

Strength: 96

Agility: 96

Unidentified

Level required: 50

"Holy molly! It actually increases 240 points of vitality! With just one equipment, it could give 2,400 HP points! The defense value is also higher than the armor value!" Endless Starlight grew a pair of green eyes. As a tank, seeing a high vitality and high defense equipment triggered him to extend his arm towards the equipment!

"Starlight, do not taint Fatty Han's helmet! Take your hands back to where they belong!" Fatty Han laughed.

Leather armors were naturally highly demanded among thieves and hunters. But in the end, with her 97 point strength, Sun Xin Yu pressed the two man down without saying a word and succeeded in securing the first Yellow-Gold leather armor in the China region server.

"A dog that bites does not bark!" Zhang Yang said it in a very low voice.

'Chiang!' with an incredible sense of hearing, Sun Xin Yu pulled half of her dagger out, coldly glanced at Zhang Yang, giving him a full warning through her eyes.

After seeing a bunch of Yellow-Gold equipment, the gang could not bring their spirit up anymore while looking at the Gray-Silver equipment, even when they were all top-tier equipment in the game at the moment!

"If we could have known earlier, we should have started with the Gray-Silver equipment!" Wei Yan Er spoke with a bitterly face.

Among the 7 Gray-Silver equipment, Zhang Yang took a piece of [Snake King's Chest Plate, a heavy armor piece. As he could only equip it at Level 50, he simply threw the armor piece into his backpack, identifying it only after he returned.

There were 3 skill books, one being a Poison Blade for Thief profession, another one was a Flame Chaser for Spellcaster profession, and last but not least, was a Mending Prayers for Priest profession. After Han Ying Xue and the gang had divided the loots, they immediately tapped themselves to learn their respective skills.

Of course, Zhang Yang valued the skill Mending Prayers the most.

[Mending Prayers: Cast a Blessing onto the target, when the target is being attacked, the target will instantly restore HP value equivalent to 200% of the magic damage of the caster. While the Mending Prayers is in effect, it will automatically switch its effect to the nearest teammate around the target. Mending Prayers can switch for 5 times, last for 30 seconds for every switch. Cooldown: 15 seconds.

This was a very powerful group spell, the instantaneous and fast cooling time made it a very commendatory skill!

Killing the boss would mean that they had completed the quest. After several consecutive days of high intensive grinding, the gang was both physically and mentally tired. Before that, there were still bosses and equipment around as their incentives, but now, they became too lazy, with the mentality of not wanting to clear monsters. So they just tore a [Teleportation Scroll] and headed back to White Jade Castle. First they had to turn over to the main quest for the reward, and then went back to the centaur camp for another quest reward. In that way, they could polish their centaur reputation and make some fine purchases from the Reputation Shopkeeper.

Although Daffodil Daydream and Endless Starlight did not have any quest on them at the moment, they planned to return to the city to repair their equipment and tidy up their backpacks before they tagged along with Han Ying Xue and the gang to get their reputation up as well.

Watching his gang leave one after another, Zhang Yang could not help but to curse them in silence for their lack of generosity. He was still carrying the 'Dwarf's warning' on him, which forbade him in using teleportation scrolls!

Helplessly, he could only charge into the monster crowd to kill himself, to be revived straight back at the cemetery.

'Ding! You are affected with the weak resurrection effect, all equipment durability received 50% additional damage, all attributes decreased by 90% , last for 10 minutes!'

Zhang Yang did not care much about it, there would not be any battle along the journey back to the centaur camp to purchase the [Fountain of the Souls] and rescue the dwarf back in Hammer Heart Castle. Summoning his [Skeletal War Horse, Zhang Yang saddled up and the high profile horse went out with a boom, heading straight to the centaur camp.

"Haha, noob tank, guess what I got for the reward?" Wei Yan Er suddenly screamed in excitement.

"...You turned over the main quest for its reward?"

"Yea, so quickly, take a guess!"

Zhang Yang had never completed the main quest, how would he know? So he spoke out of randomness, "A Yellow-Gold equipment?"

"Cheh, what a crappy equipment, with just a simple use and it will be gone, how is that worthy to be a reward for a main quest?" We Yan Er snorted a few times and said, "You're such an idiot, noob tank, what kind of a beta testing player are you -"

"Say it now, and don't have a long winded-tongue like Snow Witch!"

"Silly Yu, what did you just say!?" Han Ying Xue was enraged. Because Wei Yan Er and Zhang Yang were using the party channel, of course Han Ying Xue would overhear the conversation between two of them.

Wei Yan Er smiled for a while, and then she said, "Alright, I will tell you then. The quest reward is 100 gold coins, 1 skill point, and a skill book Strength Aura! This is so annoying! When have I ever become barbarous?!"

"Aura?" Zhang Yang repeated and said, "You learned an aura skill?"

"Yea! Activating it will increase 2% strength of the target teammates that are within a radius of 30 meters area! But it feels weird, the aura skill level is just Level 1, but I cannot increase it with my skill point!"

Holy cow, the reward for the main quest is actually awesome, they actually gave a skill book that teaches aura skills! Zhang Yang smiled with joy, "The level of Aura skill cannot be increased with skill points, but with [Aura Stone]! And please don't ask me where can you buy it from, an [Aura Stone] can only be dropped from a boss, so take it slow!"

Wei Yan Er shorted again, and then she kept silent after that. Then, Han Ying Xue, Hundred Shots and Fatty Han had also turned over for their quest reward, and they received an aura skill book as reward as well!

However, this reward was obviously correlated with professions of the players, as both Hundred Shots and Fatty Han received Companion Aura while Han Ying Xue received Life Aura.

[Companion Aura: Affects the teammates within the aura's effective range to increase their pet's attack by 3%. Aura range: 30 meters radius round from the caster. The effect lasts until the death of the caster or until it automatically vanishes. You can only activate one aura at a time.

[Life Aura: Affects the teammates within the aura effective range to increase recovery of HP by 3% when they heal. Aura range: 30 meters radius round from the caster. The effect lasts until the death of the caster or until it automatically vanishes. You can only activate one aura at a time.

According to these occurrence, will he also get Strength Aura? But, the difference in the professions might affect him in getting a different Aura skill as the reward.

While Zhang Yang was deep in his thoughts, he hustled his horse to go faster as he wanted to conclude his quest as soon as possible so that he could return back to the main city to turn in for the main quest. He was very eager to see what kind of Aura skill he would get as the reward.

Dashing wildly on his horse, Zhang Yang reached the settlement of the centaur. He rushed straight into the wooden house of Maya Kukulo.

"Human, you are too brave, too powerful! You have kept your promise to slay the Evil Sorcerer Zac! Hahaha, we will never have to be concerned with the invasion by the undead! Human, the centaur tribe of the Kukulo will forever be your friend!" Maya Kukulo thanked him with excitement.

'Ding! You have completed the quest: Protect the Sacred Ground, acquired 100,000 experience points, centaur reputation 1,000!'

'Ding! Congratulation, you have reached Worship in centaur reputation!'

'Ding! You have acquired an achievement: Warrior of the Centaur! You have acquired the title: Warrior of the Centaur!'

No reward?

It was probably because the quest is linked with the 'Rescue the Dwarf' quest, so the reward should come from the dwarves!

Zhang Yang visited the reputation shop and purchased a [Blast Wave] skill book and a bottle of the sacred water.

[Blast Wave: Unleash a shock wave out front in a conical area, all targets within range will receive a damage equivalent to 100% of the strength value, and stun all the targets for 4 seconds! Required: Melee weapon. Consume: 20 rage points. Cooldown: 20 seconds.

Although the damage based on strength value was a little lower, but this skill was very effective in crowd control! Stun the crowd for 4 seconds was actually very terrifying!

After sorting out every items he wanted to purchase, there was nothing left for him to stay here. So Zhang Yang summoned his [Skeletal War Horse] and rode out for Hammer Heart Castle.

Another 20 minutes had passed, and Zhang Yang arrived at the Hammer Heart Castle.

"Human, you have finally returned!" Markan looked at Zhang Yang, and straight into business, he asked, "Have you obtained the sacred water from the [Fountain of the Souls]?"

"Yes, I did!" Zhang Yang took out the bottle of sacred water and passed it to Markan.

"Good, very good indeed! I can sense the pure energy hidden within the sacred water!" Markan drew out a breath of relief, "Human, if you return just a little later, Sith would not have made it! Thank the God of Titans!"

F*ck, even if it was 10 days later, the outcome would still be the same. The quest did not specify a fixed duration of time, a delay of one full year would not be a problem either! It was just that in S-rank quests, there would be a quest score. A delay of 1 year would definitely leave a 'very bad' comment; the lowest of the lowest score of all!

Zhang Yang followed Markan to the 3rd floor and entered Sith's room. A priest of the dwarves was standing right beside the bed, continuously channeling exorcism spells into Sith's body to resist the erosion of the spirit of Terpot Ryhar.

"Sir Markan!" The priest stopped his chanting and gave Markan a sign of respect.

Markan slightly nodded and said, "Palatine, you have had a long day!" He then took out the bottle of the sacred water and poured it into Sith's mouth.

"Argh!" a scream full of misery and suffering suddenly came right out from Sith's body, followed by a dark skeleton floating out of the dwarf's body, it turned out to be a reflection of Terpot Ryhar, "No! No! This is impossible! Argh!"

A stream of green lively light gushed out from Sith's body, instantly erasing the dark skeleton out of its existence, clean and clear.

"Phew!" Sith sat up suddenly, and he looked around, left and right, having a confused expression on his face, "Sir Markan, Palatine, why are you here?"

"Sith, you are well again?"

"I... I remember now! When I took up the sacred relic [Bow of the Fallen Moon, I felt an evil force entering itself into my body! Now... I am fully well!" Sith got off the bed.

"Sith, you should thank him, our respectful human friend! He did not just bring back our sacred relic, but he also saved your live!" Markan pointed at Zhang Yang while he was speaking.

Sith immediately bowed down to Zhang Yang and said, "Thank you, my friend!"

'Ding! You have completed the quest: Fountain of the Souls, acquired 10,0000 experience points! Duration of the quest: 21 days. Quest Score: Perfect!'

'Ding! You have acquired the reward Shadow of the Void!'

'Ding! 'Dwarf's Warning' has been lifted from you!'

At last! Zhang Yang drew a long breath, it was this piece of junk that caused him to not be able to return to the main cities for 21 days!

Ignoring what Shadow of the Void was and casting it aside into the backpack, Zhang Yang immediately tore a [Teleportation Scroll]; never again would he want to strike any deal with this bunch of dwarves, ever again!

10 seconds later, with a blur in front of his eyes, he found himself appearing at the teleportation site of White Jade City.

Back! Back at last!

Zhang Yang summoned his [Skeletal War Horse] and hastily rushed all the way to the middle of the city searching for Grand Magus Anthony Faylon to turn over to his main quest for his long awaited reward.

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Chapter 159: Every cook praises his own broth

"Undead! Undead!" The White Jade City's most powerful mage, who also happened to be the only god-class leader, Grand Magus Anthony Faylon had constantly been pacing back and forth ever since he received the report from Zhang Yang. With his two white eyebrows furrowed, he paced to and fro, for quite a while before he spoke again, "Warrior, thank you for bringing the news back to us! The alliance is now aware ahead of time that the undead have been planning something in the dark. Now, the alliance will not be caught by surprise! "

'Ding! You have completed the main quest: Report to Grand Magus Anthony Faylon!'

'Ding! You have acquired a system reward of 100 gold coins!'

'Ding! You have acquired a skill point!'

'Ding! You have acquired a reward, Vitality Aura!'

Vitality Aura! Not bad, it is different from Wei Yan Er's Strength Aura. Because Aura skills cannot be stacked together, a higher level Aura will override a lower level Aura. If they are of the same level, only one aura will be effective!

"Warrior, I will see the Emperor immediately and expose the undead's treacherous scheme to invade to the Empire! You ... must carry on your effort, I'm counting on you, young warrior!" Anthony Faylon praised Zhang Yang with nothing fancy but words, and departed from the Tower of the Mage.

Zhang Yang used his new skill point on his Shield Wall, decreasing the cool down of the skill from 7 minutes to 6.5 minutes. Then he took out the red-jacketed skill book for Vitality Aura from his backpack, pressed it against his body and learned the skill.

[Vitality Aura] (Level 1): Increases the vitality of team mates within the effective range by 4%. Aura range: 30 meters radius round from the caster. The effect last until the death of the caster or until it automatically vanishes. You can only activate one aura at a time.

Zhang Yang immediately activated his aura skill, and it spread out in golden light, forming a radius of about 30 meters circle. As the effect was gradually disappearing, he could see that above his head, there was a new sign of Vitality Aura beneficial effect, and the value of his HP was instantly increased from from 6380 to 6630.

This is awesome! With a full level 10 aura skill, the vitality enhancement will surely be multiplied several times over!

While Zhang Yang was leaving the Tower of the Mage, he took out the Shadow of the Void from his backpack. Since he had been rushing back from the dwarf's castle, he did not care to look at the specification of the skill book, until now.

[Skill Book: Shadow of the Void]

Use: Teaches you the Shadow of the Void.

Required profession: Warrior, Knight, Thief, Hunter, Spellcaster, Priest

Required Level: 30

Locked.

All 6 professions can learn the skill, so what use is putting this 'Profession Required' list in the description then? Zhang Yang was laughing to himself while starting at the 'locked' word with both of his sparkling eyes, knowing that only a very precious skill book would be locked or bound to the owner upon contact!

Zhang Yang immediately tap the skill book of Shadow of the Void onto his body and had the skill learned.

[Shadow of the Void: You have disengaged from battle mode and entered a different realm! Since you're in a different realm, you cannot see any living being; others cannot see or attack you! Your movement speed is increased by 100%! The performing of any actions or casting of any skills while under this effect will dispell this effect immediately. Last for 20 seconds. Cool down time: 10 minutes.

Another version of Vanish perhaps? Instantly, Zhang Yang had his mind picturing the use of the skill in multiple situations, such as: Dodging powerful skills of the boss, silently passing through a crowd of monsters without anyone's notice, cutting off the head of an army's leader in a chaotic situation, and also when participating an alliance battle, getting close to far away healers with minimal effort!

His face streamed with tears. Going through a difficult time of 21 days, he finally got a generous reward in exchange for his hardship!

Zhang Yang went to visit his warrior profession mentor, and from his exotic and charming instructor, he picked up 2 skills that were only eligible to a level 40 warrior: Axe Mastery and Sacrifice.

[Axe Mastery] (Passive): All attack is increased by 5% when an Axe-type weapon is equipped. Increases critical strike by 5%.

[Sacrifice: Protects an ally, taking all damage done to the ally instead. Cool down time: 1 minute. Distance: 30 meters.

Riding his horse on these familiar roads, Zhang Yang had located the whereabouts of the identifier. Ever since the update of the latest version, the identifying shop has become one of the most gold consuming places in the game.

'Pak', the identifier placed the [Dragon Tooth Battle Axe] and the magnifying glass onto the table and said, "100 pieces of gold coins!"

"Sun of the beach, why don't you just go rob someone!" Zhang Yang spoke very softly, but he still obediently handed out his 100 pieces of gold coins over to the identifier.

Rony revealed a sinister smile on his face, touching the [Dragon Tooth Battle Axe] here and there somewhat perversely. Suddenly, a dazzling stream of golden light flashed by, and the smooth intrinsic [Dragon Tooth Batte Axe] burst into a blinding light as if it belonged to an ancient god warrior, it was exceptionally divine!

There were also several players doing some identifying on their own equipment in the shop as well. They also tend to loiter around the area without bothering anyone -- players do not have to worry about having their equipment being taken by others as the the system has been programmed to protect all items within the shop.

"Wow, was that a Yellow-Gold equipment?"

"You idiot or what, the only gang that actually defeated a Yellow-Gold boss and possesses Yellow-Gold equipment is the bunch of crazy-strong people from the Lone Desert Smoke! Does he look like a Zhan Yu to you? Or Hundred Shots, Slim and Handsome, or Endless Starlight?"

"F*ck me, how would I know when he does not have his name shown to the public!"

Zhang Yang could only smile gently, and took his [Dragon Tooth Battle Axe] back to check its attribute.

[Dragon Tooth Battle Axe] (Yellow-Golden, one handed axe)

Attack: 796-996

Attack interval: 2.8 seconds

DPS: 320

Level 2 Socket 1

Level 2 Socket 2

Equip: Increases your melee damage by 100 points.

Level required: 50

It was indeed a Yellow-Golden equipment, the additional special effect is very incredible!

Seeing Zhang Yang place the Dragon Tooth Battle Axe into his backpack, the players around were quite disappointed, everyone was trying to ask, "Brother, please publish the attributes of the weapon to the public!"

Zhang Yang took out a [Snake King's Chest Plate] and handed it over to the NPC to identify, and he smiled, "That was nothing special, the color was just a little brighter than the others!"

"50 pieces of gold coins!" once again the identifier voiced out the cost.

This time around, the players around had heard it very clearly. Although they were different from Zhang Yang who has lived 2 lives, with the game being updated so many times, they had already caught on the the fact that the higher the grade of the item, the higher the cost will be to identify the item!

"Holy cow, that requires 50 pieces of gold coins! To identify a level 20 gray-silver equipment already cost me 20 pieces of gold! Could this be... A level 50 gray-silver equipment?"

"Brother, could you be the boss of Lone Desert Smoke, Zhan Yu himself?"

"You look similar to him, a shield-bearing warrior!"

Zhang Yang paid the 50 pieces of gold coins made the deal to identify his [Snake King's Chest Plate, then he smiled and said, "It was just my lucky day, I bought it from the Little Merchandize Shop!"

Speaking of which, he published the attributes of the [Snake King's Chest Plate] to everyone around him.

[Snake King's Chest Plate] (Gray-silver, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 20

Vitality: 120

Strength: 60

Agility: 60

Level 2 Socket 1

Level 2 Socket 2

Equip: Absorbs 200 damage in every hit received.

Required level: 50

"This is just too awesome!" The players around were shouting in excitement.

"The Little Merchandize Shop is sells such equipment?" one of the players asked.

Zhang Yang nodded, and he said, "I heard that the Little Merchandize Shop is being operated by Lone Desert Smoke?"

"Then it's right!" another player clapped his hands once and said, "Not long ago the land lease was dominated by Zhan Yu, wasn't it? This Little Merchandize Shop must be a shop that he bought with the land lease!"

"Let's go, I'm definitely going to check it out, let's see if I am lucky enough to grab some gray-silver equipment to show off in the guild!"

"I'm going too!"

So, the players around quickly kept their identified equipment and all of them hastily headed to the Little Merchandize Shop.

Zhang Yang grinned widely, it was a small act on his part, he was merely obeying the saying that every cook praises his own broth!

Only Gray-Silver equipment or higher will require to be identified, furthermore, only a handful of guilds can forge a Gray-Silver equipment at the moment! Therefore, those players who possess a Gray-Silver equipment are either elites in bigger guilds or they are just filthy rich!

The few players he met just now were obviously not from any bigger guilds around, because the guild names that were displayed above their head were in total mess. But these players are rich, they didn't seem to have any shortage of money! Zhang Yang's Little Merchandize Shop not only required a stream of small sales, but also required the support of rich players who were willing to spend extravagantly in his shop!

These rich players usually had friends around, so they would definitely share the news among each other. There was a saying that birds of a feather flock together, so basically a friend of a rich person would also be rich, and virtually, they would be doing free advertising for the Little Merchandize Shop!

Zhang Yang walked out of the identifying shop and summoned his [Skeleton War Horse]. Then he headed towards the Little Merchandize Shop. It had been days since he was last there, so he wondered what would have happened to his little shop!

His horse travels very fast, and in no time at all, he had reached the entrance of his little shop. Putting his horse back into his backpack, Zhang Yang walked up to the entrance of his shop. Natalia went up to him and bowed, greeting him, "Master, welcome back!"

With her upper body bent over, a great deal of her fair, soft breasts were revealed to the point where there was no way her garments would be permitted to drop a centimeter lower, instantly sending a few otakus around into nosebleed. The very edges of circles, slightly darker than the skin of her chest, were just beginning to show.

Zhang Yang walked into his shop to look at the accounts and the remaining stocks of his shop.

Initially he had deposited 100,000 gold coins for Natalia to perform some acquisition activities. It turned out that the start-up capital had no fallen or even remained where it was, but had increased by up to a total of 2,410,000 gold coins! It could be said that the average daily profit of the shop was about to 110,000! The situation amazed Zhang Yang beyond words!

The items that he sold were merely player-forged items that were usually auctioned. The idea was to take advantage of the people who were unwilling to commit too much to the game system, in order to earn about 5%-20% the value of the items in their hands when they sell it to the shop! But the inventory of the shop is limited, there is no way that this little shop could compete with the auction community. In comparison to the auction community, the earning of the Little Merchandize is just like a scrap to them!

But this scrap is about 110,000 pieces of gold coins and the daily profit, this... This game company is really earning like a bull on adrenaline!

Zhang Yang was somewhat puzzled as he looked through the inventory of his warehouse in the shop.

By the looks of it, he finally understood where this Little Merchandize Shop had been earning those gold coins from! Just when he was looking through the records, there were a dozen sets of herbs and ores sold, and then came a dozen sets of similar materials to replace the emptied slots.

But the sales for the first 10 days were obviously much higher than the sales for the last 10 days. The reason was simple: In the beginning, the shop had a few pieces of Gray-Silver equipment and a lot of bronze equipment to support the scene, and with these good things bought off, the number of customers visiting the shop had naturally declined. Players bought ores and herbs if they happened to pass by, because the price in the auction house and the price elsewhere would all be the same, so it didn't matter where they bought it from.

Now that the good pieces of equipment had been sold out, the players who sought for equipment would naturally decline in numbers, and the side sales of herbs and ores would also decline.

It was a lucky thing that Zhang Yang had just returned with his backpack full of level 40 green-copper equipment!

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Chapter 160: Robbery

Zhang Yang quickly took every piece of Green-Copper equipment in his inventory and shoved them all into the shop's storage. He also made a few more stacks of [Beginner's Anti-Shadow Potion] and place them in the shop's storage as well. Do not underestimate the low sale quantity of the potion, even though he was only selling a few stacks a day, the business is consistent. Eventually, it will pile up to a large fortune. However, with potions or not, the main reason he keeps the low valued sales up was to draw in more customers.

Zhang Yang opened the "Upgrade Shop" menu and deposited 100,000 gold coins before selecting "proceed".

'Ding! You are about to upgrade "Little Merchandize Shop" to level 2. This upgrade will cost you 100,000 gold coins."

"Yes!"

'Ding! "Little Merchandize Shop" has been upgraded to level 2 Shop. Shop inventory has been increased to 2000! One additional floor has been added! The next upgrade would increase Shop Inventory to 3000 and an additional floor. The next upgrade would cost 500,000 gold coins!'

Again!

Ding! "Little Merchandize Shop" has been upgraded to level 3 Shop. Shop inventory has been increased to 3000! One additional floor has been added! The next upgrade would increase Shop Inventory to 4000 and an additional floor. The next upgrade would cost 1,000,000 gold coins!'

Again! Nah…just kidding. This would suffice for now. He only needed the space for [Solid Iron Bar]s. Zhang Yang will try his best to spend all his gold coins before he reaches level 50!

Before Zhang Yang left, he adjusted Natalia the shop keeper's settings to only buy [Solid Iron Bar]s instead of [Iron Bar]s or [Iron Ore]s and increased the buying price from 0.85 gold coins each to 0.9 gold coins each. The small difference of 5 silver coins was enough to let many Mining profession players turn their ores to bars and sell them all to this little shop

[Solid Iron Bar]s were not for sale just yet. The demand in the market for [Iron Bar] itself was low. Most of the player would sell them in the auction house for only 2 gold coins per stack. Even so, these entries would go unsold and be promptly returned to their owners. The supplies for [Iron Bar] had far exceeded the market demands!

Along the rise of the average player's level, ingredients and materials for [Beginner Iron Skin Potion] and [Beginner Power Potion] were beginning to surface. However, their quantity was only a handful. Still, it was enough for Zhang Yang to make 2 stacks each, totaling up to 800 bottles. Half of them were placed in the shop for sales, while the rest were stored in his inventory for the exploration of the Castle Interior Hardcore mode dungeon.

"Little Yang! Big new! BIG NEWS!" Fatty Han suddenly yelled through the private messaging service.

"What's up? Did you get dumped again?"

"F*ck you! I saw the news this morning! The guild called Imperial Sky were the first to kill the 3rd boss in the castle interior Hardcore mode!"

"Oh." said Zhang Yang. His eye brows twitched a little.

Imperial Sky…One Sword Stroke! The number one tank in the entirety of the China server in his past life!

He has finally showed up!

"Damn! Little Yang! Why are you so calm about this? We have yet to even set foot in the dungeon, and someone else is already on the brink of getting the First Clear!" Fatty Han screamed.

Zhang Yang had only known One Sword Stroke when he was around level 50. Only then did One Sword Stroke had built up his fame from a small province to the entire China! His skill as a tank was on a professional level! His PK skills were as formidable! He had brought a battle team call "Sky Ocean Electronics" to the S-level Professional League and became the best S-level battle team in the entire China!

"It's good to have some sort of a competition now and then. It's not wise to have all the spotlights on us the whole time!" Zhang Yang laughed it off.

Fatty Han grumbled before he spoke coherently again. "So, when are we going to raid the Castle Interior?"

"These past few days have been really tiresome. Rest earlier tonight, we'll raid the dungeon tomorrow night!"

"…Fine!"

Zhang Yang glanced at the system clock and saw that it was close to 6pm. Zhang Yang then logged out and went out to buy his dinner. Zhang Yang grabbed his wallet and found a single, lonely piece of 5-dollar bill inside. Other than the dust falling out, there was nothing else. Zhang Yang could not help but shake his head. "How ironic for a millionaire to only have a piece of 5 in his wallet!"

After Zhang Yang bought himself a packet rice, he was completely broke! He did not even have money for tomorrow's breakfast!

"Looks like…I might have to wake up a little later than usual. Take it as marathon training! I shall run to the bank and withdraw money!" Zhang Yang thought of his solution while eating his dinner. After dinner, Zhang Yang logged into the game and met with everyone. They all did a run at the Garden area Hardcore mode dungeon and obtained a few Gray-Silver tier equipment, submitting them all at the Little Merchandize Shop. He even called up Daffodil Daydream and Endless Starlight to polish up their teamwork.

Zhang Yang offered invitations to the party to the both of them in raiding the Castle Interior Hardcore mode. Daffodil was a little hesitant, however, she accepted it eventually.

These days had put a toll on Zhang Yang, and since he had to wake up at 9am the next day, Zhang Yang retired earlier and went to bed.

Zhang Yang woke up the next day, turning around on his bed before he got up at around 7am.

He trained in his room for a little while and went out at 8am, heading for the bank. The little area where he lived did not have any banks or an A.T.M.s. To reach the nearest bank would take at least an hour of walking. Instead, Zhang Yang jogged a little and arrived at the bank in only 20 minutes. The bank only opens at 8.30am, and Zhang Yang had not realized that. When he entered the bank, he was surprised to see a whole crowd queuing up. The majority of them were there to pay their water bills, electric fees, gas, and etc. The whole lot was lined up like a long river.

Sigh…it couldn't be helped. He had to line up as well.

Stomach grumbling*

He had not eaten anything in the morning. With the extra mile of running and exercising, his stomach was beginning to growl in hunger.

Tick tock the time went, before he finally managed to get his turn at the operator window aisle.

"Withdrawal? Or Deposit?" asked the female operator. The girl looked like she was only in her twenties. She was wearing a white formal top that was so tight, her purplish bra that held her breasts up was completely plastered to the fabric. Her short mini-skirt was coffee brown in color and revealed her long, exquisite legs, wrapped in half-transparent leggings, ending with high heels that covered her delicate feet. No matter how you looked at it, she was the most popular of all the office ladies there. It was a very seductive uniform.

"Withdrawal!"

The beautiful girl raised her chin up and studied Zhang Yang's face. After noticing his extreme common appearance, he lost her interest and asked nonchalantly. "How much?"

"I'll take 10,000 dollars please." Zhang Yang did not want to take much out, but 10,000 dollars could last him for a very long time.

The girl then took out a piece of equipment and handed it over to Zhang Yang. "Please key in your PIN."

Zhang Yang pulled the machine a little closer and keyed in his PIN. After the confirmation, Zhang Yang pushed the machine back and the girl took it. After a few seconds of processing, a screen flashed on her computer, revealing his details. The girl's eyes bulged out like ping pong balls! She was surprised to see the numbers displayed on the screen!

350,000? 3,530,000!? What the hell!? She must be seeing things! The figure before her eyes was 35,300,000!

Impossible! No matter how she looked back at Zhang Yang, he only had the face of a commoner! How could he even have such a massive fortune!? No wonder they always said that it was silly to judge a book by its cover! Even some one as rich as Mark Zuckerberg only dressed plainly in public! The richer one became, the humbler he'll be!

"Sir, please mind your cash, please check your change!" the girl immediately changed her tone from a nonchalant, devil-may-care attitude, and into a kind, caring, descended angel kind of tone. She then pushed a receipt and the cash out through the glass opening.

Zhang Yang picked the stack up and flipped it over to count. He then found a piece of small paper behind the receipt that wrote "137-123456-78, Yan Fei Fei"

This was obviously her name and phone number. Zhang Yang was stunned and he gazed up and looked at the operator. He thought that perhaps his face had turned a lot more appealing ever since he was reborn again, was that why he could pick up any random chicks with just his looks?

Yan Fei Fei met his gaze and smiled softly, revealing only a hint of her pearl white teeth in between her soft supple lips. Even though her smile could not be compared to Han Ying Xue and Sun Xin Yu's charm, Yan Fei Fei's charm was enough to send any unguarded man head over heels.

Zhang Yang had no intention to "start a bush fire in the amazon". He only returned her smile and left the counter with the money in his pocket. He had wanted to throw away the note immediately, but that would crush her heart into billions of pieces. Instead, to avoid devastating a maiden's heart, he kept the note only to throw it away later. He was not interested in further developing a random encounter.

BAM!

The piercing sound of a gunshot could be heard. Zhang Yang ears were ringing with the sudden loud blast. He lifted his head, only to see 3 huge men wearing black ski-masks that covered their entire faces, with only their eyes and mouth exposed. All three of them were armed; two of them were holding revolvers and one of them was wielding a double barreled shotgun!

Zhang Yang wheeled around to the exit and was shocked to see the security guard leaning against the door, with a pool of blood on the floor where he stood, and a huge gunshot wound in his chest. Blood was still oozing out from the wound but the man had already bite the dust with his eyes all rolled up.

"KYAAAAA" After a frozen moment of shocked silence, the people inside the bank had finally realized the horror that they were involved in and screamed from the top of their lungs.

BAM!

Another shot was fired and everyone fell silent.

One of them robber went to the entrance and pulled down the shutters. Another one was holding his gun and aimed at the crowd. The last one screamed, "Silent! BE QUIET! We are here for money! Not your lives! If you're not in our way, we'll let you go off without a scratch! We are taking the bank's money! The government's money! So listen closely to what I'm saying now. Do not try to be a hero! Guns don't kill people, this man will!" said the robber while pointing his thumb at his chest. "Don't try to do anything funny or I will break my promise, eh!"

"Everyone! Hands over your heads! Sit at the benches there! Hah! See how nice I am? I know that you're tired! Go on! Get a move on!"

The same guy shouted, "Heart Q! Take the manager to the bank's vault!"

"Roger that!" replied one of the robbers. He then took out a few match box sized cubes and paste them against the door.

BOOM!

A loud bang was heard and iron plated shield door that was there to prevent robbers was blasted open, leaving a huge hole!

Behind the door was another layer of security, though it was only a wall of glass between the operator and the other side.

"Diamond J! Break that glass!"

"Yes boss!" said the robber that was called Diamond J with the shotgun in his hands.

"Stupid! I told you to use codenames!"

"Ahh right. Sorry! Spade K boss!"

The robber called Spade K must be the leader of these 3 robbers. He then shook his head and said, "Hurry up! We don't have much time!"

"Understood! Spade K boss!" Diamond J then took out a clay-like lump of material, about the size of a match box and pasted them on the glass windows. Everyone behind the glass was screaming over as if they understood what was soon to follow. They scrambled further behind to escape.

BOOM! Ding…ding…

The bullet proof glass was then blasted into tiny fragments. Diamond J then took out a leather duffle bag and threw it inside the counter, pointing his gun at the staff. "Fill the bag with money!"

With their lives at point black range, the operators behind the counter did not dare to disobey the robbers. They frantically pulled out the drawers and threw the cash into the bag.

Zhang Yang sighed heavily. To think that he would be involved in a robbery…what luck. The rate of him getting into a robbery was at least much much lower than him actually winning a million dollar lottery! Even though he was good at martial arts, however, he could not do anything! The opponents…had guns!

"Ehhh! This girl is super cute!" Diamond J cried out as he grab onto her hair and yanked it up. Yan Fei Fei immediately stood up in pain. The shotgun muzzle was pointed directly at her throat.

"Young lady…If you don't want two brand new holes in your face, you better stop resisting!"

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Chapter 161: Double homicide

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The robber called Spade K was furious. "Diamond J! What the hell are you doing?! Can you stop thinking about woman for minutes?! How can you even think of having s*x right in the middle of an operation? If we can get away with this, I'll let you f*ck 10 girls a day!"

"Boss! You know me! Once I get into the mood, I won't be able to control myself anymore! How else would I be in jail the first place?"

"What the actual f*ck!" Spade K cried. He flipped up his left wrist and check his watch. "Quick! The cops will arrive after 11 minutes!"

"Enough! I can f*ck real fast! 5 minutes is all I need!" The robber called Diamond J was delighted that his leader had given him the green light. He then lounged forward and carried Yan Fei Fei up.

"NOOO!! HELP!!! NOOOOO!" Struggling as much as she could, she cried for help.

"Hahahaha" the robber laughed. He then placed Yan Fei Fei on top of the bank counter, facing her inward. He then pushed Fei Fei firmly against the counter, face down with one hand and tore off her skirt with his other hand. His strength was so immense that he ripped the skirt off in one pull.

SKIRRT!

The sound of the skirt ripping off could be heard among the anguished tone of Yan Fei Fei's helpless cries. She continued to struggle, wiggling her legs as hard as she could. There were only a few pieces of fabric covering her lower part.

The masked robber laughed maniacally. "You b*tch*s love to wear these kinds of short skirts! I almost thought that you weren't wearing anything underneath! Haha! I would have snapped my d*ck if I were to just poke it in!"

Yan Fei Fei continued to struggle and scream, her efforts to free herself were not only in vain, but had also angered him so.

"Argh! Stop struggling!"

BAM!

He slammed her head on to the counter and the struggling stopped. Yan Fei Fei was still conscious. Tears were rolling down her cheeks, smudging all over her makeup. Her sobs echoed through the deafening silence of the crowd who could not do anything to stop her violation.

Diamond J reached for what remained of her skirt and yanked something out so quickly that Yan Fei Fei was screaming in pain. In his hands was a snapped purple colored T-back undergarment. He then pushed the panties against his own face and took a deep breath.

"GRAHHA AH AH AH! THE SMELL OF A B*ITCH ALRIGHT!"

With one hand still on her back, pressing her against the counter, he reached out with his other hand to undress his pants.

Yan Fei Fei gazed down and saw what he was doing and finally realized that she was about to lose her chastity. Her eyes widened and her mouth gaped open in horror. She cried out as loud as she could. "NO! NO!!!! HELP!!! PLEASE STOP!!!!" More tears rolled down. The counter was almost filled with her tears and blood, mixed into a recipe of absolute horror for a common, ordinary little office lady. It was just too much for her to take in.

As her cries grew louder and louder, the rest of the victims went even quieter. There was nothing but the raging heart beats and terrified breaths. No one else dared to stand up and fight back under the threat of the guns facing them.

Zhang Yang could not help himself. His knuckles were clenched so tightly that he could have sworn that his nails have already pierced his palms. He was angry. Angry at his own disability to do anything at all. In a money or life situation, he would gladly choose his life over millions of dollars. However, there was an innocent girl, about to be raped right in front of his eyes! How could he just ignore that! But! The opponent had guns! He could not just dash out and unleash his martial arts without a plan. He might get shot before he could even save the girl!

Zhang Yang scanned the entire room for anything that he could use. He spotted an ashtray on a table in in front of him. He then kept close watch at the closest gunman, Spade K! He would have to wait for the perfect moment to strike!

"Aww come on baby! Let me f*ck you good!" Diamond J snickered evilly. He already had his pants down. He then turned her over and ripped off her shirt. Before he could do it…

"ARGH!" He screamed in pain and quickly withdrew his hands. They were bleeding from a deep bite wound.

"You b*tch! You dare bite me!" Diamond J yanked her hair, raising her head up. He then slammed her head directly at the counter top. With a loud thud, Yan Fei Fei went completely silent. Blood started to ooze out of her head. She was completed out of it, her eyes unfocused.

Dazed and immobile, the girl was barely conscious. "Hmph! I'll f*ck you till you come begging for more!" Diamond J then smacked her bare, exposed butt and lifted one of her legs, trying to find a perfect position to slide it in.

Just then, Zhang Yang had leaped to his feet. He quickly grabbed the ashtray on the table and flung it across the room. He set his eyes fixed on his target's head, Spade K!

WHACK!

The strike was so strong that the robber Spade K was completed spun around and fell onto the ground!

In a flash, Zhang Yang quickly leaped forward and threw a strong punch, knocking him out cold instantly. Zhang Yang twisted Spade K's hands and locked them at his side. He had even managed to wrestle the revolver in his hands.

Quick as lighting, Diamond J dove for the short gun on the counter next to him as Zhang Yang grabbed the revolver at the same time.

The masked robber Diamond J quickly pulled Yan Fei Fei up and hid behind her, using her as a human shield. He screamed for his accomplices. "Spade K! Spade K! Where are you!? Hey! Boss! Boss!"

Zhang Yang aimed the gun at Diamond J and used his other free hand to grab hold on the other robber. "Your boss is tired. He's taking a nap!"

"Nap my ass!" Diamond J pointed the shotgun at Zhang Yang's direction and screamed. "Let my boss go!"

"Let her go first!" said Zhang Yang bravely without any trace of fear in his voice.

"F*ck you! Let him go! I'll shoot her brains out!" said Diamond J. His eyes radiated with killing intent.

Zhang Yang remained calm and cool. He said, "Go ahead then. Try and shoot! By the time she's dead, you're dead too!"

"Sh*t! Sh*t!!!" Diamond J cursed and cursed. He was not a brilliant man to think of a way out. He could only stand right there and battle with his wits.

They were in a stand-off. The atmosphere got even more intense.

Tick…tick…The sound of the wall clock echoed through the room. The masked robber Diamond J was sweating intensely. His mask turned a little dark as the cotton absorb his perspiration.

Tch! The longer it dragged on, the worse the situation would get! They had calculated precisely that the entire process would take roughly 13 minutes for the bank to send a silent alarm to the police station, and for the police to arrive! In that 13 minutes, they would need to escape! If the police arrives they could do nothing but surrender without condition. They would then be sent off to jail for at least 20 to 30 years! If he refused to cooperate, he would be shot on the spot!

No matter which path he took, neither of it was what he wanted!

The killing intent in his eyes grew stronger and stronger. Right now, the only thing he could consider was his own life! He wants to kill Zhang Yang, and if he does that he could also kill off his boss! That was fine, fewer portions to share later!

"Yo! Spade K! I have already…" Heart Q had just only came out of the vault, carrying a huge bag that was obviously filled with bundles of cash! He quickly noticed that something was wrong and raised his gun up.

BAM!

Zhang Yang reacted first. A shot was fired before the robber could shoot.

The masked robber Heart Q staggered a little before falling down on his back! There was a deep gunshot wound on his forehead.

Zhang Yang quickly turned the gun and aimed at Diamond J!

His marksmanship was not weak! When he entered the university's military training, his skills with the gun was the institute's number 1! His performance had even shocked one of the military captains! The captain had even encouraged Zhang Yang to join the military school! His marksmanship could be nurtured and could be the best sharpshooter in the military!

The masked robber Diamond J had never thought that Zhang Yang would resort to killing just like that. He even killed the other robber without any hesitation! Diamond J had just wasted his one in a lifetime chance of attacking!

The two of them were back to a Mexican standoff!

1 minute…2 minutes!...3 minutes!

"Wee…woo…wee…woo" In the midst of complete silence, the echoed sound of the police sirens could be heard approaching!

Panic started to tear at Cubick K's thoughts. He began to frantically looked left and right for a way out! If he does not act now, death would be the only way out!

ARGH!

He raised his gun and pulled the trigger!

BAM!

BAM!

Two gun shots was heard in the same time! Thud! Thud! Both Zhang Yang and Diamond J had fall back, taking along the hostages they had been clinging to!

Did they kill each other?!

Amidst the eerie silence, no one in the bank dared to stand up, fearing that either one of the robber might get up and shot them!

"Fu…" the sound came from the body of Spade K! Everyone jumped in surprised and shrunk backwards.

Thud. "Spade K" stirred and rolled away. Zhang Yang pushed the corpse off him and got up as quickly as he could. He then dashed quickly toward the counter and looked through the window.

Behind the counter, laid the remains of the masked robber Diamond J. There was a small 9mm hole right at the left side of the skull. White fluid that seemed to be brain matter had oozed out from the hole, mixed together with the fresh blood. He was dead before he could even hit the floor. Yan Fei Fei was right on top of the body. Half of her top was already torn off with only a few buttons holding the clothes intact, revealing her purple undergarment. Her lower half was practically naked, completely revealing her entire bushy forest!

Her eyes were dilated, her body was trembling. She was suffering from shock. It was a traumatic aftereffect from experiencing such an ordeal. She had still not recovered from it.

In the gunfire, Zhang Yang had moved Spade K into the path of the bullet and used him to block the shotgun's shot. The unfortunate robber was killed by Diamond J. Since the gunfire was from a shotgun, the impact had knocked him back, sending him and Spade K flying backward.

Zhang Yang breathed a sigh of relief. He threw the revolver in his hand aside and took off his top. He squatted down closely to the still catatonic Yan Fei Fei and covered her lower half with his shirt. He whispered gently, "It's alright. The bad guys are all dead. Everything is going to be just fine. I promise."

Yan Fei Fei was still in a daze. For a long moment, she shed tears and cried out loud like a baby. She quickly realized that Zhang Yang was right beside her and hugged him tightly.

"Waa…Waa…" her cries filled the entire room.

Blood that had drained away from her face had not yet returned. Her cheeks were so pale that she looked like she was completely petrified. After such horrific experience, she felt that the only safe place she could be was in Zhang Yang's embrace.

Everyone on the bank stood up only after they were certain that the danger was over.

Chattering of police offers could be heard from outside of the bank and another loud muffled voice that was amplified with a loudspeaker could be heard. "You're surrounded! Give up! There is no way you could leave here safely now!"

One by one the victims inside the bank started to screamed back. "Don't shoot! The robbers are dead! They are all dead!" They then left the premise.

No sooner, a team of 20 fully armed special forces rushed into the bank only to be shocked when they witness 3 dead bodies lying on the ground. A simple bank robbery had turned into a multiple homicide case. Every single victim that was involved in the case had been sent to the police station for debriefing. Yan Fei Fei had only released Zhang Yang embrace and looked into his eyes with her own teary gaze. She cried out with gratitude, "Thank you! Thank you so much!" Without Zhang Yang bravery assault, she would definitely have been raped on the spot! Who knew what kind of person this man would be? He was a prison inmate, he would be carrying all sort of S.T.D (Sexual Transmitted Diseases) and would have ruined her life!

WeeWooWeeWoo…

The sound of the police siren echoed throughout the entire block. Many cars took off at once, carrying victims of the bank robbery to the Public Security Bureau of the Ping Jiang District.

The debriefing of the robbery was done rather smoothly. Since the robbers did not destroy any security cameras in the bank, the officer only needed to extract related information from the recordings and the testimonies from all the victims in the bank robbery case. Once they had collected all information, the officers had confirmed that Zhang Yang's act of "bravery" and saved the hostages.

After a while, Zhang Yang was sent to a questioning room used by the police to interview suspects.

"Mr. Zhang Yang, am I correct?" A policeman with stripes and stars attached to his sleeve sat opposite Zhang Yang. He was rather calm and had impartial look on his face. He smiled and said, "What a coincidence! I am also a Zhang. Zhang He Yuan. Captain of a small task force, I might say."

Zhang Yang smiled back and greet him. "Nice to meet you, Captain Zhang."

Zhang Yang himself was barely focusing. He had just ended two human lives. When things had just settled down, it was safe to say that he wasn't emotional about it since he had no time to think about it. Yet, now here, sitting calmly and having the time to think about the matter seriously, Zhang Yang was not at all disturbed by the fact that he just killed two humans! It must have been the effect of dying once before. He must have understood the meaning of life. Afterall, the two robbers were evil and deserved what that was coming to them. Zhang Yang had neither the stress not the guilt to bear in his heart.

"I've seen the recordings Mr. Zhang and I have to say that I'm deeply impressed by your bravery! Your strength and will are both quite impressive!" laughed Zhang He Yuan.

Zhang Yang knew something was off when he had dragged him into this room alone. Hmph! There's no need to put on airs or spout bullsh*t.

Zhang Yang replied. "Every citizen has the responsibility to stand against crime! It was only a coincidence that I was there!"

"Yes…yes…However…" Zhang He Yuan frowned and put on a worrisome expression. "Mr. Zhang. 2 out of the 3 robbers died due to your actions! They were killed by you. Even if you stated that it was only in self-defense, technically, it's more on the lines of murder!"

Murder your ass! If he had not acted then and there, Zhang Yang would be the one dead and the criminals would have gotten taway with it! In fact, during that standoff, Zhang Yang was nearly killed himself! The only way left for Zhang Yang was to shoot that bastard to hell!

However, the person sitting opposite him was saying things to frighten him. His motives were still unclear to Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang could only wait for him to reveal his intentions, but until then, he could only put on a plastic smile and remain silent.

Zhang He Yuan was at the impression that he had successfully frightened Zhang Yang. "As a Public Security Officer, we have the obligation to take care of the citizen's safety! What you have done was truly an admirable act of bravery that deserves to be praised. That is why, I have an idea to get you off the hook. You could change your testimony, that the police were the ones who killed the robbers instead! Policemen, opening fire to kill the criminals and protect the citizens! Isn't that the righteous thing to do?!"

Zhang Yang finally understood what he wanted when he had blabbered everything out. He wanted to get all the reputation!

Zhang Yang had guessed correctly. Once the case had been handed over to the Public Security Bureau, this big shot here had come to a conclusion! With the rising crime rate and its effect on the society, he must take this chance to grab the opportunity to increase the reputation of the police force and gain the respect of the public!

Zhang He Yuan immediately understood. According to the truth, this robbery case and the act of saving the hostages all feel on Zhang Yang shoulders. From the police's perspective, the case was already settled when they had just arrived. Even though the police forces had arrived directly on schedule without a single second to waste, they could not just brush it off without doing anything at all!

The chief wanted the credit to fall onto the police department, since the beloved son of the chief was in the Bureau, to get a quick promotion, to get credits. As such, this was the best contribution he could stand to receive!

Of course, this share of the cake would not be eaten alone by the Head of the Bureau. He would have shared this benefit with other high ranking officers in the bureau as well. Everyone would tell tales of how they had contributed in the act of completing the case and sharing together, the act of "foiling the robbery and saving the hostage".

Zhang Yang was not an Enforcer nor a member of the Public Security Bureau. If he received full credit for this case, he would only obtain some sort of reward like the "Excellent Citizen Award" and a few hundred thousand dollars as an additional reward. Zhang Yang had neither the need of money nor public fame. If this gentleman had started their conversation with full honesty, he would have handed over this matter for them to handle without a second thought. However, he could not stand by and watch this corrupted officer claiming credit for something that he had not done!

F*ck this sh*t! You want me to hand over my effort for naught? And you want me to thank you for things that I had done?! You should be ashamed of yourself!

If he was someone else with a weaker wit, he or she might have been truly frightened!

Zhang Yang purposely acted guilty and said, "Captain Zhang. I was raised with an honest upbringing. I'm afraid I cannot lie!"

Zhang He Yuan was afraid that Zhang Yang was a person who crave for fame and glory, and that he would instantly reject his offer. That was why Zhang He Yuan had frighten him in the first place! He would then strike a deal with him after. Zhang He Yuan smiled gently and replied him, "Mr. Zhang, we are not asking you to commit a crime by lying! This is to protect yourself!"

Zhang Yang thought a while and shook his head, "No! No! I cannot ask you to take the blame! I have committed a crime! Therefore, I must accept the punishment!"

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Chapter 162: The Violent Sun Xin Yu

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How persistent could this bastard be?! Zhang He Yuan started to get a little agitated. An armed robbery is a huge case! They were right in the middle of the Bureau for god sake! Sooner or later, there would be more nosy officers sent here to interrogate the victims. By then, it would be too late to change the subject! And he would be caught red handed!

"Mr. Zhang! Please leave this to our hands! Officers of the Public Security Bureau could fire shots in public without a problem! We won't face any trouble for doing so! But you're a civilian!" Zhang He Yuan continued to persuade Zhang Yang.

"No! No! I cannot, in good conscience, bring trouble to you! You're purposely trying to console me! I know that all policemen are good guys! I would never let this sin be laid upon to you all! How could I treat you in such manner, people who sacrifice their lives to protect the good and peaceful community!" No matter how Zhang He Yuan tried to convince him, Zhang Yang would only shake his head left and right.

Zhang He Yuan had completely wasted his breath talking to Zhang Yang. No matter how hard he tried to persuade him, Zhang Yang would only accept "the consequences of his sins". He even reached out with both of his hands for him to cuff! Aiyoyo! Zhang He Yuan did not know whether to laugh or cry. If he had known that this young man had such a down-to-earth character, he would not have lied to him in the first place! Now that the situation had developed so far, how does he dragged this stubborn donkey back to reality?

He should had figured it out way earlier! Anyone who was so good at martial arts, and would put his life on the line to fight bad guys, and would definitely be a man of virtue! To trick a man of virtue is to bring calamity to oneself!

Zhang He Yuan felt regret pouring into him like it was judgment day itself! Time waits for no man, if he had explained everything clearly without the lies, he would have solved this matter in a jiffy. If any other officer would have taken over this case, everything would be lost! It could be worse that this. He could be marked as the person whom frightened the hero of the community! This was not a light matter that could be brush off easily! Who knows, he might have to turn in his badge!

What do I do?

Kachak!

The door knob turned and opened. A female police officer in uniform enter the room. She was rather tall and extravagant in that somewhat tight uniform that had every fiber on the uniform stretched over her skin. Her chest was so large that it was impressive on how strong the buttons on her shirt were, to be able to even hold them in. She was not alone, behind her was a middle-aged man with bruises on his face. When she noticed that there were people in the interrogation room, she scoffed coldly and said, "How come Liu Ren Liang did not notify that the room was being used…"

When the bruised-face man noticed Zhang He Yuan, he quickly screamed out. "Help me! I want to make a police report! This crazy b*tch is insane! Look! Look! She did this!" said the man as he pointed his fingers to his face.

Zhang He Yuan could not voice out his true intention since everything inside the room was not on the record. He had to privately settle this case with Zhang Yang.

"Erhm. Perhaps Little Liu had forgot I was here." Said Zhang He Yuan, ignoring the bruised-face man behind her.

The female officer turn around and did karate chop on the back of the poor fellow's neck, knocking him out cold. The man eyes rolled upwards and fall onto the floor. The woman turned around and scoffed at Zhang Yang. "Why are you here?"

Zhang Yang smiled, revealing his shinny teeth and said, "Oh wow! What a coincidence, to be seeing you again!"

This female police officer was Sun Xin Yu. Everyone who knew her would had already recognize her with that violent chop. It was as expected of her extreme violent behavior, like a tigress!

Her face remained as cold as ice. "Stop smiling! Hmph! What happened? What did you do…"

Zhang Yang shrugged his shoulder nonchalantly and said, "Well, I killed someone!"

Sun Xin Yu widen her eyes suddenly. "Are you out of your mind?! Don't think that just because you're invincible in the game, you could also ignore the rules of society!"

Zhang He Yuan immediately coughed and said, "Little Sun, I'm sure you have other matters to tend to. I'll take it from here."

Ignoring him, Sun Xin Yu walked over to Zhang He Yuan side and sat beside him and opposite Zhang Yang. "Explain yourself!"

Zhang He Yuan was already tormented by Zhang Yang's persistent behavior. He was already barely restraining himself. But when Sun Xin Yu had just walked into his interrogation room and sat down, he had it! Sun Xin Yu had only entered the Bureau 2 months back! How dare she ignore the Captain! He would not let this pass!

BAM!

Zhang He Yuan slammed the desk and cried. "Sun Xin Yu, I'm ordering you to leave this room!"

Sun Xin Yu only stared coldly at him, with a suspicious look. She then ignored him and turned back to Zhang Yang. "Why did you kill?"

"Sun Xin Yu…" Zhang He Yuan was greatly angered. In his thoughts, "You think that you're so beautiful eh? I know that you're indeed a pretty one, I might even take you in bed happily! But that doesn't mean that you could just do what you want with those looks! You would even go as far as ignoring me, as the captain!"

Zhang Yang smiled again and said, "There were a few robbers in the bank. I was agitated. I could not control myself and ended up killing them all!"

"Is that true?" She turned to Zhang He Yuan and asked for the truth.

What?!

Zhang He Yuan was already maddened with rage. She would even dare to turn to him and ask for a confirmation?! His face was as red as a fuji apple. He calmed himself down and said, "Sun Xin Yu, your actions have already broken the police code! Now, get out of here, I will have a little chat with you later!"

Kachak!

The door opened again!

This time, it was a young man who looked like he was in his twenties. He was in a police uniform and was rather handsome looking, though he was a little short in height. He turned around and saw Sun Xin Yu and smiled sweetly. "So there you are, Little Sun."

When Zhan He Yuan saw the young man, he too smiled as well. "Ah! It's Ma Hang! Everything here has been settled, I assume?"

This young man was the beloved son of the Chief of the Bureau. That was why even a senior officer like Zhang He Yuan would not dare do anything to this "prince".

Since the old man was an important person in the department, Ma Hang did not even consider Zhang He Yuan to be anything of importance. He only smiled back and place his attention on Sun Xin Yu. "Little Sun, I have booked a seat for us at La Venus. Shall we have lunch together later?"

"No." Sun Xin Yu rejected coldly and turned to Zhang Yang. "What happened exactly?"

Zhang Yang explained everything from top and bottom about the case without any additional information.

Sun Xin Yu leaned back to her chair and sigh. "Is that so."

Ma Hang expression had turned sour. 1 month back when he had spotted this beautiful jewel, his heart had been captured by hear cool and cold complexion. But when he dug a little deeper, he found out that Sun Xin Yu had been introduced to the Bureau by the Executive Deputy Chief officer Gu Jun!

Even though Ma Hang's father is the real Chief who had a certain level of authority, he alone still could not rule over everything. 3 Executive Deputies had the same authority level as the Chief himself! If Sun Xin Yu was under Gu Jun, then Ma Hang could not act all high and mighty! He did not have the authority for it!

That was why Ma Hang had always been in the shadows, observing her every move. But for the next week or two, he had not found any connections between Sun Xin Yu and Gu Jun! Ma Hang then concluded that Sun Xin Yu must be a close relative and the daughter or an old friend of Gu Jun. That was how she could be in the force! With that, Ma Hang had decided. Since she had Gu Jun as her back up, he could not depend on any dirty tactics, such as promotions, salary increments, or even the threat of losing one's job as a method to get her. He had to rely on the old fashion way, to come up front and "tackle" her!

However, being the Sun Xin Yu that they all know, she had only treated him as coldly as the others, completing ignoring his efforts! Ma Hang had always held it in because of Gu Jun's existence, he could only silently swear to get the b*tch on his bed, and have his way with her!

To endure is like holding a double edge sword; Ma Hang was a man already intoxicated with the misuse of power!He was the only son of the Chief Ma Wu Shi! Sun Xin Yu was nothing compared to him! Even if she was a relative of Gu Jun, it did not matter if she was his cousin or his daughter, how could she compare her position with his own?

Having been rejected numerous time by Sun Xin Yu, Ma Hang could not take it anymore. As his own principles, to chase after a woman, the one and only way is to use his power of "authority" to win her over!

After listening to Zhang Yang's explanation, Ma Han interject. "Oh! So you're the guy that shot the robbers! Hmph. You do know that it's a crime to fire a weapon if you're not an officer of the law?"

He was already informed of the situation by his father. He had pulled a few string with the robbery victims and had gotten them to agree to confess that he was the police officer, the hero who saved them all; the person who shot the villain and save the day!

After he had known that Sun Xin Yu had returned to the office, he had then came back hurriedly. Right now, he knew that Zhang Yang was the target to take over the role of hero, and he had to do the same thing Zhang He Yuan had done, to frighten him a little.

Before Zhang Yang could open his mouth, Sun Xin Yu had already exploded. "What did he do wrong?! If he had not acted then, an innocent lady would have been raped! Without him, we might be in a shootout with those robbers! How many innocent lives would have been lost then?!"

When Ma Hang saw that Sun Xin Yu was on Zhang Yang's side, he could not help but feel jealous, and showed an even more bitter face. "What he did was more than self-defense!"

"Oh. So you're asking me to defeat the armed robbers with my bare hands? Is that your definition of true self-defense?" Zhang Yang looked at him in ire, he did not like the man one bit. His tone was rather provoking.

Ma Hang scoffed. "Anyone deserved the right to surrender! Did you ask them to give up? Did you ask them to surrender? Did you tell them the severe punishment of abiding a robbery? You didn't did you? You just went ahead and shot all 3 of them!"

"Technically, I only shot 2 of them!" said Zhang Yang as he lifted two of his fingers. Zhang Yang obviously annoyed by this ridiculous man. Zhang Yang instinctively treated Ma Hang as a fool in the crowd.

Ma Hang got angry. "What kind of attitude is that?!"

"Huh?! What did you say? What kind of attitude do you want me to show you? Who you think I am? Your wife? Punk *ass B*tch!" Zhang Yang replied rudely.

"What the f*ck did you say?" The more arrogant you are, the faster it will explode in your face; Ma Hang unlocked the hatch and pulled out the sidearm and points it directing at Zhang Yang, trying to intimidate him.

The safety lock on the gun was still on, however, being the other side of the gun was a that feeling no one would like! Zhang Yang expression changed.

Sun Xin Yu was even colder. "Ma Hang, put the gun away!"

"Haha! Relax! I'm not going to pull the trigger!" said Ma Hang with a proud face. In the entire department, his father was the top of them all. The next successor would be him. Even if he pulled out a gun and aiming it at a civilian against protocol, who would dare to oppose him?

Sun Xin Yu stood up and stared angrily at Ma Hang. Her voice was filled with such intense anger that anyone could feel her rage. "PUT. THE. GUN. AWAY."

"What's with you? Is he your man? What got you so worked up for?" said Ma Hang.

BAM! PAK! GRAH!

Sun Xin Yu threw a direct punch and landed it firmly on Ma Hang's face, knocking Ma hang back a few steps against the wall behind him. Blood started to ooze out from his nose. The pain was so intense that Ma Hang gurgled in agony. The punch was a punch thrown by none other than Sun Xin Yu. Even if Ma Hang was prepared to receive the punch, with his level of martial arts, the end result would still be the same!

Zhang He Yuan was staring at his end with his jaw hanging.

This woman…must be crazy! To compared what she did to Zhang He Yuan, a mere insubordination towards a senior officer, it was nothing compared to punching the son of the Chief!

Zhang Yang too, was surprised at her sudden action. Even though he hated Ma Hang's guts…but beating a police officer inside a police station was way out of this world! Sun Xin Yu…she was truly the woman of the year!

"What the hell are you doing Sun Xin Yu!?" With his eyes wide open as his jaw, Zhang He Yuan screamed at Sun Xin Yu. Being in the same room when the punch was thrown, Zhang He Yuan had done nothing to stop her! That was enough to leave a bad impression on the chief, if he did not do something soon, he might not be able to withstand the fiery rage of Ma Wu Shi!

Sun Xin Yu only stared coldly at Zhang He Yuan without saying a word. To be precise, he was not worth her time!

Ma Hang wiped the blood away and when he saw the blood in his hands, he got infuriated. He pointed at Sun Xin Yu with his trembling hands and scolded. "Y-You f*cking b*tch! You dared to hit me! No one has ever dared to hit me ever since I was born! Don't think you can get away with Gu Jun behind you back! Damn you! My father is the Chief! F*ck you! Today I will f*ck your brains out! Even if you sue me after, everyone would automatically say that you're the slut and stand at my side?!"

Sun Xin Yu reveal an even enraged look. Her killing intent was leaking out like a faucet!

"Ma Hang…" Zhang He Yuan was stunned when he heard the name Gu Jun. No wonder Sun Xin Yu could be that bold! She had someone as prominent behind her back this whole time! He jumped up immediately and tried to sooth Ma Hang. After all, there were now two executive deputy chiefs that he could not afford to anger.

Ma Hang was already maddened with anger. He screamed at Zhang He Yuan, "You! Take these two out of this room! I will personal f*ck this b*tch up right now!" He pointed at Zhang Yang and the bruised-face man that Sun Xin Yu had brought in and knocked out.

Zhang He Yuan knew that he could not calm Ma Hang down when he was angered at that level. He quickly took out his mobile phone and called the Chief! When both Ma Hang and Sun Xin Yu had big shots taking care of them, he could not allow anything worse happening to either of them!

"F*cking b*tch!" Ma Hang's anger grew by the second. He was the one and only Ma Hang, son of the Chief Public Security Bureau! If anyone had gotten hold of the news, that he was punched in the face by a woman, would that not make him the laughing stock of his lifetime?! With pure rage boiling inside him, he clenched his fists tightly and threw them towards Sun Xin Yu! He wanted to knock her out cold and drag her some place where no one could see him f*ck her brains out! This was the simplest plan brewing in his thoughts. As far as using his gun, Ma Hang was still sane enough to not use the gun inside a police office!

As a righteous man, Zhang Yang could not let himself sit by and allow Sun Xin Yu to take a beating, not when Sun Xin Yu had stuck out her neck for him. He jumped to his feet and acted quickly. But, even though his reaction was fast, Sun Xin Yu reaction was not sloppy either. She had already prepared to counter Ma Hang's attack.

WHAM! BAM! BANG!

With Sun Xin Yu being able to fight on par with Zhang Yang, she could out maneuver this useless Ma Hang by a huge gap! This weak pawn could only block off a few hits before eventually falling down to her strikes. He was beaten down to his knees. If this was in the game, circling star would have already appeared on his head numerous times now. He was completely overpowered by Sun Xin Yu and was treated as a punching bag!

Good fight! Zhang Yang silently praised Sun Xin Yu. But when he had realize that the "punching bag" was the son of the Chief of the Public Security Bureau, he could not help but to think of the consequences. He could only silently hope that Sun Xin Yu could have a way out for them!

"Stop! Stop!" cried Zhang He Yuan. This woman is crazy! Out of her bloody mind!

Sun Xin Yu scoffed and pulled back. It's not that she was obeying Zhang He Yuan, in fact, she had enough of punching the man out of Ma Hang

"Ma Hang…" a voice was heard at the door entrance. A fat man was standing there. He was about 50 years old. When he saw Ma Hang was already on the floor, with his head lying on the ground, bruises here and there, blood spilling from his face, and completely out cold, he could not help but feel both hurt and furious. He bellowed angrily, "ZHANG HE YUAN! WHAT HAPPENED HERE?!"

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Chapter 163: Strong Support

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Zhang He Yuan wished he could just faint right there and then. That way he would not have to face Ma Wu Shi's scary eyes that were about to fire lasers! Zhang He Yuan was an old veteran officer, his body and health have always been at tip-top condition; it was difficult for him to even get dizzy!

He put on a thick-face and first explained the matters with Sun Xin Yu and Ma Hang. He was smart enough to omit words that Ma Hang had used such as "b*tch" and "f*ck her brains out". He then told everything out about how Ma Hang wanted to make a move towards Sun Xin Yu but was in the end, rejected by her and led to the injury on his head.

Among the chattering, another high-ranking officer came by. It was Gu Jun. When Zhang He Yuan had contacted the Chief, he had also contacted Gu Jun to come over. Ma Wu Shi, the Chief of the Public Security Bureau of the Ping Jiang District, was not afraid of Gu Jun, but this little Captain could not handle the wrath of an executive deputy chief.

Gu Jun is a gentle, salt to the earth kind of middle aged man. At the age of 37, the man was already a deputy chief! His had a bright future ahead of him, with many more stairs to climb!

After both of them listened to Zhang He Yuan's explanation about the little incident, both of them remained as stoic as statues.

They had to have powerful mastery over their own emotions before being able to stand at their current rank. If someone was hot tempered and emotionally unstable, he would have been discarded from the force as soon as he showed his bad side. Ma Wu Shi was the real Chief in charge of the entire Bureau, he would know everything that happens inside the department. Even if he had forgot about something, he had his secretary to help him handle minor things. That was why Ma Wu Shi was very clear about one fact, Sun Xin Yu was one of Gu Jun's!

If the situation was different, he would have gladly let things slide off. In a way, he would get Gu Jun to owe him a favor or to gain his trust. That way, he could also suppress the other two nosy executive deputies. However, today was different, the one who got hit was his son! His only son! If he had let this off, he could not have lived with the decision! He would also let the entire bureau start having assumptions that Ma Wu Shi was lower than Gu Jun! His authority would be compromised!

Ma Wu Shi immediately turn to Gu Jun and give him a death stare. What he meant was, "Don't you dare to interfere! Or else I will have your neck for this!"

Gu Jun sighed heavily.

Truthfully, Gu Jun was not at all familiar with Sun Xin Yu. He had only recommended Sun Xin Yu to enter the force as favor for an old friend. That old friend was also similarly rank as he was, an executive deputy in the Trade and Commerce Department. Since he shared a relationship with him,he had no qualms making an arrangement for her. Normally, Gu Jun and Sun Xin Yu would not have made any contact, he had never even seen her face before! The last thing he was expecting was to receive a call from Zhang He Yuan, telling him that Sun Xin Yu had beat up Chief Ma's son! That gave him an unpleasant surprise.

Gu Jun understood Ma Wu Shi. He was ill-tempered and easily harbored grudges. For someone to strike his son, things would never end well! He did not want to offend Ma Wu Shi, but who asked Gu Jun to have a relationship with Sun Xin Yu?! In the end, he had to make an appearance at the scene to help settle things down. When he was at the receiving end of Ma Wu Shi's death stare, Gu Jun had come to an understanding. Unless he had to fight head to head with Ma Wu Shi, he could not protect Sun Xin Yu! Is it worthwhile for him to commit an offense just because of a distant relationship?

The answer was obviously no!

Eventually, Gu Jun had to nod his head bitterly. What he meant was, "Do what you want. I won't interfere!"

Once Ma Shi Wu had Gu Jun stand down, the next one was Sun Xin Yu herself. He reached his hand to his back and stood tall, posture like an outstanding leader and said. "Sun Xin Yu. As an officer of the law, your duty is to protect the public security! Not trampling around like a rampaging beast! Look at yourself! What have you become! You would even raise your fist against your fellow officer! With this kind of behavior, how could a leader let you go on protecting the citizen? People like you are the ones who would cause the bureau to lose it's purpose! We would be looked down upon!"

As his speech went on, his hands went from his back and made frantic gestures at Sun Xin Yu, pointing at her agitatedly.

A few more people around had heard the commotion, but since the deputy chief and the chief himself was there, neither of them dared to move closer. They could only stand at a distance to listen and peek at the scene. Most of them did not know what was going on, but when they heard Chief Ma scolding Sun Xin Yu, one by one, they stared with pity and empathy.

Stomach grumbles*

Zhang Yang's poor tummy had been grumbling all morning! He had not eaten anything since last night!

With a sudden turn of event, Zhang Yang had miraculously turn from a main character to only a side character. By the looks of it he was about to get his 3 strike out! Zhang Yang then quietly jerk Sun Xin Yu's sleeves and whispered. "I say, can you really survive this?" As cold as the polar ice caps, this woman was not stupid, she would not have struck the son of the Chief without some kind of trump card hiding somewhere.

Sun Xin Yu only looked at Zhang Yang coldly for a second before turning back to the Chief. The edge or her lips twitched a little. Zhang Yang knew by then, that she was not even taking this seriously.

As expected of the Chief of the Public Security Bureau. This man had used the law and the code of conduct to pressure Sun Xin Yu. But the way he spoke, so angrily and antagonizing that if he had not drag Sun Xin Yu out to the street and have her shot dead, he would not have pacified the rage of the public.

"…Such a liability to the force, how could we still protect the public with her in the bureau! I strongly suggest that we remove her Sun Xin Yu from her duties! Remove this poison from the force! Mr. Gu, what say you?!" Ma Wu Shi turned to Gu Jun.

Gu Jun silently cursed. He had already expressed his intention to stay out of this mess, why would that dumb Chief Ma drag him back into the mess? Did he not know that Sun Xin Yu was his recommendation to the force? If Gu Jun had agreed to fire Sun Xin Yu, that it would be slapping himself in the face, admitting that he had failed to judge a person's potential!

Gu Jun was not someone as soft as a peach; easily manipulate. But for this matter, Sun Xin Yu was indeed at the wrong side of the law. She was the one who had struck first. Gu Jan had nothing to say in this matter. He sighed and turned around.

Ma Wu Shi smiled sinisterly and turned his gaze onto Sun Xin Yu. "I hereby announce that Sun Xin Yu is to be relieved from all her duties and is to be stripped of her position as an officer of the Public Security Bureau!"

"Father…" After catching his breath for some time, Ma Hang jumped into the scene and said, "Don't fire her just yet! Let her work under me! I will personally make her suffer!"

Ma Wu Shi was to angry that he nearly face palmed there and there! How could he have such a dumb son! You could not say something like that in the open! Did he think that the Public Security Bureau was his to play with? What a dumb block! He could just wait until he fired Sun Xin Yu, and then have her arrested for assault! By then you can have your own way with her.

"Keep quiet!" Ma Wu Shi stared at his son with a warning.

Ma Han quietly sat down and remain silent.

On one side, Gu Jun was snickering silently.

A silent jeer echoed louder than words.

Sun Xin Yu stared at Ma Wu Shi coldly and said, "Are you sure you want to fire me?"

Ma Wu Shi laughed. "You think that I can't fire you now?"

"Are you certain that you want to fire me?" she asked again.

Ma Wu Shi was completely infuriated. He cried out, "Zhang He Yuan! Cuff her up! Hmph! I will charge you for intentional assault on a police officer! That's a heavy crime!"

Sun Xin Yu laughed coldly. "You don't have the authority to fire me!"

What is she saying?! Had she lost her mind?! Ma Wu Shi was already angered beyond words. Gu Jun was shaking his head on the other side of the room. He knew about Sun Xin Yu's trump card. But when someone was as prominent as Ma Wu Shi, he would not even have to worry about a Trade and Commerce deputy chief!

Sun Xin Yu took out her mobile phone and quickly search for a number, calling it.

Ma Wu Shi stared at Zhang He Yuan angrily and bellowed. "Why are you still standing there for?! Are you expecting me to personally arrest her?"

When titans clash, the mortals could only cower in fear. Zhang He Yuan turned around and turned his eyes onto Gu Jun. He could not disobey Ma Wu Shi's order but he did not want to offend Gu Jun as well. Being the middle man is not an easy task!

"Uncle Kuan! It's me! How are you?" While everyone eyeballs were directed towards her, Sun Xin Yu was on the phone, talking to a family member.

When Zhang He Yuan had finally notice Gu Jun would not look directly at him, he finally understood that Gu Jun had not want any of this to do with him! Zhang He Yuan gathered his courage and walked to Sun Xin Yu. "Little Sun. Please cooperate with me here. Hang up the phone and put your hands behind your back!"

Instead of complying, Sun Xin Yu took a few steps forward and handed over the phone in her hand to Ma Wu Shi. She quietly stared at him, indicating that there was someone on the other side of the phone wanting to speak with him.

Ma Wu Shi had never seen anyone as crazy and bold as Sun Xin Yu. He laughed a bit and said, "Who do you think I am? I am the Chief of the Public Security Bureau. Someone of a high rank. Not anyone can just simply talk to me!"

"MA WU SHI. PICK UP THE GOD DAMNED PHONE. YOU SON OF A B*TCH!" Even though it was only from the phone speaker, it was rather clear but not loud. Before Ma Wu Shi could continue bragging, he completely froze in place when he heard the voice.

That voice…he knows that voice! That was the Kuan Peng Fei! The Zhou Shu City Municipal Secretary! Other times, he would have smiled like a child obtaining a candy when he had pick a call from this man! But now! This is the Municipal Secretary, a man of an even higher-ranking position, who has been driven to the point to curse over the phone. It was then made clear to him, this woman, Sun Xin Yu was a woman of a certain caliber!

Ma Wu Shi strongly believed that even if the situation had changed from Sun Xin Yu to Kuan Peng Fei's own son, Kuan Peng Fei would not get so agitated! At most, he would only silently apologize to the respective department.

But now, even the dignified Kuan Peng Fei had lost his composure! That could only mean that Sun Xin Yu was someone of even higher importance! Just how far did this woman's influence go? It must be as high as state level authority!

In an instant, Ma Wu Shi was completely stunned. His hands trembled as he reached for the phone in Sun Xin Yu's hands. He almost dropped the phone when he tried to place it at his left ear.

"H-Hello? This is Secretary Kuan? Ah ha ha…Yes. This is Ma Wu Shi…What!? No. No. No! I never meant it that way! Yes…yes…yes…We at the Ping Jiang District Bureau will cooperate with the Secretary…"

Anyone with an average level on intelligence could understand that the person on the other side of the phone was someone of a higher rank than Ma Wu Shi. It must be a leader of a city level rank! Secretary Kuan? There are only very few leaders by the name of Kuan in Su Tong City. However, there would only one person in the city level rank, that is Kuan Peng Fei Municipal Secretary.

Holy crap! Anyone who understood the situation sucked in a sharp breath. To think that she could just simply pick up the phone and call the Municipal Secretary to aid her…just how powerful is this woman was? Everyone changed the way they looked at Sun Xin Yu. Before, it was a in rather patronizing and pitiful manner, but now…they were completely awed by her.

Gu Jun was rather devastated with regret! If only he had stood up and defended Sun Xin Yu, he would have gotten on the good side of the Municipal Secretary! Oh lord! He was just a small seated little officer…if only he could just latch onto the Municipal Secretary and get along with him…

Deputy Chief Gu was so jealous that word could not describe how he had felt! He turned his sight over at Sun Xin Yu and observed her. This ever-cold woman was still calm and cool. Even after such a commotion with the chief, she had not lost her composure and remained completely stoic and emotionless. It was as if she had just deflected bullets off her massive chest like the dust on her shirt.

Based on more than 10 years of his experience in the force, Gu Jun had concluded that this woman…was not to be trifled with. But when he swept around and spotted Zhang Yang, he smiled. This young lad looked like he was rather close to Sun Xin Yu. Perhaps he could make use of the young man!

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Chapter 164: Girl Friend

Ma Wu Shi carefully and respectfully handed over the phone back to Su Xin Yu, with the kind of gesture that you would see from a cashier at the supermarket while giving the customer's change. But it was more than that; it was as if the person in front of Ma Wu Shi was not his subordinate, but his mother. That kind of nervousness and respect would totally add up!

Sun Xin Yu took the phone and slid it into her pocket and nonchalantly said, "So, am I still fired?"

URGH! That speech was like a direct slap to the face! A salt to the wound!

Ma Wu Shi took her sharp words like a knife to the chest, but still smiled bitterly back at her. "What are you saying!? Little Sun is an officer of the law, the officer of the people! Everyone had always looked up to you! Remember your merits!"

On the other side of the room, Ma Hang was already devastated by greed and anger; his face was twisted ugly. He thought that he could get his hands on that b*tch! Lock her up for a few days and play with her with how he saw fit. Never would he have thought that he would be cut short! His father was literally got c*ck blocked so bad he might be able to make it stand anymore!

Even though he full of himself, he was not a fool. He knew when to back down when even someone as his father had his head bowed down to Sun Xin Yu! How could Ma Hang expect to even stand up to her now?!

Sun Xin Yu had enough with the father and son drama, and she went towards Zhang Yang and gestured her fingers. "Follow me!"

Zhang Yang had been watching the "movie" that was laid in front of him for a whole day. If he was not famished, he would not have let it end that quick! He stood up and went towards Sun Xin Yu, with a little unsatisfied kind of feeling.

Everyone was at the other end of the story was staring at Zhang Yang enviously! This woman was the "goddess" of the law! The powerful being that had the support of the Municipal Secretary! Anyone that could have any kind of relationship with her would be the luckiest bastard around!

Don't tell me that you would not want to have her as a friend?

Sun Xin Yu walked for a distance before turning quickly to face Ma Hang. Ma Hang raised his face menacingly.

WHAM!

Sun Xin Yu threw another punch in his sorry face!

"ARGH..." Ma Hang wailed. The bleeding that had stopped from the earlier punch was leaking once more!

She just punched the man's son right in his face! However, Ma Wu Shi had no choice; it was blatantly obvious. His face was all smile with no sign of pain nor anger, as if Ma Hang was no longer his son and Sun Xin Yu was his own daughter!

Following closely behind Sun Xin Yu, Zhang Yang's heart and mind were surging! He truly believed that when he had a mass fortune of 20,000,000,000 or even 200,000,000,000, Ma Wu Shi would still not surrender to him. He would not even stand still when Zhang Yang would beat son like how Sun Xin Yu punch Ma Hang right in front of Ma Wu Shi!

That was the true power of authority!

Truthfully, it was Sun Xin Yu who threw the first punch! If Ma Wu Shi steeled his decision to charge her, no one could have stopped him! But, subsequently, he would have to face the wrath of the municipal secretary, a man of a higher ranking that could easily "take care" of him, a mere section officer.

Could Ma Wu Shi make it all discreet? Could he really silence everyone who was involved? Once an investigation was issued, any hidden matter would be unfold! And once Ma Wu Shi was down, it was time for Sun Xin Yu to take his place! By then, Ma Wu Shi could not only exact his revenge, he would have lost his career and position! He could even be thrown into prison for god knows what kind of misused law!

It has been said that once a man had the taste of power, he could not live a day without it. Having tasted the power of his authority, would you expect the man to drop everything, and start over? If that day really came, the gods must have tried to take his life as a game!

That was why Ma Wu Shi chose to endure it, even if he could not stomach it all!

Zhang Yang only always had a rough idea of the power of authority. But today was the day that he truly understood what it meant to be a man with authority!

It did not matter if Liu Wei would want to choose Zhang Yang as his foe in this current life; Zhang Yang would be the first to pick up the hammer of justice and smite down upon the man who ruined his previous life! To do that, it would have to have a proper, thorough preparation. A man such as Liu Wei was not just any man from a random rich household. He was the kingpin, the crime lord, the real master with a multibillionaire fortune! If Zhang Yang would want to wage a war with him, money alone was not effective; others would have done the same thing. Nothing in this world was fair! History was written with the blood of the loser! Only the strong will survive!

To have someone as a connection to the office by his side, he could be at an advantage when Liu Wei decides to use some dirty tricks to sabotage Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang's thoughts were rather calm but when he turned his head to look at the beautiful Sun Xin Yu, he could not help but smiled.

Sun Xin Yu noticed his sweet, warm smile and reacted rather coldly. "Stop smiling like a pervert! Come with me! To the practice hall, we'll fight one more time! I won't lose to you this time!"

Zhang Yang immediately held his steps and gestured her to stop. "Hold up! A kingdom cannot fight with a hungry soldier! At least let me eat something!"

Sun Xin Yu turned around and saw the clock showing 11am. She then sighed and exclaimed. "Ok, let's have lunch together! Don't even think about running away!"

The two of them exited the station and dined at a nearby restaurant. Being a heavy eater, and even missing a meal, Zhang Yang ordered five plates of rice scarfed it down like a hungry lion! The other customers in the restaurant were in shock with his appetite!

What the... Just right beside this glutton is a beautiful girl with style and manners. How could she just sit right beside him without even trying to stop him? Is she trying to be funny? What's she trying to do?!

Zhang Yang noticed the nosy glances of other customers but chose to ignore them. All he cared about was to fill his empty stomach to the point of satisfaction.

"You're done? Then let's go!" Sun Xin Yu was rather clod and let Zhang Yang pay for the meal. Both of them returned to the station and headed straight to the gym.

They changed into their training outfit, the kind that was almost similar to that of a taekwondo or karate, which made it easy to grab because it was loose. They were to not wear any shoes in the gym and sparring. You must know that during a kick, having a shoe would make a huge difference! However, they were just sparing, and not fighting till the death.

WHAM! WHAM! PAK! PAK!

Their fight began with strong ferociousness.

During the spar, most of the officers in the station went off to have their lunch. The only people in the gym room was just Zhang Yang and Sun Xin Yu. Aside the thundering sound of kicks and punch, the rest of the station was completely silent, further amplifying the noise from the blows.

Sun Xin Yu's level of skill was rather high, but Zhang Yang's daily training had proven to make him even stronger. They both were almost at each other's necks during the start of the spar. But as the spar dragged on longer, a man's natural built and strength started to show greater advantage. Sun Xin Yu's breathing was getting louder as her punches were beginning to lose their destructive power. Even her speed was getting slower!

WHAM!

Zhang Yang leaped at her like a tiger's pounce, throwing her down to the ground! Sun Xin Yu was getting tired. She lost most of her strength! She wanted to dodge the pounce but her body would not listen. She was forcefully pushed down to the ground!

Zhang Yang was rather close to her at this point. Both of them were only inches apart from each other, and then he laughed. "Ice Queen! Admit your defeat! Be it real life of in the game, you would never ever be able to defeat me!"

Her cheeks were flushed in red with anger. Her eyes narrowed with the glint of a killing intent!

Zhang Yang was rather shocked. Perhaps he said too much... But then he realized, both of his hands was grabbing her voluptuous breast!

Woah!

This body of this queen is really the real deal. Zhang Yang knew that his hand was wide enough to hold up a basketball, but he could not even properly hold on to those super XL sized watermelons! That unrivalled softness and perkiness was truly extravagant! The feeling was truly blissful!

Zhang Yang's body went hot and had triggered a certain "flag". Ever since he was reborn, he had never done it before; not even by himself! The amount of excitement caused Zhang Yang to react in the manliest way possible!

He quickly took his hands off and smiled innocently. "I'm so sorry! It was a mistake! I did not do it on purpose!"

Sun Xin Yu turned away from him, got up to her feet and dashed to the changing room.

Pak Pak Pak! The sound of her heavy footsteps could heard as her two slender and fair feet were running through the room.

Zhang Yang turned back and looked at his palms. He recalled the times whenever he traded blows with Sun Xin Yu, and having inevitably "taking advantage" of her...

About 30 seconds later, Sun Xin Yu walked out of the room and approached Zhang Yang with a gun in her hand! He could feel the strong killing intent emitting from all around her!

The gun was still in its holster, locked. But the women was trying her best to unlock the hatch to pull out the gun. You could see that the woman was not thinking straight. Her breath was rather ragged and unstable. Her pupils were contracting and expanding uncontrollably. Sweat dripping down her silky skin. Her hands and feet were trembling furiously! She had only manged to unlock the hatch of the holster after numerous attempts, and she pulled out the revolver and cocked it!

Kachack! The safety was off!

Seeing the muzzle pointing towards him, Zhang Yang could not help but to think that she might actually pull the trigger! This woman was brave enough to punch a man's son right in his face, she would not think twice to shoot the man who had molested her! At her breast! TWICE!

ARGH! What luck! This was the 3rd time he was at the other end of the gun!

Zhang Yang did not care about Sun Xin Yu being arrested for murder. He had to think for himself this time! If he died, everything that he prepared to do would be for nought!

A million solutions were running through his mind! Should he beg for mercy? From the looks of it, this cold woman would not care about his pleas. In fact, she might be even more aggressive and shoot him nonetheless! She might even shoot him one shot at a time and slowly kill him while he had to suffer the slow and agonizing pain before dying!

Should he snatch the gun away? But that was Sun Xin Yu there! The woman could fight at the same speed as him! By the time Zhang Yang could even get close, he would have gained new holes in his chest or even in between his eyes!

HMMM?!

Zhang Yang had a sudden thought! He remembered watching a very old movie before, and he remembered a scene that he could re-enact to save him!

Zhang Yang put down his hands, stared intensely at Sun Xin Yu, and then screamed from the top of his lungs.

"I LOVE YOU!"

Sun Xin Yu was stunned. The first time in his life, Zhang Yang witnessed the ever so cold Sun Xin Yu expressing an emotion! Her fingers were nowhere close to the trigger!

Alright! This might work!

Zhang Yang forced himself to calm down and treat Sun Xin Yu as a boss in the game to defeat.

First! To lower her defense! 5 stacks of Cripple Defense!

"I can no longer lie to myself anymore! Ever since I laid eyes on you, I've fallen deeply in love with you!" Zhang Yang said it slowly. He tried his best to construct the sentences properly. He was not good at coaxing a woman to begin with!

Sun Xin Yu remained motionless. But she was still listening.

That's good! She intends to listen!

If he had heard the sound of a gunshot, even in his ghost form, he would have nowhere to hide!

Alright! Her defense was lowered. Now to implement super skills! Here comes Horizontal Sweep and Destructive Smash!

"Shoot me, if that is what you want! I will not hold a grudge against you! To die in your hands, would be my greatest honor!" Zhang Yang continued to distract her.

Sun Xin Yu remained silent and ever so stoic. She was only staring at Zhang Yang with her beautiful eyes.

1 minute...2 minutes...8 minutes...9 minutes!?

Zhang Yang was still standing there staring at her motionless. Inside his heart however, he was literally screaming. "Oh my god! Could you please hurry up and make your decision?! Do you want me to die?! Just say the word! God! I'm right here waiting for you making a decision for like forever!"

Finally! Sun Xin Yu lowered the gun and slid the weapon of destruction back into her holster.

She turned and looked back up at Zhang Yang and said, "Alright. From now on, you're my boyfriend!"

Zhang Yang stunned.

What? Was that all? He still had a few more tricks up his sleeves! Could it be that he has become a novel's main character? To become the center of a mass harem with a thousand woman groveling beneath his feet wearing a full western suit, after just showing off some awesome move or something?

Sun Xin Yu was still as cool and emotionless even after declaring Zhang Yang as her boyfriend. She said, "There are only very few men that could defeat me! After all, I would need to get married someday! If you think you could stand a chance to prove your worth, I don't mind giving you a chance!"

Oh, please! You don't mind? I would mind! Zhang Yang sighed heavily in his heart. "Ahhh! Please forgive me Lin Yu! If I had not lied against her, I would not have the chance to meet you in the future!"

Hmmm...Should he be the first to ask for a "break up"? That would be impossible! Knowing her, Sun Xin Yu would go berserk! It would not be a surprise if she picked up the gun and really shot him this time!

Looked like he would have to wait for Sun Xin Yu to be the one to ask for the break up then! He needed to show that he was no husband material; only a good friend! That way, he could save his own butt and maintain this friendly, super-beneficial relationship with her.

"I'm going to clock out now! Head home by yourself!" Sun Xin Yu said as she turned and headed to the changing room.

Zhang Yang breathed a sigh of relief and went to his own changing room. Only then had he found out that he was completely drenched in sweat, with his uniform plastered to his back! He thought back to how Sun Xin Yu looked like when she was all Wonder Woman style, ready to kill him anytime. A cold shiver ran down his spine! Damn! That Ice Queen is just too crazy!

After changing back into his own clothes, Zhang Yang walked home. Along the way, he was lost in his thoughts. No matter how long he thought about it, he could not think straight. He just did not know what to do next!

"Argh. F*ck it. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. That ice head couldn't come over to my house and point a gun at my head to force me have sex with her!" Zhang Yang then lied down on his sofa and put on the gaming helmet, logging into the game.

"Little Yang! What took you so long?" Fatty Han immediately sent a private message. "Did you have a "fun" night? Hehehehe..."

"Fun, my ass!" Zhang Yang replied.

"Oh right! I have bad news!" Fatty Han cried. "Imperial Sky has already defeated the 4th boss in the Castle Interior dungeon!"

Zhang Yang narrowed his eyebrows. "That quick?!"

"Yeah!" said Fatty Han worriedly. "I'm afraid that they might conquer the entire dungeon before we could even start! They might get their hands on the 'First Clear' Achievement!"

Zhang Yang laughed it off. "Keep calm! It's alright! It's alright!"

Even though he said that, after dinner, Zhang Yang logged on to the official forum to speculate other players' responds.

This time, player "Martian Homeland" praised the guys from Imperial Sky. He had even said that the player, One Sword Stroke, might be by far, the only player that could rival the current highest popularity player, Zhan Yu! One Sword Stroke could even have the potential to exceed Zhan Yu!

So far, the other super guilds were still struggling at the 3rd boss, yet Imperial Sky had already defeated the 4th boss with One Sword Stroke's leadership. Their guild firmly grasped the advantage in obtaining the "First Clear" Achievement!

The forum discussion gained the support and agreement from many players! The rest that were fans of Lone Desert Smoke did not join the discussion since Zhang Yang and his team had long since took part of the dungeon raiding. They only left a comment, saying things like, "Just wait and see."

7:30pm, Zhang Yang logged into the game and gathered Han Ying Xue and the gang, and started to raid the Castle Interior.

Sun Xin Yu was still cold as ever. She did not even express any sign of being friendlier to Zhang Yang after the "declaration". Sometimes, when Zhang Yang was not thinking straight, he thought about the events that transpired earlier this morning as if it was just a bad dream.

'Ding! You have entered Shadowmoon Castle: Castle Interior (Hardcore)!'

The party entered the dungeon through the main gate and entered the castle of the werewolf.

As they went through the gates, they were greeted with a large hall. The setting was nightfall; hundreds of men and women were dressed extravagantly, happily dancing around to the romantic music that filled the air. There was a group of 10 in the room too, and standing at the corner of the stairs at the second floor was a slim, slender, and beautiful noble female. She had one slender fair hand grasping the railing of the stairs and one other holding a wine glass.

This noble was the same person that Zhang Yang fought in the Garden area of the dungeon. She was Jenny, Master Waller's wife! This time, she was not some random monster, but Gray-Silver tier boss!

[Jenny, Master Waller's Wife] (Gray-Silver, Humanoid Monster)

Level: 44

HP: 1,200,000

The party could not start the boss without clearing the minions first beforehand.

[Crazed Guests] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 41

HP: 82,000

"Those who have their aura skill, please activate them now! Every time you log in or log off, the system automatically switches it off. Make it a habit to always turn on your aura skill every time you log into the game!" said Zhang Yang.

"Oh crap! I really forgot to switch on my aura!" Wei Yan Er cried, turning her Strength Aura on only after Zhang Yang notified.

The party had a total of 5 different aura carriers. Since Hundred Shots and Fatty Han's Companion Aura was the same, the effects would not stack up and would only be treated as one active aura effect.

Strength Aura, Vitality Aura, Companion Aura, and Life Aura. Everyone received 4 beneficial aura effects each.

"Starlight! Start the fight!" Zhang Yang called out.

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Chapter 165: The First Boss, Jenny

Endless Starlight immediately casted Shield Toss and lured 3 elite monsters in a go. With a sudden roar, the bunch of 11 monsters all came running towards him while screaming things like, "Unwelcome guest! Begone!"

Divide Shield!

Devotion!

Strong Hammer!

He immediately pulled their aggro.

The rest of the team waited for a little while before they joined the fight as well, casting their AoE skills.

Zhang Yang did not join the fight. He went on forward and walked to the second group of monsters. They growled immediately when triggered and rushed towards him.

Blood Rage! 30 Rage!

Just as Zhang Yang was going to start fight, he withdrew immediately, but after managing to only take 4 paces back, the monsters already appeared right in front of him.

Swoosh!

Horizontal Sweep!

In an instant, most of the monsters received a huge damage of more than 1,500! The utilization of the AoE skill was maximized during this kind of situations!

Wham!

Thunder Strike!

Multiple damage texts popped out again! This time, Zhang Yang only inflicted around 200 to each of them but more importantly, they were all inflicted with slow. Zhang Yang kited the monsters and fell back to join Endless Starlight. He kited the monsters to group them together with Endless Starlight's. With that many monsters around, everyone's AoE skill could damage the monsters as well, maximizing both the time and skill used.

By the system's logic, if there were many monsters in a dungeon, each monster's attack power must be weakened down. If it was not, no tank could take the amount of damage received after kiting them all together. These monsters here must only have around 800 attack power. Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight had only received less than 300 damage so far; easy enough for Han Ying Xue to heal them back to full health in a short amount of time.

Right then, Zhang Yang had already possessed the skill called Blast Wave, he could stun every monster in his vicinity for 4 seconds after every 20 seconds! OP as f*ck!

The party's attack power was already strong to begin with, and after adding the few more aura effects, the killing speed was raised to a whole new level. In just a minute, the first group of monsters was already taken down, and the second group of monsters had only one third of their original HP remaining!

"Starlight! Get the next group of monsters!" Zhang Yang ordered. As the second group of monsters locked their vision on Zhang Yang alone, Endless Starlight could easily end the fight without pulling any monster towards him.

When Endless Starlight brought in the third group of monsters, the second group had already fallen. Sun Xin Yu and the rest of the attackers did not even have time to rest. The next wave of monsters arrived and they continued slashing and blasting.

Zhang Yang only smiled lightly, feeling satisfied at the team's attacking progress. He then proceeded on to pull the fourth group of monsters.

"WOOHOO! This is awesome!" Wei Yan Er happily squealed as she blasted away the monsters with her Tornado Cleave. She could deal at least 1,900 damage to every monster around on each cast, with only 5.5 seconds of cooldown. Her attack had already long surpassed Zhang Yang's and was so strong, that Endless Starlight had difficulties properly holding on the aggro of every single monster. Some monsters were even OT and nearly got close to Wei Yan Er to attack her.

Luckily, Zhang Yang was fast enough to pull the monster back to his attention. After a few hits of Horizontal Sweep and Thunder Strike, almost every single monster turned their attention to him.

"What are you doing!? Are you trying to tire me to death?!" Han Ying Xue cried.

An attacker could stop to have a rest for a while to catch their breath, but a healer does not even have time to wipe the sweat from their brow. If the healer lags even by just a bit, the tanks could die! Both Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight had been taking turns in pulling more and more monsters that Han Ying Xue had no time to catch her breath; it felt that she could throw a fit at any time out of frustration!

Zhang Yang saw how frustrated she was and only laughed. "It's not like your MP's dropping. Why would you need to rest? It's only a waste of time!"

"GRAAAH! Damn you!" It was not like she could just ignore her team mate and just rest on one side. She had to just suck it up and continue to heal!

Group by group, the monsters were being kited to the party by both Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight. The party was progressing so fast that neither of them had the time to even pick up the spoils of war.

Daffodil Daydream did not receive the "75% mana reduction" passive skill, but instead obtaining a "15% increase in all flame attacks" passive skill from the Level 30 class quest reward after she cleared the A-level difficulty quest. If she had completed the S-level difficulty instead, she could have obtained 20% bonus passive.

It was all fun when a Pyromancer blasts away the monsters, waves after waves, until their mana runs out, that is. She could at most, last for 2 waves before running out from the battle and eating mana regenerating snacks to recover her MP!

The team was strong and fast, having taken only 10 minutes or so to clear hundreds of monsters in this majestic hall. The entire floor was filled with coins, random ETC1 items, and equipment. It took another 3 whole minutes just to sift through everything!

"How do we fight this boss?" asked Wei Yan Er. After looting all the items, the bodies of the monster disappeared from the hall, leaving it clear and barren.

"The boss has 3 skills!" Zhang Yang had already taken step to recall the battle strategy. He wrote them down in a little notebook. "Number 1, she would choose a random player and put them in some sort of a prison for around 5, or 6 seconds, I guess. In this period, the imprisoned would lose HP. That person can't cast any skills or take any potions. Only a healer could heal the HP lost. That is why this dungeon is supposed to have 2 healers. If one is imprisoned, the one healer would help the tank while the other would heal the person being imprisoned!"

Han Ying Xue cried out. "Hey... dummy... please add one more healer to the party! I can't endure this much healing alone! I'm so freaking tired!"

"Fine. As long as I can find one suitable for our party, I will add a healer in!" Zhang Yang replied, as if he did not mean it.

Wei Yan Er then pointed out a flaw of having just one healer in the party. "What if she was sent to prison? She can't heal herself!"

Zhang Yang laughed it off and said, "I have Vanguard's Aggression and Sacrifice to cover her. But if that sorry b*tch had to just be picked twice, then, I have nothing to say. We might just have plain bad luck!"

"Hmph! What else?" asked Wei Yan Er.

"The second skill is like the boss's sister; to randomly pick and control a player. I think the skill can't be purged. It would only expire after a fixed duration."

"The third?"

"The third skill is berserk! Well, technically is a kind of passive berserk. It will add 10% attack damage per second. It will stack endlessly and can only be dispelled by dragging the boss to an ice spot that will spawn when the battle starts!"

Zhang Yang concluded his explanation. "Well, all in all, it's pretty easy to fight!"

"Shall we start?" Zhang Yang signaled Hundred Shots. "Hundred Shots, attack the boss for a second. Drag her down here. The ice platform will not spawn up there!"

"Alright!" Hundred Shots aimed his arrow at the boss and let it fly towards her.

Pew!

"Huh! What sort of wild, uncivilized bastard dares to infiltrate my banquet!?" Jenny was furious and stomped down the stairs. She had Hundred Shots in her sight and took out a long black whip from god-knows-where and whipped him.

Blood Rage! Charge!

Zhang Yang raised his sword and slashed the boss.

'-613!'

'-1,540!'

'-1,429!'

Zhang Yang quickly built up the aggro and inflicted Cripple Defense on the boss to reduce her defense by 50%.

Jenny then turned her sight at Zhang Yang and attacked him with her whip. "I've spent so much time and effort to decorate this hall for the banquet, and you just barged in here and killed all my guests? You ruined my banquet! I will kill you all! I will kill all you savages!"

Block! 30 Rage.

'-321!' Block Reflect damage.

'-642!' Shield Bash.

In just 2 seconds, the boss attacked Zhang Yang again. This time, he had no Block to use and had to receive the attack head on.

'-2,112!'

"Hm. Not that bad. The boss only has around 3,000 attack damage!" Zhang Yang attacked the boss while talking to Han Ying Xue. "Hey! When the boss picks someone, I want you to only heal the person. I think I can hold on for at least 5 seconds!"

"Daffodil Daydream! Accept the lightning punishment!" The boss cried out and light slid through the floor. Daffodil was then immediately teleported to the entrance and was encased in a large light barrier. Inside the barrier, lighting struck her endlessly.

'Ding! Jenny has casted Lightning Prison. Receive 2,000 Natural damage every 2 seconds for 6 seconds!'

'-2,000!'

Zap!

With her naturally low HP of only 3,840, she would die by just under two strikes!

Han Ying Xue quickly casted Holy Shield first and then Brilliant Light, lastly following up with Healing Bond. After healing over 4,000 HP, she quickly cast Regeneration and left her there.

Holy Shield alone was enough to absorb at least 2,000 damage. Zhang Yang used Block once and within 6 seconds, he had only lost 2,000 damage. To him, that was a mere pinch when he had over 7,000 maximum HP.

90%!

"You defiled me! A noble! A true noble! For that, you will have to pay the price for your sins!"

Jenny growled loudly and her entire body started to expand, instantly turning from a beautiful noble woman into a beastly silver brown werewolf!

'Ding! Jenny has cast Werewolf Awake. Increases 10% attack every second!'

Zhang Yang quickly scanned the hall room and found the ice platform. He then kited the big bad wolf towards it.

10%... 20%... 30%... as each second past, the boss gained increased attack. If Zhang Yang had not used Block against the attack, he would have received increased damage from 2,000, 3,000... to even 4,000!

Luckily, the ice platform was not far from he was. When the boss gained over 8 stacks of the buff, Zhang Yang managed to drag her hairy butt to the icy platform.

'Ding! Werewolf Awake had ended and will disappear!'

The boss lost her werewolf form and slowly returned to her human form. Although she may had restored her human self, her clothes did not. Pieces of torn clothing were just dangling on her body, with only a tiny bit of cloth coincidently covering the private parts of her body, exposing a large amount of skin to the public.

"WOOHOO!! SO BIG!"

"SO FAIR!"

Fatty Han and Endless Starlight eyes glinted with a perverted shine, drooling as they speak.

"This is the true Cripple Defense!"

"Fatty bro! That must at least a 34D no?!"

"You bet it is!"

"ARGHHH. I wanna touch them so bad!"

"..."

"Both of you...can just die off!" Han Ying Xue scoffed.

"Endless Starlight! You shall be my slave! Serve me as your one true master!" Jenny pulled out a long bow, again from god-knows-where, and shot an arrow towards Endless Starlight.

'Ding! Player Endless Starlight had received the effect Soul Temptation!'

"For my master!" Starlight cried and dashed towards Fatty Han. He raised his hammer and slammed Fatty Han.

"F*ck you! Why would you choose me! There's so many others for you to choose from! Bastard!" cried Fatty Han.

"HAHHAAHAHHAHA" Wei Yan Er had to rubbed her belly as she laughed uncontrollably.

"That's what you get for being a perverted dog!"

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Chapter 166: Frivolous Maid

Breaking Shot!

Hunter Shots aimed his bow and shot an arrow towards Endless Starlight, sending him into a Dazed state. Endless Starlight was sent spinning, turning his head around like he was completely drunk.

Fatty Han immediately created a distance between Endless Starlight and himself. When Endless Starlight recovered from the daze, Fatty Han fired a Concussion Shot and slowed him down for 4 seconds. Hundred Shots also fired a Concussion Shot after the slow duration ended. After 3 status impairing skills were fired, the "slave" effect on Endless Starlight expired and he regained control of his own character.

The party then refocused their efforts on taking down the boss.

As the first boss in the Castle Interior, Jenny was not hard to defeat. As long as that party could dispel the Werewolf Awake on her and properly tend to the player who got sent into the lightning prison, the team would do just fine! However, that was if everything panned out well. This is because Zhang Yang's current team had one flaw; and that was the fact that they had only one healer!

The boss had finally caught Han Ying Xue when she cast the Lightning Prison for the fourth time.

Zhang Yang reacted promptly and cast Sacrifice to protect her. He also activated the [Servant] skill Substitute. When the lightning struck Han Ying Xue, both Zhang Yang and her had system notifications popping up all over their heads.

Averted! Averted! Averted!

Immune! Immune! Immune!

6 seconds passed by and Han Ying Xue returned to the party. They had literally averted a disaster.

80%, 70%, 60%...

Under the massive firepower of the party, the boss's HP was akin to tofu; brittle and fragile, easily crushable. The team defeated her in under 4 minutes.

"This seems easy!" Daffodil cried out as she stretched her hand upwards and relaxed. However, even though she said that, she understood that the team's victory lay in the core structure of the party, the members of the party! If they had a slightly weaker tank in place of Zhang Yang, who possibly could not kite the boss to the ice platform to dispel the Werewolf Awake, they would have been completely devoured by the boss!

That was why a strong tank represents the soul, the brains, and the power of the party! Zhang Yang's role as a core member of it signified a strong pillar that held the entire party together!

"Woohoo! Time for the loots!" Wei Yan Er bent over and picked up the boss drops. Everyone was rather unexcited about the loot since they had just defeated a Yellow-Gold tier boss not too long ago. This was merely a Gray-Silver tier one, and they now consider its drops to be trash.

[Blood-soaked Chest Plate] (Gray-Silver, Leather Armor)

Defense: 12

Vitality: 96

Strength: 16

Dexterity: 48

Unidentified

Level Requirement: 40

Three people rolled for the leather armor but Hundred Shots beat his other two competitors to it.

Wei Yan Er picked two more items up but discovered that they were only of Green-Copper tier. She could not help but stuck her tongue out and blow raspberries at the boss' dead corpse. "Bleh! Stingy prick!"

Zhang Yang laughed. "Hey, you can't just accuse the boss of being stingy! I've told you before. All future dungeons would never contain anything valuable!"

"Huh? Why not?"

"Are you dumb?" Zhang Yang face-palmed, causing Wei Yan Er to be rather unhappy with his reaction. She pushed her fist up into the air and gestured it at Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang laughed it off and decided to explain to the little dumb brat. "Try and think about it for a second. If dungeons were always around for players to farm for strong equipment whenever they have reached the required levels and are ready to defeat the bosses in there, who would defeat a field boss then?"

"B-But! A Hardcore Mode dungeon is tough dude!" said Wei Yan Er as she tried to justify her words.

"According to the developers of the game, a Normal Mode dungeon will be easy enough to allow any random party to clear it. As for Hard Mode, only 10% of players around would be able to defeat it. Now, that was just a rough idea on the massive scale. For Hardcore Mode, only 1% of players in the game could try and attempt to defeat the dungeon!"

"With that in mind, stay with me for a while here. How many players do you think are playing this game? There are at least 50,000,000 players in the game right now! What is 1% of 50,000,000 players? 500,000 I reckon!"

"Now, put that in scale and think of what would happen if the Hardcore Mode was cleared by those players 500,000 times! Now, think of how many field bosses there are in the entire game? 50? 100?"

"Even if you flip the entire world over and searched the high heavens or the scorching hells, you could probably find no more than 200! A field boss' drops are much more precious and valuable than the measly Hardcore dungeon bosses' drops! Naturally, they would not be easy to defeat. Why do you think the developers would even bother creating those bosses out there for? Decoration?"

Wei Yan Er scratched her head and widened her eyes as she stared at Zhang Yang as if she was still confused about what Zhang Yang had just said. "So... erm... do we skip dungeons now?"

Zhang Yang cringed so hard until he was about to burst a vein in his forehead. He sighed heavily and cried out, "Which house is missing a stupid kid? Please take her home!"

Wei Yan Er was angered and drew her weapon. "Noob tank! Keep calling me stupid and I'll really slam your face in!"

"Little brat! It was you who started complaining about how stingy the boss was didn't you?!" Zhang Yang started to laughed instead. "A dungeon boss would only get stingier and stingier. Furthermore, the equipment grade would always be one level lower than those you could farm from a field boss! That is the importance of a field boss! In the far future when we would need to fight a world boss, it would take an entire guild of thousands of players to fight for god-knows seven days and seven nights to defeat it. Do you think that a regular Hardcore boss could be that tough?"

"Nyeh!" Wei Yan Er stuck out her tongue.

"You..." Zhang Yang face-palmed again.

"You still don't understand, do you?"

"Nyehehehehe!" Wei Yan Er nodded her head honestly.

"Zhan Yu, now that you have explained it as such, then what meaning is there in us clearing the dungeon then?" Hundred Shots was not stupid but since Zhang Yang had explained something simple with such complexity, he too, began to feel confused.

"Hm... to fill in the blanks for the field boss." Zhang Yang explained. "I had explained that earlier. A field boss of the same level would be extremely scarce. So scarce that if we were to share the boss to everyone in the game, it would be less than one boss for every 1,000,000 players! It's even likely that I have made a rather relaxed estimation! According to that logic, players would not have bosses to kill and thus, would not have good equipment, would they? That is what the dungeons are for! With three different types of difficulties, there would eventually be one that is suitable for you to raid!"

"That would only mean that the field bosses' equipment is the best!" asked Daffodil Daydream.

"Oh my God! My sweet Lord! Baby Jesus! You must have hung out with the little dumb brat for far too long! Now you have contracted her dumb disease as well? I had literally explained twice! God! My saliva is about to dry out!" Zhang Yang was seriously vexed that he could burst his bulging nerve on his forehead!

"Noob tank!" Wei Yan Er jumped to her feet and stomped towards Zhang Yang. Being shorter than he was, she could only point her tiny finger to his chin. "You are not allowed to call me stupid! Hmph! I'm breaking up with you!"

"Breaking up? Who said we were friends to begin with!?"

"What!?"

"Hahaha!" Zhang Yang laughed. He had fun toying with the little girl and felt really comfortable with her.

"Let's go! Move on! Move on!" Zhang Yang led them further in.

As the party marched towards the second floor, they reached a junction that split into two paths. These paths had monsters with a rather lustful and seductive posture. There were at least a pair of these monsters at every ten meters or so. They were wearing colorful costumes and low cut tops which revealed luxuriously ample amounts of those mouthwatering watermelons! And those cleavages were so deep that they caused all women to feel envy.

Gulp* Endless Starlight swallowed his saliva heartily. "Damn. I could not bear to swing my hammer at those babies!"

"Where to?"

"It's the same. Both ways would lead straight to the opposite end of the castle where the second boss would be, standing guard to the entrance of the third floor!" Zhang Yang thought a little and commanded Endless Starlight to attack, "Starlight! Go and start the fight!"

Endless Starlight hummed and rushed towards the monster, wielding the hammer in his hand. From a distance, he threw his shield and struck only two monsters, since the third one was too far away for the shield to bounce to.

[Frivolous Maid] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 43

HP: 86,000

MP: 43,000

"Aiya! There's a guest here!" Both of the maids smiled lustfully and locked onto Endless Starlight to cast Fire Ball.

"Ahh~ Respectful guest! You don't have to reserve yourself. Please be rough on me! Ah~ Please use me to your liking!"

"F*ck!" Endless Starlight was so shocked at her opening speech that he nearly slipped and fell over.

"-1128!"

"-1243!"

Two Fire Balls flew over and blasted Endless Starlight.

"Aiya~ The time for fun was just too short!" said one of the maid.

"Hmm~ After sleeping with my man last night, I had to slip out of bed to find 3 more guards to entertain me! Only then was I satisfied enough that I could finally sleep!"

"Holy sh*t! This is just too provoking!" Fatty Han was stunned as well.

"Shameless creatures!" Wei Yan Er mumbled.

"Ah~ What's the hurry! Sigh... People come and go in a flash! How do I fill this empty hole!"

"Hmm~ Beloved guest! Why won't you stop to have some fun with us!"

Both maids were repeatedly trying to 'flirt' with Endless Starlight.

When he could no longer hold it in, Endless Starlight finally burst. "F*ck! Don't toy with me! My will is as strong as steel! There is no such thing as riding the tricycle! It's fake, it not real, it can never happen!" said Endless Starlight as he wiped away his stream of drool.

This Frivolous Maid had the skill, Mesmerize, that could cause players to be Dazed. Once the player was rendered immobile, the monster would cast powerful Fire Balls that could deal immense damage of around 3,000. If two of the monsters attacked simultaneously, they could instantly take out any non-tank class player.

The party then quickly killed one of the monsters first before taking on the other one with relative ease.

While attacking magic-type monsters without strong damage reduction armor, to kill a large group of them simultaneously would be impractical. The party could only proceed on by killing two at a time. After 20 minutes into the floor, the party arrived at the second boss. Endless Starlight was pretty much flushed with embarrassment after being the target of 'flirting' by the monsters. After being interrogated by Fatty Han, he discovered that this ultimate pervert was still a cheery boy!

By the looks of his appearance, the second boss, Lanier was a middle-aged man with a graceful yet stoic appearance. He was rather handsome as he possessed a kind of mysterious attraction that was compelling like Korean pop stars. However, both of his legs were chained with heavy steel, limiting his position to center around the staircase.

[Lanier] (Gray-Silver, Humanoid)

Level: 45

HP: 1,300,000

Note: He belongs to the Vampire race. He was defeated by Master Waller and kept as a slave to serve him as a guard for the castle. Being enslaved caused him to burn with a raging hatred and desire to shred any intruder at will!

"Ooooh! Vampires are so handsome!" Daffodil Daydream had been enticed by his handsome complexion.

"Hm. Indeed!" Han Ying Xue took part as well. "Especially the nose! It makes him look quite handsome!"

"Hey! Are you here to fight the boss or to participate in China's Next Top Male Model?"

"Hey! At least let us savor the looks of a handsome man!"

Fatty Han scoffed, unsatisfied. "You have 4 handsome men here in the party! Why would you grasp for more lemons when you can't hold any more?"

"Damn you, Fatty!"

Poor Fatty Han was bombarded with insults and scorn from the ladies.

Ahem* Zhang Yang coughed loudly to get the party's attention and begun to explain the battle plan.

"Listen up! This boss is practically a free service as well. The main skills are, number one, Infection. It will cause a player to temporary turn into a vampire that he could control. The way to counter this is extremely easy. Priests and Knights could use Dispel to remove the debuff!"

"The second skill! About every half a minute, the boss would use a kind of lifesteal skill to suck the blood of a random player. Before he activates the skill, he would place a mark on the target and will only activate the skill after five seconds! This skill would drain the player's HP by 10% every second and recover the same amount of HP on the boss! It lasts for 5 seconds!"

"Next, it becomes a little complicated, so please bear with me for a while. If a player has around 40% HP left, the boss would only take away 4% of your HP and heal the same amount each instance. The second instance would only take away 3.6% HP. So, the lesser your HP, the lesser he heals!"

"So, to counter this skill, we must take away as much HP as we can before the boss can siphon from us!"

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Chapter 167: Lanier the Vampire

"Here we go!"

Zhang Yang let out a battle cry and raised his sword to charge towards Lanier

"Huh?! Intruder! Hahaha! What a coincidence! With you guys around, I can kill some time!" cried Lanier. He stood up and dashed towards Zhang Yang.

Charge!

"-613!"

Zhang Yang slashed the boss and quickly activated Block to negate the incoming attack.

Crippled Defense! Crippled Defense! Crippled Defense!

Facing boss fights, Zhang Yang would always prioritize inflicting Cripple Defense for 5 layers before other skills.

Sun Xin Yu moved in the shadows and appeared behind the boss, slicing and dicing his back, inflicting incredible amount of damage.

Just then, Zhang Yang had recalled that he had no engaged in any conversation with his "girlfriend" from when he had logged in. He thought about what to say to her for a while and sent a private message. "Hey..."

"Pull the monster properly!" Sun Xin Yu replied him instantly.

Without a gun pointing at him, Zhang Yang felt more relaxed talking to her. "Sigh...having a relationship an iceberg is quite stressful for me!"

"You don't have to sugar coat everything you say, nor talking in metaphorical! I hate that kind of man! You don't have to spend your time trying to make me fall in love with you! If I love you, I would love you! If I hate you! I would ignore you even if you would give me the moon!"

Bold!

Zhang Yang laughed, "In that case, should we just remain the same as ever?"

"What more do you want then?"

It's not what I want, it's what you would want!

Zhang Yang said to himself quietly. If she had heard him saying this to her, she might really go berserk again and might even break into his house and kill him!

"Daffodil Daydream! I present you the gift of my blood! Joined me as the majestic vampire!" Lanier pointed at Daffodil Daydream and her body gives off a bloody-red glow that dimmed back into her body.

Daffodil was frozen at her place and when she stood back upright, her eyes opened, revealing bloodshot eyes. A pair of sharp fangs appeared baring from her mouth. All ten of her fingers started to grow long and razor sharp nails. Her fair skin had turned into a pale-white color, morphing her into a beautiful monster.

'Ding! Player Daffodil Daydream had received the effect Blood Transformation!'

"Wooow! How cool!" Wei Yan Er cried with admiration. "Sister Daffodil, you looked so much better like that!"

However, being controlled by the boss, Daffodil Daydream could not respond to Wei Yan Er. After a loud and long howl to the sky, she jumped towards Endless Starlight with such speed that he could not even react in time.

Fatty Han laughed. "Hah! What a small world, Daffodil Daydream targeted Starlight first when she turned into a monster. Here, I wonder if she was intentionally trying to attack him!"

Endless Starlight quickly cast a purging skill and restore Daffodil back to normal.

88%!

Lanier turned around and pointed his fingers at Wei Yan Er. "Weakling Humans! Surrender and be my nourishment!"

A glowing, circular red orb floated on top of Wei Yan Er.

'Ding! Lanier has used Preparation!'

"Melee fighters! Hit the little brat! Stop when you're about to reach 10%! Do not kill her off!" Zhang Yang screamed.

Sun Xin Yu and Endless Starlight immediately shifted their head and ran towards Wei Yan Er to attack.

"Hey! Lighter! A little lighter!" screamed Wei Yan Er as she could not do anything to stop them.

Sun Xin Yu did not reserved any Stamina and most of her skills were in cool down. In 5 seconds, she had only manage to deal around 2500 damage on Wei Yan Er. Endless Starlight on the other had could only deal over 1000 damage. Wei Yan Er had only 900 HP left which was 20% of her total HP.

Zhang Yang saw what had happened and immediately cast Force Strike.

"-1566!"

Crap. What luck, it was a critical strike that had completely killed the poor little girl.

"ARGGGGH!!" Wei Yan Er was infuriated. "Noob tank! Why would you do that for!?"

Zhang Yang grinned and said, "Sorry! Sorry! It's not my fault you know! I can't control a critical strike!"

"I don't care! Hmph! Tonight, I'm going to write your name into the paper!" babbled the little girl angrily.

"Ow please. You're still as young as a green horn. Romance is still something when only you're mature enough!"

"Bleh!" Wei Yan Er stuck her tongue out.

"You think that I'm writing a love letter? Hell no! I'm writing your name on the paper and hang it on the origami paperman and curse you every day!"

Zhang Yang hold in his laughter and turned over to Han Ying Xue. "Did she pick something up from the television drama or something?"

"Yeah, she did. It was called "A date with a Magik"!"

"PFFTTT BUAHAHAHA" Zhang Yang laughed louder.

Killing Wei Yan Er was an accident, but Zhang Yang was able to stop the boss skill from activating in the end. It was considered to be an accidental skill stopping method!

Now that the team had lose a high attacking member, the team overall DPS was still strong as ever and quickly took away 11% of the boss HP.

"Endless Starlight! You shall be my nourishment!" Lanier pointed at Endless Starlight.

"Everyone hit Starlight! Stop when his HP is at 30%! Let Frost Night to deal the rest!" Zhang Yang changed his strategy.

Bam! Bam! Boom! Boom!

Even though Endless Starlight had a thick skin, he could not counter any of his team mates attack and had his HP dropped down quickly. His HP was dropped down to only 24% and everyone else stopped besides Sun Xin Yu continued to attack.

Since her class was using dagger, her attack specialty was fast attacking interval with low damage. She would not kill Endless Night in a blast even if one of her attack was a critical hit

8%, Endless Starlight had only 472 HP left when Sun Xin Yu had stopped attacking.

"Hahaha! Weak beings! Just you wait, when I had my nourishment and healed my vitality! I shall kill you all with my strength!" Lanier pounce towards Endless Starlight and sank his fangs into his neck.

'Ding! Lanier has used Feeding!'

"Eww! That's just too erotically violent!" Fatty Han mumbled.

"2600!"

The boss had gained a recovery effect. Even though it seems rather much, but the boss had only recovered 0.2%! Since the boss had only drained 0.8% of Endless Starlight HP, along with Zhang Yang Destructive Smash effect, the boss healing was reduced by 75%!

"2340!"

Another healing text ticked at the boss.

"2106!"

"1895!"

"1705!"

Along the Endless Starlight HP reduction, the boss recovery rate was also reduced. The total HP that the boss had recovered was only more than 10,000! It was not even worth activating the skill!

After Feeding had ended, Lanier returned to Zhang Yang and attacked him. The battle rhythm was restored back to normal.

Controlled? Purge.

Blood sucking? Hit the team mate.

When the boss's HP was down to less than 50%, Lanier had not remained as stoic and dignified as how he would describe a vampire would be. Instead, the boss was starting to shriek aloud. His damage was gained a buff.

'Ding! Lanier had gained Vampirism Rage. All Attack is increased by 20%!'

"Eh? Dummy! Why didn't you say anything about this skill?!" said Han Ying Xue.

Damn you girl! It had been a few years since I last battle this boss! It's already a miracle that I could recall 2 skills! If my memory was that good, I would not have just enrolled in Zhou Su University!

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "I'd totally forgotten about that!"

Even though the boss had gained a buff in attack, it was only just a slight bump of 20%. That amount of damage increase was not even considered a threat to the team since Han Ying Xue's super support was by far the "biggest" in the entire of China! That little "bump" is nothing under Han Ying Xue huge bulking "support".

40%, 30%, 20%, 10%...

Lanier could only hit here and there before being defeated by the party.

Han Ying Xue revived her little cousin sister and the little girl pout her little pink lips and get the loots.

[Arcane Battle Axe] (Gray-Silver, Two handed Axe)

Weapon Attack: 699 - 799

Attack Interval: 3.5 seconds

DPS: 208

Unidentified

Level Requirement: 40

"WOW! Mine! Mine!" Wei Yan Er was rather pissed off but her anger was quickly dissipated when she saw the shiny axe. She picked the axe up and rubbed the flat shiny surface on her puckish face.

"What a shame though. The attack interval was at 3.5! It's slightly faster!" said Zhang Yang.

"Why don't they standardize a fix attack interval"Wei Yan Er asked Zhang Yang as she had already forgot about being angry at him.

Zhang Yang thought for a while and answered. "I think...this kind attack interval weapon would be dropped by non-important bosess...I think that the strongest boss would drop the strongest weapon! You know? To make a difference! On the other hand, faster attack interval would only increase the trigger rate of the weapon effect! It's one way to reimbursed the lower attack damage of the weapon!"

Just like the first boss Jenny, Lanier had only dropped one piece of Gray-Silver tier equipment and 3 more Green-Copper tier equipment. The party did not even peek at the weapon properties and toss them all to Zhang Yang to sell it at his Little Merchandize Shop.

"Little Yang, the two boss that we had just defeated was very easy! Why would other guild would need to take 3 days to defeat them?" Fatty Han asked.

To be able to defeat the boss at such speed was not all because of Zhang Yang previous experience in his past life, it was also because of the proper battle tactics! With overwhelming team mates like Zhang Yang tank ability and Han Ying Xue supporting power, the battle was only then rendered to be easy!

Zhang Yang shook his head and laughed. "Well. We have out super damager little brat in our party!"

Wei Yan Er immediately praised Zhang Yang while patting her chest proudly. "Hah! Noob tank! I always knew that you're a bastard. But you're a bastard with an exceptional eye to see my strength!"

Everyone laughed together.

Following the staircase upward, the party arrived to the 3rd floor. Based on the structure of the castle, every floor was about just the same, hallow in the middle with two pathways splitting the castle into two wings. Both wings were identical with rooms and sliding doors. The only different on every floor was the monster that occupied it.

This floor, there monsters were male human guard dressed in an elegant ceremonial costume. Their age differ from one another. Just like the second floor, there were group in pairs and they were standing in front of the room doors.

[Castle Guard] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 44

HP: 88,000

Shush!

Zhang Yang slide across the floor with Charge and used Horizontal Sweep and deal more and 1500 damage to both of the guards.

"Disturbing guests!" Both of the guards cried out and thrust their fist at Zhang Yang.

'Ding! You have been effected by Uppercut. Stunned for 5 seconds!'

When the guards had stunned Zhang Yang, they ignored him on one end and aimed at the other party member and attack.

Luckily, Endless Starlight had the skill Justice Defense and temporary take over the tank role for Zhang Yang.

Wei Yan Er laughed at Zhang Yang, "Tch. Tch. Tch. Noob tank, you're so incompetent! You can't even pull monster properly. Aiyoyo~~"

That little brat had just ridiculed Zhang Yang!

Not only the Uppercut had stunned Zhang Yang, it had also temporary cleared all aggro value on the target! It made group killing to be impossible for them. The party then proceed on forward step by step, one pair of monsters at a time. Luckily, there were two tanks in the party. When one was stunned and "ignored", the other tank would take over. If Zhang Yang was alone, the rest of the party member would have to rely on status effect skills to survive until Zhang Yang could recover from the stun.

Very soon, the party made their way to the third boss. The boss was a rather well-built and sturdy man. He was the looks of a 30 years old man. A fine, formal, and rather exquisite clothing was worn, sitting on a magnificent chair, the man was drinking from a wine glass.

[Count Demison, Master Walter's Brother] (Gray-Silver, Humanoid)

Level: 46

HP: 1,400,000

"This boss will be slightly harder!" said Zhang Yang as he cleared his throat.

Hundred Shots scratched his head and said, "I hear that many guilds were stuck here!"

"Little Yang, don't beat around the bush! Just tell us straight!" said Fatty Han hurriedly. He was trying to pushed everyone to defeat the Castle Interior dungeon to prove that their guild was the strongest!

"The boss strategy is rather easy. He had two skill. One would be used on the tank, and the other will be a random pick! The one that will be used on the tank is straight forward. It's just a rather strong damage skill that I will take care of it. As for the other skill, the boss will target two random players and cast some sort of explosive parasite. If the parasite is not killed off in time, then the player would...BOOM! Die. Explode. The damage is 100% percentage of HP so, even if you're a level 300 player with Celestial tier equipment, you would still die by this skill!"

"Oh! Then it's simple. When the bug comes out, we should just target the bugs!" said Daffodil confused.

Zhang Yang shook his head. "The bugs would be invisible to others. Only the players that are inflicted with the bugs would be able to see and attack the bugs for 20 seconds! Furthermore, because the bugs are implanted inside the body, the person cannot target and attack the bugs in their own body. Only the other party could attack the bugs on the other player. The explosive bug would incubate for 20 seconds, but HP is 10,000. If the targeted players are attacker class, it would post much problem. But if the targeted players were healer or tank, then it would be a little troublesome."

Endless Starlight blinked his eyes rapidly and said, "You consider yourself a low attacking class?"

"Hm! Hm!" the rest of them nodded their head.

Zhang Yang shrugged. He had a few tricks up his sleeves like the Eagle Eye and the Cripple Defense that could ignore 50% defense value after 5 stacks. His damage was not at all low!

"Oh! Hold on to the Beginner Power Potion. Only use the potion to fight the bug! Remember! When the boss activates the parasite skill, be sure to find your partner and kill the bug on the other person's body!" said Zhang Yang. "The only obstacle for this boss is the parasite. If we can overcome this problem, the boss would only be a piece of cake! If any of the bugs exploded, we would not be surviving this round then!"

"Shit! Hey! Kick Starlight out of the party! This guy is the weakest in DPS! Anyone who would be partnering with him would surely die! This guy is the enemy under our nose!" Fatty Han started to make fun of Endless Starlight.

Endless Starlight started to sobbed with tears flowing down his cheek. "Woo...Please Fatty bro! I don't mean to be that weak!"

"Hey, don't bully Starlight! He is an honest boy!" said Hundred Shots.

"If he is an honest boy, I am Brad Pit and Zhang Yang is Chuck Norris's apprentice!"

"Alright! Calm your tits Fatty. I'm starting the fight now! Remember to kill the bugs!" Zhang Yang took out the sword and reminded the party again.

"Yeah! Grandma!" everyone said in unison.

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Chapter 168: The Third Boss, Demison

"Look what the cat dragged in! Who are these worms that would intrude my brother's castle!" said Demison loudly as he stood up. He glanced the party and threw the glass on the floor furiously. "Too bad you're all just too weak! I would have sent you all to kill my brother! Then I could rule this castle! Oh my! I have slipped it out my little secret! Ho ho ho! Looks like I'll have to silence you my own way!"

While the boss was giving his opening speech, everyone was stuck in place, unable to do anything until Demison's speech had ended.

"DIE!" cried Demison as he charged towards the party.

When Zhang Yang regained control of his character, he immediately used Charge and met Demison's attack head on.

"-613!" Normal attack.

Cripple Defense

"-161!" Cripple Defense damage.

Even though the damage Zhang Yang had just caused wasn't much, it still angered Demison. As a noble race, how could he let anything land an attack on him! The higher a boss level, the better the A.I system control it would be. Demison growled and threw a punch to retaliate.

"-2135!"

Zhang Yang had Block, but he did not use it to negate the boss' attack! He took the attack head on. This was because he knew that the boss would use a skill that was similar to his own Destructive Smash. Not only would the attack be stronger, it also carried a 50% healing reduction with it. The cool down of the boss' skill is 8 seconds! He must reserve Block just for that skill alone! If he mistakenly uses Block for other attacks instead, he would eventually be inflicted with the healing reduction debuff and Han Ying Xue would not be able to heal him in time!

"Weaklings! Give up already! Surrender to my ultimate power!" Demison's right hand glowed bloody-red and he tackled Zhang Yang.

'Ding! Demison used Destructive Claw!'

Block!

Within a span of a millisecond, Zhang Yang had spontaneously activated Block and negated the skill. Still, Zhang Yang possessed many other life preserving skills, so in the case where he really took a direct hit or two from the Destructive Claw he would have survived. However, prevention is always better than cure.

Once Zhang Yang had attacked the monster, the party began to lay down hell from above. None of them were worried about getting OT! As long as Zhang Yang was the main tank, all would be well.

Before Demison unleashes the explosive bugs, he was but a sitting rock. Besides hurling "stones" at the tank, the rest of the party members was not majorly affected by the boss. Even Han Ying Xue had a relatively leisure role to play. She only needed to make sure that Regeneration was always ticking on and throw in the occasional Brilliant Light, Higher Healing, and other healing spells. She did not even need to use Holy Shield once!

95%, 93%, 90%...

Demison suddenly stopped attacking and raised his left and right hands to point at Hundred Shots and Wei Yan Er. "Ah! My children! Explosive Bugs! Time for your meal!"

Shush! Shush!

Two bloody-red hues beamed towards them and entered their bodies.

'Ding! Player Drizzler had received the effect Explosive Bug!'

'Ding! Player Hundred Shots had received the effect Explosive Bug!'

To the other players, Hundred Shots and Wei Yan Er had not experienced any changes. But in their own eyes, they could see a red bug growing from their body! The bug had a tag reading Incubating and a 20 second countdown timer.

[Explosive Bug] (Normal, Summon)

Level: 46

HP: 10,000

Hundred Shots immediately switched his aim to the bug on Wei Yan Er. He took a [Beginner Power Potion] and activated Beast Link, gaining a massive surge of damage power for just a short duration. He shot an arrow and commanded his pet, Storm Wolf to attack together with him. Both the Hunter and his pet shared the same field of vision.

Hundred Shots had completed the level 30 class quest at A level difficulty. The rewards for the class quest was the skill Beast Link, which added 75% ranged damage. [Beginner Fire Potion] had provide an extra 20% damage. Both of the bonus damage buffs had turned Hundred Shots into a God Killer for the moment. In just a mere 4 seconds while Wei Yan Er had ran towards him, Hundred Shots had taken away close to 6400 HP of the bug! However, when Wei Yan Er entered beyond his minimum range, he was unable to attack anymore and switched his target back to the boss instead. He let the pet finish the job for him.

These were the perks of a Hunter, or rather, a Beastmaster class! Compared to the other sub class, the Sniper, a Beastmaster had the advantage of having a pet that added DPS. Its attacks were at least 40% of the original attack power of its master! With 16 seconds more for the bug to hatch and explode, Hundred Shots pet had around 400 DPS which was more than enough time to destroy the bug!

Wei Yan Er wielded her axe and continuously slashed at Hundred Shots' chest, dealing a continuous chain of attacks at 1,300 each. She managed to kill the bug in just 11 seconds! Within that time, Hundred Shots pet had also managed to kill off the bug on Wei Yan Er.

First round's bug removal success.

Half a minute later, Demison HP had dropped by another 10% and triggered the second round of the explosive bugs.

'Ding! Player Endless Starlight had received the effect Explosive Bug!'

'Ding! Player Little Snow had received the effect Explosive Bug!'

This was just the worst of luck; the boss would actually pick the lowest DPS among the entire party!

Han Ying Xue quickly consumed a bottle of [Beginner Power Potion].

[Punishment Ray: Deals 150% Holy damage to a target.

Casting time: 2 seconds.

"-1815!"

Han Ying Xue originally had over then 1000 damage, but with a 20% damage boost from the potion, and the high attack damage from Punishment Ray, she could easily destroy the bug under 20 seconds.

After just two shots of Punishment Ray, Endless Starlight had reached Han Ying Xue. He knew that he had low damaging power, which was why he had reserved his long cooldown skills for situations like these, since his attacks would not cause any considerate damage to the boss.

"-223!" Shield Toss

"-721!" Strong Hammer.

"-216!" Commanding Seal.

"-725!" Normal attack.

"-216!" Commanding Seal.

"-446!" Justice Bash.

"-1081!" Judgement.

The defender's strongest advantage over the guardian was that all skills depended on MP; meaning that a Defender would be able to unleash all his skills as long as he had enough MP! However, once he has used up all his skills, there is the matter of the skill's cooldown! Just like any main character in any anime out there, once all skills have been thrown out, he would be in a weakened state soon after. A Defender would have to wait for his skill to finish its cool down!

Luckily, the Explosive Bug had 0 Defense and Magic Defense, which was why any job could deal damage at their maximum potential!

The most awkward situation for a Defender was MP problem. A Defender's equipment was mostly just had a little Intelligence bonus, causing their MP to be only just a little. Once all their skills were used, only just one round, all their MP would be drained completely!

This class could recover MP by depending on their skill Divine Shield. Divine Shield works by absorbing damage and recovers 10% MP. Defender had another skill called Grace to recover MP based on HP healed. This allows Defenders to continue their fight in a battle.

However, since Explosive Bugs are just a sitting duck, it would only take attack without returning any damage! When facing an enemy that would not return attack Defender would not be able to recover their MP! Since the monster would not attack him, Divine Shield would not be in effect. And since he had not lost any HP, Grace would not be in effect since he would not be receiving any heals!

Once Endless Starlight had used all his skills, he was then faced with a huge problem. He had only left 1/3 of his MP left!

Luckily, he wielded a Level 40 Gray-Silver weapon, dishing out rather high normal attacks. Every time he attacked, he would inflict an additional 30% Holy damage! His DPS was at least around 340. However, to be able to kill of 10,000 HP in 16 seconds was another question!

In just 12 seconds, Han Ying Xue was able destroy the Explosive bug on Endless Starlight! However, the Explosive Bug on her own body was still alive! It had 3,500 HP left!

"Starlight! What are you doing! Kill it already!" Han Ying Xue cried out in concern.

"What's the situation?! Have you managed to kill the bugs?" asked Zhang Yang. While Han Ying Xue was preoccupied with killing the bugs, Zhang Yang had summoned Merlinda's Shadow to heal him instead.

"The bug on Endless Starlight has been destroyed! But the one on me is still here!" Han Ying Xue knew that it would not help if she got all worked up about it. In the meantime, she turned around and healed Zhang Yang, if Endless Starlight failed to destroy the bug on her, she could still contribute a little more to the party before she dies.

Endless Starlight was even more nervous than she was! The effect of the [Beginner Power Potion] was ending soon, by then, his attacks would be reduced drastically, which would make things even harder to kill!

Zhang Yang immediately noticed Endless Starlight's MP status and barked out orders. "Hundred Shots, hit Starlight! Bitchy Snow, heal him as he goes!"

Hundred Shots had no idea what Zhang Yang was planning, but his faith towards him was enough to make him obey the order without hesitation. He immediately enabled "friendly fire" and attacked Endless Starlight.

Shiiing!

Han Ying Xue healed Endless Starlight back to full health after he was damaged by Hundred Shots. With Grace finally in effect, Endless Starlight had recovered more than 80 MP!

Just like a famished man who was given a warm meal, Endless Starlight smiled widely and cried, "Thanks guys! I really needed the help!"

Wham!

He cast more skills on the bug. Hundred Shots continued to attack Endless Starlight while Han Ying Xue continued to heal him, giving him the opportunity to recover as much MP as he needed.

Wham! Bam!

Endless Starlight spent all his freshly regained MP into attacking the Explosive Bug!

16 seconds, 17 seconds, 18 seconds, 19 seconds!

3000! 2000! 1000! 0!

Endless Starlight managed to kill the bug in the nick of time!

"Oh yeah! Oh yeah! I did it! Did you see that! I did it!" Jumping with immense excitement, Endless Starlight was screaming in celebration as he had "survived" the mental ordeal. The excitement was perhaps even more than actually defeating a boss!

"Haha! Good job!" Zhang Yang laughed. "Since the two lowest damage-dealers in our party could defeat the bugs, I would safely say that this boss is going to be a piece of cake!"

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Chapter 169: Rather Spirited Momentum

'Ding! Player Zhan Yu has received the effect Explosive Bug!'

'Ding! Player Frost Night has received the effect Explosive Bug!'

The 3rd wave of the Explosive Bugs landed on the two strongest DPS in the party!

Sun Xin Yu turned around immediately and brandishing her blades around, dealing explosive damage to the bug on Zhang Yang. However, her strongest damaging skill was Rear Attack. As the name of the skill implied, the skill would only activate when the user was attacking the target's back! Since these Explosive Bugs did not have a "rear" to begin with, Sun Xin Yu was left with no choice but to rely on Malign Attack.

Malign Attack is a skill that would only cause instantaneous damage based on the primary weapon, with 100% melee attack. Its damage could not be compared to that of Rear Attack. What more, a single attack from a dagger weapon is severely low! Even if Sun Xin Yu's current primary weapon is a level 40 Gray-Silver tier, her damage was a little over 600!

Luckily the Explosive Bug did not have any Defense value, which allowed even her secondary weapon to inflict substantial damage and to cover the loss of her original destructive power. Because of those reasons however, Sun Xin Yu's damage power had lost to Zhang Yang. When she finally destroyed the bug, Zhang Yang had already been attacking the boss for at least 4 seconds!

The prideful Sun Xin Yu could not help but feel helpless. Zhang Yang turned around and made a provoking face that read "I win! You lose!" which only angered her further. She continued her attack on the boss' back and attacked him, unleashing the rage that had been bottled up inside her.

Demison would cast Explosive Bug at every 10% HP bracket. This was truthfully, the toughest part of the boss fight. Fortunately, the team's weakest pair of DPS could destroy the bugs within the duration span. This would mean that the boss was a piece of cake for the entire party!

70%...40%...10%...

It was just a matter of time now!

"No! I cannot die just yet! I have not yet become the master of the Shadowmoon Castle. I cannot die! I c-can-not d-die..."

The boss fell defeated only after 6 minutes into the battle with the party.

Phew!

Everyone sighed a breath of relief. This was by far the boss that had gave the party a sense of challenge, a fight full of excitement!

Zhang Yang sighed loudly and called out to Wei Yan Er. "Little brat! Go and loot the droppings! I'm logging off to fix my biological problem!"

"Big boss Zhan Yu...you have a biological problem?" asked Endless Starlight quietly.

"HAHAHAHA!" Fatty Han laughed abruptly whist patting Endless Starlight shoulder furiously with his flabby hands. "That's right! Litte Yang has a severe case of biological problem! What a tragedy! How sad!"

In a non-city non-safe zone area, an additional 20 seconds was required before anyone could log off. Zhang Yang could still hear what those two were talking about and replied furiously. "Hey! I had no problem with that part of my body! F*ck you Fatty! You'd better not say anything--"

Before he could finish his sentence, the 20 second time had completed and Zhang Yang was logged out of the game. He quickly went to the toilet and hastily made his way back into the game. When he entered the game, his character reappeared close to the boss' dead body.

By then, everyone else was looking at him as if they were looking at a strange experimental product, with a hint of amusement in their face.

"Damn you Fatty! What did you say while I was gone!?" Zhang Yang screamed at Fatty Han.

Fatty Han shrugged his shoulder off like nothing had happened and said, "Nothing much, if you had nothing to hide, what were you afraid of?"

Motherf*cker. When you say something like that, even the sun would rise from the sea and set in the sky!

Zhang Yang shook his head and said, "F*ck it. I'm too lazy to deal with you. Little brat? Time for the loots!"

Wei Yan Er walked over to the body while shaking in fear. She turned her head towards Zhang Yang slowly and said, "H-hey...Noob t-tank. Y-you wouldn't be a-asking me to...to follow you in your v-van for c-candies right?"

WTF!? What did that f*cked up fatty pig say to this girl?!

Zhang Yang stared angrily at Fatty Han and turned away. "Relax little girl. This handsome man does not have love for flat-chested-petite-lolis!"

"Damn! You actually called yourself handsome! Need I remind you that you have only a slightly above average look!" Wei Yan Er talked back while rolling her eyes at him. "I'm telling you. You better go Korea and have your face fixed a little! If not, you might randomly scare other flora and fauna alike!"

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "Since when could this little girl talk like that?"

Wei Yan Er snickered. "My cousin sister taught me that!"

Han Ying Xue expressed a rather contented expression while crossing her arms below her magnificent breasts, causing them to slightly bounce about.

Wei Yan Er continued joking and went over to the loots.

[Hellheim Boots] (Gray-Silver, Leather Armor)

Defense; 12

Vitality: 48

Strength: 8

Agility: 24

Unidentified

Level Requirement: 40

Everyone rolled for it and Sun Xin Yu won the item.

The next few items were all just Green-Copper grade equipment. The party chose to let Zhang Yang keep them all.

"Damn! We're strong! We could just defeat the boss in one try! Haha!" said Fatty Han with a rather jubilant expression, self-praising shamelessly. "I really want to just log onto the forum and post our achievement! Let the world know that we, the Lone Desert Smoke could achieve anything, even the First Clear Achievement if we wanted to! Hmph! Let them come, be it One Sword Stroke, they are nothing to our Zhang Yang here!"

Zhang Yang quickly cut in, "That player, One Sword Stroke is really strong though!"

If Zhang Yang had not been reborn anew into this world, One Sword Stroke would undoubtedly be the best tank in the entire of China! His strength and that of his team had earned him the greatest honor and pride in china. Soon, all that stood against him would fall defeated under his achievement!

"I was slow last time...I didn't had a chance to compete with you back then...but now...heh" Zhang Yang smiled and muttered by himself. "I will be at the peak of it all and wait for you to come challenge me this time!"

The party went up to the fourth floor and last floor of the castle. The structure of the castle remained the same as ever, the only different was the monsters. This time, the monsters were soldiers, carrying long swords and shield.

[Wolfman Soldier] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 45

HP: 90,000

"A Warrior type monster would basically have Tornado Cleave and Dividing Slash. Try not to stand in front of the monster and fight, if you have low HP, please move to their backs or sides!"

Zhang Yang took out his sword and used Charge and stunned one of the monsters ahead.

The monsters on this floor were also in pairs. When one of them was stunned, the other growled furiously and slashed Zhang Yang.

"-492!"

Zhang Yang slashed the monster but only dealt small, petty damage on it. "Damn. This monster is just the same as I am! A Guardian! His defense is so strong! Perhaps even stronger than mine! It must be more than 400 points. With that passive 20% damage reduction and 90,000 HP, it would be a good bait if I could control this monster to tank a boss!"

When Charge stun effect wore off, Zhang Yang cast Blast Wave and stunned both the monsters with only "-97!" damage.

Sun Xin Yu and the rest of the party tried their best, using status ailment skills to stun the monster and prevent them from casting Tornado Cleave. As such, the party was stuck there for half an hour, advancing slowly. Only then did the party make their way to a large hall. At the far end of the hall, there was a man, fully clad in armor that covered his entire body. Even his face was completely covered in the silver-metal helmet, masking his appearance from the world. Wielding a large two-handed axe in his hands, the man was guarding a large entrance behind him. The only thing that revealed were his blood shot eyes. The red glint that expressed fierce killing intent was cold and frightening.

[Blood Guardian Angelo] (Gray-Silver, Humanoid)

Level: 47

HP: 1,500,000

Note: Master Waller's loyal follower.

"What pride is there for a Boss to guard an entrance!" Wei Yan Er was frowning.

Zhang Yang laughed. "Once we kill him, the last boss beyond that door would be Master Waller!"

"How do we fight?" Everyone stared at Zhang Yang.

Every time they party would relied on him for the battle plan, Zhang Yang would always pretend to be humble. He faked a cough to get everyone's attention and began to explain.

"This boss...is easy but not easy. It's hard, but it's not hard!"

"What the hell?" Almost everyone rolled their eyes.

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "It's true! I'm not lying! Remember the time I told you to collect some equipment with Vitality bonus? Now it's the time to use them! The boss has one ulti,..well, technically it's several skills put together..,"

"First, the boss will randomly pick a player and cast a skill called "Something something Demon". I can't remember the skill's name but the effect of the skill is to create a mirror image of the selected player. The generated mirror image of the player will have around the same attack as the player himself! However, it's HP was just 10,000 HP. Just like the Explosive Bug from earlier, only the selected player could see and attack the mirror image."

"If you do not kill the summoned image, it will remain forever there. If the player was picked again the second time, it will generate another image and so on, so forth."

"The image, or shadow must be killed off as soon as possible since it will disrupt the party attack. The defeated shadow will drop something like a blood fragment that would be used in the finale."

"After the boss uses the shadow summon skill, it will cast a shield on himself, causing him to be immune to all attacks. He will also recover 3% HP every second for 33 seconds! That means that, unless we break the shield, the boss would recover full HP and we would have to start all over again!"

"The only way to defeat the boss is to kill the summoned image, get the fragment and break the shield on the boss!"

"However! We should not simply use the fragment as soon as we obtain any of them! Once the shield on the boss is broken, it will unleash a skill that would damage everyone in the room by 5000 Fire damage! That was why I had asked you to collect high Vitality equipment!"

Zhang Yang continued, "Now that you've listen to what I've said, I'll summarize it all. Kill the shadow, heal everyone to full health, and finally break the shield!"

"Aiyaya...If Endless Starlight was picked, I'm afraid that we would only manage to break the boss' shield when he has healed by more than 200%!" Fatty Han teased Endless Starlight.

Endless Starlight was rather down during the Explosive Bug fight. But now that was over and all, Endless Starlight was confident that he could surpass this level as well. "Haha! Just you wait and see!"

"Woah! We got a badass cherry boy over here!" cried Fatty Han.

Everyone changed into their own high Vitality equipment and beefed up themselves. When everyone else was doing just fine, Daffodil Daydream was falling behind the "absolute safe line" Since she had joined the party rather late, the equipment that she had was rather inferior to the rest of the party member. Unlike Endless Starlight that could immediately gained extra 1600 HP just by equipping a new shield, Daffodil Daydream as nowhere near to the safe HP limit. She was so anxious about it that she could start crying.

Han Ying Xue laughed at her reaction and consoled her. "Relax Daffy! When we will break the boss' shield, I will put a Holy Shield on you. The shield could absorb at least 2000 damage! It's the same as having an extra 2000 HP in hand!"

After listening to Han Ying Xue's explanation, Daffodil Daydream finally relaxed and wiped her tears away.

"Alright, alright. Prepare to fight! Once we defeat this boss, we would finally face Master Waller!" Zhang Yang unsheathe his sword and cried. "Same old style. Only use the power potion when you need it!"

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Chapter 170: Blood Guardian Angelo

Angelo seemed to be a true warrior with a rather dignified look; when Zhang Yang entered his aggro zone, Angelo did not open his mouth to say anything unnecessary and only swung his huge axe at Zhang Yang. The silver, pale metal axe was coated in dried blood on the blade; one could only imagine exactly how many people he has killed, or perhaps drained their blood dry!

'Block!'

Other than the protection of the shield, he had nothing special to offer. His attack power was nothing much, yet it was the only thing that he depended on whenever his shield breaks. He would try to keep his attackers at bay with sheer attacks, capable of pushing healers to heal until they were out of MP! The boss would only use normal attacks on Zhang Yang. There was no need for Zhang Yang to rely on Block to survive as he usually did, unless he was up against an ulti.

'-2123!'

After the second attack only did he manage to damage Zhang Yang. However, the boss had already received 3 stacks of Cripple Defense and had his own defense value dropped significantly.

'Cripple Defense!'

'Cripple Defense!'

Completing the maximum 5 layers of Cripple Defense, Zhang Yang had rendered the boss to be completely "naked" as he fought him. Every attack was completely disregarding his defense!

Sun Xin Yu and everyone else had surrounded the boss and pushed themselves to attack as fast as they can. Since the boss had other self-defensive measures hidden up his sleeves, they could not afford to drag the battle for long!

99% 97%, 95%... Bit by bit the boss' HP dropped down like an old man walking down the stairs.

"Demon from the abyss! Heed my call and engulf Drizzler's soul!" 10 seconds into the battle, Angelo raised both his hands in the air and activated a skill.

'Ding! Angelo has used Demon's Call!'

Right in front of her, a mirror image character of Drizzler appeared. With a dark hue and a translucent body, the summoned shadow character was a splitting image of her!

[Demonic Shadow] (Normal, Summon)

Level: 41

HP: 10,000

Once the shadow appeared, the aggro was automatically fixed to Wei Yan Er. However, as the timing would have it, Han Ying Xue had cast a healing spell on Zhang Yang, drawing the aggro away from Wei Yan Er to herself.

Wei Yan Er shouted angrily: "Bastard, don't run away! Don't you dare look down on me! I will chop you up into ground meat!" She quickly broke formation from her spot beside the boss and chased after the Demonic Shadow.

In the eyes of everyone, she was inexplicably talking to the air, murderously raising her axe and dashing towards Han Ying Xue.

'Slash!'

She slashed in Han Ying Xue's general direction with her axe.

'-1,328!'

In the meantime, Han Ying Xue screamed and a damage text appeared above her head. She then stared at Wei Yan Er and said, "You little brat! You should hit the shadow, why are you hitting me?"

"No, it was the shadow that slashed you and I'm avenging you! You are my cousin, how could I possibly slash you?!" Wei Yan Er quickly answered, feeling that she was wrongly blamed!

In the eyes of Wei Yan Er, Demonic Shadow turned around to face her instead of attacking Han Ying Xue. Similarly, Demonic Shadow also slashed towards Wei Yan Er with axe.

'-1,334!'

2,296!'

One normal strike and one Tornado Cleave totaled up to a massive amount, taking off Wei Yan Er's HP by 3,600!

"Sister, quickly help me!" Wei Yan Er was well aware of her own skills, and Destructive Smash, has not been used by Demonic Shadow yet! After she passed the quest at A difficulty, she had a 50% healing reduction effect along with the 150% melee damage of the skill, which was very powerful!

Han Ying Xue had cast Regeneration on Wei Yan Er, at the same time, she also cast Healing Bond so both of them healed about 1,000 HP, and finally she cast a Holy Shield on Wei Yan Er.

'Damage absorb!'

Demonic Shadow slashed Wei Yan Er again but this time the damage was fully absorbed by Holy Shield. However, the 50% healing reduction effect from the attack, Destructive Smash, still appeared across Wei Yan Er's head!

Wei Yan Er already summoned her [Servant: Centuar Guard] and attacked Demonic Shadow together. Hundred Shots and Fatty Han's Companion Aura was effective on the servant as well. Although it was only increased 3% damage, it was still worthwhile!

Even though the Demonic Shadow's HP was higher than Wei Yan Er's HP, a peerless healer was standing behind her, so how ever much damage she took from Demonic Shadow would be covered by healing. Ten seconds later, Demonic Shadow turned into a ray of white light and crashed down on the ground. Wei Yan Er quickly picked up a blood-red shiny thorn from Demonic Shadow's corpse.

[Evil Blood Thorn] (Consumable)

Use: Dispel Angelo's Devil Shield.

"Little brat, do not immediately use [Evil Blood Thorn] when Angelo is casting Devil Shield, wait for demonic Snow to cast a Holy Shield on Daffodil Daydream first!" Zhang Yang promptly reminded Wei Yan Er.

"You are such a nag, am I that stupid?" Wei Yan Er pursed her lips.

Another ten seconds later, right after another attack from Angelo, he shouted, "Demon from the abyss, heal me!"

'Immune!'

A black colored light shield immediately encircled Angelo, and the debuffs from Destructive Smash and deadly poison effects appeared across his head were all dispelled. He even gained immunity to all the attacks from Zhang Yang and the gang. Still, Angelo never stopped attacking Zhang Yang and continued hacking away with his axe.

"Ding! Angelo has obtained Devil Shield's effect. Recover 3% HP every second and immune to all damage. Lasts for 33 seconds!"

Han Ying Xue immediately cast a Holy Shield on Daffodil Daydream and yelled, "Yan Er, break the shield!"

Wei Yan Er had already taken out the [Evil Blood Thorn] from her inventory and was at the ready. Once after she heard Han Ying Xue giving the order, she promptly targeted Angelo and selected [Evil Blood Thorn].

"Ding! Angelo's Devil Shield's effect has dispelled!"

'-4,000!'

'-5,000!'

'-5,000!'

...

Angelo's shield was broken and scattered into pieces of black colour flames which shot towards Zhang Yang and the gang and huge damage texts floated over all of their heads. Han Ying Xue quickly cast Holy Prayer and Regeneration on everyone. Fortunately Angelo's melee attacks were not any powerful. While healing the tank, Han Ying Xue also had enough time to recover everyone's HP to full.

Nevertheless, Angelo's HP recovered from 88% to 94% which wasted half their efforts.

Ten seconds later, Angelo used another Demon's Call and a mirror image character of Hundred Shots appeared.

Conversely, Demon's Call would only clone the shadow of player and not pets, therefore, the attack power from Hunter's shadow would definitely be much lower! Hundred Shots was a Beastmaster and almost half of his attacks came from his pet. So how could the Demonic Shadow defeat Hundred Shots if Demon's Call didn't clone Hundred Shots' pet?

Besides, Demonic Shadow's aggro was drawn by Hundred Shots' pet. So, Demonic Shadow was foolishly fighting against Hundred Shots' pet! On the other hand, how could a cornered melee Hunter produce high damage? Thus, Han Ying Xue did not need to be distracted and Hundred Shots defeated the Demonic Shadow easily.

A Beastmaster's pet could share its master's attributes, thus, the stronger its master, the stronger the pet it is! Currently, Hundred Shots had 5,240 HP while his pet, Wind Wolf, had 5,920 HP which was much higher HP than its master!

Han Ying Xue had the previous experience of Angelo's Devil Shield's effect, she casted a Holy Shield on Daffodil Daydream five seconds in advance. So, when Angelo used his Devil Shield, Han Ying Xue immediately shouted, "Hundred Shots, break the shield!"

'Shoot!'

Angelo only got to recover his HP once before his shield was dispelled again. The shield which broke into pieces caused massive damage to the gang once again!

85%!

It was really hard to fight against Angelo as the gang had clearly reduced 22% of Angelo's HP but Angelo in turn, had abruptly recovered 9% of his HP!

Ten seconds later, right after Devil Shield was dispelled, the third Demon's Call was used by Angelo once again. This time, a mirror image character of Endless Starlight appeared.

Endless Starlight fought against Demonic Shadow confidently this time as Demonic Shadow would fight back and he did not need to worry about running out of MP anymore! Luckily, this Demonic Shadow was a clone of Endless Starlight but obviously it did not know how to heal using Sacred Protection or Sacred Heal. Otherwise, the gang would need to surrender if any Defender, Guardian or healing classes were selected by Demon's Call!

In spite of Demonic Shadow's high defense value and most of Endless Starlight's damage being Holy Damage, the damage wasn't affected by defense value! Even so, when Endless Starlight was fighting against Demonic Shadow, Angelo had already used Devil Shield for three seconds!

"Starlight, hurry up and throw the thorn!" Han Ying Xue already cast a Holy Shield on Daffodil Daydream.

Endless Starlight hurriedly picked up [Evil Blood Thorn] and quickly threw it towards Angelo without aiming carefully.

'Shoot!'

Angelo's Devil Shield broken into pieces once again and causing huge damage to everyone. His HP recovered from 74% to 86% which was 1% higher than the second time the shield was broken!

Endless Starlight felt so sorry and guilty. He said, "I'm sorry!"

"If apologizing is so useful then it is pointless to have the police!" Wei Yan Er gave a short laugh.

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "It's alright, we just need to fight a little bit longer!"

Everyone was clear about usual pattern of Angelo using his skills. Ten seconds after breaking Devil Shield, Angelo would use Demon's Call and twenty seconds later, Angelo would use Devil Shield once again. Thus, players had only twenty seconds to kill Demonic Shadow and pick up the [Evil Blood Thorn]!

The fourth time of Demon's Call, a mirror image character of Han Ying Yue appeared.

Zhang Yang immediately yelled, "Demon Snow focus and kill the Demonic Shadow, do not bother about me!"

"En!" Han Ying Xue answered Zhang Yang but she still cast Regeneration on Zhang Yang before casting a Holy Shield on herself. After that, she started to cast Punishment Ray on Demonic Shadow.

Demonic Shadow would not know how to use healing skills, so its only attack skill was Punishment Ray. Demonic Shadow immediately fought back against Han Ying Xue.

'-1,812! -1,831! -1,819! -1,823!'

'Damage absorb!'

'-542! -1,523! -1,511!'

Although it was the same Punishment Ray attack, Han Ying Xue drank a [Beginner Power Potion] just now, so, her attack power had instantly increased by 20%!

However, the disadvantage of being healer class was shown, by the fourth time both of them had cast Punishment Ray on each other, Demonic Shadow had about 2,800 remaining HP while Han Ying Xue had only 1,700 HP. If both of them continued casting on each other like that, they would die at the same time!

Luckily, this was Han Ying Xue! She still had an instantaneous healing skill, which was Mending Prayers! Even if she never learned Mending Prayers, Zhang YanG still had two skills to aid teammates, which were Sacrifice and Vanguard's Aggression. So, it was unnecessary for Han Ying Xue to worry about being killed!

Han Ying Xue used only twelve seconds to defeat the Demonic Shadow. She immediately picked up [Evil Blood Thorn] and waited for Angelo to use Devil Shield.

"Demon from the abyss, heal me!" Angelo shouted loudly and activated Devil Shield!

Han Ying Xue cast a Holy Shield on Daffodil Daydream and threw the [Evil Blood Thorn] towards Angelo.

'Shoot! Demon Shield had broken!'

Angelo recovered his HP once and back to 78% HP!

"It is really tiring killing this boss!" Fatty Han complained. Even though they successfully break the shield right after Angelo recovered his HP once, the HP recovery was 3% which was also equaled to 45,000 HP!

"Cut the bull sh*t and just fight the boss!" Sun Xin Yu coldly said.

Fatty Han suddenly had a cold sweat and dared not to voice out anymore. But he personally sent a private message to Zhang Yang, "Little Yang, I never thought that you would favor girls with strong personality. You dared keep such a tough girl! This is the first time I'm not envious of you having the luck to be adored by a pretty girl!"

Zhang Yang got speechless and replied, "Cut your bull crap and continue attacking the boss!"

"F*ck, you are really acting like her husband already! Sigh, somebody had hoes before bros, I despise you!"

Because Angelo had HP recovery skills, if the gang could break the shield once Angelo casted Devil Shield, then they could reduce about 15% of Angelo's HP every minute. But if they were unsuccessful in breaking the Devil Shield in the beginning, sometimes Angelo's HP reduction could be much lesser than his HP recovery!

They worked so hard and successfully reduced Angelo's HP to 6% in nine minutes!

They had used such a long time to fight Angelo, that even though Han Ying Xue had her skill costs reduced by 75%, she was at her limit! If it was not due to the fact that she was an expert in MP management, her MP would be totally running out! Still, she had only 7% of her MP remaining.

What was most unfortunate was that Demon's Call selected Han Ying Xue this time. After killing Demonic Shadow, her MP was almost depleted and she did not even have enough MP to heal her HP to full!

"Ranged positions stand behind melee and I will use Vanguard's Aggression!" Zhang Yang immediately made a decision without hesitation.

Five seconds later, Angelo used Devil Shield.

Zhang Yang hurriedly caged everyone into his Vanguard's Aggression's protection barrier, at the same time, he also used Shield Wall.

Both Han Ying Xue and Zhang Yang had an unspoken bond, and then she immediately threw the [Evil Blood Thorn].

Shoot!

Angelo's shield broken into pieces again, with the effect of Vanguard's Aggression, it almost nullified the damage on everyone!

"Demon Snow, don't need to heal anyone and use this few seconds to recover your MP!" Zhang Yang said. He also used the necklace [Heart of Fallen Warrior] and Angelo's damage was instantly reduced to about 500.

In 'God's Miracle', Spellcasters would recover their MP by relying on Spirit attribute during combat. But this had to follow the so-called "5 seconds principle" where the Spellcaster needs to stop casting any spells or skills for 5 seconds before the MP recovery that relied on the Spirit attribute would kick in!

Ten seconds later, Han Ying Xue's MP recovered to 7% while Angelo remained at 5% HP. Angelo used another Demon's Call and Endless Starlight was selected this time!

"Don't bother about Demonic Shadow, everyone focus and fight against Angelo. If we don't kill him this round, we are going to be annihilated! Drink your Power Potion if it is not in cool down and release all the damage you could to Angelo!" Zhang Yang shouted loudly.

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