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 203: Rage for the Damsel

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Zhang Yang ignored him completely and turned to Yu Li. "Teacher Yu! Let's go!"

Qian Hong Wen was immensely angered. He threw his arms across, grabbed Zhang Yang's shoulders, and turned him around forcefully. "What do you think you're doing?! Leave the woman behind!"

A few days back, Qian Hong Wen was in the campus to meet up with his uncle. Coincidentally, he saw Yu Li when she was bending over to pick up the books that she had accidentally dropped. That moment, he saw her plump little butt plastered against the fabric of her skirt. The perfect peach-like contour was so vividly pressed out, that he could see a hint of butt-cleavage between the two bumps. A boiling wave of lust surged out and he hated the fact that he could not just rush in to grab those perfect melons! All he wanted to do was to thrust himself between that perfectly formed gap! When Yu Li straightened up, he saw her face, which was as beautiful as a super star's! The lust in him rose up like bile and he could not just let her go!

Qian Hong Wen knew that Hou Bi Hua (Monkey Butt) was working hard for a promotion! So, Qian Hong Wen used that to bait the man, hinting that all he wanted was to get her into his lap. If he could do it, promotion would be in hand. Without any further thought, Monkey Butt accepted the offer!

The plan was laid out smoothly. The little sheep was about to land into the mouth of the wolf, when someone unexpectedly appeared to interrupt. Like having cold water poured over his head, how could Qian Hong Wen remain calm! As a Cang Lang Province Government Publication Department Deputy Chief, he was still a Deputy Chief of a governmental institution! If he wanted to get down with a woman, why would he need to behave! If he wanted his bed warm, hundreds of women would be jumping onto his bed for him!

Zhang Yang frowned furiously. "Let go!"

Yu Li was the woman he had secretly been in love with ever since he had entered university. Even though time had been cruel to him and made him forget about his youthful love, he could never allow a woman he knew to be harassed right in front of his face! Rage, anger, righteousness, you name it, he had them all!

As a man of rank, it had become a habit for a person such as Qian Hong Wen to look down on a nobody like Zhang Yang. He proudly bellowed. "Boy! Do you know who I am?"

That cliché…it was like almost every single villain only spoke that same utterance every time they were challenged.

Zhang Yang scoffed. "What do I care? If you don't let go, you'll be sorry about what happens next!"

All the commotion had brought the attention of Fatty Han and the rest of his ex-classmates. Everyone came out of the room, peeking at the situation only to see Zhang Yang and the obese middle-aged man having a war with words.

Zhang Yang is such a stud! He could even seduce a woman while on a toilet break! But…is he starting a fight?

With a strong brotherly love, Fatty Han immediately let Wu Hai Li go. How could he allow this fight to go on without him! He walked up with large steps and bellowed. "What's up! You wanna fight?"

His nostril was practically flaring with potent rage. Even though he was no high-ranking officer in this province, the current province leader Yang Bao Kun was an old friend back in university. He relied on this special relation to do whatever he wanted, as he saw fit. This fat f*ck definitely looked like a street thug in a glance. Was he seeking trouble; a common street thug, picking a fight with a government officer out of all things!

"Bastard! I am Cang Lang Province Government Publication Department Deputy Chief Qian Hong Wen! Try and touch me if you dare!" Qian Hong Wen decided to puff his chest to let those two oblivious brats to understand who they are dealing with!

Like a astrophysics trying to explain the theory of space time to a 5 year old, Fatty Han was rather confused about that long title. Fatty Han mind was only filled with girls, woman, ladies, and fights. In his perspective, government officers were either governors, mayors, city leaders, or district leaders. As for chief of departments…the only department chief he knew was the Safety Department Chief at a Transport company that he used to work at. With that in mind, Fatty Han thought that his middle-aged man must be out of his mind. Deputy Chief?! Huh!

Fatty Han crossed his hands.

So what if you have a few underlings? You think I'm afraid? Call them if you want. I'll fight all day!

Zhang Yang grew impatient. He glanced down to where Qian Hong Wen was grabbing his hands and said with a serious tone. "3 seconds. If you don't let go, you'll regret it dearly."

"What are you pulling at?" Annoyed, Qian Hong Wen raise his hand to slap Zhang Yang.

WHAM!

Zhang Yang lifted his leg and delivered a strong kick. Qian Hong Wen cried out suddenly with colors drained from his face. He trembled a little as he staggered a few steps back. His throat quivered a little before a loud "ARGH" was released from his wide, open mouth.

"Eww…" The hallway was suddenly filled with the smell of alcohol. Everyone instinctively pinched their noses.

"Y-You! What have you done! You actually hit an officer in the open! Revolt! Rebel!" Monkey Butt quickly took out his phone and dialed 110. He had not dared call the cops for fearing that it might tarnish Qian Hong Wen's reputation! He was a government officer, and being seen in an entertainment center, a Karaoke establishment would be rather embarrassing for him. But, now that an officer had been struck down, he had to do something, or earn Qian Hong Wen's fury.

Monkey Butt was categorized under the education department, and since his university was under the private sector, not even a City level officer could touch him, much less a Provincial officer. Technically, he should not be afraid of Qian Hong Wen. Still, he is the nephew of the university president, he could easily ask his sister to say a word or two when her husband is sleeping next to her. If things get any worse, he might not be able to work in any department at all!

That was from the perspective of the "bad guys". Everyone else had their own thoughts about Zhang Yang striking the self-proclaimed government officer.

Wang Hai and Liu Qi Ming were just regular, everyday chaps. They were stunned and immediately begun trembling in fear. Zhang Yang might have gotten them involved in trouble, dragging them down the sea along with him. Zhao Kang Ming was beyond glee. He knew that once Zhang Yang had offended a Province Government Publication Department Deputy Chief, he would not be able to walk free after this event!

Zhao Hui Shan was also happy that she had made the right decision to dump him back then. If she had followed him closely, a man who knows no danger, who acts all high and mighty and gets into a huge messes like the one that had just happened in front of them, she would have had to watch over her shoulder fearfully, till the end of her life! Li Ru on the other hand, was brimming with joy! She was able to see the wild, fierce Zhang Yang in action again. Her desire for him had doubled! She had decided to invest a little more money to keep him for her own!

Yan Zhi Ru was rather shocked at his action. Once again, she clicked her tongue out of habit. She thought that since she had publicly announced of her father's position, he intended to borrow her strength and influential power to act how he want. Still, he was still an acquaintance. As such, she would be willing to help out a hand. Still, she wanted to make sure that she could properly control Zhang Yang. If he had tasted the power, he might abuse it!

The truth? Zhang Yang dared to kicked down Qian Hong Wen because he was borrowing someone else's strength and influential power. The target was not Yang Zhi Xian, but his own "girlfriend", Sun Xin Yu! She was the real god here. Since he had that power right in his pocket, why not use them? Zhang Yang was not that kind of man who would rely on his own strength to enact justice. Why do something when you can let someone else do it for you?

Qian Hong Wen was drunk and wanted to rape a helpless woman, this kind information would definitely be fuel to the icy flame of Sun Xin Yu! Her kicks would definitely be stronger and harder than his!

"Teacher Yu! Please get up! I'll send you home!" Zhang Yang supported Yu Li on his shoulder and begun to leave.

"Don't you move!" Monkey Butt had just ended the call. He did not dare to stand right in front of Zhang Yang, fearing that he would end up the same way as Qian Hong Wen. However, the Karaoke center security guards was alert. One by one, they rushed over.

Monkey Butt started to shoat while pointing his fingers at Zhang Yang. "Don't let them go! That man beat Chief Qian up!"

The guards had no idea who Chief Qian was, but they did know that "Chief", meant something. They quickly blocked Zhang Yang front moving further. Be it a minor brawl or random fights, it was their duty to detain the people involved and let the police take care of the rest.

Qian Hong Wen coughed heavily for a while and got up after a huge struggle. He pointed his trembling fingers at Zhang Yang, his voice shaking. "You f*cking bastard! I'll mess you up real good!"

Zhang Yang turned around and smiled. "You must have many colleagues in work. Be wary that you might be called in for an afternoon tea by the Disciplinary Committee!"

All government officer would be scared of the Disciplinary Committee!

Annoyed, Qian Hong Wen screamed. "Who you think you are? You think you can call up to a Disciplinary Committee to check on me? Is your father a City Chief? A Province Chief? Hmph! I'll let you sit and rot in jail for the next 10 days! Or even a month! I'll arrange a very nice spot you! People would be able to f*ck your bare naked *ss all day!"

Yang Zhi Xian heard what he said and frowned angrily. She was familiar with such people. One of them was her father's old classmate back when her father was in university. Back when he came to her house as a guest, he treated her father with respect, to the point where she thought that he was very kind and friendly without any trace of anger nor savagery! But lo and behold, once the tables are turned, she could not believe that he could be so rude and violent!

Even though she was a girl, having experience of dealing with politics since she was young, she gained a strong understanding on the political world. She knew that this kind of people would only be up to no good. Whenever a big case came up, her father would definitely be involved. A leader would lose his credibility because of a single misjudge!

No, she can not allow this man to continue his act of horror!

Fatty Han rolled up his sleeves and asked Zhang Yang. "Little Yang. This man mouth is spouting something smelly. I can't bear to smell it anymore. Should I help you close his mouth up?"

Zhang Yang smiled lightly and said, "There's no need to soil your hands on a rabid dog."

A Province Government Publication Department Deputy Chief was insulted as a rabid dog? If Zhao Kang Ming and the rest of his friend were shocked beyond belief, what would Qian Hong Wen himself feel? Zhang Yang must be mad beyond reason! He is crazy beyond anyone's comprehension! He must be crazy!

How could you fight with a Province Government Publication Department Deputy Chief? That man could easily blow you off with a simple fart! You think you're all strong and invincible just because you can fight? What's the use of the police force then?!

"Fatty! Let's go!" said Zhang Yang. He needed Fatty Han to drive Yu Li back home.

"Don't you dare move!" said the Karaoke guards. If this case escalated to a serious level, the guards might be in serious trouble if they let Zhang Yang leave the scene.

Qian Hong Wen had steam coming out from his ears and nose. He was the Cang Lang Province Government Publication Department Deputy Chief! How could he take a beating in a public just like that! If the word got out, he would be shamed! When he saw many guards surrounding Zhang Yang, he gathered the courage and walked up front boldly. He gripped his fist tightly and thrust a haymaker to the back of Zhang Yang's head.

Now, Zhang Yang and Fatty Han were excellent fighting partners. Even though Zhang Yang was facing the guards, Fatty Han was covering his back out of habit. This fighting stance was formed after years of fighting together in the streets! Now that he saw the sneaky Qian Hong We about to land a hit to Zhang Yang, Fatty Han immediately threw a punch to meet with his fist.

"ARGH…" Qian Hong Wen backed away in a flash. His hand was flung backwards. Blood started to ooze out from his hands; and his face was cringing in pain.

Blood! There's blood!

Once the guard saw that happening, how could they let them go! Zhang Yang and the fat guy had completely ignored the guards and assaulted the government officer! In an instant, the group of guards rushed towards Zhang Yang, raising their batons to hit Zhang Yang, to try and stop the two "suspects", Zhang Yang and Fatty Han.

Seeing that he was about to be attacked, he could not just let them do so, and in a quick flash and a blur, Zhang Yang beat them all into a pulp.

During the commotion, Zhou Kang Ming and the rest of his friend were dragged into the mess. The guards had mistakenly assumed that they were with Zhang Yang and beat them up with their batons, leaving them wailing in pain. Since Fatty Han was a little annoyed at Zhou Kang Ming earlier, he had even "accidentally" threw a few punches to leave a mark on his face. Zhang Yang himself had purposely led the guards, one by one towards Zhou Kang Ming, letting the bastard have a taste of the fight. However, that bastard had even shoved Zhao Hui Shan in front of himself and cowered behind her.

Know that hammer of justice does not discriminate genders! In the midst of the huge commotion, who would have the time to pull their punches if a beautiful girl got involved in the fight? Furthermore, since the guards were "bullied" by Fatty Hand and Zhang Yang so badly, they took their chance to have their "revenge" at the poor, wailing little Zhou Kang Ming. Target the weak ones first, in a fight. This was the perfect example. However, the true victim here was Zhao Hui Shan, her hair tugged at so roughly that her scream was so loud that people might have thought that she was actually giving birth. Her chest and *ss had marks; perhaps a few of those guards might had taken the opportunity to molest her.

Both Zhang Yang and Fatty Han were unmatched in fist fights. They could face more than 10 guards and still remained unfazed. The alcohol in them made their punches a little more sluggish than usual. But, after trading a few blows, they grew stronger, faster! In turn, they had managed to beat them all with only a little effort. Qian Hong Wen and the Monkey Butt were not out of the fight, their faces and noses clearly bruised badly for taking innumerable hits in the commotion.

Wee Woo Wee Woo!

The siren of the police was heard outside of the establishment just when the fight was about to reach its conclusion. After a few more punches were thrown, a squad of policemen came up the building and surrounded everyone. "Face the wall! Face and wall and kneel down!"

Being used to these kind of situation, both Fatty Han and Zhang Yang quickly headed to a corner and complied. After all, those policemen were holding electric batons! If they were to get stung by those contraptions, it would be stinging for a few days!

Qian Hong Wen, however, refused to comply! He was the officer in this province! A leader, technically! These police officers are all under his rank! They were practically his subordinates! If he listened to them and kneel down, how could he still face the public after being humiliated so extensively! Furthermore, he was the victim here! Fatty Han's punch had knocked out two of his front teeth! If he did not at least beat them with a punch or two, he would not be able to sleep comfortably tonight!

The policemen walked closer and when they saw this one man still rearing for a fight, they zapped him with the electric baton and sent the man down to his knees.

"GRAaa.Aaah..argh…ah.." The poor man was zapped badly before he could no longer remain standing, where he laid on the ground twitching with the remaining electric current in his system.

"Wait! He's the.. GRAHHahhh…ah…." The poor Monkey Butt was already kneeling down when he quickly jumped to his feet to reveal Qian Hong Wei's identity. But the policemen did not know that and thought that he was somewhat resisting arrest. They zapped him as well and left him shaking in pain.

Both Zhang Yang and Fatty Han saw what had happened and giggled quietly.

"Take them all back to the station!" cried one of the policemen. The number of participants in this fight was quite large. It could even consider to be a mass brawl. The leading policeman raised his hand and gave the command. The other policemen nodded their head and took them all into the police car.

One by one, they were led into the back seat of the police car, with men and women in separated vehicle. Zhou Kang Ming stared begrudgingly at Zhang Yang with a right eye. His left eye was completely swollen shut. He screamed at Zhang Yang angrily. "Look what you have done to us all!"

Liu Qi Ming was also one of the unlucky one, He had only wanted to get into a good relation with Fatty Han, he had never though that he might got involve in a fight, much less being dragged to the police station! If he was charged in participating in a street fight…he did not dare think any further. His face went pale and he started to sob uncontrollably.

Fatty Han heard the sob and scolded the poor little boy. "What are you crying for?! Have you never been to the police station?"

"Keep your mouth shut!" screamed the driver through the barbed net between the passenger and the driver. "Shut the f*ck up!"

Zhou Kang Ming froze in his seat and did not even dare make squeak of a mouse. Still, his rage had not been extinguished. He stared angrily at Zhang Yang and silently swore that he will accuse him as much as he could when the police question them.

Wee woo wee woo. The siren of the police car echoed as they reached the police station. Since the number of suspects was just too great, the car was driven into the station, stopping right in front of the building.

"Get out! Get your lazy bums out of the car now!" said the policeman as he dragged them all out like ducks out of their cages.

As they walked into the building, a man dressed in a casual clothing, looking to be around the age of 30, ran up to them and greeted the front most policeman.

"Are these the people that had cause the commotion at Dream City?"

"Yes, Secretary Lee!" said the policeman. The person that addressed him was the Secretary of the Chief of the Public Security Bureau. He could not afford to make a mistake.

Secretary Lee quickly search through the crowd, screaming, "Chief Qian! Chief Qian!"

"I'm here! I'm here!" cried Qian Hong Wei with his trembling lips. The poor man had zapped with the electric baton, and he could still feel the numbing sensation all over his body. The man could not even speak properly.

Secretary Lee quickly headed toward Qian Hong Wei and said sternly. "Officer Bai, this man is the Cang Lang Province Government Publication Department Deputy Chief Qian Hong Wen! Look at him! Look at how much he was mistreated! These psychotic mad men had betrayed the country and dared to even strike a member of the government! We have to punish these rogues severely with extreme prejudice!"

The policeman called Bai was stunned. He had never known that he had arrested the Cang Lang Province Government Publication Department Deputy Chief Qian Hong Wen! Oh god! He did see one of his subordinate using the electric baton to attack the man! If the department finds out what had happened, he would be partially responsible for it!

Zhou Kang Ming was completely dumbfounded. His heart racing madly. Psychotic? Betray the country? Rogues?! If he was really charged with those accusation, he would not even die in peace! He quickly jumped in horror and screamed at the top of his lungs. "I'M INNOCENT! INNOCENT, I TELL YOU! IT WAS ALL ZHANG YANG AND HAN GUANG! IT WAS THE TWO OF THEM THAT STARTED THE FIGHT! I'M INNOCENT! INNOCENT!"

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Chapter 204: Gu Jun stance

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Being told that they were culprits, betrayers of the nation, and even tagged as a psychotic madmen. They had been seriously being dragged into the fire pit. But they had done nothing! Literally nothing! If this turns out any worse than they can imagine, what would happen to them? With that negative thoughts circling in their heads, Liu Qi Ming and the rest of the "victims" screamed for justice.

On the other hands, Secretary Lee was annoyed at their cries. "The police will not simply wrong an innocent man! On the other hands, we will not let a criminal run free! So, what are you screaming for? We will get down to the bottom of this! Don't think that you can just get away by simple screaming like a little wimp!"

Zhou Kang Ming faced turned as bitter as a bitter gourd. With nothing else that they could do, they resort to only curse the man at their side. It was all Zhang Yang's fault to begin with! It was all because of his inconsiderate actions that had led them down to this path!

Even Zhao Hui Shan, who was envious of Li Ru's inherited wealth and Yang Zhi Xian's family background, knew that she had to do something about this matter by seeking help from one of them. This concerned his boyfriend's and her own future as well! She could not just allow this to go on without any intervention. It might jeopardize the one-sided relationship between her and Zhou Kang Ming! She turned to Yang Zhi Xian and asked, "Zhi Xian, say something! I know you can do something about this!"

Only when she mentioned Yang Zhi Xian's name, the rest only recalled that she was the beloved daughter of the Province Leader of Cang Lang! What could Qian Hong Wei do as a mere Deputy Chief of a Department? The other person was of much higher rank! The pathetic guys quickly surrounded Yang Zhi Xian and begged her!

Because Yang Zhi Xian had been hiding behind the crowd, Qian Hong Wei had never managed to catch a glimpse of her, until Zhao Kang Ming and the rest were screaming out her name and graveling at her feet. Qian Hong Wei heart sank. This time, it might be more troublesome than it could really be. Why was this young lady among the crowd? Why was she involved? If she did give in to their pleas and helped the youngsters, it might really be the end of Qian Hong Wei!

When a person with only one rank higher could easily step on his subordinates, how much would he be trampled on when he was 3 times lower than this girl's father?! Now, a large majority of any Department Deputy Chiefs would never ever reach the height of being the Head of a Department in their life time! A Provincial officer, much less so! In the governmental ranking world, a Provincial ranking officer was far, far stronger than a mere Department Chief! The difference in authority would be heaven and earth!

Even though Qian Hong Wen was Yang Zhi Xian's senior in both age and position, Yang Zhi Xian's father was at an even higher position. At least he still had some manners in him! He proactively greeted the girl with a rather pitiful smile that beckoned a punch, "Ah! It's Zhi Xian!"

Yang Zhi Xian smiled, but it was so rigid and robotic and anyone knows it was just an obligatory respond. "Uncle Qian."

As a secretary, he was a rather sensitive to his surroundings and was very competent in his work. He quickly rushed to Qian Hong Wen and whispered into this ears, "Chief Qian, who is this woman?"

"Her father is the Cang Lang Province Leader!"

Secretary Lee sucked in a deep breath. He knew that this was completely out of his league. Even his own Ma Wu Shi Bureau Chief was just a Department Chief. He quickly switched his voice tone and spoke stoically. "I'm afraid that his matter is much complicated than it has to be. The police would require much more information from all sides to solve this case!"

Yang Zhi Xian peeked at Zhang Yang and was offended at his aloofness. He did not even open his mouth to ask for her help!

I'm helping you as a ex-classmate! You could at least show some appreciation to me! What am I? Your nanny? Such insolence!

Still, her face remained completely unfazed, revealing no emotions!

"I can testify. The one that took part in the fight was only him and him. The rest of the people here were completely innocent!" said Yang Zhi Xian and she pointed at Zhang Yang and Fatty Han, indicating the true culprit.

Qian Hong Wen was both surprised and happy. He had initially thought that the girl was with Zhang Yang and Fatty Han. He had originally let go of the intention to get back at Zhang Yang since his reputation and fame was far more important than a little fight. However, that all changed when he heard what Yang Zhi Xian had just said. It was obvious that she had never had the intention to protect Zhang Yang and Fatty Han.

If that was the case, Qian Hong Wei might still have a chance to have his revenge against Zhang Yang!

Secretary Lee was a smart lad; he could easily understand what Yang Zhi Xian meant when she said that. He gestured a wave with his hands and called the police officer. "Officer Bai, take these two to the interrogation room and INTERROGATE them nicely!" Secretary Lee purposely emphasize the word.

Fatty Han was getting worried. Even though he had no clue about who being the higher rank, he could see that this Secretary Lee and the Deputy Chief Qian were both afraid of Yang Zhi Xian.

Damn girl! We were classmates! Why did you ignore us!

Yang Zhi Xian purposely stared at Zhang Yang, to give him a last minute window to beg for her help!

Zhang Yang was thinking of completely another thing. He was snickering. If they were caught and placed in another police station, he might have been a little worried. But here, this place…This was where Sun Xin Yu goes to work! What there is to be afraid off? He could easily call on his "girlfriend" and ask for her help!

Officer Bai pulled Fatty Han and Zhang Yang into the station. Along the way, a middle-aged man appeared to be in the way. Both of his hands were behind him; his completely stoic stance and a stern face was familiar.

When the officers around saw him, they stood still and raised their hand to salute. "Chief Gu"

That man was the Bureau's Deputy Chief, Gu Jun.

Even since the incident involving Zhang Yang and the robbery case, Gu Jun had been rather outstanding. His reputation had been severely affected by the public "humiliation" from Sun Xin Yu. He took the chance to compete with the other two Deputy Chief and had managed to obtain credit for a number of contributions. It was not to the point where he could rival the actual Chief of the Bureau, but he did act more often and was not passive as he was last time.

The man nodded. A man of his rank could not simply react casually to others, lest it might tamper with his reputation and respect as a leader. He walked further with his hands behind his arm crossed behind him.

Officer Bai relaxed and pushed Zhang Yang. "Move!"

Zhao Kang Ming was completely delighted. Now that he was off the hook, he begin to have his own thoughts in his head.

I might had taken a few punches but now that things had gone this way, you f*ckers will have it worse! When a police resorts to violence, they can be worse than an actual street thug!

Back in the car, Li Ru had already glued her phone to her ear, calling here and there, trying to find a connection that might save Zhang Yang. If Zhang Yang was dragged in the interrogation room, every minute that pass in the room would mean a minute of torture! Li Ru could not help but feel distressed about it, stomping the ground in frustration.

"Wait!" cried Gu Jun when he had only walked a few steps forward. He turned around and observe Zhang Yang closely and was shocked, and a little happy to recognized him. "Y-You! You're Zhang Yang!"

Zhang Yang smiled casually. "Good day to you Chief Gu!'

Gu Jun had been grieving in regret when he had missed the chance to get closer to Sun Xin Yu. She was practically a god in the Bureau! But he had let her roam about right under his nose! He regretted that he did not care about the girl before the incident! If he had just had a normal conversation with Sun Xin Yu every now and then, who knew where he would be this day!

The worst thing was that when Sun Xin Yu was in trouble, he remained at the sidelines, doing nothing. He could have taken the chance to get close to the woman and get into her good side. But, all he did was literally nothing. Fearing that the woman might hold a grudge against the man, he did not partake any action to subdue the woman. He was scared that he might make things worse.

That all changed when Zhang Yang appeared like a life line in a pinch! However, he was still a government servant! What shame does he have to incur to himself to ask an officer of the law to kiss a civilian's butt!

But, now that an opportunity had revealed himself, he could use his power to get him out of this little boy's trouble. Who knew, Zhang Yang might feel a little gratitude to him and might allow him to take the chance to ask him for a favor form Sun Xin Yu!

As the train of thought railing in his head, Gu Jun had steeled his decision to help and asked. "What offense did he commit?"

"Violence against an officer!" Secretary Lee quickly answered before any other officer could. By the looks of it, he knew that Gu Jun was doing something to help Zhang Yang. Fearing the latter, he quickly revealed the highest offense. "Chief Gu, this man is the Cang Lang Province Government Publication Department Deputy Chief Qian Hong Wen! He was assaulted, by THIS guy!"

Gu Jun sucked in a long breath. Damn! Birds of the same feather, flock together, but not the other way round. Back then Sun Xin Yu punched the son in front of the chief; and here Zhang Yang is, punching the Deputy Chief! Technically, Qian Hong Wen and Gu Jun were just about the same level in rank!

Zhang Yang finally opened his mouth to defend himself. He pointed at Yu Li who was sitting in the bench and said, "That lady there is my university lecturer! I spotted her being chased by a pervert in the Karaoke center. As a lawful citizen, I had to prevent a crime from happening and ask the man to stop his indecent acts. But, instead, the man cried out, saying that he was a government officer and wanted me to leave him alone! Back then, I was thinking, a government officer should be the one serving its citizens! How could this perverted, rampaging thug be a government servant! I was angry and kicked him! I was enacting justice!"

When Qian Hong Wen was insulted with pervert and thug, he face turned pale and all he could say in return was only, "Y-You! Y-You!"

Gu Jun was laughing inside. He thought that Zhang Yang might not be as reckless as he thought he would be. As long as he relied on the "lawful citizen, protecting the law" card, he might be at the right side of the law even if things got a little messy! Of course, without anyone supporting his back, he would never gain the higher ground, no matter how reasonable his excuse was. But, this man had someone behind him!

When the image of Sun Xin Yu was pictured in his mind, Gu Jun felt a sudden chill flowing down his spine. Fear gripped his mind! This young lady was the gods among gods, why would she land a job in this poor, mortal realm! Ever since the incident, the entire station had been rendered cold and filled with fear whenever Sun Xin Yu appeared. Everyone was so afraid that their actions might offend the godly Sun Xin Yu!

Gu Jun coughed lightly and turned to Qian Hong Wen. "Chief Qian. I'd say, it would be rather embarrassing to you if this matter got out to the public. How about we come to a truce? As the saying goes, treat a big problem as a small one; a small problem as none!"

Qian Hong Wen got angry. No matter how he listened to his word, he could not miss the tone in his voice and the word that he used to call him! Embarrassing!? What is he trying to do? Was he trying to provoke Qian Hong Wen? So what if he had been with women? Who would not be at his own age?!

Being a high-ranking government servant for many years, who had indulged in all the luxuries and pleasure that it could offer! By the looks of it, Qian Hong Wen understood that Gu Jan had decided to side with Zhang Yang. Qian Hong Wen was cursing Gu Jun in his heart, he had the rage, but no way of venting it! Gu Jun was at about the same rank as him, but he was from another province! He could not exert his authority here!

On the other side, Yang Zhi Xian nodded her head. She finally understood what had happened. No wonder Zhang Yang had never made a move to ask for her help! He had a trump card since the beginning! He was relying on the Public Security Bureau Deputy Chief! There is a saying, that hatred was born from love. Yang Zhi Xian was never in love with Zhang Yang to begin with, but since she had a strong egoistic behavior, she was offended by Zhang Yang's act of not replying on her!

Right there and then, she walked up, feeling unsatisfied with the outcome and said, "Deputy Chief Gu! The person had committed a crime against a government officer! How could you say something like that!"

Gu Jun glance swiftly at Yang Zhi Xian and felt a little uncomfortable.

Little brat, who do think you are?

Secretary Lee quickly explained. "Chief Gu, this person is the daughter of the Cang Lang Province Leader!"

Gu Jun was shocked beyond words. No wonder she dared to walked into the conversation like that. She was the child of another powerful leader! However, Gu Jun smiled. Normally, a province leader would easily shock the life out of him, but Sun Xin Yu had powers beyond measure.

She could easily pick up the phone and call up the City Secretary! So what, if your father is the Cang Lang Province leader, if any leader of any province walked into the station right now, Gu Jun dared to have a quarrel with him!

All in all, the more hits he took on, the better favor he could get from Zhang Yang!

To climb the ladder of promotion, you must stand with the person at the highest ladder!

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Chapter 205: Till He Suffers

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Gu Jun steeled his will, putting up a stoic stature and stated clearly. "Public Security Bureau is a place where justice is enacted! We will only accept facts and evidence and not favors!"

After Gu Jun's short speech, everyone felt conflicted!

Gu Jan intended to protect Zhang Yang. That had been clearly established. But why?

Who is Zhang Yang and what was driving Gu Jun to offend a Province Leader's daughter to take over the case boldly!? He should have known that her father was the provincial leader, a position much higher and more powerful than Gu Jun by several levels!

Yang Zhi Xian was shocked at his "answer". She had never thought that Gu Ju would still be headstrong and resist to stop helping Zhang Yang. What's done is done. Even though she was rather arrogant and headstrong herself, her sense towards political behavior was strong. She knew something was wrong but could not put a finger on it. Could it be, that Zhang Yang had a hidden background that no one else but Gu Jun knew about? Was that the reason why Gu Jun would not even fear a provincial leader?

She waved her hands and gestured to Secretary Lee to come to her.

Secretary Lee saw her call and ran over rather lavishly. "Miss Yang? What's wrong?"

Yang Zhi Xian pointed at Zhang Yang and whispered. "What relationship does that man have with your deputy chief?"

Secretary Lee scratched his chin and shook his head, "I'm not sure about that miss. But wait, let me go ask around!"

He left the group and went into the station and started to gather information about Zhang Yang. She was but the daughter of the province leader, one of the people that everyone would want to have a good relationship with.

No sooner, Secretary Lee came back with a rather shocked expression and sneaked towards Yang Zhi Xian and whispered back. "I'm afraid this is rather complicated Miss Yang. That man is not just any simple man. Not long ago, do you remember about an armed robbery case that happened around this area?"

He then explicitly explained the event that had transpired to Yang Zhi Xian, down to the detail where Ma Wu Shi was belittled by Sun Xin Yu in front of everyone.

Before Yang Zhi Xian could finish listening, she covered her mouth. No wonder this man dared to be such a ruffian! He had such a strong back supporting him! His relations were so strong and vast that he could reach the City Secretary himself! That's just the tip of the iceberg!

She was selfish and egoistic, that she realized herself. But she wanted to climb the ladder of ranks as well! In an instant, she knew what she had to do. She realized the immense value that Zhang Yang had with him. No wonder even the deputy chief Gu Ju would want to join hands with Zhang Yang!

Yang Zhi Xian changed her attitude a 180 degrees. "Gu Jun, my father once said to me, as a government servant, he or she must serve the people as their highest priority! As for the black sheep in the office, I'll say, wouldn't it be for the best if we get rid of the root?"

His head completely drained of blood, Qian Hong Wen went so pale that people might mistaken his face for a piece of poorly drawn sketch on a piece of paper.

What the hell is this blood b*tch was thinking!? Is she trying to make him suffer till the end?! Black sheep? Root of the mess? If he was really going to wear that insult, securing his current position would be a problem, much less hoping for any promotions in the future!

Gu Jun scoffed and nodded his head. He now understands that the girl must have known something about Zhang Yang. He had only wanted to protect Zhang Yang, but now he had gained support from the daughter of the province leader! With lesser obstacles in his path, he could now give a better impression to Zhang Yang and gain his favor!

He raised his hand and waved. "The office will now take over and handle the case. We will now interrogate everyone and reveal the truth!"

Raging with anger, Qian Hong Wen bellowed. "Y-You! Y-You can't interrogate me! I'm a government official!"

Gu Jun swiftly glanced at him and replied while looking in to the distance. "This is but a normal case of street fights and attempted rape. You're here as a criminal suspect. We're not going to charge you with any political offense! That would require further investigation by the Bureau!"

Qian Hong Wen wanted to open his mouth to scream, but he was quickly dragged into the station by a larger police officer.

Zhou Kang Ming and the rest of them dropped their jaws. What the hell happened? How could the bold, arrogant Chief Qian be dragged away in an instant! And then there's Zhang Yang. What is he? Who is he? What made him so special that even the Deputy Chief of the Public Security Bureau would risk protecting him?

Circling about the same questions over and over again, the rest of them felt like they had not known Zhang Yang at all! He was shrouded in mystery! After the whole ordeal was almost over, they had finally realized that the real man, the real boss was Zhang Yang! Being quiet and all after being detained, he was the wolf hiding in a sheep's skin! Everyone had been blinded by their greed! How could they not know sooner?! Now, they are doomed for sure! They had been vigorously trying their best to draw a clear line between them and Zhang Yang, to make sure the police do not group them up with him. But lo and behold, Zhang Yang had emerged triumphant! Now that it has come to this, how could they beg him for help! He would not even glance at them! But, worse, if he wanted revenge…Zhou Kang Ming and the rest could not bear to think of the consequences of their actions…everyone was a pale as ghost.

On one note, Zhao Hui Shan felt devastated. She did not know what to think now! Did she, perhaps, make the wrong choice after all? That question was now planted in her brain, echoing endlessly as she could not stop thinking about it!

Secretary Lee was smarter. For a while now, he knew that things had gotten out of hands. He retreated secretly and called Ma Wu Shi, telling him everything and had just happened in the station without leaving a single detail untold. Ma Wu Shi had clocked out long ago, but when he heard his secretary report, he had only given him one order. "Let the office handle it!"

The office…handle…it…

…

Zhang Yang was the first one to have his testimony recorded. He then explained everything that had happened in the scene down to each detail. Yu Li had drank a cup of hot tea earlier and regained a some of her senses. She was the first person that was directly related to the incident. Monkey Butt was rather weak-willed. After being threatened by the police, he gave in and exposed his plans about how he and Qian Hong Wei wanted to do Yu Li in the Karaoke center. Moreover, he even exposed his past crimes of luring female students in for sex!

This time, it was most certain that Monkey Butt would not escape his fate being jailed. However, Qian Hong Wen was rather hard to deal with. The police alone could not interrogate a Deputy Chief. They would need the appropriate authoritative figure to do so!

Yang Zhi Xian made a quick phone call and after a very short period of time, Leader Yang, the provincial leader of the Cang Lang province had personally called Gu Jun to make a statement. "This nation will not allow a rotten criminal to sit among the government position!"

That statement was a hint for Gu Jun to collect enough evidence. The Cang Lang Provincial office would always conduct their own investigation and find all the criminal acts that Qian Hong Wei had committed in the past!

Suffice to say, Qian Hong Wei is doomed!

Qian Hong Wei could have never foreseen this event. There was a saying, if you do not secure your footing, you'll fall into the frozen lake! Yang Zhi Xian was the one that had caused the domino effect that led all the way to how Qian Hong Wei fell. At first, she had stated her intention to help Zhang Yang, which led to Gu Jan arresting him. Yang Zhi Xiang had also advised her father, Yang Bao Kun to discard the rotten apples in the basket. Since this man would only develop more problem for Yang Bao Kun, he had to be removed; if he could not be a useful ally, he is a useless trash!

Now that Gu Jun had things cleared out with Qian Hong Wei, he could still leave a good impression on Zhang Yang. That's two birds with one stone! How could he not be happy?

After the messy ordeal, everyone , be it Yang Zhi Xian or his ex-classmates, had a different opinion on Zhang Yang. Right now, Zhang Yang was the best among them and they should have treated him better. Zhou Kang Ming was practically slapping himself in the face, crying as he said a dozen 'sorries' for looking down on Zhang Yang. He pleaded to have a little mercy and forget about him. All that, while wiping away his snort and tears. The last thing he could do was to kneel down and kiss his boots. Fatty Han was so delighted at the sight of Zhao Kang Ming that he was laughing all the way out of the station.

Zhao Hui Shan saw how his boyfriend was behaving and felt utterly disgusted. Then, she remembered back at the fight in the Karaoke center, where he had pushed her in front of himself to be his shield. She felt an even greater disgust at his cowardice.

Being a policeman for several years, Gu Jun had good insight with people, and he noticed how Zhang Yang and Zhou Kang Ming were not seeing eye to eye, quietly noting a reminder for himself. He should find leverage on Zhou Kang Ming, and take 'good care' of him, and kept this matter secret from Zhang Yang. He would leave a subtle hint to Zhou Kang Ming, never to mess with Zhang Yang or he will pay it dearly. That way, he could still do something for Zhang Yang and remain unaffected.

After the recording of their testimony, Gu Jun pulled Zhang Yang alone to have a friendly chat. He expressed his utmost sincere intention to deepen their relationship and to be friends. He then let them all go home and even gave them advice to rest early.

On his way out of the Bureau, he noticed Yu Li wobbling unsteadily and said to Fatty Han. "Fatty! You go on. I'll send Teacher Yu back home."

Fatty Han cracked a perverted smirk and walked away from Zhang Yang. "Sure!" he gave a thumbs up gesture and leaved them alone. At least, Fatty Han could have some alone time with Wu Hai Li.

"Teacher Yu, I'm here to send you back!" said Zhang Yang. He then proceeded to support her out of the station. On the road side, Zhang Yang hailed a cab and the two of them disappeared into the night.

"I have never though that Zhang Yang could have such deep connections!" said Liu Qi Ming in awe. Since the group of ex-classmates were sent here with the police car, they had to take a cab to get back to the Karaoke center and drive their own cars back home.

Liu Qi Ming thought of Fatty Han and viewed him with respect. He came to a conclusion by himself that Fatty Han must have had help from Zhang Yang by pulling some strings here and there. It was the only explanation on how a guy with poor education, who only knew how to fight for living, could earn such a massive fortune in such a short time!

In truth, he was right, though it all happened in the game.

"Fatty, what sort of person Zhang Yang is?" said Wu Hai Li curiously while she was in Fatty Han's embrace.

"What do you mean by that?" replied Fatty Han.

"You know what I mean!"

Fatty Han knew what she meant. But, to describe Zhang Yang properly would be a challenge. Was he normal? He was normal. He was as normal as the random person you see in the streets. But he was not dumb. He will not reveal how a brother helped him to earn that surreal amount of gold. He purposely scoffed and said, "My boy Yang is rather strong! He has more than 10,000 underlings!" He then proceeded to use in-game context to tell her about Zhang Yang.

But, if you do not explain properly, how would the girl know about Zhang Yang playing a game! When other heard about having 10,000 underlings, they would certainly give you the same shocked looks on their faces. How could a person manage 10,000 subordinates? If it was a company, how large would the company be then? If he was a government official, which department could fit in 10,000 officers? Could it be special forces?

There could be a possibility, since the man could fight like a MMA fighter! He must have been scouted by a leader and was chosen to join! Damn! If he had more than 10,000 subordinates under his command, what rank would he be then? Instructor? If he was an instructor, then he would be at the rank of a City Leader!

As confusing as it may, the guesses they made only grew wilder. Everyone thought that they had Zhang Yang figured out and were shocked at their own conclusions. How could Zhang Yang be a government official at such young age?

…

After drinking some hot tea back at the station, she did sober up a little. However, the alcohol was still affecting her. Bobbing her head left and right in the car, she could not endure it any longer and rested her head on Zhang Yang arm.

Zhang Yang had a strong muscle and thick skin, he did not mind about it one bit. On the contrary, he was afraid that his roughness might hurt her delicate skin. He opened his arm and let the woman rest on his chest.

"What a lovely couple!" said the 40-year-old cab driver as he peeked through the rear mirror.

Zhang Yang only smiled at the driver without saying a word. Since both Yu Li and Zhang Yang did not meet that very often, let misunderstandings be misunderstandings.

The cab driver was rather chirpy; he had been having idle conversation with Zhang Yang every once in a while. Yu Li, disturbed by their talks, woke up groggily and finally managed to state her home address. After 20 minutes, the cab arrived at an old housing area and stopped in front of an old apartment which looked like it was around 20 to 30 years old.

Zhang Yang paid the driver and helped Yu Li out of the car. He lifted his head up to see the apartment had 5 floors.

"Teacher Yu, which floor are you living in?"

Being out in the night, the cold wind blew her face, bringing her back to her senses. "Four…no…three…wait..fourth floor!"

Zhang Yang frowned. He pushed himself and supported Yu Li to climb up all the way to the fourth floor. Luckily, after struggling to find her keys, she managed to unlock the right door after all. He was afraid that they might have been trying to open the wrong house door. She opened the old wooden door and brought Zhang Yang into an old 60 to 70 meter square apartment.

"S-Sit…" said Yu Li bashfully. Whether it was the alcohol in her, or the fact that she was seen by one of her ex-student being in such a mess, who knew? She brewed some tea and served it to Zhang Yang, while she went back to the kitchen to drink some vinegar, fully sobering herself up.

Zhang Yang looked left and right, observing her living area and asked. "Teacher Yu, didn't you once say that you're living with your mother?"

The little small apartment had only one room, one living room, and a toilet. The bedroom door was wide open. The bed looked rather neat and tidy, as if no one had been sleeping on it for a while.

Yu Li came out of the kitchen. Solemn and dread filled her face as she said, "My mother is in the hospital!"

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Chapter 206: Please Take Me In!

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Zhang Yang quickly apologized and said, "I'm sorry, Miss Yu! Is she okay? It's not serious, right?"

Yu Li sat opposite Zhang Yang and her facial expression turned even gloomier as she said, "It's uremia, she needs kidney transplant!"

Zhang Yang was shocked as kidney transplants were costly, major surgeries. Besides, it was not easy to look for matching kidneys so he asked her that.

Yu Li shook her head anxiously and replied, "They found nothing yet!"

Zhang Yang let out a sigh as he could not do anything about it. After drinking tea, he stood up and said, "Miss Yu, it's getting late, I've got to go and you should also get some rest!"

Zhang Yang went to the door. His fingers were about to touch the door handle when Yu Li suddenly uttered, "Zhang Yang, please take me in!"

Zhang Yang staggered and nearly did a somersault! What exactly is going on today? All sorts of strange things were happening to him! He turned over and he saw Yu Li's face flushed with heat but unusually staunch. However, the dithering in her eyes revealed her wild feelings at that moment.

"Miss Yu, what difficulties did you encounter? Please tell me, if I can help, I will help you!"

"Wuu wuu wuu" Yu Li started to cry suddenly. She cried in misery, unable to produce any further words.

It was not good for Zhang Yang to go, so he decided to return to his seat and asked, "Miss Yu, do you have enough funds for the surgery?" he guessed as he thought of Yu Li's situation in his previous life.

"My dad… is a compulsive gambler!" Yu Li cried for a while before she started opening up, "He owed -- still owes a pile of debt and he has fled with all sorts of people on his tail! My mum pays for my school fees and my dad's debts, she has been working hard her entire life, too hard! Yet, she found out out that she has uremia a few days ago! I just started to work for less than two years, furthermore, we used up all the home savings to pay off debts, even selling the house that we used to live in but we still do not have enough money! Zhang Yang, do you know how miserable I feel! Sometimes I really want to end my life there and then, and I would be free of all these worries!"

The story was very old-fashioned but it was still a tragedy no matter what!

Anyhow, Zhang Yang would never turn away without helping Yu Li so he said, "Miss Yu, do not worry! If it's money, I can pay for your mother's treatment first!"

Yu Li continued on with her rambling, her eyes unfocused, "A bestie, from my former university, told me that it is easy for a woman to earn money, especially if they had good looks. All they have to do is to spread their legs open! She even introduced me to one of the hotels in Lin Hai City. You can earn a few thousand dollars a night there!"

Her face was usually flushed due to the alcohol.

Lin Hai City? That's right. Zhang Yang had one-night stand with Yu Li in Tian Lun Pavilion Grand Hotel at Lin Hai City during that time, in his previous life. He let out a sigh, "Miss Yu, you are drunk!"

"Ke ke ke!" Yu Li laughed madly and said, "I'm not drunk, I'm wide awake! You think I wasn't aware? Every time I went to class, you boys were always staring at my chest and looking at my buttocks. I clearly knew what was in your minds!"

She staggered to her feet, walked unsteadily and said, "Do you dare say that you won't want to sleep on me?"

Men had a tendency to act crazily when drunk but women doing the same were on an entirely different level!

Zhang Yang felt a twinge of guilt when he met her eyes. Because in his "memory", he really did sleep with her! The memories of her luscious and charming body were as vivid as day, down to her irresistible moans! Zhang Yang gulped.

"Miss Yu, I have to go!"

"Zhang Yang! Zhang Yang!" Yu Li grabbed one of Zhang Yang's wrists, "I really have no choice! More than 2,000,000 dollars is needed for a kidney and surgical fees, there's no way I can afford that! Besides selling my body, I really don't know what else there is to do! But if possible, I'd rather have you than be ruined by hundreds of strangers! I know you are rich, you can pay for 2,000,000 dollars easily. I know, because I helped you sell those potions two months ago! I have nothing but this body, please, take me in!"

Zhang Yang frantically said, "Miss Yu, I can lend you the money, just stop mentioning your bod -- selling your body anymore, please!"

"But, the follow-up treatment costs that would be a bottomless pit! Zhang Yang, I'm just a normal teacher, how could I possibly pay you back?" Yu Li shook her head, "Selling my body is still easier, I just have to open my legs and get pinned down by others for a while. It won't kill me, right?"

She had lost her balance, as she fell sideways onto the couch, her eyes in hazy drunkenness.

These words would only show themselves in her intoxicated state. This strong, stubborn woman would never mention something like selling her body to anyone but secretly wipe off her tears and face her problems alone.

If it was not Zhang Yang accidentally getting involved tonight, it was probably difficult for Yu Li to escape her dark fate. After going through the ordeal in the hands of that corrupt official, in addition to the urgent need for money, Yu Li was probably pushed over the brink, having lost her chastity, and had decided to venture into the red light district.

Both of Yu Li's hands held onto the sofa and she crawled to Zhang Yang's side. She gazed at Zhang Yang with her seductive eyes, laughing incorrigibly and teased, "Little pervert, I know you liked me! Every time you attended my classes, you were trying to strip me with your eyes! Come on, I'm yours now, do whatever you wanted to me!"

Zhang Yang admitted that he definitely had to crush on Yu Li when he was studying at university. As a developed youth with a normal man's mind and the exuberant energy of youth, every time Yu Li taught in the class, inevitably, Zhang Yang would end up fantasizing about her! However, this matter was "five years ago" to him, and he had almost forgotten about it!

He stepped back a little as he said, "Miss Yu, it's true, I used to like you! But now I have someone else who I really like!"

"Oh!" Yu Li nodded her head with uninterested facial expression and said, "It is okay, I'm not going to marry you anyway! I just want to be your lover… five years, let me be your lover for five years, as long as you can help me pay the medical fees for my mum, I will not ask for anything else!"

Zhang Yang reached out to stroke her silky hair and said, "Miss Yu, if you do it like this, you are betraying your love! Have you thought about your boyfriend?" all the boys in their class knew that Yu Li had been in a relationship with her boyfriend for two to three years, which in an extent that they were going to marry. The news had hurt so many boys, making them insomniac and listless for the next few days!

"Him?" Yu Li started laughing hollowly once again while her facial expression was a mix between crying and laughing, "Once I found out my mum's disease, I quickly looked for him to solve the problem together! Guess what he did? Not only did he not offer to help in any way, he wanted to break up with me! He even wanted me to sleep with him to compensate for his years of disbursement!"

F*ck, such a jerk!

"But you still have to marry, sooner or later. Do you want to keep the memory of someone's mistress for a lifetime?"

"My mum worked so hard to raise me up. I'm willing to die for her!"

Bang!

These words were just like a boom exploding next to Zhang Yang's ears.

This is because the night on the night Lin Yu rejected the elopement with Zhang Yang, she had said the same thing!

Zhang Yang's heart was greatly disturbed as he could not help it but recall the fateful night after after hearing what Yu Li said.

Yu Li is selling her body because of her mother! In his previous life, she had sold her body to many guys, but in this life, she seemed to have another choice, to just sell her body to Zhang Yang alone! Still, no matter what, the fate of Yu Li selling her body seems unchanged!

But what's different here?

Lin Yu rejected Zhang Yang because of her mother's wishes and had chosen to marry Liu Wei, a man she who she did not love at all! Wasn't that is the same as selling her body? The only difference was that she used the marriage as the best packaging to whitewash her betrayal of love!

From Lin Yu and Yu Li's point of views, they were right to save their mothers' life out of filial piety! But from Zhang Yang's point of view, Lin Yu undoubtedly betrayed love and betrayed Zhang Yang!

In this life, Zhang Yang had the advantage of being reborn and it shouldn't be difficult for him to earn hundred of millions of dollars in assets and surpass Liu Wei! But if there was another guy with an equal amount of fortune, Lin Yu's mother would still force her to marry the other guy instead of Zhang Yang. Wouldn't Zhang Yang have to die and be reborn once again?

What if another guy with trillions of dollars in assets showed up?

There was no end in sight!

In his previous life, Lin Yu had abandoned him!

Zhang Yang unconsciously leaned against the couch, he was struck by a massive headache, like a few hundred pounds of weight had been placed on his head.

After the rebirth, he had been busy using the '5-years review' of the game to earn money. As long as he had spare time every day, he would continuously recall the contents of the game and dungeon strategies, leaving him no time to think about anything else!

Now, Zhang Yang had finally come to realize the truth and faced a problem that he had refused to face in his previous life, did Lin Yu really loved him?

He had put in so much effort, was it all for naught?

Zhang Yang took a deep breath and thought in his mind, "Lin Yu should have loved me, but it was far from my imagination! In her world, love was not all. She is the child of a rich and big family, she was brought up with the idea that benefiting her family came above all other ideas. So, when there is conflict between love and family, she chooses… family!"

But if it was Sun Xin Yu, according to her temper, if the family forced her to marry a man she did not like, she would either shoot the hapless man dead, or take her own life. She would never compromise! This woman would be so committed to her ideals that, no amount of difficulty or danger would stop her!

Zhang Yang did not know why Sun Xin Yu popped up in his mind, suddenly, but he realized that it was a rather fond thought at that too. He suddenly found himself thinking of Han Ying Xue. Han Ying Xue…she may be such a tricky person, but Zhang Yang believed that she would definitely fight for her love to the bitter end as well!

Lin Yu was a dutiful daughter. But in love, she was a loser!

Suddenly, his enthusiasm to meet Lin Yu once again died off. On the contrary, he even felt a trace of fear, always recalling Lin Yu's cruel rejection on that night. Would it all be fine? Would it be the same with him and Lin Yu again?

Absolutely not!

The moment Lin Yu decided to marry Liu Wei, his impression on her had already dropped, whether he liked it or not, and it would only continue to crack further!

Zhang Yang felt extremely resentful and said, "Miss Yu, is there any liquor?"

Yu Li thought for a while, shook her head and said, "No… but wait!" She walked unsteadily to a side of a cabinet, took out a bottle of soaked red bayberry and said, "Soaked red bayberry wine, do you consider that liquor?"

Zhou Su natives used white wine, soaked in red bayberry to cure diarrhea and abdominal pains. It is really effective and potent for that purpose.

"Yes, it is!" Zhang Yang just wanted to drink at this time, not caring about the quality of wine anymore!

Zhang Yang finished off the tea in his glass with a single gulp. He poured all the tea leaves in his glass into the ashtray and then filled up his glass with wine and started drinking the wine silently.

Yu Li watched him for a while, before also taking a glass and pouring herself some of the wine.

Drinking solves all worries!

In Zhang Yang's memory, Lin Yu's smile started to fade, slowly being replaced by a sense of betrayal and sorrow.

Zhang Yang knew that he had no right to blame Lin Yu, but he was also being hurt, his heart was covered in wounds. The degree of being hurt was much stronger than the the pain he felt on the day Lin Yu rejected eloping with him!

In his life, he had only been hurt to such an extent for three times.

The first time was when he was seven years old, and received news that his parents had died in a plane crash. He had cried alone all day long in his parent's room.

The second time was when Liu Wei had sent a girl to become Zhang Yang's lover. She soon stole all the stuff in Clear Water's warehouse and left him a video to tell him the truth. Zhang Yang had put in a lot of effort in that relationship, and it had left him depressed for months.

Now, he was experiencing such pain for the third time!

Even though he had crippling wounds inflicted on him when in a fight, he could just grit his teeth and endure the pain! But the wounds in his heart were not as easily healed. Sometimes when he thought of that fraud who was the cause of all his pain, Luo Xin Yan, his heart would still ache.

Liu Wei!

Zhang Yang was at a loss as he did not know what to do, his eyes were wet with tears. Hatred had the same intensity as love. People would feel hurt by it and it gave a pain that was hard to forget! Even it was not not for Lin Yu, but for revenge on Liu Wei who wanted to kill Zhang Yang in his previous life, Zhang Yang would definitely hunt Liu Wei down!

Having found a solution to his anger, he started drinking without holding anything back! Life could not move on without a direction, so his new resolution would be to surpass Liu Wei!

Zhang Yang unconsciously drank more and more, starting to get intoxicated. He even laughed along with Yu Li for no reason, clinking with her glass, exchanging slurred words that both of them could not hear, yet it somehow made them laugh even more. Eventually, they finished up the whole bottle of red bayberry wine!

Both of them finished up at least a gallon of wine, and very soon, both of them were punch-drunk. Zhang Yang was so disoriented that he went into the bedroom, took off his clothes and went to bed naked -- a habit he practiced at home!

He woke up once in the middle of the night, feeling thirsty. He tried to get up from bed to get himself a drink. But the moment he lifted his upper body off the bed, he would get overwhelmed by dizziness, and could only fall back to the bed. In his half-awake stupor, he felt somebody lying next to him.

"Fatty sh*t, go back to your dog house, I'm not gay!" Zhang Yang pulled the bed sheets to himself and kicked the person next to him off the bed. He occupied the whole bed and slept like a pig.

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Chapter 207: Sleeping on the Wrong Bed

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Headaches are never pleasant!

Zhang Yang finally woke up, but his whole body was stiff like a plank of wood. It was as if he had fought hundreds of people and took such a beating that he could not even feel his body. His head felt like it had been split open from the inside, like firecrackers continuously exploding in his head. He opened his eyes a little but quickly snapped them shut due to the dazzling sunlight.

Damn, how much did I drunk?

Zhang Yang could only lie there unmovingly, at the whims of his catatonic body.

Damn it, how did I end up drinking so much, yesterday? This is self-torture, I have to stop doing this!

By the way… How did I get home yesterday? Zhang Yang's mind suddenly popped up a question and the memory flashed back immediately. Last night, he was attending a classmate reunion, and then they went to karaoke. After that, he met Yu Li who was nearly violated by others, he had a fight with them and then he beat down a group of karaoke's guards then all of them went to the public security. Next, Zhang Yang sent Yu Li home…

How come there was no memory after sending Yu Li home?

He actually did not have any idea what happened after that, so how did he actually get home?

Pa!

Just as Zhang Yang was wondering, a hand was suddenly placed on his chest. His eyes burst wide open. The dazzling sunlight struck him in its full force, but he was too bewildered to care about it, as he squinted, his eyes finally focused on a person sleeping next to him. It wasn't Fatty Han. It was quite the opposite -- a sexy woman with long hair, a voluptuous body shape, clad only in a cotton t-shirt and T-back undergarment, she was Yu Li!

He himself was buck naked, and his left hand was beneath Yu Li's neck where it had reached her front, grabbing hold of her ample, firm bosom.

No way!

Could it be the same as it was in his previous life, did they have drunken sex?

Zhang Yang gazed at his manhood that would stand at attention every morning, trying to see any indicator if it got some action last night. But he had drank too much last night, his whole body was numb including that member!

Did they do anything last night?

What shocked Zhang Yang was that he did not feel any guilt whatsoever! Lin Yu… Zhang Yang was speechless as he did not know if he still loved her, as his new perspective on her betrayal had hurt Zhang Yang's soul badly. Zhang Yang did not really know how he felt towards her right now.

"Em, my head hurts!" Yu Li groaned, her long eyelashes fluttered a little and she slowly opened up her eyes but the dazzling sunlight immediately forced her eyes shut. She twisted her snake-like body and nuzzled up even closer to Zhang Yang's body, mumbling sleepily, "Fei Fei, when did you come back?"

Zhang Yang was frozen in fear, his mind racing for a way out!

Yu Li slapped Zhang Yang's erect manhood, which twanged like a radio antenna. She even reached out and touched it, murmuring, "Fei Fei, what did you bring to bed? So hard and long, ke ke, just like a real man's! Little brat, don't tell me….you went ahead and bought that thing?"

She reluctantly raised her body off the bed, turning to look at Zhang Yang through her messy bangs.

Eh, since when did Fei Fei go for plastic surgery?

Wait, no! That face was so familiar. It was her ex-student, Zhang Yang!

Yu Li was so shocked that her fingers that were wrapped around the meat pole squeezed, hard!

"Ah!"

Both of their voices were raised at the same time, one in shock, the other in pain!

"You… you…" Yu Li was scared, her face turned pale, "Hooligan, beast, jerk!" she started tearing up.

Zhang Yang tried to ignore the pain in his lower region and rushed at Yu Li. Throwing himself onto Yu Li, he reached out to cover her mouth because she looked like she was about to run away and call for help! Zhang Yang put on his most urgent expression and asked, "Miss Yu, please try to recall!"

Yesterday… a series of scenes flashed back in Yu Li's mind. First, she was invited to karaoke, where she was forced to drink a lot of alcohol. In her drunken state, she somehow noticed Hou Bi Hua and that fatty Qian's pervert gazes, so she struggled to escape from the room. After that, she met her ex-student, Zhang Yang. Afterwards…

All the memories flashed back in Yu Li's mind, included her shamelessly asking Zhang Yang to take her in. She remembered the both of them getting wasted, but she had no idea how she ended up in the bed with him.

When Zhang Yang saw Yu Li slowly calming down, he let out a sigh and said, "I'm going to let go now, you won't scream, right?"

Yu Li blinked her eyes repeatedly in pointed fashion, Zhang Yan removed his hand, and the both of them stared at each other in awkward silence.

"Zhang Yang…" a few seconds later, Yu Li said, "I'm serious about what I mentioned last night! If I had not been drunk, I would not have dared mention it all. I know that it is shameless but I do not care about my self-esteem any longer! I'll be your lover if you support me financially!"

"Miss Yu, don't be like this. I will give you money to cure your mother's disease, no returns, for real!" Zhang Yang said sincerely.

Yu Li smiled a little, getting more comfortable with the topic, "I'm not somebody important in your life, how could I just take your money without any return? This is a debt that I can never pay off in my lifetime. I don't know anything else, I'm going crazy here! Take my body, this the only thing that I can offer!"

It had always been the bad guy forcing the beauty to sleep with him, why was the situation now reversed? A devil spoke within Zhang Yang's mind, "Stupid fellow, what are you waiting for, accept the deal! Didn't you want her so badly when you were studying in university? The opportunity is in front of you right now, you can do whatever you want to her!"

However, because Zhang Yang liked Yu Li. He genuinely did. There's no way he'll toy with her in such manner!

Besides, his soul had been continuously hurt by Luo Xin Yan1 and Lin Yu. At least for now, he definitely did want to be in a relationship with any woman.

He shook his head and said, "Could not it be considered as me being concerned?"

"If you did not use that thing beneath your body to touch me, perhaps I would still believe you!" Yu Li said coolly.

Zhang Yang's face went deep crimson, to his own surprise. His meat pole that had been gripped hard by Yu Li was starting to rise to the occasion again. Before this, in his attempt to stop her from screaming, he had pinned her plump and fascinating body with his little accomplice standing upright against Yu Li's smooth belly.

This time Zhang Yang had nowhere to run! His own body had betrayed him!

"This is accidental!" Zhang Yang explained, never actually expecting Yu Li to trust him.

"Then everything here is accidental?" Yu Li, revealing her mature side, openly said, "To successfully sleep with your ex-teacher, don't boys dream of that all the time? Otherwise, why are there so many scandals involving teachers and students all the time?"

Zhang Yang was stunned and speechless, he was deep in thought and asked, "Did we do anything last night?" This is very important as it would break him to know that something happened between them under drunken conditions. Yu Li was someone he liked, and he did not want to put her through this.

"What do you mean?" Yu Li asked him back.

"It is like… you know right?"

"I don't know!"

"…"

"Yes, we did something last night!" Yu Li suddenly answered.

Out of the blue, Zhang Yang was astonished as he actually did it with Yu Li under the influence of alcohol! He glanced at the messy bed sheet and said, "We did not do anything last night! There are no bloodstains on the bed!"

Yu Li was astounded and asked, "You think I'm a virgin?"

"You said yesterday, your boyfriend wanted to do it with you, as compensation for his loss! It's like a god damned geisha offering! This showed that the two of you have not done it before!"

"He was not my first boyfriend!"

Zhang Yang shook his head and an idea came up to his mind, "Since she would only accept my help on condition that I take her in as a lover, I'll just go ahead and let her do it! If it is Sun Xin Yu, I would have been afraid of her taking the gun and forcing me to bed, but Yu Li has no gun, what's there to fear! What the heck, I wanted to do good, how could it end up like this? Besides, what am I actually so afraid of, it's not like I have never slept with any woman before in previous life!"

"All right, we did not do anything last night, I'm still a virgin. So you should be satisfied with it now, right? Don't men feel proud when they pop a girl's cherry??" Yu Li was staring at the ceiling, speaking in a monotone of a person who has given up hope, "Five years, I will give you five years of youth and beauty. That should be able to pay off my debt to you!"

"Miss Yu…"

"That's not enough? Let me count it out for you, my bestie said, according to my beauty, I could sell at least 2,000 dollars a night. To cure my mum's disease completely, I'd need about 3,000,000 dollars. So, you have to sleep with me 1,500 times for a fair trade, I wouldn't lose much!"

"Yu Li!" Zhang Yang couldn't bear it any longer and raise his voice in anger, "You freaking stop insulting yourself! I don't want to talk to you about selling your body or pure soul or any of that bullsh*t! If you feel miserable then you should cry it out, but stop saying such things!"

Yu Li astounded and looked at Zhang Yang, her tears filled up her eyes and she yelled, "What woman wants to be a b*tch? I can't think of anything else other than selling my body! I'm just a normal woman, I am not a strong woman, other than teaching, I don't know how to earn more money! Of course! Of course I want my self-esteem, but if I have to do it this way, there's no point caring about my dignity! Even if I insist on having a clear conscience, I'm still a b*tch who's selling her body!"

Both of them suddenly became silent.

"Ka!"

The sound of unlocking came from the outside, and a woman walked in. She closed the door shut, leaving her shoes at door. She called out, "Yu Li, you're such a lazy bum, you're going to be late! Look at the time!"

She was taking off her clothes as she walked towards the bedroom saying, "Night shifts are the worst! Sigh, why am I still not married to a good husband yet? I'll happily be a housewife!"

She pushed the unlatched bedroom's door, having most of her clothes stripped off. All she had left on was a red T-bag undergarment. She had taken off her bra and was holding it in her hands. When she headed up, she was shocked as she saw Yu Li and a naked man on the bed!

"Ah!" the girl screamed immediately and quickly grabbed the bed sheet close by to cover up her body.

"Ei, it's you!" In her shock, she somehow recognized Zhang Yang and cried out.

Zhang Yang had a new headache to deal with now! She was the person he saved during the bank robbery, Yan Fei Fei!

Translator Note:

1Luo Xin Yan: She will be appearing in the far future.

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Chapter 208: Lovelorn?

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Relatively speaking, Zhang Yang was even more ashamed of his nakedness. Now TWO ladies have seen all of him. He grabbed a pillow and covered his lower body and saying with forced casualness, "Oh, you and Miss Yu staying together!"

"Miss Yu?" Yan Fei Fei was greatly surprised. She pointed at Yu Li and Zhang Yang and said, "You guys are teacher-student lovers!" Her finger went lower and, she immediately screamed, "That's my pillow. Damn it, that's my favourite pillow!"

"Fei Fei, get out!" Yu Li said.

Yan Fei Fei quickly nodded her head and hurriedly escaped from bedroom where she locked herself in bathroom.

"Put on your clothes!" Yu Li picked up the clothes from each corner that scattered over the floor. She even generously helped Zhang Yang into his clothes.

A surge of warmth emerged across Zhang Yang's mind. He had never felt at "home" like this before. Since his parents had died, he never had such an experience before.

"You know Fei Fei?" Yu Li simply asked while she was helping Zhang Yang button up his shirt.

"I think I do!"

Zhang Yang had just started to tell the story concerning the bank robbery incident, when Yu Li suddenly interrupted, "Oh! You are that great life saver and millionaire dude that she talks about all the time!"

"What?"

"Fei Fei is my high school classmate and she is from an ordinary family. She has a brother, but she was urged out of the house once her brother got married. Coincidentally, I sold my house, so both of us rented a house and are staying together. She has always had a dream to get married to a millionaire husband. Ever since she saw your bank savings, she had been obsessed about you! Let's not mention that you even saved her in more ways than one!"

Yu Li patted Zhang Yang's chest as she smiled and said, "Okay, done!"

Zhang Yang could not help but frown as the current problem had not yet been resolved and yet another one was coming! He quickly said, "Miss Yu, I'll head back first! When I log on to the game, I will transfer the money to your account! By the way, my money is invested in something now and my current cash flow isn't quite there yet, so I need about three to four days to raise 2,000,000 dollars!"

"I got it!"

"… I'm leaving!"

"Wait a minute. I will try my best to be your lover!" Yu Li suddenly grabbed Zhang Yang, she stood on her toes and kissed his lips with her cheeks blushed, "Do not be so good to me, otherwise, I won't be satisfied as a lover alone!"

…

It was really inexplicable. Zhang Yang grabbed a cab and went back to his house. The headache from his hangover was still there, so he simply went back to sleep until 2.00 PM in the afternoon. After waking up, he ate his lunch then he logged on to the game.

"Ha ha ha, Little Yang, your physical fitness is so poor! Last night I 'did' it five times continuously and one night's rest was enough! Little brat, you should train your endurance up!" Fatty Han immediately turned on voice messenger, "By the way, who was that pretty woman last night? How come I've never seen her before? Oh, is she your university schoolmate?"

This fatty sh*t did not hear Zhang Yang calling her Miss Yu last night? Whatever, it was better if he knew nothing. Otherwise, Fatty Han would tease him endlessly! Zhang Yang said, "If you say so.."

"Hey, Little Yang, we are brothers, you can't be hiding anything from me!"

"You better figure out a solution for Wu Hai Li and Yun Yun, it's never easy handling two relationships at once!" Zhang Yang immediately changed the topic.

"Nah, that's easy, Wu Hai Li just loves money. I will fight for more equipment and sell them all and she'll be mine!" Fatty Han laughed with glee, pretending to know more than he was letting on and said, "Little Yang, Wu Hai Li wasn't that upright disciplinary committee member with justice written all over her face we thought we knew. When she's in bed, you have no idea how much of a freak she is, she nearly drained all my energy last night!"

"… Fatty sh*t, if you continue this, you're going to die on the bed one day!"

"Bullsh*t, at least 90% of deaths occur on the bed anyway! By the way, I forgot to mention, someone will come to you later!"

"Who?"

"Li Ru, that buxom ooh lala beauty!"

"Damn it, did you tell her my ID?"

"I'm so sorry, Little Yang. You know I'm weak against women, that evil woman squeezed her chest in front of me, even calling me 'brother fatty' with her sweet voice, then I revealed your ID! I wanted to reveal more info but that evil woman already ran off, she really made me mad!"

"F*ck you, fatty sh*t!"

"Little Yang, she's a really beautiful girl. I really don't understand why you keep on rejecting her! We are wolves, why are you still pretending to be a sheep?! She passed my Q.C. you can go ahead and f*ck her!"

"F*ck her my *ss!"

"Bullsh*t. If I had a sister, I would have already married her to you and gotten myself a nephew by now!

Zhang Yang could only frown at the increasingly ridiculous statements.

"Ah, that evil woman just logged on the game. I'll leave you two alone!" Fatty Han immediately ended the voice chat.

Zhang Yang shook his head again and again while he was rushing to Auction House. It had become part of his routine by now. This was because every there and now, good stuff would pop up in the Auction House, be it items sold by those players who did not understand the equipment or items' value, or players who were feeling generous for some reason. So whoever gets lucky would get such prices from Auction House!

'Ding! Player Button-Free Lass sent you a friend request. Will you accept it?'

That's correct, she was Li Ru! This is because she told Zhang Yang her IGN yesterday.

Since his identity had already been revealed by Fatty Han, it was hard for him to refuse Li Ru's request! So Zhang Yang selected "Accept". After a while, the voice messenger request rang.

"Sh*ty Zhang Yang. You are Lone Desert Smoke's guild master and you told me that you didn't have the authority to invite players!" once the voice messenger turned on, Li Ru started scolding Zhang Yang.

"Wey wey wey, how come I cannot hear the sound? Wey wey, are you still there?"

"Ha Ha!" Li Ru smiled slyly and said, "Alright, alright, stop pretending, I'll stop blaming you, okay? Guild master, please invite me to your guild. At most, tell me about the unspoken rules!"

"I'll have to warn you, you can't simply flirt around in our guild or cause any other disturbances!"

"Cheh, you think I'm that much of a skank? Don't worry, I only have eyes for you!" Li Ru laughed proudly, "Currently, I only have two targets. The first is to join Lone Desert Smoke. En, I'm almost there! The second is to seduce a guy named Zhang Yang and f*ck him. Both targets would be achieved with a nod from your head!"

Was this woman suitable to join Lone Desert Smoke? Zhang Yang felt that she would be a better fit in Crimson Rage as that bunch of crazy women spoke the same language as Li Ru!

Zhang Yang shook his head again and again as he sent a guild invitation to Li Ru. Instantly, an announcement popped up in guild channel notifying that a new member has joined the guild. As Hundred Shots prohibited the members from chatting in the guild channel, the announcement of Li Ru joining the guild was very eye-catching.

"Hello everyone, I'm Button-free Lass, this is my first time joining such a big family, please take of me in the future!" Li Ru spoke in guild channel.

"Chatting is prohibited in guild channel. Because you just joined the guild and do not know about our guild rules, I will not deduct your guild's contribution points this time. Please take note!" Hundred Shots immediately responded to Li Ru's message in guild channel. Currently, besides eating and sleeping, Hundred Shots was using all his energy in managing the guild, and he worked so conscientiously that his fame in guild was just slightly lower than Zhang Yang.

Li Ru was shocked and quickly sent a message to Zhang Yang, "Why is this person so fierce? It's forbidden to even send messages in guild?!"

Zhang Yang laughed and explained, "There are a lot of members in the guild, if everyone sends messages, the guild channel will be a total mess. Just in case there is any emergency situation, everyone would not notice it the first time! Thus, that is why we have such a rule!"

"Oh!" Li Ru had finally understood and said, "That's good, it feels like a big corporate! Guilds that are messy and noisy all day long would not be effective in combat!"

Both of them chatted for a little while more before Li Ru decided to go for training as she was just Level 37. In order to match the level of the members in guild, Li Ru needed to train day and night for a long time!

Zhang Yang searched around in the Auction house and did not find any good stuff. He decided to leave the Auction House and head for his guild shop.

Zhang Yang had been busy fighting for [Fire Resistance Potion] recipe on previous days and he was not free to auction those Yellow-Gold equipment he looted from seizing fortress. Since he was free now, he decided to auction all of them.

Zhang Yang used the name of Little Merchandize Shop to make an announcement, "Dear friends, the merchandize shop has three pieces of Level 60 Yellow-Gold equipment, and all of them will be auctioned tomorrow at 7.00 PM! The equipment includes one weapon and two armors. Take note that they are not just any ordinary Yellow-Gold equipment but parts of the second set equipment! They can be mixed with Gray-Silver, Green-Copper and Black-Steel for set equipment effects! These two armors for set equipment are Cryomancer and Sniper's boots while the weapon is a one-handed sword. For interested parties, please do not forget the time, the auction will be started tomorrow at 7.00PM!"

Once the announcement was made, all the players in White Jade Castle were excited, even the players from Violet Star City, Emerald City and the rest of seven main cities got wind of the announcement. Cryomancers and Snipers all over were even more excited to join the auction! The highest grade of set equipment from dungeons was only Gray-Silver, so anyone equipped with Yellow-Gold set equipment would be one cut above all others! The Level 60 Yellow-Gold one-handed sword also brought the attention of Bandits, Guardians and Defenders!

After this auction, the reputation of Zhang Yang's Little Merchandize Shop was surely going to increase even further and bring in more cash!

Zhang Yang checked the current level of guild members. Except for the eight people in his gang, the current highest level was 49 which was only one step away from Level 50! At least two or three days would be needed to gather a 20-man exploration team.

In the evening, Zhang Yang led the team to fight against the Castle.

All the while, Lin Yu was on his mind -- and not in the good way. Along the journey of fighting the Castle, he was silent and did not talk much but released his anger on the monsters.

"Pervert fatty, what's wrong with noob tank?" Little brat asked with curiosity.

Fatty Han thought in deep and very hard then he answered, "I don't know!"

"He was still fine yesterday. It must be due to the classmate reunion that you attended!" Han Ying Xue interrupted.

"Ah! I figured it out!" Fatty Han patted his thigh, "Little Yang must be lovelorn!"

Qiang!

Sun Xin Yu glared at Fatty Han as she tightened her grip on her daggers, prepared to interrogate Fatty Han for more information if necessary.

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Chapter 209: Poisonous Fireland

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Fortunately for Fatty Han, he continued to explain, unaware of the danger he was in moments ago, "The girl brother Yang fell in love with in high school is about to marry to someone else in this coming May! Would anyone feel good about this?"

Sun Xin Yu relaxed and sheathed her daggers.

Wei Yan Er was curiously agitated, so she tried to pry for more, "Fatty, please be more specific about it!"

Daffodil Daydream had also become mightily curious, and she begged for more information, "Say it! Say it!"

"Fatty, stop saying sh*t!" Zhang Yang hacked a monster to death and turned to Fatty Han to issue a warning.

Fatty Han threw both of his hands up, pretending to be helpless and said, "Little Yang, you know that my will is weak, especially against these sex bombs right here!"

"F*ck!" but after giving it some thought, Zhang Yang realized that Fatty Han did not know anything that he should not know, so he just left him be.

Fatty Han smiled broadly and told the gang about what that had transpired during the night of the gathering. Coming out from his mouth, it was natural that he turned Zhou Kang Ming even more insidious in his story, using money to lure Zhao Hui Shan step after step closer into his arms, implicitly trying to humiliate Zhang Yang by the table, completely shaping the two into the image of a pair of adulterers, describing the guy as the Xi Men Qing1 and the girl as Pan Jin Lian2.

Zhang Yang felt more uneasy as he listened further, if he's describing them as Xi Men Qing and Pan Jin Lian, wouldn't he be the Wu Da Lang in the story?

"Wah! That's just so disgusting!" Wei Yan Er immediately soared with a sense of justice, "If I'd known about this earlier, I would have gone there and given that shameless pair of adults some serious slapping!"

"Zhan Yu, how pitiful!" passionate Daffodil Daydream was already wiping her tears, her eyes red and puffy.

"Wu Da -- erm, brother Zhan Yu, the world is full of colorful flowers, there's no need to shower your love on one flower only! Look at our small party, full of ladies as pretty as flowers and jades, why would you reject what is near at hand and seek so far away instead!" Endless Starlight spoke his voice out without fearing death.

This bunch of people! Zhang Yang let out a breath of sigh, "I'm not broken-hearted, alright! My relationship with her was like hundreds of years ago, please stop making assumptions about my past!"

"No can do!" Wei Yan Er pulled up her sleeves relentlessly and said, "There is only one person in the world can bully noob tank, only me! Hmph! Xi Men Qing and Pan Jin Lian, just wait till I turn up to them and tear down their house!"

As it seemed, the little girl was really into her character!

Han Ying Xue laughed and made a proposal, "Silly Yu, if there is another classmate gathering around, I shall go and make a good impression of you! Just give me a hundred and eighty pieces of Gray-Silver equipment and I shall allow you to pretend to be my boyfriend for the night!"

"That is not the righteous path, my sister!" Wei Yan Er gave a few taps on Zhang Yang's shoulder and said, "We are out here to mix into society, and the number one rule we always put in our heart is to have loyalty. Noob tank, I will help you!"

Zhang Yang stared at Han Ying Xue incredulously and asked, ""Young and Dangerous"?"

"Sigh, I have absolutely no idea on where she downloaded it from!" Han Ying Xue sighed in surrender.

After clearing up the dungeon, the party was for everyone to have their own free time.

Zhang Yang went back to the Little Merchandize Shop. Excited by his previous announcement on the Yellow-Gold auction, the shop was crowded with people, making the whole atmosphere very lively! He pulled up the sales record to see, and he was instantly stunned by what he saw, his profit margin had actually reached up to 400,000 gold coins!

He could not believe his own eyes at first, but as he thought about it, he realized: Currently, the eight main cities in China region have all been connected, players can travel to any one of the main cities by the Teleportation Points, and the cost for traveling between these cities was free! Therefore, when players knew that the Little Merchandize Shop was in possession of level 60 Yellow-Gold equipment pieces, players from other main cities will deliberately crowd up the little shop. Once it's crowded, there will always be people making purchases, one purchase after another, raising the number of sales in the shop.

It was the only private property in the entirety of China, if not globally. To add on to the history of The Little Merchandize Shop also auctioning out a guild upgrade order, the level 60 Yellow-Gold equipment pieces only made it even more popular. With such success in raising the shop's popularity, it would not be that surprising if the business of the shop wasn't good!

Exchanging the 270,000 gold pieces earned from yesterday and 400,000 gold pieces earned from today into cash, with the addition of Zhang Yang's savings of 700,000 in his account, there should be around 3,000,000 in total. With this amount of money transferred to Yu Li's account, it should already be enough for her to treat her mother.

In just awhile, Yu Li messaged back with four words, saying that, "Money has been received!"

She did not express any gratitude, it was most probably because she felt like she was trading her own body for the money. It was a business transaction, nothing else. She would not owe Zhang Yang anything else.

The night of the following day, the Little Merchandize Shop begun its second, highly popular auction, pushing 3 pieces of Yellow-Gold equipment onto the table. It was already very rare to see players with a full set of level 40 Gray-Silver equipment. With players knowing that there would be a sale on level 60 Yellow-Gold equipment, and armor set pieces to add on to that, the shop was instantly clogged up to capacity!

Zhang Yang had no choice but to implement a measure, 500,000 gold pieces had to be handed over as deposit upon entering the shop, eliminating a large number of players who went there as bystanders. Players would be able to reclaim their deposits when they leave, or they can also place bids by using the deposits as part of the payment.

After half an hour of auctioning, all three pieces of Yellow-Gold pieces had been purchased. Among the pieces, the [Spiritual Boots] was auctioned out at the high price of 760,000 gold pieces, while the [Hunt of the Sniping Giant] was auctioned at a more inferior price of 480,000 gold pieces! The weapon, being the most valuable of all pieces as always, was auctioned out at the extreme price of 970,000 gold pieces!

"It seems that Spellcasters tend to be richer!" Zhang Yang sighed.

The profit of 2,000,000 gold pieces was equally divided among the eight party members, with each person getting their cut of 250,000 gold pieces. The profit was so handsome that Fatty Han and the others were smiling to the point that their eyes were narrowed into a straight line! The remaining 210,000 gold pieces were kept in the guild's account to carry out some regular expenses.

Another two days had passed, the Lone Desert Smoke had finally obtained a total of 20 level 50 players. Zhang Yang put Endless Starlight and Hundred Shots in charge of the parties, first off to clear the normal mode and the hard mode of the Poison Fireland. The first reason was to accumulate equipment, and the second reason was to familiarize themselves with the patterns and skills of the boss, building a firm ground for them in exploring the Death Mode of the dungeon.

Meanwhile, Zhang Yang, Fatty Han, Wei Yan Er, Sun Xin Yu, Han Ying Xue and Daffodil Daydream departed for the Centaur's Palace. It was still alright to forego the other bosses, but Zac is a level 50 Yellow-Gold boss, they wouldn't miss it at any chance they got whenever it respawned! Following the advancement of their levels and equipment, they were strong enough to completely crush the monsters and the bosses of the Centaur's Palace. Previously, it took them about five to 6 days to complete the dungeon, but now, one night was all it took for them to handle everything.

Lone Desert Smoke spent only half a day to reclaim the dungeon in Normal Mode, while Hard Mode took two days. Even then, they had to rely on Zhang Yang to provide [Fire resistance Potions] before they managed to slaughter the final boss Roshan - Copper Hammer.

Within these two days, as the large guilds sent their main forces to the Poison Fireland, the cost for [Iron Ores, [Iron Bars] and [Solid Iron Bars] were rising quietly without alerting anyone. The [Iron bar]s, initially sold for the price of 2 gold pieces per set was not questioned by anyone, so they slowly increased the price to 6 gold pieces per set. Even so, the iron bars were in such short supply that even the auction house ran out of [Iron Bar]s!

Every crooked profiteer had already gotten the news that players had to pay a [Solid Iron Bar] to the NPC stationed by the entrance of the dungeon in exchange for an immunity against the erosion effect of the poison fire! Ever since then, they had been mining competitively for [Iron Ore, [Iron Bars] and [Solid Iron Bars, waiting for more people to reach level 50, where they planned to further increase the price of iron bars.

Although the iron ores were the most common mineral raw materials, but they simply could not accommodate the sheer numbers of miners. Furthermore, only regions of level 30 or below will produce an infinite supply of the ore. A sophisticated miner can mine up to 80-100 pieces of iron ores in an hour, but if the same region is full of miners competing for ores, their yield would be greatly diminished.

Although the number of miners knew about the appreciateing price of the iron bars, ores could only refresh by so much in a day, so they quickly reached maximum output, which wasn't enough!

The demand was lower than the supply!

Therefore, although the mainstream players were still around level 45 or so, the crazy season of [Solid Iron Bar] sales had already begun! After all, they would be needing 100 [Iron Bar]s to craft one [Solid Iron Bar]!

It was definitely exceeded Zhang Yang's expectation, as he believed that one Solid iron bar could only be sold at 5 gold pieces each. But, judging from the currently increasing price of the item, many Solid iron bars were quickly sold at 20 gold each, which got him sighing with mixed feelings.

It was also true, the price of 5 gold pieces for each, that was the price quotation in his previous life, and it was about two and a half years after the open server!

Zhang Yang no longer hesitated, immediately commanding Natalia to begin selling solid iron bars. He didn't want to be too greedy, and decided to follow mainstream price of 12 gold coins. That would suffice.

In just two days, the Little Merchandize Shop had sold a total of 130,000 solid iron bars. The number of sales for the first day was 50,000, while the number had increased up to 80,000 on the second day. The total profit was 1,300,000 gold pieces for the Little Merchandize Shop -- excluding the auctioning of the Guild Upgrade Order and some Yellow-Gold equipment which were special occasions, this profit of 1,300,000 gold pieces were totally belonged to Zhang Yang alone!

Instantly exchanging the gold pieces to some cash, the numerical value in Zhang Yang's saving account was increased from a pitiful 7,000 dollars to 3,000,000, and then to a total of 6,900,000 -- it was just like riding a roller coaster!

Following the uninterrupted sales of the [Solid Iron Bar, the space of the warehouse was slowly cleared out, allowing Zhang Yang to store more of the [Fire Resistance Potion].

On the night of 15th October, Zhang Yang selected 20 players according to the suitability of their professions, before leading the party over to the Poison Fireland dungeon.

'Ding! You have entered Poison Fireland (Hardcore Mode)!'

Stepping over the entrance of the dungeon, a land of red flames appeared right in front of everyone. Every then and now, larva would spring up from the ground, spitting terrifying beams of light into the sky. The whole space was enshrouded in red mist, giving them poor visibility.

At the entrance, stood a stout, 1 meter tall Dwarf whose beard flowed freely to his chest, with braided long hair. The name: 'Dwarven Prophet Ankla - The Ale' hovered right above his head.

[Ankla - The Ale] (Normal, Humanoid creature)

Level: 1

HP: 50

Defense: 10

A yellow named NPC, a non-aggressive type.

"Hey there, travelers, what are you guys up to? Passing this area full of fire and poison? Oh god, how can there be such stupid people in the world, to actually traverse this land, do you want to return to the embrace of the great god Titan in such a hurry? "Ankla immediately starting whining strangely after seeing everyone in sight.

"How many times have these brains of yours been stomped on by donkeys, in order to attain this level of stupidity? Even the most stupid Tupala Beast is so much brighter than you are!" Ankla was spraying his saliva like twinkling stars at everyone, with both of his hands on his hips, in a 'know-it-all' posture.

Endless Starlight and the others had completed the Normal Mode and the Hard Mode, so they were expecting some rather mean words from this NPC, and took it in stride. But Wei Yan Er is like a firecracker, once lit, guaranteed to explode! Instantly, she was provoked, and she took out her axe and snarled at that NPC, "Stinky shorty, I shall smash you flat with my axe if you insist on speaking like that!"

Ankla instantly exploded in anger, pointing his finger at Wei Yan Er's nose, shouting, "Little b*tch! How dare you show such disrespect towards the great Ankla?"

Seeing how furious the little girl was as she shouted back at him, Zhang Yang smiled lightly and informed her, "Little girl, if I were you, I wouldn't touch this NPC!"

Wei Yan Er curled up her lips in a battle-like snarl before saying, "What is there to be afraid of? It's just a level 1 shorty!" Although she spoke in that manner, she slung her axe over her back anyway.

On such a rare occasion was she wiling enough to calm down at Zhang Yang's advice, but Ankla was not willing to let it go just like that, and with a loud 'Pui!', he spat on the little girl's shoe.

"Argh -- you short piece of shit! I'm mad now!" How could Wei Yan Er endure such a humiliation? So she pulled out her axe from her back and cleaved the NPC into two.

'Pak!'

The level 1 NPC only had 50 health points, with just a gentle touch, he fell straight down to the ground. Wei Yan Er was full of herself as she said, "Noob tank, this stinky NPC was nothing after all, slaughtered like a --"

Boom!

A huge claw suddenly descended from the sky, flattening the little girl's body with a damage value of '-100,000', and she was reduced to a flattened corpse, half sunken in the ground.

The body of Ankla had disappeared completely, replaced by a gigantic dragon. Its whole body was covered in deep blue scales, looking just like a gigantic lizard with a pair of wings. The gang that stood in front of the dragon were completely dwarfed by its size.

[Deez Twork the Blue Dragon] (Ethereal boss, Dragon type)

Level: ???

HP: ???

Defense: ???

"So, your brain was really damaged by the kicks of donkeys, to actually dare to attack the great blue dragon!" The blue dragon shook it's head, with an expression saying 'This person is stupid beyond cure'.

Shoof, a blue light flashed, this gigantic dragon had returned back into a dwarf.

Han Ying Xue quickly rescued Wei Yan Er. She got up, with tears in her eyes, "Stinky noob tank, why didn't you warn me about his ability to transform!"

"I did not even have to chance to say it before you already started swinging your weapon at him!" Zhang Yang was trying to resist himself from laughing.

Wei Yan Er stood at one side, pouting as she stared relentlessly at Ankla, but her face suddenly lit up and she made a suggestion, "If we kill him, then the will be drops of Ethereal equipment?!"

Zhang Yang burst into laughter and replied, "Didn't you see the attack that got you with '100,000' damage? Do you really think we can kill them?"

Wei Yan Er sighed in despair, went to one side and started drawing circles in the ground while cursing the gigantic dragon that disguised itself as a dwarf.

Actually, even if players managed to take down an NPC, there would be no spoils, whatsoever. In his previous life, some Level 150 players had traveled all the way back to take down this blue dragon, but they did not even get a single fart! Still, it wasn't like he could tell her that.

Zhang Yang went up to Ankla and asked, "O great Blue Dragon, may I consult your great wisdom for ways to aid us across this vast land of poison fire?"

Ankla raised his frowned face and spoke in pride, "It is indeed your luck to come across me! It's such a coincidence that I have some of these potions, they can aid on protecting you from the corrosion of the poison fire damage!"

"However, you'll need to hand over some [Solid Iron Bar] for them!" the gigantic dragon, disguised as a dwarf expressed a face of greed as he spoke.

Zhang Yang turned around and smiled, then he said, "The dragon race is definitely very fond of glittering shinny things. They're stingy, the attitude in which there is only taking and no giving is quite similar to two certain members of our party, stingy and petty!"

Wei Yan Er was instantly provoked, putting herself in the shoe that fit, snapping at Zhang Yang with rage, "Noob tank, who are you talking about!"

Everyone traded a solid iron bar to Ankla respectively while the dwarf buffed them in turn, having collected the solid iron bar from each of them.

[Ankla's Blessing: Allows you to resist against the corrosion of poison fire, the effect will remain even after death, last for 5 hours.

Translator Notes:

1. Xi Men Qing - describing a man in 'The Reincarnation of Golden Lotus' who is lustful and rich, used money to sleep with another man's wife (Pan Jin Lian).

2. Pan Jin Lian - describing a woman in 'The Reincarnation of Golden Lotus' who is full of lust and unfaithful. Wife of Wu Da Lang.

3. Wu Da Lang - describing a man in 'The Reincarnation of Golden Lotus' who is betrayed by his wife (Pan Jin Lian) while he was working hard to earn money out there.

4. Young and Dangerous - A 1996, notoriously popular, crime-action-thriller film in Hong Kong.

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Chapter 210: Connecting the Six Cities

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"Forward!" Zhang Yang gave the command to push forward after every single one of the party members had been buffed.

Pong! Pong! Pong!

Approximately 10 meters away from where they stood, the thick mist dispersed and there came a humanoid stone giant, as tall as 10-meter tall, maybe taller, deep crimson in color. Every step it took rocked the ground with tremors.

[Poison Fire Giant] (Elite, Elemental Being)

Level: 54

Hp: 1,000,000

Defense: 600

"Charge!" Zhang Yang shouted with a loud voice, pulling out his axe and used Charge to shoulder-check the monster.

"Ao--" the Poison Fire Giant roared in rage, swinging it's giant fists at Zhang Yang.

'-2,267!'

With one slap across him, it only took away 1/6 of Zhang Yang's health points, it was not even worth mentioning! One must know that Zhang Yang's current Defense value had reached 420, with a damage absorption of 600 points! This was why the basic damage of the monster had been brought down from approximately 4,000 damage to 2,000 damage!

The party members ganged up on the monster, and standing in a circle, one after another they unleashed their attacks on the Poison Fire Giant.

The Poison Fire Giant had only one skill with group knockdown effect, followed closely by a burning shock wave which dealt 4000 damage points to all targets within a 20 meter radius. However, with Zhang Yang's Vitality Aura in effect, even the player with lowest HP exceeded 4,000 HP, and it was absolutely unnecessary to worry about anyone dying.

The total damage per second of the whole party reached a total of 200,000 damage, it took less than a minute to destroy the Poison Fire Giant with 1,000,000 health points. Swiftly chiseled away, the monster exploded and dropped a few pieces of rock fragments and a piece of crimson red crystal.

Zhang Yang widened his eyes, instantly picking up that piece of crimson red crystal from the ground.

[Fire Crystal Substance] (Special Item)

Use: Divides 1 piece of Fire Crystal Substance into 10 pieces of Fire Crystal Shards.

Wei Yan Er and Han Ying Xue stared to each other and exchanging sinister smiles.

As the party proceeded forward, they slaughtered another four Poison Fire Giants. Wei Yan Er and Han Ying Xue were actually beginning to compete with Zhang Yang for the Fire Crystal Substance. These Fire Crystal Substance did not fall every time, but the drop rate was quite high nevertheless, and out of five monsters, 4 pieces of Fire Crystal Substance will drop. Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er had managed to snatch one for themselves each.

These two girls immediately smiled proudly. They had no idea what these Fire Crystal Substances were for, but bring out such a face from Zhang Yang, these crystal substances must be very valuable!

The geometry of the Poison Fireland was like the long twisting body of a snake, which shaped into a spiral, with seven bosses on a total of three layers. The first layer had four bosses, while the second layer only had two bosses, leaving the third and final layer with the final boss, Roshan - Copper Hammer. The backstory of the dungeon was that a small number of the dwarves, defectors from their own race after snatching up the sacred relics of their kind, ended up offering themselves to the demonic side, becoming their fangs and claws.

It didn't take long for Zhang Yang and the gang to reach the entrance to the spiral structure. It was just like a snake's mouth, with two Poison Fire Giants guarding the entrance, while the two sides of the road were lined with boiling of lava, the heat causing flames to lick the edges. If players fall into that area, they will suffer a fire damage of 5000 in every second! Furthermore, the two end points of the snake's body was very far apart, it was at least hundreds of meters apart. To swim across the lava and skip the dungeons straight up to the boss seemed to be impossible at that stage.

The party unleashed their power and slaughtered the two monsters in no time. In just half an hour, they had already sighted the first boss in front of them, with dozens of [Fire Crystal Substances] in their backpacks at that point.

As Zhang Yang and the other main members of his party had equipped themselves with few pieces of Yellow-Gold equipment. Despite this being Death Mode, their equipment was turning it into a cake walk.

Other players had been carefully picked from the core level of the guild's combat power, with good combat awareness, and most importantly, cooperation and ability to react to orders. Furthermore, these players had went through the Normal Mode and Hard Mode of this dungeon, having a certain level of understanding towards the bosses, their skills and their habits. The whole journey was like crushing dried branches and sticks all along, in just a short period of time, they had already slaughtered the first to the sixth boss, pummeling them down to the ground!

The first and the second bosses dropped only profession-specific weapons, and starting form the third boss, armor-set equipment pieces were among the loots. Zhang Yang had already lost his interest on the Gray-Silver equipment, however, he was the only Guardian in the whole party, and it was contrary to what that was expected, the third, fifth, and sixth boss only dropped the Guardian's Furious Set equipment pieces, therefore, he could only take that which was given freely!

After they were done with the sixth boss, Zhang Yang and the gang were annihilated three times in total, which was remarkable, considering the Death Mode difficulty. But the monsters were too many in their numbers, most of their time was spent on clearing out the monsters in the area. Sensing morning approaching, Zhang Yang announced that the activity for today had come to an end, and they would continue by 7.pm on the next day.

Back to the main city, Zhang Yang went offline immediately and slept through the night.

The next morning, Zhang Yang went to the Identifier and identified the three pieces of Gray-Silver equipment, [Furious Helmet, [Furious Metallic Gloves, and [Furious Metallic Boots, and had all of them all of them socketed with [Level 2 Vitality Gemstone]s. His health points had reached the amount of 13,510 (with Vitality Aura)!

The players in the China region were doing pretty well. Their progress on the Death Mode of the Poison Fireland was at 5/7, while Imperial Sky, Crimson Rage, Radiance and the other guilds with top strength had reached the progression of 6/7, competing hand in hand with the Lone Desert Smoke. All of them carried the possibility of leaping through the dragon's gate, becoming the first guild in the China region to complete 7/7, securing the First Clear of the dungeon!

Throughout the entire day, Fatty Han had been very anxious over it, apprehensive about the sudden moment when someone else triggers the First Clear announcement.

Seeing Zhang Yang was crafting potions leisurely, Fatty Han could not hold it in anymore, so he asked, "Brother Yang, how could you not feel anxious at all? This will be the First Clear of the dungeon, and everyone is just one boss away from it, that title must not be snatched by others!"

Zhang Yang without even look up, said, "Does being anxious make a difference?"

Fatty Han immediately rolled both of his eyes, and then he said, "So after half of the day, it's just like the ancient proverb, the emperor is not worried, but the eunuchs are worried to death!"

"Haha, those were all your own words!"

"F*ck off, I wake up everyday with a boner pointing up to the stars! Eunuch your ass!"

Fortunately for him, after the whole day, there was no sign of any server announcement on the world channel, and Fatty Han finally loosened up with a sigh of relief, and he began to push Zhang Yang to assemble the party members since it was 7.pm.

But Zhang Yang was pulled by Wei Yan Er over to identify her equipment, you keep what you sow, that is the basic principle of Wei Yan Er and Han Ying Xue, and to be able to spend others' money without spending a dime of their own would be even better! Of course, these two ladies were standard swindlers of friends and associates, they would not give a damn to regular people.

In Wei Yan Er's words, "Noob tank, I come to you because I have a good opinion of you!"

Fine, after spending money, he still needed to thank people with screenshots!

Later at 7.pm, with Fatty Han gazing looking out for new players so intently that his eyes were bloodshot, the land-reclaim party had been assembled, and was speeding to the Tukula Fortress by 'plane'.

Zhang Yang has privilege of the City Order to teleport to the city, so naturally he did not have to walk all the way together with the gang, and he used that little time to craft a few sets of [Fire Resistance Potion]. After Han Ying Xue and the others arrived at the Tukula Fortress, only did he teleport himself to the chamber of the fortress' owner, entering the dungeon with everyone.

20-player dungeons initially required 3 days to refresh, therefore, the gang only needed to look for Ankla to trade for one of his buffs before they could travel across the boundless plain land directly to where the sixth boss was located, and clear the remaining last group of monsters before they could face the final boss, Roshan - Copper Hammer.

"Little sis, have you forgotten to activate your Strength Aura again!" Zhang Yang reminded her.

"Oh!" Wei Yan Er quickly waved both of her hands, and a stream of golden light channeled down through her body, stretching out by a radius of 30-meters, and as the light faded slowly, everyone was instantly boosted with a 2% increase in strength value.

"Noob tank, when can we acquire gemstones for upgrading aura skills?"

Zhang Yang gave it some thought before answering, "Open world bosses with the grade of Gray-Silver or above have the tendency to drop [Aura Stone]s, when Poison Fireland is cleared, we shall begin our sweep on the open world bosses!"

"That's great!" Wei Yan Er nodded her head like there was no tomorrow.

"Oh yea, silly Yu, so what's the deal with the battle mounting system?" Han Ying Xue asked the question out of the sudden.

"Yea, after the battle to secure the fortress, I was too tired and directly logged out, I wanted to ask that too!" Endless Starlight asked as well.

Zhang Yang frowned and asked them back, "You guys did not check on the official website by yourselves?"

The gang were shaking their heads left and right in silence, until Hundred Shots smiled and said, "It's still the best to hear if from you, it save us the trouble of looking for it!"

"What the f*ck, you lazy bunch of lazy people!" Zhang Yang shook his head non-stop, then he said, "The battle mount system is good stuff! Our personal mounts that were purchased from the NPC, are called regular mounts, or non-combat mounts. While on our mounts, we cannot execute any attacks or perform any movement that causes damage. In order to engage in battle, we must put aside our mount first!"

Han Ying Xue immediately understood, and she said, "Then, Battle Mount allows players to sit on their mounts during battle?"

"That's the gist of it, but those mounts will be much stronger!" Zhang Yang reorganized the images in his head and said, "Players get to sit on their mounts with Battle Mount System, where not only they can attack with them, they would also share health points with their mounts! Those mounts will also have their own attack values, just like the pets of the Hunter!"

"Wow, noob tank, why didn't you say it out earlier? If every one of us are here with our mounts, we can sweep and conquer this dungeon already!" Wei Yan Er excitedly grumbled.

Zhang Yang shook his head again, and said, "Firstly, Battle Mount are not Hunter's pets, they are not allowed to be summoned in certain areas, making them utterly useless. For example, dungeons, arenas, indoors. Secondly, Battle Mount are not tigers or lions that can be tamed to become your mount so easily. Only beasts that are labeled as 'Rare' can be captured with [Sealing Reins] that will be purchasable from shops! Once the sealing is successful, then only will the beasts become your Battle Mounts!"

He paused, suddenly thinking about that red dragon pet that Hundred Shots was bound to acquire in the future -- could it be a very uncommon 'Rare' dragon race? Right after Hundred Shots got that dragon mount, countless other Hunter class players tried they best to subdue a dragon as their pets. But, none ever succeeded! Even if the success rate was as low as it gets, there should have been a chance when there were so many Hunters trying their luck. Unless, it was something that can never be subdued with the Hunter's Beast Taming!

If that is the real case, then everyone would have a chance to get a dragon pet! Howver, non-Hunter profession players can only use them as their Battle Mount!

"When players are in the condition of riding a mount, the health points of the player and the mount will stack together. Furthermore, the mount will have it's very own skills. The type of skills would, of course, depend on the monster it was tamed from! Let's take Thunderous Light Leopard as an example, it can spew out a ranged attack taking the form of a laser-like beam of plasma from afar. It should retain that skill after becoming a mount!"

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Chapter 211: Roshan - Copper Hammer

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"That means, that everyone can have a little pets just like the Hunters?"

Zhang Yang shook his head and explained further, "Mounts have many limitations, they can only bring out their functions when players are riding on them, once dismounted, the mount will disappear immediately, unlike the precious pets of the Hunters which can continue attacking separately together with their owner! Only Hunters can treat their mounts as their pets and use them!"

"Wah, that is also good enough, noob tank, let's go catch some Battle Mounts tomorrow!" Wei Yan Er was happy for a moment, because she is a mount-freak, even if the mount did not have any special abilities, she would still do everything possible to collect them. Let's not forget that the Battle Mount can actually increase maximum health points, consequently increasing the battle power of the player!

Zhang Yang smiled and said, "Little girl, do you really think that capturing a Battle Mount is a fun thing to do? First off, the word 'Rare' is already a big headache for you! Who wouldn't want a Battle Mount, when you encounter one, surely the first thing to do is to immediately take out the [Sealing Lease] to capture it, everything else is based on luck!"

"Hehe, my luck has always been great!" Wei Yan Er revealed her teeth with a smile, "Just wait and see, noob tank, I shall come back here and capture that bad-*ss dragon by the entrance of this dungeon, then I shall come back and send you to your demise with one stomp!"

"Silly little girl, all Battle Mounts that can be captured start at level 0, you can save your breath!" Zhang Yang immediately shattered the beautiful dream of Wei Yan Er.

Hundred Shots quickly asked Zhang Yang, "Then, can we level up a Battle Mount?"

"Yes!" Zhang Yang nodded his head and said, "Just like the pets of the Hunter class, they can be leveled up as long as they are gaining experience points. Furthermore, the amount of experience points required for the mount to level up is much lesser compared to the amount of experience points required for players to level up. However, the level of the mount cannot exceed the level of the player, just like a Hunter's pet."

The gang did not have much knowledge about the Battle Mount since the beginning, so they were easily moved by what he heard, and one of the healer knights named Nine Days of Thunder asked, "Guildmaster, would the capturing of a mount end in failure?"

Zhang Yang nodded and said, "It would, and the number of failure in capturing the mount is limited! Any mount that is available for capturing are green-named monsters, but, after 10 times of failures in capturing it, the monster will become a red-named monster, and by then, it will become impossible to seal the monster, ever again!"

"Uh, hello, ladies and gentleman, are we here to slaughter the boss or to capture mounts? Hustle up! Don't the others snatch the First Clear of the dungeon!" the only thing that Fatty Han was obsessed at the moment was the First Clear of the dungeon.

"Oh yea --" Hundred Shots tapped his forehead and said, "Zhan Yu, there was a representative from an advertisement firm named 'Far Ocean Electronics' who contacted me, expressing their interest to sponsor our guild. All we need to do is when we acquire the First Clear for a dungeon, we register our party name after 'Far Ocean Electronics - Lone Desert Smoke' on the First Clear List. There will be a reward of 300,000 cash for every First Clear title we acquire, and a reward of 100,000 cash for every time we get ourselves onto the Time Attack List!"

"Holy molly, have you agreed on it already? That's is a sky-high kind of a great news indeed!" Fatty Han was moved instantly, shaking Hundred Shots's by the shoulders.

Hundred Shots shook his head and said, "This kind of decision should be made by Zhan Yu of course!"

Zhang Yang had passed over the responsibility on the administrative matters to him, that was a kind of trust, allowing him to make his own decisions. Facing such big deal of a decision making, of course would be natural to let the Guildmaster decide.

Zhang Yang smiled and said, "They are really stingy on it, planning to handle us with 300,000?"

Fatty Han immediately slapped his head, that was true to the core, each of they were already earning 1,000,000 or even more just by dividing the earnings from their equipment sales! Acquiring a First Clear title for a reward of 300,000 cash might sound appealing, but even with only 10 players in one party, each of them would only receive 30,000 cash! Furthermore, according to the conventional design of the game, there's a 10 level-limit compatibility for each dungeon, and it requires 7 days to level up once after achieving level 50 -- it would probably require approximately 2 months to acquire one First Clear Title of a dungeon. Therefore, players could only rely on the Time Attack Dungeons to earn cash on regular basis.

But the Time Attack of the dungeons were also limited in terms of the shortest time made possible with the shortest route taken, the fastest kills, the right party arrangement, and with so many guilds competing, each guild would only have their chances to go for it by three or four times at most. So, players should be thankful if they could even earn an amount of 10,000 or 20,000 a month.

For regular players, earning 10,000 or 20,000 was considered pretty good. But Fatty Han and the gang had been so well fed that their appetite would not be so easily satiated. Such a small amount of money would no longer matter in their eyes!

Han Ying Xue widened her eyes a little and said, "Rich water should not be let out of one's own fields1, please allow us to be the sponsor for the guild then!"

"You girls?" Hundred Shots stared at Han Ying Xue, having some confusion over what she just said.

Han Ying Xue smiled lightly and said, "Yan Er's dad has a company of their own, I own some of the stocks, and this game, 'God's Miracle' is famously blooming nowadays, it'll be great advertising for the company!"

"Cousin, you don't have to be modest, you already own 55% of the company shares, that's actually more than my dad's!" Wei Yan Er immediately said, "Noob tank, aren't you heartbroken now? Aiyo, I will give my cousin sister to you, you won't have to ask for any sponsorship money!"

"Hahaha!" the gang laughed, as Sun Xin Yu flashed her stare of death across the room.

"You little brat, in order to save a little bit of money, you dare to sell me out?" Han Ying Xue gave a glance at Wei Yan Er, but Wei Yan Er did not give a damn and responded with a funny face. "Work is work, private matters are private matters, not gonna get these two mixed up! So this is how it is going to be, I will arrange for a representative of my company's advertisement department to contact you!"

"Alright! Just look for Hundred Shots, after you are done with the negotiations, just inform me!"

"Hey guys, are we going to beat the boss or not?" Fatty Han had tears streaming down his face now.

As the party members chatted while pushing forwards deeper into the dungeon, another half an hour passed, all spent on clearing out the monsters in the area. Finally, they stood in front of the last boss. The boss stage was vast, like a shopping plaza, and the boss was standing right in the middle of it all, with no monsters in the surroundings, at all.

[Roshan - Copper Hammer, King of the Flaming Dwarf] (Gray-Silver, Humanoid)

Level: 58

Hp: 5,000,000

Defense: 600

The boss was wearing extremely thick armor, with a large axe held in his right hand, his skin the colour of crimson red. Standing in the boiling mist, he looked like a burning flame.

"Just like the other two modes, the boss has no other differences other than the damage increased!" Zhang Yang had also revised on the battle tactics with the gang first hand, as Han Ying Xue and some members had not cleared this dungeon before, "Among the skills of this boss, the most lethal one is his forced-teleportation! It will randomly teleport four players 100 meters away from the boss, afflicting each of the players with a negative effect 'Chain of Burning Flame'!"

"Players who carry the 'Chain of Burning Flame' will inflict a DPS of 2,000 fire damage to each other if they are within 30 meters from each other. So, the trick is this, the 4 players that are effect by the 'Chain of Burning Flame' must head out in different directions until they are at safe distance before they are burned to crisps!"

Zhang Yang looked at the gang and said, "This is the time to test our mutual understanding and our teamwork, if two or three people run towards the same direction, who should be the one to concede? One must react and decide in an instant to run elsewhere! Take note that this is Hardcore Mode, if you have 5 seconds to react in Hard Mode, you only have 3 seconds to react here!"

"Oh, silly Yu, no wonder you wanted the recipe for Fire Resistance Potion, now I see what it could be used for!" Han Ying Xue suddenly understood, instantly rolled her eyes back at Zhang Yang, "You stingy little piece, now you are going to earn another big roll of cash!"

Zhang Yang smiled lightly, then he said, "Once we are opened up to the boss, just drink the Fire Resistance Potion to prevent any complication later! Fire Resistance Potions can decrease the damage received by 600 points of damage, it can greatly increase the margin of error!"

To beat this boss, Fire Resistance Potions were not a compulsory to have, but with no doubt, having Fire Resistance Potions will obviously decrease the difficulty in engaging the boss.

"Other than the 'Chain of Burning Flame', the other difficult situation the boss will create for us starts when the boss uses Destructive Smash on the tanks, decreasing 50% of the healing effect on them. Of course, I will do my best to block, and the priest has to reserve their Holy Shield. Wait for the moment where I receive Destructive Smash from the boss before casting the shield on me, because the shield absorbs damage instead of heals, so there shouldn't be any influence on this!"

Zhang Yang clapped his hands a few times and said, "Alright, there's no point repeating my instructions a thousand times or ten thousand times, it will be clearer once we try this out in practice, drink the potions up and let's charge forward!"

He took out a bottle of the Fire Resistance Potion, with a gulp, he emptied the whole bottle before pulling out his axe, charging swiftly towards the boss with huge steps.

"Who are you people, how dare you to trespass my land of the flaming dwarfs? It doesn't matter, all I have to do is to annihilate all of you!" Roshan swung an axe that was three times his height, coming forward to meet the charging players, "I am Roshan, the King of the Flaming Dwarves, remember my name, for this name belongs to the one who will send all of you to see the Lord of Hades!"

"You're full of hot air!" Wei Yan Er stuck out her tongue at him.

Zhang Yang used Charge, and with a whoosh, he crashed into the boss, waving his battle axe and ferociously hacking away at anywhere and anything.

Wei Yan Er was not willing to be left behind, following with an immediate Charge , swinging her giant axe, slicing and dicing as well.

'-5,480!'

With a swing of the axe from the boss, Zhang Yang received a huge amount of damage, only a boss dealing 8,000 or more damage could have done that much! Fortunately, Roshan is categorized as a Berserker type, his attack rate was not that frequent, and it takes about three seconds for him to deliver one attack. With four healers in the party, they can leisurely heal Zhang Yang's health bar back to full in no time.

"Burning Flame, aid me in burning these nincompoops into crusty crisps!" the battle had just begun for awhile, when Roshan let our a roar, raising the axe in his hand up high. Four chains formed from the burning flame of his axe, where they split and hit Endless Starlight, Defiant Monk, Sky Burial and Lady Baidu. In a flash, the four players immediately disappeared from where they stood, reappearing 100 meters away from the boss, seven o'clock from his direction.

Bam!

Four stream of lights explosively rose upward, flashing right above the four players respectively, dealing a series of damages ranging from '-1,400' to '-1,050'. Because Endless Starlight is a Defender, naturally possessing a passive 75% spell damage reduction, he sustained the least damage among the four.

"Run! Quickly!"

The four players quickly began their running, but only Sky Burial ran towards the west, the other three were all running towards the same direction.

"What the fart! Defiant Monk, Lady Baidu, stop sticking my ass! Change your course of direction now, I don't want to die because of you two!" Endless Starlight was shouting in a loud voice while gulping down a bottle of red potion, "Sun of a..., Lady Baidu, do you like my ass that much? Turn around! Turn around!"

'-1,400!'

'-1,400!'

'-1,050!'

The damage value consecutively appearing right above the heads of the three players as they tried to pull themselves apart. However, Lady Baidu had the lowest gear in term of grades having just a little over 5,000 health points. Although she did drink a bottle of red potion, she could only hold on for another tick of explosive damage. Five seconds later, her health points were all burned off, and she skidded face first across the floor, having died mid-stride.

As Lady Baidu died, Endless Starlight was no longer in danger, he crowed in joy and said, "I have tons of health points, if you follow me again the next time around, I'm not going anywhere, others will only be burned to death if they don't get away from me!"

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Chapter 212: Silky Soft Bra

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"For f*ck's sake man, you are one shameless brat, isn't that an act of pushing people forward to be the victim instead?" Fatty Han was conflicted with mixed feelings, laughing and berating him at the same time.

Within such a short period of time, one player had been lost, with the remaining three players waiting out for the duration of 'Chain of Burning Flame' to expire, before they headed back to the party and did what they were supposed to do.

Zhang Yang then informed, "Fatty, Hunters have it easiest when it comes to escaping the effect of 'Chain of Burning Flame', one "Tumble" would do the trick. You'll end up 10 meters away from the others!"

"Oh yea, I actually forgot to use "Tumble"!" Defiant Monk gave himself a strong slap to his forehead, with a face that looked like he just woke up from a dream.

It was just a mere 30 seconds before Roshan activated the second 'Chain of Burning Flame', randomly picking four targets and teleporting them to a spot 100 meters away. This time, they appeared at the 12 o'clock direction.

The healers had it tough. It was like playing a game of tag, having no clue which of the four burning members should they heal first. As the teleportation location was completely random, it was not possible for them to make any arrangements in advance to where the four targeted players would be teleported to in order to heal their health points back. The best they could do was to heal whoever they could.

Compared to the first teleportation, this time, it was handled much better -- or should we say that they were much luckier, the four players had already picked four different directions in the beginning, although they were not running outwards at in an even petal of four, with the support of the Fire Resistance Potion and the usage of red potions, everyone managed to hold on until they were out of the 30-meters distance from each other, none of them was killed.

Although the boss has a "Destructive Smash" that decreases healing effect, it did nothing against Zhang Yang and Han Ying Er, both already possessing a few pieces of Yellow-Gold equipment, basically toying with the boss. Without posing too much of a threat, the only difficult thing was to handle the roll-calls by the boss!

On the third roll-call, another player was killed.

On the forth roll-call, most unfortunately, the four hapless players started running in the same direction, and realizing their mistake, turned around at the same time, turning again…. This went on for a while with everyone constantly running alongside each other. In the end, all of them died except for one. That player survived because of their long health bar, if not for anything else.

On the fifth roll-call, none of them died.

On the sixth…

After experiencing 11 roll-calls, a total of nine members of the party had been killed, while the boss still remained with 38% of health points. It didn't affect their performance all too much as the deceased members of the party were not the main force of Zhang Yang's eight core members of the party, there was still hope to turn the table around!

"How was it? I was right, am I? One shall not die with a long health bar!" Endless Starlight was considered to be the lucky doll among the unlucky ones, a total of 11 roll-calls were made by the boss, and Endless Starlight was selected for six of them. With his longer health bar, the other three players were all blown to death, and he managed survive in a most disapproving manner!

"Get lost, what use is there for you to survive without even contributing a tiny bit of damage!" Hundred Shots, clearly disgusted, had a guttural quality to his voice.

"Burning flame, incinerate them all!" Roshan raised his axe again, activating his 12th roll-call with his skill; targeting Han Ying Xue, Wei Yan Er, Fantasy Sweetheart and Defiant Monk!

Initially, the party had 4 healers. One had been killed in a previous roll-call. With the current roll-call, two strong priests, Han Ying Xue and Fantasy Sweetheart had been picked. In an instant, the party was left with only one Holy Knight -- Half Gram Not Two Yuan -- to heal Zhang Yang. Of all times, Zhang Yang had to be carrying the negative effect of "Destructive Smash" at that moment!

This was probably the gravest situation they've been in since the beginning of the battle.

Zhang Yang quickly summoned his servant Clear Lotus and activated the "Substitute" skill, instantly acquiring a 5-second invincibility, nullifying all the negative effects he had on him. By doing so, he allowed the Holy Knight Half Gram Not Two Yuan to heal him without interruption while waiting for Han Ying Xue and Fantasy Sweetheart to return.

Furthermore, once the selected players were teleported, they started running around like headless flies.

Han Ying Xue never had any sense of direction to begin with. She activated shield around herself, healed herself, then she literally shut her eyes and ran forward without looking to see if there was anyone in front of her. As a result, Defiant Monk was forced into a rather tragic situation -- he had already used "Tumble" to create distance from the others the moment he was teleported. Wei Yan Er and Fantasy Sweetheart were already running in different directions, but Han Ying Xue quickly caught up to Defiant Monk with her powerful legs.

Defiant Monk suddenly panicked, as he quickly yelled with his top voice, "Vice Guildmaster, you are running at the wrong direction! Turn around! Turn!"

Han Ying Xue heeded his screams and did turn around, except that it was a 360 degree turn, resulting in her continued rampage towards Defiant Monk!

Although the Fire Resistance Potion reduces a lot of damages, it only managed to increase the running time from 3 seconds to 5 seconds. Although Defiant Monk had already gulped down a red potion, with an additional "Healing" from Han Ying Xue, he wasn't able to keep Han Ying Xue from burning his ass, so he ended up being blasted to death!

"Hahaha!" Wei Yan Er laughed with her hands pressed against her stomach, and she said, "Cousin sis, you are really mean, it was already bad enough to blow others up, and you even healed him, prolonging his suffering! I can't stop laughing! You'll be the death of me! You're a secret operative mole embedded within my army! I shall destroy you on behalf of the moon1!"

Zhang Yang could only bitterly smile at her understandably bad sense of direction. He said, "Witchy Snow, the next time you get selected again, just stand there and don't run, heal yourself from where you are standing!"

Han Ying Xue smiled with guilt and said, "I am so sorry, Defiant Monk!"

"It's... It's alright!" Defiant Monk resignedly accepted his unfortunate fate.

"If I were to die beneath a peony flower, I would still be charming as a ghost2. Queen Snow, you can blow me, blow me to death, I don't mind!" Endless Starlight was shouting like an anthomaniac.

"Tsk tsk tsk, Starlight, pretty Snow is brother Yang's type, you should just go to the shade!"

If they had come without any Fire Resistance Potions, the whole party might have been totally annihilated by now. Never underestimate a potion that only increase the survival time of the players by a mere two seconds, because players in 'God's Miracle' can reach up to the speed of 10 meters per second with their full power while running. The game had turned everyone into an Olympic sprinter. Two seconds would allow players to run another 20 meters, and if four players can run in the direction of four axis, they can definitely escape the burn in no time!

It could still be done without the Fire Resistance potion, but it will require absolute understanding among each other and perfect teamwork! With the [Fire Resistance Potion, there is no doubt that it will greatly decrease the difficulty, allowing a much wider margin of error, making the boss much easier to take on!

30%, 20%, 10%!

Two more members were killed afterwards, and the party had successfully pushed the health bar of the boss down below 10%.

"You despicable insects, to be able push me this far! Curse you, I shall teach you all, the terror of provoking a Dwarf King!" Roshan gave out a roar that shook the heavens, raising up both of his hands and lifting the axe up high, his entire body was instantly pulsating beneath a bloody red halo.

'Ding! Roshan has awoken the ancient power of the kings, damage dealt increase by 50%!'

"Son of a sniper! The boss is entering berserk mode!" Fatty Han was shouting frantically.

"That's strange, in Normal Mode and Hard Mode, the boss did no such thing!" Hundred Shots scratched his head, having trouble understanding the situation, as the parties that cleared the Normal Mode and Hard Mode of this dungeon were led by himself and Endless Starlight.

"That is why this is called Hardcore Mode!" Zhang Yang replied him.

'-8,534!'

After entering berserk mode, Roshan's attack was increased significantly, his basic attack was elevated to a total attack of 12,000, and only the guild's top tanker could hold on! That tanker was Zhang Yang!

"Speed-kill!"

After the boss entered berserk mode, there was no way to kite and tank the boss, with a single attack surpassing 8,000, and the inconsistent use of "Destructive Smash" that reduced healing effects, Zhang Yang could still buy time using his emergency skills, but even he wouldn't last indefinitely. The only way left was to speed-kill the boss!

"Burning flame, incinerate these pests!" once again, Roshan did a roll-call and did his teleportation hocus pocus.

Immediately, Sun Xin Yu, Half Gram Not Two Yuan, Hundred Shots and Fantasy Sweetheart were teleported 100 meters way from the boss at a 3 o'clock direction.

Pak!

As the sparks of fire flared out, all four of them began to receive damages of '-2400'. With the boss in berserk mode, the damage inflicted by the 'Chain of Burning Flame' effect had also been increased by 50%!

With a swift activation of his "Tumble", Hundred Shots quickly blasted 10 meters away, where he continued running, turning around to take a peek to find that no one else was following him. Half Gram Not Two Yuan was all alone in one direction, but Sun Xin Yu and Fantasy Sweetheart were heading towards the same direction.

"Stay where you are, heal yourself!" Sun Xin Yu commanded Fantasy Sweetheart in her cold and icy voice.

The ice queen had a very oppressing aura, therefore, the busty Fantasy Sweetheart who had large, watery eyes immediately stopped and nodded. The abrupt halt jolted her pair of excellent boobies up and down, and they jiggled without any signs of pausing at all. She quickly activated a shield around herself, casting a strong healing skill.

Sun Xin Yu had a total of 7,300 health points, so by theory, she could withstand 3 hits of the 'Chain of Burning Flame'. However, she had ran towards the same direction as Fantasy Sweetheart and wasted a bit of time, so she had already being burned three times, leaving her with only 100 points health points remaining!

Even if she drank a [level 2 Healing Potion, it would only heal her by 1,000 health points, which was not enough to counter the damage of one explosive attack!

Pak!

Just as the forth explosion happened, Sun Xin Yu waved her right hand and suddenly, her entire body vanished into thin air, before she reappeared again in an instant. She continued to run like hell, rushing to gain 30 meters of distance away from Fantasy Sweetheart!

"Beautiful!" Zhang Yang was watching all events that unfolded, and when he saw that last particular scene, he could not help himself but to applaud her! Just now, Sun Xin Yu had used her skill -- "Vanish", to gain a single frame3 of invincibility. It had such a narrow window of opportunity that it was just enough to avoid the blast damage. It was definitely a performance only masters of masters could pull off!

To use the split-second short of invincibility when activating "Vanish" in order to avoid damage required precise control -- down to the last milisecond at the moment when the explosion happens! Even if it was Zhang Yang, he could not have done it so perfectly!

She would indeed be the number one of the top 10 thieves in the China region. There was no doubt about it now. Just witnessing what she just did, was eyes-dropping!

Other than Zhang Yang, the others also started applauding her, that evasion was just too incredible!

5%, 4%, 3%!

Roshan was once again ready to do another roll-call, but his health bar was already coming to an end. Even with four players dead, it would not change the fate of Roshan was at death's door!

2%, 1%!

"No-- No! I cannot die, I am the King of the Flaming Dwarfs, I shall snatch all the sacred relics back and conquer the entire Dwarf race, I am... Un..defea..table...!" Pam, Roshan did an odd pirouette as he spun around, the axe falling heavily onto the ground. His fat, short body soon followed, causing a tremor as it hit the ground.

As the blood flowed across the ground, the blood eerily formed a magic circle, emitting some dark lights .

"Haha! We did it!"

Zhang Yang had not expected this to go so smoothly, even with the Fire Resistance Potion, he had never expected them so succeed at their single attempt.

'Ding! You and your party have acquired the First Clear title for The Poison Fireland Dungeon (Death Mode), as the leader, please insert your party's name to be published on the list of the Death Mode's First Clear title, for the world to behold and sing praises!"

Zhang Yang suddenly thought of it, so he asked Han Ying Xue, "So how about it, do we put your company's name this time? The next time we acquire another First Clear title will be one or two months later!"

Han Ying Xue pondered briefly upon it and said, "Alright, you can use 'Silky Soft Bra, giving you the most personal care! Lone Desert Smoke' as the party's name!"

Zhang Yang blinked dumbly for a second before saying weakly, "Hello, you did not mention that your company sells bras!"

Han Ying Xue gave him a backward eye-roll and said, "You did not ask, I did not tell!"

"Can't we just put 'Silky Soft Company' or 'Silky Soft Holdings'?'"

"There won't be any point, then!" Han Ying Xue was speaking in a serious manner, "Silly Yu, you are too chauvinistic, what is wrong with the name Silky Soft Bra, it's not like they are naughty or perverted words! Are you filling it in or not, I am about to get mad!"

Fatty Han was excited, written all over his face, and he said, "Pretty Snow, your company produces bra, there should be a large number underwear models, right?"

"Of course, every single product of our company is worn by models, to be made into albums and the brochures for the products!"

Fatty Han rubbed both of his hands together and said, "So when are you bringing me for a tour over the changing room... erm, to your company to have a look!"

"Sign me up, sign me up too!" Endless Starlight quickly saw the opportunity and reacted.

Daffodil Daydream spoke out and said, "Sister Snow, the Silky Soft Bra Holdings is one of the top three bra distributor in the whole China, my thesis actually used your company's sales data. That is one big company with billions in annual revenue! I happen to be wearing a Silky Soft bra myself!"

Zhang Yang could not help but laughed, "Silly girl, you told me that you possess 55% of the company shares, that means you earn at least 500 million per year, right?"

Everyone was staggered, as they tried to comprehend Han Ying Xue's wealth. Endless Starlight tried to squeeze his pitiful face and said, "Queen Snow, please take me in!"

"Hello, Silly Yu, are you going to fill it in for real or not!" Han Ying Xue put her hands on her waist and started to raise her tone.

"Yes... This would suffice right!" Zhang Yang let out a sigh, if he had known about it a little earlier, he would not have asked. It would be awesome, when the server announcements begin to pop up in red.

After keying 'Silky Soft Bra, giving you the best personal care! Lone Desert Smoke' in the column, Zhang Yang gave a sigh, and confirmed the party name entry with the server. The server announcement began to make the announcement in red on the big screen.

'Server Announcement: Silky Soft Bra, giving you the best personal care! Lone Desert Smoke has successfully acquired the First Clear title for the Poison Fireland (Death Mode), their great deeds will be published on the list of the Death Mode First Clear title (China Region). Please cheer for them!'

Zhang Yang did not even wait to read the following announcements. God damn it, this time, Lone Desert Smoke was about to make every single male player in the guild blush; they might even be called the Bra guild for the rest of their days!

1. I shall destroy you on behalf of the moon - A reference from Sailormoon, original dialog is 'I shall punish you on behalf of the moon'.

2. If I should die beneath a peony flower, I will still be charming as a ghost - it means the person is willing to die for beautiful women.

3. Frame - In video games, a frame is a term used to address a moment so brief, that it can only be measured roughly in terms of Frames-per-second - the rate at which a screen refreshes.

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Chapter 213: Queen of Medusa

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Soon after the public announcement of the Server Announcement, Zhang Yang received the congratulatory messages from Snow Seeker, Sky Shaman, Crimson Fire and the others. Of course, fun being poked at that advertisement was inevitable. He almost logged out of the game to escape the ridicule.

As most bosses only dropped Gray-Silver equipment, Wei Yan Er had lost her interest in the victory loots, irresponsibly pushing the job of picking everything up to Zhang Yang.

Roshan had dropped a total of five pieces of Gray-Silver equipment. Among the five, four were all armor-set equipment, being the chest plates that belonged to Berserkers, Bandits, Pyromancers and Beastmasters. So, Zhang Yang decided to auction them out one, using the guild's points as currency.

The last piece of the Gray-Silver equipment was a spellcaster's cape.

[Fire Cape] (Gray-Silver, Cape)

Vitality: 17

Intelligence: 17

Equip: Increases 10 points of spell damage.

Unidentified

Level required: 50

As the majority of players protested on the unidentified property of the equipment, the allocation of equipment became chaotic as they became ridiculously high in demand. As Dream Technology was under a lot of pressure, they had made some subtle changes to the Unidentified trait a few days back.

Without a proper identification of the equipment, players could still see it's special effects, but all attributes will be reduced by 30%, and these reduced attributes would be restored only after identification is done.

After a long auction that had the same few names increasing the bid, the equipment was finally claimed by Daffodil Daydream who instantly swapped it with her current equipped one.

"Noob tank, we are done with the dungeon, let's go capture ourselves some Battle Mounts!" Wei Yan Er, being the standard hot-head, immediately made to run to the dungeon's entrance.

"Silly little girl, don't run off just yet!" Zhang Yang quickly pulled her back, and said, "There's a hidden boss that has yet to be taken down!"

"A hidden boss?" everyone was curious. Ever since the first dungeon, they had never come across any other dungeons with hidden bosses. They had almost forgotten about the existence of such things!

"Where? Where is it?" Wei Yan Er quickly regained her interest. Accessories like Rings and Necklace are harder to find, and the accessories she had on her were all level 30, better replacements were long overdue.

Zhang Yang pointed at the magic circle that had been formed in the blood of the fallen boss, "Step on it!"

Everyone followed his words and stepped onto the magic circle. Immediately, a stream of dark light shot upwards, the players that stepped onto the magic circle vanished one after another.

Zhang Yang was the last to step onto the magic circle. As the dark light engulfed over him, he instantly appeared in an unfamiliar place, beside Han Ying Xue and the rest of the gang.

The place was dark and gloomy, with way to tell whether it's day or night, with the only source of dark light illuminating on one of the corners of the area. About 50 meters away in front of them, there was a beautiful face paired with a sexy bust, but it's lower body was made up by a tail of a snake. It held a longbow in its hands, constantly screaming in a high pitch.

Her upper body was extremely erotic, it was tremendously curvy, and at times she arched her back, or gyrated her body in a very seductive manner. However, her hair was made out of hissing gray little snakes, each having a pair of cold eyes that gleamed in the dark. By gazing at them, one would feel goosebumps running up their spine. The snake body itself was extremely long, if it was measured from one end to the other, it would have been at least 10 meters long!

She had been tied down by three burning red chains of light. Two of them had been crisscrossed over her voluptuous chest, squeezing out the two large mounds, making them stand out vulgarly!

At the other end of the three burning light chains, three dwarfs -- their red skins indicating their Flame Dwarf heritage -- were keeping the snake-lady restrained. The strange thing was that, all three of them had green names, meaning that players cannot attack them.

"This is the most authentic BDSM I've ever seen..."

"Man, that's heavy stuff. Good taste!"

Fatty Han and Endless Starlight were murmuring to each other, their eyes transfixed on the boobs that jerked about violently.

The gang selected the tied up beauty and read her information.

[Aigawa, The sealed Queen of Medusa] (Gray-Silver, Demon)

Level: 59

HP: 8,000,000

Defense: 600

The three dwarfs were named Margeryashe, Lingamant and Bassan. All of them were level 55 elites, with 180,000 HP and 300 defense points.

"Who are you people, how did you find this place?" The three dwarfs spotted the intrusion of Zhang Yang and the gang into the area. The one in the middle of them, Lingamant spoke in a strong, demanding voice.

Zhang Yang showed a adventurer's salute to the dwarves and said, "My respected fellow dwarves, we are adventurer from White Jade Castle, here to slay these foul demons!"

"Pui! Just you?" the dwarf standing on the left, Margeryashe spoke in contempt.

The dwarf standing on the right, Bassan, however, said, "They managed to enter this area, it only means that they had defeated Roshan. Only his blood can activate the seal and open the magic portal!"

"You people defeated Roshan?" Margeryashe revealed a shocked expression, "I guess I must have underestimated you all!"

It was quite obvious that Margeryashe had the most authority in the area. After a light wave of one of his hands, the other two dwarfs immediately went silent, and he spoke unhindered, "To pursue absolute power, we surrendered ourselves to the demons. In the beginning, our strengths did indeed increase, but our souls were beginning to warp into something else. Our beliefs in the great Gods of Titan were quickly shaken! Us three chiefs discovered the conspiracy of the demons. It turns out that they wanted to imprison our souls and make us their slaves in absolution!"

"However... We discovered their plans a little too late, too many of our kind had already been driven to madness because of the twisted power! Three of us tried everything we could and everything we knew just to seal this demoness that lured us into our downfall! But, she is simply too powerful, we have been forced to remain here with her, tying her down with our own lifeforce!"

Margeryashe sighed again and said, "Perhaps, your arrival is in the arrangement of the Gods of Titan himself. We have held her as long as we have been able to. Our lifeforce is at its end, and when that happens, this demon shall be free to enslave our kind completely!"

"Travelers, if you are ready, please inform us! We will let loose the seal and try to oppress some of her power, perhaps it would be enough to you in destroying this demon!"

Having said that, the three dwarfs now gazed at Zhang Yang with their starry eyes, waiting for Zhang Yang and the gang to sound the charge to begin the attack.

"How do we fight this?" Han Ying Xue and the gang turned their sights towards Zhang Yang.

"This battle will stay in the vicinity of the three dwarfs. They will suppress the boss' true power. As long as they do not die, the damage of the boss will not be anything too outrageous! However, once all three NPCs are dead, the attacks of the boss will have an aftereffect, AND an AoE, inflicting an additional 6,000 shadow damage to any and all targets within a 50 meters radius from the boss! If that happens, unless the boss is close to death, it'll be the end for us all!"

Zhang Yang gave it some thought and added, "This boss will only target the NPCs. I know what you are thinking, but we cannot heal them. If the battle is prolonged excessively, the NPCs will definitely die one after another! This battle only focuses on our damage output. Either we kill the boss, or the boss kills all the NPCs and annihilates all of us in a single second!"

"No tactics involved, just pure damage output, if the party damage output reaches the requirement, then we will succeed, if not, we shall be stuck here!"

Zhang Yang smile and said, "There is a higher difficulty available in this boss fight. We can choose not seek help from the NPCs, and if the boss is taken down without their aid, we will get an extra achievement.

Fatty Han quickly said, "Well, honestly, we should just get rid of the boss, that will be enough!"

"After engaging for five seconds, everyone must drink a [Power Potion, and unleash all your strongest skills, all out!" Zhang Yang pulled out his battle axe and said, "I shall signal NPCs to lift the seal, so everyone, get ready to fight!"

He made another salute at the three dwarfs and said, "Respected dwarven chiefs, please lift the seal, let us join forces to eliminate this demon once and for all!"

"Adventurers of the White Jade Castle, we acknowledge, and return your respect in equal share! Prepare yourselves, we are about to lift the seal. The demon will be awakened ... this is your only chance, we no longer have the power to seal her again!" Lingamant spoke gravely.

"Let's begin!" The three dwarfs raised their hands into the sky at the same exact moment, chanting a dwarven spell. Magic lines appeared on the heads of the three dwarfs at the same time, the duration of the chanting was 30 seconds in total.

"Argh--" the boss Aigawa was screaming loudly, and hissed, "The trinity of fools, you are never going to imprison me! I am the great general of the Demon Lord Rogueler, he is second to none, I shall tear your bodies into pieces, one piece after another!"

Zhang Yang swiftly went up to the side of the boss. The seal was not yet lifted, so both parties could not start attacking yet.

"Everyone! In position!"

Melee professions immediately circled around the boss, waiting for the seal to be broken.

25, 20, 15...

"The power of the seal is weakening!" all of the snakes on Aigawa's head were twitching in excitement, as monstrous aura accumulated around her, "I can feel it, the powers that keep me here are growing weak! At last, freedom! Hahaha, I am going to kill you all!"

4, 3, 2, 1!

Blood Rage! 30 Rage.

Gong! Gong! Gong!

The three chains of light began to shatter. The cracks started from the dwarves' end, and ring by ring, they shattered one by one in the direction of the boss. As the last chain ring shattered, Aigawa raised her snake body up, raising herself to a height of 3 meters!

'-3,037!' Horizontal Sweep.

Aigawa had already raised herself upon her tail up to 7 or 8 meters high, and as the attack landed, she let out a roar of rage, letting loose an arrow at Zhang Yang. "Humans, elves, dwarves, beasts, all here, just in time for me to kill you all. You shall all be blood sacrifice for my freedom!"

Cripple Defense! Cripple Defense! Cripple Defense!

"Attack, full power!" Zhang Yang shouted at the top of his lungs, with Weu Yan Er aiding him with mutual understanding, helped him place another two layers of Cripple Defense, completing the stack.

Everyone knew that time was of the essence, not a millisecond could be wasted. They gulped down their Power Potions and began their attacks with heavy skills that required long cooldowns, and began their onslaught.

30 seconds later, Aigawa suddenly turned away from Zhang Yang, aiming her bow Lingamant and firing at him instead.

Foof! Foof!

The basic attack of the boss had reached a high value of 9,000 points, and Lingamant only had 300 points of defense. Every arrow that Aigawa released at the dwarven chief would deal a damage of 8,000. In just 20 seconds, she had already taken down approximately 90,000 of Lingamant's health points. Only then did she regain her aggro system and got back to attacking Zhang Yang.

"Witchy Snow, Fantasy, you two can stop healing, just focus on attacking the boss! Two Holy Knights healing me is more than enough, a little more damage from you guys would also help!" Zhang Yang roared.

Holy Knights are good at healing single targets. Even though the equipment of the two Holy Knights were far inferior than Han Ying Xue's equipment, having two of them heal Zhang Yang was sufficient, as long as Han Ying Xue paid enough attention to cast the occasional Regeneration and Shield on him.

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Chapter 214: Destructive Power

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Who among the party had the best equipment? No, not Zhang Yang! It's Han Ying Xue!

Her staff, accessory, boots, rings and armlet were all Yellow-Gold tiered! That's five of them! Their attributes stacking up, her magic attack exceeded 1,800. It was a pity that her offensive skill, Punishment Ray was not a very high-damaging skill. However, she could still deal around 2,700 damage over two seconds. Her DPS was around 1,300 which could be compared to Sun Xin Yu or other offensive class characters. All things considered, her attack was rather impressive.

That wasn't all, after activating the skill of Magician's Brooch, she would gain an additional 700 magic attack. If she takes another bottle of [Power Potion, she could raise her damage to an extreme level for a brief period!

The boss attacking pattern was quite predictable. After attacking Zhang Yang for 30 seconds, she would clear her aggro and randomly attack an NPC for 20 seconds for around 90,000 HP worth of damage. She would easily kill off an NPC in two turns. Theoretically, after the sixth turn, the boss will kill all the NPCs and become much stronger than before!

This meant that the party would have to remove all 8,000,000 HP of the boss in just 300 seconds! The required party total DPS had to be at least 26,667 to achieve that!

That was an impossible task! The team had defeated 7 bosses yesterday and hauled a bunch of Gray-Silver equipment, increasing their attack power by a level after Level 50. However, that only increased their overall damage from 20,000 to 27,000! Equipment upgrades alone proved to be insufficient!

A better way to increase the overall damaging power is to rely on the fighting capability of the players themselves! For example, to maximize his damage power, Zhang Yang has loosely arranged a sequence of which skill to use after the other, and to repeat the cycle depending on the cool down. The skill cycle would depend on the usage of Rage, Stamina, Focus, or MP of the player class needs.

The battle progressed on without much difficulties. As per usual, Zhang Yang tanked the boss, while the rest of the squad executed their roles from the rear. The boss would occasionally clear her aggro and pick an NPC to attack. That in turn, saved some MP for the healers!

After 100 seconds, Lingamant was the first NPC to die, while the boss had lost only 30% HP.

200 seconds later, Margeryashe died and the boss had lost 60% HP.

After fighting for a while, Han Ying felt something was off and called Zhang Yang. "Dummy. If this continues on like this, I'm afraid that we won't be able to kill the boss!" She was not wrong. Each time one NPC fell, the team should have reduced at least 33% of the boss HP.

"Just give it all you got! This first attempt is a good opportunity to gauge the party's total DPS!" Zhang Yang smiled without any trace of worry.

300 seconds later, the last NPC, Bassan fell defeated after being pierced with an arrow through his chest.

"Hahaha! I can feel it! The last chain has been unshackled! There's nothing to hold me back now! I…I…I AM THE QUEEN OF MEDUSA! THE STRONGEST FIGHTER OF LORD ROUGELIER!" A sudden dark light erupted from Aigawa. The ray spread across the field like dark clouds before an imminent storm!

The boss still had over 10% HP left, which was more than a value of 800,000!

Now that her attacks have gained a 6,000 splash effect, Aigawa could easily kill the entire party in two randomly placed arrows!

Vanguard Aggression! Shield Wall!

Zhang Yang quickly activated two skills and protected the entire party with a light barrier. This boss fight does not even require strategic movements in the battle. As long as the fighters positioned themselves conventionally; with ranged attackers attacking from the rear of the tank, and melee attackers attacking the back of the boss, no one would need to move around when the battle starts! Since everyone was already in place, Zhang Yang's Vanguard Aggression could easily protect everyone.

'-2,832!'

'-1,800!'

With Vanguard Aggression and Shield Wall both activated at the same time, Zhang Yang's damage reduction rate was at 60%. Even though the boss arrow attacks had a 6,000 damage splash effect, it would only cause over 1,800 shadow damage to Zhang Yang, while the rest of the party only received 600 damage.

After 10 seconds, Vanguard Aggression ended and the boss still had 7% HP.

Rearm!

Vanguard Aggression and Shield Wall were activated again, buying them another 10 seconds!

6%, 5%, 4%!

10 seconds ended!

Aigawa let out a deafening shriek and shot an arrow towards Zhang Yang. The attack landed on him and a darkened shockwave was emitted from him, striking everyone else. The damage text, '-6,000!' popped up all over the place. Those who had less than 6,000 HP were instantly killed.

In the just two seconds, Aigawa shot another arrow which caused another blast of waves, causing another 6,000 damage to everyone. The sudden drop of HP was too much for any healer, including Han Ying Xue to keep up with. In the blink of an eye, everyone else besides Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight was removed from the battle.

If only the boss had been left with 24,000 HP instead of 240,000 HP, Zhang Yang would have considered staying on to finish the fight, but now that it had come to this, he knew that it was impossible. Activating Shadow of the Void, Zhang Yang withdrew from the battle.

"Hey! F*ck! Boss! Did you just give up and run away!?" Endless Starlight screamed as he activated Sacred Protection, gaining a five second window of invincibility. He continued to swing at the boss, one hammer blow at a time since he had no way of leaving battle mode.

Pak!

After 5 seconds of wailing pathetically, he fell defeated -- with honor -- in his own words.

As the battle ended, the three dwarves respawned and the boss went back to being restrained by the magical chains, with full HP.

"Noob tank! What sort of act was that! Pui! You've lost my respect! How could you not have the spirit of unitiy?!" cried Wei Yan Er.

If he had not left the battle forcefully, instead continuing to fight on, that would not have been unity, it would have been stupidity at its best! Zhang Yang laughed at her comment and replied, "Little brat. You're not mad because I quit fighting in the middle of the battle. You're mad because I did not die! Most of all, you're mad because I was able to save some gold coins from repairs! Isn't that right!"

"Nyeeheheh.." Wei Yan Wei laughed sheepishly.

"Zhan Yu, we're severely lacking in firepower!" said Hundred Shots worriedly.

Fantasy Sweetheart solemnly mumbled. "It's my fault. If only I could be as strong as Sister Snow, I wouldn't have dragged the team down! Please! Replace me with someone else!"

According to the damage statistic, Han Ying Xue was ranked seventh while Fantasy Sweetheart was ranked at the lowest 18th place.

Fatty Han walked towards her and patted her shoulder consolingly. "Take it easy, Sweetheart. You're a healer! Why are you comparing your attack power with someone else? Even if we brought another player in, I'd rather swap out Endless Starlight! He's a useless tank! Look at him, he didn't get a chance to tank the boss! He's a huge *ss leecher!"

Endless Starlight was clearly embarrassed. He fired back, "Fatty bro…How about I let you do something about it? Don't be aiming at my one weakness!"

"BLEH..." Everyone stuck out their tongues and expressed their disgust.

"Haha…still, Dummy, we're severely lacking in attack power. What do we do now?" asked Han Ying Xue as she frowned over the matter.

Zhang Yang smiled. "That was just our first try. I needed to gauge how strong was our team's DPS! That is why I did not use my trump card!" he took out the [Magic Scroll: Rising Morale (Level 1)] and posted it on the party channel.

Even though Lone Desert Smoke had dominated the Cave of Bones map boss, the respawn and drop rate was rather low. Zhang Yang was running low on scrolls. Since he had also used some scrolls in the Expedition war, he only had 7 pieces remaining.

The scroll could increase their offensive power by 5%. It wasn't much, and if the party's firepower was beyond helping, there would be no point wasting the scroll. But, the party firepower was much better than Zhang Yang had expected. They could at least last until the boss had over 4% HP left. If everyone gained a 5% increase bonus, victory would be quite definite!

"Oh! Right! Haha! I've completely forgotten about that thing!" Hundred Shots laughed and face-palmed himself.

With renewed hope, the party quickly respawned and rushed back to the fight. They were already thinking of the rewards.

After 10 minutes, everyone revived and regrouped with Zhang Yang.

"Heal yourselves up. I want everyone to perform just like we did in the previous round. Put everything you have into attacking! Maximize your damage! Remember, the scroll effect will only last for one minute. Fighting the boss could take up to six minutes! We have only one shot at this! Now, if you think that the scroll is going to guarantee a win, then you're dead wrong!" said Zhang Yang sternly. "Your attacks have to be fast and strong. Only then, will the scroll's potential be brought up!"

"Noob tank! We're ready! Let's fight!" said Wei Yan Er hurriedly.

Zhang Yang looked at the little girl with widened eyes.

He coughed and cried, "Those who wants to fight immediately, please rise your hands!"

Suush! Suush! Other then Sun Xin Yu, Han Ying Xue, and Daffodil Daydream, everyone else in the party raised their hands up.

Zhang Yang sighed and shook his head with disappointment. "Looks like we only have 4 smart players in this party."

Everyone turned and exchange a look with each other. They did not understand what was happening.

"Daffodil Daydream, please enlighten our friends here!" said Zhang Yang as he gestured to her.

Daffodil Daydream smiled and said, "Zhan Yu's Rearm has a 30 minutes cool down duration. If we start the fight now, he could only use Vanguard Aggression and Shield Wall once! We will be losing that extra 10 seconds of window for attacking!"

"F*ck! How could I miss that!" said Fatty Han as he face-palmed himself hard in the forehead.

"It's fine. It's great news for us all that you're now aware of your own stupidity!" said Han Ying Xue. "Look! Our little Drizzler is still in shock! Her eyes are still wide open!"

"AH. ARGH! AHHHH! Han Ying Xue! You're calling me stupid again, aren't you! That's it! I'm cutting all ties with you!" cried Wei Yan Er angrily.

The tension dispersed in the air as everyone started to laugh.

After 10 minutes, there was only around 5 minutes left on his Rearm cool down timer. He would activate it at the exact moment when the last NPC falls. Zhang Yang signaled everyone to get into their positions before starting fight by talking to the three NPCs. The 30 second countdown timer started.

3…2…1…Start!

Both Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er worked together to inflict 5 layers of Cripple Defense. Swiftly, Zhang Yang slung the shield over his back and took out the [Magic Scroll: Rising Morale (Level 1)]. A golden light enveloped his body and spread to everyone.

'Ding! You have gained the effect Rising Morale (Level 1). All attacks and healing effects have been increased by 5%! Last for 60 seconds!'

Rampage: Start!

100 seconds into the fight, the first NPC. Margeryashe fell. The boss had lost 31% HP.

200 seconds into the fight, the second NPC, Bassan fell. The boss had lost 63% HP.

300 seconds into the fight, the last NPC, Lingamant fell. The boss had only 5.5% HP left!

Vanguard Aggression! Shield Wall!

10 seconds passed; Aigawa had only 2.4% HP left!

Rearm! Vanguard Aggression! Shield Wall!

2%...1%...0%!

"ARGHH!" Aigawa released a deafening scream and twitched violently in her death throes. Her lower half snake body convulsed as her snake hair flailed about like a headbanger. After a few seconds of struggling and the obligatory boss' ending line, she falls down dead.

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Chapter 215: Solid Blockade

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"Haha! We did it! We did it!"

Everyone cheered. It was not the toughest boss they've ever encountered. However, it was definitely the most epic fight they have ever been in. Attack! Attack! And more attack! Everyone had pushed themselves past their limits to achieve the highest damage output they had ever achieved.

This battle had helped the party understand their own classes better, gaining innate knowledge about cycling their skills. They had also gained further understanding on the concept of cost, be it Rage, Mana, Focus, or Stamina. In a way, this had been a very different form of training to help them strengthen their characters' class basics.

"WOOOOOAHHH! Let me pick the loots! Let me! ME!ME!ME!ME!" screamed the little girl as she skipped her way to the boss' coprse. Those who were already familiar with the little girl's behavior made way for her, while the rest who were joining Wei Yan Er for the first time were taken aback and mesmerized by her cuteness.

"Eh? This one is interesting!" the little girl posted an item description in the party channel.

[Eye of Medusa] (Consumable)

Use: Unleashed the ominous stare of Medusa. Cause a target to be petrified. Removes all buffs and debuffs on the target. Prevents the target from moving or performing any actions for five seconds. The target will not receive any damage for the entire effect's duration. Players and monsters above Level 60 will have a resistance against the skill and have a lowered success rate. Cool down time: 2 minutes

Remaining uses: 3/3

Level Requirement: 50

"What is this thing?" asked Endless Starlight. "In PK or monster grinding, freezing a target is nice and all since we can smack it senseless. But since the target is petrified and will not take any damage to begin with, what sort of usage can this item do? Wouldn't it be rather contradicting?"

Zhang Yang laughed. "This is indeed a good item. If it wasn't limited by levels, it would have been better!"

"Why is that?"

Other than Sun Xin Yu alone, the rest of the party expressed their curiosity. Everyone was looking at him with questioning eyes.

"In a solo fight, it doesn't do much. However, during a group fight, you can use this item on an enemy healer and focus on the other target! They would not receive healing for five seconds! How cool is that?! I'll give you another example. If your own ally is about to be killed by a boss, or a monster or another player for that matter, you can use the item on the dying ally and grant him a five second invincibility window!"

"OOooh!"

Everyone nodded, satisfied with his explanation.

Zhang Yang boldly took the item for himself and left the other items out for grabs.

The boss had dropped a total of 4 Gray-Silver equipment. Among the loots, two of them were rings, the other two being necklaces.

One of the necklaces had defensive-oriented attributes. However, as Zhang Yang was already wearing a Level 50 Yellow-Gold necklace, he dismissively passed it over to Endless Starlight. The boy took the item, despite having the lowest guild contribution points, smiling so earnestly that his eyes were completely shut. He thanked Zhang Yang repeatedly.

After all the loots had been distributed, everyone tore a [Teleportation Scroll] and went back to White Jade Castleto complete their Level 50 class quests. Zhang Yang went to his Little Merchandize Shop. Now that he had obtained the First Clear Achievement, there was no reason to withhold the sales of the Fire Resisting Potion! After carrying out the two highly-regarded auctions, the Little Merchandize Shop had greatly risen in popularity. He placed the potions at the most visible spot in the shop instead of the storage; where people would have to go through the hassle of tying in the keywords into the search box to search for the item. He believed that the potion would quickly be a hit.

However, there were only a handful of Level 50 players at the moment. The sales of the Fire Resisting Potions should be limited for now. It should see improvements as soon as more players reach Level 50 and begin their own raids on the Poison Fireland. Even though it was not really required to defeat the boss, it was still a means in making battles slightly easier. How could that not be a hit among players? Even if the potion costs a small sum of gold coins, it was better to defeat the boss altogether, instead of dying and retrying several times over, which will, assuming the players die in the process, incurring higher costs in repair fees? It would also be an absolute waste of time! If you put those two options on the scale, people would definitely pick the easier path.

The [Solid Iron Plate] was a really good investment. They were like real-life gold bars! Even the players who have not reached Level 50 were already stocking up on them now to save them the trouble of competitively purchasing them in the future. Because of that, the price of each [Solid Iron Plate] remained steadily at 12 gold coins each. It still had the potential to reach a higher price!

Because of the sales from the [Solid Iron Plate, the profits gained today had surpassed 1,500,000 gold coins! That staggering number truly shocked Zhang Yang!

Nodding approvingly to himself, Zhang Yang then summoned his [Skeletal War horse] and rode to the Warrior's Home, in search of Ani, the Warrior Class Instructor. As expected, Ani was still as sexy as ever, and as always, surrounded by a number of losers who wouldn't take their eyes off her huge rack and slender waist. It couldn't be helped. Her outfit was rather revealing, after all. Zhang Yang dismounted and sent his horse back into his inventory. Ani broke into a proud, approving grin, nodding repeatedly when she saw Zhang Yang approaching her. "You, you, specimen of a warrior! Well done! I heard about what you had did! It's truly a miracle I must say. You truly have my respect now! Not only did you vanquish Roshan – Copper Hammer, the leader of the rebellion against the Union, you also defeated the evil demon Aigawa! Good job!"

Zhang Yang smiled earnestly. "It's all because of your teaching and guidance, that I am here today."

Ani puffed up with pride when Zhang Yang said that and flung her golden hair back joyfully. "Zhan Yu, you are now qualified to be a true warrior! For now, I want you to follow my lead. I will bestow upon you the title of the true warrior!"

She reached both of hands out, and placed her palms on Zhang Yang chest. "O Lord, Brave and Mighty God of War. I pray to thee, today, a warrior has been born to serve thy…Zhan Yu! Don't just stand there, do what I'm doing!"

Zhang Yang frowned, slightly annoyed. Who the hell designed this script! He had to touch an NPC's honkers! What a pervert! Horny *sshole!

No matter how much Zhang Yang tried to refuse, Ani continued to insist. It seems that the system would not proceed if Zhang Yang does not to follow the NPC's instructions. Reluctantly, Zhang Yang reached out with his hands and placed them over the twin domes.

Boing*

As expected from a western female model, huge and bouncy! HUMOUNGOUS! FIRM! AND BOUNCY!

This game is just too realistic! It wasn't just from the aesthetics, but the feeling, the sensation itself was almost the same as a real woman's…

"F*ck me!" The usual campers who spent all day ogling at Ani were shocked. Their eyes almost popped as they saw Zhang Yang laying his palms over her huge assets! It's just soooooooo out of this world!

After a long speech about justice, power, and some warrior related stuff, Ani retracted her hands and said, "Congratulation Zhan Yu, you're now officially a loyal believer in the god or war! And…please remove your hands from my chest."

"Urgh!" Zhang Yang immediately shrunk his hands back.

'Ding! You have completed the quest: Level 50 Class Quest. Obtained 100,000 Experience Points! Quest Difficulty: A. Completion of Hidden Difficulty. Final Score: Perfect!'

'Ding! You have learned a new skill: Warrior's Will!'

'Ding! You have gained an item: Solid Blockade!'

[Warrior's Will] (Level 1): Removes all debuffs on one's self and causes the next use of {Destructive Smash} to land as a critical strike. The effect will last for the next 8 seconds or until {Destructive Smash} is used.

Cool down time: 10 minutes.

At Level 50, all class will receive an anti-status affecting skill. However, Zhang Yang was a little disappointed. the skill reward was the same as it was in his previous life, when he had only obtained an "Average" score.

Looks like the reward was based on the item instead.

[Solid Blockade] (Yellow-Gold, Shield)

Defense: 800

Vitality: 400

{Level 2 Socket}

Equip Effect: Absorbs 300 damage every time you receive an attack.

Equip Effect: Restores 100 HP after every successful {Block}.

Level Requirement: 50

OP!

Zhang Yang was delighted. In his previous life, he had only completed the Level 50 class quest by defeating Roshan in Hard Mode. After completing the quest, the reward was the same skill and a Green-Copper tier shield. This time, the rewards were clearly different compared to before! It's a Yellow-Gold tier got crying out loud!

He quickly headed over to the Gem Shop to look for a suitable Gem Stone.

Right after he left Ani alone to do his thing, the horny players around Ani were magnetized to her, their arms reaching out. Approaching closer and closer, drips of saliva could be seen dripping on the floor beneath them.

"I've always wanted to touch them!"

"Back then, if you even lay a finger on her, she will kill you and send you to prison! It seems like there's a bug in the system! Aww yiss! Time to touch until I die!"

"Oh man…those honkers! Those humongo-bongo! Here I come!"

WHAM! BAM! SLAM!

Ani spun around on the spot and killed everyone with a {Tornado Sweep}. What's worse, after the player revive, they were automatically sent to prison. When a player is harassed, they would need to submit a complaint to the relevant figures to bring in the convict. But an NPC is part of the system itself. Without any word or warning, the NPC will first hack and slash, after that it's catch and stash!

In the prison, those perverted players exchanged baffled looks…How did he do it?

Zhang Yang socketed a [Level 2 Vitality Gem Stone] into his shield. He then swapped it out with the new one, boosting his maximum HP to a whopping 17,040 HP! (Vitality Aura applied) (Author's Note: Unless specified, all HP mentioned from hereon will include the Vitality Aura bonus)

Where would the limits of his tanking be?

Other Level 50 tanks would have, at most, a complete set of Level 40 Gray-Silver equipment. Perhaps their equipment would all be socketed with [Level 1 Vitality Gem Stone]s. If they had invested all five SP gained during their leveling up, they would have, at most, 10,000 HP!

Needless to say, such is the difference between Gray-Silver and Yellow-Gold equipment. Besides, only Level 50 equipment and higher will have Level 2 Sockets. With his current equipment, he can easily raid Poison Fireland without breaking a sweat.

Zhang Yang had an extra SP to spend, which he had received as a reward from the First Clear Achievement of the Poison Fireland. Currently, he had maximized {Block} at Level 10. {Shield Wall} was at Level 6. Now that he had gained a new skill - {Warrior's Will}, Zhang Yang was torn between them. Should he try to maximize {Shield Wall} level first or acquire {Warrior's Will}?

{Warrior's Will} can remove all debuffs and create a sure-hit critical strike for {Destructive Smash}! It was both a strong attack and defensive skill! If he raised it to Level 10, the skill cool down time will be reduced to only one minute! It would be OP beyond OP, especially in PK battles! This skill is just too important to ignore!

"Argh. What the heck. I'll invest in {Warrior's Will} first, since the professional league is going to start soon. A anti-status affect skill, and a really hard hit is most important! If I had invested in {Shield Wall} first, even at Level 10, the cool down time is only at two minutes and 30 seconds! {Warrior's Will} would be far more useful!"

Now then he had steeled his decision, Zhang Yang went ahead and invested the one SP he had on {Warrior's Will}.

Zhang Yang checked the time. It was close to 10pm. By the looks of it, he would not even be able to grind his level properly. Zhang Yang decided instead to craft a few more [Fire Resisting Potion]s and place them all into the warehouse. Even though the current demand for [Fire Resisting Potion] was not high, the sales will definitely increase soon after! In about a week's time, a majority of the players will reach Level 50. By then, they would need to defeat Roshan, be it for farming set equipment or to complete their class quest!

Zhang Yang continued to craft more potions and logged out at around 11pm.

After the night had passed, Zhang Yang went out and did his routine training. Just as he came back home, Zhang Yang received a call. It was Zhao Hui Shan.

"Z-Zhang Yang *sob sob*" Zhang Yang could hear crying from the other side of the line. "We're sorry. We're stupid. We're blind! We should not have tried to belittle you! Please! Please forgive us and stop torturing us!"

Zhang Yang was stunned. What the hell did I do? Annoyed, Zhang Yang frowned and said, "What are you talking about?"

"*sob sob, Kang Ming's father's factory…the..the d-distributors have all stopped buying their product! And…and Kang Ming was caught by the police! They are charging him for drug possession and distribution! Zhang Yang! I know that we're at fault! But please! Plse! For my sake! Think of me when we were dating back then! Please stop torturing us!"

Zhao Hui Shan was worried. For the past three days, Zhou Kang Ming had been "invited" to the police station for questioning. On the other side of things, her boyfriend's family business wasn't looking too good. The products that they had produced were piling up into a mountain! IF they could not even sell a single one of them…her mother-in-law will treat her like a black sheep, only good at drawing bad luck for her husband. The eye rolls would never stop whenever the mother-in-law met her. Her mother-in-law will soon try to have her leave Zhou Kang Ming, in order to end the misfortune that she's bringing.

Zhao Hui Shan had thought about it and eventually, she realized that these series of unfortunate events occurred after the night they met Zhang Yang and discovered that he harbored a lot of power in secret. She came to a conclusion that it was all Zhang Yang's doing. She had been reluctant about it but after some time, she dug out the told student journal and searched for Zhang Yang's house telephone number to call him.

However, Zhang Yang himself had nothing to do with the events that occurred to Zhao Hui Shan, Zhao Kang Ming and his father. "Zhao Hui Shan, I'm not that narrow-minded and I don't any grudges against you. The truth is, I did nothing. You're barking up the wrong tree. Good day to you."

Ka chack!

Zhang Yang hung up and logged back into the game. Zhang Yang opened the Friend List and found only Wei Yan Er and Han Ying Xue online. A sudden thought came into his mind and he added them both into his party.

"Little girl, did you do something to the guys who had been troubling me?"

"Ah! Busted!" said Wei Yan Er without denying it. In fact, she was happy to admit that it was her doing. "How about it? I'm rather strong you know! Now, do you see this lady in a new light?"

Comparing Silky Soft Holdings with Zhao Kang Ming's business was like trying to compare a little ant to an army of giants! Zhao Kang Ming could not even try to put up any level of resistance.

Zhang Yang shook his head. Her had never even thought of Zhou Kang Ming or Zhao Hui Shan as an enemy. They were not even worth his thoughts! However, Fatty Han must have been overly dramatic about his situation to Wei Yan Er and angered her so. He only laughed and said, "Yea. You're full of righteousness!" Seeing how Zhao Kang Ming had become, Zhang Yang was not even bothered to advice Wei Yan Er to stop her doing.

"Ehehehe! That, I am!" Wei Yan Er nodded happily. "Noob tank! When are we going to hunt for Battle Mounts?"

"Things can be given, yet not to be sought. Fortune it be if attained. Destiny it be if not!" Zhang Yang shook his head explaining.

"Hey! Speak plainly!"

"You stupid little girl! Why don't you let him do the catching for you! You can save some money on the [Sealing Rein]s" said Han Ying Xue quietly.

[Sealing Rein]s were expensive. They cost 100 gold coins apiece! Wei Yan Er's eyes glinted a little and said, "Ahhh! Now then, Noob tank! Go and catch me one!"

"Snowy B*tch! What are you trying to do huh!? Besides, I can't help you catch one. Anything I successfully seal would be bound to me!" Zhang Yang explained roughly. "Little brat. Did you skip school again?"

"My cousin sister…she. Erhm…Her period arrived on time. She's feeling a little feverish. So, I had to take a holiday and take care of her! Ai ya…It can't be helped. I mean, I really wanted to go to school today…" said the little girl proudly, as she put on a melodramatic show.

"YOU DAMN BRAT! How could you say something like that in the open!" Han Ying Xue screamed. She was red in the face, a mixture of rage and embarrassment. In a flash, her character vanished and Wei Yan Er's character soon followed, even as she blinked in surprise at the spot where Han Ying Xue was standing at moments ago. She was probably getting a scolding, or perhaps even a beating from Han Ying Xue.

Zhang Yang could not help but laugh at their comical acts. He then used the city Teleportation Circle and went to Tukula Fortress. After going up his [Skeletal War Horse, Zhang Yang rode off with a kick.

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Chapter 216: A Call from the Princess

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Zhang Yang rode through the Frozen Sky Wasteland, the Necrotic Wastelands, and finally reached the eerie Flatlands of the Passings. Here, all year long, in fact, for as long as it had existed, thick mist covered the entire field. It was like a layer of dense clouds had descended from the high heavens and blanketed the entire flatlands. The problem was that sunlight was extremely scarce. Dark and gloomy, the entire area was littered with the deceased of many races.

There were corpses of Human, Elf, Dwarf, Beastman, and even monsters of various sizes. Apparently, many years back, a war between the Union and the Demons had taken place on this very field. The remains of those who fell in battle were buried deep underground. With the cumulative anger and vengeance left around, the place was corrupted, spawning endless number of spectres to forever roam in this wasteland.

Zhang Yang was here to complete a hidden quest. In his previous life, one of his old friends had spoke to him about the quest briefly. Zhang Yang only knew that the quest can only be triggered somewhere in the Twilight Hills. But he was still clueless about how and where exactly in the map can he trigger it.

The Level 50 maps are not within the city's jurisdiction, and thus, they do not have a specific Teleportation Point that players can use to travel around. As such, players would have to depend on their mounts to travel from map to map. Zhang Yang had traveled from Frozen Sky Wasteland all the way to the Necrotic Wastelands. His trip had taken a total of three hours!

For that reason, once a new Territory spawns, and Teleportation Points become accessible to the players, the owner of the Territory can set a toll fee and gain a massive fortune from this little business!

…

Zhang Yang spent another 30 minutes and found Twilight Hills. This little hill was only a few hundred meters tall. However, the long stretch of the mountains went on for quite a distance. On top of the hill were tombstones that were covered in snow. Most of the tombstones were eroded, Zhang Yang could not make out the engravings on their surfaces. As he continued looking, he noticed that most of the tombstones were not in their respective places. Some of them were lopsided, while others had completely fallen down. There were holes everywhere, clearly indicating that many graves were no longer occupied. In fact, the area was densely populated with spectres, making "oooo, arghhh, and urghhh" moans as they wandered aimlessly.

Spectres can be categorized into two tiers. The lower tiers are the weaker ones and had been revived by the vengeful sentiments of their past life. The only reason as to why they have been revived is to kill. A good example of lesser spectres are Skeletal Soldier and Zombies. High Leveled spectres had a distinctive feature that separated them from the others. They had the same level of intelligence as they had before they died. Some even retained their original memories!

All of the spectres in Twilight Hills are all lower leveled spectres, Skeletal Soldiers. However, even though they are considered as lesser spectres, it does not mean that they are low in level!

[Twilight Skeletal Warrior] (Normal, Spectre)

Level: 54

HP: 5.400

Defense: 50

Can these sluggish monsters possibly deal any damage to me?

Zhang Yang thought to himself and smirked.

"Ride like the wind, Boney M!" Zhang Yang pulled the reins and the skeletal horse neighed as loudly as a passing train. Both of them charged into the group of monsters.

"Groowl!" The Skeletal Warriors responded as they saw Zhang Yang approaching them at high speed. They opened their jaws in a voiceless warcry and swung their swords at Zhang Yang. Riding the horse, Zhang Yang dodged the attacks easily and the monster started to chase after him.

He began to attract the attention of more and more monsters, only stopping to turn around when he estimated that he had kited at least 30 monsters. Zhang Yang unsummoned his mount and got ready.

{Blood Rage}! 30 Rage

{Charge}!

Zhang Yang slid across the field and charged into one of the incoming monsters.

{Horizontal Sweep}!

Zhang Yang's attack struck them all at once, dealing an average amount of 3,300 damage to the horde of monsters around him. There were even some hits that registered as Critical Strikes killing some monsters instantly.

The monsters retaliated. However…

'-0!' '-0!' '-0!' '-0!' '-0!' '-0!'

None of the attacks could deal any damage to Zhang Yang. The Level 54 Normal monster had little more than 1,000 physical attack, which meant that, even if their attack could break through his defense without being nullified, the value that did get through was so low that it would be completely absorbed by the equipment's damage absorption passive skill!

They are…too weak!

{Thunder Strike}!

Wham!

A chain of '-480!' damage texts flew across everywhere. As the monsters staggered from the blow, Zhang Yang quickly turned around and continued running around, forming a long line of monsters that followed him doggedly. Zhang Yang kited as many monster as he could and used {Horizontal Sweep} every 10 seconds and {Thunder Strike} every eight seconds. {Blast Wave} was used every 30 seconds to wipe the monsters out whenever their numbers grew sufficient.

'Ding! You have killed Twilight Skeletal Warrior. Obtained 5,400 Experience Points!'

'Ding! You have killed Twilight Skeletal Warrior. Obtained 5,400 Experience Points!'

'Ding! You have killed Twilight Skeletal Warrior. Obtained 5,400 Experience Points!'

…

The system notification rang in his ears continuously as he killed the monsters. The amount of experience points he gained was rather abundant and he smiled in satisfaction. If he could train like this alone for a few days, his level would quickly exceed even Han Ying Xue's and he would be the highest leveled player in the China server!

In one clean sweep, Zhang Yang had cleared all the monsters within a few hundred meters around him. Zhang Yang went around and slowly picked up the loots on the ground. In 'God's Miracle', the gold coin drops that was produced in the game was very limited, and when they did, the amount would be negligible. Even when a monster is at Level 54, it would drop only 50 copper coins. If he had to pick them up one at a time, he had to spend an eternity, only earning some pocket money. Zhang Yang was doing this only because he suspected that the hidden quest might have something to do with the monsters' drops. It was a tedious waste of time!

Going through a few hundred monster copses for their loots would take a lot of time as well! Zhang Yang had spent close to 10 minutes inspecting the corpses for loots. Other than [Cloths, there were other ETC items such as [Weathered Thick Bone] and [Broken Helmet]; none of them worth anything!

Zhang Yang rode on his horse again and begun to kite the monsters all over again. The second wave of monsters yielded loots that were just as poor. By the third wave however, a beautiful stone that shone gold, similar to Yellow-Gold equipment, was on the ground.

[Weird Stone] (Special)

Description: You can feel a faint magical power from within this weird stone. It's extremely weak! Perhaps you can feel a stronger power if you gather more of these stones!

Use: Combines 12 [Weird Stone] into one [Magical Communication Stone].

"Hmm. Is this what I'm looking for?" Zhang Yang murmured. He kept the glowing stone in his inventory and continue farming.

After killing waves and waves of monsters, Zhang Yang slowly accumulated the [Weird Stone]s. From just one, to three pieces, eventually he gathered 11 pieces in total.

'Ding! You have obtained [Weird Stone]!'

Zhang Yang had long since lost count on how many waves he had to go through before the 12th stone finally appeared.

He took the stones out and placed them together.

FUUSH!

Together, the 12 stones began to glow intensely; Zhang Yang had to look away for a second. The stones fumble around for a little wild, slowly piecing themselves together to form a larger…stone.

"What was I thinking? What else could have happened? A king kong appearing from within the stone?"

Zhang Yang picked up the stone and checked its properties.

[Magical Communication Stone] (Quest Item)

Use: Use the stone to reveal a hidden message! Hurry! Someone might need your help!

Zhang Yang placed his palm onto the stone and a gold light beam out from it. Close to where Zhang Yang standing, the beam of light projected a life-sized image of a beautiful girl. She had a blond hair and ruby-red eyes. She was dressed in a flamboyant royal gown which stood out in the desolate background. Somehow, the dress looked like it was perfect for her instead of the other way around.

[Projection of Princess Serena] (Normal, Summon)

Level: 1

HP: 0/50

Defense: 0

"Princess Serena?" Zhang Yang took a step back in shock. Isn't she the only remaining legitimate heiress of White Jade's royal family? The future queen of White Jade?

"Warrior! I need your help! The King of White Jade needs your help!" said Serena. Her voice shook as she pleaded desperately, her face lined with worry.

Zhang Yang saluted and said, "Princess, I'm yours to command!"

"Warrior, I'm trapped in the deepest part of the Tomb of the Gray Shadow. Please! Make your way there! Be careful, there is an incredibly powerful Necromancer guarding the place! You must make preparations for this raid!" said Serena. The edges of the projection started to crack. The cracks grew and spread quickly. It looked like the projection would shatter into pieces anytime soon.

"Princess!"

"Argh! I-I can't maintain this form any longer! The power of the soul is getting weaker by the minute! Warrior! Please help me! I…I-I …h-hold…m-muc...lon…ger." Her cracking voice dimmed and the projection blew up, pieces of it flying everywhere, like an explosive mirror.

'Ding! You have accepted the quest: A Call from the Princess!'

[A Call from the Princess] (Difficulty Level: A)

Quest Description: Warrior! Head to the Tomb of the Gray Shadow to search for Princess Serena! She needs your help!

Progress: Find Princess Serena 0/1

"Isn't the princess living in White Jade Castle? How did she end up all the way there? For worse, she's now trapped there! How could White Jade Castle remain quiet about this? They should have dispatched the entire army to search for her! She is the only heiress to the throne!" Zhang Yang cursed. But now that he had accepted the quest, might as well get on with it.

He circled the area for a while and found an entrance to a cave. After clearing a few waves of monsters outside the cave, he entered it alone.

'Ding! You have entered the Tomb of the Gray Shadow!'

Zhang Yang opened the world map and examined the map he was in. The entire structure of the tomb was like a spider's web. There were many tunnels that broke off into other tunnels! This cave was simply too complicated!

"Die!" a voice was heard and Zhang Yang saw a glint of an axe approaching. Zhang Yang dodged it. The attacker was a skeleton with a few broken pieces of metal armor hanging onto its body. Emerald flame burned within its eye sockets.

[Tomb Guardian] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 55

HP: 55,000

Defense: 300

'-763!'

Another attack came and Zhang Yang deliberately let it land. He wanted to assess this monster's strength. The result was rather pleasing! The Tomb Guardian did around 3,000 of basic attacking damage. Zhang Yang had 920 Defense, 900 passive damage absorption, and a 20% passive damage reduction, which reduced the attack down to less than 800 damage.

'-1,643!'

Now that Zhang Yang had a good gauge of its strength, he began striking back.

{Block}! 30 Rage

'-355!' {Block} reflect damage.

Zhang Yang used {Warrior's Will}! The next {Destructive Smash} will be a critical hit!

'-7,012!'

The hard blow immediately removed 13% of the monster's HP!

This is truly OP! A controlled critical strike such as this, dealing 7,000 damage, would easily kill 90% of the current players!

Even though the Tomb Guardian was a Level 55, Elite tier monster, his 55,000 HP was no challenge to Zhang Yang. In just half a minute, Zhang Yang had turned the monster into a pile of brittle bones, losing only around 6,000 HP in the process.

Among the loots, there was a Green-Copper tier Shield. Zhang Yang quickly picked the item up and examined it.

[Malevolent Shield] (Green-Copper, Shield)

Defense: 250

Vitality: 150

Level Requirement: 50

Malevolent Set (1/4):

{Malevolent Necklace}

{Malevolent Cape}

{ Malevolent Sword}

Malevolent Shield

Two Equipped: Have a 50% chance to {Curse} the target every time you receive an attack. Reduces 1% of target's attacking power. Maximum 5 stacks can be applied.

Four Equipped: 50% chance to reduce the target's Defense on every successful hit. Target takes 1% more damage from everything. Maximum 5 stacks can be applied.

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Chapter 217: Grinding

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The set equipment was very good! But…it's a shame that its tier was unexpectedly low. Zhang Yang could not give up his Yellow-Gold equipment for a Green-Copper set. It was also a shame that the seconds equipment-effect was strong, but only if the condition to activate it was swapped with the first equipment-effect. He could just equip the necklace and cape and be able to stack the increase damage/reduce armor effect! It would be almost similar to the [Magic Scroll: Rising Morale] (Level 1)!

What a shame…argh! What a shame! Only Guardians and Defenders could use Shields!

Zhang Yang had no interest in Green-Coppers, but the majority of the players would be fighting for it. In fact, Green-Copper is the most common equipment tier that everyone is wearing. He and his bunch of "elite" friends are a totally different story. If he could farm all four pieces of the set, he can definitely sell them in a bundle at an incredible price! Four separate set-equipment parts, or one complete set as a whole! The difference was obvious!

A sign from the gods of prosperity has appeared!

Zhang Yang spirit lifted and marched onwards.

The monsters inside the tomb were numerous. Every few ten meters, he would encounter one monster. On average, Zhang Yang would deplete his HP after fighting three monsters. He had to frequently stop and heal himself with health recovering snacks or use {Berserker's Heal}

Other teams might need to raid the tomb with a three-man party. One tank, one healer, and one attacker. However, since Zhang Yang's damage reduction skills were just too strong, paired up with his overwhelming attacking capabilities, he could easily hack his way in without the need for a healer. But, if he did have a healer with him, he would not have needed to sit down and heal, greatly increasing his efficiency.

The tunnels in the tomb were poorly lit by torches that hung from the wall every 10 meters. The light was so dim that it barely illuminated the passageway. At least, he wouldn't be bumping into walls.

Since the first elite monster had already dropped a Malevolent set equipment, it was no indicator of the drop rate being any good. In fact, Zhang Yang had killed more than a hundred monsters before managing to find the second equipment of the Malevolent set. Malevolent Necklace.

"Fortune does come and go easily huh…" Zhang Yang sighed and kept the necklace in his inventory.

30 minutes…one hour…two hours…

After the third hour, Zhang Yang had collected a total of two complete Malevolent sets. There was still a surplus of two extra necklace and one extra Malevolent Sword. By then, Zhang Yang had reached Level 55 and had made it close to the center of the entire tomb.

The area here was a normal sized tomb hall, around the size of 50 square meters. There were two floors, with entrances to the lower floor at both sides of the dark hall. The upper floor was smaller in size. It was about a quarter the size of the lower floor. In the center of the lower floor was a stone table. A woman lay on it there. That woman was the same woman as the one Zhang Yang had seen in the projection, she was Serena!

Zhang Yang cautiously observed from afar and found that she just lay there, motionless. Her eyes were shut tight. Her chest…was not moving! She's not breathing! Is she dead?

Standing close to the stone table was a figure in black hood. The person was completely covered from the head to toe, its identity impossible to surmise. Since the figure was facing Serena, Zhang Yang could not see anything, he could not even figure out its gender, much less its race. Zhang Yang could only see that the figure was rather thin and small. In its right hand, it held a magic staff that was much taller than it was. On the top of the staff was a fist sized skull, with glowing emerald fires burning in its eye sockets.

[Necromancer Sigma] (Gray-Silver, Spectre)

Level: 58

HP: 2,000,000

Defense: 600

"Only 2,000,000?" Zhang Yang mused. "This place is small and cramped. It could only accommodate a small number of players. Could it be a specialized five-man party raid? Maybe I can beat the boss by myself?"

Hesitating a little, Zhang Yang finally decided. "Might as well give it a shot. If I die, I'd only have to pay for repairs! If I can't defeat it, I'll just call the Snow B*tch to join me! I hope I can defeat it alone. Calling her to join me would take another three to four hours…the monsters outside would have respawned and I'll have to kill them all over again…how troublesome."

He drew his battle axe and readied his shield. He walked into the lower floor and rushed towards the stone table.

Sigma spun around to the sound of his footsteps. When it faced Zhang Yang, Zhang Yang could then see its true form. It was a skeletal magician -- a lich, staring at him through eye sockets filled with bright emerald flames!

"The Living?! How could you enter this place!" Sigma pointed its staff towards Zhang Yang and start chanting a spell. A progress bar appeared on its head. After three seconds, a black light beamed out from its skeletal staff and shot towards Zhang Yang.

'Ding! Sigma has used {Shadow Arrow}!'

'-3,900'

Damn!

Zhang Yang was shocked. How would he fight the boss alone this way! Still, now that it has come to this, it's best to carry on. At least he'll get a good grasp on the boss' mechanics. When he returns with Han Ying Xue, they would be better prepared.

{Cripple Defense}, {Destructive Smash}, {Horizontal Sweep}…Zhang Yang unleashed everything he got. The stronger his attacks, the longer he could last in the fight. That way, he could at least try to decrease the boss' HP as much as possible and understand the boss better.

Sigma continued using {Shadow Arrow}. At one point, when the boss' chanting was about to finish, Zhang Yang struck the boss with a {Crash Magic}.

'Ding! Sigma's {Shadow Arrow} has been interrupted!'

It worked! The boss' casting was interrupted!

Moreover, the boss was {Silent} for three seconds! During that time, the boss had to resort to physical attack! It raised its fists and legs to attack Zhang Yang.

{Block}!

With the shield skill in effect, Zhang Yang recovered 100 HP.

'0!'

Sigma landed another fist on Zhang Yang, but, as a Spellcaster type monster, its attacks cannot penetrate Zhang Yang defenses with its attacks, even as a boss!

After the short three second {Silence} ended, the boss start to use {Shadow Arrow} again.

{Blast Wave}!

A blast of compressed air hammered through Sigma. The attack failed to stun Sigma but the spell was successfully interrupted again!

Zhang Yang then recalled the first patch of the game. Status affect skills would not be effective on boss type monsters, but they had a chance to interrupt spellcasting progress bars!

{Blast Wave}'s stunning effect was useless against the boss, but it did stop the boss from finishing its spell. The boss quickly started over again and cast {Shadow Arrow}. Zhang Yang regret his actions. He should have known better. He should have waited for the boss to almost complete the spell before using {Blast Wave}!

'-3,909!'

'3,882!'

When the boss' third {Shadow Arrow} was being chanted, Zhang Yang's {Crash Magic} skill had just finished its cool down and was ready to be used. However, he waited. Just as the boss was about to finish its spell casting, Zhang Yang bashed the monster with his shield.

'Ding! Sigma's {Shadow Arrow} was interrupted!'

Restart the cycle!

Zhang Yang calculated. On average, he will receive the boss' attack twice every 12 seconds. {Blast Wave} could only provide him three seconds of peace every 20 seconds!

Zhang Yang summoned [Servant: Clear Lotus] and activated {Merlinda's Shadow}, and started to attack like a madman.

Sadly, the [Servant: Clear Lotus] could not level up. It had remained at level 36. Since the level gap was too large, her attacks were like a cat trying to attack an elephant! It was too low to even be considered to be an attack at all! However, as small as it could be, even water could erode a mountain over time! Moreover, she had her {Substitute} ability!

SLASH ON!

When {Merlinda's Shadow} had ended, Zhang Yang activated one skill at a time, starting with {Substitute}, {Shield Wall}, {Berserker's heal}. He lasted until the boss had a little more than 130,000 HP left. By then, his HP was almost depleted. He quickly used {Shadow of the Void} and fled the battle. He quickly ran over to the upper level and healed himself with a few consumables.

Without the main target, the boss had turned to Clear Lotus and had killed her off easily with two to three attacks. The poor [Servant] turned into a puff of smoke at death, leaving literally nothing at her demise.

"This boss is lame! {Shadow Arrow} and nothing else! Doesn't he have anything else to use besides that?"

"Sigh…what a waste. If I called that b*tching woman, we might need only 15 minutes to settle this boss. Hmmm?"

Zhang Yang noticed something was odd. To his shock, he noticed that the boss was not recovered its HP even after Zhang Yang had left the battle.

In 'God' Miracle', once bosses withdrew from the battle, they will instantly recover their full HP. It wasn't that bad for open world bosses. On average, an open-world boss will recover 1% of its HP every second. At most, it will take 100 seconds to fully recover its HP.

The strange thing was that, Sigma was not even recovering HP like how an open world boss does. Its HP bar was not even moving an inch!

Spectre!

Zhang Yang eyes glinted. Spectre are not living beings. That was why these monsters did not have any innate regenerative abilities. They had to rely on consuming the dead corpses of other being to recover. Normally, the battle will end with the player killing the boss, or the boss killing the players. Situations that involved players fleeing with their lives were rare!

Normally, when the players or Hunters with pets get killed, spectres will use the {Consume Coprse} skill to recover the HP in non-combat mode, healing them by 10% HP every two seconds. They could fully recover their HP in just 20 seconds!

However, Zhang Yang was alone, and he used {Shadow of the Void} to left the battle. Sigma could not find any dead bodies to feed on. That was why its HP remained frozen in place!

On the other hand, Zhang Yang can easily heal his HP with [Bandage] and health recovering snacks. Zhang Yang smiled to himself, as long as he can rely on {Shadow of the Void} every time he needed healing, he can slowly chip off the boss' long HP at leisure.

When he had fully recovered, Zhang Yang rushed into the fight again and did further damage. When the time came, he used {Rearm}, which in turn allowed {Shadow of the Void} to aid his escape again!

10 minutes later, {Shadow of the Void} was ready to use, Zhang Yang entered the fight again!

20 minutes…

30 minutes…

After the battle dragged on for 2 hours, Zhang Yang managed to successfully kill the boss by using {Shadow of the Void} for a total of 16 times! {Rearm} definitely played a role as well, saving more time.

'Dnig! You have killed Necromancer Sigma, Obtained 20,000,000 Experience Points!'

Thud!

The boss falls defeated, breaking into pieces of broken bones, dropping seven to eights battle loots.

"Holy f*cking moly! Finally ended!" Zhang Yang screamed out in relief. In truth, the actual battle time had only taken 17 to 18 minutes, the rest of the time was wasted in waiting for his {Shadow of the Void} to finish its cool down!

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Chapter 218: A Change in the Royal Lineage

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"Noob tank! My cousin sister and I found ourselves a Gray-Silver boss! Both of us alone killed it! Nyeheheheh! Do you know what that means? We don't need you no more! NYAHAHAHA!" Wei Yan Er cute laughed blasted through the voice messenger.

Ever since the appearance of the Yellow-Gold bosses, almost all Gray-Silver bosses had become weak in comparison. Actually, it was more like them retaining the same level of difficulty, only that the players have grown much stronger! The two ladies finally knew how it felt like to stand out in the crowd. As Zhang Yang was taking his time with Sigma; Wei Yan Er and Han Ying Xue had somehow discovered that they could defeat a Gray-Silver boss without the need of a tank!

They would never had stood a chance if they had tried this when they were Level 30.

Even so, for Wei Yan Er, a Berserker to able to "tank" a Gray-Silver boss and survive the battle, it was most likely due of Han Ying Xue's incredible, massive support!

Zhang Yang smirked. "Haha! What a shame! I just defeated a Gray-Silver boss! ALL.BY.MY.SELF!"

"Nyeeh~ Liar, liar, pants on fire~" Wei Yan Er jeered rhythmically.

"When I said I defeated a Gray-Silver boss, you just copied me and said the same thing! When I said we killed the boss with two players, you said you defeat it alone! Hmph! You have no shame! Noob tank! What a thick-skin bas- HEY! HAN YING XUE! HOW DARE YOU! You actually left the party and picked up all the money! I'M BREAKING UP WITH YOU! NYAAAA!"

Beep*

The call ended abruptly. Perhaps Wei Yan Er was going to quarrel with her cousin sister. Again.

Zhang Yang laughed at their expense.

After having laughed enough, Zhang Yang walked over to the boss' corpse to claim his prize. Among the loots, three were Gray-Silver tier, four were Green-Copper tier, and only one of them was worth using.

[Roar of the Dead] (Gray-Silver, Ring)

Vitality: 17

Strength: 17

Equip Effect: Absorbs 21 damage on every attack received.

{Unidentified}

Level Requirement: 50

Since the revision of the Unidentified attribute, Unidentified equipment will have their properties reduced by 20 levels. His current ring, [Honor of the Fallen Warrior, adds only 20 Vitality and 15 Strength, it's no weaker than the [Roar of the Dead].

However, the latter was still a defensive equipment. Zhang Yang decided to opt for [Roar of the Dead] and equipped it.

'Ding! You have completed the quest: A Call from the Princess! Obtained 200,000 Experience Points!'

The moment Zhang Yang approached the stone table, the system notification popped up and rang in his ears.

"Was that it?" Zhang Yang waited for a follow-up quest to appear but after waiting for a while, nothing happened. Before this, when Zhang Yang was talking to Princess Serena's projection, she had been rather frantic. It is impossible for the questline to be completed just like that! The only way left for Zhang Yang to trigger the next quest was to find a way to wake Serene up from her slumber.

"Wakey Wakey!"

…

"Rise and shine sleepy head!"

…

"OMG! A SUPER HANDSOME PRINCE JUST WALKED PASS BY!"

…

Nothing. Not even a jerk. Perhaps Zhang Yang had to resort to a more physical approach.

Zhang Yang grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her entire body violently.

No response. He was getting frustrated.

SLAP! BREAST GRAB! BUTT SLAP! ARMPIT SMOTHER!

Nothing. Zhang Yang had grown tired. He sat down by the stone table and begun to ponder. "I've tried everything possible method! Could it be…mouth to mouth resuscitation? Nah…that couldn't be…"

However, this was a fantasy world, a world filed with magic and dragons soaring in the skies! It had possibly drawn some inspiration from fairy tales. There were dragons, witches, and …perhaps sleeping beauties? Zhang Yang could not wrap his head around that idea. No matter how degenerative the developers might be, they would not possibly get a player to kiss a dead person!

To kiss a dead person…as if she was alive…that was just…

Zhang Yang hesitated for another minute before he finally caved in. He walked up to her and bent down, closing the distance between his face and hers.

Finally…*kiss*

Zhang Yang planted his thick, rough lips onto her soft, supple red lips.

SHRIIING!

Rainbow-colored lights radiated from her body. They swirled in a vortex above her, coming together to, coming together to form a giant crown of gold. The crown then grew smaller and smaller until it became just the right size, coming to rest on the princess' head.

The light faded and a translucent figure emerged out from the princess' body. The figure got up and stood directly in front of Zhang Yang, glowing as she stood, she shared the exact appearance of the currently sleeping Princess Serena. It was another projection of Princess Serena.

Damn, my kiss actually worked! Am I a prince now?!

That being said, what if Serena was not a princess, but instead, a prince? Would the system have wanted Zhang Yang to kiss…relief suddenly replaced his feelings of repulsion at what he just had to do.

The projection hovered a little and when she opened her eyes. When she saw Zhang Yang, she smiled. "Warrior! You came!"

However, that jubilant expression was quickly replaced with a worried look, as if she was carried the weight of the world.

"Princess! What happened to you? Weren't you in God's City!?" Zhang Yang asked.

God's City is the name of White Jade Castle that every citizen knew it by. In the game, every major city was the Capital of their respective Kingdom.

Serena frowned worriedly. Her elegant features faded away, replaced by intense lines of stress and worry. "Three years ago, I was leading the Expedition Army to attack the Tukula Fortress. Just as the attack was about to start, I received a message from one of my soldiers, saying that the Madala Centaurs were willing to form an alliance with the White Jade Castle. With two forces as strong as such, we could perhaps stand a chance at defeating Tukula Fortress! After much consideration, I had accepted their offer and had ordered one of my dragon riders to send me over the Fortress to met up with the Centaurs!"

Her calmness was quickly replaced with an intense anger. Even when she was in her projection form, the anger was so intense that she emitted a strong aura, Zhang Yang could felt it in his bones. No wonder there was a saying, that a King's Wrath will cloud the sky and rivers will flow with blood!

"I never had thought that it was all a trap set by the Spectres! When I arrived at negotiation location, the spectres had set up an ambush there and we fought hard and long. However, I was eventually caught. They did not kill me but held me here as a prisoner. They had locked me down and stole half of my soul. To my horror, they had used my soul to make a high-ranking spectre that looks exactly like me! The imposter has already infiltrated the Kingdom of White Jade! That spectre will probably want to take the throne and dominate the humans in my place!"

She calmed her rage and looked at Zhang Yang stoically. "Warrior, could you help me escape this place to save the kingdom and kill the enemy?"

"My Princess, I am at your disposal! Command me!" Zhang Yang gave an adventurer's salute.

"You have my greatest appreciation, adventurer!" Serene was satisfied. "Now that I have lost half of my soul, I can only communicate via projections. The [Communication Stone] that you picked up was made by me. I had used a portion of my remaining magic to cast a spell on the monsters that roam this place! Sadly, the magic will not last for long as no container can truly hold magic. I have waited for three years for you!"

"You have to find my other half of the soul in order to save me! However, since I am trapped in this place, you will need to create a soul container to bring back my other half!"

Serena continued. "To create this container, you will need three rare materials. You will have to kill three extremely strong beings in order to obtained that materials! Warrior, do you have what it takes to get them?"

"Princess, trust this one, for he is strong!" said Zhang Yang with a smile.

Serena nodded and said, "I trust you, warrior! In that case, bring me a piece of [Molten Core of the Flame King, a piece of [Root of the Demonic Treant King] and the [Heart of the Winter Bear King]. I will use my remaining magic to turn them into a soul container!"

'Ding! Serena has a quest for you: A Soul Container. Will you accept it? This quest is linked to the main story quest. Complete the quest to receive a luxurious reward!'

Damn! Which dumb f*ck took the quest, saying that it was a hidden quest!

Hidden quests and main story quests were completely different! Main story quests are easy to trigger, but they are really difficult! However, the rewards given are extremely luxurious! Mainly, the main story quest will be the main trigger that will push the game content forward! For example, patches in the future will depend on the progression of the main story quest, "Invasion of the Spectre patch", "Demon Descend patch", and "Deep Sea Invasion patch" all relied on the progress of the main story quest!

Zhang Yang swiftly accepted the quest and said, "Princess! I will return victorious!"

"So be it! But you must hurry! My power is constantly being weakened by the seal! I cannot remain awake for too long! I will be dragged back into my sleep!" Just when she had finished her speech, her projection started to flicker rapidly. After a few seconds, her projection started to form cracks and shattered into tiny magical particles.

Zhang Yang opened the quest log and examined the three quest items needed.

[A Soul Container] (Difficulty Level: S)

Quest Description: The Kingdom of White Jade is in peril! You must make haste and collect all three rare materials in order for Princess Serena to create the soul container and be released from her restraints! You can find the Flame King in the Fiery Sacrificial Altar in the Burning Flatlands. The Demonic Treant King can be found in the Swamp of the Ancient Moss in the Valley of High Tree. The Winter Bear King can be found in the deepest part of the Cave of Winter's Wind, beneath Snowy Peak Hills in the Frozen Sky Wasteland. Note, these monsters are extremely strong and powerful! Please recruit more friends together to fight!

Quest Duration:7 days

Quest Recipient Limit: 1 player

Player Gender: Male

Progress: Molten Core of the Flame King 0/1 Root of the Demonic Treant King 0/1 Heart of the Winter Bear King 0/1

Quest difficulty level was S ranked. Which meant that he would need to kill a super strong boss! After Level 50, only the Yellow-Gold Tiered bosses would prove to be a real challenge for top players like him!

That's three Yellow-Gold tier bosses!

To at on to that, the quest had a time limit! Zhang Yang cursed. A Yellow-Gold bosses would have a seven day respawn period, which meant that if the players failed to kill the boss and died fighting any of the three bosses, the quest will automatically fail!

What sort of set up was that! It literally gives no chances to players at all!

Zhang Yang frantically opened his friend list and recruited Han Ying Xue, Wei Yan Er, Hundred Shots, and Daffodil Daydream. Sun Xin Yu, Fatty Han, and Endless Starlight were not logged in, he was short in manpower that he needed urgently. He quickly contacted Snow Seeker and asked for a favor.

"Guild master Zhan Yu! How nice of you to call me!" Snow Seeker accepted the call and talked to Zhang Yang with a normal and casual tone, unlike her usual stern and stoic volume.

Zhang Yang laughed a little and answered. "The last time, you had requested my help to kill the Mountain Giant, now, I'd like to ask the same of you. I need your help to kill several bosses!"

"Are they Gray-Silver?"

"Yellow-Gold!"

"Alright! Alright! How many my members you need? 1,000? 2,000?" Snow Seeker voice trembled with excitement.

Zhang Yang frowned. What sort of guild required that many players to sortie against a boss? If he had that many players from Crimson Rage taking off with him, members from his own guild would be "informed"! Open-world boss' strongest and deadliest feature was their strong AoE attack skill. That was why, there were many bosses out there that did not need many players participating. In fact, numbers would be useless if the bosses could easily kill everyone in a snap of their eyes. Counter-intuitively, the success of the boss fight would be higher only when a small group of elite players fight it.

There are some bosses that draw strength from the numbers sent against it. The more you have, the stronger I become! For example, the Demon Boss Kazak. Every player in its aggro target will cause him to gain a 10% attack bonus. If several thousand players joined hands to fight the boss, the boss will gain such ridiculous amount of power and kill everyone like weeds in the garden. The boss can cast one {Shadow Arrow} for every single player in his range and exterminate everyone in his sight.

"I don't need that many! Just two! I need a healer and an attacker!" The only people whose strength Zhang Yang did acknowledge were Snow Seeker and Perfumed Water.

Snow Seeker would become one of the Top 10 Spellcasters in China! Her ability was unrivaled.

Perfumed Water was quite the ruffian, but her healing ability was commendable. Her equipment, control, understanding, and situational awareness was good, even if she was far behind Han Ying Xue. However, she was still one of the best healers that Zhang Yang had ever encountered.

"Guild master Zhan Yu, do you, perhaps, have an eye for our fair little Perfumed Water? Do you want me to set something up?" Said Snow Seeker playfully.

"Guild master Snow Seeker, you are too curious for your own good!"

Zhang Yang invited Perfumed Water and Snow Seeker into his party and announced, "Please gather at the Tukula Fortress!"

Currently, Winter Bear King was the closest to him.

"Noob tank! What are we going? What are we doing? Why must we go?" being the impatient little girl, Wei Yan Er bombarded questions in the party channel.

"Can you just be quiet for like…10 seconds? Sigh…We are going to kill a boss. A Yellow-Gold boss!"

"WOAH!" Everyone gasped in surprise. Everyone got excited, especially those who already had Level 60 Yellow-Gold equipment in their inventory. To complete their sets, they would need to fight Level 60 Yellow-Gold boss! At least, they could collect a complete set of Level 60 set equipment before they reach the required level itself.

Zhang Yang tore a [Teleportation Scroll] and flew back to White Jade City. He cleared his inventory and placed the two completed set-equipment into the Little Merchandize Shop, selling them as single packages at the price of 100,000 gold coins each! He then had the [Roar of the Dead] identified and equipped it. Upon identification, the properties of the ring had increased to 25 Vitality and 25 Strength. The damage absorption rate was increased to 30 damage.

After "cleaning" up his inventory, Zhang Yang then used the teleportation point in the main city and travelled to the Tukula Fortress. While waiting for Zhang Yang to arrive, the party had spent their time grinding in the nearby Frozen Sky Wasteland. Everyone took less than 10 minutes or so to gathered together.

"Stupid Yu, where is the boss?"

Everyone knew the value of an open-world boss since they were so sparse in both numbers and encounters! The map of the game was just too large for them! But once a boss is located, it would be dominated by strong guilds. Because of that, many guilds will butt heads due to the contest for claim over the boss as "property". They would be willing to wage wars with each other, lasting until new patches are released, or until the late-stages of the game, all because of a single boss.

Zhang Yang pointed West and said, "Snowy Peak!"

Han Ying Xue rolled her eyes instantly. "Sigh…Do you even know how big is Snowy Peak!?"

Zhang Yang laughed at her reaction. In agitation, Han Ying Xue was stomping her feet, sending waves of tremors across her breasts, sending them jiggling about like a pudding being served. Zhang Yang could not help but stare at them and said absent-mindedly, "Yeah…they are big…"

"PERVERT!" All the female players in the party cried out loud together.

"Let's go then! I just received a quest to kill three bosses. The description was really vague. They only mentioned the general locations instead of the specific points!" said Zhang Yang, not intending to hide anything from them.

Snow Seeker twitched, her eyes glinted when she heard Zhang Yang mentioning the word "quest".

"The quest needed you to kill three Yellow-Gold boss? It must be a really rewarding quest! Guild master Zhan Yu, do you mind sharing the quest?"

Zhang Yang shook his head. "It can't be shared."

The quest only limited player participation number to one. That is why he could not share the quest with anyone else. Now that he thought about it., Serena could only be awakened by a kiss in the lips. If a bunch of rotten, perverted players took part in the quest, how would a princess like her maintain her honor! Who know what kind of dirty, indecent stuff would they do to her? That was, if the player accepting the quest was male. What if the player had been female? Would the princess be…

Perhaps, that would not be the case at all. The developers would not be that sexist. The quest could have been turned into a prince in other major cities needing a kiss from a female player instead! In that case, female players would have their chance to give their first kisses to a handsome young prince!

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Chapter 219: The Gold-Eared Bear King's Little Cub

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"Find the cave!" cried Zhang Yang when the party arrived at Snowy Peak. "The boss is inside a cave called the Cave of the Winter's Wind!"

The group split up and searched for the cave. Everyone agreed to regroup when any one of them finds it.

There was this particularly stupid idiot who had no sense of direction, yet had some ironic luck. She managed to be the first one who stumbled across the cave.

"I found it!" Han Ying Xue had managed to find the cave after 20 minutes, and happily announced her discovery in the party channel.

Everyone hurriedly converged to where Han Ying Xue was and saw a deep, large cave entrance, As the party was about to enter the cave, a sudden breeze blew by, carrying an intense, rotten smell, causing extreme disgust to those who caught whiff of it.

"BLEH! What is that smell! It smells like rotten eggs wrapped in stinky old stockings!" Wei Yan Er cried out as she squeezed her nose shut.

Zhang Yang laughed at her and said, "Why didn't you take your Smell Setting down a notch?"

"Eh? You can do that?" said Wei Yan Er, surprised. She quickly asked for details, and after a series of messy, unnecessary rants, she closed the window and was delighted. However, her cute, contented little smile quickly disappeared. "Yeah! I'm d—BLEH! What the hell! Why did it turn worse?!"

"You dumb little girl! The system's default setting was at 50%, You didn't turn it up all the way to 100% did you?" Zhang Yang did a facepalm.

Wei Yan Er replied with a quick "Oh!" and adjusted the setting again. This time, she laughed and said, "Oh wow! I can't smell anything now! Hehehe!"

In truth, she was not the only one was not aware of the Smell Settings. Everyone started to search through their setting windows and adjusted the setting to prevent the extreme odor from being too disruptive.

Zhang Yang explained. "There are other settings besides smell. You can also adjust Touch, Taste, and Sound! Touch sensitivity is disabled by default so that you would not feel any pain when you receive an attack. However, to be a professional, it's best to increase the Touch sensitivity by just a little to increase your response rate! Too high however, and it will be too much to handle, affecting your overall performance! As for Taste, it's best to leave it disabled. Drinking potions will not trigger your taste buds at all, or else, you will taste the utter bitterness of it. But, for instance, if you want to prevent yourself from drinking too many potions, you can adjust it to your own preference!"

These settings were rather plain and dull. Players who were the types to research prod around every aspect of a game would meddle with such settings. A majority of the players would not even take note of such settings.

After everyone had adjusted their own settings, Zhang Yang nodded approvingly and said, "Let's go!"

Zhang Yang led the way, entering the cave first.

The cave was rather large. At a fixed interval, they would encounter a glowing stone stuck on the ceiling of the cave, illuminating the pathway. However, the light was dim, unable to fully illuminate the entire pathway. Like a poor streetlight in a dark alley, those little glowing stones were the only sources of light in the entire cave. However, as it was, even on the darkest of nights, the stars will shine upon earth. The light from the glowing stones was enough to allow the players to see where they were going.

"GROWLLL!" A deep, loud growl of a beast could be heard. Suddenly, a large White Bear jumped out from the darkness and attacked the foremost player, who happened to be Zhang Yang. The bear used {Charge} and stunned Zhang Yang. As he swayed helplessly on his spot, the monster swung a massive paw and attacked.

[Winter's White Bear] (Elite, Beast)

Level: 58

HP: 58,000

Defense: 300

Hundred Shots and Zhang Yang original gang were very proactive. Even when Zhang Yang was stunned, they did not wait for him and immediately started their attack.

The bear growl and shifted its aggro to Wei Yan Er. Now that the bear had just attacked, it had to wait for another two seconds before it could attack again.

The stun effect lasted for one a second. Zhang Yang immediately cast {Provoke} when he recovered. He activated {Blood Rage} at the same time and slashed the boss. He immediatley followed up with {Destructive Smash}.

'-1,634!'

'3.573!'

As the aggro on Zhang Yang stabilized, everyone flawlessly synced with his rhythm and killed the monster without breaking a sweat. The team's firepower was so strong that it would not have made a difference if no one was tanking, the monster would not have survived for more than 10 seconds. How could it kill anyone in that short amount of time?

Snow Seeker was rather impressed and said, "Guild master Zhan Yu, I'm really impressed with your teamwork. No wonder you guys could easily take down dungeon after dungeon, claiming First Clear Achievements!"

Wei Yan Er snickered and said, "Sister Seeker! Actually, it's all because of me! I'm the strongest attacker in this team!"

"Little girl, do you not know shame or humility?!

"Hmph!" Wei Yan Er shrugged. "Humility is nothing but a lack of self-esteem. There is no reason for me to be humble in the first place! I'm merely stating the truth!"

Everyone laughed and the girls giggled. The little girl was always the clown of the party, bringing laughter and joy to them.

One of the ETC drops of the Winter's White Bear was a piece of [Bear's Tail, which could be sold for at least 10 silver coins. However little it was, Han Ying Xue still insisted on keeping the item since they could be stacked up to 200 pieces!

The team proceeded on forward, killing more bears as they proceed. When the 14th monster was killed, it finally dropped something useful.

[Frost Bear Coat] (Green-Copper, Leather Armor)

Defense: 6

Vitality: 60

Equip Effect: Increases 100 Frost Resistance.

Level Requirement: 50

Bear Coat Set (1/5):

{Bear Helm}

{Bear Coat}

{Bear Glove}

{Bear Leg Guard}

{Bear Boots}

Three Equip Effect: Increases all attack by 5%.

Five Equip Effect: Increases Frost Resistance by 300.

"Are resistance based equipment for Thieves and Hunters?" Everyone was curious. "Field monsters drop set equipment as well?"

Zhang Yang answered. "In the future, there will be all kinds of set equipment with all sort of effects! This one here specializes in elemental resistance. If you were to wear this and fight a Cryomancer, that player would be annoyed to the high heavens!"

After asking around for a brief period, Zhang Yang called out, "If no one wants it, I'm going to keep it!' Zhang Yang took the item and kept it. However insignificant it seemed, it was still a set equipment! There are crazy collectors around who would pay a nice sum of coins just for novelty!

"Hey! I haven't said anything yet! I want it! I want it!" Perfumed Water cried out suddenly. Snow Seeker was rather shy and had remained silent since she was rather well-mannered.

"Moving on!" said Zhang Yang, ignoring Perfumed Water.

"GRAHH! I'm pissed! Just you wait, Zhan Yu! I'll show you how frightening I can be later!" cried Perfumed Water.

The party moved on and killed more and more bears. There were more bears in the cave! Perfumed Water was a Priest class, but she had chosen Leather Work as her profession. Whenever a monster was dead, Perfumed Water would pester Zhang Yang to quickly loot all the items and let her use them for her Leather Work.

That had led the miserly sisters to admire her work. Pieces of Bear Skins were rather valuable!

Even though the team's firepower was so strong that they could kill a bear in no time, they had spent more than two hours roaming around the cave, because of its sheer size! There seemed to be no end to it!

FUSH!

Out of the sudden, a ball of white fur appeared out of a corner. The team was ready to attack but stopped when they saw that it was only a mini size white cub. It was only the size of a small puppy. White fur covered its entire body. It had a golden sparkle on each of its ear and eyes that were big and round. When the bear saw Zhang Yang and his "monstrous" friends, it was so shocked that it lost balance, sitting on its bottom with its eyes growing even bigger in surprise. It was so cute to look at!

"WAA! It's so adorable!" cried the girls in his team. Everyone was caught up by its natural cuteness.

"Bear bear is so cute! KYAH! It's so fluffy! It's so fluffy I'm gonna die!" cried Wei Yan Er as she cuddled the little critter.

"That's…that's a rare monster!" Zhang Yang eyes glinted and he pulled the little bear away from Wei Yan Er.

Everyone's face sharpened into seriousness as they quickly looked up the little bear's properties.

[Golden-Eared Bear King's Cub] (Rare Yellow-Golden Battle Mount, Beast)

Level: 0

HP: 50

Note: Can be sealed.

"Battle mount!" Everyone was both surprised and happy simultaneously. Everyone quickly took out their [Sealing Leash].

"Wait!!!!!" Zhang Yang screamed.

"We have only 10 tries to seal the beast! Let's talk about this first!"

With only one cub and many players around, the important way to solve it is to find a neutral stance! Everyone wants the battle mount! But only one of them could own it. So, how do they "divide" it?

"One by one! We'll take turns!" said Zhang Yang.

"In that case, who shall be the first?" asked Snow Seeker. Sealing can only be done, one player at a time. Only when the said player had failed, others can target the beast for sealing. Now that they had a total of seven players, if they all failed the first round, who would be the next three after that? In that case, how do they properly sort this out?

Zhang Yang stopped to think for a while.

"Let's roll for the turn. Whoever rolls the largest number shall be the first to seal. From there, we will follow the rolls and go by descending order. If all of us fail, then we shall roll again, and only the three largest rolls shall be able to take the last three chances!"

Everyone nodded in agreement and felt like it was the best method. Since it was fully based on luck, no feelings will be hurt.

"In that case, shall we roll? One roll each! If anyone rolls again, the smallest number shall be used!" said Zhang Yang. Roll-the-dice system was a special command that was always available in the game. It's not solely used to roll for equipment or items. Player often use the rolling system to place bets.

Everyone rolled and the best of them was Han Ying Xue, the manifestation of lady luck herself. She had rolled a hundred points and was automatically the first in place to attempt sealing. In second place, Snow Seeker rolled 92 points, followed by Hundred Shots at 88 points. The fourth place was Daffodil Daydream at 79 points, Wei Yan Er was the fifth at 77 points, Zhang Yang, sixth place at 55 points and Perfumed Water was the last at 42 points.

"Come here little one! Obey me and I will treat you better that my little cousin sister! I'll raise you well and treat you amazing snacks! I'll even help you find the most beautiful female bear!" said Han Ying Xue as she petted the little white fur ball. Han Ying Xue took the chance to throw the [Sealing Leash] towards the little bear. The [Leash] had an auto-targeting system. It landed on the little white bear's head with extreme accuracy. A golden light formed, connecting both Han Ying Xue and the little bear. A long progress bar appeared on Han Ying Xue's head and fill up extremely slowly.

3%,9%, 17%...

Wei Yan Er was squatting by the side, drawing a circle on the ground while cursing endlessly. "Fail! You shall fail! Fail! FAIL!"

Pak!

When the progress bar reached 43%, the Leash on the little bear's head broke and a system notification popped up, indicating that she had failed. The little bear looked up at Han Ying Xue and lifted one of its hind paw to scratch its face. It continued to display its natural cuteness.

"HAHAHAHAHA!" Wei Yan Er jumped in joy while clapping her hands happily.

Following next was Snow Seeker.

"Fail! Don't hate me, sister, but I hope you fail! PLeash fail!" Wei Yan Er continued to curse.

Pak! Snow Seeker's attempt was worse. She failed at 31%.

Hundred Shots tried to seal. He failed at 22%.

"NYAHAHAH! I'm invincible now! No one can stop me! Suck it!" cried Wei Yan Er as she laughed proudly.

Daffodil Daydream went on and started her attempt. Sadly, she failed at 3%. Wei Yan Er did not even manage to start cursing. This little brat was like a cursed charm, bringing on misfortune! She thought to herself, perhaps her curses were so strong that she did not even need to act!

"Finally! It's this lady's turn now!" said Wei Yan Er as she took out her [Sealing Leash] and used it on the little bear.

1%, 2%, 3%...95%, 96%, 97%!

Seeing her own progress bar about to complete, her smile grew larger and larger, in accordance to the progress bar itself. When the progress bar had reached 99%, the smile on her face was so large that it could have reached her ears!

Pak! Failed at 99%!

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Chapter 220: Winter's Wind Bear King

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What a tragedy! It was supposed to be a celebration!

The overly large smile on her face was quickly replaced with a depressing pout. She widened her eyes, and puff her cheeks, looking at Zhang Yang with her best imitation of a puppy's eyes.

"Don't. Just don't. You know I'm not going to give it to you." Zhang Yang instantly rejected her before she could speak. He knew that this little girl wanted him to give up his turn for her.

"UWAAA…" Wei Yan Er ran away to a corner and sobbed. Perhaps she had really learned her lesson. Perhaps her curse was so powerful that it rebounded back on her?

Zhang Yang walked up to the little bear and threw his leash towards it.

"Yee…" the little bear squeaked, sticking out its pink little tongue. Its cute little round eyes were hypnotizing! Now that's what actual puppy eyes look like!

1%..3%...5%...

"Fail! I curse you to fail! Wee wang wang wee wang wang! Fail!" It seems that the little girl had not truly learned her lesson. With everything she got, she concentrated hard and drew some shapes in the air, probably meant to curse him.

60%...70%...80%!

Wei Yan Er grew scared and quickly jumped to her cousin sister. "Sis! Quickly, work together with me! Join forces with me to cast the Ultimate Destruction Godly Curse of the Nine Suns and Moons!"

Zhang Yang twitched his eye brows and frowned. "What sort of movie is she watching now?"

During a Sealing process, a character is not allowed to perform any action. Chatting is allowed though.

Han Ying Xue crossed her arms and looked away. "Curse of the White Pearl!"

90%, 95%, 99%!

"Fail! ABCDE, Failure shall befall upon thee! Come on! Fail already!" screamed the little girl as the progress bar was close to completion.

100%!

'Ding! You have successfully sealed the Bear King's Cub, turning it into your Battle Mount!'

'Ding! This is your first time obtaining a Battle mount. The tutorial will now commence. The Battle Mount cannot be mounted before reaching Level 30. You can only summon the Battle Mount as a pet. It will follow the master in battle and gain Experience Points to level up! When the Battle Mount reaches Level 30, it can no longer be used as a pet, but as a mount! The mount can be used in battle and gain more Experience Points through a shared system! You can revisit this tutorial through the Control Menu at anytime.'

'Ding! You have obtained an achievement: Battle Companion!'

A new leash appeared in Zhang Yang inventory. It shared an almost similar look as the [Leash of the Skeletal War Horse].

[Leash of the Gold-Eared Bear King] (Yellow-Gold Battle Mount)

Use: Summons or unleashes a mountable and battle-ready Gold-Eared Bear King. If your mount falls in battle, it can only be re-summoned after 10 minutes. You can only summon one Battle Mount at a time.

Casting Duration: Two seconds.

Level Requirement: 30

Bounded.

Zhang Yang immediately summoned the little critter and two seconds later, the mini-sized white bear appeared beside Zhang Yang. It brushed its body against Zhang Yang feet and when Zhang Yang ignored it, the little bear stood up on its rear legs to bite Zhang Yang's pants with its undeveloped teeth. It was just drop-dead cute.

"Aww…So cute!" Pretty much all the female players in the team were crowded around the little white bear, petting its head.

The Level 0 bear rolled over, exposing its bare belly, allowing the girls to rub its belly to their content. It waved its paws, as if it was inviting the girls to rub it.

Wei Yan Er shed crocodile tears. "Wuuu…Noob tank! You better reimburse me with one bear as well! Wuuu, bear bear! Wuuu!"

"Fine…fine…just keep quiet. I'll find another bear whenever I'm free!"

The party went on forward, killing so many elite monsters that they had lost count of them. The party spent another 30 minutes and had finally arrived at the deepest part of the cave! The little bear had absorbed half of Zhang Yang Experience Points, which was directly deducted from Zhang Yang's own intake of experience points. However, because of that, the little bear had been able to level up as a fast pace. By then, the little bear had reached Level 27 and had grown so large that it was already the size of a young calf. Both of its HP and attack power had increased exponentially. However, it still had no skills of its own to use. It was a little disappointing due to the Yellow-Gold title that it had. Perhaps it will gain a skill or two when it reaches higher levels.

[Gold-Eared Bear King] (Yellow-Gold Battle Mount)

Level: 27

HP: 5,880

Attack Power: 808 – 1,008 (Attack Interval: Three Seconds, DPS: 303)

OP!

As expected from a Yellow-Gold pet mount. It had almost 6,000 HP at only Level 27! It was a pity that the little bear could not be summoned as a pet after Level 30; It would not be able to contribute to the party's DPS after that.

'Little Whitey! I'm sorry, you're no longer cute when you're that big! I'm not going to pet you anymore!" Wei Yan Er was saying such things to make herself feel better, however, she was not being truthful at all. In fact, she was still a little jealous of Zhang Yang.

Everyone laughed.

The deepest part of the cave was a large cavern. The ceiling of the cavern was at least a hundred meters high, perhaps even higher! There were many ice spikes of many shapes and sizes forming on top of the ceiling. Some were long and thin, while others were sharp and rather thick!

Beautiful, yet extremely dangerous at the same time! Nature was truly the best architect there is! In the deepest part of the cavern was a sleeping giant white-fur bear. It was probably several meters long. If the bear stood up on its rear legs, it would definitely be as tall as a house!

Snore* Snore*

The bear was obviously sleeping soundly, snoring so loud that it echoed through the hollow cave like thunder!

[Winter's Wind Bear King] (Yellow-Gold, Beast)

Level: 60

HP: 5,000,000

Defense: 1,200

"I have completely no idea what skills this boss has. Anyhow, let's just give it a shot!" said Zhang Yang. He unsummoned the little bear since the Battle Mount would not be able to provide any DPS in this battle. In fact, it would only be a hindrance, requiring Han Ying Xue to heal it.

As for the experience gained later from killing the boss, Zhang Yang could easily grind some monsters later on.

"Fight!" Zhang Yang took out his axe and rushed towards the snoring Bear King.

The boss was still snoring soundly when Zhang Yang was already close to it.

{Charge}!

Zhang Yang rushed in and landed a good hit on the boss.

Awoken from its sleep, the Bear King growl thunderously. It lifted its massive claw to slash Zhang Yang.

{Block}!

Zhang Yang quickly stacked as much {Cripple Defense} as fast as he could. The boss' 1,200 Defense value was just too ridiculous for the others to handle. That skill was a top priority to be used for the other attacking team mates to attack to their fullest.

The Bear King stomped the ground hard and released a grayish-silver ray of light from its feet. The light spread out in all directions, as widely as 50 meters!

'Ding! You have gained the {Frost Bite} Aura. Receiving 200 Frost damage every second!'

"Heh. The boss damaging aura effect is quite weak!" Everyone agreed.

In truth, the aura effect was weak. Compared to a healer, healing 200 HP is nothing.

Zhang Yang frowned. He did not believe that a Yellow-Gold boss would be that weak. There had to be more to this; it was not just a random monster that was just created to die!

After a short period of time into the battle, the Bear King flung itself onto Zhang Yang and bit him. Since {Block} was still on cool down, Zhang Yang could not dodge the attack no matter how athletic he was. The skill seemed to be unavoidable, unlike the normal claw attack which could be easily dodged by moving his body. Unable to dodge the attack, Zhang Yang's blood splattered on the ice.

'Ding! You have received the effect {Bleeding}. Receiving 3,000 {Bleeding} damage every three seconds!'

Luckily, even though {Bleeding} damage ignores defense, Zhang Yang had a passive 930 damage absorption skill. After applying the 20% damage reduction passive, and another 930 damage absorption passive, the remaining damage Zhang Yang would sustain was 1,470! That had only added 490 DPS from the boss, which was not that big of a deal.

'-5,543!'

Still, the boss' physical attack was strong! With a swing of its gigantic claw, it could easily remove one quarter of Zhang Yang maximum HP! Now that Zhang Yang had Perfume Water in his party, paired with Han Ying Xue, Zhang Yang had two super-supporters healing him together, eliminating the would-be threat. While doing so, the healers would only need to maintain the {Regeneration} effect on the rest of the party members to completely safeguard them from the {Frost Bite} aura. If the battle continued on as such a pace, only time alone would keep the Bear King from falling.

However, when the Bear King was at 90% HP…

"GROWL!" The Winter's Wind Bear King bellowed a thunderous roar! The roar was so loud that parts of the cavern were crumbling from the sheer power of the sound wave. The others could not help but to cover their ears as the volume was too much for them to handle.

'Ding! You have received the effect {Deafening Roar} (Stack 1). All attacks received will increase by 1%. All attack and healing will be reduced by 1%. Last for 30 seconds!'

Just after three seconds!

'Ding! You have received the effect {Deafening Roar} (Stack 2). All attacks received will increase by 2%. All attack and healing will be reduced by 2%. Last for 30 seconds!'

If the boss continued to fight like this, repeating the same skill every three seconds, in just 30 seconds, the boss would easily apply 10 stacks of {Deafening Roar}! The stress level of the healers would be increased! Not only would the party's DPS decrease and receive even more damage from the boss, the healer's healing power would also drop by 10%!

Zhang Yang called out. "Perfumed! I need to you slowly back away! Report to me when the skill {Deafening Roar} is out of bounds!"

This time, Perfumed Water knew better than to argue with Zhang Yang. She slowly walked backwards, stopping every three seconds. She continued on until she was around 50 meters away from the boss. She shouted, "Zhan Yu! Here!"

Zhang Yang nodded in acknowledgment. "Stand there, and don't move! All ranged units, move 30 meters away to your maximum effective range and attack from there! Perfumed Water, you're to heal all ranged team members! Snow b*tch! Just focus on healing me and the little brat!"

Everyone nodded and followed Zhang Yang's commands without any objection.

Perfumed Water had taken up to 15 stacks of {Deafening Roar} and had her healing power diminished significantly. She needed to heal five members. Under the effects of the Deafening roar, her healing was not holding up as well as she thought it would be! On the other hand, Han Ying Xue had already been inflicted with 30 stacks of {Deafening Roar}, but was still in control of her actions and rhythm!

90 seconds later, the debuffs on Perfumed Water had expired while the others had already taken up to 30 stacks of the debuff each, having their attack drastically lowered, while receiving an incredible amount of damage.

"Snow b*tch! Switch with Perfumed Water! The rest of you, if you have any debuff clearing skills, use them immediately! If you don't have any, withdraw by 50 meters! Come back and fight after 30 seconds when the debuffs are cleared out!" cried Zhang Yang in a commanding tone.

Wei Yan Er used {Warrior's Will} and removed the {Deafening Roar} on her, restoring her to original power!

The other two Spellcasters used {Ice Barrier} on themselves, encasing their characters in a large block of ice to remove their debuffs. On the other hand, Priest and Hunter had learned their anti status affecting skills, however, their own skills were not strong enough to remove the debuff. Hunter Shots could only use {Tumble} to leave the battle and hasten his withdraw. Han Ying Xue and Perfumed Water quickly switched places. The one closer to the boss was tasked to take care of Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er while the one who outside of the boss' effective range was set to heal the rest of the ranged characters.

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Chapter 221: Super-Powered Pet Mount

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Zhang Yang kept his {Warrior's Will} in reserve, instead of using it immediately. While the others could easily run out of the effective range, Zhang Yang had to remain tanking the boss! It was his job to begin with! Thus, by logic, the long he delayed his {Warrior's Will}, the longer he will survive in battle!

Two minutes in!

Zhang Yang now had 40 stacks of {Deafening Roar}! His attack power was decreased by 40%. The damage he was taking had also increased by the same amount! Each time the boss smacked his *ss, Zhang Yang would take more than 8,000 damage!

"Zhan Yu! I can't heal you fast enough! You have too many debuffs on you! Do something about it!" 30 seconds ago, Perfumed Water and Han Ying Xue had swapped places. In that short amount of time, Zhang Yang had already gained 10 more stacks of the unfavorable effect, causing Perfumed Water to receive the baton from Han Ying Xue for an uphill battle.

Zhang Yang nodded, acknowledging her complaint. It's about time to do something.

{Warrior's Will}!

Woosh! Like pressing select all delete, all 40 stacks of {Deafening Roar} on Zhang Yang's character was removed!

Han Ying Xue was taking a break about 50 meters away from the boss. She did some mental calculations and frowned. "Hey! Dummy Yu! I don't think you have enough time to kill the boss! Even if you used {Rearm} and {Warrior's Will} again, it will only give you another four minutes!"

The party's total DPS was at around 10,000. However, with {Deafening Roar}'s effect of reducing their attack power, and the 30 seconds time that they need to "rest" on the sidelines would mean that their DPS rate had plummeted to 6,500. They would need at least 12 minutes to kill the boss with his 5,000,000 HP!

Zhang Yang had {Rearm} ready and waiting. It could provide them an additional four minutes. But, what about the remaining eight minutes?

Zhang Yang smirked. "Relax, I have a secret plan!"

Han Ying Xue rolled her eyes.

Four minutes up!

{Deafening Roar} had reached 40 stacks again!

"Hey! Do something, Stupid Yu! Don't blame me if you're dead!" screamed Han Ying Xue.

Zhang Yang holstered his battle axe on his waist and took out the [Eye of Medusa] from his inventory in a flash. He tossed the item to Wei Yan Er who had just come back from her "rest".

"Use it on me!"

Wei Yan Er was glued on her feet like a statue, stunned. "Huh? Why?"

Han Ying Xue gasped and cried. "Genius!"

"Tch! Stupid little girl! Just do as I say and use the bloody thing on me!"

"Hmph! You don't have to yell at me!" Wei Yan Er pointed the object at Zhang Yang and pushed the button to activate its effect.

Pew!

A dark light shot out of the [Eye of Medusa] and shone on Zhang Yang. Cracks could be heard as Zhang Yang was gradually turned into stone! Before the transformation was completed, Zhang Yang took the opportunity to raise his battle axe dramatically in a heroic stance, much like Freddie Mercury did.

'Ding! You have received the effect {Stone Petrification}. Lasts for 5 seconds!'

Immune!

Immune!

Immune!

For those five seconds, be it from the boss' claws, bites, aura effect, Zhang Yang was left completely unscathed. In fact, {Deafening Roar} and the aura effect on Zhang Yang were removed as well.

Han Ying Xue laughed cheerfully and said, "The [Eye of Medusa] can be used three times. If you used {Substitute}, {Warrior's Will} and {Rearm} all again, you can drag the time to 14 minutes!"

"You're not as dumb as you look huh!" Zhang Yang complimented her and added one more sentence. "Too bad, you're only as smart as Captain Obvious!"

"Hey! What are you saying?! Aren't you being a little arrogant?! Hmph! Shameless prick!" Perfumed Water threw a little insult.

Zhang Yang smirked. "What? You don't like it? Suck it up!"

"What!? You think I wouldn't dare to suck!?" Perfumed Water refused to back down in a fight.

Zhang Yang smirked changed into an uncontrollable laugh. He stopped trying to come up with any witty come back. If Fatty Han had been present at the scene, he would said something that would leave them no turning back. Being the person who understood Zhang Yang the most, he would have already guessed why Zhang Yang was laughing at the word "suck"!

Perfumed Water was a bold girl. She had been hanging out with her own woman's gang, how could she not being influence by them! Very much well aware of the context of what she had said, she quickly piped down and calmed herself before teasing Zhang Yang. "I'll have you know that I been sucking on dozens of sausages and wieners every day or two. I couldn't help when I accidentally "bite" them down. Could it be that it will hurt when I do so…?"

Heh.

That joke was a little too cold for Zhang Yang; it sent a zap of chill down his spine, all the way down to his knees.

Oblivious and innocent as a child, the little girl thought that she had found Zhang Yang's one weakness and laughed hysterically. "Noob tank! Haha! I see that you're afraid of getting bitten! Hehehehe! NYAHAHAHAHA! If you dare to bully me again! I'll bite you too!"

"Yan Er! Stop!" Han Ying Xue stopped her younger cousin from embarrassing the both of them any further. It's fine if she did not get its meaning, having heard it only once. But when Perfume Water had been saying it in such a suggestive way, for so many times, there was no way that a girl at her age would not understand the underlying meaning!

…

Six minutes in, [Eye of Medusa] was used twice.

Eight minutes in, [Eye of Medusa] was used for the third time. At the last charge, the little gem-like, round, crystal eye ball-looking thing shattered into very fine dust, and dispersed into the air.

"Sigh…what a shame there's only one of that toy." said Zhang Yang with a heavy heart.

"It's just some random, fairy-dust trinket. We can always find more of those!" said Wei Yan Er flippantly.

Zhang Yang frowned and stared at her as if she had said something rather offensive. In truth, Zhang Yang was not offended, but he was rather disgruntled at her comment. She does not know that true value of the [Eye of Medusa]. Before Level 60, [Eye of Medusa] was truly as useful as a time machine. Thus, the drop was rate was so pathetic that you would better of trying your luck at winning the lottery. The only reason Zhang Yang could get his hands on the item was because Zhang Yang had 9 Luck points and it was also the boss's first kill.

Wei Yan Er saw how Zhang Yang was staring at her and self-consciously looked away. "Stupid! Idiot! Dummy! Noob tank! If you want to insult me! Just say the word! Don't stare me with those pitiful eyes! I'll bite your little head of! I'll bite it! I swear I'd do it! BITE BITE BITE YOUR LITTLE HEAD OFF!"

Zhang Yang twitched, his previous expression completely vanishing. Wei Yan Er's cousin sister was red in embarrassment.

10 minutes in, Zhang Yang summoned [Servant: Clear Lotus] and used {Substitute} and shifted all 40 stacks of {Deafening Roar} to the servant.

12 minutes in, {Warrior's Will} cool down complete!

14 minutes in, {Rearm} was used, and {Warrior's Will} was immediately activated.

The boss had a little over 5% HP left. With victory in close sight, everyone cheered.

"Almost there!"

3%, 2%, 1%!

"Ouuu…" The Bear King wailed and dropped dead. Its massive body was clearly heavy, its fall sending tremors all over the cavern and even managing to send a few stalactites dropping down from the ceiling.

"YAASHH! Equipment! Equipment!" cried Perfumed Water as she rushed forward to grab the loots. However, when she tried to pick them up, none of the items were going into her inventory. She turned around with tears in her eyes. "Wuuu…Leader Distribution mode huh…"

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "Water lady, move! This super star will do the picking!"

Angry and abashed, Perfumed Water grit her teeth at Zhang Yang cried, "You stinky little scoundrel! Piss me off and I'll sneak into your house and bite your tiny little s*ht off!"

"Right…right. Move, shoo shoo!" Zhang Yang nodded his head and gestured her to move aside like a dog. He then picked up the [Heart of the Winter Bear King] and proceeded with the rest of the loots.

There were a total of six Yellow-Gold equipment, with four of them being Level 60 set-equipment. The four set items were the Berserker's specialized Helmet, Pyromancer's specialized Armlet, Beastmaster's specialized Boots, and the Cryomancer's specialized Leg Guard. The items were all distributed based on their classes, Wei Yan Er got hers, as did Daffodil Daydream, Hundred Shots, and Snow Seeker.

Snow Seeker had only one Level 60 Yellow-Gold to wear and now that she had gained the Leg Guards, she was very pleased. Her radiant, cheerful smile was so refreshing. She was clearly happy to have accepted Zhang Yang's invitation.

The remaining two were random Level 60 Yellow-Gold equipments. A cape and an accessory.

[Bear Skin Cape] (Yellow-Gold, Cape)

Vitality: 42

Intelligence: 42

Equip Effect: Increase 41 Magic Attack.

{Unidentified}

Level Requirement: 60

Before identifying an item, the item properties will only have 70% of its original properties in effect. Only after paying a sum of coins, would the properties of the item gain an additional 40% boost!

Every magic user in the party was so riled up by the cape that they pushed Zhang Yang to quickly decide on who gets the cape.

Zhang Yang scratched his head, thinking of a way. "Let's go with this. Each magic type, Spellcaster and Priest alike will role a number. Who had the biggest roll will received the item. However, the winner will pay 3,000 gold coins to all the losers as consolation prize!"

"Ok!"

Han Ying Xue and the rest of the girls rolled. As lucky as she has always been, Han Ying Xue scored 97 points, winning the roll! She snickered happily as she took the cape and placed in her inventory. She looked at Zhang Yang and winked at him seductively. "Honey dear, care to pay my debts to the other ladies?"

F*ck! That's 3,000 gold coins!

Zhang Yang sighed regrettably. If he had known Han Ying Xue would be the winner, he would not have suggested the gold coin consolation prize in the beginning. Knowing the miserly sisters, they would curse him daily if he had forced them to pay the consolation prize money!

"You're a real devil -- no, THE devil, aren't you!" Zhang Yang stared angrily at Han Ying Xue. However, there was nothing that he could do. He took out 3,000 gold coins and divided it for the other three girls.

Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er giggled happily.

[Arcane Deflector] (Yellow-Gold, Accessory)

Equip Effect: Creates a 3% chance to deflect and cause any magic spell to {Miss}.

Level Requirement: 60

Percentage based damage nullification equipment were extremely rare. This was to prevent low-level equipment from being so strong that high-leveled armors would become unnecessary. If they had been even slightly more common, a tank could wear a set of 50% damage nullification equipment, lasting him for the next 30 to 40 levels!

This piece of accessory would still remain relevant up to Level 100 or even Level 200, as the percentage rate will always remain the same!

"Haha! A tank class item! I'll take it then!" said Zhang Yang as he took the item without anyone objecting.

The other seven to eight equipment were Level 60, Gray-Silver tiered. Even though they were not as strong and powerful as Yellow-Golds, they were still rather strong for their level. Each of them was distributed following their class requirement. There was only one leftover helmet that was designated for the Sacred Knight class. Since no one wanted the item, Zhang Yang took the item, planning to sell it in the Little Merchandize Shop.

The time was already past 9pm. With two more bosses to go, the nearest boss was the Magic Treant King, located at the Swamp of the Ancient Moss. It was at least a two hour journey from where they were. Add in the fact that they would encounter several monsters and spend even more time searching for the boss, they could end up fighting past midnight if they were to start now!

Zhang Yang than decided. "Ok, let's call it a day for now. Tomorrow, we shall find and kill the seconds boss at 9am! Is there anyone who cannot make it?"

No one answered.

Zhang Yang turned to Wei Yan Er and frowned. "Are you planning to skip class again?"

Wei Yan Er scoffed and place both of her tiny little hands on her waist. "Who said I was planning to skip class?! It's not like I wanted to. I have to take care of the sick sister! Sigh! Which bloody idiot allowed that dummy to eat all that ice cream yesterday!"

"Yan Er. I see that you need some knocks on your head to behave properly huh!" Han Ying Xue came towards Wei Yan Er, cracking her knuckles angrily, looking rather intimidating. For a moment there, Zhang Yang could have sworn that he felt a sudden killing intent radiating from Han Ying Xue.

"Erhm..I erhm…I-I can e-explain! Wait! HELP! NOOB TANK! HELP ME!" Wei Yan Er wailed for a moment before her character disappeared from the game. After a brief second, Han Ying Xue's character disappeared as well. It seemed like both of them had logged off to settle their little game of chase.

"Guild master Zhan Yu. Farewell, I'll see you tomorrow at 9pm." Snow Seeker tore her [Teleportation Scroll] and waved goodbye to Zhang Yang.

Without saying a word, Perfumed Water stared at Zhang Yang and then slowly shifted her sight lower to his groins before tearing a [Teleportation Scroll] and vanished.

Zhang Yang teleported to the Tukula Fortress with the main city's Teleportation Point and came to the Wasteland. There, he summoned the [Gold-Eared Bear King] and started to raise his pet mount's level.

Since the pet mount is at low level, the experience points that it could leech from the monsters around was relatively high! Still, its level will always be lower than the players it belonged to. After 20 minutes of grinding, it reached level 30 with a flash of golden light. Immediately, it disappeared from Zhang Yang's side.

'Ding! Your Battle Mount [Gold Eared Bear King] has reached Level 30. It cannot be summoned as a pet. Please summon the Battle Mount again!'

Zhang Yang took out the leash and summoned the bear again. The progress bar appeared briefly and disappeared after a short two second casting time.

"GROWL!" The bear appeared majestically with a loud growl. A huge, white furred bear with golden tipped ears stood next to Zhang Yang. Its massive size was approximately three-meter-long with four strong and tough limbs! Its body was completely covered in a thick, white fur with a pair of golden tipped ears. From the side, it looked very fierce and majestic.

[Gold-Eared Bear King] (Yellow-Gold Battle Mount)

Level: 30

HP: 8,400

Focus: 100/100

Weapon Attack: 1,116 – 1,516 (Attack Interval: 3 seconds, DPS: 439)

Skill 1: [Shared Life] (Passive): Combines both the owner and the pet's HP as one.

Skill 2: [Wild Charge: Rushes towards an enemy with great speed. Stuns the target for 1 second. Cool down time: 30 seconds. Effective Distance: 2 – 10 meters. Cost: 20 Focus.

After Level 30, this white bear had gained two additional skills. The {Shared Life} could only be applied when Zhang Yang mount the beast. The {Wild Charge} was a good replacement for his own {Charge} since he cannot use the skill while riding a mount. The Bear King might be just Level 30, but as a Yellow-Gold Battle Mount, it already had vast HP and attack, and it's only natural for it to grow far stronger in the future. It was probably as strong as an equivalently leveled Yellow-Gold equipped player!

After summoning, Zhang Yang quickly hopped on the beast. When a Battle Mount is summoned, it will disappear quickly after two seconds if nobody mounts it. Immediately after Zhang Yang got on the bear, the {Shared Life} skill was applied and he gained a huge boost in his HP, raising to a whopping 25,560 HP!

"This is awesome!" Zhang Yang exclaimed, feeling the controls extending to the bear itself. He felt like the bear was an extension of his body, finding that he could easily control its every move.

In his previous life, Zhang Yang had a pet mount which was a Violet-Platinum Thunder Hawk. It was a Flying Battle Mount too, at that! Based on the tier, Violet-Platinum was one tier higher than Yellow-Gold. However, when he was riding the Thunder Hawk, other pro players were riding Mythical tiered pet mounts! Some were even riding Ethereal tiered pet mounts! It could not be helped, Zhang Yang was a little too late in joining the game and had not been able to get his hands on rare items.

Still, his current Gold Eared Bear King Battle Mount, despite being only a Yellow-Gold tier, was, by far, the strongest Battle Mount that any player would have, at this stage of the game!

"Let's go, Whitey!" Zhang Yang named the mount and with a command in his mind, the Bear King growl and galloped towards a Snow Wolf.

Shosh!

{Wild Charge}!

The Snow Wolf was immediately stunned. Zhang Yang kept his hands to himself and allowed Whitey to attack on its own.

'-803!'

'-789!'

'-898!'

Even though the white bear's basic weapon attack was strong, the level gap between Whitey and the Snow Wolf was too far apart, and the damage had suffered a penalty. Luckily, the pet mount and the owner shared the same life bar, defense value, damage nullification skill and other passives. To attack the pet mount was like attacking the player itself. All attacks that the bear received was completed zero-ed! It could basically slowly kill the Level 55 Snow Wolf without Zhang Yang needing to do anything at all!

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Chapter 222: Valley of High Tree

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After another two hours of mindless grinding, Zhang Yang's Pet Mount, Whitey had amassed a large amount of experience points and was already Level 40. It had gained much more HP, Weapon Attack, and Defense, along with another skill!

[Claw Attack: Attacks the target with a beastly claw. Deals 100% melee damage.

Cool down time: One second.

Cost: 50 Focus.

After the Level 40 hard bracket, every level gained will be exponentially harder and tougher than before. Even if they were to fight any monsters beyond Level 50, they would take two to three days, killing monsters one at a time instead of nuking them with large scaled AoEs. Zhang Yang involuntary yawned and realized that it was already past 11pm. Stretching his arms, he then decided to return to White Jade Castle. Before calling it a day, he mounted Whitey and made his way to the Little Merchandize Shop. Along the way, many players were mesmerized by the majestic mount. One by one, they asked as Zhang Yang rode by.

"Brother! Where did you did you buy the mount?"

"Big Bro! Which shop did you buy the mount from?"

Arriving at the shop, Zhang Yang did a quick check on the shop accounting and made a few [Fire Resistance Potion] to be placed in the shop's storage before logging off to have his rest.

The next day, Zhang Yang logged in at 9am, after his routine breakfast and exercise.

This time, Fatty Han was present along with the crew members from yesterday. However, Sun Xin Yu and Endless Starlight were absent since the both of them needed to work during the day. Unfortunately, they would have to miss out on the second boss as they could only log in during the night. Everyone gathered together in the Tukula Fortress before taking off.

Before everyone else arrive, Wei Yan Er and Han Ying Xue were already in the Fortress waiting. Yesterday, both of the sisters logged off in the Bear King's Cave. To save time and money, they had unequipped all their equipment and waltzed towards some monsters, allowing themselves to be killed. They had revived and made their way towards the fortress after that. Little Wei Yan Er had been waiting for a while and got slightly agitated when Zhang Yang was late.

"Noob tank! Hurry up and get your *ss over! I wanna see little white white!"

Zhang Yang choked, laughing as he said, "Little white white is now Big Whitey!"

He then teleported to Tukula Fortress and summoned [Gold-Eared Bear King, riding it towards Wei Yan Er.

Observing the bear with great admiration, and a little jealousy, Wei Yan Er ruffled her tiny hands all over the massive bear's white fur. After she had her fun, she turned to Zhang Yang and said, "Hey, noob tank, when will another little whitey will spawn?"

Zhang Yang shook his head and shrugged. "I have no idea! Rare pet mounts and bosses are not the same. There're no fixed spawn times. However, one thing is for sure. The rarer it gets, the long it will take to respawn! Bear King is the Frozen Sky Wasteland's rarest monster. I predict that it might take one or two months to spawn a second one!"

Wei Yan Er puckered her lips and move her jaw side to side, displaying her discontentment. Suddenly, she bumped her fist against her palm and said, "Are there other Yellow-Gold pet mounts in other maps?"

Zhang Yang nodded. "Yes, there are. However, you must know. The higher the rarity, the harder it would be to seal it. If you want to have a higher success rate, you'll have to start pumping your Luck attribute!"

"Oh!" said Han Ying Xue. "No wonder you could seal the bear in one try! Now I understand that Luck could affect the success rate in sealing a pet mount!"

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "Having 9 luck points is really something!"

"Noob tank! What are the current stats of Big Whitey?" Wei Yan Er asked Zhang Yang. While others could easily check on the beast's HP and Level, only the owner could access the Attack and skills. Zhang Yang posted the properties of the Bear King in the party channel.

[Gold-Eared Bear King] (Yellow-Gold Battle Mount)

Level: 40

HP: 11,200

Weapon Attack: 1,554, - 1,954 (Attack Interval: 3 seconds. DPS: 585)

Skill 1: {Shared Life}

Skill 2: {Wild Charge}

Skill 3: {Claw Attack}

Everyone was stunned. They had long known that a Yellow-Gold Pet Mount is strong, but those numbers far exceed their own expectations!

"F*ck! Even the attack is much stronger than mine!" cried Fatty Han. "D*mn bro! How could you be that selfish! Why didn't you tell me that you were hunting for a pet mount!?"

"Hey hey! If you want to have a battle mount? Get in line! We're all waiting for our chance for it! In this case, you're the last in line! Hah!" said Wei Yan Er.

"Hah! It's the Final Countdown! Tu tu tu do!" Fatty Han joked.

Wei Yan Er raised an eye brow. "What was that?"

"Oh come on! Count down? How do you count downwards?"

"3?2?1?"

"Exactly! So which number did you said first?"

"The last one?"

"Exactly~" Fatty Han post a victory sign.

"Lame!" Everyone responded.

The team chit chatted for a little while, while waiting for everyone to gather.

"Onward! To the Swamp of the Ancient Moss!"

It took the entire team approximately two hours to reach the Swamp. They had to make their way through the Frozen Sky Wasteland and the Tirgua Mountains. Even though all of them knew that the Demonic Treant King was located in the Valley of High Tree, the mini-map around them was still covered in shadows. The system will not blatantly reveal the location of the boss to them. To locate it, they would have to search for it themselves. The team split up into several groups, repeating the same procedure as they did the previous day. Anyone who locates the boss will have to notify the entire party.

Lo and behold, history repeated itself as Han Ying Xue, the goddess of luck found the boss after not more than 10 minutes. She giggled as she announced, "It's here! I found it!"

Zhang Yang opened the world map and examines Han Ying Xue's location. He frowned. "I'd say, you were assigned to search the location in the direction of three o'clock. Do you realize where you are now? That's seven o'clock! Where are you trying to go? Timbuktu?"

Han Ying Xue scoffed. "I was the first one to find the boss, not to mention, saving everyone's precious time and effort! Now look at you, calling me stupid and calling me a directional idiot! Well, look at me, the world's dumbest girl with no sense of direction! Oh wait, I was the one who found the boss! The first one! You're calling me idiot!? Looks who the idiot now!"

After being yelled at, Zhang Yang felt a little guilty and remained quiet. The rest of the party felt the same way, having been called a directional idiot by an actual directional idiot! Everyone started to change their courses and headed towards Han Ying Xue.

The Swamp of the Ancient Moss truly lived up to its name. Every corner, every inch, every part of the swamp was covered in greens. Not the light green of plants you'd see in a rain forest. This green, would be the deep, dark green of mosses that you would normally find in a drain or an abandoned toilet wall. There were algae growing where there was water. The monsters in this map would also be found in real life swamps. There were crocodiles, frogs, giant crabs and other swamp dwellers. The Valley of High Tree, on the other hand, was jam-packed with trees that went up to several meters tall! They would easily dwarf any real buildings in the real world! In the center of the Valley was a huge clear lake, while the rest of the map was just normal terrain.

Controlled by Zhang Yang, the bear walked up with its gigantic, heavy foot steps forward, sinking its feet into the ground as it moved forward.

Suush!

A shadowy figure rushed towards Zhang Yang with a flash when he had set his foot into the Valley. With a quick command in his mind, the white bear dashed three to four meters towards the front.

Wham!

With a loud crash, the huge shadow stopped in its tracks. It turned out to be a huge rock, about the size of a sedan car. The rock was smashed into many tiny particles, scattering all over the place. 20 meters away from them, a treant was making its way towards them, lifting another huge rock. The treant was at least 10 meters tall. When the treat stood upright to face them, its massive size was large enough to block off the sunlight, casting a huge, long shadow over them.

[Demonic Treant] (Elite, Elemental Being)

Level: 58

HP: 58,000

Defense: 600

With another thought. Zhang Yang sent a command mentally and the bear growls as it rushed towards the treant.

{Wild Charge}!

The bear stomped the ground with great force and blasted itself towards the treant, raising its claws as it flew through the air.

'-876!' Normal Attack.

'-989!' {Claw Attack}.

Zhang Yang activated {Blood Rage} and started his attack.

'-1,482!' Normal Attack

'-3,356!' {Horizontal Sweep}.

A pet and its master, fighting alongside each other, dealt an instant 6,700 damage to the monster in no time! Everyone could not help but gape at the sight of it! Everyone could only fantasize about having one at that point.

'-1,534!'

After receiving the attack, the treant monster returned fire, swinging a massive tree-arm and smashing Zhang Yang with it. Zhang Yang took damage, but having "morphed" together with his mount into one single unit, Zhang Yang had gained a huge HP boost, reaching 28,360 maximum HP! That puny, little hit was nothing but a tiny scratch on Zhang Yang.

"D*mn son! With that HP, you're just like a boss now!" screamed Fatty Han.

"Haha! That's right! We might even get some Yellow-Gold equipment if we kill Zhan Yu!" said Perfumed Water rather passionately. "Hey Fatty bum! If you kill Zhan Yu and get me three to four Yellow-Gold equips, I'll give you a kiss myself, saving you the trouble of sending me those perverted messages!"

"*Pui* Do I look like someone who would go hoes before bros!?" Fatty Han crossed his arms confidently. However, it did not take him long before he was intrigued by her suggestion. "Make it at least three kisses and I'll consider it!'

Everyone was amused, laughing at their conversation. Even though the damned Fatty Han talks before thinking, he was an interesting fellow to be with. With him around, the atmosphere would never be dull.

As always, with the team attacking together ferociously, the treant did not last for long and was turned into a rotten old tree trunk.

Wei Yan Er went on ahead and picked up the loots. She was expecting some sort of equipment but only obtained three counts of [Thick Branch]. Annoyed at her loots, she pouted.

Fatty Han saw what she had obtained and made his usual joke. "Hehe. Thick eh…Hehehe…Thiccc…hehehe!"

Zhang Yang could see where his conversation was about to go and quickly interjected before Fatty Han could say anything else. "Fatty…can you just shut your mouth for three minutes? Three, god-d*mn-minutes!"

Fatty Han crossed his arms unwillingly and kept quiet. However, how could someone as perverted as him could let a chance like that slip by! In just four seconds, he opened his mouth and begun to start a conversation. "Yesterday, when I was out shopping with Yun Yun, we stopped at a grocery store. Yun Yun wanted to buy some cucumbers for the night and picked two rather large and rough cucumbers! I wonder what would she used them for…"

Han Ying Xue and the girls of the party started blushing. In unison, they screamed at Fatty Han, "Fatty Pig!" Only Wei Yan Er started at Fatty Han in confusion and said, "The rough ones aren't tasty you know! The rough ones are bitter!"

Fatty Han laughed extremely loudly, swiping a glance towards the ladies of the party. "Yun Yun bought those cucumbers are her beauty treatments! Hahahahaha! What are you girls blushing for, huh! Hehehehe, I must have struck the jackpot! Look what I found? Four perverted vixens! Now, who's the real pervert here huh!"

The four girls were rendered speechless. How could they not think of something indecent when he had to say it that way? Large and rough?! Any mature lady would quickly come to 'that' conclusion! If she was to use it for her face, why did he had to say it that way?

"Pervert! Fox! Pig! Bastard!" The ladies lashed out their insults and rolled their eyes.

The team proceeded on and not long after, another treant was found. It pulled itself out from the ground it was in and swung its arms around to attack the party. The team killed the treant and went on. As they chopped their way deeper into the Valley, they picked up a few Green-Copper tier equipment. Since they were not set-equipment like the ones found in the Winter's Wind Bear Cave, they were barely as valuable as set-equipment, and were given to Han Ying Xue to disassemble for profession experience.

"Noob tank, why are there no pet mounts here?" Wei Yan Er wouldn't stop pestering Zhang Yang, repeating the question again and again.

"Sigh…if pet mounts are so common and easy to find, they wouldn't be called rare pet mounts now, would they?" Zhang Yang would repeatedly answer her question with different variations of phrasing. Still, no matter how hard Zhang Yang tried to twist his words, the message would simply not get through to her.

The Valley was extremely large and wide. It was so wide that the party had to spend at least two hours to kill every elite treant monster in the Valley, before managing to get into the deepest part. However, their efforts remained unrewarded; where they stood in the deepest part of the Valley, with no boss-like monsters to be seen.

The good news was that after such a long and draggy spree of kills, Whitey had gained three levels.

"Hey, Dummy. Where is the boss?"

Everyone had scanned the entire area but could not find anything resembling a monster.

Annoyed and frustrated, Zhang Yang scratched his head. "The quest said it would be here!"

"Could it be killed already?" asked Hundred Shots, hoping he was wrong.

"YAWWZAH!" Fatty Han screamed to the high heavens. "Something just poked my *sshole!"

Other than Zhang Yang, the rest of the party members had been on foot the whole time. Fatty Han had grown tired, and had sat down on a large popping root nearby. He had let out a sudden scream as his face twitched in a strange manner.

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Chapter 223: Demonic Treant King

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Everyone frowned with varying degrees, some twitching their eye brows, some baring their teeth in disgust, but one thing was for certain, they were all disgusted by Fatty Han.

"What's with that? I'm serious!" said Fatty Han like a wrongly accused housewife. He did make a rather pitiful expression before he got angry. "If you don't believe me, have a seat and try it!"

A sudden thought struck Zhang Yang. He looked at the tree that had "poked" Fatty Han's butt. He tilted his head upwards to look at the tree and manage to catch a glimpse of its peak. For a moment, he thought he had been mistaken but after a closer glimpse, he was sure that the silhouette carried a name tag! And the name tag said: Demonic Treant King!

The monster's name tag was in yellow, which means it is a neutral monster that will not attack unless provoked. This was why the group did not notice the monster since it had remained motionless, just like a real tree even when the group was standing right next to it.

[Demonic Treant King] (Yellow-Gold, Elemental Being)

Level: 60

HP: 5,000,000

Defense: 1,500

What thick defense! Even after a 50% armor reduction, it would still have 750 Defense value; enough to nullify 90% of the majority of players around!

Zhang Yang went back to the group and pointed at the boss saying, "This…is the boss I supposed."

"What?" Everyone was startled. Everyone went up closer to the "tree" and observed carefully before they accepted the impact of that revelation. While the others were nodding their heads, Fatty Han was sulking on one side, clenching his teeth angrily.

"What a perverted tree! It actually poked my butt hole! What a shameless bastard! Don't stop me! I'm going to have this tree have a taste of its own medicine!"

The rest of the team could not help drip cold sweat.

Riding the mount, Zhang Yang's HP had gained a massive boost. With a stronger commanding presence than ever, he commanded. "Get ready! We are going to start the boss fight soon!"

Without much delay, Zhang Yang took out his battle axe and laid the first strike on the boss, following closely with a {Blood Rage} and {Horizontal Sweep}!

'-986!'

'-2,898!'

Facing a boss with 1,500 Defense, Zhang Yang's attack was greatly diminished even with his {Eagle Eye}. As for Whitey, its attack was only around 700, so low that it was completely negligible!

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The ground quaked violently as the boss begun to stir. The tremors were so strong that it was like an earthquake occurring. Cracks begun to form all around them as the boss "wiggled" itself out of the ground. Two long and extremely large tree trunks came out of the ground. To their horrors, those were its legs! Each of the legs were so large that each of them could be wider than a basketball court! But, if those were only the legs, how about its entire body? Standing at the bottom of it, Zhang Yang and his party were like ants in the face of a gigantic elephant!

Wham!

The Demonic Treant King stomped the ground, covering an area so wide that no one was able to dodge! In an instant, everyone received 9,000 damage. Even Wei Yan Er, who was positioned behind the boss took at least 6,000 damage. The attack did not kill Wei Yan Er, but, the rest of the party was killed instantly.

Zhang Yang had only received 5,534 damage, a small wound considering that he had close to 30,000 HP!

"D*mn! How are we supposed to fight this thing?"

Fatty Han and the rest had released their souls and had started to run back to their bodies, complaining as they did.

Zhang Yang had an idea and commanded Whitey to run back towards the lake in the center of the Valley. Even though the bear's movement speed was faster than average, it could not outrun the boss! With one stride of its long legs, it easily stomped the ground, the shockwave still reaching Zhang Yang.

'-5762!'

Luckily, Zhang Yang had already moved 60 to 70 meters away from its previous location. That attack did produce a shock wave but it was far enough to miss Wei Yan Er. She had been so apprehensive of the attack that she patted her own flat chest, sighing in relieve.

Wham! Slam!

The Treant King chased after Zhang Yang, managing to get a few hits in at the same time. When Zhang Yang' HP had reached below 10,000, he quickly activated {Berserker's Heal} and continued his way. Eventually, the boss' attack could not reach him since he was riding the mount! The chase continued and the boss remained on Zhang Yang's trail, unable to attack.

Several moments later, Zhang Yang arrived at the giant lake. Riding the bear, Zhang Yang commanded Whitey to leap forward and into the lake. After a huge splash, the bear floated on the water surface, paddling constantly like a dog.

The Demonic Treant King had managed to caught up to Zhang Yang. He sighed a breath of relief. He feared that he might have lost the boss' aggro, his arduous journey to the lake for nothing. Within range, the boss lifted its leg and sent it towards Zhang Yang.

Woosh!

The massive stomp caused a gigantic wave that was at least 10 meters tall. Both Zhang Yang and Whitey was sent deep into the lake and after a while, they floated back up to the surface, taking only 734 damage.

Its massive attack was greatly reduced!

Just as planned!

Zhang Yang smirked. Bosses that relied on stomping attack will have its attack power reduced when dragged into water. In 'God's Miracle' there were many examples of using the surroundings to nerf the boss' attack. In his previous life, there was a guild that had killed the undefeated Frost King Poseleus by kiting the boss towards the peak of the Angula Volcano. Using the hot environment to diminish the boss' Frost damage, the team had successfully killed Poseleus, and the news soon spread like wildfire!

This game was designed with realism in mind! Use your imagination to create endless possibilities!

{Cripple Defense}! {Cripple Defense}!{Cripple Defense}!

Zhang Yang reduced the boss defense and called out to his team. "Once everyone is revived, get over to the lake! We'll kill the boss here!"

Wei Yan Er healed herself with [Bandage] and quickly head over to the lake.

"Little brat! Stay away from the boss! Wait for the rest of the team!" Before she could jump into the lake, Zhang Yang quickly stopped her. Even though the boss' attack had been reduced, it was still strong enough to kill a Berserker without the backing of a healer!

Soosh!

Another stomp landed and the lake had formed several more waves that rose up higher than any waves in the beach! Since the boss was just too ridiculously huge, it could easily stand on land and still managed to be in range to attack Zhang Yang. One strike at a time, Zhang Yang could only hack at its root-like feet. Whitey was also attacking with its might.

Even in water, Zhang Yang was still taking around 700 damage. He was losing HP a lot more slower than before, but with no one around to heal him, he could not endure for long. Fearing that, he quickly cried out. "Hey! B*tchy Snow! Where are you guys?!"

"What's the hurry?! We have just been revived, let us eat up! Sure! I can come right now if you want me to! With zero MP, what you want me to heal you with!?" Han Ying Xue scoffed arrogantly.

Fatty Han giggled. "With your love!"

"F*ck! Don't waste time! Please hurry up! I'm dying here!" said Zhang Yang. Seeing that his HP was about to be depleted, Zhang Yang quickly activated {Shield Wall} and summoned {Merlinda's Shadow}.

Before he leveled up, he was much weaker. Back then, {Merlinda's Shadow} was so strong that it could over-heal Zhang Yang! Yet, right now, with that massive HP, {Merlinda's Shadow} could only heal roughly one third of Zhang Yang maximum HP! Sadly, things could not remain permanently strong! What was strong then would be weak now!

"Please hold on, Zhan Yu! We are coming now! Hold on!" At least Snow Seeker was courteous enough to say the words that Zhan Yang wanted to hear the most

.

As the {Shield Wall}'s duration ended, the 10,000 HP that he had regained was quickly being hacked away. Zhang Yang quickly used {Rearm}, using {Berserker's Heal} again!

Finally, just as he had reached his limit, the team arrived out of the forest, riding their own mounts!

Splash! Splash! Splash! Splash!

Everyone jumped into the lake and Wei Yan Er swam towards the boss' back. Others swam behind Zhang Yang, engaging their own roles; healers prepared to heal and attackers ready to attack.

In the water, the boss' stomping attack power had been reduced by roughly a third. The resulting damage was around 3,000. Even though the number might seem powerful and devastating, a tank could take the damage head on without flinching. As long as Han Ying Xue or Perfumed Water could maintain {Regeneration} on Zhang Yang, they could leave him be and focus on healing the rest of the team! Priests are natural group or mass healers. Perfumed Water was the main healer in Crimson Rage. Not only were her equipment top-notch, her skills were no less impressive! She even had {Healing Rain} and {Mending Prayers}; two powerful mass healing skills!

With two of them, Han Ying Xue and Perfumed Water working hand in hand, they easily managed the other seven players in the party, excluding Zhang yang. The battle was now shifting towards Zhang Yang's side!

Wham!

The Demonic Treant King suddenly swung an arm made out of long tendrils, and whipped Zhang Yang, dealing more than 5,000 damage. The attack had also sent Zhang Yang and his bear flying out of the water, towards the other end of the lake, where they would land on hard ground!

'Ding! Demonic Treant King has used {Whip Attack}!'

Before Zhang Yang and Whitey was sent out of the water, Zhang Yang quickly grabbed on Whitey's neck tightly and quickly activated {Wild Charge} the moment their character leaves the water surface. In a flash, Whitey dashed forward, dragging Zhang Yang along on its back, before it slammed forcefully against the boss! Zhang Yang had jumped into the water right before the moment of impact.

The boss' {Whip Attack} was really fast and strong! However, the one at the receiving end of the attack had reacted even faster!

"Nice one!"

Everyone cheered. If Zhang Yang was really sent flying, he would received additional {Falling} damage if he collided with the ground. What's more, he would have been so forcefully displaced that the healers would be out of range. He would have been killed with just two to three hits if the boss decided to turn around and stomp on his pathetic, little character.

Now that the dangerous moment had been dealt with, the team focused on attacking the boss. After all, solving sudden problems were no better than actually killing the boss.

After five stacks of {Cripple Defense}, Whitey's damage had increased by a level. Its average damage rose from 250 to 1000! That was almost four times stronger! Although other physical attack classes had increased attacks after the boss' defense was reduced, they attacks were still extremely weak due to the ridiculously high base defense of the boss! The only player in the party that truly received the full benefit of {Cripple Defense} was Daffodil Daydream. Being a Pyromancer, her fire elemental spells were extremely effective against woodland creatures like treant monsters! Having {Eagle Eye}, Zhang Yang would consistently maintain his average damage power. Snow Seeker was a Cryomancer, her ice-based damage was not effected; they were neither diminished nor boosted.

However, Daffodil Daydream's strong fire attacks were not enough to cover up for Wei Yan Er, Hundred Shots, and Fatty Han's weakened attacks. All three of them had their attack reduced by 35% on average, causing the entire team's DPS to be lowered by a significant amount.

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Chapter 224: Aura Stone

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Demonic the Treant King used the {Swing} attack every 45 seconds, while {Wild Charge} only had a cool down time of 30 seconds which could totally negate the knockback effect of Demonic the Treant King's swing attack!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Demonic the Treant King trampled on the lake, causing miniature tsunamis, and a lot of chaos as fishes and prawns were washed out, hitting the land around it.

90%, 80%, 70%... Everybody slowly reduced Demonic the Treant King's long HP.

Snow Seeker acclaimed, "Guild master Zhan Yu is so smart. If we did not use the lake's environment to weaken the Treant King's damage, we would not even stand a chance! the Treant King's damage is much higher than Mountain Giant, even if we had more people, this boss would just kill all of us instantly! If real world elements were not even considered, we would have to gather thousands of players above Level 50, or wait until we are at Level 70 with better equipment!"

Fatty Han immediately seized the credit and responded, "Guild master Snow Seeker, I am the one who brought little Yang into this game! All the tactics and skills you witness have been taught by yours truly!"

"… Fatty, you can exaggerate it even more?"

Fatty Han shamelessly said, "Guild master Snow Seeker, does Crimson Rage not invite male players?"

Perfumed Water could not hold back on retorting, "You must master the 'Sunflower Manual', and then undergo plastic surgery. Perhaps then, you can be invited into our guild!"

Fatty Han suddenly felt a chill creeping down his crotch. He bent his head down, looked and touched his crotch contentedly.

"Oy!" the girls protested when they saw Fatty Han doing so.

Fatty Han laughed out loud with pride, and sent a private message to Zhang Yang, "Little Yang, I just love teasing these little pretties! Unfortunately, all these girls are yours, I'd feel embarrassed to hit on them! By the way, let's go for a drink tonight!"

Zhang Yang felt cold sweat dripping down his head and replied, "If you want to take advantage of them, then just say it, don't come up with excuses!"

In this battle, the most taxed were the two healers as they need to constantly heal everyone HP. If they were a second too slow, someone could have been trampled to death by the Treant King. The rest of the people were quite relaxed, even drinking some lake water as they were graciously trampled till they hit the bottom of the lake.

At one point, Fatty Han mentioned that something leaked out of him. Although he never specified on the details, everyone had a good guess and a few girls almost desperately ran to the lakeshore.

40%, 30%, 20%, 10%!

"Kong! Kong!" the Treant King roared madly, a blood-red halo flashing over its mottled bark. The huge the Treant King instantly turned into a crimson color!

'Ding! the Treant King has initiated {Sucker Punch}. All attack increased by 50%!'

"the Treant King's getting violent. Go ahead and use your long cooldown skills, we're going to need every bit of juice!" Zhang Yang shouted loudly.

Zhang Yang had kept his guard up, in case this open world boss went berserk, a typical trait of its kind. Prior to the battle, he had already told the gang to keep their long cooldown duration skills in reserve, only unleashing these skills when the boss became violent! Thus, everyone activated their respective skills and drank Power Potions, before starting to attack the Treant King with equal fervor.

The hardest hitter was Wei Yan Er, as her Level 50 class quest's reward was a Yellow-Gold two-handed axe. Her melee attack had already reached 2,800, and after activating {Indiscriminate} and ingesting a Power Potion, her attacks went way overboard, even surpassing Zhang Yang's attacks!

{Indiscriminate}: All attacks have 90% chance to cause critical strike within 10 seconds. Can only affect targets with HP less than 20%. Cool down time: 10 minutes.

'-6,012! Normal attack. Critical strike.'

'-10,002! { Tornado Cleave}. Critical strike.'

Her critical strike exceeded ten thousand damage!

The little brat was giddy with excitement every time she slashed the Treant King. For this 10 minutes she was like a heavenly God as her critical strikes caused double damage. the Treant King's 750 Defense Value barely suppressed her base attacks, only allowing her critical attacks to be -- critically effective!

She left everyone speechless with her terrifying damage!

the Treant King's attack increasing by 50% nearly overwhelmed the healing rate of the two healers. Thus, Zhang Yang quickly used the {Vanguard's Aggression} protective barrier and {Shield Wall} at the same time.

Because everyone was using their long cooldown duration skills, they successfully reduced the Treant King;s HP by 200,000 points within 10 seconds, leaving the Treant King with 300,000 HP! But the duration for their long cooldown duration skills was finished, so the team's attacks reverted back to how they were before.

The moment {Vanguard's Aggression} expired, everyone's HP bars went up and down like a roller coaster. The healers were playing a game of pong with the boss, and the balls were the HP bars of the team!

Zhang Yang made up his mind and decided, "Evil Snow, Perfumed Water, ignore Hundred Shots and Fatty, let them die! Focus your healing on the rest of the team, especially Daffodil Daydream, her flame element is key to the battle! Keep her alive at all costs!"

It was impossible to keep everyone alive, so it was best that they ensure the safety of the hardest hitters!

The moment Fatty Han heard Zhang Yang's command, he used {Fake Death} and lay down beneath the surface of the water!

Bang!

the Treant King stomped on the lake once again, and with a big splash, a '-4,434' damage text appeared above Fatty Han's head. The pitiful Fatty Han had been left with only one-third of his HP before activating {Fake Death}. There was no hope for survival. Instantly, Fatty Han's {Fake Death} became the real death!

"Damn, I already used {Fake Death}, the boss still trampled on me!" Fatty Han scolded angrily.

"Fatty sh*t, the Treant King has ranged attacks, it is useless to {Fake Death} within the Treant King's range attack!" Zhang Yang could not help but laughed.

On the other hand, Hundred Shots had tried to swim away from the Treant King's range attack but the speed of the player in the water was only 10 m/s. Hundred Shots was only able to swim about seven to eight meters away from the Treant King before he joined the perverted Fatty in death!

With the departure of the two hunters, Han Ying Xue and Perfumed Water instantly had lightened loads, albeit it was still very stressful for them!

Zhang Yang threw {Sacrifice} on Daffodil Daydream without hesitation. At the same time, he also summoned [Servant: Clear Lotus] and activated {Substitute} to relieve the pressure.

250,000! 200,000! 150,000! 100,000!

the Treant King retained last traces of his HP. However, everyone's HP bars in the team were not faring any better. the Treant King gave the lake a huge stomp again, striking those close by, with Zhang Yang the only one left standing!

80,000! 60,000! 40,000!

'Ding! Player Snow Seeker has died!'

30,000! 20,000!

'Ding! Player Drizzler has died!'

"Wu wu, cousin, why didn't you heal me?!"

10,000! 5,000! 1,000!

"Kong!" the Treant King suddenly flared-up with an earth-shattering scream and its huge body crashed down, flattening countless of trees across the land -- the Treant King's body was at least a few hundred meters long!

"Hu!" the survivors let out a sigh of relief as they had been getting increasingly concerned. If the Treant King had an extra 300,000 to 500,000 HP, Zhang Yang and the gang would be the ones defeated!

"Save them first!" Zhang Yang told the two healers.

Han Ying Xue and Perfumed Water immediately started to reviving the fallen. One minute later, all of them were sitting by the lakeside, eating health recovery food to recover their conditions.

Zhang Yang cancelled his mount summon, and ran to the side of the Treant King's corpse to pick up the loot. Luckily, the loot dropped from the Treant King were clustered together in one corner. Imagine having to run a few hundred meters just to pick up the loot alongside that massive body.

The first item Zhang Yang picked up was the quest item, [Root of the Demonic the Treant King]. Zhang Yang placed it next to the [Heart of the Winter Bear King] in his inventory and looked for other items.

[Furious Metallic Gloves] (Yellow-Gold, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 40

Vitality: 101

Strength: 40

Dexterity: 40

Equipment: Absorbs 70 damage points each time you receive an attack.

{Unidentified}

Class Requirement: Guardian

Level Requirement: 60

Zhang Yang laughed happily and said, "Very good, the first equipment is mine, I'm such a 'Lucky Hand'!" he immediately threw the gloves into his inventory.

"F*ck, Little Yang, find me a few Hunter's set equipment with that 'Lucky Hand'!" Fatty Han said immediately.

"Ya, my gloves and boots as well!" Wei Yan Er also joined the conversation.

Zhang Yang coughed and said, "Write down your wishes on a paper and put it under your pillow on the 24th of December, I will be the Santa Claus who fulfills your wishes!"

Suddenly, everyone went silent but Fatty Han laughed mockingly and said, "Little Yang, if you are representing Santa Claus, does that leave you with nothing but 'balls'?"

"Get lost!" Zhang Yang shooed him away while the girls blushed, rolling their eyes pointedly at Fatty Han.

"Sigh, my only wish from Santa Claus is to have two girls at once when 'having some action'!" Fatty Han said it, surprisingly solemn. They had never seen the cheerful Fatty Han wearing such a sincere facial expression. It could only mean that this wish truly came from the depths of his heart, a wish that he would fight for, as his lifetime goal!

Everyone started perspiring like waterfalls. They all had seen their fair share of perverts, but have never seen a pervert setting something so perverted as his goal in life!

Zhang Yang immediately continued picking up the loot, except his gloves which was the set equipment part, Treat King dropped another three Yellow-Gold equipment, none of them belonging to any set, which were the Priest's helmet, Priest's boots and Beastmaster's chestplate.

Because Han Ying Xue already had a Yellow-Gold helmet so this helmet went to Perfumed Water by default, while the boots went to Han Ying Xue. Everyone was happy with the distribution. Hundred Shots had taken a pair of boots yesterday, so the chestplate went to Fatty Han. It kept the entire party happy.

Zhang Yang touched the Treant King's corpse once again, his eyes suddenly shone, as he took out two stones, proclaiming, "Aura stones!"

Both of these stones were crystal clear and shone like two sapphires. They were magnificent.

None of the girls would turn away from shiny gemstones. Han Ying Xue and the rest of the girls surrounded the aura stone. Even the cool Snow Seeker was not an exception, and they started their girl chatter.

The girls were overcome with excitement, chattering and laughing. Zhang Yang shook his head again and again as he said, "Come on girls, these are not gemstones, don't get so excited!"

[Beginner Aura Stone] (Consumable)

Use: Increases a level of aura skill that is less than Level 3.

Requirement: Possess an aura skill.

Everyone reached out for the stones, including those who did not possess any aura to speak of.

Zhang Yang was frowning and as he looked at Snow Seeker and Perfumed Water, before saying, "Both of you don't have auras, what are you going to do with this?"

Fatty Han immediately sided with Zhang Yang and added on, "That's right, these stones are not 'thick and long', and they are useless for the both of you!"

Bang bang! Pa pa! The girls got fed up, and they caught hold of Fatty Han, giving him some punches and kicks.

"Those who have aura skills, please roll the dice! Whoever gets the highest and second highest points, gets one stone each!" Zhang Yang made the decision as the party leader.

Those people who had aura skill started to roll the dice immediately. As a result, Han Ying Xue, who was publicly known for having an affair with the system, rolled the highest point at 96 points while Zhang Yang rolled the second point at 92 points, so both of them got a stone each.

"What a lewd dog and lecherous vixen!" Fatty Han who was beaten, crossed both his hands behind his back and sighed like a noble person.

Zhang Yang opened his skill list and a few rows of skill immediately appeared as three-dimensional projections in front of him. Each skill description was engraved on a metal flatbed, and his fingers toggled and selected his {Vitality Aura} before using the [Aura Stone].

[Aura Stone] broke into small particles of light, as his {Vitality Aura}'s flatbed glowed blue.

[Vitality Aura] (Level 2): Increases the vitality of team mates within the effective range by 8%. Aura range: 30 meters radius round from the caster. The effect lasts until the death of the caster or until it automatically vanishes.

Han Ying Xue did not use [Aura Stone] immediately, but admired hers lovingly. She even teased Wei Yan Er about it, riling up the little brat.

After looting the two aura stones, the Treant King had no more Yellow-Golds to offer, but seven pieces of Gray-Silver equipment. Zhang Yang handed two pieces over to Snow Seeker as reward for her help in defeating the Treant King.

"Guild master Zhan Yu, are we going to fight the third boss?" Snow Seeker was extremely satisfied as she and Perfumed Water had collected one piece of Level 60 Yellow-Gold set equipment over the past two days. They were really pleased.

Zhang Yang looked at the time and replied, "It is going to be 5.00 PM. Everybody should logout from the game take a break! Let's gather at 7.00 PM at Tukula Fortress, the last boss somewhere in that direction!"

All of them nodded their heads and tore their [Teleportation Scroll]s, returning to White Jade Castle. They also identified the equipment, and restocked their health replenishing supplies.

Zhang Yang also went to Item Identifier to identify his [Furious Metallic Gloves]!

[Furious Metallic Gloves] (Yellow-Gold, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 40

Vitality: 144

Strength: 58

Dexterity: 58

{Level 2 Socket}

Equipment: Absorbs 100 damage points each time you deal an attack.

Class Requirement: Guardian

Level Requirement: 60

Currently, Zhang Yang had four pieces of the Level 60 Yellow-Gold set. If he could get the last piece of set equipment, the boots, from Lord of Flames, and then he would have successfully gathered a full set! Being the top Yellow-Gold set of equipment at Level 60, he would have gain the power to conquer the upcoming dungeon, "Thunderbolt Prison"!

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Chapter 225: Imperial Sky

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Everyone started to log in, one after another. At 7.00 PM, Sun Xin Yu and Endless Starlight finally joined the team. The ten of them immediately made their way to Tukula Fortress.

They travelled through Phil Forest and Xylor Wasteland, finally entering the Burning Flatlands after two hours.

Burning Flatlands. The name itself spoke volumes about the environment it carried, the ground was lined with cracks of hot lava, threatening to scorch the feet of those who stepped on its surface! It was a horrible environment, the few flora that did grow were those that had adapted to such conditions, such as [Flame Flower] and [Burning Grass, precious medicinal herbs.

Most of the monsters here were members of the fire and rock elements. There were Burning Imps and Red Fire Lizards dwelling beneath the magma, and they were above Level 50.

Because they had never explored the map before, everyone could only follow the old-fashioned method by splitting up and searching in groups.

Zhang Yang looked at Han Ying Xue and said, "If you are the first one who discover the Fiery Sacrificial Altar again, then I'll admit that you have a Godly sense of direction!"

The rest of the people nodded their heads continuously. As Han Ying Xue simply walked without any direction in mind but could somehow discover the right places, it had to be due to some divine intervention.

Zhang Yang opened the map, looking for the Fiery Sacrificial Altar at his own assigned area and paid attention to Han Ying Xue's location. Unsurprisingly, that fellow who had terrible sense of direction started to walk away from her assigned area, simply walking haphazardly, like a blind fly.

10 Minutes later, the little blinking dot on the map that represented Han Ying Xue stopped, and she said, "Ha ha ha, I'm the first to find it again!"

Drops of sweat formed on everyone else's heads.

Zhang Yang suddenly got an epiphany and said, "Negatives make a positive, perhaps she has just the right amount of negatives to end up as an exceptional positive!"

Fatty Han muttered, "The fellow who has such a terrible sense of direction actually entered an unexplored map and was able to find the right spot, is really impressive!" There was silence as nobody in the party understood what he meant.

All of them quickly converged towards Han Ying Xue's location.

This was a huge altar. It was like a really tall stack made up by building blocks, divided into upper, middle and lower layers, totaling up to several hundred meters! The altar was like a cone that had been cut into six pieces, with a piece removed from every alternate layer, having the remaining three pieces on top of each other. The top of the first layer's area was as big as the size of eight football fields; the top of the second layer's area was similar to the size of five football fields, and the top of the last layer's area was about the size of a single football field.

All around the altar and on the even surface of each layer, many people dressed in black priest robes paraded forth and back. There were men and women, carrying staffs. Obviously, they were magic-type monsters.

[Fanatic Flame Acolyte] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 58

HP: 58,000

Defense: 300

Zhang Yang leaned forward, patting Whitey on the head and said, "Go!"

Whitey advanced, using {Wild Charge} and dashed towards one of the nearest monsters. Zhang Yang used the momentum to swing his axe.

"Heresy!" the Fanatic Flame Acolyte immediately shouted loudly and pointed at Zhang Yang with his staff, starting to cast {Fireball}.

'{Crash Magic}!'

The Fanatic Flame Acolyte's casting bar was immediately interrupted. He swung his staff, knocking Zhang Yang off his mount and shouted, "Heathen, your fresh blood shall be used wash away the desecrated souls!"

Everyone swarmed the monster and continuously interrupted his casting bar. The pitiful Fanatic Flame Acolyte could not even cast a {Fireball} before being hacked to death!

"Bah, that guy was all but talk!" Fatty Han raised his fist, "If it wants to act like a boss boss, it's not supposed to pay lip service but to speak through its actions!"

"Well said, Fatty Bro!" the other member of perverted duo, Endless Starlight, immediately looked at Fatty Han admiringly.

These clowns!

The team continued moving on, killing all the way. Two hours later, they had almost reached the third level of the altar. The experience points for elite monsters were abundant as Whitey had also gained three levels, reaching Level 46. Every 10 levels the pet mount gained would only enhance its attribution once. Therefore, there was no difference from when Whitey was Level 40. However, Whitey no longer suffered from the damage penalty that arose from level differences.

At this time, a bunch of people had walked through the entrance of altar. "Imperial Sky" was the title that hovered over the heads of these people.

These late birds saw that there were no monsters along the route to the altar. However, from far away, they saw monsters on both sides. One Sword Stroke squinted his eyes, raised his head and looked up at the huge and tall altar.

"Boss, are there anyone faster than us?" Mountain Cleaver looked at One Sword Stroke.

"How can it be? Boss had just accepted the quest to kill three bosses, could anyone really be faster than us?" Soul Striker exclaimed, looking incredulous.

One Sword Stroke stared at the altar and said, "If I'm not mistaken, Lone Desert Smoke has a party up there!"

Heartless Striker immediately slapped his thigh and said, "That's right, only they could compete with us, Imperial Sky! Boss, what should we do now?"

"We're going after them, of course!" One Sword Stroke said, with a determined look on his face, "I have long wanted to battle that Zhan Yu and see who the top tank in China server is!"

"Ha ha, that'll be our boss!" Mountain Cleaver laughed out loud and said, "Boss has a Level 50 Yellow-Gold weapon, a full set of Level 50 Gray-Silver equipment and a Level 50 Gray-Silver shield, these equipment are definitely the best!"

"Exactly, Zhan Yu and his gang cleared Poison Fireland Hardcore mode a day before we did! But, Yellow-Gold equipment do not drop in dungeons!"

"Besides that, our boss also got a Gray-Silver pet mount yesterday, together they have 19,000 HP, and monstrous DPS. That Zhan Yu will not know what hit him!"

"Ha ha, we'll record a video of Zhan Yu getting beaten flat by our boss and put it on the official forum. That'll shut down the debate for good!"

One Sword Stroke was not prideful like his followers, even as he got his boots licked by them. However, a trace of price could be seen from his eyes. Most of the time however, he was known for being calm and despising sycophants. He nodded slowly and said, "Let's go!"

There were only 11 players in One Sword Stroke's team. It seems that One Sword Stroke was similar to Zhang Yang in the way that both of them preferred to bring a concentrated party of elite players only. All of them quickly followed the route that Zhang Yang had already cleared.

After another 10 minutes, Zhang Yang and his gang reached the third layer of the altar. In the middle of the altar, there was a huge creature of flames, it held a war hammer in its right hand, standing upright in an arrogant poise. The heat distorted the air around it!

This flame creature was surrounded in circular formation of 10 Flame Acolytes in half-kneeling positions. All of them were clearly worshiping the being.

[Lord of Flames Arcel] (Yellow-Gold, Elemental Being)

Level: 60

HP: 5,000,000

Defense: 1,200

There were so many Flame Acolytes between the gang and the Lord of Flames Arcel, that clearing the Acolytes was the first priority!

Just as Zhang Yang was about to command the gang to clear all the Flame Acolytes, he caught sight of 11 uninvited guests who were riding their mounts towards the top! Imperial Sky? Zhang Yang focused on those words, quickly scanning for the leading figure. As expected, he spotted One Sword Stroke.

This was the top tank of China server in his previous life, always going around with a full set of equipment that practically blinded the eyes of those who beheld him. He was currently carrying a triangular shield on his back. The familiar shape of an axe hung around his waist, Zhang Yang recognized it at first glance, it was the same axe as his [Dragon Tooth Battle Axe]!

From what Zhang Yang surmised, it could only mean that One Sword Stroke must have cleared the Centaur's Castle as well and had a 99% chance of having {Blast Wave}!

Beneath One Sword Stroke was a blood-red dire wolf, as large as lion, and looking absolutely feral. It even howled at the sky from time to time, the fur on its back bristling as it did so. Compared to his rather docile-looking Whitey, that dire wolf definitely looked far more intimidating!

Zhang Yang tried to focus on the dire wolf. Because One Sword Stroke had his profile hidden, his pet mount could not be observed as well.

"Zhan Yu?" One Sword Stroke also quickly focused his sight on Zhang Yang. In Zhang Yang's team, two people carried shields but one had a MP bar while the other had a Rage bar, it was easy to tell them apart!

Zhang Yang who was riding Whitey, took a few steps forward and said, "One Sword Stroke?"

Both of them hid their profiles, but by instinct alone, both of them could pick out the other team's leader!

"Ha ha!" One Sword Stroke laughed happily and said, "How about we fight a battle?"

Zhang Yang also laughed and said, "The losing side, tear [Teleportation Scroll]s on the spot and leave right after resurrecting!"

One Sword Stroke answered without hesitation, "Deal!"

Nobody would just back down from a boss fight when faced with another party who had similar goals in mind. If the other team happened to kill the opposing team's tanks, that team would crippled beyond recovery! Being of similar mindset, they both would adopt the same tactics if it came to a head-on battle.

"Singles or gang fights?" Zhang Yang simply asked.

"Let's make it simple and direct, single combat! The winner and loser would be clear!" One Sword Stroke was confident that he was going to win the battle -- it was the right mindset for a professional player to have. If the player lacked confidence in himself, he did not deserve to be called a professional player.

"Okay!"

Just as Zhang Yang was about to charge forward with Whitey, the cool Sun Xin Yu held him back and said, "Let me do this!" Her competitive spirit could be seen through her eyes, this lady simply will not deny herself and opportunity to pit her strength against professional players!

In his previous life, although Sun Xin Yu never joined any Professional League, she had assassinated numerous professional players in the China server! The Queen of the Shadow Dance title was obtained after she gained a notorious reputation as a slayer of Professional players!

In his previous life, Sun Xin Yu and One Sword Stroke had battled three times in total, Sun Xin Yu successfully killed One Sword Stroke twice without any hitch, having slight trouble the third time but emerging victorious, nevertheless! However, assassinations and duels were different. Assassination often begin with the victim being caught off-guard and being killed off before they could recover! But duels were completely different. Both parties would be prepared and fully buffed in a head-on battle!

Moreover, when a dual-wielding Thief meets a high defense and damage absorbing Guardian, the Thief would already be in an unfavorable situation! Besides, Zhang Yang suspected One Sword Stroke's mount was a battle mount, just like his!

Although Zhang Yang could not determine the grade of that battle mount, it would stack up the odds against Sun Xin Yu. She had less than a 1% chance of winning!

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Chapter 226: Utterly Flattened

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Usually, the losing side would simply have the experience bar of their current level emptied out. Experience points could be regained by killing more monsters! But since this challenge carried the cost of losing a Yellow-Gold boss AND a main quest, Zhang Yang could not afford to let Sun Xin Yu go wild.

Knowing her, if Zhang Yang directly told Sun Xin Yu something like, "You are not his opponent, off you go.", this block of ice that took human form would definitely lose her temper!

Zhang Yang got around it by saying, "How about we decide the winner by the best of three between three representatives from each side?"

One Sword Stroke thought for a while and replied, "Okay! As long as I get to fight you, Zhan Yu, regardless of the other two battles!"

"Alright!"

On another side, Mountain Cleaver immediately said, "Boss, Zhan Yu doesn't seem so sure of you. He is probably using the other two battles as a safety net!"

"He he!"

Imperial Sky's people laughed mockingly. Besides their professional bootlicking skills, they made a point to show that One Sword Stroke constantly had their support! He was their pride and joy!

"Brother Zhan Yu, in order to ensure the fairness and to avoid the situation of sending ill-matching classes against each other, how about we send our fighters on the spot?" One Sword Stroke asked smiling slightly.

Zhang Yang nodded in agreement and then spoke in the party channel, "Ice cube, go for the first battle!"

Sun Xin Yu was slightly disgruntled as she actually wanted to fight One Sword Stroke. Zhang Yang wanted to prevent exactly that from happening! But she already said, "Let me do this". She was not the type to fall back from her words, according to her personality. However, she still glared at Zhang Yang angrily.

"Brother Zhan Yu, let's start this!"

Both parties sent a player out.

Eventually Lone Desert Smoke sent out Sun Xin Yu, while Imperial Sky sent out a Thief named Blooming Ichor.

Zhang Yang thought for a while, trying to recall Blooming Ichor's identity. In his previous life, he was the main Thief in "Sky and Ocean Electronics" a Professional League battle team that was led by One Sword Stroke. Although he was never mentioned in the list of the strongest Thieves in China server, he was still the main Thief in "Sky and Ocean Electronics", the strongest battle team in the S-Class Professional League. He must not be underestimated!

Without wasting much time, both Thieves immediately used {Stealth}. The battlefield became deathly silent, the suspense almost suffocating! Battles between two Thieves usually played out in the form of a deadly hide-and-seek that could go on for half and hour, yet ending quickly within 10 seconds of action!

One minute, two minutes, five minutes, ten minutes, both of these Thieves had yet to show themselves yet, knowing the first one to slip up would mean instant death!

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "Brother One Sword Stroke, let's get started with the second battle! I hope we learn much from each other!"

"Okay!"

"Noob tank, let me do this! Let me do this!"

"Little Yang, let me shoot them to death!"

"Guild master, let me do this!"

"Guild master Zhan Yu, let me do this!"

All of them wanted to join the battle!

Zhang Yang thought for a while and said, "Evil Snow, you fight the second battle!"

Han Ying Xue was caught by surprise as she was definitely a lazy person. She had slowly edged away from the crowd, planning to spectate silently. The last thing she expected was Zhang Yang asking her to fight a battle! She quickly shook her head and said, "I'm just a healer, getting into a duel is none of my business!"

Zhang Yang laughed happily and said, "It's ok, ddin't you buy a {Putrefying Poison} skill book last few days ago? Just keep that DoT on your opponent, and keep refreshing it. All you have to do is to heal yourself in the meantime!"

It was really difficult to defeat Han Ying Xue with her current equipment unless the opponent struck really, really hard. Otherwise, with her immense healing capabilities, she would easily undo any damage she sustains! Of course, if she encountered {Destructive Smash}, she would be helpless! Obviously, the only Warrior in Imperial Sky's team -- One Sword Stroke could possibly possess such a skill. However, he would be fighting with Zhang Yang in the third battle so there was no way One Sword Stroke would be Han Ying Xue's opponent!

She may be a healer, but she was a super healer, and a super healer with super equipment would bulldoze over anyone else!

After discussing among themselves, both parties sent out a player from each party for the second battle.

Han Ying Xue versus Fire Fountain!

Fire Fountain was a Pyromancer. His equipment gleamed. Although he did not have a full set of set equipment, he had a Level 50 Gray-Silver staff on his hand. His magic attack had surpassed 1,300. He definitely had the best equipment there was!

However, they had not taken Han Ying Xue's equipment into consideration. It racked up her magic attack to 1,800, probably being the highest magic attack among all Spellcasters, globally!

The moment their fight commenced, Fire Fountain immediately activated {Heart of Flame} and rapidly started casting {Explosive Flame}!

{Heart of Flame}: Increases Fire spells' damage by 10%. Lasts for 10 seconds. Cool down time: 3 minutes.

{Explosive Flame}: Throws a huge fireball towards target and causes Fire damage equivalent to 300% of magic damage. Cast time: 2 seconds. Cool down time: 10 seconds. Distance: 30 meters.

While Han Ying Xue immediately activated her accessory, [Magician's Brooch] to boost her magic attack to 2,500 and casted {Putrefying Poison} on Fire Fountain.

{Putrefying Poison}: Putrefies enemy with the power of darkness and causes Dark Abyss damage equivalent to 200% of magic damage within 15 seconds. This skill's effect cannot be stacked. Cool down time: 1 second. Distance: 30 meters.

After that, Han Ying Xue cast many healing skills on herself such as {Regeneration}, {Mending Prayers}, {Holy Shield} and {Brilliant Light}, where she completely ignored the existence of Fire Fountain. She did not even bother looking up at the fireballs that came flying at her face, she just kept on healing herself.

Fire Fountain nearly vomited blood to death as he watched Han Ying Xue! Fire Fountain was a professional player, Han Ying Xue should at least be fighting him with more finesse, such as constant movement, tactical distancing or interruption of his casting bar! She should at least use {Punishment Ray} on Fire Fountain! Yet, here she was casting healing spells on herself and buffing herself up before even paying attention to Fire Fountain, "fighting" as she would be a monster!

That's right, Han Ying Xue did not have any clue on PKing, but her healing was very potent. She did not have to do much except to heal herself as her opponent slowly nibbled away at her HP!

Two seconds later, a huge fireball flew from the tip of Fire Fountain's staff and struck Han Ying Xue!

'Damage absorb!'

That's right, {Holy Shield} simmered around Han Ying Xue. When she applied {Holy Shield} on herself, her 2,500 magic attack meant that she could absorb up to 5,000 damage points.

Thus, Fire Fountain needed another {Explosive Flame} to break through Han Ying Xue's {Holy Shield}!

Only now did Han Ying Xue realize that she could absorb damage with {Holy Shield}! She quickly changed her mind mid-heal and fired {Punishment Ray} at Fire Fountain.

Fire Fountain was even madder and thought to himself, "They sent such an idiot to fight me, are they looking down on me!?" He was embarrassed and furious.

'-1,005!'

'-3,723!'

The Han Ying Xue cast {Punishment Ray} on Fire Fountain, the first tick of {Putrefying Poison} occurred at the same time, taking at least 4,700 HP in total. He almost jumped out of his skin just then! His total HP was about 8,000. More than half of his HP had suddenly been hacked off, how could anyone remain composed after that?!

Oh my god, how much magic attack does this woman have, she's powerful!

'-2,012!'

At the same time, his {Fireball} struck Han Ying Xue and finally broke her {Holy Shield}, causing damage.

{Fireball}: Casts a fireball and causes Fire damage equivalent to 200% of magic damage to target. Cast time: 2 seconds. Distance: 30 meters.

'5,034!'

{Mending Prayers} immediately activated and fully recovered Han Ying Xue's HP.

Damn!

The top Priest in Imperial Sky was also capable of casting {Mending Prayers}. Based on that, Fire Fountain knew that it healed by an equivalent of 200% of the caster's magic damage. This only meant that his opponent's magic attack was over 2,500, it was almost double his!

Fire Fountain immediately used {Ice Barrier} to dispel {Putrefying Poison}'s effect and tried to create distance between himself and the crazy healer. He teleported in a blink of eye and reappeared 100 meters further. He hastily tried applying {Bandage} on himself.

When Han Ying Xue saw Fire Fountain running away, she chased after him, in a rare show of effort. You would have a higher chance of being hit by a meteorite than witness her go crazy like that.

However, by the time she got within range, Fire Fountain was already almost done using his Bandage. On top of that, he had the time to glug down one health recovery potion and regenerate an additional 3,000 HP.

Han Ying Xue did not realize that Fire Fountain had already dispelled her {Putrefying Poison}. So, she stood at one spot and started casting {Punishment Ray} like a stationary turret.

Fire Fountain was much more experienced in player versus player combat than Han Ying Xue was, with a wave of his hand, a blast of fire instantly struck Han Ying Xue, causing 1,450 damage to her. After that, he immediately stepped backwards and tried to keep his distance from Han Ying Xue.

{Fire Blast}: Uses fire to launch a blast to the target and causes Fire damage equivalent to 100% of magic damage. Cast time: Instant. Cool down time: 8 seconds. Distance: 30 meters.

Han Ying Xue's casting bar for {Punishment Ray} was interrupted as he stepped out of her range

Han Ying Xue did not bother chasing after him and immediately starting casting healing spells to heal her own HP.

Fire Fountain quickly ran into the 30 meter attack range and started casting {Explosive Flame}!

If Han Ying Xue was more aware of the mechanics of the game, she would just need to take a step backwards to interrupt his casting, as they were both exactly 30 meters apart! Instead, she went on healing herself. When she saw Fire Fountain entering her {Punishment Ray}'s attack range, she started casting just that.

Fire Fountain was already done casting {Explosive Flame} and fired a huge fireball. He immediately stepped backwards after that.

'-3,963!'

A huge bubble of damage text popped up over Han Ying Xue's head while her {Punishment Ray} casting bar was interrupted again. She quickly started casting her healing spells, {Mending Prayers}, {Holy Shield} and {Brilliant Light}.

Fire Fountain took a step forwards, used {Counter Magic} followed by {Fireball}!

{Counter Magic}: Immediately interrupts target's casting bar and renders target unable to cast related skills for the next 3 seconds. Cast time: Instant. Cool down time: 30 seconds. Distance: 30 meters.

Han Ying Xue's casting bar for {Brilliant Light} was interrupted. At the same time, all her spells in the Holy tree started cooling down for 3 seconds. Thus, the only spell she had left was {Putrefying Poison} as it was under Dark Abyss tree.

Now only did Han Ying Xue realize that Fire Fountain had already dispelled her {Putrefying Poison} long ago. Since she could not cast any other spells other than {Putrefying Poison}, she went ahead and used it, out of a lack of choices rather than a calculated maneuver.

Two seconds later, Fire Fountain cast {Fireball} and hit Han Ying Xue.

'Damage absorb!'

'3,602!'

{Holy Shield} absorbed {Fireball}'s damage while {Mending Prayers} regenerated Han Ying Xue's HP to full!

Fire Fountain was astounded, his powerful and long cool down skill {Heart of Flame} was used, {Counter Magic} and {Ice Barrier} which were vital skills have also been used were currently cooling down, yet Han Ying Xue's HP was full! On his end, he had 7,000HP left, and the DoT was already taking effect!

A dignified professional player was actually being forced against the ropes by a healer who had no clue about player combat!

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Chapter 227: One Sword Stroke

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Wei Yan Er was rolling on the floor, laughing. She was completely out of breath, and she leaned against Sun Xin Yu1, clutching her stomach as she continued laughing silently, her mouth twitching wordlessly.

On the contrary, the people of Imperial Sky had turned as white as snow. Some of them looked as though they were about to get sick!

Fire Fountain was regarded as being second only to One Sword Stroke, a masterful player whose looks could be compared to the pretty boy, Blooming Ichor! Having brought in by One Sword Stroke to become an irreplaceable asset of the party, not only was he superb in managing his damage output, he shone best in PK battles!

But for such a superb player to die by the hands of of an idiotic healer who does nothing but heal herself while leaving all the work to {Putrefying Poison}? Anyone's pride would be ripped to shreds!

Fire Fountain was still struggling to stay alive, constantly moving around the area while manipulating the 30 meter range rule, but Han Ying Xue had already suffered once and had learned from it. Currently all she did was to refresh the {Putrefying Poison} DoT on her opponent while keeping her HP constantly refilled!

'-721!'

As the effect of the [Magician's Brooch] had already faded, Han Ying Xue reverted to her regular magic damage. The damage of {Putrefying Poison} which kicked in every three seconds had been reduced to 700 points, but 15 seconds was enough to inflict an approximate damage of 3600 on Fire Fountain.

{Putrefying Poison} kicked in once again. It didn't require any targeting at all on the part of the caster. Even if Fire Fountain ducked and roll, activated a 30 meter, or a 31 meter long ranged spell, nothing prevented the Poison from kicking in.

30 seconds later, the {Putrefying Poison} was triggered for one last time, causing a damage of '-752!', Fire Fountain's final humiliating struggle to keep his last drop health points came to an end, and he crumpled, dead on the ground. A pair of Gray-Silver gloves fell to the ground which was instantly picked up by a member of the Imperial Sky. Meanwhile, Han Ying Xue activated a {Brilliant Light}, her health back at its full state!

"Wow, cousin sister is mighty!" Wei Yan Er was still guffawing like a drunken old man.

Fatty Han and the rest were also showering her with endless praise. A healer killing anyone in battle was unheard of, and with full HP too, to add on to that.

Soul Striker of the Imperial Sky quickly revived Fire Fountain. Their party members were looking sickly, avoiding eye contact. Fire Fountain looked like one of the spectre-type monsters. He was dying for another round with Han Ying Xue. It had really been too embarrassing and depressing for him to lose like that!

Fire Fountain is a person who can accept failures, but to lose to Han Ying Xue in such manner, he wanted to bang his head against the wall just thinking of it!

But he also knew that even if he was given another chance, he would still be poisoned to death, it was inevitable as the difference in magic damage between the two of them was just too much. Furthermore, the opponent was a terrific healer, with loads of HP restoring skills! He could not help himself but to suspect, that even if both of them had the same magic damage output, would he stand a chance after all?

The second round had ended, but the two players from the first round were still playing hide and seek with each other!

One Sword Stroke stepped forward atop his Battle Wolf, and he said, "Brother Zhan Yu, let's get started!"

Zhang Yang laughed evenly, riding on his Whitey and said, "Bring it on, let us have a good fight!"

The fellow members of the Imperial Sky had their uttermost faith in One Sword Stroke at securing his win of this battle at the beginning, but after seeing Zhang Yang producing a mount of his own, they figured that the opposition also possessed a Battle Mount. It diminished their hopes, but One Sword Stroke was still their leader!

"It isn't capturing a Gray-Silver battle mount, Zhan Yu's Battle Mount must be a Green-Copper grade, or even a Black-Steel! Can't you see how lethargic that white bear is? It's such a lazy animal!" the gang tried to comfort themselves, coming up with whatever reason they could come up with.

The two opponents locked eyes, sizing each other up. Nobody moved.

In a short period of 3 seconds, Zhang Yang initiated the first attack of the battle. Whitey let loose a loud roar, charging straight towards One Sword Stroke.

20 meters, 15 meters, 10 meters!

{Wild Charge}!

Whitey was charging like a stream of meteorite, rushing at the Battle Wolf at blinding speed!

In an instant, the body of the Battle Wolf suddenly flew into action. A miniature sonic boom formed as exploded off the ground at high speed, moving 3 meters to the side, evading the charge attack of Whitey!

"Impressive!" Zhang Yang was praising his opponent from the bottom of his heart. Although both of them did not have any knowledge on the attributes of their opposition's Battle Mounts, they were able to obtain certain extent of understanding by comparing the Battle Mounts to the monsters they were apparently derived from. Therefore, One Sword Stroke had deduced that Whitey possessed some sort of {Charge} skill, and had used 'Agility of the Wild' to counter it.

[Agility of the Wild: Increases movement speed by 50%, last for 5 seconds. Cool down time: 30 seconds. Consume: 20 focus points.

This was a universal skill, possessed by any wolf type, leopard type, tiger type and lion type monsters!

Both of them wielded their battle axes and charged forward!

Missed!

Missed!

Zhang Yang and One Sword Stroke were both currently mounted, so they avoided each other's attack at a greatly increased speed! Normal attacks were easily telegraphed and anticipated. Zhang Yang for instance must pull his axe back before he can swing it out in an attack!

Weapons with a longer time interval of attacking will be far slower and cumbersome, as their wielders needed to gain inertia by swinging such weapons back before they could be swung towards the enemy! On the contrary, lighter and shorter weapons such as daggers can stab a person in the blink of an eye, without any warning signs!

An attack from a heavy weapon was easy to read, with the movements basically being exaggerated! For Zhang Yang and One Sword Stroke, dodging enemy players' normal attacks were just a walk in the park!

Everything came down to their respective in-game skills now!

Skills had no signs that gave them away prior to activation, as long as all the criteria to activate a skill were ready, players could just activate them and use their skills. Speed, that was one of the many advantages of using a skill! Some Skills even have an auto targeting system, making it impossible for players to dodge even if they intended to!

{Blood Rage}!

Instantly boosted with 30 rage points, Zhang Yang now 36 rage points in total.

One Sword Stroke had realized that Zhang Yang was definitely a master level player, as evidenced by how he evaded his normal attack, so he too immediately activated his {Blood Rage}.

The two guild leaders were on a collision course once again.

{Block}! 30 Rage points.

{Block}! 30 Rage points.

'-0!'

'-0!'

With both of them activating {Block} at the same instant, they successfully defended themselves. The reflective damage from {Block} on the other hand, was like a gnat trying to penetrate their defenses! Both players made the decision not to activate {Shield Bash} as the damage would be negated nevertheless!

The sheer speed of their mounts had sent them on an impasse, and they broke off, heading in opposite directions!

What an opponent!

With both parties know that the other had {Block}, they used {Cripple Defense} which not only consumed a negligible amount of rage points and only had one second of cool down to trick their opponent into using {Block}.

Shoof, both of them circled around to face each other again, and similar to jousting knights, they charged at each other again.

{Blast Wave}!

{Blast Wave}!

The similarity of their tactics was eerie. Both of them had been sent into stunned states. As the moment passed however, Zhang Yang and One Sword Stroke both used {Warrior's Will} to recover, and they once again charged towards each other.

'-4600!' Zhang Yang 's {Destructive Smash}, critical attack!

'-2040!' Zhang Yang's {Horizontal Sweep}!

'-3508!' One Sword Stroke's {Destructive Smash}, critical attack!

'-0!' One Sword Stroke's {Force Strike}!

The differences between skills and equipment of the two had been revealed immediately!

Zhang Yang had a defense of 920 and a damage absorption attribute of 930, while One Sword Stroke only had a Gray-Silver shield, a defense of 600 and a damage absorption attribute of 600! Furthermore, Zhang Yang had {Eagle Eye} to ignore another 300 defense!

One Sword Stroke was shocked! The superiority of his opponent's equipment had exceeded his expectations!

Turning their respective mounts around once again, they charged!

The bear and the wolf passed by each other, but there was something different happening this time round! Zhang Yang suddenly made a sharp U-turn, demonstrating masterful control of the bear, following the tail of One Sword Stroke!

How, how did he do that?

Spectators form both sides were all stunned speechless! Just like real life, when a large object carrying a lot of momentum is stopped abruptly, it must then pause to regain its balance before heading in another direction. However, Zhang Yang had immediately turned a complete 180 degrees, as smoothly as a water stream, it was almost magical to look at!

Zhang Yang smiled vaguely, that was a specially designed skill -- {Backspin Step} -- just for Battle Mounts. Simply put, it does magical things to his inertia! This is a skill that all ground-based Battle Mounts must learn. However, in his past life, players would only discover skill half a year from now on, eventually becoming a staple part of Battle Mounted combat!

Tailing the ass of One Sword Stroke, Zhang Yang immediately pulled out his axe and started swinging, while Whitey could only use one of its thick and sturdy paws to slash at the rear of the Battle Wolf's leg.

One Sword Stroke was racked between shock and intrigue at that moment, as he could not comprehend how Zhang Yang had managed to stick to his ass in such a manner! Still, there was a time and place for everything. All he could do was to focus on shaking Zhang Yang off his ass! But no matter where he turned, where he feinted, he still could not get rid of Zhang Yang! During the entire time, his graciously offered back was being hacked at!

After being sliced and diced by Zhang Yang for over 20 seconds, the health points of One Sword Stroke had sharply decreased from 19,000 points to only 5000 points. Finally, his pet mount's {Agility of the Wild} had cooled down. He quickly activated it, and with a shoof, he finally managed to leap forward a great distance, getting away from Zhang Yang's tailgating!

{Wild Charge}!

10 meters away from One Sword Stroke, Whitey instantly caught up. Checkmate!

One Sword Stroke did not have eyes on the back of his head. Under normal circumstances, he could have evaded the charge. A sudden slam from a certain white bear stunned him for a full second.

{Shield Wall}!

{Berserker's Heal}!

'4992!'

One Sword Stroke was finally forced to activate his life-saving skills, but the negative effect of the {Destructive Smash} had reduced his healing effect by 75%!

The members of Imperial Sky still harbored hope that their great leader would still best his counterpart. But as the battle progressed, their faces were ashen white. It wasn't a duel. It was a predator toying with its prey. Their glorious leader, One Sword Stroke was being toyed around like a cat playing around with a half-dead rat!

... this Zhan Yu, was the real deal! Their guildmaster, who could easily out maneuver them to their deaths without taking a single hit was actually tasting his own medicine now? This was really astonishing!

Slice and dice!

Zhang Yang did not hold back at all. He finished off his prey in no time at all.

The Battle Wolf wailed for a final moment, before instantly turning into a stream of blood-colored light which streamed into One Sword Stroke's backpack. One Sword Stroke himself crumpled to the ground with an audible 'Pak', and he stayed dead on the ground. A pair of silver boots popped out of his corpse, quietly lying right beside its dead owner.

Well, it cannot be helped. Zhang Yang possessed the experience in terms of controls, tactics and awareness that exceeded even the existence of the game. He had several years of headstart. Furthermore, his equipment and skills also outclassed his opponent's! If he did not manage to take out his opponent cleanly and easily, he should be embarrassed of himself!

It was another loss!

The members of Imperial Sky were crestfallen. Now, they only could ask for Blooming Ichor to try bringing credit to them by scoring a point, in order to avoid scoring a 'duck egg' (zero) against three, losing in a manner they will not be able to accept!

However, even that was too much to ask for!

Suddenly!

The shadow of Blooming Ichor was suddenly revealed from his stealth state, but there was a bunch of stars spinning around above his head, it was a stun state after having been {Ambush}!

Sun Xin Yu had also revealed herself right after that, consecutively wielding her two daggers with murderous intent. She carved out petals of blood from Blooming Ichor's back. Right after {Ambush} ended, she activated {Kidney Shot} and continued to slice and dice without any signs of stopping!

The health bar plummeted straight down, and in just 10 seconds, Blooming Ichor lay dead!

At the same moment, Soul Striker had just resurrected One Sword Stroke! {Resurrection} had a 5 minute cool down, but they could only rely on other players with {Redemption} to rescue the others.

Three battles, three loses!

The members of the Imperial Sky were putting up their dull face, as they did not foresee the out come, not at all! To loose in such a bad manner!

One Sword Stroke indeed possessed the characteristic of a leader of one of the strongest parties in China Region, as they would have been in another future! He smiled brightly and said, "Brother Zhan Yu certainly lives up to his reputation! I have learned much, I hope to learn more in the future! Let's move!"

He tore a teleportation scroll up in that instant, without any signs of sloppiness. He indeed possessed the aura of an Ace!

As the remaining members of the Imperial Sky tore up their teleportation scrolls one after another, they gazed determinedly upon Lone Desert Smoke. They will have their rematch soon!

Shoof shoof shoof, as streams of white light passed through, members of the Imperial Sky were all teleported away from the scene.

"Cheh! So that's all they were capable of, daring to claim being the second strongest guild in China Region!" Fatty Han spoke in contempt.

"That's right! Absolutely right!" Wei Yan Er nodded to express her agreement, "Noob tank is really a bad boy, not letting me join a fight when there is one!"

Zhang Yang smiled and said, "Fine, fine, you will be the first to go up front when there is a fight in the future!" Wei Yan Er was instantly appeased.

Looking at the spot where One Sword Stroke disappeared, Zhang Yang could not help but admire the man, as he thought to himself, One Sword Stroke had remained composed throughout the entire course of events, never revealing his thoughts or intentions. Although he had suffered a disastrous loss, but he had not been shaken by it, he was indeed a strong opponent!

What advantage Zhang Yang had over other players were his additional five years of experience and understanding towards the game. But with time set in motion, that difference will only grow shorter and shorter! Other players will quickly improve with time, while he was highly limited in his room for learning!

Sun Xin Yu walked back up to him, giving Zhang Yang a scornful stare.

Zhang Yang smiled a little and said, "No one is bothering us now, let's clean out the remaining monsters and get ready to battle the boss!"

The gang was divided into two teams. With Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight leading each of the teams respectively, they quickly rounded up the monsters from both sides, clearing out every single monster on the third floor of the altar. It was fortunate that the size of the altar was just like the size of a football2. In just half an hour, the two teams had already met up with each other halfway through their routes. All that remained were the boss and 10 elite grade worshippers around it!

"Starlight, you shall be in charge of kiting those 10 elite monsters, will that be a problem for you?" Zhang Yang asked Endless Starlight.

"No problemo!" Endless Starlight answered, pounding his chest.

"Alright, when the battle begins, I will kite the boss, Starlight will lead the monsters away. After you guys take them out, come help me! Show him your worst!"

1. We are aware that Sun Xin Yu was supposed to be engaged in her own battle against Blooming Ichor at that point, but it is what it says. We simply translated it.

2. Size of a football: Author is trying to emphasize the size is very small, in a hyperbolic way.

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Chapter 228: Lord of Flames Arcel

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"Charge!"

Zhang Yang let Endless Starlight go ahead, allowing him to acquire the initial aggro of all monsters, giving him the opportunity to kite the elites away.

"Blasphemer, die!" The 10 Flame Acolytes stood up one after another, pointing their magic staff straight at Endless Starlight and began the chanting of their Fire Ball spells. Meanwhile, the boss swung his gigantic hammer at Endless Starlight.

{Sacred Protection}!

Endless Starlight quickly activated his 'Invincible' skill and rushed straight at the monsters, activating his {Devotion}. He began swinging his Battle Hammer around to begin kiting the monsters.

Zhang Yang went straight up with a {Wild Charge} to engage with the boss. By activating his {Blood Rage}, he instantly gained 30 points of rage points. With one normal slash, followed by a {Cripple Defense} and a {Horizontal Sweep}, he swiftly built up the aggro value.

Boom!

A stream of fire wave spewed out from the body of the Lord of Flames Arcel. It spread outwards in all directions, and everyone was hit with a damage of '-1000', the radius of the effective range was at least 40 meters!

'Ding! Lord of Flames Arcel has unleashed {Flame Gush}! '

Zhang Yang quickly reacted and kited the boss to one side of the area, distancing themselves away from the gang.

Boom!

Another stream of fire wave gushed out from the body of the Lord of Flames Arcel. Because Zhang Yang had already moved a certain distance away from the gang, this time around, only Fatty Han, Daffodil Daydream and Perfumed Water were inflicted by the damage effect.

"Perfumed Water, come heal me, Witchy Snow, go heal Starlight!" Zhang Yang commanded. The focus fire of Fire Balls from 10 elite Flame Acolytes was really terrifying. Only a super healer like Han Ying Xue would be able to prevent the tank from turning into a crisp!

Sun Xin Yu and the others immediately activated their AOE attacks, trying their best to clear out all the Acolytes in the shortest possible period of time, with the intention to let Han Ying Xue get back to Zhang Yang as soon as possible.

Other than Snow Seeker and Perfumed Water, others had already completed their respective level 50 profession quests with perfect scores, they were all equipped with Yellow-Gold weapons, while the tanks had been rewarded with Yellow-Gold shields. Therefore, the whole party dealt a ridiculous amount of damage, and within a minute, they had managed to take out all 10 elite Acolytes without a hitch!

The boss was slowly met with an increasing number of attackers as the party switched their sights on him.

"Damnit, the fire resistance of this boss is really high!" Daffodil Daydream attacked with {Explosive Flame} , a powerful attack that should be dealing 6000 damage, but on this target, that value had been halved, almost making her weep.

"You've had your fun with that gigantic tree in the afternoon, be thankful that you're not strengthening this firey creature, feeding it with more fire!"

However, in place of Daffodil Daydream's penalized attacks, Snow Seeker was dealing double her usual damage! Being an ice type caster, she was a hazard to beings of fire. Her damage already overtook Zhang Yang's damage, even while being supplemented by his Battle Mount!

"#!#—*!" as the Lord of Flames Arcel spoke in a language that the human tongue could never replicate. Time and again, his gigantic hammer slammed down on Zhang Yang. The melee damage of the boss was not particularly high, only in the 7000 range. However, his attacks were accompanied by licks of flames, every attack taking away a total of 8000 from Zhang Yang's health points.

{Flame Gush} was being unleashed every single second, burning everyone up considerably. Other than Zhang Yang, every other player was constantly being struck with 1000 damage every second. Even though Han Ying Xue and Perfumed Water were super healers, they had their limits.

"Starlight, Daffodil! Remove yourselves from the AoE area of the boss, let's make it easier for our healers!" Zhang Yang improvised.

Although Endless Starlight and Daffodil Daydream were not willing to do so, they understood their shortcomings. A tank would be unable to dish out much damage anyway, while a Pyromancer wasn't much use against a Fire element boss.

With two players leaving the battle, the situation was momentarily stabilized as the healing efforts of the two ladies evened out with the damage.

After Zhang Yang had 'combined' with his mount, his health bar had gone straight up to 30,000. As a result, every attack of the boss only would slice away a quarter of his total health points! The more hitpoints a tank possessed, the larger the margin for error was for the healers!

Compared to the Demonic Treant King, the Lord of Flames Arcel was obviously much more easier to handle. All that they needed was a tank who can perpetually survive his onslaught, with enough healing.

80%, 60%, 40%... The health points of the boss slowly went down.

Fatty Han was so thankful for the simplicity of the battle, so he spoke up, "Finally, a boss that's not batshit insane!" He could still remember clearly how the Demonic Treant King had flattened his prostate figure back then in the lake!

"Yeah!" Likewise, as they were reminded about the Treant boss, everyone nodded to express their agreement.

Actually this boss was a pushover only due to the fact that these players had top-of-the-range equipment! If the tank was to wear slightly inferior equipment, the boss could have inflicted over 14,000 damage a hit, killing a player instantly!

30%, 20%, 10%!

It purely depended on the equipment when engaging this a boss that relied on sheer damage values such as Lord of Flames Arcel. As long as the equipment reaches the standard requirement, it would be easy battling this boss. On the contrary, the party will be annihilated repetitively if their equipment did not meet the standard requirement. There were no additional tactics required for this battle.

In less than 6 minutes, the large body mass of the boss crumbled to the ground, its flames extinguished. All that remained of it was a single, crimson sphere the size of a human head, which continued to burn weakly.

Zhang Yang swiftly jumped down from his mount to pick up that object. The moment he touched it, he was inflicted with 1000 damage consecutively.

[Molten Core of the Flame King] (Quest item)

Item description: Hot! Hot! Hot!

He quickly shoved the object into his backpack, and with this, the three main quest items were now gathered!

"Noob tank, hurry up, where are my boots!" Wei Yan Er ran up to, egging Zhang Yang to look at the loots.

As Zhang Yang looked through and picked up the loots, picking the Yellow-Gold equipment pieces first, before distributing them out to the others according to their professions.

Unfortunately, the last piece of his set -- [Furious Boots] -- did not appear.

Other than the four equipment set pieces, there were two more non set equipment pieces, a melee-damage output necklace and a tanker's ring.

Zhang Yang took the [Ring of Raging Blaze]. Unfortunately, he must wait until he was level 60 before he can equip it.

After distributing all items, everyone transported themselves back to White Jade City. As it was already 12 a.m, they should have been sleeping by now!

They did not communicate throughout the night, and the next day in the morning after his training, Zhang Yang logged onto the game, bringing along the [Ring of Raging Blaze] to identify it.

[Ring of Raging Blaze]

Vitality: 50

Strength: 50

Equip: Absorbs 58 damage points when attacked.

Level required: 60

Before even he attempted to leave the shop, Wei Yan Er and Han YingXue had logged into the game as well, holding him down to ask him for another favor in identifying the equipment.

Furthermore, Hundred Shots and Daffodil Daydream had also settled the sponsorship deal with Silky Soft Holdings: Every month, Silky Soft Holdings would provide Lone Desert Smoke with an amount of 1,000,000. Taking down a First Clear title for dungeons would reward each of the party member 100,000 dollars, clearing a Speed Challenge once earns every member of the party 10,000 dollars respectively.

Up to this point, Lone Desert Smoke had began transitioning into a semi-profession guild. Zhang Yang had reorganized the setting of the guild's membership levels, there are now three main levels in total.

The first level, comprised of the Guildmaster, the vice guildmaster and a few game-masters, they would all be paid with fixed salaries of 20,000.

The second level was made up of the core players of the guild, which were further divided into another five levels of classification, with their respective monthly salary ranging from 1000-10000 according to their level of classification. In addition, for players who had full-time jobs could still earn commissions ranging from 1000-3000 as long as they can complete a number of collection quests every month. The more you work for the guild, the more you earn from it.

The third level was made up of regular members of the guild. The players in this level of classification will not receive any salary or payment.

But as what Zhang Yang mentioned earlier on, as long as any guild members contribute or perform outstandingly in dungeons, they would all have the opportunity to be promoted as one of the core players of the guild! Also, the core players cannot be slacking off. They could be demoted if their performance is ever lacking!

With solid cash rewards to instigate them, the members of the guild will surely be motivated to do their parts for the guild! In other semi-profession guilds, the sponsorship money would be divided among the game-masters, with only a small amount of money left for the lower ranked players. On the other hand, the benefits Zhang Yang provided to the game-masters weren't that high, most of the sponsorship money was being spent on the core players of the guild.

Such an unconventional system gained the favor of his core members, as they did not feel like they were being used as tools by the game-masters of the guild!

Over the time, the reputation of the Lone Desert Smoke had shot up by a lot. With such generous treatment given to their guild members, it drew quite a number of professional players to ally themselves into the guild! It was just a game anyway, if joining Lone Desert Smoke could earn them a stable salary, why not do it for fun then?

Zhang Yang had his merchandize shop to support him, by dividing the profit earned from selling equipment among party members, each of them earned tens of thousands of dollars on monthly basis. They barely needed to use the sponsorship money for themselves. Furthermore, after securing new territories in future, the teleportation gates under their control would grant them fortune beyond any comprehension!

Having an additional five years of experience into the game, Zhang Yang had a vast headstart ahead of everyone else! By just investing a small part of his fortune, he had the loyalty of the entire guild secured! After capturing a territory, it was imperative for a guild to be of one heart, fueled by its members, united in a common goal. Such unity would lead a guild to greatness!

As the number of level 50 players were getting more and more day by day, the sales for the [Solid Iron Bar] had reached another level. The same could be said for the sales of his [Fire Resistance Potion]s. The revenue of the Little Merchandize Shop had reached a total of 1,700,000 gold pieces by yesterday!

Zhang Yang smiled contentedly as he used the [City Order] to teleport to Tukulo Fortress. He summoned Whitey and headed straight for the Flatlands of the Passing to complete Princess Serena's quest.

It was really inconvenient, not having a mount that could fly! He had to circle around mountains and hills, look for different routes to cross rivers…. More than two hours later, Zhang Yang had finally arrived at the Twilight Hills.

Two days had passed, all the monsters that were spread out everywhere over the hills and dales had all respawned. As Zhang Yang was in a hurry to turn in the quest, he simply rode through them all without stopping. Whenever the number of the monsters became too much for him to handle, he would activate his {Shadow of the Void} to escape battles.

After sitting down and having some snacks to replenish his health back to full state, Zhang Yang continued to charge forward like an unstoppable train. After waiting for his {Shadow of the Void} to cool down, he charged through and used it again whenever he deemed fit.

Having used up all his evasive skills, and being surrounded by monsters, he could only obediently kill the monsters before him to open up a path forward.

Still, the {Shadow of the Void} had helped Zhang Yang save about an hour and a half. Half an hour later, Zhang Yang arrived at the deepest coffin chamber of the tomb cave.

The miserable necromancer had not respawned yet, and the beautiful sleeping princess was still lying quietly on the platform made of stone, waiting for the Dragon Slayer to come to the rescue.

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Chapter 229: Reclaiming the throne!

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After giving the princess a few gentle slaps, there was no response. No longer surprised, Zhang Yang let out a sigh, it looked like he had to deliver a 'True Love's Kiss' once again.

"Uh -- "

Serena uttered a low moan, as the mirage of hers once again projected out in the air, standing right before Zhang Yang. She looked at Zhang Yang and asked, "Warrior, why haven't you departed yet?"

Woman, you underestimated me far too much!

Zhang Yang took out the [Molten Core of the Flame King] and the other two quest items, placing them on the floor one after another and said, "My princess, I have already collected everything as you requested!"

Serena looked at all three of the quest items. Her face broke into a surprised smile. "Warrior, your bravery and your strength far exceeded my expectations! Thank you. With these ingredients, I can finally create a Soul Vessel!"

'Ding! You have completed the quest: Soul Vessel, acquired 200,000 experience points! Time to completion: 2 days, quest evaluation: Perfect!'

'Ding! You have acquired the reward: Furious Boots!'

Zhang Yang immediately looked into his backpack, all he could see was a pair of boots that shone gold, lying there quietly in one corner of his backpack!

[Furious Boots] (Yellow-Gold, armor)

Defense: 40

Vitality: 144

Strength: 58

Equip: Absorbs 116 damage when attacked.

Required Profession: Guardian

Required Level: 60

The set is complete! Zhang Yang was greatly pleased.

"Warrior, I shall being casting a spell to create the vessel, please protect me from every form of interruption!" Serena spoke rather sternly.

Zhang Yang nodded and said, "My princess, you have nothing to worry about!"

The mirage of Serena opened up both of her hands and began chanting an agonizingly convoluted incantation. Shoof shoof shoof, streams of colorful lights were emitted from both of her hands. All three quest items began floating up one by one, circling around the mirage of Serena. They begin picking up speed, and soon they were a blur around her.

A very long magic progress bar appeared right on top of Serena's head. Zhang Yang estimated that it would probably take about 2 minutes for her to finish her incantation.

Although Serena had mentioned the possibility of being interrupted, the surroundings remained quiet and peaceful. There was not even a sign of any monsters spawning. Zhang Yang stood idly, as he got bored watching Serena trying to complete her spell.

Shoof! A bright flash of light beamed out, and gradually dimmed down. Serena had finally completed her creation. A small box the size of a palm appeared on the ground. The box was crimson in colour, composed of a material unlike any other. The surface of the box was lined with countless runes.

The mirage of Serena revealed her exhaustion, as she asked weakly, "Warrior, the vessel for the souls has been completed! The time is now, please bring it into the palace and slay the undead impostor, and activate the Soul Vessel to acquire the other half of my soul! Then, you must bring the Soul Vessel back to me immediately. With a completed soul, I will have enough power to remove myself from the seal!"

'Ding! Princess Serena has given you a new quest: Retrieve the soul, do you accept? This quest will be linked to the main story's quest. Complete the main story quest to obtain a luxurious reward!'

Accept!

Still, running into the palace to kill the princess?

Zhang Yang could not help but feel a chill down his spine, knowing that the palace was filled with guards and magic casters crawling all over the place, all level 80 and above! For a little warrior like him who had yet to even achieve level 60, it would be like sending a goat into the lion's dent! Let's not talk about assassinating the princess first, getting through the first door of the palace was already a huge problem!

"My princess, the palace is strictly guarded, I am afraid that I cannot even get close to that imposter!" Zhang Yang believed that the game developers would not create an unbeatable quest, so he decided to pry.

Serena nodded her head and said, "Very good, you did not just recklessly charge into the palace without a plan! Bring this jade pendant along with you, it is a token of my authority, you should be able to enter the palace without facing any obstacles!" She pointed at a jade pendant that was very exquisitely crafted located around her waist, and said, "Also, remember this incantation. Use it to awaken the other half of my soul and aid you in slaying the undead!"

"An Tu Lama Ke Ni Da..." Serena began to read aloud an incantation that involved a lot of tongue twisters.

Zhang Yang repeatedly practiced the incantation aloud many times. It took a while before he got it memorized.

"Brave warrior, please act swiftly, the further we delay, the more damage that undead being would cause to the kingdom!" Right after Serena finished her sentence, her mirage flickered before shattering.

Zhang Yang took the jade pendant from the waist of Serena before tearing a teleportation scroll up.

He now had the symbol of her authority, he had an incantation up his sleeve, but who the heck would know how strong the imposter was! If she stalled him long enough, the guards would definitely come to tear him up into shreds!

He decided to gather more men, ready to charge in with a force of a thunderbolt to blow the imposter into pieces, before using the City Order of the Tukulo Fortress to shake off his pursuers and leisurely head straight for the Flatlands of the Passing to turn in the quest!

After setting his mind onto it, Zhang Yang immediately contacted all players with the best equipment in the entire guild, commanding them to travel back to the city using teleportation scrolls and gather at the entrance of the palace.

"Noob tank, are we going to revolt with sticks in arms and slay the fatuous and self-indulgent ruler and then flee to Liangshan County1?" Wei Yan Er was shouting in excitement.

"... Little girl, you are changing your tastes again, watching {{Water Margin}} now I see!"

"I've long herad about the infamous Zhang Yu, spoken widely in hotels. But I see now that the person does not match the rumour, what a shame!" Wei Yan Er giggled, but she suddenly changed her gaze upon Zhang Yang and said, "Noob tank, you still haven't told us yet, are we going to slay the Emperor himself?"

Zhang Yang shook his head and said, "Not the Emperor himself, but the princess herself!"

"Oh dear me, you really don't have a soft spot for fair ladies!" Han Ying Xue gave a straight sigh.

"That's right, instead of killing the princess, why not nab her and make her your mistress of the fortress!"

Daffodil Daydream was much more serious and got down to business -- "Zhan Yu, the guards in the palace are all level 80 elites, they are so much more powerful than Yellow-Gold bosses that we faced recently. It will already be extremely difficult for us to break into the palace, let alone assassinate the princess!"

Zhang Yang smiled abd said, "Yes, under normal circumstances, it is impossible to break into the palace! Still, these are rather abnormal circumstances! This is actually a main quest that I received, we have a special item that would allow us to enter the palace and go straight for the princess!"

Just a while later, everyone in the party had finally gathered at the entrance of the palace.

"Let's go!" with Zhang Yang leading them on the front, the party moved forward.

"Hold it right there! This is a restricted area in the palace, civilians are forbidden from entering, remove yourselves at once!" The eight guards by the entrance of the palace instantly drew their blades, blazing with murderous aura. These guards were all level 80 elite grade units. Any one of them would wipe the floor with the entire party.

Zhang Yang took out the jade pendant that he had acquired from Serena and flashed it before him, speaking in an arrogant manner, "I am the leader of Princess Serena's spy squad, instructed by the princess herself to have an audience with her. You dare to deny me entry? Have you gotten tired of carrying your heads upon your shoulders?"

The face expressions of all eight guards suddenly changed, and they hastily stuttered, "Sir, please forgive us, we did not know of your identity, we apologize for any offense made! However, we have responsibilities as well, we must inspect the authenticity of the jade pendant!"

Zhang Yang handed the jade pendant over to the guards. After the eight guards had inspected it thoroughly, they respectfully returned it back to Zhang Yang and said, "Sir, we meant no offense!"

Wei Yan Er laughed out loud and said, "Noob tank, you really are good at acting!"

Zhang Yang waved his hand and said, "Move out!"

"Sir --" suddenly, one of the guards stood up front and stopped them, and said, "I am afraid that entering the palace with this many people is not appropriate!"

"Hmph! This is the direct order of the princess, you dare to defy the authority of the princess herself?" Zhang Yang tried his best at earning an Oscar.

"We dare not! We dare not!" the eight guards bent over while shaking their heads.

Zhang Yang then simply said, "One of you come forth, quickly bring us to the princess, now!"

"Yes sir! Yes!" the eight guards stared at each other, before one of them stepped out and led the gang forward.

"We actually managed to get everyone in?" Fatty Han whispered joyfully.

The gang followed the NPC moving forward, and as they were moving forward, they encountered many layers of security, but as long as Zhang Yang shoved Serena's jade pendant in their faces, they proceeded without any obstacle. After just a short while, the party had arrived at the deepest spot of the palace, at the Royal Chamber of Star and Luna.

This was the bedroom of Princess Serena, named after her nickname -- 'The Star and Lunar Princess'!

"You can return to your post now!" Zhang Yang waved his hand at the guard that led them here.

"Yes, sir!" that NPC immediately turned around and left.

The Royal Chamber of Star and Luna was styled in European inspired architecture, with 24 huge pillars supporting the whole large palace. Looking from afar, they could see a lady in a fancy palace dress, sitting on a throne. The chamber was empty, with only a dozen guards guarding the entrance of the chamber.

"Who's there, who dares trespass the Royal Chamber of Star and Luna to disturb the princess, kneel on all fours now!" A general wearing a golden armor pulled out his sword and stopped Zhang Yang and the others by their way forward, standing in an imposing, powerful stance.

[Captain of the Guards, Rhodus Ryan] (Yellow-Gold leader, Humanoid Creature)

Level: 80

HP: ???

Defense: ???

Zhang Yang slammed the jade pendant which was given by Serena right onto the face of the captain and snarled angrily, "I am the princess's secret guard, who are you to be threatening me?"

The poor NPC was immediately shaken from head to toe. After measuring the pendant with his own eyes intently, he quickly returned the jade pendant back to Zhang Yang. He had his head bowed down, with both of his hands holding the pendant up to Zhang Yang, saying, "I was not aware of your identity, please forgive me!"

"You and your men can remove yourselves away from here now, what I have to say are only for her ears!" Zhang Yang continued his ploy.

"Sir, I am afraid that does not go…according to procedures?" Rhodus Ryan had doubt on his face.

Zhang Yang immediately raged on and said, "You dare to defy the order of the princess?"

Rhodus Ryan turn his head towards Princess Serena who was sitting quietly in the sacred chamber, he revealed a fearful expression on his face. Ever since the princess had come back from her expedition three years ago, she had become a totally different person, known for striking her guards dead on a whim!

He instantly bent over and said, "As you wish, Sir!"

With a wave of his hand, Rhodus Ryan and his subordinates immediately retreated

And now, the only thing left was the final blow!

TL Notes:

1. Liangshan County (Chinese: 梁山县; pinyin: Liángshān Xiàn) is a county in Shandong province, China, where many individuals who revolted against their rulers and stayed hidden there for their own safety. The area is the setting for the classic novel the {{Water Margin}}.

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Chapter 230: The Princess and the Impostor

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"Little Yang, you really know how to act it out!" Fatty Han laughed out loudly.

Zhang Yang was beside himself in nervous excitement, smiling himself silly. With a wave of his hand, he led the gang into the sacred chamber, facing the undead imposter of Princess Serena.

[Serena, Princess of the White Jade Kingdom] (Holy, Humanoid creature)

Level: ???

HP: ???

Defense: ???

Phew! The gang took a deep breath in, a Holy grade boss, what is this madness? The highest grade of bosses in {{God's Miracle}} is the Celestial grade, the grade right below the Celestial grade is the Ascended grade, and the grade right below the Ascended grade is the Holy grade!

Following the Holy Grade in descending order were the Ethereal grade, Mythical grade, and Violet-Platinum grade before reaching the Yellow-Gold grade! This was not just a difference of one or two levels, it was actually a tens-of-thousands-kilometers-long kind of difference!

The boss could probably wipe out their entire party without lifting a finger!

So how do they kill it?

"Who goes there? Who dares to trespass into my sacred chamber?" Serena was sitting high on her throne, one hand holding on her sweet cheek, staring at them scornfully with her Phoenix eyes, "Guards! Guards --"

Zhang Yang stepped out, laughing boldly, as his gang lined up behind him. He said, "Undead scum, your play is over! Just show yourself already!"

With a slight change in her facial expression, Serena stood up abruptly from her throne, emitting such an oppressive aura that the gang had to take a few steps back. This was a special attribute; a 'pressurizing oppression' that only high graded bosses would possess.

"Puny creatures, you can actually see my true form?"

"An Tu Lama Ke Ni Da..." Zhang Yang began chanting the incantation that had been taught to him by Serena.

Boom!

An invisible shock wave gushed emanated from "Serena's" chest. Gong gong gong! Like pieces of tiles on that were giving way as they tried to contain an explosion from within, several pieces of….stuff, shot out of her body, clouding the air with dust!

"What, no -- what is this!" Serena's composure had broken for once, "I already sealed you, how can you be awake! No, go back in! Go back!"

The gang stared, bedazzled, as seven colors of lights protruded out of her body, forming a shape of a human, which slowly detached itself from the main body. A head, a neck, two hands, a waist, two legs! Instantly, a shadowy figure that looked exactly like Serena floated between Serena and party in mid-air.

At that moment, the name that had labeled Princess Serena's head begun to change.

[Witch Spectre Angelina] (Yellow-Gold leader, Undead)

Level: 68

HP: 20,000,000

Defense: 1200

The shadow figure that looked exactly the same as Serena had a name right above her head, 'Shadow of Serena's Soul'. She pointed at Angelina furiously, and spoke with royal authority, "How dare you, to actually imprison my soul! The prestige of royalty will not be desecrated by you!"

[Shadow of Serena's Soul] (Holy leader, Summon)

Level: ???

HP: ???

Defense: ???

Obviously, the impostor had been classified as Holy, because she had Serena's Soul in her. The moment the soul was separated form her, Witch Spectre Angelina had been forced back into her original form!

"Hmph!" Witch Spectre Angelina remained confident. A greenish flame began to flash within both of her eyes, as she softly spoke, "My dear princess, please do not forget that your body is still sealed, even if you managed to resist my control at the moment, how long can you last? One minute…? 10 minutes?!"

"Long enough to slay you!" Shadow of Serena's Soul turned to Zhang Yang and said, "My brave warriors, aid me in slaying this evil undead!"

Zhang Yang immediately wielded his Dragon Tooth Battle Axe and raised it up, bellowing, "Comrades, let's go!"

As Shadow of Serena's Soul lifted her right hand up, a huge long sword made of light congealed out of the void. She held the handle of the sword and swung towards the Witch Spectre Angelina. The sword of light tore through the air, making a series of sonic booms.

'-200,000!'

The attack of the Shadow of Serena's Soul was brutal as f*ck! One hit had already reached a damage of 200,000, it was simply horrifying!

The Witch Spectre Angelina roared with rage and said, "B*tch, I may not be able to kill you because I need your soul, but when I imprison you all over again, I shall torment your soul beyond your wildest imaginations!"

Shoof!

Zhang Yang had already {Charged} into the battle and had began hacking at Witch Spectre Angelina.

The boss had been set not to kill the Shadow of Serena's Soul, therefore, her aggro meter did take Shadow of Serena's Soul into account. With a single chop from his axe, her aggro had already switched to Zhang Yang. Producing a magical staff out of nowhere, the boss pointed the blackened end point of the staff at Zhang Yang. The skull that was on top of the staff was flashed a ghostly green, and an arrow of dark light shot out at him!

'-7021!'

Zhang Yang was immediately struck with a large amount of damage which appeared on top of his head!

It was fortunate for him that there were many healers on the party, one by one they started using all sorts of healing skills on Zhang Yang, swiftly healing him back to his full health. The offensive players took action, swarming the boss wildly.

For a level 68 Yellow-Gold boss, without talking about the boss's already insanely high defense and magic resistance, her level that was at least 10 levels higher than everyone around there had already penalized their damage. Initially they could have delivered an approximate damage of 6000, but now, it would be extremely good if they could achieve 2000!

It was fortunate that they had a super power damager. Without much effort, Serena's soul had already sliced off a sum of approximately 5,000,000 health points!

"Serena, you useless b*tch, I will definitely torment your soul until you no longer wish to exist!"

Witch Spectre Angelina could only receive the massive damage, unable to retaliate. She frequently screamed for the guards right outside the chamber so that they would come in to protect her and remove these so called 'traitors'!

"Speed kill! If the guards return, we are doomed!" Zhang Yang shouted loudly. Although they all knew the Witch Spectre Angelina was an imposter, the guards had no clue about that.

They would only see their princess being assaulted, and would chop her assailants to pieces before any words could be exchanged!

"{Holy Light}, {Cross Soul Slash}!" Shadow of Serena's Soul suddenly let out a noble cry. Using the light sword on her hands, she drew a cross-shaped light wave and sent it towards Angelina to slice her up.

'-2,050,000!'

'-1,890,000!'

"Son of the --! This damage value, it's just so freaking awesome!" Fatty Han clenched his butt cheeks.

Zhang Yang smiled and said, "Only NPC in battles can inflict such ridiculously high damage. Rest assured, players will never have to face such bosses!"

Even though the Cross Soul Slash had heavily damaged the boss, the burden had proven too much for Serena's Soul. Her shadowy form was flickering continuously, it looked like she would shatter into pieces any time soon.

"{Shroud of the Undead}!" Angelina's health points had almost dropped lower than 50%. She opened her mouth wider than a human's biology would permit, and spat out a thick black mist towards her front, covering a conical area in front of her. As the black mist spread through the place, everyone was inflicted with varying amounts of damage. It did not make sense at first, but by observing the health points of the players, it was possible to know that the black mist caused all players to lose 1% of their respective health points.

At the same time, the health of the boss was also increasing gradually, 1% at a time!

10 seconds later, the black mist had finally vanished, and the health of the Witch Spectre Angelina had recovered from 51% back to 61%! Fortunately, the boss was still affected {Destructive Smash}. If it wasn't for that, she would have almost recovered her health back to full!

"{Holy Light}, {Cross Soul Slash}!" Shadow of Serena's Soul was attacking zealously, repeatedly using her powerful skills!

'-2,040,000!'

'-2,160,000!'

With every activation of the Cross Soul Slash, the Shadow of Serena's Soul would grow more faded -- it was unclear exactly how long more she could hold on!

"Speed kill! Speed kill!" Zhang Yang had kept an eye on the situation beyond the wall of the chamber all along, realizing that there was already a large number of guards hurrying over. They were responding to the blasted Spectre's distress calls!

"Muahaha!", the Witch Spectre Angelina gave out a bone-chilling laughter, "Such poor souls, I am an undead, protected by the army of the kingdom, while you -- you valiant fools will be executed one by one for trying to save your kingdom! Oh, the irony! No worries, after all of you are dead, I shall resurrect all of your corpses and make you all my most loyal subordinates, to serve the great Undead God!"

"Undead, if going all out would take off 20 years of my lifespan, I will still do it to eliminate you!" Shadow of Serena's Soul spoke in her noble, ethereal voice. With both hands, she raised her sword up above her head.

"This is..." Angelina revealed an expression full of fear, as she spoke in disbelief, "Sword of Life and Death! Impossible! Only the Ascended grade could wield such powerful techniques! You actually -- No! No!"

As she cringed back in fear, Shadow of Serena's Soul directed her sword at the spectre, creating at least thousands of her sword's shadows!

'-500,000!'

'-470,000!'

'-520,000!'

Each shadow of the sword would take away approximately 500,000 of Angelina's health points, leaving the boss's health point value to decrease steeply!

"Shroud of the Undead!" Witch Spectre Angelina shrieked frantically, spewing out another black mist. However, a mere recovery of 1% health points every second could not make up with the damages inflicted by the divine [Sword of Life and Death]!

30%, 20%, 10%, 0%!

It looked as if the Witch Spectre Angelina was almost instantly slayed by the Shadow of Serena's Soul. Even before {Shroud of the Undead} could fully take effect, she had already let out a cry and collapsed, lying in her own pool of blood.

"Little Yang, I felt that we were like side characters, they didn't even need us afterall!" Fatty Han shrugged.

"Who said that? At least we get some awesome equipment!" Zhang Yang smiled and pointed at the loots dropped by the boss.

Boom!

The Shadow of Serena's Soul suddenly shattered into pieces and gushed into the corpse of the Witch Spectre Angelina.

Zhang Yang quickly took out the Soul Vessel and followed the instructions that were taught by Serena, he began the incantation while facing towards the dead body of Angelina. A stream of seven-colour light went straight into the Soul Vessel!

'Ding! You have successfully retrieved Princess Serena's other half of her soul, the mission will commence into the next process!'

'Ding! As the king and the soldiers have not known about the impostor, you are now a traitor of White Jade Kingdom!'

'Ding! Your position as the owner of Tukulo Fortress has been forfeited by the king himself, all related rights and skills are revoked!'

'Ding! Your reputation in the White Jade Kingdom has descended to 'Hatred', all NPCs will see you as an enemy! You will not be able to buy any merchandize, repair any equipment, rent any flying Griffins from any NPC!'

'Ding! Your land property in the White Jade City has been temporary confiscated!'

'Ding! You cannot log off the game before your quest is completed, or else the quest will be judged as an automatic failure!'

'Ding! You must return with the Soul Vessel to Princess Serena in the Tomb of the Shadow Ash, or else, the quest will fail! If you are killed by a player, the Soul Vessel will be dropped, any players who acquire the Soul Vessel can take it to rescue Princess Serena and win a large number of rewards! Once the other player has completed the quest, you shall be labeled as a castaway and remain banished permanently from White Jade Kingdom!"

The continuous system alerts were presented in the form of text and voice. Zhang Yang blinked in a daze, his face slowly turning white!

Sun of the beach! The penalty for failing the quest can be so serious? This was indeed a god damned main quest, providing a large number of rewards, but the penalty could practically frighten players to death! Losing his City Order was fine, it's just a minor inconvenience concerning the City Teleportation system. But Little Merchandize Shop was the root of his income!

"You treacherous thief! Prepare to die!" The army of NPCs flocked into the chamber like a hive of bees, and the first person in front of them was the Captain of the Guards, Rhodus Ryan of the Royal Chamber of Star and Luna.

The NPCs had referred to him in the singular term. As he was the one who triggered the quest, they ignored his party members. After all, this was not reality, or else every single one of the involved players will be seen together as accomplices in a plot!

Being relieved of his title as the owner of the Tukulo Fortress, Zhang Yang had also lost the ability to teleport. His whole plan had been ruined! It was fortunate that he had already predicted those NPCs arriving, Zhang Yang had already passed the title of leader to Han Ying Xue, allowing her to distribute the loots.

"Witchy Snow, divide the loots as quickly as possible, and ignore the NPCs, they only want me! Time for me to go!" Zhang Yang literally spat his words at the party and began to make his exit.

"You traitor! I'll kill you!" Rhodus Ryan shouted with a loud voice, waving the blade in his hands at Zhang Yang.

Even if Zhang Yang was the best-equipped tank in the entire game at the moment, he wouldn't stand a chance against a level 80 Yellow-Gold boss. Using {Charge} to create distance from the boss, he immediately activated {Shadow of the Void} and began running like crazy.

His movement speed increased by 100%. 20 seconds was enough for Zhang Yang to remove himself from the sacred chamber, finding a safe corner to rest. He quickly took out the [Lease of the Gold-Eared Bear King] and summoned Whitey.

Two seconds after, Whitey materialized. Zhang Yang quickly mounted it, shouting out a command, "Whitey, let's cross five passes, slay six generals, and ride alone for thousands of miles1!

He rode on Whitey heading towards the exterior of the palace.

At that instant, word of the princess' assassination had to reached those NPCs, even though he saw their names in red. After they heard the shouting of the other guards pursuing from behind, only did they start giving chase.

Of course, the game had scripted the events in such manner. If that wasn't the case, if the main gate of the palace shuts, he will make himself an easy target. This mission would become impossible to be completed!

Running about wildly all along the way, Zhang Yang did not even dare look back, he went straight out of White Jade City.

For him to turn over the quest, Zhang Yang had to go through a number of maps, before he could leave Tukula Fortress and enter the Frozen Sky wasteland, then passing through the Necrotic Wastelands, and finally into the Flatlands of the Passing, find Princess Serena, turn in the quest and prove his innocence!

'Server Announcement: The princess of White Jade Caste was assassinated! The perpetrator is Player Zhan Yu! Under the command of the King, the player that kills Zhan Yu must present the killer's head to obtain these rewards: 3 Level ups, one Yellow-Gold Weapon, and the position of the Great General of the National Army! Position: XXXXXX, YYYYYY. An announcement will be made every 10 minutes!'

Pak!

A piece of wanted poster appeared in the backpack of every player, with a picture of Zhang Yang's face on it!

1. Cross five passes slaying six generals, riding alone for thousands of miles : To overcome all sorts of difficulties along the way, referenced from the novel {{Romance of Three Kingdoms}}, the story of Guan Yu.

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Chapter 231: The Traitor of the Kingdom

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Zhang Yang was on the verge of spewing out a series of vulgarities!

Does this game want him to die that badly? It was enough, having to deal with every NPC that once considered him a friend, but now, actual, human players had been sent after him?

Level 3, a Yellow-Gold weapon, and the title of 'The Grant General- Protector of the Kingdom'! With such rewards, even Zhang Yang thought about killing himself and turning his own head over for the reward!

All players of the game would want to have higher levels, better equipment than everyone else. That was a given. However, the title was priceless! Levels and equipment can still be achieved by other means, but the title of 'The Grant General - Protector of the Kingdom' was one of a kind!

The Protector of the Kingdom, Grant General, it was truly impressive!

All the players in White Jade City had been riled up into a riot, as large guilds began formulating plans. The players in other seven main cities had also teleported over one after another, shouting slogans like 'Kill Zhan Yu, become Grant General'. In no time at all, entire armies had been formed in White Jade City.

"Hahaha." Wei Yan Er laughed gleefully at his expense. "Noob tank, you have become a boss now, giving players who slay you experience points, loots and also a title! Why don't you let me chop off your dog head then? Better not to let one's own fertile water flow into the fields of others!"

"F*ck off, little girl, where's your loyalty?" Zhang Yang was speeding away on his bear as he cursed under his breath repeatedly.

"I would rather betray everyone, rather than have me betrayed by everyone else" Wei Yan Er spoke in the tone of an ancient conspirator.

"You've been watching {{Romance of the Three Kingdom}} these days?"

"How's your mother? How's your whole family?" Fatty Han immediately recalled a few lines, laughing at himself, before everyone else quickly shushed him up.

"Guildmaster, do you need us guild members to escort you?"

Zhang Yang gave it some thought and said, "No need for that! It can be assumed that 80% of the players in China region are trying to pursue me. Even if the whole guild gets involved, there's no way we can stand up to them with numbers! Furthermore, we'll only end up as a bigger target, I'll use speed to handle this!"

"But the system will announce your coordinate once in every 10 minutes!"

"Not a problem, 10 minutes is a lifetime. They won't get a clear fix on my location!"

Zhang Yang continued riding Whitey into the forest. His high level reduced the chances of monsters being attracted to him.

"Guildmaster Zhan Yu, your quest definitely shook the heavens and the earth. China is all riled up thanks to you now! There's even a thread opened solely about your situation on the official forum website. They are guessing whether you can evade all the NPCs and players and succeed at the end of the day!"

Snow Seeker connected her voice communication device with Zhang Yang, a smile on her face.

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "My luck has been always good!"

"Yeap, you definitely need that now!" Snow Seeker expressed her agreement. Needless to say, even the alliance of Lone Desert Smoke, Crimson Red and Lost Paradise had no chance of holding the entire region back. It would be just like a mantis trying to stop a chariot1!

After thinking about it for a while, she asked, "So you cannot stay offline to go into hiding?"

Zhang Yang shook his head and said, "The quest will fail the moment I log off!"

Snow Seeker gave a gentle smile and said, "My members will not lay a head on you. However, if you ever feel that failure becomes likely, don't let the others earn the spoils, just prepare your neck for me when it comes to that!"

Not long after, Crimson Fire had also messaged Zhang Yang, almost echoing Snow Seeker's words.

What the f*ck, everyone was treating Zhang Yang as the meat of the Tang Seng2!

10 minutes after, the system had updated his coordinates.

"Hey Zhang Yang, you are really good at getting yourself deep into trouble, I think you really woke the whole of China up!" Li Rujiao could not stop laughing, "Bad boys are always more attractive, I really feel like giving you one bite! Hmm, it's getting so wet, I better change my panties!"

F*ck! Femme Fatale!

Most perturbed, he quickly cut off the communication with Li Rujiao.

An hour after, Zhang Yang had arrived at the map of the level 30 Wild Boar Ridge. Because he constantly changed direction every time his coordinates were announced by the system, nobody had found him yet!

However, it was clear to the more experienced players that he intended to leave the fortress!

The moment he step his foot out from the embouchure of the Wild Boar Ridge, Zhang Yang had finally met with his first ambush!

The Dominators!

By the embouchure, about 30 players were in a formation that faced the passageway. Humbly Gentleman himself stood right in front of them all. When he was Zhang Yang riding out atop his bear mount, he could not help himself but laughed loudly. "Zhan Yu, no matter how clever you are, you shall never escape the grip of my five fingers! There are only three ways to get out from the Wild Boar Ridge, and I have arranged people to set up ambushes on every route! But, I never expected my luck to be so good, for you to run into MY group!"

Most players would be chasing after him based on the announcements of his coordinates. However, more ingenious players would be able to intercept his routes, setting up ambushes in advance! Currently, the way to his front was blocked, and the back... Zhang Yang dreaded even thinking about it, there would be tens of thousands, or even millions coming after him!

No time to waste! Must open up a bloody path to escape!

Zhang Yang scanned the members of the Dominators. He could not help but smile gently. Gulping down a [Fire Resistance Potion, he rode out towards his enemy on his mount and laughed, "Hypocrite, do you know what is a 'Pi Fu Han Da Shu (a tiny insect, trying to shake a mighty tree3)'?"

"Pi Fu Han Da Shu (Sweaty Skinned Uncle)?" Humbly Gentleman had limited vocabulary, instantly interpreting the wrong idea. Blood rushed up his face, and he raged, "What's wrong with me having sweaty skin, it's not like it's some chronic disease!"

"I'm just saying, don't be so overconfident of yourself!" Zhang Yang had already began his assault on The Dominators that were surrounding him. They struck back.

'-2,270!'

'-2,750!'

'-147!'

The attacks of the range professions reached Zhang Yang first. A string of damage values popped up above his head. He currently had a defense of 920 points, 930 points of damage absorption. Melee professions who were equipped with Gray-Silver equipment could only inflict 150 points of damage at most. If the weapon in hand had a high attack speed, it might even end up doing no damage whatsoever!

Only the casters could hit him significantly harder. However, as he had drank a bottle of Fire Resistance Potion, the Pyromancers were also unable to land solid blows!

Such was the balance of the game!

Tank professions subdue Melee professions, Melee professions subdue the Spellcaster professions, while the Spellcaster professions subdue the Tank professions. Of course, that was the case between similarly equipped players of similar skills. For the current Zhang Yang, not only did he have vastly superior equipment, along with a powerful battle mount that granted him a vast amount of hit points. He was basically a boss monster compared to the 30 players.

The damagers of The Dominators were a total of 5 Cryomancers, 7 Pyromancers, 6 hunters, 9 thieves and 4 berserkers. The remaining 6 were healers. Without a tank -- during a PK, no player would be stupid enough to go up against a tank and accomplish nothing.

In a hurry to gather manpower, Humbly Gentleman was only able to scoop up about a hundred of his best players, but as they were required to block three different routes, each route was blocked with about 30 players.

Zhang Yang had already summoned his Servant: Clear Lotus and Shadow of Merlinda as he charged forward. As he sustained {Concussion Shot} from the hunters which reduced in his movement speed, he immediately activated {Substitute}. Whitey regained speed once again, finally colliding into the crowd of players.

{Horizontal Sweep}!

Numbers up to 3,300 appeared on top of the attacked players at the same time, some of them struck with the horrifying critical damage of 6,700! But, as these members were elites of The Dominators, they were decently equipped. Their health points surpassed 7,000, with some of the better ones having 8,000 health points. Zhang Yang could not instant-kill anyone, not even with his powerful critical strikes of {Horizontal Sweep}.

{Blast Wave}!

Another field of numbers -- 490 -- appeared on top of the players in range!

"What the hell! How did he manage to attack on his mount?"

"No, something's not right! He can't have more than 20,000 HP! Our attacks had already inflicted more than 10,000 damage points, but still has more than half of his HP!"

"Sun of the beach, he must be hacking!"

Seeing Zhang Yang atop of Whitey, killing players in all four directions, the group of 30 were in disarray. Zhang Yang had hidden his personal character information from public. Although others could not see the specific amount of his health points, they could still predict an approximate value of his health points by looking at the fractional variations in his health bar, between the health lost and the health remaining!

The healers of The Dominators began to heal their comrades up, but Zhang Yang threw another {Horizontal Sweep} and a {Blast Wave} at the players around him. The healers were panicking, as they had no idea on which players to heal first, they could only focus their healing on the players with the least health points for a start!

Other than {Holy Shield}, {Regeneration}, and {Mending Prayers} which instantly activated, other healing spells required a short cast time!

Gold-Eared Bear King was currently at level 46. Surrounded by players who were around level 50 without much difference between their levels, his Yellow-Gold pet mount struck with deadly force, his damage fully unleashed. Under the control of Zhang Yang, a regular attack was thrown at a spellcaster who only had 800 health points left. The poor spellcaster went straight down onto the ground, lying quietly.

Whitey had once again targeted another half0dead thief who was left with only 900 health points. With a wave of its paw, a damage of '-1824' was inflicted upon the thief, leaving the player flat on the ground as well!

The duration of invincibility triggered from {Substitute} had passed. Zhang Yang began to see his health points dropping gradually. Well, at least there won't be a shortage of his rage points. His battle axe rose and fell again and again. {Destructive Smash}, {Force Strike}, and even {Cripple Defense} were all flung out like confetti, as he channeled all his attacks at the players who were left with the least health points, managing to kill off several players!

{Kidney Shot}, {Frost Ring}, all sorts of skills, one after another, hammered on him in return.

{Warrior's Will}!

Zhang Yang activated {Shield Wall}. With his vastly increased defense, high damage immunity, high health points, and high damage, he charged straight into the formation of The Dominators, hacking away along with Whitey!

Zhang Yang had managed to instantly-kill several spellcasters at the beginning, but these elites were not idiots. They scattered across the place, giving no opportunity for Zhang Yang to take them out in bunches. Thoom thoom thoom! In less than 10 seconds, the health points of Zhang Yang that started off close 30,000 had been reduced to the very bottom.

{Berserker's Heal}!

'14300!'

As he had been hit with {Destructive Smash}, Zhang Yang had only managed to recover half of his health, but it was already enough for him to kill another one or two players!

Humbly Gentleman was enraged to the point of no return, he could not even imagine that the 30 elite players he had gathered would be bested by Zhang Yang so easily! It was simply too humiliating! As his {Fire Ball} formed within his palms, he snarled, "Zhan Yu, I do not know whether you have accepted a quest or not, and if you did I will definitely not allow you to complete it! On the contrary, I will be using your head to acquire a title that would shake the world!"

Zhang Yang laughed loudly, charging towards Humbly Gentleman atop his mount, shouting, "Then I shall slay you first, hypocrite!"

1. A mantis trying to stop a chariot: an ambitious attempt without a sense of one's pitiable limitations.

2. Tang Seng: a central character in the novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en. The character is based on the historical Buddhist monk Xuanzang.

3. A tiny insect, trying to shake a mighty tree: Ridiculously overrating one's own strength.

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Chapter 232: The Chase

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{Rearm}!

{Warrior's Will}!

{Berserker's Heal}!

Zhang Yang removed all the debuffs that he had been bombarded with and recovered his full health.

With unrelenting force and will, Zhang Yang shoved his way towards Humbly Gentleman and slashed at him with extreme prejudice!

'Absorb!'

'-6,320!' {Destructive Smash}, Critical.

Humbly Gentleman had a maximum HP of 8,200. The first strike had been completely absorbed by a {Holy Shield} and was torn through like hot butter after deducting a mere 1,300 damage from {Destructive Smash}.

Not so invincible now huh?

'-1,623!'

'-1,892!'

Zhang Yang's axe and Whitey's claw struck him from both sides. Humbly Gentleman dropped dead. To add further insult, Whitey walked over Humbly Gentleman dead body. Talk about wild tea-bagging1. He bent over and reached out his hand to pick up magic staff that was on the ground. He laughed triumphantly and kept it in his inventory.

Just as he was about to relax, he was hammered with attacks from all sides.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Many status effect skills blasted from all direction. Zhang Yang's HP was really dropping now!

Swiftly, Zhang Yang got off his mount and entered {Shadow of the Void}, disappearing from sight and fleeing as fast as he could. He found a huge boulder and hid himself behind it. After healing himself with a [Bandage, he summoned Whitey and furthered his distance from the danger zone.

His disappearance had left members of The Dominators truly flummoxed.

"Where did he go?"

"How could he disappear!? Bloody hell, he ain't no Thief. Was that a bloody Stealth technique?"

"What the father-f*cking-f*ck! This was exactly the same thing that happened during the Expedition war! Someone came and stole all of our loots, vanishing just like a thief!"

"Now that you mentioned it, yeah! D*amn!"

"Report his *ss! He must be using some kind of hacking software!"

"Shut up!" said Humbly Gentleman, his voice dripping with acid. He sounded like he was speaking in some foreign language, his voice thick with fury. "Get you lazy bums moving and revive me now! How can the whole lot of you let a single man escape, and still have the face to talk c*ck!"

He was clearly angry. How could he not be? With more than 30 members surrounding one man, not only did Zhang Yang manage to escape, he had even killed eight of them! If word got out, the guild will face massive humiliation!

"No one is allowed to speak of this! Or else, I'll kick you out of the guild!" Humbly Gentleman threatened the guild.

Everyone present nodded their head obediently. Their own reputations were at stake as well.

"Hey hypocrite, I took the liberty to record the fight just now. When this is over, I'll post the recording on the forum and watch the fireworks! You're done for! Hahahaha!" Zhang Yang posted on the local channel.

Knowing that, Humbly Gentleman could do nothing.

Even after teasing the hypocrite, Zhang Yang was still as tense as ever. The tension he felt lingered on like an itch he could not reach. After all, there were many more smart players in the game. Even Humbly Gentleman, who he did not consider particularly intelligent, had managed to slow Zhang Yang, even if it ended as a critical failure. If that's the case, perhaps there could be more people will be blocking his path ahead! He had to make preparations if he wanted to get to his destination.

Humbly Gentleman failure was linked directly to a single flaw, he had underestimated Zhang Yang capabilities. He believed that he could kill Zhang Yang with only 30 players, but instead, he was killed instead. So far, Zhang Yang had only faced one guild. It was very likely that other guilds lay in wait ahead.

30 members would very likely be enough to kill Zhang Yang. Because The Dominators had been lacking in Spellcasters, and if they weren't, Zhang Yang would have been forced to use {Shadow of the Void} immediately!

He would not be so lucky the next time!

Zhang Yang did not dared to use the trails along the mountain since they were widely known and highly limited. He decided to make his way through the forest where others would need to bring a whole army to secure the parameter. Even that might not be enough to cover all the exits.

After settling on a plan, Zhang Yang stuck to his route and was met with a few obstacles. Along the way, he encountered a few small groups. In small numbers, Zhang Yang could easily hack his way through without much problem. He had to take detours and alternate routes when he saw larger groups ahead. It took him five hours to reach Tukula Fortress!

To enter any map beyond Level 50, all must past through the fortress. It is the only way!

However, Zhang Yang did not blatantly walk to the fortress. Instead, he hid in the nearby forest and slowly considered all possibilities. If he was the pursuer instead of the pursuant, he would intercept his quarry's path! In this case, the best waiting spot would be Tukula Fortress! Since there was only one way in and out, it was only inevitable that both parties would meet!

Now, the real question is, how does he infiltrate the place?

Zhang Yang frowned intensely. He had to make his decision in the next three minutes because the system will be announcing his position! According to his informant, there were already hundreds of thousands of hunting parties on his tail!

"Hey dummy, you must be at a loss now that you can't think of a way to get through the fortress now!" Han Ying Xue's voice suddenly rang in the party channel. Along the way, Zhang Yang had explained his situation to everyone that he could not teleport directly to the fortress nor take the "plane".

Zhang Yang scoffed. "What's your genius plan then, B*tchy Snow?

"Hmph! To cause mass confusion!" Han Ying Xue smirked. "I've already informed everyone in the guild to head over to the fortress! I'll get everyone to rush into the fortress! You will take advantage of the situation and join the fray! With ten thousand players rushing into the tiny gate, I don't believe any pair of eyes could zero in on you out of the crowd!"

Zhang Yang scratched his chin and nodded. "Ok! In three minutes, I want you to gather anyone at the entrance of the fortress! Order everyone to ride on their [Storm and Gale Direwolves]!"

"Understood!"

Zhang Yang unsummoned the Gold-Eared Bear King and summoned the [Storm and Gale Direwolf]! It was a highly common mount that anyone in a level Two guild would be able to access. It would serve a good decoy. After two minutes, Zhang Yang rushed out of the forest to join the raging crowd. In just one minute, Zhang Yang had arrived at the entrance.

UAAAAAAAHHH!

A sea of players quickly swarmed up to surround him. Carrying the tag, "Lone Desert Smoke" above their heads, the players rode on their Direwolves to join Zhang Yang!

'Server Announcement: The princess of White Jade Caste was assassinated! The perpetrator is Player Zhan Yu! Under the command of the King, the player that kill Zhan Yu must present the killer's head to obtained the reward: Gained 3 Level, one Yellow-Gold Weapon, and the position of the Great General of the National Army! Position: XXXXXX, YYYYYY. An announcement will be made every 10 minutes!'

"Zhan Yu has arrived!"

"We're right at the coordinates!"

"F*ck! There're so many players down there! Which one is Zhan Yu!?"

"Sh*t! Hey! Spread out, stupid!"

Countless players had already gathered up at the fortress, but when the entire sea of Lone Desert Smoke members came swarming in, everyone was thrown into confusion.

Zhang Yang switched to the guild channel and announced, "Fellow members! Let's roll! We are heading outside the fortress!"

More than 13,000 players simultaneously changed their direction and headed towards the outskirts of the fortress.

"Kill them all! Kill them all!"

Other players roared and started launching their attacks from above. Since they could not determine which one was Zhan Yu, they started peppering the mass of players with various AoE skills! Tukula Fortress was not a main city; therefore, PK was perfectly legal!

"Do no return fire! Maintain the formation and charge forward! Those who participate today will be awarded with 50 guild contribution points and 50 gold coins as compensation!" said Zhang Yang in the guild channel.

"Protect the guild master!"

"Move your *ss! Protect the guild master! Cover him! Keep him in the middle!"

"F*ck this sh*t! Even if I die 100 times, I'll make sure I deliver the guild master to the fortress!"

"What a bunch of f*ckers!"

All sort of spells covered the sky, from red fire balls to blue frost arrows, to actual physical arrows were raining down from above! Many players from Lone Desert Smoke had already been defeated. In fact, many of them had dropped their own equipment! However, the attacks did not dampen their fighting spirit! None of them stopped nor withdrew! The entire army had a single goal in mind -- to get their guild master into the fortress at all costs!

"Block their path!" screamed the attackers from inside the fortress. Some of them even summon their mounts to Lone Desert Smoke from entering the fortress!

Wham! Bam! Clang! Bang!

Mounts collided with mounts and players were being dismounted to the left and right! In 'God' Miracle' if a collision occurred while mounted, the system will realistically throw a player off their mount of they were not properly holding on to it, canceling the mount.

Even though there were around 13,000 players from Lone Desert Smoke, the number of players in the fortress had exceeded a staggering number of 3,000,000! With that ridiculous number forming an impregnable defensive line, their formation was so long that it stretched out from the inside of the fortress to the outside of it! Together, they were an invincible force!

"Kill them all! Zhan Yu must be hiding in the center of the crowd!"

10,000! 7,000!, 3,000!

The number of surviving players were dropping like flies! Equipment dropped everywhere like the littering left after a marathon! But, no one was willing to surrender! None of them! Not even a single member backed down from the rampage! Everyone only tightened up even more to protect their guild master as they rushed towards the fortress together! It was like an epic game of tower defense, with them being the monsters!

Someone even spiritedly said, "Everyday, the guild master was the one holding up his shield to protect us. At least, right now, we can do something in return and protect you instead!"

"For Lone Desert Smoke!"

"For the glory of the guild!"

"We are the best!"

2,000!

1,000!

800!

With only around 300 players left, the party had managed to rush through the exit of the fortress!

"Guild master! Please get going! We will remain here to protect you!"

"Guild master! Go now! We will be your shields!"

One by one, members of the guild screamed as they stopped following Zhan Yu and turned around to face the incoming players.

Zhang Yang nodded solemnly. He kicked his spurs and dashed forwards like a gush of wind.

From a far distance, Zhang Yang glanced back to see the remaining 300 players forming a neat formation, like a human blockade, blocking the players that were coming out of the fortress!

The army collided with the blockade. Clashes of sword and blasts of arcane magic could be heard. Members of Lone Desert Smoke were dropping like domino pieces, defiant till the end! Everyone had steeled their will and blades, determined to protect the formation!

Sun Xin Yu has fallen…Han Ying Xue has fallen…Hundred Shots has fallen…Endless Starlight has fallen…Daffodil Daydream has fallen…even Fatty Han has fallen…

"Uwa…Noob tank! I really want to cry!" said Wei Yan Er. In the beginning of the clash, she had swung her battle axe, ravaging through the mass and killing three players. However, she was quickly killed and even dropped a Gray-Silver Boots!

Zhang Yang sucked in a deep breath and gripped the leash tightly. "We will have our revenge."

With the countless number of pursuing players, no matter how strong Lone Desert Smoke was, numbers simply overwhelmed them! The ones who took the most advantage of the situation were the guilds that opposed Lone Desert Smoke the most, that is, The Dominators, Pride and Axe Gang.

If he himself had fallen by himself, so be it. But now all his other members had been involved, suffering losses as a result of protecting him! The other players had already crossed the line when they had publicly announced that they would kill all players from Lone Desert Smoke and take their dropped equipment! They had publicly marked everyone from Lone Desert Smoke! How could Zhang Yang still remain calm!

F*ck this sh*t! Just wait! When I get back, I'll kill all of you bastards and chase you out of White Jade Castle! I swear this, on my entire gaming career!

Seething with anger, Zhang Yang could only move forward, towards the Flatlands of the Passing.

He could now walk this path thanks to the sacrifice of his members! This toll was paid with the lives of all 13,242 members of Lone Desert Smoke! He had to complete the quest! He had to finish what he started! He had to, or else, the members would have died in vain!

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Chapter 233: Mission Accomplished!

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Thanks to the system announcing Zhang Yang position every 10 minutes, Zhang Yang had no chance of covering his trail! His pursuers followed him all the way through the Frozen Sky Wasteland, over the Land of Deteriorating Bones, and into the Flatlands of the Passing. After dying repeatedly for two to three times, they were unable to revive any further and hovered in their soul states nearby their bodies until it was safe to revive again.

Are they still behind me? Oh shit. They're still coming! Bloody persistent bastards!

Zhang Yang arrived at the Twilight Hills and turned around to observe his situation. All he saw was a swarm of players charging through the flatlands like a massive stampede!

"Hmph! I'll let the monsters here give you a sweet kiss!" Zhang Yang swapped his mount back to the [Gold-Eared Bear King] and quietly wait for the players to approach. Until the nearest players had entered the 100 meter range, Zhang Yang ran into the Tomb of the Shadow Ash.

CRAKAKALAKALAKALA!

A large group of Skeletal Warriors chased after Zhang Yang as the rushed past them, sending chills of fear down spines! Some players managed to break through.

Since the tomb was considered to be an indoor instance, Zhang Yang's mount was canceled the moment he stepped into the tomb. Once he got on his feet, Zhang Yang activated {Charge} and clashed to the closest monster. Without turning around, he quickly rushed deeper into the tomb.

The entrance of the tomb was not that big. It was big for one person, at most allowing four to five players to enter at one time. However, when a large number of monsters were clustered at the entrance, the pursuing players had no choice but to kill the monsters in order to get inside. Luckily, the monster were only normal tiered, not a huge problem for most players. It did not take long for the players to kill all the monsters outside the entrance.

However, now that they had solved the monster problem, the next annoying obstacle was the size of the entrance. It was a bottle-neck, they entered the tomb slowly like tiny drainage hole in a huge bath tub! How long would it take for all of the water to be drained?

Zhang Yang did not waste his time, as he ran into the tomb like the wind, activating all his skill to survive. {Shield Wall}, {Berserker's Heal}, {Merlinda's Shadow}, {Substitute}, and several other skills were used to make sure that the monsters do not kill him. Just as his HP was about to reach the bottom, he activated {Shadow of the Void} and ran in the alternate dimension, giving him a luxurious 20 seconds to move ahead unobstructed. When {Shadow of the Void} expired, Zhang Yang hides himself in a corner and ate recovery snacks. The chasing monsters that Zhang Yang had attracted had ran back to their original positions, like rumbling tides of waves!

His pursuers were not as lucky. The monsters were slaughtering them, leaving piles of dead players in their wake. The monsters inside the tomb were all elites, with attack power that were similar to players wearing a full set of Gray-Silver equipment. The sheer amount of monsters quickly picked off stragglers who strayed too far from formation.

Eventually, both sides had clogged up, fighting in the narrow pathway. Only five from each side could fight at a time, while the others waited behind, waving their weapons in anger. It was extremely slow progress.

Zhang Yang used {Rearm} and resetted all the skills' cool down. He then proceeded to run deeper into the tomb, using {Shadow of the Void} again to find a safe space to recover when he was close to death. Thanks to the geographical landscape of the tomb, the players behind were stuck for a good duration! Zhang Yang rested for only a brief second and drew in a deep, long breath. He got up, steeled himself, and began to run again.

Sadly, he was just one man. No matter how strong he was as an individual player, he could not outpace a group of players who were working together. When the players had cleared all the monsters that were blocking their path, they quickly caught up. More and more players entered the tomb, all searching every nick and corner of the tomb for Zhang Yang.

Even when Zhang Yang had been using the {Shadow of the Void} every 10 minutes, the distance between him and the chasing players behind was dwindling! In less than 30 minutes, Zhang Yang could already hear the sound of rumbling footsteps behind him!

"Keep going! Just a little bit more!" One of the players cried. Even though Zhang Yang had hidden his profile, they could easily recognize Zhang Yang since they were given the Wanted Notice that had a screen shot of his face on it! Furthermore, it did not matter if he hid his face, the chasing players would not stop at killing a thousand innocent players in order to get to him. They had even killed every player with hidden profiles just for good measure!

"Zhan Yu! Your life ends here! Let's see how long you can keep running!" seethed Floating Fire Ball through his teeth. Ever since his level had over taken by Fatty Han and the gang, Floating Fire Ball had a deep hatred for everyone from Lone Desert Smoke. Not long after, Zhang Yang had even KSed a boss and even killed him! He had to spend another large sum of gold coins to buy the equipment that had been dropped at his death! It's safe to say that his hatred was to deep it was down to his bones! Now that the opportunity had arisen, he had ordered the entire guild of Pride to guard the dead bodies of Lone Desert Smoke members, and take every equipment that the fallen members of Lone Desert Smoke. At the same time, he had dispatched a large group to chase after Zhang Yang, led by a team himself.

The rewards for killing Zhang Yang was three level ups!

To gain one level after Level 50 is as hard as it would take at least seven days! If he could kill Zhang Yang, he could save at least 21 days of time grinding! To him, a player who valued level values above all else, Floating Fire Ball was completely keen on beheading Zhang Yang to obtain the reward!

As he ran, Zhang Yang turned his head around and spat, "Come and get me!"

He picked up his pace and ran deeper down the tomb. His fearless provocation was due to the fact that {Rearm} was almost ready to be used again!

Naturally, Floating Fire Ball went after him without second thought. Following closely behind him were many other members from Pride. Zhang Yang had a long trail of monsters that followed him closely. More than one of them were within striking range, slashing at his exposed back. The more monsters he kited, the lesser HP he would have left. Luckily, the monsters chasing after Zhang Yang effectively blocked Pride's line of sight, preventing Zhang Yang from receiving any status effect skills from Floating Fire Ball and his merry gang.

3…2…1…Ready!

{Rearm}!

{Shadow of the Void}!

Zhang Yang entered the alternate dimension, disappearing from the physical realm and shaking off the aggro from all the chasing monsters. Losing their targets, at least 40 monsters turned around and started attacking the players from Pride!

"What the actual f*ck!?" Floating Fire Ball screamed. Just as victory was within grasp, Zhang Yang had slipped between his fingers!

Zhang Yang laughed as he ran away and entered the chamber of Princess Serene!

He quickly took out the Soul Container, placed it on Serena's chest, took a step back, and waited for the original princess to rise.

A brilliant rainbow light blasted out of the container and illuminated the entire room. A shadowy image of Princess Serena emerged out of the box and merged together with the physical body of Princess Serena.

SHOOOM!

Another bright light blasted out, as blinding as the sun itself, forced Zhang Yang to shield his eyes. The shadow and the body began to merge as the soul seeped into the body.

"I am the rightful princess of White Jade Castle! I am Serene-Andelor-Martain-Holy-Sanchest!" Serene opened her eyes and started hovering above stone table. Radiant light of heroic royalty pulsated around her out as she levitated across the table. She thrust out her right arm and a large sword materialized in her palm. Divine incarnate itself, the embodiment of power and grandeur stood before him.

[Serena, Princess of the White Jade Castle] (Holy, Humanoid)

Level: ???

HP: ???

Defense: ???

The title on her head disappeared just as fast as it appeared. After that, the light faded, and Serena was just the same as Zhang Yang, with no name tag on their heads. He could not even select her to observe her properties. Zhang Yang thought to himself, perhaps she have not regained her own name. Everyone in the kingdom believed that the princess had already been killed by Zhang Yang! Perhaps, the only way for her to get her name back was to return to White Jade Castle and prove that she was the one and only princess!

'Ding! You have completed the quest: Return the Soul. Obtained 1,000,000 Experience Points!'

Was that it?

It be nice if the system would grant him a little more reward than just experience points, especially his shop!

"Warrior! You saved my life!" said Serena as she bowed a little. At least there was a gesture of appreciation. She was, at the very least, still a princess. "Now, follow me back to White Jade Castle! I will reward you properly for your efforts!"

'Ding! Serene has a quest for you: Return to White Jade Castle. Do you accept? This quest is linked to the main story quest. Complete the main story quest to obtain a luxurious reward!'

Now that the princess has shown her true self, it was time for Zhang Yang to clear his name! Zhang Yang accepted the quest hurriedly.

"Haha! Zhan Yu! It's dead end for you! I'd like to see how you escape this time!" Floating Fire Ball had managed to break through all odds and had arrived. His members had barricaded the doors to prevent Zhang Yang from escaping. Now that he had Zhang Yang caught like a fish out of water, he cracked a smile and laughed manically.

Level 3! Yellow-Gold equipment! Army General! Mine! All mine! Hahahaha!

He was so certain that victory was now is his hands!

Serena turned around to face Zhang Yang and frowned. "Who are these people?" quipped Serena as she pointed at Floating Fire Ball with her finger nonchalantly.

"A bunch of low-lives. They have been trying to kill me and nearly prevented me from delivering the soul container!" said Zhang Yang as he quickly framed all of Pride members. Even though Serena had her name completely hidden, but she was a Holy tiered boss. If any Pride member attacked her…

Serena was infuriated. If her soul container had not made it here, she would have still have been imprisoned, possibly locked away for good. This was downright betrayal!

"Kill them both!" cried Floating Fire Ball. He did not think that Serena was an NPC since she couldn't be identified. He had thought that she was just a player who had hidden her profile information. Without hesitation, he started attacking.

Pew pew! Boom boom! Shush shush!

In an instant, the light was blotted out by arrows, {Fireballs}, and {Frost Arrows}. They rained towards the Princess and Zhang Yang

"Such impudence!" Serena bellowed. She reached out her left arm and created a huge shield, protecting both Zhang Yang and her.

Pew pew pew!

All attacks landed on the shield, but they were completed absorbed without any trace.

"WTF? What is that skill!?"

"I remembered that a Priest's shield skill can only protect one person!"

"Even if that was a Priest skill, there's no way it could absorb that much damage!"

"Crap! Who the hell is this woman! She's even stronger than Zhan Yu!"

Voices started to be raised across the room.

"Those who raise their sword against the crown shall face death!" Serena was downright furious and swung the sword in her right hand. "Holy Light, Cross Soul Slash!"

Suush! Suush!

Two beams of light formed out of the sword, forming a cross that blasted through the players! The light sliced through them like lasers, splitting their bodies into pieces!

Instant kill!

Mass instant kill!

'Ding! You have committed a crime by attacking Princess Serena! You will be automatically teleported to the White Jade City Jail. You will be jailed for one day. After the prison sentence, you will be unable to perform any transaction with all NPCs in White Jade Castle for three days! All repairs, item purchase transaction fee will be increased by 200% for 10 days!'

Not only were they completed massacred by the Princess herself, they were not criminals. When the players that were killed by Princess Serena received the system notification, they flabbergasted, their jaws flapping wide open.

What on earth is happening? Didn't Zhang Yang kill Princess Serena? Wasn't that why they were tasked to kill Zhang Yang in the first place? Why did the system indicate that they had attacked Princess Serena? If that woman was the Princess Serena, then who was the "Princess" who was supposedly killed?

Confused, frustrated, the players who were teleported to the jail could not spread the news about "not touching the woman beside Zhan Yu!".

According to the game system, players inside the jail would not have access to any kind of communication channel. They could not even send private messages! Being jailed in this game was just like being jailed in real life! If a player logged out during a prison sentence, the duration of the sentencing will pause, only resuming when the said player relogs. Players could not just leave their character "resting" for a whole night to pass the time.

"Let's go!" said Princess Serena boldly. She took the lead without waiting for Zhang Yang to respond. This was how a brave and heroic princess should behave, just like Princess Leia! She would not let her subordinates open the path for her. She would do it herself!

"It's him! Zhan Yu!"

"Kill him!"

Just as Zhang Yang and the princess left the room, more players attacked them.

"Holy light, Cross Soul Slash!" Serena chanted two phrases, shooting two bright lights out, silencing the entire world!

The two of them proceeded on.

"There he is! Kill him!"

"Kill the f*cker!"

"Holy light, Cross Soul Slash!"

"Holy light, Cross Soul Slash!"

"Holy light…"

Walking casually behind Princess Serena, Zhang Yang could only hear nothing but her chanting and the screaming from the players. Anyone who dared to strike them was blasted to hell! Smiling contentedly, Zhang Yang was greatly pleased.

Hah! You guys were having fun trying to kill me huh! Have a taste of your own medicine!

Any players killed by Princess Serena would be automatically sent to the jail. As such, it had created where more and more clueless players charging ahead with equally clueless players following closely behind! All of them would eventually fall victim to Serena's blade.

Serena progressed through the tomb rather fast. Even though there were many players and monsters alike, she cleared them all in just a flash of lights. They were practically moving, completely unhindered! By the time they had made it out of the tomb, they had only spent half an hour!

"Holy light, Cross Soul Slash!"

The blast of light slashed more players in half. After such a long time, the number of player who had managed to squeeze into the tomb were only slightly more than 10,000. There were even more players gathered outside of the tomb since they were shoving each other, trying to get in. With a swing of her sword, she forcefully blasted open a large pathway for them to proceed.

The players behind saw what happened and were stunned. Now that there was a chance for them to rush into the tomb, none of them dared to move a single step forward.

Zhang Yang and Serena finally walked out of the tomb.

"Zhan Yu! It's him!"

"D*mn! How did he come out? What happened to the thousands of players who got inearlier? Did he kill them all?"

"Who is that woman there?"

"Don't matter! Just kill the target and take his head for the reward!"

More than 100,000 players started to scream and yell, charging bravely towards Zhang Yang.

"You would seek to slay the hero of the crown?! Such insolence shall not be tolerated!" Serena raised her beautiful eye brows and her sword materialized in her hands.

"Hahaha! Who is this woman. Look at her, putting up a brave act and all. How will the two of them take on 100,000 of us?"

"What a looker! Check out her tits yo! Aw yeah! And that *ss! Hmm! Sh*t be perky as f*ck! That b*tch must be a sl*t! I'd tap that!"

"Eh? She looks western. Perhaps she's a transfer student studying in china!

"Who cares! Just kill the two of them!"

In an instant, the sky was covered with projectiles consisting of {Frost Arrow}, {Fire Ball}, and other flying objects! The melee class players were all charging towards Zhang Yang, all yelling their battle cry as loudly as they could! Zhang Yang only had one head to offer! They would have to fight against each other if they wanted to claim the reward!

Zhang Yang stood calmly, facing the oncoming projectiles. He was completely at ease since Serena had her left hand up, casting a protective barrier to shield them. Her sword in her right arm had began to move!

"Kill them all! Sword of Life and Death!"

Suush! Suush! Millions of streams of light were sent out flying in all directions!

Instant kill! Instant kill! Instant kill! Instant kill! Instant kill! Instant kill!

Anywhere the light ray traveled, dead players lay on the ground!

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Chapter 234: Counter Attack!Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Where the Sword of Life and Death was swung, million would be deprived of their lives instantly!

The massive surge of players storming up the Twilight Hill were instantly wiped out, nothing but a fading trace of golden light remaining at where they stood. Bodies were piling up, streams of blood flowed down, dyeing the hill red!

What a deadly princess! Such strength! Such power!

No wonder they say that one does not anger royalty! Zhang Yang was witnessing raging fury incarnate! Like a storm, simply going on its way, leaving destruction in its wake!

Inspired by the scene before his eyes, Zhang Yang called out to Hundred Shots in the guild channel. "Hundred Shots! Are those bastards from Pride and The Dominators still standing guard over the bodies of our guild mates?"

"Yes!" said Hundred Shots, a man who rarely let his anger show, but nothing could be hidden from his tone at this moment. "They said that if they are unable to kill us to Level 0, they will remain here and kill us until we drop all our equipment!"

Zhang Yang smirked. "Keep your heads down, don't revive just yet! Wait for my arrival! I have just finished my quest and had procured some sort of killing machine as a result! When I reach you guys, we will strike back and get their equipment as revenge!"

"Awesome!"

"Guild master completed his quest!"

"Haha! Yeah! It's time to give those bastards a taste of their own medicine!"

"Let them bark all they want! We'll have our revenge soon enough!"

The entire guild cheered. Right then, Hundred Shots was kind enough to not pour cold water on their heads. For once, he allowed them to chit and chat in the guild channel.

"Warrior! Can you summon a beast mount?" asked Serena.

"Yes! I am!" Zhang Yang quickly summoned Whitey and got on its back. Serena got up as well and sat with both her legs on one side of the bear. One of her hands was upraised, ready to attack, the other holding onto Zhang Yang's shoulder.

"Run, run like the wind..." Just as Zhang Yang started to move the bear, Serena murmured some words out. Spheres of wind gathered at all four feet of the bear and the speed of the bear was greatly increased. The beast ran forward, having gained three times its original speed.

This is good sh*t! If any players ever got their hands on this skill, they would have hit the jackpot!

One death every10 steps, over a trail that could not be traced! The legendary Chinese war general, Guan Yu was known for his killing spree of Yan Liang, Wen Chou, and Old Lou. Those who heard his tale could say one thing, "Guan Yu! Such speed!" 1

He had taken more than two hours to get to the tomb, but he had only spent less than 20 minutes to travel all the way from the tomb to the fortress. With haste, Zhang Yang rode the bear to the front of the fortress.

Since Serena had not regained her official title, and Zhang Yang still had the "wanted" status on him. The system would still announce his position every 10 minutes.

A majority of the players around who had not joined the chase earlier knew that there were at least millions of others going after Zhang Yang. Thus, realizing that it would only be a waste of time, they had packed up and left the fortress. So far, the only players remaining in the fortress were players from Pride, The Dominators, and the Axe Gang, guarding the dead bodies of players from Lone Desert Smoke.

The grudges that Pride and The Dominators had against Lone Desert Smoke were well founded, however, Axe Gang was a simply doing it out of their presumptions. The guild had only been recently created. They wanted to use the fame of killing Lone Desert Smoke to boost themselves, reaching the peak of stardom in an instance!

Shocked, the players from those forementioned guilds realized that Zhang Yang was making his way all the way through the Flatlands of the Passing, Land of Deteriorating Bones, and Frozen Sky Wasteland. The most shocking part was the fact that the most recent announcement had revealed Zhang Yang's current position -- in front of the fortress!

What's going on?! Has he come to kill himself?

Humbly Gentleman was to demented to think twice about it. He was already pissed since he had taken such a long time to arrive to the fortress. By the time he had arrived, Zhang Yang had already broken through the fortress. He had missed the most climatic event! Frustrated, he had directed his frustration to the members of Lone Desert Smoke. He had brought along over 10,000 players to guard the bodies.

But all of that did not matter any longer! Zhang Yang had returned! Humbly Gentleman was pleased. Now that a second chance had presented itself, he would be more careful this time. He commanded a large number of members to ready their guard. At a single command, hundreds of Spellcasters rushed towards Zhang Yang. Not matter how strong he was, he could never survive hundreds of attacks from Spellcasters. Even if he had an unlimited duration of Shield Wall, the sheer cumulative attacks from that many Spellcasters will kill him eventually!

Now that the guild master of Pride, Floating Fire Ball had been sent to the jail, the rest of the Spellcasters from Pride had form a small party to rush out of the fortress to join their counterparts from the Dominators in killing Zhang Yang. Riding the tide of battle, the Axe Gang, not wanting to miss their chance for stardom, joined in! Right now, Zhang Yang had the glory of being China's number one tank! Stepping over his dead body would be the best way to gain great glory and fame!

Knowing that Zhang Yang's was strong against physical attacks, the two guilds had gathered up their spellcasters, sending them all in one shot! All three guild's attacking parties came out of the fortress practically at the same time. All three leaders exchange a look, but neither of them looked like they were willing to cooperate with each other. After all, Zhang Yang had only one head. In the end, only one person would be holding up his severed head! Only one of them could claim the prize!

"Let's just kill him first, and talk about it later! We take some time off to discuss about whoever gets the final prize!" Humbly Gentleman cried.

The other two guilds exchanged a look and nodded at the same time, agreeing to Humbly Gentleman's terms.

Humbly Gentleman smirked. In his heart, he was gazing at those guilds in contempt, for being ignorant of his power! Only those who were worthy may challenge The Dominators! The Dominators was one of the four super guilds in White Jade Castle! Even if Pride and the Axe Gang were to combine their forces, or even double their strength, they would still be weaker than The Dominators!

They focused on the scene of the approaching Zhang Yang.

"My princess..." Zhang Yang raised his fingers and pointed at the dead bodies, piled outside the fortress's entrance and said, "Those people had given up their lives to protect me! They had sacrificed their own well-being to ensure that the soul container could reach you! Those people, gathered outside the fortress were the ones who had sullied their hands with the blood of those that stood up against injustice!"

Serena remained as stoic as ever. This kingdom's princess must be from a generation of iron-bloods! She made her decision quickly and leaped off the bear, landing on the ground. She flung out her right arm, and the gigantic sword materialized in her slim hand.

"Hahaha! Zhan Yu...Zhan Yu...No matter how much you try to run around, you will fall by my hands!" Humbly Gentleman gloated. He somehow knew that Zhang Yang had to run back into the fortress to complete his quest! His prediction was right on the mark, but he had not predicted the appearance of Serena the killing machine.

The guild master of the Axe Gang spoke up. "Zhan Yu! Do you know who I am?"

Zhang Yang snickered. "Some random guy who came out of nowhere. I don't need to know your name!"

He frowned and patted his chest proudly. "Bastard! Don't act all high and mighty just after gaining a little bit of fame! I want you to remember me! Because today is the day that I, Moon—"

"Stop yapping and start killing!" Humbly Gentleman bellowed. Hundreds of Spellcasters led by him started to march forward. All started to cast their spells as soon as they entered the effective casting range.

"Tch!" the guild master of Axe Gang clicked his tongue. "Zhan Yu! Etch my name in the back of your brain! Because the person that will be killing you is Moon—"

"Die! Zhan Yu!" Kindling Chest Hair screamed from the top of his lungs. Almost everyone from Pride let out their hatred, making sure that Zhang Yang would receive their sentiments.

The guild master of Axe Gang dropped to his knees and sobbed. How hard was it to just announce his name?

Shush! Shush! Shush!

Thousands of Spellcasters got together and covered the sky with Fire Ball and Frost Arrow. Now that it has come to this, even if Zhang Yang used Shield Wall, he had no chance of surviving such an onslaught!

"Those who worship chaos and evil shall face the wrath of my sword!" Serena held out her left arm and created a large barrier. Her right arm, holding the gigantic long sword was raised up high. A glowing aura of great destruction could be felt emanating from it!

Absorbed! Absorbed!

All attacks that had made contact with the barrier simply vanished from existence, as if they had passed through a wormhole! There was not even a single ripple on the shield!

"How could this be!?"

Humbly Gentleman could not understand what had just occurred right in his eyes! Everyone was stunned.

Because Serena did not have any name tag, and players had come to believe that she was just another player who had hidden away her profile information. She had just raised an arm and was neutralized all the attacks from nearly a thousand Spellcasters! This...this...

It's just bullsh*t!

"F*ck! Hack! She must be using some kind of hack!"

"Sh*tty developers! What bullsh*t were they saying about no hacks being used in this game! F*ck them! Suck my d*ck!"

"Get your lazy *sses out here now, GMs! I want to report a f*cker here for using hacks!"

Serena scanned the area and locked onto her targets. With gleaming eyes that radiated death itself, she swung her sword and created two pillars of light that came out blasting towards Humbly Gentleman and the players around him.

"Holy Light, Cross Soul Slash!"

Shush! Boom!

The blast flew straight into the herd of players and sent bodies parts flying into the air. Nearly thousands of players were killed, leaving only 30 to 40 survivors, only because they were standing at the edge of the party, missing death by an inch!

After dying, the guild master of the Axe Gang was hugging the iron bars of the jail with tears flowing nonstop! What a pitiful scene...even in death, he had yet to find the opportunity to announce his name!

Zhang Yang laughed happily. He then switched to the guild channel and announced, "Those who are still waiting outside of the fortress may revive now! Get up! Let's fight back! It's our turn to kick some *ss!"

Over 300 players outside the fortress heard Zhang Yang's call and quickly revived themselves. They got up and starting killing off the players who had survived Serena's mega blast.

Even though the recently revived members had only 20% HP, these 300 members from Lone Desert Smoke were the elites among the elites. Without breaking a sweat, they easily wiped out the enemy.

"What a relieve!"

"F*ck yeah! Kill these sons of b*tches!"

After waiting for more than three hours, the itch in their heart was finally solved.

"Hey noob tank. How did you suddenly become so strong?" Wei Yan Er ran over to Zhang Yang after she revived. She cocked her head to one side while asking him.

In the soul state, a character's range of vision was limited. Just like Shadow of the Void, the character could not see other monsters or characters unless they traveled to where their dead bodies were. This system was implemented to prevent spying during a major war. A player could purposely die and spy on the enemy's army while in their soul state, undetected.

That was why Wei Yan Er had no idea what exactly happened. In her vision, as were the vision of the others who had died, they could only witness Humbly Gentleman and his men being slaughtered. But they had no idea what killed them!

Zhang Yang pointed at Serena and said, "Recognize her?"

"Hm. She's very pretty! D*mn, noob tank! What are you showing her off for! You already have my cousin sister! Why would you still be finding other girls to play with!? Hmph! You have lost my respect!" Wei Yan Er scoffed and cross her arms angrily.

Zhang Yang was rendered speechless. Sigh...the elder one is a broken compass and the younger one is a complete idiot!

"She is Princess Serena! The one we killed before was the spectral impersonator! This one is the real deal!"

"Oh!" said Wei Yan Er as her eyes widened. She observed the princess carefully from top to bottom and finally scoffed after a while. "Hmm. She does look a little similar."

Just in the nick of time, Han Ying Xue, Sun Xin Yu and the rest of the gang arrived. Fatty Han was wheezing in anger as he bellowed angrily, "Little Yang! I reckon we can fight back now, right?!"

Zhang Yang nodded. "I don't care whether its Pride, The Dominators or even players from the Axe Gang! I want you to kill whoever you see! If it's a fight they want, it's a fight they'll get! They better be prepared to lose when they're the ones who declared war! F*ck! If they won't leave White Jade Castle after this, we'll kill them until they do so!"

"Hell yeah!"

"GROWL!"

Members from Lone Desert Smoke had been piling up their anger after being guarded for hours after death! After such a speech from their Guild master, their blood boiled, spewing out their battle cries!

Translator's Thoughts

ASB

1This was one of the event in China history, describing how fast Guan Yu the war general rode his horse.

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