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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Walking together, Zhang Yang and Serena proceeded slowly into Tukula Fortress.

The horns of war have been sounded!

Kill all those who stood guard over the bodies!

Kill all those who took advantage of the war!

Kill all enemies!

Bodies of Lone Desert Smoke continuously revived as the duo passed through them. All of them joined the "revolutionary" army and their numbers soared!

500! 900! 1,700!

Pride, annihilated!

The Dominators, wiped out!

Axe Gang, vanquished!

As the army exited the fortress, all three enemy guilds were completely destroyed! Half of them were sent to jail by Serena, the other half killed by Lone Desert Smoke! As such, the fallen players revived and joined the army. Their numbers surpassed 10,000!

Watching his enemies in pieces, Zhang Yang summoned [Gold-Eared Bear King, mounted it and shouted at the top of his lungs. "I'm back, b*tches!"

Everyone laughed at his actions.

With the system repeatedly announcing Zhang Yang position, Zhang Yang proceeded towards the city. Word finally got out about Zhang Yang having a mysterious woman beside him, massacring everyone he met. At first, players did not believe such an overpowered character could exist. But when a recording of the scene where Serena had struck down thousands of players got out into the internet, the news started to spread like wildfire.

Such devastating power!

Those who still had the intention to behead Zhang Yang, finally had second thoughts. They would have to see if they could fight on toe to toe with that mysterious woman!

There were other players who did not trust anything except their own eyes, and had meekly tagged along the large army of Lone Desert Smoke from behind. They would only believe it if they could see it with their own eyes. They were in luck. Oblivious and ambitious players had come, attempting to kill Zhang Yang. Some guilds like Counts of the Rose and Dragon Rampages were small guilds that wanted instant fame, and had come up to fight Zhang Yang. Of course, naturally, they were wiped clean when Serena furiously lifted the Sword of Life and Death, sending them all to dust.

The players who were tagging along got to watch the "movie", and were left awestruck.

However, if they even had a little bit of IQ in their brains, players would easily guess that Serena was not a player!

Think of it, Zhang Yang was accused of killing the princess and had a kill order on his head. Yet after a miraculous effort, he managed to turn the tables around with just one woman. How cool was that!?

For 30 years the river has flowed to the west, the water would return to the east 30 years later.

After having been persecuted so heavily, the tables have turned for Zhang Yang and now he had the grandest of luck.

"D*mn. I wish I could become the king's son in law! Think of it guys! If I could bring my wife with us into dungeons, or wars, we would be invincible!" said Fatty Han rather earnestly.

"Fatty bro, with that kind of body, how could you even become the princess's husband? Where would White Jade Castle hide its face? If one wants to become the husband of a princess, one must at least have a handsome face such as I!" said Endless Starlight as he tried to snatched the spotlight.

They had managed to bring Serene back to the city after a total of three hours! By then, the number of players following behind Zhang Yang was exceeded beyond 8,000,000! It's either that or 10,000,000! If there was a Guinness World Record for a number of spectators in a game, they would have successfully been drafted!

As they entered through the castle entrance, the 12 elite soldiers standing guard there saw Zhang Yang and immediately unsheathed their swords. They surround Zhang Yang and one of them shouted. "You murderer! Surrender now!"

"Impudent!" cried Serene as she got down from the bear. "Stand down, right now!" she bellowed.

"Y-You are..." When the soldiers saw Serena, they were bewildered and did not know what to do next.

"In the presence of the crown, why do you not kneel!" Serena was no longer as furious as she was before, rather, she was only treating her own soldiers as a superior would. Either way, she had managed to strike fear and doubt into the hearts of the soldiers.

"M-My princess! We heard that you were k-ki—" One of the soldier spoke, his voice trembling.

"Hmph. That's not of your concern! Stand down! All of you!" said Princess Serena as she thrust her fair hands out, gesturing them to withdraw from their attacking stance, like a true noble.

"Yes! Princess!" All the soldiers withdrew and allowed the party to proceed.

With Serena leading the way ahead, the path was cleared until they reached the King's Chamber in White Jade Castle. This time, only Serena herself and Zhang Yang were allowed to enter the chamber.

Foom! The doors opened at her call and the two of them walked in extravagantly. Maids and soldiers along the way were kneeling down and hailing their princess.

Royal Chamber of the Dawning Light!

This hall was the king's own forbidden chamber. Even though it had almost the same structure of the Royal Chamber of Star and Luna, this hall was much larger and luxurious! The towering pillars of the hall were so large that it was estimated to be at least a few hundred meters tall! The pillars only could express pride, honor, dominating power of the citizens!

"Father!" The moment Serene entered the hall, stepping forward and bowing down to an elderly King who was seated upon the throne.

[Derick, King of the White Jade Kingdom] (Ascended, Humanoid)

Level: ???

HP: ???

Defense: ???

King Derick was clearly shocked, a look of child-like wonder dawning upon his wizened face. He quickly raised to his feet and said faintly. "Serena...Y-You--"

"Father! I'm not dead! I'm alive!" said Serena with a smile on her face. "Three years ago, I was ambushed and imprisoned by the spectres! This hero saved me! The princess before me, was an impersonator who had used half of my soul to impersonate me!"

"Is...Is that true!?" said Derick. His voice tremble with doubt. He thought for a while and said, "Follow me to your chamber! I want to see the true form of the accursed spectre with my own eyes!"

The King and the Princess strode to the chamber with guards and maids following closely behind. The crowd arrived at the Royal Chamber of Star and Luna. At the center of the hall, a huge jade coffin lay there. On top of the coffin were fresh flowers that were maintained by several maids who quickly got to their knees. There were a total of 12 maids dressed in white, beautiful maid uniforms.

"My King! P-P-P-P-Princess!?" The maids got up to their feet and bowed respectfully to their king. But when their eyes saw Princess Serena standing next to the king, they trembled. Confusion, bewilderment, shock filled their faces.

Derick thrusted his hands out and gestured. "Open the coffin!"

Four guards walked quickly to the coffin and each of them took a corner. With a simultaneous heave, they pushed the lid open.

A dried, wrinkled skeleton was revealed to everyone. The face was distorted so badly and the corpse and the real Princess Serena shared no common features!

"Without my soul, this wretched spectre could no longer maintain the illusion!" said Serena.

"Oh! My child! My precious child! I'm so happy that you're safe!" The king hugged Princess Serene as tightly as he could, with tears flowing down his old, tired eyes.

Standing at one side, Zhang Yang was tapping his boots repeatedly, thinking, "Old fart, it's time for my reward! At least rescind the kill order and give me back my shop!"

Luckily, it was only a matter of minutes before the King Derick turned to Zhang Yang and praised him. "Young warrior! You have saved my only daughter! You have also foiled a major conspiracy and saved the entire kingdom! You are now a hero! I must reward you handsomely!"

About d*mn time old fart!

'Ding! You have completed the quest: Return to White Jade Castle. Obtained 1,000,000 Experience Points!'

'Ding! Main Story Quest Link: The Spectre's Scheme. Complete. Evaluating...'

'Ding! Your quest score: Perfect!'

'Ding! You have obtained the reward: Level 5, Skill Point: 1!'

'Ding! You have obtained the reward: Indistinct Skill Book Beast Taming!'

'Ding! The King has removed all charges pressed against you. You have regained all the authority you have in White Jade Castle! Your Reputation Point in White Jade Kingdom has been raised to Revered1!'

'Server Announcement: White Jade Kingdom has canceled the kill order on player Zhan Yu!'

'Server Announcement: Player Zhan Yu has completed the Main Story Quest Link: The Spectre's Scheme. His achievement will be recorded in the Achievement Board!'

'Server Announcement: War of the Spectres will be launching next mouth! For more information, please visit the official website!'

Zhang Yang's notification channel was constantly flashing with new notifications until finally it stopped. When he read everything, he was stunned.

Indistinct Skill Book!?

Zhang Yang's knees went weak from the sudden news! He felt like he had been given a huge pie! A hot, delicious, luxurious strawberry rhubarb! The kind that you'll never get sick of eating!

In 'God' Miracle', skill books were categorized into two types. Normal skill books and Indistinct skill books.

Needless to say, Indistinct skill books will grant an awesome, mega, OP skill! Yet, at the same skill, they will grant a normal, extremely common skill such as Regeneration or Force Strike. These types of skills were the most basic of their respective classes. Basically, skill books will grant a skill, requiring a specific class requirement. An Indistinct skill book however, would completely ignore such requirements! Any class could learn from them! Because of them, there will be rare cases of Warriors casting magic spells, Spellcasters using Stealth!

However, an Indistinct skill book was, at most, extremely, awfully hard to farm! In fact, in his previous life, after 'God's Miracle' had been operating for five years, according to the data statistic from the '5 Years Game Review', the entire world had only manage to produce 127 counts of Indistinct skill books!

The rarity of the skill book was beyond any measure!

As such, since Indistinct skill books could only grant basic class skills, it had its advantage and short comings. For example, if a Warrior had learnt the Thief's skill Shadow Assault, it would only grant the Warrior an additional attacking skill. However, what if the Warrior manages to learn the skill Stealth? That would be a whole different story!

Beast Taming was a Hunter's basic skill. With this skill, a Hunter can capture a Wild Beast and tame it to be his pet. They could also use the skill to use their pet mount as their pet! Now that Zhang Yang had learnt the skill, his pet mount could remain in the field as a pet instead of a Battle Mount or a Mount! In fact, his pet would exactly be like a Hunter's pet, fighting alongside Zhang Yang in dungeon, Battle Arena, and even indoor instances!

It would turn him into part-Hunter!

He quickly took out the skill book and observed the item that he had never even got a whiff of in his past life!

[Beast Taming] (Indistinct Skill Book)

Use: Teaches you Beast Taming.

Level Requirement: 10

Bound.

Without any hesitation, Zhang Yang pat the book on his chest and learn the skill.

[Beast Taming: Captures a wild beast to be your pet. Allows Battle Mounts to be summoned as pets. During a beast's capture, you have to be the target's main aggro or the capture will fail. You cannot capture any beast that is higher than your current level. You can only summon one pet at a time.

Casting time: 30 seconds.

Zhang Yang took out the [Lease of the Gold-Eared Bear King] and summoned it. After two seconds, the fat, white bear appeared beside Zhang Yang and lay down on the floor lazily. It scratched its chin with its claws and even yawned.

Once a mount was not ridden within 2 seconds, it would instantly disappear. Now that he gained the skill, the mount would not disappear.

Zhang Yang cracked a wide smile! Even though the main story quest had caused him so much trouble, the rewards were definitely worth it!

"Hey noob tank! What's your reward!" The impatient little Wei Yan Er had seen all the server announcements and had quickly rushed to Zhang Yang to ask.

"Hehe! Increase five Levels. One skill point. And an Indistinct skill book!"

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Chapter 236: Service Hiring

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"Five Level bonus?!"

"Woah! Dumb Yu! That means you must be Level 60 then!"

"What's an Indistinct skill book?"

Zhang Yang had made the announcement in the party channel, which was why the rest of the gang had rushed over to check things out. He explained the characteristics of his newly obtained skill and the team was floored. For a non-hunter class character to be able to use {Beast Taming}, it made Zhang Yang into half a hunter, and a full tank!

"Warrior, please head back for now! I'll personally reward you in the future!" said Serena with a radiant smile. Her mannerisms and speech towards Zhang Yang seemed a little more than friendly.

'Ding! Your relationship with Princess Serena is now: Good!'

Zhang Yang almost staggered in surprise. Relationship and Reputation are two different systems. Only an NPC with strong AI programming such as Serena could establish a Relationship system. However, the true function of the system is unknown. Still, it can't possibly be a bad thing, having a good relationship with Princess Serena!

Now that his quest has been completed, and the rewards collected, there was no more reason for Zhang Yang to stay there any longer. Zhang Yang did an adventurer's salute and said, "My King, my Princess, Zhan Yu will now take his leave!"

As he stepped out of the palace, he saw members of Lone Desert Smoke occupying the entire courtyard! Faced with 10,000 members who were all cramping together like sardines, Zhang Yang could not help but feel honored. All of the players raised up their weapons and cheered! They had fought as a guild, facing all players from China as the enemy and had successfully helped Zhang Yang achieve his goal in completing his quest! This achievement was truly worth celebrating!

Zhang Yang took out his own axe and raised it up into the sky and cried, "From today on! We, Lone Desert Smoke, will declare war against The Dominators, Pride, and the Axe Gang! Until they leave this city, we shall not rest! For honor!"

"FOR HONOR!"

Hundred Shots, Endless Starlight and the rest of the gang led teams of their own to start the assault. Each of them formed attack teams consisting of at least a hundred members, leading them out of the city and beginning their hunt for the forementioned guilds. While all of that was happening, Humbly Gentleman was still locked up in jail. He had logged out to have his dinner, when he learned of the news through a frantic phone call. Due to the fact that most members from The Dominators were in jail, with the remaining players scattered and divided without a leader, they could not endure the attacks from the very furious Lone Desert Smoke members. Most of them were killed so many times that they were afraid of reviving themselves and eventually logged off the game.

With the rising pressure and stress of being the hunting target, most of the players chose to leave the guild. With such events happening, Humbly Gentleman grew anxious. To speed things up, he spent the entire day and night to let the duration of his punishment run its course. He did not even spare any time to sleep! However, even after his efforts, by the time he was released from the prison, The Dominators had already lost at least 10% of its members.

Unrelentingly, Lone Desert Smoke showed no mercy and no signs of slowing down. Crimson Rage and Sky High joined the fray and participated in the assault on The Dominators.

In just five short days, The Dominators, Axe Gang, and Pride suffered heavy losses. All of them were cowering behind the city walls, refusing to leave the place to go grinding. As a result, many members of the guilds had chosen to abandon their guilds as a result of being unable to handle the massive stress. Now that the situation had escalated to such a level, Humbly Gentleman gave up resisting and was forced to do the right thing. He discarded his ego and faced Zhang Yang to beg his forgiveness.

Zhang Yang agreed to forgive the man, under one condition. Humbly Gentleman would have to kneel down in front of Little Merchandize Shop for 24 hours.

Zhang Yang merely offered the condition as a prank, he knew that a person such as Humbly Gentleman would never accept that level of embarrassment. However, against all odds, Humbly Gentleman did the impossible; He went to the shop, dropped planted his face on the ground and knelt for an entire day!

Unlike him, Zhang Yang was a man of his word. Now that Humbly Gentleman had crossed the bridge, Zhang Yang complied to his wishes and pulled his troops back, issuing a temporary ceasefire on The Dominators. However, things took a different path. Now that Humbly Gentleman's act was witnessed by the entire world, the guild had lost its credibility. Many more players in the guild quit since they believed that the guild will have no future under the so-called leadership of such a spineless bastard! A small internal conflict occurred and the guild lost a handful of elite players.

As such, The Dominators lost a great deal of strength and was removed from the rankings of strong guilds in White Jade Castle. Even though they still had their standards, they had lost respect. Morale was poor.

As for Pride and the Axe gang, they hung on using their own methods. Even if they could not put up a fight, they could still hide! The two guilds had "migrated" to Wild Willow City and Crimson Sky City, to reduce their pressure from Lone Desert Smoke.

At the same time, things got a little rowdy in the real world! There were online arguments coming up in the forums.

Some said the guilds deserved such treatment. You reap what you sow. Why in the first place, did those guilds guard the dead bodies of players from Lone Desert Smoke? Back then, why did not they feel remorse as they hacked at prey that they greatly outnumbered? They should have known what they were getting themselves into when they decided to go to war against Lone Desert Smoke. They should have known what could happen to them if they lost.

On the other end of things, other players mentioned that the actions of Lone Desert Smoke were a little over the top. Conflicts between guilds are a common thing. A minor skirmish between one another is too common to even pay attention to. However, Lone Desert Smoke had driven two guilds out of the city! It was overly excessive no matter how you looked at things!

All in all, the commentators in the forum did agree on one thing. A consensus was established on the authenticity of Lone Desert Smoke's power, and its implications. They have proven themselves by almost causing the disbandment of a powerful, established influential guild that had left its mark over many games in the past! Because of this feat, they had gained themselves a top-of-the-food-chain status!

Such dominating power!

As the person in charge of liaising with outsourcing parties, Hundred Shots had been receiving many requests and news about company sponsorships. Because of that, Han Ying Xue was rather pleased as she was "the one" who first "found" the guild.

Now that Zhang Yang had gained an extra five Levels, he had overtaken Han Ying Xue and became China's highest Leveled player! After removing and putting on all his Level 60 Yellow-Gold equipment such as the Ring of Raging Blaze and Arcane Resistor, he gained a major boost in his overall statistics.

HP: 24,090

Strength: 730

Defense: 1,000

Damage Absorption: 988

Weapon Attack: (1,929 – 2,138) x 1.05%

He learned a new skill at Level 60, {Killing Cleave}.

[Killing Cleave: Attempts to kill the target. Skill can only be used on targets with less than 20% of its maximum HP. Requires 20 Rage points to cast. Causes 100% physical melee damage to the target. Every additional Rage point will be converted to 3% extra damage per point. This skill will ignore all Defense, is Unavoidable and Unblockable.

Requires: Melee Weapon

Cost: Consumes all Rage.

Cool Down Time: 15 seconds.

If the skill was activated at 100 Rage (max), it could deal a total of 340% melee damage. That amount of damage is truly devastating! However, it wouldn't be very practical against a boss. The reason was a such, 20 Rage a hit could be the same as {Force Strike}. If all rage is consumed, each extra Rage point will only be an additional 3.4% melee damage. It's much weaker than the 10% Rage {Horizontal Sweep} or the Level 10 {Tornado Cleave} which only costs 8% Rage!

However, if the target was a player, it would be a different scenario, since the skill can only be used when a target's HP was lower than 20%, which couldn't amount to more than 1,600 HP, since the majority of non-tank players only had 8,000 HP at most! Any other skill can be used to kill that player! This skill will only reach its maximum potential when the game matures a little more. By then, average players would be at a higher level and have higher HPs. By then, the skill could be used to guarantee certain kills!

When all other skill have been used and are in cool down, this skill would serve greatly as a bonus attack. Unavoidable, unblockable, ignores all defense?! However, Zhang Yang had {Eagle Eye}, it would be like adding salt to the sea!

A skill like this was currently wasted on Zhang Yang. On an inferior player however….a tank would need to constantly kite the boss. Taking damage constantly will basically provide an endless supply of Rage points. Since the skill could ignore all defense, weaker players with lower tiered equipment could use the skill to deal extra damage to kite the boss properly.

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After a few days of grinding, Zhang Yang had his Bear King by his side whenever he was in combat. Since pets would require lower experience points to level up compared to a player, Whitey had been gaining levels faster than before. Thanks to Zhang Yang dragging monsters all around the field to kill them as entire herds instead of facing them one by one, Whitey had finally reached the same level as Zhang Yang, Level 60.

By then, Whitey had not procured any new skill. Zhang Yang had to visit the auction house to purchase two pet skill books. As the name states, the skill book was only eligible for pets. By right, Whitey was a mount, not a pet, and therefore unable to learn skills from such a method, but when Zhang Yang learned {Beast Taming}, Whitey had gained the status of both pet mount and normal pet!

[Icy Build] (Passive): Whenever you are attacked by a Frost attack, reduces damage by 90%.

[Wild Recovery: Coverts 10 Focus points into 5% HP recovery every second. Lasts for 10 seconds. Cool Down Time: 2 minutes.

{Wild Recovery} is extremely common, which only cost Zhang Yang 20 gold coins. On the other hand, {Icy Build} was as expensive as f*ck! It cost Zhang Yang 20,000 gold coins to buy that bloody book! However, after reading the skill description, Zhang Yang felt that the skill was worth its cost.

At Level 60, [Gold-Eared Bear King] was truly mighty! The difference between a pet and a player is that a pet would not require any equipment to gain stats! Levels would be relative to their power! As their levels go up, so do their stats! The stat growth they gain would depend on their rarity.

[Gold-Eared Bear King] (Yellow-Gold Battle Mount)

Level: 60

HP: 16,800

Defense: 1,200

Weapon Attack: 3,692 – 3,892 (Attack Interval: 3 seconds, DPS: 1,264)

After Zhang Yang had acquired the skill {Beast Taming}, the bear had gained a Defense attribute. However, the Defense attribute would only be active when it is summoned as a pet, instead of a mount. The ridiculous bear had actually surpassed its own master in terms of both offense and defensive values.

Right now, the bear had two modes. One, the mount mode. In this mode, {Shared Life}, {Wild Charge}, and {Claw Attack} are the only skills available. As a pet however, it was able to use {Wild Charge}, {Claw Attack}, {Wild Recovery} and {Icy Build}!

The current date was October the 24th. The majority of players around had already passed the Level 50 threshold. Zhang Yang's stockpiled [Solid Iron Plates] had been sold out clean. On average, each [Solid Iron Plate] was sold at around 13 gold coins each. All 17,000 stacks of [Solid Iron Plate] had been sold for a total of 44,200,000 gold coins! The current currency exchange rate was at 1:3 which covert that sum to 130,000,000 dollars! That number had exceeded Zhang Yang's prediction by 50,000,000 dollars!

[Level 3 Fire Resistance Potion] were not as common however. This situation had left Zhang Yang in a huge dilemma. If he placed his efforts in making potions, his current lead in levels would slowly drop. On the other hand, if he ignored the market demand and paid attention to grinding, he would be missing the chance to make more money!

The best way to solve this problem would be to hire a player for their services, the kind that specializes in crafting potions! But…could he find someone he could trust? It's hard to put his trust on anyone, because every recipe that Zhang Yang finds and procures is worth a lot of gold coins! Facing the prospect of such profit, greed would easily change a man's perception.

Fatty Han was his number one choice, but making potion will be a test of patience…someone like Fatty Han will definitely flip the table!

He thought…and thought…and after giving some time, he had an idea. He logged out of the game and picked up the phone.

"Hello…" Yu Li voice was heard over the phone. She sounded a little tired.

"It's me. Zhang Yang. How is your mother?"

"Yes. She's been relocated to the best ward now. A kidney donor is already on the way and the doctor said that she can have her surgery within a week!" said Yu Li excitedly. She giggled a little and said, "So, I don't think you're calling me just to ask about my mother. Have you finally decided to accept my invitation to bed?"

A drop of cold sweat went down his forehead.

What a woman!

"Actually, I have an idea that would help you return the money you borrowed from me!"

"Hm?"

"I want to hire you as my personal potion crafter. In the game, I will have you craft me some potions! I will pay you…60,000 dollars as monthly salary! You will be able clear all your debt to me in just five years, with some personal savings to boot!"

"Zhang Yang…I said that I don't want to owe you anything anymore--"

"Listen to me, woman! Geez! Have you forgotten that I have been selling potions for a while back then? In the near future, there will be many more types of potions for sale! I don't have that much free time, sitting around all say on my ass, crafting bloody potions! That is why I'm hiring you to do some virtual hard labor! Do you understand the situation here, woman? I could earn millions or even billion while all you get is a fixed salary. I'm practically robbing you!"

"…I understand. Thank you so much, Zhang Yang." Yu Li was silent for a while before she finally replied. She understood Zhang Yang's intention. He could have easily looked for other people to do his work but instead, he asked her. She knew that Zhang Yang was just finding a reason to help her.

"Until your mother fully recovers, you best stay with her. You can get back into the game when she's all good. I'll help you increase your Alchemy mastery. Oh! Could you please come over to White Jade Castle? It'll save me a lot of time when delivering the materials!"

"Ok!"

Zhang Yang hung up, a great weight taken off his shoulders. At least that's one problem solved.

Zhang Yang daily routine comprised of making potions and grinding his level. The daily dungeon runs of Poison Fireland and the Palace of Centaur were left to Endless Starlight. That young man had the potential to grow even stronger. After a few days of raiding and training, he was showing the promising skills and capabilities of a great tank!

After Level 60, gaining one level would take eight days at minimum. Since Zhang Yang had to allocate some time to craft some potions, he had only managed to gain one level by the first of November. Currently, the Level Ranking Board's Top 10 players were as such:

Zhan Yu, Guardian, Level 61

Little Snow, Priest, Level 57

Frost Night, Assassin, Level 57

Slim and Handsome, Beastmaster, Level 57

Drizzler, Berserker, Level 56

Daffodil Daydream, Pyromancer, Level 56

Hundred Shots, Beastmaster, Level 56

One Sword Stroke, Guardian, Level 55

Endless Starlight, Defender, Level 55

Drifting Scent, Bandit, Level 54.

There were three tanks and one healer in the Level Ranking Board Top Ten list?! A normal player would definitely be stunned in disbelief. Everyone would expect a Spellcaster to be the leveling king! Since when was a tank better at grinding than a Spellcaster?

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9 am: Zhang Yang logged into the game on time and heard a clear voice of a woman ringing in his ears, "Spectre War Zone has been launched, you may now proceed to enter through Teleportation Points in major cities!"

Spectre War Zone. The name was self-explanatory, it was a war zone filled with spectres. This new map was like a dungeon instance. Even though the map was filled with elite tiered monsters, the monsters inside the war zone were much easier to defeat than a regular common map elite monster. The experience points granted were lesser than the regular elite, they were still substantially higher than the experience points from normal monsters!

These monsters in the war zone do not drop regular drops like coins, materials, etc items, or equipment. Instead, at a fixed drop rate, these monsters will drop Rune Crafting essences and Rune Craft recipes! The war zone will be divided into different level maps to suit the varying levels of players. The lowest tier started at Level 10, and the levels went up by 10 per ascending tier.

Level 10, Level 20, and Level 30 Spectre War Zone's elite monster had a 1% chance of dropping [Level 1 Black-Steel Essence, 0.1% chance of dropping [Level 1 Green-Copper Essence]. The bosses here will have a 1% chance of dropping [Level 1 Green-Copper Essence] and a 0.1% chance of dropping [Level 1 Gray-Silver Essence].

Level 40, Level 50, and Level 60 Spectre War Zone's elite monster will have 1% chance of dropping [Level 2 Green Copper Essence] and 0.1% chance of dropping [Level 2 Gray-Silver Essence]. The bosses here will have 1% chance of dropping [Level 2 Gray-Silver Essence] and a 0.1% chance of dropping [Level 2 Yellow-Gold Essence].

At the current stage of the game, there were plenty of Green-Copper tiered weapons lying around, however, Level 40 Gray-Silver tier equipment were so rare that no one would willingly disassemble them to extract their essence. So, naturally, without materials, there would not be any Rune Stones, which made the new profession rather meaningless.

To counter this problem that was quickly becoming prevalent, the developers had created the Spectre War Zone. The first three days of each month, players would have one chance of entering the war zone at a cost of 30 gold coins per entry for three hours. The entry count would not be carried over to the next month, only resetting when the time came. As such, Rune Crafting players would not have to worry about a shortage of essences. Even though the existence of the war zone would not satisfy the current market demand, it was a solution to lessen the burden of those players that learned Rune Craft. At least, the profession had some meaning now!

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Chapter 237: Spectre War Zone

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Since the entry period was only for as long as the first three days of every month, players who had read the introduction of the war zone have been waiting patiently for the opening of the war zone. Even though the area was large and divided into different levels of areas, it was still a situation where 10 men would need to share a toilet! There are more than 50,000,000 players alone in China! To make matters worse, the introduction had clearly stated that the Spectre War Zone's monster would only respawn once a month, meaning that latecomers would be left with an empty plain of dust and grass!

That was the reason why dozens of players stayed up waiting for the clock to strike midnight! The early bird gets the worms!

By the time Zhang Yang logged into the game, Han Ying Xue and the other had already entered the war zone. When Wei Yan Er noticed, she quickly contacted him and yelled, "Hey sleepy head! Lazy bum! Why did you wake up so late, noob tank!"

F*ck! This lazy-*ss is the one who's always late! D*mn! She was up a little early just to catch the opening time of the Spectre War Zone! Zhang Yang laughed sarcastically and replied her. "So, what did you guys get?"

"My god! There are so many people here!" Wei Yan Er sighed. "I thought I knew the meaning of a crowd when I visited a mall during the Black Friday sales. But d*amn! There are so many people here KSing mosnters here, there, and everywhere! Now I know what it really means when people say that there's no room for even an apple to fall!"

"Woah! We got ourselves a smart *ss!" Zhang Yang immediately replied.

"Stupid! Dummy! Noob tank! Call me stupid, one more time, and I'll take my cousin sister away from you!"

"Sure! It doesn't matter since our little Yan Er is a rare flower! A genius philosopher! A rare gem! The flower among flowers!"

"Hehe!" Wei Yan Er rubbed her nose. "Since when did I become yours? Please...However, I'll overlook that statement since you have pretty good eyes, being able to notice all my points! HEY! Han Ying Xue! Why are you always sneaking around when I'm not paying attention!"

Beep*

The little brat let out a scream that was quickly cut short as she hung up the voice messenger.

Zhang Yang laughed at the amazing little girl. She would never get boring. Zhang Yang rode Whitey all the way to the Teleportation point and paid the 30 gold coins entry fee, and entered the Spectre War Zone.

Of all the players in all eight servers, China included, Zhang Yang was the only person in the entire map of Level 60. When he entered the map, all he saw was a gray sky filled with dark clouds. The sun was fully blotted out behind the grayish dark puffs of clouds. Ahead of him, there were massive flatlands, filled with spectral monsters lurking around aimlessly. Each of them were separated by at least 30 meters apart.

[Fallen Warrior] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 62

HP: 20,000

Defense: 60

The background story of this Spectre War Zone was that the Union had recognized the Spectres as an alarming threat. Thus, they had dispatched adventurers and assigned them to their designated war zones to eliminate the vengeful spirits that had turned into spectres.

Even though the monsters here had the elite title upon their heads, their HP was only a little bit higher than usual normal tiered monsters. They were not hard to defeat; even a normal player (players with weaker equipment than Zhang Yang) could slay a monster by themselves with ease. The only difference between them and Zhang Yang was that Zhang Yang could go on and on while the normal players would might have to sit down to recover their HP after killing only one elite monster.

Zhang Yang summoned [Gold-Eared Bear King] and sat on it. He bent down a little and pats the side of its head. "Buddy, it's us against time itself here. Let's see how much we can haul in three hours!"

"Growl!"

Zhang Yang commanded the bear and both of them rushed down the flatlands, and into the roaming monsters. Since the monster here were rather scattered, Zhang Yang could not rely on his kiting technique. Instead, he had to resort to killing them one at a time. However, with his current damage, coupled with the damage from his pet mount, they could easily kill the 20,000 HP monster in just seven to eight seconds, while only losing a fraction of their own HP.

As Zhang Yang killed his way deeper into the war zone, he came up to a small hill side and saw a fully-clad armored warrior riding a skeletal horse down the other side of the hill. Behind the horseman were a few skeleton soldiers in groups of 10 and more. They were kneeling on one leg with flags stabbed into the ground by their sides. Although the flags seem ragged and old, these few spectres were looking up at the flag with great respect. They were completely still, as if they were statues made from cement!

Even after turning into spectres, these soldiers could perhaps retain a sense of pride and duty from their days of living...

[Resurrected Knight] (Boss, Spectre)

Level: 65

HP: 300,000

Defense: 350

The bosses in the Spectre War Zone did not have any tiers. They would only drop the respective level of essence based on their own levels. Zhang Yang sighed. He had been feeling down since he didn't stand to gain much, only materials for that Snow Bitch's runecrafting. He gently patted the white bear and commanded it to charge into the monsters.

"Aack ack..." The spectres noticed Zhang Yang arrival and got up to their feet. With the flag pole behind them, the soldiers grabbed the hilts of their swords with their skeletal hands and tugged out the rusted swords that were once shiny.

'-0!'

'-0!'

The attacks were so weak that all of them could not even penetrate Zhang Yang's defense. Ignoring them, Zhang Yang went straight to the boss.

'-612!'

The boss pulled out a long spear and thrusted it towards Zhang Yang. The damage done to Zhang Yang was only below 1,000, which means its basic attacking power was at around 3,000! It was set that way to favor the majority of normal players. The boss had been set in such a way that even a small group of Green-Copper equipment base player could defeat it.

After all, the purpose of the Spectre War Zone was to grant a lucrative way for essences to enter the market, not to test player's equipment.

No one can stop him now!

In this zone, Zhang Yang was more of a boss than a player. After sharing his HP with the pet mount via Shared Life, their combined HP had reached 41,000! Their attacking power had reached 4000 DPS! With their current strength, they defeated the boss in only 70 seconds! That, by everyone else's standards, was insanely powerful!

After three hours in the zone, Zhang Yang exited the instance with a broad smile on his face.

"Noob tank! Cousin sister said this and I quote, pass all the loots to her obediently or she will get over there to search your body thoroughly."

Just as Zhang Yang left the zone, Wei Yan Er merry voice rang.

D*mn! I have yet to even touch these stuffs myself and here they are, about to be snatched away...

"Noob tank! Don't feel bad about yourself. Pervy Fatty, Starlight brat, and uncle Hundred Shots have already been robbed cleaned by my cousin sister!" said Wei Yan Er.

Zhang Yang facepalmed. "Where is that woman?"

"At the Rune Crafting instructor!"

Without wasting anymore time, Zhang Yang rode the bear towards the Rune Craft Shop, only to see Han Ying Xue crafting Rune Stones endlessly. Naturally, everyone had gathered up a large haul. Because of that, Han Ying Xue was able to take everyone's loot from the Spectre War Zone to craft Rune Stones.

"Ahah! Great timing dummy! All the materials were just about to finish!" said Han Ying Xue as she looked up at Zhang Yang.

"I'd say, have you made any progress with Rune Crafting at all?"

"Before, I had only made 1 Rune Stones. With all these materials now, I can make 2 Rune Stones! Come on hurry up! Give me all the loots that you have gathered! I'm almost reaching Level 3!" said Han Ying Xue as she gestured with her hand impatiently.

Before the introduction to Spectre War Zone, Han Ying Xue had only the support from Zhang Yang's Little Merchandize Shop. Technically, Han Ying Xue was the first player in China to push her mastery level to Level 2! But, to achieve Level 3 mastery, one would require many [Level 2 Gray-Silver Essence]. No matter how grandiose Zhang Yang was, he could not provide that much equipment for her to dissemble. After all, the most popular equipment in demand was the Gray-Silver tier. Who would want to sell those equipment for disassembling?

However, the tables has turned. With the Spectre War Zone, and the collaboration of an entire guild, Han Ying Xue had somehow managed to push herself to reach Level 3 in Rune Crafting! That was why normal players could never be proper Rune Crafters, it would drive them bankrupt before anything else!

Without giving a second thought, Zhang Yang transferred all his essence to Han Ying Xue.

"Dummy...did you rob a hundred people to get these? How did you get so much?!" cried Han Ying Xue in shock and surprise. Like her, Wei Yan Er, Fatty Han, and the rest of the group had only managed to farm on average, 10 [Level 2 Gray-Silver Essence, and one [Level 2 Yellow-Gold Essence].

Zhang Yang had just transferred a total of 92 [Level 2 Gray-Silver Essence, and 43 [Level 2 Yellow-Gold Essence]! Having that many [Gray-Silver Essence] was still conceivable, but the amount of [Yellow-Gold Essence] he carried was just unbelievable! It was an impossible feat!

Zhang Yang scoffed. "Answer me, woman! Where are the Rune Stones that you promised? How much longer are you going to delay!?"

Perhaps others did not fully understand, but Zhang Yang knew that every 10 points of Luck would increase his chances in several aspects of the game by 1%! Since he had 9 Luck points, he had, technically, increased the drop rate of [Gray-Silver Essence] to 2% and [Yellow-Gold Essence] to 1%!

0.1% to 1% was an increment of a multiple of ten! Plus, Zhang Yang was completely alone in the Level 60 Spectre War Zone. Since he had only focused on killing bosses, how could he not gather that many [Yellow-Gold Essence]?

Han Ying Xue smiled happily, her grin spread from ear to ear. She nonchalantly transferred a few Rune Stones to Zhang Yang and said, "With this, I will easily become a Level 3 Rune Crafter! It's a shame though. Rune Craft recipes above Level 3 are not sold by the instructors! Looks like I will have to farm them myself!"

Zhang Yang took out the Rune Stones that Han Ying Xue had just handed over and observed their properties. There were only two Rune Stone, one was for a weapon, and the other was for a shield.

[Rune Stone: Vampiric] (Useable, Tier 2)

Use: Inscribes a rune on a weapon. Grants the weapon a 2 Vampiric effect. Grants a chance to restore 100 HP on every successful attack. Effect will only proc once every 10 seconds. Inscribing a rune has a 50% success rate. Failure will result in a drop on the effect Tier by 1 level.

[Rune Stone: Shield Spike] (Useable, Tier 2)

Use: Inscribes a rune on a shield. Grants the shield with a 2 Shield Spike effect. Grants the ability to inflict 100 Shadow damage on a target after receiving an attack from the same target. Inscribing a rune has a 50% success rate. Failure will result in a drop on the effect Tier by 1 level.

The inscription a Rune starts from 1 to 2 and so on. However, since high Tier Rune Stone could replace the usage of lower Tier Rune Stones, super rich players could buy 10 Rune Stone to jump all the way from 1 to 10. Normal players would start inscribing from Tier 1 Rune Stone 1, to Tier 2 Rune Stone 2. This was the best and most economical way. However, Han Ying Xue's Rune Stones were all in Tier 2! It completely went against her miserly nature!

"Do I look like a miser?" said Han Ying Xue as she winked at Zhang Yang. "Using higher tier Rune Stone could easily increase the success rates!"

Wei Yan Er walked behind Zhang Yang and whispered. "Actually, she had already thrown away many Tier 1 Rune Stones because they had taken up too much space in her inventory.

"You little minx!" bellowed Han Ying Xue angrily.

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Chapter 238: The Infiltration

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Level 1 Rune Stone's were weak and the materials needed for crafting were just too cheap. Almost any Rune Crafter could craft this level of Rune Stone and it only served to raise their mastery level. Just like a [Level 1 Whetstone, it had come to a point where it's something that can be given away. Even the recipient might not appreciate this much! That was the reason why Han Ying Xue had gotten rid of all the Level 1 Rune Stones from her inventory and storage.

Zhang Yang stared at Han Ying Xue, and laughed under his breath.

"What are you looking at? I'll pluck your little balls off and shove them down your throat!" Han Ying Xue scolded viciously.

Zhang Yang laughed more, ignoring her. He took out his Dragon Tooth Battle Axe and inscribed the enhanced Vampire Rune Stone on it.

'Ding! Dragon Tooth Battle Axe has gained the effect of {Vampiric 1}. Level 2 Whetstone effect has been replaced!'

It's a shame that both the whetstone and the Rune Stone could not stack.

Zhang Yang took out another enhanced Vampire Rune Stone and applied on the weapon. However, after two seconds, a "crack" was heard and there was a long and unsightly crack on the weapon's edge.

'Ding! Enchantment failed. The {Vampiric 1} effect on the Dragon Tooth Battle Axe has disappeared. 10% of the weapon Durability has been lost!'

"WTF! You sly minx! What kind of Rune Stone did you gave me! I'd failed at 2!"

Han Ying Xue shrugged and scoffed. "That's your problem! Not me. I only used two Rune Stones and achieve {Mana Drain 2}!"

"What about the little girl?" Zhang Yang laughed as he turned to face Wei Yan Er.

Wei Yan Er shrunk and bashfully whispered. "16 pieces…"

"BAH!" Zhang Yang exploded in laughter. "Looks like there's no such thing as being 'worst'! It can only get much 'worse'!"

"Hey! This young lady here is beautiful and charming! Why would you say I'm worse?!" Wei Yan Er rolled her eyes. "Hurry up and keep on inscribing more Runes! Don't beat around the bush! I have a bet with cousin-sister right here on whose luck would be the worst!"

Luckily, Zhang Yang only used two pieces of enhanced Vampire Rune Stone and managed to upgrade his weapon to {Vampiric 2}. He did not even fail a single time when he came to his shield. He had only used a total of 6 pieces of Rune Stones.

After he was done inscribing Runes, he bid everyone farewell and used the city's Teleportation point to fly over to Tukula Fortress. There, he summoned the white bear and rode on into the wild.

So far, Zhang Yang was the only person who had reached Level 60. The new dungeon "Thunderbolt Prison" require a number of players that his guild could not provide. The only choice left was for him to get everyone to train their levels together. Furthermore, the new dungeon had a rather complicated system. The dungeon required four parties to start the raid. There were not enough members in Lone Desert Smoke to even dispatch 4 parties of 5 men!

Zhang Yang rode through the Frozen Sky Wastelands and entered the Forest of Tanila.

Forest of Tanila is a Level 60 training ground, and it also carried the possibility of being claimed as a Territory! Zhang Yang's current objective was to search for new Territories.

Theoretically, as long as players achieved Level 60 , new Territories would spawn in Level 60 maps.

Forest of Tanila was a place with extremely large and ancient trees. The ground was rather open as the tree were widely spreaded from each other. That being said, the branches grew excessively, and the leaves from all the trees around had covered the entire sky. Light from the sun could only seep through the gaps among the leaves to reach the floor. The forest was extremely cooling, but well-lit. Zhang Yang walked slowly across the forest, pacing slowly without any intention to rush. As he strode on, rays of light beamed on his armor, reflecting the sunlight out across the forest. Zhang Yang lingered in the forest for a total of three days.

On the fourth day, as he was roaming around the forest, he stumbled upon an open area with a camp in the middle of it.

"Hold your steps!" Two Elven warrior rushed over. Both of them wielded long swords. Though they looked extremely graceful, there were markings and tribal paint all over their foreheads, making them look rather savage, their eyes gleaming with killing intent.

[Silver Wings Camp Soldier] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 65

HP: 130,000

Defense: 350

Zhang Yang unsummoned his mount and did an adventurer's salute. "Fellow Elven warriors, I am an adventurer from the White Jade Castle!"

The two female warriors exchange a quick look with each other and one of them asked. "We have sent out countless requests for aid! And yet White Jade Castle sends us a single man?!"

Zhang Yang smiled. "Sometime, a man can do things an army could not!"

"Hmph."

The two female warriors sheathed their swords across their backs as they scoffed.

"Brag all you want. We shall see your strength. Enter the camp and speak to our leader!"

The warriors let down their guards and allowed Zhang Yang to proceed further in.

The camp area was as large as a football field with a defensive parameter made out of wood, to block off wild animals. There were at least thousands of tents in the camp, with the largest tent being right in the center. On its sides, were flag poles stuck into the ground, bearing the sigil of the elven race.

Zhang Yang's priority was to search for a Territory. However, he had now been led on a little detour as this place seemed to have a quest for him. He might as well complete the quest. Who knows? The quest might reward him with something valuable!

Zhang Yang walked around and got into the largest tent. Inside, he saw a female Elf wearing completely white ceremonial clothing. Her chest was leaning on the surface of a table. In one hand, she held a light-silver colored magic staff. With her other hand, she was pointing and picking out random spots on what seemed to be a map. There was a worrying frown on her face.

[Priestess Kalor – Song of the Forest] (Gray-Silver, Humanoid)

Level: 68

HP: 2,000,000

Defense: 700

The moment Zhang Yang stepped into the tent, Kalor noticed him and lifted her head up to glance at him. After having a look at Zhang Yang, she went back to the map. "So, you're the reinforcement sent by the Union?"

"I guess so." Said Zhang Yang. "Priestess Kalor, what sort of trouble are you in?"

Kalor lean back on her chair and sighed lightly. "A bunch of bandits have set up a stronghold in the Thunderstorm Castle, somewhere north of the forest. Their activities are threatening our very lives. Even though we have set up a front line here, the bandits would still sneak around here, often attacking our base. They would rob our supplies and kidnap our people to sell them as slaves!"

Zhang Yang cocked his head. "Why don't you guys destroy their stronghold?" he asked.

"Thunderstorm Castle has a perfect, impregnable defense. Their stronghold has the geographical advantage! With mountains surrounding their base, the only entrance in is limited to one! Furthermore, they have set up three magical cannons at the entrance of the stronghold. With our current force, we will be annihilated if we were to start an attack!" said Kalor disgruntledly.

Kalor sighed. Out of the sudden silence, she stood with a sudden glint in her eyes. She looked at Zhang Yang and smirked. "Perhaps our approach to the attack was wrong. Perhaps…if we were to sneak into the stronghold and find out where they store the energy source and ammunition of the magical cannons and destroy that! Once the cannons are down, we could take the opportunity to strike and destroy the stronghold! Human! Do you accept this impossible mission?"

'Ding! Priestess Kalor has a quest for you: Destroy the Defense of Thunderstorm Castle. Will you accept it?'

Alright, now that he had a quest, he has something to do! Zhang Yang nodded. "Priestess, I will do my best to assist our allied Elven brethren!"

'Ding! You have obtained [A Bag of Explosives]!'

[A Bag of Explosives] (Quest Item)

Use: Tick! Tick! Run! It'll blow after 10 seconds!

"Wonderful! I have here a magic cape that will temporary change your appearance into a female elf! There will be bandits roaming around in the forest! When that happens, I want you to let them kidnap you and allow them to take you into their stronghold! When night comes, you can remove your disguise and find the energy source to destroy it!"

Kalor took out a black cape and handed it over to Zhang Yang.

D*mn! What a bold strategy!

Zhang Yang accepted the cape and scolded the developers for thinking of such a psychotic plan!

[Cape of Disguise] (Quest Item)

Use: Turns you into a beautiful Elven female! Removing the disguise will also purge all immobile status! Note: the magic power of the cape is limited to only one hour.

Charges left: 1/1

Zhang Yang took all the items, placed them in his inventory, and left the place. Based on the location Kalor had explained, the place that he should be heading for was somewhere to the north of the forest. Zhang Yang rode his way north, and after 20 minutes, he arrived at his destination. Zhang Yang observed the stronghold from afar and understood now why the stronghold was said to be impregnable. The castle was built within a valley of mountains. Although the size of the stronghold was large, it was completely shielded by mountains all around it. There was only one entrance and even that was protected with a river surrounding the castle. To enter the stronghold, one must cross a drawbridge from within the castle itself. Furthermore, the three magical cannons hanging outside the entrance of the castle walls were not mere ornaments. Those contraptions are not some toys; they could easily fire at long range, laying waste to anything they struck.

At first, Zhang Yang thought of using {Shadow of the Void} to sneak into the castle. However, he had second thoughts when he saw the large door being tightly shut. The whole time he lay there in wait, the draw bridge was never lowered, even after he had spent some time waiting for something to happen.

The only option left was to get kidnapped by the bandits as a female elf!

It can't be helped. Zhang Yang sighed and summoned the bear. He rode the bear and started searching the forest for the bandits. After only five to six minutes, he found a group of bandits, sitting around a campfire roasting what seemed to be their food. Zhang Yang started to move. He got off the bear, took out the cape, and after a bright glow, Zhang Yang turned from a rugged, tough, manly adventurer into a slim, curvy, and sexy elven female. Zhang Yang was now wearing only a rough linen skirt on him. The rest of his original equipment, his shield, his axe, his armor were all hidden beneath the disguise.

He lowered his head and walked slowly towards the group of bandits, entering their aggro range. He then pretended to act frantic and quickly ran away.

"Hey! There's a girl! Chase after her!" The bandits screamed and started to chase after Zhang Yang. The kidnappers were very happy that their "victim" was such an easy catch, practically walking into their hands. After that, they brought Zhang Yang into the stronghold.

When they approached the river, one of the bandits shouted out to the occupants of the castle, and the door to the castle was opened. The draw bridge was lowered and the bandits entered the castle. After pushing Zhang Yang into a small shack, the bandits locked the doors and left him there.

"Huh?"

The disguise effect of the cape could not be dispelled manually! Much worse, when in disguise, Zhang Yang could not even use his weapon. All he could do right now was to wait until the effect wears off by itself. It did not take long for the magical spell to disperse, returning Zhang Yang to his original appearance. He took out his battle axe and start hacking at the door in front of him.

[Strong Wooden Door] (Tool)

Level: 1

HP: 100,000

Defense: 1,000

After a series of banging and cracking, the door turned into a pile of splintered wood.

Zhang Yang then exited the shack and started his search one house at a time.

Monsters have a certain level of A.I programming. Since this was just a game, the system would only trigger when a player is within the distance of the monster's aggro, regardless of how visible your actual hiding spot was. As long as you're away from the aggro triggering distance, you can stand, breakdance, or take a dump without being attacked.

[Thunderstorm Castle Bandit] (Normal, Humanoid)

Level: 65

HP: 6,500

Defense: 60

Zhang Yang summoned the bear and started his killing spree while searching for the cannon's energy source.

Still, the area of the castle was so large that Zhang Yang had been killing for more than three hours, only managing to cover a quarter of the entire place. By then, it was already 6pm. Zhang Yang logged off and had his dinner before coming back to continue his search. After two hours, he arrived at a rather large building. Four guards were standing outside. They were all elite tier!

[Captain of the Red Shirt] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 65

HP: 130,000

Defense: 350

Just four? Gimme a break…

Zhang Yang pulled on the reins of his bear, and started charging fiercely towards the guards.

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Chapter 239: Invincible King Arthur

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'-1,012!'

'-1,045!'

'-1,009!'

'-1,011!'

Four attacks landed simultaneously on Zhang Yang, taking away only 10% of his entire HP! The basic attack values of the bandit captains should only be around 3,500. Their attacks were nothing but a scratch! Furthermore, Zhang Yang's current armor was already leagues ahead of the number two tank in China! With a full set of Yellow-Gold equipment and the pet mount {Shared Life} ability, these four elite monsters were nothing but ants waiting to be squashed!

Zhang Yang smirked and slashed the monsters with {Horizontal Sweep}, dealing more than 3,800 damage of the monsters. There was still, one drawback while fighting with the OP pet mount. Despite the massive boost to the rider's HP, moving around while mounted was a little too meticulous, it lacked the fine control of an individual person's movement. It would be fine if they were fighting a boss, since it's impossible to dodge the lighting speed attacks. However, fighting normal monster would require agile maneuvers and footwork! Furthermore, some skills were inaccessible while mounted.

Zhang Yang got off his mount and stomped the ground hard with {Thunder Strike}, slowing down all four of monsters. Zhang Yang thought of a plan and laughed. In such a small area, Zhang Yang started to kite the monsters around. He finally made it so that the bandits blocked off each other, only being able to attack him one at a time!

With {Block} and other status effect skills, Zhang Yang and the bear killed off the four elite monsters with relative ease.

Among the loots, there was a key.

[Large Gray-Silver Treasure Chest Key] (Useable)

Use: Opens a locked Large Gray-Silver Treasure Chest.

After taking care of the guards, Zhang Yang went up to the large building and slammed the edge of his axe onto the door.

The door was also a destructible target with 500,000 HP and 1,500 Defense. It took Zhang Yang quite some time and a whole lot of banging and hacking before he got the door open.

Bang!

After the wooden door fell apart into many broken planks of wood, Zhang Yang entered the building and saw that it was a huge storage room, filled with thousands of solid chunks of blue colored crystals. Zhang Yang referred back to the quest helper and saw that he was standing right at where he was supposed to set the explosives. Zhang Yang got on the bear and took out the [Bag of Explosives]. He steeled himself before he lit the fuse, and tossed the explosives into the warehouse before rushing away from the scene like a race horse and its jockey.

10…9…8…7….3,2,1!

BOOM!

A deafening explosion was heard from behind, sending pieces of the building flying in all directions. A large mushroom cloud soared up into the night sky, further darkening the already blackened night sky.

Even though Zhang Yang had left the place before the explosive even began ticking, the shockwave from the explosion had knocked Zhang Yang off his feet, sending him and the bear flying into a stone wall.

Wham!

The collision was so strong that it had taken off as much as a third of his HP!

After the ringing in Zhang Yang eardrums ceased, voices and screams from the bandits started to replace the ringing. Chaos filled the air and many of the bandits started to run around in massive confusion.

"Kill!"

In the same time, the drums of war could be heard from a distance. Zhang Yang got up and headed to a clear spot where he saw groups of Elven soldiers on leopards appearing outside the Castle! Riding with the speed of the wind, the warriors were charging in fearlessly with the weapons it their hands, ready to strike down anyone in their path!

Wham! Bam! Boom!

The battle started with the padding sound of the running leopards, as they sprinted with their might, carrying their Elven masters into the castle. The cannons on the castle wall had started firing, managing to kill hundreds of Elven warriors. However, since Zhang Yang had already destroyed their ammunition depot, the cannons stopped firing after one volley.

Zhang Yang took this chance to rush over to the castle entrance. He killed the bandits guarding the entrance and took control over the drawbridge. He flipped the switch and lowered the draw bridge to allow the charging groups of Elven warrior to enter the castle.

Kalor was also present in the fight. She was riding a black Night Panther. She approached Zhang Yang. He saw her legs seeping out of her ceremonial outfit, revealing her sexy jade white thighs!

"You did it, warrior!" said Kalor happily.

'Ding! You have completed the quest: Destroy the Defense of Thunderstorm Castle. Obtained 1,000,000 Experience Points!'

Zhang Yang smiled weakly and said, "Thanks to the Gods of war, I'm barely alive at the moment!"

Kalor smiled back and turned to gaze up towards the peak of the castle. "Warrior! We're not done yet. Even though the defenses have been taken out, there is still much to do before victory can be claimed. The leader of these bandits is an extremely powerful beastman! I have heard that his sword strikes are so strong that they could break apart even the strongest shields ever! He is said to have torn wild beasts apart with his bare hands! We…our people call him…Arthur the Butcher!"

Zhang Yang stared back at her, unfazed. "In the face of justice, let those who worship evil's might! Beware my power, justice shall fight!" Zhang Yang tried to say something cool but he butchered the line on the way.

Still, Kalor was impressed by his speech and expressed her admiration. "Well said, let's go now, Warrior! Together we shall end this monster's life!"

'Ding! Priestess Kalor has a quest for you: Kill King Arthur. Will you accept it?'

Duh…Accept.

"Warriors of the night, to me!" 12 female Elven warriors, all of them atop Night Panthers gathered close to Kalor as she raised her magic staff up high.

"It's time! For revenge!"

"FOR REVENGE!"

13 Night Panthers and their riders dashed towards the peak of the castle. Zhang Yang followed closely behind on his white bear.

Along the way, they had to jump across dead corpses of both bandits and the Elven warriors. War is always cruel. War does not spare the innocent. War knows no peace. War will always bring death.

"Foolish Elves! How dare you sneak into my territory! I shall mince your flesh!" A thunderous roar blasted through the entire stronghold. The roar was so loud that all of the riders, including Zhang Yang had to let go of the reins to cover their aching eardrums!

Kalor face turned green. "It's…It's the demon! It's Arthur!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Sounds of crashing rubble was heard in the distance, along with the sound of a woman wailing in pain. In a flash, a three meter tall, green-skin man appeared right in front of everyone. In his right hand was a massive sword, dripping in fresh blood. In his other hand was an Elven warrior's neck. She was choked so hard that she could not even scream. All she could do was struggle in vain.

When the green monster saw Zhang Yang and Kalor, he cracked a malicious grin and tightened the grip in his left hand with a force so strong that the sound of cracking bones could be heard. The struggling Elven warrior suddenly collapsed as her life was taken in an instant.

[Leader of the Bandits, King Arthur] (Gray-Silver, Humanoid)

Level: 68

HP: 4,000,000

Defense: 700

"Kill the demon!" Kalor roared. She jumped down from her Night Panther and sprinted forward. Once in range, she pointed her staff at King Arthur and started chanting a spell.

All the 12 Elven Warrior followed behind and charged towards King Arthur after getting off their mounts.

"Bah! Imbecile little weaklings! This King could kill you all with one finger!" King Arthur laughed manically. He lifted a massive leg and swept across the field knocking, into one of the female Elven warriors.

Wham!

The boss force was so overwhelmingly strong that, when the female warrior was hit, all she could do was cry "Argh" and slide across the floor, silent. The body was so disfigured that the chest had caved in, as if all the bones had shattered from within. Blood oozed out from her mouth, nose, eyes and ears.

King Arthur brandished his sword and let out a glowing ray of light. At the speed of lightning, the sword slashed through four Elven warriors so swiftly that Zhang Yang could not even make out what he was doing!

Shiiing! Shiiing! Shiiing! Shiiing!

After what seemed to be a million strikes, blood spilled everywhere like broken fountains. All four targeted female warriors were literally turned into fine mince meat. Pieces of them fell to the ground like a large pork loin going through a meat grinder. The result was so disturbing that Zhang Yang could not bear to look.

The battle was completely one sided. Five warriors were taken down, no, mercilessly destroyed in an instant!

D*mn! Those warriors were elite tier! They had at least 130,000 HP each! Yet, even they had not lasted for more than a second against the boss! This was a battle that he cannot turn from! Zhang Yang jumped down from his mount and rushed towards King Arthur.

{Wild Charge}!

Zhang Yang commanded the bear to charge up to the boss as he slashed with his axe.

Immune!

Boom!

All attacks, including the blast of {Punishment Ray} from Kalor were useless against King Arthur! All their attacks were only responded with the word "Immune".

D*mn! All attacks are immune? How are we supposed to fight!?

Kalor face turned white as a paper. The staff in her hands trembles from her fear. "Y-You! You demon! You have the Sword in the Stone!" Kalor cried as she saw the huge bloodied sword in King Arthur's hand. Despair filled her soul.

"Hahaha! I am the King's Candidate! A man who will become

king! All those who oppose me shall die!" King Arthur lifted with his sword. Zhang Yang noticed that he was about to do the same series of quick slashes that he performed earlier, and prepared for the attack.

The sword glowed again and this time, this time, King Arthur swung the sword again, instantly killing every single target in his sight. In just a few seconds, all 12 of the Elven warriors were in pieces. The last target was Zhang Yang. He could not see where King Arthur was, but only caught a gleam of the sword. A strike was coming!

{Shadow of the Void}!

Zoom!

Zhang Yang entered an alternate dimension and avoided the boss ultimate killing strike!

Since the boss was invincible, it had to be a mechanism set by the quest. In order to kill King Arthur, he had to find a way to dispel the invincibility on him! Since it was part of the story line, King Arthur's ability to kill everyone with a single strike seemed reasonable.

Zhang Yang withdrew all the way back into the corner of a random shack. After the 20 second effect expired, Zhang Yang reappeared back to the "real" world and walked out of the shack. King Arthur was long gone by now. However, Zhang Yang still kept his guard up. He walked carefully towards the spot he was standing and found Kalor's mount lying dead on its side. He walked a little further to find Kalor's body split in two. She was dead before her body could even fall to the ground.

D*mn!

When Zhang Yang approached the body, a bright, white light flashed. Countless of white particles emerged from Kalor's corpse and gathered together to form a humanoid figure.

[Kalor's Soul] (Normal, Summon)

Level: 1

HP: 0/50

Defense: 0

Zhang Yang approached the soul and spoke to her.

"Warrior! You're all right! Thank the gods!" said Kalor's hallowed soul as she expressed her happiness and surprise.

If it was another player doing the quest, they would surely have been killed. If Zhang Yang had died, he would have had to return back here to revive himself. The story would continue on anyway.

Zhang Yang kept quiet. Not knowing what to reply, he nodded.

"Warrior! My soul will not last any longer." Said Kalor.

"That demon had obtained the legendary artifact! The Sword in the Stone! He now has an immortal body! No one…no one could kill him now! I need you to find an Elf called Merlinda! Currently, she resides in the Sacred Palace of Frozen Fractal! You can find her there! Only she has a way to defeat the demon! Please make haste, warrior! You must kill him before he kills all my brethren!"

Arghh--

Kalor's soul trembled broke off into countless of light particle. The particles faded away eventually.

'Ding! Quest Change: Kill King Arthur. Please proceed to Sacred Palace of Frozen Fractal and search for Merlinda!'

Merlina…what a familiar name. Wasn't she the same NPC that was held captive in the Underground Tower back then? Zhang Yang tried to recall. He summoned the [Gold-Eared Bear King] and rode out of the stronghold. Luckily, there were no surviving bandits as they had all been killed by the attacking Elven warrior army back then. The place was completely deserted and Zhang Yang rode swiftly, leaving Thunderstorm Castle behind.

Now, the million-dollar question. Where was this Palace of Frozen Fractal?

Right now, the only thing that came into his mind was Han Ying Xue, the directional idiot, the broken compass! That lady had absolutely no sense of direction, but had a knack of finding the right places at the right times! Zhang Yang could only feel disgruntled about it.

Hold up. Zhang Yang remembered something. He tried to recall the memories back from his past experience. Back then, he remembered grinding before in the same map, and went the Palace of Frozen Fractal. There was a boss called the Frozen Fractal Witch Spectre, which was a Yellow-Gold tier. However, back then, the boss was already engaging a guild. He had only managed to catch a glimpse of it. It was supposed to be…the West side!

Zhang Yang pulled the reins of the bear and headed towards the West of the map.

Zhang Yang rode fast and passed through a thick forest. After a while, the forest cleared up and reveal a large flatland. In the distance ahead, Zhang Yang could now see the silhouette of a palace, and as he got closer and closer, the image of the palace got clearer. Zhang Yang stood from a distance, surveying the entire palace. It was as large as a football stadium! It was probably the same size as the sphinx in Egypt!

The entrance to the palace had two skeletal soldiers guarding it. Their deep, dark eyes was lit up with the familiar green-emerald colored flames.

[Frozen Fractal Skeletal Warrior] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 65

HP: 130,000

Defense: 350

From the looks of it, and the names of the skeletal warriors, this must be the place!

Zhang Yang felt a little drowsy and found out it was already 12 midnight. He quickly checked around his location and logged out, calling it a day.

The next day, after his daily routine, he logged back in and reappeared at the same place. He summoned the white bear and rode towards the palace. When Zhang Yang was within range, he charged into them and start his assault. The aggro range of the skeletal warrior was extremely large. Before Zhang Yang could enter their melee range, they had already pulled out their spears, let out their roar, and charged towards Zhang Yang.

As soon as Zhang Yang got within 10 meters from the skeletal warriors, Zhang Yang jumped down from the bear and used {Charge}, colliding into one of the skeletal warriors. At the same time, Zhang Yang commanded the bear to used {Wild Charge} and engage another skeletal warrior.

{Blood Rage}! {Horizontal Sweep}!

Wham! Four counts of extremely high damage was inflicted!

Two of the monsters were stunned and the remaining two struck Zhang Yang.

{Block}!

Thud! Zhang Yang stomped the ground, activating {Thunder Strike}, slowing down the four monsters as they moved slower towards him.

{Blast Wave}!

Four "-593!" popped out and all of the monsters was stunned again.

The white bear could only focus on one monster at a time, chomping on them. This Yellow-Gold pet's regular attack was high, but sadly, its skills were lackluster, dealing only 1,900 DPS. Still, it was a value that could be evenly matched with a fully Gray-Silver geared Level 50 player!

Luckily this was not a boss! The monster's attack speed was fast, but not fast enough to be unavoidable. Without breaking a sweat, Zhang Yang danced around with the monsters and played them like they were just nothing but dance partners. He quickly killed them all while only losing as much as 5,000 HP! He did not even need to sit down to eat any recovery snacks!

Zhang Yang proceeded to enter the palace. After passing through the gates, Zhang Yang entered a flower garden with thousands of withered flowers. There were pathways to the left and right that branched out from the main path. The palace was so old, who knows how many years it had once stood in glory before turning into ruins. With cracked walls and broken pillars lying everywhere; the once beautiful marbled floor was now just pieces of broken tiles. Only two to three pieces of marble tiles were still intact to tell hints of their tale.

Zhang Yang followed his usual behavior and took the pathway to the left.

Crack!

In just a few steps in, the ground beneath Zhang Yang cracked open. A pair of skeletal hands came out from the soil and grabbed Zhang Yang's legs. No wonder the pathway was so empty! All the monsters were hiding beneath the ground!

At a simple mental command, the bear growled fiercely and began swinging its massive claws.

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Chapter 240: Frozen Ice Weeding

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This monster that had a fetish for human feet was also a Frozen Fractal Skeletal Warrior. After sneaking up on Zhang Yang, the monster got out of the ground, covered in dirt and sand. The eyes were just the same as the previous skeletal warrior, malice-filled green-emerald flames and sought nothing but destruction. However, no matter how malicious it was, any non-boss monster was nothing but a scarecrow waiting for Zhang Yang to mow down.

The pair of Zhang Yang and the [Gold-Eared Bear King]turned this monster into a pile of brittle bones within half a minute. The monster dropped a few [Cotton Cloths] and 60 copper coins. What a stingy monster!

Zhang Yang continued down the pathway and confronted many more hidden skeletal warriors. However, no matter how many of them came up from the ground, it was their suicide wish. Without breaking a sweat, Zhang Yang sent them back to whence they came; into the ground.

Just as Zhang Yang was about to turn a corner, he caught a glimpse of a shiny object.

"Hm?"

He walked a few steps backwards and examined the object closely. The shiny object was a crystallized leaf growing from a plant. The branch had three leaves growing from it and was hidden behind a large rock in the corner. If hadn't been paying attention, he would have surely miss it completely.

This…this is a Frozen Ice Weeding!

Even though Zhang Yang had never practiced "Herb Picking", and was unable to detect herbs and their positions in the mini-map, he knew the importance and value of this super famous herb!

[Frozen Ice Weeding] is a main ingredient when it comes to crafting [Beginner Mobility Potion]!

What is the most important thing when it comes to PvP? It would be the ability to counter status effect skills! If a player was inflicted with a status effect, it would bring an end to the fight no matter how strong one's attack was!

[Mobility Potion] is a potion that grant immunity to immobile, slow, and stun effects! This is extremely important to Hunters, Thief, and a few melee class characters! For example, the longest status effect came from the Ice branch of Spells. When a player reaches Level 60, Cryomancers could learn the skill -- {Heart of Ice}. This skill would grant an additional slowing effect to {Frost Arrow}! By then, they could easily play catch and chase with other melee attacking players until the latter died!

Take Hunters for example, because of their minimum range, once an enemy got within their range, they would be sitting ducks if they could not regain distance!

[Mobility Potion] was so valuable because of the fact that status control skills existed in the first place!

Even though [Beginner Mobility Potion] would only last for three seconds, it was ample time in PvP. 3 seconds could either save you or completely ensure victory! This potion is a must-have in any Professional League tier fights!

However, the most troubling problem with [Beginner Mobility Potion] was the scarcity [Frozen Ice Weeding]! Besides guilds that had the item and sold them out, no one else knew where to harvest the herb!

Now, Zhang Yang has discovered that secret. It had been here all along! This place, the Sacred Palace of the Frozen Fractal was where this herb came from!

It was no wonder why so many guilds in his previous life had waged wars against each other to occupy this place! Not only did it host the Frozen Fractal Witch Spectre, it was also the place that spawns [Frozen Ice Weeding]!

Frozen Fractal Witch Spectre was a Yellow-Gold Level 60 boss, and once players exceeded Level 100, no one would even want to farm for Level 60 Yellow-Gold equipment! However, that was not the main point! The most valuable loot to be obtained from this place was the [Frozen Ice Weeding]! Potions and Herbs will always remain relevant at any level!

There were other tiers of potions besides Beginner, such as Normal and Advanced, with Normal having a five second effect and Advanced having a 10 second status immunity duration. The other two tiers of potions were as hard to produce as the Beginner tier. The main ingredient to craft the potion was even harder and rarer than [Frozen Ice Weeding]! That was why, these three tiers of Mobility Potion were highly demanded in the potion market! They were one of the most sought after ever, in the market.

Zhang Yang cracked a smile. This place is a gold mine! He will make sure that Lone Desert Smoke occupies this holy ground!

However, it was a pity that he did not learn "Herb Picking". If he attempted to dig out the herb, it would only destroy the herb. He needed a player with the harvesting skill to come and dig it out. Ever since Zhang Yang had announced that he will support artisan-type players, many players in Lone Desert Smoke started to "spawn" gathering-type players. They would not spend much time leveling, investing all their time in gathering herbs, mining minerals, cutting leathers, and other materials! As long as they could complete a certain quest, they would be paid and rewarded!

…

The Sacred Palace of Frozen Fractal had three sections, the Front Wing, Middle Wing, and the Rear Wing. Between each hall was a huge flower garden in the middle of the palace. Zhang Yang proceeded on killing several more skeletal warrior for at least another hour and managed to clear the Front Wing. He walked through the withered garden and moved on to the Middle Wing.

Along the way, Zhang Yang took notice of the herbs. [Frozen Ice Weeding] only grew in the flower garden and along the pathway. There was not a single herb in the main wing. The herb was most prevalent in the gardens! After a rough estimation, Zhang Yang counted at least 100 pieces of [Frozen Ice Weeding] just in the Front Wing and Middle Wing! If the spawn rate in the Middle and the Rear Wing were similar enough, he could harvest at least 150 pieces of [Frozen Ice Weeding] in one sweep. Since herbs respawned in between the time of 30 minutes and 2 hours, he could harvest around 1,800 pieces in one day, if he were to calculate the respawn rate at its longest possibility -- 2 hours!

Since the three tiers of Mobility Potions could be sold for 100, 200, and 400 gold coins each, 1,800 pieces of [Frozen Ice Weeding] would produce at least 1,800 [Beginner Mobility Potion]! That meant that he could earn 180,000 gold coins in one day!

Hehehe, no wonder those guilds in my previous life were fighting for their lives to get this place! I smell gold here! A huge pile of gold!

Zhang Yang nodded his head in appreciation and continued on his way.

As the name Frozen Fractal suggested, this place was filled with shiver-inducing chilly air. Even though the surrounding environment was like summer, the place was basically a freezer! Luckily, players could easily adjust the sensitivity of their five senses, or else, they would be sneezing from the cold!

The Middle Wing was slightly larger than the Front Wing. The moment Zhang Yang walked into the Middle Wing, an ice arrow came out of nowhere, flying across the room and stabbing Zhang Yang.

'-1,812!'

Zhang Yang received a sudden damage. A skeletal spellcaster reveal itself in front of Zhang Yang. Its appearance was roughly the same as the skeletal warrior, only that it wielded a staff instead of a sword.

[Frozen Fractal Skeletal Spellcaster] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 65

HP: 130,000

MP: 60,000

Defense: 450

Zhang Yang had a sudden thought. He recalled that the bear had the skill {Icy Build}. He should test the skill and figure out its potential!

With a mental command, the bear growl and headed straight for the skeletal spellcaster. The skeletal spellcaster had been in the middle of casting another {Frost Arrow}. Before it could finish it, the white bear had charged in with {Wild Charge}, stunning the monster, interrupting the spell at the same time. The bear started swinging its massive claws and attacked the monster. After one second, the monster recovered and faced the bear, starting to chant a spell to attack the bear.

'-351!'

The {Frost Arrow} flew across and dealt severely weakened damage to the bear! Rather strong!

Zhang Yang laughed and praised the effectiveness of the pet skill! It had been worth every coin! He used {Charge} and rushed towards the monster. He stacked {Cripple Defense} and increased the overall damage dealt by him and the bear. To defeat a high HP, high Defense monster, {Cripple Defense} should be prioritized first!

Zhang Yang and the bear continued to attack the monster until its HP dropped below 20%. Zhang Yang accumulated his Rage and used {Killing Cleave}!

'-7,565!'

D*mn, it was not a critical hit.

{Blood Rage}! {Warrior's Will}!

{Destructive Smash}!

'-8,900!' Critical hit.

20% of the skeletal spellcaster's HP was 26,000. After that combo, it was left with only 9% HP!

Without much effort, the skeletal spellcaster was turned into a pile to bones and scattered into the wind.

Zhang Yang continued killing for yet another hour, before arriving at the lowest part of the Middle Wing. There, he saw four skeletal spellcasters guarding something that looked like a cage. Inside the cage was a female Elven priestess who wore a white ceremonial outfit. Both her hands and legs were shackled with iron chains.

When Zhang Yang observed the female priestess' name tag, he smirked. It was Merlinda – Song of the Forest. She was the same NPC that Zhang Yang had saved from the Underground Tower! Right now, he was still wearing the same ring that he had obtained from the "Beyond Perfect" quest!

This woman, how did she get caught again! She must be sharing the same fate as a certain plumber's princess.

Zhang Yang shook his head and patted the bear. With a mental command, the bear king growled and charged towards the skeletal spellcasters.

This time, it was best to let the pet to take the lead. The four skeletal spellcaster started their powerful spells, but since the white bear had a 90% Frost damage resistance, it was the best meat shield against Ice Spells!

'-349!'

'-373!'

'-330!'

'-364!'

Four weakened damage texts popped out above the white bear!

The bear growled and charged towards one of the skeletal guards. It lifted its massive claw and started attacking.

Zhang Yang followed his bear closely behind and used {Charge} on another monster.

{Blood Rage}! {Horizontal Sweep}!

In an instant, all monsters switched targets and started to cast {Frost Arrow}, directed at Zhang Yang.

{Blast Wave}!

A blast waves burst out and stunned all four monsters at the same time.

"Warrior!? Is that you?" Merlinda was both surprised and happy when she noticed Zhang Yang. As a strong A.I NPC, it was not surprising for her to have a good "memory".

Zhang Yang grunted a reply and continued to kill the monsters. He thought to himself, "Back when I fought Terpot Ryhar, this NPC was shackled and lying on the ground. Even after the battle was over, she was still lying down there! I was busy looting the equipment and the [Land Lease] and died no sooner. I wonder, how did this woman escape from that place?"

The four elite skeletal spellcasters were rather strong. Zhang Yang had to use {Shield Wall} and activate {Merlinda's Shadow}, {Berserker's Heal}, even using {Shadow of the Void} to escape the battle. He let the bear tank the monsters as he ate some recovery snacks before rejoining the battle with full heath. Only then, did he manage to kill all the monsters successfully.

"Priestess, how did you end up here?" Zhang Yang tried to open the cage but the system rejected it, notifying Zhang Yang that the cage could not be opened via attacks. It could only be opened with a key.

"I was here to search for my race's Fallen Celestial Artifact!" said Merlinda earnestly. "This place was once a sacred palace of the moon god ritual! However, as you can see, this place has succumbed to the flow of history -- time itself. After thorough research, I have found out that the Elven Celestial Artifact, the Staff of Prophecy was here! However, when I arrived here to search for the artifact, I found out that sacred palace of the past had already been taken over by an evil and powerful spectral spellcaster! Even though I tried my best to confront the monster, I was unable to fight him. He locked me up and forced me to start the Ritual of the Moon God, to give him the power of the Moon God!"

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Chapter 241: Frozen Fractal Witch Spectre

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"Priestess! I bring grave news!" Zhang Yang retold the events that had happened where Kalor had led an attack to assault the Thunderstorm Castle which failed miserably when King Arthur slaughtered them all.

Merlinda listened and could only express her sadness and rage. After a while, she finally opened her mouth to speak. "The Sword in the Stone is a godly relic with unlimited power. Legend has it that only the bravest of warriors could lift the sword out of the stone. Warrior, I would need your help! As I am now imprisoned, I would need you to find the Frozen Key that is on the person of the Frozen Fractal Witch Spectre! You'll need to get the key and the Staff of Prophecy! Only then, will I be able to confront King Arthur with his Sword in the Stone!"

'Ding! Quest Change: Kill King Arthur. The quest requires you to kill the Frozen Fractal Witch Spectre and get the Frozen Key and the Staff of Prophecy for Merlinda!'

"O' brave warrior! Please take extreme caution! Frozen Fractal Witch Spectre has powerful Ice magic! She cannot be defeated easily!" Merlinda warned Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang nodded. "Priestess, rest assured. I shall return with the key and the staff!"

After getting out of the Middle Wing, Zhang Yang had to pass through the flower garden. Along the way, he spotted many more [Frozen Ice Weeding] and was extremely agitated. Soon later, a man who sat atop a bear entered the Back Wing, having killed more than 10 monsters along the way.

The largest area in palace was the Middle Wing, and the smallest was the Back Wing. As expected, 'smaller' was just a relative term. It was still huge. The area was supported by 12 humongous pillars. Each pillar was at least 60 to 70 meters tall. Close to the ceiling were carvings that looked like the Moon God. Along the pillars were 12 Spectre Warriors sitting atop Skeletal War Horses, standing guard beside their respective pillars. Each of the warrior was fully clad in thick metal armor, with only the green-emerald flaming eyes visible through the gaps of the helmet visors.

[Frozen Fractal Death Knight] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 65

HP: 300,000

Defense: 1,000

Note: Beware the Harbinger of Doom! Beware their swords.

In the deepest part of the palace, there was a huge majestic throne. Sitting on the throne was a huge being with the name tag "Frozen Fractal Witch Spectre, Luke Vick". Even though it was a spectre, it did not possess any skeletal body like the normal spectre monster. This one looked like a mighty monarch, a dominating and powerful aura being emitted from its throne.

[Frozen Fractal Witch Spectre, Luke Vick] (Yellow-Gold, Spectre)

Level: 68

HP: 10,000,000

MP: 5,000,000

Defense: 1,200

Zhang Yang smirked. He might have trouble against any other boss with such stats. But this particular one was clearly ice-based! It would be nothing but an easy target for his bear!

Now, before worrying about the boss, its best to take care of the 12 death knights!

Zhang Yang picked up a small rock about the size of his palm and tossed it at one of the death knight.

Pak!

It hit. The rock toss was nothing but a provocation. It did not inflict any sort of damage to it. The death knight that was hit by the rock turned around and bellowed. It pulled the reins of its skeletal horse and charged towards Zhang Yang.

What a cheater! How could it use a mount inside an indoor environment!

Zhang Yang sighed and took several steps back, waiting for the right timing as the monster entered his own effective range.

Shuush!

Zhang Yang glided across the floor with {Charge} and quickly inflicted several layers of {Cripple Defense}. He quickly chained a normal attack after and dealt 1,726 damage.

The Death Knight recovered quickly after Zhang Yang's {Charge}, this time, before it could even lift it sword, Zhang Yang commanded the white bear to use {Wild Charge} and stunned the monster again. After one second, the monster recovered again and finally able to attack. It lifted its huge sword and swung it towards Zhang Yang.

{Block}!

Having completed the five layers of {Cripple Defense}, Zhang Yang's attack was raised to a higher level. Slowly, each strike of his axe increased in damage over time.

Suddenly, the emerald flames in its eyes glowed with a sudden burst of flame, and the sword in its hands burst out in dark green flames!

'Ding! Frozen Fractal Death Knight has used {Death Strike}. All damage increased by 100%!'

'-6,212!'

The {Death Strike} was similar to a Critical strike, it did double damage. Its basic attacking power had reached 10,000! Only a tank could survive after taking the hit! If other classes were to replace him, he or she would surely die!

Zhang Yang jumped in surprise. He quickly hopped atop the bear's saddle. {Shared Life} was automatically applied, boosting up his HP to 41,920.

Technically, Zhang Yang's and Gold-Eared Bear King's combined attacks were superior to that of the Death Knights. However, they would be unable to hold for too long as the monster had 300,000 HP. Zhang Yang was forced to use {Shield Wall}, {Berserker's Heal}, and even {Merlinda's Shadow} to kill the monster.

At his current level, Zhang Yang had already upgraded {Shield Wall} to Level six. Coupled with the set-equipment's set-effect that reduced {Shield Wall}'s cool down by one minute, {Shield Wall}'s current cool down was only at three minutes and 30 seconds! This was only 30 seconds more than {Berserker's Heal}'s cool down.

After eating some recovery snacks, Zhang Yang waited for two minutes before attacking the second Death Knight. Since each Death Knight would take up some time, and Zhang Yang would need to wait for his skill to finish their cool down, he would spend more than 50 minutes to kill all 12 Death Knights. All that was left now was only the boss itself! But before he started the fight, Zhang Yang decided to wait until all his skills were ready to be used.

Zhang Yang paced slowly to the bear and gently patted the white's fluffy head. "It's time, Whitey. Bite that sucker!"

Whitey growled and kicked off his velvety paws, rushing towards the boss. Since mounts were generally faster than a character's movement speed, the white bear reached the boss's aggro range fairly quickly.

Luke Vick stood up in surprise and bellowed angrily. "The living? How could the living be in my palace! Die!"

It raised it's the staff in its right hand and started casting a {Frost Arrow}. With a quick mental command, Zhang Yang made the bear U-turn sharply. Before the boss could finish casting the spell, the bear had already ran out of the effective range, wagging its stumpy, fluffy white tail at the boss to stare.

Enraged, Luke Vick started coming after the bear. When the boss walked out of the throne room, Zhang Yang quickly greeted it with a {Charge}.

{Cripple Defense}!

'-288!' {Crippled Defense}.

'-1,629!' Normal attack.

The aggro on the bear was quickly replaced by Zhang Yang. The boss started targeting Zhang Yang, casting {Frost Arrow}.

{Wild Charge}!

The bear rocketed towards the boss and clawed at the boss ferociously. However, it seemed that the skill was unable to interrupt the boss' skill casting.

In that case!

{Crash Magic}!

Immune!

D*mn! It did not work. It was not as weak as the one in the Tomb of the Shadow Ash!

'-6,212!'

The boss' damage was strong as well! With one strike, the boss was able to take away a quarter of Zhang Yang's HP!

Zhang Yang inflicted five layers of {Cripple Defense} and started his full-scale assault. He consumed a bottle of [Beginner Power Potion, used {Warrior's Will}, hacking away with {Destructive Smash}!

WHAM!

'-10,596!'

Such power! Even Zhang Yang himself was shocked at his own damage. At the current stage, which non-tank character would survive this hit?! What if, in the future, Zhang Yang could get his hands on the "God of War" inheritance and gain the ability to wield a two-handed weapon, using its long 3.8 seconds attack interval weapon to strike an enemy. What sort of damage would he deal in that case?

It was a pleasant surprise but he currently had an immediate threat to deal with. The boss was strong to begin with. {Frost Arrow} was fired every three seconds. With 10,000 basic attack, Zhang Yang would be receiving a constant 2,000 DPS! How long would he last against a boss that had such an abundance of HP?

After 25 seconds, Zhang Yang HP was reduced down to a dangerous number of 237 HP. However, he did not activate {Berserker's Heal} and fought the boss, regardless of his HP.

'10,032!'

A {Frost Arrow} hits Zhang Yang on the chest, however, instead of killing him, Zhang Yang recovered his health!

This is the 5 set-equipment set-effect of his Furious set!

"When you received a fatal attack, the attack will not kill you, and will cause you to recover 40% of your maximum HP. Effect will only proc once every FIVE minutes."

After three seconds, a second {Frost Arrow} was fired, and Zhang Yang took the attack was left with only 4,031 HP

The boss had started its next attack.

{Frost Arrow} 1 seconds…2 seconds…2.9 seconds…

Pew!

{Shadow of the Void}!

Zhang Yang tucked his tail and ran away from the boss. He reappeared far from the boss' effective attack range and ate recovery snacks to heal his HP. Back at the battle, the boss had switched his target to the bear after losing sight of Zhang Yang.

'-1,023!'

Pew!

A {Frost Arrow} was fired and the bear barely felt it!

Hm. {Icy Build}, nice job!

With haste, Zhang Yang quickly recovered himself back to full health and used {Charge}. This time, to prevent him from gaining too much aggro value, Zhang Yang had unequipped his shield to disable his passive skill {Shield Oath}.

The bear was now the main tank and Zhang Yang acted as the main attacker! This was one of the reasons why Zhang Yang did not want to "combine" with the bear. It was to allow the bear to gain enough aggro to pull the boss! In the "combined" status, attacks of a mount would be registered as the attacks of its master!

After eight attacks from the boss, Zhang Yang mentally command the bear to use {Wild Recovery} which healed the bear 50% HP over a period 10 seconds.

After another 20 seconds, Zhang Yang aggro value had exceeded the bear's, he immediately reduced his skill usage to allow the bear to regain the boss' aggro.

After two minutes into the fight, the bear was finally dying after being shot countless times. Zhang Yang quickly equipped his shield and hopped onto the bear, raising the "combined" HP to 21,420 / 41,920.

Even though Zhang Yang possessed strong damage reduction skills, his damage reduction was inferior when compared to the white bear's {Icy Build}. Just 30 seconds into the battle, Zhang Yang was already being beaten to a pulp!

{Berserker's Heal}!

'41,920'

Once Zhang Yang triggered the skill and healed both himself and the bear, he hopped down and started to fight, one man and one bear!

However, back when Zhang Yang and the bear were linked together, Zhang Yang had gathered a huge amount of aggro from the boss. When Zhang Yang separated from the bear, the boss switched to Zhang Yang instead of the bear. As the battle progressed dangerously and he was close to death once again, he used {Rearm} and activated {Shadow of the Void} to run away, again!

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Chapter 242: The Sudden Appearance of a Territory

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Zhang Yang managed to lose his aggro once again, forcing Luke Vick to cast {Frost Arrow} spell at Whitey instead. Zhang Yang recuperated briefly, hefted his battle axe without its usual partner, the shield, and dashed towards Luke Vick.

After two minutes, Whitey { Wild Recovery}'s cooldown was completed, and perfect cycle was bound to fall into place!

Zhang Yang had cleared his aggro twice. Whitey's DPS was at least 1,600, and Zhang Yang was intentionally controlling his firepower throughout the battle. Thus, Luke Vick's aggro was securely locked on Gold-Eared Bear King!

'{Wild Recovery}, unite, {Berserker's Heal}, split…'

Luke Vick's HP continuously reduced as they repeated the perfect cycle over and over again!

Ten minutes later, Zhang Yang's {Shadow of the Void} was ready again. He used {Shadow of the Void} again after madly slashing at Luke Vick to fully capitalize on the opportunity, stealing the aggro from Whitey for a few short moments!

40 Minutes later, Luke Vick's HP bar was at its end, the boss suddenly roared loudly, an expression of disbelief on its face, and fell defeated!

'Ding! You have slain Frozen Fractal Witch Spectre, Luke Vick, you have acquired 10,000,000 Experience points!'

Hu!

Zhang Yang let out of a long breath. One of the reasons why he could defeat Luke Vick alone was because he had combined the abilities of his pet mount and and his own skills such as {Beast Taming}, {Berserker's Heal}, {Wild Recovery}, and {Shadow of the Void}. Each one of them was indispensable coming together to form a miraculous culmination!

Luke Vick's loot was generous; there was seven pieces of Yellow-Gold equipment and a lot of Gray-Silver equipment, it was truly awesome!

At Zhang Yang's current level, he did not bother giving any of the Gray-Silver equipment a second look but directly threw them all into his backpack. However, the Yellow-Gold equipment did catch hold of his attention, and he studied them with the seriousness of a curator!

Among the seven pieces of Yellow-Gold equipment, two of them were leather armor, one of them a cloth armor and the other a heavy armor chestpiece, all of them being set equipment! The other two pieces of Yellow-Gold equipment were a cape and a pair of accessories.

[Flawless Defense Cape] (Yellow-Gold, Cape)

HP: 84

Vitality: 21

Equipment: Absorbs 40 damage points each time you take damage.

{Unidentified}

Level Requirement: 60

[Lover's Charm: Yang] (Yellow-Gold, Accessory)

Use: Immediately teleports you to the target's surrounding. The target is the wearer of [Lover's Charm: Yin]. Cool down time: 3 hours.

Gender Restriction: Male

Level Requirement: 60

[Lover's Charm: Yin] (Yellow-Gold, Accessory)

Use: Immediately teleports you to the target's surrounding. The target is the wearer of [Lover's Charm: Yang]. Cool down time: 3 hours.

Gender Restriction: Female

Level Requirement: 60

This would come in handy! After killing a boss or player, one could use this charm to escape, on the condition that the person who wore this Lover's Charm must already be in a safe place!

But, who should I give this Lover's Charm to?

The most ideal person was Han Ying Xue, because in the future if Zhang Yang ever encountered a powerful boss in the open field, Han Ying Xue could simply use [Lover's Charm: Yin] to teleport to Zhang Yang's location! But if Sun Xin Yu saw the questionable name of the equipment, wouldn't she butcher the two of them?

On the other hand, Wei Yan Er was a cheeky brat, and if Zhang Yang did not hand this novelty item over to her, there would be no end to her whining!

Well, just forget about it, I will decide on this in the future!

Zhang Yang picked up a key that was made entirely out of clear ice and a silvery white magic staff, and placed them all in his backpack. These were the quest items, [Frozen Key] and [Staff of Prophecy]. Unfortunately, despite being a Celestial grade weapon, the [Staff of Prophecy] could not be used as a weapon!

Time to submit the item and complete the quest!

Zhang Yang ran back to the Middle Hall. Merlinda caught sight of him and immediately asked, "Warrior, have you succeeded?"

Zhang Yang took out the [Frozen Key] and opened the gate of the prison. At the same time, the chains on Merlinda were also unfastened. Zhang Yang then answered, "Fortunately, I did not let you down, and completed the task you assigned me!"

"What of the Staff of Prophecy?" Merlinda looked at Zhang Yang nervously.

Zhang Yang took the magic staff out from his backpack and handed it over to Merlinda and said, "The item shall returned to the owner!" He snickered to himself. If it was not a quest item but the real weapon itself, Zhang Yang would just run off with it!

Merlinda suddenly showed a relief expression, took magic staff with both of her hands and gazed at it in excitement!

"Seven thousand years! Seven thousand years! The Staff of Prophecy has finally returned to the Elves!"

'Ding! Merlinda has received Elf's Celestial weapon, upgrades received!'

A golden light appeared around Merlinda, and the Level 45 Elite NPC immediately leveled up at a rapid pace!

[Merlinda - Song of the Forest] (Yellow-Gold, Humanoid)

Level: 65

HP: 15,000,000

MP: 10,000,000

Defense: 1,200

Her excitement was gradually replaced with a solemn expression, and she said, "Warrior, the Elf tribe in Forest of Tanila has suffered great losses to King Arthur, we must destroy the demon as soon as possible! In such a state of emergency, we cannot afford to waste a minute!"

'Ding! Your quest: Kill King Arthur completion requirement changed. Please assist Merlinda in destroying King Arthur together!'

After doing so many tasks, Zhang Yang was back at the starting point!

Zhang Yang nodded and agreed, "We shall set off immediately!"

Both of them ran out of the Front Hall and started summoning their mounts.

"Ao!" Merlinda's mount was a white tiger, it was magnificent and mighty, and just as large as Whitey!

"Let's go!"

The tiger and bear started moving their limbs, and exploded into a sprint through the forest, towards Thunderous Storm Castle.

After half an hour of rushing, both mounts stopped in front of Thunderous Storm Castle. The castle, which had been host to a massacre not long ago, still reeked of bloodshed and anguished deaths. The castle looked like a horror movie from afar, smoking and riddled with holes!

Supposedly, monsters should have spawned around the area but currently in its story mode quest, it was completely deserted.

Merlinda and Zhang Yang reined in their mounts and slowly entered the castle. Along the way, the bodies of Elves and thieves were scattered throughout the pathway. Merlinda's face was a mix of sorrow and rage!

Both of their mounts increased their speed and reached the front of a cathedral at the top of castle. There was a huge training ground at the entrance, filled with rows of wooden targets.

King Arthur was standing in the middle of the training ground with his sword raised up like a cup of wine. He was huge! Eight elite Thieves were surrounding him and cutting the woody target with weapons for training.

"Demon, your death is coming!" Merlinda shouted zealously and dashed towards King Arthur with her white tiger.

King Arthur cracked a smile and said, "You little'uns, kill this woman!"

The eight Thieves immediately stopped their training and dashed toward Merlinda.

"Warrior, please intercept them, that demon is mine!" Merlinda turned around and loudly shouted to Zhang Yang.

Damn, every time this NPC gets so fired up and always rushes ahead, and I always end up covering her *ss! Zhang Yang grumbled to himself as he dashed forward with his Whitey. Once he entered {Charge}'s attack range, Zhang Yang immediately jumped down from his mount and dashed towards the frontmost Thief monster, activated {Blood Rage} and used {Horizontal Sweep}!

A bunch of '-3,800' damage texts popped up. Zhang Yang then followed up by using {Block}, increasing his rage points by up to 30 points, and used {Blast Wave}!

The eight Thief monsters were instantly stunned, and Merlinda quickly broke off them and directly dashed towards King Arthur.

Zhang Yang skillfully moved around and kited the eight monsters away. He also did not forget to pay attention to the battle between Merlinda and King Arthur.

"Fool, the battlefield belongs to men and only men. Women only need to stay in bed and nurture the seeds of men into strong descendants!!" King Arthur scoffed at Merlinda, "Pathetic Elves, to actually be led by women, what a weak race!"

"Demon, then witness this weak woman sending you to hell!" Merlinda stopped 30 meters away from King Arthur. She raised her right hand and threw a {Holy Punishment} on King Arthur.

'Immune!'

King Arthur raised up the huge sword on his hand, made a loud laughter and said, "Stupid woman, this is the [Sword in the Stone] given by God, and whoever who wields this will have invincible power! Go to hell!" King Arthur bent his knees slightly, lowering himself into a horse stance, and launched himself forward, creating a shockwave and breaking the objects beneath his feet and in his surroundings!

"The Magic of Prophecy: Blast Topple!" Merlinda raised up [Staff of Prophecy].

Bang!

This sent the oncoming King Arthur flying back. He rolled on the surface ground like a rock skipping across the surface of water, smashing through ten woody targets and laying sprawled on the ground.

Wow, so this is the power of a Celestial weapon?

Zhang Yang exclaimed to himself while he was pulling the monsters.

"Ha ha ha" King Arthur immediately got up, "You may knock me over, but without causing actual harm, how far can that take you? I have [Sword in the Stone] and I will never be defeated!"

"Then you shall no longer have the [Sword in the Stone]!" Merlinda raised her [Staff of Prophecy] once again and proclaimed in her regal voice, "The Magic of Prophecy: Deprivation!"

Shush, [Sword in the Stone] on King Arthur's hand instantly turned into a ray of silver light that shot directly into the sky and disappeared.

"Impossible!" King Arthur roared loudly, "B*tch, return me my [Sword in the Stone]!"

King Arthur roared angrily, his skin that was originally green in color flashed red and he dashed towards Merlinda.

'Ding! King Arthur has become enraged after losing [Sword in the Stone]. He will now deal and also receive double damage!'

"The Magic of Prophecy: Blast Topple!" Merlinda simply raised her staff and King Arthur was toppled over immediately. At the same time, Merlinda also cast {Punishment Ray} and a '-4,000' damage text popped up above King Arthur's head. Her attacks were still as weak as ever!

King Arthur started advancing but was toppled over again, before being stung by {Punishment Ray}. The two NPCs were repeating their actions over and over again.

Three minutes later, Zhang Yang threw a chain of life-saving skills and finally killed all eight Thief monsters. Then, he mounted his Whitey and dashed towards King Arthur.

Although Merlinda was a Yellow-Gold boss, her attacks were very weak. Zhang Yang rapidly built aggro and got the undivided attention of King Arthur.

As predicted, Merlinda was a healer through and through, she immediately cast a {Higher Regeneration} on Zhang Yang.

It still restored 5% HP every second, despite her upgraded state. After casting her {Higher Regeneration}, she repeated her actions in Underground Tower, casting {Punishment Ray} after ray at her target.

The difference now was that Zhang Yang had vastly lesser HP back then, so the 5% HP recovery did not help him much. With his massive HP now, the 5% HP recovery was ridiculous!

Restoring him by at least 2,000 HP every second, almost every healer class player would be put to shame.

One of King Arthur's barehanded punches dealt about 6,000 damage on Zhang Yang. But the King attacked rather sporadically, once every two seconds, so if Zhang Yang used {Block} every six seconds, he would reduce the bulk of the DPS to around 2,000 which could be covered by {Higher Regeneration} easily!

On the other hand, King Arthur received double the usual damage which increased Zhang Yang's DPS to around 5,000. With such DPS, the King had his back against the ropes!

With the help of Merlinda's {Higher Regeneration}, Zhang Yang was unbeatable. It was just a matter of time when it comes to slaying King Arthur!

80%, 60%, 40%... King Arthur had 4,000,000 HP, but with the effect of receiving 100% additional damage, his HP dropped dramatically, and his HP bar became empty within six minutes.

Finally, Merlinda blasted her final {Punishment Ray}, and King Arthur cried out, crashing down onto the ground while loots continuously popped out of his body.

Although they won the battle, Merlinda remained stoic. After a moment of silence, she finally spoke up, "Warrior, thank you for your help! I have to go back to my tribe now to see my people whether they are safe, "xin luo si er ke"!"

In the Elven tongue, "xin luo si er ke" held a meaning that could be translated as "farewell".

'Ding! You have completed the quest: Kill King Arthur. Gained 1,000,000 Experience points!'

Merlinda gently patted her white tiger and white tiger took her away rapidly.

That's it?

After going through the trouble of killing a Gray-Silver boss, a Yellow-Gold boss and running all the way forth and back, the reward was 1,000,000 experience points? It was a total waste of time!

Zhang Yang let out of a sigh and picked up the loot. Although all of them were Gray-Silver equipment, he could always sell them for money. Money always brought some happiness at the very least!

[Pseudo Sword in the Stone] (Gray-Silver, One Handed Sword)

Weapon Attack: 320 - 520

Attack Interval: 2.5 seconds

DPS: 168

Use: Dispels all debuffs and causes you to be immune to all damage and effects. Lasts for 2 seconds.

{Unidentified}

Level Requirement: 60

This weapon came with an invincibility effect! This was definitely a PVP weapon. Besides, if it had a 2 second invincibility effect prior to being identified; that effect would probably be extended to 3 seconds after the identification process!

This weapon looked familiar to Zhang Yang. Still, even if the invincible effect was incredible, the weapon's tier was too low. After identification, the weapon's DPS would still be very low. It was not worth giving up the [Dragon Tooth Battle Axe] for the [Sword in the Stone]!

This weapon could only be sold!

However, with this invincible effect, it could definitely fetch a high price!

Finally Zhang Yang's mood lightened up, and he kept the rest of Gray-Silver and Green-Copper equipment. Then, he suddenly caught sight of a piece of light green command order.

The moment his fingers made contact with it, the red color wordings that was unique for system appeared in world channel.

'Server Announcement: The first Territory Command Order has appeared, battle for territory will be held tomorrow at 7.00 pm, all players please make your preparations! Territory's position will be at Forest of Tanila, the exact location will be announced when battle for territory starts! The battle for the territory will last for three hours, when the battle ends, the final player who holds Territory Command Order will become the lord of the territory!'

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Chapter 243: Battle for Terra Nulius

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F*ck, another forced trade, it activated upon touch!

In Zhang Yang's previous life, he had experienced a Territory Subjugation battle, but never a Battle for Terra Nulius1, so his knowledge on the latter was second-hand, obtained from numerous guides and forums online. Territory Subjugation Battle and Battle for Terra Nulius look similar but they were actually different in meaning and difficulties!

The [Territory Command Order] Zhang Yang triggered was a Battle for Terra Nulius for Thunderous Storm Castle. For tomorrow's battle, Thunderous Storm Castle would become a completely neutral ground, and all the players in the China server would be allowed to participate in this battle. However, the players from the other seven major cities could only participate if they used [Destination Teleportation Scroll]s to teleport across cities, and these scrolls were extremely difficult to come across.

In the Battle for Terra Nulius, the territory itself would be neutral, and there will not be any defensive facilities, so players would be fighting each other uninterrupted. Finally, the one who held [Territory Command Order] at the end of the time limit, would become the owner of territory!

Territory Subjugation Battle were different! It would be the attempt to conquer a territory that has already been claimed by someone else!

To activate Territory Subjugation Battle, a [Territory Subjugation Order] must first be found before it could be used by a guild. After the usage has been registered, both sides had 12 hours for preparation, before battling it out for 3 hours.

If the attacking guild successfully seized the defending guild's territory hall within the time limit, they would then be the new owners of the territory.

In Territory Subjugation Battle, a defending guild could use defensive facilities which would give them a massive edge! After all, in order to seize the territory of another guild, proper price should be paid, shouldn't it?

Zhang Yang tore off [Teleportation Scroll] and thought in his mind, "If I solely rely on our own guild, it'll be too difficult for us to hold on for 3 hours. I'll have to seek for reinforcements!"

Zhang Yang gathered the gang and said, "I got the [Territory Command Order]!"

Zhang Yang thought there would be cheers among them, but he was only greeted with silence. Then Wei Yan Er said, "Ha ha, we knew it was you for sure. When the server announcement popped up, everyone started looking for you!"

Zhang Yang stared back at them awkwardly, these people had too much faith in him!

Zhang Yang asked, "Does anyone know the rules of Battle for Terra Nulius?"

"En!" Daffodil Daydream nodded and answered, "The side who owns [Territory Command Order] has an advantage since they can set up defensive positions before the battle. However, any players who die, regardless of their side, will be directly sent back to main city the main city, and they will be unable to participate any further!"

"Forget about the whole of China, White Jade Castle alone already has 6,000,000 players. Each of us will end up fighting three or four hundred people at once!" Hundred Shots interrupted.

"Not that many!" Han Ying Xue shook her head and said, "The Forest of Tanila is Level 60 map, even if Level 50 players come to this map, they will be hunted down by the monsters. Level 40 players will struggle to pass through the Frozen Sky Wasteland before even reaching Forest of Tanila! So tomorrow, we will be fighting against most Level 50 players, a small amount of Level 40 players, and if we estimate it, a total of 5,000,000 players in the whole of China fit that criteria!"

"That's still an astonishing amount!" Endless Starlight lamented.

Zhang Yang nodded and said, "Currently, none of them knows that I have the [Territory Command Order] and they do not know the exact location of the new territory, so that's our headstart! Tomorrow, we will gather all Level 50 and above guild members in the Forest of Tanila first. Then everyone will enter the exact location of the new territory half an hour before the battle starts. Since no one else knows the exact location of the new territory, we are safe, even if there are spies in our guild!"

Zhang Yang paused for a while and continued, "I will contact Crimson Rage, Sky High and Lost Paradise to help us, and since there will be more territories in the future, we can provide aid in return!"

After the discussion, Zhang Yang contacted Snow Seeker via voice chat.

"Guild master Zhan Yu, are you here to invite Crimson Rage to help you defend and protect your new territory?" Snow Seeker actually stunned Zhang Yang with her words.

Zhang Yang shook his head and asked, "The system did not mention the owner of the [Territory Command Order, why do you all assume that it is me?"

"He he", Snow Seeker gently smiled and said, "When the server announced that the new territory is in the Forest of Tanila, I checked the map and realized that it is a Level 60 map. Besides you, who else is Level 60?"

Zhang Yang was about to mention that level 50 players could very well travel in that map, but most of the Level 50 and above players would not do that!

"Alright, since you guessed it correctly, if I continue lying, it would be insulting your IQ!" Zhang Yang laughed and said, "That's right, I am really going to invite Crimson Rage help us work together and protect against the enemy!"

"We are allied, I will definitely help you! But…" Snow Seeker's demure tone changed and she smiled gently.

"Alright, what do you want?"

"Guild master Zhan Yu, don't talk to me like I'm an opportunist!"

"Well, so Crimson Rage would actually help us without asking for anything in return. How generous, thank you very much!"

"Hey hey hey, you're really bold! Alright, I'll be straightforward with you. How about this. After winning the new territory, we, Crimson Rage will get 20% of your profits!" Snow Seeker proclaimed!

Damn, such a big appetite!

Zhang Yang quickly shook his head and said, "I can't do that, I still need to invite Sky High and Lost Paradise, if they ask for the same thing, then I will be left with nothing! I should just tear the [Territory Command Order] up if it turns out like that!"

"Then, guild master Zhan Yu, what's your offer?"

"If we win, guild members of Crimson Rage and Lone Desert Smoke can use teleportation portals within the new territory without any charges!"

"Guild master Zhan Yu, you are so stingy!"

"Guild master Snow Seeker, do the counting. Five gold coins are required each time when using the teleportation portal, and you have 20,000 guild members. Every day your guild members would use it at least once. I'm wavering the teleportation fees for your entire guild. After a month, damn, you would save up millions! Besides, wherever the portal takes you would be bound to earn you even more gold!"

"Why don't you just open up a business? You have the potential!"

"Hah, so guild master Snow Seeker agrees with me, right?"

"We are allies, right?" Snow Seeker intentionally let out of a sigh, Zhang Yang was just too tricky for her.

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "Okay, 5.00 pm, tomorrow, please bring your people to the Forest of Tanila. Half an hour before the battle starts, I will tell you the exact location!"

"… You are really being cautious!"

"Ha ha, one can never be too cautious!"

Afterwads, Zhang Yang also contacted Sky Shaman and Crimson Fire. Both of them also supported Zhang Yang and his strength instantly skyrocketed!

Other than Lost Paradise, Sky High, Crimson Rage and Lone Desert Smoke were all currently top guilds in White Jade Castle. The Dominators had taken a great hit, so they had be ousted from the list, barely able to still be regarded as a strong guild.

Zhang Yang spent 100 gold coins to identify his [Flawless Defense Cape] and its attributes were enhanced.

[Flawless Defense Cape] (Yellow-Gold, Cape)

HP: 120

Vitality: 30

Equipment: Absorbs 58 damage points each time you receive attacks.

Level Requirement: 60

After making some potions, Zhang Yang checked his Little Merchandize Shop's account, and was satisfied. Although [Solid Iron Bar]s were sold out, Resistance Potion was the hot-selling item now. It was only garnering him a daily profit of 300,000 gold coins, but it was a fresh item that would be bound to gain more regulars in Little Merchandize Shop, so the daily profit could rise up to 800,000 coins. Although this could not be compared with the previous [Solid Iron Bar] sales, Zhang Yang realized that profits of Little Merchandize Shop had still increased a little!

Long lasting, stable income was the long-term solution!

Since the server had announced the discovery of a new territory, a large amount of players have started searching around in Forest of Tanila, hoping that they could find the exact location in advance and gain the advantages over everyone else! However, those players who did the searching were depending on a very combustible factor -- luck. Most of the strong guilds instead focused on preparing themselves sufficiently -- a more stable determinant -- before heading for Forest of Tanila.

It was the first territory, a lot of people hoped to win it for themselves, for glory of being the first, if not for the profits that it implicated!

The next afternoon, all the guilds in the eight main cities of China server were moving in large forces and gathered in the Forest of Tanila. Although Forest of Tanila was a Level 60 map, the monsters in that map could not fight so many players. Hundreds of Level 50 and above players wildly slashed at the monsters, wiping the monsters out via sheer numbers!

Half an hour before the battle started, Zhang Yang posted the coordinates of Thunderous Storm Castle in guild channel and then informed his allies, and immediately gathered all guild members of the four guilds.

Because the system did not announce the exact coordinates of the territory or the current holder of the [Territory Command Order, several of them hung back, waiting for the final announcement. However, if Snow Seeker and some others could guess that Zhang Yang was holding [Territory Command Order] there were others who certainly had the same thoughts. Many guilds tagged along the Lone Desert Smoke envoy as they headed to the castle.

20 Minutes left before the battle started.

Zhang Yang started to set up his defenders. Thunderous Storm Castle's defensive facilities could not be used but Zhang Yang could still make use of the terrain, the moat in front of castle gate, "narrow" doors, and streets.

It would be impossible for 60,000 players to defend against 6,000,000 players in a wide and spacious zone! But, fighting in a castle with such complex architecture, a miracle was possible!

Finally, the bell rang, it was 7.00 pm!

'Server Announcement: The first new territory's coordinate is XXXXX,YYYYY, the name of the territory is Thunderous Storm Castle! Battle for Terra Nulius will last for 3 hours, the final player who holds [Territory Command Order] will become the owner of Thunderous Storm Castle! Starting from now on, Forest of Tanila will be set as special battlefield, all players will unable to access it! The players who die, will be sent back to White Jade Castle!'

'Server Announcement: The current player who holds [Territory Command Order] is Zhan Yu! The player who holds [Territory Command Order] will be marked on the map and will be unable to leave the area of territory!'

'Server Announcement: Battle for Terra Nulius starts now, counting down!'

Each player in the Forest of Tanila could see the text of a timer -- "2: 59: 59" counting down at the upper left corner of their HUD!

ED Note:

1. Terra Nulius - Probably best if the term is Googled for more details. Basically means unclaimed land, or land where prior owner has relinquished claim. The literal translations of Territory Subjugation Battle and Battle for Terra Nulius were Battle for Territory Snatching and Battle for Territory. It would have been rather half-*ssed if a game coined the latter term as Battle for Unclaimed Land, or Battle for Nobody's Land, and as much as I dislike the use of terms/words/jargons that cause hiccoughs in the flow of a reader, I decided to settle on "Terra Nulius". Anyone with World History/World War knowledge here? There may or may not have been a simpler, more accurate term. Thoughts welcome in the comments section.

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Chapter 244: Battle Commences!

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'Ding! You will be marked with a special symbol because you hold a [Territory Command Order]!'

'Ding! You cannot leave Thunderstorm Castle, otherwise the [Territory Command Order] will automatically drop!'

'Ding! If you are killed, [Territory Command Order] will have a 100% chance of dropping!'

Suddenly, a huge green command order light appeared on the top of Zhang Yang's head, the light beamed straight into the clouds, even ignoring buildings and obstacles. Players far away from Zhang Yang would definitely see the beacon. He was so exposed that he was practically naked!

"Ha ha ha!" Wei Yan Er could not help but laughed nonstop, out of breath and said, "Noob tank, you look like one of those death row inmates from the past, with a sign on your head and round your neck!"

Han Ying Xue and rest burst out in laughter once they heard Wei Yan Er.

"This is more like a price tag for Zhang Yang to sell his body! Hey ladies, are you all interested to bid for Little Yang? The minimum price is one gold coin!" Fatty Han patted Zhang Yang's shoulder and said.

"Too expensive! That's too expensive!" Wei Yan Er shook her head continuously and said, "If the price is one copper coin, I'll pay on behalf of my cousin!"

"Damn it, cut the bullsh*t, back to your positions!" Zhang Yang shouted, forcing a straight-face, as he tried to reassert his dominance as guild leader!

The Battle for Terra Nulius has started!

Even though many guilds were still rushing over to Thunderstorm Castle from their respective locations, those guilds who already guessed Zhang Yang as the person who held [Territory Command Order] were already formed up outside Thunderstorm Castle. They would have rushed into the castle before everything else, but were repelled! This was because was an invisible barrier outside the gate of Thunderstorm Castle.

Now, who is going to step up to make the first move?

The name of Lone Desert Smoke had spread all over the world as Zhang Yang and his guild, Lone Desert Smoke, had recently broke through all the players in the China server. Even the players in the other seven regions also knew this legendary guild which also tore through new dungeons, with a fierce PvP reputation to boot!

Nobody was willing to step up!

Tick tock, tick tock, the time slowly passed by!

"Kill!" finally there was a guild who could not help but initiate the first attack!

Instantly, like setting off a warehouse of dynamite, more than 10 guilds worked together and started attacking Thunderstorm Castle.

"Boss, why don't we attack?" Traveling Piglet looked at Humbly Gentleman and asked. He probably hated Lone Desert Smoke as much as his leader. Their guild was almost disbanded by Lone Desert Smoke, it made the people of The Dominators extremely furious.

Humbly Gentleman looked at the huge command order light floated on top of Thunderstorm Castle, and although he could not see Zhang Yang, he could clearly see Zhang Yang's location. He sneered and replied, "What's the point of going now? Battle for Terra Nulius lasts for three hours, let the others wear themselves out first! This is not a competition of 'whosoever holds the [Territory Command Order] for the longest time wins'. There is a saying, that coming in time is better than coming early!"

"Then, when should we attack?"

"Hmph, let most of the defenders die off before we take advantage of them!"

Humbly Gentleman's idea sounded good, but he was underestimating the integrity of the defense! The entrance of Thunderstorm Castle was narrow, it was easily defensible, and difficult to fight in, besides, the ranged attackers of four guilds were positioned at the top of castle, while melee attackers were positioned at the entrance. Moreover, many AoE skills were being used at the entrance, killing off the players who had generously bunched themselves up!

The defending side could also use the castle walls as firing cover, simply crouching down when under fire and allowing the healers behind them to recover their HP. The only way of attack the defending side was to have several ranged attackers focus fire on one target at a time, hoping to kill the target off before they could dodge or recover!

Hundreds and thousands of players passed the drawbridge. Even with millions on their side, their numbers would dwindle down to match the number of the defenders. This was not a battle that would be won solely with numbers.

The attacking side had limited options. The more they dallied or tried to form up outside the castle walls, the more fire they took from the defenders. They could only rush forward! As time slowly passed by, more and more guilds gathered and worked together. In such a large scale battle, the power of an individual player was extremely negligible, even the strongest would fall in no time. Every second, deaths occurred, signified by the flashing white lights as players were sent back to their main cities to be resurrected.

Zhang Yang traded, passing the [Territory Command Order] to Fatty Han and said, "Hold on to this, I'm going to do some killing!"

"Damn, I also want to kill people!" Fatty Han groaned.

Zhang Yang laughed out loud and went away with his Whitey.

'Server Announcement: Player Slim and Handsome has obtained [Territory Command Order]!'

"F*ck, I don't want this gigolo's price tag!" Fatty Han looked at the green command order light floating over his head in dismay.

Zhang Yang came to the entrance of castle and quickly whirled his axe.

The defenders in front of him slowly died off, and finally Zhang Yang was at the fore. He swung his axe and used {Horizontal Sweep}, and instantly, a bunch of high damage text floated above the players' heads. Some critical strikes instantly brought death to some of them.

'{Blast Wave}!'

A conical shock wave blasted out and his targets were stunned. Zhang Yang and his people took the chance to finish them off, pushing the defense line forwards by four meters!

"That's Lone Desert Smoke's guild master, quickly kill him!"

"The one who is riding a bear is Zhan Yu!"

"F*ck, he's powerful! Focus your fire on him!"

Zhang Yang laughed out loud as Spellcasters were ill-suited for fast paced assaults as Spellcasters needed to be stationary in order to cast their spells. The players behind them would constantly push them forwards interrupting their casting progress. Thus, they could only use instant casting spells, making them rather useless.

Therefore, those who were at the forefront were Warriors, Knights and Thieves, melee attackers! Faced with physical damage attackers, Zhang Yang had nothing to fear. With his high defense, anyone managing to inflict more than 1,000 damage on him in a single hit would already be a powerful foe!

However, Zhang Yang had 40,000 HP. He could hack and slash at leisure. He also had the backing of four healers, including Han Ying Xue!

Like an ultimate God of war, Zhang Yang stood at the entrance of the castle, completely halting the progress of the attackers! Zhang Yang was just like the Zhang Fei1 of the past, single-handedly blocking an entire passageway!

"Hurry up, Spellcasters come forward. Kill that Zhan Yu!"

Various guild masters ushered their spellcasters forward. When facing a tank with such high defense, it was pointless to send melee attackers to attack Zhang Yang!

The front line of attacking side was changed to Spellcasters instead of melee attackers. However, Zhang Yang was not stupid, he simply fell back when he saw them approaching. The ranged attackers above his castle ramparts took the opportunity to cast AoE skills, wiping out the Spellcasters!

Defenders had the advantage of engaging with melee attacks on ground level, while assaulting the enemy with ranged attackers on a higher level. It resulted in a multi-layered attack that was devastating to the attackers. Such firepower was almost double or triple that of the attackers!

Zhang Yang could not help but feel relieved that this was not a Level 100 Battle for Terra Nulius! Level 100 players could use flying mounts, totally bypassing any obstacle at ground level!

The entrance of Thunderstorm Castle was like a meat grinder that claimed the lives of several players within the first hour! However, the number of attackers still greatly outnumbered the defenders. The attacking side took out a defender for every 10 to 40 casualty, relentless assaulting the defenders. They finally broke through the entrance of Thunderstorm Castle!

"Retreat!" Zhang Yang raised his axe, and they fell back to the courtyard, taking advantage of the narrow drawbridge that could be used as a bottleneck against the attackers! However, without the high ground for the defenders to launch attacks from above, they had lost considerable firepower!

Luckily, the purpose of defending side was not to kill all enemies but to hold on for three hours!

Looking at the army that was pouring in like ants, Zhang Yang thought of Princess Serena. If only he could invite Princess Serena and use {Sword of Life and Death}, they would be eliminated!

"Retreat and fighting in groups, try to use the castle's terrain!" Zhang Yang was standing at the back. There were seven routes that could lead to the top of castle, where Fatty Han was. Fatty Han was holding [Territory Command Order] and the green command order light served as a lighthouse for the attackers!

It was an all-out brawl on the streets now!

Fortified with the HP of his mount, he went wild. {Shared Life} increased his HP up to more than 40,000, he had strong damage resistance and four to five healers constantly followed him around, he was a force to be reckoned with!

However, with his power alone, he could not block all enemies as seven routes led to Fatty Han's location and one of the routes' defense lines had already collapsed. Fatty Han was now at risk, and the tide of battle could be changed in an instant!

Hundred Shots in the thick of it all, managing the defense of several routes. He would constantly divide the manpower between them all, reinforcing those that needed help, taking away those who had nothing to do.

Here's to victory!

Lone Desert Smoke and the rest of the guilds had been set on lasting for 3 hours, rather than killing off all their attackers. That goal was simply too unrealistic! Currently, they only needed to hold on for another 1 hour 52 minutes 37 seconds!

"Zhan Yu, I never thought that we'd meet again so soon!" One Sword Stroke tore through a mass of defenders, atop his blood-red dire wolf, his eyes focused on Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "Cut the bullsh*t, aren't you here to grab [Territory Command Order]? Don't pretend to be so noble, let's fight and I will defeat you once again!"

Wei Yan Er clapped her hands, laughed and yelled, "Noob tank, straightforward huh!"

"Hmph!" One Sword Stroke snorted angrily, patted his mount and dashed towards Zhang Yang.

"Looks like you can't wait to die!" Zhang Yang coldly said, swung his battle axe and dashed towards One Sword Stroke as well.

'{Destructive Smash}!'

In this chaotic battle, maneuverability became irrelevant, they could only rely on firepower and healing effects, therefore, Zhang Yang had to take the full force of One Sword Stroke's {Destructive Smash}, incurring a debuff that reduced healing effects on him by 75%!

Let's not forget that before Zhang Yang's rebirth, One Sword Stroke was the only Warrior in China server, who completed the Level 30 class quest in S difficulty!

"Focus fire on Zhan Yu, his healing effects have been debuffed by three quarters, he'll have a hard time recovering!" One Sword Stroke yelled loudly.

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ED Note:

1. Romance of the Three Kingdoms - In the battle of Chang Ban, Zhang Fei, one of Liu Bei's generals held back the entire army of Cao Cao back momentarily, buying time for his charge to escape. He held a river and broke bridges down; looking fiercely and shaking his spear, shouting, "I am Zhang Fei. Come and battle me to the death!" None of Cao Cao's men dared to go near him.

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Chapter 245: Seizing the Territory

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Zhang Yang laughed out loud and said, "Well done, One Sword Stroke, but don't forget that you are also carrying the same negative effect as well! Focus your firepower on One Sword Stroke and take him out!"

Both of their {Destructive Smash} had the same effect, the threat was just too deadly!

Instantly, both sides focused fire on Zhang Yang and One Sword Stroke, healers from both sides beginning a race of their own as they expended their mana in healing their leading tanks!

Face to face, axe against axe, shield against shield, titan against titan!

Arrows flew across the sky, spells tore through the air, the scene was marvelous!

Although both Zhang Yang and One Sword Stroke were super tanks, further embolstered by Battle Mounts to boost their maximum health points, they were losing health quickly! {Destructive Smash} simply removed the potency of the healers, making it extremely difficult to retain their HP. But in terms of equipment, Zhang Yang had a full set of Yellow-Gold equipment. His shield was slightly out of place, being a level 50 equipment, but it was also another Yellow-Gold equipment! His mount was also a Yellow-Gold! What does One Sword Stroke have to answer to that?!

When Zhang Yang's health bar was down to 47%, while One Sword Stroke's health bar had already gone down to 20%!

The consecutive lose of health points would only mean both guardians would have infinite rage points at their disposal! The moment the health bar of One Sword Stroke fell below 20%, Zhang Yang's icon of {Killing Cleave} lit up!

Full rage, {Killing Cleave}!

'-34,600!'

A horrifying numerical value appeared right on top of One Sword Stroke's head, instantly taking all his remaining health points away from him!

One Sword Stroke instantly turned into a stream of white light, the shock and disbelief clear in his eyes, as he was directly sent back to his main city!

Everyone was shocked!

30,000 in one hit, was he still a freaking human?

Zhang Yang could not believe it himself as well, so he quickly stole a glance at the battle record: 'Your {Killing Cleave} is a critical hit, overlaid with {One Lucky Hit} onto One Sword Stroke, a damage of 34600 points (Reduction of 8800 points, absorption of 600 points)!'

So it was the combined effect of {Killing Cleave} and {One Lucky Hit}, creating a damage that was six times higher than the initial value!

Such a unlucky person, Zhang Yang sighed quietly for One Sword Stroke. He was recording the whole battle. If that clip of his recording ever made it on the official website, surely there would be an uproar among the players!

"Noob tank, what the heck did you just do?!"

"Critical attack of {Killing Cleave} and {One Lucky Hit}!" Zhang Yang posted the description of the skill {Killing Cleave} on the party channel.

Wei Yan Er immediately widened her eyes and said, "If a two-handed weapon did that under the same circumstances, with a critical {One Lucky Hit}, my damage would exceed 50,000, or even 60,000!"

Zhang Yang laughed loudly and said, "For a character like yourself, who can't even get a critical attack after a millennium, what are the odds of {One Lucky Hit} and critical attack happening at the same time for you?"

"Wa! Noob tank, you are so mean! You too, cousin sister, you are just so mean!"

Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!

Although that 30,000 damage hit from his battle axe had bolstered the morale of his guild, but still, one guild was not enough to hold against the assaults of millions of players. He could only order his forces to continue retreating to the peak of the castle!

The numbers on his side were rapidly dropping!

It was still 1 hour 22 minutes 12 seconds away till the end of the great battle!

Under the amazing coordination of Hundred Shots, defenders from all seven routes were able to fall back unhindered, all of them halfway through the distance. However, out of the 63,000 defenders, they were left with 25,000, and this number was still dropping as rapidly as water from a ruptured vessel!

Outside the fortress walls, Humbly Gentleman grinned sinisterly and said, "Brothers in arms, previously we were oppressed by Lone Desert Smoke until we could not even lift up our heads! We were once kings and queens among the guilds in countless online games, and no one was above us, all worshiped us, so what say you, do you accept such humiliation?"

"No!" thousands of the members of The Dominators were roaring!

"Do we silently accept humiliations and insults, and allow others to thread on us?"

"No!"

"Now, this is our best chance to get our vengeance! Kill, kill all of those b*tches in Lone Desert Smoke, and reclaim the glory that was once ours!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

"Kill all the members of Lone Desert Smoke, and claim the [Territory Command Order]! Reclaim our Dominator's Honor!"

"Rawgh!"

Thousands of people were roaring in chorus, stomping their feet against the ground as they charged forwards to the Thunderstorm Castle. Despite being such a hypocrite, Humbly Gentleman knew his way around the hearts of others, being a veteran guild master with several years of experience beneath his belt!

There were many other guilds with similar plans as The Dominators, and they had carried out their late assaults at different times! The Dominators knew it was time to move. If they were any later, there wouldn't be anything left for them!

One big wave after another, Lone Desert Smoke had lost many of their players! The enemy still outnumbered them greatly, a large crowd still waiting outside the castle walls

Retreat! Retreat again!

40 minutes remained, and the defenders had fallen back so far along the seven routes that one fifth of them were already in the hall where Fatty Han was located!

"Zhan Yu, we're totally out of reserve players!" Hundred Shots frantically cried out.

Zhang Yang nodded his head and said, "All defenders, fall back to the hall! We'll use the doorway as our last bottleneck!"

"Alright!"

Hundred Shots began to coordinate the troops, and the defenders totally turned around and marched to the hall. All this while they had been engaged in combat as they slowly backpedaled at the same time, intending to reserve their strength as much as possible!

The Dominators had waited for some time after the latecomers had made their way in. But they were surprised to find that the castle was still full of people, each street were crowded with players squeezing against each other. It had become a fool's dream to rush in unhindered, and claim the territory as their own! Unless of course, if they were willing to put aside everything and start killing all the players who were in their way!

But if they really did that, they would be provoking millions of players, signing their death warrants!

The initially determined face of Humbly Gentleman instantly fell! What is this madness! How could there be so many people here? How are they going to snatch the Territory Command Order now? There was only 30 minutes left until the battle ends, and even if they were all given three hours more, they might not even get a bloody path in front of them to even reach the location of the Territory Command Order, let alone fight for it!

Technically, those who had charged ahead first at least had a higher chance of obtaining the Territory Command Order than these cunning ones who have grossly underestimated the scale of the crowd. What did people like Humbly Gentleman stand to gain in the end? They were not getting any free meals any time soon!

"Boss, now... What should we do?" the members of The Dominators slowly turned to their leader.

"What else is there to do? Let's charge forward with our might!" Humbly Gentleman was slouching in disappointment!

If they had actually met their enemies in combat, losing would not be very demoralizing, knowing that they tried their best! But now, to lose before the battle had even begun for them, nobody would be pleased about it. They stared at Humbly Gentleman, unable to hide their discontent!

At this point, his members were beginning to question his leadership!

Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!

When Zhang Yang and the others had retreated up to the highest location of the castle, the cathedral, only 1,634 members remained!

"Into the church! Everyone, into the church!" Zhang Yang commanded in a loud voice.

Fortunately the church was pretty large, capable of taking in more than 2,000 people!

"Kill!" the players from all other guilds were surrounding the church while shouting in loud voices.

Zhang Yang laughed loudly, as he and Endless Starlight blocked the narrow doorway, forming an extremely sturdy meatshield!

The entrance of the church was a doorway that led to a hallway of the same size that was about 15 meters long, with a width of not more than 4 meters. In the middle of the path, there is a horizontal wall. That part of the path was slightly more spacious than the other parts, and players were required to to go around from both sides, like air going around a moving windscreen. Beyond that would be the vast openness of the church. Zhang Yang and the other tanks held their ground at the end of the entrance, leaving only the narrow path for the enemies, forming a perfect defensive formation. Anyone who rushes over will have to withstand the attack from the spellcasters and the strafing shots of the hunters behind the tanks, leading to even more casualties!

Because it was an indoor environment, Zhang Yang was unable to ride on his mount, his maximum health points had been steeply reduced to only 26060. However, the limited space also hindered the enemy, and they were only able to come in small numbers at a time!

Relying on the special terrain of the path, although the numbers of players on the side of the Lone Desert Smoke were outnumbered beyond a thousand to one, they were able to hold their ground. With hundreds of them using spell attacks with splash effects, it was a total death sentence for those who charged in, and there was no room at all to bargain with the results!

"Stop! Stop! Stop!" many leaders of their own guilds immediately tried to prevent further casualties, as charging in blindly would only mean using their numbers to fill up a bottomless pit. Even if they continued charging in for the next 3 hours, they would never make further progress!

A change of tactics was required!

"All thieves sneak in, use your {Stealth}!"

But... Zhang Yang had already predicted that it would come to this, so as instructed, the Hunters kept bombarding the entrance with {Barrage}! It consumed a fair bit of arrows, but they had already been promised a fine sum of allowance at the end of the battle.

The {Stealth} of the thieves were completely wasted as they were immediately exposed and killed in turn!

"All knights, charge in and use your {Sacred Protection}, we must open up a path!"

The opposition immediately switched to a new tactic.

It was only 21 minutes left until the battle ends!

After some redeployment, hundreds of knights walked right out of the crowd, Guardians, Templar and Sacred Knight, all sorts of classes were present.

"Charge!"

The knights went around the 'wind shield' and immediately, they activated their {Sacred Protection}, charging right into the human shield that was formed by ZHang Yang and his gang.

Immune!

Immune!

Immune!

Carrying {Sacred Protection} on them, the knights were glittering in gold complexion, like the statues of immortal gods, ignoring all damage, all negative effects, directly colliding with the human shield created by Zhang Yang and the others!

It was a huge impact, an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object!

When players clashed into each other, the tendency of being knocked back would be determined by the strength attributes of both sides.

Gong! Gong! Gong!

That moment both sides collided into each other, men and horses were immediately thrown off their feet, the perfect defense circle was suddenly left with a few gaps!

The players of the opposition were like ants that tasted blood, and they poured through the gaps! The defensive formation was slowly torn apart!

It was only 14 minutes until the battle ended!

"Kill that fat f*ck! He's got the Command order!" the players were shouting endlessly.

The remaining time was running out, and everyone turned their sights onto Fatty Han.

"Tighten up the defense, block the entrance, don't let anyone else enter!" Zhang Yang shouted loudly, "Fatty, pass me the Territory Command Order!"

Fatty Han uttered a reply, as he squeezed his way over to Zhang Yang, passing the order.

'Server Announcement: Player Zhan Yu has acquired the Territory Command Order!'

"Kill Zhan Yu!"

The players were like a hive of bees, switching their targets to Zhang Yang.

The chaotic battle had begun!

The players who managed to squeeze in were from a variety of guilds from the eight main cities, some of them possibly allies, but most of the players were definitely fighting for themselves. The Lone Desert Smoke elites kept their calm, casting AoE skills at calculated areas. In return, those players furiously fired back with their own AoEs, inflicting most Lone Desert Smoke casualties, but inadvertently hitting even more of their own!

"Sun of the beach! Why did you hit me?"

"For f*ck's sake, you were hitting me as well, weren't you?"

In the massive field of AoE bombardments, the attackers were suffering greater losses than the defenders!

But there was a large number of players on the outside that would constantly replenish the attackers within the hall. On the other hand the numbers on Zhang Yang's side were slowly but surely dwindling down!

Seven minutes!

Following the reduction in the numbers of the players in the church, Zhang Yang found himself quickly surrounded by the enemy. He was still afflicted with {Destruction Smash}, making it difficult for him to recover! His health bar was beginning to flash red at the danger line!

{Blessing Protection}!

Endless Starlight waved his hand, throwing a spell onto Zhang Yang, instantly slowing the process down. But now Endless Starlight was taking heavy damage!

This was the Defender's version of 'Sacrifice', it was not a 100% damage transference, only taking on 50% of their target's inflicted damage, but it had a longer duration of 10 seconds!

The other guardians and defenders were inspired by his action, taking their own respective turns to activate their {Sacrifice} and {Blessing Protection} on Zhang Yang, It gave Zhang Yang the strength to stand firm, towering like a mountain peak!

However, their sacrifice was paid heavily for, as more and more tanks on Zhang Yang's side fell!

Three minutes to go, Lone Desert Smoke was left with only 329 members!

Two minutes left!

The Lone Desert Smoke was left with only 29 members remaining!

"Haha, the time is just right. The territory is mine now!"

"You should just f*ck off for f*ck's sake!"

"You should be the one f*cking off!"

One minute left!

{Shadow of the Void} activated!

With a shoof, Zhang Yang ran right out of the big church, using his 20 seconds of boosted movement speed to get away from his attackers!

40 seconds left!

{Rearm}, {Shadow of the Void} activated again!

Another 20 seconds passed, Zhang Yang had managed to find himself a quiet and peaceful corner, and he began to summon his [Gold-Eared Bear King]!

"There! Over there!" the moment Zhang Yang revealed himself, that large green pendant immediately hovered over his head!

Leaping atop his mount, Zhang Yang's health bar was instantly boosted up to 40,000 points!

All players were gushing towards him like a fierce tidal wave of tsunami!

{Shield Wall}!

{Shadow of Merlinda}!

{Block}!

{Berserker's Heal}!

Zhang Yang practically threw every emergency skill he had at disposal!

18, 17, 16... 10!

The health bar of Zhang Yang was nearly depleted!

Shoof! Just as he was about to drop dead, he miraculously disappeared once again!

The players frantically looked about, and saw the green pendent beaming into the sky far in the distance, pointing out the new location of Zhang Yang!

That was -- the teleportation of the [Lover's Charm: Yang]!

Zhang Yang had given the [Lover's Charm: Ying] to Sun Xin Yu earlier on, asking her to enter stealth mode and hide somewhere safe, only activating it at the last moment!

"Quickly! That side!"

The tidal wave changed directions and headed for the new location of Zhang Yang!

9, 8, 7... 3, 2, 1!

It was too late!

'Server Announcement: The Battle for the Territory Command Order has ended, the final possessor of the Territory Command Order is -- Player Zhan Yu! The Thunderstorm Castle now classifies as the territory of this player, everyone will be sent back to your own main cities!'

"No--"

All the players were voicing out in protest, but as the white lights flashed, everyone was forcefully sent back to their respective main cities by the system.

Looking at his residual health points of 48 points only, Zhang Yang let out a long breath, laying down on the furry body of Whitey.

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Chapter 246: Territory Construction

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'Ding! Congratulations on becoming the territory owner of Thunderstorm Castle, you can now select to rename the territory, proceed?'

No wonder he was unfamiliar with the name 'Thunderstorm Castle', having never encountered it in his previous life, it turns out that the name of territories could be changed!

Zhang Yang was lazy, so he said, "No change necessary!"

Unexpectedly, the system did not continue on with a tutorial on managing the territory, but instead, took him directly to the management interface.

In his previous life, as he had not managed to conquer a territory before, therefore, he was currently on uncharted waters, he would need to slowly feel his way around and learn more about it the old-fashioned way.

Of course, anyone would know at a glance that the firs thing to do was to set up the teleportation circle, it was one of the main appeals of owning a territory. It would provide convenience to the members of his own guild while acquiring a large income at the same time!

'Ding! You have chosen to built a Teleportation Circle, each Teleportation Circle requires a sum of 1,000,000 gold pieces to build, and each Teleportation Circle can only be directed to one of the eight main cities in China region! After building the Teleportation Circle, you can set up the fare for using the Teleportation Circle!'

Zhang Yang immediately took out 1,000,000 gold pieces, passed it over to the system, and built a Teleportation Circle that channeled straight to the White Jade City.

He would hold off on building Teleportation Circles for the other main cities, as the benefits simply outweighed the costs! As the bank and auction houses of the cities had become interconnected, as were the system-run Teleportation Circles in the cities themselves which were free-of-charge. Getting to any one main city was as good as getting to any other main city!

Besides, Zhang Yang also had personal reasons for his own Teleportation Circle! By opening a Teleportation Circle that took players to White Jade City, players would emerge in the city at a location that was just opposite his Little Merchandize Shop. Even if 1% of the non-White Jade City players who went through the portal visited his shop out of convenience...

Hehe! Zhang Yang could not hold it anymore and started laughing, his glee unfiltered as he spoke on the guild channel, "Members who have achieved level 50 and above, come over to the Thunderstorm Castle and set your teleportation scrolls to the Teleportation Circle. You will not have to run back and forth anymore, reaching Thunderstorm Castle would be as good as reaching White Jade City!"

"Yeah! Hail to the guildmaster!"

"Guildmaster, I love you so much!"

"Let's go, go, go! Quickly, onto the plane!"

The next instant, players above level 50 were rushing to the teleportation spot.

Zhang Yang also contacted Snow Seeker, Sky Shaman and Crimson Fire, informing them on the completion on the construction of the Teleportation Circle, inviting them to use it to their hearts' content!

He had set the teleportation fare for the members of these four guilds to zero, while the fare for others was set at 1 gold piece. However when it came to the Dominators, Pride and Axe Gang, the fare was hiked up to 10 gold pieces! It would make no difference to Zhang Yang if they were to use it or not!

The Teleportation Circle was not an inexhaustible source of income, it required a large amount of magic crystals to be powered up on a daily basis, which meant that the owner was required to buy 'energy' from the system. Basically, the owner himself was being taxed by the system itself!

The magic crystal is extremely expensive, costing 10,000,000 gold pieces each, but fortunately, it could last for 10 days, still roping a surplus! Currently, there are more than 60,000,000 players in the China region, and approximately 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 players who were above level 50. Each of the players would just need to use the teleportation once per day, which would cover the expenses within two day or so!

As more players achieve level 50, his Teleportation portal would be accessed far more frequently! Of course, more territories will also appear in the game, he would not hold this monopoly for long!

After setting up the Teleportation Cirlcle, Zhang Yang turned his attention towards the defense line of the territory!

The subjugation of a territory did not solve all problems however! As long as any guilds comes in possession of a [Territory Subjugation Order, they could easily trigger a Territory Subjugation Battle. Although Lone Desert Smoke is a powerful force, attackers could gain access to siege engines and lay waste to players!

Therefore, it was necessary to set up defensive weapons of their own!

Firstly, the iconic Magic Cannons that had been previewed during the quest back then! That toy was a bundle of pure awesomeness, boasting a ranged attack that reached hundreds of meters, having its explosive attacks covering areas as wide as several tens of square meters. Capable of instantly killing players, it was a must-have!

Of course, such power would be met with an equivalent cost! Each Magic Cannon required 5,000,000 gold pieces, along with the [Power Source Crystals] needed to power it up for 1,000,000 gold pieces each. Each Crystal would provide enough power for the cannons to fire up to ten times.

This meant that one round would cost 100,000 gold pieces, not exactly something that anyone could afford!

For the greater good however, it was a necessary investment!

Zhang Yang purchased two Magic Cannons and two [Power Source Crystals, watching his money gush out. He could not help himself but thought that if it were up to Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er, they would be in a stressful dilemma as they tried to weigh the cost and benefits of the cannons!

Now that the main firepower had been set up, he had other defense to attend to. The game was simply merciless when it came to the retention of wealth! From time to time, monsters will be spawned to harass the otherwise peaceful castle. Their purpose was to serve as fodder for the insanely expensive cannons to waste their rounds on! To prevent that however…

Zhang Yang hired an army of NPCs -- 100 elite-grade knights, each of them requiring a monthly salary of 10,000 gold pieces. Of course, it wasn't like they needed the money -- it was for the system once again.

These NPC were all level 65, but were upgradeable at additional cost. Their levels were limited by the level of the owner of the castle. For instance, the castle owner had to at least be level 70, in order to level these NPC up to level 75. Similarly, players had to attain level 80 before these NPC be leveled-up to level 85.

These NPC would be able to ward off monsters and maintain order and security within the territory. They were basically similar to the guards of the main cities, only being slightly inferior!

Thirdly, the city defenses itself!

The ramparts of the castle like the walls and main gate were actually be targetable and vulnerable to attacks. At level 1, the city gate would only have 1,000,000 health points, 1000 defense points, 1000 magic defense points, but when upgraded to level 2, it would have 10,000,000 health points, 2500 defense points and 2500 magic defense points!

The tougher the city defense got, even if under fire from some devastating siege engine, it would buy additional time for the defenders!

As Subjugation battles were limited by time, the defenders would only have to hold their ground rather than wipe out the attackers!

Unfortunately, upgrading the city defense would require all sorts of mineral ores, and the higher the level, the higher the quality and quantity of such required ores. They were far away from being able to upgrade their city defenses to level 2 at the moment!

NPCs such as the equipment repairing blacksmith, item sellers, were not immediately available, nor could they be simply bought -- players would be required to complete a series of specific quests to acquire these NPCs. Zhang Yang gave it some thought, realizing that they would only be detrimental to the profiteering of the Telephone Circle, as the NPCs would only remove the need to teleport back to the main cities for such services!

With everything almost settled, Zhang Yang linked his teleportation scroll to the Teleportation Circle of Thunderstorm Castle before heading back to the White Jade City through the Teleportation Circle and began shouting across the regional channels, "Fellow players, the Thunderstorm Castle within the Forest of Tanila is currently facilitated with a Teleportation Circle, as long as you link your teleportation scroll settings to the circle, you will suffer the long hard journeys no more! The teleportation fee is super cheap, only requiring one gold piece!"

After shouting at White Jade City, he then teleported to the other seven main cities to continue his promotion.

Only the foolish or the prideful would forego such a convenient means of transportation! Zhang Yang would not have to go out of his way promoting this service of his, he would only have to make it known once.

In terms of location, Thunderstorm Castle was based in the level 60 ranges of maps, located in between the level 50 and level 70 maps, while also having similar level 60 maps on both its left and right sides. Being in the middle of the maps that varied by 30 levels would keep most players within the region for 4 to 5 months!

How lucrative!

Before the second territory appears, this Teleportation service would stand to earn Zhang Yang lots of profits! Even with a second territory around, or even the third territory appearing, it would not deteriorate much!

Zhang Yang then rewarded his guild members for their efforts and contributions, spending a great deal of money. Wei Yan Er and Han Ying Xue gazed at him with glittering eyes as they watched him.

Such generosity only bolstered the morale and ensured the loyalty of his members! Zhang Yang's reputation as a leader grew far and wide. Furthermore, by also being the long-standing number one guild when it came to the progress of dungeoneering, the members carried the name of the guild with pride and honor that went beyond the fair and warm treatment of the guild.

The moment he returned from his tour around the eight main cities, he saw many players rushing over to Thunderstorm Castle, linking their teleportation scrolls there as per recommended.

Beep beep beep, the voice communication device suddenly alerted him to a call from Humbly Gentleman.

"Zhan Yu, you god damn fascist!" Humbly Gentleman roared.

Zhang Yang laughed out oud and said, "How am I a fascist now?"

"Others are paying 1 gold piece for your teleportation circle, why are we paying it tenfold?" Humbly Gentleman demanded.

10 gold pieces was only 9 gold pieces more than 1, but it devastated the psyche of The Dominators, driving a massive wage between the two parites!

ZHang Yang grinned silently in his heart, this hypocrite really does not know any shame! He did not expect him to perform such a humiliating act before this, but the two sides were far from burying the hatchet. Having died once, Zhang Yang would never spare a single tiger cub or puppy and risk regretting it afterwards, he would be determined to see his opponents to their end!

He softly replied, "I see. So you have a voice louder than everyone else, and a fortune greater than everyone else. 10 gold pieces too little for you? How about 100 gold pieces then?"

"You--" Humbly Gentleman was speechless!

When there are competing companies, the consumers held the power of the Gods! However, when there's monopoly in play, the consumers would be mere offerings!

Humbly Gentleman felt like slapping the man in the face. But the Teleportation circle would save them from a 3-hour journey, he could not afford to provoke Zhang Yang any further!

He had to endure it!

"Well done, you!" Humbly Gentleman viciously cut off the voice communication with Zhang Yang.

Either way, he could not allow his members to bear the burden of paying 9 extra gold pieces. Mutiny would be imminent if he kept this up! Arrogant and conceited as he was, he was still a guild leader with a functioning brain!

He would have to dig money from his own pocket to subsidize the additional payload!

Humbly Gentleman made up his mind determinedly, but when the number of 10,000 members came across his mind, he quickly shivered! It would be impossible for him to pay for them all on a daily basis, so he could only lay out instructions to his members to limit their usage of the circle, while also offering a subsidy once every 10 days!

Even so, he would still have to pay about 300,000 gold pieces. Humbly Gentleman felt an excruciating pain in his heart, his face turning pale green!

Why would this Humbly Gentleman always offer himself as tribute for Zhang Yang to step on? Zhang Yang shook his head, tore a teleportation scroll and went back to the Thunderstorm Castle, deciding to get on with his grinding.

With the possession of this major-profit-earning territory, the profits from crafting potions and other items had became insignificant. Zhang Yang now had to maintain his lead in levels, for if and when a territory of a level 80 map appears, he would be the first to claim it!

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Chapter 247: Fire Chocobos

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Territories, indeed, gave much convenience to the players, especially their proprietors.

If they had to travel by foot and rented flying Gryphons, the journey would take 3 hours! During that 3 hours of riding the Gryphon, players wouldn't be able to perform any actions, other than to chat with each other. If players below level 60 intended to set off to their appropriately leveled maps from Thunderstorm Castle, they could easily force their way through the slightly over-leveled monsters if they worked in parties. It would only take them about 40 minutes to reach their own maps, saving a lot of time!

Therefore, a large number of players had linked their teleportation scroll to Thunderstorm Castle, and the fare of one gold piece could easily be earned back within an hour. It was both money and time-saving!

Three days had passed, Zhang Yang took a good look at the financial income of the territory. He could not help himself but to rub his eyes in amazement!

10,680,000 gold pieces!

Although he had anticipated some ridiculous amount, this far exceeded his expectations! Netting an average of 3,000,000 gold pieces on a daily basis, it quickly covered the cost of the [Power Source Crystal] in 3 days, with the remaining 4 days being nothing else but profit!

Furthermore, only 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 players were in the leveling bracket of 50 and up. What would happen when that number increases by tenfold?

However, since the first territory has appeared, more territories would be bound to follow in the near future! Whatever Zhang Yang planned to do, was to master the basics of setting a perfect territory, and perhaps add in the equipment repairing blacksmith to add to the appeal of his castle. Mechandize selling NPCs were not as heavily prioritized. Surely some players would have come up with the idea of selling such supplies in the Territory themselves.

The benefits were humongous, but Zhang Yang could not possibly keep it all to himself. He immediately gave an enormous raise to the salaries of the members in the management level of the guild, and every core player, so much so that even their very gait as they walked about had a noticeable spring to it! The career of a professional player was much scorned by the other members of society, and they would often live by a "don't ask, don't tell" basis, however, the players of the Lone Desert Smoke can now righteously proclaim that, "I am a professional player!"

Core players were earning up to 50,000 a month, on part with the income of executive white collars, so these players could carry themselves with the same amount of dignity, right?

At his command, Hundred Shots had led some members of the guild over to claim the Sacred Palace of Frozen Fractal as their own. There, he allowed players who possessed the Herb Picking profession to pick up some [Frozen Ice Weeding] once every two hours. However, there was no sign of the recipe for [Beginner Mobility Potion] dropping, so the [Frozen Ice Weeding] were stored in the warehouse at the moment, eating up its storage space!

As the territory now had an owner, NPCs who provided territory quests started appearing. However, the territory quests required players to be above level 60. Currently, only Zhang Yang alone qualified for the quests.

The forth day after owning the territory, Zhang Yang accepted a few territory quests, summoned his Whitey and sped away.

The territory quests were simple, it just involved killing a few bears, slaying a few wolves, clearing out some undeads, all to provide safety for the territory. The three quests that Zhang Yang took required the killing of 100 Red Flaming Tigers, 100 Bloody Scarlet Wolves, and 100 Flatland Chocobos.

He quickly completed the quests to kill the tigers and to kill the wolves. At the moment, he was on his way to the Northwest part of the forest in search of the Flatland Chocobos.

"Gu--gu--gu--!" a strange, birdlike sound was uttered, and a bird that dwarfed even the ostrich appeared right in front of Zhang Yang. Its whole body was covered with colourful feathers, beneath it was a pair of thick legs that each ended in three razor-sharp claws. It had a wings, but appeared to be incapable of flight, along with two strangely large eyes that occupied two thirds of the surface area of its entire head.

[Forest of Tanila, Chocobo] (Normal, Beast)

Level: 63

HP: 6,300

Defense: 60

Zhang Yang rode up to it on his Whitey, and effortless dispatched the Chocobo. It dropped some feathers that were worth a few pieces of copper coins which he completely ignored.

Slaying them was no problem, but these birds were rather hard to come across, and Zhang Yang took more than one hour just to come across one of them. After slaying 90 of them, they appeared to have vanished altogether. No matter how hard he tried to find the remaining Chocobos, the numbers just could not be scraped to completion. He decided to venture on into the deeper part of the forest.

93... 96... 98, 99, only one left!

Hoof!

A shadow blurred with the myriad of five colors suddenly entered the edge of his vision, and Zhang Yang reacted almost instantly, instinctively activating {Block} and placing his shield before him.

{Block}!

A particularly large Chocobo collided right into Zhang Yang, the feathers of which had an iridescent quality, magnificently sparkling in the light! It was gorgeous!

[King of Fire Chocobo] (Gray-Silver, Beast)

Level: 65

HP: 1,000,000

Defense: 700

Zhang Yang smiled lightly, and with a tap on Whitey, he answered with a charge of his own.

With his current equipment, even a Gray-Silver boss that relied on physical attacks such as this was a pushover for him! And if it is a boss that had magical attacks, he would simply swap places with his mount, juggling the aggro between them, while using {Shadow of the Void} to disengage from battle while his mount occupied the enemy. He would still be able to single-handedly take such a boss down, only having to put in a little more effort!

Bosses that relied on physical attacks would be a total piece of cake!

In less than 6 to 7 minutes, this Gray-Silver boss crumpled to the ground in a beautiful heap, dropping a few pieces of Gray-Silver and Green-Copper equipment.

Zhang Yang leisurely grabbed the loots and placed them in his backpack. That boss was a good omen, as his counter now read that he has killed 100 Chocobo in total! He can finally head back! Just as he was taking out a teleportation scroll, Zhang Yang caught sight of something that laid at the trunk of a large tree. He uttered an 'eh' in surprise, quickly stepping out of the small circle that was beginning to form under his feet.

Just beneath the big tree facing him was a huge bird nest. The miniature head of a Chocobo had stuck it's head out to look around, its little wings flapping, as it weakly cried out, 'Gu-- gu-- gu--'. The whole body of the Chocobo was covered in fluffy, short feathers which were milky yellow in colour, a far cry from its adult brethren who were dazzlingly beautiful!

[Fire Chocobo Chick] (Rare Gray-Silver Battle Mount)

Level: 0

HP: 50

A [Battle Mount]! And it was a Gray-Silver grade!

It was no wonder why the King of Fire Chocobo initiated an attack on him, he was trespassing upon its nest!

Zhang Yang quickly activated his voice communication device and said, "Little girl, quickly! Call me brother!"

"Stupid noob tank, are you trying to take advantage of me, you are still 1,000 years too far from that!" Wei Yan Er snapped back.

Zhang Yang chuckled and replied, "I just came across a [Battle Mount]! Oh, did I forget to mention that it's Gray-Silver?"

"Wow, where? Where is it?" her tone quickly changed, and she anxiously pressed him for answers.

"Call me brother!"

"Heck, I'll call you brother-in-law!" Wei Yan Er was talking sweetly.

Han Ying Xue was definitely charming, but it was the type of deadly charm that only a siren would produce. A shiver ran down his spine and he quickly said, "No thank you, I cannot afford to have her, you can save that name for someone else! I'll activate the [Lover's Charm: Yang, use the [Lover's Charm: Yin] to get over here now!"

"Aww, sister Sun snatched it back from me! She's so stingy, she's not letting up at all!" Wei Yan Er pouted.

"Fine, fine, stop grumbling already. Drop whatever you're doing, I'm adding you to party. Better hurry, or I'll catch it myself!"

"Don't! Stupid noob tank! Wait for me! If you ever dare catch my baby, I'll bite you to death!" Wei Yan Er was yelling at the top of her lungs while summoning her mount, swiftly traveling to his location.

Currently, Zhang Yang was the only player in the party who possessed a [Battle Mount, while Han Ying Xue and the others were still waiting bitterly for their turns, but if he was to offer anyone else a pet mount... she would probably burn holes through him with her eyes until he turned into ash!

Every single member of the party would definitely concede to the wiles of that brat. After all, this little girl knew her way around the minds of her elders, enjoying the attention and pampering that they showered upon her.

As he was bored, Zhang Yang sat his ass on the ground and turned Whitey into his backrest while waiting for the arrival of Wei Yan Er. At the same time, he kept an eye on the little Chocobo just in case it slipped away. After all, this is a game, who knew if the little bird would wander off on its own, having lost its parent.

"Boss, there really is a [Mount] here, but there's a bloody Gray-Silver boss guarding it. Ah Xi and myself were killed the moment it spotted us!"

"Oh I see it now, there really is a [mount] right there, a Gray-Silver one!"

"Boss, if you can subdue a Gray-Silver [Mount, surely your strength will increase by a notch. When that happens, whoever it is, Zhan Yu, One Sword Stroke, or Frost Night, they all will be beneath the dust before you, boss!"

"That's right, the official site did mention it, the attack power of a Gray-Silver [Mount] is equivalent to the attack of a player equipped with a full set of Gray-Silver equipment! When a player is combined with his mount, he'll gain huge boosts to his attack and HP!"

Five players stumbled out of a thick shrub together, one of them being Floating Fire Ball himself, who had been slaughtered several times by Zhang Yang in previous engagements!

When the five players saw Zhang Yang, they were shocked, for they never would thought that they would actually see someone in such a place! The weirdest part of it was that, this player was not even attempting to subdue the Battle mount!

"Hey kid! Get lost, this location is now booked by us, Pride!" one of the players with the name 'Prideful Siye' above his head took a step forward and began raising his fist while speaking to Zhang Yang.

Few had actually met Zhang Yang in person, and Prideful Siye was trying to butter up the ass of Floating Fire Ball, which was why he was making a show in front of his leader, raising his voice with his chest puffed out.

Zhang Yang smiled lightly, returning his gestures with a dismissive wave of his own, "I found this little fella first, you guys can go on ahead!"

"Hey kid, you dare to speak in such a tone? Who do you think you are? One Sword Stroke, or Frost Night, Drizzler or Zhan Yu?" Prideful Siye was unaware of his boss' rapidly changing expression, as he continued clamoring arrogantly in front of Zhang Yang.

"Get lost already or I'll just cut you down here and now!" Zhang Yang was beginning to lose his patience, that arrogant face was just asking for it.

As Prideful Siye was going to shout back at Zhang Yang, he was forcefully pulled back by his arm by Kindling Chest Hair. He could not comprehend the situation, but when he heard what Floating Fire Ball had to say, "Zhan Yu, today we will give the respect where it's due, let's leave!"

Zhan Yu? This kid is Zhan Yu?

Prideful Siye was shocked, almost gagging on the intended insults that he hastily forced back down his throat! Previously, the Lone Desert Smoke had made their name as a PvE Dungeon Clearing guild, but after the two major incidents, the Princess Serena quest and the Battle for Terra Nulius, every other guild had been left speechless by their combat strength and unity!

To insult Zhan Yu would be to insult Lone Desert Smoke itself, and nobody else seemed to be able to stand up to them at this point!

Kindling Chest Hair begrudgingly followed Floating Fire Ball back to where they came from, and finally blurted out, "Boss, are we really going to give up on this [Pet Mount]?"

It was a strong [Pet Mount] capable of greatly boosting the combat ability of a player!

Floating Fire Ball cracked an insidious grin, "Give up? Like hell! We've got over 20 members close by the area leveling up, let's wait till everyone is gathered here...we'll let him have a taste of our strength, Pride!"

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"Little brat, how much longer are you gonna take??"

"I'm not a gazelle, you buffoon, take it easy, jeez!"

"Well, hurry up, Pride members are lurking about, they had their eyes on the [Pet Mount]! They're probably gathering their men up as we speak! I'm not risking my neck for you, if there's too many of them, I'm outta there!"

"Please, no! You are the ferocious and mighty noob tank, surely you can take on a hundred of them, I'll even send you my cousin's nudes," Wei Yan Er was genuinely frantic, even bringing up an ultimate 'weapon'!

Zhang Yang chuckled, saying, "Faster!"

He had the {Shadow of the Void} on hand, which was why he was totally unafraid of being rounded up or ambushed! In a worst case scenario, he can still activate the [Lover's Charm] to be spirited away to Sun Xin Yu's location. He already had many options planned.

As expected, Floating Fire Ball soon returned with an additional 20 players behind him, making up a party of 25 players! Zhang Yang fanned his vision across them and saw that there were only five spellcasters. He smiled to himself confidently. Maybe running was no longer needed…!

"Zhan Yu, on second thought, perhaps you should bow to me this time!" Floating Fire Ball was brimming with confidence, as he folded his arms and flashed a cocky grin.

Zhang Yang made an exaggerated show of climbing up his [Mount, and with a shake of his [Battle Axe, he said, "Well, we could have done this the easy way, but if you insist on being difficult….the hard way it is!"

"...K-Kill!"

All 25 members of the Pride roared in unity, as their long-ranged players started unleashing volley after volley. Zhang Yang calmly gazed up at the oncoming projectiles, and looked back down to see the melee players getting into formation. They started cutting off his routes of escape, and started their advancement.

Zhang Yang rode out on his bear like a Mack truck that bodily met the melee players, sending them flying. Pride was extremely far behind when it came to dungeon progression. Besides Floating Fire Ball who had a full set of Gray-Silver equipment, most of the players were barely past level 50, and had Green-Copper equipment at most. The melee-profession players could not even get past Zhang Yang's defense value, causing absolutely no damage, and the only threat he faced was from the small bunch of Spellcasters at the back of the party!

Unfortunately, there were so few of them that they hardly made any difference!

Gong! Gong! Gong!

Zhang Yang smacked into a Thief, sending the player flying into a tree. At this point, his [Mount] had considerably slowed down, allowing the other players to round up on him.

{Blood Rage}, {Horizontal Sweep}!

A series of magnificent damage values appeared across the battlefield. The main purpose of this assault was not to hurt his enemies, but to reveal the Thieves who happened to be in {stealth}. To expose them would be to deny them the opportunity of using their {Ambush} skills! Even if they couldn't hurt him, they would still afflict some annoying status effects!

{Sanction}!

Kindling Chest Hair threw his hammer at Zhang Yang, instantly stunning Zhang Yang for 5 seconds as golden start glimmered around his head!

Without hesitation, Zhang Yang activated {Warrior's Will}, and jumped right off Whitey. Floating Fire Ball had taken out his [Sealing Leash, ready to subdue the Fire Chocobo Chick!

He was definitely looking down on Zhang Yang if he believed that a single stun would buy him enough time!

Shoof! {Wild Charge}! At Zhang Yang's mental command, Whitey had charged at Floating Fire Ball, as Zhang Yang forced his way through to the battle line of the ranged attackers.

'-696!'

'-742!'

'-645!'

'-821!'

The {Fireballs} and the {Frost Arrow} coming from the four spellcasters pounded into Zhang Yang, barely tickling him. With the level 50 Copper-Green equipment on them, their spell damages could not even exceed 700 points.. Even using their most powerful skills such as {Explosive Flame}, and {Frost Dragon Slayer}, which multiplied their base magic attacks by threefold, they simply could not hurt Zhang Yang!

Meanwhile, the Hunter-profession players might as well have been sprinkling Zhang Yang with soy-sauce, as their arrows bounced off uselessly, causing no more than zero damage!

What was the main purpose of playing online games? It was all about the equipment, wasn't it? The differences between Copper-Green and Yellow-Gold were miles apart!

Shoof! Zhang Yang dashed forward towards a caster with {Charge}.

It had taken him less than eight seconds to reach the back row, and the critical attack of {Destructive Smash} which was boosted by the effect of {Warrior's Will} was still in effect!

'-8,848!' {Destructive Smash}, critical hit!

"Argh!" that caster only had a total of 5120 health points, there was no way he could have warded off the blow! He instantly turned into a flash of white light and crumpled to the ground!

'-136!'

'-158!'

'-182!'

Both {Explosive Flame} and {Frost Dragon Slayer} had 10-second cool down periods. As a result, the Spellcasters had could only attack using their inferior {Fireballs} and {Frost Arrows} which only multiplied their magical attacks by two! If the previous volley had been pathetic, this one was even worse!

However, these ranged players had been stationed far away from each other under the rational directing of Floating Fire Ball, to prevent Zhang Yang from having the chance to catch them all in one draft.

The melee attackers of Pride had caught up, and surrounded him once again!

Although these players could not inflict much damage, their status effect skills, be it speed reduction, bind, or stun, were infuriatingly bothersome! Zhang Yang immediately summoned his [Servant - Clear Lotus, and commanded her enter {Stealth} while he charged at Kindling Chest Hair and the others.

{Concussion Shot}, {Speed Reduction Venom}, a bunch of status effect skills were thrown right onto Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang plowed through it all, ignoring their effects. He would only have to ward off {Stun} statuses! It was not worth using up his skills on these status effects that only slowed him down, not stopping him completely in his tracks. The remaining three spellcasters could still fire their {Explosive Flame} and {Frost Dragon Slayer} without any cool down restrictions, and could possibly remove his HP in 20 seconds or so. In the meantime, he would have to kill the players around him!

He still had his {Berserker's Heal} to be used when the time comes to return to full power in no time!

{Blast Wave}!

Zhang Yang took two steps back, angling himself before sending out the shockwave, stunning all the melee attackers of the Pride for 4 seconds!

{Thunder Strike}!

After two AoE attacks, the his targets were almost close to death. If not for the healers practically breaking their backs in healing their team mates, they would have already been wiped out!

"Sun of the beach, someone get this bear off me!" Floating Fire Ball was screaming at the top of his lungs.

The [Gold-Eared Bear King] is a Yellow-Gold [Pet Mount, capable of dishing out over 1,900 damage per second, while Floating Fire Ball was only dressed in thin cloth armor that hardly provided much defense. As Whitey basically smacked him around with its huge paws, the leader of Pride was dying on his feet already!

Floating Fire Ball quickly activated an {Ice Barrier}, entering an immobile, invincible state. He continued screaming for help.

Zhang Yang laughed out loud and said, "I'm truly sorry, they're too busy saving their own asses!"

Although there were four healers of Pride backing them up, Zhang Yang's repeated AoE attacks had left up to 13 melee attackers stumbling about. The healers could not possibly keep all of them alive at the same time, as Zhang Yang began targeting those who were closest to death!

{Force Strike}!

{Shield Bash}!

With each hit killing one player at a time, even the accompanying damage that came with {Cripple Defense} had reached up to 1000! Zhang Yang gave a few quick slashes here and there for good measure.

Zhang Yang was 4 seconds away from being cleared of all the status effects, while Pride was left with only nine melee attackers!

{Kidney Shot}!

The Thieves could not afford to wait for the 5-star {Kidney Shot}, the first thief only managing to save up 2-stars before he used it anyway, forcing Zhang Yang into a 3-second stun status.

{Substitute} skill activated!

Zhang Yang went straight into a 5-second period invincibility, and as [Servant - Clear Lotus] was already in {Stealth} as per commanded earlier on, the other opponents could not even hit her as they could not even see her - if they even knew that she existed in the first place!

Slice, dice! Slash, hack!

By the time he was no longer invincible, another three players had fallen!

{Horizontal Sweep}!

{Thunder Strike}!

In the chaotic mess of horrified screams, more bodies fell! Zhang Yang swung his [Battle Axe] up and down, activating another {Destructive Smash} that swept across the battle field, and the last melee attacker crumpled to the ground!

"Mother of god, he's wiped out our front line!"

"My god, he still has three quarters of his HP! How do we even fight him?!"

The gang of the Pride couldn't help screaming out loud, faced with a monster of a player! What else could they do?

The difference between equipment grades have been made apparent here!

If Daffodil Daydream was the one who engaging him, she actually stood a chance of killing him in less than 20 seconds! Furthermore, Daffodil Daydream was only equipped with Level 50 equipment. If she got to level 60 while being fully decked out in Yellow-Gold, she would have forced Zhang Yang against the ropes, bringing out all his emergency skills!

Previously, Zhang Yang had slaughtered up to 30 players of Pride while equipped with an incomplete set of Gray-Silver grade equipment. Now that he surpassed his opponents by two grades of higher leveled equipment, it was a total bloodfest!

"F*cking hell! F*ck f*ck f*ck!" the {Ice Barrier} would only last for 10 seconds, and Floating Fire Ball would still find himself smacked around like a rag doll when Whitey resumed its attacks. Thanks to a knight healer busting his ass to heal Floating Fire Ball, he was not yet dead. However, could a Copper-Green grade healer possibly heal more than the damage values inflicted by a Yellow-Gold [Pet Mount]?

That would be a big no!

Zhang Yang was already rushing towards the ranged attackers who cowered in response.

"Boss, we are totally no match to him, we should retreat!" someone cried out. While the spellcasters were able to do some damage, the Hunters had totally given up, seeing how their own attacks inflicted zero damage on their opponent! Some of them even dropped their bows and fell to their knees in despair. The healers glumly stood at their positions as they mechanically healed their team mates. Everyone was shell shocked. Against the god-slayer Zhang Yang, their healing effects were just like fireworks being set off in the midst of actual explosions!

"Retreat! Retreat!" Floating Fire Ball shouted in embarrassment. Dying may not deduct their levels, but their experience points would still be removed. It requires approximately seven days to level up once at their levels, and that amount of time is no joke!

However, can he really get away?

What would be the first thing that comes to mind when you hear about [Pet Mount]s? Speed? To try outrunning a [Pet Mount] would be complete idiocy!

Floating Fire Ball only managed a few steps before he was flattened by Whitey's paws!

Pak!

A glittering silver hat dropped right on the ground beside the dead bpdy of Floating Fire Ball. Zhang Yang immediately ran over to pick it up. Such equipment was already beneath him, but if he could do it to spite Floating Fire Ball, why not?

The others scattered. Zhang Yang quickly mounted Whitey and gave chase.

Another three of them were brutally killed, before the others managed to tear their teleportation scrolls up, vanishing into thin air.

In his previous life, some high level players would occasionally block the main entrance of low leveled territories and initiate battles of one versus many. Zhang Yang had never understood the purpose of doing so. There was no fun in it at all.

In reality, even a highly trained operative of any renowned special forces would be unable to stand up to a hundred civilians in direct combat. But in a game, with good enough equipment and sufficient levels, such a fantasy could be realized! No wonder the Americans loved producing action heroes, it just felt great to watch a single person take out an army!

Firstly, it was torture for the newbies. It was just unfair and callous. If they had been similarly leveled and equipped, it would have been a different story!

Of course, Zhang Yang would never deliberately go around killing low level players just for the sake of fun and adrenaline, however, he was basically acting in self-defense here! It would be injustice to the entire set of equipment on his body if he did not exercise a display of his power over their bratty sentiments!

Almost twenty minutes later, Wei Yan Er finally arrived, looking more frantic than he had ever seen her, even during large scale battles.

Seeing Zhang Yang from afar, she screamed in her high pitched voice at Zhang Yang, "Noob tank, is my baby still there?"

Zhang Yang frowned a little and spoke softly the party channel, "Little girl, don't you know there is something called the party channel?"

"I love to shout, why can't I?" Wei Yan Er ran over to Zhang Yang, scanning his surroundings, and immediately spotted the nestling. Her face cracked into a joyful grin and she ran over to it, "Hey birdie, you're going to be mine soon, wahahaha!"

"... You did not just watch some other series like 'A Bride for a Ride1', did you?"

"Hmph, I don't have time for you now, leave me be!" Wei Yan Er took out her [Sealing Leash] from her backpack, but she held on to it, clasping it between her palms as the prayed, "To all the gods up there in the sky, please give me your blessings, let me get it in one attempt!"

She chanted those lines a few more times like some weird mantra before throwing out her [Sealing Leash] in excitement.

10%, 20%, 30%... Pak, failed!

"Sigh, this brat is such a pain to deal with, even those gods weren't bothered about you!" Zhang Yang could not help himself but ridicule her.

"Hmph! They're just lazy, I don't believe in gods anyway!" Wei Yan Er took a 180 degree turn from her apparent polytheism, and she threw another [Sealing Leash, uttering a completely different line, "I believe in Chun Ge2, that there is a bird!"

Zhang Yang almost fell off his mount, choking on his own breath as he howled in laughter.

Pak, failed!

Wei Yan Er roared furiously, "Chun Ge is also unreliable!"

Zhang Yang collapsed in laughter and said, "Little girl, two [Sealing Leash]es are worth 200 gold pieces!"

Wei Yan Er bitterly glared at him, "Noob tank, you must compensate me!"

"Why?"

"You called me over for this! If you hadn't called me over, how would I end up wasting two [Sealing Leash]? This is causality! Cause and effect, understand?"

Zhang Yang felt the familiar drip of cold sweat running down his head. This pair of sisters had a level of stinginess that could be categorized as a unique form of art by itself!

"Little girl, why do you two...save up so much?" Zhang Yang could not hold his urge to ask her anymore.

"If I don't save up, not even 50,000 dollars will be enough for me!" Wei Yan Er told him poignantly.

Zhang Yang blinked stupidly for a moment, then he asked, "You spend over 50,000 dollars in a month?" From his point of view, these two could have stingily abstained from spending even a fraction of that in a month, it was very much like them!

"Sigh, perfumes, handbags, the money will be gone after a few simple purchases, and I have to ask anything more from cousin sister! Cousin sister used to only have 50,000 dollars as her pocket money, so she would scrape anything more than that from me, she caused me so much pain that I eventually I learned how to save up money myself!" Wei Yan Er pouted her mouth discontentedly, and continued, "Now that cousin sister has become rich, she's become a total miser! Sigh... To eat a meal in her house, I would be required to do house chores! She used to have a maid in her house, but ever since I started going over for meals, the maid was discharged, my life is now bitter!"

... so much self-contradiction in such a twisted history!

"Yea! I got it! I got it!" Wei Yan Er jumped up in joy, as the fifth attempt was successful!

[Fire Chocobo] (Gray-Silver Battle Mount)

Level: 0

HP: 50

Little girl immediately summoned the nestling out, and due to the 'Summoning Bond', the nestling naturally behaved in a way that made her look like the surrogate parent. It continually nuzzled its little head against the ankle of Wei Yan Er, looking extremely cute while doing so!

"Noob tank, I've got a birdie now!"

TL Notes:

1. A Bride for a Ride: A comedy that revolves around Foolhardy Tiger Wong who is annoyed with his mother's constant nagging for him to get married. He therefore snatches Chow Man-bun, a pretty man disguised as a girl, who later met his sister and turned into a bizarre triangle.

2. Chun Ge: The stage name of a female singer in China (Chris Lee) who dresses up androgynously, then the term was altered over the time and became a cultural spoof.

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Chapter 249: Rival in Love

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The next day, Zhang Yang woke up early in the morning and directly logged in to the game, he was being summoned urgently by Wei Yan Er. So, he quickly used a [Teleportation scroll] to teleport to Thunderstorm Castle and arrived at the entrance of the castle as instructed by her.

The little girl was on top of an extremely colorful Chocobo, joy all over her face, giddy with joy.

Zhang Yang had something that was a mix between a glare and a smile, and he asked, "Little girl, did you rush me here just to see 'Birdie'?"

"Of course not!" Wei Yan Er quickly shook her head, but her smile only grew wider, and she eagerly asked, "What say you? Isn't my Little Flower very pretty?"

Giving names such as Little White and Little Flower, this little girl could only seem to throw out one-dimensional names! It wasn't as if Zhang Yang had exceptional naming sense himself, looking at Whitey...

"Hm, it's definitely prettier compared to you!" Zhang Yang replied with a deadpan expression.

"I'm not talking to you anymore!" Wei Yan Er lifted her chin up with rage.

Zhang Yang could not help himself but smile, and he said, "Alright then, I'll take my leave!"

"No! Stop! Cousin sister is still waiting for you to save her!" Wei Yan Er quickly caught up to Zhang Yang on her Chocobo and said, "I'm giving you a chance to save a damsel in distress! Cousin sister will definitely be grateful, you can have her body all to yourself!"

"Ha!" Zhang Yang guffawed, and he said, "That's no damsel, that's a bloody siren! Like, those ladies who drown you with voices! Why would I save a siren, that's asking for death, one must be alert before doing so! Look at Xu Xian1 who saved the White Snake2, look at how miserable they turned out to be!"

"Pui! You must be a man with a sad love life!" Wei Yan Er sniffed.

"Yeah, yeah, what's this all about then?" Zhang Yang did not see any signs of Han Ying Xue, the siren would usually be inseparable from this brat.

Do you still remember that guy we used to mention, Luo Yang Ming?"

"Yeah, the guy who stalked witchy Snow all the way to England, but got kicked out later on, what about him?"

"Yes! Yes! Yes!" Wei Yan Er nodded continuously, "That guy has a face thicker than the ancient civilization! Even when cousin sister has totally turned her back on him, he's still sticking onto her like a piece of dog sh*t, he's really starting to piss her off! Everyday, he would call and mutter some disgusting mushy words, she's already smashed three of her phones to pieces! Hehe, that one did break her heart!"

While he was imagining Han Ying Xue smashing the phones with a look of instant regret, Zhang Yang could not help himself but laughed out loud.

"You really don't have a conscience, do you!" Wei Yan Er quickly criticized him, but she had also started giggling.

"I thought your ass was on fire, from the way you called me over, but this is it?" Zhang Yang frowned disapprovingly at her, her mind seemed to work in a completely different manner from the average human!

"You're the one who ran here like your ass was on fire!" Wei Yan Er was never one to back down from petty war of words, and she continued, "Of course not, do I look like I'm that boring? We don't know how that Luo Ming Yang found out that cousin is playing {{God's Miracle}}, or how he even found her game ID out. This morning, he came looking for her, and has been stuck on her since then! I will always boldly do what is right, so I purposely summoned you, the Panda Prince to save the princess!"

"What the hell, why don't you just kill him off, what trouble would that be?!" Zhang Yang shook his head continuously.

"You are really stupid! The Luo has a face thicker than the walls of the city! Killing him won't work at all, he'll come back like an immortal nightmare! I have a great idea, why don't you act as her boy friend to get rid of that Luo guy!"

Zhang Yang rolled both of his eyes backward ad said, "Little girl, are you trying to save witchy Snow, or are you trying to push me over into the burning furnace? Even if I just have to play act, I can still feel a chill running down my bones!"

"Hehehe, cousin has the same genetic inheritance like me, you should feel blessed to have her as your fake girlfriend!" Wei Yan Er pulled Zhang Yang by his arm and said, "Faster, faster! Cousin's gonna blow anytime soon! I couldn't care less if I wasn't in the same house as her, but if this is going to affect my lunch hour, my life would be miserable!"

"Holy god, and here I was thinking that you were just looking out for her!"

"Hehe!"

The walked through the alleyways. They saw Han Ying Xue in a corner, with a male warrior kneeling by her side, both his hands holding up a bunch of black roses, offering it up to her!

Holy sh*t, those flowers required real money!

In 'God's Miracle', there are numerous shops that sells items that are purely cosmetic. A variety of rings, necklaces, accessories, were purchasable. They added no attributes to players, but they were all finely crafted and appealing to look at. Of course, that would make them extremely expensive.

For example, a platinum ring with the flavor text -- 'Love her, then buy it for her!', would cost 99999 gold pieces!

These were so called Luxurious Items, and flowers also fell under this category.

That bundle of flowers that the male player was holding up was the most expensive variant in the florist shop, costing 9999 gold pieces each. Furthermore, one day later, the flowers will automatically wither and fall, it was the most money-burning item ever!

Although a platinum ring is more expensive, it would not deteriorate or disappear!

That player did not hide his personal information, the name 'iLuvHanYingXue, level 10, male human, Berserker Warrior' was floating right above his head. There was no doubt that this man is Luo Yang Ming.

"... little Snow, I truly love you, please just accept my tidal wave of love for you!" as they walked closer, they could hear the mush Luo Yang Ming was making.

Han Ying Xue was almost blue in the face, she was probably too annoyed to even say no.

"Luo Yang Ming, you really are thick faced! Cousin already told you to roll home a hundred times, why can't you see that!" Wei Yan Er could not bear it anymore as she snarled at him.

"Cousin Yan Er, how could you speak like that to your cousin brother!" Luo Yang Ming straightened up upon seeing Wei Yan Er. He turned around and replied her in the strict tone of an elder.

"How can he be your cousin brother, if he and witchy Snow -- " Zhang Yang could not help but began to wonder.

"He is the son to the cousin sister of my father, and cousin sister is the daughter to the sister of my mother. So, the two of them are totally unrelated by blood!" Wei Yan Er waved her hand around.

Luo Yang Ming, however, stared at Zhang Yang warily, and said, "Cousin Yan Er, who is this man? Don't forget our standing! Please do not mix with these mongrels!"

What the hell, that sentence would score him ten out of ten points in provoking people into beating him up!

Wei Yan Er snorted and said, "You who bear the surname Luo! What are you overweening for? If my father did not sponsor you, that factory of yours would not even be open! Cutting corners in production, taking advantage of your own people, your actions almost destroyed my mother and her sister's blood and sweat!"

The face of Luo Yang Ming immediate turned pale, and he said, "Cousin Yan Er, don't throw false accusations at innocent people!"

"Witchy Snow, let's go, didn't we agree earlier to go leveling up together?" Zhang Yang waved at Han Ying Xue.

Luo Yang Ming's gaze on Zhang Yang instantly turned from wariness to outright scorn, so he turned around to Han Ying Xue and asked, "Little Snow, who is this?"

"Hey, I'll only say it once!" Zhang Yang rode on his Whitey and shoved himself in between Luo Yang Ming and Han Ying Xue, looking down from his elevated position. As he reached his right hand out and lifted up his index finger, he said, "Witchy Snow is my woman, you better god damn stop harassing her!"

"Haha! Where did you wretched being come from, what right do you have to pursue my little Snow?" Luo Yang Ming shot back.

"You idiotic moron, she's been my woman since forever! What rights are you talking about, are you really that f*cking idiotic?" Zhang Yang purposely cursed continuously, using his very best to land some solid hits into the heart of Luo Yang Ming.

Luo Yang Ming grew even paler, and his whole body trembled, but after a while, he suddenly smiled and said, "Little Snow, this is an actor you hired, right? You have never had a boyfriend till now even, your heart is filled with me!"

"God, Mr Luo, can you possibly get any more disgusting!" Wei Yan Er made a show of puking.

"My dear hubby, let's go!" Han Ying Xue summoned her [Storm and Gale Direwolf, gazing at Zhang Yang seductively while speaking sweetly, and Zhang Yang felt a shiver down his spine. His heart was knocked off rhythm for a second, and in a bad way!

The three [Mounts] began to pick up speed, leaving Luo Yang Ming behind in one of the alleyways.

"You bastards, whether you are acting or not, Han Ying Xue is mine! Only mine!" Luo Yang Ming barked at the backs of the three figures that were rapidly disappearing. His face was almost goblin-like as he cried, "You f*cking b*tch, you humiliated me for so many years, just wait till I get my hands on 'Silky Soft Holdings' and make it mine, I will turn you into my toy till you die!"

...

"I realize that your relationships are a little messy!" After riding out for a distance, Zhang Yang began to talk.

"I guess it's okay to tell you everything now!" Wei Yan Er looked at Han Ying Xue, and seeing no objection, she continued, "More than 20 years ago, when my mother and my aunt were still pursuing their studies in university, they took a loan and founded 'Silky Soft Holdings'. The two of them were the best designers in the world! In just a short time, they already made 'Silky Soft Holdings' a major company!"

Zhang Yang was shocked for a moment, never once fathoming that 'Silky Soft Holdings' was founded by their mothers together.

"Then, about 17 years ago, my mother and my aunt went to Europe to take part in a Fashion Design Exhibition. Who would have guessed, on their way there, their plane crashed! My mother and aunt..." Wei Yan Er was solemn for once, her eyes genuinely beginning to tear.

Zhang Yang stared in shock and asked, "Southern Airlines, CA1077?"

"Huh? How did you know!" Wei Yan Er and Han Ying Xue whipped around to look at him, their eyes wide in shock.

Zhang Yang sighed painfully and said, "Both my parents were on that plane too!"

The three of them remained silent for a moment.

"Noob tank, to think we actually share the same fate!" Wei Yan Er patted Zhang Yang on his shoulder like an old friend. Perhaps in a way, their souls had that sort of bond.

Unpleasant memories quickly came flooding back, and he quickly said, "Please, carry on!"

"Yes!" Wei Yan Er nodded and said, "So my mother and my aunt left their shares of the company to me and my cousin here. However, before we hit the age of our adulthood, the company will be under the care of by my father and my uncle! A few years back, my uncle had cancer and passed away. For my sake, my cousin let my father look after the holdings on behalf of her. But, he's not really doing it any good, he's using our shares to sponsor dirtbags like Luo, helping them start up their own companies!"

She shrugged and said, "I'm fine with that, but they're ruining our reputation! As they are considered subsidiary companies of Silky Soft Holdings, their actions reflect on us! They often use substandard goods to throw the market off, resulting in lots of rejected stocks, the company that my mom and aunt had put all their hearts and passion into is really shaky at the moment!"

"My father will always stand by his side of the family! Hmph! When I am 18 years old, it will be the time to place justice above filial piety! I'm not going to let the efforts of my mother and my aunt go to waste!"

TL Notes:

1. Xu Xian: Male character in 'Legend of the White Snake' novel, who fell in love with White Snake (disguised herself into a woman named Bai Suzhen)

2. White Snake: Female character in 'Legend of the White Snake' novel, who fell in love with Xu Xian.

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"Based on what you had just said you to me, this guy called Luo who claims to be head over heels over the bitchy Snow is in truth only trying to get hold of her share of the company?"

"That's why I said it's disgusting! The lowest! Scum!" Wei Yan Er cringed as she described Luo Yang Ming. "He would hump my cousin-sister's leg just to get some money from the company's trash can! I mean, look at the guy! Pretending to be a successful man, putting up airs as if he was Bill Gates or the other apple guy! Disgusting prick!"

"Alright, alright, I'm going to stop you there now. Show's over, I'll get going now!" said Zhang Yang as he stopped the bear.

"Ah! Wait up! We just accepted a quest yesterday! We need to go to some ghostly place to kill a boss! I need you to come with us!" screamed the little girl.

"What ghostly place?"

"10,000 Phantoms! How bout it? Scary, isn't it?" said Wei Yan Er as she tried to mimic a ghost with her face.

Zhang Yang smiled with delight. "So, you guys know where these 10,000 Phantoms are?"

"Dummy! You're really as dumb as you look! If we had known where it was, we would be clearing the quest by now!" said Han Ying Xue, pretending to have remained unaffected by the recollection of her sad story.

Zhang Yang knew something that Han Ying Xue did not. 10,000 Phantoms was a good place indeed! That rather scary name aside, the place hosted a boss that drops priceless items called [Fate Crystals]!

[Fate Crystals, or Attribute Crystal as players commonly called them, will permanently increase a player's certain attribute! [Fate Crystals] came in three tiers, Gold, Silver, and Copper. [Gold Fate Crystals] will increase a certain attribute by 10 points, Silver by 7 points, and Copper, at the very least, 5 points.

The spawning point of 10,000 Phantoms was not fixed. It was something like a mobile dungeon that will only spawns in maps above Level 50. Once all the bosses inside are killed, 10,000 Phantoms will disappear and will respawn again after 10 days.

Since [Fate Crystals] were such special items, high leveled players will flock to the 10,00 Phantoms once it spawns. There was no limit to how many times you may clear the dungeon, or how many crystals you were allowed to use on your character!

Back then, in his previous life, Zhang Yang had only been in the map once! All he managed was to spectate a horde of powerful players clearing all 7 floors in no time! He got nothing from it!

"Okay! Let's go, let's go!" Zhang Yang was excited.

Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er exchanged a look and asked, "So, what treasure will appear in 10,000 Phantoms?"

"Why'd you ask?"

"Tch!" Han Ying Xue clicked her tongue. "Take a good look in the mirror, you sly monkey! You have excitement written all over your face!"

Zhang Yang laughed as he answered them. "Alright, the bosses of 10,000 Phantoms will have a chance of dropping [Fate Crystals, you can use those crystals to increase a certain attribute, permanently!"

"WoWoWoWoWo~! I want that! In that case, I'll take Strength and Dexterity, cousin sister will take the Intelligence and Spirit, all the Vitality will go to the noob tank!" Wei Yan Er bounced on her feet and shrugged as she expressed a "be grateful you begger" kind of smug look.

"Listen here, you little girl. I'll need Strength crystals as well, you hear?"

"Nope! No deal!" Wei Yan Er shook her head so hard that you could practically play drums with it, if you attached two drum sticks to her forehead.

"Oh well…in that case, let's hope that all the [Fate Crystals] drops are all Vitality types, yeah?"

All three of them rode on their mounts and got out of Forest of Tanilla, passing through the Frozen Sky Wastelands and into the Necrotic Wastelands. After a small walking distance, they arrived at a small valley of mountains. From afar, they could already see how creepy the place was. Dark, damp air surrounded the valley and occasionally, the sound of crows could be heard as their wings fluttered by rapidly.

"Hmm…According to the quest description, it should be around this valley!" said Han Ying Xue as she sat on her Direwolf, circling around aimlessly.

Zhang Yang observed the area and spotted something that looked like an cave entrance to a tomb. "There!"

Even though he had only managed to enter 10,000 Phantoms once, the image of the creepy and eerie entrance was clearly etched into his brain. All three of them kept their mounts and headed into the entrance.

Do not be fooled by this narrow entry, the inside was like heaven and earth! The place was in the belly of the mountain, as wide as a football field, perhaps even wider! Along the insides of the mountain wall was a tunnel as wide as 20 meters. The tunnels formed a long spiral-like route, going down and deeper into the earth. Fire torches hung on the side of the tunnel wall, illuminating the otherwise dark, hollow pathway. From where they stood, they peeked down the center of the mountain. It looked like a giant monster with its maw wide open!

The spiral pathway had at least seven spins, with each complete circle being as long as 5,000 meters. The slope of the pathway was rather steep, like the mountain side itself. Judging by the looks alone, it would seem that it went down as deep as several hundred meters.

"Noob tank! I want a {Beast Taming} Indistinct skill book as well!" Wei Yan Er puffed her cheeks and asked Zhang Yang. She was amazed at how Zhang Yang's [Gold-Eared Bear King] was able to walk beside him, while her own mount was confined within her inventory since she could not summon it inside an indoor environment.

Zhang Yang snickered. "Trust me. You're better off starting as a new Hunter than hunt for the skill book."

"Argh…if I had known earlier, I would have just cut off your head myself and claim the price, at least I'd have something to go for me!" Wei Yan Er vented her frustration.

"Eh? Why aren't there any monsters around?" said Han Ying Xue warily. The path ahead of them was completely shrouded in darkness, devoid of movement and sound. Visibility was decent, they could see a few hundred meters ahead of them. The only problem was, there was not even a single monster around!

Zhang Yang twitched an eye brow and frowned worriedly. "I think someone else might be here!"

"Let's hurry then!" Wei Yan Er kicked off and dashed forward without waiting for the rest. Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue nodded and started to sprint as quicckly as they could.

Luckily, just 200 meters ahead, they already spotted a group of 20 players fighting a bunch of monsters. The group of players consisted of five different guild, all forming 5-men parties.

Though they were separated by several meters front and back, the gap was not that obvious.

"So, players first? Or monsters?" Wei Yan Er switched to the party channel and asked.

Zhang Yang thought for a while and replied. "We'll leave them be. If they were to try anything funny, we'll let them see how funny they look when we kick their asses!"

As the saying goes, an eye for an eye. Zhang Yang hated being bullied. That was why he understood how it felt like and would not attack unprovoked.

Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er nodded and followed Zhang Yang.

The monsters around here were all elite tiers. For a normal player, these monsters would be as tough as mini-bosses. That was why, even though those other players had a tank and a healer in their parties that appeared to have swapped parties between guilds. No party consisted of 5 players from the same guild. It was minimum requirement, a perfect dungeon raiding party group would require one tank, one healer, and three attackers.

However, all five parties members equipment were not on par, most of them were wearing armor that gave out a green colored hue, while only a few of them had a silverish hue on them. By the looks of it, their progress was slow since they would need around 40 seconds to kill one monster.

[Rotten Skelatal Walker] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 54

HP: 108,000

Defense: 300

Zhang Yang took out his golden battle axe and smirked. "Let's kill them all, AoE style!"

"Ok!" Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er nodded. With their powerful equipment, they could easily kite monsters that were non-spellcaster type, even if they were elite tier. They might only struggle against open world type elites, but even that wouldn't be much trouble if they worked together.

"Stay close!" Zhang Yang rushed to the front and got ahead of all the five parties. He charged ahead into a bunch of monsters. Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er followed closely behind him, along with the bear. Since the bear did not attack, all aggro was on Zhang Yang alone.

With a single charge, Zhang Yang had kited seven to eight monsters with him.

{Thunder Strike}!

Zhang Yang stomped the ground and slowed all the monsters without looking back. He continued on further.

"Growl!" The monsters got closer and almost at the range to attack.

{Block}!

A flash of damage text from the {Block} reflected damage popped out. Zhang Yang chained his move with {Horizontal Sweep} to create generate aggro on him.

"Holy crap! Are those three crazy?" Players from behind Zhang Yang's party saw how he was executing the "suicidal" rush and stared in awe and disbelief. Even if they want to die, they shouldn't do it like that!

"Weird…Did you notice any Hunters in their party? If I'm not mistaken, that's a huge bear following them, right?"

"Yeah. The one with the shield must be a Guardian. He has a Rage meter gauge. Same goes the lady with the huge battle axe, she's a Berserker! The one wearing cloth armor and with a MP gauge must be a priest! I'm certain that there's aren't any Hunters in their party! How could a pet exist then?"

Zhang Yang went on charging into monsters for at least 50 to 60 meters ahead. The monsters following behind him already amounted to more than 40. He stopped at a wall of the tunnel and cried, "Little brat! You're up!"

'-201!'

'-223!'

'-208!'

The monster had caught up to Zhang Yang and thrust their hands out to attack Zhang Yang. None of the damage values went above 200! It could not be helped, since their basic attack were only around 2,500. They already did the Elite title justice by managing to slightly penetrate Zhang Yang's super high Defense.

{Horizontal Sweep}, {Thunder Strike}, {Blast Wave}!

{Tornado Cleave}!

Both Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er started unleashed all their AoE skills and dealt devastating damage to all the monsters around!

They had killed all the surrounding monster in only four to five minutes! Defeated, the monsters dropped all sort of cloth etc items and a few coins on the floor. Smiling and snickering, the two girls started to pick up all the battle loots. They had purposely asked Zhang Yang to set the loot distribution to free-for-all before they had entered the place. First come, first serve basis!

Seeing how Zhang Yang party had mowed down all the elite monsters like dried twigs, the players behind were staring with huge disbelief!

They themselves could only take on one monster with five men! They even had to carefully draw out one monster from the herd, one at a time! If they accidentally pulled two, it would be chaotic! If they accidentally pulled three, it would be a one-way ticket to the graveyard for them.

The problem was that Zhang Yang's party had only three players! How could they even stand toe to toe with 40 monsters all at once!? Are they even humans to begin with?

"We can't just let them take the lead! There must be a boss up ahead!" Initially, the players behind wanted to take the chance and run ahead, following the path that Zhang Yang had just cleared. However, Zhang Yang had not kited all the monsters in his way, he had merely ran through, attracting the attention of whatever he could. The monsters further to the side of the tunnel had spread themselves out to fill the gaps. Even though the gap between the monsters were wider now, players would still have to kill them if they want to proceed.

All the players exchange a look and agreed that an "alliance" is the only way to get pass!

After the two girls were done looting all the drops, Zhang Yang started to rush again. In just half an hour, the party had proceeded so far ahead that the five temporarily allied parties were completely shrouded in darkness!

Since the bear did not have any AoE skills, it was rather redundant in this field. Though its DPS was as high as 1,800, it was nothing compared to Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er's total damage!

Even with the cumulative pushing power, the area of this mountain belly was just too large. They had only traveled as far as 2,000 meters in three hours! They probably had to double that distance to complete one circle!

"I'm beat! That's it! I'm done!" said Wei Yan Er as she patted her tummy. "I'm so hungry! I'll go stupidly crazy if I don't put some food in my belly!"

"As if you could get any smarter after you eat…" Zhang Yang whispered.

The time was already 12 noon. All three of them agreed to have a quick break and relogged after their lunch.

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After having their lunch, everyone logged in after 30 minutes and got together.

Before they logged off, Zhang Yang had killed all the monster around the area. Since elite tier monsters required five hours to respawn, the place was empty and bare when Zhang Yang, Han Ying Xue, and Wei Yan Er came back. All of them continued their journey and reached the end of the first part after three hours.

Technically, the entire tunnel simply followed the shape of the mountain from the inside. The spiral pathway led downwards to the lowest and deepest part of the mountain. Technically, Zhang Yang's current position was a complete cycle from where they entered. If they could drill upwards, the entrance to the mountain would just be 50 meters up!

Now that he had arrived to what seems to be a gigantic rock blocking the pathway forward. Standing in front of the rock was a huge, mega-sized version of the Hatred Amalgamated. Its innards were spilling out of its rotten body. It had a pair of hands, and an extra hand stitched to its back. Each hand carried a gigantic cleaver. There seems to be green liquid leaking out from all parts of its body. The liquid dripped down, corroding the ground, releasing a visible cloud of gas around it.

[Despaired Hatred Amalgamated] (Gray-Silver, Spectre)

Level: 56

HP: 2,000,000

Defense: 600

"Gimme Strength Crystal! Gimme Strength Crystal! Come! Come! Hoy!" Wei Yan Er clapped her palms together and mumbled something inaudible.

"Ay! Dummy! What are you standing there for? Get going quickly! It's just a Gray-Silver boss!" Han Ying Xue urged hurriedly.

"Hehehe. Relax b*tch. Keep pushing and you'll get nothing! I'll cursed your future husband to be a minute-man1!" Zhang Yang laughed and rushed away before giving any chance for Han Ying Xue to respond to his sarcastic insult.

"!@$%$%$!@%!@$@@" Hatred Amalgamated rumbled incomprehensibly. It stomped forwards with large paces towards Zhang Yang.

'-2,206!'

The boss landed a strike on Zhang Yang. He purposely allowed the monster to hit him instead of activating {Block}. He wanted to gauge the monster's attack. He was rather satisfied with the result. If he went all out with the boss, there was hope to defeat him in a solo fight! However, since it's an indoor environment, he would have to rely on the "combined mode" with the bear to defeat it!

Han Ying Xue swiftly cast a {Regeneration} on Zhang Yang.

'-0!'

'-1,000!'

'-1,000!'

After two seconds, a green, viscous liquid spewed out from the boss and landed on all three of them, dealing different amounts of damage.

"Bleh! Disgusting!" cried Wei Yan Er. This attack was the boss' {Rot Aura} which will deal 1,000 Natural damage to all targets within a 30 meter radius.

Despaired Hatred Amalgamated was just a one of the guardian bosses of 10,000 Phantoms. It wasn't particularly difficult. Since the party strength was overwhelming, thanks to their high-tiered equipment, the boss was defeated in just six to seven minutes. The fat-*ss boss wailed and dropped to the floor, oozing out more green liquid after being defeated.

Hideous as it was, the boss was still rather generous! It dropped two Level 50 Gray-Silver equipment and a total of six [Fate Crystals]! One Vitality, two Strength, one Dexterity, one Intelligence, and one Spirit Crystal! All of them were Copper tier and could only add five points each.

After distributing the crystals, Zhang Yang took one Vitality and one Strength crystal while Wei Yan Er took one Strength and one Dexterity, leaving Han Ying Xue with the remainder.

[Fate Crystals: Vitality] (Copper, Usable)

Use: Permanently adds five points to Vitality.

All three of them smiled satisfyingly and used the crystal promptly.

'Ding! You have gain 5 points of Vitality!'

'Ding! You have gain 5 points of Strength!'

Along with the crisp clear sound of the notification, Zhang Yang attribute gained a tiny boost. Though the boost was significantly small, it would provide an obvious increase in power after accumulating more [Fate Crystals]!

"There's this huge rock blocking the road! How are we going to get pass it?" Wei Yan Er strafed to the left and tried to find a possible route through the gaps. She pointed towards a slightly larger gap and screamed to Zhang Yang. "Hey! Noob tank! Use the shrinking potion! We could pass through here!"

Zhang Yang laughed. "Little brat! I think if you force yourself through that, you'll really flatten your chest!"

"D*mn you! So, how are we going to get past this?"

"Easy as pie. Do you not see the properties of the rocks? We can attack it!" said Zhang Yang as he took out his battle axe and began bunting the rocks.

[Solid Boulders] (Tool)

Level: 1

HP: 1,000,000

Defense: 1,000

Clang! Clang! Bang! Bang!

The two of the melee attackers started to swing their weapons around and eventually smashed the rocks into tiny pebbles. Once the rocks came crumbling down, four arrows flew through the air and struck Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er.

Out of a sudden, four Skeletal Archers appeared in front of Zhang Yang's party. Each of the archers had a bow fashioned out of skeletal remains. Their eyes was glowing with green-emerald fiery flames.

[Rotting Skeletal Archer] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 56

HP: 112,000

Defense: 300

'-203!' '-217!'

'-2,321!' '-2,367!'

The archer continued their attacks and dealt very different damage to Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er.

"Growl!" the bear roared and rushed towards one of the archers. Likewise, Zhang Yang rushed forwards with {Charge} and attacked the other archer.

All Hunter class monsters will automatically try to gain distance whenever someone closes in! With a calculated maneuver, Zhang Yang forced the monster to jump away, towards the second archer which was 10 meters away.

Under Zhang Yang's manual control, the bear had also forced the third archer to jump towards the fourth archer.

With the one man and one bear tactic, both {Charge} and {Wild Charge} were used intelligently to round up all the archers together. They would usually need to chase the monsters around, but instead, they had managed to herd the monsters like sheep!

Zhang Yang used {Horizontal Sweep}, {Thunder Strike}, and {Blast Wave} to generate a large amount of aggro on all of the archers around. Only then, did he start to unleash hell. Not much later, all four archer monsters were easily defeated by Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er.

Zhang Yang stuck his axe in the floor and gazed further into the tunnel ahead. Zhang Yang sighed, even though the monsters ahead were crowded. "D*mn. It's all but Hunter-type monsters. I won't be able to kite them all! We have no choice but to kill them one by one!" Previously, Zhang Yang was able to control and kill the monsters before because he was mentally multi-tasking. It may look easy to execute but it took up a lot of mental stress! If he were to continually use his multitasking ability, it wouldn't take long before he himself would be lying on the ground!

Losing the ability to multikill, the team's pushing power dropped by a significant level. After sometime, it was already getting late. The party then disbanded and went on their own ways for dinner. Until 7.30pm, they came back together and continued on.

Zhang Yang noticed Sun Xin Yu was online and abruptly sent an invitation to her. "Let's go together?"

Cold as ever, Sun Xin Yu remained quiet as a graveyard and accepted the invitation.

Not much sooner, she cried out. "Put on the accessory!"

Zhang Yang smirked and put on the Lover's Charm: Yang. He did so intentionally, just to force Sun Xin Yu to open her tightly sealed mouth.

Shush!

A bright light flashed, and Sun Xin Yu materialized beside Zhang Yang.

"Sister Sun! Can I have the accessory? Let me play with it for a few days!" Wei Yam Er complaint to Sun Xin Yu.

Without replying her, Sun Xin Yu remained stoic as ever and did not even move a muscle until Zhang Yang begun to push forward.

With Sun Xin Yu in the party, the party's offensive power had shot up. The party made it to the second boss before 12 midnight!

[Spectre Hunter, Sven] (Gray-Silver, Spectre)

Level: 57

HP: 2,500,000

Defense: 600

The strongest skill of this boss was {10 Strikes}. Each of its arrows was able to deal 2,000 damage! However, its so-called strongest attack was rendered to be a complete joke when the boss targeted Zhang Yang. Fully clad in Yellow-Gold equipment, Zhang Yang was a super tank with super defense! The boss was barely able to penetrate his defense!

Overwhelmed! Overwhelmingly overwhelmed!

The party of four had only used five minutes to defeat the boss and hauled 10 pieces of [Fate Crystals]

After defeating the boss, a similar wall of rocks was stacked up behind. Zhang Yang party chose not to destroy the wall of rocks and instead, decided to hit the hay stack. Since the boss would only respawn after several days, the party will not be surrounded by monsters when they log into the game the next morning.

Due to Sun Xin Yu's day job, she had used [Teleportation Scroll, going back to Thunderstorm Castle. The Lover's Charm, would quickly reunite the party whenever she needed it. Before going off, Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er had given all their random items for Sun Xin Yu to sell off! Being true misers at heart, the two sisters had wanted to utilize their inventories to their maximum potentials, for monetary purposes.

The party took four days to reach six floor of the 10,000 Phantoms. All of them obtained [Fate Crystals, none above Copper tier. Zhang Yang had obtained eight pieces of Vitality and six pieces of Strength. The boost it provided was not much, but the altogether they were equal to 14 Levels of AP gain. It's really a great haul when everything was taken in perspective.

Compared to Zhang Yang, Han Ying Xue and the rest had gained a Level and a little extra experience points. Since Zhang Yang's Level was way higher than the monsters he killed, the experience points he gained was lowered, however, he was still able to reached Level 62.

On the fifth day, Zhang Yang, Han Ying Xue, and Wei Yan Er broke down the last wall of rocks and arrived at the lowest part of the 10,000 Phantoms.

Since the entire map had a spiral geometry, the top six floors were like the audience seats of a football field. The seventh floor was rather short and small compared to the previous six floors. After walking a mere 200 meters, they had arrived at the pathway that connected them to the lowest part of the map, just like entering the football field.

The huge "football field" did not share the well-groomed attributes of an actual football field! The surface of the ground was extremely uneven, with potholes here and there! There were even storm drains at a few random spots that emitted an extremely unpleasant odor! As they walked, they could only hear the wet squishy sounds of their footsteps. There were no monsters around! The place was so devoid of sound that they could practically hear the sound of a needle drop! Everyone instinctively had their guards up, preparing to react to any movement.

Just then…

Shush! Sun Xin Yu warped next to Zhang Yang with the Lover's Charm. Zhang Yang, Han Ying Xue, and Wei Yan Er jumped and reacted violently to Sun Xin Yu's sudden appearance.

"S-S-S-S-Sister Sun! Oh god! Don't just jump out of nowhere! That scared the daylights out of me!" cried Wei Yan Er as she patted her chest.

Zhang Yang suddenly remembered an ancient funny joke. "Hey, listen. There was this guy,. He was auditioning to be an actor. So, the instructor let him warm up a little. He was supposed to say "A cold eerie wind blew, and I was so scared, that I dropped a brick!". That man was so nervous that he said "A cold eerie wind blew, and I was so scared, that I dropped a d*ck!""

"…Bleh!" All three females expressed their disgust. Han Ying Xue crossed her arm and shook her head. "Dummy…How and why did you learn all the bad habits from that pervert Fatty!"

Zhang Yang laughed mentally. If Fatty Han was here to hear that accusation, he would surely get offended at the slanderous claim! Ever since he was a kid, Zhang Yang had always been very naughty. Even though he was younger than Fatty Han by two months, it was Zhang Yang that led Fatty Han down the "dark side". It was best not to reveal the culprit who started it all!

"Sister Sun, don't you have work today?" Wei Yan Er asked Sun Xin Yu.

"It's my off-day!" Sun Xin Yu was ever so direct and simple.

"Oh!"

All four of them proceeded forwards. From afar it would seem as if their heights were fluctuating, one head bobbing over the others at times. The route was extremely uneven.

"This path is so tough to walk on! Hmph! Just like those evil businessmen building random freeways! I can even stomp a hole with my foot!" Wei Yan Er voiced her complaints after walking a few steps.

Ignoring the fact that each circle around the tunnel was 5,000 meters long, the radius of the circles would only be 800 meters. It was a shame there were no shorter routes. After walking down an empty walkway with no monsters to fight, the party had only spent 10 minutes or so to reach the centermost point of the 10,000 Phantoms.

As the party approached the place, which was a few hundred square meters, countless florescence light orbs glowed ferociously, illuminating the entire circular platform.

A spectral monster was seen riding on a skeletal war horse, right in the center of the platform. A huge battle hammer was seen resting on his right shoulder. Fully clad in blood-red metal armor, only two round glowing, green-emerald flames could be seen through the gap in the eye holes.

[Spectre General, Bullon] (Gray-Silver, Spectre)

Level: 60

HP: 5,000,000

Defense: 700

"Why isn't it a Yellow-Gold tier?" said Wei Yan Er as she pouted her lips disgruntledly.

Zhang Yang smiled. "Little girl, do you really think that Yellow-Gold bosses would be available everywhere like McDonalds?"

Wei Yan Er nodded her head innocently.

Zhang Yang sighed heavily and shook his head. Even though they had defeated a number of Yellow-Gold bosses a few days back, it did not mean that Yellow-Gold bosses would be spawning around like mushrooms after the rain! Zhang Yang had been lucky enough to accept a main story quest in the first place! That was why he could encounter so many Yellow-Gold bosses in the first place! As far as the game progressed, Yellow-Gold bosses were still a rare sight!

"Hurry up and get killing! We have been roaming around this ghostly place for more than four days! Look at my poor Little Petal! Its only at Level 32! We didn't even have the chance to properly grind!"

"Wait!" Sun Xin Yu suddenly let out a scream. She then vanished with a sudden "poof" and disappeared into the air.

"What's wrong?" the party asked.

Sun Xin Yu remained quiet. After a few seconds later, two shadowy figures were forcefully revealed. Both of them had star circling on their heads; they were stunned!

"Thieves!" the party gasped.

Zhang Yang mentally praised Sun Xin Yu incredible awareness. As expected from China's number one Thief. When Zhang Yang was unable to detect any strange activities around him, Sun Xin Yu could, ever so vigilantly! Naturally since Sun Xin Yu was a Thief class herself, she had a far better understanding as to how a Thief worked and how they could strike from within the shadows.

However, Sun Xin Yu's opponent was also proved to be a worthy fighter! Even though he or she had been caught by Sun Xin Yu, she was also stunned in the process! Not anyone could simply execute such actions!

Zhang Yang shifted his gaze up to the target's name tag. Luckily, he or she did not hide the profile information.

Lost Dream, Level 54, Human Male, Bandit, {Sheng Dynasty}!

Of all people, it's him! The guy with the big mouth2!

Zhang Yang clicked his tongue.

Lost Dream was a rather famous player in Zhang Yang's previous life. He was ranked fifth in the China's Thief ranking. Many players had shared the same opinion that Lost Dream's capabilities were at least on par with Sun Xin Yu. However, he had a rather "big mouth" and because of his behavior, he lost some popularity and lost some positions in the ranking list!

TL Note:

1Minute-man: Man who just cums way to fast.

2Big mouth: In China, there is another way to describe a person who can't keep a secret. It could also be used to describe people that loves to gossip around or talk loud. In this case, Lost Dream belonged to the kind that could not keep a secret and loves to gossip.

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Chapter 252: The Gamble

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According to rumors, Lost Dream was the son of an official. In real life, his father was a high-level ranking official at the Provincial level!

That man had two special quirks. The first was that he could never keep his mouth shut. The second, he was a gambling addict. Not the kind in the casino, but one to never back down from small wagers and dares. According to rumors, he once took a dare from his "friends" to go into a gay bar and get some "dudes". In the end, the man did not back down from his bet and "changed" into a raging homosexual man going right into the city's biggest gay bar!

However, where he least expected it, he saw the son of another Provincial level officer's son! In the very same bar! Knowing that Lost Dream was a big mouth, he quickly approached the man and had begged him to keep it a secret from anyone. If he did that, he would advise his own father to help Lost Dream's father get the Provincial Leader position! However, eventually, Lost Dream went back and wreaked havoc with his new-found news. What followed next was a budding grudge between the two otherwise neutral officers! Lost Dream had foiled his own father's dreams for his "uprising"!

That was how stupidly loose-lipped Lost Dream was.

However, no one could deny that Lost Dream had a certain depth of understanding when it comes to playing as a Thief. How else could he be listed in the top 10 Thief Lord's list? Being able to stun Sun Xin Yu at the same time as she did, preventing the opponent from getting the upper hand in battle, proved his ability!

{Ambush} four second stun ended the same time for Sun Xin Yu and Lost Dream, both of them flicked their left arms and disappeared with a "poof", entering {Stealth}.

However, just as the both of them entered {Stealth}, both of them were revealed again in the same time! This time, Sun Xin Yu had the upper hand. Her {Ambush} on Lost Dream was successful and she did not receive any status effect skill!

Zhang Yang mentally praised her again. Earlier, when the two of them used {Ambush} at the same time, the system was confused, even though Sun Xin Yu had activated her skill faster by a millisecond. Since the difference in effect frames was 0.01 second, the system could not determine which side had activated {Ambush} first and had caused both opponents to be stunned simultaneously. However, after the first {Ambush} had ended, Sun Xin Yu was one frame faster then Lost Dream in activating {Vanish} and {Ambush} for the second time, so her attack landed successfully on Lost Dream and stunned him.

Though the fraction of a second was nothing but a tiny blip in time, they mattered most in such crucial situations! In this case, Sun Xin Yu stood trimphant!

When two Thief class players clashed, whoever performs the first {Ambush} and {Kidney Shot} combo will surely be the first to kill the opponent. Taking into account that the difference in equipment tier gap was not that large, Sun Xin Yu's equipment could only be better than Lost Dream and never be weaker. That was why death was a certainty when Lost Dream was stunned by Sun Xin Yu.

Shush! Shush! Shush!

The daggers in Sun Xin Yu's hands glimmered with light reflecting off it as the blades flew around at an incredible speed. Each strike was so strong and fast that it chipped away a large chunk of Lost Dream's HP! Since a Dagger's attack speed was incredibly fast, its single attack was not really high. A Thief will be at a major disadvantage whenever he or she faces a high Defense boss or tank-class players! One can never fully unleash the full potential of a Dual-Wielding weapon! However, when a Thief faces a non-tank class player in PvP, the greatest threat would be the Assassin class!

This class is a specialized PvP character class!

"Ice Cube! Don't kill him!" Zhang Yang yelled just in time to stop Sun Xin Yu's final blow from killing Lost Dream.

Sun Xin Yu turned around to glance Zhang Yang. She then slid across the floor and went back to where the party was, and returned her daggers to their sheaths around her waist.

"Phew! This one says, lady, you're super strong! This young master has never encountered anyone who could overpower him!" Lost Dream regained his mobility after recovering from {Kidney Shot}. He turned around and shot Sun Xin Yu a thumbs up. "However, this young master is not satisfied with one fight! Come! Shall we fight once more?"

Zhang Yang laughed. "In that case, shall we place a bet? You can't win any one out of the four of us!"

Lost Dream got annoyed. "Excuse this young master. This one had been underestimating the enemy a while back. But now that this young master is prepared, and this one will not lose another fight!"

Zhang yang pretended to put on airs. "Oh well, if you're not ballsy enough to bet on it…"

"Excuses me?" Lost Dream jumped to his feet. He was clearly infuriated. "Alright! Let's bet on it then! Speak your desire!"

Like a fish in the net, Zhang Yang had trapped this stupid arrogant son of a b*tch. He smirked. "You can choose any one out of the four of us! If you lose, you'll have to join me!"

"Haha! If this one wins…Let's see…this young master doesn't like being followed by men. However, this one does not mind being called Young Master Lost Dream!" said Lost Dream with his nose up high.

Zhang Yang twitched and raised an eye brow. With a smile on his face, Zhang Yang said, "I accept that wager! Please, choose your opponent!"

Lost Dream paced back and forth while observing all four of them. "This one had just fought this pretty face, so this young master will not bother her for a while. And you're a Guardian! This young master has no fear fighting you, however, this one does not wish to fight an empty turtle shell! This young master does not like to take advantage of poor ladies, and will not fight the Priest! That leaves the Berserker!"

This bastard was not an idiot after all! Even though he admitted that he lost to Sun Xin Yu on the premise of being overconfident, he was actually afraid of her, which was why he was not keen on a direct rematch! However, he did not choose Han Ying Xue. That move proved that Lost Dream had some pride in him since Thief were exceptionally strong against Cloth Armor classes.

"Kick his *ss little brat!" said Zhang Yang.

"You betcha!" Wei Yan Er snickered as she walked up front.

Having been left close to death thanks to Sun Xin Yu, Lost Dream sat down and recovered himself with some recovery snacks. After a few seconds, he stood up and dusted off his pants. "Young girl, this young master will not pull his punches. Don't be crying when you lose!"

"Tch! You think you can defeat this young lady? Dream on!" Wei Yan Er lifted her head up high. She was already referring to herself in third-person, clearly influenced by Lost Dream's odd manner of speech.

"Haha!" Lost Dream laughed and entered {Stealth} promptly.

The little brat was a battle addict. Whenever she had the chance, she would drag Sun Xin Yu or Zhang Yang over to have a friendly PvP match in the city's Battle Arena. Having been {Ambushed} by Sun Xin Yu numerous times, Wei Yan Er knew better than to try looking for a thief who was in stealth. You want to fight? Come at me! At least, she could gain some Rage points!

Pow!

Lost Dream appeared from beyond the shadow, appearing behind Wei Yan Er. He slammed the back of Wei Yan Er's head with the hilt of his sword and stunned her.

{Ambush}! Four seconds stun!

"Dummy Yu! Can Yan Er win?" said Han Ying Xue.

Zhang Yang smiled. "Ask the Ice Cube. Ask her the odds of the fight between her and the little brat!"

Han Ying Xue turned her gaze to Sun Xin Yu.

"Four to six!" Sun Xin Yu paused for a moment to think.

"I won six times, while she won four!"

Zhang Yang laughed mentally. He knew that this lady was never willing to admit her losses and wanted to prove her strength by adding a few details to clarify her statement.

Back at the fight, Lost Dream was slashing his swords at Wei Yan Er's back furiously.

10, 20, 30…Along with the slashes, Wei Yan Er's Rage points rocketed up as her HP dropped.

{Ambush} ended.

{4 Combo Kidney Shot}!

Wei Yan Er had lost so much HP that she was only left with 5,400 HP out of 11,000 HP! It didn't look too good for her. Until…

{Warrior's Will}!

Wei Yan Er was waiting precisely for this moment! Having used her opponent as a rage point provider, she had allowed him to strike her until she had sufficient rage points to do what she needed to do. She turned around as fast as she could and swung her glimmering battle axe at Lost Dream.

Wham!

'-8,912!' {Destructive Smash}, Critical Hit!

Even though Wei Yan Er's {Destructive Smash} could only deal 150% melee damage, her two-handed Yellow-Gold weapon had a long 3.5 second attack interval, and the total damage had reached exceeded 3,000! Without being a critical strike, {Destructive Smash} would deal at least 4,500 damage! Since {Warrior's Will} was used, {Destructive Smash} would land as a Critical hit, causing massive destruction indeed!

Lost Dream was instantly killed!

"Aiya! You're all mush now! Why didn't you used {Blur}?" Wei Yan Er shrugged and expressed a "Dummy!" kind of look on her face. When Wei Yan Er fought Sun Xin Yu, Sun Xin Yu would always be prepared to use {Blur}. Right after Wei Yan Er uses {Warrior's Will} to break out of the stun, Sun Xin Yu will respond with {Blur} or the Invincible frame1 {Vanish} to avoid the attack!

[Blur] (Level 1) : Harnesses the power of shadows. Causes all physical attack to have 75% of missing.

Last for 10 seconds.

Cool down time: 10 minutes

Lost Dream had never thought that Wei Yan Er was so strong, since only less than 100 players owned a Level 50 Yellow-Gold weapon! Even though he was strong, but he had never had a fight with a player as well equipped as Wei Yan Er! That was why he lost! He lacked experience and was in over his head!

Han Ying Xue was unable to revive Lost Dream with her skill since Lost Dream was still registered as an "Enemy". The status would only wear off after 10 minutes. Without waiting, the guy released his soul and ran to his coprse.

"Should we fight the boss first? That guy would probably take some time!" said Zhang Yang as he turned around and started attacking.

Zhang Yang and his party had lost any interest in Gray-Silver bosses. It did not take much effort to kill this boss. Even with 5,000,000 HP, it only lasted as long as 10 minutes against Zhang Yang's party.

After defeating the boss, Lost Dream had just only returned his soul to his dead corpse, reviving just in time to see the boss fall. He sat down and recovered himself to full health.

Zhang Yang distributed all the [Fate Crystals] and smiled as he talked to Lost Dream.

"How about that. Hehe. You dared to bet, you better walk the talk. I'll be seeing you more often now!"

Lost Dream's face twitched. He felt that he had been played directly into Zhang Yang's hands. He knew that he did not lose in term of control and skills. He had lost in terms of equipment! It was an instant kill! How careless could he be!

"Once more!" Lost Dream cried disgruntledly.

Wei Yan Er responded in the same manner. "Bring it! This young lady will wreck you upside down!"

The two of them entered the battle again!

{Ambush}, {Kidney Shot}, {Warrior's Will}, up till this point, the battle was just as like the previous one.

{Blur}!

Lost Dream's entire character began to lose focus. Wei Yan Er's {Destructive Smash} went through him and missed.

{Blast Wave}!

Wei Yan Er quickly cast {Blast Wave} instead, and stunned Lost Dream! The little girl started to laugh manically. It all fully depended on pure luck for a Berserker whenever a Thief uses {Blur}. The odds of {Blast Wave} getting through the 25% hit chance would determine the final victory.

That was why Sun Xin Yu had stated the odds of 4 to 6!

Wei Yan Er quickly turned around and ran away from Lost Dream as far as she could. After four seconds, Lost Dream recovered and started chasing after the little brat.

Five seconds…Six seconds…10 seconds!

Even though Thieves were naturally high in Dexterity, specialized builds that capitalized on that affinity would be really fast at moving! However, the little brat had a four second head start!

Translator Note:

1Invincible frame: Also known as I-Frames are basically a period of time in which the subject is invincible. They will not take damage nor not suffer debuffs. They can't be interacted by opponents for the duration of their iframe.

It's a name that's mostly widespread in fighting games, where certain attacks and animations would provide invincibility for a certain number of frames, lasting only a fraction of a second after the activation of a skill.

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Chapter 253: Another War General ! Get!

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Lost Dream's {Blur} ended.

Wei Yan Er cracked an evil smile. She stopped running away and turn around to greet the oncoming Lost Dream. Lost Dream's face turned white when he saw the malicious grin, but he was too slow to react.

{Tornado Sweep}! {Destructive Smash}!

'-4,812!'

'-4,521!'

Wei Yan Er had successfully defeated Lost Dream in two slashes.

"Hell yea!"

"Wait!" 10 minutes later, Lost Dream came back again after reviving. He did not take his defeat wholeheartedly since he still had one more trick up his sleeve. He had not activated {Vanish} earlier. If he had used {Vanish} right after {Blur} had ended, he would have been able to stun Wei Yan Er again and surely win the battle!

The party was already walking away when Lost Cream cried out. Wei Yan Er had her axe resting on her shoulder when she turned around. Zhang Yang frowned and clicked his tongue intentionally. "Lost Dream. Come on bro. You're such a sore loser! Accept your defeat and get a move on! What a loser, if you know you'll lose, don't bet on it!"

"What did you say to me?" Lost Dream flipped. He cringed to hard that his left eye brow was twitching rapidly like an old telegram machine. His speech reverted back to a natural person's. "I lose? Me? Hmph! In that case, come on and fight me! You and me! Mano e mano!"

If he could, Zhang Yang would he shaking his head disappointingly. Besides the rumor describing Lost Dream as a gambler and blabbermouth, but he had never imagined Lost Dream as one who was full of excuses! He laughed and said, "Argh…Every time you'd lose, I'll be hearing only excuses. I bet that you'll give more excuses when you lose this around!"

"Oh please, this young master does not behave that way! A good man shan't fight with a lady! I only let her win!" Lost Dream rolled his eyes. "Fight me! If you win, I shall join you then! Or else, you shall address me as the young master!"

Zhang Yang paces towards the white bear and pats the bear's fully head. "If you can defeat my pet, victory is yours!"

"Excuse me?" Lost Dream cocked his head. "You're a Guardian correct? How do you have a pet?"

Zhang Yang threw up a hand, flashing the victory fingers with his index and middle finger. "If you want to know, you'll have to worship me!"

"Hmph. I accept that challenge. If I win, you'll teach me how to catch a pet!" Lost Dream turned his gaze to the white bear and imagined himself killing players with a pet of his own! He drooled at the thought of how cool he would be!

"Start!"

Poof*

Lost Dream disappeared into the shadows.

"Growl!" The Gold-Eared Bear King roared and walked a few steps forward. With Zhang Yang controlling the bear mentally, the bear sat down on its bum and started scratching its head with its rear claw, a lazy and nonchalant posture.

Shush!

Lost Dream appeared behind the white bear and used {Ambush}, stunning the bear as he appeared, and started attacking.

'-488!'

'-1'

'-1,308!'

The bear had 1,200 Defense while Lost Dream was only wearing a full set of Gray-Silver equipment on him. With 1,700 weapon attack in his main hand, he was able to deal a certain amount of damage to the bear. However, his secondary hand's weapon was so weak and it could only deal '-1', heavily penalized damage!

At least, the skill {Malign Attack} was strong. Taking up 40 Stamina points, the skill can deal 150% of the main hand weapon's damage to a target.

However, Stamina points were limited! Also, hard hitting skills often had longer cool down! After the four seconds stun effect of {Ambush} ended, Lost Dream had only dealt a little more than 3,500 damage. It was a puny scratch compared to the bear's 17,720 maximum HP!

"Crap! What bear is this? Such thick skin!" Lost Dream got frustrated.

Zhang Yang and the rest of his party laughed.

After {Ambush}, Lost Dream chained the attack with a {Kidney Shot}. Since Bandits could not raise their combo count as swiftly as an Assassin, the strike Lost Dream had just used was only a four-combo count {Kidney Shot}, stunning the bear for only five seconds!

After the five seconds stun, Lost Dream had only damaged the bear for slightly over 4,000 damage. Swiftly, Lost Dream used {Vanish} and entered {Stealth}.

{Wild Recovery}!

A green light engulfed the white bear and its HP slowly regained, 5% at every second.

"F*ck me!" As Lost Dream was waiting for his Stamina to recover, he could only stare at the bear as it healed itself back to full health!

After 10 seconds, Lost Dream started all over again with {Ambush}. After {Ambush}'s four seconds stun and {Kidney Shot}'s five second stun, Gold-Eared Bear King' HP had dropped down to 9,000 before it could regain control of its movement.

Counterattack start!

'-3,792!'

'-3,612!'

The bear dealt more than 7,000 damage with one normal attack and one {Claw Attack}. The attack was so strong that Lost Dream activated {Blur} promptly. He exclaimed, "Ooi! What sort of pet is this? What the heck have you been feeding it?!"

{Blur} was a powerful life-saving skill. However, the evasion rate was only 75%. It did not provide perfect invincibility. If one had extremely bad luck, one might even receive more than one attack! Lost Dream did not exactly draw the short end of that stick, as he evaded the first attack from Gold-Eared Bear King. The second attack however, did land. The claw smacked Lost Dream so solidly that he was instantly killed.

After running back and reviving at the same spot, Lost Dream sulked and recuperated with recovery snacks.

If Zhang Yang was a Hunter instead of a Guardian, Lost Dream could choose to kill the Hunter, knowing that the pet would fall no sooner! Even though Lost Dream did not clash with Zhang Yang, he knew that a Guardian would be even tougher than the bear! "Killing the head of the snake" would never work in this situation!

"The reason why I have a pet is because of an Indistinct skill book called {Beast Taming}. I originally had a battle mount to begin with. This skill allows me to use the pet mount as a Hunter's pet!" Zhang Yang proactively explained the secrets of his Gold-Eared Bear King. He thought explaining it would not make any difference to him.

Lost Dream was delighted. It wasn't because he had learned the secrets of the bear, but he felt that Zhang Yang was a promising character. He stood up and casually patted his shoulder. "Brother! This young master shall grant the privilege of having you as a friend! Ah right! This one doesn't even know who you are!"

Zhang Yang smiled and reveal his profile information.

Zhan Yu, Crypt Slaughterer, Physician's Friend, Hero of Snow Sprite City, Centaur's Brave Warrior, Hero of White Jade City, Level 62, Human Male, Guardian, {Lone Desert Smoke}.

Typically, a player's name tag would be easy to read in one second, but Zhang Yang's name tag was so long that Lost Dream quickly gave up halfway through!

He laughed. "Haha! So, you're the infamous Zhan Yu! This one assumes that all of you here are from Lone Desert Smoke as well! Hahaha! No wonder! No wonder this one lost so pathetically!" The man's characteristic was rather well-mannered. He was no longer sulking, looking rather jubilant instead.

"Join us!" Zhang Yang sent an invitation to Lost Dream. This guy may be a little weaker than Sun Xin Yu, but his skills as a future top 10 thief was apparent! He would definitely be one of the important assets in the future Professional League!

"Huhu! This one sees that you've humbly asked for this young master's presence. In that case, this young master shall be courteous for a change! But be warned! This young master is ridiculously good looking! There's isn't anyone else like this one! Please do not fall in love with this one! This young master is only but a passing legend!" said Lost Dream while running his fingers down his hair in a way that was so cringey, that the girls were rolling their eyes!

Lost Dream then proceeded to withdraw from his own guild and accepted the invitation from Zhang Yang. The battle team for the future Professional League got even stronger!

The party then distributed the boss loots and went back to the Thunderstorm Castle via [Teleportation Scrolls].

Just as they returned to the castle, they heard a loud explosion roaring in the night sky. The night sky was then illuminated by many colorful lights of fireworks. The flowery design of the firework was indeed dazzling and beautiful. The last explosion burst out so brightly that it was clearly visible five to six kilometers away!

"D*mn! Who would burn their money for that!' Zhang Yang scoffed.

Fireworks were priced at different prices in the game. Small ones would cost one to two gold coins, while larger ones would even cost thousands! The one that they had just witness probably cost more than 5,000 gold coins! What a waste of hard-earned money!

After some time, another wave of fireworks burst out in the sky, and the last one formed the words saying, "Little Snow! I love you!"

Five words formed out of the sparkles of the fireworks. Each word was so big; as large as Thunderstorm Castle itself! A final blast was fired, forming a beautiful heart-shaped frame around the sentence.

"Bleh…it must be the work of that bastard, Luo Yang Ming!" said Wei Yan Er as she frowned.

"What a disgusting prick!" Han Ying Xue pout her cheeks.

The words lingered around for five minutes before dissipating into the night sky. Many players started chattering, wanting to know who was willing to spend such a huge amount of money for that extravagant fireworks display. Just so you know, the kind of fireworks display that would form words required special reservations! From how large the word should be, to how long it should be display in the sky, all that would take up an extremely large sum of gold coin!

On the other end, female players were extremely jealous of the said, "Little Xue". Thanks of Lou Yang Ming, the female players now expected their own partners to do the same for them!

As the fireworks display ended, Luo Yang Ming popped up at their location. With a passionate expression, he stared at Han Ying Xue. "Little Xue, please accept my love!"

"You stinking, rotting, piece of useless meat! How persistent can you be! You're f*cking annoying you know that?! I asked you to stay away from her a long time ago! Why would you crawl back here!?" Zhang Yang walked up and stand between Han Ying Xue and Luo Yang Ming.

"Little prick! Move!" Luo Yang Ming has had it. He no longer wore the proud aristocratic posture and began insulting Zhang Yang.

"You move!" Zhang Yang roared. He lifted his axe and cleaved Luo Ming Yang into two. Luo Ming Yang was only Level 20. That blow was enough to send him off to the graveyard.

"F*ck you! You dare to snatch my woman!? Just because you have a guild with ten thousand players, you're acting all high and mighty? Hmph! Arrogant little bastard! I see what you truly are! Bastard could even be a road sweeper or worse than that! So what if you're the guild leader of Lone Desert Smoke! I'll form a guild of my own and use my money to buy all the members from your guild! I'll see what you do next!" said Luo Yang Ming to Zhang Yang through a private message.

Zhang Yang did not reply but laughed at his futile threats. This man did have a small fortune, but he thinks that the world revolved around him. Zhang Yang himself has the Thunderstorm Castle and the Little Merchandize shop! Both could generate him approximately 75,000,000 gold coins a month! Even if the exchange rate drops to 1:2.5, you would still earn 180,000,000 dollars a month! Although his total revenue could not be compared to the earnings of Silky Soft Holdings, Zhang Yang's profits alone were enough to exceed even Silky Soft Holdings!

It's safe to say that with the Territory and the Little Merchandize Shop, Zhang Yang was already earning more than Silky Soft Holdings! He believed that when investors learn about the nature of the Territory and Little Merchandize Shop, they would be willing to emptied their wallets just to have share or even buy the place down!

Luo Yang Ming was just a frog in a well! How could he know such things? He was from a prim and proper family, it was only natural that he will not touch online games! He was completely clueless about the impact 'God's Miracle' would have in real life! Coincidentally, it had created a brand new market in the world economy!

Sigh…he was just like a dog barking up the wrong tree -- or in this case, a tree that carried a squirrel that was larger than him!

Zhang Yang laid down a new command to the troops in the Territory, to kill a player called "iLuvHanYingXue" on sight!

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Han Ying Xue and the rest of the gang were progressing really quickly. So far, they had already reached Level 59, and were on the brink of reaching Level 60!

The second and third [Land Leases] were released and taken respectively by the guilds Radiance and Crimson Rage. However, these two guilds had two very different levels of luck. Radiance was lucky enough to produce their land in Blue Ocean City. Although the positioning of the land did not allow it to be as lucrative as Little Merchandize Shop, it was still inside a major city! Crimson Rage had an unfortunate draw. The land that their [Land Lease] produced was some random small town outside the Emerald City. It was rather bad. Since it was not worth anything at all, at most, Crimson Rage could only use it as an extra warehouse storage unit! Snow Seeker was so angry and frustrated that she even went to Zhang Yang to complain about it!

However, as Zhang Yang would have guessed, this sly fox of a woman had only done so to gain some sympathy points from him. She would then ask to have a portion of the profits gained from Thunderstorm Castle.

…

It was November the 17th. A day that Zhang Yang would never forget.

6pm. In the evening.

Tu Tu Tu*

The phone ranged just as Zhang Yang logged out of the game. He rushed to the table and hurriedly picked it up.

"Hello!"

"Zhang Yang~~" A soft, sultry voice of a female was heard.

"Oh! It's Teacher Yu! Right! How was auntie's surgery?" Zhang Yang scratched his head from the itch he had after having laid down for a long time. He recalled the kidney surgery her mother had undergone a fortnight before.

"It was all good! The doctor had not found any signs of rejection! The doctors said that she could be discharged the day after tomorrow!" Yu Li squeal with joy. She was practically chirping with happiness. "I have something to discuss with you. Could you swing by?"

Zhang Yang sniffed his armpit before answering. "Yeah! Sure…I'll drop by later. I'll need to go get dinner first!"

"I've made dinner at home! Just come over and eat with me!"

"Sounds good!"

"Can't wait!"

Zhang Yang felt something off, as Yu Li was rather cheerful considering how recent the "tragic" incident back then was. He took a bath, got out of his apartment, and hailed a cab to get to Yu Li's place. It was no surprise that Zhang Yang could still remember her address. He was not drunk back then.

The cab took only 20 minutes or so to reach the doorstep of her home. He ran upstairs and knocked on her door. He quickly sniffed at his armpits and nodded satisfyingly. Although he did not smell good, at least he did not smell!

"Come in!" said Yu Li as she opened the door, leaving the front door open for Zhang Yang to walk in. Yu Li was wearing a long black dress. The fabric was smooth and silky, tightly plastered to every inch of her bodyline. Zhang Yang could see the perfect curvature of her entire body, from the round peaks of her chest, down to the impossibly slender waist, and finally, the her round, perky butt that simply wanted to burst through the fabric. Every inch of her body screamed for a man's touch.

Yu Li bent down, causing further creases in the already tight fabric, to lay down a pair of slippers for Zhang Yang to step into. After that, she quickly turned around and headed to the kitchen. As she walked, her perky butt jiggled in tandem ever so seductively as Zhang Yang stared after it, having bent down to change into the slippers. His crotch tingled with a burning sensation and it took all of his willpower to repress the urge as his member threatened to tear through his trousers.

What's wrong with me?

With the dedication that would have graduated him from a monk's temple, Zhang Yang forced his mind to work over matter, removing himself from the gutter. He sucked in a deep breath and let it out slowly. After he was 100% sure that his pants were loose once again, he went to the sofa and sat down comfortably.

"Teacher Yu! Is dinner ready? I'm starving here!"

"Almost ready! Sit tight!"

It did not take long before Yu Li walked out of the kitchen with dishes in her hand. One by one, she placed the dishes onto the dining table gracefully and took out a bottle of red wine.

"Have a seat!"

The dining table in the dining area was not wide enough for two people to have their dinner. Instead, Yu Li had placed all the dishes on a makeshift table in the living room. Zhang Yang got up from the sofa, pulled out the chair and sat down. Steaming hot, fresh from the kitchen, one could instantly see that the food was way more than the serving for just two people! Zhang Yang took a whiff and said, "Wow! They smell great! But…I don't think the two of us can finish it!"

Yu Li uncorked the wine and poured two glasses of wine for each of them. "I wouldn't be here if it weren't for you. So, here's to you!" Yu Li raised her glass up high.

"Hehe! Don't mention it!" Zhang Yang had never been a good Samaritan to begin with. If it had been someone else, he would not have lifted a finger to help. Zhang Yang raised his glass and clinked it with hers.

"For health!"

"For health."

Without saying anything more, Zhang Yang and Yu Li began to dine. He picked up the cutlery on the table and started to scoop fill his plate. He was famished. Zhang Yang was a big eater to begin with, and since he also disliked seeing wastage, he walloped the entire table of food clean.

After half an hour, Zhang Yang had successfully "raided" all the food. He patted his bloated tummy and belched. "Fuu! That was awesome! I'm completely stuffed! I could probably go on for a week without food now! Teacher Yu! Your dishes were excellent! You can really cook!"

Yu Li smiled and took a sip of the wine. "Thanks! If you like them, feel free to come over anytime!"

Fidgeting around with his own half-emptied wineglass, Zhang Yang finally stopped and said, "Alright. Now that dinner is done, I better head back!"

"Wait!" Yu Li cried. She puts down the wineglass and strode over slowly. Her movements were deliberately slow and seductive as she placed her chin right next to Zhang Yang's shoulder. She gazed into his eyes and whispered, "You've had your dinner, but you haven't had me yet now, have you?"

Her lustful voice sent waves of raging hormones coursing through Zhang Yang's body. Hid mind went completely blank for a good second as the burning lust in him almost overwhelmed everything else. Frantically, Zhang Yang tried his best to summon the image of Brother Chun and Sister Fung1, the two god-tier bosses to calm himself down. He shook his head like a mad dog, jumping to his feet.

"Stop teasing me Teacher Yu!"

"Why? Am I not pretty enough for you? Am I not woman enough for you? I can't move you heart one bit? Or is it that your little wee wee doesn't even work?" said Yu Li with a playful wink.

"Not functioning--" Zhang Yang scoffed. "Teacher Yu, why are you trying so hard to mess with me?!"

"You know what? Fine. If you want to leave, go ahead! However, just so you know. Once you leave, I'll just change into my sleeping gown, the sexiest I can find and go knocking from door to door starting from the sixth floor! I'm sure at least one man would be willing to sleep with me!"

"You wouldn't dare--"

"Yes! I will!"

Yu Li was serious. She was staring into Zhang Yang with the same look in her eyes that she had when she was serious about failing one of her students back then. Somehow, he really took her words for it and believed that this woman would actually get out there and start knocking on random doors, just to get back at him! If he had not experienced his emotional crisis back then, he would never ever do anything to betray Lin Yu! However, as of right now, barely any of the love that he had for Lin Yu remained in his heart, buried, not deep within his heart, but more like in a graveyard somewhere in a dead corner, to the point where he was not even bothered to try and exhume it back up!

Dammit! Might as well treat it as an exercise after a meal!

Zhang Yang was as normal as a man could be. Since he possessed the memories back from before he was reincarnated, the memories of a man and a woman in bed together, with their limbs entwined and their bodies conjoined, was deeply etched in his mind. Ever since he restarted his life, he had been enduring for more than five months! During the entire time, he had not even had the opportunity to beat his stick, sexual deprivation had caged up a wild beast in his pants!

His could feel the rhythm of his breath changing. He was almost sure that the vapors of his breath had turned into steam. His vision blurred, as his eyes went unfocused with lust and desire. The male instinct took over as his gaze slid down to enjoy every inch of the woman's curves.

Yu Li had started to feel the same way as he did. She felt his gaze like a magical, invisible hand that ran all over her body. Wherever his eyes laid, turned hot and frisky, craving for the man to touch them, to rub them, till her voice broke through the silence of the night! Her cheeks were filled with red-hot desire as they blushed pink. In fact, every part of her exposed skin, her breast, her cleavage, her thighs practically glowed with the vermillion color of lust!

"Take me!" She whispered into his ears silkily, as Yu Li embraced Zhang Yang in her arms, pressing her body against him. Zhang Yang felt something soft and amazing, and her scent filled his senses, as his rough hands explored her bare back. She was like a cotton filled viper, soft and lovely but at the same time possessing a deadly hidden strength as she curled her body around Zhang Yang with other-worldly flexibility, squeezing herself against Zhang Yang's chest as her own hands slid down between Zhang Yang's thighs.

The fire in him burst into a an inferno. His hands went faster, running themselves up and down Yu Li's back, feeling her hot, smooth skin. They ventured down south, to find a pair of soft, supple mounds that conveniently fit in his palms. It was like they were the perfect size for his preference as were his hands…he grabbed onto them tightly without a care--his nails happened to be clipped.

Zhang Yang's desire threatened to tear through his body and soul. He scooped her off her feet and carried her -- princess-style towards her bed.

As he carried Yu Li in his arms, their eyes silently met. Her eyes reciprocated his gaze with their own silent screams of desire. Take me, they said. Just take all of me, they said. Slowly, she welcomed him and slithered her arms behind Zhang Yang's neck, gently purring like a cat.

Boom!

Zhang Yang kicked the door open with a foot. His body was burning on overdrive, fueled beyond its capacity. Unable to control his own strength, he nearly gave the door a new hole as it swung open. He summoned his strength and tossed Yu Li onto her bed, as he turned and locked the door behind him.

"Ahhh~!" Yu Li yelped in surprise she fell onto the bed, her chest bouncing along with the mattress.

Zhang Yang attacked her before she could even react, piling his body on top of hers, grabbing hold of her outstretched wrists. Yu Li has never done this before, but was well aware of the steel pole that protruded against her lower abs. She knew what Zhang Yang wanted and she would give him just that.

"Yu Li…" Zhang Yang's ragged breath tickled her ear. His face was flushed red, as he gazed at her with clouded eyes, a depraved being possessed by a mix of alcohol and lust. Swiftly, he buried his face into her breasts, going wild with the soft flesh that parted, submissively giving way to him. Even with a layer of fabric still shielding them, it did not take long for Zhang Yang to feel the hard bumps against his cheek. Instinctively following them with his mouth like a predator picking up on the scent of its prey, he took them in his lips, teasing around with his tongue.

"Uhh…Ahh…" Yu Li's voice leaked out, the tell-tale crescendo accenting the end of her expression as she arched her head back, as her erect protrusions were sucked on, flicked about in Zhang Yang's mouth. Her hands ravaged Zhang Yang's back, her fingers digging deep.

Like an animal, Zhang Yang ripped off her dress. The zipper was on her lower back, and he felt that it was rather troublesome and that it would kill the mood. Instead, he used his brute strength to rip the dress apart, tossing the pieces aside as it slid down the bed, and onto the floor with a light clink.

With the dress gone, all that was left now was her fair, snow-like skin and her black undergarments that clutched her chest together in an explosive pack.

"Beautiful…" he said. He buried his face deep into the cleavage of her chest. He licked the center, reaching out for the deepest part of her cleavage. It sent a violent wave through her entire body. He bit the lower part of the cups and tugged them down to reveal her pink, cute bumps that stood out beside the black material.

Yu Li's breath was ragged, matching Zhang Yang's. She was in her own world, lost just like Zhang Yang was. She moved her hands to his face, feeling the contour of his face like a passionate potter, slowly sliding them down his neck. She arched her back, drawing his attention to the pronounced curvature of her chest.

Zhang Yang traced his fingers up her back, until he found the one thing that he wanted to remove. He unhooked the latch and tossed laced cups as far away as he could. Having lost all restraint, her breasts jiggled out of control. As she laid back down on the bed, a tiny quake jiggled over her breast ever so violently and Zhang Yang was almost hypnotized by the sight.

He lowered his head and attacked one of her nipples, while he kept his hands busy on the other. He squeezed the tiny protrusion between his fingers, gently stimulating the stiffening tip.

Unable to contain the rampaging impulses, she twitched and lurched in her throes of pleasure. Her sweet cries rose in intensity as she moaned and moaned endlessly as Zhang Yang tortured her breasts. Her firm breasts were perky and smooth, yet so soft that they jiggled back to shape whenever he released them, as he kneaded them with vigor.

"Zha…Zhang Yang…Oh…Zhang. Yang!" Her cries filled the room as she gripped the back of his head, pulling at his hair. He looked up at her and their mutual desire was made apparent as their eyes met.

Zhang Yang pressed his lips against hers and delivered a passionate burning kiss that left her craving for more. He left her gaping, panting lips as he moved down her neck, down her breasts, following the smooth curvature of her abs and found himself a little obstacle. Just a little lower, would be Yu Li's last line of defense, before being fully exposed to him. He raised his head, parting his lips from her belly. Yu Li looked at him passionately, as if she had just given away that which was most previous to her. That alone had made Zhang Yang to bury himself deep inside her more. Sliding one hand beneath the material, he grabbed, and pulled it all the way down her fair legs, tossing them aside once they were free.

Yu Li felt a cold breeze down there. Amid her confusion and her ecstasy, she had finally realized that her final line of defense had been torn through. She opened her half-closed eyes, only to find Zhang Yang nuzzling between her legs. A sudden wave of embarrassment surged up, her cheeks was dyed in pink now. Squeezing her legs shut, she bolted upright and pulled Zhang Yang back to her level. "Stop staring…I know you want me…"

If Zhang Yang was in a game now with a meter to gauge his level of desire, he would have broken the game already! He pressed himself against Yu Li, their foreheads pressed against each other, and Zhang Yang finally said the one thing he had been thinking all night long, the one thing all men would want, "I'm going to make love you…I'm going to f*ck you now."

"Take me! Make me your woman and show me you're a man…f*ck me Zhang Yang." It was particularly embarrassing for her to finally use the f-word for its most literal meaning.

Even though Zhang Yang was still a cherry boy in this life, he had already been to twenty-toes with the same woman in his past life. In essence, he had a body of a virgin, but a mind that carried the experience of a past life. His manly part twitched and jerked as Yu Li's ragged breath brushed past his ears. It was as if this was all she wished for entire life. Granting that wish, Zhang Yang would. With a swift stroke, Zhang Yang plunged into her warm, forbidden crevice.

The silence of the room was finally filled with the scream of Yu Li's first being torn away. Tears filled her eyes but she quickly wiped them away. After letting her catch her breath for a second Zhang Yang began moving, slowly at first, but like a locomotor warming up, he picked up the pace, until finally, he was pistoning like a bull going all out on her. The room was once again filled with noise, with Yu Li's cries of pain and ecstasy, Zhang Yang's own ragged breath, and the fleshy, wet sound of impact as their bodies collided again and again.

30 minutes later, silence finally fell. Light fell upon the naked bodies of a couple clinging to each other, as if they were madly in love.

Zhang Yang got up and looked into her tired eyes. Though they were fully exposed to each other, there was nothing to be ashamed of anymore.

"Does it hurt?" Zhang Yang asked a relatively stupid question.

"How would you feel if I used my finger to dig your nose till it bleeds?"

"Why didn't you say anything?"

"Do you really think a little bit of pain would stop me?"

"Well, at least I could do it, a little more gently?"

"Sigh…this pain would only be felt by a woman once in her lifetime. I wanted to savor every bit of it." said Yu Li as she caressed Zhang Yang face.

She suddenly giggled weakly. "I would have never thought that my first time would be taken away by my very own student! If word got out, others would definitely be call me names like slut, harlot, minx!"

"Teacher…"

Zhang Yang understood how she felt. He wanted to embrace her once more but she placed her hands on his tight, muscular chest.

"There's no need to console me. I've already give this much thought." Yu Li bounched up and got on top of Zhang Yang. "Now, let me get on top!"

Zhang Yang reached out to wrap his hands around her slender waist. "Why…why did you do it?"

"Honest to god? I was feeling a little one sided. I was dissatisfied. Back then, when you said you wanted to hire me, it wasn't just for your good, wasn't it. You really wanted to help me."

Yu Li looked up to the ceiling and stared at the empty surface. "When I was dating—for four years, I thought I had found it. My one true love. But eventually, finding right partner, the right man turned out to be extremely tough. Perhaps, in one far corner of the world, there will be a right man for me. Who truly loves me for who I am! But, until I find him, I'll probably be a 40 or 50 year old hag!"

She looked back down at him and ran her hands playfully over his abs. "The day you find your woman. I will quietly leave you in peace. I will never bother you anymore." Yu Li smile. This time, her smile was different. It was not forced nor pretentious. It was her genuine smile.

"Now, I'm a free woman. I can do whatever I want to do! And now, I want to have you inside me! I want you to f*ck me everyday!"

Those words brought a sudden life back in him. The flames that had just died down came up scorching, sending the blood pumping into his meat pole as it reared up, ready to go for a second round.

"Hey!" Yu Li jumped when she felt Zhang Yang pressing against her behind. "What's wrong--No! No more! It did hurt for me, remember?"

Like a needle in his brain, her words struck him deeply. After a woman's first time, the pain will linger on for what seems to be forever. It wouldn't subside until two to three days later. In worse case scenarios, the pain would remain for a week, even! It could leave a trauma that went past biology and emotions that would scar them for life, making them averse to men and love.

"Don't make that expression. Let me tell you a little secret. At first, it hurt like hell. But after that, I felt pleasure like never before." Yu Li whispered into his ears, biting on them playfully.

Another question rose inside him. Dreadfully, he needed to know. It would say a lot about his performance. It would determine on a man's confidence in himself. "Did…did you cum?"

"No!"

"No! You lying minx!"

"No! I'm serious!"

"…"

Zhang Yang crossed his arms. Puffing with confidence, he grabbed her hands and pulled her back down to the bed. "In that case, I'll give you one right now!"

"Please no!"

Yu Li was shocked. Her precious part had just been torn open, she knew that she would not endure a second session. She frantically pleaded. "Alright! Alright! I did! I did!"

"Did what?" Zhang Yang playfully questioned her.

Yu Li winked at him. "Sigh…do all men love teasing like that?"

Zhang Yang laughed. Sometimes, men can be rather generous and humble. But, sometimes, there were things that they cannot let pass. In this case, it did wonders for a man's pride!

The two of them cuddled around for a little while when Zhang Yang finally left the bed. "I have to go now."

"There's no need to rush things. I told Fei Fei about this. She will only be back tomorrow morning, she will be staying at a hotel for the night. You can go to sleep with no worries!"

In all honesty, Zhang Yang did not want to leave Yu Li's warmth embrace. Who wouldn't? He nodded obediently and went back to bed.

Yu Li raised one of her eye brows and said sarcastically, "How about this. I'll call her to come back now, and you can take her in as well! She's been finding a man of fortune to be a lover! You can have your threesome here !"

Zhang Yang felt a jump in his heart. His raging cock down there responded the same way as well.

Yu Li saw it and scoffed. "I see that all men sure are greedy. You already have a fish in your tank, and you're still searching for other fish in the sea!"

Zhang Yang did not mind tasting other women in his life, of course he thought of doing the hanky-panky all the time! To have his body respond to her sly, alluring suggestion would only be natural. He cast it aside with his mind and asked her. "So, your mother will be discharged the day after tomorrow?"

"Yes. That's why I ask you to come over tonight! Or else, you might never have the chance to do it anymore!"

Zhang Yang patted her head and slowly caressed her fair face. "Buy a new house! Do you really wish to cramp in three persons in this god-forsaken building?"

"Sure. You're my exulted master. Your wish is my command!" Yu Li agreed. She did not want to have her mother staying in this small space.

"After I go back, I'll send you another 1,000,000 dollars."

"Is that your way of paying me back after shredding me apart?"

"You can say that. Since you're my woman, I can at least treat you a little better, now can I?"

TL note:

1. Brother Chun and Sister Fung: Brother Chun was the nickname of Li Yu Chun who gained fame in China as an ambassador of gender-neutrality. She was always seen in sharp suits. Sister Fung was the nickname of Luo Yu Feng, gaining fame by critizing others on the internet. Self-proclaimed to have known Chinese drawing, Chinese instrumental, and Chinese poem since childhood. In year 2010, she went to America, vowing never to return to China. However, in year 2011, she was deported by the Americans, under the premise that her messages were causing too much harm in society.

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Chapter 255: Soaring Swords Professional League

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Zhang Yang shook his head, smiling weakly as he asked, "Lend me your gaming helmet. I'd like to log in for a while."

Yu Li got up from her bed and immediately cringed in pain with a loud "ouchiee" as she limped towards her closet. Digging among the neatly arranged clothing, she bent down, causing her firm breasts to sway about as they dangled down. She straightened up with a gaming helmet. After handing the helmet to Zhang Yang, she returned to bed rather disgruntledly.

"D*mn, it really hurts…"

Zhang Yang snickered and put on the helmet to log into the game.

"Noob tank! Have you seen the system's announcement? The preliminary rounds of 'Soaring Swords' starts next month!"

"Little Yang, registration for 'Soaring Swords' opens tomorrow."

"O Guild master! Please babysit me!"

Just as Zhang Yang logged into the game, he was instantly bombarded with private messages from Fatty Han, Wei Yan Er, and a few other members of his guild. He was stunned. 'Soaring Swords' was already starting? But then again, it was about time too! He was the one who was out of place.

Soaring Swords, was Dream Tech's first world class, international level, PvP competition. Each region would host their own tournament. This was the starting point, or rather the filtration point for the future Professional League. Unlike the future Professional League, Soaring Swords would only allow team fights. Only players in a party formation could register, up to a limit of five members.

After a series of preliminary battles, each major city will only produce 4 parties each. All 32 parties in entire China will have the final decisive match in the city of Shanghai. Other than the luxurious grand prize, all 32 parties that had been carefully selected from the preliminary round will be seeded in the S-Class Professional League held next year!

Keep in mind that the League had a 10 player limit in their battle team. The League will also have 1v1 competitions. Thus, not only did they have to possess good teamwork, but each member of the party must be able to hold their ground in a solo fight!

Zhang Yang proceed to create a party and invited those that he discerned to have a certain level of potential. He then switched to the party channel and announced, "I'm sure everyone has heard of and wants to join the Soaring Swords!"

"You betcha! Noob tank! The champions will have the best rewards! Each member will gain three levels, one skill point, and a chance to participate in the lucky draw! According to the official statement, there's even a 1% chance to draw a Violet-Platinum tier equipment! You hear that? Violet-Platinum!" Wei Yan Er was wild with excitement. She was already picturing herself standing on the champion's podium.

"Those parties who make it to the finals will earn 20,000 dollars a person as a reward! Final 16, will have 40,000 per person. Final 8 will have 80,000 dollars per person, and Final 4 will have 160,000 per person! As for the top three teams, the 3rd place will have 200,000 dollars per person, 2nd place will have 500,000 dollars a person. And the final champion's team will have 1,000,000 dollars per person! Dream Tech sure is going all out for this competition!" Hundred Shot's own salary was already raised to 100,000 dollars a month. Still, he was shocked when a million dollar prize was presented as a prize.

Zhang Yang laughed. "In that case, we must think of a way to get ourselves all top 3 places!"

"Noob tank! This time, you must be on my team! This young lady will allow you to fight. I will not be dragging the team down this time!" Wei Yan Er snickered evilly.

"Puh! Little Yang will surely be with this Fatty bro!" roared Fatty Han as he jumped out of the crowd.

"Bullsh*t! The guild master will surely be in my team!"

Everyone already knew about Zhang Yang strength. Just with his {Destructive Smash} that reduced healing effects by 75%, there was nobody who wouldn't be willing to be a vegan monk for him.

Finally, the excitement died down, and everyone turned their expectant gazes to Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang put up a serious face and said, "As of right now, our guild is the strongest guild in all of China. I can't say for sure, but I'm sure that many guilds have set their eyes upon defeating us. They will try to take our places and kick us down the rankings. So I say this, we must take this chance to rise up among others, to fight for the glory of the guild, to earn our place, not just in the hearts of all players, but for the world to witness! Let them see, Lone Desert Smoke, the champions of China!"

Everyone nodded. A man's wants far outweighed the benefits of the guild. As long as the guild's position remained unfazed, unshaken, everyone in the guild would have bright futures!

Zhang Yang swept across the crowd to quickly observe every one of them. "I plan to create two permanent battle teams. The target of these teams is to be among the four teams who will represent China. The first team will have, me, that little brat, that b*tchy snow, Ice Cube, and Daffodil Daydream. The second team, Hundred Shots, that fat guy there, Lost Dream, Fantasy Sweetheart, and Galileo."

Galileo was a Berserker who had recently joined Lone Desert Smoke. His controls and intuition were impressive. He had performed extremely well in the secondary raid party, drawing Zhang Yang's attention.

In the first battle team, Han Ying Xue would be the healer of the team. Without her "ginormous" support, the team will not be able to perform well. Sun Xin Yu, a.k.a Ice Cube, will be China's Thief Lord in the future, the best of the best, so naturally, she was in his team. As for the little brat, if he had not proactively recruited her, she might grovel at his feet, sobbing until he looked like the villain instead. That being said, her skills and equipment were above the average member around. She had some potential, to be able to win four out of 10 matches against Sun Xin Yu.

Daffodil Daydream was in his team since there were already three melee fighters around. Her nuking style, her burst damage was a necessity in the team. Besides, she was the only ranged attack! Compared to the second battle team, Daffodil Daydream's capabilities exceeded even Hundred Shots, and Fatty Han. Fatty Han was a PvP dumb*ss, through and through. He could be in the team solely because of his equipment. Hundred Shots had yet to obtain the mini-Red Dragon as his pet, and was nowhere at the strength Zhang Yang knew him by. Without it, he would never be a super strong tier player like Zhang Yang!

"Little Yang, bro, come on. Why are you being so greedy! Four ladies all to yourself? Dude!" Fatty Han stared in envy.

Zhang Yang shrugged. "Team 1 and Team 2 have been decided. Anyone else who wants to participate in the competition may form their own team! The guild will not interfere!

After a quick grinding session, Zhang Yang logged out of the game and used Yu Li's computer in the room to access the official site, looking up for further information on the Soaring Swords. After all, his memory of Soaring Sword Competition was all but covered in memory dust, he could not possibly remember all the tiny details.

According to the announcement in the official site, any player above Level 50 can participate in the event. The number of participants in the battle team is limited to not more than five members. Player can still participate in the event with a team less than five members. There was nothing that said a single player was not eligible. If one thinks that one is strong enough to take on five players, one may do so proudly and even win the grand prize!

The registration would start at 00:00 the next day, ending on the 30th of November. However, players owuld need to purchase a Party Registration Log for 10 gold coins if they wished to participate. The registration would be completed after all team mates had placed their forms and signature into the book, which would be submitted to the system.

A player is and limited to only one battle team. After the submission, no one is allowed to switch sides or join another team.

The preliminary rounds would start on the first day of December and end on the 10th. Only 32 battle teams will be selected from the preliminary rounds to join the semi-finals. On the 20th of December, all 32 teams will have to proceed to Grand Skyline Hotel in Shanghai, fully sponsored by Dream Tech. Further information would be added upon further notice.

Zhang Yang read the entire announcement carefully before turning off the computer and going back to bed.

Yu Li was already sound asleep, all curled up like kitten. Zhang Yang sighed heavily. He knew a little thing or two about body language. When a person sleeps in such a position, curled up into a ball, it showed signs of insecurity and depression.

Zhang Yang felt sad for her. He reached out his hands and pulled her gently into his embrace, falling asleep with her in his arms.

The night passed by silently.

The next day, Zhang Yang opened his eyes. He was extremely surprised when the first scene he saw was a completely alien surrounding. It took a while before he remembered that he was in Yu Li's bedroom and that he had spent the night at her house. He turned his head to the other side only to find an empty bed. He sucked in a deep breath, taking in the fragrance of a woman from the pillow beside him.

Fuu!

Zhang Yang let out a long breath and got up with a flip. He got his cloths on properly and opened the door. Just then, the smell of fried eggs came rushing into his nostrils. He walked to the kitchen and found her there cooking breakfast.

Zhang Yang leaned on the corner of the wall and observed the woman. After transitioning from a young maiden to a full fledged woman, she was wearing tight jeans that had did nothing to hide the shape of her curvy long legs. Her ass was held firmly by the fabric of the jeans, creating a perfect peach like curvature that sent Zhang Yang's blood boiling with desire again.

He sneaked up behind her and embraced her.

"Ah!" Yu Li was startled. She turned to him and plucked his nose lightly.

"Don't play now. If the eggs get burned, there's no breakfast for you, young man!"

"Doesn't matter. I'll just have you for breakfast!

Now filled with desire, Zhang Yang's hands slithered up from Yu Li lower waist, slipping beneath her shirt. His hands made their way slowly up to her warm, perky breasts. Gradually and sexually, Zhang Yang pressed his lips on her snow-white neck and nibbled them a little.

"Let go you, little minx! I'm serious! Ah! My eggs! It's going to burn!"

Now that he was already heated up and ready to go. Zhang Yang shut the stove off before scooping her off her feet and carried her into the bed room. laughing manically as he did.

"Hehe! Little minx? Did you just call your man little minx? That would not do, missus! I must teach you a lesson!"

After a long and draggy plead, Yu Li begged Zhang Yang to let her off the hook this time. She was still fresh from the session that tore her apart, the stinging pain still deep within her forbidden area. In the end, Zhang Yang caved in and had Yu Li suck him off instead.

After having breakfast and "dessert", Zhang Yang left the building and took a cab home. Along the way, Yu Li's bashful expression from yesterday flitted through his mind. He clenched his fist, knowing that from today onwards, he would soon often find himself late for work, due to a certain activity in the morning.

Back at his home, he regained his composure and logged into the game.

The first thing he did was to buy himself a Party Registration Log Book. After having all the girls sign, Zhang Yang went to the Registration NPC in White Jade Castle to submit their application.

'Ding! You have submitted the name list of your battle team for Soaring Swords event. Party Name: Lone Desert Smoke Team 1. Team Member: Zhan Yu, Frost Night, Drizzler, Little Snow, Daffodil Daydream. Please confirm the details before proceeding!'

"Proceed!"

'Ding! You have successfully registered your battle team: Lone Desert Smoke Team 1. Please wait patiently for the event to start! Please remain connected during the event period. Penalty will be incurred for not fulfilling the requirement!'

What a fraud! One team's Registration "fee" was at 10 gold coins each! With China's 6,000,000 players, which added up to 1,200,000 battle teams, that would be 12,000,000 gold coins! F*ck! With that amount of gold coins, it was no wonder that they could provide such a grand rewards, and complete with traveling and accommodation fees for the hotel! It's like a government building a tower from the blood, sweat, and tears of its citizen's tax, and then further expanding influence of 'God's Miracle' upon all that! That's killing two birds with one stone!

Still, even if he knew about the future development of the game, the one earning the most profits would still be the gaming company themselves! This was the true difference between a gambler and a casino!

Zhang Yang put those thoughts behind him and summoned the bear, riding all the way to Crimson Blood Mountains of the Didier Flatlands.

In the game, humans did not only have 64 major cities in eight regions of the world. In high level maps, there were many other kingdoms and other small forces that existed as their own sovereigns. These kingdoms and forces did not ally themselves in the Union. Some of them had even struck a deal or agreements with the Spectres.

Didier Flatlands was ruled by Count Didier. A long time ago, this land had once been a part of the human empire. However, after the invasion of demons and spectres, Count Didier took the chance and leave the human empire and started a small reign in this very land. Even though his reign was not an official kingdom, he had the authority of one. Since then, seven generations since had passed since the creation of this place.

Three years ago, according to the lore, all seven generations of Didier decedents had led an army to fight a bloody war with the spectres, managing to stop the invasion.

However, the warriors who had sacrificed their lives for the safety of the people had been reanimated as walking zombies. They had become the very thing that they had sought to kill. Losing their memories, emotions, and consciousness, they were doomed to roam forever in this Crimson Blood Mountains.

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Please take note that we have made some changes to the term PK. In the untranslated texts, the author used the word PK as in player killing. We have changed that term to PvP (Player versus Player) to suit the author's true intention.

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Chapter 256: The Weird Spectre

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Zhang Yang arrived at the Crimson Blood Mountains where the place was filled with monsters. They were all melee-attackers which made it really easy to kill them in large groups.

Zhang Yang patted the bear's head and started to rush into the enemy. One by one he kited them until they accumulated in numbers, and kill them in one go. The obtained experience was extreme satisfying.

Zhang Yang continued grinding for three days straight and killed his way up to the peak. When he arrived, he felt weird. The place was empty. There were so many monsters down the hill yet at this hundred-meter square area was only occupied by one monster. The monster was just kneeling down, gazing into the distance. Its rotting eye sockets where glowing with the typical green-emerald flames of a spectre.

Is that a boss?

Zhang Yang eyes glinted. He hurried over to it and observed its properties.

[Smaug] (Normal, Spectre)

Level: 65

HP: 6,500

Defense: 60

As expected! It's a green, friendly monster! The name however, was extremely familiar!

But…could a spectre be a green-name monster? Zhang Yang was flustered. He kept the axe and his shield and went up to Smaug.

When Zhang Yang footsteps grew louder, Smaug got up to his feet immediately. The flames in his eyes flickers violently as the lower jaw crackled to speak in a deep, husky voice of a man. "Adventurer, are you here to end my life?"

A talking spectre!? That had to be at least a Witch Spectre level! How could a rotting, brittle-looking, meatless, skeletal monster be able to have the ability of speech?! He was supposed to be just the same as those mindless zombies!

Something was not right!

Zhang Yang shook his head to deny Smaug's statement. "To aise as a spectre after a man's death, could only mean an unfulfilled wish. Only a desire, a wish so strong, could force a man to rise from his grave! Tell me, spectre, what is it that you wish to achieve, and I will help you fulfill your wish!"

Naturally, Zhang Yang knew that Smaug had a quest for him. Otherwise, he would not even have the guts to blurt out such a corny line.

Smaug turned his empty sockets to Zhang Yang and said, "Three years ago, I was in the expedition army. I died on this very battlefield. Back then, I had a wife. A beautiful, loving wife who I will never forget. She was carrying my child in her womb! I can't just leave now, I have to meet her! I want to meet my child! Only then, can I leave this earth with a contented heart."

A husband, a loving father, and the unrelenting desire to care for his family had made this man to rise up from the dead. Unlike the other spectres that had remained on this earth due to vengeance and hatred, this man, no this spectre, was here because of his unconditional love.

Zhang Yang nodded his head. "Respected warrior, how may I help?"

Smaug turned his head towards the far south and said, "Could you see to them? My wife and child. Please see it whether they are living a good life. Come back here and tell me all about them!"

'Ding! Smaug has a quest for you: Last Wish. Will you accept it?'

"Accept!"

"They should be living in the north, in a town call Balin. My wife's name is Liya. Liya – Tuskar!" Smaug turned back to face Zhang Yang. "I must thank you, adventurer. You have a noble heart. A true heart of a warrior!"

Zhang Yang nodded his head. "I will be back with haste!"

Zhang Yang summoned his bear and rode down towards the south.

[Last Wish] (Difficulty Level: D)

Quest Description: Head towards the town of Balin and search for Liya – Tuskar and her child. Let them know about Smaug's affection for them and obtain a reply from Liya for Smaug.

Progress: Obtained Liya – Tuskar's reply letter 0/1

It was just Level D quest, yet it required Zhang Yang to run over the entire mountain. Zhang Yang sighed. Judging from the quest description, Zhang Yang guessed that it would not be of any worth to complete the quest. However, even though Smaug was just a program, a fictional character, the story he told and his devotion to his family had moved Zhang Yang. He decided to run around a bit to finish the quest.

Even though Crimson Blood Mountain and the town of Balin belonged in the region of Didier Flatlands, it took Zhang Yang one whole hour just to arrive at an old, dead town.

"Hold!"

Surrounding the town were protective wooden parameters with four guards standing at the entrance. Wielding long spears, they entered aggressive stances and bellowed ferociously at Zhang Yang.

[Balin Guard] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 65

HP: 130,000

Defense: 350

These NPC that were threatening Zhang Yang had yellow name tags. If Zhang Yang wanted to, he could just ride in without the need of stopping. However, it was not necessary.

Zhang Yang pulled the reins of the bear and stopped right beside the guards. "I'm just a regular adventurer trying to find a place to stay for the night and resupply. I mean no harm!"

One of the guards walked up closer and carefully shift his head up and down, studying him closely. He turned back after a while and screamed. "It's human!"

Zhang Yang murmured. "So, can I go in now?"

"Wait!" The same guard stopped Zhang Yang by blocking his path. "By orders from Lord Aiden, all visitors must pay 10 gold coins as an entrance fee!"

What a rip-off!

Zhang Yang grunted and took out 10 gold coins to pay the guard since he just wanted to finish the quest as swiftly as he could. After dropping the gold coins on the guard's palm, he proceeded into the town.

As he rode on the bear through the stone pavements of the small town, Zhang Yang could not help but notice the old buildings on either side of the road. There were not many people on the streets as well. The entire town seemed rather glum. Zhang Yang gently stopped an older woman and asked, "Excuse me dear madam, do you know where is Liya – Tuskar's house?"

The NPC woman was a rather plump, middle aged lady. She lifted her fat, chinless face up and looked at Zhang Yang and spoke in a rather agitated tone. "That shameless whore? How do you know that name? Wait…you don't look like you're from around here! Oh! The heavens have mercy on us all! Even a foreigner would know about that whore! What a disgrace she has been to the town of Balin!"

Did she say whore?

Zhan Yang was stunned. "I'm sorry madam. I'm her husband's friend in the army. I came here just to deliver a message."

"Smaug's friend?" The fat lady stared at Zhang Yang with disbelief and replied. "Young man, you're too late. Liya the whore had already died two years ago!"

"What?!" Zhang Yang frowned immediately. A simple, delivery quest had just taken a turn for the worse! It had just gotten more complicated! Zhang Yang asked again, "I recall that she had a child."

"So it seems. I heard when the b*tch was buried, she was still carrying a child in her womb! Pui! What a shameless whore! That lowlife could not even live a day without having a man in her bed!" That fat lady NPC face was twisted with disgust as she spat onto the gravel pavement.

Just as she was about to leave, Zhang Yang quickly asked one last question. "Where was she buried?"

"In the cemetery, far west of the city. I don't know the exact location. Find her yourself!" said the fat lady. But just as she walked away, Zhang Yang could hear her murmur. "That shameless whore should not even be buried in the cemetery. She should just fed to the wolves."

Liya's…a whore?

The question lingered in his mind until he rode the bear towards the cemetery of Balin. The cemetery was a large garden-like field. If tombstones were planted neatly in rows with a garden around it, this place would make a beautiful one indeed.

Zhang Yang got down and started reading each of the tombstone for Liya's name. When he reached a corner of the north most area, he found Liya – Tuskar's tombstone.

'Ding! Quest: Last Wish has been updated. Please investigate the death of Liya – Tuskar!'

The system notification rang in his ears just as Zhang Yang touched the tombstone.

Looks like this was not just a simple delivery quest after all!

Zhang Yang rode out and back into the town. After asking around, he finally found the location of Liya's old house. The small house was extremely old, and was close to falling apart. The door was barely working with half of what seemed to be a makeshift door. From the outside, Zhang Yang could clearly see many holes in the ceiling of the house. Right now, sun rays broke into the dark, solemn house, its interior barely illuminated only with pillars of light from the sun. It would never shelter any occupant from the rain.

Is this Smaug and Liya's house?

"Young warrior! Have you purged the entire world of demons and spectres or do you have that much time in your hands to come here?" A hunchbacked older gentleman walked out of a neighboring house. With a walking stick in his wrinkled hand, he raised it to point at Zhang Yang provokingly.

Zhang Yang remained stoic. "Respected elder. I am a friend of Smaug in the army. Three years ago, as he lay dying, he told me about his wife and child. He told me to ensure that they lived in comfort. I should have come earlier, but I took an arrow to the knee."

The old man slowly lowered his walking stick and paced slowly towards Liya's grave. He let out a long sigh. "Smaug was a brave man. When he was 11 years old, he could tear a tiger apart with his bare hands. When he was 18 years old, the idiot went on and charged into a dragon's nest. He single handedly defeated a dragon! Since then, there were rumors going on about Smaug. They said that the Gods smiled upon him, that he was blessed with powers that rivaled the God of War himself! However, rumors were rumors. The young lad had so much potential. Yet he fell at such a young age..."

So, Smaug was a famous character. That was why he could still retain his memories even as a low-ranking specter soldier. He could even speak!

Zhang Yang nodded his head. "Smaug was indeed a respectable warrior! He was brave and valiant. Respected elder, could you tell me about his wife? How did Liya die?"

"Sigh…Smaug was such a reputable hero. But he betrothed a whore! Liya was once the most beautiful woman in this town. Before she was married to Smaug, many men had been courting her all day with songs and poems! However, when Smaug left us, she could not endure the lonesome nights. In the end, she had lured all the men in the town! That whore could have shared a bed with every man in this town! Eventually…after peppered with insults from the townspeople, she could not take it anymore and ended her own life!"

The old man lowered his head in silence.

Smaug was a man who loved his wife so. And the wife was a woman who clearly loved him so much that he could still retain his soul as a spectre. How could this woman be a whore?

Zhang Yang got down from his mount and unsummoned the bear. He summoned his courage and pushed the rotten door aside to enter the house. The first place he entered was the living room of the house. With one quick glance, he could tell that everything; the furniture, the table, the small rack on the side, was all on the verge of collapsing. Zhang Yang looked around for a little while and headed towards the bedroom. Inside the dark, damp room was a large bed that took two third of the entire bedroom. On the left was as wooden closet and on the right was a small nightstand. The bed was a mess, covered in nothing but dust.

Zhang Yang went towards the nightstand and pulled out a drawer. There, he saw a black, leather-bound diary. Looks like the truth could be written in this evidence.

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Chapter 257: The Diary

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Zhang Yang unhooked the leather bound diary and opened it.

"Smaug, my one true love. When I heard about your passing, I was left alone, heartbroken. I wanted to end my life. I want to be with you! Please forgive me, my love! I'm still carrying your child. Until he grows up to be a fine man like you, I shall take my leave and meet you!"

On the very first page of the diary, Zhang Yang could already feel the unrequited love between a wife and her husband. How could a woman like her be a shameless whore?!

Zhang Yang flipped over and read more. The next six pages were of Liya lamenting of a husband who she clearly loved. But at the seventh page, the contents had changed.

"Smaug! Please forgive me! I've been tainted! I've been soiled! I have no right to be your love! The town chief, Aiden has violated me! My love! I want to die right now! But…I cannot take my life just yet. The child inside me is still growing…I cannot allow myself to die! I will endure this hardship! I will give birth to your child!"

Zhang Yang could feel the pain and despair through the writing. The words were written rather heavily. The quill had almost torn through the paper. Zhang Yang graced his fingers across the pages and could feel the agonizing pain of living, and the despair in her bravery to fight off death.

"The people…everyone stares at me with such judgment, such hatred! It's too late, but now I know that they were insulting me for seducing Aiden, that monster! They are calling me a shameless whore! Smaug, my love. I…I…I can't endure this any longer!"

"Kingsley…Owen…Kerry…they came barging in. They raped me. One by one, I was violated! When tear flow down my cheeks, they were only laughing! Smaug, I am destined for hell! But, before I knock on the gates of hell, I shall give birth to our child!"

"…Lady Velma from the bakery has dismissed me from work. No one in town is willing to hire me anymore! Oh…Smaug. How I wish to hear your sweet voice once more! Please…I will endure this…I will survive until our child comes to this world!'

'…Smaug, I don't deserve your love any more. To survive, I have sold my soul and body! Oh! Smaug, please forgive me! I may have given my body to someone else, but my heart will always be yours forever…'

The diary ended here.

'Ding! You have found a suspicious circumstance of Liya's death. Please head to the town's bar for inquiry. Hint: Drunkards will sometimes reveal the important clues!'

Rage. Zhang Yang mind was suddenly filled with only one emotion. A man left the town and place his life in the front line to protect those who repaid him by blatantly raping, assaulting, insulting, and forcing a widow to the point of prostitution? Not even in death, the couple could rest in peace without being insulted!

Zhang Yang put away the diary and walked out of the house with grim eyes.

Liya had steel her heart with iron-clad fortitude to give birth to their child, how could such a woman would end her own life? She had already lost everything she had, that was why, there was no reason for her to end her own life!

If that was the case, who was the one who killed her?

The ultimate question played repeatedly in his mind, until he arrived at a small bar. Compared to the street, this place was much more rowdier and crowded. There were over 10 men occupying the bar stand, drinking and laughing with joy. Zhang Yang casually sat down and ordered a beer. Without much effort, he struck a conversation with one of the middle-aged drunkards, named Bass.

"I heard this town had an absolute beauty. What's her name again? Li…Li…Li something!" said Zhang Yang, pretended to be oblivious.

"Liya – Tuskar?" said Bass. "Indeed she was a beauty to behold. It's a shame that she died a couple years back."

"How did she die?"

The Drunkard Bass was startled. His face twitched a little as he continued gulping down his beer. "We don't talk about this. There could be a price on your head if you get too nosy."

Zhang Yang laughed. "Alright, alright! You must be saying that to scare me off. I'm pretty sure that you don't know anything, do you!?"

"Who says I don't know anything!" Bass was infuriated. He calmed down and turned left and right before lowering his head, whispering to Zhang Yang. "On that very day, I saw with my own eyes, the town chief's men brought Liya to his house with a horse carriage. However, when she got back home, she was already a living corpse!"

"Town Chief? You mean Aiden?"

"That's right. That's why I said it would be dangerous! My friend, you best keep your head down and keep this between us. Lord Aiden is the Count's nephew! He is what you would call a man with power! If this gets out, both of our heads will hang!" said Bass with a terrified face.

"Huh…I do wonder, why did Aiden want to kill Liya?" said Zhang Yang. He was genuinely confused.

"That, my friend, is a question I cannot answer." Said Bass as he shook his head. "However, I did hear rumors that Lord Aiden kept a journal of sorts! Perhaps he could have written it down!"

'Ding! Your quest: Last Wish has been updated. Please find Aiden's Diary and give it to Smaug along with Liya's Diary!'

[Last Wish] (Difficulty Level: A)

Quest Description: Find Aiden's Diary and investigate the true culprit behind Liya's death. Submit both Aiden's and Liya's Diary to Smaug.

Progress: Liya's Diary 1/1 Aiden's Diary 0/1

The quest difficulty level had just been raised!

Zhang Yang quickly left the bar after cutting the conversation short, and he arrived at Aiden's house doorstep.

Aiden's house, or rather mansion was the largest building in Balin. The area and land was so large, though it could not be compared to the palace back in White Jade Castle, it was still several times larger than a regular town's man. There were eight soldiers fanned out in a straight line with long spears in their hands, with stern faces that would not hesitate at killing whenever necessary.

[Aiden's Guard] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 65

HP: 1,000,000

Defense: 350

All of them were red-named! That meant that the guards would attack anyone within their aggro range!

If it was only one or two, Zhang Yang could at least survive the fight with a little HP left. But eight, 1,000,000 HP elite tier monsters were too much, even for the mighty Zhang Yang!

Zhang Yang clicked his tongue, annoyed. He summoned his bear and rode into the mansion boldly.

"Insolent fool! How dare you intrude Lord Aiden's property! Kill him!" All eight elite guards surrounded Zhang Yang.

{Blood Rage}! {Blast Wave}!

A conical shaped, compressed air blasted out, stunning all eight of them. Zhang Yang took this chance and rode past the defense blockade, rushing inside the compound. Once inside, Zhang Yang was in a large flower garden. There were many guards inside that were widely spread out. The white bear ran past like the wind and rushed through the garden and towards the main building.

"Intruder! Intruder!" As the stunned guards recovered, they began to shout as they gave chase.

With the incredible speed of the mount, Zhang Yang had arrived to the doorstep of the main building in just a few seconds. There were another eight elite guards right at the doorsteps. All of them swung their spears at Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang got down from his mount with a quick somersault. In an instant, Zhang Yang unsummoned his bear and activated {Shadow of the Void}.

poof*

With a 200% bonus movement speed increase, Zhang Yang practically flew through the guards and entered the main building, like an actual thief.

Losing the aggro, the guards rushed back to their original position and resumed their guarding as if nothing had ever happened.

20 seconds later, {Shadow of the Void} ended and Zhang Yang materialized back in to the "real world".

"Die, intruder!" along with a scream, a shadow eclipsed over his from behind.

{Block}!

Zhang Yang raised his shield almost instantly and blocked what a seemed to be just be a broom wielded by a female maid.

[Aggressive Maid] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 65

HP: 130,000

Defense: 350

Luckily, she had only 130,000 HP, despite being elite. She was far easier to deal with compared to the 1,000,000 HP guards outside.

Zhang Yang started his counterattack. Zhang Yang was unable to summon the bear as it required a two second casting time. During the casting animation, the summon process would be interrupted when the summoner receives an attack. Zhang Yang had to fight this maid all by himself.

Even though he was alone, it took only one minute for Zhang Yang to terminate the maid. After making there were no other monsters around him, Zhang Yang quickly summoned the [Gold-Eared Bear King] and begun searching one room at a time.

The building was extremely large and was filled with many monsters. Luckily, they were all widely spread out. From the ground floor to the first floor, to the third, and the fourth, Zhang Yang had already killed more than a hundred elite monsters. After one hour, he had finally entered a room filled with nothing but books!

The room was as large as a hall, with 10 or more book shelves lining up to the end of the room. At the far end of the room was a desk. A silver-lined elderly man was wiping the desk. He was dressed in a butler uniform.

[Sebas the Butler] (Gray-Silver, Humanoid)

Level: 68

HP: 680,000

Defense: 700

This place must be Aiden's personal reading room! Zhang Yang took out his battle axe and charged at Sebas.

"Hmm? Which cave did you crawl out from!? How dare you intrude Lord Aiden's mansion!?" The old butler bellowed angrily and threw a punch at Zhang Yang.

'-2,206!'

Zhang Yang took the damage head on. The boss basic attack damage was roughly around 5,000. But Zhang Yang did not know how fast was his attack or what skills he had! Zhang Yang thought of it while frantically counterattacking Sebas. In any worse case scenario, it's still best to have {Cripple Defense} stacked up first and see how the battle turns out.

Two seconds later, another punch came flying.

{Block}!

Zhang Yang immediately raised his shield. He started calculate the boss attacking properties. So far, his single attacks were at 2,200 damage, with a two second attack interval. With {Block} every six seconds, the boss normal attack DPS will be roughly be around 700. After five stacks of {Cripple Defense}, the boss will still have 350 Defense. Combining the [Gold-Eared Bear King]'s basic attack DPS of around 1,850, and Zhang Yang's DPS of around 2,600, it would take roughly 150 seconds to kill the boss. That being said, he would have to remain alive for the entire ordeal!

After taking another attack, Zhang Yang took out a bottle of [Level 3 Healing Potion] and gulped down the bottle clean.

[Level 3 Healing Potion] (Useable)

Use: Restores 4,000 HP immediately. Use of any Healing Potion regardless of level will cause all potions to enter the same cool down time.

Cool Down Time: 1 minute.

Level Requirement: 60

Since he had not found himself a recipe to craft the [Level 3 Healing Potion, Zhang Yang had bought the potion from the NPC for 50 gold coins a bottle! It's extremely expensive!

After treating Zhang Yang like a punching bag, Sebas threw a lightning speed punch and stunned Zhang Yang.

'Ding! Sebas has used {Uppercut}!'

After the successful stun, Sebas turned around and starting punching the white bear.

'-3,812!'

'-3,739!'

Even though the bear had stronger Defense than Zhang Yang, it did not have any damage reduction passive skills, causing it to take a ferocious beating. Luckily, the {Uppercut} only stunned Zhang Yang for three seconds. After the boss threw out two punches, he turned around and started flinging his fists at Zhang Yang's body.

Zhang Yang had to resort to {Merlinda's Shadow}, {Berserker's Heal}, {Shield Wall}, [Heart of Fallen Warrior, and another bottle of [Level 3 Healing Potion]. Zhang Yang had manage to last for 95 seconds but his HP had been drained down below 2,000 HP!

Wham!

The boss threw another punch.

'10,620!'

Furious set equipment set effect activated!

However, that had only bought Zhang Yang another 15 seconds, before he was once again in the danger zone. He quickly activated {Shadow of the Void} and ran away from the battle while frantically chowing down several recovery snacks.

Once the boss lost sight on Zhang Yang, it began to kick the white bear's furry *ss.

{Wild Recovery}!

A green-hue light radiated from the bear and it began to regenerate at the rate of 5% HP per seconds.

Once Zhang Yang was fully recovered, he straight up used {Charge} and bashed the boss.

{Provoke}!

Immune!

It did not work on him! However, the boss turned over to Zhang Yang and attack him.

The poor white bear had only slightly over 300 HP left. If Zhang Yang was just a second later, it would have surely perished. Now that Zhang Yang was barely out of danger, he had turned the tables around. This time, it was the boss' turn to be in jeopardy. After merely 40 seconds, the elderly butler wailed in pain and fell down defeated.

The old butler had slightly below average HP, therefore, sadly, its drops were just as little. Other than a few silver coins, it only dropped one item.

[Butler's Bell] (Gray-Silver, Accessory)

Use: Summons 3 slaves to help you do your daily task. They could help you out against the enemy as well. Lasts for 60 seconds. Be warned, you might need to think twice before relying on their battle prowess.

Zhang Yang had seen this plaything in his previous life. The summoned slaves where three Dwarven Fat Moms. They had a fixed attack power, and were only able to fight on par with a Level 30 players. It was actually not too bad for a toy.

Zhang Yang kept the bell in his inventory and sat on top of the desk, rummaging about for Aiden's Diary.

The desk was extremely clean, without even a speck of dust on top. Zhang Yang pulled out the first drawer and saw a red, leather bound, slightly thick book. When he picked the book up, the system notification rang in his ear, indicating that he had obtained Aiden's Diary.

Just Zhang Yang was about to open the book to read, a sudden loud commotion could be heard from outside. Zhang Yang hopped down from the desk and peek out of the window. There, he saw an extremely fat man was walking through the flower garden towards the building, with 12 guards surrounding him.

[Town Chief, Aiden] (Yellow-Gold, Humanoid)

Level: 70

HP: 10,000,000

Defense: 1,400

As for the guards around him were elite tier monster with 1,000,000 HP each! Each of them was like a mini-boss!

Zhang Yang knows it was impossible for him to leave via the same route he entered. He quickly took out a [Teleportation Scroll] and tore it.

After 10 seconds, a magic teleportation magic circle formed beneath his feet. With a gust of bright light, Zhang Yang teleported to Thunderstorm Castle. He summoned his bear and rode his back to Didier Flatlands. Along the way, he took out the Diary and read it. Although the book was designed to be thick, Zhang Yang could only open the book like two planks of rigid wood conjoined in the middle. The rest of the pages could be flipped open. They were glued together firmly. To think that the developers of the game would be too lazy to have a little more in-depth details. They were probably thinking that as long as the book could convey the quest's story, the rest would not matter.

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Chapter 258: Smaug's Revenge

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"Yes! I've finally got her in my hands! I finally have her now! I was afraid to even approach her when Smaug was still alive! But now…He is dead! Muahahaha! What a good death! Such a good death! My wish shall be completed! That b*tch wanted to commit suicide, but she went mental when I tried to threaten that little parasite in her belly!"

"…"

"Ahh…that b*tch is such a precious little jewel. Especially when her belly has grown bigger and bigger! What a wonderful sensation to * that b*tch!"

"…"

"D*mn it all! How did that frog-faced lady know about me and the little b*tch! It must be the work of Martha!"

"…"

"Such a waste! The little b*tch was beaten to death by the frog-faced lady! What a shame, she was a beauty to behold…"

Zhang Yang closed the book. A hurtful sorrow lingered in his heart. Even though it was purely fictional, could real humans already commit such crime? After all, humans have been around for a long time. Who knew the atrocities of the past!

Zhang Yang rode the bear as fast as he could, passing through the Tanilla Forest and entered Didier Flatlands, reaching towards the Crimson Blood Mountains. Zhang Yang did not waste any more time and skipped past all the monsters around. He rode up the mountain, unsummoned the bear, and used {Shadow of the Void} to remove all aggro on him. Once Zhang Yang reached to where Smaug was, he stopped from afar. He could see Smaug still gazing towards Balin. Even with the eerie human skull, Zhang Yang could feel the love, compassion, and longing from his face.

Zhang Yang was stunned. He did not know what to do next. Should he continue the quest? At least, right now, Smaug still had the untainted memories of Liya and their child was safe from the attacks of the spectre, living peacefully in the small town of Balin.

People say that man is at the top of the food chain, for not even a ferocious bear or fearsome tiger could defeat a human's intellect. In the future, the largest threat to humanity, the most devastating force, will always be human themselves, not any other races or species!

"Adventurer! You bring news of my wife and child?" Smaug noticed that Zhang Yang had arrived and quickly got up to his feet. Zhang Yang could tell, even with that eyeball-less skull, Smaug was extremely eager to hear about his wife and child.

What a cruel world! However, everyone would have to face their greatest obstacle in order to move on. Zhang Yang pondered for a while, hesitating before he took out two diaries and gave it to Smaug. He then quickly withdrew to leave the spectre to his sorrow.

'Ding! You have completed the quest: Last Wish. Obtained 1,000,000 Experience Points!'

"ARGHHHHH!!" A loud roar was heard, ever so thunderously, bearing pain and anger in its tone. The sky and earth trembled. Clouds started to flocked and clumped together as a heavy killing intent was generated. It was so strong that it was almost suffocating. The miasma-like pressure was too intense. Over the entire mountain, vengeance that was left behind from countless warriors and spectres alike pooled up, formed a dark colored ball of gas that in turn formed into a long black snake. The vengeful miasma started to gather up above Smaug.

Zhang Yang stopped running away and turned around quickly to witness the event. Smaug had his skeletal arms wide open as he cried with anger and sorrow into the air. The half-liquid, half-gas-like miasma was being sucked into his body in a vortex that seemed to enter a bottomless pit, an abyssal black hole!

A dark, almost black crown was forming on the top of Smaug's head. As Smaug absorbed more miasma, the crown became more solid. The entire process took as long as 10 minutes. After that, almost all of the vengeance miasma on the field had been completely absorbed by Smaug.

Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!

Losing their life-force, all the spectres lost their "life", and one by one, all the skeletal soldiers turned into powerless, regular skeletons, falling into pieces without any force to move them. Each of them returned to the ground from whence they came, resting forever in the depths of the earth.

Smaug clapped his hands together with such force that he could feel a sudden burst of wave. The flame in his eyes burst into a more violent, vibrant flame. The dark clouds in the sky started to clump even closely together and started to generate thunder and lightning.

Zhang Yang could felt the rage in boiling inside him. This rage had made him absorb all the vengeance from all the spectres in the field and morph himself into Ashura the avatar of vengeance, capable of delivering a sea of blood from the high heavens to the depths of hell! No more was the spectre who let the days pass in peace, who was ready to meet his death, knowing that his wife and child were safe and happy!

Thump! Thump!

Smaug walked towards Zhang Yang with heavy steps that shook the ground. "Adventurer! I will require your assistance!"

"As you wish!"

"I need you to take me into Balin. I require you to search for the Blood Shadow Blade which was sent back after my death in the war!"

'Ding! Smaug has a quest for you: Revenge. Will you accept it?'

Accept!

[Revenge] (Difficulty Level: B)

Quest Description: Smaug requires you to search for his Blood Shadow Blade and bring it to him! Hint: Blood Shadow Blade was Smaug's beloved sword, Liya must have taken good care of it when she was alive!

Progress: Blood Shadow Blade 0/1

Zhang Yang summoned his bear. Both of them rode the bear towards Balin. After one hour, they stopped one kilometer away from the entrance of Balin. Zhang Yang took out a black cloak and gave it to Smaug. "Please put this on or else, we might not be able to enter the town!"

The cloak was a Green-Copper tier equipment that was found by Zhang Yang. He was unsure if an NPC could really put them on.

Smaug took the cloak and covered his entire body, hiding the heinous skeletal body under the thick fabric.

It worked!

Zhang Yang patted the bear's forehead and both of them rode slowly towards the entrance.

"Hold!"

The same guards stopped Zhang Yang and one of them demanded. "As per order from Lord Aiden, all visitor must pay one gold coin per pax!"

Zhang Yang threw two gold coins towards the guard and walked pass them towards the town.

"Wait!" One of the guard stopped them. This time, he pointed at Smaug and said, "What are you hiding so desperately? Are you a magnificent beauty or a demonic being that cannot make contact with the sun! Take off the cloak and show me your face! We will conduct a full body inspection!"

"Argh!" Smaug growl angrily as he reached out with his skeletal hands to grab the guard's arm.

"S-Spectre! It's a spectre!" Smaug had accidentally reveal himself as he grabbed the guard. Simultaneously, all four guards begun to attack him.

All of these guards were elite tier, with basic attacks at 4,000 damage. Smaug was just a normal tiered, Level 65 monster with 6,500 HP. How could he take on all those attack? Instantly, Smaug was left with just 1 HP and fell to the floor. Kneeling down and struggling fruitlessly, Smaug's ragged breath was all that indicated that he was at his limit, unable to get up!

Zhang Yang had wanted to sneaked into the town, but when Smaug had exposed himself, Zhang Yang would have to deal with this by force. He immediately used {Charge} to rush towards the guards. {Blood Rage} was used, {Horizontal Sweep} was activated, Zhang Yang could not stop at attacking the guards and quickly tried to end the fight as soon as he could.

"Which spectre dares to infiltrate my town! Kill the monster!" Just when Zhang Yang had just started the battle, the plump Aiden walked out of the town, along with 12 ferocious and tough looking personal guards! Aiden thrust his flabby arms out and commanded them to kill Zhang Yang.

F*ck! 16 elites, one Yellow-Gold boss! How to fight?

Zhang Yang ended up using {Shadow of the Void} and sneaked into the town, leaving Smaug behind. After reappearing at the far end, he saw Smaug had already been detained by the guards! Growling in defeat, Smaug could only stare angrily with all his hatred at Aiden.

"Make a fire pit in the center of the town's plaza! I want this spectre to be sentenced to death by fire!"

With Aiden's command, the guard took Smag away.

'Ding! You quest: Vengence has been updated. You have one hour to search for Blood Shadow Blade and deliver it to Smaug or the quest will be deemed as a failure!'

The system notification rang in Zhang Yang ears just as Smaug was taken away. There was no time to lose!

Zhang Yang rushed towards Liya's house and practically ransacked the entire house to search for the sword. After a long search, there was no trace of the sword in the house. Frustrated, Zhang Yang left the door steps and saw the same old man who had scolded him before, standing outside his house. Zhang Yang went over and asked. "Excuse me sir, do you know about the sword that was delivered back here after Smaug's death?"

The old man scratched his head and said, "You mean the sword with a blood red blade? I think I had saw a young brat name Larry waving it around while showing off. It has to be that sword!"

Sighing heavily, Zhang Yang rode his bear to search for Larry. He found him inside a rundown house. "Three-Finger" Larry was found hiding inside, he was extremely skinny but upon further inspection, he was younger than he looked.

Zhang Yang approached the man and grab him by the collar, roraing in his face. "Larry! I know you have the sword that you stole from Liya's house! Give it to me!"

Larry pushed Zhang Yang away and said provocatively. "If you want it…you'll have to beat me!"

In an instant, Larry's yellow name tag turned to red!

["Three Finger" Larry] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 65

HP: 300,000

Defense: 350

The NPC jumped at ZhangYang and began to attack him.

However, even with that surprise attack, Zhang Yang beat Larry to a pulp without breaking a sweat. Currently, with Zhang Yang equipment, only a boss could take him on, elite monsters were nothing but soft tofu! Left with just 1 HP, probably because the lore requires it to be, Larry was sent down cowering. Basically, since the system had set it that way, Zhang Yang had only thrown a single strike, which had dealt 10,000,000 damage and left the NPC with only 1 HP left.

"I'm sorry! Please don't hit me! I'll tell you where it is!" said Larry as he covered his head. "That broken sword was already sold to the blacksmith Jim!"

Zhang Yang then proceed as fast as he could towards the blacksmith and quickly glanced through the weapon display cupboard. Without delay, Zhang Yang had spotted the sword among the other. The entire sword was literally blood-red in color! It was as red as fresh blood! He quickly talked to the blacksmith NPC Jim, Blacksmith Shop Owner and said, "Excuse me, How much is this?"

"Oooo! You have some good eyes there adventurer! That sword is an excellent piece of work, I'll tell ya!" Jim responded immediately. After gritting his teeth and procrastinate a little, Jim looked at Zhang Yang with an unwilling face and said, "Well…since you want it, I could sell it to you at a cheap price of only 10,000 gold coins!"

Cheap my *ss!

Zhang Yang wanted to just snatch the sword and run away, however, as he tried to lift the sword up, he could not do so, no matter how hard he tried. D*mn system would just want to rob players of their hard earned gold coins!

Zhang Yang paid the man 10,000 gold coins and went on his way. However, before he left the place, Zhang Yang had held back his feelings to punch the man in his face. He left the shop and quickly made his way to the town's plaza.

Luckily, the time remaining was at 18 minutes and 36 seconds.

Zhang Yang reached to the plaza and had already found a large platform with many wooden planks beneath it. Smaug was tied to a large iron pole, propped right in the middle of the wooden stage. There were many more wooden poles, as tall as he was, placed beside him. Not far from the stage, 10 guards surrounded the area while the fat Aiden sat slightly further away. Even further away from the stage was a large number of spectators filling up the entire plaza.

Zhang Yang activated {Shadow of the Void} and phased through the crowd, heading towards the center of the plaza.

Since he could not see any being in the realm of {Shadow of the Void}, the only guidance he had was the iron pole right at the center of the stage. Just as he reached, the skill had ended, and he appeared right in front of Smaug.

"Your sword is right here!"

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Chapter 259: The Forgotten King

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"Intruder! Intruder!" The guards around cried out!

Smaug summoned his strength and managed to free his right hand. He quickly grabbed the sword from Zhang Yang. Having given the sword away, Zhang Yang quickly turned around and pulled his axe out to prepare for combat.

"Burn that spectre now!" Aiden's voice could be heard from afar.

Pak Pak Pak!

Three flaming torches ere thrown out of nowhere onto the pile of wooden plank. The fire spread out at an amazing speed and before he knew it, the entire stage was burning.

Zhang Yang was currently busy fighting all the guards. Even though he was probably the strongest player in China, he was completely overwhelmed by the number of elite monsters around that seemed to be spawning endlessly!

BOOM!

A large blast wave came by, knocking everyone back a few feet, while sending those closer to it flying.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The wooden planks on the stage were blasted away. Ignited with flames, the flaming pieces of wood flew across the plaza, hitting some of the spectators, making a complete chaos. Some people started screaming in terror while others were crying in fear.

Shiing!

A shadow, more crimson than black flashed, Smaug had freed himself from the ropes and stood in the center of the flaming stage. He took a stance that was so sure of itself that it was as if he was making a stand against the entire world, and stared into the plaza with his violent, flaming eyes.

Foom!

Smaug swung the sword in his hands outwardly and instantly caused all the guards around to turn into minced meat.

"From now, I shall erase Balin from the surface of this world!" Smaug bellowed loudly with intense killing intent and raised the Blood Shadow Blade up high in the air.

"HMM!?" Aiden was shocked. Blood was completely drained off his face. "Blood Shadow Blade?! Smaug's Blood Shadow Blade?!" Aiden pointed his fat fingers to Smaug and screamed. "How could a spectre like you use the sword of Smaug! The godly sword of Blood Shadow Blade!"

"Because I.AM.SMAUG!" Smaug bellowed as loudly as he could. "I shed my blood for you! I gave my life to your cause! Yet…you forced my wife to be a whore! You killed her! I…I…I will have you all pay for your sins with your lives!"

Shing! Shing! Shing!

The blade in Smaug's hand slashed continually as blood kept spilling all over the plaza. None were able to survive the sword, and the air was wet and red with blood.

Panic filled the air as citizens of Balin started to run amok.

Yet, Aiden laughed. "Smaug…When you were alive, you were worshipped as a God of War! But now you're dead! Even as a spectre, how could you really draw out the true power of the Blood Shadow Blade?"

"It doesn't matter! As long I can kill you! The world will be right again!" Smaug roared. Although there were no muscles attached to his legs, Smaug gathered his strength and dashed towards Aiden.

"You're but a lowly skeletal solder! You're not worthy of being my opponent!" Aiden stepped forwards and took put a huge battle hammer out from nowhere. He gripped the handle of the hammer with his flabby hands and swung it ferociously towards Smaug. "I will smash those brittle bones into powder! Haha! Just so you know, I really do miss your wife's perfect *ss!"

"You bastard!" Smaug raged. He raised the sword in his hand and clashed with Aiden's hammer.

Tiiing!

As the sword and the hammer clashed, countless sparks were sent flying everywhere. Aiden was a Level 65 Yellow-Gold boss, one who was far stronger than Smaug. The massive force of the hammer had sent Smaug flying off. He literally spun in the air for 10 or more revolutions before slamming hard against the floor.

"Smaug! You're not the young, invincible man that you once were! You're nothing but a rotting, brittle pile of bones! You're so weak! I'll help you smash whatever hope and will that you have left!'

Aiden took the chance, and flew across the field with the hammer upraised in his hands, ready to smash Smaug.

{Charge}!

Zhang Yang glided across the floor and knocked onto Aiden with everything he had. However, since a Yellow-Gold boss was immune to the {Charge} stunning effect, and had extremely high strength attributes. Zhang Yang felt like he was riding a small scooter that had met the path of a raging Mack truck! He was instantly knocked back!

Saaaahhh!

Zhang Yang stopped himself from being pushed back and immediately rushed back towards Aiden.

By then, Aiden was already right in front of Smaug. His hammer was already traveling downwards, coming at Smaug's skull.

{Block}!

Zhang Yang rode the white bear and got between Aiden and Smaug. He raised his shield up high and managed to block the hit.

Bang!

Even though Zhang Yang had stopped the attack from hitting Smaug, the overwhelming strength of the boss had sent both Zhang Yang and the bear four to five meters back. The bear's claws drew deep lines in the stone pavement to stopped itself from being pushed further.

Smaug took this chance and jumped forward.

Shing!

The blade was swung in a wide arc and along came a river of blood, spilling out of Aiden.

'-207,842!'

The battle between the two NPCs was completely unlike what players would usually experience. Even though Smaug was just a normal tier monster, his attacks were so strong that he could be the same as a super-powerful boss!

To his surprise, Zhang Yang found after he had dealt over 200,000 damage to the boss, Smaug had gained levels! He was now Level 66!

Smaug has gained power! His single attack was raised to 200,000 to 300,000. Eventually, it had surpassed 400,000! As Smaug kept on slashing the boss, he kept on growing stronger and stronger and gained higher attack values! WTF!? His leveling speed is just off the charts!

Level 67! Level 68! Level 69! Level 70!?

In the end, Smaug level had even surpassed Zhang Yang to a limit where it did not display a numerical number! Instead, his level was only represented with three question marks!

It was not just his level, his tier was also being raised!

Black-Steel! Green-Copper! Gray-Silver!

Smaug's tier rank was increasing rapidly, eventually stopping at Holy! The same tier was Princess Serena!

"Crack!"

The hammer in Aiden's hands was blown to bits. Aiden frantically shrunk away as he staggered back. Panic and fear filled his eyes as he could only stare at the blood-soaked Smaug with his jaw wide open. "What power!? Such power! Not even Count Didier could have such strength! How is that possible?! How could it be possible!"

Smaug came up closer to Aiden and looked down at him with his flesh-less skull. Smaug then lifted his sword, ready to cleave Aiden in half.

"NO! NO! You cannot kill me! I am Count Didier's nephew! If you kill me, the count will put a price on your head!" Aiden was screaming his lungs out.

"Kill you? No. Not just you. Today, everyone in this town must die!" Smaug murmured and swung the blade down as hard as he could. Even though Aiden was a Yellow-Gold boss, he was still just a large slab of meat in the face of the sword. A large head was sent flying across the plaza, spilling blood as it flew. The head rolled for a while and stopped, revealing Aiden's last moments in his petrified face.

The worst part of it all was that, Aiden did not drop any loot at all!

Smaug shuffled slowly towards the center of the plaza and scream in agony. He then looked up into the sky and raised his sword up high. A destructive power grew and gathered around the sword's tip. As it grew larger, a black ball of light appeared and expanded exponentially, growing from the size of a small egg to as large as a hot air balloon!

"This good for nothing, filthy town…I WILL DESTROY IT!" Smaug cried and swung the sword downwards. The black ball of light blasted off like a tactical nuke, obliterating the entire city with such force that everything in the town was torn apart!

Surface over surface of the ground was being peeled off, the inner layers peeling off even before the outer layers had left the surface. Even houses were smashed into smithereens like sandcastles being trampled by little kids. In this kind of apocalyptic destruction, no one could run. No one could hide. Everything and everyone was turned into dust.

This attack, was no weaker than Princess Serena's Sword of Life and Death!

All shall perish under the stroke of the Shadow Blood Blade!

All that was left standing was Smaug himself, with Zhang Yang by his side. Smaug turned to Zhang Yang and said, "Liya…where…Where is her grave?"

"It's in the town's cemetery." Zhang Yang replied solemnly.

Smaug nodded silently and walked towards the cemetery. Zhang Yang pondered for a while before he followed Smaug. Even though the quest had ended, he wanted to see it to its end.

The two of them arrived at Liya's tombstone.

The two of them stood there while Smaug looked down at the engraved name that says: "Liya – Tuskar". Smaug bend down and reached out his skeletal finger to caress the tombstone. As his fingers sunk into the engravement, Smaug whispered. "Liya, my love. My angel. I have come for you. My love for you shall never wither, not even after death and infernal existence have claimed me. My love for you will never deter even if I rot eternally as a spectre!"

Kuang!

Smaug took his blade and sliced the tomb in half. He reached his hands into the grave and pulled out a huge wooden casket from the earth. He then pried the casket open and threw the lid away. Inside, the rotten, disgusting remains of a woman lay.

Even so, Smaug was not fazed. He reached out and caressed the woman's face gently. A green wave of energy seeped out of his hand and into Liya's dead body. "Please…wake up for me…LIYA!"

SUUSH!

A bright green, emerald light coursed through the corpse and Liya opened her eyes.

"Urgh…Smaug…my love…Is that you?" Liya got up, albeit shakily.

Smaug held her face and his hands and said, "Liya, it is I, Smaug! Your one true love! Liya! I will never ever leave you again!"

The two of them rose out together in a warm, loving embrace.

What touching scene. A tragic love story. A couple who could only be together forever as spectres, united in a love that would never deter even after the sea dries up, even after the sky goes dark.

After a long hug, Smaug let Liya go and turned towards Zhang Yang. "Adventurer. You have my gratitude! I, Smaug, shall forever be your friend!"

'Ding! You have two options to select: Option 1, reject Smaug's friendship and report all that had happened today to Count Didier. Option 1 will reward you with Level 2, and a Yellow-Gold tier equipment! Option 2, accept Smaug's friendship. All NPCs under Count Didier's sovereign will deem you as a Spectre Sympathizer!'

A sudden ring echoed in Zhang Yang ears.

Zhang Yang smiled and said, "Smaug, you're a respectable man, or rather, a respectable spectre. I will gladly be your friend!"

'Ding! You have accepted Smaug's friendship!'

'Ding! You are now an attack target to all neutral NPCs in Didier Flatlands!'

Smaug laughed loudly. "You, my friend, are an interesting fellow!"

'Ding! You have gained a good relationship with Smaug!'

Again! A Relationship?! Why couldn't he give something more materialistic!

Zhang Yang sighed heavily and turned to Liya. "So…what happens now? What do you plan to do?"

Smaug held her hands and stared into the distance. "We will go to a faraway land where no one could reach us! I am not on the side of humans, nor am I on the side of spectres! From now on, I am me. I will be the one and only, forgotten one!"

Crack!

A bolt of lightning shot out from the sky. Smaug raised his sword to accept the lightning. The half-materialized crown turned fully solid. It settled on Smaug's head, giving him a royal, dignified aura!

[Smaug, The King of the Forgotten Ones] (Celestial, Spectre)

Level: ???

HP: ???

Defense: ???

F*cking hell! It's him!

Zhang Yang finally recalled his name. He had been having a sense of familiarity ever since he first met Smaug! So he was the King of the Forgotten Ones!

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Chapter 260: Thunderbolt Prison

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'The Forgotten Ones' was one of spectre race's divisions and their leader was The King of the Forgotten One, the Celestial boss, which was independent of the seven Spectre Witch King!

In Zhang Yang's previous life, most of the players' level had just reached Level 200 and they did not get to defeat Celestial bosses yet! That was why Zhang Yang found Smaug's name familiar but could not recall any further information about him.

No wonder Smaug had earned a reputation as the closest man to the god of war during his lifetime. Even though he had turned into spectre after death, he could still become a Celestial boss. This was so awesome!

To gain a good relationship with a Celestial boss!

Relationships were something intangible but undoubtedly practical, perhaps someday it would play a huge role! It was definitely much more valuable than a Yellow-Gold item that would be rolled out over time!

Smaug reached out with his right hand, and countless rays of aqua green light gathered in his hand which shaped into a piece of crystal clear jade. Smaug handed the jade to Zhang Yang and said, "My friend, this is my gift to you! My aura is in this jade, as long as you wear this, no spectres will attack you!"

Zhang Yang was full of joy, quickly taking the jade and replied, "Thank you!"

[Friendship Jade] (Yellow-Gold, Accessory)

Equipment: Disguises you as spectre, which is enough to fool the majority of spectres. However, as long as you are wearing [Friendship Jade, you will also become the enemy of all living beings!

Use: Summon Smaug's phantom to fight for you. Lasts for 20 minutes. Cool down time: 24 hours.

Charge remaining: 3/3

Level requirement: 60

Bound.

Yes! Definitely a great fortune indeed!

Smaug was a Celestial boss, even though his phantom would be significantly weaker than himself, it would at least be of Ascended or Holy grade! Unfortunately, it had only three times charges. Otherwise, it would have been super awesome!

Besides, [Friendship Jade]'s equipment attribute was not bad after all as it could help Zhang Yang disguised as spectre and entered Malevolent Tower to steal the [Book of the Damned]. Zhang Yang would then have high chances of re-activating the Main Story Quest, which involved The Crafting Materials of a Relic!

Zhang Yang had accepted this quest when he was Level 10 and this quest had been left in his Quest Board for almost half a year!

"Zhan Yu, take care of yourself!" Smaug hugged Liya's waist, and suddenly, a pair of skeletal wings opened up from Smaug's back, which he spread and soared into the sky like an ascending meteor which quickly disappeared in the sky.

Would this be considered as a reunion of a wedlock couple?

Zhang Yang took out a [Teleportation Scroll, and a ray of light flashed 10 seconds later, returning him to Thunderstorm Castle.

As time went by, there were more and more Level 50 players, Thunderstorm Castle was now bustling with life and many players started to set up shops, selling potions, health recovery cakes and ETC outside the castle, which helped players save up time and money traveling back to main city. Of course, their charges were not extremely high as the one-way teleportation fee was only one gold coin.

As more players achieved Level 50, Zhang Yang earnings from the teleportation portal increased. The number of players utilizing this teleportation portal in recent days had reached up to 7,000,000, equivalent to a daily net income of 6,000,000 gold coins, a huge and terrifying number!

Two days later, the gang had achieved Level 60 and they urged Zhang Yang to go for new dungeon, Thunderbolt Prison.

"We cannot go for it now!" Zhang Yang shrugged his shoulders while he spread both of his hands in resignation.

"Why?" Wei Yan Er rolled her eyes. She had just equipped her Level 60 Yellow-Gold weapon and was dying to go on a raid!

Zhang Yang explained, "Thunderbolt Prison is a special 10-man dungeon, Dream Technology uses a dungeon's design concept known as 'Competition' mechanism! The Thunderbolt Prison will only be activated if four teams are gathered. These four teams are then required to enter Thunderbolt Prison together compete with each other!"

"And how do we do that?"

Zhang Yang replied, "The topography of Thunderbolt Prison is similar to a cross street, four teams will enter from one end respectively, and rush towards the center! There will be a lot of minions along the way including three mini-bosses while the final boss is in the center. However, there is only one final boss so whichever team gets there first, gets dibs on the boss!"

"What if other teams attack suddenly when that particular team is fighting the final boss?"

"That won't happen. Because when that particular team fighting the final boss, a barrier will be set up around them, the players from the outside cannot enter and the players from the inside cannot get out. The barrier will be disappear only when the final boss is defeated or the team is wipe-out. On the other hand, we have only one chance to try to defeat the final boss, so if the team who gets there first happens to fail, the final boss will disappear and we all will have to wait for two days in accordance to the dungeon's reset!"

"Whoever thought up of all this is a sadist!"

"Well to make things worse, Thunderbolt Prison is located in Thunderbolt Mountains and it takes a few hours to get there from Thunderstorm Castle. Besides, we need another three teams to activate the dungeon! Just in case we get there without the forth team, wouldn't it be a whole waste of time?"

Zhang Yang smiled a little and said, "I think it won't be too difficult getting other teams! Thunderbolt Prison is a special dungeon and physically traveling there and all is ridiculous, so there is an NPC in the main city responsible for accepting 'Reservations' for dungeons like Thunderbolt Prison. As long as the team leaders send a Thunderbolt Prison entrance request to the NPC, they will be queued in the list corresponding to difficulty. Once four teams are gathered, the system will send messages to every team member. Five minutes later, NPC will activate a teleportation door which leads to Thunderbolt Prison directly!"

"Oh, that's not too bad then!"

Zhang Yang thought for a while and said, "I will register the party at the NPC first. The moment we get four teams, we will depart immediately!"

"En!"

Zhang Yang grouped up 10 players then registered at the NPC. However, they still did not receive any messages from the system throughout the entire day. Zhang Yang also understood that while his guild could easily provide 10 Level 60 players, other guilds might not match that capability!

On the second day, Zhang Yang grouped up 10 players again and booked a spot in the list, but still no results.

It was still the same on the third day.

But on the fourth day, eight o'clock sharp, finally there was a change in such situation!

'Ding! The warriors who are heading to Thunderbolt Prison have been gathered, please immediately return to your main cities, in five minutes time, Krampus will activate a teleportation door that directly teleports you to Thunderbolt Prison. Please make the best use of your time!'

After receiving this message, Zhang Yang and the rest of the nine players in the team immediately used [Teleportation Scrolls]. Krampus was located just next to White Jade Castle's teleportation portal which was quite convenient for them.

Those who showed up was Snow Seeker and her female army, ten beautiful, enchanting ladies like a group of beautiful birds flocking together.

Zhang Yang smiled at Snow Seeker and said, "Looks like we are going to be competitors!"

The roguish Perfumed Water immediately said, "Zhan Yu, Lone Desert Smoke has already won a lot of dungeon First Clears, let us have this one!"

Fatty Han immediately raised his hand and said, "I'm willing to switch sides, to flee from darkness, into light and join Crimson Rage!"

Snow Seeker smiled elegantly and said, "It seems like we are accompanying Prince Reading1 himself!"

"Ha ha, guild master Snow Seeker, you are too mean. Obviously, your more than ready, you're just trying to throw us off!" Zhang Yang scanned through Snow Seeker's team, smiled and said, "It seems like you have some new blood, and I see a few new faces!"

Zhang Yang actually "recognized" the two new members in Snow Seeker's team. Strictly speaking, he in fact recalled their names.

Mellow Venom, Guardian. In Zhang Yang's previous life, she was ranked fourth in China's Top 10 Tanks and the pride of all female tanks! Her capabilities were absolutely undeniable, being able to stand toe-to-toe in a male-dominant field!

Violet Moonknight, in Zhang Yang's previous life, was a remarkable healer, a Sacred Knight. Unfortunately, healers did not have their own Top 10 ranking list, thus, Violet Moonknight was not as famous as Mellow Venom or Snow Seeker but she was skilled enough for Zhang Yang to remember her name.

With the Professional League Championship closing in, the superstars from Zhang Yang's previous life were appearing, one after another! It seems like his presence has not affected Crimson Rage's upcoming lineup.

Snow Seeker remained unfazed but gently smiled and replied, "Where there is competition, there is progress!"

"Who are the other two teams?" Zhang Yang was curious, for there was no sign of the other teams, meaning that they would only meet up when the dungeon commences.

Five minutes later, Krampus silently raised a magic staff to cast a magic spell.

10 seconds later, a teleportation door similar to a dungeon entrance appeared in front of everyone.

"Let's go in!"

Zhang Yang and Snow Seeker spoke together and both teams filed into the entrance.

'Ding! You have entered Thunderbolt Prison (Hardcore Mode)!'

After entering the dungeon, Zhang Yang and Snow Seeker's 10-man teams were immediately separated. On the top left corner of the players' Control interface, red, yellow, blue and green team names popped up. From the Control interface, each team could be expanded to view team's current location and team members' names.

Zhang Yang and his team was marked as the blue team while their current location was in the West side, first prison.

Snow Seeker and her team was marked as the red team while their current location was in the East side, first prison.

The other two teams were from Radiance and Imperial Sky respectively! Among them, Radiance's team was marked as yellow team, located in the South side, first prison, while Imperial Sky's team was marked as the green team and located in the North side, first prison. From the Control interface, it could be seen that the team leaders for both two teams were Sword of Light and One Sword Stroke respectively. Obviously they had dispatched the elites in their guilds!

Radiance was the top guild in Black Dragon City while Imperial Sky was the strongest guild in Violet Star City. These four competitive teams could be said to be the China's strongest dungeon teams!

At Zhang Yang's current location, there was a long corridor inside the prison and there were unlocked, empty prison cells on both sides of the corridor.

Thunderbolt Prison was located in the Thunderbolt Mountains, and according to legend, Thunderbolt Prison was built before the fall of the Human Empire. It imprisoned the most heinous criminals of the empire. Because of an earthquake, Thunderbolt Prison had sunk into the ground, taking along its prisoners and guards!

But today, another earthquake had brought the prison back up the surface! However, all its former occupants had also returned as spectres!

This was the backstory of dungeon, while the players' mission was to destroy all these vicious spectres before they escape Thunderbolt Prison!

Zhang Yang said, "Those who have auras, please, do not forget to activate them. Endless Starlight, guard the left. I'll guard the right, let's make the best use of our time to kill all the monsters! Do not forget, only the first team to reach gets the chance to fight the last boss, we are not here to work with the other teams!"

Endless Starlight came forward, and the two of them led the team along the corridor.

Zhang Yang's strategic arrangement of team members for this dungeon were: Zhang Yang, Fatty Han, Sun Xin Yu, Han Ying Xue, Wei Yan Er, Daffodil Daydream, Hundred Shots, Endless Starlight, Lost Dream and Fantasy Sweetheart. Two tanks, two healers and six attackers which was according to the standard configuration for 10-man team. However, with Zhang Yang's current capability, he could actually perform the tanking role for both tanks in this dungeon raid.

"GROOAN!"

10 steps in, and three monsters in prison overalls suddenly rushed out of the shadows, raising their skeletal fists to attack Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight who were walking at the forefront.

[Prisoner of Thunderbolt Prison] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 65

HP: 500,000

Defense: 350

Endless Starlight immediately used to pull one of them aside while Zhang Yang took on the other two. Everyone quickly attacked the two monsters that Zhang Yang pulled without hesitation. Endless Starlight stared at them mournfully and said, "Brothers and sisters, why didn't you guys take on mine?"

"Stupid Starlight, are you able to maintain aggro once I mess with them?" Wei Yan Er raised her Yellow-Gold axe.

Endless Starlight nodded earnestly and replied, "Give me a chance, sister!"

The HP of the elite monsters in Thunderbolt Prison was indeed high, but elite or not, the monsters could not withstand the strength of these players. Zhang Yang and the gang quickly disassembled the skeletons, leaving pieces of them on the ground.

The main force of Lone Desert Smoke had at least three full sets of Yellow-Gold equipment along with Yellow-Gold weapons. Wei Yan Er also had a Level 60 Yellow-Gold weapon which was strong enough to swath through the entire dungeon with ease. So, these so-called elite monsters posed to challenge to them.

But Zhang Yang said, "My fellow comrades, we must keep our speed up! The female army of Crimson Rage is really well-equipped as well. They can handle the dungeon with ease, they can't be far behind us!"

This was because Crimson Rage also knew the spawn points of a few Yellow-Gold open world bosses, thus, both Lone Desert Smoke and Crimson Rage had an agreement: Demonic Treant King belonged to Lone Desert Smoke, Lord of Flames Arcel belonged to Crimson Rage while Winter's Wind Bear King was on a first come first serve basis!

This month alone, both guilds had defeated the three open world bosses a total of six times. Thus, both guilds should definitely have a wealth of Yellow-Gold set equipment! Therefore, Zhang Yang did not dare assume that they had more Yellow-Gold set equipment than Crimson Rage.

Hence, Zhang Yang and the gang must remain earthbound and not underestimate the enemy!

As they continued to move down the corridor, they cleared the monsters on the current floor before they followed the stairs down to the second floor and the first floor.

The prison cells of the ground floor had been completely destroyed, and in the center position, a huge spectre stood there. The left half of the body had almost rotten away completely and exposed its bones, while the right half of the body remained intact which made it seem lopsided and odd to look at.

["Left-handed" Phil] (Gray-Silver, Spectre)

Level: 66

HP: 5,000,000

Defense: 700

Note: Boss of the prisoners in the first prison.

TL Note

1. Prince Reading - term for wasted potential, or someone who has hidden talent that remains mostly unused. Fatty Han had uncharacteristically come up with a line there and then that was most ingenuous, formed by a play of words that rhymed rather well together.

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Chapter 261: The Competition between Strong Guilds

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"Let's talk about tactics while fighting, here we go!" Zhang Yang had already taken out his axe and shield and rushed towards "Left-handed" Phil.

The battle was initiated.

A black aura immediately appeared beneath "Left-handed" Phil's feet. It reached out with its right hand which was completely skeletal and tried to grab Zhang Yang's face.

'Ding! "Left-handed" Phil initiated Frost Aura. Causes 1,000 Frost damage to all targets within a 30-meter radius range every 2 seconds!'

'-3,982!'

'Ding! You are affected by Fire Receptive Effect, when you are receive Fire attack, damage increased by 200%, lasts for 1 minute!'

"Left-handed" Phil slapped Zhang Yang across his face, and a damage text immediately floated above his head, while a debuff icon popped up in his HUD.

'-1,000!'

Two seconds later, except for Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight, the rest of the people received the first tick of damage from Frost Aura.

"Endless Starlight, this boss constantly switches between two states, as of now, it is in its frost state. It may seem to be regular physical attacks, but it also causes Frost damage to the target *and* the Fire Receptive Effect! After a period of time, this boss will switch to its fire state where its physical attack will cause Fire damage and the Frost Receptive Effect! So, two tanks are required for this boss, one will need to tank the frost state and the other one will need to tank the fire state!

Zhang Yang shrugged off another blow from the boss and resumed his explanation, "This boss can be provoked! When you see the aura beneath his feet turn from black to white, use Provoke to take over!"

"Roger!" Endless Starlight nodded in understanding.

As a mini-boss, the tricky part of "Left-handed" Phil was its two states. As long as the players work against that aspect of it, the boss was more or less a pushover for the averagely equipped player.

Everyone performed ferocious slashes, and five minutes later, "Left-handed" Phil cried in pain and fell defeated, popping its battle loots all over the floor.

They quickly distributed the battle loot, ran through a dark passage and entered another prison building.

'Ding! Blue team has entered the West side second prison!'

Just as they just stepped in, system notification immediately rang in everyone ears.

The other three teams were startled.

They were not exactly close to Zhang Yang's team in terms of progress. Up to the first mini-boss, "Left-handed" Phil, they had kept up with their pace. However, because of the tactical issue and lack of knowledge on the boss, they would be wiped out once before they figure out out to defeat the boss.

"Lone Desert Smoke is strong as expected!" Mellow Venom gently whispered.

"Sisters, please fight harder, we are not here accompany Prince Reading! Lone Desert Smoke has already claimed a lot of First Clears, we must steal one from them!" Snow Seeker tried to raise the party's morale with her clear and harmonious voice.

"Okay, for the sake of sister Snow, I'm going to fight really hard!" Perfumed Water screamed.

"Screw you, sister Snow is mine!"

The bunch of crazy women started to go berserk.

Zhang Yang's team continued moving forward, where they defeated the minions easily along the way. About six minutes later, system notification rang as Imperial Sky had entered the North side's second prison. Less than 30 seconds later, the system notification rang twice as Crimson Rage and Radiance cleared their obstacles.

Zhang Yang smiled to himself as he had overestimated the difficulty of the first mini-boss, "Left-handed" Phil. With the capability of Crimson Rage and the other strong guilds, this mini-boss had not caused much trouble for them! When Zhang Yang thought about it, it was absolutely logic, although "Left-handed" Phil's damage increases by 200% due to his debuffs, it was not too difficult for the current top tanks to acquire over 15,000 HP, thus, they could use Shield Wall and withstand the boss with sheer force!

As long as they were not stupid, they would have surely used their off-tank to Provoke the "Left-handed" Phil. If that was the case, they would definitely have found the tactics to defeat "Left-handed" Phil with ease!

Because of the competition mechanism, even the leading team dared not relax or let their guard down, because the slightest misstep would cost them their lead! Therefore, Wei Yan Er and the rest silently hacked and sliced their enemies with extreme prejudice as they kept on urging Zhang Yang to speed up.

In a short time, Zhang Yang's team found themselves standing in front of the second mini-boss.

["Three-Legged" Witt] (Gray-Silver, Spectre)

Level: 67

HP: 6,000,000

Defense: 700

Note: Leader of the prisoners in second prison.

"Three legged?" Fatty Han exclaimed incredulously. "Even I won't dare claim that I'm three legged even if my third leg is 22 centimeters!"

"Fatty bro, I'm pretty sure you'll only be 22 centimeters when we square it!?" Endless Starlight who had grown pretty close to Fatty Han, immediately fired at him.

"Buzz off, little brat, you only have a matchstick to speak of. Even you cube your 'Matchstick' it'll never match up to my square-rooted leg!"

Lost Dream was an outgoing man, even though he was relatively new in the guild, he was already able to mix around with Fatty Han and the rest. He laughed and said, "It can't be helped! My 'stuff' is extraordinary talent. Every time I go to the washroom, it leaves a trail on the ground, people would think someone just mopped the floor!"

"You three bastards, if you guys dare to discuss about such topics in front of Yan Er again, I will snip all of it off!" Han Ying Xue showed her queen's power, one of her hands was placed on her waist while the other was pointing menacingly at their crotches in turn.

The three guys quickly clamped their legs together.

"Beware, this boss will swing its third leg about occasionally and cause an AoE damage, so those who get smacked must immediately withdraw or you'll receive the subsequent damage!" Zhang Yang tried to keep everything short and simple. He yelled, "Let's fight!"

Battle was initiated.

Zhang Yang's team members were not your run-of-the-mill elite players. They would commit the simplest of instructions to memory and carry out their battle with great efficiency. Six minutes later, the boss fell to the ground, lifeless.

'Ding! Blue team has entered the West side third prison!'

System notification rang once again in everyone's ears.

"Damn, that bunch is really quick!"

One Sword Stroke had a frown on his face. He said, "Everyone, drink the potions, do not be afraid to splurge, all expenses will be reimbursed by Imperial Sky! As long as we win the First Clear, everyone will be rewarded with 500,000 in cash!"

At the mention of money, their morale shot up, and Imperial Sky pushed themselves to the limit. In only four minutes, they also entered the third prison.

Crimson Rage and Radiance also worked hard, with a small gap of 30 seconds, both teams also entered the third prison!

Now, it was the time to see which team would defeat the third mini-boss first! This was crucial, as only one team would get to fight the final boss. There were no runner-ups, only losers!

The minions were annoying. They hid in the shadows, snuck around like thieves, and had AoE normal attacks. However, they were merely created by the Atlman2. Indeed, the minions were cleverly designed to be troublesome, to ensure that time was wasted on them more than anything else, but the first "customers" they picked up were the four strongest dungeon teams of China. The minions fell flat on their faces before they could even hinder their quarry.

20 minutes later, Zhang Yang's team was the first to reach in front the third boss.

["Musician" Beeshoven1] (Gray-Silver, Spectre)

Level: 68

HP: 7,000,000

Defense: 700

Note: Leader of prisoners in third prison.

Beeshoven with a name that was not unlike a certain musician was simply charming to look at in a Tim Burton way. It's movements were otherworldly and graceful, its fingers light and deft, and it was dressed in dark tuxedo. It held a violin in its left hand and it was drew a bow along the violin's strings with its right hand which produced beautiful music. If it was not for the fact that Beeshoven himself was a skeleton, it would definitely have the style of an artist.

A circle 20 meters away from Beeshoven, there were seven colorful small circles, some were colored in red and some were colored in green.

However, there was a milky-colored opaque barrier a hundred meters behind Beeshoven. They could not see past it, but they believed that this barrier would automatically break once Beeshoven is killed, and that the final boss awaited behind this barrier!

"After defeating this boss, then we can fight the final boss, right?" everyone was a little excited although fighting the final boss did not mean they would get the First Clear. Because of the special system of this dungeon, it also meant that the other three teams would not have the chance to challenge the final boss.

Zhang Yang nodded and replied, "That's right! However, on the condition that we are the first one to defeat this boss!"

Zhang Yang looked at everyone and continued, "Because of this dungeon's pain-in-the-ass system, the third mini-boss only slightly easier than the final boss, which means that those if we can defeat the third mini-boss, we can easily defeat the final boss as well!"

"Little Yang, don't scare me on purpose!" Fatty Han patted his chest and pretended to faint.

"And…exactly how difficult is this boss?" everyone gazed at Zhang Yang, the "beta version" player.

"It won't kill us as long as we work as a team!" Zhang Yang let out of a sigh in his heart, some of dungeons only required powerful teammates, while some dungeons required good cooperation. Undoubtedly, this dungeon which required both, was really annoying!

"There are seven circles on the floor; they represent the seven vocal notes in sheet music. The red color is Do, yellow is Re, blue is Mi, green is Fa, purple is So, orange is La and white is Ti. When the battle is initiated, Beeshoven will 'play a song'. Yeap, play a song. That's its ultimate skill. When playing the song, the colored circles on the floor will flash in line with the song. When the song is finished, we must strictly follow the order and step into the circles in the right order and 'replay' the song!"

Zhang Yang looked at everyone and said, "If we 'play' the song correctly, then the battle continues, otherwise, Beeshoven will turn into his rage mode. At that time brothers and sisters, all of us will rest in peace!"

"Isn't this like the dancing machine you see in arcades? I'm a professional at those!" Han Ying Xue was fired up.

"Me too!" Wei Yan Er immediately popped up and spoke.

Daffodil Daydream also raised her hand and said, "I'm also good at playing this!"

Zhang Yang nodded and said, "That's good. But this 'dancing machine' is a bit too big. Each time after a vocal note is played; we must repeat the note within 1 second. Otherwise, it will be considered as fail. Thus, each person would be responsible for a vocal note scale. After a person has played the vocal note scale, he or she must leave the circle immediately to allow the corresponding second person to quickly fill in their own circle!"

1 - Beeshoven directly translates from贝少芬, which is different from Beethoven (贝多芬).2 - Atlman directly translates from 奥特曼. In German, Altman is a Jewish surname and the meaning of the name Altman is: Wise man.

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Chapter 262: Dancing Machine

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"This is fun!" Wei Yan Er clapped her hands and said, "I'm responsible for Do!"

Zhang Yang shook his head and said, "It actually tests the players' memory! It will also turn into Rage mode if we don't defeat it within 8 minutes!"

"We need to memorize the order of stepping into the circle we are responsible for, at the same time, we need to attack the boss at our best effort! It's going to get quite messy!"

Zhang Yang assigned the gang, "Currently, little brat and ice cube are the strongest attackers, so both of them will attack throughout the entire battle and will not participate in 'playing the song'. I will tank Beeshoven and the remaining seven will responsible for a vocal note scale each person!"

Zhang Yang thought for a while and said, "Also do not expect to pass this at once! We have to start with 'playing the song' until we are able to cooperate without any mistakes before we can really unleash our DPS! Don't bother drinking potions, we're going to test it out first!"

Zhang Yang took out his axe, raised his shield and ran towards Beeshoven.

"Vulgar hillbilly, you actually dare to disturb an artist in the midst of composing a masterpiece, such insolence must be punished!" "Musician" Beeshoven snarled angrily, as it grabbed hold of the violin's strings in its hand and lashed them out at Zhang Yang like a whip.

Battle was initiated. Except for Zhang Yang, Sun Xin Yu and Wei Yan Er who were slashing furiously at Beeshoven, the rest of the party had stepped behind the vocal note scale circles. They paid no attention to Beeshoven, only keeping their ears open and their eyes on the circles, learning how to 'play the song' smoothly without any mistakes.

30 seconds later.

"You are boors, tremble before my "Stringer Requiem"!" Beeshoven growled loudly, ignoring Zhang Yang and started playing its violin.

The seven vocal note scales on the floor immediately flashed according to the melody of the music. The colorful lights blinked repeated like a nightclub.

Beeshoven 'played the song' for 15 seconds in total, and once again it wielded its violin's strings and attacked Zhang Yang.

Han Ying Xue and the rest immediately followed the order of the notes, hopping in and out of their circles. Those players who had some understanding of music certainly had the advantage, but the others had their own methods of playing along. At worst, they just numbered the circles from one to seven and repeated the sequence by numbers, such as "371625263" for instance.

15 seconds later, the teammates successfully 'played the song'. The battle resumed without the boss raging.

Another 15 seconds later, Beeshoven stopped attacking once again and played the second "Stringer Requiem", but this time, it was "Part II" which was a completely different melody!

This was purely a memory test and it was not too difficult for the team members. All of them successfully 'played the song' once again and resolved Beeshoven's ulti.

They repeated this back and forth, and eight minutes rapidly passed.

"I've had enough all of you idiots, go to hell!" Beeshoven roared ferociously. Its body instantly became bigger as it flashed red.

'Ding! "Musician" Beeshoven has entered rage mode!'

Bang!

A beam of black light radiated from underneath of Beeshoven's feet, '-10,000' damage texts appeared on top of everyone heads, right after a second later, another round of '-10,000' damage texts pooped up once again. Other than the two tanks, the others were killed instantly!

Zhang Yang quickly used {Shadow of the Void}.

"Boss, not this again! You should be following us, in sickness and in health!" Endless Starlight rasped, as he took a few more hits and was sent tumbling to the ground, his heavy armor clanging.

The battle ended, and "Musician" Beeshoven went back to its original position, elegantly played its violin.

"33%!" Zhang Yang spoke in the party channel, "Beeshoven was still left 33% HP, we were still far away from killing it!"

However, it was not a big deal. The first round was to let the team members practice with their 'song playing'. The ones who were preoccupied with the circles could actually join in on the attack, as long as they ran back to the circles on time.

Everyone started to run back after resurrecting.

A benefit of this dungeon was that once they released their corpses, they would automatically be resurrected at the entrance of dungeon. They only had to run from there instead of having to retrieve their corpses. When everyone had restored their conditions, the battle started once again.

Eight minutes later, Zhang Yang's team was annihilated by Beeshoven once again. But this time, Beeshoven's HP was reduced to 21% which was an improvement.

All of them ran back after resurrecting. Similarly, they were annihilated again after eight minutes while Beeshoven's HP was reduced to 12%!

…

"Boss, it seems like Lone Desert Smoke also trapped at this stage!" Ghostly Leaf said to Sword of Light.

Sword of Light, Radiance's guild master, male Dwarf, Guardian, Level 60. In Zhang Yang's previous life, Sword of Light was also one of the China's Top 10 Tanks, ranked third! There was no argument that both Guardians and Defenders were tanks, but eventually those who made it in the top 10 tank list were the Guardians, except for Hundred Foot Icicle who was ranked ninth as a Defender!

Sword of Light nodded and said, "That's right. They had a five to six minute lead earlier on, and we've already been wiped out by the third mini-boss, they've yet to get past it either! The other two teams should be in the same situation. It seems like the real competition actually started here?!"

"We must surpass them!"

Radiance's 10-man team yelled loudly!

…

"Annihilated again… 34%!" One Sword Stroke frowned, "This boss is kind of special, eight minutes is not enough to defeat this boss. We are distracted by memorizing the 'sheet music', all this running back and forth is really throwing us off our game!"

"Guild master, I'm sure the other teams have the same problem?" Fire Fountain smiled.

"That's right. There's no point rushing earlier on. This boss would actually determine it all!" Blooming Ichor nodded in acknowledgment.

One Sword Stroke expressed renewed hope, "Let's us prove to Lone Desert Smoke that they are not the strongest guild in China server! The strongest title belongs to us, Imperial Sky!"

"ROOOAR!"

…

"Sister Snow, this dancing machine boss is most advantageous to us ladies. We already managed to reduce Beeshoven's HP to 20%, we'll get familiar to it soon!" Flirtatious Lady clenched her fist, nodding vigorously.

"That's right, that's right. Zhan Yu has already taken away so many First Clears, this time should be our turn!"

"Sisters, if we are the first to defeat the bosses, I will treat everyone to a seven-day trip to Thailand!"

"Little Pearl, are you kidding?"

"My words are more genuine than any pearl you can find in the ocean!"

"Wow, sisters, all of you heard that right? In the name of vacations, let's fight!"

"Let's fight!"

…

Lone Desert Smoke's team had already managed to reduce Beeshoven's HP to 7% on the forth attempt!

All of them sat on the floor and ate health recovery cakes to restore their conditions. Zhang Yang nodded and said, "Everyone is doing well! This time, we must defeat this boss! Guys, drink all the potions and activate all the long cool down skills!"

Everything was ready, all sorts of aura were activated, Zhang Yang swung his axe and said, "Let's start!"

Another round of the battle was initiated.

Seven minutes later, Beeshoven left only 19% HP. The attackers had some sort of skill like {Killing Cleave}; all of them had activated this kind of skill.

Although {Killing Cleave} did not utilize much Rage, it caused a shortage of rage which prevented use of other skills that had already cooled down completely. As long as {Blood Rage} cools down however, {Killing Cleave} could always be activated.

For Guardians, as they often receive the brunt of the attacks, such as this battle with Beeshoven, they would not experience such a thing as insufficient Rage!

'-36,948!'

After Wei Yan Er activated {Indiscriminate}, she drank a bottle of Power Potion, and with her full bar or Rage, her {Killing Cleave} caused terrifying damage!

"Ha ha ha, noob tank, did you see that? My {Killing Cleave} caused almost 40,000 damage at once, I'll kill you easily! Sigh, you are really noob, you can't even withstand an attack from me!" little brat laughed smugly.

18%, 17%, 16%... Beeshoven's HP dropped continuously!

Eight minutes later, Beeshoven's HP remained only 4%!

"Alright guys, get over here, leave those circles. I will use {Vanguard's Aggression}!" Zhang Yang shouted loudly, throwing the {Vanguard's Aggression} protective barrier on top of everyone heads, while at the same time, also activating {Shield Wall}!

'-1,000!'

'-3,006!'

'-1,000' damage texts floated above everyone heads while Zhang Yang's HP kept on reducing by 3,000!

Beeshoven's rage mode was really powerful, although everyone had 90% immunity, they still received 1,000 Darkness damage every second which was really terrifying!

"Snow b*tch, Fantasy Sweetheart, heal the rest of the people, leave me be!" Zhang Yang said loudly, "Attack Beeshoven with your full force!"

Han Ying Xue and Fantasy Sweetheart cast {Healing Shower}, {Mending Prayers} and the other AoE healing magic to maintain everyone's HP!

10 seconds later, {Vanguard's Aggression}'s protection barrier ended and Beeshoven's HP remained at 1.5%!

{Berserker's Heal} instantly recovered the HP to full!

'{Rearm}!'

{Vanguard's Aggression} protection barrier and {Shield Wall} activated once again!

70,000! 40,000! 10,000! 5,000!

"No, no! I will be the greatest musician in history, my name has not yet been known across the continent yet. I cannot die yet!" Beeshoven growled angrily, fell defeated and dropped its battle loot all over the floor.

"Hu! Finally we defeat Beeshoven!"

Everyone sat down, exhausted.

Zhang Yang thought in his heart, if not for this dungeon's competitive nature, they could have taken their time, practicing like how they did with Master Waller in Shadowmoon Castle, doing it over and over again for several days before they defeated the boss.

However, under the right circumstances, true human potential can be unleashed. Out of fear of being overtaken by the other teams, his members had actually unleashed 200% or even 300% of their capabilities and they had defeated Beeshoven after only five tries!

Seems like I'll have to keep the pressure up!

Zhang Yang smiled evilly, sending a shiver down their spines.

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Chapter 263: Childhood Idols

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Right after 'Musician' Beeshoven was slaughtered, the white, opaque barrier right behind him also collapsed, and a vast square was presented right before their eyes.

There was a total of four entrances, but the other three entrances were still blocked by barriers. So, Zhang Yang and the gang could not enter the territories of the other parties to snatch-kill their bosses.

Right in the middle of the square stood a beautiful woman with an extremely graceful, slim body, a waist that begged for men to grab hold of, and a shapely butt, with a pair of breasts that had extremely pronounced tips, with a full head of blonde hair that came together with sex appeal that gushed out all around her. She was literally a standard 'femme fatale1', judging from her weapons. She held a a saw in her right hand, and her left arm stopped resembling human altogether at the wrist, instead ending in a long, spiraling tentacle that dangled straight down to her heel!

[Warden Mariya] (Gray-Silver Leader, Undead)

Level: 69

HP: 8,000,000

Defense: 700

Cautious: Mariya was the most brutal warden in the history of Thunderbolt Prison, known for hacking the inmates into pieces with her saw, as she bathed in their blood, enjoying the pleasure of their screams.

"What the f*ck, female sadist!" Even a prurience person like Fatty Han would only dare to show his admiration towards her from a far distance, fearing that saw that dangled dangerously from her hand, knowing that she would very well hack him to pieces with it, especially the organs that mattered the most!

"Haha, Fatty Han, I can't believe you would turn away from such a lady!" Zhang Yang could not hold himself from laughing.

"Hey hey, it's true I'll never turn anything down, hot or cold, but this, this is obviously an outer space organism!" Fatty Han shook his head continuously.

"So how do we fight this battle?"

"It's going to be easier than boss number three!" Zhang Yang nodded and said, "The boss will summon a jailer out every once in a while. So Endless Starlight will kite the jailers who pop out, and everyone should just swarm up and kill it. As long as not more than two jailers appear at the same time, there shouldn't be any problem!"

"Alright! Let's go in together, when the battle begins, the barrier behind us will reactivate, locking out anyone who's outside till the battle is over!"

The gang walked straight in to the interior square, with Zhang Yang leading the gang, charging swiftly towards the boss.

"Ara, ara, another batch of new toys!" Warden Meriya moaned out loud with excitement, waving the saw in her right hand while lashing out with her long tentacle, her attention on Zhang Yang.

'Ding! The Blue Team has entered the Central Square!'

The moment they triggered the boss, the voice message alert tone rang in the ears of all 40 players in the four parties.

The other three parties all lost focus at the same instance. Those who were still playing on the 'Dancing Machine' messed up their rhythms, immediately triggering the explosion of the boss which wiped out the entire party!

"They've beaten us to it again!"

"Sigh, the First Clear of the dungeon is going away again!"

Everyone was groaning and sighing.

The guildmasters of the other three guilds all said, "Boss number three is already so difficult to kill, the final boss must be even harder! Even Lone Desert Smoke had been annihilated a couple of times at the third boss, so there is no way they can clear the last boss in just one attempt! Also, there is only one attempt for the final boss, once the party fails to kill the boss, the boss will disappear! So, even if we cannot see the final boss, Zhan Yu and his gang may not be able to get the First Clear title as well!"

"Do it nice and easy now, let's familiarize ourselves with boss number three. When the dungeon is refreshed, we'll be the first to reach the final boss!"

...

Zhang Yang had a solid grip of the boss' aggro, while the gang unleashed their full power, swiftly reducing the health points of the boss with their assault.

30 seconds later.

"Guards! Guards! Quickly, help me destroy these disobedient toys!" Warden Meriya started shouting for help!

'Ding! Warden Meriya has summoned Jailer!'

Pak! Pak!

Two large skeletal hands broke out from the ground, followed by a large Skeleton soldier breaking out from the ground, holding a large mace in its hands.

[Jailer of Thunderbolt Prison] (Elite, Summon)

Level: 65

HP: 500,000

Defense: 350

The moment this Skeleton Solider appeared, a stream of dark light radiated from beneath its legs, and the gang was instantly inflicted with the damage of '-1,000', the numerical values flashing right above their heads.

'Ding! You have been affected by the effect of the {Death Corruption Aura}', experiencing 1000 dark shadow damage once every 2 seconds!'

Endless Starlight immediately stepped forward and engaged, activating {Provoke} to grab the monster's attention, swiftly kiting the monster away.

The gang ran after him and swarmed around the Jailer, dealing a massive, humiliating beatdown.

"Guys, why do you think that the weapon of the Jailer is a mace?" Fatty Han suddenly smiled with his wretched face.

Endless Starlight was indeed his best buddy, instantly his face turned pale and answered, "Is it because 'the petals of the chrysanthemum tore through everything as he tugged it out2'?"

"What the f*ck, you two wretched beings, stop talking about assh*les and enemas and whatever random sh*t whenever you open your mouths, in front of so many pretty ladies! You guys are just too much!" Lost Dream spoke up furiously.

"It's not just two, it's three wretched men!" other than Sun Xin Yu, the ladies were denouncing the men in unison!

"Oh yea, sister, what 'chrysanthemum' are they talking about, to have petals that can tear through stuff?" Wei Yan Er turned her head around, with her face filled with the desire to seek for knowledge.

Under the extreme fire power form the gang, the Jailer was left in a heap of useless bones after merely 30 seconds, returning back to the ground where it came from.

Every minute, the boss would summon a Jailer once. If the combined fire power of the party is not powerful enough, the players would definitely be spending most of their time dealing with those Jailers, draining their energy and potions, eventually wearing themselves out! That was the intended design of the boss, and it would have definitely been a lot of trouble for the regular player! However, with the equipment of this party, all the players had to do were to attack the boss, then the monster, and then the boss again, and then the monster again. It was a matter of time before the boss fell.

About ten minutes later, Warden Mariya agonizingly screamed and collapsed onto the ground, dropping a large pile of loot!

The gang was at ease. None of them were out of breath. This boss was much easier than the previous one. Since victory was already a certainty, there was nothing to be excited about.

"Witchy Snow, are you sure you don't want to consider changing the advertising phrase of your company?" As he was staring at the key-in window after the First Clear achievement, the face of Zhang Yang began to twitch again.

"No!" Han Ying Xue shook her head with determination.

"Little girl?" Zhang Yang turned his sight toward Wei Yan Er.

"No! Not one bit!" Wei Yan Er was also shaking her head without any pause.

Zhang Yang sighed with resignation, who told him to sign a contract with Silky Soft Holdings in the first place?!

'Server Announcement: Silky Soft Bra, giving you the most personal care! Lone Desert Smoke has succeeded in acquiring the Thunderbolt Prison (Hardcore Mode)First Clear Title, their great deeds will be published on the list of the Hardcore Mode First Clear title (China Region). Please cheer for them!'

"Hahaha!" the heartless laddies were beginning to laugh out loudly.

After the distribution of the equipment, they tore off their respective teleportation scrolls and returned to Thunderstorm Castle, and then went through the portal to White Jade Castle. It might have cost them a bit of gold, but... time is gold!

After securing the First Clear title of the dungeon on hand, Zhang Yang had lost his interest in the Thunderbolt Prison. After the dungeon got refreshed, he would only let Endless Starlight lead the party, giving the opportunity for his fellow members of the guild to upgrade their equipment and prepare themselves Soaring Swords.

Time truly flew, and it was already the first day of December, the Soaring Swords competition! The atmosphere was thick in excitement, with the players rearing for action!

Since 12 o'clock last night, the convention had stopped accepting applicants, and after a night of statistical analysis, each party was given a number of their own. White Jade Castle had a total of more than 240,000 parties enrolled in the competition. Each party needed to beat 16 other parties consecutively in order to secure themselves one of the four qualifying places in the event.

For convenience sake, the competition was held during night time. In the first round, some lucky parties proceeded straight into the next round without any engagement as their opponents did not show up. The first six rounds will be adopting the single knockout system that base on single outcome, while the seventh round would adopt the 'Two out of three wins Elimination system'.

Everyone was leveling up on their own in the day, and when the clock struck seven at night, everyone hurried back to the main city, waiting for the competition to begin!

As the competition had rules, only players who were in the main city could teleport straight to the Simulated Arena to take part in the competition.

Players get to enter any simulated arena to spectate the competition. However, there were way too many matches in the first round, it would be impossible to follow all of them!

Zhang Yang's small party of five men had waited until seven forty before they could hear the system notification that came to them, 'Ding! Lone Desert Smoke First Party, your match will begin in 5 minutes time, now you and your party members shall be teleported into the arena!'

Shoof! A blur passed over their visions for a moment, in the next second, they already found themselves in the vast arena where the competition was held. However, there was an invisible air wall right in front of them, and they could only see that, about a hundred meters from the opposite side from them, their opposing party of five members had spawned at that spot at the same time. There was a blue flag that stood out of the back of every single member in Zhang Yang's party, while the members of the opposition party were equipped with red flags. As these flags were actually just projections of light, they would not affect the movement of the players, nor would they block attacks.

'Ding! Lone Desert Smoke First Party VS Childhood Idols party is about to begin in 5 minutes, please make ready!'

Although they could not go through the invisible air wall, that did not interrupt them from observing their opponents. It would be useless even if players try to hide their personal information, as the basic information of each member of the party of five were visible in the opponent's information page.

Madoka Ozawa, Male Beastman, Berserker, Level 52, HP 5,220.

Rei Saijo, Male Elf, Sniper, Level 54, HP 5,310.

Anri Okita, Male Elf, Bandit, Level 53, HP 5,610.

Sora Aoi, Male Dwarf, Holy Knight, Level 52, HP 5,280.

Kaede Matsushima, Male Human, Cryomancer, Level 53, HP 5,150.

"Why do they name themselves after names of women when they are all in fact males? And those Japanese names too?" Wei Yan Er blinked her large eyes, turned to Zhang Yang with a confused look.

Zhang Yang replied in a hush, "Take a good look at those names…and the name of their party? Childhood Idols, it's obvious that these names represent the women that enriched their lives with meaning!"

"Oh!" Wei Yan Er had caught only a hazy, misguided notion.

"These players are only equipped with Copper-Green equipment. Little girl, you go on ahead alone and handle them!" Zhang Yang told Wei Yan Er.

"Yes! Yes!" the little girl immediately felt excited, pulling out her axe with a murderous glint in her eyes. "Unfortunately, this location does not allow us to summon or use [Pet Mounts, otherwise, if me and my Little Petal worked as one, we can kill them all within 10 seconds!" she twitched her mouth.

4 minutes... 2 minutes... 50 seconds...

10, 9, 8... 3, 2, 1!

'Ding! Let the match begin!'

Wei Yan Er let out a shrill warcry, and she charged out into the arena carrying her axe without hesitation, like a little dangerous fuzzball of a Berserker.

When the opposition saw that the party of Zhang Yang had only sent out one player to engage in battle, they were furious!

"Sh*t! To look down on people to this point, this is just too much!"

"So Lone Desert Smoke acts so arrogantly?"

"Haha! Arrogance is good, we can take the opportunity to take them down one by one! Brothers, we can become famous after one match by taking down the core party of the Lone Desert Smoke!"

"That's right, kill them and show no mercy!"

Wei Yan Er snorted and said, "Cut the crap, just come at me already!"

{Concussion Shot}!

Rei Saijo immediately shot a Status Effect Skill, reducing the movement speed of Wei Yan Er. Afterwards, he began his assault together with Kaede Matsushima, while Madoka Ozawa and Anri Okita charged in.

{Charge}!

{Charge}!

Both Madoka Ozawa and Wei Yan Er used {Charge}, clashing into each other.

'-803!'

'-1,402!'

'-2,103!'

Rei Saijo and Kaede Matsushima had collided into her! The attack of the hunter was still manageable as the 200 defense of Wei Yan Er was not there for nothing. However, she had no way to protect herself from the assault of the Cryomancer, therefore, she could only forcefully take in all the inflicted damage!

But there is still a silver lining over the cloud when a warrior class character like Drizzler takes damage. The rage gauge of Wei Yan Er had been filled up to 100 points in just an instant!

In one second, Wei Yan Er and Madoka Ozawa recovered from their stuns and turned around at the same time, while Anri Okita had weaved through, ready to stab her in the back!

{Tornado Cleave}!

'-7,684!'

'-7,329!'

Wei Yan Er swung her axe like swinging a board, Madoka Ozawa was instantly killed, while Anri Okita was smacked out of his stealth state before he could even do anything!

"Holy... what is this damage, this can't be real!"

"Quickly, scatter, this little girl hits like a piledriver!"

Wei Yan Er pursued Kaede Matsushima. As spellcasters basically had to act as stationary turrets to cast their spells, all she had to do was to force her opponent to flee while swinging her axe away. Kaede Matsushima only offered his back to her freely!

If they were more competent players, all Kaede Matsushima had to do was to kite Wei Yan Er that little girl around while Rei Saijo could in turn, attack Wei Yan Er's back to his heart's content. Unfortunately, they were all but competent. They were just a bunch of casual players who probably drew inspiration from their childhood idols every single day. These 'Childhood Idols' were obviously casual players!

Kaede Matsushima suddenly stood still and began to cast his spells while facing Wei Yan Er. He had decided to go out with a bang, dealing as much damage as he can on Wei Yan Er!

'-812!'

'-1397!'

'-1402!'

Wei Yan Er took another volley of spells, but unfortunately, this little girl was currently equipped with a full set of Level 60 Yellow-Gold equipment. Her current health points had reached 16,800, and she had not yet even lost half of her hitpoints!

{Ice Ring}!

Kaede Matsushima was not an idiot either, immediately he froze Wei yan Er to the ground, and started to gain further distance.

[Ice Ring: Freeze all targets within the radius of 10 meters from the caster, targets in frozen state cannot move, the effect lasts for 8 seconds. However, the durability of the frost will be reduced if the target is attacked, shortening the duration of the Freeze. Cool down: 30 seconds.

{Warrior's Will}!

With her front leg frozen, she kicked at it with her other leg instinctively, breaking the ice. This ingrained reaction was probably developed after multiple engagements against Sun Xin Yu and Daffodil Daydream!

'-14,400!' {Destructive Smash}, critical attack!

Kaede Matsushima was also instantly killed!

Rei Saijo and Sora Aoi were both left with their mouths opened wide, that was just too much to bear! 14,000 damage was an overkill of an overkill!

Wei Yan Er turned around and continued to pursue Rei Sajio.

Rei Sajio was so terrified that he turned around and started to run!

Although the attacks of Hunter did not require any casting progress, the player was required to stand still like a turret, similar to spellcasters. After attacking, they would be locked briefly in an animation before they could run again, thus, he would only be able to attack two or three times before Wei Yan Er catches up to him! Therefore, he did not even dare to attack before his speed-reduction skill was cooled down!

Under the current circumstances, they had given up defeating Zhang Yang's party, their current goal was to at least take out Wei Yan Er and make things look slightly better for themselves.

However, even though the arena is vast, it did not mean that there was no end to it. After running for awhile, Rei Saijo turned in front to realize that he was running into a wall!

He quickly turned around, but the pursuant could easily intercept his new path. The little girl was gaining ground every passing moment!

And finally, his {Concussion Shot} had finally cooled down completely! Immediately, he stopped and turned around, giving Wei Yan Er a {Concussion Shot}!

4 seconds of movement reduction.

Rei Saijo backpedaled while shooting at Wei Yan Er, and the health point of this little girl began drop from 11,000 to 7,000 over time!

{Charge}!

The cool down for Wei Yan Er's {Charge} was also completed. Instantly, she clashed head on onto her opponent, and with a swing of her axe, she activated {Tornado Cleave} and inflicted a damage of '-7646' on her opponent, another instant-kill!

Sora Aoi saw that the little girl grinning sadistically with her axe in her hands as she came for him. He quickly raised up both of his hands and said, "I, I quit! I admit defeat!"

With a flash of his shadow, he was teleported out of the arena.

1. Femme fatale: a seductive woman who lures men into dangerous or compromising situations

2. Chrysanthemum remnant, injuries everywhere: A lyrics in Jay Chow song 'Ju Hua Tai'. Author implied chrysanthemum as the anus, so it literally meant the scattered petals of an anus after being brutally injured by a chrysanthemum.

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Chapter 264: Unobstructed FlowTranslator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

'Ding! Your party has defeated 'Childhood Idols', the Lone Desert Smoke First Party has proceeded to the next round! Please remain in the main city, the next match is beginning in 40 minutes!'

Following the sound of the system notification, Zhang Yang and the gang were teleported out of the arena.

Zhang Yang smiled lightly and said, "The little girl spent a total of 47 seconds to secure the victory of our first round, let us compete to see who can take down the opposition party in the shortest time, shall we?"

"Hmph!" Wei Yan Er put her hands on her hip joints and said, "You are so wicked, if I had known we were racing, I could have did it faster! 30 seconds, no, 20 seconds would have been enough to take them all out!"

Han Ying Xue pinched the little girl's face and said, "Keep puffing hot air, little prick!"

Wei Yan Er flung her head in a huff and said, "Cousin sister, even you're being mean! I am finally seeing through your entire being, your heart, spleen, lungs and kidneys!"

"But we must not be too negligent, it is possible that we might encounter a strong party in the future!" Daffodil Daydream reminded all of them.

"Yes!"

The other four of them, including Zhang Yang nodded to express their agreement. As the saying went, an army puffed up with pride is bound to lose, but with enough confidence in themselves, they may conquer the world!

"Little Yang, we are in for the next round!" In just a short period of time, Fatty Han shouted into the guild channel.

"Guildmaster, we have also proceeded into the next round!"

"Boss! Boss! We're in the next round!"

The guild channel was constantly filled with the triumphantly news of many parties in the guild. Of course, some people were happy, and naturally some people were crying as there were also many parties brutally, or forcefully eliminated from the competition in the first round. However, many of them were reporting victories. At the end of the first round at 8.pm, out of a total of 2,176 parties from the Lone Desert Smoke that participated in the competition, 1,847 parties had managed to secure their spots into the next round, leaving the elimination rate down to only 15%. With such great results, it reflected the elite superiority of the guild, thanks to Zhang Yang's strict selection of members.

At 8.pm, the second round of the Soaring Swords competition closely followed right after the first round, there was a total of 131,072 parties, and the competition was divided into three different sessions.

This time round, Zhang Yang and the others had to wait a little longer, only being teleported at 8:40.pm.

Their opponents seemed to be pushovers again, with an average level of 53. It seemed that they had engaged with a similarly weak party in the first round, in order to proceed to this round smoothly. There was one Berserker, two Beastmasters, one Pyromancer and one Priest.

So, Sun Xin Yu pulled out her daggers and jabbed a thumb in her bountiful chest, claiming this round as hers and hers alone.

The five-minute preparation time passed very quickly, and Sun Xin Yu dashed forwards, disappearing into thin air as she went straight into her stealth mode.

"Wait, wait!" The five members of the opposition party had charged forward a few steps forward as the Berserker who seemed to be their party leader immediate raised up his hand and said, "They must have some trick up their sleeves! None of them are moving!"

"That's right, they are the core party of the Lone Desert Smoke!"

"Such rotten luck, to meet these lunatics in the second round!"

"Boss, you said they might have something up their sleeves, right?"

"I don't know, but the battle has already begun, and their assassin is in {Stealth} while the remaining four members are just standing there. They must be conspiring something!"

"We must not act lightly. Let's stay in position, spread out a little, and flank them. Whoever charges over first, we'll just instant-kill that player!"

"Right! Let them have a taste of our strength, the Five Immortals of the Peach Valley!"

"It's a long shot, but we might even slaughter them and get our asses elevated!"

"Hahaha!"

The five of them started to laugh as their heads were filled with fantasies.

Pak!

The Pyromancer who stood at the rear of the party suddenly swayed on the spot, a circle of flying stars that indicated a stun effect appeared right on his head, followed by the shadow of Sun Xin Yu slowly revealing herself out of thin air, getting to work with her two daggers that glittered like frost and snow right behind him without a pause.

'-2,040!'

'-710!'

'-4020!'

The regular attacks of the main weapon and the secondary weapon, with the addition of consecutive chain of a back attack, along with an additional 10% damage while appearing out from stealth mode -- instantly, she inflicted a total damage of up to 7,000! The Pyromancer did not stand a chance, it was a total insta-kill, with no chance of activating any emergency life-saving skills!

A true assassination, to suddenly emerge out of the shadow and instantly hammer out a series of terrifying attacks!

Sun Xin Yu immediately turned her focus towards the Priest and started running at him.

"What the hell! That was deadly shit!"

"Focus fire on her, take her out!"

The two hunters had sent their pets to attack Sun Xin Yu while shooting out their {Concussion Shots} to reduce her movement speed. Clearly, they lacked tacit understanding among each other, they were casting redundant skills at the same time!

Her body trembled, and Sun Xin Yu became translucent -- {Blur} !

Missed!

Missed!

The two {Concussion Shots} missed at the same time. As an assassin, Sun Xin Yu moved far faster than a priest. The movement speed boost could go up to 20% at most, and it was considerably fast! In a flash, she had reached her opponent who was 10 meters away!

{Shadow Step}!

"Old Ox, look out! She is right behind you!"

"Quickly! Use {Petrifying Shriek}!"

"Turn around, don't give her the chance to stab you in the back!"

The other three players were busy spouting various advice! However, it was already too late!

'-1,832!'

'-692!'

'-3632!'

Although there was no additional 10% damage, Sun Xin Yu was the ice queen. Her opponent only had a full body of Green-Copper equipment, with 5,000 health points, how was it possible for that fellow to survive so many violent attacks of hers! He died instantly!

{Holy Shield}? Sorry, that rare skill book was not available to any hillbilly!

"F*ck! They did not play any tricks on us, they really thought one assassin was enough to take us all out!"

"This level of looking down on people is too much!"

"... It seems like we are no match to them though!"

After Sun Xin Yu had torn up the priest's *ss into ribbons, she immediately waved her hand -- {Vanish}.

The battle had just commenced for 16 seconds!

17 seconds, 19 seconds, 21 seconds!

Shoof! The shadow of Sun Xin Yu reappeared once again, and a hunter dropped dead!

"Sun of the beach! Kill one of them at least!"

"At least take some of her HP out!"

The two remaining players of the opposition party lamented .

Everytime Sun Xin Yu activated {Blur}, she was so lucky that every single attack 'Missed'! After killing three players consecutively, she was actually still at full health, it simply made her opponents feel horrible!

Shoof! Small cyclones formed beneath her feet, and her movement speed was instantly boosted like crazy!

{Sprint}!

Sun Xin Yu flew at the other hunter at twice her usual speed!

'-982!'

'-1632!'

The two damages were inflicted on Sun Xin Yu at the same time, a combination of a regular shot and {Take Aim}!

Finally... a Reduction of health points!

The hunter revealed a triumphant smile on his face! He managed to draw some Lone Desert Smoke blood!

26 seconds!

Sun Xin Yu continued to charge forwards, and with amazing footwork, she positioned herself behind the hunter. Immediately after that she charged at the Berserker.

The hunter, dead but yet to even fall, had already been abandoned by its killer!

"Argh!" the Berserker charged straight at Sun Xin Yu, swinging his axe wildly but unfortunately, it only struck air. Witnessing his party members getting slaughtered one after another, it had left him infuriated! The outcome of the match did not matter anymore, he only wanted to strike Sun Xin Yu in order to at least regain some dignity!

Sun Xin Yu lifted a leg up casually, and the axe swung harmlessly beneath her!

Normal attacks were easily telegraphed, therefore, any skilled player could easily anticipate and evade attacks as they would in real life.

Sliding between the legs of her opponent, Sun Xin Yu flitted to the back of her opponent with amazing flexibility, and finished him off!

32 seconds!

The battle has ended!

Shoof, Zhang Yang and the party were teleported out of the arena at the same time.

"Little girl, you lost your position so easily!" Zhang Yang ridiculed her.

Wei Yan Er was instantly provoked, gnashing her teeth at Zhang Yang with an audible snap.

"Born in the year of dog?"

"No! Tiger! Rawgh!"

After the second round of the competition ended, 1,293 parties of the Lone Desert Smoke remained in the running. The chat was once again filled with a mixture of joy and sadness.

9 pm, and the third round began.

This time around, Zhang Yang and his party members were one of the first to be teleported into the arena. At the opposite side, the party was still vastly inferior, but their average Level had reached up to Level 54, and they glittered with a few gray-silver equipment!

"This time, let Daffodil handle this, don't get killed!" Zhang Yang smiled while teasing.

If players are killed in the arena, they will not lose any experience points or equipment, but their equipment durability will still be reduced.

At first, Wei Yan Er wanted to give it another try in order to get herself back to number one in place, but when she saw the excitement on the face of Daffodil Daydream, she felt that it was not good to steal her spotlight, so she could only give up bitterly.

Five minutes later, the battle began!

The moment when Daffodil Daydream activated her {Heart of Flame}, pak pak pak, she had already instantly-killed one of her opponents the moment she laid her eyes on them. After a series of weaving and rolling, she killed the final opponent at the expense of having 872 health points remaining. It was understandable as she was a Spellcaster with lower defense and HP. The whole battle took one minute and 12 seconds!

She had no other way, as she could only cast {Fire Blast} again and again, other spells would have required an interruptible casting time. To fight against five opponents by herself was not easy, let alone winning the match!

A pyromancer truly shone in team battles, where behind their allies, they will be able to cast their hard-hitting skills at leisure and inflict series of extremely terrifying damage!

In the third round of the competition, there was no doubt that the second party of the Lone Desert Smoke with Fatty Han and the others in it would proceed to the forth round.

Meanwhile, a total of 902 parties from Lone Desert Smoke still made it into the next round. Compared to the 487 parties of the Crimson Rage and the 309 parties of the Imperial Sky, it was three times more than them in number! As everyone could see, Lone Desert Smoke was truly elite!

Only three rounds of the competition were held today, with another three rounds the next day, and then another three rounds on the following day, with only two rounds on the forth day, while the remaining six days will only hold one round each.

Although there were many inferior parties eliminated thorough the first three rounds, but 16,384 parties still remained in the competition, and the quality of the parties still varied greatly. On the second day of the competition, Zhang Yang and the gang were still able to send one representative to claim victory for them. Progress was smooth.

When it was Zhang Yang's turn to step up, he had his pet join the battle to aid him, engaging in a fortunate match-up against a kitchen-knife-kind of party that consisted of two berserkers, two thieves and one sacred knight. In the end, he had purposely allowed the thief to activate {Ambush} successfully, while waiting for the four damage channel players to round up on him. When the time was right, he activated his {Warrior's Will} to get rid of the {Kidney Shot}, and did a perfect instant-kill on all four opponents with a combo of {Horizontal Sweep} and {Blast Wave} and {Thunder Strike}!

He then activated a {Charge} at the last sacred knight left on the arena and killed him with a series of explosive blows. The whole battle only took 19 seconds!

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Chapter 265: 'Fire Phoenix' Party

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There was no chance of breaking Zhang Yang's record, not anymore!

Wei Yan Er glared at him dejectedly, and she said, "Noob tank, you got real lucky, engaging four melee profession players at a time, if only I -- Hmph!"

Zhang Yang shrugged and said, "It could not be helped, luck is also a part of strength!"

"How ostentatious!" Han Ying Xue rolled her eyes at him. Sun Xin Yu was on fire, constantly rubbing her daggers against each other everytime they stepped into battle. However, after the sixth round, only 4,096 parties managed to proceed to the seventh round of the competition.

Maybe they could still managed to send one player each for the coming rounds, but naturally, these parties were the cream of the crop, possessing greater strength than their previous encounters!

As a safety precaution, Zhang Yang would have his party charge out as one starting from the next day. They cannot risk any 1 VS 5 battles anymore!

Lone Desert Smoke had a total of 227 parties who entered the next round, taking up a total of 5% of the remaining parties of White Jade Castle in the competition, it was definitely astonishing! It was far better compared to the Crimson Rage who had only 132 parties remaining and the Imperial Sky who had only 96 parties remaining in the competition!

"Let's go, we shall level up to achieve Level 70 at a faster speed!" Zhang Yang was already currently Level 64, but to race against other players and also spend time on the competition was an uphill battle. However, Zhang Yang naturally had the uttermost confidence to secure the championship of this competition!

Let's set aside other circumstances, by just booking the dungeon where the Demonic Treant King is, Zhang Yang and the gang had already acquired a total of 12 pieces of [Aura Stones]. The Aura skills of Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue had already reached Level 4 while the Aura skills Wei Yan Er, Hundred Shots and Fatty Han had also reached Level 3. The whole gang had grown far stronger than before!

As five of them were about to tear their own [teleportation scroll] to return back to Thunderstorm Castle, when they saw Humbly Gentleman and his big gang walking by with thier annoying swagger. The hypocrite glanced at Zhang Yang, and he said, "Zhan Yu, I heard that you guys managed to make it into round 7! Hehe, you guys better burn more incense and pray that you never engage with us tomorrow, or else, that would be the end of your streak!"

Zhang Yang laughed out loud and said, "Hypocrite, have you taken the wrong medicine today as well?"

Humbly Gentleman snorted and put his hand over one of his men's shoulder. "Zhan Yu, allow me to introduce you to a person! Millenial Wanderer, profession, Cryomancer, and he is a new recruit of The Dominators and also our Ace!"

The Millenial Wanderer was a male elf spellcaster, who did not hide his personal information. He was Level 58, health points 8,320, mana points 4,120. With his hands folded across his chest, he gazed and them lazily and said, "I heard that you guys are strong? Unfortunately, that was before you guys met me!"

Han Ying Xue and the ladies exchanged a look, trying to hold back their laughter. Wei Yan Er rubbed her forefinger against her cheek and said, "Goodness, the mental hospital is so irresponsible this year round, how could they let a patient run wild without giving him proper medication!"

Zhang Yang smiled nonchalantly, but his heart skipped a beat. Millenial Wanderer -- he was bad news. His past life told him of that!

-- Millenial Wanderer, he was indeed the core player and ace of The Dominators in the S Rank Competition! Being the seventh in the top 10 best spellcaster list, his strength must not be underestimated!

In this life, Millenial Wanderer had also sided himself over to The Dominators, despite their downfall.

"You b*tch, just wait until you meet me in the arena, I shall show you just how much of a toad under the well you are!" Millenial Wanderer slammed his fists together, a most belligerent look on his face.

Wei Yan Er burst out, "He's driving me mad! I really wish that our first opponents will be them, I am going to cut his head off and kick it like a football!"

"Yan Er, how can you be so violent? But, I do support you this time round!" Han Ying Xue pinched the cheek of Wei Yan Er again.

"Humph, while you're still at it, be pleased and enjoy the moment!" After Humbly Gentlemant finished with his demonstration of power, he waved his hand and led his men away from the scene.

"That was a really annoying person!" Wei Yan Er stuck out her tongue, "Noob tank, raise their teleportation fare up 10 times more!"

Zhang Yang laughed loudly and said, "Alright!"

One day had passed, the Soaring Swords competition had entered its third day.

'Ding! Lone Desert Smoke First Party VS 'Fire Phoenix' party is about to begin in 5 minutes, please make ready!'

It was already 7 pm, Zhang Yang and his party members were teleported to the arena at the same instance again, and there marked the beginning of their round 7 battle!

Fire Phoenix was an unconventional party formed out of five female Pyromancers! The average level of the five was Level 56, which was considerably quite high. Plus, they were pretty well-equipped, most of them glittering in gray-silver light. All of their health points were over 7,000!

A vicious party of glass-cannons! Focus fire, instant-kill, simple, violent, effective!

"How do we do this?" Wei Yan Er asked.

"We split them up into individual battles. Each of us take one. Their health points are not that much, if we can get near them, we can kill them! We must really close the gap before they start bombarding us! Five 'Fire Balls' flying at us all at once is no joke!" Zhang Yang said.

"Then I shall take on Phoenix Subzero!" Wei Yan Er said.

"I'll take on Phoenix Foam!" Daffodil Daydream said.

"Iced Tea!" Sun Xin Yu was brief and straight to the point as usual.

"Then I shall take Phoenix Jasmine, while Whitey shall take Phoenix Babe!" Zhang Yang shall cover the remaining two opponents.

On the other side of the arena, the Fire Phoenix were also having a discussion.

"They will definitely start with Zhan Yu in front! You have all seen it, that lunatic has like 28,000 HP, and our first volley could theoretically do 30,000. But he'll definitely have some passive damage-reduction skills, he won't go down from that! Furthermore, once they close in, their melee attackers will deal serious damage!" Phoenix Foam said.

"The damage of a tanker is limited, he won't be a priority! The thief will definitely go into stealth mode immediately. So, we should really focus fire on Drizzler or Daffodil Daydream!"

"Subzero, Iced Tea, Jasmine, you three focus fire on taking out the Drizzler, while Babe and I shall take on Daffodil Daydream! Try to kill them off in a one volley, and then if the thief is still in stealth mode, we shall hit the priest first. If the thief reveals herself, we shall take out the thief first! The Guardian shall be our the last target!" Phoenix Foam assigned their objectives.

"Alright!"

Five minutes passed in the blink of an eye!

The battle had begun!

All five members of Zhang Yang's party charged at the same time. As Zhang Yang was the tanker, naturally, he was at the forefront, while Wei Yan Er and Daffodil Daydream followed closely behind him. Sun Xin Yu had long vanished out of sight.

The three members of the Fire Phoenix party took aim at Wei Yan Er, while two of them aimed at Daffodil Daydream. At the same instant, they activated the skill that temporary increased their damage, the {Heart of Flame}, and they began to cast their {Explosive Flame} that had the highest damage output among all their skills!

{Counter Magic}!

Daffodil Daydream put up her hand and waved, immediately sealing up the {Explosive Flame} that was about to be activated by Phoenix Foam. At the same instant, she activated her own {Heart of Flame}. Afterwards, she gulped down a bottle of [Beginner Power Potion] and activated her accessory, the Magician's Brooch, and began casting her own {Explosive Flame}!

Just two seconds later --

'-2,926!'

'-1,646!'

'-2911!'

'-1534!'

'-3012!'

'-1621!'

Six damage values appeared right on top of Zhang Yang as the attacks struck him, taking away approximately 14,000 of his health points!

The Fire Phoenix party reeled in shock! As these attacks were supposedly thrown at Wei Yan Er, how did Zhang Yang become the one who sustained all the damage?

[Sacrifice: Protects an ally, taking all damage done to the ally instead. Cool down time: 1 minute. Distance: 30 meters

'-4,592!'

'-1,541!'

Phoenix Babe managed to inflict some damages on Daffodil Daydream, taking away 6,000 of her health points. However, Daffodil Daydream bombarded Phoenix Foam with only one {Explosive Flame} that inflicted a damage value of '-9360!', instantly killing her opponent on spot!

'-3120!'

Daffodil Daydream answered with a {Fire Blast}, taking away a third of her other opponent's health points!

Zhang Yang was grinning as he entered the range of {Charge}. Immediately, he charged head on at Phoenix Jasmine. At the same time, Whitey activated {Wild Charge} and clashed onto Phoenix Babe! Shoof! Sun Xin Yu used her {Shadow Step} to draw herself to the back of Phoenix Iced Tea -- {Ambush} activated! Wei Yan Er had also used {Charge} to clash into Phoenix Subzero!

{Flash Out}!

The four remaining members of the Fire Phoenix party activated their {Flash Out} at the same instant: Instantly move 10 meters forward, cancels all movement restriction skills!

Zhang Yang, and the other two party members immediately pursued their opponents, while Han Ying Xue was frantically healing Zhang Yang.

Their distance gone, and positioning greatly disrupted the weaknesses of the spellcaster profession were revealed thoroughly. The remaining four members of the Fire Phoenix party were instantly nailed by Zhang Yang who smacked their asses with his huge axe. After just a few attempts, they were forced into despair. After lashing out for awhile, they were sent to their demises one after another.

Round one, Lone Desert Smoke First Party acquired victory!

The second level started immediately right after, it was the same 5-minute preparation time. Fire Phoenix party made the best use of the time to revise their tactics.

"Their guardian has {Sacrifice}, it totally messes up our plan!" Phoenix Babe frowned.

"This time, we shall focus our assault on Drizzler, let Zhan Yu use his {Sacrifice} on Drizzler first. Then we shall immediately use our second volley on Daffodil Daydream, it should immediately kill her!"

"But once we let them get near us, their damage outputs are just as terrifying!"

"That's right, they are all individual freaks of their own! The parties that we encountered in the first few rounds could only focus fire on one of us at a time. We only needed to activate a {Ice Frame} to protect ourselves, while the other four of us will just wipe them out! However, they're spreading out to deal with us all at once!"

"Argh, why did it have to be Zhan Yu! It could have been any other!"

"Hehe, or Iced Tea, you go on ahead and seduce Zhan Yu, let him turn his coat around and betray his party!"

"You b*tch, you are the one who should go and seduce him! With your two papaya sized titties, men are bound to drool!"

"Stop messing around, think of something now!"

"... Nothing on mind now!"

"...Let's just do it then!"

The match began with the end of their unproductive discussion!

The five cyromancers did as they had roughly improvised, focusing fire on Wei Yan Er, trying to trick Zhang Yang into activating his {Sacrifice}, and then they turning to Daffodil Daydream immediately. Daffodil Daydream immediately went down!

However, Phoenix Foam was also killed by the {Explosive Flame} coming from Daffodil Daydream, turning the battle into 4 VS 4!

The prime advantage of a 5-spellcaster party was that all five of them could focus fire and take out their opponents, one at a time! As their numbers dwindled, their firepower would drastically drop, and the moment they fail to kill any of their opponents in a single hit, the healer's role which was meant for long-term combat would start to shine!

Fire Phoenix lost to Lone Desert Smoke First Party with the result of 0:2 by the end of the match.

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Chapter 266: The Strongest 4 of White Jade Castle

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Right after the end of round seven, only 2,049 parties remained. 106 parties of Lone Desert Smoke managed to proceed to the upcoming round, still taking the lead in White Jade Castle.

At 8 pm, the eighth round of the Soaring Swords competition followed closely after the previous session, and the opposition standing before Zhang Yang's party was the second party of The Dominators!

When the enemies come face to face, heads will fly! Zhang Yang and his party ruthlessly hacked away, proceeding to the next round with ease.

There were only two rounds of matches on the third day. Only 1024 parties of White Jade Castle were able to stay in the competition so far, with 61 parties of Lone Desert Smoke remaining, far exceeding the 33 parties of Crimson Rage and the 24 parties of Imperial Sky.

As for The Dominators who fell under the category of larger guilds, only 12 parties remained in the competition thanks to the recent event of members withdrawing from their guild. Their results just barely did them justice as a major guild.

After the forth day of the competition, the 1,024 parties were reduced to only 256 parties, where the chaff had been separated from the wheat, with more parties being similar in strength as well.

As the fifth day of the competition marked it's beginning, the number of matches that a party needed to take part in had been reduced down to one match only, they only needed to secure one victory to make it to the next round.

128 parties, 64 parties, 32 parties...

The remaining number of the parties were getting smaller and smaller every time, and by the end of the ninth day of the competition, White Jade Castle only had 8 parties remaining in the list of the competition. To make sure that the competition was fair to all, all parties were called upon to draw straws in order to determine their turns for the competition tomorrow night.

The names and who they are going up against among the eight parties were as follow --

Lone Desert Smoke Second Party VS Sword and Fire Mercenary First Party.

Crimson Rage First Party VS Lost Paradise First Party

Imperial Sky First Party VS Bloodbath Alliance First Party.

Lone Desert Smoke First Party VS The Dominators First Party

"Haha, you are just so unlucky, you're actually matched up against us!" Humbly Gentleman stepped up to Zhang Yang with an arrogant look that looked like he claimed the sky above him, "What an unfortunate turn of events, if you could just push into another round... Tsk tsk tsk!"

"You ugly piece of octo-pussy! You're the ones going down!" Wei Yan Er jumped into the scene and waved her small fists furiously, "Tomorrow shall be the day you meet your demise! Sun of the beach, tremble now, noobcakes!"

Zhang Yang couldn't hold it anymore and he statrted laughing out loud, then he said, "Little girl, where did you learn this from?"

Wei Yan Er raised her head with a smug smile on her face and said, "Was I not cool just now?"

"Cool enough!"

"Humph!" Humbly Gentleman pretended to be the mature one there and lowered his face, covering it with a palm.

Millenial Wanderer, however, smiled and said, "Guildmaster, someone will learn to be a little more obedient after tomorrow's match!"

"Nicely said!" Humbly Gentleman began to smile.

Both sides were already deep-seated enemies against each other, so there was no need to hide their hatred towards each other. The tension was rising, who knew if they actually started brawling right now!

"Just wait until then!"

After throwing those words out, both sides went away under unhappy circumstances.

On the 10th of December, the final round for the main draw match of the Soaring Swords competition had officially began!

Up to this point, the parties that were able to remain in the competition didn't just get there by dumb luck, therefore, many players had come to spectate the matches! The official management team had arranged it in such a way that, the four matches shall be held separately so that players will be able to catch all four of them!

It was 7 pm, the first match shall be against the 'Sword and Fire Mercenary First Party'.

Lone Desert Smoke Second Party members are: Fatty Han, Hundred Shots, Galileo, Fantasy Sweetheart, Lost Dream.

Sword and Fire Mercenary First Party members are: Dominating Blade (Guardian, Level 61), 44 Bandit (Assassin, Level 61), Broken Uranus (Pyromancer, Level 61), Point and Kill (Sniper, Level 61), 7 Feet Boobies (Holy Knight, Level 61).

Five minutes before the match begin, Zhang Yang, Han Ying Xue and the rest of the gang entered the audience stands, eager to witness the beginning of that match. Dream Technology had many ways to earn a fortune, they actually set a fare for this final day! To enter, one must hand over 10 gold pieces! Everyone could see the number of audiences in the audience on their window interface. When Zhang Yang and the gang entered, the number shown on the screen was still 5,118, but in just less than one minute, the number had shot up to 10,000, and continued increasing rapidly!

Millions of audience would mean ten times that number of gold pieces earned, it was daylight robbery by the masses!

Zhang Yang felt totally used. The players who were putting up a good show did not even get a dime, and all the benefits were seized by the game company alone!

"Silly Yu, can Sweetheart and the others win this round?" Han Ying Xue asked.

Zhang Yang shook his head and said, "I have no idea, when we talk about skills in PK, I am afraid that the Sword and Fire Mercenary is slightly better! They take pride as Mercenaries after all, taking on bounties and so on! However, Fatty Han and the party have the advantage in terms of equipment, so it is still very difficult to see the outcome now!"

"I'd say Fatty Han and the gang will definitely win!" Wei Yan Er nodded strongly.

"Watch the match!"

Five minutes had passed, the number of the audiences had reached up to 208,000, and the match had finally began!

The members from both sides were instantly teleported into the arena. The moment the invisible air wall faded, the two parties immediately charged towards each other in different formations.

Both sides were showing off every skill they had, with magic spells soaring over in both directions, and arrows flying. It was just like what Zhang Yang said earlier, the Sword and Fire Mercenary had the advantage in term of skills over the match, but Fatty Han and the party had the advantage in terms of their equipment, the outcome of the match remained unclear for the moment!

Because of this, the match became far more exciting to watch compared to those one-sided matches! They did not just compete in terms their skill and equipment, but also their will!

Two minutes had passed, Fatty Han was the first to die, but 44 Bandit of the Sword and Fire Mercenary was similarly being scratched to death!

Three minutes later, Galileo was surrounded and killed after falling into a trap set up by the opposition, but at the same time, Dominating Blade was slaughtered as well.

3 VS 3, the fire power from both sides had been sharply reduced, the healing effects from both sides undoubtedly became obvious than ever. The two opposition parties went into a stalemate, the circumstances became 'I can't kill you, you can't kill me either'. After shooting at each other fruitlessly for a while, both sides understood that the key to obtaining victory was to kill the opposition's healer! Whoever kills their opponent's healer first, would secure the victory of this match!

Lost Dream was indeed the future king of thieves. With a wave of his hand, he vanished into thin air, entering stealth mode by activating {Vanish}. He crept up to the Holy Knight that was hiding behind his team mates and activated {Blur }. Taking the advantage of the time while the skill of 7 Feet Boobies was cooling down, he held on against all the assaults from Broken Uranus and Point and Kill with his {Blur}, and killed their healer with sheer brawn!

Right before 7 Feet Boobies died, an attempt to kill Fantasy Sweetheart was made as a final struggle, however, the attempt was made futile when Fantasy Dream activated {Blind} to hold the spellcaster for a full eight seconds. Lone Desert Smoke managed to shakily claim victory this time!

First round, Lone Desert Smoke Second Party won by a narrow margin!

Five minutes later, the second round of the match had begun!

At the beginning of the match, Fantasy Sweetheart made a fatal mistake, activating {Holy Shield} a little too late, giving their opponents the opportunity to kill Lost Dream! After losing their super thief, it was a landslide loss.

Another five minutes had passed, and the final round of the match has begun!

Both sides were back into the pace of the first round, and finally, they depended on the outstanding performance of Lost Dream, narrowly achieving the victory in the last round!

Lone Desert Smoke Second Party defeated the Sword and Fire Mercenary First Party with the score of 2:1, being the first to secure one out of the four tickets of White Jade Castle to get into the semifinals of the competition!

The next match was closely followed after the first match, 'Crimson Rage First Party VS Lost Paradise First Party'. Crimson Fire and his party were able to remain in the top eight, partly because they had been rather lucky, for up until this point, they had not engaged with any parties that had been too much for them to handle. However, now that they were up against Crimson Rage, their strength was tested and broken, and they were soundly defeated, losing twice in a row.

In the following match, Imperial Sky also obtained a clean win against the Bloodbath Alliance, acquiring the third ticket to proceed into the Shang Hai Finals.

Lastly, it was the most anticipated match between Lone Desert Smoke First Party and The Dominators First Party!

Both parties were teleported into the arena, separated by the invisible air walls, observing their own opponents and their formations.

The Five members of The Dominators: Humbly Gentleman (Cryomancer, Level 60), Millenial Wanderer (Cryomancer, Level 60), Traveling Piglet (Guardian, Level 60), Top Class Bad Guy (Assassin, Level 60), I'm No Healer (Holy Knight, Level 60).

The Five members of Lone Desert Wolf: Zhang Yang (Level 65), Sun Xin Yu (Level 63), Han Ying Xue (Level 62), Wei Yan Er (Level 62), Daffodil Daydream (Level 62). As Sun Xin Yu had the [Heaven's Pearl, providing a huge 50% experience point boost, she was slightly ahead of the others.

Zhang Yang and his party had the superior equipment and levels. However, The Dominators were pumped with endless confidence over the recruitment of Millenial Wanderer, as they deeply believed that they could rely on Millenial Wanderer to secure their victory over Zhang Yang and his party.

"How do we do this?" although Wei Yan Er looked down on her opponents, but she acknowledged the fact that they were still a major guild, never foolish enough to underestimate their abilities.

Zhang Yang gave it some thought and said, "Icy will go get their thief, if he doesn't reveal himself, that's fine, if he ever reveals himself, wipe his face on the dirt! We shall aim for their spellcasters. Whoever charges forward, we shall focus our assault on him and quickly force them to use their {Ice Frame}. They're as good as dead after that!"

'Ding! Lone Desert Smoke First Party VS The Dominators First Party, the match will begin in 10 seconds!'

10, 9, 8... 3, 2, 1!

The air wall had faded!

As the tip of an arrow, Zhang Yang led the party and charged forward, while the opposition did the same, with Traveling Piglet leading the front to absorb any damage going their way. Others were following about seven or eight meters behind him.

30 meters, 20 meters, the distance between the two parties was getting shorter by the moment, 11 meters left!

Zhang Yang stopped abruptly, allowing Whitey to pass him and take the front!

10 meters, the maximum range of {Charge}!

Traveling Piglet hesitated for a moment, should he use his {Charge} on that big white bear? {Charge}, could stun an opponent for a moment, it was extremely handy, and to waste it on a [Pet]...

Just as he was hesitating, Whitey had already charged over with a {Wild Charge}, sending Traveling Piglet into one second of stun. Zhang Yang did not use {Charge} on him but instead, dashed over towards Millenial Wanderer. Whitey turned from Traveling Piglet and instead charged at Humbly Gentleman.

Wei Yan Er and Daffodil Daydream ran past the swaying Traveling Piglet and started assaulting Millenial Wanderer!

Guardians had high damage immunity and high health point value. If the party focused fire on him, he could have easily make it through by just activating a {Shield Wall}! Also, they were not as dangerous offensively, so trying to kill them first was folly!

However, one must not leave a guardian unattended, because this profession was not only hard to kill, but also had party-saving skills such as {Sacrifice} and {Vanguard's Aggression}. The area attack skills such as {Blast Wave} and {Thunder Strike} also had crowd control effects, along with {Destructive Smash} which nullified healing! Therefore, guardians played a major role in party battles, especially in the League Championship that was to come in the future!

The opposition ignored Zhang Yang as well, as Millenial Wanderer locked his target on Wei Yan Er and began to cast his {Frost Dragon}!

{Charge}!

Zhang Yang charged at Millenial Wanderer, while activating his {Blood Rage}. However, before Zhang Yang even reached Millenial Wanderer, he had already activated his {Flash Out}, moving 10 meters forward, and resumed casting his {Frost Dragon}!

Millenial Wanderer was indeed outstanding. This {Flash Out} of his had landed him exactly 30 meters from Wei Yan Er, the maximum range of {Frost Dragon}. The {Frost Dragon} would definitely hit Wei Yan Er before she could activate her {Charge}!

{Counter Magic}!

Daffodil Daydream waved her hand and once again interrupted Millenial Wanderer. At the same time, she activated her {Heart of Flame}, emitting out a charge of flame on Millenial Wanderer, inflicting him with a damage value of '-2,612' which appeared right on top of his head! She proceeded to cast a {Explosive Flame}.

Millenial Wanderer had also used the same skill -- {Counter Magic}, interrupting the casting of Daffodil Daydream. After being countered, all his spells related to frost and ice would be forced into a cool down of 3 seconds, so he could only dodge and roll to avoid Zhang Yang.

Traveling Piglet had recovered from stun at that time, and came at Wei Yan Er with a {Charge}, knocking the little girl into stunned state. He followed up with a stomp on the ground -- {Thunder Strike}, further hindering the little girl with a speed reduction effect.

Three seconds later, Millenial Wanderer's ice spells were available again, so with an instant {Ice Ring}, he froze Zhang Yang who tried to pursue him. Then, he went back to casting his {Frost Dragon} at Wei Yan Er!

{Warrior's Will}!

Zhang Yang shook the frozen state off himself and continued pursuing Millenial Wanderer.

Switch!

'-5,820!' {Destructive Smash}, critical attack!

'-180!' Regular attack.

The two attacks that Zhang Yang had dealt landed on Traveling Piglet intead! This was because Traveling Piglet had used {Sacrifice} at the right moment on Millenial Wanderer, taking all damage on his behalf instead!

"Focus fire on the hypocrite!" Zhang Yang immediately said.

'-5,412!'

Humbly Gentleman had been preoccupied with Whitey, he could have finish casting the {Frost Dragon} in 2 seconds, but instead, he took 3 seconds to do it, and finally, he manged to land a heavy attack on Wei Yan Er.

Millenial Wanderer was also trying to recast his {Frost Dragon} on Wei Yan Er, while Traveling Piglet stood in her face, continuously hacking away!

Zhang Yang activated the same skill {Sacrifice} on Wei Yan Er and began to charge towards Humbly Gentleman.

The Dominators instantly switched their fire power towards Daffodil Daydream, setting her as their primary target.

'-1,832!'

Zhang Yang swung his axe at Humbly Gentleman, hurting him!

Shoof, Wei Yan Er had finally managed to use {Charge}, waving her big-ass axe at Humbly Gentleman.

{Flash Out}!

Humbly Gentleman instantly reacted, befitting of a professional player, and the axe hit nothing but air!

Zhang Yang kept the pressure on, chasing after Humbly Gentleman, activating his {Blast Wave} when within range, causing '-830' damage while at the same time, stunning him for 4 seconds!

At the same moment, Traveling Piglet waved his hand and instantly activated {Vanguard's Aggression} onto Humbly Gentleman, covering him up with it!

This party of The Dominators was obviously well-trained with their cooperation tactics. With the {Vanguard's Aggression} thrown out, other members of the opposition party ran into the area of the Vanguard, and they began to throw their attacks onto Daffodil Daydream

Sun Xin Yu and Top Class Bad Guy were still sneaking around, playing hide and seek!

"Switch fire on to Traveling Piglet!" Zhang Yang told the party while he activated his very own {Vanguard's Aggression}. The two parties were in such close proximity now that the two {Vanguard's Aggression} were more or less stacked on top of each other.

Both parties were forced to focus fire on the Guardians now instead.

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