Rebirth of the Legendary Guardian

by Stayrr

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

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Chapter 331: Going up Ghastly Mountain

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The second match, Sun Xin Yu versus Blooming Ichor!

Both of them had fought against each other before and now they were meeting each other in the battle arena once again. Their gazes locked, furious and grudgingly! However, the resulting, endless match made people extremely angry and bored as when there is match between Thieves, they will only play hide and seek with each other!

Still, Sun Xin Yu was more skillful and she successfully caught Blooming Ichor after some time. After two to three attacks, Blooming Ichor's HP bar had become empty instantly!

Zhang Yang's gang won another match!

The third match, Wei Yan Er versus Lonely Tree.

Lonely Tree was the Thief who defected from Sunset Amber to Imperial Sky. Previously, he was the main Thief in Sunset Amber and now he was apparently doing well, developing and growing rapidly in Imperial Sky.

Wei Yan Er hated traitors the most, especially due to her personal experiences. Her full might was brought out upon her opponent!

Based on both of their strength, both of them were equally matched. But Wei Yan Er drank a Mobility Potion and blew up Lonely Tree's combo. The little brat hacked at him madly with her big broadaxe and the pitiful Lonely Tree was terribly traumatized.

Zhang Yang's gang won three matches in a row!

The fourth match, Daffodil Daydream versus Venshi!

Venshi also had a traitor label on top of his head, he was the main Spellcaster in Radiance. During their match back then, he apparently goofed around and caused their team to lose deliberately to Imperial Sky in the Soaring Swords competition!

Both of these Spellcasters chose to be Pyromancers, so the both of them fired blazing fireballs at each other, flames danced in the wind and warped the air as they entered the battle arena and fought with a most extravagant display, unlike that of fireworks. In terms of the performances of their matches, the audiences enjoyed watching this match the most!

Both of them were skillful, constantly running out of the maximum skill range to interrupt each other's spell casting bars.

As more high-ended players broke through the Level 60 bracket, one after another, Yellow-Gold equipment had become very common. Although Lone Desert Smoke block-booked a few Yellow-Gold bosses, there were a lot of area maps which were above Level 60. A lot more bosses for everyone else. Both spellcasters were equipped with Yellow-Gold equipment from head to toe!

The slightest bit of advantage would tip the balance!

Daffodil Daydream had the additional advantages from Zhang Yang's transmuted potions, medicines and even the [Fountain of Life]!

After some intense fighting, Daffodil Daydream successfully defeated Venshi and scored another point for Silky Soft team!

4–0!

Sky and Ocean Electronics team was on the brink of elimination!

There were seven duels and one point for each duel; two points for party matches. Whichever team that got five points first would not need to fight for the rest of the match!

One Sword Stroke finally appeared in the battle arena for the important fifth match!

Lost Dream versus One Sword Stroke.

"Silly Yu, do you think Lost Dream can win this?" Han Ying Xue was not asking out of concern for the loudmouthed chatterbox, but for herself. She was hoping that she would not have to fight afterall, being the lazy woman that she is.

Zhang Yang thought about it and replied, "In terms of skill, Lost Dream is on par with One Sword Stroke, but Assassins have always been an ill-fit against Guardians.

"I think Lost Dream could win this!" Wei Yan Er said, for the sake of arguing, and nothing else.

"If you say that Lost Dream can win, then he shall win this!"

"…"

At last, Lost Dream lost the match!

Lost Dream performed as expected of a first class Assassin, executing his skills and combos with precision and perfect timing. Still, he fell short of finishing off the hunk of corroded iron, and was beaten down. There was nothing for him to be ashamed of.

4–1, Sky and Ocean Electronics team finally scored a point!

The sixth match, Hundred Shots versus Tobacco Breath.

Tobacco Breath was a Templar who had rarely appeared in battle arenas! Hundred Shots, being wary about this unknown opponent, failed to grab any present opportunities and was taken out!

4–2!

Han Ying Xue was forced to fight for the seventh match.

Her opponent was her old enemy, Fire Fountain!

Fire Fountain was shocked when he saw Han Ying Xue, what an unfortunate match-up, why does he have to face this super healer once again?!

Although Han Ying Xue had no sense of direction, she did not forget faces easily. She looked intently at Fire Fountain. Suddenly recognizing him, she waved her hand and said, "Oh, it's you!"

Fire Fountain was shaken to the core, as this super healer had already caused psychological trauma to him in their previous clash! Fire Fountain's lips twitched and he shouted loudly, "Let's start the fight, cut the bullsh*t!"

The battle had started!

History could only repeat itself!

Although Fire Fountain attack power was strong, Han Ying Xue healing power was even stronger. She threw {Putrefying Poison} on Fire Fountain and kept on spamming healing spells on herself as if she was fighting an NPC.

The pitiful Fire Fountain wanted to cry as Han Ying Xue stood rooted to the ground, casually throwing DoT skills on him, while healing herself. She did not even glance up at his incoming attacks, only intently gazing at her own MP bar! It was ridiculous! The worst part of it all, was that he could not damage her one bit! Her healing completely counteracted every move he threw at her! Fire Fountain was eventually overwhelmed by DoT effects, which was a humiliating way to go!

The current PvP was different compared to the previous PvP in the open world, they were currently being spectated by thousands of people. Fire Fountain was going to be the biggest joke of the year!

Why does it have to be me?!

Fire Fountain could only rage within himself, as his HP slowly, inevitably went down!

5–2!

Silky Soft team successfully defeated Sky and Ocean Electronics team and also obtained the first victory of the competition!

There was another ongoing match for the S-Class Professional League, which was the match between Crimson Rage's Crimson team and Breaking Dawn's Shun Feng team.

This match was more intense as they scored 4–3 for the first seven duels and entered the final party match. Lastly, the female army defeated Shun Feng team by exerting outstanding performance and great teamwork. The final score was 5–4!

However, Silky Soft team won with the score of 5–2 and their net win points were two points ahead of Crimson team, therefore, Silky Soft team took the first position.

Everyone was jubilant after Imperial Sky's defeat as the relationship between both of these guilds, had never improved one bit ever since the attacks on each others castles.

After Zhang Yang left battle arena, he was immediately teleported back to Rolling Rock Canyon and continued chiseling away at the rock monsters.

After smashing the monsters for a while, a golden light flashed on Zhang Yang's body and he rose to Level 75!

That really took a long time!

After so many days, Zhang Yang had collected 786 [Rock Cores]. Victory was almost there.

Two days later, on the 3rd of February, Zhang Yang had finally gathered all the [Rock Cores]. He went back to the bottom of Ghastly Mountain, to the magic circle in Fountain of Life.

Zhang Yang threw five stacks of [Rock Cores] into the magic circle and he immediately received a notification from the system.

'Ding! You have completed the quest: The search for a new source of energy!'

'Ding! Magic circle have activated!'

F*ck, this mission was so hard and no rewards were given at all, the system was really stingy!

Zhang Yang grumbled to himself as he activated the teleportation portal.

A dazzling white light suddenly appeared. The teleportation portal seemed to be waking up from slumber. Lights and color danced before his eyes, the captivating scene lightening his mood up by a slight bit.

Once Zhang Yang entered the portal, the scenery in front of him changed and he appeared in another cave! The cave was not too deep and there was a way out about ten meters away from him. The weather was sunny and fresh, a contrast difference from the gloomy weather at the bottom of the mountain.

Is this where he's supposed to be?

Zhang Yang walked out from the cave and saw that he was halfway up the floating part of Ghastly Mountain. The sun struck the land here, unhindered by the clouds below it.

Zhang Yang got on Whitey and quickly rode out of the cave.

"Human?" a rasp voiced out. A batman which hung from a tree suddenly flew down and glided towards Zhang Yang. The batman stretched out its 10 razor sharp fingers and reached out!

[Ghastly Mountain Elite Batman] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 76

HP: 76,000

Defense: 400

Zhang Yang calmly lifted his sword and met the batman's clash.

"Aack…" as they fought halfway, the batman suddenly screeched loudly, threatening to deafen Zhang Yang! His ears really hurt this time! The scenery in front of Zhang Yang instantly turned black, and Zhang Yang could not help it but put both of his hands on his head.

'Ding! You have been affected by the Ghastly Mountain Elite Batman's ear-piercing screech effect, you will not be able to control your own movements for three seconds!'

This was no different from the stunning effect, only that they were named differently!

'-1,342!'

'-1,408!'

The elite Batman used this chance to slash at Zhang Yang madly with its sharp claws.

Three seconds later, Zhang Yang immediately counterattacked and the Batman was hacked to death.

Zhang Yang looked across, and saw a lot of Batmen hanging from big trees, similar to how actual bats did! If the Batman did not have the {Ear-Piercing Screech} skill, Zhang Yang could have kited a few of them and finish them all at once with the special effect of the [Dark Enigmatic Sword].

With {Ear-Piercing Screech}, these monsters could stun Zhang Yang perpetually, until his death!

To play safe, Zhang Yang had to clear the monsters one by one!

Zhang Yang patted Whitney and continued moving forward. He killed each monster that flew down from the tree. Despite the roundabout method, he only used about three hours to reach a huge altar.

A stone statue stood in the middle of the altar, standing at about 10 meters tall, it had the shape of a Batman and a pair of huge wings extended from its back. Both its legs were slightly bent, like it was about to spring up from the ground. The Batman statue held a dark spear. Zhang Yang looked carefully and found out that the spear was a real spear, and red lines flowed through it.

There was a basin at the bottom of the statue, where dried blood caked the surface. It had not been used for a long time!

Zhang Yang was not sure if the bloodstains came from animals or humans! Either way, Batmen ingested red blood, wherever it came from!

Suddenly, two Batmen flew down and glided to a nearby altar. As Zhang Yang was in the blindspot, they did not notice him immediately.

"What a waste, the female human we captured last few days ago has escaped! Otherwise, the ancestor could have been resurrected!" one of them croaked.

"That's right, we still need the blood of a virgin with extreme 'Yin' physique. Our ancestor would then break free from the seal and lead us a new age, instead of hiding in this little mountain! Damn it, how could such a weak human escape from here?" the other batman hissed.

"The human weakling does not have wings, she can will not be able to evade us for long. Unless she falls to death, there's no way she can leave this floating mountain alive!"

"En, let's continue looking for her!"

The two Batmen flew away.

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Chapter 332: King of Batman

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'Ding! Tiffany has already escaped from the clutches of Batman and she is hiding somewhere in Ghastly Mountain! Find her immediately, and escort her out of Ghastly Mountain!'

No wonder the quest had no time limitation. The game developers had simply solved the problem by mentioning Tiffany had escaped from the clutches of Batman. Such convenient 'coincidence'.

Still, where could Tiffany be hiding at? This Ghastly Mountain was not exactly small in size!

Zhang Yang thought for a bit, knowing that the system definitely would not let allow players to complete the quest so easily. As always, to make things difficult, Tiffany would most likely be at the top of the mountain. Also, this would mean that players would have to fight their way through hordes of monsters in order to achieve their objective. Besides, clearing monsters is the supreme path and concept of online games!

Time to set off!

Zhang Yang patted Whitey and continued going up the mountain, where he killed endless of monsters along the way, quickly losing count.

Without the appearance of bosses, nothing could slow Zhang Yang down. Three hours later, Zhang Yang reached the top of Ghastly Mountain.

Zhang Yang travelled through the dense woods, there was no Batman monster here but tigers, wolves and other wild beasts. All of them looked ferocious and violent, but they were merely normal monsters, and Zhang Yang killed them all with ease.

Shush!

When Zhang Yang moved forwards, suddenly, the sound of a weapon zinged in front of Zhang Yang, and he subconsciously raised his shield to protect himself and activated {Block}!

Dang!

The sword clashing with Zhang Yang's shield, producing a series of sparks!

Zhang Yang dropped his shield and immediately thrust his sword towards the attacker. As he finally focused on his target, he realized that the attacker who sneaked up on him was not a wild beast, or a Batman, but a young pretty lady with black silky hair, a tall and slender figure, wielding a sharp, gleaming sword!

He quickly moved a step backwards moving the young pretty lady out of his own range, and his sword swooshed harmlessly before her! Even if the name of "Tiffany" was not being shown on top of her head, there were no other humans here, only her!

[Tiffany] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 77

HP: 77,000

Defense: 400

Tiffany also realized that Zhang Yang was also a human, so she stopped her attack and put back her sword into a scabbard on her back. She stared at Zhang Yang with her slanted, light gray eyes and asked, "Who are you? How did you get here?"

"I'm here to rescue you!" Zhang Yang answered and continued, "I have some kinship with you and I specially came to look for you from White Jade Castle, which is far away from here. Coincidentally, I heard from your villagers saying that you have been captured by the Batmen, so, I made my way up here!"

"Do you have any way to leave this Ghastly Mountain?" Tiffany was very surprised and excitedly asked Zhang Yang.

"Yes, there is a cave halfway up this Mountain, and also a teleportation portal which directly teleports us back to the bottom of this mountain! As long as we can make it to the cave, we would be able to get back to ground safely!"

"That's great!"

Both of them quickly went down the mountain. However, Tiffany did not have a mount, so they made rather slow progress.

Zhang Yang patted Whitey's butt and said, "Get on, you walk too slow!"

Tiffany hesitated for a while, but she decided to get on up. However, the sword that slung across her back jabbed into Whitey's butt.

"Roar!" Whitey growled in pain and instantly moved its four limbs and madly rushed down the mountain.

The monsters along the way were almost cleared by Zhang Yang, so there were not many obstacles and they smoothly reached the teleportation portal in the cave.

Wait a minute, that's it? Seems way too easy for a quest.

As long as they enter the cave and activate the teleportation portal, they would reach the bottom of Ghastly Mountain!

Both of them came down from the mount and walked into the cave.

Shush!

Suddenly a huge, beastly claw lashed out from within the darkness inside the cave. Gleaming silver, with the flash of multiple swords, the claw headed directly for Zhang Yang's chest!

"Watch out!" Tiffany shouted and kicked Zhang Yang's left hip. Hard. Zhang Yang was flung four meters away. At the same time, Tiffany also pulled out the sword on her back and dashed towards the beast.

Ding!

The sharp claw clashed with sword. The clang of steel rang through the cave and sparks flew!

Zhang Yang had actually lifted his shield and activated {Block}, but he was kicked by Tiffany and flung away, which also wasted one cycle of the {Block}'s cool down time!

Her good intentions had unwittingly inconvenienced him a little!

Zhang Yang pondered as he ran back to Tiffany with his sword drawn. Within the dark environment, he vaguely could see the attacker's outline.

It was a tall and huge Batman, with terribly huge wings, even though they were barely unfurled. Its upper body was bare, and it wore some crude loincloth, made from the dressed skin of animal, with long, lanky limbs.

Its face was scary, hook-nosed like an eagle's beak, and its forehead was protruding like a long horn was growing out of its forehead! And finally, a pair of cloudy gray eyes, murderous rage intent in its face!

[King of Ghastly Mountain Batman] (Yellow-Gold, Humanoid)

Level: 78

HP: 7,800,000

Defense: 1,400

Zhang Yang groaned, why would he meet a Yellow-Gold boss in a side quest. Besides, this was only Level 70 area map and Yellow-Gold bosses should not be so abundant!

"Ha ha ha, do you think that you can escape from here?" King of Batman made a wry smile, it flexed its huge wings behind it and a strong wind was blown towards Zhang Yang and Tiffany. Both of them were blown out of the cave!

This King of Batman strode after them, coming out of the cave. In visible light, he could be seen more clearly now. King of Batman was more than three meters tall, and had a wingspan of up to eight meters!

Tiffany fearlessly swung her sword and dashed towards King of Batman, while yelling, "Demon! How many villagers have you killed over all these years?! Today, you must pay with your blood!"

King of Batman made another wry smile as it calmly caught her blade, "I thought it would take me some time to find you, but I discovered the appearance of this human. So, I decided to wait for you at the teleportation portal. As expected, like running rats, you turned up here!"

Zhang Yang shook his head in embarrassment, to play into the hands of a monster like that!

"Demon, you haven't won yet!" Tiffany slashed at the boss, a flash of white light bursting out of the sword. It did good damage, but the boss' HP bar was so abundant that it did not seem to do anything!

Zhang Yang had also moved in and added 5 stacks of {Cripple Defense} on the boss to reduce its defense value so that Tiffany's damage power was magnified. In a short time, Zhang Yang quickly got a solid hold of the boss' aggro, while also drinking health recovery potions and the [Fountain of Life].

"Ha ha ha, the lady, whose blood courses with so much "Yin", lay down your sword, and obediently dedicate your virgin blood to our great ancestor. The Batmen will rise again!" the boss violently lashed out at Zhang Yang as it continued rambling on.

Shush! Shush!

The boss' huge wings were like cutting wheels, its wings spun about occasionally. It did not cause any damage but knocked back Zhang Yang and Tiffany by about three to four meters away.

Tiffany yelled and the sword in her hand moved even faster ans struck the boss again and again, each strike causing more than 3,000 points of damage.

In this game, a player could take on a boss single-handedly, but only if he was sufficiently leveled, and had really good equipment! With all his long cool down skills, he could still duel with Gray-Silver bosses. However, he would need to equip some Violet-Platinum equipment in order to take on a Yellow-Gold boss all by himself!

Zhang Yang drank Red Bottle, gulped down [Fountain of Life, activated {Berserker's Heal}, summoned Merlinda's Shadow and used {Shield Wall}. He had used up all his emergency skills within a minute, and the King of Batman's long HP was reduced by less than 10%. Even if Zhang Yang used {Rearm} to clear all skills' cool down time and repeat the steps again, there was no chance of beating this boss!

Zhang Yang did what he could, tanking to his limit before he decided to hand over the pressure to Tiffany!

Zhang Yang hopped down from Whitey and used {Shadow of the Void} to escape from the battle. He ran 30 meters away from the boss, and then emerged from the void, and quickly started gobbling down his health recovery consumables.

Because the Gold-Eared Bear King was "combined" with Zhang Yang, the pet itself did not carry any aggro from the boss. So, when Zhang Yang escaped from the battle, Tiffany was the one who had the highest aggro in the boss' aggro list. Although Whitey still had a few drops of HP left, it would have definitely been finished off by the boss. Because of Whitey was not targeted by the boss, it was spared.

Zhang Yang came up with a quick idea and commanded Gold-Eared Bear King to activate {Wild Recovery}. The Gold-Eared Bear King started to recover its HP, 5% every second.

Zhang Yang was surprised when he saw Tiffany holding her own solidly beneath the boss' violent, stormy attacks! Her HP bar was holding steady.

Zhang Yang selected Tiffany and looked carefully, realizing that the NPC had a powerful passive ability.

{Soul of Ancestral Blessing}: When attacked, damage is reduced by 90%.

It was like using a {Shield Wall} for the entire battle, oh my god, what a powerful effect!

Zhang Yang recalled that the first Descendant of The Seven Generals, Khrishan was also the only person who did not get poisoned by the witch in the town of Lagguda. Obviously, the Descendants of The Seven Generals carried power in their bloodlines. Although they were not as powerful as their ancestors, they definitely held potent power!

Zhang Yang quickly recovered his HP within a short time and immediately ran towards the boss, using {Charge} to close the distance. After that, he quickly hopped on Whitey and combined both their HP once again.

Although Tiffany's immune ability was outstanding, her attack power was not strong. So, Zhang Yang easily pulled back the boss' aggro.

Zhang Yang activated {Rearm} then launched all surviving skills and used {Shadow of the Void} once again to escape from battle. After that, he continued eating the health recovery cakes to recover his HP at a quiet corner.

Even though Zhang Yang activated {Rearm}, the boss still had more than 80% HP left. Unless his {Shadow of the Void} was cooled down and ready, he would not survive the next charge!

After Zhang Yang recovered his HP bar to full, he took out his shield and dashed towards the boss once again. This time, he did not ride on Whitey and tried to share some aggro and let Tiffany act as the tank.

Even though Tiffany's defense was high, the boss' HP was too long and its HP was hundreds of times Tiffany's! Even if Zhang Yang, Whitey and an NPC, Tiffany combined their attack power, they would not hold out for long. Even Tiffany would not outlast the boss!

Currently, Zhang Yang was looking forward Tiffany to shout something "Eternal life" and use {Berserker's Heal} when she a few drops of HP left and recover her HP bar to full!

The Boss' HP was reducing and the same went for Tiffany. Although her passive ability was outstanding, the boss could still cause about 1,000 points of damage on her for each attack and her 70,000 HP would only last for about two minutes!

10,000… 5,000… 2,000, Tiffany was close to the brink of death!

"Demon, I will destroy you, at any cost!" Tiffany shouted, taking a piece of metal out.

Clenching it tightly, there was a burst of extreme, bright light that emanated from it and quickly surrounded her body!

'Immune!'

'Immune!'

The boss' attacks instantly became useless!

Another additional effect appeared on top of Tiffany's head.

{Ancient Magic Shield}: Immune to all damage, attack power increased by 100%. Lasts for 10 minutes.

10 minutes of invincible effect, this skill was incredible! Zhang Yang thought, the boss must be extremely angry for bumping into such an NPC!

However, that silver metal looks like the [Key Fragment] that Zhang Yang obtained before. It was probably the second [Key Fragment]!

The King of Batman revealed an astounded expression and said, "That is the energy of the Ancients!"

Zhang Yang charged at the boss, unleashing his onslaught.

Tiffany's attack power increased by 100% which could cause much more damage on the boss, at the same time, meaning that she had a solid grip on the aggro now. Zhang Yang could attack the boss as much as he wanted now!

However, even with {Ancient Magic Shield}, close to ten minutes later, the boss still had 2,500,000 HP!

Zhang Yang quickly took out his [Key Fragment] in his backpack and asked, "Tiffany, can you use the power just now once again?"

Tiffany turned around, surprised as she asked, "You also have the [Ancient Fragment]? Quickly, hand it over to me, it will give me some more time!"

The NPC seemed to call the [Key Fragment, [Ancient Fragment]! Zhang Yang immediately threw the fragment to Tiffany.

Again, with a bright burst of light, she had another 10 minutes of immunity!

What an obvious cheat!

The boss would not complain about this and continued acting based on its duty. Its attacks to Tiffany became useless once again!

30%, 20%, 10%... the boss' HP became lesser.

500,000, 300,000, 150,000, 80,000!

King of Batman roared, its wings behind its back were extended and beat frantically. It rose up in the air and shouted, "I will be back!"

Do you think that you are the grey wolf in Happy Lamb and Grey Wolf1?

Zhang Yang gave a roar of rage and launched {Dance of the Heaven and Earth}!

1. Happy Lamb and Grey Wolf is a Chinese animated television series. Grey Wolf/ Wolffy is the main antagonist of the series. His catchphrase (which he utters in one form or another each episode) is "Darn goat! I'll definitely come back/ I'll come back for sure/ I'll be back/ I'll get my revenge!" (Mostly "I'll be back" in later seasons, which is based on The Terminator.).

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Chapter 333: Burrow

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Shush!

A shadow emerged from Zhang Yang's body and formed a shadow which held a rapier. The shadow thrust the rapier rapidly like a flash of light and penetrated the King of Batman's body. Rapid '-10,000' damage texts appeared on top of its head, one after another!

Such a scene would never get boring!

"No!" King of Batman struggled to stay afloat and tried to escape from the devastating attacks. But without invincibility, there was no escaping such an attack!

Within 10 seconds, the boss abruptly lost all its remaining HP!

Bang!

The corpse of King of Batman was sliced up in the air and its blood poured like blood rain. The scene was sanguinary and adrenaline inducing. As always, a moment later, the corpse of the boss came crashing down again, back in one piece. It was just a cinematic effect of the skill.

"The demon is finally dead!" Tiffany felt relieved but expressed some sadness on her face and said, "Our village is finally free from the threat of these vampires! The dead will never be forgotten!"

Zhang Yang, left the NPC to her questline script, and silently shoved all the drops from the boss into his backpack and said, Tiffany, let's go back to the village!"

"Alright!"

Both of them entered the cave and came to the middle of the magic circle. A ray of white light flashed and they were immediately teleported back to the ground which was where the Fountain of Life located at.

"This is the Cyclops' lair?" Tiffany was shocked and asked, "You are a brave warrior, to even defeat the Cyclops. Is it that the gods had mercy on us and sent a savior down to earth?"

They rode on Whitey and rushed towards Alfalfa Village. Zhang Yang took advantage of this opportunity to flip through King of Batman's loots.

The loots included one Yellow-Gold equipment and nine Gray-Silver equipment, this boss was very stingy. However, it was probably due to the fact that Zhang Yang only managed to defeat the boss by relying on an NPC, Tiffany's invincibility skill. In that case, getting a Yellow-Gold piece of equipment wasn't that bad a deal!

Besides, this Yellow-Gold equipment was a Level 70 two handed axe. Even though the two handed axe's attack interval was 3.5 seconds, instead of the perfect 3.8 seconds, it was still a level 70 Yellow-Gold weapon, guaranteed to fetch a good price!

[Axe of Lunar Eclipse] (Yellow-Gold, Two Handed Axe)

Weapon Attack: 1,023 – 1,423

Attack Interval: 3.5 seconds

DPS: 349

Equipment: After hitting on the target, there is 10% chance of obtaining Acuity effect and ignoring 10% defense. Lasts for 10 seconds. The maximum stacked Acuity effect is 3.

Level Requirement: 70

Perhaps he should gift it to Galileo, the main Berserker in the second party of Lone Desert Smoke and also the second S-Class Professional team of Lone Desert Smoke. Although the kid had a Violet-Platinum weapon, that weapon could only be equipped at Level 80. They would be fighting in the Professional League tonight, this axe would definitely help.

Zhang Yang did not even bother to look at the Gray-Silver equipment, as all of them were fated to be sold in Little Merchandize Shop. On the other hand, this boss also dropped an Alchemy recipe which Zhang Yang immediately patted on his body, learning the recipe.

[Troll Recovery Potion] (Consumable)

Use: Restores 100 HP every five seconds. Lasts for an hour.

Level Requirement: 60

This [Troll Recovery Potion] seems normal, 1,200 HP restored within a minute, and 72,000 HP restored within an hour which was slightly higher than Zhang Yang's HP limit. Zhang Yang still had his {Alchemist's Intuition}, the effect of this [Troll Recovery Potion] could not be predicted after transmuted.

Whitey ran like the wind, and finally they reached Alfalfa Village.

"Sister Tiffany!" a small group of children at the gateway of the village spotted them from afar, and came running towards them. They were clapping and cheering.

Tiffany hopped down from Whitey and gently smiled at the children, no wonder those children dreamed of marrying Sister Tiffany.

The rest of the villagers also ran out from the village, relieved when they saw Tiffany. While, Tiffany announced that the King of Batman has been killed, and their village was no longer subject to the threat of vampires. The villagers cheered, tears streaming down some of their faces.

Tiffany brought Zhang Yang to her house, which was a very clean and neat cottage.

"Zhan Yu, this is your [Ancient Fragment]. I'm very sorry, I had extracted the power within this [Ancient Fragment, and you may need hundreds of years to recover the power within it again!" Tiffany handed over the [Key fragments] to Zhang Yang and apologized sincerely.

Zhang Yang pondered internally, the NPC's {Ancient Magic Shield} could only be activate once every hundred years. This skill's cool down time was extremely long, perhaps it was worth the ten minute duration afterall! Zhang Yang took the [Key fragments] and said, "Tiffany, I purposely came from afar to search for fragments similar to this [Ancient Fragment, can you lend me your fragment?"

Tiffany hesitated and smiled as she answered, "Although this was left behind by my ancestor, I will not be able to use it for another hundred years. Besides, our biggest threat, King of Batman is already eliminated and I no longer have any real reason of using it! Since you need this, it is yours!"

Tiffany handed over the second [Key Fragment] to Zhang Yang.

'Ding! You have obtained an item: Dimensional Key Fragment 5!'

Zhang Yang took nearly 10 days to finally obtain the second [Key Fragment]!

"Anyway, Zhan Yu, thank you for saving me!" Tiffany smiled sweetly towards Zhang Yang, she stood on tiptoe and gently kissed Zhang Yang lips.

Her lips were as soft as cotton, and tasted slightly sweet!

'Ding! You have completed the quest: Rescue Tiffany. Gained 5,000,000 Experience Points!"

What a tragedy, no other reward was given to Zhang Yang, it seemed that her kiss was the only reward!

"By the way…" Tiffany took out a book covered with gray-brown leather and handed over to Zhang Yang, "This is a secret skill passed down by my ancestor. I relied on this to escape from the bat's guards. I believe this would assist you greatly!"

'Ding! You have obtained an item: {Burrow}!'

Zhang Yang was stunned. What, {Burrow}?!

[Skill Book: Burrow]

Use: Grants the skill {Burrow}.

Class Requirement: Not limited.

Level Requirement: 70

Bound.

It was really that {Burrow}! The {Burrow}! Zhang Yang had struck the jackpot!

Zhang Yang quickly patted the skill book on his body and learned the skill before viewing the description of the skill.

{Burrow}: Allow you to burrow through the ground but the movement speed is reduced by 50%. Lasts for 10 minutes. Cool down time: 1 hour.

This was a marvelous skill that had some similarities with {Shadow of the Void} which allowed a player to bypass the enemy defense lines and penetrate deeply into enemy hinterland! The differences were that {Shadow of the Void} allowed the player to escape from the battle and increased a player's movement speed, while, {Burrow} just allowed the player to hide in a place from the enemy which the enemy unable to attack the player, besides, the player's movement speed would be reduced by 50%. However, it lasted far longer!

No matter what, Zhang Yang had earned something incredible!

"Zhan Yu, please visit the village if you have time, our Alfalfa Village will always welcome you!" Tiffany said sincerely.

"Alright, I will come when I have time!"

After Zhang Yang got the second [Key Fragment, he did not go to Great Lake Valla immediately to look for the third Descendant of The Seven Generals but directly tore off [Teleportation Scroll] and returned to Thunderstorm Castle, and then teleported back to White Jade Castle.

In an hour's time, Fatty Han and the rest were going to fight for their first S-Class Professional League match, so Zhang Yang was going to be there to support them!

Zhang Yang disconnected from the game and prepared dinner. After feeding three stomachs, Zhang Yang logged into the game.

Currently, the competitions for S-Class and A-Class Professional League were in full swing, the number of people watching the competitions frequently broke a high record which brought a wide range of business attention. This could be expected, as soon after there would be a huge influx of wealthy businessmen coming into 'God's Miracle' to seize the opportunity.

Zhang Yang gave the [Axe of Lunar Eclipse] to Galileo. The young boy was surprised and delighted. He constantly bowed to Zhang Yang and made the people around laugh out loud.

At 7.30 pm, the seventh S-Class Professional League started, Pride and Honor Battle team versus Mugen's Master Cow team.

Fatty Han and his team scored 3–4 for the first seven matches and put themselves at a disadvantage. They also started a party match as the final match which decided the final outcome! Fatty Han knew that he did not have much ability in PvP so he did not join the party match. However, they lacked a real commander candidate. Unfortunately, they lost the party match and their final total score was 3–6, defeated.

Zhang Yang consoled them and greatly praised Galileo as the young little boy definitely had a great potential, he must be a powerful player in the future and it would be a waste not to hone his skills.

Although the second team had lost, Zhang Yang had another piece of good news. One of the fanatic, non PVE players in the guild could finally cook [Snake Meat]!

Zhang Yang quickly threw all the [Snake Meat] he had to a middle-aged uncle who carried the bizarre IGN of "Uncle Susan". After cooking for at least 3 hours, the whole batch of meat was cooked.

[Delicious Snake Meat] (Consumable)

Use: Restore 30,000 HP and 20,000 MP in 20 seconds and increases your dexterity attribute by 50 points. Lasts for 15 minutes. Can only be used under non-combat situation, any movement or combat would disrupt the consuming effect.

Level Requirement: 60

Unfortunately, the additional attribute was dexterity, instead of strength and vitality needed by Warriors. Anyhow, these 50 points of dexterity attribute were free and there was no harm in receiving it!

Zhang Yang rationed the meat and mailed them in separate bulks to Fatty Han, Sun Xin Yu and the rest.

However, Cooking and Fishing were not easy for the players!

Alchemists could concoct potions at an incredibly fast pace. Up to four potions could be produced in one second. However, Cooking and Fishing were totally different, as these two skills completely simulated reality. The time taken to fish and cook was equal to the time taken in real life!

For those players who preferred gaining levels and obtaining best equipment, Cooking and Fishing were definitely a waste of time for them! But there were no exceptions when it came to anything at all, like Uncle Susan. He logged into the game every night to Fish and Cook. It was how he enjoyed the game.

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Chapter 334: Heading for Emerald Island

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As Uncle Susan was cooking the [Snake Meat, Zhang Yang also started making [Troll Recovery Potion].

'Ding! You have made [Troll Recovery Potion] X4!'

…

'Ding! You have made [Troll Recovery Potion] X4. Due to {Alchemist's Intuition}, [Troll Recovery Potion] has become transmuted!'

…

'Ding! Congratulation, your Alchemy mastery has increased to Specialist-level. The number of potion and medicine that can be made at once is increased to six!'

After Zhang Yang's Alchemy mastery became Specialist-level Alchemist, Zhang Yang would not gain any more experience from making any potions and medicines at the current phase, as he required the learning of new recipes or the gathering of new herbs to continue increasing his mastery. He would only worry about this when he reaches level 90.

[Troll Recovery Potion (Transmute 2)] (Consumable)

Use: Restore 100 HP every five seconds. When you are hit, there is 3% chance of restoring 10% HP. Lasts for 1 hour.

Level Requirement: 60

The chance for [Troll Recovery Potions] to be transmuted was very low. Although Zhang Yang had made about 1,000 potions, only six potions were transmuted. Among the six transmuted potions, the highest transmuted level was 5 and its additional effect was that when the player is hit, there is a 3% chance of restoring 25% HP.

If the ratio remained the same, a transmutation of level 10 would restore 50% HP!

Unfortunately, the chance for the potion to be transmuted was too low! But this was understandable, as the Lifesteal effect was too godly, so the number of the transmuted [Troll Recovery Potion] had to be strictly limited.

Zhang Yang distributed most of the non-transmuted [Troll Recovery Potion] to Sun Xin Yu and the rest of the main force members. Zhang Yang also teleported back to Thunderstorm Castle and planned to head for the Great Lake Valla to look for the third Descendant of The Seven Generals.

Whitey ran like lightning and travelled through the dense woods. Zhang Yang suddenly received a voice chat from Li Ru.

"Hello, hero Zhang, come over and help me tank a boss, I have a quest to complete!"

Li Ru was Zhang Yang's ex-classmate, so he immediately complied with her request. After Li Ru had joined Lone Desert Smoke, she had not asked him for any help. It was a small favor, so he had no problems helping out. However, Zhang Yang happened to be in a party with Wei Yan Er at that time, and since she would ask a million questions, he did not join Li Ru's party but asked Li Ru about her coordinates. Upon receiving them, he patted Whitey and directly rushed towards her location.

Currently, Li Ru was Level 53, and was still training at the Burning Flatlands. It was the pace of a casual player.

Zhang Yang ran for about two hours to reach the destination. However, Li Ru and her party members had gone to clear the minions for leveling while waiting for Zhang Yang. So, Zhang Yang waited for them a while at the destination then only he saw four players with mount were rushing towards him.

Besides Li Ru, the rest of three members were male players and Zhang Yang could see those three players were interested in Li Ru as they were competing to stay next to Li Ru.

Life of Seeking Love, Broadsword Lord and Stylish Pig were those three male players' names. All of them were Guardians, which was puzzling. Three tanks and one spellcaster, what kind of party arrangement was that?

The three men looked at Zhang Yang, their eyes were obviously full of hostility and alerted.

They seemed to treat everyone who appeared around Li Ru as potential love rivals because their facial expression showed that they wanted Zhang Yang to leave as soon as possible.

"Zhang Yang, let me introduce you my three supervisors in my company. I do not need to mention their names!" Li Ru walked next to Zhang Yang and gave him a teasing smile which made Life of Seeking Love and the other two slightly twitched their lips.

Finally Zhang Yang understood the three men intentions, they were not just wanted to pursuit a beauty but also yearned for Li Ru's huge assets. If they courted Li Ru, they could own the company. They would fulfill their careers and love lives at the same time!

Zhang Yang had no mood wrangling with these jealousy men and he smiled as he said, "Where is the boss, hurry up, let's go kill the boss. I still have other quests to do!"

"We waited for you about two hours and we never utter a word, what are you rushing for?!" Broadsword Lord was the first to trigger the wrangle as he could not bear the way Li Ru looked at Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang only threw a faint smile and did not bother with the man any longer.

Li Ru said, "It is around here, is a Gray-Silver boss. You can handle it alone, right?"

This Burning Flatlands was Level 50 map, the highest level of Gray-Silver boss was Level 60. Zhang Yang was already used to killing Level 70 Gray-Silver bosses by himself. This would be a hitch! He grinned and answered, "I will give it a try!"

"Hey, don't just spout out hot air, we do not want to die with you!" this time, Stylish Pig tried to trigger the wrangle. These three persons were obviously hostile to each other but once Zhang Yang appeared, they tentatively formed an alliance and allied to gang up on Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang gave them a half-hearted smile. If Zhang Yang had not hidden his profile to prevent the in-game paparazzi, these three males would definitely have a very different attitude now! Zhang Yang was starting to get annoyed, but kept his calm demeanor and said, "Let's go to the boss!"

The boss was a giant wolf with silver white body, Level 55 with 550,000 HP but it had 10 followers and all of them were Level 53 normal monsters. No wonder Li Ru and the rest dared not fight the boss, as there were 11 of them. Even if Li Ru's party had a healer, they would still face trouble.

Zhang Yang just wanted to complete the quest as fast as possible and then leave, so he immediately patted Whitey and dashed towards that bunch of monsters. He swung his sword and launched attacks.

"Idiot!" those three persons shook their head again and again.

{Horizontal Sweep} launched which coincidentally stimulated [Dark Enigmatic Sword]'s special effect. Those monsters instantly killed and all defeated.

Broadsword Lord and the other two men were suddenly stunned when they saw Zhang Yang's super high damage.

Zhang Yang did not even want to waste time entertaining them. Zhang Yang swung his sword and drastically depleted the silver wolf boss' HP.

Silver wolf boss' basic attack was less than 4,000. When it struck Zhang Yang, it could only cause about 1,000 damage. So, Zhang Yang only used {Berserker's Heal} once and then defeated the boss as fast as a lightning.

"I'm leaving!" Zhang Yang took out [Teleportation Scroll] and quickly teleported back to Thunderstorm Castle.

"Sh*tty Zhang Yang, I purposely wanted to make you jealous by using those three guys, but now you are making me mad!" Li Ru immediately spoke to Zhang Yang via voice chat.

"Why would you do that? We are old classmates, we should just leave it at that?" Zhang Yang said.

"Hmph, I will think of other ways to seduce you again!" Li Ru unwillingly disconnected the voice chat.

Zhang Yang did not think about it any further and rushed back to the Great Lake Valla once again.

The map name, Great Lake Valla, was 90% in a huge lake called Lake Valla. Level 70 maps were quite large and this Lake Valla was like an ocean. Besides, there were about 10 islands in the lake, small patches of evenly distributed land.

The Descendant of The Seven Generals that Zhang Yang was looking for was in one of these islands and the descendant's name was Khrishan.

The characters in 'God's Miracle' knew how to swim since the dawn of their creation, but they still swam much slower than they ran. The swimming speed was 10% of the character's normal running speed and it was not even worth comparing to the speed of mounts!

If a player used such a slow speed, like a turtle to find the NPC, it would take too long. Besides that, players could also tire out, swimming all the way would not cut it!

Zhang Yang pulled on the reins of Whitey and ran around the lake to look for a transport.

Two hours later, Zhang Yang reached a small fishing village, and he found an old fisherman at a small pier.

"Old man, I would like to rent a boat for sailing, is there a ferry here?" Zhang Yang asked the fisherman.

Old fisherman looked up, glanced at Zhang Yang and asked, "Where do you want to go?"

"Emerald Island!"

Old fisherman thought for a while and showed two fingers as he said, "20 gold coins!"

"Alright!" Zhang Yang. He did not bother bargaining, unlike what Fatty Han would do. Time was money, and every second spared was money saved. Fatty Han could haggle with anything and anyone that moved for ages!

Old fisherman immediately showed all five of his fingers and said, "The price goes up, 50 gold coins!"

F*ck!

Zhang Yang took out the [Dark Enigmatic Sword] and remained silent, running a thumb down the blade.

"Just 20 gold coins, hahaha, 20 gold coins" the old fisherman immediately backed down.

Zhang Yang boarded the fishing boat, and paid the gold coins. The old fisherman opened up the sail and brought Zhang Yang into Lake Valla.

Although it was a sail boat, its speed was comparable with the nuclear-powered destroyer. About half an hour later, Zhang Yang saw a huge island within his sight.

"Behold, Emerald Island!" the old fisherman said.

At that moment, a tide of white, foamy water rolled towards them. Only after a moment, only did they realize that it was actually a three meter tall wave rushing directly at them!

Bang!

The billow hit them and the fishing boat instantly capsized. Zhang Yang and the old fisherman fell into the lake.

The wave sent Zhang Yang 10 meters away from the point of impact. Zhang Yang popped his head out of the water, spluttering. He had no idea where the wave could have come from, as it was a calm, sunny day.

"Ah!" that old fisherman broke the surface of the water, and immediately cried out in despair, "My boat! My boat!"

Retribution for greed!

Zhang Yang swam towards the island in front of him, ignoring the old man!

'-1,342!'

As Zhang Yang was swimming, pain lashed across his leg, and a damage text immediately appeared above his head! He quickly took a dive but he could only see the blurry lake water around him. When he turned around, suddenly, a huge snake eel, four meters long, as thick as a human leg appeared in front of him. The snake eel's body was a shiny, silvery color, and dangling from its lower jaw was a long beard!

[Shiny Silver Snake Eel] (Elite, Beast)

Level: 73

HP: 73,000

Defense: 400

At this moment, that Shiny Silver Snake Eel nimbly flitted around Zhang Yang and bit his elbow.

'{Block}!'

Zhang Yan quickly counterattacked. Because the old fisherman wanted Zhang Yang to pay another 100 gold coins as a sailing fee if Gold-Eared Bear King was summoned, so Gold-Eared Bear King was currently tucked away in his bag. As a result, Zhang Yang's attack power was slightly reduced.

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Chapter 335: The Missing Daughter

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Having accumulated a sufficient amount of rage points, Zhang Yang flung a {Blast Wave} forward and took advantage of the 4-second stun on the monster to summon out Whitey.

The man and the bear joined forces on the battlefield, or rather, battlewaters, instantly inflicting an extreme amount of damage on the Shiny Silver Snake Eel.

But, it would be no surprise for one given a name such as a Snake Eel to have the characteristics of both eel and snake. Not only could the monster electrify it's target, it also had the ability to use poison. Electrification caused 5,000 points of elemental damage and also paralyzes the target for 2 seconds; while the ability to poison actually had a damage over time (DoT) effect, inflicting a total of 3,000 elemental damage points. However, the poison effect was unstackable.

Paralysis and the stun effects were basically the same, players could not move under both conditions, they were as irritating as ever! Zhang Yang was basically immune to the poison effect, thanks to his equipment.

After a short battle against the sea and the creature, Zhang Yang finally slayed the Snake Eel, and loots dropped from the elite monster. However, he only received two pieces of [Shiny Fish Scales] which were only worth 50 to 60 copper pieces. He threw them away without second thought.

As he was now swimming to Emerald Island, it was inevitable for Zhang Yang to battle countless Snake Eels and their kin. As a result, he had acquired countless fish scales!

As humans were relatively poor swimmers, Zhang Yang spent more than half an hour to reach the land of the island. After he arrived at the shore of the island, he turned around and saw piles of dead Snake Eel bodies all lying on the shallows, it was a horrifying sight.

The surroundings of Emerald Island is covered in an emerald forest. From afar, players could see that the place is like a piece of Emerald jade, hence the name 'Emerald'.

Zhang Yand rode on Whitey and began his search in the forest. But the island was shockingly big and vast, as large as the level 20 to level 30 maps! After exploring around for a long time, Zhang Yang finally discovered a manor by the far north side of the island.

The manor was extremely large, and right behind it was a large garden. The stone fort was five stories tall. Right by the entrance of the manor, there were four guards doing their jobs with dedication.

The moment the guards detected the presence of Zhang Yang, one of the guards went up front to Zhang Yang and questioned him, "Who are you?"

These four guards are Level 70 NPCs, normal grade, but their names were in green, meaning that they were friendly towards all players.

Zhang Yang did a salute and said, "I am Zhan Yu. An adventurer from the White Jade Castle!"

"Adventurer, you said?" The four guards were looking at each other and one of them later said, "Since you are an adventurer, you must be available for hiring! Our lord's daughter has been missing for a few days now, and although our lord had sent many in search for her, none had managed to find her! If you can find our lord's daughter, he will handsomely reward you!"

Zhang Yang was not given the opportunity to decline, one of the guards had already led Zhang Yang with much enthusiasm into the manor, then into the castle, and then up to a study room on the the second floor.

There was a sturdy man right behind a study table, he was large and tall, and he is a Descendant of The Seven Generals - Khrishan!

[Khrishan] (Yellow-Gold Leader, Humanoid Creature)

Level: 78

HP: 7,800,000

Defense: 1,400

"Dear adventurer, I believe that you have heard from my men, that my daughter Meryl has gone missing! Young man, please do me a favor, and bring me back my daughter, I will definitely pay you a great sum!" Khrishan informed.

'Ding! Khrishan has given you a quest: The Missing Daughter, accept or decline?'

It seems that the only option was to accept the quest! Although players can forcefully attack and kill Friendly NPCs, there won't be any experience points or loots from such acts.

To be able to acquire rewards from NPCs with green names, players can only follow the script and instructions obediently in order to complete the quests. However, if there was a change due to the events of the quests, or a cinematic cutscene, the NPCs can then switch their names from green to yellow or red, and players can slay them to get rewards!

Zhang Yang accepted the quest and left the manor. He brought up the quest list before him to check if there were any instructions given on the quest he just received.

[The Missing Daughter] (Difficulty: B-rank)

Description: The beloved daughter of Khrishan, Meryl has gone missing, you must find her as quick as possible! The wilderness is just too dangerous for a little girl!

Tips: Meryl loves to travel over to the south of the island by the cliff called the Heaven's Wave to look at the sea, you might find some useful clues and trails to follow.

Completion: Find Meryl 0/1

Zhang Yang immediately rode towards the south direction, going through a few dense forest growths before he arrived at the south side of the Emerald Island.

This so called Heaven's Wave was just about ten meters high, and Zhang Yang went on around the surrounding and discovered a vague glow on one side of the ground, so he approached it and took a closer look on the spot to find out that it was a pearl of a necklace. It seemed that the pearl had broken off a necklace.

'Ding! You found the broken necklace of Meryl, she must have gotten herself into some sort of accident. Please look around, there might be other clues around.'

Searching a little more closely around the vast area, Zhang Yang found another pearl soon after. By searching around, locating one pearl at a time, he followed the trail of 'breadcrumbs'. He picked up the pearls he found and followed the trail, leading him to an area of water. If he continued to go forward, he would be walking straight into the water already!

In reality, people could have easily set this up, but you can always trust the cliche plotline of a game! Zhang Yang jumped right into the lake and dove into the water. As he had the [Lungs of the Mermaid, he could breath underwater without having to worry about drowning in the water.

After some searching around, he uncovered a cave entrance about four or five meters down under the water. Immediately he swam towards it and entered the cave. The cave was dark and deep, and Zhang Yang swam for approximately two minutes before he saw a glimpse of light right above the surface of the water, before he swam up to the surface.

Right before him was an island within an island, and a beach right before Zhang Yang. There were crabs that were as large as cows creeping around the beach, crabwalking around, they clicked their mandibles and brandished their pincers menacingly.

[Giant Pincer Crab] (Elite, Beast)

Level: 75

HP: 75,000

Defense: 400

The moment when Zhang Yang set foot onto the beach, a Giant Pincer Crab nearby began to wave it's large pincers around and charged towards him.

{Block}!

"Chichichi--" The Giant Pincer Crab began to spit bubbles out, as its two eyes swiveled around to look at Zhang Yang, trying to crush him within its pincers!

"You big crab! Just rest in peace by the beach!" Zhang Yang spun with his sword and ran right between the two pincers, causing burst of sparks.

After exhausting the monster's health point down to 5% left, that Giant Pincer Grab began to spread it's legs in attempt to flee. Zhang Yang immediately flipped onto Whitey and pursued, and in just a matter of seconds, he caught up with it and emptied out the remaining health points of the crab without much effort. But as the crab was running, they had attracted the aggro of two other Giant Pincer Crabs, which gave chase.

Zhang Yang did not have the time to recover at the moment, so he simply turned around and met them with his blade. It was fortunate that the first monster only managed to reduce his health points by less than 10,000 points, so he did not have to worry about not being able to handle the coming battle, not at all!

After a short while, the two Giant Pincer Grabs were near death, and they began to flee like the first one, attracting the other Giant Pincer Crabs in the surroundings.Before Zhang Yang could break free from battle he had to slay dozens of them, clearing up a whole plot of land!

Having to fight so many monsters in a row, he had activated a few of his life-saving skills which had long cool down periods. After slaying all the monsters pursuing him, Zhang Yang immediately sat down on the beach and consumed [Snacks] to recover his status.

20 seconds later, Zhang Yang was fully recovered.

These Giant Pincer Crabs dropped [Clam Shells] which can be opened up for other items such as clam meats. Of course, there was a certain low rate that players might get pearls from the [Clam Shells]. Pearls can be used to craft some special potions, and only can be obtained from opening a [Clam Shell, so it can be categorized as a 'Rare' item.

Zhang Yang cleared the monsters that stood in his path, and along his way, he managed to pick up a total of 78 [Clam Shells, but he only obtained 3 [Small Pearls] out of all the [Clam Shells].

After getting through the defense line of the beach, he arrived at a sea of reef rocks, and there were many monsters with lobster-like lower bodies and humanoid upper bodies. These monsters were holding long spears while patrolling around the area.

Are these the 'legendary' shrimp soldiers and crab generals1? Zhang Yang thought cynically.

[Red-Tailed Lobster Man] (Elite, Beast)

Level: 76

HP: 76,000

Defense: 400

What else to do? Just slay them all!

Fortunately, although these were just 'shrimp soldiers', the Lobster monsters were far more combative than the Giant Pincer Crabs, all of them stayed and fight to their deaths, none of them fled, none!

However, there were so many of them that even a night of fighting did not clear the area. He could only log out of the game to train his physical body. It was his old habit, and old habits die hard.

He jogged around the small housing area. Although February is still a cold month with cold weather that makes the air cold to breath in, but Zhang Yang was still wearing very little while jogging out. He only wore a sport t-shirt which prominently showed his sturdy and solid body. It was not clear how many lonely wives had set their thirsty eyes upon the sight of him running around!

The women that live in the area can be mainly categorized into two types, the rich types, and the mistress-type. These mistresses are basically 'taken in' by old men, so they certainly lacked satisfaction in certain aspects. Seeing a sturdy and strong man like Zhang Yang jogging around their neighborhood, 'triggered' their lust.

After Zhang Yang returned back to Han Ying Xue's house, he recalled being eye-raped by those 'hungry' women and felt an intense shiver down his spine. If he had jogged a little slower, some of those 'hungry' women might have already caught up to him. He had already encountered too many of 'those eyes' in the bar, during his previous life.

Back inside the house, Zhang Yang saw Wei Yan Er wearing just a small T-Shirt along with a small pair of thongs with a picture of a cute bear on the front. She was yawning while walking towards the bathroom. Although the boobies of this little girl were not fully developed yet, her two thighs were long and smooth, and her complexion was crystal clear, she somehow looked far better than most of the so-called 'beauty-leg' models!

Zhang Yang felt a sense of shame and guilt, so he quickly turned away and said, "Little girl, there's a man in your house, please take care of your image!" Although he would always take the opportunity to run his eyes over a beauty, Wei Yan Er was already like a little sister to him, so just having the thought of it would make him guilty.

"Groot groot groot!" Wei Yan Er was rinsing her mouth with water, she only spoke after awhile, "Aren't you my brother-in-law? You won't be such an animal that you would 'eat' us two sisters right?"

"... when did I become your brother-in-law?"

"Wa, noob tank, so now, are you denying it all after you have accepted the 'goods'?" Wei Yan Er reached her head out from the bathroom, "Cousin sister already told me everything!"

That witch, unreliable witch! She said that she would keep the secret into her grave, but the moment she turned around, she already began to betray him!

Zhang Yang let out a breath of sigh and put the soya drink and the deep-fried dough sticks onto the table. He was already used to eating these, he was totally not a fan of the "American" breakfast of fried eggs - sunny side up and toast. When he moved into Han Ying Xue's house, he had also brought along his habit and supplies, so Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er had 'picked it up' from him after their first try on the soya drink and the deep-fried dough sticks. Nowadays, Zhang Yang would go out early to buy some breakfast from the shops two streets away. He just treated this as a regular morning jog everyday.

As Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er was talking to each other, Han Ying Xue also walked right in. She was also wearing a T-shirt and a pair of tight pants, which was much better compared to that little girl. However, the main point was that maybe she wasn't fully awake yet, or she was doing it on purpose, her tatas were set free! Braless! The pair of two round spherical objects that she was so proud of were 'towering' right in front of Zhang Yang's eyes, and the outline of the tips that seemed to be trying to drill their way out through the fabric poked out prominently!

"Pff--" Zhang Yang choked and spurted the soya drink out from his mouth, and the choke got him good, causing him to cough continuously.

It's not decent to seduce people like that!

"Hey Witch, please wear your bra, you're going to burn holes in your shirt!" Zhang Yang spluttered.

Han Ying Xue straightened her back, throwing out her massive pair and smiled sweetly at Zhang Yang, "At least your eyes are getting 'moist' aren't they?"

"... They'll sag if you don't support them anytime soon."

Shocked, she silently turned around and walked into her room.

Wei Yan Er had also changed her clothes and sat steadily by Zhang Yang's side, and then she winked and whispered dramatically, "Noob tank, you really are doomed, she's going to 'eat' you alive!"

Zhang Yang frowned with sweat running down all over his head, he had not even claimed full payment from Yu Li yet, and now he has to face Han Ying Xue. Meanwhile, Sun Xin Yu has been looking at him kinda funny! The thought came across that there was a 1% chance of him sleeping with her, but he suddenly calmed himself down, the percentage of sleeping with her is obviously so much lower than the chance that he would end up with a bullet in his head!

As for Lin Yu, he did not pay much mind on her.

He had enough women on his mind, he did not need to find trouble for no reason!

Well, nevermind, the cart will find its way around the hill when it gets there2, he need not pay so much mind on it now!

Zhang Yang logged into the game and continued slaughtering those poor Lobster Men until six in the evening, and finally, he managed to clear a path to the ancient ruins of a palace.

This ancient palace had been destroyed, and all that was left were the broken walls of the palace. Zhang Yang could see a huge statue made of stone being placed right in the middle of the entire area. The statue took the form of male mermaid, having a macho upper body, muscular and hot, like popstar icons, holding a trident in both of his hands, while the lower body was a fish's body, but it was blocked by some of the broken walls around, so Zhang Yang could not see the entire lower body of the statue.

Zhang Yang took out his [Dark Enigmatic Sword] and charged towards the statue on Whitey.

Shoof!

The moment he set foot into the area of the palace, an arrow came straight at him! Ranged attack cannot be countered with {Block}, so the arrow inflicted a damage of '-1371' onto Zhang Yang.

At the same instant, the attacker that shot the arrow at Zhang Yang walked out into the light. It was a female Naga, with a human upper body and a snake's body as her lower body part. She looked just like the elves, and her face tattooed with their clan markings. She held a long bow in her arm, and she was loading up another arrow, ready to shoot!

[Screeching Siren] (Elite, Humanoid Creature)

Level: 77

HP: 77,000

Defense: 400

Having no time at all to hesitate, Zhang Yang immediately patted Whitey and ran behind cover.

The Screeching Siren let out a deafening screech, sending a cone of wave-like patterned attack at Zhang Yang.

'-1342!'

That attack did a number of damage on Zhang Yang, and at the same instant, it pushed Zhang Yang 5 meters backward.

Screeching Siren took that moment of advantage to reposition herself and let her arrow fly, and it did another 1000 damage onto Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang brought up the battle logs to find that this monster was capable of using {Sonic Screech}, which inflicts one round of damage to the target and pushes the target 5 meters backward!

Whitey immediately charged back up and Zhang Yang instantly countered the upcoming attacks from the monster.

It was fortunate for Zhang Yang that the rate of {Sonic Screech} used by the Screeching Siren was that high, and the damage inflicted by hunter-type monsters will reduce when players get within melee range. In a nutshell, this Screeching Siren is almost similar to the DPS of a Red-Tailed Lobster Man.

After taking out the Screeching Siren, Zhang Yang continued to push forward. But the next monsters that appeared right before Zhang Yang was a Male Naga, holding a long spear in both hands, and it was obvious that this monster is a warrior type monster!

1. Shrimp soldiers and crab generals - numerous underlings; ineffective troops

2. The cart will find its way round the hill when it gets there - things will eventually sort themselves out

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Chapter 336: Mermaids

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[Screeching Naga Warrior] (Elite, Humanoid Creature)

Level: 77

HP: 77,000

Defense: 400

It's attributes were similar to the Screeching Siren, and it was also capable of using {Sonic Screech}. However, it was a warrior type monster that can perform both ranged attacks and melee attacks, unlike the Screeching Siren that was poor in melee combat! This instantly gave Zhang Yang a small headache. But he took care of it swiftly.

Along the way, approaching slowly towards the center of the palace, any Naga monsters that appeared within Zhang Yang's sight were all put down to the ground by his sword.

Normally, humanoid monsters dropped clothing ingredients, but Nagas were categorized as abnormal types! Instead of dropping clothes, they dropped {Clam Shells}, and Zhang Yang acquired quite a number of pearls from all the {Clam Shells} that he collected.

Half an hour later, he finally arrived at the front of the statue that is located in the middle of the palace. He finally got a good look at it. At the bottom of the statue was a large, round fountain. Although the palace was already abandoned for a very long time, the fountain was still functioning, the sound of water giving a soothing effect.

Splash!

A girl came out from the water in the fountain, silky long hair in black that censored her otherwise naked snow-white body! Her skin was like the finest jade ever, smooth and fine. Only two pieces of shell covered up her boobies like a bra, protecting the pair of significant existence that stood round and tall on her chest.

[Meryl] (Normal, Humanoid Creature)

Level: 70

HP: 7000

Defense: 70

She leaned by the base pool of the fountain, resting her face on her arm as if she was thinking of something.

There were also many female Nagas roaming around the surrounding of that fountain and they seemed to be guarding the place. It was most probably that they were trying to prevent Meryl from running off, because every one of the monsters looked sharp and vigilant, trying to look out for any suspicious activities around!

To save Meryl, Zhang Yang knew that he had to slay all the monsters in the surrounding!

Zhang Yang patted on Whitey's head and charge onward to engage with those weaker monsters around. Because the skill {Sonic Screech} that these monsters had dragged out battles longer than they should have been, Zhang Yang could not efficiently slay the monsters, and so, it took him about an hour to clear all the monsters.

If he only opened up a path straight to the fountain without taking out all the monsters, he would definitely be swarmed up by the monsters when he is rescuing the NPC. By then, it would have become one against one hundred! Zhang Yang is skillful, but he knew he wasn't capable of going against a bunch of Level 70 monsters at the same instance, unless -- he had a full set of [Armor set] of Level 80 Violet-platinum grade equipment, he could cut corners!

In his previous life, Zhang Yang had experienced a few similar situations, and he had ran in blindly, without thinking about the consequences! With the experience of a veteran, he knew that he had to do this the hard way.

Slash!

Clearing up the surrounding of the fountain, Zhang Yang struck down the last Naga with his sword, and the monster dropped a piece of Black-Steel grade [Boots]! He could not help himself but to be shocked by it, a Black-Steel equipment, it's been so long ever since he saw one!

After clearing all the monsters around the area, he could finally move on to rescuing the NPC.

Zhang Yang approached the fountain on Whitey, and saw that Meryl was resting by the pool of the fountain. But then, she was awoken by the heavy foot steps of Whitey, and with a face of confused expression, she raised her head up and looked around with her sharp eyes.

The moment she saw Zhang Yang and Whitey, Meryl began to panic, and instantly, she opened up her mouth and began to scream on a supersonic frequency, "Ah--".

Fortunately, the monsters in the surrounding had been cleared out by Zhang Yang, it was a wise move indeed. Her scream would have attracted all the monsters towards them!

Zhang Yang quickly tried to calm her down, "Don't be scared, I'm not a bad person. I've been sent by your father to rescue you."

Meryl only glanced at Zhang Yang as she continued to scream at a deafening frequency.

Should he just pick this little girl up and run all the way back? Zhang Yang took a few steps forward, and Meryl quickly she swam to the middle of the fountain, terrified.

Splash!

The large tail of a fish broke through the surface of the water, the scales of the tail pinkish in colour, and the fish body was extremely beautiful, it was like anything he had ever seen!

Zhang Yang was left with his eyes and mouth opened wide, because, the fish tail is attached to the upper body of Meryl!

Meryl had finally exposed her true form in front of Zhang Yang, with her upper body being a very pretty human girl, while her lower body was the pinkish body of a fish!

-- A Mermaid!

Meryl was actually a beautiful mermaid!

Zhang Yang was confused by the situation, so what kind of transformation is this? What a twist!

Meryl stared at Zhang Yang in alarm, then she began to ask, "Who are you? The guards, there should be guards outside, what did you do to them?"

... Is Meryl really the daughter of that Krishan? Well, Meryl is a mermaid, she would be kin to those Nagas, Lobster Men and the other creatures of the sea.

And of course, Meryl might be a half-blooded mermaid or human or whatsoever, because her mother might have been a mermaid as well, with her father was a human.

"I'm Zhan Yu, an adventurer from the White Jade Castle. When I came across the Emerald Island, I was recruited by your father Krishan to locate you on purpose." Zhang Yang explained to Meryl. As for the Naga guards outside, he did not mention them at all. It was obvious that Meryl is related to these sea creatures. To inform her that he slaughtered them all... It's better to bring that secret to his grave.

Meryl looked at Zhang Yang, and then she closed both of her eyes and shook her head gently, and said, "I can feel that what you are telling me is true. But Zhan Yu, I don't want to go back to that so-called 'home' anymore, please take your leave!"

If he couldn't bring Meryl back to Krishan, then Zhang Yang will never be able to complete his quest, and he will never get his hands on the 3rd piece of the shattered fragment of the key!

So Zhang Yang tried get a better understanding of the situation first, "Milady Meryl, can you tell me why wouldn't you agree to go home?"

Meryl hesitated for a moment before she began to talk, "Alright, you seem like an upright person, so allow me to tell you a story."

She swam back to the side of the pool, pushed her hands against the side of the pool and leaned against the side of the pool. Then she rested her pretty chin on her arm as she slapped the water with her pinkish tail by the side of the pool, which was constructed with white jade stones.

"My mother, Siniia was a princess of the Merfolks race, and she was the most beautiful woman among all mermaids in the entire race! 17 years ago, as she swam up to the surface of a lake while a storm hit by, she was washed away by the wind and waves to a shore of an island, close to death! At that time, Krishan appeared and he saved my mother!"

Wasn't this a fairy tail story where the prince rescued a mermaid princess, making a touching story that made people sing and cry over it? The only difference was that, Krishan is not a prince.

The water droplets on Meryl's body began to dry up, as Zhang Yang stared, that pinkish fish tail of hers began to transform into two long snow-white legs. Of course, the 'important' part was covered up with a seashell.

She knelt down on the side of the pool and hugged her knees, then she continued to tell the story, "There is a rule for every single one of the Merfolks. If any of us is saved by human, we must fulfill one request of the human who save us. What Krishan requested was to take my mother as his wife! However, my mother had already fallen in love with someone else, and she had already pregnant with me in her womb!"

So now the story has twisted from a prince being not a prince in the story, and now being a bad person who tried to take away other people's wife-to-be!

"My mother begged Krishan to pick another request , but Krishan would not listen! We had to keep the oaths and promises we swore, so my mother had no choice but to marry Krishan!"

Meryl spoke out with a heavy sense of sorrow.

So now Krishan became the 'big bad boss' all of a sudden. From the looks of it, to acquire the fragment of the key, Zhang Yang need not complete the quest that was given by Krishan. All he had to do was to wait for Krishan to turn into an 'enemy' against him and just slaughter him to get that fragment of the key!

"Zhang Yu, can you tell me, is it right or wrong to up hold one's oath?" My mother insisted on upholding her oath, and she ended up living her remaining life in sorrow, washing her cheeks with her own tears everyday, and she passed away at an early age, just like that!" Meryl looked at Zhang Yang with her moist, pretty pair of eyes.

Zhang Yang gave some thoughts about it and said, "It depends on what kind of person are you holding your oath on for! If the person is decent, of course you must uphold your oath for that person! But if the person is bad, upholding the oath would only mean hurting yourself!"

Meryl pulled Zhang Yang's arm over and begged, "So, please don't take me back to that place! Krishan is not my father, but the murderer of my mother! He kept my mother locked in the manor and never let her venture out, because he was worried that my mother would escape!"

"After my mother passed away, his intentions were made clear, he wanted to make me his wife instead! I could only escape during the night and I managed to reach the Merfolks race and begged them to look for my real father to take me back!"

So the truth had been told! But Zhang Yang still had an unsolved question in his mind, so he asked, "If you are willing to go with the Merfolks race, then why did you leave a trail back there with the fragments of your necklaces, the pearls for me to follow?"

Meryl shook her head and said, "Those are not my doing, it should be one of the guards that were ordered by Krishan to follow me! He followed us all the way to the entrance of the cave, that was where he got caught by Gethelo and got imprisoned in a cell. But none of us had thought that he had actually left a trail that would lead you here!"

Just as Zhang Yang and Meryl were speaking, footsteps could be heard suddenly, it was Khrishan and five other elite-grade guards walking into the scene. They immediately surrounded Zhang Yang.

"Adventurer, good job. You have found my daughter for me! Take this, this is your handsome rewards!" Khrishan took out a bag of gold and threw it at Zhang Yang, "Now you may leave!"

Pak, the bag of gold reached Zhang Yang's hands. It was bulgy and there was probably hundreds of gold coins in it.

'Ding! You have completed a quest: The Missing Daughter, acquired 1,000,000 experience points!'

"Warrior, please don't go!" Meryl had lost herself the moment she saw Khrishan, and she quickly sought aid from Zhang Yang in desperation, "Protect me until my real father arrives to get me! Wise, just adventurer, please, lend me your aid!"

'Ding! Meryl has given you a quest: Buying Time, accept or decline?"

Accept.

[Delaying Time] (Difficulty: A-rank)

Description: Buy enough time until the Prince of the Merfolks arrives to aid! Tips: One of the statues within the fountain contains a secret passage, there are numerous traps along the passage, they should provide advantageous effects to your quest!

Completion: Make sure that Meryl is not taken away within 30 minutes 0/1

Zhang Yang reread the quest again and again, and then he whispered to Meryl, "Meryl, quickly, go to one of the statues located at the center of the fountain and look for a secret passage!"

"Alright." Meryl followed his instructions and swam back into the fountain pool, leaving a line of water line behind her. She swam to the center position of the fountain where the statues were located and began her search for the secret passage.

Khrishan was enraged, then he spoke, "Adventurer, are you trying to be funny with me?"

Zhang Yang pulled out his [Dark Enigmatic Sword] and pointed at Khrishan, "You low-life sadist, not only did you force another man's wife to marry you, driving her to death, now you actually intend to marry her daughter! Bastards like you shouldn't be left alive! Pui!"

"You bastard! How dare you curse me, the great Khrishan! Kill him, kill him now!" Khrishan raised up his hand and gave the order, and the five elite-grade guards immediately charged at Zhang Yang!

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Chapter 337: Buying Time

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Krishan immediately turned from being a green-named NPC to a red-named boss monster! Meanwhile, he gained two extra effects on him.

[Twisted Heart: Attack increased by 1000%, immune to all damage, last for 30 minutes.

[Arrogance: Movement speed reduced by 50%, however, recover 10% movement speed for every guard dying in battle, last for 30 minutes.

30 minutes of invincibility, game-breaking attack, reduced movement speed. The main idea of the quest was clear: Buying Time! Let's not talk about Zhang Yang for the moment, the system is fair and will not allow any players to have the chance to slack while doing a quest, not even in a quest that requires hundreds or thousands of players to complete, no player shall be able to take advantage of any quests!

Meanwhile, the five elite guards were granted an additional effect {Pursue} on each of them, having their movement speed increased by 100%, lasting for 30 minutes!

Zhang Yang turned around and began to run! He ran around the fountain and began to play 'hide and seek' with the five elite guards. The five monsters were the 'keys' in keeping the restriction on Krishan's movement speed, so he should not even kill any single one of them! Or else, Krishan would regain his regular speed, destroy Zhang Yang!

The five guards were pursuing Zhang Yang closely, while Khrishan headed towards Meryl.

Zhang Yang was shocked to see Krishan walking towards Meryl. Immediately he jumped into the fountain pool and began to swim towards Meryl as well.

"Found it!" just when things were getting tense, Meryl suddenly found the switch and she shouted with excitement, 'Ka! Ka! Ka!', the bottom of one statue suddenly cracked right open, and right in front of Meryl was a secret passage. The entrance of the passage was extremely small and tight, it seemed that only one person could go in.

"Go in!" Zhang Yang cried frantically. This was one instance where his combat prowess would not be of any use at all.

"There's no water in the passage, I can't get in!" Meryl looked at Zhang Yang hopelessly.

-- a mermaid's tail will only transform into a pair of legs when there is no water at all, and the passage was completely dry!

Zhang Yang had already swam to the side of Meryl, so he picked her up on his back and began to squeeze into the passage with her.

"You imbeciles, go get them back to me at once!" Khrishan roared at his guards.

"Yes Sir. Khrishan!" All five of the guards quickly squeezed themselves into the passage one after another, pursuing Zhang Yang and Meryl.

Zhang Yang was carrying Meryl on his back while Whitey was following them from behind. The passage was not as dark as he expected as there were numerous blue gemstones adorning the passage walls. Even in the dark, the slight glow from the gemstones gave Zhang Yang limited visibility.

After walking forward for tens of meters, the passage began to widen. It was about 4 meters broad and 2 meters high at the moment, and it was enough for a person to sprint forward without hesitation or worries on crashing into the sides while running!

The footsteps behind Zhang Yang's back could be heard very clearly, the boots of their heavy armor stepping on the solid ground of the passage, the grinding between the soles of their boots and the sands on the ground causing continuous sharp and clear crisps, echoing throughout the passage. As the echos were getting more and more mixed up, it eventually got difficult to differentiate whether the sounds were coming from the front or the back!

Zhang Yang turned his head around for a peek, and he saw the five guards holding torches, hundreds of meters behind them!

As he was carrying Meryl, his movement speed was down to only 80%. He may not feel the weight, but his movement speed had definitely gone down. It was just a matter of time before those guards caught up on them!

Zhang Yang was not too worried about the five guards, but he could not kill any of the guards or else the restriction on Krishan's movement speed will be lifted and he really steamroll over him by then!

Didn't the description of the quest mention that there were traps in the passage? About time they showed up now!

Zhang Yang continued running forward while looking around for any possible clues. He ran for another tens of meters and finally, he saw a handle by the wall in front of him.

[Trap Handle] (Item)

Level: 1

HP: 1

Defense: 1

Zhang Yang had no time to hesitate, so he went up to the handle, reached his hands on the handle and pulled it down with his strength!

Ka ka ka!

A stone door smashed down onto the ground from the top of the passage with a loud 'bang', blocking the five guards just when they were about to catch up with them. Their fingers were almost reaching Meryl's hair, before the door shut down for good!

[Defensive Stone Door] (Item)

Level: 1

HP: 1,000,000

Defense: 1,000

This door should be able to hold the five guards for awhile here, but if Krishan arrives, the stone door would go down when the big man starts punching it!

As Zhang Yang was moving forward, he saw numerous suspicious glowing pupils approaching. As they got closer, Zhang Yang quickly realized that these actually belonged to huge gray rats, each of them the size of a cat! They were lurking in the dark with their shining, bloodthirsty pair of eyes, giving Zhang Yang a chill down his spine!

[Sewer Rat] (Normal, Beast)

Level: 75

HP: 7,500

Defense: 70

Although they were just normal monsters, their numbers were huge! Zhang Yang saw the seemingly countless rats with his bare eyes and knew that he would not be able to take them all at once!

"Ah -- rats!" Meryl was instantly shocked and let out a scream, and she slapped on Zhang Yang's shoulder continuously as she tried to lift herself higher up on Zhang Yang.

"Of course I see them!" Zhang Yang shouted in annoyance and he put Meryl down. Then he pulled out his sword and activated his {Blast Wave} -- he could not enter combat as he was carrying a person on his back.

Shoof!

A wave blasted out, and in the narrow passage, the {Blast Wave} washed up all the available areas within the passage, going out as far as a distance of 3 meters!

The rats were huge in size, which are about 20 cm in length and they were tightly packed together in the passage. Up to a thousand rats could be within the space of the 3-meter area!

{Blast Wave} was only limited by distance, and nothing else. Not the amount of targets, or if they were being blocked by others!

Instantly, approximately thousands of '-723' appeared at the same instant and the special effect of the [Dark Enigmatic Sword] was triggered. Furthermore, the special effect of the sword was triggered as rapidly as the firing of a maching gun!

'-723!'

'-723!'

'-723!'

...

Zhang Yang was blinded by the damage values that were appearing in front of him, he could only see countless '-723' bombarding his view sight on the screen. If this scenario happened in an older online game, the game could have crashed or players could have been disconnected due to technical errors!

After at least one minute, the numbers finally stopped flashing up. Zhang Yang could only see a sea of dead rats in front of him, with a relatively small number of rats still alive.

Ji ji ji!

The remaining rats were letting out their raging screech and ganged up on Zhang Yang.

As the cool down of the {Blast Wave} had ended, Zhang Yang threw another {Blast Wave} at the remaining rats, and it was another spectacular scene where damage values danced in the screen!

After the second wave attack, only dozens of rats survived!

Zhang Yang laughed out loud and activated his {Horizontal Sweep} and {Thunder Strike} onto the remaining rats, clearing out every single one of them!

These rats did not drop anything, however, Zhang Yang looked at his experience bar, it actually increased by more than a grid!

Holy god! One should know that after reaching Level 70, a player would have to grind for at least 10 days to be able to gain 1 level, and one grid of the experience bar required one solid day in reality to fill up, which meant 3 days and 3 nights of game-time of non-stop grinding. And now, Zhang Yang had just achieved all that in slightly over a minute!

Are there any other methods that were better and faster than this?

The special effect of the [Dark Enigmatic Sword] was like a bug when it came to blasting enemies out in AOE style while grinding!

The large number of rats were initially spawned at the spot to block players when the NPCs that were pursuing them were blocked by the stone door. If players could take out all the rats, then they can continue to move forward; but if the five guards broke the stone door before the players could defeat all of the rats, the quest would have likely ended up in failure!

But no one had thought that the [Dark Enigmatic Sword] would be so powerful, and the rats were also being very 'cooperative', squeezing themselves in a tight area of space. Further more, the {Blast Wave} was an AOE that inflicted damage across all targets within the area of it's effect range. With all these 3 conditions together, a miracle where Zhang Yang acquired 10% experience points within one minute became real!

It was so satisfying for Zhang Yang!

So now, Zhang Yang could only hope for more similar traps ahead of them, the more, the better now!

After turning his head back for a peek, he saw that the remaining health points of the [Defensive Stone Door] was still at 920,000! Zhang Yang quickly widened his steps while running forward.

After running for about 3 to 4 minutes, suddenly, Zhang Yang heard a loud and thunderous 'bang' coming from behind, and the crowded sounds of footsteps began to continue again! Zhang Yang knew that it must be Khrishan, he must have arrived at the stone door. Any obstacles would become a piece of thin paper apparently, when Krishan arrives!

But Zhang Yang had already got himself at least a 3 minute gap!

The second handle had appeared right in front of Zhang Yang.

Pulling it down!

Boom! The stone door dropped down and the path was blocked. It also had a similar 1,000,000 health points and 1,000 defense points!

Ji ji ji! Countless sewer rats were approaching from the front gushing towards Zhang Yang.

But in his eyes, these countless rats were oddly cute, maybe it was because of the countless experience points!

{Blast Wave}!

Another spectacular scenario presented itself, with the countless damage values jumping up and down on Zhang Yang's sight view on his screen. It was visible that Zhang Yang was gaining experience point in a very swift manner, and he gained another 12% of experience points on his experience point bar!

Zhang Yang turned to Meryl, and he could not help but to think about losing her after delaying for 29 minutes and giving up on the quest, and then he could restart the quest all over again to take advantage of the experience points by repeating the same process all over again! But it did not seem possible and it was not right to do so. Although Meryl was just a normal-grade NPC at the moment, the quest description had stated that her father is the king of the Merfolks, and her mother was a princess of the Merfolks! She would most definitely be equipped with a sophisticated AI, which meant that she will definitely remember if you ever did something to provoke her!

Meryl felt embarrassed after being looked upon by Zhang Yang with that weird look, so she spoke shyly, "Warrior, please don't look at me with that kind of eyes!"

Zhang Yang laughed while moving forward with her on his back, and at the same time, he began to speak nonsense, "You're so pretty that the sun stayed quiet with your presence!"

Meryl actually bought it, and her face turned red immediately as she blushed. His words was super effective on her, she then rubbed and pinched her face with her hands and shook around without a pause, as if she was very happy but shy at the same time.

After the second trap, it was the third trap, then the forth trap, then the fifth trap... The seventh trap!

A stream of golden light shined upon the entire body of Zhang Yang, and he was elevated up to Level 76 in a magnificent scene!

He felt so satisfied!

However, it was time for him to say goodbye to this fortune he was earning while running away with Meryl. Both of them saw a light source in front of them, and as they were approaching it, the light source was enlarged, and by the end of it, was the exit of the passage, apparently.

Splash!

Enormous waves were stirring up, Zhang Yang and Merul came out onto a half-round platform with Whitey following them closely. On the platform, the three directions were the sides of the cliff around the platform while a lake loomed below them!

Splash! Splash! Splash! Countless Snake Eel monsters emerged from the surface of the lake and began to roam around in the lake, the number was shockingly enormous!

Zhang Yang then turned to Meryl, "Meryl, I'm putting you into the lake, you can just wait in the lake until your father arrives. Then you will truly be safe!"

"No--" Meryl quickly responded and used her two long and white arms to hug Zhang Yang tightly by his neck, "Those Snake Eels are the worst enemies of the Merfolks, they will definitely tear me into pieces if I go down into the lake now!"

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Chapter 338: The King has Arrived

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Zhang Yang took a look at the quest timer. Currently, 24 minutes had passed and there were only 6 minutes left before the King of the Merfolks arrives to get Meryl!

Protect her to the end!

Another two minutes passed, and the five guards had finally come out of the passage and stood right in front of Zhang Yang. They shouted, waving their weapons, and charged towards Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang flipped onto Whitey and let Meryl climb behind him where she hugged him tightly. After tightening his teeth, he gulped down a transmuted Level-5 [Troll Recovery Potion, with the additional effect of having a 3% rate to recover 25% health points when hit by enemy. It was equal to recovering 0.75% of health points every time the enemy struck him. The health points of Zhang Yang after mounting onto Whitey is about 60,000 points, it would mean that he would recover 450 points every hit!

Furthermore, with the additional effect of the [Troll Recovery Potion, he could probably hold on for a long time!

After activating his {Blast Wave}, the five guards were all stunned!

These henchmen were carrying the effect of {Pursue}, so they could catch up with Zhang Yang and Meryl much sooner. Furthermore, they ensured that Krishan kept moving at a snail's pace, so Zhang Yang had to keep them alive, he could only use his Status Effect Skills to restrict their movements!

4 seconds later, the five guards had recovered the stun effect and resumed their pursuit of Zhang Yang.

They were like gazelles, Zhang Yang could not shake them off, even while mounted! In just a short while, the five guard had already caught up to him and were hacking at Whitey's plump rump!

Zhang Yang could only turn Whitey around to face them all head on.

If he was alone, Zhang Yang could simply jump down from his bear mount and activate his {Heroic Leap} and {Thunder Strike} to slow down the guards. But now that he had Meryl by his side which appeared to be a burden to him, he could only use Whitey to shield her from being taken away while he was on the mount. Because if he jumped off Whitey, Whitey would switch from being a [Mount] to a regular pet, and the paraplegic Meryl would end up lying on the floor helplessly!

Zhang Yang defended himself from their attacks, constantly moving about to avoid taking more hits than necessary. He was buying time for this {Blast Wave} to cool down, in order to restrict their movements without hurting them too much.

He was losing health points constantly, but he had used a transmuted [Troll Recovery Potion] which constantly fueled him with some health point recovery effect. He could last for a bit this way!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Heavy steps could be heard approaching the exit of the passage, and then came Krishan from the exit. He revealed a crazy smile on his face and said, "You are not getting away from me!"

Piak piak piak! Meryl was in a panic and she could not stop slapping Zhang Yang's shoulder and said, "Warrior, he has caught up with us! What should we do? What should we do!"

Zhang Yang was getting annoyed by her repetitive questions, and he roared in anger, "If you won't calm down, I'm going to throw you straight to him!"

Meryl was shocked, and she dared not prod Zhang Yang anymore, so she fell completely silent.

Zhang Yang kited the five guards around the platform in circles, while Krishan was like a big boss, following his minions closely.

2 minutes left!

But the five guards were not weak in their assaults as well. Every single hit from them inflicted Zhang Yang with at least 1000 damage, and Zhang Yang had already activated his life-saving skills once! Now that his health bar had almost hit the bottom again, he could only activate his life-saving skill one more time! It was lucky that his life-saving skill had already cooled down.

1 minute left until the quest timer reaches it's end!

Suddenly, a stream of vertical white light emerged on the surface of the lake from afar, and a tall wave of about two to three meters high was vaguely visible from where Zhang Yang stood. The wave was rolling towards their location aggressively, as if it was intent on washing away everything that stood in its path!

"Zhan Yu, just hold on a little longer, my father is about to arrive!" Meryl was screaming in joy and excitement.

The tide of wave seem familiar somehow. It looked similar to the one that had capsized his boat when he was arriving at the Emerald Island! Could it possibly be that King of Merfolks, was it all his doing?

"Father has no idea where mother is, so he had been searching for her all these years. Sometimes he would release his frustration by stirring up big waves!" Meryl gave an explanation that make sense, "These are the things I was told by Gethelo and the others!"

"Quickly, kill that bastard!" It seemed that Khrishan could feel that something was off, so he quickly commanded his five guards to finish off Zhang Yang.

40,000!

30,000!

The health points of Zhang Yang were decreasing without a pause!

30 seconds left! 20 seconds left!

The high wave was approaching closer and closer by the second, and vaguely, Zhang Yang could see the a shadow of a merman right on top of the wave! The merman held a golden trident in his hand, letting out thunderous roars to express his rage!

"Quickly! Quickly!" Khrishan could not move fast, so all he could do was to command his guards to do it for him!

20,000! 10,000! 5,000! 1,000!

Shoof! One of the guard threw his axe at Zhang Yang! Zhang Yang had already used up all his life-saving skills, and he had been dodging their blows endlessly! But the forth attack was so sudden and near, it seemed like he could not dodge it!

The blade of the axe came closer and closer to his face, if this attack lands on his face, he will be a dead man!

'Ding!'

Just when everything seemed lost, a golden trident was hurled from afar, deflecting the axe right before it could land on Zhang Yang's face!

The flashing of sparks was blinding!

Kiang!

The golden trident surged with incredible power! After deflecting the axe, it embedded itself, deep into the surface of the rocks in the direction it was flying towards. A third of the trident was already buried in the solid rock!

Zhang Yang had once again escaped death! He let out a breath of relief and turned his eyes to the quest timer. The quest timer had already reached 0:00!

Boom!

The wave had arrived, and the water spouts were splashing all over the platform, causing enormous thunderous sounds all around that shook the ears of everyone within range. The Snake Eels were like small little mud fishes, washed up by the huge impact of the wave! Their dead, white bellies lay motionless above the surface of the water!

It was at that moment, when the merman stepped on the water and leaped over to the ground on the platform. He waved his left hand and a white light surged through his body. Every single droplet of water on his fish tail was instantly dried up, and the tail transformed into a pair of macho legs. He stood right in front of Zhang Yang like an unmovable mountain!

[Gethelo, The King of Merfolks] (Mythical, Humanoid Creature)

Level: ???

HP: ???

Defense: ???

Wow, a very important person (VIP) has arrived!

The moment the timer of the quest reached it's end, the two effects on Krishan had also disappeared automatically, and Khrishan had regained his normal movement speed. Of course, his attack had also restored back to his default setting, he was no longer a ridiculous, unkillable being! He pulled out the sword that hung from his belt and said, "Human and Merfolks have a peace treaty, and neither have broken them. That mermaid had made an oath with me, are you trying to go against the oath you merfolks had sworn?"

Gethelo raised his right arm and moved his arm towards the location of where the trident landed, and the trident emerged from the rock and flew right into his hand.

He spun his trident around in a circle on top of his head and stirred up a strong wind around him. Then he pointed his trident at Krishan and spoke in a calm, commanding manner, "I'm here for my daughter!"

"Father, it was him who imprisoned mother. It was him who forced mother to lived in agony! It was him who pushed mother to her death!" Meryl pointed her finger at Krishan.

Wow, from 'Gethelo' to 'Father' in an instant! She really adapts fast! Because he's royalty?! Zhang Yang thought to himself disapprovingly.

Gethelo was staring straight aright at Krishan with murderous eyes and said, "Human, you dared to imprison my fiance, this crime must not go unpunished! You will pay, now!"

"He forced mother to marry him, all because he saved her!" Meryl began to accuse Krishan of his crimes.

Gethelo was enraged after hearing all about it, and he shouted, "You worthless piece of human, how dare you mistreat my Siniia! Unforgivable! Unforgivable!"

Krishan laughed out loud and said, "So you are the man that Siniia thought about everyday! It was such an unfortunate event that she could not see you for one last time before she departed from this world!"

"You bastard! Die!" Gethelo was bristling with anger, he waved his trident around and charged at Krishan.

"Haha, then I shall kill you, before I take your daughter for myself!" Krishan was laughing madly while swinging his sword at Gethelo. He barked at the five guards, "Go get them, boys!"

The five guards immediately raised their weapons at Gethelo and charged forward.

"Get lost!" Gethelo let out a thunderous roar and spun his trident around. The swing was swift, and instantly, the five guards were inflicted with a damage of about 30,000 on each of them!

Mythical bosses are indeed strong!

Two seconds later, Gethelo spun his trident once again and did another 30,000 damage to each of the guards! The elite guards only had about 70,000 health points on each of them. After two rounds of attack from the trident, they were only left with not more than 10,000 health points each!

Zhang Yang flipped down from the back of Whitey, and then he placed Meryl at one corner. Now that Gethelo was at the scene, Meryl would definitely be safe!

He used a [Bandage] and recovered 16,000 health points, and then he flipped himself back up on the back of Whitey and charged towards the five guards.

With a {Horizontal Sweep}, he inflicted 4,000 damage to each of the guards. It wasn't necessary at all, for they were one more swing away from death anyway. He was simply bored of just standing by and watching!

As expected, Gethelo spun his trident around once again and put down all five of the guards on the ground for good.

After taking out the trash, it was natural for Gethelo and Zhang Yang to turn their attention towards the big boss! However, Zhang Yang did not dare charge in front, as all his life-saving skills were still on cool down period, and his health points were far from recovered. If he were to charge into Krishan now, he would just end up being smashed to death!

Gethelo let out a long shout, and he stomped on the ground with an aura emerging from his feet before he charged over to Krishan! Shoof! He stabbed his trident out in an attempt to pierce Krishan's chest.

Of course, Krishan would not just stand there and do nothing about it. Immediately he raised his sword to counter the attack. The two leader-grade NPCs engaged in battle!

Zhang Yang followed Gethelo from behind. He knew that he could not do much damage to the boss, but he could at least lend his aid to Gethelo by applying five layers of {Cripple Defense} to weaken the defense of the boss! It was definitely better than doing nothing at all!

Furthermore, if the monster is slayed by the NPC all by himself, the player will get nothing at all!

Although they were both leaders, a Mythical grade creature was two grades above a Yellow-Grade! Their levels were different as well, resulting in Krishan being outclassed in every aspect!

Gethelo was stabbing and slashing Krishan with incredible speed and strength.

Splashes of blood were oozing out from Krishan's body in flower-blooming patterns as Krishan was stabbed and slashed by Gethelo. The trident really did a great number on Krishan!

90%, 80%, 70%... Although Krishan had a large amount of health points, it was dropping at an alarming rate!

Krishan would activate his {Tornado Cleave} once in a short while, and very frequently too. He would activate the skill once in every 10 seconds. But Zhang Yang had {Block} to counter the attack, as long he timed his {Block} well enough, he would not have to receive any damage from the boss.

Since that Gethelo was keeping the boss busy at the moment, all Zhang Yang had to do was to reserve his {Block} for the boss's {Tornado Cleave} attack.

50%, 30%, 10%!

Under the ridiculous onslaught from the Mythical-grade boss, Krishan had no other choice but to die in tragedy.

Shiik!

Gethelo pierced through Krishan's chest with brute force, and then he pulled his trident back out from Krishan's chest and gave another horizontal strike on Krishan's chest, tearing flesh out from the already gaping wound! Fresh blood was oozing out from the cuts on the body!

"No--" Krishan let out a pathetic cry while puking blood as he choked on his own blood. Then he collapsed onto the ground unwillingly and died.

Pak, a silver-white piece of metal dropped from Krishan's dead body. Other than that, the boss did not drop anything else.

Zhang Yang reached out for the silver-white metal piece and picked it up, and immediately, he received a system notification.

'Ding! You have obtained an item: [Key of the Void Fragment 2]!"

Zhang Yang had no other choice, because during the final battle with the boss, Zhang Yang was just poking around like a small little bee, the outcome would be the same with or without him around! The system was already very generous for giving him the fragment of the key he was looking for.

So now, he would just have to wait to see what kind of reward he would receive after completing this quest!

Meryl and Gethelo had finally reunited, the scene of a daughter reuniting with her father was presented in front of Zhang Yang. Of course, they were exchanging their sweet nothings to each other as warm tears dripped down their cheeks.

After a long while, Gethelo had finally turned his attention towards Zhang Yang, and he thanked Zhang Yang, "Warrior, you have saved my daughter from harm, now I am in great debt with you."

'Ding! You have completed a quest: Buying Time, acquired 10,000,000 experience points!"

Zhang Yang was touched by the moment when they had finally realized that he was still there, even after their most melodramatic reunion.

He said, "Curbing the violent and assisting the weak is just my duty, nothing else!"

Gethelo nodded and said, "The Merfolks will forever be your friends! Farewell, my friend!"

Are they trying to toy with him? Zhang Yang was just pretending to be modest in front of them and they did not give him anything in return! It would still be reasonable if they didn't give him some legendary weapon, but at least they could have provide him something good!

What kind of stingy quest is this! Only one fragment of the [Key of the Void]!

It was still fortunate that the experience points earned from the quest was really abundant, which elevated Zhang Yang by 1 level! At least it was worth his time after all!

"Zhan Yu --" the status of Meryl had been elevated by three grades after she had reunited with Gethelo. Now that she had become the 'Princess of the Merfolks', her grade had been elevated to Violet-Platinum grade, and she had inherited all the spells of Gethelo as well. With just a gentle flick of her fish tail, all the water droplets on her tails were gone, and her tail transformed into a pair of long legs.

She walked up to Zhang Yang and bowed to him, and then she thanked him, "Thank you so much for everything you have done for me!"

Since he had already pretended to be modest, let's proceed with it! Zhang Yang smiled and said, "Meryl, I shall miss you!"

Meryl instantly blushed and she smiled, her face was as red as a tomato. She took out a little turtle of a size of a palm out of nowhere and gave it to Zhang Yang, "This is a present that my father gave to me, I have decided that you should have it instead! So whenever you see this little turtle, you will think of me!"

After that, she walked away with a crimson face and leaped into the water of the lake.

'Ding! You have acquired a new [Battle Mount: Mythical Turtle]!'

Gethelo had a funny look as he witnessed his daughter handing the turtle over, and after staring at it for a while, he too, leaped into the lake. A few seconds later, the father and daughter appeared hundreds of meters away from the shore, riding a wave, leaving Zhang Yang behind.

From afar, Zhang Yang could vaguely see the image of the princess of Merfolks, Meryl blushing in front of him.

He could not help but smile, and then he brought up the attributes of the [Mythical Turtle] to have a look.

[Mythical Turtle] (Violet-Platinum Battle Mount)

Level: 0

HP: 50

Right in the middle of Zhang Yang's backpack, a [Lease of the Mythical Turtle] automatically appeared and occupied one slot of the backpack.

[Lease of the Mythical Turtle] (Violet-Platinum Battle Mount)

Use: Summons or unleash a [Mythical Turtle] that can be mounted on into battle. Movement speed of the [Mythical Turtle] will be reduced by 90% when on land. However, underwater movement speed of the [Mythical Turtle] will increase by 300%, and you will be able to breathe underwater. If you die while mounting the [Mythical Turtle, you can only summon the [Mythical Turtle] again 10 minutes after death. You can only summon one [Battle Mount] at a time. Summon time: 2 seconds.

Required Level: 30

Bound upon pick up.

A Violet-Platinum grade, underwater [Battle Mount]! Awesome! No wonder Gethelo looked like he was having a constipation when Meryl handed the [Mythical Turtle] over to him. It was a priceless gift meant for his daughter afterall!

Zhang Yang could not help but smile like an idiot, because he just earned something very useful for future usage!

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Chapter 339: Mythical Turtle

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Because the [Mythical Turtle] was current at Level 0, it could only appear in the form of a small little pet. It was fortunate that this [Mythical Turtle] could be summoned out together with Whitey. Zhang Yang quickly tore a [Teleportation Scroll] and went back to the White Jade Castle, and he picked a spot where there was a large number of monsters and began to train the [Mythical Turtle].

It was fairly easy to level a pet up, in addition to the face that Zhang Yang was currently engaged with monsters that were Level 70 and above, so the [Mythical Turtle] received an enormous amount of experience points. In just a short while, the little fellow had already leveled up to Level 30, and was immediately upgraded to [Battle Mount] status. With Whitey as the higher level [Battle Mount, the [Mythical Turtle] was automatically unsummoned back into the backpack.

So when Zhang Yang attempted to summon the [Mythical Turtle] out, Whitey was replaced by the presence of the [Mythical Turtle] and was banished into the backpack instead.

Level 30 [Mythical Turtle] had already grown larger than the size of a mature turtle, with a thick and solid turtle shell just like a millstone, covered with blocks of mysterious patterns of lines. It looked very mystical.

[Mythical Turtle] (Violet-Platinum Battle Mount)

Level: 30

HP: 18,930 (with vitality aura)

Focus points: 100/100

Defense: 1,140

Attack: 2,890 - 3,290 (Attack interval: 3 seconds, Damage per Second: 1,030)

Skill 1: [Shared Life] (Passive) : Combine the health points of the owner and the pet together.

Skill 2: [Turtle Shell Defense: reduce damage received by 90% for the owner and itself, last for 10 seconds. Consumption: 20 focus points. Cool down: 10 minutes.

Zhang Yang was very satisfied, this meant that he had acquired another life-saving skill!

A Violet-Platinum [Battle Mount] is really powerful! Compared to his current [Battle Mount, a level 75 Yellow-Gold which only had a total of 19,800 health points, and an attack range from 4,212 - 4,612, the Turtle definitely did not lose out.

Of course, the [Gold-Eared Bear King] had also learned a skill {Iron Build}, increasing 30% of the health point cap, and with the addition of the 16% increase from (Vitality Aura), it's attributes still surpassed the Turtle.

However, the movement speed of this [Mythical Turtle] was a huge minus. It was slow! It would take half a day just to move a few steps! The kind of leisurely momentum the turtle had would really give hot-headed people brain cancer! It was fortunate that Zhang Yang had the skill {Pet Taming}, so he need not necessarily mount himself onto his [Battle Mount, he can just let the [Mythical Turtle] take it's own sweet time crawling slowly at the side while he went on to kite the monsters over to the [Mythical Turtle] and let it begin it's killing streak!

In the following days, Zhang Yang spent most of his time and efforts on leveling up [Mythical Turtle, he was now halted by his level when it came to getting the next piece - [Dimensional Key Fragment 4]. He had nothing better to do at the moment. Furthermore, the 7 fragments of [Dimensional Key] had to be together for them to function. So even if he really acquired the 3 pieces of fragment within the Level 80 dungeon map, he would still have to get the final piece in the map of Level 90 dungeon!

His current objective was to level up as much as possible!

On the 5th of February, Zhang Yang and his 'Silky Soft Team' had took part in another match of the Professional League Championship. This time, their opponent were the Angel Wings who they had engaged before during the Soaring Sword Competition, and they had named themselves as the 'Tengfei Technology Team' for the current competition.

This time, the match was a devastating blow to the opposition party, Zhang Yang's party won the match by scoring a 5:0, and they had accumulated 2 more points, placing themselves ahead of other parties with a total tally of 8 points!

And on the next day, Fatty Han and his 'Huatian Team' managed to proceed into their second match of the competition, and they scored 5:4, narrowly keeping a positive revenue of points!

On the 10th of February, Zhang Yang and his 'Silky Soft Party' once again scored 5:1 and secured their victory over the 'Millennium Team' of The Glory, solidifying their first place on the list of points accumulated.

On 13th of February, Zhang Yang had not only leveled up his [Mythical Turtle] to Level 75, he had also managed to level up himself to Level 77!

[Mythical Turtle] (Violet-Platinum Battle Mount)

Level: 75

HP: 38,280 (with Vitality Aura)

Defense: 2,100

Attack: 6,271 - 7,071 (Attack Interval: 3 seconds, DPS: 2,224)

Those attribute points had left Zhang Yang speechless and drooling at the same time! It totally left Zhang Yang's own defense and health points behind! Compared to the regular attack - 2,038 - 2,238 of Zhang Yang, the attack of the [Mythical Turtle] was much more intimidating and terrifying. If it's attack interval can be shortened down any further, it would become a nightmare!

By reaching Level 50, the [Mythical Turtle] had also learned a new skill.

[Tear: inflicts 120% physical damage to target. Consumption: 50 focus points.

If the [Mythical Turtle] was not so slow on land, Zhang Yang would definitely use the [Pet Skill Engravement Scroll] to 'cut' the {Icy Built} and {Iron Build} from Whitey and transfer the two skills over to [Mythical Turtle] without any hesitation!

Unfortunately, he would have to use the [Pet Skill Engravement Scroll] when he obtains a stronger [Battle Mount] or pet!

This year, the 14th of February was a little special, it was not just a regular Valentine's Day but also China's most celebrated traditional festival -- Chinese New Year!

As Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er had basically cut ties with their relatives, they had no one else to celebrate a reunion dinner with. On the other hand, Zhang Yang had been alone for more than 10 years, so when three of them were coincidentally gathered together, they decided to make themselves a reunion dinner. Unexpectedly, Sun Xin Yu did not travel back to her hometown to celebrate Chinese New Year with her family -- one thing was for sure, Zhang Yang knew that she is not from Zhou Su City.

So, on the 14th of February, with Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year stacked together on the same day, all four of them were seated around a table, having their dinner together.

Zhang Yang managed to cook a few dishes and placed them on the table, and the four of them had some red wine as they had some light conversation. As they had been through a lot of bad experiences year after year, they seemed to have forgotten their hardships for the moment, as they spent the entire night together.

That night, they did not log into the game, but stayed up playing some board games till 5 am, before they retired to their rooms, yawning. Of course, they wore their game helmet and logged into the game, as they could play in their sleep.

The moment they logged into the game, they received waves of wishes from the players in the entire server, it was a merry atmosphere.

As Chinese New Year had arrived, everyone was filled with joy. However, Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er remained down, even if they momentarily forgot their troubles in the heat of the celebration. The deficit of the Silky Soft Holding was far worse than they could imagine, although they had sold a number of companies and parts of their holdings, they still could not cover up all of the 'holes' that had cropped up from the damage cause by the internal sabotage!

Silky Soft still had most of its integrity up in view of the public, but banks simply refused to offer them any loans, having had their reputation tarnished to that extent. They might have to wrap up at that rate!

Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er wracked their brains until they gazed upon a bypassing Zhang Yang. Perhaps he could stabilize their situation after all.

It was safe to say that Zhang Yang had nothing but money!

The Little Merchandize Shop, the Territory, and now a mining cave! The total earnings from managing all these had given him a total of 700 millions in earning! Zhang Yang, being the free-spirited, simple man, was never aware of his own exact net worth, but only knew that he had money. When he did check on it however, he had to pinch his face to make sure that it was not a dream, and that his eyes were not playing tricks on him!

Silky Soft Holdings could be said to be a centipede, because an idiom says that a centipede dies but never falls down1, as long as the company survives the hardships, then it could definitely rise back up from the ashes and reborn! Zhang Yang had always had high hopes on Silky Soft Holdings, and since his money was idly resting in his bank account, why shouldn't he take it out and put it to use? He had a territory, and his Little Merchandize, and also other ways to earn money, so he would always have a stable income!

However, his money was not enough to revive the company just yet, because there was still a deficit of 300 million in cash! Now that Zhang Yang recalled, there was a person called Li Ru, and the woman is a rich person. However, he had never thought that Li Ru would immediately agree to help right after she heard about Zhang Yang's request! It left Zhang Yang with mixed feelings, and he was definitely shocked by her instant decision! If he was being untruthful, Li Ru would have been cheated a total of 300 millions! How would she be willing to risk parting with such a sum?!

Li Ru's company could not give 300 millions directly to Silky Soft Holdings, but she had loaned the money from the bank and succeeded on getting 300 million for Silky Soft Holdings.

On the 19th of February, Silky Soft Holdings had released a new announcement on the news report, announcing the two new shareholders: Zhang Yang occupied 21% of the shares while Li Ru occupied 10% of the shares, putting in a successful investment of 1 billion, solving all the problems that Silky Soft Holdings was facing.

Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er had finally gotten rid of their problems, but Zhang Yang had gained tons of new problems!

Because, under the recommendation and support of the two pretty ladies, Zhang Yang was forced to take up the position of a CEO in the company!

He frowned with sweat all over his head and said, "I don't know anything about economy or finance, let alone on how to be a CEO!"

Han Ying Xue threw a flirtatious wink at him and smiled, "It's very simple to be a CEO, you just have to know how to sign. Pick up a pen, and write your name down! Like what the wisemen say, the secretary will handle things for you, and if there's nothing to handle, then you just 'handle' the secretary. A most favorable position for men like you!"

Zhang Yang flipped his eye balls backward and said, "What do you mean, men like me? If it's so simple, why don't one of go be CEO?"

"Little Snow needs to go to school, and as for me... My purpose is to spend money, not earn them!" Han Ying Xue stated.

Although Zhang Yang was still trying to reject the arrangement, it was 3 against 1, in favor of Zhang Yang becoming CEO. And that was it, Zhang Yang found himself as CEO of Silky Soft Holdings. He had been played by the devilish ladies! On the 20th of February, Zhang Yang was officially the CEO of the Silky Soft Holdings.

Donning a suit, complete with a tie, Zhang Yang walked right into the company with an appearance of a human but the mannerisms of a goofy dog. Whether he was in the elevator or on his way to his office, every employee was greeting him by 'Mr.Zhang', making him very uneasy.

Alright, a man should make a good carreer sooner or later, and countless people in this world would be envious of the position he is in right now! Zhang Yang comforted himself and continued to walk towards his new office.

After entering the office of CEO, he shut the door tight and took out his game helmet, and he began to play the game from there.

As he was so near to reaching Level 78 currently, he went on to grind for experience points for the entire day, and through his efforts, he was elevated up to level 78 by the end of the day.

On the 24th of February, the S-Rank and A-Rank matches of the Professional League Championship that were postponed due to the celebration of Chinese New Year were finally resumed. Meanwhile, the D-Rank matches of the championship had not acquired a fixed schedule or battle chart for them to compete against each other yet. So if they wished to take part, they could just let the system decide their opponent based on their rate of victory to accumulate points and increase their rate of victory in the championship. Even during the Chinese New Year period, a number of teams had already met the criteria for accumulated points and the rate of victory, and succeeded to be eligible to take part in the C-Rank championship.

When B-Rank championship matches begin, the Professional League Championship of the {{God's Miracle}} shall become a competition fully based on the fixed system.

On the second day of Zhang Yang joining the Silky Soft Holdings as the CEO, he received a call from Fatty Han saying that his old apartment was on fire last night, and everything in his apartment was lost! Fortunately, everyone in the same floor of the apartment was able to escape in time, and no one was killed during the incident!

The cause on how the fire started still remained unknown, the police were still investigating the source of the fire. However, two suspects instantly came into Zhang Yang's mind.

Number one, naturally it would be Liu Wei! That fellow had already being humiliated by Zhang Yang multiple times, and knowing his vengeful personality, he would most probably take his revenge whenever he see fit!

Number two, it might be the fish that got away last time during the Mr.Luo incident, Liu Shu Yan! He had foiled her plans, and this was probably a warning from her!

1. A centipede dies but never falls down - old institutions die hard

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Chapter 340: The Flying Dutchman

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Zhang Yang dwelled in his sea of thoughts. In the end, he felt that Liu Shu Yan was the main suspect. If Liu Wei ever wanted to act, he would have already done so before he entered Silky Soft Holdings. Since it all happened after he had become the C.E.O, perhaps Liu Shu Yan's prime reason in doing so was due to the hatred and the intention to seek revenge on Zhang Yang.

With that thought in mind, Zhang Yang went back and shared his thoughts with everyone, which put everyone on edge, especially Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er. They asked Zhang Yang to protect them even more.

Fatty Han took the opportunity to talk to his own gang members. That guy knew everyone in the local community and had even had many underlings. With their help, Fatty Han could investigate the location of Liu Shu Yan. Zhang Yang had mentioned before, that the people with Fatty Han were mostly street thugs. They are not police. They will not follow the legal procedures. They had their own protocols, which was to beat first, and question later. Zhang Yang felt no guilt in doing so, since the woman was never a good person.

However, ever since Liu Shu Yan had left the police station, no one had ever heard from her again. Fatty Han had been sending out his thugs to search for the woman but to no avail. Not even a trace of her shadow could be found in the city. Even though Zhou Su City was not a big place, it still had at least 6 million to 7 million doors to knock on and houses to ransack. And that was on the impression that Liu Shu Yan was not hiding on purpose. If she did try to get off grid, it would only make things worse for Fatty Han to search for her. It would be like searching for a grain of sand in the middle of the beach!

Imagine a venomous snake is hiding somewhere that you cannot see, and then imagine the possibility of getting bitten by it at any moment, and there was nothing you could do to prevent it. That sort of feeling is extremely uncomfortable. Zhang Yang, Fatty Han, Han Ying Xue, and Wei Yan Er had spent some time to discuss about the matter. They even considered moving to another house. However, before they could reach to a final decision, the little brat had told Sun Xin Yu about their plans and had invited the unsuppressed wrath of the policewoman.

…

On the other side of things, Zhang Yang had spent half of his time in the office as the C.E.O of Han Ying Xue's company, Silky Soft Holdings. Even though his job was indeed as easy as signing papers like what Han Ying Xue had said, to give the work to a secretary, or to do the secretary when there is no work, Zhang Yang was not as sexually-deprived as Fatty Han. It was true that his job was easy, but he was constantly being harassed by the secretaries!

Zhang Yang could not help but feel that Wei Yan Er's late father was a playboy among playboys. He had actually hired six, sexy, booty-licious, badahoonkers, secretaries! Zhang Yang had to use those kinds of adjective to describe them, because they were all Victoria-secret level super models! What a perverted old man…

After Zhang Yang had taken over the C.E.O position, all of the female secretaries had approached him. One by one, they had used their skills to seduce Zhang Yang. In broad daylight, they would wear overly short pencil skirts and sexy garter belts. Each time they entered Zhang Yang's room, they would drop something on the floor to make a move. They would make sure to moan obscenely to draw Zhang Yang's attention and bend down while sticking out their chest to display their deep cleavages. Either that, or they would bend over to let Zhang Yang see their butts. Zhang Yang could swear that some of them did not even have anything beneath their clothes!

Still, being a man, and not a hypocrite, Zhang Yang took the liberty to enjoy the "view". Whenever the girls came up to him and offered him a show to remember, Zhang Yang would just sit back and relax while the girls did their things. However, things had escalated to a point where the girls would deliver him a cup of coffee a few times a day. The unwanted coffee was one thing, the main problem was the fact that they would "accidentally" drop the coffee and spill some of it onto his shirt, giving them the excuses to make physical contact. Physical contact, meaning, overly sexual rubbing and borderline molestation.

There was even one time where one of the secretaries had spilled the coffee on Zhang Yang's pants. Without even acknowledging it, the girl had bent down, like a hungry wolf, and made her way down to his zippers, and was that close to greeting little Zhang Yang. That crossed the line for Zhang Yang, which led him to publicly have the secretary fired on the spot. With that, the rest of the female secretary were silently warned. Since then, their behavior had changed a 180 degree. From the slutty, sexy girls who would gladly hop on his cock at his command, to smart, casual, serious with work secretaries. They had even dressed decently for a change and were sure to hide every part of their body.

Eventually, after a very short period of time, they had found out that Zhang Yang did enjoy the occasional display of "affection", as long as it did not go over the line. After that, they reverted back to their revealing outfits and came back to being the secretaries who would moan as they bent over, displaying their fronts and their rears. The only thing that had changed in his office was that, he had to get his own coffee.

After work, Zhang Yang would come back to the game and continued his quest to search for the lost Dimensional Key Fragments. Back at the Great Lake Valla, he had ignored all other quests and had only one focus in his mind. Originally, he did not plan to grind in this map since the entire place was practically water. Before a player could get their hands on a flying mount, their movement speed will be greatly affected. However, now that he had Mythical Turtle, things had turned to out to be better! Since players had chosen to flock to the other five land-based training grounds, no one else was in Great Lake Valla, thus, Zhang Yang was able to grind to his heart's content, without anyone disturbing him.

Zhang Yang arrived at the lake side and summoned the Mythical Turtle to his side. The Gold-Eared Bear King morphed into an orb of golden light and shot back into his inventory. Zhang Yang hopped onto the turtle's back and commanded it to move towards the lake. The problem with turtle was its moving speed. It moved at an incredibly slow speed to the water, lumbering on its flippers.

Seeing that he was literally moving at a snail pace, Zhang Yang remembered a joke. A snail had fallen sick and had asked a turtle to buy some medicine from the pharmacy on the opposite road. After two hours of long waiting, the turtle had not returned. Puffing with anger, the snail had bellowed angrily and said, "What is taking that turtle so long?!" Just as the snail had done letting out his frustration, the voice of the turtle could be heard from the outside the door. "Complain again and you'll walk over there yourself!"

Zhang Yang chuckled by himself. Just when the turtle had touched the surface of the water, there was an immediately change in speed. Like a train, the turtle suddenly sped up and he found himself practically flying in the water!

Hmph! Good speed!

The movement speed of the Mythical Turtle was so fast that it trumped the movement speed of the white bear! Furthermore, as expected of a Violet-Platinum tier mount, after diving into the water, a huge air bubble formed around the turtle's back and protected Zhang Yang from the water. The main purpose of him being deep in the water, other than to grind, was to search for the water-specific herb called [Devil's Algae]. This herb could only be found around or in an underwater environment. Any small river or pond would have it, albeit an incredibly low spawn rate. Still, the sheer size of this massive lake accounted for that scarcity! Zhang Yang wanted to collect the [Devil's Algae] to craft [Level 4 Strength Potion]. As the herb was currently not available in the market, he had to harvest them on his own.

'Ding! You have used Collect on [Devil's Algae]!'

'Ding! You have obtained [Devil's Algae] x3!'

It was a pity. His Herbalism has reached to the level of Specialist. Collecting herbs in level 90 maps or lower would not increase the profession's mastery level. The herb - [Devil's Algae] was not especially rare, thus the monsters around the herbs were not too strong. It was just a normal tiered monster, Marching Crab that required only three to five hits to kill.

Zhang Yang took his slow sweet time collecting herbs, and killing monsters. In the blink of an eye, Zhang Yang had already collected close to one stack of [Devil's Algae]. There was a sudden bleep in his mini-map. Zhang Yang did not take notice of it, since it was probably just another indicator of a [Devil's Algae]. However, it did not take long before Zhang Yang saw that something was wrong with it. The bleep was moving.

Could it be that the Devil's Algae had gain consciousness and had decided to swim away?

Zhang Yang was extremely intrigued. He then patted the Mythical Turtle and swam towards the bleep. With haste, the turtle arrived at the source of the blinking light. Zhang Yang could not keep a straight face when he saw what was presented to him. It was a huge sailing…NO! Swimming ship! Zhang Yang was close to a hundred meters below sea level and the ship was fully submerged!

The ship was at least 200 meters long. The sails of the ship was still intact and was guiding the massive and grand ship like a huge dragon, swimming majestically under the water. Hanging on top of a rotting old center mass of the ship was a flag with a human skull. Written on the lower side of the flag were the words "The Flying Dutchman". On top of the ship were many types of wild moss and weeding, and a large portion of them were [Devil's Algae]. No wonder the bleeps in the mini-map could move! Zhang Yang was grateful for this lucky find. The ship was moving at an extremely slow speed, probably the same as the speed of the turtle when it was walking on land. The size made it look majestic, despite the moving speed. Zhang Yang swam alongside ship to have a good look at it.

After thinking thoroughly, Zhang Yang had realized that the name Flying Dutchman was the name of the legendary ghost ship! According to the folklore, the ship once belonged to a group pf infamous pirates. They had robbed and plundered a number of treasure! On one fateful day, during one of their usual robbing routine, they had encountered a powerful magician. Even though the pirates managed to kill the magician, they had been cursed by him. As a result, no one heard from them for long. Many had spread the word that the crew members had perished with the ship. In truth, the ship was not destroyed. It merely had been turned into a submarine! That was why no one ever heard from them.

From a distance, Zhang Yang noticed that there were a few skeletons patrolling on the ship. Some of them were cleaning, while some were standing on the observatory platform, looking into the telescope. It appeared that none of them had realized that they had already died, and had continued moving and behaving as if they were alive.

Just then, Zhang Yang realized something. Pirates robbed others of their wealth. Now that they had sunk into the water…there should be treasure on the ship!

Greatly motivated, Zhang Yang patted the turtle and swam towards the ship like a torpedo. This is a chance that should not be missed. The Flying Dutchman had an entire massive body of water to roam about! If he misses this chance, he could take another long month to search for it!

Once the turtle was alongside of the ship, Zhang Yang immediately dismounted and hopped onto the ship. Two skeletal crew members noticed the intruder and immediately drew swords from their sides and growled at Zhang Yang.

[Flying Dutchman Crew Member] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 77

HP: 77,000

Defense: 400

'-6,284!'

The Mythical Turtle snapped its beak and dealt heavy damage on one of the skeletons. At the same time, {Tear} was activated, dealing another 7,620 damage to the same monster. In an instant, a total of 14,000 damage was dealt! This kind of damage can only be dealt by strong entities! As expected of the Violet-Platinum mount! What a monster!

Feeling extremely lucky to own the mount, Zhang Yang started his own attack on the incoming skeleton.

'-1,840!'

Even though Zhang Yang was supposed to be ultra-strong, his attack was only a pea shooter compared to the attack of his own pet! After a short skirmish, Zhang Yang had wasted close to 20,000 HP to kill both of the elite tier monster. Zhang Yang took a short amount of time to fully recover, using [Bandages].

Onboard the ship were 10 and more skeletal monsters. Zhang Yang drew their attention with {Spear of Obliteration} and killed them one by one. After clearing every monster he could see, Zhang Yang tried to find his way into the ship's interior. The problem was that the cabin of the ship was sealed shut. If he wants to get inside, he would have to find another way in. Zhang Yang searched all over the ship's rear and gave up, after he could not find any entry points.

He then mounted the turtle and swam towards the bow of the ship. Along the way, he had killed another 10 and more crew members before arriving to the ship's front. At the frontmost of the ship, there was a huge man, wearing the ship captain's hat, steering the ship. The man was shouting commands like, "Man the bridge!" or "Raise the sail!".

[Captain Mordor] (Gray-Silver, Spectre)

Level: 78

HP: 780,000

Defense: 800

The boss was obviously one tier higher than the normal monster. Having a perfect body with no decaying muscles, the only part that made it non-human were the glowing, emerald green flaming eyes!

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Chapter 341: Floating Clouds Guild

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Zhang Yang did not rush into the battle with the boss first. Instead, he spent some time to clear out the other monsters, using {Spear of Obliteration} and killing them one at a time. Zhang Yang was not stupid enough to rush into the herd and fight them all once like he usually does. These monsters were all elite tiered. If he rushes in crazily, he would probably be in trouble.

With Mordor standing there, minding his own business, Zhang Yang successfully killed all the monsters without triggering the boss fight. It took him a brief 10 minutes before the boss was the only target left for Zhang Yang to kill. He was still, in fact, shouting commands, as if there were still crew members around to listen to him. Now that everything was ready, it was time for the boss.

Zhang Yang patted the turtle and charged towards Mordor at an amazing speed.

"HM!? Land breather!?" cried Mordor as Zhang Yang entered his range. The boss shifted his hat to one side, drew his curved saber and bellowed. "Lo an' behold, mateys! 'tis time t' shed some blood!"

With no monsters around, Mordor's command was for naught. After a few seconds of unresponsiveness, Mordor turn around and frowned when he noticed there were no one around to assist him. Mordor leaped forward to slice at Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang intercepted the attack with a {Block} and counterattacked immediately. Compared to Zhang Yang's sword attacks, the Mythical Turtle attacks were much higher than Zhang Yang, and were actually causing significant damage to Mordor!

"Curse ye! I'll slice off yer hands 'n feet fer me fishes!" bellowed Mordor with rage as he swung his sword, cutting through the water and striking Zhang Yang's armor with such force that sparks started flying underwater!

Zhang Yang laughed and provoked him more. "You can try!"

"Yer be a small fighter! Ye dare to be spouting nonsense in presence of the great Mordor! I 'ave scuttled more scallywags than ye have eat'n hardtack!" It seemed that Mordor had the mouth to keep up with witty chatterboxes like Zhang Yang!

Out of the blue, the boss thrust his hands out. Right then, the muscles and skin on his hands immediately rotted away, leaving a clean, "meat-less" boney hand, and touched Zhang Yang!

'Ding! You have received the effect of {Decaying Touch}! Defense has been decreased by 100 points! Lasts for 30 seconds!'

Soon after, a second strike came again, causing {Decaying Touch} to gain another stack, decreasing Zhang Yang's Defense by 200! The problem with this skill was that unlike {Cripple Defense}, {Decaying Touch} could be stacked by more than 5 times! In just half a minute, Zhang Yang had completely lost all his Defense!

'-4,572!'

The boss' damage gradually increased as Zhang Yang's defense decreased. Each strike dealt at least 4,500 damage! His DPS was decreased to at least 1,500!

"Ar! Ar! Ar! Ye be impressed! Now ye know how strong Mordor be!" Mordor scoffed through his panting breath as he continued slicing at Zhang Yang with all his might. "Witness the power of Mordor! Water Dragon Rush!"

Shoom! Shoom!

Two tornado-like whirlpools were formed by the swing of the boss and headed towards Zhang Yang. Each whirlpool was the size of a regular human and was at least 3 meters long.

Although Zhang Yang did not know what was the skill about, he knew it was not something that he should touch. Zhang Yang quickly maneuvered the turtle away to safety and attacked the boss from another angle. Since the whirlpools' movement speed were slow, Zhang Yang was not worried about it since they were fairly easy to avoid.

Mordor continued trading blows with Zhang Yang and conjured two more whirlpools. Slowly, the numbers rose. All of the summoned whirlpool moved slowly, and were heading towards the boss's direction. Zhang Yang quickly moved away. Right now, he wanted to kite the boss away from the whirlpools. Although he succeeded in kiting the boss away to a safe location, the whirlpools followed. As if they were conscious, they followed the boss and headed towards Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang frowned, but it was not a huge problem for him. Zhang Yang then kited the boss all the way from the front of the ship to the rear! Luckily, the boss had only 780,000 HP. Since Zhang Yang and the turtle were combined, their DPS had reached to 6,000! He only needed 2 minutes or so to kill the boss off! Zhang Yang used one count of of {Shield Wall}, {Turtle Shell Defense}, {Berserker's Heal}, a bottle of {Level 4 Healing Potion}, a bottle of {Fountain of Life}, and the set effect of the set equipment, to kill the boss without any hitch.

Once Mordor was killed, Zhang Yang had lowered his guard and had recklessly got caught in the whirlpool. He was then sent spinning out of control for 10 seconds before he was able to escape the whirlpools. If he had been caught in them during the battle with the boss, it would have definitely spelled a certain doom for him. Zhang Yang realized his mistake and patted the turtle to speed towards the battle loots.

Mordor's drops were fairly average. Zhang Yang picked up three counts of Gray-Silver equipment and seven Green-Copper equipment. However, he was slightly lucky. One of the Gray-Silver drop was the equipment fragment of the [Fireglass Necklace]. These few days, Zhang Yang had amassed a total of three [Fireglass Necklace] fragments. He had also obtained one fragment from the auction house. Right now, he had gained the final piece and was ready to forge the complete necklace!

Now that he thought of it, he was almost Level 80 before finally managing to forge a Level 70 Assembled Equipment. No one could predict that a Level 80 boss would directly drop a Level 80 Violet-Platinum or Yellow-Gold necklace for him. If that was the case, this [Fireglass Necklace] would be for naught.

It could not be helped. Assembled Weapons were mainly created to sort of compensate the extreme rarity of high tiered weapons and equipment. If Assembled Equipment were easily obtained, it would completely throw the game off balance, and cause the mass majority of player to seek out Assembled Equipment instead of actual equipment. At this current rate, even players would have the same chance to obtain strong equipment without burning a hole in their pocket, or wait too long before they could obtain one! This balance was to allow a proper scale of power between lower-level players and higher-level players! Everything was set to be balanced!

Zhang Yang kept all the battle loots and was heading to the internal cabin when he noticed something from afar. A group of nine players were heading towards his direction. Zhang Yang was baffled. The map was extremely huge to begin with, allowing players to choose a variety of areas to grind their level. Since that was the case, the players heading towards Zhang Yang were not here to train. Furthermore, Zhang Yang was currently located deep within the lake. Like HP and MP, when a player dives into water, they will have a "Breathing Gauge". Slowly and surely, the gauge will run out and if the player did not resurface to catch a breath, they will be drowned alive! Only those who possess Water Mounts like Zhang Yang could dive deep into the lake to grind.

Now that everything was established, the players did not possess any mounts and were swimming by themselves! Obviously, their main target was the ship! The Flying Dutchman!

The ship was moving slower than a snail could crawl, but it was always constantly moving. Plus, it will always remain underwater! Without guidance from a certain quest, Zhang Yang truly believed that the players would never spend their free time swimming underwater just to search for this ship! Although the movement speed of the players underwater was slow, the ship was even slower. Without much effort, the nine players had arrived the ship's rear. Now that they had arrived, Zhang Yang checked their profiles.

Everyone had the same guild tag "Floating Clouds". Based on their equipment set, he could distinguish that one of them was Guardian, two Hunters, two Thieves, and the four remaining players were Cloth Armor wearers. All of them had the buff "Underwater Breathing", most probably gained by consuming a potion.

Among the nine players, the highest-leveled player there was the person named Wind Up 30 Feet. The lowest level player was Branda Nights at Level 70. Everyone of them noticed Zhang Yang and started raised their guards.

One of them, the Guardian named Snow.Wolf.Lake (with the dots)1 approached Zhang Yang and said politely, "Excuse my sir. Could you please shift your business here to some place else? This ship belongs to the Floating Clouds guild!"

It was a polite, civil request. However, beneath it, there was an intangible sense of unmeasurable pride and arrogance. Zhang Yang could deal with that. Even if the player was genuinely courteous, Zhang Yang had no intention of surrendering the place to them! In his previous life, he had picked up news that the Flying Dutchman's boss, Van der Waals – Dunkirk, would drop treasure maps! These maps will lead players to a treasure that rewards them with extremely rare and powerful equipment, or even skill books!

However, there were limits. The fourth kill of Dunkirk would not drop any [Treasure Maps]. As per usual, the first kill would have the big drop, the [Treasure Maps] dropped would surely lead to the best of the best items! After all, they were pirates, and they did steal from the best. Still, they had limited lifespans and they could only steal so much in their lifetimes. It was not like the treasure they had amassed could provide for all players in this game.

Zhang Yang could swear that the current boss right now has not yet been killed even once! That would mean the kill that he was about execute would drop the jumbo loot! With a bonus, the [Treasure Map] that the boss will drop later will be the best of the best! That was why Zhang Yang would not surrender the ship to them, for a single, polite sentence. Especially when they were wearing the same expression that practically saying "You should consider yourself lucky that we did not kill you on sight!"

Zhang Yang smiled lightly and revealed his own profile information. He was never a man who favored a fair fight. If his title would scare the nine players away, it would be for the best since he would not want to be accused of being a bully or something.

"Zhan Yu, Crypt Slaughterer, Physician's Friend, Hero of Snow Sprite City, Warrior of Centaur, Hero of White Jade Castle, Level 78, Male Human, Guardian, ."

The sudden, long title that appeared on his head had clearly scared and blinded the nine players from Floating Clouds.

"H-H-He is Zhan Yu!"

"The leader of the champions of the Soaring Swords Competition! The MVP!"

"The guild master of Lone Desert Smoke!"

"The only guild in China that has two battle teams participating in S – class Professional League!"

Everyone chanted their discovery, and some of them were clearly showing fear. There was a saying, people lived and left the world with their name. Zhang Yang was now, the man greatly feared by almost everyone in the entirety of China!

Snow.Wolf.Lake, assumed to be the party leader of the group of nine, had looked at Zhang Yang and said, "So what if he was Zhan Yu?! He is just one man! And there are nine of us! What are we afraid of?! If we tuck our tails and run away, the name Floating Clouds will forever be tarnished!"

"Right now, we are underwater. We are all slow. He is slow! We have so many ranged attackers! Surely we can kite him to death!" said one Hunter named Heartless Aqua Luna.

Wind Up 30 Feet nodded in agreement. "If we kill him, it will be a massive boost to our guild's name! Also, when he won the Soaring Sword Competition, he won two Violet-Platinum equipment! Perhaps, we could get that off him…"

"That would be a huge bonus!" said everyone with a sudden glint of greed in their eyes.

At the current stage of the game, Gray-Silver tier equipment were the bread and butter for all of the players around. Every piece of equipment could be sold for as cheaply as a few hundred gold coins to a thousand gold coins based on their bonus attributes and effect. Weapons were usually expensive. Even though Yellow-Gold were fairly common now days, those who were wearing Yellow-Gold equipment were part of large guilds. Even then, only the higher officers of the guild had the privilege to put on Yellow-Gold equipment!

Obviously, Zhang Yang's Little Merchandize Shop was a major provider of those equipment, and they were categorized to that of the prices of cars and houses!

Yellow-Gold equipment that turned up in the open market were mostly forged by farming Assembled Equipment fragments which were hunted from Gray-Silver boss! Those were sold up to 10,000 to even 100,000 gold coins! Weapons, rings, and necklaces could go as far to even more than 100,000 gold coins!

Violet-Platinum equipment were literally priceless. You can never find them in the market. Across the entire China region, One Sword Stroke has one, while the rest of the Violet-Platinum equipment were in possession of Lone Desert Smoke!

If Yellow-Gold equipment were worth so much in the first place, what would a Violet-Platinum equipment go for?

1,000,000?! OR MORE!

Just like when Yellow-Gold equipment has made its first debut to the market, the first Violet-Platinum could fetch up to 1,000,000!

There was a reason why greed was among the seven deadly sins. Because of greed, these nine members of Floating Clouds would willingly fight Zhang Yang, not knowing that he would basically massacre them all without a flinch.

The intention to kill had already steeled in their will. Even if they lost, they will only lose a bit of experience points. They stood to gain a lot more from killing Zhang Yang.

All of them started to breath raggedly. Zhang Yang only needed to read their expression to know what they were thinking of. Zhang Yang sighed heavily. If they want a blood bath, so be it. He shall grant them a blood bath.

Shush!

Wind Up 30 Feet shot the first arrow and started the attack.

'Ding! You've been attacked by the Snow.Wolf.Lake party. You have 10 minutes to return fire!'

With the system giving Zhang Yang the green light, all members of Floating Clouds (present at the field) had their name tags turned red.

Zhang Yang lightly hummed and the Mythical Turtle swam like a speeding bullet towards the Cloth Armor class players. Even though he was not sure which was the Priest or the Spellcaster, when the battle starts, the persons having a progress bar above their heads will display the spell names and he could easily differentiate which class was which.

Everyone knew that Zhang Yang had the multi target AoE skill {Horizontal Sweep}. That was why when Wind Up 30 Feet shot the first arrow, all of them had fanned out, not allowing Zhang Yang to catch them all at once.

As expected of the Mythical Turtle, at such an amazing speed, Zhang Yang had arrived at the nearest Spellcaster in just 2 to 3 seconds!

"How is he so fast!?"

Everyone was baffled. Was he using some sort of hacking program? How could he possess such insane speed underwater!?

'-6,724!'

'-8,242!'

The Mythical Turtle attacked once and used {Tear} and had dealt close to 15,000 damage in an instant. That Spellcaster had only over than 13,000 HP. He was killed in such a speed that he was not able to use any evasive skill such as {Ice Frame} or {Apparate}!

Everything that had just happened, happened in a flash!

Whack! Wham! Bam!

All sort of attacks, spells, debuffs had landed on Zhang Yang. But at his current level of equipment, physical attack class equipped with Gray-Silver equipment would be lucky to deal over 1,000 damage on Zhang Yang. On the other hand, Spellcasters' attacks were strong. Their attacks could easily reach over 2,000!

After the barrage of attack, Zhang Yang only lost close to 10,000 HP. However, he was mounted on the Mythical Turtle, and with both of them sharing their HP bar, Zhang Yang had pushed his maximum HP to 85, 900. With that amount of HP, he was technically far stronger than any elite tier monster around! That 10,000 damage that he had just received was nothing but a mosquito bite!

Immediately, Zhang Yang consumed a bottle of [Mobility Potion] and eliminated the debuff from {Blast Wave}. Zhang Yang controlled the Mythical Turtle and flew towards the other surviving Spellcaster!

Zhang Yang's current target was not as stupid. He knew that the attack from the Mythical Turtle was ridiculously strong. In defense, that Spellcaster activated {Ice Frame} without a second thought.

1. Snow.Wolf.Lake: Snow.Wolf.Lake (Chinese: 雪狼湖) is Hong Kong's first modern musical. The title combines the Chinese name of the two main characters; "Wolf" 狼 in the title refers to the main male protagonist, and "Snow" 雪 refers to the main female protagonist. The "lake" 湖refers to a plot related element.

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Chapter 342: Crimson-Gold Crab

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The Mythical Turtle mount, possessed by Zhang Yang had given him the highest advantage in underwater battle. Whichever target Zhang Yang chose, the turtle would swim towards his target like a homing missile! On the other hand, the poor enemy could never surpass Zhang Yang speed and could only use skills to evade and survive!

Zhang Yang had the natural athletic ability that was able to move behind his opponent during a battle! That was proven during the fight in the battle arena! Now that he had the Mythical Turtle with him, he was able to chase after two of the Thieves and one of the Guardians, not giving them any single chance to attack him!

Once the Spellcaster had activated {Ice Frame}, Zhang Yang had pulled the reins and had headed towards the last Spellcaster. They had a total of three Spellcaster and one Priest. When he had turned his target to the last Spellcaster, he too had activated {Ice Frame}. Zhang Yang turned around and headed straight to the Priest. Knowing his power, Branda Nights drew in a deep breath, and opened his mouth, and activated {Terror Shriek}.

[Terror Shriek: Causes fear to all targets within 2 meters, making them to turn around in fear. Lasts for 5 seconds. Cool Down Time: 1 minute.

Zhang Yang responded quickly with {Warrior's Will} and dispelled the effect on him.

Branda Nights was shocked and quickly cast a {Holy Shield} on himself. He knew that he would never beat Zhang Yang in a contest of speed. Since escape was not an option, might as well try to heal a little.

'-2,726!'

'-8,073!'

'-8,874!'

The first attack was greatly diminished by the {Holy Shield}. Close to 4,000 damage was absorbed by shield. However, the next attack - {Tear} by Mythical Turtle and Zhang Yang's sure Critical strike - {Destructive Smash} had landed cleanly without any reduction in damage. With their combined attack, they had emptied Branda Nights' 13,000 HP and had him immediately sent to the graveyard!

Two down, seven more to go!

The battle had only started for 5 seconds, and two members were already dead. The party had lost their composure. With the Priest killed, and the other two Spellcaster yet to "come" out of their {Ice Frames}!

Seeing them acting in hysterics, Zhang Yang laughed and shot towards Wind Up 30 Feet.

{Breaking Shot}!

Pak!

Zhang Yang was finally struck. The turtle stopped moving and Zhang Yang's character started to wander like a drunkard in the water.

"Make a move! Have him controlled!" screamed Snow.Wolf.Lake in the party channel. "Thieves! Get to them and have him stunned! Old fart, you first! Have him stunned for 10 seconds with {Ambush} and {Kidney Shot}! Wintermelon! Take turns with the old fart, and we could at least stun Zhan Yu for 40 seconds! I don't believe that we can't kill that guy in 40 seconds! Smokey! Gunner! Get out of your {Ice Frames} and hit him!"

Believing that they may have the chance to defeat Zhang Yang, every surviving member of the party regained their confidence. However, planning to have Zhang Yang killed and actually doing so is a whole other world of difficulty.

A player's movement speed was reduced during underwater movement. After a Their enters stealth mode, their movement speed will be further reduced! Their speed was so slow that you would be wondering if you were watching a slow-mo video playback! Even though Zhang Yang was rendered immobile by {Breaking Shot} for 4 seconds, it was not enough for either Thieves to reach Zhang Yang! Even if the other Hunter, Heartless Aqua Luna could lengthen the {Dazed} duration by firing another {Breaking Shot}, it was not enough for them to reach Zhang Yang!

During that time, no one dared to attack Zhang Yang. The effect {Dazed} was just a temporarily state of immobility that could be easily dispelled by applying the slightest damage to the target! All of them were waiting for the Thieves to start their chain of stunning before they could attack for as long as 40 seconds!

Zhang Yang grinned. With a sudden twist of his body, Zhang Yang rushed towards the Spellcasters who were already out of their {Ice Frames}. Spellcaster were natural tank-killers. Zhang Yang had to destroy the two targets as his first priority before the others.

'Apparate'!

Both of them blinked away and were able to move 10 meters away from Zhang Yang. However, even if they could evade the first charge, they could not do the same for the second rush. 10 meters of distance would only take the Mythical Turtle half a second to travel!

Pak! 3 down!

Zhang Yang could not help but feel extremely impressed with the Mythical Turtle during PvP. During traveling, the turtle would regain 50 Focus points, and would ensure that every attack on the enemy could include one normal attack and one activation of {Tear}! The accumulated attack damage would sum up to 15,000! Zhang Yang only needed to plant one more strike to kill most of all the non-tank player characters!

Speed kill! All Spellcaster had been killed without breaking a sweat! Now that his natural enemies had been dealt with, the rest should be an easy task. It took him less than a minute to completely wipe them all flat and send them to the graveyard. The two Thieves gave him the easier kills. Since the beginning, they never had the chance to attack Zhang Yang. Instead, Zhang Yang had managed to catch their movements before they could enter stealth and had cast {Horizontal Sweep}, killing them both with a normal attack and {Tear}.

When the storm hits, there is nothing that you can do!

After clearing the battle field, three of the nine players had dropped a total of three equipment. Zhang Yang helped himself and took them all. Zhang Yang had given them the warning signs, but greed had clouded their judgement and had caused them to pay the price! Everyone would have to take responsibility of their actions!

Zhang Yang took his chance to enter the cabin. However, he did not rush into the hull. Instead, he waited on the inside. If the attackers revived and decide to leave, Zhang Yang would leave them in peace. But if they decide to make a comeback and ambush him while he was inside the cabin, Zhang Yang would be ready to launch a counterattack.

After a while, Zhang Yang saw them reviving. Disappointed in their next actions, Zhang Yang sighed. Humanity's greed is immeasurable! After reviving, they had recovered back to full health and were headed towards the cabin again! However, to the least of their expectations, they did not predict that Zhang Yang would be waiting for them at the entrance of the cabin!

Zhang Yang consumed a bottle of [Rage Potion (Grade 4 Transmutation)] and activated {Horizontal Sweep} in a swift motion. The attack had caused everyone in the party to be in a disarray. Since they were all heading towards the entrance, they were all grouped together closely. Because of that, the Dark Enigmatic Sword had able to trigger its effect and had blasted them with two waves of 4,000 damage. All of them had lost more than half of their maximum HP. Zhang Yang then cast a {Blast Wave} and stunned them all shortly. One by one, the turtle had been able to attack with quick snaps, killing them and dropping more of their equipment.

Zhang Yang then leaped into the group with the {Heroic Leap}, stunning them for a longer period. With this wave of attack, three Spellcaster had managed to save themselves by activating {Ice Frame}. However, it only bought them 10 seconds of additional time, and nothing else! In the realm of the underwater, the Mythical Turtle prevailed. None shall escape from it!

10 minutes later, everyone revived again, but this time, Zhang Yang strike preemptively. Everyone was killed instantly since they had only 20% remaining HP after being revived. After three rounds of killing, Zhang Yang had managed to collect a total of 10 Gray-Silver equipment. It was…a great haul?

Zhang Yang waited to strike again but this time, but the bodies that were slowly floating up to the surface disappeared. They had all revived directly at the graveyard! However, Zhang Yang was cautious. Instead of heading into the cabin immediately, he waited for close to half an hour for them. It could be a trick. They could pretend to have given up and come back again only to strike him from the back. However, as time passed, Zhang Yang had convinced himself that he was being overly cautious. Perhaps, they had really given up, and were scarred for life!

Zhang Yang humored himself and went into the cabin after waiting for 30 minutes.

Inside the cabin were a number of Spectral Pirates. They were all hiding in the shadows and would wait until Zhang Yang was close to them before striking. However, their methods would never work against the combined strength of Zhang Yang and his Mythical Turtle!

After some time, Zhang Yang felt that he had memories of Floating Clouds of his past life. Zhang Yang thought hard. He remembered the name, but could not recall why would he remember them. After killing on and on, Zhang Yang had finally associated them to his memories.

In his previous life, Floating Clouds was a rather famous guild. They had even managed to enroll themselves in the S-class Professional League, with good rankings! The guild master's name was Blue Phoenix. Some said that she was a beauty to behold. There were three vice guild masters. They were called, Handsome Suppressed, Weed Lord, and Tooth Fairy. These four players were best friends in reality. They had been together ever since they were in primary school, all the way to graduation from a university. Their bond was practically unbreakable. Besides their friendship, the three males really liked Blue Phoenix. This had led Blue Phoenix to be in a tight spot. Since their friendship grew deep, whomever she chooses will lead the same outcome. One of them will be happy and the other two, or three will be sad. Eventually, Blue Phoenix chose Handsome Suppressed.

Weed Lord and Tooth Fairy had nothing to offer but blessings for those two and silently moved out of the love triangle. On the day of their wedding, both Weed Lord and Tooth Fairy had incidentally obtained bad news from the drunk Handsome Suppressed. Blue Phoenix had chosen him was because he had raped her while she was intoxicated and had impregnated her.

This news had led both Weed Lord and Tooth Fairy to be extremely mad and had killed Handsome Suppressed in a fit of anger. Both of them were sentenced to prison for 20 years and 22 years respectively. Blue Phoenix was saddened by the death and had left the game and the guild, leading to the disbandment of the guild ultimately.

When Zhang Yang first joined 'God's Miracle', it was at the time when Floating Cloud was just disbanded. That was why he did not recall much about the guild.

Now that Zhang Yang had thought about it, he was contemplating whether to or not to give a piece of advice to all three of them. Zhang Yang may not be a savior of humanity, but if he could save four players with a lift of a finger, why not?

However, there was the catch. What should he say? Since the incident had yet to occur, and their relationship was as strong as platinum, it'll just appear that he was antagonizing them! In the end, Zhang Yang sent an anonymous, mysterious, foreboding message to remind them of their friendship and if they refuse to listen, he could do nothing else.

For now, Zhang Yang placed the matter about Floating Clouds at the back of his head and continued on killing more and more Spectral Pirates.

Shush!

A fiery red shadow shot passed Zhang Yang in a flash. Zhang Yang turned just as quick and smiled when he saw what it was. The fiery red shadow was a tiny little crab, roughly the size of his palm. The opaque red shell was so vibrant that it seemed to be dyed in blood. The crab remained stationary and stared at Zhang Yang while snapping its tiny claws. Its eyes were constantly shrinking and popping back out.

[Crimson-Gold Crab] (Rare Yellow-Gold Battle Mount, Beast)

Level: 0

HP: 50

Note: Can be sealed.

Zhang Yang swiftly contacted Han Ying Xue and said, "Hey Snow B*tch, take the Lover's Charm from Ice cube and come to me. Here's the Yellow-Gold battle mount that you had always wanted."

Zhang Yang could only hear a sudden cry of happiness before she hung up without saying another word. Zhang Yang shrugged and put on the [Lover's Charm: Yang]. Not soon after, a white light flashed and Han Ying Xue appeared right beside him. Shocked, Han Ying Xue struggled for a moment before she could adjusted herself to the underwater environment. Zhang Yang laughed for a bit and handed the [Mermaid's Lungs] to her.

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Chapter 343: The Ghost Captain

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The Crimson-Gold Crab's main attraction point was that its color was extremely pleasing to the eyes. Perhaps it was because Zhang Yang was reminded of the color of blood. Han Ying Xue was clearly delighted at the sight of it. She quickly took a [Sealing Leash] out and used it on the crab.

The little crab was shocked. Like a real-life crab, it actually tried to run away when Han Ying Xue approached the little critter.

23%...36%...45%...Pak! Fail.

"That's 100 gold coins wasted away!" cried Han Ying Xue bitterly as she took out another [Sealing Lease] and used it on the crab.

17%...57%...89%...100% Success!

This bloody woman's luck is off the charts. She had managed to capture the little crab after two tries! Zhang Yang was feeling a little envious of her when it all changed into pitiful laughter when Zhang Yang tried to imagine how Han Ying Xue would sit on the crab, walking sideways. That being said, now that Han Ying Xue has arrived, she might as well joined Zhang Yang for a little killing spree. It would be nice to have someone healing him.

The two of them proceeded deeper into the ship. Even though Han Ying Xue was slightly slower, Zhang Yang could go on further and take on monsters without Han Ying Xue needing to be present right on the spot during the battle. Zhang Yang had more than 80,000 HP! He could at least hold his own before help arrives. Before he ever got in danger, Han Ying Xue would already reach him and cast a simple {Heal} and a {Regeneration} and be on her way. Other than that, she could do nothing much and gain the share of experience points. The small party of two killed their way in and gained a decent amount of experience points, causing the little crab to almost reach Level 30! It was almost ready to be mounted!

[The Reins of the Crimson-Gold Crab] (Yellow-Gold Battle Mount)

Use: Summons or unsummons a mountable and battle-ready Crimson-Gold Crab. The Crimson-Gold Crab can travel both on land and in water, and grant you a 100% increase in movement speed. During underwater travel, the mount will grant the user the ability to breathe underwater. If you were to perish during a mounted status, the pet can be summoned again after 10 minutes. You can only have one active mount at a time. Casting time: 2 seconds.

Level Requirement: 30

Bound.

The Crimson-Gold Crab was somewhat a jack of all trades. Its movement speed on land was not too fast, and it was not too slow in water. A jack of all trades, yet master of none. Still, Han Ying Xue was extremely pleased with her catch. After all, she had just obtained her first mount! A Yellow-Gold at that too! She was so happy that her smile was from ear to ear!

The Crimson-Gold Crab had two skills. The first being the common {Shared Life} and the second one was {Sharp Claw}, which cause 100% melee damage to one target.

When the crab had finally reached Level 30, Han Ying Xue had made herself comfortable on the crab and had started to ride it. Zhang Yang turned to witness the sight and laughed uncontrollably. Han Ying Xue raised an eyebrow and said, "Dummy, do you really think that you're cool when you're riding a turtle?"

"Well, at least I have style. While you…well…" Zhang Yang burst into a huge laughter as Han Ying Xue kept quiet, finally realizing that her crab was walking funny.

"Hmph!" She scoffed disgruntledly. "This maiden simply likes to walk horizontally!" Zhang Yang laughed even harder.

With the mount taking her wherever she wanted to, Han Ying Xue movement speed was increased. Still, her speed could not match up with that of the turtle's, but she never got left behind. With the growing level of the crab, Han Ying Xue was able to contribute a little bit of damage in battle. However, the damage was insignificant due to the level gap suppression.

Without much time, the second floor of the ship was almost cleared. Until they reached the third floor, they came to a small room and saw a man dressed unlike that of a crew member. He was neatly dressed and was seen focused on scribbling something on a piece of paper. There were many compasses and measuring tools laid messily on the table.

[Navigator Zuro] (Gray-Silver, Spectre)

Level: 79

HP: 790,000

Defense: 400

Without the help from Han Ying Xue, Zhang Yang could easily defeat this Gray-Silver tier boss with a few ulti skills. Now that he had Han Ying Xue with him, he could go wild. Within 3 minutes, Zhang Yang had reduced the boss to a pile of rotting bones, without breaking a sweat.

The boss did not drop anything of value. If only the boss would drop a fragment of the Assembled Equipment, Zhang Yang would have gained some good Yellow-Gold equipment. However, the items that Zhang Yang picked up were all Gray-Silver and Green-Copper. All of those items were fated to end up in the Little Merchandize Shop.

The party continued on and as the Crimson-Gold Crab grew, the faster the party proceeded. That being said, it would never match up to the Mythical Turtle! With haste, the party took on the third and fourth floor quickly and swiftly. The two of them had finally arrived to a rusty door, where the last boss awaited them behind it!

The last boss was a short, middle-aged man. Although he was small in size, he was well built. Wearing the standard pirate outfit and hat, the most iconic symbol of a pirate captain was the iron hook on the left wrist of the man. The man was lounging at his desk with both of his feet on top of the desk. On the side of his old, rotting wooden chair was an opened treasure chest. He was jubilantly counting the gold coins pieces by pieces as he stacked them on the desk. As he counted, he tossed the coins back into the chest by his side. There was a extremely similar smile on his face that Zhang Yang could immediately identify.

[Ship Captain Edward – Dunkirk] (Yellow-Gold, Spectre)

Level: 80

HP: 8,000,000

Defense: 1,500

Zhang Yang grinned and turned to Han Ying Xue. "Woman, see that smile on his face. It's exactly the same as yours!"

Instead of being mad of the insult, Han Ying Xue smirked and scoffed. "Oh please. He's not as beautiful as I am!"

"…Narcissistic Queen!"

"Excuse me, this maiden prefers the word confident!"

"You know, I just realized this. Why did you start calling yourself "maiden"?"

"Hmm. Listen here you swine. I am but a young maiden. Besides, I'd haven't…you know!"

Oh my god. This woman is going to cause a whole lot more trouble…

Fearing for what comes next, Zhang Yang quickly ignored Han Ying Xue and rushed towards the boss. "Edward – Dunkirk! Give me all of your treasure!"

The boss' area of aggro effect was huge. Zhang Yang had only stepped two or three steps forwards, and he had already noticed his presence and had lowered his fet from the table. Only when Zhang Yang had provoked Edward with his words, he slammed the desk and closed the treasure chest. He stood up frantically and swept all the gold coins on the desk into his pockets. He walked off the desk and pulled out a chipped saber from his waist and got into his combat stance.

"Ye' be regrettin' ye words, boy! Ay be chippin' flesh before yer popped out from ye mommy's womb!"

DING! CHIIING!

Sparks flew when Edward's sword clashed with Zhang Yang's shield, even when they were underwater. Han Ying Xue was far from where Zhang Yang and the boss was. Instead of joining the fray herself, she stayed back to heal Zhang Yang from a good distance. Han Ying Xue was rather smart. Since the boss could possibly have one or many kind of AoE skills, it was best for her to observe the battle from a safe distance and enact her role as a healer properly.

On the side note, her crab was only Level 58, it would not contribute to the battle much. The risk of her standing close to the boss to allow the crab to attack was not worth the damage!

-7774!

Edward – Dunkirk's attack was strong. With a single, undefended attack, he could easily deal more than 8,000 damage on Zhang Yang, after all the damage reduction and absorption passives! Zhang Yang was a professional Guardian. He would not allow his {Block} to be wasted for even a second. Each {Block} was used right on time to ensure the maximum effective usage would be applied. Thus, within 6 seconds of battle, he had only taken 2 attacks!

In 6 seconds, Zhang Yang would nullify roughly 15,000 damage. The boss DPS would be roughly at 2,500. This kind of attack would be nothing for Han Ying Xue to handle. Zhang Yang would not need to activate any defensive skills or use healing potions! Even though the boss HP was hellishly long, Zhang Yang could take his slow sweat time to grind him down to zero since Han Ying Xue, the super healer was by his side.

"Ye' scoundrels! Damnation seize ye souls! Ar' smash ye heads in!" bellowed the boss in a fit of anger. With his left hook (hand) raised up high, a ceiling full of gold coins started to rain down!

'Ding! Edward – Dunkirk has used {Mountain of Treasure}!'

Ding! Ding! Shuaaaush!

Countless gold coins rained down upon them and quickly, the flood was practically flooded with gold coins. Quickly, the coins rose from the floor and had already reached to Zhang Yang's and Han Ying Xue's knee levels! Even though they were on mounts, the heavy metal that dropped from the sky had buried them deep in the sea of coins! The massive pressure of the coins had encased the both of them with only their heads popping out of the sea of coins! Neither of them could move!

Wham!

Taking the chance, the boss rushed towards Zhang Yang and attacked him furiously. Worried, Zhang Yang forcefully turn around, ignoring the boss just to check on Han Ying Xue.

"Hey! Dummy! Stop fighting! Quick, take the coins! Let's fill up our inventory will all of these coins!" Han Ying Xue was "swimming" among the coins, dipping her hands in the sea of coins.

What a miser!

Since their characters were trapped, Zhang Yang could not use {Block} and Han Ying Xue could not heal, and from over 80,000 HP, Zhang Yang took a great deal of damage and his HP was reduced down to half in just 10 seconds! Luckily, the skill {Mountain of Treasure} was not permanent. Once the effect duration ended, the coins in the room disappeared into thin water.

"No! Not my money! No!" cried Han Ying Xue in despair. Angrily, Han Ying Xue turned to the boss and glared at him murderously. She went up front to the front lines and fired a {Punishment Ray} at him. "You rotting piece of stinking pirate! Give me back my gold coins!"

"…Woman please, at least heal me first!" Zhang Yang screamed at her.

Han Ying Xue was still puffing with rage. She glared at Zhang Yang and tossed a {Regeneration} and turned back to the boss. Gritting her teeth, she said, "Dummy! Kill this boss and get this maiden's money back!"

"Erm…The money did belong to the boss…not you…" said Zhang Yang awkwardly.

"Listen to me when I'm talking! This maiden's money is this maiden's money!"

"Please stop using maiden this maiden that. No one talks like that anymore…"

"Hmph!"

Edward's skill, the {Mountain of Treasure} was considered to be an ulti skill that was capable of immobilizing every player for 10 seconds! If any other tank were to face the boss in place of Zhang Yang, they would surely have perished if they could not cast {Shield Wall} or {Sacred Protection} in time. On a side note, {Shield Wall} and {Sacred Protection} were two long cool down skills. If the boss's {Mountain of Treasure} was cast every 30 seconds, how could any tank survive?

Here's where battle mounts came into play. They basically extended the HP of players, turning everyone into tanks, and tanks into - super tanks!

If Mythical Turtle rarity was Green-Copper instead of a Violet-Platinum, the bonus HP granted would be at most 10,000! Even with his current equipment, Zhang Yang would face great difficulty in surviving the 10 seconds immobilization! That is why higher rarity battle mounts were extremely valuable!

"Non shall be taking me treasure, laddy!" bellowed Edward again as he swung his sword menacingly at Zhang Yang, creating ripple of wave with each strike!

Han Ying Xue had stopped attacking and was focusing on only healing Zhang Yang. Even though having a high maximum HP was beneficial in a battle, having 10,000 HP and 100,000 HP gave healers a lot of work! Han Ying Xue had been healing non-stop for sometime and had only managed to restore Zhang Yang HP to over 60,000!"

Slightly annoyed, Han Ying Xue complained begrudgingly. "Dummy! Could you not have such beefy HP?! This maiden is tired of healing you!"

…

"If I did not have that much HP, we would both have been dead a long time ago, "maiden"."

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Chapter 344: Treasure Chest

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The mechanics of Edward – Dunkirk's skill, the {Mountain of Treasure} were really complicated. There was no fixed interval to it. It could be as frequent as once a minute, or it wouldn't even occur after a certain period of time. If Zhang Yang had not been lucky enough to stumble upon the Mythical Turtle, he would have already been gritting his teeth, thinking of a thousand ways to defeat the boss. As expected from an open-world boss. The game developers had turned off their common sense while designing open-world bosses. There was only one strategy, to take as many players as you can, and to overpower him with numbers! If 10 was not enough, bring a 100. If 100 was not enough, bring 1,000! Or even 10,000!

Edward – Dunkirk was supposed to be defeated via such a crude, inefficient strategy. However, even attributes designed for such numbers were shattered with the appearance of a single Violet-Platinum battle mount! It should have taken more than a thousand players to take on the boss, and yet Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue were able to fight the boss. Just the two of them!

As the boss's HP slowly, but steadily dropped from 100% to 80% and 60%, the boss would roar shout out the same old line over every 10% HP loss. "Give up! The booty shall be mine and mine alone!" and after the line which was quickly getting old, he would wave his metallic hook arm and throw sharp hooks with chains in all directions. An iron hook did up to 10,000 damage, and the boss actually sent three waves of hooks out per cast. If players did not have any life preserving skill active, they would surely be killed! Not even the current tanks with their best equipment could survive after taking that huge amount of damage, let alone the other more fragile classes!

Luckily, Han Ying Xue had the Crimson-Gold Crab at Level 58 now and having the rare, Yellow-Gold battle mount had pushed her HP up from 14,320 to 31,240 HP! Coupled with Zhang Yang's {Vitality Aura}, Han Ying Xue HP had surpassed 35,000 HP, enough for her to endure attacks from the "Meteoric" iron hooks!

Even though there was already the existence of tiers among items, monsters, and bosses, bosses alone were separated by yet another category! Edward was a Yellow-Tiered boss, AND the final boss of a map. A player might able to defeat a Yellow-Gold tier boss in any random field, but if they think that they could defeat Edward – Dunkirk without paying the blood price, they will only be mopping the floor with their own blood!

It was different for Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue. They had underwater battle mounts! It was natural for them to be able to handle a boss such as Edward!

…

After some time, Zhang Yang managed to bring down the boss to 5%! Edward – Dunkirk's green emerald eyes suddenly burst into bright red flames. His entire body was dyed in red as if someone has just showered him with blood. The deep red color of his entire body emitted some kind of ancient power that was not to underestimate.

'Ding! Edward – Dunkirk has berserk! All damage increased by 100%!'

"Crap! The boss has gone berserk!"

In his normal mode, Edward was already overwhelming, now that his attacks were doubled, that would only spell instant doom for them!

Frantically, Zhang Yang reached out to Han Ying Xue. "Use {Dance of the Heaven and Earth}!"

"Okay!"

Shush! Shush!

Two shadows emerged from both Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue and headed straight to Edward. The shadow morphed itself into two humanoid warriors, wielding two swords and tore into Edward's body!

'-10,000!'

'-10,000!'

…

"GRWAHHH!" The boss bellowed with so much rage that it released a shockwave that pushed them back a few inches. In a flash, the boss waved his hands and cast the "meteor" iron hook skill. It now had a 100% buff to it!

Zhang Yang turned with such speed and cast {Sacrifice} on Han Ying Xue. He then activated {Shield Wall} and protected both of them. 10 seconds after the {Dance of the Heaven and Earth}, the boss had still over 150,000 HP. {Shield Wall} ended at the same time!

'-17,345!'

Edwards sliced Zhang Yang with a quick stroke and dealt the strongest damage Zhang Yang had ever received!

"WTF!? The boss is just too strong!" cried Zhang Yang in horror. "B*tch! You best stay close to me! If the boss throws another iron hook out, I will use {Vanguard Aggression}!"

As expected, during berserk mode, the boss did not follow his original pace. Just 10 seconds after the first iron hook skill, he cast the same skill over again. Luckily, the boss skipped {Mountain of Treasure}. If he had used both skills at the same time, they would have been dead!

Zhang Yang frowned. His brows were furrowed as he concentrated extremely hard to survive and attack at the same time.

{Turtle Shell Defense}! 90% damage reduction for 10 seconds!

The boss had 100,000 HP left!

…

50,000!

{Turtle Shell Defense} ended. {Rearm}! {Shield Wall}, {Vanguard Aggression}!

40,000! 30,000! 20,000! 10,000! 0!

"NOOOO! Curse…ye…" Edward growled his last as he tumbled down to the cabin floor. His lifeless body floated aimlessly around the cabin like a dead fish.

"Fuah! We did it…" Zhang Yang let out a breath. He had used up all his skills in the process, and if the boss had still survived for a few seconds, the bodies that would be lifelessly floating around the room will be theirs! Anything could have happened! The boss could have done something to turn the table around at any point when he had his last 1% of HP!

Zhang Yang stretched his body and was happy that he survived the entire ordeal. On the extreme end, Han Ying Xue was extremely disgruntled. With a face that could have sent shivers down anyone's spine, she turned to Zhang Yang and said, "…The boss had just attacked us with a room full of gold coins. Yet after his death, he had only dropped 8 gold coins...WHAT.IS.THE.MEANING.OF.THIS!?"

Zhang Yang swallowed his saliva and said, "Calm yourself, woman. I'd rather he dropped a couple of equipment than a few more coins. One Yellow-Gold equipment could be sold for at least a few 10,000 gold coins! Think about it."

"Having equipment is not the same as being drowned in a sea of gold coins!"

"…I think the only two people who would love that would be Scrooge McDuck and you."

Han Ying Xue glared angrily at Zhang Yang but suddenly burst into huge laughter. The two of them happily waltzed towards the loots to collect them. They had collected a total of three Yellow-Gold equipment, eight Gray-Silver equipment. All of them were Level 80. There was one more item, and it was a piece of Treasure Map!

When Zhang Yang noticed the piece of [Treasure Map] he knew immediately that it was the most valuable item that the boss had just dropped. Since Edward – Dunkirk would only drop three pieces of [Treasure Map] in his own "life", the first map will lead to the best [Treasure Chest]!

[Earth Spirit Gauntlet] (Yellow-Gold, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 40

Vitality: 134

Strength: 54

Dexterity: 27

Equip Effect: Absorbs 104 damage upon being attacked.

Level Requirement: 80

Among the three Yellow-Gold equipment, Zhang Yang had obtained a pair of gauntlets. Han Ying Xue had obtained a magic staff. Even though it was not as strong as a Violet-Platinum tier, it was still fairly powerful!

[Bloodstone Staff] (Yellow-Gold, Magic Staff)

Magic Attack: 1,198 – 1,598

Equip Effect: Increases your magic critical rate by 1%

Level Requirement: 80

The last piece of Yellow-Gold equipment was a Leather Armor hat. However, despite being a Yellow-Gold tier, its attributes were not too good. The bonus Vitality was too much, while the Strength and Dexterity boosts were too little. It was not suitable for any attacking class. Zhang Yang just placed it together with the rest of the Gray-Silver equipment and kept in his inventory, ready to be sold in the Little Merchandise Shop.

As for the [Treasure Map, Zhang Yang kept it to himself.

"Hey Silly Yu, are we going to hunt for the treasure now?" said Han Ying Xue excitedly.

Zhang Yang nodded. "Hell yeah."

Han Ying Xue smiled from ear to ear. The [Treasure Map] was drawn very explicitly and had indicated that the treasure chest was at the west corner of the Great Lake Valla. The two of them left the ghostly ship and made their way to the treasure chest. Zhang Yang did not want to resurface to travel on land but instead, he insisted to travel underwater, since it was much faster for him, and he wanted to collect more herbs. Although the distance to their destination was far, Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue chatted and joked with each other happily without realizing that 2 hours had already passed. They reached their destination and Zhang Yang found his inventory having an additional stack of [Devil's Algae].

The destination was a small island the size of a basketball court (approximately the size of a stadium). The land on the island was extremely scarce and was practically a large, mountainous route. The mountain alone was at least a hundred meters tall! There was a huge, obvious problem with this island. The mountain alone bore no trees. In fact, the entire mountain was completely brown and clean! If one would compare this mountain with the face of a teenager, this mountain must have been taking care of its face really well!

The two of them went on shore. The moment their characters moved out of the water, their clothes were instantly dried, as if they had never been submerged in water. This feature was set to allow maximum comfort for the players.

On land, there was no use riding the turtle anymore. Zhang Yang then unsummoned the Mythical Turtle and brought out the Gold-Eared Bear King in its stead. Han Ying Xue, on the other hand, remain seated on the Crimson-Gold Crab, walking horizontally which led to Zhang Yang bursting into huge laughter.

There were no signs of any monsters spawning on this deserted island, allowing both Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue to reach the foot of the mountain relatively fast. They traveled around the mountain, before heading up, since there was literally nothing there to explore. On the far side of the mountain, they found a cave which was blocked by a huge stone. Zhang Yang tried to attack the stone but ended up damaging his sword, losing 10% Durability!

"Stupid me!" Zhang Yang cried in anguish.

Luckily, they found a way to move the stone. It was a door to the cave and could be opened easily. Zhang Yang followed the description of the map and found a palm size round stone sitting on the rock by the side. Han Ying Xue read to Zhang Yang the means to operate the stone and instructed him to turn the stone which acted as a knob.

"Three turns to the left and seven turns to the right, then, four turns to the left, two turns to the right."

"What?? Slowly, woman!"

"Sigh…Three left, seven right, four left and two right."

"Ok…I think I got it!"

Ka Ka Ka ka!

The stone door then turned and rolled to the side and exposed the entrance to the cave. The moment Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue set foot into the cave, the torches on the wall lit up by themselves and revealed the interior of the dark cave.

"Hmph. I would have preferred the door opening by saying "Open sesame!" That would be wayyy cooler!" said Han Ying Xue.

The two of them entered the cave and proceeded deeper. The cave was huge. It was so huge that Zhang Yang could not even see the ceiling. The pirates had basically hollowed out the entire mountain from within! The place was practically glowing with gold and silver luster! With the light being emitted from the torches on the wall, the treasures glimmered with rainbow-colored lights that filled the place with a vibrant, metallic gleam!

Zhang Yang made a bet with himself that the woman would jump into the sea of treasure and start swimming in it like a certain cartoon duck that he had seen when he was very young.

Among the stacks of treasure, a huge stone statue of a warrior that stood right in the pile of treasure. It was positioned there as if it was tasked to guard the treasure. Zhang Yang kept his guard up worrying that something might trigger a battle. Han Ying Xue, on the other hand, commanded her crab to march right into the sea of treasure.

Ka! Ka! Ka! Ka!

Before she could get off the crab, the stone statue started rattling. Dust that had accumulated on it started to fall off the status. Rock and tiny debris rained down from the ceiling. The entire cave shook.

"None shall take our treasure!" said the statue as it came to life. It opened its eye lids, revealing a pupil-less pair of eyes, and swung the stone axe at Han Ying Xue.

'-4,892!'

Han Ying Xue jumped and shrieked when she took the damage. She returned to her crab and hurried back to Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang was already laughing maniacally when Han Ying Xue came to him. "Consequences of being too greedy, woman!"

"Hmph! Stop talking and start killing! Dummy!"

Zhang Yang patted the bear and rode into the fight. He swung his Dark Enigmatic Sword and sliced at the stone statue. A loud crashing sound, accompanied with a bright spark occurred when his sword struck the stone.

[Treasure Guard] (Elite, Tool)

Level: 78

HP: 78,000

Defense: 600

Elite only? Hmph! Small fry!

Zhang Yang and the white bear combined their attacks, while Han Ying Xue assisted them with her crab, and both of their attacks swiftly reduced the Guard into mere pebbles.

After the short battle, Han Ying Xue was the first one to jump into the treasure pile and scoop up the coins, letting them flow out of her hands. She was behaving like a young girl who was playing with water in a water theme park! Zhang Yang smiled when he saw that adorable part of her. He then got down from the bear and scooped up as many coins as he could, only in a well-mannered way. With each fistful of coins Zhang Yang stuffed in his pocket, the inventory only registered an increase of a few copper coins. The system would never allow a player to have such a sudden gain in fortune.

Despite that, Han Ying Xue was still delighted. While she was having the time of her life, Zhang Yang got busy killing the other Treasure Guards in the cave. There were actually more than one of those statues, placed a certain distance from each other, and Zhang Yang spent some time hunting them so that Han Ying Xue could enjoy her time here collecting all the gold coins. Zhang Yang did not mind having to kill all of the guards by himself since they did provide some experience points.

After slowly collecting and killing their way in the cave, they finally reached the deepest part of the cave after only half an hour. Sitting quietly on the three-meter-long and 1 meter wide stone desk, was a chest that gleamed with a purple luster. The chest was not that huge, yet it was extremely eye catching! On the outside of the chest were carvings of mythical creatures that made the chest look like it was meant for royalty.

"What the…a Violet-Platinum Chest!" Zhang Yang shouted in surprise when he saw the chest.

Even though they saw the chest just sitting there, seemingly ready for the taking, they did not throw themselves at it. After the first attack by the stone statue, they had their guards up. Standing guard beside the chest, was another one of those stone statues, only that it was much taller and wielded a huge axe.

Now that he was going to fight once again, Zhang Yang switched back to the Mythical Turtle. Somehow, he knew that the stone statue was going to be at the level of a last boss. Why else would this boss be guarding the Violet-Platinum chest? Even though the Mythical Turtle might be much slower, the attack and HP, not to mention it the {Shield Wall}-like skill, completely outclassed the other pet!

Zhang Yang summoned the Mythical Turtle but he did not ride on it. Instead, Zhang Yang rushed to the boss and started the battle.

Cruck! Cruck! Krack!

Countless stone pieces started crumbling down the statue and in mere seconds, the stone statue had "come" alive, and took a huge step forward. Similar to the previous stone statues, this boss opened its stone eye lids, however, it was not the pupil-less eyes that Zhang Yang had expected. They shone brightly like the headlights of a truck!

[Andasia the Guardian] (Yellow-Gold, Tool)

Level: 78

HP: 7,800,000

Defense: 2,000

"Sigh…What a load of crap. We have the treasure map! Why would we have to go through more bosses?!" Han Ying Xue complained angrily.

Zhang Yang rushed ahead and entered the range of {Spear of Obliteration}. He then activated the skill and hurried back to the Mythical Turtle. There, he got on and waited for the boss to come to him instead. The Mythical Turtle was actually moving, but the speed was so slow that it could be ignored…

"GOOOOON!" Andasia growled and swung his massive stone axe at Zhang Yang.

As mentioned before, even though Andasia might be a Yellow-Gold tier boss, but its strength could not be compared to that of Edward – Dunkirk. After a normal attack, Andasia would have a skill similar to that of {Destructive Smash}. Now that Zhang Yang knew about the skill, he made up a sequence of his skills to counter that skill whenever the boss uses it. With that, there was nothing else to be worried about! To Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue, Andasia was just an elite monster that had a longer HP and a stronger attack. It was only a matter of time before they could kill him off.

After 20 minutes, Zhang Yang had turned the stone statue into pieces of stone pebbles. It was so easy that the pair was left fuming, thinking that it had not left them any loots! However, they soon realized that they had already obtained the battle loots. It was the treasure that the stone statues were guarding. They were only there to see if players were worthy of claiming the treasure!

"MUAHAHAHAHA! TREASURE! WOOHOO!" cried Han Ying Xue as she jumped on the table and caress the chest like it was her own baby daughter. Her drool almost dripped onto the lid.

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Chapter 345: Blizzard Sky, Luna's Dew

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"…Could you please refrain from drooling all over the chest. You're gonna get it dirty!" said Zhang Yang while crossing his arms.

Han Ying Xue pushed herself back up and rolled her eyes at him. She then opened the chest and revealed the haul.

[Titan's Cape] (Violet-Platinum, Cape)

Vitality: 141

Strength: 40

Dexterity: 20

Equip Effect: Absorb 81 damage on attack.

Equip Effect: Grants a 10% chance to reset the cool down of {Block} every time you use {Destructive Smash}.

Class Requirement: Guardian

Level Requirement: 80

It's a Titan armor set!

Zhang Yang was extremely happy. With that, he had collected a total of four pieces of the Titan armor set. With one more piece, he could activate the second set equipment effect!

Great!

"Hoho! This maiden has the best of hands!" said Han Ying Xue as she kissed her own pair of hands.

"Yeah yeah, I'll give you a red packet when we go back. Don't stop now!"

[Heart of the Death Knight] (Violet-Platinum, Accessory)

Equip Effect: Reduces all Restriction effect received by 50%

Use: Immune to all damage and status restriction effect. Increases damage by 50%. Lasts for 10 seconds. Cool Down Time: 1 hour.

Level Requirement: 80

Now, this is a real haul! This is too strong to be real! It's a bug! No! It's a cheat!

Han Ying Xue turned to Zhang Yang and raised two fingers. Two red packets.

Zhang Yang happily nodded his head. For two red packets, this accessory was definitely worth the trade! The passive skill was able to reduce the effects of all restriction skills on him by 50%! This would definitely be useful during PvP fights! For the final decisive match, the equipment could be the one thing that could turn the entire fight around! For example, when a Thief has chained their stun perfectly, this item could break that chain and help the user engage in a perfect counter attack!

Furthermore, the item had an active skill! Upon activation, the user would be granted 10 seconds of invincibility and increase damage for 50%! Even though the cool down might be a little long, the skill alone was definitely worth the wait! After all, it was a Violet-Platinum accessory!

Han Ying Xue continued digging around, but there was no more equipment. All that was left in the chest were two skill books!

[Paired Skill: Blizzard Sky]

Use: Teaches you the skill {Blizzard Sky}

Special Restriction: Cannot be learned once {Lunar's Dew} is already learned.

Class Requirement: Unrestricted.

Level Requirement: 70

[Paired Skill: Lunar's Dew]

Use: Teaches you the skill {Lunar's Dew}

Special Restriction: Cannot be learned once {Blizzard Sky} is already learned.

Class Requirement: Unrestricted.

Level Requirement: 70

Han Ying Xue crossed her arms and asked curiously. "Hey Silly, what are these Paired Skills? It seems that the two skills books have something to do with each other. Look at the description, it says that one player cannot learn them both."

Zhang Yang nodded his head. "Paired Skill are those skills that require help from another person. Like those Wuxia stories, some skills cannot be used alone! It has to be done by a pair!"

"Oh! Like Yang Guo and Xiao Long Nu's Forbidden Lover's Sword? The Sword Art of the Horny Husband and Vixen Wife?"

"…Since when did those two learn that sword art?"

"Beats me. Or is it Fiery Fist of Fury?"

"…You're just making stuff up now. Anyhow, which skill do you want to use? {Blizzard Sky}? Or {Lunar's Dew}?" Zhang Yang was annoyed.

After thinking it through, Han Ying Xue picked the {Lunar's Dew}. "I'll take this. This name suits a young maiden like me! Kinda sounds like a moon goddess, doesn't it?"

Zhang Yang facepalmed himself. Without wasting any more energy dealing with the woman, he took the other skill book and learned it instantly.

[Blizzard Sky: Deals 5,000 Chaos damage every second to all targets within 30 meters, around the target. Lasts for 30 seconds. During the channeling duration, players must remain stationary. Any physical movements would cause the skill to be stopped instantly. During channeling, players would gain invincibility. Both {Blizzard Sky} and {Lunar's Dew} must be used simultaneously. Both players have to hold hands to activate the skill. Cool Down Time: 3 Days.

It was a little pitiful that the skill had fixed damage instead of a percentage-based value. It would surely be deserted in the late game stage. Compared to the {Dance of the Heaven and Earth}, {Blizzard Sky} and {Lunar's Dew} had a longer cool down, and stronger damage. Best of all, the skill was an AoE type! The major drawback was the fact that both players would have to be holding hands!

"Haha! With {Lunar's Dew}, this maiden will be the strongest maiden in the world! None shall defeat me!" said Han Ying Xue as she laughed into the sky.

"Calm your tits. Anything else in the chest?" snapped Zhang Yang, already irritated at Han Ying Xue's previous antics.

"Hm…There's this broken sword hilt." Han Ying Xue pulled out something that looked like an ancient sword hilt. The condition of the sword was extremely old and brittle. It looked like it could not even be used to crack open a walnut. Useless as it seemed, there were ancient markings carved at the side of the hilt, making it somewhat important.

"…Is this an Assembled Equipment?"

"Nope."

"Then, what is it?"

"See for yourself, woman! I'm not an encyclopedia!"

[Mysterious Sword Hilt: Use it to induce a quest.

Class Requirement: Warrior, Knight, Thief

Level Requirement: 70

This quest item was the last item in the chest. After Han Ying Xue took out the sword hilt, the chest glowed a little and turned into millions of light particles, dispersing into thin air. Blinking in shock, Han Ying Xue bellowed. "What!? We have been busy for a whole day and this maiden here has busted her butt to serve someone *ahem*. Why is there nothing for me!"

Zhang Yang dripped a cold sweat. "Well, at least you got a skill out of the deal."

"Please. This is half a skill. Plus, I have to hold your stinky hand to use it! Sigh!" Han Ying Xue sighed heavily and shrugged exaggeratedly.

"Fine. I'm sorry!"

Zhang Yang took the sword hilt from Han Ying Xue, since she could not trigger the quest.

After accepting the sword, Zhang Yang's quest list was refreshed with a new entry.

[Mysterious Sword Hilt] (Difficulty Level: D)

Quest Description: You have discovered an ancient sword hilt. You can still feel an ancient power sleeping from within the broken sword! Due to the lack of knowledge, you failed to identify the source of the power from within. However, your instincts tell you to search for an old blacksmith in White Jade Castle call Banderas. Perhaps the elder blacksmith will know something about the sword hilt.

Progress: Ask Banderas about the origins of the Mysterious Sword Hilt 0/1

"Are we going right now?" asked Han Ying Xue.

"Not unless you still want to eat dinner? I could go and get the quest done, but someone might be grumpy later," said Zhang Yang as he raised his eyebrow questioningly at Han Ying Xue.

"Hmph!"

Both of them tore a [Teleportation Scroll] and went back to Thunderstorm Castle. After a long day of battle, both of their equipment durability values were low and were in need of fixing. From Thunderstorm Castle, Zhang Yang went back to White Jade Castle and had the new equipment Identified, placing them for sale in his shop.

In the past few days, Zhang Yang had been visiting the auction house. He found that there was someone trying to stir up the market by monopolizing all the pet skill books. Zhang Yang had wanted to purchase the skill, {Wild Recovery} for his Mythical Turtle, but had never gotten the chance, since the extremely common skill book was nowhere to be found on the market! Zhang Yang had poked around a little and found out that only the common pet skill books were affected. There were some other pet skill books for sale, but they were sold for ridiculous prices. To think that someone would try to flip prices to such an extent.

Zhang Yang arrived at the auction house and decided to try his luck for a change, however, his eyes almost popped out their sockets when Zhang Yang saw the search result. The books were all there. Thousands of them. However, the price was just too absurd. A few days ago, a {Wild Recovery} skill book would only cost as much as 20 gold coins. Yet, in front of him, were such books being priced at 500 gold coins. What more, the auction price was not placed at a minimum bet. They were all set at a fixed price of 500 gold coins!

How could anyone be that greedy!?

Zhang Yang did a few more taps found the name of the seller. The player clearly did not intend to hide his identity. It was Jurassic Lover!

Hm! It was the same dishonest trader from his past life!

Zhang Yang immediately recalled the name and the person. This player was the same player who once caused a huge market meltdown in his previous lifetime. He was the kind of person that could cause an item in the market to raise up by several hundred percents of its original value. His usual tactic was to buy all item at the lowest price and sell them at a huge marked up price. No doubt, this man knew his stuff. Many times that he had successfully grabbed the business opportunity and became a multi-billionaires by exploiting 'God's Miracle' market.

Eventually, Jurassic Lover's tactic in messing up the market was greatly criticized by the public. Players who had to buy items from him always got riled up upon hearing the name Jurassic Lover.

As of now, values like 500 gold coins were nothing for Zhang Yang, since he had a few more zeros in his own bank account. However, ethically, he was not pleased with the man's dishonest trading's behavior. For him, no matter how much money he had in the world, he would rather throw the money into the river than giving them to the man!

Zhang Yang then decided to buy the item later in the future. Since the particular skill book had a decent drop rate, the price would never remain at that position for long. At most, Zhang Yang predicted that the price would only last for a few days before plummeting back down. He gave up the search for the skill book and headed to the blacksmith to forge out a complete Fireglass Necklace.

[Fireglass Necklace] (Yellow-Gold, Necklace)

Vitality: 59

Intelligence: 24

Equip Effect: Increases 46 Fire resistance.

Level Requirement: 70

Zhang Yang rolled his eyes in frustration when he saw the attributes. Equipment type that increased elemental resistance were not very useful! It was a total waste of an equipment effect slot. This would only cause the equipment to nerf a DPS class player. Luckily, it was at least a Yellow-Gold tier item. Since it was a rare drop, it could still be sold out!

Zhang Yang took out the sword's hilt and handed it over to Banderas, "Master, do you perhaps know about this sword's origin?"

The dwarf blacksmith took over the hilt and examined it carefully. His uninterested expression gradually turned serious, and he gazed up back at Zhang Yang with his tiny eyes wide open. "This sword…hm…I can sense powerful godly energy from this. Even though there's nothing left except for the hilt, it still has contains some power!"

Zhang Yang was not expecting much from it. Surprised and slightly intrigued, Zhang Yang asked, "Master, do you have any means to restore the sword back to its former glory?"

Banderas shook his head sadly. "The ancient art has long been gone with history. I do not possess the ability to repair the blade of the sword, although I do not claim to be the best blacksmith in the world. Others may be able to do it. However, when I was examining the sword's hilt, I sensed a strong power lying dormant. Perhaps something could happen if you awaken the power!"

'Ding! You have completed the quest: Mysterious Sword Hilt!'

What a drag! It did not even reward a single point of experience!

Zhang Yang frowned disgruntledly and asked again. "Master. How does one awaken the power from within?"

Banderas picked up the hilt and examined it. He then pointed something out to Zhang Yang. "Look here, there are three magic circles that have sealed the power of the sword. I fear that the power will remain dormant until all seals are broken!"

"Master, how does one break the seal?"

"I'm but a blacksmith, breaking magic circles and seals are not part of my specialty. Perhaps you should try and search for Margery. She is a magician and a scholar. She could help." Banderas returned the sword hilt to Zhang Yang.

'Ding! Banderas has a quest for you: Consult Margery. Do you accept?'

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Chapter 346: Level 80, Finally!

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[Consult Margery] (Difficulty Level: A)

Quest Description: According to Banderas, you should look for a magician scholar named Margery. Request her help to solve the problem with the seals on the sword's hilt. Margery lives in a place called the Pandemonium. You will face great difficulties in meeting her. Note: Margery will only appear in the Hardcore Mode of the Pandemonium dungeon.

Progress: Obtain the method to unseal the power of the sword 0/1

Pandemonium would be an upcoming 25-man, Level 80 dungeon. There would be a total of seven bosses from the beginning till the end, which was quite a number compared to the other dungeons he had ever conquered. On a side note, the monsters in the Pandemonium belonged to a specific race and power. Level 10 dungeon had the underground crypt dwellers. Level 30 dungeon had werewolves, and so forth and so on. In this dungeon, however, out of the seven bosses, there were four different forces that were vying for superiority, hence the name Pandemonium.

Now that the quest needed Zhang Yang to raid a Level 80 dungeon, he had to put it aside first. He would need 25 level 80 members, a matter that was out of his hands. Zhang Yang thought of a way, but eventually placed getting to Level 80 as the main priority. He should reach Level 80 as soon as possible and collect all three Dimensional Key Fragments in the Level 80 map. Now that he had taken such a long time collecting all the keys, he guessed that by the time he has collected all the keys in the Level 80 map, he would have gathered enough eligible players to raid Pandemonium.

Zhang Yang left the blacksmith and went to the bank to take out all the previously collected [Warden's Weed, and went to the Alchemy shop to buy a few empty potion bottles. To concoct a [Level 4 Strength Potion, he would need 2 counts of [Warden's Weed] and 1 portion of [Devil's Algae, which he had already gathered.

…

'Ding! You have made [Level 4 Strength Potion] x6!'

…

'Ding! You have made [Level 4 Strength Potion] x6! Due to Alchemist's Intuition, [Level 4 Strength Potion has been transmuted!'

[Level 4 Strength Potion (Grade 3 Transmutation)] (Usable)

Use: Increases Strength by 100 points, and 3% Critical rate. Last for 1 hour.

Level Requirement: 60

Zhang Yang had made more than 400 bottles of [Level 4 Strength Potion] in one go. Among the 400 bottles, 32 bottles had the Transmutation effect, and he was extremely lucky to have 2 bottles of Grade 10 Transmutation! The effect was a 10% bonus Critical rate!

It was a pity that players were restricted to only one potion bottle effect at a time. Zhang Yang would love to have both Strength and Troll Recovery potions in effect. Zhang Yang shrugged at the limitations and gulped down a bottle of [Level 4 Strength Potion] before he went on to grind.

In the same time, the Battle Team Professional League was still in progress, with Zhang Yang's Silky Soft Battle Team standing strong at the top of the point accumulation board. They had not lost a single round! Fatty Han's Pride and Honor Battle Team was not performing as well, in fact, they were the second lowest team.

…

On the 9th of March, Zhang Yang reached Level 80! He had obtained 1 SP and learned a new skill. What was more important was the fact that he could finally put on the equipment that he had stashed in his storage bank!

The first, was obviously the Titan set, Titan's Helmet, Titan Greaves, Titan Wall, and Titan's Cape! After that were the two Violet-Platinum Rings, Ring of Imprisonment, and the Heart of the Death Knight. The last two was the Yellow-Gold tier, Blazing Defensive Boots, and Earth Spirit Gauntlet. The Helmet, Greeves, and Cape had a total of 5 Level 3 Gem Sockets. Level 3 Vitality Gems could provide an additional 50 Vitality, compared to the Level 2 Vitality Gems that could only provide less than half of that, which was 20 Vitality!

Zhang Yang swapped all nine of his equipment and achieved a whole new level of power!

[Player: Zhan Yu]

Level: 80

HP: 69,880 (Inclusive of Vitality Aura and Titan's set equipment set effect, 10,000 HP bonus)

Defense: 2,200

Damage Absorption: 1,658

Weapon Attack: 2,421 – 2,621

With his god-like stats, the only lacking point was his attack power. Even though the Dark Enigmatic Sword was extremely useful in AoE attack, it was only a Level 60 Yellow-Gold. Its single target attack power was not on the same level as the rest of his equipment!

Now that he had reached Level 80, it was time for him to search for the remaining Dimensional Key Fragments! The first stop was a place called the Grand Canyon of Eternal Night - for an NPC named, Kent Joseph.

There were only three Level 80 maps that he needed to visit. The only reason Zhang Yang had chosen the Grand Canyon, was because it was the closest to him! Still, close was a relative term. From Thunderstorm Castle, Zhang Yang had run close to 7 hours before he arrived at the Grand Canyon of Eternal Night.

As the name described, the place was a huge canyon, with endless folds of earth. This place was dubbed as Eternal Night, due to the dark clouds covering the sky, blocking the sunlight from ever reaching the surface of the canyon. With the absence of sunlight, the place was plunged into an eternal night, causing the lack of plantation, making it a place where Spectres could prosper!

As far as the maps go, Zhang Yang adapted quickly. It was not because he was getting stronger, but because he had fresher memories of the higher level maps. Lower leveled maps like Level 50 maps were not fully explored. There were many of them and Zhang Yang had only ventured through three or four of them before entering the Level 60 border. However, there were only three Level 80 maps. Before reaching Level 90, the majority of players would likely have ventured through all of them a couple of times. However, in his previous lifetime, Zhang Yang had been in the Eternal Night Grand Canyon for the duration it took for him to gain three levels. In his past experience, Zhang Yang had never encountered any NPC named Kent Joseph. On a side note, his memories about Kalin Town were also quite jumbled. He had to rely on the quest manual to search at the "north" of the canyon. The description was extremely vague and Zhang Yang had to spend more than 7 hours to find the town of Kalin. Kalin was a small, ancient town. It was not abandoned not deserted, it was just old. The buildings were as old as the earth formed over the years. However, the town was brimming with life. There were many people walking around, and it was rather crowded.

Zhang Yang had questioned over a dozen visitors, and none of them knew who or where did Kent Joseph live. Zhang Yang frowned, but since the quest has already led him here, there should be clues as to where he could find the NPC. A sudden idea came to his mind, and that was to ask elder occupants, instead!

Zhang Yang searched throughout the streets and found an older man seated on the sidewalk. He came up to him and asked, "Excuse me, do you know a man named Kent Joseph?"

"Kent?" The man expressed a nostalgic face. "Old John's kid? Little Kent? Of course, I knew him! I remember carrying him in my arms when he was only a little kid! Why'd you ask? Is he back? If he is, he's too late. Old John passed away a few years back, due to illness!"

Zhang Yang raised an eyebrow. "Back? Did he go somewhere?"

The old man hummed a little and said, "Roughly 20 years ago, Kent joined the army. We never heard any news from him since! Sigh…That kid…He was a kind human that was full of justice in his head. He was a nice lad. May the gods bless him!"

Zhang Yang quickly asked more questions. "Where did he joined the army?"

"Hm…if I remembered correctly, he joined the army troops at Black Coal's Sentry. But, I don't think that he will still be there!" said the old man. He then got up and walked away slowly.

Zhang Yang sighed with another piece of vague information that he had just received. With just the name of a place called Black Coal's Sentry as the only hint, Zhang Yang had no choice but to go there.

After a short journey, Zhang Yang arrived at Black Coal's Sentry in an hour. Zhang Yang recalled that he had been there during his previous life. However, he had no recollection of any army troops stationed there. The land was completely dyed in black, hence the name Black Coal. The place was completely devoid of life. There was no trees nor grass growing at all. On top of a small hill were a few old, and torn flag posts. It was clear that this place had long been deserted by the army.

Zhang Yang made his way up to the post and examined the surroundings. Beside the abandoned station, there were many tombstones resting in peace there. Zhang Yang did a head count and counted at least 50 to 60 tombstones there. Each on every tombstone had names of the deceased engraved on them. Zhang Yang examined every tombstone and was stunned when he saw the name Kent Joseph present on one of the tombstones.

Did the descendant of the seven great generals die in the battle?

The quest manual explained the key fragment was in possession of Kent Joseph, and not Old John. Now that Kent was dead and buried, did the quest intend for Zhang Yang to exhume the grave?

Zhang Yang contemplated for a while and finally reached a decision to become a grave robber. Since the only clue left was this grave, he had to do it. What else could he do?

…DIG!

Zhang Yang walked the talk. He jumped down from the white bear and used his Dark Enigmatic Sword as a shovel to dig up the dirt near Kent Joseph's tombstone. The white bear was not left out, it plunged its massive claw into the dirt and helped Zhang Yang dig away.

"STOP! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" a voice cried out from behind.

Zhang Yang spun and saw a man at the age of around 40 years old. He was holding a bouquet of flowers that had been completely mushed up in his grip.

[Veteren Soldier Schroeder] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 80

HP: 80,000

Defense: 450

Note: A veteran soldier that was stationed here as a Black Coal Sentry.

What timing! He did not arrive early, nor late. He arrived just when he was needed to. It reminded Zhang Yang of an old wizard from a certain western novel. Schroeder had arrived just in time to catch Zhang Yang digging up the grave. It was definitely part of the quest line!

Zhang Yang kept his sword back into its sheath. The white bear followed and moved away from the spot, trying to hide the fact that they had tried to dig the grave. Zhang Yang walked towards Schroeder and asked, "Elder brother, why would you stop me?"

Schroeder was so angry that his face turned from a furious red to the bright rays of the sun! Schroeder was so angry that he was about to engage in an unavoidable fight! Schroeder then tossed the bouquet of flower to the side and clenched his fists. "How dare you disturb those who were resting in peace! Young man! I'll teach you a lesson myself!"

Without any delay, the older man threw a supersonic fist at Zhang Yang! His name was immediately changed from green to red! Zhang Yang had no choice but to fight this NPC!

Zhang Yang drew his sword hopped on the bear to attack the NPC. Having leveled up to Level 80, the bear's HP was raised to 32,700, with a Weapon Attack of 4,769 - 5,179. Zhang Yang himself had close to 70,000 HP! With both of them combined, their HP had reached beyond 110,000 HP! They had even exceeded the HP limit of normal and elite tiered monsters!

The NPC was completely outclassed! Even his attacks were puny, in comparison to Zhang Yang's. From the perspective of Zhang Yang, his Defense was so thick that the NPC only dealt over 1,300 damage per hit! It was nothing but an itch!

Zhang Yang did not need to rely on any ulti skills that he had. By simple hacks and slashes, Zhang Yang defeated Schroeder! However, his HP was stuck at 1 point left and had gained an immunity status. At the same time, Zhang Yang received a system notification.

'Ding! You have defeated Schroeder. Please make a choice: 1, Kill him. 2, Ask clues about the death of Kent Joseph!'

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Chapter 347: The Search for Kent

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What kind of question was that? Clearly, Zhang Yang is not going kill him!

Zhang Yang withdrew the blade that he had placed right at Schroeder's neck. "Sir. I bring you no ill intent. I am Kent Joseph's distant relative. I have come back to Kalin on behalf of his father. I have to meet Kent. I will never believe it until I see his body!"

Schroeder got back to his feet and dusted off the dirt on his shirt. He got closer to Zhang Yang and asked curiously. "You know Kent?"

"Of course! I'm one of his nephews!" Zhang Yang shamelessly established a close relationship with an unknown person. He did not even know how he looked like. Luckily, Wei Yan Er was not around, or else that little brat would be teasing him for the next few days.

Schroeder faced darkened, "Must you disturb the spirit of Kent?"

Zhang Yang gripped his sword. "I do not believe that Kent would just die like that. Like I said, unless I see his body in this grave, only then I will believe that Kent's soul has been taken by the gods!"

Schroeder sighed. There was a long moment of hesitation going on in his mind, which was reflected in his expression. "You…Sigh…You're right. Kent is not dead. Kent is still alive and breathing. That coffin beneath the earth is empty. There's no need to dig it up."

"Was that why you didn't want me to unearth it?"

"Saved your time by explaining it, did I?"

Zhang Yang scoffed. He lowered his guard and asked. "Why the secrecy?"

Schroeder sighed again. His expression was twisted between agony and extreme fatigue. It felt like he had grown much older in an instant. "Young man, would you like to hear a story?"

Here it comes!

Zhang Yang nodded his head. "It is a young man's honor to listen to the tales of the elder and experienced."

"Well said." Schroeder's expression was slightly elevated. With a light smile, the man started his story. "22 years ago, I joined the army. You must know, this place was a huge mess. The army I speak out would just be a masquerade for something else. A word used in bad taste. Mercenary, would be a better description for what we were doing since tens of towns paid for our cause. Those of us who joined the army were from poor families. We had to risk our lives for the sake of money! After I joined the army, I befriended Kent. He was a brave and mighty soldier. Unlike me, a man who fought for money, Kent was a man who truly wished to serve the nation and its people."

"We were brothers-in-arms. Together we had killed Spectres, exterminated monsters, defeated bandits, and had many more adventures! We had become even closer since. Roughly 20 years ago, Kent and I were investigating in a hidden village. There we found out that the village was being raided by a bunch of bandits. Both of us then proceeded to fight. Yet…I…"

There was a sudden Schroeder glint of rage in his eyes. His voice suddenly got louder. "The bandits had masks covering their faces. At first, we didn't care about it. After killing a few of them, Kent unmasked one of the bandits as they fought. It was then when we found the truth. The bandits that we had fought were our own comrades. The same comrades that we fought alongside, under the same banner!"

Schroeder smashed his fist on one of the tombstones. His forceful strike shattered the withered piece of cement. Schroeder did not waver. He even spat on the grave and continued. "Once we discovered the truth, we went back to report about the situation. Yet, to our horror, we were attacked by those who we had called friends. We had just found out that the entire army was in it! They were all bandits in disguise! The bandits were the army! The army was the bandits!"

Zhang Yang had been quiet for the entire time listening to Schroeder rant. In his mind, he thought that having a family and friends who were both your allies and enemies. How could one's life be so ironic?

"However, they had severely underestimated Kent's strength. He single-handedly took down the entire army in Black Coal's Sentry! Everyone at this post was killed! After the ordeal, we calmed down and had a serious discussion about reporting this matter. The problem was that the mercenaries were too wide-spread. They had already formed a strong stance in the hearts of the people. If Kent and I reported this matter to everyone, there will be war. A war so large that it would involve many casualties! Innocents will die! In the end, Kent decided to go anonymous. He hid his real identity and formed a small elite force to take down the Mercenary Leader Cazaro."

Schroeder smirked. "To help his cause, I made a fake grave and spread the rumor about his death. I had spread the fake news that we were ambushed by Spectres and I was the only survivor. No one but me knows about his well-being. This way, Cazaro cannot use Kent's close relatives to threaten him."

Zhang Yang had a little dilemma going on in his head. It was better for him to have Kent dead. Zhang Yang could simply be a grave robber and take the key fragment from this corpse and be done with it. Now that the story had turned out to be this way, a certain manhunt quest awaited Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang thanked the man and asked. "Sir. Do you know where Kent is now?"

Schroeder gazed up to Zhang Yang and said, "Can I trust you?"

Zhang Yang raised his right hand. "I swear by the God of War, I am not on the side of Cazaro! For I am a seeker of justice and truth!"

Schroeder thought about it for a little while more and revealed the truth. "In that case, I will take your word for it. My instincts tell me that you're a trustworthy warrior! Kent is located at White Stone Hills. He has established a stronghold in the name of a small bandit. However, he has never robbed from the poor. In fact, he had specifically engaged in small battles with the mercenaries to weaken their forces. One more thing, Kent goes by the name of John Smith!"

"You have my greatest appreciation, Mr. Schroeder." Zhang Yang bowed to Schroeder and left the place. He called to his bear and rode towards the west.

After another long journey, Zhang Yang arrived at the steep edge of a large hill. At the hillside, there was a huge creek, measuring approximately 300 to 400 meters tall. There were a few large trees that had grown at the side of the entrance. Zhang Yang walked closer and could feel a cool breeze blowing out from the creek. Zhang Yang followed the trail and move up the hill. In just a few steps, there were two armed huge men ambushed him from a large rock. Without saying anything, the two men jumped at him and began to attack.

[White Stone Looters] (Normal, Humanoid)

Level: 81

HP: 8,100

Defense: 80

They were only normal monsters in which Zhang Yang had no interest of wasting his time on. With no intention of fighting, Zhang Yang ignored the attackers and head straight on. The two attackers did not stop and followed Zhang Yang all the way up the hill.

"Intruders!" cried three more attackers. They too, attacked Zhang Yang.

If they were not any higher or equal to elite tiered monsters, Zhang Yang would not even draw his sword! He continued on.

After a long journey up, Zhang Yang stumbled upon a large wooden gate. He destroyed it and entered the bandits' lair. Along the side of the pathway were clay houses. All the bandits that were "residing" in the houses came out to attack Zhang Yang. Naturally, Zhang Yang did not attack. Instead, he continued to play chase with them and had formed a long, 100-men or more "train" behind him.

After a short while, Zhang Yang had to stop. There was a boss in his path!

[Team Captain Afael] (Gray-Silver, Humanoid)

Level: 81

HP: 810,000

Defense: 900

Before attacking the boss, Zhang Yang turned around and attacked the oncoming wave of bandits.

'-0!'

'-0!'

'-0!'

…

Zhang Yang's Defense was that of a bunker, naturally, the bandits were not able to deal any damage to him! Not even a single bit of damage was able to penetrate his defenses!

{Horizontal Sweep}!

A sea of over 5,000 damage text popped out but did not reoccur. The attack did not trigger the Dark Enigmatic Sword effect.

Zhang Yang shrugged. It happens sometimes. After the 1 second global cool down, Zhang Yang activated {Blast Wave}. Compared to {Horizontal Sweep}, {Blast Wave} attacks were not strong, however, its AoE range was much better and wider since it was considered to be penetrative! The more monsters, the rowdier it got, and the stronger the skill effect would be.

Wham!

More than 20 "-1,093!" damage text popped out with a few being Critical strikes. This time, the Dark Enigmatic Sword effect was triggered and blasted another wave of attack. However, it only triggered once.

10 seconds later, Zhang Yang used {Horizontal Sweep} again, but it did not trigger the sword's effect, until the fifth use of {Horizontal Sweep}, which dealt devastating damage to all.

Zhang Yang had spent close to 5 minutes to deal with all the attackers. All in all, the Dark Enigmatic Sword effect trigger rate had definitely dropped!

Zhang Yang frowned in frustration. Equipment with percentage trigger rate, such as the Dark Enigmatic 2% trigger rate, had a hidden setting behind it! The written trigger rate would only be in effect when the item level and the player's level correspond to each other. However, when the player's level starts to overshoot the item level, the item's trigger rate will be forcefully dropped. The Dark Enigmatic Sword item level requirement was Level 60. From Level 60 and Level 70, the item trigger rate will remain the same. However, when Zhang Yang had surpassed the item level by a long shot, the trigger rate will drop! Right now, Zhang Yang guessed that the sword effect trigger rate would only be at 1% or less. After Level 90, it would be lesser than 0.5%!

This had been set by the developers, to make sure that players would change their equipment at a faster pace. If they had not set it that way, a low-level item that had superior item effect could be used until late game!

It was a real shame that the Dark Enigmatic Sword could not carry Zhang Yang a little further. This sword was a mass killing machine. Looks like, by all means, the sword could only last until Zhang Yang reaches Level 90 before it will be replaced.

Zhang Yang sighed and summoned the Mythical Turtle out. After Level 80, the Violet-Platinum pet had grown vastly stronger. Zhang Yang had managed to buy the {Wild Recovery} skill book from the auction house when the prices had finally plummeted. So far, the Mythical Turtle attributes were as follows: HP: 50,480 (With Vitality Aura), Defense: 2,400, Weapon Attack: 7,038 – 8,038. It was strong!

Zhang Yang walked a few steps forwards and tossed a {Spear of Obliteration} at Afael. After that, he swiftly returned to the Mythical Turtle and waited for the boss to come to him instead.

"Intruder! You dare to stroll around White Stone Hills?! I'll tear you apart for your imprudence!" cried the boss as he chased after Zhang Yang, with a large battle hammer in his hands.

BANG!

Like hammering a nail to a plank, Zhang Yang took a strong blow and received 2,982 damage.

A Level 80 Gray-Silver boss was a little stronger than a Level 70 Gray-Silver boss. However, Zhang Yang's defenses had been doubled after reaching Level 80! Compared to when he was only Level 79, the damage received from the boss was almost halved!

Zhang Yang grinned and counterattacked.

Zhang Yang's movement speed while riding the Mythical Turtle was so slow that he could have shoved his middle finger up the turtle *sshole just to make it walk faster. Still, the boss was not player-controlled. It would never use any kiting technique, and would always head into the battle, and fight with the player head-on without having any strategies.

After laying down five {Cripple Defenses}, Zhang Yang's attack was maximized! Especially the Mythical Turtle. On average, its attack was around 7,500. The boss's puny 450 Defense barely reduced the value! The turtle had over 4,100 DPS which was stronger than Zhang Yang's 3,300 DPS!

As expected from a Violet-Platinum tier battle pet! Such a strong ally!

In contrast, the boss DPS was only at most 1,000! To kill Zhang Yang's current combined HP at 120,000 would need at least 2 minutes! On the contrary, Zhang Yang's and the turtle's combined DPS at 7,400 could easily dry out the boss' 810,000 HP in less than 2 minutes! Zhang Yang could easily defeat the boss without relying on any survival skill!

In truth, with half of his equipment being Violet-Platinum tier, and the Violet-Platinum battle pet, Zhang Yang was the equivalent of a Gray-Silver boss at the same level!

As they continue grinding Alfael's HP down, Alfael stopped attacking at 10% HP. A progress bar appeared on top of his head. It was {Heal}!

While a player {Heal} skill could be cast instantly, Alfael's {Heal} had a 1 second casting time!

Zhang Yang immediately cast a {Crash Magic} but failed!

Immune!

In a split second, Zhang Yang activated the Ring of Imprisonment's effect to force a 2-second stun on a target!

Immune!

What the world!? If he could not even stop the casting, why would it have a 1-second casting time? Might as well make it an instant cast!

'202,500!'

A large, green colored number text floated up the boss's head and Alfael had recovered close to 25% of his HP. Luckily, the boss had Zhang Yang's {Destructive Smash} effect which greatly decreased the healing received! Now Zhang Yang understood why the boss had a 1-second casting delay, it was to allow players to cast a {Destructive Smash}!

Having healed over 200,000 HP, it was still a futile effort to stop his inevitable death! Zhang Yang ground his HP down to 10% again. With no more {Heals} to cast, the boss could only smash at Zhang Yang and fell dead.

'Ding! You have killed Alfael. Obtained 810,000 Experience Point!'

The boss only dropped a few Gray-Silver and Green-Copper equipment, which Zhang Yang did not even spare a look and swept them all into his inventory. He then called out the bear and rode his way up the hill.

SHUSH!

A bright flash of light gleamed in the air, and Zhang Yang caught the sight of a long spear flying through the air. Wielding the spear was a large green orc that was snarling at him with his mouth wide open, revealing a pair of sharp fangs and teeth.

[White Stone Elite Robber] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 82

HP: 82,000

Defense: 450

Now that an elite tier monster had appeared, Zhang Yang would not dare to be too relaxed. After all, an elite monster had a strong attacking power that could easily deal significant damage to Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang pulled the reins on the bear and used {Wild Charge}, dashing to the orc to attack it with its paws.

Based on the Gold-Eared Bear King's current attributes, he could roughly stand toe to toe with an elite monster without Zhang Yang assistance! If Zhang Yang were to attack it, it would end the fight so fast before Zhang Yang even started counting down the seconds. As such, the green skinned orc was already lying in a pool of its own blood within seconds.

However, even though he was that strong, Zhang Yang was not able to engage in mass-killing. Zhang Yang's current pushing rate was massively reduced, due to the sharp decline of the Dark Enigmatic Sword's ability! The bear's attack was at 5,000 while Zhang Yang current attack power was only at around 2,500! Zhang Yang was unexpectedly weaker than his own pet!

He could not even compete with the bear, let alone the Mythical Turtle! Pets that were stronger than their owner! Looks like Zhang Yang would have to get his hands on a Violet-Platinum weapon to make things right for him!

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Chapter 348: Unstoppable

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It's sad to say that Zhang Yang's pushing speed was reduced, due to him not able mass-kill. Still, it wasn't like he had the attack power of a grunt. Zhang Yang's attack power was still considered to be somewhere among the best. That being said, Sun Xin Yu and Wei Yan Er were the best among the best! There could be others out there who were stronger than they were!

However, being combined with the Gold-Eared Bear King, Zhang Yang could consider himself as a one-man-army! The most important factor was his Defense. From the beginning till now, Zhang Yang had never needed to sit down to heal himself with any recovery items! If he had an issue with HP, all he had to do was to use {Berserker's Heal}! He was like a perpetual moving machine! This kind of efficiency was far superior to Sun Xin Yu or Wei Yan Er!

After two hours of trekking, Zhang Yang had made his way to the second outpost of the hill and found himself another boss to defeat.

[3rd Commander Balgor] (Gray-Silver, Humanoid)

Level: 82

HP: 820,000

Defense: 900

This was another green-skinned orc, with a huge build. He was holding a large Wolf Fang Club that would occasionally be swung around to destroy random boulders in his path. Orcs were one of the first four races that roamed in the Union and were the toughest, sturdiest race among all. Balgor wore nothing but a pair of small leather pants. The hair behind his head was almost a foot long. It was quite manly of him to hunt in the wild. The wind would occasionally blow his hair, making it something like a scene from a movie to emphasize a man's coolness. Even his muscles were so ripped and well built! The six packs in his abdomen looked like shiny, fresh baked bread!

Still, no matter how manly he was, he was just a Gray-Silver tier boss. Zhang Yang had no need to make any sort of preparations to kill him. Zhang Yang only needed to summon the turtle out and draw him into the battle with the {Spear of Obliteration}.

Balgor was considered to be a warrior type monster. Aside from the normal smashing and bashing, Balgor also possessed warrior skills such as {Tornado Cleave} which was used once every 20 seconds, and {Destructive Smash} which was used once every 30 seconds, carrying a 50% healing reduction rate which lasted for 30 seconds! This skill was used so often that Zhang Yang did not have any room to breathe. The good thing was, Zhang Yang had no need of healing at all!

In less than 2 minutes, Zhang Yang had hacked Balgor up and made him his b*tch! Balgor dropped a few Gray-Silver and Green Copper equipment that were not worth mentioning. There was also a piece of Alchemy recipe, meant for making Level 4 Healing Potions.

Even though Zhang Yang could easily buy [Level 4 Healing Potion] from shops, it was just too expensive to buy in bulk. It was always better to concoct them on his own. Money was nothing to him, but the skill {Alchemist's Intuition} was! He could concoct a potion that could possess a Transmutation effect! Since he never made any healing potions, he did not know what the bonus effects would be.

After clearing the boss up and collecting all the goods, Zhang Yang recalled the bear and rode further up the hill.

Along the way, Zhang Yang only encountered elite monsters. Since it was taking quite some time, Zhang Yang went on and harvested some herbs on the side. The herb [Purple Seed Orchid] was all over the hill in abundance. These herbs could be used to concoct [Blazing Potions] which could enhance a Pyromancer's attack. Overall, Zhang Yang had taken four hours, plowing through the hill. He had collected a total of 132 [Purple Seed Orchid] before he reached the third boss.

[2nd Commander Gullini] (Yellow-Gold, Humanoid)

Level: 83

HP: 1,660,000

Defense: 1,500

After entering Level 80 maps, Yellow-Gold bosses were much weaker. If Zhang Yang was in a Level 70 map, Gullini's HP would surely be at least 8,000,000! However, after Level 80 maps, Yellow-Gold bosses would be downgraded to make way for the superior Violet-Platinum bosses.

Gullini was a tiny little Gnome. Like Orcs, Gnomes had a similar green colored outer skin. However, they possessed smaller bodies, comparable to Dwarves! Zhang Yang wondered how did the Dwarves end up being named "Dwarves" since the Gnomes were obviously smaller! On the side note, Gnomes had trademark features such as long, sharp noses like Pinocchio. They had no hair on their scalps. Their scalps were so free of hair that they could be used as mirrors!

Gullini was seen standing guard on the route. In his right hand was a large battle axe that was taller than he was. In his left hand was a shield. He was obviously a tank class monster!

Zhang Yang stopped and called out the turtle. Now, Zhang Yang had the utmost confidence to fight a Yellow-Gold boss all by himself!

{Spear of Obliteration}!

'-5,380!' Critical!

How lucky! A critical strike!

Gullini bellowed angrily and brandished his axe, rushing towards Zhang Yang. "Human! You dare to attack the great Gullini!? Gullini will smash you into bits and make stew out of you!"

Zhang Yang hopped on the turtle and waited for the boss to come to him.

'-6,024!'

'-7,423!'

'-1,976!'

The Mythical Turtle had attacked with a normal attack, followed by a {Tear}, coupled with Zhang Yang's own normal attack. They had instantly dealt more than 15,000 damage on the boss.

"URGH! What power! You've hurt the great Gullini!" cried the boss as he retaliated.

{Block}!

'-383!' {Block} reflect damage.

'-1,516!' {Shield Bash}.

Zhang Yang had not activated the Titan's set equipment second set effect. With that, he could double the attack of {Shield Bash} to greatly increase his DPS.

{Block}!

'-582!'

Since the boss' Defense was so strong, Zhang Yang had first used {Cripple Defense} on him. However, on the second {Cripple Defense}, the boss had suddenly raised his shield and blocked Zhang Yang attack. What that was surprising, was not the use of {Block}, but the fact that he could still deal 582 damage on Zhang Yang, even with Zhang Yang's greatly upgraded defense! Zhang Yang calculated that the boss' minimum damage was at least 5,000!

As expected from the boss, if a player could deal 5,000 damage on damage reflect of {Block}. He must have 5,000 Strength! Right now, Zhang Yang only had 1,133 Strength points, which was very far from what he wanted to reach!

This battle is a match between a super tank and a super tank!

Player had dubbed tanks as turtles since their Defense values were as strong as turtle shells. That is why, right now, there was a total of two, NO, THREE NINJA TURTLES, FIGHTING EACH OTHER!

Like Zhang Yang, the boss could use {Block} to negate Zhang Yang attacks. However, the boss' {Block} cool down was as long as 15 seconds, whereas Zhang Yang's {Block} was only 6 seconds long. Any tank that did not invest in {Block} first, are useless tanks!

Gullini had all the basic Guardian skills like {Blast Wave}, {Thunder Strike}, and {Shield Bash}. Luckily, he did not have the passive skill - {Shield Oath}, which could reduce 20% incoming damage. The boss' damage was quite devastating since his normal attack could deal as much as 6,000 damage! Even with Zhang Yang's 6 seconds {Block} cool down rate, the boss DPS reached as high as 2,000!

In less than 1 minute, Zhang Yang was already beaten down to his last drop of HP.

{Berserker's Heal}!

'120,360!'

That exaggerating healing power that had just restored all of Zhang Yang health. It could easily cause the shock of any healer, even Han Ying Xue! Still, even with Zhang Yang's and the Mythical Turtle's combined attacks, the boss' HP was dropping slowly. He still had more than 74% HP left! Zhang Yang would have to last for another 4 minutes before he could kill the boss!

Technically speaking, even though all Level 80 Yellow-Gold bosses have suffered a slight nerf, having their HP reduced to a certain extent, they were still not something that a player could solo-kill! However, Zhang Yang could do it since he possessed a game-breaking amount of recovery skills! {Berserker's Heal}, {Fountain of Life}, {Healing Potions}, {Troll Recovery Potion} that had been transmuted, {Shield Wall}, and if he still faced difficulties, everything could be used once more with {Rearm}!

The best fact was that the {Fountain of Life} healed in terms percentages, not fixed values. Zhang Yang's lengthy HP was at around 110,000, and 50% of that would be 55,000!

Zhang Yang used his skills one by one, consumed healing potions, [Fountain of Life, and even used the special effect of his necklace that could grant Zhang Yang an additional 5,000 damage absorption! It was unlucky for the boss to face a player such as Zhang Yang. He hacked and slashed his way until the boss was down to his last 10% HP.

Naturally, Zhang Yang had done his part to achieve that feat, by using almost all his ulti skills.

'Ding! Gullini has gone Berserk!'

The boss entered Berserk state after his HP dropped lower than 10%.

'-15,782!'

His body glowed with the usual red light and gained a huge muscle mass! His power had grown so strong that one axe attack caused huge damage to Zhang Yang.

As predicted, Zhang Yang had kept {Shield Wall} on standby to anticipate the boss' berserk mode. The Titan Wall's equipment effect extended {Shield Wall's} effect duration by 5 seconds! Zhang Yang now had a 15 second long {Shield Wall}.

Now that everything is ready, all that's left to do was to slash! Slash as hard, as fast as he could!

9%! 8%! 7%!...3%!

15 seconds! {Shield Wall} ended, but Gullini still had 3% HP, 50,000 HP left!

Zhang Yang clenched his teeth and focus only on attacking.

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

'Ding! You have killed Gullini. Obtained 1,660,000 Experience Points!'

Pak!

The Gnome jumped in shock, dropped the axe on the ground and ran away, with his tail tucked between his legs.

Zhang Yang noticed that the axe was lootable! The first battle loot from him.

[Gnome Commander Battle Axe] (Yellow-Gold, One Handed Axe)

Weapon Attack: 732 – 1,132

Attack Interval: 2.6 seconds

DPS: 358

Equip Effect: Increase 1% Critical rate.

Unidentified

Level Requirement: 80

Zhang Yang whistled! It was a shame that it had a 2.8 seconds attack interval. Still, it was a Level 80 Yellow-Gold weapon. After having it Identified, it should be much stronger than his current Dark Enigmatic Sword.

Zhang Yang had a sudden idea. He would use the axe for single monster fights, and the sword for mass-kills!

Zhang Yang kept the [Gnome Commander Battle Axe] and proceeded to check on the other drops. Zhang Yang was quite impressed at what Gullini dropped for him. There was a Chaos Gem that could increase his inventory size, a Magic Scroll, and a piece of Rune Craft recipe!

[Magic Scroll: Extreme Fervor] (Usable)

Use: Increases attack power by 30%, but lowers Defense by 50%. Applies to all party member. (Maximum of 10 men). Last for 30 seconds.

Level Requirement: 80

This Magic Scroll would work best during boss fights. Since attacking classes had little Defense, they would not lose much defense. On the other hand, 30% damage would be a huge buff. Since everyone in Zhang Yang's little party of nine, had the skill {Dance of the Heaven and Earth}, with the attack buff…The boss would be crying before the fight even starts!

Zhang Yang took the Chaos Gem and used it immediately, increasing his inventory space to 90 slots. It was a pity that the Chaos Gem drop rate was extremely low. Players would use it immediately. Only a few would sell them. So few, that Zhang Yang's intention to increase his inventory size to 200, would just be a pipe dream. Especially, since Zhang Yang had taken up Herbalism. With {Alchemist's Intuition} the different types of Transmuted potions had piled up and stuffed his inventory up!

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Chapter 349: Bloody Shura Mauta

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Having defeated Gullini, there were no more monsters in Zhang Yang's way. After passing through a narrow mountain path, he came to the top of the hill and saw a huge, tile-roofed house. Outside the tile-roofed house was a tall and muscular middle-aged man. He was working on a boxing bag, his shirtless body gleaming in the sun, as his rippled muscles worked.

[Joe. Smith] (Yellow-Gold, Humanoid)

Level: 85

HP: 1,700,000

Defense: 1,500

Note: Leader of gang of bandits in White Stone Hills.

The boss' aggro range was wide, so it directly rushed towards Zhang Yang with it huge fists.

"Kent!" Zhang Yang shouted.

The boss blinked in surprise, and immediately stopped attacking Zhang Yang and asked, "Who are you?"

Zhang Yang laughed as he answered, "Kent. Joseph, son of old John, you kept your identity hidden for 20 years and became the leader of a gang of bandits, right?"

Zhang Yang saw that the name on top of the boss' head turned into "Kent. Joseph" and his name also turned from red tag to green tag. He was no longer aggressive.

Kent was frowning as he asked, "Young man, how do you know about this?"

"Schroeder, he told me!" Zhang Yang answered.

Kent was silent for a while, before he looked at Zhang Yang with a dangerous glint in his eyes, as he asked, "What are your intentions?"

"I something from you, which looks like this." Zhang Yang took out a [Dimensional Key]'s fragment and shook it in front of Kent.

"Eh, how you have a Soul Fragment?" Kent revealed an obviously surprised expression.

Alright, Alousous said he did not know what a [Dimensional Key] fragment was, Tiffany called it an [Ancient Fragment, and now Kent is calling it a Soul Fragment! After a period of 1000 years, the exact name and use of [Dimensional Key] has been lost in history and named differently by the seven Descendants of The Seven Generals.

Zhang Yang smiled and said, "So, you and I have some kinship! Kent, I need the fragment from you to complete a quest, what should I do to earn it from you?"

Kent pondered as he said, "Although this Soul Fragment had powerful magic, it can no longer help me anymore. Still, you'll need to put in some effort to claim it, as you said!"

Kent slowly paced in front of Zhang Yang and said, "Show me your ability first! First, you need to go to the Raven Ridge and bring me back the head of the army chieftain, Bloody Shura Mauta, who is garrisoned in Raven Ridge.

'Ding! Kent. Joseph has a quest for you: Kill Bloody Shura Mauta. Will you accept it?'

Accept.

Zhang Yang answered, "Okay, I will bring back Mauta's head to you!"

Kent laughed out loud and paused then asked, "If you broke into my place here, you probably my followers who got in your way, right?"

"Yes, you are right! Am I in trouble now?"

"No!" Kent shook his head happily and continued, "Those people were the disciples of Spectres, the real bandits. I recruited them, only to use them to fight against the filthy mercenaries, just a dog eat dog method to fight against the mercenaries, their lives truly mean nothing to me!"

Damn, this Kent is so ruthless!

Zhang Yang summoned Whitey, followed the mountain path and went down the mountain.

[Kill Bloody Shura Mauta] (Difficulty Level: B)

Quest Description: Kent. Joseph requires you to slaughter Bloody Shura Mauta! This man is a ringleader in the mercenary and he is a sadistic killer who loves the sight of blood, but he is quite capable, so you better bring some friends! Hint: Bloody Shura Mauta is garrisoned at the east of Raven Ridge.

Progress: Hand over the head of Bloody Shura Mauta to Kent. Joseph 0/1

Zhang Yang went as fast as he could and reached Raven Ridge in a short period of time.

This ridge was much more barren than White Stone Peak. There were graves could be seen on the ridge from far away, also, there were red-eyed ravens that perched atop gravestones and made loud raspy calls as they took off.

Raven Ridge was not high and steep, and its upland was quite flat. From the hillside, the surroundings of the ridge were surrounded by a tall wall and only a passage on the hill path could be accessed.

Zhang Yang looked from far away and he saw guards standing watch atop the wall and heavily armed soldiers everywhere. These guards were Level 82 elite monsters!

There were at least hundreds of elite monsters already in sight, not including the ones who were within it! They also tended to patrol in groups, thus, it was impossible for Zhang Yang to lure them out separately for him to eliminate them one by one!

With so many monsters at once, even for Zhang Yang, he needed to think about this more than twice!

Well, better avoid these monsters and look for the boss directly!

Zhang Yang thought to himself and activated {Dig}!

Once {Dig} was activated, the soil beneath Zhang Yang's legs immediately became soft like water and Zhang Yang sunk into the soil. It was like swimming in the water, so he "swam" all the way up the hill.

{Dig} was simply magical, even if Zhang Yang was deep beneath the soil, he still could see the scene on the ground, right through the soil.

Although the movement speed was decreased by 50% when using {Dig}, Zhang Yang did not need to clear the monsters, so he made really good progress. The 10 minutes duration of {Dig} was sufficient for him to move more than halfway up the hill!

{Dig}'s effect ended, and Zhang Yang was ejected back up to the ground and appeared in a camp.

Three guard monsters immediately surrounded and attacked Zhang Yang.

[Raven Ridge Guard] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 82

HP: 82,000

Defense: 450

Zhang Yang used {Block} and normal attacks at the same time, and after getting enough Rage, he launched {Blast Wave} which caused the three monsters to be stunned at the same time. He took the opportunity to summon Whitey.

"Roar!" Whitey immediately appeared and started clawing into one of the guards. Zhang Yang quickly rode on Whitey and his attributes skyrocketed.

Zhang Yang could use {Dig}, but his pet could not, and only could run on the surface of the ground while following him. Therefore, Zhang Yang unsummoned Whitey so that it would not be attacked by the monsters.

However, these three elite monsters were pieces of cake for Zhang Yang. After launching a few attacks, Zhang Yang defeated the monsters which dropped a few pieces of silk clothes.

Zhang Yang went out of the camp and continued moving up the hill. At that moment, he was a quarter away from the top of the hill.

"Intruder!"

Once Zhang Yang stepped out of the camp, a flashing axe rapidly came at his head.

Zhang Yang stared at the attacker and realized that it was still an elite guard, similar to those in the camp. Still not a major threat.

All the elite monsters were like dummies for Zhang Yang, they quickly fell defeated and dropped a few copper coins.

"What a poor system!" Zhang Yang sighed. In order for this system to maintain the value of gold coins, the output of coins had been severely decreased.

Zhang Yang felt depressed about it as he continued moving up the hill. Although he had avoided at least three-quarters of the monsters, he still needed to clear a lot of minions in front of him. After hacking his way through, Zhang Yang finally reached the top of the hill in 30 minutes later. He turned back and thought that if he never used {Dig}, he would probably have had to spend at least two hours to reach the top of the hill.

A huge camp appeared in front of Zhang Yang. There were four guards who were guarding the camp, and because of the camp was tightly enclosed, Zhang Yang could not see the situation inside the camp. He had no idea where Bloody Shura Mauta was!

Therefore, Zhang Yang decided to summon the Mythical Turtle first, as players were not allowed to change pets during combat!

After Zhang Yang summoned Mythical Turtle, he threw a {Spear of Obliteration} at one of the guards.

'-2,567!'

"Where did this thief come from? You actually dare to come to Raven Ridge to seek for death, don't you know our master is Bloody Shura Mauta?!" the four guards raised their weapons and rushed towards Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang immediately sat on the Mythical Turtle and said, "I'm coming to kill Bloody Shura Mauta today! Big turtle, rush towards them!"

Mythical Turtle immediately used its fastest speed to move its limbs. It was like a slow motion scene. One flipper was slowly raised up, and Zhang Yang actually stared at it, waiting for the moment for it to come back down on the ground! Not even one step was made!

"Damn, what a shame!" Zhang Yang laughed, wielded his [Dark Enigmatic Sword] and dashed towards the four guards himself.

"Big turtle, I have already ran for 10 meters and you have not yet even made one step, what's wrong?!" Zhang Yang ridiculed at Mythical Turtle as he launched attacks towards those four guards.

Luckily Mythical Turtle did not protest, otherwise, it would have definitely given a slap to Zhang Yang with a huge flipper.

After a round of clashing, one of the guards with the least HP suddenly shouted loudly, "Master Mauta, the assassin is here! Assassin is here!"

"Which vulgar little thief actually dares to assassinate me!" a burly man strode out of the camp. His top was undone, which exposed his hairy chest and a few ferocious scars!

He held a sharp saber in his right hand, while his left held a wine bottle. He took a swig from it as he spoke.

[Bloody Shura Mauta] (Yellow-Gold, Humanoid)

Level: 84

HP: 1,680,000

Defense: 1,500

The same guard who had shouted immediately rushed to the feet of Mauta and said, "Master, there's the Assassin!"

"Useless crap, you could not even handle an assassin, why would I still need you?!" Mauta stared and lobbed the guard's head off with his sharp saber.

"Puff!" The head rolled off and stopped at a pile of rocks. The headless body was spewing out a lot of blood like a water spring.

His body soon fell over.

F*ck, that was so cruel. It really was the Bloody Shura, cruel to his followers as well!

"Ha ha ha, Lord Kazalo had me stay back here for these few days, I was getting terribly bored, and now someone automatically shows up in front of me. At least I get to have some fun with this toy now!"

Mauta put the saber on his shoulder and strode towards Zhang Yang, his saber still dripping with fresh blood!

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Chapter 350: Search for the [Titan's Chest Plate]

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Zhang Yang hastened the fight to his limits, as fighting one boss and three minions at the same time would be ridiculous, even for him. He quickened his attacks upon the elite guards!

Fortunately, those three elite guards were already close to death. Under Zhang Yang's storm-like bombardment, they soon fell, groaning their last.

"Fool, I'm going to slice you into pieces and make you scream for three days and three nights. Now, entertain me as you struggle futilely against my might!" Mauta smiled evilly as he swung his saber at Zhang Yang.

'-6,273!'

The boss' damage was very high, more than 6,000 points of damage in a single slash! Although the HP of Yellow-Gold bosses in Level 80 area maps were reduced, their attacks were still very strong!

Zhang Yang rode on the Mythical Turtle and stood motionless at that spot like a dummy, as he could not even move around to change positions!

Zhang Yang's current situation could be compared to how people would not have time to cover their ears when the crackling of thunder hammers their senses! Although the speed of the boss' attack was not as fast as thunder, the Mythical Turtle was simply so slow, that Zhang Yang had no choice but to receive all the attacks!

Of course, the movement speed aside, the Mythical Turtle was immensely powerful! It had a high attack power and a high HP limit which were sufficient to offset the weakness of a slow movement speed!

Moreover, the boss' attacks were fast, so even if Zhang Yang rode on Whitey, Whitey would be unable to evade the attacks! But if the boss uses any AoE skills like {Rain of Fire} or {Frost Arrow}, Whitey could at least avoid them!

After Zhang Yang added 5 stacks of {Cripple Defense} on the boss, Mythical Turtle and his attacks were instantly magnified. Mythical Turtle was especially affected by this, its {Tear} caused more than 8,000 points of damage on the boss, and almost caused 17,000 points of damage on critical strikes!

Currently in China server, there was no players' single attack could be higher than the Mythical Turtle!

Zhang Yang whistled at the high values floating before his eyes.

"Let me hear your screams, weakling!" the boss flourished his saber, drooling from the mouth as his bloodshot, dilated eyes gazed upon his foe.

Zhang Yang laughed out loud, undaunted. "Today, I'll be the one doing the slaughtering, Shuro!"

"Come, I do not fear anyone!" Mauta was extremely angry, his eyes bulged as he stared at Zhang Yang.

98%, 95%, 92%... Boss' HP started to steadily drop.

90%!

"Ha ha ha, what a fun toy, let me have fun with you!" the boss laughed maniacally and swung his saber, stomping on the ground.

The light reflected by his saber had been transmitted into the soil, and with the boss at the center, the ground within a radius of 30 meters suddenly flashed with rays of light exiting the cracks in the ground!

'Ding! Bloody Shuro Mauta has released {Shroud of Swords}!'

Zhang Yang's first response was to pull on the reins and try to escape, but he was riding on Mythical Turtle, who barely budged. Zhang Yang could only sit there in resignation and receive another attack full-on!

Shwoop, shwoop, shwoop!

Countless of dazzling swords light shot up into the sky where they blew up like fireworks. The pieces then came raining down! More swords continued shooting out of the ground as this went on!

'-612!'

'-612!'

…

As the rays of light came down, ten damage texts appeared above Zhang Yang's head, all at once!

Zhang Yang exhaled in relief, as the boss' ulti damage only did a total of around 6,000 HP damage. In fact, each wave of boss' damage could have dealt up to 5,000 points, but Zhang Yang's immense attack immunity reduced it to slightly over 600 points!

If the attackers from his party had received this kind of damage from the boss, within 10 seconds, the boss could have caused 50,000 points of damage! Besides, this {Shroud of Swords} was an AoE skill, so the party would have suffered massive casualties if they were here!

Luckily, the 50,000 points of damage was not released all at once, otherwise, Zhang Yang would have cried out in dismay!

"Ei, little guy, you are quite capable!" Mauta took out his saber and slashed it at Zhang Yang once again. The boss had been stuck in a pose for the last 10 seconds as he casted the skill, causing only around 6,000 points, which was an absolute waste of time for the two of them!

Zhang Yang laughed as he said, "Bloody Shuro, I told you I'm the one who's going to chop your head off!"

"Arrogant and ignorant fellow, I will rip your bones out and crush them before your dying eyes!" Mauta roared with anger, with Zhang Yang's taunts getting on his nerves.

Both of them continued fighting intensely!

With Zhang Yang's current equipment, skills, and items preparation, he could totally fight a Yellow-Gold boss alone! Besides, the pitiful Mauta only had one AoE skill of note, which was the {Shroud of Swords}! This skill was designed to fight against many players but when the boss used this skill to fight against Zhang Yang alone, it turned out to be a highly inefficient move!

80%... 50%... 20%... the boss' HP depleted dramatically, as the DPS of Zhang Yang and Mythical Turtle together was more than 7,000, a value that was actually far more powerful than a normal 5-man party!

"Bastard, it hurts, I'll pay it back tenfold! I'm going to use the most brutal methods to torture you!" as Mauta's HP dropped bit by bit, his dialogue had also started changing from an arrogant tone to manic, angry tone of disbelief.

Zhang Yang did not bother with the back and forth of words any longer and continued slashing madly on the boss. He could not let his guard down, who knew if the boss had an emergency skill, or a ridiculous berserk mode?!

At 10%, the boss' whole body turned blood red, and he entered his "berserk" state, which increased his damage by 50%!

Zhang Yang took the opportunity to activate the [Ring of Beastman's Ancestor]'s special effect! It was time for a trial run.

Instantaneously, a green-skinned Beastman's shadow emerged from Zhang Yang's ring. It had the look of a Beastman's Prophet, holding a staff that looked ancient and moved with a speed that matched its aged appearance.

The summoned old Beastman slowly waved the staff in its hand, and a globe of light gradually gathered up at top of its staff.

The special effect of the ring releases the soul of the ancestor, and apparently, would cause massive damage to the enemy. But, this old Beastman did not look like it was going to do anyone any harm, and Zhang Yang even worried that the old Beastman would die of old age at any time!

"Ha ha ha, weakling, are you going to rely on this? Is this old man your grandfather? Ha ha ha, let me kill both of you together!" Mauta laughed out loud as he lifted his saber and swung at Zhang Yang and the green-skinned Beastman!

'{Dividing Slash}!'

The saber directly went through the old beastman's shadow and struck Zhang Yang.

'-11,202!'

No time to play around with a "Berserk" boss!

At that moment, the old beastman's spell was finally prepared! In fact, it had a two second cast time, but Zhang Yang somehow felt like that took ages! Perhaps it's due to the fact that he was on a slow turtle, accompanied by a slow shadow of an ancestor!

Shush!

A mass of bright light emerged from the old beastman's staff and shot towards the boss.

Although the old beastman was slow in motion, that mass of bright light flew through the air. The boss had no chance of evading the light. It struck him squarely in the chest!

Zip!

A few strong flashes of electric current fizzled over the boss' body, like sparkling lights that danced through his body, what a spectacular view!

A debuff icon appeared on the boss' head.

{Chaotic Dance of Electric Current}: Receives extremely strong electric current bombardment, unable to move, receives 10,000 Nature damage every second. Lasts for 10 seconds.

Zhang Yang laughed happily and said, "You will be struck by lightning if you talk too much nonsense, didn't you know that?"

By taking the advantage of the 10 seconds, Zhang Yang quickly unleashed a flurry of attacks.

'-10,000!'

'-10,000!'

…

Zhang Yang and Mythical Turtle produced about 7,000 DPS, and within 10 seconds, they successfully emptied the boss' remaining 170,000 HP!

"Ah!" Mauta uttered a pitiful cry, his tall, huge body collapsed to the ground.

Finally, they killed the boss!

Starting from the Level 80 area maps, Yellow-Gold bosses were becoming pushovers, as their HP had been drastically reduced!

Zhang Yang reached out and grabbed the boss' drops. Firstly, he picked up Mauta's bloody head, as it was the quest item. It had priority above all else.

After completing the quest, then only did Zhang Yang start to check the loot.

The boss dropped two pieces of Yellow-Gold equipment, the upper parts of a cloth armor and a leather armor, which were of no use to him. The rest were seven pieces of Gray-Silver equipment, which would be automatically sent to the shop!

These few days, Zhang Yang had been acting alone. Lacking Zhang Yang's guidance, the number of the equipment hunted by the 9-man party had decreased rapidly, which led to Fatty Han complaining that Zhang Yang had no sense of brotherhood, and did not share any of the fortune with him!

Zhang Yang laughed and divided the profits of Little Merchandise Shop, and distributed it to his main force. Each member had a 5% share of the shop. Based on their shared system, the hunter of the equipment made no difference, and everyone would receive the money every month, anyway.

The 5% shares cannot be underestimated, although the profit of Little Merchandise Shop was not as high as the territory, the Little Merchandise Shop actually generated about 30,000,000 of net profit, and 5% of it would be 1,500,000. This was a stable income, so after a year, the members of Zhang Yang's gang would become millionaires!

Everyone in the main force was there because of their skills, save for Fatty Han. By bribing these people with 10 million as their annual incomes, Zhang Yang got back way more than what he's paying for!

In Zhang Yang's previous life, when he participated in A-Class Professional League, his annual income was already more than 10 million. Besides, Hundred Shots and Lost Dream were also in the S-Class bracket!

Zhang Yang unsummoned Mythical Turtle, and then used {Burrow} to leave Raven Ridge. After that, he summoned Whitey to go back to White Stone Peak and made his way back to Kent. Joseph.

"Pa!"

Zhang Yang threw Mauta's bloody head at his feet.

Kent was clearly surprised, as he bent down to pick up Mauta's head. He had a look at it, and then threw it down the hill. "Young man, color me impressed! I honestly did not expect you to get the job done so soon!"

'Ding! You have completed the quest: Kill Bloody Shura Mauta. Obtained 2,000,000 experience points!'

Zhang Yang smiled as he said, "So, I should have proven my strength, now!"

Kent crossed his arms and said, "Steady now, young man!"

Kent looked at Zhang Yang and said, "Come, let's fight, I want to know how strong you are!"

Suddenly, Kent's name changed from a green tag to a red tag!

Shush!

Kent swiftly punched at Zhang Yang!

Zhang Yang quickly raised his shield and activated {Block}.

'-120,359!'

{Block} was invalid and Zhang Yang only had 1 HP remaining, Zhang Yang could not help but fall off his mount, where he sunk to a knee and started coughing out blood!

"Ha ha, young man, confidence is good, but too much of a good thing, is never good!" Joseph lowered his fist and his name changed back to green.

Obviously, the system deliberately made the player fail. Otherwise, no Level 85 Yellow-Gold boss would be so powerful!

Zhang Yang was left with no choice. Obviously, Zhang Yang would have to initiate another new story quest.

Kent slowly paced back and forth as he said, "If it is so easy to defeat Kazalo, I would have killed him 20 years ago! He was stronger than I am, and if you cannot even handle one of my attacks, how in the world are you going to defeat him?!"

Zhang Yang was eating health recovery cakes. He asked, "Kent, does that mean that we are going to let Kazalo continue harming the innocent people?"

Kent sighed, "I know that there is a strong relic that can defeat Kazalo, but it is extremely difficult to get this relic! For 20 years, I have been looking around for this relic, but I am surrounded by enemies all around me. I cannot leave this spot safely. Not that I am afraid of death, but once I die, there will be no one else to fight against Kazalo anymore!"

Here it comes! Zhang Yang spoke up, "Kent, let me help you search for that relic!"

"You?" Kent looked at Zhang Yang and hesitated, "Although you are quite capable, to ask you to search for a [Titan Chest Plate] would be ridiculous!"

En? [Titan Chest Plate]!

Zhang Yang's eyes shone. He speedily rushed to the front of Kent and got so close to Kent's face that their noses almost touched, and then asked, "Did you just say, [Titan Chest Plate]?"

Kent actually blushed, and he quickly pushed Zhang Yang away and said, "Young man, you look good and all, but I only like women, so please stay away from me!"

Zhang Yang laughed happily and said, "Kent, tell me where the [Titan Chest Plate] is, and I will definitely find it for you!"

Kent hesitated a while and then said, "Okay, since you insist, I'll tell you!"

Kent looked into the sky as he started telling a story, "According to legend, in the prehistoric age of mythology, the powerful God of Titans created a Titan set equipment which had supreme, godly power! Unfortunately, in the Gods' war, even the immortal relics were not spared. So, the Titan set equipment also took great damage in the war. The Titan set equipment lost its original supreme power, and the eight Titan equipment set parts were scattered in every corner of the world! Although the Titan set equipment had lost its godly power, in the hands of mortals, they would still overpower everything else!"

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Chapter 351: Blackwater Abyss

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The Titan set equipment actually had such a great backstory?

Since the Titan set equipment was created by the God of Titans, even if the Titan set equipment is already damaged, how should it just be a Violet-Platinum grade?!

Zhang Yang could not hold his doubt anymore, so he unequipped his [Titan Wall] and handed over to Kent, asking, "Kent, I came across this [Titan Wall, at least that's what it calls itself, can you have a look at it?!"

"Oh?" Kent was a little surprised and took the shield and examined it carefully. He focused on the shield, and after a while, he passed the shield back to Zhang Yang, smiling as he said, "Young man, this [Titan Wall] is an imitation. Although it is not the real [Titan Wall, I have to confess that the craftsmanship of this shield is very intricate, it faithfully reproduces the image of the original. Imitation or not, it does have power in its own right, the one who forged this shield must have been very skillful!"

Imitation! Then, this perfectly explains why there were so many Titan sets around. They were all just imitations, this allowed the game to produce as many sets of it as it liked.

Zhang Yang laughed as he shook his head at the cheap method of covering up a plot hold, and asked, "So, this [Titan Chest Plate] that you are looking for is the real deal?"

"Exactly!" Kent nodded his head and continued, "The genuine Titan equipment contains immensely powerful strength! The [Titan Chest Plate] is able to resist all mortal attacks. If we equipped it, even Kazalo will have a hard time harming us!"

Zhang Yang earnestly asked, "Kent, please tell me, how do I search for this [Titan Chest Plate]?"

Kent hesitated again, and then said, "[Titan Chest Plate] is in the deepest depth of Abyss of Blackwater, and it is guarded by a huge python! This d*mned huge python is no ordinary beast, as it understands the power and value of the [Titan Chest Plate]! When I said guard, I meant that the chest plate is in its stomach! The d*mn thing swallowed it whole to start absorbing the power from within. That's some completely messed up digestive system! D*mn it, the power within the [Titan Chest Plate] is going to be completely absorbed at this point!"

Zhang Yang quickly said, "I will reclaim the [Titan Chest Plate] right away!"

Kent nodded his head in approval. "Then, you must be careful!"

'Ding! Kent. Joseph has a quest for you: Snatch back the [Titan Chest Plate]. Will you accept it?'

Accept!

Zhang Yang left White Stone Hills once again and headed to the Abyss of Blackwater.

[Snatch back [Titan Chest Plate] (Difficulty: S)

Quest Description: Kent. Joseph requires you to head for the Abyss of Blackwater immediately to snatch back the [Titan Chest Plate] from huge python! Warrior, you must hurry up, every single day that passes, the Huge Python Mopy will absorb even more strength from the [Titan Chest Plate]! Abyss of Blackwater is to the north of Grand Canyon, you better bring a few friends, as it is not easy to fight against Huge Python Mopy!

Progress: Snatch back [Titan Chest Plate] 0/1

This was an S grade difficulty quest!

If it was a B or A grade difficulty quest, Zhang Yang would have completed the quest alone without hesitation! But an S grade difficulty quest, the boss would never be an enfeebled Yellow-Gold boss. It had to be a Violet-Platinum boss, the toughest tier of bosses at this stage of the game!

Zhang Yang had planned to invite Han Ying Xue and the rest of the gang to come over and defeat the boss together, the quest had a time limit! Although the quest did not clearly mention the time limit, being an S grade difficulty quest, there should be quest score, so if he completes it in a speed beyond the prediction of the developers, he might once again score a beyond perfect rating!

Zhang Yang thought again and then decided not to waste time and immediately looked for the boss. For this, he has decided to use the last charge remaining of [Friendship Jade]!

Of course, Zhang Yang would still bring along Han Ying Xue. If the two of them proved enough to be able to defeat the boss, Zhang Yan would definitely keep the last charge of the [Friendship Jade]. Since Han Ying Xue just needed to ask for [Lover's Charm: Yin] from Sun Xin Yu, she could immediately teleport to Zhang Yang at a short notice.

Zhang Yang made the call to Han Ying Xue as he was rushing to the Abyss of Blackwater and said, "B*tchy, ask ice cube for the Lover's Charm, I need you to heal me soon!"

"No need to be so troublesome, the Lover's Charm is always with me!" Han Ying Xue smiled sweetly and said, "That frosty lady want me to return the Lover's Charm to her? Humph, that's not happening!"

Zhang Yang felt a headache starting up. These two ladies better not start a fuss out of nothing now!

"Then, come over to my place now. If you are here, I'll get things done even quicker!" Zhang Yang said.

"Thank you for summoning me, Your Highness!" Han Ying Xue said in an awfully melodramatic tone, and immediately appeared beside Zhang Yang.

"You intend to play a role of Lady Yang, or Zhao Feiyan?"

"Wu Zetian, fated to cause her husband' death, stopped her son from robbing power off the throne, and gained independence as the emperor herself!" Han Ying Xue threw a flirtatious look to Zhang Yang and summoned her Storm and Gale Direwolf. The Red Gold Crab could only increase her movement speed by 100% when on the ground. Of course, it would shine during combat.

Both of them rushed towards the North, and they reached the north of Grand Canyon in a short period of time. There was black liquid flowing in a river stream, and the river extended to a huge, black lake. The river was flowing so fast that no raft could possibly survive the rough journey. Foam and mud frothed about.

"How do we proceed? Are you actually planning to swim in this filthy ditch?" Han Ying Xue rolled her eyeballs as she said.

Zhang Yang laughed as he said, "Black water wouldn't necessarily be smelly, perhaps it is petroleum, that's black gold there!"

"Yo, it is sticky and disgusting!" Han Ying Xue complained, "If I knew that, I should have come after you've made it through here!"

"Cut the bullsh*t, just summon your Red Gold Crab and move!" Zhang Yang shouted. He knew that Han Ying Xue enjoyed dominance. However, if one were to strongly assert command over her, she would give in and obey.

Although Han Ying Xue pursed her lips, she still obediently summoned the Red Gold Crab.

Zhang Yang also summoned his Mythical Turtle, and the both of them entered the black water river, and followed the current!

The river rapidly went into the valley, going deeper and deeper down, until they were plunged into total darkness. After what seemed like hours, they saw light once again, and saw the high walls of the cliffsides on either side of them.

Quack!

Vultures flew over their head, except that they were skeletal, spectral, huge birds without any feathers or flesh. Other than that, they acted as they did in life, the scavengers of carcasses that they were.

On both sides of the river, there were countless skeletal animals of different types. They all blindly wandered around, their eyes flashing the familiar green.

The flowing speed of the black river gradually slowed down at a certain point, eventually stagnating. Still, the entrance to the abyss seemed far away. They could still swim along the river, without having to bump into the spectral animals at this point.

But, Zhang Yang said, "B*tchy, let's go ashore!"

"Why?" Han Ying Xue was a lazy person, and the less she had to work, the better.

"There are herbs!" Zhang Yang smiled, as he could see the appearance of plenty of herbs on the both sides of the river in the mini map. Besides, there were also rare medicinal materials which required long duration of re-spawns, such as [Ancient Vines]. These vines took up to a full day to respawn, they were incredibly rare!

Once they went ashore, a Blackwater Sabre-Toothed Skeletal Tiger dashed towards them, its sharp teeth snapping at Han Ying Xue, who was the closest to it.

[Blackwater Sabre-Toothed Skeletal Tiger] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 84

HP: 84,000

Defense: 450

'-6,102!'

A damage text immediately appeared above Han Ying Xue's head. Fortunately, she was already mounted on her crab, giving her almost 50,000 HP. The attack barely fazed her!

"Silly Yu, quickly save me!" By right, Han Ying Xue should be much stronger than Zhang Yang at this rate, thanks to her pet mount! The pet mount would be responsible for attacking, and she could simply heal herself, how would any elite monster be a threat to her?

But, Han Ying Xue's first reaction was to ask for help from Zhang Yang. She knew the right tone, and the right role to play the b*tch in distress. She just knew how to trigger a man's desire. Men would die protecting her, without really knowing why.

Zhang Yang, fully aware of this, shrugged and lifted his sword. He dashed towards the skeletal tiger. First, he used {Provoke} to pull away the monster's aggro and then took turns attacking, along with Mythical Turtle's bites. They definitely had the monster's attention now.

At that moment, Han Ying Xue had already trained her Red Gold Crab to Level 76, so their attacks were quite impressive, although they could not be compared to the Mythical Turtle. But, Han Ying Xue and her Red Gold Crab's attack power would already bring shame to most dedicated attackers! With the two game-breaking pets, the Blackwater Sabre-Toothed Skeletal Tiger became a pile of bone fragments within a short period of time. It gave a lot of experience points to Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue.

"It is great to ride on the coattails!" Han Ying Xue came down from her pet mount and looted the monster's drops.

Zhang Yang raised one of Mythical Turtle's right legs and flapped it in front of Han Ying Yue.

"What are you doing?" Han Ying Xue stared at Zhang Yang.

"I thought you wanted to ride on the coattails?"

"…"

With the presence of Han Ying Xue, Zhang Yang pulled all the monsters without hesitation. He summoned Whitey and stayed among the monsters, and then turned around and pulled about 10 monsters at once. After that, he started group killing.

Unfortunately, the chance of triggering the [Dark Enigmatic Sword]'s special effect had greatly reduced after Zhang Yang had reached Level 80. Although 1% and 2% was only a difference of 1%, it was half its value!

However, [Dark Enigmatic Sword] was still a godly AoE weapon that could not be replaced at the current phase. Although the chance of triggering special effect of {Horizontal Sweep} had been reduced a lot, it still did impressive damage when using {Blast Wave}, his main monster-killing skill.

Five to six minutes later, there were a lot of bones around Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue. Bypassers could have easily mistaken them as grave robbers or something, at that rate.

Han Ying Xue happily looted the monster' drops all over the ground, Wei Yan Er and Han Ying Xue had a good habit of not missing any loot. Even single pieces of copper coins would be swept off the floor! In the meantime, Zhang Yang was busy harvesting the herbs.

After looting the drops and harvesting the herbs, both of them continued moving forward and they pulled another wave of monsters and started clearing them off.

Han Ying Xue was very satisfied. Although Zhang Yang was a Guardian, he had the [Dark Enigmatic Sword] and a bunch of AoE skills which surpassed the attacking power of attackers! Although Wei Yan Er also excelled in group killing, she was limited to normal monsters only, as she would not last against the combined attacks of an elite crowd!

Moreover, as Zhang Yang had both high defense and strong attacks, nothing wiped out huge waves of monsters better than he did!

By staying together with Zhang Yang, Han Ying Xue's leveling efficiency was at its highest, and she could do her healing with one eye closed. Naturally, Han Ying Xue would wish to ride on Zhang Yang's coattails more than anyone else.

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Chapter 352: Huge Python Mopy

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Both of them continued pushing forward like locusts crossing the border, not missing out any herbs or monsters!

Still, they had to tread carefully. Up ahead, the black river swirled into a huge and bottomless vortex. If both of them aren't careful, they might actually end up being flushed down it!

If both of them really did get caught by the current, there would be no escape! Either they would have to use a [Teleportation Scroll] to teleport back to the city, or commit suicide and resurrect at a graveyard! Both of these were totally unnecessary expenses.

Three hours later, they came to the deepest of the abyss. Both of them had already obtained plenty of experience points and herbs, and Han Ying Xue's backpack was already fully stuffed.

They could see from afar, that a huge python had coiled its body under a huge rock. Its body was thicker than a train!

The huge python's scales were thick and heavy, and each scale was as big as a manhole cover, which made them drip cold sweat.

Before they approached it, both of them could already smell a nausea-inducing stench.

Han Ying Xue used her hands to cover her mouth and nose, and then complained, "How long has this smelly snake gone without a bath? Oh my gosh, I can't even breathe, how are we supposed to fight it?!"

"Adjust your olfactory sensitivity!"

Both of them were fine after adjusting their olfactory sensitivity.

[Huge Python Mopy] (Violet-Platinum, Beast)

Level: 85

HP: 8,500,000

Defense: 2,400

Han Ying Xue rolled her eyeballs and asked, "Silly Yu, don't tell me that you plan to take on this Violet-Platinum boss with just the two of us?"

"Yeap, that's the idea!"

"Brother, you are going to die fighting against this boss, and I'm not going to die with you. I'm heading back to the city! Good luck!" Han Ying Xue was already pulling out a [Teleportation Scroll].

Zhang Yang anxiously said, "Let's just give it a try, if it's too tough, I will use the [Friendship Jade]!"

Han Ying Xue kept her [Teleportation Scroll, rode on Red Gold Crab and stayed behind Zhang Yang, saying, "Silly Yu, carry on then!"

First, Zhang Yang equipped the [Friendship Jade, and then moved a few steps forward and summoned the Mythical Turtle. After that, he threw a {Spear of Obliteration} at the boss.

'-2,451!'

{Spear of Obliteration} had the special effect of ignoring defense. Although the boss had 2,400 of defense, it could not negate the damage from the {Spear of Obliteration}.

"Si!"

Huge Python Mopy stuck its red tongue out and angrily slid towards Zhang Yang.

40 meters away, its huge tail was lashed out like a giant whip and struck Zhang Yang.

'{Block}!'

Zhang Yang responded swiftly as always, he raised his [Titan Wall] and blocked the attack.

Huge Python Mopy twisted its long body and wound itself around Zhang Yang.

'-11,824!'

Zhang Yang immediately received a huge amount of damage.

Han Ying Xue quickly healed Zhang Yang's HP by spamming all her healing spells.

After the boss was done twisting around Zhang Yang's body, it immediately moved back and lashed it tail at Zhang Yang again.

'-12,012!'

Violet-Platinum bosses were really strong and ferocious, this one was dealing 5 digits of damage at a time!

Luckily Zhang Yang was mounted atop his turtle, with a HP limit that exceeded 120,000. Any other tanks would have been crushed to death by now! At this stage of the game, battle mounts were a necessity if players intended to stay ahead of everyone else. Therefore, the presence of battle mounts made a huge difference to battles!

Huge Python Mopy's attacks were random and unpredictable, it occasionally swung and simply whip its tail which caused strong whirlwind like hurricanes. Besides, this was an AoE attack, even if Han Ying Xue was standing 30 meters away from boss also received the attacks, thus, '-19,000' high damage text popped up on top of her head!

Han Ying Xue quickly yelled, "Silly Yu, quickly, use the [Friendship Jade]!"

Two waves of AoE had pushed her to the limit. Healing Zhang Yang alone was already a monumental task for her, but she was taking heavy damage herself, it was impossible to carry on!

After all, Han Ying Xue was only Level 78, equipped with a Level 60 Yellow-Gold set equipment! If she was equipped with her Violet-Platinum set equipment, she definitely could heal Zhang Yang and herself and keep up with the battle!

Zhang Yang saw the boss using its tail to wind up for yet another huge attack, and knew then, that it was an impossible battle! He immediately activated the [Friendship Jade] and used the last remaining summon.

"Roar!" Smaug's phantom appeared and roared towards the sky, wielding his Blood Shadow Blade. He dashed towards Huge Python Mopy without saying a word!

'-143,210!'

Smaug's sword came raining down, causing a ridiculous amount of damage!

Huge Python Mopy furiously turned towards Smaug's phantom. But fighting against a Holy boss, was too much for a mere Violet-Platinum boss!

Both Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue only needed to stand aside and watch the battle between the two bosses.

Unfortunately, I had to use the last charge of the Friendship Jade. I can only dream of getting another!

As Zhang Yang watched Smaug's phantom toy with the Huge Python Mopy, he sighed dejectedly.

"Silly Yu, that [Friendship Jade] has already given you three Violet-Platinum bosses. If you don't curb that greed of yours, lightning will strike you down!" Han Ying Xue said.

Zhang Yang was shocked and said, "Evil b*tch, should I start calling you an evil w*tch instead? You read my mind!"

"Please, your face said it all!" Han Ying Xue scoffed.

"How is the little brat now?" Zhang Yang tried to divert the topic.

"She's still pretty depressed. At least she's a little more talkative these days, even saying that she has decided to go for a good university!"

Zhang Yang felt worried for Wei Yan Er and said, "With her half-hearted attitude, how is she going to achieve anything?!"

Han Ying Xue rolled her eyeballs and said, "Yan Er is actually really smart, you know!"

"Hey! If you are telling lies, you will be punished by lightning strikes!"

"…"

As they continued chatting, Huge Python Mopy was fighting for it's life against the powerful strikes of a Holy boss. At this stage of the game, it's like a cheat code being activated. Just how powerful would the Holy bosses in the future be?

'Ding! The party you are in has killed Huge Python Mopy. Obtained 4,250,000 experience points!'

Within two minutes, Huge Python Mopy was slain, and a huge corpse sprawled like an overturned train, with a length of several hundred meters!

Smaug's phantom went back to Zhang Yang's side, sheathed his blade, and stood upright like a loyal bodyguard.

"Wow, I'm going to be rich!" this time, Han Ying Xue took no notice of the slime and muck, but instead, ran to the smelly corpse and picked up the coins, equipment, skill books and ETC which had spilled all over the floor.

"Ei?" after Han Ying Xue picked 10 gold coins, she wanted to pick up a very ancient looking armor, but was unable to. She asked, "Silly Yu, what's wrong with this thing? Why I can't pick this equipment up?"

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "This is my quest item, it's not for you to take!"

"Ah, so you had that good a quest and you never even bothered to mention it to me, let alone share it. Finally, I have seen through you!" Han Ying Xue grumbled.

"Silly girl, I wanted to share the quest with you when you arrived, but the quest assistant notification showed that I am unable to share the quest with other players! It's a single player quest!"

Zhang Yang walked over and picked up the armor. The quest notification rang in his ears, signifying the fulfillment of a part of the quest!

[Titan Chest Plate] (Quest Item)

Description: Although this piece of armor has been dilapidated, you can still feel the immense power within it! You feel like an ant before its divine might!

Zhang Yang had a feeling that this armor would be his, by the end of the quest! However, it should be an imitation like his [Titan Wall, as Celestial equipment would not appear at Level 80 stages of the game!

Han Ying Yue continued picking up the rest of the drops.

[Scepter of Snake King] (Violet-Platinum, Staff)

Magic Weapon Attack: 1,897–2,297

Equipment: Each time you cast spells, there is a 1% chance of obtaining extra 200 spell damage bonus.

Level Requirement: 80

"Ha ha, my hands are lucky!" Han Ying Xue gleefully admired the staff. Staves did not have attack speed limits, as casting speeds depended on the skills themselves.

Zhang Yang sighed and said, "You probably used up all the luck there, I won't be getting anything now!"

"Ha ha, my luck will get you a suitable weapon!" Han Ying Xue assured Zhang Yang as she thumped her chest.

Her fist sunk into her huge, soft melons each time it made contact, inadvertently jiggling the rest of the soft flesh around it. Zhang Yang's eyes wandered, and lingered upon the marvelous sight.

"Silly Yu, you miss them, don't you?" Han Ying Xue thrust her chest out at him, the bountiful mounds of sinful creations jiggling in response. She then cackled like a witch.

"F*ck you! Evil witch, they would have drowned you to death if you lived in ancient times!" Zhang Yang covered his nose as he said. Blood was threatening to spurt out from it at any moment.

"Ha ha ha" Han Ying Xue laughed to her heart's content, before she continued picking up the boss' loot.

[Snake's Spur] (Violet-Platinum, Dagger)

Weapon Attack: 599–799

Attack Interval: 1.3 seconds

DPS: 538

Equipment: All attacks ignore target's 500 defense value.

Level Requirement: 80

"Damn, this is a great offhand weapon for Assassins!" Zhang Yang exclaimed.

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Chapter 353: Slaying the Enemy's Chieftain

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Assassins excelled in stealth attacks. Emerging from their stealth mode, they would acquire an additional 30% damage over their initial damage output. With two weapons to wave around, they could also stun players of any professions, at similar levels and similar grade of equipment. As long as they weren't dealing with tankers, no one else stood a chance against them!

But, when engaging in a boss battle, the attack speed of the secondary weapon was too rapid, resulting in the extremely small amount of damage output due to balancing algorithm of the game. The faster the attack rate of the weapon, the lower the damage output of the weapon. So, when they are attacking a boss with extremely high defense, they would basically be like ants trying to bite into the hide of an elephant! From this point of view, defense points would always nullify their attacking power, so they could only depend on superior equipment grades and excellent player skills, along with proper mana management to cover for this weakness.

This secondary weapon dagger [Snake's Spur] actually had a special effect that ignores 500 defense points, prior to identification! At the current stage of the game, regular Violet-Platinum bosses had about 2,400 defense points, and after being smashed with 5 layers of {Cripple Defense}, they would be left with only approximately 1,200 defense points. With the special effect of this dagger, the defense points should be deducted further down by 600 points or so, leaving only 400 to 500 defense points on the bosses. This would definitely allow the wielder to unleash quite an astounding amount of damage!

This dagger was ideal!

"Humph, that 'cold' labeled one has the advantage, this time!" Han Ying Xue curled her lips as she threw the dagger over to Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang was wise enough to not get himself caught in the middle of a fight between two women, men usually die horribly when in such positions!

[Mask of the Shadowy Death] (Violet-Platinum, Leather Armor)

Defense: 48

Vitality: 564

Strength: 161

Agility: 378

Equip: Reduces the cool down time of {Take Aim} by 1 second.

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 80

Although leather armors could be used by both thief and hunter professions, the special effect clearly favored hunters. Of course, some rich 'thieves' would spend a fortune to get their hands on this equipment. The special effect aside, this fine piece of equipment would still be a Violet-Platinum equipment!

Zhang Yang kept the [Mask] into his backpack as well. He would leave the decision in the hands of those two hunters.

With the quest completed, the two of them retraced their steps, but the turbulence of the black river was streaming rapidly all the way down, making it impossible for them to go up the way they came down from. Feeling helpless, the both of them finally gave up and took out their [Teleportation Scrolls].

Zhang Yang was thinking of killing himself and directly reviving at the Graveyard. But once he thought about the possibility that he might end up in an unknown Graveyard, deep down the abyss, he decided against it. Who knows, if it really happens, then he would have died for nothing, and only bring more trouble to himself!

It was just a journey back to the White Jade Castle, and he had to at least identify the [Goblin's Head Lobber, if he intended to use it for battles in the future.

[Goblin's Head Lobber] (Yellow-Gold, One-handed Axe)

Attack: 1,131 - 1,531

Attack Interval: 2.6 seconds

DPS: 512

{Level 2 Socket 1}

{Level 2 Socket 2}

Equip: increases critical rate by 2%.

Required Level: 80

After inserting [Gemstones] with the [Runestones] that he acquired from Han Ying Xue, Zhang Yang's attack instantly rose to 2,577 - 2,977.

Then he made some fine repairs on his equipment before he teleported back to Thunderstorm Castle. He then summoned Whitey and headed towards the Grand Canyon of Eternal Night in a hustle.

It was another long journey that took about seven hours, before Zhang Yang finally arrived at the White Stone Peak. It had been a long while since he last visited this place, so the monsters on the mountain had respawned. Zhang Yang went up to the hillside and switched to his [Dark Enigmatic Sword, and then he cleared out all of the non-elite monsters along his way. After that, he activated {Dig} and went all the way up to the mountain and stood right before Kent.

He dug out his [Titan Chest Plate] out and shoved it over to Kent, "I have completed the quest!" He felt that he had already repeated this sentence many times over already.

Kent was filled with surprise while he received the [Titan Chest Plate] from Zhang Yang, and then he put his hands on the equipment and stroked it like his 'precious', revealing his obsession towards the relic. After a long while, he finally opened his mouth and said, "Young man, I'm impressed with your capability! Not only did you manage to recover the [Titan Chest Plate, you also managed to complete the quest in such short time! I can't help but to be impressed by you!"

'Ding! You have completed a quest: Recover the Titan Chest Plate, acquired 5,000,000 experience points! Quest rating: Perfect! The rating will be calculated into the final quest rewards!"

What the hell, the system was actually planning to keep the rewards from the players until they completed the entire quest? Why must the system learn from those crooked businessmen, trying to delay when it came to giving their 'employees' their salaries!

Zhang Yang smiled and said, "Kent, we can now go get that sun of a beach, Kazalo, can't we?"

"Yes, with this piece of [Titan Chest Plate, I shall be able to withstand against his [Star-Devourer, and we shall be able to finish him once and for all!" Kent was agitated with excitement, and he let out a trembling roar at the top on the mountain and said, "My brothers and sisters, it's time to follow me on a heist that you have never seen before!"

"Roar!" all of the thieves in White Stone Peak shouted and roared in unity, their voices thunderous enough to pierce through the heavens!

"Let's move out!" Kent turned to Zhang Yang, and then he summoned a battle horse with shiny armor all over its body. This battle horse was so much taller than the regular military horses. The moment it appeared, the continuous clopping of horseshoes against the ground and the heaving stream of air coming right out of it's nose gave an intimidating presence. It almost seemed to be breathing flames

'Ding! Kent Joseph has given you a quest: Slay the Chieftain of the enemy, accept or decline?'

What a handsome horse! If Wei Yan Er would ever have the chance of seeing it, that little girl would definitely abandon her own mount for this one!

Zhang Yang accepted the quest and quickly summoned Whitey.

[Slay the Chieftain of the enemy] (Difficulty: S-Rank)

Description: Kent Joseph has invited you to hunt down the 'Cancer' of the Grand Canyon of Eternal Night, Kazalo, and restore true peace to the people of the Grand Canyon of Eternal Night! Warrior, the time to boil your blood with justice and fight for a righteous cause, is now!

Completion: Slay Kazalo 0/1

With a long roar, Kent came down from the mountain on his horse at an extreme speed, just like a bolt of lightning. Without much effort, he reached the bottom of the mountain.

As Zhang Yang charged down from the mountain, he could see the thieves were already lining up in a position of a large formation! The formation was incredibly neat, at a level that could be compared to the official army! By the looks of it, Kent had spent his fortune and time just to plan an attack to take out Kazalo, during all these years. He had managed to turn these 'Scattered sands' into a strong 'Castle'! It was unbelievable that he could actually train up a bunch of thieves into such a disciplined army!

"Brothers and sisters, today, we shall carry out a heist that history has never seen before!" Kent stood at the front of the formation on his horse, while holding a huge axe in his hand. His aura was really intimidating and pressurizing. He waved his axe and said, "We shall go head on against Kazalo and his army and end this once and for all! As long as we kill them all, the Great Canyon of Eternal Night shall be ours to claim!"

"Kill!"

"Kill them all!"

"I want women and money!"

The thieves were roaring out like an army of madmen.

It was indeed, killing two birds with one stone! Using a bunch of thieves to engage with a bunch of real bandits, it would not matter whichever side dies, it would still be great news to the regular people in the Great Canyon of Eternal Night!

"Now, charge!" Kent turned his horse around to face his army, and then he pointed his axe eastward and said, "Brother and sisters, fortune and fame are just ahead of us, for the taking! Charge! Charge!"

"Charge forward!"

Shoof!

At least tens of thousands of thieves got on their horses, following Kent, and charged towards the east! The stomping of the horseshoes from the army stirred up dirt and dust into the air, and from afar, it was like the forces of nature itself were attacking!

Zhang Yang patted the head of Whitey and followed the army of thieves. It was fortunate that they were only two times faster, compared to the regular speed of a player's sprint. Therefore, Whitey should probably be able to catch up to them with ease.

But Zhang Yang did not charge at the front. It was obvious that there would be a large-scale battle coming right up, so he did not intend to serve himself as one of the 'cannon fodders' that would be blown to bits in the front lines.

After charging forward for about an hour, Kent led the army to the front of a castle. The facilities of the castle seemed quite complete. [Magic Cannons] were installed right on top of the castle wall. Even a Violet-Platinum grade boss would be blown to bits if he or she ever tried to penetrate the defense line of the castle with brute force!

Kent realized the threat, and he immediately gave the command for his army to halt. Then, he raised his left hand and bellowed, "Bring out the catapults!"

Rolling out one after another, three large-scale catapults appeared right in front of the army, and all of the catapults were the sizes of large trucks. The thieves cooperated with professional efficiency as they moved rocks that were as large as millstones and loaded them onto the catapults.

Zhang Yang was left with his jaws and eyes opened wide. How did the three catapults miraculously appeared in the battlefield? It was so fake! He had not seen them when they were charging to the enemy! Could catapults be kept in backpacks, now?

"Release the catapults!" Kent shouted loudly, and with 'Ki ki ki' sounds, the three large rocks shot out like shooting stars, flashing through the sky, and flying towards the wall of the castle!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The distance between the castle and Kent's army was about 300 to 400 meters long, but Zhang Yang could still feel a slight tremble across his feet as he stood by and watched the spectacular scene!

Boom! Boom!

The catapults were shooting out a series of 'cannonballs' towards the direction of the castle. In just a short while, the walls of the castle were devastated by the assaults from the catapults. Quite a number of the [Magic Cannons] were blown into pieces, along with the wall!

That is the weakness of the [Magic Cannon]!

Although the attack power of the [Magic Cannons] were immense and terrifying, they did not have the range of the catapults! So they would just 'sit' there, waiting for the catapults to blow them up into pieces!

After a while, the castle side had also begun using their catapults to defend themselves, shooting large rocks towards Zhang Yang and the army. The rocks were huge, that when they landed on the army, a large number of the thieves were blown away!

The first stage of the war would be to see the effectiveness of the ranged weapons. After a period of exchange, most of the [Magic Cannons] had been obliterated. The catapults had ended up crushing each other, so all at once, the battlefield no longer had any terrifying siege engines left!

Kent charged at the front of the entire army and waved his axe around, and roared, "Brothers and sisters, after this battle, fortune and treasure await!"

"For gold!"

"For beer!"

"For women!"

"Kill!" Kent roared intensely.

"Kill --" All of his army followed and let out their thunderous battle cries!

"Kill!"

"Kill --"

"Charge!" The tens of thousands of thieves followed Kent closely as they charged towards the castle!

Zhang Yang was not hot-headed to the point that he would follow them in the front lines. Although the [Magic Cannons] had mostly been cleared out, there were two of them remaining! These 'toys' could inflict a total damage of 200,000 to all the targets within the range in a single shot. The total health points he had, even while mounted, was not enough to survive that! He simply laid back and continued enjoying the dramatic scene!

Furthermore, one player could not do much in a large-scale battle. He wouldn't make much difference!

Boom!

The [Magic Cannons] that still remained on the wall had begun to open fire at the thieves, as expected! Streams of white lights shot across the army. Whether the ones struck were elites or normal monsters, they were instantly vaporized!

Fortunately, after waves of assaults from the catapults, the [Magic Cannons] had settled down into their long periods of cooldown! The last thing the game needed was a rapid-firing cannons with infinite ammunition!

Kent was born to be brave, so he charged on without any sense of fear and was the first to arrive at the gates of the castle. With a few swings of his axe, he destroyed the gate of the castle with brute force! He really was a great general!

Zhang Yang was envious of what he saw, hoping to emulate that sort of image, one day, and lead his guild to war! Be it 'Territory Sieges' or 'Monster Attacks', it would have great effects on their morale! Zhang Yang shouted and patted the head of Whitey, and quickly followed the army!

The moment they entered the castle, the map instantly switched to a smaller map. The map showed that the interior design of the place was like 'Stromgarde Keep1' from World of Warcraft, but unlike the one in World of Warcraft, the castle interior was not ruined, and the design of the place was extremely grand, where the roads were made of white jade! The place looked just like a palace! Unfortunately, at the moment, it had been reduced into another bloody battlefield. The thieves had already engaged in deadly battles with the mercenaries. Blood was spilled everywhere on the streets, and the roads were filled with bloody, mangled corpses!

Zhang Yang was trying to locate the whereabouts of Kent, because a boss like this would be like a firefly in a dark place. He would be the center of attraction, and the center of the plotline! It was the best option for Zhang Yang, since he did not know what to do at the moment!

As expected, he saw the man's shadow flashing by! Kent was riding on his battle horse while spinning his axe around, blowing the surrounding enemies away. It did not matter if the enemies were cut into half or chopped to death, blood would just spill and departed limbs from the body of the enemies were flying around. It was war, after all.

He was really a powerhouse NPC in the cinematic mode, compared to the 'Cannon Fodder' who had a low attack of 5!

Zhang Yang tapped on Whitey's head again and aided them in killing their enemies. His main quest was to slay Kazalo. Although it was not necessary for him to be the one slaying Kazalo, he should at least inflict some damage to the boss! Otherwise, he would fail the quest and get nothing in the end!

The two bosses were bound to clash anytime soon, his best option was to hang on to Kent like a fly!

The mercenaries definitely outnumbered the thieves, but there is a Kent on the thieves' side! This Yellow-Gold boss was impressively strong and intimidating! With a swing of his axe, most of the enemies were instantly sent to their afterlives! The situation for the thieves was like a pillar of rocks in the midstream of a river that supports the bridge! Not only did it prevent the thieves from breaking formation, it also gave them the advantage over the battle!

The thieves were marching forward steadily, slowly pushing deeper into the castle.

Zhang Yang stayed right behind Kent, where he would activate his {Horizontal Sweep} and his {Blast Wave}, just to get some experience points. Whenever the special effect of the [Dark Enigmatic Sword] got triggered, the damage values looked awesome!

The two sides were depleting their number of fighters in a very swift manner. As Kent was going forward, following the path ahead, he managed to push on into a spot on the highest location of a building in the castle. It was a tower that was about 13 floors high, and it was exceedingly 'thin', about the square area of 3 to 4 houses.

Kent had finally stopped moving because there was a very powerful person standing right in front of him!

[Kiev the 3rd] (Yellow-Gold, Humanoid)

Level: 84

HP: 1,680,000

Defense: 1,500

Kiev was a middle aged man with a lean and skinny body, wearing tights that covered most of his body. He held sharp swords in both of his hands, and he looked like he was an 'Assassin'.

"Joe --" Kiev let out a loud roar and pointed a sword at Kent, "So it was the bastard who has been a pain in the *rse all these years! Now, you dare to show yourself on our doorsteps! Good, very good! Then I, Kiev shall be the one who breaks every single one of the bones within your body!"

Kent also roared and said, "Pitiful bandits, taking all the people's money! You didn't just do a lousy job protecting the people, you actually stole from them! You worthless sh*ts, die! Just die!"

The two bosses roared at each other, and they engaged in a fierce battle.

Zhang Yang had also charged forward and smashed five layers of his {Cripple Defense}. Then he continued to unleash all his attacks onto the enemy boss as well!

Although two bosses were the same grade, Yellow-Gold, it was really obvious that Kent was far superior. One boss that was only a mini-boss of his organization, while the other boss was a powerhouse. Although the amount of their health points were the same, that's where their similarities ended!

Kiev was brought down on his knees in just short amount of time!

1. Stromgarde Keep - a ruined capital city in a Kingdom in World of Warcraft.

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Chapter 354: Kazalo Appears

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Because the boss was taken down mostly by Kent, the loot dropped from the body were extremely miserable to look at. All Zhang Yang got was a piece of Yellow-Gold equipment and two Gray-Silver equipment. Furthermore, that piece of Yellow-Gold equipment was just a mere cloth armor with weirdly high attributes of Spirit and Ice-Resistance. So, he could only put it out for sale at his Little Merchandise.

"Pui! Filthy scumbag!" Kent spat on the dead body of Kiev and charged into the tower with large strides.

There were no thieves among them, the sounds of battle far behind them. Well, it was obvious that they had stepped into the battlegrounds of the final showdown between two kings!

As they entered the tower, Zhang Yang was automatically dismounted from Whitey. Because Zhang Yang had {Beast Taming}, Whitey had immediately turned into a combative pet and followed Zhang Yang from behind.

Zhang Yang gave it some thought and unsummoned Whitey. Since he would not be riding Whitey within the tower and the super slow movement speed of the [Mythical Turtle] would not affect his movement in battle, he kept Whitey into his backpack for the moment. He intended to summon [Mythical Turtle] after the boss battle begins!

There were still monsters within the tower, and all of the monsters were Level 85 elite-grades. But with Kent rampaging about, the monsters did not stand a chance at all. The monsters were slaughtered one after another with ease. Every single one of the monsters was killed in one hit! They were not able to do anything at all! It was actually a bad thing for Zhang Yang because he would not be getting a single point of experience!

However, he soon figured that he could hurl {Spears of Obliteration} at the monsters within his sight. Even if he attracts the aggro of the monsters, they would instantly be killed the moment they get closer, and Zhang Yang would immediately acquire experience points!

Being invincible all along the way, the two of them arrived at the seventh floor of the tower. At that moment, another boss appeared to block their way forward.

[Phoebe the 2nd] (Yellow-Gold, Humanoid Creature)

Level: 87

HP: 1,740,000

Defense: 1,500

This time, it blonde beauty with her luscious hair dancing in the air. It was unfortunate that she was blind in her left eye, wearing a black eye-patch. Otherwise, she had a strange and seductive appeal. She had a great body that was beautiful and charming, with a T-Shirt on her upper body that showed her navel button. She wore a pair of hot pants that exposed her snow-white, long thighs. She was bare footed, and held a golden leather whip in her hands.

The 'queen' has three main special plays, the 'Wax Play', 'riding the Spanish donkey1', and the 'Whipping Exercises'! Zhang Yang could not help but start thinking of weird stuff in his mind!

"It's you --" the moment when Phoebe saw Kent, she revealed her hatred through her one good eye, "Seven years, Joe, seven years, since you took my eye from me! For seven years, I have been waiting for the day I can get my revenge! Joe, I'm going to suck you dry, of every drop of your blood!"

"Hahaha! You escaped seven years ago, but today, you are destined to die by my sword!" Kent let out a loud laugh and swung his axe around, charging towards Phoebe.

"Joe, for seven years, I have not forgotten how you blinded my eye with that sword of yours! That scene plays through my mind every single day!" Phoebe lashed out her whip with utmost prejudice.

Zhang Yang took the opportunity to charge at the boss, and then he summoned the [Mythical Turtle] out while applying his stacks of {Cripple Defense} on Phoebe, "Kent, someone has really been missing you! Seven years, my goodness, she's madly in love!"

Kent laughed out loud and said, "Unfortunately, I have no interest in such vicious ladies!"

"Shut up!" Phoebe was enraged even more, and the golden whip in her hands swung around even more intensely! It tore the air open as it lashed at the two of them.

'-6,212!'

Zhang Yang was instantly inflicted with a damage value. Although he was not the first aggro of the boss, but the attacks of Phoebe had an AOE effect. Zhang Yang had let his guard down and suffered some damage for his complacency!

"Hahaha! Young man, this woman is a beautiful snake, now you have tasted her power!" Kent laughed at Zhang Yang's expense while swinging his axe around, reducing the health bar of Phoebe in a very swift manner!

"Joe, you are a scumbag who deserves to die over a million times! You destroyed my beauty, and now you dare to humiliate me!" Phoebe was screaming in a high pitch, her golden whip was surging with vague red aura.

'-6,342!'

Zhang Yang once again received a damage value. He was so shocked, he had already made sure he activated his {Block}, how could he possibly be hurt?

'You have blocked Phoebe's {Chaotic Dance of the Snake}.'

'The additional fire damage of Phoebe's {Chaotic Dance of the Snake} has inflicted a fire damage of 6,342 points on you (2,000 damage immune, 1,658 damage absorbed).'

What the hell, a physical attack with an additional fire damage! No wonder Zhang Yang was still receiving damages from the attack even though he had already activated his {Block}!

It was fortunate that the boss only had one AOE skill - {Chaotic Dance of the Snake}, and the cool down period of the skill was 20 seconds long! So, Zhang Yang reserved his {Block} to counter the attack. Even if he received additional fire damage from the attack, the long cool down period of time was enough for him to take a bottle of [HP Potion] to recover his health points!

Under the powerful damage output of Zhang Yang and his turtle, the health points of Phoebe plummeted, and by the end of it, she let out a miserable scream and collapsed into her own pool of blood.

And this time, the loot was even more miserable to look at! Phoebe only dropped two pieces of Gray-Silver equipment! Not even one piece of Yellow-Gold equipment! Stingy as f*ck!

From the looks of it, the final boss Kazalo would be dropping anything good, so Zhang Yang could only count on the final reward of the quest! Zhang Yang could already predict that the rewards would include the [Titan Chest Plate]. However, the previous quests included a S-Rank difficulty quest and a cumulative quest rating. Would there be any add-ons for a good performance?

Zhang Yang unsummoned the [Mythical Turtle] and followed Kent from behind without questioning further.

Every monster that appeared on the way were instantly killed by the swinging axe of Kent. Both of them arrived at the highest floor of the tower in just a short amount of time.

A powerful, hulking middle-aged man was standing right by the large windowsill of the floor with a sword in his hands. He was looking down to the battlefield from up high. Although he had already heard the footsteps of Zhang Yang and Kent coming up, he did not turn around, and spoke with his back facing them, "Joe, you must be Joe. Smith, aren't you? I just don't get it, why must you go against us so badly! I have already sent you secret letters! As long as you join us, you will have your territory in the mountains! You won't lose anything!"

[Kazalo] (Violet-Platinum, Humanoid Creature)

Level: 88

HP: 8,800,000

Defense: 2,500

Kent was shouting in rage, "Kazalo, you and your men had been plaguing the Grand Canyon of Eternal Night for so many years! Today shall be the day that I end you and rid the 'cancer' of the Grand Canyon of Eternal Night!"

Kazalo burst into laughter and he finally turned around. His face was almost square, with a pair of sharp and fierce-looking eyes, giving a sense of calm, and yet intimidating aura. He shook his head and said, "To hear these words from a thief in the mountains, it's like listening to a joke!"

"Kazalo, prepare to die!" Kent took a deep breath and began to charge towards the boss with his axe.

"You're just a small fry, you need to know your own place!" Kazalo did not even look at Kent, and with an upwards swing of his sword, he intended to deflect the axe!

'Ting!'

Kent's axe was broken in half, like it was made of tofu! With only one hit, the boss had broken Kent's axe!

"Hahaha! Tremble before my [Star-Devourer]!" Kazalo was laughing madly, and he continued to raise his sword up, ready to slash at Kent's body.

Kent showed no signs of dodging the blow! With his right fist raised, he forcefully threw a fist at the boss with incredible strength!

'Ting!'

The [Star-Devourer] reached the body of Kent first, but it did not slash Kent into half like it did to the axe. Instead, the hit gave out sparks upon impact, inflicting a certain amount of damage to Kent.

On the other side, Kent's fist had landed on the boss, inflicting an incredible amount of damage to the boss!

"Huh?" Kazalo was shocked and confused, he questioned his own eyes and said, "What kind of armor are you wearing? It can actually withstand my [Star-Devourer]!"

Kent lifted up his other fist and began to punch it out, "Curious, aren't you? Let's wait until I punch your brain out of that thick idiotic skull of yours, and then I shall tell you! I won't let you die without knowing!"

"Dream on! What can one good piece of equipment do to you, I will still be able to obliterate you! I should thank you for bringing me such good armor!" Kazalo confidently resumed his attacks!

"Young man, please aid me by securing the entrance of this place, don't let anyone in!" Kent shouted at Zhang Yang as he engaged in the fierce duel.

'Ding! The objective of the Quest: Slay the Chieftain of the enemy has been modified, you must secure the entrance of the floor by the stairs, stop any of the mobs from giving aid to Kazalo, until Kent slays Kazalo. If Kent dies, the quest will fail!'

It meant that Zhang Yang did not have to slay the boss, all he had to do was to block the entrance. The more monsters that got through him, the higher chances of Kent losing the battle and ending the quest in a failure!

Zhang Yang took in a long deep breath, and reminded himself to hurl his {Spear of Obliteration} towards the boss from afar whenever the opportunity presents itself. Because as long as he could inflict some damage on the boss, at least he would be able to receive some experience points and loot. Although the value of the loot was expected to be low, it was better to get one or two pieces of equipment than end up empty handed. Plus, the boss was a Violet-Platinum grade boss, anything dropped from him would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars!

As he was looking down from the higher ground, he saw a wave of approximately 10 elite-grade monsters marching up the stairs.

Zhang Yang had already summoned his [Mythical Turtle] by his side, ready to engage anything that comes his way, together with his turtle!

Tut tut tut! The first monster had already arrived in front of Zhang Yang.

[Kazalo's Close Quater Guards] (Elite, Humanoid Creature)

Level: 85

HP: 85,000

Defense: 450

Zhang Yang immediately took out his axe and hacked at the enemy, inflicting a damage of 2,812 on the monster. His rage points were instantly accumulated, rising up to a total of 31 points! At the same instant, he activated his {Block}, saving himself from the counterattacks from the monster, giving him another 30 points of rage points!

As the second monster was approaching as well, he immediately switched his weapon to [Dark Enigmatic Sword] and activated his {Horizontal Sweep}. Instantly, another two damage value of 4000 were inflicted on the monsters at the same time.

That's right! {Horizontal Sweep} did not have the attribute to pass through solid objects, but the entrance of the stairs was so narrow with Zhang Yang and [Mythical Turtle] blocking the way, only two of these elite monsters could squeeze to the front to attack Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang was also limited to hitting the two targets in front of him.

First he activated his {Blood Rage}, and then he let out a burst of {Blast Wave}!

This time, 10 damage values appeared at the same time within his sight view! The [Dark Enigmatic Sword] kicked in, inflicting further damages to the monsters!

Zhang Yang then switched his weapon back to the [Goblin's Head Lobber] and continued to station himself and his turtle at the narrow entrance, where they continued to unleash their assaults on the two monsters in front of them.

The quest only required him to delay the elite monsters from reaching Kent, it did not say that Zhang Yang would need to clear out all of the monsters in front of him. Therefore, it was not necessary for him to work on killing them off. As long as he could block them at the entrance until Kent slays the boss, he would have done his part.

His strength value was already very high at the moment, so the monsters would not be able to knock him back. Like a sturdy rock, he stood against the tide!

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Chapter 355: The Mighty Titan Chest Plate

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'-1,391!'

Every single attack of the monsters inflicted Zhang Yang with approximately 1,400 points of damage value. Zhang Yang did not dare kite both the monsters by himself, so he only kited one of the monsters and allowed [Mythical Turtle] to block the other monster.

When his health points were beginning to run low, Zhang Yang would take a bottle of grade-5 transmuted [Troll Recovery Potion, or a [Fountain of Life, or activate {Berserker's Heal}, depending on the situation.

While waiting for those activated skills to cool down, Zhang Yang did not forget to throw his [Spear of Obliteration] onto the boss. Even if he could just reduce a 1 second period of time required for Kent to slay the boss, it would definitely reduce the pressure on him in blocking the monsters by the stairs as well.

One minute later, another wave of elite monsters began to charge up the stairs in an attempt to break through Zhang Yang's defense. They were shoving the monsters in front of them, threatening to push Zhang Yang back. He was forced to use a combination of several skills to stabilize his position!

{Blast Wave}!

{Heroic Leap}!

{Wild Assault}!

{Blast Wave} and {Heroic Leap} were both skills that had crowd control effects, while {Wild Assault} is a new skill learned when a warrior reaches Level 80.

[Brutal Smash: Delivers a fatal blow to the head of the target with the strength of a beast, inflicting 100% physical damage based on strength attribute, stuns the target for 4 seconds. Cool down: 2 minutes. Consumption: 30 rage points. Range: Melee.

{Brutal Smash} was a skill that had a control effect over one monster only, so if wisely coordinated with {Blast Wave}, a single target could be stunned for a total of 8 seconds! It would be extremely useful in PvP matches!

Zhang Yang turned his head around to check on the boss, and could see that the boss was still left with 97% health points! It would still take another 15 minutes or more for Kent to slay the boss! Although his equipment is top-notch, and he is well equipped with many lifesaving skills, he couldn't possibly hold back two elite monsters for 15 minutes!

In a haste, he brought up his voice communication device and reached out for help, "Witch snow! Come quickly! Help!"

"Silly Yu, what's up? Can't hold your piss! Can't you just hold on a little longer?" Han Ying Xue teased Zhang Yang.

"Just get over here, woman! I'll make a superb dinner for you tonight!" Zhang Yang roared in desperation.

In just a short moment, Han Ying Xue activated the [Lover's Charm] and teleported straight to Zhang Yang's location. When she saw the number of elite monsters on the stairs, she was almost struck speechless. After a moment, she asked, "Silly Yu, how on earth did you attract so many monsters?"

"Just heal me, now!"

With Han Ying Xue healing him from one side, Zhang Yang no longer had to worry about his survival. He finally managed to hold off the assaults of the monsters, wave after wave, with ease.

As the third wave began, the number of those newly spawned monsters was increased up to 20 in a single wave! The fourth wave still had 20 monsters spawning to join into battle, and the fifth wave increased the number of newly spawned monsters to 30 in a single wave! The monsters were accumulating as more waves came!

That would mean that after every two waves, an additional 10 monsters would spawn with each subsequent wave!

Fortunately, it was safe to say that the entrance of the stairs was hard to break through, and was easily defensible. Even if there were 10,000 coming at them, only two monsters would be able to launch their assaults at Zhang Yang and his [Mythical Turtle] at a time! But as the number increased, so did the forces that worked against him. If he was careless, they could actually shove him back. He would have to put in far more effort in holding his ground!

11 minutes into the battle!

The boss was left with 26% health points, but the number of the monsters clogged up at the stairs had gone up to over 300! Although Zhang Yang and his [Mythical Turtle] had slain a few of the monsters, it was like trying to put out a burning cartload with a glass of water1.

As the battle entered its 12th minute, another wave of 60 monsters joined the battle, totaling up the horde to 400!

The 400 monsters exceeded the strength of Zhang Yang, and slowly, he slid back, unable to maintain his position.

"Witch snow! Let's use our {Blizzard Sky} and {Luna's Dew}!"

"... Silly Yu, don't you start groping me!"

"Relax, I have standards!"

"B*st*rd!"

Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue retreated at the same instant, leaving a gap by the entrance of the stairs. Immediately, a large number of monsters gushed in like a wave of tsunami from the entrance of the staircase, ganging up on the two of them!

As they held each others hands, they unleashed the dual skill! The {Blizzard Sky} and the {Luna's Dew}!

The floor around them actually sunk down, and pieces of small snow flakes began to rain down, forming a layer of snowy-white frost on the ground! Then, a bright moon appeared right on top of the tower, and a ray of moonlight shone on the two of them!

This chilly moonlight turned out to be lethal!

'-5000!'

'-5000!'

...

As the moonlight struck the monsters, the monsters were continuously inflicted with a series of damages!

'Immune'!

'Immune'!

The monsters did not flinch under their assaults, but continued to launch their attacks fiercely on Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue, but the two of them had been rendered invincible at that moment!

17 seconds later, the large horde of monsters began to die off, one after another, with more casualties at each passing second!

The {Blizzard Sky} and the {Lunar's Dew} lasted for a full 30 seconds, and when the skill stopped, no monsters were left alive on the battlefield!

"Okaaay, maybe the developers might nerf this skill soon..!" Han Ying Xue had never slaughtered so many monsters by herself before, and was shaking in excitement.

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "When you reach Level 100, you can go ahead and get a damage-type 'Inheritance'. It will turn you into a healer that both heals her allies, while channeling damage upon your enemies!"

13 minutes into the battle, another wave of 70 monsters spawned and charged up by the staircase again!

But they had survived a wave of 400 monsters, what was 70 to them!

Zhang Yang positioned himself by the entrance of the staircase once again with his [Mythical Turtle] and once again, formed a blockade!

14 minutes into the battle, the number of the monsters had accumulated up to a total of 138!

Meanwhile, on the other side, Kazalo was left with merely 7% of his health points! Victory was just right in front of them!

It was really fortunate that they had that overpowered dual skill, or else they would not have lasted the battle! It would take countless players to guard against that horde of elite monsters! This was why the quest has been graded as an S-Rank. Although it wasn't a quest that required players to defeat a Violet-Platinum boss, players were required to hold back a horde of super strong, elite-grade monsters!

30 seconds left!

Zhang Yang steadily held his ground, a number of monsters well within his capabilities!

20 seconds left!

Kazalo was left with only 2% of his health points!

10 seconds left! 9, 8, 7... 3, 2, 1!

"No! You can't possibly have defeated me! I'm the invincible Kazalo, I'm the wielder of the [Star-Devourer]! I should be the one who would rule the entire world!" Kazalo was letting out his last miserable breath, right before his last drop of health points were cut off by Kent!

Pak!

Kazalo's heavy body shook the ground, and his [Star-Devourer] fell beside him with a 'cling!' The glow of the sharp blade gradually faded, turning slowly into the natural shine of regular steel.

The remaining elite monsters started running away upon witnessing the death of their leader.

Kill the head, and the body will follow! When Kazalo died, it was natural for these monsters to run for their lives.

Zhang Yang did not pursue them, because he knew, he would get nothing in return for slaughtering these monsters. He could always get an abundance of experience points without having to chase their asses around.

Kent picked up the [Star-Devourer] from the ground and turned his eyes towards the dead body of Kazalo, and kept it in its scabbard. After that, he turned to Zhang Yang and said, "Young man, we have succeeded! We have slain the chieftain of the 'cancer' and have rid the people of the Grand Canyon of Eternal Night of its 'pests'! Now, I shall rebuild an army for the people, an army that can really protect the people from harm!"

"Then, I wish you best of luck, Kent!" Zhang Yang smiled.

"Young man, you are a brave warrior, I need a warrior just like yourself by my side, come, help me build the army!" Kent invited Zhang Yang to join his cause.

Zhang Yang quickly shook his head and said, "Thank you for the offer, Kent. But I am an adventurer, I wander around, building my strength, exploring the world, that is my most desired dream! So I must decline your invitation."

"Hahaha, young man, maybe the thing that you seek is somewhere in this vast world!" Kent did not pursue the matter any further, and he said, "No matter what, I must thank you. Without your aid, I would not have defeated Kazalo! Take this, as promised!"

Kent placed a piece of the metal fragment that glittered silver into Zhang Yang's palm.

'Ding! You have obtained an item: Dimensional Key Fragment 7!'

'Ding! You have completed a quest: Slay the Chieftain of the enemy, acquired 5,000,000 experience points! Kent's remaining health points: 35%, quest rating: Perfect! The rating will be calculated into the final reward of the quest!'

'Ding! You have completed Linked Quest: Rebuild the Republic Army! Total rating: Perfect!'

Kent took off the [Titan Chest Plate] that was on him and gave it to Zhang Yang, "Young man, hold on to this. This belongs to you now. Now that Kazalo is dead, you can have this chest plate!"

[Titan Chest Plate] (Violet-Platinum, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 80

Vitality: 806

Strength: 230

Agility: 115

{Level 3 Socket 1}

{Level 3 Socket 2}

Equip: Absorbs 232 damage when hit.

Additional effect 1 (Only effective on Player Zhan Yu): Cast a {Titan's Shield} onto yourself or your targeted party member. When {Titan's Shield} is activated, a player's casting will not be interrupted. {Titan's Shield} can last for 2 minutes, or absorbs a total of 300,000 damage points and then vanish. Cool down time: 4 hours.

Additional effect 2 (Only effective on Player Zhan Yu): When {Shield Wall} is activated, you will recover 10% of your health points for every second until the shield vanishes.

Required Profession: Guardian

Required Level: 80

Titan Armor Set (5/8):

Note: This is a legendary equipment forged by the god of Titans himself, not some cheap replica!

The additional effect probably came up because he had completed S-Rank quests with perfect ratings! So, although the equipment was not bound to him, the two additional effects would only be accessible by Zhang Yang alone in the entire game!

Yes indeed, this was the difference between the original item and its replica!

The additional effects of the equipment are super dope! The {Titan's Shield} was a super powerful protection skill for himself and his party members! Although the cool down period is a little too long, it could become the key to changing the tide of a battle!

The second additional special effect was even more incredible!

Zhang Yang had already leveled his {Shield Wall} up to level 6, and the cool down period of the skill was currently at 4 minutes 30 seconds. With the additional special effects of his shield, the [Titan Wall] that extends his {Shield Wall} by another 5 seconds, his health points would recover by 150% whenever he activates {Shield Wall}!

In a nutshell, he has become even harder to kill!

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Chapter 356: Answering a Fool According to His Folly

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The good news was that the fourth fragment piece of the [Dimensional Key] had been acquired. The bad news was that, even though Zhang Yang had been hurling [Spears of Obliteration] at Kazalo throughout the entire the boss battle, he had not earned a single experience point! And the boss did not even drop anything at all!

At least he acquired the [Titan Chest Plate, which was already worth all the trouble he went through!

More importantly, he had already collected enough [Titan Armor Set] pieces to activate the second special effect of the [Armor Set: Every time {Block} is activated, the next activation of {Shield Bash} wouldn't consume any rage points, while it would deal an additional 100%, lasts for 3 seconds.

Back in White Jade Castle, Zhang Yang inserted the [Gemstones] that he had acquired into the two empty sockets of the [Titan Chest Plate]. Instantly, his health points were increased up to a total of 76,590 points, and his damage absorption attribute reached up to 1,774 points, while his defense became 2,240 points! His survivability was once again boosted up to another level!

He is currently the CEO of the Silky Soft Holdings. Although all he really had to do was just to sign some papers, he was required to attend some company activities and some important meetings. Because the company had been shadowed by lots of negative news for awhile now, many of their top models had jumped ship to other companies. This month has been the toughest month for Silky Soft Holdings, and the worse has finally passed. Everything has gone back to normal as they should be, and Silky Soft Holdings is now back in business! Naturally, they had to recruit a new batch of models to present their latest products on their 'menus'!

As the CEO of the company, Zhang Yang was required to interview the new batch of models.

He only found out later on that this rule was apparently set by Wei Yan Er's father when he was well and alive. Enough was said about that, all men should know why such a rule was set.

It was fortunate that the models had already been filtered out through initial sign ups and interviews, so this session was more or less the final hurdle! Of course, having gone through the filter, these girls were truly lookers with pretty faces and bodies appropriate of modeling in lingerie. Although he did not plan to do anything with the girls, it would be really satisfying and fun for him to wash his eyes by looking at pretty, sexy girls. This would be interesting!

Currently, he was alone in the interview room, seated at a working desk, with a large-sized couch placed right beside the desk. It was odd to see a couch beside his desk. Zhang Yang could not help but to start having creative ideas. The things he could possibly do on the couch…

What he did not know was that Wer Yan Er's father would have 'settled' the girl on the couch itself if he liked what he saw!

The girls coming for the interview came into the room, one after another, showing off their assets, flaunting as much as they could to earn 'points'. It was all to 'win' the interview! These women knew that Zhang Yang is the CEO of the Silky Soft Holdings, and also a shareholder of the company. So they tried to use all their skills on Zhang Yang during the process of their interview, one after another. They were showing their yearning, hungry expressions at Zhang Yang. As long as Zhang Yang wanted it, they would give it to him!

Zhang Yang rated them based on his own preferences, as he did not care about professionalism or whatever sh*t when it came to picking models.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Zhang. I'm entry number 21, my name is Luo Xin Yan--" the soft and sexy voice of a woman came through the door.

Zhang Yang was still rating the previous interviewee, which had a pair of very big boobs, a hot body, and a deceitfully baby face. She would surely be popular among men! However, when he heard the three words 'Luo Xin Yan', he snapped his head up in shock, what were the odds!

The woman that came in right after, and closed the door shut right behind her was the woman who had a history with Zhang Yang in his previous life, the woman with the name 'Luo Xin Yan'!

It is already March, although it was still considered to be late spring, some vain women had already started wearing skirts and dresses. Of course, Luo Xin Yan was one of them, and for an interview such as this that could decide her future, she would definitely dress up nicely and put up enough make up to make her look her best! With a pair of red high-heels on her fair, long legs, wrapped up in black ultra sheer1. She had a very thin knee-length skirt around her waist that wrapped around her body, revealing her sexy, seductive figure.

The interview was facilitated in an air-conditioned room, but the temperature wasn't too chilly. She probably brought along a coat to handle the elements outside.

Luo Xin Yan also caught sight of Zhang Yang. She was shocked to see him to the point that she opened her small little mouth wide, staring at him like a deer caught in headlights! She could have never imagined that the hoodlum who forced himself on her mouth would actually be the CEO of a huge company like this one!

Previously, she had already cursed Zhang Yang over the incident many times over and was finally prepared to move on with her life. But what she did not anticipate was that Zhang Yang would actually appear right in front of her, as a CEO of the company!

Zhang Yang was very entertained by the expression that Luo Xin Yan showed him. He crossed his arms and smiled vaguely. In his previous life, Luo Xin Yan had caused so much misery to him, that Zhang Yang would never let her off so easily this time. Furthermore, the thoughts of having her back by his side were repulsive.

As Zhang Yang had been really obedient towards her demands, he would give her any luxury that she desired! But, it appeared that her greed knew no bounds, and she was a heartless ingrate! Instead of being thankful for having Zhang Yang as her man, she had stabbed him the back! Zhang Yang would never forget the heartbreaking betrayal!

Luo Xin Yan began to calm herself down, and then she lifted up her skirt and took her panties right off and threw it on the floor. Then she strutted up to the sofa, bent down and squeezed her boobs together forwards, showcasing them. She then rolled her skirt up and revealed her plump, round butt with a thick black bush in between it, showing it to Zhang Yang.

She pushed her two palms against the sofa and turned her head over, "Didn't you want to 'please' me that day? Bring it, as long as you sign the contract to hire me, I'm yours to 'please'!"

Thud, thud, thud, Zhang Yang approached her slowly.

Luo Xin Yan revealed a cold smile, thinking to herself that men were all about the few seconds of pleasure! She believed that there was nothing to lose in those few seconds. And if she happened to 'encounter' men who were talented and good at 'pleasing' women, it would be a bonus!

"Argh --" She let out a moan, with her eyes closed and her brows knitted as she felt an 'unknown' object entering the crevice right beneath her butt. It was cold, but it was extremely thin. Luo Xin Yan could only scorn in her heart. So, this tall and macho Zhang Yang has such a tiny object in his pants, what a joke!

Zhang Yang, from a seated position on his sofa, spoke up. "I don't have the habit of 'pleasing' prostitutes!"

Luo Xin Yan was stunned, as she instantly that felt there was something wrong about this! Even if Zhang Yang's 'little buddy' was really long, he couldn't possibly reach her from the sofa, right beside her! She looked around again to see that Zhang Yang was still well dressed and his 'little buddy' was still safe and sound underneath his pants!

She quickly put her hands to her crotch to investigate, only to realize that there was a ball pen inserted within her! She only realized then, that the cold and thin 'unknown' object was in fact, a ball pen!

Luo Xin Yan instantly felt embarrassed and enraged at the same instant, but she remembered that Zhang Yang was the man controlling her fate at that very moment, so she did not dare to treat him like how she treated him during the 'Speed Dating Event'. She spoke softly in a calm tone, "Mr. Zhang, I'm sorry for being so blind about you. Please forgive me. You're such a significant person, you don't have to bother so much about a little peasant like me."

How could he not see this side of her in his previous life? Such a manipulative, cunning side of her, so shallow-minded and snobbish!

Zhang Yang could not help but sigh quietly. In his previous life, he was really blinded so much by his own lust, or should it be that blind love had made him so stupid! Now, this woman, Luo Xin Yan, only disgusted him so much that he was genuinely remorseful over his stupidity for loving her so much in his previous life!

He smiled vaguely and said, "I will never give you this job!"

Luo Xin Yan instantly sank into silence, and after standing up, she turned her back on Zhang Yang and was ready to leave the room.

Zhang Yang smiled and said, "Although I won't be signing you as a model of the company, there is another job that pays you millions a year. I'm just wondering if you are interested in it."

Luo Xin Yan froze mid step and stopped. With a quick and loud "shoof!", she spun around and looked at him with a happy face, "What did you say? A job that pays mi... millions a... a year?"

Zhang Yang nodded and said, "That's right!"

Luo Xin Yan immediately walked back to Zhang Yang and said, "So you're simply a rabbit that doesn't nibble the grass near its own hole! I thought that you were a decent person!" She thought that Zhang Yang was going to take her as his mistress.

Zhang Yang shook his head and said, "I want you to become a mistress, for someone else!"

Luo Xin Yan suddenly turned furious, "What do you think I am?"

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "You tell me, what should you mean to me then?"

Luo Xin Yan went into silence, and finally, she gritted her teeth and said, "One million a year, not a cent less!"

In his previous life, Liu Wei had planted Luo Xin Yan in his life to spy on him. In this life, Zhang Yang had decided to do the same thing to Liu Wei, to plant Luo Xin Yan on Liu Wei in order to spy on him, and to ambush him when the time came!

According to the history of his previous life, the Silky Soft Holdings should have already been 'torn apart' by Luo Ming Yang and those scumbag relatives. So, it would have been impossible for Luo Xin Yan to attend today's interview. In that case, she should be meeting Liu Wei anytime soon to become his woman! Two years from now, she should be sent to spy on Zhang Yang.

Time to answer a fool according to his folly!

Zhang Yang nodded and said, "I'll bank-in 100,000 into your account on the 1st of every month! You will be earning about 1,200,000 annually, far more than what a model could earn!"

Luo Xin Yan grit her teeth as she thought about it, because being a mistress is a totally different from having a one-night-stand with a man!

Zhang Yang continued on, "You don't have to do anything after you return to school. Just, go to classes, as usual, finish your classes as usual. One day from now, one month from now, who knows, a man called Liu Wei will appear in front of you. Then, you know what to do! What I want you to do is simple, just report to me every single word he says. Send me recordings, send me notes!"

Luo Xin Yan blinked in surprise, and then she said, "You're asking me to become a corporate spy!"

Zhang Yang gave some thought about it and replied, "Yeah, that's the idea!"

Luo Xin Yan immediately shook her head and said, "That's too dangerous, one million is not enough!"

Zhang Yang smiled coldly and said, "Don't you think that you're the only woman I can ask of this! 1,200,000 is just an extra earning for you in a year. I believe that you would not really want to be somebody's mistress for the rest of your life, right? After you have earned enough, you can just pick a favorite spot and vanish! I also believe that this amount of money is enough for you to disappear and have a good life! There's more to this, whenever you get me some useful information, I shall add a bonus of 100,000 to your account!"

Luo Xin Yan was trying to bargain for more, hoping that Zhang Yang would increase his pay. These 100,000 extras did it for her! After giving it some thought, she said, "Alright! I'll do it!"

Zhang Yang gave her a contact number to keep him informed of things.

Luo Xin Yan's butt wagged from side to side with each step, as she walked all the way to the door and left the room. After just a short while more, Zhang Yang heard the sound of the door opening again, and another girl came in, "Mr. Zhang, I'm interviewee number 22, my name is Wang Ya --"

A delicate and attractive beauty walked into the room, she had a pretty face, with curly locks of hair going down her visage. Her boobs were so round and huge that they were on the verge of bursting out of her clothes!

Zhang Yang could not help it but wonder, why are all these women so well-endowed! The reason is simple, this is a company that manufactures bra! So they would turn their eyes towards models who would best display their 'weapons', they had to be huge! This was also the final stage of the interview, the 'lesser' women had already been eliminated up to this point!

As the beauty ran her eyes across the room, she saw the pair of black panties that were left on the floor by Luo Xin Yan. She could not help but smile knowingly! No wonder it took so long for the previous interview to end!

Thinking that she had it all under control now, she smiled and began to take off her clothes.

Zhang Yang stared wordlessly at the scene, "..."

...

Who would have thought that it would be so tiring to host an interview!

After everything was settled, Zhang Yang closed the door of the office shut and put on his game helmet. Ever since Luo Xin Yan had walked out, all of the remaining interviewees seemed to have been 'enlightened' by the panties on the floor, the moment they walked through the door, they used all of their 'skill sets' to seduce Zhang Yang!

But none of them thought realized, that even if Zhang Yang was really lustful, it would still be impossible for him to have so much 'stamina' and 'juice' to take them all, one after another!

In the end, the company managed to recruit a total of 30 models out of 64 interviewees. That was about half of the number of the interviewees. Zhang Yang had followed his own preferences in picking the 30, after which, he passed the name list to his secretary, leaving the 'cleaning up' for his employees to do.

The moment he went online, Zhang Yang went straight to the Alchemist Shop to buy some [Potions, and then he proceeded to his warehouse and crafted all of the materials into [Level 4 Healing Potion].

'Ding! You have crafted [Level 4 Healing Potion] X 6!'

...

'Ding! You have crafted [Level 4 Healing Potion] X 6! Because of [Alchemist's Intuition, the [Level 4 Healing Potion] has transmuted!'

[Level 4 Healing Potion (Grade 4 Transmutation)] (Consumable)

Use: Immediately recovers 8,000 health points, and proceeds to recover 3,200 health points over the period of the next 10 seconds. Cool down: 1 minute. Using any kind of potion will send all potions into the same cool down duration.

Required Level: 60

Awesome, grade 4 transmutation is giving an additional 40% of the initial healing amount. It also means that grade 10 transmutation could give up to a total amount of 16,000 healing points! Unfortunately, this additional healing amount of health points was just like [Heal, it had a cool down of 10 seconds before any healing potions can be used again.

This [Potion] will really come in handy during Player VS Player match!

Zhang Yang then gave these [Level 4 Healing Potion (Grade 4 Transmutation)] to the members of the two parties that were taking part in the S-Rank Professional League Championship. Lost Dream and the rest of the party members were shocked to receive the potions from Zhang Yang and they thanked him over and over again.

Just as he was preparing to craft more potions, Zhang Yang suddenly received a message from Hundred Shots.

"Zhan Yu, we have a situation. I received news that The Dominators has been gathering other guilds to aid them in launching an assault on our Mining Cave! They are planning to take our Mining Cave from us!"

-- it had been a regular thing for large-scale guilds to plant spies in their enemy guilds to spy on them internally.

Zhang Yang was shocked, he paused for a brief moment and shook his head, "This 'Hypocrite' still has not learned his lesson yet! Still trying to get back at us, eh? Fine, make some arrangements then! If The Dominators want a fight, then let's bring the fight to them! We shall show no fear!"

"Yes!"

Zhang Yang contacted Han Ying Xue and the gang, "That 'Hypocrite' is trying to trouble us once again, let's go and show him some 'colour', shall we?"

"Yes! Awesome idea!" Wei Yan Er was excited to let some steam off. She had been focusing on her studies very hard these days. As she had been looking at books and homework, she had not logged into the game for days! Her playful nature was screaming out for her to let loose!

Other than Wei Yan Er, Lost Dream, and Galileo were also players who lusted for battles. Everyone else seemed to be very excited about it!

"Let's go!"

1. Ultra Sheer - super thin long socks that reach beyond thighs. Covers almost the entire leg. Also known as stockings.

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Chapter 357: Mining Cave Defense Battle

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Hundred Shots immediately summoned all the top-tiered players of Lone Desert Smoke and made arrangements to gather them at the Mining Cave as soon as possible. After some days of progress, the Sub-Guild had accumulated enough guild experience points to be eligible to use the [Level 2 Guild Upgrade Order]. Then, they upgraded the Sub-Guild up to a Level 2 guild, increasing the limit of the players that they could recruit into their guild, up to 20,000. In just a short period of time, they had also almost hit the maximum limit of members of the guild!

Approximately 20,000 top-tier players of Lone Desert Smoke were roaming close to the entrance of the Mining Cave.

Zhang Yang and his party members arrived at the hilltop nearby the Mining Cave. They had a vantage point on the only path that led straight to their Mining Cave.

All nine of them already possessed their very own [Battle Mounts]. Endless Starlight and Lost Dream were having slightly inferior [Battle Mounts] of Gray-Silver grade. It was even worse for Fatty Han, he was still riding on a large lizard that was only of Green-Copper grade! Wei Yan Er laughed at him so hard that she almost fell off her own [Battle Mount].

As all of them had [Battle Mounts, so they would all be terrifyingly powerful forces, especially when it came to Player VS Player battles. When mounted, each of them would have an incredible amount of hitpoints.

Unfortunately, it was not suitable for Zhang Yang to summon his [Mythical Turtle] to battle on land. If their opponents took a few steps back, the turtle would take minutes to catch up to them!

So, Zhang Yang had to summon Whitey, boosting his maximum health points up by only 32,700. It was so unfortunate that Yellow-Gold [Battle Mount] had a really obvious difference when compared to a Violet-Platinum [Battle Mount]! Although the [Gold-Eared Bear King] had a passive skill that gave a 30% increment on the maximum health points of the player when mounted, it was still far from the 50.480 maximum health points that the [Mythical Turtle] could provide! The difference was really huge!

After a while, Zhang Yang and the gang could see a bunch of people coming up right above the horizon from afar. All of them were riding on their battle horses and battle wolves, charging towards the entrance of the Mining Cave with murderous intentions on their faces!

There were more than 30,000 of them, by the looks of it, charging over like a bunch of black ants, gushing towards the entrance of the cave!

Zhang Yang began to rouse up his guild members via the guild channel, "Brothers and sisters, the enemy is just right before us, they look thirsty! Why don't we give them something to drink! Ready and steady!"

'Chiang chiang chiang', every single member of the Lone Desert Smoke drew out their weapons one after another, roaring into the sky.

Zhang Yang had also pulled out his battle axe and was prepared to battle. He roared, "Charge!"

Zhang Yang led his party, with Han Ying Xue and the others right behind him, and they were followed by the large army of the Lone Desert Smoke.

The long awaited Humbly Gentleman finally appeared, leading his own army on a large grasshopper, brownish-yellow in color! The two hind legs of the grasshopper were extremely thick and muscular, and the grasshopper had a pair of extremely thin wings that constantly quivered, but it could not fly. However, it could jump over a distance of seven to eight meters!

This grasshopper was obviously a [Battle Mount, because there were no signs of [Mounts] with such of designs.

He stared at Zhang Yang with his eyes filled with extreme hate, "Zhan Yu, it's been awhile since then!"

This 'Hypocrite' has every single right and reason to hate Zhang Yang. Without Zhang Yang and his 'Lone Desert Smoke', The Dominators would have been able to go to Shang Hai and they would have been eligible to join the S-Rank Professional League Championship. Instead, they were stuck in the A-Rank Professional League Championship!

Zhang Yang laughed out loud and said, "Hypocrite! So you have not learned your lesson yet, here you are trying to challenge me again!"

Humbly Gentleman looked at Zhang Yang with cold eyes and said, "Now, Radiance also possesses a Territory as well! So it's not necessary for us to visit your Thunderstorm Castle just to use the teleportation service of yours! We no longer have to pay for your bullsh*t! Zhan Yu! It's been a while since you've occupied this Mining Cave, I think it's time you step out of it and let the others in!"

Right after that, a few other players came forth atop their [Battle Mounts, one of them was a male human warrior with the label of 'Dragon Slayer, Level 76, {Brilliance}', "Zhan Yu, we can share the wealth, we need not have to spill any blood over this! As long as you agree to let us come into your Mining Cave to mine together with you, we would not only be on friendly terms with you, but we will also protect this Mining Cave!"

Another player said, "That's right. The battle would only bring us unnecessary loss, instead, why not work together?"

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "If I went all the way to your place and demand that you share your wealth and properties, would you agree with it?"

Humbly Gentleman glanced at Zhang Yang coldly and said, "So you're saying that battle is inevitable!"

Wei Yan Er was enraged and she shouted at Humbly Gentleman, "You 'Hypocrite'! You really know nothing about shame! So, basically, you knock on our doorstep looking for trouble, and make us look like the unreasonable batch! Your face is thicker than concrete walls! No, thinker than two or three layers of concrete walls!"

"Cut the crap, battle it is! It's just one 'Lone Desert Smoke', and there are the four of us joining forces together! What's there to be afraid of!" another player of the Beastman profession, with the name 'Kiyumi, Level 77, {Meteor Rain} cut in and said.

All of the opposing players were coming from 4 different guilds: The Dominators, Brilliance, Meteor Rain and Death's Wish. If it was one guild against another one guild, Lone Desert Smoke was unmatched!

Humbly Gentleman humphed lightly and said, "Zhan Yu, you're the one who forced our hands!"

Although it was them who came all the way over with the intention of taking over other people's land property, but to be able to lay the blame on the 'victim' instead, as if they were the ones who were wronged, this 'Hypocrite' is indeed worthy of his name!

Humbly Gentleman raised the staff in his hands and roared, "The Dominators, charge!"

"People of Brilliance, it's time for you show your strength to your enemies!"

"Let the world know of our strength! Meteor Rain!"

"The Death's Wish is the strongest guild of all! Not Lone Desert Smoke!"

The four guild masters of the four guilds were roaring, commanding their subordinates to launch their attacks on Lone Desert Smoke!

Instantly, the roar of 30,000 men from the four guilds gushed in towards Zhang Yang and his guild like a tidal wave.

Territory, Mining Cave, Land Lease, were the 3 most profitable sources of income in {{God's Miracle}}. Among all these three so-called 'resource points', one can only acquire a Territory by using the [Territory Command Order] or [Territory Subjugation Order]. Meanwhile, Land Properties required [Land Leases] for a player to make purchases of the land. So these two did not come easy.

But the case was very different for Mining Caves. As long as there were miners going into mine in the cave, there would definitely be profit!

This has made the Mining Cave one of the most wanted 'resources'. If one guild can block the entrance of a Mining Cave, then that guild can acquire a stable stream of income by sending their members down the mines to mine! The sum of the profit from the mining activity is abundant!

With a wave of his hand, Zhang Yang also roared, "Brothers and sisters! For Lone Desert Smoke!"

"For Lone Desert Smoke!"

Everyone on Zhang Yang's side roared with vigor, riding on their [Mounts] behind Zhang Yang, while charging straight towards the large army!

The armies from two sides clashed into each other, and many players had jumped down from their [Mounts] to engage in intense battle -- most of the players did not have [Battle Mounts] yet, at the current stage of the game.

The melee profession players charged to the front, while the ranged profession players closely followed behind them. Everyone was unleashing their AOE skills, making the scene flooded with arrows, hails and rain of fire. In the midst of the crossfire, many players from both sides were instantly killed. Almost in an instant, a large number of players were turned into streams of white lights that were channeled straight to the graveyard.

"Witch Snow, follow me closely! We shall become 'Zhao Yun1' and 'charge seven times through2'!" Zhang Yang laughed out loud.

"... Silly Yang, you pervert! But, you look like a spear made of wax3! What, only seven charges and you're done? Fatty Han could do it all day, you're way behind him!"

Fatty Han had longed to hear such words, no matter who said it. He began to grin with a perverted facial expression on his face.

"Fatty, you're brilliant!" Endless Starlight immediately praised Fatty Han.

"Of course! It's a fact!"

Still, Han Ying Xue nodded, and thumped the shell of her [Red Gold Crab, and followed Zhang Yang. The two of them forced their way into the center of their enemy!

With Zhang Yang's terrifyingly high defense currently, other than the Berserker's {Tornado Cleave}, he basically ignored all of the AOE skills from his enemies -- as AOE attacks were often weaker, and took some time to cast. For example, the {Barrage} of the hunter required 10 seconds to cast, and would barely damage Zhang Yang, if at all. Therefore, there is no way these AOE attacks would penetrate the defense of Zhang Yang!

Zhang Yang charged into the sea of players, like water through creeks of a brick wall! Instantly, he switched to his [Dark Enigma Sword] and activated his {Blast Wave} and {Horizontal Sweep}, unleashing his assaults on his enemies, with wave after wave of his skills. As his [Dark Enigma Sword] triggered its special effect, the sword unleashed endless damage to the horde of enemies around him, like a radioactive bomb expanding out, reaching out to all the enemies nearby!

"Kill Zhan Yu first!" Humbly Gentleman quickly shouted to inform everyone, "Surround him! We must not let him get back to his army!"

He knew that Zhang Yang had a skill called {Shadow of the Void} that provided him a way out of difficult situations. He did not know what it was called, though!

Zhang Yang laughed maniacally, "Witch Snow, come now, let them have a taste of our {Blizzard Sky} and {Lunar's Dew}!"

Although the skill required a cool down of 72 hours, that was according to the in-game time, not the real time! It has been more than a day in real-time since they had unleashed their joint attack on Stormgarde!

Han Ying Xue reached out and held Zhang Yang's hand.

{Blizzard Sky}! {Lunar's Dew}!

Immediately, the two of them became the center of the skill, and an area as wide as 30 meters of circumference was covered in hail snow which rained down from the sky. Meanwhile, the moon rose up into the sky and began to emit out waves of moonbeams into the surroundings.

The moonbeams began to shoot out in all directions.

'-5000!'

'-5000!'

'-5000!'

...

Instantly, countless damage values popped up within the effective area of the skills, flooding up the entire area!

After 3 ticks of the damage, players were already beginning to die! They could not even heal themselves before they died! It was really a 'jackpot' for Humbly Gentleman as he had sent such a large number of troops to surround Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue. Squeezed tightly together in one spot, with their own allies pushing their backs, they all were shoved into the moonlight!

"Retreat! Retreat! Stay the hell away from him!" Humbly Gentleman was almost crying like a schoolboy! Not only have Zhang Yang's equipment become impossibly strong and powerful, he also had such a skill up his sleeve! Is the game trying to push him until he dies?

After tens of seconds, finally, no one was charging at Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue anymore.

This is the difference between players and monsters. Monsters do not care about anything! As long as their aggro bars were not empty, even if there was a sea of traps, swords and other weapons right in front, the monsters would still charge at their targets! Players could observe and act accordingly to the situation. Since Zhang Yang was seemingly untouchable and unapproachable at the moment, everyone stopped, knowing that it was suicide!

30 seconds had passed, the {Blizzard Sky} and {Lunar's Dew} had stopped. Although Humbly Gentleman had shouted 'retreat' in time, more than 1000 players were already killed by the attacks!

That number of players dead was actually pretty terrifying!

The surroundings of Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue was instantly cleaned out! At least hundreds of equipment pieces glittered in Green-Copper or Gray-Silver light, all over the ground!

"Time to go!"

Zhang Yang quickly informed Han Ying Xue, and then the both of them began to retreat back to their army. At first, with the two of them activating the joint attack of {Blizzard Sky} and {Lunar's Dew}, they had been invincible for 30 seconds! Now that the skill was over, it was time to go back. They would be overwhelmed by the numbers if they stuck around!

Of course, it could become possible for one player to go up against hundreds of players at the same time at the later stages of the game, if a player could get a full set of legendary equipment and a high-quality pet!

1. Zhao Yun - courtesy name Zilong, was a military general who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty and early Three Kingdoms period.

2. Charges seven times through - a famous scene in Romance of the Three Kingdoms in which Zhao Yun charges seven times through the ranks of Cao Cao's armies

3. Spear made of wax - looks impressive but useless.

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Chapter 358: Like Water Through a Brick Wall

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Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue's surroundings were immediately cleared. The two of them swiftly turned back to their mounts and rode to their army.

"After them! Don't let them get away!" cried Humbly Gentleman with great hatred.

If Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue managed to escape to safety, it would be a massive blow to Humbly Gentleman's soldier morale! However, during the casting of {Blizzard Sky} and {Lunar's Dew}, all four guilds had scattered a great distance from them to avoid the attack. Now, to have them chasing after them was an incredible tough task. Furthermore, both Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue had mounts! A majority of the enemy soldiers were still running on their two feet! How could they run after a person who on a mount!? It was impossible! Not even a hundred foot soldiers could chase after them, all they could do is eat the dust that was flung onto them.

"Boss! Sister Snow and you were too cool! That's bloody sick yo!" said Endless Starlight in the party channel.

"Was that the Paired Skill?"

"Yeah…that's the Two-In-One Skill! Fu fu fu!" said Fatty Han after he shot an arrow and smile a V-shaped smile.

"AIYA! Noon tank! How could you be picky! I also want to be one with you!" said the little brat with a straight face, without any signs of her being shameful.

Zhang Yang stopped attacking immediately and almost slipped and fell when he heard what Wei Yan Er just said. "You stupid fat-f*ck! Can you please be a little more decent!? Please don't be teaching that kind of stuff to a little kid!"

Fatty Han did not respond, but instead, Wei Yan Er struck the earth with her axe and glared at Zhang Yang. "Hey! Who are you calling a little kid?!"

"Who else!? Stop stopping and start killing!"

Everyone around the vicinity laughed at their comical act and continued killing. Even without Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue's Paired Skill, Lone Desert Smoke's combined attack force was naturally above the combined forces of all four guilds. During recruitment, Zhang Yang had a specific standard for players who wanted to join the guild. Because of that, the war between the guilds was leaning towards Lone Desert Smoke. He could not claim that each of his members could take on ten men at a time, but he was sure that they could handle a few opponents at once all by themselves!

Lone Desert Smoke players' average level and equipment strength were better than the majority of the opponent guilds. In truth, they were supposed to be overwhelmed by the sheer number of enemy, however, the entire battle did show any signs of that! After all, Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue had gallantly performed a powerful attack on the enemy and had killed a large number of them, the enemy had already lost motivation!

Never underestimate the power of morale in a war. In large numbers, morale played an important role to determine the outcome of a battle! With Lone Desert Smoke burning with vigor, they had successfully pressurized the opponents, causing them to drop their weapons as the deaths continued to pile up.

However, even with Lone Desert Smoke's superiority in war, both sides were suffering huge casualties. Zhang Yang turned his sight on Humbly Gentleman and said, "I'll be right back. I need to kill that hypocrite!"

Destroy the leader, and the gang will collapse. Zhang Yang wanted to do just that. Since the morale of the enemy was already rock bottom, killing the leader would definitely be the final step in winning the war. Zhang Yang activated {Dig} and headed underground towards Humbly Gentleman. The best thing about this skill was the fact that he could have a clear view of what that was happening above ground and would never be detected nor blocked by anyone! Naturally, mounts would be left out during the activation of the skill.

Without much time wasted, Zhang Yang arrived at where Humbly Gentleman was. This man was a p*ssy to be blunt. He had never taken the reins and led his troops in the front lines. As a low-defense Spellcaster, he felt safest barking orders from far behind.

"Heh." Zhang Yang scoffed.

BOOM!

Zhang Yang broke the earth underneath Humbly Gentleman and stabbed him like a real ninja!

{Dance of the Heaven and Earth}!

Shoosh! A bright light flashed, followed by a shadow that emerged out from Zhang Yang to form a man wielding a sword. The shadow then cut into Humbly Gentleman's body.

'-10,000!'

'-10,000!'

'-10,000!'

After three pops, Humbly Gentleman dropped dead! The mount he was currently on was only a Gray-Silver tier that only increased his maximum HP by 11,000 which only gave him a total of 28,000 HP!

Pew! A quick gleam of gold jumped out in the air from Humbly Gentleman's body. With lightning speed, Zhang Yang swiped the boots and stashed it in his inventory. Confused and disoriented, Humbly Gentleman had no idea on how Zhang Yang was able to kill him! To prevent any infiltration of Thieves, Humbly Gentleman had set up a perfect barricade around himself. He had placed members around him, forming a perfect ring. Even though Thieves could be invisible with their Stealth mode, they could not phase through living objects. He had completely lowered his guard and had paid for it with his face kissing the dirt, along with his dignity and his Yellow-Gold boots!

Naturally, Zhang Yang had planned it all out. This battle had to be cut short/ Thus, he had no need of saving his ulti {Dance of Heaven and Earth}. If he had not used it, that man would have the time to activate {Ice Frame}, leaving Zhang Yang open to attacks! Or worse, Humbly Gentleman could have escaped!

Now that he had started the fire, it's best to pour oil to spread the fire! This time, Zhang Yang changed his target to Kiyumi, the guild master of Meteor Rain. He then activated the Ring of Beastman's Ancestor and summoned an old orc from the ring. He then pointed his magic staff towards Kiyumi and started chanting a spell.

Pew! A long, white, electric burst out and shot towards Kiyumi.

'-10,000!'

'-10,000!'

'-10,000!'

With three hits, similar to Humbly Gentleman, Kiyumi suffered a huge burst of damage and dropped down. Even though Kiyomi had a Gray-Silver mount like Humbly Gentleman, he was still killed within 3 seconds by the old orc's {Chaotic Dance of Electric Current}.

In less than a minute, Zhang Yang had killed two of the enemy's leaders!

Even though anyone could easily revive after running back to the body in their soul form, or simply be {Revived} by a Priest, the morale of the entire army was greatly affected. Zhang Yang's brave and bold feat had sent down a cold shiver to the enemy. Inversely, Lone Desert Smoke was massively invigorated, knowing that their boss had single-handedly defeated two leaders! With them removed from the battle ground, the enemy's morale had dropped to a new level and was clearly faltering.

From the corner of the battle field, came a loud commanding roar. "Kill Zhan Yu! Do not let him live! Kill him now!"

The loud roar belonged to the guild master of Brilliance, Dragon Slayer. After all that had happened, that man still wanted to be Zhao Zi Long1! He thinks he can remain unscathed from this?

Zhang Yang laughed at his idiocy and activated {Shadow of the Void}. His entire character slipped into another dimension, rendering him invisible to others.. 20 seconds later, he had reappeared at the furthest distance possible for him to travel.

"Praise the guild master!"

"Long live Zhan Yu!"

"Victory for Lone Desert Smoke!"

"In the name of Zhan Yu, we kill!"

"In the name of Lone Desert Smoke, we shall kill them all!"

"For glory!"

"For titties!"

"Please refrain from using indecent context in your speech. This is your first offense. There will be no further chances given," said Hundred Shots amidst the cheers.

With the raging morale from all Lone Desert Smoke members, victory was just an inch away, the moment Zhang Yang had slain Humbly Gentleman and Kiyumi. The battle continued on and the results were extremely obvious. Victory was already considered to be in hand. The delay was due to the fact that there were still unrelenting players from the opposing side who still believed that they could still turn the tables around.

Zhang Yang smiled and rode his bear away from the battle. He had done his part and decided to let the rest of the guild take care of the scraps. Without pausing, Zhang Yang rode towards the Altair Flatlands.

In the party channel, Hundred Shots had been constantly reporting on what was happening on their side, from how many enemies killed, to total equipment collected. Even though Lone Desert Smoke had suffered many casualties, with players losing their experience points and equipment, the end result was still a major profit.

Unlike the grand canyon that had not seen the lights of days, Altair Flatlands was a complete inverse of that. This place was brimming with light that it could be said to not have seen the stars in the night sky, excluding the sun which was a star. During the day, it would be the same as your everyday brightness. However, when night falls, the place would be filled with light from the corner of the horizon, glowing with such radiant colors and brightness.

Zhang Yang had come here to search for the fifth descendant of the seven generals, called Eins Brook. According to the quest description, the NPC lived in Lake Basilock, in the west region of Altair Flatlands. Other than the name provided, Zhang Yang had to find his physical location by himself. Luckily, Zhang Yang was familiar to Altair Flatlands. If he was not, Zhang Yang could have taken a full day to search for Lake Basilock.

In two hours or less, Zhang Yang had arrived at the lake. Although the lake was not as large as Great Lake Valla, it was still huge. At least, Zhang Yang could still see the land on the other side of the lake. There was a small island…or rather, large rocks that formed a small tiny island in the middle of the lake. Perhaps, when it rains cats and dogs, the rock will be completely submerged by the rising water.

Zhang Yang started to think. With the lake being so huge, where should he start searching for the NPC? After some thoughts, he decided to start by searching around the lake. As simple as it should be, the journey was just too long to complete. By the time he was only halfway through, the war between Lone Desert Smoke and the four armies had already come to an end.

In conclusion, Lone Desert Smoke had 18,326 casualties, 3,906 losses of equipment, and had killed a total of 32,982 members! They had even collected a total of 5,389 equipment!

Zhang Yang was extremely satisfied with the results of the war. He then tasked Hundred Shots to distribute the equipment obtained from the war to all members, based on their achievements, and reimburse the players that had lost their equipment in the war. In a minute, there was a flood of messages filling up the guild channel. Everyone in the guild had probably received the news from Hundred Shots' announcement.

As they were celebrating, Zhang Yang was frowning in dismay. He had made a complete circle around the lake and had found nothing. There were nothing, but deserted land at the side of the lake. It was a thick forest, yet there were no traces of any human activities. Zhang Yang had wasted a total of 5 hours!

Zhang Yang frowned and decided that he should just start with the lake instead. He then summoned the Mythical Turtle and dove underwater. The Mythical Turtle shot through the water like a torpedo and was only leaving a trail of bubbles behind its tail.

The search of Eins Brook was clearly a long and arduous quest. Zhang Yang had spent 3 days searching the entire lake, and had only managed to cover 75% of it! Naturally, Zhang Yang had not wasted his time to search all the way, he had also managed to collect countless [Devil's Algae, which was considered to be a small consolation prize for him.

On the fourth day, Zhang Yang had arrived at a different island within the lake. It was a rather huge island that was filled with sky-scraping trees, that measured close to a hundred meters! The leaves on the tall trees were so tightly compact and spread, that Zhang Yang could roughly estimate that the shadows cast by the tree could take up as much as 10% of the entire lake. While the sun rays could still seep through the tiny gaps of the leaves, it had made the island truly mystical and serene.

Within the thick forest, there was a man-made pathway that headed straight into the forest. From where Zhang Yang stood, he could roughly see a white colored building. Zhang Yang unsummoned the turtle and called out the bear. As he rode further and deeper into the forest, he had a good feeling of reaching his destination, because for the past few days of lingering in the lake, he had only encountered beasts and not human tracks!

Soon after, Zhang Yang had arrived at a small village. There was a huge white stone statue erected at the entrance of the village. The white colored building that he had saw back then was this statue.

Just when he was standing and looking at the statue, many villagers had surrounded Zhang Yang, pointing weapons at him and looking rather hostile.

"Outsider! How dare you remain on your horse and not bow down to Lord Eins Brook!" said a villager that behaved like the chief villager of the group.

1. Zhao Zi Long, or as commonly known as Zhao Yun, courtesy name Zilong, was a military general who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty and early Three Kingdoms period. In the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhao Yun had never been wounded in battle before, so there were no scars on his body.

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Chapter 359: It's All About the Reputation

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Zhang Yang laughed and said, "I'm not on a horse. This is a bear!"

Zhang Yang was expecting some rude comeback, but the villagers were obviously not programmed to have a sense of humor. They had only screamed angrily at him and demanded him to get down from his mount.

[Fanatic Follower] (Normal, Humanoid)

Level: 85

HP: 8,500

Defense: 80

Note: They are the most loyal followers of Eins Brook.

As they were all normal tiered, Zhang Yang would not have trouble facing thousands of them! However, that was if he were to attack them. The NPC name tags were all in green! Which meant that Zhang Yang could only take a beating and not return any!

Zhang Yang sighed and moved towards the entrance of the village. However, when the bear was about to enter the village border, it was stopped with such a sudden force, as if it had just hit an invisible wall! The huge force nearly threw Zhang Yang off!

Zhang Yang finally understood. For him to enter the village and meet Eins Brook, he has to follow the rules! In Russia, do as the Russians do!

Zhang Yang got down from the bear and smiled as politely as he could. "Please. Everyone. There's no need for a fuss. Let's talk it out! Honestly, I am here because of my overwhelming admiration of Eins Brook!"

"That's Lord Eins Brook!"

"…Lord…Eins Brook."

The villagers then lowered their weapons. One of the villager that had the name "Solace" walked to the front and said, "Young man. Lord Eins Brook is the Son of the Fire God! He is the only man who can listen to the Fire God's words! You have no right to meet him!"

[Solace] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 86

HP: 85,000

Defense: 450

He was the only elite tier NPC among the crowd. It seemed like he was the village leader.

Zhang Yang asked. "What could I do, to have the opportunity to have an audience with the great Son of the Fire God?"

Solace observed Zhang Yang from top to bottom with discerning eyes and said, "First, state your name and origin."

"I am but a lowly adventurer from White Jade Castle. My name is Zhan Yu. During my days adventuring in the wild, I had accidentally obtained news of…Lord Eins Brook's miracle. To express my admiration to him, I have traveled far and wide!" Kissing people's butt was free, besides, it seemed that the situation might really need it.

Hoping for the best, Zhang Yang was rewarded with a large smile from Solace. The villagers were also so happy that they were smiling from ear to ear. That kind of smile was something that you would not see when you praise someone.

With a smiling face, Solace's expression softens and was warmer. "Young man, you have made a wise decision. Ahh…Praise the Lord Eins Brook, for he is the son of the Fire God! He shall be the prophet of the Lord. To listen and convey His every command and deliver His judgment to us all! To have the opportunity to serve His grace, that is a certain blessing from the previous incarnation!"

Incarnation? This game is based on a western culture! How was there such a thing as reincarnation? Don't all westerners believe in eternal lives of peace in heaven? Reincarnation was a really eastern concept1!

Zhang Yang hurriedly interjected Solace. "Blessed be upon thee! Please tell me, how do I have an audience with His grace! For I wish to fulfill my wish!" That was a load of crap. Zhang Yang true wish was to have "His grace" beheaded, and swipe the fifth piece of the Dimensional Key Fragment, and be done with it.

If Solace knew what Zhang Yang was about to do, he would have marked Zhang Yang as an "Infidel," and have the entire village murder him. IF they could.

Solace nodded his head in satisfaction. "Lord Eins Brook will open the Worship Altar every month and announce the words of the Lord! However, only the most loyal followers shall have the qualifications to join such holy event. Zhan Yu. From here on out, you must steel your beliefs and serve the Lord's wishes! Only then, you shall gain His blessing!"

'Ding! You have unlocked a new Reputation: Son of the Fire God. Current Reputation Level: Neutral!'

'Ding! You can only meet Eins Brook after obtaining the Reputation rank: Revered!'

If Zhang Yang could scream and yell, he would have. Farming Reputation points was the most boring thing to do! He could almost feel the vomit surging out from his mouth when he recalled farming Reputation points for the Centaurs!

However, a quest was a quest. He had already gather four pieces of the Key fragments, he could not just stop halfway through. Besides, if collecting key fragments would be such a nuisance, the last reward for completing the quest should be extremely luxurious! At least, it would surely be so much better than any of the previous rewards from all the previous quests that he had already completed.

There was a blue color exclamation mark hovering over Solace's head. It indicated that Solace now had a repeatable quest for Zhang Yang to complete.

Zhang Yang then talked to Solace over again and accepted a bunch of scrap quests, like killing tigers to protect the village, collecting exotic fruits and giving them to Eins Brook as an offering, and chopping some wood to resupply the village. Almost all of the quests offered by Solace were ranked D. Naturally, it was not hard, thus the Reputation points rewarded were rather measly. One quest completion reward was only at 250 points. Luckily, the in-game time was set to be 3:1, so he could invest some time in farming for those points.

The next problem was the fact that the quests had daily limits. He could only complete each quest once a day! Solace had 10 daily quests for Zhang Yang. One quest completion would reward him with 250 Reputation points. In two days, he would have reached Friendly. In four days, he would have reached Respectful, nine days to reach Admired, and 17 days to reach Revered! That meant that it would take as long as 6 real days for him to complete the requirements for him to meet Eins Brook!

That was the main problem with Reputation points! It could not be done in a flash!

Sighing heavily at his fate, Zhang Yang left the village and started clearing all his daily quests. All of the 10 daily quests had Zhang Yang running all around the place like Hermes the messenger. None of the quests were concentrated at one spot! The developers had it that way just to toy with the players and waste their time!

As Zhang Yang went around the world, he had roughly gauged the center of the entire island. It was about a 7 to 8 cubic kilometer square of the area that he could never enter. The place was blocked by an invisible wall that could not be breached, even with {Dig} or {Shadow of the Void}. The developers were smart enough to seal all the possible loopholes to prevent players from "cheating" their way in.

Even though the farming of Reputation points was a boring, dead task, Zhang Yang was lucky that the island had an abundance of Herbs and monsters lying around. As he cleared the quest, he had also collected herbs and killed monsters to gain some experience points. Zhang Yang had accepted the Reputation points farming since it had not drastically affected his leveling speed.

After 2 hours, Zhang Yang had finally completed all the 10 daily quests. He went back to the village and had his Reputation raised to Neutral: 2,500 / 3,000

This time, Zhang Yang had a thought. Players would eventually stumble across this place, and not because of the Dimensional Key Fragment quest. The system would never set up a map solely for Zhang Yang alone, for the sake of a single quest. Since it had to be that way, the Reputation points that Zhang Yang had farmed should have other uses, besides meeting the son of the Fire God! There should be a Reputation shop!

Zhang Yang went back to the village and search for the NPC. It was a little longer than expected, since the Reputation shop NPC was called the "Priest of God".

[Maltus, the Priest of God] (Normal, Humanoid)

Level: 85

HP: 8,500

Defense: 80

After having a short, meaningless conversation with the NPC, he opened the shop menu.

Zhang Yang nodded in satisfaction when he noticed there were quite a number of useful items, such as Enchanting Gemstones, the Pet skill book {Sprint}, and a few Professional recipes!

Enchanting Gemstones were special. They could be used to further upgrade all kinds of Gemstones that were socketed in the equipment. For example, Zhang Yang's [Level 3 Vitality Gemstone] had a 50 Vitality bonus. After having the Gemstone "Enchanted" it would increase its specs from 10% to 100%.

Similar to Gemstone, Enchanting Gemstones will have a failure rate, ranging from 10% to 100%. The chances were completely random. If players wished to have 100% Enchanting rate, they would have to keep on enchanting the equipment with the same [Enchanting Gemstone].

Enchanting Gemstones require a specific rank of Reputation. However, it did not mean that with Reputation, you could acquire it, players would still need gold coins to purchase them!

To put it blatantly, it's all about money.

On the side note, the skill {Sprint} was extremely well sought for. It allowed the mount of a pet to gain a double movement speed burst in a short period of time. It was extremely useful for both chasing and running away!

So far, Zhang Yang's Professional Alchemy was the only Profession that required recipes. As such, he had taken a liking to one of the recipes that were for sale. The [Level 4 Natural Resistant Potion]. The potion will grant players, a strong and useful 5,000 bonus to Natural damage resistance for the next 2 minutes.

Surely but sadly, all of these good items would only be sold to players with a Reputation rank of Revered. With such a good cake, Zhang Yang had to share this piece with everyone. He then contacted Han Ying Xue and the rest of his friends and informed them about the news and had them farm Reputation points with him. Truth be told, he had indirectly dragged them down the waters with him. In truth, farming Reputation alone in the fields was just too boring.

Zhang Yang posted the Reputation shop item descriptions and drew in everyone else, like cats to a fish. While the others had taken quite some time to arrive, the easiest and fastest was Han Ying Xue. She had asked Zhang Yang to put on the Lover's Charm to allow her to teleport to his side instantly.

The moment Sun Xin Yu arrived, she walked up to Han Ying Xue and thrust her hand out coldly. "It's about time now. Can I have the thing you borrowed from me?"

Han Ying Xue scoffed coldly back at her and turned away. "Hmph! The Lover's Charm was not yours to begin with! Why must I return it to you?"

Zhang Yang frowned worriedly. "Woman, how old do you think you are? What are you trying to pull by acting all cute and immature? Are you trying to be like a little girl now?"

He was no psychologist, but it does not take a Ph.D. certificate to know that there was something going on between the two females. Zhang Yang did not want any internal conflict between his own members and had decided to act out.

Sensing that Zhang Yang was at her side, Sun Xin Yu smiled smugly and turned her gaze to Han Ying Xue. "That's a gift from Zhang Yang!"

"Please. That's what you said! Back then, Zhang Yang had only passed it to you to help him claim the Territory! It was a tool to only allowed you to pass the final wave! It's not like he had given it to you as a gift! Stop trying to be presumptuous!"

The smile on Sun Xin Yu faded and was replaced with a sulk. "Give it back!"

"No!"

The two females then bumped their voluptuous chests against one another, trying to assert dominance over the Lover's Charm. Zhang Yang could swear that only he could see an electrical spark flaring between the two tigresses.

"Erhm…" Zhang Yang tried to speak but was immediately interjected by the two females.

"Shut up!" said both of them simultaneously.

"I think…" Zhang Yang tried to speak again.

"Who do you think should have the Lover's Charm?" asked the both of them.

Zhang Yang frowned. Logically, Zhang Yang felt that the Lover's Charm should be on Han Ying Xue. It would surely come in handy to have a healer on standby for he is a tank. He could have an emergency call for help to kill any sudden boss. However, Sun Xin Yu had been extremely helpful. Even though having a healer would be helpful in boss fights, Han Ying Xue would only be useful in boss fights! Sun Xin Yu was extremely helpful during the Territory War, and the day when he went to the Japan-Korean Region to farm for the Monster Attack Order! It's nail biting to not be able to make a clear decision here.

The problem now was the fact that they were fighting over it. It's a female fight! If a man suddenly jumped in to solve the problem, he might end up being chewed out by them, or something worse…

The smartest way to do was to turn around and run. However, as the party leader, the guild master, and their friend, he had to take the responsibility! Both of them were main assets!

Zhang Yang thought of a strategy and tried it out. "Why are you even quarreling over a piece of accessory?" What best, but to demean an object, so that they would not view it as a precious item! "It's just a piece of a badge, just pass it to whoever who needs it. Isn't that simple?"

"NO!" both Sun Xin Yu and Han Ying Xue screamed simultaneously. For Han Ying Xue to scream every now and then was normal, but for Sun Xin Yu to raise her voice like that, it was extremely rare.

"In that case, how about a game of scissors, paper, stone? The winner takes it all?" said Zhang Yang.

"Fine!"

The two of them pushed against each other, squishing their breasts together, but it was impossible since the both of them had the chests of inflated airbags! There was no way for them to have a moment like men who could easily bump their foreheads together physically!

"Hehehehe. Noob tank! You're one sly, two timing pig!" said Wei Yan Er as she stood behind Zhang Yang, watching the entire scene. If there were some popcorn on the side, the little girl would definitely be munching on them happily.

Zhang Yang sighed tiredly. "I'd say, you could have spent some of the spare time you have to read some books and filled your empty brain with some knowledge. Yet, you're here, standing behind, me smirking like a crazy girl, hoping the worst to happen."

"Excuse me? What are you saying? It's 3am here! How could I study in the middle of the night! That's ridiculous!" Wei Yan Er pouted in defense.

"Hmm. Have you actually thought of going to any special schools?"

"Please…this young lady is as smart as Einstein, of course, it would be one of those top tier institutes."

During their little casual conversation, Sun Xin Yu and Han Ying Xue were still busy throwing out their fists in an intense game of scissors, paper, stone.

Stone vs Stone!

Scissors vs Scissors!

Sun Xin Yu Paper won over Han Ying Xue's Stone!

"Grrr…3 matches!"

"Ok!"

The game continued on but Han Ying Xue was completely crushed by Sun Xin Yu after 2 consecutive losses.

"…5 matches!"

"Ok!"

…

"7 matches!"

…

"9!"

"21…!"

The two of them continued to haggle over their winning conditions. It's not like Sun Xin Yu was losing, but Han Ying Xue was still holding the Lover's Charm. Even if she won the match, Han Ying Xue would only further increase the match count until Sun Xin Yu could win it fairly and squarely! After some time, Wei Yan Er was already yawning. Zhang Yang quietly nudged the bored little girl.

"Let's go. I'll collect some herbs while you farm some Reputation."

"Ok."

The two of them walked away, leaving Sun Xin Yu and Han Ying Xue puffing at each other. Without having the final decision settled, Zhang Yang was at a loss. He only knew one thing; from that day on, whenever Sun Xin Yu and Han Ying Xue encounter each other, they would continue their match, probably till the end of time…

As time passed, everyone's Reputation points had accumulated and rose from Friendly, to Respectful, and Admired. Since everyone had started farming from the first day together, their Reputation growth was the same, since they could only complete the quests, once a day. On the 19th of March, everyone came together and completed the last Reputation quest. Everyone glowed with a bright green light and gained the Reputation rank of Revered.

At the same time, Zhang Yang had reached Level 81!

The experience point required to level up during Level 80 to Level 90 was roughly 20% more than the experience points required to level from Level 70 to Level 80. At Zhang Yang's grinding speed, he had needed at least 10 days (real world time) to gain just one level!

"Congratulations!" Solace clapped his hands and expressed his gratitude. "You have passed each and every one of the tests! I am proud to bestow upon you, the name, the honor, and the rank of the most loyal followers of Eins Brook! Walk tall and proud with the name. I have but one more good news for you. Due to your unrelenting selfless acts, Eins Brook was proud of your deeds and has granted you the permission to have an audience with him."

Finally! After so many days of tirelessly farming (and picking herbs), Zhang Yang had the chance to kill that s.o.b.

Zhang Yang was so excited and he could feel the tears falling down. "Brother Solace, where is Lord Eins Brook?"

"The Lord is in the Fire God's Altar, waiting to hear the words from the Fire God himself!" said Solace. "Go forth! You mustn't let the Lord wait for you!"

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Chapter 360: A Time to Counter

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"How fortunate! He has the chance to meet with the great Lord Eins Brook!'

"ARGH! I'm so jealous!"

"I know right?! The great Lord will only agree to meet one follower every month!"

Right after the moment when Solace had dropped the news about how Zhang Yang and the gang had obtained the privilege to have an audience with Eins Brook, they were in shock, surprise, astonishment, and the kind of expressions you would expect when someone announces that they had just won the lottery.

Zhang Yang pretended to be as excited as well. After the ordeal, Zhang Yang and the party went on to the Reputation shop to get themselves the Enchanting Gemstone and {Sprint} pet skill book. After spending their gold coins, everyone proceeded to learn the skill, recipes, and they waited until everyone was ready to use the Enchanting Gemstone.

Under normal circumstances, the most common outcome of Enchanting would be a 30% increment in stats. Obviously, it is hard to get a better Enchanting result. Endless Starlight was fortunate enough to obtained 90% Enchantment results in just two tries. However, being a little greedy, he wanted to keep on Enchanting until he could obtain a 100% Enchantment result. However, after Enchanting for 10 consecutive turns, he had only managed to obtain a 60% Enchantment result. The little guy was left speechless.

Zhang Yang did actually learn from the other person's mistake, and he was not greedy in the first place. As long as he could get a 50% Enchantment result, he would stop there. He knew that Level 2 or Level 3 Gemstones were not really that powerful in the first place. The difference between 50% and 100% would be 200 Vitality points. Zhang Yang would not put much attention and effort just to gain that little amount of HP.

[Sprint: Increases 100% movement speed of the mount for 15 seconds. Cool Down Time: 10 seconds.

After Zhang Yang gave his advice, everyone followed his footsteps and were satisfied with 50% or higher Enchantment results. They knew that they should not hope for 100% perfect results unless it was a given. Still, even though they no longer strove for perfection, they had already spent close to 1,000 gold coins, each! That would be the same as 1,000 RMB1! If they were to try and push themselves to roll for the best result, they would have to spend more than that! It all depended on luck! Zhang Yang advised them not to seek perfection in their Enchantment since they were only in the middle stage of the game! Each time they changed their weapons, they would need to re-socket their Gemstones, which leads to a re-Enchantment of their Gemstones. The amount of spending would sky-rocket, and even Bill Gates would cry!

The team rode their way back leisurely to the village. Along the way, they cracked jokes about the way how the game burns a hole in their pocket. Some mentioned Bill Gates, while others mentioned Donald Trump!

After reaching the village area, Zhang Yang led the way to the altar to face their "lord". Zhang Yang came to a pathway that led outside the village, into the forest, and towards the center of the island, where Zhang Yang had stumbled across before. After pushing their Reputation rank to Revered, the invisible barrier was miraculously removed from the area and they could enter the place normally.

The entire altar was made of a type of white colored stone structure. With nothing but the white shade and a little gray here and there, the altar was made to look extremely majestic and grand. Right in front of the altar was a huge white statue that was crafted to look like a Fire God. Its feet were made to look like it was standing on fire. Its expression was crafted to made it look angry and blazing fire out of its mouth. This image of the Fire God was probably by the design of the villagers.

Zhang Yang rode closer and saw there were 10 huge men clad in armor, standing near the entrance of the altar. Their posture and the number of fallen leaves on their wide shoulder suggest that they had been standing there for quite some time, not to mention their commitment to…standing. Zhang Yang approached them and one of them called out. "I believed that you're the visitors who have just arrived on this island?"

[Eins Brook's Personal Guard] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 85

HP: 85,000

Defense: 450

Note: Eins Brook loyal personal guard.

Zhang Yang nodded. "That is correct sir. We are here to worship..L-Lord Eins Brook. Please notify his grace that we have arrived."

The NPCs were all green tagged. That meant the NPCs had yet to detect Zhang Yang's real motive.

"Follow me." Said another guard. He then took Zhang Yang and his gang into the altar. When Zhang Yang got closer to the altar, he took note of the construction of this mystical building. The altar looked more like a huge church. Inside the mega structure was a hall that was built over 24 pillars that supported a large dome shaped ceiling. Like the Sistine Chapel, this altar had paintings on the ceiling. Instead of angels, the ceiling was painted with pictures of what seemed to be the Fire God battling all sorts of enemies.

In the huge hall, there were many followers holding hands together, standing 2 meters apart. They were all holding hands and chanting something with their eyes closed. Zhang Yang could not understand the language they were using, but it seemed to resemble the monks in Tibet.

The deep and low chanting of the follower was not the typical Gregorian holy chant. In fact, it had made the entire ordeal feel like it was some sort of a requiem. The problem was not of the atmosphere of the hall. From the looks of it, it seemed that there were at least more than thousands of followers, with each of them being Level 85 and at elite tier. Having more than 85,000 HP, these monsters could pose a threat to the party if they were to attack all at once. On a side note, Zhang Yang was extremely pleased, despite the fear. If he could somewhat, kill all of them, how much experience points would they amass?! Yes, it would be difficult, but not when Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue had the skill {Blizzard Sky} and {Lunar's Dew}!

They moved forward on and saw a large throne, with a middle-aged man sitting at the deeper part of the altar. The man was sitting leisurely on the throne, with one hand supporting his forehead, as if he was in deep thought. The man was just a regular jack on the streets. He was not special in any way or so. He was not muscular, nor skinny. He was just average, in both his physique and his appearance. The best term to use to describe this man was, an average Joe!

[Eins Brook] (Violet-Platinum, Humanoid)

Level: 86

HP: 8,600,000

MP: 4,300,000

Defense: 2,400

Note: "The son of the Fire God". The savior of all.

Zhang Yang smirked. Finally, he had the chance to see the fifth descendant of the seven generals!

The guards that had lead Zhang Yang to the throne bowed to Eins Brook. "Your grace, the outsiders that you summoned have arrived."

"Well done. You may leave," said Brook without batting an eye.

"Yes, your grace." The guards took several steps back while still bowing and left the throne. Only after a good distance, they stood upright and walked away normally.

Brook then turned his gaze at Zhang Yang and the party. His complexion suddenly turned sour as he bellowed. "How impudent. You dare greet the son of God without bowing?"

Zhang Yang answered his wrath with a laugh. "Eins Brook. It seems that you have gotten used to playing the act of…whatever it is that these gullible villagers think of you. I'll have you know. We are not dumb."

Brook widened his eyes when he heard how Zhang Yang had accused him. Instead of getting enraged, the man smiled. "Indeed, it seems that you're not as dumb and gullible as the villagers here. As expected of the adventures that roamed the world. Hahaha! Do you know how these villagers came to believe that I was the son of the Fire God?"

"How?" asked Wei Yan Er. The little brat had always like to poke around things that she should not have.

"These close-minded pets had never encountered a single Spellcaster in their life. When I had casted a fire spell, they had thought that I was the offspring of the Fire God! After I made up some lore about my past, they had truly believed that my power was the evidence of me being the son of the Fire God!"

He stood up. "For the past few days, I have been observing you. Indeed, I must say, that you have the capabilities. I do not know the purpose of your arrival, nor do I care. But I could guess it could be something of money and authority! Hence, I have a proposal for you lot. As long as you promise to serve me, under my league, I will provide you with an inexhaustible source of wealth and power over the villagers. When the time is right, I will lead an army and roam the great lands, and finally, restore the rights and glory of my ancestors!"

Zhang Yang was surprised. This NPC knew about his own ancestor's past. That would mean that among the seven descendants of the seven generals, he was the only person who knew about their ancestor's identity!

Zhang Yang continued to laughed. "Ah, so it is because that no one in this villager has ever seen a Spellcaster! That is why you were able to trick them in the first place! Who do you think you are? Just because you have ruled over a few people in the island, do you think that you can rule over the land? Do you even know how big the world is? You couldn't even be compared with a band of bandits! How are you to conquer the land with your power? You are clearly over your big, inflated head."

"Nyehehehe. Well said noob tank!" said Wei Yan Er as she snickered away quietly from behind.

There was an angry flare in Brook eyes. With a loud call, Brook bellowed. "Silence!" The voice echoed through the entire hall. In response, all of the followers stopped their chanting and dropped their hands in unison.

"Imbeciles! Insolent! Heretic! Begone with you! To hell shall you go!" cried Brook. He then lifted his arms up high and screamed. "These people are heretics! They were brought here by the fallen gods to deceive us with their lies! Kill them!"

In a flash of a second, the boss, the followers in the hall, and all their name tags were instantly flashed from green to the hostile red!

"Kill the heretics!"

"Death to heretics!"

"Kill the sinners! In the name of Lord Eins Brook!"

More and more followers started to fill the halls from all entrances. As more and more numbers started to pour into the hall, the number of monsters had already far surpassed several thousand!

If Zhang Yang had not procured the skill {Blizzard Sky} and {Lunar's Dew}, how would they win this fight…

Frantically, Zhang Yang scanned the hall for something. He spotted two stone rooms at the side of each corner and immediately formulated a plan of attack. Each room entrance had the width of only 2 persons. If Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight could block the entrance, they could force the monster to squeeze into the entrance and defeat them via the bottleneck strategy. That or, they could all die once, and pull the monsters out of the hall after reviving and split the monster into two separate groups, with one tank each.

Either way, both methods were too slow…

Everyone started to panic as the thousand over monsters rushed towards them.

Zhang Yang finally stopped contemplating and decide to use what he had at the moment. "Snow B*tch! To me! It's time for another {Blizzard Sky} and {Lunar's Dew}!"

Han Ying Xue jumped to his side and grabbed his hands. However, they did not immediately activate the skill. Since the skills had a 30 seconds activation duration, when the monster could get a little closer, they could buy a little more time. However, even when the enemy got extremely close to them, Zhang Yang still waited.

10 meters.

"Erhm…Dummy…?" said Han Ying Xue. Her voice was a little shaky.

"Not yet." Said Zhang Yang with a straight face.

5 meters.

Wei Yan Er screamed from behind. "Hey! Are you guys activating the skills or not?! We are going to be killed!"

3 meters.

"Dummy! It's now or never!"

2 meters.

"Not yet!"

1 meters. The followers were only an arms reach away from attacking Zhang Yang when he screamed.

"NOW!"

"KYA!"

{Blizzard Sky}! {Lunar's Dew}!

Shush!

In a split second, the temperature in the hall dropped to a sub zero temperature. Uncountable flakes of snow started to materialize in the air. The ground was filled with snow as the glow of the moon filled the ceilings. With that, damage texts started to pop out.

'-5,000!'

'-5,000!'

'-5,000!'

…

If they were playing the game using the old standard PC, even using the latest 2017, GTX 1080Ti graphic card with the best i7 CPU, they would surely be faced with tremendous lagging! The sheer amount of graphic demand in this scene was the same as during the monster attack on the Thunderstorm Castle!

"Woah! This skill is awesome!" said Wei Yan Er in awe. "Noobie tank, could you get me a Paired Skill as well?"

Zhang Yang could not move, attack, and had to maintain the channeling posture. However, he could still talk. "That's fine. When I have the chance that is."

"What's that? There's no sincerity in your words! You're messing with me!"

"Woah woah woah! Since when did the little girl know how to detect sarcasm!?"

"Woah woah my *ss! Noob tank! You're always pulling my nerves! I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll turn off the heater when you're taking a bath! Hah! I'll see how you enjoy taking a bath in cold water!"

"Oh! That reminds me. Little Yang, how are you? Did you do a *little somethin' something'* if you know what I mean…" said Fatty Han with a perverted smirk on his face.

Both Lost Dream and Endless Starlight started to eavesdrop when they heard Fatty Han's pervert topic.

Zhang Yang sighed. "You guys….Could you at least be a little serious?"

"Nyehehehehe" the group of three perverted wolves snickered.

With the activation of {Blizzard Sky} and {Lunar's Dew}, the HP of the enemy were dropping at a tremendous speed. Though it may seem fast, they still had to take at least 17 hits from the skill to deplete their 85,000 HP. At the same time, Wei Yan Er and the rest of the team had jumped into the fray and started killing as swiftly as they could. On average, each monster would take at most 15 seconds to kill.

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Chapter 361: Eins Brook

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Like withered leaves during autumn, the monsters dropped gracefully into the pile of snow. The enemies behind the first group that had fallen came taking over the empty space in the front. One by one, they continued to fall over and over.

'Ding! You and the party members around have killed Fanatic Follower. Obtained 9,494 Experience Points (50 points Party bonus)!'

'Ding! You and the party members around have killed Fanatic Follower. Obtained 9,494 Experience Points (50 points Party bonus)!'

…

Like popcorn, the popping sound of the system notification continued to ring in everyone ears. As for their experience points, it was going up so swiftly that they could practically see the experience bar slowly filling up!

An elite monster will grant 10 times the experience points of a regular normal tier monster. Since they were killing so many elite monsters like they were flies, Zhang Yang and everyone else's experience bar was filling up like a cup full of beer in a free-for-all buffet.

30 seconds later, after the skills ended, the entire hall was covered in dead corpses and a few Fanatic Followers that had entered the hall a little later. As they say, the early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. However, the problem was, this cheese, bites back. Zhang Yang and the party cleared the entire hall and made sure there were nothing left. They had only taken less than a minute to kill every last monster. On the other hand, like all MMORPG gamers would feel, killing was easy, but the looting, would take up most of the time.

As expected from the OP, super imbalanced skill!

The crowd worked together to collect all the loots. They had collected so many [Silk, and more than 10 Gray-Silver equipment. Upon entering Level 80 maps and higher, almost all Gray-Silver boss was only treated as Green-Copper tiers. Basically, they were worthless. That being said, there were still a few equipment that could be sold for a few gold coins, especially those that had a set equipment set effect.

[Rhino's Hide Boots] (Gray-Silver, Leather Armor)

Defense: 12

Vitality: 67

Strength: 34

Dexterity: 76

Level Requirement: 80

Rhino Guard set equipment set effect: , , Rhino's Hide Boots.

3 Set Effect: 100 Dexterity bonus.

The thousands of elite monsters had produced a total of 11 Rhino's Hide Boots, 9 Coats, and 8 Gloves. In precise, they had farmed a total of 8 complete set equipment. Now that they had several completed sets, selling them at a few thousand gold coins per set would not be a problem.

Wei Yan Er rubbed the coat with her tiny little fingers and said, "Why is the set effect is called Rhino's Guard, when the equipment were made from Rhino's hide. It should be called Rhino's Butcher!

The question was asked by Wei Yan Er, however, everyone turned their head towards Zhang Yang in unison.

F*ck!

Zhang Yang ignored the crowd. It was a stupid question, and answering it would only be wasting his saliva.

Brook did not participate in the fight, instead, he remained standing at his throne even after every single Fanatic Follower had been killed. The boss had already "exited" the story mode, and now fell into the open-world category. It would only attack when players enter his aggro range.

Everyone waited in suspense. Zhang Yang stared at the boss, and everyone asked the same question.

"What's the plan?"

In the presence of a Violet-Platinum boss, there was a certain pressure. Everyone did dare to try anything at all. After all, it was the strongest boss they had faced so far. In truth, Zhang Yang himself did not fight this boss in his life. He thought for a while. "I think we should all withdraw outside. We'll kite him out there and fight there. At least we can fight while riding the mounts."

Fighting while on a battle mount would increase a player's lifespan, as in HP. It could also provide a certain degree of attack power. Unlike Zhang Yang and other Hunter class players, if the rest could unmount their mounts and have their pets battle together with them, it would be efficient. At least range class would not need to be in melee range to have the battle pets participating.

Everyone agreed with Zhang Yang's plan and withdrew towards the entrance of the altar.

Zhang Yang patted Fatty Han's shoulder and said, "Yo Fat*ss, control your pet, and kite the boss out!"

Fatty Han turned his head swiftly. With crocodile tears, Fatty Han cried, "Bro…why me?"

"Because you're my bro."

"Bro, that's cheating."

Knowing that he did not have much choice, Fatty Han controlled his white bear cub towards the inside of the altar. In truth, he wanted to mimic Zhang Yang's style and had purposely went on the hunt for a white cub. However, unlike a Rare Battle Mount, the white bear cub that he had tamed was only limited as a pet. It could not be used as a mount nor a battle mount.

A Hunter could summon both a pet mount and a pet in the same instance. They had one benefit, if one or the other died in battle, it would not affect the cool down time of the other. While other players would have to wait for a 10 minutes cool down time to re-summon the battle mount.

"Your sacrifice will be remembered, little cub," cried Fatty Han when the little white bear cub had entered the boss's aggro range. The girls were all "owwww~" when they saw the little, clumsy, cute, and adorable mammal trying to make its way to the boss. The boss noticed the bear and immediately got up from his throne to give chase to the little bear.

Immediately, Fatty Han controlled the bear to turn around and frantically run back to him. Although the boss' movement speed was much faster than the cub, it was slightly delayed since the pet had quickly gotten out from the attacking range of the boss. However, after 2 to 3 seconds, the boss had reduced the distance between him and the cub to 20 meters! The boss immediately stopped and started to cast its spell.

Casting {Fire Missle}!

0.5 seconds…1 second…1.5 seconds…Pak!

The spell which needed more than 2 seconds of casting time failed the moment the cub managed to run out of the boss' attacking range. Brook had to stop casting and start chasing again. The biggest problem with A.I controls was the fact that they did not think about the future or act in response to player's tactics. It will only move, attack, and cast skills based on its original programming. This boss was programmed to chase and attack the target when it was in its range. It did not run up closer to the cub, but instead, it ran until the cub was at the 20 meters casting range, which was the maximum range of the boss. This has led the little white bear to have sufficient time to run away from the boss and prevent it from receiving any attacks from the boss!

The little pet had escaped safely and returned to Fatty Han's side unscathed. Everyone was surprised and a little jumpy when they saw that the bear was completely unharmed.

Fatty Han patted the little bear and laughed. "Hahaha! As expected from my own pet! It's stronger and better than the others!"

While the rest was standing by, Zhang Yang was already on his Mythical Turtle, waiting at the front for the boss to arrive. Once he got the boss in sight, Zhang Yang threw a {Spear of Obliteration} to draw the boss' attention.

'-3,385!'

Brook received the damage and immediately stopped chasing the bear. He stopped where he was and started chanting a {Fire Missle} at Zhang Yang.

What was the worst enemy a Guardian could face? Magic type. Zhang Yang immediately jumped down from the turtle and dashed towards the boss.

{Charge}!

Sliding on the white floor, Zhang Yang knocked into the boss and hacked the boss with his one-handed axe.

'-2,177!'

This time, the boss had finished its chant and blasted a fiery projectile towards Zhang Yang.

'-13,426!'

Countering Zhang Yang's 4 digit damage with a 5 digit attack, Zhang Yang had taken a huge damage. A Guardian would lose all meaning of its immense physical Defense since a magic type attack would be affected by Magic Defense. Not even {Block} was useful in this situation!

If the boss could deal over 13,000 damage every 2 seconds, not even the super healer like Han Ying Xue could handle the support! Still, while facing a Violet-Platinum, boss, her superb equipment and mana control was profound enough to handle the battle, though it would take a lot of effort.

Luckily, Zhang Yang was well prepared, with many survival skills!

"Endless Starlight! Try and gain more aggro! If I can't handle the pressure, I'll clear my aggro with {Shadow of the Void}. Try your best to catch hold of the aggro!"

"Aite boss!" said Endless Starlight. In this party, his role was to be the secondary tank. If he could not take up the role, there was no further reason to keep a useless, non-attacker, and non-healer player in the party!

The Mythical Turtle was slow but it had managed to get close to Zhang Yang to allow him to jump on his back. Once Zhang Yang got on, his HP limit was shot up to 128,190! To put into comparison, the Gray-Silver mount that Endless Starlight had was only to provide a measly 32,480 HP max-limit to Endless Starlight! The difference was truly heaven and earth!

It could not be helped; Endless Starlight was only Level 77. The equipment he was wearing were a mix of Level 60, and Level 70 Yellow-Gold equipment. There were no Violet-Platinum equipment pieces on him! However, even though his HP was considered to be low, others might not able to compete with him; not unless they could procure themselves a Violet-Platinum battle mount like Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang immediately took control of the fight and everyone could relax and concentrate on attacking. It was lucky that the boss level was at Level 86. Han Ying Xue and the rest of the party were mostly between Level 77 and Level 78, the damage they could deal was not fully reduced due to the Level penalty. The attack output was even stronger when Zhang Yang had stacked up to 5 layers of {Cripple Defense}. Those that had battle mounts enjoyed it the most! The damage their (battle mounts) could provide were rather significant!

"Fools! Death be upon you! You cannot hope to win the son of the Fire God!" cried Brook. With a loud burst of explosion, there were a total of 9 {Fire Balls} that burst out from Brook's wand and shot towards everyone.

'Ding! Eins Brook has used {Mass Missile}!'

Usually, skill attacks could only be blocked by defensive skills. Since the party did not know about the nature of the skill, they did not use any defensive skill and took the attack head on.

'-15,000!'

'-15,000!'

…

Instantly, other than the two tanks, the rest of the party had taken 15,000 damage.

"OH COME ON!" cried Han Ying Xue in a fit of anger. Puffing with steam, Han Ying Xue cursed all sort of vulgarities under her breath and swiveled around to cast all sorts of mass-healing skills to heal the party.

"Little Yang, next time, try and recruit Fantasy Sweetheart into this party. Since there's one slot empty, might as well fill it in. It's better and safer to have two healers, innit?" said Fatty Han.

Zhang Yang laughed. "Tell the truth. You want her in, to heal you, or to be with you?"

"Nyehehehe."

"So how are you with Xiao Wei lately?"

"Hehe! Just wait for the invitation to the wedding dinner!"

"Eh?! Fatty! You're getting married?!" cried Wei Yan Er in pure shock. "Which sister in this world had knocked herself to the wall and have her brains all messed up?"

That was a little too much, even for Wei Yan Er.

Zhang Yang defended his brother-in-arms and said, "Come on. Don't say that. Our Fat*ss here has a few good points to him, you know?"

"Like what?" asked Han Ying Xue out of the blue.

"Yeah! Like what?" said Fatty Han as he turned his face to Zhang Yang.

"Well…I erhm…" Zhang Yang stumped. To find good points about Fatty Han would be the same as finding the chances of survival while fighting a Violet-Platinum boss, while wearing nothing but Gray-Silver tier equipment.

Everyone laughed at Zhang Yang's silence. Only Fatty Han was smiling bitterly, shrugging resignedly. "Oh well."

Brook's {Mass Missle} attack could be cast without a warning. The skill was a nuisance since it could target everyone within the vicinity! When players did not have the time to defend against the skill, the party's healer, which was Han Ying Xue was having a bad time! Luckily, almost everyone had battle mounts, and coupled with Zhang Yang {Vitality Aura} that provide a 16% bonus Vitality, they could endure two shots of the skill without being killed. This had provided Han Ying Xue sufficient time to heal them!

Still, Brook's attack was strong. Even with Han Ying Xue the super healer in the party, Zhang Yang was forced to use one surviving skill, one [Healing Potion (Grade 9 Transmutation)] and still suffered from great HP loss!

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Chapter 362: The Fifth Dimensional Key Fragment

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

As always, Zhang Yang's party total attack power was not to be underestimated. The boss was strong, but so was the party. They had managed to hack down Brook's HP down to 75% in less than a minute.

During that time, Brook lifted his wand and cried out, "Spirits of Fire! I summoned thee to assist me!"

In a split of a second, eight Fire Elementals appeared on the battle field. They had miraculously been formed roughly 40 meters away from the boss. Slowly, the elementals moved towards the center where they spread out to where Brook was at. The elementals were only as tall as half of a man's height. Burning in the air, they hovered a few inches above the ground, like the glowing orbs of ghosts.

'Ding! Brook has used {Summon Fire Spirits}!'

[Fire Spirit] (Elite, Summoned)

Level: 85

HP: 100,000

Defense: 450

Immediately, Zhang Yang switched his targets and call out. "Aim for the minions!"

Usually, when the boss summons something out, they would target the players and chase after them. Their roles were simple, to either immobilize them or damage them. The player could simply move away and kill them before any bad stuff happens. This time, the summoned elementals were all moving towards the boss! That must be a hidden agenda behind their movements! Also, their slow movement speed had practically given the players a chance to destroy them. Like the previous bosses that Zhang Yang had encountered, the summoned minions might buff the boss or even heal him! By any means necessary, it would be wise to kill them before they could do anything at all!

The rest of the team understood, without having Zhang Yang to point it out for them. Melee players pulled the reins of their mounts and headed to engage them. Ranged players stood from afar and attacked from there.

After a few experimental shots, it was just as Zhang Yang had guessed. The elementals would not attack the player, much less even pay any attention to them. Unfortunately, the elementals would not be affected by any status effect skills. They would just continue on, at a constant, uninterruptible speed, towards the boss.

Everyone's combined attack power, coupled with the battle mounts that they possessed, had managed to kill one of the Fire Spirits with relative ease. Shortly after that, another one dropped and turned into ash. Following next was the third. And then the fourth…

These Fire Spirits were so slow that they had needed more than 30 seconds to travel a short distance of 40 meters. Thus, with Sun Xin Yu and the other attacking class had a luxurious amount of time to terminate them.

That being said, it would still be impossible for them to kill all of the Fire Spirit within the stipulated timing. Each of the Fire Spirits had 100,000 HP and were widely spread across the battle field. After killing one, the players would have to travel a short distance to kill the other. That travel time alone had provided the Fire Spirit the opportunity to move closer to the boss!

Zhang Yang started calculating and if the situation continued on, at least two Fire Spirits would successfully have made it to the boss. Though he may not know what would happen if they did, it could not be pretty.

Zhang Yang hesitated for a while before he jumped down from the Mythical Turtle and ran towards the empty spot where the Fire Spirit was killed. He wanted to lure the boss away to extend the distance for the Fire Spirits to travel and provide more time for the team to kill the remaining Fire Spirits.

Although his plans and execution might be flawless, Brook was not stupid enough to be "trick". Or rather, Brook did not chase after Zhang Yang even when he had the aggro. The system might have set the boss to be stationary when Brook has summoned the Fire Spirits. He had to remain stationary until they had come to him or if they were killed off.

Zhang Yang quickly went back to his original position. There could be a chance that the Fire Spirits might heal Brook, and if that was the case, Zhang Yang had to be in place to make sure that {Destructive Smash} is on the boss.

Zhang Yang came to him, dealt a clean {Destructive Smash} and the two remaining Fire Spirit had arrived to the boss.

Brooks laughed and pointed his wand at one of the Fire Spirits. "Let the Fire Spirit cleanse your sins!"

Foom!

The Fire Spirit exploded into a large fiery wave that spread to all directions. The initial wave was so strong and powerful that the fire could even reach the end of the island!

'-100,000!'

Immune!

'-100,000!'

Transferred!

Absorb!

…

It was during this time, everyone is tested for their intuition and speed.

Sun Xin Yu and Lost Dream had disappeared the moment the wave struck them and had evaded the attack via the I-Frame. Daffodil Daydream used {Ice Frame} to render herself immune to all attacks. Endless Starlight used {Sacred Protection}. Zhang Yang used {Sacrifice} to protect Han Ying Xue and had activated the Titan's Chest Plate's extra effect to protect himself.

Sadly, that was the only survival skills that were used. Fatty Han, Hundred Shots, and Wei Yan Er were killed instantly. None of them had any life-saving "immunity" skills.

When everyone thought that the worse was over, Brook pointed his wand to the other remaining Fire Spirit and repeated the same line again, releasing another intense blast that spread all across the battle field.

'-100,000!'

'-100,000!'

Both Sun Xin Yu and Lost Dream were immediately sent out of stealth and died.

Immune!

Immune!

Daffodil Daydream and Endless Starlight both still had their "invincibility" skill active, so they were unscathed.

Transferred!

Zhang Yang's {Sacrifice} was still active on Han Ying Xue and he had taken all the damage on her. At the same time, the Titan Chest Plant effect was still active, and was able to further absorb more damage before it breaks. In fact, the Titan Chest Plate effect could absorb a total of 300,000 damage! There was a surplus of damage that could not be absorbed.

'-12,904!'

After the grand attack, Zhang Yang's team was only left with five members, leaving Daffodil Daydream as the only person capable of being the attacker.

How could they continue the boss fight when the boss' own normal attack was overwhelmingly strong?! Even with Zhang Yang's iron clad defense and Han Ying Xue's super healing capabilities, they could not last until the boss was defeated. They could only throw in the towel at this point. Especially since the team was left with just one attacker, or even two, if you take Zhang Yang as one of the main damage dealers.

"Noob tank. I think we should kill all the minions before they reach the boss. Or else, they will explode and kill us all," said Wei Yan Er after a long silence.

The party kept quiet when one of them accidentally cough out a laugh.

"…You'll make an Isaac Newton. Really…I mean it. It's just, why didn't you say it 300 years ago!?"

"That's because I wasn't born 300 years ago, dummy!'

As expected of the little girl, she was still new at detecting sarcasm. Knowing that continual struggle would be meaningless, Zhang Yang ordered everyone to give up the fight and start it over. Everyone allowed the boss to burn them to death and they regrouped.

"Those Fire Spirits are the main problem."

"I agree. But I feel that our DPS was a little too weak."

"You're not wrong, though. In fact, we might not make it if we rely solely on DPS. The boss summoned those fire thingies at 75% HP. I fear that it might summon those things again at 50% and at 25% HP."

"How about this, when dealing the first wave of minion, take a bottle of {Power Potion}, in the second wave, use any skills that can increase attack damage. Kill the third wave of minions normally. If there's not enough time, kill them with {Dance of the Heaven and Earth}. However, I must warn you, that skill is our trump card. God knows, the boss might go berserk later. Do not use the skill unless it's really necessary!"

"Roger."

Everyone revived and healed themselves back to full health, and had a lively chat until all their skills were ready to be used. The pets that had been killed in the battle were also revived. The team could not proceed on without them. After 6 to 7 minutes, everyone was ready to go.

Fatty Han sent his little white bear cub into the altar and lured the boss out again.

The battle took off smoothly without using any strong skills. They all waited until the boss summoned the minion, and then only used all their skills in one lump sum.

75%...

"Fire Spirits! I call upon thee to assist me!" cried the boss and the same Fire Spirits were summoned.

Zhang Yang knew that the boss would not attack, hence he ignored the boss and jumped down from the Mythical Turtle to attack one of the Fire Spirits. Everyone else consumed a bottle of [Power Potion, gaining a 20% increase in attack damage and attacked the minions.

Slightly faster than before, the party had killed the first, followed closely with the second and third. At the 29th second after the boss had summoned the Fire Spirits, the last Fire Spirit was only one step distance away from the boss before it was killed in time.

It was a pity that the active skill of the Titan Chest Plate had a 4 hour cool down time. Since it would be a long time since it could be used again, Zhang Yang could only rely on all his other skills to survive. However, when the boss had over 57% HP, Zhang Yang had reached his limit.

"Endless Starlight! Prepare to take over!" Zhang Yang cried.

"Ok boss!"

Zhang Yang immediately activated {Shadow of the Void} and slipped into the other dimension. After getting to a safe distance, he sat down to eat recovery snacks.

Before the battle had even begun, everyone already knew what they were supposed to do and not to. Wei Yan Er and Daffodil Daydream whom did not have any aggro clearing skill started holding back to make sure they did not OT Endless Starlight, which might lead them to be killed the moment Zhang Yang left the battle. At the same time, Endless Starlight had used {Dance of Heaven and Earth} to increase the damage deal on the boss to increase his aggro value on him. Sun Xin Yu, Lost Dream, Hundred Shots, and Fatty Han had their own aggro clearing skills and had easily done so.

After healing, Zhang Yang came back to the boss, hopped onto the Mythical Turtle and regained the aggro target. Zhang Yang tried his best to get the boss to attack him and to make sure no one dies in battle.

50%...

"Fire Spirits! I summon thee to assist me…" The same call, the same speech, and the second wave of Fire Spirits was summoned again.

Everyone changed their targets and attack the minions. All skills, accessory effects, anything that could increase their damage were activated to deal with the second wave.

Their speed gradually became faster, and the monster were all killed in just 28 seconds.

"That's great! Keep it up, guys!"

Endless Starlight might be the future top tanks in China, but his talents were not truly demonstrated in the face of a Violet-Platinum boss. Right now, Zhang Yang, Han Ying Xue were the only two players in the party who had more than a full set of Level 80 Yellow-Gold equipment. Sadly, Endless Starlight's equipment were just too weak!

At 31%, Endless Starlight had used all his survival skills and had unfortunately died. The boss had immediately switched to Zhang Yang after Endless Starlight's death. Zhang Yang's own DPS of 3,200, coupled with the Mythical Turtle 3,600, were able to grab the aggro successfully! Furthermore, the passive skill {Shield Oath} had provided an extra 20% aggro generation on each attack that allowed Zhang Yang to ace the aggro list.

Now that Zhang Yang was taking the helm, both Wei Yan Er and Daffodil Daydream had no need to hold back any longer. Even after Endless Starlight had died, it would not affect the overall damage output. He had done his job as the secondary tank, and he had done it flawlessly.

25%!

Brook had summoned the third wave of minions. This round, everyone's skill and potion were still in their cool down status. The only thing they could do was attack as furiously as they could.

One by one the minions were taken after, but it was the same as the previous fight, there were at least two more minions that they could not defeat in time.

"Fatty! Use {Dance of Heaven and Earth} to kill that one! I'll take care of the other!"

"Ok!"

Both brothers activated their skill and instantly killed the remaining Fire Spirits, leaving the boss alone!

"Heretic! Blasphemy! Death! Death be upon you!" cried the boss crazily.

22%, 16%, 11%...

Zhang Yang had already used {Rearm} to reset all the skills. Besides {Shield Wall}, and {Vanguard's Aggression}, all other important skills were already used twice! Finally, the boss had reached 10% HP!

As expected, the boss glowed with a bright reddish light and gained a huge size increase. He had entered Berserk state.

"I am the son of Fire God! I am Invincible!" bellowed Brook.

'Ding! Eins Brook has gained the power of Fire. Gained a 100% increase in attack!'

"Everyone! To me!" cried Zhang Yang.

Everyone pulled their reins and rode towards Zhang Yang. After gaining a huge boost in attack, the boss could easily kill everyone, except for Zhang Yang.

Pew!

With increased speed, Brook threw out his wand and blasted a series of {Fire Missile}.

Before the attack landed on Zhang Yang, he had managed to protect everyone with {Vanguard's Aggression}. A huge bubble had formed around him and formed a protective light barrier.

"Everyone, use {Dance of Heaven and Earth}!"

At the same time, all six remaining members of the party used {Dance of Heaven and Earth},

Shush! Shush! Shush!

One by one, shadows formed and entered the boss' body, dealing huge damage to him.

'-10,000!'

'-10,000!'

…

At the same time, Zhang Yang had been recovering nonstop ever since he had activated {Shield Wall}. It was all because of the Titan Chest Plate's special effect that granted a 10% HP healing each second.

After 10 seconds, Brook's HP was left with 24,000 HP!

…

10,000!

4,000!

0!

'Ding! You and the party members around have killed Eins Brook! Obtained 1,075,050 Experience Points (50 points party bonus)!'

The moment the boss dropped, everyone received a luxurious amount of experience points. All, except for poor Endless Starlight. At the very least, they had killed the boss.

"Me! Me! Lemme! I want to pick!" Excited like a child on a sugar rush, Wei Yan Er jumped down from her Chocobo and proceeded to pick up the loot on the floor. It was not just Wei Yan Er, in fact, everyone else was eager to see what the boss had dropped for them. After all, it was a Violet-Platinum boss!

Zhang Yang found a piece of a silver-metallic object on the floor and picked up the fifth piece of the Dimensional Key Fragment.

'Ding! You have obtained an item: Dimensional Key Fragment 4!'

Zhang Yang had collected the fifth piece. With only two pieces left, Zhang Yang could form the final Dimensional Key to open the path to the Imperial Heaven's Empire!

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