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 395: Silent Hail Town

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The all-out-war between Lone Desert Smoke against The Dominators and Imperial Sky and the rest of the guild was just a menial war among other greater and bigger guild wars in the whole region of China. Statically speaking, wars between guilds were always present. It could be triggered for all sorts of reasons, such as the case of Mining Cave rights, a revenge war, a retribution war, and etcetera.

In the real world, there were many limitations to how people could have their way with each other. Here, they sought out a way to let out their frustration in the game. Many a thing that could not be done in real life, were free to be done in the game.

One of the most direct approach to solve one's conflict with one another, was a slaughter fest. Zhang Yang love picking fights, but he did not favor fights with no purpose behind them. That was why he had never thrown the first punch. That being said, if someone were to be bullying him, he would not give a f*ck about popping a sword in that guy's head. Still, since Imperial Sky and The Dominator had been on his *ss for a couple of times, Zhang Yang was finally going to give up the final f*ck that he had been saving up. He started a retaliation, and he was not going to pull his punches.

He let each of his friends (Hundred Shots, Han Ying Xue, Wei Yan Er and the gang), to lead a team of their own to search and kill both Imperial Sky and The Dominators. Targeting the grinding spot of the two guilds, they had hunted down and killed as many members as they could, until both guilds were crying for their moms. As for Sun Xin Yu and Lost Dream, they teamed up and recruited seven to eight talented and well-equipped Thief class players, and formed a small hit squad. Their main targets were the higher leveled players of the two super guilds. All of these kill attempts had left One Sword Stroke, Liu Wei, and even Humbly Gentleman cowering behind the castle wall, fearing that once they leave, they would be instantly killed.

Players like One Sword Stroke, loved to grind alone, just as Zhang Yang would. As a natural high defense Guardian, One Sword Stroke was able to tank a Thief to his death. But that was only applicable in a 1v1 fight. If a group of Thieves was to jump on him and chain-stun him, lest being One Sword Stroke, not even Zhang Yang could survive that!

Upon passing the Level 80 threshold, gaining a Level would be tough as hell. There were many occasions where One Sword Stroke had worked his *ss off to amass 30% to 40% of his experience points, only to emptied down back to zero by Sun Xin Yu and her team of invisible creed of assassins. It was lucky for One Sword Stroke that the system had removed the Level penalty, or else, it would be a better revenge for Zhang Yang.

After being killed for so many occasions, One Sword Stroke had finally sortied a team to grind together with him. However, it was not of any use. Even a tiger would want to rest after hunting; the HP bar of a player would not always be full during a monster fight, and the healer would not want to overheal. Sun Xin Yu would carefully wait for the chance to strike One Sword Stroke at the moment where his HP was at its lowest and was vulnerable to attack.

In the previous life, One Sword Stroke and Sun Xin Yu were able to gain popularity due to their constant fights. In which case, most of their fights ended with Sun Xin Yu's loss. Without a strong guild supporting her back, she was at disadvantage, since she did not have strong equipment. In this life, however, Sun Xin Yu had been supported by Zhang Yang all the way. She was able to completely crush One Sword Stroke due to her skills, and partly because of possessing the utmost strongest equipment that she could have ever obtained. To put in comparison, Sun Xin Yu could not have a 100% rate of winning a match against One Sword Stroke. However, it is safe to say that Sun Xin Yu and One Sword Stroke would be on equal terms with each other. On the other hand, Sun Xin Yu had taken the chance where One Sword Stroke had lowered his guard, causing him to lose a competitive advantage, allowing Sun Xin Yu to completely overthrow him.

According to her report, in just one week, Sun Xin Yu had killed One Sword Stroke 11 times, and had also obtained one Level 80 Yellow-Gold tier Chest Plate from him!

Being attacked at such brutality, One Sword Stroke plotted his revenge. He had recruited his own band of assassins to kill Zhang Yang. Sadly, their plans to taking Zhang Yang's head would only be a pipe dream. Zhang Yang had the best of the best equipment, any Guardian could have. He had many skills, which included many life preserving skills that could save his *ss wherever he was ambushed. The most OP fact was, if he was indeed being cornered to a point of death, he could easily use the [Lover's Charm] and escape unscathed. That, or he could use the [Party Summon Order] to instantly call in reinforcement to kick their sorry *sses.

As the conclusion, the fight between Lone Desert Smoke and Imperial Sky was won by Lone Desert Smoke, by a landslide!

Still, no war is without casualties. Lone Desert Smoke had a price to pay. There were many guild members who had been killed and lost their experience points, equipment, and gold (for equipment repairing). However, Zhang Yang had no need to burn a hole in his pocket to reimburse them for their losses, since he had a Territory income! On the contrary, Imperial Sky had nothing to reimburse their side.

Eventually, Imperial Sky finally raised the white flag. Most of their players had stopped playing for 3 days. When there are no players to kill, there is no war to fight. Thus, the war was called off. On the other hand, The Dominators had long since retired.

After the three-day cool off period, an armistice was called and everything returned to the way it should be, where players could return to the field to grind in peace.

Zhang Yang had reached Level 86 so far. To reach Level 90 was not all too far, but it was hard. For the next few days, Zhang Yang had dedicated his energy and time to fully focus only on ground.

He came to the Level 80 map, Grand Canyon of Eternal Night to train. The land was so large that there were too many other side quests to complete besides the Dimensional Key Fragment. There were still two other Level 80 maps with quests to complete, but since the canyon was the nearest to Thunderstorm Castle, Zhang Yang had prioritized the map first.

Along the path to a place called the Silent Hail Town, he remembered that there was a hidden quest available there. It had something to do with the Level 100 threshold update, which was said to be one of the valuable Inheritances, called the Vampire Inheritance.

There was one major flaw of the Inheritance, and that was that each player could only receive one.

Inheritances could not be forfeited and deleted. Once a player has accepted any kind of Inheritance, he or she could never accept a second one. That meant, that if they spot another kind of Inheritance that was better than the one that he or she had possessed, they had no other means than to give up on the newer one. That was why, it is of vital importance that during an Inheritance selection, one must think twice before accepting it. For this is the literal meaning of a once in a lifetime chance.

The Vampire Inheritance was indeed a good and most favorable Inheritance which could be accepted by any player or any class.

Inheritances were classified into two types. The first being, the rarest and strongest, that is the Unique tier Inheritance. The other was the common kind which was weaker and had a more standard enhancement, which was the General tier. Hence, a Unique Inheritance had been called the S class Inheritance. The General tier Inheritances were ranked at many levels. Some which were strong enough to reach roughly at the same level or approaching the level of S class Inheritance would be dubbed as the A class Inheritance. There were Inheritances that were so bad and useless that they had only provided a 10% in a certain attribute and would be dubbed as the Trash Inheritances or the Z class.

Vampire Inheritance was classified as a General tier Inheritance with a B class rating. It was naturally strong for a good reason. However, Zhang Yang did not want it. His target was the S class God of War Inheritance! There was no reason for him to accept the quest for the Vampire Inheritance. Still, there was lose hope in completing the Vampire Inheritance in a Level 80 map. Even if he could trigger the quest and complete it, he would only be obtaining a piece of the Inheritance Shard and not the main piece. There's absolutely no way for him to complete the Inheritance quest without entering the Level 100 maps.

However, just because he did not want it, that would not mean that other players would not want them either. As mentioned before, A classes almost, or approach the ability of an S class Inheritance. Vampire Inheritance was B class rated and was still extremely strong.

Zhang Yang riding his Gold-Eared Bear King towards the night sky of the Grand Canyon of Eternal Night. Just when he had seen the silhouette of Silent Hail Town, he heard a deafening shriek which caused Zhang Yang to pull the reins of the bear to a complete stop.

"What the f*ck was that…"

From the far side, where the forests end, he saw a human figure jumping out of the bushes. She was tall and slender, having long hair that dangled in the winds as she ran at full speed away from the forest. In her hand, she held a short and shiny dagger that reflected the stars in the night sky.

[Sherryl] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 83

HP: 32,467 / 83,000

Defense: 450

Just two seconds after she came out of the forest, two more shadowy figures jumped out to chase after her. Those two were vampires with razor-sharp fangs. However, unlike the Dracula, those two did not have bat wings. They were probably a lower-classed vampire. Only high-ranking vampires could have wings!

[Lower Vampire] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 84

HP: 84,000

Defense: 450

At this time, Sherryl did a reverse somersault. The blade in her hand glittered as she flew backward in the sky. With a quick strike, she pierced one of the vampires in the chest with sniper-like accuracy.

"GRAHH!" The vampire screamed in agony as the stab in his chest started to glow in a bright white light, consuming its entire body which turned him into a dead man. Sherryl had just one shot killed the vampire!

Zhang Yang figured that the dagger must be blessed with some sort of holy water or that sort of thing. Unless the dagger was coated with holy water, there was no way that an elite tier NPC could kill an elite tier monster in one single strike.

Zhang Yang rode as quickly as he could towards the NPC and threw a {Spear of Obliteration} towards the remaining vampire.

"You're nothing but food to us! How dare you rebel!" cried the last vampire on the scene. It then jumped towards Zhang Yang with his arms wide open, ready to stab Zhang Yang with 10 claws.

"Watch it!" said Sherryl as she hurled herself and kicked the vampire aside with a dropkick.

Zhang Yang laughed and readied his sword and shield. "Relax, I had it under control. It's just a vampire. It could not even put a scratch on me!"

"How insolent! You dared to look down on the vampires?!" bellowed the vampire.

Zhang Yang sighed and slaughtered the mere Level 84 elite vampire. With the help from an elite NPC, the vampire was quickly killed without even the need to use any long cooldown skill. The vampire dead body turned into a clump of fine ash, leaving Zhang Yang a few [Silk, and coins.

"Warrior! You're strong!" said Sherryl as she sheathed her tiny blade into her side.

"So are you! Where do you learn to fight like that?" said Zhang Yang with a smile.

"Hmm. Please, I must ask you to rest at my house. It's been a long time since I had met a strong warrior such as you!" said Sherryl with an invitation.

Even though the NPC had verbally invited Zhang Yang, he did not receive any quest notification. It seems like Zhang Yang had only helped the NPC with a small chore. Perhaps it had not reached to the point of triggering a quest. Zhang Yang nodded and followed Sherryl.

Since Sherryl was on her foot the whole time, Zhang Yang unsummoned the bear and walked side by side with the NPC for close to 20 minutes before reaching the town. Since the canyon was eternally dark, the town was even darker. With the cold draft blowing across the town, carrying the frozen flakes of snow. The temperature of the entire place was close to subzero. Even though the time was supposed to be daytime, the place was only illuminated by lit torches around the town. There were close to 10 families around the town, though there were still a few kids playing in the snow in the streets. At least, that was the only source of laughter and vigor emanating from the entire town.

"Warrior, our town had always been under the threat of the vampire clan," said Sherryl as she sighed heavily. "This place…This canyon has never seen daylight. While I'm sure that other places in this land have seen day and night, this place, however, has only been blessed with endless snow and nights. We do have daylight, or as should I call it, a temporary shine. At most, we do have 3 hours of sunlight in this place every day. Those creatures hated the light, yet…they treat this place as their paradise!"

Zhang Yang nodded to acknowledge her statement. "I do have one question. Why didn't you guys leave?'

Sherryl laughed bitterly. "Is not that we don't want to. We couldn't. Vampires live on blood, and their favorite was always human blood. They had enclosed us like live stocks, waiting to be eaten when they are hungry. There is no way to leave this place without being killed! It's funny. Since it's always snowing, we had difficulty in farming crops and food. When the situation had escalated to a point where hunting for food was an impossible task, they would hand deliver us dried up animals that have had their blood sucked dry!"

Zhang Yang started to frown.

"Worst of all, a few townsmen had begun to appreciate these creatures for delivering food! Sloths had manifested themselves in the hearts of the townsmen! They had already given up on fighting back since they were powerless, to begin with. All they can do is wait and die," said Sherryl disappointingly.

Zhang Yang frowned even harder. "Don't those people know that, even though they could still live, but they would be under the constant fear of being the next meal for the vampire?"

"They had ways to cope with that. Although no one had ever said it out loud, everyone is always wishing and praying hard that the monthly sacrifice would not be them!" said Sherryl.

Zhang Yang nodded his head. "I understand. Let's go."

The two of them entered the town and headed straight to her house. The brick house was slightly larger than the normal houses in town. Once they had entered, Sherryl quickly prepared the fireplace and burned a few logs to warm the house.

Zhang Yang thanked Sherryl for her kind gesture but in truth, he had not felt anything. Zhang Yang had already tweaked the sensory settings and had made sure that he would not feel the change of temperature to the extreme. "Where are your parents?"

There was a short silence when Sherryl answered with a bitter sad tone. "My mother had been chosen to be a sacrifice. My father had charged into the castle of the vampire to save my mother and had never come back." There was a sudden glint in her eyes and her voice was filled with rage. "Someday, I will drop the hammer of justice upon all these creatures!"

Sherryl excuse herself and went to prepare dinner for the both of them. After eating, Sherryl HP was recovered back to full health.

While cleaning up, Zhang Yang asked, "I understand that the vampire would only hunt humans for food. Why would they try to kill you?"

Sherryl scoffed. "I had inherited my father's will to become a Vampire Hunter! One month after I entered adulthood, I have already killed 13 vampires!"

"Wait. You're just 16 years old?" asked Zhang Yang, surprised.

In the game, 16 years old was considered to be adulthood. Sherryl nodded her head.

As expected of a westerner, they had the tendency to reach puberty faster than any Asian. Sherryl had a mature face and a slender, voluptuous body of a grown woman. If Wei Yan Er was present, she would definitely be jealous till kingdom come!

Zhang Yang snickered quietly and said, "If you want…I could escort you out from here."

From where Zhang Yang stood, he understood that the Vampire Inheritance quest should be located in Silent Hail Town, and the NPC who was supposed to give out the quest was Sherryl. However, from where he stood right then, he did not know where his progress was. How or where the quest started was completely mysterious to him. Even though the Vampire Inheritance was considered to be a General tier Inheritance, but the means and paths of the quest taken by players who wish to receive the Vampire Inheritance were different!

Just like a maze with four entry points, players would start quests from a different point or story, only to reach the final point, which was the quest itself. Hence, this pathway was revealed secretly by a player that had discovered and had completed the Sherryl route. It was lucky that Zhang Yang had even remembered about the quest! Among all the other Inheritance quests, this was the only one available under Level 100.

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Chapter 396: Incoming Vampire Attack

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Since Zhang Yang had no idea on how to trigger the Vampire Inheritance quest, he had to just follow what Sherryl tells him to do. However, he was not afraid of completing the quest, because he could always let other players to complete the main Inheritance quest. All Inheritance quests were the same. First, they had to complete a series of quest to obtain a piece of Inheritance Fragment. Secondly, to gather all the Fragments which varies in different type of Inheritance, and start the main Inheritance quest. Finally, complete the long and draggy chain quest to obtain the Inheritance skill.

Some Inheritances did not have the same first step, but the second and third steps were usually the same.

The shards obtained were not bound by account. Which meant, Zhang Yang could complete all the Inheritance quests and obtain all the shards only to give it to someone else to complete the main Inheritance quest.

Sherryl staggered and sulked. "I…I have friends here. I can not just abandon them…"

'Ding! Sherryl's relationship with you has dropped!'

What? Just one wrong suggestion would decrease a person's liking?

Zhang Yang sighed but he understood something. If he wanted to trigger the pre-requisite quest of the Vampire Inheritance quest, he would need to main a good Relationship with Sherryl the NPC. He nodded and said, "When you were fighting the vampires alone, don't you wish to have a partner with you?"

Sherryl turned her face to Zhang Yang. Her eyes widen with curiosity. "Warrior, do you meant to join my fight against the vampire?"

"Yes. I do."

Sherryl smiled but her smile faded away quickly. "I thank you. But I can only accept the thought of it. I cannot ask you to put your life on the line for a fight that has nothing to do with you!"

Zhang Yang laughed. "Well, I did kill one of them. It's too late for me to pull out now, don't you think so? Killing one or a hundred would not make a difference! I'd say, Sherryl, we should cooperate together to chase the vamps away from the town of Silent Hail!"

Sherryl smiled. "You're one trustworthy warrior! I'll have you know, killing one vampire was easy, but do you know that there were at least 1,000 vampires in the castle! The ones that we had just killed were only the weakest among the vampires in the castle! Furthermore, a stronger ranking vampire has the power to dominate and control other lower ranked Spectres. They could easily drown us all with the sheer number of enemies!"

Zhang Yang smiled. Killing a sea of monsters was his specialty anyway, thanks to the sword's special skill that he had. Come one hundred or one million, he could kill them all!

"We can't say that we can't defeat them if we haven't even tried!"

Just then, there was a loud commotion happening outside the house. Zhang Yang and Sherryl then exchanged a look and went outside. To what Zhang Yang had least expected, there were hundreds of winged vampires hovering across the town, forming a circle to prevent anyone from escaping. Each of them shrieked ever so deafeningly that their cries could easily perforate one's eardrum!

"It is time for the sacrifice of the month!" There was a woman's voice echoing through the town. Although it was not loud, it was very clear.

Sherryl face turned pale. She trembled in fear as she pointed at one of the vampires in the air. "T-That's… Desionia! She is the second wife of Madros, the Vampire King! Her powers are unmeasurable! Why would she come!? Why is she here? She's never been here before! Zhan Yu! There would normally be only more than 10 vampires around during the monthly sacrificial!"

Zhang Yang kept quiet. But he knew that it was all because of him! But, it was better to keep quiet about that sort of thing. "Let's see what does that Desionia wants to do."

Sherryl smiled bitterly and said, "I have no words left to describe you, warrior. Be it reckless or strong, you have to know that Desionia is incredibly strong as a vampire! You…*sigh* Please help me! Chase those vampires away!"

'Ding! Sherryl has a quest for you: Chase the Vampires. Will you accept it?'

Accept.

[Chase the Vampires] (Difficulty Level: A)

Quest Description; Chase away all the vampire in Silent Hail Town. Once Sherryl dies or is taken away, the quest will be deemed as failure.

Progress: Chase the Vampires away: 0/1

The two of them moved closer to the town. The screams of the vampires were so loud that the townsmen had to cover their ears with their hands as they rushed out of their house and gathered at the town's plaza.

Shush!

A female vampire descended down with speed and grace. The female vampire had long hair that dropped down to her feet. Although the air was chilly and the floor was covered with snow, she wore only a thin white wedding dress. Unlike her dark, black hair, her eyes were bloody red, that glowed in contrast with the white background. As she walked slowly towards the plaza, she took out a long black leather whip and coiled it around her right hand.

[Desionia, Vampire's Bride] (Yellow-Gold, Spectre)

Level: 87

HP: 1,740,000

Defense: 1,500

No wonder Sherryl was scared, the enemies that she had fought were an elite tier. Now, walking towards the human crowd of Silent Hail Town was a Yellow-Gold tiered boss!

Silently and slowly, both Zhang Yang and Sherryl blended into the crowd and remained quiet.

Desionia walked towards the crowd and withheld her steps when she was roughly 3 meters away from the front. She then turned her head towards the furthest left and slowly glanced through all of the townsmen. When the townsmen felt the gaze of Disionia's cold dead eyes falling on them, they would lower their heads and close their eyes, hoping that the female vampire would not call out to them. She was like the god of death, hand picking anyone to deliver their last breath!

"Sherryl!" she cried. "Who is Sherryl! Stand out!"

By the time Zhang Yang wanted to cover Sherryl behind his massive armor, more than half of the townsmen turned their head around and had locked on to Sherryl! Zhang Yang gritted his teeth. These men must be the lazy sloths that Sherryl had mentioned earlier. These pigs were the ones who would do anything to stay alive!

"Ahh…" Desionia sighed as if she was appreciating Sherryl's beauty. "What a beautiful girl."

Desionia flapped her wings once and she hovered above the ground and landed right in front of Sherryl. Zhang Yang scoot aside, preparing to start a fight if she would to do something to Sherryl. The rest of the townsmen moved back a good distance.

Desionia reached her left arm out and caressed Sherryl face with her finger. She traced her cold, pale fingers down to her chin and slowly moved towards her neck.

"To hell with you! Creatures of hell!" Sherryl cried as she swiftly drew out the dagger that was hidden behind her. It was the same dagger that had killed the elite vampire with a single strike.

"How wild!" Desionia reached out her arm and caught Sherryl arms at her wrist. Desionia had only smiled when Sherryl was struggling hard to free her hands from Desionia's grasp. She then pulled Sherryl closer to herself and planted her face to Sherryl breast. She took a deep breath and let out a satisfied moan. "You smell so delicious! Where do you think I should start with you?" said Desionia playfully.

The townsmen who were moving back had returned to their homes. Based on the tradition, every time the vampires had selected the town's sacrifice, the townsmen would gain another month of a carefree moment before they would face another round of fear. As to what would happen to the victim, the townsmen would not give a d*mn about. To them, to see the light for another day was considered to be a blessing. There was no time to care for anyone else! Right then, Zhang Yang who was ready to strike the vampire was the only person left standing close to Sherryl.

Sherryl turned her eyes and met with Desionia with anger and contempt. "I'm not afraid of you, demon!"

"HAHAHAHA!" Desionia laughed. With her hand still grasping firmly to Sherryl, she said coldly, "Little girl. I'm afraid to tell you that you have used the wrong pronoun. We belong to the great race of Vampires. The greatest race that would live forever! And you, my beloved Sherryl, it is not me, it is we! You, my child, are one of us!"

"Horse sh*t!" Sherryl cursed.

At this time, Zhang Yang stomped forward with haste and cried aloud. "Sherryl, loosen your grip!"

Sherryl was shocked at Zhang Yang's sudden bold move but understood what he wanted to do immediately. She then released the dagger in her hands and allow the silver dagger to drop to the floor. At lightning speed, Zhang Yang lowered himself and skidded through the snow, grabbing the dagger in the air. As he was still sliding through the ground, he jumped upward and stabbed Desionia with a half-moon turn in the air.

[Sacred Silver Dagger] (Tool)

Use: Blessed with holy water from the church, this dagger is imbued with great power to damage Spectres. Due to its silver content, its power against vampires is increased further.

Uses left: 3/3

Level Requirement: 80

It was obvious to Zhang Yang that Desionia was all too confident that no one would defect. Little did she know that the weak little "food" would actually fight back! It was even a bigger surprise for her when there was another fearless one that would act against her! That surprise move had caused her to miss the dagger and was left with a deep bloody wound in her chest.

'-100,000!'

Zhang Yang eyes nearly popped out when he saw just how much damage he had just dealt! Sadly, it was a shame that it was a tool and not an equipment. If it was, he could have use it against the Vampire King and hack 1 million HP of the bugger's HO with just 100 slashes of this miracle blade.

"ARGH!" Desionia staggered and immediately flew up into the night sky. Panic, rage, regret, and most of all, the expression of shock was written all over her face as she cringed in pain. "Kill that man!"

Shush! Shush!

The vampires that filled the night sky obeyed Desionia and shot down from the sky towards Zhang Yang and Sherryl.

"Let's go!"

Zhang Yang pulled Sherryl up to her feet in one strong pull and ran behind her as the both of them ran towards the brick house.

Zhang Yang could summon his mount and fight the monsters with it, but he would have to endure the monsters' physical attacks. As the disadvantages outweighed the benefits, Zhang Yang had rather rely on the good old fashion brick house to protect them.

As fast as their feet could move, the two of them ran into the house, with Zhang Yang behind Sherryl. Only after seeing Sherryl entered the house, Zhang Yang stopped and stood guard at the entrance.

"Here. Take it," said Zhang Yang as he returned the silver dagger back to Sherryl. For him, the dagger could only be used three times. But perhaps, there was a chance that Sherryl could use it perpetually. She was, after all, an important NPC for the quest.

"KYAAA!!" With a loud shriek, a vampire had flown close to the entrance. It then slowed down by spreading its wings wide and thrust his sharp claws at Zhang Yang.

"Oh! F*ck off!" Zhang Yang cried and slashed the vampire with the godly sword in his hand.

The situation got worse by the minute when many more vampires had descended down and formed a wave of enemy. They started to shriek together towards Zhang Yang.

'-570!'

'-570!'

…

The shriek had formed a visible wave in the air and had caused nearly 600 damage to Zhang Yang. The problem was the sound wave could not be blocked! If it was one or two monsters, Zhang Yang could handle it just fine. But when the number reached more than 10, it would cause a problem, even for a tank.

"Warrior! Put this on!" Sherryl cried out loud and took out a silver pendant. Her eyes screamed of fear of losing him. Zhang Yang did not know what was the pendant for but since the NPC had given it to him at the moment of peril, it had to be something useful!

[Holy Silver Pendant] (Tool)

Item Description: Blessed by the holy water from the church. This pendant would negate all evil and their negative temptation on you. Duration: 1 hour.

"KYAA!!!" As he put the pendant on, the number of vampires had already reached to more than a hundred. With a loud unison shriek, the air literally tore apart forming visible waves that were traveling towards Zhang Yang.

Immune!

As the sound waves touched Zhang Yang's character, the word "Immune" ticked.

This is good stuff!

Zhang Yang was extremely pleased. "Don't think that you're the only one who can shout like that! Watch me! BRAAAAAAA!!!" Zhang Yang shouted and activated {Blast Wave} at the same time.

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Chapter 397: Fallback

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'-952!'

'-953!'

…

With just one {Blast Wave}, the vampires gathering outside the house were stunned. More than 30 vampires had received the direct hit from that skill which had caused a high proccing chance for Zhang Yang's [Sword of Purging Devourer] sword effect. The skilled chained for 4 procs and stopped at the fifth.

Even though the skill had echoed four times, the monsters were all elite tier, with HP bars as high as 85,000! Four {Blast Wave} had only dealt close to 5% of their own HP. However, the accumulated damage had exceeded 120,000 damage! It was more than {Dance of Heaven and Earth} and {Chaotic Dance of Electric Current}. But {Blast Wave} had only a 20 second cooldown rate!

That entrance of the brick house was a gate that shaped like a valve, forming a natural one-person blockade. The entrance had forced the vampire to bottleneck themselves, allowing only one monster to enter at a time. Zhang Yang was troubled since he could not use {Horizontal Sweep} efficiently. In fact, the skill had no penetrative effect, which only allowed him to attack just one vampire per skill usage.

Obviously, the skill {Horizontal Sweep} that was obtained via a hidden quest and was ranked as the highest skill, had the greatest damage output. However, the AoE splash effect of the skill was completely rendered useless in this situation. Without the ability to hit multiple targets, the sword would lose its ability to proc properly. Zhang Yang's DPS had been lowered drastically.

Even so, Zhang Yang blocked the entrance. The vampires that had taken damage from the back had no means of pushing forward. Angered by frustration, the vampires shrieked again, causing the walls to vibrate in resonating with the sound waves. Dust and smaller pebbles started to fall off the walls. There were many other vampires that had started to claw their way through the brick walls. However, despite their effects, Sherry's house was made from thick and solid bricks, and not fragile wood. The wall surrounding the house and the gates, stood still, while the vampires' claws were already torn apart.

Smiling at Zhang Yang, she said with pride. "During the construction of the house, father had factored in the possibility of a vampire attack. He chose the sturdiest materials to build the bricks which formed the wall of the houses and the gates. These vampires stand no chance at breaking it down. Not even Desionia could break it!"

Zhang Yang laughed at her proud statement and asked, "How about the upstairs windows?"

"Fear not, the window frames had been coated and blessed with holy water. If the vampires were to enter through the windows, they would immediately turn into ash!" said Sherryl.

As to prove her point, Zhang Yang heard a scream of agony and the sound of fine sand falling onto the floor, coming from upstairs.

Zhang Yang nodded with confidence that Sherryl would be safe, and only then did he turn back to the entrance and focused all his attention on killing the vampires. All skills were soon unleashed upon them.

"Warrior! Let me help you!" Zhang Yang heard her voice from behind and felt a pair of warm hands rest on his back. The warmth of her hands spread out and enveloped his entire character. He then gained a new buff.

[Sherry's Blessing: Restore 3,000 HP every 3 seconds for 30 seconds.

It was obviously a priest {Regenration} skill - on steroids. Not even the super healer, Han Ying Xue could reach that amount. At most, at her current level, her {Regeneration} could only heal less than 2,000 at every tick!

With the healing buff on him, Zhang Yang could relax a little. Even though healing 3,000 HP every 3 seconds could not heal him much, he had only been receiving damage from one monster at a time! Healing 1,000 HP every second could easily break even with the damage received, and still have much more left over!

Both Zhang Yang and the white bear stood guard at the entrance, turning each vampire that tried to enter into a pile of ash. Although there were a hundred or more enemies, Zhang Yang had no problem reducing that number down with the help of his amazing sword.

"I've seriously underestimated you!" cried Sherryl after seeing what Zhang Yang was capable of.

Zhang Yang laughed and took out the [Laser Cannon] from his inventory. He aimed at one of the hottest spot among the vampire and fired the bazooka-like weapon. A bright light blasted away, the vampires around the area were damaged with 10,000 HP.

It was a pity that the bazooka had 1 hour long cool down time! Even though he still had the mechanical servant in his inventory, he was genuinely afraid that the giant Devastator might tear down the house as it appears in the battlefield. It's not like he was in need of its help for the moment, might as well be safe than sorry.

From 300 to 100, Zhang Yang had speedily killed the vampires outside the entrance. Sherryl was just standing at one corner, gaping at Zhang Yang's prowess. All she did was to heal Zhang Yang by a 30 seconds interval.

"Hold!" Desionia bellowed from behind. Her voice carried some kind of sort of authoritative aura, and even Zhang Yang could feel the dominating power from it.

"Capture all the townsmen!"

Shush!

One by one, the remaining vampires who were fighting Zhang Yang flapped their wings and shot into the sky. There was only a temporary silence before the screams and cries came echoing from the plaza. Zhang Yang asked Sherryl to get into the house.

"HAHAHAHAHA!" the eerie laughter of Desionia could be heard. "My sweet sweet Sherryl, you better come out or I'll kill the people in the town~"

Zhang Yang clicked his tongue and turned towards Sherryl. "Don't fall for her lies. She just wants us to surrender! If she wanted to kill the townsmen, she would have already done so!"

Sherryl kept quiet and nodded her head.

"O Sherryl~~" Desionia playful voice was heard as she descended down and landed in front of the house. Zhang Yang remained on guard. In her hands, she was holding an older man by the throat and said, "Tell Sherryl your name~"

"I-I-I. I'm Mogue—ACK!"

Just when the poor NPC had reported his name, Desionia had planted her fangs into the old man's neck.

"NO! UNCLE MOGUE!" cried Sherryl as she screamed. She opened the door to the house and started angrily at Desionia.

After consuming the NPC blood, a blood red hue glowed on Desionia's face, restoring the lost HP to its full status.

[Blood Sucking: Consumes the blood of your target and heal 10% of your HP every second. Lasts for 10 seconds. Cool down time: 5 minutes.

Zhang Yang knows that the skill was only for Vampires to use. However, if he obtains the Vampire Inheritance, he would also inherit the skill!

Thud…

Desionia threw the now deceased Mogue to one side. There was still some blood stains on her hand. She then lifted her hand to her face and playfully lick the blood off her hands. There was an orgasmic expression on her face as she swallowed the blood.

"Now you see my dear~ I am done playing with you," said Desionia with a smile. With a quick movement, she grabbed one more townsmen that the vampire had already captured and said, "Come out now~ Or~ I will kill another one! And another, until everyone is dead!"

What kind of sick f*ck would do that!

Zhang Yang sighed heavily. Based on the norm, Sherryl would surely surrender herself in order to save her friends. After that, she would be kidnapped by the vampires and he would have to be the knight in shiny armor and kill the evil king in order to rescue the damsel in distress.

Sherryl followed her guts and succumbed to Desionia's threat. Just when she was about to walk out of the gates. Zhang Yang had a sudden idea. He then quickly grabbed Sherryl's arm and place his sword on her neck. The sudden gesture had suddenly shocked Sherryl, and even Desionia herself.

"Trust me." Zhang Yang whispered to Sherryl. He then turned to Desionia and said, "Leave now, or I will kill this woman!"

After Desionia obvious reaction, she laughed out loud and hold on her stomach as if she had just seen the most hilarious comedy ever. After a long laugh, Desionia finally calmed down and said, "You intend to threaten us with just a mere human? Are you daft? Kill her if you want. I shall find another human to replace her!"

"Any human you say, that means she means nothing to you then? Perhaps I should just rape her and feed her to my bear then." Zhang Yang gripped his sword tightly and made a small cut on her neck. As the blood started to ooze out from the wound, panic filled Desionia's face.

"Wait!" she cried out.

Zhang Yang knew it clearly that something was not right. If Sherryl was just "any human" as Desionia had just described, the vampires would not have chased after her so furiously. As an NPC that would trigger such a drastic event, how could not she be an important character!

"Shall you take your leave now?" said Zhang Yang provokingly.

With great contempt, Desionia glared at Zhang Yang. After what seemed to be a long stare down between the two of them, Desionia screamed to the high heavens and bellowed angrily. "Return to the castle!"

One of the vampires come to her and kneeled down. "Mistress Desionia, Lord Madros had commanded us to bring Sherryl back to the castle. If we return empty-handed. I fear that the lord would be extremely displeased."

Desionia scoffed and said, "Leave. I will explain this matter to the lord myself!"

"Yes! We listen and obey!"

Every vampire present replied in unison. They spread out their wings and shot to the sky, disappearing towards the north.

Desionia was the last one present. Zhang Yang noticed and he had not removed the sword from Sherryl's neck because of it.

"Enjoy your temporary peace. I will return." Desionia spoke with such vile that Zhang Yang knew she meant her words. She spread her wings and flew towards the same direction as the other vampires.

Zhang Yang then removed the sword and cheered. "Looks like we won!"

"Yes, indeed. However, you nearly killed me there, warrior!"

'Ding! You have completed the quest: Chase the Vampire. Obtained 3,000,000 Experience Points!'

Just when Zhang Yang was expecting a follow-up quest, the system notification ended there with no other notification popping out.

"Sherryl! My dad died because of you!" cried someone. The captured townsmen from before had gathered at Sherryl's doorsteps with expressions that spoke of murder and vengeance.

Zhang Yang pulled Sherryl and stood in front of her. "Sherryl was willing to sacrifice herself just to protect you guys! What gives you the right to slander her!'

"It's her. It's all because of her! Those creatures wouldn't have attacked us if it wasn't for her! Why would the vampires spare our lives in place of hers? I'd say, she's one of them!" cried one of the townsmen.

"Yeah!"

"Burn the girl!"

Voices of angry townsmen filled the place, and Sherryl remained quiet. Zhang Yang turned back and saw Sherryl was in shock. Zhang Yang understood her feelings. She was about to give her life in order to save the very same people who were throwing insults and death threats to her. It was a massive physiological attack which Zhang Yang could never measure. The trust and love towards the town was shattered instantly.

Zhang Yang sighed and summoned his bear. "Let's go!" Zhang Yang pulled Sherryl up and sat behind her on the bear. With a loud roar, the bear then galloped away from the angry townsmen. There was no reason to argue further.

After a short moment, the townsmen began to chase after Zhang Yang with fire and pitchforks.

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Chapter 398: The Garden of Vampires

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The townsmen had chased after Zhang Yang for about two kilometers before stopping to catch their breath. Although they had stopped, Zhang Yang could still see where they were, due to the light from their touch and the loud inaudible screaming.

Zhang Yang continued to ride until they reached to a thick forest before helping Sherryl down from the bear.

With wide, unfocused eyes, Sherryl finally broke. "Why…Why…"

Zhang Yang sighed. It was understandable that Sherryl would react that way. She was only 16 years old for god's sake. Zhang Yang tried to lighten her mood. "Those townspeople of yours are really scary."

Sherryl smiled weakly and turned towards the direction of the town. The glint in her eyes still suggested the shock from being treated harshly by the townsmen.

Zhang Yang crossed his arms and gave into his recklessness. "Wait here. I'll be back."

"Where are you going?" Sherryl asked. She seemed to regain some level of vigor.

"I'm going to kill that lord vampire king Madros or something." Zhang Yang replied with a warm smile. "If that bloody bugger is dead, then no one will blame you for something as outrageous as you being one of the vampires!"

Sherryl expression softened greatly but quickly grabbed Zhang Yang by his arm. "Warrior! Don't do that! It's too dangerous! I cannot allow you to be in danger because of me!"

'Ding! You have gained a good Relationship with Sherryl!'

Hoho…

Zhang Yang smirked. "You need not worry about me! You see, I have a bunch of very strong friends! Together, we can kill Madros!"

"Warrior…" Sherryl tried to talk Zhang Yang out of his reckless idea.

"Too late. I've already decided," said Zhang Yang, confirming his decision. "Sherryl, I don't know what the vampires want from you. But I do know this. You're extremely important to them. That is why I must ask you to remain hidden. Keep a low profile and wait for the good news!"

Sherryl hesitated but eventually succumbed to Zhang Yang's confidence.

Even so, after the entire wild commotion, Sherryl still had not given any follow-up quest! As hard as it sounds, a hidden quest was surely hard to trigger! Zhang Yang thought to himself, now that he had already proceeded with the "event" so far, and he had confirmed that Sherryl was the NPC that would give out the Vampire Inheritance quest, he could just kill Madros some other day and not need to come back for Sherryl! Would not that be a waste of time since the girl would not trigger the quest?

Zhang Yang nodded confidently. "You take care of yourself. I'll be on my way now."

"Good luck." Sherryl wished Zhang Yang well and gripped the dagger hard, whilst nodding her head up and down.

Zhang Yang rode the bear and galloped as fast as he could towards the north, where the vampire had flown. After riding a few hundred kilometers for god knows how long, Zhang Yang had arrived at a desolate garden. The garden was huge and wide. In the middle of the garden was a flower circlet. In this godforsaken place which was devoid of any sunlight, there were many odd plantation and flowers that had grown beautifully. As Zhang Yang approached closer to the flora, he noticed that the stems of the flowers were transparent and what made the plants look red was the blood that was flowing in it!

Behind the garden was a three stories building. It was obvious that the building was extremely old. There were veins glowing all over the exterior of the building. The dark, black building was encased in coils of growing veins that had only made it look like it was a man-eating "beast" that could just swallow him as he enters it.

Separating the main building from the outside world was an iron gate that measured two person's height. Inside the flower garden were vampires tending to the flowers, but it was not clear to what they were actually doing.

Zhang Yang pushed the iron gates, which gave out a loud rusty creak as it swung open. Riding the bear, Zhang Yang moved slowly. After the gates was a long, white pavement. In the middle of the route was a beautiful large water fountain. After that was the eerie looking building.

Zhang Yang rode slowly towards the building. The bear's paws were soft like a cat's, making no noise as it moved. However, the metal plates of his armor were constantly crashing into each other, as the bear wobbled up and down.

"H-Help…me…" A faint cry of help was heard coming from the flower garden.

Zhang Yang jumped from the sound of it. It was extremely scary being alone, in dark, creepy place. Surely anyone would be scared when they suddenly hear a cry for help in this situation. He quickly stopped his tracks and searched for the source of the sound. But no matter how hard he searches, there was nothing of a human to be found.

"Heeellppp…Me…." The same faint cry was heard again.

This time, Zhang Yang heard is clearly. He got down from the bear and walked into the bunch of flowers. He then bent down and pulled the flowers. Once the flowers were broken off their roots, it literally bled. Zhang Yang continued until he found a soft spot. Inside the area was a man, or half of what seems to be a man. The body had already decayed halfway through, roots growing from inside the man's organs. No wonder the flowers were able to grow so beautifully, their nutritions were coming directly from a human! The blood that flowed in the plants was human blood!

What a disgusting setting! Props to the designer!

The man opened his eyes. Although he was unable to move, he was still able to move his eyeballs and glared at Zhang Yang. "Please…kill me. End my life!"

[Half-dead Human] (Normal, Humanoid)

Level: 1

HP: 1/50

Defense: 1

Zhang Yang nearly vomited from the sight of the man still being alive after all that he had been through. Filled with pity and disgust, Zhang Yang granted the man's wish. He pulled his sword out and stabbed the man in his chest, ending his tortured life.

"T-thank…You…" As life seeped away from the man, Zhang Yang retrieved his sword but there was no bloodstain on his blade. The plants had already sucked the man's dry!

Just then, a shadow appeared on the ground and shot over him. Zhang Yang immediately hid himself. The shadowy figure landed gracefully on the ground and walked towards a flower. The person than pressed his lips to the tip of the flower and begun sucking the fluid in it. As the bloodily liquid flows out of the flower and into the man's, his pale face regained its color. The man continued sucking out the blood from the plant until the plant withered away. With obvious vigor regeneration, the man spread out his wings and flew back into the building through the roof.

Zhang Yang knew then, that was the more brutal method to draw and store blood from a human. Even if it was just a game, Zhang Yang had to applaud the designer and the director for coming up with such an amazing story lore. Because right then, Zhang Yang was filled with immense rage. He hopped on the bear and gently ruffled the bear's forehead. "It's time for a massacre."

The bear growled faintly and galloped towards the building.

"I smell the smell of a Human! A living human!"

Unlike the unguarded garden, the building had two elite vampires standing guard at the entrance. The system had the vampires react to Zhang Yang only when he had entered their aggro range, and not based on sight.

Zhang Yang started the battle with a {Spear of Obliteration} thrown at the left vampire.

"Ack!" the vampire winched in pain. The two targets then lunged themselves at Zhang Yang.

'-1,172!'

'-1,219!'

Having more than 100,000 HP, Zhang Yang had barely felt anything! Based on calculations, the two enemies had a basic attack of around 6,000. Even though it was rather average, it was made to look like a pea shooter, since Zhang Yang had a strong damage reduction ability, reducing close to 80% of their attacks!

Zhang Yang set his sights on the one that he had attacked before and launched a series of sword slices.

"What a strong warrior!"

"Such strength, the blood would most definitely be of quality!"

Like hungry men who had not eaten in days, the two vampires licked their lips, drooling at the sight of Zhang Yang. Their attacks were weak albeit being fast and swift.

"My blood? Please, you don't have enough qualifications to taste my blood!" Zhang Yang taunted.

The match was a 2v2 battle, with Zhang Yang and the Gold-Eared Bear King against the two vampires. With over 6,000 DPS, they had easily killed the first enemy in just 15 seconds. Losing all 80,000 HP in the battle, the vampire fell to the ground and turned into fine ash, which was blown by the winds. The second one was also defeated in about the same time.

"Is that all?" Zhang Yang scoffed.

He then proceeds to push open the door. To his dismay, the door creaked loudly. Compared to the creep exterior, the inside of the creepy building was surprisingly pleasant. The entire hall was illuminated with the warm light coming from a candle chandelier hanging on the ceiling. The hall which Zhang Yang had just entered was the living room. Like what you could expect from a wealthy old western family; the hall was filled with cushioned chairs and a marvelous, grand wooden craved table, and a large fireplace. There were more than 10 well-dressed vampires, both male, and female who were sipping what seems to be red wine. There was even music playing in the background which made it look like a social party for the snobs.

Although they were classified as Spectres, the vampire considered themselves to be one of the noble creatures. They felt superior compared to the skeletal soldiers, or zombies, and the undead that would look and behave savagely. The vampires would never associate themselves with the rest and would live in the grandest and upscale castle. They would then consider themselves as the Blood Race and refuse to be classified as a part of the Spectres.

Everyone turned to Zhang Yang at the moment he pushed the door open. All heads turned to him, which immediately made Zhang Yang think that he had just made the worst mistake ever. One of the beautiful ladies laughed and clapped her hands. "Welcome! Oh my! What strong, young man!" She emphasized the word "young".

Another lady joined the conversation and giggled behind a paper fan. "Ohohohoho…My dear Phoebe, control your lust!"

"Why should I, Lorraine? Imagine the both of us in bed, intertwined with each other! The pleasure of taking his blood while he breathes next to me! Who could resist that! Ahh! I must have him!" Phoebe screamed in a weird, pleasure-like moan. She stood immediately and spread her wings, tearing the dress on her back. With lightning speed, the vampire lunged towards Zhang Yang, with her hands bared and claws ready to stab Zhang Yang.

"I hope that you don't mind me joining you! Phoebe!" said the same female who had interjected her.

"Piss off! Why are you always trying to snatch my toys! It was the same as before and it is the same as now! I'd never want to share the same men with you! You always have it too rough! The men you play with always end up dying!" Phoebe growled angrily.

"Hohohoho! Whoever gets her hands on him first shall own the warrior!" cried the vampire named Lorraine.

Zhang Yang raised his eyebrows, along with his sword and shield. "Why don't I have a say in this?"

"Give up fighting and give in to me!" Bellowed Phoebe as she placed her attention on Zhang Yang. There was a certain aura to the vampires here. As if each of them were strong. Even though they were all elite tier, they had special names to them instead of the general noun. These elite monsters were strong. They had over 200,000 HP and could be called mini-bosses.

Zhang Yang threw a {Spear of Obliteration} towards Phoebe and withdrew slowly until he reached outside the building. Zhang Yang wanted to be able to ride on the battle mount, to allow himself to be stronger!

BOOM!

Zhang Yang kicked the door behind him and rolled backward, just in the nick of time to avoid the attacks of both Phoebe and Lorraine. Zhang Yang quickly jumped behind the bear and was ready to lay down attacks. It was a shame that he wasn't ready. If he had been, he would have swapped the battle mount to the Mythical Turtle and gained even more power!

"Surrender to me, human! Bow down, and I shall grant you the ultimate pleasure before your death!" Phoebe taunted Zhang Yang as she clawed her way to Zhang Yang.

After parrying a number of attacks, Zhang Yang laughed and replied, "Shame that you're completely not my type!"

"HAHAHA!" Lorraine laughed. "Looks like it's time for you to change your appeal!"

"Imbecile!"

The two of the female vampires continued to have their war or words, yet the physical attacks on Zhang Yang had not slowed down! However, Zhang Yang did not mind. His main target now was only Phoebe. Dancing with his blade, Zhang Yang had delivered a series of attacks which drained the enemy's HP down rapidly.

Even though Phoebe had slightly more HP than the average elite monsters, she had only 200,000 HP! Zhang Yang had killed a 80,000 HP in just 15 seconds, so at most it would take 40 seconds or less to deal with 200,000 HP!

"Ack!" Phoebe finally winched in pain after her long HP was left with over 20,000 HP. Before Zhang Yang could deliver the final blow, she shot into the sky and flew to the flower garden.

"D*mn!" Zhang Yang cursed. Somehow, he knew that she would do that.

"Don't try to escape!" Lorraine bellowed. Seeing her comrade being attacked to that state, she roared angrily as she clawed at Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang had not want to deal with Lorraine just yet. Frantically, he left the place, only to see that Phoebe had landed in the flower garden. There was a glint of panic in her eyes. With all the power left in her body, she quickly dashed around the garden. Her speed was so fast that Zhang Yang could only see flowers disappearing in a fraction of a second. After that, there was a sudden blow of strong gale that swept away most of the dust, revealing herself standing in the center of the garden. In her hands, there were blood dripping off, but it was not her blood. It was the blood that was oozing out from the flower. With great speed, she sucked in all the blood from each flower and gained a boon status.

Consuming fresh blood, recover 10% HP every second for 10 seconds.

Even though Zhang Yang was efficient in using {Destructive Smash}, leaving no gap in between the skill's cooldown, 3 seconds had passed since Phoebe had flown away. By the time she started consuming the blood, the debuff from {Destructive Smash} had already expired.

'20,000!'

'20,000!'

…

"Crap!" Zhang Yang cursed. Phoebe had started healing, and at great speed at that! Hoping that he could make it in time, Zhang Yang pulled the reins and made the bear leap 10 feet forward.

{Destructive Smash}!

'-8,343!'

'5,000!'

Zhang Yang let out a sigh of relieve when he had managed to delivered the skill, causing Phoebe recovery to receive a 75% reduction.

"You bastard!" Phoebe shouted from the top of her lungs. She then spread her wings and shot towards Zhang Yang, causing him to be pushed behind a great distance.

"Tch!" Zhang Yang cringed as he pulled the rein to prevent himself from falling over.

"Come get me!" Zhang Yang taunted and charged towards the two vampires. Zhang Yang still focused his fire on Phoebe instead of Lorraine. After receiving the {Destructive Smash} interruption during her blood sucking, she had only managed to heal over 40% of her HP.

"No…NO! NO! ACK! SAVE ME! NOO! KYAA!" cried Phoebe as she lost her mind when Zhang Yang had landed the last attack which completely depleted her HP. The wound at which Zhang Yang had sliced into Phoebe turned into a burning ember. The amber spread all over, causing Phoebe to panic. As much as she tried to claw the amber from spreading to her entire body, there was nothing that she could do except to scream at the top of her lungs. As quickly as the time ticked away, Phoebe's entire body turned into a glowing amber before crumbling down into a pile of gray ash.

"Phoebe! My dear! Phobe! No!!" Tears started to fall from Lorraine's bloodshot eyes. She lunged herself at Zhang Yang and pinned him down. "Bastard! You have killed my daughter! When I'm done with you, you'd wish that I would end your life right now! I will turn you into a vampire and torture you for all eternity!"

Threats aside, Zhang Yang was actually more surprised at the fact that both Lorraine and Phoebe were mother and daughter! What kind of game designer did Dream Tech hire!

"All your blood are belonged to me!" Lorraine flapped her wings with much power, granting her the ability to move around with better agility. Attacks came from all directions!

Zhang Yang laughed despite being attacked by a crazy mother who had just lost her daughter. When two monsters had attacked Zhang Yang, he was not troubled by it, now that Lorraine was the only one left, what sort of trouble could she do to him?

Zhang Yang picked himself up and retaliate even harder. Just as Phoebe, Zhang Yang took no time at all to kill Lorraine. Before he knew it, Lorraine had left with only 10%. As expected, she too, shot towards the garden to suck on the flowers.

"Crap!! Again!?" Zhang Yang scolded himself for being reckless. Not only had she healed herself, she had chosen a place much further away from where Phoebe was. Zhang Yang cursed angrily and chased after her with {Destructive Smash} ready in hand.

This time, he was rather lucky, when Lorraine had shot off, the {Destructive Smash} debuff on her still had over 7 seconds of active duration. Zhang Yang had managed to reach her and deliver another {Destructive Smash} before the effect wore off. Thus, Lorraine had only healed by 25%. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

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Chapter 399: The Vampire's Touch

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Both Lorraine and Phoebe had dropped a weird item called [Vampire's Fang].

[Vampire's Fang]

Use: Collect and combine 7 Vampire's Fangs to form a [Vampire's Touch].

"Huh." Said Zhang Yang as he read through the item description of the [Vampire's Fang]. [Vampire's Touch] was an Enhancing item similar to that of Rune Stone, and a Whetstone that is used on weapons to increase its power. Like the item name suggested, the [Vampire's Touch, would grant a Lifesteal effect on the weapon that was chosen to be enhanced. Since it was a rare effect, it was stronger than regular enhancement via other methods. The Lifesteal effect gained from this item cannot be stacked with Rune Stones nor Whetstones. Among the three enhancing items, only one can be applied at the same time.

Unlike the Rune Stones made from Rune Crafters, or Whetstones made from Smithers, [Vampire's Touch] can only be found by hunting the vampires and collecting their fangs. Furthermore, [Vampire's Fang] would only be dropped by special vampires and not the "nameless" normal monsters. The drop rate was so low that not even the boss might drop them.

All and all, the item was extremely rare.

After collecting all the battle loots, Zhang Yang sat down to heal himself. After killing two elite monsters with super long HPs who were capable of healing themselves, he had suffered quite the damage and was only left with less than 20,000 HP. Zhang Yang was rather relieved that the other vampires who were in the building did join the fight with Lorraine and Phoebe, providing enough time for Zhang Yang to heal.

After healing, Zhang Yang entered the living room again. Instead of fighting, the vampires inside were still enjoying themselves with glasses of wines and vibrant conversation between themselves. They were cheerful and happy as if someone from their party had just won a major battle of some sort.

During the battle initiation by Phoebe and Lorraine had broken the door earlier, Zhang Yang had no need to make a flashy appearance to enter the hall. None of the vampires inside were alerted by his entry. Zhang Yang had chosen to lure one monster at a time, and picked one of the vampires, and attacked with him {Spear of Obliteration}. The vampire that was lured was named Tolor, and he jumped from his seat and flew towards Zhang Yang.

"Eh!? You're the human from before! Where is Lorraine? Where is Phoebe!?" The vampire cried out in surprise.

Zhang Yang smirked and landed one attack. "You'll soon find out."

"Bastard!" Tolor bellowed and attacked with the same style as Lorraine and Phoebe; hands wide open, with sharp claws ready to dismember Zhang Yang's limbs. Even though the male vampire looked very strong, he was beaten to a pulp by Zhang Yang. He had also flown to the garden to heal himself but had only prolonged his death by a minute or so. Tolor did not drop any [Vampire's Fang] which left Zhang Yang slightly disappointed.

Like changing the tea leaves of a pot, Zhang Yang defeated all the vampires in the hall one by one. Fortunately, he had collected all 7 pieces of the fangs and formed one complete [Vampire's Touch].

[Vampire's Touch (Beginner)] (Usable)

Use: Use it on a weapon, grants the ability to restore 5% HP on every hit.

Level Requirement: 80

The item description dictated that the Lifesteal effect would only be active on a successful hit. That would mean that skills like {Thunder Strike}, and {Shield Bash} that did not attack with the sword would not trigger the Lifesteal effect. However, if Zhang Yang were to use AoE multi-target skills like {Blast Wave} and {Horizontal Sweep}, coupled with the sword skill echoing effect, if would all be factored in!

Take {Blast Wave} for example. Even though the skill was based on the weapon's attack, 5% of 1,178 would be 60 HP. However, if the skill was used on a group of 30 monsters, and the sword would proc for four counts, the total amount healed would be over 7,000!

Without thinking twice, Zhang Yang used the item on the sword and replaced the Lifesteal effect with the original one. By far, the profession Rune Craft was not strong nor OP enough. Only until one was able to produce a Rune of 6 and 7, only then it would be considered to be a powerful profession that would burn gold on the side. At least, by then, it would be worth every penny spent.

Zhang Yang wrapped things up in the hall and proceeded forward. After the living room was a long empty corridor which led to a staircase to the second floor. The building was the nest of the vampires, the system would naturally make it harder for players to pass through it. Before Zhang Yang could reach the staircase, vampires from both ends of corridor attacked Zhang Yang in a large group. Even though they were elite tier, they were the "real" elite tier, unlike Phoebe and Lorraine who had far more HP and attack. Naturally, Zhang Yang had cleared the corridor with ease and went up to the second floor.

Before Zhang Yang could observe the environment of the second floor, a white figure came shooting towards him. There was a long black whip on her right hand which was all coiled up to her shoulder. Reflex kicked in and Zhang Yang raised his shield at lightning speed.

"Despicable insect!" A female voice came roaring from behind his shield. The voice belonged to Desionia, the second bride of the Vampire King, Madros.

At her height, she had looked down on Zhang Yang with fangs dripping regular saliva. With a loud hiss, she pushed Zhang Yang away and uncoiled the whip in his right arm.

Again! Zhang Yang had no time to swap out the Mythical Turtle!

Zhang Yang cursed himself and leaped back towards Desionia.

'-8,345!'

'417'

After five {Cripple Defense}, Zhang Yang's {Destructive Smash} had dealt over 8,000 damage which in turn, healed him for over 400 HP. Zhang Yang curled his lips, feeling satisfied with the effects of the new sword's passive ability. Even after deducting the possible heal from {Shield Bash} and damage reflect of {Block}, his DPS had surpassed 4,000. That meant, that at each second, he could recover at least 200 HP! It was similar to reducing 200 DPS directly from the boss!

It was a pity that the DPS of a Level 80 Yellow-Gold boss was around 2,000. Deducting 200 from that would equal to a 10% "discount"!

Being an Alchemist who concoct potions for himself, he had no qualms about using all his potions, even the powerful ones like the [Troll Recovery Potion]. Players would only have regular potions at their disposal, and the ones that Zhang Yang consumed all the time were at least Grade 5 Transmutation! For the past few days, Zhang Yang had been making potions till he had lost count of the number of stacks he had made. Those potions that were produced normal, or had lower grade transmutation were all sold in the Little Merchandise Shop or thrown into the guild warehouse. Only potions that had over grade 5 transmutation were used by Zhang Yang himself!

With potions, [Fountain of Life, {Berserker's Heal}, {Shield Wall} and other means and methods to restore his health, Zhang Yang had no problem fighting a Yellow-Gold boss one-on-one! For now, Zhang Yang was most probably be the only player in China to be able to solo a Yellow-Gold boss!

"Succumb and bow to the power! Present yourself as a slave to me!" cried Desionia as she danced around with the coarse whip in her hand.

"Master has captured Sherryl! The ceremony of holy matrimony is about to happen and there's nothing you can do to stop it!"

Zhang Yang stopped breathing for a second. Sherryl was captured? That soon?

Zhang Yang sighed. He had hoped that this story would be a little different. However, contrary to his thoughts, he was expecting something like this to happen. Still, there was something odd. Who and what was Sherryl? Was she so important that the last boss would capture her himself?

'Ding! You have received a quest selection: Rescue Sherryl. Would you accept it?'

A sudden quest option window popped out. Zhang Yang not read the quest description and immediately accepted it. He still had the boss to defeat first.

"Feel the despair! Feel the power of darkness engulfing you!" Desionia bellowed and laughed as loudly as thunder itself.

Suddenly, Zhang Yang felt a little shaky, as his entire vision was distorted. His character moved itself and threw the shield and sword to the ground, covering his ears and starting to scream like a deranged maniac.

[Despair Shriek: Causes the target to fall into a state of despair. Causes immobility and disarm. Lasts for 5 seconds.

What the hell!?

Zhang Yang raised his head to observe Desionia. All he could observe was the glint in Desionia's eyes. A similar rage of revenge burning in her eyes. High leveled NPC or monster would have higher A.I programming, granting them the ability to have memory. She bore great enmity towards Zhang Yang. Powerful enough that she would never find peace in her time if she did not shred Zhang Yang into pieces.

A shield is an ultimate weapon for a tank. Without the piece of equipment, Zhang Yang had received more than 9,000 damage in just one attack. Without the shield granting him the Defense and passive damage reduction skill, Zhang Yang had taken the full, unrepressed damage from Desionia.

Zhang Yang immediately activated {Warrior's Will} and dispelled the state of despair that his character had fallen into. With a quick barrel roll, Zhang Yang picked up the shield and the sword and swiftly reequipped it.

Luckily, the boss was an NPC that would not be greedy to pick the equipment and kept it for herself. If that had really happened, Zhang Yang would have raged quit the game so hard that no amount of reincarnation would bring him back to play the game.

"Give up on your hopes and dreams and fall into the depths of the abyss!" Desionia shrieked again.

"Hmph! Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me! Let's see how long you can keep this up!" Zhang Yang launched his attack.

Desionia's {Despair Shriek} had only a 1 minute cooldown. If it was any other tank, they would surely have to rely on other people to survive this boss. Their {Warrior's Will} would never have been enough to last the battle! Zhang Yang on the other hand, had already maximized the level of {Warrior's Will}. His skill had only 1 minute cooldown as well! Once the boss activates {Despair Shriek}, Zhang Yang would instantly activate {Warrior's Will} to dispel the debuff on him. Furthermore, the skill had granted a sure-Critical Strike hit for the next {Destructive Smash}! One strike of the skill would deal 15,000 damage to 17,000 damage! It would be a double edge sword for the boss to use her {Despair Shriek}!

She was a boss, but in this fight, Zhang Yang had too many life restoring skills that he had literally made the boss look like the player instead! Without meticulous effort, Zhang Yang had speedily brought down the boss' HP to 10%

"Despicable insect! I ought to squash you and remove your pitiful existence!" cried Desionia as the confidence in her expression faded away and was replaced with madness. She lunged towards Zhang Yang, carrying a flowery scent and soft embrace into Zhang Yang's arms.

"HISS!" Desionia grabbed Zhang Yang tight in her arms and buried her fangs deep into Zhang Yang's neck.

{Vampiric Paralysis}!

[Vampiric Paralysis: Causes a target to be paralyzed, enabling the user to have a chance to suck on the target's blood. Lasts for 10 seconds.

As if Zhang Yang was going to enjoy the moment and feel her voluptuous breast pressing into his. Zhang Yang immediately activated {Warrior's Will} and dispel the immobility on him. In 10 seconds after, he had gained a buff which increases 50% of his attack!

Even though Desionia had restored her health, she had carried the effect of {Destructive Smash} on her, causing her to only restored 25% of the intended amount. With a quick strike, Zhang Yang hit her with a {Destructive Smash} again, dealing a devastating attack! Her 43,500 HP was not at all enough to withstand his onslaught any longer!

"ACK!" The bride of the vampire king collapsed with a loud moan and turned into ash.

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Chapter 400: Constance

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The boss fight had rewarded Zhang Yang with two Yellow-Gold equipment, and six Gray-Silver equipment. Among them was a rather strong dagger.

[Thorn of Desionia] (Yellow-Gold)

Weapon Attack: 402 – 602

Attack Interval: 1.4 seconds

DPS: 358

Equip Effect: Grants a 10% chance to restore 500 HP on every attack.

Level Requirement: 80

Even though the dagger was not up to tier, it was still one of the strongest Yellow-Gold weapons out there. Surely there were people who would want the dagger since there were not many Violet-Platinums circling in the market at the moment.

Zhang Yang picked up the loot and moved forward. There were many other monsters along the way which were killed and turned into fine ash. Just as he felt happy that the monsters had granted a luxurious amount of experience points, he was reminded about the quest that he had just received right before the boss fight with Desionia.

[Rescue Sherryl] (Difficulty Level: S)

Quest Description: The King of Vampires, Madros, has kidnapped Sherryl. The ceremony to wed Sherryl to Madros, making her the third bride will happen shortly. Warrior, you have to pick up the pace in order to save her in time!

Duration remaining: 2 hours 47 minutes.

Progress: Rescued Sherryl 0/1

Zhang Yang sighed heavily. He hated quests with time limits. Still, for a quest to be ranked at S-level, it was understandable. Furthermore, the time taken to finish the quest will be taken into consideration for the final quest score.

The monsters on the second floor were mostly just normal tiered. Zhang Yang had effortlessly turned their living flesh into grayish ash. In the battle of the normal monsters, Zhang Yang had picked up many pieces of [Silk]. Like a hot knife through butter, Zhang Yang had butchered his way through the entire floor. Right before he arrived at the staircase to the third floor, he stopped and changed his battle mount to the Mythical Turtle. He would not make the same mistake as before.

After climbing the stairs and arriving at the third floor, he was immediately interrupted by a woman in a familiar white dress. Her hair color was different compared to Desionia. Unlike the deep, charcoal black, hers was blonde.

[Constance, Bride of the Vampire Lord] (Yellow-Gold, Spectre)

Level: 87

HP: 1,740,000

Defense: 1,500

Note: Intensely jealous. The manifestation of envy!

Just when Zhang Yang was ready to command the turtle to strike first, he was stunned at the sight of the green colored name tag.

"Warrior!" said Constance when she saw Zhang Yang had arrived at the floor. "Worry not. I come in peace."

An NPC with a green color name tag meant a friendly character. Zhang Yang slid his sword back into its scabbard. There was no way Zhang Yang could attack a green color name tag NPC. "Why are you in my way?"

Constance clicked her tongue irritably. "Madros, the bastard! When he married me, he had vowed to love me, and only me! However, 30 years ago, against my will, he took another bride for himself! He married Desionia! Just when he swore to never take on another wife, he had turned back on his words and picked that human insect! I cannot allow this to happen again! Warrior, I will help you kill that bastard!"

Woah…So this was what jealousy would do to a woman. How many big shots had committed homicide just because they were dissatisfied about playing second fiddle? (In context to ancient China family)

Zhang Yang nodded his head. "Alright."

With a Yellow-Gold boss helping him in battle, he would not need to summon Han Ying Xue or anyone else to assist him in killing the last boss.

Since the boss fight was not going to happen, Zhang Yang swapped the turtle for the bear. If he had waited for the turtle to follow him to the last boss, he would have already grown a beard as long as Rapunzel's hair!

"Follow me!" said Constance coldly. She gestured Zhang Yang to follow her and led the way. There were no monsters on the third floor, allowing both of them to proceed quickly and arrive at a room at the end of the floor.

Creak…

The door was opened slowly, yet it still made a creepy creak. "Madros is inside. Be quick with it!" said Constance as she headed in.

The room was dark and quiet. It was so dark that Zhang Yang could not even see his own feet. It was as if a temporary blindness had robbed him of his vision. 20 to 30 steps forward, he heard the same creak, followed by a loud click. The door behind him was shut. The light started to appear from the sides. The torches on the side of the wall of the room had lit up one by one and quickly brightened up the room.

Just when Zhang Yang had gotten used to the darkness of the room, he was blinded by the sudden illumination, which forced him to shut his eyes. It took some effort but after he had readjusted back to the light, he opened his eyes to observe his surroundings. The room was too large to be called a room. It was roughly 300 to 400 meters square wide. The problem with this "hall" was that there were close to hundred elite-tiered vampires standing at every corner, with their fangs bared at Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang frantically searched for Constance and found her standing at the furthest corner from him, laughing sinisterly. Her name tag had changed to red!

Zhang Yang was bamboozled! Of course, he would be, everyone with an average level of intellect would be tricked as well. Constance was a friendly NPC back then! A normal player would have already treated her as a comrade instead of being wary.

"My minions! Kill the human!" cried Constance as she lifted her pale fingers to point at Zhang Yang's general location. The vampires in the hall spread their wings in unison, creating sudden airwaves that sent the dust on the floor flying in all directions.

Zhang Yang felt a cold shiver down his spine. There is no way that he would survive the battle with a hundred elite tier monsters!

"Yo, b*tch! Come now!" Zhang Yang speedily opened his Friend List and dialed up to Han Ying Xue.

"What? I'm busy grinding with Yan Er! Buzz off!" said Han Ying Xue lazily.

"No time to explain! Put on the charm now! My life is at stake here!"

"Oh! So you want the damsel to save the prince in distress now huh?"

Within seconds, Han Ying Xue had arrived at the scene.

At the moment she had appeared in the battlefield, she was greeted with the cries of hundreds of vampires. The color drained from her face. "Dummy! No more surprises like this in the future! I'll bite your nose off the next time you rope me in like that!"

"Enough! Time for our skill!" Zhang Yang bellowed. He had activated {Shield Wall} and had only managed to survive the fight because of the skill's healing capability. Anyone and everyone would know that once the {Shield Wall} ended, Zhang Yang would be shredded into pieces, even if he had the thick defense of an elephant.

Zhang Yang reached out and grabbed Han Ying Xue's fair hand and activated {Blizzard Sky}, and {Lunar's Dew}.

Shush! Shush! Shush!

'-5,000!'

'-5,000!'

'-5,000!'

…

Since the vampires could fly, space was filled rather economically by them, thus increasing the efficiency of the skill.

"Kill them! Kill the humans!" cried Constance with a loud shriek.

"Hey Dummy, why are you always in trouble when it comes to women?" asked Han Ying Xue with a laugh.

"…Why? Jealous much?" said Zhang Yang.

"Please. I'm not talking about the people in the game. I'm talking about Zhao Bin, Zhao Xue, and Zhao Yu! Those three are exquisite! A rare beauty! How could you not drown in the triplet's beauty?" said Han Ying Xue. She was jealous.

Zhang Yang frowned worriedly. "Erhm…they…I mean the girls were just freshmen in university!"

"Hmph! Only God knows what kind of dirty thought dwelling in that filthy mind!"

As they were having their conversation, most of the vampire had already turned into piles of ash that had defiled the beautiful scenery of the skill.

"Woah, that's really a lot of experience points!" said Han Ying Xue.

After 30 seconds prior to the skill's activation, the hundreds of vampires were killed, leaving the hall barren and lifeless.

"Bastard!" bellowed Constance angrily. She spread her own wings and shot towards Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang laughed tauntingly and parried her claw. "Relax woman, you'll get to meet your friends real soon!"

Constance raised her head and stared into Zhang Yang's eyes with great contempt. She opened her mouth and shrieked loudly, causing Zhang Yang to feel a great pain in his eardrums, forcing him down to the floor, closing his eyes and ears, abandoning his weapons.

{Despair Shriek}, looks like it was a skill exclusive for a vampire's bride. Zhang Yang immediately dispelled the debuff with {Warrior's Will} and returned to the fight. With a quick dodge and turn, Zhang Yang was back in front of Constance.

{Destructive Smash}!

'-24,890!'

A great damage text burst out with a slightly larger font since it was a critical strike. Both Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue were slightly surprised.

"Dummy, are you really using a hack? How could you deal such high damage?"

Zhang Yang immediately opened the battle log and said, "It was a Critical Strike and a Lucky Strike stacked together."

The passive bonus effect of using {Warrior's Will} was to grant a 100% chance to land a Critical Strike. If that attack had triggered a Lucky Strike, it would deal a massive 6x the original damage!

Now that the army of vampires were killed, Zhang Yang could easily settle the boss on his own. Now that a super healer had arrived to the scene, it was more of a concrete certainty that Zhang Yang would win the fight. Pairing his power with the bear, Zhang Yang had basically turned the fight into a one-sided brawl.

Not long after, Zhang Yang heard a loud "cling!" and realized that Constance's body had turned as hard as a rock! Zhang Yang turned his gaze to Constance's character and noticed a new status effect on her head.

[Petrifying Recovery: Immune to all damage and status effect. Restores 5% HP every second. Last for 10 seconds. Channeling required.

Compared to the other vampire's recovery skill, Constance's recovery skill had even granted her a 10 seconds invincibility! She would have restored 50% of her HP without interruption! Not even the debuff of {Destructive Smash} would affect her!

After the 10 seconds skill duration ended, Constance spread her wings out, breaking the stone encasement, like a butterfly out of a cocoon.

She hovered a few meters into the air. Her wings were bigger now and cast a shadow over Zhang Yang.

"This is the gift from the king when he had bestowed immortality upon me! Surprised?" Constance smiled wryly. She now had 60% HP left.

Zhang Yang scoffed. Unless the skill had a cool down time of only 2 minutes, Zhang Yang could have killed the boss before she could have a chance to activate {Petrifying Recovery} for the second time.

"Dummy. When a player gains the Vampire Inheritance, would he gain that skill as well?"

"More or less." Zhang Yang nodded. "That's actually the reason for me being here. To farm the Inheritance Fragments! The Inheritance is strong, but it doesn't suit you though."

"Please. It's not like I want it in the first place!"

With haste, Constance was killed before she could activate the {Petrifying Recovery} for the second time. As it was with any other vampire, Constance screamed and put up a scene before turning into ash.

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Chapter 401: The King of Vampire

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"Look here!" cried Han Ying Xue as she displayed three bottles of potions for Zhang Yang to see.

[Blood Potion] (Usable)

Use: Restore 10% HP every second, for 10 seconds. Cool down: 10 Minutes. All potions will share same cooldown duration after consuming this potion.

Level Requirement: 80

The potion was a mirror image for the vampire bloodsucking skill. Rather than sinking one's teeth into someone's else's neck, one could easily heal the same amount by just consuming a bottle of potion. However, there was a problem with the potion. The 10 minutes long cool down time. To put it in comparison with other potions in the game, a normal potion would only have a 1 minute cooldown time. In 10 minutes, one could already consume 10 bottles. For a [Level 3 Healing Potion, one could heal over 40,000 HP. [Level 4 Healing Potions] would only be available for players after Level 90. The recovery amount reached up to 10,000 HP a bottle. If the battle could drag as long as 10 minutes, the bottle of [Level 4 Healing Potion] would be efficient. On the contrary, if the battle would only last for 4 to 5 minutes, the [Blood Potion] would be a game changer.

It was sad that Zhang Yang had only picked up 3 bottles. If they could be mass produced, half of potions in the market would lose their value.

"Well, d*mn. Bosses these days sure are stingy!" Zhang Yang picked up the loot and kept it. Equipment that was farmed in the fields would automatically end up in Zhang Yang's inventory is no one else would want to claim them. Since no one else would want it, Zhang Yang would be the one to place the items in the Little Merchandise Shop.

Constance had dropped two counts of Yellow-Gold and seven counts of Gray-Silver equipment. Neither of them piqued any interest from Zhang Yang nor Han Ying Xue. Naturally, they were all fated to be sold.

"Let's go. It's time to kick the final boss' *ss!" said Zhang Yang. He tried to share the quest to Han Ying Xue, but failed. It was to be expected since the end of this chain quest would reward the player with an Inheritance Fragment. It was considered to be a Unique item and could only be completed by one person at a time.

Han Ying Xue shrugged it off and the both of them continued moving to the end of the hall. After a large door, a narrow little corridor revealed itself. Unlike the rest of the castle wall, the material that made the corridor wall was different, for it was as white as snow. It was after a long walk before Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue were greeted with another color. At the end of the corridor was a red door. The door was so old and gave off some sort of magical vibe, since there were many strange symbols and runes carved into the surface of the door. With the color of snow on the wall and the cold temperature of the surroundings, it gave the both of them cold eerie shivers.

Han Ying Xue sneaked behind Zhang Yang and cowered behind him.

Zhang Yang gritted his teeth uncomfortably and said, "Are you…perhaps…scared?"

"N-No! I'm soooo not afraid!"

"Woman, you do realize that you're holding my right arm! Loosen up and let me go! If you don't, I might be able to react in time if something jumps out!" said Zhang Yang as she stuck out her tongue.

Han Ying Xue scoffed and gave Zhang Yang a cold shoulder before releasing his arm.

Zhang Yang snickered a little and opened the red door. "You know? When you're younger, there is always a fear of monsters lurking in the closet or under the bed. I realized that the best way to tackle the problem is to open the closet or look under the bed yourself!"

"Oh Hell No!" cried Han Ying Xue loudly as she shook her head.

"What a pansy!" said Zhang Yang. He then gave a large push, and the door answered with a loud creaking noise. Behind it was another large room, that was decorated just like a church! The only missing piece to make it a real church was the image of Jesus at the end of the aisle. Although there were paintings of flying angel babies like the Sistine Chapel, and stained glass windows, with no real light source, this "church" seems to have been abandoned for a long time. Beneath their feet, there was a large magic circle etched into the ground. Without chairs and benches around, the place was instead filled with sacrificial items at each corner of the pentagram. In the center of the magic circle was an unconscious young woman, wearing a beautiful white wedding dress.

Zhang Yang narrowed his gaze and confirmed it was Sherryl. She still alive was Zhang Yang could clearly observe her breast—chest was moving with life.

"Welcome…Welcome…" A deep husky voice came echoing from an unknown source.

"Madros?" said Zhang Yang as he tried to trace the source of the voice.

"It is I! Madros!" From the corner of the room, a shadowy tall figure walked out. He was dressed in a deep crimson cloak. His entire outfit was adorned with many gold accessories which Zhang Yang would refer to as blings. The man had the appearance of a man in his 30s. He had a full head of thick hair which had been combed all the way back his head. Perhaps, the man was using Gatsby hair gel, since his hair was all shiny. With a monocle hanging on his right eye, the man gave off the vibe of a noble man, and a proud one at that!

[Madros, King of Vampires] (Platinum-Gold, Spectre)

Level: 89

HP: 8,900,000

Defense: 2,500

Madros carried an Invincibility effect on him, even though he was not a green name tagged NPC.

"Hot d*mn that boss is handsome~" said Han Ying Xue as she swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"Hmm. That's new."

"What is?"

"That you're into mature old men. You must have an exquisite taste for men."

"Jealous?"

"Is that even possible?" Zhang Yang gave his comeback.

Madros walked gracefully towards the both of them with both his hands crossed behind his back. He had a long saber which hung at his hip. It clinked slightly with his steps. Still crossing his hands behind his back, Madros gazed at Zhang Yang and rubbed his chin. "Hmm. For you to step in my presence, I assume that you have met my two brides. Could it be that you have already defeated them?"

"I beg your pardon, sir. For I must hereby announce you a widower!" said Zhang Yang as he shrugged. "Well…sorry for your loss!"

Madros eyebrows twitched a little. He laughed immediately. "All is well! All is well. For I have here, a third wife!"

Zhang Yang frowned. "Why must you have her and not anyone else as your bride? What is so special about the girl?"

Madros raised an eyebrow and stopped walking. He turned to look at Sherryl and spoke without looking at Zhang Yang. "What makes you think that I will tell you?"

"You can keep it a secret for all I care. But know this. No one will know why you did it in the first place. And if you succeed, there would nothing for you to enjoy about it. So you can keep it a secret, kill both of us, and the world will not know what had you done." Zhang Yang tried a reverse psychology attack. Instead of threatening, he played the verbal game.

"Or could it be that you want to keep it a secret since you're afraid of two lowly humans. Aren't you the king of vampires? So much for your immortality, huh?"

"Jest all you want human, but you have killed two of my wives. That is not something a regular lowly human could do. But, you're right about one thing. I do wish to have the world know my power. I have kept this secret too long for time to tell."

Madros laughed with a chuckled. He then reached his hand out, causing a huge, gold-framed throne to hover from its original position, and towards him. The vampire sat down and crossed his legs proudly. "16 years ago, this castle once belonged to Drauders Martin, the previous king of vampires."

Madros chuckled for a while and turned to Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue. "The father of Sherryl!"

Zhang Yang flinched. "You're saying that Sherryl is also a vampire?!"

"Oh no! Heavens no! If she was a vampire, I wouldn't have paid any attention to her!" Madros laughed. "On the contrary, Sherryl was the only human child of Martin! The only living vampire that was born from a biological mother!"

Madros stood up and his fist clenched tight. "I would complete the vampire's wedding ceremony and take her powers for myself! Only then, I would be the first vampire to walk under the sun!"

"Why now?" Zhang Yang interjected quickly.

Madros smiled. "Why? Because after defeating Drauders Martin for the past 16 years, only now have I known about the existence of Sheryl! I was completely oblivious to the fact that he had a daughter! A human daughter! I had sent my minions to fetch her for me, but little did I know that she had put up a fight. I had to take her for myself!"

Zhang Yang frowned. Only now, did he know about Sherryl? It was all crap talk. Sherryl would have lived and died of old age if Zhang Yang had not stumble her in the first place!

Still, he was worried about the quest. "You seek to kill Sherryl?"

"As long as I could obtain the power to walk under the sun, the minions that I would create would have no need to cower in the dark! They can march with me, under the sun, boldly and proudly!" said Madros with a smirk. "For the glory of the vampire clan, I'm sure Sherryl would be delighted to offer her life!"

"Delighted? I wouldn't be too sure about that." Zhang Yang had already had the Mythical Turtle on standby. Even though the boss could not attack nor be attacked, Zhang Yang was free to conduct any action! He then leaped as far as he could towards Sherryl!

"Stay away!" Madros slightly raised his voice and created a violent wind that slit Zhang Yang's back.

'-11,623!'

Zhang Yang immediately received a strong damage. The boss' name tag was no longer green. After attacking, he had become an enemy. Zhang Yang turned around and grinned. With quick reflex, Zhang Yang threw a {Spear of Obliteration} to him.

"You dare!? Insects! Vermin!" cried Madros. He then spread his giant black wings and shot towards Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang hurriedly withdrew back and kited the boss a little further so that the turtle could attack!

"I was hoping that I could treat you as a guest, but since you refuse to behave, I'll have you removed from this world!" Madros landed, cracking the tiles beneath him, and immediately slashed at Zhang Yang with a sword drawing technique.

Kang!

Zhang Yang raised his shield in time. There was a loud metal clashing sound, followed with one straight, glowing scratch on his shield. No bosses had ever done something like that to him before!

"Or perhaps, I should do something with you instead of ending your life. Maybe, a blood sacrifice as a wedding gift! That would be marvelous!' Madros wielded his blade in an odd manner. Instead of slicing, Madros had struck Zhang Yang in the same manner of hammering instead. Even though the weapon handling was wrong, Zhang Yang was sent back a few meters, even though he had blocked the strike with his shield.

Both Zhang Yang and the Mythical Turtle started their attacks. After the Mythical Turtle had learned the skill {Spirit of the Flame}, each of his physical attacks had been turned into fire elements which would ignore the boss' defense value! Each of its attacks would be at the highest value, around 4,300! Paired with Zhang Yang's own 4,700 damage value, both of their attacks had reached almost 9,000!

"Hey, dummy? Should I summon my servant?" Han Ying Xue asked.

"No. Not yet!" said Zhang Yang immediately to stop her. "We do not know the boss might enter a berserk state at 10% HP. You can summon it after the boss has less than 20% HP!"

"Hmm. Ok…" Han Ying Xue nodded.

'19,123!'

While talking, Zhang Yang had taken another heavy blow which had taken away close to a quarter of his HP.

"Hey, dummy? Why is the boss so strong?" Han Ying Xue complained as she had to heal Zhang Yang immediately after the attack.

Zhang Yang dodged one incoming attack and opened the battle log. The damage was indeed oddly high for his level and tier. "I think it's the boss' sword effect. Something that says, "Light of the Blood Race". It has a chance of triggering 150% damage!"

Again, Han Ying Xue nodded obediently and healed Zhang Yang. While they were fighting and healing busily, Han Ying Xue suddenly popped up another question. "Hey, dummy? If I were to be lost in the woods someday, what would you do?'

"…Why the f*ck would you go to the woods? You know that you're a directional idiot!"

Han Ying Xue frowned and gritted her teeth. "I did say IF! What IF! Stupid! Now answer the question!"

"Sigh…First, I would call the police, and have a nice big meal after that."

"What?! I get the police part, but why a meal?"

"After eating, I would be ready to search for your sorry *ss in the woods for a long time!"

Han Ying Xue smiled happily. "Well…at least you know what you're doing."

"Vile vermins! Surrender to the power of the darkness!" Madros bellowed and pointed one of his boney fingers at Han Ying Xue. "Bind!"

"Crap! Dummy! I can't move!" Han Ying Xue cried.

"How long!?"

"30 seconds!"

"DAMMIT!" Zhang Yang shouted with much frustration. Without her, Zhang Yang would have to fight the boss on his own for 30 seconds!

"HEHEHEHE! Let's play, vermin!" This time, Madros used his saber as a saber should be used, and sliced Zhang Yang at such a high speed. Without Han Ying Xue healing him, Zhang Yang had suffered great damage and was in danger! The main headache for Zhang Yang was the sword's special skill! It seemed to have a high proc rate! On average, every 10th strike would trigger the high damage attack. To make things worse, it was by chance. It would occasionally trigger the burst damage twice in a row! When that occurs, Zhang Yang would lose 50% of his HP!

If Zhang Yang had not had such a large HP pool, in this case, any other tank would have been dead when the sword's skill, "Light of the Blood Race" procced twice in a row.

To survive the entire ordeal, Zhang Yang had used {Berserker's Heal}, a bottle of {Blood Potion}, and {Shield Wall}.

"Dummy, I think that you're the only person in the entire game that could endure the boss for 30 seconds without a healer! If some other tank were to switch places with you, I think they would have already died in the first half of the battle!" said Han Ying Xue as she sighed heavily.

"Well, of course!"

"…Please. Don't let it get over your head."

Zhang Yang laughed and continued laying more devastating attacks on the boss. Even though the boss' attacks were strong, Zhang Yang had not been slacking off. With the turtle attacking together, both of them had taken around 17 minutes to would the boss until he was left with only 52% of his HP.

50%...

"Ah…" A screamed was heard. Zhang Yang turned and saw that Sherryl had woke up. What an inappropriate timing to suddenly interfere with the battle!

"Wonderful! You have awakened, my bride to be!" With speed, Madros sheathed his sabre and flew towards Sherrly.

"Stay away from me, demon!" Sherryl, despite being bound in an elegant dress, did an acrobatic jump and dodged Madros.

"Do not be bashful, my bride. Be good, and complete the final ceremony! We shall re-create a bright future for the vampire clan!" Madros reached out his arms to grabbed Sherryl, but was immediately stopped with an attack in the air. The boss puffed with anger and turned to glare at Zhang Yang who had just thrown a {Spear of Obliteration}.

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Chapter 402: Lost Love

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Zhang Yang laughed manically and bellowed. "Old man vampire! If you want to marry my woman, you would have to go through me first!"

"*ahem*" Han Ying Xue coughed a little and glared at him.

What a woman! She would even be jealous of a fictional character!

Zhang Yang's attempt to piss off Madros was a huge success when he snarled and bared his fangs at Zhang Yang. Madros flew away from Sherryl and approached Zhang Yang with a strong killing intent that would scare off any weak-willed fighter. "You're nothing, but a being that triumphs over the apes in the forests. Don't get cocky, boy! Your species are but food for the vampire clan! You'd dare raise your voice in the presence of the King of Vampire? You dare to threaten me?! You dare take away my wife-to-be!? When I'm done with you, you'll pray that death would be the only thing you know!" Madros raised a hand at Zhang Yang and snapped his fingers. A shot of compressed air burst out and tore through the air at a speed faster than sound. That was the same skill that Madros had used to attack Zhang Yang in the beginning.

The skill was something like Zhang Yang's {Spear of Obliteration}, a type of range skill which required a fix distance from the target, before activation. If not, the boss would have continued using it from the beginning till the end. The attack was fast and quick, not to mention, the color of air itself. There was no way Zhang Yang could have dodged the attack. Within a fraction of a second, after Madros had snapped his fingers, Zhang Yang took a huge damage.

Sherryl took the opportunity to run away from the table and to Zhang Yang's side.

"Warrior! You must not let Madros get to me!" said Sherryl with a determined expression. "In the worst-case scenario, I want you to kill me! If the vampire gains the power to walk under the sun, all of the humans in the world will perish!"

Zhang Yang went silent for a good 30 seconds before speaking. "You…knew about your heritage?"

Sherryl nodded her head lightly and hummed without saying anything else. There was a glint of sadness in her eyes that Zhang Yang did not miss. Zhang Yang would have praised her if the character was a real person and the situation she was in was real. The shock of realizing that the people you have been living with for 16 years were not your real parents would have shaken anyone psychologically. The girl was brave.

Zhang Yang sheathed his sword and grabbed Sherryl with his right hand. With the shield in his left arm raised up, Zhang Yang pushed Sherryl behind him and said, "Relax, I've seen the future. You would live and have grandchildren singing your birthday song when you're 80! The only person who is going to die tonight is Madros!"

"Insect!" Madros brandished his saber. His eyes glowed with an intense crimson red of rage and bellowed. "Return my rightful bride to me!"

"Screw you. Old pervert!" Zhang Yang jabbed.

"So be it. Death shall be of you!" Madros walked, instead of dashing towards Zhang Yang, and he understood why. There was a visible aura emitted around him. Something about it spelled incredible trouble for Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue.

'Ding! Madros has gained the effect {Lost Love}. Madros has gained a 10% increase in attack power! For every minute Sherryl refuses to go back to his side, Madros will continue to gain 10% attack power every minute!'

That was not something Zhang Yang could take lightly. An attack buff on a boss is something Zhang Yang hated the most in a boss fight. Madros had a strong basic attack. The stronger he becomes, the weaker Zhang Yang would be. His Defense value, damage absorption and damage reduction would be rendered useless if the battle is dragged on.

Shing! Crack!

Madros had only taken out his saber and swung his blade to the ground. It seemed effortless and harmless on sight, but the sheer power he held created a clean cut in the earth they stood on. It was as if someone had just run a huge cutter through the floor! Furthermore, his powers were clearly shown with each step he took. Gravel and pebbles floated, resonating with his aura and breaking into fine dust after he walked past them.

With nowhere to run from, Zhang Yang braced for the worse. Madros swung his sword hard and had even proc the sword's {Light of the Blood Race}. With lightning speed reflex, Zhang Yang blocked the sword's attack, sparing himself from taking the hit. "Ayy! Snowy, summon your servant now! The boss still has over 50% HP and he has already gone berserk!"

Han Ying Xue nodded her head and summoned the servant [Money-Greed Florick] out. A sly old man appeared in the field and proceeded to sneak behind the boss. With a quick hand movement, there was a bag which seemed to be a money bag appearing in his hands. It was Florick's {Stealing} skill.

"Bring it!" Han Ying Xue summoned her servant back to her and reached her hand out, demanding the booty that he had just stolen. With a saddened face, as if Florick's mother had just passed away, the servant lowered his head and surrendered the bag to Han Yang Xue.

Zhang Yang laughed and asked, "How much did he steal?"

"Sigh…Hard to tell, the chance of failing the steal is rather high, you know?" said Han Ying Xue with a heavy sigh.

From back when Zhang Yang had known Han Ying Xue, he had already guessed that she was a money hoarder. When it comes to money, she would bend over backward just to make sure no one would get their hands on her money. There were times that when he had not noticed, the woman would do some sleight of hand! That probably was happening now. Zhang Yang was at a loss of words and merely laughed at her comment.

With his own sleight of hand, Zhang Yang summoned his own servant, the gigantic, Decepticon transformer, Devastator!

As its name implies, the servant was even bigger than the building there were in! Right at the second it appeared on the battlefield, the servant had already demolished the entire ceiling. Half of its body was outside the room as it used its bulldozer parts to completely trash the entire roof, making room for itself to move around and maneuver freely.

"What are you doing!?" Madros was furious, and he had every right to be. The room was built as the most sacred ceremonial station, but it was wrecked into pieces by some person who had completely ruined his plans! Enraged, the vampire had no need to rush to the massive, over-sized servant and delivered a god-like blow to it, dealing 17,234 damage to Devastator.

Zhang Yang commanded the machine to attack Madros as soon as it could get free of the building's top. Even though the Devastator was powerful, it was merely similar to a player at the same level with a full Yellow-Gold equipment set. Its HP was merely a thin sheet of paper, ready to be pulverized by the boss!

Once Devastator had made a hole big enough for it to move around freely, it then clenched its fist together and clobbered Madros! While taking the attack, Zhang Yang, the Mythical Turtle, and Florick had surrounded Madros and launched their attacks at the same time.

Since the boss would gain 10% attack bonus every minute, Zhang Yang could not spare any second to waste! He had to make sure that the attack DPS would be at its maximum if he wants to survive and win this fight. Luckily, the servants that were summoned had 5 minutes active time before they disappear. At least, within the 5 minutes duration, Zhang Yang felt confident that they would have time to defeat the boss before he defeats them.

"Demon! I will kill you myself!" cried Sherryl as she slid out her silver dagger and joined the battle.

'-10,000!'

Zhang Yang was puzzled. The dagger in her hands no longer had the ability to deal 100,000 damage. However, it was obvious that the dagger could be used for more than three uses as long as it was in Sherryl's hands. Each slice would deal strong, consistent damage which had made the boss lose his elegance as his HP dropped.

"Bind!" screamed Madros. He was already fighting for his life before this, and when Sherryl joined the fight, it made it worse. Sherrly was obviously an important person for him and he had to somehow keep her alive, but at the same time, he could not afford to ignore her attacks. In a desperate situation, he had used "Bind", and immobilized her for 30 seconds.

46%, 38%, 30%...

Though the Violet-Platinum boss had a long HP gauge, under the focused fire of everyone, he would still be receiving a great deal of damage. The problem started to form when the {Spirit of the Flame} on the Mythical Turtle had ended after its 10 minutes active duration. It was when the boss was only left with 27%. With the turtle's magical attack capabilities removed, the overall DPS had dropped significantly.

By the time the boss had less than 7% HP left, both Devastator and Florick had disappeared. Zhang Yang and the Mythical Turtle were the only attackers left in the field.

5%...

"Death…is…not possible! I'm immortal! I AM IMMORTAL!" Madros had suddenly gone mad. With a sudden flash, his entire character had turned into countless of actual bats which flocked and attached themselves to Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang was suddenly rendered immobile by the bats. Even his vision was covered by the hairy mammals! All he could feel then was a prickly sensation that had penetrated his metal armor and his skin. Besides that, there was a strong urge to just fall to the ground and sleep.

'Ding! You have received the effect: {Bat's Attack}! Fatigue will overwhelm you! Lasts for 10 seconds!'

Screw that! {Warrior's Will}!

Zhang Yang immediately regained his senses and vigor. However, he was still being covered by bats! The skill was still ongoing! Obviously, the boss' skill had two effects. One was to immobilize the target, and the other was to heal himself!

Right then, Zhang Yang had just removed the immobility on him, but the boss was still recovering himself nonetheless.

"Dummy! That's actually quite gross! Are you actually enjoying that? I thought you have already used {Warrior's Will} to dispel the skill!"

"You think I enjoy this?!" Zhang Yang was too busy to think of a smarter jab that that. He quickly activated the skill {Heart of the Death Knight} and gained 10 seconds Invincibility. If he had known earlier, he would have just used the accessory instead of his skill! A complete waste of an OP skill!

The bat was instantly repelled off his character and reformed back into Madros himself. The boss had already recovered 17% HP!

'Ding! Madros has gained {Lost Love} (Stack 7). Gained 170% attack bonus!'

Wham!

With more than 1,500,000 HP still on the boss, it was proving to be an impossible fight! A 170% attack bonus, Violet-Platinum tier boss was not something Zhang Yang could take a hit from!

Even though Zhang Yang still had the {Dance of Heaven and Earth}, and the {Chaotic Dance of Electric Current}, accounting the {Dance of Heaven and Earth} on Han Ying Xue, they would only deal 300,000 damage! There's still the problem of 1,200,000 HP!

'-22,218!'

Zhang Yang's quickly took a strong blow from the boss the second when the Invincibility effect on Zhang Yang had worn off.

"Quickly, think of something, dummy! If this goes on, we cannot defeat him!" said Han Ying Xue as she started to panic. The boss' current attack power had already exceeded her healing capabilities.

Zhang Yang had used {Rearm} to reset all his skills. While consuming potions, using skills, his eyes were constantly scanning the field to search for a viable location to have the battle. The problem was, the entire field was flat! There were no walls, no pillars, no desks nor wardrobes for him to cower behind, for even a second!

"Hahahah! Vile vermins! Give your blood up to me!" Madros laughed sinisterly and thrust his saber at Zhang Yang.

"You would have to go through me first!" Sherryl screamed. Her character suddenly appeared in front of Zhang Yang, protecting him by becoming his meat shield.

"Curses!" Madros cried. Before the final ceremony was completed, Sherry must not die! Without her, he could never gain the power to walk under the sun! With great force, Madros pulled his saber back and stopped his movement by extending his wings. With a strong push, Madros had flown into the ceiling and had tried to attack Zhang Yang from another angle.

With the sudden interruption, Han Ying Xue was able to finish her chanting, just in the nick of time to heal Zhang Yang. Madros shot down from the sky and tried to slice Zhang Yang head. This time, the rage in him was so great that it created a pressure that could be felt from a distance.

However, all was well. Zhang Yang laughed. Sherryl had not bought time for Han Ying Xue, but had also allowed Zhang Yang's {Block} to finish its cooldown, just in time.

He waited for Madros to reach him and blocked his attack with his shield.

Sparks burst and filled the environment around Zhang Yang and Madros, announcing the successful blocking of Madros' attack.

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Chapter 403: Reborn Anew

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Sherryl had jumped and shielded Zhang Yang for a second time. Having to pull back at the last minute again, Madros had finally given up trying to maintain his composure. Madros had been screaming in an incomprehensible language ever since Sherryl and stepped into the field and had blocked Madros' attack for the second time.

Because of Sherryl, Zhang Yang was able to endure longer and had successfully hack away freely. It was only a matter of time before the boss was truly defeated.

"Traitor! Since you wish to die that badly, I shall grant your wish then!" Madros bellowed. He thrust his saber towards Zhang Yang and did not show any signs of stopping even when Sherryl was protecting Zhang Yang. The blade pierced through the air, giving out a whistle like sound as it plunged into Sherryl's abdomen. Madros had finally resort to this mean for if he had not, not only he would be losing Sherryl's ability to walk under the sun, he would be defeated by Zhang Yang!

'-33,300!'

Sherryl took a massive damage and had lost more than half of her original HP.

"That's enough!" Zhang Yang screamed and pushed Sherryl away. "I can't ask you do shield me anymore. You have done your part, it's time for me to do mine."

With 6% left, the boss had still over 549,000 HP.

"Snowy! Take a bottle of Power Potion. Time for us the use {Dance of Heaven and Earth}." Zhang Yang screamed.

"Got it!"

Both of them immediately consumed a bottle of [Grade 10 Transmutation Beginner Power Potion] and gained 40% increase in attack power.

"Here goes nothing!"

{Dance of Heaven and Earth}!

{Dance of Heaven and Earth}!

{Chaotic Dance of Electric Current}!

Two skills and one [Ring of Beastman's Ancestor] was unleashed. A great display of power was unleashed and depleted the boss HP down like an open hydrant. After merely 10 seconds, the boss was left with over 30,000 HP. His face and appearance had drastically changed to become extremely battered. His bat wings were broken had half and could no longer flap. All it could do was hanged limply behind the back of the boss.

Madros falls down at such speed and crashed into the ground. Madros got up to his feet, holding himself up with just a little bit of strength left. Before he knew it, Zhang Yang witness the boss turned tails and ran away!"

"You can't escape!" Sherryl jumped to her feet and threw the dagger towards the boss.

'-10,000!'

Although the strike had done the same damage from before, it was proven to be lethal only now. With only 20,000 HP or less, Madros ran faster. Pride and honor had nothing to do for him then.

He was running away like a beaten dog!

Without wasting any second, Zhang Yang gave chase and threw a {Spear of Obliteration}, dealing around 4,000 damage to the boss. The boss responded with a loud growl of pain but kept his distance away from Zhang Yang. No matter how, the distance between them will always maintain at 20 meters.

"Curses!" Madros growled again. Knowing that he was being beaten down like a wild dog, and was chased by none other than his lowly attacker, Madros' pride of being the king of vampire was at stakes. Luckily, being a vampire grants him a superhuman regeneration ability. With limited time, his wound would have already closed and the wings behind his back had already reattached properly.

"Warrior! You must not let him escape!" Sherrly was chasing with all her might cried loudly behind Zhang Yang.

"Trust me!"

'-3,982!'

Zhang Yang tossed another {Spear of Obliteration}, dealing another clean attack on the wounds that had just closed up. The wings on his back were clearly ready to fly when Zhang Yang's attack had crippled him again.

"ARGH! If I die, I'd be dragging you down with me!" Madros turned around when he knows that escape was not an option for him any longer. He unsheathed his sword and begun to charge at Zhang Yang on foot.

"Hmph! I'm too early for hell!" Zhang Yang scoffed and activated {Killing Cleave}.

Wham! -16,724! A critical strike!

"Ack! ARGH! Ahhh!" Madros falls to the floor with his chest up. A scorched mark appeared on his chest, which slowly expands and turned into burning amber. The glowing amber spread all over his character and killed the vampire, turning him into a pile of ash with a few bones remaining.

Sherryl sighed in relief and pants. "The wretched vampire king finally dies!"

Zhang Yang nodded. "Looks like eternal peace is finally at hand!"

'Ding! You have completed the quest: Rescue Sherryl. Obtained 5,000,000 Experience Points. Time Taken: 2 hours 11 minutes. Quest Score: Perfect!'

Sherryl walked over to the boss' ash remains and picked up a small, black shard. It was a sharp object which was probably one of the bones that had not disintegrated. She removed part of her wedding dress and revealed her entire left shoulders. She took a deep breath and stabbed the shard into her heart.

"Owph!" She groaned as the fresh river of blood started to flow out of her chest.

"What are you doing!?" Zhang Yang screamed.

With a pale face, Sherryl called for Zhang Yang to come closer. "I have the blood of the vampire in my veins. This piece of bone that belonged to the vampire king should remove them from me. I can finally be human! A pure human!"

The blood flows out of her chest which part of them had dyed her white wedding dress with the red color of blood. The black shard had absorbed the blood and started to glow in a red hue. There was a silver thread that had swirled magically in the bones.

After some time, Sherryl had pulled the shard out of her chest and gave it to Zhang Yang. "Warrior, I shall entrust you with this Vampire's King Bone Shard."

'Ding! You have obtained the first piece of Inheritance Fragment!'

At the moment Zhang Yang had picked the bone out of Sherryl's bloodied hands, he received the system notification instantly.

"Warrior. I must return to town now and inform every one of the good news! I trust that after you had finished with your business here, you'll come to town and pay me a visit! I'm sure that everyone in town would like to thank you for everything that you had done!" Sherryl helped herself up to her feet. She bowed weakly and walked away.

[Vampire Inheritance Fragment (1)] (Inheritance Tier: B)

Description: Gather all six pieces of Vampire Inheritance Fragment and complete the Vampire Inheritance Keepsake. Activate the Keepsake to initiate the final Inheritance quest. Complete the quest to obtain the Vampire Inheritance. Apart from the class skill, you will also obtain the special Vampire original skills. Be advised, all Vampire Inheritance Fragment will resonate with each other. If you were killed by other players that possess the Vampire Inheritance Fragment, the Fragment in your inventory will drop. All Fragments can only be carried in a player's inventory and cannot be stored.

Finally!

Han Ying Xue took her time to pick up all the money on the ground before heading over to Zhang Yang to see the fragment. After reading it, Han Ying Xue asked, "So, what are you going to do with it?"

"Hm…I think I'm going to give it to Yan Er. The Vampire Inheritance is a good way to heal oneself. It's really useful for the little brat which could solve her survivability."

"But it's just a B tier!"

"So? B is good enough!" said Zhang Yang with a stern expression. "The best S tier Inheritance for every class is limited to only one. That's 6 classes. Which means there are only 6 players in the entire region of China could have the S tier players. Beneath that would be the A tier Inheritance. Now, A tier Inheritance is not a Unique type, it is a General type which means everyone could get their hands on it. However, keep in mind that an A tier Inheritance is extremely tough. Just like the S tier Inheritance, A tier is so difficult to farm that it is considered to be a super-ultra hidden quest! It's close to impossible to even trigger the starting point!"

Zhang Yang was speaking the truth, the total players that had S tier and A tier Inheritance were only 17 players! The scarce number of players that had inherited the S and A tier Inheritance had proven that it was extremely difficult to complete. Luckily for Zhang Yang, the person who had obtained the Inheritance "God of War" was too show-body about it, that he had posted the steps to the last details in the forums. As for the rest of the 16 players, there were completely silent about it.

That being said, if someone had already triggered the quest to obtain the Inheritance Fragment, no one could repeat the same quest again. That means that no one could trigger the Sherryl route anymore!

"You know what? I'm too lazy to argue with you. That's stuff for when we reached Level 100." Said Han Ying Xue lazily as she returned the Fragment back to Zhang Yang. In turn, however, she quickly paced towards the pile of battle loots and started to pick them up.

"Haha!" She laughed abruptly. She turned to Zhang Yang and showed him a pair of Violet-Platinum boots. "Dummy, I guess you owe me another red packet! Guess what have I found?"

"Is it the Titan Boots?" Zhang Yang was excited.

"That's right! Am I lucky or what?'

"Lucky! The queen of luck!"

Han Ying Xue grinned happily and pass the boots to Zhang Yang.

[Titan Battle Boots] (Violet-Platinum, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 80

Vitality: 282

Strength: 81

Dexterity: 40

Equip Effect: Absorb 162 damage on attack.

Class Requirement: Guardian

Level Requirement: 80

With the boots in hand, Zhang Yang would need one last piece of Titan's equipment to unlock the full set equipment set effect!

Han Ying Xue continued to reveal more battle loots. She started to sulk disgruntledly when there was no more equipment left. Madros had only dropped three Violet-Platinum equipment. Besides the boots, there were two other Cloth Armor class equipment which was a glove and a magic staff.

Han Ying Xue had already a Violet-Platinum magic staff in hand and she took the glove with a grin. The magic staff will be given to either Daffodil Daydream or Fantasy Sweetheart.

After a while, she pulled out another item. It was a skill book called {Reborn Anew}.

[Skill Book: Reborn Anew]

Use: Teaches the skill {Reborn Anew}

Class Requirement: Priest, Sacred Knight

Level Requirement: 80

"Hey, dummy? What is this skill called {Reborn Anew}? Is it the same as {Redemption}?" Han Ying Xue asked. {Redemption} was the skill that Han Ying Xue used to revive players after the boss fight. The new skill {Reborn Anew} sounds about the same as {Redemption}. She had guessed it since the skill class requirement was a Priest or a Sacred Knight.

Zhang Yang was stunned. With wide opened eyes, he cried out, "You say {Reborn Anew}?"

"Yeah. What about it?" She asked.

"Well, we had just hit the jackpot again!" Zhang Yang smiled from ear to ear. "Well? What are you waiting for? Learn it!"

Han Ying Xue pouted and learned the skill. However, her cocky expression immediately faded away when she read the skill description.

[Reborn Anew] (Level 1): Cast the skill on a player. For 1 hour, the player will be revived on the same spot with full HP on death. Players that revive with this skill shall not receive any experience death penalty.

Cool Down Time: 1 Hour.

"D-D-Dummy…This is…too OP!" cried Han Ying Xue with hoy. She was so happy that she leaped towards Zhang Yang and planted her lips on his.

"Bleh!" Zhang Yang pushed her away. "You sow! Watch it! You got your saliva all over my face!"

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Chapter 404: Collecting Skeleton Bones

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Han Ying Xue quickly activated a {Rise Anew} on Zhang Yang.

The effect of the skill is very grand and pretty to see. A stream of white light blanketed over Zhang Yang, while tiny sized angels, looking a little like cupids, appeared dazzlingly all around Zhang Yang, singing and dancing for 10 seconds long before everything vanished.

"This skill can be upgraded, and I'm guessing it either increases the duration or decreases the cooldown time period!" Han Ying Xue felt very satisfied with the skill.

"Yes, after you upgrade it up to Level 10, it should give you a 30 minute cooldown time period, and the duration will most probably stay at 1 hour!" Zhang Yang nodded and said.

"So if you no longer need me here, I better get back to Wei Yan Er. I've kept her waiting for long enough, she might get mad and go hulk on me!" Han Ying Xue asked for a [Teleportation Scroll] from Zhang Yang, because saving up whenever it's possible was the one rule that she would never break!

However, after taking over the scroll, she did not use it, instead, she went out of the place and summoned her [Crimson Flaming Horse]. Zhang Yang was confused, as she smiled and told him, "I forgot, Wei Yan Er is still on this map somewhere. If I use the scroll to travel back first before looking for her, I'll be traveling even further!"

Zhang Yang frowned with sweat all over his head and said, "You took one of my [Teleportation Scrolls]!"

"Don't be stingy, just treat this as the payment for my hard work!"

After Han Ying Xue left, Zhang Yang went back to Silent Hail Town to make sure that Sherryl was safe. When he arrived at the town, the people of the town were celebrating, singing songs and dancing over the news brought back by Sherryl, for the entire vampire race had been eliminated.

The moment he stepped into the sight of the people, they welcomed him with cheers and passionate hugs. Then, they lifted him up and threw him into the air repeatedly, bringing him into the middle of the celebration.

After celebrating with them, Zhang Yang tore a [Teleportation Scroll] and went straight back to Thunderstorm Castle. After settling some unimportant stuff, he went straight to the White Jade Castle to identify the [Titan Battle Boots]. After inserting the [Gemstones] into the empty sockets, his health points had finally exceeded 80,000, reaching up to 81,870 in total!

As for the [Fragment of Vampiric Inheritance] he just acquired, this item could only be equipped, so Zhang Yang could not just throw it into the guild's warehouse or the bank. And he can just give it to anyone on his party who wants it later on. Everyone has only one chance of obtaining one inheritance, that is why everyone will definitely be focusing on getting S-Rank or at least A-rank Inheritances. Players that only seek for the highest attainments are considered to be single-minded, and they will not turn around before they bang into walls. Since that most of his party members will not look back at those Inheritances that are lower than A-rank, this piece of [Fragment of Vampiric Inheritance] will most probably be staying in Zhang Yang 's backpack for a while.

Zhang Yang had only managed to rest for a few seconds before he received Wei Yan Er's invitation to join her party. Her voice was loud and clear, "Noob tank! Come help me tank against some monsters!"

"Hmm, so you and Han Ying Xue can't take care of them?"

"If they are just normal monsters, we wouldn't need to contact and ask for your help right? These are all elite monsters! Attacking one drew another four or five of them in! Even cousin snow cannot heal me up for much longer! Come quickly!" Wei Yan Er was breathing heavily.

"Fine! Fine! I'm on my way already!" Zhang Yang equipped the [Lover's Charm: Yang] and activated its teleportation function.

Shoof!

A white light flashed before his eyes and Zhang Yang was teleported to the middle of a dark and lifeless canyon. All he could see were countless skeleton monsters lurking around in the surroundings. Whether these low-grade undead monsters were low or high in levels, they lacked intelligence. So they are only capable of wandering around without any sense or purposes.

[Black-Rock Skeleton Soldier] (Elite, Undead)

Level: 85

HP: 85,000

Defense: 450

"So, you girls are required to defeat these skeleton soldiers?" Zhang Yang switched his [Lover's Charm] away and turned towards the two ladies.

"Yes, the quest requires us to collect 100 Skeleton Bones!" Wei Yan Er replied.

Zhang Yang was curious, "Which NPC has such heavy taste, asking two pretty ladies to collect bones!"

"A weird old man, living in a cottage, made of twitch-grasses, over that direction!" Han Ying Xue said, "The reward for completing this quest is great! Players can get 5,000,000 experience points, 200 gold pieces, and one piece of Gray-Silver equipment!"

Zhang Yang smiled and said, "You should mention the 200 gold pieces first! Haha!"

He brought up the world map and looked at it. So this place is called Black-Rock Canyon. It was a desolate location among a bunch of high mountains. Zhang Yang could not help but to frown with sweat all over his head, "So let me guess, it must be a person with no sense of direction who wandered around until she stumbled upon this NPC."

"Hahahaha!" Wei Yan Er began to laugh, and she was laughing without any sense of remorse!

Han Ying Xue attempted to share the quest with Wei Yan Er so that they can do the quest together. She thought that it might not be possible, but it turned out to be the opposite!

[Collecting Skeleton Bone] (Difficulty: C)

Description: Grave Keeper - Kyle Dylan wants you to collect 100 Skeleton Bones to prove that you have the courage and strength to battle against the monsters. Any player on the same party who manages to collect 100 Skeleton Bones will complete the quest for the rest of the party members.

Completion: Collect Skeleton Bones 0/100

Reward: Experience Points 5,000,000, Gold 200, Skeleton Ring

So this is the ring that Han Ying Xue was talking about, the Skeleton Ring, a Gray-Silver grade ring. Although it is not appealing to the three of them at all, rings are hard to come by in the game, so even if it's just gray-silver grade, it would still be very popular among normal players.

Zhang Yang raised up his sword and shield and aimed a {Spear of Obliteration} at one of the Black-Rock Skeleton Soldiers. He launched it flawlessly at the monster.

"Rawgh!"

The skeleton soldier let out a roar and charged towards Zhang Yang and the two ladies. As it was charging at them, 4 other skeleton soldiers were attracted due to the chained aggro system in the game, and all of them followed and charged towards Zhang Yang and the two ladies as well!

When 5 elite monsters attack together, their combined damage output gets really high. No wonder little girl couldn't hold her ground against them all at the same time.

Zhang Yang activated {Blood Rage} and boosted his rage points up to 30 points. Standing his ground until the monsters entered his attack range of the {Charge}, he swayed his body and ran forward.

With one swing from the [Sword of Purging Devourer] on his hands, the monster right before him was inflicted with a damage value of '-3,980', and his rage gauge was increased by 37 points.

{Horizontal Sweep}!

That sweep had inflicted all 5 monsters with approximately 7,000 to 8,000 damage. But, the special effect of the [Sword of Purging Devourer] did not trigger.

"Owh!" the monsters were roaring with rage, and they attempted to reach out with their large skeletal hands.

'-474!'

'-492!'

'-456!'

'-489!'

'-477!'

All of the damage they delivered upon Zhang Yang did not exceed 500.

Wei Yan Er was stunned by what he just witnessed, "These stinky monsters can damage me by 5,000 with every single hit! They're not even getting past 500 on yours! It's just not fair!"

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "It's pointless to cry, even when your life is miserable! Hahaha!" He wielded his sword, as if he was dancing around in style, while unleashing the damage of his {Blast Wave} upon the monsters, inflicting each of them with a damage of '-1,088', and at the same time, stunned all five of them for 4 seconds.

The number of the monsters he engaged with was too small, so the special effect of his [Sword of Purging Devourer] was very hard to trigger, as there was only 2% rate that the special effect would trigger when hitting the monsters.

"Humph!" Wei Yan Er charged into the monsters to release her temper. With a powerful swing of her giant axe, she accumulated enough rage points and it was time to unleash her worst with her {Tornado Cleave}!

'-15732!'

'-15248!'

'-14873!'

'-15567!'

'-16212!'

As she inflicted those great number of damages to the monsters, the damages that Zhang Yang previously inflicted upon the 5 monsters appeared to be inferior, in comparison to Wei Yan Er's. In just an instant, 20% health points of the monsters were swiped away cleanly!

"Little girl, those are some nasty damage points over there!" Zhang Yang was admiring. If they talked about DPS, Zhang Yang would not lose too much to Wei Yan Er, but to compare their damage in one single hit, it would be unwise to compare the damage of a one-handed weapon with 2.8 seconds interval attack with a two-handed weapon with 3.8 seconds interval attack!

Wei Yan Er was laughing proudly. But, other than {Tornado Cleave}, she did not have other AOE skills, so she could only continue fighting the monsters with her {Destructive Smash}.

With Zhang Yang kiting the monsters, Han Ying Xue became much more relieved. All she had to do was to cast a {Regeneration} when either of the two needed it, and she would just yawn in boredom the rest of the time.

In less than a minute, the monsters had fallen to the two monster slayers. But no Skeleton Bones were dropped!

Zhang Yang could not help but ask, "What kind of quest is this? We did not get any of the quest item even after we defeated 5 elite monsters!"

"That's right! We have been here, slaying these monsters for half a day already. But we could only collect about 20 of the Skeleton Bones! So, take your own sweet time!"

Slaying monsters would still give players experience points.

So, after Zhang Yang got over his reluctance, he shot out another {Spear of Obliteration} at one of the skeleton soldiers, and drew the second wave towards them.

Cling clang cling clang! After a moment of slashing and chopping, the 4 Black-Rock Skeleton Soldiers were smashed into pieces of white bones, scattering all over the floor. Fortunate for them, this time, they had finally acquired one [Skeleton Bone] for their efforts.

"We have slain so many of these skeletons, what if a Skeleton King or something spawns out later on? Will it be pursuing us around the area?" Wei Yan Er smiled.

"... If it does, that thing will only attack you two, I won't aid you two in attack it, or do anything about it!" Han Ying Xue drew a line between her and the two of them quickly.

"Humph! Han Ying Xue! You're so unfaithful!" Wei Yan Er looked at her cousin sister with disdain.

"Oh, right! Didn't you both say that you would help me buy a new house? How's the progress now? I haven't heard any news from you yet!" Zhang Yang was kiting the monsters, while turning his head towards the two ladies, asking about it.

Han Ying Xue sighed and said, "Silly Yu, do you think it's really that easy to find a house in a place with good environment, good air, good neighbors, and good security?"

Zhang Yang frowned and said, "I just need a place to live, why are you guys making it into something very complicated and serious?"

"Noob tank! You're selfish!" Wei Yan Er began to blame Zhang Yang, "You only think for yourself, but not for others around you! I despise you!"

Zhang Yang was at the brink of puking blood, "I'm just a guy living alone! What's there around me? Or are you saying there are ghosts around me?"

"Wow, you really are one unbelievable boy, noob tank... So you are saying that my cousin and I are ghosts to you?" Wei Yan Er was enraged.

"... are you saying…that you two are moving in with me?! Are you?"

"That's for certain!" Wei Yan Er said it out like it's meant to happen. "Or else why would we put so much effort into helping you!"

Zhang Yang let out a sigh in surrender, "Oh please, you're the one, the two who wanted to help me search for my new house! Besides, if you two are coming along, why should I move out then?"

"Noob tank, you're the worst! Not going to cook for us, are you?" Wei Yan Er stared at Zhang Yang with hate, as though Zhang Yang had just committed an act that would put him on death row.

"Hmm, so now that he has a new love, he forgets the old ones already! You better watch yourself before I cut your 'brother' off!" Han Ying Xue was staring at the sacred part in between Zhang Yang's legs and made a threatening gesture with her hands.

Well, an ancient wise old man once said, only women and small-minded men are hard to please!

Zhang Yang could not win this battle against the two, and he lost. So he could only let go of his steam on the elite monsters that roamed around him, slashing and chopping without pausing!

Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er walked up together and posed their victory fingers at Zhang Yang.

The drop rate of the quest item was extremely low, but it was fortunate that any one of them who collects the quest item will raise the counters in all of their quest objectives. So, after one night of continuous farming, the three of them had finally collected 100 Skeleton Bones.

But before they could go and turn the quest in for the rewards, Zhang Yang had been forced by the two ladies to log out of the game and buy them some breakfast!

What a miserable life!

Zhang Yang changed into his sportswear and began his training in the morning. After a long jog around the neighborhood, he went on and bought the usual breakfast, fried dough, and soya bean. Then he went back to the house straight. By that time, the two ladies had left their beds, and were powdering their faces, making ready for their day with some make-up.

"What's all the make-up for? It's just a breakfast, in your own house! Don't you think it's a waste of time? A waste of your own life?" Zhang Yang laughed.

"Humph!" The two ladies snorted at Zhang Yang.

After finishing up with their breakfasts, Zhang Yang went on to the company as usual. As he was taking the elevator up to his office, he could feel that everyone was giving him a strange look, and all of them were showing weird expressions on their faces. He was not aware of it at first, but the moment he stepped into his office, his secretaries started laughing at him. That was the moment he knew that something was amiss.

"Mr. Zhang, who made fun of you?" one of the secretaries walked up to Zhang Yang and took down a paper that was pasted to his back. There was a Snoopy drawn on it, and a phrase 'I'm an idiot' written clearly right below the Snoopy.

"That brat!" Zhang Yang crunched his teeth tightly. No wonder she was so nice to him this morning, being so passionate and caring. All her gentle words that had warmed his heart in a cold morning like this. So, this was her plan all along this morning! He had actually felt touched by her!

After shutting the door of his office, Zhang Yang put on his game helmet and logged back into the game. Right after he spawned in the game, he saw that Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er were standing right beside him.

"Little brat!" Zhang Yang roared in anger.

"Hahaha!" Wei Yan Er could not hold it anymore and burst into laughter.

Later, the three of them went back to the Grave Keeper - Kyle Dylan to turn in the quest for their rewards, after going through hell. Following down a path of a small road, they arrived at the cottage made of twitch-grasses. A seemingly 60-year-old man was standing outside the cottage, with a cane in his hand. When he saw the three of them walking towards him, he revealed a hopeful expression on his face, "Adventurers, have you completed the quest?"

"Yes, my respected old man!" Wei Yan Er was the one in charge of handing over the quest items. The [Skeleton Bones] were all in her backpack. The little girl quickly took out all of the quest items and placed them nicely in front of the NPC.

"Not bad! Not bad at all! You have completed the quest, outstanding!" Kyle Dylan praised the three of them with his deepest sincerity.

'Ding! You have completed a quest: Collecting Skeleton Bones, acquired 5,000,000 experience points!'

'Ding! You have acquired 200 gold!'

'Ding! You have acquired an item: Skeleton Ring!'

This quest rewarded players with the most gold among all of the quests that anyone has ever come across. Zhang Yang could not help but to wonder, how could this old man, living in the middle of nowhere, be so rich!

"Adventurers, you have proven your courage and strength, and a heart of justice to battle against the darkness!" Kyle Dylan kept all the [Skeleton Bones, "Do you wish to continue to serve under the name of justice?"

"Yes, my respected old man!"

"Good, very good!" Kyle Dylan nodded and looked at the three of them, "This time, I need you to eliminate the Brainless Zombies in another area and bring back 50 [Tooth of a Zombie] as proof!"

'Ding! Kyle Dylan has given you a quest: Tooth of a Zombie, accept or decline?'

Accept.

After that, Zhang Yang and the two ladies summoned their [Mounts] and departed towards the direction of the quest area.

The quest area was just nearby. It only took them a brief moment to reach the location of that area. What they saw before them was a mass grave, with damaged gravestones all around the area. And there were countless zombies, rotten to the core, wandering around the area, without any sense of aim. And they would randomly moan, 'Ooo...'. It made the atmosphere of the place spooky and weird, it was uneasy for the living to stay there for long.

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Chapter 405: Zombie Dental Extraction

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[Brainless Zombie] (Elite, Undead)

Level: 86

HP: 86,000

Defense: 450

Although these Brainless Zombies were named 'Brainless', their brains were still very much intact. Only their flesh and bones were rotten to the core, with visible maggots creeping all around their flesh. It was disgusting as hell!

Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er had twitches on their faces, looking as if they had been hit in the balls the moment they saw the zombies.

"Why do I have a feeling that we're watching some zombie flicks?" Wei Yan Er complained.

Zhang Yang took up his shield and sword, and then he flung a {Spear of Obliteration} at one of the Brainless Zombies, as per his regular routine, to throw a {Spear of Obliteration} to attract monsters from afar to get everything under control so that monsters wouldn't swarm up on him.

"Owh!" The Brainless Zombie let out an outburst of angry moans and began to lumber towards the direction of Zhang Yang. While it was at it, pieces of rotten fleshes were falling from its body. Right behind that zombie, two other Brainless Zombies were attracted, as their aggro was affected as well. The two zombies joined the first zombie and charged towards the three of them.

The Brainless Zombies may have looked slow when they were wandering around, but once there's a target to pursue, an enemy presence within their aggro sighting, they would become vicious, and their movement speed would suddenly increase! They could move faster than a champion in a 100-meter run! Well, it made sense. If their movement speed wasn't fast, then they would definitely be kited around and tortured to death easily by spellcasters, hunters and other ranged professions. Then, it will become unfair to the melee professions in such regard.

Zhang Yang engaged the zombies with the first swing of his [Sword of Purging Devourer]. There and then, Zhang Yang had their aggros all set on him. Well, it's time to kite them!

"Stinky monsters, really! Why were you born so ugly! I don't mind ugly, but they scare people by rushing like creeps! And their numbers! Argh! Their numbers are really big!" Wei Yan Er used a {Charge} and rammed into the zombies, while she lost it and started complaining.

Zhang Yang laughed as he kited the monsters closely, swinging his [Sword of Purging Devourer]. Unfortunately, the number of the monsters were too little, so the special effect of the sword did not trigger, leading him to use his own skills to inflict heavy damage onto the monsters.

"Noob tank, will you pick my cousin over sister Sun?" Wei Yan Er suddenly turned her head around and asked Zhang Yang in a low voice while she was slicing up the monsters.

Zhang Yang frowned at the question and said, "Little girl, just focus on your studies and stop poking around in adult business!"

"Pui! You're just 5 years older than me, and you're already nagging like an old man!" Wei Yan Er let out a heavy sigh from her nose.

"Hey, what are you two babbling about!" Han Ying Xue grew curious, as she was a distance away from them, and could not hear what they were saying.

"Cousin is such a jealous girl! You don't even let your cousin talk to her future sister's husband-in-law! Sigh!" Wei Yan Er was shrugging on purpose, acting like she was helpless.

As Zhang Yang was fighting the monsters, he could not help but wonder, deep into his thoughts, like peeling his own layers of onions in.

Ever since Han Ying Xue revealed her love to him, he had not given her his true answer yet. He would only get through by joking or changing subjects. Because he wasn't sure yet, if he's just into her sexy hot body, or if he is really falling for this witchy snow. Not to mention that he still had Sun Xin Yu and Yu Li, clearly, he still had some attachment to them. No matter how hard he tried, he could not just forget about those two beautiful women.

It was fortunate enough that up until now, Han Ying Xue had not been forcing him to give her a clear answer yet. She was only teasing him out of habit. Recently, the weather was changing and the temperature began to rise back according to the season. This witchy snow had begun to show her super sexy hot body, only wearing a thin layer shirt in front of Zhang Yang. She was not worried at all, that Zhang Yang might just lose it and push her onto a surface, and finish her!

Zhang Yang had confronted her about it before in frustration, but this woman was really something! She actually said that things would eventually happen when one man stays with two pretty ladies, and so to prevent Zhang Yang from doing some 'animalistic' stuff on the little girl, she better sacrifice herself by luring him with her sexy body, to save that little girl from being 'eaten' by him! By then, she can also help Zhang Yang 'unleash' his evil thoughts.

For that, Zhang Yang would be left speechless and frowning.

Witchy Snow was being so ambiguous. So, does she like it or does she not?

Zhang Yang had this thought to himself as doing his job with slaying the monsters while maintaining his rhythm in battle. By only swinging his sword around and activating some of his skills, he slew the zombies one after another.

"Strange, these monsters are already rotten to the core, but they can drop items such as clothing? It's actually better for them to wrap themselves with the clothing, you know? So that they won't terrify other people to death!" Wei Yan Er spoke as she was picking up the loot dropped from the zombies.

"Why are you so talkative today, little girl? Haha! Well, this is just a game, if they made it too realistic, and you don't get a thing after you kill the monsters, and you would still be complaining as well, wouldn't you?" Zhang Yang teased her.

Wei Yan Er wrinkled her small little nose, "Sigh, I was just saying it for fun, why would you take it so seriously? What a stiff *ss!"

Speaking to this little girl required a certain level of a psychological constitution, or else, one might burst a vein in the brain by just speaking to her!

Zhang Yang laughed and ignored her for the moment, and then he turned his attention to luring the next wave of the zombies with his {Spear of Obliteration}.

The drop rate of [Tooth of a Zombie] was extremely low as well, maybe even lower than the drop rate of those [Skeleton Bones]! The three of them had already cleared through half of the area and they had only managed to collect approximately 30 of the quest items. It looks like they will need to clear the entire area to collect all 50 [Tooth of a Zombie]!

Boom!

Suddenly, the ground got broke through from beneath, and a gigantic rotten hand emerged from the ground, and slowly, the hand clenched into a gigantic fist. Another gigantic hand followed, emerging from the beneath the ground just like the first one, then the third, and the forth... until there were a total of 8 gigantic hands emerging from beneath the ground! Then, one ugly *ss motherf*cking monster emerged from the ground and stood right before Zhang Yang and the two ladies.

It was a super-sized zombie monster that was at least 10 meters tall. Well, this was something new! The wounds all around the giant monster were leaking out some sort of putrid pus, it was really disgusting! It had two wide and thick legs, thicker and larger than a leg of an elephant!

If the lower body was deemed to be just like an ordinary individual human, only a little "bigger", then the upper body was completely out of the conventions of a normal human! Eight arms! Anyone would get the idea!

Other than the two arms that were attached to its shoulders like a normal human, there was a second pair of arms attached to the ribs, and a third pair of arms attached to the abdomen, and last but not least, the fourth and final pair of arms attached right on the back of the gigantic zombie, like a pair of wings!

[Black-Rock Zombie Lord] (Yellow-Gold, Undead)

Level: 87

HP: 1,740,000

Defense: 1,500

The face of the boss was almost completely rotten already, only one-half of its face were the remnants of something that remotely resembled a human. There were also maggots wiggling around the holes on the face, the eye sockets, and the nostrils! It was too disgusting to even look at! Wei Yan Er and Han Ying Xue did not even dare to look straight at it!

"No matter how ugly the boss is, it still is a Yellow-Gold boss! So the items and equipment the boss would drop can be sold for gold!" Zhang Yang smiled.

The moment the zombie lord was 'activated', it looked around with its empty, hollow eye sockets to scan for targets. As soon as it detected the three of them, it locked it's target onto the three of them immediately, and began to charge towards them with large steps!

Zhang Yang shot out a {Spear of Obliteration} to get the boss's attention and drew it's aggro over to him.

"Rawgh!" the boss gave an outburst of raging roars, and it reached Zhang Yang with only two to three steps. The boss slammed Zhang Yang with its gigantic palm.

Zhang Yang raised up his shield and activated {Block}.

Boom!

The gigantic hand of the boss was reflected back, while Zhang Yang did not even move an inch from where he stood! He was currently equipped with almost a full set of Violet-Platinum [Armor Set, so his strength was already as powerful as a Yellow-Gold boss!

"Hehe!" Wei Yan Er recovered from the horror of that hideous visage and raised her axe. With her giant axe, she began to slash and hack, "This boss is even more 'capable' than Prince Nezha1! Even Shotalo only has six arms, while this boss has eight arms!"

Zhang Yang laughed out loud and said, "Then why didn't you mention that Nezha also has three brains!"

"It's pointless to have so many brains. One on the left and one on the right, and one in the middle, it would only mean war for the three brains!" Wei Yan Er curled up her lips.

Well, this girl's thoughts were really intriguing, so 'different' from regular people.

Zhang Yang purposely teased her, "Then, the centipede must be the greatest being in the entire world! You can't count how many hands it has, right?"

"Haha! Stop making a fool of me!" Wei Yan Er rolled her eyeballs at Zhang Yang and said, "Those are legs, not hands! You're dumb!"

Zhang Yang, "..."

"Rawgh! Rawgh! Rawgh!" The boss began to roar continuously. Although it had eight arms, all eight arms could not attack at the same time. There was a cool down period for each attack. After one slam, the boss had to wait for 2 full seconds before it could slam again. So basically, this boss is basically just like the Cyclop boss that they encountered before.

Shoof! A stream of red light suddenly surged throughout the body of the zombie lord.

"Argh! Why can't I move!" Wei Yan Er suddenly panicked and cried.

As Zhang Yang was smashing his sword onto the boss, he felt numbness across his entire body, and he too became frozen in motion! They were paralyzed!

[Paralytic Poison: Paralyze for 5 seconds. Players will not be able to move at all during this period of time.

Zhang Yang quickly activated his {Warrior's Will} and deactivated the {Paralytic Poison}. Then, he looked at the boss and realized that there was an additional beneficial effect on the boss: 30% chance of causing paralysis to the attacker when being hit, lasts for 2 minutes.

God damn it!

Although this did not pose much of a threat to Zhang Yang and the two ladies, it would greatly reduce the efficiency of their damage output, slowing down the process of the entire battle. They could have taken the boss down in one or two minutes, but now, it would require about three to four minutes to do so!

As Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er were mounted on their [Mount, so the moment they were 'poisoned', they could feel that their asses were numb even when they were trying to unmount! They were just like wooden sculptures, frozen the moment they were 'poisoned', and they remained in the same pose for the next 5 seconds.

Wei Yan Er had a low threshold when it comes to humor. The slightest feather would set her off. So, when she saw Zhang Yang trying to slash the boss, but got 'poisoned' because Whitey went on to bite the boss and triggered the effect, their movements stopped and Zhang Yang was stuck with a silly pose in mid-slash, with a facial expression that looked like he had been hit in the balls, the little girl laughed very hard.

Right after he was freed from the poison effect, Zhang Yang quickly dismounted from Whitey. He knew, because when he was mounted on Whitey, he was at the disadvantage, as the two of them hitting the boss would mean more attacks, which was likely to increase the chance of triggering the boss's skill. The rate of this passive skill triggering was just too high!

Wei Yan Er followed Zhang Yang's lead and dismounted from her Chocobo pet as well.

Because she was wielding a two-handed giant axe, she struck more sporadically than Zhang Yang, but her damage was sky high, so the rate of her triggering the poison skill would be much lower, compared to Zhang Yang.

Of course, one Yellow-Gold boss was like a free gift to Zhang Yang and the two ladies. They were now strong enough to take on higher grade bosses already! Although the Black-Rock Zombie Lord was giving them a hard time, it was more of an annoyance than anything else. About 3 minutes later, the zombie lord let out a loud roar and collapsed onto the ground, causing a tremor across the surroundings. Then, everything became quiet.

"Oh! Time to split the loots!" Wei Yan Er cheered and ran up to the loots.

The Black-Rock Zombie Lord dropped 3 Yellow-Gold equipment, and 7 other Gray-Silver equipment. And also, this was a boss after all, so it actually dropped a total of 3 [Tooth of a Zombie, giving a joyous surprise to Zhang Yang and the two ladies. It would have required them to slay at least twenty to thirty elite zombies just to acquire this number of [Tooth of a Zombie]!

After slaying the boss, they continued on to slay more zombie monsters. And about 3 hours later, they had cleared out most of the area, and finally, they had collected all 50 [Tooth of a Zombie]!

The three of them quickly rushed back to the old man by the cottage to turn in the quest for the rewards.

After going through some mountains and forests, they were finally back at the cottage. The old man, Kyle Dylan was there as always, waiting for their return with his eyes full of hope.

TL Notes:

1. Nezha - A deity in Journey to the west, a general that fought the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, when the latter rebelled against the Jade Emperor.

2. Shotalo - Believed to be one of the random anime character that Wei Yan Er watched and quoted.

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Chapter 406: Eliminating the Necromancer!

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Wei Yan Er placed all the [Tooth of a Zombie] onto the floor as if they were presenting treasures to him. "Respected Elder, take a look. We're good, aren't we? To be able to complete the quest in such short time! You must not be stingy, please give us more rewards!"

Oh my god, this little girl has been thinking all about the money and gold, she even tries to negotiate with an NPC!

Kyle Dylan smiled awkwardly, "Little girl, you are fighting in the name of justice, so it would be rude to judge your courage with gold pieces!"

"Don't you worry about it!" both of her eyes began to glitter as she spoke, "You can just throw tens of thousands of gold on me!"

Kyle Dylan burst into laughter, then he continued, "Little girl, you're funny! Alright, jokes aside. Adventurers, you have done it again, completing the quest perfectly!"

'Ding! You have completed a quest: Tooth of a Zombie, acquired 5,000,000 experience points!"

Wei Yan Er filled her eyes and cheeks with tears, staring at the NPC with a spiteful glare and having thoughts to herself in silent -- Did she really look like she was joking at all?

Kyle Dylan kept all the [Tooth of a Zombie] and turned to Zhang Yang and the ladies, "You have cleared out the nest of these skeleton soldiers and zombies, but there are still other undead creatures existing in this area! So, my young and brave adventurers, are you willing to carry on the will of justice and proceed with a new quest?"

"You stinky old man, you think can get us to work without paying me? No chance!" Wei Yan Er put up a sour face.

Zhang Yang quickly pulled Wei Yan Er to the side and smiled, "Respected elder, this little girl just loves to joke around, so don't take it too seriously! Haha! As adventurers of justice, we are willing to fight on against the undead, so you can count on us for any upcoming quests!"

Although the second quest did not reward them with any gold and equipment, the experience points given from this single quest were substantial, like the amount of experience points earned from main quests and hidden quests! And for that amount of experience points from each single quest completed, Zhang Yang would complete the remaining chained quests! Furthermore, this was a series of Story Linking Quests, the final quest would more often than not, give good rewards. There might even be some sort of [Armor Set] being part of the rewards!

"Hahaha! I can tell that this little girl loves to joke around!" Kyle Dylan laughed.

Wei Yan Er continued to fill her eyes and cheeks with tears, as she wasn't joking at all about the gold!

Kyle Dylan coughed gently and said, "Other than the skeleton soldiers and the zombies, there is the necromancer of the undead! These foul creatures are hidden by the Tomb of Lune. Every time the blood moon rises, they will attack the villages outside the canyon, causing chaos and unnecessary losses! So my fellow adventurers, please investigate the Tomb of Lune and eliminate these foul necromancers, and bring back 30 [Bone of the Necromancer] back as proof!"

'Ding! The Grave Keeper Kyle Dylan has given you a quest: Eliminate the Necromancers, accept or decline?"

After accepting the quest, the three of them made haste over to the Tomb of Lune. The location was not far from the cottage as well. It was just around the middle area of the canyon.

The entrance of the tomb was rather obscure. The metallic door by the entrance had rusted thoroughly, due to years of exposure to rain and frost without any repairs, causing them to be broken and permanently open. With the doors half open, revealing part of the view behind them, they could see a dark path before them.

A cold breeze was felt, and they could hear the howling of the wind across the dark path that lay before them.

Han Ying Xue went to the back of Zhang Yang and hugged him from behind, as Wei Yan Er walked in casually like it was nothing. It was as if she did not know fear!

"Let's move!" Zhang Yang said, but he did not move at all.

"Yes! Let's move!" Han Ying Xue said in a haste.

"... how can I move when you're hugging me so tightly?" Zhang Yang sighed.

"Oh, I'm just too nervous." Han Ying Xue let go of Zhang Yang and went on to grab hold of Wei Yan Er.

Boom!

Zhang Yang kicked down a metallic door and shouted, "I'm home!"

The tomb was exceptionally spacious, and repetitive heavy echoes of Zhang Yang's voice immediately echoed back repeatedly, 'I'm home', 'I'm home'. Han Ying Xue got even more cowed until she began to babble in some non-human language and her two arms grabbed on tighter until the little girl could not breathe, her tongue sticking out and asking for help.

"Don't scare me! You moronic Zhang Yang!" Han Ying Xue scolded in a trembling voice.

The path by the entrance of the tomb was very dark and spooky, but after walking forward for about 50 meters, the path started getting brighter as they walked in deeper, because there were lit-up torches on the walls on two sides of the path, illuminating the remaining long path that lay before them.

"How do these necromancers know how to light up torches? Are these torches burning on infinite fuel?" Wei Yan Er was bored, and she began to feel curious again.

"You'll lose if you take it too seriously!"

Shoof!

They walked in deeper and realized that the surroundings were beginning to change. There were rooms on both sides, coffin chambers! Zhang Yang led the ladies and slowly approaching the first door of the coffin chambers. As they were approaching it somewhat comfortably, a skull that was surging with a dark light shot right in the face of Zhang Yang!

'-2,010!'

Zhang Yang was inflicted with damage! He was caught off guard and let out a surprising yell. Then, he activated {Charge} and rammed into a necromancer in a black robe, interrupting the second enchantment of the {Shadow Bomb}.

[Black-Rock Necromancer] (Elite, Undead)

Level: 87

HP: 87,000

Defense: 450

These undead necromancers were just skeletons wrapped in skin, and they were extremely skinny and dry! Their two eye sockets had evil flames dancing within them, just like a ghastly flame.

"Spellcasters are truly different!" Zhang Yang sighed lightly. Regular elites that were Level 80 and above, such as skeleton soldiers and zombies could only inflict damage ranging from 500 to 600, but this necromancer can damage him by more than 2000 damage points!

Fortunately, although their damage on Zhang Yang was rather high, but these necromancers did not gather around in a group. They were all scattered around the place. Therefore, they could only be eliminated one by one! As this area was an indoor environment, only Zhang Yang could bring along Whitey, while Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er had to dismount from their pets and carry on by foot.

For the three of them, it would be more efficient to lure the monsters into one place and kill them all at once! Zhang Yang took advantage of the special terrain of the passage that lay before them. He lured in tens of necromancers and got a solid hold on their aggro, and then he used the wall to run out of their view, gathering the monsters at the entrance of a coffin chamber. There, he began his killing streak with his AOE skills.

Kiting so many monsters at a time, especially when his defense was useless against these spellcaster type monsters, gave a lot of pressure to Han Ying Xue! The good thing was that Zhang Yang had many life-saving skills like {Berserker's Heal}, {Shield Wall}, {Blood of Life}. He could just activate the skills in turns to stay alive while killing the monsters because these skills had short cooldown duration! So it would be a waste to not use them!

As they passed by, the coffin chambers were cleansed of the foul monsters, and Zhang Yang had picked up two pieces of [Zombie Moss] along the way. Unfortunately, there was no sign of the recipe for [Zombie Potions]. Zhang Yang could only let out a breath of sigh and wait for another chance.

There was no telling how many floors there were in the Tomb of Lune. Since they had only managed to collect 10 pieces of [Bone of the Necromancer, which was only one-third of the amount they were supposed to collect. So, they ventured deeper on into the area.

After just a while, the three of them had arrived at the deepest floor of the bottom area. A set of stairs that was made of stone led them down deeper, but they could only see as far as 20 steps before the passage turned down a corner, out of their sight. Only God knows what was waiting at the other side of that corner.

Zhang Yang and the ladies followed the stairs down to the corner. After just a while, they had arrived at a new floor of the tomb cave, the second floor. The view remained the same, being the same one long passage, with many coffin chambers at the two sides.

"Let's begin clearing out the monsters and wrap this up!"

An hour later, the second floor of the monsters had been cleaned out thoroughly. But they were treated far worse this time. They managed to get only 9 pieces of the item quest. Going deeper down the tomb cave, the three of them arrived at the third floor of the area and began their 'wiping operation'. Slowly, the number of [Bone of the Necromancer] had finally increased from 19 pieces up to 20, then 25, and finally, 29!

"So, now what? This is the last coffin chamber. If we can't get the final piece of the quest item, then we will have to wait until the monsters respawn!" Wei Yan Er stared into the endless darkness of the passage and sighed.

As they had already hit the end of the passage, there was only one last coffin chamber that had yet to be cleaned, so if they fail to get the last piece of the quest item, they will have to go back all the way up to the first floor of the tomb cave and wait for the monsters to respawn.

"Hey! Humans! Fantastic! It's just marvelous to see a few humans down here!" Right down the corner of the coffin chamber, there was a red-bearded dwarf battling seven necromancers at once. His health points were low. He was so delighted to see Zhang Yang and the ladies, that he immediately cried out for help in joy!

It's... it's that Rhine Wildhammer! Rhine Wildhammer the same tomb raider, who is always getting himself in trouble! He was the one dwarf who will give players a necklace that would grant them immunity to skill effects!

This dwarf was really loving his job a little too much. He had just survived the Tomb of Despair, and now here he was, digging up trouble in the Tomb of Lune! Well, he was indeed a passionate 'archeologist'! It's just like Merlinda and her knack of getting captured, this NPC here is always in danger of being hacked to death by the undead!

Zhang Yang activated {Charge} and rammed into the necromancers, and then he activated his {Blood Rage}, increasing his rage point by 30 points, followed by a {Blast Wave}, boom! A shockwave was emitted across the monsters, stunning the seven necromancers while inflicting every one of them with damage values of '-1,088'.

The special effect of the [Sword of Purging Devourer] kicked in and did it's job, inflicting more damage to the necromancers! And again!

After the 4-second stun effect, the necromancers were left with not more than 3,000 health points. All of them were crying in rage and turned to Zhang Yang as they began to cast their {Shadow Bombs}.

"Thank goodness!" Rhine Wildhammer quickly took out a bandage and patched himself up. The way he patched himself out showed that he had already been doing this for so many times that he could do it in his sleep!

Wei Yan Er charged in and joined the battle. She went up to the monsters and began her hacking and slashing on the necromancers like a mad girl.

After just a brief moment, the seven necromancers were reduced to dust, and fortunately, the final piece of the [Bone of the Necromancer] finally appeared!

"Wow -- you guys really are good!" Rhine Wildhammer did not hold back on thanking Zhang Yang and the ladies, and then he turned over and cursed the monsters, "These impenetrably, thickheaded, mindless piece of... Necromancers! They are already dead, but they seemed to be still guarding some sort of precious treasures here! It's not like they can eat it or anything!"

After spitting and cursing for a bit, Rhine Wildhammer turned to Zhang Yang and the ladies, "Hey, do you want to do some trading? I will give you 10, no, 20 pieces of gold!"

This red-bearded dwarf said it out like he was about to break his wallet.

"No can do! 20 pieces of gold are too little! You must give us at least 15 pieces of gold!" Wei Yan Er was shaking her head around and said.

"Deal!" Rhine Wildhammer quickly replied.

Zhang Yang, "..."

Han Ying Xue, "..."

'Ding! Rhine Wildhammer has given you a quest: Hey! You're hired! Accept or decline?"

The three of them accepted the quest at the same time.

[Hey! You're hired!] (Difficulty: C)

Description: Escort Rhine Wildhammer out of the tomb. If Rhine Wildhammer dies, the quest will be deemed as failed.

Completion: Escort Rhine Wildhammer out of the tomb 0/1

"Wait just a second!" Rhine Wildhammer ran to the back of a coffin and took out a backpack that was larger than himself. He then put the backpack on his back slowly with care, and said, "Alright, let's move!"

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Chapter 407: The Spartan Warriors

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Rhine Wildhammer was following closely behind the group with his large backpack on his back. Every time when they passed by a coffin chamber, he would look around intensely as if he was worried that monsters might suddenly leap out from the room and take away his precious backpack.

As they did not have to battle any other monsters along the way, they arrived at the second floor of the tomb cave in just a short time.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Footsteps were heard from the front. Zhang Yang and the ladies exchanged looks and halted abruptly.

In just a while, a party of five appeared right before Zhang Yang and the ladies. They had one tanker, one healer, and three attackers, it was a standard party formed, to complete a quest.

Seeing Zhang Yang and the ladies, the five of them halted as well. They were clearly wary, as they slowly drew their weapons and readied themselves. In open world maps, it was a normal occasion where bad players kill and rob weaker parties. So it was actually wise for them to be so careful.

"Why are we stopping!" Rhine Wildhammer was looking down on the road while walking, and he banged into the little girl's ass. Wei Yan Er was enraged and kicked him aside like a ball. There, Rhine Wildhammer fell right in the middle of Zhang Yang and the party of five.

"Huh? That's is the NPC!" the five of them were shouting at the same time, and they were waving around their weapons ready to charge at Rhine Wildhammer.

Of course, Zhang Yang would not let them chop up the NPC as this NPC is part of their quest! He ran to the front of the NPC and pulled out his sword, preparing himself.

"Hey, brother. We mean you no harm." said one of the Spartan Warriors by the name of Spartan Warrior, a guardian. He seemed like the leader of the party. With one hand raised, he stopped his party members from attacking, "This NPC is the target we need to slay to complete our quest, please step aside and let us do our job."

Spartan Warrior then said, "Look, brother. This NPC will respawn in just a while more. You can just retake the quest later!"

Han Ying Xue was provoked by the idea, "Then why don't you let us complete our quest first, and then come back for the NPC after he has respawned? How about that?"

"Spartan Warrior, don't waste our time with them, just kill them all!" one of The Spartan Warriors by the name 'Freezing With Heart', a thief, snapped impatiently.

Spartan Warrior waved his hand around and said, "Freezing With Heart, violence isn't the answer to all things, so don't always say the word 'kill'."

Although he said it, he still looked at Zhang Yang with a deadly glare.

Zhang Yang then said, "Fellow friends, I have a proposition. Why don't you come with us? Our quest is to escort the NPC out of the tomb. So after we have completed our quest, you can go ahead and slay the NPC and complete your quest as well. You guys won't be staying around here, right? It won't only save your time, but also, we all get what we want. Doesn't it sound good?"

He was very sincere while he was giving the proposal, trying to make everyone happy. Well, his proposal was indeed a perfect solution to both parties, because Zhang Yang did not want to stir things up.

But his sincerity became an act of showing weakness to the party of five. So one of them by the name of 'Ten-Times-Of-Grass', a spellcaster said, "So, you want us to help you escort the NPC out of the tomb for free? Dream on!"

Spartan Warrior burst into laughter and said, "I say, we have five over here, and there are only three of you. There's no way you can win, so just hand over the NPC, and no harm will come to you! So, don't do anything stupid that you will regret, you will end up losing all the experience points that you have on hand!"

"Humph! They have wasted so much of our time here! It won't be so easy for them to back off now!" another one by the name 'Invincible Mouth-Sacrificer', a Holy Knight turned his attention over to Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er, and he began to 'scan' their bodies, "At the least, these two pretty ladies must show us some skills of theirs to entertain us! By performing a striptease!"

Zhang Yang was enraged by the words, but he tried to calm himself down and keep his expression neutral. Although he unintentionally had become a king who currently ruled the game, he would never let anyone humiliate or curse his party members, especially the girls and women!

He pulled out his sword and warned, "Beware, words are the cause of a tragedy!"

"Haha!" the five of them were laughing, and the last member of their party by the name 'Sloppy Sloth', a hunter, said, "I'd say, brother. You're really fun, as in funny! Do you really think that you three stand a chance against us five? Who do you think you are? One Sword Stroke? Or are you Zhan Yu? Hahaha!"

Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er could not help but smile, as they heard what Sloppy Sloth just said.

Zhang Yang let out a breath of loud sigh and said, "I'm Zhan Yu! Not One Sword Stroke!"

The five members of The Spartan Warriors were looking at each other in silence, and then they burst into laughter, pressing their hands against their stomach. It was obvious that they did not believe Zhang Yang, having the thought that Zhang Yang was just boasting! Well, it was understandable. Because the number of players in China server is increasing lately, and it had already reached up to 10 million players for now. So to be able to run into a famous player, especially the Number One player in the entire China server, it's like winning a lottery worth 5 million dollars!

Wei Yan Er took up her giant axe and said, "Why are we still wasting our precious saliva with them? Just f*ck them up!"

"Little lady is fired up! But I like it!" Ten-Times-of-Grass was looking at the little girl with his perverted eyes.

"Bastard!" Wei Yan Er let out a roar in anger and activated her {Charge} and rammed into Ten-Times-of-Grass. With a full power swing of her giant axe, she slashed at that pervert without showing any remorse.

'-9,471!'

One moment later as the axe swung by, blood oozed out like a pretty little fountain from Ten-Times-of-Grass's body! His total health points were only about 20,000, so after this slash of attack, he was only left with two-thirds of his health bar!

"Oh mama! This girl is crazily strong!" The five of them began to panic as they saw the damage value that appeared right on top of their party member. The damage value was just terrifying!

Zhang Yang rammed into them with a {Charge} as well. He then activated {Blood Rage} and sliced them up with his [Sword of Purging Devourer, boosting up his rage points with his assault. The next thing the five of them noticed was Zhang Yang activating his {Horizontal Sweep} over them!

In that instant, all five of them were inflicted with damage values ranging from 7,000 to 8,000!

Unfortunately, there were only 5 targets, so the special effect of Zhang Yang's sword did not trigger.

Wei Yan Er laughed like a mad girl and activated her {Blood Rage} as well, followed by a powerful {Tornado Cleave}! The Spartan Warriors were all inflicted with damage values of 17,000 in that instant, right after they were assaulted by Zhang Yang!

After suffering the damage from the combination of {Horizontal Sweep} and {Tornado Cleave}, other than Spartan Warrior the guardian tanker, the remaining four of his party members were wiped out in an instant! Just like that!

It couldn't be helped. The passage was too narrow for The Spartan Warriors to carry out any formations or tactics. Plus, Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er had put so much pressure, so swiftly in their assaults, they could not even process what had just happened to them! The two attacks were happening almost at the same instant, giving no chance at all for them to react!

Spartan Warrior looked around and realized that he was the only one in his entire party who was still breathing, and his facial expression became very interesting to look at! Very entertaining to look, at the very best! What a painful poke in the ass! This was just ironic and outrageous! They were still swaggering and making jokes before Zhang Yang and the ladies, and now, things suddenly changed in just one split second! In short, weathers can change fast!

The brief battle ended when [Gold-Eared Bear King] letting out a roar and plunged it's paw right through the Spartan Warrior's chest, inflicting that poor soul with a damage of about 4,000, and with another activation of a skill, poor Spartan Warrior was sent straight back to the graveyard.

Later on, Spartan Warrior and his other four party members stared blankly at each other with their helpless expression on their faces.

"Oh, right. Now I remember. That Guardian has a familiar face, he really does looks like Zhan Yu!" Suddenly, Sloppy Sloth slapped his own lap and said.

"What a bad luck, man. We actually ran into the Number One Tanker in the entire China Server while trying to complete one quest!"

"... so are we going to complete the quest or not?"

"Complete you ass! Didn't you see the videos of the competition or whatsoever? Zhan Yu has an overpowering 'forbidden' skill that can bombard anyone within the radius of two miles from where he stands! This skill can damage all the targets within range by 20,000 damage points! How powerful is that! And what can we do against him? Take your 'little brother'?"

"Holy cow, even my 'little brother' is not that strong! Let's use yours!"

"Haih, just forget about it for the moment, we should just wait for a little while. After they have completed their quest, they should leave. We shall go back to slay that stupid NPC!"

Well, the strength of the paired skills {Blizzard Sky} and {Luna's Dew} were exaggerated how many times by only-god-knows how many players who do not know the truth behind them! But there are still advantages over this. At least normal people won't dare to attempt to blunt the edge of Zhang Yang's advance and saves him from a lot of trouble.

Zhang Yang kept his sword and shield and turned to Rhine Wildhammer, "Stop pretending to be dead, and get up now."

Only then, the red-bearded dwarf crawled and stood back up on his feet. Then he smiled guiltily and said, "I was just too nervous just now! You should know, we dwarf are natural warriors, fearless warriors across all the lands. We won't blink even danger comes to us! Be it a tidal wave of swords or a sea of volcanoes, or whatever tsunami they claim to be..."

He kept on babbling on as he followed Zhang Yang from behind.

After just a while, the four of them had arrived at the entrance of the tomb, and they walked right out. Finally, sunlight -- although the day was a gloomy day.

"Hey, great work!" Rhine Wildhammer tightened the opening of his backpack and said, "May the gods of Titans bless you!"

'Ding! You have completed a quest: Hey! You're Hired! Acquired 4,000,000 experience points!'

'Ding! You have acquired 15 gold coins!'

Right after the red-bearded dwarf finished his words, he began to run in a hurry, and only God knows how he can run so fast with that huge backpack on his back!

"Alright, time to turn over the quest items to Kyle Dylan for the rewards!"

The three of them summoned out their [Mounts, and traced back the way they came from.

"My respected old man! We're back!" Wei Yan Er took out all the [Bone of the Necromancer] and threw it right in front of Kyle Dylan.

"Very good! Marvelous! You have completed another quest without flaws!" Kyle Dylan smiled with joy and said, "The gods have been watching, you are indeed brave and fearless adventurers, spears of justice itself!"

'Ding! You have completed a quest: Eliminating the Necromancers, acquired 4,000,000 experience points!'

After completing two quests in a roll, they had already acquired a total of 8,000,000 experience points! Immediately, the three of them filled up one big chunk of their experience point bar!

Kyle Dylan kept all the [Bone of the Necromancer] and said, "Adventurers, you have eliminated most of the undead in this area! However, as long as Shaman Mordoro lives, his endless creation of the undead will doom this land once again! 3 months, 3 more months and this land that you worked so hard to cleanse will be swarmed by these undead creatures once more, and break the peace that you have built upon this land for now! Adventurers, you must rid the source of it all, slay Shaman Mordoro to ensure the peace of this land!"

'Ding! Grave Keeper Kyle Dylan has given you a quest: Eliminate Shaman Mordoro, accept or decline?'

Accept.

Zhang Yang nodded and said, "Mr Kyle Dylan, rest assured that we will eliminate this Shaman Mordoro and bring true peace to this land!"

"Then, I am counting on you, my brave adventurers!" Kyle Dylan bowed to Zhang Yang and the ladies as tears began to fall from his eyes.

[Eliminate Shaman Mordoro] (Difficulty: A)

Description: Grave Keeper Kyle Dylan requested that you slay the evil Shaman Mordoro and bring the wicked heart back to him as proof that you have slain the evil shaman! Warriors, Mordoro is very powerful, please bring along more friends.

Hint: Shaman Mordoro can be located at the Undead Palace in the deepest site of the Black-Rock Canyon.

Completion: Return to Kyle Dylan with Mordoro's heart 0/1

Reward: Gauntlet of Glory

[Gaunlet of Glory] (Yellow-Gold, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 40

Vitality: 134

Strength: 54

Agility: 27

Equip: Absorbs 104 damage when hit.

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 80

This pair of gauntlets had a set of attributes similar to the Earth Spirit Gauntlet that Zhang Yang had on him now! This should be the best set of gauntlets there was, before Zhang Yang can get his hands on the [Titan Gaunlets]. Although these [Gauntlets of Glory] had no use for Zhang Yang, but he can sell it out and definitely get a good price for it!

Although equipment can be sold for gold coins, Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er were not interested in such kind of way of earning gold coins. They preferred to take gold coins hands on and count them one by one in their bare hands! They savored that kind of sensation!

The three of them got onto their own [Mounts] and departed to the deepest area of the Black-Rock Canyon.

And coincidentally, they actually met The Spartan Warriors once again! The sight of seeing Zhang Yang and the ladies had them running in the opposite direction without even looking at them, not even once, and they disappeared in just a short moment. Their faces showed it all, they were scared, and they did not want to die again.

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "Little girl, look at what you've done to them with your ugly face! They did not even dare to look at you before they ran away, not even once! Hahaha!"

"Pui! They were afraid of you! Not me! Alright?" Wei Yan Er was not willing to be teased by Zhang Yang and made a funny face at Zhang Yang, "You ugly horse!"

Black-Rock Canyon was a vast area. As the three of them rushed forward for nearly one hour without stopping, they finally arrived at the bottom of the canyon. What they saw before their eyes, was a large palace made of metallic materials. The palace towered tall, with a magnificent view of it, giving off such a holy impression that they felt sacrilegious.

Zhang Yang, Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er were curious, such a sacred palace is actually the lair for the undead? Is this what they call a sparrow's nest occupied by pigeons1?

The answer was very obvious, right in front of their eyes.

There were many undead creatures wandering around the entrance of the palace. There were bleached bone skeletons, rotten zombies, and some necromancers in black robes. And they would moan with spooky low voices randomly as they wandered. The number of the bleached bone skeletons were the highest among all, while the number of the necromancers in black robes were the least, looking lesser than 1% of the monsters that were wandering around.

Zhang Yang patted Whitey and charged towards the monsters near the entrance of the palace, "Time to work!". By throwing a {Spear of Obliteration} over at one zombie near to him, he attracted the zombie over to him.

"Rawgh!" The zombie let out a raging roar the moment it was hit, and then it raised up its arms and charged towards Zhang Yang madly. And, due to the effect of the chaining aggro of the system, two skeleton soldiers nearest to that zombie were pulled into the battle as well, and together, they pattered towards Zhang Yang with their skeletal feet.

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "Little girl, lure a few more monsters over to me!"

"Alright!" Wei Yan Er replied, and she also threw a {Spear of Obliteration} at one of the skeleton soldiers.

"Rawgh!" the skeleton soldiers let out a roar and began to charge towards Wei Yan Er from afar.

But it was really unfortunate for the little girl, as one of the monsters the skeleton soldier had invited along was a Necromancer! Right after that, the necromancer targeted the little girl and began to chant the spell of {Shadow Bomb}!

Zhang Yang unleashed his {Thunder Strike} on the three monsters that were after Wei Yan Er and pulled them over to him. But, he couldn't do anything against the Necromancer which was very far away from him.

Shoof!

The necromancer shot a {Shadow Bomb} at Wei Yan Er, inflicting her with a damage of '-5,127'.

"Oi! Noob tank! Quickly, kite the monster properly!" Although the little girl was mounted on her pet, boosting her maximum health points up to almost 50,000 points, she was not used to having a monster target at her in his presence! She began to cry out loud, "You noob tank! You're letting the monster hurt me! Noob tank!"

Zhang Yang burst into laughter and said, "The monster you picked to lure is a bad choice! Hahaha!"

He kited the monsters and began to take a few steps backward. As long as he can step out of the attack range of the necromancer, the monster will automatically pursue. And, as long as he separates the monsters that he is kiting away, from the monsters that were wandering in the area, he did not have to worry about attracting any unwanted baggage.

TL Notes:

1. Sparrow's nest is occupied by a pigeon - to occupy what that belongs to others. Here, it means that the evil undead army has occupied the palace and made it into their own lair.

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Chapter 408: Book of Experiences

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It was really an unfortunate thing that the paired skills - {Blizzard Sky} and {Luna's Dew} were still under a cool down period. Or else, they could have kited the monsters in the entire area and unleash hell upon them with the paired skills. The amount of experience points that they could have acquired by doing so would have definitely been substantial, and it would have been a very satisfying experience!

However, Zhang Yang could only frown whenever he thought about that. That One Sword Stroke and Liu Wei are really two lucky suns of beaches! They actually managed to get their hands on two sets of paired skills! Although one set of paired skills had a very long cooldown period, if used wisely, every set of paired skill can unleash hell onto the monsters in an area, and vacuum in a sea of experience points for the players!

So, Zhang Yang could foresee that One Sword Stroke will definitely be leveling up like mad and catch up with Zhang Yang!

However, Zhang Yang still had a heavenly weapon, that is the [Sword of Purging Devourer]! The special effect of this [Sword of Purging Devourer, after absorbing the special effect of the [Dark Enigma Sword] had turned the sword itself into a new generation of legendary AOE weapon! The high defense of Zhang Yang aided in triggering the special effect of the [Sword of Purging Devourer] as it will keep him alive long enough to do so! If other players tried to rope in entire crowds of monsters like he did, they would have never been able to survive long enough before the special effect of the sword could take off. To be rounded up by so many monsters at the same time, let's not talk about grinding up first, these normal players would not survive longer than a few seconds, and they will be torn into pieces in split seconds!

Pak! Pak! Pak!

In just a few seconds, the monsters were falling to the ground one after another, right before Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er, and they dropped countless copper coins and some [Silk].

The three of them did not clear up the area, instead, they simply tried to open up a path for them to get into the palace. So they only clear those monsters that were in their way into the palace. The reason was simple, because their main aim was to slay the boss, Shaman Mordoro, nothing more. They need not have to go through all the trouble of battling every single monster in the area. In just a short while, they had already let themselves into the palace.

The number of monsters inside the palace were surprisingly small, but all of them were Death Knights on battle horses!

Zhang Yang let out a breath of sigh and said, "I really hate this kind of monsters!" These foul Death Knights had a skill called {Death Strike}, which can double the damage done to their targets, and if the player is out of luck that day and the hit becomes a critical attack, then the damage will become 4 times higher!

"Well, look who's talking, I should be the one who needs to be complaining right! I'm the one who should be stressed up because I need to heal you guys! Not you!" Han Ying Xue snorted after she complained.

"I was being considerate for you, that's why, I said I don't like these monsters at all!" Zhang Yang smiled at her.

"Well, at least you still have a heart!"

Wei Yan Er could not take it anymore and said, "You two are being so 'sweet' that I'm about to throw up! Please go get a room, and stop disgusting me!"

"You little rat!" Han Ying Xue gave the little girl a cold stare.

Zhang Yang charged towards a Death Knight with big steps. Death Knights could mount themselves on a horse no matter where they are, but a player cannot. This area of the palace was considered an indoor environment. So, the three of them were forced to dismount and proceed on foot. As Zhang Yang had gained a suitable distance from the Death Knight, he threw out one shot of {Spear of Obliteration} at the one Death Knight that he had approached. After the strike landed on it, the Death Knight charged over on its battle horse.

[Black-Rock Death Knight] (Elite, Undead)

Level: 88

HP: 200,000

Defense: 900

What a powerful set of attributes this monster had there! It's two times better than the regular elite monsters' attribute stats!

"Living souls, must, die!" a low voice came from within the metallic helm of the Death Knight. This Death Knight then raised up its sword and swung it towards Zhang Yang's head!

'-986!'

As the sword slashed through Zhang Yang, he was inflicted with a damage that almost reached 1,000! Elites undeads like the skeleton soldiers and the zombies out there could only inflict a damage of about 500 to Zhang Yang with each of their attacks. So, this Death Knight can actually do double the damage that those elites could inflict! And this attack was not even the {Death Strike}!

Of course, Zhang Yang did not have to worry about such small amount of damage, because in the end, this was just a mere elite grade monster. Its threat was far less than the threat that Yellow-Gold and Violet-Platinum bosses present to Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang is strong enough to single-handedly take down a Yellow-Gold boss, so there is no reason at all for him to fear a mere elite graded Death Knight!

Cling Clang Cling Clang! Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er were like predators cutting up their preys, with all their slashing and chopping. With ease, they had taken down the monster, and the monster collapsed onto the ground and dropped some coins and a piece of yellowish paper page.

Wei Yan Er saw it and acted very quickly, and she picked up the both the coins and the paper sheet! She wouldn't miss anything, of course! As the little girl took a quick look at the description of the paper page, her face was filled with joy in an instant. Then, she quickly kept the paper page into her backpack.

Zhang Yang could not resist his curiosity on what on earth did the little girl got into her backpack, so he asked, "Little girl, what previous stuff did you just stuff into your backpack? Why are you being so mysterious?"

"Humph! Not going to tell you!" Wei Yan Er stuck her tongue out at Zhang Yang, followed by a funny weird teasing sound.

Zhang Yang did not mind much about it, and he continued to kite and slay the monsters. In the process of slaying 7 Death Knights, a total of 3 of these paper sheets dropped from the slain monsters, and they were being snatched and kept into the little girl's backpack. Zhang Yang was getting more and more curious and he got interested to find out what it was all that about. So right after they slain another 3 Death Knights and the fifth sheet of paper dropped, Zhang Yang was one step ahead of the little girl and snatched the paper from the ground before the little girl could reach it.

"Oi, noob tank! That's mine! Give it back!" Wei Yan Er felt offended and began to make noise about it.

Zhang Yang took a good look at the description of the paper and understood why the little girl was being so persistent to get all the paper sheets.

[Beginner's Residual Page of Experience Book]

Use: Combine 10 pages of Beginner's Residual Page of Experience Book to from a Beginner's Experience Book. Each Beginner's Experience Book can give 1,000,000 experience points.

"You're such a selfish girl, little girl. You actually tried to keep this all to yourself!" Zhang Yang said.

"Hehe!" Wei Yan Er stuck out her tongue at Zhang Yang again as usual.

Han Ying Xue then realized and said, "Oh, then if a player is rich enough to spend money in the game, and with this experience book, that player can level up from Level 0 to Level 300 in an instant right?"

Zhang Yang shook his head and said, "You'll find out, that it's impossible to do that soon enough!" He passed the residual page over to the little girl and aided her in collecting the remaining 5 pages of the residual pages so that she could later combine the pages into a complete [Beginner's Experience Book].

The drop rate of this [Beginner's Residual Page of Experience Book] was not low at all. They had picked up the remaining 5 of the pages required after killing another 10 Death Knights. After getting all the 10 pages altogether, Wei Yan Er combined them together, and in that instant, a stream of blinding light flashed by and the 10 pages of the residual pages in her hands had turned into a complete yellowish book, which seems kind of an old book, more like ancient!

[Beginner's Experience Book] (Consumable)

Use: Immediate gives you 1,000,000 experience points. Cooldown: 72 hours. Any use of an Experience Book will make all other different levels of Experience Books enter the same cooldown period.

Level required: Level 80

"Haih, what a letdown. This book can be used only once a day?" Wei Yan Er sighed. Yes, the in-game time 72 hours was equivalent to 24 hours in real time.

Zhang Yang smiled and explained, "Of course, it's natural to set it up like this. Or else, if a rich player gets his or her hands on this book, then he or she could just tap the book and level straight up to Level 300! With a complete set of Yellow-Gold armor equipment, the player can rule over the entire server, not only in China, but the entire world! He or she will become strong enough to slay any boss in the game! And that, would make the game so unfair to the other players."

"Speaking of rich, aren't you rich now?" Han Ying Xue curled up her lips and said.

"That's right, noob tank. How much money do you have now? I mean your properties and cash and all that!" Wei Yan Er had her eyes glitter with stars the moment she talks about money.

"To be honest, I'm not so sure myself!" Zhang Yang shook his head. Now that the number of players above Level 50 was increasing, the income he earned from the territory was unimaginably high, and he still has his Little Merchandise shop! Still, the earnings from the Little Merchandise could be compared to the earnings from the Teleportation Circle placed right in the territory. However, the earning from that shop was endless, and the number was definitely not small at all.

Wei Yan Er tapped the [Beginner's Experience Book] against her body, and a stream of golden light surged through her entire body. Just like that, she acquired 1,000,000 experience points immediately. Although the amount was not really that big of a deal, it was free! It would be a loss not to take it, since it's free! Furthermore, one must slay at least 120 Level 85 elite monsters just to get this amount of experience points. So, it should be worthwhile to get this amount of experience for free!

The three of them proceeded forward and slew about 50 to 60 Death Knights along with their way. They managed to collect enough pages to combine the second and the third [Beginner's Experience Book, and one was given to Han Ying Xue while the other was given to Zhang Yang. But those were all of the Death Knights that had spawned in the palace. They had already run out of Death Knights to slay after they got another 3 pages of the [Beginner's Residual Page of Experience Book]. So they replaced, their targets with the Abominations that were lurking in the surrounding.

[Black-Rock Abomination] (Elite, Undead)

Level: 88

HP: 200,000

Defense: 900

Han Ying Xue could not help but to feel surprised, "These monsters are so much stronger than the ones outside the palace!"

Zhang Yang merely nodded to express his agreement on this. Then, it was business as usual. He threw a {Spear of Obliteration} at one of the Black-Rock Abomination to kick off their slaughtering.

"Rawgh!" That Black-Rock Abomination let out a roar and turned it's fat, distorted body towards Zhang Yang and charged forward. This Abomination had a ruptured, leaking belly that exposed it's intestines and inner organs, and there was some sort of green liquid dripping out through the holes on its belly. As the monsters charged forward, the greenish goo trailed across the ground and melted its surface! There was a rotten smell flowing through the air that would disgust anyone who breathed in the scent, it was absolutely disgusting!

This monster was equipped with an Aura Effect that spread across a radius of 20 meters, damaging all targets within the effective range by 2,000 Nature Damage every 2 seconds. The body of this monster seemed to be protected by a layer of greenish fog that billowed around it.

Zhang Yang charged into the monster and with his [Sword of Purging Devourer, he locked onto the monster and began to slash like crazy!

"What a disgusting monster! Yuck!" Wei Yan Er went around to the back of the Abomination and began to channel her damage onto it. Launching assaults on the back of a monster can avoid taking damage from the monsters and also increase the rate of hitting the monster as well.

But, who would have guessed this, the Abomination suddenly stuck up its ass and splattered a pile of greenish goo onto the little girl! The goo splattered all over the little girl 'nicely'.

"Argh -- yuck! Pui! Argh! Bastard!" Wei Yan Er was so disgusted and angry that she started screaming like a banshee. She then raised up her giant axe and increased her speed in slashing up the monster like a mad lady! She has lost it!

The splattering piles of greenish goo on the ground were extremely dangerous! Anyone who accidentally stepped on them will be inflicted with a Poison Effect that caused 2,000 poison damage every 3 seconds! It also removed a 1,000 defense points! It's just outrageous and 'ferocious'!

"This kind of aura skill should only be given to bosses! This isn't fair!" Han Ying Xue began to complain already, "If a mere elite grade monster can have such powerful skill, how are players going to survive this! It's not fair at all!"

It was fortunate that they had Zhang Yang around to kite this monster! Zhang Yang was currently equipped with an almost complete set of Violet-Platinum [Armor Set, and he had a total of 2,280 defense! A regular tank with a full set of Yellow-Gold Armor Set would also have about 1,000 defense or so. If they ever encountered such a monster with such an annoying aura, then their defense would have definitely been reduced down to almost zero!

The tanker, the Berserker and the bear were joining forces to slay the Black-Rock Abomination, and it didn't take long to finish it off! But unfortunately, after all the efforts, there was no sign of any [Beginner's Residual Page of Experience Book] at all.

As they pushed forward, Zhang Yang engaged with another Black-Rock Abomination, and they killed it. Although the monster dropped quite a number of Gray-Silver equipment pieces, there were no signs of any [Beginner's Residual Page of Experience Book] still. Well, it seems that the residual page would only be dropped from the Black-Rock Death Knights.

After battling continuously for almost an hour, the three of them had finally cleared out every single monster in that floor of the place, and they finally planted their feet into the main chamber of the palace.

"The scent of the living!"

A sharp voice came from somewhere in the area. Then, two gigantic statues made of rocks that stood by the entrance of the main chamber suddenly began to move!

Koom! Koom! Koom!

Dust and debris were falling from the statues as the two statues started standing straight up.

They were in humanoid form, but they had an extra a pair of large, bat-like wings on their backs. They had these weird and unmistakably demonic faces, with two horns on their foreheads. There seemed to be an incision between the two horns. It looked more like a third eye that was currently shut!

[Obsidian Gargoyle Gillock] (Yellow-Gold, Undead)

Level: 88

HP: 1,760,000

Defense: 1,500

[Obsidian Gargoyle Margheeta] (Yellow-Gold, Undead)

Level: 88

HP: 1,760,000

Defense: 1,500

Outstanding! Two Yellow-Gold bosses appeared at the same time!

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Chapter 409: The Obsidian Gargoyles

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Right before the battle began, Zhang Yang quickly unsummoned Whitey and summoned the Mythical Turtle out. Things might get difficult, and he needed another powerful 'tanker' by his side.

"Hehehe, actual, living, breathing souls, stepping into this place! Can you recall how long ago was it since the last living soul set foot into our lair, Gillock?" Marginte was speaking in a sharp, weird voice, and he would make some weird noises as he spoke.

Gillock paused and gave some thought before replying, "Should be... about 15 to 16 years ago!"

"So it's been that long already? Hiss hehe!" Marginte suddenly unfurled his wings and flew up into the air, and the next thing was him flying at Zhang Yang and the ladies, "This is going to be a hell lot of fun! Weehee! "

"Hahaha! Marginte, please restrain yourself a little bit here! You're scaring our guests! At least leave one alive for me!" Gillock was also flapping his wings and began to fly into the air, and followed suit!

Zhang Yang quickly raised his shield up high and blocked the first attack of Marginte, and slashes at its belly as if flew past!

"Argh --" Marginte was deflected away by the shield Zhang Yang wielded and took some damage. Although he was only inflicted with a damage of approximately 3,000, it provoked him well enough! The boss raged and let out a deafening growl, trying to gauge at Zhang Yang's face with its claws!

"So, which one do we hit first?" Wei Yan Er asked.

Under normal circumstances, it would be wiser to focus on bringing down one of them first. After being done with one of them, players will have plenty of time to take down the other boss. However, in the case of two bosses appearing at the same time in the same stage, there might be a possibility that when one dies, the other one will revive the dead one back to life, at full health, or something equally unfavorable! Who knows!

Better to act than have too much thought about it. Zhang Yang decided to take down one of the bosses first, because it wouldn't take long for them to take down a boss with merely 2,000,000 health points!

Zhang Yang put a mark onto Gillock and said, "Focus fire on the marked boss first!"

"Alright!" with a clear assignment at hand, Wei Yan Er began to act. She laughed evilly and took up her giant axe, and swung it across the body of the marked boss vigorously! Light flashed off the surface of her axe each time she raised it up for an attack.

Zhang Yang smashed five layers of {Cripple Defense} onto Gillock first, and then did the same to Marginte whenever it was convenient. Both Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er had AOE skills, so it was actually wise to smash {Cripple Defense} onto Marginte as well, as it can increase the damage inflicted upon Marginte. Plus, the duration of the {Cripple Defense} lasts for 30 seconds long. As long as he keeps on smashing the skill onto the boss before the effect fades, the effect will last forever. More importantly, it won't affect the efficiency of his damage output at all.

"Puny living creatures! Tremble before the power of darkness!"

"Flame of darkness shall engulf every corner there is!"

Gillock and Marginte were roaring together as they shot greenish beams of light at Zhang Yang.

'Ding! You are inflicted with the Devouring Void (Black) Effect! If Gillock hits you, the damage inflicted will be increased by 50%!

'Ding! You are inflicted with the Devouring Void (White) Effect! If Marginte hits you, the damage inflicted will be increased by 50%!

In just an instant, Zhang Yang received two negative effects!

'-10,586!'

'-10,723!'

The two bosses slashed at Zhang Yang and inflicted him with two large damage values! The damage output of these two attacks can be compared to the attack of a Violet-Platinum Boss! It was like Zhang Yang was being attacked by two Violet-Platinum bosses at the same time!

He realized that the god-damn 'Black and White' effects were terrifying, so he quickly commanded [Mythical Turtle] to focus its assault on Marginte!

[Mythical Turtle] activated its {Spirit of the Flame} and {Madness}, which obviously boosted up its attack power like mad flames! After attacking for some time, [Mythical Turtle] managed to attract the aggro of Marginte, lifting half of the pressure from Zhang Yang. Although the giant turtle does not have any passive skills that granted it immunity from damage, but as a powerful Violet-Platinum grade [mount, it had a defense of over 2,500! Without having the 'Black and White' effects on it, the boss could only inflict a damage of approximately 9,000 on the [Mythical Turtle].

Meanwhile, a priest is naturally good in AOE healing. Han Ying Xue is a powerful healer with a high capability of healing, so they did not have to worry about her not being able to heal them up.

10 seconds had passed, and the two bosses had once again activated their {Devouring Void Effect} effects onto Zhang Yang and [Mythical Turtle]. Since there were two of them, Gillock activated his {Devouring Void (Black Effect)} onto Zhang Yang, while Marginte activated his {Devouring Void (White) Effect} onto the turtle! However, the effects would only kick in when the 'Black' and the 'White' effects were activated together. As there were two tankers, the 'Black and White' effect could not be activated!

'-5,821!'

Gillock had landed his claw on Zhang Yang, but the damage Zhang Yang received was halved! Without the {Devouring Void Effect} running its course, the assaults of this Yellow-Gold boss had been reduced back to its original state!

With one hand raised, Zhang Yang summoned his servant [Devastator] to boost his damage output. It was time to end the fight! Since the cool down period of a Silver-tiered Servant was 30 minutes long, by the time they are done with the bosses, the cooldown period should have ended already!

Han Ying Xue also summoned her own Servant out after she saw Zhang Yang's [Devastator]. Wei Yan Er only had a servant who was a Green-Copper grade Level 40, and she was ashamed of it. Therefore, she did not even summon it out.

Under the bombardment of two powerful attackers, with the aid of two powerful servants as well, the health bar of Gillock decreased steeply! After just a brief moment, the health bar had dropped down to the dangerous level of 20%!

The boss let out a deafening roar out of a sudden and wrapped himself within the two large wings behind his back. Every part of his skin all around his body began to petrify into rock, and in just a few seconds, the boss had turned back into a statue of rock.

[Petrifying Recovery: Recovers 5% of health in every second, lasts for 10 seconds. During activation period, the user is immune to all damages.

"What the f*ck!" Zhang Yang cursed, and he quickly turned towards Marginte and began his assault -- the effect of {Destructive Smash} on Gillock could still last for another 5 seconds, and Zhang Yang's {Destructive Smash} still had 3 seconds left before it completely cools down. So instead of wasting time on Gillock while waiting for the 3 seconds to pass, he turned his assault to the other boss.

'22,000!'

A healing value appeared right on the body of Gillock, but thanks to the 75% healing reduction effect the {Destructive Smash} had caused, the amount of healing value had already been reduced steeply.

The 3 seconds had passed, and Zhang Yang quickly turned back to Gillock and activated his {Destructive Smash} straight onto Gillock! Even though the boss was immune to all damage, the effect of the {Destructive Smash} had been applied onto the boss, and the duration of the effect had been refreshed! 10 seconds later, Gillock only managed to recover another '22,000' of health, and only managed to recover his health bar back to 31%. If Zhang Yang had not applied the effect of {Destructive Smash} onto Gillock, things could have turned out to be much worse!

As the boss has returned to normal, no longer immune to damage, Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er immediately turned their focus back to Gillock and unleash their worst onto the boss!

25%, 16%, 7%... Gillock was bombarded with so many powerful strikes that he could not even breath, and his health points were decreasing madly! The special skill - {Petrifying Recovery} seemed to have a cool down period, so the boss had nothing left up his sleeve. All Gillock was able to do was to roar pathetically, flapping his wings, trying to stir up some wind.

0%!

"Argh --" as Gillock roared miserably, his wings spazzed out, lifting himself up into the air about 3 to 4 meters from the ground, before smashing back to the ground in a lifeless heap!

"You living scums!" Marginte was enraged by the death of Gillock. With a powerful flap of his wings, he carried himself into the air, "You murdered Gillock! You killed him like an animal! Unforgivable! Unforgivable!"

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "Really sorry for ruining your 'partner'! Or let's have it this way, I'll be doing you a good service, by sending you to the afterlife to continue your 'gayness' with your 'partner', so that you can enjoy your 'anal' relationship! Haha!"

"Noob tank, what's 'gayness' and 'anal' relationship?" Wei Yan Er asked, out of her curiosity.

Zhang Yang got a headache suddenly, how could he forget that there was a good, little, untainted girl here! He tried his best to think of a way to explain, and then he quickly answered, " 'Gayness' is some kind of happiness, and 'anal' is actually a kind of annual funding, you know? Where you invest money with a partner and check on it every year!"

Wei Yan Er stuck her tongue out at Zhang Yang and said, "Do you think I'm stupid? They are all game bosses, why would they have to fund anything annually?!"

"Well, it's a long story..." Zhang Yang started making up some stuff, and fortunately for him, he managed to 'convince' little girl into believing him.

After slaying Gillock, Marginte was like a vegetable, ready for them to chop and cook! So they handled it with 'care'.

Zhang Yang unleashed everything he got, hooking Marginte's aggro back to him from the [Mythical Turtle]. And finally, Han Ying Xue felt relieved of her pressure. Although the turtle had a very thick skin, its defense was still inadequate, and turtle only had a 20% damage immunity on it, unlike Zhang Yang, who had a total of 50% damage immunity!

Cling clang cling clang! Marginte was beaten up so badly to the point that he could only constantly hissed in anger, which was weird. Although he used his {Petrifying Recovery}, it wasn't enough at all! With Zhang Yang's {Destructive Smash} which had a 75% reduction in healing effect, the boss could only heal himself by a little at a time and delay the inevitable.

Another 3 minutes passed, and Marginte collapsed onto the ground and went on to meet his 'gay' partner.

"Hahaha! Those two bosses were like vegetables! Fresh and easy!" Wei Yan Er was laughing with pride.

"Stop talking nonsense and pick up the loot already!" Han Ying Xue said.

The bosses had dropped quite a 'handsome' amount of coins; Gillock dropped 10 gold coins, while Marginte also dropped 10 gold coins, so there was a total of 20 gold coins dropped! Wei Yan Er was so excited and happy to see the amount, that she was smiling to the point where her eyes had been kneaded into a pair of crescent moons!

Other than that, of course, the two bosses dropped a large amount of loot, as there were two of them! 5 of them were Yellow-Gold equipment, and 13 of them were Gray-Silver equipment. It was a great day, with a great amount of loot! However, only one ring among all the equipment had a decent effect, while the other equipment shall be sold in Zhang Yang's Little Merchandise Shop.

[Petrification Ring] (Yellow-Gold, Ring)

Vitality: 67

Strength: 61

Equip: 1% rate to stun target when hitting target, lasts for 3 seconds.

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 80

"If the special effect of this little fellow can be triggered during a PvP match, it can turn the tide around, for sure!" Zhang Yang said.

Wei Yan Er's eyes were beginning to glitter, with stars blinking all around her, "So, if I wear this ring, does that mean that I can defeat you?"

Zhang Yang laughed out loud and said, "Even if you wear 10 of these rings, you will never defeat me! Haha!"

"You! I hate you!" Wei Yan Er was angry, but she still kept the ring into her inventory, because rings, necklace, accessories were really hard to come by in the game, so one must not ask for too much!

"Let's continue with our quest!"

The three of them went right into the main chamber of the palace. All they could see was a building, tall and vast, supported by many columns of pillars that were about five or six meters thick. However, the atmosphere of the surrounding was a little gloomy, making the sacred place look ghostly.

Phew --

A chilly draft passed by, followed by a vague shadow of ghostly existence floating away from the shadows behind one of the pillars. There was no sign of any legs beneath the shadow, as if the shadow was floating in mid-air, and the shadow had a pair of large and thick arms, and a face that only a mouth on it, with no nose, no eyes, or ears. It seemed to be a spectral-kind-of monster.

[Black-Rock Spectre] (Elite, Undead)

Level: 88

HP: 200,000

Defense: 0

"Huh?" after seeing that the monster had 0 defense, Zhang Yang, Wei Yan Er and Han Ying Xue were surprised. It was just too weird!

"The system will not be so kind to us! This monster must have some sort of powerful skill!" Zhang Yang stood in front of the two ladies and pulled out his sword and shield. With a shake of his [Sword of Purging Devourer, he charged forward and attempted to attack the Spectre.

'-4,282!'

"Argh!" the moment when the Spectre was hit, it immediately let out an angry roar into the sky. Followed by a sound of 'Boom', Zhang Yang was blasted four or five meters backward, at the same time, he was inflicted with a damage of '-3,623'!

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Chapter 410: The Vengeful Spirit Mordoro

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{Charge}!

Zhang Yang reengaged into battle with the Black-Rock Spectre. Raising up his [Sword of Purging Devourer, he swung it straight towards the Spectre.

"Argh--" the Spectre once again let out a roar of rage, and the sound had this powerful force that blasted Zhang Yang a few meters back. The damage inflicted on Zhang Yang was almost similar, about 4,000 damage points!

"What the f*ck!" Zhang Yang could not take it anymore and cursed. As he had already used his {Charge}, he could only run towards the Spectre again, on his feet. Meanwhile, the Spectre was floating slowly towards Zhang Yang as well. As they once again clashed into each other, Zhang Yang was once again thrown a few meters back, right after slicing the monster with his sword, just once! How long will it take for him to kill this god-d*mn Spectre, if this goes on?!

"Hahaha!" as she was looking at Zhang Yang from the sidelines, seeing Zhang Yang being bounced back every time he tried to get near the boss, like a leather ball being tossed around, instead of helping him, she actually laughed at him heartlessly!

This monster is really annoying! It could only activate a single skill called the {Repelling Screech}. With just one annoying skill, it gave a hell of a time to Zhang Yang to even approach it! Zhang Yang was not able to channel his damage output onto the monster peacefully!

After laughing for quite awhile, Wei Yan Er finally engaged into battle to aid Zhang Yang.

And so it began, two leather balls being bounced around like mad people, trying to play a game of pong with the Spectre!

"Hahaha! Gegege!" Wei Yan Er really enjoyed this new style of battle, being 'bounced' around. She was laughing and giggling all the way throughout the entire battle.

Although the spectre had 0 defense and players should be able to unleash high value damages onto it, because of the waves of {Repelling Screech}, Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er could only run around and try to approach the spectre by picking and rolling around, having no way at all to focus their assaults on the monster! Any melee profession players would face the same problem as the players would have trouble staying by the side of the monster and attacking!

After battling and repeatedly being bounced around for 2 minutes long, the god d*mned Spectre was finally slain!

"Hahaha! Interesting fight!" Wei Yan Er was still laughing.

The three of them continued to push forward, as there were more Spectres coming out from their hiding spots behind the pillars, causing great trouble to the three of them. It took them about one and a half hour just to get rid of those annoying Spectre. Finally, Zhang Yang and the ladies arrived at the bottom-most section of the palace chamber.

There was a throne chair placed on the higher ground, by the far end of the chamber, there were at least tens of steps of stairs that allowed people to walk up to the throne chair. The throne chair was huge and was completely made out of gold. Many diamonds and gemstones were crafted onto the surface of the throne, making the chair look magnificent!

Right above the throne chair, there was a man in a black robe, sitting on it. Even the head of the man was covered in a black scarf, protecting his face from being seen by others. However, his gender can be identified by just looking at his body figure. Right beside the black-robed man's right hand, there lay a sharp-edged long spear that surged with a gloomy aura.

[The Vengeful Spirit Mordoro] (Violet-Platinum, Undead)

Level: 89

HP: 8,900,000

Defense: 2,500

"Should we call uncle Hundred Shots and the others over here?" Wei Yan Er asked.

Zhang Yang took a look at the boss and said, "I don't think it's a good idea. Look at the beneficial effect of the boss!"

Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er looked at the boss again.

[Undead Regenerative Aura: Recovers health points once every 2 seconds. Recovers 2,000 health points as a basic amount of recovery. Healing amount of the boss will increase, based on the number of living souls within the effective range of the aura. One extra living soul within the effective range will provide the caster an additional 100% healing effect. Range of the aura: 100 meters radius out, with the caster as the center point.

"The more people present, the more amount of health the boss can heal!" Zhang Yang frown.

So now, it's just up to the three of them and one pet. The boss could basically heal over an amount of 16,000 health points every second. The math was simple. The basic healing amount was set at 2,000 health points every second. So, each living soul within the effective area will boost the healing amount of the boss by up to 4,000 health points per second. When a second living soul is present, the healing amount will be increased to 8,000 health points per second. And, the third living soul will be boosting the healing amount of the boss up to 12,000 health points per second! Turtle is also a living soul, so that makes the fourth living soul that boosts the healing amount of the boss up to a total of 16,000 health points. And after applying the effect of {Destructive Smash}, the boss would still be able to heal 4,000 in every second, lowering their DPS altogether by 4,000 points!

If more players are coming, although their total amount of DPS will increase substantially, but the healing amount of the boss will multiply on as more living souls are present! With another one additional living soul presence other than the three of them, it would increase the healing amount of 16,000 by another 100%, making it into an amount of 32,000! So now, it is wiser to just keep the number small, like now, just the three of them and one turtle, narrowing the healing amount of the boss down by at least 16,000 health points.

This boss was purposely designed to limit the number of players.

With this kind of aura effect, if the number of players were more than 10, then the boss would become invincible already! Even a Level 300 player with a full set of legendary armor will not be able to defeat this boss if the player cannot end the boss within 2 seconds. The boss will just heal back to its full health state!

"So, just the three of us then?"

"Four! You forgot Turtle!"

Zhang Yang patted the turtle's head, and with his sword pulled out readily to engage into battle with the boss, he let out a cry, "Have some potions and get ready!"

Shoof! Business as usual, he began by throwing the {Spear of Obliteration} straight at the boss!

'-4,372!'

A damage value appeared as the spear went by his head, quickly followed by a raging roar from Mordoro. The initiated attack triggered the boss to stand up from the throne, and with his right arm reaching out to the side, he grabbed the long spear that lay by his side. Two ghostly green flames ignited right at the eye pupils of Mordoro as he walked towards the direction of Zhang Yang, as if he was having a walk in the garden, but his movement speed was astoundingly fast! In just a split second, the boss had already reached Zhang Yang and he began to swing the long spear in his hands towards Zhang Yang.

'32,000!'

At that instant, the effect of the {Undead Regenerative Aura} kicked in and healed the boss. Without the effect of {Destructive Smash} to weaken the healing effect, Mordoro was healed by an amount of 32,000 health points, healing him back to his full health state!

"You insolent living scum! How daring of you to come forth to me with such misguided intent!" Mordoro spoke in a very low voice, as if the sound of thunder was rumbling in a rhythm forming up into audible words, trembling across the ears of Zhang Yang and the ladies, to the point that their ears hurt!

Zhang Yang quickly raised up his shield to block the long spear that was about to stab him, and 'Ding!', the shield and the spear clashed! Zhang Yang could feel a powerful force trembling across his shield, pushing him two steps back! He could also feel that the force had numbed his shoulders and arms! He had almost let go of his weapon in his hand as he could not hold it in his hands!

What a powerful boss!

He was struck back a little, but he stood firm and re-engaged into battle with the boss.

Because the boss had an aura skill that heals him overtime, Zhang Yang quickly activated {Destructive Smash} onto the boss, followed by layers of {Cripple Defense}. Then, he worked together with Wei Yan Er and smashed another 5 layers of {Cripple Defense} onto the boss.

"Imbeciles, there is no point in resisting the inevitable, kneel before the great power of darkness!" Mordoro was looking down on them with disdainful eyes as he wielded his long spear and stirred up a strong current of wind across the area. It was as if the boss was charging up for an attack! As expected! The boss charged toward Zhang Yang with his long spear, like an enraged dragon, piercing towards Zhang Yang!

'-11,380!'

'8,000!'

While giving a blow to Zhang Yang, the boss was healed with 8,000 health points at the same time!

To increase the damage output of Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er, Han Ying Xue healed up Zhang Yang with the time gap she had at hand, then she cast a {Putrefying Poison} onto the boss. Although the damage was not really affecting the boss much, the decaying effect could reduce about 10,000 health points from the boss, providing an overtime damage of 600 for every second!

"Hahaha! Tremble before despairing darkness!" the aura skill wasn't the only skill Mordoro had. After engaging in battle for just awhile, he reached out with his right palm open, and tens of small black balls emerged around his hands. The black balls then dropped onto the ground and formed into puddles of black water that were wriggling like worms, it was disgusting! These black liquidated balls then gushed over Zhang Yang and [Mythical Turtle].

The movement speed of these black water puddles was extremely slow, slow enough for players to dodge with ease, but not for the turtle!

The movement speed of Turtle was much slower than the movement speed of the puddles of black water! After just a short while, the black water had caught up on Turtle.

Splash!

The black water puddles exploded violently, doing an area splash on Zhang Yang and the ladies, inflicting each of them with a damage value of 10,000 Shadow damage!

"Stupid Turtle!" Wei Yan Er yelled.

"Turtles are just born slower, it's not his fault alright!" Zhang Yang laughed, but the remaining puddles of black waters were still pursuing them, slowly! He quickly unsummoned the Turtle back into his inventory as the Turtle would become dead meat if all the black water puddles touched it!

It was really an unfortunate thing to do, because Turtle the turtle was an indispensable attackers! Plus, Zhang Yang could not summon Whitey out, as he was now currently engaged in a battle.

But the good thing about this was that the healing amount of the boss had been reduced to 4,000 health points every 2 seconds.

Zhang Yang kited the boss by picking and rolling around the area, dodging whatever black water puddles that were pursuing him. It was a fortunate thing that they had already cleared most of the monsters in the palace. Now that the palace had been cleaned of the monsters, they could roll around with the boss without having to worry about being ambushed by monsters.

"Hahaha! Tremble before the despairing darkness!" Mordoro would cast the black water puddles all over the ground once every 20 seconds, giving no time for Zhang Yang to slack at all. All he could do was to move around, dodging those 'things' while kiting the boss at the same time.

It was really a fortunate thing that the area was vast enough, and that the movement speed of the black water puddles were really slow. As long as they were more aware of their surroundings, they did not need to fear being touched by the black water puddles that would explode upon touch!

90%, 80%... even though the health bar of the boss was reducing very slowly due to the {Undead Regenerative Aura}, after bombarding the boss with all that they had for 10 minutes straight, Mordoro was soon left with 50% of his health!

"So, it seems that I have underestimated you!" the greenish flames on the eye pupils of Mordoro flashed all of a sudden, as his right arm began to ignite in flames, and the greenish flames began to blaze on all the way down to long spear in his grip!

Zhang Yang tightened up his *ss, as he could not afford to make any mistake at this point!

Boom!

Mordoro raised up his long spear and plunged the tip of the spear straight into the ground of the place. The moment the spear plunged into the ground, the earth shook as if there was a 10 magnitude earthquake striking the area. The ground began to shatter into pieces, as the pieces of the ground were stretching unevenly across the entire area. Boom room room! The pieces of ground were being crushed into dust, which surged across the air!

'-12,186!'

'-19,580!'

'-19,910!'

Zhang Yang and the ladies were inflicted with a high value of damage as the air surged all around them! That wasn't the end of the attack, it was just the beginning of it! 18 streams of green flames beginning to ignite and grow right from the ground surrounding the boss, with the tip of his spear as the center point. These flames then expanded out towards eight different directions into the surroundings, and across the ground in an instant, expanding out into the shape of a spider web!

As the green flames spread across for quite a distance, they started to come to life from the ground at a high speed, forming blades at the tip of each flame. These blades were all about 3 meters long! Right after they formed, they reached out into the surroundings at high speed! Like thick whips of flames, with bladed tips, each of them reached out for their targets!

"Rawgh!" as he heard some weird noises, Zhang Yang could see that there were many terrifying human faces with horrifying expressions drilling their way out from within the green flames, moaning with weird noises, and grimacing at Zhang Yang and the ladies. While they were at it, Zhang Yang could also see their white teeth gnashing, as if they wanted to chew him alive! Are you kidding me? Green flames with bladed tips that can flexibly pursue targets, while having scary faces drilling out from the flames? Fortunately, the tenacity of these flames was really good. Even though these faces were trying to drill themselves out from them, but after reaching out for about one or two feet, they would be held back by the elasticity of the flames.

"Dodge!" Zhang Yang quickly shouted, aware of the damage they were about to receive if they just stood there and did nothing.

Actually, Zhang Yang did not have to shout to inform Wei Yan Er and Han Ying Xue, because the moment they saw the faces drilling out from the flames, they had already began to run from them! So, it would be impossible for the faces to get near, or to touch them!

"Hahaha! Listen to the song of misery straight from hell!" Mordoro pulled his spear from the ground and pursued Zhang Yang. Waving up his left hand, it was another wave of black water puddles splashing onto the ground, making the place even merrier!

"To hell with this man! They expect us to survive all this?" Zhang Yang began to lose his composure and he cursed as he kited the boss, running all around the area like a mad man!

However, the 18 streams of green flames were like living beings, they actually tailed Zhang Yang and the two ladies! As the green flames spread, the human faces continued pushing out from the flames, crying out in sharp voices that stacked together. It was really disturbing to hear all that! What that was even worse was that the area where the green flames spread across would stay burning!

"I can smell the scent of despair and terror!" the boss laughed in a very low and bassy voice, "Shake in fear! Fear! And finally, subdue yourself to the power of darkness, become my loyal servant!"

"Stop bragging, you stinky sh*t! Just wait until we chop your god d*mn doggy head down and kick it like a football!" Wei Yan Er replied defiantly, clearly more annoyed than anything else.

"Give up on this futile resistance, tuck yourselves into the embrace of darkness!" Mordoro spun his long spear so fast that there were visible ripples in the air!

Zhang Yang quickly took a few steps back. The movement speed of the black water puddles were extremely slow, but the green flames were moving extremely fast! He had to keep moving around without stopping at any one spot at all times to prevent those horrifying faces from biting him!

The 18 streams of green flames were like 18 gigantic pythons, twisting and turning all over the place, trying to catch up to Zhang Yang and the two ladies, forming walls of flames along the way, trying to cut the three of them off. Countless human faces were crying out into the area, just like the sound that could be heard, only from hell. It was just terrifying!

"It's time to speed things up!" Zhang Yang was frowning. Although this palace was vast, but as the 18 stream of green flames spread across the area, cutting off ways for them to run, if they delayed this battle a little more, all three of them would definitely be trapped inside the green flames and be burnt alive, or should we say, bitten to death, alive!

40%, 30%... The boss had the {Undead Regenerative Aura} that would recover his health overtime, so even though Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er had been giving everything they had into bringing down the health of the boss, their damage output efficiency had been reduced by almost 20%! With all the interruption from the black water puddles and the green flames, it would be hard to maintain the rate of their attacks on the boss, and that led them down to not being able to reduce the health points of the boss quickly enough.

"Keep it up, guys! You guys are doing great!" Han Ying Er was in charge of healing Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er. Other than that, she needed to time herself and cast the {Putrefying Poison} onto the boss, leaving her with no time at all to chant the {Punishment Ray}!

"This might just work!" looking at the one quarter of the entire area that was not yet being occupied by the green flames and the remaining 20% health bar of the boss, Zhang Yang was confident that they might just pull this off! Plus, all three of them had not yet activated their super skill - {Dance of the Heaven and Earth}!

"Devastator!" Zhang Yang summoned [Devastator] out with a wave of his hand to aid them in battle.

-- as servants were not counted as living souls, they would not affect the {Undead Regenerative Aura} of the boss and consequently increase the healing amount of the boss.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Right after [Devastator] joined the battle, he used his large fists to punch the boss hard. The boss looked puny standing right before the huge body of [Devastator]!

17%, 14%, 11%... the health bar of the boss was getting lower and lower, while the surface area that had been engulfed by the green flames was getting larger, the party was almost drowning in a sea of green flames already!

[Devastator] had the disadvantage of having a very huge body mass! Although Zhang Yang and the ladies still had space to stand apart from the flames, the huge fellow had no place to stand anymore. It was during that moment, when everyone knew that [Devastator] was doomed! The green flames touched [Devastator, and the flames began to spread across him!

In an instant, the green flames had spread all over [Devastator]. Countless human faces were drilling through the body of [Devastator, the scene was really horrifying!

Boom!

The huge body of [Devastator] was reduced to bits in one short instant, and the 20,000 health points were reduced to zero in just a blink of an eye!

"Holy cow! What a mess!" Zhang Yang was shouting in shock.

If players were to be touched by these green flames, they would be instantly killed!

8%!

"Take some [Power Potions, and let's activate our {Dance of the Heaven and Earth}! Together!" Zhang Yang took a bottle of [Beginner's Power Potion (Grade 10 Transmutation)] first, and then activated his {Dance of the Heaven and Earth}, followed by the special effect of {Chaotic Dance of Electric Current}!

Meanwhile, Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er had also taken their own [Power Potions] and had activated their {Dance of the Heaven and Earth} as well!

Shoof! Shoof! Shoof!

Three shadows wielded their swords, cutting through body of the boss, slashing like crazy! The body of the boss was suddenly surging with streams of white electrical radiance, as the old beastman started hammering strikes of lightning strike onto the head of the boss.

'-14,000!'

'-14,000!'

'-14,000!'

...

The health bar of the boss was reducing crazily, as if a water pipe had ruptured, and the liquid in it was flowing out!

2%!

Mordoro was already at the brink of his death!

But, the green flames and the black water puddles were approaching the three of them, trapping them in a corner!

Zhang Yang tightened his teeth and shouted, "Charge into the black water puddles! I'll activate my skill - {Vanguard's Aggression}!"

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Chapter 411: Victory at a Price

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Although the black water puddles could inflict AOE damage of 10,000 upon touch, upon the activation of {Vanguard's Aggression}, the damage can be minimized greatly! As for the green flames, it was a different story. Judging from how [Devastator] was drilled to bits within seconds, and no damage values appeared on its head, it was obvious that the attacks ignored defense, damage immunity, and damage absorption. So one touch, and you are as good as dead!

Wei Yan Er had been hanging around Zhang Yang throughout the entire battle, so Han Ying Xue had to approach them quickly to enter into the radius area of 3 meters, marking Zhang Yang as the center point. By entering the effective range of {Vanguard's Aggression}, she would be able to enjoy the special effect of the skill.

The black water puddles were right in front of them already!

Zhang Yang quickly activated the {Vanguard's Aggression} and activated his {Shield Wall}, almost at the same time! With the special effect of his [Titan Wall] kicking in, the damage he received was reduced steeply, and he was recovering 10% of his health points in every second! He was like a god for that 15 seconds!

1%!

That final drop of the health points of Mordoro was only 80,000!

{Killing Cleave}!

The moment the cooldown period of Wei Yan Er's {Killing Cleave} was over, she activated it again, almost immediately, swinging her heavy and powerful giant axe over at the boss and inflicting the boss with a terrifying damage of '-32,312'!

As Zhang Yang's {Kiling Cleave} was still on cooldown period, he activated his {Block} to avoid some damage first, and then he activated his {Shield Bash}!

'-10,502!'

Critical Strike! Lucky!

Right after all that, the boss was left with around 40,000 health points! Since they already did not need Han Ying Xue to heal them anymore, Han Ying Xue began to hurl {Punishment Rays} at the boss as well.

'-7,243!'

The inherent damage of {Punishment Ray} was extremely low, but with the extremely high magic attack attribute of Han Ying Xue, the skill had exhibited an outstanding damage value!

The green flames were spreading over closer than ever!

30,000! 20,000! 10,000!

"Argh --" Han Ying Xue screamed miserably, and somehow the voice turned Zhang Yang on. Her body was engulfed in green flames as the human faces tore her apart into bits! The moment she was killed, she did not even have the option to release her soul, and was transferred straight to the graveyard.

Wei Yan Er followed her to the graveyard a few seconds later. Things were happening too quickly!

'-8,334!'

Zhang Yang swung his sword across the boss's body with a {Horizontal Sweep}! The boss was only left with about 1,000 health points! One more hit! A gentle hit, a strong brutal hit, it did not matter anymore! Just one more hit, and the boss is as good as dead!

The green flames were so close that they could touch Zhang Yang at any second now!

Zhang Yang activated his accessory [Heart of the Death Knight, but unfortunately, the invincible effect of this piece of accessory was not effective against the assault of the green flame! Countless human faces were drilling through his body. Even though Zhang Yang had a total of 70,000 health points at the moment, and the skill - {Shield Wall} activated, everything was helpless before the blazing flames! He was instant-killed!

Boom!

A white light surged through Zhang Yang's body as he was revived back, with his health bar full again!

-- it must be Han Ying Xue's skill, {Rise Anew}!

Zhang Yang swung out his sword with all his might at the body of the boss as soon as he was able to - with a shoof! At the same time, unfortunately, the green flames engulfed him once more and he was burned into bits in the next split second!

'-4,343!'

'Ding! Your party has slain The Vengeful Spirit Mordoro, acquired 8,900,000 experience points!'

'Ding! You have been killed, all equipment will acquire a 10% reduction on their durability!'

Shoof, Zhang Yang was transferred back to the graveyard right after the notifications.

When Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er saw Zhang Yang's soul had respawned by their sides, they let out a breath of sigh and disappointment and said, "Sigh, after all the effort and everything that we have been through, it was all for nothing!"

Zhang Yang laughed out loud and said, "Who says so! Hahaha!"

"You slew the boss?" Wei Yan Er asked curiously.

"Of course I did!"

"Then, why are you here in the graveyard?"

"Heard of Arthur and Mordred? Killing each other at the same time?" Zhang Yang smiled.

Han Ying Xue curled up her lips and said, "I only heard about 'sharing life and death' , so, aherm! Silly Yu and the boss are really 'we are entangled together forever, never to part for a second, like wind, like sand, indispensable for minutes1'! Haha!"

"Stop showing off your knowledge on wordings and stuff, let's get moving! We're giong back to pick up our 'trophies'! Or else, the system is going to refresh everything, and all this would really have been for nothing!"

The three of them rushed back to the palace in their soul forms. It was really fortunate for three of them, that the graveyard that they were transferred to was just located right in the middle of the Black-Rock Canyon. So, it did not take them long to get back to the location of the palace. After about 10 minutes, they arrived by the side of Mordoro's dead body. They managed to revive themselves nearby their dead bodies that were torn to bits.

Han Ying Xue gulped down a bottle of [Mana Potion] and quickly, she began to chant some of her healing skills to heal up all the three of them. It was just an act of precaution -- for example, in case other players appeared and ambushed them! So it was wiser for one to maintain health points at the maximum when traveling in the open world. You will never know what lay ahead of you in the 'wild'!

As usual, Wei Yan Er only aimed for the coins and picked up the 20 gold coins first, and then only she began to look at the remaining 'trophies' that were scattered on the floor, besides the boss.

"Haha! It's another [Armor Set]!" Wei Yan Er cheered with her hands raised up in the air, but immediately, she pulled her head and hands down facing the ground, "Unfortunately, this is not for me."

[Ring of Sincerity] (Violet-Platinum, Necklace)

Vitality: 141

Intelligence: 94

Spirit: 40

Equip: Reduces 5 seconds of cooldown period for {Holy Shield}.

{Unidentified}

Required Profession: Priest

Required Level: 80

With this ring, Han Ying Xue has finally gathered 3 [Sincerity Armor Set, activating the first special effect of the Armor Set! She was giggling and jumping in joy until her huge pair of boobs were jiggling about as if forces were applied on them, with the surface of the boobies rippling like watery sacks. Zhang Yang could not help but scold her for teasing him so!

[Raging Blaze Hand Guards] (Violet-Platinum, Cloth Armor)

Defense: 16

Vitality: 282

Intelligence: 189

Spirit: 81

Equip: Increases 100 damage points for Fire-Type Skills.

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 80

"Hmm, this should be given to Daffodil Daydream!" Zhang Yang kept it into his inventory temporarily.

"Noob tank, do you like sister Daffodil Daydream?" Wei Yan Er tried to pry from Zhang Yang.

"Where did you get that idea from? How did you even come up with that?"

"Because, if you like someone, you will give her things!" Wei Yan Er cocked her head a little and said.

"... then, do you mean to say that I like Hundred Shots, Fatty Han and the other men in the guild? Because I always give them things." Zhang Yang spoke flatly.

The expression of Wei Yan Er changed all of a sudden and she pointed at Zhang Yang, "You! You like men! Oh my god!"

Han Ying Xue twitched her lips and said, "Ignore her, let's get all the equipment. I'm still hoping one boss can give me an entire set of [Armor Set]! Then I will finally have it!"

But her 'hope' was not realized as the boss only dropped two Violet-Platinum equipment, the remaining were a bunch of Yellow-Gold equipment. Because Zhang Yang and the ladies already had better equipment, so they were not interested at all. Zhang Yang took everything into his inventory as he was planning to sell all of them for gold coins.

As there was no sign of Zhang Yang's [Armor Set, he sighed and said, "Little girl, what kind of 'lucky hands' are yours? I'm still one out of seven short! And it's been so long ever since!"

"Humph! Don't get me started on this! I haven't made any noise even though I'm 6 out of 7 short!"

The last item on the ground was naturally, the quest item [Mordoro's Heart]. The heart looked like a red diamond, and looked like it's still full of life, still beating! The pulses were strong and lively.

"This is weird, aren't the undead…dead? How is the heart so lively? And it's beating stronger than an ox!" Wei Yan Er was beginning to ask some more senseless questions.

"Just give it a rest, we just have to complete the quest, and that would be enough for us!"

The three of them kept the [Mordoro's Heart] and came out from the palace. They had finally obtained the necessary requirements to turn in the quest item for rewards!

They went all the way back without encountering any problems, and they arrived at the little cottage of Kyle Dylan. There, the NPC was looking forward to their return. When he saw Zhang Yang and the ladies, his face was filled with hope again.

"This old man is quite suitable for this role, always waiting for us to come back to him!" Wei Yan Er nodded.

The three of them halted their [Mounts] and dismounted. Kyle Dylan was smiling at them, "It's good to see you all back here safe and sound, and I bet you guys have already completed the quest!"

"Here, this is the [Mordoro's Heart] that you ordered!" Wei Yan Er took the quest item from her inventory in a hurry and was ready to place it onto the hands of Kyle Dylan. But she was stopped by Kyle Dylan himself!

"Careful there! Careful!" Kyle Dylan looked very tense as he stared at the lively beating heart in the hands of the little girl, then he took the quest item into his hands as gently as possible.

'Ding! You have completed a quest: Eliminate Shaman Mordoro, acquired 5,000,000 experience points!'

Wei Yan Er was curious, seeing Kyle Dylan being so careful with the heart, "My respected old man, may I know why are you being so careful with this heart? Is it because this heart has some sort of use?"

"Of course it does!" Kyle Dylan revealed a gentle smile on his face as he waved at the three of them, "Come, come. Follow me. I want to show you something, and also tell you a story!"

He walked out the little cottage and went to the little garden at the back of the cottage.

So, did this mean that there was another quest following up? Zhang Yang and the ladies exchanged a look, and then they followed the old man out of the cottage, and into the little garden.

At that moment, they could see dust stirring up from afar, approaching their location. There were five players riding on [Storm and Gale Direwolves, heading over at a high speed. At first, Zhang Yang did not realize it, but as the five mounts were approaching nearer, they saw that the five players who were coming at their way were, in fact, the five players of The Spartan Warriors who were wiped out by Zhang Yang and the ladies!

Three of them looked at each other and smiled.

Meanwhile, The Spartan Warriors were not aware of Zhang Yang and the two ladies. They thought they were just 3 random players trying to accept a quest. Zhang Yang could hear the voice of the Ten-Times-of-Grass coming loud from afar, "What a stupid quest! Wasted our entire day just to get it done! If it's not for that ring, I would have slaughtered that NPC and choke the life out of him -- Huh?"

The five of them saw Zhang Yang at the same time and they were terrified. Their faces were filled with pure terror as they began to back off very slowly.

Zhang Yang smiled vaguely at them, "We are just going to accept a quest, if you're here for the quest as well, give us a moment, we're about to leave."

"No rush at all! We're not rushing at all!" Spartan Warrior quickly bowed at them and spoke in a very good manner. The other four of his party members were also being courteous, as they were afraid that Zhang Yang could charge at them and slaughter them all.

"Pff!" Wei Yan Er was trying to hold her laugh, but obviously, she failed. "These people look exactly like the sniveling traitors in war movies!"

"Speaking of traitors, now that we're about to enter the Chaos Realm, when the war is triggered, who knows, you might even see some traitors with your own bare eyes!" Zhang Yang smiled.

"Humph! If they ever appear in front of me, and I find out about them, I'm going to chop them down one by one, until none of them are still standing!" Wei Yan Er purposely took out her giant axe and swung it around to emphasize how she would do it! But her action scared the five Spartan Warriors until they hugged each other in one spot, having thoughts that the little girl was not happy to see them and was about to chop them into pieces.

"About 20 years ago, there was a plague that appeared out of nowhere and began to spread across our village. Many perished because of the plague!" Kyle Dylan kept the [Mordoro's Heart] into a weird looking container as he continued to tell the story, "Among the perished, my wife, Anelia was one of them. She was infected, and she passed on!"

The NPC's name has the term 'Grave Keeper', but there was no sign of any grave in the garden. Could it be, that he was only keeping an eye on his wife's gravestone where she was buried?

Wei Yan Er was filled with curiosity, so she asked, "And then? And then?"

"... some of the dead villagers had turned into undead creatures. So, our chief was afraid that the other bodies would undergo the same changes and turn into undead creatures. So he commanded everyone to burn every single dead body with blazing fire!" Kyle Dylan began to get agitated as he stood up, took a few steps back and look into afar. Then he revealed a sense of hatred on his face, "I begged him, I knelt down with my knees on the cold stones of floors and I begged him not to burn away my Anelia. But he refused and threw her body right into the blazing flame! I did the best I could and managed to get my Anelia out from the fire, But, this is all that's left of her, just her skull!"

The NPC suddenly revealed a very strange facial expression on his face as he continued to talk, "I fled all the way here, and all these years, I have been doing everything I could to resurrect my Anelia! Now, her resurrection is upon me! It's happening!"

Kyle Dylan began to laugh like a mad man, revealing his true colors beneath his gentle face!

TL Notes:

1. We are entangled together forever, never apart for seconds, like wind, like sand, indispensable for minutes - means two persons sharing life together, including life and death. The same sort of line for newlywed but in Chinese culture.

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Chapter 412: The Resurrected Anelia

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"Why do I have a bad feeling about this…!" Wei Yan Er beat on her chest and said.

Meanwhile, Zhang Yang let out a breath of sigh and said, "I really hate these types of dramatic quests, always making us look like fools!"

Kyle Dylan was laughing madly like he was about to drown himself into madness, as if he was being possessed by a demon! He gazed at Zhang Yang and the two ladies, "I must really show my gratitude to you adventurers! You worked so hard, aiding me in collecting all the ingredients that I need to resurrect my Anelia in the name of Justice and some treasures and coins! Thank you so much! For twenty years, twenty years! I have waited for so long, and today is finally the day!"

Boom!

A powerful quake trembled across the ground for just a brief moment, then everything went quiet.

"Can you hear that?" Kyle Dylan was looking madly passionate, "That's the sound of my Anelia, resurrecting! I really have to show my gratitude! The Vengeful Spirit Mordoro was the strongest undead there is, and with his heart, my Anelia shall have unlimited power!"

This NPC just turned into some evil character with a savage face, "Those bloody villagers, they must have grown envious of me for being the richest man in the village and took all my properties right after I escaped! Humph! When my Anelia's resurrection is complete, I shall bring her to the village and rain chaos upon them, let those filthy scum villagers pay for what they have done!"

Boom!

The ground shook again, and again! Boom! Boom! Boom! The quakes were getting stronger and stronger, as the plants in the surrounding trembled as if they were human. Boom! Boom! Boom! Tall trees began to fall, as sand and dust were kicked up by the impact of the fallen trees.

"Noob tank, this looks a little too 'magnificent'!" Wei Yan Er gripped her axe a little tighter.

"Sigh, why do we have to battle no matter where we go, can't you give me some time to rest?" Han Ying Xue was sighing with a helpless tone.

The Spartan Warriors quickly backed off while hugging each other tightly.

Boom!

Suddenly, a gigantic white-boned arm emerged from beneath the surface of the ground! This arm was huge! It was about 3 or 4 times thicker and larger than the arms an average person would have! Upon a closer look, the white skeleton arm was obviously combined together by many thigh bones, definitely not some natural human bone. It made sense now, that was most probably why Kyle Dylan had asked them to collect so many [Skeleton Bones, [Tooth of a Zombie, and also [Bone of the Necromancer]!

Boom!

Another white-boned arm broke out of the ground! The two huge arms were like bulldozers pushing across the ground, pushing away the soils on the two sides. In that instant, dust and sands were everywhere in the air, all they could see was shattered rocks and marbles flying all over the place!

"Hahaha! Come out! Come out now! My Anelia! My beloved Anelia!" Kyle Dylan was jumping about joyfully, with a crazy look, as if he just had drugs! "Now, no one will stand in our way! No one! No one! Hahaha!"

'Ding! Grave Keeper used you to provide him the necessary ingredients to resurrect his late wife. This terrifying existence of undead will bring catastrophic consequences to the human nearby! You must be responsible for what you have done, warriors!'

'Ding! You have automatically accepted a quest" Slay Anelia! If you give up on the quest or you cannot complete the quest within 1 day, you will receive a penalty of Level -1!'

What the hell!

Zhang Yang and the ladies stared at each other, and cursed in unison! For everything that had happened, it's all because of the system guide, isn't it? If the game could just give some sort of notification to inform the players, nothing of this sort would have happened right?

This is just helpless, and hopeless! Since things have already escalated to this, they just have to go with it!

"Silly Yu, should we kill those five Spartans first?" Han Ying Xue took a quick glance at the Spartan Warrior and his 4 party members. After all, they had been slaughtered by Zhang Yang and the ladies once, revenge was a sentiment that they most likely harbored.

Before Zhang Yang could reply, a gigantic white corpse broke out of the ground! The corpse was about 3 meters tall, and the white bones on it seemed all thick and strong, but the size of the human skull and brain above the neck were of a regular human size, sticking right on top of the gigantic body! It was really disproportionate to look at!

[The Resurrected Anelia]

Level: 89

HP: 8,900,000

Defense: 2,500

"My dear Anelia --" the eyes of Kyle Dylan grew gentle as he looked at the face of Anelia with an obsessed face. He was looking at Anelia as if she was not a gigantic white-boned undead, instead, he believed that she was still his beautiful wife! He must have lost his mind!

Zhang Yang smiled bitterly, "It's another drama mode, we can't move, again!" Fortunately for him, he managed to summon [Mythical Turtle] out right before all these happened.

"Kyle? Kyle Dylan?" Anelia was speaking out in a very low and husky voice, looking down at Dylan from the tall and huge body of hers, "Why have you become so short all of a sudden? That's not right, why is everything becomes so small around me? Argh! My hands! My legs! My body! What is going on with me! Argh --"

"My dear Anelia, please listen to me first!" Kyle Dylan quickly told Anelia every single detail about her death and her resurrection.

"I... I'm already dead?" Anelia was feeling lost, as she reached out her hands up around her face. She was shivering as she was filled with despair. She placed her shivering hands onto her face and said, "My face, is my face also changed? Like my body and hands?"

"My dear Anelia, no matter how you change, I'll always love you!" Kyle Dylan told her gently and looked at her passionately.

"That's just so touching!" Han Ying Xue could not move, but she still could talk, "If only someone, some man would tell me that, my life would be perfect!"

Zhang Yang, "..."

But, Anelia did not seem to be able to listen or accept any of this. After clutching her face in a daze, she suddenly let out a thunderous raging roar towards the sky and began to slam on the ground with her hands. The slamming caused the ground to shake and tremble as if the water was boiling, constantly fluctuating! She then roared at Kyle Dylan with rage, "Why! Why did you resurrect me! I wasn't born a monster, and I sure didn't die as one! So what meaning does it hold, for me to live like this! I hate you! I hate you!"

"Anelia--" Kyle Dylan intended to comfort her.

"Shut up!" Anelia continued to roar.

"My dear Anelia, please calm down first!" Kyle Dylan made another attempt to comfort his resurrected wife.

"I said, shut up!" Anelia roared in anger yet again, but this time, she raised her huge white-boned arm and slammed it across the ground straight at Kyle Dylan! With one powerful sweep of her arm, flesh and bones of Kyle Dylan splatted right across the air onto the ground, he was instantly smashed into a pulp! "No--" Anelia shouted as she lost her voice. In the past, she was still an ordinary woman, but now that she has become a Violet-Platinum boss, of course, she would lose control of her new strength, of course, she wouldn't know how strong she had become!

"Argh!" Anelia began to scream in a sharp voice, and her body began to radiate with terrifying a sense of power.

"You--" Anelia raged and looked straight at Zhang Yang, the two ladies, and the 5 Spartan Warriors standing further from her. Her eye sockets were ignited with an evil flame, "My husband is already dead, why are you still alive? I want to kill! Kill every single one of you! The world does not need a single living person!"

Right after she was done talking, Zhang Yang and the players in the area had finally regained control, and they could finally move!

Wei Yan Er pointed straight at the nose of Anelia and said, "You old b*tch! You 're the one who killed your own husband and now, you're trying to blame this one us? What a b*tchy Pan Jin Lian!"

"Zhang Yang could not help but to laugh, "If she's Pan Jin Lian, then she must be the worst looking Pan Jin Lian there is in the entire history!"

"Bastards!" the boss began to stomp the ground with her white-boned feet, charging towards Zhang Yang and the two ladies! Well, they were standing so much closer to the boss, of course, they would be the ones who would get the aggro of the boss first.

A boss battle was already upon them, and having no time to even look at the five players of The Spartan Warriors, Zhang Yang quickly equipped the [Party Summon Order] on him as a precaution. What if the five of them, The Spartan Warriors, decided to ambush Zhang Yang and his party when they are in deep trouble? With the [Party Summon Order, let's see who will be the one doing the looting by then!

{Spear of Obliteration} fired away! Zhang Yang charged in a few steps forward and engaged the boss in battle.

"Go to hell, and meet my husband!" Anelia let out a cry of sorrow and slammed her white-boned hand at Zhang Yang.

{Block}!

Without wasting every single second, Zhang Yang raised up his shield and blocked her slam, then he raised his [Sword of Purging Devourer] and began his assault!

"Hey, old ugly b*tch! Eat my axe!" Wei Yan Er let out a roar and went to the back of the boss. Wielding her giant axe, she directed the swing onto the white bones of Anelia, and her strikes sent sparks flying as the axe was sliced across the surface of the white bones! That hit gave a good crack on the huge thigh of the boss!

After all, the body of the boss was just made up of some bones of elite monsters, how can this boss be compared to the other Violet-Platinum bosses!

"Argh --" Anelia roared at Zhang Yang with her mouth wide opened. Although her head is just as large as a regular human being, her mouth is large enough to swallow down a full-grown pig! As the mouth was wide opened after the boss roared, black fumes engulfed Zhang Yang! Countless black skulls moaned and roared within the black smoke!

'-10,000!'

A very nicely rounded up damage value was inflicted on Zhang Yang, and Zhang Yang had also acquired an additional negative effect!

[Fatigue: reduces 10% of both damage dealt and healing effect, lasts for 15 seconds.

What that was even worse, was that this negative effect could be stacked by up to 5 times!

Zhang Yang quickly informed, "Witch Snow! Don't stand on the same line as me and the boss!"

"Alright!"

Meanwhile, after seeing Zhang Yang and the ladies engaged in battle with the boss, the five players of The Spartan Warriors stabilized their trembling hearts and let go of their fear.

"This is a great chance!" Ten-Times-of-Grass was agitated with excitement.

"That's right! They're engaged with a boss, and it's a Violet-Platinum boss! Strong as f*ck! So three of them plan to slay a Violet-Platinum boss? Dream on! We can't even bring down a Yellow-Gold boss with all five of us!" Freezing With Heart was a little agitated with excitement as well.

"Let's wait! They won't be able to hold on much longer against this powerful Violet-Platinum boss! When Zhan Yu is about to die, we shall charge in and take the advantage the god has given us! Kill him! Kill Zhan Yu! And after we upload the playback of us doing so to the forums and official websites... Haha! We shall become the first in the entire China server to ever kill Zhan Yu!"

First! Number one!

In online games, who wouldn't want to get the title of 'Number one'! Number one on the Leveling list, number one on the profession list, who cares! As long as it's a 'Number one', it was a majestic-looking title wherever you go!

"Hehe, if we can even get a few pieces of Violet-Platinum equipment after we kill them, then we will be rich and powerful!"

The five of them were getting pumped to do it as they talked on. Then they turned their eyes towards Zhang Yang and the two ladies without any fear anymore. Instead, they were looking at Zhang Yang with greedy eyes as if Zhang Yang was already destined to be killed by them.

"Anyone who has seen this look of mine must die!" Anelia was getting crazier, and because she was beginning to get used to her new body, she became more comfortable in advancing and retreating, basically, all of her movements became smoother. And now, she had finally begun to unleash the power of a Violet-Platinum boss!

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Chapter 413: Thrown into a Battle of Chance

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Zhang Yang had been aware of his surroundings, taking in everything, including the expressions of the five Spartan Warriors. He had not missed that. He smiled coldly and said, "Witchy Snow, hang back a little and keep my health bar at 50%."

"Hmm... what are you trying to do?" Han Ying Xue couldn't understand what Zhang Yang wanted to do, so she asked.

"Those 5 behind us aren't looking at us so pleasantly. So, I plan to set up a bait and see if they would change their minds maybe? Their decisions shall decide their own fate." Zhang Yang laughed.

"... Noob tank, you're very…'benevolent'!" Wei Yan Er was laughing very hard.

"Well, if they weren't thinking about taking advantage on us, then they wouldn't be lurking around us still! Haha!"

Han Ying Xue slowed down her healing on Zhang Yang, slowly letting Zhang Yang's health bar reduce from 90% down to 80%, 70%, and all the way down to 50%!

It seemed really dangerous to do so, but now that they were in an outdoor environment, Zhang Yang was mounted on his [Mount, boosting his maximum health up to a total of 133,470 points! So 50% of the maximum health he has is approximately 70,000 health points! Plus, all non-members of his party will not be able to see the specific amount of health points he has, they would only see the percentage of the health bar left.

The Spartan Warriors had no idea how much health points Zhang Yang has at the moment, all they could see was that Zhang Yang's health bar was reduced swiftly down to 50%, and then the health bar was maintained at 50%. So they began to lurk from the shadow.

To them, their chance to strike has finally come!

Freezing With Heart gave the signal, "Alright! Let's get going!"

The five of them looked at each other and nodded. They raised up their weapons and began to approach Zhang Yang slowly.

"Go to hell, all of you!" Anelia suddenly let out a sharp and thunderous roar, as a stream of dark light surged around her body. The dark light then shot out from her body in all directions!

'-20,000!'

'-20,000!'

'-20,000!'

...

In that instant, everyone was inflicted with a large damage value, and that wasn't all, everyone was inflicted with a DOT effect!

[Shadow Corrosion: Inflicts 3,000 Shadow damage every 3 seconds and reduces 50% healing effects, lasts for 15 seconds.

"Son of the sniper!" all five members of The Spartan Warriors cursed at the same time. Other than Spartan Warrior the tanker, who had approximately 30,000 health points on him at the moment, the remaining of his party members only had around 20,000 health points. After being assaulted by the boss with that powerful skill, the remaining four were left with only approximately 5,000 health points. The worst part was that the negative effect actually inflicted DOT damage on their health points! None of them could handle that sh*t!

It had turned into a catastrophic disaster for The Spartan Warriors!

All five of them had their faces wet with tears. "What a stupid boss! We were coming to aid you, and this is how you repay us! Don't you know who are your enemies and who are your allies?"

Invincible Mouth-Sacrifier quickly activated his {Sacred Protection} and entered his invincible state, trying his best to heal up his 'brother-in-arms' a little! However, he was just a holy knight in the end. He specialized in single-target healing. However, there were 5 players - including himself - that required healing, so it made sense that he couldn't handle it! Priests would fare better in this sort of AOE healing.

He quickly shouted, "Quickly, use your skills! I can't hold it up much longer!"

There and then, the five of them had activated their own life-saving skills to save their own *sses.

"Hahaha!" Wei Yan Er suddenly laughed madly and broke off from the battle. She rode on her [Crimson Flaming Horse] and charged towards the five of them.

At the current situation, [Battle Mounts] were still rare, or at least, the five Spartan Warriors had not yet acquired such rare equipment. Standing before the [Battle Mount, they never stood a chance. All they could do was to watch Wei Yan Er charging in swiftly, like a mad general on a horse with a giant axe!

"Taking advantage of others when we're busy? You better go home and suck on your own thumbs!" Wei Yan Er wielded her axe and directed the swing towards Ten-Times-of-Grass!

'-14,211!'

It was a {Destrutive Smash} indeed, Ten-Times-of-Grass turned into a stream of white light immediately and got transferred straight to the nearest graveyard. He had already activated his {Ice Barrier} to remove the effect of [Shadow Corrosion, so he had nothing left to block the heavy strike that Wei Yan Er gave him!

Wei Yan Er giggled and turned her horse around, charging towards her second target, Freezing With Heart!

Taking advantage of others? The Spartan Warriors were already wounded badly by the boss! So now, it was actually Wei Yan Er who was taking advantage on The Spartan Warriors, finishing what the boss had started!

Although the 5 of them had already broken out of their formation, the distance of 20 to 30 meters made no difference. In just an instant, Wei Yan Er had caught up with her next target and had swung her axe again!

'-9,212!'

Freezing With Heart had also let out a sad scream and disappeared into a stream of white light, joining his pal, Ten-Times-of-Grass.

Wei Yan Er turned her horse towards her next target, Invincible Mouth-Sacrifier, and she began to charge again, terrifying Invincible Mouth-Sacrifier until he almost pissed his pants! His face turned pale the moment he saw her charging towards him, because he never expected the little girl to come at him first! He had healed Spartan Warrior first, but Wei Yan Er did not charge at him firstly, even though she knew he was the healer. Instead, she went on killing his other two 'brother-in-arms' on her horse mount!

As his {Sacred Protection} had already been activated previously, it's futile to even think about running away. So all he can do at that moment was to focus healing himself!

'-15,789!'

{Tornado Cleave} activated! Wei Yan Er swung her axe through and instant-killed Invincible Mouth-Sacrifier!

'-4,221!'

Zhang Yang also turned around and threw a {Spear of Obliteration} at Sloppy Sloth, taking away the health points that he had just recovered from a [Red Potion].

Wei Yan Er had already arrived at where Sloppy Sloth was, right after Zhang Yang had damaged him, and with a powerful swung, she struck Sloppy Sloth without holding back!

'-9,284!'

Sloppy Sloth let out a miserable cry and collapsed in his own pool of blood.

There was only one left on The Spartan Warriors party, Spartan Warrior himself!

What a tragic day! They were supposed to wait for the boss to wound Zhang Yang and the ladies before they could cut in and finish the job, but instead, they were the ones who were wounded badly! Left near dead, and having expended their life-saving skills, it was no wonder that they were so easily slaughtered by Wei Yan Er!

It was really a tragedy that would make people fill their faces with their own tears!

Zhang Yang did bother much about The Spartan Warriors, because he knew that Wei Yan Er alone was enough to take care all of them! A Violet-Platinum boss was so much more intimidating and threatening!

"Pitiful humans, why are you still alive? Just die already!" Anelia let out a hissing scream while reaching out with her arms. Clouds of black shrouds were surging around one of her arms, and she clawed her arm towards Zhang Yang.

{Block}!

Cheh --

Although the {Block} was effective in blocking the attack, the [Titan Wall] was covered with a black shroud. Zhang Yang took a look and he cursed, "What the f*ck! The attack of this boss has a corrosive effect on equipment! My shield lost 29 points of durability just by touching her hand!"

As long as the durability of equipment did not hit 0, the effect and function of the equipment would still be there, even if there was just 1 point of durability left. But once it hits 0, then wearing the equipment will mean nothing, it will be just like being naked! To get the equipment functional again, one would have to take the equipment to a Black-Smith to repair it!

Fortunate for Zhang Yang, the [Titan Wall] was a Violet-Platinum that he used very often, so he knew the exact durability of the shield to be 1,920. Although he had engaged the boss with his shield at 1,600 durability points, it would still take a very long time to whittle away those durability points, even for a boss.

"Argh --" on the other hand, Spartan Warrior could only struggle for a bit before he was chopped down by the giant axe of Wei Yan Er. There, he was transferred to the graveyard to join his brothers.

"Noobie!" the tragic hero Spartan Warrior heard Wei Yan Er looking down upon him as he was being transferred to the nearest graveyard. He had never felt so humiliated in his entire life, that he felt like killing himself with a piece of soft tofu. Obviously, he was on the brink of losing his mind.

Wei Yan Er took up her giant axe and spun it to make herself look cool, and then she patted her horse and ran back to the boss.

Without the need to worry about being stabbed in the back by the five 'noobies', Zhang Yang and the ladies began to unleash all their power onto the boss, without a single sign of holding back!

However, Zhang Yang was inflicted with the negative effect [Fatigue, so his attacks had been reduced by 50%, causing him to be able to inflict only about 2,000 damage onto the boss with each hit! If it weren't for his {Eagle Eye} that ignored 50% of the target's defense, and also having 5 layers of {Cripple Defense}, he would have been affected, even more, having his damage output lowered even further!

Zhang Yang had already dismounted from the Turtle. Although he could boost his maximum health points a lot higher by mounting, it would expose [Mythical Turtle] to the effect of [Fatigue].

After waiting out the {Fatigue} effect, Zhang Yang quickly activated Turtle's {Spirit of the Flame}. All attacks of the Turtle had turned into Fire-type attacks in that instant, and the attack of Turtle had been boosted up to another level!

Although the damage output of Zhang Yang had been reduced steeply, Wei Yan Er and Turtle were still inflicting damages to the boss as steadily as usual.

On the other hand, the five members of The Spartan Warriors were running in their soul state.

"Are we still doing this?"

"... Forget about it, after we revive ourselves, we'll just wait until those god-slayers finish off the boss, before we get the quest done."

"Gosh, she was really worthy of the title 'One of the Strongest Core Players in Lone Desert Smoke', look at her! How fierce she can be when in battle! What kind of axe do you think she's wielding? That berserker can inflict me with about 9,000 damage with a regular attack. It only took her 3 slashes to kill me!"

"Better don't provoke them ever again! Let's just hide from them whenever we see them!"

When the five of them were running around in their soul state, Zhang Yang and the ladies were engaging the boss in a fierce battle. The boss had many different patterns and styles of attacks. She would switch between applying {Fatigue} and {Shadow Corrosion} effects, depend on her mood. The negative effect - {Fatigue} only affected Zhang Yang alone, but the {Shadow Corrosion} was very horrifying! Not only could it inflict 20,000 Shadow damage directly, but also inflict a total DoT damage of 15,000 points, adding up to a total damage of 35,000! Even Han Ying Xue would 'choke' on it!

Fortunately, Zhang Yang had crafted a large number of high grade transmuted potions and had seen to it that the two ladies had an abundant supply as well. They were able to enjoy the perks of spamming the potions without worry! And thanks to this large number of [Mana Potions] with extra effects, Han Ying Xue could heal more comfortably.

"I'm the master of the undead! Spectres, awaken from your slumber, and fight for your master!" Anelia's humanity was beginning to slip away, as she was transforming into a true aster of the undead!

She raised her hands up and sent black shrouds across the air, over to the six corpses on the ground.

Right after that, a series of violent cracking sounds could be heard, and those corpses started to shuffle on their feet. The eye sockets of these corpses were ignited with green flames of the undead, clear and bright. The corpses then opened up their arms and roared into the sky in rage.

[New-Raised Skeleton Soldier] (Elite, Undead)

Level: 85

HP: 85,000

Defense: 450

At that exact moment, the five players of Spartan Warriors had finally arrived at the locations of their own corpses and selected 'Revive'. Shoof shoof shoof shoof shoof! Five of them revived and stood on their feet in the middle of the battlefield!

"Rawgh!" the six elite skeleton soldiers had empty aggro bars, the moment they were raised from the dead. So, the moment the five players respawned nearby, the skeleton soldiers immediately set them as their primary targets! Growling all the way, other than the one skeleton soldier raised from the dead Kyle Dylan close to where Han Ying Xue was, which charged straight for her, the remaining 5 skeleton soldiers went on to slaughter the five players of The Spartan Warriors.

These five poor souls had just respawned, and they had only 20% health points on them. Furthermore, they were not particularly skilled in the game. So, when the elite skeleton soldiers came up to them, they did not stand a chance and got slaughtered all over again. With some miserable screams spreading into the surroundings, the five of them were quickly sent back to the graveyard.

"What just happened? Why are we dead again?"

The five of them were looking at each other, their faces gaunt and manic.

Zhang Yang quickly flung a {Spear of Obliteration} at the skeleton soldier from afar attracted its attention, shouting, "Little girl! Kill the small ones first!"

"Roger!"

"Kill, kill them all!" Anelia cried out in a hostile tone of her sharp voice. There were more than a few white bones all over her body that had already been smashed and shattered to the ground like bread crumbs, all thanks to the powerful smashes and slashes that Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er had brought upon her. But that had only provoked her even further!

Zhang Yang stepped up and clashed with the remaining 5 skeleton soldiers, with the activation of his {Horizontal Sweep}, a powerful swing of his [Sword of Purging Devourer] directed straight at the monsters. The special effect of his sword was triggered as well, and countless aurablades were dancing around the monsters, luring them over to Zhang Yang.

The firepower of five elite monsters and a Violet-Platinum boss was quite powerful. Zhang Yang did not dare to slack or to be negligent at all. So, he activated his {Shield Wall} to tank them, and finally, he took them all out one after another.

But these monsters had a skill on each of them, that was, when these monsters die, they would cause the damage done to them to turn into the health points for the boss! Although these monsters had been slain, the health bar of the boss had recovered by 2%!

"It's all because of those five nincompoops! That was how 5 more monsters were spawned!" Wei Yan Er scolded.

The situation was obvious just now. The number of elite skeleton soldiers Anelia can summon depended on the number of corpses in the surroundings! If The Spartan Warriors had not died, there would only be one skeleton soldier summoned, and there wouldn't be a problem at all!

If The Spartan Warriors could hear what Wei Yan Er just said, they would probably puke blood immediately -- it was Wei Yan Er who slaughtered them in the first place!

Zhang Yang frowned, "They were just killed again, so there are another 5 fresh corpses around for the boss to rise again!"

"What a bunch of losers, can't they just find a better spot to die?" Han Ying Xue started attacking the boss directly.

One minute had passed, Anelia let out a deafening cry again and said, "I'm the master of the undead! Spectres, awaken from your slumber, and fight for your master!" She raised her hands up and sent black shrouds across the air over to the corpses of The Spartan Warriors on the ground, just like how she did previously.

Clak! Clak! Clak!

5 Death Knight began to spawn out from the corpses! The Death Knights were resting on their own battle horses, and the horses would paw their hoofs on the ground from time to time, breathing out fire from their noses!

[Newly-raised Death Knight] (Elite, Undead)

Level: 85

HP: 200,000

Defense: 900

Wei Yan Er was staring with her jaw hanging, "That doesn't make any sense! How can a horse even come out from the corpses!"

Zhang Yang laughed out loud and said, "Something to think about, The Spartan Warriors should be proud of themselves, because they can still transform into such powerful foul monsters!"

"Whinny!" the five battle horses from hell let out their battle whine, moving their powerful legs, carrying the Death Knights towards Zhang Yang and the ladies like howling gale!

Death Knights were not regular elite monsters, and if 5 of them activated {Death Strike} at the same time, together with the boss's attack, even Zhang Yang could be instant-killed!

At that instant, the three of them were in a very dangerous situation!

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Chapter 414: Powerful Summons!

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Thud! Thud! Thud!

The Death Knights did not even allow the party time to prepare themselves. They came up, wielding their heavy swords at Zhang Yang, as if they were about to slay a god!

'-1,785!'

'-1,536!'

'-1,693!'

'-7,384!'

'-1,634!'

The five Death Knights directed their heavy swords right at Zhang Yang, and one of them was able to score a {Death Strike}, inflicting a horrific damage on Zhang Yang!

The boss did not just stand there and watch as well. She reached out for them with her massive arms. Fortunately, Zhang Yang was ready. He had reserved his {Block} just for her! With his shield raised up high, he activated {Block} and repelled the arms, preventing himself from being damaged even further.

Zhang Yang could not care whether the damage output of Turtle was reduced or not at this time. He immediately flipped himself over onto Turtle, boosting his maximum health points up to 130,000 to increase his own survivability.

{Blast Wave}!

All five Death Knights were hit and they were stunned, giving Zhang Yang and the ladies a brief moment to breathe and buffer a little.

"Focus on one monster, and kill it first!" Zhang Yang quickly marked one of the Death Knights with the symbol of a 'sun' and commanded the ladies to attack it.

Han Ying Xue also took a moment of her time to activate {Putrefying Poison} on the Death Knights, all five of them. Then, she turned her attention towards healing Zhang Yang with everything she had. The damage output of one boss and five elite monsters combined was very powerful! Even Zhang Yang's defense would not hold up for long. With all the damage done to him and Han Ying Xue healing him, his health bar was like a roller coaster, going up and down, breaking even at around 50%.

This time, he wasn't just pretending. It was because Han Ying Xue could not keep his health points up!

[Devastator] and [Money-Greed Florick]1 were summoned to increase their damage output in an attempt to end the battle a little faster. As for the centaur servant that Wei Yan Er had, the power level of this servant is just too weak compared to the other two servants. So it would be pointless to summon it out.

{Force Blast}

[Devastator] blasted the 5 Death Knights 10 meters back the moment he was summoned out, followed by a powerful {Blast Wave} from Wei Yan Er in attempt to restrict the movement of these elite monsters.

But still, Zhang Yang's health bar was still decreasing madly, and it was about to hit the bottom!

{Berserker's Heal}!

'133,470!'

A healing value that left Han Ying Xue speechless and impressed at the same time appeared right above Zhang Yang, healing him back to his full health state!

In terms of AOE attacks, Wei Yan Er was no match to Zhang Yang! But, Zhang Yang is currently inflicted with a {Fatigue} effect, causing his attack to decrease tremendously. The defense of these Death Knights was uniquely high, causing the attack of {Blast Wave} and {Thunder Strike} which already had low damage output, to become even weaker, reducing the effectiveness of their initial damage output capability!

It seemed that it would be wiser to level up the skill {Eagle Eye} up to Level 10 as a priority!

When this skill is at the maximum level, it would allow the player to ignore 95% of the defense of the target! So, it could have surprising effects when used to engage multiple monsters at the same time -- of course, it did not make sense to use {Cripple Defense} on the monsters one by one when there are many monsters around!

50 seconds later, the first Death Knight had finally been slain!

"I'm the master of the undead! Spectres, arise from your slumber and fight for your master!"

Another minute later, Anelia began to summon her little minions. But this time, there were no corpses for the boss to use, so Anelia was just wasting her breath and her expression!

Boom!

Another 40 seconds have passed, and the second Death Knight was slain!

Although they were focusing on one monster at a time, some of their skills such as {Tornado Cleave} and {Horizontal Sweep} would inflict damages to the other monsters around them. That was the reason why they were getting faster in slaying the monsters!

The third one followed, and the fourth one, then last but not least, the fifth one! All have been slain! Zhang Yang and the ladies had finally made it through the dangerous situation they were in!

Han Ying Xue staggered in relief, "It was really lucky for us that there were only 5 of them dead! If there are more corpses on the ground, then we won't have been able to pull it through! Any party would not survive if more elite monsters were spawned!"

Anelia possessed the [Mordoro's Heart, and all thanks to this [Mordoro's Heart, Anelia had earned a new ability. As Kyle Dylan had used the heart to resurrect Anelia, it had given her the ability to raise the undead! And Anelia had many very powerful AoE skills. So the more players present, the higher the death rate would be, and the number of elite monsters that Anelia could summon would be much higher as well!

If the death counts of the players reach a certain extent, then the boss would bring disastrously high damage to all players by just summoning elite monsters, causing more deaths. When there are more death counts on the players, the boss could just summon elite monsters with her ability, and the number of the monsters she can summon will increase together with the increasing death count. The boss could simply overwhelm the players in that manner!

Zhang Yang then said, "I hope those 5 nincompoops won't come back and die again!"

After clearing the five monsters, Zhang Yang dismounted from [Mythical Turtle] once again, allowing the mighty and powerful Turtle to unleash its best potential in battle, channeling the highest damage output it could!

70%, 60%... the health bar of the boss was constantly reducing.

For every one minute, Anelia would attempt to summon something. But, unfortunate for her, there were only Zhang Yang and the two ladies breathing with life. So the strongest 'special ability' of the boss had become totally useless!

Pak! Plak!

The bones on Anelia were clashing violently against the sword and axe, causing them to fracture bit by bit. The fracture-lines were beginning to form deeper cracks, as pieces of bones were beginning to fall from her body as if she was oppressed! As the boss's health bar was around 50%, one of her leg was actually hacked off by Wei Yan Er with a powerful blow, literally!

Boom!

The body of the boss collapsed, as she lost balance, and the impact of her falling trembled cross the ground, leaving a wave of rumble and a stir of dust into the air.

"God damn human! Insolent living souls!" Anelia could not stop cursing, trying to support her large body with her other leg that was still attached to her body! She repeatedly slammed at Zhang Yang in rage and hatred!

In this game, there is no such thing as a wounded or weakened status, meaning that, as long as one is still alive, it would not matter if the health bar is full, or if there is only 1 health point left, the attack of a monster or a boss would not undergo any difference -- unless they are affected by status effects from skills such as stuns or movement speed reduction. Although Anelia was only left with one leg, but she could still jump around as if she had both legs!

"Hahaha! This boss is like a kangaroo now!" Wei Yan Er could not help but to laugh out loud!

But this kangaroo is definitely the deadliest one there is in the entire world. As her body was badly wounded, the boss was enraged even more. Although it had not yet increased her damage, but it would likely trigger some sort of skill or effect that she had yet to use!

Red visible lights were flashed violently across the eyes of the boss, as her right arm suddenly turned bloody red, and it looked like her hand was covered with endless blood, flowing around like armor, up her entire arm!

Zhang Yang felt a chill down his spine, it had been a while since he felt fear! As his {Shield Wall} was still under cool down period, he activated his [Heart of the Death Knight] without hesitation, entering a 10-second state of invincibility!

Boom!

The right arm of Anelia extended far out and stabbed straight into the chest of Zhang Yang like a long spear!

'Ding! Anelia has unleashed Fatal Bone Spear!'

Immune!

After the boss stabbed him in his chest with the skill, he suddenly realized that the boss had acquired a negative effect on her.

[Overstressed: Suffers 20% additional damage when being hit, last for 15 seconds.

Although Zhang Yang was not aware of how powerful the {Fatal Bone Spear} was, as he was invincible at the moment, but after realizing the new added negative effect on the boss, he knew that the moment had finally come!

With the boss having the negative effect to receive 20% additional damage, it was a great chance for Zhang Yang and the ladies to hustle up! Time to strike violently!

40%, 30%, 20%... the health bar of Anelia had almost hit the bottom, but Han Ying Xue's mana bar was almost depleted as well! After all, the boss has many means in her AOE attacks. To have her healing Zhang Yang and Wei Yan Er with higher skills of healing, even with her {Divine Soul} activated, which reduces 75% of mana consumption, she would not be able to hold up so long as well!

And she had also been taking [Mana Potion (Grade 10 Transmutation), or else, she would have been done for, since the beginning, and forced to stare from aside, doing nothing!

When the health bar of Anelia was reduced down to 10%, the right arm of the boss turned bloody red again!

{Shield Wall} has completely cooled down, so Zhang Yang did not hesitate at all and activated it right away!

'-37,554!'

That was really terrifying! Zhang Yang was still inflicted with almost 40,000 damage even with his {Shield Wall} activated! Fortunately, he still had about 80,000 health points on him at the moment, or he would have been instant-killed!

Zhang Yang brought up the battle log to check: Anelia's Fatal Bone Spear has inflicted 37,554 physical damage on you (160,456 damage immune, 1,990 damage absorbed).

This... this is just outrageous! A basic damage of 200,000!

Without activating skills, no tanker at the current stage of the game could sustain that amount of damage and survive!

This was just domineering! No wonder the boss became weak for the next 15 seconds, so this was her 'end game' plan! A total damage of 200,000! It would still be worth it, even f the boss stayed weak for another 1 minute!

Even a Level 80 tanker with a full set of Yellow-Gold equipment would have only about 30,000 health points. Without a pet mount to boost the maximum health points, the tanker would still die without activating {Shield Wall}, without a doubt!

So the future was very tough on those tankers without pet mounts. They will definitely be struggling a lot!

During the first hit of {Fatal Bone Spear}, as Zhang Yang was invincible due to his activation of [Heart of the Death Knight, Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er were not aware of how powerful the skill is. But this time around, the damage value appeared on Zhang Yang took their breaths away, leaving them speechless.

'-54,264!'

While the boss was still under the influence of the negative effect {Overstressed}, Wei Yan Yer quickly took a bottle of [Power Potion (Grade 10 Transmutation)] and swung her axe with full strength! Instantly, she inflicted the boss with a horrific value of damage! It felt really awesome!

"Wow!" Wei Yan Er was agitated and she screamed in excitement!

Zhang Yang nodded and praised her, "That value of damage is really a little overpowered. It can be compared to an attack of a boss! Too bad, the cooldown is a little too long as well."

"Humph! It's not just overpowered by 'a little' alright? It's overpowered to the max!" Wei Yan Er was feeling flattered. This little girl really loved to show off.

18%, 16%, 14%... as Anelia was being weakened by {Overstressed}, her health bar was reduced incredibly fast within the 15 seconds!

"What a waste, that all our {Dance of the Heaven and Earths} are still on cooldown period!" Han Ying Xue sighed. If one could just activate {Dance of the Heaven and Earth} while the boss is in her weakened state, it could bring about 170,000 damage to the boss, a terrifying damage value indeed! But the unfortunate thing was that this skill had a 24-hour cooldown period, and they had just activated their {Dance of the Heaven and Earth} during the battle with The Vengeful Spirit Mordoro, so they would need to wait for another 20 hours before they can activate it again!

"Power of darkness, please grant me unlimited power to exterminate these imbecile living souls!" Anelia looked up into the sky and let out a sharp and yet thunderous cry. Her large body began to give off the cracking sound of bone joints as the body shrunk smaller and smaller by the moment!

In just a brief while, Anelia had shrunk down to the size of a regular human person, and at the same time, she also gained a double edged effect. The effect is beneficial and harmful to her at the same time! How so?

[Unholy Strength: Damage increases by 30%, however, loses 10,000 health points every 3 seconds, last for 5 minutes.

At that very moment, the boss still had 5% of health left, a total of 440,000 health points left!

Theoretically, if Zhang Yang and the ladies could hold on for 132 seconds, then they did not have to hit the boss, they only had to wait for the effect of {Unholy Strength} to reduce the health to zero and kill the boss! But the key here now, was that Han Ying Xue was already at her limit. Her mana bar was about to it the bottom already! Now that the boss had somehow gone 'berserk' and the boss's attack had increased substantially, this final stage of the battle where the 5% health must be reduced to 0 will become very difficult and dangerous!

{Titan's Shield}!

Zhang Yang had finally activated his final trump card! He activated his Titan Set Armor's additional effect skill{Titan's Shield}, giving him the ability to absorb 300,000 damage!

"Let's slay this thing fast!"

After going into berserk mode, the boss could inflict a damage of 16,000 in a single hit! Even the {Titan's Shield} can only withstand 19 hits from the boss!

With everything they got, Zhang Yang and the ladies unleashed every single possible hit onto the boss!

3%!

2%

1%

Pak! The {Titan's Shield} was broken at last!

Fortunately, Han Ying Xue's mana bar had regenerated a little over the period of time when they were engaging the boss, so she had enough mana points to heal Zhang Yang in the nick of time!

0%!

Finally, Anelia screamed in misery and collapsed onto the ground heavily.

TL Note:

1. [Money-Greed Florick] - before the amendment, the name was [Codger Florick].

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Chapter 415: Titan Set Armor Completed!

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'Ding! You have completed a quest: Slay Anelia, acquired 5,000,000 experience points!'

The mesmerizing sound of the system notification sounded across the ears of Zhang Yang and the two ladies. Those were the sweetest sound notifications they have heard for the day.

"Please do not engage a boss with only 3 members in a party, that was so tiring!" Han Ying Xue shook her head again and again. Her mana bar had dried up once, and now it got sucked dry once again.

But Wei Yan Er was happy about this, "Sister snow, the fewer we are, the more gold coins we get after slaying the boss!"

Han Ying Xue immediately revealed a conflicted expression right on her face.

Then, Wei Yan Er went on to pick up the loot dropped by the boss. With a joyful smile on her face, the little girl picked up 20 gold coins, and that was the moment when she discovered a pair of gloves glittering in a shiny violet complexion. She picked it up and went to Zhang Yang, "Noob tank, come worship my incredible lucky hands! Take a look at what my hands have picked up for you!"

[Titan Gauntlets] (Violet-Platinum, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 80

Vitality: 282

Strength: 81

Agility: 40

Equip: Absorbs 162 damage points when being hit.

{Unidentified}

Required Profession: Guardian

Required Level: 80

Titan Set Armor (8/8)

Finally! It's complete! All eight pieces of the armor set were in place! Zhang Yang filled his face with tears of joy, as it was really a long journey - full of hardship and patience. Ever since he got the first piece of the Titan Set Armor [Titan Greaves, it had been a long 5-month journey, 5 months!

Without having the patience to wait until the equipment is identified, Zhang Yang equipped it on straight away right after tossing his [Earth Spirit Hand Guards] off into his inventory. There, he finally acquired the special effect when all eight pieces of the Titan Set Armor are together in one place: When you are hit, there is a 1% chance that you will acquire the Titan's Blessing, and the attacker will be stunned for 10 seconds. This effect is effective on the bosses of Violet-Platinum or lower grade.

This effect is wicked sick if it's ever triggered in a boss fight! It can save a life, no, save lives!

Wei Yan Er grew envious of Zhang Yang, and she teased, "Now that noob tank has one complete set of Armor Set, I have only two pieces of my Armor Set. How long do I need to wait before I can complete my Armor Set too! Months? Years? Wu wu wu."

Zhang Yang smiled and said, "If the bread can get it, the butter will get it too! Haha!"

"You sarcastic son of a beach!" Wei Yan Er harrumphed and proceeded with her looting.

[Battle Flag of Recovery] (Consumable)

Use: Installs a battle flag on the ground, heal members of your party (Maximum 10 players) by 2,000 health points every 10 seconds, members must be within the 30-meter radius of the area, with the flag as the center point, lasts for 5 minutes.

Required Level: 80

Well, this was actually a useful piece of consumable convenient for Party Battles! It's like an AOE healing skill, it was definitely practical for battles! Zhang Yang quickly called dibs on it and kept it into his inventory.

"Yan Er, stop fooling around with the inferior stuff and get on with the armor set equipment!" Han Ying Xue urged the little girl.

"Alright!" Wei Yan Er replied with a strong nod and quickly looked for any possible items that glowed violet!

[Blade of Endless Abyss] (Violet-Platinum, Dual Weapon)

Attack: 2,356 - 2,956

Attack Interval: 3.8 seconds

DPS: 699

Equip: When hitting a target, there is a 1% chance to reduce 5% strength of the target. Can stack up to 3 times. Lasts for 10 seconds.

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 80

"The weapon attack is really good, but the special effect is little underwhelming." Zhang Yang commented. The attack of a boss is usually fixed, so it would be pointless to reduce the strength of a boss. And in player vs player mode, unless it's a battle of attrition where the one lasting the longest wins, it would be impossible to wait for so long until the effect triggers 3 times and stacks onto each other!

"If we sell it, it will still be worth quite a fortune!" Han Ying Xue nodded, but she was not really into this kind of selling and buying business. She preferred to get the gold coins in her hands, as it's more exciting to pick up the gold coins by herself, and holding them in her hands felt more practical and real.

"Wu wu wu, so after all that we have been through, battling the boss, we only get three pieces of Violet-Platinum equipment as our reward? And only noob tank gets to complete collecting all eight pieces of his armor set equipment! This is really unfair!" Wei Yan Er lamented

[Cryonic Warrior Greaves] (Violet-Platinum, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 80

Vitality: 564

Strength: 161

Intelligence: 80

Equip: Absorbs 162 damage when being hit.

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 80

"... doing all the heavy work for this Starlight boy I see!" Zhang Yang let out a sigh, because this equipment was specially designed for a defender, as it increases the intelligence of the person who equips it.

"Humph! At least get 100,000 gold coins from him as service charge!" Wei Yan Er bared her 'fangs' as she spoke. She wasn't in a good mood, as she did not get any of her armor set.

Zhang Yang kept the remaining Yellow-Gold equipment into his inventory and said, "Since the boss is slain, and the quest is completed, let's go back now!"

He was eager to identify his [Titan's Gaunlets].

The two ladies nodded, but both of them requested Zhang Yang to teleport back to the main city and use the [Party Summon Order] to summon them back.

These ladies were capable of squeezing oil out of stones, so Zhang Yang had nothing to argue with them and just did what he was asked to do.

Arriving back at the White Jade Castle, Zhang Yang went straight over to the Identifying Shop to identify his newly acquired [Titan's Gaunlets]. Then he inserted the [Level 3 Vitality Gemstones] onto his equipment, powering it up by 50%! Now, he finally had a complete set of Level 80 Violet-Platinum armor set on him! Initially, the Titan Set Armor only glittering in a vague and gentle violet glow. But, the moment he identified the final piece of the armor set equipment and equipped it, this set of Titan Armor Set suddenly began to bloom in a dazzling violet glow that catches the eyes of the public! He looks awesomely 'shiny', in that sense!

There were many players nearby at the Identifying Shop as well. Seeing Zhang Yang suddenly transformed into some sort of godly existence, everyone was exclaiming on how cool he seemed to be. Some of them were quick on reflexes as they already activated the function of the recorder in the game. If this magnificent scene is uploaded on the forums, this would definitely win a large number of clicks!

Zhang Yang was caught by surprise as he had never thought that the armor would glow so bright, attracting so much unwanted attention to him! So he quickly deselected the 'Show special effect of your armor' in the option menu and instantly, his [Titan Set Armor] became dimmer. Only the lucky ones with quick eyes could see him glowing in 'holy' violet light.

If he had not switched the 'special effect' on his armor off, he would have become a huge 1000-watt light bulb running around in the city! Wherever he goes, he would shine upon the place!

As he was rounded by a bunch of players, Zhang Yang quickly summoned his mount and rushed towards the auction house.

Every time when he returns to the main city, he would visit the auction house to try his luck. Oftentimes, he would find something useful.

As usual. He would first seek for the skill books for pets. Although he did not find any high grade skill books, but he had managed to secure two [Pet Skill Engravement Scrolls, and it was worth his time! But when he went over to search for [Skill Books] for Professions, he was out of luck that day.

Now that he had acquired a full set of Titan Set Armor, he did not have much equipment needs for his next 20 levels journey. The only need he had left was to switch the two rings and two accessories with better ones! The Armor Set effect of his Titan Set Effect would remain irreplaceable until Mythical grade equipment appears, and the [Sword of Purging Devourer] still had two seals that had yet to be unsealed. So, as long as he stays on track and completes all the quests related to the sword, the 'Holy' sword will be able to 'grow' even stronger!

So now, leveling up is the priority!

As he had been so busy with so many quests that had provided them so much experience points, along with slaying so many elite grade monsters while progressing through his quests, he was just one small step away from reaching Level 87! And he had only used one day to complete leveling up to Level 87, becoming the first player in the entire China server to ever reach Level 87!

All he ever wanted was to grind his level up further, however, accidental situations tended to befall on him at the best 'suitable' times!

As Silky Soft Holdings was trying to rebuild their business base, many of their business partners were beginning to treat their partnerships a little differently. So the Silky Soft Holdings must be very cautious on every move they make in the future. This time, his company had a contract related to getting a large company in Northern Beijing City, the Crimson Cosmetic Holdings. The two large companies were attempting to work together for once, taking a bundled sales strategy to fight a 'war' with a price.

But as for how they are going to divide the profit, it was a large problem. Because portion as small as one out of one thousand ratios of in and out, can be about millions of dollars for the both companies. So they cannot just simply act on it!

Therefore, although Zhang Yang did not really understand anything about this, he still had to present himself at the Crimson Cosmetic Holdings's headquarters in Northern Beijing City and have a meeting with the CEO of that company. He had the obligation to handle the details of their partnership. Although he was just an observer, but his presence would mean the sincerity of the Silky Soft Holdings in their partnership!

This was actually the biggest step that Silky Soft Holdings would be taking ever since they started rebuilding their business. Therefore, they valued every part of their company. They had already arranged the managers of all departments in their company to get involved in the operation this time around. Zhang Yang thought that he did not have to worry about anything as he was the CEO. There would be a car escorting him to the airport, and when he arrived at the destination, there would also be a car escorting him over to the hotel. That was all in his own thoughts.

On the April 29, he brought 3 of his secretaries along. But when his car arrived at the destination, Zhang Yang realized that they were not at the airport, but they were at the train station instead!

The three pretty secretaries were giggling and smiling while they were trying to pull him up to the train. They informed him that the negotiations would only take place on the day after tomorrow, and they would have plenty of time to be sentimental and have fun 'shaking' on the train!

Now that he was surrounded by three young and sexy women who kept on 'luring' him in, who knew how many men on the train, being envious of him, quietly to the point that they were drooling to themselves! The secretaries had booked their very own Soft-sleeper seats, and the decoration for the coach of the train was very luxurious! The bathroom even had a bathtub in it! The standard of the coach was comparable to a 5-Star hotel!

No wonder one ticket was worth more than three times of the price of a plane ticket! It was all worth the money, just by looking at the coach now!

At first, all six of Zhang Yang's secretaries wanted to tag along. But Zhang Yang thought that it would be way beyond exaggeration for a mere contract meeting, so after picking his troops more carefully, he finally managed to reduce the number of people following him down to only 3, and it was actually still too many! One secretary was all he needed! These three pretty women were giggling all the time. All three of them went into the bathroom of the coach to take a bath, and had come out with only bras and panties on them, walking around, shaking their boobies right in front of Zhang Yang, trying to get on his 'nerves'!

It was really fortunate that he had brought along his game helmet. So, after Zhang Yang put on his helmet and lay down on his bed, he went on and played his own game.

All the while on the coach, the three secretaries pampered him to the point that he only needed to hold out his hand to be dressed, and open his mouth to be fed! They were about to turn him into a lazy person! But the duration of the journey from Zhou Su City to Northern Beijing City was about 16 hours, add or take. So they arrived at the station in less than a day.

So, they arrived at the designated hotel to meet the negotiation team of Crimson Cosmetic Holdings. After a night of rest, Zhang Yang and his main team departed for the company office of the Crimson Cosmetic Holdings, ready to begin their 3-day negotiation on the details of their partnership.

The CEO of the Crimson Cosmetic Holdings was a charming lady, with an outstanding appearance and personality. She was aged at about 28, with a slender and yet attractive body figure. Her boobs stood at attention, and she had a fair face, with a little blush on her face. An angelic face like this would attract most men to take a quick glance at her - both intentionally and unintentionally.

An attractive lady at this age is really mature and attractive. This woman had a strong impression to be kept in admirable order. Every word and every move she made really showed that she was so much more mature and attractive than those young and simple-minded pretty girls that he had met before.

Xu Lan, that is her name.

Zhang Yang took a good look at the woman, and he was shocked! He could not help himself and let out an obvious exclamation, "Snow Seeker!"

"Zhan Yu!" Xu Lan was also very surprised to see him.

So, this Xu Lan is actually the Guildmaster of the Crimson Rage in the game. The two of them actually met once during the Soaring Sword Competition that was being held in Shang Hai.

"Haha! I should have guessed it earlier! How could I not connect the dots! Crimson Rage and Crimson Cosmetics are of course, related!" Zhang Yang laughed.

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Chapter 416: Island of the Sacred One

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Xu Lan smiled. She did not drop her professional demeanor, since the two of them were surrounded by their own staff members. Moreover, they were both in public. "I finally see the reason why during each First Kill announcement, Lone Desert Smoke would put up an advert for Silky Soft Holdings. Even the name of your battle team is Silky Soft Battle Team. You're the C.E.O of Silky Soft Holdings!"

"You flatter me too much. I'm but a sheep in wolf's skin. Who would have thought that it was a good idea to make me a C.E.O?" Zhang Yang laughed. "Speaking of which, who would have thought that we were allies in the game, and business partners in the real world!"

"It must be fate. I hope that Mr. Zhang would show a little leniency! You have already hoarded so much in the game!" Xu Lan grinned happily. Zhang Yang had always admired Xu Lan, or rather, Snow Seeker because of her mature methods of handling any kind of situation. There was something attractive about it.

Luckily, Zhang Yang had been through much worse. Over the past few months, Zhang Yang had always been played, teased, and been through the temptation of the devil himself, as he stayed over at Han Ying Xue's house. That woman would always find some method to sexually trigger the poor man. Case and point, Han Ying Xue had always worn thinly-layered clothing that would reveal her voluptuous curves. That, and the six, super-hot and sexy secretaries in his office who would always try their best to bring their "A game" for Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang had been through so much that it was even possible for him to walk through the valley of shadow and death, and he would fear no temptation from anyone! A simple skip of his heart would suffice to satisfy his lust, which would only calm down after that one beat.

"That's a manner of etiquette. Business is business, private is private. What I do in my own free time is a whole other matter. Still, I'm just a man wearing the title. Silky Soft Holdings is not mine to throw about. But, if I did have my own company, I wouldn't mind giving you the company itself!"

"You sneaky fox!" Xu Lan snickered shyly.

Everyone in the company was shocked to see how the timid little woman had become so friendly with another in their own ground! It seemed like Xu Lan had never been seen behaving in such a manner, that everyone had thought her to be the typical workaholic.

The business meeting went off smoothly since there were two higher ranking officers on the table who were allied guild masters in a highly regarded game. Even though there were slight conflicts in the agenda, both sides had come to an agreement easily, without the need of slamming the table top, or flipping it.

Zhang Yang was completely oblivious of the content of the minutes of the meeting. Out of habit, Zhang Yang had invited Xu Lan for a one-day fun trip in Jing Tian City. Since she had already come over, and that the meeting was already over, might as well spend the rest of the day leisurely. Even though they had plenty of opportunities of adventuring in the game, the experience of walking in town with someone was a whole different experience.

The three other secretaries who had accompanied him had not left his side. They had joined the fray and had made the entire situation rather awkward. Xu Lan had been throwing weird glares at Zhang Yang.

The meeting agenda was unsurprisingly dragged out longer than planned. From three days, it was extended to 6 days! However, the discussion was fruitful and had ended with a final decision that led to them collaborating together to produce a new line of products. At the end of the meeting, after discussing and arguing for 6 days, both companies had finally reached a final agreement, and left, satisfied with each other. The fruitful meeting had ended with a decision to have a celebration at a hotel where Zhang Yang was forced to drink to a point where he was taken into uncharted waters in terms of drunkenness. In the morning, with a throbbing skull, Zhang Yang found himself buried under a pile of half-naked women.

Luckily, after crawling out of the steaming heap of womanly flesh, Zhang Yang had checked out Zhang Yang. Jr. and was delighted to see that he had not been inside any woman! Or rather, no one had taken a chance to taste junior!

After hanging out for a few days with Xu Lan, Zhang Yang had gotten a clearer understanding of what kind of person Snow Seeker was. The beautiful dame was still, surprisingly without a partner. It was not that she was asexual or something like that. Contrary to popular belief, Xu Lan had a love interest back when she was still in university. She had made a move and even got to discuss marriage. However, right after graduation, the boyfriend was involved in a freak car accident which took his life. If there was anything odd about Xu Lan, it was her extreme loyalty. After the accident, she had never searched for a new life partner which had ended up with her placing all her attention on work.

Normally, she did not have the tendency of going out or hanging out with what normal girls of her age would. Inversely, she had gotten hooked up in online gaming, which had also poisoned most of the top-rated product models into playing the game as well. As such, Xu Lan was rather proud of her doing. From what she heard from her peers, the life of a model in the entertainment world was extremely unfair. If they wished to be on the news, they would have to make a deal with the photographers, with their own bodies. If they wished to have a good position in the company, they would have to 'deal' with the company's top brass. Compared to that sort of life, all the models had to do to get to Xu Lan's good side was to behave nicely, and perform admirably in the game!

Zhang Yang understood why there were so many rotten female players in the guild. They had been involved in the entertainment circle for a while, and were well-versed in the ropes! Even their speech patterns…

All in all, the meeting was adjourned and brought to an end. Everyone bid each other farewell, and Zhang Yang returned to his own headquarters. Back at Silky Soft Holdings main branch, it was another round of celebration with Han Yang Xue, Wei Yan Er. Even Li Ru was there. Li Ru had taken some courage from a few cans of beer and had made a move on Zhang Yang. Han Ying Xue was there to interfere with her, fortunately. Han Ying Xue had "foiled" Li Ru's plans of "attacking" Zhang Yang when he was in the bathroom.

On one end, Zhang Yang was quite pleased with how Silky Soft Holdings had turned up to be. Even though Liu Wei was taking a lot of heat, he had not taken much damage. There was still the Liu's family "mothership", backing up his ventures. For the past 2 months, as 'God's Miracle' progressed, the Lius had pushed their business module in the game.

Judging on how much has Zhang Yang amassed, he was still far from where Liu Wei was standing. Although he may earn much more than he could in the game, there were still things that could not be settled with money. It had to be either power and position. As much as he could admit it, Silky Soft Holdings had become his stronghold, allowing him to interact with the business world and engage in monetary battle with Liu Wei.

Zhang Yang went back to his usual lifestyle and started to madly grind. As swiftly as he could, he had successfully become the first player in China to reach Level 90.

"Zhan Yu, I have to say. Among all the warriors under the stars in the sky, you sure have grown fast!" said Warrior Instructor Ani. As usual, her attractive body had permanently drawn in many perverted men.

"Sigh…" Ani sighed sadly. "Looks like I can no longer instruct you! You have grown so strong, that I have nothing left to teach you!"

After paying 200 gold coins, Zhang Yang had picked up a Level 90 Warrior class skill, which was also the last skill available from Ani.

[Last Vigor: Increase your HP limit by 30% and heals 30% of your maximum HP. Extended HP limit will last for 15 seconds.

Cool Down Time: 5 Minutes.

For a tank, this skill worked as the name suggested. A final push, to determine the outcome of the match. Be it a boss fight, or a PvP battle, it would serve as a lifesaver. The Mythical Turtle had also reached Level 90. The HP of the pet, after receiving the Vitality Aura would push the turtle's HP to 65,790! With the both of them combined, the HP limit would reach 144,460! It did not stop there, with the activation of the skill {Last Vigor}, the HP limit would be boosted up to 187,790! Besides that, there was a healing effect of 56,337! It was a powerful life-saving skill!

Like Warriors, other classes would stop learning new skills after Level 90. Adversely, after the Level 100 threshold, players could only get new skills through skill books.

Moreover, Zhang Yang had reached Level 90! He could finally finish the quest in search of the last Dimensional Key Fragment!

With a long sigh of relief, Zhang Yang stretched his body and summoned the bear. Brimming with great excitement to finally finish the quest, Zhang Yang rode to the only Level 90 map in the region of China, the Ten Barren Seas. Although it was the only Level 90 map in the entire region, it was much bigger and wider than all three Level 80 maps combined together. As the name suggested, Ten Barren Sea's was an ocean. The entire map region was considered to be mostly ocean waters, with plenty of islands scattered all over the ocean. The islands themselves were huge; as vast as a Level 60 maps! It's safe to say that the entire map was like the stars in the night sky; an endless sea, with countless big islands. Among all the islands in this biome was an extremely small piece of land which housed a gateway to the Chaos Realms, only usable for players who have reached Level 100.

The person Zhang Yang was supposed to look for, was called Madran. In the quest log, it was mentioned that the NPC was living in the Ten Barren Sea's, Island of the Sacred One. Again, the most annoying part was the fact that the quest description never revealed the NPC's location. As such, Zhang Yang hoped that the island in which the NPC resided in would be smaller than the usual big*ss ones. If not, god knows how long it would take him to find that one NPC!

Zhang Yang rode through the darkness in the Grand Canyon of Eternal Night and ventured towards the Ten Barren Sea. As he slowly left the canyon, the dark, gloomy clouds had started to scatter wider, away from each other. Rays of light seeped through the clouds and onto Zhang Yang's skin. Zhang Yang felt a new warmth like never before, as if he had just transcended into a new realm.

The map changed drastically. From the hard, lifeless dirt on the ground, to soft sandy beaches that sunk beneath the paws of the bear. One vast sunny beach appeared in his sight. Everything about it screamed about summer! The blue emerald water of the sea, gushing onto the golden sands of the beach. The big looping waves that rolled themselves up like blankets! Sun, sand, sea!

Zhang Yang felt like he could just sit back on a recliner and enjoy a sip of red wine by the seaside, as if he was on a holiday. That was, not accounting for the huge lobster monsters walking around the beach.

Zhang Yang walked closer to the sandy ground and tried to find someone to ask for the exact location of the Island of the Sacred One. Within a few kilometers, he found a small fisherman's village, with more than 10 houses around. The number of people around this small village was scarce, but enough to set sail on the seas.

Zhang Yang rode to the edge of the village and approached a middle-aged man who was smoking a pipe. "Excuse me, sir, I'd like to ask about the whereabouts of the island called Island of the Sacred One.

"Ho ho. Now aren't you a religious lad?" the man put down the pipe and turned to Zhang Yang.

Religious?

Zhang Yang smiled and continued, "No sir, I'm just a messenger, seeking a man named Madran…"

"STOP RIGHT THERE!" the man yelled abruptly. He quickly turned sideways rapidly to search for something that would suddenly jump out and kill him.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Yang was genuinely surprised at the man's reaction.

"Are yer daft? If those god-loving-good-for-nothing-fanatics heard you speak of the Sacred One's name directly like that, they would hang yer head off like a tuna!" the middle-aged man warned.

Madran? The Sacred One?

Zhang Yang laughed in his mind. It was Eins Brook all over again!

Zhang Yang asked again, "Sir, could you tell me more about Ma--I mean, the Sacred One?"

"Hm…Let's see. I think it's best for yer to know about the situation eh." The man drew in a deep puff smoke and blew it into the air above him. "I'd say, about 17 years ago, the Sacred One brought 12 disciples and had spread his religion throughout the land. He claimed to be the son of the God Zolanor, which had descended onto these plains to be messiah. After several years, almost half of the population of Ten Barren Sea had turned to him to seek for his teachings. Every year, at this time, there will be a huge number of people visiting the Island of the Sacred One."

"I see. No wonder you thought I was one of Madran's followers!"

"Right on. Lower your voice!"

Zhang Yang nodded and looked towards the endless horizon of the sea. "How do I get to the island?"

"Everyday in the afternoon, there will be ships docking in the harbor by the sea. That ship will transport you to the Island of the Sacred One. If you wish to head there, just wait for a little while. A ship will be arriving soon!" as the man finished his sentence, he returned to his pipe, filling more tobacco in it, and spoke no more.

Zhang Yang did not bother to bid farewell to the NPC, and headed straight towards the harbor. There was nothing to do there, besides waiting. Thus, Zhang Yang had summoned the Mythical Turtle and dived into the waters to farm for some [Devil's Algae].

The moment the Mythical Turtle was summoned out, it had jumped into the waters and started to chase after the fishes around, before Zhang Yang could even get the chance to ride it. Half an hour later, Zhang Yang had already picked more than 20 counts of [Devil's Algae]. The mastery of Herbalism, which had been stagnant for quite some time was finally growing towards the level of Master.

Fwosh!

From where Zhang Yang was, he could hear the sound of water crashing. He looked up and saw a huge turtle-shaped like boat sprinting on the surface of the water at the speed of a torpedo! Within a few moments, the boat slowed down and docked at the harbor.

Zhang Yang stopped his actions and carefully observed the boat. There were more than 10 elite guards with weapons, stationed at the head of the ship, as well as the rear end. They were all Level 92, and were guarding a few weirdly dressed humans in the middle of the ship, with name tags saying "Loyal Followers".

Zhang Yang immediately shot up to the surface and swam back to land, and onto the boat.

The elite guards did not even glance at Zhang Yang and allowed him to walk past them, and onto the ship. On the other hand, it was the followers on the ship who had greeted Zhang Yang by cheering, "Hail the Sacred One!"

Zhang Yang had said nothing else but replied the exact same words.

The ship docked for just a few moments before it started to take off. Instead of heading directly to the Island of the Sacred One, the ship traveled along the land and circled around the coastline. After it had picked close to a hundred more followers, the ship finally left the shore and headed into the deep sea.

Zhang Yang was greatly impressed at the speed of which the ship traveled on water. If Zhang Yang had right, the ship would be at the same speed as a flying mount! After only half an hour of traveling on waters, the ship started approaching an island. At first, Zhang Yang did not know that the island was the Island of the Sacred One, until all the followers on the ship started to stare at it, as if they were finally returning home after 10 years of separation.

Just as they were about to reach the coast, something happened.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Waters around the ship had exploded as if someone had detonated a bomb. The explosion of water was not an attack, but the surfacing of a three-story-tall lobster monsters! Close to 10 of them surrounded the ship. Riding on top of the lobster monster were Naga warriors. They had human bodies but a snake's lower half, with a menacing look on their face that clearly spelled hostility.

They were all Level 92 elite monsters, except for the one that was blocking the huge ship upfront. The Naga that was riding the lobster monster was a Yellow-God tier Naga.

[Ankhdorea] (Yellow-Gold, Humanoid)

Level: 93

HP: 1,860,000

Defense: 1,700

One of the elite guards on the ship had immediately rushed to the front and had pointed his sword at the Naga and had screamed from the top of his lungs. "Curse you, seamen! The Island of the Sacred One is just right ahead, you dare to show your blasphemous faces here!?"

"Hahaha!" Ankhdorea laughed. His voice gargled as if there was still water in his mouth. "You, humans of the land, we Naga thrive where there is water! If not for Island of the Sacred One being there, I would be glad to deliver damnation to where hope is just around the corner!"

"Seamen! If the Sacred One finds out about your attack on his beloved followers, the wrath of his holiness shall befall on you! Heed my words, wretched ones. For the wrath of the Sacred One shall be the end of you seamen!" said the guard with confidence.

"Piss off! Do not mention the Sacred One. He is nothing but a slaughterer who has killed many of my brethren. Now, we will return the favor! A bloodbath is what he delivered to us, and a bloodbath is what we shall return to him! All you people here best pray that Madran will tame his raging heart!" Ankhdorea brandished his trident and bellowed, "Kill them! Spare not one!"

It did not take long for the Nagas and their lobster monsters to capsize the ship and kill everyone. Be it the followers or the elite guards, all of them were screaming helplessly as they drowned in the water.

The Naga initiated the bloodbath quickly and efficiently. They were indeed stronger at sea, as they killed the people with such speed and agility. As easily as a human could move on dry land, the Naga had done the same with the humans in the water. In an instant, the emerald water of the sea was dyed crimson red.

Right after the ship was overturned, Zhang Yang was dragged away by the raging waves and was sent violently to a nearby land. Zhang Yang had no chance to swim, the water current was just too strong.

The Naga had appeared with a flash and had disappeared in the same manner. With Ankhdorea leading the party, the Naga had ridden their lobster mounts and descended into the water.

After the ordeal, Zhang Yang went back to where the ship was sunk and received a system notification.

'Ding! You have survived a mass slaughter. Perhaps you should report this unfortunate turn of events to someone!'

'Ding! You have received a quest: The Lone Survivor. Will you accept it?'

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Chapter 417: Kill Cynapor

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[The Lone Survivor] (Difficulty Level: D)

Quest Description: As the lone survivor of the eerie massacre, you feel a sense of guilt, and the obligation to report the incident to a higher authority. Hurry over to the Island of the Sacred One and bring this matter to the Public Safety Officer Julio. Inform him of the incident and allow him to make preparations to prevent any deadly attacks of the Naga.

Progress: Inform Julio 0/1

Zhang Yang controlled the Mythical Turtle and turned around, and shot towards the Island. Although the turtle did not have an engine powering it, it was still as fast as the ship itself, before it was sunk. Splitting the waves as he sped through the water surface, Zhang Yang had arrived land in just 5 minutes. Once Zhang Yang stepped on land, like a bullet train arriving at the station, the turtle suddenly moved ever so slowly that Zhang Yang had jumped down and started to walk on his own two feet. Zhang Yang immediately swapped the turtle for the bear and rode towards the designated direction.

The rainforest on the island was thick and flourishing. The place was like Eden; especially when there were occasional deers, wild rabbits, and other fauna running around happily, around the skyscraping trees. After the thick forest, the presence of humans started to get heavier. From where Zhang Yang stood, he could see that there were many people looking at the same general direction. There were many kinds of expressions on their faces when he arrived. Some were crying, some were happily smiling, and some were so grateful with tears pouring out of their eyes, they were bowing down on all fours.

Zhang Yang proceeded to investigate the location of Julio, and once he had obtained reliable information, he arrived at a small station, situated at the side of a small hill. There were elite tiered guards everywhere in the station. Some were patrolling around, while the others were standing guard. At the center of the entire group of guards, was a taller man with a well-built physique. Beneath the huge, heavy armor, the man looked like he could kill a bear with a single punch.

[Public Safety Officer, Julio] (Yellow-Gold, Humanoid)

Level: 95

HP: 1,900,000

Defense: 1,700

Zhang Yang rode his way towards the officer and stopped a few meters away from him. He saluted the man before reporting the entire incident. "General Julio. I have grave news for you!"

The stoic and calm expression on Julio was immediately replaced with rage and madness when he heard Zhang Yang's story.

"I knew the Naga were nothing but warmongers! But this time, they have gone too far! They had slaughtered the loyal followers of the Sacred One! This is an open act of blasphemy! Adventurer! I do not care who you are or where you came from. But since you had obeyed the summons from the Sacred One, you have to follow my orders! I hereby command you to go to the Naga's lair, located at the Ruins of Apolli and kill their leader, Cynapor!"

'Ding! The Public Safety Officer, Julio has a quest for you: Kill Cynapor. Will you accept it?'

Zhang Yang frown disgruntledly and said, "Sir, I am but alone. You wish to have me to make my way to the enemy's lair and kill their leader alone?"

"Excellent. You seem to have a perfect hearing!" Julio nodded his head.

Perfect hearing?! You won't need to have a perfect hearing when you hear me screaming in your ears!

Zhang Yang was so angry that he could just jump on him and take his head instead! With great effort, Zhang Yang calmed down and proceeded on with the quest. At least there should be a reward which would make it worth his while.

[Kill Cynapor] (Difficulty Level: A)

Quest Description: The Public Safety Officer Julio has commanded you to invade the Naga's lair and kill their leader, Cynapor. You must bring his head back as proof. The wretched Nagas lair is situated at the Ruins of Apolli, 500km west of the Island of the Sacred One, under the sea.

Progress: Severed Head of Cynapor 0/1

Quest Reward: Julio's Appraisal.

[Julio's Appraisal] (Gray-Silver, Ring)

Vitality: 120

Use: Increases 50 points - all attributes. Last for 30 seconds.

Cool Down Time: 5 Minutes.

Level Requirement: 90

Zhang Yang slowly read through the quest description and closed the quest window with a sulky face. What a f*cked up quest…

Although Zhang Yang had never seen or heard of Cynapor, he knew that when even his subordinate was already a Yellow-Gold tier, would not Cynapor himself be someone of a higher tier? It had to be a Violet-Platinum boss, at least! Furthermore, being the leader of the Naga race, Cynapor would definitely be heavily guarded by all the elite forces of his races! To kill the leader, he would have to go through countless of obstacles and strong bosses! It would be a waste of time! Such a troublesome quest should only be rewarded with a Violet-Platinum! Not some cheap Gray-Silver piece of crap! Who would be willing to do it?!

If not for the Dimensional Key Fragment, Zhang Yang would not have even care about the douchebag. But having gone so far, it was simply something he had to do for the fragment!

After thinking about it for some time, Zhang Yang finally decided to put this quest on the sidelines. Since each player could receive as many as 100 quests at the same time, Zhang Yang was better off trying to complete a few better ones around the island before attempting the troublesome one.

Zhang Yang had ventured through the entire island and found many different types of the most down to earth kinds of quests. There were extermination quests, collection quests, guarding quests, and much more similar kinds. In his ventures, he had found that he was unable to enter the palace, like building centered on the island. There was some kind of magical seal protecting it, that even {Burrow} and {Shadow of the Void} could not penetrate the shield. Alas, Zhang Yang had no choice but to take on the stupid quest and kill what's-his-face.

Zhang Yang sighed heavily and stomped the ground like a pampered kid. He then rode the bear and came to the west side of the island. There, he switched to the Mythical Turtle and sped through the water, towards the west. Since the Mythical Turtle granted underwater breathing, Zhang Yang had taken the opportunity to harvest some [Devil's Algae]. Back on the island, Zhang Yang had taken a quest that required him to farm some materials. Zhang Yang swam close to the monsters that were guarding the herbs and killed them for their drops. The ingredients gathered could be traded to the cooks in the islands and they would whip up something for Zhang Yang to eat.

After swimming for 2 hours or so, Zhang Yang found the place where he had intended to be. It was an old, underwater castle, which was surrounded in ruins. The castle was obviously created by humans at a glance, since there were many statues that were made to look like regular humans. There were statues of Warriors, Hunters, and even Spellcasters.

Perhaps, this castle had once belonged to an actual island. Perhaps, a war had erupted at some point in the past, that had caused the entire island to be destroyed and lost in the deep sea.

Outside the castle were many Nagas patrolling. The males were holding spears, while the females were carrying bows and arrows. None them looked friendly to begin with. They were all Level 94 elite tiered monsters, with HP bars reaching as high as 94,000. There was no other way to enter the castle, other the front door which was heavily guarded. Looks like Zhang Yang would have to dye the water red in order to breach the door.

Zhang Yang swam close to the nearest male Nage and threw a {Spear of Obliteration} the moment he was 30 meters away from him.

'-4,423!'

"Sssss! Filthy human!" cried the warrior Naga. With a quick swing of its tail, the Naga rose from the ocean floor and swam like a torpedo towards Zhang Yang.

'-7,902!'

'-9,613!'

The devastating attack was purely from the Mythical Turtle. The attack was one normal attack and one {Tear}.

After reaching Level 90, Zhang Yang merely gained a new skill and some skill points to use. Since there were no changes in terms of equipment, Zhang Yang had not gained any improvements to his HP limit or his attack power. On the other hand, the battle mount was different. It would receive an upgrade with every 10 levels gained!

At Level 89, the Mythical Turtle's average attack power was only 7,579. After reaching Level 90, the average attack power of the Mythical Turtle had reached 8,428! An 11% gain in attack power!

"It's futile to fight us! The water is our realm! You're powerless here!" cried the warrior as he thrust his spear to attack Zhang Yang. It was true that the Naga thrived in water. They were moving beyond the speeds of a human on land. It was a pity that, as they were fighting Zhang Yang, be it on land or water, an elite tier monster would only be treated as a normal tier. Together with the Mythical Turtle, Zhang Yang had practically butchered the poor Naga.

Zhang Yang had ended the battle quickly and proceeded to loot the battle drops. He picked up a clamshell and when he opened it, there was only meat, but no pearl. Though it was unfortunate, Zhang Yang felt nothing about it and continued to kill his way towards the royal palace.

After some time, Wei Yan Er, Fatty Han and the rest of the team had entered the Level 90 map. Every one of them cried out to join him in his fights. Zhang Yang had no choice but to allow them. He had asked them to visit the guild storage and bring along Underwater Potions. When everyone had made their preparations, Zhang Yang had used the [Party Summon Order] to teleport them to his side.

Since Zhang Yang had only procured one [Mermaid's Lung] which was forcefully taken away by Wei Yan Er, the rest of the team had to use the [Underwater Breathing Potion] to breathe underwater. Since Zhang Yang had the skill Alchemist's Intuition, some of his potions were Transmuted, granting a bonus ranging from a 10% to a 100% increase in swimming speed. The little brat, even though she was already wearing the [Mermaid's Lung, she had still consumed a [Grade 10 Transmuted Underwater Breathing Potion] to increase her swimming speed to 100%. However, even with the speed buff on them, Zhang Yang's and Han Ying Xue's battle mounts' were still faster. Everyone was envious, yet they enjoyed their time underwater.

Zhang Yang tried sharing the quest to everyone and succeeded. However, every one of them immediately complained about the quest when they saw the reward.

The 10-men party was gathered and had punctured through the barricade of Naga like a nail and hammer, and entered the palace's compound.

At first glance, the first area they had entered was supposed to be a garden. Now, instead of flowers, many types of seaweeds were thriving in the area. There were many different kinds of small fishes swimming around freely. Tempted, the turtle turned its head left and right as it saw the fishes swimming past it. Finally, after it could take it anymore, the turtle turned its head up to Zhang Yang, trying to ask for a brief moment for it to have a feeding frenzy.

Zhang Yang sighed and patted the turtle's head, saying, "Let's finish things up here first. I'll let you have your feast after!"

The Mythical Turtle lowered its head sadly and proceeded to swim forward.

With the entire elite team with him, Zhang Yang easily cleared the monsters in the garden area and had stumbled upon the first boss without a hitch.

[Group Captain Jue Was] (Yellow-Gold, Humanoid)

Level: 92

HP: 1,840,000

Defense: 1,700

Once they had taken a good look at the boss' HP, the party snickered. Lost Dream said, "Man! The bosses these days sure are easy as pie! Come on! Not even 2 million there! We could kill it in two to three hits!"

"Yeah, easy for you to say. Without a tank, let's see you manage that!" said Endless Starlight. He hated pompous brats and have never found peace with Lost Dream.

Lost Dream scoffed lightly and replied disgruntledly. "Give me 10 well-equipped Thieves, and we could take turns to use {Blur} and {Vanish} to erase aggro, I'm sure we could defeat the boss easily!"

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Chapter 418: The King of Naga

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Since the boss fight had not yet started, the party was paying attention to Lost Dream's and Endless Starlight's petty squabble. They shrugged helplessly, in pity for the two childish men!

Zhang Yang ignored the two of them and proceeded on with the boss. "It's just a Yellow-Gold tier. Just kill and be done with it."

"Understood."

Everyone nodded in unison. If the boss was a Yellow-Gold boss in a dungeon instead, the party would have been a little more cautious. After all, dungeon bosses were defeated with skill. No amount of high tiered equipment would save you from being a dumb meathead. But an open-world boss was different, their difficulties were just based on their tiers, it's true that they may have skills which required skills to defeat, but when the team is strong as f*ck, there's nothing to it anymore.

"Tch! It's the despicable subordinates of Madran!" Joe Was clicked his tongue and brandished a long metal pole. With quick movement underwater, the first person Joe targeted was Zhang Yang.

"I shall be honored to send you to meet your god!"

Foom! CLING!

The metal pole was swung at incredible speed, but was immediately blocked by Zhang Yang's equally fast shield block. However, since there was no ground to stop the sheer momentum of the spear, both Joe and Zhang Yang was sent backward. However, the Mythical Turtle had immediately paddled its flaps and forcefully stopped its movements to charge back at the boss. Joe Was, being a Naga of the sea, was able to stop himself from being pushed too far. With a quick swing of his massive tail, Joe shot back towards Zhang Yang and prepared himself for another godly smash.

"He looks so proud wielding the pole. Does he think himself as the monkey god Sun Wu Kong?" said Wei Yan Er as she swam towards the boss. Without waiting for an answer, Wei Yan Er swam close to the effective range and activated {Charge}, and started to swing her own axe at the boss.

Unlike Wei Yan Er who was a melee type attacker, the ranged attackers had no need to swim around. They could start attacking, as long as they were 30 meters away from the boss. Fatty Han laughed and said, "Sun Wu Kong huh? Now that you mention it, did you know that when he trashed the entire heaven palace, he was all-powerful, and was able to destroy most of it? But when he was sent to retrieve the scroll in a journey to the west, he was unable to defeat most of the demons and had to ask for help?"

Lost Dream laughed and said, "That's simple! During his ruckus at the heavenly palace, all the gods and goddesses were nothing but regular officers. If the palace was destroyed, so be it, they only needed to wave their hands to rebuild the entire thing! It's not like it would work them up to a wreck. On the other hand, during the journey to the west, the home of the demons that Wu Kong had fought were built by the demon's own blood, sweat, and tears! It's only natural that the demons would fight for their lives! Imagine someone knocking down your door and trashing your place, I'm sure you'll squash them and make apple juice from their skulls!"

"Hey! Wankers! Are you nothing but regular officers yourselves? You think the boss would be defeated with just a wave of your hands?" Zhang Yang scolded whilst attacking at the same time.

Everyone else laughed while Lost Dream and Fatty Han quietly lowered their heads, feeling guilty.

Still, under the massive power of the entire party, the Yellow-Gold boss' 2 million HP was nothing to be feared. With nothing but the wail of the boss, Zhang Yang rushed to deliver the last killing blow.

Just before the sword was about to drop on Joe Was' head. A loud deafening voice echoed through the water.

"HOLD!"

It was then, that the voice had spread through and enveloped the party member with a large air bubble, rendering them immobile to a certain extent. No matter how much they moved or struggled, the air bubble was not like the usual soap bubble that would pop at a single touch. The bubbles encasing the party were too strong to be real.

"It must be a change in the plot!" Zhang Yang explained. From the moment he received the quest from the bloody Julio dude, he felt that the quest was just something to mess with gullible players. Compared to the other players in the team, these kind of sudden changes in the quest development were no surprise to him.

Out of nowhere, a male Naga with a slightly larger character size rushed over. Besides the skin color and the body build of the Naga, he wore a large golden crown. He was also riding a large shark mount and had a large trident in his hand.

[Cynapor, The King of Naga] (Violet-Platinum, Humanoid)

Level: 95

HP: 9,500,000

Defense: 2,600

"Lord Cynapor, these humans are Madran's lackeys! We should hurry up and kill them!" cried Joe Was, like a bullied child.

"Joe Was. You're too quick to judge them. They are not the underlings of Madran!" said Cynapor. He glanced through the party members and locked onto Zhang Yang's Mythical Turtle. "I know that turtle. It once belonged to Gethelo the Merman, yet it now falls in the hand of that human male. I could tell that he and Gethelo have some sort of connection! He would never be the underling of Madran!"

"But, my lord--"

"Silence." Cynapor gave a quick glare to Joe Was.

The King then swam towards Zhang Yang and had a good look at him.

"Young warrior. Would you listen to my plea before you act?" said Cynapor politely.

Cynapor waved his hands and the air bubbles encasing Zhang Yang and his party disappeared.

'Ding! You can select one of the following choices. 1, Ignore Cynapor's plea and kill Joe Was. You will now openly engage an all-out war with the Naga. 2, Spare Joe Was's life and listen to Cynapor. Option 1 will reward you with a Relationship points with a certain individual on the Island of the Sacred One. Option 2 will cause you to be marked as an enemy to everyone on the Island of the Sacred One.'

Both options were like double-edged swords!

Zhang Yang remained quiet and thought of the options available. Even though option 1 was rather fair and tempting, since Joe Was was only one sword stroke away from death, Cynapor had come alone and was easy to defeat now that Zhang Yang had a full team with him. However, Zhang Yang was standing in front of the royal palace of the Naga! Who knew, Cynapor might just call out for help and the entire army of Naga will swarm to his aid! At least, the previous boss that had sunk the ship, Ankhdorea was not here. Still, Cynapor is the King of Naga! He should have more than a couple of Yellow-Gold underlings!

From another point of view, option 2's Relationship with a certain individual was too vague, to begin with! It could anyone! It could be the cook, the fisherman, the ship captain, the harbormaster, or even perhaps the wanker with the name Julio! After all, Zhang Yang's ultimate goal was to obtain the last fragment by killing Madran! What would Zhang Yang gain by getting any Relationship with Madran?

In the end, Zhang Yang finally settled with a decision. "Option 2!"

Everyone in the party followed Zhang Yang without any objection.

Zhang Yang sheathed his sword to display his cooperation and said, "Naga King, I think…a discussion is way overdue!"

"Hmph! I only have to discuss crushing your head!" said Joe Was.

Cynapor laughed and turned his back. "Please follow me to the royal palace!"

With Cynapor leading the way, the other warriors that were patrolling the palace had formed a line to welcome the king and his guests. Cynapor had led the party inside one of the buildings still stood. Inside, Zhang Yang had noticed that there were no one inside the building. Unlike how human's behaved and ruled, a royal palace like this should have many maids and servants stationed inside the palace to serve their king. Besides the guards outside the palace, the building was completely empty.

"Please sit." said the King as he sat down on the throne.

Everyone was troubled. How do they sit in water? Everyone was literally in a hovering status. Sitting down would not make any difference. However, since the king had decreed it, it would be best to sit down on the chairs provided, or it would be unpolite not to do so.

"Adventurers, why are you here?" asked Cynapor.

"Because you called us here?" was what Zhang Yang wanted to say but if he did, it would be massively disrespectful to the king. Instead, Zhang Yang explained the events chronologically. "I am an adventurer who was headed to the Island of the Sacred One. In the middle of the journey to the island, the ship that was ferrying the followers of Madran was attacked by your kind. Everyone died, and I was the sole survivor. I then reported it to a person named Julio, on the island. He had, in turn, sent me here to have your head."

The crowd went silent. Besides the sound of the ocean waters, there was no one making noise until Joe Was opened his mouth. "I know that person. Julio. He is a greedy and sneaky bastard! If he is not hiding on the island, I would have sliced his head off!"

Cynapor nodded and asked Zhang Yang. "Adventurer, I believe that there is a misunderstanding here. You might have come to believe that the Naga are attacking your brethren. However, I feel obligated to inform you of the truth. Madran is an evil man. He plans to revive an ancient Demonic Statue. If he succeeds, it would spell doom for the entire world!"

"Demonic Statue?"

"You heard right. There was a legend that spoke of the War Demonic Statue. It was one of the demon artifacts from the war of the gods. It contained unimaginable power! I have no idea where did Madran acquire the artifact. But I do know this. He had also obtained the means of reviving the statue! The reason behind why he had amassed so many followers is to select the most suitable person and offer them up as a sacrifice to the Demonic Statue. That is his plan. To trade human life, for the power of the Demonic Statue!"

Zhang Yang nodded. He understood what was happening with the quest storyline. "That is why you had sent out your soldiers to attack the ship that was ferrying the followers. It was to prevent Madran from "collecting" enough "sacrifices"?"

"You are correct, earth dweller. However, we do not know accurately, which of them was the real sacrifice. That is why we killed them all."

Zhang Yang had no feelings for the people who had died in the capsized ship. Nothing. Yet, he felt that as a human, he should be. Especially when Cymapor had confessed that he had commanded the kill for those people. The tone that he used was as if they had killed nothing but rodents in the drain. Since they (humans) were not their kin, their death meant nothing to the Naga.

Luckily, it was all but a game's storyline. If he had listened to his words in real life, Zhang Yang would have sprung into action and beat the living hell out of them.

Cynapor had not noticed the change in Zhang Yang glare, and continued to speak his mind about Madran. "In the end, destroying the ship was nothing but to slow Madran down. Eventually, the man will get what he wants. Unless we are able to completely rid him of this world, he will prevail. When that day comes, it is not only us, the Naga, who will perish, but the entire world, including you, humans shall be thrown into the flames of hell."

Cynapor made a sad expression and sighed heavily. "What is wrong with you humans! Why is it that you can kill one of your own so easily? Such a thing would never happen to the Naga!"

"That, my lord, is why I said, the humans are the lowest of all races!" Joe Was spits his saliva which was dissolved immediately in the water. Besides Zhang Yang, the rest of the party members were ready to leap on him at any moment.

Zhang Yang sighed heavily in response to Cynapor. He had no interest in arguing about the virtue among the humans. "Naga King, is that what you wish for? The death of Madran? Will that truly solve all problems?"

Cynapor nodded his head without a trace of hesitation. "Madran, and his 12 Disciples! When that deed is done, the secrets of reviving the Demonic Statue will be forever lost!"

'Ding! You have received a choice. Give up the quest: Kill Cynapor, and accept a new quest: To Bury the Secret. Will you proceed with the change?'

Zhang Yang glanced at his team, and they all nodded in unison. Zhang Yang nodded back to acknowledge, and accepted the quest. It was pretty obvious why he would do so. The main reason was the quest only had a stupid reward in the first place. Secondly, Zhang Yang wanted to kill the NPC and that way, he could easily obtain the last piece of the Dimensional Key!

[To Bury the Secret] (Difficulty Level: S)

Quest Description: Madran has been secretly preparing the revival of the Demonic Statue. Once he succeeds, the entire realm will be blanketed in a dark shadow! Warrior, you have to kill Madran and his 12 Disciples to prevent this catastrophe! Make haste, for Madran is one step to victory!

Progress: Kill Madram 0/1 12 Disciples 0/12

Cynapor was extremely happy. He nodded when he saw the glint of determination in Zhang Yang's eye.

"Madran and his 12 Disciples are always hiding in the magic seal that is protecting the palace in the center of the island. I can tell you this with great confidence. If you want to destroy the magic seal right now, it would take a lot of effort and sacrifice to do so. However, now that you are here, I'd say, there's a good chance of things being much simpler!"

In truth, right after accepting the quest to kill Madran, Zhang Yang was having a massive headache, thinking of a way to penetrate the shield.

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Chapter 419: Breaking the Cages

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Zhang Yang replied immediately, "Naga King. I assume that you have a brilliant idea?"

Cynapor laughed. "Brilliant? Wrong there. I'd called it the last measure. That idiot Julio is our answer. Didn't he want my head? Then, a head he shall get. I'd bet the Trident of Poseidon that he would take the head to meet Madran! When he does, I want you to follow him! That is how you can sneak past the magic seal."

Joe Was suddenly grew anxious. There was a glint of panic in his eyes. "My king, you are our king! The King of Naga! Without your leadership, we would be nothing but wandering soldiers!"

Cynapor sighed and smacked Joe Was lightly at the back of his head. "You fool. Do you think that I would take my own head off for the death of a simple human? I never said that I would give him my head. I will use magic to create a head. The human warrior could take the fake one and trick the idiot Julio!"

"Phew! That freaked me out!" Joe Was calmed down.

"What's up with those naming…Joe Was?" Wei Yan Er cocked her head.

"It's just a name, get over it," said Zhang Yang.

Cynapor clapped his hands together. A faint light glowed around his hands, which grew larger and brighter in a green hue. The light formed a ball and flew a few centimeters away from him and started to form a human-sized ball. The ball kept on spinning and spinning as if it was a 3D printer. After two minutes of "printing", the light faded and revealed a head that was the exact copy of Cynapor's. There was even blood dripping from the severed neck! Complete with a dangling spine and blood vessels! Anyone who sees it would surely be struck with horror!

The move had surely taken a toll on Cynapor. Panting heavily, Cynapor lifted the head from the ground and handed it over to Zhang Yang. "The magic in his head will last only for 12 hours. I urge you to hurry. Fu…"

Zhang Yang accepted the head and immediately placed it in his inventory. "Thank you. We will set off for the Island of the Sacred One immediately."

The 10 of them headed out of the palace without saying anything else, and shot towards the island. Besides Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue, the rest of the team had no water mounts and had to swim by their own efforts. Zhang Yang feared that by the time they reach the island, the "head" would only have only a few minutes left. That was unless they swam like Michael Phelps.

During the designing of this quest, the person had already factored in the possibility of a player not possessing any aquatic mount. That was why, the assigned magic duration was 12 hours.

"Take the time to train here, guys. I'll reach the island first, and I will summon you guys there with the order."

Everyone nodded and turned around to start killing underwater monsters.

The [Party Summon Order] only one hour of cool down time. Zhang Yang had taken close to 2 hours to travel from the island to the place in the beginning, which left him plenty of time to use the [Party Summon Order].

Since he was in a hurry, Zhang Yang had summoned the turtle and used all its strength to get him to the island as fast as possible. He had not even had the spare time to harvest the herbs! In return for his efforts, the turtle had only taken half an hour to reach the island. He quickly used the [Party Summon Order] and called the nine other members who were left behind.

"Let's go!"

Everyone summoned their mounts and galloped towards the location of Julio. With haste, the team had reached hillside, leaving a trail of dust behind them.

"Lord Julio. I have completed my mission!" Zhang Yang jumped down from his bear and handed the bloody head to him.

"Hmm?" Julio turned and check the head that he had just received. After a short duration of skepticism, the man smiled sinisterly and laughed manically. "This is it! This is wonderful! Magnificent! The bloody seaman is dead! With this head, Lord Madran will finally have an audience with me! I will be one of his trusted men!"

After laughing for a good minute, Julio stopped promptly when he realized that he was completely out of character. "Good job in completing the mission. Well done," said Julio, back in his usual stern voice.

Since the quest [Kill Cynapor] was deleted, the party had not received any rewards.

Just when Julio was about to turn away, Zhang Yang placed a hand on his shoulder and put up the best fake smile. "Lord Julio. We are loyal believers of the Sacred One. We wish to have an audience with the Lord himself. Would that be too much to ask?" Zhang Yang could physically throw up right away, if he ever heard himself saying that out loud.

"Imbecile! Do you think I do not know what are you up to?! You wish to take all the credit away from me!" Julio started to get all aggressive and raised his voice. "Scram! Begone!"

Wei Yan Er frowned angrily. With her finger tapping on the handle of her axe, she asked Zhang Yang, "Noobie tank, can I skill this douche now?"

"Hold your horse, sweetheart. Let him disable the magic seal first." Zhang Yang grabbed her shoulder and pulled her back. The party left, but not for long. They went into hiding in the bushes, near the station where Julio was. After a while, Julio was spotted leaving the station with a horse. Zhang Yang gave the signal to his team and tailed him until Julio reached the center of the island, where the palace was.

After a short gallop, Julio had arrived at a magic circle. He got down the horse rather sloppily and took out a piece of crystal. He walked to the magic barrier and pressed the crystal against the magical wall. The barrier wall absorbed the crystal and formed countless of bright lines which formed the hologram of a human head. "Why are you disturbing me, Julio!?"

"Lord Marvados!" Julio kneeled down and unwrap small cloth to reveal the head of Cynapor. "Your humble servant has killed the King of Naga, Cynapor and wishes to deliver his head to the lord!"

The hologram looked down on Julio and glared at the head. "You have done well Julio. You shall bring the head of Cynapor and come to me. The Sacred One will be pleased!"

Bzz…

The head hologram dispersed. The barrier that Julio was facing suddenly made a loud, thunderous crack. A tear in the barrier seal was seen opening up.

Pleased, Julio wrapped the head and walked into the barrier.

"This is it! Jump him!" Zhang Yang cried. All the party member kicked their mounts and dashed towards the crack in the barrier.

Hidden behind the opaque barrier was a huge circular magical altar, surrounded by many stone figure. Each of the statues was anomaly huge and were made to be positioned to look at other stone statues at the center of the circle.

Zhang Yang had immediately recognized one of the statues at the 1 o'clock direction. It had the same face as the man who had appeared as the hologram earlier on. If that was the case, these 13 stone statues would represent the 12 Disciples and Madran himself.

"You--!" Julio turned back and found that Zhang Yang had successfully breached the barrier. With rage in his eyes, Julio bellowed angrily. "I'll crush you! I'd do anything to prevent you from grabbing the right to meet Lord Madran!"

"…What a stuck up boss. I'd say, he might be as stuck up as the fatty!" said Han Ying Xue with a sinister grin.

"Yo…What did I do to you?" said Fatty Han with a sad, close-to-crying kind of expression. In his defense, Fatty Han felt that he was indeed a little more perverted than a regular man. But being a pervert had nothing to do with being an *sshole like Julio!

Julio puffed out angry steam from his nostrils and jumped down his horse. He unsheathed the sword from his waist and attacked Zhang Yang who was the closest to him.

"Little brat. You can now kill the man. Go wild!" Zhang Yang received the attack and grabbed onto the boss' aggro firmly.

From the moment she saw the NPC, she already had insatiable urge to beat the crap out of him. Now that she had received the green light from Zhang Yang, she yelled her battle cry and leaped into the battle axe-first.

The rest of the party did not stand to watch, and moved to their attack positions.

It did not take long for the party to kill a mere Yellow-Gold boss. In the end, they had killed the boss and obtained a Yellow-Gold and two Gray-Silver equipment from Julio.

[Sinister Ambush Chestplate] (Yellow-Gold, Leather Armor)

Defense: 24

Vitality: 302

Strength: 121

Dexterity: 274

Level Requirement: 90

Without the shine of a Violet-Platinum light, the best they got was a shiny gold luster. The four Leather Armor classed players rolled for the item which was won by Hundred Shot, rolling 87 points.

As for the Gray-Silvers, there was a silent agreement that it should be sent, packaged, and delivered to the Little Merchandise Shop. There were no Violet-Platinum drops, since the boss was nothing but a small minion. It was already fortunate of them to obtain some loot in the first place!

"There's a door there!" cried Daffodil Daydream. The young lady pointed at the direction of the statue at the 1 o'clock direction. Beneath the statue was a secret passage, with a staircase that led down to the underground. It was probably opened for Julio.

"Hmm. Looks like the master is welcoming us directly. Well, might as well make ourselves at home!"

Everyone walked down the stairs and was greeted with nothing but darkness. With a quick thought, Zhang Yang had reactivated the equipment effect and it had lit up the pathway like a megawatt lantern.

Wan Yan Er suddenly laughed out of control and had to stop walking. "Noobie tank! Pffft! Are you a--wait for it--a firefly?! HAHAHAHA!"

"Wait! He's not some bug! I'd say, he like the sun in the sky! Shining brightly!" said Endless Starlight, kissing Zhang Yang's butt.

Everyone laughed and immediately understood the underlying meaning behind Endless Starlight sudden cries. However, it was indeed helpful. With Zhang Yang leading down the staircase, it was much easier to see.

After 5 minutes of walking, they had walked out of the narrow pathway and had arrived at a large, empty hall. The hall was much brighter now, and the party had just realized that it was extremely huge. The ceiling was at least a hundred meters tall, and the hall was at least the size of three football stadiums! In this massive empty hall, there was an indented area, which revealed itself as a pool of blood when the party had gotten close. No one knew how deep it went, but one thing was sure, it was blood, and it was boiling.

Right behind the massive, Olympic-sized pool, were cages with a human in each cage. Despair, dread, and hopelessness were in their eyes.

From afar, Zhang Yang could see three soldiers doing something. One of the soldiers had opened a cage up and pulled out a man. The two other soldiers dragged the man by his feet towards the pool. With nothing but the screams of horror, the soldier had pulled out a long broadsword and had cleaved the man's head off, clean.

Thud…*rolls*…Splash!

The head rolled on the ground and fell into the pool of blood. The soldier then picked up the headless body and tossed it into the pool as well.

"Not bad. A clean cut, today! Looks like you're getting the hang of it."

"Yeah. It's the sword, it's all about the sword. It's nice to have it sharpened once in a while."

"Don't sweat it. We'll be given a new blade soon enough when this is over."

"Hahaha. You're absolutely right! I swear that--"

The chattering of the soldier dissipated into the darkness as they left the pool.

Zhang Yang saw what had happened and felt the dread of it. "Erhm…I think Cynapor was wrong after all. It's not a special sacrifice that Madran needed to retrieve. Its blood. A lot of blood."

"That looks more like a human goulash…"

The party moved around the pool and tried to follow the soldiers. As they walked closer to the scene, they found more markings on the stone slab where the most recent parting of a head from its shoulders had just occurred. It appeared that countless heads had rolled into the pool and had stained the flood with so much blood, that it had dried and formed a thick layer of blood plaster. Rage burned in their hearts, and the urge to seek revenge boiled like the pool of blood.

When Zhang Yang had gotten closer to the cages, one of the women in cages reached out her extremely thin arms, begging for Zhang Yang and his party to save her.

"H-Help…me…pl-ple-se…"

Her voice was so frail. Her face, especially, told of the days or even weeks she had not been fed. She was so skinny that she was practically skin and bones left.

Sun Xin Yu was the first person to react to her plea. With quick movements, she jumped to the cage and busted the lock, releasing the poor woman from her captivity.

"You're safe now." Said Sun Xin Yu with the softest voice that Zhang Yang had ever heard. It was extremely soothing to hear her voice when she was not putting up a cold act. The woman cried and hugged Sun Xin Yu. "Why…Why…I don't understand. Why would the Sacred One do these to us! We believed him! We worshiped him! The Sacred One…no…his is not the Sacred One. He is the Damned! The Damned One!"

"Hush now. It's alright. I will make this right," said Sun Xin Yu as she wiped away the tears from the poor woman's eyes.

After stroking her hair and face for a while, the poor woman calmed down and said, "Brave ones, I beg of you! Please save everyone here!"

'Ding! Lena has a quest for you: Breaking Free. Will you accept it?'

Accept.

[Breaking Free] (Difficulty Level: A)

Quest Description: Lena had requested that you rescue all of the captive prisoners. Note: There are 12 places such as this. They are all guarded by Madran's 12 Disciples. Every 5 minutes, each blood pool will claim one prisoner. To complete the quest, you must prevent the deaths of 500 prisoners. The quest will be deemed failure when the death toll had surpassed 500. Each rescued prisoner will increase the reward experience points by 1%

Progress: Rescue all the prisoners 0/1

Zhang Yang then unsheathed the blade and swung it forcefully, causing the metal cage in front of him to collapse, freeing the prisoner inside. With a loud voice, he yelled, "We will free all of you. Please, find a way outside this place and inform everyone of the truth of Madran!"

One by one, the prisoners were freed by Zhang Yang with the help of everyone in the party. All of the prisoners had mixed feelings. Some were extremely grateful for Zhang Yang and his party while the others were burning with rage, even though there were little to no life force to them. From their perspective, they had traveled a great distance just to worship the person who they thought was the Sacred One. Who would have known that they were captured and treated as livestock, instead!

"Something's wrong!"

A voice came from the far side of the pool. It was the three soldiers who had killed a person from before. The soldiers had found out there the prisoner had escaped their cages and had alerted more soldiers to come into the hall. Close to 10 or more soldiers had mysteriously spawned out of nowhere and had joined the fight.

Some of the prisoners who had just been sprung from their cages ran back to the broken cages in fear. Zhang Yang had dashed to the front and called out to Endless Starlight. "Starlight. Come. Let's wrap this up quick."

"You got it boss."

With the battle hammer in his hands, Endless Starlight did not wait for Zhang Yang, and rushed at the incoming soldiers.

The enemies were only Level 93 monsters. There was a total of 15 of them. For other parties with average equipment, this situation might be a little too much for them to handle. But for Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight, it was just a regular grinding session. The soldiers could not break through the line of defense and could only throw insults at them.

"Heretics! The wrath of the Sacred One shall befall upon you! The judgment of God is absolute!" cried the soldiers.

"Tch! Sacred One? Don't make me laugh. He is nothing, but the devil himself!" said Endless Starlight.

Zhang Yang activated {Blast Wave} and stunned the soldiers. The Sword of Purging Devourer glowed and repeated the skill over, and over again!

Sun Xin Yu and the rest started their attack. Like hungry tigers, the team devoured the soldiers in just two minutes. Among the loot that they had picked up, there was a new cloth material, the [Inscribed Cloth]. Besides using the cloth in the profession of Tailoring, it could be used to create [Inscribed Bandages] which could heal 20,000 HP over the period of 10 seconds.

Zhang Yang had picked up a set of keys from the fallen soldiers, and had given the keys to the freed prisoners and had released the other prisoners who were still in their cages. The party then left the place and searched for the door of which the soldiers had come through.

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Chapter 420: Marvados

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Zhang Yang found the door which the soldiers had through, proceed inside. The place behind the door was like a dormitory for the soldiers. It was a narrow passageway, with doors on either side of the place. The first few rooms had their doors opened wide with no one inside but messy beds. It looked like the rooms belonged to the soldiers who had just rushed out to attack Zhang Yang.

As Zhang Yang and the party proceeded further down the pathway, more soldiers had rushed out and had attacked them. Without much trouble, the lot hacked their way through the mess and proceeded on through the mess. After covering a short distance at a slow pace, the team arrived at a dome-shaped room. The room was clearly big, since it housed a similar pool of blood like before.

There was man cloaked in a white long robe that was sitting in a chair at one side. There were two other beautiful females who were clinging rather intimately onto him. Behind the three bizarre characters were 12 soldiers in perfect formation. They were all well-equipped, with metal cuirasses, and long spears in their hands.

[Marvados] (Yellow-Gold, Humanoid)

Level: 95

HP: 1,900,000

Defense: 1,700

[Armored Guard] (Elite, Humanoid)

Level: 92

HP: 200,000

Defense: 1,000

The boss was holding a wine glass in his hand, that was filled with a liquid that shared the same color of blood. When the man noticed the presence of Zhang Yang in the room, the guards were signaled with a snap of his fingers, and they had charged towards them.

Marvados was cool and calm. While sipping his glass casually, he said softly, "I should have known that Julio would be dead by now."

The guards had already surrounded Zhang Yang and were pointing their spears towards the party, but they were not attacking.

Zhang Yang had not yet sheathed his sword. He swung the sword extremely fast and the blood flew off the blade and spurted on the floor. "I do need to apologize for that. I kinda went overboard and accidentally killed the poor bastard."

Marvados chuckled and placed the wine glass down. "His death does not concern me. I had never had any inclination towards that arrogant man." The woman who was standing next to him took over the cup and the other had taken out a piece of white cloth to carefully wipe the corner of his lips.

"My lord." The guards that were waiting for the order from Marvados dared not act on their own will.

Marvados stood up and thrust his hand out in a dramatic, anime-ish pose. "Kill them."

"Yes sir." The guards replied in unison and started their attack. A magical staff magically appeared in the hands of Marvados. With a quick glare, he bellowed, "The Sacred One's plan must never be foiled!"

"Endless Starlight, take the boss. Kite him away. Let me take on the guards!" said Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang had no problem entrusting Endless Starlight to handle the boss, since it was only a mere Yellow-Gold tier. With his current equipment, he could easily tank the boss without a need of immediate healing. Furthermore, Mardavos was probably a magic type, having a magic class Defender tank him would be wise.

On the contrary, the 12 elite guards were a greater threat than the boss. Even though their HPs were not as long as the boss, together, their combined attack would prove lethal to any tank. Zhang Yang had the better equipment and it would be logical to have him take the heat, instead.

"Got it, boss!" Endless Starlight grabbed the boss' attention with a quick toss of his shield.

The 12 guards had no original targets to attack in the first place. When Endless Starlight had tossed the shield and went up to the boss, they had went after him. Zhang Yang quickly went up to the guards and activated {Thunder Strike}, inflicting the first aggro on the monsters, while also slowing them down.

"Futile resistance!" Marvados scoffed and pointed his staff towards the group of guards saying, "The Lord decrees, that those who devote their lives to serve shall gain His powers!"

Shring!

A bright light came down from nowhere and struck the group, granting them a boost of power. Whatever buff Marvados granted, it had profound effects. The men had grown in size. The original breastplates they wore suddenly burst off as the buckles gave way.

[Marvados Blessing: 30% increase in Attack Power. Lasts for 5 Minutes.

Zhang Yang frowned worriedly. If one of them gained a 30% power boost, it would not matter to Zhang Yang. But now, all 12 soldiers had gained power! The overall damage gained would prove to be too much for Zhang Yang to endure.

"We need to kill these guys off, quickly!"

Without delay, the group had rushed forward and unleashed all their AoE skills.

Zhang Yang joined the fight as well. All his AoE skills were used. {Blast Wave}, {Thunder Strike}, {Heroic Leap}, {Brutal Smash}, all status effect skills were used mostly to prevent damage from inflicting him. However, when those proved to be insufficient, {Shield Wall}, {Berserker's Heal}, and even the new skill, {Last Vigor} had to be used to save himself. In this boss fight, Marvados was nothing but a side character, the main problem was his 12 guards!

One by one, the party targeted one monster and proceed to the next when the first was killed. This way, they could kill the monsters more efficiently when their AoE skills were on cooldown, and they could switch to single target skills instead.

Just when the party had killed every single elite guard and were ready to switch their target to the boss, Marvados pointed his staff at the dead guards and said, "The Lord decrees, that eternal life shall be granted to His servants!"

Whoosh!

This time, a blast of dark light came down from nowhere and seeped inside the lifeless bodies of the dead guards.

"Urgh….Orh…." Slowly, the dead soldiers started to make some eerie noises. One by one, their muscle twitched and moved in a disgusting manner. They scrambled up and started to dash towards Zhang Yang.

[Revived Guard] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 92

HP: 200,000

Defense: 1,000

Sigh…There's no end to this!

Zhang Yang immediately cried, "Stop attacking the monsters. Kill the boss! Or else these critters will keep on coming back to life!"

Zhang Yang changed his battle strategy. Instead of tanking the guards head-on, he blasted them with {Thunder Strike} and kited them around. However, Zhang Yang had never expected the undead minions to have such fast movement speeds, that even after the slow debuff, they were still running faster than Zhang Yang could!

'Ding! Revived Guard has received the effect: God Titan's Wrath. Stunned for 10 seconds!'

…

'Ding! Revived Guard had received the effect: God Titan's Wrath. Stunned for 10 seconds!'

…

Since Zhang Yang had received a barrage of attacks from a group of monsters, the Titan equipment set had finally shown its prowess. A holographic image of a metallic, god-like character hovered behind him for a brief second when the equipment set effect was triggered. With a snap of his fingers, the monster was stunned for 10 seconds.

On the other side of the battle, even though Zhang Yang was not participating in the battle against Marvados, the elite fighting party of nine was able to quickly hack away at the boss' HP till he was close to death!

"For the Lord has decreed! Eternal life and happiness for those who worshiped His name!" Marvados pointed his staff at one of the soldiers who was chasing after Zhang Yang. At first, Zhang Yang felt something was off. Perhaps, the skill was going to be used on the monsters and made them stronger. However, to his surprise, one of the guards had burst into dust, leaving its empty armor falling down to the floor. A light ray glowed around the area for a while before it flew from the place where the soldier had fallen, towards Marvados. The light surrounded Marvados and fully restored his life! Wei Yan Er had inflicted {Destructive Smash} on the boss. But even with the 50% reduced healing rate, the boss was still able to recover to its original, unharmed state.

"Sh*t!"

"I'd be d*mned if the boss could still revive the dead guy there! He'd be invincible then!" said Endless Starlight.

"Why do you always go for the worst case scenario?! Will you be satisfied if that really happens?!" Zhang Yang scolded.

Luckily, it did not happen.

After a mere minute, Marvados HP had plunged down again.

"For the Lord has decreed! Eternal life and happiness for those who worship His name!" this time, the party was not surprised. Marvados had repeated the same skill, which had sacrificed one of the undead guards and had restored his HP back to full health.

"…Thank god that this boss had only 1,900,000 HP. If it was a Violet-Platinum tier with 9 million HP, we would have been in for a treat!"

"That's nonsensical. A Yellow-Gold boss would never be that OP!"

However, the boss would never bother about being OP, or not. It would only act as it was programmed, killing the players as swiftly as possible, and surviving by any means necessary! Luckily, the person tanking the boss was a Defender with high magic defense. Fortunately, Endless Starlight had a strong equipment, and was able to defend the party easily. He did not need to ask help from Han Ying Xue for emergency healing.

On the other side of things, Zhang Yang was under tremendous pressure from the monsters. Although now there were two fewer monsters to worry about, the pressure placed on him was still immense. His HP was being maintained by Han Ying Xue, while being knocked back down by the monsters so rapidly, that his HP bar was like a pulsating heartbeat.

Although Zhang Yang was taking a beating, it was fortunate that Endless Starlight was facing next to no problems in facing the boss. The main healer for Endless Starlight, Fantasy Sweetheart, could take some time off him and heal Zhang Yang with {Regeneration} and {Holy Shield}. At least, it could take some load off both Han Ying Xue and Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang had no other choice but to bite down the hardship and push on until all the guards had been "eaten" by the boss.

Slowly, and eventually, the boss had taken the third, the fourth, all to the last one. As the number of soldiers decreased, so did the pressure on Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue. After the last one was down, Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue did not immediately jump to the boss, but sat down and have a little time off to cool off their fatigue. The two of them were constantly on overdrive for so long and simply had to relax for a minute or two. Since the boss was only going to last for so long, Zhang Yang could take his rest without much worry.

However, at 80%, the boss suddenly cast another spell.

"On the first day, the Lord commendeth. Let there be light!"

A blinding light burst out from the boss' staff and had successfully blinded the party. No matter how quickly one could respond, the light would always be the faster. Everyone had to stop for a good second to cover their eyes, for it was incredibly bright.

[Blinding Light: Causes the enemy to lose their sight temporarily. Unable to focus on a target for 10 seconds.

The boss' skill was not an attacking skill, but rather a temporary stun. The entire party had to stop attacking.

In 'God's Miracle' a player can only attack a target by locking onto a target. Losing their sights will lead to a disability of locking onto a target. Luckily, the party members were smart. Instead of locking onto a target, they switched to their AoE skills and targeted the floor around the boss instead. Although they could attack, the damage inflicted on the boss was only but a scratch.

After 10 seconds, the blindness stopped and everyone was enraged. They cried angrily, throwing insults at the boss and releasing their frustration by hacking the boss even more furiously.

The thought of using {Dance of Heaven and Earth} had crossed everyone's mind. Undoubtedly, it would kill the boss easily. However, this boss was just the first among the 12 Disciples of Madran. If they used their trump card now, how would things be when they fight with an even stronger boss?

60%...

"The Lord said, give the Earth water, and water filled the Earth!"

Qiang! Qiang!

Pillars of ice pierced out of the ground beneath them, and dealt as much as 12,000 damage to everyone. Han Ying Xue and Fantasy Sweetheart had to jump into action to heal everyone before anything else.

"What the hell! This isn't water! It's ice! Don't be playing around with God's words!" cried Fatty Han.

"Nyehehe. I guessed the boss has no knowledge of physics. Water has three natural states!" said Wei Yan Er as she giggled happily. She was showing off her knowledge, since, among the party member there, she was the one who had just recently been in school, and had very limited time to act as a teacher herself.

40%...

"For the Lord granted the Earth fire, and fire lay its fiery breath upon Earth!"

Foom!

Before the pillars of ice could disappear, cracks had started to appear on the surface of the ground. Without any warning signs, the cracks spewed strong tongues of fire which had scorched those that had not able to dodge in time, for 12,000 damage.

Like frightened chicken, everyone had jumped on their feet and had started running around in disarray.

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Chapter 421: The Four Horsemen

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"The system must be cheating! This boss must be a Violet-Platinum boss, masking as a Yellow-Gold!"

"F*cking prick, must be thinking of saving Violet-Platinum equipment. That's why he paid the right people off to be classified as a Yellow-Gold! Sh*t is still as difficult as a Violet-Platinum fuck!"

"Yeah! D*mn! It's not what we signed up for!"

Everyone was pissed off when the fight between Mardavos was so much tougher than Julio, even when both of them were of the same tier.

20%...

"The Lord had wished for land, and the earth sprung new land for the Lord!"

Right after the boss had finished talking, a large meteorite fell down from the sky, smashing down on them. From the words that the boss had just said, they were expecting something to come out from the ground! None of them was prepared to defend against the falling rocks!

It was not one, but an endless cascade of falling rocks. The skill dealt the same basic damage as the previous skills that the boss had cast, but compared to the ice pillars and the flaming tongues, this meteorite shower was falling continuously! Eventually, it proved to be impossible for both Han Ying Xue and Fantasy Sweetheart to heal everyone. Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight had already used {Vanguard's Aggression} during the previous skills. Luckily, Zhang Yang was still able to use {Rearm} and reactivated {Vanguard's Aggression} just for one last time.

A blue spherical barrier was placed and had protected everyone. However, safety was nowhere to be seen. By the time the barrier had expired, the meteor shower had not yet finished falling. However, during the protective duration, Han Ying Xue and Fantasy Sweetheart were able to heal everyone. After {Vanguard's Aggression} had ended, the continuation of the meteor had dealt so much damage that the party had lost the HP they had painstakingly recovered.

The decisive moment had arrived, just when both sides had little to no HP left. The party was left with a few drops of HP, while the boss still had over 4%. Zhang Yang and everyone else gritted their teeth hard and rushed forward without the need to care about their lives any longer. The last spurt of power had cost them Hundred Shots and Daffodil Daydream.

After the boss was killed, everyone still stared at the corpse warily. Taking the chance they had, they had quickly taken out recovery snacks, and had healed themselves with every second they had. There was lingering silence among them, and no one was willing to let their guards down. After a good long while, everyone finally relaxed. However, there was still tension between them. If the boss had such a strong power since the "first" half of the battle, he would have already wiped them all clean before Marvados was even required to heal himself with the soldiers' lives. If the first boss was already this tough, how would be for the next 11 bosses?

Compared with the rest of the party, Wei Yan Er, being the youngest and most carefree person, had skipped towards the battle drops while whistling happily.

[Boots of Meditation] (Yellow-Gold, Cloth Armor)

Defense: 8

Vitality: 151

Intelligence: 137

Spirit: 60

Level Requirement: 90

Even though it was not a Violet-Platinum tier, this Level 90 Yellow-Gold equipment was still an incredibly good item, even by the current standards. The boots was then given to Fantasy Sweetheart. The sweet, busty girl then bowed down happily and thanked everyone for the item. Her actions were earnest, yet her movements were so aggressive that she did not realize that her gigantic badahoonkers were bouncing around, causing the pervy Fatty and Endless Starlight to cover their pants.

Han Ying Xue sneaked a peek at Zhang Yang and whispered in his ears. "Don't stare too much though, you might be hypnotized!"

"Hohoho. Jealous much? For she still has it, and you've lost it?"

"Lost it? I did not lose anything! I can get it whenever I want!"

"Nope. You've clearly lost it. She's got the charm. You've got nothing."

"Please. I could steamroll over her with one of these!" said Han Ying Xue as she grabbed hold of her left mountain of delightful flesh and jiggled it at him.

Zhang Yang fell silent. He had completely regretted about taunting the jealous little woman.

[Fragment of Hammer of Sanction] (Yellow-Gold, Weapon Fragment)

Use: Combines 12 Fragments of Hammer of Sanction, and one Hammer's Hilt of Hammer of Sanction to form a complete Hammer of Sanction.

Level Requirement: 90

"Another Assembled Weapon!" cried the party.

The previously assembled weapon that Zhang Yang had wielded for a long time now had made everyone drool for it. Who would not want to own such a powerful killing tool! Since Violet-Platinum weapons were available for Level 80 players could be farmed in Level 80 maps, there were Assembled Weapon there as well, but they were mostly Gray-Silver tier. The end result would only be at the same level as a Yellow-Gold tier. None of the party members were interested in owning such a weapon. However, the Level 90 area was different. A drop of Assembled Weapon would automatically be one of the Yellow-Gold tiers! Which inevitably meant that the end result, would create a Violet-Platinum tier weapon!

"What!? It's a hammer fragment! Awesome! Hell yeah!" cried Endless Starlight happily, since his class had the Hammer Mastery passive skill, which granted the player a boost of strength when using a hammer type weapon.

Zhang Yang laughed and gave the fragment to Endless Starlight. "There are 12 Disciples in this fight, and a final boss. I'm guessing that each of the Disciples will drop a piece of the hammer fragment, and the final boss would drop the hammer's hilt."

"Oh man! This is just too great. It's like a dream come true!"

While everyone was happy for Endless Starlight, Lost Dream muttered something disgruntledly. "Hmph. Just hope that it's not a two-handed hammer."

A Defender could only use a one-handed hammer.

Although Lost Dream was muttering softly, his voice was able to reach Endless Starlight's ears, slightly annoying him.

"Alright guys. We've had our rest. Time to move on." Said Zhang Yang. He sensed something was coming up between the two of them, and tried to prevent something that might affect the party's performance. They still had 11 more Disciples to kill.

Zhang Yang led the way, while Endless Starlight was the rearguard. The party moved in a single file and proceeded beyond the dome hall. After passing a doorway, the team was immediately ambushed in the dark. There was not enough light to see the enemy. However, it did not take long before Zhang Yang realized that the pathway was the same as the previous pathway that had led them to the dome hall. It was another dormitory for the soldiers.

Zhang Yang and his team lowered their guards a little, since the enemies were the same elite soldiers that they had fought before. With no trouble, Zhang Yang slashed his way forward, collecting more [Inscribed Cloth, before coming upon a large room. The room was an exact copy of the first gigantic hall from before. It had the same blood pool, and a ridiculous number of cages that were all filled with prisoners.

It was all a repetitive process. Zhang Yang and the party member silently split up to rescue as many prisoners as they could. Amid the chaotic rescue, came a group of 12 elite guards, who were all killed by Zhang Yang and the team with relative ease. After they were done with the guards, the party continued to release all the prisoners, and went to the same doorway from which the guards had just come out from. They walked down a similar pathway with the same dormitory, and came to a similar dome-shaped hall, except for one issue. The boss was nowhere in sight.

Everyone started to get a little worried.

Bury the Secret was the quest that the party had accepted. The quest had required them to kill Madran and his 12 Disciples. If anyone of them was not killed, the quest would never be completed. This was bad. Among them, Endless Starlight was trembling in fear. The hammer fragment that he was carrying needed to have a total of 12 pieces, if either one of the bosses were missing, he would never form a complete hammer!

"Did someone come before us and kill the boss?" ask Daffodil Daydream.

Zhang Yang looked up and down, before answering her. "I don't think so. In fact, I know so. Currently, I am the only Level 90 player in China. There is little no chance that other players would have come to this island before us. Besides, we have just walked through the only pathway. How do you explain the first boss being there? It must be another reason."

"How could it be?"

"Perhaps the boss got lonely and decided to move to the neighbor's hall for company!" said Fantasy Sweetheart, giggling.

Zhang Yang cried, "It could be that!"

"…Wait a second…Does that mean that we have to fight two bosses at the same time?" cried Han Ying Xue as if she was about to bawl. The woman hated working hard.

"I'm afraid, it could be that."

Everyone left the empty hall and proceeded through a doorway which Wei Yan Er had found. The party repeated the same thing over again. They walked through the pathway, killed more elite guards, came into a large hall, rescued more prisoners, killed more elite guards, and finally arrived at the next boss room. Except, that the third boss was not present!

"What is the meaning of this!" cried Fatty Han.

"I'd say, we'll be fighting three bosses in the next hall!"

"I bet that the next boss will not be there as well!" cried Wei Yan Er.

Zhang Yang frowned worriedly. Words that came out of Wei Yan Er's mouth always came true, especially when it was something bad. Zhang Yang signaled the party to move forward, and they had killed and rescued their way to the next boss room. Lo and behold, Wei Yan Er's premonition had come true. The fourth boss was not around as well.

"Haha! Perhaps we could fight 4 bosses at the same time! The system must be thinking highly of us!" said Hundred Shots laughing. There was a hint of annoyance buried shallowly beneath his laughter.

"Keh Keh Keh! I knew it! Perhaps, the next boss would also be miss--HMM!! HM!!"

Before the little brat could finish talking, Han Ying Xue had already pushed her jaw back up and sealed it firmly with a headlock.

"The boss will be in the next room!"

Everyone prayed out loud. Even though everyone had wished for the best, having the thought of fighting just one Marvados had made them tremble in fear, thinking that the next foe they would be fighting, were four bosses.

The party moved on and proceeded after the fifth blood pool.

After completing the same repetitive process, the party had reached the fifth doorway that led them to the boss hall.

"Come on! May the bosses be there!" cried Fatty Han as he squeezed his eyes shut, and pressed both his palms together.

Zhang Yang turned back and glared worriedly at Fatty Han. In his previous life, 1 month from now, Fatty Han would get involved in a series of fights which had ended with a metal baton striking his skull, hard. The strike had cost him his life. This time, in this lifetime, Zhang Yang had made many changes which had led Fatty Han completely off the previous life's route. Still, who knew what destiny called for. Zhang Yang swore to protect him. He had to prevent the incident from happening at all costs. No matter what happens, Zhang Yang would not let Fatty Han get into any fight!

After the party proceeded through the doorway, they arrived at the fifth boss' hall. Expecting the worse, Fatty Han opened his eyes and had never felt so happy to see a boss. Still, the horror of facing four bosses at the same time had kicked in. All three bosses that were missing from their halls, were all there, with the fifth boss.

[Bellroy, The Four Horsemen] (Yellow-Gold, Humanoid)

Level: 95

HP: 1,900,000

Defense: 1,700

Note: One of the 12 Disciples.

The other three bosses, lined up in a straight line, where Mecca, Gray, and Cindy. All of them carried the title - "The Four Horsemen". They were all Level 94 Yellow-Gold tier, and were riding large handsome horses, hence the title. There were large swords on the side of the horses.

"Crap…It's really four bosses," said Fatty Han. Everyone had mixed feelings about the boss. Even though they were hoping that it would be four bosses, but at the same time, they had wished that it would not have to come to that.

"Let's just be thankful, it's four instead of all eight," said Daffodil Daydream firmly, even though she herself was trembling with fear.

"Hold up. There's an aura effect on the boss!"

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Chapter 422: Overwhelming Aura

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[Gluttony Aura: Inflicts the status effect of {Gluttony} every 3 seconds, on any target within the aura ranged. {Gluttony} will decrease 1% of the target's attack power. Maximum stack: 50. Additional attack buffs will be granted to the aura's owner whenever one of the following auras is applied on the target: {Greed Aura}, or {Slayer Aura}, or {Destiny Aura}.

Two auras: 50% bonus attack.

Three auras: 100% bonus attack.

Four auras: 150% bonus attack.

Aura radius: 20 meters around the owner.

{Gluttony Aura} belonged to Bellroy, while the other three auras belonged to the other horsemen. As the aura skill description depicted, if more than one aura is stacked, the bosses would gain an attack bonus buff.

{Greed Aura} would cause players to receive a stackable debuff, just like {Gluttony}. {Greed} would cause players to receive additional damage received, by 1% per stack, with a maximum of 50 stacks. Debuffs will stack once every 3 seconds.

{Slay Aura} would inflict direct damage of 3,000 chaos damage, every 3 seconds.

{Destiny Aura} would create a field where players will be stunned for 3 seconds, at a certain chance, every 3 seconds.

Zhang Yang practically threw in the towel when he had read the description of the auras on each of the bosses. To make things worse, he just realized that the bosses were sharing the same HP bar! That meant, they could not kill the bosses one by one to slowly terminate the threat of the auras! All 7,600,000 HP had to be dealt with before all the bosses could die.

"Boss, how you want to split it? You'd take two, or three at the same time?' asked Endless Starlight.

Without a doubt, these bosses had to be kited away from each other to prevent the aura from stacking on each other. If each of the bosses gains a 150% attack power boost, the team would not even last for 1 minute.

Zhang Yang thought of a strategy for a long time before talking to Endless Starlight. "You'll take on Mecca. I'll let my Mythical Turtle tank Cindy. I will take on Bellroy and Gray at the same time. These four bosses share one single HP gauge. That mean, we have no need to fight them all. Just focus only on one at a time, and that is Mecca!"

This was a last resort. Endless Starlight might have a strong equipment, but he would never be as powerful as Zhang Yang. The battle would be over in a flash for Endless Starlight if Zhang Yang had allowed Endless Starlight to tank two bosses at the same time. Furthermore, Mecca's {Greed Aura} was able to increase the damage taken. If Endless Starlight had more than one boss on his *ss, the auras would stack atop each other, and would further increase the overall difficulty.

Besides Mecca, the other bosses' aura effects could lower a player's damage output, damage them over time, and inflict a group status effect skill. If everyone were to fight within the aura range of the bosses, the team could not deal much damage, while taking damage over time, and risk getting stunned every 3 seconds!

If the attacking players did their jobs well without taking much damage, and Endless Starlight properly tanked the damage, it would not greatly affect the team's overall performance.

Zhang Yang summoned the Mythical Turtle and got it ready for the attack. "Hundred Shots, when the fight starts, I need you to kite Cindy to the turtle. Can't ready depend on the turtle's movement speed to move to Cindy. Endless Starlight, you'll position the boss to the left, and I'll position my own bosses to the right. Remember to keep the distance between us as far as 40 meters!"

"Got it, boss."

"Understood."

"Any questions? Fatty, follow me. When I fight Bellroy, I want you to attack Gray. When Gray chases you, I'll draw his attention," said Zhang Yang.

"Leave it to me."

Zhang Yang gazed at Fantasy Sweetheart and said, "Sweetheart, I want you to focus on Endless Starlight. However, at the same time, you'll need to heal the Mythical Turtle once in a while."

"Ok!" squeaked the busty dullard.

Lastly, Zhang Yang turned to Han Ying Xue and laughed. "I guess you'll be healing me then. It's all up to you now. You'll be focusing on me, and you'll also have to make sure that the Mythical Turtle does not die!"

Han Ying Xue glared at Zhang Yang for a long time, until Zhang Yang was extremely afraid that she might just jump in and hump his brains out. That woman might actually do that! She walked closer and said, "Dinner's on you!"

"…Fine..."

Without a doubt, Zhang Yang was glad that she had just demanded dinner and nothing else. Right when he turned his back to face the boss, he could feel a sudden shiver down in his spine. Zhang Yang could have guessed that it was because of a certain Frost Snow giving him the death stare.

"*cough* Erhm. Let's get ready!" Zhang Yang charged up to the boss with Hundred Shots, Endless Starlight, and Fatty Han following him.

{Spear of Obliteration}, {Finger of Justice}, {Take Aim}!

Four attacks flew out in the air and landed on all four of the bosses. With a great battle cry, the four foes charged at their attackers.

"Criminals will be punished!"

"The Sacred One does not tolerate evil!"

"Kneel down before the Lord!"

"Judgement shall be on you!"

With their short opening speeches delivered, the horses neighed furiously and galloped towards their targets.

Hundred Shots leaped back and ran towards the turtle. Although it was slow, the turtle was still able to snap its jaw and add a {Tear} on Cindy. The Mythical Turtle had easily taken over the minimal aggro generated by Hundred Shots.

Endless Starlight had kited Mecca for as far as 50 meters away from the Turtle, maintaining a good distance to prevent the auras from stacking with each other.

Zhang Yang had started his attack and grabbed hold of both Bellroy's and Gray's attention firmly.

'Ding! You have gained the effect {Glutton} (1 Stack). Attack power reduced by 1%!'

Zhang Yang had received the first stack of debuff on him, which had lowered his basic damage by 1%. Although he had received the DoT effect of the other boss' aura, it was as low as 294 damage every 3 seconds, which was close to light caress.

Sun Xin Yu and the other of party members had started to attack Mecca as furiously as they could. They knew that this slugfest was a matter of speed. Healers were extremely important in this kind of fights since their speed and power of healing would definitely affect the outcome of the battle.

Back to Zhang Yang's battle, he clearly felt the power of the aura stacking effects when both Gray and Bellroy were on his radar. Each of the bosses had gained an additional 50% attack boost, causing their attack to pack quite the punch.

'-12,831!'

'-13,042!'

Their huge sword swings had literally torn the air around them ever so violently that Zhang Yang could hear, and feel the devastating blow from them. Each of the bosses had whacked him for close to 13,000 damage points, EACH! Han Ying Xue alone could not heal that much HP alone! From the first strike onward, Zhang Yang knew what he had to do. Speeding the fight up would be the very least he could do. On top of that, Zhang Yang had to utilize all his other defensive skills and various jugs of potions!

Bellroy attacked Zhang Yang without waiting. By the time the huge, blade landed on Zhang Yang's shoulder, he could feel a faint flash of light behind him, and the boss was stunned in his place. The Titan's set equipment set effect had triggered its skill and had stunned Bellroy for 10 seconds.

The 10 seconds stun was too good to be true. Not only had it greatly reduced the attack power, its aura was also deactivated!

'-7,328!'

As seen from Gray's diminished attacks, the aura stacking bonus attack was gone for 10 seconds. Han Ying Xue was able to heal Zhang Yang back in time, and had even managed to spare some time to heal the Turtle!

Since all the bosses shared the same HP bar, all attacks on the boss had been averaged out and had caused the entire battle to be dragged on for a little longer. Still, they had only 7,600,000 HP, which was still lesser than a Level 80 Violet-Platinum. Sun Xin Yu and the rest of the party members could easily deplete the boss' HP in less than 3 minutes.

The problem was not the attack, but the endurance. Could the tanks and the turtle hold out for that long?

3 minutes later, the HP gauge had been hacked down, leaving all the boss with 20% HP and had allowed the usage of {Killing Cleave}. This was a new threshold for all players to attack. Almost all class had skills like a Berserker's {Indiscriminate} and {Killing Cleave}. Pyromancers had {Rage of the Flame}. There were other class skills which had not revealed themselves yet, but the important aspect was the fact that they could only be activated or used on a target with less than 20% HP.

Sadly, during this crucial moment, the Mythical Turtle had drawn its last breath. Even though the Violet-Platinum tier battle mount had a higher Defense compared to Zhang Yang, and a strong Defensive boost skill, it was only limited to a few seconds and had long cooldown. Although both Han Ying Xue and Fantasy Sweetheart had managed to find some time to heal the turtle, they had their focus on Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight. It was already a miracle that the turtle was able to hold on for that long.

Cindy's menacing attacks had crushed the turtle, and had turned the poor turtle into an empty shell.

"Victory shall be granted to those to worship the Lord!" Cindy raised her sword high, as she claimed victory. Without delay, Cindy shifted her horse and turned to attack the second aggro target, which was Han Ying Xue. Although Han Ying Xue had realized that she was being targeted, there was nothing she could do in time, as the boss had taken no time at all to reach to her side. A sword was swung and struck Han Ying Xue.

Transferred!

With speed on par with lightning, Zhang Yang had cast {Sacrifice} on Han Ying Xue. At the same time, Zhang Yang quickly made his way to Cindy and had attacked her. He had to draw all the aggro from Han Ying Xue to him as soon as possible. Although the amount of aggro generated by healing was small, Han Ying Xue had been healing for a full 3 minutes, so even Zhang Yang would have to work his *ss off to snatch her aggro!

As expected, after 5 seconds, Cindy was still attacking Han Ying Xue. Zhang Yang continued to attack Cindy and displayed an utmost prowess display of footwork. He stood in between Cindy and Han Ying Xue, utilizing every possible move to physically block Cindy's attack.

"Curse you!" Cindy growled madly and wanted to circle around Zhang Yang to get to Han Ying Xue.

This time, Zhang Yang performed faster and moved around like a fish in the water. With little but fast movements, Zhang Yang had anticipated every possible move that the boss was about to make, and blocked them without fail.

"I'll be d*mned. Dummy! You're one hell of a protector!" said Han Ying Xue after witnessing Zhang Yang's heroic actions. "Look at you, trying your very best to protect this lovely maiden. I've decided to accept your love!"

"What the hell, woman!? Can you please choose the right time and place to say such things! We are fighting now!" Zhang Yang cried out in frustration. He had no time nor the effort to spare for Han Ying Xue's random rants or compliments. This time, she was spouting nothing but harassment!

Bellroy had long since recovered from the Titan's stun and had rejoined the other two bosses, combining their aura. All bosses had gained a 200% attack boost and were capable of dealing as much as 18,000 damage per boss. Without any action taken, Zhang Yang would go down in mere seconds!

"What about {Dance of Heaven and Earth}?" everyone asked.

"No! Not here!" Zhang Yang shot down their suggestions to use the ulti skill. {Dance of Heaven and Earth} was a skill with a 24 hour long cool down time. Undoubtedly, the skill could only be used once! If they were to use this skill and waited for the skill to be used again, the quest [Breaking Free] would definitely fail. On the other hand, the quest - [Bury the Secret] was an S tier quest. The time taken to complete the quest would surely be used to evaluate the final score. Zhang Yang had never wished to compromise that just to complete the quest! Perfect score, nothing else! With a steeled decision, Zhang Yang would not use {Dance of Heaven and Earth} here because he knew, from the bottom of his heart, that the other bosses up ahead would be even harder than this fight.

After a good time moving around swiftly, Cindy's attack had finally been diverted to Zhang Yang. It was both good news and bad in the same time. Cindy has stopped targeting the healer. But now Zhang Yang was taking attacks from three bosses at the same time. It was not something that anyone, not even himself could last against! In the depths of desperation, Zhang Yang used {Shield Wall} to protect and heal himself, thanks to the [Titan Wall] and the [Titan Chest Plate] armor effect. In that 15 seconds, he had gained an immense defensive power and was able to heal himself back to full health! A 15 seconds, God of War effect!

14%...

On the overall perspective, the four bosses were at the ends of their lifelines.

5%...

After the 15 seconds {Shield Wall}, Zhang Yang was once more plunged back into the mouth of the tiger. 87,000 HP was strong, but here, it was as weak as soft tofu being squashed into smithereens.

Zhang Yang still had one last trump card, the [Heart of the Death Knight] which granted him 10 seconds of true invincibility.

4%...

2%...

1%...

0%.

"T-The L-Lord shall…bless…his..s-serva-ant.." One by one, the horsemen dropped fell from their horses and left the world with one last speech at the tip of their tongues.

They had done it. Even so, there was still a lingering fear in their hearts. If the bosses had slightly more HP, they would have killed Zhang Yang. Once the main pillar falls, so would everyone else in the party.

"Why are the bosses here so hard to defeat?"

It was natural that they would voice out their complaints. Compared to the other Yellow-Gold bosses that they had encountered before, it was heaven and earth. It would better for the system to just change their tier to Violet-Platinum instead of hiding it behind a mask.

"How should I know?" said Zhang Yang. Level 90 was just a brief period. Once players had surpassed Level 100 and entered the Chaos Realm, the difficulty of all the monsters and boss would have a major upgrade. Perhaps, the system had made the bosses here harder to defeat, to allow a certain level of adjustment for the player to get used to. After all, Yellow-Gold bosses were being seen more frequently than before. What was the use of just increasing the difficulty then? It may be frequent, but the number of bosses would never be too many for everyone to fight. As such, close to 90% of players around China had never fought a battle as hard as Zhang Yang and his party had just been through.

"Enough sulking! Let's check out the boss' drops!" The chirpy voice belonged to none other than Wei Yan Er.

As expected and predicted, each boss dropped one fragment of the hammer. Endless Starlight had swept them all and had collected a total of five pieces. The man was so happy that his smile had closed his eyes shut.

[Evil Breaker Glove] (Yellow-Gold, Leather Armor)

Defense: 24

Vitality: 151

Strength: 137

Dexterity: 60

Level Requirement: 90

Sun Xin Yu had a pair of Level 80 Violet-Platinum gloves and had no need to participate in the rolling for the item. Fatty Han, Hundred Shots, and Lost Dreams rolled for it, and Hundred Shots won the item.

[Ring of Grandiose] (Yellow-Gold, Ring)

Vitality: 76

Strength: 68

Dexterity: 68

Equip Effect: Grants a 1% chance to inflict 10,000 Shadow damage on every attack. Upon successful proc, a magic shield will be cast on the user which will absorb 10,000 damage. The shield will last for 30 seconds, or after 10,000 damage points have been absorbed.

Level Requirement: 90

"This is a bloody good ring!"

It was good. The effect itself was enough the ring to be a Violet-Platinum tier. However, the 1% proc rate was too low.

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Chapter 423: The Three Saints

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"I'd say, the price for the ring could go as high as 100,000 gold coins! I'm sure there will be people fighting for it!" said Fatty Han as he examined the [Ring of Grandiose].

Fatty Han's logic was right on one aspect. Rings and accessories were rare drops. Players would definitely put on a high price for it, even though it was not a Violet-Platinum tier.

"Fatty bro, I think you're missing one digit." Said Daffodil Daydream.

"Huh? What? You're saying the ring is actually worth more?" Fatty Han asked curiously.

Zhang Yang nodded. "Don't be surprised, but a ring like that would fetch prices as high as a million. However, I urge that we do not sell the ring just yet. Since neither if you have a Violet-Platinum ring, might as well use this for the moment. Until the day we can get a better one, we shall keep this."

"But…Little Yang, by the time we farm for new rings, this one would not be worth selling anymore," said Fatty Han with a bitter sad face.

Zhang Yang cocked his head and frowned. "Don't tell me that you already used up all your money!"

Fatty Han smiled. "No. But what's wrong in earning more? There's no limit to how much you can make, right?"

Wei Yan Er had picked up two more Yellow-Gold equipment, but neither of them was good. One silk armor had too much Spirit, and the other heavy armor added magic defense. Both of these two equipment were considered dissonant stats, and everyone agreed to put them up for sale in the Little Merchandise Shop.

"Let's go. There's no time to waste. We have eight more bosses to kill!"

The party proceeded on and had repeated the entire rescuing process, and came to the sixth blood pool. After they had made their way to the boss room, everyone was stunned, and filled with dread and horror. The boss room was empty.

"Oh god…"

"Don't tell me…"

"F*ck my life…"

"Sigh…"

Fatty Han cried angrily and said, "Little Yang! Don't tell me that the future boss fights will be in groups?!"

"What do you think?! Of course, it will be! Duh!"

The party proceeded on to the next pool, and the next one after that and had still not encountered any bosses, even after the eighth boss.

"…Crap…Are we going to fight 5 bosses at one go?"

Everyone stared at Fatty Han with a sudden burst of anger but simmered down quickly. They knew that it was not Fatty Han's fault. Truthfully speaking, they were thinking the same but had remained quiet about it.

After the ninth pool, Zhang Yang and the party came into the boss room. Everyone let out a sigh of relief when they saw the bosses. There were only three in total.

[Rayleigh, Shield of the Three Saints] (Yellow-Gold, Humanoid)

Level: 95

HP: 3,000,000

Defense: 3,000

Note: One of the 12 Disciples.

[Dolor, Spear of the Three Saints]

Level: 95

HP: 3,000,000

Defense: 1,500

Note: One of the 12 Disciples.

[Cherry, Wings of the Three Saints] (Yellow-Gold, Humanoid)

Level 95

HP: 3,000,000

Defense: 1,000

Note: One of the 12 Disciples.

As the title suggested, Rayleigh was a Guardian-class boss. He wielded an axe in his right hand and a shield in his left. His shining armor, encasing his entire character was all grand and scratch-free. Zhang Yang had one principle. That is, a knight in shining armor was not something to be respected, for he had never truly had his metal tested in battle. The next boss was Dolor. The man had two gladiuses hanging behind his back. Zhang Yang had deduced the boss was a Thief class, since warriors carried their weapons at the waist instead of on the back. That and the occasional fading presence of the boss. The last boss was a woman named Cherry. Despite her cute name, the woman was a full-grown adult. She carried long magician staff in her right hand and was wearing a long white robe which covered her body entirely, besides her chest…

The hole in the middle of the chest was large enough to reveal half of her breasts to the world. The lower half of her robe had a gap at each side of her waist. The dressing style had reminded Zhang Yang of a Qi Pao, the traditional clothing for women. However, unlike the Qi Pao, her robe was just too revealing. The gap was extended up to close to her lower breast which revealed quite a lot of flesh, emphasizing her voluptuous body and her long fair legs.

Fatty Han snorted and smiled from ear to ear. "Well. Guys, count me out in this. It's my policy to never strike a woman. Especially when she is that hot! I mean, look at that--"

Zhang Yang smacked Fatty Han's head to shut the man up.

Zhang Yang examined the bosses and found out that the bosses were sharing the same HP gauge. It was as the same as the previous gang of four. However, the biggest difference was that, there were no annoying auras!

"I don't believe that the later bosses would be easy. They must be hiding something. Let's just hope it's not some ridiculous super killing skill."

Zhang Yang nodded. "That's true. Now listen to me. That boss is a tank class. Everyone could see the shield there. The one with the swords is a Thief class. The woman should be a magic user but I'm not sure if she is a healing type or an attacking type. But, based on my judgment, I'm guessing that she should be a healer. A tank, an attack, and a healer should be a perfect formation."

He continued, "Endless Starlight, I want you to kite Rayleigh. That boss is a tank class, so I'm hoping that its attack will be lower, to trade for its high defense. I will handle both Dolor and Cherry. Everyone else should focus all their fire solely on Cherry for she has least Defense among the boss."

"Understood." Everyone understood. Truthfully, there was no need for Zhang Yang to even explain, since that was the most common battle strategy. Hit the healer first, and then the attacker. Leave the tank for last, since he should pose no threat to the party.

"Alright, if everyone is ready, let's begin."

"Foolish mortals! How dare you defile the temple!"

"I hereby represent the Sacred One in laying judgment upon you!"

"In the name of the Lord, the Light shall purify your malicious presence! Be gone! Maverick!"

The battle started with the bosses' individual speeches and they rushed towards Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight. The entire battle scene had changed. Not in terms of system UI or battle strategy. It was just the atmosphere of it. Endless Starlight was silent and stoic. Wei Yan Er was not making any noise or doing any annoying gesture. She was calm. After the party had been through several battles, this one was of the times that they knew a trivial mistake would lead to a catastrophe end. Everyone had the same glint in their eyes. The same when soldiers go to war. Determination.

In just a few steps, Cherry had stopped running and had pointed her staff at Zhang Yang from a good distance. From the progress bar appearing on her head, Zhang Yang had determined that Cherry was a Priest since the spell that she was casting was called {Punishment Ray}. That and her righteousness speech. Dolor, on the other hand, had vanished without a trace and entered stealth mode.

Zhang Yang gripped his sword tighter and activated {Charge}. Instead of Zhang Yang, the rest of the party had a tenseness in their heart. At such a close range, Zhang Yang would not dodge the attack. Zhang Yang swung his sword hard and laid down the first attack. With a quick spin in the air, Zhang Yang slashed his sword downward and attacked with the first {Cripple Defense}.

"Weep for your sins! Surrender yourself to the power of the Lord!" Cheery had just finished her spell and a bright light blasted off her staff. In the split second, everyone, including Zhang Yang was prepared for the worse. Han Ying Xue had already prepared to cast a healing spell on Zhang Yang if her power was too strong.

'-9,411!'

As the damage text floated away from Zhang Yang's character, everyone sighed with great relief, as the damage was not at all devastating. During that time, Dolor had appeared with a puff of smoke and had knocked Zhang Yang's head with the sword's hilt, successfully stunning him. Zhang Yang was not prepared for that since he was too focused on the Cherry's {Punishment Ray}!

Dolor danced around swiftly as how a Thief would do after they have managed to {Ambush} their enemy. Each of the sword slashes had dealt close to 10,000 damage. Dolor had gained a buff. 30% increase in attack power which lasts for 10 seconds. It was the same as a player Assassin. Every time they appeared from stealth, they would gain a similar buff.

Without delay, Zhang Yang used {Warrior's Will} to free himself from the stun. There was a good reason for him to do, so even though the stun duration was only 2 seconds. (Stunning duration was shortened by 50% due to the equipment effect of Heart of the Death Knight.) Zhang Yang had not attacked Dolor. If he had not freed himself to attack him, Dolor would immediately attack Han Ying Xue, since she would heal Zhang Yang and gain aggro from Dolor. Zhang Yang had to build aggro on him to prevent Han Ying Xue from being attacked.

Zhang Yang slashed and activated {Horizontal Sweep}, and damaged both Cherry and Dolor for 8,412 and 8,134 respectively. With that, Zhang Yang could have an ease of mind to let Han Ying Xue heal him without any interruptions.

Right then, Sun Xin Yu and the rest of the party had arrived and started their attack. Melee attackers went into position and laid down a flurry of attacks.

"Hmph! No matter how many of you there are, in the presence of the servant of the Lord, you are nothing but ants!" Cherry scoffed arrogantly and struck her staff into the ground.

Right at the moment when Sun Xin Yu's blade was about to reached her back, a bubble grew from under the staff and pushed everyone away at an intense speed, damaging them for 20,000 Holy damage. Everyone was thrown 10 meters away from Cherry.

"Woah! A Priest isn't supposed to do that! This isn't fair at all!" cried Fatty Han.

Luckily, both Han Ying Xue and Fantasy Sweetheart were long-ranged supporters. Even though they had taken 20,000 damage, it was no trouble for the two healers to bring their HP back to full capacity.

After being healed, Sun Xin Yu and other melee fighters rushed back to the fight. Luckily, Cherry's barrier-like skill was not used frequently. All the melee fighters were able to attack her without being blown away again.

Dolor had all the Thief skills a player would. After having his stun removed, Dolor stunned Zhang Yang once more with {Kidney Shot}, stunning Zhang Yang again for 6 seconds. However, having {Heart of the Death Knight}, Zhang Yang was only susceptible to 3 seconds of stun. 3 seconds later, Zhang Yang countered Dolor's furious attacks to prevent him from losing too much HP and Dolor from gaining too many combo points.

After 10 seconds, Dolor vanished into the shadows once more. Unlike players, the boss' movement speed was too quick for Zhang Yang to react. Dolor had appeared almost instantly as soon as he had vanished and had bashed Zhang Yang, stunning him for 4 seconds. Even though Zhang Yang had half the stunning duration, being stunned while he was attacking was extremely annoying. Imagine an actor who was acting passionately and asked to stop suddenly just because the director said so.

Still, as annoying as it may be, Zhang Yang was unable to do anything. Although {Warrior's Will} had been leveled up to max, it still had 60 seconds of cool down time. It could not dispel the stun as frequently as to how the boss could stun! It was already a miracle that he could possess the passive skill that reduced half of all status effect skill!

At the other side of the battle, Endless Starlight was facing with a little bit of trouble. Rayleigh had been repeatedly using {Brutal Smash} on Endless Starlight, stunning him for 4 seconds per skill use. The skill had a 2 minutes cooldown time, yet the boss was using it every 20 seconds! Endless Starlight had finally felt the immense annoyance after being stunned for 4 times. Once Endless Starlight was stunned, even for a 4 seconds period, Rayleigh would completely ignore him and proceed to target the next target in the aggro list. There was once when Endless Starlight was stunned, the boss had almost killed Fantasy Sweetheart. Luckily, Zhang Yang was quick enough to cast {Sacrifice} to divert the damage to him instead.

After getting used to all of the bosses' skills, Zhang Yang moved closer to Endless Starlight and allow him to take on all three of the boss simultaneously. The benefit for him in doing so was to allow Zhang Yang to hold on the aggro of Rayleigh. Once either one of the tanks gets stunned, Rayleigh will proceed to target the second target in the aggro rank. Zhang Yang was hoping that Rayleigh would target either him or Endless Starlight instead of the other low-HP players. He had already spent {Sacrifice}, and cannot save anyone within the 1 minute cooldown period.

Secondly, the AoE skills {Horizontal Sweep} and {Tornado Cleave} could deal better damage when all of the bosses are gathered together in one place. Those two skills were, after all, the ultimate AoE skills among the group.

"Rayleigh, protect me!"

60 seconds into the battle, the bosses HP bar had dropped down to 73%, and Cherry suddenly cried for help.

"I listen and serve!" Rayleigh responded and cast {Sacrifice} on Cherry, as he was still fighting Endless Starlight.

Having a protective barrier, Cherry immediately stopped attacking and cast a skill called {Holy Starburst}, with only 5 seconds of casting time.

"The boss is protected by {Sacrifice}! We cannot disrupt her!" cried Lost Dream. He had already used {Low Kick} on the boss but was only rewarded with the word "Transferred". The skill was diverted to Rayleigh instead.

"Embrace the power of the Lord!" Cherry's {Holy Starburst} was completed after everyone had tried to cast their disruption skills. A ball of bright light erupted out of her body and split into three smaller balls of light. All of them flew to each boss.

'100,000!'

'400,000!'

'400,000!'

Three high valued healing texts popped up on all three bosses, healing them for a total of 900,000 HP. On average, their shared HP bar was raised back to 83%.

"Crap!"

The healing skill had proved to be so strong, that everyone was spouting insults and curses. Luckily, Cherry had the effect of {Destructive Smash} on her, causing her to receive 75% reduced the healing effect. If Zhang Yang had not struck her with the skill, the bosses would have healed 1,200,000 HP.

Even though the bosses did not possess any auras, they were strong. They also fought in an uncannily similar manner to that of a player's party.

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Chapter 424: Rain Down, Hell from Above

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Making complaints now would not do anyone any good. Since the boss was designed to be that way, they could only complain to the designers.

Zhang Yang shouted, "Little brat! Maintain {Destructive Smash} on Rayleigh!"

"Ok!" Wei Yan Er nodded her head vigorously and made sure not to waste any second of the skill's cool down time.

Now that they had formed a new plan, Cherry's {Holy Starburst} would heal one boss with 75% reduced healing, one boss with 50% reduced healing, and one boss receiving a full heal. Zhang Yang's plan would prevent an extra 200,000 HP from being healed. It was a real shame that Zhang Yang's party did not have one more player who could inflict {Destructive Smash}.

{Destructive Smash} had a cooldown time of 8 seconds, and its effects would last for 10 seconds. In theory, they could inflict all three of the bosses with {Destructive Smash}. However, both of them only had 2 seconds to spare. Furthermore, Dolor the Thief was extremely tough to detect, for he was always in stealth. There was little to no room for them to make the strike. None of these bosses was a good fight!

Rayleigh's Defenses were too strong, Cherry was always using the area knockback skill, as for Dolor the Thief, he had been sneaking around, and had been stunning players whenever and wherever he wanted to! There was no room for a perfect attack!

Luckily, the party's attacking power was stronger than Cherry's healing power. The second {Holy Starburst} had only healed themselves for around 8%, while the team was able to take off 27% of the bosses' HP. Comparing the damage to the healing ratio, it was nothing to be worried about.

50%...

"Foolish mortals! Pray to the Lord, and He shall deliver salvation!" Rayleigh roared to the sky.

Boom!

Rayleigh stomped on the ground with his right leg and created a gold-colored aura beneath his feet. The light glowed brightest from where he stood and faded after 5 meters.

"Hey…I think that's my {Sanction}!" Endless Starlight cried.

"That can't be right. The boss is a Guardian. How could he have a Defender's {Sanction}!" said Lost Dream sarcastically, as he attacked. Right then, Rayleigh struck Endless Starlight with {Brutal Smash}, stunning him for 4 seconds and headed straight to the second aggro rank.

'-10,000!'

'-10,000!'

…

As the boss approached the group of melee attackers, the light around the boss had dealt 10,000 basic damage to everyone.

"Sh*t! It's really {Sacntion}!" They cried in surprised and quickly ran from the vicinity of the boss.

"How could a Guardian have a Defender's skill?" Fatty Han cocked his head.

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "That's probably because the boss might be a Defending Guardian!"

"Wut?"

Everyone frowned. They were not sure whether Zhang Yang was joking if he was being serious. Only Wei Yan Er had voiced out and asked, "Is there such a class?"

After being stunned by the boss for 4 seconds, Endless Starlight had taken 4 seconds of {Sanction} damage. Good thing that he was a Defender with a high magic Defense. Out of the 10,000 damage, Endless Starlight had taken close to 5,000 damage instead. Still, he had taken 4 seconds of {Sanction} and had suffered more than 20,000 damage, which did not require any immediately healing.

Rayleigh's {Sanction} skill was complicated. Occasionally, he would use it once every 10 seconds, forcing the party to move around endlessly, to escape the AoE skill. However, there was a trick in escaping the skill. There is a 1 second delay before the skill could inflict damage on a player. A player must be in the vicinity of the skill to receive the damage and will only continue receiving damage every second for a total of 10 seconds, if they continue to stand in the golden light. Once the light is seen beneath the boss, one could easily jump away to prevent any damage.

Unfortunately for Endless Starlight, who had to tank the boss, under the effects of {Brutal Smash}, would be stunned for 4 seconds, and will take 4 seconds worth of damage from {Sanction}.

Running around like rats being chased by a cat, the party had managed to bring the boss' HP down to 40%.

"Heretic will be destroyed! Snow storm! Bury the sinners in your snow!" Cherry cried.

White clouds suddenly formed around the battlefield, and had hurled sharp and long icicles! Each of them dealt the same 10,000 basic damage. The problem was worse, the area of effect, was as wide as 10 meters.

"Move away! Move away!"

Before any of them could even see where they were landing, Rayleigh's was there to attack, with his {Sanction} still active!

"What the f*ck! First, the Warrior has the Knight skill. Now the Priest has a Spellcaster skill! What's next? The Thief having Hunter's skill!? F*ck this!" Fatty Han madly yelled.

"D*mn! Don't jinx it! Stupid pig!"

Unlike a player's {Hail Storm} which required constant magic channeling. The boss's {Hail Storm} has only required a 2 seconds cast time of creating clouds above to continue hurling more sharp icicles down the earth, as the caster itself would be free to move around. In this case, Cherry was able to move around to attack and cast {Holy Starburst}.

Everyone, including Zhang Yang himself, had to run around like cats and dogs. Out of the party, Endless Starlight had the short end of the stick. Once he was stunned by the boss, he would be susceptible to both {Sanction} and {Hail Storm}. He would be killed by all the attacks!

Zhang Yang checked the situation and found that he was ranked second, behind Endless Starlight in the aggro list, for Rayleigh. "Starlight! Kite the boss away!"

Previously, Zhang Yang had dragged all three bosses together to inflict enough aggro and to maximize damage dealt by {Horizontal Sweep} and {Tornado Cleave}. However, now that two bosses had revealed a new skill, the strategy to optimize usage of the two AoE skills was no longer worth its toll.

"Got it, boss!" cried Endless Starlight. He then dragged the boss away to the opposite direction. Now that he had kited him away from Cherry, he could reduce the chance of him getting hit by Cherry's {Hail Storm}, since Cherry had shown the tendency to cast {Hail Storm} on an area with the most concentration of players.

30%...

"Fear not, for the Lord has laid down His blessing upon his loyal followers!" Dolor has finally come out of hiding. This time, as Fatty Han had speculated, Dolor had taken out a longbow and had fired one single arrow into the sky. The arrow then glowed with an intense radiance and burst into countless light arrows which fell back down to the earth, targeting the area with the most players.

It was another barrage of attack which dealt the same 10,000 basic damage.

Everyone started to run around, again! They were so mad and tired at the unfairness the bosses had displayed. First, they fought with human-like cooperation, now they had cheating skills which could deal AoE attacks! None of that was fair!

"The Lord's judgment shall be delivered!" All three bosses cried out in unison, casting the golden light, the ice clouds, and the barrage of the arrows.

Just when they had thought to solve the problem, a new one arose. After having Endless Starlight pull Rayleigh away, the boss would automatically leave Endless Starlight and runs back to Cheery and Dolor. After a series of trial and error, the party had discovered that 30 meters was the maximum distance between Rayleigh and the other bosses before he would start running back. The battle was designed that way, so that all three AoE skills would be stacked atop one another to increase the difficulty.

"This is the limit guys! I can't kite him any further. You guys will have to make do with it!" cried Endless Starlight.

"How troublesome!" said Fatty Han as he continued to fire arrows.

The only advantage that Zhang Yang could find was the HP. Luckily, the bosses were only Yellow-Gold tiered. All of the HP combined would only be, at most, 9,000,000. If they were Violet-Platinum tiered, it would be a whole lot more troublesome. Probably, even losing the fight before 50%!

20%...

10%...

The AoE multi-target magic attack skills were strong, but the damage inflicted on every target was not too life-threatening. The healers of the party were still able to keep everyone alive and well. However, it took so much effort that their MP expenditure was off the charts. Fantasy Sweetheart had already emptied her MP gauge for a number of times. Han Ying Xue had to step up to heal Endless Starlight many times around, or he would have already died!

The final push arrived when the boss was left with only 10%, and so was Han Ying Xue's MP bar.

"Are you sure we're not using {Dance of Heaven and Earth}?" asked Han Ying Xue.

"No." said Zhang Yang even when he was tempted to. "There're still five more bosses to go. We must keep our trump card for the worse! Please hold on! How long till you can use an MP potion?"

"21 seconds!"

"Fantasy?"

"38 seconds."

Zhang Yang nodded his head and call out to Endless Starlight. "Starlight! Come to me! Use your {Vanguard's Aggression}!"

"Got it, boss!" Endless Starlight dashed towards the center of the party and activated the skill there. A bluish-white barrier expanded 3 meters out from where he stood.

Upon activation of the shield, all bosses had cast their AoE onto the crowded party. Since {Vanguard's Aggression} was used, each of the bosses' skill had only managed to damage the party member with more than 1,000 damage.

There was a change in the skill. Before the patch, the skill was made to look like a stationary barrier. This time, the skill was like a user's aura. It could be moved when the caster did.

6%...

After Endless Starlight's {Vanguard's Aggression} ended, Zhang Yang took over and used his, and also {Shield Wall}.

2%...

"The Lord shall beseech eternal life upon his followers!" Cherry cried. "Rayleigh, protect me!"

"I hear and obey! The Lord shall provide and serve!" Rayleigh cast {Sacrifice} on Cherry, as she started to chant {Holy Starburst}!

"Oh no!" Zhang Yang panicked. "Kill the boss, quick! End this fight before the boss could cast that skill!" Zhang Yang jumped at the boss and activated {Killing Cleave}.

Due to {Sacrifice} protecting Cherry, the damage was dealt by Rayleigh. However, it was still directly hurting Cherry since all the bosses shared the same HP bar. Zhang Yang and his team would have to deal 180,000 in 5 seconds to prevent Cherry from finishing her chant for her healing spell. Yet, during this decisive moment, two of the healers had already expended all their MP and could not do anything!

150,000! 110,000! 70,000! 10,000!

Besides their trump card, the party had used all their skills, small or big, they used it, as long as it dealt the strongest amount of damage in the shortest time.

5 seconds…

0!

Just as Cherry was about to strike her staff onto the ground to cast the light, the party had successfully depleted the boss' HP!

"Ack!"

"Ufffhh!"

"Urgh!"

Three thuds were heard as the three bosses fell to the floor.

"W-We've done it." Lost Dream dropped his daggers and fell to his knees.

Everyone did the same and fell to the floor due to their immense fatigue. This boss fight was too tiresome. Everyone sat down on the floor to relax for a moment. But not for Wei Yan Er.

She is just like a chirpy little plaything, with a perpetual mood of seeking joy in everything. Giggling and laughing with the happiness of defeating the bosses, the little brat skipped and hopped over to the loot.

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Chapter 425: Requiem

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"Weepee! I hope that the bosses will give us some awesome stuff!" said Wei Yan Er with an innocent smile.

Zhang Yang, still huffing from the fatigue of the fight, said, "Don't get your hopes high girl, lest you be disappointed. If Yellow-Gold bosses drop Violent-Platinum gears, I'd be running all day searching for them! If the boss does drop Yellow-Gold equips, then…wait for it. There're no Yellow-Gold equip stronger than a Violet-Platinum!"

Wei Yan Er listened but Zhang Yang had already lost her halfway through his explanation.

Daffodil Daydream interjected in and said, "Yan Er, don't worry too much. A Yellow-Gold drop is still worth a lot of money!"

Only after Daffodil Daydream had explained it that way, Wei Yan Er had smiled and walked away happily.

"Daffy. I heard that you're moving out of your old house?" asked Han Ying Xue, while waiting for the little brat to pick the loot.

"That's right. Before guild master had hired me, my previous job's salary was too low for me to have a room of my own. That is why I have been sharing a room with someone else. However, I was having a bad time, since my roommate is a lazy, sloppy…woman."

Daffodil Daydream had suddenly got agitated. There was a glint of anger in her eyes.

"We had already agreed to clean the place once a day, on alternate days. However, when it was her turn to do the cleaning, she would always give all sorts of excuses to skip the work! In the end, I had to do it myself. The girl had always been taking advantage of me. Whenever I did some cooking, she would always invite herself for dinner and eat for free. Worst of all, she would leave without even saying thanks! If I were to have one of her fruits in the fridge, she would be nagging at me for a week!" said Daffodil Daydream.

Everyone was stunned. Never have Daffodil Daydream expressed herself at that level of magnitude, besides trashing Endless Fantasy.

"Well. There're 9 billion people in the world and you've just happened to bump into one of the scrappiest!"

"What a tool!"

"I'd slap her but I'd rather not get dungs on my hands."

Everyone nodded their head.

"I'm not finished!" said Daffodil Daydream. "Last week, when I had not logged into the game due to a major flu, I had asked for her help to get some medication but she didn't even care! That b*tch even blasted the stereo for the entire day! GRAH! I'm so mad!"

"Now that I have some money in my bank account, I decided to get myself a room of my own, and live there peacefully!"

"Sister Daffy, why don't you come to Zhao Su?" said Wei Yan Er. "It so happens that noobie wants to buy a house. Let's get a bigger one and live together!"

Huh?

Zhang Yang frowned at the little brat's endless means of disrupting his peaceful life. On the other hand, there was a slight happiness in Daffodil Daydream's eyes. She looked interested but did not say anything.

Han Ying Xue joined the conversation and said, "Daffy, my girl. Living alone is not safe for a girl. Come and live with us. I'd say, the more the merrier! Plus, it's easier for us anyway!"

Daffodil Daydream smiled happily and nodded her head. "I'll get a plane ticket tomorrow, then."

Zhang Yang literally cried. These three women had made their decision without Zhang Yang's opinion. Han Ying Xue had invited Daffodil Daydream to live in his house without asking him first! He then sent a private message to Han Ying Xue saying, "Aren't you a little worried about her making a move on me?"

"Please, don't flatter yourself. You're not a rare specimen and not every woman would want you! Then again, if she does make a move, could she even compete with me?" said Han Ying Xue. She then winked and sent a flying kiss to Zhang Yang, which made his heart skipped a beat. It was of fear.

"You minx, don't play with fire! I'm still staying with you under one roof!" said Zhang Yang with anger.

"Come at me! I'm not afraid of a monk! By the way, I never lock my door when I sleep. You already know that I wear nothing beneath the blanket," said Han Ying Xue with a sinister smile.

"Tch. Prepare to get dirty tonight, then."

"Oh please. Like you would."

Wei Yan Er had picked up three hammer fragments and had given them all to Endless Starlight. She had also picked up two rather strong Yellow-Gold equipment.

[Abyssal Mask] (Yellow-Gold, Leather Armor)

Defense: 24

Vitality: 302

Strength: 121

Dexterity: 274

Level Requirement: 90

"Phew! These Level 90 equipment sure are strong!" said Fatty Han. "That's probably worth a mountain!"

"Erhm. Fatty bro. Could you please be a little more open-minded? Why are you always thinking of money?" said Fantasy Sweetheart. Since they both were in the secondary party, her relationship with Fatty Han was as close as Zhang Yang and Daffodil Daydream. Close, but not too close, like Han Ying Xue.

"Perhaps, he's trying to earn enough money to get a certain part of him enlarged! HAHAHAHA!" said Endless Starlight.

"WHAT!? I don't need to get it enlarged! I can prove it to you! Mine is the biggest! The biggest!" Right then, Fatty Han proceeds to strip all his equipment.

"Stop! Please Stop! Alright! You have the biggest one! Alright!" said Endless Starlight. If anyone laid eyes on that Fatty Han's manly part, no one would have any appetite for a week!

Everyone laughed it off.

[Hell's Lord Chest Plate] (Yellow-Gold, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 40

Vitality: 312

Strength: 121

Dexterity: 60

Equip Effect: Absorb 115 damage on attack.

Level Requirement: 90

"Tank's equip! Hell yeah!" cried Fatty Han, whilst jumping with joy. Fighting a boss would definitely require a strong tank. Thus, tank equipment were always expensive, especially strong ones. It was one of the reasons why Zhang Yang had worked so hard to get the recipe to craft the shield in the Level 10 dungeon.

"Hm…I'd say, it would be worth 300,000 to 400,000 gold coins." said Daffodil Daydream. She was the treasurer of Lone Desert Smoke, working with money had made her exceptionally sensitive to the appraisal of items.

"Jackpot!" Fatty Han screamed.

This was the benefit of being ahead, in terms of level. Having a higher level than the average player gave you the advantage of farming higher leveled equipment. One could sell the highest leveled equipment in the game before anyone could and would manipulate the economy. On the other hand, when players are already reaching Level 90, how much could the Level 60 strongest sword could be sold for? When it first appeared, it could be sold for the same price as the chest plate, but now, it could go for as much as 10,000 gold coins.

"Have you noticed anything? Ever since we had fought here, the number of equipment drops have been getting lesser and lesser!" cried Endless Starlight.

"Yeah!"

Level 80 Yellow Gold bosses would normally drop 2 to 3 Yellow-Gold equipment and 6 to 8 Gray-Silver equips. However, in Level 90 maps, Julio had only dropped 1 Yellow-Gold equipment, and 2 to 3 Gray-Silver drops. It was a significant drop in value.

The Three Saints had dropped 3 Yellow-Gold equipment, and 6 Gray-Silvers. It was much less than what a Level 80 map boss would drop.

[Skill Book: Requiem]

Use: Teaches you [Requiem]

Class Requirement: Priest, Sacred Knight.

Level Requirement: 90

"What does this skill do?" everyone asked. Even the name of the skill seemed special for a Priest and Sacred Knight to have.

"Noobie tank, what is that skill?" asked Wei Yan Er.

Zhang Yang laughed bitterly and said, "Even if I am a beta player, it does not mean that I know every single detail of the game!"

There were too many skills for every class and sub-class in the game. There was no way for Zhang Yang to remember every one of them, when he still had other details of the game to remember in the first place! At most, the only class that Zhang Yang could clearly remember was the Guardian's and Warrior's skill.

Having more skills did not harm a character. Han Ying Xue and Fantasy Sweetheart rolled the item, which was won by Han Ying Xue who learned it immediately after obtaining it.

[Requiem: Sings a despair requiem. Converts all HP to MP. Limits to 1 HP at minimum. Cooldown time: 10 minutes.

"Holy….This is good skill! I won't have to worry about MP anymore!"

In normal circumstances, a player's HP would always be higher than their MP. In a state of full health, it could recover all MP back. Han Ying Xue had over 30,000 HP. She would only consume close to 800 MP to restore herself back to full health. Her maximum MP was 16,000 in total (Sincerity Set effect: Increases MAX MP by 5,000 points).

If the skill had a lower cooldown rate, she could practically have an endless supply of MP!

Zhang Yang smiled and said, "It's good. Yes. But be careful when and before you use the skill. Don't stand in the attack range when you use it, or you'll be killed!"

"Please. Do you think I'm as dimwitted as that little brat?" said Han Ying Xue while she pouted her lips.

"Erhm…sister Daffy. What is dimwitted?" asked Wei Yan Er as she nudged Daffodil Daydream.

"Well…erhm…it's a synonym for stupid…" said Daffodil Daydream awkwardly.

"Hey! HAN YING XUE! CALL ME DEEWITED AGAIN AND I'LL CUT TIES WITH YOU!" cried the little brat. She had even mispronounced "dimwitted".

Everyone laughed. Hundred Shots quickly interjected everyone's happy time before things got out of control. "Guys, let's continue with the quest. Remember, the clock is still ticking. Even though the quest does not have a time limit, but time in real life is still flowing."

Everyone nodded and Zhang Yang was proud of what Hundred Shots had turned out to be. The party hurried on, and made their way to the ninth pool.

The guards were as easy to deal with as before, making it easy for the team to proceed with the rescuing of the prisoners. After releasing them from the cages, the party proceeded to the boss room only to find it empty again, for the third time! Knowing that, the team had no reactions. Since it was already a norm, the team moved onto the next boss without hesitation. This time, before they knew it, the 10th boss was there, along with the 9th boss.

The pair was a couple. The man was stoic, bold, well-built, and handsome. The woman was beautiful, tall, and had long red hair. Both of them were sitting in one chair, cuddling each other lovingly.

[Ezali] (Violet-Platinum, Humanoid)

Level: 95

HP: 9,500,000

Defense: 2,600

Note: One of the 12 Disciples. Logan's wife.

[Logan] (Violet-Platinum, Humanoid)

Level: 95

HP: 9,500,000

Defense: 2,600

Note: One of the 12 Disciples. Ezali's husband.

As it was with the previous group boss battles, Ezali and Logan shared the same HP gauge. However, this time, they were both Violet-Platinum tier, with a massive 19,000,000 HP!

"Yes! Finally! Violet-Platinum!" everyone was excited at the opportunity of fighting a Violet-Platinum boss. However, they had only seen the rewards of it. Neither of them besides Zhang Yang had a full set of Violet-Platinum equipment. They were blinded by the rewards, but not the path to getting it.

"Looks like we are lucky to have, not one, but two Violet-Platinum bosses! It seems after the 9th and 10th, from here on out, the bosses would be all Violet-Platinum!"

"Haha! One Sword Stroke can suck my d*ck! He would be jealous of us!"

"Sigh…why must there be two of them! Why can't they just live alone!" said Han Ying Xue. She had always loved to slack in battle and heal only with {Regeneration}. She hated battling tough opponents since they required actual, constant healing!

"Starlight. Which one would you take on?" Zhang Yang asked with a smile.

"Heh! I'm surprised that you still need to ask me, boss. I'll take on the woman!"

"Haha! I like your style! Perverted fox!" cried Fatty Han.

"Bro! You're calling me a pervert? It's like a pot calling a kettle black!" said Endless Starlight.

"Oh please shut it! Both of you have the brains of a tuna fish!" said Daffodil Daydream. "Could you at least think of a way to defeat the boss? We just had our butts served to us by three Yellow-Gold bosses! Right now, there are two Violet-Platinum, that will, probably, be even tougher to defeat?"

Everyone agreed with Daffodil Daydream's angry statement. Especially when she had confessed about being smacked around by the previous bosses. No one knew how the two boss this round would kick their sorry butts.

Zhang Yang laughed and calmed everyone down. "Relax. Never try, never know. Starlight! Take on the woman. I'll handle the wolve— I mean…Logan. Yeah. Sorry about that. Alright! Drink up your potions and let's get started."

Zhang Yang went ahead but waited for Endless Starlight to match his speed. At the same time, both Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight cast their first skills.

{Spear of Obliteration}! {Shield Toss}!

"What is this bunch of rats!?"

"You dare to defile the Holy grounds?"

The bosses were greatly annoyed at having their "cuddling" session disturbed by the party. Both of them stood up and growled loudly like a certain character from a certain Japanese animation film. There was a glow of light which seeped out of their body and soared upwards. At the beginning, the light shared the same color, but eventually, both Ezali and Logan gained their own specific colors of light. Logan released light of snow white, while Ezali emitted light of crimson red. Both lights expanded and shot out as far as 40 meters and remained there.

'Ding! You have received the effect: Icy Touch (Stack 1). Receive 500 Ice Damage every 3 seconds, for 10 seconds. Icy Touch can be dispelled by Burning Touch after 10 stacks.'

'Ding! You have received the effect: Burning Touch (Stack 1). Receive 500 Fire Damage every 3 seconds, for 10 seconds. Burning Touch can be dispelled by Icy Touch after 10 stacks.'

Since both of the bosses stood together, both Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight had received both Icy Touch and Burning Touch at the same time. Sadly, the melee attackers who were following Zhang Yang closely behind had also received both the DoT effects.

"Starlight. Kite your boss further away!" cried Zhang Yang as he kited Logan away from Endless Starlight as he kited Ezali in the opposite direction.

Even though Icy Touch and Burning Touch repelled each other, they still required a certain condition. The DoT effects had to be stacked by up to 10 stacks. Before the stack count reaches 10, none of the DoT skills could be dispelled and will continue to stack further.

One or two stacks posed no problem. But when the stack counts reach a dangerous number, it could prove fatal.

'Ding! You have received the effect: Icy Touch (Stack 2). Receive 1,000 Ice Damage every 3 seconds for 10 seconds. Icy Touch can be dispelled by Burning Touch after 10 stacks.'

Even though Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight had retreated rapidly, the boss' DoT auras were triggered once every 6 seconds. On the second time, Zhang Yang had only taken the Icy Touch, while Endless Starlight had only taken the Burning Touch.

"Snowy B*tch! Heal that boy! Fantasy! You're with me!" said Zhang Yang. Since Zhang Yang's equipment was much stronger than Endless Fantasy, Fantasy Sweetheart's weaker healing could keep up with Zhang Yang. Vice versa, Han Ying Xue had the better healing power, which was suitable for Endless Starlight since his equipment was weaker, and would take more damage from the boss' attack. If it was the other way around, it might be fatal for Endless Starlight. This matching was the best since it was to balance out the differences in both tanks and healers' capabilities.

Fatty Han started laughing. "Little Yang. You can't behave like that. I know the number 1 rule is "New is always better". But you can't always stick to that!"

"What number 1 rule? I never said that! F*ck you, f*cking fatso! You could keep quiet and 1 hour and no one would call you a mute!"

"That's right! Fatty bro always loves to make things up!" said Fantasy Sweetheart, pouting her cheeks.

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Chapter 426: A Tight Battle Spot

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Logan stomped down onto the ground thunderously, looking simply heroic. As he presented himself out like a prince battling evil dragons in a fairy tale, it had made him looked more like the good guy and Zhang Yang and his gang looked more like a bunch of evil goons who were trying to cause havoc!

"Intruders, this is as far as you can go!" Logan spoke with a powerful voice. He then swung the long sword in his hand with brute force towards Zhang Yang! It was like a flash of lightning, flashing through!

But Zhang Yang was even quicker! His shield was raised up high right before the sword could even touch him.

{Block}!

'-59!'

"Hell yea!" Seeing the number of damage reflected back on the boss, the gang could not help themselves but cheered for Zhang Yang. The attack of the boss was extremely fast! And to be able to react so fast, and to activate {Block} at the very last moment, like one millisecond, or maybe one centisecond right before the attack hits, required extremely great reflexes and perfect timing for one to do that!

Unfortunately, the defense of the boss was 2,600 points! Even though Zhang Yang had {Eagle Eye} that ignored 50% defense, but without 5 layers of {Cripple Defense}, the boss would still have a total of 1,300 defense points. That was why the reflective damage from his shield was only 59 points.

{Cripple Defense}!

'-319!'

{Shield Bash}!

'-4,396!'

Zhang Yang smashed the first layer of {Cripple Defense} onto the boss before he gave a 'free' blow of {Shield Bash} on the boss. That instant bash attack gave a satisfying damage!

With his initial move to secure the aggro of the boss all onto him, Sun Xin Yu and the rest of his gang immediately unleashed everything that they had, rounding up on Logan and attacking the boss madly with their weapons.

Endless Starlight was left in tears, "Why didn't you guys come and attack the boss that I'm kiting?"

"Hehe, you're too noob! It won't be safe for us!" Wei Yan Er giggled.

It actually wasn't because Endless Starlight was a noob or that he was not good enough for them, the main reason was that his equipment grade was a little weak compared to the equipment of the attackers on the party, like Sun Xin Yu and Wei Yan Er. Tankers do not only rely on their skills to pull the aggro of their targets, they also need good equipment to support them in doing so. Without good enough equipment to boost their damage output to a satisfactory value, the attackers will be bringing more damage to the targets, and when that happens, the targets will switch their aggro onto the players that unleash higher damage values! In this situation, Endless Starlight will only lose the aggro of the boss over to any of the hard-hitting attackers!

Zhang Yang tried to comfort him, "The main reason being, Defenders do not have skills like {Cripple Defense}, so the physical damages that can be done to the boss will be reduced steeply!"

Endless Starlight immediately recovered to his complaining, self-righteous attitude, "That's right! The system is biased! All the good and useful skills have been given to the Warriors!"

Zhang Yang laughed out loud and said, "You can't say that either because Knights can also learn a skill similar to {Cripple Defense} later. However, the skill is aimed at the magic resistance of bosses, so Knights will have to work closely with Warriors!"

"However, the bosses in {{God's Miracle}} have high defense, and very few of them have high magic resistance!" Hundred Shots added in a hurry.

Endless Starlight was excited to know that he could still learn a new skill regarding defense reduction, but his excitement was soon 'extinguished' by Hundred Shots' words. Everyone was laughing at him.

"Bunch of weak and pathetic humans, I can crush you all with only one of my fingers!" Logan let out an outburst of raging roars and began to swing his long sword even more violently. The sharpness of the blade cut open the air as swirls of air were formed into masses of air balls, emitting out some intense sonic booms!

"Come at me! Come 'crush' me with your fingers!" Fatty Han tried to provoke the boss, as he took the time he had left after shooting the boss, turning around and shaking his big fat ass at the boss! He even slapped his booty a few times without any sense of rhythm!

Logan was instantly enraged. Although there weren't any changes on the aggro list of the boss, the boss switched his target to Fatty Han all of a sudden and pointed one of his fingers towards Fatty Han. The fingertip of that finger of the boss seemed to have a bloody vague light glowing on it.

Fatty Han laughed as he saw how the boss reacted, and then he showed the boss his middle finger, "Who doesn't know how to pose? Haha!"

"You imbecile! You must die!" Logan shouted, and a stream of light radiating in the color of blood was shot out from his fingertip, straight at Fatty Han at a very unusually high speed!

Switch!

The attack landed on Fatty Han, but a damage value of 14,694 points appeared right on top of Zhang Yang instead!

Fatty Han was very shocked. If it wasn't for Zhang Yang activating {Vanguard's Aggression} on him in time, he would have to suffer the damage. Although he wouldn't die just yet, he still carried 6 layers of {Touch of Frost}, that had placed him in a very dangerous situation! And Fantasy Sweetheart was focused on healing Zhang Yang as her priority target, she would only throw a {Regeneration} onto the other players around and activate {Mending Prayers} to heal a player nearest to her at random. So, it would not be possible for her to cast the tanker aside and focus on healing any other attackers!

After Logan struck out that attack, he no longer put his attention on Fatty Han and turned his attention back on Zhang Yang.

"Brother fatty! Please don't provoke the boss without any reason!" Fantasy Sweetheart was not Han Ying Xue. Although she had been tagging along with Zhang Yang and his gang for a while and had obtained quite a number of good equipment, she was still no Han Ying Xue. The main reason being due to the number of skills she had been far lesser than the skills that Han Ying Xue had. So, whether it is her capability of emergency healing, or to sustain the endurance of the entire party, she would still not be as good as Han Ying Xue.

The little lady was so busy that she did not even have time to scratch her head! She was currently required to heal Zhang Yang with everything she got, while having to heal the others with her {Regeneration} whenever she is able, to prevent the effect of {Touch of Frost} from further reducing the health points of her remaining party members - other than Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang laughed, "That should be a random skill from the boss. It should be a coincidence that Fatty Han was struck. Maybe the boss was already trying to use the skill on us randomly, and Fatty Han went on to provoke him! Haha!"

"Haha! Wretched fatty! Literally 'an open mouth having the tendency to catch flies in the mouth!" Wei Yan Er was making fun of Fatty Han.

'Ding! You have been affected by Touch of Frost (10 Layers), receive 4,500 frost damage every 3 seconds, lasts for 10 minutes. When Touch of Frost has been stacked up to 10 layers, it can be deactivated with Touch of Flame!'

The battle went on for 60 seconds, and both effects of 'Touch of Frost' and 'Touch of Flame' had been stacked up to 10 layers! Each of them will be receiving 5,000 damage every 3 seconds, but for a healer to heal all 10 of them - it's a heavy task!

Zhang Yang pulled Logan over towards Endless Starlight, "Starlight, time to undo the effects of the skills by stacking them together!"

"Roger!"

The two tankers who were kiting a boss of their own began to move towards a point where the two of them would intercept. The other members of the party were naturally following them closely. In just a short moment, they met with each other at the intercept point, and so did the two bosses!

Boom!

A frosty white stream of light emanated right out of Ezali, while a scorching crimson stream of light emanated right out of Logan. Then the lights slid across the head of everyone around.

'Ding! You have been affected by Touch of Frost (1 Layer), receive 500 frost damage every 3 seconds, lasts for 10 minutes. When Touch of Frost has stacked up to 10 layers, it can be deactivated with Touch of Flame!'

'Ding! You have been affected by Touch of Flame (1 Layers), receive 500 frost damage every 3 seconds, lasts for 10 minutes. When Touch of Flame has stacked up to 10 layers, it can be deactivated with Touch of Frost!'

Everything went according to plan, and Zhang Yang and his party members were able to loop the effects on them from '10 layers' all the way back to '1 layer' for the first time, and now they just had to wait for the effects to stack up to 10 layers before they do it again. As long as they can repeatedly loop the effect cycle by splitting up and regrouping at the right timing, it didn't matter if the health bars of the bosses are very long. It was just a matter of time before the bosses have to give in and die!

"Phew! Finally, we have come across two bosses that are easier to fight!" Fatty Han let out a breath of relief.

However --

"Logan, hurry up and get rid of these useless pests!" Ezali was getting impatient.

"Yes love, I shall follow everything you planned for!" Logan replied her immediately.

The two bosses raised up their long swords in their hands and clashed the two swords into each other. Two streams of lights, the white one gushed into the body of Ezali while the red one gushed into the body of Logan.

'Ding! Ezali has acquired Defiant (1 Layer), physical attack increased by 10%!'

'Ding! Logan has acquired Defiant (1 Layer), physical attack increased by 10%!'

The two bosses instantly acquired an additional beneficial effect on them as they were raising up their swords up in the air, and let out some raging roars!

"What the f*ck! Your mouth! You f*cking wretched fatty!"

The two bosses split up again and the battle returned to the previous rhythm. The only difference was that the physical attack of the bosses had increased by 10%. Fortunately, the damage of the debuffs {Touch of Frost} and {Touch of Flame} were not increased as they were considered as magic type attacks!

The shared health bar of the two bosses was currently at 87%.

Zhang Yang made a rough calculation in his own mind. At their current situation, it would require them to repeat the cycle for 8 times in order for them to empty out the shared health bar of the bosses! After 8 times of this repetitive cycle, the physical attack of the bosses will increase by 180%, boosting their basic attack up to about 38,000! Let alone potions, the healing capability of Han Ying Xue and Fantasy Sweetheart would not be able to catch up with the damage done to their party members!

And if they don't kite the two bosses to intercept and meet each other, then the effects of {Touch of Frost} and {Touch of Flame} will be stacking up indefinitely until the healers no longer can keep with their healing!

What the f*ck! This situation is like pushing people to choose whether to jump off a building or jump into a river and drown! Neither of the choices were beneficial!

"Zhang Yang! We will not make it if this goes on!" Zhang Yang wasn't the only person to see the problem. Hundred Shots quickly spoke to Zhang Yang about it.

Zhang Yang nodded, "Maybe it's time! Everyone! Take your [Power Potion] and get ready, it's time we hold nothing back and activate our {Dance of the Heaven and Earth} together!"

They could still crunch their teeth together and get through the previous bosses without much of a problem, but these two bosses had an extremely long shared health bar, or maybe it's just too long!

Everyone followed Zhang Yang's instruction and took their [Power Potions, and then they unleashed their {Dance of the Heaven and Earth} and other whatsoever hell onto the bosses.

In the brief 10-second of time, the two bosses were inflicted with a massive number of damages, however, those were just a number of hits. Even though everyone had already taken [Power potion (Grade 10 Transmutation)]. they could only inflict a damage of 140,000 to the bosses. Yes, it is indeed a disastrous damage for the players, but for a boss with an extremely long health bar, especially having a shared health bar with another boss that made it even longer? No so much. They only managed to reduce the shared health bar of the bosses by 7%.

Zhang Yang was trying to take out all of the scrolls available in his inventory as he was holding on against the boss. He would just throw any scrolls that can reduce attributes or stats onto the boss, as he kept on using the scrolls that can increase damages onto all of his party members! In short, he was clearing out everything in his possession in an attempt to take down the bosses!

The reason he was willing to go so far was that he will not be able to meet Madran - The Son of God. And to not be able to meet Madran, he would never get his hands on the seventh piece of the [Dimensional Key Fragment]. Be reminded that all seven pieces of the [Dimensional Key Fragments] must be in one place to form a complete piece of [Dimensional Key] which was required to access the treasure vault in the void!

Zhang Yang had been busting his ass trying to complete this main quest. And now that he is just one fragment short from completing the quest, he was never going to let everything go to waste, just because he was just trying to be stingy about the items in his inventory! So he's throwing everything he had out like a Santa Claus!

With Zhang Yang's contribution regardless of the price to be paid, the firepower of the entire party got boosted up by a notch immediately! They were able to bring down the health bar of the bosses even faster.

70%, 50%, 30%... as the shared health bar of the two bosses were reducing rapidly, the beneficial effect on the bosses' {Defiant} was stacking up layer by layer, and their damage output were increasing as the effects were stacking up!

"Here you go!" Zhang Yang tore the last piece of [Fatigue (Scroll)] on hand and threw it straight onto Ezali -- as he had more life-saving skills and better equipment compared to Endless Starlight, he made the choice to throw the final piece of [Fatigue (Scroll)] that reduced the attack of the boss onto the boss - Ezali, that Endless Starlight was engaging.

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