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 427: Knock Down!

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"Boss, I'll love you for eternity for taking care of me so much!" Endless Starlight let out a weird cry.

"Get lost!"

The effect of the {Defiant} had been stacked up to 6 layers, and the attack of the bosses had become a little too powerful for the players to handle. One single hit onto Zhang Yang could inflict about 20,000 to 30,000 damage! Fortunately, {Block} could immunize the user from any damage every 6 seconds, and it did not matter how strong the attack was. That reduced the DPS of the boss down to about 7,600 points.

Although this amount of DPS was still beyond the healing capability of Fantasy Sweetheart, with appropriate timing, using life-saving skills and some [Potions] on hand, Zhang Yang could still manage! On the other hand, since that the [Fatigue (Scroll)] had already reduced the attack of the boss by 10% and he had Han Ying Xue the super healer to back him up, Endless Starlight could still manage to hold on.

"Brothers and sisters! Increase your damage output even more! I've used up every single thing including the cost for marrying a wife and the cost of my own funeral! If we can't take out these bosses, I'm literally going to become naked poor!" Zhang Yang roared out in tears, trying to inspire his members one more time.

Everyone was laughing, as they already realized that it is already impossible to increase their damage output, even more, they were already doing far more than they have ever done in the past!

20%!

Enter the 'slaughtering' state, everyone suddenly got a leap on their firepower when they were supposed to not be able to perform even better already! Especially Wei Yan Er! As she was activating her skills without even thinking about the consequences, her damages were mostly critical attacks! Whenever she attacked, she inflicted the bosses with about 80,000, each hit, with her giant axe!

So there she went, elevating all the way to number one on the list of personal damage output! But the damage done by [Mounts] and [Servants] are calculated as part of the damage output of their owners. When the calculation goes that way, although the personal damage output of Zhang Yang was lower than that of Wei Yan Er and Sun Xin Yu, with the aid of a Violet-Platinum [Mythical Turtle] and a [Devastator, he became the number one on the list of total damage output!

As Sun Xin Yu and the others did not have the skill {Pet Taming}, they could not use [Pet mounts] in an indoor environment. All they could do was to stare at Zhang Yang as his Turtle wreaked havoc in the indoor environment.

Wei Yan Er was irritated by the fact and she clenched her teeth, "Noob tank! I'll give you 3 days to get me one Violet-Platinum [Pet Mount]!"

Zhang Yang laughed out loud and said, "I won't do something that does not benefit me!"

"Hehe!" Wei Yan Er continued to slash the boss without holding back and she said, "You give me a Violet-Platinum [Pet mount, and I shall give Cousin Snow or sister Sun, or maybe sister Daffodil as your wife! Or if you want, you can have sister Fantasy as well! You can pick!"

"No way you getting Sweetheart! She belongs to our second party!" Fatty Han quickly shook his head and responded.

Endless Starlight was triggered as well, "That's right! I can use my body and strip naked for the boss! But Sweetheart is the spiritual support of our second party! Boss cannot lay his finger on her, not even one finger!"

"F*ck! When did you guys learn to talk so much nonsense! Focus on the boss, now!" Zhang Yang roared in fury.

16%, 12%, 9%!

In the 'slaughtering' state, the health bar of the bosses was reducing very rapidly.

6%, 4%!

The effects of {Touch of Frost} and {Touch of Flame} on everyone had already stacked up to 10 layers once again!

"Don't mind about it anymore, just continue!" Zhang Yang did not bother neutralizing the effects this time around. The reason was simply because picking and rolling would consume a lot of time, which would undoubtedly prolong the battle even further. Now they needed to end the battle as soon as possible, so there was no time to waste at all, not even one small millisecond!

3%

"The followers of the gods will never perish!"

"Devotion of faith will bring us back to life once more!"

The two bosses began to state their final words as if they already knew they are going to meet their doom.

2%!

It still remained uncertain if Zhang Yang and his gang members would win for sure! The two bosses were still left with a total of 380,000 health points on their shared health bar. If any of the tankers suddenly fell and died, it would give Logan and Ezali enough time to slaughter up everyone for a couple times over!

1%

As they are on the brink of tasting victory, everyone was even more focused on slashing and bringing the bosses down to their knees. There was once a wise man who said, the last part of an endeavor is the hardest to finish. If they are to be wiped out by the bosses when their health bar is only left at 1% health points, everyone will surely sink into depression!

0%!

Finally, the health bar of the two bosses had been emptied out! As the two bosses let out a miserable cry, both of them collapsed onto the ground at the same moment.

The moment right after the bosses were dead, everyone quickly sat down and had their [Snacks] to heal up. They were all carrying 12 layers of the negative effects on them, half of them were carrying {Touch of Frost} while the remainder were carrying {Touch of Flame}. Every single one of them was inflicted with 6,000 health points in every 3 seconds, and the effects would last for 10 minutes!

"What the f*ck, man! One [Snack] cost 10 gold coins and it's more expensive than a meal of fast food already!" Fatty Han revealed a very painful expression on his face, like he just felt a sting in his heart! So by the end of the day, he decided not to use any of his {Snacks}. Because one death only reduces 10% durability of all equipment, and it only takes about 50 gold coins to repair them all. Although one [snack] seemed to be cheaper than the repair fee, the problem was that the DOT effects on them lasted for 10 minutes long! It meant that each of them had to take about 30 [Snacks] to stay alive until then! So it would be wiser to just die and respawn later if a player ever wanted to save some money.

The effect of these two negative effects cannot be deactivated with skills like {Warrior's Will}, {Ice Barrier}, and {Sacred Protection} as well. So, there are only two ways to stay alive while carrying these negative effects. One, is by having [Snacks, and other than that, either - players are being healed by healers, or they will have to report themselves back at the nearest graveyard.

"Sis, heal me up while I pick our loots up." Wei Yan Er could not sit still anymore while knowing that their 'trophies' were still lying on the ground. So, she quickly went up to pick up all the equipment and the items the two bosses had dropped.

[Frosty Freeze Boots] (Yellow-Gold, Cloth Armor)

Defense: 8

Vitality: 151

Intelligence: 137

Spirit: 60

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 90

"This pair of boots is not bad at all, having no rubbish kind of attributes!" Zhang Yang nodded.

Unfortunately, the three professions that required clothing armor have not yet reached Level 90 yet. Although Daffodil Daydream called it and took it for herself, she would not be able to equip it for the moment. However, the player with the lowest level among them was Fantasy Sweetheart, and she had already reached Level 87, while Sun Xin Yu had just been elevated up to Level 89. That being said, everyone was not far from becoming Level 90 already.

[Robe of Lividity] (Yellow-Gold, Cloth Armor)

Defense: 8

Vitality: 302

Intelligence: 274

Agility: 121

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 90

The attributes of the equipment are very good, but when everyone saw the shocking name of the equipment, everyone was looking at each other. They were all shocked by the special design of the equipment.

"At least pretty ladies will not be wearing this piece, I guess!" Endless Starlight took up the robe and turn the robe around to take a closer look. In {God's Miracle}, it did not matter if it is a robe or a dress, the equipment will show out as a robe on its appearance when male players equip it, while the equipment will show out as a dress on its appearance when female players equip it.

The robe seemed to be unclean as if it has not been washed for very long, and there are patches of plaque on the chest part, the back part and the butt part of the robe. There was an uncomfortable vibe just by the looks of it. Male players did not care so much about appearance, so they could just put it on. But for the ladies who worried about every single inch of makeup on their faces, they would definitely die first then put it on.

Unquestionably, Han Ying Xue and the ladies shook their heads, decisively refusing to take the robe. So, this robe could only be sold at the Little Merchandise.

"What a waste!" Zhang Yang kept the [Robe of Lividity] into his inventory. Judging by the attributes alone, this robe was definitely the best Level 90 Yellow-Gold cloth armor there is, in the current game!

[Crimson Blaze Hand Guards] (Violet-Platinum, Leather Armor)

Defense: 48

Vitality: 318

Strength: 91

Agility: 210

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 90

After seeing the attributes of the handguards, Fatty Han widened his eyes and stared straight at it, "What exaggerated attributes!"

In {{God's Miracle}}, equipment for the head, the chest, and the leg added the most value of attribute points to a player. The gloves and the boots, handguards, and greaves? Not so much. They only added half of the attribute values to a player even though they were the same grade, same level as the equipment of the head, the chest, and the leg. Next were the necklaces, capes, and rings. These equipment added even less value of attribute points to the player, about half compared to the handguards and greaves.

Compared to the [Frosty Freeze Boots, the attribute points that this [Crimson Blaze Hand Guards] can provide is almost two times that amount! It seemed that Violet-Platinum grade equipment are really so much more powerful!

But, after tossing the dice to decide who gets it, this pair of hand guards went to Lost Dream, and Fatty Han could only drool on as he witnessed Lost Dream keeping the equipment into the inventory.

[Perfectly Smithed Greaves] (Violet-Platinum, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 80

Vitality: 635

Strength: 181

Agility: 90

Equip: Absorbs 179 damage points when being hit.

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 90

The moment when the attribute points of this equipment were presented, it was Endless Starlight's turn to widen his eyes and stare straight at the equipment piece, "Great stuff! What an incredible power up it would give!"

Zhang Yang smiled, and then he took the equipment over from the little girl and threw it to Endless Starlight, "I already have my [Titan Set Armor, I'm not going separate my Armor Set pieces to equip this. So you can have it."

Normally, tanker equipment that gives agility attribute points should go to Warriors, while tanker equipment that gives intelligence attribute points should go to Knights. But, the main attribute of a defensive equipment that tankers seek were the vitality attribute points and the damage absorption points. Because some mere agility and intelligence attribute points would not make much difference for a tanker.

Other members had given up on tossing the dice, so Endless Starlight got to keep the much-wanted equipment.

Unfortunately, the two Violet-Platinum bosses only dropped two pieces of Violet-Platinum equipment. Everyone was ranting and complaining about how stingy the system was. They felt that they had put much more effort and deserved better than that!

There were 4 pieces of Yellow-Gold equipment in total. Other than the {Frosty Freeze Boots} and the {Robe of Lividity} that came out earlier on, the other two Yellow-Gold equipment were a little underwhelming to look at as their attribute points were a little weaker. The gang basically ignored the two pieces. Of course, the two fragments of [Hammer of Sanctions - Body Hammer] were nevertheless presented to them as their rewards as well. So from there on, there were finally 10 pieces of fragments of the [Hammer of Sanctions] in the inventory of Endless Starlight!

"I believe that the bosses in the upcoming battle won't be squeezed in one stage anymore, would they?" Fantasy Sweetheart was speaking out of her hopes.

"Very hard to tell!" Wei Yan Er began to speak her 'special' mind out loud, "And the final boss might come out together with the two remaining bosses!"

If that's the real case, everyone should just wash their heads and get ready to die!

As the gang proceeded forward, they killed a couple dozens of monsters and completed the great rescue of the Followers by the 11th Blood Pool.

With their restless hearts, everyone charged into the boss stage to meet the boss.

A middle-aged man wearing a set of red-blood armor stood right in the middle of the room, with an unusually awesome aura. The man was very tall and sturdy, and his two arms that were exposed on the outside of his armor were so thick that they were comparable to the size of an ordinary man's thigh! His hands were holding a hammer that was half of his own height, and he had golden hair that was about one foot long, floating softly in a gentle breeze. There were strange looking runes on the hammer itself, blinking from time to time, looking extremely mysterious.

[Roxburgh, the Warbringer] (Violet-Platinum, Humanoid Creature)

Level: 95

HP: 9,500,000

Defense: 2,600

Note: One of the 12 Disciples, representing the strongest force.

"Luckily, it's just one boss this time!" the gang let out a breath of relief.

"Don't let your guard down so soon. Although it's just one boss, this boss is definitely not going to be easy to take on!" Hundred Shots reminded the gang to stay cautious.

"Let's get on with this and complete the 'Breakthrough the Cage of Prison' quest! This quest has a limited time frame!"

"Right, and we have no idea what kind of skills or tricks this boss has on his sleeves, let's test it out once and check it out!" Zhang Yang pulled out his sword and shield as he charged towards the boss with big steps.

So, it began with a with a {Spear of Obliteration} that shot out straight from Zhang Yang's hands.

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Chapter 428: The Warbringer

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Roxburgh, the Warbringer let out a burst of thunderous roars as he lifted up the hammer backhandedly. Then, he charged towards Zhang Yang right after he took up his hammer.

"You insolent piece of sh*t, how dare you touch me! The deity of the divine servants shall not be offended! Intruders must be eliminated at once!" Roxburgh had arrived in front of Zhang Yang with only a few steps, and he lifted up his heavy hammer up into the air and smashed it down with brute force!

Boom!

Although Zhang Yang had already raised his shield and blocked the attack of the boss, the strength of the boss is just too great! That smash actually staggered Zhang Yang back for about seven to eight steps back before Zhang Yang could regain his balance and stand firm! He could feel that his legs were numb, and it seemed that he could not even take another step at the moment!

"Hahaha! With that little strength in you, you dare to stir things up on my turf? What a bold move indeed!" Roxburgh wielded up his hammer once again and with a swift movement, he swung the hammer in the opposite direction and smashed at Zhang Yang again.

'-12,721!'

Zhang Yang was inflicted with a high damage, and a small little crack appeared on the Titan Armor's spot where the hammer hit! He was being staggered backward once again to the point that he lost balance in his stance!

"What a fierce boss! The hammer is like a high-speed moving truck straight on the face!" The gang was shocked to see Zhang Yang being pushed to a tight spot like this!

A boss with such brute strength, although its attacks were not really that terrifying, but the brute force of the boss had the effect to stagger players and blast the players backward, forcing the players to lose their stance! And the automated attack function in this game required a 'Lock On' for the attack to be precise. So, when a player is staggered, there was no way the player can hit the target, no way at all!

Fortunately, Zhang Yang was already got used to handling these sorts of overbearing bosses in his previous life. Although he was being staggered about, but the sword in his hand would still land precisely on the body of the boss. He did not waste any single chance of attacking!

"Wow! My boss! You're doing awesome!" Endless Starlight was praising Zhang Yang.

This time, no one 'accused' Endless Starlight of trying to butter up Zhang Yang, because what he said was the truth that lay before their own naked eyes. If they were in Zhang Yang's position right now, they knew that they couldn't have done as well as he was doing right now!

"You weak imbeciles, pests! I will crush every single bone you have in you!" Roxburgh let out a course, mad laughter as the variety of runes on his hammerhead began to radiate in blinding light, an unintelligible, virtual shadow of a hammer suddenly swung towards Zhang Yang and landed solidly on him!

'-76,038!'

Zhang Yang was inflicted with a very high value of damage! Although his maximum health points had already reached 87,670 points, but he had been wounded earlier and was left with only about 68,000 hitpoints when he was hit by this attack! He was instantly killed on spot!

'Ding! You are killed!'

'Ding! You are resurrected by the {Rise Anew} effect!'

The main benefits of {Rise Anew} for the tankers was the ability to resurrect the tankers once, while still maintaining the aggro of their targets!

Everyone was frightened by what they just witnessed. What did they boss just do? Is it some kind of skill? How is the damage so high and powerful? Zhang Yang still had about 80% of his health bar on him, and he was instantly killed in one single hit from the boss! Plus {Rise Anew} can only be used once per hour!

Zhang Yang quickly brought up the battle logs: Roxburgh used {Heavy Assault} and inflicted you with 76,038 physical damage (21,856 damage points reduced, 2,106 damage points absorbed).

The basic damage had reached over 100,000 points!

Zhang Yang frowned for a bit and said, "Starlight, come stand by me!"

"Alright!" Endless Starlight was not stupid, he had already figured it out, " So the damage of that hit from the boss can be shared?"

Zhang Yang nodded, "It should be, or else, who on earth can sustain that amount of damage points!"

Although the {Heavy Assault} of the boss had a clear method of telegraphing, the sign would only appear at the same time as the assault comes out. It would already be too late to activate {Shield Wall} by that time! Furthermore, no one knew how long the cooldown period of that skill is. If this skill could be activated once per half minute or sooner, then the cool down period of the {Shield Wall} would definitely not be enough to allow players to use {Shield Wall} frequently enough to counter this {Heavy Assault} from the boss!

However, if the damage of this hit can be shared among players, then it would make better sense at least. The maximum health points of Endless Starlight was somewhere up to 42,000 points, and he also had an 85% physical damage immunity. He could share the load of about 50,000 damage points once.

Endless Starlight came up and stood side by side with Zhang Yang. They tried to be as close together as possible.

Roxburgh gave another blow over onto Zhang Yang with his hammer. Other than inflicting about 13,000 damage points onto Zhang Yang, the attack also added one negative effect to him -- that attack was a{Destructive Smash}that reduced healing effects by 50%!

That actually made the situation worse and even more dangerous!

So, this {Destructive Smash} basically follows closely right after the activation of {Heavy Assault}. Even if the {Heavy Assault} does not instantly kill the target, it could still inflict a great amount of damage on the target. With an additional negative effect from the {Destructive Smash} that follows closely right after, players will be inflicted with a 50% reduction in their healing effects, and it would be much harder for the player to heal so much HP after being damaged by the powerful skill - {Heavy Assault}! Any tanker might snap anytime and die!

"Hahaha! Useless pests! Cry before your own demise!" Roxburgh laughed madly, and with a sudden rise of his heavy hammer into the sky, countless shadows of the hammer were radiated out into the surrounding like arrows!

'Ding! Roxburgh unleashed the {Hammer Shadow Assault}!'

'-19,800!'

'-19,800!'

...

As the {Hammer Shadow Assault} struck them, everyone was inflicted with a basic damage of about 20,000 points!

"What the hell! This boss is just mean and violent!" everyone was shocked and exclaimed at the same instant.

A boss with super AOE skills such as Roxburgh does not fear being rounded up by players. At the current stage of the game, a basic damage point of 20,000 can directly kill at least 90% of the players in the entire game!

"Haha! So tell me, Roxburgh, what can you do other than brag!" Zhang Yang gave his sword a flourish, "I'm still standing here!"

"You bastard!" Roxburgh was enraged, and his face turned twisted and ferocious, "A mere mortal like you, I will smash with ease!"

"I'm waiting!" Zhang Yang slapped out a {Shield Bash} on the boss and inflicted about 5,400 damage points.

"Useless pests! How dare you! You will regret it!" Roxburgh let out a mad roar and began to swing his hammer about.

Wei Yan Er could not help but to laugh, "Noob tank, you're so noob! You actually squabbled with the boss, an NPC, not a real person! You cracked me! You made my day! Haha!"

'-36,038!'

'-39,466!'

The runes on Roxburgh's hammer began to radiate brightly again, and countless shadows of hammer began to emerge from the surrounding and flew towards Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight, inflicting the both of them with massive damage points!

"Haha! You were right! The damage can be shared!"

Everyone began to smile, because the most fatal skill of the boss was no longer a threatening factor to them! Meanwhile, Han Ying Xue and Fantasy Sweetheart quickly healed up Endless Starlight, as he was only left with 3,000 health points on him after the attack. One more hit and he would have surely been dead!

Right after the {Heavy Assault}, the boss chained a {Hammer Shadow Assault} that made everyone yell in alarm.

"Haha! Feel despair! Cry in misery! And tremble before the absolute power!" Roxburgh saw that the gang was jumping up and down yelling for help, and he instantly burst into his mad laughter again. Then, he wielded his hammer and swung it towards Zhang Yang again.

90%, 80%... although Roxburgh has been acting powerfully all the while ever since they engaged him, the threat that he posed to Zhang Yang and his gang was not really that great -- of course, forgetting about the one moment where Zhang Yang was instantly-killed because they haven't understood the features of the {Heavy Assault}.

"Haha! This boss only knows how to brag!" Fatty Han laughed out loud because he only needed to stand at the same spot and unleash everything that he had onto the boss without having to worry or think about anything. It did not require any pick and roll, or any formation at all! Undoubtedly, the difficulty of battling this boss was greatly reduced, and it suited the style of Fatty Han who loved to play as part of a team. As his damage output was not that bad himself, he was not ditched behind by the other 5 DPS profession players in the party.

Zhang Yang said, "After encountering so many hard bosses, now it's a good time to give us one boss that is easy to take on!"

"Hehe, picking up soft fruits, like soft persimmon! I love it!"

70%, 60%, 50%... Roxburgh only had one health bar, and it would not be enough to hold against so many players if his health was lower than 10,000,000 points. In just a brief moment of time, his health bar was reduced to below 50%. This boss didn't seem to have any other new skills, Roxburgh was just repeatedly spamming his {Heavy Assault}, {Destructive Smash}, and {Hammer Shadow Assault} over and over again!

For a party with regular equipment pieces on them only, the {Heavy Assault} and the {Hammer Shadow Assault} would have been fatal to them! Especially the {Hammer Shadow Assault}, that skill could wipe out every single DPS profession player with average equipment on them, which would later lead to the wipeout of the entire party! But, to engage with a top-tier party, Roxburgh could only sit back and wash some vegetables while waiting for the party to send him to his demise.

40%, 30%, 20%... the health bar of the boss was getting close to the bottom as they attack, as the boss had no chance to fight back at all before the strongest players in the entire China server!

"You damned pests! Cowards! Face me alone, if you dare!" the boss was beaten to the point that he could only roar in anger, waving his hammer around like the sunset was about to end, he was just trying to prolong the inevitable, for he was about to meet his end.

10%, 7%, 4%... finally, the final drop of health points of Roxburgh was depleted! After letting out an outburst of an angry roar, the boss collapsed onto the ground heavily and dropped a few pieces of loot.

Although this boss had managed to K.O Zhang Yang once, being the boss that performed the best among the 11 disciples that they had encountered so far, the process of battling Roxburgh was actually so far the easiest boss battle, compared to the previous boss battles! This boss was only designed to test the equipment of the players. If the players fulfilled the requirement in terms of equipment, then this boss battle would become very easy. But, if the equipment of the players did not meet the requirement, well, no matter how many players are sent forth to the boss, they would all perish under the powerful skills of the boss!

After the boss died, Wei Yan Er walked up to pick up the gold coins and the loot with a joyous smile on her face.

[Boots of Loyalty] (Yellow-Gold, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 40

Vitality: 151

Strength: 137

Agility: 60

{Unidentified}

Level Required: 80

"Yo! This is one high grade pair of boots for DPS profession players, man!" Zhang Yang exclaimed. But of course, it would only be high grade, without comparing to other equipment of the Violet-Platinum class! But there weren't many Violet-Platinum equipment at the current stage of the game yet!

Wei Yan Er made a funny face and stuck her tongue out at Zhang Yang, "Noob tank, you really are getting old now. You forgot that I have already acquired a [Titan Battle Boots] already, haven't you?"

"Oh! Then, you finally have 3 pieces of your Armor Set already then?" Zhang Yang asked her.

"Of course I do now! It gives me additional 500 points of strength!" Wei Yan Er was feeling proud.

"Haha! No wonder your damage output today is so incredible, that explains it!" Zhang Yang smiled. With the current equipment Wei Yan Er had on her, 500 points of Strength could give her a boost of 10% attack.

"Humph humph humph! When was I ever weak? I'm always strong!" Wei Yan Er threw the boots over to Zhang Yang. Any equipment or item that no one wanted to claim would be thrown over to Zhang Yang. Then, Zhang Yang would take them and sell them at his Little Merchandise Shop for profits. Therefore, Zhang Yang had gotten stuck with another new nickname, the 'Rubbish Collector'.

[Mark of Remorse] (Yellow-Gold, Necklace)

Vitality: 76

Intelligence: 68

Spirit: 68

Equip: When you use a healing skill, there is a 10% rate to recover 100 mana points.

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 90

Unfortunately, everyone had an Armor Set Necklace piece on them already. So, Zhang Yang could only take the 'not-so-bad' healing necklace and sell it in the Little Merchandise Shop.

Right after that, Wei Yan Er picked up a hammer that had many rune signs around the head of the hammer. It looked very similar to the hammer that the boss wielded.

[Hammer of Raging Fury] (Violet-Platinum, One-Handed Hammer)

Attack: 1,312 - 1,712

Attack interval: 2.5 seconds

DPS: 605

Equip: After striking the target, there is a 2% rate to inflict 14,000 physical damage points to the target and other enemy targets around. This physical damage cannot be blocked or dodged!

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 90

"Huh! The special effect of this weapon is the downsized version of the {Heavy Assault} that the boss used!" Han Ying Xue took the hammer over from Wei Yan Er and then tossed it aside.

"What an incredible attack this weapon has!" Hundred Shots was praising the weapon, "This weapon is really worthy to be a Violet-Platinum weapon! It should have almost the same DPS as the [Sword of Purging Devourer] that Zhang Yang wields, after it is identified!"

"Unfortunately, it's a little on the fast side, so the damage of this weapon might be a little bit lower than expected."

Zhang Yang could not help but to laugh, "Starlight, do you want to take this hammer, or do you plan to try out your luck to see if the Hammer of Sanctions is a one-handed or two-handed after it's completed?"

"... I think I shall keep both, I'll use whichever that is better!" Endless Starlight was speaking without any sense of shame.

Everyone was laughing at him.

After passing the fragment of the [Hammer of Sanctions] over to Endless Starlight, Zhang Yang said, "Alright, let's make haste, and continue our quest. We only have to rescue one last batch of Believers, and that does not require us to battle any bosses at all, so we should be able to complete the quest quickly!"

The gang proceeded forward as they pushed on and arrived at the location of the final blood pool. After clearing up all the monsters in the area, they succeeded in releasing the Believers from all the cages that they came across.

'Ding! You have completed a quest: Break Through the Cage of Prison, total death of Believers, 388. You have acquired 5,000,000 basic experience points, and acquired an addition of 5,100,000 experience points!"

Everyone received the system notification at the same instance.

"Huh? Just experience points?" Fatty Han was feeling mistreated, "After battling so many bosses, and they didn't even give us a few pieces of equipment! What a stingy game developer!"

Zhang Yang shook his head and said, "This is actually an additional side quest. Whether we do this quest or not, we will also have to clear out the monsters in the areas we passed through earlier on. So, this is like a convenient ride for all of us, without having to do extra work! 10,000,000 experience points aren't that bad either. Just think about it, how many monsters do you need to slay just to get 1,000,000 experience points?"

"Now that you have laid it out so clearly, this quest is indeed a bonus for all of us!"

"Alright, let's go now, we only have two bosses left to deal with!" Daffodil Daydream was trying to hasten them up.

"Alright! Let's move!"

The gang proceeded forward.

Zhang Yang was actually more eager about getting the final piece of the [Dimensional Key Fragment, because he was just two steps away from getting it now!

The party charged into the boos stage and they laid their eyes on the final Disciple, right before them.

It was a middle-aged man with a very refined look, dressed in light gray robes, while holding a blue staff in his hand. He was not huge nor small in size, just the average size of a regular person.

[The Apostle of Wisdom - Shaloni] (Violet-Platinum, Humanoid Creature)

Level: 95

HP: 9,500,000

Defense: 2,600

Note: One of the 12 Disciples

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Chapter 429: Shaloni

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"Do you want me tank the boss?" Endless Starlight took the initiative to propose. He had just acquired two pieces of Violet-Platinum equipment. Although he still could not equip them, his confidence level had been boosted very much! Furthermore, the boss before them was a Spellcaster type boss, so it was also more suitable for a Knight to tank the boss, in theory.

Wei Yan Er could not help but laugh, "Hold up there, you have not even reached Level 90 yet! That means you can't even equip them yet! So, what are you trying to show off then?"

"Lost yourself in the excitement eh?"

"You people just love to blow me in the face!" Endless Starlight smiled sheepishly, and he also sucked up his butt cheeks while doing that.

"Argh--" the ladies could not bear to see him do that, so they shouted out in unity.

Zhang Yang pulled out his [Sword of Purging Devourer] and said, "Old rules, try it out first, figure things out along the way!"

"Silly Yu, just be careful, the effect of my {Rise Anew} is still under cool down period. It can only be used again after 5 minutes." Han Ying Xue reminded Zhang Yang.

"Alright, I'll keep that in mind." Zhang Yang nodded, and then he charged towards the boss at a high speed. As he was charging, he swung out his right arm forward and threw out a {Spear of Obliteration} straight towards the boss!

'-4,382!'

Shaloni was inflicted with damage by the attack, and the attack succeeded in provoking the boss. Shaloni waved his staff up and aimed the tip of the staff at Zhang Yang, and shoof! A stream of dark light emanated out and formed a gigantic skull. The gigantic skull had its gigantic jaws wide open, and it seemed ready to crunch on Zhang Yang!

'-14,694!'

The skull came through, and Zhang Yang was inflicted with a high damage value. Since the attack was a magical type, the skill {Block} was totally useless. Zhang Yang could not do his usual move, that is to activate the superb skill {Block}that immunized him from receiving damage, followed by a {Shield Bash} right after.

After the first attack landed on Zhang Yang, Shaloni began to move towards Zhang Yang with big steps. He spoke in a very low voice, "You little ants, how dare you crawl all the way in here! Roxburgh is a fool to allow ants to pass his defense, he was too weak! He is not worthy to follow in the footsteps of our 'Son of God'!"

Wei Yan Er immediately reacted, "Stinky boss! What are you so proud of? You're about to be stepped beneath our feet!"

"Haha! Other than the great gods and the great 'Son of God' who can make me lower my head, other mortals are just like dust to me!" Shaloni took a few steps back and took up his staff to point at Zhang Yang again, and then he sent another gigantic skull attack at Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang kept moving backward until the boss moved forward to a spot about 3 to 4 meters away from the Turtle, before he charged to engage the boss. About 10 meters from the boss, Zhang Yang used {Charge} and clashed into the boss.

There it began. Zhang Yang began to pull the aggro of the boss, while the rest of the gang stepped up and unleashed their assaults on the boss. They channeled every single drop of their firepower onto the boss, as if they were unleashing tsunami waves and volcanic explosions onto the boss.

"Mortals, you can stop your useless act and struggle, tremble before the great power!" Shaloni raised his staff up high, and a casting bar of a 3-second chanting spell appeared right below the boss's head. The spell attack was called the {Stardust Explosion}.

"A large 'explosion'?" everyone was intimidated by the name of the skill for a while there. The Fatty Han said, "Little Yang, where should we hide?"

"...just follow my lead! From behind!" Zhang Yang almost got choked to death by what Fatty Han just said. This wretched fatty has experienced so many boss battles already, why is he still such a wimp?!

The boss finished the chanting of his spell very quickly. In just an instant, many oval white balls with smooth and shiny surface appeared all around the ground, they looked like a bunch of large white eggs standing straight up. Some of the white balls were crowded in some spots, but some were further away from each other. There was nothing else much about the situation.

The face of Zhang Yang immediately changed, the moment he saw these white balls, "Get as far away as possible from those white balls! Quickly! Do it now! Those white balls will definitely explode!"

Dodging around like a bunch of chickens dancing around, the gang realized that those 'eggs' were not really placed into the surrounded evenly, as some of the spaces between the 'eggs' were a little 'wide'. So, they quickly scattered out and scrammed, looking for a safe zone to stand.

5 seconds later!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

All of the white balls exploded at the same time, and the flashes of explosions were blinding! Fortunately, the radius of each explosion was only about two meters out. As long as they find a spacious spot in between the white 'eggs', they could dodge the impact of the explosions. On the contrary, if they stood in between the spaces where the white 'eggs' were concentrated around, they might even get 'lucky' and get blown up by two or three, or even four explosions at the same time!

As no one was blown up by this skill, Zhang Yang could not predict the damage that these explosions could cause to players. But, they would definitely cause super high damage, because regular skill attacks from bosses won't be 'cheap' on trying to kill the players! After all, the boss had already wasted 3 seconds to chant a skill, and they were given another 5 seconds to get clear of the explosion zones. If the damage of these explosions were not high and merely ranging by the thousands, then it would be very humiliating for the boss!

Shaloni kept himself close to Zhang Yang, while trying to bash Zhang Yang up with his spells. As his regular attacks did not require any chanting period of time, he only needed to point his staff at Zhang Yang and launch his assaults at Zhang Yang. However, there was a 2 seconds cooldown for every attack that the boss launches, so, it might as well treat these cool down period as the same thing as 2-second of chanting time!

But, the benefit of using instant spells, is that players would not have the chance or the time to interrupt the boss with their long ranged attacks, because the boss can instantly launch the attack without having to chant!

"Hahaha! Let us have some fun!" Shaloni let out a loud laugh and raised his staff high up in the air, pointing it towards the sky.

Shoof shoof shood!

Suddenly, 13 streams of dark light were shot right out of the staff of the boss, burying themselves deep into the bodies of Zhang Yang and his gang, including the three pets among them!

'Ding! You have been affected by the {Touch of Soul}, lose your mind and blur the line between friends and foes, all damage from the player will be converted into health points of Shaloni, lasts for 10 seconds!'

After the system notification, black chains formed from dark lights appeared around the 10 players and the three pets! Their body masses were enlarged by a few times! Everyone lost control over their own bodies, and they could only see their own in-game avatars attempting to slaughter their own friends.

What that was even worse was that this skill could not be canceled or nullified! Although Zhang Yang and Daffodil Daydream activated their skills such as {Warrior's Will}, {Ice Barrier} and {Sacred Protection}, they were just wasting their skills. Well, trying was better than doing nothing.

Fortunately, after being turned into 'puppets', their attacks were greatly reduced. It did not matter whether it's the tankers, the DPS profession players or the healers, all of them became melee type players for the time being. Every single attack only inflicted about 2,000 damage points, and the defense points of the players did not affect the damage received as well.

Shaloni did not take advantage of them as they were vulnerable 'puppets', he only stood aside and laughed like a madman. If the boss actually joined in and unleashed hell on them, then it would have become a total mess for them! Even Zhang Yang would be killed within the 10 seconds of chaos!

As they observed familiar faces hitting each other like enemies, everyone was filled with anxiety. And finally, the weird and fearsome moment of 10 seconds had passed! The chains around everyone vanished into thin air and the size of everyone's body had returned back to normal. They had finally regained control of their own bodies!

"Hahaha! Are you having fun yet?" Shaloni resumed his assault on Zhang Yang, pointing his staff, shooting black gigantic skulls that tried to crunch Zhang Yang alive.

"The boss recovered about 100,000 health points!" seeing that Shaloni only managed to recover about 1% of his health bar, everyone felt relieved. Actually, the calculations were simple enough for everyone to realize. The attack of everyone had been reduced down to about 2,000 points, and everyone was able to hit once every 2 seconds. Because everyone had been turned into melee type combatants, they would need to approach their targets in order to hit, which required time. Therefore, each of the players could only attack about 3 to 4 times within that 10 seconds.

However, although the 10 players and 3 pets only recovered about 1% of the boss's health, think about it, what would happen if more players were in this battle against this boss? If there were more players around, when the skill of the boss activates, surely the amount of health points that the boss can recover would be far more!

Furthermore, if there were too many players joining into battle this particular boss, then it would become much harder to dodge the explosions! The reason was simple, the 'safe zone' of the area was limited, and the body mass of the players in {{God's Miracle}} could not overlap each other. If players cannot get themselves a spot in the 'safe zone', then they would have no choice but to suffer the impact of those explosions!

"I can see that the bosses in this area are very cocky! They love to show off and throw empty insults! Haha!" Wei Yan Er laughed.

Zhang Yang laughed out loud and said, "Little girl, are you sure that you're not talking about yourself?"

"Humph! You stinky, noob tank! Are you asking for another big tortoise to be stuck on your back?" Wei Yan Er said fiercely.

"Alright, you win! Fine!"

"Ancient Demonic Souls, pay heed to my summons, and get rid of these disgusting pests!" Shaloni suddenly paused all his attacks and once again, he raised the staff in his hands up high in the air and began to chant a new spell.

'Ding! Shaloni has summoned Demonic Souls, lasts for 30 seconds!'

Immediately, 10 monsters with entirely black bodies dug themselves out from the ground. Their heads were especially huge, about one-third of the mass of their entire bodies. Their bodies were triangular in shape, and they had no legs at all, hovering in the air.

[Ancient Demonic Soul] (Normal, Summoned)

Level: 1

HP: 50

Defense: 0

Hoof! The legless monsters began to float towards Zhang Yang and the gang. They weren't particularly fast, and they ignored the pets and went straight for the players.

"Hehe, what kind of funny business is this! Level 1 monsters? Are they here to serve us? Let me handle them!" Fatty Han finally felt like picking up soft fruits again. So, he released an arrow at one of the monsters that were floating towards them.

Pak!

The arrow landed on the Ancient Demonic Soul, and the monster shattered into pieces. But, the pieces then began to move and reform, becoming two Ancient Demonic Souls!

Seeing that Fatty Han did not believe in ghost tales and stuff, and that he was ready to shoot again, Zhang Yang quickly shouted, "Fatty! Stop!"

"Huh?" Fatty could not understand, "Little Yang, these monsters are just Level 1, what are you so afraid of?"

"Are you sure it is that simple?"

Just as they were arguing, Shaloni began to chant the spell for {Stardust Explosion}!

Pak pak pak! In just an instant, countless oval-shaped white balls, with smooth and shiny surfaces, appeared all around the ground just like before, filling up the area.

"Get clear! Get clear!" Everyone began to pick and roll, searching for safe spots.

This time, things were a little different. 11 Ancient Demonic Souls were pursuing them as they were trying to avoid touching the 'eggs'!

As they were in a hurry to search for a safe spot to avoid being blown up, Fatty Han and Hundred Shots did not manage to avoid the Ancient Demonic Souls that blocked their way forward. They charged through the Level 1 Ancient Demonic Souls, thinking that these low-leveled monsters would not inflict any high damage.

However!

'-33,420!'

'-34,180!'

Two high damages were inflicted upon Fatty Han and Hundred Shots! What a coincidence that the values of the damages were the upper limit of their health points! So, the two were out of luck and they were instant-killed on spot!

"Owh --" the two Ancient Demonic Souls that killed Fatty Han and Hundred Shots suddenly expanded in size, and they opened up their dark mouths, screeching out chilling roars. After that, they began to pursue the other remaining players in the surroundings, at high speed!

[Bloody Ancient Demonic Soul] (Elite, Summoned)

Level: 95

HP: 300,000

Defense: 500

"Starlight, lure the two monsters in, and kite them!" Zhang Yang quickly made arrangements to handle the two Bloody Ancient Demonic Souls. Although the two monsters had acquired much more health points, it also meant that their attacks had become 'normal' as well!

"Understood!" Endless Starlight quickly activated his {Finger of Justice} and {Shield Toss}, hooking the aggro of the two 'new species' Ancient Demonic Souls over to him.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Right at that moment, the smooth white balls suddenly began to explode, spreading out blinding and glittering streams of white lights all around the area!

"Very good! Two dead! And more will follow! By the end of this, everyone will be dead!" Shaloni let out a thunderous, mad laugh.

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Chapter 430: Ancient Demonic Souls

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Hundred Shots and Fatty Han quickly reflected on what that just happened.

But what that had happened had already happened, nothing good would come from blaming anyone! Fortunately for the remaining surviving members of the party, the {Stardust Explosion} was over, leaving behind a spacious area for them to avoid being touched by the Level 1 Ancient Demonic Souls that had the ability to instant-kill!

Endless Starlight kited the monsters away to a quiet side of the area, while everyone else felt not hurry attack the two monsters, because these summoned Ancient Demonic Souls would just last for 30 seconds. So, all Endless Starlight had to do was to kite them around until the time was up, and let them vanish on their own.

Soon, 30 seconds had passed.

Pak! Pak! Pak!

The summoned Ancient Demonic Souls let out a screech and vanished into thin air. However, the two Ancient Demonic Souls that already tasted blood did not vanish like the others, they were still beating Endless Starlight up!

"What the f*ck! So these Ancient Demonic Souls will no longer be restricted by the time limit and vanish! Let's turn our attention towards the little ones!" Lost Dream quickly said.

Zhang Yang nodded and said, "Everyone, DPS players! Focus fire on the two 'little ones'!"

Sun Xin Yu and the others quickly turned their attention over to the two Bloody Ancient Demonic Souls and began their heavy assault! As the healers on the party were experiencing tremendous stress in keeping everyone alive, they only had one choice, that was to slay the two monsters first. Only were they able to lighten the stress that was being placed on Lost Dream!

Hundred Shots and Fatty Han were feeling even more embarrassed, as they were the ones who caused all this. If it wasn't for their carelessness, the others would not have to turn their focus away from the boss and onto the other two monsters instead. They had to do extra damage and extra healing just to take down the two monsters.

Although the two DPS players in Zhang Yang's party had been killed, Sun Xin Yu and the other 3 DPS players were very powerful. It only took 15 seconds for them to take down the first Bloody Ancient Demonic Soul! Fortunately for them, the monster did not die and reform back into two! Or else, the 'crime' that Hundred Shots and Fatty Han committed would have become even more serious!

However, when they brought down the health bars of the Bloody Ancient Demonic Souls to 7%, Shaloni suddenly let out a thunderous roar and raised his staff high up in the air, pointing it towards the sky again, "Hahaha! Let us have some fun!"

In just an instant, 9 streams of dark light shot right out from the staff of the boss, burying themselves deep into the bodies of Zhang Yang and his remaining gang members, including his pet Turtle!

'Ding! You have been affected by the {Touch of Soul}, lose your mind and blurs the line between friends and foes, all damage from players will be converted into the health points of Shaloni, lasts for 10 seconds!'

What the f*ck! The boss is using {Touch of Soul} at this time? What a great timing!

Everyone lost control of their avatars once again, punching and kicking at each other mindlessly, causing as much havoc as possible.

Fortunately, the Bloody Ancient Demonic Soul did not lose its aggro on Endless Starlight. It was still beating on Endless Starlight without any moment of pause!

1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds...

Everyone worriedly they kept their eyes on the health bar of Endless Starlight. If he was to be killed by the Bloody Ancient Demonic Soul within that 10 seconds, everything would become hell for them!

"Little Starlight! You better don't fall asleep!" Fatty Han was lying down on the ground in his soul state, but he had been entertaining himself, talking to Starlight.

"Brother Fatty, if I ever become a king, I shall take you in as my queen!" After being chained down and controlled by the {Touch of Soul}, Endless Starlight could not do anything other than to stare at the surroundings. So, he took the time to have fun with Fatty Han, as they began to talk nonsense!

9 seconds! 10 seconds!

The control has been lifted! Endless Starlight was only left with 892 health points! He was still alive!

Right before the palm of the Bloody Ancient Demonic Soul could land on his face, Endless Starlight quickly activated his {Sacred Protection}, protecting himself with a semi-transparent force field that made him invincible for 5 seconds!

Ching Ching Chiang Chiang! Under the heavy assaults from everyone, the Bloody Ancient Demonic Soul had finally been slaughtered! And finally, they have gotten rid of the mess that Hundred Shots and Fatty Han had left behind for them!

Turning their focus back towards the boss, now!

"Ancient Demonic Souls, please answer my summons and get rid of these disgusting pests!" after a brief moment of battle, Shaloni suddenly paused all his attacks and once again, he shouted to the sky and summoned another 8 Ancient Demonic Souls from the ground!

Everyone had learned their lesson well from the first time, so no one was stupid enough to run into the seemingly harmless monsters. Everyone was avoiding any contact with the monsters, staying away from the monsters, as far as possible.

However, Shaloni would also activate his {Stardust Explosion} right after summoning these foul creatures, making the players dance even more vigorously - like a bunch of loose chicken! Maybe the boss was designed to enjoy such a sight!

Pak pak pak!

In just an instant, countless oval white balls, with smooth and shiny surfaces, appeared all around the ground just like before, filling up the area. They may look nice and smooth on the outside, but they were deadly from the inside!

Zhang Yang frowned and said "Avoid touching the Ancient Demonic Souls. If you really can't avoid touching those explosive eggs, you can at least activate your life-saving skills to stay alive. Although I'd say that the explosions will still inflict great damage, it would definitely be better than getting killed by the Ancient Demonic Souls and turning them into something far more dangerous!"

Everyone nodded to express their acknowledgment, and they made it their first priority to avoid the Ancient Demonic Souls at all costs.

Boom!

10 seconds later, every single one of the oval white balls exploded! The white flashing lights were terrifying and beautiful at the same time!

Wei Yan Er was caught in one of the explosions as she was trying to avoid all the Ancient Demonic Souls that were pursuing her. Her health bar was reduced by a lot, about 20,000 health points lost!

"If I had known earlier, I would have rather been blown up than to feed myself to the monsters and make them stronger!" Fatty Han regretted charging straight into the monsters. If he was well and alive now, he would definitely be kicking the boss hard and contributing more now. If not for his 'dead' status now, he would have thumped his chest and stamped his feet to express his sorrow and anger.

"One white ball inflicts about 20,000 damage points, so if you're hit by two at the same time, the explosions will still kill you!" Zhang Yang calculated and told Fatty Han.

Following the boss' spamming of the 3 skills over and over again, Zhang Yang and his party members familiarized themselves to the assault pattern of the boss. After all, everyone who has arrived at this stage of the game in this very boss stage is not an idiot -- well, the idiots have already been killed in action by now!

80%, 70%... the health bar of Shaloni was reducing slowly, but constantly. Because of the {Touch of Soul}, the boss could still recover a small portion of its health points, and everyone needed to pick and roll at the right timing to avoid taking unnecessary damage. Plus, they needed to bear with the 10 seconds of being controlled like puppets, hitting on each other. All these factors had caused the reduction of boss's health bar to be super slow!

The boss only had a total of 9,500,000 health points. If everyone could just stand their ground and unleash their damage straight onto the boss without much interruption, they could have taken down the boss in about 4 minutes! But now that they are picking and rolling for around two-thirds of the entire time during the boss fight, and the boss could recover its health over time, and they took about 10 minutes to take out half of the health bar of the boss!

Tactically speaking, everyone was very clear about what they needed to do. However, being clear about the tactics is one thing, carrying it out perfectly is another! Especially when the duration of battling the boss is prolonged, not many people can actually keep their concentration up all the time. Most people would feel anxious and frustrated. So, some of them could not avoid touching the 'eggs', and they were hurt by the impact of the explosions.

Fortunately for them, none of them had been struck two explosions at the same time - yet. Other than the two tankers, Zhang Yang and Endless Starlight, only a few players had more than 40,000 health points. So if they were to be caught in between two explosions at the same time, they would surely be killed in an instant!

40%, 30%!

"Wa! Ya! Ya! What the hell! This stinky boss really has a long health bar there!" Wei Yan Er got caught up in another explosion, blowing her up, until she was shouting in pain.

If the difficult part about the previous bosses that they had encountered before along the way was their horrifying damage output, then the difficult part about fighting this boss was the duration of time required to defeat him. Players cannot afford any single mistake during this long duration of time, because that one small mistake would risk getting the party wiped out!

"Come, tell a joke!" as everyone had just avoided the {Stardust Explosion} and the situation seemed to be stable at the moment, Zhang Yang smiled and asked for a joke in an attempt to ease down the tensed mood of everyone.

To be in an intense and yet stressful battle, only Sun Xin Yu would be able to handle it with a calm mind. As for Zhang Yang, he was already used to such boss battles, as he had already encountered many similar boss battles in his previous life. Sun Xin Yu could do it because of her profession in real life. Compared to being a trained cop, a mere tens of minutes of stress is a walk in the park for her!

Fatty Han was immediately riled up the moment he heard Zhang Yang asking for a joke, so he quickly said, "Let me tell first! Let me!"

"No! Don't! Anything that comes from this wretched fatty is definitely 'tainted'!" the ladies were trying to stop Fatty Han from saying another word.

"Endless Starlight too! No jokes from you!" Just as Endless Starlight was about to open up his mouth, he was shot straight down. He blushed after being shut up by a bunch of ladies!

"Then, allow me to tell you guys a joke!" Lost Dream took over this 'sacred' mission and said, "It all happened yesterday when my little brother came back home. He came to me and said to me with pride, 'Bro, I'm no longer a virgin!'"

The ladies blushed when they heard the words 'no longer a virgin', while Zhang Yang and the other men were all revealing their 'wolfish' faces and smiled like a bunch of perverts.

"So I told him to sit down and tell me slowly." Lost Dream continued his story, "But my little brother tightened his teeth and clutched up his ass, and he said, 'I cannot sit, Ow!'"

"Pff -- " Zhang Yang and the men started to laugh out loud.

Han Ying Xue and the ladies were looking at each other, as they were not aware of the meaning of the joke.

Wei Yan Er did not get it at all and asked, "Is that some sort of joke? What's so funny about it?"

Zhang Yang gave it a long thought and said, "A man will never understand what is pain, until they are poked from behind!"

"It's 'girl'! You moron!" Wei Yan Er immediately corrected Zhang Yang.

At that moment, Han Ying Xue, Daffodil Daydream and Fantasy Sweetheart had finally got the meaning of the joke, and they blushed. Only Wei Yan Er was still trying to understand the meaning of the joke, scratching her own head.

After fooling around for a while there, everyone eased down a little, and they felt more relieved, increasing their efficiency in battle.

20%!

Time to enter the 'slaughtering' state of time! Everyone in the party immediately unleashed everything they had, and the health bar of the boss began to reduce a little faster.

"Impossible! You are just a bunch of ants! How can you manage to hurt my sacred body!" Shaloni, who was already wounded badly, started bleeding more. Although it did not affect the boss's capability to battle, but he was looking really fatigued.

"Stinky boss! Just give up already!" Wei Yan Er swung her axe until strong currents of wind could be felt. She went in irrationally, taking her [Power Potion (Grade 10 Transmutation )] that filled up her rage gauge and went on to activate all her skills without considering anything else at all!

'-90,440!'

Within that 10-second period, the damage output of this little girl was terrifying! Even Zhang Yang, Sun Xin Yu, Lost Dream or Daffodil Daydream could not go near her damage output!

16%, 13%, 9%!

"Ancient Demonic Souls, please answer my summons and get rid of these disgusting pests!" Shaloni was almost out of breath, this particular summon seemed to be his final attempt to summon the foul Ancient Demonic Souls!

Everyone quickly started scattering to avoid any contact with the foul monsters. They had already reached this far, if they failed there, it would definitely be a crime that cannot be forgiven for a thousand years!

7%! 4%! 1%!

"I... I'm the.. in.. invincible... in..."

Pak! The health bar of the boss was finally emptied out! Shaloni collapsed onto the ground and dropped out a number of loot all over the ground.

"Haha! Stinky boss is finally dead!"

Everyone let out a breath of relief. It took them almost 30 minutes to defeat the boss, everyone was exhausted! Another word to describe this is - tedious!

Han Ying Xue and Fantasy Sweetheart quickly went up to bring Hundred Shots and Fatty Han back. When it came to Fatty Han, the two ladies decided to use 'paper scissor stone' as the deciding factor -- of course, the loser would have to do it! Naturally, Fatty Han started sobbing there and then. After being rescued, he went to a corner and drew circles on the ground to reflect upon himself.

"Yo! Time to reveal the equipment!" Wei Yan Er was filled with joy, even her face showed it all. She had already leaped over to Shaloni's dead body and began her 'touch' on the loot.

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Chapter 431: The Resurrection of The Ancient Demonic Statue

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[Brutal Onslaught Chest plate] (Yellow-Gold, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 40

Vitality: 302

Strength: 274

Agility: 121

{Unidentified}

Required level: 90

Wei Yan Er uncovered the first piece of equipment among the loot, which was a piece of Chest Plate that glittered in a gold complexion, looking dazzling. The piece was just magnificently beautiful to look at.

"Haha! I'm calling dibs for this one!" Wei Yan Er was grinning broadly as she held the equipment in her hands. Everyone saw how badly she wanted the Chest Plate, so they gave up on trying to take it from the little girl. Pleased with herself, she kept it in her inventory. After that, she was ready to uncover the second piece of equipment.

[Staff of Wisdom] (Yellow-Gold, Staff)

Magic attack: 1,372 - 1,772

Equip: 10% rate to add 50 intelligence points when hitting a target, can stack up to 3 times.

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 90

Han Ying Xue and Daffodil Daydream already possessed their very own Level 80 Violet-Platinum staffs, and the quality of their staffs were so much higher compared to this [Staff of Wisdom]. Of course, they did not have any need for it, so the staff went to Fantasy Sweetheart.

"Little girl, time to take out a Violet-Platinum and show us the power of your 'lucky hands'!" Zhang Yang teased Wei Yan Er.

"You're really dumb, noob tank. Of course, we are viewing the stuff starting from the worst to the best! If we have already taken a look at the best stuff in the beginning, then when we are looking at the remaining stuff, we would feel disappointed!" Wei Yan Er shot back immediately.

Then, the little girl put her hands back into the loot and took out an ancient looking ring that radiated in a faint purplish light. The glow was pleasing to look at.

[Ring of New Hope] (Violet-Platinum, Ring)

Vitality: 159

Intelligence: 105

Spirit: 105

Equipment: Increase critical rate by 2%.

Use: Heals yourself and recover 50,000 health points in an instant. Cooldown: 12 hours.

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 90

"Wow! This is one fine, magnificent Magic Ring!" Wei Yan Er exclaimed immediately, and then she looked at her own hands and said, "Sigh, my hands are just too lucky! Lucky hands! These hands must be the best of the best!"

The attributes of this ring were indeed magnificent, it was definitely the best Magic Ring at the current stage of the game! It provided a substantial amount of attributes, and also gave an additional of 2% critical rate for free! The main attraction of this ring was that it had a life-saving special effect function that gave a total of 50,000 health points immediately upon activation! The amount of HP this ring could recover was actually 5 times of what [Merlinda's Appreciation Ring] could provide!

"At least, the system did not mistreat us! We have been through so much hardship, killing so many bosses already!" Han Ying Xue quickly selected the button 'Need'.

As expected, Daffodil Daydream and Fantasy Sweetheart weren't that kind to give the ring away to Han Ying Xue. All of them took out their dices and started rolling for it. May fortune favor the bold!

In the end, Han Ying Xue won, with 100 points!

Everyone could only admire the superb luck that this Witch Snow had. Every single time good stuff drops, this witch would definitely win the Dice Toss with the highest value!

She did have her shortcomings - she was only Level 88 now, so she would have to wait for a while longer before she can equip the ring.

After Wei Yan Er picked up another small piece of the [Fragment of Hammer of Sanctions, the remaining loots were a few pieces of [Inscribed Cloth] and a piece of Tailoring Profession Blueprint, which was taken by Daffodil Daydream. She then tapped it on her chest and learned to make whatever it was on the blueprint.

[Incandescent Electrical Robe] (Violet-Platinum, Cloth Armor)

Defense: 16

Vitality: 907

Intelligence: 601

Spirit: 259

{Level 3 Socket 1}

{Level 3 Socket 2}

Equip: Increases attack by 2%.

Required Level: 90

After viewing the attributes of the final product that Daffodil Daydream made, everyone was stunned. This piece of equipment was just too good to be true! A magnificent piece of work! Definitely a great masterpiece!

Fatty Han was drooling, "If you make this equipment and sell it, you can definitely sell at top price! Pretty Daffodil, please take me in as your 'Mistress'!"

Indeed, at the current stage of the game, any Violet-Platinum equipment is super rare! Any piece of Violet-Platinum equipment can reach up to hundreds of thousand dollars!

Furthermore, this [Incandescent Electrical Robe] has very powerful attributes. If the seller bumps onto a rich person, the seller can actually sell it for up to millions of dollars without any problems!

So, if one can sell hundreds of this, that person would become a millionaire already!

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "Do you think it's really so convenient? Daffodil, take a look at the ingredients required to make this robe. Are they really that easy to gather?"

Daffodil Daydream picked her way through onto the ingredient required menu and showed it out to the others: Inscribed Cloth X 1000, Azure Pearl X 10, Mythical Pearl Silk X 5, Sacred Thread X 1.

"Holy!" Zhang Yang took in a deep breath and said, We can get as many [Inscribed Cloth] as we need because they're easy to come by, but these [Azure Pearl] and [Mythical Pearl Silk]... these two items are definitely very rare, and extremely hard to come by. Price is not the problem, the problem is that there is only a limited number of these items in the game! And the final item [Sacred Thread] is even 'better'! I have never even heard about it before!"

"If it's so easy to make a Violet-Platinum equipment, then Violet-Platinum grade equipment would become very common in the game. The system will not make such mistakes!" Hundred Shots nodded and said.

"Alright, settle down. Time for us to meet our 'Son of God'!" Han Ying Xue stretched herself and gave a good yawn, "After all this, I'm getting myself a great meal!"

While she was talking, she gave glanced at Zhang Yang with her sexy eyes. Obviously, she had not forgotten about how she got one big meal from Zhang Yang previously.

Zhang Yang took a peek at Sun Xin Yu without saying anything. This piece of 'ice' was basically invisible all the time, other than when they are engaging a boss. But as a police, her eyes and ears must be very sharp. So she might have heard Han Ying Xue and would invite herself later!

As predicted, the end of her mouth twitched a little. If Zhang Yang had not actually paid attention to her, he would not have seen that!

It's going to be 'merry' later on!

The gang proceeded forward. The terrain in the area was a little different from the terrain that they had gone through earlier on. Before that, everyone was running on a platform where the path coiled up in many layers of large rings that led up to the top - as they followed the path, and from there onwards, the path stopped halfway across like half a circle. There was a long straight path that led straight towards the center point of the half circle.

There were no signs of any monsters along the way. Everyone was charging through as quickly as they could, trying not to waste a single second. After passing through the long straight path that led straight to the middle of the area, they found themselves standing on a vast, underground space!

The area had a surface area of at least 5 kilometers squares out, being about two hundred meters up from the lowest floor. The place looked just like a large palace hall, similar to a sanctuary! Right in the middle of the area, there was a sturdily stationed gigantic metallic monster, and the head of that metallic monster was about to touch the highest spot of the entire area! It was huge!

[Ancient Demonic Statue - Cazacrol] (Inactive, Servant)

Level: Inactive

HP: Inactive

Defense: Inactive

Well, who would have thought that there actually was an undated product in an unaddressed factory! The grade, the HP bar, the Defense, were all still unavailable from view!

There was nothing else in the area, other than that large demonic statue. The final boss Madran seemed to have vanished into thin air!

Zhang Yang and his gang waltzed up to the statue. As they approached the statue from about a hundred meters away, there was a low voice coming from within the demonic statue, saying "No wonder Cazacrol has stopped restoring itself, you imbeciles must have ruined the sacrificial altars!"

So, the boss was hiding inside the demonic statue all along!

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "Yes indeed we did! All 12 of your disciples have been defeated by us! And, we also freed all of the Believers! So Madran, prepare to die!"

"Imbeciles!" a cold humph came from within the statue, "Although the power of the demonic statue has barely been restored, it will be enough to crush you! It can recover its lost power with bloodshed while killing any living human! Then, Cazacrol shall return to its full potential state! Unfortunately, I can no longer wait for Cazacrol to recover more power before revealing it to the public! Since you imbeciles are so eager to die, then let us use your blood to celebrate for the birth of this war machine!"

Boom!

The sturdy lifeless demonic statue suddenly opened up its eyes and revealed a pair of crimson bloody eyeballs within the eye sockets. An outburst of its aura revealed it's thirst for blood. It went across the entire area like a storm in all directions. Boom! Boom! Boom! As the berserking aura passed through, the ground trembled, as if the ground itself was in fear.

Right beneath the head of the demonic statue, a bar saying 'Activating' appeared, and the progress of the bar was swift! It only took 1 to 2 seconds to complete loading!

Boom!

Cazacrol took its first step, and that stomp instantly cracked the ground in half, trembling the ground to the point that Zhang Yang and his gang lost their balance!

[The Ancient Demonic Statue - Cazacrol] (Mythical, Servant)

Level: 110

HP: 1,028,903/30,000,000

Defense: 4,900

"Rawgh!" Cazacrol let out a thunderous roar that shook the heavens, and the roar emitted out, wave by wave, echoing throughout the surroundings, and pak pak pak! The walls in the surroundings began to crack! It showed how powerful the intimidating aura of a Mythical grade boss was!

"Holy cow! A Mythical boss! How are we going to fight against this thing!" Lost Dream was screaming in shock.

"Zhang Yang, can you see the level of the boss?" Hundred Shots asked Zhang Yang. Because in {{God's Miracle}}, players can only see the information of NPCs and monsters that were 20 levels higher or less, or else, all players could see are question marks.

Zhang Yang nodded as he charged forward to engage the boss, "It's a level 110 Mythical boss, with 4,900 defense points. However, it only has about 1,000,000 health points left, it's not like we stand absolutely no chance at defeating this piece of junk!"

"4,900 defense points!" everyone was frowning and sweating in cold fear. Without any {Cripple Defense}, the two dagger wielding Thieves, Sun Xin Yu and Lost Dreams will not be able to even break through the defensive armor of the boss. They would only be able to inflict 1 damage point to the boss - even by brute force!

Furthermore, there was also a damage penalty in effect, when players and the monster are 10 levels apart. Now that they were 20 levels lower than the boss, how much of their damage would be reduced as an act of the penalty then? Time to try it first and worry about it later!

{Spear of Obliteration}!

'2,012!'

This {Spear of Obliteration} that ignored defense could initially inflict a damage of about 4,000 points, but now its attack has been reduced by about 50%!

"Hahaha! Mortals, dedicate your bodies as tributes and let your deaths be meaningful, at least!" Madran laughed madly from within the Servant. As he was laughing, Cazacrol reached out its hand and slammed at Zhang Yang.

{Block}!

Boom!

The strength of Cazacrol was just too powerful, to begin with. Although Zhang Yang raised up his shield in time to block that slam from the boss, he was still slammed into the ground as his two legs sunk into the ground up to his knees!

"How unfortunate. We have already used up our {Dance of the Heaven and Earth} in our previous battle. Or else, we could have released our super skills on the boss, and even a Mythical boss will have to die." Endless Starlight sighed.

"Hahaha! Can you feel the power of the Ancient Demonic Statue?" Madran was laughing out loud while Cazacrol reached out its hand and gave Zhang Yang another slam.

'-48,038!'

Shoof! Zhang Yang lost half of his health bar in just an instant!

"What the hell! So this is the power of a Mythical boss! It's worthy of its title! The attack is just way too powerful!" Everyone was in shock!

Such a powerful attack! Even Han Ying Xue and Fantasy Sweetheart will not be able to keep up in healing so much health even if they worked together! After all, the equipment of these two pretty ladies were still mostly Yellow-Gold grade, with a few pieces of Violet-Platinum grade. So, their tiers were basically only half of Zhang Yang's, at the current situation!

Zhang Yang quickly made up his mind, and he commanded, "Witch Snow! Let's use our paired skills {Blizzard Sky} and {Luna's Dew}!"

Under the activation of {Blizzard Sky} and {Luna's Dew}, the two of them be invincible for a full 30 seconds!

Han Ying Xue responded and quickly ran to the side of Zhang Yang.

"Hahaha! Give up on the futile attempt to struggle! Every attempt you make is hopeless, right before the absolute power!" Madran laughed madly again, and launched another slam over at Zhang Yang and Han Ying Xue!

{Blizzard Sky}, {Luna's Dew} activated!

In just an instant, the ground was covered by the petals of snowflakes falling from the sky, and a moon rose up high in the sky!

'-5,000!'

'-5,000!'

...

Cazacrol was beginning to be inflicted by a continuous chain of damages, and the damage values were appearing right on top of the boss - constantly!

Chaos Damage was not affected by any Defense, Magic Defense or even the Level Difference. It would strike squarely with its full power!

Sun Xin Yu and the remaining members saw the opportunity, and they rushed in around the boss, taking their own [Power Potions, and begin to unleash their full assault onto the boss.

This 30-second duration of time is the best time to channel damages to the boss. And if they cannot empty out the health bar of the boss within that period of time, then when Zhang Yang is no longer under invincible state, he will definitely be instant-killed by the boss and squeeze him into something else!

As Zhang Yang needed to supervise the {Blizzard Sky} and {Luna's Dew}, he only managed to smash one layer of {Cripple Defense} onto the boss. So, Wei Yan Er continued his work and smashed 4 more layers of {Cripple Defense} as a start, reducing the Defense of the boss down to 2,500 points before everyone could begin their full assaults onto the boss! Well, that managed to increase the damage output of the entire gang, which increased the efficiency on reducing the boss's health bar!

800,000, 600,000, 400,000!

Although there was a level penalty that reduced their damage output on the boss, the firepower of these players wasn't that bad themselves, their attacks were still very powerful and sharp! However, when the boss spawned, it's health bar was already lower than 20%, which caused the gang to enter their 'Slaughter Mode' immediately, adding a substantial amount of firepower which made up with the firepower loss due to the level penalty suppression effect!

300,000! 200,000! 100,000!

"No! No! Stop!" Madran let out an angry roar, "You idiotic mortals! Stop at once! Heed my warning and stop!"

"Hahaha! Stinky boss! Don't you love to laugh? Laugh more now! I dare you!" Wei Yan Er wielded her giant axe over and over again, and she ignored all defenses of her target when the special effect of her weapon triggered! It was really effective and convenient to use such a weapon with such a special effect on bosses that had super high defenses!

"Bastards! You idiotic imbeciles! You will regret this! I will make you regret this!" Madran's voice was at its breaking point.

50,000! 30,000! 10,000!

Boom!

At the same instant when the {Blizzard Sky} and {Luna's Dew} ended, the health bar of Cazacrol was totally emptied out as well! The gigantic demonic statue collapsed and scattered into pieces across the ground!

"Look at what you imbeciles have done!" looking at the wreckage of their deed, an old man in a red robe appeared among the pieces of the statue. He had a size of a regular person, with a regular human face, and he had an ancient-looking staff in his hand. His face was filled with unspeakable rage at the moment.

"You have destroyed everything that I have worked on for 20 years!" the old man roared into the sky and his veins were popping out of his forehead. It was obvious that he was inconsolable at that moment! "I will tear you all into pieces, like how you did to my demonic statue!"

[Madran - The Son of God]

Level: 96

HP: 9,600,000

Defense: 2,600

The final boss has finally revealed himself!

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Chapter 432: The Beginning of a Bitter Battle!

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"Argh --" Fatty Han suddenly screamed like a little b*tch - as if his parents had just died in front of him. His scream was miserable.

"You f*cking fatty! Why did you suddenly scream like an animal shouting out a mating call! The boss has not even started poking your ass yet!" Zhang Yang asked and laughed. The two of them had already gotten used to joking around with each other.

"... the boss died, but there was no loot!" Fatty Han let out an enraged roar.

"The boss hasn't died yet -- Oh, you mean Cazacrol?"

"Yes! We just managed to take out a Mythical grade boss, and nothing dropped from it! What the f*ck, man! Is this some sort of prank, or what!" Fatty Han was very angry with the fact he did all the hard work for nothing.

Zhang Yang shook his head and said, "The boss only had about 1,000,000 health points, the system put it in just to raise the difficulty of the battle by a little. So what can you expect? Do you think you just took out a fully-powered Mythical boss? Haha."

"Pui! Even if the boss only has 1 point of health when it spawns, it also counts as our kill! Of course, the system must award us with something! Some fine equipment will do too! Fatty Han was really pissed and he tried to argue.

"Haha! Then unleash your anger onto this boss!" Zhang Yang charged in on Madran, and with a slash of his [Sword of Purging Devourer, he swung out a regular attack onto the boss and hooked over the aggro of the boss to himself.

Madran had already given up so much for the past 20 years to build up his pet project, and all his efforts have gone to waste in just one brief moment - because of Zhang Yang and his gang. He was already on the verge of exploding as his rage was at the limit. His face was very savage, and scary and the same time. As a Spellcaster, he actually used his staff as a stick to hit his enemies. He had obviously lost it! He rapped the head of Zhang Yang as hard as he could, as if he wanted to mince Zhang Yang into a ball of minced meat with his own bare hands! Otherwise, he would not be able to release his anger!

{Block}!

Zhang Yang did not have to be polite as well, and with his shield raised, he blocked the attack from Madran's staff, followed by a {Shield Bash} that scored a critical hit, inflicting a damage of 3,732 points onto the boss.

"Argh!" Madran felt the pain and he let out a roar. His eyes were flashing with murderous intent as he raised his staff, pointing the tip of his staff right at Zhang Yang.

"Let the lightning swallow your souls!" the boss waved his staff around and activated a skill!

'Ding! Madran has unleashed {Lightning Storm}!'

Shoof!

A stream of blindingly white light shot out from the tip of the staff, and the light traveled at Zhang Yang just like a bolt of lightning. It was really fast! That light inflicted a damage of '-14,694' onto Zhang Yang. After that, the lightning jumped from Zhang Yang and struck Endless Starlight, who appeared to be the nearest to Zhang Yang at the moment. That attack inflicted Endless Starlight with a damage of 45,750, which instantly-killed him and sent him straight to his demise!

And it was not over yet! That same stream of lightning then jumped from the dead body of Endless Starlight over to Lost Dream who happened to be the closest to Endless Starlight! An even more terrifying damage value was inflicted onto Lost Dream! A total of 126,000 damage points was inflicted on him, sending him straight back to the graveyard!

The killing streak continued, as the lightning jumped on from the dead body of Lost Dream over to Sun Xin Yu, then onto Wei Yan Er! First, Sun Xin Yu was inflicted by a damage of 378,000 points, followed by Wei Yan Er who was inflicted with a damage of 1,134,000 points, sending both of them straight to the graveyard as well! Those amount of damage could have killed the two ladies over a couple of times already!

With just a round of attack, the only ones left were Zhang Yang, Fatty Han, Hundred Shots, Han Ying Xue, Daffodil Daydream and Fantasy Sweetheart! Other than Zhang Yang, all of the DPS profession players had been wiped out clean!

"Holy mother of god, this boss skill is too sick to be true!" Fatty Han put his hands on his head and screamed like a squealing piggy!

Han Ying Xue calmly speculated, "Every time the lightning jumps, the damage it can inflict will be multiplied threefold! So, after the second jump, it can already instant-kill any one of us!"

Calculating based on Zhang Yang's amount of damage immunity, this {Lightning Storm} of Madran had a basic damage of 21,000 points. However, with every single jump, the damage of the skill will increase by 3 times! Furthermore, it seemed that this skill would chain on until everyone is dead, there was no limit to how many times the lightning can jump!So after jumping a few times, the damage that it would inflict would reach the millions!

"The leaping should have a limited range!" Zhang Yang was having deep thoughts on it while he was engaged with the boss, slashing and cutting the boss as much as he can, "Or else, after killing the little girl, the lightning should have leaped on to another one of us, even though we were very far away from her."

"I wonder, how far can the lightning jump?!" Fatty Han was just being random.

"Oh, if you want to find out, of course, it won't be easy! Come over here!" Zhang Yang laughed and called Fatty Han over.

"Argh!" the face of Fatty Han immediately became bitter, "Little Yang, I'm not planning to die so young!"

"Don't worry! I will take good care of your pretty wives, you can go peacefully!" Zhang Yang told a joke, trying to ease him up, and then he went back to the topic, "Get to a spot at my back, 10 meters from me to be exact. Let's see if the lightning will charge over to you after hitting me! Since there is an 80% chance that we are going to be wiped out this round, let's just try to understand the skill of the boss as much as possible!"

"Argh! Why do I have to suffer so much? Is it because I befriended a bad person?" Fatty Han walked carefully up towards Zhang Yang, and he stopped on a spot about 10 meters away from Zhang Yang. Then, he continued to shoot his arrows at the boss.

"Aiyak!" Han Ying Xue suddenly filled her face with shock and fear at the same time, then she said, "Silly Yu, something invisible is attacking me!"

"Me too! I felt it too!" Daffodil Daydream and Fantasy Sweetheart were also saying the same thing.

"Hundred Shots, Fatty, do you guys feel anything wrong?" Zhang Yang quickly asked.

"Yes, there's something invisible attacking us. The damage isn't high, it's just about 1,000 damage points per hit!" Hundred Shots nodded and told Zhang Yang.

At that moment, Zhang Yang also noticed it too. He was inflicted with '-0' damage. If it was an attack from the boss, then the damage wouldn't be so low!

"The damage isn't high, but there is a slow effect!" Han Ying Xue was annoyed.

Madran let out a cry and raised his staff at Zhang Yang. A stream of dark light emerged from the staff and turned into a black skull. The black skull flew over and struck Zhang Yang's chest, inflicting him with a damage of approximately 15,000 points.

However, this boss was really annoying. Right after using a magic attack, he would immediately use his staff to swing at Zhang Yang's head!

"Let the lightning swallow your souls!" the boss waved his staff around and activated the {Lightning Storm} for a second time. Zhang Yang and the remaining members of his party had been anticipating this.

'-14,694!'

Zhang Yang was inflicted with an expected damage value, but the attack stopped there! The lightning did not leap over to anyone!

"Fatty, come closer to me! Move 3 meters closer!" Zhang Yang said.

"My life is just like a dining table that is occupied with many breakable utensils!" Fatty Han was trying to express his feelings with his lame joke as he moved a few steps forward.

"Hey, wretched fatty! You should be happy that you can still battle!" Wei Yan Er was very bored and judging from her impatient characteristic, it was torturous for her to just lie down and watch others battling the boss.

"Eye of the Illusive Soul, swallow their souls, and leave nothing behind!" Madran finally activated his second skill.

'Ding! Madran has unleashed {Eye of the Illusive Soul}!'

Instantly, a large black eyeball homed in on Han Ying Xue, Daffodil Daydream and Hundred Shots! The eyeballs on their body would twitch and turn a little randomly, and it was really disgusting and terrifying to look at!

[Eye of the Illusive Soul: Allows you to see and attack the Illusive Souls. If you can kill one Illusive Soul within 30 seconds, the [Eye of the Illusive Soul] will be lifted. Or else, you will be transformed into an Illusive Soul by the [Eye of the Illusive Soul]!

Hundred Shots quickly informed everyone, "So it was the Illusive Souls that was attacking us earlier on, we cannot see them without the [Eye of the Illusive Soul]!"

"Quickly, we only have 30 seconds to kill them, or else we will become one of them!" Daffodil Daydream quickly said.

"How many are there? Are their attributes powerful?" Zhang Yang could not see the Illusive Souls, so he asked Han Ying Xue and the other two who had the [Eye of the Illusive Soul] on them.

"Three!" Han Ying Xue then posted the attributes of the Illusive Souls onto the party channel for everyone to see.

[Illusive Soul] (Normal, Summon)

Level: 95

HP: 100,000

Defense: 0

Zhang Yang gave some deep thoughts about it, then he said, "Hundred Shots, Daffodil Daydream, Witch Snow, you three combine your attacks and focus on only one Illusive Soul, but stop your attacks when the Illusive Soul is only left with about 10,000 health points. Then, Witch Snow will take it out first and release herself from the [Eye of the Illusive Soul]! As for Hundred Shots and Daffodil Daydream, you two have enough firepower to take out your own Illusive Souls. So after you guys help Han Ying Xue, you guys just have to focus on killing your own Illusive Souls. It shouldn't be hard for you two!"

"Alright!"

Han Ying Xue was a healer, a profession that was weak on attacking power. Although her equipment was really powerful, she lacked skills that could inflict higher damage. So, if she ever went into battle on her own, she would be at a disadvantage! Furthermore, the longer Han Ying Xue is 'tied down', the more stress Daffodil Daydream was going to have. Because Daffodil Daydream would have to cover Han Ying Xue's part to heal up Zhang Yang and also the other remaining members of the party. Her stress would become tremendous!

Han Ying Xue, Hundred Shots and Daffodil Daydream worked together and focused on one of the Illusive Souls, and then they attack the monster that was only left with about 10,000 health points. After Han Ying Xue slaughtered the monster with ease, Daffodil Daydream and Hundred Shots turned to their own Illusive Souls and began to focus their assaults onto the monsters. With their strong attacks, it would still take about 15 seconds to kill a monster with 0 defense and 100,000 health points. There was still about 5 to 6 seconds left when they managed to kill the Illusive Souls and unbind themselves from the effect of the [Eye of the Illusive Soul]!

Other than that, the Illusive Souls would only attack players without the [Eye of the Illusive Soul]. So, Han Ying Xue, Hundred Shots and Daffodil Daydream could focus on slaying the monsters.

"Let the lightning swallow your souls!" Madran waved his staff around and activated the {Lightning Storm} for the third time.

'-14,694!'

Zhang Yang was struck by a lightning until he was crispy on the outside, tender on the inside, just like the previous encounter with the lightning strike. However, Fatty Han was still alive and well, shooting arrows towards the boss.

"Fatty, come two more steps closer to me!" Zhang Yang laughed as he spoke to Fatty Han.

"Go away! I don't want to do this anymore! I'm not listening to you! La la la!" Fatty Han roared.

"Haha! Brother fatty, just take two more steps and everything would still be fine." Endless Starlight could not help himself, as he was basically a talkative person with no tendency to shut his mouth. He immediately laughed after saying it.

"Endless brat, are you looking to be beaten up?"

"You have destroyed all the efforts of my life, my entire life! You pests! Imbeciles! It would still be hard for me to calm down even after I crush you all into dust!" Madran let out a thunderous roar and continued to swing his staff at Zhang Yang repeatedly. This annoying boss actually turned out to be pretty lethal in melee combat. His physical attack actually reached up to about 20,000 points! Because physical damage tended to be reduced or lowered due to the defense and armor of players, the damage inflicted onto the players would be slightly lowered. But, the annoying part about this boss' melee assaults was that the staff had a certain rate to stun the players, and the rate was not that low either!

However, Zhang Yang could also use his {Shield Bash}. Because currently, his {Shield Bash} could deal double damage, making it one of the strong damage skills that can contribute to bringing down the boss as quickly as possible!

"Embrace my wrath and die!" Madran suddenly pointed his staff towards Daffodil Daydream! Right after that. The body of the little beauty with a pretty face and a pair of huge boobies suddenly surged with sparkling lightning, making her look like 'The Flash'. It looked very fantastic. But what was even more 'fantastic' is the additional negative effect that was suddenly added onto her.

[Strength of Madran: explodes after 10 seconds, inflicts you with 1 point of Nature Damage, but inflicts all targets within a 10-meter radius with 50,000 Nature Damage, with you as the center point.

"Holy sheet, get away from everyone now, Daffodil Daydream!" Everyone was screaming at her, telling her to get away from them after reading the negative effect that she is carrying.

"Alright! I'm going, I'm going!" Daydream quickly nodded and turned around in a rush. As she was turning very fast, her pair of papaya-sized heavy boobs jiggled through the air and bounced up and down. The 'scenery' was really stunning!

Among the members of the party, one would be able to recall the drooling sound coming from Fatty Han and Endless Starlight after witnessing that 'scenery'.

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Chapter 433: A Smooth Clearance

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10 seconds was enough for Fantasy Sweetheart to run into the 'safe zone' area.

Boom!

Immediately, a stream of white dazzling light emanated from the entire body of the pretty faced pair of huge boobies, radiating out into the surrounding. But there was no one around within the effective range of the effect, so the attack was the equivalent of shooting bullets into the ocean. Pak! Fantasy Sweetheart was inflicted with 1 point of damage.

Right after the effect faded, Fantasy Sweetheart returned to her position and continued to do her duty on the battlefield.

Although Zhang Yang and his party were lesser in number now, that was also an advantage for them, as there was no more space for them to run, when someone is being inflicted by the {Strength of Madran} effect without having to worry that others would be wounded when the skill explodes!

"Although we are slow in progress due to our small numbers, we have the time to slowly torture the boss!" everyone saw a glimpse of hope to win the battle.

"Let the lightning swallow your souls!" the boss let out another roar and pointed his staff at Zhang Yang to activate another {Lightning Storm}!

'-14,694!'

'-63,000!'

After the lightning landed on Zhang Yang and inflicted him with about 15,000 damage points, it leaped straight over to Fatty Han and instant-killed him!

"Wah! You bastard, little Yang! You sacrificed me now! Are you happy now? We are now short of yet another DPS player in the party!" Fatty Han could not accept his own death.

"Don't worry! You died with honor, and the honor is mine! Because you have confirmed for us that this lightning attack can only jump by about 5 meters long!" Zhang Yang laughed while raising his shield up to block the staff assaults from the annoying boss.

Another DPS player has died. There were only 3 players with high DPS left, that was Zhang Yang, Hundred Shots and Daffodil Daydream. The total DPS of the entire party had been reduced down to less than 20,000 points! So, the progress of reducing the health bar of the boss had become extremely slow.

90%, 80%, 75%!

"My followers, reveal yourselves, and fight for your master!" Madran raised his staff up high in the sky and commanded loudly. 12 streams of dark lights came out from the staff and shot across to the 12 different corners of the area.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Skeletons were breaking out of the ground one after another. They looked really familiar! Each of the skeletons had a different sort of weapon on their hands. Four of them were riding on skeletal horses! The skeletal horses were stomping their hoofs on the ground, roaring out angrily!

It turned out that, these skeletons were actually the 12 disciples that Zhang Yang and his gang had met and engaged! Their names were labeled on each of them, crystal clear! However, they were now no longer bosses, instead, they were just elite monsters that have 200,000 health points on each of them. Even though their strengths are much weaker now, but to battle one boss with 12 elite-grade disciples at the same time, Zhang Yang and his incomplete formation of his gang would definitely be faced with an extreme challenge! The boss and the monsters had an absolute advantage over Zhang Yang and his gang!

"Slaughter them all!" Madran let out a furious roar and pointed his staff at Zhang Yang and his gang. He gave the command for the 12 disciples to launch their assaults towards Zhang Yang and his gang!

Instantly, these 12 skeleton monsters let out a miserable screech and stomped their way through, charging towards Zhang Yang and his gang.

Zhang Yang quickly left the boss aside for the moment and used {Charge}, aiming for the skeleton monster that was nearest to him, followed by a {Thunder Strike} that inflicted quite some damage to all of the monsters within his attack range.

"Rawgh --" the 12 skeleton monsters were enraged, and they wielded their weapons, charging at Zhang Yang. Although some of the disciples were Spellcasters, they were all currently melee type monsters after having been resurrected.

Zhang Yang quickly flitted left and right, moving between the 12 monsters, dodging as many attacks as possible to minimize the damage he received.

"I shall not rest my rage as long as you pests are still alive and well! I'll tear you into pieces!" The skeleton monsters weren't actually scary at all, what really scared them was the fact that there was a boss commanding these skeleton monsters! Although Madran did not have a mount, and he was a Spellcaster that was supposed to be weak and slow, he was spry and fast! After using a ranged attack with his spell attack, he ran very swiftly to Zhang Yang before Zhang Yang could even react! Then, the boss swung his staff at Zhang Yang!

{Block}!

Zhang Yang blocked the attack, but the boss seemed to be addicted to melee attacks! Tock! He immediately swiveled and gave another knock on Zhang Yang with his staff.

If it was just an attack from a mere regular monster, Zhang Yang could have dodged the attack with ease. But, the attack of the boss was swift and merciless! It seemed almost impossible to dodge that attack!

'-12,732!'

Zhang Yang felt the knock of the boss' 'stick' in his head, and that attack actually stunned him! Although he had activated {Warrior's Will} right after that, the luck of Madran struck the jackpot! Out of 7 hits from the boss's staff, 2 of them that triggered stun effect on Zhang Yang, rendering him immobile! The monsters started ganging up on him!

The assaults from the boss were unceasingly unleashed onto Zhang Yang and his gang. {Eye of the Illusive Soul}, {Strength of Madran} and {Lightning Storm} were spammed thorough the battle. The powerful oppression from the boss had finally crippled the party of Zhang Yang. At one time, Han Ying Xue was healing up Zhang Yang. But one of them was inflicted with the {Strength of Madran} and they did not manage to isolate the explosion from the remaining members of Zhang Yang's party! The explosion took out all of the remaining party members, except Zhang Yang himself, and Han Ying Xue!

Ching chiang ching chiang! Zhang Yang activated his life-saving skills one after another and fell under the claws of the boss and his 12 disciples, an expected outcome.

"Finally! Everyone got wiped out! Haha!" Wei Yan Er was happy, "I can finally join into battle the boss!"

Only this little girl would be so happy after the entire party has been wiped out!

"Haha, only our little girl is truly enjoying the fun of playing this game!" Everyone released their souls and began to run back to the boss in their soul states. Zhang Yang sighed a little and said, "Every one of us has already obtained a certain level of material gain, so now, we should be more focused on getting more equipment drops from the bosses, not savoring the process of battling bosses!"

But Fatty Han said shamelessly, "I'm just a regular guy who loves to count gold coins, silver coins, or whatever coins that are valuable! That's the most interesting part of the game, for me!"

The Graveyard was just located at the upside of the island. So, it did not take long for them to get back to their own dead bodies. After approximately 10 minutes, everyone in Zhang Yang's party had arrived back in the lair of Madran, and resurrected themselves. Then, they quickly picked a safe spot and took [Snacks] to recover their initial states.

"Fortunate for us, that Mythical grade boss was not reset!" right in the middle of the boss area, Madran was still standing there with an angry face, whilst surrounded by his 12 skeletal disciples. Meanwhile, Cazacrol remained as a pile of shattered stones.

If Cazacrol was also resurrected, they would have a lot of problems battling all of the monsters together! One must not underestimate the remaining 1,000,000 health points on the Mythical boss! The penalty oppression on the levels' significant difference between the Mythical boss and Zhang Yang's party members was the largest problem that they had! If they did not have the paired skills such as {Blizzard Sky} and {Luna's Dew}, it would be extremely difficult for them to defeat the boss!

"After we begin to engage with the monsters, I'll kite the monsters, while Endless Starlight kites the boss! Everyone will focus on taking out the monsters first!" Zhang Yang commanded. As they had already spent a significantly long period of time understanding the skills of Madran, Zhang Yang then decided on how they should carry out the boss battle, "If any healers or tankers get affected by {Eye of the Illusive Soul}, then DPS players will need to step in and replace the healer or the tanker to hold off the boss for the time being!"

"Then, what should we do if 1 tanker and 2 healers are being affected?" Wei Yan Er blinked her large pair of eyes and asked.

Zhang Yang immediately roared at her, "Can't you be more optimistic about this?"

"We should always be ready for the worst! If we can handle the worst scenario already, then what else is there to be afraid of?" Wei Yan Er was huffing at Zhang Yang.

Everyone was laughing at their conversation. Then Zhang Yang praised the little girl and said, "I can't believe this little girl is wiser now, and she might be as wise as a gorilla, now!"

"Wah! You stupid noob tank! Would it kill you to not insult me for once!" Wei Yan Er growled at Zhang Yang.

"But, if we really encounter such a fate, what should we really do?" Hundred Shots was beginning to feel worried.

Zhang Yang gave it some thought and said, "So, let Endless Starlight be the main tanker. We can assume that the boss won't inflict the main tanker with his skill effects. If the boss really picks me and the two healers of our party, there will be nothing to fear as well!"

After considering, based on the damage output capability of Zhang Yang, everyone nodded without any worries on their minds.

"Alright, everyone knows the deal about {Lightning Storm} right? This skill will strike the player with the boss's aggro first, then it will start jumping about! So, listen up! Any DPS profession player must not get the first aggro of the boss. Everyone has to make sure that you are at least 5 meters away from the main tanker, then nothing bad will happen to us!" Zhang Yang reminded everyone.

"Take note! Anyone who is inflicted by the {Strength of Madran}, you will have to stay away from everyone, as far as possible! Don't be like a certain someone and just stand there!"

"Silly Yu! What did you say? I dare you to say it again!" Han Ying Xue also growled at Zhang Yang with rage.

"Hahaha! Get ready for the battle guys! Time to kill some monsters!" Zhang Yang raised his shield and sword up, "Starlight, let's rock!"

The two tankers maintained a space of 5-meters in-between them as they were engaging the boss. Together, they charged towards Madran!

Pak! With a {Shield Toss}, Endless Starlight initiated the first attack at the boss, grabbing hold of the aggro of the boss.

"It's another bunch of imbeciles that knows no fear about death, eh!" Madran let out a thunderous roar. It seemed like Madran had totally forgotten about Zhang Yang and his party members. Madran raised up his staff and pointed the tip of his staff at Endless Starlight, "Kill them all!"

The 12 skeletal disciples charged at Endless Starlight immediately, after Madran gave the command.

Zhang Yang charged straight up and crashed into one of the elite monsters, followed by a gulp of an entire bottle of his {Rage Potion}. He activated his {Thunder Strike}, delivering a powerful strike on the ground, dealing damage to all surrounding enemies within his attack range, successfully hooking over the aggro of all the monsters!

Right after that, he quickly kited the monsters away from the boss as far as possible. After his 1-second common cool down period had passed, he immediately activated {Blast Wave}. With the special effect of the [Sword of Purging Devourer] triggered, more damage was inflicted upon all 12 skeletal disciples, and Zhang Yang succeeded in maintaining their aggro on him.

Wei Yan Er had lost her patience long ago as she sat on the floor, while waiting for the party to be wiped out earlier on. Of course, she would charge in with her, er, {Charge} and begin her onslaught on the monsters!

The attack power of the 12 elite skeletal monsters was not that bad either. However, without their boss to command them, they were all but a dozen of skeletal soldiers without an aim. They could be inflicted with stuns, and movement reductions! One more assault of {Thunder Strike} was enough to make them suffer. With Zhang Yang's exquisite skills of dodging around, all of them could only roar around in misery.

But Madran was not standing by the side idly. Although his {Lightning Storm} would only affect Endless Starlight alone, his other skills like the {Strength of Madran} and {Eye of Illusive Soul} could still affect the remaining members of Zhang Yang's party, giving all of them some chaotic moments in the battle.

1 minute later, the 12 elite monsters were finally cleared out. Everyone was finally able to focus back on bombarding the boss with everything they got.

"You bunch of damned imbeciles! Kill one and another comes back! It's worse than killing cockroaches!" Madran began to curse, and he was waving his staff round and round, throwing a bunch of skills at Zhang Yang and the gang!

The most threatening skill of the boss was summoning his 12 disciples! Fortunately, that skill would only trigger once each time the boss loses 25% of his health bar. If that skill was activated randomly, then Zhang Yang and his party would have to waste a lot of their firepower on taking out the disciples, and through that process, a substantial amount of mana points would be exhausted, and healing would become impossible in the latter stages of the battle.

75%. 50%, 25%!

After surviving the assaults from that wave of summoned disciples, everyone already knew that victory is within their grasp! Everyone was already agitated with joy as the battle would soon be coming to an end!

Zhang Yang was even more agitated, as he was about to obtain the final piece of the [Fragment of Dimensional Key]! This long-winded Main Quest is about to come to an end! This is the final step already!

10%!

4%!

1%!

"No --" Madran let out a scream of despair as his last drop of health points were blown away by Daffodil Daydream with a fireball. The boss collapsed onto the ground and stayed dead.

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Chapter 434: Herb Foraging Familiar

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Wei Yan Er was still sulking, and she kicked and stomped on the dead body of the boss, "Stinky boss, how dare you try to kill me and waste so much of my time! Humph! Now you should know, I'm not a person you should be meddling with!"

Fatty Han laughed and said, "Little Yan Er, you're actually raping the dead body of a boss! Careful and don't spill out of the stomach of the boss!"

"Aiyo!" all the ladies could not stand that wretched fatty anymore, even Sun Xin Yu could not help but twitch in anger.

Wei Yan Er was about to bend down to pick up the loot that had been dropped from the boss, but, the moment she recalled what Fatty Han just said, she could not bear to bend down anymore. If she really did accidentally 'squeeze' something out from the stomach of the boss, then it would be horrifically disgusting!

"You wretched f*ck! You're so wretched that you're almost on the same par as a master of the century already! How could we never discover your true 'talent'?" Zhang Yang shook his head and took over Wei Yan Er's job of picking up the loot.

With a touch, Zhang Yang grabbed up a piece of heavy armor that glittered in a gold complexion. This piece of equipment looked simple and unsophisticated.

[Greaves of Giant Elephants] (Yellow-Gold, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 40

Vitality: 302

Strength: 274

Agility: 121

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 90

Zhang Yang laughed, and then he threw the piece over to Wei Yan Er, "Little girl, catch! This pair of greaves suits you very much!"

Wei Yan Er was very happy at the beginning, but she immediately jumped in rage when she realized Zhang Yang's intention, "Stinky noob tank! You're saying that my legs are as thick as the legs of an elephant, aren't you! Rawgh!"

"Aiya! When did you become so clever, little girl?"

"Humph! Humph! Humph!" Wei Yan Er rolled her large eyes in disdain. Although she did not speak anymore, it was obvious that she was not willing to give in to Zhang Yang's teasing.

"Silly Yu! Don't always bully little Yan Er!" Han Ying Xue stepped up for the little girl.

"Sister Snow is always the best!"

"Yan Er can only be bullied by me and me alone!" Han YIng Xue giggled as she used her two hands to pinch and rub Wei Yan Er's face.

Wei Yan Er, "..."

Zhang Yang reached out his hands again and picked up another piece of golden equipment.

[Demonic Whirlpool] (Yellow-Gold, Accessory)

Use: Exiles the target into a chaotic whirlpool full of demonic aura. Targets that are within the Demonic Whirlpool cannot be inflicted with any damage, at the same time, the targets will be immobile. Lasts for 15 seconds.

Required Level: 90

"It's great for PK battles! You can go one against two with this precious piece!" Zhang Yang weighed the accessory in his hand and asked everyone, "So, who wants this?"

"Me! Me!"

Everyone was trying to talk at the same time with the attempt to get the accessory piece from Zhang Yang as most of them were PvP maniacs. Furthermore, with this piece of accessory, a player could activate miraculous effects when battling two or three enemy players at the same time! While in the dungeons, the player who holds this accessory can also use it to restrict the movement of a monster when there are too many monsters around. In that sense, the player can reduce his or her own stress in dealing with many monsters at the same time.

After rolling for who gets the accessory, this masterpiece was finally taken by Sun Xin Yu herself. Han Ying Xue tried to provoke her, because she wasn't happy with the result of the dice-throwing, "The dog that bites never barks!" That enraged Sun Xin Yu to the point that she almost lost herself to her own rage.

Zhang Yang was having a headache about these two pretty ladies. Although the two of them were not close to each other, at least, these two would not provoke each other in the first place. However, as time had passed, the two of them have begun to show signs that they could not 'co-exist'! Whenever they meet, they would cross eyes like two enemies about to slaughter up each other!

Sigh, if only the two ladies would succumb to his 'charm', then his life would have been so much easier.

Zhang Yang put down the thoughts for the moment and went on picking up the loots. He bent down and picked up a shield that radiated with a purplish light.

[Kingdom's Heart] (Violet-Platinum, Shield)

Defense: 1,512

Vitality: 1,058

Equip Effect: Absorbs 537 damage points when being hit.

Equip Effect: Increases 2% of the damage immunity.

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 90

"Holy mother of cow! This equipment is dope!" Endless Starlight was already madly admiring the piece of work. He charged down and hugged Zhang Yang's legs and said, "Boss, boss! Please give me the shield! You're like a father to me! I'm willing to do anything for you! I can die for you, cry for you, and 'come' for you!"

Zhang Yang was disgusted by Starlight and tossed the shield straight into the face of Endless Starlight, "Get lost!"

After taking the shield into his hands, Endless Starlight went aside with joy. Although he was not hurt or wounded in any kind of way, there was an obvious mark of a shield on his face. But, he was contented, as he had already gotten his hands all over the shield.

Everyone chose to give up on the shield, and he quickly put the shield into his inventory with much joy on his face.

"This [Kingdom's Heart] is definitely the best shield there is in this game at the moment!" Hundred Shots said, "Starlight has finally become more powerful!"

Zhang Yang nodded to express his agreement. Judging from the attributes of this shield, it was actually even better than the [Titan Wall] that Zhang Yang had! However, after considering the Armor Set effect, Zhang Yang would definitely not break up his Titan Set Armor just to equip this [Kingdom's Heart] as his shield. It just did not make sense, as the special effect of the Titan Set Armor would give him a lot more advantage! Well, at least he won't be doing this until he gets his hands on the Mythical grade equipment.

And there came the shameless Endless Starlight again, "I've always been very powerful, alright?"

"Haha!" everyone laughed at him.

Zhang Yang reached out and picked up another piece of equipment. The final boss Madran was not stingy on dropping good loots at all. Zhang Yang actually picked up another piece of Violet-Platinum equipment! This time, it was a piece of leather armor with a simple and unsophisticated design. There were countless runes crafted all over the leather armor.

[Chest Plate of the Abyss] (Violet-Platinum, Leather Armor)

Defense: 48

Vitality: 635

Strength: 181

Agility: 420

Equip: Increases 2% rate of healing or damage inflicted.

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 90

"No wonder this is only dropped after we slay the final boss! It's just too powerful!" Fatty Han was staring at the attributes of the equipment without even blinking at all! He looked just like Endless Starlight did when he saw his previous shield. Fatty Han charged up and snatched the chest plate from Zhang Yang before anyone could react.

"Let's decide who gets it with the dice!" Zhang Yang nodded.

The four of them who wore leather armor did not have to be polite at all. They tossed the dice one, after another to try out their luck. At the end of it, Lost Dream was the winner in securing the chest plate.

"Anymore Violet-Platinum grade equipment?" all of them were looking forward to see what came next.

"Let me see!" As Zhang Yang was looking through the loots, he suddenly came across with another piece and smiled, "There's another one!"

[Cloak of the Dark Wings] (Violet-Platinum, Cloak/Cape)

Vitality: 159

Equip: Increase 3% healing or damage inflicted.

Use: You can fly! Increases movement speed by 300%! Lasts for 10 minutes. Cool down: 1 hour

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 90

"... it can make us fly!" The gang widened their eyes after seeing the special effect of the item!

It was every human being's dream to be able to fly in the sky! Although Zhang Yang mentioned before, that players can capture a flying battle mount after they enter the Chaos Realm, that would be in the far future as they still had 10 levels to go before they could enter that realm, which would take approximately 3 months to achieve! And now, this item was offered a ticket to early access of that! Of course, everyone would be agitated with excitement! Who wouldn't want to fly now?

Zhang Yang nodded and said, "This equipment also boosts attack, other than vitality, so any profession can have this. Let's throw the dice and decide who gets it, then!"

"Hehe, One Sword Stroke will definitely be jealous when he finds out about this! He might even bang a wall after knowing about this!"

Pak pak pak! Everyone tossed their own dices, and by the end of this, it was Han Ying Xue, the lucky witch, who won the prize! She took the equipment, taking away everyone's dream of flying!

Zhang Yang did not join in on tossing the dice. Firstly, he already had the [Titan Cape, which was actually almost as good as the [Cloak of the Dark Wings]. Secondly, he was already tired of flying in his previous life, and he did not care if he could fly a little earlier in this life. However, although Han Ying Xue got the [Cloak of the Dark Wings] already, Zhang Yang took it over from her, saying that he would return it to her when she reaches Level 90, because she cannot use it until then, anyway.

Han Ying Xue spat at Zhang Yang and said, "Filthy Yu! You expect me to wear it after you use it? But nevermind, I'll just take it as the offer you made, to help me identify this cloak first!"

'Ding! You have acquired the Dimensional Key Fragment 1!'

Finally, the final piece of the Dimensional Key Fragment had fallen into Zhang Yang's hands. What a long journey! He had given so much time into committing to this quest!

And after Zhang Yang picked up one [Sacred Thread] and a [Hammer of Sanctions - Hammer Handle, there was nothing left on the ground anymore.

"So, it seems that the [Sacred Thread] can be obtained from Madran. Then, does it mean I would need to wait until Madran respawns first before I can get enough materials to make one [Incandescent Electrical Robe]?" Daffodil Daydream let out a sigh. She was planning to start gathering the required materials one she returned back to the main city. She intended to make two [Incandescent Electrical Robes] and give them to Han Ying Xue and Fantasy Sweetheart.

"Like I said, the system won't let the value of Violet-Platinum equipment be washed away." Zhang Yang nodded as he said.

"Let's go. We need to turn in our quest to the old fisherman! Completing an S-rank quest should be very rewarding! At least give us something better than what we just got here!"

After Madran died, the magic barriers outside vanished without a trace. Zhang Yang and his party got onto the island without any difficulties at all. At that time, the Island of the Sacred One had already descended into chaos, as a large number of Believers were engaged with the guards already. The once peaceful and beautiful island had been filled with fresh blood and miserable screaming. It looked more like a hellish island now!

"Good job!" King of Naga - Psyborna revealed himself before Zhang Yang and his party all of a sudden, as he was lurking from the shadow with his long snake body. He slapped Zhang Yang on the back for completing the quest.

"It's another Violet-Platinum boss! Should we slaughter him up?" Fatty Han had already killed so much that his sanity was already going.

"Stupid wretched fatty! Even if we are really going to do it, we must wait until he gives us the rewards of the quest first!" Wei Yan Er is a battle maniac. She held her giant axe in her hands, ready to smash the fatty.

At the same time, 10 Nagas lurked out from behind Psyborna. All of them were above Level 90, and all of them were Yellow-Gold graded! They lined up neatly behind the King of Naga, cutting off the steam of Wei Yan Er and Fatty Han who had planned to attack them.

"Fellow adventurers, you have taken down Madran and averted a major crisis!" Psyborna looked at everyone and praised them with joy and sincerity, "You did not just save mankind, but you have also helped us, the Nagas! I hereby represent the entire race of Naga in expressing our highest form of gratitude, to you all!"

The King of Naga bent his back down a little and bowed towards Zhang Yang and his party members.

"Look at you! They are so sincere, and you intended to kill them and take their fortunes away! You should be ashamed of yourselves!" Zhang Yang teased the two of them.

"Pui! They're not sincere at all! Look at how they bowed at us! They did not even bow completely! It's not like they have backaches or something!" Wei Yan Er quickly started to defend herself.

"These are just some small gifts, I hope you will like it!" Psyborna waved his hand and 10 streams of light ascended onto Zhang Yang and the remaining 9 members of his party.

'Ding! You have completed a quest: Bury the Secret, acquired 5,000,000 experience points! Completion Rating: Perfect!"

'Ding! You have acquired items: Whistle for a Herb Foraging Familiar!'

Zhang Yang was shocked and he took out the item in a hurry. It was a whistle that glittered in a silver complexion. Judging from its appearance, it did not differ much from the other regular whistles.

[Whistle of Herb Foraging Familiar]

Use: Blow the whistle to summon a Herb Foraging Familiar. Herb Foraging Familiars will search for [Herbs] on its own and gather the [Herbs]. One hour later, the Herb Foraging Familiar will return to you and put the [Herbs] that it had managed to gather into your inventory. You must make sure that your inventory has enough space in order to acquire the [Herbs] collected, or else the [Herbs] collected will vanish. The Herb Foraging Familiar is very good at keeping its tracks hidden, so it is very difficult to be discovered by monsters. You are required to pay 1,000 gold coins for each summon of the Herb Foraging Familiar. Last for 1 hour. Cooldown: 30 minutes.

Bound upon pick up.

A new item had just appeared in the game!

So this was exactly like obtaining an auto function on gathering [Herbs]! Zhang Yang could not help himself but to laugh in joy. Having a Herb Foraging Familiar was like having a Herb Collecting assistant. Furthermore, he would not have to worry about the level of this little fellow. This little fellow would follow Zhang Yang into any area or territory, no matter how hostile the environment was. This little fellow could gather herbs in any area in the game!

But, the only weakness of summoning this little fellow was that one would have to pay 1000 gold coins!

Now, Zhang Yang still had no idea on how capable this little fellow was. Was it efficient enough to keep up with Zhang Yang's capability in gathering herbs? If its capability is about the same as a player, then it would be an absolute loss in terms of gold coins! Because no player could actually collect herbs that are worth 1,000 gold coins within an hour!

But the main problem was that, there were no Herbalists in the entire game at the current stage who can keep up with Zhang Yang's level now! So, there is no way that Zhang Yang can just bring someone weaker, and charge into high-level maps to gather herbs! Zhang Yang was also a Herbalist himself. He would not spend so much effort and time in gathering herbs. So, with this little fellow around, Zhang Yang would save a lot of his time, and Zhang Yang was willing to pay for that!

For him, this was really a great fortune that would benefit him for a very long time!

Zhang Yang looked at the remaining members of his party, and he saw that everyone was very joyful. It seemed that everyone had acquired something good for themselves as well.

He smiled and asked, " What good stuff did you guys get?"

"Haha! I got an 'exclusive' hammer that can be used to forge equipment. It would give a 1% additional effect to the equipment I forge!" Wei Yan Er was beaming with joy.

Daffodil Daydream, "Hmm, I got a sewing needle instead. While crafting clothes, there is a certain rate to boost the attributes of the clothes!"

"Mine is ..."

Everyone announced their quest rewards from the NPC.

Zhang Yang nodded and said, "It seems that the reward of this quest is rewarded to the players, based on the specialized skills of their own professions!"

"What a fortune for everyone!" everyone was cheering in joy. They were all so joyful that they did not realize that Psyborna and his Naga people had left the scene.

As all of them had acquired a few pieces of equipment from the quest completion, they departed back to the main city in a hurry, so that they could identify their equipment as soon as possible. They tore their own teleportation scrolls and teleported back straight to the Thunderstorm Castle.

As Zhang Yang wanted to test out the efficiency of this [Herb Foraging Familiar, so he summoned Turtle and entered a water territory on purpose. Then, he took out the [Whistle of Herb Foraging Familiar] and blew it hard.

'Ding! You have chosen to summon Herb Foraging Familiar. For that, you will be paying a sum of 1,000 gold coins, accept or decline?'

Accept.

Shoof! A small fellow that looked like a cross between a bunny and a raccoon immediately appeared right at the side of Zhang Yang. It had a pair of wings. The creature was covered in silver fur, and was most lovely and cute! But, this cute little fellow immediately drowned in the ocean sea water, after having a few gulps of sea water, the little fellow died, with its belly facing upwards!

Zhang Yang frowned intensely. He did not see this coming. There was no notice or description about the [Herb Foraging Familiar] drowning in water!

There goes 1,000 gold coins, for nothing!

Zhang Yang wasn't stingy about saving up this 1,000 gold coins, but to lose the money like this, was just totally not worth it! He scooped the little fellow up, tore his teleportation scroll and teleported straight back to Thunderstorm Castle.

After leaving the water territory area, the [Herb Foraging Familiar] actually came back to life! It fluttered its pair of wings and began to fly around in the air lightly. Then, it flew out from the Thunderous Castle. It was probably going out to gather herbs already.

Zhang Yang intended to perform an experiment with his [Herb Foraging Familiar]. He went up to his teleportation circle and teleported himself over to the White Jade Castle. He wanted to find out whether the little fellow would actually follow him over to the White Jade Castle when the summon time period ends.

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Chapter 434.5: Dimensional Key

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After returning back to White Jade Castle, Zhang Yang was piecing up the fragments of the [Dimensional Key, while he put the [Cloak of the Dark Wings] into the shop for identification.

Boom!

When the 7 pieces of [Fragment of Dimensional Key] were put together in one spot, streams of immensely beautiful light shone out to the surroundings, one wave after another from the pieced key, just like a blinding sun, and it continued to vibrate in a mysterious and inexplicable way. Every player in White Jade Castle stopped what they were doing. Those who were indoor quickly ran out of the house and looked at the direction of Zhang Yang.

Shoof! Shoof! Shoof!

Streams of white lights surged through the 7 pieces of the Dimensional Key fragments, and the fragments were beginning to piece themselves up, like a lively wiggling snake. Finally, the pieces of the fragments were slowly merging together to form the [Dimensional Key]!

"Noob tank! You did something again right?" Wei Yan Er asked Zhang Yang through the party channel.

"Hehe!"

Zhang Yang was laughing with content as he was waiting for the fragments to merge into the [Dimensional Key].

About half a minute later, the seven pieces of fragments of the Dimensional Key had stopped glowing in the surpassingly beautiful light. They had finally been pieced together! However, it was not a shape of a key! Instead, the fragments had merged into a cylindrical bar that was about half a foot long. The diameter of the cylindrical bar was no thicker than the thickness of three fingers combined together. The cylindrical bar was entirely red.

[Dimensional Key] (Quest Item)

Use: Activates the Dimensional Door, the holder of this Dimensional Key his party members (Maximum 5 members) can teleport into the forgotten Heavenly Might Imperial Kingdom and activate the treasures!

Note: Certain pieces of the Dimensional Key fragments have once been used in the past and it consumed a lot of energy. So, the Dimensional Key will be destroyed after 3 times of activation.

Special Restriction: Players who are Level 100 and above cannot enter or teleport into the location.

Huh? Only 3 times?

Zhang Yang was shocked. Still, he quickly calmed down in realization. No wonder he had not heard of anyone completing such a quest in his previous life. That was because the number of entering the realm is limited! Furthermore, the main quests affected the progression of the game. Some quest items were unique, and one-of-a-kind. Therefore, if all 3 attempts to search for the [Ancient Godly Weapon, Meteor Sword] ends up in failure, then the quest will remain a myth that will never be completed! No players will ever have the chance to complete the quest!

Although he had no idea how dangerous the Heavenly Might Imperial Kingdom was, he could already predict the difficulty of the quest, judging by the difficulties of getting all 7 pieces of the Dimensional Key Fragments. So that place would surely be extremely dangerous!

No rash decisions shall be made, as rash decisions would only waste the chance of activating the portal to the Heavenly Might Imperial Kingdom!

Zhang Yang thought to himself, that he should only activate the portal to that realm, after Han Ying Xue and the remaining party members have reached Level 90! There were 3 advantages in doing so. Firstly, reaching Level 90 would reward the players with more skill points which can be used to upgrade their skills. Secondly, they can equip new equipment and items. Thirdly, they can still acquire one additional skill point for themselves after getting the First Clear of the Rock Frost Palace!

This quest had also set up a restriction to prevent Level 100 players from being eligible to complete this quest. So, the 5 players must be Level 90 and above, and they must have a set of insanely powerful equipment and also be skilled in combat. With all that combined, they should be able to complete the quest!

After placing the [Dimensional Key] into his inventory, the beautiful light that radiated across the sky vanished instantly. When the people were still puzzled at what that just happened, Zhang Yang quickly ran out from the crowd, and went straight to the Identifying Shop.

"Argh -- what a devastating loss!" Suddenly, Endless Starlight let out a miserable cry into the party channel.

"What happened? Did someone with his eyes on his back just poke your ass?" Nothing decent would ever come out of Fatty Han's mouth.

"2,000 gold coins! All lost!" Endless Starlight cried out miserably as he could not accept his fate, "It took me so much effort just to collect the parts to assemble this [Hammer of Sanctions, and it turned out to be a two-handed weapon! My 2,000 gold is gone! No!"

"Hahaha! Then, just go ahead and reset your Class to Templar!"

According to the official introduction of the game, when players reach Level 100, they could activate their Inheritance, and the better part was that they could also change their Class Branch if they ever change their minds on their previous decisions. For example, a Guardian can change their Classes over to become Berserkers, or a Templar can change their Class over to become a Sacred Knight. As long as they were all under the category of Warrior, they could switch to whichever branch of their Classes that they preferred!

However, once the players have reset their Classes, they would forget all the required skills of the Class Branch, and their level will be reduced back to 0. But at least it was much better than deleting an account and starting over again. Because all items and equipment, and all the Class skills that the players have would remain. The only thing that the players would lose would be the experience points.

For example, Zhang Yang is a Guardian at the moment. If Zhang Yang wants to change himself to Berserker, skills that he had acquired from the skill master of his class would all vanish, so would skills such as {Vanguard's Aggression} and {Crash Magic} that he acquired from the skill books of the Guardian Class. But, skills like {Burrow}, {Dance of the Heaven and Earth} and {Blizzard Sky} would all remain.

Of course, there was a cost for resetting your class. 10,000 gold coins would be charged to prevent players from changing their Class Branch at leisure.

Zhang Yang smiled and said, "Starlight, post the attributes of the hammer up for us to see!"

"Alright." Endless Starlight agreed.

[Hammer of Sanctions] (Violet-Platinum, Two-Handed)

Attack: 3,969 - 4,568

Attack Interval: 3.8 seconds

DPS:1,123

{Level 3 Socket 1}

{Level 3 Socket 2}

Equip: Increases 5% attack.

Equip: When you are hitting your target, there is a 10% rate to activate sanction upon your target and stun your target for 10 seconds. Effective on Violet-Platinum grade bosses and other lower grade bosses, however, the rate will be even lower.

Required Level: 90

"Wow! The special effect of this hammer is impressive!" after seeing the link that Endless Starlight posted, everyone was surprised to see the attributes of the hammer.

Zhang Yang also nodded to express his agreement, then he said, "Little girl, I think you should hold on to this hammer for now. In the future when we are engaging boss battles and with you swinging the hammer at the bosses, if the special effect can be triggered and stun the bosses for 10 seconds, then we shall own them like bosses instead!

"But I have my passive {Axe Mastery}, and this is a Hammer!"

"Don't be silly! Just look at the special effect! When you reach Level 90, a 5% increase to your attack and new equipment that are 10 levels higher than your current equipment, this weapon would definitely be more powerful than your giant axe, even after your axe is boosted with your passive skill {Axe Mastery}.

"What? Noob tank! Who did you call stupid!" Wei Yan Er jumped in rage.

Zhang Yang laughed. However, he did not mention one thing to everyone. If his [Sword of Purging Devourer] can unseal its second seal and 'swallow' in the special effects of other weapons, then this Hammer was a good 'target' to him. The special effect which can stun targets for 10 seconds long was a very practical effect!

By the end of the discussion, the little girl took the Hammer and put it into her inventory.

Poor Endless Starlight did not just spend 2,000 gold coins to do a Heavy Smithing in order to make the Hammer, he had also spent 500 gold coins to identify the weapon! Would he get all the gold coins that he had spent on the Hammer back from the little girl? Well, everyone knew the answer to that question! So, poor Endless Starlight could only swallow everything down and accept the fact that he had just lost big money!

After identifying the [Cloak of Dark Wings, Zhang Yang put up the cloak and activated the special effect of the equipment. Two gray-silver wings emerged from the sides of his lower ribs. The two feathered wings spread out about three meters out across the surroundings, and they were very attractive!

This pair of illuminating wings was just like another new pair of hands to Zhang Yang. He could move the wings however he wanted just with his thoughts. The feeling was just amazing! Shoof! He immediately thrust himself into the air like a flying general and flew towards the Auction House.

As he flew by, the players in the city were left with their eyes and jaws wide open!

What is going on? Could a player actually fly in the sky?

Zhang Yang laughed out loud, then he made his character information public on purpose to show himself off with much cockiness!

Later on, he landed by the Auction House, but the effect of his two illuminating wings could not be deactivated, and they just stayed on him, spread wide open! This pair of illuminating wings were literary 'Illuminating' wings as they could pass through any solid object, the walls, the chairs, the players, the buildings and etc. It was really amazing to look at. There, he got swarmed up by the players who were too curious and wanted to take a closer look at him. As he felt suffocated by the crowd, he decided to hide at his Little Merchandise Shop for the moment. So he flapped his wings and flew again.

After half an hour, the Herb Foraging Familiar suddenly came back to Zhang Yang. It immediately teleported out of the air right in front of Zhang Yang! As it was crying out softly, the Herb Foraging Familiar went straight back into Zhang Yang's inventory. Zhang Yang quickly took a good look at his inventory and found out that a variety of herbs had been added to his inventory.

The variety was truly vast, and the numbers of each variety were different. There were actually a few extremely rare herb types among them! If Zhang Yang was to sell all of the herbs collected by his Herb Foraging Familiar according to the market price, all of these herbs would probably earn him about 500 gold coins. And judging from this amount of earning, it was a little too expensive to spend 1,000 gold coins to summon this little fellow!

However, this was just from assigning the little fellow into gathering herbs in Level 60 maps. If Zhang Yang placed the little fellow into Level 80 and Level 90 maps to gather the herbs, would it balance out the cost? Well, it was possible!

And of course, money was not his priority, his priority was saving time! That's the most important thing of all!

Just when Zhang Yang planned to grind his level up, he was forced to log out of the game by Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er. After he logged out, only did he realize that the reason being that everything in the fridge had been 'cleaned' out, and there was nothing left for them to eat for the coming days! So the ladies commanded him to go to the grocery store on the street to restock.

Zhang Yang could only frown, as he realized that he was being treated as the man who cooks for them. This pair of ladies was really treating him like he was part of their lives already!

But! He knew exactly why they would treat him as the cook! His cooking is quite a 'bomb'! To imagine Wei Yan Er and Han Ying Xue going into the kitchen and actually cook out of their guilty conscience, Zhang Yang felt a chill down his spine. Normal people will never 'survive' their cooking!

So, he quickly went to the supermarket near their place and shopped like crazy for their daily groceries. Just as he came back to the small district and entered a tall building, he intended to take the elevator. The two doors of the elevator were about to close when he arrived. He quickly ran up and shouted, "Wait! Wait for me!"

The moment right before the elevator doors were closed, a large hand came in between the doors and stopped the doors from closing, causing them to reopen again.

"Thank you so much." Zhang Yang ran into the elevator with all his groceries and pressed on the button 'floor 15'. While he was at it, he saw that the button 'floor 19' was lit.

Only then, did he look over to the people by his side in the elevator.

Other than himself, there were 6 other people in the elevator. The six of them obviously belonged to a group, and four of them looked like regular people, standing in a formation of a fan, protecting two persons who were standing right in the middle of them. Although it wasn't really obvious, but Zhang Yang could still tell it.

The four people were about 20 years old, and they were wearing casual vacation outfits. They were not really macho or tall either. They were simply unremarkable. But, Zhang Yang could 'smell' danger from them, without any reason, other than purely from the intuition of his 10 years experience in fighting.

"These guys are probably bodyguards! And, they have these cool and yet intimidating impressions on them! They might have even killed before!" Zhang Yang only thought to himself as he took a few steps backward. He did not want any trouble out of the blue!

Even though his reaction was very small, the four bodyguards noticed and they turned their attention towards him immediately. The eyes of the four bodyguards were glaring at Zhang Yang as if Zhang Yang was being 'targeted' by a bunch of ferocious beasts!

Zhang Yang quickly looked over to the other two man in the middle of the four bodyguards. One of them was an elder who looked like he was about 50 years old, while the other was slightly younger, looking to be in his thirties. The elder man was obviously a person of high status. Although he did not speak at all, he had the intimidating aura that made people afraid to meet his eyes.

Meanwhile, the middle-aged man was a lot 'greener'. Although the man was also looking strong, he still had a long way to go before he could become as intimidating as the elder!

One of them was an officer, and the other one must be his secretary!

That was Zhang Yang's conclusion. After being a CEO for a couple of months, his knowledge and experience were no longer as shallow as before. He had met many high-ranking officers and had shaken their hands. But, none of them can be compared to this elderly, there was just a large gap between this elderly and the high-ranking officers that he met before! And they cannot be compared to his secretary either! This secretary was more intimidating than any one of them as well!

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Chapter 435: Sun Xin Yu's Old Man

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Zhang Yang did not intend to cause any unwanted trouble to himself, so he lay low, standing at one of the corners of the elevator.

However, the elder man set his extremely sharp eyes onto Zhang Yang, giving him an uneasy feeling, as if countless cold needles were stabbing into his heart. Zhang Yang intended to turn his head away from the old man, but after giving it a thought, they barely even knew each other, so what is he being so afraid of? So, he did not hold back and returned the stare.

The elevator was fast, it already reached the 15th floor in just a brief moment. Ding! The doors of the elevator opened. But, when Zhang Yang was about to set out of the elevator, a hand intercepted him and blocked his way out from the elevator. Zhang Yang traced the arm back to its owner, and realized that it belonged to one of the bodyguards of that old man!

Zhang Yang frowned in frustration and said, "Please, give way! I need to get off the elevator!"

However, the bodyguard did not move a muscle and remained as still as a statue, as if he had not heard anything he said.

Zhang Yang was enraged. Although he did not intend to stir things up, he was not afraid of getting his hands dirty if necessary. So, he reached out and caught the hand in a vice grip!

That bodyguard immediately reacted as well. He reached out his hand to grab Zhang Yang. As his palm reached out swiftly, Zhang Yang could hear the sound of the air by his ears as the hand came at him!

Pak! Pak! Pak!

Zhang Yang began to fight back, and the two of them started fighting in the narrow space of the elevator. But, the bodyguard was really skilled! Zhang Yang tried everything to break himself out of the elevator, but he could not succeed. He was totally trapped inside the elevator by that bodyguard!

'Ding!'

The door of the elevator closed, and the elevator continued to elevate.

"What the fart!" Zhang Yang was in extreme rage as he began to act more violently towards the bodyguard. The bodyguard held his own, and they continued fighting to a standstill. Finally, Zhang Yang gave in and stopped fighting. Judging from the situation, he had no chance at all in winning, because the other 3 bodyguards had not joined in yet!

The bodyguard did not force Zhang Yang's hands as well. After seeing that Zhang Yang had stopped fighting, he too stopped and returned to his position with his three other colleagues forming a formation to protect the two men in the middle.

'Ding!'

The elevator stopped at the 19th floor, and the door opened.

"Here you go, sir." one of the bodyguards gestured Zhang Yang out of the elevator.

"What the fart is going on!" Zhang Yang knew that this must be an order given by that old man, so he could not help but to curse and scold the old man deep within his heart.

"Young man, you are scolding me deep in your heart, didn't you?" the old man suddenly spoke up, with an intimidating, but calm aura.

"That's right!" Zhang Yang admitted it without any hesitation, because he was really angry at the moment.

The old man laughed out loud and uncharacteristically put up a gesture of peace with two fingers and walked right out of the elevator.

Zhang Yang had no choice but to be escorted out of the elevator as well, under the supervision of two of the bodyguards. They all followed the old man. But there was a distance between them and the old man, and the distance was definitely a safety precaution.

The old man stopped at the front of an apartment and rang the doorbell.

Huh? Zhang Yang was surprised and shocked because this was actually Sun Xin Yu's house! He finally understood the situation. This old man must be Sun Xin Yu's old man! Her father!

The door was opened and Sun Xin Yu appeared with her pretty, cold face. When she saw the old man, the slightest bit of shock being betrayed by her mask of a face, "Dad--" her eyes scanned the surroundings swiftly and she saw Zhang Yang. A familiar annoyed expression immediately popped up.

As expected!

The father and his daughter went into the apartment, but the four bodyguards and the secretary man all remained at the doorsteps of the apartment.

"Zhang Yang -- " that secretary turned to Zhang Yang and said, "Come, let's have a talk."

So it seemed that they have already looked into his background and knew all about him! Zhang Yang let out a sigh and walked with the secretary away from the doorstep.

"Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Gong, Gong Ru San. Or you can just call me by my sir name, Gong." The secretary took out a packet of cigarettes and offered it to Zhang Yang.

Gong? As in Lao Gong1? Zhang Yang felt a chill through his body and said, "Well, you're elder than me, so I'll just call you brother Gong!" Knowing that the old man is Sun Xin Yu's father, Zhang Yang was no longer dissatisfied about what the old man did to him. He also had a rough idea of why he was brought here.

"Haha! Suit yourself!" Mr.Gong was being frank and open-hearted, "Brother Zhang, you're indeed 'skillful'! I really have to admire your luck! You could actually win the heart of that prideful woman!"

Zhang Yang already knew that Sun Xin Yu must have come from some influential family background, but he had no idea at all how influential it was. So he could not help but to ask, "Brother Gong, so what's the deal with Sun Xin Yu's father?"

"Sun Xin Yu never told you anything about him before this?" Gong Ru San was slightly shocked, then he smiled and said, "Then, I must keep my mouth shut! If Xin Yu ever finds out, then I'm as good as a dead man! Haha!"

What the fart! Zhang Yang cursed within his heart and said, "Brother Gong, do you have any advice for me, then?"

"Well, there's no advice I can offer you. Secretaries like us exist to share the burden of our leaders. So, I hope to understand some of the situation from you, Mr.Zhang!" Gong Ru San suddenly became serious as his own intimidating aura started flowing out.

Zhang Yang smiled vaguely. Because he had already died once, this was not something that would scare him anymore! However, since that he had nothing to hide at all, he decided to entertain the secretary.

The two of them were asking questions and answering questions in turns. Unaware of the time, half an hour had already passed. If it wasn't because Sun Xin Yu and his father coming out from the apartment, their conversation would have went on.

"Let's go back now." Mr.Sun said softly. Gong Ru San bowed down instantly at the old man and said yes. The old man then looked at Zhang Yang with a deep meaning behind his eyes, "Young man, let us talk when we have the chance!"

"Dad --" Sun Xin Yu snapped in frustration.

"Fine, fine, I'm not that forgetful yet. I will not forget what I promised you!" Mr.Sun crossed his hands by his back and walked up to the elevator. After just a brief moment, the elevator arrived, and Mr.Sun left the place with his six men, very swiftly.

Zhang Yang walked up to Sun Xin Yu and said, "What the hell! What's with your dad? I was almost beaten up!"

Sun Xin Yu seemed to hesitate for a moment, but then she opened up her apartment door and said, "Come in and talk."

"Yo, you're finally letting me into your apartment!" Zhang Yang walked straight into the apartment and changed into a pair of slippers. He looked around, studying every inch of the place. Before this, he only knew that Sun Xin Yu lived here, but the Ice Queen had never let him set his foot into her apartment. Ever!

"Stop staring!" Sun Xin Yu felt annoyed, but she was blushing, especially when Zhang Yang opened up her bedroom door. After Zhang Yang saw the cute fluffy bear on her bed, she blushed even more.

Zhang Yang laughed out loud and turned around, "Don't hug the bear anymore, I can sacrifice myself and let you hug me!"

"Do you wish to die?" Sun Xin Yu tightened her teeth as she spoke in disdain.

"Aaah!" Zhang Yang sat onto the sofa and put the groceries aside, and then he put his legs on the coffee table and said. "I was being 'interrogated' by the secretary of your father to the point that I have almost told him everything about my ancestors! So, I think you owe me an explanation."

Sun Xin Yu kicked his legs off the coffee table, and sat down with a cold expression on her face and said, "My father's name is Ma Ding Kun, he is the Secretary of a provincial Party Committee for the Province of Su Jiang."

"Pff!" Zhang Yang had just taken a sip of water, and had nearly spat it out. Nearly. No wonder she could ask the party secretary to do as she asks. She was actually the loving daughter of the Secretary of a provincial Party Committee for the Province of Su Jiang! But thinking about it, something was still not right. Previously, Sun Xin Yu had already exhibited her large network connection in the entirety of Shang Hai. Although this Ma Ding Kun was a Secretary of a provincial Party Committee for Province of Su Jiang, he would not have to power to put his hands on the affair in Shang Hai. Shang Hai was the capital of the international metropolis of China!

Sun Xin Yu saw Zhang Yang's thoughtful gaze, so she continued to explain, "My second uncle is the mayor of Shang Hai!"

"Cough!" Zhang Yang was choked by the water he was trying to drink. He coughed on and tried to continue the conversation, "Just tell me everything at once! Stop revealing stuff like that one after another! My heart can't take it!"

"My grandfather is Ma Tian Hang!"

"Pff --" Zhang Yang had finally lost it and spilled the water from his mouth. Holy god! Ma Tian Hang was the Chairman of the Standing Committee for the entire China! So, this entire family is not simple at all! Zhang Yang coughed for a long time, before he regained his breath and continued to ask, "Then, why is your surname Sun?"

"I followed my mom's surname." Sun Xin Yu spoke softly.

Illegitimate daughter? A mistress? Zhang Yang began to think out of the ordinary and messed up his own mind.

"Don't think so damn much on that. My mother is the legitimate wife of my father. They love each other very much, and they got married legitimately!" Sun Xin Yu told Zhang Yang with a serious face, "It is just that my father loves my mother too much, so he decided to allow his daughter to follow the surname of his wife if they ever got a daughter."

Zhang Yang then asked, "But I can see you and your family aren't that close, right? Or is there something that I missed out?"

"My grandfather wants me to marry an A-hole! That's why I moved out and stay here. I don't want to listen to his whining and scolding every day!" Sun Xin Yu snapped coldly.

My gawd! Zhang Yang had so much thought about Sun Xin Yu and he had come up with a number of theories about her background. But now that he knew about her, he could not accept that everything was actually so simple and uncomplicated! She was merely staying away because she felt annoyed!

Zhang Yang put his legs up on the coffee table again and placed his chin on his hands and said, "Then, why did your dad look at me as if I was a thief? He wouldn't really believe that you and I have already... you know... Haha! If I really got you as my girlfriend, then I would become the Son-in-law of the 'Emperor', won't I?"

"Tsk! Who would actually like you in the first place!" Sun Xin Yu shook her head without restraint.

This beauty had fair, pearl white skin, and she was definitely hot as f*ck! And when she's in her police uniform, she was pretty in much more different ways. Zhang Yang could never fathom on why he had actually turned himself away from her.

He tapped on the sofa right beside him and said, "Pretty girl, come over here and give me a quick rub on my thigh!"

Sun Xin Yu suddenly looked very angry, but she actually went on to sit by the side of Zhang Yang. A powerful punch landed on Zhang Yang's thigh, Zhang Yang felt the excruciating pain on his thigh to the point where he started breathing in cold air!

"You really used a lot of force in this massage..."

Sun Xin Yu remained silent for a moment, then she suddenly said, "Don't stay with that woman from now on!"

Zhang Yang was shocked, at first he thought Sun Xin Yu was talking about Yu Li, but he instantly reacted and realized that Sun Xin Yu was most probably talking about Han Ying Xue. He let out a breath of sigh and said, "Did you really think I wanted to? I have to cook for two super duper lazy 'worms'! And I'm about to become their personal cook in their house!"

"It's obvious that you're just reluctant to leave because of your lust for sex!" Sun Xin Yu spoke out coldly.

Zhang Yang laughed out loud and said, "Then I shall show you my lust for sex!"

He made an intimidating gesture towards Sun Xin Yu as if he was about to kiss her.

But Sun Xin Yu remained undaunted. She did not even move! She just looked at him coldly.

"Coward."

Just when Zhang Yang was withdrawing his head backward, he could hear the low-voiced insult from Sun Xin Yu. Although her voice was really soft, it was enough for Zhang Yang to hear it. Zhang Yang was provoked, and he planted his lips straight onto the red and sexy lips of Sun Xin Yu.

"Hmm --" Sun Xin Yu let out a soft mutter, and surprisingly, she did not struggle or fight back at all.

Lips to lips, touching each other only on the surface, feeling each other out, and slowly the action got more vigorous. The two of them started to breathe heavily as they started moving more violently by the seconds. Their hands were already unconsciously, passionately groping about. Their body temperatures were rising.

After a long time, their lips parted from each other, and they looked into each other's eyes.

Sun Xin Yu did not show any sign of shame. And then, she nonchalantly blurted out, as if she had just had a walk in the park, or something, "Zhang Yang, I like you!"

Right after she confessed, she chased Zhang Yang out of her apartment and closed the door shut, leaving Zhang Yang outside the door of her house dumbfounded

TL Notes:

1. Lao Gong - Means 'husband' in Chinese literacy.

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Chapter 436: Realm of Sacred Glory

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As he headed to the ground floor in a daze, Zhang Yang felt a rush of joy in his heart, but he also felt an unexplained sense of pure terror down his spine.

Deep down his heart, the shadow of Lin Yu was fading by the second. And on the other hand, Sun Xin Yu and Han Ying Xue had earned more ground in his heart. He could not help but think, it was possible that he might end up like the main character Zhi Zun Bao1 in the story of 'A Chinese Odyssey: A Pandora's Box' who finally finds his true love after time-traveling through 500 years of time?

But speaking of true love, one was enough as it is! If there were two true loves in one's life, then the troubles would be endless!

Zhang Yang walked into the house to find Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er fighting over for a bottle of perfume that was deemed to be a limited edition, like their lives were depending on it. They did not realize that Zhang Yang had spent a longer than usual period of time outside.

After finishing up with his cooking in the kitchen, the three of them sat at the table and enjoyed the food. In the afternoon, they would be heading out to check on a new house. It seemed that Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er had finally picked a place for him.

The new house was located in an urban area. The environment was very good. Of course, transportation was convenient as well. There was an indoor swimming pool and a tennis court within the premises around the house. There were 21 bedrooms in the house itself! And as expected, the price of that house was really 'something'! It would cost Zhang Yang about 40 million dollars!

However, the moment when Zhang Yang got off the car, he realized it straight away. This was definitely not just a coincidence! The house that the two ladies picked for him is actually the same house that he had stayed for two years in his previous life!

Well, this must be the will of god, or some butterfly effect that caused the timelines to fixed itself.

After entering the large house, the three of them began to pick their favorite rooms. Of course, Zhang Yang would naturally pick the one that he had stayed in in his previous life. But what he did not expect was that Han Ying Xue had also picked the same room as him. Both of them really had similar tastes when it came to picking rooms! Both of them did not plan to be polite, as they both wanted the same room. Han Ying Xue insisted that even if she had to sleep with Zhang Yang for the night, she will do it just to secure the room to herself!

Zhang Yang was left helpless, so he could only give in to the demands of Witchy Snow and let her have the room.

Peace was always a temporary state. Before the night fell, Sun Xin Yu had invited herself over, and she carried a small luggage with her as well, popping up at Zhang Yang's new house. She seemed to have made herself at home, and planned to stay in with them. As she did not even greet any one of them, Han Ying Xue was furious, placing her hands on her waist.

The next morning, Daffodil Daydream took a plane and rushed over to pay a visit to Zhang Yang and the ladies. So, Zhang Yang and the ladies went to the airport to pick her up, then they escorted her over to the house. The initially quiet large house had suddenly become a 'bird nest'! The smell of flowers were in every corner of the place, and there were many sights for sore eyes in the house now.

Safe to say, his house is now a barbie house full of pretty dolls!

Another fortnight had passed in just a blink of an eye. Zhang Yang and his small party had all been elevated up to Level 90, However, the Level 90 dungeon Rock Frost Palace was designed for players to explore in a large-scale of 50 players. Although there were only 6 bosses in the entire dungeon, they were extremely difficult.

Zhang Yang wrote down some battle tactics and passed it over to Endless Starlight. He planned to let Endless Starlight lead a party to explore and clear the dungeon. Meanwhile, he was making potions for future use, and he would also tease Han Ying Xue and Sun Xin Yu once in a while, while bullying the little girl out of boredom. His days were considered very casual.

One Sword Stroke, Liu Wei, and Humbly Gentleman had been laying low. They did not try to stir anything up. It seemed that everyone was trying hard to level up. Everyone was focused on becoming strong enough to breakthrough Level 100 so that they could explore the Realm of Chaos even further.

Now that everyone was still below Level 100 at the moment, whatever the players did were merely small things. To be known by everyone in the world, one must achieve great heights in the Realm of Chaos! With that, only then would players become recognized by the world!

Even though Endless Starlight had already acquired the battle tactics from Zhang Yang, they were progressing very slowly in clearing the dungeon of the Rock Frost Palace. They had not been able to take down the first boss, even after seven or 8 days of trying! Of course, one of the main reasons was because they were short in numbers. Only 34 members of the guild were over level 90.

And again, another fortnight passed, and Lone Desert Smoke, Crimson Rage, Imperial Sky and other large-scale guilds had gathered enough number of players who were at least Level 90. Once again, the competition of securing the First Clear of the dungeon in Hardcore Mode had begun once again. Although Level 80 and Level 90 was just 10 levels of difference, players had spent about 3 months, just to close the gap and elevate themselves up to Level 90 and above!

For most of the players, the last time they had competed for a First Clear had been a lifetime ago. So, when the competition sparked up once again, players were all agitated with excitement. There would be people posting on the forums and walls of the game's official website. Countless players appeared to predict the outcome as they were guessing who would get the First Clear of the dungeon this time around!

However, the Rock Frost Palace was extremely difficult to manage! Although players had only taken about 2 days to clear the Hard Mode, the first boss of the same dungeon in Hardcore Mode had stopped all guilds, possibly for good. No one had been able to break through the defense of the first boss, until now!

The main reason being, the boss had too many AOE skills that he could use to wipe out players in seconds! The entire party had to make sure that they ducked and rolled perfectly in order to survive the attacks of the boss. None of them could afford any mistake, not even a small one! If any of them made a small mistake, the entire party could be wiped out!

A boss like this required absolute precise coordination among the entire party, which meant that 50 members of the entire party had to remain perfect throughout the battle!

Even Zhang Yang was helpless. It was impossible to single-handedly take out these kinds of bosses that turn the sky upside down. So all Zhang Yang could do was to let all of his guild members practice, and practice.

After filtering out the good and the bad, the 50-member party had been reduced down to a 42-member party. Although their numbers were a little smaller, their efficiency had greatly increased. After a dozen times of being wiped out, the Lone Desert Smoke had finally succeeded in slaying the first boss, being the first party to ever slay the first boss of the Rock Frost Palace.

Although the remaining 5 bosses were very difficult to deal with, after experiencing the excruciating suffering in battling the first boss of the dungeon, everyone had already gone through a hellish nightmare that trained them to become stronger. Their efficiency in clearing the remaining bosses of the dungeon had obviously increased a lot. They were breaking through hordes of monsters like a hot knife cutting through butter, solving their problems with their crushing force! In just a brief moment, they had already slain the second, the third, the forth, and the fifth boss of the dungeon, heading straight into the deeper site of the dungeon, ready to face the final boss.

On the other hand, Imperial Sky, Crimson Rage, the Radiance and other guilds were performing with the strength of a large-scale guild. They had also managed to slay the first boss and progressed through the remaining bosses, heading straight to the final boss. Now that everyone performed outstandingly, it remained unclear on which guild would be able to secure the First Clear of this dungeon!

Just when things were getting hotter, Zhang Yang and his party members joined the fray! After making up the strongest formation of the party, they took down the last boss Longrich Doc like an unstoppable trunk hitting straight into the face of the boss! There, they had secured the First Clear of another dungeon.

With everyone acquiring an additional skill point, having their Level 90 equipment, and slaying quite a number of Violet-Platinum bosses over the month, the capability of the party had increased tremendously, in terms of equipment!

Zhang Yang was planning to activate the [Dimensional Key] and lead his party into the Heavenly Might Imperial Kingdom to acquire the [Ancient Godly Weapon, Meteor Sword]. With that sword, he would be able to complete the long-winded Main Quest that Princess Serena had bestowed upon him. However, it was really a bad timing for {{God's Miracle}} to celebrate their one year anniversary since their launch. And for that, the official activated an event that rewarded players who participated.

After reading the description of the event, everyone went mad! Even Zhang Yang, who had lived twice, was agitated with excitement! Without hesitation, Zhang Yang postponed the 'Meteor Sword' quest and participated in the anniversary event!

According to the official announcement, in the upcoming three days from 28th June to 30th June, all monsters would have a certain chance of dropping an item called the 'Glory of Stardust'. This 'Glory of Stardust' did not have any function on its own. It could not be sold to the merchants in the game as well. However, on the 1st of July, the game would open up the 'Realm of the Sacred Glory'. Players would only need to turn in 10 of the ''Glory of Stardust' to the NPC that would spawn in the main city during the period of the event in order to enter the Realm of the Sacred Glory.

In the Realm of the Sacred Glory. Killing a monster would give players 3 times of experience points. Furthermore, that map would spawn a large number of new treasure chests. Although most of the treasure chests did not give good equipment or items, but a very small number of the treasure chests did. They might drop top-tier equipment, skill books, or even skill points!

Other than that, treasure chests might even give 'Glory Points'. Players would be able to collect the glory points, as much as they can. The game would keep count on the 'Glory Points' each player can collect every 12 hours. Players with the least scores would be eliminated and sent out of the realm. This process would be repeated 6 times, and the last player remaining in the realm with the highest score would be awarded with levels and the title reward!

The fact that the treasure chests had a certain rate of dropping attractive rewards like equipment and skill books, already motivated everyone to act on it. Now that they added rewards like a level and a title reward, players would, of course, be crazed over the event! Furthermore, the Realm of the Sacred Glory would only be opened once, so every single player in the eight main cities would only have one chance to compete in becoming the top 1 and claim the title of this event!

Number one in the world!

The glory of achieving this height was just mesmerizing!

The moment when the officials released the news, all players were boiled with excitement, and they were all sharpening their blades and cracking their fists.

The system did not seem to trouble the players at all. Although the drop rate of the [Glory of Stardust] wasn't really that high, at least it wasn't too low to the point where players would not get even one after an entire day of killing the monsters. To get 10 [Glory of Stardust] in 3 days time was just like a walk in the park. Anyone could complete the task very easily!

Therefore, on the 1st of July, 90% of the players have managed to collect 10 [Glory of Stardust]!

On the night of 30th of June, almost every player was already waiting at the site of the Teleportation Circles of the main cities where the NPCs were going to spawn. They were all eager to enter the Realm of Sacred Glory the moment it opened, because the earlier they could enter the realm, the longer they got to stay in the realm to progress on their accumulation of the 'Glory Points', and the more 'Glory Points' they would be able to collect.

Zhang Yang had also gathered his usual party members and waited at the site, just like the others.

The moment when the clock struck 12 and marked the beginning of the 1st of July, a beautiful lady NPC in a crimson red chinese traditional wear 'Qi Pao' spawned right in the middle of the crowd. The lady looked gentle and lovely with her outfit. A few male players around her were trying to put their dirty hands on her boobies and her ass with some dirty thoughts in their mind. However, thunder strikes came out of nowhere and struck those players until they were all fried. Then, the system locked them up in the prison of the main cities, forbidding them from taking part in the event!

The beautiful NPC did not waste any time and she went straight to the point. With her hands waving in the air casting the spell, a large portal appeared right in the middle of the city square in an instant.

'Ding! The Realm of Sacred Glory has been opened. You can use 10 'Glory of Stardust' to enter the realm. Note: You only have 1 chance to enter!'

"Let's go! Time to go in!"

Zhang Yang and his remaining 9 members stepped into the portal at the same instant, as the portal was as large as the widely opened mouth of a big blue whale! The portal was 'sucking' in the players into the realm like a gushing tidal wave. The width of the portal did not seem to be narrow at all, even with all the players being 'sucked' in at the same time.

'Ding! You have entered the Realm of the Sacred Glory!'

Everything that Zhang Yang saw in front of his eyes instantly changed, and now, he found himself on a mountain. He could see a few zombies lurking around the vast space of the area from afar. The zombies seemed like they were wandering about without any sense of purpose. But he suddenly frowned and shouted out into the party channel all of a sudden, "Witchy Snow, Ice Queen, little girl, are you guys standing together next to each other now?"

"I'm alone all by myself!"

"Me too!"

The remaining 9 members of his party were shouting into the party channel as well. They had entered the portal at the same time, however, they had all been teleported into a different area of the realm. Furthermore, there were no coordinates at all, they could not access their world map! They could only see about a 200-meter radius of the area around them.

"Then, let's proceed on your own and see who's luckier!" since things had already been laid out, Zhang Yang could only accept the fate.

"Wa! Healers like us will definitely suffer more than you guys! Not fair!" Han Ying Xue let out a miserable sigh.

Healers had weaker DPS capabilities compared to all other Classes, so they were at a major disadvantage.

But there was no point in complaining any further. As Zhang Yang attempted to activate his [Party Summon Order, the system notification popped up, informing that it cannot be used. Well, it was understandable. The initial intention of the system is to separate all players from each other and let all players proceed by themselves individually. If players could easily work in a group, then the purpose of the event would be defeated.

Zhang Yang deduced that the system was doing all this is to prevent some players from helping other players to gather the 'Glory Points'. Or else, if all members of one entire guild helped only one player to collect the 'Glory Points', then it would become a competition between guilds already!

Zhang Yang summoned out Whitey and charged straight up to the zombies around him.

With a blast of {Spear of Obliteration} striking out, a damage of '-5,499' was inflicted on the monster nearest to him. That blow actually took off half of the health bar of the monster!

Zhang Yang was a little bit shocked, and he suddenly said, "The damage output of the tankers and healers are boosted in this realm!"

On the other side, Han Ying Xue had also realized that her attacks had been increased by 30%. That increment could already make up for the weak spot of the Priest's in their magic attacks.

Zhang Yang swung his sword at the zombie and killed it. Upon his kill, he acquired about 20,000 experience points! Outside of the Realm of Sacred Glory, players could only acquire about 9,000 experience points in similar situations. So, the experience points that they can acquire in this realm was about two times more!

Unfortunately, the monsters in this realm were rather scattered, with one in the north and one in the east. If Zhang Yang could lure the monsters to one spot and kill them all in one shot, then he could have earned tremendous experience points!

The loot that the monsters dropped was very normal. They would only drop some copper coins, and some [Inscribed Clothes]. Zhang Yang progressed forward and slew another seven to eight zombies. Then, he found a scarlet treasure chest lying quietly right behind a large rock!

He quickly hustled over there on Whitey. As he arrived closer to the treasure chest, he jumped down from Whitey and began to put his hands on the treasure chest, trying to open it up.

A 10-second progress bar appeared right on top of his head and began to fill up by the seconds. That was a process of opening up a chest. Players would not be able to make any movements while the progress bar is filling up, or else the process would be interrupted, and the players will have to restart the process all over again.

"Wa! I've just got a Yellow Gold equipment! And 12 'Glory Points'!" the cheerful voice of Wei Yan Er was heard through the party channel.

That little girl really had good luck this time!

'Ding! You have opened a Glory Treasure Chest!'

'Ding! You have acquired Inscribed Cloth X 3!'

Right after that, the treasure chest closed automatically and vanished after 1 second.

What bad luck!

Zhang Yang let out a sigh, but then he gave it some thought. If equipment and 'Glory Points' were easy to come by from opening up treasure chests, then {God's Miracle} would descend into chaos!

As he proceeded forward, Zhang Yang slew all the monsters that he came in contact with and opened up all treasure chests that he found along the way. After opening up 11 treasure chests, the best he could get from the chests was a Green-Copper grade equipment. He was so infuriated! Even the Hard Mode of the Rock Frost Palace would drop Gray-Silver grade equipment or items at the very least! Following the increasing numbers of Level 90 over time, the Green-Copper equipment would eventually be phased out by the Gray-Silver equipment, and the Gray-Silver grade equipment would become the accepted norm for regular players soon enough!

To give him a Green-Copper equipment at this time was like throwing rotten sludge straight at his face!

As Zhang Yang was struggling in such regard, the exciting voices of his party members filled the party channel. Most of them were bragging about their finds. The luckiest one was, of course, that Witchy Snow, who had already managed to collect 89 'Glory Points' at the moment. That number was about two times of the number of 'Glory Points' collected by Sun Xin Yu, who was the second highest achiever in the entire party!

Unfortunately, Zhang Yang was still stuck at having zero 'Glory Points' at the moment. If this went on, he would definitely be among the first batch that is going to be eliminated and be kicked out of the realm!

TL Notes:

1. Zhi Zun Bao - the main male character in the story of 'A Chinese Odyssey: A Pandora's Box' where he travelled through time 500 years earlier and miraculously met his true love.

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Chapter 437: Level 4 Gem Stone

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"Nyehehehe! In your face, noobie tank! How does it feel to be trampled over! Hahaha! This is the payback for your bullying ways!" the little brat laughed like how an audience laughed at a clown.

Zhang Yang remained unfazed. Based on Han Ying Xue and everyone else's progress, he had deduced that the Glory points found in chest varied from 1 points to 20 points! It was not completely random either. If the chest was found nearby an area with normal tiered monsters, it will produce Glory points ranging from 1 to 10 points. Most of them had not even spawned anyGlory points! On the other hand, if the chest was found in an area with elite monsters, the Glory points found inside would be between 11 points to 20 points. These types of chests would more likely spawn Glory points.

Since the start, his luck had not been that good, since he had only been able to find normal monsters. However, Zhang Yang had faith that his luck would turn for the better.

'Server Announcement: Light flashes to all corners of the realm. Rainman has found an Ancient

Treasure Chest and obtained a powerful equipment: Star Dragon Boots!'

[Star Dragon Boots] (Violet-Platinum, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 80

Vitality: 806

Strength: 540

Dexterity: 230

Level 3 Socket

Level Requirement: 80

The server channel was filled with the announcement notification. The system notification had even posted the item properties, allowing every player in China to be able to read and check on the item.

Across the entire server, players from all around different cities got heated up, for the item tier was Violet-Platinum! The best and strongest equipment tier in the game, so far! Now that one player had obtained the item, everyone got fired up. For the item could be obtained from a chest, and not just from a boss!

From Zhang Yang's perspective, he did not care about the item. He had bigger problems at hand. Just how big is this Realm of the Sacred Glory? All he had been able to see was the never-ending scenery of mountains and grassy plains. This event takes all players from all servers of the game! The numbers could easily reach 100 million, yet all Zhang Yang had encountered were monsters, and not a single player! Just how large did the developers make the map up to be?

Zhang Yang could not comprehend the sheer vastness of the map, and decided to go with the flow. After a certain number of chests, Zhang Yang finally managed to open one and score his first Glory point. The points did not require player to pick, open, or do practically anything at all.

As long as players opened the chest, the points would automatically be added to the poll and be displayed at the side of the player's head's up display user interface.

1 point…2 points…20…50…

As slow as Zhang Yang's progress was, it was entirely controlled by the system random number generator system. There was really nothing Zhang Yang could do to boost the numbers. Based on Zhang Yang's current equipment build, he had not needed to take any breaks and could go on forever in killing monsters and opening chests. Right now, to maximize the effort of earning more Glory points, Zhang Yang had placed the monster killing as his second priority and had set his main goal into finding more chests instead.

He rode the bear everywhere, and if there were no chests among the group of monsters he encountered, Zhang Yang would not stop and continued to run towards the next chest. If the monsters could not chase after him, Zhang Yang would not bother to turn around. The time allocated for him to be in this "realm" is limited. Even though the monster did give extra experience points, they wouldn't matter if he could not earn enough Glory points in the first place.

After continuously collecting items from chests, Zhang Yang had finally filled up most of this inventory space. Although he had 190 slots in his inventory, most of the slots were filled up with many kinds of different potions and their different transmutation grades. In the end, Zhang Yang had to resort to discarding lower tiered items in order to make way for better items.

'Ding! You have opened a Glory Treasure Chest!'

'Ding! You have obtained Level 4 Dexterity Gemstone x1!'

'Ding! You have obtained 16 Glory Points!'

Zhang Yang was stunned at the word [Level 4 Dexterity Gemstone] and quickly examined his inventory. There, sitting quietly at the corner of Zhang Yang's saturated inventory, was the item.

Zhang Yang took it out and felt the glossy surface of the gemstone. Like other gemstones, it was extremely smooth on the surface, and fit just right in the palm of his hand.

[Level 4 Dexterity Gemstone] (Usable)

Use: Place this Gemstone in a Level 4 Socket or higher, to grant 50 Dexterity points to an equipment. Socketing has a 40% chance of failure.

Zhang Yang smiled happily. It was a jackpot. Gemstones that were level 3 and below could be bought from a Gemstone store. However, Level 4 Gemstones and higher could only be obtained from monsters, chests, or Hardcore Mode Dungeon Speed record reward. Still, if one had the wallet of Donald Trump, one could easily fuse Level 3 Gemstones into Level 4 Gemstones.

However, that percentage chance and money would only be burning a hole in pockets!

In most games, including 'God's Miracle', players could invest a fortune and be able to "win" the game easily. Those who insisted in not spending any cash in the game would have to rely on talent and effort. Either money or effort could bring a player to victory, and if players had neither, gaming would be extremely tough for them. There were games that would give players a huge advantage for investing money, while other games had little to no benefits for cash players.

'God's Miracle' was both pay-to- win, and play-to- win. It was balanced in both ways; put in enough effort, you can earn enough money in the game to re-invest in it again to earn more.

After that, Zhang Yang had opened more chests and had obtained a [Level 4 Vitality Gemstone, [Intelligence Gemstone, and [Spirit Gemstone]. None of them were in bulk. Zhang Yang had only managed to haul two counts of [Spirit Gemstone] and one count of the aforementioned Gemstones. Worst off, he had not obtained any [Strength Gemstones]! Since Vitality was considered to be the most universal attribute in all 5 major attributes, the [Level 4 Vitality Gemstone] granted a bonus 100 Vitality points, double that of others.

"Yo! Boss, how much is your current Glory points?" asked Endless Starlight out of the blue.

"129 points." Zhang Yang casually replied.

"D*mn! That's a lot! You have more than I do!"

"Can't help it. I'm handsome, that's why!"

"Please! 129 points? That's far from what I have!" the little brat interjected in the party chat. "I already have 153!'

"Haha! You're saying that you're beautiful?" said Zhang Yang.

"Nyehehehe! At least you have good eye sight!"

Without realizing it, Zhang Yang had already spent more than 2 hours in the realm. Only then,

Zhang Yang had spotted the first player in the map. The opponent was not a China player.

Instead, he had a tag behind his name saying: "North America".

Even though the other player was only Level 78, Zhang Yang had still jumped atop his mount and killed the poor player in a few hits. In the game, the enmity between players across the continent and server would forever be hostile. That was why, Zhang Yang would kill anything that did not bear a red flag, even if he was Level 78, or Level 1!

'Ding! You have obtained 1 Honor Point!'

Zhang Yang obtained Honor points after killing the player. Honor points were collectible points that could be earned when a player kills another player of a different server. Points collected could be used to exchange items and equipment that would be bound to a player. It was another method if obtaining equipment if one could not kill a dungeon boss. Honor points would only be given if the player killed is from another region. Players from the same region, for example, China's Emerald City and White Jade Castle cannot earn points by killing each other. Normally, players can earn 1 Honor points by killing NPCs, players equal or lower than the player's level.

Players could earn more points by killing more important NPCs like army generals or Kings or a ruler from another kingdom. In this case, the King would grant up to 10,000 Honor points! The problem was, it is not easy to just jump into the vast army and target their king. Unlike chess, the Kings in the game were one of the strongest entities.

Slowly yet surely, Zhang Yang had gathered more Glory points and had reached above than 300 points. With no sense of security since the game did not provide a means to check one's current position in the ranking list, the only way Zhang Yang could convince himself that he is in the ranking list was to open more and more chest. By the time the system was close to revealing the rank, Zhang Yang had the urge to ask his friends.

"Hey guys? How much points do you guys have?"

"421!"

"583!"

Everyone reported their collected points and to put in comparison, Han Ying Xue, the ever so

lucky lady had collected 682 points with Fatty Han at the lowest with only 398.

"Aww. Fatty bro. I don't understand, why do you have such luck!"

"Nyahahaha. I'd say, remember to wash your hands every time you're done with the loo!"

"Sadly, Fatty bro might be kicked out!"

Amid the jokes around, by the time the clock struck 12 noon, every player's character was frozen in place.

'Ding! The system is currently calculating the system rank. Please wait…'

'Server announcement: Current number of players in Realm of the Sacred Glory: 687,349,832.

Players with Glory points of 400 and less will be eliminated from the Realm of the Sacred Glory.

Player elimination will start in 30 seconds. Please be ready.'

Without much delay, the system announced the result.

"ARGH! What a waste! I was only 2 points behind! 2 motherf*cking points!" cried Fatty Han disgruntledly. Cry as he may, the system ruthlessly kicked players out without a second thought.

After much discussion and inquiry, it was found out that almost 90% of Lone Desert Smoke guild members had been kicked out of the map.

The longer you spend inside the Realm of the Sacred Glory, the more benefits you could reap from it. It would serve as a great chance to improve the status of the guild. Yet, after finding out that 90% of the members of the guild had been kicked out, it would not help much, but only a tiny fraction of that.

Zhang Yang asked Snow Seeker and even Greensleeves Prince, and found that their guilds had suffered from similar losses. Both guilds had 90% of their guild members kicked out of the

Realm.

The second portal opened and the second round of the "Treasure Hunt" started. This time, many players who had not participated were first to arrive. Since they had not joined the first round, they had lost a great deal of time to find and gather Glory points. Unless they had the best of luck, they would not have much time to compensate the 12 hours lost from the previous round.

This round, Zhang Yang was extremely lucky. The Glory points that he had obtained from most of the chest were all 10 and above. He had even surpassed Han Ying Xue! Even though the real-time ranking list was hidden away from players, Zhang Yang had found out that he was the highest in the guild.

After the second round, the elimination condition was set to 1,000 Glory points and below. The number of players left to join the third round was only around 7,000,000, which was not even enough to fill one major city!

From the third round onwards, the ranking list was released to the players. At the same time, the system had made an announcement, eliminating 90% of all the players inside the realm. Those who were listed in the ranking list had to push themselves to the limit, to position their names at the top of the list, in order to prevent elimination. With the threat of elimination hanging over their necks, players who were listed lower in the list had to force themselves to run amok in panic to search for chests.

Zhang Yang had the experience. Now, instead of just blindly searching, he completely ignored

fighting the monsters until he could find another chest. If the monsters still chased after him, he would kill them all in one wave. With his battle mount and him combined strength, monsters stood no chance. Only strong tanks like One Sword Stroke and Endless Starlight might be able to follow his method.

After the third, fourth, and the fifth round of elimination, only 10 players, including Zhang Yang was left in the realm. The only player from Lone Desert Smoke to remain in the field was Zhang

Yang alone!

Initially, the little brat had a chance to enter the final 10, however, she had encountered a European player and had been in a fierce fight. They had spent more than 2 hours just to have a go at each other and in the end, both of them were eliminated.

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Chapter 438: Captain America

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In this final round, the format had changed.

All 10 players were teleported to a small hillside. The method to obtaining Glory points remained the same, that was to open as many chests as you can find. However, the chests were all buried deep in the earth. Moreover, one must first hunt monsters to obtain maps that would reveal the locations of the chest. Without a map, players would have no means of finding the chest. In one instance, only one chest is spawned. Many maps that lead to the same chest would be dropped by the monsters. There would be situations where two, three, or even all players would end up searching for the same chest. During this time, players will be placed in a battle royale style combat, and the players who are killed would be unable to revive until the chest is opened, and only then would they be revived at a random point around the hill.

A battle royale, and only the strongest shall remain!

The time limit was still 12 hours. When the event ends, the players with the highest Glory points will be awarded with a Level 3, SP 1, and a title "Warrior of the Sacred Glory". The reward for the second place is Level 2 and SP 1. The third place will be awarded with Level 1 and SP 1.

Zhang Yang opened the event ranking list and examined the 10 players' identity.

1. Dusk Phoenix (Europe, Glory Points: 2,930, Level 93, Bandit.)

2. Captain America (North America, Glory Points: 2,881, Level 92, Berserker.)

3. Caesar the Great (Europe, Glory Points: 2,849, Level 91, Sniper)

4. One Sword Stroke (China, Glory Points: 2,789, Level 91, Guardian)

5. Musashi Ou-sama (Japan-Korea, Glory Points: 2,713, Level 92, Templar)

6. Zhan Yu (China, Glory Points: 2,702, Level 94, Guardian)

7. Saabo (South America, Glory Points: 2,647, Level 91, Witch Doctor)

8. Lord Mandala (India, Glory Points: 2,613, Level 92, Pyromancer)

9. Xindalu (Africa, Glory Points: 2,589, Level 91, Beastmaster)

10. October Miracle (Australia, Glory Points: 2,547, Level 91, Cryomancer)

The way to collect more Glory points was not ensured by opening chests. It was still highly dependent on luck. Zhang Yang knew his own speed. He was sure that no one could keep up with him. However, most of the chests he found were empty. At most, the elite chests could cough out around 11 or 12 Glory points. Speed was no longer an option for him.

However, now that things have changed to only one chest at a time, the battle required guts and intellect. The first to obtain the map would not definitely get the chest. Those players who had manage to keep themselves in the game so far must have a certain level of equipment prowess and skills. Zhang Yang could take on 2, or 3 at a time. But if he goes overboard, all 9 players might gang up on him, and that would be too much for Zhang Yang to handle. He could not do the standard 'Zhang Yang' charge in and fight style.

With only a few seconds of preparation time, all 10 players had their characters unfrozen from their spots and were free to move around. Luckily, all 10 players were not spawned at the same spot. In fact, all of them were spread far apart from each other. This round, the system was rather generous. Instead of little to no monsters, monsters in this final round were spawned close to each other in great numbers. Zhang Yang did not think twice and gathered them together and had wiped them all clean. Zhang Yang gathered close to 20 and more elite monsters, and rounded them up with {Thunder Strike}, {Blast Wave}, and {Heroic Jump} before finishing off the entire herd with {Horizontal Sweep}. With such a concentrated swarm of monsters, the sword effect procced endlessly until most of the monsters were killed.

In 2 minutes or less, Zhang Yang had killed most of the monsters and had killed a few stragglers individually. Zhang Yang was actually disappointed. Not because of the immense experience points that he had just obtained was not enough, but due to the time limitation and also at the fact that he was in an event. If he could just ignore the urge to win, he could spend the rest of the event farming the monsters, easily leveling up to Level 95 in just four days. Sadly, in just 12 hours, there was not much time for Zhang Yang to even gain 10%! Might as well go on with the event and win the rewards.

Zhang Yang hurriedly went to the pile of battle loots and searched for the map. There were many piles of coins and cloth material which he had completely ignored in order to save space for the map and items from the chest. He was moderately lucky to obtain a map during just the first wave of monsters. He picked it up and examined the piece of paper quickly. The paper quickly vanish and reappeared in his U.I. There was a treasure chest right in the middle of the map, with Zhang Yang's position marked with a blinking light. Without thinking, Zhang Yang jumped on the bear and made his way to the chest.

After a small distance, Zhang Yang was about to arrive to the treasure spot when he encountered another lucky player. Captain America was seen from afar, rushing to his position. Zhang Yang did a quick calculation in his mind and realized that there was not enough time for him to dig and open the chest. In the end, Zhang Yang equipped his shield and sword and charged towards the man.

"Huh? Look what the cat dragged in. Ain't you one of those China pigs, huh? Welp, might as well kill ya!" Captain America had an odd and ferocious look. From afar, Zhang Yang could already identify the man, since he was riding a large black panther, while brandishing a huge axe. Along with his chosen Orc's race, he had a fierce strong look, with a killing aura so strong it could literally split leaves apart.

"Hmph. Call me all you want. You're the one going down." Zhang Yang replied and charged towards the enemy.

{Wild Charge}!

{Pounce}!

'-4,301!'

'-5,574!'

The bear and the panther jumped towards each other, knocking them out in the same time. Their owners had also launched {Spear of Obliteration} at the same time, down to the second. Both of them had received damage, but Zhang Yang had taken more of it. During a PvP fight in the Realm of Sacred Glory, a tank would not receive the 30% increase in attack buff. That was why the attack from Captain America had dealt more damage than Zhang Yang.

When both sides had taken damage, both their HP gauge had only dropped a fraction. Since Zhang Yang had the experience of a lifetime, he was able to immediately judge the amount of total HP that the enemy had from the drop of his HP. From his guess, Captain America would have a total of 70,000 HP and more.

Although {Pounce} and {Wild Charge} had different names, their effects were the same. Both skills would stun the target for 1 second. However, since Zhang Yang was wearing the accessory - [Heart of the Death Knight, the stun duration was halved, and he regained control in just 0.5 seconds, allowing him to slash at Captain America first.

'-3,863!'

Zhang Yang gained 32 Rage points, but since all skills shared the same global skill cool down, Zhang Yang was unable to cast a second skill. Without wasting time, standing there to wait for the skill to refresh, Zhang Yang leap to his feet and moved behind Captain America.

"F*cking piece of China pig!" Captain America regained his senses quickly and was enraged. He knew about the skill, but how could it be that he was stunned for 1 whole second while the china pig was only stunned for half a second?! It did not add up! Captain America turned around as fast as he could, borrowing the momentum of the heavy axe, and smashed at Zhang Yang.

"Hmph! You're strong!" Zhang Yang could not help to compliment the American fighter. Even when Zhang Yang was already behind Captain America, he was still able to maneuver around swiftly and attack Zhang Yang with such precision, proving that he was no ordinary fighter. Unfortunately for the Captain, Zhang Yang was a tank, a super tank at that.

{Block}!

'-1,052!' Block Reflect damage.

'-4,838!' {Shield Bash}

"What the f*ck!? I'd smash your head in, you chink!" cried Captain America angrily. Before Captain American could deal any damage to Zhang Yang, he had already taken close to 10,000 damage! With enough Rage built up from taking damage, Captain America activated {Tornado Cleave} and attacked Zhang Yang swiftly. Zhang Yang was highly impressed, as he had not seen the attack coming.

Zhang Yang was rather impressed at Captain America. {Tornado Cleave} was an AoE attack skill that did not require lock-on. As long as the skill is activated, every target within 3 meters range would received damage. In his position, Captain America could not lock on to Zhang Yang, since he was standing too close to him! The decision to use {Tornado Cleave} was fast and wise.

Since Zhang Yang had already used {Block} less than 2 seconds ago, he had to take the skill head on and received 9,094 damage which caused his Rage to fill up. With quick foot work, Zhang Yang leaped around and got behind Captain America. With the bear joining the attack, its attacks followed closely with another claw attack. Both attacks had dealt more than 5,000 damage each.

"Crap! Sh*t! F*ck!" Captain America continued to throw insults and profanities as he tried to turn around to catch Zhang Yang, but kept on failing.

For Zhang Yang to achieve this feat, he had to be much better than Captain America. Fortunately, Captain America was very much weaker in controls, compared to Zhang Yang. Even though he was the top player in North America region, he was unable to keep up with Zhang Yang. He tried his best to adjust to Zhang Yang footwork but could never position himself in time. It was like a futile attempt to chase after your own shadow! With nothing but sword attacks striking his back, Captain America was helpless against Zhang Yang.

Even though Zhang Yang was a Guardian, his attacks were too strong, since his current equipment was the best so far! No one could match his equipment! His attack power was unparalleled to anyone at that current time!

"Captain America? Hmph! You're nothing. Go rot back in your homeland and be a hero there." Zhang Yang slashed down vertically from above and activated {Killing Cleave}, successfully killing Captain America and turned him into a pillar of light. Sadly, Captain America did not drop any equipment, or else Zhang Yang could have earned a fortune!

"Watch it you! I'll be back! When I do, I'll gorge your eyes out, china swine!" said Captain America before he release his soul to be revived by the system.

"Please. Who you think you are? Arnold Schwarzenegger? You should have named your character T-100 then." Said Zhang Yang right at the moment when Captain America disappeared from the battle field. He then jumped from his mount and started to dig into the dirt with his sword.

Luckily, digging was simple in the game. As long as you have a treasure map in your inventory, you could dig out the chest with just a few digging strokes. Zhang Yang foregone lifting the chest out of the ground and directly jumped into the hole to open the chest.

10…9….8…3…2…1…

'Ding! You have opened an Ancient Glory Chest!'

'Ding! You have obtained [Level 5 Vitality Gemstone] x1!'

'Ding! You have obtained 97 Glory Points!'

Jackpot!

Zhang Yang had remembered that in his previous life, the [Level 5 Vitality Gemstone] could be sold for at least 5,000 gold coins! As expected of the price, since the supply for the item would never meet the demand of the market. This particular Gemstone granted a bonus 1,000 Vitality points. Sadly, it could only be socketed into a Level 5 Socket of a higher level equipment. If he could, he would have socketed all 11 sockets of his equipment with the [Level 5 Vitality Gemstone, and enhance at least 50% of them! That was a bonus of 160,000 HP! Coupled with the current 16% Vitality Aura, the bonus would soar even higher!

What a shame…

Zhang Yang opened the inventory window and stared at the blue [Level 5 Vitality Gemstone] in awe. There was strong sense of satisfaction.

This chest had granted Zhang Yang with a luxurious amount of Glory points, unlike the previous rounds. He had gained 2,799 Glory points, pushing his rank from the fifth to the second place in one go.

If the next chest was as the same as this, Zhang Yang only needed two more and could rank first!

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Chapter 439: Raising Rank

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After Zhang Yang emptied the chest, he got out of the hole that he had dug and got to ground level. Just then, he saw the silhouette of a man walking away. He selected the player and examined him. It was Caesar the Great. The player must have obtained the map to the chest but was one step too late. Since every one of them were still enemies, there was no reason for him to find trouble when there was none. Caesar the Great had only observed the situation and when there was nothing else he could do, he bailed. Now that it had come to this, there was no point putting up a brave front.

Zhang Yang jumped on his bear and moved on to the next group of monsters to kill.

"Dummy? How are you?" Han Ying Xue asked in the party channel.

"I'm fine. Though I'm still at rank 4," said Zhang Yang. After 3 to 4 minutes, he had encountered another swarm of monsters and had proceeded to slaughter them all.

"Not bad for a noobie tank! If I had not gotten a fight with some bastard, I would have scored much higher than you!" cried the little brat disgruntledly.

"Ah huh. Yeah. Great. You're the best." Zhang Yang replied dismissively.

Zhang Yang had killed all the monsters as he was talking but had not found any piece of map. Still, he was not disappointed. He still had 12 hours to slowly farm his way. Zhang Yang rode the bear far and wide, and stumbled across another swarm of monsters. He killed them all swiftly and easily, and had managed to obtain a new treasure map. Once obtained, there was no more time to lose, so he turned around and headed towards the map's location. The hill was not too large, but to get from one end to the other end would take about 10 minutes or so. The second treasure chest was not too far from where he had picked the map from and had only taken him 7 to 8 minutes to get there.

The place that the map had directed Zhang Yang to was a deserted plain with no trees nor boulders to shield oneself from an attack. Zhang Yang arrived and quickly hid himself to prevent the other three players who were already at the chest from seeing him. Quietly, Zhang Yang got himself in a prone position and carefully observed the players. All of them were at least standing 20 meters away from each other and had formed a perfect triangle formation, facing each other in a Mexican stand-off.

All of them did not move, nor made any aggressive actions. Neither of them wanted to engage or the third player would be able to reap the benefits from the fight. The three were Dusk Phoenix, Musashi Ou-sama, and Xindalo. All of them were human males, except Dusk Phoenix who was an Elven female. Like all female elves, she was sexy, tall, and had a body that could captivate men. She was not as hot as Sun Xin Yu or Han Ying Xue, to be honest. Still, her body and the way she looked had reminded Zhang Yang of his university life.

As expected the triangular standoff. No one moved for such a long time! With a sudden inclination to do something, Zhang Yang stood up, got on his bear and rode towards the trio slowly. He approached them slowly, allowing the trio to notice his presence.

When they noticed Zhang Yang's presence, all of them frowned, but immediately relaxed. If the three of them continued their standoff, it will eventually be dragged on forever. But if one more player joined the fray, it would break off the stagnant which will force them to take out some of them. Unfortunately, the chances of them having any form of cooperation was literally 0.

The stagnant position was suddenly broken off when Dusk Phoenix summoned her White Lion mount and leaped towards Xindalo. Shocked, Xindalo jumped to his feet and leaped on his mount. He quickly shot an arrow at Dusk Phoenix and withdrew a few steps. Xindalo was a Hunter class player. With a 3 meter blind spot, he had to make space between him and his target in order to attack.

With Xindalo and Dusk Phoenix busy fighting each other, Mushashi Ou-sama was still afraid to dig up the chest, due to Zhang Yang's suspicious presence in the scene. Since he did not have the skill {Beast Taming}, he could not keep the battle mount in the field to attack in his stead. The battle mount would at most for 2 seconds before disappearing.

Zhang Yang did not want to waste any time and decided to attack Mushashi Ou-sama instead. He leaped to 30 meters range and threw a {Spear of Obliteration, dealing 4,000 damage to the opponent. At the same time, he had gauged the enemy total HP and found out that he had more HP than Captain America, at around 80,000.

"Puny Jap!" cried Zhang Yang as he attacked the man, with a face ready to maul the man.

"Urusai!" said Mushashi, untranslated by the system. Musashi raised his hammer and brought it down like a true samurai.

"HMPH!"

Zhang Yang raised his shield and blocked the hammer, with a quick turn and slide, Zhang Yang moved to the side and borrowed the momentum of the hammer's strike to spin around, and sliced Mushashi for more than 4,000 damage, gaining more Rage points.

Two men and two animals started attacking each other with vengeance and fury.

"I detest Japan thugs like you!" cried Zhang Yang as he stopped relying on moving around. He wanted to fight the Japanese players head on to release all his fury.

"Anta koso. Nani mou shiranaii kuseni!" cried Musashi. Finally, after a while, a translated text come in, "We, Japanese are the most elite race in the world! You, Chinese dogs who only love to sit and wait for someone to spoon feed you shall fall! The cars you ride are built my us! Everything from computers, phones, camera, and many other digital appliances were made by us! One of these days, the economical power house of China shall fall into our hands! I'll be there to see your family and descendants be our slaves!"

Zhang Yang was ticked off. How could a person such as him be so closed minded? Not everything in the world was invented by the Japanese. Zhang Yang could name many other brands to rebuke Mushashi, but it would be of a waste of time. Zhang Yang gave up reasoning with him and decided to provoke the man. "Yea? You and your AE86 thugs can screw yourself! When I'm rich, I'll buy every single one of your precious Japanese companies! Talk to me, when you can do the same thing!" Zhang Yang laughed. He knew that in the near future, 'God's Miracle' would be a mega industry with 2 to 3 billions of players! The chance of pioneers emerging out of this game would be extremely high! As long as Zhang Yang had the keen eyes to spot them, he could build himself an impregnable business fortress and earn billions!

"Hmm. Don't be too full of yourself, China dog!" Musashi retracted his hammer and place it against his waist, prepping himself for a sword drawing style. The man was obsessed with the samurai path, as if he was one himself. Still, Zhang Yang was not going to look down on the man. Only players with ability and skills could survive this long in the event. With a Guardian as an opponent, Musashi withdrew. He knew that exchanging blows with him would only be a waste of time, and he would run out of juice. He pulled the reins of his Raptor and moved away from Zhang Yang.

Hmph!

Zhang Yang scoffed. Was he trying to lure him in? Noob Japanese, Zhang Yang had not brought out his real game yet and that was already kind enough for him! Zhang Yang leaped to the front and stuck to Musashi's movement, and followed him wherever he turned. Like a shadow following the owner, Zhang Yang stuck to him and slashed him with every chance he get.

"Konnoyarou!" yelled Musashi.

In theory, there was no way a melee fighter could keep up with a tank in terms of equipment. A tank's Defenses were so strong that it could reduce the bursting damage a melee fighter had. However could a melee fighter match with a tank's HP? If this slugfest continued on, the first person falling down would definitely be the melee fighter!

Musashi knows this, that was why he was trying his best to keep away from Zhang Yang. While controlling the battle mount, he was performing evasive movements that was on even match with Zhang Yang. However, Zhang Yang was much better in every way. There was no way a person could defeat a PvP veteran with so much additional experience from the "future", like Zhang Yang! The slugfest continued between Musashi and Zhang Yang. A hammer would drop and a sword would come slicing. Both sides suffered damage, but it was Musashi who was raging. Zhang Yang was calm and cool, even though the urge to flatten the Japanese's face was overwhelming. Still, he was able to quench his battle lust by occasionally slamming his shield in Musashi's face. It was not {Shield Bash}, since the skill could only be activate after a successfully {Block} occurred. It was just a physical movement that would not deal any damage. However, it was a move that had greatly angered Musashi.

After a few more shield slamming, Musashi had snapped. "You are a disgrace! There is no honor in your fight! You do not deserve to hold that sword! How dare you call yourself a fighter!"

That was the only translatable sentence that Musashi had uttered. The rest was in Japanese that Zhang Yang had only managed to hear, but not understand.

Zhang Yang laughed. It was true. Zhang Yang had slammed the shield in his face just to humiliate the man. There was no honor with his battle style, but that had not gotten to Zhang Yang, since the opponent was an enemy in the game, and not in real life. Musashi did not deserve his respect!

"Chikushō!!!" Musashi was practically shouting in desperation, as he was already out of means to win the battle. All sort of skills were used to survive, but none of them had managed to keep him alive. He was about to lose the fight!

"AHhh Mouu!" Musashi stopped fighting all of a sudden and swiftly withdrew.

"You can have the chest. I'm done!" said Musashi as he runs in a different direction.

Zhang Yang chased after the man and said, "Please. It's not the chest I want. I'd rather give the chest up to kill your head!"

"Kisama!" Musashi drew out his hammer. He had not expected for Zhang Yang to give up the chest just to kill him.

"You are going to far!" said Musashi bitterly. His experience bar had already reached 85% so far. If he was killed by Zhang Yang, he would lose all his experience points and would have to start from the bottom! It had taken him 10 days in real life just to collect that much!

"There's never too far in a battle! All I want is your head to roll!" cried Zhang Yang with a sinister smile. With little effort, Zhang Yang hacked at the man and killed him off.

"Watch your back! I'll be back for you!" said Musashi as he turned into a white light, to be revived at a random corner of the hill.

Zhang Yang felt odd. Almost all defeated players would say the same thing after being defeated.

Having killed Musashi, Zhang Yang got out of battle mode and gazed towards where Dusk Phoenix and Xindalo, and found that Xindalo had already been killed. She sat down to rest and recovery herself. Just then, she noticed Zhang Yang glaring at her. She quickly entered stealth mode.

Zhang Yang was not worried. As a Guardian, he was not scared of being ambushed by any melee class attackers. Plus, he had the [Heart of the Death Knight, so all status effect debuff will be halved! Not even two Thieves could tie him down!

Without any hesitation, Zhang Yang walked towards the ground where the chest was buried and unearthed the soil. A violet-aura was emitted when the soil on the chest was removed.

Zhang Yang was excited. If the chest could give more a few more [Level 5 Gemstones, that would be swell!

Just when he bent over to open the chest, he was stunned. It was {Ambush}!

Although he could not move, he could still see Dusk Phoenix's character appearing behind him. She first attacked Zhang Yang with her swords and then summoned her battle mount.

Impressive. Attacking normally without skills had global cool down as well. By summoning the battle mount after attacking , it would not waste any time at all since she could not attack nor cast any skills during that duration. Furthermore, being idle would only recover 20 Focus points for her, which could replenish her Focus points after using {Ambush}.

The bear beside Zhang Yang had not remained stationary. Knowing that its master was being attacked, the bear hurl itself towards Dusk Phoenix and attacked her.

"Huh!?" Dusk Phoenix was astonished. In the beginning, she felt that it was extremely odd for his bear to remain active in the field even after dismounting it. But she was even more surprised when the bear could even be used like a Hunter's pet and attack an enemy! It was a first for her!

Being attacked, her summoning was lengthen from 2 seconds to 2.3 seconds.

In that brief period, Zhang Yang had awoken from his stunned state and said, "Thou art but a fine missus, wherefore art thee a thief?"

Even though the game had a translator embedded in the conversation tool, but such an old form of language was unnecessary to translate, since it was fairly understandable. Dusk Phoenix raised an eyebrow and said angrily, "Man, how dare you insult me for being a thief!"

Without any further exchange of words, Dusk Phoenix attacked Zhang Yang swiftly, along with the female panther beside her. Zhang Yang parried her sword strike with his. Fighting against a high attack interval player, the efficiency of {Block} was greatly reduced. However, since he had extreme Defenses and a high Damage Absorption passive, Dusk Phoenix had only manage to deal less than 1,000 damage to him without a skill.

That was the main reason why a melee attacker would never win against a tank in a slugfest. Having high attack intervals would mean a lower attack output per strike. Each strike would then have their attacks reduced by the defense and skills of the tank. On the other hand, having a two-handed weapon would have lower attack interval, so {Block} would be extremely effective against this type of weapon carrier!

That was, if a player did not possess {Eagle Eye}! If a player had {Eagle Eye}, they could easily defeat a tank since they could ignore some of the tank's extreme Defense!

When Dusk Phoenix was not able to deal devastating damage to Zhang Yang, Zhang Yang was able to hack away Dusk Phoenix's HP bar away like an axe to a tree. Dusk Phoenix was good. She footwork was excellent. She was light as a butterfly, floating in the battle field and stinging like a bee. She was strong enough to make someone of lower prowess to grow dizzy trying to chase after her. Her speed of moving around was good to a point that a player would be sliced to death without even landing a sword on her! However, that was against someone who was "noober" than her. Zhang Yang was someone who had already reached the pinnacle of PvP combat. Instead of being made like a fool, Zhang Yang had turned the tide of the battle and made her suffer the wrath of a Guardian!

Still, Zhang Yang mentally nodded at her prowess. Ever since the end of the first Professional League, top players made a giant leap in terms of their own progress. Since Zhang Yang had already reached the pinnacle of PvP, there was little to no room for him to progress anymore! How could he, when he is the strongest in the entire game! In order for one to become stronger, one would have to fighter stronger opponents! With no space for him to improve himself, many players in the game had move on closer and closer to where he stood. Right now, he could still fight these players, but how about in 6 months time? Could he still hold them back?

Why 6 months? That's because 6 months later, the final fight for the 8 Regional S class Professional League would take place. The winner of the battle team would walk away with the strongest battle team of the world title! In his previous life, China had many talented battle teams, but could not stand among the world's league. The best result China had hauled was only the second place, and it was won by the all-female battle team, Crimson Rage. Almost all male players in China had to bury their face in the ground for allowing that to happen. They could have done better. That was why, Zhang Yang would die hard to win the world Professional League! No matter what it takes!

Back to the battle, Dusk Phoenix realized half way that Zhang Yang was too strong. Having more than half of her HP left, Dusk Phoenix activated {Sprint} and {Vanish} to escape from the fight.

Hmph!

{Thunder Strike}!

No response…

Zhang Yang rushed to where the opponent had disappeared and stomped the ground to cast a net of electrical current. However, there were no response. Dusk Phoenix had probably left the battle field instead of trying to make a comeback. For him to chase after and reveal a hidden Thief in this wide-open field, it would be like searching a speck of dust in a pile of snow!

Zhang Yang smiled bitterly and went back to the chest. Killing others was important in this event, but opening chests to earn Glory points came first.

'Ding! You have opened an Ancient Glory Chest!'

'Ding! You have obtained [Level 5 Intelligence Gemstone] x1!'

'Ding! You have obtained 82 Glory Points!'

D*mn! It was an Intelligence Gemstone! Zhang Yang wanted Vitality or Strength! Zhang Yang sighed heavily and decided to give the Gemstone to Han Ying Xue to earn some happy points from her.

Still, the 82 Glory points was so good that it had pushed him over Captain America. He had collected 2,881 Glory points so far, putting him at the second place with only 48 Glory points behind the first place, Dusk Phoenix!

Just one more! One more chest, and he would be at the first!

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Chapter 440: A Mess

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The number of monsters in the valley were constantly respawning at an alarming rate. Zhang Yang had mentioned it before, if he had not wanted to hunt for the chest, grinding levels here would be a sweet dream! However, no matter how much experience points the monsters would give, the Level reward from being the champion or even the second place was extremely valuable! Furthermore, the chest would have a chance to drop [Level 5 Gemstone] of any kind! There was even a chance to open up a Violet-Platinum equipment! Who would want to waste their time hunting monsters when such a luxurious booty awaits them! Hence, the battle between 10 players was a silent rage.

After 1 hour in the battle, the game developers had received requests from many players around the world to have a look at the current battle through "God Mode". Players were allowed to watch the game but were locked from carrying out any conversation of any kind.

It was when Zhang Yang had found out that almost all channels, including the guild, party, private message, and other means of communication through the outside "world" was blocked. The only means to communicate was the "talk" function which was opened to the public. The "talk" function mimicked reality. The louder you shout, the further it can be heard. Although there was a limit, and it was distance.

Over time, a few more chests were revealed. Zhang Yang was rather unlucky, since most of the treasure map he had farmed had already been dug out by other players. Sometimes, whenever he was rushing to the chest, the map will be destroyed out of the blue, indicating that the chest was found and had been looted of its contents. Luckily, Dusk Phoenix and Captain America, once more being ahead of him, had not made any chest discoveries. All three of them had not made any progress! However, the remaining seven players had been crawling up. Although their rankings had been a little messy, the problem was, all of them were gaining Glory points.

For the next chest discovery, no matter who was the one who made it to the chest, the entire ranking list would have a major change. Even the 10th place, Lord Mandala could rank first!

While he was busy worrying about the rank, his sword sliced through many more monsters and had earned another treasure map. Zhang Yang smiled and quickly hopped to his bear, and made his way as swiftly as possible towards the chest. Just as he arrived to the destination, he discovered that the place was filled with seven more players and two dead bodies on the ground. Zhang Yang was the last person to arrive to the spot! Technically, before the chest is opened, none of them was the first, nor the last!

The two dead bodies belonged to Saabo and October Miracle. Since the reviving condition in this event is special, neither of them could release their souls from their body and had to wait there until the chest is opened!

One Sword Stroke glared at Zhang Yang and said, "Zhan Yu! Please put aside our conflict and team up! We are both of the same side here! I hope we could temporary set aside our quarrel and face them all together!"

Zhang Yang laughed bitterly and said, "I had never know you could speak in such as gentlemanly way! Fine. I agree. Let us deal with the outsider and till the two of us stands last!"

Zhang Yang had high confidence. He had two ulti skills, {Dance of Heaven and Earth} and {Chaotic Dance of Electric Current}. He strongly believed that none of the others had such an OP skill in their skill tree. He had not used the skill before when he faced Musashi, Captain, and Dusk Phoenix, because the situation had not reached to such high tension. Having such a high cool down, the skill could never be used so casually!

Even though the two of them had joined forces in dealing with the rest of the players, all eight of them had not moved a budge! The opponent were still the 6 strongest players! If they could split up and take on three players each, it would be a huge gamble! Since no one knew each others abilities, it was best to resort to chaos and pick at straws from there!

Dusk Phoenix smiled bitterly and laughed. "Well, since no one willing to make a first move. I'll be glad to wait. Neither of us are rushing, right?"

"Hush lady, how dare you speak for me! It would be your wish for all of us to remain idle, no?! You're currently at rank 1, if this goes down without a fight, you would surely be winning this event!" Captain America scoffed and pointed at the two dead players on the ground. "Look at those two idiots. They must have fallen for your provocation. Hmph! They must have died in vain. I'd say, you best take care of yourself. I might accidentally smash your head in."

Over Zhang Yang side, he tried to start a fire by provocating the Japanese player. "Ooi! Shorty! Mushi Mushi! Come over and I'll mush you!"

"Kisama…" Musashi Ou-sama remained motionless.

"Pussy! You should change your name to Pusashi instead. It suits your behavior, since you're such a pussy!"

"Shut your mouth!"

Both Musashi and Zhang Yang remained motionless. Musashi knew that Zhang Yang was deliberately trying to provoke him. If he had resorted to fleeing instead of fighting, it would put his country to shame!

Finally, after having thinking it through, Musashi pulled the reins of his mount and leaped at Zhang Yang. Captain America followed behind him and attacked Zhang Yang as well. "Musashi Ou-sama, I shall assist you!"

Before the commotion, all seven of them, except Zhang Yang, had remained passive, since anyone who tried to stick out would be hammer down like the two dead players on the side. Secondly, if they were to start the battle among them when Zhang Yang had not arrived, it might place them all in a disadvantage situation where Zhang Yang could easily kill them. Now that Zhang Yang had arrived, there was no more hesitation. Captain America had crossed path with Zhang Yang before, and he knew that he could not defeat him alone. Thus, when Musashi had blatantly jumped to fight him, Captain America had proposed his alliance with Musashi.

"Hm! Happy to know that both U.S.A and Japan still has some good ties!" said Musashi. He too, was aware of his own capability. Hence, when Captain America offered his help, there was no reason for him to reject.

Zhang Yang faced both of them fearlessly and rode into the fight with the bear.

On the other side, Dusk Phoenix, One Sword Stroke and the rest had their equilibrium disrupted. There was five of them. If someone offered an alliance, it would be three vs two or even four vs one! Knowing this, One Sword Stroke acted first and struck Dusk Phoenix with a preemptive attack!

"F*ck!" Dusk Phoenix cursed. She was offended, that instead of anyone else, she was the first person being attacked. Instead of having her to fight alone, she used {Fan of Blades} to attack everyone in the vicinity. She was not afraid of triggering the entire battlefield since she had the skill {Vanish}. On the contrary, she had purposely attacked all of them to invoke a fight. Only through the chaotic battle could she make use of her stealth to slip out. Guile was the main factor to being a true Thief!

Even though Zhang Yang was facing with two players alone, his strong equipment had made him bear to invincible! Coupled with all sort of status affecting skills laying down on them, including the passive stunning by the Titan equipment set, both Captain America and Musashi Ou-sama were being pressured further!

Having thought that gaining an extra player to fight Zhang Yang would be a piece of cake, Zhang Yang's array of skills had proved them wrong! Zhang Yang utilized the skill {Beast Taming} efficiently where and when a situation called for it, for Zhang Yang could dismount at any moment to stomp the ground, casting {Thunder Strike} and then hopping back up the bear to run away! Zhang Yang's overwhelming skill had greatly humiliated the Japan-America partnership!

Those that were watching had mixed reaction. Audiences from China was cheering happily while audiences from, Japan-Korea and America had fallen silent. How could the two of them be forcefully shamed by only one China player! What sort of partnership is that?

The longer the battle dragged out, the better Zhang Yang fought. Having to fight two professional player at the same time, his prowess had been elevated to its full potential. At one point, he was even better than he ever was! 100%? No! Zhang Yang had surpassed that! He was at 150%!

Zhang Yang was focused on killing Musashi first, and had laid down all sort of skill bombarding him while maintaining status effect skills on Captain America to weaken him. Since Zhang Yang had a "thick" skin, he could prolonged the battle by first weeding out the weaker one!

Being beaten down like a wild dog, Musashi was raging and cursing while Zhang Yang hacked him down to his last bit of HP. Since he had already died once, losing all his experience points in the process, there was nothing left for him to lose!

"Prick! If I die, I'm taking you down with me!" cried Musashi.

Zhang Yang laughed, "Sorry, but I have to interest in joining the kamikaze squad!"

"GRAAH!" Musashi raged on and unleashed as many skills as he could, including the skills that he had reserved for later use. Although all the skills were unleashed, Zhang Yang had not noticed any abnormal skills such as {Dance of Heaven and Earth} coming from him. Putting that aside, although outwardly, he was behaving rather barbarically, the man was calm on the inside. He knew that even though he could kill Zhang Yang, he could not ensure that he would be the one opening the chest later! He might be killed immediately after this fight!

The clash between Musashi, Zhang Yang, and Captain America had reached its climax, and Zhang Yang had suffered major HP loss. If Zhang Yang had not been a tank, he would not have lasted this long.

The main reason Zhang Yang was not in deep trouble, aside from the fact that he was a tank, was because the cooperation between Musashi Ou-sama and Captain America was not perfect. After all, the two of them were fighting together for the first time. Neither of them have had the chance to engage in a proper discussion. Additionally, the two of the were professional players who often engaged in battle alone. In a combined attack, one had to be the main, while the other would be the secondary filler. With both of them being highly arrogant with their own skills, neither of them were willing to take on the support role!

Two minutes into the fight, Musashi had become the third player to be eliminated in this chest hunt.

Zhang Yang laughed and quickly activated {Berserker's Heal}. However, he had failed to noticed that he had the debuff {Destructive Smash} on him and had only managed to heal 25% of the intended recovery rate. Captain America had succeeded in proclaiming the S score for his job class quest, granting his {Destructive Smash} to deal a 75% reduced healing rate! It was the same score in which Zhang Yang had obtained.

With Musashi's death, Captain America attacked faster than he ever did and growled. "Zhan Yu! You will die by my hands!" If he had not be able to kill Zhang Yang, having teamed up with Musashi, Captain America's loss would be the loss of both Japan and North America all together!

Even though Musashi had died, he was able to force Zhang Yang to use his recovery skill, providing a battle advantage to Captain America.

"Don't let it got over your head though…" said Zhang Yang coldly. With Musashi out of the way, he was able to fully focus on Captain America alone. His sword danced around like a dragon in the sky and a snake in the ground, forcing Captain America to turn around frantically to avoid getting hit, but failed ever so miserably.

Blood splattered everywhere as Captain America was being sliced and diced repeatedly by Zhang Yang.

"Bastard! You Bastard!!"

Zhang Yang merely laughed at his feeble attempt to retaliate. Within two minutes, Zhang Yang had forced Captain America to use all his skills and had killed him after a short fight.

All the players that had saw the fight gasped in awe. How could one player defeat two professional players when they were both considered to be the best of their own countries?! Even though their classes countered each other, Zhang Yang's ability was still impressive, nonetheless.

Zhang Yang sat down to quickly recover himself and gazed at the other ongoing battle. Two other players had already been killed, leaving One Sword Stroke, Dusk Phoenix, and Lord Mandala in the field.

Since the equilibrium of the battle field had been broken, Zhang Yang felt a little Déjà vu when the three of them were standing at the edge of one another in a perfect triangular shape.

Zhang Yang rode towards One Sword Stroke on his bear and said, "One Sword Stroke, lets make a deal. Each of us pick a player. The first person who manages to down their opponent gets to open the chest."

"Sound like a good idea," said One Sword Stroke.

Zhang Yang laughed. "In that case, pick your foe."

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Chapter 441: A Sabotage

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One Sword Stroke did not hesitate and immediately rushed towards Dusk Phoenix. A Guardian ate1 Thieves for breakfast, by default. Even though One Sword Stroke was a proud man, he would not jeopardize victory for the sake of pride. He purposefully left the harder target for Zhang Yang to handle as he took on the easier one.

Zhang Yang crossed his arms and nodded with a smile. He left One Sword Stroke alone and decided to accept the challenge.

"Curses!" Dusk Phoenix cried. She did not wait for One Sword Stroke to come to her, but instead she leaped forward and swung her sword hard to parry One Sword Stroke's attacks.

On the other side, Lord Mandala muttered something under his breath and instantly cast a fireball at Zhang Yang, dealing close to 2,000 damage. That attack was a Pyromancer's {Fire Blast}, an instant-cast skill which did not require any chanting. The skill allowed Lord Mandala to ride away on his mount, while attacking at the same time.

Although a Spellcaster did not have a blind spot, however, like a Hunter, it would be over once an opponent manages to get close to him. Similar to all ranged attackers, once a melee fighter gets into their range, ranged attackers would face a dangerous situation where the melee attacker could finish them.

An instant-cast skill had a long cool down rate, Lord Mandala could not rely on the skill to kite Zhang Yang. The main reason being that Zhang Yang, or rather, all Warriors had the skill {Berserker's Heal} which only had 2 minutes of cool down time. If Lord Mandala relied solely on {Fire Blast}, he could only take out 1/3 of his HP before Zhang Yang could use {Berserker's Heal}.

After a good distance, Lord Mandala jumped down from his mount and started chanting a spell.

'-5,094!'

A blast of fire came down from the sky in a form of a huge meteorite. It smashed into Zhang Yang, dealing close to 5,000 damage and even stunning him for 3 seconds. The skill was called {Fallen Meteor} which caused 150% Fire damage and stunned a target for 3 seconds. The casting time was 1.5 seconds.

After stunning Zhang Yang, Lord Mandala activated {Heart of Flame} and proceeded to chant the Pyromancer's strongest spell, the {Explosive Flame}.

Zhang Yang smiled.

{Warrior's Will}!

Zhang Yang immediately regained his movement and rushed over to Lord Mandala. Since the bear was close to him, Zhang Yang had mentally commanded the bear to use {Wild Charge} on him. The bear rushed towards Lord Mandala at an insane speed and stunned the man and his mount for 1 second, canceling Lord Mandala's chanting animation and spell.

Zhang Yang laid down his first attack on Lord Mandala, dealing 4,223 damage. After 1 second, Lord Mandala regained his senses but just as he was about to cast another spell, Zhang Yang stunned him again with {Brutal Smash}.

"What the f*ck!" Lord Mandala cried. He immediately used {Apparate} to remove the stun on him and teleported 10 meters away from his current position. Since his character had teleported, Lord Mandala's mount had regained its senses as well, but had to run towards its owner.

Zhang Yang laughed at his futile attempt to run away. Zhang Yang swiftly jumped down from his bear and used {Charge} to "fly" to Lord Mandala.

Like an arrow head, Zhang Yang glided through the dirt and stunned the poor man again. Closely after the brief second stunning duration, Lord Mandala was about to use {Fire Blast} when Zhang Yang had stunned him again with {Blast Wave}!

If he could cry, Lord Mandala would have done so. Since the start, Lord Mandala was only attacked once, but stunned repeatedly! What was the use of {Apparate} if the opponent could stun him continuously for all eternity!

"Hehe. I'm not done yet." Zhang Yang muttered.

{Thunder Strike}!

Just when Lord Mandala had regained his movement, Zhang Yang had stomped on the ground, sending a wave of electricity that slowed Lord Mandala down, leaving him speechless.

Spellcasters were supposed to counter tanks! But how could Lord Mandala kill Zhang Yang when he possesses so many stunning skills?! Even though Lord Mandala had {Fallen Meteor} to stun Zhang Yang, the stunning duration was halved by Zhang Yang's [Heart of the Death Knight]! There was no way for Lord Mandala to keep a safe distance from Zhang Yang.

Lord Mandala had battled other players before, and none of them were as annoying as Zhang Yang! At the very least, Lord Mandala could still deal some damage to the opponent! Zhang Yang had too much HP to begin with! By the time he had blasted half of Zhang Yang HP off, Lord Mandala would have only 10% HP, or even lesser than that!

Sighing with great despair, Lord Mandala could not help to have the urge to put up the white flag. The guy was a tank, a walking turtle! They were supposed to be tough, that Lord Mandala would agree. But how could anyone explain a tank that could ditch out nuclear like attacks!? His opponent had the HP of a super tank, the attack of a raging Berserker, and the stunning skills of a sneaky Thief! What do you call such a player? A hacker? A mother f*cker?

Even though Lord Mandala tried his best to retaliate, he was unable to escape the fate of being killed by Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang had not even needed to fully bring out his true potential and had killed the poor Pyromancer in less than a minute.

Zhang Yang turned over to One Sword Stroke and observed the man. There was no one else besides One Sword Stroke who was looking all too nervous on the battle field. Zhang Yang felt something was off only for half of a second before he realized what was going on there. Dusk Phoenix had entered stealth mode and had been playing hide and seek with One Sword Stroke!

Zhang Yang had to laugh. "Looks like I win this round."

"Hmph." One Sword Stroke scoffed. He was a little disgruntled. Even though he had picked Dusk Phoenix as his opponent, he had not expected Dusk Phoenix to run away in mid battle. Disappointed, One Sword Stroke accepted his loss and accepted his defeat.

Zhang Yang proceeded to dig out the chest and opened it as quickly as he could, while being on alert at all time. He was eyeing left and right to make sure One Sword Stroke did not play dirty, or that Dusk Phoenix does not do anything funny. Fortunately, Zhang Yang had managed to open the chest, and loot everything out without any trouble from either of them. This time, Zhang Yang had obtained enough Glory points to push him up to 2,966, making him the first on the ranking list.

After the chest was emptied, all the players who had been killed were finally given the option window to revive. One by one, all the bodies around disappeared and the field. One Sword Stroke glared at Zhang Yang disgruntledly and went on his way.

After the ordeal, all 10 players had their chances of opening a chest each, causing their rankings to go up and down each time they opened a chest. No one had their ranking holding onto one position. Sadly, after the previous ordeal, Zhang Yang had become public enemy number one. Whenever there was a situation where three players were present around the chest, they would automatically come to a silent agreement and attack Zhang Yang altogether.

Zhang Yang was torn. If all of them were melee class, he had the utmost confidence to defeat them with all of his skills. However, if any of them were Hunters or Spellcasters, Zhang Yang would not dare to take the heat. There was a high chance for him to actually be killed by them! After all, all surviving members in this realm were the top players, the best of the best, even in all eight regions.

Lucky for him, Zhang Yang had {Shadow of the Void}. If he couldn't win the battle, or have a chance of being killed, he could use the skill to escape the field at any moment he wanted. Zhang Yang was smart enough to keep {Burrow} at hand. The 10 minute active duration skill was too good to reveal now. If he still had the [Cloak of the Dark Wings, which was already taken by Han Ying Xue, he could have gained one more means of escaping!

Right now, the tension in the field got higher and wilder. Players tended to attack whenever they saw each other. As time passed on, the tension grew as well. 3 hours…6 hours…eventually, the entire battle had reached the 11th hour and 45 minutes point.

At that moment, all 10 players had one thought circulating in their mind. The next chest would be the last, and that chest would determine the winner.

So far, Zhang Yang was ranked at the highest, but that position was not at all secure. Captain America, ranked at second was only 24 Glory Points away from Zhang Yang, and even Musashi Ou-sama was only 82 points away from Zhang Yang, and he was ranked at the last. Technically, if he opened the chest before anyone else, Musashi could be the winner. That is, if he were to obtain 82 points or more for the last chest.

When Zhang Yang obtained the treasure map, he remained stationary and smiled. Instead of rushing to the chest, Zhang Yang took his time and observed the area, before barging in. He waited and loitered around until the timer had ticked in the last 10 minutes, before activating {Burrow}.

Like a Thief, {Burrow} forbade any interaction with objects, or it will forcefully dispel the skill and reveal him. Zhang Yang had no intention of opening the chest. Instead, he wanted to prevent other players from opening the chest! Since he was leading, to win the event, he only needed to make sure that no one else could open the chest!

Zhang Yang knew that he was the main target, thanks to all his grand performances. A nail that stuck out would get hammered. In this case, he would be hammered really hard, if he were to appear right there and then. No matter how strong he was, he was just one man. How could he tank 9 more players that were slightly lower, if not at the same level as him?

Zhang Yang submerged into the earth and "walked" beneath the other players. This magical {Burrow} was able to detect players and hear their conversation.

"Now that's that. I suggest that everyone stays put for now and wait for Zhan Yu. We will pool together and kill him."

"I agree. Even though I do not like this idea, that guy is far beyond our league. 1v1 or 2v1 is no longer an option."

"I see. For now, it's a truce. Until he dies, we will not fight each other, for it would only benefit him."

Amidst the conversation, two more players had arrived and joined the armistice. The internal fight that Zhang Yang was waiting for did not occur after all.

Another minute went by and the last three participants joined the group, leaving them all staring at each other blankly.

"Where the hell is Zhan Yu?"

"Maybe he spotted us and had decided to pull put?"

"What now? If we wait, he will be the winner!"

Even after much argument, none of them came to a final decision, much less do anything. As the timer ticked on, their patience ran low. So far, everyone had accumulated Glory points to a point where their scores were merely one or two points away from each other. If any of them could get their hands on the chest, it would be a victory for them. Finally, the temptation of wanting to obtain the Level reward and title had surfaced.

"Let's dig it up first."

Zhang Yang did not know who was the person who suggested it, but the idea was approved by everyone almost immediately. Once the chest was unearthed from the ground, October Miracle was the first to show his hands. With a quick cast, he activated a spell that materialized a large water elemental being.

The water elemental was about 10 meters tall, with a blue, bulky, semi-transparent body. Right at the moment of his appearance, the blue monsters spread its blue slime and blasted a white light at everyone in the vicinity. All eight players around the chest were encased in ice.

[Ice Prison: Frozen in place. Unable to move. Effect can be dispel by receiving an attack. Lasts for 20 seconds.

What a strong immobilizing skill!

Zhang Yang gritted his teeth. It was good that he had never looked down on anyone who he did not know. Even though he had the experience from his past life, which encompassed many aspects of the game, other players from other parts of the world had experienced things that Zhang Yang was never able to learn.

Naturally, October Miracle did not attack anyone and took the chance to open the chest.

10%...50%...70%...80%...

The entire process would have taken him 10 seconds to complete. But by the 8th second, Saabo emerged out of the ice and blasted October Miracle with a shadow whip. Cursing in a foreign language, October Miracle was disgruntled when his attempt to open the chest was interrupted. He then cast a [Frost Dragon] towards Saabo and commanded the water elemental monster to attack him as well.

Zhang Yang sighed at the sight of two element Spellcaster blasting each other with arcane power. More importantly, there were many other players who could still hold in the urge to strike!

How would one not own a dispel skill at this current stage? Everyone would have it! Except for Saabo, everyone else were patiently waiting for the right time to strike! However, Zhang Yang did not care about attacking. He had already have a plan to strike out at the last 0.1 second.

Boop! Boop!

One by one, the icy blocks that encased all players were broken down, forcing them to participate in a chaotic war that could not be avoided.

Translator Note:

1. Food. A jargon in the gaming industry. Food means an easy target or a specific target that was meant for a person/individual/entity to kill. For example, Rabbits are Food for Eagles since eagles could easily snatch the poor rabbit from the sky.

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Chapter 442: When the Dust Settles…

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Zhang Yang was all too busy enjoying himself from beneath the ground.

Whoever who gets their hands on the chest would inevitably be the winner for this long draggy event. Level 3 and a one of a kind title would surely be enticing to many players. The same thought lingered in everyone's mind, the last chest belonged to them! So what, if they were killed after opening the chest? The reward alone was more than enough to compensate for that!

The battle raged on with everyone at their limits. No one would want to keep their ultimate skill on reserve when this battle is the last battle! Skills that were similar to {Dance of Heaven and Earth} were used, so frequently, that Zhang Yang was finally made to believe that luck was not really on his side after all! If he had already appeared in the scene a short while back, he would surely have been killed! Even if he would to activate {Rearm} to reset his skill's cooldown to reuse them again, it was impossible for him to survive 9 counts of {Dance of Heaven and Earth}-like skills!

Furthermore, Zhang Yang had carefully observed, and found out that there were players who had more than one {Dance of Heaven and Earth} type skills. He would have guessed that, like himself, the skill originated from an accessory or an equipment.

Although these folks were the top players of their represented region, when two or more players decided to work together to defeat one, they would. Musashi Ou-sama was one of the poor guys that were killed by three players altogether. Naturally, he would be pissed, but what made him angrier was the fact that Captain America, the same guy that spouted bull crap about the Japan-America friendship, had joined the party in killing Musashi!

In the ground, Zhang Yang was wishing that he could get some popcorn, since the "show" was too good to miss. Out of the corner of his eyes, he suddenly spotted one character vanishing from the field. It was Dusk Phoenix. She had taken the opportunity amidst the chaotic battle and had disappeared from sight.

As the battle reached its climax, everyone had to remain on high alert at all times. Unlike Zhang Yang, who could sit back and relax, they had to keep an eye on the field for players, and another eye on the sky to evade incoming attacks from afar! Once a player's HP dropped to a certain extent, players would be like sharks in the water that would target the player with the lowest HP and kill them first!

Defense came before offense in a free-for-all group battle!

As the chaos continued, October Miracle, Xindalo, Caesar the Great all fell, one by one. The ordeal went on until the last 2 minutes!

What that was left of the massacre were a few players, which eventually led to the fall of Lord Mandala and Saabo, and even China's second strongest player, One Sword Stroke was killed. The last person standing among the dead bodies was Captain America. Fresh blood was dripping down from his two-handed axe, as he roared to the sky!

"U.S.A! U.S.A!" He turned to One Sword Stroke and spat on his corpse. Captain America was able to defeat the man because of a hidden ulti killer move that he had saved up. If he had not, and if One Sword Stroke was to fight him fair and square with the use of extra skills, it would be difficult to predict who would have walked out the victor. One Sword Stroke could not nothing but stare with great disdain at Captain America. He was so angry, that he could just log out immediately and threw his gaming helmet!

After a barbaric laugh, Captain America walked towards the chest. With the mindset that he had already won the battle without counting the dead bodies, Captain America opened the chest.

Just when the chest was about to snap open, a ring of stars appeared on his head, and he was unable to move. The boobilicious body of Dusk Phoenix emerged from the shadows behind Captain America. Without delay, the Bandit continued slashing the Berserker.

"You f*cking c*nt!" Captain America could not move. Still, it was his mistake for not counting the dead bodies first before opening the chest. He had not even healed himself before proceeding to open the chest, leaving 30% HP for Dusk Phoenix to end his life. As expected, Captain America had not lasted for more than a few hits, and was already plunging down to his last 20% bit of HP. Dusk Phoenix added a {Kidney Shot} right after {Ambush} ended. She took a bottle of Stamina Potion and restored all her Stamina altogether!

Pak Pak Shush Shush!

20%...15%...10%...0%!

Being stunned from the moment he opened the chest, with his dispel skill still in cooldown thanks to the commotion from a few moments back. It couldn't be helped, to counter a Bandit with a handful of status effect skills, one must have an anti-status effect at hand! Poor Captain America only had 30% HP after the bloody ordeal, and had his {Warrior's Will} still on cool down. There was no way for him to turn the tide around!

After dealing with Captain America, Dusk Phoenix stood there unmovingly and spoke to the sky. "Come out, Zhan Yu. I know you're there."

Zhang Yang smirked. The woman was smart. She had not let down her guard, even after everyone was killed.

"A man like you should not play like a rat. Have you no shame?" Dusk Phoenix provoked Zhang Yang with a stern face.

Zhang Yang complied and floated up from the earth behind her. Currently, all his skills were ready to use, and nothing was in a state of cooldown. If he was to lose a 1v1 match with her, he could just buy a tofu and smash his head to death with it.

"Bloody hell! You really are here!" cried Dusk Phoenix, with an astonished face. She turned around slowly. Both her swords were sheathed on her back. "Now that it's just the two of us, let's talk business."

Zhang Yang chuckled and pulled out his sword. "Might as well just kill you. Talking sounds troublesome."

"Sigh…" Dusk Phoenix smiled. "No wonder I could never find a man who can satisfy me." She smiled seductively and cupped her breasts together. "Looks like the rumor that Asian men are romantic was nothing but a rumor."

Imagine yourself watching the same comedy over and over again. Now, imagine someone telling the same joke. How would you react? That was how Zhang Yang reacted to her seduction. Nothing. He had too much of it from all women in the guild, and in real life, and Han Ying Xue's company...Too much that he was numb from it. Still, he frowned. "What are you implying?"

"Let's make a deal. I take this chest, and in exchange, I'll be your woman. Since you're already in the first place, you would be second when I've taken the chest. At least, the second place reward is as good as the first. Minus the title and one Level reward," said Dusk Phoemix as she playfully rested her hands on her waist, while bending over to reveal her cleavage to Zhang Yang. Slowly, the woman cat-walked like a super model on a runway, towards Zhang Yang and placed her hands on her waist. No wonder they say that Europeans do know how to make a man steamy.

The problem was, she had no idea that there were close to 100 million players currently watching their every move!

Zhang Yang laughed boldly. "Come on. What are you trying to sell? Bottled Swiss Mountain Air? You live somewhere in Europe, I live in China! How could you possibly be my woman? Furthermore, you don't speak my language. We can understand each other now, all thanks to the game's auto translation mechanism. Do you expect me to carry a Google Translate app with me every time I want to talk to you? I am a man who wishes to bring glory to my motherland, I can't be having wet dreams every night now, can I?"

"Hmph! What a down to earth guy!" Dusk Phoenix walked towards Zhang Yang and stopped one feet from his face. Her face was blushing greatly, and she puckered her lips. "Kiss me."

"You know what?" Zhang Yang paused.

Dusk Phoenix closed her eyes, expecting the man to fall into her trap.

"Kiss this."

Zhang Yang lifted his leg up high and kicked the woman away. Normally, any actions that do not utilize weapons would only cause 1 damage to the target. The same happened to his kick. Other than the pitiful damage, the kick was backed by Zhang Yang's 1,262 Strength points, which had forcefully sent Dusk Phoenix flying, 7 to 8 meters away.

"What the hell!?" Dusk Phoenix cursed. There was a glint of anger and a little shame in her glare. Even though being kicked or being slashed at would not generate much pain, as a woman, she was still enraged at being kicked by a man so crudely.

Zhang Yang chuckled. "I know what you're trying to do. Silly kid. You are trying to utilize the system's anti-harassment feature to forcefully kick me out of the event! I guess, two can play that game. How did my kiss feel? Was it romantic enough for you?"

Her face changed from anger to a stoic, poker face.

She had fought Zhang Yang a few times before and had realized that she was not up to his standards. Furthermore, Zhang Yang was a tank, which made her attacks feel like cotton fluffs. It was a sudden spark of idea that got her to make use of the system anti-harassment system to kick Zhang Yang out of the event. She only needed to be slutty for a few moments to seduce Zhang Yang and send him out of the realm, and into prison!

Why fight head on when you can lure an enemy into a pit of spikes? Dusk Phoenix had wanted to draw Zhang Yang into her trap, but little did she know that Zhang Yang was an expert in springing such traps!

The woman had failed so miserably that her shame had turned into rage. The woman's puffy red cheek and her eyes started tearing up! She did not summon her battle mount, nor enter stealth mode, but instead, she charged head-on towards Zhang Yang, crying out her battle cry as if she had lost it.

"Calm down. No one like a berserk woman. Well, that's not exactly true, all sorts of men exist. Though most of them wouldn't like this," said Zhang Yang as he raised his shield and sword, ready to intercept her attack.

Right at the moment before her blade was about to strike Zhang Yang's shield, Dusk Phoenix twisted and turned in the air, and managed to side-step into his blindspot. Her angry face suddenly turned into a sinister laugh.

Boom!

A fiery dragon burst out of her necklace and charged towards Zhang Yang.

{Shield Wal}!

Zhang Yang activated his ultimate defense skill right at the millisecond the dragon had burst out. He knew that the woman had something hidden. He knew that she would not be agitated that easily, with such a lame provocation. Hence, even when she was putting up a fake crying face, he was wary. His thoughts were just an impulse away from triggering {Shield Wall} if something was to happen. And he had guessed right.

'-18,894!'

Even when the ultimate defense skill was unleashed, Zhang Yang had still taken close to 20,000 burst damage! Without the magical barrier protecting him, the damage would have reached as high as 80,000! Zhang Yang own maximum HP was only 88,000 HP, and it had already been reduced down to around 72,000 HP before the dragon had even dealt the damage. If he had taken the hit without the {Shield Wall}, he would have been a goner.

Dusk Phoenix's 'damsel-in-distress' tactic was truly brilliant. But, it was not good enough to weaken Zhang Yang's alertness. The woman must have thought that Zhang Yang having 70,000 HP was good enough for her to kill him with a single skill burst, making Zhang Yang feel like a complete fool for not utilizing his defensive skills beforehand.

Having one plan foiled foiled after another, Dusk Phoenix was stunned. That was her last trump card! Zhang Yang knew that women always had backup plans. If he had not had the experience of two lives and an abundance of gaming experience, he might have fallen for her act and gotten himself killed by the dragon skill. Still, it was not time to let down his guard. Only god knew that Dusk Phoenix might still have some other plans in hand.

{Dance of Heaven and Earth}!

Shush!

The shadow emerged out and rushed at Dusk Phoenix!

Immune!

When the shadow reached to where Dusk Phoenix was, it bumped into an invisible wall and could not move closer. However, it did not stop nor cause the shadow to dissipate. The shadow swordsman continued to slash his way in and attacked Dusk Phoenix despite not being able to touch her physically.

Immune!

Immune!

No matter how much the shadow struck, Dusk Phoenix was not able to take any damage. At the same time, she took out her swords from her back and attacked Zhang Yang.

'-0!'

'-0!'

Zhang Yang had guessed that Dusk Phoenix was using some sort of equipment that granted her temporary immunity. Likewise, Zhang Yang's {Shield Wall} was so strong that Dusk Phoenix was not able to deal any damage at all! On the contrary, Zhang Yang had been recovering 10% HP per second, and was recovered to full HP in a matter of a few seconds.

10 seconds later, {Dance of Heaven and Earth} expired, and the shadow swordsman vanished. At the same time, Dusk Phoenix started to move back. It seemed like her invulnerability skill lasted around the same time.

In that case…

{Chaotic Dance of Electric Current}!

Zhang Yang activated the ring's skill and summoned an old orc magician. The orc pointed its staff at Dusk Phoenix and chanted a spell.

"Oh god!"

Dusk Phoenix panicked. Right at the moment the first bolt blasted off, Dusk Phoenix had disappeared in a puff of smoke, making use of the I-frame from {Vanish} to negate the skill's damage.

Zhang Yang wanted to praise her, but he best remain quiet for now. The woman was good. Her reaction speed was as good as Sun Xin Yu and Lost Dream. Or rather, slightly better than Lost Dream, but slightly weaker than Sun Xin Yu.

Now that Zhang Yang had forced Dusk Phoenix to use {Vanish}, there were no more skills for her to use. She was no longer a threat to him. A Thief's strongest skill was {Ambush}, combined with the chaining of {Kidney Shot} to deliver a long stunning duration. Zhang Yang had no fear of Thieves. Why should he be afraid of Dusk Phoenix?

Zhang Yang moved towards the chest. If Dusk Phoenix continued to play hide and seek, she would lose her last shot for the chest. But if she did appear to attack Zhang Yang, Zhang Yang would bring down hell from above. Even if that took them over the time limit of the event, it did not matter! He was already at the first place!

When the coast was clear, Zhang Yang did not hesitate to open the chest.

'Ding! You have opened an Ancient Glory Chest!'

'Ding! You have obtained [Level 5 Dexterity Gemstone] x1!'

'Ding! You have obtained 91 Glory Points!'

Zhang Yang had opened the last chest. Since there was only 1 minute left on the countdown timer, there was nothing left to fight for. When the dust settles down, there will only be one winner.

"Zhan Yu. Mark my words. When we enter the Chaos Realm, I will have my revenge!" From afar, Dusk Phoenix was yelling from the top of her lungs.

Zhang Yang laughed and shouted back at her. "Next time, if you do see me! I'll smack that *ss so hard that you'll be begging for more!"

"F*ck you!" Dusk Phoenix screamed back. Zhang Yang could have sworn that he noticed a red blush on her cheeks before she left the area. She had no need to leave, since the event would end soon. However, she just could not stand the sight of the Chinese man. She feared that she might actually succumb to her anger and beat the crap out of him. Or was it the other way round?

'Ding! Server Announcement: The event Realm of the Sacred Glory has ended. The top three winners will be announced shortly!'

'Ding! Server Announcement: Player Dusk Phoenix has won the third place. Obtained reward: Level 1, SP 1!'

'Ding! Server Announcement: Player Captain America has won the second place. Obtained reward: Level 2, SP 1!'

'Ding! Server Announcement: Player Zhan Yu has won the first place. Obtained reward: Level 3, SP 1, and a Unique title: Warrior of the Sacred Glory!'

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Chapter 443: Dimensional Key

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Once the system made the announcement, Zhang Yang's character glowed brightly and gained 3 Levels instantly, pushing him up to Level 97!

Zhang Yang was suddenly assaulted with deep fear. If he had been a little more diligent, he would have gained more levels before the Sacred Glory event had started. If so, he would have shot up to Level 100! That was good, in a sense, but what would happen to the "Dimensional Key" quest? Would it not be available to him, forever?!

Zhang Yang place the SP on {Shield Wall}, making it Level 9, with only 3 minutes of cooldown time!

At first, Zhang Yang was never interested in the title "Warrior of the Sacred Glory", but when he found out its hidden features, he equipped the title without hesitation. The title effect was: 10% increase attack when attacking Spectre and Demons. It was a great boost to him, since most of the enemies in the game were Spectres!

Zhang Yang opened his inventory to consolidate all his items. From the chest, he had obtained 78 pieces of [Level 4 Gemstones]! Sadly, he had only managed to procure 8 pieces of [Level 5 Gemstone]. It did not matter, since they were extremely valuable! The main factor that made the item priceless, was the fact that they cannot be bought with gold coins! In the future, it would be a huge advantage for Zhang Yang. Whenever he farms equipment with Level 4 Sockets or Level 5 Sockets, he would not need to buy Level 3 Gemstone to compensate for it!

Within a brief moment, Zhang Yang was teleported out of the Sacred Glory Realm, and back to White Jade Castle. Once he arrived, his messenger rang on and on, like there was an emergency call from the hospital. He received many calls of congratulations from all his friends and guild mates. Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er had even asked for Zhang Yang to treat them to a big fancy dinner, which Zhang Yang had no excuse to reject.

Even though he had agreed for the big dinner plan, Han Ying Xue and the other ladies in the house got lazy. In the end, their big dinner was only a fancy takeout meal.

After playing for so long and remain indoors, Zhang Yang realized that it was mid summer. Even though the air conditioning in the house was turned on, all four ladies in the house wore their summer dresses indoors! Nothing but the most simplest, thinnest fabric plastered against their skin! Their slender bodies were totally exposed. All thanks to the so-called "summer dresses". Sun Xin Yu was the special case. When Zhang Yang saw her right after he had logged out of the game, she had just come back from the gym down stairs. At first, she wore sports bra and spats, which was quite revealing, yet normal. But when she was done bathing, she wore a mini Tee! Nothing more! There was not even a bra beneath that thin cloth! Her forbidden peaks were clearly shown to the world, which would entice any normal man!

Zhang Yang nearly spat out his drink when he saw Sun Xin Yu coming out of her room after changing. Ever since she had confessed her feelings to Zhang Yang, the woman had gotten bold. She had been lackadaisical about Zhang Yang and treated him less like a stranger. Was that a good thing? Zhang Yang could not answer his own question…Perhaps, did she not mind about Zhang Yang being able to take a peek under the hood?

Zhang Yang turned back and saw that Han Ying Xue had noticed his response to Sun Xin Yu. She merely scoffed and took out a fat banana out of the fruit basket. After peeling the skin ever so seductively, the women sucked on the banana slowly, from the tip, all the way down to the shaft. Instead of biting down the banana, she merely pulled it out and slobbered over it while winking at Zhang Yang. Unlike Sun Xin Yu's unintentional show, Zhang Yang was immune or rather, annoyed at how Han Ying Xue was constantly teasing him! Still, her actions were greatly seductive. Wouldn't hurt just to look at, would it?

There was a fiery sensation going on down south…

Now that Han Ying Xue knew that she had managed to get his attention, she bared her teeth and bit the banana forcefully. The glare in her eyes spelled doom to a certain part of Zhang Yang…

He could not help but feel extremely scared for some reason. What a complicated person…What does she want? For real!?

Anyhow, the food arrived and everyone dined in. On the dinner table however, there was a cold war going on between the bombalicious babe Han Ying Xue and the stone-cold Sun Xin Yu. If Zhang Yang were to wear a heat reader, he could practically see sparks zapping across the two women. Those tow were at each other's throats, spiritually. It was so intense, that the air-head Wei Yan Er was able to detect the hostility between those two. While chewing down the lobster meat in her mouth, the little brat stared at Sun Xin Yu, and Han Ying Xue, her eyes going back and forth. Her gaze then turned to Zhang Yang and she snickered. Zhang Yang had no idea what is going on in her tiny little mind, but he knew that it would not be good. Daffodil Daydream on the other hand, played an award-winning role of being invisible to the crowd.

After finishing the dreaded dinner, Zhang Yang pushed all four ladies back to their rooms and urge them to go online. He still had the Dimensional Key quest to complete, which would lead him to the Imperial Heaven's Empire Royal Palace to search for the Meteor Sword.

Zhang Yang had recruited all four girls into his party. The reason why he did not invite the other core members, was due to the party member limit of the portal entry. He had to pass on Fatty Han and the rest. Naturally, he picked the four of the girls because of their innate talents. That, and it was much better to have an all-girl company for once.

After gathering, Zhang Yang took out the Dimensional Key and focused his thoughts into the key. The red color gem-like object burst out a stream of rainbow light which formed into a light portal. The doorway of the portal was extremely small, which could only fit in one person at a time.

"Enter, now!" Zhang Yang cried. He needed to stay focus on controlling the portal, which required him to be the last person to enter. Han Ying Xue and the rest of the party entered the portal, one by one and when the last person entered, Zhang Yang held the key tightly and entered with his back facing the portal. Once the light engulfed his body, Zhang Yang turned around quickly and forced his way in. There was a light, pushing current that was not too strong. It still required them to lean forward and put a little force in their forward movements.

'Ding! You have entered the Fallen Land, Imperial Heaven's Empire Royal Palace. Monsters that are killed inside this realm will not respawn!'

The white light faded away, and his vision returned to him. Zhang Yang realized his footing was little more solid than usual, and found out that he was standing right at the entrance of golden castle. There were beautiful decorations to his left and right. Almost everything was made of gold, and had given off some sort of blinding effect.

Zhang Yang's mini map had a good overall layout of the Imperial Heaven's Empire Royal Palace. Zhang Yang opened the world map up, and his position was currently at the North West of the entire Royal Palace. The Treasure Cove was located at the South East of the entire Royal Palace. To reach there, they would have to travel diagonally for a long time…

Luckily, this time, the portal had sent the party in as a whole, instead of spawning them at random places.

"Wow…This place is beautiful." Wei Yan Er was stunned by the dazzling beauty of the palace. She started to spin around playfully. "Noobie tank! Let's just move here! This place is much better than your cooped-up apartment."

Zhang Yang frowned. He was annoyed at her statement. Was not it her fault that his place was cooped-up?

"Activate your auras. We're going to start raiding the palace now," said Zhang Yang. He did not wait for Wei Yan Er to obey him, and proceeded on further into the palace.

"Hmph. Dummy, how long exact have you spent doing this quest? For as long as it worth, there better be some good rewards waiting for me at the end!" said Han Ying Xue.

"Erhm. You meant, for me. Anyhow. The quest should be lucrative," said Zhang Yang nonchalantly, as he shrugged.

Daffodil Daydream said, "Well, even if the quest itself does not give any good rewards, the Violet-Platinum bosses in here should be good enough for us!"

Zhang Yang laughed. "Well. Don't be too pessimistic there, Daffy. I did spend a great deal of time in this quest. If the quest was to reward me with just experience points, it better be worth at least half of a level, or I'll call it a huge waste of my time."

Everyone made jokes and teased each other as they proceeded deeper into the palace. It had been a long time since they had entered the palace, but there were still no buildings, just an extremely large courtyard, filled with trees, chairs, tables, and a place to drink tea! It did not take them long to find the first monster to fight.

[Restless Guard] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 95

HP: 200,000

Defense: 500

The skeletal soldier was dragging a huge sword over the floor of the palace grounds. The sword looked like a regular sword. However, what made it different from the rest was the fact that sparks were created just by dragging its tip across the ground, even though the ground was tiled with stones. Instead of a metallic, clinging sound, the stone tiles were torn apart!

"This…place…not for…the living…intruders…death…kill..."

With a low, barely audible tone, the skeletal said something that triggered the battle. The skeletal soldier picked up the sword that it was dragging along and slashed at Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang was expecting the sword's attack to be slow and sluggish. However, the skeletal soldier proved itself to be an elite tier monster by swinging the sword at such a fast speed, forcing Zhang Yang to react just as quickly. He swiftly raised his shield to block the strike, but was forcefully sent backward. The sheer power of the strike had made Zhang Yang lose his footing. With quick reflexes, Zhang Yang borrowed the momentum from the backward force and spun around. At the same time, Zhang Yang returned the attack with a counterattack from the side, via a sword slice!

'-4,387!'

After the sword sliced through the skeleton, its armor was caved in with a deep horizontal hole, breaking the armor down into two pieces. That was just a cosmetic appearance and nothing more. The defense value of the skeletal soldier did not change. However, the armor breaking effect would not have occured if the sword was of White-Wood grade. Only high tiered weapons could create such an effect on lower tier armor.

"Did you guys hear the skeleton talking?" said Wei Yan Er surprised.

"Well. I'm not surprised. This place exists only temporarily. I won't be surprised, even if the grass could talk! Remember, players can only enter this dungeon three times!" Zhang Yang explained, as he continued to fight the monster.

"Tch… If only we can find, capture, and rear a talking monster!" said Wei Yan Er with her puppy eyes. Zhang Yang shook his head. He had always felt that Wei Yan Er had a whole, other-worldly taste compared to other people.

Sun Xin Yu and everyone else laid down their attack and quickly terminated the monster. The monster had dropped a few coins, a few [Inscribed Cloth, and even silvery, shiny boots!

[Hallowed Greaves] (Gray-Silver, Leather Armor)

Defense: 12

Vitality: 76

Strength: 38

Dexterity: 84

Level Requirement: 90

"Aiya! What a noob equipment!" said Wei Yan Er with disgust. Even though the boots had not yet been Identified, the stats would only increase by 50% after Identification, it was still quite weak, compared to her current equipment.

Zhang Yang laughed. "Come on. What do you expect? It's just a Gray-Silver equipment for Pete's sakes! Appreciate for what it is. We could sell the bloody thing for a few hundred gold coins. If the monsters here could drop that many equipment, even if they are all Gray-Silver, it would still be worth quite a fortune!"

When the word "fortune" got out, both Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er chuckled. Zhang Yang could swear that those two had money symbols appearing in their eyes!

The party of five proceeded deeper into the palace, and found many similar skeletal soldiers around. Without the need to provoke the monsters, they would automatically target them and launch their attacks. Even though these elite monsters were stronger than the regular elite monsters in the "outside" world, their difficulty was greatly compensated with a vast number of drops. 10 skeletal soldiers had already dropped 4 counts of Gray-Silver equipment!

Everyone was happy. Since this place did not limit the duration you spend in the area, they could easily wipe all the monsters at leisure! Even the monsters that were not in the palace could be farmed for their lucrative drops!

After Fatty Han and the others knew about it, they too wanted to have a part of the haul. Zhang Yang added them into the party and tried to exploit a possible loop hole by using the [Party Summon Order] to "pull" them into the world. However, when Zhang Yang activated the accessory, the system responded. "Failure to summon party members due to Imperial Heaven's Empire Royal Palace participant limit."

Zhang Yang was not disappointed. Somehow, he knew that the developers would not make a silly mistake like that. Now that Fatty Han and the rest of the core party members were all together, Zhang Yang had not bothered to kick them out.

Fatty Han suddenly let out a loud cry. "F*ck me! I swear that I ain't gonna touch booze no more!"

Zhang Yang laughed as his sudden sweeping declaration. "Why the sudden accent. It does not suit you. Isn't booze harder to quit then asking you to have a diet?"

"Grah! It's not that." Said Fatty Han. "You got it all wrong. It's…well…Yesterday, when I went over to Xiao Wei's house to meet her parents. On that day, I can't remember how much I have drunk. But the next morning, Xiao Wei had glared at me like she could just stab me with her fingers. I asked what's wrong and she revealed to me what I had done. Last night, when I was at her place, I drank so much that I was heavily intoxicated."

"Huh…that's normal."

"Wait. I'm not done. Her father asked me this question. "What do you think of my daughter when you first met her?" You know what I said?"

"Oh f*ck."

"Yeah. I said, "Girl's got buns, hun!" I said that!"

Everyone burst out laughing and even Zhang Yang had to stop, rolling on the floor while clutching his stomach.

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Chapter 444: Sweeping Gold

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The Royal Palace was too huge to explore. Honestly, Zhang Yang felt that if the monsters did not drop those lucrative equipment, he would not even want to explore the entire place! Not even if you paid him! After spending close to 24 hours of real world time, Zhang Yang and his party had explored only 20% of the entire Royal Palace. The total equipment that they had amassed had already reached the thousands.

Inevitably, all of their inventory slots were not enough to store that much. Zhang Yang remained inside the Royal Palace while the four of them went back to the main city using the [Teleportation Scrolls]. After depositing all of the equipment in the guild storage and personal storage, Zhang Yang had recalled them back into the Royal Palace with the [Party Summon Order]. Zhang Yang was not afraid of the item now working, since he had tried it previously. The system had not allowed him to summon more than 5 of them. That was the only condition.

Luckily, the [Party Summon Order] had only a 1 hour cooldown time. They had no worries of farming more equipment over and over again, and could repeatedly go in and out of the Royal Palace once their inventory was full again. The party continued onwards and arrived at a small building by the second evening. Inside, there was the first boss of the world. Truthfully, they could go around it and skip the boss fight. But, who would want to skip when they could kill it for its drops, with their eyes closed!

[Steamy Little Gu Gu] (Yellow-Gold, Spectre)

Level: 96

HP: 3,000,000

Defense: 1,700

The boss was only a Yellow-Gold tier. Zhang Yang could solo the boss with his hands behind his back! Considering the fact that most of the players in the entire game had endured many hardships, they could easily defeat this boss as well. Perhaps a strong team would be required to kill a Violet-Platinum for now. Hence, this boss was placed there like a bonus!

Swinging their weapons half-heartedly, the party killed the boss without no effort. The boss had dropped one Yellow-Gold equipment and two Gray-Silver equipment. After collecting the equipment, Zhang Yang felt that something was a little odd. The Royal Palace was not terribly difficult as he had imagine it would be. The monsters were not tough to defeat, and would bestow them a heap of equipment! It was like this place was a reward in itself. A reward for entering the place for completing the Dimensional Key quest! Besides the equipment, there were many herbs that were available for harvesting in this place. How could a place in a different dimension produce such an abundance of herbs? That did not matter for him. All he had to do was to pay yup 1,000 gold coins to summon the tiny little critter to harvest the herbs, while he went around killing more monsters.

The little critter was undeniably cute. When Zhang Yang first summoned it out, Wei Yan Er had let out a deafening shriek and had hugged the little thing! The Herb Foraging Familiar was so annoyed at the little brat that it had squirmed out of Wei Yan Er's arms and had disappeared into the palace ground. One hour later, the Familiar returned and deposited all the herbs that it had gathered into Zhang Yang's inventory, before disappearing from the world.

"Hm…Noob tank? Where, and how does that little cutey store all the herbs?"

"Erhm…" Zhang Yang frowned. How does one explain the mystical concept of online gaming to a naïve little kid. "I think, it has some sort of a backpack with him?"

"Huh? Really? I want to see!" said the girl with wide, unblinking eyes.

Zhang Yang sighed heavily and decided to ignore the girl.

After spending 5 more days of real world time, the team had finally explored every inch, every nook and cranny of the entire Royal Palace. Zhang Yang could guarantee that he had killed every single one of the monsters inside this realm. Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er were diligent in doing so; they had even turned over stones and trees just to make sure they could squeeze in all available drops from the monsters in this place. In these 5 days, they had collected a total of 3,532 Gray-Silver equipment and 17 Yellow-Gold equipment!

Even though the price for Gray-Silver equipment had plummeted drastically, it was still normal to sell one Gray-Silver equipment for a few hundred gold coins. When the equipment was special or had slightly higher stats than a regular one, it could be sold for hundreds or even a thousand gold coins. With such an abundance of Gray-Silver equipment in hand, they could at least sell them all for 600,000 to 700,000 gold coins! With the few Yellow-Gold equipment that they had acquired, their total earnings could reach a million! In truth, Zhang Yang was happier about the number of herbs in this place! There were so many varieties and rarities of herbs, that his Familiar had collected. Zhang Yang felt that after a thousand years of being isolated from the real world, all these untouched herbs that grown ever to wildly, and benefited Zhang Yang alone!

Zhang Yang and his party had spent 5 days in real time, which would be 360 hours in the game. Taking away the time that they took to eat and workout, Zhang Yang had summoned the Familiar to harvest herbs for a total of 350 times. Although he had spent 350,000 gold coins for it, all the herbs that the little critter had collected for him were worth more than a million! On the bright side, the best herbs he collected were so rare that no one was willing to sell them! The rarest herb he obtained was the [Mythical Fruit].

[Mythical Fruit] could be used to concoct a potion called [Growth Potion, and the potion would permanently increase all Attribute points by 10! This potion effect was the same as the [Fate Crystal] found in the 10,000 Phantoms. However, 10,000 Phantom's respawn rate was 10 days (real world time). Besides, the monsters there were mostly Level 50. Since the spawn point was randomized, no super guild could monopolize the place, since anyone could easily wipe the place clean. It all depended on luck, and luck alone. Hence, the reason why the [Mythical Fruit] is priceless.

All Zhang Yang required was to obtain the recipe to craft the [Growth Potion]! On a side note, Zhang Yang had the skill {Alchemist Intuition}, providing the chance to craft out a [Transmuted Grade 10 Growth Potion] which would, probably grant the user 20 points of all Attribute!

After the party went out of the Royal Palace to empty their inventories, they moved deeper into the Royal Palace and came to the Treasure Cove. The entrance was blocked by a 50 meters golden door. Wei Yan Er tried to pushed the door open, but failed do to so. The door did not even budge when she had pushed it till her face was red. Disgruntled, the little brat had swung her axe and bashed the door, and as a result, the door remained unscathed while the little brat's axe was notched! The system reported a loss of 10% Durability for her axe, making the little brat as angry as a little boar.

Zhang Yang laughed for a good while before he took out the Dimensional Key and slotted it into a hidden keyhole on the side. A loud mechanical cog cracked away and the door was unlocked. The key popped out and the golden door cracked opened into two panels. The doors opened wide and revealed a darken hallow. There was nothing. Zhang Yang could not see anything from his side.

"Erhm…are we supposed to go in there?" Daffodil Daydream asked.

"Yeah..."

Foom!

Zhang Yang stepped back immediately on reflex, like a knee-jerk reaction. It was the sound of the torches hanging on the walls of the interiors being lit up. It was a passage way with many other routes, left and right. However, before Zhang Yang could go in, the only path he saw from outside the door was a straight pathway with no end.

"Get ready. This is why the real danger lurks."

"Hehe! Somebody is being a scaredy cat!" Wei Yan Er playfully taunted Zhang Yang.

"Yeah. I'm soooo scared! Woo~ Please, lead the way then!" Zhang Yang shot back with a sinister smile.

"Hell no." Wei Yan Er immediately regretted her decision of taunting Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang laughed for a good while before steeping into the darkened room. Unlike the exterior of the palace, the Treasure Cove was dark and gloomy. It felt like a whole other world where the exterior was a cheerful and happy place, while the Treasure Cove was a world where despair and death loomed. Zhang Yang swallowed his saliva and pulled out his sword and shield out, which he had forgotten to do so, before entering the Cove. There was a sense of danger in this place. Even though he wore what was currently the strongest tank equipment in the world, he had never heard of a team that had managed to complete this quest in his past life, thus the lingering fear in his mind. Zhang Yang strongly believed that the team that tried to raid this place was not just a simple team, it had to be a strong and well-equipped team. At least, better than his current party.

Zhang Yang kept his guard up high, and his alertness at its peak, as he walked through the dark passageway. Halfway through, the system made an announcement.

'Ding! You have entered: The Treasure Cove. You have 12 hours to search for the Meteor Sword. Failure to located the sword in the designated duration will result in expulsion from the Imperial Heaven's Empire Royal Palace. You can use the Dimensional Key to reenter the Palace after expulsion. The Treasure Cove has 5 floors. There will be a strong boss to guard each end of every floor. The Meteor Sword is located on the fifth floor. Good luck!'

A countdown timer popped up in everyone's U.I, along with a buff icon called, {Expulsion}.

Before the area of the Treasure Cove, there was no time limitation. The time limitation was only implemented upon entering the Treasure Cove. No wonder the previous raiders had failed to complete the mission. Once the battle with the boss took up too much time, it would waste the players' time, and would eventually lead to expulsion. Players could try again for 2 more runs, and if they failed after that, this place would forever be sealed.

While he was thinking a way to solve the time problem, a loud stomping sound echoed though the entire room. A fully armored soldier marched to where Zhang Yang and his party was. The sound of his footsteps were terrifying. It was not the sound of his metal armor slamming hard against of the floor, but the sound of his ominous hum. It felt like he had survived numerous battles and had never lost one!

[Treasure Cove Guards] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 95

HP: 3,000,000

Defense: 2,000

"Defend the Cove! Kill the intruders!" cried the soldier bravely. From the tiny gap of his helmet, Zhang Yang could see a lick of green flame. It was a higher leveled Spectre. No wonder it had so much HP.

"Wait! Is that an elite monster? It doesn't make sense. His HP and Defense are stronger than a Yellow-Gold boss!" Daffodil Daydream cried angrily.

The soldier pulled out his sword and slammed into Zhang Yang. "Yeah. I get that."

Zhang Yang was too lazy to explain why this monster was so strong, neither did he attempt to understand it. No matter how strong it was, there was no escaping the fight.

"Old man! They say, all work and no play makes Jack a dull man. Well, at least you'll get paid if you work. But now, you're already dead! Why are you still fighting!? What about retirement? Go and relax somewhere!" cried Wei Yan Er as she tried to persuade the monster to give up on the fight. Zhang Yang wanted to chip in, but he knew that if he said anything at all, this little brat would figure out a way to ask something else. The chain will never stop if he starts it!

The fight continued, and Zhang Yang realized that the soldier was no ordinary elite monster. Each strike contained so much force, that it managed to push Zhang Yang away! The force was so strong that it felt like his legs would snap at any time if he resisted. Even further into the fight, Zhang Yang realized that the monster had a certain level of intelligence. When there were other melee fighter around him, the soldier would prioritize them before Zhang Yang. Luckily, Sun Xin Yu was extremely quick. She realized the issue and had managed to find a solution almost immediately. She found out that when the monster was not attacking Zhang Yang, it would almost instantly switch to her. With lightning speed reflexes, Sun Xin Yu would use {Vanish} to eliminate all the aggro on her and give Zhang Yang enough time to build more aggro on the monster.

After that turn, both Sun Xin Yu and Wei Yan Er found a way to negate the monster's attacks. When the monster was attacking Zhang Yang, they would join in and attack. At the moment the monster stopped, they would leave his attacking range and allow the monster to attack Zhang Yang instead.

With the abnormal lengthy HP, and the absurd battle style of the monster, the party had taken close to 3 minutes to kill him. Luckily, Zhang Yang himself had found a better solution to kill the monster faster and more efficiently. Whenever a monster like that appeared, Zhang Yang would lure it to the corner, and Zhang Yang would attack him with his own back on the wall. That way, Zhang Yang could negate the knockback effect, which allowed him to remain "stationary," to fight him better.

After killing more than 10 monsters, Zhang Yang started to frown worriedly. If this continued on, they could not reach their destination in time! They were already at their fastest pace, there was no way to squeeze more DPS out of them!

For now, Zhang Yang moved the problem to the back of his head. The team proceeded on, killing their way into the Treasure Cove and arriving at the end of the floor, after 4 hours. Almost instantly, another problem arose. There was no passageway that led them to the next floor! The boss that was supposed to be there, was nowhere to be found! Where was the promised passageway and the boss!?

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Chapter 445: The Fourth Prince Ludovic

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"Let's search for it!" Zhang Yang cried annoyingly.

Everyone spread out and started to search in all directions. Some thought that it must be some sort of switch mechanism that could open a hatch, or reveal a secret wall.

"Nyahaha! I found it!" Wei Yan Er laughed happily. Right at where she stood, there was a large humanoid statue. At the base of the statue was a glowing jade. In the game, items or objects that could be interacted with would be highlighted with a glowing aura. Items or objects such as herbs, minerals, and even switches would be highlighted to help players spot them.

"WAIT! DON'T TOUCH IT!" Zhang Yang stopped her. The stupid and reckless little brat might kill herself by triggering the boss alone. Zhang Yang and everyone else rushed to Wei Yan Er's side. Zhang Yang nodded and Wei Yan Er twisted the jade. Cracks started to form on the statue and fall down from the top. With a loud crack, a hand burst out and slammed downward.

"Aiyaya! What is that!? Monster? Ghost?!" Wei Yan Er cried out randomly.

With stones raining down from above, Zhang Yang and everyone started to jump away to safety.

The statue cracked even more violently after some time. It seemed that the source of the great vibration was coming from within the statue. It was so powerful, that the entire floor was trembling like a subwoofer! Everyone was forced to stagger about like drunkards!

Crack! Crack! The statue continued to "peel" off its stone skin and reveal its main body. After all the stone had been removed, the boss appeared in gold, shining armor. He was carrying a gigantic axe behind him.

[The Fourth Price, Ludovic] (Violet-Platinum, Spectre)

Level: 100

HP: 10,000,000

Defense: 2,900

"Oh…my…god…Level 100 boss…" Zhang Yang gaped. First, he had goosebumps. Trembles of fear followed next.

Level 95, or 99 would not have much difference from each other, but when a boss reaches Level 100, like Ludovic, the prowess and difficulty was on a whole other level. It was the game's setting. Every 10 Level gap, equipment, itemd, monsters, players, and even bosses would undergo an upgrade. Hence, this boss had already gained that fore mentioned upgrade, and would be extremely difficult to defeat. A Level 90 Violet-Platinum boss would have only around 2,600 Defence. Ludovic had an extra 300!

No wonder the previous team in Zhang Yang's previous life could never make it alive! Just the minions alone would already take too long a time to defeat. Yet, now came a Level 100 Violet-Platinum boss! It would not be such a problem if they were not restricted with time and level limitations. This "dungeon" … this place had a Level 100 limitation, and also a 36 hour duration for them to conquer. Was it impossible? No. But it was close to impossible!

The Level 90 dungeon Rock Frost Palace had already caused players to be stuck in there for more than 2 months! Players had actually taken 2 months to figure out a way to defeat the entire dungeon. Yet, this Level 100 "dungeon" Treasure Cove had forced players to complete it within 36 hours! How!?

Ludovic's entire body was revealed to the party. It was massive, like a professional, heavy weight MMA fighter. An emerald-green flame burst into his eye sockets, indicating that Ludovic had come back to life. Slowly, Ludovic stared down at Zhang Yang and everyone else, and said in a low husky voice. "Are these the descendants of the seven traitors? Death, shall it be!"

Without saying anything else, Ludovic drew out his axe from behind his back and swung it hard at Zhang Yang and everyone else.

Zhang Yang jumped into action and embraced the oncoming attack with his shield.

PANG!

Sparks burst into the air when the gigantic axe pummeled the shield. Although Ludovic's attack was nullified, Zhang Yang was sent flying. Instead of knocking him back a few meters, Zhang Yang was literally sent flying backwards. It took a great deal of strength to get back up on his feet, which eventually ended up with Zhang Yang spitting blood out of his mouth.

"Augh!" Zhang Yang struggled to remain on his feet.

"Woah. Noobie tank! What are you throwing up blood for! It's not like you have cancer!" Wei Yan Er teased.

"Bloody brat! There's a time and place for everything, and now is neither the time nor the place!" Zhang Yang scolded her sternly, which made her quieten down. He regained his strength and sprinted towards the boss.

"Hmph. No hero, no villain, could ever harm the great prince. Your resistance is all but for naught!" said Ludovic in a very snobbish manner.

Zhang Yang was careless. While sprinting with all his might, Zhang Yang had forgot to guard his side. Ludovic had sent a powerful soccer kick towards Zhang Yang, hitting him right in the chest area, which sent him flying like a bullet. He ricocheted against the wall and fell down to earth, throwing up more blood as he got back up his feet.

"Grah!" Zhang Yang was getting annoyed at tasting the rust in his mouth. He quickly got up to his feet again and glided towards Ludovic with a {Charge}. A quick slam was avoided, with Zhang Yang extreme reflexes, and he managed to land his first hit on the boss. His sword struck the boss' armor, sending out sparks everywhere, and the word "-3,182" floated up.

Enraged, Ludovic picked up his axe and swung it hard at Zhang Yang.

SPLISHH!

'-15,238!'

A fresh pool of blood dripped down from Ludovic's axe after he had chopped Zhang Yang.

Beep*

Zhang Yang's Rage gauge was filled almost instantly after he had taken the devastating attack. He quickly jumped towards the boss, avoiding more attacks and landed {Cripple Defense} on the boss to support his team mates. All this time, beside Han Ying Xue, Sun Xin Yu and everyone else had remained idle to allow Zhang Yang to build more aggro on the boss before they could attack.

"Feeble bugs! I will squash you with my fist and feet! Your death will be quick and painless!" Ludovic bellowed. He picked up his axe and spun it around in circle. A bright flash of light shot out in a horizontal sweep and dealt damage to everyone close to the boss' melee range.

'Ding! Ludovic has used: Tornado Sweep, all target within the attacking range will receive 25,000 Physical damage!'

Zhang Yang had thick defense, it would not matter for him. But the others had taken close to 20,000 damage. Even though they had Level 90 Violet-Platinum equipment on them, their 50,000 HP was instantly halved. The girls jumped backward instantly and withdrew to the side to heal themselves with [Bandages] and Han Ying Xue's heal.

"Behold! Feast your eyes on my strength! Bow to the power of absolute force!" Ludovic was talking too much, that even the little brat had gotten annoyed. Zhang Yang was about to approach him to attack, when an axe swung by. Zhang Yang took the axe attack, and was sent flying by another kick to the chest!

Zhang Yang saw the kick coming to him. With quick breathing, Zhang Yang relaxed his body and avoided the incoming "wrecking ball" simply by bending backwards, like Mr. Anderson from the Matrix.

Almost all the girls present on the scene gasped in awe and surprise. Daffodil Daydream cried out immediately, "Guild master, how did you do that? How did you avoid that attack?"

From her perspective, the boss' attack was too fast to dodge. Unless players were to use special skills to induce a sudden movement, it was impossible to physically dodge the attack!

"That kick attack is not an actual attack. It's not considered to be a boss attack. That is why there is a flaw which you can exploit. Its easy to dodge once you had grasp the technique." Zhang Yang explained.

The kick that sent him flying the first time had not caused any HP damage. It was all merely an effect. But the effect had a knockback effect, which could send him flying off his feet. It was troublesome, since he could not counterattack!

This type of attack was not alien for Zhang Yang. Ever since the game had undergone the first update, the effect was already added in. It was similar to the knockback effect from bosses and stronger monsters. As long as the Strength value is higher than the target, one could easily induce a knockback effect. In Ludovic's case, the effect was placed in its kick attack. Since the attack was not an attacking skill which could cause HP damage, the movement speed of the leg was fixed to allow players to avoid it physically.

These kinds of movement in a fight was extremely common after the Chaos Realm threshold. Zhang Yang had been reborn, and it was close to a year since he had fought such a boss. That was the reason why Zhang Yang had made a few mistakes with Ludovic. Not that he had gotten used to it, but he was using everything in his power to avoid being sent flying again.

This type of fighting style is actually applicable in PvP. Zhang Yang had used a similar method of fighting Musashi Ou-sama in the recent past event. Taking a shield to the face would not cause damage, but it could disrupt the opponent's vision. However, when Zhang Yang was slamming his shield into Musashi's face, it was all to humiliate him and throw him off his game.

To slam someone off their feet would require the attacker to have a much higher value of Strength compared to the victim. Right now, Zhang Yang could send a player off their feet, provided that the player was equipped with Yellow-Gold equipment, or lower tier. This sort of attacking style was known as the Supporting Attack. In his past life, players around had crafted a series of supporting attacks and incidentally caused a huge uproar about it. There was a case where a random rank-less player, equipped with only a beginner dagger, killed an A-class Professional League PvP fighter solely by using the "supporting attack".

Hence, after the incident, many professional players had adopted the style and utilized them to enhance their fights.

…

"Die! Pest!" Ludovic bellowed again. This time, he spun his axe in circles and created many afterimages of his axe around his body. With a loud battle cry, the mirror images of the axe blasted off in all directions.

'Ding! Ludovic has used: Axe Barrage. Inflicts 20,000 Physical damage to all targets within the vicinity. Lasts for 10 seconds!'

"To me!" Zhang Yang cried out as he casted {Vanguard Aggression}. The attack would deal 20,000 damage per seconds. That meant it could deal 200,000 damage in total! How could anyone survive that?

With Ludovic as the center, the axes shot out to all directions, and even to the edge of the gigantic room. Zhang Yang frowned at the sight of it. This time, he could use {Vanguard's Aggression} to save everyone. He could use {Rearm} and use it again for the next {Axe Barrage}. But what about the third one? Right now, the boss still had 92% HP. If the skill was activated at regular intervals instead of by the HP percentage of the boss, {Axe Barrage} could be repeat endlessly, and it would be impossible to survive that!

How could a 5-men party win this round? The system would never design such a broken boss fight! There must be a way to survive the skill, without using counter skills!

Zhang Yang frantically scanned the entire room and found a abnormally large pillar at the far side of the room.

"Guys! I will kite the boss over to that pillar. When the boss uses {Axe Barrage} again, you can avoid the skill by hiding behind the pillar!" said Zhang Yang. During the skill activation, Zhang Yang had observed and found that the skill required the boss' channeling. Hence, when everyone runs behind the pillar, the boss would not chase after them. Furthermore, he noticed the axes that had flown out were stuck in the pillar and had not phased through.

10 seconds later, Ludovic raised his axe up high and swung it hard towards Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang then kited the boss. Slowly but surely, he managed to drag the boss over to that pillar. He stopped 3 meters away from the pillar, providing enough space and distance for everyone, including himself, to escape the skill, if the boss were to use {Axe Barrage} again.

Now, the boss was not stupid. The raging soccer kick was used repeatedly. If Zhang Yang did not possess his past life experience, he would have faced this sort of attack for the first time and would be kicked so far and so often that the boss could have joined the World FIFA competition. Even when the players were standing close to the pillar, the boss was not stupid enough to let them stay there forever. With all sort of kicks coming from different angles, the boss' prime objective was to keep everyone from staying at one place for too long. Tanks could not rely on the pillar to prevent the knockback effect!

If another tank were to replace Zhang Yang, they would surely be kicked until he becomes a football (not American football). With him away from the pillar, the boss would then use {Axe Barrage} to kill everyone easily.

This is the main point of surviving the skill. Players would have to figure out a strategy to stand close to the pillar, during and before the {Axe Barrage} is used. If they had figured that out, any less-than-average tank, healer, and attack could defeat him.

"Death to you, insolent fool!" cried Ludovic as he thrust another kick at Zhang Yang.

"Again, with the same trick?" As light as a feather, Zhang Yang twisted and turned, effectively moving away from the kick. Right after the kick was thrown into the air, Zhang Yang moved to the side, and slammed his shield right in Ludovic's helmet.

Pang!

The slam had successfully knocked off Ludovic's helmet, and revealed his half-rotten face, just like Two-Face in the Batman. Some of his hair got stuck on the helmet, causing some of his skin on the head to be ripped off as the helmet was blown away. Zhang Yang had not intended to do that. He had wanted to knock Ludovic back, so that he would have more space to start a hit combo. It was a pity that his Strength was lower than Ludovic.

"Ugly snob!" Wei Yan Er cried out and laughed.

"Ugly?" Ludovic heard her laughed and was enraged. "Did you just call me ugly? I am the fourth prince! The most handsome man under the heavens! You ignorant fool! How dare you deny the gift of gods? Are you blind?"

"Nishishishi! Ugly snob! Ugly snob!" Wei Yan Er continued to teased and jumped around as she did.

"I am the most handsome man! Handsome, I'll tell you!" Ludovic rage built up, and he swung his axe around like a tornado!

'Ding! Ludovic has used: Axe Barrage. Inflicts 20,000 Physical damage to all targets within the vicinity. Lasts for 10 seconds!'

As the afterimage of the axe started to form around Ludovic's body, Zhang Yang and everyone else started to make their way to the back of the large pillar.

"Are you daft? Why did you purposely anger a lunatic?! D*mn girl, know what you're doing, please!" said Zhang Yang as he took the chance to wrap himself up with a [Bandage].

"Okay…" Wei Yan Er sounded like she had learnt her lesson. "Does that mean that I should stop teasing you as well?"

Wei Yan Er smiled, and Zhang Yang sighed. Sometimes, Wei Yan Er was pretty smart in insulting someone. She did not even need to utter a single profanity!

To ease the burden on Han Ying Xue, everyone took out their own [Bandages] and heal themselves. Compared to a bottle of [Healing Potion, a [Bandage] was much cheaper. Zhang Yang had always preferred to use [Bandage] to heal himself since he had the title - "A Physician's Friend" that granted him a 100% increment in [Bandage] effectiveness.

The four ladies were impressed. Han Ying Xue, however, was extremely jealous. Back when she had saved Zhang Yang to defeat the Python King, she had not realized that it was the last step of the quest. If she had known that, she would have done the repetitive quest before that!

After Ludovic had finished channeling {Axe Barrage}, he picked up his axe, and chased after the party behind the pillar, and started attacking.

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Chapter 446: Spider Silk Dress

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With the all-powerful pillar standing there, Ludovic's {Axe Barrage} was rendered ineffective on the second time. In the 10 seconds of channeling duration, Zhang Yang and everyone were able heal themselves with their own [Bandages] to save Han Ying Xue's MP. 10 seconds later, everyone shot up, with Zhang Yang taking all the heat, like a indestructible punching bag.

70%...

"I will smash you into mincemeat!" as the battle dragged on, his temper tantrums got frequent. By the time that boss was damaged to 70%, its normal axe attacks were imbued with powerful forces, that the wind generated after swinging it could cause damage when it struck everyone else.

"What a disgusting face! Stupid Yu! It's all because of you! You just HAD to knock his helmet off! Well, have a good look now! Dammit! Great…I just lost my appetite!" said Han Ying Xue.

"You dare to mock my beauty!? You're nothing but peasants! No! You're nothing but insects! I will never forgive you!" Ludovic continue to throw a fit.

"Buddha once said, charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last; in the face of Time, nothing will last." Zhang Yang quoted. He wanted to sound wise, but failed so miserably due his laughing, not-taking-it-seriously kind of tone.

Everyone fell silent as they did not know how to react to Zhang Yang's random, sudden speech.

The team had 3 attackers, and Sun Xin Yu, Wei Yan Er, and Daffodil Daydream were not the average, run-of-the-mill attackers. They were the best there were, currently. With Zhang Yang matching their damage output, and the Mythical Turtle attacking, the team's firepower was as strong as a 10-man party. Along with the inexhaustible number of Grade 10 Transmuted Power Potions in hand, the team was able to maintain a shocking amount of damage output.

Even though the materials to craft Power Potions were expensive, as the game had progressed into the Level 90 threshold, lower leveled materials, including the herbs to craft Power Potions had because less of a scarcity, hence the lower price of them. Because of that, Zhang Yang was able to find a large number of herbs in the market and purchase them all to craft Power Potions in large quantities. All Grade 9 and Grade 10 Transmuted Power Potion would be reserved for his team mates, while the rest would be placed in the Little Merchandise Shop to be sold. Some of them were also placed in the guild's storage as a motivation to allow guild members to farm more Contribution Points in order to exchange them.

10 minutes into the battle, Ludovic had finally been hacked down to his last 20% HP.

Once his HP range had enter the {Killing Cleave} bracket, Wei Yan Er had consumed another Grade 10 Transmuted Power Potion, activating {Indiscriminate} and whacking the boss with {Killing Cleave}. Her attack had even managed to land a Critical Strike!

"I'll be d*mned. A Berserker is really powerful!" cried Zhang Yang. Even he was impressed at the damage Wei Yan Er had just dealt.

"Yeah! I wish that other classes would have skills like {Indiscriminate}!" said Daffodil Daydream. She was slightly envious of Wei Yan Er.

"Hahaha! Relax. All classes do have that sort of skill as well!" Zhang Yang explained. "I remember a skill called, {Scorch} for Pyromancer. Upon activation, it would cause a 100% increase for all attacks on targets with 20% HP or less. It's much better than a Warrior's {Indiscriminate}!"

100% increase in attack is almost the same as having a 100% increase in Critical Strike. Both dealt double the original attack. However, even since a 100% increase in attack power could have the potential to have a Critical Strike. If the caster is lucky, the attack could trigger a Critical Strike which will cause the original attack to have 4 times the attack power.

"B-But…The Instructor did not teach us the skill…" said Daffodil Daydream sadly.

"Hm. In that case, it must be a skill that requires a skill book, which could be farmed from monsters!" said Zhang Yang.

The team continued blasting, hacking, stabbing and slicing. Eventually, Ludovic had reached the end of his line.

"Pests! Insects! I would never lose to such scums! I am but a royal member of the Cylonia Royal Family! The blood in my veins are of that of the highest of nobility! I will never allow myself to be defeated by the likes of you!" cried Ludovic as he entered a berserk state.

Wei Yan Er laughed. "Noble blood? What are you talking about? You're rotting from the inside, literally! Blood or not, there's no nobility in your veins right now."

"You bastard! Humiliate me or my family honor, and I shall kill you!"

"Oh, shut up already. Kill, die, kill, die. Could you at least come up with a better way to intimidate your enemy? You're like a kid!" so said the kid.

"GRAHHH!" Ludovic was greatly angered to the point where he could no longer come up with any more insults. If the boss was a human player, Wei Yan Er could have been the first person alive to kill a man by forcing his blood veins to pops via anger alone.

When the boss' HP dropped to 1%, it stopped there. Ludovic's character glowed with an intense red hue. Along with his battle cry, Ludovic bellowed. "If I am to die! You will be coming with me!"

BOOM!

The boss' huge body exploded in a massive explosion, like a human-size H.E. grenade. The impact of the shockwave had sent everyone off their feet, and into the walls. The explosion was too quick and everyone, not even Zhang Yang had any time to prepare for it. Each of them was left with only 1 HP left.

Zhang Yang made a split-second decision and activated {Berserker's Heal} to restore all his HP, in case anything else was coming to get them. Fortunately, his intuition was right on spot. Right after the boss died, there was tunnel that revealed an underground tunnel at the very same spot where the boss had exploded. Over 10 soldiers, clad in metal armor had rushed out of the tunnel, and had charged towards Zhang Yang and the party.

Han Ying Xue quickly made her way to the back of the party and cast a {Healing Shower}. Zhang Yang quickly used {Charge} to rush into the group of enemies, and used {Thunder Strike} to slow them down and provide enough time for the team to heal up.

[Armored Guard] (Elite, Spectre)

Level: 95

HP: 3,000,000

Defense: 2,000

All the soldiers were heavily armored with metal cuirasses and long spears in hand. Zhang Yang had not dared to charge directly into the fight with these elite soldiers that were as strong as Yellow-Gold bosses! Instead, Zhang Yang engaged in a kite-and-chase strategy. There was one factor that had made the monsters weaker than Yellow-Gold bosses. Despite being more powerful than them, the monsters could be affected by status effect skills!

Zhang Yang had kited the monsters around the pillar and had used {Thunder Strike}, {Blast Wave}, {Heroic Leap}, and other skills that could induce a slow or stun effect on them. With that, Zhang Yang's kiting strategy was a success. Sun Xin Yu and Wei Yan Er both had joined Zhang Yang after being healed by Han Ying Xue. Daffodil Daydream had not required much healing, since her attacks were ranged.

Each monster had 3 million HP, so 10 of them would total up to 30 million HP. It was much longer than a boss'! However, since they could take on status effect skills, the battle was only made harder by the draggy fight. However, their attack power rivaled that of a Yellow-Gold boss. Hence, if the kiting was not done properly, the entire party could be wiped out if the stunning or slow was not done perfectly. Luckily, Sun Xin Yu, Wei Yan Er, and Daffodil Daydream each had their own unique status effect skills. In any situation where monsters had managed to keep up with Zhang Yang, they would proceed to stun them.

Eventually, since this was a matter or cooperation and time, the battle ended with a consecutive falls of the Armored Guards. Every soldier was defeated only after 20 minutes of constant running and stunning. As soon as they were done, Zhang Yang made sure that the coast was clear, before dropping to all fours and resting. There was a wet, sticky feeling behind his back. He was not sure if it was an effect in the game, or if he was really sweating in his bed!

As such, Zhang Yang now understood more about the reason why the previous teams had never been able to clear this Royal Palace dungeon. The previous boss was already tough to begin with, coupled with the sudden explosion and 10 ambushing soldiers with the power of Yellow-Gold bosses! That was only the first floor! There were four more to go! Just how high would the escalation of power be, after this floor, and the one after?

While everyone was resting, Wei Yan Er hopped jubilantly towards the loot. After picking up the gold coins, Wei Yan Er flipped open a loot and had obtained a beautiful, tight dress.

[Spider Silk Dress] (Yellow-Gold, Cloth Armor)

Defense: 8

Vitality: 336

Intelligence: 302

Spirit: 134

Equip-Effect: Increases your attack and healing effect by 2%.

Level Requirement: 100

"I want it!"

"Mine!!!"

"I like it."

"Erhm. Can I have it?"

All four ladies of the party voiced out their intention to own the dress. Zhang Yang felt that it was a little strange. Although the dress did have good properties, it was a Level 100 equipment. Furthermore, this dress was not much stronger than a Violet-Platinum Level 90 dress. So, why the request? It made sense on why Han Ying Xue and Daffodil Daydream would want it, but why Wei Yan Er and Sun Xin Yu?

After a while, Zhang Yang understood why. It was because Wei Yan Er had tried it on and had showcased the dress' beauty.

The dress was a good replica of a Chinese traditional women's attire, called the Qi Pao. It was made with a light green color fabric and had beautiful woven purple-red trims on it. Since the dress would adjust itself according to the wearer's body figure, it would emphasize the women's figure naturally, without overdoing it.

It couldn't be helped, the artist that designed the armor and equipment of the game did not have much sense of creativity and concept for fashion. Many equipment were designed to be extremely plain. Dresses like the [Spider Silk Dress] were extremely rare. No wonder the ladies would want to get their hands on it.

Since everyone wanted the dress, all they could do was to roll for it, fair and square. As they continued rolling for it, Zhang Yang had a sudden urge to roll for it as well. He was extremely lucky, and rolled 100 points, and gained the dress.

"Give it!"

"Dummy, what are you doing? I want it!"

"I like it."

"Erhm…guild master? Could I have the dress?"

Zhang Yang frowned at first, but he had a sudden idea to pull a prank.

"Haha, the first person who kiss me will have the dress!"

"What!? You want me to kiss an old uncle?! YUCK!"

"I'll kill you."

"Erhm…guild master…."

Everyone except Han Ying Xue protested. Han Ying Xue raised an eyebrow at his proposal and walked towards him. With quick motions, she grabbed his head closer to her and kissed Zhang Yang on his cheek.

"Hmph. Now, for my dress," said Han Ying Xue with a sinister smile as she held her hands out.

Zhang Yang immediately regretted his decision to pull the prank, as he was immediately assaulted with a killing glare by Sun Xin Yu. After him, she turned her gaze and glared at Han Ying Xue. This time, her glare carried a heavier killing intent. Han Ying Xue noticed her glare and responded, by tilting her head provocatively. The two of them knew that they had feelings for Zhang Yang. Before this, it was unclear, since women would only leave subtle hints at their target. But now, Han Ying Xue's public kiss to the cheek was a public declaration of her love for him. The real battle had started.

Sun Xin Yu continued to glare at Han Ying Xue. The two of them did not waver.

"Zhang Yang!" Both of them turned to Zhang Yang, since there was no other way to solve this conflict.

Both Wei Yan Er and Daffodil Daydream were snickering by the side, watching silently, hoping for some popcorn to eat.

The phrase "A silent tiger would look like a sickly cat" could clearly describe this situation. Both girls thought that they could "grab" Zhang Yang quietly. But when one tries to do so, the other would retaliate. Now, both of them had to reveal their claws in order to claim Zhang Yang!

Zhang Yang gulped down his saliva, walked towards the two of them with an earnest smile. He pats their shoulder side to side and say, "Let's kill some monsters first, shall we?"

Sun Xin Yu and Han Ying Xue bashfully turn away from each other. Although they were unsatisfied with his answer, neither of them could do anything for the moment. Wei Yan Er on the other hand, looked disappointed, as if she had just missed the chance to watch a live soap opera unfold.

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Chapter 447: An Upgrade in AOE

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Wei Yan Er continued to pick up the loot that had been dropped by the boss. The second Yellow-Gold equipment was a pair of leather boots, with additional of fire resistance attributes, so everyone just ignored it. They deduced that even if they placed it into the Little Merchandize to sell, no one would actually spend a dime to purchase this pair of boots. So by the end of it, Han Ying Xue took it and dismantled it into materials for making a Runestone.

But afterwards, the little girl picked up a staff that was aquamarine in colour. This aquamarine staff radiated with a vague violet light, presenting it's fascinating appearance like a crystal jade. Everyone already knew that this was one fine staff, just by looking at it.

[Staff of Nostalgia] (Violet-Platinum, Staff)

Magic Attack: 2,321 - 2,921

Equip: Increases 10% of damage and healing effect.

Equip: When you succeeded in casting a spell, there is a 0.1% chance of having a nostalgic experience which recovers you back to 100% of your health and mana points.

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 100

Looking at the attributes of the staff, everyone took in a deep breath. Staffs of the same level and same grade and tier did not have much difference. Unlike other types of weapons, players would have to look at their attacking speed to determine whether it's good or not. Therefore, the key to judging whether the magic type weapon is good or not, depended on its additional attributes or effects.

This staff actually added 10% damage and healing points of the wielder! Judging just by this additional attribute, this staff was already very powerful! The second additional attribute that this staff provided was even more awesome than the first one could offer! There was a rate of recovering 100% of both health and mana bars! Any player should know, this was one attribute that could really turn the tide of the battle around during PK battles!

The rate was low, and it was a reasonable rate. Because if the rate was high, the wielder of this weapon would single-handedly break the game!

Daffodil Daydream gave it some thoughts and said, "Ms.Snow, I think you should have this staff. Think about it! If the duration of a boss battle is a little longer, you won't have to worry about having not enough mana with this staff."

Although Daffodil Daydream would face the same problem as Han Ying Xue, having the need to worry about having insufficient mana points during a boss battle, she was more of a DPS player in the party, and there were still other DPS players on the party to cover her part if she ever ran out of mana points to use. But it was a totally different story when it came to healers being in a boss battle, especially a battle involving only 5 players as a party. If a healer of the party had insufficient mana points to activate skills that kept the party members healed up well and alive, the entire party would be wiped out in just a brief moment, unless the boss had only 1% of health bar left at that time!

So, after Daffodil Daydream did some math on it, she decided to let Han Ying Xue have this awesome staff.

The two of them were being polite at first, but the staff was taken by Han Ying Xue by the end of the discussion, though the day she is eligible to equip the staff was still a little far away.

Wei Yan Er reached her hands into the loot, and she actually picked up a piece of [Aura Stone]!

[Middle-tier Aura Stone] (Consumable)

Use: Improves an Aura Skill by 1 level, the skill must not be higher than level 6.

Required: Aura Skill

[Low-tier Aura Stones] could only be used to level up an Aura Skill up to Level 4, after that, they would not be able to level up the Aura Skills further. So it had become meaningless for Zhang Yang and his party members to hold many [Low-tier Aura Stone] after their Aura Skills had been leveled up to Level 4. They could only wait for the appearance of [Middle-tier Aura Stones] before they could level up their Aura Skills even further. However, Daffodil Daydream and Sun Xin Yu had not learned any Aura Skills at the moment, so they could only stare at Zhang Yang, Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er, fighting to get the stone by throwing dices!

In the end, the stone went to Wei Yan Er! This little girl placed her hands on her waist and laughed out loud like a mad girl, looking extremely cocky!

But it actually did not matter if it was the {Vitality Aura}, the {Life Aura} or the {Strength Aura}, any improvements on any of the Aura Skills would be very practical in battle. And since that they would be staying together in one party whenever they go on a quest, they could all enjoy the beneficial effects of the Aura Skills on each of them!

After cleaning up the loot from the ground, the five of them came up to an entrance of an underground passage. After they walked along the staircases that led them down, they arrived at the second floor of the Treasure Cove. The environment of this floor was a little different from the first floor. The entire area of this floor was supported with long thick pillars. These pillars were like fluorescent tubes, radiating with bright and yet soothing lights all around them. These pillars were the reason why the floor was so bright that everyone could see every inch of the floor!

In this vast area, there were countless skeleton monsters wandering about, without any sense of purpose. The number of these skeleton monsters was so high that people would feel goosebumps just by looking at them!

[Skeleton Rangers] (Elite, Undead)

Level: 95

HP: 500,000

Defense: 1,000

"Oh my gawd! There's... there's so many monsters here!" Daffodil Daydream could not pronounce her words properly as she was really shocked to see so many Level 95 elite monsters in a single area. Every single one of the monsters had a total of 500,000 health points. Although their health bars were a little lower than the health bars of the monsters in the previous floor, their number were tenfold, or maybe hundreds of times higher than the number of monsters on the first floor!

"Even if we were to activate our paired skill {Blizzard Sky} and {Luna's Dew}, I don't think we can clear this much monsters!" Han Ying Xue was beginning to complain.

Zhang Yang looked around and said, "Haha! We're going to be rich!"

"Noob tank! Are you mad? There're so many monsters here! I think, we need at least 2 to 3 days to clear everything out. And you will definitely not going to finish that stupid quest of yours in time!" Wei Yan Er said it with a humph.

"You are right! It is definitely not possible under normal circumstances! But there is a staircase here! As a wise man once said, this is a pass that one man can hold against ten thousand! I can block at the entrance to this staircase. In that way, only two or three monsters at most will squeeze into the available space before me and attack me. Then we shall control everything from thereon!" Zhang Yang reached out for Han Ying Xue and said, "Give me the [Cloak of the Dark Wings, I'll go to lure the monsters here."

If Zhang Yang charged in blindly, and if he lured too many monsters to the point that he couldn't make it back to his party members, or too few monsters to the point that AOE attacks would become meaningless, at the least he would have the ability to fly in the air. Although the cloak could not be used to attack the monsters, it was ideal to be used in situation like this, where players need to lure a large number of monsters and get away when needed.

Zhang Yang put on the [Cloak of the Dark Wings] and activated the special effect of the cloak. He immediately opened up a pair of large wings on his back and commanded them with his thoughts. He instantly fluttered up away into the air and flew straight towards the direction of the Skeleton Rangers.

"Rawgh -- " the monsters below reacted quickly as Zhang Yang flew into their range of aggro. They began to chase after Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang fluttered with his pair of wings in the air as he soared through the air. Although the Treasure Cove was quite vast, however, the movement speed of Zhang Yang had increased up by 300% while he is in the state of flying. In less than 5 minutes, he had already arrived at the bottom of the Treasure Cove's second floor. Right after he arrived, he immediately flew back up straight to the entrance of the stairwell at a high speed, with an entire army of monsters tailing him very closely!

Boom!

Zhang Yang landed on his feet and took off the cloak, and then he quickly passed it to Han Ying Xue. Then, he quickly equipped his [Titan Cape] back on and summoned his [Mythical Turtle]. The man and his turtle began to stick themselves in between the narrow entrance of the stairwell, making sure that nothing passed the entrance.

With his blazing speed, the monster army only managed to catch up with Zhang Yang on the entrance of the stairwell after about half a minute. The scene of monsters marching up towards them was really magnificent to look at. What they saw right before them were countless skulls, with their eye sockets lit up with the green flames of spectres. It was really terrifying, to the point that the four ladies felt a tingle on their skulls!

"Get ready!" Zhang Yang had been in battle mode all along, so he was regenerating 2 rage points in every second. By the time he informed everyone to get ready, he had already accumulated 120 rage points. He wielded his shield and sword up and threw out a shot of his {Spear of Obliteration} from afar like he usually did.

"Rawgh!" the Skeleton Ranger that was shot by the attack let out an immediate roar with its jaws wide opened. The width of the opened jaws was so wide, that the Skeleton Ranger could actually swallow a mature pig whole!

"Argh --" Wei Yan Er let out a scream, and she humphed at the Skeleton Ranger, "Do you think that you're the only one that knows how to shout?"

Piak! Piak! Piak!

The monster army had finally crashed into them, like a strong tidal wave!

{Blast Wave}!

Zhang Yang wielded his [Sword of the Purging Devourer] across the monsters right before him, inflicting a damage of '-1,030' onto each of them within his attack range! The numerical numbers were so dense! The higher the number of monsters there are, the more packed the monsters were in one spot, and the more effective the {Blast Wave} would be! Because this skill could penetrate and spread across all the monsters within the attack range, all the monsters within the attack range would have to suffer the damage inflicted by Zhang Yang!

This skill had struck at least 50 monsters, and the special effect of the [Sword of Purging Devourer] would of course be triggered without mercy! Another wave of damage was inflicted across the monsters within Zhang Yang's attack range, again and again!

In just a brief 5-seconds, the damage of {Blast Wave} was repeated for 7 times, inflicting a total of at least 360,000 damage points upon the monster army! Although this amount of damage value did not really mean a lot when it is done onto the Skeleton Rangers, Zhang Yang's DPS had already reached a terrifying height for the moment!

"This is really a god-like AOE weapon!" the four ladies were feeling envious over the sword that Zhang Yang wielded, especially Daffodil Daydream!

Daffodil Daydream had an AOE skill called {Hellrain}, inflicting damage upon all enemies in a 10x10 meter square. Although the {Hellfire}did not have a penetration attribute, it rained down hellfire onto the monsters, straight from the heaven! No monsters could escape that! Undoubtedly, if she got her hands on a fine weapon like Zhang Yang's [Sword of Purging Devourer, then her AOE attacks would become insanely powerful!

Zhang Yang was being disgusted, over and over again. As the number of Skeleton Rangers was too many, and with the monsters from behind consistently pushing the monsters at the front further up, some of the skulls of the monsters came into contact with Zhang Yang!

Seeing Zhang Yang's face squeezed against the skulls of the monsters, Wei Yan Er actually laughed out loud without any remorse! As she was laughing, she stood on top of Turtle and began her assault towards the army of skeleton monsters. Sun Xin Yu had also clambered up the Turtle and had activated her {Fan of Blades}.

The monsters in the game would never attempt to get onto the [Mythical Turtle] like how the two ladies did. So, they rounded up on Turtle from all directions and began their assaults. This was the difference between a player and a monster. On the contrary, if the monsters were as clever as the players, then there would be no telling who the players were and who the monsters were, already!

"Haha! Eat my cannons to the heavens! And my thunder strikes across the earth! I shall be the only one that is puffed with all glory in all directions!" Wei Yan Er was giggling as she slashed up the monsters.

"Hehe!" Zhang Yang took a peek at Wei Yan Er, with a face filled with bad intention.

The little girl was sharp, and instantly sensed it, so she asked, "Noob tank! What are you looking at!"

"I think you are trying to be like the maiden of the Heavenly Mountain2, aren't you!"

"Oh! Are you just beginning to realize that both of us are pretty ladies then? Haha!" Wei Yan Er proudly proclaimed!

"Well, I didn't feel that way actually. All I see is that you two are the type of girls who have not fully 'developed' yet! But, the maiden of the Heavenly Mountain was framed by one of her fellow sister apprentices. So, who framed you? Sigh. I can't tell your front from your back!" Zhang Yang could not hold his laughter anymore as he finished his sentence.

"Noob tank! You're as good as dead! Rawgh!" Wei Yan Er looked at Zhang Yang with a ghastly face.

"Silly Yu! Please don't always bully little Yan Er! Grow up, man! You're not a little boy anymore, so stop bullying little girl!" Han Ying Xue stepped up for Wei Yan Er.

"Wah! I'm not a little girl anymore! I'm already 18 years old! 18! I'm a big girl now!" Wei Yan Er was enraged, "It's all just because you have more meat on your chest! What's there to be proud about?!"

Although the number of monsters was very high, they could not break through the defense line of Zhang Yang and Turtle, they could only stand at the blockaded entrance and let out their roars at Zhang Yang and his party members. The monster could only stand there, waiting for their health bar to be emptied out and collapse onto the ground. Each monsters only had a total of 500,000 health points, with 5 of them acting on slaying the monsters, each of them only needed to take out 100,000 health points to carry out their parts!

The experience points are acquired was definitely increasing, like a rocket shooting up. Every few minutes, with more monsters collapsing down to the ground one after another, the experience bars of Zhang Yang and his party members were progressing so rapidly that even the naked eye could see the bar visibly going up! If One Sword Stroke and other opponents of the Lone Desert Smoke could see how much experience points they were getting from killing this monster army, they would surely be envious!

After battling for a full 2-hours, the monsters on the second floor were completely being wiped out! Zhang Yang and the ladies sat down on the ground, exhausted. Right before them were countless dead skeleton rangers piled up all across the ground. Some of the monsters that died in the early battle had already been removed from sight by the system!

Other than Zhang Yang, the four ladies had leveled up once. Meanwhile, Zhang Yang only had about 10% left in his bar before he hits Level 98! His experience bar showed it all!

Zhang Yang could not help but to feel shocked and excited at the same time. If the next 3 floors of the Treasure Cove also had this amount of monsters for them to slay, then he might have the chance to level up past Level 100! If that happened, would he be kicked out of the realm by the system?

TL Notes:

1. Maiden of the Heavenly Mountain - a maiden in the story of 'The Dragon Chronicles - The Maidens of Heavenly Mountain'. This maiden was betrayed by her own fellow female apprentice who she trusted the most. Then she became obsessed with becoming the best in the world.

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Chapter 448: The Third Prince, Marlin Frodo

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As the dead bodies of the monsters were far too vast, all five of them were involved in picking up all the loot on the ground. But, although the monsters in this area were harder to deal with, the loot that was left behind after they died were considerably good. Or, one should say that the loots that are dropped in this area were a little more mediocre. Well, these monsters were all elite grade, after all.

The only problem was that, Zhang Yang and his party members were being pampered too well by the monsters out there. They would feel uncomfortable or unhappy if the monsters they slew did not drop any equipment. It was a dissonance of standards!

As time was a pressing matter, Zhang Yang and the ladies could only pick up the valuable loot from the ground. As for the coins and cloth, they just left them all on the ground. Han Ying Xue and Wei Yan Er had to bear the 'pain' of seeing the coins being left behind to the point that their faces were twitching all the way as they were leaving! They kept on looking back with their reluctant faces!

The movement speed of using two legs to walk was definitely incomparable to the movement speed of flying with two wings. The party took about 30 minutes to arrive at the bottom-most area of this floor. The main reason being, there were still some 'leftover' monsters intercepting them as they were on their way, and that had delayed some of their time. If it weren't for those monsters, they could have arrived at the place about 10 minutes earlier.

The boss that is guarding this floor is a man with a macho and large body. Unlike Ludovic, who came out as a statue in the first place, this boss held a golden sword, while sitting still on the throne. With one of his hand pressed on his forehead, it seemed like the boss was in deep thought.

[The Third Prince, Marlin Frodo] (Violet-Platinum, Spectre)

Level: 100

HP: 10,000,000

Defense: 2,900

"Haha! So the young and the old are all out now!" Wei Yan Er laughed out loud, wielding her giant axe and stated, "Come, let us slay him already!"

Encountering a boss without any information or description on him, the only thing that any player could do is to charge in and engage the boss directly, only then would the players slowly experience and understand the skills and the move sets of the boss. Players would be required to battle while they do some research on which tactics would be more suitable to be implemented on the boss.

Zhang Yang nodded and said, "Alright, let's do this!"

With his sword and shield ready in his hands, Zhang Yang charged towards the boss with large steps as he shouted, "This is a robbery! Give me your money and your beautiful ladies!"

Marlin Frodo was enraged by Zhang Yang's words. He stood up from his throne with anger, and his eyes were ignited with flames right in the middle, burning bright in the air. He reached out and launched a powerful attack at Zhang Yang. With both his shield and his sword ready in his hands, Marlin Frodo let out a thunderous roar and began to charge at Zhang Yang. From afar, the boss had already thrown a shot of {Spear of Obliteration} over at Zhang Yang!

'-17,094!'

'-4,976!'

It happened almost at the same instance. Zhang Yang had also thrown a shot of his own {Spear of Obliteration} over at the boss. However, the attack power of both sides were obviously different by a few notches! The difference was about 3 times! Although Marlin Frodo had a shield in his hand and looks like the Guardian type class, his attack was as powerful as the attack of a two-handed boss! This was totally insane!

Zhang Yang was cursing deep in his heart, as he continued charging.

{Charge}!

{Charge}!

The two of them charged and clashed epicly into each other, but the boss seemed to have an immunity against status restriction effects! Although the boss was struck in the face by the {Charge}, he wasn't stunned at all. Right after {Charge}, the boss already swung his sword at Zhang Yang.

It was fortunate, that Zhang Yang had [Heart of the Death Knight] that reduced the status restriction effect by 50%. So, Zhang Yang was only stunned for 0.5 seconds before he recovered! Right after that, he immediately swung his sword and began to fight back.

After Zhang Yang had succeeded in hooking the boss onto him, Sun Xin Yu and the remaining party members immediately took action and began their assaults on the boss. The battle was set ablaze in just an instant!

Marlin Frodo was a standard Guardian, so he had all standard skills that a Guardian should have. Just like Zhang Yang and other Guardian class players, this boss also had skills like {Block}, {Shield Bash},{Thunder Strike} and a variety of other skills as well! But of course, the intelligence of the boss AI wasn't very high. The boss would directly use {Block} whenever the cool down period of the skill was over. The boss never took the nature of the attacks on him into consideration.

However, the impact of the {Shield Bash} was so much more ferocious than expected. One single bash of his {Shield Bash} could inflict a damage of 15,000 points on Zhang Yang! Furthermore, the boss really loved to bash his shield to the left and right of Zhang Yang's face. Zhang Yang's face was being bashed up really badly to the point that others could see purplish and greenish bruises being 'imprinted' all over his face! Zhang Yang looked really disfigured at that point!

Similar to the first boss, Marlin Frodo also knew to use 'Supporting Attacks'. However, he did not use his legs to do it, and instead, he used his shield to do it! Even though he wasn't using {Shield Bash}, he could still bash his shield straight onto Zhang Yang's face, and he looked like he was deliberately going for his face! Fortunately, Zhang Yang could still dodge all the attacks that weren't direct, so he wasn't exactly being raped by the boss.

Seeing Zhang Yang so troubled, Wei Yan Er felt a rush on her chest, and she could not help herself from laughing, "Hahaha! What an unfortunate event! I forgot to bring a mirror to show noob tank how 'awesome' his face looks, now! I believe, he might even be 'surprised' by his 'handsome' looks now!"

The other 3 ladies could not help laughing either. Although Zhang Yang could evade all the boss's 'Supporting Attacks', but the impact of the {Shield Bash} were unblockable. So, after being bashed up on his face a couple of times, he looked like a pig head, literally!

As Zhang Yang's entire face, including his mouth was swollen to the point that he could not even speak properly, "Yo leddle picoff gal (You little piece of girl)!"

"Yo! Yo leddle picoff gal!" Wei Yan Er tried to mimic Zhang Yang's words and repeated out loud what he had just said. Han Ying Xue and Daffodil Daydream burst into laughter while even Sun Xin Yu cracked a slight smile.

Zhang Yang shook his head. The little girl had always been teased and laughed at, now that she got her chance to take her 'revenge', of course she would make the best out of this! So, the best way to handle her now is not to pay any attention to her! This little girl always had a brief period of enthusiasm on everything, so when nobody is paying any attention to her, she would 'cool down' on her own.

Boom!

Marlin Frodo stomped his left foot onto the ground and a surge of white light emanated out from his body, and formed a 30-meter radius bubble. Sparks of visible electricity were surging through, within the spherical area.

'Ding! Marlin Frodo has unleashed a {Thunder Strike}! Inflicts 20,000 Nature Damage to all targets within the effective area in every 2 seconds, lasts for 10 seconds. Reduces 100% movement speed and 50% attack speed of all targets that are hit. Lasts for 15 seconds.'

Reading the description of the system notification, everyone was frowning! Is this still known as a {Thunder Strike}? This was like an upgraded version of the {Thunder Strike} that they really knew!

Without having the need to inform, Sun Xin Yu and Wei Yan Er had already turned around and had ran like hell. The attack of the boss's {Thunder Strike} was extremely strong and painful, and it had its own movement restriction effects. If they did not run away from the effective range, it would become very dangerous, when they are affected by the movement restriction effect!

Fortunately, although the effect of the boss's {Thunder Strike} was extremely powerful, the effect only kicked in after 2 seconds, leaving enough time for Zhang Yang and the ladies to remove themselves from the effective area of the skill!

Han Ying Xue and Daffodil Daydream were already standing far from the boss in the first place, so they only had to move a few steps backward to leave the effective area of the boss's skill. But Zhang Yang, Sun Xin Yu and Wei Yan Er had to run like hell. The most unfortunate one was [Mythical Turtle]. It was already slow to begin with! So, Turtle could only cry in anguish.

Although 2 seconds wasn't really that long, as long as players could react in time, then it was enough for players to run for about 30 meters far out. Zhang Yang and the two ladies were quick on their reflexes, so they managed to get into the safe zone without any problems.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

Two seconds later, the entire effective area of the {Thunder Strike} was surging with an electrical pool bolts. The light of the electricity surged through every inch of the effect area, like silver snakes lashing out. The sound of it, was pretty scary!

Zhang Yang used his thoughts to command Turtle, having Turtle activate its {Turtle Shell Defense}, removing 90% of the damage that the Turtle received.

"What a poor turtle!" Wei Yan Er revealed a compassionate face and said, "Noob tank, I can't believe this! You were looking ugly on the outside, now your insides have matched that! How can you torture your pet like this!"

Zhang Yang quickly ran to a safe spot, and then he turned around and began to launch his assault at Marlin Frodo. The {Thunder Strike} of the boss did not require any control on the part of the boss. For that, the boss began to pursue Zhang Yang right after he saw Zhang Yang running. Zhang Yang engaged the boss as he looked at the little girl and said, "Little girl, are you planning to skip dinner tonight?"

Wei Yan Er stuck out her tongue, but became more obedient after that.

"Silly Yu, it would be really great if your {Thunder Strike} could be upgraded to this scale!" Han Ying Xue let out a sigh.

What kind of nonsense is that? Can players learn the skills of bosses? If players could do that, then the PK battles would become chaotic in the future! Any player with a boss skill would slaughter many players just by stomping their feet onto the ground! It would become a battle to see who is faster in activating skills!

Zhang Yang quickly shook his head. After the {Thunder Strike} of the boss had finally ended, Zhang Yang kited Marlin Frodo back to the initial position, allowing the [Mythical Turtle] to join the battle, unleashing it's damage output onto the boss.

"Hahaha! Interesting!" Marlin Frodo wasn't like the first, talkative boss. While he was bashing up Zhang Yang's face with his shield, he was also laughing with pride, "For 1,000 years, we have been trapped for 1,000 years! Now, we can finally return to the human realm!"

"Stop daydreaming, dude! The world outside does not belongs to you anymore! The Imperial Heaven's Empire that you once knew no longer exists! And you all don't have to be the ghost that stays! You can just die now and gets reincarnated! Stop being inhuman and inghost at the same time, already!" Zhang Yang was really annoyed at being bashed on the face repeatedly.

"It's all the seven traitors' fault!" Marlin Frodo suddenly let out a burst of enraged roar into the sky, "The palace was sealed by the seven traitors! If you can make it here, that means that you must be the sons and daughters of the seven traitors! Hahaha! The seven traitors have already been reduced to dust! So, let me use your blood to make offerings to the gods!"

Marlin Frodo smashed his shield into one of the stone pillars that supports the ceiling of the floor. A loud booming sound spread across the area and the pillar was instantly split into two. In the midst of the dust flying in the air, the pillar came crashing down onto Zhang Yang and the ladies, like an avalanche!

'Ding! Marlin Frodo has unleashed {Debris Crush}!'

Zhang Yang and the ladies quickly scattered into the surroundings, trying to dodge the debris that came at them. But [Mythical Turtle] had short legs, and it could not evade anything at all. So, it could only accept it's fate of being crushed by the debris. Turtle was being crushed into a slosh of mincemeat on the floor, in the matter of seconds! Even though Turtle still had more than 90% of health bar, it was instantly killed by the debris that crushed it, turning it into a stream of white light which later went straight into Zhang Yang's inventory.

Although the boss did not cause any direct damage to Zhang Yang and his party members with his {Debris Crush}, the debris that came crushing down on them were actually much more terrifying!

Marlin Frodo laughed out loud. Instantly, the boss had become a professional demolition man! He began to destroy the pillars that supported the ceiling of the floor! Boom! Boom! Boom! The floor of Treasure Cove was experiencing a level 7 earthquake, the ground was trembling, without any pause!

Zhang Yang tried to kite the boss to a spot where there were no pillars around, but the boss would leave him and went on to find a new pillar to smash on his own. It seemed that the boss would feel uncomfortable if he did not smash a pillar once in a while! After a few more pillars went down, Zhang Yang came to a realization! "Oh no! Slay the boss! Quickly! Hurry up and slay the boss!"

Daffodil Daydream had also realized it all of a sudden, "When the boss smashes every single pillar on this floor, the entire Floor 1 will collapse on us, and we shall all be dead!"

The debris of one pillar could already kill the [Mythical Turtle, a pet as strong as a tank, almost instantly! If this entire Floor 1 collapsed on them, then all five of them would only have one way out of this, death! Therefore, the boss seemed easy to take on. Although the {Thunder Strike} of the boss was a little troublesome to deal with, that was not the difficult part of battling this boss, so it seemed! If the developer of the game had placed a time limit on this boss, meaning that the players needed to kill the boss within a certain time frame, or things would get really difficult!

There was a total of 36 stone pillars in the entire Floor 2, and 11 pillars had been smashed down. That being said, Zhang Yang and the ladies were only left with two third of the time to slay the boss. But, Marlin Frodo still had 75% of his health bar left! Judging from the total DPS of Zhang Yang and the ladies, it would be impossible for them to kill the boss within the time frame!

Zhang Yang quickly looked into his inventory and took out every single scroll that could improve their damage output efficiency. Even Han Ying Xue had to pick a suitable time to cast her {Putrefying Poison} whenever she could! All of them put in their best efforts to bring up their damage output efficiency, increasing their fire power to the max!

"1,000 years ago, we have conquered the entire land. So 1,000 years later, this land still belongs to us!" Marlin Frodo roared out at the sky, revealing the golden hair beneath his helmet. He looked like a mad demon with his blonde, long hair moving across the air, even though there was no wind at all.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The stone pillars were smashed down one after another, and dust filled the air, as countless debris crumbled down upon the ground. The entire area of the floor was shaking violently, as if the floor would collapse down on them, anytime soon!

If this was reality, then Zhang Yang and the ladies would have ran as far as possible from the floor. Who would actually stay and fight, knowing that the entire floor above it is about to collapse down on you! But there was no need to consider about any architecture or physics when you are in a game. As long as the time is not up, no matter how shaky or tremor-riddled the entire area was, the place would not collapse!

18 pillars, 14 pillars, 9 pillars... the number of remaining pillars was getting smaller and smaller, by the minutes!

20%! The health bar of Marlin Frodo had finally entered the 'Slaughter Stage'!

Zhang Yang gulped down a [Power Potion (Grade 10 Transmutation)] and said, "Time to use our {Dance of the Heaven and Earth}! There's no need to hold back, anymore!"

In just an instant, the fire power of the entire party suddenly soared up crazily! Their DPS got so high, that even the boss was crying in pain! 10 seconds later, they had brought down the health bar of the boss down to only 5%!

"I'll admit that I have underestimated you!" Under the bombardment of their {Dance of the Heaven and Earth}, the armor on Marlin Frodo had shattered so extensively, that Zhang Yang and the ladies could see the skeletal ribcage of the boss, beneath the armor. That was the moment when the boss became even more mad and kept bashing on Zhang Yang's face even more violently with his shield!

4%, 3%!

"Hahaha! We don't have to call for delivery tonight! As long as we cut off noob tank's head off to make some stew, then we shall have a nice and tasty pot of pork soup!" Wei Yan Er was slashing up the boss with her giant axe as she laughed madly.

Boom! Boom!

Another two stone pillars collapsed! And now, there were only 3 pillars left on this floor!

"Quickly! Faster!" Zhang Yang had no time to handle the little girl. Although the boss was only left with 270,000 health points, only 3 pillars remained. Furthermore, the boss had already been left with 20% of its health bar, so the rate of the pillars being broken down would increase!

2%!

Boom!

Another stone pillar crumpled onto the ground. Marlin Frodo began to laugh madly, "I shall bury you all alive!"

1%!

Boom! The final second stone pillar was also smashed to pieces and collapsed down to the ground. And now, the entire floor was supported by one final stone pillar, barely! Zhang Yang and the ladies could see that the ceiling of the floor was shaking violently, as if it would collapse at any time!

"A little more faster!"

"F*ck the boss up!"

"Only 70,000 health points left!"

The five of them were shouting encouragements to each other. They were working their asses off, until their eyes had turned red!

50,000! 30,000! 10,000!

Marlin Frodo charged up to the final pillar in the entire floor and he raised up his shield! He then slammed his shield straight into the final pillar!

Slaughter time!

'-18,924!'

Zhang Yang swung out his final hit onto the boss with everything that he had!

"Argh --" Marlin Frodo instantly let out a miserable scream. The shield in his hand made contact with the pillar, but there was no sign of strength in that hit, at all!

Boom!

The boss collapsed against the final pillar on the entire floor, sliding down onto the ground in a very slow manner, lifeless!

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Chapter 449: Recovery Aura

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Phew!

The moment the boss was slain, the five of them swayed weakly on their feet, and they sat onto the ground without a care about their unflattering positions. They could only spare the energy to breathe heavily!

That was really close!

Zhang Yang could not help but to wonder if he did not have {Alchemist's Intuition}, which allowed him to make potions with the highest level of transmutation to boost the firepower of his party up by 10% to 20%, would they still have made it? Furthermore, all of them had the super skill - {Dance of the Heaven and Earth}, and they had 3 Aura Skills to boost them. Still, they had barely made it, after having all these perks!

It would not be far-fetched to say, that even among all eight main servers of the game, Zhang Yang and his party would still remain as the strongest party there is in the entire game! They were on the brink of tasting defeat when victory was within reach! Well, how many parties could actually clear this boss?

This was just the second floor of the Treasure Cove! God knows what kind of crazy powerful bosses lay in wait, in the 3 floors below!

Wei Yan Er always got agitated with excitement, whenever it was time to pick up loot. She just sat there for a brief while, before regaining her bubbly energy, going on to pick up the loot dropped by the boss.

[Raging Sand Gloves] (Yellow-Gold, Leather Armor)

Defense: 24

Vitality: 168

Strength: 67

Agility: 151

Equip: Increases your damage and healing effects by 2%.

Equip: Increases Maximum HP by 500 points.

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 100

"Wow, this little thing is awesome!" Zhang Yang nodded. Level 100 was the hard bracket of another level of difficulty in the game. So, whether it be in term of skills, the toughness of the monsters or the attributes of equipment, there would definitely be a groundbreaking difference. Although Yellow-Gold tier equipment did have additional attributes on them, all these additional attributes were not in terms of percentages, just figurative values.

However, no matter how awesome a Yellow-Gold equipment was, it was still a mere Yellow-Gold tier equipment. It was definitely not comparable to Violet-Platinum Tier equipment -- unless the level of the equipment differed too much. Sun Xin Yu had a Level 90 pair of leather gloves, so of course she would not be interested over these [Raging Sand Gloves]. So, she passed this pair of gloves straight to Zhang Yang and Zhang Yang kept it into his inventory.

"Hmm, an awesome pair of gloves like, this can get us at least tens of thousands of dollars!" Daffodil Daydream nodded and said.

Wei Yan Er was thrilled, and she clapped her hands with joy, "Yea! I would finally have enough money to buy that set of limited edition perfume!"

Ever since the Silky Soft Holdings was struck by the sh*tstorm, the two ladies of the company had been throwing their own money into the company to keep it running. Though they had already spent almost all of their money, they could not get enough to do it. That was why they asked Zhang Yang to invest, later on. Although the current Silky Soft Holdings was showing much promise and a certain depth of potential, the two ladies were not employed by the company to work and earn salaries, so they could only wait for the dividends to come during the end of the year. That was why these two ladies had almost dried their wallets up. If they had not been earning some 'pocket money' from the game, they surely would have been forced to sell their bodies to Zhang Yang, just to get a good meal.

Wei Yan Er took her own sweet time in searching over the loot, and she finally picked up a longbow that glittered gold. The body of the longbow was magnificent, by the looks of it. There were countless engravings of animals crafted over the body of the longbow, and the bowstring is made of a crimson red, elastic material. Only God knows what that bowstring is made of.

[Nabula's Boar Hunter] (Yellow-Gold, Bow)

Attack: 1,313 - 1,913

Attack Interval: 3.6 seconds

DPS: 448

Equip: Increase your range attack by 5%.

Equip: Additional 5% damage to beast targets only.

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 100

Note: According to legend, Nabula was squatting at one side feeling bored, so he picked off the edge of a section of the branches from a tree and used it as the body of a bow, and he made the bowstring with the belt on his pants.

Han Ying Xue was initially fidgeting with the bowstring, but when she saw the note by the end of the bow's description, she immediately let out a squeak and threw the longbow to the ground, as if she was afraid that there was unclean 'stuff' left on the bowstring.

Zhang Yang laughed out loud when he saw how she reacted. As everyone decided to give up on the bow, Zhang Yang picked it up and kept it in his inventory.

Wei Yan Er did not stop there, she went on and picked up another jade-like necklace that radiated in a violet light. She then posted the description of the item on the party channel.

[Violet-Platinum Jade Necklace]

Vitality: 176

Intelligence: 116

Spirit: 116

Equip: Increases your damage and healing effects by 3%.

Equip: Increases your critical rate by 1%.

Equip: Increases Maximum Mana points by 300 points.

{Unidentified}

Required Level: 100

"This is just beautiful!" Wei Yan Er put the necklace around her own neck, and she kept turning left and right, trying to show how good she looked with the necklace around her neck. This little girl was already a vibrant pretty little girl. So when she put on the necklace around her neck, she looked even more beautiful and young. Even though Zhang Yang had been soaking his eyes with the images of pretty ladies all around him, he was still amazed by the looks of the little girl.

"Your eyes are going to fall off if you keep on staring." Han Ying Xue humphed coldly as she glared at Zhang Yang's lower part of his body without a clear sense of purpose. Zhang Yang could actually feel the murderous intent coming from the direction of Han Ying Xue.

Zhang Yang could not help but recall the way Han Ying Xue had bitten into the banana without mercy. He felt a chill down his spine as the image was brought up from the depths of his mind. He quickly sent a private message over to Han Ying Xue, "You're jealous of a little girl? Shame on you!"

"Humph! Men are unreliable! Didn't you say that you wanted to 'earn honor' for your country by hooking up with a foreign babe?" Han Ying Xue replied, with a tone filled with jealousy.

Zhang Yang could not help but feel a slight sense of embarrassment. He had not expected that there were so many pairs of ears hidden behind walls. Obviously, the words that he said about 'win honor' for his country, had already spread like wildfire, in the entire China server! He shook his head in shame and said, "I thought about it, but there are no foreign babes for me to win over!"

"You son of a b*tch!" Han Ying Xue humphed.

The two ladies of Magic Class had their very own necklaces of their Class type Armor Set. Since Han Ying Xue wanted to keep 3 pieces of her Armor Set equipment on her so that her Armor Set effect would kick in, she gave the [Violet-Platinum Jade Necklace] to Daffodil Daydream. Daffodil Daydream only had two Armor Set equipment, so she couldn't activate the Armor Set effect, even if she wanted to. It was natural for her to get more powerful equipment first before she could collect other pieces of her Armor Set.

Wei Yan Er reached out for the loot, and she actually picked up another good item! A Skill Book!

[Skill Book: Recovery Aura]

Equip: Teaches you the skill {Recovery Aura}.

Required Level: 90

"Aura? As in Aura Skill?" The five of them lit up in excitement.

Zhang Yang gave it some thought, and he said, "Daffodil, Ice Queen, the two of you, discuss and decide on who should have this skill. Either one of you should have it."

Since everyone in the party would have the chance to enjoy the effects of the Aura Skill, along with the fact that a player was limited to activating only one Aura at a time, it was better if more players on the same party had Aura Skills of their own. That way, all players would be able to activate their own Aura Skills at the same time and boost the entire party.

After the two pretty ladies discussed at length, Daffodil Daydream was the one who got the Skill Book. After she learned the skill, she posted the description of the Aura Skill effect onto the party channel.

[Recovery Aura] (Level 1): Recovers 100 health points and 30 mana points of all party members within the effective range of the Recovery Aura in every 3 seconds. The range of effective area: 30-meter radius circular area, with the user as the center point. The effect will last until the user is dead, or the effect vanishes automatically. You can only activate one Aura Skill at the same time.

This Aura Skill was very good indeed. Not only could it recover health points but also can recover mana points. This skill would definitely be beneficial to the players when it came to a lengthy battle. Although 30 points and 100 points weren't really that significant, but this was just the effect of a Level 1 {Recovery Aura}. When the level of this skill is increased, the effect will definitely become much stronger.

Lastly, Marlin Frodo had also given them the second piece of the [Middle-tier Aura Stone]. This time, Zhang Yang was lucky. He won the dice throwing and got the piece of [Middle-tier Aura Stone] to level up his {Strength Aura} to Level 5. Now, he can boost the vitality of all his party members by an additional 20%!

At that moment, they had already left the location where they battled the boss. They were carefully looking up at the ceiling on top of their heads, fearful that it might just collapse on their heads at any time! Deep in their hearts, they knew that it was just a visual effect, but those effects were just too convincing!

The five of them arrived at the location of the throne. However, none of them could locate the entrance that led to the third floor of the Treasure Cove!

Wei Yan Er got impatient as everyone looked up and down for the entrance, so she kicked the throne with brute force. Her kick was so powerful that the golden throne gave off a sound of 'Qiang!,' and vibrated for a brief second.

Zhang Yang turned his head over and took a look at the direction where the sound came from, and then he began to laugh out loud, "Little girl, you really did a great job this time! You actually found the entrance for us all!"

Wei Yan Er was stunned for a brief moment, and she did not know what to say for the moment. But her face was really thick, so she laughed out loud as well and said, "I'm so clever, nothing can stump me!"

At the same time, the three ladies walked up to the two of them. Zhang Yang reached out for the golden throne and pushed it with brute force. The throne only moved a little, and then it was once again stuck firmly on the ground.

The little girl just only realized it and said, "So, the passage is hidden below the throne!" She immediately realized her Freudian slip, so she quickly acted busy and used her two small hands to cover her mouth, acting away stealthily as she could.

"Little girl, your strength is the highest here, come quickly and help me!" Zhang Yang said.

Han Ying Xue, Daffodil Daydream are Magic Class players, and their equipment were more focused on adding their Intelligence and Spirit attribute points. So the strength of both of them added up together were minuscule, compared to Zhang Yang's Strength! Sun Xin Yu had Agility set as the main attribute, so her Strength was limited as well. Even if these three ladies tried to help, they could not do anything as well.

Wei Yan Er was different, because her Strength attribute was even higher than Zhang Yang, after equipping her equipment. Her Strength alone was almost equal to the sum of Zhang Yang and the three ladies combined!

The little girl rolled up her sleeves a little and walked up to Zhang Yang. She stood firmly by the side of Zhang Yang and placed her hands on the throne.

"One, two, three! One, two, three!" The two of them worked together and they managed to move the throne. As the throne constantly trembled while being pushed away, the width of the entrance was growing wider and wider, and finally, the throne was pushed aside.

Rumble! Boom!

The throne rolled across the ground for a while and stopped, and the spot where the throne was placed revealed a passage that led deeper into the Treasure Cove.

"Haha! What a loser, noob tank! Your Strength is not as good as mine! Sigh, I can't help but suspect if you are actually a man?" Wei Yan Er teased while she was shrugging.

Zhang Yang frowned as he turned his head around and looked at Han Ying Xue.

Han Ying Xue felt baffled as she realized Zhang Yang was staring at her, so she said, "Silly Yu, why are you staring at me like that?"

Zhang Yang switched to the private chat with Han Ying Xue and said, "Little girl is suspecting whether I'm a man or not, so I'm thinking about how I should prove it to her! Haha!"

Han Ying Xue knew exactly what Zhang Yang meant, so she instantly blushed and scolded, "You perverted hoodlum!"

The five of them entered the passage and went down the dark passage. After a few turns of walking down the stairs, they arrived at the third floor of the Treasure Cove.

The floor seemed similar to the second floor. But, the number of monsters wandering about in the area was not as many as the number of monsters on the second floor. Furthermore, the monsters weren't skeleton soldiers anymore, they were maids, complete with frills and aprons. Of course, these maids were basically well-dressed, walking skeletons, without any trace of flesh on their bones remaining. The only item that had not completely 'decomposed' was their palace attire, which indicated that they used to be glamorous, pretty women when they still breathed.

[Gentle Palace Maid]

Level: 95

HP: 3,000,000

Defense: 2,000

"Silly Yu, let's 'do' this!" Han Ying Xue put a {Holy Shield} on Zhang Yang. She had uttered 'do' in such a suggestive manner that nobody would have missed it.

That witch! She's trying to make things complicated again!

Zhang Yang gave himself into the temptation and pulled out his sword, and charged at one of the maids.

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Chapter 450: Take Both When You Can!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Although the name - Gentle Palace Maid had the word 'gentle' in there, these maids were anything but that! After being struck by the {Spear of Obliteration}, the maid immediately let out a deafening screech. Her mouth was large enough to swallow Zhang Yang's head whole!

The monster leaped towards Zhang Yang like a frog, similar to how those swordsmen in wire-fu wuxia films glided through the air! However, those swordsmen in the movies had soft, graceful landings. They could even stand on leaves and branches of the trees! But on the contrary, this so-called Gentle Palace Maid landed heavily, and the impact was so strong that the thick solid tiles beneath their feet cracked open!

Zhang Yang laughed, and then he said, "This 'gentle' monster should go and cut off some weight!"

"She has no flesh left, what is there to cut off?!"

"Throwing away a few bones and joints might do the trick just fine!"

The ladies began to tease the monsters like how Zhang Yang did it. They were giggling gleefully.

"Rawgh!" the Gentle Palace Maiden let out another screech and waved her 'soft' hands over, trying to choke Zhang Yang's neck!

Zhang Yang quickly raised up his shield to engage, and bam! The claws of the monster were repelled! Two seconds after the attack, this monster raised her leg at high speed and kicked at the forbidden zone between Zhang Yang's thighs!

The elite monster's regular attacks were not as fast as the attack of a boss. So, Zhang Yang managed to react immediately before it was too late, and by turning around quickly, he evaded the 'definitive' attack of the boss by less than an inch!

Han Ying Xue giggled hard and she said, "Only if you dodged it a little slower, you would have become the legendary leader of the swordsmen in the movie, 'The Legend of the Swordsman1'!"

"But, cousin sister, you're the one at a loss if that really happens!"

Han Ying Xue blushed on the spot.

After putting a lot of effort into the battle, Zhang Yang and the ladies finally took down the monster. Daffodil Daydream could not help but to say, "Fortunate for us, the elite monsters outside this area aren't this strong."

"And also, thanks to Silly Yu for tanking it for us. If other tankers were tanking it for us, I think we would have really suffered!" Han Ying Xue nodded to express her agreement on this.

The party proceeded and cleared all the monsters along their way. But as they progressed halfway across the floor, the "Banishment" effect kicked in, as the final second of the clock struck, kicking the five of them, one after another out of the Treasure Cove.

At first, Wei Yan Er wanted to use the [Dimensional Key] to return to the Treasure Cove immediately right after they were kicked out from the realm, and clear out the remaining 3 floors of the Treasure Cove! But her suggestion was shot down by the other 4 members of the party. Although 12 hours in the in-game time is equivalent to 4 hours in real time, they had already played the game for the whole day, and now, it was almost dinner time already. It would be wiser to make sure that everyone is well fed before they continue the game, without having the need to worry about dinner as they engage the bosses in the later stages.

Since that the monsters do not respawn, they could reenter the realm and continue where they left off at anytime they want -- of course, the one absolute condition for them was that none of them could surpass Level 100 before they clear the Treasure Cove!

The little girl was trying to beg Zhang Yang to prepare dinner, as she really liked to eat his cooking. After she persuaded him with soft and gentle words for a long time, Zhang Yang had finally relented and agreed to cook for her. He realized that some supplies were running low, so he had to go to the supermarket with Han Ying Xue to restock.

The two of them got at the supermarket as swiftly as they could. As they only wanted to buy some seasoning ingredients, they did not take any shopping carts along as they planned for a quick grab and go. That was the initial plan, to search for the things they want, and grab them and go. However, Han Ying Xue became sidetrack by her cravings for junk food. She scooped up lots of junk food from her left and right, and shoved them over to Zhang Yang's arms. Zhang Yang could barely see anything in front of him, as the packets of junk food had piled up so high that they blocked his entire front view.

They were already halfway through their shopping trip, so it was not worth the effort for them to go all the way back just to get a shopping cart. Coincidentally, a 7-year-old boy came by, pushing a shopping cart. Han Ying Xue quickly stopped the boy. She took one packet of junk food from Zhang Yang's arm and beamed at the little boy with her angelic face, "Hey there, kid. I've got something yummy here, wanna trade your cart for it?"

"Okay!" The little boy agreed on the terms with excitement. Licking his lips, the little boy snatched the packet of junk food, as he was worried that the two strangers might suddenly turn their backs on the deal. After getting what he wanted, he left the trolley with Han Ying Xue and Zhang Yang and vanished very quickly.

Han Ying Xue turned around and grinned at Zhang Yang, with the beauty and slyness of a fox.

Zhang Yang shook his head helplessly as he started transferring the goods into the shopping cart, "You really are a witch... you even tricked a child!"

The two of them continued to walk across the corners of the supermarket, and finally, they got everything that Zhang Yang needed. But after they made the payment, Han Ying Xue insisted on dragging him over to the undergarment department!

Zhang Yang frowned, his temple moist with sweat as he tried to dissuade her, "You run an undergarment company, and you're worried about having not enough bra and panties to wear? Also, this is a mall, do you expect to find products of the same quality, they might damage your skin! That's a lot to lose!"

"Sigh! I'm poor now, so I have to save up as much as I can!" as Han Ying Xue saw the dismayed face of Zhang Yang, she pursed her lips and whispered gently into Zhang Yang's ears, "Oh, and I shall consult you after I try them on!"

Zhang Yang suddenly felt a rush that shot straight up into his brain as the boiling blood gushed up in between of his nose. Blood threatened to spurt out of his nostrils! He found himself nodding before he knew anything else.

However, the moment he stepped into the department, Zhang Yang immediately started regretting it. Almost all of the people around him were women. Even though some of them brought along their husbands and boyfriends, the men were standing outside the borders, waiting for their women. He was the only one who had actually ventured into the dangerous territory!

An auntie was holding up a large size bra as they walked by. She looked at Han Ying Xue and turned to Zhang Yang, giving him a thumbs up while saying, "Young man, your lady is fine and beautiful!"

Han Ying Xue was overjoyed, and she quickly took one packet of the junk food from the trolley cart and 'generously' gave it to the auntie, "How nice of you, auntie! This is for you!"

Zhang Yang and the auntie both stared incredulously. The witch was really acting as if the supermarket belonged to her! She's actually handing out 'gifts' to other people, not having paid for them yet, as if she was doing charity!

Han Ying Xue only took a look around, not even buying anything from the place. Zhang Yang frowned in annoyance, "You witch! You tricked me!" Han Ying Xue flashed him a flirtatious smile and said, "Well, people have said it before, to know if a man loves his woman or not, all you need to do is to see whether the man is willing to accompany you, while you go around buying your lady products!"

The two of them walked back home after that. Zhang Yang went straight into the kitchen, as the 'Chef' was his role in the house. In just a brief moment of time, he was done cooking. He placed all his delicious dishes on the table, and the four ladies could not stop praising him after they tasted the dishes.

After having their dinner, the four ladies started having a game of 'scissors, paper, stone,' to decide who should be the one washing the dishes. By the end of it, Sun Xin Yu and Wei Yan Er were that ones in charge in washing up the dishes and utensils. This rule is actually a house rule that Zhang Yang had set up after going through a lot of hardship. He had made it clear that he would be in charge for cooking all sorts of good food for them, however, the responsibility to clean the dishes would belong to the four ladies. How they chose to do it did not matter to him.

After returning back to his room, Zhang Yang was just about to put his game helmet up, when he heard a gentle knock on his door. He put down the game helmet and walked up to the door. Han Ying Xue stood by the door, posing in such a seductive manner that could only have been equaled by Jessica Rabbit. As soon as the door was opened, she invited herself in.

"Yes! Come in!" Zhang Yang resignedly looked at her rear, shrugging, as she walked past him and strutted into his room.

As annoying and as befuddling as she was, she had one heck of a figure. Her waist had the perfect curves and slenderness, while her round *ss perkily displayed themselves as she took each step. It was a such an irresistible sight.

"It's about time to gather around in the game, what are you doing in my room?!" Zhang Yang was annoyed and slightly cross, for he was really tired of this witch's ambiguous teasings.

Han Ying Xue smiled flirtatiously and said, "I got some new bras on, I was hoping to seek your opinion on them!"

Instantly, his nose heated up, and something thick and red threatened to leak out! He forced the thoughts away and snapped, "Witchy Snow! This is your final warning! Please stop playing with fire, if you really light me up, I might just take you, right here, right now!"

"Who's the pussy now! Come at me!" Han Ying Xue stood defiantly, like a fearless pig, unflinching in the face of boiling water.

Zhang Yang took a large step towards her and pulled the delicate creature into his arms, and then he said, "You better not regret this!"

Han Ying Xue put her hands around Zhang Yang and hugged him strongly, and started nuzzling against Zhang Yang's chest and said, "You really are stupid, why do I have to make the first move every time!"

Zhang Yang was shocked. This was not a topic he was prepared to discuss. It wasn't because he did not dare take the initiative to act, but because his heart had been in turmoil for the longest period of time! He had no clue about his feelings for the two women who had already confessed to him! Sun Xin Yu and Han Ying Xue had already occupied a certain level of importance within his heart. Before he actually finds clarity on whom he really loves, Zhang Yang did not intend to do something that he might regret doing in the future.

"Are you thinking of that woman? That sow?" Han Ying Xue felt it immediately.

Zhang Yang did not intend to lie to her, so he nodded.

"Don't you dare think of other women when you're clinging on to me like that!" Han Ying Xue was enraged.

Her soft plush and warmth in his arms, Zhang Yang could not help but begin acting. He was a normal man, his arms would not remain static, of course, they would start wandering about! He then shifted his thoughts over to the men of the ancient times, where a man could have up to 3 to 4 wives at the same time! Didn't he have high standards of his own? He would be much pleased if he could have one girl on each arm!

Since he was definitely reacting positively to both Sun Xin Yu and Han Ying Xue, and they liked him as well, what was the point of twisting himself up, wrestling with himself on rejecting one of them! Why choose only one, when he could have both!

"I only want one on my left and another one on my right, people can't categorize me as a pervert, I guess." Zhang Yang tried to justify himself, as his hands buried themselves within the prideful pair of mounds that defined Han Ying Xue. It has been quite a while since his hands had 'traversed' this pair of mountainous boobies!

The abundant, fulfilling sensation of having his palms sink into such luscious melons, while having their elasticity wrap themselves around his fingers was heavenly! Zhang Yang could not hold himself back, giving in to his basic instincts, almost howling like a wolf! He could not stop his hands from kneading the dough!

"Alright. The time of counseling is over!" Han Ying Xue' eyes were very watery, her face was flushed red, like the deep crimson of a tomato, biting on her succinct lips. She summoned all her remaining strength and pushed Zhang Yang away. Their mutual attraction was unmistakable. If things got any more heated, they might go all the way and end up together on the bed.

Zhang Yang grinned and pointed down at a certain something and said, "Bloody Witch. Look what you've done. Are you seriously going to leave me like that? You really need to take responsibility for this."

Han Ying Xue looked at him and then gazed down at the impressive bulge. She blushed even deeply, and muttered, "So, what do you want me to do about that?"

Zhang Yang grinned with evil intent and whispered into her ear.

"You pervert." Han Ying Xue looked at Zhang Yang with her dazzling eyes as she muttered.

"Then, I should just go to the Ice Queen!"

"No!"

Han Ying Xue let out a huff and said, "Close your eyes!"

"Hehe!"

"Don't laugh!"

...

10 minutes later.

"Are you getting there yet? My hands are getting sore!" Zhang Yang could hear her complaining.

...

20 minutes later.

"You pig! Why aren't you cumming yet!"

...

Half an hour later.

Han Ying Xue slunk out from Zhang Yang's room, her face totally red. She banged into Wei Yan Er who was humming a song while walking back to her room. The little girl gave her a characteristically chirpy hi to Han Ying Xue, which sent her blushing even further. She half-dashed straight back to her room and closed the door shut, without even looking back at the little girl. After the door was snapped shut, the little girl was left at the corridor of the room, with a lot of riddles in her mind, as she blinked her big, round, watery eyes and stared at the door.

After a brief moment, the five of them had met up in the game. Zhang Yang's and Han Ying Xue's eyes met. Both of them were still thinking of the 'bad things' they had just done back in Zhang Yang's room. Zhang Yang felt another heatwave coming his way, while Han Ying Xue merely raised her eyebrows suggestively, which accentuated her 'enchanting' appearance even more.

Sun Xin Yu seemed to realize that something was going on between them, her eyes constantly flitting between their gazes. Something had magnetized their eyes together, and she could see it. She could not help but to emit out a sense of murderous aura.

Zhang Yang activated the [Dimensional Key] once again, and the five of them went into the opened portal, one after another. They then found themselves at the front of the palace once again. The moment they set foot in the Treasure Cove, a 'Banishment' effect appeared on their HUDs, displaying a time clock which started to count down from 11:59:59.

To save some time, Zhang Yang had asked Han Ying Xue to give him the [Cloak of the Dark Wings]. Then, he flew straight to the third floor and used his [Party Summon Order] to summon all four ladies straight to where he stood.

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