Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Li Yi went online.
He did not follow the people from Dark Empire on their mission to hunt the Wild Boar King. Instead, he continued to run Frost Labyrinth with its normal difficulty level.
Forget a mere 100 bucks for every point, even if the prize was multiplied by ten or twenty times, Li Yi still would not be interested. Right now, there was only one thing he wanted to do.
That was grinding levels!
Before the system was adjusted, he was going to put his all into level grinding.
For nine whole days, Li Yi did not do anything else for all the time he was online. He just kept running the Frost Labyrinth dungeon.
He did grind some levels, reaching Level 16, but the drops he received from Ordas frustrated Li Yi to no end.
There was not even one piece of equipment. Other than the guaranteed drops, the necklace and the pearl, all he got was Skill Tomes for Wizards such as the Frost Arrow and Ice Ring Spell.
‘Isn’t this too much trash?’
‘There was no such thing as trashiest, only trashier.’
Li Yi could only give in, helplessly.
The other players’ levels were slowly rising as well. Level Nine and Level Ten players were no longer a rare sight, but Old Li Flying Dagger was still sitting solidly at the top of the rankings at Level 12.
“The levels on the rankings are getting so high now, but what about those who aren’t in the rankings? What level are they at?”
More and more people were gathering at the entrance to the Frost Labyrinth dungeon, but this was no surprise. Other than Li Yi, who had grinded by running the dungeon, almost all the other players had been led here by the quests.
“Praise the Elven Goddess, you have our utmost gratitude.”
The White Elf Chief accepted the Ice Crystal Necklace from Li Yi and kept gushing out his thanks.
Right now, Li Yi could see that the names of all these White Elf NPCs had turned green. This was Friendly Mode, indicating that Li Yi could have more interactions with them and could obtain many more new quests from them.
Mortal Enemy, Antagonistic, Indifferent, Neutral, Friendly, Intimate, Respectful, Adoration, Worship. These were the attitudes of the NPCs toward the players in King of Pantheon.
“Cursed humans, get out of our home!”
The White Elf Chief waved his hand and shot out a bolt of white light, killing off a human player.
Li Yi shook his head helplessly.
These White Elves would kill some players just like this every day, so he had long since gotten used to it.
Li Yi walked up to a female White Elf. Taking out the Frost Pearl, he handed it to her.
“I want to exchange this for a Frost Equipment Set.”
In order to protect those Trash Hand players, there was a special way to obtain accessible equipment sets in the King of Pantheon game.
If a player collected enough of the guaranteed drops from the dungeons, things like cards, badges, or pearls, they could exchange these items for equipment sets from certain NPCs.
Compared to the equipment sets dropped in dungeons, these exchanged sets had a clear disadvantage in attributes, but no matter how bad the attributes were, they were still better than white- or blue-colored equipment, losing out only to yellow-colored equipment. 1
White-colored equipment was the most average, and usually only novice players used them. Blue-colored equipment had an extra attribute, so they were suitable for players in the middle of transitioning. Further on, there were the equipment sets with green writing. These sets had a specific specialty. Although their attributes were nothing to shout about when separate, these attributes would undergo a drastic change if the player could collect the whole set.
Naturally, equipment with better attributes than green-colored equipment sets were called gold-colored equipment. Even on their own, each piece of gold-colored equipment had three additional attributes, which naturally made them more practical than blue-colored equipment. If you went further up the ladder, there were the epic purple-colored equipment and the legendary orange-colored equipment, both with even better attributes.
Frost Labyrinth only produced an All-class Frost Equipment Set, consisting of the Frost Armguard, the Frost Ring, and the Frost Armor.
There were three items in the Frost series, and although the three items he obtained in exchange for the Pearls were weaker in terms of their attributes, it was still better than wearing nothing but white-colored equipment. Besides, now that he had all three pieces, there was also another special effect.
Ice Resistance +10.
Although this effect seemed very inconspicuous, it must not be underestimated. If players wanted to challenge the Heroic Difficulty Frost Labyrinth dungeon, they would need to have all three pieces, forming the full Frost Equipment Set.
Be it healers, damage dealers, or tankers, there was no exception to the rule. Before they reached Level 15, if they were not wearing the Frost Three-piece Set, they would not be able to withstand Ordas’ AoE attack.
Li Yi had run Frost Labyrinth for ten days and still only managed to obtain one set…
[Frost Ring]
[Equipment Level: Level 8]
[ P-ATK 2 +20]
[ M-ATK 3 +10]
[Ice Attribute Resistance +1]
[Note: When you hold the ring in your hand, you will feel unnaturally cold — Ordas]
…
“Ding! Ding!”
As soon as he obtained the ring via exchange, Li Yi’s Stranger Channel began to twinkle,
[Holy Pure Eh is requesting a long-distance call. Accept?]
‘Holy Pure Eh? The one in the top ten of the rankings?’
Li Yi was slightly taken aback, but he picked up the call promptly.
“Is that Li Yi? I’m Yao Li.”
“Yao Li? Oh, so you’re Holy Pure Eh?” Li Yi instantly understood.
In the previous life, Li Yi only knew that there was a Punishment Knight called Holy Pure Eh, and this person started the Holy Light Glory Knights guild. He had no idea that this Holy Pure Eh was actually his classmate, Yao Li.
“It sure wasn’t easy to find you, Chu Nan was the one who told me.” Yao Li’s tone was slightly excited.
“Ah, is there a problem?”
“I found a cave in the swamp north of the Aegean Forest. There’s a big golden boss in there, and fifteen of us tried to fight it seven or eight times, but we were decimated each time…”
Li Yu understood now. Yao Li was stuck at a boss, so now he was looking everywhere for helpers.
A boss in a cave near the northern swamp, it had to be Fire Lord Galaxite, huh?
“What level are you guys?”
“I’m Level 10, the others are Level 8 or 9.”
Li Yi was speechless for a moment.
Fire Lord Galaxite was a Level 20 boss, with high SPD and an advantage in AoE attacks. They dared to provoke him even though they were barely past Level 10, no wonder they were decimated. It would be weird if they were not.
“Could you lend a hand? If we beat ’em, I’ll definitely give you the first cut of any equipment that you can use.”
“We’re classmates, why so polite? Any equipment dropped will belong to you guys. Wait for me outside the cave, I’ll be there in twenty minutes.”
Yao Li was somewhat stunned too, because as he remembered it, Li Yi would always negotiate for conditions before he did anyone any favors…
“Why’s he so generous today?”
Li Yi only used ten minutes to arrive at the northern swamp cave.
The fifteen Paladins and the four Adventurers they had found at the last second had all been added into the party by Holy Pure Eh.
“Alright, now we have nineteen people. We’ll definitely be able to kick that guy’s butt.”
Holy Pure Eh gave them all a rallying cry and led the way into the cave.
“Wait up…”
Li Yi stopped him.
“What’s the matter?” Holy Pure Eh was confused.
Li Yi turned around for a glance, asking, “Do we have any Paladins in the party who know Holy Light Protection?”
Holy Pure Eh shook his head. “I don’t think so…
“They’re just like me, they all learned Hammer of Punishment.”
“In other words, all fifteen Paladins are Punishment Paladins…”
King of Pantheon had been online for more than ten days now, so other than legendary noobs, almost all the players would have learned their first class skill by now.
The Paladin class was not like the Archer. When they reached Level 5, Paladins could choose one of three different Class Skills to learn.
Other than the fifteen Paladins, there were the other four Adventurers. An Elf Wizard, a Werewolf Vagabond, an Orc Priest, and Li Yi, the Human Archer.
The Orc Priest had learned the Healing Spell, and was the only healer class in the entire party.
‘We don’t have an MT 4 to distract monsters, and the Fire Lord’s SPD is preposterously fast. How can we possibly win?’
Li Yi was exasperated. “If you’re all Punishment Paladins, who will take on the boss?”
“I’m the MT.”
Holy Pure Eh’s expression was full of self-confidence. That expression truly was as holy and as pure as you could get…
