Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
In Saint Malo Town, a high platform was gradually built in the ground of disaster, which was like ruins. The materials that were all in a muddle were actually put together into a building that seemed to be at the edge of collapsing, it was incredibly difficult.
Ding~
—’The presence of the Enchanted monsters is close. Players, please get ready.’
Lin Jie’s gaze turned cold. “They’re here!”
“Dark Fog!” Qiu Yuan waved her hands, and as though an octopus spitting out ink, the fog made out of mana started spreading, forming a virtual barrier 30 yards away.
[Dark Fog]: Shadow Priests’ skill. You can create fog, spreads unlimitedly, causes all units’ hit rate within the target to decrease by 10%. Effective range 200 x 10 yards, the effectiveness decreases by 2% every increase in 50% of distance.
Level one Dark Fog decreases the hit rate by 10%, level two Dark Fog decreases the hit rate by 11%… Naturally, such a low growth rate skill would be forgotten, there were even cases where some Priests simply did not learn Dark Fog to prevent it from obstructing one’s eye in the skill column and they could even save an expensive learning fee for the skill.
It was a good thing that Qiu Yuan had the principle of there’s nothing to lose by learning skills and learned all of them. She had shown Lin Jie her skill column before, all kinds of rare and strange skills filled it up which made Lin Jie directly roll his eyes, but she insisted on not changing and even came up with a nice sounding nickname: The Unique Qiu Yuan.
“This is an Incendiary Bomb, it is very expensive so try to throw it slower…” said Zheng Ziliang meekly as he reluctantly took out an Incendiary Bomb scroll.
[Flaming Incendiary Bomb]: Mid-level Engineering Product. You throw an Incendiary Bomb, and the terrain will start burning, lasts 60 seconds. In that period of time, any unit that passes through the burning terrain will receive 150 points of fixed damage every second, that damage will be doubled against nature attribute living creatures.
Lin Jie raised his brows, looks like he had to look at this unreliable brother with a new eye.
The difficulty of creating the Incendiary Bomb was very high, the success rate was pathetically low, so much so that such bombs comparable to the Mages’ AOE skills could be produced on a large-scale. That largely decreased the speed of wealthy players leveling up. He never imagined that Zheng Ziliang was able to create it.
Dong—
Dong—Dong—Dong—
Even standing on the high platform, they could still feel the ground trembling, as the frequency got faster and faster, the extent of the shaking also became larger and larger.
Whoosh—
The fog was suddenly gashed open, an Enchanted Ironskin Rhinoceros with red eyes and brownish-yellow skin charged in like a Hummer. The horn on its nose released a ray that shot towards Lin Jie!
Lin Jie swung his Broken Blade, and the ray of light was rebounded!
-129!
Lin Jie’s gaze turned serious, such high damage!
[Enchanted Ironskin Rhinoceros] (Elite): Level 35 wild beast, Health Points: 17,000
Additional effect: Iron Skin (An additional 300 points of defense will be enhanced if long-ranged attacks are received. An additional 150 points of defense will be enhanced if close-ranged attacks are received.)
“Throw the Incendiary Bomb!” shouted Zheng Ziliang. The Incendiary Bomb flew in the air, forming the trajectory of an arc, instantly exploding beside the Dark Fog, forming a line of fiery red flames as if it were the 38th Parallel.
-150!
-150!
…
The physical defense of the Ironskin Rhinoceros was very high, but its magical defense was extremely low!
Qiu Yuan came to her senses and quickly read the progress bar. Normal players needed to read 6 seconds of the progress bar to be able to throw the Incendiary Bomb, but an Engineer who specialized in Engineering only needed 0.5 seconds.
The number of Enchanted Ironskin Rhinoceros gathered at the surrounding of the fire sea increased more and more, using one’s eye to estimate, the number reached over hundreds!
Lin Jie raised his Broken Blade high and a destructive aura formed in his hands.
Thunderstorm!
Boom—
With such a concentration of monsters, one did not even need to aim. Under the obstruction of the Dark Fog and Incendiary Bomb, the Enchanted Ironskin Rhinoceros were squeezed together, so as long as the skill was released, it would definitely hit!
-948!
-1,029!
-1,273!
…
Waves of damage popped up, it even dispersed the Dark Fog partially. Qiu Yuan saw that the situation was unfavorable, so she continued to create Dark Fog to control the monsters’ line of sight and suppress their attributes.
Under the double attacks of thunder and Incendiary Bomb, the Enchanted Ironskin Rhinoceros finally could not withstand anymore and fell down one after the other!
—’You have killed the Enchanted Ironskin Rhinoceros and received 11,500 experience points (Over-level Kill, EXP Gem), Saint Malo reputation+10.’
—’You have killed the Enchanted Ironskin Rhinoceros and received 11,500 experience points (Over-level Kill, EXP Gem), Saint Malo reputation+10.’
The experience points that were equally distributed between three people was not high, but farming for reputation was not bad.
“Jie, if you use your skills now, then what are you planning to do afterward?” Zheng Ziliang was a little worried. “How about we call Fat Cattle over? His AOE skills should be quite useful here.”
“No need!” Lin Jie gulped down a potion and jumped down the high platform. The Elite Enchanted Ironskin Rhinoceros did not drop any equipment, but they dropped quite a few Rhinoceros Horns with good grades. The Rhinoceros Horns could replace part of the medicinal herbs or Smithing, even selling it at shops could obtain a high price of 30 bronze coins.
After picking up all the loots, Lin Jie dragged the Ironskin Rhinoceros’ corpses towards the high platform and piled a total of a few floors! From afar, it was as though a layer of iron wall fortress.
Qiu Yuan felt bad in her heart looking at Lin Jie do all the work, so she said, “How about… I help you?”
Lin Jie looked at her then smiled and said, “There’s no need, you just focus on creating the fog, the denser, the better! It would be of great use later!”
Qiu Yuan was stunned, she thought that Lin Jie would look at her with anger and say things such as ‘If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t need to be this tired,’ then she would have a reason to go and complain to Bu Yi. In the end, this guy smiled…
‘Uh, then forget it, I will forgive you then!’
Zheng Ziliang smiled lightly while his hands were busy preparing to create new Incendiary Bombs. However, as a result, a boom could be heard, the materials exploded and burned him into a blazing man, his Health Points dropped rapidly by 80%!
Half an hour later, Lin Jie finished moving all the corpses.
Ding~
—’The presence of the Enchanted monsters is close!’
The second wave of monsters were Swamp Crawlers! These creatures lived within muddy swamps all year round, and their bodies were filled with velvety seaweed and watery liquid.
[Swamp Crawlers] (Elite): Level 35 living creature, Health Points: 20,000
Additional effect: Toxic Fog (The Crawlers which live in rotten swamps all year-round are able to use poisonous plants to create barriers, deals 200 points of damage to surrounding units)
Forward Charge!
Forward Charge!
The Swamp Crawlers were even more aggressive than the Ironskin Rhinoceros, the Dark Fog was basically useless. The dark green Crawlers crazily charged towards everyone and their viscous saliva flowed to the ground as though long fuses!
Bang-
A Crawler collided with the Ironskin Rhinoceros corpse and their charging were slowed! At the same time, the other Crawlers all rushed to the front and banged until the Ironskin Rhinoceros were all scattered here and there!
However, the strongest wave of charging was blocked!
Even if it was Mixed Breathless, his Health Points would decrease by at least half if he forcibly took the charge of a Crawler. The long-distance charge was enhanced by Armor Penetration and Damage Amplification, the price of forcibly tanking would be too large. Now, that wave of damage would be easily resolved!
Lin Jie stood up high, he activated Wind Rider Blade Aura Executioner and Flame Boost then slashed towards the Crawlers!
-748!
-782!
…
The Health Points of the Swamp Crawler would decrease by a small portion with every attack! Meanwhile, the Crawlers at the outer ring, which were blocked by countless corpses did not have the chance to counter-attack at all! Therefore, the monsters actually used such a primitive way to clear the way: Eating!
Now, the Ironskin Rhinoceros’ extremely high defense and outer skin that was like iron was finally of use. The Crawlers bit on the corpses, but the outer skin of the Rhinoceros was not damaged at all. On the other hand, the teeth of the Crawlers dropped like it was raining hailstones.
Just when Lin Jie was planning to kill monsters and farm experience points without worries, suddenly a scream could be heard from behind!
A middle-aged man with a ferocious expression on his face that was holding a dagger filled with blood rushed out from the ruins. In his mouth was delicious smelling grilled meat.
[Crazed Naffa]: Level 30 Human, Health Points: 15,000
Lin Jie’s pupils constricted. ‘What happened?’
He only saw that NPC crazily biting grilled meat while running, as if he ate slowly the meat would disappear. However, he was unable to gulp it down in one mouth as the piece of meat was too big so the NPC stretched out his left hand that was originally hidden behind him to help him swallow the meat. However, Lin Jie shockingly found out that he actually held a human arm that was still dripping blood!
Now Lin Jie completely understood what happened!
That NPC was one of the townsfolk, the pain of enduring hunger for a long time forced him to the edge of a breakdown. Just now Qiu Yuan gave the little girl delicious food, but to that NPC, he most probably saw the food and could not resist anymore, so he went to steal it! Whereas that arm in his hand was the arm of the little girl that was chopped off because she was unwilling to let go of the food!
Under the help of his left hand, the crazy Naffa swallowed the grilled meat in a few mouthfuls, and the madness shown in his face became more crazed. His big mouth opened up wide, and with a “crunch” he bit on the arm, and his hysterical face was splashed with viscous blood—he was so daringly eating human flesh!
Qiu Yuan looked at the ruins in shock, that little girl’s face was on the ground, and the sleeve of her right arm was empty with only blood oozing out non-stop, her eyes had lost focus.
She looked at Lin Jie then looked at the Rare Elite, helpless and unsure of what to do.
“Ziliang, go help her, ” shouted Lin Jie as he released Blade Aura with all his might.
