Chapter 177 (1/2)
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Midnight, Myriad Poison Cave, Second Floor.
It had been five or six hours since we entered the second floor. The corpses of Venomous Twin-headed Snakes and Poison Beautiflies littered the narrow, winding cavern we were in. n.o.body knew how many elite mobs we had killed, only that our levels had skyrocketed since the beginning of the battle!
As the highest damage dealer of the party, I was currently sitting at Level 69, 17% EXP. When I first entered Myriad Poison Cave, I was at Level 67, 81% EXP. It was obvious to everyone that leveling only got harder and harder, so my current leveling speed was absolutely nothing to scoff at!
Swoos.h.!.+
A beam of golden light surrounded He Yi as she leveled up to 60. She was the lowest-leveled player in our party, and now she was finally qualified to undergo her third cla.s.s promotion!
Swhoosh...
There was another flash of light, and a pair of wristguards with fire running across their surface wrapped around He Yi's arms, drastically improving her Defense. These were the Azure Wolf Wristguards. They were the first step of He Yi toward becoming a high-Defense magic knight!
Murong Mingyue smiled. “Tsk, it's past 1 am already. Are we going to finish this quest or what?”
He Yi nodded and smiled back. “Of course! A chance to grind experience like this doesn't come very often, and we can't let Lu Chen and his amazing quest down, can we?”
“But staying up late will cause endocrine dyscrasia…”
“It's fine, it's only today,” I consoled her.
In the end, Murong Mingyue curled her lips and acquiesced, “Fine. Let's keep killing then!”
…...
“Hiss hiss…”
After a Venomous Twin-headed Snake died, I opened my palm and cried out “Death Plunder” softly. Three brownish scales entered my hand in the next moment.
Ding~!
System Notice: Congratulations, you have foraged Venomous Snake Scale x3!
I took a look. It was a Rank 6 armor crafting material, and it added 5% poison resistance when applied to a leather armor. Not bad. 5% poison resistance means slightly more survivability and recovery after being stabbed by a.s.sa.s.sin's Poisoned Weapon. Long story short, with enough poison resistance, anyone could become impervious to any poison.
He Yi also took a look at the crafting material before smiling at me. “Is it useful?”
I nodded. “Yeah, I'll keep this for Yamete. I've collected almost a thousand of them, and he should be able to create a lot of poison-resistant leather armor pieces.”
He Yi smiled. “Mn!”
Speaking of which, we were almost at the end of the second floor. Beiming Xue let out a yawn before complaining in disappointment, “It doesn't look like there's a boss on the second floor, does it?”
But I looked around and found a partially hidden red dot on the mini map. It wasn't too far away from us!
Heh, here comes the boss!
I pointed to the south and declared, “Everyone, boss battle ahead! Please restore yourselves to full immediately!”
“Oh?”
The girls were surprised, but they obeyed my orders and started chugging HP pots and Magic Consumables. I had proven my gaming knowledge and prediction abilities many times throughout the quest, and in a sense it wouldn't be an exaggeration to claim that I had completely conquered them with my hardcore experience and technique. Mentally speaking, of course.
Gripping the Ghost Ice Soul, I carefully scouted ahead with the Dark Wasp beside me. When I turned a corner, I immediately saw a crouching giant about 50 yards away from me. The distance was why it didn't attack me immediately, not to mention that I was hiding behind a clump of poisonous bushes anyway, so it couldn't possibly spot me even if I was close enough to draw aggro.
I suddenly felt a soft feeling behind me. It was He Yi grabbing my arm, leaning on me and poking her head out of the wall to check out the boss. She looked like a pretty little thief.
“Yah, so big…” He Yi exclaimed in admiration.
I nodded. “Yeah, it's big, isn't it?”
Murong Mingyue, Beiming Xue and Moonlight Stone also poked their heads out around this time. I couldn't help but laugh at the comedic sight of ourselves before joking, “If an enemy was waiting for us right here, they could probably kill five birds with one stone if they sliced our necks from top to bottom!”
He Yi snorted before patting me on the shoulder. “Time to go. We'll cheer for you from behind!”
I raised my Ghost Ice Soul and boldly strode forward. It was only a boss. Why would I have anything to fear from the symbol of wealth and divine items? Come at me, my new challenger!
But I was starting to feel weak in the knees when I had shortened our distance to 30 yards or so, and the reason was very simple. The f.u.c.ker was a three-meter tall giant scorpion with a pair of huge pincers that looked like they were made of steel, and a body that looked like it was clad in greenish armor. But none of these characteristics came even close to being as terrifying as the scorpion's tail, a venomous sting that literally glowed with a green light and looked sharp enough to pierce pretty much anything. I didn't want to imagine how much “ecstasy” it would bring to be stung by it!
Myriad Poison Scorpion King (Golden Rank Boss)
Level: 72
Attack: 550~750
Defense: 620
HP: 100000
Skills: Slash, Poison Sting, Poison Needle Storm
Properties: 100% poison resistance, 45% magic damage resistance, 25% physical damage resistance
Introduction: The scorpion king transformed into a terrifying creature after absorbing an unfathomable volume of poisonous gas into itself during its reign in Myriad Poison Cave. It is said that those who killed the Myriad Poison Scorpion King will obtain a tenacious armor and a poisonous blade.