Chapter 345 (2/2)
The Purgatory Sword glowed brightly as I cut Arthas twice with my signature combo, Pardon + Desperate Gambit. The sword pierced through Arthas's chest armor and pierced his black heart!
MISS!
7804!
Arthas gripped the sword sticking out of his chest and glared at me with anger and frustration. In the end, he collapsed to his knees and gazed toward the direction of Floating Ice City in despair. He murmured, “The traitors have succeeded, the light has been devoured by darkness. Goodbye, my Floating Ice City. Goodbye, my imperial concubines and beautiful succubi. Amanda, Katie, Daisy, Emma… I, Arthas, will sing for all of you a hymn from heaven. I will never forget your warm lips and soft tongues…”
G.o.dd.a.m.ned motherf.u.c.king sonuvab.i.t.c.h! Even during his last moments, he couldn't let go of his debauchery!
Speechless, I swung the Purgatory Sword and cut off Arthas's neck. The next moment, his head appeared in my hand as a quest item, and I threw it into my bag without any hesitation. I wanted to check what equipment he had dropped, but there was still a boss and a horde of mobs breathing down my back, so I decided it could wait and threw everything into my bag first.
There was one item that caught my attention though. It was a s.h.i.+ny golden token with the words “appointment” on it. It looks pretty unique. I wonder what it is?
I took it out and gave it a closer look. What I saw immediately froze me like a statue—
Appointment Token: A lord token of the Silver Moon Alliance. Only players with the Appointment Token are granted a leasehold and the right to rent a shop no wider than 100 square meters in the major cities of the Silver Moon Alliance.
……
f.u.c.k! It was only now I realized that leveling to 100 wasn't the only requirement to rent a shop in a major city! If this Appointment Token hadn't dropped, I would never have realized this until I visited the old king again and got laughed in the face! He almost got me, that b.a.s.t.a.r.d!
It wasn't like I could search the internet for information either since Eternal Moon Corporation hadn't given out any exact details, all in the name of encouraging exploration. Tsk tsk, I almost couldn't believe how many steps there were to open one single shop!
At any rate, this was good luck for sure. If I had chosen not to accept this quest, I would never have had the chance to kill a n.o.ble lord like Arthas and loot an Appointment Token from his body. My plan to start a shop at Sky City would've been a complete failure!
Having checked the Appointment Token, I turned around just in time to see Thunder Axe charging me!
I smiled. “It's your turn now!”
At my current strength, soloing a Level 110 Dark Gold Rank boss wasn't a problem at all. As for the dozens of Level 105 elite knights helping Thunder Axe, I didn't even bother to look at them!
Crack!
I hit Thunder Axe in the head and was lucky enough to proc a critical hit, dealing 9674 damage. That wasn't all. The elite knights close to the boss also suffered splash damage and lost 1935 HP. The Purgatory Sword's 20% splash damage was just way too good. All I needed to do was focus on Thunder Axe, and it was only a matter of time before the rest of the mobs were killed by the splash damage!
The War Holy Temple buffed my attack power by 10%, and Bloodl.u.s.t my attack speed by 35%, pus.h.i.+ng my power to a whole new Level of height. Moreover, I was a.s.sisted by the Epic-rank boss Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf, which made fighting a Level 110 Dark Gold Rank boss even easier than before! Previously, I couldn't solo a Level 100 Dark Gold Rank boss without considerable effort, but now I was positively toying with Thunder Axe!
It wasn't difficult to dodge Thunder Axe's attacks because his movement speed and attack speed were only so-so at best. At least 50% of his attacks missed me thanks to good maneuvering. Naturally, it made my job even easier, and soon after, Thunder Axe was the only NPC still standing on the battlefield.
Thunder Axe attacked me like a madman, so I used the Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf as cover and kept wandering around the edges. I still couldn't fight the boss directly because my HP regeneration speed wasn't fast enough. Thunder Axe attacked one per 2 or 3 seconds, and that was almost 30 attacks in a minute. Even if every attack only hit me for 500 damage, that was still almost 15000 damage if I allowed every attack to land on me. I would still survive, but the fight would be a lot more dangerous than it should be, and that was before counting the boss's offensive skills. I might even die if I didn't dodge all the attacks I could.
Fighting a boss head-on didn't mean fighting like a brainless idiot, and it was especially true in a large-scale game like this. A high-rank boss would almost always have better stats than you even if you were at the same level, not to mention that they could easily have over 100k HP while you slaved away in quadruple digits. Unless you had a priest healing you constantly, it was almost always unwise to bear the full might of a boss.
Time trickled little by little. Soon, I deleted the last drop of HP from his health bar and ended his life of blind loyalty once and for all. To me, his death proved that Dark Gold Rank bosses were now officially a thing of the past, that they couldn't drop Purple Gold–grade equipment, and they weren't much of a threat to me any longer. In the future, I should challenge Purple Gold Rank bosses to grow even stronger!
I bent down and picked up all the equipment Thunder Axe dropped, as usual. One of them was a battle axe crawling with thunderous energy. Hmm, this looks… pretty good actually. Let's see...
Its stat screen didn't disappoint me. Just like Arthas and Dren the Law Controller, Thunder Axe dropped me a pretty good weapon—
Purple Thunder Battle Axe (Dark Gold-grade, Outstanding★★)
Attack: 275~575
Strength: +65
Stamina: +60
Pa.s.sive: Increases user's Attack by 14%
Outstanding Property: When attacking a target, 10% chance to trigger a purple lightning that deals 1000 damage and stuns for 3 seconds
Level: 95
……
I shuddered. Holy s.h.i.+t, this weapon was good, and its Attack was almost as good as my Purgatory Sword's. Its Outstanding Property was nothing to scoff at either!
I fell into deep thought for a time. What should I do with this Purple Thunder Battle Axe?
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