Chapter 617 (1/2)

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“This is great, hehe…”

The players of Hall of Immortality watched in shock as Chaos Moon walked up to Bloodthirsty Battle Monarch's corpse and picked up his equipment. A player could equip up to nine pieces of equipment in total: one weapon, one chest armor, one pair of leg or s.h.i.+n protectors, a helmet, one pair of wristguards, one cape, one necklace and two rings. Normally speaking, a player only had between 20% to 40% chance to drop an item when dying. However, Bloodthirsty Battle Monarch was so unlucky that he dropped 3 equipment, or 33%, of his gear in one go. He probably felt like dying right now. This was exceptionally unlucky even considering that his drop chance on death was increased by Chaos Moon's Plunder.

Chaos Moon said cheerfully while carrying the three pieces of equipment in her arms, “Lu Chen, we're rich! The s.h.i.+eld and the boots are 3-star Outstanding Earth-grade, while the helmet is 5-star Outstanding Spirit-grade. This kind soul sure carried a ton of good stuff on him…”

I nodded in agreement. “From what I heard, Bloodthirsty Battle Monarch spent tens of millions to buy the equipment he's wearing today. Misers like us just can't compare to spenders like him!”

Chaos Moon asked, “How should we distribute these items?”

I gave it some thought before answering, “Give me the s.h.i.+eld and helmet, you may keep the heavy boots to yourself. I'm going to deposit these in the warehouse and reward our brothers and sisters for their hard work.”

“Sure. Do what you want!”

Chaos Moon happily accepted the heavy boots. She was wearing the Bone Scythe set, so she most likely wouldn't equip it herself. However, she could sell it for a lot of money. For elite players like us, money was an indispensable and important resource. After Chaos Moon gave me the other two items, I looked at them again and confirmed that both equipment—especially the 3-star Outstanding Earth-grade s.h.i.+eld—was extremely powerful. In fact, I know just the person to give it to—Heaven's Rain. It would make her even stronger than she already was for a fair sum of guild contribution points. As the leader of a big guild, I must nurture my generals with the far future in mind.

……

Suddenly, a system announcement rang above the city and froze absolutely everyone in their tracks—

Ding~!

System Announcement: The city “Dark Moon City” belonging to player “Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand” has been defended successfully. The number of casualties of this battle exceeded the estimated value, so this battle is rated as a “A Glorious Battle Like None Other”. The death essence of all the heroic souls who died in this battle are absorbed by the Undead Castle and turned into fuel for greater power. The rank of Dark Moon City is increased by 2, the rank of all buildings is increased by 2, and the following rewards are distributed: Dark Insect x10000, Dark Knight x4000, Umbra Sharpshooter x2000, Ghost G.o.d Knight x1000. All players partic.i.p.ating in the defense gain Level +1 and Luck +1. 90% of the NPCs who died in the city have been revived!

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Columns of golden light filled the entire city for a while. It was the visual effects of a level up for everyone there. The reward didn't just include surviving Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls players, but also those who died and even our allies, Snowy Cathaya and The Monarch Descends. It was a huge compensation for all the losses we suffered in this war.

All these were nothing compared to the city rewards though. As expected of the reward of the first “glorious battle like none other” of Heavenblessed, Dark Moon City's rank was increased from 6 to 8 immediately. Had we taken the normal path, it would've taken us at least two months to reach it. The reward of 10000 Dark Insects was absolutely insane as well. After all, they translated directly to the productivity of the city!

Moreover, we were rewarded with 4000 Rank 6 Dark Knights, 2000 Rank 8 Umbra Sharpshooters and even 1000 Rank 9 Ghost G.o.d Knights Again, the rewards of this war were absolutely insane. Had we had to recruit these units normally, mn, the amount of resources it would take was literally unthinkable!

I brought up the city details of Dark Moon City and took a look. I couldn't stop myself from grinning like an idiot—

Dark Moon City (Lord: Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand)

Rank: Rank 8 Undead Castle

Gold Production: 50000 per hour (+50%)

Wood Production: 50000 per hour (+20%)

Stone Production: 50000 per hour (+11%)

Crystal Production: 42000 per hour (+8%)

Dark Insects: 14200

Buildings: 19

Troops: 7321

Wall Durability: 2500

Teleportation Formations: 2

Secondary Lord: Dark Knight Hero Udal

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Tsk tsk, with a production like this, getting to rank 9 was just a matter of days. Moreover, I had hidden all 321 of the NPCs I hired earlier in the blood pond because there weren't even enough of them to use as cannon fodders, much less anything else, and now the system just gave us 7000 of them in one go. From now on, everyone would have to think twice before attacking our city!

In fact, I was looking forward to people attacking the city in the future. So far, I thought the siege battles of Heavenblessed were really well made, although I wondered if absorbing the souls of the dead to upgrade a city's stats was a trait that was unique to the Undead Castle only. Regardless, Hall of Immortality, Rose of the Holy Domain, and Throne Seeker's attempt to take over our city didn't only end in failure, they even helped us upgrade it to a high rank city. How embarra.s.sing was that?

Tw.a.n.g...

A Hall of Immortality player was so stunned by the system announcement that he actually lost grip of his iron sword. He murmured, “What the f.u.c.k is this? We fought 10 full hours for nothing? No, it's worse: Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls got everything while we lost everything…”

Xu Yang laughed tauntingly at him. “Now this is a cla.s.sic example of going for wool and coming back shorn, hahahaha~~~”

Some distance away, a group of Throne Seeker players erupted. “Dammit, they killed our guild leader! Take revenge for Emperor's Equal! Kill them all!”

And so the armies clashed again in a fight to the death.

Boom!

A huge, burning icicle suddenly pierced the air before cras.h.i.+ng down on the noisy fellows. It was of course Lin Yixin's Ice Flame Slash. One of the victims screamed, “What the f.u.c.k, the Fruit Knife G.o.ddess is here? Oh no…”