28 Preemptive Strike (1/2)
The Goblord stood upright, with its eyes closed and chest puffed. Neither the sword piercing its neck nor the dagger puncturing its heart took away an ounce of its majesty. However, death spares no one. After a few seconds, both Shesmu and Ryan took out their weapons and sheathed them. The Goblord had fallen.
With the Goblord's death came the jingly sound of notifications. Shesmu clicked on the plus sign and a bunch of messages appeared.
[Congratulations, you leveled up!
Weapon Level up!
Weapon Level up!
Empowered Slash Level up!
Empowered Thrust Level up!]
Well, that took a while. They finally reached level 3.
The boss was generous with its exp. After reaching level nine, Shesmu looked at the exp bar under his HP and found that he was 57% of the way to the next level.
After a few seconds of the boss' death, a blue portal appeared in front of the throne. However, neither Leo nor Ryan seemed to be fazed by its appearance.
”Wow, just wow!” Leo exclaimed, ”You guys, just how did you do that?! It's as if you were on sync or something.”
”Hahaha! Yes! Praise me more! My speed is impeccable, my timing is perfect. Only I could produce such an outworldly performance!”
Shesmu just shook his head at Ryan's antics, smiling. ”So, did your weapon level up?” Shesmu asked.
Ryan hesitated for a second before replying in a more serious tone.
”Oh, yeah, they did. Though it really doesn't matter that much. We're going through levels and content so fast that by the time a weapon levels up, another with much better stats drop.”
Leon nodded at Ryan's words. ”Yeah, I'm guessing that this mechanic would be useful later on when leveling up is no longer as easy.”
”Yeah, that's probably true,” Shesmu responded.
”Let's forget that for now. We need to look at the loot! The loot!!”
Ryan's excited shouts made Leo excited as well.
”Yeah, that boss was so damn hard. If it drops trash, I would be so mad!”
”Stop jinxing it, you idiot,” Ryan rebutted Leo while checking his inventory.
”Haha, sorry sorry.”
Ryan looked at his inventory for a few seconds before his face turned into one of pure horror.
Seeing him act this way, Leo started stressing out a bit. ”Ehh, Ryan? Is something the matter? Why are you so shocked?”
By this point, even Shesmu was interested in what Ryan saw that would make him look that way. Even with everything that happened until now, there wasn't even one instance where Ryan showed such a face.
”What the hell is this?!!” He finally screamed.
By this point, both Leo and Shesmu were on the edge. They both gulped simultaneously.
”This weapon… It's a gold tier sword!”
Hearing him say those fabled two words, Leo's jaws dropped.
”What?!!”
Shesmu, on the other hand, opened his eyes in surprise. So, it's like I thought, it's an evolved weapon.
”Yeah, let me show you.”
Ryan's hand shone with blinding golden light, Shesmu covered his eyes in response. By the time he opened them an amber blade appeared on Ryan's hand.
Looking at the gold-ranked sword, Leo exclaimed, ”This is so fucking sick, man! Dude! With this, we'll just breeze through content like it's child play!”
”You're damn fucking right!” Ryan said. ”Let's check the stats first though, they probably are out of this fucking world.”
While Ryan was talking, Shesmu used Inspect on the weapon. Even he was curious about the stats of this little gem.
[Cambion Blade
Rarity: Gold+
Required Level: 10
Weapon Level: 1
Attack: 250
Skills:
Demon Ki(Passive): Add Dark attribute to ki and increase the power of ki based skill by 20%.