Chapter 300 Bloody Demonic Ring (1/2)
An embarrassed expression was planted on Windy Hum's face. He smiled and said, ”Bro… What do you mean by that?”
”Since you are so clever and well-informed—you even know a non-existing item such as the 'Blood Curse'… I think you ought to know what I mean,” said Lin Jie smilingly in a sardonic tone.
”Maybe it's because you have not seen it before. I still keep a book that introduced this skill here.” Windy Hum took out a blood-red scroll from his backpack. It was all crumpled and tattered and seemed like it was passed down through the ages. He seemed like he did not understand what Lin Jie was hinting at, and he continued, ”See, this is the book which recorded what the Blood Curse is! In The New Age, there are a lot of unknown stuff, like skills, and unique items. If one can find them and report them to the Holy Church, he will be rewarded handsomely.”
Lin Jie put on a look of enlightenment and looked guilty, as though he had blamed Windy Hum wrongly. He took over the scroll—but pomegranate seed-sized lumps floated up and stuck onto Lin Jie's body!
Something's wrong!
Windy Hum got into Enraged mode. With a spur of his long spear, he stabbed at Lin Jie's neck—considering how close they were to each other, no one would be able to block off such a sudden attack!
This scroll was also no ordinary information scroll, but a Spell Scroll, which contained Scout Radner's signature skill—Blood Explosion! Furthermore, this scroll was especially high in its levels. Windy Hum had observed Lin Jie's Bone Membrane Armor from previous battles, and he knew that Lin Jie would not be able to block off this attack—because this was a scroll made by the highest commander within Blood Swamp, the Blood Wizard Larek.
No matter how strong Scout Radner was, it would still have to listen to the orders of Larek. Hence, even if Lin Jie's Bone Membrane Armor was about to hold off the Scout's attack, it would not able able to hold off an attack by the Blood Wizard Larek!
”Brother, considering our brief acquaintance, I shall not make things difficult for you,” commented Windy Hum as he activated the Strength's Blessing, King's Blessing, Holy Light's Mark buffs. They made him looked all shiny and radiant. The tip of the Long Spear was positioned at Lin Jie's throat, and he smiled viciously as he made an action to pierce it through, ”That Holy Light Grace is really great, and superb equipment to own when our team needs to battle a Boss. How about giving it to me for free?”
Lin Jie let out a burst of great laughter, ”You sure you can get it from me… just with your abilities?”
”Yes, just by myself! Blood Explosion!”
Windy Hum's gestures were just a facade. With a quick flip of his arms, a deadly vibe was given off by the Blood Seeds, which was attacked to Lin Jie's body. The Blood Seeds grew bigger and bigger and eventually swelled into ugly, organ-sized meat lumps.
Kaboom-
Kaboom-
Lin Jie's body exploded into bloody mists, like a powder keg! Windy Hum's lips curled up into a cold smile, and greed flashed past his eyes as he stuck out his hands in the bloody mists, groping around for his rewards. At this moment, a blood-red hand stretched out and gripped onto Windy Hum's right arm.
”You…” Shocked, Windy Hum saw that Lin Jie's body had turned to be camouflaged by Blood Swamp. Layers of blood-red bones and gelatin covered emerged out from beneath Lin Jie's skin and covered up his body, finally ending at the more fragile parts of his body like his elbow and his shoulder blades. They condensed and formed savage-looking bone spurs at those parts.
-1,738!
The Damage Dealt figure only rose up then!
To be honest, this scroll was considered indeed powerful. To be able to cause such a Damage upon Lin Jie, despite him owning the enhanced Bone Membrane Armor—it was no easy feat!
If all the team members had attacked Lin Jie at once, Lin Jie might really be killed. However, Windy Hum was over-confident of himself—he had naively thought that the Blood Wizard's Spell Scroll would be able to kill Lin Jie.
A wide grin spread on Lin Jie's face. ”Blood Explosion? You dare to use this technique against me? Let me show you what Blood Explosion is like!”
As his voice stopped, Lin Jie waved his hands, and four illusions flashed by. The armor Windy Hum wore broke apart, and Windy Hum stared in shock as he discovered only a few small pieces of his armor was still intact. His Defense and Health Points were also being depleted—in fact, he now had Stats lower than even a Level 25 player who only owned Bronze-Grade equipment.
Suddenly, the blood in his right hand wriggled up like a worm. With a 'piak' sound, his hand was ripped apart. Fresh red blood burst out from his wounds to as tall as a grown man's height and dripped down onto Blood Swamp.
-1,583!
”Blood Explosion! How did you get to know this technique? Is it that the upgraded Bone Membrane Armor will…”
”Die, now!”
Before Windy Hum could finish his sentence, he was stabbed through by Lin Jie! Lin Jie had originally wanted to try out Blood Explosion, but he was rather disappointed that the damage caused by his Blood Explosion skill was still lower than if he had struck out by himself.
To be honest, this was something that was expectable. Both Scout Radner and Blood Wizard Larek were, after all, Mana Bosses, and Lin Jie was a Warrior. It was already amazing that Lin Jie could deal out such high damage using a Mana skill considering his job's nature.
Windy Hum was dead! He spawned another two bottles of the Holy Light Rejuvenation Potions. Lin Jie picked them up and threw a cold look at his surroundings. He spoke, ”I know all of you are observing me as souls throughout this whole while. If you guys had just stood by my side from the beginning, you would have got the majority of the gains from the battle, and me, the minority. But now… you guys have proven that you deserved nothing at all.”
Ding~
—'You have killed Scout Radner! You can go back to the Midolhaar Commander's Room to receive your rewards!'
—'You received the [Blood Seed Dagger] (Gold).'
—'You received the [Bloody Demonic Ring] (Gold).'
—'You received the [Mana Burning Wand] (Dark Gold fragment).'
Other than that, Lin Jie's Runestone of the Undead Language was swollen up. The figure displayed on it jumped to 1,400 from the original 700. One could see how valuable the Scout was from this. However, the EXP gained from killing a Boss of the commander levels was just temporarily recorded in the runestone. One could only get the real EXP points when he or she redeemed it from the Midolhaar Commander.
Picking up the rewards from killing the Boss, Lin Jie scrutinized the Bloody Demonic Ring.
[Bloody Demonic Ring] (Gold)
Requires: Level 30
Strength: +25
Endurance: +20