Chapter 239: The Blade of Kings (2/2)
A few minutes later, I had successfully aggroed most of the guards who were protecting the palace. There were at least thousands of them, and every single one had red eyes and an evil aura that marked them as a puppet. Frankly, they could be mistaken as skeletons if they didn’t still have a human body.
I skidded to a stop next to He Yi and positioned the Dark Wasp where I wanted it to. It was time to activate the meat grinder!
When the horde of guards were about to hit us, Beiming Xue kickstarted the counterattack by firing an Evil Spirit Volley. The explosions of evil energy dealt an insane amount of splash damage caused the guards to let out painful screams.
The Floating Ice City Traitor Guard was a Level 80 elite mob with 900 Attack, 600 Defense and 24000 HP. As expected of elite NPCs, they were much stronger than your usual Level 80 monsters. Their 900 Attack especially could pose a threat even to me.
Clang clang clang!
I took three consecutive hits to the shoulder, each strike dealing around 300 damage. I had lost almost a thousand health in a single bout. Thankfully, Murong Mingyue was right behind me, so close that I could literally feel her softness pressing up against my back. A couple of quick heals later, I was back to full health once more!
It would be impolite not to reciprocate their “kindness”, so I immediately raised my sword and activated Thousand Mirage Slash!
The sword beam split into seven and fell on top of the horde. A series of damage numbers appeared above their heads—
3012!
2987!
2864!
……
The skill dealt both direct damage and splash damage, so every mob caught within the blast took way more damage than one might’ve expected, losing over 10k HP in one go. It was such a ridiculous amount of damage that the girls’ mouth fell open in shock.
Murong Mingyue: “Oof, Lu Chen is seriously OP. He’s a warrior, but he has an AoE skill that also deals splash damage because of his weapon. Right now, Wind Fantasy is probably the only player in the entire Floating Ice City who can match up to him. If we were to upload a video to the forums, I’m sure that a lot of warriors would want to kill themselves in shame.”
Beiming Xue laughed. “Well, it’s a good thing that big bro is strong. I wouldn’t have come all the way here to join him otherwise~~”
He Yi didn’t say anything, but the beautiful smile on her face was enough to bewitch a man for a very, very long time.
……
While fending off the seemingly endless horde of enemies, a chill suddenly entered my arm without warning. I immediately swung my weapon in front of me!
Purgatory Slash!
The guards were all going to die anyway, but the poor guy in front of me now was especially unlucky. Purgatory Slash dealt even more damage than the Thousand Mirage Slash, so one mighty attack later almost all the guards in front of me collapsed to a sea of both direct and splash attacks. An innumerable amount of EXP entered my body and visibly filled up my EXP bar!
Everyone was happy with how fast our experience was soaring up. Murong Mingyue let out a laugh and said, “From here on, the Frost Cloud workshop should grind together more often and work to place all our members among the Top 100 in China!”
“Hear, hear!”
I checked my ranking. Right now, I was Level 78, and my experience bar was 72% full. Although I was number one in Floating Ice City, I was only 7th in all of China. The first spot currently belonged to Luo River God of the Capital, who sat at Level 79 and 23% experience. Her level was higher than even Candlelight Shadow’s!
As I thought, China’s server was crawling with hidden talents. They might be nameless at this stage of the game, but once the global wars began they could absolutely destroy any small cities unfortunate enough to place next to theirs, and even stand equal to the strongest nations out there. I had full confidence that these hidden players would be able to carve a foothold for themselves, at the very least.
Still, this ranking was useful for comparing player levels, but not much else. For example, I’m sure that the best players of Candle Dragon were doing their best to grind their levels right now, and some of them might even outstrip Lin Yixin in this regard. But in an actual fight, their leader, Candlelight Shadow himself, might be the only player in their entire guild who could fight our Fruit Knife Goddess head-on. It had already been proven that their so-called Tempest War God or Blue Sky War God were no match for our Lin Yixin at all.
Besides that, I had every reason to believe that there were many more godly players besides Lin Yixin who were training in the mountains—metaphorically speaking—and building up their strength silently. Although they hadn’t entered the CGL Hall of Fame, they were at least as good as any active CGL Hall of Famer. Finally, the game was just beginning, and anything could happen during this time. I suspected that the list of CGL Hall of Famers was going to change drastically once we entered the late stage of the game. For example, I had no doubt that Lin Yixin was going to become a CGL Hall of Famer.
Beep!
Coincidentally, Lin Yixin sent me a message while I was thinking about her: “OMG, did you actually trigger an update patch, Lu Chen?”
“Mn!”
“Man, you’re so lucky. Don’t forget to bring me with you next time!”
“Well, we’ll see…”
She sent me a pout emoji to express her dissatisfaction. Then, she fell silent and went back to grinding.
……
We were still killing the guards blocking our way when a melodious ring resounded across the gray sky of Floating Ice City again.
Ding~!