Chapter 264: Root Protector (1/2)
Boom!
A streak of swordlight swooped across the heads of the Vine Flowers and dealt a ton of damage to all of them, and that wasn’t even accounting for the splash damage!
Purgatory Slash, or should I say an Outstanding weapon, was just godly at this stage of the game! After getting the Purgatory Scepter and returning to Ice Moon City, Luo River God of the Capital had been leveling at an insane rate. She was now Level 85 and the indisputable highest-leveled player in all of China, higher than even Candlelight Shadow himself!
But of course, Candlelight Shadow was still the most popular player. Although Floating Ice City was full of outstanding players, and Lin Yixin and I both had the potential to replace him, as the saying goes, Rome wasn’t built in a day. It would take slow and steady effort to outperform Candlelight Shadow in the popularity department.
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The number of Vine Flowers was absolutely insane, and they all had high HP and Defense. However, the experience they yielded was equally generous, so everyone was having a very good time.
An hour later, Murong Mingyue’s Hellish Rockfall ranked up again with a ding!
”What rank is it now?” I asked, ”Man, it’s going up like crazy!”
Murong Mingyue giggled. ”I know right? It’s already Rank 5! I love AoE skills with short cooldowns!”
She raised her staff and cast yet another Hellish Rockfall. The meteorites had grown to half a meter in diameter, and they were all covered in fire. The damage they dealt was as impressive as their animation effect.
1445!
1532!
1440!
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It was wonderful. Her DPS was actually starting to creep up close to Beiming Xue’s. That being said, it was only because the Vine Flower was a heavy armor mob. If that were the Earth Mice we had fought, then there was no way in hell Murong Mingyue’s DPS could ever rival Beiming Xue’s.
As the battle continued, the Purgatory Sword’s durability dropped all the way from 87% to 54%. It was terrible, to be honest. Only three hours had passed since the start of this battle, but my weapon had already lost 33% durability. This battle was trying to murder my weapon!
Thankfully, the Vine Flowers continued to fall in droves until finally, only a couple of them were left in the entire valley!
Swoosh!
A golden column of light enveloped me as I leveled up to 85. The rest of the girls had gotten a couple of levels as well!
I opened the Heavenly Ranking of Floating Ice City and took note of the changes:
NameLevelClass
Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand85Undead Swordsman
Wind Fantasy82Light Wanderer
Beiming Xue81Dark ArcherDominating Heaven Blade80WarriorPurple Marquis80WarriorClear Perfume80Archer
Shadow Chanel80Mage
Gui Guzi79Undead Knight
Indigo Collar79Warrior
Murong Mingyue79Priest
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”Hey sis, you’re in the Top 10 now…” I let out a cough before speaking up.
Murong Mingyue looked pleasantly surprised. ”Ah? Really? Hehe, that’s awesome! This is the first time I got onto the Heavenly Ranking!”
”Yeah. Let’s keep this up!”
I fired another Purgatory Slash and killed off the last Vine Flower with everyone. It was past 8 pm at this point, so I asked if the girls would like to have dinner before we continued. Surprisingly, no one was in the mood to have dinner, and instead, they all insisted we grab supper after clearing out Hundred Flower Valley completely. I agreed, of course. Starving and burning the midnight oil were my specialties.
We took a moment to scour the battlefield for loot. The Vine Flower was a Level 92 elite mob, so the loot it dropped wasn’t too shabby. For starters, there were a ton of Rank 8 alchemy ingredients. I was forced to use Death Plunder on every Vine Flower corpse because Lin Yixin wanted them.
It took over 20 minutes before we finally finished plundering the battlefield. Lin Yixin held her bag half-full of herbs with a joyful look on her face. My own bag was filled with a dozen or so top-tier items I couldn’t use such as weapons that added Attack, armors that added Defense, and miscellaneous items that added Tactics. Long story short, I collected all the good stuff that could actually be turned into profit.
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”Alright, we’re almost at the end of Hundred Flowers Valley. Let us continue!”
With the Purgatory Sword in hand and the Dark Wasp by my side, I stepped on the path once more and continued our journey. Not far away from me, He Yi was crouching on the ground and extending a hand to her Firelight Mouse. She said affectionately, ”Come on up, little fellow!”
”Chirp chirp!”
The Firelight Mouse and climbed up her hand nimbly. A second later, it had climbed up to He Yi’s shoulder and ran around happily.
I shot it a glance before asking, ”What level is it, Eve?”
”47. A bit more and it’ll hit Level 50 and learn a new AoE skill!”
”Oh, that’s good. It should definitely hit Level 50 by the time we complete this quest!”
”Mn!”