Chapter 352: Farming Atop an Icy Cliff (2/2)
Unlike the traditional dual cultivators of legend who wielded combat skills with their right hand and forbidden magic with their left, my “dual cultivation” was a combination of magic spells and combat skills such as my Dragon Slaying Slash. That being said, the Dragon Slaying Slash was still a physical skill despite having magical effects merged into the base skill. I was still an Undead Swordsman, except I was a lot stronger than I was supposed to be.
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While my energy blades landed in the middle of the mobs, Lin Yixin suddenly smiled and said, “Lu Chen, did you notice something?”
“What?”
“Try attacking the mobs at the center!”
“Okay…”
I fired a Dragon Slaying Slash into the middle of the Snow Rabbits and deleted 3876 HP from its health bar immediately. But this time, I noticed that the skill caused a tiny shockwave that affected 8 other mobs in direct vicinity of that Snow Rabbit. They all lost 775 HP at the same time!
Holy shit, is that splash damage I’m seeing?!
I was pleasantly surprised by this. Although Dragon Slaying Slash was a long-ranged single-target skill, it still benefited from the Purgatory Sword’s passive. Yesss!
Our grind speed up shot even higher since I could fire a Dragon Slaying Slash every 2 or 3 seconds or so. Tsk tsk, this is great!
“Haha! You’re so smart, Yiyi!” I praised her from the bottom of my heart.
Lin Yixin curled her lips in response. “No, you’re just too stupid…”
While saying this, she broke her Guard again and launched another Ice Flame Slash. The burning blade of ice collapsed atop the sea of Snow Rabbits and devastated everything that stood in its path. Seriously, what an insane skill. Though I had to mention that those wailing Snow Rabbits were still better off than the poor thing standing right in front of Lin Yixin. The merciless Fruit Knife Goddess was just pulling out her fruit knife out of its heart.
She drank an HP potion immediately after that. Although she was in her defensive stance most of the time, she still took a lot of beating and lost a fair amount of HP. She only had less than 6000 HP or so, and a Rank 8 Health Potion could only heal half of that. Still, she was the manufacturer of her own potion, so she didn’t hesitate to spam them on cooldown. Thanks to her decisiveness, she wasn’t in any real danger yet.
For a while, the icy cliff was illuminated by our skills. The snow continued to fall as the Level 115 shadow-rank Snow Rabbits dropped en masse and turned into huge amounts of experience and equipment.
I had to admit that our bold choice of choke point and logical positioning made us a ton of profit. The secret to being successful was in fact, to be completely unscrupulous with your methods. There was no such thing as a tactic that was too shameless, just as strength and tactics weren’t mutually exclusive. Every expert in the world was a slimy bastard who did the unconventional to become the champion of their field.
Had we chosen to use traditional maneuvering to AoE down the mobs, we would be in all manners of trouble right now. At the very least, the Snow Rabbits were too risky to kill the traditional way considering our current level. One moment of bad luck was all it would take to be one-shot by these powerful mammals.
I tried my best to draw the Snow Rabbits’ aggro away from Lin Yixin with Dragon Slaying Slash as much as possible. Although she was in Guard most of the time, it was still too dangerous for a paper-thin Wanderer like her. If she was as tanky as He Yi or Gui Guzi, then I wouldn’t be nearly as worried.
Now that I thought about it, He Yi hadn’t come online for a long time, hadn’t she...
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“Hello? What are you waiting for? Use Thousand Mirage Slash!” Lin Yixin suddenly turned around to look at me.
“Oh, right!”
I hurriedly swung my sword and scattered the mobs in front of us.
Lin Yixin smiled slightly. “Thinking about sister He Yi?”
“N… no…” I denied.
“Hmph, like hell you’re not!” Lin Yixin rolled her eyes once before muttering, “At least pay attention when you’re leveling with me, stupid…”
I couldn’t help but smile back. “Yiyi, look to the front about 5 yards away from you. Does that chest armor look familiar to you?”
“Oh, yeah it is…”
It was a blue-colored leather chest armor and without a doubt a part of the Frozen Earth set. Tsk tsk, I supposed that our dream to gather a truckload of Frozen Earth set pieces with our level of karma and luck wasn’t a dream after all!
The Snow Rabbit was truly a tough foe befitting of its rank. Its HP was insane, and its offensive power was deadly. Even with our choke point, it took us almost two hours to finally clear out the Snow Rabbits Lin Yixin had aggroed. I estimated that we had killed at least 2000 Snow Rabbits, or with our level of power we would’ve cleared out the area a long time ago.
Our work done, I petted the Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf’s head and smiled. “Alright, you can eat two Snow Rabbits!”
“Aoo aoo…”