Chapter 457: Green Dragon Knigh (1/2)
“You’ll know soon enough!”
I took my sword and arrived in front of the guild hall. Li Chengfeng soon appeared after that. He was wearing a suit of dark green armor as he sprinted toward me. He wore a cocky smile on his face as he said, “The city is ranking up at an insane rate. Your ability to build up a city is way better than Candlelight Shadow’s!”
“It’s really just down to good luck. So what do you have for me?”
“Hmmm, it’s right here…”
Li Chengfeng fished out a golden longsword from his inventory and tossed it over. He said, “Here, I just soloed this boss, and it actually dropped this nice toy for me. What kind of joke is this…”
“Oh, it’s a weapon?”
“This isn’t any simple weapon! Take a look for yourself!”
“Gotcha!”
I lifted up the longsword and waved a hand over it, causing the weapon’s stats to materialize in front of me. My eyes immediately popped open in shock.
City Lord Rex’s Sword (Dark Gold–grade City Lord equipment)
Attack: ★★★★
Passive: Increase Attack of troops under the lord’s command by 27%
Passive: Increase Defense of troops under the lord’s command by 19%
Effect: After the user has equipped this item, increase the gold production of cities that they govern by 50%
Effect: After the user has equipped this item, increase Dark Insect production speed by 25%
Requirement: Hero Rank City Lord
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It really wasn’t just any old weapon. To most players, this weapon was about as useful as a stick of firewood. However, it was simply invaluable to city lord NPCs! This Dark Gold–grade sword could not only boost Dark Moon City’s attack and defenses, it could also boost its gold production by 50%. Gold production was the one thing I really wanted to improve, and even though this 50% wasn’t much right now, it would be absolutely incredible once my city’s resource production had been built up to proper levels!
I couldn’t help but laugh as joy wildly surged through my heart. “Chengfeng, your luck is pretty darn good to have dropped a great weapon like this. Alright, I’ll thank you on behalf of the entire guild…”
Li Chengfeng shrugged his shoulders as he laughed. “Okay, as long as it’s useful. I thought that I had picked up a piece of trash at first, but it looks like it’ll come in very handy!”
“It really will!”
“Okay, then I’m off to continue leveling!”
“Alright!”
Li Chengfeng left while I summoned the Dark Moon City’s city lord Udal to my side. The Dark Knight approached me with a grave and stern look on his face. He knelt down on one knee and said, “Lord, what can I do for you?”
I simply opened up his character screen and equipped him with City Lord Rex’s Sword. After that, I left him to do his own thing.
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I opened the world map, but I just stared blankly since I didn’t really know where I could go to train. The areas around our territory had also been completely explored. My brows knit together as I looked at the map and plotted my next move. Suddenly, my eyes immediately brightened when an idea popped into my head. It looks like I didn’t have any better alternative than to explore the peaks of Dragonbone Mountain Range!
Dragonbone Mountain Range was an extremely complex map and there were also many small maps within it. The levels of the monsters varied across the different areas of the mountain you could find yourself in. Their levels ranged from 100 at the foot of the mountain range to 175 when you reached its peak. As a result, players could easily level all the way to Level 175 with no problems in this place.
This was also one of the geographical advantages that Dark Moon City had, since it was barely even ten minutes away from this resource-rich mountain range. The advantages that came with being situated near such a gold mine must be causing the other powers in Sky City to go insane with envy.
After hiding the glow of my items and my in-game name, I discreetly sheathed the Heaven-stealing Sword in the scabbard slung across my back. Then, I breathed in deeply before summoning the Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf.
It was time to go to Dragonbone Mountain Range!
When I reached the foot of the mountain, I discovered that the place was bustling with activity. Players were forming parties with each other as they kept yelling their requirements.
“Forming a 20-man party to charge into the middle areas of Dragonbone Mountain Range. We will be killing Level 127 shadow-rank monsters called Snow Rabbits. We will also be collecting cooking materials as we go. The party already has 3 ridersand 2 warriors to be tanks, 3 mages and 5 archers as DPS. We also have 1 magic knight, 1 tactician whose Encourage III can boost attack by 29%. We are currently lacking healing as we only have 1 priest and 1 bard. We still need 3 more wet nurses! First come, first serve, and everyone in the party will roll for any equipment above Bronze-grade according to their needs!”
“Forming a 10-man party to grind in the Level 110 area of Dragonbone Mountain Range! Players who are Level 90–100 are welcome to join. Looking for a DPS or a healer! I am a Level 94 magic knight with high Defense. One spot left!”
“Forming an elite 20-man party. All party members must be Level 105 and above. We will be going into the upper level of Dragonbone Mountain Range to kill Level 135 shadow-rank monsters. We have also heard that the shadow-rank monsters in that area can drop Outstanding Dark Gold–grade equipment! We welcome all strong players! Knights need to have more than 10000 HP and 2500 Defense, mages need to have an Attack of more than 1500 and archers need to have an Attack of at least 2000, and healers need to be able to burst heal for more than 3000 HP. Come one, come all, this party will be leaving once we have twenty members and we will roll for any equipment that drops, with no special privileges for anyone, including the leader. We are looking for a high-level Encourage tactician to be the party leader!”
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I quietly slipped past the crowds. It really wasn’t an easy year to be a warrior. Ever since the mount system had been introduced, magic knights had become the most popular class. They were absolutely the best tanks in the game if they came equipped with a warhorse.
High-level tacticians were also very popular nowadays. This was especially true for tacticians who had Encourage III and at least 200 Tactics. They could instantly boost the attack of their entire party by 25% or more. Any party would roll out the red carpet for them.
Of course, Famous General Skills were far more ridiculous than Encourage III. However, there were only so many Famous Generals to go around in Sky City, and if a Famous General simply appeared out of nowhere, all of the big guilds would be stumbling over themselves to court him.