Chapter 630: Claw of the Storm (1/2)
The Undead Roland Soldiers howled pitifully as my sword slashed through their ragged armors. They collapsed at the edge of the broken wall and joined the heaps of bodies that were piling up. The ground was shining with prismatic light as equipment, magic stones, and skill books slowly piled up. Killing ancient mobs more than twenty levels higher than you really did give you a lot of items!
Whoosh!
Two columns of golden light simultaneously enveloped Murong Mingyue and the Phantom Wolf King. They had leveled up!
”Wow, I’m leveling really quickly…” Murong Mingyue crowed with joy as she glanced at her current level. ”I actually managed to gain three levels in less than five hours!”
I laughed and explained to her, ”We’re using party sharing mode right now. Even though you aren’t dealing any damage directly, you’ll earn just as much experience as Eve as long as you do enough healing. In fact, you might even be getting more than her. Alright, let’s keep grinding until the both of you reach Level 140 tonight. You’re almost there anyway!”
He Yi giggled as she nodded her head. ”Yeah, we’ll definitely hit Level 140 once we turn in the quest later! Speaking of which, the players from Sky City sure level up quick. Everyone was just Level 135 a few days ago, but there’s already a bunch of Level 140 players now! Honestly, your leveling speed is really quite slow compared to theirs, Lu Chen.”
I pouted and said, ”Haven’t I been busy making Saint Spirit Potions to sell? If I was focusing all my energy on leveling, I would have shot straight to Level 150 by now…”
Both of the girls covered their mouths and giggled, ”Alright, let’s go pick up those items before we continue grinding!”
”Mn.”
I walked up and started tossing all the good equipment into my inventory. We had been grinding for so long that my Crimson Rock Dragon Armor only had 57% durability left. It wouldn’t hold up for much longer if we continued grinding at this intense pace.
However, we really did reap some fantastic rewards from our labor. There were nearly three hundred pieces of good equipment in my bag and a good number of them were Level 135 Outstanding Dark Gold–grade or Purple Gold–grade items! Every single one of these items would sell for at least one thousand gold in the auction house! With my high level and Luck stat, I would always earn good money, no matter where I was grinding.
Once they had split the loot, each person wasn’t left with a lot of cash. They probably only had about enough to replenish the pots and consumables they had used while hunting. This was what life was like for most parties.
Luck determined the drop rates of the mobs you killed, it determined how often you would use the upper bound of your attack power to damage an enemy, and it determined your equipment drop rate when you died. A difference of just ten Luck was like the difference between heaven and earth when it came to item drop rates. Moreover, I had a whopping 38 points of Luck, something that even money couldn’t buy!
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My eyes shone with greed as I quickly picked out a dozen pieces of extremely good equipment from the pile and threw them into my inventory! I had also managed to find four skill books! Two stratagems, Encourage VI and Prime V, one mage skill book, Dragon’s Roar, and one warrior skill book, Soul Breaker Slash.
”Not bad!” I murmured as I nodded my head in satisfaction at a particular skill book. Soul Breaker Slash would deal 170% of one’s attack power as damage and ignore 50% of the target’s Defense. There was also a fixed chance for it to inflict the ‘Soul Break’ effect, which would render the target immobile. Even though its attack wasn't as powerful as Barrier Break, it had a ‘Soul Break’ effect. This made the skill a very useful and practical one. Moreover, Soul Breaker Slash couldn’t be learnt in conjunction with Barrier Break. This skill book isn’t bad at all, I should sell this to a warrior with personality!
These last few hours of grinding had also given me lots of cards! These Undead Roland Soldiers were really quite generous and their warriors and knights even dropped different kinds of cards!
Roland Berserker Card: Increases user’s Attack by 20% and attack speed by 10%. Duration: 120 minutes. Level Requirement: 130
Roland Bloodknight Card: Increases user’s max HP by 40% and Defense by 15%. Duration: 120 minutes. Level Requirement: 130
Thankfully, multiple copies of the same card would be stacked together in the same inventory slot. I currently had a total of 27 Roland Berserker Cards and 17 Roland Bloodknight Cards, and I had to admit that they were pretty good. I was already using the Roland Berserker Card to boost my grinding speed right now, but I would be saving the Roland Bloodknight Cards for difficult boss fights.
This card would increase a player’s health by 40%. Coupled with Pure Love’s Physique, which gave a 40% buff, and Lu Buyi’s Purple Dragon stratagem, which gave 80%, my total health would be increased by 160%. This would boost my HP by 2.6 times, to nearly 80 thousand! How wonderful would that be!
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Murong Mingyue and He Yi were sweeping through the battlefield like two dutiful and hardworking wives. They picked up every single useful item from the ground while I circled the field and hunted down every single precious Soul Spark of the Undead. Since the soul sparks left by these Undead Roland Soldiers were extremely powerful, I wanted to absorb as many as I could find. They would definitely help me evolve into an Asura God sooner rather than later!
As I aggroed and lured another bunch of mobs toward the party, I noticed that the Phantom Wolf King had already reached Level 105. Its stats were off the charts, so now was its time to shine!
Phantom Wolf King (Immortal Rank Boss)
Level: 105
Attack: 10500
Defense: 8400
HP: 84000
Agility: 52500
Skills: Phantom Form, Claw of the Storm, Purgatory Storm
Master: Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand
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I chuckled and said, ”Little wolf, swap positions with the Firelight Mouse. Let it use its spells while you rip into these mobs. Damn, your 80000 HP is more than enough to deal with these Undead Roland Soldiers!”
The little wolf let out a pitiful-sounding howl as it trudged toward the front. Murong Mingyue let out a gentle laugh before comforting it, ”Don’t worry, I definitely won’t let you die.”
Once again, I aggroed a large bunch of Undead Roland Soldiers and started our killing spree!
Boom!
Thousand Ice Slash exploded in the midst of the mobs as damage numbers started popping up from their heads.
18904!