Stellar City was guarding the entrance to the Land of Confusion.
As Johnnie and Nalorin·Sylvia left the city, they saw a massive, majestic wall stretching for tens of thousands of ters, separating the Universe Continent from the Land of Confusion.
Roar! Roar!
The angry roars of monsters echoed. Monsters from the Land of Confusion were attacking the wall, clashing with the defending soldiers.
Johnnie and Nalorin flew over on their swords, quickly reaching above the city wall and getting a clear view of the battle below.
"Are those... Slis?"
Johnnie looked toward the forest, shrouded in black mist, and saw large groups of monsters that looked like blobs of liquid bouncing into sight.
They looked a lot like the Slis from legends, except they weren’t weak at all. All of them were Stage 6 Demonic Creatures, coming in all sorts of colors, and they could even use elental magic.
Elental monsters!
There were even rare tal, Wood, and Wind type Slis.
Johnnie’s Mage of the Five Elents advancent quest only needed him to kill ten thousand Stage 4 or higher tal and Earth attribute monsters to complete.
These Slis were not only nurous, but every single one was a Stage 6 monster—perfect for the advancent requirents.
"Master, should we go?" Nalorin·Sylvia was excited, eager to jump into the fight.
"Let’s wait a bit." Johnnie spotted soone he knew and flew down toward the city wall.
"Hurry, fire the Magic Cannons at full power! Don’t worry about running out of Magic Cores!" A middle-aged man was giving orders, looking very serious as he led the army in attacking the Slis below.
It was Stellar City’s lord, Grayden.
Boom! Boom!
The Magic Cannons on the wall kept roaring. These were special defense weapons of the Universe Continent, built by both alchemists and formation masters.
"Lord Grayden, need a hand?" Johnnie landed on the wall and greeted him with a smile.
"Oh, it’s you." Grayden recognized Johnnie, then glanced at Nalorin·Sylvia, looking a little surprised.
"Lady Domain." he quickly bowed respectfully.
Nalorin·Sylvia just nodded coldly and stood behind Johnnie.
Grayden didn’t mind, leaving the battlefield to his subordinates as he turned to Johnnie and asked, "Adventurer, are you trying to enter the Land of Confusion?"
Johnnie nodded.
Grayden didn’t look too optimistic. He said, "Adventurer, I suggest you wait a bit. Lately, a lot of powerful beings have appeared in the Land of Confusion for so reason. Even the Evil Monarch, who owns a piece of the Map of Heaven and Earth, has broken through and beco a Half-God. Even with a Domain-level helper, it’ll be extrely dangerous for you."
"Don’t worry, I can handle it." Johnnie replied confidently. He had grown much stronger and was sure he could face a Half-God.
And with Maiev, Nalorin·Sylvia, and the Dark Golden Golem by his side—three Divine powerhouses—even if they ran into a Lesser God, Johnnie was confident he could take them down.
"Perfect, let help you deal with so of these monsters." Johnnie said, glancing at the Slis below. With a thought, he unleashed his Myriad Sword Technique. A powerful Sword Intent surged out, turning into tens of thousands of sword lights that roared down toward the Slis.
Grayden had just opened his mouth to speak, but the next scene left him completely stunned.
Splat! Splat!
The sword lights pierced right through the Slis in an instant, and waves of damage numbers flashed over their heads.
-275,000
-275,000
...
The weaker Slis were killed instantly.
The prompt ssages kept popping up:
[Ding! You killed a stage 6, level 10 Sli and gained 10 experience points.]
[Cosmic Eclipse Blade passive triggered...]
Johnnie had reached stage 6, and his experience bar kept jumping, but he was still far from leveling up.
It took a full 100 million experience points just to go from stage 6 level 1 to the next level.
Before this, he’d been stuck with the Seal Demon Spell, unable to level up and stacking up tons of experience—maybe enough to break through to stage 8.
But as soon as he hit stage 6, all that extra experience disappeared.
No shortcuts, apparently.
Slis were slaughtered in waves, dropping tons of loot.
"What... What kind of damage is that?" Grayden’s voice trembled as he watched.
Johnnie was only stage 6, but he was killing Slis in seconds, and his damage was even scarier than the Magic Cannons.
And those two-hundred-thousand-plus damage numbers seed like they weren’t even his limit.
In just monts, all the Slis around the city were wiped out. Silence fell over the battlefield.
The soldiers on the wall stared in shock, unable to believe what they’d just seen.
Johnnie didn’t stop, though—he kept hunting down the Slis. This was a rare chance to advance his Mage of the Five Elents class.
"Master, save so for !" Nalorin·Sylvia protested. She wanted to kill so Slis herself to level up her Sword Control Technique and max out her proficiency.
Buzz!
Her Sword Intent humd, and her Stellar Sword shot out, also killing Slis easily.
But compared to Johnnie, her kill speed was much slower.
"Master?" Grayden heard Nalorin·Sylvia call Johnnie that, and he rubbed his ears, wondering if he’d misheard.
A Divine powerhouse calling an adventurer her master?
Could Johnnie actually be even stronger than a Domain-level expert?
[Ding! You’ve completed the Mage of the Five Elents stage 4 advancent quest.]
[You’ve learned the skills Vine Cage and Fury of the Scorching Heavens.]
[Vine Cage: Level 1 (1/10,000). Control skill. Summon vines to form a cage, trapping enemies. Costs 1,000 mana.]
[Fury of the Scorching Heavens: Level 1 (1/10,000). Area damage skill. Summon raging flas from the sky, dealing continuous fire magic damage to all enemies in the area. Uses 1,000 mana per second.]
[Ding! Your rank has increased to stage 6, level 1. Mage of the Five Elents stage 5 advancent quest unlocked.]
[Mage of the Five Elents Stage 5 Advancent Quest: Raise Five Elents Affinity to 40% (40% complete); Upgrade Five Elents Technique to Level 5 (completed); Kill 100,000 Stage 5 or higher elental Demonic Creatures (not yet complete)]
The prompt ssages flashed. Johnnie easily defeated ten thousand tal and Earth Slis. The Mage of the Five Elents reached stage 4 and learned two powerful new skills.
One is a Wood skill that controls enemies, and the other is a Fire skill that deals damage to a wide area.
Now the Stage 5 quest had started. With so many elental Slis around, reaching Stage 5 would be easy.
Countless sword lights flashed as Johnnie continued the slaughter.
Soon, all the Slis in the area were wiped out. No new Slis appeared from the forest shrouded in black mist in the distance.
Johnnie felt a bit disappointed—he’d only finished about a quarter of the elental monster-kill quest.
But since there were Slis here, there must be even more inside the Land of Confusion.
He went down the city wall to check the Sli drops.
"Nothing?" He frowned, searching through the Sli corpses. There were dropped weapons, equipnt, enhancent stones, and piles of sli, but not the Five Elent Spiritual Stones he wanted.
Before, killing elental monsters would often drop the matching Spiritual Stones.
But these Slis only dropped piles of sli instead.
Johnnie picked up a greenish blob, a bit disgusted, and checked it.
[Wind Elent Demonized Sli Gel: Special quest item. Collect 100 to exchange with the Mountain Hunter for a Wind-Spirit Pearl.]
So Sli gel could be exchanged for Spirit Pearls!
Although it looked gross, Johnnie was happy to keep it.
Even if Spirit Pearls didn’t drop directly, every Sli would drop gel. With 100 gels, he could still get a Spirit Pearl—not a bad deal.
He quickly summoned the Red Carp and the Dark Golden Golem to help clean up the battlefield.
Since both of them had so authority over the Map of Heaven and Earth, items could be sent straight into the Mountains and Rivers Realm.
At that mont, Grayden ca over, now addressing Johnnie with more respect."Lord Johnnie." he said, glancing at all the Sli corpses on the ground. "Would you mind if I took care of these Sli bodies?"
Johnnie looked puzzled. "Are these Sli corpses useful?"
Grayden nodded, walked over to a Sli, and cut it open with a dagger.
He pulled out a small crystal and explained, "This is a Magic Core. It’s unique to Demonic Creatures in the Land of Confusion. It’s filled with energy, but it can’t be used directly. Still, it’s great for alchemy, forging, or powering magic cannons."
Johnnie took the Magic Core and looked at it curiously.
[Red Sli Magic Core: Contains fire power. Has many uses, but is full of impurities and cannot be absorbed.]
Just as Grayden said.
Lina was an alchemist, so these could be useful to her.
But with so many Slis here and surely more Demonic Creatures deeper in the Land of Confusion, Johnnie didn’t mind giving these Magic Cores to Grayden. Besides, it was a good way to earn a favor.
Johnnie nodded and agreed right away. "Alright, you can have all the Sli corpses, but no one is allowed to touch the other loot."
The Slis dropped stage 6 weapons, gear, and all kinds of rare items. Players could use them, and the market was huge—these drops could be sold for a lot of gold.
"Thank you, sir!" Grayden said happily. He quickly ordered the soldiers to collect the Sli Magic Cores.
As for the other loot, even though the soldiers were tempted, no one dared to pick anything up with Grayden’s order.
Soon, the battlefield was cleaned up. Johnnie ended up with over a hundred thousand piles of Sli gel—enough to trade for more than a thousand Spirit Stones.
He just needed to find that Mountain Hunter first.
"Lord Grayden, do you know who the Mountain Hunter is?" Johnnie asked.
Grayden had guarded the Land of Confusion for years, so he should know sothing about the Mountain Hunter.
"You want to exchange for Spirit Stones, right?" Grayden understood the use of Sli gel. He shook his head and said, "Sir, the Mountain Hunter belongs to the demon race in the Land of Confusion. He only trades with demons—he won’t trade with you."
A demon?
Johnnie wasn’t fond of the demon race. If he couldn’t exchange the gel, collecting all this would be for nothing.
But maybe not. He could try threatening the Mountain Hunter, or maybe win over a demon race mber to help him.
After finding out where the Mountain Hunter was—in a forest on the edge of the Land of Confusion.
He didn’t stay any longer. Together with Nalorin Sylvia, he stepped into the land of confusion covered in black mist.
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