Johnnie and Jack exchanged a glance, but neither reached out to take it.
Clearly, they both noticed sothing strange about Benz.
Jack spoke up."Minotaur, is it really that tasty? Go on, swallow it down."
Benz’s face twisted in discomfort. He couldn’t hold it in anymore. Hurriedly, he ran to the side and spit out all the sli in his mouth.
"Ugh!"
He gagged, his eyes watering and nose running.
Jack burst out laughing at the sight."Minotaur, why’d you spit it out?"
Benz shot him a fierce glare.
He suspected Jack had tasted this stuff before and was just ssing with him.
After gagging a bit more, Benz complained."Boss, this stuff tastes worse than crap! I really don’t know how that Black Bear Demon managed to swallow it."
"Oh? You’ve eaten it before?" Johnnie looked disgusted and took a few steps back, trying to get as far away as possible.
Benz finally realized the misunderstanding and snapped."Boss, that’s slander! I was just making a comparison."
"Let’s go. Ti to keep slaughtering Slis." Johnnie stopped joking around, and the group kept moving through the forest.
As they got closer to the Sli nest, more and more Slis showed up—and they were getting stronger, too. So were already Stage 7 Slis heading their way.
Flas swept through the air, winds howled, and these Slis started using all kinds of powerful skills. Every now and then, they’d even spit out nasty sli, which stuck to you and slowed you down.
None of these attacks were really a threat to Johnnie’s group, but they were definitely gross.
Luckily, the Myriad Sword Technique had a much longer range than any of the Slis’ skills.
Before the Slis could get close, Johnnie would unleash the Myriad Sword Technique and wipe them all out.
Benz and Jack got busy again, cleaning up the battlefield and collecting sli and Magic Cores.
The Red Carp ca over to help, but Johnnie was killing Slis so fast—and there were so many around—that it was hard for them to keep up.
"Boss, could you slow down a bit?" Benz complained, looking miserable.
He’d followed Johnnie for the fighting, but now he felt like he was just being used for grunt work.
This reminded him of his days as a slave laborer.
Johnnie noticed that the others really couldn’t keep up with the pace of his slaughter.
He had an idea and summoned the chanical Golems from the Spiritual Stonevein to help clean up the battlefield.
With the chanical Golems pitching in, things got a lot easier.
Buzz!
Waves of sword energy swept out, and the endless Slis coming from all directions were destroyed in an instant.
The Myriad Sword Technique was fast, but unfortunately, it couldn’t stack with the passive from the Great Transformation Sword Technique.
All these Slis were stage 6 and above—if he used the Cosmic Eclipse Blade to kill them, Johnnie could at least boost his physical damage by hundreds of thousands.
But right now, Johnnie didn’t care about that. He just wanted to finish advancing to The Mage of the Five Elents as soon as possible.
[You killed a stage 6, level 10 Sli. EXP 10]
...
Prompt ssages kept popping up as Johnnie wiped out the waves of Slis once again.
He glanced at his advancent quest for The Mage of the Five Elents—it was already more than halfway done. If he could clear out a few more waves of Slis like this, he’d be able to upgrade The Mage of the Five Elents to stage 5.
As they got closer to the Sli nest, the number of Slis increased again.
Even with The Red Carp’s group and over a thousand chanical Golems helping out, they still couldn’t keep up with Johnnie’s kill speed.
"Wow, an artifact!" Benz shouted in surprise, looking at the robe in his hand.
Without realizing it, Johnnie had already killed a million Demonic Creatures. His Lucky Master class triggered, and an artifact dropped.
He quickly finished off the nearby Slis and took the robe that Benz handed him.
[Elental Robe: Artifact, can be equipped by mage classes; Magic damage 30,000, Mana points 1,000,000, All four basic attributes 30,000, Insight 5, Magic critical strike 10]
[Spell Combo: Special effect; 10% chance for magic skills to trigger a combo, dealing damage twice, but the second hit only does 50% damage]
This was a complete artifact!
It even gave 5 points of Insight and an extra million Mana points.
Right now, what Johnnie needed most were Insight and Mana points, and since he was The Mage of the Five Elents, he could use this equipnt perfectly.
"What a powerful artifact... Too bad it’s only for mages." Nalorin·Sylvia said as she ca over, looking a bit disappointed.
Johnnie ignored her and swapped out his Fire Robe right away, making himself even stronger.
But since the Fire Robe was a legendary, upgradeable five-elent set and had already been upgraded to stage 5, he didn’t plan to throw it away.
Once it reached stage 9, its set bonus would actually be stronger than most artifacts.
Johnnie kept on killing Slis, determined to finish The Mage of the Five Elents quest.
Before they knew it, they had been wandering the forest for over two days, hunting huge numbers of Elental Slis, and at last, he completed the advancent task.
[Ding! You have completed The Mage of the Five Elents stage 5 advancent quest. The Mage of the Five Elents is now stage 5.]
[You have learned the skills Celestial Obscurity Heavy Water and Earth’s Downfall.]
[Celestial Obscurity Heavy Water: Level 1 (1/10,000) Water magic skill. Summon Celestial Obscurity Heavy Water to deal massive water magic damage to enemies. Consus 1000 Mana points per second.]
[Earth’s Downfall: Level 1 (1/10,000) Earth magic skill. Earth Surge deals heavy earth magic damage to enemies, with a 10% chance to stun for 1 second. Consus 1000 Mana points per second.]
[Your level has increased to stage 6, level 2. The Mage of the Five Elents stage 6 advancent quest triggered.]
[The Mage of the Five Elents stage 6 advancent quest: Raise Five Elents Affinity to 50% (not completed), Raise Five Elents Technique to level 6 (not completed), Kill 1 million stage 6 or higher Demonic Creatures with Insight attribute (not completed).]
As the prompt ssages flashed, Johnnie finally upgraded The Mage of the Five Elents to stage 5 and learned two more powerful magic skills.
Celestial Obscurity Heavy Water—Black Tortoise had used this powerful skill before. It could attack a single target or hit an area.
Earth’s Downfall was a powerful earth-elent AoE magic skill, and it even had a chance to stun enemies.
Looking at the descriptions of both new skills, Johnnie noticed they both seed to be damage-over-ti spells, kind of similar to a Domain skill.
He had a feeling he might unlock a Domain for The Mage of the Five Elents in the future.
Maybe after the next advancent.
Johnnie already had the Ashen Sword Domain from his Sword Immortal class. If he could also learn The Mage of the Five Elents’ Domain, he’d have two powerful Domains at his disposal.
But the next advancent requirents were even tougher: 50% Five Elents Affinity, the Five Elents Technique at level 6, and killing a million stage 6 or higher Demonic Creatures for each of the five elents.
That ant he’d need to take down at least five million Demonic Creatures.
Now, Johnnie and his group were almost at the Sli nest. There were a lot of Slis here, but definitely not a million.
Plus, there were Slis with other rare elents too, like Wind, Lightning, and Ice.
"Master, should we go exchange for Spirit Stones now?" Jack asked.
Over the past two days, Johnnie had killed so many Slis that they’d collected over 700,000 portions of sli, which could be traded for more than 7,000 Spirit Stones.
Still, he hesitated. With so much sli, would that Black Bear Demon really make the trade?
And did he even have that many Spirit Stones in the first place?
Johnnie looked at Jack and asked."Jack, do you know where the Mountain Hunter’s Spirit Stones co from?"
"I do." Jack nodded."He can make them himself. The Mountain Hunter has a special treasure inside him that can absorb Magic Cores, Sli, and other stuff, and turn them into Spirit Stones."
There’s sothing this valuable?
He asked another question."Then why is he so willing to help you guys trade for Spirit Stones?"
"I’m not sure about that." Jack replied."I guess it’s because he’s on our Demon race’s side, and he wants to help us get stronger." Jack had never really thought about it; trading Sli for Spirit Stones with the Mountain Hunter just seed normal for their kind.
Magic Cores could also be exchanged for Spirit Stones, but since Magic Cores were useful in many ways, most Demon race experts didn’t trade them away.
But Johnnie wasn’t so sure. In this world, there was no such thing as kindness for no reason.
Even the NPCs who seed to help players were really just using the players’ power to finish their own goals.
"Master." Nalorin·Sylvia spoke up."that Black Bear Demon can absorb the energy from all this Sli. I think that’s how he managed to beco a Divine powerhouse."
Absorb the power of Sli? So, does that an you don’t actually need a hundred portions of Sli to make one Spirit Stone?
Johnnie suddenly had another idea. If he could get his hands on that treasure, would he even need to trade with Mountain Hunter for Spirit Stones? He could just refine them himself.
He asked."Jack, do you know what treasure Mountain Hunter uses to refine Sli? And if we kill him, will it drop?"
Jack was stunned and said in surprise."Master, don’t tell you want to go after Mountain Hunter? He’s a Divine powerhouse!"
"So what? He’s just a Half-God. I can handle him." Johnnie replied with confidence. He had already killed more than one Domain, and they were all strong chanical Domains.
Mountain Hunter might be Domain too, but he didn’t seem that powerful—probably just advanced recently.
Jack glanced at Nalorin·Sylvia nearby.
In his mind, Johnnie’s confidence mostly ca from this woman.
But he didn’t think Nalorin·Sylvia was strong enough to take down Mountain Hunter by herself.
Still, Jack didn’t say anything to stop him. After thinking for a mont, he said."Master, in the Land of Confusion, when soone dies, everything they have drops."
"Boss, are we going to kill another Domain?" Benz asked excitedly.
He’d been following Johnnie around, just cleaning up after him for days, and was itching for real action.
Jack rolled his eyes and said with a sneer."Kill another Domain? You talk like you’ve killed one before."
Benz glared back and boasted."Maybe I haven’t, but the boss has—and not just once!"
"Yeah, yeah, sure." Jack said sarcastically, obviously not believing him.
He could feel Johnnie was strong, but compared to a Domain, there was still a big gap.
If Johnnie really died at Mountain Hunter’s hands, maybe the soul contract would be broken. For Jack, that wouldn’t be a bad thing.
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