Chapter 78: EXP Gem
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
——’You have entered the dungeon The Dark Side of the Sun.’
Xiao Li Vibrator gaped. “There’s a dungeon here? How co I don’t know it?”
Bu Yi hugged her enchanted staff closely, looking around inquisitively at the dungeon.
Lin Jie marked down Son of Solar Flare and comnted, “Xiao Li, you go and set up Snake Traps and Ice Traps all around the Son of Solar Flare. Set up as many as possible. Bu Yi, have you learned the defense shield skills yet?”
Bu Yi replied, “Yes.”
“Put the shield around , and activate the Fire of the Holy Garnt with it.”
Whoosh——
Bu Yi lifted her hands, and a bright green fla surrounded her palms. It transford into a shield around Lin Jie’s body. This was the main skill of a Ascetic Priest—the Power Word Shield!
Lin Jie checked the attributes of the Power Word Shield and saw that it could absorb 70 damage points—this was a pretty good stats for a Power Word Shield. After stacking multiple shields, the maximum damage points to be absorbed could reach 115 points.
Xiao Li Vibrator took out about ten plus mouse-trap-like traps from his backpack and started setting them up around the place. Trap Hunters were a weak job at this stage of the ga, and one would require lots of ti and equipnt to set up traps.
“Done!” Xiao Li clapped his hands.
These crude mouse-traps secured with poisonous snakes or ice in the middle, using the Hunter’s arcane skills, would be the basic trap of a Trap Hunter.
Trap Hunters would only beco strong after they changed their jobs.
However, this was enough for now.
After one minute, the Son of Solar Flare started its reproduction process. Light Elents were produced one after the other.
After eight minutes, the number of Light Elents produced had reached to around 300! They sward the whole space.
“Lure half of them to the traps. Bu Yi, guard my shield!” shouted Lin Jie. Activating Fla Boost and Blade Aura Executioner, he used the Blood Soul Multi-Slash attack and stabbed into the balloon-like body of the Son of Solar Flare with great vigor!
At the sa ti, the Ice Traps were activated. As if pouring a basin of hot water onto the cold ground in the depths of winter, bouts of chilly air rose up from the ground and ford a thick fog. All the Light Elents within 20 yards suffered a decrease of 30 points in their movent speeds!
For Elental type creatures, movent speed was their crux in attacking players. The Light Elents’ basic movent speed was set at 15 points, and after it was decreased by 30 points, it basically ant they were stuck to their spots! What’s better was that the Snake Traps beca activated at the sa ti.
Snake Traps would release a range of 5 to 25 poisonous snakes once activated, depending on the strength at which the target stepped on the traps. The more powerful their steps, the more snakes would be trampled to their deaths within the traps, and hence lesser snakes would be released.
The Snake Traps were normally used to attack jobs that had the ability to destroy traps, such as Bandits.
As the Light Elents weighed almost nothing, every snake trap was successfully activated without the loss of any snakes. All of a sudden, the poisonous snakes sward out in huge batches and started biting the Son of Solar Flare!
-37!
-35!
Although poisonous snakes only had 10 health points, they could deal out high damage. Hundreds of poisonous snakes were attacking the Son of Solar Flare all at once now, and its health bar began to deplete at a steady rate.
The Light Elents started shaking their fists at the player who barged into the dungeon. Much as strong as Xiao Li’s traps were, it was only able to hold about half of them off. In every of the following few minutes, the damage Lin Jie suffered increased exponentially!
“Power Word Shield! Power Word Toughen! Fire of the Holy Garnt!” Bu Yi levitated slightly above the ground and maintained Lin Jie’s stats. The Holy Light emanating from her palms shone even brighter than the Sun’s rays.
Heal! 49!
Lin Jie held on to the hilt of Broken Blade tightly with his right hand and squinted his eyes slightly. At the sa ti, Broken Blade made a deep thrust into the Son of Solar Flare’s body with the activated Fla Boost skill. It avoided the Son of Solar Flare’s marble-like heart, and seed to stab through a soft item in its body!
‘It’s this!’
Lin Jie’s eyes brightened, and he repeated the sa process with the Withered Leaf Sword, stabbing with the sa angle into a soft item in the Son of Solar Flare’s body.
Yes, this was the other soft heart of the Son of Solar Flare!
Lin Jie charged into the area surrounded by the Light Elents and felt hundreds of fists beating down at his face. His health bar was depleted until it was left with a re 60 points, and his health points were now lower than 10%!
Bu Yi hurriedly cast Power Word Shield over Lin Jie’s body. The Power Word Shield was not a regen type of skill and could only absorb the remaining attacks. However, it would not change Lin Jie’s critical health state.
Hunter’s Forward Charge!
Lin Jie activated his skills and thrust Broken Blade with the activated Fla Boost skill into the Son of Solar Flare’s body.
Combo 1!
It was working!
The mont Lin Jie saw the effectiveness of his moves, his body turned red, and his muscles welled up.
Death Rage!
Blood Power!
The surge of power in his body made him felt hot. Broken Blade with the activated Fla Boost skill was stabbed into the body of the Son of Solar Flare again, and with a powerful tear, a deep cut appeared on its heart!
Combo 2!
Finding another opportunity, Lin Jie stabbed the sa spot using the Withered Leaf Sword. His attack was spot on—a blood red bead-like item ca out of the Son of Solar Flare’s body, hovered around in the air for a while and entered Lin Jie’s body.
This was the Blood Essence!
Combo 3!
19!
Lin Jie’s Attack Power was temporarily increased by 19!
‘Go on, go on!’
Lin Jie wielded both swords as if firing accurately from the best fire gun. Every attack landed spot-on on the soft heart of the Son of Solar Flare!
It was a risk for a Berserker to use combo attacks—one careless mistake, and they would die. However, the gains to be made from combo attacks were huge. In just a short span of three seconds, Lin Jie’s Attack Power increased by 100 points! He felt aweso when the huge damage points kept appearing on top of the monster’s head.
“Die!”
With a shout, the health bar of the Son of Solar Flare was finally depleted.
The Son of Solar Flare dropped down to the ground, and its body turned to ashes… Nothing was spawned.
Lin Jie creased his forehead. Though he understood that the probability of getting the EXP Gem was minor, it still felt unpleasant to see nothing being spawned out by a monster when it died.
Following the death of the Son of Solar Flare, the Light Elents lost their source of life and also vanished into dust.
The System Column began to refresh itself, and every Light Elent brought down awarded the players with 1 EXP point…
They left the dungeon and waited for it to reset again. The three of them also received a notification: ‘Congratulations on the first clear of The Dark Side of the Sun dungeon. You are rewarded with the City of Light Reputation 10 points, 5 silver coins, and 1,500 EXP points.’
The first clear rewards of a non-worldwide dungeon were just so-so.
“Continue,” said Lin Jie. When the dungeon was refreshed again, the trio entered it for the second ti.
This ti round, they were more efficient. Xiao Li Vibrator set up all Snake Traps inside the dungeon. When about 400 plus Light Elents were produced, 200 plus poisonous snakes crawled out fervently from the traps and attack them—in fact, their attacks were even higher than Lin Jie who activated Death Rage and used combo attacks.
They fard The Dark Side of the Sun dungeon for the subsequent three hours.
Lin Jie was getting more used to dealing with combo attacks, yet the maximum combo he could do was just at 5! This was because when a critical point was hit, the critical point of the target would change to another location. For example, if one stabbed into his target’s eyes, once the target was blinded, he would have no use for his eyes anymore. As such, attacking the eyes area would be a waste of ti—one should focus on attacking the lower body of the target now instead.
This logic could be applied to Elental Creatures. It would be harder to find the changed critical points if it was a human or another animal.
After three hours of attacking the dungeon, the trio was tired beyond words.
“I can’t stand it anymore…” grumbled Xiao Li Vibrator in a low voice. “I need to go back to the city to replenish so poisonous snakes, or else I won’t be able to set up the traps.”
Bu Yi drank so water, and asked, “Do we continue then?”
Lin Jie shook his head. “Forget it, let’s stop.”
‘The attack strategy given by the fellow in my previous life must have gone wrong sowhere! Definitely! Or else… could it be that I was really that unlucky?’
After determinedly eliminating the latter option which he believed was totally not true at all, Lin Jie was only left with one option—the attack strategy provided by ssy Afterimages was wrong!
The Son of Solar Flare was the spot on the Sun, and it could produce Light Elents… coupled with the na ‘The Dark Side of the Sun’…
Lin Jie felt he was close to the answer.
“Fu Sheng, I am leaving first. Just call if you need .” Bu Yi waved her hands politely and tore the returning scroll.
He was now left with the last 30 Lizard’s Eyes.
‘Last try!’
Xiao Li Vibrator could not help but exclaim in amazent when he saw Lin Jie re-enter the dungeon. ‘This Bro’s stamina is pro… it’s a pity it was not used for that purpose, heh…’
———
Lin Jie stood with his weapons in front of the Son of Solar Flare after he entered the dungeon again.
After one minute, the first Light Elent was produced. He sliced it effortlessly.
If one took the Son of Solar Flare as an NPC, the Light Elents which could give off light would be its nesis. Since then, what would happen if one killed off all the Light Elents?
The attack strategy provided by ssy Afterimages In Lin Jie’s previous life had led players to a perception: the target to be killed in The Dark Side of the Sun was the Son of Solar Flare. To be honest, it made sense for players to direct their attacks at this Boss, as it could produce offsprings infinitely if not killed too.
The first Light Elent did not spawn any item.
The second Light Elent did not spawn any item.
The third… the fourth…
Lin Jie killed the Light Elents patiently, while he thought of another important manner, ‘It’s definitely not enough to take on the dungeon War of Light just with Netherblue’s team. A stronger team needs to be built.’
A five-person team was definitely not enough. It would require at least 10, or even 20 people!
At the current stage of the ga, many of the experts in his previous life were still not as powerful yet. Those that had shown their abilities were poached by the various guilds. If he wanted to build a dagger squad, he would need to make a breakthrough sohow!
Ti passed silently. With the death of the 100th Light Elent, a smooth and rounded stone was left behind after its body dissipated into the air. Light radiated off from the stone’s smooth surface, but its attributes seed to be hidden.
“Could it be…?” Lin Jie began to feel excited.
He picked up the gem in anticipation. The EXP Gem glead slightly and showed off so sparks. It was sealed!
“Requires Light Elents’ Souls: 0/1000.
Requires Son of Solar Flare’s soul: 0/1.”
‘So, this is the reason!’ Lin Jie was elated! He quickly stored the sealed EXP Gem away in his backpack and started wielding Broken Blade more enthusiastically.
With the death of every Light Elent, the rounded gem seed to change a bit, and the size of the Son of Solar Flare got smaller. Following the death of the 1,000th Light Elent, the Son of Solar Flare gave off a soft cry and transford itself into light rays, which was absorbed by the gem.
EXP Gem: Special item. It will take effect the mont you put it in your backpack. It increases 15% of the EXP points you received.
‘15%!’ Lin Jie’s eyes widened in surprise. Would all Exp Gem provide such high increases?
‘No, the one ssy Afterimages got only added on 8% of the EXP points he got. The one that I am holding now has double the effect!’
‘In my previous life, I rembered that ssy Afterimages hoarded the Grade Level board for years as he had the stone. Now, it’s my turn!’
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