Chapter 152 (Tricked!)
I bid farewell to the Prophet while having some wishful thinking.
My vision improved a lot. I walked to the south for less than 10 minutes, and sure enough, there was the canyon that the old man described. The level 65 Black Wolf should be inside it!
Along the way, there were basically no monsters. When I walked around a rock barrier, my eyes were attracted by a glow of light.
What could that be?
I was surprised and immediately got into stealth mode to rush over.
As expected, the glow was emitted by a sword, which surprisingly was the goal of my trip – Sword of Occults!
When I moved forward a few steps, I was completely dumbfounded.
The old man didn’t lie to me. Guarding this magical sword was indeed level 65 Black Wolf. However, it wasn’t just one, but a group of it!
Roughly counted, there were over a hundred!
I couldn’t help but suck in a breath of cold air. What should I do? Abandoning this mission, or going up for the challenge?
It seemed that challenging this large group of level 65 by myself would be something a bit overconfident to do. It was already hard to easily finish an ordinary monster with 10 levels higher than me, let alone a large group of level 65 ones?
I looked around and my eyes suddenly shone. Not far away, there was a crack in the mountain wall that seemed to be fitting just for my size!
Having made up my mind, I quickly activated Haste and rapidly moved in a circle to immediately lured the more than a hundred Black Wolves, without missing any of it. In the eyes of ordinary players, this action might be considered a stunt. However, I could do this just as casually. Perhaps, this was the so-called gaming talent.
No time for being c.o.c.ky. A large group of wolves had already rushed over fiercely, but I had ingeniously outrun the wolves in the front to get into the fissure first. It was just the right size, and could only accommodate one wolf at a time to attack me.
Everything was like in the past, but the killing speed was incomparable. Every time I hit it with my over 800 points of Attack, it was like chopping on a soft meat. Yet, the known high-damage of the Black Wolf didn’t disappoint me. Every time its claws. .h.i.t, it took a few hundred points of Health away from me. Fortunately, I brought more than enough healing potions. More importantly, my inventory was full with the Life Restore Potion that I refined for these two days. But even so, it was still hard for me to keep it up. After the system update, the cooldown period for taking healing potions had gone up from 8 seconds to 60 seconds. For me who was soloing crazily, this was really a fatal blow.
Fortunately, my Frozen Blade could gain me some time. Moreover, the level 2 Potion, which added 1,200 points of Health, was pretty impressive. The level 5 pa.s.sive skill, Ice Sword, with 20% activation chance also helped to increase my killing speed very greatly. Every time the skill activated, there would always be some wolves on the opposite side that got beaten badly. Occasionally, the skill would get activated several times in succession and a large pack of wolves in front of me would all get killed instantly in a flash!
My Experience rose up rapidly. If not because the potions were consumed very fast, this was actually a very good way of leveling.
After killing for nearly two hours, I was depressed. Why were there still wolves out there? Just now, I clearly remembered that I only needed to kill eight more wolves. However, there were more than a dozen of them right now. What was going on?
I was pretty nervous inside. My hands almost cramped from the killing, but the wolves outside resp.a.w.ned continuously. Furthermore, the resp.a.w.n rate seemed to just match my killing speed. f.u.c.k, what a harmonious society!
After killing for nearly three hours, I finally couldn’t bear it anymore and rushed out directly from the monsters’ barricade. After killing a few lured wolves, I finally got next to the sword. Reaching out my hand to grab it, it went into my inventory!
Also ignoring the wolves behind me, I went into stealth mode and sneaked into the void. Those still chasing wolves immediately lost their target. After circling a few round, they went back to the canyon.
I could get the mission item without killing the monsters. This lesson was really a painful one.
The old man was still there. Seeing me coming back, that wrinkled old face immediately showed up a smile.
“Young Warrior, have you acquired the Sword of Occults?”
I took the sword out from my inventory and said, “I got it. Is there any reward for this?”
The old man blanked for a long time before he said, “This is only the first part of the mission. I still need your help for some other things!”
I looked into my inventory. The Life Restore Potion that I refined for two days had almost been used up. Killing those black wolves for so long had also rewarded me a few equipment, all around level 55 green equipment. For the current time, it was considered a waste. There wouldn’t be anyone who could equip them for now. But the equipment level could really not be ignored. The Defense of a level 57 green armor was even greater than Murong Shan Shan’s purple armor!
The old man observed the sword for a long time and then said, “The following mission will be very harsh and cruel. I don’t want you to feel regret, so I’m going to tell you a bit about it. If you can challenge and complete the whole mission, your reward would be huge. Of course, you can abort the mission now. But then, you won’t get any rewards. However, one thing for sure, this mission’s difficulty is definitely more than you can imagine. With your current level, it would be very difficult.”
I was startled and then asked, “What do you mean?”
The old man’s solemn face gradually exposed a smile, then he said, “It’s just a brief notification of the mission. What mission would be easy? Now, are you willing to continue to do this mission?”
“Ding~!”
System Notification: Accept follow-up mission?
Based on my previous experience, this kind of missions should be very rewarding, so I immediately chose to accept.
“Ding~!”
System Notification: Special mission triggered. Free Prophet Rhonin from his entrapment! During the mission, you may not quit. Exiting or getting disconnected would be regarded as failing the mission and you will lose 3 levels and randomly lose three skills!
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Looking at the System Notification, I suddenly wanted to burst into tears. What kind of mission was this? Losing level when failing the mission, even worse, losing three skills. With only those few skills of mine, in the case of losing Advance Combo and Frozen Blade, I would better just delete my account!
A foxy smile showed up on the old man’s face, “Okay, hold this Sword of Occults, and help me to break the seal that has been entrapped me for a long time!”
When the old man’s body moved, I immediately saw an azure-blue magic circle under his robe. A bunch of rattan-like light that looked like tentacles appeared from the center of the light circle, firmly grabbing the old man’s feet.
d.a.m.n, I was tricked by the NPC!
I wanted to cry but no tears came out. All this time, the old man just talked without moving. So, it was to cover the restraining with his robe. What an old fox!
The old man coughed heavily a few times and looked somewhat tired when he said, “Young man, this old man doesn’t really want to lie to you. It’s just that I have important things to do. However, I was imprisoned here by one of the evil magical beasts with its unique seal matrix. I have no other options. If I don’t head to the fortress in a week, the result will be worse. So, I sincerely hope that you would successfully complete this almost impossible mission…”
Not finished, the old man also began to cough. Evidently, his days shouldn’t be too long anymore.
I said in a worry, “Old Sir, are you all right? Your coughing is so bad!”
The old man smiled and looked up at me, “Don’t worry, I’m already old, my body and bones don’t live up to my expectations. I have this cough illness for nearly 300 years by now.”
“d.a.m.n, it seems that I was worried for nothing!” I secretly swore and then asked, “Old Sir, how can I release you from your entrapment? Using this sword?”
“Actually, that’s not a sword…” The old man desperately tried to suppress his cough and explained, “This Sword of Occults is actually a key to the spirit dimension. Only with it can the spirit dimension’s portal leading to the evil magical beast be opened. And in there, you can see the BOSS of the giant evil beast. When you kill it, you can let me regain freedom again!”
I was greatly puzzled. Waving the ‘key’, I asked, “Then, how do I use this key to open the portal to the spirit dimension?”
“Very simple,” The old man raised his hands, making gestures in the air, “You just need to wield this sword strongly. If the sword reaches a certain speed, it will interact with the spirit elements in s.p.a.ce, and then, you can use the sword on the rift to cut it open. Afterward, you can go through the rift!”
“So magical? Seems so incredible!” I muttered, and then quickly began to wave the sword.
With his eyes widely opened, the old man said continuously, “Yes, that’s how you do it. A bit faster. That’s it, faster!”
The old man’s shout became more and more desperate. My waving speed also became faster and faster. Gradually, I seemed to have felt something…
“Chi chi~”
An almost imperceptible noise came out. A few black currents appeared in the air, and a white texture appeared out of nowhere in front of me!
“That’s it. Quick, split it open!” The old man cried excitedly.
I complied and use my strength to cut down. A huge s.p.a.ce rift suddenly appeared in front of me.
“Wait a minute!” The old man stopped me just as I was about to jump into the rift and smiled, “With your current ability, entering it would be seeking death. Looking at your sincerity, let me help you with this one last favor!”
As I was still amazed, the old man suddenly raised his hands over the top of my head. Several pink rays of light flew out and surprisingly, all of my already dark equipment glowed in dazzling lights!