Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation
Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“I, too, have an Aging Curse that can weaken mobs.”
Aging Curse: Sacrifice 10% of the user’s health. Weakens mobs within the AoE1. Decreases monsters’ speed, damage and armor by 15%.
Both players’ eyes sparkled. “Big Sis, don’t worry about losing your health, I have both healing totem and healing spells,” said AdorkableTong.
“If that’s the case, we will have a better chance in winning.” Li Yao led the squad to find a better terrain while killing mobs.
Half an hour passed and they were yet satisfied with what they had found. Li Yao frowned and said, “I know a cave, but entering the cave would mean a dead end. I don’t know if you guys would like to try it out.”
“Let’s go, let’s go. We can try to lure some mobs there.” AdorkableTong was jumping around with eagerness.
The trio reached and investigated the cave. The cave was quite deep in and was at least sixty, seventy yards in depth.
“It’s quite nice.” AdorkableTong placed 2 totems in front of the cave entrance, then she placed one Healing Totem in their position.
“That is an Explosive Totem. It will shoot out bursts of fire and cause area damage, when paired with my Lightning Chain it will be unstoppable. My Earthbind Totem and Big Sister’s Aging Curse will be able to slow down the stupid frogs. Quick, place your Arrow Towers.” Tong directed Li Yao.
Li Yao did not mind at all. He set the three Arrow Towers in position and placed two Spike Traps at the cave entrance. HundredFaceWitch also summoned a bronze skeleton.
“Wait here, I will lure some monsters here.”
Li Yao ran out of the cave and began luring the monsters. In his first try, he attracted 5 Elites and a few Common Poisonous Dart Frogs. Luring just a few mobs would defeat their purpose of grinding.
Looking at the nine mobs behind Li Yao, HundredFaceWitch was startled. Few days back she mainly killed common mobs to level up. If other players were to see this scene, they would have thought that this was a suicide mission.
Li Yao leaped past the totems and towers, while behind him, the frogs had entered the totems and Arrow Tower’s vicinity.
Aging Curse!
A circle of light surrounded the mobs, slowing their movements.
Bam!
The Explosive Totem began shooting burst of flames and the Spike Trap popped open.
Bzzt…
AdorkableTong casted Lightning Chain at the mobs.
Closely-packed damage numbers appeared continuously on top of the Poisonous Dart Frogs’ heads.
Flame damage paired with bleeding damage, Arrow Tower damage, Lightning Chain damage and Bone Spear damage was an instant overkill. Their panels were filled with numbers.
With the effects of Earthbind Totem, the mobs looked as if they were moving in mud.
Li Yao stepped up with his constant damage output. If the mobs were to break through the spells and traps, the trio would become dinner for the mobs as they had nowhere to run.
When the mobs approached the totems and towers, all of the common mobs had died. What was left were a couple of elites.
Li Yao crouched down and placed an Explosive Sheep. The Explosive Sheep ran toward the entrance.
As the mobs squeezed through the entrance, the sheep exploded into pieces.
Both AdorkableTong and HundredFaceWitch were shocked to see the sheep that had caused more than 500 total damage to the elites. The first two elites at the front absorbed most of the fire damage and toppled over from the sheep’s blast.
“Wow! That is so satisfying, what is that?” AdorkableTong exclaimed in awe.
HundredFaceWitch was speechless. She looked at Li Yao and was also curious to find out.
“Nothing much, just a product I made using engineering. It’s just an Explosive Sheep.” Li Yao replied.
“I didn’t know engineering can be that cool, I would like to learn it too.” AdorkableTong’s eyes twinkled with astonishment.
Li Yao gave a slight chuckle. If it were not for the Eye of Creator, his engineering items would not be as powerful.
The last elite had finally died. “This is unbelievable, if I tell others about what had just happened, they would think that I’m mad.” HundredFaceWitch exclaimed.
“Hehe, the main thing is that the three of us are too strong. It would be perfect if Big Bro and Sis had AoE attacks,” said AdorkableTong. “I heard that those so-called professional team players were all wiped out by a single Level 4 elite, such noobs.”
“They are not noobs, you two are the ones who are crazily overpowered, especially Liao Yuan.” HundredFaceWitch said as she looked at Li Yao’s calm face.
Li Yao felt a sudden jolt. From their earlier conversation, he could point out that both players had relations with big, professional clubs and their inner circles. It was very likely AdorkableTong was the apotheosized Shaman, and HundredFaceWitch that had a Bronze Skeleton at this level was obviously not an unknown player. However, when he thought of the twenty billion players in game and that most professional players did not like to have their faces shown, he was no longer fixated on that thought.
The squad chatted while they sat on the ground to recover their character’s Vitality and Stats.
Soon after, AdorkableTong shot up from the ground and gave Li Yao a pat on the shoulder. “Okay, okay. Time to get to work. Big Bro you should go now, the task to save the world is now in your hands.”
Li Yao was speechless. He got up and went out to lure the mobs again. For the second wave, Li Yao had lured seven elites and a few common mobs. This time it was a little too much for them to handle, they were in low health after fighting the mobs.
“That was too dangerous, five to six elites are enough. It doesn’t matter how many common mobs there are since our AoE attacks are powerful enough to kill them,” said HundredFaceWitch.
“Alright.” Li Yao lured the third wave of mobs that consisted of six elites. Although it was a little strenuous to handle, they did not face any danger at all.
Just like that, Li Yao lured waves after waves of elite and common mobs to the cave entrance and the squad managed to eliminate all of the mobs. With the help of the squad, he was able to level up faster than going solo.
Li Yao himself felt that he was levelling up fast, it was a no brainer for the other two players. Both AdorkableTong and HundredFaceWitch had levelled up to Level 4 in just a few hours.
The two female players were unable to stop grinding and just like that the squad had been grinding for eleven hours until the sky had turned dark. Finally, they stopped after Li Yao almost got into trouble while luring mobs.
“This is too addictive. I really don’t feel like stopping.” AdorkableTong was exhausted but the sparkle of joy in her eyes said otherwise.
“It took me three days to get to Level 3, now it only took me a day to level up to Level 4 and a half. This feels so surreal.” HundredFaceWitch was also feeling unsatiated.
Li Yao was almost Level 5, but he had to stop there.
“That’s it for today, let us keep in touch.”
“Okay, don’t you ever abandon me Big Bro, or else I will spread the news in the forum that you have used and abandoned me.” AdorkableTong was reluctant to leave.
“Of course I won’t. You’re so powerful, and even stronger than I am.” Li Yao patted her head.
“Let’s contact each other when we have time.” HundredFaceWitch began to use her Hearthstone.
Li Yao watched as both players were teleported back with their Hearthstones. Instead of going back, he cautiously went to find Frere to complete his task.
Frere’s eyes almost popped out of its socket when he saw what Li Yao had brought for him. There were a thousand over elite Poisonous Glands and a few hundred common Poisonous Glands.
“My friend, you have amazed me. Your combat power is far beyond what I have expected.” Frere took out a long bow and a cloak. “You deserve this, as friends, you can pick whichever that you like.”
Li Yao was a little surprised. From the walkthroughs he had seen, players were able to get Blue equipment, but never weapons or items with such quality and attributes. It was obvious that the Poisonous Glands he had offered had exceeded Frere’s expectations.
Li Yao already had a bow and did not need another one, the cloak did not look bad either.
Cloak of Invisibility
Grade: Blue
Strength: 7
Agility: 5
Note: Invisibility works better if the user stays still
“You have great taste my friend, this cloak was my favourite when I was young. I hope you will use it well.” Frere gave the cloak one last stroke before handing it over to Li Yao.
A golden ray of light shone upon Li Yao, he had levelled up to Level 5.
Li Yao changed into the cloak and his Stats were increased exponentially. Many players would have mistaken the big cloak with a witch’s cloak. If he were to wear the same cloak as HundredFaceWitch, most people would be unable to see his face.
“Is there anything else that I can help you with?”
“It’s already nighttime, come find me tomorrow,” said Frere while waving his hand.
“Alright.” Li Yao gave him a bow and used his Hearthstone.
Li Yao then went offline. The sun was already high up in the sky and he could no longer get breakfast outside. He simply made some noodles for breakfast and called it a day.
Just as he was contemplating whether to work out or not, his communicator rang.
“Does our committee member still remember me?” In the screen, it was a woman in a professional attire, giving her an intelligent outlook.
“How could I forget our class monitor.” Li Yao gave a slight chuckle. The person in front of him was the assistant class monitor and the class representative for general affairs back when they were in university. Li Yao was the commissary in charge of studies although he never took his part seriously.
“Let me correct you again, it’s assistant class monitor.”
Li Yao pouted. Of course he knew that the class monitor was Li Haitao, he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. “Fine, fine, that douchebag would always be there to enjoy his rights, but when something happened, he was nowhere to be found. Oh right, why would the class monitor call me, a nobody?”
Li Yao did not hate the rich, he just could not reach a common ground with the class monitor. His father had donated money to the university to build a hundred-floor experimental lab building. Everyone was clear about the real intention behind his generosity.
“Sigh, I almost forgot what I was going to say. The thing is, do you still remember the reunion we discussed not long ago?” asked Wang Xiaolei.
“Uhh, I do. Have the time and venue been set?” asked Li Yao.
“Yep, since everyone is here in Mingzhu for the carnival, we have decided to have a reunion. It will be 10pm tonight at Mingzhu hotel. The timing won’t be a problem, right?”
“Yeah, I will be there in time.” Li Yao hung up the communicator. He had slowly regained his memory of the reunion.
To further promote World of Ancient Gods, every planet in the Solar System and all districts had decided to hold a promotional carnival at the same time.
In Hua Xia district, the carnival was held in Mingzhu Town. It was a grand event. After the carnival had ended, all of the struggling, old games would be completely shut down. The new era of World of Ancient Gods had arrived.
Most of Li Yao’s classmates had the entrance tickets. Most of them had arrived earlier in Mingzhu to reunite with their old classmates after one year of their graduation. Of course, the most active of them all was the class monitor.
Li Haitao’s father was caught up with the World of Ancient God’s market and told his son everything about the game’s development. Now, Li Haitao wanted to recruit most of their classmates and create a guild. The students still maintained a close relationship and the conditions given by him were really enticing.
It was just that Li Yao and Li Haitao did not get along well. They had numerous disputes back when they were in university. In his past life, Li Yao was deeply embarrassed during the reunion. He lost his dignity and became the clown of the show.
“Ah, rebirth…” Li Yao smiled as he walked into the bathroom…