North of Blazing Ember City, in the level 22 wild zone Skeleton Ridge—
Crash!
As the level 19 black armored warrior Dragon Soul Aoshi brought his sword down, dealing 794 damage, he chopped the level 22 Skeleton Warrior that had one quarter of its HP left into a pile of bones.
At that moment, a flashing mail icon suddenly appeared in the top right of his vision.
Dragon Soul Aoshi opened his mail.
[Ding. You have claimed the equipment Blazing Ember Blade sent to you by player Liuli!]
[Ding. You have claimed the equipment Genesis Armor sent to you by player Liuli!]
[Ding…]
A total of ten mails, all sent by Liuli.
Dragon Soul Aoshi took out a full ten pieces of level 15 tier 2 equipment of white to purple quality.
At this moment, he casually glanced at the Blazing Ember City reputation rankings.
To his shock, he discovered that after turning in these ten tier 2 equipments worth 100 reputation each, Liuli's reputation not only did not drop at all, it actually rose from a little over 4400 all the way to 4700+.
Even with eyes that had seen countless storms, Dragon Soul Aoshi could not help showing a trace of astonishment.
"How can this Liuli accumulate reputation so fast?"
"Could it be related to her talent?"
"In the world of Divine Oracle, whether it is crafting equipment, refining magic scrolls, or later on engraving orange and higher quality gear, or S rank and above skill specializations, the role and value of reputation is immeasurable."
"If her talent really is related to reputation, then her talent grade will at least not be lower than my S rank."
"Such a powerhouse, if I can make her work for me..."
Thinking this, Dragon Soul Aoshi immediately sent Liuli a message, [Interested in coming to develop in my Dragon Soul Guild? I have always valued talent. If you come, I can give you an elite position in the guild, with a monthly salary of fifty thousand.]
Unexpectedly, one minute later, Liuli sent back a refusal, [Sorry, I don't have any plans to join a guild for now.]
Dragon Soul Aoshi murmured to himself, "You hesitated for a whole minute before refusing, which means you are interested in the conditions I offered."
"Refusing means you have other concerns."
"That's fine. As long as there is something that can move your heart, then it's not a problem. Sooner or later, you will come under my Dragon Soul banner."
Just as Dragon Soul Aoshi was thinking this.
Su Muqiu sent a message, [Boss, the people from Chaotic World have suddenly all withdrawn from Shadow City. Don't know why, only that they went to attack the Insect Nest Dungeon.]
Hearing this, Dragon Soul Aoshi fell into thought, "If that's the case, doesn't that mean Shadow City is now an empty city with no one guarding it?"
Dragon Soul Aoshi immediately opened the map and followed the map guidance toward Shadow City.
———
Twenty minutes later, Dragon Soul Aoshi arrived at Shadow City and sure enough saw that in the huge city, aside from the Shadow Legion that Chaotic World Guild had farmed from level 15 to 21, there was not a single player.
So Dragon Soul Aoshi entered Shadow City.
Su Muqiu led a group of high level players from the Dragon Soul Guild and followed right behind.
They quickly locked onto the position of the Shadow Gate in the city.
Dragon Soul Aoshi raised his hand and lined it up with the bloody handprint on the gate, and three marks suddenly appeared on the stone door.
When Dragon Soul Aoshi subconsciously opened his backpack, took out a Heart of Shadow, and placed it into one of the marks.
Whoosh!
That mark immediately released a blood line that connected to the bloody handprint.
Seeing this, Su Muqiu beside him exclaimed in shock, "Boss, looks like you really guessed right."
"The Heart of Shadow dropped by the newbie village boss really is the key to opening the hidden dungeon Shadow Holy Hall."
Dragon Soul Aoshi looked grave, "Looks like one is not enough."
"We need three."
"Immediately go investigate who else in the Blazing Ember City region still has a Heart of Shadow."
Su Muqiu accepted the order, "Yes! Boss!"
———
[Insect Nest Dungeon, Tenth Floor]
As time passed second by second, from when Lin Mo started abusing the map bug to deal with the Insect Shaman until now, three full hours had gone by.
In these three whole hours of nonstop high speed clicking, Lin Mo felt like his right hand no longer belonged to him.
Luckily, when he was dating Su Yingxia back then, she never let Lin Mo touch her, so even though Lin Mo had a girlfriend, it had forged a hand speed almost equal to being single for 22 years.
Seeing that under his unyielding effort, the Insect Shaman's HP bar had dropped step by step to 61.3%, Lin Mo felt that all of this was worth it.
At this moment, with the nonstop use of the two SSS rank skills, Icy Grip and Seven Star Volley, the dozen plus stacks of mana potions in Lin Mo's backpack had all been used up.
But thankfully, the Poison Explosion Necklace had a Mana Burst effect. Every time he killed an enemy, it restored 25 mana.
After his mana potions were gone, Lin Mo used shooting bugs to trigger Mana Burst and recover mana.
The bugs summoned by the Insect Shaman only had 1 HP. Lin Mo could kill one with a casual arrow. They were extremely easy to kill.
Using these poison bugs to sustain himself, Lin Mo kept on outputting damage.
And as three hours passed, the Insect Shaman had spawned bugs a total of 180 times, each time spawning 1000 bugs.
At this very moment, looking down from Lin Mo's high position, he could see that the entire tenth floor of the Insect Nest Dungeon was already completely covered by a dense sea of black bugs.
The scene was so spectacular that it made Lin Mo extremely cautious, afraid that if he slipped even a little and fell off this stone pillar, he would be instantly devoured by the swarm, leaving not even bones behind.
At the same time, the players of Chaotic World Guild were still going all out to clear the Insect Nest Dungeon.
After all, they had the numbers.
Three thousand people killing monsters together meant the drop rate of poison vials was insanely fast to begin with.
Plus, every time they went up one floor, half of the people were eliminated to act as stepping stones.
Which made it so that at this moment, Chaotic World's first echelon, more than a hundred teams, had already pushed their progress to the fifth floor of the Insect Nest Dungeon.
The remaining more than five hundred teams were spread between the first to fourth floors.
These people on the lower floors were also still going all out to farm poison vials, to catch up as fast as possible, so they could continue being stepping stones for the people in front.
Wang Junjie, who had his subordinates weaken monsters and send them to him to easily finish off and quickly collect poison vials, turned in the fifth floor quest and successfully stepped into the sixth floor of the Insect Nest Dungeon.
"According to the Divine Oracle settings, when a player gets the first kill on a map boss, it usually triggers a map announcement."
Chaotic World Zhuge analyzed calmly, "So far, we haven't seen any map announcements, and the brothers guarding outside the dungeon haven't seen Rulebound come out either, which means Rulebound must still be on the tenth floor, tangling with the boss. He has not killed the boss yet."
Hearing this, Wang Junjie felt even more excited and thrilled, "I damn well curse you, Rulebound, daring to steal my boss in the newbie village!"
"I can't wait to see your wonderful expression when you finally grind the boss down to low HP, and then I suddenly appear in front of you and snatch it away from you. Hahahahaha!"
"After we take this boss, then go clear the hidden dungeon Shadow Holy Hall, my Chaotic World will be the number one guild in Blazing Ember City! Hmph!"
"What Dragon Soul, Warfire, Royalty Guild, in front of me they are all just clouds!"
"Brothers, follow me, and in the future I will lead you to become the number one guild on the national server!"
As Wang Junjie's words fell, everyone on the field shouted in unison: "Boss is V5! Boss is awesome!"
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