Outside the Insect Nest Underground Palace.
The battle between the Dragon Soul and Chaotic World guilds was fought under darkened skies.
Because only half of Chaotic World's people were at the Insect Nest Underground Palace, while the other half were over in Shadow City.
This time, even their numbers advantage was gone.
A bunch of scattered troops facing Dragon Soul Guild's lineup of top-tier frontline experts, all ranked within the top ten thousand of Blazing Ember City's Heavenly Rankings, were almost always trading two for one, or even needing three people just to barely take down a single opponent!
Wang Junjie was furious, "TNND! Call everyone from Shadow City over here right now!"
"I want to see just how hard the bones of you Dragon Soul bastards really are!"
As soon as the words fell, the strategist Chaotic World Zhuge stepped in to advise him, "Brother Jie, don't be impulsive. In my opinion, we should preserve our strength and focus on the hidden dungeon, the Shadow Holy Hall."
"This Venom set, we still don't know what its effect actually is. What if it only gives a slight boost to strength? Then we'd be throwing away a watermelon to pick up sesame seeds. It wouldn't be worth the loss at all."
"But the hidden dungeon Shadow Holy Hall over in Shadow City has obvious value. The top priority right now should be putting our focus on the dungeon."
Although Wang Junjie was grinding his teeth in hatred, after hearing the strategist say this, he also felt it made sense.
"Then I'll deal with you after I take down the hidden dungeon."
"Dragon Soul, Rulebound, every single one of you better remember this!"
"Withdraw!"
With Wang Junjie's order, the Chaotic World Guild players retreated from the Insect Nest Underground Palace in a sorry state.
As the battle ended, the onlooking crowd around the outskirts burst into amazement.
Onlooker A: "This Dragon Soul Guild is insanely strong! Back at Death Town, I saw them crush Chaotic World once already! This is the second time now!"
Onlooker B: "They're the elite force of the number one guild on the Tianqi server. How could they not be strong? Blazing Ember City has three million people total, and Dragon Soul's one thousand members are all ranked within the top ten thousand! How much weight does that carry? Do I really need to explain?"
Onlooker C: "Mm~ I really want to join Dragon Soul Guild too. I wonder what their requirements are?"
Onlooker D: "I heard the Dragon Soul guild leader cherishes talent. As long as you have strength, you can get in! At the very least, you need to be within the top ten thousand of Blazing Ember City's Heavenly Rankings!"
Onlooker E: "Then forget it, I'm not worthy… I'd better go to Chaotic World Guild instead! I heard they even recruit eighty-year-old grandpas, and the pay is insanely high!"
On the field, as the battle ended, the Insect Nest Underground Palace had already become Dragon Soul Guild's territory.
And at this moment, Lin Mo, who had been quietly watching the battle from within the crowd the whole time, stepped forward and walked toward the dungeon.
"Let him through!"
With Su Muqiu's command, the Dragon Soul players guarding the dungeon entrance all stepped aside to the left and right.
In full view of everyone, Lin Mo walked straight into the Insect Nest Underground Palace without any obstruction.
At this time, a Dragon Soul player asked Su Muqiu in confusion, "Vice Guild Leader, isn't this Rulebound on bad terms with your sister? Why didn't we take this chance to sell him a favor? Instead, we just let him in so easily?"
Su Muqiu said in a deep voice, "This is the boss's order. We only need to carry it out."
Upon hearing the name of the boss, Dragon Soul Aoshi, no one present dared to ask another word.
On the other side, Lin Mo went straight to the tenth floor of the dungeon.
As it turned out, the reason Dragon Soul Guild appeared at the Insect Nest Underground Palace and clashed with Chaotic World's players was all because of a deal Lin Mo had struck with Dragon Soul Aoshi.
Lin Mo had asked Dragon Soul Aoshi for support, asking him to help deal with Chaotic World Guild's guards stationed at the Insect Nest Underground Palace.
As the saying goes, there's no merchant who isn't crafty.
As a businessman, what Dragon Soul Aoshi valued most was profit.
Thus, as payment, Lin Mo would gift Dragon Soul Aoshi three sets of Tier 2 Venom gear and ten sets of Tier 1 Venom gear within one day.
This price, although not small, had no better, more direct and effective way to solve the big problem that was Wang Junjie.
Otherwise, right now, Lin Mo probably wouldn't even be able to step through the doors of the Insect Nest Underground Palace.
"Thirteen sets of Venom gear."
"Looks like I'll need to put in more effort next."
As he spoke, Lin Mo raised his golden Venom Crossbow, locked onto the level 30 poison bugs around the tenth floor, and began his hunt.
Ice Snow · Extreme Cold Grasp!
Heaven-Slaying · Seven Star Volley!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Two SSS-tier skills opened at once, instantly locking onto three Venom Scorpions ahead.
As the Extreme Cold Domain covered the ground, seven golden star arrows shot forth like thunder, piercing heaven and earth.
-4993 (Critical)!
-1819 (Critical)!
-1819 (Critical)!
-1862 (Critical)!
Roar! Roar! Roar!
Amid a series of wails, three Venom Scorpions as high as level 30 were killed on the spot.
[Ding~ You have slain a level 30 Venom Scorpion. Experience +4840!] (x3)
Clatter!
Under the boost of the double poison bottle drop buff, six poison bottles rolled out all at once from the corpses of the three Venom Scorpions.
After waiting for a round of skill cooldowns, Lin Mo repeated the same method, once again using Extreme Cold Grasp plus Seven Star Volley. Three poison bugs were instantly killed, and he steadily gained another six poison bottles.
In just the blink of an eye, Lin Mo already had twelve poison bottles piled up in his bag.
"One piece of Venom gear secured, easy as breathing."
Next, Lin Mo went all out, slaughtering poison bugs like crazy to farm poison bottles.
While killing bugs, Lin Mo also took the time to check some of the drops from the previous BOSS.
After killing the Insect Shaman earlier, he had gone straight to dealing with the items dropped by Chaotic World's players and hadn't had time to carefully look through the BOSS loot.
Aside from a large amount of gold coins and poison bottles.
The most valuable items dropped by the Insect Shaman were none other than a C-grade magic scroll and a C-grade skill book—
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[Bug Explosion] (Magic Scroll):
— Quality: C-grade
— Effect: After use, summons 100 poison bugs with 1 attack, 1 defense, and 1 HP. All poison bugs obey the summoner's commands…
— Uses: 100/100
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Magic scrolls could be said to be bug-level items in the world of Divine Oracle.
Because their existence could break the usual rules of Divine Oracle and create miracles.
Take this C-grade Bug Explosion for example.
Don't be fooled by the summoned bugs only having 1 attack, 1 defense, and 1 HP. At one time, it could summon a full 100 of them.
If all one hundred uses were summoned at once, that would be a swarm of ten thousand bugs.
The Insect Shaman's bug tide instantly devouring over three thousand Chaotic World players was terrifying beyond measure.
And this Bug Explosion was basically a weakened version of the Insect Shaman's Bug Explosion skill.
"For force-killing low-level elite monsters, low-tier BOSSes, and high-defense meat shields, the perfect choice for home and travel."
If he had had such a magic scroll in hand before killing the Insect Shaman, it would have reduced Lin Mo's time and pressure by quite a bit.
But unfortunately, now Lin Mo no longer needed it.
"Sell it!"
Lin Mo said decisively, "Sell it for two hundred thousand."
Was selling a C-grade magic scroll for two hundred thousand outrageous? Not outrageous at all.
Rich whale players would be scrambling over each other to buy it.
So Lin Mo had no intention of direct selling, and instead planned to auction it.
Although auction fees were higher than direct sales, reaching 5%. At the same time, he could earn more.
Let those big spenders fight over it.
The harder they fought, the more Lin Mo would earn.
What was exciting was that because he had solo-killed a BOSS and triggered a god-tier defeat with double drops, Lin Mo had two of this C-grade magic scroll at the same time.
"One guarantees at least two hundred thousand, two guarantees at least four hundred thousand."
"Money, come!"
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