Eastern wilderness of Blazing Ember City, Lv28 Miracle Forest.
A level 28 tier 2 BOSS, [Sabertooth Tiger King], was currently being besieged by a group of players.
That group had roughly over twenty people.
Their levels were uniformly around level 24 to 25, and the IDs above their heads all uniformly carried the prefix [King].
"Liu Chan, Lian Po, hurry up and hold the BOSS's Roar skill! Don't let this skill one shot the backline!"
"Okay! The BOSS skill's over! Hou Yi, Luban, Di Renjie, shoot fast!"
"Diao Chan! Cast your skills, Diao Chan! Don't just spam basic attacks! If your skills are on cooldown, fall back and wait!"
"Damn it! The BOSS has gone berserk again! Retreat, now!"
Under the command of a level 25 wizard named [King of Glory], over twenty players from the King Studio were going all out against the Sabertooth Tiger King.
However, their coordination was poor, and their strength wasn't great either.
As a result, under wave after wave of the Sabertooth Tiger King's berserk states, in just a few minutes, they collapsed.
More than half were casualties.
The remaining half, all at critical health, fled out of the forest in a sorry state.
At the same time, outside the forest, the knight Niu Dali, who was only level 21 and wearing silver armor that couldn't hide his bulk, was waiting with a group of bodyguards under him, all around level 20.
Before long, seeing the King Studio players wailing as they fled out of the forest, injured and dying, Niu Dali was instantly extremely disappointed.
He summoned the boss of King Studio, King of Glory, and questioned him, ["Didn't you say your King Studio is the signature studio of Ning'an City? This is what you call a signature?"]
["NMLGB! You can't even handle a tier 2 BOSS, and you still charge me that much money?"] [T/N: NMLGB: Motherfacker]
King of Glory knew he was in the wrong, and since the other party was someone who dealt in loan sharks and the underworld, someone he couldn't afford to offend, he hurriedly apologized, ["Sorry, Brother Dali! It's mainly because this BOSS has a trait where every time its HP drops by 10%, there's a chance it goes berserk. If it didn't have this berserk state, we could definitely take it down."]
["I… I'll refund you, Brother Dali, please calm down! We're just trying to make a living too, it's not easy…"]
["Get lost!",] Niu Dali kicked King of Glory away.
The group of bodyguards started to worry.
"Brother Dali, this is already the tenth time. There's not a single studio on Blazing Ember City's side that can kill this BOSS."
"There are only three hours left. If we can't kill this BOSS by then, the quest will fail. What do we do?"
"We can only wait for Rulebound to arrive!", Niu Dali said, "I've already sent Rulebound a message. He should be here any moment."
Speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives.
Just as Niu Dali finished speaking, Lin Mo and Ning Xi arrived from the direction of Blazing Ember City.
Seeing the two of them, Niu Dali was instantly overjoyed, "Oh my, you two big shots, you're finally here."
And the bodyguards under him were also shocked by the markers behind the two IDs—
Blazing Ember City level leaderboard number one!
Blazing Ember City reputation leaderboard number one!
"Holy shit! Two number ones on the leaderboard!"
"Brother Dali is awesome! He actually managed to invite two leaderboard number one big shots!"
"Great, it's the leaderboard number ones! We're saved!"
At this moment, Niu Dali rubbed his hands and ran over, smiling as he said to Lin Mo, "Big boss, the BOSS is inside. The quest requires that I must get the last hit."
"Alright, wait for me to call you in."
Lin Mo only casually left this sentence behind, then stepped into Miracle Forest together with Ning Xi.
Inside the forest, a gigantic and extremely imposing sabertooth tiger stood majestically ahead, guarding its territory.
Roar! Roar!
Having been out of combat for over a minute, the Sabertooth Tiger King's status had fully recovered.
Through his SSS rank Eye of Insight, Lin Mo quickly captured the BOSS data—
[Level 28 tier 2 physical BOSS, Sabertooth Tiger King, 2900 attack,1300 defense, 190000 HP. Weakness: Every time its HP drops by 10%, there is a 30% chance to enter a berserk state lasting 30 seconds. In berserk state, healing effects are doubled and damage is increased by 30%. However, after each berserk state ends, it will enter a recovery state lasting 10 seconds, during which damage taken is increased by 20%.]
Before the battle began, Lin Mo took two magic scrolls from his backpack and handed them to Ning Xi, "Use these."
"What are these?", Ning Xi took a look.
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[Experience Amplification] (E rank magic scroll)
— Description: After use, monster kill experience +10% for 12 hours
— Note: Experience amplification scrolls of the same quality do not stack, but can stack with experience amplification scrolls of different qualities.
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It turned out that after selling all the magic scrolls and skill books obtained from the Shadow Temple dungeon to Dragon Soul Aoshi, and after Dragon Soul Aoshi used the scrolls and obtained various kinds of magic scrolls, Lin Mo bought back a few [Experience Amplification], as well as [Drop Rate Amplification] and [Skill Expansion] from him.
After using both E rank and D rank experience amplification simultaneously, Ning Xi obtained a buff: monster kill experience increased by 30% for 12 hours.
Lin Mo himself was reluctant to use them.
After all, an E rank one cost twenty thousand, and a D rank one cost sixty thousand.
It was mainly to raise Ning Xi's level as quickly as possible so her SSS rank talent could unleash its ultimate effect.
Next, Lin Mo used [Drop Rate Amplification] on the Sabertooth Tiger King BOSS—
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[Drop Rate Amplification] (E rank magic scroll)
— Description: Used on monsters to increase experience and gold drop rates by 10% upon death (effect reduced to 5% when used on elite monsters and BOSSes, and each use directly consumes 10 uses and 30 uses respectively)…
— Remaining uses: 470/500
— Note: Drop rate amplification scrolls of the same quality do not stack, but can stack with drop rate amplification scrolls of different qualities.
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Stacking E rank and D rank drop rate amplification continued to increase BOSS experience by 15%.
Maximizing experience value.
The next moment, Lin Mo took the golden Venomous Crossbow from his back and entered combat mode.
Crash!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
He opened with Ice Snow · Extreme Cold Grasp plus Heaven Slaying · Seven Star Volley.
The former froze the heavens and earth.
The latter destroyed heaven and earth.
The two SSS rank skills chained together caught the Sabertooth Tiger King completely off guard—
-13299 (critical)!
-3204 (critical)!
-3291 (critical)!
-3380 (critical)!
The purple title [Overgod Player] applied an extra 10% damage to BOSSes to the fullest.
In an instant, the Sabertooth Tiger King lost one sixth of its HP.
———
At the same time, outside Miracle Forest.
The group of bodyguards under Niu Dali, who looked like they were all muscle monsters but in reality could only be considered bottom tier trash in Shenyu, began to grow anxious.
"Of course, I'm not doubting the strength of these two leaderboard number ones, but there are only two of them. Can they really kill a tier 2 BOSS?"
"No! To be precise, it's only Rulebound alone. Because I just saw that Liuli is only level 0."
"Didn't we hear that Rulebound even solo killed a tier 3 BOSS?"
"The Chaotic World already clarified that. They said Rulebound solo killed the tier 3 BOSS by abusing a map bug, and that using that bug, even a dog could solo kill that BOSS."
"Huh? Then does that mean this leaderboard number one is inflated?"
Just as the bodyguards were talking nonstop, to the point that even Niu Dali was starting to lose confidence, he suddenly received a message from Lin Mo, ["Come in and take the BOSS."]
Niu Dali's heart jolted.
"Didn't he just go in less than three minutes ago?"
"Don't tell me the BOSS is already done?"
———
Without another word, Niu Dali immediately led the group of bodyguards into Miracle Forest.
When they saw the Sabertooth Tiger King BOSS lying in a pool of blood, on its last breath with only 1 HP left, everyone was stunned.
Niu Dali was also shocked for quite a while before finally coming back to his senses.
He grabbed an iron hammer, ran over, and with a "bang", smashed it straight onto the Sabertooth Tiger King's head, killing the BOSS that Lin Mo had deliberately left at 1 HP.
[Ding! Congratulations, you have killed the level 28 tier 2 BOSS Sabertooth Tiger King and completed the E rank hidden quest, King of the Forest!]
At the same time, Lin Mo's gaze fell on Ning Xi.
He saw that at the instant the BOSS fell dead,
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Streaks of golden light continuously enveloped Ning Xi.
[Ding! Congratulations, you have leveled up to level 1.]
[Ding! Congratulations, you have leveled up to level 2.]
[Ding! Congratulations, you have leveled up to level 3.]
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