[South of Blazing Ember City, Lv30 Gale Camp]
While hunting Wind Wolves, Lin Mo took the opportunity to sort through the spoils from the level 28 tier two BOSS, the Sabertooth Tiger King, that he had killed earlier.
It dropped three pieces of tier two equipment between levels 25 and 28, one blue and two purple in quality, plus two D rank skill books.
Even though Lin Mo himself could not use these things, if he flipped them, he could still make over a hundred thousand.
He casually put them back into his backpack and continued focusing on killing wolves.
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
Under Lin Mo's wanton slaughter, the huge camp was littered with Wind Wolf corpses everywhere.
Holding the Venomous Crossbow, the level 30 archer Lin Mo was like a mobile turret.
Wherever he went, not a blade of grass survived.
This terrifying killing power had long since shocked the other players in the camp who were teaming up to hunt wolves, leaving them utterly speechless.
And from beginning to end, seeing Ning Xi only following behind Lin Mo to leech experience without ever making a move, her strength inevitably drew doubts from passing players, "That Liuli is just a freeloader, right? How did someone like her become number one on the leaderboard?"
"Yeah! I've seen her following Rulebound here for two whole hours already, and she hasn't killed a single Wind Wolf the entire time. A pure freeloader."
"Look at her level, it's only 19. Doesn't that prove everything? Without Rulebound, she would've been killed by Wind Wolves ages ago!"
At this moment, a female mage player named [Sweet Tea], who had previously invited Lin Mo to team up and was rejected, deliberately spoke up in a loud, sarcastic tone, "Hey! Some people only have a pretty face but no strength. If you're just a vase, why insist on dragging others down?"
"Really, no self awareness at all."
Just as Ning Xi heard this and her little face instantly flushed red.
Whoosh!
Lin Mo suddenly raised his hand and fired an arrow straight through Sweet Tea's chest, instantly killing her in public with a massive 3921 point critical hit, turning her into a beam of white light.
The surrounding players, meeting Lin Mo's icy gaze, all felt chills run down their spines and dared not make a sound.
Clearly, none of them had expected that this Liuli, who looked like a mere vase, actually held such a high position in Rulebound's heart.
High enough that he would kill a random passerby just because she said one unpleasant truth for her sake.
Even Ning Xi herself felt somewhat overwhelmed by the favor.
At this moment, Lin Mo casually finished off a few Wind Wolves.
Whoosh!
As a beam of golden light descended, Ning Xi's level finally rose to 20.
Lin Mo walked over to Ning Xi and took out a full set of level 20 tier two mage Venom gear that he had prepared for her long ago from his backpack.
"Put it on and try killing something."
Ning Xi nodded, "Okay."
As she spoke, Ning Xi swapped into the Venom set.
Then, her gaze locked onto several Wind Wolves clustered together ahead.
Crash!
The instant Ning Xi lightly waved the Venom staff in her slender hand.
Centered on one Wind Wolf, a massive dark storm with a radius of 50 yards swept outward.
Powerful waves of dark magic energy surged within the storm, continuously ravaging the three Wind Wolves trapped inside.
Seeing this scene, the surrounding passersby were all stunned.
"Holy crap! What skill is that?"
"An AOE skill!?"
"That skill effect… it's got to be at least a B rank skill, right?"
Just as everyone was still in shock, the next moment, an even more life shattering scene appeared.
They saw that under the continuous ravaging of the storm, the three Wind Wolves inside let out pained howls, as blood red damage numbers popped up above their heads—
-2925!
-2925!
-2925!
When the A rank skill Shadow Storm, which lasted three seconds, finally subsided.
Awoo!
Amid mournful howls, all three Wind Wolves died at the same time.
At this moment, it was not just the surrounding passersby, even Lin Mo himself could not help but feel shaken.
He knew that once Ning Xi reached level 20 and equipped a full Venom set, her strength would see a massive boost.
After all, even if her presence had not yet reached the level of the Xi Yue Empress from their past life.
In her hands, one of the world's top ten SSS rank talents, Nine Five Supreme, was firmly grasped.
It was destined that with just a little training, she could leap to a height that ordinary players at this stage could never reach.
But Lin Mo had never imagined that with just a little cultivation, Ning Xi would almost soar to a level even he had to look up to.
'Holy crap! Her Venom set isn't even fully developed yet. The highest quality piece is only purple, not even in the same league as my full gold set.'
'And the skill is only A rank, not even half the power of my SSS rank skills. And yet the damage she's dealing in this state is already not lower than mine?'
Lin Mo could not help but marvel inwardly.
'The ten times damage from the SSS rank talent Nine Five Supreme is actually this terrifying?'
At this time, Ning Xi said with some delight, "The Venom set's set skill is so strong."
Indeed, a full tier two Venom set, regardless of quality, had the same set skill effect: [Immunity to a Hundred Poisons].
The effect was: all poison type effects of the wearer are increased by 100%, and the wearer gains 100% poison immunity.
As such, even a purple Venom ring that added 150 penetration through its special effect would be boosted to 300 penetration.
Combined with all other equipment effects doubling, this was why Ning Xi, with only a bit over 1000 magic attack, combined with the ten times damage from the SSS rank talent Nine Five Supreme, could deal such massive damage to level 30 Wind Wolves.
Looking at Ning Xi's terrifying killing power, Lin Mo could not help but feel relieved.
'Good thing I didn't sell that A rank Shadow Storm. This skill combined with Ning Xi's ten times damage is basically a monster harvesting machine.'
Thus, in the battles that followed, Ning Xi directly became the main carry, while Lin Mo turned into the vase.
SSS rank talent Nine Five Supreme, first stage, damage boost: by consuming 1 point of reputation, each attack's damage is increased to ten times.
Under the talent's bonus, even a single normal attack from Ning Xi could easily deal over 8000 points of terrifying ten times damage, instantly killing a Wind Wolf.
This left Lin Mo, who needed two normal attacks to take down one Wind Wolf, feeling utterly inferior.
Even more outrageous was this: Not only could she dish out damage, Ning Xi was also insanely tanky.
Roar!
When the Wind Wolf's [Wind Howl] skill landed on Ning Xi, it triggered the second stage damage reduction effect of Nine Five Supreme, automatically consuming 1 point of reputation to reduce 90% of the damage from this attack.
In the end, it only left an almost negligible damage number on Ning Xi—
-113!
Lin Mo could not help but suck in a cold breath, 'This is way too ridiculous!'
Even on Lin Mo, the Wind Wolf's Wind Howl would deal more damage than that.
It was simply hard to imagine that such a Ning Xi was still just a "half finished product".
Her strength still had huge room to grow.
That meant raising her level and improving the quality of her Venom set.
The former was relatively simple.
The key was the latter.
'Since I can't use my Soul Flame to evolve it for her, I'll do it through other means.'
'Perfect. The snake gall that drops in the Snake King Island dungeon can be used to improve the quality of Venom gear.'
'When we farm that dungeon, I can conveniently refine a high quality Venom set for Ning Xi. Her strength will definitely be even higher than it is now.'
'As expected of the number one Empress of the national server in our past life.'
At this moment, in Lin Mo's eyes, Ning Xi was basically a massive treasure trove.
'Gotta keep a close eye on you. Can't let anyone else snatch you away.'
Thinking this, with Ning Xi helping to kill monsters next, Lin Mo quickly completed his target of killing 500 Wind Wolves.
After clearing the sin value he gained from killing [Sweet Tea], Lin Mo said excitedly, "We can go back and turn in the quest."
"Ancestral rank pet!"
"SSS rank class ultimate!"
"I'm coming!"
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