398 Chapter 397 Master Selection
At this moment, Zhao Xu used his telepathy to signal to Vivian. She immediately nodded and took out a handful of gold coins and stuffed them into the hands of the two players who were leading the way.
“Your reward.” Vivian’s voice was cold.
After she said this, she lifted the Holy Avenger in her hand again and flew towards Zhao Xu.
Now, her goal had become to help Zhao Xu get those brass quality treasure chests.
“Big brother, are we still going to keep up?” The forest ranger swordfish said in a dilemma.
The entire flat nest was filled with countless mutated scorpions. Some of the positions could no longer accommodate them, so they could only stack up.
These mutated scorpions seemed to have received a mysterious order, and they went through the countless tunnels in the maze to enter the central nest.
If it wasn’t for the fact that Zhao Xu and Vivian could fly, it would have taken them more than half an hour to squeeze through the hole that the Scorpions had escaped through.
let’s retreat from another entrance. This is no longer something we can interfere with. The warrior Northland held the gold coin pouch in his hand. There were at least 50 gold coins in it, which was more than enough for tonight’s harvest.
“Only?”
The Ranger swordfish looked at Zhao Xu, who was killing everyone at the entrance of the cave, and they couldn’t help but look at him enviously. who knows, we might be able to follow them.
have some ambition, okay? we players should follow the big boss of the players. If you rely on the NPCs now, you’ll be looked down upon. The warrior Northland said righteously.
“One day, we player mages will be as powerful as this NPC mage.”
The warrior’s eyes seemed to be burning with light.
As for Zhao Xu, he was just waving his wooden stick around like crazy.
boxn ov el. c o mBecause his fearless, rhinoceros charge, and staff were all dealing double the damage, he didn’t run into any giant monsters on purpose. Zhao Xu also saved up his Level 1 spell slots and didn’t activate the ability of the runic magic staff anymore.
Just by relying on his two great abilities, fearless and sharp charge, he was able to deal as much as 60HP in one hit. He could kill whoever he saw instantly.
The only thing he needed was to rely on his charge ability to launch it.
With Zhao Xu’s own ability to fly, he was like a warrior of steel as he continued to charge around the entrance of the cave.
Everywhere it went, giant clubs were waved. The speed wasn’t fast, but it was full of chaotic shadows, and there was definitely a harvest.
Slowly, the corpses of the mutated scorpions began to pile up at the entrance of the cave.
As for these mutated scorpions, even if they were reborn, it was difficult for them to understand why this mysterious man, who did not seem to have outstanding strength in swinging his staff, and whose speed was similar to that of an ordinary person …
To think that they could actually slaughter the mutant scorpions so easily.
There were many Warriors in the world who could defeat others with their strength alone, but it was definitely the first time that a wizard with a strength of 8 like Zhao Xu had ever fought in close combat.
The only way for all players to stack damage was through their own strength and the enchantment of their weapons. Above that was the special ability of the Paladin, ” evil-breaker.
They weren’t like Zhao Xu, who dealt three to four times the damage every time he attacked.
Most people could only reach the peak of critical damage when they performed perfectly, but that was only twice the damage. Only the legendary giant scythe could barely four times the damage.
Unlike the man in front of him, his every strike seemed to have a 4x critical hit, turning the world of Arthur, where Warriors struggled to survive, into the ” real Arthur’s unparalleled “.
Even if Zhao Xu’s body was hit with a critical hit, the damage would be doubled, reaching a maximum of 100HP that was five times the damage.
“I’m coming.” At this time, Vivian also sprinted over in the midst of the flying scorpions.
Her body was already covered in a lot of the juice that she had been sprayed with after killing the insects, and she was no different from Zhao Xu.
Zhao Xu looked at the super-small mutated scorpions that were still coming out of the ground beside him. He wasn’t paying attention and they wrapped themselves around his thigh.
The speed at which they spurted out completely exceeded the speed at which the two of them were fighting.
Even if Zhao Xu could freely activate the blade cloud on him to attack, it wouldn’t help.
In fact, there were always some of the mutated scorpions that were lucky enough to hit Zhao Xu’s weak points and successfully break through the barrier of his Wizard armor, breaking through his defense.
But in the end, Zhao Xu’s star Cloak activated the meteor glow and successfully blocked the attack.
“Enter the cave.” Zhao Xu shouted.
After confirming the brass treasure chest and picking it up, his goal had begun to change. He no longer just wanted to fight to the death to obtain life energy.
As Zhao Xu’s figure charged into the dark tunnel, he immediately realized that it was filled with a murky aura. A dense wave of scorpions had gathered in every corner of the tunnel.
If they were allergic to insects, they would have fainted at the sight.
Only someone like Vivian, who was born in an abyss with even worse conditions, could be as fearless as Zhao Xu and kill as many enemies as he could.
After that, Zhao Xu activated the sword aura in his body for every round and continued to charge forward.
At the same time, he hammered every mutated Scorpion that blocked the way to death with his wooden stick until the whole tunnel was filled with the stench.
This was also the first time that Zhao Xu had realized that even though he wasn’t a machine, his hands would still go numb from the repeated killing.
He managed to catch up with the mutant Scorpion’s speed and successfully intercepted the second brass treasure chest.
It managed to reignite his morale, and he continued to kill his way to the end of the tunnel.
“Guild leader, I’m afraid this isn’t the solution?”
Vivian shook her head and wiped the sweat off her hair.
For some unknown reason, the heat that gushed out of the earth vein during this winter season was much higher than before, causing them to be drenched in sweat.
“Yes.”
Zhao Xu sighed as well. He could already feel his hands going numb, and if he went any further, he would feel a sharp pain.
“I’m afraid that fireballs won’t be able to clear out much of this area.” Vivian helped Zhao Xu analyze the situation.
A fireball with a radius of six meters could only clear a 12-meter tunnel. The entire area of effect of the circle was basically wasted.
“Don’t worry.”
Zhao Xu comforted her. He was also panting heavily at the moment. He had one hand on the wall and the other on his knee. He didn’t care that his hands were covered in the sticky liquid from the insects that had exploded.
Other mages would choose their spells carefully, and they would not learn spells with the same function repeatedly.
Because copying spells was too expensive, the borrowing fee alone was 50 gold coins per page. A level 3 spell required three pages, so copying a level 3 spell would cost 150 gold coins.
Not to mention the ink used for copying.
Because he had added too many spell slots to his melee abilities at the beginning, even if he could combine two level 2 spells to become Level 3, he was still short of money.
This made him look forward to the day he reached level-9.
If Zhao Xu’s combat power at Level 1 was 1, then his combat power at Level 6 would be 10.
As a level 9 player with unlimited spell slots, his combat power would be 1000.
At that stage, even if he had fought with a ninth-circle mage, he would still have the confidence.
In an instant, after Zhao Xu stopped moving, the tunnel that had been cleared out by him suddenly became filled with countless small, densely packed scorpions that filled his field of vision.
The large mutated scorpions could already feel the terrifying threat of the wooden club after Zhao Xu charged forward and started to run away from him.
At the same time, he also commanded countless small mutant scorpions to form a wall to block his path.
Even though Zhao Xu felt like he was reaching a bottleneck in his power level after killing so many people, he had just used up all his energy and was completely exhausted.
The mutated scorpions around him rushed toward him in a frenzy, trying to attack him with their claws and tails.
Then, with great difficulty, it was blocked by the armor and the cloak of stars.
“Guild leader, please step back.” Vivian said in a low voice. Her mithril armor was now broken in some of the weaker joints, and the attack had successfully hit her with these cracks.
It was only a slight injury, but she immediately used the Paladin’s holy healing ability to heal herself.
On the other hand, Zhao Xu was a priest who was born with healing spells, but he hadn’t been able to successfully use his healing spells that many times in the four months since the game started.
In contrast to ordinary priests, 80% to 90% of their spell slots were used on healing spells.
“No, no need.”
Zhao Xu looked at his spell slots and gritted his teeth as he looked at the Army of mutated scorpions that was like a dark cloud in front of him.
“I’m going to start clearing the path, then we’ll immediately fly over. If we continue to waste time here, we will only be blocked.” Zhao Xu said.
He didn’t expect that the mutated Queen Scorpion worm in this nest could produce so many scorpions and use the scorpion army to block their way.
“Alright,” he said. Vivian nodded solemnly.
All of a sudden, the sand above Zhao Xu’s head cracked open, and a nest of super-small and super-small mutated scorpions fell onto him.
It wrapped around him like an insect-like curtain, and it even turned and expanded on his body.
Vivian’s eyes widened. She hurriedly raised the sword in her hand, but she could not swing it down.
She knew that Zhao Xu was fine right now, but if he lost consciousness or fell into a helpless state, then the mutated Scorpion Army in front of him would be able to bite him to death.
Meanwhile, Zhao Xu looked like an old man who had lost all his strength. He struggled to lift his arm that was already being held up by many scorpions.
His middle finger barely passed through the mutated scorpions that surrounded him and pointed at the tunnel that had been blocked by the insect tide.
“Lightning beam.”
Electric light surged from his fingertips, and blue electric arcs rushed to the sky and penetrated the two worlds.
A thirty to forty meter long whip-like lightning beam broke through the void and reached the other side.
All the gold, silver, copper, and lead in the ores along the way were instantly melted, and all the obstacles were crushed to the ground.
The previously airtight tunnel was instantly cleared to form a 40-meter-long passage.
The mutated scorpions, which were originally alive and kicking, died in droves under the lightning beams with a damage range of 10-60 (10d6). They did not even have the ability to struggle.
They couldn’t even convulse anymore. They just disappeared on the spot, becoming corpses, leaving behind burnt scars as lightning flashed.
“Fly.”
Zhao Xu suddenly charged forward.
At the next block, another ” lightning beam ” pierced through the front, illuminating the entire dark passage.
In the end, Zhao Xu charged forward with all his might.
The faint moonlight shone on his tired but determined face …
The dew and frost poured down on his outer robe that was stained with the juice of the mutated scorpions and had already become unformed.
If he didn’t shower four or five times when he got back, Zhao Xu would never be able to get rid of this nauseating feeling.
But at this moment, Vivian immediately raised her sword, which reflected the cold moonlight, and blocked in front of him.
She looked at the cavalrymen in front of her, as if she was ready to die.
On the slope in front of the cave entrance, there was a cavalry force in heavy armor. Two young men in the same attire stood in the lead.
They were surrounded by the super-sized, giant, and even super-large mutated scorpions that had escaped at the beginning. Together with the other scorpions of other sizes, they occupied the entire mountain top.
When he saw the few mutated scorpions in the lead obediently lowering their heads and bending their knees to the two young men in front, Zhao Xu immediately understood that this underground nest had an owner.
In other words, the treasure chest he had was placed there by the clan behind this young man.
how dare you take the treasure chest that our family has placed here without permission? you two thieves, why don’t you hand them over? ” One of the young leaders with a pale face and a hint of arrogance shouted angrily.
“No need. Just kill them and take them from their bodies. They’ve already touched the family’s Secret, so they can only die.” Another young man with a resolute expression said.
He waved his hand, and the cavalrymen all over the mountains and fields rushed towards them.
398 Chapter 397 Master Selection
At this moment, Zhao Xu used his telepathy to signal to Vivian. She immediately nodded and took out a handful of gold coins and stuffed them into the hands of the two players who were leading the way.
“Your reward.” Vivian’s voice was cold.
After she said this, she lifted the Holy Avenger in her hand again and flew towards Zhao Xu.
Now, her goal had become to help Zhao Xu get those brass quality treasure chests.
“Big brother, are we still going to keep up?” The forest ranger swordfish said in a dilemma.
The entire flat nest was filled with countless mutated scorpions. Some of the positions could no longer accommodate them, so they could only stack up.
These mutated scorpions seemed to have received a mysterious order, and they went through the countless tunnels in the maze to enter the central nest.
If it wasn’t for the fact that Zhao Xu and Vivian could fly, it would have taken them more than half an hour to squeeze through the hole that the Scorpions had escaped through.
let’s retreat from another entrance. This is no longer something we can interfere with. The warrior Northland held the gold coin pouch in his hand. There were at least 50 gold coins in it, which was more than enough for tonight’s harvest.
“Only?”
The Ranger swordfish looked at Zhao Xu, who was killing everyone at the entrance of the cave, and they couldn’t help but look at him enviously. who knows, we might be able to follow them.
have some ambition, okay? we players should follow the big boss of the players. If you rely on the NPCs now, you’ll be looked down upon. The warrior Northland said righteously.
“One day, we player mages will be as powerful as this NPC mage.”
The warrior’s eyes seemed to be burning with light.
As for Zhao Xu, he was just waving his wooden stick around like crazy.
boxn ov el. c o mBecause his fearless, rhinoceros charge, and staff were all dealing double the damage, he didn’t run into any giant monsters on purpose. Zhao Xu also saved up his Level 1 spell slots and didn’t activate the ability of the runic magic staff anymore.
Just by relying on his two great abilities, fearless and sharp charge, he was able to deal as much as 60HP in one hit. He could kill whoever he saw instantly.
The only thing he needed was to rely on his charge ability to launch it.
With Zhao Xu’s own ability to fly, he was like a warrior of steel as he continued to charge around the entrance of the cave.
Everywhere it went, giant clubs were waved. The speed wasn’t fast, but it was full of chaotic shadows, and there was definitely a harvest.
Slowly, the corpses of the mutated scorpions began to pile up at the entrance of the cave.
As for these mutated scorpions, even if they were reborn, it was difficult for them to understand why this mysterious man, who did not seem to have outstanding strength in swinging his staff, and whose speed was similar to that of an ordinary person …
To think that they could actually slaughter the mutant scorpions so easily.
There were many Warriors in the world who could defeat others with their strength alone, but it was definitely the first time that a wizard with a strength of 8 like Zhao Xu had ever fought in close combat.
The only way for all players to stack damage was through their own strength and the enchantment of their weapons. Above that was the special ability of the Paladin, ” evil-breaker.
They weren’t like Zhao Xu, who dealt three to four times the damage every time he attacked.
Most people could only reach the peak of critical damage when they performed perfectly, but that was only twice the damage. Only the legendary giant scythe could barely four times the damage.
Unlike the man in front of him, his every strike seemed to have a 4x critical hit, turning the world of Arthur, where Warriors struggled to survive, into the ” real Arthur’s unparalleled “.
Even if Zhao Xu’s body was hit with a critical hit, the damage would be doubled, reaching a maximum of 100HP that was five times the damage.
“I’m coming.” At this time, Vivian also sprinted over in the midst of the flying scorpions.
Her body was already covered in a lot of the juice that she had been sprayed with after killing the insects, and she was no different from Zhao Xu.
Zhao Xu looked at the super-small mutated scorpions that were still coming out of the ground beside him. He wasn’t paying attention and they wrapped themselves around his thigh.
The speed at which they spurted out completely exceeded the speed at which the two of them were fighting.
Even if Zhao Xu could freely activate the blade cloud on him to attack, it wouldn’t help.
In fact, there were always some of the mutated scorpions that were lucky enough to hit Zhao Xu’s weak points and successfully break through the barrier of his Wizard armor, breaking through his defense.
But in the end, Zhao Xu’s star Cloak activated the meteor glow and successfully blocked the attack.
“Enter the cave.” Zhao Xu shouted.
After confirming the brass treasure chest and picking it up, his goal had begun to change. He no longer just wanted to fight to the death to obtain life energy.
As Zhao Xu’s figure charged into the dark tunnel, he immediately realized that it was filled with a murky aura. A dense wave of scorpions had gathered in every corner of the tunnel.
If they were allergic to insects, they would have fainted at the sight.
Only someone like Vivian, who was born in an abyss with even worse conditions, could be as fearless as Zhao Xu and kill as many enemies as he could.
After that, Zhao Xu activated the sword aura in his body for every round and continued to charge forward.
At the same time, he hammered every mutated Scorpion that blocked the way to death with his wooden stick until the whole tunnel was filled with the stench.
This was also the first time that Zhao Xu had realized that even though he wasn’t a machine, his hands would still go numb from the repeated killing.
He managed to catch up with the mutant Scorpion’s speed and successfully intercepted the second brass treasure chest.
It managed to reignite his morale, and he continued to kill his way to the end of the tunnel.
“Guild leader, I’m afraid this isn’t the solution?”
Vivian shook her head and wiped the sweat off her hair.
For some unknown reason, the heat that gushed out of the earth vein during this winter season was much higher than before, causing them to be drenched in sweat.
“Yes.”
Zhao Xu sighed as well. He could already feel his hands going numb, and if he went any further, he would feel a sharp pain.
“I’m afraid that fireballs won’t be able to clear out much of this area.” Vivian helped Zhao Xu analyze the situation.
A fireball with a radius of six meters could only clear a 12-meter tunnel. The entire area of effect of the circle was basically wasted.
“Don’t worry.”
Zhao Xu comforted her. He was also panting heavily at the moment. He had one hand on the wall and the other on his knee. He didn’t care that his hands were covered in the sticky liquid from the insects that had exploded.
Other mages would choose their spells carefully, and they would not learn spells with the same function repeatedly.
Because copying spells was too expensive, the borrowing fee alone was 50 gold coins per page. A level 3 spell required three pages, so copying a level 3 spell would cost 150 gold coins.
Not to mention the ink used for copying.
Because he had added too many spell slots to his melee abilities at the beginning, even if he could combine two level 2 spells to become Level 3, he was still short of money.
This made him look forward to the day he reached level-9.
If Zhao Xu’s combat power at Level 1 was 1, then his combat power at Level 6 would be 10.
As a level 9 player with unlimited spell slots, his combat power would be 1000.
At that stage, even if he had fought with a ninth-circle mage, he would still have the confidence.
In an instant, after Zhao Xu stopped moving, the tunnel that had been cleared out by him suddenly became filled with countless small, densely packed scorpions that filled his field of vision.
The large mutated scorpions could already feel the terrifying threat of the wooden club after Zhao Xu charged forward and started to run away from him.
At the same time, he also commanded countless small mutant scorpions to form a wall to block his path.
Even though Zhao Xu felt like he was reaching a bottleneck in his power level after killing so many people, he had just used up all his energy and was completely exhausted.
The mutated scorpions around him rushed toward him in a frenzy, trying to attack him with their claws and tails.
Then, with great difficulty, it was blocked by the armor and the cloak of stars.
“Guild leader, please step back.” Vivian said in a low voice. Her mithril armor was now broken in some of the weaker joints, and the attack had successfully hit her with these cracks.
It was only a slight injury, but she immediately used the Paladin’s holy healing ability to heal herself.
On the other hand, Zhao Xu was a priest who was born with healing spells, but he hadn’t been able to successfully use his healing spells that many times in the four months since the game started.
In contrast to ordinary priests, 80% to 90% of their spell slots were used on healing spells.
“No, no need.”
Zhao Xu looked at his spell slots and gritted his teeth as he looked at the Army of mutated scorpions that was like a dark cloud in front of him.
“I’m going to start clearing the path, then we’ll immediately fly over. If we continue to waste time here, we will only be blocked.” Zhao Xu said.
He didn’t expect that the mutated Queen Scorpion worm in this nest could produce so many scorpions and use the scorpion army to block their way.
“Alright,” he said. Vivian nodded solemnly.
All of a sudden, the sand above Zhao Xu’s head cracked open, and a nest of super-small and super-small mutated scorpions fell onto him.
It wrapped around him like an insect-like curtain, and it even turned and expanded on his body.
Vivian’s eyes widened. She hurriedly raised the sword in her hand, but she could not swing it down.
She knew that Zhao Xu was fine right now, but if he lost consciousness or fell into a helpless state, then the mutated Scorpion Army in front of him would be able to bite him to death.
Meanwhile, Zhao Xu looked like an old man who had lost all his strength. He struggled to lift his arm that was already being held up by many scorpions.
His middle finger barely passed through the mutated scorpions that surrounded him and pointed at the tunnel that had been blocked by the insect tide.
“Lightning beam.”
Electric light surged from his fingertips, and blue electric arcs rushed to the sky and penetrated the two worlds.
A thirty to forty meter long whip-like lightning beam broke through the void and reached the other side.
All the gold, silver, copper, and lead in the ores along the way were instantly melted, and all the obstacles were crushed to the ground.
The previously airtight tunnel was instantly cleared to form a 40-meter-long passage.
The mutated scorpions, which were originally alive and kicking, died in droves under the lightning beams with a damage range of 10-60 (10d6). They did not even have the ability to struggle.
They couldn’t even convulse anymore. They just disappeared on the spot, becoming corpses, leaving behind burnt scars as lightning flashed.
“Fly.”
Zhao Xu suddenly charged forward.
At the next block, another ” lightning beam ” pierced through the front, illuminating the entire dark passage.
In the end, Zhao Xu charged forward with all his might.
The faint moonlight shone on his tired but determined face …
The dew and frost poured down on his outer robe that was stained with the juice of the mutated scorpions and had already become unformed.
If he didn’t shower four or five times when he got back, Zhao Xu would never be able to get rid of this nauseating feeling.
But at this moment, Vivian immediately raised her sword, which reflected the cold moonlight, and blocked in front of him.
She looked at the cavalrymen in front of her, as if she was ready to die.
On the slope in front of the cave entrance, there was a cavalry force in heavy armor. Two young men in the same attire stood in the lead.
They were surrounded by the super-sized, giant, and even super-large mutated scorpions that had escaped at the beginning. Together with the other scorpions of other sizes, they occupied the entire mountain top.
When he saw the few mutated scorpions in the lead obediently lowering their heads and bending their knees to the two young men in front, Zhao Xu immediately understood that this underground nest had an owner.
In other words, the treasure chest he had was placed there by the clan behind this young man.
how dare you take the treasure chest that our family has placed here without permission? you two thieves, why don’t you hand them over? ” One of the young leaders with a pale face and a hint of arrogance shouted angrily.
“No need. Just kill them and take them from their bodies. They’ve already touched the family’s Secret, so they can only die.” Another young man with a resolute expression said.
He waved his hand, and the cavalrymen all over the mountains and fields rushed towards them.
