Chapter 700: Beast Emperor (1/2)
Murong Mingyue was calling out to Beiming Xue from outside her room. Her voice was sweet as her lines were epic.
I myself got up from my bed and entered the washroom. A while later, all four of us went downstairs to enjoy a quick dinner. It had been 36 hours since we activated the treasure map, so it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that every second counted right now. If we didn’t make haste, we might not even get to meet the final boss.
Dragonlight Canyon was a huge hidden map. The only way to use it was to suck up every bit of profit and leave nothing behind.
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Swhoosh!
After I went online, I walked out of the inn, repaired my equipment and bought 50 sets of Fine Steel Arrows for Beiming Xue. It was because Multi Arrows and Evil Spirit Volleys were skills that consumed a lot of arrows to use, and she had been casting them like crazy for this adventure. We couldn’t even ask her to take it easy because her DPS was indispensable to the party.
Besides that, I also spent some time to organize the contents of my warehouse and fill my back with potions and magic consumables. After everything was ready, I created the party, added the girls and Moonlight Stone and agreed to depart 5 minutes later.
During this 5 minutes, I ran to the plaza and unloaded all the equipment I took out from the warehouse at Air Force One. Although the auction house easily snatched away 99% of my business, the shop still provided me with a steady income of 30k to 50k RMB per day. It was better than nothing.
Speaking of which, Dark Moon City had even livelier after it was upgraded to a Rank 9 Castle. At least tens of millions of players used its teleportation formation every day. Every teleportation cost between 1 to 3 gold, and the profit was split 50-50 between Dark Moon City and the main city. That 50% profit we got was then taxed by another 90%, so the daily net income of the teleportation formation was really 700k to 800k or so. All in all, accounting for all other sources of income in Dark Moon City such as reparation, consumables and more, Dark Moon City earned a million gold or so per day or thirty million gold per month.
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”It’s time. To Dragonlight Canyon!”
A beautiful knight declared while riding up to me. It was of course He Yi. I could also see the Firelight Mouse running back and forth on her shoulders and making cute chirping noises. Its cuteness was the main reason He Yi couldn’t bear to part ways with it even though there were better pets out there.
I also summoned the Armored Ice Qilin Horse and the Phantom Wolf King. After Beiming Xue, Moonlight Stone and Murong Mingyue had arrived, we teleported directly to Dark Moon City, cut across Cyan Tiger Forest in a straight line and arrived at the flat plains outside Dragonlight Canyon.
As expected, the teleportation formation was still active when we arrived, and we could even see our IDs floating around it. It marked the teleportation formation as exclusive to ourselves, and only we had the right to pass through it and enter Dragonlight Canyon.
Swhoosh!
Once more, we vanished from the plains and entered the desolate forest that was once occupied by the wild bears. We quickly trekked past the area and the canyon center where the Dragon Girls used to reside until we arrived at a place where the walls were engraved with all kinds of runes. The runes were ancient runes from Eternal Moon Continent, and suffice to say it was unreadable to ignorant people like us. Besides that, the top of the hills were covered in all kinds of statues such as gigantic totems, war gods, Tiangou and more. One of the statues was exceptionally huge, and it depicted a barbarian hero lifting his sword high and looking like he would ascend to the heavens at any moment. Right now though, it was just a statue that was of interest to no one.
Staring at the walls on both sides of the path, Beiming Xue lithely ran up to me and blinked her red eyes, saying, ”This place looks like it’s overflowing with history…”
I grabbed her hand and pulled her up onto my mount. When the Intimacy Level between two players reached a certain Level, they would unlock several functions such as the ability to ride the other person’s mount. Beiming Xue and I had grinded together for a very long time, so our Intimacy Level was max ed a long time ago. The succubus’ cheeks were red with excitement as she exclaimed from the front, ”Wah, the Armored Ice Qilin Horse is so fast! It’s so much faster than me running on my own…”
I smiled. ”Of course. The Armored Ice Qilin Horse increases movement speed by 150%, and I wasn’t slower than you in the first place.”
”Hehe!”
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It was at this moment He Yi suddenly slowed to a stop. Keeping her sword lowered and pointing a finger to the front, she whispered, ”Hey, look. What is that thing…”
”Hmm?”
We looked at the direction she was pointing and found a gigantic statue at the center of the canyon. It was a hunter carrying a war bow with a tiger by its sight. Although time had eroded much of the engravings, its eyes remained sharp and thoughtful. It gazed toward the distance as if it wanted to say something, but all it managed was a lonesome silence that had lasted thousands, or even tens of thousands of years.