Chapter 354 – Akeph’s Hand of Knowledge (1/2)
Chapter 354 – Akeph’s Hand of Knowledge
“It’s a medium that allows Necromancers to summon one or two additional undead,” Plenty explained.
Nie Yan naturally understood how an item which bolstered the size of an undead army would be highly sought after by Necromancers, especially if its drop rate was abysmally low. Furthermore, the Conjuring Skull in his possession was one of the rarer kinds.
The price Plenty offered should be fair. However, Nie Yan felt it’d be a waste to sell an item like the Conjuring Skull for gold.
“How about we exchange for equipment instead?” Nie Yan suggested. “A large guild like Fallen Angel, I’m sure you have plenty of Sub Legendary-grade items…”
For guild leaders like Plenty and Nie Yan gold was simply a means to an end. What they required more was better equipment to strengthen the players under them.
“I have a decent pair of mage gloves without faction restrictions. Take a look,” Plenty said after a moment of consideration.
A short while later, a subordinate arrived with the gloves.
Akeph’s Hand of Knowledge (Sub Legendary)
Description: Akeph was a Great Incantist that sought out the profound, learning every type of magic on the way.
Requirements: 529 Intelligence
Properties: Defense 336–369, Magic Power +32, Intelligence +58, Magic Amplification +10%
Cursing Light: Light magic additionally inflicts the enemy with 3 seconds of confusion and exhaustion. Cooldown: 3 hours.
Life Corrosion: Spells corrode 20% of the enemy’s defense and deal additional damage over time based on the player’s Intelligence. Cooldown: 3 hours.
Restrictions: None.
Plenty supplemented Nie Yan with 13,000 gold on top of Akeph’s Hand of Knowledge for the Conjuring Skull. Like this, it was a fair trade.
“That about wraps things up. You’ll be back in five days?” Plenty asked.
“Yeah.” Nie Yan nodded.
Plenty set off to lead the Fallen Angel players in dealing with the Level 60 Variant Lord.
Nie Yan waited for the Dark Portal to come off cooldown in the tavern. He glanced at Empress Finas’ Fang in his bag, helpless to bring it out since it was coated in a highly corrosive toxin. He could only examine it from his inventory window.
Empress Finas’ Fang (Quest Item): Psychic Object
Description: Converts 30% of the damage from regular attacks into poison damage.
The term Psychic Object was unfamiliar to Nie Yan. However, he could feel a dense aura of darkness radiating from the fang.
Nie Yan was blown away by the description. His regular attacks currently dealt around 1,600 damage. For 30% of that to be converted into poison damage, which ignored all defenses except for poison resistance, was astonishing to say the least. According to his experiences from the previous timeline, attacks with more varied damage compositions generally dealt more damage to bosses. An alteration to the properties of an attack was far more effective than a simple increase in attack power.
Nie Yan checked on the status of his quest.
Quest Progress: Search for Empress Finas’ Eye, Psychic Objects (1/3).
It was nowhere close to being finished!
Nie Yan glanced at Bennett’s Soul floating beside him. He could only continue searching for the other Psychic Objects some other time.
As the minutes passed, Nie Yan received news that Fallen Angel had taken down Elder Arachne Kasil and obtained a piece of Sub Legendary-grade equipment from his corpse. The drops from a Variant Lord naturally wouldn’t be lacking.
It was finally time to leave. Nie Yan left Valitin Village, his silhouette disappearing into the darkness as he dashed east. He found a secluded area and opened up the Dark Portal.
A portal radiating ominous energy appeared before Nie Yan. He stepped forward and disappeared inside.
Just outside of Valitin Village, hundreds of Fallen Angel Players were cleaning up the battlefield. There were corpses strewn about everywhere. Everything within a hundred meter radius was devastated. One could imagine the sort of bitter battle that took place.
“Nirvana Flame returned to the surface?” Plenty asked Proud Warlance who stood beside him.
“I think so.” Warlance nodded. Truthfully, when Nie Yan stepped foot outside the village, they already had Thieves on standby to trail him. How he was going to return surface greatly intrigued them. However, they feared it would negatively impact their relationship with him if they were caught, so they dropped the matter in the end. Aside from this, none of the Thieves in Fallen Angel could realistically keep up with him anyway.
“He probably used some sort of teleportation item,” Plenty guessed.