Chapter 777 - Power Levelling with Forbidden Magic (1/2)
Nie Yan wanted to explore this World of Darkness. It’d piqued his interest and was bound to be filled with rare goodies. Plus, his Return Scrolls were grayed out, so even if they wanted to, they couldn’t leave. They were stuck here. Committing suicide to get out also wasn’t worth it. After all, at their levels, every level required an enormous amount of experience.
Fortunately, the Magisters had plenty of mana. If they stuck to less mana intensive spells, they could last for quite a while. Tang Yao didn’t even have to worry about his mana at all thanks to his Arcane Fairy, nor did Xie Yao whose consumption had dropped by 60% because of the effects of the Earth Orb.
Nie Yan’s team was as solid as a boulder. Assailed by a sea of Dark Hounds, they were immovable.
After grinding for five hours straight, Nie Yan and the others were finally starting to run low on mana and health. They could only rely on potions to keep going.
Thankfully, everyone had stocked up on potions before setting out. They wouldn’t run low anytime soon.
“Sparrow Hawk, cast your Forbidden Magic!” Nie Yan shouted. They really couldn’t hold on much longer.
“Got it!” Tang Yao drank a Specialist Mana Potion, restoring his mana back to full. He waved his staff and started chanting an incantation.
His robes fluttered in the wind as he slowly floated up three meters off the ground.
The Arcane Fairy was also giving off intense mana fluctuations. Seeing the seven coloured radiance around it, only then did Nie Yan notice it had already reached Rank 7. It was basically a cheat-like existence. The bonuses it provided to an Arcane Mage were incredibly overpowered. They even had a special ability that greatly reduced the cooldown of a selected Forbidden Spell.
The reason Tang Yao’s Forbidden Magic, Dark Brionac Blizzard, came off cooldown so quickly was precisely because of the Arcane Fairy.
Over a minute and a half passed as Tang Yao finished chanting out 10 sets of syllables.
The surrounding temperature plummeted as dark clouds gathered low in the sky. Soon after, black ice shards started pouring down, sweeping through everything in a 500-meter wide area.
A blanket of damage values ranging from 150,000–160,000 floated up into the air. The movements of the Dark Hounds slowed to a crawl as they were covered in a thick layer of frost. As the blizzard was in full swing, they started collapsing in droves, turning into frozen corpses on the ground. The area south of Nie Yan’s team was instantly cleared.
Nie Yan estimated the Dark Brionac Blizzard had killed at least 8,000 Dark Hounds.
Ding dong! Ding dong! Five notification jingles rang out in quick succession, as Tang Yao’s body lit up with a dazzling radiance. He had risen five levels. He wasn’t the only one. Everyone went up at least two levels, fully recovering their health and mana.
“Sweet!”
Everyone was gobsmacked. This showcased once more just how amazing Forbidden Magic was. It could slaughter Elites and Lords many levels higher in droves. One could imagine how much experience this one action netted.
With everyone back to peak condition, they could keep going again for the next several hours.
After casting his Forbidden Magic, Tang Yao slowly floated back down to the ground. The five level-ups in a row left him completely ecstatic.
Even if they died here now, none of them would lose out. Their moods relaxed quite a bit.
“Levelling here is amazing. Let’s stay for a couple of days!”
“Yeah! Boss, this is a hard-to-come-by opportunity!”
“Mhm. As long as nothing happens with the guild, we can stay here. Try to minimize your potion consumption,” Nie Yan said. He still wanted to find Morphest who had to be somewhere in this map. Until then, he wouldn’t be satisfied.
About two days later, Nie Yan and the others had finally cleared out all the Dark Hounds in the vicinity. After roaming around in the wasteland for three hours, they encountered another sea of Dark Hounds and resumed their levelling spree.
The only thing that left Nie Yan’s group feeling depressed was that these Dark Hounds gave no drops. Each of them on average burned through 3,000 gold worth of consumables every day. That was more than 60,000 gold combined! Yet they didn’t even receive a single copper from these Dark Hounds. Thankfully, all of them were silly rich. It was a drop in the ocean to them. If it were ordinary players though, they would’ve withdrawn long ago.
After climbing over a hill, Nie Yan discovered a lot of Dragonblood Grass growing in the area up ahead, an ingredient used to concoct high rank health and mana potions. At present, his Alchemy Master skill was already at a high enough rank to craft Advanced Potions. However, the potions he made could only be consumed by himself.
“Do you guys know any production skills?” Nie Yan asked.