Chapter 387 - Sun Demonic Sword (1/2)
All of the 13 Sword Marionettes were powerful beings that could deal out at least 1,000+ damage each. Their instant explosion immediately emptied the Corporal’s remaining health bar. At that moment, Mohamed’s Demonic Sword was just 0.01cm away from reaching Lin Jie’s throat.
After a few seconds, Mohamed’s head fell down and landed with a loud ‘thud’ on the ground.
—’You have completed your Advanced Job-Change Mission. Please find your mentor and complete the Advanced Job-Change.’
Lin Jie finally heaved a sigh of relief after hearing the system notification ringing in his ears. As the saying went, “Great money and fame come from danger.” This time round, Lin Jie not only managed to get out of the tricky situation he was in with the Corporal, Sea Mage, and the Summoning Stone of Death Knight, but he had also killed all three monsters in one go, and hence gained great rewards!
Take, for example, the skill book that the Death Knight had spawned after being killed. This was a really useful skill known as the Death Grip.
[Death Grip]: It can be used on any targets within a 30-meter area. If the target’s Strength is judged to be lesser than your Strength, you can grab hold of the target and move them before yourself.
This was a special skill which only players from the Tribe of Darkness could get their hands on, and Guild of Light players would have great difficulty trying to learn it. Yet Lin Jie did not expect the Dark Knight to spawn this skill. As such, he had tried it on Laney and used him as a human shield when the Corporal’s attacks landed on him.
Meanwhile, Laney had spawned a lot of Blood Essence and eight pearls. Other than keeping one of the pearls for Qiu Yuan, Lin Jie gave the rest to the Mermaid Princess. The Mermaid Princess was Poseidon’s precious daughter, and it was almost guaranteed that she would repay Lin Jie with many benefits in the future.
As for Corporal Mohamed, he was Lin Jie’s greatest gain this time round! After all, he was an NPC with various unimaginable encounters—not only had he been to the Primordial ruins, he had also inherited many Heritage items. It was no doubt that Mohamed was filthy rich, and he must have owned a lot of properties.
The rewards for killing such a famed NPC were definitely much greater than killing a Boss! NPCs’ belongings were all precious items and could be taken away by players once they were killed. This was why Lin Jie had put in so much effort to kill him.
To Lin Jie, Mohamed was akin to a walking bank—and a super-scale one at that!
First of all, the City of Light Corporal Armor Set Mohamed donned, together with his ring, weapon, and shield—all 11 items in total—would make up an Epic Set in itself! Furthermore, this whole set had five most powerful effects, including ‘Warrior Skills Level +3’, ‘Hitting a target with your Forward Charge skill will allow your next ordinary skill’s cooldown time to reduce to zero’, etc… One could only imagine how powerful they could become if they donned this set of equipment!
The only trouble was that there were harsh conditions to be met for equipping this Epic Set: only sentinels who held the ‘City of Light Corporal’ rank could equip themselves with it.
‘This whole set of equipment was made with quality ores the likes of Stade Flame Ores. To show off his aristocratic vibes, Mohamed had engraved at least hundreds or more gems on it. What a wastrel he was! Don’t NPCs know that each piece of equipment had a limit as to how many gems can be engraved on it?’ mused Lin Jie as he stored the set away in his backpack carefully.
Meanwhile, he finally decided where he could put it to use. ‘I should reduce the armor into superior liquid metal. After it’s cooled, it can then be used as a substitute for many middle to high-grade materials. Meanwhile, I can use the gems to engrave my equipment. That will save me quite a sum.’
Following that, Lin Jie fished out Mohamed’s wallet from his corpse. Mohamed carried a total of 150 gold coins on himself, and if exchanged into real cash, that would be about $15,000.
Other than that, Lin Jie also found the Corporal’s Mansion Key—anyone who held this key could enter the Corporal’s Mansion freely—and a ‘Bedoya Farmland’ Land Deed. This place was a famous prospering farmland within the game, which was used to nurture medicinal herbs, and it would allow its owner to earn an increase of 20% profit when there was an abundance of crops.
When Lin Jie became the City of Light City Leader, he could then make official use of this Land Deed to grow his own medicinal herbs. This would be a great advantage for the Potioneers at his Sky Provisions Shop.
It was unfortunate that some smaller items, such as the Corporal’s token and other decorative items, had been burnt away by Mohamed while he had used the Sun Swordsmanship. If not, Lin Jie believed those antiques could fetch quite some money if he sold them off.
The only items which Lin Jie could really use for himself were just two items—one of them was a ring which he took from Mohamed’s fingers. This ring did not have many decorative items on it, and the whole ring was made from rubies. If one examined it closely, they might even feel some warm vibes emitting from the ring.
[Sun Ring] (Dark Gold)
Requires: Level 40
Strength: +50
Wisdom: +50
Fire Damage: +110
Chanting Speed: +10%
Critical Hit Level: +10
Additional effect: Your Sun Swordsmanship Level +1.
Special skill: Inferno Blast. You ignite all units in a zone. If the unit has the status effect of ‘Scorch’, ‘Burn’, and other fire-elemental forms of persistent damage, the total amount of Fire Damage over time is immediately dealt to the unit at once. Meanwhile, your skills’ cooldown time will be refreshed.
‘What a violent ring!’ Lin Jie was shocked—it was no wonder this ring was of the Dark Gold grade! Other than adding 50 Stats points to two of its wearer’s Stats, it could cause as high as 110 Fire Damage.
Now, what did this mean exactly?
According to the Mages’ attack calculation formula, 100 Wisdom points would roughly cause 100 points of Mana Attacks. For Fire Mages, 110 Fire Damage would mean they gained an additional 110 Mana Attack power. From this analysis, it could be confirmed that this ring would definitely be a most sought-after item by all Fire Mages!
Lin Jie thought for a while and called up his Friends Column. He tapped on his conversation with Domestic Fat Cattle.
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