A journey in search of wine

Yang Jian's previous outing made him realize that the Eastern Continent was vast, and the area under the jurisdiction of a main city was also extremely wide.

To level up peacefully, he would have to travel for four or five days!

So this time, Yang Jian planned to make ample preparations and wasn't in a hurry to devour equipment!

He took the time to continuously devour five sixteen-slot green bags!

After greatly increasing his backpack capacity, he immediately loaded himself with forty blue-level items and twenty purple-level items!

It wasn't that he didn't want to carry more, but he could only spare this many purple-level items at the moment... These were basically level 5 or 6 purple-level items, their stats even inferior to level 15 blue-level items!

But it didn't matter, prioritizing talent upgrades!

Once the talent upgrade speed stalled, he would have plenty of time to slowly adjust his stats.

【Talent: Devour (Blue)】

【Description: Devour a blue-level equipment not higher than your level, inherit all of the equipment's attributes, can be stacked infinitely.】

【Cooling Down: Remaining Time: 13:19】

【Upgrade Conditions: 12/50 (Only blue-level equipment counts towards upgrade conditions)】

【Current Devoured Attributes: Strength +66, Agility +85, Stamina +40, Attack +1846, Defense +1495, Ranged Attack Power +40, Attack Speed +1, Space Slots +78, Arrow Slots +12, Block +580】

Sigh, I really am... too powerful!

Having made preparations, he no longer wanted to wait for Bai Youyou to come to the main city... Great power belongs to oneself, not a moment should be wasted!

Transforming into his travel form, he headed south!

As his Agility and Stamina increased, Yang Jian felt his speed getting faster and faster.

This time, he felt like he was driving a Volkswagen!

One hundred twenty miles per hour, steady as a rock!

Walking along the main road, he didn't encounter any wild monsters.

Even if he did, the Little Leopard in travel form could swat it dead with one paw!

If one paw wasn't enough, then two paws... Travel form couldn't use bows and arrows or skills for ranged attacks, but it didn't prevent Yang Jian from slapping others!

Along the way, wild monsters that wandered to the roadside all fell victim to Yang Jian!

After crossing the stone bridge, he officially entered the vicinity of Nightshade Town.

The sky suddenly darkened.

After crossing the stone bridge, most of the wild monsters encountered were level 20 and above.

However, he was still thinking about the two 'quest items' guarded in the town, so he didn't want to stop.

Departing from Zhenhai City, he ran for over three hours and finally arrived at Nightshade Town.

Without a word, Yang Jian quickly went to the flight point to register... Zhenhai City's Luan Birds could carry him to any town, provided he could reach that place himself!

He didn't know who made such a terrible rule, but there was no other way but to comply!

"It's late at night, aren't you sleeping? Why are you running around with a blood moon overhead?"

As soon as he entered the town, Yang Jian was stopped by a group of patrolling guards.

"It's me, it's me!"

Yang Jian pointed to the Zhenhai City First Class Private badge he was wearing.

The soldier grumbled, "I thought I caught that night raiding thief..."

Soon, their leader came before Yang Jian and routinely questioned him for a few sentences!

Yang Jian looked at the other party's information and immediately revealed his purpose for coming!

He wasn't here to steal... fair trade, legal business!

"Lament of the High Elves? I do have this wine, but why should I give it to you? You know, I've treasured it for so many years, I can't even bear to drink it myself..."

Although most of the time, names didn't appear above heads in this game.

But Yang Jian's Divine Eye could still see others' identities.

Night Watch Leader, Nightshade Town Guardian: Morton Evans.

"A bottle of wine, it should fulfill its proper purpose, shouldn't it?"

"What you said makes some sense, but isn't the purpose of wine to be drunk by me?"

Yang Jian was speechless!

"Alright, I won't tease you anymore! To be able to safely arrive at Nightshade Town at this time, your strength is not to be underestimated! I'm not unwilling to form a good connection, but..."

"I understand! What task, please tell me..."

"Alas, our world was invaded by the Scourge Legion from the Abyss back then, and the entire Ska Kingdom was shattered, leaving only this small area which was transformed into a Novice Continent by the gods..."

Oh... that makes sense now, I was wondering why there seemed to be both natives and new guides; so that's how it is!

"However, the death qi of the Scourge Legion still lingers over this land, refusing to dissipate. Recently, with the continental rule transformation, the previously dormant death qi was triggered, causing our buried warriors and ancestors to crawl out of the ground, turning into undead monsters..."

At this point, Morton Evans stared intently at Yang Jian.

"My elders, my father, and my brothers are there. I truly cannot bear to lay hands on them myself. Can you help me send them to rest?"

"I have a question!"

"Speak!"

"Even if I send them to rest, won't they still respawn?"

"No! Those crawling out of the ground now are our ancestors from Nightshade Town, possessing their corrupted flesh and imprisoned souls! But those that respawn again will be mere monsters, creations of the rules... they will have nothing to do with us!"

"Leave it to me!"

【Lay the Deceased to Rest (Elite Quest, Party Recommended)】

【Quest Description: The power of the rules has triggered the undead aura of the corpses in the mausoleum, causing the ancestors of Nightshade Town to turn into undead and wander in Nightshade Town's cemetery. The deceased are gone, go send them to rest!】

【Quest Rewards: Lament of the High Elves × 2, Gold Coins × 2, Nightshade Town Reputation +500, Night Watcher's Bow (Blue)】

"Accept!"

He checked it, and the rewards were quite generous!

Without further ado, Yang Jian asked for the location of the cemetery.

Morton Evans clearly wanted to give more instructions, but after thinking about it, he didn't speak!

Leaving the town and heading west, Nightshade Town's cemetery was located on a small hill.

Yang Jian rushed towards the cemetery outside the town without stopping.

【Name: Wandering Ghoul (Elite)】

【Level: 22】

A level 22 Elite monster, 11 levels higher than himself.

Fortunately, although the quality of the monsters here was extremely high, their numbers weren't very large.

Arcane Shot.

-3358, -1079

As the two numbers floated up, Yang Jian's brow furrowed involuntarily.

His current attack power was as high as 3174, yet this hit only dealt almost a third of the damage.

It seemed there was a certain level restriction when fighting monsters above one's level.

He followed up with three more arrows, killing the Ghoul that was about to charge at him on the spot.

A good start!

Skill Book: Volley!

Attacks all enemy units within two meters of the target unit, dealing 30% of attack damage!

Another area-of-effect skill!

What a pity, it wasn't a passive skill, it had a three-second cooldown!

He immediately learned the skill book.

Yang Jian began to study the monsters.

He opened his Divine Eye and saw that even Elite monsters didn't have much stronger attributes than level 20 wild monsters!

But when he fought level 20 monsters before, he didn't feel this difficult!

It seemed that exceeding one's level too much would result in level suppression... Rather than level suppression, it was more like rule suppression!

It seemed that leveling up was still the most important thing.

No longer dwelling on these issues, Yang Jian summoned both Little Sea Turtle and Little Boar.

Let the battle begin!

This time, he had to be more serious!

Hunter's Mark, Aimed Shot!

Follow up with an Arcane Shot!

It still died... Fortunately, then this quest could be done.

Without further hesitation, Yang Jian once again entered his sweep-the-battlefield mode.

Perhaps they were all Elite monsters, or perhaps it was the accumulation of years for these first batch of monsters.

In any case, the drops for Yang Jian were very good!

When he had cleared out all the small monsters on the periphery, Yang Jian checked his spoils.

Three purple-level items, two of which Yang Jian could use!

Or rather, he could use them much later in the future, because the equipment levels were all level twenty!

Because death could drop items, there was no binding issue with this equipment!

If it were 'bound on equip' or 'bound on pickup', then others couldn't use it even if it dropped! Sell it for money?

Twelve blue-level items, and a large pile of various blue and green materials were also collected.

All were stored in his backpack.

There were a few usable ones, such as for advancing Little Boar and Little Sea Turtle?

Unfortunately, Yang Jian honestly looked down on these two guys; in the future, when he had powerful pets, he could release them.

There was no need to fully cultivate them!

Having fought to this extent, the quest completion hadn't been displayed yet.

Yang Jian knew that there was a high probability of another tough battle ahead!

His gaze fell upon a house in front of him.

This was the house where the gravedigger lived, it looked quite large and spacious... it was just a bit dark and eerie.

With the density of these undead monsters here, the gravedigger couldn't have survived.

He just didn't know which big shot was living inside now!

Yang Jian kicked open the half-closed door, wanting to make some noise to attract the undead inside.

After waiting for a long time, there was no movement... Little Sea Turtle, at Yang Jian's instruction, crawled in, looking back every step of the way.

"Roar!"

A hoarse roar came, making Yang Jian shiver.

Then he saw Little Sea Turtle scurrying out with its short legs.

Behind it, of course, was a behemoth.

【Gravedigger, Old Dick, LV20 (Continually Evolving)】

【Undead, Bronze-level (Continually Evolving)】

【Health: 3,000,000】

【Skills: Summon Undead Archer, Summon Ghoul, Summon Abomination, Summon Undead Knight, Death Coil...】

Fortunately, he was Bronze-level, and fortunately, his level wasn't 22!

If it were a Silver-level BOSS more than ten levels higher than himself, then today he would only be able to run away with his tail between his legs.

He raised his hand and cast Hunter's Mark, then saw Old Dick raise his hand, and seven or eight summoning circles lit up around him.

Three archers, three undead knights, and one abomination emerged from the summoning circles.

Yang Jian had just arranged for Little Boar and Little Sea Turtle to charge forward when he saw Old Dick turn and go back into the house, leaving Yang Jian in the wind, looking at the seven summoned beasts in disarray.

Without time to think, he raised his hand and fired an Aimed Shot at the abomination.

A huge number immediately burst out.

-6980, -1820

Indeed, wanting to fight monsters more than ten levels higher was no ordinary difficulty.

The various attributes of this abomination were clearly much stronger than the Elite small monsters outside.

But precisely because there was a two-level difference, Yang Jian's fighting experience was particularly different!

Small monsters were small monsters after all, Yang Jian didn't even need to kite them, he directly killed all these summoned creatures.

Calm and unhurried, he prepared to go into the house to deal with this BOSS!

Suddenly, Yang Jian became unsettled!

【Gravedigger, Old Dick, LV21 (Continually Evolving)】

Yang Jian's brow twitched wildly, no longer caring whether the space in the room was too cramped.

Mark, Aimed Shot, Arcane Shot... a whole set of skills hit the BOSS, and the opponent immediately lost 100,000 health points!

Having been hit, Old Dick could no longer peacefully accept the baptism of darkness in the room!

He roared and charged at Yang Jian.