Skill: Deception
In a sense, Abyssal Monsters can no longer be considered mere wild monsters!
These little guys possess a certain level of intelligence... For example, the Spawned Nightmare just now... When it couldn't win, its first thought was to escape.
When it realized it couldn't escape, it could only return to reluctantly face the battle.
It even knew to inform its companions!
Although Yang Jian couldn't understand their language, that didn't prevent him from guessing their meaning!
Stealth was still not entirely safe.
Fortunately, Yang Jian had something good!
【Talent Skill: Deception!】
This was a skill inherited from the Orb of Deception when he devoured it.
When fighting the Spawned Nightmare earlier, Yang Jian had already activated the skill, extracting a wisp of the nightmare's aura!
The current situation was that as long as he didn't initiate an attack, this disguise would be very difficult to see through... especially in this place!
After activating the Deception skill, Yang Jian directly transformed into a Spawned Nightmare!
The world in his eyes immediately changed... At the very least, his height and vision were instantly different!
【Player: Tianmu Zhenjun】
【Status: Spawned Nightmare (Disguised)】
【Note: Actively initiating an attack will exit the disguised state!】
Only exiting if he actively initiated an attack?
Yang Jian's courage immediately grew!
No longer watching the excitement of the scene here.
Yang Jian began to advance towards the huge Dragon Tomb at the bottom of the valley.
At least... he had to check if there were any powerful guards or Bosses around!
If they were all at the level of Spawned Nightmares... then today, he might just have to go on a killing spree!
Along the way, Yang Jian's Tian Mu was never closed!
【Corrupted Root Entangler, LV35】
【Abyssal Clan, Elite】
【Health: 20 million】
【Skills: Root Whip (Passive), Suffocating Entanglement, Incubation Seed, Bark Armor...】
An elite with 20 million health... Yang Jian felt a headache coming on.
Root Whip: Normal attacks have a 50% chance to reduce the target's movement speed by 30%.
Suffocating Entanglement: Envelops the target in roots, immobilizing them for eight seconds, dealing 1000 Nature damage per second!
Incubation Seed: Throws an incubation seed into the target area, which explodes to form a corrupted zone, dealing Nature damage per second within the zone!
Bark Armor: Reduces incoming damage by 30%!
...After Tian Mu finished viewing the skill effects, Yang Jian's headache worsened... He couldn't win!
Or rather, with ample time and space, a one-on-one fight would be fine, but given the current environment, could he really fight one-on-one?
Look over there... 【Dread Whisperer, LV35】
【Abyssal Clan (Satyr Variant), Elite】
【Health: 15 million】
【Skills: Nightmare Arrow, Psychic Scream, Despair Whisper, Illusion Drain...】
... 【Shadow Dreamweaver, LV35】
【Abyssal Clan, Elite】
【Health: 25 million】
【Skills: Shadow Lash, Dream Rift, Dreamweaving Clone, Soul Siphon, Night Veil...】
... 【Corrupted Flesh, LV35】
【Abyssal Clan, Elite】
【Health: 50 million】
【Skills: Heavy Strike, Flesh Hardening, Incubation Stomp, Pustule Eruption, Summon Incubated Blood, Nightmare Resonance...】
After looking at the attributes and skills of these Abyssal Monsters.
Yang Jian truly understood what Old Ma meant when he said that even the most ordinary Abyssal Monsters were much stronger than the Black Iron Bosses on the continent of salvation!
Yang Jian was also thankful that Mo Song hadn't been killed by these guys last time!
After circling once, the news was a mix of good and bad!
The good news was that there were no Bosses here!
Indeed, if there had been Bosses, Mo Song wouldn't have escaped alive last time!
The bad news was that there were quite a few high-level Abyssal Monsters in this central area.
Mainly because these Abyssal Clan seemed to possess intelligence!
There was even a clear hierarchy here... For example, when Yang Jian walked over, he was clearly warned by some high-ranking Abyssal Monsters!
Fortunately, there were no monsters near the Dragon Tomb not far away.
It was probably when Mo Song approached the Dragon Tomb last time that he was discovered... Yang Jian searched for a direction, looking for a gap.
He spent over two hours observing from a distance and finally found an opening to sneak into the inner circle next to the Dragon Tomb.
Yang Jian crouched low and crawled forward on the ground.
He didn't want to attract the attention of the surrounding Abyssal Monsters.
Fortunately, the Spawned Nightmare was small in size, and running next to the Dragon Tomb made him even less conspicuous.
These Abyssal Monsters weren't guarding the Dragon Tomb!
Nisandra knew that she had been cursed by the Nightmare King, and her body would become nourishment for the nightmares.
That's why she created this dreamland at the last moment, trapping all these nightmares here!
It was also because the nightmares were newly born and no Gold-tier Bosses had emerged yet.
After all, for these long-lived species, three or five decades were but a flick of a finger!
Otherwise, they would have already taken control of this dreamland and escaped!
Near the Dragon Tomb, Yang Jian was surprised by the faint silver-white glow emanating from the corpse... Was there loot? But I didn't kill it!
Yang Jian now knew where Mo Song had gotten the experience orbs and such!
This was just like how players would drop equipment when they killed each other; it seemed these were the items and equipment Nisandra dropped when she was killed!
Never mind, it would be foolish not to take advantage... He reached out to pick them up.
【Dragon's Protection, Ysera's Admonition (Gold)】
【Equipment Level: 100】
【Staff, Two-Handed Weapon】
【Spell Power +2000】
【Strength +1200】
【Agility +1200】
【Intelligence +1200】
【Stamina +1200】
【Haste +1200】
【Equip: When your spells deal damage to an enemy, there is a 10% chance to grant you a magic shield that absorbs damage.】
【Equip: When attacking, there is a certain chance to increase one of four attributes (Critical Strike, Mastery, Haste, Spell Power) by 3000 points.】
【Use: Creates a clone that inherits all your strength, lasting 2 minutes!】
【Use: While out of combat, creates a portal to the Emerald Dream!】
【Durability: 380 / 2000】
【Soul Message: Nisandra... you must come back alive!】
Yang Jian's hands were trembling!
Was this a demigod item?
Gold equipment... terrifyingly powerful.
Just the various attributes and effects alone had ten characteristics!
He forced himself to calm down, then continued to put the remaining three items into his backpack!
【Immortal Cloak (Orange)】
【Equipment Level: 100】
【Cloak, Back】
【Armor +600】
【Intelligence +400】
【Stamina +400】
【Haste +400】
【Critical Strike +400】
【Equip: Completely absorbs one fatal attack. (Not exceeding Heroic-tier damage)】
【Use: Allows temporary flight using the cloak, lasting two minutes, with a cooldown of 30 minutes!】
【Durability: 178 / 500】
Yang Jian, in his Spawned Nightmare form, frowned!
Damn it, this guy was so huge, yet he was a magic-user?
Do you have no shame?
Looking at the last piece of equipment, it was indeed also magic-oriented!
【Golden Snowflake (Orange)】
【Equipment Level: 100】
【Trinket】
【Intelligence +400】
【Equip: Spell attacks may increase your Intelligence by 3000 points, lasting 24 seconds.】
【Equip: Spell attacks may increase your Spell Power by 5000 points, lasting 24 seconds.】
【Use: Increases your Haste by 1500 points, lasting 24 seconds.】
(All equipment rules have been modified, specific information is in Chapter 79. Only the equipment has been changed here, apologies for any inconvenience.)
As for the last item, it wasn't equipment.
It was a material!
【Name: Blood Essence (Orange)】
【Description: The blood essence of the Hero-tier Green Dragon Nisandra, usable as a substitute material for upgrading purple pets!】
...The Green Dragon was probably a Level 100 creature in life.
Does Level 100 correspond to Hero-tier?
Yang Jian didn't know, and a corpse couldn't provide him with more information; he could only guess!
Also, Yang Jian estimated that gold equipment might be extremely rare and valuable even for them!
Didn't he see that the only gold equipment was named after Ysera, the Green Dragon Queen... After looting the corpse, Yang Jian didn't rush to leave.
He meticulously checked the area around the Green Dragon again, making sure there were no other omissions... He still needed to level up, reach Level 25, and then come in and kill all these guys.
From a rough glance today, there were already three or four hundred Abyssal Monsters here!
Because the number was sparse and the space was large, the density wasn't very high!
Otherwise, Yang Jian wouldn't have been able to reach the Dragon Tomb.
He didn't dare to Hearthstone back to the city from such a close distance.
Yang Jian spent another two hours reaching the foot of the outer cliff.
He found a quiet spot and Hearthstoned back to the city!
When he returned to the guild, Yang Jian let out a sigh of relief, feeling completely drained.
He felt a bit listless.
Yang Jian knew this was due to excessive use of Tian Mu, causing mental fatigue... Earlier in the Dragon Tomb.
One gold item, three orange-tier good items, could cure all discomfort!
Now that he had escaped from that tense environment.
As Yang Jian's mood relaxed, the fatigue set in.
He returned to the inn at the stronghold, in the room specially reserved for the guild leader.
Yang Jian finally lay down on the bed.
He forced himself to stay awake and asked about the war.
Bai Youyou: The situation is good. East Asia players in Zhenhai City don't even dare to leave the city gates now! There are temporarily no new players daring to teleport over... Mo Suqing: The situation is not good! Japanese and Korean players have formed a team of two thousand, preparing to teleport to Zhenhai City for support. Plus the reserve support teams from other countries, it's estimated to exceed 8000 people!
Yang Jian: Are they not leaving after providing support?
Mo Suqing: At least for now, there's no indication they plan to leave!
Yang Jian: Alright! Officially initiate war mobilization, and bring out all the conditions we discussed earlier!
Mo Suqing: Okay... Yang Jian went offline first, leaving Bai Youyou and Mo Suqing to argue.
Bai Youyou expressed that with such a situation on the periphery, why didn't Mo Suqing tell her first?
This was clearly meant to make her lose face!
When the guild leader asked, she had confidently stated that everything was fine... Mo Suqing said she was wronged; collecting information also had delays, and she had only just received the news herself.
She hadn't had time to share it yet... Yang Jian didn't want to listen to their argument; seeing that the situation was not right, he slipped away first!
One of the most ill-advised things in life is to mediate an argument between women... Thinking of the 300 Abyssal Essence in his panel, Yang Jian sent a message to Zhou Yue!
After going offline, Yang Jian immediately fell asleep!
In his dream, a pure energy appeared out of thin air, beginning to transform and strengthen Yang Jian's body!
Gradually, Yang Jian's tightly furrowed brows quietly relaxed... As time passed, the situation in Zhenhai City began to escalate.
Especially when players from multiple countries announced the formation of support teams to teleport to Zhenhai City to participate in the fight against Star Palace, the clamor of public opinion reached its peak!
At this point, Xia Country players were displeased!
Damn it, on our territory, are you going to let them bully our people?
As the conflict reached this stage, Xia Country players also understood!
This was actually a main city contention war... Players from various countries were dissatisfied that their sixty-plus countries could only compete for three main cities on the Eastern Continent!
After all, East Asia countries had a total of fifty million players, while Xia Country only had twenty million!
Twenty million players occupied four main cities, while the other fifty million fought for the remaining three... Why?
Yes, your Xia Country's military and economic strength are indeed very strong, but this is a game... Playing a game... can we still be bullied by you?
Although they were a bit flustered by open, real-knife-and-gun conflicts.
But couldn't they think of some strategies... So, they wanted to slowly fill Zhenhai City with people in a subtle, pervasive way.
Once the number of East Asia players in Zhenhai City surged, far exceeding Star Palace and Xia Country players!
Then they would dispute the ownership of Zhenhai City.
They just didn't expect Star Palace to be so brave!
Upon discovering something was wrong, they directly declared their intention to challenge the allied forces head-on!