34: Explosion damage

Dense clusters of damage numbers floated out simultaneously, instantly dyeing the surrounding world a pale red.

The first monster to be stepped on took several tons of damage; in the early stages of the game, this kind of damage was quite impressive.

Xiao Xing didn't think much of it, but Qing Lan, who was watching from a distance, had her jaw drop to the floor, shocked to the extreme.

She only thought the Divine Deer was very beautiful; she hadn't expected that while the Divine Beast looked good, its strength was also terrifyingly extreme.

The reason a Divine Beast was called a Divine Beast was because if it wasn't strong, it wouldn't be called 'Divine'.

“Hurry, come pick up the items together.”

After the stomp, Xiao Xing's body separated out, and he shouted directly at Qing Lan.

Now was not the time for surprise. After wild monsters dropped items, they only lasted for 10 minutes; if they weren't picked up, they would despawn.

Because Xiao Xing had activated Goddess of Luck Descends during the stomp, he was not only invincible but also gained a temporary boost of 100 Luck points.

With 151 Luck points, the drop rate of every Normal Monster was much higher than that of an Elite Monster, and the drop rate of the hundreds of Elite Monsters mixed among them was higher than that of a Lord-class monster.

Under such drop rates, a massive amount of weapons and equipment shimmered with golden light, and patches of various Silver coins and Materials were densely packed. Even Xiao Xing used every ounce of strength to start sweeping them up.

Hearing Xiao Xing's reminder and seeing the treasures on the ground, Qing Lan snapped out of it and also quickly began picking things up.

She wasn't actually stupid, and her reaction time wasn't bad; it was just that this was her first time playing a game, so everything felt very foreign. As a female student, seeing such incredible things caused her to daze for a moment.

However, Qing Lan's backpack wasn't very large, so Xiao Xing only let her pick up the Fangs, as these items could be stacked.

A player's initial backpack only had 40 slots. If Materials couldn't be stacked, the game would be almost unplayable, as one would have to run back and forth for an hour after just a few kills, let alone on those more distant maps.

Therefore, in the Continent of Gods and Demons, most Materials could be stacked; some could stack to 99, some to 999, and some even up to 9999.

On the other side, Xiao Xing's hands were like a gambler raking in chips after a win, scooping up massive piles into the Divine Deer's space with extremely swift speed.

Fortunately, the Divine Deer possessed an internal space; otherwise, there would truly be no place to put so much equipment.

The space within the Divine Deer was massive. It wasn't like the game interface's backpack, but rather like a spatial ring in reality.

However, this kind of space could only store things like in reality; those Materials couldn't be stacked by 99. However large a material was, it would occupy that much space when put inside.

Xiao Xing had observed the Divine Deer's space and estimated it to be around 1,000 cubic meters. Since the System didn't provide data, he could only guess based on feeling.

As time passed, Xiao Xing had swept up most of it, but now there was less than 1 minute before the items would disappear.

He couldn't worry about that anymore!

Xiao Xing only picked up the best equipment, ignoring the Bronze and White-tier items. He didn't even want the dropped Materials like Pelts or Tiger Gallbladders, picking up only the Silver and Gold equipment.

Once he finished picking these up, the massive amount of equipment and Materials on the ground instantly vanished, having despawned.

Not far away, Qing Lan had just reached out to collect some copper coins, but the System's refresh left her grabbing at nothing.

Because Xiao Xing only let her pick up the Fangs while he handled most of the items, she had managed to finish picking up the Fangs in her small area and even collected some copper coins.

“Wuwu~, what a shame, so many treasures are gone.”

Seeing the treasures disappear, after a moment of dazing, Qing Lan sat directly on the ground and began to cry loudly.

She didn't care if there were actual tears; she kept rubbing her eyes with her hands, looking exactly like a small child who had been wronged. Even Xiao Xing felt a bit of an urge to pick her up and comfort her.

“Alright, alright, these low-level things aren't worth much. I'll take you to a good place to get treasures later!”

Xiao Xing walked over and patted her shoulder to comfort her. He indeed intended to go to the Thunder Ruins to farm sets, but that wasn't exactly a 'good place' for early-stage players.

Because there was a chance to drop set pieces, all the monsters there were much stronger than monsters on general maps of the same Rank, and it was very... “Wuwu~, really?”

Hearing Xiao Xing's words, she lowered her hands, her expression looking very innocent. At this moment, she was just like a little girl.

She didn't lack money in reality; it was just that the loss of thousands of pieces of equipment and Materials made her feel it was a great pity.

One had to know that when she leveled up with her sisters, they would fight to the death and not a single piece of equipment would drop, which was why seeing so many things vanish made her feel so aggrieved.

“Really. Come, get up.”

After Xiao Xing jumped onto the mount, he reached out his hand to her.

This girl was probably feeling very wronged, and Xiao Xing didn't know how to comfort her. Since she liked the Divine Deer so much, riding on it should make her feel a lot better.

When she sat up and reached out to stroke the Divine Deer's fur, her thoughts indeed shifted back a lot.

Seeing that she had calmed down a bit, Xiao Xing began to check the harvest. He mainly wanted to see the number of Fangs; he didn't have much interest in that equipment.

A small number of Fangs wouldn't be much, but a large number would be terrifying. With a massive amount of Fangs, the merit points points gained would be far more than a five-star quest.

That was why Xiao Xing had said it was a good quest after seeing this time-limited quest; quests like this were not common.

However, if a large number of players accepted it, this kind of quest would be average because there wouldn't be that many Saber-toothed Tigers to kill.

First, he checked the Rank. After killing over ten thousand monsters, the two of them—including the mount—had gained over 7 million Experience points, and they had all risen to Rank 16 and a half.

Xiao Xing still adhered to the principle that only speed is invincible, putting all attribute points into agility.

At this point, including the bonuses from the Divine Artifact and boots, his agility was already over 160. With the hidden talent bonus, his actual agility was over 1600, which converted to a movement speed of over 3200.

This was already more than three times faster than a thousand-li horse. Only with such high speed could he weave through these low-level monster swarms at will.

As for the rest of the drops: 150 dark gold items, over 300 Gold items, 10,633 Silver items. He had also scooped up over 6,000 Bronze and White items along the way, as well as over 6,000 portions each of Pelts and Tiger Gallbladders.

These items ranged from Rank 14 to 15. After Goddess of Luck Descends, not a single monster failed to drop something, and they all dropped higher-tier items.

After taking the Fangs from Qing Lan's backpack and counting them, even Xiao Xing was overjoyed. Including the previous harvest, there were 21,200 in total.

Under the ultra-high Luck value, both Fangs from every Saber-toothed Tiger had dropped. If they had had more Fangs, they probably would have all dropped as well.

Converting that into merit points points meant over 200,000, which was enough for both of them to become Barons.