Chapter 343 - Brutal Force
Chapter 343: Brutal Force
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
In The New Age, other than the normal skills players could learn, there was this thing called the 'Mystic Skill Book', also known as Skill Set or Combo Skills.
At level 40, players could get the Mystic Skill Book based on the difficulties they chose for the theirJob-Advancing mission. Basically, a Mystic Skill Book allowed players to learn the entire set of skills with bonus effect instead of the usual single skill.
Bronze Mystic Skill Books contained 2 skills.
Silver Mystic Skill Books contained 3 skills, so on and so forth. Legendary Mystic Skill Books contained 7 skills, which made a distinctive difference.
For example, Pink Mosquito and Rainbow Bug had learned the Giant Wood Control Spell, which was a Silver Mystic Skill Book. It contained the following 3 skills: Wood Binding, Wood Judgment, and Wood Enhance. All these skills would have a bonus 50% effect due to the secret book.
They must have completed additional missions when changing their job in order to get the skills earlier. Normal players, including Lin Jie, could only learn it during their Job-Advancing Mission. It was a once in a lifetime chance and thus incredibly important for players.
70% of the players could only get Bronze Mystic Skill Books. Those holding on to Silver ones were considered the top-notch players. However, the game would not let players remain stagnant. There were many opportunities in the game where players could improve the quality of the book for more skills.
The [Illusionary Trace] in Lin Jie's [Fog Concealment] had an additional sub-skill because its grade was Legendary.
Thus, Legendary was the true power!
"Die, Lone Wolf!" Cyan Fly yelled and used Hunter's [Lightness]. She loaded the arrow and pulled the string, and three arrows flew towards Lin Jie! These arrows were different from the ones that had hit Ghost Eyes. It was all green in color and built from the Moon Wood in the City of Elves. It had additional 30 damage and could change the attack to Natural Magic damage, which was very effective against high-defense players.
They had come prepared!
"Pink Mosquito, Rainbow Bug. Give your best shot. Show no mercy!" shouted Cyan Fly. Both of them exchanged a look and took out a green crystal and crushed it. It was just like when Lin Jie had given the Fire Crystals to Black Eyes!
This was Wood Crystal, which had the same rarity as the Fire Crystal. It could boost the strength of Wood magic. 2 Wood Crystals were worth at least 200 gold coins! This meant that they had spent 20,000 on the skills!
"Wood Crystal! It's Wood Crystal! I've read it in the library. It was an extremely rare item that changed Silver equipment to Gold with additional Wood Element damage!"
"These mysterious girls are strong and rich. Let's see how Lone Wolf could handle this."
The crowd was surprised, and some Bandits started planning on how to get money out of these girls.
When Lin Jie saw the Wood Crystal, he realized something was wrong and worried that the girls had something up their sleeves!
"Wood Enhance!"
Pink Mosquito yelled, and the Wood Crystal was channeled into Cyan Fly's arrow. The arrow expanded and looked like a cannonball.
Lin Jie was speechless at this move. 'What a waste of money! Did they not know that Wood Crystals would be used up after the attack? There is no other effect other than boosting this attack.' Lin Jie decided to tank the attack first!
The arrow enhanced by the Giant Wood Control Spell crushed on Lin Jie!
"Enchanted Scaly Armor! Blood Power! Holy Strength!" Lin Jie used all his defensive skills and blocked the arrow with his Broken Blade.
Parry!
-182!
Everyone was shocked at the damage!
After all the effort, there was only 100+ damage?
Cyan Fly was shocked too! How was that even possible? The arrow was legibly made by Moon Wood, and it should have a high attack with magical damage. With the bonus from the Wood Crystal, it should at least have dealt 1,300+ damage!
When a parry was successful, the damage dealt was equal to the original damage minus 50% of the Attack of the defender's weapon. This damage would then undergo damage reduction based on the Defense.
After enhancing, Lin Jie's Broken Blade was far more powerful than any main weapon other players were holding. 50% of its Attack was 600+ that blocked half of the damage. With all the Kiara Beast King Armor, Enchanted Scaly Armor, and Holy Light Winged Armor, Lin Jie could not really receive any more damage than that!
Everyone was shocked that Lin Jie had blocked the attack with ease. The trio was even stunned in disbelief!
"Lone Wolf's Defense is just too high! Let's do that!" Rainbow Bug was very decisive and gave an order.
Whoosh!
Cyan Fly summoned a 10-meter plank while Pink Mosquito and Rainbow Bug took out Wood Crystals from their bag one by one. They took out 20 of them!
"Behold! The Cyan Wood King!"
The plank started to tremble, and a face appeared. Then, it started to grow hands, legs, shield, sword, and armor! It changed into a giant Treant!
[Cyan Wood King] (Gold Boss) Health Points: 120,000
Additional: Cyan Wood Armor (+550 Defense), Cyan Wood Sword (+200 Attack)…
They summoned a Gold Boss!
This Boss had been summoned by 20 Wood Crystals, but the stats were nothing without the equipment it had. Apparently, the game did not really approve players summoning their own Boss.
This meant that without the fancy equipment, Cyan Wood King was nothing more than a tanker Treant Warrior.
"[Giant Wood Control•Wood Binding]!"
Kakaka—
Thousands of vines grew below Lin Jie's feet and bound him! The ground had been planted with seeds. It was a trap for Lin Jie!
[Wood Judgment]: Binds the target for 1 second and increases the next Wood Element attack by 100%. With the bonus of Giant Wood Control Spell, the effect grew to 150%. Lin Jie had already lost some HP after using Enchanted Scaly Armor, and now Cyan Fly's arrow was ready.
This did not look good!
"GG! Lone Wolf is going to lose!"
"This Boss contains 20 Wood Crystals! Expected."
Ghost Eyes was silenced too. He did not like doing things behind others and was very righteous. Presently, Lone Wolf was in danger because he had saved him, so Ghost Eyes had to make a move.
Just when Ghost Eyes was about to move, something happened!
Ka cha—
Ka cha—
Ang—
Just as the Cyan Wood King was about to slash Lin Jie, its body stumbled! The wood started to crack, and a dragon flew out from its body!
Dragon Armor Removal! The two weapons were disarmed!
Kaboom—
The Cyan Wood King flew away, and its equipment exploded into dust. Lin Jie jumped up, and his Broken Blade was covered in flame!
"It's Flame Boost!"
"Is he trying to kill the Cyan Wood King?"
"Not possible! It still has 50,000 HP. It's not possible to kill them even with Flame Boost's AOE!"
However, Lin Jie's attack was proving the crowd wrong!
Shield Cut!
The Broken Blade struck and set the Cyan Wood King burning. There was a continuous 5,000+ damage on the Cyan Wood King! Fire dealt double damage to Wood!
At the same time, the Flame Boost hit the trio.
-3,012!-1,827!-2,838!
There were two critical hits. Pink Mosquito and Rainbow Bug were killed instantly. The Cyan Wood King dropped on the ground without the Wood Druid control. Cyan Fly tried to escape, but a Wind Rider Blade Aura Executioner hit her right on the back.
Lin Jie looked at the bodies and shouted to the crowd, "Can I have a Priest? Revive them."
Nobody moved.
Everyone was too shocked to move!
No one had ever matched the trio in the City of Light. Not even Ghost Eyes. Although the three of them had played dirty, their ability was there. They had even used 22 Wood Crystals and Giant Wood Control Spell to create a Cyan Wood King! Even with the Wood Judgment trap, they had planted, Lone Wolf had not gone down! Instead, he had managed to kill the three of them with ease!
Codename Lone Wolf, how strong was he?
What they did not know was that Lin Jie had not used his full strength.
He was far more than this! He had another skill that was placed at the top of his skill list—'Clomaros' Kill!