Li Mu stands next to the Boss’ dead corpse. He looks at the leaderboard and purses his lip: “Damn it. Jian Feng Han has already reached level 44. If he keeps this pace, he will reach 45 by today. I heard that he didn’t go offline last night so he gained thousands of experience from the Fan Shu City buff.”
I couldn’t help but smile: “This was inevitable. The first Purple tier item is in his hands, but his level is too low to use the sword so he must be pretty anxious to level up.”
General Wang Jian sees us, comes up and pats my shoulder: ”Brother Xiao Yao don’t let something like that bring you down. It is only a Purple tier sword. Someday, a better one will drop.”
I calmly say: “It’s not that I didn’t get the Heavenly Plan Sword. To think that someone like Jian Feng Han has the sword, just doesn’t feel right to me.”
General Ba Qi carries his battle axe and also comes over: “Boss, do we go hunt more or go back to the city to rest a bit?”
Who’s Blue purses her lips: “Why rest? I haven’t even used many health or mana pills. Who would think that with Xiao Yao Zi Zai, a Gold ranked Boss didn’t even aggro to me once.”
Li Mu lifts his hand as his eyebrow tenses up: “Everyone, wait a second!”
“What’s up?” Wang Jian asks with surprised expression.
Li Mu doesn’t answer us. It seems he is in a private chat with someone.
…
After a few minutes, Li Mu dusts himself off and looks at us with a craze in his eyes: “Brothers, pack everything up. We are leaving immediately. We are going just north of Ferocious Demon Canyon!”
“Ferocious Demon Canyon?” I tilt my head: “What’s over there?”
Li Mu lowers his voice: “I just heard that [Wrath of the Heroes] sent 400+ players to kill a Boss at Ferocious Demon Canyon. From morning till now, they have all been wiped out 7 times. They were just wiped out again a couple minutes ago. The Tyrant of Western Chu finally decided to give up on fighting this Boss. So, let us give it a go!”
Wang Jian balls his fist: “Crap! Even with 400 players, they couldn’t do it. We only have 20. How can we?”
“What do you think, Xiao Yao?” Li Mu looks at me.
I grip my Jade City Sword tightly and smile: “I will ask one thing, what Level and rank is the Boss?”
“Level 57, Purple Rank….” Li Mu’s voice slowly fades out.
“I’ll go.”
I take a deep breathe to fix my breathing. Suddenly balling my fist, I say: “Let us stop talking and go. I just need the healers to [Heal] me well and we can go fight the Boss. Once we are there, we need to confirm that the boss doesn’t have any special skills and then we can start fighting!”
“Ok!” Li Mu laughs: “You really welcome difficult challenges!”
“It’s not that. I just want a Purple Tier item, that’s all.”
“ …. “
….
As we exit Ba Huang Forest and quietly arrive at our destination; the mountain’s cold air blows at our faces. I look around and see a triangle entrance to a canyon. The mountain range is unusually rugged; It looks like a ferocious demon face. I guess that is how the canyon got its name.
“Wait…”
I lift my hand to block Li Mu from exiting the forest.
After a minute, a group of players with worn-out armor run out of the canyon entrance. Clearly, they are [Wrath of Heroes] players. Tyrant of Western Chu, Piggy, and Ageless Beauty are in the group. Their complexions are pale and ugly. The Tyrant of Western Chu is at level 39. It is obvious that the Boss inside of the canyon is really strong.
….
“Are we going to give up with this? I don’t want to….” Ageless Beauty furrows her brow.
Tyrant of Western Chu grips his sword tightly and faintly says: “Dear, let us not be anxious. Let us reach level 45 first before we try again. This is too hard for us and our guild has suffered too many losses. We will need to regroup and train a bit more first.”
Piggy says in a low voice: “We used 40+ [Heal]s. It wasn’t that the [Heal]s were not effective; it was that our main tank could not tank enough. Dammit, a level 41 monk dies so quickly to the Boss….”
Ageless Beauty says: “1000 defense should have been enough and he was at 1200+ defense.”