Chapter 106 – Nature’s Aggression
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To avoid all the monsters between the levels of 47-49, I took a big detour while traversing over the plains. After an entire half hour, I stood at the borders of a verdant valley. Looking downwards at the valley, which was shrouded in mist, and from afar I could hear the primal cry of birds. I have finally arrived at the Green Qilin Valley, the destination of my trip!
I grab my Jade City Sword tightly as Baby Bobo flies happily around my shoulder. Before entering the mountainous region, I check the area around the valley but there doesn’t seem to be a route that leads straight into it. Just a step away is a cliff that is around 200 meters in height. However, the Green Qilin Abyss lies within the valley, if I don’t find a way to get down, I won’t be able to find my Green Qilin Grass.
“Keng!”
Sheathing my sword, I took a closer look at my surroundings. The cliff is indeed too steep, if I were to try to jump down, I would definitely die.
Looking around again, I suddenly found my ray of hope. There were strand after strand of thick and strong green vines growing in the gaps between the rocks. If I were to tie these green vines together to form a rope, I could slide my way down and not die from the height.
Walking forward, I grab a strand of vines and pull down with great force and confirm that the vines are quite firm. So, I pull up about 10 meters of vine and then severe it before pulling up another strand and continue the entire process until I had roughly 200 meters worth of woven green rope. Tying them together, I hook the end of the vines onto a gigantic rock and start to slide my way down along the cliff. As the green vines shake, I shook along with them. Actually, this was quite a dangerous feat as there is a limit to the strain wild vines can take and they could rip apart quite easily. There have been many adventurers that died in the wild under such circumstances.
“Pah!”
With force, I step away from the face of the cliff using my boots and at the same moment, my body slides down a few meters. By following the process continuously, I swiftly descend to a height that was 50 meters below water level. At this moment, my body was shrouded by damp mist as I felt a fine moisture settling onto my two legs. Looking upwards, the mist has already obscured my vision of where I originally came from.
“Sssss…”
Suddenly, my instincts told me that there was danger lurking around and at the very next moment, a giant black snake appears from one of the cracks along the face of the cliff. Opening its large mouth, it viciously bites onto my shoulder!
“Pu!”
312!
It was quite a painful attack, the snake’s level must be quite high!
With my left arm grabbing onto the vines, I unsheathe my sword with my right arm to prepare for battle. At the same moment, with a glance of my eyes, the stats of the monster appear in front of my eyes–
【Mysterious Cliff Snake】 (Elite Monster)
Level:50
Attack:650-1000
Defense:700
Life:5000
Skills:【Swallow】【Tail Whip】【Toxic Spray】
Description: Mysterious Cliff Snake, a type of snake possessing deadly poison that lives in the cracks along the face of a cliff. It was said that the snake is a descendant of an ancient beast. Due to countless years of traversing along the mountain, it possesses extraordinary defensive abilities. Also, the Mysterious Cliff Snake is innately greedy and savage, countless have fell under their poison.
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It wasn’t surprising that with its 1000 base attack power coupled with its high level which suppresses my stats and its hidden properties, its actual attacking power is above 1300, which explains why the snake was able to break my defense of 1000.
A golden hexagram appears on my Jade City Sword, shua shua shua, I continuously strike four times on the body of the Mysterious Cliff Snake. Since my other hand is busy grabbing onto the vine, I was unable to build up power to use 【Strength of a Thousand Men】, thus I could only dish out a 【Fierce Ice Blade】. A few damage number pop up-
375!
369!
355!
371!
874!
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Under the series of attacks, the health of the Mysterious Cliff Snake drops by 40%. Along with Baby Bobo’s Lv 5 【Combo】 attack, the health of the Mysterious Cliff Snake drops below half and it cries out in agony. Entrenching its body between the cliff, its tail suddenly whips towards me!
“Pah!”
944!
I felt a burning pain on my face. Furthermore, it was still a critical hit, excruciating pain!
I hurriedly heal myself and slash the snake several times with my Jade City Sword, averaging around 1.2 attacks per second. Not long afterwards, the monster was at a near death state. Before dying, the Mysterious Cliff Snake opens its wide mouth and sprays out a green fluid towards me!
“Pah…”
With the green fluid splattered all over my face, I feel another burning hot sensation on the skin of my face.
System Notification: You have been poisoned. You will lose 3000 HP within 60 seconds.
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“Damn it…”
Losing 50 health every second, this 【Toxic Spray】 is really deadly!
With another 【Fierce Ice Blade】, I slash through the snake’s body and following its ssss cry in agony, the gigantic snake fell motionless between the cracks of the cliff. At the same time, it dropped 7 silver coins. Not bad, it was quite generous!
Stretching my hand to grab the silver coins, I look at my experience bar. The experience I earned from killing the Mysterious Cliff Snake was a whopping 400 points! The experience gained from killing Elite Monsters is always abundant. Today, I can earn a plentiful sum of experience points here, but that is if I am able to survive. As my level rises higher, I should avoid dying at all costs. Otherwise, my level could end up behind others for a long period of time.
Continuing on my descent, my face remains green and my health continues to drop, making me glad that I have a 【Heal】skill with a 6 second cooldown. Otherwise, a 【Toxic Spray】 would be enough to kill me from full health. A health potion has a 60 second cooldown time, which means in 60 seconds, one could only heal around 600 health which is completely insufficient to survive the 3000 damage per minute of the Mysterious Cliff Snake’s poison. This means that if one doesn’t come with a Healer, any player at our current stage would probably end up dying. After all, even a Monk who adds 5 endurance every level might not have 3000 health.
After descending for a short while, a second Mysterious Cliff Snake appears and uses 【Toxic Spray】 right from the start in my face. I angrily retaliate with 【Combo】 and 【Fierce Ice Blade】. Using myself as a tank, Baby Bobo continues to deal out large amounts of damage. In a mere 10 seconds, we kill this Mysterious Cliff Snake!
“Pata…”
This time, along with 7 silver coins, the snake drops an additional blood red card which looks strangely familiar. Looking at its description, my heart begins to beat faster–
【Pardon Card】: This card prevents the user from gaining any sin points after killing any players for 12 hours.
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Silently putting the Pardon Card into my bag, I look towards the sky. Tyrant of Western Chu is the type of person to go all out and after killing his Lv 41 Archer Willow Shore, the 【Wrath of the Heroes】 is bound to continue to pursue me. Once they lock onto my position, they would definitely not let me off easy. I understand that the one who strikes first lives. So, assuming that Tyrant of Western Chu really comes pursuing me, I shall take the initiative to get rid of him. At that point in time, I would require a card like the 【Pardon Card】, otherwise I stand to lose a lot while being killed as a Chaotic Player.
As the mountain wind blows, I sway along the cliff face of Green Qilin Valley. After getting rid of nearly a hundred of these Mysterious Cliff Snakes, I could finally see the ground 50 meters below me. Seeing the lush green that hints of spring, this place has a scenery that belongs to a deep mountain. The sight was one to behold and it would be even better if there was pretty lady here to train with me.
Suddenly, the image of Lin Wan Er flashes across my mind and I immediately shake my head to lose that thought. Damn it, why am I thinking of her. I can’t afford to flirt with this kind of woman, I better think of others, such as… Tsk, forget it. I don’t have any money right now, I can’t afford to flirt with any woman. Let’s focus on refining my 【Green Qilin Pill】 to earn money before thinking about other matters.
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