Chapter 38: Sweeping the Stone Axe Goblins

“Xiao Rongyan, charge for me!”

Xiao Rongyan* was the name Jiang Chen gave it.

[*Xiao Rongyan translates to Little Lava]

Jiang Chen commanded it to lure monsters in the mob, while he stood at a distance watching.

Xiao Rongyan obediently nodded, then charged fearlessly into the monster group.

This is the advantage of having a pet — no need to lure monsters yourself. Xiao Rongyan’s defense was very high, so there was no worry it would be killed by ordinary monsters.

-85!

-73!

-79!

Level 25 ordinary monsters could barely break the defense of level 13 Xiao Rongyan, which had 13,000 HP — posing absolutely no threat.

[Lava Body]!

[Lava Armor]!

After luring dozens of monsters, Jiang Chen had Xiao Rongyan activate these two skills on the spot. The next moment, the damage from the surrounding monsters all dropped to single digits and couldn’t even break Xiao Rongyan’s shield.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh…”

Then it was Jiang Chen’s turn to perform. Switching to Lightning Arrows, the arrows shot out instantly like thunderclaps, roaring forward.

Zzz—

Zzz—

A large number of damage numbers popped up in the monster group, with goblins falling one by one amid their wails.

“Ding! Congratulations, player killed a Stone Axe Goblin, gained 125 experience points.”

“Ding! …”

“Ding! …”

The kill notifications kept flashing, finally awarding Jiang Chen nearly seven thousand experience points.

He and his pet Xiao Rongyan each received half of the experience (experience distribution set), and soon Xiao Rongyan leveled up again, while Jiang Chen’s experience also rapidly increased.

He now needed 1.2 million experience points to level up — quite a lot. To gain a level, he had to kill over a hundred waves of such monsters.

It wasn’t very difficult, though. Jiang Chen’s speed in slaughtering a batch of monsters was less than half a minute; the time-consuming part was cleaning the battlefield and luring monsters.

He believed he wasn’t the only one farming kills on such a large scale — other hidden class players must also be poisoned by this, but his poison was deeper: tenfold experience was becoming increasingly terrifying.

After fighting in the Goblin Mountains for four hours, the pet Lava King reached level 18, and Jiang Chen himself remained at level 18 as well.

[Level: lv18 (1.02 million / 1.15 million)]

[Lava King — Xiao Rongyan]

Quality: Golden-level BOSS

Excellence: 82

Level: lv18

HP: 18,000

MP: 3,600

Attack: 360

Defense: 450

Owner: Lone Ranger

Skills: [Lava Body]: Ignite the lava energy within the body, increase defense resistance by 50%, magic immunity 70%, lasts 15 seconds. Costs 20 MP, cooldown 60 seconds.

Skill: [Lava Shield]: Upon activation, gain a lava shield equal to 30% of max HP, lasts 60 seconds, cooldown 120 seconds, costs 100 MP.

Description: A special spirit stone [Heart of Lava] growing in lava, after gaining sentience, became the powerful Lava King.

The level 18 Lava King’s stats were even stronger than Jiang Chen’s.

During this time, he gained 1152 gold coins from slaughtering monsters, 67 bronze equipment pieces, 8 silver equipment pieces, 22 silver skill books, and 1 gold skill book.

The gold skill book was a skill usable by archers.

Skill: [Insight Perception] (Gold)

Effect: Archers sharpen their senses to carefully detect nearby disturbances. In a 5-meter radius around the archer, invisible targets will be revealed and unable to remain hidden.

Cost: 1 MP per second.

Cooldown: None.

…

This skill was the biggest enemy to assassins. Assassins exposed lose most of their threat to players.

It perfectly helped Jiang Chen overcome the weakness of archers fearing assassins’ close-range burst, and it was a gold skill — very good.

Jiang Chen immediately learned it.

Consuming 1 MP per second was no burden for Jiang Chen, as his level 4 potions could restore 1400 MP per minute, easily covering the cost.

Jiang Chen also happened to have an extra skill slot at level 10, so he didn’t have to forget [Barrage Arrow].

After activating Insight Perception, Jiang Chen inexplicably felt much safer.

Looking at his level, he was about 100,000 experience points away from leveling up — just half an hour’s work.

While thinking, Jiang Chen focused his gaze on the monsters around him, planning to level up to lv19 before returning to town.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh…”

While farming monsters, he also glanced at some forum posts to check progress on dungeons.

At this moment, the forums were almost all about dungeon threads.

“In China server, Yunhuang City Mage Han Gongque led guild experts to attack the [Abyssal Sacrifice] dungeon but returned defeated.”

“In China server, Yunhuang City Warlord Fenghuo Xizhouhou led guild experts to attack the [Abyssal Sacrifice] dungeon but suffered a crushing defeat.”

“In the US server, Iron Skull City Arles guild… defeated!”

“In Server 3, Ganges City Eternal guild… defeated!”

“In Japan server, Tongjing City Rizhao guild… defeated!”

“In Korea server, Goryeo City Domination guild reached 90% progress and boasted as world number one!”

A rough glance at the posts showed all battle reports from famous large guilds worldwide, all aiming for the [Guild Founding Token].

But the results were shocking — all ended in crushing defeat.

Probably because it guaranteed dropping the first [Guild Founding Token] in the game, the [Hope World] endgame set extremely high difficulty, so current players basically had no chance to clear the dungeon.

The World Alliance must have also organized raids but were very secretive; no news had come out, though everyone knew the result: absolute failure, since no successful breakthrough news had leaked.

Jiang Chen had long predicted this result; the dungeon was definitely not simple.

The news from the Korea server was uncertain, but 90% progress indicated they had seen the boss and, knowing the boss’s details, would soon be able to target it precisely, making future raids much easier.

“Ding!”

“Congratulations, your level has increased to lv19, and you have gained 13 free attribute points!”

Around 10 AM, a golden light rose from beneath Jiang Chen’s feet.

After nearly five hours farming in the Goblin Mountains, only bare mountains and forests remained behind him. He had almost wiped out all the monsters on one mountain head. It would take at least 12 hours for new monsters to respawn.

But fortunately, he reached the expected level.

Character: [Lone Ranger]

Level: lv19

Class: Elemental Archer

Status: First Rebirth

Talents: Hundredfold Reward, Elemental Arrows, Heart of Elements

Skills: Barrage Arrow, Shock Arrows, Insight Perception

Potential: 13 stars

HP: 4,730

MP: 3,900

Attack: 1,074 (+20%)

Defense: 159

Attributes: Strength 163, Constitution 48, Agility 338, Spirit 83

Additional Attributes: Critical Rate +20%, Attack Speed +30%, Critical Damage +10%

Luck: 200

Reputation: 500,000

Free Attribute Points: 0

Experience: 50,000 / 6,000,000 (Tenfold experience for Divine class)