Chapter 58 : Failure
Forced Hot Blooded, which allows the user to enter a state of "Hot Blooded", doubling their strength and adding 50% to their body and 50% to their sensitivity, and lasts half as long as a normal Hot Blooded.
Blood Burning: Converts half of the user's HP into strength at a ratio of 10:1, which means that James has only 1500 HP left and his strength is increased by 150.
Earthquake causes the Earth Dragon to stun for zero seconds.
Attachment Thunder Technique, causing a lightning spell to be attached to the axe.
Thunder God Thousand Limbs was the real killing move!
James flew two feet tall at once, countless lightning bolts wrapped around his battle axe, crackling with the power of thunder as he heavily chopped at the back of the Earth Dragon's neck.
Ear-piercing friction sounds rang out, the scale armour on the back of the Earth Dragon's neck was chopped with countless sparks, and in the blink of an eye, a piece of scale armour was flipped over, revealing the purple-black flesh of the Earth Dragon.
The Earth Dragon let out an earth-shattering roar that echoed throughout the cave, and the sound almost made me faint.
But James' huge axe didn't stop for a second, it still chopped on the Earth Dragon like a sudden rain, -600, -600, -1000, -600 ... a series of numbers flashed out from the Earth Dragon, within ten seconds, James chopped down at least fifty axes!
Thunder God Thousand Limbs, could it be, it really has to chop a thousand times before it will stop!
The Earth Dragon turned from rage to fear, its body twisted sharply, doing its best to dodge the giant axe, but James' human axe was like a maggot attached to the bone, not leaving the Earth Dragon's body.
I suddenly woke up, now James is only a temporary advantage, as soon as he passes the hot blood state, enter the weak state, and less than half of the blood, then it will be dead.
James was merely having to use this last move to protect me now.
As I continued to climb towards the top of Jewel Mountain, I shouted, "James, prepare to escape, it doesn't matter if I hang!"
My hand finally reached the bluestone, and excitement surged uncontrollably.
The Earth Dragon had already fallen into a frenzy, if it didn't dodge James' attack, it would probably be chopped into two by the giant axe, and if it did, it couldn't stop me from getting the bluestone. The two commands of "self-preservation" and "treasure protection" clashed in its brain, and electric sparks formed by data flow began to appear all over the body of the Earth Dragon.
The blue stone finally fell into my pocket, and almost at the same time, the light in the cave dimmed, as if it had changed from day to night.
Even without the light of this gemstone, the cave shouldn't be so dark, I suddenly felt a strong sense of oppression coming from behind me.
The voice of the Earth Dragon turned into muffled thunder, shaking one's chest, the cave was simultaneously plunged into a kind of dizzying vibration, and the dust in the air was spreading in waves, all of which signalled that something big was going to happen. I turned my head sharply and looked towards the Earth Dragon.
The Earth Dragon, evolved!
From the smooth head of the Earth Dragon, two meatballs began to bulge, and from its body, four pieces of cartilage-like things slowly grew, and the scale armour that had just been chopped by James healed in an instant, gradually forming tougher scales with a metallic luster.
James's axe continued to fall on the scale armour, did not chop open, this time even sparks did not splash out. At this very moment, the platinum battle axe suddenly turned into white light and disappeared from James' hands!
The durability of the battle axe finally ran out, and now, we no longer had any chance of winning.
I yelled towards James, "Run away, don't care about me, I can still be revived when I die!"
I don't know if I really cared about James, or if my heart ached for the gold coins I had invested in him, anyway, what I wished for the most right now, was for James to escape.
The Earth Dragon had already evolved, and now, its name had changed to "Dark Dragon"!
Without a word, James took out a Golden Battle Axe and continued to slash the Dark Dragon, but all he saw was -10 and -11 appearing continuously. In the state of Hot Blood and Burning Blood, he was only able to give this amount of damage to the Dark Dragon, and was unable to make the Dark Dragon feel anything at all.
The dark dragon's eyes coalesced and stared at me, suddenly its mouth opened wide, a black ball of light appeared from its mouth, the dark dragon sucked in a deep breath, its powerful aura pressed me down on the jewelled mountain, unable to move a single muscle, one could imagine how powerful this ball of light would be.
I closed my eyes, the Xuan Turtle has been summoned back to my pet space, and the Shepherd God suit is too late to take off, wearing it on my body, the chance of dropping it is much higher. If it falls off, it can't be helped.
A strong storm blew towards me, it was the wind brought up by the ball of light whistling, but I suddenly felt the wind interrupted, and when I opened my eyes, a tall body blocked in front of me.
James, blocked me with his body, and took that ball of light head on.
The golden battle axe exploded with an intense glow, that was James injecting his own power into it. However, in only two seconds, the battle axe deformed and turned into white light!
James' whole body's equipment, also in the next moment, all of them were shattered by the ball of light, the powerful force pressed James back step by step, the whole body's skin began to flake up, the muscles cracked, and the bones came out with a grating sound.
I was stunned, James, you're just a punching bag I paid for, why would you use your own life to save me?
I opened my mouth and finally said, "James, you ... go away ..."
James suddenly turned around, using the armour on his back to continue to carry the ball of light hard, with his face covered in blood, he roared at me, "Don't you insult my dignity again and again, as a mercenary, how can you let your employer get killed!"
I stared at him dumbfounded, although, the face was not very expressive, and perhaps, all his words and feelings were simulated by the programme, yet, I felt that everything was so real. In reality, if I could make such a friend, it would definitely be the luck of my life.
My body still couldn't move, and as I watched James' big, bloodied hand grabbed me up to my chest, I let out a loud roar, "Flying Axe!"
With a whirring sound, I felt the sky spinning in front of my eyes, and my entire body flew up, taking a long arc that grazed the Dark Dragon's body and fell towards the cave entrance.
The powerful impulse caused my head to be torn apart by the air, I flew and summoned the Xuan Turtle again, attaching it to the shield and blocking my head for me. With a loud thud, I hit the ground instead of the cave wall, and I was surprised to be thrown out of the cave by James' throw. What a precise and powerful throw!
My blood level was furiously reduced by half, and the Gentoo Turtle chirped, I didn't care about the pain, I leapt up and turned my head to see the scene of James' body being blown to pieces by the ball of light.
My mind went blank, and I ran towards the outside of the cave completely on instinct. The sound of whistling wind came from behind me, another ball of light was coming after me, wasn't it? But I finally escaped the cave in one last leap.
The ball of light exploded behind me, and the aftermath didn't hurt me, so it seems that a boundary still exists between the two layers. This boundary also restricts the monsters on each level from crossing the boundary.
The third level of the cave was trembling violently, I didn't know how furious the dark dragons below were right now, I almost suspected that the entire Blue Jade Mountain was about to collapse.
My body was also trembling, not with fear, but with an indescribable feeling because of James' death.
If someone said right now that I was heartbroken because I lost a few hundred gold coins, I would fight him. If someone said I was heartbroken because I lost a powerful and cheap fighter, I would be just as furious. But to say that I was feeling sorry for James was also hard for me to accept.
Was my heart really that weak? When did I become so sentimental? Where had the quality of a professional player gone from before?
Isn't it just an NPC? Not just a bunch of data? I didn't even feel sad when my real-life friend died in a car accident.
I couldn't continue to wallow in remorse and pain because the nearby Dark Devil Snake had already attacked me.
These monsters are no longer called Dark Devil Snakes, they have evolved along with the Earth Dragon and have become Level 45 "Underworld Snakes", which can attack from a distance.
Two shots of black sand hit me, causing me to become poisoned. I hastily stepped back, raising my shield to block the black sand while using my spells to return fire.
The Underworld Domain seemed to sense some kind of message from the underground Dark Dragon, and surprisingly, all of them swam towards the direction I was in, and soon, I was surrounded by layers of them, and behind me, there was already the cave wall, and there was no way to retreat.
I took the antidote to poison, but soon it was poisoned again, the Shepherd's God suit can't block the toxin, it's really depressing, usually the antidote that I bring with me for levelling is not much, usually it's a bundle, it seems to be not enough for today.
Man, I don't want to be poisoned alive.
Falling stone spell desperately thrown in front of me, turn my eyes to pile up a stone pile to stop the snakes, however, spells constitute matter can only be maintained for a short period of time, in the time I eat blue pill, the stone pile disappeared again.
Once again, I resorted to the trick of setting fire, inspired by the last time I went to fight the bull-headed god, I now carry quite a lot of oil and firewood ready for emergencies.
However, although snakes are creatures that are afraid of fire, these level 45 monsters, natural fire no longer has much effect on them, and merely serves as a bit of a deterrent.
Luckily, I had a lot of tricks up my sleeve, and when I blew my flute, the snakes started to sway, but still didn't give up their attack. So, I had to use the "percussion instrument playing method" on the ground again, which made the snakes stop.
As I played and stomped again and again, my fatigue level rose faster and faster, and my whole body was sweating. I don't know how long it took, but my playing skill had already risen to intermediate first class, and I still had more than half of my experience. Finally, it was time to stay up until my comrades came online.
Leon and the others were shocked when they saw my situation and the mutation that happened to the monsters, and hurriedly killed all the way over to save me.
Level 45 monsters with poison attacks, although Leon and the six of them weren't bad, it was extremely hard to kill them. I had to continue to suffer and play the flute.
When my comrades finally killed me, I couldn't support myself any longer, and without saying hello to them, I took out the wire bed and fell asleep. The only thing I could hear in my ears was everyone cursing me, ahem, couldn't care less.
Just after listening to the music for a while, the system prompted, "There is a service-wide announcement, please check it out."
I clicked on it, and it was about Wells.
"Due to the increasing number of people receiving the Wanted Player Wells quest, but most people don't understand the strength of the wanted man, adding to the sacrifices in vain, hundreds of players involved in the wanted manhunt have already lost their lives, so the King has decided to announce the wanted man's information."
"Wells, level 56, gained 'Fire Mage' in the Mage Transformation at level 30, increasing the power of fire spells by 20% and having a higher chance of learning advanced fire spells. As a result of triggering an SSS-rank hidden quest, he obtained a Phoenix egg, and his pet Phoenix is currently level 50."
"Wells has all Treasure Grade equipment on him, three of which increase spell casting speed, with a total effect of increasing spell casting speed by 110%. Two increase spell recovery speed by a total of 50%. One equipment resists abnormal statuses (dazed, weakened, sealed, etc.) by 40% ..."
"Wells also completed an SSS-ranked hidden quest to obtain 'Spatial Shift' magic. Another S-rank hidden quest was completed, gaining a treasure that adds 1000 to storage space ..."
"This player's life profession 'Chef' has been practiced to Extra Class, and invented special effect food that eliminates fatigue and hunger ..."
"Currently Wales is on the run and has forced his way into three villages and robbed the pharmacies and destroyed many buildings, killing hundreds of players and NPCs in the villages.The king has ordered the local players to act according to their strength and not to give their lives away. However, NPCs of combat professions must fight to the end or be guilty."
"Due to the martyrdom of a level 60 officer dispatched by the Sunset City Lord in charge of the pursuit, two level 70 officers have been re-dispatched to conduct the pursuit, no matter what, as soon as you find Wales, immediately pass a message with 'Sunset Warrior 008' and 'Sunset Knight 052'.