After Ling Xiao and the other four completed the first-floor mission of the Insect Nest Dungeon and submitted the Venom Bottles, each of them obtained a piece of Venomous Set equipment.
"This… this is actually set equipment?"
Seeing the equipment's attributes, Skinny Monkey said excitedly, "I saw in the official guide that the value of set equipment is usually far higher than ordinary equipment."
"So you're saying this thing is worth quite a bit of money?", Money-loving Fat Dahai's eyes lit up with a golden gleam.
At this moment, Lin Mo asked the four of them, "Did any archer-type pieces drop?"
"I got an archer one," Xia Wanwan held a ring in her palm, her big eyes looking at Lin Mo as she asked, "Senior, do you want it?"
Lin Mo focused his gaze.
And discovered, damn.
The one in Xia Wanwan's hand was not only an archer Venomous Set piece, it was actually a tier-2 ring.
While Ling Xiao, Skinny Monkey, Fat Dahai, including Lin Mo himself, all four of theirs were tier-1.
'No way, being good-looking really boosts drop rates?', Once again experiencing this hidden rule through Xia Wanwan, Lin Mo was utterly baffled.
"I do," Lin Mo said to Xia Wanwan, "A tier-2 white-quality Venomous Ring has a market price of around two thousand."
"I'll buy it."
"No need, Senior," Xia Wanwan said, "You already brought us to level up, I'm more than grateful. I'll just give you this equipment."
"One thing is one thing," Lin Mo said, "According to our last agreement, aside from the one hundred thousand power-leveling fee per level, I'll take seventy percent of the ranking rewards later."
"But during this period, your personal gains belong to yourselves. You don't need to give them to me."
Xia Wanwan stopped speaking further and nodded, "Alright!"
So Lin Mo transferred two thousand yuan to Xia Wanwan.
At the same time, Lin Mo asked Ling Xiao and the other three, "Do you want your equipment? If not, sell it all to me. Five hundred each."
"Five hundred each?"
Although they didn't understand why Lin Mo was buying so much equipment that didn't match his class at all, the price Lin Mo offered was completely irresistible to student players like Skinny Monkey and Fat Dahai.
So Skinny Monkey and Fat Dahai decisively sold their equipment to Lin Mo.
Getting five hundred yuan each, the two of them were over the moon.
"Brother Xiao, Brother Monkey, tomorrow I'm treating you guys to hotpot. Sister-in-law, you come too!"
"Sounds good!"
Ling Xiao, however, was more meticulous.
He seemed to have guessed that Lin Mo was collecting the Venomous Set for some special purpose.
So he said, "This one I got is usable for my own class. I want to keep it myself. Is that okay?"
Lin Mo didn't think much of it, "Sure."
Next, while the four of them went to William to receive the second-floor mission of the Insect Nest Dungeon.
Lin Mo secretly used his SSS-tier talent, Soul Flame, to incinerate the level 20 tier-1 Venomous equipment he had bought from Fat Dahai and Skinny Monkey.
One thousand yuan in exchange for forty equipment evolution points.
Compared to back in the newbie village, where he spent one hundred yuan to buy a newbie item and only got one equipment evolution point after incinerating it.
This was way too cost-effective.
Once the four finished accepting the mission, Lin Mo finally advanced into the second floor of the Insect Nest Dungeon as he wished.
After all, the mission difficulty had increased by 15 points.
The poisonous insects on the second floor were already level 21 Venomous Centipedes.
Although they were only one level higher than the Venomous Spiders.
The attribute strength of the Venomous Centipedes was clearly much higher.
However, in front of an SSS-tier skill, all bugs were equal.
Whoosh!
Lin Mo locked onto a giant centipede ahead, over ten meters long, like a subway car segment, and loosed an arrow that tore through the air.
Heaven-Slaying·Seven-Star Volley!
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
Seven star arrows descended at extreme speed, with a heaven-piercing momentum, slamming into the Venomous Centipede's body.
In an instant, a massive burst of blood-red damage numbers exploded above its head—
-486!
-753 (Critical)!
-778 (Critical)!
-536!
-554!
-858 (Critical)!
-886 (Critical)!
Even a level 21 Venomous Centipede with over 3300 HP couldn't withstand the ravages of an SSS-tier skill.
Its hundred legs twitched once, and it died on the spot.
[Ding～Killed level 21 Venomous Centipede, EXP +1452 (Base 50% + Final Hit 30% + Over-level 30% + Blessing Aura 10% + Title 1%)!]
"Holy crap!"
The four behind him, Skinny Monkey included, who hadn't even gotten into the rhythm yet, were instantly petrified.
"Level 21 monsters can get one-shot too? That's way too insane!"
"What kind of skill is that, Senior Lin Mo? The damage is actually this terrifying!"
While the few of them were still trapped in shock, Lin Mo had already begun hunting the next target.
Why did players in his past life, who were eager to collect Venomous Sets, become more and more obsessed with the higher floors of the Insect Nest Dungeon?
Because the higher the dungeon floor, the higher the drop rate of Venom Bottles.
On the second floor, Venomous Centipedes had a Venom Bottle drop rate of roughly around 20%.
From the first floor, where one Venom Bottle dropped only after killing ten Venomous Spiders, here it was roughly one Venom Bottle for every five Venomous Centipedes.
Since Lin Mo's monster-killing efficiency hadn't changed at all, still killing one poisonous insect with one Heaven-Slaying·Seven-Star Volley every fifteen seconds.
With the Venom Bottle drop rate doubled, it meant the overall task execution speed was doubled as well.
In less than two hours, the five of them each successfully collected ten Venom Bottles and completed the mission.
Just at this moment.
Ding!
Qin Feng sent a game message, [Brother Mo, I've arrived at Blazing Ember City! I collected a total of 425 E-rank skill books of various classes. Is that enough?]
'Good grief!'
'425 books?'
Lin Mo was stunned by the number Qin Feng sent.
What followed immediately was joy.
Because after incineration, 425 E-rank skill books would yield a total of 425 skill evolution points.
Given that evolving a single E-rank skill to SSS-tier required 127 skill evolution points.
That many points were enough to evolve three SSS-tier skills!
[Enough,] Lin Mo replied.
Qin Feng replied, [My bag couldn't hold them all, so I put everything in the main city warehouse. Brother Mo, whenever you come back, find me and I'll go get them from the warehouse for you.]
[Alright.]
Closing the dialogue window, thinking about the second SSS-tier skill he was about to obtain, Lin Mo couldn't help but feel extremely excited.
At this moment, checking the time, it was already six in the evening.
And the second floor had also been cleared.
Lin Mo muttered to himself, "Perfect. I'll head back to the city in a bit, log off to eat, grab the skill books, and evolve the second SSS skill."
"Then come back to grind the third floor of the Insect Nest Dungeon. It'll definitely be even easier."
Thinking this, Lin Mo prepared to leave the Insect Nest Dungeon together with Ling Xiao and the others.
But at this moment, Qin Feng suddenly sent another message, [Oh right, Brother Mo, are you in the Insect Nest Dungeon?]
Seeing this message, Lin Mo stopped in his tracks, [How do you know?]
[As expected… then you absolutely have to be careful,] Qin Feng hurriedly said, [Not long ago, I ran into people from the Chaotic World Guild. They seemed to be heading to the Insect Nest Dungeon, and I vaguely heard them mention your name. It felt like they were coming straight for you.]
[So it looks like they really are targeting you.]
Hearing this, Lin Mo's brows tightened.
"How does Wang Junjie know I'm in the Insect Nest Dungeon?"
Hearing that, Xia Wanwan also felt it was strange, "The entire Insect Nest Dungeon should only have the five of us. For now, no other players would dare come to such a high-level wilderness area. It really is strange. How did he know?"
At this time, Ling Xiao hurriedly said, "Before they arrive, let's leave this place quickly."
Lin Mo didn't move right away, instead continuing to ask Qin Feng, [When did you see the Chaotic World people?]
[About twenty minutes ago.]
Receiving this reply, Lin Mo's expression turned grim.
"Too late."
"If nothing unexpected happened, they should already be outside the Insect Nest Dungeon, waiting for us."
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