For a time, the focus of all one million online players in Blazing Ember City gathered on the Level 32 dungeon: Snake King Island.
When the news that "a single dungeon material is worth 1,000 RMB, and the first clear of Snake King Island earns a 5 million bonus" spread across the internet, offline, countless players belonging to the Human Race's Level 3 main city, Blazing Ember City, rushed online.
Today was Monday. Some office workers did not even go to work. They directly asked for leave, went home, and logged into Divine Oracle.
In their own words, "Just farm a few dungeon materials and that's several thousand. With that kind of money, why should I still go to that crappy job that only pays three thousand a month?"
"Taking one day off deducts two hundred!"
"Fine! Even if I only get one material today! I'll take five days off!"
As a result, according to official real-time data: at eleven in the morning, the online population of the Human Race's Level 3 main city, Blazing Ember City, reached the highest peak among all Level 3 main cities on the entire Dragon Nation server: 2.9828 million players.
This level of heat was almost no less than in the previous life, when Wang Junjie posted across the entire internet a "5 million bounty for the location of the hidden dungeon Shadow Sanctuary"!
Back then, the real-time online peak of Blazing Ember City had reached over 2.95 million.
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At the same time—
[Inside the Snake King Island Dungeon]
After accepting the dungeon mission, Lin Mo and his group of five began hunting the Level 32 venomous snakes that could be seen everywhere on the island.
The main damage dealers were Lin Mo and Ning Xi.
Su Muqiu and Dragon Soul Aoshi were secondary core fighters.
The only freeloader was Niu Dali.
Facing dungeon monsters as high as Level 32, the Level 21 knight Niu Dali could not play any role at all.
He just followed behind the team, purely soaking experience.
Occasionally helping to pick up loot.
Even Su Muqiu could not help asking Lin Mo, "Why bring him in?"
"Power leveling," Lin Mo answered without thinking, "He paid. Hired me to carry him."
Su Muqiu let out a light sigh and said, "Lin Mo, I never thought there would be a day you'd bend for money."
"I'm curious. How much did he give you to make someone like you, who never bows for a few buckets of rice, lower your head to reality?"
"Two million."
As soon as Lin Mo finished speaking,
Su Muqiu: "How much? "
"???"
'Holy crap!'
Su Muqiu was stunned for a full ten seconds before blurting out, "I was careless…"
With nothing to do, Niu Dali started browsing the official website.
Then he saw the current situation in Blazing Ember City and was so shocked he began doubting his life, "Holy crap! Blazing Ember City's online population is almost 2.99 million! No way! The city only has three million players total! And today's Monday. How can so many people be online?"
"So it's because Wang Junjie posted online offering a high price to buy snake gall. One snake gall for a thousand bucks? Wang Junjie is really loaded!"
Hearing this, Dragon Soul Aoshi said in a deep voice, "Looks like we need to speed up."
"Wang Junjie's attitude clearly shows he'll pay any price to take the first clear of the dungeon."
As he spoke, Dragon Soul Aoshi opened his backpack. Someone who calculated the value of everything, he rarely took out several magic scrolls and handed them to Lin Mo, "Use the magic scrolls. Increase our killing efficiency."
Lin Mo: "I don't need them."
Dragon Soul Aoshi: "Relax, I'm not charging you."
Lin Mo: "That's not what I mean. It's not about money. I really don't need them."
As he spoke, Lin Mo locked onto several venomous snakes slithering over in front of him, raised the Venomous Crossbow, and launched an attack.
Soul Archer ultimate.
SSS-tier Annihilation · Storm Arrow Rain!
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
A massive arrow formation with a 100-yard diameter covered the five venomous snakes. Countless arrows rained down from above, wildly piercing their bodies.
-7352 (Critical)!
-7352 (Critical)!
-7352 (Critical)!
Without combining it with the Icebound · Extreme Frost Grip combo, releasing the ultimate alone dealt slightly lower damage.
But three hits of over 7,000, adding up to more than 20,000 critical damage, was more than enough to instantly kill these Level 32 venomous snakes with only 10,000 HP.
In just a moment, before the three-second Storm Arrow Rain even finished, the five snakes were already dead.
[Ding~ Your teammate Rulebound killed a Level 32 Deadly Venomous Snake. EXP +3600 (60%)!]
[Ding~ Your teammate Rulebound killed a Level 32 Deadly Venomous Snake. EXP +3600 (60%)!]
[Ding~ …]
In shock, Dragon Soul Aoshi withdrew the magic scroll he had handed out, "Looks like you really don't need it."
As he spoke, he turned and handed the magic scroll to Ning Xi.
Ning Xi shook her head and said, "Thanks, I don't need it either!"
After speaking, Ning Xi waved her staff and attacked two venomous snakes sweeping in from the other side.
A-tier Shadow Storm!
E-tier Fireball!
E-tier Ice Spike!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
-2321!
-2321!
-7982!
-8135!
[Ding~ Your teammate Liuli killed a Level 32 Deadly Venomous Snake. EXP +3600 (60%)!]
[Ding~ Your teammate Liuli killed a Level 32 Deadly Venomous Snake. EXP +3600 (60%)!]
[Ding~ …]
Dragon Soul Aoshi's outstretched hand froze midair, "Alright. Looks like you really don't need it either."
Still stunned, Dragon Soul Aoshi finally turned his gaze to Niu Dali.
Just as Niu Dali happily stretched out both hands, ready to receive the magic scroll,
"Forget it, you need it even less," As he spoke, Dragon Soul Aoshi crushed the magic scroll himself.
Leaving Niu Dali awkwardly scratching his foot.
Although Dragon Soul Aoshi and Su Muqiu were far inferior to Lin Mo and Ning Xi, they were still ranked third and second on the Heavenly Ranking.
Compared to ordinary players at this stage, their strength was still very strong.
With the temporary boost to attack and damage output from the magic scroll, Warrior Dragon Soul Aoshi controlled the front line, while Archer Su Muqiu followed up with damage from the back.
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
-1437!
-1522!
-2048!
-2199!
With their powerful combination, the two of them easily took down one venomous snake in three seconds.
Since he could not help in battle, Niu Dali went to pick up items.
He searched all the corpses of the venomous snakes Lin Mo and the others had killed.
He could not help but curl his lips, "Damn! Not a single snake gall dropped. Why are these snakes so stingy."
Su Muqiu said, "Before clearing the dungeon, the drop rate is only 1%. If it drops, that'd be a miracle!"
Right now, whether snake gall drops or not did not matter.
Because the most important task was to complete the dungeon mission and secure the first clear.
So Lin Mo locked onto the next batch of targets.
Icebound · Extreme Frost Grip!
Heaven Burning · Spark Ignites the Plains!
Heaven Punisher · Seven Star Volley!
Crash!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Under the apocalyptic assault of three SSS-tier skills, eight or nine venomous snakes in a large area were instantly killed.
This scene made Su Muqiu and Dragon Soul Aoshi both feel a chill run down their backs.
"What terrifying strength…"
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