Chapter 1 Giant Scaled Frogs

Giant scaled frogs, covered in black scales, moved through the forest, creating a terrifying atmosphere. Tang Yao was a little dazed. Were they really capable of dealing with these level 30 creatures?

"Your Arcane Spirit's level ignore has reached +7, right?" Nie Yan asked. Ignoring levels was a very good attribute, especially when fighting monsters or players of a higher level. If the level ignore reached +7, it could achieve effective damage within 12 levels of the player's level. If it exceeded the player's level by more than 12, there was a certain probability of directly ignoring the level difference and causing damage to the opponent.

"Yeah," Tang Yao nodded.

"You can damage these scaled frogs. As long as one out of five attacks reaches the ignore level, you can whittle them down. And with the Arcane Spirit, you don't have to worry about mana at all, because your mana will never run out!" Nie Yan had accurately calculated this point before thinking of bringing Tang Yao to grind scaled frogs. Leveling up by fighting these scaled frogs would provide a considerable amount of experience, not to mention what items they might drop. It was time to level up a bit.

Nie Yan glanced at the level rankings. Currently, the top player on the entire Greenland Empire level rankings was the guild leader of Triumph, called Po Tian. After the opening of Sothis Valley and the Medusa's Lair, his level soared, and he was already level 15. The third and sixth places were also members of Triumph. The second place was a level 14 member of the Holy Judgement guild. Half Awake Fox was already level 13, ranking fourth. The fifth place was a member of Holy Light Flame. The Mad Battle Alliance's Love Massacre ranked seventh.

As for the Angelic Overlord guild, which was the first good and orderly guild in his previous life, their sphere of influence was in the Saturn Empire and had nothing to do with the Greenland Empire.

Five relatively powerful forces had risen in the entire Greenland Empire: Triumph, Holy Light Flame, Holy Judgement, Holy Roman Empire, and the Mad Battle Alliance. As for the other guilds, they were slightly inferior.

Of course, many more guild forces would rise in the future, but in the early stages, there were only these five powerful forces. Their influence was still very small and not enough to affect the structure of Greenland. When they divided up the fortresses of Greenland in the future, obtained a large amount of tax revenue from the fortresses, and strengthened their power, and obtained seats in the Greenland Council, then they might be able to influence the future policies of Greenland.

If, like in his previous life, Cao Xu tied Triumph, Holy Light Flame, and the other five major guilds together, occupied a large number of fortresses, firmly established his position as overlord, and obtained seven seats in the Greenland Council, the Holy Judgement, Holy Roman Empire, Mad Battle Alliance, and other guilds would have to avoid his sharp edge. Then Nie Yan wouldn't have a good life.

In order to avoid such a situation from happening, Nie Yan couldn't just be honest, law-abiding, and never stand out. Even if he was strong and had good equipment, even if he could take on a hundred people, could he take on ten thousand?

Thinking of the possible situations in the future, Nie Yan's heart sank. Although he had collected a series of potentially valuable items since the beginning of the game, such as the Chapter of Courage, the Chapter of Freedom, and the Sogoth Shadow, that alone was not enough. He had to do something drastic.

"Although my mana will never run out, these scaled frogs are level 30 monsters, and their movement speed is much faster than mine. If they attack me, I'll basically be instantly killed," Tang Yao said bitterly.

"Don't worry, we have this." Nie Yan took out a bottle of Mist Dust.

"What's this thing for?" Tang Yao had looked at the attributes of the Mist Dust, but he didn't see what it was for.

Mist Dust: Creates a mist within a 30x30 yard radius, reducing the vision of all allies and enemies by 15 points, effective against all creatures (excluding undead) within level 50, lasts 120 minutes.

"This thing is very useful. You'll know later," Nie Yan said with a mysterious smile.

"If this Mist Dust can reduce the enemy's vision without affecting ourselves, then it would be a little useful. But the vision of both sides is reduced. It shouldn't be useful. Did you misread the attribute description? Besides, this thing is only useful for PK, but it only reduces vision by 15 points, it's useless. And will monsters be affected by this thing?" Tang Yao wondered. Moreover, reducing the field of vision by 15 points didn't seem to have any effect. Which ordinary player didn't have a field of vision of fifty or sixty? If players' vision was reduced to only five or six points in a dark place, then releasing a cloud of mist might have some effect, but who would deliberately go to such a place to PK?

"Mist Dust does reduce the vision of both sides, but monsters also have attribute data. Our base vision is around 30, and it can reach over 60 with increased perception and other attributes. My current vision is 57. Each monster has certain attribute weaknesses. Like these scaled frogs, their attribute weakness is their field of vision, which is only about 40 yards. In other words, as long as you attack them from outside the 40-yard range, they won't be able to see you. But your attack distance isn't that far, so we'll use the Mist Dust to reduce their vision by another 15 points, and that's about right. As long as you run around them and attack, they'll never be able to find you or attack you," Nie Yan explained.

"Is it really that magical?" Tang Yao was stunned. Nie Yan spoke so logically, it might really be the case.

"Alright, get ready, we have to continue deeper in."

"Continue deeper in? Isn't it possible to grind here?"

"Grinding ordinary scaled frogs here is too wasteful of Mist Dust. We're going in to grind elites and sub-elites." In this vast scaled frog spawn area that covered two mountainous regions, Nie Yan knew of three locations where elite scaled frogs spawned, just like the Lion King, also spawning once a day. As for the sub-elites, there were even more.

Tang Yao's head was a little dizzy. Grinding level 30 ordinary monsters already seemed very unattainable to him. Nie Yan actually said he wanted to grind elites. It was too unbelievable. Nie Yan must have gone crazy. A level 30 ordinary elite probably had tens of thousands of health, would his attacks even be effective?

"Don't stand here dazed, let's go," Nie Yan said.

The two continued to venture deeper into the jungle, avoiding the giant frogs moving around them.

Triumph Guild's headquarters was a meeting hall in Carol City, provided by the server to each guild. The place was quite large and could accommodate hundreds of people.

All of Triumph's elite players had gathered here.

Their guild leader, Po Tian, was a middle-aged man in his forties. He was tall and strong, with dark skin. He was a berserker, and the trace of ferocity between his brows was chilling. In reality, he was a business partner with Cao Xu and a well-known figure in the underworld. If he hadn't used all kinds of means, Cao Xu wouldn't have been able to accumulate such a huge fortune. Of course, without Cao Xu, his power wouldn't have been able to expand to such a terrifying degree. He had at least fifty to sixty thousand people under his command, including some desperadoes with blood on their hands. The reason he entered Faith was to launder money through Faith, to slowly whitewash himself. With the support of his powerful connections, Triumph Guild rapidly expanded.

At this time, Po Tian was like a furious lion, and the members below were as quiet as cicadas in winter. Their boss hadn't been this angry in a long time.

"Because of you, our progress in the dungeon has to slow down for at least another day. Orange, you go first and tell me, what exactly happened? Three of you were actually killed by a thief. Are you guys just eating and doing nothing? Are you having too leisurely of a time!" Po Tian cursed angrily.

Orange and the others didn't dare to retort and could only honestly explain what had happened.

"I don't know what happened either. When we exchanged blows, I only saw the dagger flash, and he stunned me," Nightshadow was still confused. The exchange was too short, Nie Yan's movements were too fast, he didn't see clearly at all.

Po Tian heard the three people's report, pondered silently, and his expression was gloomy.

Nightshadow and the others quickly shut their mouths, watching Po Tian with some trepidation. They knew what the consequences would be once Po Tian got angry.

"Alright, you guys go down first and go to the Medusa dungeon to collect the lost equipment. Tomorrow we'll go to the Mist Forest," Po Tian said calmly, making it impossible to see what he was thinking.

Nightshadow, Orange, and Hidden Blade were relieved and quickly moved to the side.

If the same thing happened once, it might be a coincidence. For example, last time Purple Flame was killed, it might have been because Purple Flame was careless. But this time, Nie Yan killed three elites from the team, especially Orange, whose strength ranked third in the guild, but he was still killed by Nie Yan. Then this person called Nie Yan was a little unusual. If he was a god-level thief, he might be worth recruiting.

Nie Yan and Tang Yao carefully traversed the deep forest. Suddenly, Nie Yan's voice communication rang. Seeing the name of the person who sent the voice communication, it was Triumph Guild's leader, Po Tian.

Those who come aren't friendly, and those who are friendly don't come. But Nie Yan still answered the voice communication. Triumph and Cao Xu were very close, he understood that what had to be faced would still have to be faced.

"Nie Yan, is that right?" Po Tian's low and slightly hoarse voice rang out.

"That's right."

"You killed four people in my guild, Purple Flame, Nightshadow, Orange, and Hidden Blade. I'll give you two choices now. The first is to join Triumph. I can ignore everything that happened before. The second, you should understand that we Triumph will not let go of any enemy. I'm very busy, I'll give you three minutes to reply." Po Tian's tone was arrogant and threatening.

"The first one is impossible. I don't have any good feelings towards Triumph. So I choose the second one. Use whatever means you have, I'll be happy to oblige at any time." Nie Yan didn't show any weakness. In both his previous and present lives, he had formed few grudges with Triumph? When had he ever been afraid of Triumph?

"I admire your straightforwardness," Po Tian sneered and hung up the voice communication.

Seeing that Nie Yan's expression was not right, Tang Yao asked, "What happened?"

"Nothing," Nie Yan waved his hand and suddenly laughed heartily. "Tang Yao, do you want to start a guild for fun?"

"What, start a guild?" Tang Yao was stunned when he heard Nie Yan's abrupt words.

"A guild even more powerful than Triumph and Holy Light Flame!"

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