Tang Yao's attacks on the Scale Frog Lord only dealt around 10 points of damage most of the time, with an occasional hit dealing over a hundred. However, due to the high attack frequency, his firepower output was still considerable.

The Scale Frog Lord's health steadily decreased, slowly but surely giving Tang Yao and Nie Yan a glimmer of hope.

This was a level 30 Lord!

Not something an Elite could compare to!

In his past life, if players encountered a Lord-level creature in the wild, they would immediately notify their guilds. Guilds would often mobilize hundreds of players to deal with a single Lord-level creature, and many guild wars were sparked by them. Lord-level creatures usually dropped Dark Gold equipment, and sometimes, if you were lucky, you could even find one or two fragments of Legendary items. Even if your luck was bad, a piece of Gold equipment could still fetch a good price.

But now, under Tang Yao's fierce attacks, its health was slowly dropping, 99.9%, 99.8%...

It was an exciting prospect, to say the least.

If they could kill a Lord, and only Nie Yan and Tang Yao were there to split the experience, how much would they get?

Nie Yan couldn't even imagine it. Even at his peak in his past life, he had never soloed a Lord of his level, let alone killed one that was higher leveled. He was doing things that he wouldn't have dared to imagine, let alone accomplish, in his past life!

"Nie Yan, how much experience does a Lord give? Its health is so high, like ten times that of an Elite," Tang Yao asked, his voice trembling slightly. He couldn't imagine it.

One level, two levels, or even more?

"Two or three levels, probably. Keep up the DPS; otherwise, its health will regenerate," Nie Yan reminded Tang Yao. Fortunately, Tang Yao's spell damage was high enough, and combined with ignoring levels, the damage was quite considerable. If it were any other mage, they probably wouldn't even be able to break through the Scale Frog Lord's defense.

"Don't worry, my output won't stop."

Tang Yao's skills had improved significantly compared to before. He wouldn't make such simple mistakes under normal circumstances.

"Next time, I need to prepare more magic attack amplification potions," Nie Yan thought. That way, Tang Yao's monster-killing speed could be much faster. However, magic attack amplification potions were generally very expensive and rare, making them difficult to obtain. A potion that increased attack by 20 would cost at least three silver coins, and those with stronger amplification effects were even more expensive.

Nie Yan carefully watched the Scale Frog Lord's movements. If the Scale Frog Lord slowly moved out of Tang Yao's attack range or moved in Tang Yao's direction, he would immediately use his crossbow to lure it back from a distance. The crossbow's range was longer than Tang Yao's spells; Nie Yan's range was about forty yards. The Scale Frog Lord was still in a state of confusion. It didn't know where the attacks were coming from, so it could only move around aimlessly. Because Nie Yan's crossbow bolts were fired horizontally, it would walk a few steps in the direction they came from. But since it couldn't find Nie Yan and he didn't follow up with another attack, it would stop after a few steps. As a result, the Scale Frog Lord couldn't leave that area.

"How's it going on your end? When will you reach level 15?" Zi Se Kuang Dao, also known as Hao Cheng, sent Nie Yan a message.

"Probably another three or four hours."

"That's still a long time, but I guess that's because you need more experience to level up. The guild's been established, and we already have over a thousand members, with more joining all the time. We're doing our best to recruit people, but the guild warehouse is still empty, which isn't a good look. I told them it would be set up soon, but they're all watching us. If the guild benefits don't keep up, I'm worried we'll lose some people in a few days," Hao Cheng said. The first group of people was very important. If they stayed and thought the guild was good, they would bring in more people. A guild was built on the foundation of thousands upon thousands of players.

Nie Yan thought for a moment and said, "Tell them that the guild benefits will catch up soon. For now, as long as they are members of the Niu Ren Tribe guild, they can enjoy a 5% discount on all potions purchased at the Xingkong Pharmacy. Purchases are limited to 30 copper coins for guild contribution under 100 points, 1 silver and 50 copper coins for guild contribution of 500 points, and so on." This would drive business for the pharmacy, and the purchase limit was to prevent people from other guilds from using Niu Ren Tribe guild member identities to buy potions in bulk. At the same time, this measure would also encourage players to increase their guild contribution value.

"You know people at the Xingkong Pharmacy?"

"Just tell the guild members that."

"Okay, this benefit should keep a lot of people around," Hao Cheng said excitedly. The 5% discount at the Xingkong Pharmacy was of great significance to the guild. The Xingkong Pharmacy's influence in Calore was enormous. It had hundreds of junior apothecaries and hundreds of apothecary apprentices, occupying half of Calore's market. More than 60% of the potions in Calore came from there. It was a sanctuary for apothecaries, and all apothecaries were eager to get in. Some apothecaries even left their guilds to join the Xingkong Pharmacy through referrals. No one had ever heard of the Xingkong Pharmacy offering a 5% discount to any guild. This measure was undoubtedly telling all guild members that the Xingkong Pharmacy was their backer. With such a big benefactor, were they still worried about the guild benefits not keeping up?

Hao Cheng took the good news back.

Nie Yan and Tang Yao continued toiling away.

While Tang Yao and Nie Yan were busy, Po Tian, having just finished a dungeon, returned to the Triumph Empire headquarters.

"How is it? Did you find out where that Yaozi came from?" Po Tian asked Ju Zi, who was standing next to him.

"We found out. He's a member of a player team. That team's not very strong; they haven't even cleared Blackflame yet. That Yaozi left the team a couple of days ago and disappeared. Then his level skyrocketed."

"Just an ordinary player. Seems like he got lucky. Find him. We have to ask him how he leveled up so fast!"

"But we also got news that a player named Chen Bo said that Nie Yan is Yaozi's brother."

"Nie Yan?" Po Tian's expression turned cold.

"It is said that Yaozi was blocked by the people of Holy Light."

"Oh? What was the result?"

"Holy Light seemed to have dozens of people blocking Yaozi and his group, killing all of Yaozi's teammates, but Yaozi escaped. Later, Nie Yan appeared and killed six or seven people from Holy Light, and looted the red-named Dian Cang's set, the Fire Chaser." Ju Zi was shocked as he said this. It seemed that more than one person had fallen into Nie Yan's hands.

"He alone?" Po Tian was stunned. They had some connection with Holy Light, and he knew very well what Dian Cang's skills were like. He only knew that he had been completely cleaned out some time ago; he didn't expect that the person was actually Nie Yan.

"Yes, only him. Holy Light had so many people at the time, but they couldn't do anything to him, so they had to retreat."

Po Tian pondered for a moment. If all of this was related to Nie Yan, then this Yaozi was someone who needed close attention.

Ju Zi hesitated.

"If you have something to say, say it," Po Tian glanced at Ju Zi and said.

"We should withdraw the bounty within the guild. If only a few people encounter that Nie Yan, I'm afraid none of them will be his opponent," Ju Zi finally said.

Po Tian's expression became even more somber, making Ju Zi feel a chill.

"Also, um, I think Yaozi might be with Nie Yan now," Ju Zi continued.

"You mean their levels might be similar?" Po Tian knew what Ju Zi wanted to say after thinking for a moment.

"Yes, the reason why he's not on the level rankings is probably because he's hiding it. The last time we encountered him, he was already level 11."

Po Tian was silent for a moment, then said to Ju Zi: "Withdraw the bounty in the guild, and then bring that Chen Bo here."

"Bring him? What for?"

"Don't ask too much."

"Yes."

In the dim jungle, on the muddy grass, Nie Yan and Tang Yao were doing the same thing meticulously. The Scale Frog Lord's health was dropping extremely slowly, so slowly that they couldn't see the Scale Frog Lord's health bar move for half a day.

Lord-level creatures were too terrifying to imagine. Using ordinary monster-killing methods, even several thousand level 10+ players might not be able to grind down a level 30 Lord.

After nearly ten hours, Nie Yan had used one Mist Dust after another, and Tang Yao's fingers were almost falling off from casting so many spells. The Scale Frog Lord's health finally had only a little bit left.

"Oh my god, it's been over ten hours, and this guy still hasn't gone down. If he doesn't fall, I'm going to fall," Tang Yao said with a bitter face.

"There's only 2% left. Keep it up."

When the Scale Frog Lord's health was at 20%, it frantically cast several area-of-effect spells, but obviously, its area-of-effect spells didn't hit anyone. It didn't even know where its enemies were.

Seeing that the Scale Frog Lord's health was low, Tang Yao increased the frequency of his attacks. His heart was beating extremely fast, and he muttered to himself, "Level up, level up."

The last spark of arcane flame exploded. The Scale Frog Lord's health finally reached rock bottom. It let out a wail and collapsed to the ground, with scarlet liquid flowing all over the place.

Rays of dazzling white light fell on Tang Yao and Nie Yan.

Ding-dong, ding-dong, Nie Yan heard two system notification sounds. This Scale Frog Lord had given Nie Yan a full 160,000 experience points, allowing him to skyrocket to level 16. Since Tang Yao was the main damage dealer, he gained even more experience, allowing him to directly level up to level 17.

Looking at his level, Tang Yao was still dizzy.

"Nie Yan, I leveled up to 17?" Tang Yao asked suspiciously, thinking he had seen wrong.

"Mm." Nie Yan smiled slightly and walked towards the Scale Frog Lord's corpse. A level 30 Lord, he wondered if it had dropped anything good. He rummaged through the Scale Frog Lord's corpse and found a ring, a piece of leather armor, and a potion recipe. He also found two gold coins.

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