Chapter 18 Don't Linger, Cast Heavenlyfall Now!

"Don't linger, cast Heavenlyfall now!" Nie Yan said in the voice chat.

"Heavenlyfall takes ten seconds to chant, there's no time!" Tang Yao said anxiously, estimating that these Rock Spiders would be upon him before he could even finish the spell.

"Just cast it, hurry."

Tang Yao gritted his teeth, unfurled the magic scroll, and waved his staff, beginning to chant the Heavenlyfall spell. Masses of fire elements converged toward him.

Scorching flames danced in the air.

Nie Yan lured the twenty-odd Rock Spiders into the open space at the crossroads, the swarm surging like a tide. He quickly retreated into the narrow passage where Tang Yao was, and only one Rock Spider squeezed in, blocking the entrance.

"Stun!" Nie Yan turned back and cast a Stun, putting the Rock Spider into a dazed state.

Ten seconds, nine seconds, eight seconds, seven seconds...

Time ticked by, and the fire elements around Tang Yao became increasingly active.

Spells that required a long string of syllables to chant were mostly area-of-effect spells with high damage. Nie Yan had seen this Heavenlyfall skill before. It was the only area skill that arcane and fire mages could learn at level zero, a great tool for grinding monsters. Perhaps only one in a thousand fire or arcane mages would be equipped with Heavenlyfall.

The Rock Spider awoke and pounced on Nie Yan. Nie Yan raised his dagger and entangled with the Rock Spider, holding it back so it couldn't attack Tang Yao and interrupt his spell.

Ten seconds, neither long nor short, just counting from one to ten, and it would pass quickly.

Tang Yao raised his staff, uttering a strange, drawn-out syllable that even he couldn't understand. A giant fireball crashed down from the sky with a boom, exploding in the middle of the spider swarm. Flames scattered like a heavenly maiden scattering flowers, landing everywhere. These sparks didn't extinguish when they hit the ground, but continued to burn, inflicting a certain amount of damage to the monsters every second.

The twenty-odd Rock Spiders, after being attacked, emitted chaotic squeals, but they couldn't attack Nie Yan and Tang Yao no matter what they did.

It turned out that Nie Yan had calculated everything in advance. No wonder he dared to lure so many monsters over at once.

Only the unique terrain of this fork in the road allowed Nie Yan to grind monsters like this. On a plain, luring so many monsters and bombarding them with area-of-effect magic would be suicide. In a place that was too narrow, the damage caused by Heavenlyfall was extremely limited. Casting Heavenlyfall here was just right.

Tang Yao admired Nie Yan even more, that he could think of even this.

After an interval of one second, another fireball fell, exploding.

The fire soared into the sky.

After five fireballs in a row, six Rock Spiders were directly smashed to death by the fireballs. The continuous burning flames killed another fifteen or sixteen spiders, and the remaining ones had very little health left. The damage of the Heavenlyfall spell was evident.

Looking at the corpses of the Rock Spiders lying all over the ground in front of him, Tang Yao stared blankly for a long time. Was all this really his doing? Unbelievable!

"Nie Yan, did I do this?" Tang Yao asked foolishly. Seeing the screen filled with experience points, he finally confirmed that he had cast that powerful Heavenlyfall spell.

"What are you spacing out for? Clear up the remaining Rock Spiders."

"I'm out of mana." Tang Yao looked at his empty mana bar. He could still throw a few Arcane Missiles, but couldn't even cast a Fire Blast.

Only then did Nie Yan remember that Heavenlyfall consumed a lot of mana. It was already very good that Tang Yao was able to cast it. How could he have any energy left to continue casting other attack skills?

In addition to consuming mana, a low-level magic scroll was also worth a lot of money. It would be very expensive to grind monsters and level up using the Heavenlyfall skill all the time.

Nie Yan pounced on a Rock Spider with low health, using a Vital Strike to kill it, quickly clearing out the remaining monsters.

After a while, all twenty-odd Rock Spiders fell to the ground and died. Nie Yan collected everything on the ground, a total of three copper coins, and no equipment dropped. He glanced at the system notification bar and saw that his experience had filled the screen. So many Rock Spiders had increased Nie Yan's experience by a full 3%.

"There are no more monsters around here, let's go further in," Nie Yan said. They could only experience this kind of grinding once in a long time, as the monsters nearby couldn't respawn fast enough.

"Go further in? Why?" Tang Yao asked in surprise.

"I'm going inside to take care of something. This cave has its own secrets," Nie Yan said with a mysterious smile. Having reached this point, he vaguely remembered something.

At the end of the Rock Spider Cave was a deep pool. The water was very deep, with many crisscrossing currents connecting to an underground lake. Passing through the underground lake, one could reach another closed valley, where many strange herbs grew. Most importantly, there was a page from the Book of Order that countless players dreamed of.

Legend has it that the Book of Order and the Book of Chaos were divine objects passed down from the Era of Co-Governance (873-1235), and had been circulating in the world for five or six hundred years. Its appearance was a mystery, and so was its writer.

Order and chaos represented the rules of the continent.

The Book of Order and the Book of Chaos each had six volumes and thirty-six chapters, representing two different forces, scattered throughout the world.

Legend said that collecting the Book of Order could rebuild the Order of the Gods and obtain powerful divine power. The owner of the Book of Order would become the common master of the Light Temples in various places, the great Pope. Those who collected the Book of Chaos could possess destructive power. They were the destroyers of order. Collecting all the Books of Chaos would make one the powerful Dark King.

The Book of Order and the Book of Chaos were both legendary items.

When the six chapters of the first volume of the Book of Order appeared, the Grinline Empire and the Saturn Empire opened the first expansion pack, "Sealed History."

These six chapters of the Book of Order were the Chapter of Justice, the Chapter of Kindness, the Chapter of Courage, the Chapter of Wisdom, the Chapter of Fairness, and the Chapter of Freedom.

These six chapters of the Book of Order fell into the hands of six people, without exception, all of whom occupied a place in the top hundred good and lawful players. The first, third, and sixth held the Chapter of Justice, the Chapter of Courage, and the Chapter of Wisdom, respectively. This made the Book of Order an artifact-like existence in the minds of players.

The Book of Order had great power, but it could not be stored in a personal warehouse. It could only be carried on the body. When the holder of the Book of Order was killed by a player, the item would inevitably drop, unless one could collect a volume of six chapters. Therefore, the killings caused by the Book of Order had hardly ever stopped.

The Chapter of Justice, the Chapter of Courage, and the Chapter of Wisdom fell into the hands of the presidents of three super guilds, and the holders of the remaining Chapters of Order also had powerful forces. But they also kept a low profile when traveling, and did not easily use the Book of Order in front of others. However, Nie Yan had seen the powerful power of the Book of Order in videos.

The holder of the Chapter of Justice, the president of Angel Corps, the elven demon hunter Angwing Angel, summoned sixteen Knights of Justice when facing hundreds of hostile players, defeating a hundred-player team alone, becoming a myth.

The holder of the Chapter of Wisdom, the president of the Holy Judgment Guild, the holy words mage Shi Huang Killer, cast the forbidden spell Brilliant Radiance when resisting the undead invasion, purifying more than three hundred undead wizards at once, becoming another immortal legend of the Book of Order.

The holder of the Chapter of Courage, the president of the Holy Roman Empire, the berserker Half-Awake Fox, charged into the enemy guild's team during the guild war, killing one person every ten steps, beheading two hundred enemies, invincible.

Nie Yan felt his blood boiling just thinking about it.

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