Chapter 18 Meeting Again

Nie Yan came out of Kardi's blacksmith shop, taking out the level 20 Thief's Gold set he had exchanged from Fallen Leaf Studio. He sent a message to Tang Yao, saying, "Come back, I'll take you leveling."

"Okay, I'm getting bored of farming Scale Frogs here." Tang Yao immediately perked up when he heard Nie Yan wanted to level together and read a Town Return Scroll.

Nie Yan walked to the teleportation array and met up with Tang Yao.

"Didn't Yaoyao and Sun come with you?" Nie Yan asked, noticing Tang Yao was alone.

"They said leveling with us would slow us down. They can farm Scale Frogs on their own," Tang Yao replied.

Nie Yan thought about it. If Yaoyao and Sun came along, the experience would indeed be diluted among the four of them. It was better for them to farm Scale Frogs on their own. At their current levels, farming Scale Frogs was still quite fast. Although the consumption of Mist Dust was expensive, the equipment they dropped from the Scale Frogs was worth far more than the money they spent. They sold the equipment to the guild, and the guild provided them with money, which was enough to cover the cost of Mist Dust.

"That works, farming Scale Frogs isn't slow either."

"Yaoyao wants to take Yu Lan and the others leveling, to bring their levels up too."

Nie Yan nodded. After the incident outside the Blackflame Forest, Yu Lan and the others were staunch members of the Ni Ren Tribe. Bringing up their levels was equivalent to increasing the Ni Ren Tribe's strength.

"Get ready, we'll set off immediately," Nie Yan said. Breaking Dawn had already reached level 26 on the level rankings. He wondered how far behind Tang Yao was in experience, hoping he wouldn't be surpassed.

"Okay, just a moment." Tang Yao stored his gains in the guild warehouse, bought some consumables at the pharmacy, and also bought a few Town Return Scrolls.

The two met at the teleportation point in Calore City. Each of them spent fifteen silver coins to teleport to Komdor Town.

Komdor Town was deserted. Only one or two NPCs walked the streets. Komdor Town was surrounded by high-level maps, so players wouldn't come here at this time.

In his past life, Komdor Town was the most popular place for gem trading. The surrounding high-level maps were all rich in gems, especially the Eternal City, which produced the largest quantity of gems of considerable quality. Almost every day, a large number of gem artisans frantically bought gems here.

The two walked out of Komdor Town, heading south. After walking through the plains for more than ten minutes, a magnificent golden castle appeared before Nie Yan and Tang Yao at the end of the plain.

Tang Yao gaped, amazed. This golden castle was even more spectacular than the central district of Calore City, covering a huge area, with towering domed buildings standing tall and resplendent.

The Eternal City was a relic from the Dark Ages. The atrocities of the Dragon Clan forced many races to seek self-preservation. The Goblins, for example, built this invincible fortress and created many powerful mechanical creatures to protect themselves. Even at the height of the Dragon Clan's power during the Dark Ages, the Dragon Clan army failed to conquer this castle, hence its name, the Eternal City.

After the Dark Ages passed, humans gained control of this land, and the Goblins were driven out because of their ugly appearance. Although the Eternal City was not conquered, human ingenuity was boundless. They used griffins to spray alchemical poison mist from above, eventually exterminating all the Goblins here.

When one race conquers another, there is only barbarism and atrocity, not just the Dragon Clan, but also humans!

This was the background of the Eternal City.

For players, this was a level 40 leveling spot, where Mechanical Constructs, a type of mechanical unit, spawned.

Nie Yan and Tang Yao arrived at the foot of the Eternal City. The gates of the Eternal City were tightly closed. The huge iron gate, five or six yards high, gave off a sense of heavy oppression.

Nie Yan slowly pushed open the iron gate. Inside were neat and open streets, more than ten yards wide. Occasionally, one or two skeletons could be seen on the ground, about the size of a child. These were the dead Goblins, silently accusing humanity of its crimes.

"Stay put, I'll aggro the monsters," Nie Yan said. With Tang Yao's attack damage, he was completely ineffective against the Mechanical Constructs. He could only rely on the area-of-effect magic bombs in his hand to level up. Moreover, Tang Yao's movement speed was too slow, making him unsuitable for using area-of-effect magic bombs, so he was just here to soak up experience.

"Where does the Charging Crystal you mentioned drop?" Tang Yao asked.

"Ordinary Mechanical Constructs don't drop them. Among these level 40 Mechanical Constructs, occasionally one or two blue Mechanical Constructs will appear. They're level 50 normal monsters. They drop Charging Crystal Shards, but you need to collect 100 Charging Crystal Shards to synthesize a Charging Crystal."

"Wouldn't that be very easy?"

"There are a total of one hundred and thirty blue Mechanical Constructs spawning in the outer circle of the Eternal City. After they are killed, they won't respawn. Finding 100 blue Mechanical Constructs is very difficult. At the same time, the blue Mechanical Constructs have more than three times the health of ordinary Mechanical Constructs, so you can't get many Charging Crystal Shards in a day or two. It all depends on luck, whether you can find 100 blue Mechanical Constructs," Nie Yan said. Apart from that, unless they killed a Legendary Mechanical Construct, which was equivalent to a Lord-class existence, he wouldn't consider it for now.

Nie Yan ran towards the distance, entering Stealth, looking towards the distance. There were five or six piles of Mechanical Constructs, each pile with about twenty or thirty, a bit far apart.

Most of the Mechanical Constructs were constructed entirely of gray metal, somewhat resembling a giant cylinder, like robots left over from a distant era. They were very tall and moved clumsily, their movement speed not fast. Occasionally, a Mechanical Construct with a completely blue body would be mixed in.

He used Detect on the Mechanical Constructs.

Gray Iron Mechanical Construct: Level 40, Health 3000/3000.

Blue Armor Mechanical Construct: Level 50, Health 8000/8000.

Blue Armor Mechanical Constructs only appear when clearing the Eternal City for the first time, and the items they drop are better, but they disappear after the first clear. The first Legendary Mechanical Construct will drop a complete Charging Crystal. If it is killed, the respawned Legendary Mechanical Construct will no longer drop one. Therefore, the entire Eternal City only drops two Charging Crystals in total.

They were all mechanical units, and only elite-level Mechanical Constructs appeared in the central area, so using area-of-effect magic bombs to level up here was the best.

Nie Yan slowly sneaked in, bringing a pile of Mechanical Constructs in the distance into range. He shot three arrows at those Mechanical Constructs. Ding, ding, ding, the three arrows simultaneously hit one of the Mechanical Constructs, and damage numbers of -1 floated above the Mechanical Construct.

Twenty-odd Mechanical Constructs were all attracted by Nie Yan and chased after him. After all, they were level 40 monsters, and their movement speed was only slightly slower than Nie Yan's.

Nie Yan quickly ran, passing by another pile of Mechanical Constructs, and shot three more arrows, attracting another pile of Mechanical Constructs.

He kept pulling monsters like this. Nie Yan pulled about three or four hundred Mechanical Constructs, a dense mass behind him.

"My god," Tang Yao glanced at Nie Yan's back, a dark mass, which was too shocking.

Nie Yan led these Mechanical Constructs, running on the open streets. He turned his head and threw a black iron piece from his hand. The piece was thrown high, forming a parabola, falling into the middle of these Mechanical Constructs from above.

With a bang, the area-of-effect magic bomb exploded, and the raging flames quickly covered hundreds of surrounding Mechanical Constructs, then quickly dissipated, rising into a cloud of black smoke. The scene was quite spectacular.

-600, -600......

Dense damage values floated from the heads of these Mechanical Constructs. Many Mechanical Constructs looked as if they had been smoked, turning black.

The aggro of these Mechanical Constructs became even more concentrated, chasing after Nie Yan. Nie Yan saw that the area-of-effect magic bomb had cooled down, turned his head, and threw another area-of-effect magic bomb.

The area-of-effect magic bomb fell, and with a bang, it exploded again, sweeping over the nearby Mechanical Constructs.

After a while, he threw the third, fourth, and then the fifth area-of-effect magic bomb fell. With a bang, a large number of them fell instantly, and a large pile of Mechanical Construct corpses and parts were scattered on the ground.

About seventy Mechanical Constructs were killed.

Large numbers of Mechanical Constructs fell to the ground, and Nie Yan's experience skyrocketed.

Two rays of white light landed on Nie Yan's head, and two crisp system prompts rang out. Nie Yan looked at his level and saw that he was now level 21.

"Holy crap, so much experience!" Tang Yao shouted excitedly. These monsters allowed him to break through level 26 and instantly reach level 27 at 37%.

The Mechanical Constructs had super high defense and health, and were originally monsters that provided a lot of experience. Now Nie Yan and Tang Yao were farming monsters above their level, so the monster farming experience was extremely rich. In addition, they were farming in groups, so the leveling speed was extremely fast.

One area-of-effect magic bomb after another was thrown into the sky, then fell, sweeping across the area with a series of booms, like autumn winds sweeping away fallen leaves. Only fragments of Mechanical Constructs remained on the ground.

Nie Yan leveled up to level 23, and Tang Yao soared to level 28.

"Pick up the equipment," Nie Yan said to Tang Yao, who was stunned. He looked at his backpack and saw that he had used a total of thirty-nine area-of-effect magic bombs, and this was only one wave!

Tang Yao looked at his level and still felt a sense of disbelief. He had been farming Scale Frogs, unable to level up even once in two days, but in just this short time, he had jumped directly from level 26 to level 28? What a powerful leveling speed! Tang Yao could even imagine the desperate feeling of Breaking Dawn, trying to catch up to his level, but suddenly seeing the other party jump two levels, instantly widening the gap!