Chapter 1 Necromancer's Item

"A necromancer's item, it's a summoning medium. With a Summoning Skull, a necromancer can summon one or two extra undead creatures," Duo Duo explained.

Nie Yan suddenly understood. If a necromancer had a summoning medium, they could summon two or even more undead creatures. With them, necromancers could form an undead army. Such a thing would naturally be sought after, and if the drop rate was very low, it would be even more valuable. Plus, the Summoning Skull Nie Yan dropped was considered a relatively good one.

Duo Duo's asking price was probably not fake. Nie Yan thought for a moment. Selling the Summoning Skull to Duo Duo would indeed earn him a sum, but it would be a waste to turn such a thing into money. It would be best to exchange it for some equipment.

"Do you have any good items there? Exchange one or two for me," Nie Yan asked. A large guild like Angel Corps wouldn't be short of sub-legendary equipment.

Duo Duo understood Nie Yan's meaning. As a guild leader, he wasn't short of those twenty or thirty thousand gold coins. They needed better equipment to enhance the guild's strength even more. He thought for a moment and said, "I have a sub-legendary bracer for mages here, usable by those of Good alignment. You can take a look."

After a while, Duo Duo had someone send the bracer over.

Okef Knowledge Hand (Sub-Legendary): Requires 529 Intelligence.

Item Description: Okef was a knowledgeable Grand Spellcaster whose learning spanned all types of magic. This is the bracer he wore.

Attributes: Defense 336-369, Magic Power +32, Intelligence +58, All Magic Amplification 10%, Attached Light Spell, using light magic to add a curse to the enemy, causing 3 seconds of confusion, attached Weakness effect, skill cooldown three hours. Life Erosion, use magic to add an erosion effect to the enemy, reducing the opponent's defense by 20%, deducting a certain amount of health per second, related to the mage's own intelligence. Skill cooldown three hours.

Restriction: None.

Nie Yan and Duo Duo discussed it. Duo Duo exchanged this bracer for Nie Yan's Summoning Skull and additionally supplied Nie Yan with more than thirteen thousand gold coins, and only then could the transaction be considered successful.

"Then we'll see you in five days," Duo Duo said, since there was nothing else to do.

"Okay," Nie Yan nodded.

After the two chatted for a while, Duo Duo went out to lead Angel Corps players to deal with the Level 60 mutated lord.

Nie Yan waited quietly in the tavern for the Dark Portal to open. He looked at Finaas' Poison Fang that he had obtained. He couldn't take out Finaas' Poison Fang because Finaas' Poison Fang was covered in poison. He could only open it in his backpack to take a look.

Finaas' Poison Fang: Quest Item, Lingering Soul Item, Converts 30% of your normal attack damage into deadly poison damage.

Nie Yan didn't know what the words "Lingering Soul Item" meant, but he could feel the strong dark power attached to it. Its attached attributes were quite amazing. Nie Yan's current attack was about one thousand six hundred, multiplied by 30%, that would be about five hundred. All five hundred would be poison damage, ignoring any type of armor, only related to the opponent's poison resistance. Based on his experience in his previous life, the more complex the composition of the attack, the higher the damage output when encountering Boss-level creatures. Changing the attack composition was far more effective than increasing the attack.

Nie Yan looked at the quest status.

Quest Progress: Find Finaas' Eye, Lingering Soul Items 1/3.

The quest had just begun!

Nie Yan glanced at Bennett's Soul floating beside him. He could only continue searching for the other Lingering Soul Items later.

Before long, he received news that Angel Corps had taken care of the Old Spider Priest and gotten a sub-legendary equipment. After all, it was a mutated lord, so the equipment dropped naturally wouldn't be too bad.

The Dark Portal was finally about to finish cooling down. Nie Yan left the Graveyard Town, stealthily disappeared, flew towards the east, found a place where there was no one, and opened the Dark Portal.

A dark portal appeared in front of Nie Yan. Nie Yan stepped into it and disappeared into the Dark Portal.

Outside the Graveyard Town, hundreds of Angel Corps players were cleaning up the battlefield. The scene was a mess, with corpses everywhere, stretching for a range of a hundred yards, one could imagine how tragic the battle just now was.

"Nie Yan went back?" Duo Duo asked Arrogant Warblade beside him.

"He should have gone back already," Arrogant Warblade nodded. In fact, when Nie Yan left, they had sent people to track Nie Yan's location. They really wanted to know how Nie Yan returned to the surface, but they didn't dare to disturb Nie Yan to avoid breaking the cooperation. It seemed a little unrealistic to track Nie Yan.

"He probably went back using something like teleportation," Duo Duo said, of course, this was just his speculation.

"Do you think Nie Yan is trustworthy?"

"Whether he's trustworthy or not, we'll have to wait five days to find out. If he's willing to cooperate, it'll be beneficial to both sides. If Nie Yan comes back, the people sent over must pay attention and be polite. He can find other partners, but we can only cooperate with him," Duo Duo said. Currently, Nie Yan was the only one who could go back and forth between the underground and the surface! Nie Yan had the advantage of resources, and they had no choice.

"I understand," Arrogant Warblade nodded. As long as they cooperated successfully once, it would bring huge benefits to Angel Corps, but if Nie Yan went back on his word, they would be helpless, because they belonged to different factions, and their cooperation behavior could not be restricted by the main brain's agreement, so it was easy for problems to arise.

Nie Yan's eyes lit up. The glaring light caused his pupils to contract sharply, and his eyes stung violently. His vision was a blank white.

After a long time, Nie Yan's eyes recovered, and he saw a blue sky and white clouds. His mood suddenly improved a lot.

He was back again!

This was his world!

Nie Yan checked the coordinates and found that he was in the wilderness of Emerald City. He began to read the Return Scroll. He arrived at Emerald City, and then teleported from Emerald City to Calore City.

Calore City was more prosperous than ever. Nie Yan arrived at the Nilfgaard branch in Calore City.

When a group of Nilfgaard players saw Nie Yan, they all showed surprised expressions, confirming that they were not mistaken.

"Boss Nie Yan, you're back."

"Hello, Boss Nie Yan," the Nilfgaard players greeted excitedly.

These five days were definitely the most difficult days for Nilfgaard. The war between Nilfgaard and Soaring Angel was in full swing, and neither side could get away. Nilfgaard could only persevere. Plus, Nie Yan was not there, and Nilfgaard was like it had lost its backbone. Fortunately, Guo Huai and the others' management was fairly appropriate, and Watery Reflection also had experience in managing a studio, assisting in management, and the operation of the entire Nilfgaard was fairly smooth.

When the players in the guild chat heard that Nie Yan was back, they all boiled over, excitedly howling in the guild chat.

"Boss Nie Yan, welcome home!"

"Welcome Boss Nie Yan back."

"Boss Nie Yan, welcome home!"

......

The news of Nie Yan's return spread like wildfire. Everyone in Nilfgaard was invigorated, sweeping away the previous slump.

What moved Nie Yan the most was still that sentence, "Boss Nie Yan, welcome home!" After staying underground for so many days, it was like a lifetime. Nilfgaard was his home, and Greenland was his sky!

"Where's *Wang Feng De Wo Niu*? Have him come over," Nie Yan said in the guild chat.

After a while, Zhao Li, Guo Huai, Watery Reflection and others all came over.

"You're finally back. If you didn't come back, we were going to quit," Watery Reflection said with a smile, coming up and punching Nie Yan in the chest.

"How's the guild now?" Nie Yan asked. After so many days, the guild's financial resources were probably exhausted.

"You should ask them," Watery Reflection said with a wry smile.

At this time, Guo Huai walked over and said somewhat helplessly, "The current Nilfgaard can only be described as chaotic. If you didn't come back, Nilfgaard would have disintegrated. This is the bill, take a look."

Nie Yan looked at the bill, which listed a large number of expenses. He looked at the total, a total expenditure of 536,286 gold coins, of which thirty-six thousand was bounty rewards, and the rest was compensation for the guild players. This number shocked Nie Yan. When he left, the guild only had less than two hundred thousand gold coins in total. This bill must have squeezed Nilfgaard dry!

"How much money is left in the guild?" Nie Yan asked.

"About two thousand gold coins," Guo Huai said with a wry smile.

A huge guild with only two thousand gold coins left. Nie Yan could imagine what level Nilfgaard had reached.

"Did Starry Night Potion Shop and the shop's income all come in?" Nie Yan asked. He had asked Guo Huai to take out the money from these places as well.

"They've all been taken. In addition, the three allies, War God Tribe, Temple of Kalan, and Holy Roman Empire, also supported us a bit. Dragon Soar Consortium injected 170,000 gold coins into us, and the brothers of Nilfgaard also contributed nearly 150,000 gold coins. But it's still not enough," Guo Huai said, the attrition against Soaring Angel was really a bit tragic. "Soaring Angel's side is not doing well either, they have consumed at least seven hundred thousand gold coins. The entire guild's finances are on the verge of collapse. If it weren't for Century Financial Group, Mages Alliance, and Holy Guardians supporting them behind the scenes, they would have been finished long ago. It is said that Angel Hegemony has also participated."

Nie Yan nodded, roughly understanding the situation. A guild will not collapse if it loses a few battles. Like Kaiser Empire, although its prestige has been greatly reduced, the entire guild can still continue to operate. But if there is a problem with finances, then life will be difficult. Does the guild activity need expenses? Do the players who die need compensation? If a guild can't even pay compensation, who would be willing to follow you? It would be strange if the guild didn't collapse! This is the situation that Nilfgaard and Soaring Angel are currently facing.