Chapter 12 Sonia's Moonlit Thicket

Sonia's Moonlit Thicket: broken altars and wind-eroded buildings, desolate and dilapidated, giving people a sense of mystery and remoteness.

The white elves belonged to the Saturn Empire and were allies of humanity. Later, the Greenland Empire and the Saturn Empire fought for territory. Under the constraints of the peace treaty, the white elf branch here had to move out of this land and go to faraway Saturn.

White elves hadn't appeared on the land of Greenland for hundreds of years. Therefore, for the players of Greenland, white elves were just a distant legend.

In his past life, not long after Nie Yan advanced to Great Thief, the "Sealed History" expansion pack had just opened. Occasionally, one or two white elves or orcs would appear in Calore, but not many. After all, the teleportation fee between the Saturn Empire and the Greenland Empire was too daunting. Only the heads of those large guilds could afford to travel back and forth. On the eve of Nie Yan's assassination of Cao Xu, the Greenland Empire opened the Gryphon Cage and sold griffons to the public, allowing players to ride griffons between the two empires. But Nie Yan never saw it.

This was the path of faith development. Each city's map was very large. Players first operated in one city. After land mounts were opened, players could travel between major cities. After flying mounts were opened, players could truly cruise the world.

Each empire had different rules, different professions, different beliefs, different customs, and different cultures. The main brain showed this magnificent and brilliant world to the players bit by bit, amazing and fascinating them.

Nie Yan's area of activity was still limited to Calore, but from the relics left by white elves, dark elves, and orcs from various places, he could faintly glimpse their appearance.

If Nie Yan collected the first volume of the Book of Order, the Sealed History expansion pack would probably come early.

Nie Yan didn't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing, but one thing he was sure of was that putting such a legendary item in his pocket would be of great benefit to his future development.

Crossing a dense jungle, six moon bears appeared in the open space ahead. These six moon bears were much stronger than ordinary moon bears. They were wandering around aimlessly. Around them were some broken walls, with some ancient patterns and elven characters faintly visible on the walls. This area was where they used to worship the Moon Goddess.

These moon bears seemed to be elite creatures. Nie Yan slowly crept behind a wall and used Detect on them.

Rock Moon Bear: Level 35 Elite, HP 11,000/11,000.

These rock moon bears were unmatched melee units. Without a priest, no melee unit below level 40 dared to attack them.

Nie Yan's path was blocked by these rock moon bears.

Looking at the movement paths of these rock moon bears, Nie Yan pondered for a moment, used an acceleration scroll, activated Shadow Waltz, and flew forward, quickly approaching the rock moon bears.

A rock moon bear discovered Nie Yan's location and let out a low roar, slapping towards Nie Yan with its palm.

Nie Yan's movements suddenly accelerated, and with a sharp turn and dodge, he brushed past the rock moon bear.

The rock moon bear's giant palm almost brushed against Nie Yan's body. The palm missed, and it paused for a moment. By the time it wanted to find Nie Yan again, Nie Yan was already three or four yards behind it.

Using the Shadow Waltz technique to avoid the rock giant bear's attack was really the easiest thing to do.

Nie Yan dodged the attack of one rock moon bear, and the remaining five rock moon bears all charged towards him. Seeing that he was about to be torn to pieces, one rock moon bear stood up high and slammed down with a tremor.

Nie Yan took a few steps back. With a bang, the rock moon bear slapped its palm on the ground in front of Nie Yan, leaving a deep pit in the ground.

Nie Yan nimbly dodged the moon bears' attacks, and with a sidestep, barely passed through the gaps in the rock moon bears' attacks.

Nie Yan's speed was unleashed to the extreme.

Just as these rock moon bears were about to charge up, Nie Yan had a handful of flash powder in his hand. With a bang, the flash powder in his hand exploded, blooming with dazzling light.

All five rock moon bears were blinded, roaring and bumping around. Nie Yan took the opportunity to rush out a dozen yards, turned over and jumped over the broken wall, disappearing into the jungle, nowhere to be found.

Because it hadn't been explored yet, there were a frightening number of elite moon bears in this area, but Nie Yan still relied on his superb dodging skills to gradually摸(mō) into the depths of the Moonlit Thicket.

It wouldn't be bad to let Brilliant Cutlass and the others come here to explore when they reach level 35. With Brilliant Cutlass's defense and Boss Seven's healing, bringing a team here would definitely be no problem, Nie Yan couldn't help thinking.

What made Nie Yan feel a little excited was that while searching for the Book of Kindness, he actually encountered two golden treasure chests and several silver treasure chests. One of the golden treasure chests actually contained a recipe for Primary Mana Confluence Potion.

Mana Confluence Potion was one of the most supreme potions. Although the raw materials for making it were simple, the recipe was too rare. It was divided into Primary, Intermediate, Advanced, and Expert levels. The price of an Intermediate recipe even exceeded some Sub Legendary equipment when it was auctioned in the auction house in his past life. He had never seen Advanced and Expert levels at all. The price of Primary Mana Confluence Potion within level 50 was immeasurable.

Primary Mana Confluence Potion: Increases Advanced Magic by 20%, reduces magic chanting time by 10% when casting Advanced Magic, and increases the speed of writing magic incantations by 20%.

It was truly rare for a bottle of Primary Magic Potion to have such an effect.

Mana Confluence Potion recipes were extremely rare. Therefore, the price of each bottle of Mana Confluence Potion was as high as dozens of gold coins. Many mages could only use such expensive potions when they advanced to the Archmage rank.

The cost of making Primary Mana Confluence Potion was not high, about fifty silver coins. It required more than thirty kinds of raw materials, fortunately all of which were relatively common. The only thing that was a little depressing was that an Intermediate Pharmacist needed as long as ten minutes to make a bottle of Primary Mana Confluence Potion, and the success rate would not exceed 30%, which meant that they needed to spend about forty minutes to successfully make a bottle of Mana Confluence Potion.

Every minute of an Intermediate Pharmacist was very valuable.

However, Mana Confluence Potion was extremely precious to an Archmage or even a Magister who possessed advanced magic. In the later stages, those advanced magics, although powerful and unparalleled, took them at least one or two hours, or even three or four hours, to write the advanced magic into magic incantations. A bottle of Primary Mana Confluence Potion could save them a lot of time. It was equivalent to exchanging the time of an Intermediate Pharmacist for the time of Archmages and Magisters, which was obviously extremely cost-effective. At the same time, drinking a bottle of Mana Confluence Potion could greatly reduce the chanting time of advanced magic. Every minute and every second was very crucial on the battlefield.

"I made a killing." Nie Yan thought excitedly. Only then did he understand why the major guilds were so enthusiastic about exploring, no matter how great the losses were.

Not participating in the exploration in his previous life was a big loss. He should encourage his subordinates to go to various high-end maps to explore when he returned to the guild.

"Nie Yan, where are you now?" At this moment, Guo Huai sent a message.

"I'm in Sonia's Moonlit Thicket, what's the matter?" Nie Yan asked. Guo Huai must have something important to say when he sent a message at this time.

"Azure Skies has merged into Holy Light."

"Oh." Nie Yan nodded.

"Aren't you worried?" Guo Huai didn't expect Nie Yan's reaction to be so calm. Azure Skies was a large guild of 20,000 people!

"What's there to worry about? I guessed it a long time ago. It's either Triumph Empire or Holy Light," Nie Yan said. The hatred with Azure Skies was definitely formed. What was supposed to come would still come. He had never regretted his previous decision to support Fallen Leaf Workshop.

"Since you are mentally prepared, I won't say anything more. There is one more thing you need to treat with caution. Triumph Empire has just recruited Dark Immortal Workshop. It is said that they are coming for you, so be careful," Guo Huai said. Dark Immortal was the number one workshop in the country.

"Shadow Killer?" Nie Yan was stunned. The development of history had indeed deviated a bit. He didn't expect them to be able to recruit Dark Immortal Workshop. He wondered what kind of price they had paid to get that person to agree to help Triumph Empire.

In the world of Shadow Dance in his previous life, there were two legendary figures. One was Sun, who grew from a little kid to a stunning genius, undoubtedly dazzling. The other person was Shadow Killer. He rarely appeared in the public eye, and didn't even participate in the Shadow Dance Challenge. Everything about him was a mystery. However, he had already become famous before Sun debuted. The boss of Dark Immortal, the largest workshop in the country, had long been known, but most people had only heard of him and never seen him.

Shadow Killer generally only accepted assassination missions, and the prices he charged were outrageously high, even to the point of being unbearable. This guy only killed the most difficult people to kill, as if he was just playing a stimulating game. He had never failed before. In his previous life, his assassination list included Triumph Empire's boss, Po Tian, Holy Light's boss, Ye Po Shen Gun, and Mad War Alliance's boss, Love Killer, and so on. This guy only recognized money and didn't recognize camps. He would only take action if a price that moved him was offered. In his previous life, when Triumph Empire dominated the world and Po Tian was unstoppable, he still fell into his hands.

"It's him." Guo Huai said with some gravity. In previous games, Shadow Killer was always an existence that countless people could not reach.

"Have you detected any news about him?"

"No, I only know that Dark Immortal has temporarily joined Triumph Empire. The bosses of Triumph Empire and Holy Light have both met him."

"His target is me?"

"I think there's a 90% chance, so you have to be careful."

"Being able to become Shadow Killer's target is a real honor." Nie Yan didn't worry, but smiled calmly.

(Translator's Note: There was text in the original Chinese that appears to be addressed to the reader/community. This has been omitted as per the instructions.)
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