Chapter 1 Eternal City

Some members of Niuren Tribe had also begun leveling up in Eternal City. They were some of the wealthier members who formed teams, each contributing money to buy several sets of area-of-effect magic bombs, then leveling up here for a while. It was a bit unrealistic to level up here for a long time since the cash consumption was too high.

As the players' levels increased, Eternal City would soon be open to the public, so it was better to have Niuren Tribe's capable members level up here a few more times.

Nie Yan found a less crowded spot, gave all the experience points to the golden land dragon, placed it in a relatively safe location, fed it a piece of meat, and told it to stay there.

Nie Yan ran into the distance, using the Dullahan Doro's Riding Crossbow in his hand to attract the nearby mechanical puppets, leading hundreds of mechanical puppets over, and then used area-of-effect magic bombs to bombard them.

Boom, boom, boom, magic flames burst forth.

Waves of area-of-effect magic bombs flew into the sky, then fell and exploded, causing a series of damage values to float above the heads of these mechanical puppets.

Patches of mechanical puppets fell to the ground.

Nie Yan watched the golden land dragon's experience bar, which rapidly soared. Beams of white light lit up on the golden land dragon's body, and its level soared to level nine in an instant. Checking the golden land dragon's stats, each of them had greatly increased. Health had risen to 260, attack had become 63-67, and other stats had also improved. The stat increases were quite fast. After all, it was only level nine. At this rate, when it reached levels twenty-two or twenty-three, the golden land dragon's stats would far exceed Nie Yan's.

In addition, the golden land dragon also gained a skill.

Elementary Dragon Breath: Spews dragon breath to attack enemies, with an additional 20 points of skill damage. Can cause area-of-effect damage in a 5*5 yard range (base attack + skill damage) with fire magic damage. Skill cooldown is three minutes. Next level requires level 20.

The effect of Dragon Breath was obviously very strong, with an area-of-effect damage effect. Even elementary Dragon Breath could cause such damage. If the golden land dragon's level was raised, it would definitely be very enjoyable to farm monsters and level up in the future. One Dragon Breath from the golden land dragon could kill a whole group.

Leveling up here for a while first, Nie Yan needed to find a better place to level up, to raise the golden land dragon's level faster.

In addition, Nie Yan's level also needed to be raised. After the History of the Sealed World expansion pack was launched, players' levels were skyrocketing. If he didn't level up, his level would soon drop. It was best to find a place where he could farm evil creatures, so he could level up and unlock some of the skills on Shadow Plunder.

Nie Yan glanced at the skills on Shadow Plunder, and his gaze locked onto one of them, the Shadow Slaughter skill, which required the condition to activate: kill a level 50 Lord, requiring it to be an evil creature.

Shadow Slaughter: After the Shadow Slaughter state is applied, attacking one unit can deal 30% attack damage to ten units within a 10*10 yard range. Duration is 2 minutes, skill cooldown is 2 natural days.

This Shadow Slaughter skill was a very enjoyable area-of-effect skill for thieves.

Area-of-effect skills for the thief class were very rare, and any area-of-effect skill was extremely valuable.

What Nie Yan lacked now was this type of skill. Having this type of skill was very useful whether it was for farming monsters or PK, the only drawback was that the skill cooldown was relatively long.

The number of advanced skills mastered by players was also increasing, and if Nie Yan wanted to maintain his advantage, he had to increase the number of skills as well.

Nie Yan thought for a moment, and suddenly had a goal. He glanced at the golden land dragon next to him, and decided to raise this guy to level 20 or higher first.

Nie Yan noticed that the golden land dragon's size had greatly increased, about as tall as his waist. He wondered what it would grow into in the future, whether it would be as huge as the golden land dragon he encountered in the Sin Domain Canyon before. If that was the case, it would be too terrifying.

Nie Yan ran into the distance, and led over another group of mechanical puppets, about four or five hundred of them, and then bombarded them with area-of-effect magic bombs.

Another patch of mechanical puppets fell to the ground, and the golden land dragon reached level 13. The higher the level, the harder it was to level up.

Nie Yan calculated that the experience required for the golden land dragon to level up was about three times more than his own. If he wanted to make the golden land dragon truly powerful, it was not going to be an easy task. In the future, if Nie Yan wanted to level up together with the golden land dragon, he would have to gain several times more experience than ordinary players.

The golden land dragon in the distance was sitting on the ground in a corner, drooping its head, looking bored.

Because Nie Yan had told it to stay put, it could only sit there doing nothing.

With its current strength, it simply couldn't farm these mechanical puppets.

Nie Yan picked up the items on the ground, walked to the side of a mechanical puppet corpse, and a gray paper skill book on the ground caught his attention. He bent down and picked up the skill book dropped by the mechanical puppet.

Because it was an ordinary skill book, Nie Yan didn't pay much attention at first, but when he saw the skill book's description, he realized it was the Gale Steps skill, and he was a little excited.

Elementary Gale Steps Skill: Enter stealth to escape, with 3 seconds of invincibility at the moment of stealth activation, movement speed +20%, stealth and concealment -60%. Skill cooldown is 3 minutes. Requires level 20. Next level requires 500 agility.

The Gale Steps skill was an essential skill for thieves, accelerating movement speed in stealth, especially the 3 seconds of invincibility, which could evade many magical effects. It was a rare and good thing. However, the stealth and concealment effect was reduced, which made it easier to be targeted by enemies.

If he raised his agility to 500 points and upgraded to intermediate, the effect would be much stronger.

Although Gale Steps was an essential skill, it dropped in all maps above level 20, but the drop rate was not particularly high. It was relatively rare at levels thirty or forty, and only really became widespread at level sixty or higher.

In his previous life, Gale Steps was one of the skills Nie Yan was most accustomed to using. It was a bit unusual not having the Gale Steps skill in this life.

Reacquiring Gale Steps made Nie Yan very excited. Although Shadow Dance was good, it was not as practical as the Gale Steps skill.

Nie Yan learned Gale Steps and glanced at the skill bar, adding a skill he was familiar with. This feeling was completely different. It was a sense of familiarity from the soul, and he could easily control this skill.

In addition to Gale Steps, Nie Yan also harvested a lot of equipment, all level 40, but because the mechanical puppets were ordinary monsters, the equipment dropped was not good, mostly white and bronze.

The guild was also in great need of this type of equipment. Ordinary players couldn't afford equipment with too good stats, so they could only temporarily use white and bronze-grade equipment as a transition.

Nie Yan counted and found that there were actually two pieces of silver-grade Eternal Set equipment. His luck was good. If a set of silver-grade Eternal Set equipment was worth 700 gold coins, the items he dropped could almost offset the consumption. Banished Fox's pre-ordered Eternal Set equipment had already been delivered to him by Guo Huai, earning him 700 gold coins. The Temple of Garan was unwilling to fall behind and also purchased a set from Niuren Tribe, earning 1400 gold coins from selling two sets of Eternal Set equipment.

The number of people from Niuren Tribe leveling up in Eternal City had increased, so naturally there were many Eternal Set equipment produced. The number of Eternal Set equipment remaining in Niuren Tribe had reached as many as seven sets. Brilliant Knife had a set of dark gold Eternal Set equipment, Yi Yan and Leng Ao Ying each had a set of golden-grade Eternal Set equipment, and the remaining four sets of Eternal Set equipment were also distributed to several outstanding shield warriors. Thus, the seven great shield warriors of Niuren Tribe were initially formed!

The number and quality of shield warriors were related to the future of a guild!

He put the two loose pieces into his backpack, wondering when he would be able to put together a few more sets.

After spending nearly two hours, Nie Yan finally brought the golden land dragon to level 20. At this time, the golden land dragon was almost as tall as him. He looked at the golden land dragon's stats, health 550, attack 380-393, and other stats had also greatly increased.

The golden land dragon's stat increase was not fixed. The higher the level, the more the stats increased. To this point, the golden land dragon could already hold its own.

In addition, the golden land dragon also gained two status skills.

Elementary Acceleration Aura: Movement speed +5% for all teammates within a 20*20 yard radius. Next level requires level 30.

Elementary Attack Thorns: Reflects 5% of melee damage. Next level requires level 30.

Aura skills were permanently effective, automatically applied without casting, and did not consume mana, which was the best part.

Although the added stats were relatively small, they were also quite considerable, and the effect would be stronger after leveling up. He remembered that in his previous life, someone had obtained a pet with a relatively high damage reflection rate, and then he started frantically increasing the pet's health and using various methods to reduce the pet's defense. He even managed to create an extremely powerful pet. The pet was level 180, with as high as 70,000-80,000 health, but its defense was extremely low. When leveling up, he would frantically attract melee monsters, stand there, and use attack reflection to level up. In team battles, basically no melee players dared to attack this pet.

So, the Attack Thorns talent state could also be extremely powerful if trained up.

In addition, the golden land dragon's Dragon Breath was also upgraded to intermediate.

Intermediate Dragon Breath: Spews dragon breath to attack enemies, with an additional 100 points of skill damage. Can cause area-of-effect damage in a 5*5 yard radius, (base attack + skill damage) with fire magic damage. Skill cooldown is two minutes. Next level requires level 60.

After Dragon Breath was upgraded by one level, the effect was obviously enhanced.

Nie Yan could feel the golden land dragon's strength rapidly increasing. It was now almost able to withstand two or three level 25 or 26 monsters on its own.