Chapter 145 Dark Slaughter

Seeing the Golden Earth Dragon reach level twenty, Nie Yan unsummoned it and left the City of Eternal Night.

He was going to activate the Shadow Slaughter skill on the Shadow Plunderer.

He already had a target.

Nie Yan rode the Faulkner Warhorse and galloped east towards the Endless Sea. Man and steed blurred across the wide plains, scenery rushing past. Occasionally, a few teams of players leveling nearby were startled by Nie Yan, retreating in haste. Just as they were preparing to defend, they realized Nie Yan was already out of their range, leaving them in the dust.

The Shadow Plunderer was indeed a powerful piece of equipment, but many of its uses had yet to be discovered. For example, the Shadow Plunderer skill tree contained dozens of skills, including six or seven super skills from the Shadow branch alone. Shadow Slaughter was just one of them.

Nie Yan rode the Faulkner Warhorse to the edge of a cliff. Looking out, he saw a vast, boundless ocean stretching before him.

The clear sky and open sea were a delightful sight. Seabirds flew across the sky from time to time, adding a touch of vibrant color.

System: You have discovered the Endless Sea.

Nie Yan galloped along the edge of the sea for more than ten minutes. Fortunately, there were no monsters nearby. This area was already a level fifty monster zone.

The monsters on the edge of the Endless Sea were all high-level. As for the center of the Endless Sea, diving down could even lead to encounters with super elites of several hundred levels. Those were all marine creatures, and underwater breathing potions or skills were required to enter the deep sea.

Nie Yan rode the Faulkner Warhorse to the top of a cliff and looked down. The cliff was a hundred yards high, and below was an inner sea, the water murky and stained as if with ink.

There were three rocky platforms on the cliff face about twenty or thirty yards from the water, enough for fifty or sixty people to stand on.

This area was the spawn point of the Dark Siren, Banham, a level fifty Lord. It was a well-known Lord, one of the few sea monster Lords. It dropped excellent equipment, but it was very difficult to deal with and also had ranged attacks. Unless it was a well-equipped team above level fifty, they generally wouldn't dare to attack it.

Players would usually use Featherfall Devices to land on the stone platforms below and then deal with the Dark Siren, Banham, on the platforms.

Nie Yan scanned the rock face below and fixed his gaze on a crack in the rocks in the distance, about fifty yards from the water. At that distance, the Dark Siren's physical attacks definitely couldn't reach, but the ranged attacks would still be troublesome.

Nie Yan leapt down towards the stone platform below. The wind whistled in his ears, and he could smell the salt in the sea breeze.

Just as he was about to crash into the stone platform below, he activated the Featherfall Gem, and his speed quickly slowed down, landing lightly on the platform.

Nie Yan looked out at the water below. The water was dark and gloomy, and he could sense a huge creature lurking beneath the surface.

Several huge seabirds flew across the sky. Suddenly, a jet of black water shot out of the sea, rising more than thirty yards high and striking one of the seabirds. The seabird cried out miserably and fell into the sea.

Nie Yan was a little uneasy about whether he could deal with the Dark Siren, Banham. He hadn't done anything so risky in his previous life. He had only heard that a thief had killed the Dark Siren, Banham, single-handedly, using another magical piece of equipment, the Ring of Levitation. He had discovered that the maximum attack range of the Dark Siren, Banham's tentacles was thirty yards. As for the ranged attacks, as long as his awareness was good, he could dodge them.

He had watched a video, and he still had some impression in his mind.

Someone had done it in his previous life, so Nie Yan dared to come. If he had to figure it out on his own, he didn't know how many times he would die.

Therefore, Nie Yan decided to try it. If he could kill the Dark Siren, Banham, he could not only obtain some equipment but also activate the super powerful Shadow Slaughter skill.

The Dark Siren, Banham, respawned every three days.

If he was successful on the first respawn, he could often come to farm the Dark Siren in the future.

Nie Yan summoned the Golden Earth Dragon and left it in a very hidden place on the edge of the cliff, where the Dark Siren, Banham, couldn't attack it.

Looking up at the cliff, he activated the Ring of the Creeper and climbed up the cliff face, moving with incredible agility.

Having gotten used to the Ring of the Creeper, he was quite skilled and quickly reached a height of more than forty yards. He stopped, took out Doron, the Headless Horseman's Crossbow, and fired at the sea. Swish, swish, swish, five arrows shot through the air and plunged into the sea in a straight line.

Splash, splash, splash, five arrows splashed into the water.

The sea trembled, and waves surged. A huge creature emerged from below the surface.

Nie Yan quickly climbed higher, about fifty yards away from the huge creature, stood on a branch growing horizontally out of the cliff, and turned to shoot the monster below.

Thud, thud, thud, five arrows hit simultaneously, and five damage values floated above the monster's head.

-50, -100, -51, -53, -100...

Although it was a level fifty Lord, since it wasn't a mechanical unit, it couldn't defend against penetration like metal armor. Therefore, the Headless Horseman Doron's Crossbow's penetration damage was very considerable, in addition to an extra 100 points of fire damage.

Seeing that the crossbow had such damage values, Nie Yan's heart settled down. With such high damage, he should be able to grind the Dark Siren, Banham, to death.

Nie Yan finally saw what the Dark Siren, Banham, looked like.

It was an incredibly huge ball of flesh, gigantic like a small hill, black all over, covered in countless tentacles. It floated on the surface of the sea, and after seeing Nie Yan, one of its tentacles stretched out and lashed at him.

With a bang, the thick tentacle lashed against the rock wall.

With an attack range of only thirty yards, it couldn't reach Nie Yan, who was more than 50 yards high. Because of the high terrain, Nie Yan's attack range had an extra bonus, allowing him to further increase the distance between himself and the Dark Siren, Banham.

Nie Yan looked at the Dark Siren, Banham's, attribute status.

Dark Siren, Banham: Level 50 Lord, Health 99,301,100,000.

This Dark Siren, Banham, wasn't a Lord monster with super thick health and super high defense. The reason it was ranked sixth on the list of the most difficult level fifty Lords to deal with was because the Dark Siren's attacks were terrifying, and it had a skill that could wrap people up with its tentacles and throw them away. This skill was very lethal. A shield warrior would accidentally fall for this skill and die. Once the shield warrior died, what awaited the team was likely a wipe.

Although its health regeneration speed wasn't fast, it had a life-steal effect when it attacked with its tentacles. Once attacked, the damage to the players would be directly converted into its own health.

However, Nie Yan was outside the Dark Siren's tentacle attack range, so there would definitely be no problem. The only thing he was worried about was its spray skill. The poisonous liquid it sprayed could easily kill a player.

It was because of these many conditions that Nie Yan chose the Dark Siren among the many bosses. Only it was within the range of what Nie Yan could currently deal with!

Nie Yan hung on the cliff, constantly shooting, and arrows hit the Dark Siren, Banham.

A series of damage values floated above the Dark Siren, Banham's, head.

Nie Yan's attack damage was only a little faster than the Dark Siren's health regeneration. Its health slowly dropped.

The Dark Siren angrily lashed at the rock wall, but it was far from Nie Yan, so it couldn't attack Nie Yan and could only passively take a beating.

Nie Yan stood on the protruding part of the rock wall, constantly shooting.

Just then, the Dark Siren, Banham, closed its eyes and spat out a stream of black, viscous liquid.

Seeing the Dark Siren close its eyes, Nie Yan stretched out his left hand, shot out a strand of spider silk, stuck to a tree growing horizontally on the rock wall, aimed at another protruding place on the rock wall, kicked off with his feet, and swung over there like a huge pendulum, standing there against the rock wall.

The black, viscous liquid splattered on the rock wall, scattered, making a sizzling sound, and emitting plumes of white smoke.

Successful dodge!

The Dark Siren needed at least a minute to accumulate its next venom attack, while Nie Yan's spider silk cooldown was only 20 seconds, so he could easily dodge the Dark Siren's attacks.

With a successful dodge experience, Nie Yan had a plan in mind and kept shooting the Dark Siren, Banham, with Doron, the Headless Horseman's Crossbow.

Nie Yan slowly ground down the Dark Siren, Banham's, health. On the stone platform below, the Golden Earth Dragon was sleeping soundly, as if it had nothing to do here.

Time passed by.

Yao Yao sent him a message, asking if he had time to help her do Karl's Blessing. Nie Yan slightly postponed it and would go over when the Dark Siren, Banham, was killed.

"I checked the information on Karl's Blessing. Do you want me to send it to you?" Yao Yao asked. She had made full preparations for this mission.

"Send it to me. What does Karl want you to collect?" Nie Yan asked. The tasks Karl issued each time were different. First, he would ask the player to collect something, and the higher the level, the more difficult the things to collect. After getting this thing, they would get a chance for a trial. Nie Yan had a method for the subsequent trials that would allow Yao Yao to pass very easily.

"Collect the Black Lotus of the Realm of Sin," Yao Yao said. The Black Lotus of the Realm of Sin grew in a deep cave in the Realm of Sin Canyon. She was slightly surprised. Nie Yan had obviously read the detailed explanation of Karl's mission, otherwise, he wouldn't be so familiar with the "Karl's Blessing" mission.

"Black Lotus of the Realm of Sin?" Nie Yan was shocked. That thing was very difficult to find. Ordinary players would have to team up to get it.

"Is it difficult? If it's too difficult, forget it," Yao Yao said with slight disappointment.

"It's okay. I'll check the information first," Nie Yan said. He only roughly knew how to use some small tricks to pass Karl's Blessing, but he wasn't very familiar with the entire process of the mission.