Chapter 1 A Favor Returned

The team members resurrected and sat down to recover their health.

Nie Yan distributed contribution points to everyone, then they rested in place for a while.

He was just about to head to the Lava Caves to rescue Countess Alicia when he turned around and saw a slender figure walking slowly towards him. He recognized her face immediately – it was Countess Alicia!

"Honorable warrior, thank you for rescuing me and freeing me from that terrible cage," Countess Alicia said.

"Beautiful lady, it is my pleasure to serve you," Nie Yan said humbly.

Countess Alicia smiled slightly, like a hundred flowers blooming. Her charming smile was captivating. Her gaze fell on the Gremory's Necklace in Nie Yan's hand, and she said, "This Gremory's Necklace, as well as the Gremory's Staff, are both very powerful items. Legend says that if you collect them all, you can obtain powerful elemental forces. To show my gratitude, I will help you remove their seals. The remaining two pieces of Gremory's Divine Equipment are in the distant underground. They will guide you until you find them."

Nie Yan checked, and the seals on the Gremory's Staff and Gremory's Necklace had indeed been removed.

"Thank you," Nie Yan said, asking for some clues related to the Gremory's Staff and Gremory's Necklace, and recording them.

"I must leave now. May the Holy Light protect you," Countess Alicia said, placing her right hand on her chest and bowing deeply.

In terms of status, Countess Alicia was much lower than Nie Yan, so she appeared very humble in front of him. This was an amazing thing in the eyes of ordinary players. When they did quests, they had to be very careful with every move and every word they said to any NPC, because these NPCs had a higher status than them. As the saying goes, "A higher official can crush those below." If they said something even slightly inappropriate, those NPCs would not bother with them, and they would not be able to complete the quest. Nie Yan was the only exception. Most NPCs trembled when they saw him. Any title Nie Yan pulled out could crush them. A slight favor from Nie Yan was seen as a great blessing, and they dared not hide any clues from him. Therefore, Nie Yan was much more successful than ordinary players when doing most quests.

Countess Alicia turned and left, her figure disappearing into the depths of the jungle.

"Who wants the Gremory's Set?" Nie Yan asked in the team chat. Now that the seals on two pieces of the Gremory's items had been removed, the powerful attributes would probably make all elemental mages eager. As for the remaining two pieces, they had no way to go underground for the time being.

Undying Scoundrel, Mo Jiu, Lustful Youngster, and others were all elemental mages, so they should all need it.

"I don't want it. I'm only missing one piece to complete my set of Sub-Legendary equipment, and collecting Gremory's is too far off," Mo Jiu shook his head, withdrawing from the competition.

"Give it to Scoundrel," Lustful Youngster said.

"I also have a Legendary equipment, which is also a set component. I can slowly collect this set. As for Gremory's Divine Equipment, forget it. Give it to Lustful," Undying Scoundrel shook his head.

Lustful Youngster still wanted to decline. After all, the Gremory's Divine Equipment was a guild asset, and he would be embarrassed to take it like that.

"Then it's settled," Nie Yan transferred the two pieces of Gremory's Divine Equipment to Lustful Youngster, and also transferred the clues to Lustful.

Lustful Youngster was still very excited to get these two pieces of Gremory's Divine Equipment. Although the Gremory's Divine Equipment was slightly inferior to the Abak Set, it was still a Legendary set. If he could collect it, it would be of great significance to him.

He thought for a moment, since he had taken the Gremory's Divine Equipment, he decided to go back and contribute something as a guild asset.

After deciding on the ownership of the Gremory's Divine Equipment and settling everything here, Nie Yan led the players to continue fighting other lords. The bosses and lords he chose were basically level 120-130 demonized and mutated lords. These levels of lords usually dropped Sub-Legendary and Legendary equipment, and Nie Yan used this to improve the equipment level of the elite players.

In the next five months, Nirvana Flame's elite team attacked everywhere. Many places in the Greenlund Empire and the Satreen Empire bore witness to their presence.

In these five months, Nie Yan leveled up three times, reaching level 153. The level of the other team members also improved, with an average level of 140.

During this time, the friction between Nirvana Flame and Angel Corp became increasingly intense, and they began to engage in mixed battles within the Greenlund Empire and the Satreen Empire. In five months, more than 700 large battles and countless small battles took place in various places. The number of deaths in Nirvana Flame and its allied guilds reached more than 900,000, while the number of deaths on Angel Corp's side reached more than 2.3 million.

The losses on both sides were staggering. In the long-term mixed battles, Angel Corp's economy suddenly became strained. With so many players dying, equipment losses, player compensation, etc., the huge expenses left them stretched thin. On Nirvana Flame's side, Nirvana Flame's powerful financial resources showed their effect at this critical moment. Nirvana Flame and its major alliance guilds' equipment loss compensation, pensions, etc., were more than three times that of Angel Corp, and Nie Yan also released a statement that Nirvana Flame would reward 20 gold coins for every Angel Corp player above level 130 killed.

In nearly five months, Nirvana Flame's war expenditure amounted to more than 90 million gold coins, but Nirvana Flame did not experience any financial strain at all. After all expenses, there was still a surplus of nearly 80 million gold coins. Angel Corp, on the other hand, had run out of money and supplies. Angel Feather and Cao Xu had to invest huge amounts of money to buy gold coins in large quantities to maintain war expenditures.

The two sides formed a stark contrast.

Angel Corp and the Century Financial Group were different from the opponents Nirvana Flame had encountered before. They had very strong strength and deep roots in the Satreen Empire. Nie Yan decided to continue to consume the strength of Angel Corp and the Century Financial Group in this way, and finally fight them to the death.

In addition to Nirvana Flame, Fallen Angel also sent a large number of troops to attack Angel Corp's fortresses, turning more than a dozen of Angel Corp's fortresses into ruins, causing Angel Corp heavy losses.

The current situation should already be giving Angel Feather and Cao Xu a headache.

In the five months that Nie Yan and others were constantly farming bosses, Angel Corp had made great progress in the World Barrier Dungeon. The items produced in the World Barrier included various high-level flying mounts, various building blueprints, blueprints for the most advanced war machines, various equipment gems and crystals, and various high-level materials.

Angel Corp used those building blueprints and high-end war machine blueprints to enhance the defense of their fortresses, gaining some advantages in technology.

With that little bit of technological advantage, Angel Corp began to covet Nirvana Flame's Abernathy Great Prairie, and were repelled by the NPC legions of Okoron City every time they entered the Abernathy Great Prairie.

Nie Yan looked at the current state of the team members. After nearly five months of careful crafting, most of the team members had obtained several pieces of equipment above the Sub-Legendary level, and some team members had obtained some Legendary equipment above level 120-130.

Nie Yan and others had a unique way of killing bosses. Nie Yan would first stealth over alone, and then everyone would use group teleportation scrolls and other items to teleport over, using Nie Yan as a coordinate, skipping the normal monsters and directly dealing with the boss, thus saving a lot of time.

According to the statistics of the players below, this group of people had killed at least 1,200 mutated and demonized lords of level 120-130, and the known mutated and demonized lords of level 120-130 discovered by the players on the map were cleared out. Tens of thousands of group teleportation scrolls collected by Nirvana Flame at a high price were exhausted, and the consumption of various consumables was also amazing. It is conceivable how huge this project was. In the previous life, no guild had ever cleared mutated and demonized lords on such a large scale.

The equipment level of this thousand-man team had reached an appalling level!

Seeing that the equipment level of the team members was almost ready, Nie Yan then ordered Brilliant Blade and others to lead the team into the World Barrier. With the current strength of this thousand-man team, as long as they did not encounter very high-level lords, there would be basically no problems. He told them to advance towards the center of the World Barrier first, and when some difficult bosses appeared, it would not be too late for him to come forward.

Nie Yan analyzed the current situation. Although Nirvana Flame was slightly behind in technology, the technological gap would soon be erased after Brilliant Blade and others entered the World Barrier. The long-term battle between the two sides had just begun, and it depended on who could last until the end. Nie Yan had to constantly consume the guilds under Angel Corp and the Century Financial Group, but he could not completely strangle them to death, so that they would draw more funds from reality and invest them in the guild's bottomless black hole, and slowly grind the Century Financial Group to death like boiling a frog in warm water. Of course, he also had to prevent them from taking a hard bite on Nirvana Flame when they were dying.

Brilliant Blade and others entered the World Barrier first, while Nie Yan prepared to find a place to farm dark creatures and quickly get the Heart of the Saint to rescue the God of War, Kelo. The three-year deadline for rescuing the God of War Kelo was not far away. If he could not complete this task, it would be a huge loss for him.

Where is a good place to farm dark creatures?

Nie Yan looked at his quest bar. He had never had the chance to take the Lich King Insor's treasure, as well as the Spider Queen Fiennes's psychic scroll. If he had a Fiennes's psychic scroll by his side, then he would have a trump card when fighting Angel Corp!

Nie Yan had a thought, go underground!

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