Chapter 1 The Scale Frog

Nie Yan sprinted towards the scale frog spawn point. The three elite scale frogs should have respawned by now.

"Be careful, don't get sent back," Nie Yan said. Tang Yao was in a dangerous spot alone.

"Don't worry, there are no monsters here. It's perfectly safe."

"Tell me your coordinates."

"23828.23875.385."

Nie Yan followed the coordinates and finally met up with Tang Yao in the woods.

"Did you buy Mist Dust?" Tang Yao asked. He had used so much Mist Dust yesterday that there shouldn't be much left.

"I bought some. Let's continue."

"Farming level 30 elites is so expensive," Tang Yao lamented. Just buying Mist Dust cost ten gold coins.

"We can still make our money back farming scale frogs. The recipes we got before, if we make them into potions and sell them at Starry Night Pharmacy, we can earn at least a few gold coins every day. If we can get one or two of the best equipment that we can use now, that would be even better."

"Is your Starry Night Pharmacy that profitable?" Tang Yao asked, stunned. Just a few recipes can earn so much money?

"Of course."

"Then let's get more potion recipes, and we'll be rich!" Tang Yao said excitedly. Elite monsters have a high drop rate, and beast-type monsters are the easiest to drop potion recipes, so if they farm elites and sub-elites for a day, they can drop at least two or three potion recipes.

After a while, Nie Yan and Tang Yao continued to farm scale frogs using the same method as before. Nie Yan created a cloud of Mist, and then Tang Yao kept his distance and attacked with fireballs.

More than thirty minutes later, an elite scale frog fell to the ground.

"How much more do you need to level up?" Nie Yan asked. Tang Yao didn't level up after killing this elite scale frog, which surprised him.

"There's 1% left," Tang Yao said, looking at his experience points.

"That's not much. Let's find the next one," Nie Yan nodded. If Tang Yao reached level fifteen, it would be a big blow to Pao Mo, at least proving to the players that Pao Mo would soon be surpassed. Then Guo Huai and the others would have an easier time recruiting people.

Nie Yan specifically warned Guo Huai and the others to be careful when recruiting people and not to be too high-profile, so as not to be targeted by the major guilds at the beginning, which would be troublesome. They could only go public when they had the ability to protect themselves.

While traversing through the dense jungle, heading towards the next elite scale frog spawn point, suddenly, a gust of wind blew through the depths of the forest.

Croak, a low sound came from the depths of the dense forest. This was the sound of a scale frog, but it shouldn't be an elite-level scale frog, or even higher!

"What is that?" Tang Yao asked in surprise.

Nie Yan thought for a moment, his face lit up, and he said, "It's a Lord-class!"

In the scale frog spawning area, there was a Lord-class scale frog active, but it didn't have a fixed spawning point. It wandered around in the mountains on both sides. Players could only encounter it once or twice, and it would take three days to respawn after being killed.

"Level 30 Lord," Tang Yao's face changed slightly. In the past, elite-level creatures were out of reach. The only Lord he had ever seen was the Treant King, but that was in a dungeon. Now he actually encountered a level 30 Lord.

Nie Yan and Tang Yao moved together towards the depths of the jungle. A huge, blood-red scale frog appeared in their field of vision. It was even larger than an elite, and its skin was covered with bumps, emitting a faint red light.

The poison damage of scale frogs was very famous. The Lord-level was even more terrifying. A level 30 blood-ox shield warrior with 2000+ health points would be poisoned to death if he didn't drink a Intermediate Antidote Potion in time.

The Lord-class scale frog still moved slowly, and it had to stay in place for a long time after crawling a certain distance.

Scale Frog Lord: Level 30 Lord, health 50000/50000.

What terrifying health!

"Can we still use the same method to kill it?" Tang Yao asked. If the Mist Dust was still effective, then there would be no problem. Elites and Lords were no different, just a living target.

"It's a bit troublesome. The Lord's field of vision is about fifty yards. Even if you use Mist Dust to reduce the field of vision distance by fifteen yards, your attack distance is still not enough," Nie Yan shook his head and said. Attacking it within the field of vision of a Lord-level creature was very dangerous.

"I have a necklace that increases attack distance by 10%," Tang Yao pointed to the necklace on his neck and said.

"That's only about 33 yards, still a little short." Nie Yan didn't expect Tang Yao to have such a necklace.

"Then is there no other way?" Tang Yao asked, quite disappointed. He always thought that the difference in attack distance of one or two yards didn't matter, but he didn't expect that in certain situations, attack distance was so important.

Nie Yan thought for a long time and said, "It's not that there's no way, but it's a bit troublesome and requires a high terrain."

"Tell me about it."

"We lure the Lord to a slope. The Lord stands on the downward slope, and you stand on the upward slope. When the terrain forms a height difference, the attack distance will have an additional 10%-50% bonus based on the height difference," Nie Yan said.

"I thought it was something. This is a mountainous area, so it's easy to find a steep slope," Tang Yao said casually.

"You're making things too simple. If the slope is not steep enough, there will only be about 10% distance bonus. Your attack distance is about thirty-six yards, and the Scale Frog Lord's field of vision is about thirty-five yards. In this case, do you think you can guarantee that the distance between you and the Scale Frog Lord will not exceed 1 yard? Even I can't do it easily, unless the slope is steep enough, with an attack distance bonus of more than 20%, then it's almost there."

Tang Yao listened to Nie Yan's meticulous analysis and nodded. He really didn't have that kind of skill to control the distance above thirty-five yards and below thirty-six yards. He couldn't get too close, because he would be discovered. He couldn't go too far either, because the spell would not hit if the casting distance was too long. The difficulty was too great.

"You follow it first, I'll go look around to see if there's suitable terrain," Nie Yan said. Since he encountered the Lord, he definitely couldn't let it run away. The value of a level 30 Elite Lord was at least more than ten gold coins.

"Okay."

"This is a Intermediate Flash Powder and a Intermediate Mist Dust. If you encounter danger, you can use the Flash Powder to run away."

Nie Yan used an Acceleration Scroll and flew towards the depths of the jungle. This was a mountainous area, and there were quite a few steep terrains, but the distance couldn't be too far. Luring the Scale Frog Lord over was also a very dangerous thing.

Flying through the complex mountain roads, Nie Yan found several steep slopes, but because the slopes were too small, they were directly eliminated.

After searching for five or six minutes, a huge rock appeared in front of Nie Yan, as high as eight or nine yards. If he could stand on top of it to farm scale frogs, the attack distance increase would definitely reach more than 30%.

"I found a place, come here quickly, coordinates 23228.23375.285."

"Okay, I'll go there immediately," Tang Yao responded, and ran towards Nie Yan's side. He was stunned for a moment when he saw the giant rock in front of him, "Is it here?"

"Yes."

"How do I get up there?"

Nie Yan took off the Crawler Ring and threw it to Tang Yao, saying, "Take this."

Tang Yao took the ring that Nie Yan threw over with doubt, looked at its attributes, and said moved, "This thing is so cool." With this thing, wouldn't he be able to cross any obstacles as if walking on flat ground?

"You go up, I'll lure the monster. I'll lure the Scale Frog Lord to the opposite forest. When you see me use the Mist Dust, you start attacking," Nie Yan said, and then rushed towards the Scale Frog Lord.

Tang Yao used the Crawler Ring. His palm seemed to have an extra suction cup, which immediately firmly sucked on the rock wall.

"So cool." Tang Yao climbed up, climbed to the top of this giant rock, and looked around, the view was very wide.

Nie Yan found the Scale Frog Lord, entered its field of vision, raised the crossbow in his hand, and swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, three arrows shot out, attacking the Scale Frog Lord, all missing. The level difference was too great, Nie Yan's attack had no effect at all. He was not like Tang Yao, who had an Arcane Sprite, who could kill monsters that were so many levels higher.

Although it was just a miss, the Scale Frog Lord still noticed Nie Yan, made a croaking sound, jumped up, and pounced on Nie Yan, like an arrow leaving the string.

Nie Yan quickly twisted his body and ran away, turning on Hasty Retreat.

Anyway, Hasty Retreat was effective in combat state, but this skill was easy to reduce the monster's hatred, so it was best not to use it when luring monsters.

But Nie Yan couldn't care about that. The movement speed of a level 30 Lord was too fast. If he didn't go at full speed, he couldn't escape.

The Scale Frog Lord's first pounce missed, and it opened its mouth and spit out a scarlet venom towards Nie Yan.

Nie Yan shot out a spider silk with his left hand, sticking to a big tree in the distance, and pulled it hard. With a whoosh, he flew out.

The Scale Frog Lord's venom shot on a big tree, and immediately emitted a sizzling white smoke.

Nie Yan ran wildly, and it chased closely behind Nie Yan, constantly spraying venom. Nie Yan could only rely on the trees growing nearby to avoid the venom's shots.

Two minutes later, the Scale Frog Lord, under Nie Yan's lure, entered the designated area.

The Scale Frog Lord suddenly jumped high and pounced on Nie Yan.

Nie Yan rolled over and dodged the Scale Frog Lord's attack. There was an Intermediate Flash Powder in his hand. With a bang, a strong light exploded. The Scale Frog Lord let out a shrill scream and rolled non-stop. Nie Yan's right hand moved and sprinkled Mist Dust, which fluttered and enveloped it.

Nie Yan made a gesture to Tang Yao, who was on the rock: "Start."

Receiving Nie Yan's instructions, Tang Yao began to release magic. First, a Meteor Fall, fireballs hit the Scale Frog Lord like raindrops, causing a series of damage. Then, a series of magic shot out, exploding on the Scale Frog Lord with a bang.