Chapter 19 Scaling Toad Lord

Tang Yao's attacks on the Scaling Toad Lord only did around 10 points of damage for the most part, with the occasional critical hit dealing over a hundred, but due to the high frequency of his attacks, his damage output was still quite formidable.

The Scaling Toad Lord's health steadily decreased, and although it wasn't much, it gave Tang Yao and Nie Yan hope.

This was a Level 30 Lord!

It was not something elites could compare to!

In his previous life, if players encountered Lord-level creatures in the wild, they would definitely notify their guilds as quickly as possible. Guilds would often mobilize hundreds of players to deal with a single Lord-level creature, and there were many guild wars triggered by Lord-level creatures. If a Lord-level creature dropped a piece of equipment, it would generally be Dark Gold-grade, and sometimes, if they were lucky, they would even get one or two Legendary item fragments. Even if they had bad luck, a Gold-grade item could still be sold for a lot of money.

And now, under Tang Yao's fierce attacks, its health was dropping bit by bit, 99.9%, 99.8%......

This was undoubtedly an exciting thing.

If they killed a Lord and only Nie Yan and Tang Yao split the experience, how much would they get?

Nie Yan couldn't imagine it for the time being. Even during his peak in his previous life, he had never killed a Lord of the same level alone, let alone killed a Lord above his level. He was doing one thing after another that he wouldn't have dared to think about or accomplish in his previous life!

"Nie Yan, how much experience does a Lord have? Its health is so high, more than ten times that of an elite." Tang Yao asked, trembling slightly, he couldn't imagine it.

One level, two levels, or even more?

"Level up two or three times, I guess. Output more damage, or its health will go back up," Nie Yan reminded Tang Yao. Fortunately, Tang Yao's spell damage was high enough, and with the level difference ignored, the damage was still quite considerable. If it were another mage, they probably wouldn't even be able to break the Scaling Toad Lord's defense.

"Don't worry, my output won't stop."

Tang Yao's skills had improved significantly compared to before, and he generally wouldn't make such low-level mistakes anymore.

"Next time, I need to prepare more magic attack amplification potions," Nie Yan thought. That way, Tang Yao's monster-killing speed could be much faster, but magic attack amplification potions were generally very expensive and rare, making them difficult to buy. A potion that increased attack by 20 cost at least three silver coins, and potions with stronger amplification effects were even more expensive.

Nie Yan carefully watched the Scaling Toad Lord's movements. Once the Scaling Toad Lord slowly moved out of Tang Yao's attack range or moved in Tang Yao's direction, he would immediately use crossbow bolts from a relatively far distance to lure it over. The range of the crossbow bolts was longer than Tang Yao's magic, and Nie Yan's range was about forty yards. The Scaling Toad Lord was still in a state of confusion. It didn't know which direction the attacks were coming from, so it could only walk around. Since Nie Yan's crossbow bolts were fired horizontally, it would take a few steps in the direction they came from, but since it couldn't find Nie Yan and Nie Yan didn't follow up with more attacks, it would stop after taking a few steps. As a result, the Scaling Toad Lord never left that area.

"How's the situation on your side? When will you be able to reach Level 15?" Zi Se Kuang Dao, also known as Hao Cheng, sent Nie Yan a message.

"Probably another three or four hours."

"That's still so long, but it makes sense, you guys need more experience to level up. The guild is built, and there are already over a thousand people, and more are joining all the time. We're all desperately recruiting people, but the guild warehouse is still empty, which doesn't look good. I told them it would be built up soon, and they're all watching us. If the guild benefits don't keep up, I'm worried we'll lose some people in a few days," Hao Cheng said. The first batch of people was very important. If they could stay and felt that the guild was good, they would bring in more people. A guild was built on the foundation of thousands upon thousands of players.

Nie Yan thought for a moment and said, "Just tell them that the guild benefits will catch up soon. For now, as long as they use their Niuren Tribe guild member status to buy all potions at the Xingkong Pharmacy, they can enjoy a 5% discount. Guild members with less than 100 contribution points can purchase up to 30 copper coins worth of potions. Those with 500 contribution points can purchase up to one silver coin and fifty copper coins worth, and so on." This would boost the pharmacy's business. The purchase limit was to prevent people from other guilds from using the Niuren Tribe guild member status to buy large quantities of potions. At the same time, this measure could also encourage players to increase their own guild contribution values.

"You know people at the Xingkong Pharmacy?"

"Just tell the guild members that."

"Okay, this benefit should retain a lot of people," Hao Cheng said excitedly. The 5% discount at the Xingkong Pharmacy was of great significance to the guild. The Xingkong Pharmacy now had a huge influence on Calore City, with hundreds of elementary apothecaries and hundreds of apothecary apprentices, occupying half of Calore City. More than 60% of the potions in Calore City came from there. It was a sanctuary for apothecaries, and all apothecaries were trying to squeeze in. Some apothecaries even left their affiliated guilds and entered the Xingkong Pharmacy through friends' introductions. No one had ever heard of the Xingkong Pharmacy offering a 5% discount to any guild. This move undoubtedly told all guild members that the Xingkong Pharmacy was their backer. With such a big financier, were they still afraid that the guild benefits wouldn't keep up?

Hao Cheng brought the good news back.

Nie Yan and Tang Yao continued to work hard.

While Tang Yao and Nie Yan were busy, Po Tian, who had just finished a dungeon run, returned to the Triumph Empire headquarters.

"How is it? Did you find out where that Yao Zi came from?" Po Tian asked Ju Zi beside him.

"I found out. He's a member of a player team, but that team isn't very strong. They haven't cleared Blackflame yet. That Yao Zi left the team in the last two days. I don't know where he went, but his level skyrocketed."

"Just an ordinary player. Looks like he got lucky. Find him. We must find out how he leveled up so fast!"

"But I also got news from a player named Chen Bo that Nie Yan is Yao Zi's brother."

"Nie Yan?" Po Tian's expression turned cold.

"It's said that Yao Zi was blocked by people from Holy Light."

"Oh? What happened?"

"Holy Light had dozens of people blocking Yao Zi and his group. They killed all of Yao Zi's teammates, but Yao Zi escaped. Then Nie Yan appeared, killed six or seven people from Holy Light, and looted Dian Cang's Pyrochaser Set from the red name." Ju Zi was also shocked. It seemed that more than one person had fallen into Nie Yan's hands.

"He alone?" Po Tian was stunned. They had some connections with Holy Light, and he knew Dian Cang's skills very well. He only knew that he had been looted clean some time ago. He didn't expect that person to be Nie Yan.

"Yes, only him. Holy Light couldn't do anything to him with so many people, so they had to retreat."

Po Tian pondered for a moment. If all of this was related to Nie Yan, then this Yao Zi was someone who needed to be closely watched.

Ju Zi hesitated to speak.

"Speak if you have something to say," Po Tian said, glancing at Ju Zi.

"We should withdraw the bounty inside the guild. If only a few people encounter that Nie Yan, I'm afraid none of them will be his match," Ju Zi finally said.

Po Tian's expression became even more gloomy, making Ju Zi feel chilled.

"Also, um, I think Yao Zi might be with Nie Yan now," Ju Zi continued.

"You mean, their levels might be about the same?" After thinking for a bit, Po Tian knew what Ju Zi wanted to say.

"Yes. The reason why he's not on the level rankings is probably because he's hiding it. Last time we saw him, he was already Level 11."

Po Tian was silent for a moment, then said to Ju Zi, "Withdraw the bounty in the guild, and then bring that Chen Bo here."

"Bring him here? What for?"

"Don't ask too much."

"Yes."

In the dim forest, on the muddy grass, Nie Yan and Tang Yao were doing the same thing meticulously. The Scaling Toad Lord's health was dropping extremely slowly, so slowly that you couldn't see the health bar moving for half a day.

Lord-level creatures were too terrifying. It was unimaginable. According to ordinary monster-killing methods, even several thousand players above Level 10 might not be able to grind down a Level 30 Lord.

After nearly ten hours, Nie Yan used one Mist Dust after another, and Tang Yao used so much magic that his hands almost fell off. The Scaling Toad Lord's health finally had only a little left.

"Oh my god, it's been more than ten hours, and this guy still hasn't fallen. If it doesn't fall, I'm going to fall," Tang Yao said with a bitter face.

"Only 2% left, keep it up."

When its health was at 20%, the Scaling Toad Lord went berserk and cast a few area-of-effect spells, but obviously, its area-of-effect spells didn't hit anyone. It didn't even know where its enemies were.

Seeing that the Scaling Toad Lord's health was low, Tang Yao increased his attack frequency. His heart was beating extremely fast, and he murmured in his heart, level up, level up.

The last Arcane Flame Explosion exploded, and the Scaling Toad Lord's health finally bottomed out, letting out a wail and collapsing to the ground, with scarlet liquid flowing all over the place.

Rays of dazzling white light fell on Tang Yao and Nie Yan.

Ding, ding, Nie Yan heard two system prompts. This Scaling Toad Lord actually gave Nie Yan a full 160,000 experience points, allowing him to skyrocket to Level 16. Since Tang Yao was the main damage dealer, he received even more experience points, so he directly leveled up to Level 17.

Looking at his level, Tang Yao was still dizzy.

"Nie Yan, I leveled up to 17?" Tang Yao asked suspiciously, thinking he was seeing things.

"Yeah." Nie Yan smiled slightly and walked towards the Scaling Toad Lord's corpse. A Level 30 Lord, he wondered if it dropped anything good. After rummaging through the Scaling Toad Lord's corpse, he found a ring, a piece of leather armor, and a potion recipe, as well as two gold coins.