Chapter 125 Fire Stone Piles

For how to kill the Flame Giant, Nie Yan already had a plan in mind, and he would stick to the original plan.

"Follow me." Nie Yan said, leading Xie Yao to fly into the depths of the cave. After a while, they arrived at a deep, narrow tunnel.

This tunnel only allowed two players to pass side by side, making it difficult to even turn around.

A giant being like the Flame Giant would not be able to pass through here at all.

"Wait here first, I'll lure the monster," Nie Yan said, describing his monster-farming plan.

"Doesn't the Flame Giant have long-range magic attacks? It should be able to attack us inside the tunnel," Xie Yao asked. Nie Yan's plan seemed a little unfeasible.

"It's true that the Flame Giant has long-range magic, but have you noticed that this tunnel isn't straight? It has a certain curve. When the Flame Giant's magic explodes in the tunnel, it can't directly hit us, and the damage will be greatly reduced. Although we will be impacted by the aftermath of the magic, as long as our fire resistance reaches above one hundred points, we can basically ignore the Flame Giant's damage. That's why I prepared so many fire resistance potions for you," Nie Yan explained. He had thought very clearly about every step. Due to the tunnel's curvature, they could use direct-shot magic to attack the Flame Giant within thirty yards. By retreating a distance, beyond forty yards, they could avoid some of the Flame Giant's magic attacks.

As long as they could withstand the Flame Giant's attacks, they could slowly wear it down. There were at least a dozen Flame Giant spawn points nearby, enough for them to keep leveling up.

Nie Yan was obviously confident, and Xie Yao also admitted that Nie Yan's words made sense, and her mind suddenly cleared.

"Then I'll wait for you to come over. Be careful," Xie Yao said as she retreated into the tunnel.

Nie Yan smiled and entered stealth mode, moving towards the Flame Giant in the distance. Gradually, the tall Flame Giant came into view, about thirty yards away. He raised the Headless Horseman Doro's Riding Crossbow in his hand, aimed at the Flame Giant, and pulled the trigger. Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, five arrows shot towards the Flame Giant.

Thud, thud, thud, all five arrows hit the Flame Giant, and damage numbers of one or two hundred floated above its head.

The Flame Giant discovered Nie Yan, roared softly, and strode towards Nie Yan's location.

Got him! Nie Yan put away Headless Horseman Doro's Riding Crossbow and quickly ran towards the tunnel in the distance.

After a while, guided by Nie Yan, the Flame Giant approached the tunnel entrance with heavy footsteps.

With a swoosh, a white holy word spell shot out from the tunnel entrance and struck the Flame Giant, exploding with a bang.

Xie Yao began to attack. Nie Yan flashed into the tunnel entrance. Xie Yao kept waving her staff, and streams of magic shot out. Her equipment was better than Tang Yao's. After all, she already had three Legendary pieces, only one spirit less than Tang Yao. In terms of attack, she was slightly higher than Tang Yao. Her attack frequency and magic recovery speed were slightly worse than Tang Yao. In this way, the two people's output was comparable.

Xie Yao's attack magic could cause more than 1,600 damage to the Flame Giant, which was still quite considerable.

Nie Yan looked at the Flame Giant's health, which was about 1.2 million, and its health recovery speed was also very fast. If Xie Yao wanted to kill the Flame Giant with her attack output, it would take at least three hours.

"Maintain your output, be careful. If the Flame Giant casts magic, retreat quickly and drink a bottle of high-level fire resistance potion," Nie Yan said, closely monitoring the Flame Giant's every move.

The frequent magic attacks on the Flame Giant made it irritable. Its aggro shifted to Xie Yao, but because the tunnel entrance was too narrow, it couldn't squeeze in at all. It stretched out its thick arms, trying to reach into the tunnel to grab Nie Yan and Xie Yao, but the distance was too far, and it couldn't reach them at all.

Nie Yan also took out his riding crossbow and shot at the Flame Giant. His attack was obviously not very effective. The damage output was not on the same level as Xie Yao's magic attack, but it could still help a little.

The Flame Giant tried to widen the tunnel entrance, but no matter how hard it tried, only a few pieces of gravel fell from the rock wall near the tunnel entrance.

Roar! The Flame Giant roared wildly, causing the entire cave to tremble.

These actions of the Flame Giant did not affect Xie Yao, and she still maintained a high frequency of output.

Streams of magic continued to bombard and explode on the Flame Giant. Finally, the Flame Giant was provoked and opened its mouth to spew a pillar of fire, and the hot flames poured into the tunnel.

"Retreat, drink fire resistance potions!" Nie Yan quickly said, quickly retreating backwards.

Xie Yao retreated while drinking a bottle of fire resistance potion.

The two retreated about ten yards, and the raging flames swept over them, then disappeared without a trace.

-2382, -2762.

Two super-high damage numbers floated above Nie Yan and Xie Yao's heads, and both of their health points were less than 50%.

After passing through the long tunnel, the power of the fire pillar spewed out by the Flame Giant was much smaller, and it could only cause less than 30% of attack damage to Xie Yao and Nie Yan. In addition, Xie Yao and Nie Yan had very high fire resistance, which greatly exempted them from the damage, so the two withstood the Flame Giant's attack.

Nie Yan bandaged Xie Yao and used a slow recovery potion for himself. The two people's health slowly recovered to full value.

Xie Yao walked forward a distance and continued to use holy word magic to attack the Flame Giant.

Time passed bit by bit. According to this process, after about two hours, Xie Yao slowly ground the Flame Giant's health to the bottom. The Flame Giant fell to the ground and scattered into a pile of gray boulders.

Nie Yan looked at his experience points, which had increased by about 30%. As an underground demon, the Flame Giant's experience points were quite generous. In addition to these experience points, players could receive an additional experience reward of about 30% from Hilton Fortress for each underground demon they killed. With these two sets of experience stacked together, killing monsters near Hilton Fortress allowed for much faster leveling speed than other places.

Xie Yao's level was relatively low, and the experience points she received allowed her to level up directly.

Nie Yan picked up the items dropped by the Flame Giant, which was a fire-type staff, a level 80 Dark Gold equipment, with very good attributes.

"Let's go open that treasure chest," Nie Yan said, walking towards the location of the treasure chest with Xie Yao.

After a while, they arrived at the place where the Fire Stones were piled up, and the treasure chest was close at hand, within reach.

These Fire Stones were burning fiercely, and some red flames could be seen constantly flickering.

Approaching these Fire Stones, Nie Yan felt a wave of heat rushing towards him, and his hands, face, and other exposed skin areas felt a stinging pain. Damage numbers of two or three hundred floated above his head, which was fire damage.

He didn't expect the temperature of these Fire Stones to be so high. Nie Yan's eyes focused on the treasure chest in the center of the Fire Stones. The treasure chest was burned red by the Fire Stones, looking like a branding iron just taken out of the fire. A phoenix pattern was engraved on the corner of the treasure chest, lifelike, like an elf dancing gracefully in the flames. This was a carving from the Co-rule Era, the phoenix symbolizing rebirth from the ashes, and was a totem worshiped by fire mages. Among all living beings, the phoenix was a top-level creature on the same level as the dragon.

Dimly, Nie Yan seemed to hear clear phoenix cries, illusory, yet close to his ears.

Nie Yan was secretly shocked. He had misjudged just now. This was clearly a Sub-Legendary treasure chest.

"Nie Yan, is this a Sub-Legendary chest?" Xie Yao asked. She had also thought it was Dark Gold, but the crisp phoenix cry changed her original view. She didn't expect a Sub-Legendary chest to appear here. She found it a bit hard to believe.

"It should be. I'll try to open it," Nie Yan said. He slowly approached the treasure chest. The closer he got, the more his exposed skin stung, and damage numbers of five or six hundred floated above his head. His health was about to be exhausted. Nie Yan quickly retreated and drank a bottle of Intermediate Instant Recovery.

No, the temperature emanating from this treasure chest was too high. Nie Yan couldn't open it at all. Just being close to the treasure chest caused so much fire damage. More than one hundred points of fire resistance were completely ineffective. If he touched the treasure chest, he might be killed instantly, let alone open the iron lock on the treasure chest.

"Xie Yao, give me the Molten Heart," Nie Yan immediately thought of the Molten Heart. In this situation, the Molten Heart should be useful.

"Okay." Xie Yao unloaded the Molten Heart from the decoration slot and traded it to Nie Yan.

Nie Yan equipped the Molten Heart and looked at the skill bar, using the Molten Heart skill. After using this skill, Nie Yan was immune to fire magic. He bent down to open the treasure chest.

After using this skill, Nie Yan didn't feel any burning pain when touching the flames. The fire licked Nie Yan's hands, and Nie Yan's skin was like it was separated by a layer of diaphragm. The flames could no longer hurt Nie Yan.

If there was no Molten Heart or other fire magic immunity skills, opening this treasure chest would really not be an easy task.

He wondered who opened this treasure chest in his previous life and what they took from it.

Touching the key on the treasure chest, Nie Yan frowned. He couldn't open the treasure chest. The lock on this treasure chest was very strange and of a very high level. With Nie Yan's current lockpicking level, he couldn't open it at all.

How could such a high-level lock appear on a level 80 map?

A thought flashed through Nie Yan's mind. Could this treasure chest be related to a certain quest, and only a specific key obtained from the quest could open the treasure chest?