Chapter 1 The Abak Set

Nie Yan used the search skill on the Holy Light Stone. Quickly, a coordinate appeared on the mini-map, confirming that an Abak set component was indeed nearby!

Nie Yan glanced at his backpack. He had already collected three Abak set components, including the Abak Sealed Hand, the Abak Bloody Dagger, and the Abak Destruction Cloak. The set had a total of eight pieces, and he had already collected three-eighths of it.

How awesome would it be to wear the complete Abak set at level 180! At that time, his defense and attack would be godlike compared to ordinary players.

He wondered which piece of the Abak set was lost here.

The Darkwing Dragon quickly descended and stopped on the ground. Nie Yan flipped over and jumped down, surveying the surrounding environment.

The area was full of abrupt rocks, with basically no roads to pass through.

The Abak set component should be found to the south. Nie Yan looked in that direction. In the distance, grotesque rocks stretched endlessly.

Nie Yan recalled the Darkwing Dragon to his pet space.

He dashed towards that direction, leaping between the rocks as if walking on flat ground. This rugged terrain was nothing to him.

The mountain wind howled. Nie Yan ran and stopped, reaching halfway up the mountain. Here was a stone forest, with all kinds of strange rocks, appearing mysterious and unpredictable. Some of the rocks had traces of artificial carving. They were sculpted into enchanting beauties, making various coquettish gestures. As the clouds drifted and a cool breeze swept through, instead of beauty, it gave people a strange and eerie feeling.

Nie Yan shuttled through the stone forest, searching for a long time, but still found nothing. The map showed it was right here, but why couldn't he find it?

Since he was already here, he could only continue, maybe it was in some corner.

After searching for a while, passing through a narrow gap in the stone forest, a deep cave entrance appeared before Nie Yan's eyes on the rock face. The entrance was surrounded by strange sculptures, each one an eerie beauty with sharp teeth growing from the corners of their mouths, revealing狰狞 expressions.

This must be the place. Nie Yan cautiously walked inside. The light inside the cave was very dim, and the air was very humid.

Fortunately, his dark vision was high enough to faintly see the road on the ground. Walking towards the depths of the cave, the sound of dripping water echoed from deep within, sounding crisp and melodious.

This section of the cave was about three hundred yards long, with no monsters active. The narrow cave twisted and turned into the distance.

Nie Yan's hand was on the wall when he suddenly felt something scratch him. It was a protruding rock. Looking at the cave wall beside him, it was uneven, having been chiseled out by things like pickaxes. These gray rocks seemed to be some kind of ore.

Nie Yan swung the Zennarde's Sword, and a piece of rock was cut off the wall and fell down. He stretched out his left hand and caught it with a thud.

He felt the density, color, and other properties of the rock in his hand, and finally determined that it was Haber metal.

Haber metal was a top-quality forging material that could be used to forge level 100 dark gold equipment. The higher the purity, the stronger the attributes of the equipment made. Because this metal vein was difficult to find, in his previous life, a piece of grade 5 Haber metal had sold for a high price of six hundred gold coins. For ore-like things, it was simply a sky-high price.

Without delay, Nie Yan immediately sent a message to Guo Huai, asking Tang Yao and others with flying mounts to transport the high-level miners of the Niu Ren Tribe here to be responsible for mining the ore here.

There were no monsters nearby, so the miners didn't have to worry about being harassed by monsters while mining.

After arranging things, Nie Yan continued to grope his way inside. The further he went, the wider the cave became. A huge stone door appeared in front of him, with lights flickering inside, actually a huge underground palace.

This surprised Nie Yan quite a bit. A system notification sound came to his ears. He opened the system prompt.

System: You have discovered the Fannas Pharaoh's Tomb.

In Nie Yan's memory, history did mention a person, Fannas was the leader of an evil tribe, a dark wizard. They worshiped demons and took pleasure in killing. They were regarded as heretics by the Sacred Temple. In the process of conquering heretics, Fannas was captured by the Sacred Temple and executed. It was just that later, Fannas' body was mysteriously stolen, becoming a mystery.

In his previous life, Nie Yan spent a lot of time mastering the history of all beliefs, familiar with those histories, which could often come in handy. He wouldn't be completely ignorant when he encountered something related to history.

Walking into the tomb, shadowy monsters were everywhere. Nie Yan entered stealth mode, sneaking behind one of the monsters, and throwing a detect at it.

Dark Maiden: Level 110, HP 120000.

They were some ordinary monsters, wearing black cloaks, their gender faintly discernible from their figures.

So many Dark Maidens!

Nie Yan looked into the distance, at least hundreds of Dark Maidens gathered every few yards. It would be very difficult to sneak past this way. He could only clear them little by little.

After thinking for a while, Nie Yan retreated back to the corner, summoned the Golden Earth Dragon, preparing to use the Golden Earth Dragon to crush his way through. With the Golden Earth Dragon's powerful attack power, clearing these Dark Maidens was no problem. As long as no elite or lord-level creatures appeared, there was nothing to worry about.

These Dark Maidens were dark creatures, so he could recruit a paladin.

Nie Yan couldn't help but think, opening the Sacred Hire interface, and looked at the Sacred Hire list. It listed one recruitable paladin after another.

His gaze fell on the last item on the Sacred Hire list, Paladin Leffers, a powerful paladin leader, possessing the Advanced Holy Light Radiance divine spell, hiring price, 20,000 gold coins per hour.

For ordinary players, this was simply a sky-high price, and few people dared to spend so much money.

Even Nie Yan himself was a little reluctant to use it. This price was really too expensive. Letting all five members of the Niu Ren Tribe equip level 70 dark gold equipment would probably cost about the same.

So much money, just to hire Paladin Leffers for an hour.

Since learning Sacred Hire, he hadn't tried hiring Paladin Leffers. He didn't know how strong Paladin Leffers really was.

Although 20,000 gold coins was very expensive, Nie Yan could still afford it.

Nie Yan decided to hire Leffers to see how strong he really was.

System: Are you sure you want to hire Paladin Leffers?

Yes!

A white light flashed, and a tall paladin wearing silver-white armor appeared in front of Nie Yan. He looked to be in his forties, with a thick beard, a serious expression, covered in a white light, and a powerful holy light force rushed towards him.

Nie Yan could clearly feel that Paladin Leffers was much stronger than the several paladins he had recruited before!

"Respected Great Scholar, Demon Hunter, Great Thief Nie Yan, I am willing to serve you," Paladin Leffers said respectfully.

Nie Yan looked at Paladin Leffers' attributes. Sacred Hire stated that the attributes of the Paladin Leffers he recruited were 300% of Nie Yan's own.

Nie Yan was already strong enough, multiplying that by 300%, he wondered what the effect would be.

After seeing Leffers' attributes, Nie Yan was completely shocked. HP over 200,000, attack reached over 20,000, defense over 10,000, he had all the skills a paladin had, and also an Advanced Holy Light Radiance divine spell, his combat power was very strong.

What shocked Nie Yan the most was not Leffers' basic attributes, but his skill bar!

Leffers' skill settings were based on Nie Yan as a reference. Nie Yan's skill bar was full of skills above level eight or nine, and many level ten and eleven skills. Leffers was even stronger than Nie Yan.

Level 11 Rampage, Level 15 Holy Light Heal, Level 15 Dispel, Level 15 Holy Judgment, Level 11 Holy Strike...

What a magnificent skill bar!

Such a paladin was almost invincible at the current level.

Paladins had slightly weaker defense capabilities than warriors, but their most terrifying aspect was their powerful healing abilities. Their single-unit continuous combat ability was definitely the strongest among melee units. Under normal circumstances, a small Holy Light Heal could restore 20% to 30% of health, which was already very good, but due to his extremely high skill level, Leffers could easily restore his health to full with a small Holy Light Heal. In addition, he himself had nearly 200,000 health, so as long as he had enough mana, he would never have to worry about his health, making him much stronger than any HP tank.

After seeing Paladin Leffers' attributes, Nie Yan felt relieved. With such a terrifying guy, what was there to fear!

Under Nie Yan's command, Paladin Leffers put on a Holy Light Shield for himself, blessed himself with status skills such as Rampage and Holy Blessing, and rushed towards the Dark Maidens in the distance.

The Holy Light energy emitted from Paladin Leffers immediately attracted the attention of this group of Dark Maidens. All their hatred instantly focused on Leffers. They were dark creatures and had a natural hatred for Holy Light.

As long as Paladin Leffers was in front, all the Dark Maidens would not actively attack Nie Yan.

The Dark Maidens condensed black fireballs in their hands, and then, countless spells bombarded Paladin Leffers.

Bang bang bang, damage values of two to three thousand floated above Leffers' head, but for him, who had nearly 200,000 health, it was nothing at all.

Leffers cast a small heal on himself, and his health instantly returned to full. Rushing to the side of a Dark Maiden, a Holy Strike, a Holy Light Purification, damage values of thirty to forty thousand floated from the Dark Maiden's head, and the Dark Maiden fell to the ground with a thud.

Leffers launched a one-sided massacre against this group of Dark Maidens.

Seeing Leffers' brave appearance, Nie Yan couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement. He was too fierce.

~~ There will be two more updates at 12 o'clock tonight.