Chapter 1 Eternal City

Some members of the Mad Rogue Tribe had also started leveling here in the Eternal City. They were all the wealthier members, forming teams and pooling their money to buy a few sets of area-of-effect magic bombs, then leveling here for a while. It wasn't very realistic to level here for a long time; the cash consumption was too high.

As the players' levels increased, the Eternal City would soon be opened to the public. Since that was the case, it was better to let the capable members of the Mad Rogue Tribe level up a few more times here.

Nie Yan found a less crowded spot, handed over the experience points to the Golden Earth Dragon, and placed the Golden Earth Dragon in a relatively safe place, feeding it a piece of meat and letting it stay there.

Nie Yan ran off into the distance, using the Headless Horseman Doro's Riding Crossbow in his hand to attract the nearby mechanical puppets, luring hundreds of them over, then bombarding them with area-of-effect magic bombs.

*Boom, boom, boom!* Magic flames erupted and bloomed.

Waves of area-of-effect magic bombs flew into the sky, then fell and exploded, and a series of damage values floated above the mechanical puppets' heads.

One patch after another of mechanical puppets fell to the ground.

Nie Yan watched the Golden Earth Dragon's experience bar, which soared rapidly. Streaks of white light shone on the Golden Earth Dragon, and its level instantly rose to level nine. Checking the Golden Earth Dragon's stats, all its attributes had greatly increased. Its health had risen to 260, its attack became 63-67, and its other attributes had also improved. The attribute increase was quite fast. After all, it was only level nine. At this rate, when it reached level twenty-two or twenty-three, the Golden Earth Dragon's attributes would far exceed Nie Yan's.

In addition, the Golden Earth Dragon had also gained a skill.

Beginner Dragon Breath: Spews dragon breath to attack enemies, with an additional 20 points of skill damage bonus, dealing area-of-effect damage in a 5x5 yard range (base attack + skill damage) with fire magic damage. Skill cooldown time is three minutes. The next level requires level 20.

The effect of Dragon Breath was obviously very strong, with an area-of-effect damage effect. Even the Beginner Dragon Breath could cause such damage. If the Golden Earth Dragon's level was brought up, then farming monsters and leveling in the future would definitely be very enjoyable. One Dragon Breath from the Golden Earth Dragon would kill an entire area.

He would level here for a while first. Nie Yan needed to find a better place to level up, to bring up the Golden Earth Dragon's level faster.

In addition, Nie Yan's level also needed to be raised. After the Sealed Historical Records expansion was opened, players' levels soared wildly. If he didn't level up again, his level would soon fall behind. It was best to find a place where he could farm evil creatures, so that he could level up and unlock some of the skills on Shadow Plunder.

Nie Yan glanced at the skills on Shadow Plunder, and his eyes locked on one of them, the Shadow Slaughter skill. The activation requirement was: kill a level 50 Lord, and it had to be an evil creature.

Shadow Slaughter: After applying the Shadow Slaughter state, attacking one unit can deal 30% attack damage to ten units within a 10x10 yard radius. Duration 2 minutes, skill cooldown time 2 natural days.

This Shadow Slaughter skill was a very enjoyable area-of-effect skill for thieves.

Area-of-effect skills for the Thief class were very rare, and any area-of-effect skill was extremely valuable.

What Nie Yan lacked now was this type of skill. Having this type of skill was very useful, whether it was for farming monsters or PK, the only drawback being that the skill cooldown time was relatively long.

The number of advanced skills mastered by players was also increasing. If Nie Yan wanted to maintain his advantage, he had to increase the number of skills as well.

Nie Yan thought for a moment and suddenly had a goal. He glanced at the Golden Earth Dragon next to him, he should level this guy up to level 20 or higher first.

Nie Yan noticed that the Golden Earth Dragon was much taller, about as tall as his waist. He wondered what it would grow into in the future, whether it would be as huge as the Golden Earth Dragon he encountered in the Valley of Sin. If that were the case, it would be too terrifying.

Nie Yan ran off into the distance and lured over another group of mechanical puppets, about four or five hundred in number, and then bombarded them with area-of-effect magic bombs.

Another patch of mechanical puppets fell to the ground, and the Golden Earth Dragon leveled up to level 13. The higher the level, the harder it was to level up.

Nie Yan calculated that the experience required for the Golden Earth Dragon to level up was about three times his own. If he wanted the Golden Earth Dragon to be truly fierce, it wouldn't be an easy task. In the future, if Nie Yan wanted to level up together with the Golden Earth Dragon, he would have to level up several times more than ordinary players.

The Golden Earth Dragon in the distance was sitting on the ground in a corner, drooping its head, looking bored.

Because Nie Yan had told it to stay put, it could only sit there doing nothing.

With its current strength, it couldn't farm these mechanical puppets at all.

Nie Yan picked up the items on the ground and walked to the side of a mechanical puppet corpse. A gray, paper-covered skill book on the ground caught his attention. He bent down and picked up the skill book dropped by the mechanical puppet.

Because it was an ordinary skill book, Nie Yan didn't pay much attention at first, but when he saw the skill book's description, he found that it was the Gale Steps skill, and he was excited.

Beginner Gale Steps: Enters stealth to escape. Has 3 seconds of invincibility the moment stealth is activated. Movement speed +20%, stealth and camouflage -60%. Skill cooldown time is 3 minutes. Requires level 20. The next level requires 500 Agility.

The Gale Steps skill was an essential skill for thieves, increasing movement speed in stealth, especially the 3 seconds of invincibility, which could be used to evade many magical effects, making it a rare good thing. However, the reduced stealth and camouflage effects made it easier to be targeted by enemies.

If he could raise it to 500 Agility and upgrade it to intermediate, the effect would be much stronger.

Although Gale Steps was an essential skill, it was available in all maps above level 20, but the drop rate wasn't particularly high. It was relatively rare in the thirties and forties, and only became truly widespread around level sixty.

In his previous life, Gale Steps was one of the skills that Nie Yan was most accustomed to using. Not having the Gale Steps skill in this life really made him feel a little uncomfortable.

Reacquiring Gale Steps made Nie Yan very excited. Although the Shadow Dance skill was good, it wasn't as practical as the Gale Steps skill.

Nie Yan learned Gale Steps and glanced at the skill bar, which now had a skill that he was familiar with. This feeling was completely different. It was a sense of familiarity that came from the soul, and he could easily master this skill.

In addition to Gale Steps, Nie Yan also harvested a lot of equipment, all of which were level 40. However, since the mechanical puppets were all ordinary monsters, the equipment that dropped wasn't very good, mostly white and bronze gear.

The guild also needed this type of equipment very much. Ordinary players couldn't afford equipment with very good stats, and could only temporarily use white and bronze gear as transitional equipment.

Nie Yan counted them and found that there were actually two pieces of the Silver-grade Eternal Set. His luck was good. If a set of Silver-grade Eternal Set was worth 700 gold coins, then the items that dropped were enough to offset the losses. Half-Asleep Fox's reserved Eternal Set had already been delivered to him by Guo Huai, earning him 700 gold coins. The Carillon Divine Temple naturally didn't want to lag behind and also purchased a set from the Mad Rogue Tribe, earning 1400 gold coins from selling two Eternal Sets.

There were more and more people leveling up in the Eternal City, so there were naturally many Eternal Sets produced. The number of Eternal Sets remaining in the Mad Rogue Tribe had reached as many as seven sets. Brilliant Knife Edge had a set of Dark Gold Eternal Set, Yi Yan and Leng Ao Ying each had a set of Gold-grade Eternal Set, and the remaining four Eternal Sets were also distributed to several more outstanding Shield Warriors. At this point, the Mad Rogue Tribe's seven great Shield Warriors were beginning to take shape!

The number and quality of Shield Warriors were related to the future of a guild!

He put the two scattered pieces into his bag, wondering when he could put together a few more sets.

After spending nearly two hours, Nie Yan finally brought the Golden Earth Dragon to level 20. At this time, the Golden Earth Dragon was almost as tall as him. He looked at the Golden Earth Dragon's attributes: 550 health, 380-393 attack, and other attributes had also increased significantly.

The Golden Earth Dragon's attribute increase wasn't fixed. The higher the level, the greater the attribute increase. At this point, the Golden Earth Dragon could already hold its own.

In addition, the Golden Earth Dragon also obtained two state skills.

Beginner Acceleration Aura: Movement speed +5% for all teammates within a 20x20 yard radius. The next level requires level 30.

Beginner Attack Retaliation: Reflects 5% of melee unit attack damage. The next level requires level 30.

The aura skills were permanently effective, automatically added without needing to be cast, and didn't consume mana, which was the best thing about them.

Although the added stats were relatively small, they were also quite considerable, and the effects would be stronger after leveling up. He remembered that in his previous life, someone had obtained a pet with a relatively high damage reflection rate, and then he started frantically increasing the pet's health and using various methods to reduce the pet's defense. He actually managed to create an extremely fierce pet. The pet was level 180, with a health of up to 70,000 to 80,000, but its defense was terribly low. When leveling, he would frantically lure melee monsters, stand there, and use attack reflection to level up. In team battles, basically no melee player dared to attack this pet.

So, if the Attack Retaliation talent state was leveled up, it would also be extremely fierce.

In addition, the Golden Earth Dragon's Dragon Breath was also upgraded to intermediate.

Intermediate Dragon Breath: Spews dragon breath to attack enemies, with an additional 100 points of skill damage bonus, dealing area-of-effect damage in a 5x5 yard radius (base attack + skill damage) with fire magic damage. Skill cooldown time is two minutes. The next level requires level 60.

After Dragon Breath leveled up, the effect was obviously enhanced.

Nie Yan could feel the Golden Earth Dragon's strength increasing rapidly. Now, it could almost withstand two or three level 25 or 26 monsters.