Chapter 1 You Take Care of Two Waves

"You help me take out two waves of Wandering Soul Berserkers, and your task will be complete. I'll handle the rest myself," Nie Yan said. This was a necessary step to complete that quest, otherwise, it was impossible to proceed.

These seven Wandering Soul Berserkers stood before Nie Yan and Tang Yao like towering iron giants.

"Are you kidding me?" Tang Yao looked at Nie Yan with an incredulous expression. Nie Yan must have gone crazy to even think about taking on seven Level 60 Elite Wandering Soul Berserkers.

"Of course not. Trust me, it'll be fine. Wandering Souls are unarmored units and don't have level suppression against lower-level players. Whatever your attack power is, that's the amount of damage you'll deal. These Wandering Soul Berserkers are immune to physical attacks, but magic attacks against them get an additional 30% damage bonus. I can use Advanced Entangling Vines to hold them in place, and you can bombard them with AoE magic," Nie Yan said. He wouldn't have brought Tang Yao here if he wasn't confident.

Seeing that Nie Yan was talking so confidently, Tang Yao nodded. "Alright, since you've decided, tell me how to do it."

Nie Yan explained the entire process to Tang Yao in detail.

"I'll lure the monsters according to your instructions," Tang Yao said. He ran towards the seven Wandering Soul Berserkers ahead, stopping about thirty yards away from them.

Nie Yan also moved into position and gave Tang Yao a signal. Tang Yao waved his staff, and a black flame fireball shot straight ahead.

With a boom, the flame fireball struck one of the Wandering Soul Berserkers, exploding in a burst of sparks.

The seven Wandering Soul Berserkers all focused their attention on Tang Yao, swinging their iron hammers as they charged towards him.

Charge!

Charge!

The Wandering Soul Berserkers activated their Charge skill and rushed towards Tang Yao, their speed astonishing, several times faster than Tang Yao's.

"Oh my god!" Tang Yao cast Gale Speed on himself and ran towards Nie Yan's location.

Seeing Tang Yao start to lure the monsters, Nie Yan unfurled an Advanced Entangling Vines scroll and began to chant, the scroll in his hand emitting a faint white light.

The Wandering Soul Berserkers were closing in on Tang Yao, their levels too far apart, their movement speed far too slow. He was quickly overtaken.

Nie Yan, who was chanting the Advanced Entangling Vines scroll, was also sweating for Tang Yao. He hadn't expected the Wandering Soul Berserkers to move so fast after charging, their movement speed increasing by at least 150% compared to their normal state.

The Wandering Soul Berserker swung his iron hammer down, about to turn Tang Yao into mincemeat in the next moment.

Suddenly, Tang Yao's body transformed into a seagull the size of a millstone, flapping its wings incessantly and accelerating outwards.

With a crash, the Wandering Soul Berserker's iron hammer missed its target, slamming into the ground and leaving a deep pit.

Tang Yao, however, escaped, flying forward for about thirty seconds before transforming back into his human form and running towards Nie Yan.

"I didn't expect Tang Yao to have that move," Nie Yan immediately recognized it. "A rare item, the Ring of the Shapeshifter!"

The Ring of the Shapeshifter allowed a player to transform into an animal of their choice. Each animal transformation granted a specific talent. For example, the seagull from before had increased movement speed and could greatly enhance a player's mobility, as well as granting some flight ability. However, in seagull form, the player lost all attack capabilities, and the Ring of the Shapeshifter's effect would disappear upon being attacked. Furthermore, the Ring of the Shapeshifter's state lasted for only about 30 seconds, making it very brief.

In a situation like that just now, the Ring of the Shapeshifter had been extremely effective.

After getting out of danger, Tang Yao finally breathed a sigh of relief. Luring monsters was too difficult for him.

Seeing that Tang Yao had lured the Wandering Soul Berserkers over, Nie Yan waved his right hand, and the scroll in his hand turned into ethereal white light. A magic element swirled and danced, finally dissipating.

The group of Wandering Soul Berserkers was charging forward when suddenly, thick vines sprouted from the ground at an incredible speed, entangling their limbs and binding them securely. The seven Wandering Soul Berserkers immediately came to a halt.

Tang Yao, who was running away, suddenly turned around, waving his staff and uttering several deep syllables. A cloud of black fire gathered in the sky, and streams of raging flames fell down, slamming into the group of Wandering Soul Berserkers.

Damage numbers appeared above the Wandering Soul Berserkers, mostly around two to three hundred.

Wandering Soul Berserkers were unarmored units, so the damage numbers were all real.

Tang Yao retreated while continuously casting AoE spells.

The Wandering Soul Berserkers struggled incessantly, but they couldn't break free from the entanglement of the vines, roaring and howling in the flames. Their health dropped by about 30%.

"Not bad, good cooperation," Nie Yan smiled slightly.

Time passed by.

"Retreat, thirty yards!" Nie Yan called out anxiously. As soon as he finished speaking, Tang Yao didn't hesitate for a moment and ran backwards, maintaining a distance of about thirty yards from the Wandering Soul Berserkers.

Nie Yan timed it perfectly and began chanting the second Advanced Entangling Vines scroll just before the vines on the Wandering Soul Berserkers disappeared.

The Entangling Vines' duration ended, and the Wandering Soul Berserkers suddenly broke free, snapping all the vines, which scattered and fell. The Wandering Soul Berserkers charged towards Nie Yan.

They were getting closer and closer to Nie Yan, ten yards... six yards... three yards...

The Wandering Soul Berserkers lunged at Nie Yan like giant beasts. The Wandering Soul Berserkers were only two yards away from Nie Yan when the Advanced Entangling Vines scroll in Nie Yan's hand disappeared, and streams of vines immediately entangled the Wandering Soul Berserkers.

The Wandering Soul Berserkers' charge came to a halt, stopping right in front of Nie Yan.

Tang Yao's AoE spells rained down again, and with the support of the Arcane Spirit's mana, his AoE spells never stopped for a moment.

The Wandering Soul Berserkers' health rapidly decreased.

Advanced Entangling Vines scrolls could only be used three times consecutively. Using it a fourth time would cause the Wandering Soul Berserkers to develop resistance.

However, after three Advanced Entangling Vines scrolls, the Wandering Soul Berserkers' health was almost depleted.

Following the same pattern, Nie Yan used the last Advanced Entangling Vines scroll, and Tang Yao continued to attack. After the last AoE spell landed, the seven Wandering Soul Berserkers let out miserable cries and fell to the ground one after another.

"Is that it?" Tang Yao was stunned for a moment. The process of killing the Wandering Soul Berserkers was unusually smooth. Under Nie Yan's organized tactics, the Level 60 Elite Wandering Soul Berserkers seemed incredibly weak.

Nie Yan had once again proven with his actions that his judgment was correct.

The bodies of the seven Wandering Soul Berserkers disappeared one after another, leaving behind a pile of equipment.

Nie Yan picked up the equipment dropped by the Wandering Soul Berserkers, mostly Level 60 equipment, both Silver and Gold-grade. He wouldn't be able to use this equipment for now. He looked around to see if there was anything else he had missed. After rummaging through the pile, he found three Tier 7 gems, worth about 120 gold in total. He had made back the money he spent on the Advanced Entangling Vines scrolls.

Several other items caught Nie Yan's attention. One was an Intermediate Resurrection skill book, a rare and valuable item. There were none available on the market, and they only dropped in maps above Level 50 with an extremely low drop rate. It required 580 Intelligence. He wondered if anyone in the guild met the requirements.

There were also two potion recipes, which were also very valuable and required an Advanced Alchemist.

Currently, Starry Night Potion Shop had the most Advanced Alchemists in Calore, with five out of the seven Advanced Alchemists in the entire city working there. Bird Left No Egg and Low-Key Nan Nan had been Advanced Alchemists for some time and were trying to reach the Master level.

Having these advanced potion recipes was good news for Bird Left No Egg and Low-Key Nan Nan.

Nie Yan also discovered a great item: a Standard Equipment Design Blueprint!

Design Blueprint - Level 60 Gold Set, Evil Radiance, Arcane Mage equipment, requires Intermediate Tailor or higher, requires materials: 3 rolls of Demonweave Fabric, 2 rolls of Blazing Fire Fabric, 3 rolls of Goldthread Silk. This Evil Radiance set wasn't the best among all Level 60 sets, but it was still quite good. Top-tier players definitely wouldn't want it, but it would be a treasure for mid-tier players. What set Standard Equipment Design Blueprints apart from other equipment design blueprints was that twenty players could learn them simultaneously. After learning the blueprint, they could craft the same piece of equipment. As long as they had enough materials, these twenty tailors could continuously craft this Level 60 Gold Set.

Because Evil Radiance didn't require many materials, an Intermediate Tailor could craft it, so the Evil Radiance set could be mass-produced.

Arming guild members on a large scale with standard equipment was extremely satisfying.

There would definitely be more and more standard equipment in the future.

Nie Yan finished collecting the items and turned to Tang Yao, "Let's go, onto the next one!"

At the next intersection, there was another group of Wandering Soul Berserkers, numbering nine. Nie Yan and Tang Yao used the same method to take out all nine Wandering Soul Berserkers, obtaining another Evil Radiance design blueprint. Two Evil Radiance design blueprints meant that forty tailors could learn them simultaneously, allowing them to craft even more Evil Radiance sets.

Nie Yan glanced at the corpses of the Wandering Soul Berserkers on the ground and turned to Tang Yao, "You go back, you can't go any further from here."

Tang Yao looked ahead, where monster activity was quite dense, and nodded, "Alright, be careful."

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