Chapter 1 Seeing Lei Su's Announcement

Seeing Lei Su's public announcement, Nie Yan thought to himself, this guy is indeed arrogant, but Lei Su does have the capital to be arrogant. At this time, there are very few people who can beat him.

Nie Yan asked Guo Huai to send someone to find and contact Lei Su. He also wanted to see how strong Lei Su was after advancing to the rank of Holy Swordsman.

He'll wait until they get in touch first. Nie Yan teleported to Cripps Fortress.

Xie Yao was standing at the entrance of the guild headquarters, waiting. When she saw Nie Yan coming, she immediately greeted him.

Xie Yao was shrouded in a holy white light, constantly overflowing with a powerful divine power. The soft light reflected Xie Yao's fair cheeks, making her even more charming.

Seeing the dazzling Xie Yao, Nie Yan's heart fluttered.

Walking to Xie Yao's side, a holy aura swept over him. Xie Yao already had seven pieces of legendary equipment on her body. In addition, she had just changed her job to Holy Archmage. He didn't know how strong Xie Yao was now.

"Didn't Tang Yao come?" Nie Yan asked, looking at Xie Yao.

"He went to the warehouse to get something, he'll be here in a while," Xie Yao said, looking at Nie Yan with her bright eyes, her eyes full of tenderness.

After a while, Tang Yao ran over from a distance in a hurry.

"Sorry, I'm late," Tang Yao said, scratching his head.

Nie Yan glanced at the Arcane Sprite beside Tang Yao. The Arcane Sprite floated beside Tang Yao, still burping bubbles, and waves of magical light spread out.

"Damn, the Arcane Sprite is level six?" Nie Yan asked in surprise, because he felt that Tang Yao's Arcane Sprite was obviously a size bigger than before.

"Six and a half," Tang Yao said with a grin.

Nie Yan's heart trembled. A level six Arcane Sprite was already very strong. The experience required for upgrading was too much, and the experience bar couldn't move at all. However, it was said that in his previous life, someone had raised the experience of the Arcane Sprite to level six and a half. The level six and a half Arcane Sprite didn't have much improvement in attributes, but it had a mental sublimation additional attribute, which allowed its owner to learn two more forbidden spells than ordinary archmages.

Ordinary archmages can learn three forbidden spells, and at most they can only learn one area-of-effect forbidden spell, which is already a very remarkable thing. But the level six and a half Arcane Sprite broke this limit, changing the number of forbidden spells an archmage could cast from three to five, with two area-of-effect forbidden spells.

Generally, the cooldown time of forbidden spells is very long, often ten and a half days, and some powerful forbidden spells can even have cooldown times of one or two months. The significance of two additional forbidden spells for an archmage can be imagined.

"Not bad, you actually leveled up the Arcane Sprite so quickly, try to level it up to seven," Nie Yan said. Tang Yao was definitely the fastest person to level up the Arcane Sprite in his previous life and this life. Now he has reached level six and a half, and maybe he can break through level seven in the future.

He didn't know what the attributes of a level seven Arcane Sprite would be. It was probably already an artifact-like existence for archmages.

"Well, the Arcane Sprite's experience value is getting harder and harder to increase, and there is a bottleneck from level six to level seven. I calculated that it will take at least half a year to raise it to level seven," Tang Yao said. His experience in cultivating Arcane Sprites is definitely more than anyone else.

Tang Yao put a lot of effort and emotion into the Arcane Sprite, unlike many players who only regard the Arcane Sprite as a prop. Perhaps this is the key to the Arcane Sprite's rapid improvement.

"Let's go grind skeletons together. In a few days, Daoguang, Sun, and the others should be coming out soon," Nie Yan said. The next period of time will be the period when the number of top-level professional players in the Mad Rogue Tribe increases the fastest. They will wait until they all come out!

Xie Yao and Tang Yao already knew about the necromancer Bodman, and understood the current severe situation.

Qin Han's skeletons have spread rapidly, and they are no longer satisfied with attacking villages and towns. They have begun to attack the most concentrated leveling locations and the surroundings of dungeons, and then spread to other cities. Their expansion situation is gradually getting out of control. Some skeletons have even entered the territory of Carol City.

In any case, they will kill as many as they can. The Mad Rogue Tribe is preparing to defend the major fortresses when the undead skeletons come. It is unwise to fight those skeletons head-on. They can only wait for the Greenland Empire and the Holy Cathedral to react and send troops to clear them. It is the wisest choice to use the npCs to destroy the necromancer Bodman. What Nie Yan has to do is to preserve his strength as much as possible when the Undead Revenge expansion pack is launched.

The three of them teleported to Emerald City together. Nie Yan suddenly thought of something and said, "Follow me."

Nie Yan took Xie Yao and Tang Yao towards the Holy Cathedral in Emerald City.

When they arrived at the entrance of the Holy Cathedral, Xie Yao and Tang Yao were a little puzzled. What was Nie Yan doing here?

They walked into the Holy Cathedral together. Seeing Nie Yan coming in, a npC steward in a white robe walked up and greeted Nie Yan: "Respected Holy Shadow Dance, hello."

The npC steward was very polite and respectful, completely in the tone of a subordinate to a superior.

Hearing the npC steward's title for Nie Yan, Xie Yao and Tang Yao were surprised. Nie Yan's title was actually Holy Shadow Dance, which was higher than ordinary Shadow Dance.

"I need help." Nie Yan stated his intention, preparing to recruit paladins.

"These are the paladins that the Holy Cathedral can recruit, please take a look."

A list appeared in front of Nie Yan. There were at least seven or eight hundred paladins on this list. With the power of the Holy Shadow Dance title, he could recruit thirty paladins to serve him. Of course, Nie Yan had to pay some remuneration after the completion, but the remuneration was very low. It only cost a few thousand gold coins to recruit them for a few days.

Nie Yan looked at the attributes of these paladins. Most of the paladins were above level 120, and a few could reach level 150. They were all elite level and had strong combat power.

Nie Yan recruited sixteen level 150 paladins, and most of the other paladins were above level 140.

After a while, a group of paladins poured into the hall of the Holy Cathedral. Thirty people, six in a row and five in a column, all wearing uniform silver-white standard armor, and their movements were uniform, like a well-trained small army. Their armor was very good, and each of these guys had at least two to three hundred thousand health points. Their combat power should be quite strong.

"Respected Holy Shadow Dance, we are willing to serve you!"

"May the Holy Light be with you."

Each of these paladins had a kind of fanaticism in their eyes. They absolutely trusted Nie Yan and respected Nie Yan's will. Nie Yan could order them to do anything, even including suicide.

Tang Yao was so surprised when he saw so many paladins that his jaw almost dropped. He asked, "Are they all your mercenaries?"

Damn, he hired more than thirty at a time, and they were all level 140 or 150 elites. It's too perverted!

"Well, their combat power seems to be okay, but I don't know how efficient they are when grinding monsters." Nie Yan glanced at these paladins. Each of them was very strong and well-equipped.

Tang Yao thought about it. From the beginning of the game, Nie Yan had given him one surprise after another. As time went by, his strength became stronger and stronger, but until now, he still hadn't seen through Nie Yan's strength. Tang Yao smiled slightly and said, "You guy are always so unexpected."

Xie Yao stood quietly next to Nie Yan, and smiled slightly when she saw Tang Yao's surprised expression. She had long been accustomed to it.

Nie Yan completed the hiring and walked out of the Holy Cathedral with Xie Yao and Tang Yao.

Nie Yan glanced at the neat paladin army behind him. Taking these guys through the streets of Emerald City was too ostentatious. Mercenaries hired from npCs were different from summons. They couldn't be taken in, which was more troublesome. Although these paladins couldn't avoid the players' sight, they could!

Nie Yan asked the thirty paladins to lead the way, and he, Xie Yao, and Tang Yao followed behind quietly wearing cloaks.

The neat formation of these thirty paladins immediately attracted the attention of the players. The appearance of such a team of paladins in Emerald City was indeed a bit surprising.

"Could it be that the Holy Cathedral sent them to deal with the skeletons?"

"Maybe."

The players were talking about it. They didn't notice Nie Yan, Xie Yao, and Tang Yao who were following behind the group of paladins.

Nie Yan noticed some players with strange expressions following behind the group of paladins. They were from the Divine Sword!

Qin Han must have noticed these paladins, and they should have some action.

But Nie Yan wasn't worried. Even if they were ambushed when they left the city, with two archmages, what was there to be afraid of! Archmages could use any magic to blast them until they had no temper. Moreover, Emerald City wasn't the territory of the Divine Sword guild alone. If a fight broke out, the Kuangzhan Alliance could support them at any time.

The thirty paladins walked out of Emerald City along the street and headed east.

At this time, Emerald City had become a white terror zone. Skeletons were wandering everywhere outside the city. Many players were afraid to leave Emerald City. Many people had left Emerald City and went to other cities to level up, so the popularity of Emerald City had dropped significantly recently and it was much deserted.

Nie Yan, Xie Yao, and Tang Yao followed behind these paladins and proceeded outside the city. Before long, a large number of skeletons appeared on the distant hillside, covering the mountains and plains, densely packed and endless, like a continuous tide.

Presumably, the Divine Sword side locked the location of these paladins and sent a large number of skeletons over. These guys were quick enough.

Nie Yan looked at Xie Yao and Tang Yao and said, "It's up to you this time. There are so many skeletons, it should be enough for us to grind until we're happy."

"Yeah." Xie Yao nodded.

"Don't worry, we'll kill as many as come. I'm worried that there's no place to practice my skills," Tang Yao said excitedly, rubbing his fists and preparing to start.