Chapter 1 The Astonishing Rewards

Killing the undead mage Bodman was obviously incredibly rewarding.

Legendary rank was an unattainable height for ordinary players. Even top-tier classes like Magisters and Holy Swordsmen were vulnerable against a legendary mage.

Nie Yan's gaze fell upon his left hand. He had just snagged something with his spider silk.

Upon closer inspection, it was a dagger, about three inches long, dull and lusterless, with bizarre runes engraved upon it. The ancient dagger occasionally gleamed with a chilling light, making one's heart palpitate, like being targeted by a venomous snake.

An icy chill seeped from the palm of his left hand, making it somewhat numb.

It felt as if it was about to break free from his grasp. This weapon was filled with a strange sentience.

Nie Yan felt as if a soul resided within the dagger, a powerful and terrifying entity, perhaps even stronger than the undead mage Bodman.

He checked the dagger's stats.

Death God's Edge: Divine Artifact.

Requirements: Strength 50000, Agility 15000, Divine Power 300 (Cannot be used)

Item Description: Off-hand item, Hades' treasure, the key to opening the gates of hell.

Stats: Attack 37000, 50% chance of 30x critical strike, 60% chance to inflict instant death, inflicts thirty level-20 dark curses, all dark skill levels +10, comes with the skill Death God's Storm, summons a doomsday storm that destroys everything, the range of which is determined by the strength of Divine Power.

This item cannot be stored, dropped upon death.

Seeing the Death God's Edge, Nie Yan was stunned. What was this Death God's Edge? Its stats were too broken.

Nie Yan found it hard to imagine anyone who could stand against someone wielding this thing.

However, it was obviously not meant for ordinary players. 50000 Strength, 15000 Agility, how long would it take to reach those stats? Even at level 200, it would still be far off. As for what Divine Power was, he had never even heard of it.

So Nie Yan temporarily stopped dwelling on the stats of the Death God's Edge. No matter how powerful it was, it was irrelevant to him. His attention was focused on the item description: Hades' treasure, the key to opening the gates of hell. What did that mean?

Could this Death God's Edge lead him to another world?

The legendary hell?

Thinking about it now was pointless. Nie Yan put the Death God's Edge into his bag.

Soon, Nie Yan received a message.

System: Talk to the Archangel Tyrael about the Death God's Edge. You will receive some clues. Before that, please keep the Death God's Edge safe. Dark creatures from hell are searching for its trace.

Seeing this message, Nie Yan revealed a pensive expression. It seemed that the Death God's Edge was no ordinary item. Finding the Archangel Tyrael was extremely difficult. Although he knew that Tyrael was guarding the passage to the underworld, no one knew his exact location.

This was definitely a difficult task, and there would probably be many subsequent quests. He could only do it later.

At this time, the distant Darkwing Dragon slowly landed, stopping next to Nie Yan and emitting a low, mournful cry.

Nie Yan checked the Darkwing Dragon's injuries. It was heavily injured, with many areas being eroded by death energy. He estimated that the Darkwing Dragon would not be able to recover in a short time. Surviving such severe damage was already a miracle.

He carefully examined the wounds on the Darkwing Dragon. These wounds were somewhat strange. The flesh was charred black, different from the usual feeling of being devoured by death energy. On the black skin, some new flesh seemed to be growing.

Nie Yan's heart stirred. After thinking for a moment, he retrieved the Darkwing Dragon back into his pet space.

At this time, the surviving members of the Nirvana Flame Guild began to clean up the battlefield.

On a distant mountain peak, Qin Han had been staring at Cripps Fortress. Seeing the huge mushroom cloud produced by the bone dragon's self-destruction, he felt a sense of pleasure. The Nirvana Flame Guild headquarters was definitely finished!

Although he understood that he had already lost, and that he would soon be wanted by the Greenland Empire and hunted down to level zero, he still wanted to drag someone down with him, at least to make the Nirvana Flame Guild remember him!

However, after a long time, he did not hear the news of the Nirvana Flame Guild's level being reduced, nor did the entire guild descend into unorganized chaos.

More than twenty minutes later, the players of the Greenland Empire received a message that the Nirvana Flame Guild's headquarters had been moved to Okoron City at 7 o'clock, and that it would become the Nirvana Flame Guild's headquarters.

Calculating the time, it was just over an hour before the bone dragon self-destructed.

Qin Han almost spat blood when he heard this news. He had originally wanted to drag the Nirvana Flame Guild headquarters down with him, but he did not expect Nie Yan to not even give him this chance. An indescribable despair rose from the bottom of his heart. Mad Rogue Nie Yan, you are ruthless, even this was calculated by you.

In the contest with Nie Yan, he had been thoroughly and completely defeated.

Qin Han finally disappeared sadly on the mountain peak and logged out of the game. If he continued to stay here, guards from the Greenland Empire would arrive soon.

The Swords of Destruction, Light and Darkness Empire, and Holy Guardians also understood the situation here, and they were completely speechless. When the bone dragon self-destructed, they were secretly pleased, thinking that the Nirvana Flame Guild would fall into chaos and they would have a breather. But they didn't expect that the Nirvana Flame Guild would avoid the bone dragon's self-destruction in such a miraculous way.

Six million skeleton soldiers had been wiped out. They really found it hard to imagine which guild could shake the Nirvana Flame Guild. If they really wanted to play, they obviously couldn't beat the Nirvana Flame Guild.

"I don't know whether Mad Rogue Nie Yan moved the guild headquarters by coincidence or if it was pre-calculated. If it was pre-calculated, it would be too scary," Sword of Destruction said in the team chat.

"It shouldn't be a coincidence. They were obviously prepared. It is estimated that they calculated that Qin Han wanted to perish together with the Nirvana Flame Guild headquarters, so they made preparations to transfer the guild headquarters in advance, using Cripps Fortress to lure the skeleton army's attack, dragging the skeleton army to Cripps Fortress, and then making a golden cicada escape," Light and Darkness Yong Zui analyzed.

Holy Flame and others thought about it, and they all agreed with Light and Darkness Yong Zui's statement. They had a deep sense of fear in their hearts. Nie Yan's calculations were too deep.

"Forget it, I can't help but admire him," Holy Flame sighed. During this period of time fighting against the Nirvana Flame Guild, they had suffered too many losses.

They could only choose to submit to the Nirvana Flame Guild. Otherwise, the Nirvana Flame Guild would definitely take care of them one by one. After the Monet Consortium withdrew its capital, according to the agreement in the contract, it also took away most of the guild's assets. In addition, it caused them a lot of trouble in other aspects. They were afraid that they would never be able to be as glorious as before.

The Nirvana Flame Guild's obstacles in the Greenland Empire had been swept away. Next, this land would be theirs to roam freely, and they could expand their territory as much as they wanted.

The Nirvana Flame Guild and its major branches began to recover lost territory and rebuild on the ruins.

It would take at least a month or two to completely unify the Greenland Empire and occupy most of the fortresses, but Nie Yan didn't have to worry about any enemies threatening the Nirvana Flame Guild for the time being. They could take their time.

Over the next month, the Nirvana Flame Guild, War God Tribe, Crazy Battle Alliance, Holy Roman Empire, Galan Temple, and Holy Light and Flame began to divide their spoils of war. A total of eleven cities and more than 270 fortresses were occupied by them, of which the Nirvana Flame Guild took 162 fortresses.

Among these more than 270 fortresses, 96 were developed by the Dragon Leap Consortium, and more than 130 were developed by the World Group. Later, the Xie family's Zhengrong Consortium also participated in the cooperation, responsible for the development of more than 50 fortresses. Although the two major consortiums and the World Group had strong financial resources, their financial resources were still unable to support the development of so many fortresses at the same time, so they brought in many consortiums and companies to form a powerful and solid alliance of interests.

Nearly half of the vast Greenland Empire was controlled by the Nirvana Flame Guild, and the remaining cities were also infiltrated by the power of the Nirvana Flame Guild. Its influence could be described as being in full swing.

The scale of the Nirvana Flame Guild was comparable to that of the Angelic Overlord of the Saturn Empire.

In addition, the Starry Night Pharmacy had rapidly expanded, and its daily profits were frighteningly high. It fluctuated a bit at the beginning, but later stabilized at around 7 million gold coins. With strong capital support, Nie Yan's capital began to expand into other industries, and he hired a large number of high-level alchemists, enchanters, mechanics, and so on. Currently, about 30% of the alchemical items circulating in the market come from the Starry Night Grocery Store, and 20% of the enchantment business is also handled by them.

Nie Yan controlled such a large market, and he had enough qualifications to negotiate prices with upstream raw material suppliers, buying raw materials at lower prices and selling them at higher prices that the market could bear, so the profit margin was much larger.

The Greenland Empire had stabilized, and Nie Yan used the influence of the Great Prophet and the Abernathy Lord to seek extremely high status for the Nirvana Flame Guild in the Greenland Empire. The Nirvana Flame Guild successfully advanced to an level-8 guild, and the number of members also expanded to more than 300,000. At the same time, the npC forces in Okoron City had expanded from more than 3,000 to more than 8,000. As for the major branches, their expansion was also extremely astonishing.

Nie Yan was quite satisfied with the achievements made in these aspects. Before officially contacting the Angelic Overlord and the Century Consortium, Nie Yan's capital was rapidly accumulating, and one day, it would shake those two behemoths of the Saturn Empire.

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