Chapter 168 Abak's Frost Shoulder Guard

Nie Yan had an idea. He climbed back into the tunnel and summoned the Shadow Assassin.

The Shadow Assassin was a physical unit with only simple thoughts, but Nie Yan could control it to do many things.

The Shadow Assassin jumped down into the stone chamber and walked to the side of the stone coffin.

Nie Yan didn't care anymore. He was prepared to use some extreme measures. Anyway, even if the Shadow Assassin died, he could summon it again after a while.

Under Nie Yan's command, the Shadow Assassin stood in front of the stone coffin. A powerful ball of energy gathered in its hand. After a long time, the Shadow Assassin punched the stone coffin.

With a loud bang, the stone coffin shattered into pieces, and the broken stone slabs flew out in all directions, smashing into the stone walls.

The stone chamber trembled violently, and various mechanisms swept towards the Shadow Assassin densely.

Looking into the stone chamber, countless arrows and flying knives, as well as some small needle-like objects, were as dense as a rainstorm.

Nie Yan could already imagine the Shadow Assassin's fate.

Sure enough, a system message came, and the Shadow Assassin was dead.

For a full three minutes, the mechanisms in the entire stone chamber did not stop.

In the previous life, who knows if anyone opened that stone coffin. To open that stone coffin, who knows how many people would have to die!

After a while, the stone chamber became quiet. Nie Yan poked his head out and looked inside. The stone chamber was a mess, with arrows, flying knives, and fine needles scattered everywhere. As for the stone coffin in the middle, it had been smashed to pieces by the Shadow Assassin.

Inside the stone coffin, there wasn't a corpse or a monster as Nie Yan had imagined. There were only some items, including some clothes. Those clothes were so weathered that they were unrecognizable, shattered into pieces of cloth. Only one thing in the middle was emitting a dazzling light.

It was a shoulder guard, woven with black silk and shimmering with a dazzling metallic luster.

That's it!

Nie Yan's gaze instantly locked onto that item. This was probably a cenotaph, not an ordinary tomb. It only contained the deceased's clothing.

He still couldn't be sure if the stone chamber was safe. After thinking for a moment, he stretched out his left hand and shot out a spider silk. The spider silk stuck to the shoulder guard. He pulled it sharply and retracted the spider silk. The shoulder guard fell into his hand.

Got it!

Nie Yan looked at it. It was indeed an Abak item. It exuded a cold aura, like ice.

Abak's Frost Shoulder Guard: Requires 1500 Strength, 1200 Agility, Level 18. (Cannot be used)

Item Description: Only the Shadow Ravager who holds the Chapter of Order can wear Abak's Dictator components. A full set is required to wear it. Abak worships strength. Only enough strength can maintain dictatorship. Rebels die!

Item Attributes: Defense +1220, Strength +500, Agility +320, Frost Resistance +300, Frost magic damage -30%, the wearer cannot be frozen.

This item is bound to the player holding the first volume of the Chapter of Order, cannot be traded, cannot be dropped.

Including the Frost Shoulder Guard, this was the fifth Abak set piece. Three more were left, bringing him one step closer to completing the set.

The attributes of this Frost Shoulder Guard were quite good, especially the frost resistance. The resistance attribute of ordinary equipment was good enough to reach 50. For example, the Molten Heart in Nie Yan's hand could only increase fire resistance by 50 points. The Abak set added 300 points of frost resistance, which could directly ignore many frost-based spells, and the damage reduction of 30% and immunity to being frozen, could suppress frost-based mages to death.

For thieves, frost and lightning mages were the most difficult to deal with because they were strong control classes. Once they were touched by their frost magic, they would be controlled, especially when encountering archmages. If they were hit by the archmages' frost magic, it was basically over. However, with this Frost Shoulder Guard, frost archmages posed basically no threat to Nie Yan. Even if their control magic hit Nie Yan, it would not cause a frozen effect.

Good stuff. Compared to other set components, Nie Yan liked this Frost Shoulder Guard even more.

This kind of thing was not only useful in PK, but it would also play a huge role in certain specific quest scenarios.

Nie Yan put away Abak's Frost Shoulder Guard and looked at the item bar. He couldn't use a random teleport scroll here, so he could only return the same way. Fortunately, some of the mechanisms along the way had been removed, so Nie Yan was very safe along the way.

On the way, Guo Huai sent Nie Yan a message, "Where are you now?"

"I'm doing a quest in the Sacred Mountains, what's wrong? Did something happen?" Nie Yan asked, wondering if something had happened to the guild.

"Nothing like that. Just giving you some information. In some places in the east and south of the Greenland Empire, Demonkin tribes and some people from the Undead Empire have been discovered. They are probably coming up from underground. They have had some conflicts with our people, but fortunately, our people haven't suffered. But there is one issue to pay attention to. Recently, more and more Demonkin tribes and Undead Empire people are arriving on the surface. Has the underground passage been opened? Also, Sun, Wang Zhe Tian Xia, Tang Yao, and the other fourteen people want to go to the underground. Do you want to go?"

"People from the Demonkin tribe and the Undead Empire?" Nie Yan recalled. Calculating the time, the opening time of the *Undead Revenge* and other expansion packs was much earlier than in the previous life. The underground passage may have really been opened. "It doesn't matter. Even if the underground passage is opened, it's still very difficult for the main forces of the Demonkin tribe and the Undead Empire to reach the surface. They won't threaten us. Those people are just here to give us glory. Tell Sun and the others that I don't have time to go to the underground recently. Tomorrow, I still want to take a stroll around the Saturn Empire. Let them go."

Hearing Nie Yan say that people from the underground world would not pour into the surface in large numbers, Guo Huai was relieved and asked, "You want to go to the Saturn Empire, do you want Sun and the others to go with you? That way it'll be safer?"

"No need. I'm just doing quests, not looking for Angel Corp trouble. If there are too many people, the target will be too big," Nie Yan said. He was doing the Thief's Heart quest. Although he was alone, it would probably not be easy for Angel Corp to hunt him down.

"Okay, be careful yourself," Guo Huai thought for a moment and said. Since Nie Yan had already decided, he must be confident.

"When Sun and the others go to the underground, if they arrive in the Undead Empire, they can contact the people from Fallen Angel. I'll tell them the transaction method, let them bring some rare equipment from the underground that's cheaper on the surface, and when they come back, let them get more good stuff," Nie Yan said. This path to wealth had once helped Nirvana Flame tide over the difficulties, and he would not forget it.

"Okay, I understand, I'll go get it done," Guo Huai nodded. Regarding equipment, he only needed to take it from the guild warehouse. There was so much equipment in the guild warehouse, all kinds of equipment.

Thinking of Fallen Angel in the Undead Empire, Nie Yan revealed a smile. He was looking forward to the opening of the underground passage, because he and Fallen Angel's guild leader, Duo Duo, had an unwritten agreement to deal with Angel Corp together after the underground passage opened!

Fallen Angel had a strong presence in the Undead Empire, not inferior to Angel Corp and Nirvana Flame. If Fallen Angel and Nirvana Flame cooperated, Angel Corp would definitely be out of luck. But Nie Yan also understood that this was a plan to drive away a wolf with a tiger. The Undead Empire and the Greenland Empire belonged to opposing factions, and friction would occur sooner or later. If Angel Corp was defeated, and the two people's common enemy was gone, where would Fallen Angel and Nirvana Flame go? It was hard to say.

But Nie Yan also had his own ideas. Angel Corp and the Century Financial Group were their biggest enemies! If they had conflicts with Fallen Angel, belonging to opposing factions, he could mobilize the Greenland Empire's NPC army to fight against them, so relatively speaking, it was safer.

Guo Huai told Sun and the others about Nie Yan's reply. They prepared and set off for the underground. Fourteen top-tier professions, even in the underground, few people could threaten them, so Nie Yan was relatively relieved.

Nie Yan came out of the tomb and carefully sneaked around, bypassing the Dark Followers.

Since the gnome transformation effect was lifted, it was relatively difficult for Nie Yan to avoid these Dark Followers.

More than a dozen Dark Followers were walking around five or six yards away from Nie Yan. The dark aura emanating from them seemed to be spying on everything here, giving Nie Yan a feeling of being seen through.

It was really difficult not to disturb them. Nie Yan's heart sank. Forget it, he activated Wind Rider and ran wildly forward.

The speed suddenly accelerated, and his figure swept past.

Those Dark Followers immediately discovered Nie Yan and waved their staffs.

Dark Shackles!

Shadow Entanglement!

Skills rushed towards Nie Yan one after another. Once entangled by Dark Shackles, he would be unable to move.

Just as the tentacles of the shadows were about to bind him, Nie Yan activated a Death Immunity, blocking these skills.

A black swamp suddenly appeared in front of Nie Yan, roughly ten yards in diameter.

Nie Yan stopped. If he took another step, he would fall into the deep swamp. There were pursuers behind him, and he couldn't afford to stop for even a moment. He quickly jumped up, soaring twenty yards into the air, and jumped over the swamp. Just as he landed, another Shadow Dance disappeared from the sight of these Dark Followers.

The Dark Followers could no longer find Nie Yan's trace.

Done. Nie Yan looked back at the Dark Followers who were getting further and further away, revealed a smile, and ran quickly towards the exit of the dimensional space in the distance.

Nie Yan walked into the crack, and when he looked back, he found that the entrance to the dimensional space had disappeared without a trace.