Chapter 14: Grinding Gemstones
"Hell Fire" "Dark Rain" "Dark Slash"
Tens of golems shattered as the spells rained down on them, droping high amounts of Hard Stones and even precious ores. With his luck attribute and the passive of doubling the items acquired, he would farm items as fast as hundreds of guilds elite players by himself.
Yet he hadn't arrive at his destination.
He continued walking on the valley as if it was his own coutyard until he arrived at a cave. Entering the cave, blue crystals iluminated the inside of it slightly.
The golems inside the cave were different from those outside, they were smaller and had blue crystals proturing out of their bodies. Leroy took aim to one of the cave golems and inmediatly attacked.
"Nether Bite" "Dark Spear" "Dark Arrow"
One after another, spells rained down into a golem while three wolves attacked it from all sides. Their magic defense were quite higher than those golems outside the cave, yet they were still helpless against the combined attacks.
The other three wolves went along the skeleton warriors and attacked another golem, they managed to make it fall and the twenty skeletons started choping at it, debris flying in all directions.
Altough these golems were a tad more difficult to deal with because of their higher defenses, they were much more separated, at most, two golems would be in the same aggro range.
Fighting higher level monsters gave him plenty of skill proficiency, his skeleton warriors and undead wolves numbers that he could summon had almost doubled at Level 11 each, just a step away from reaching Level 12 which was the max level. His other skills were at level 8 by now as he did little less than killing monsters for so long.
These golems also had a higher chance to drop Tier 1 Gemstones and some other ores, that was why he came back and searched for the cave.
Walking and killing through the cave, he arrived at a small corridor, and as he passed through he arrived at a huge space filled with the golems, on the other side was a golem five times the size of the regular ones.
Golem Lord Sier (High Lord Rank)
Level: 25
HP: 551,000/551,000
It's hp was huge compared to the regular golem's 12,000.
Moving to the high ground, he then commanded four wolves to lure the golems that were away from his range, and other two to lure monsters nearby.
With the undead wolves agility, they didn't have trouble dodging the dense amount of golems.
About twenty golems gathered below Leroy's position, soon, fire, dark arrows and waves of dark mana started hiting them from above.
At the end, only a lucky golem, which hadn't received a single critical hit managed to survive with a strand of its hp but was quickly killed by a swift sword attack from a skeleton warrior.
The skeleton warriors spreaded as more wolves followed by the golems closed in. Inmediatly they started attacking them while Leroy casted AOE skills from above.
More and more waves of golem were lured over and the population of them quickly diminished.
Finally the Boss along with other four elite golems also rushed over.
The wolves started spreading them, at the same time the skeletons divided in two groups and started attacking a elite golem each.
It didn't take long for a elite golem to die, the Boss inmediatly stopped following the wolf, and made a big jump into the position of the skeleton warriors.
Caught unprepared, four skeleton warriors died inmediatly while others barely managed to keep their bones intact, they inmediatly started attacking the boss from the back and sides.
The boss then punched, altough his speed was fast, it was still not on the level of the skeletons which managed to dodge without much trouble.
Another elite golem fell, killed by the second team of skeletons.
This triggered a strange sound from the boss who raised both hands and big sharp crystals rose from his arms, it then smashed into the ground and several crystal spikes rose at high speeds from the ground, forming a long straight line. Only a single skeleton didn't manage to react in time and was blasted away by the attack.
Leroy summoned more skeletons at the rate they were dying, altough he could start attacking the boss, he choose to let the skeletons and wolves fight and improve themselves.
Soon after, a third elite golem fell and huge crystal spikes appeared on the boss right leg, it then stomped the ground and crystal spikes rose from the ground in an area of fifteen meters. Most of the skeletons died instantly but were quickly resummoned.
Seeing the situation, Leroy commanded the wolves to lure the remaining elite and the second group of skeletons to attack the boss instead.
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Strings of damage floated above the golem's head, the damage output from the skeletons were actually very high considering the monster they were facing against, even more so when you considered there were more than twenty skeleton warriors attacking. As Leroy used the summoning skill more and more, it Leveled up giving him more summons to command, he could summon twenty five skeletons now.
The golem hp lowered at a fast rate, from time to time he would use an aoe skill and kill some skeletons but the wave of fearless warriors attacked unceasently.
94% 90% 84% 73%... Once the boss hp reached 60%, his agility and strength seem to improve, as more skeletons found it harder to dodge its attacks. Yet it wasn't much helpfull for him as the attacks didn't cease and the wave of skeletons didn't seem to stop.
As his hp reached 50%, he turned his gave to Leroy.
"Finally you going for the head, huh?" Leroy mutered and moved from his position. A path of crystal spikes appeared where he was standing, the golem ignored the skeletons and started walking fast toward him.
While Leroy used his boots skill and a Speed Scroll, the golem wasn't able to reach him as he evaded.
"Now, you wolves use your body to tackle him as he persues me" Leroy give a command and three wolfs inmediatly jumped in front of the golem's left leg.
The wolves were inmediatly crushed but the golem who was charging lost it's balance, Leroy quickly moved to the side as the golem fell heavy into the ground. Inmediatly a swarm of skeletons jumped on his back and started stabbing relentlessly.
"Unholy Domain" Leroy used his domain, greatly increasing his creatures attributes along his, at the same time slowing down the golem.
"Call of the Sage" He used another of the soul orb skills.
A Hell Knight was summoned, a tall figure in armor appeared wearing a greatsword, which inmediatly jumped to the head of the golem and started attacking too. Thee Hell Knight was a High Lord Ranked monster, his damage output was easily in the 5,000 while using skills he dealt more than 10,000 damage.
The golem started moving and threw off the skeletons on his back, he just fell and lost 15% of his hp in seconds, he was furious.
The blue crystals on his body turned red and inmediatly sent a punch toward the Hell Knight blocked with his sword. It was still sent three meters backwards while the golem's fist abruptly returned.
Leroy was stuned by the Hell Knight strength, the berserk golem strength was almost double his original one, yet the Hell Knight could practically take the attack head on.
The berserk golem then started attacking skeleton or wolves alike, the closest one would definetly explode. Then the golem started casting its skills as red crystal spikes shot from the ground, still the speed of his skills didn't seem to increase and quite a few skeletons managed to evade them, still his normal attacks were too fast.
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Two streaks of light struck the golem's head, it was the Hell Knight using his long range skill.
The golem head crashed against a nearby wall while his body fell, his crystals returned to a more weak blue light.
"It must be weakened now, time to finish it" Seeing the boss remaining 20% of hp, Leroy started casting while all his minions started attacking too.
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The damage from the skeletons increased greatly after the Unholy Domain buff and the weakening of the golem.
"Dark Fireball" "Dark Spear" "Dark Arrow"
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His Dark Spear damage ignored 25% of the enemy defenses and dealt almost the same damage as his Dark Fireball spell. This golem's magic defense were definetly high.
"Lyche's Path" He didn't forget to increase his luck attribute before the boss death, which followed ten seconds after.
Killed Golem Lord Sier
You have leveled up
His level rose once again after killing a much higher level High Lord Boss.
The Hell Knight dissappeared right after and the skeletons started gathering the items and ordering them. There were many pieces of equipment, among them, five were dark gold rank items. A dark gold rank shield that greatly increased magic defense, any MT would drool over such an item, a ring meant for tanks, boots for hunter and an axe for berseker players. Yet the item that caught his attention was a cape.
Scarlet Crystal Cape (Dark Gold Rank)
Level: 20
Defense +150
Str + 30
Int +25
Agi +27
End +27
Reduces damage taken by 15%
Additional skill: Red Rampage
Increase damage dealt by 50% and lowers user defenses by 30%
Duration: 4 minutes
Cooldown: 4 hours
This equipment improved his core stats while also increased his defense quite a lot, as a magic class, his defense was low so any improvement on it would be welcomed inmediatly, it also contained a berserk skill that increased his damage output. As he mostly used his summons to lure monsters, he would be safer than others while lowering his defenses in exchange for damage.
The golem also dropped twenty Tier 2 Gemstones. Compared to the Tier 1 Gemstones, which only increased a single point of stats, these ones increased two to three stat points, when using all the slots, the amount of stats gained would be considerably high, almost as an extra piece of dark gold equipment.
There was almost fifty Tier 1 Gemstones and many ores. It was much more than what normal bosses would drop.
Taking the items, he returned outside and started hunting golems once again. Two more days passed like this.
You have leveled up
He hit level 20 this time, the new cape improved his stats considerably as he equipped it. As the exp obtained from the golems fell.
He took a scroll when suddenly dark mana concentrated in his position, it seemed to come out from his chest and went to his head.
Painful! his head hurt like if hit by a hammer as the mana entered his head, he almost fell unconcious by the sudden attack.
Holding his head with both hands, he did his best not to scream, the pain started growing but the became more relaxed. The dark mana tried it's best to wear him down but he grew more and more calm. The pain was there, but he was used to such a pain, he even experienced the pain of having his soul split in three, this was nothing in comparison, just a sneak attack.
Almost ten hours passed by? The pain finally stopped and the mana dissipated, even tough he could resist it with ease, it still tired him quite a bit.
System: Congratulations, you passed your class's Tier 1 Test.
Skill Summon Skeleton Warrior upgraded to Tier 1 Level 1.
Skill Summon Undead Wolf upgraded to Tier 1 Level 1.
Bones craked and the skeleton warriors grew taller, their weapons changed into a more refined version while their bones grew thicker.
The wolfs also changed and now were overall bigger than before and gave a strong aura.
Both of his summons had Chieftain tag along their names, his passive made this a Tier 2 skill.
He took out a City Returning Scroll from his back and used it.
The city was more and more lively as more players arrived, in the rankings, he saw some Lone Tyrant thing at first place with his Level 14, he was in the limelight.
After arriving, he once again contacted Ye Feng and sold the Hard Stones he got from the golems along with some Tier 1 Gemstones, as for the Tier 2 ones, he used them himself. He also told him that he couldn't join another guild for the moment but would think about it in the future.
This time he got much more materials than previously, even if he put them at the Auction House it would take some time to sell them, and even so, the tax he had to pay would be quite high so he choose to store them for now. This time around, he would increase his alchemy to Advanced rank.
Alchemy Association, Alchemy Room.
In the room, Leroy didn't just started crafting potions, but he started experimenting. The herbs description didn't show the usage or the herbs caracteristics so he could only try to modify a potion with trial and error.
He must've expended like 10 Gold Coins worth of materials and twelve hours before managing to archieve a success.
Congratulations on creating a new potion.
Unnamed Potion
Consume it to restore 20% of health and mana, and increase recovery of both by 40%
This was a variant crafted based on the intermediate rank potion recipes, altough he didn't know where to find the advanced recipes, he could still try to crafts his own potions. If any player or guild knew he spent more than 10 Gold Coins while just experimenting, they would call him insane yet if they knew he succeded at creating such a potion, all of them would turn green with envy.
System: How would you like to name it?
"Fine Recovery Potion" he simply put the first name that came to his mind.
System: New potion created, Fine Recovery Potion.
With that, the recipe of the potion appeared in his panel.
He continued to craft them, he had a 75% of success rate, it was low considering his alchemy gloves and technique, yet most players wouldn't have more than 15%.
He quickly Leveled his Alchemy to Advanced Apprentice.
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