Capítulo 11: Another Great Drop
Editor: Atlas Studios
Although the Fusion Corpse Demon's intelligence could not compare to that of the Doomsday Devotees, it was at least on par with that of the Doomsday Battle Rat.
Having been dragged around by Liu Ming for such a long time, the resentment within the Fusion Corpse Demon had reached the extreme. Seeing that Liu Ming still had the audacity to provoke it, the Fusion Corpse Demon flew into a rage.
Roar!!!
After letting out a deafening roar, the Fusion Corpse Demon glared at Liu Ming with a dazzling ray of red light in its eyes and charged towards him.
Looking at the Fusion Corpse Demon's tall and large body that was continuously approaching, Liu Ming skilfully raised the longsword in his hand and smashed it against the Fusion Corpse Demon's fist.
Bang!
As a loud bang sounded, Liu Ming retreated slightly, taking two steps back. The longsword in his hand was also slightly flattened. However, no damage indicators floated out of Liu Ming's body at all.
Although Liu Ming seemed to have been forced into retreating due to attacks, he clearly did not suffer any damage at all. On the contrary, Liu Ming finally had a rough estimate of the power possessed by the Fusion Corpse Demon.
Although the Fusion Corpse Demon had high strength, it could no longer suppress Liu Ming with power alone after the latter changed into the Doomsday Knight Apprentice gear.
Hence, Liu Ming quickly activated Holy Protection and began attacking the Fusion Corpse Demon with the large light shield.
Liu Ming slashed the Fusion Corpse Demon repeatedly, causing it to suffer continuous damage.
-213
-425 (Critical Hit)
-192
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The Fusion Corpse Demon was originally infuriated about the fact that it did not manage to hurt Liu Ming. Now that Liu Ming had the audacity to retaliate, Liu Ming's behavior triggered the Fusion Corpse Demon and caused it to turn irrational as it charged towards Liu Ming manically while raising its fists.
However, although Liu Ming could not say that he was not what he used to be, the figures on his Stats panel had increased greatly. Besides, Liu Ming had also roughly figured out the Fusion Corpse Demon's Skills after going through such a long chase.
Whenever a Fusion Corpse Demon was about to cast its Skill, Liu Ming would either block the attack or dodge it. It could not cause any damage to Liu Ming at all.
As for the Fusion Corpse Demon's ordinary attacks, they were basically all negated by Liu Ming's Holy Protection.
Hence, the Fusion Corpse Demon lost plenty of HP, which was soon depleted.
The only success that the Fusion Corpse Demon had was the destruction of a few mining trucks in the mining cave, as well as the fact that he had depleted the Energy Points of Liu Ming's Holy Protection.
Although Liu Ming did not lose much HP, the dangers hidden within this battle could not be explained in just a few words. At least, this was the first time that his Holy Protection's Energy Points were depleted.
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Most of the Fusion Corpse Demon's HP had been depleted, which meant that it was fated to be defeated.
In fact, if Liu Ming had not discovered the fact that Blessing Of Lady Luck was still on cooldown, the Fusion Corpse Demon would probably have long been slashed by Liu Ming.
Not long after, Blessing Of Lady Luck finally came off cooldown. Liu Ming carried his sword and began harvesting the Fusion Corpse Demon's remaining HP.
-398 (Critical Hit)
-421 (Critical Hit)
-403 (Critical Hit)
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After a series of Critical Hits, the Fusion Corpse Demon eventually fell, regardless of how it struggled in its last moments.
With the death of the Fusion Corpse Demon, green and blue rays of light appeared on the ground again. However, the most eye-catching things were the two rays of purple light among the blue and green light.
[Congratulations, Adventurer, you have obtained Long Hemp Robe (Green)]
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[Congratulations, Adventurer, you have obtained Corpse King Combat Armor (Blue)]
[Congratulations, Adventurer, you have obtained Corpse King Belt (Blue)]
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[Congratulations, Adventurer, you have obtained Sword of Raging Corpse Demon (Purple)]
[Congratulations, Adventurer, you have obtained Bloodthirsty Badge (Purple)]
"Perfect!" Although he had seen several big drops in one day, Liu Ming was still beaming with joy when he saw the system messages.
Liu Ming could not be bothered to look at the Green equipment since he was going to sell them for money anyway.
The newly-obtained Blue equipment—Corpse King Set—happened to be Level 10. It had Stats that were about 20% higher than Liu Ming's current Blue gear.
Of course, what really made Liu Ming happy were the newly-obtained Sword of Raging Corpse Demon and Purple Badge.
Sword of Raging Corpse Demon (Purple)
Level: 10
Attacking Power: 212
Durability: 500/500
Additional: Critical Hit +10%
Additional Skill: Soul-Breaking Sword (Purple)
Soul-Breaking Sword (Purple): Condenses a giant energy sword that will exert damage with 200% Attacking Power on the enemies within its range. Cooldown time: 1 minute. Has a probability of inflicting chaos effect to the opponent.
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Bloodthirsty Badge: (Purple)
Inlay Area: Arms
Effect: Attack Leech +8%
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Not only did the Sword of Raging Corpse Demon have nearly 80 more Attacking Power than the Level 5 Berserking Hound King Sword that Liu Ming had, but its Critical Hit boost was also greater by 5%.
Besides, the additional Skill—Soul-Breaking Sword—happened to make up for Liu Ming's lack of an area-of-effect Skill. When killing monsters, he still had to slash them one by one.
Soul-Breaking Sword came with chaos-inducing effects, which was not inferior to the vertigo-inducing effect.
As for the Bloodthirsty Badge, it was something that could only be used after a player entered the main city at Level 10 and activated the Badge System. Badges could be inlaid on all sorts of equipment to provide additional Stats.
However, only Boss-level monsters above Level 10 had a chance of dropping badges. There were also huge differences between badges of different qualities.
Take the Bloodthirsty Badge that Liu Ming now had as an example. A White Bloodthirsty Badge only came with an additional 2% Leech effect, while its Purple counterpart came with a +8% Leech effect, which was four times as much as the White one.
However, although this item was rare, Liu Ming was still planning to make the most out of it. He planned to inlay it in his Sword of Raging Corpse Demon after entering the main city. After all, no matter how good it was, it would not be of any value if he did not use it.
Besides, he had his Blessing Of Lady Luck talent. While this was an item coveted by elite players during the game's beginner and intermediate stages, it was just a little rare to Liu Ming.
After clearing up the drops from the Fusion Corpse Demon, Liu Ming finally turned to look at the Sanguine Crystal in his system backpack.
Sanguine Crystal (Purple): A magic stone created from hundreds of thousands of humans' souls, flesh, and blood that the Doomsday Priory consumed. It is only a step away from becoming the legendary Sage Stone.
Take this stone to Village Chief Carlos to complete the mission of 'Investigating the East Region's Mining Cave.'
Clearly, if it weren't for Liu Ming's quick reaction and him interrupting the Doomsday Devotees' ritual during the critical moment, the Sanguine Crystal might cause greater trouble.
Liu Ming looked away and casually killed a newly-spawned Phantom Spider with his sword before walking towards the mining cave's exit.
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Tens of minutes later, Liu Ming finally returned to the novice village.
At this time, the novice village was much livelier than it was when Liu Ming left.
After a few hours of leveling up, some of the first tier players had already reached Level 3.
Many players who did not obtain any equipment would choose to purchase some system-released standard White equipment from the NPCs. Although the standard White equipment did not have the Stats of a set, it was still better than the novice equipment.
Hence, there were now snake-like queues in front of the defense equipment and arms shops.
When heading to the village chief's home from the village entrance, he would have to pass by those two places.
All of a sudden, Liu Ming—who was wearing formidable knight armor—looked particularly eye-catching in the crowd.
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