Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The Level 1 Spike Trap had succeeded. Li Yi was prepared to use a Holy Light Talisman to revive himself, but luckily he stayed his hand a little longer, saving him one precious talisman.

Li Yi corpse ran back to the area and looked at the shattered corpse of the Vile King with uncertainty. He prayed to a hundred players in his head before finally extending his hand out to loot the corpse.

Li Yi knew better than anyone else that the boss drops were pure RNG, but in moments like these, he would rather practice some superstitions. When playing a game, the first thing that one should do was to entertain themselves and this was how Li Yi kept himself occupied.

“Come on, purple equipment!”

Li Yi reached out to loot.

Ding!

The Inventory Pane listing 7 items appeared in front of his eyes.

3 pieces of blue equipment, 3 pieces of green equipment, and 1 piece of purple equipment!

Seeing a purple font in the Inventory Pane, Li Yi was ecstatic, but his joy turned to disappointment on closer inspection as he noticed what purple equipment had dropped.

The Vile King’s Mirror Staff(Purple Quality)

Equipment Level: 55(Wizard only)

Damage: 150-330

INT 180

WIL 150

Special Effect: Increases the damage of Ice-type spells by 30%.

Special Effect: Increases spell casting speed by 30%.

Special Skill: Unleashes the mirror within the staff creating a clone with the same attributes as the wielder. The clone will mirror any usage of skills and attacks that the wielder uses The clone Lasts for 15 seconds. Cooldown time: 30 minutes.

Note: This is amongst the countless of treasures kept by the Vile King, drop rate: 0.2%.

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This was an absolutely uber legendary staff, it was just that Li Yi could not use it.

‘Is this my trash hand?

‘This time around, it’s definitely not trash, it’s just that I didn’t get the equipment I wanted.’

The difficulty of the Tidal Throne Instance Dungeon was extremely high, especially when it came to dealing with the Vile King, which was one of the bosses in the game that would completely disregard the players’ levels. Naturally, the higher the difficulty, the better the equipment dropped. The Vile King was one of the few purple Epic-Level bosses found in a 5-man dungeon, naturally it’s drops would also be extremely ludicrous.

To be able to loot a Mirror Staff, Li Yi’s luck could be considered quite good. However, at the same time, it was still not the best, given that out of all the Vile King’s drops, there were still better types of equipment than this staff.

The best and most sought-after drop from the Vile King was an epic purple-colored equipment called the Vile King’s Soul Warhelm. It was equipment that could be equipped regardless of class.

The Soul Warhelm had extraordinary attributes, but the main appeal was that it had an OP special skill called Soul Control. Soul Control would allow the user to control the target’s mind, forcing them to obey the user’s commands.

The Soul Warhelm’s drop rate was unbelievably low 1 , there were numerous players that had grinded for it for years with no result. In his past life, Li Yi grinded for three months only to come out empty handed; there was not a single piece of purple equipment that was dropped, much less the Soul Warhelm.

This was the first kill so the drop rates were significantly higher. Despite that, the Soul Warhelm still did not drop. As a consolation, Li Yi had received the Soul Staff instead, still, he could not help but be a little disappointed. It was a known fact that an Archers did not lack in ATK, but rather CC capabilities.

Li Yi summoned the Mermaid Princess out and to his surprise, the princess’ negative Affinity had dropped to below 100,000 points.

“Freya, let’s continue working together in the future, okay?”

The Mermaid Princess sent a resentful glare towards Li Yi, not giving an answer.

After the battle with the Vile King, Li Yi finally understood the stark difference between the Mermaid Princess with her own self-awareness and the one that would only move based on his commands.

‘If she had not taken the initiative earlier, I would’ve never been able to dodge that attack from the Vile King.’

Li Yi spat out, “I’ll eventually get your Affinity up to Worship. Let’s see if you still have the insolence to ignore me then.”

When the system notification had asked if he wanted to declare the first kill to the world, Li Yi opted to decline.

It was not necessary to declare this kill, he had already gained a name for himself, if he continued on with declaring every achievement he would leave many more players envious of him and would garner unnecessary attention.

“Ding!”

Congratulations, you have achieved the first kill of the Tidal Throne Instance Dungeon Boss, the Vile King. This event has been recorded in the Pantheon Hall of Fame. You’ve obtained a system reward of 5000 Gold Coins, 5000 points Reputation Value with various major cities, 3000000 EXP.

“Ding!”

Congratulations, you have reached Worship in all major cities on the Eastern Continent. You’ve obtained the achievement Everybody Loves Me. This event has been recorded in the Pantheon Hall of Fame.

His luck this time was average, although he did not receive additional Skill Points as a reward, the amount of EXP he had received was extremely high. Adding to the EXP from defeating the 5 Fishman bosses earlier, Li Yi’s level rose to Level 60.

This kind of absurd leveling speed was none other than the results of using first kill rewards to level up.

Li Yi’s body glowed gold for a few moments as he had successfully reached Level 60. With that, a rainbow-colored system notification automatically filled the screen.

The Eastern Continent Arena is now open. Players above Level 20 can head to the Blade Peak Arena to register and join the battle.

The Eastern Continent Arena is now open. Players above Level 20 can head to the Blade Peak Arena to register and join the battle.

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The system spammed this announcement about a dozen times, surprising all the players that had seen it.

“Arena? What’s that?”

“What the heck? Why did the Eastern Continent get it first again? What about us? Why is it not open to us?”

“This is unfair. Why do the bloody people in the Eastern Continent always get everything first while we get f*ck all?”

The official site was once again flooded with angered players…

When each Continent’s players’ average level reached a certain required value, the Arena would automatically be opened. When Li Yi reached level 60, it pushed the required value up by a few times (In the Arena, players of level 20-59 were classed in a category, whereas players of level 60-99 were classed in another.), thus causing the Eastern Arena Continent Arena to be opened earlier.

As compared to his past life, the Arena’s opening this time around had occurred more than two months early all thanks to Li Yi’s own efforts.

There were many of benefits of the Arena opening. Skilled players could enter Solo Tournaments, whereas the newbie players could participate in Group Tournaments. All in all, the arena had a place for every type of player and each of them would definitely find some kind of entertainment from it.

Li Yi returned to Shattered Frost City and retrieved some equipment from the inventory before hastily making his way to the Auction House to sell them.

Li Yi had collected more than 300 pieces of equipment. Amongst all of them, the two most precious items were the Mirror Staff that he had looted from the Vile King and the Ice Heart Ring dropped from Yu Xuan.

He placed all the average equipment up for auction in the system, but as for the two precious pieces of equipment, Li Yi did not want to sell them for money.

In King of Pantheon, other than the Auction House, there was another place that provided a similar service for the players. It was the Trading Center. The way to enter the place was via the teleportation doors situated in all the major cities which would transport the player to a small island near Water World. Not long after the Fishing Grand Prix ended, this small island was updated to become a permanent Trading Center.

Players would only have to pay a low entry fee of 1 Gold Coin to gain entry. No matter the location of the player or the continent of their origin, once they tapped the teleportation door, they would automatically be teleported here. From a trader’s standpoint, this was quite convenient.

Li Yi was teleported to the Sea Island’s Trading Center to find at least a few million players engaging in various trades. There were players from all three Continents — East, South, and West — doing their respective trade deals with countless different items on display.

Li Yi spent 100 Gold Coins to buy an automatic message display signboard and propped it up on the ground.

“Selling Shoot at Random Skill Tome for 3,000,000 Gold Coins. No negotiations. Trade with other rare Archer Skill Tomes accepted. PM if interested.”

Due to Li Yi’s surge in popularity, the ratio of players playing the Archer class had more than doubled. Due to that, there was a price inflation on everything related to the class.

The Skill Tomes had been hit the hardest with the inflation of prices making them cost more than pieces of equipment itself. Since Li Yi had already learned Shoot at Random, the extra Skill Tome was useless to him.

“I’ll buy it!”

Just a minute after Li Yi had put up the signboard, a Western Continent player with red question marks above his head (Hidden names will appear as question marks to signify the different camps) handed Li Yi 3,000,000 Gold Coins straight up before taking off with the Shoot at Random Skill Tome.

“Was the price too low?” Li Yi was stunned.

The difference between the current situation and his past life was too big. Thinking back to his past life, one Shoot at Random Skill Tome was only valued at 100,000 Gold Coins. He even thought that selling it at 3,000,000 was already going a bit overboard, but never would he have thought that the current inflation rate would have already pushed the price up to this absurd level…

“The Vile King’s Mirror Staff and Ice Heart Ring up for trade, only accepting legendary Archer equipment. PM if willing to trade.”

Li Yi updated the signboard before propping it up on the ground once more.

The signboard displayed the attributes of both items. As long as a player passed by the signboard, they would understand the full offerings with just a glance.

“What the f*ck, a Level 55 purple staff!”

Loud screams could be heard from in front of Li Yi’s signboard. Once players began noticing the details of the items listed on his signboard, the news spread like wildfire. In the blink of an eye, countless players started flooding over. The whole scene looked like an assembly of fans greeting the arrival of a major celebrity at an airport.

“Holy sh*t, a Level 55 Epic-Level Staff. It increases spell damage by 30 % and even has a Mirror Cloning special skill? Drool, my drool…”

“Ice Heart Ring, this thing right here is the real Legendary Item. With a single use of Blizzard, imagine how many parties could I wipe?”

“Where’s the seller? I’ll offer 2,000,000 for the staff, willing to trade right now!”

“2M my f*cking arse, I’ll pay 20,000,000!”

“Ice Heart Ring, will pay immediately, 5,000,000. I’ll take it…”

As numerous messages filled Li Yi’s inbox one after the other, Li Yi just set up an auto-reply, “Not selling for any amount of money, Only willing to trade for legendary Archer equipment.”

“F*ck, this poser must only be here to show off. Only trading and not buying, the problem is who the f*ck would have anything worthy of this trade?”

“That’s right, screw the Level 55 Epic, I doubt anyone here would even be able to pull out a Level 30 Epic.”

“I f*cking hate bloody posers. You better not let me find out who this signboard belongs to, otherwise Imma spam the chat sh*tting on them every day!”

Countless players surrounded Li Yi’s signboard and threw profanities all about. Their current emotions were understandable, it was an amalgamation of admiration, envy, and hate.

Li Yi just stood at the side, chuckling at the group of players still slinging vulgarities at his sign.

There was nothing to be angry about, Li Yi knew that this group of players were not targeting him, but rather just venting their frustrations at those better than them…

Li Yi left his signboard and started to look around for items he needed.

The catalog of items on sale in the Sea Island’s Trading Center was more complete than the Auction House. After walking one round, Li Yi had already bought no less than a hundred types of materials. Both the prices and the variety left him completely satisfied.

Li Yi continued walking around glancing over at each signboard till one in particular, had caught his attention.

“Advanced-Level Fury Potion Formula. Only trading for casual player items. PM if you have the equipment”

“What do you need?” Li Yi sent a private message to the signboard owner.

After waiting for a long while without any reply, Li Yi could not help but feel a bit frustrated.

An Advanced-Level Fury Potion Formula was something he had been searching for and now that he had finally found a seller, they did not reply to him.

Li Yi patiently sent another message, “What do you need? At least give me a reply, OK?”

After waiting for nearly half a day, there was still no reply…

Li Yi circled around the area near the signboard a few more times, wanting to leave but still not wanting to give up. After looking around for a long time, he couldn’t find where the signboard’s owner was.

Windcloud Nine Sister was hiding in the crowd, stealing glances at Li Yi. She seemed to be terrified beyond belief.

What a coincidence, it would seem the signboard belonged to her…