Chapter 114 - Earthly Core
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The Dark Gold Boss Lorya was dumbstruck, he won?
“Hurry and hand over the money!” shouted the Dwarf Lin Jie transformed into. He stretched out his rough palm, blew his mustache and glared at Lorya 1 .
An underling saw that the Boss had to give money, so they definitely had to give him face! An Elite immediately took out 10 Dwarf currency silver coins and handed them in Lin Jie’s hand. “I’ll help Boss give,” he said.
—’You have received 10 Dwarf currency silver coins.’
Lin Jie’s eyes lit up. ‘They really did give money?’
“Hmph, do you know what God of Gamblers is?” asked Lin Jie.
“No-no, I don’t!”
“Shame on you! You really disgraced us Dark Iron Dwarves!” Lin Jie pointed at the underling’s nose. “Lord Lorya definitely knows, sigh, can’t help it, after all, this is a method of play that only higher-ups would recognize.”
Lorya scratched his bald head and laughed loudly. “That’s right, only higher-ups know this method of play, it was not a shame that I lost! But…”
The eyeballs of the Dark Gold Boss turned and took out a few gold coins that were rusted. He smiled as he said, “Old Muda, I’ll give these few antiques to you, it’s nothing to me so don’t worry. Go ahead with your work, I’m going to continue playing cards.”
The underling immediately understood and stuffed the gold coins into Lin Jie’s hands, pushing him out.
Dwarf Currency Gold Coin: A rusty gold coin, could still vaguely see the Dwarf King’s portrait.
Those were fake coins! According to Lin Jie’s experience in his seven years of his previous life, just when he received the coin, he realized that those few gold coins were fake coins, definitely without a doubt. Who knew where the Great General got the coins from.
‘Better than nothing I guess, I knew that there would not be any good reward from getting through it so easily. However, this is a good result too as at least I smoothly cleared it. If it were other players, even if they were wiped out for a few times, they may not even be able to kill this Great General’” Lin Jie’s mood could not help but get better.
He then turned and headed towards the entrance of the third floor.
After safely getting through Lorya’s guard, Lin Jie entered the Dark Iron Castle’s third floor! The teams here were relatively strict and impartial. Compared to the first and second floors’ monsters, they were much more serious.
That group of Dwarves was wearing magma armor, their whole body was wrapped like iron balls. They all had Dual-wielding Axes and belonged to the king’s guard.
Elite King Guard: Level 25 Elite, Health Points: 31,000
At the end of the third floor was the Dwarf King’s palace.
At the most center of the King Guards’ patrolling area was a yellowish brown floating round ball, that was the Earthly Core!
If Lin Jie used Shield of Courage, the damage dealt to Elite King Guards would be around 180 Points, and if chances of parry were included, then an average of 140 points. The distance between where Lin Jie was to the Earthly Core was about 210 yards. Considering the monsters and his speed difference… Lin Jie took out a calculator and was calculating thoroughly.
There were still two Random Teleportation Scrolls. Using them in the dungeon would teleport one to any one place within the dungeon, not outside the dungeon. With Orb of Deception, as long as Lin Jie did not appear on the third floor, then there would be no problems.
What was worth mentioning was that the third floor’s Elaine King Guards had Perception and Detection skills. Any disguise or Stealth Move would not be able to pass through. In other words, even if Lin Jie used the Orb of Deception, there would be no effects at all. Lin Jie simply canceled the orb’s transformation effects.
If one wanted to obtain the Earthly Core, then one had to use oneself’s strength to forcefully get there!
Lin Jie moved slowly, trying to stay outside the aggro radius as far as possible, and as much as possible move closer to the destination. Even if it was just one small step, it might be the deciding step to whether he would succeed or not.
“It’s about time.” Lin Jie squinted his eyes, raising his Shield of Courage before him. With a thud, it was as if the Iron Man descended!
“There’s an intruder!” The Elite King Guards found Lin Jie and charged towards him while yelling.
Wild Charge!
Lin Jie raised his shield up high and charged in front of his violently!
Dong!
A Dwarf was right in front of the shield, the Dwarf swung his dual axes and smashed them towards the Shield of Courage.
-117! (Blocked)
-125! (Blocked)
Blood Power!
As Lin Jie’s HP decreased, his strength became stronger and stronger. The energy surged within him as though a volcano erupting!
The Elite King Guard was knocked into the air!
Lin Jie clenched his teeth tightly and rushed forward vigorously, each and every Elite King Guard flew away at the instant they were hit. They fell to the ground with a muffled groan, but their Health Bar almost did not change at all.
After equipping the Shield of Courage, Lin Jie’s damage value was too low!
When Lin Jie’s HP dropped to half, he had only traveled 1
/4 of the distance!
Shoosh—!
Afterimages pierced through the sky, the two Dwarves activated Forward Charge, the dual axes smashed together with the shield, the ear-piercing metal collision sounds made one’s eardrums vibrate vigorously!
Elite King Leader: Level 25 Gold Boss, Health Points: 100,000
“Three Bosses!” Lin Jie’s eyes constricted, and he stored away his Shield of Courage. The Dark Slaughter Longsword and Broken Blade landed in his hands, Flame Boost and Wind Rider Blade Aura Executioner were activated! Blood Soul Multi-Slash became a dazzling blood light that chopped off the Dwarf’s head!
-1,127!
-1,355!
…
Many damage values popped up, almost covering up the sky by the immense numbers!
Under the effects of Life-Steal, Lin Jie’s Health Bar instantly regen to full health. He raised his shield again and activated Hunter’s Forward Charge towards the monsters far away, turning into a shadowy black figure as he rushed out!
The distance was less than 100 yards!
The more he advanced, the stronger the monsters were. The last obstacle guarding the Earthly Core was a huge number of Paladins! It would be fine if it was just Retribution Paladins and Holy Paladins as Protection Paladins holding shields were the most annoying! They stood in a row, their shields placed on the ground. No matter how strong Lin Jie’s strength was, he would not be able to charge past that!
ROAR—
Nearing the “Shield Wall”, Lin Jie became even more aggressive. He let out a roar that could even penetrate one’s very being, and the Protection Paladins became dizzy. When they snapped out of their stunned state, Lin Jie’s thick and heavy figure had already charged towards the Earthly Core with only a few hundred points of health!
“The Guardian Angel of the race Dark Iron, someone is trying to steal the Earthly Core, I summon you…” A female Shaman chanted in a high voice, “Earthly Demon!”
Earthly Demon, the Rare Boss that would only appear the first time players who entered the Dark Iron Castle! That was because only in the first time, there would be the existence of the “Earthly Core”.
The Earthly Demon’s body stuck closely to the Earthly Core, its arms took up 80% of the body and ferociously stretched out its hands towards Lin Jie in an attempt to grab him!
Lin Jie’s eyes turned cold, on the sword, faint ice crystals had already gathered. One could only see that suddenly an azure blue light burst through the sky, the dazzling light mad everyone close their eyes tightly!
-214!
Kacha!
The Shaman was frozen!
The hands that the Earthly Demon was about to raise stopped halfway in the air!
Don’t just think that the Shaman was an Elite and Earthly Demon was a Super Boss, the Earthly Demon was still controlled by the summoner.
In Lin Jie’s previous life, the person that had faced the Earthly Demon was Heaven Plume!
The Shaman could add buff for the Earthly Demon, so Heaven Plume led the team to concentrate the attacks on the Shaman, and killed her. Just when he planned to start killing the Boss, he realized that the Boss which was out of control was already immune to any damage and control skills, they were helplessly wiped out!
In Lin Jie’s previous life, no one had killed the Earth Demon before!
Flame Boost was activated! Lin Jie slid the Earth Demon’s neck with his sword, and its head dropped onto the ground! Lin Jie immediately grabbed the Earthly Core and stuffed it into his backpack.
When he landed, Lin Jie’s bent his finger, and the Random Teleportation Scroll landed within his hand.
In front of him, hundreds of Elite King Guards widened their round eyes in anger, and their mustaches were trembling chaotically in the air together with the saliva produced from the yelling.
Light appeared and dispersed.
Lin Jie was already nowhere to be found.
…
‘Treasure room?’ Lin Jie took a look at the map, the surrounding was dark and silent, then sometimes one could maybe hear a crisp sound of “Clank—”, making one’s back feel chilly.
Map Display: Dark Iron Castle’s Treasure Room
‘There’s such a map in the Dark Iron Castle?’ Lin Jie was in doubt. The Random Teleportation Scroll actually teleported him to such a place.
No matter what, the target this time was already in his hands! Lin Jie took a look at the Earthly Core and clicked his tongue in admiration.
Earthly Core: Can be used for Forging. When not used as a core, the weapon you forge has a 50% chance of gaining the “Rock-piercing” effect, which increases 50% attack and causes the target to be unable to use any skills.
Earthly Core did not have a forging level limit, but Lin Jie knew that unless a Great Grandmaster or Grandmaster Blacksmith handled it, it would be directly damaged!
The Earthly Core’s attributes were relatively powerful, and the one he had gotten was only a very small piece! It was said that the Earthly Core that the Earth Sword Saint had gotten was as big as a mountain peak. After it was forged into a weapon, it could even crush the stars!
As for the Earthly Demon, Lin Jie took a look at the hideous head. Although the Earthly Demon’s stats were awesome, it had a weak point—It was unable to move when its master was being controlled. Lin Jie took advantage of when the Shaman was controlled, and with Broken Blade’s high quality, he chopped off its head.
Mutated Earth Elemental Brain: Special item, can be used for one’s pet, causes it to evolve or degenerate.
In Lin Jie’s previous life, there had been a Hunter that had stuffed a mutated brain into his pet’s body, causing it to have a fundamental change! A domesticated small white pig had evolved into Shadow Wild Pig which had skills like Forward Charge, Stealth Move and could reflect damage, making people tremble with fear when they heard its name.
That was a Hunter’s exclusive item! Contract Summoner’s Summoned Beasts belonged to contract summoning so they would be unable to use such items.
Lin Jie stuffed the item into his backpack and stood up stealthily. Since it was called the treasure room, what if there were traps, wouldn’t it be a shame to die like that?
Boo—hoo—
Faint crying sounds made this silent treasure room even scarier.
“Who?” Lin Jie shouted.
“Someone… Has entered?” The voice murmured.
Lin Jie moved up front, and since the Wolf Soul Necklace enhanced high amounts of dark sight, with keen eyes, he saw everything clearly.
It was a Dwarf, his equipment was relatively splendid; gold silk robe, gold silk boots, gold bracelet, gold staff, and there was even a gold crown…
‘Wait, gold crown!?’ Lin Jie was stunned.