Chapter 226 - Rescue
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Dark Speech!” Qiu Yuan came to her senses then waved her magical jobs’ dagger and slid Naffa’s chest, her other empty left hand gathered a dim Holy Light to be enhanced on the little girl.
50!
A Shadow Priests could only be counted as a half-baked healer, how much healing ability could a Priest who had dedicated one’s body to the darkness have? Normally, the purpose of the Shadow Priests in teams was for support and Crowd Control, so they could not be counted as a healer job.
The crazy Naffa’s job was a Warrior, and he had grasped Warrior skills under level 30, after enhancing himself with Battle Roar, he pounced onto Qiu Yuan, and the dagger was swung around as if it was a kitchen knife, Crasher!
Ding—
A crisp sound could be heard as the daggers collided. Qiu Yuan had completely unleashed all the techniques she had learned from Wine God Elder. She kicked the lower body of the NPC and at the same time smacked him with Dark Speech!
Dark Speech!
Healing Spell!
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As Qiu Yuan controlled the NPC, she used her negligible healing to replenish the little girl’s health points. The little girl had received a fatal injury, and her health bar was only left with tens of points and was constantly losing health. If not for Qiu Yuan trying her best to heal her, she would have already died.
Lin Jie singlehandedly faced the Swamp Crawlers, but even if his attack was extremely high, he was also unable to face such a large number of monsters! If it was not for the Ironskin Rhinoceros blocking the Swamp Crawlers from advancing, the mission would have already failed!
Without Thunderstorm, Lin Jie’s AOE ability decreased by a huge portion.
“Looks like I need to use this in advance.” Lin Jie frowned, there were still five Incendiary Bombs in his hands!
Long before the mission started, Lin Jie had already sent out Silver-Feathered Eagle to patrol around, and he found out that a large number of monsters were respawned at the edge of Saint Malo Town. There was a total of five waves—Ironskin Rhinoceros, Swamp Crawlers, Death Knights, and the last wave of Undead army.
Within them, there was no head or Boss in the Ironskin Rhinoceros and Swamp Crawlers. According to his judgment from experience, those two waves were just a cannon fodder army. Lin Jie immediately made a decision: Use Thunderstorm to clear the first wave of Ironskin Rhinoceros and use their bodies to build a fortress to deal with the Swamp Crawlers, then let Qiu Yuan lay out the Dark Fog in that period of time. The Dark Fog could be stacked unlimitedly so if one was willing to, one could even spend a year to make a permanent fog appear in an area!
After killing the Swamp Crawlers, the poisonous seaweeds, watery liquid and disgusting saliva on their body were the best fuses. It could be placed into the Dark Fog to be evaporated which could cause those flammable things to be present within the fog, then use the Incendiary Bomb to ignite it. That should be able to kill off the third wave of monsters within the explosion.
Meanwhile, when the fourth wave came, Thunderstorm’s cooldown should be over, and it should not be hard to overcome it.
As for the last battle, as long as the fortress could hold fast and last through 10 hours, then they could wait until the NPC rescue arrived.
However, the number of Swamp Crawlers exceeded Lin Jie’s estimation, the attributes of the monsters were also relatively strong since they were level 35 Elites and not the weak monsters that could be killed in one shot in the past.
In addition, the Dark Fog was gradually becoming thinner without Qiu Yuan creating it; thus, the possibility of carrying out the plan was even lower.
“Forget it, let’s kill this wave of monsters first!” Lin Jie gritted his teeth and activated Forward Charge, he rushed out of the protection radius of the Ironskin Rhinoceros fortress and his figure charged towards the outside!
Roar—
The Swamp Crawlers saw that Lin Jie appeared, their anger that was accumulated for so long finally had a place to be released, so they all charged towards Lin Jie!
“Jie!” Zheng Ziliang saw that the Swamp Crawlers turned their heads one after the other, took a look at Qiu Yuan who was trying her best fighting and ran towards Little Yuan. His hand was at his chest, vigorously digging out grenades which piled up to form a small mountain. If anything happened, he planned to bomb a road out!
Slush—
Slush—
Lin Jie felt the disgusting slimy thing underneath his feet and hit a cold surface all over! The number of Swamp Crawlers following behind him had already gone over a hundred, they all just ran into the Dark Fog without hesitation.
Boom—
The Incendiary Bomb exploded on the ground, the venomous seaweed and saliva both burst into flames and turned into a layer of poisonous gas that dispersed into the air, which mixed together with the Dark Fog.
-85!
-85!
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Damage values popped up on Lin Jie’s head, the poisonous fog had come into effect! Immediately after, the Dark Fog that became poisonous suddenly ascended! The radius which the Dark Fog covered instantly turned into a sea of fire!
After gulping down a bottle of Health Potion, Lin Jie activated Wild Charge and Forward Sprint!
Behind him, the laments of Swamp Crawlers could be heard. A wave of 400-500 damage dealt popped out, that was the damage of the Incendiary Bomb and the venom! Not only so, when the venom in the air became thick to a certain degree, it would gradually condense, burst into flames and explode!
The Swamp Crawlers screamed in pain and were engulfed by the flames of the Dark Fog.
—’You have killed the Swamp Crawler and received 120,000 experience points, Saint Malo reputation 10.’
—’You have killed the Swamp Crawler and received 120,000 experience points, Saint Malo reputation 10.’
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At the same time, a crisp prompt message sounded.
—’Your reputation in Saint Malo Town has reached Esteem, you shall enjoy a 5% discount when buying items in the town.”
Lin Jie did not know whether to laugh or cry, Saint Malo Town was already destroyed, what use was the discount?
Meanwhile, currently, Qiu Yuan also finished off that NPC townsfolk.
When Lin Jie rushed back, Zheng Ziliang had dug out 10 gold coins from the corpse with a blank face! He stretched his hand at the waist of the corpse and felt around, then a small pocket fell out!
Cling—
A crisp sound could be heard, as Zheng Ziliang poured it out, over 20 gold coins actually dropped out from it! That amount of money even surprised Lin Jie.
“How could there be so much money?”
Lin Jie shook his head. “Isn’t this very normal? Search more carefully and see if there is any more.”
Zheng Ziliang, “…”
Currently, Qiu Yuan was trying her best to release Holy Light! One ray after the other. Meanwhile, that NPC little girl widened her eyes and stared at Qiu Yuan, her eyes were full of the desire to live.
“Persevere a little longer, just a little longer!” Qiu Yuan was almost with tears as she gulped down magic potions as if it did not cost money, which transformed into healing spells that fell on the little girl.
Lin Jie did not stop her but crossed his arms while looking at her.
The little girl’s death was unavoidable, Qiu Yuan that half-baked healer did not have the ability to save someone. Not only so, but the failure of the mission was also destined, after exploding the seaweed of the Swamp Crawlers, there was just no way to stop the next wave of the Ghouls! That was a wave of level 36 Enhanced Elites, their numbers reaching over 300.
Lin Jie even scolded in his heart, ‘Which idiotic designer designed this abnormally difficult mission? Even if one was alone, one could also accept the mission, but could he complete it? Single-handedly battle over 1,000 of Elites?’
“Give me some potions!” shouted Qiu Yuan. Zheng Ziliang nodded his head and gave all the magic potions on him to Qiu Yuan.
Lin Jie sighed. Although he knew that it would just all be a waste, he still gave Qiu Yuan the Middle-Grade Natural Recovery Potion and magic potions. The raw materials of the potion were not expensive, but due to its practicality and rarity, it could sell for five gold coins!
“Forget it, five gold coins then five gold coins it is,” said Lin Jie secretly. Since Qiu Yuan wanted to save the little girl, then let her save her.
The healing continued for two hours! Lin Jie and Zheng Ziliang also silently looked at Qi Yuan for a total of two hours!
Finally, the last bottle of the potion was drunk and the Holy Light in Qiu Yuan’s arm gradually dispersed… The health bar of the little girl dropped to the bottom in a swoosh!
Death was imminent, but she smiled and comforted Qiu Yuan, “Thank you, big sister, I need to rest now, so you should rest too…”
“Heal… ing… Ha… lo!”
A mechanical sound could be heard, and Holy Light Town covered the whole town in a swoosh, the health points of the girl instantly went back up to the maximum!
A small and exquisite robot wearing white angel clothes smiled and said, “Finished… Rescue!”
“You did well, little fellow.” The robot was lifted up with one hand. That person’s beard and hair had tangled together and were unable to be differentiated, wearing the dress-up of a beggar, and a wrench was on top of his head as though he was acting cute. It made people simmer with laughter at his look!
Lin Jie froze, wasn’t that person… Engineering Grandmaster—Nordilus•Saint Malo?
The reason for Lin Jie’s plan to kill off all the townsfolk was to lure him out to help create the Gargoyle! However, the mission was not finished yet, why would the NPC come out?
‘Wait… Mission?’ Lin Jie suddenly realized that in those two hours, no monsters had appeared!
Lin Jie sent out Silver-Feathered Eagle to look around, where were there Enchanted monsters anymore? There were only heaps of repairing robots rebuilding Saint Malo Town in the surrounding!
“Thank you, adorable youngsters.” The voice of the Grandmaster was extremely sharp like those of the Goblins, which was due to him not speaking year in, year out and resulted in his voice deteriorating. He looked at Qiu Yuan with his eyes trying their best to be seen within his furry head, then squinted his eyes into a line. “Especially you, kindness is the most powerful strength, even if your belief is darkness, please accept my gratitude.”
Ding~
System Announcement: Congratulations to player “Qiu Yuan” for becoming the Overlord of Saint Malo Town!