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Silent Killer (Sub-Legendary)

Requires: Level 25, Strength: 600 and above

Attack: 387-755

Strength: 125

Endurance: 110

Armor Penetration: 40

Armor Ignore: 25%

Additional effects: 5 Consecutive Shots, Continuous Silence, Dragon Breath bullets.

The “crash” was however caused by Lin Jie, who had fallen down to the ground.

Silent Killer was like the throat of a dragon and was extremely powerful. It was stifling enough just to hold it. When Lin Jie first held it, he felt an enormous weight weighing down on his arms!

‘Shit!’

The veins on Lin Jie’s arms became visible, but he still gripped tightly onto the Silent Killer. In the end though, he couldn’t withstand its weight and gave way. With a big crash, he fell down to the ground!

Sub-Legendary equipment was even more overbearing than Dark Gold equipment, and as such its owner would need to be equally powerful to be able to wield it! With his current Stats, Lin Jie was of course overpowered by this fire gun, and he could just barely remain conscious.

Silent Killer, which was before their eyes now, was even more powerful than the original one drawn on the equipment blueprint! The original attributes of the Silent Killer were something like below:

Silent Killer (Sub-Legendary)

Requires: Level 20, Strength: 600 and above

Attack: 287-655

Strength: 85

Endurance: 90

Armor Penetration: 20

Armor Ignore: 17%

Additional effect: 5 Consecutive Shots, Continuous Silence

Yet now, the Silent Killer created was way more powerful! All this was due to the effect of the Exodus Bone Dragon’s skeleton. When Lin Jie had first gone to Moratti Shrine, he had planned to collect a dragon’s skeleton for this purpose, but what he had not expected was that he would get the skeleton of the Exodus Bone Dragon instead.

The Exodus Bone Dragon was the combination product of the best of all dragons and was more powerful than even an Earth Dragon.

As such, the Silent Killer’s attack power was increased by 100 points, and its Armor Penetration and Armor Ignore attributes were doubled! Lin Jie was certain—as long as he had this gun with him, he could even shot right through Mixed Breathless’ defenses!

However, the greatest strength of the Silent Killer lay in its additional attributes—the Dragon Breath bullets! Lin Jie checked on the Dragon Breath bullets’ attributes in anticipation.

Dragon Breath bullet: A Fire Gun can store up to 500 bullets. These bullets will be transformed into Dragon Breath bullets within 72 hours. A Dragon Breath bullet will ignore all defense and cause its target 50% damage, but it cannot be used with a skill.

Lin Jie’s pupils constricted. The terms ‘ignore all defense’ and ‘ignore all defense mechanisms’ only had a word in difference, but they held two totally diverse concepts! The most striking feature would be that the previous meant it could even bypass Invincible-type skills!

In The New Age, it was extremely rare to own an Invincible skill. Even seven years into the game, there had still not been more than 100 players who had owned Invincible equipment.

However, there was one job which was the exception to this rule—Paladins! Paladins were automatically bestowed with the Divine Shield skill and enjoyed eight seconds of Invincible effects. As such, Paladins were the job most unafraid of being killed in The New Age—needless to say, a certain fallen Paladin whom Lin Jie knew. Yet with these Dragon Breath bullets, Lin Jie would finally be able to have a fair fight against these fellows who enjoyed Invincible skills!

“Blue, come help me!” shouted Lin Jie.

Master Blue, who was still immersed in his joy of having broken through his bottleneck finally broke out of his stance. However, when he saw Lin Jie sitting on the ground, he thought that Lin Jie was just like him—simply overjoyed beyond words for this accomplishment.

Blue said respectfully to Lin Jie, “My Lord, do you need me to upgrade this weapon another time? I am willing to contribute all the gems I have collected over all these years to help you re-forge it again!”

The moment the Silent Killer was forged successfully, Master Blue’s status had elevated to become a Sub-Legendary Blacksmith! The rules of an NPC and player were different—players would need to accumulate EXP arduously through gaming, and earn large amounts of EXP when they faced a bottleneck so that they could make their breakthrough successfully. However, NPCs would just need to forge a single Over-Level equipment to elevate their levels!

Similar to how anyone who managed to open up their governor and conception vessels 1 in a martial arts novel would become an expert, the same applied for NPCs in the game once they successfully forged Over-Level equipment! However, their leveling process was way more difficult and opportune than normal players. Using Blue as an example, if Lin Jie had not provided him with the Experience Handbook, he would have a 0% chance of successfully forging Over-Level equipment. Even when Blue had learned the notes from the Experience Handbook, and coupled with the effects of his reputation, this success rate of him accomplishing such a feat would not be more than 10%!

Now, this situation was indeed considered a win-win for both of them—Lin Jie was willing to put all his trust in Blue, and in turn, Blue was willing to endure all the hardships and give forging Over-Level equipment a shot. Thus, both of them finally tasted the fruits of success after their venture. Blue looked upon Lin Jie as his benefactor, and in fact, he deemed Lin Jie even more respectable than his dear mentor now. Only such a person like Lin Jie was worthy of being called a benefactor—he had been willing to let Blue try forging Over-Level equipment at the sake of ruining priceless materials, and had even promised not to ask him for compensation should he fail.

To Blue, Lin Jie was like his reborn parents!

As such, when Blue had heard that Lin Jie needed help, his first reaction had been to say that he would willingly contribute all his collected gems to him. This person was definitely one of the rarest, but most honest NPC anyone had met in the game.

“Use your hammer, and hit me now! Quickly!” Lin Jie could feel the Silent Killer growing stronger and stronger. He gritted his teeth and ordered, “Hit until I am only left with minimal health points!”

Although Blue did not know why Lin Jie wanted him to do so, he still abided to his requests and hit hard on Lin Jie’s head.

The Forging Hammer brought up gusts of wind and came down hard on Lin Jie’s head without any mercy! At the last second, before it touched Lin Jie, the latter finally remembered in aghast that now Blue was elevated to the level of a Sub-Legendary Blacksmith. Wouldn’t a single blow from Blue be enough to kill him instantly?

“Undefeated Anger!”

-8,381!

Dong—

Lin Jie’s health bar was immediately emptied. It was lucky that he was spared from death when he activated the Undefeated Anger skill, or else he would really be killed with this single blow!

Without caring to complain, Lin Jie activated Death Rage and Blood Power, and increased his strength! The muscles on his arms bulged out and almost burst open his skin.

“Up!” Lin Jie’s strength exploded and increased multiple times in that instant. Silent Killer was being lifted up by him and holding it in his hands, Lin Jie pressed upon its trigger. A bright and vicious fire burst open from its barrel, shooting right into the air!

Ding~

—’Congratulations for getting the Silent Killer (Sub-Legendary level)!’

—’You strength was acknowledged by the Silent Killer. You received the Buff Ease of Familiarity.’

Lin Jie was overjoyed. One would gain additional skills and effects if they received an acknowledgment by the equipment. This was also the reason why he insisted on taming the Silent Killer in the open at the threat of exposing his identity!

Ease of Familiarity: The Stats for equipping this equipment was decreased by 60% temporarily. This effect will only last for one hour per day.

Lin Jie’s Strength was just at 329 points currently, a far cry from the required Strength points for equipping the Silent Killer. However, with the Ease of Familiarity buff, he could at least use the Silent Killer for some time every day. His mind immediately ran through several plans of achieving Over-Level kills, and the specific monsters he could kill with the Silent Killer.

Lin Jie only awoke from his stance and joy of receiving the Sub-Legendary equipment after a long while! He calmed himself down, and his cautious temperament immediately made him notice an increase in the number of passersby around him. Most of them seemed normal upfront, but their eagle-like stares at the Silent Killer still exposed their intentions.

Most of them were Paladins donning magnificent equipment—all of those equipment were Golden Armor Sets being spawned from the Belief Church dungeon. From his brief first glance, Lin Jie estimated that there were about 100 plus of such Paladins present—this group of Paladins would have to be playing the Belief Church dungeon diligently for at least one month before they could become so perfectly coordinated!

Within all of them, Lin Jie spotted a person. She looked pure and chaste at first glance, but upon a closer look, one would realize that her seductive eyes were eyeing people flirtatiously around her.

This was All for Love—in other words, Wei Lu!

Screech—

The Silver-Feathered Eagle flew around in mid-air, sending its view of the whole City of Light from above to Lin Jie. City of Light was surrounded by people, and every possible means of escape was being blocked off. All the Druids and Bandits who could activate Stealth skills were also prepared for a fight!

Lin Jie recognized several familiar faces within the midst of passersby. All of them were members from Kingdom of Glory—rather, all of them were former members of Kingdom of Glory! These Paladins had sworn to follow Eighteen Massacres previously, but when Eighteen Massacres had rebelled against Baili Xuanyuan and left the Three Alliances, they had not chosen to follow their former leader.

As the saying went, ‘A man’s treasure is his own ruin by causing others’ greed.’

The minute the Silent Killer had appeared, a sharp-eyed former team leader in Kingdom of Glory, Heaven and Earth, had immediately discovered it! Wei Lu had seized the opportunity and rushed to City of Light the moment she received news of it. After all, she could only build her own powers in the game if she got hold of Sub-Legendary equipment!

How could Wei Lu not be aware of Baili Xuanyuan’s intentions of manipulating her? Both of them were just feigning ignorance on the surface and hatching their individual schemes secretly!

A cold light flashed past Lin Jie’s eyes. He put on his cloak to hide his movements within the crowd as he proceeded slowly towards the city gates. A big group of players followed silently behind him.

As long as Lin Jie dared to step out of the city, they would kill him immediately!

An extremely queer scene was taking place within City of Light: one person was walking in front, and several hundreds of people were following closely behind. None of them exchanged words.

Finally, Lin Jie and the group reached the city gates—as long as Lin Jie stepped out, a deadly pursue would take place! The Silver-Feathered Eagle revolved around in the sky and screeched loudly as if trying to scare the pursuers off.

All the Bandits activated Stealth mode and disappeared from sight openly.

The Paladins summoned out their mounts and got ready.

At this moment!

“Hunter’s Forward Charge! Wild Charge!”

Lin Jie’s movement speed increased tremendously as he sprinted out of the city!

“Wth, he’s escaping! Give chase!”

“Kill him and guard his corpse until he spawns that Sub-Legendary equipment!”

“Go, go, go! All of you, gear up! As long as he spawns that equipment, I will immediately transfer you $100,000 real cash!”

Wei Lu, who was hiding within the crowd, waved her hands, and commanded, “Chase him!”

Whoosh! All the players rushed towards Lin Jie!

The prowess of the Flying Feather Gems was exhibited fully now. Even Bandits who were in speeding mode could not catch up with Lin Jie!

Eventually, after that initial sprint, Lin Jie was still being caught up by the agile jobs like Bandits—he was a Warrior after all. The Paladins who were riding their mounts were also catching up with Lin Jie.

Lin Jie sprinted as hard as he could towards the forest in front—as long as he could get there and transformed into the Moratti Shrine Dragon Envoy, it shouldn’t be difficult to shake these people off!

However, 30 plus Warriors loomed ahead and stood in his path. These were members of the Dark-Robed Knights who had received news, and hence, had rushed over from all the places where they had been leveling up previously.

“Scram!” Taking out both Broken Blade and Thunderbolt Sword, Lin Jie held them across his chest and activated Blood Light Multi-Slash. All the thirty heads of the Warriors flew up into the air and dropped down on the ground!

“Where do you think you are going?” A former Paladin from the Kingdom of Glory sneered. He appeared on Lin Jie’s path, activated the Divine Shield skill and charged towards Lin Jie!

The Divine Shield was immune to all kinds of attacks! As long as he could block Lin Jie just for a while, the rest of the people pursuing Lin Jie would be able to catch up and kill him!

A cold look flashed past Lin Jie’s eyes. He took out the Silent Killer, aiming the gun which was about the length of a full-grown man at the Paladin!

Dragon Breath bullet!

5 Consecutive Shots!

The loading time of using long-ranged weapons for jobs other than Hunters was as long as 3.6 seconds, and it was even doubled when one was moving. This meant that Lin Jie would have to wait for a full seven seconds before the gun could finish loading!

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

After five consecutive bangs, the bullets shot out from the gun barrel. They shot through the Divine Shield, and went into his forehead accurately!

-263! -217! -255! -192! -236!

Five Dragon Breath bullets emptied almost half of the Paladin’s health bar! At this moment, Lin Jie neared him, and a sheen of gold light covered Broken Blade.

Shield Cut!

-1,029! (Critical Hit)

The Paladin was stunned. He could never have imagined that he would be killed in this way under the protection of the Divine Shield!