Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

“What’s happening?” Shocked, Lin Jie let out a gasp as he saw Broken Blade emitting rays of light. Meanwhile, the two priceless weapons transformed into gusts of energy and shot into Broken Blade’s body!

It was understandable that Lin Jie was alarmed!

After all, the Dark Gold Wand fragment was a really popular item among the gaming community now, where Mages were the majority. Meanwhile, the Thunderbolt Sword was a true Sub-Legendary fragment—just think, how many pieces of Sub-Legendary fragments had appeared in the whole of The New Age till now? Should Lin Jie sell these, they would be auctioned for a few hundred thousand of gold coins!

Yet now, both weapons were simply engulfed by Broken Blade?!

Whoosh— Whoosh—

Broken Blade vibrated vehemently, and various lumps appeared on its body. It looked like someone who had eaten food that was hard to digest, and hence all of the food was accumulated into big lumps and ended up remaining at various parts in his body.

In pain, Broken Blade flew about wildly, and several gusts of blade auras slit past Lin Jie’s chest!

“Enchanted Scaly Armor, Holy Light Winged Armor!”

Lin Jie’s body made a reflex action before he even thought of what to do. After all, he was well-trained in the ways of a Warrior. Both skills were activated almost instantaneously. The Enchanted Scaly Armor covered the surface of his body with hard scales, while the Holy Light Winged Armor allowed him to slide backward at high speed.

Even so, Broken Blade still left a hideous scar upon the Kiara Beast King Armor.

-2,182!

“F*ck!” Lin Jie couldn’t help but curse. To what extent had this Broken Blade upgraded itself to, to cause such high damage to him with just a Flat Cut? And he already had such high Defense!

Whoosh!

After Broken Blade’s first slash, it seemed to become weaker in its strength. However, the lumps on its body grew bigger and closer. Lin Jie pondered for a while, and taking a Gold weapon out of his backpack, he stabbed it down on Broken Blade’s body.

Whoosh—

After that attack, Broken Blade stumbled and fell to the ground. Meanwhile, the lumps on its body finally merged together. Broken Blade then spewed out a metallic, blade-like item.

‘What is…?’ Lin Jie still felt somewhat alarmed as he picked up both items and examined their attributes.

Gold Broken Blade (Heritage)

No job restriction

Requires: Level 30

Attack: 345-685

Strength: 55

Endurance: 45

Health Points: 500

Jump: 18

Movement Speed: 18

Block: 10%, Parry: 10%

Fire Damage: 40, Fire Whirlpool: 1

Thunder Damage: 40, Thunderstorm: 1

Additional effect: Stats are sealed, cannot distinguish the weapon type.

Additional effect: Army Obliteration. You spend 10 Rage points and damage your target four times for 140% damage.

Additional effect: Flame Boost. Your attacks will be transformed into Fire-type Attacks within 60 seconds. It will form a fiery blade aura, and those hit by it will receive an additional 60% damage. Cooldown period is 720 seconds.

Additional effect: Thunder Descent. When you enter the Thunder Descent mode, your attacks’ effects will increase by 10%. Your attacks will be transformed into Thunder-type Attack for 60 seconds, and there will be a 70% chance of numbing your targets for 60 seconds. You are immune to all Thunder-type attacks in the first 5 seconds of activating Thunder Descent. Cooldown period is 720 seconds.

‘After absorbing the Seaheart Pearl, Broken Blade’s attributes have indeed increased by a huge extent. Its attributes were comparable to even Dark Gold weapons,’ thought Lin Jie as he stared at Broken Blade in surprise.

‘However, I remember the Seaheart Pearl’s effect shouldn’t be just like this. In my previous life, Broken Blade’s growth was around 10 times more than the present after it engulfed the Seaheart Pearl. Unless… Broken Blade’s quality is still too low now, and cannot absorb all of the Seaheart Pearl’s powers?’

It was a confirmed fact that Broken Blade’s attributes would increase after absorbing the Seaheart Pearl. Yet the rate of its growth puzzled Lin Jie—it definitely did not upgrade as much as in his previous life! Before he made sense of what really happened, Lin Jie could only reason that Broken Blade’s quality must still be too inferior.

Then… What would this blade-like weapon be?

Metallic Supplementary Sword (Gold)

No job restriction

Requires: Equipping of the Heritage Broken Blade

Attack: 100-200

Strength: 20

Endurance: 20

Additional effect: When used with Broken Blade, it enjoys the same cooldown period as Broken Blade. Meanwhile, it will reduce the interval between Broken Blade’s attacks by 50%.

“!!!!!!”

A Supplementary Sword!

And this Metallic Supplementary Sword seemed like a supplementary weapon of Broken Blade.

‘Oh, I get it, I get it now!’ After seeing the ‘supplementary sword’ label, Lin Jie finally understood what had happened. He couldn’t help but exclaim, “It has to do with the blades, the blades! In my previous life, I had upgraded Broken Blade by means of Smithing and Enhancement, and I would merge all sorts of materials into Broken Blade. As such, the breaking of its seals was not as complete as it ought to be. However, this time, I found the crux to its upgrading—the blades! This is the most accurate ‘key’ for breaking apart its seals! As such, Broken Blade is now purer than in my previous life! It’s really the other way round—Broken Blade was unable to digest those materials before as thoroughly as now fully!”

That’s right! This Metallic Supplementary Sword was the product formed by the accumulation of numerous rare materials being fed to Broken Blade previously, which had not yet digested fully. With the powers of the Light Unicorn Lion’s horn and the Seaheart Pearl, all the essence of those materials were now digested, and hence, Broken Blade was able to make such a supplementary sword.

In his previous life, Lin Jie had been clueless about Broken Blade’s marvelous attributes, and he had blindly thought that he could break Broken Blade’s seals as long as he fed it with all sorts of rare materials. That was why the progress of breaking seals on Broken Blade had stopped at such a low completion rate. However, in this life, Broken Blade had reached new heights!

Lin Jie equipped both Broken Blade and the Supplementary Sword. Immediately, a shimmering, gold-lit Broken Blade appeared in his left hand. It was extremely sharp and looked really sturdy, and the lights reflected from its broken parts seemed like they were ready to lash out at anyone else. Meanwhile, a bright Supplementary Sword around half a meter long appeared in his right hand. Both swords complemented each other perfectly, dazzling people as they passed by!

Yet, these two weapons were far more powerful than what was seen!

Dual Wield was an exclusive skill of Berserkers and Bandits. Every weapon had their designated intervals between attacks, and if a player wielded two weapons, which had intervals of three seconds respectively, the player would likely choose to attack and change weapons every 1.5 seconds.

Yet this Supplementary Sword did not have its own interval between attacks when someone equipped it together with Broken Blade! The Supplementary Sword could be used for attacking opponents every time Broken Blade launched its attack. Coupled with that, it would reduce Broken Blade’s attack intervals by 50%!

What did this signify? Imagine Lin Jie was a Warrior who had 100 AP and had Dual Wield. Another Warrior with his same Stats but with two different weapons would be able to cause around 200 points of damage every three seconds. Yet Lin Jie would be able to deal out 300 points every three seconds if he equipped himself with Broken Blade and its Supplementary Sword!

This was akin to increasing his attack efficiency by 50%!

At the same time, Lin Jie’s AP had also increased to his newest maximum of 917-1,223! His health bar’s upper limit was increased to 3,948 points—this was definitely scary, considering that he was only a Warrior.

Ordinary players would be recognized as ‘experts’ for having an AP of 500 points, while Shield Specialists would be considered as ‘blood bulls’ if they had more than 2,500 points for their HP! Yet now, Lin Jie had surpassed both standards. Not to mention, he also possessed the super-strong Holy Light Winged Armor and Enchanted Scaly Armor. It almost seemed like no one could ever take him down!

‘Well, in any case, it means that I cannot upgrade Broken Blade by just feeding it rare materials now!’ Realization dawned upon Lin Jie. In this life, he had obviously taken the correct path with regards to upgrading Broken Blade. However, the process would only get tougher as Broken Blade continued its evolution!

This meant that if Lin Jie did not manage to find the next blade, he would never be able to upgrade Broken Blade, no matter the number of precious materials he fed Broken Blade with. At most, they could only be used to enhance Broken Blade’s Supplementary Sword.

In other words, Broken Blade had now reached its bottleneck.

Narrowing his eyes, Lin Jie muttered to himself, “Eighteen Massacres… Seems like you have to die a few more times. It was a pity that the blade was not spawned from you last time, you were lucky…”

……

At the Dark Shrine.

Eighteen Massacres stood respectfully beneath the throne, his eyes closed tightly and praying fervently. This was the routine job of every Dark Shrine’s follower. Only after seven consecutive days of such praying would players be rewarded with the ‘Dark Holy Water’, which could help sustain the Dark Shrine’s followers.

To be honest, players who were followers of the Dark Shrine did not fare well at the Guild of Light. As players, the guild would, of course, not close their cities to them. However, the Dark Shrine players’ taxes were increased by 200% at all the main cities. This meant that it would cost them a hefty amount, even if they just wanted to repair their weapons.

Meanwhile, they would always have to be on their guard when they were in the wild. After all, the Dark Shrine players were like pests to other players. Not only would other players not get red names after they killed the Dark Shrine players, but they would also even be given handsome rewards!

As a form of repayment, and perhaps also to prove the stereotypical point that ‘one can get great powers if he or she exchanges their souls to the demon’, the Dark Shrine players could consume the Dark Holy Water once per week. It would increase their Stats randomly. Over time, the Dark Shrine players would naturally have far better Stats than ordinary players!

Of course, there was always the possibility of increasing Stats not applicable to one’s job. For example, a Dark Shrine Mage might get a few hundred Strength points…

“Great, my loyal believer. This is my gift to you—a special gift. Drink it!” A voice like thunder boomed out from the throne above. The next moment, Eighteen Massacres found a cup of Dark Holy Water floating towards his mouth.

Although Eighteen Massacres was curious as to why the usually cold Blood Tyrant would speak to him, he did not hesitate in his actions. The cup of Dark Holy Water was gone in a gulp.

Ding~

—’You consumed the Dark Holy Water. Your Health bar’s upper limit is increased by 150 points, and your Strength is increased by 35 points.’

Consuming the Dark Holy Water would allow players to increase in one particular Stats randomly, and that Stats would increase by around two to seven points. There was a 90% chance that the Dark Holy Water would only increase a player’s single Stats by two points.

However, as a power-hungry person, Eighteen Massacres had made use of everything possible to become the Dark Shrine’s Advanced Believer. As such, there were some adjustments to the rate of his increase in Stats when he consumed the Dark Holy Water: he had a very low chance of enjoying a surge in his Stats! Meanwhile, each time he consumed the Dark Holy Water, a minimal of two of his Stats would be increased, and the rate of increase of his Stats would be at least by three points and above.

“Haha… Haha, HAHA!” Eighteen Massacres was so elated that he almost wanted to jump up straight away and cheer loudly! So, this was the meaning of the ‘special gift’! Wth, it was like the enhanced version of the normal Dark Holy Water, and one would almost be comparable to leveling up by five or six levels if he or she consumed it!

His adventures in the Dark were not inferior to Lin Jie’s achievements during this period of time. Moreover, he could consume the Dark Holy Water every week—but he was still vexed by the fact that he could never beat Lin Jie.

The Legendary Blood Tyrant, the Blood Sub-Shrine’s ruler, one of the 12 sub-shrines of the Dark Shrine, now sat upon the throne.

He was one of the most radical figures in the Dark Shrine who pushed for war with the Guild of Light. In fact, he was Blood Swamp’s creator! However, since that map had been ruined by Lin Jie and Wantless, his plan to conquer the Guild was now interrupted.

“Hmph, my loyal believer, don’t be overly excited! This shall be the only time I bestow you a special gift.” The Blood Tyrant made a hissing sound, and a figure around the height of five grown men stood up in the shadows. The figure had two bloody curled horns on its head, and its fangs were drooping over its mouth to its chest. Savage vibes enshrouded the space.

“I had sent out 10,000 Blood Ghosts, Fiery Ghosts and Curse Ghosts to kill all of the 30,000 Paladin Army from the Guild and massacre tens of small towns. They had painstakingly built up the Blood Swamp for me, yet it was ruined by a worthless human being from the alternate realms! The Blood Wizard, who was under my commands, was also killed. Darn it! The Blood Wizard was originally the City Leader of Sunshine City before he died. If only I could make his soul fall to the Dark, I would be able to absorb it and gain more powers. Yet now he was used by others, despite all my efforts!” said the Blood Tyrant.

Immediately, a thick waft of bloody smell filled the shrine, as if it was enshrouded by bloody clouds and bloody seas. Everything was covered in blood.

“You, my loyal believer, since you managed to enslave the good-for-nothing Demonic Dragon Moratti, I hereby invite you to join the Blood Sub-Shrine. Naturally, I will reward you handsomely. However, I have to make things clear—at the Dark Shrine, everything is dependent on your own abilities. You are indeed skilled in being able to kill your own mentor and gain all those skills. I’ll have nothing to comment even if you were to kill me one day and become the next Blood Tyrant—because that’s your own abilities!”

“Now, I shall give you a mission. From reliable sources, I got to know that a scroll of the Secret Techniques of Clomaros has now appeared. This is my Master Blood Token. Take it, and you shall bring me that scroll of Secret Techniques of Clomaros. Go now, since your powers have increased greatly!”

“Yes, my revered King!”