Chapter 125: Epic-level Class Quest
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Before you even wish to lie to someone, the first thing you would need to do is not to blabber too much, but rather first have them believe in your potential.
Take now for example. If, at this time, Li Yi had sent a message to Confused Fox and Shangguan Bailu telling them that there was another investment he was trying out before he asked them to loan him some money, would they reject him?
In his past life, Li Yi had often done this. Though in this life, he would never again...
The price for Fire Crystal Rocks surged to three times within a day, but because Li Yi had not given the word yet, all of the insider traders who hoarded the Fire Crystal Rocks still had yet started to sell them off. This caused the Auction House to be filled with complaints since it was near impossible to obtain even a single rock on their hands.
It still was not time. As the last Instance Dungeon in the Pinnacle of Flames series, Ifrit's difficulty was naturally the highest. Without at least a couple month's time, other guilds could never conquer it.
Anyone could take on the challenge. The Instance Dungeon resets once every day, with 3 bosses awaiting the challenger but without sufficient magical crystal rocks, there was no way for anyone to scout out the situation.
Li Yi was not in a rush. Although Fire Crystal Rocks could be easily obtained through running dungeons, that amount was but a mere trifle. Under the stimulation of the market due to the Fire Devil Instance Dungeon's special first kill rewards, the price of the Fire Crystal Rocks would rise within a short amount of time; it would never fall.
I Love Beast Beast also sent out a message. He had paid the money, but since Li Yi still had not taken action, it was making him anxious.
"I'll settle it by tonight," Li Yi replied concisely.
When night fell, Li Yi headed to the Star Fire Guild's Map alone and he successfully lured over the Giant Metal Scorpion.
The long kiting process started once again. However, Li Yi did not plan on sending just the Giant Metal Scorpion back to where it came from. Instead, he led it on a long trip, all the way back to Shattered Frost City.
"Attention all soldiers, a monster is attacking the city. I repeat, a monster is attacking the city," Li Yi shouted as he ran into the Shattered Frost City.
"Orders from the captain, defeat the monster that's attacking the city!"
Countless NPC soldiers appeared, and they completely surrounded the Giant Metal Scorpion as they laid siege onto the monster.
"All civilians, please retreat. Shattered Frost City initiating Level 1 Defense Modules. We'll kill anyone who gets in our way!"
Shattered Frost City had a total of approximately 1000 NPC soldiers who were all elites. Their highest level achieved was Level 60. So it was a no-brainer that utilizing them to defeat the Giant Metal Scorpion was a piece of cake.
Countless players had already rushed over to check out the situation. Before the NPC soldiers even managed to cordon them off, the Giant Metal Scorpion started to vibrate its body, releasing a green poison mist.
Nearly half of the NPC soldiers were immediately knocked out while all the players who were watching for fun died on the spot.
"Requesting support, I repeat, requesting support!"
As the number of NPC soldiers started to increase, the Giant Metal Scorpion's HP rapidly dropped. After nearly half an hour or so, it was completely defeated.
Yet no first kill notification appeared, even the EXP was almost nonexistent. In the end, Li Yi was only rewarded 1 point.
Using NPCs to kill monsters was not a big secret. In his past life, there were many people who had tried it. However, without any exception, this bug could never be exploited. This was because the system prioritizes NPC calculations. In other words, if you killed a boss at this time, no matter whether the player participated or not, the result would be the same.
Of course, if he could not get anything out of it, Li Yi would not have gone through the trouble to kite the Giant Metal Scorpion back to Shattered Frost City.
System Notification: [You led a team to participate in a city-defending action, protecting the security of Shattered Frost City. The Castellan is overjoyed, rewarding you 1500 Official Position Points and 1 Soldier's Honorable Gift Pack.]
Although the rewards were a bit low, it was still better than nothing.
The boss Giant Metal Scorpion that had bothered Star Fire for days was dead just like that.
"Student Beast Beast, this is only a one-off thing. Don't assume it'll be the same next time." Li Yi sent a passive-aggressive message to I Love Beast Beast. After all, things were over and done with.
Better the devil you knew than the devil you did not. Li Yi did not fear Star Fire, but if they were targeting them from the shadows, it would be detrimental to Little Drunk Cats guild's growth.
"You don't have to worry." I Love Beast Beast replied.
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Li Yi rode on Crimson Tiger King. He had planned on going home to train Princess Sif, but right at this moment, he received a friend request notification from Little Elf from the Magical Realm.
Li Yi accepted the friend request and both of them started a voice call.
"Can you do me a favor?"
"What favor?"
"Help me finish a quest."
After deliberating for a short moment, he instantly agreed.
Although Little Elf from the Magical Realm did not say what quest it was, he already had a solid guess for which quest she was having trouble with.
Little Elf from the Magical Realm solo-ing abilities was extremely strong, so there were barely a handful of quests that she would not be able to handle. For a quest of that level, it could be none other than the Epic-Level Class Quest.
Li Yi was also doing the Epic-Level Class Quest. It was that nauseating quest about collecting the Treasure Map Fragments which had a total of 21 pieces. Though at that point, even Li Yi had only managed to collect 7 pieces. Hence, you could not proceed with the rest of the quest.
Every class had an Epic-Level Quest. Archers had one, so naturally, the Vagabond class also had one. Although the routes were different, the level of difficulty was the same.
So, Li Yi rushed over to the Silver Moon Celestial Capital to meet up with Little Elf from the Magical Realm.
Li Yi's guess was on point because the quest that Little Elf from the Magical Realm had requested for help with was precisely the Epic-Level Class Quest.
Yet she was much luckier than Li Yi as the Sky Vagabond's Epic-Level Class Quest only required them to complete 10 Pantheon Hall of Fame records in order to proceed. Then coincidentally, after she defeated Shakra earlier, she had exactly 10 Pantheon Hall of Fame records.
However, she was completely stumped by the next part of the quest. The quest required her to kill the guard of the Holy Wind Palace, the Superior Wind Elf Felina. Although she had attempted it a few times, it had all ended in her death.
The kill quest allowed players to seek external help, but it was only limited to 1 person. So, Little Elf from the Magical Elf decided to ask Li Yi for help.
The Superior Wind Elf Felina's power was something Li Yi had experienced first hand in his past life since the Cyclone Thief's Epic-Level Class Quest had also required him to defeat her.
This quest would scale based on the player's level so even if the player tried to increase their own level Felina's level would also follow suit. This boss was quite insane because as the level went higher, it became even more difficult.
The best bet for defeating this Superior Wind Elf Felina was to do it now when one was still at a low-level. Otherwise, when the level gets too high, it would be increasingly more difficult to defeat her.
In his past life, Li Yi had challenged her a few times when he was at Level 100 but he had failed miserably in the end. After that, he retried multiple times only to end in failure over and over again. Just because of her, the Epic Quest for Cyclone Thief had been cut off. Even since he had been reborn, he had yet to have the chance to complete it.
The Holy Wind Palace was situated at the south of the Silver Moon Celestial Capital. On the outside, the surface of the building was covered in pure white. On the inside, the Superior Wind Elf Felina stood in front of the Holy Palace Altar with her body floating about.
The Superior Wind Elf Felina is an Elven life form created through the fusion of Wind Elementals. However, based purely on a human's perception, one would not be able to make out her gender. She was literally just a whirlwind that twirled about, how was anyone supposed to know?
"Do you want to accept my trial?" The Superior Wind Elf Felina asked softly.
Little Elf from the Magical Realm selected "yes" and the two were teleported into a small-sized Instance Dungeon.
Facing them was one single enemy - the Superior Wind Elf Felina. As long as you could defeat her, the quest would be complete.
The Superior Wind Elf Felina had the average of the two's levels. She had 5000000+ HP, and used Group Wind Spells to inflict a wide variety of status effects like freeze, stun, slow, and other troublesome effects.
"You can let the dog's out now."
"Oh, so you weren't after me, but rather my dogs?"
Li Yi joked as he summoned Violent Bear King out onto the field.
Knowing how to look for help was also an important knowledge to have. Take Li Yi for example, not only was he extremely strong on his own, but his pet Violent Bear King could also manage to hold its own.
As the battle began, Violent Bear King stood in as a tank. Whilst behind it, Li Yi was the DPS and Little Elf from the Magical Realm was in charge of healing them.
Tornado, Air Slash, Delayed Suspension... The Superior Wind Elf Felina started her counterattack. With a single skill, she sent the two flying into the air.
Delayed Suspension was a spell that had left a lot of people speechless. Its damaging potential was not high, but it would turn players weightless and that would cause them to float slowly in mid-air. When the spell effect was over, one would then fall to the ground which would incur a massive fall damage. If one was unlucky, they would instantly fall to their deaths.
"Bam! Bam!"
The two fell to the ground, and their HP instantly reduced by half.
Meanwhile, Violent Bear King was still steadily dealing out damage. Having it at the frontlines to soak up the majority of the damage, Li Yi and Little Elf from the Magical Realm's lives were made much easier.
Felina's attack speed was quite high. As it was the specialty of Wind-type spells, it was also the reason as to why Little Elf from the Magical Realm had repeatedly failed this quest.
Li Yi continued to shoot as he ran. To distance himself from Little Elf from the Magical Realm, he ran behind Felina to deal damage.
A player's weak point was their backs. More importantly, some bosses also had weak points situated at a similar spot and Felina was one of those bosses.
In his past life as a Cyclone Thief, Li Yi was specialized in backstabbing. When Felina's HP dropped by 90%, if it was not for her going Berserk at the end, he would have completed the quest.
When battling Felina, a player could not afford to let the battle drag on. This was due to the fact that every time she uses a Wind-type Spell, she would give herself a Wind Rage buff with the effect of a 1% damage increase for all Wind-type Spells and a 1% damage reduction to her. Eventually, this buff could be stacked infinitely. It did not seem much at first, but once she built up a hundred layers buff, the player could literally deal no damage to her.
Without this Wind Rage buff, this would have been a piece of cake if it was based on Little Elf from the Magical Realm's technical skills.
Rapidly firing and popping Intermediate-level Fury Potions, since Li Yi decided to help, he might as well go all out with it. Targeting Felina's back, he repeatedly fired attacks at her, causing her HP to drop rapidly.
As her HP dropped from 5,000,000 to 2,000,000, Felina's Wind Rage had already been stacked around 40 times. The Wind-type Spell damage increase by 40% was no big deal because, at this point, Little Elf from the Magical Realm still had plenty of healing juice; the increase was not concerning at all.
The concerning part of it was the 40% damage reduction. It felt so ball-busting! As the HP was dropped slower and slower, the situation did not look so good.
"Violent Bear's Protection!"
As soon as the cooldown ended, Li Yi immediately used Violent Bear's Protection to increase his DPS. This goes to show that if it was not for this overpowered pet skill, defeating Felina was nearly an impossible task.
The final reward for the Epic-Level Class Quest was enough to drive anyone crazy, but conversely, every quest's difficulty was similarly difficult.
Felina's HP continued to fall. When she was at around 100,000 HP, the Wind Rage buffs had already stacked to a total of 95 times.
Now, the most challenging part had come. The attacks would deal nothing to her, whereas her attacks could instantly empty one's HP bar. Little Elf from the Magical Realm's mana was failing to keep up, and the situation was more dangerous than ever.
"Violent Bear's Protection!"
"Stop healing me and nuke her!" Li Yi once again used Violent Bear's Protection as he yelled at Little Elf from the Magical Realm.
"Tzz! Tzz!"
A blue typhoon flung Little Elf from the Magical Realm into the air, and countless wind blades slashed at her body. Within a short 3 seconds, her life was taken away.
Little Elf from the Magical Realm shrieked. Her clothes on her body were then shredded to pieces as she fell lifelessly to the ground.
Her protruding breast and buttocks, thin yet shapely waist, milky-white skin, and round and curvaceous hip were all on display. This wife looked, hm... Quite arousing.
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