MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

Even though the minion undead that the Dark Paladin summoned only had 2,000 HP, their ATK was absurdly high. All of them also had Charge, so if he got surrounded by them, Li Yi would be instantly one-shotted.

“Wind Shield’s Protection!”

Using the Wind Shield’s Protection special skill, Li Yi’s SPE and DEF exponentially increased as he started distancing himself from the minions that Moigne had summoned.

He could not afford to be too close to them, otherwise, it would be a guaranteed death.

Although the number of “pets” that the Dark Paladin summoned was high, they were functioned differently than an Archer’s permanent pet. All of these undead could only stay on the battle for 1 minute. After that, they would automatically die.

Li Yi continued to run as he used Eliminate on the undead behind him. Eliminate’s area of effectivity was 3 units in front of the user. With a single arrow, at least twenty plus undead would drop dead. Combining it with Powered-Up Arrow, nearly half of the undead were killed off in a short amount of time.

“Violent Bear’s Protection!”

Seeing that some of the undead caught up to him using Charge, Li Yi immediately activated the special skill Violent Bear’s Protection, resisting their attacks. As his HP started to drop, Li Yi chugged an Advanced-Level HP potion, hanging on with just a hair’s breadth.

When all of the undead hordes had died off, Li Yi had less than 500 HP left. That was too close.

After he finished channeling Undead Horde, Moigne got on the Skeleton Warhorse once more and started to chase Li Yi again. Violent Bear King was steadily blocking him off, not letting Moigne get close to its master.

Li Yi’s super-long range attacks were outright unfair towards Moigne. 300,000 HP dropped rapidly, it was not long before Moigne finally dropped to the ground.

“My master, please forgive Moigne…” Right before Moigne’s death, his master was still on his mind.

[Congratulations, you have successfully defeated the Epic-Level boss Great Lord Moigne. This event has been recorded in the Pantheon Hall of Fame. You are awarded with an addition 3 skill points. Do you wish to announce this to the world?]

“Decline!”

Li Yi checked the time, he still had about a dozen minutes till the Lord of the Undead’s buff returned.

Moigne’s body started to sparkle. This was a sign that his corpse could be looted. Without even a hint of hesitation, Li Yi reached his hand out and started looting.

“Ding!”

[You obtained one Undead Horde Skill Tome!]

“So this dropped here after all…”

Li Yi let out a cry of shock as he held on to the Undead Horde Skill Tome.

In his past life, there were countless Dark Paladins who wanted to learn Undead Horde. However, in the 8 years since King of Pantheon was released, no one, not even the Dark Paladins who were worshipped as gods, had learned this skill. The reason was simple, no one knew where this Skill Tome dropped.

“Looks like Jiaojiao is fated to be a Black Paladin(TN: Dark Paladin is 黑暗骑士, where 黑 is black and 暗 is dark. Currently, the author uses 黑骑士 instead as a joke for Jiaojiao’s darker skin tone.).” Li Yi chuckled as he tossed the Undead Horde Skill Tome into his inventory.

With the Lord of the Undead’s buff returning in a few more minutes, Li Yi thought briefly before running back into the pitch-black cathedral to do the last check-through.

His thoughts were simple. He would not be forcefully teleported out anyways, so he should just take his time to do a thorough check, making sure he had already taken every treasure he could.

The two items on the white-haired boy had already been taken away by Li Yi, causing even the black gas to stop leaking out. After running through the entire cathedral leaving no stone unturned, Li Yi was left disappointed as he returned empty-handed.

[Warning: The Lord of the Undead’s buff has returned. The Dwelling of the Undead has returned back to normal. Due to players taking away items from this place, the difficulty of the Dwelling of the Undead has doubled. Due to Great Lord Moigne being defeated, the Land of Sleep shall gain a new Guardian for the Lord of the Undead.”

“Hissssss—— Hissssss——”

A layer of black gas rose up from the white-haired boy’s body, enveloping the entire area at extremely high speeds. One the black gas came into contact with all the fallen undead, they all started to stand up once more, continuing their patrol.

Moigne also stood up from the ground and walked towards the white-haired boy before kneeling down in a fetal position.

“Bam!”

Another casket in the cathedral burst open as a female Dark Paladin walked out and stood next to the white-haired boy’s casket.

This was another one of the Lord of the Undead’s Guardians, the Lich Nar’iz!

The Lich Nar’iz smiled at Moigne and said, “Mr. Moigne, please leave the cathedral. From today onwards, without my orders, you are not to come near the Lord of the Undead.”

“Understood, ma’am!”

Moigne replied with a hand on his chest, as he left from the cathedral.

Li Yi was hiding in one of the caskets, eavesdropping on the conversation between Moigne and Nar’iz.

“The difficulty of the Dwelling of the Undead increased?”

Peeking out of the casket, the Lich Nar’iz was wielding two blood-colored short swords, standing motionlessly in front of the white-haired Lord of the Undead, earnestly guarding her master.

The necklace on the white-haired boy did not respawn, but he was now wielding a black battle axe that gave off a black glow. It was obvious that it was not an average item.

‘So the difficulty did increase!’

When Li Yi saw the dual swords the Lich Nar’iz was wielding, he completely understood.

‘The Vampire Queen’s Devouring Short Swords! An Epic-Level!’

Out of these two short swords, the primary sword could absorb the target’s HP, whereas the secondary sword could Devour the target’s attributes, causing the target’s power to temporarily decrease. By combining the two swords, the user could even unleash an extraordinary special skill.

The Vampire Queen’s Devouring Short Swords were equipment that Thieves could use. It was the weapon that Li Yi wanted but never got in his past life.

In his past life, there was a famous Thief-class master player named God-Killing Gale on the Western Continent. Wielding the primary Devouring Sword, he had massacred countless strong famous and strong players. At the time, Li Yi was still wielding a Lifesteal weapon as he challenged him. In the end, he suffered three straight defeats.

With an absurd Lifesteal effect, it was multiple times stronger than the average Lifesteal weapon he was wielding at the time. It was also from then on, that he swore he would remember the name Devouring Sword.

Now that said legendary weapon was right in front of his eyes, he could not help but be tempted.

Li Yi patiently waited, hoping to try his luck. He wanted to see if he would have another opportunity, seeing if this Lich Nar’iz would walk out of the cathedral allowing him to pry the axe from the white-haired boy’s grasps.

However, after waiting for an entire day, he gave up.

The Licj Nar’iz did not even move an inch. She just stood there silently. Judging by her posture, she would not leave the cathedral.

‘This guardian is too absurd.’

Li Yi yelled out in frustration in his head. He decided to try brute-forcing it. Summoning out Violent Bear King, he shot an arrow directly towards her.

[-0]

The arrow landed on the Lich Nar’iz and the HP bar on top of her head appeared.

[90000000/90000000]

The Violent Bear King ran over, only to get stabbed by the short swords in the Lich Nar’iz’s hands. Instantly, a huge [-19055] appeared on top of the Violent Bear King’s head as it dropped to the ground.

“Camouflage!” Sensing that things have gone awry, Li Yi immediately used Camouflage. However, a red shadow eerily zipped in front of him, completely ignoring his Camouflage status. With a swift strike and a red flash, he was dealt 23451 HP of damage as he got inst-killed.

“Ding!”

When it rains it pours. The saying about Drucker’s Law was absolutely true. Just as Li Yi was one-shotted, a pair of gold-colored boots dropped to the ground. It was the Fiery Boots that he had been wearing for a long time…

“F*ck me…”

As Li Yi lied on the ground, he stared helplessly as the Lich Nar’iz picked up the Fiery Boots and returned to the Lord of the Undead’s side.

“Madame Nar’iz. I smell the scent of a fresh corpse from within the cathedral.” Moigne’s voice rang out from outside the cathedral.

Nar’iz replied harshly, “Go back to your duties. Remember, without my orders, you shall not ever set foot in the Hole Cathedral!”

“Understood, Ma’am!” Moigne’s voice faded out.

‘It’s over, I won’t be able to get it back.’ Li Yi thought frustratedly.

After waiting for around ten more minutes Li Yi gave up. He helplessly released his soul. As his vision faded to black, he was transported out of the Dwelling of the Undead.

Li Yi respawned at the temple right outside of the Blade Peak Arena. It was just as he hypothesized, once he releases his soul within the Dwelling of the Undead, he would immediately be transported out of the locale.

Although he was frustrated that he dropped the Fiery Boots, when Li Yi looked at the bag of goodies he managed to nab, his started to feel better.

‘You win some you lose some. I already grabbed so much stuff, what’s a small loss like that even worth anyway?”

“Fatty, Mood, come over to Shattered Frost City. Mm, get Fire Ice over here as well. I have some good stuff to share with y’all.”

Li Yi was no longer in the mood to participate in the Arena. He raised his return city stone and teleported back to Shattered Frost City.

A short moment later, Chen Yang, Pretty Good Mood, and Fire Ice Ironclad Tyrannosaurus over. Li Yi proceeded to distribute his equipment to each of them. Chen Yang received a Tier 1 equipment set and a Compound Elements Skill Tome; Pretty Good Mood received a Tier 1 equipment set and a Contract Ignition Skill Tome; whilst Fire Ice received a Tier 1 equipment set and a Soul Song Skill Tome.

The strongest equipment before Level 60 were the Tier 1 class equipment sets. From Li Yi’s trip to the Dwelling of the Undead, he looted three Tier 1 sets, two for Summoners and one for Priest. It was just enough to be distributed to the three. As for the remaining stuff, he was prepared to just sell them off in the Auction House.

“A Tier 1 set? Oh my god, this thing is expensive! Oh my Lord, Compound Element! It’s Compound Element!” Chen Yang was so moved that his chubby face was completely flushed red.

A Natural Summoner’s ATK was mid-tier, the worst of it comes out during PKs. Due to them being slow and lacking explosive power, they were always weak in PKs. However, once they get Compound Elements, the tables would have turned. If they could not beat the opponent, they could just use Compound Element. Once they use it, no matter how much HP they had lost or any abnormal statuses they had gained, they would have their HP instantly replenished and all statuses cleared. It also would apply a 30% counter damage to whoever who attacks the user. It was an extremely shameless skill.

Compound Elements was the ultimate skill of Natural Summoners!

“If this thing was put up for auction at the Auction House, it would probably be worth at least 10,000,000 Gold Coins, right>” Chen Yang was so happy that he started mumbling.

Pretty Good Mood was also extremely touched, “My Contract Ignition is also the same. It can forcefully make my pet self-destruct, causing damage equivalent two double my pet’s attributes to everything in a 20 yard radius. Even a Level 1 Contract Ignition is already this ruthless, if I raise it to Level 20, this… This is gonna be too OP, right?”

“Mine… Mine is good as well. It increases the party’s HP cap by 50% and DEF by 10%.” Fire Ice also exclaimed.

Pretty Good Mood was still trembling as he said, “Boss, all these equipment and skills you just gave us, they’re worth more than 50,000,000 Gold Coins.”

“I’m not the kind of guy to keep all the good stuff to myself and give the bad stuff to my friends.” Li Yi chuckled heartily. As compared to his past life, he definitely managed to view equipment as manure in this life.

“Boss, I was wrong.” Pretty Good Mood suddenly lowered his head at Li Yi, taking a deep bow.

Li Yi asked, “What’s up? It’s only a few pieces of equipment, is there a need for us brothers to pull this kind of thing?”

Pretty Good Mood answered regretfully, “Last time you asked Big Bun to decompose the purple equipment. Although I did not say anything out loud, I was actually talking behind your back for the next few days, I…”

“Cough cough, big bro, I’m in the same boat as you.” Chen Yang patted Pretty Good Mood’s back.

“Let’s let bygones be bygones, I only have one word of advice for you guys.”

“What advice?” The three asked in unison.

“If you want our friendship to last, remember, don’t be two-faced!”

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