MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

Seeing the snake monster appear, Li Yi immediately canceled his Pseudocide. Equipping his orange bow, he started shooting rapidly…

He was stood at the very front whilst the others were all at the back. No one could have expected that he would begin attacking at that point in time.

Li Yi had pulled Elite snake monsters with over 1,000,000 HP the last two times. However, this time, he had managed to pull an average snake monster with a mere 100,000 HP.

After chugging a Fury Potion, he started firing rapidly. A mere 100,000 HP Lamia was easily eliminated by Li Yi within a couple of seconds…

“OK, I won.”

Li Yi turned back and smiled, causing Big Boy and company to be completely dumbfounded…

On the DPS rankings, it showed that Li Yi’s DPS was 13,205, whilst the others were all at 0.

“F*ck… Just like that?”

“That’s dirty!” God-Killer Gale was so pissed that his mouth started to twitch.

Big Boy and God-Killer Gale were both dissatisfied with the result, but the chick from the Black Betting House, Autumn Love, did not think that way.

“If it’s laid, it’s played. Who asked you guys not to go up and fight?”

“From my point of view, before I even reached the monster, it would’ve already died. This is too dirty!” God-Killing Gale stated angrily.

“I lost.”

Big Boy let out a huge sigh before tossing a single purple equipment to Li Yi.

It was a Level 10 Cloth Armor Robe of the Honored.

This item would have been considered uber legendary equipment before Level 30, but now that everyone was already above Level 50, this thing was no longer useful…

Li Yi smiled as he put the purple cloth Armor into his inventory.

Even if it was a mere Level 10 epic equipment, it still was not trash. Even if no one would use it, it could still be given to Big Bun for Decomposition and get some rare materials out of it.

“Where’s yours?” Li Yi reached his hand out towards God-Killing Gale.

God-Killing Gale quivered. He did not even get a fighting chance, how would he accept this result?

However, he did not try to pull any funny business. After deliberating for a long while, he pulled out a Level 30 purple dagger and handed it to Li Yi.

If it’s laid, it’s played!

“Dark Wing of the Eastern Continent, do you have the balls to compete one more time?”

Big Boy and God-Killing Gale asked in perfect unison. They were both shocked by their unity in the matter. As their eyes met, they both quickly turned away.

“Let’s leave that for after we clear out all the mobs first.”

Li Yi chuckled as he swapped out his orange bow for the Murloc Crossbow, once again pulling a mob.

Another Elite snake monster with 1,000,000 HP was pulled over. Just in time for Autumn Love to finish processing the other snake corpse.

It seemed like a fire had been ignited in Big Boy and God-Killing Gale’s hearts. This poor Elite snake monster did not even stand a chance, as it dropped to the feet of the Dark Shield Warrior within a few seconds.

Big Boy’s DPS was 23,367, whilst God-Killing Gale’s DPS was 23,654. Only Li Yi’s DPS remained normal at 12,543.

The two of them were both doping.

They had taken Holy Water.

Li Yi smiled. No matter which camp, once a player reaches the Worship state in a major city, they could accept a certain quest. The quest itself was easy, it did not require the player to fight any monsters, but rather just run errands. Being a quest that could be finished in a single day, the quest reward was three bottles of the rare potion, Holy Water.

Holy Water had an absurdly powerful effect. Within the next minute after using it, the user’s damage would be nearly doubled. However, the tradeoff of using this potion was also extremely high. It would randomly lower one of the user’s attributes by 1-3 points and cause all healing on the player to be reduced by 50% for the next two hours.

Li Yi valued his attribute points very much, thus he did not to the quest. However, this only added oil to the flames of Big Boy and God-Killing Gale’s anger.

“Dark Wing, I’ll the one to touch Lil Girl!” Seeing that his DPS was the highest this time, God-Killing Gale was even more frantic.

‘That’s right, other than the penalty of paying up one purple equipment, there was also the reward of touching Lil Girl for half an hour.’

Li Yi laughed out loud, “Go ahead, I’ll give my reward to you.”

“Really?” God-Killing Gale was pleasantly surprised.

“Really. Go on.”

“Thank you!” God-Killing Gale was quite touched. He started walking cheerfully over to Lil Girl.

“Paff!”

Lil Girl pulled out a small doll and tossed it to the ground. The doll had the words ‘Lil Girl’ written on its belly.

Touch it to your heart’s content, don’t be shy.” Big Boy laughed as he motioned towards the doll.

“F*ck you, you people are all scum!” God-Killing Gale was utterly enraged now.

God-Killing Gale grabbed the doll and furiously used it as a punching bag. After venting out all his frustrations, he finally walked back up. Then, he nodded at Li Yi and said, “I owe you a favor!”

“Err…” This time, it was Li Yi’s turn to be surprised.

Once Autumn Love finished processing the snake corpse, Li Yi pulled another monster once more.

Just like that, the cluster of snake monsters was quickly taken care of. Other than Autumn Love, Li Yi and company did not get a single cent out of it all.

“Dark Wing, pull the snake monster in that passage from the fork ahead over here.”

“Missy Autumn, that snake monster is optional, we’re not walking that way anyway.”

“It’s all money, don’t go wasting it. Quickly, just pull it over…”

Due to Autumn Love’s “hobbies”, the party’s progress was extremely slow. Even after one and a half hours, they were only at the first boss.

All the monsters in the Demoness’ Ruins were snake monsters, so naturally, the three bosses were no exception either. However, although they were all the same type of monsters, the strategy to fight them were all vastly different.

The first boss was a male snake monster named Angust with 30,000,000 HP. It stood at six meters tall and had an extremely ugly appearance. It was completely nude on top, with only a tattered cloth wrapped around its waist. Unlike most other dungeon bosses, it did not have any weapons. It solely relied on its hands and tail to attack. Due to its high movement speed, kiting strategies did not work on it.

“Using the Dark Shield Warrior, we can hold him down. However, keep in mind that Angust can use Body Slam on any party members at random. If that happens, healers have to pay attention and start healing that person. Oh, and Angust can also summon minions, Those guys are extremely annoying to deal with, so we have to get rid of them as soon as possible whenever they’re summoned…”

Autumn Love started talking about the strategies for this dungeon boss from start till finish, not leaving out a single detail.

‘This chick ain’t half bad.’

Li Yi was pleasantly surprised.

Autumn Love paused momentarily before continuing, “There’s also one more thing to take note of. When Angust dies, try to have him die facing South.”

“Why’s that?”

Autumn Love replied in a serious tone, “I heard some people say that if Angust’s head is facing South when he dies, he would drop dozens of extra Gold Coins.”

“…”

“Bloody money-brains.” God-Killing Gale had a disgusted look.

“Are there any problems? If not, let’s start! Remember, when it dies, let Angust’s head face the South side of the room.” Seeming to fear that her party members would forget her instructions, she repeatedly reminded everyone.

Li Yi placed Mislead on the Dark Shield Warrior and fired away at Angust.

“Who dares barge into this place? I will not let you interrupt my Queen’s sleep! Leave this place immediately!”

Angust zoomed over at frightening speed. Both of its fists instantly slamming onto the Dark Shield Warrior’s chest.

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What a high ATK!

Lil Girl started healing whilst the others started their attack.

Angust had extremely high ATK and super-fast movement speeds. The Demoness’ Ruins was actually a 50-man raid. Even if the group that Autumn Love brought today included a few pros, with this few people, it was definitely going to be a challenge.

“Damned outsiders, feel the wrath of Angust!”

Angust’s body suddenly turned red as it zoomed toward Autumn Love. Coiling her tightly, it used Suplex on her.

Crack!

With the crisp sounds of joints popping, Autumn Love’s HP dropped drastically…

Angust’s Body Slams were extremely OP. It did not just let go after a single slam, but rather it would pin the target on the ground, continuously causing the target’s HP to drop.

“Holy Light’s Touch! Divine Salvation!”

Lil Girl rapidly replenished Autumn Love’s HP whilst the others started nuking Angust with everything they had.

Only when Angust’s color returned to normal, did it release Autumn Love from its grasp.

“Ughh, damn you… I was so close. I’m so tired. Defend, defend, chase out this group of invaders!”

With Angusts’s loud call for help, countless snake monsters appeared out of nowhere. Their numbers were in the hundreds!

The minion snake monsters ATK was also very high, but their HP was a lot lower. They only had 20,000 HP.

“Pavillion of Darkness!”

“Shoot at Random!”

“Blizzard!”

The only party member without a wide-range AoE skill, the Thief God-Killing Gale, was in charge of protecting Lil Girl, whilst the others were busy unleashing their AoE skills at full power.

There were plenty of parties that had been wiped during this phase. This was largely due to the minion snake monsters having a small hitbox, being too scattered, and having high ATK. They would be able to blend in amongst the party and no one would be able to find them.

Luckily, the group Autumn Love had with her were all top-tier pros. Their skills and execution were all fast and precise. The hundreds of snake monsters did not even get a chance to show their power before being annihilated completely.

At that point, the Dark Shield Warrior had disappeared. Li Yi summoned the Violent Bear King over to take its place.

In terms of attributes, the Dark Shield Warrior outshines the Violent Bear King in both HP and DEF. However, in terms of tankiness, the Dark Shield Warrior was completely outclassed.

It had a time limit and could not be permanently and continuously summoned. Thus, in terms of practicality, the Violent Bear King was much more useful.

Before considerable damage could be dealt to Angust, its body turned red once more.

“Damned outsiders, feel the wrath of Angust!”

This time, Angust targeted Lil Girl, the party’s sole healer.

“Tzzt tzzt——”

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God-Killing Gale rushed over and used bandages on Lil Girl…

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God-Killing Gale’s bandages had no chance of keeping Lil Girl alive. After a few seconds, Lil Girl was crushed under Angust’s body…

Angust rushed back to the Violent Bear King, continuously striking the Violent Bear King with its fists. Although Li Yi had been constantly healing his pet, the healing was nowhere near the output level of Lil Girl. Within seconds, the Violent Bear King was killed.

With the MT bear dead, Angust’s aggro started to scatter all over the place…

Big Boy used Flash to escape the combat area. Not stopping there, he headed straight out of the dungeon. God-Killing Gale used his Shadow Cape to disappear, successfully escaping the battle. Li Yi was the calmest out of the three, he just stood motionless as he used Camouflage. Only Autumn Love was left with the short end of the stick. When the Violent Bear King fell, she was the one who was closest to Angust, so all the aggro shifted towards her instead.

Bam! Bam!

With two heavy punches, Autumn Love tragically dropped to the ground. What was worse was that as she fell to the ground, the staff slipped out of her hands and was dropped…

Angust picked up the staff and nodded in a satisfied manner. “Hahahahaha, this stick isn’t half bad, I think I’ll use it as a weapon.”

“Give me back my staff… Give it back…” Autumn Love yelled loudly.

Li Yi canceled his Camouflage and walked up to Lil Girl’s corpse. He pulled out a Cardiac Pacemaker Model V5 from his inventory.

The Cardiac Pacemaker Model V5 had the appearance of a human hand. If a player wanted to use it to revive someone, all they needed to do was to place the hand on said person’s chest and push a couple of times. Of course, due to the characteristics of Engineering, the success rate of this thing was not at 100%. Sometimes it would succeed and sometimes it would fail, it was unpredictable.

The Cardiac Pacemaker had been made by Li Yi a long time ago, he just never had the opportunity to try it. This was his first time trying to use it.

“Let’s see if sparks will fly between the two of us.”

Li Yi turned on the Pacemaker and placed it onto Lil Girl’s chest.

“Bzzt bzzt——”

A strong bolt of electricity flashed on the surface of the Cardiac Pacemaker, violently shocking Lil Girl’s chest. With a huge jolt, Lil Girl finally opened her eyes.

The Cardiac Pacemaker succeeded!

“Thank you!”

Lil Girl was already in mid-corpse run just now. By being resurrected, she would not have to lose any EXP, anyone could guess her gratefulness at that point.

Autumn Love was then resurrected by Lil Girl. However, her mental state at that point was quite unbalanced…

“My staff… My precious staff, everyone come back quick and kill that thing! I want my staff back!”

Li Yi was helpless. “We’re a five-man party running a 50-man raid, with our current levels, that’ll be too difficult.”

“Then what should we do? I want my staff back! Sob… My staff is worth so much money.”

“B*tch please, that staff was something you took away from me! For a one-time-use helmet, no less! A-hem!”

Autumn Love’s face turned red. “Cough cough, let’s not talk about that for now. Let’s start thinking of a plan to defeat this evil snake monster.”

Once Big Boy returned, the five players gathered once more and started discussing their battle plan.

“Too little people.” This was Li Yi’s opinion.

“Not enough heals.” This was God-Killing Gale’s opinion.

“Cringe…” This was Big Boy.

There was no point in continuing on like this. No matter how many more attempts they try, they were still trying to run a 50-man raid with five people. The dungeon’s monster levels would also mirror the highest level of the party members, how could they possibly clear it?

“We need more people!”

“Only you guys owe me favors. If I go find other people, I’d still have to pay them for their services,” said Autumn Love with frustration.

Li Yi smiled, “I can help you get some people. They’ll be here in a flash.”

Autumn Love’s eyes sparkled with glee. “That’s awesome! You have my thanks, Brother Dark Wing.”

“I can help you get some people, but I have conditions.”

“Conditions?” Autumn Love was slightly startled. She immediately shook her head and said, “Let’s not talk about money, money ruins relationships.”

“…”

‘So you’d rather be stuck in an endless loop of TPKs than fork out a single cent. How petty must you be to reach this level of greediness?’

“I don’t need money. I just want you to cut down the number of times I have to accompany you to dungeons down by two. Then, make me Party Leader and let me choose a single equipment from this dungeon.”

“Let me think about it…” Autumn Love slowly deliberated, but ultimately steeled her resolve as she saw the staff still in Angust’s hands.

“Ok, it’s fine. But you need to set the perms so that I’m the only one who can pick up Gold Coins. Oh, you also can only take one piece of equipment, nothing else!”

“No problem!”

“Not even white equipment! You can only take one single piece.”

“No problem!”

“Do the friends you’re calling over know how to dismantle and gather? If they know, please let them know not to steal from me.”

“F*ck!”

“Just nod and agree, Brother Dark Wing.”

Li Yi completely surrendered to Autumn Love. He had seen plenty of petty people in his life, but this was the first time he had seen someone who had this level of pettiness.

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Autumn Love waited until Li Yi finally agreed to her terms before handing over the Party Leader position to him. Then, Li Yi ran to the dungeon’s entrance and started to summon his people.

The friend summoning tool could only be used near the dungeon’s entrance, otherwise, he would not have had to go through all this trouble.

Li Yi called three people over, the Wizard Wang Wang Dumplings, the Dark Paladin Invincible Jiaojiao, and the Light Priest Fire Ice.

At this point, Little Drunk Cat’s membership count was already over 20,000. However, out of all these members, there was barely a handful of them that could truly be considered to be pro.

Their combined strength was exceptionally strong, but the combat prowess of the individual members was a bit on the weaker side. This was the current state of Little Drunk Cats.

In the regular tournaments that Little Drunk Cats hosted, the Wizard Wang Wang Dumplings was one of the most outstanding characters.

In Li Yi’s past life, however, he was nobody famous. Li Yi had not even heard of his name before. However, this was all unimportant for Li Yi. In his eyes, all these pros were all the result of hard work and training. As long as he gave Wang Wang a chance to shine, he would not be outdone by anybody else.

The reason he brought Jiaojiao here was mainly to help her level some more. Of course, it was not to say that she was utterly useless. Her Dark Paladin skill Double Curse had the effect of lowering a target’s attributes. She did not even need to fight. As long as she manages to use Double Curse, her role would be considered fulfilled.

Fire Ice was a tragic character in his past life, but because of Li Yi’s interference, it had changed her fate completely. Not only was she the current head secretary for the Little Drunk Cats, ever since she learned Holy Light Illumination, her healing capabilities had exponentially increased, surpassing even the likes of Wu Old Wolf and Little Elf from the Magical Realm. She was now firmly positioned as Little Drunk Cats’ number one healer.

“Now I can rest easy, the mega healer is here.” As Autumn Love saw Fire Ice joining their lineup, she was instantly relieved.

Big Boy asked, “Hey, Dark Wing. I heard that your guild has someone called Little Elf from the Magical Realm who plays a mean Sky Vagabond healer, why didn’t you ask her to come?”

Li Yi ignored him. Using the friend summoning tool, he teleported Fire Ice and company over to his location.

Big Boy’s gimmick was that he had a huge fetish for flirting with married women and Li Yi was very well aware of this hobby of his. How would he even think of dragging Little Elf from the Magical Realm over here?

Jiaojiao was the first to be teleported over. However, the friend summoning tool malfunctioned and she exploded just as she arrived…

The next one to be summoned was Wang Wang Dumplings. He also was not spared this fate. As soon as he was teleported over, he had also been exploded into a corpse…

Only Fire Ice was slightly lucky, the explosion only took away half her health, allowing her to survive the pain.

The party size increased by three, changing the party size to eight members. The explanation of the strategy for the boss was once again left to Autumn Love.

“Remember, when the boss dies, make sure that its head is facing South. Oh, one more thing, don’t steal the corpses from me, I’ve reserved them all.”

After Autumn Love’s repeated reminders, she finally announced the start of the boss battle!

It was the same old strategy, let the Dark Shield Warrior tank first and have the Violent Bear King prepared to replace it. All the others had to do was focus on dealing damage.

Both Autumn Love and Wang Wang Dumplings were using Ice spells. When you put two Ice Wizards together, naturally, they would want to outdo one another.

The two wizards’ DPS shot up.

Despite Autumn Love being black-hearted and petty, her in-game techniques were quite good. The title Ice Empress was definitely thoroughly earned. Combining Ice Spears, Ice Awls, Frost Bolts, and other skills flawlessly, she managed to dish out a hefty amount of damage.

In comparison to her, Wang Wang Dumplings was still a level lower. He had no problems cycling through his spells, but he still could not manage to figure out the optimal time to use certain spells. His grasp on the spells was not as precise. Within a few seconds, anyone could see the skill gap between the two.

Even though Autumn Love lost her damage-increasing staff and was only wielding a plain white plated staff, she still managed to deal out over 7,000 DPS. On the other hand, no matter how much Wang Wang Dumpling tried to keep up, he was still at slightly over 5,000 DPS.

“Damned outsiders, feel the wrath of Angust!”

Angust’s body turned red as he grabbed onto Li Yi and slammed him hard onto the ground, pinning him in place…

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Fire Ice and Lil Girl waved their staffs in unison, ensuring Li Yi’s HP was maintained at above half his max HP.

With everyone else nuking it, Angust’s Body Slam was soon interrupted.

“Ughh, damn you… I was so close. I’m so tired. Defend, defend, chase out this group of invaders!”

Hundreds of minion snake monsters appeared out of thin air once more. With that, everyone just started nuking the area with every AoE spell they had.

As soon as the minion snake monsters were killed off, the Dark Shield Warrior had also disappeared. The Violent Bear King immediately took its place as the others continued their all-out attacks.

Angust’s HP was dropping rapidly. Even though Jiaojiao was only dealing 1 HP per hit, with the power of Double Curse, she helped to increase the party members’ damage by a whole lot.

Angust continued to cycle between the few moves he had, summoning minions after Body Slams. Finally, it started to use the staff dropped by Autumn Love to whack the MT Bear.

Despite its huge health pool, as long as the two healers did not die, fighting it was quite easy.

When Angust’s HP reached 10,000,000, its attack patterns started to change, it no longer attacked with the staff. It started to lash its snake tail around, using it as an AoE attack on the party.

“Slap!”

“I am my Queen’s most loyal guardian. You outsiders, leave this place immediately!”

Angust swung its tail erratically, causing the party of eight’s HP to drop rapidly.

“Holy Light Illumination!”

A huge silhouette of an angel appeared behind Fire Ice’s back. Instantly, the party’s HP steadily increased, the damage dealt by Angust was completely a nonthreat to them.

“This skill… How amazing!” As a fellow Light Priest, Lil Girl could not help but yelp out in awe.

Holy Light Illumination healed at a base of 200 HP per second. Adding on the buffs from Fire Ice’s equipment and her own attributes, the healing rate was raised to a whopping 2,011 HP per second!

Furthermore, the Holy Light Angel would remain on the field for five minutes. In other words, within those five minutes, the healers no longer had to heal. They could just sit back and relax…

Now that the party members did not have to care about Angust’s mad tail swipes anymore, they could focus solely on dealing damage. Even Jiaojiao who was a paladin that barely had 5,000 HP ran up and started lashing out to her heart’s content.

She could not die anyway, so why not have some fun…

Angust’s attacks were completely negated through the healing from Holy Light Illumination. Originally, this was supposed to be the most difficult phase, but the party was having the time of their lives. They were just pounding without a care in the world. In the midst of all the tail swiping, Angust finally dropped dead on the ground…

“Everyone move away from the boss! Everyone move away from the boss! ”

Autumn Love roared out loudly as she pulled out her Dismantling Knife.

When a boss dies, it did not matter what sort of loot distribution setting was chosen, the corpse could be looted by anybody. The only difference was that the party settings would restrict who could pick up the items. With the Master Loot option selected, only the Party Leader could pick up the drops.

“Let’s see what we’ve got in store!”

Li Yi rubbed his hands together before reaching out for Angust’s body.

Autumn Love hurriedly shouted out as she ran towards the corpse, “Don’t loot the corpse Brother Dark Wing! Let me do it, let me do it!”

Too late!

Li Yi’s hand had already reached out towards the corpse…

“Ding!

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