MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

Queen Jiao and Unending Unmatched fought Drifting Snow, Territory against Territory, but in the end, Drifting Snow’s Absolute Invincibility was still stronger. Queen Jiao and Unending Unmatched could not do anything to him at all.

Just as discussions were getting heated on who was stronger, Dark Wing or Drifting Snow, there was another unexpected incident.

Drifting Snow went to the Invincible Continent to wreak havoc, and as soon as Li Yi caught wind of it, he immediately went to stop the former. However, Drifting Snow was a crafty one, and he logged off as soon as he saw Li Yi log on, purposefully avoiding the confrontation.

Li Yi tried to stop Drifting Snow for three days, and Drifting Snow hid for three days. He was determined to never meet Li Yi. Thankfully, he did not have the Divine Bird Phoenix anymore, so it took him forever and a day to demolish a major city. Even if Li Yi just let him be, there was not much he could do.

That was when the unexpected happened. On the fourth day of Drifting Snow’s messing about the Invincible Continent, he was killed.

The killer was not Li Yi, because Li Yi was not online at the time. The person who killed Drifting Snow was extremely powerful, with a shaved head, bare arms, and a sexy small mustache. He was clearly a Warrior, but he insisted on wearing cloth armor. He wielded a large hammer, and rumors had it that after he caught Drifting Snow he pummeled the latter eighteen times with the hammer until he bludgeoned him to death.

The killer was the Iron Alliance’s Number One Ironsmith, Snickersnee!

According to the player who was present at the time, Drifting Snow had snuck into the Little Drunk Cat’s Guild Map and was planning to destroy the buildings in there. Hearing a noise, Snickersnee had run out of the Ironsmithy and grabbed Drifting Snow, hammering him eighteen times until Drifting Snow died…

Who was Snickersnee?

He was a pure lifestyle class player, through and through. Ever since he started playing Pantheon, over the past two years, he had been mining, refining, and forging weapons, then rinsing and repeating almost every day.

He had never done anything like PK, fighting bosses, or running dungeons. His greatest passion was forging weapons, and lately, he was gunning for Legendary-level Great Weaponsmith. Right now, his progress was equivalent to Li Yi’s Apothecarist level, in that they were on the cusp of leveling up.

Who would have thought that the Absolutely Invincible Drifting Snow would be killed by a pure lifestyle class player?

No one expected this, not even Li Yi. When they heard the news, everyone was stunned.

“Video, I wanna watch the video!”

“Does anyone have footage of Snickersnee bludgeoning Drifting Snow to death? I’ll pay 100 Gold Coins for it!”

“Anyone has the video? Lemme see it, I’m begging you!”

The tone of the official forum changed again. No one cared about Drifting Snow anymore, everyone was looking at Snickersnee now.

However, no matter how the players in the forums rioted, there was still no trace of the video of Snickersnee bludgeoning Drifting Snow to death. The reason was simple: When Snickersnee killed Drifting Snow, the only one to witness the battle was one of his disciples. Unfortunately, no one had recorded any footage at the time, and this incident was only revealed to the world through that disciple’s testimony.

“Is this for real?”

“It can’t be…”

Many people indicated their suspicion, and in their pursuit of evidence, many players even sent Snickersnee Challenge Scrolls on the World Channel, all so they could meet this powerful Ironsmith.

“I only know how to hammer metal, not people.”

Every time he encountered a challenger, Snickersnee with his sexy little mustache would just tell them that honestly.

When Li Yi found out about this, he was curious as well, so he personally made a trip to the Little Drunk Cat Guild’s headquarters to ask Snickersnee about what happened.

“Back then, I saw that Drifting something Snow guy saying that he wanted to burn those all of our guild buildings. I was really angry, so I took my hammer out to try and stop him, but when he saw what I was wearing, he laughed until there were tears rolling down his face. He even said to me, so you’re the Little Drunk Cat Guild’s number one powerhouse?

“I could tell he was making fun of me, so I lost my temper and grabbed his throat with one hand, bringing my hammer down with the other. I don’t know how many times I hit him either, but by the time I stopped, he was dead. Oh, yeah, I picked this up after he died too, and this, and this.”

Snickersnee took out a stack of Random Teleportation Scrolls, an old yellow scroll, and a Purple Quality ring.

“He dropped all three of these, but they don’t seem like much to me, so I was wondering who I should give them too. You’re just in time, here, take them.”

Li Yi was stunned.

He was not stunned by Snickersnee’s generosity. Snickersnee had always been like that. All he cared about was the quality of the weapons he forged, and he had no time for anything else, be it divine weapons or holy weapons.

Li Yi had plenty more Random Teleportation Scrolls too, so this stack did not make any difference to him. However, the other two items had him frozen solid.

That was a legendary High ATK Purple Quality Ring that increased the user’s ATK by 500. With this ring, his ATK would at least increase by 1,000, and if that damage was further multiplied by ten…

Of course, while the High ATK Purple Quality Ring was a nice surprise, it was the yellowed scrolls that rendered him speechless.

That was right, those old and yellowed scrolls were tradable Pantheon Ruins Teleportation Scrolls.

With these, any player could learn Territory Power!

Li Yi did not take the three items. He just looked at Snickersnee in confusion, asking, “You said you just bludgeoned Drifting Snow to death with your hammer?”

“That’s right.”

“Since when did you learn Territory Power?”

Snickersnee was lost. “But I never learned Territory Power.”

“No way. If you don’t know Territory Power, how could you have gotten past his Absolute Invincibility?”

“I don’t know either. When I attacked him, he just stood there and took it. He didn’t even fight back, he just kept laughing at me.”

“How about this? Take up your hammer and try it on me.”

Li Yi stood up.

“I could never…”

“I’m telling you to attack me, so just do it. C’mon, give it a try.”

“Well, alright.”

Snickersnee took out the) Dwarf King’s Hammer and walked up to Li Yi. Grabbing his neck with one hand, Snickersnee hesitated for a moment before he brought down his hammer, hard.

“Territory Activation!”

The golden light barrier spread rapidly from Li Yi’s body, instantly covering an area of 30 square yards and enveloping both him and Snickersnee.

Snickersnee’s movements slowed down, but he was still much better than Jiaojiao and the others. He merely slowed down, but the hammer in his hand could still come down on Li Yi.

“Clang!”

Li Yi took a hammer blow to the head, and the damage figures showed [−322].

“That’s not right, this isn’t working at all. If you hammered him like this, forget eighteen times, you wouldn’t be able to kill Drifting Snow even if you attacked him 180 times. Think carefully, what did you do back then?”

“Back then…”

Snickersnee scratched his head and tried hard to remember. After a long time, he abruptly smacked his head, and the hand wrapped around Li Yi’s neck suddenly glowed with a golden light. The hammer came down again.

“Clang!”

[−3563]

Li Yi felt disoriented, and his Territory’s range decreased by ten percent.

“Clang!”

Snickersnee brought down his hammer again, and the Territory light barrier shrank again…

Li Yi shoved Snickersnee away and shook his head. “That’s enough, you can stop now.”

The experiment clearly showed that Snickersnee had used Territory Power this time around.

“It’s a Territory Skill called Titan’s Grip. There’s no doubting it…”

Even after Li Yi told him, Snickersnee still did not get it. “Guild Master, what’s Titan’s Grip?”

“When you grab your opponent, you use the Strength of Titan. Titan is the servant of the ancient gods, and the strength Titan uses is a form of Territory Power. That’s why Titan’s Grip is also known as Territory Grip.”

There was nothing but confusion in Snickersnee’s eyes. It was evident that he had no idea what was happening either.

He did not understand, but Li Yi did. When he had grabbed Li Yi earlier, Li Yi suddenly and inexplicably felt helpless. This meant that Snickersnee had learned Titan’s Grip a long time ago.

It seemed like he must have been one of the seven Territory Masters the developers mentioned.

Titan’s Grip was very overwhelming. In the past life, the one who used this Territory Skill was one of Ten Great Main Tanks, Amber Sword Heart.

Once captured in his grip, the strength would be drained out of the target’s body. If Li Yi’s Territory Realm was not so much higher than Snickersnee’s, his Territory Power would have vanished as soon as he was caught.

Drifting Snow’s Territory Power was Absolute Invincibility, but that depended on the situation as well. Titan’s Grip was meant to capture the target and make them temporarily unable to use any Territory Power. Since he could not use Absolute Invincibility, it was no wonder that Drifting Snow had no choice but to hammered to death.

Li Yi sighed. “If you change classes now, you’ll definitely be able to join the God Wars in the future.”

“Change classes? I don’t like to fight, smithing is more my thing.” Snickersnee chuckled honestly.

Li Yi left, taking both the High ATK Purple Quality Ring and the Pantheon Ruins Teleportation Scrolls with him. He did not take the Random Teleportation Scroll, insisting that Snickersnee use them for himself. Snickersnee often went out mining, and the Random Teleportation Scroll could save him a lot of traveling time.

“He swings his hammer ten thousand times a day, could that be the secret to learning the Strength of Titan?”

Li Yi was still racking his brains over it as he left the Guild Map.

In the end, the only thing that made more sense would be that he learned Titan’s Grip through the constant hammering.

However, even if he declared this secret to the world, who else could replicate Snickersnee’s legendary feats?

He swung his hammer ten thousand times every day for two whole years, through rain and shine, without ever stopping. Li Yi readily admitted that he did not have that sheer determination…

Of course, even if constant hammering was one of the ways to learn Strength of Titan, and even if someone did replicate it, there was still a chance they would not be able to learn Titan’s Grip. Li Yi hypothesized that there was another factor to Snickersnee’s learning Strength of Titan aside from his tireless hammering. A lot of accidents happened during mining, for instance, and it would not be impossible for him to be lucky enough to dig up a teleportation door that led straight into the Pantheon Ruins…

“That’s a shame…”

Li Yi was not feeling bad for Snickersnee but for Unending Unmatched. Be it in the past life or this one, Unending Unmatched missed out on learning Titan’s Grip. Just like in the previous life, he chose Absolute Defense instead.

Li Yi tried to change that, but unfortunately, he still could not help Unending Unmatched in the end. His choice was exactly the same as it had been the past life.

As for the High ATK Purple Quality Ring, Li Yi chose to keep it for himself. However, he still had a locked Pantheon Ruins Teleportation Scroll that he had not used. This new tradable one was absolutely useless to him.

Li Yi started thinking. ‘Who should I give this to…?’

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