Chapter 64: Dark Valley
Ma Yingjie spent 1,400 gold coins at the System Hotel and bought 14 bottles of Monkey Wine.
After old man Kerila inspected the goods and passed them, Ma Yingjie received his advancement task.
System prompt: You have reached level 40, triggering the Necromancer's advanced quest. Now please select the difficulty of the quest.
Carilla threw a dice with e written on all six sides to Ma Yingjie, and while pouring wine into her mouth, she patted her chest and assured him: "Don't worry, even if your luck is extremely bad, you will not miss the E-level task randomly."
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With the help of Carilla, Ma Yingjie successfully got the simplest advanced task.
System prompt: You have randomly received an E-level task. You are lucky and will be rewarded with a lucky ring.
[Lucky Ring] (special white equipment) It is said to be a ring blessed by the goddess of luck. Due to the poor quality of the ring itself, it is of lower grade and is a kind of special equipment.
Lucky+1
Requirement Level: 40
The lucky ring, although it is of the lowest level, special equipment is something that can't be sought after. Without saying a word, Ma Yingjie replaced a rubbish ring and put on this lucky ring.
A little bit of luck may not seem like much, but for Ma Yingjie, whose luck value is full, even a little more is very valuable. However, what happened next hit Ma Yingjie hard.
System prompt: Because your luck value is full, the properties of the lucky ring cannot be activated.
Hearing this thunderbolt, Ma Yingjie had the urge to beat the system, but of course it was just a thought.
Unable to use it, Ma Yi lost interest immediately. It would be a good idea to keep it. It would be a good thing to trick a few young and ignorant girls someday.
Of course, Ma Yingjie, who is so upright, would never do this. He would sell it for money. Suddenly, a pretty figure appeared in Ma Yingjie's mind. She has plenty of money, so who else could he cheat on? After making up his mind, Ma Yingjie put the lucky ring into the space of the Betrayer's Ring.
Seeing that less than half an hour had passed and there was still a long time before the withering redbud flower's "a while", Ma Hao flipped through the task records, which showed the following:
Advanced task: Go to the bottom of the dark valley and hunt down one hundred zombie claws.
Below is a line of small green notes: The zombies in the Dark Valley (23476,32563) are level monsters with poisoning attributes.
Turn off the communicator, so that he would not be extinguished by the withering Bauhinia flowers before he finished the task. Ma Hao simply turned off the communicator. In this way, he would not be taken advantage of by the hidden rules, and he could even turn the tables and bring himself some extra benefits.
Looking at the coordinates of the Dark Valley in the mission introduction, Lu Hao set the location of the portal there, gently turned the Ring of the Betrayer, and Lu Hao disappeared in a burst of white light.
Kerila, who was originally immersed in the Monkey Village, showed an ecstatic expression on her shriveled face after seeing Ma Yingjie's figure disappear from her sight. This expression was much crazier than when she saw Ma Yingjie brought the Monkey Wine just now.
"Hahahahahahaha, I finally found it, I finally found it. Second Brother, your wish that you have been looking forward to for many years is about to come true."
Kerella laughed ecstatically, her laughter piercing through the job transfer hall and reaching the sky. The players who were changing jobs in the job transfer hall were all looking at Kerella who had suddenly gone crazy in confusion.
Almost all mages know that there is a crazy old man in the job transfer hall. He calls himself a great magician, but he wears a tattered robe that no one would pick up if it was thrown into the garbage dump.
Apart from a few task fanatics who followed him around for a few days and then found that there were no tasks to take, no one paid any attention to him anymore.
However, no one noticed that at this moment, there was a glimmer in Kerila's originally turbid eyes. And if someone approached Kerila at this moment, they would believe that he was not just talking nonsense when he said that he was a great magician.
The two magical elements of water and fire began to gather around Kerella. These two seemingly incompatible magical elements magically merged together around Kerella, forming a transparent gelatinous substance.
The fusion of the two magics caused some changes, and soon turned into a thin light and disappeared.
Anyone who has read the memory crystal about the holy war will find that this is very similar to the great magician Kaired & Labek who killed 30,000 undead on the battlefield alone a thousand years ago, except that Kaired & Labek had died in the holy war a thousand years ago.
Ma Yingjie would never know what kind of changes would be brought to the Savage Continent if he accidentally revealed to Kerila that he had the Ring of the Betrayer.
"The staff that has been sleeping for a thousand years, it's time for you to come into view again." Kerila said in a voice that even someone standing in front of him could not hear.
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Ma Yingjie was teleported to the bottom of the dark valley in a burst of white light.
System prompt: You have entered the dark valley.
Through the thin sunlight at the bottom of the valley, Ma Yingjie looked at the corpses scattered around him with a look of indifference on his face. Although this place was also disgusting, for Ma Yingjie, who had experienced the terrible conditions in the Land of the Dead, this was nothing but child's play.
Kicking away the head of some unknown creature not far from him, Ma Yingjie began to look for his prey.
There was a gust of cold wind and the fishy smell was so familiar.
This was one of the battlefields of the Holy War thousands of years ago. A small group of the best human and dwarf warriors were buried here forever, and buried with them were nearly ten times as many dark creatures.
The battle at the bottom of Dark Valley became a cancer in the hearts of all dark rulers. That war turned this small valley, which was originally full of birdsong and flowers, into a hell on earth. All this has become history, but no one could have predicted that the same war would break out here again in the near future.
In order to reproduce the race, not an inch of land will be given up.
A zombie was wandering in an open area not far away, and Ma Yingjie threw a look at it.
[Zombies] (Ordinary monsters) During the Holy War, a large number of humans and dwarf warriors rested here. When the horn of darkness sounded again, this place was cursed by dark creatures. These heroes that humans and dwarves were once proud of betrayed their beliefs and degenerated into unscrupulous zombies.
Rating: 40
Health: 2000
Attack: 300
Defense: 220
Features: Slow movements, high resistance to physical attacks.
Skills: Corpse poison, rage.
Corpse Poison: Causes 100 points of damage to the enemy at once, and loses 10 points of health per second, lasting for ten seconds (Note: Different monsters sometimes have the same skills, but the specific content is slightly different.)
Fury: Chance to occur, double the attack, lasts for thirty seconds.
Looking at the attributes of the zombies, Ma Yi directly threw a bone dungeon at the roaming zombies.
Two bony hands broke through the soil on the ground and tightly grasped the zombie's ankles. The rotten clothes and armor grasped by the bony hands were instantly shattered into pieces.
"howl."
The zombie was suddenly attacked, and let out a shrill scream, waving the weapon in his hand to chop at the bone hand.
With a "crack", one of the bony hands turned into powder under the zombie's sword.
Before the zombie could move again, Lu Hao cast a weakening spell on him again. Suddenly, a layer of black gas covered the zombie's body, and the zombie's various attributes were reduced.
"Great God of Death, I use my blood as a medium to summon your boundless power to slow down the sinners before me - the art of slowness!"
The slowness spell acted on the zombies again, and Ma Yingjie began to cleanse the zombies with the light of death.
Each attack would take away more than 500 blood from the zombie. After cutting off another bone hand, the poor zombie rushed towards Lu Hao step by step.
After Lu Hao used the fourth Light of Death, the zombies fell down unwillingly. During this period, the zombies only walked a distance of six to seven meters.
Looking at the silver coins dropped from the zombie, Ma Yingjie curled his lips. It was another evil chance that this zombie did not explode with the Zombie Claw.
"Undead spirits of the dark world, I, as the inheritor of darkness, summon you. Gather your broken bones into spears and your heads into shields. Sweep this filthy world and let the majesty of Hades shine upon the entire world - summon the Black Knight."
After summoning a black knight on the corpse of the zombie, Lu Hao began to look for the next target. Lu Hao did not summon skeleton warriors again for the zombies. These zombies were obviously not strong. With his own death light and the black knight's charge, he could easily deal with a zombie.
"Wow."
Bones were broken all over the ground, and a zombie fell down. Besides the silver coins, there was a shriveled hand bone under his body.
[Zombie Claws] (Quest Item) These evil hands have killed many humans, and the sins they have committed can only be repaid with blood.
I put the zombie claw into the ring space and looked at the task progress display, which turned into 1/100.
One percent of the work was done, and Ma Yingjie walked towards the bottom of the valley. After a while, the number of zombies in front of him began to increase, from one or two to four or five in a group. These zombies were just enough for Ma Yingjie to kill, and they were not too dangerous.
After the Black Knight was grabbed and dismembered by the zombies, Ma Yingjie received a clear and pleasant system prompt.
System prompt: Your proficiency in summoning the Black Knight is full, and you will receive a reward of one increase in the number of summons.
Hearing the system prompt, Ma Yingjie looked at the skill bar with great joy. Sure enough, in the column for summoning the Black Knight, the number of summons changed from one to two.
The Black Knight is undoubtedly the most powerful of all the puppets that Ma Yingjie currently has. The effect of one Black Knight and two Black Knights is far more than as simple as one plus one equals two, so there is nothing to be surprised about if they equal three.
Summoning two black knights, looking at the black knights who looked slightly different but were of the same size, Ma Yingjie nodded with satisfaction.
The stronger the puppet is, the stronger he will be. With the extra help, Ma Yingjie is of course in a good mood.
Thanks to the addition of fresh blood, Ma Yingjie completed the requirements of the advanced task in a short while.
Looking at the task progress bar showing 100/100, as well as the dozens of extra gold coins and some blue or white equipment in the ring, Ma Yingjie turned on the communicator.
As soon as he opened it, the message from the withered redbud flower appeared in Ma Yingjie's sight. The content was too violent, so Ma Yingjie ignored it, deleted it, and then replied with provocative words.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time, but you didn't show up. What can I do? We're leveling up in the wild, so why are you so anxious?"
After sending the message, Ma Yingjie activated the transmission function of the Betrayer's Ring.
What will be the advanced profession of the Necromancer? Ma Yingjie was full of expectations.
He appeared in the job transfer hall in a flash of white light. Looking at the person opposite him tasting the monkey-brewed Carilla, Ma Ying-jeou smiled and said hello: "Hi, old man, I'm back."
"Pfft!"
Carilla was startled by the sudden appearance of Ma Yingjie, and she spat out all the wine before she could even swallow it.