Published at 29th of November 2024 3:32 am

Chapter 256: “Death Ripple; Sweeps Across the Field Clearing Mobs 2

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As long as the Spiritual Energy value is sufficient, once this skill is activated, it can continue indefinitely. Although it’s an indiscriminate large-area AOE skill, it doesn’t harm the user or Undead creatures.

What’s more important is that this skill ignores dual resistance bonuses and directly attacks the spirit of living beings, only being counteracted by spirit protection spells and items.

Zi Liyuan, now a Third Order LV80, coupled with the temporary Bloodline Power amplification of 40% activated through dual cultivation with Number Two, has brought his Soul Value to 3878 points, and his Spiritual Energy value is as high as 499226 points.

An AOE skill covering a range of 3878 meters can deal 11246 points of Soul damage per second. As for the consumption of Spiritual Energy, nearly 500k, he can last 100 seconds, besides he can also pop pills to recover.

Therefore, within the Black Dragon Lair, in Zi Liyuan’s vision, a sea of blood-red numbers “-11246” appears every second, floating in the air.

Ordinary Dragon Beasts simply have no spirit protection spells or items. Those Bosses do have certain resistances, but not high, at most reducing the damage by about 10-20%.

Indeed, worthy of the dragon kind, inherently extraordinary, their level of life is much higher than that of humans, even coming with inborn spirit protection.

A soul damage of over 10k per second is not so easy for ordinary Dragon Beasts to endure. Hence, Zi Liyuan is like a super mobile harvester, leaving behind a trail of peacefully dead Dragon Beasts.

This also made it convenient for him to collect the corpses of Dragon Beasts. Bodiless corpses can be directly tossed into his backpack space, no need to piece together torn-apart bodies.

Mainly because the Epic Giant Beast Boss’s claws are too sharp, even if they’re restrained under Lord Zi’s control not to tear apart monster corpses actively, but a mere casual swing of those claws can still sever the bodies of Dragon Beasts into sections.

These Dragon Beasts’ corpses are far more valuable than those collected from dungeon spaces.

The corpses of monsters from the real world have many wonderful uses, the most important being, if they are not toxic, they can be made into various temporary attribute-boosting delicacies.

And for Dragon Beasts, which have the rare Giant Dragon bloodline, their blood, scales, and flesh are all ingredients that can be used to create a variety of items, equipment, alchemy, and so forth.

This is only for ordinary Dragon Beasts; the corpses of the Dragon-blooded offspring Bosses that happened to be killed are even more valuable.

Of course, in Zi Liyuan’s eyes, the bones from these Dragon-blooded offspring Bosses’ corpses are the materials with the greatest value to him.

The bones of these Bosses can be used to repair the damaged skeleton of the Bone Dragon, saving him a lot of time in searching for materials.

As they delved deeper into the Black Dragon Lair, not only the corpses of Dragon Beasts were found along the way, but also many other resources, the most abundant of which were various rare minerals and herbs, and even a few green elite treasure chests were discovered.

With the spread of “Death Ripple,” they basically steamrolled through the first floor of the Black Dragon Lair, where only dragon corpses were seen upon passing.

Compared to Skeletons and Zombies, these lower-class cannon fodder, the intelligence of Wraith Mages is not low, and they are already capable of assisting Zi Liyuan in his tasks.

So, the task of clearing the battlefield was taken over by several hundred Wraith Mages.

They scraped the ground three feet deep, not letting go of any suspicious object, all packaged and delivered to Zi Liyuan.

Soon enough, the Undead army passed through the first floor and arrived at the residential area of the Dragon-blooded offspring Bosses on the second floor.

There were still Dragon-blooded offspring Bosses stationed here, but not in large numbers, as most of them were taken out by the Black Dragon to snipe at Zi Liyuan.

Resulting in them being easily breached into their lair on Dragon Island, leaving their home unguarded, leading to the protection at home being so vacant that it couldn’t withstand the rampage of the Epic Giant Beast Bosses.

With the indiscriminate killing of the “Death Ripple,” most importantly, although the Epic Giant Beast Bosses have resurrected, they are still classified as Undead Bosses, so they are not affected by the Death Ripple.

However, in Zi Liyuan’s team, there are still living beings who suffer from the “Death Ripple,” which indiscriminately attacks the spirit of living beings, and that is the Demon Spider.

This summoned creature, summoned by an equipment-attached summoning skill, falls under the category of normal living beings and is not an Undead creature.

The most annoying part is, when the Demon Spider dies, it doesn’t leave behind a corpse but instead dissipates entirely, as if it had never existed at all.

Otherwise, Zi Liyuan would have long used the “Resurrection” skill to summon over a dozen Demon Spiders, these Epic Boss monsters, forming an Epic Boss squad, and why would he need to go to the Dragon Academy’s treasure vault, spending a huge amount of Contribution Value to get the corpses of the Epic Bosses.

In the second layer of the space, Zi Liyuan likewise discovered those dragon blood descendant BOSSes, still had clones present.

This indicated that all the BOSS monsters within the Black Dragon’s lair could clone themselves into six copies.

Such a technique must surely be due to some special treasure’s influence, and Zi Liyuan couldn’t dare to imagine how many times his power would soar if he managed to obtain it.

Therefore, while he cautiously advanced, he searched the surroundings with excited anticipation, not missing any corner, fearing he might overlook this valuable treasure.

The monsters guarding the Black Dragon’s lair weren’t numerous, nor did they have means to stop the ravaging epic giant beasts, so they quickly breached the second layer of space and arrived at the true third layer of the Black Dragon lair.

Of course, Zi Liyuan wouldn’t foolishly take the lead himself or carelessly charge into the third layer, instead, he sent a golden behemoth down first.

Monster lairs are not safe, not only do they have various guarding monsters, but also the lair’s own defenses.

The closer one gets to the heart of the monster lair, the stronger the defensive measures.

As soon as the golden behemoth entered the third layer, a strange energy bound it, and then a negative BUFF appeared on the golden behemoth.

All attributes -80%!

There was no duration time, so Zi Liyuan immediately had the golden behemoth return to the second layer, and the negative BUFF vanished as if it had never existed.

“Just covering the third layer with a negative BUFF effect, if a single epic BOSS were to invade the Black Dragon’s lair, it would probably just be delivering a meal to the black dragon group.”

He had originally thought that once the Black Dragon’s lair was without the Black Dragon’s presence, it would not be a concern, but he didn’t expect that the monster lair would have such weakening tactics.

“With this weakening tactic present, those three black dragons wouldn’t dare to return, which must mean they know that the weakening can’t affect the epic giant beasts.”

Surely there were limitations to this weakening; otherwise, if it truly reduced strength by eighty percent, with the strength of the Black Dragon Lord BOSS, it could completely contend with an epic giant beast BOSS weakened by eighty percent and even have a high chance of winning.

But the reality was, those black dragons didn’t dare to land and come to the rescue, they just watched as he successfully raided their home.

With an idea in mind, Zi Liyuan sent down two golden behemoths this time.

Then he noticed that the negative BUFF, which reduced all attributes by 80%, had split in half, affecting the two golden behemoths, but the effect of this negative status BUFF turned into a 40% reduction in all attributes!

“Shared evenly?”

So, Lord Zi sent down the two frost giants into the third layer again.

Instantly, the negative BUFF underwent another change, appearing on each giant beast with the effect now reduced to -20% on all attributes.

“Heh, no wonder those three black dragons don’t dare to return.”

Understanding the effect of this negative BUFF, Zi Liyuan didn’t hesitate to lead all his undead BOSSes into the third layer.

As more and more undead creatures entered, the negative BUFF effect became weaker and weaker, until it reached just -1% on all attributes and then it didn’t change any further.

“The limit is just -1% reduction, this monster lair isn’t up to much.”

Shaking his head, he strutted into the Black Dragon nest, and before his eyes, three massive mountains of gold coins appeared in Zi Liyuan’s sight.

“Shiny and glittering, truly befitting of a giant dragon, almost blinded my titanium alloy dog eyes.”

Within the vast mountains of gold coins, there were various jewels, equipment, materials, and items, and some unknown light source illuminated the entire mountain of gold coins brightly.

“I’ve struck it rich…”

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