Although the outcome is good, Kalia's fate would be quite different if she couldn't awaken Starfire Stream Slash.

It's very likely that his Azure Shield couldn't keep up with Lia, causing Lia to be struck by the Serpent Chieftain's scimitar.

Back then, even serious injuries were considered a blessing from the World Tree Goddess.

“You rushed in pretty fast just now.” Linda grabbed Lia, who was trying to pounce on the mountain of spoils, and said coldly, “There’s nothing for you. Stay out of the way.”

"Huh? Why?" Leah was annoyed.

"Don't you understand?" Linda told Lia to figure it out herself.

He went ahead to check the equipment.

He grabbed the red jewelry from the top of the hill and glanced at it.

[Item: The Serpent Chieftain's Fiery Red Eyes]

[Level: 31]

[Quality: Orange - Rare and Exclusive]

[Attributes: Strength +1000, Fire Damage +15%]

[Rating: 2221. The eyeballs of the deceased snake-man chieftain, transformed into ornaments by some unknown force. Staring at them, one sometimes sees them moving, though it's unclear whether that's just an illusion.]

Wow, it has a rating of over 2000.

Linda's eyelids twitched.

It's even stronger than my own epic two-star weapon, the Royal Sword.

Despite having anticipated it, the powerful energy fluctuations emanating from this fiery red ornament still left him in awe.

As expected of a star-tier equipment.

Adventurers have a level 30 requirement, and the same applies to equipment.

Once you cross level 30, the attribute boost is incomparable.

The equipment that dropped was exactly three pieces. Linda had already decided to give it to Lia, but she didn't show it on her face and indifferently put the accessory into her spatial ring.

He peeked at Leah, only to see her pouting thoughtfully, instead of yelling about why she wasn't given any equipment.

Linda nodded with satisfaction.

He turned his gaze to the second piece of equipment:

[Item: Serpent Chieftain's Frost Staff]

[Level: 31]

[Quality: Epic Two-Star]

[Attributes: Magic Power +1400, Defense +100, Ice Damage +10%]

[Rating: 2664. The Serpent Chieftain's favorite weapon, a staff topped with a serpent's head, containing a blue orb filled with cold mist. Looking at it, one can feel winter.]

"The ice staff... selling it would incur a loss in transaction fees, so it's better to give it to Monica."

Linda put away the ice staff, secretly deciding that she needed to hurry up and find Monica and Lulu.

There are 50 dark-colored tree fruits, and about 150 more remain unpicked at the snakeman camp.

In the days to come, as long as you avoid monsters level 40 and above, there shouldn't be too much danger.

Linda was slightly relieved to see that all the team members' avatars were lit up on the squad panel.

The last piece of equipment was a pair of slender, cyan boots made of snake scales.

[Item: The Serpent Chieftain's Legs]

[Level: 31]

[Quality: Epic Two-Star]

[Attributes: Strength +500, Agility +100]

[Rating: 2419. These appear to be boots, but they also resemble legs; perhaps only the wearer can give them a fair assessment. It's worth noting that the scales shimmer with the ripples of wind, enhancing your agility.]

Agility is a valuable attribute.

Linda herself is a support character with slow movement speed, so increasing her agility can effectively improve her combat capabilities.

After the magic circuit was connected, the deep purple light on the boots subsided and transformed into abundant energy that entered the body.

Linda's previous boots only increased agility by 30 points, but after switching to these epic boots, she immediately felt much lighter on her feet.

"As expected of an epic-level piece of equipment," he thought to himself.

The remaining loot includes 57 purple gold coins, some ordinary gold coins, and one level 33 fire-epic two-star magic core.

In addition to what Linda obtained from killing Senlong earlier.

His spatial ring contained materials worth over 10 million gold coins!

This excludes the Frost Staff and the Forest Dragon's Fang skill book that I've already used.

With these resources, once the Greater Rift opens, the Luanwei Flower Squad will easily break through level 14 and become Iron-level.

Linda's lips involuntarily curled up.

Three years ago, his first small goal after joining Xueyan was to ensure that all members were safe and become steel-level.

It's finally going to happen.

The only thing that's disheartening is that the team members have been replaced.

Linda walked towards the remaining snake-man captains, threw out a venom orb, and charged forward with her sword, hacking wildly.

The Snakeman Captain is level 30, but he is only a blue rare monster with 50,000 HP and his defense is far inferior to that of the Snakeman Chieftain.

Corroded by the venom orb, the snake-man captain's life barrier rapidly thinned.

Linda donned epic-grade boots and moved with the speed of the wind; the snake-man captain's longsword couldn't even touch him.

Even if his swordsmanship is not particularly outstanding, he can still win by overwhelming his attribute values.

With Tasia's magic cannon providing support from behind, Linda killed three snake-man captains in just one minute.

Wiping the blood off his sword, Linda glanced at the message box in the lower right corner of his vision.

[System Notification: Defeat 3 Snakeman Captains, gain 6000 Mysterious Points and 6000 Diamonds (Additional resource buff in effect during the closed Greater Rift)]

[Current Balance: Mystery Points, Diamonds]

Seeing the long string of diamond balances, Linda smiled silently.

After defeating the Forest Dragon and the closure of the Greater Rift, the monster hunts of the past few days have brought his diamond count to a terrifying 2.6 million.

If you exchange these diamonds for [Experience Guidance Tickets], it will be enough to fill any team member's slot.

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