Chapter 108

Blade's Edge Fjord is located in the north of the continent. The climate is dry and cold all year round. Although it is only mid-October in the game, the fjord is already covered with a thick layer of ice.

Blade-like peaks grow continuously. If players walk among them and their feet are not stable, they may easily fall off the blade mountain.

At the bottom of the mountain is a lake, which is connected to the northern ocean. Under normal circumstances, if you fall into the lake, you will lose at most 2,000 points of health, and you can still survive.

However, don't forget that it is early winter now, and the lakes in the fjord have long been frozen into ice by the low temperature. If a player falls into them, it would be no different from falling from a high altitude onto the concrete ground, and they would definitely die.

So after entering this area, Xia Mo must be extremely careful.

The address marked on the atlas was northeast of Blade's Edge Fjord, and the entrance to Blade's Edge Fjord was in the southwest corner. In other words, she had to cross the entire map diagonally to get there.

This was definitely a planned act of bad taste, Xia Mo complained in his heart.

As soon as people stepped into the first mountain, the blade leopard living there suddenly appeared from its cave.

The Blade Panther is generally around level 35. It is a magic attack monster and is not difficult to deal with. You just need to observe its skill pre-swing movements and avoid it in advance.

However, since there was ice under her feet and her boots did not have anti-slip properties, if she wanted to avoid the Blade Leopard's attack, the best way was not to run, but to roll on the ice.

Although it is not very elegant, it is indeed the best way to avoid the dangerous ice surface.

Thinking that there was no one around, Xia Mo didn't hesitate and just left!

After rolling out twice, she immediately used a skill. After throwing it, she saw the opponent moving forward, and continued to roll to the side. She repeated this process, and the Blade Leopard's blood was quickly reduced to 0, and something exploded on the spot.

Xia Mo looked over and was immediately happy. Except for a pair of pants, the rest were all ice resistance potions.

You should know that potions with resistance are very expensive, and there are only a few on the shelves. Basically, as soon as the pharmacist puts them on the stall every day, they are sold out in an instant.

Knowing this, Xia Mo hired the pharmacist Riding a Donkey to Watch a Turtle, paid him a salary, and asked him to produce detoxification, fire resistant and ice resistance potions on a regular basis every day.

Although before coming in, Qilu Kanwangba was quite unconfident in himself and almost believed that he could not survive the three-day trial period she gave him, but to Qilu Kanwangba's surprise, on the third day, he actually made a resistance potion that had never been successfully made before.

From that day on, Riding a Donkey to Watch a Turtle was determined to work hard in the guild.

Thanks to his hard work, the thing that Qingyaozhishang’s warehouse is not short of now is all kinds of potions.

But these all belong to the guild. As for Xia Mo personally, she actually doesn't have many bottles of resistance medicine in her backpack. Now that she has 6 bottles, wouldn't she be happy?

Blade Leopard also released a pair of pants, the attributes of which are average, but the highlight is that these pants come with a special attribute - [Anti-freeze]!

As the name suggests, wearing these pants will give players an anti-freeze buff, and they will not get frostbite even when walking in freezing weather.

This is the most valuable part of the pants. Xia Mo immediately accepted the pants and planned to transfer the attributes to his own equipment after learning the branch skills [Disassembly] and [Assembly] in forging.

Moving all the way to the northeast, Xia Mo continued to rely on his rolling skills to knock down more than ten Blade Leopards in succession.

The level difference between the player and the monster is more than 5 levels (or above), so there is cross-level experience. However, in front of her huge experience bar from level 30 to level 31, it is completely not enough.

This brings us to the upgrade system of "Protoss". If after the novice village, the difficulty of upgrading from level 10 to level 20 is like climbing one flight of stairs, and from level 20 to level 30 is like climbing the stairs of a building, then from level 30 onwards, the difficulty of upgrading each level is no less than climbing a ladder to heaven.

It’s not an exaggeration at all. We can calculate it based on the timeline.

In her previous life, Xia Mo stayed in the game for 5 years. It took her 5 years, and on the eve of the great war with the gods, her level just reached 100.

It is said that there is another ascension after level 100, which allows players to break through the level cap. Unfortunately, Xia Mo didn't see it at the time and died.

In any case, it takes 5 years to reach level 100, and this is when the upgrade speed is relatively fast. From this, we can see how difficult the upgrade path is after level 30 in "Protoss".

But difficulty is the meaning of challenge. Otherwise, if players can level up by simply killing monsters, how can their mental strength be improved?

With a bang, Xia Mo knocked down another Blade Leopard and obtained two bottles of ice resistance potion. He picked them up and continued to move forward, but before turning around the blade-like ridge in front, he suddenly heard the sound of fighting.

Xia Mo stopped and pricked up his ears to listen.

Judging from the frequency and number of skills released, there should be only one person on the ridge, but there seem to be quite a few monsters, so it's a one-on-many situation.

But it's a bit strange. Blade Leopards are not social monsters. Usually only one comes out at a time. Even if you are unlucky and run into several of their habitats in succession, there will only be 3 or 4 of them. But judging from the sounds coming from afar, there are definitely more than that number of monsters.

This is stirring up a hornet's nest, right? Who is so unlucky?

With a mentality of three parts curiosity and six parts watching the fun, Xia Mo quickly walked around the ridge, ready to go over and take a look.

In the middle of the steep snow-white mountain, there was a black figure on the slope running and throwing skills. Behind him was a huge leader wolf and more than a dozen smaller wolves.

Because of the distance and the reflective and dazzling ice surface, Xia Mo could not see the man's face and ID clearly. He could only infer from the skills he released that he was a warlock.

Warlocks are positioned as a support profession, specifically responsible for adding buffs to themselves and their teammates, or applying debuffs to enemies and monsters.

Although there are output skills, they are not many, so warlocks basically work in teams to clear maps. Xia Mo thinks it is rare to see someone like the one in front of him clearing monsters of higher levels alone.

Just as she took a few steps forward, intending to see who this person was, the other person seemed to sense someone approaching and turned his head before her.

The two looked at each other and Xia Mo stopped suddenly.

Oh, who did she think the other person was? It turned out to be the president of the First Guild, Heiyu Qingtian.

As the richest player in "Protoss", the equipment he wears is top-notch among the top-notch. With these self-defense items, Xia Mo feels that even if he jumps off the mountain now, this set of luxurious equipment can keep him alive.

No wonder he dared to come here alone to kill monsters. Xia Mo clicked his tongue, and his previous interest of three parts curiosity and six parts watching the fun suddenly disappeared.

However, although she no longer had the desire to watch the fun, she did want to see how Black Domain Skyrim, who was at the same level as her, could perform in this outdoor PVE with the help of top-level equipment.

So he simply put his hands into his sleeves and squatted down on the spot.

When a person is doing something seriously, especially when this person deliberately avoids the crowd and out of sight and comes to a deserted map to kill monsters, this person absolutely does not want to be discovered.

It would be bad enough if he just noticed it, but it would be even more annoying if the person stared at him, as if he was here just to stare at him.

This is how Heiyu Qingtian felt at this moment.

He finally found the location where the silver treasure chest was hidden, dug it out, and finally dragged the magic wolf guarding the treasure chest to this relatively empty slope, ready to kill them one by one. But when he turned around, he found that there was a person not far away staring at him intently. How could he be in a good mood?

Although the things in the treasure chest had been put into his backpack, she couldn't take them away even if she wanted to, but Heiyu Qingtian didn't want to hand over these magic wolves to her.

So he swung the warlock's staff faster, first using control skills to control the wolves, and then throwing various debuffs. The wolves were hit and fell into a trembling state. Seeing this, Heiyu Qingtian threw out the group attack skill [Demon Slavery] without hesitation, and dozens of wolves quickly fell to the ground.

As soon as the wolves that were pestering him were killed, he immediately focused his attention on dealing with the leader of the pack.

Warlocks only have two single-target attack skills - one is normal attack, and the other is [Soul Extraction].

These two alone would definitely not be able to take down the wolf leader with extremely high health, but Heiyu Qingtian was very good at using his advantage as a warlock. He did not choose to fight the wolf leader head-on, but used various auxiliary moves to control it, and only attacked after the control was stable.

Xia Mo squatted beside and could see clearly that the wolf was at least 10 levels higher than her and Heiyu Qingtian. With such a level difference, it was easy for players to miss their skills.

In the case of too many misses, in addition to improving your own skills, the only thing left is to improve your hit rate, and the hit rate is linked to the [Balance] in your personal attributes.

According to Xia Mo's observation just now, the balance of Black Domain Sky-lifting should be very high, otherwise it would be impossible to have such a high hit rate under the level suppression.

Since Heiyu Qingtian must control the leader wolf first and then attack, his efficiency in killing monsters is naturally lower than that of a pure output profession like Xia Mo.

But Xia Mo was patient and squatted quietly the whole time until the leader wolf finally fell down. She then stood up with her slightly sore legs.

As she stood up, Heiyu Qingtian suddenly walked towards her.

"Want to form a team?"

Xia Mo looked at him, smiling: "Why, you're not worried about me stealing your monster?"

The meaning of her words was too obvious. She was mocking Heiyu Qingtian's previous thoughts of being wary of her.

Facing her ridicule, Hei Yu Qing Tian did not hide his feelings and said bluntly: "You stared at me just now, which made me very uncomfortable, so I didn't want to give the magic wolf to you."

Xia Mo suddenly laughed.

Hei Yu Qing Tian raised his eyebrows: "What are you laughing at?"

Xia Mo: "The leader of the No. 1 Guild of Xiaotangtang also has some emotions~"

Black Domain Sky-lifting: "..."

"I am a human being, not a machine."

Xia Mo: "But your image in the outside world is that of a cold and commanding machine."

Black Domain Sky: "...That's their illusion."

Xia Mo: Ha, what an illusion~

This guy almost had ice cubes embedded in his face, and he still has the nerve to think that others are having an illusion?

Shrugging, Xia Mo didn't want to waste time on this topic and responded to his previous proposal: "We can form a team, but I don't have much time, only one hour."

Black Domain Sky: "No problem."

A team of two people is much more efficient than one person. Looking at Xia Mo charging forward and killing monsters, and the experience bar that kept rising, Heiyu Qingtian couldn't help but bring out his hidden idea.

After giving her a buff that enhanced her attack, he asked, "Do you really intend to stay in Qingyao for the rest of your life?"

Xia Mo smiled lightly, knowing that he invited her to join a team not to gain experience, but to get her ideas, and he had other intentions.

"I think I told you that I don't like your management style."

Hei Yu Qing Tian frowned slightly: "I know. But we can make concessions for you."

Give in? Xia Mo jumped up and blasted away two Blade Leopards in the distance, then stopped and looked back at him: "Look, you said you'd give in, which means you still won't change the entire guild."

Hei Yu Qing Tian: "Of course not. A large guild is like a group company, with thousands of people to manage. If we adopt the loose model of your Qing Yao Zhishang, the whole guild will be in chaos."

"So this is why I don't want to join." Xia Mo said with a smile, "I don't like rules and regulations, I don't like being bound by them. I believe you don't like members like me either, because I'm difficult to manage. To you, I'm like a time bomb that can cause trouble at any time. Am I right?"

Heiyu Qingtian's expression changed slightly, as if he was surprised that she could see through his thoughts.

Xia Mo ignored the flash of surprise on Heiyu Qingtian's face and continued, "Qingyao Zhishang means a lot to me personally. This is something that no other guild can replace."

Having said that, how could Heiyu Qingtian still not understand what she meant? She was determined to stay in Qingyaozhishang. No matter how many concessions he made or how generous the benefits he offered, she would not come.

"In that case," he pursed his lips, "the Black Domain Kingdom and Qingyao should form an alliance directly."

Forming an alliance is no small matter. Xia Mo did not agree immediately, but said, "I need to go back and discuss it with the president."

Even forming an alliance with the number one guild on the list required negotiation...

This time it was Heiyu Qingtian who laughed.

Only she dared to speak to him in this tone. If it were anyone else, he would have raised his hand and killed them in a second.

Most powerful people have tempers, but Hei Yu Qing Tian was not annoyed: "Okay, I hope to hear good news from you."

After one hour of monster hunting, Heiyu Qingtian disbanded the team as promised. Xia Mo left the team without looking back and headed straight to the northeast.

However, just as he arrived at the designated location mentioned in the atlas, a system message suddenly floated over his head.

[White Tower City is under attack! White Tower City is under attack! All warriors from the continent are requested to quickly gather at White Tower City! Attention, if White Tower City falls, humanity will lose the pure land of the western continent!]

White Tower City? Lost the continent? What the hell is going on?!

The moment he saw the message, Xia Mo quickly opened the world channel, and the screen was full of messages popping up.

[Help! A lot of orcs and winged people are attacking from the west! Everyone, hurry back to defend!]

[I hereby call on all players on the mainland to quickly come to the defense! The Orcs are too powerful, and we can't hold our own with just the people from the city!]

The Orcs, the Winged People... conquered the territory...

Something that never happened in the previous life happened in this life. There must be a player who triggered some task, which led to two alien races attacking the human city!

This is a battle between races, which is different from the previous siege by skeleton monsters.

When a city is attacked by monsters, the worst case scenario is destruction. Later on, players can collectively take on tasks and rebuild the city bit by bit. However, if it is occupied by alien races, then as the system announcement says, the entire White Tower City and the surrounding land will become someone else's territory.

If a territory is lost, the NPCs in the territory will either be strangled by aliens or forced to submit to them.

Once the strangled person dies, he will not be resurrected, which means that this NPC is gone forever. If there is an important NPC among them, it will have a huge adverse impact on the players and the entire continent.

And if you surrender to a foreign race, it will be even more miserable.

The last thing players want to see is their own heads becoming enemy combat power.

In short, the above-mentioned impacts are only part of the impact. If Baita City is really occupied, the losses on the human race will be difficult to measure!

Thinking of the several maps of Baita City and the surrounding areas outside the city, Xia Mo frowned, immediately pulled out the teleportation scroll, and went to the Black Bear Forest first.

In the guild channel, Qingshui has begun calling on everyone to come for support.

[White Tower City is the most important line of defense west of the Royal City. The city must not be breached! Everyone, head to White Tower City immediately. No delays are allowed! ! !]

Qingshui has never said anything harsh in the guild, and today is the first time, which shows how critical the situation is.

Xia Mo knew that time could not be wasted, and originally wanted to send him a private message to tell him that he would be late, but since he really had no time to spare, he had to give up and dived into the black bear forest.