Chapter 46
The first thing Xia Mo did when he returned to the royal city was to find Matthew to get his weapons back.
"I thought you didn't want this weapon anymore." Matthew smiled shyly as he accepted the balance.
Xia Mo smiled and said, "I was delayed yesterday and only had time to return to the royal city today."
As he said this, he clicked on the weapon attributes and his expression suddenly froze.
Wait, she only enchanted two items, why does the Star Staff have three enchantment entries?
In addition to her own [Dragon's Reverse Scale] and [Deep Sea Pearl], there is also a new enchantment entry below - [Rhino Horn].
[Rhino Horn: Installed on weapons or equipment, it can increase the durability of weapons or equipment by 50 points (applicable to any profession)]
Xia Mo's eyebrows moved slightly: "Did you help me put this on?"
Matthew looked at her uncertainly: "Don't you like this?"
Xia Mo shook his head: "No."
It was a good thing that the durability of the weapon could be increased, so that the Star Staff in her hand could last a little longer before she found a better weapon.
However, she did not quite understand Matthew's approach.
She only got 50 silver coins for enchanting two items, which is not even enough to cover the daily rent of Matthew's shop. Now they have also enchanted her with a rhino horn. This business... won't the town of Buluo lose money?
After thinking for a moment, he took out another 15 silver coins and said, "Here, money for enchanting the rhino horn."
Unexpectedly, Matthew pushed the money in front of her and said, "No, I'm giving it to you on my own accord. It's free."
He paused, then pointed to the three bows hanging on the wall. "Without you taking care of my business yesterday, I wouldn't have been able to get these three orders on the wall. The rhino horn is my thank you gift, please accept it."
[Gain Matthew's Favorability +5]
Xia Mo understood and smiled faintly: "Thank you."
"You're welcome. It's my pleasure."
After leaving the shop, Xia Mo prepared to go out of town to kill monsters, but unexpectedly he ran into Ms. Delia on the way. Thinking about Matthew asking her to help express his gratitude yesterday, Xia Mo stopped and conveyed Matthew's gratitude to Delia.
[Successfully complete Matthew's request, experience +500, silver +2]
Delia sighed, her tone rather regretful. "Matthew is a good boy, but unfortunately, he doesn't have a good mentor, so he's had a rough time in the royal city these years. Young man, if you could find him a mentor with both good character and integrity, it would be of great help."
[Delia's request: Find a suitable master for Matthew]
Compared to Matthew's simple errands, Delia's task was obviously much more difficult.
However, Xia Mo is quite happy to take on these tasks. After all, maybe one day she will trigger a special reward?
"Okay, Ms. Delia, if there's a chance, I'll definitely introduce Matthew to you."
He politely agreed and took the task first. After that, Xia Mo continued to rush out of the city.
Her task today is to train her level to 14 and ensure that she does not fall out of the first tier. If she has spare time, she can gain some experience points and train her two talent skills together.
Half an hour later, Xia Mo arrived at the Black Bear Forest on horseback.
As the name suggests, there are many black bears in this map. In order to facilitate movement, Xia Mo immediately put away his mount as soon as he entered the woods.
The reason for choosing this place is that, firstly, it is close to the royal city and can be reached in half an hour by horseback riding; secondly, the black bears in the [Black Bear Forest] are generally around level 19-21, which is a level higher than her level 13.
Since ancient times, people have had more experience in leapfrogging, which will undoubtedly increase her upgrade speed with the greatest efficiency.
Oh, and of course there is a third reason – there are fewer people.
Apart from clearing dungeons and some unavoidable team missions, Xia Mo prefers to be a lone wolf in the rest of the time. After all, there are more troubles when there are more people around, and she doesn't want to waste her limited energy on boring social interactions.
Take out your weapons and start fighting!
Aiming at a huge black furry figure in front of him, Xia Mo launched an attack from a distance.
The black bear was enraged by her, turned around, bared its teeth, and rushed towards her angrily.
Xia Mo was well prepared for this. She climbed up the vines next to her and quickly reached a high place. Then she stood on a branch that was thick enough and swung her weapon again and again.
The black bear howled loudly after being hit by the skill, but at the same time it could do nothing to the human on the tree. It could only keep clinging to the tree trunk, helpless and furious.
After about seven or eight minutes, the black bear's health bar was reduced to zero, and it fell to the ground with a whoosh, and a bunch of things exploded.
Xia Mo jumped down from the tree, took a look, and found that in addition to the regular potions, there were also various pharmaceutical materials such as bear paws, bear bones, bear skins, and bear tails.
Xia Mo: Very good, the pharmacist genes from my previous life are starting to stir.
In the end, she suppressed her slightly excited emotions and put the potion and pharmaceutical materials into her backpack.
Although I won't have the chance to use these things to make medicine in this life, I can still exchange them for a little money in a business.
Following this rhythm, Xia Mo knocked down more than 10 black bears in succession, and his experience points continued to rise.
The black bears refreshed relatively slowly, usually only one appeared every 10 minutes or so. Soon, Xia Mo lost control and all the black bears within a 20-meter radius were refreshed.
After thinking about it, she decided to try going deep into the woods, and at the same time, released the little divine beast Jingjing.
As soon as the semen landed on the ground, it immediately rubbed against her trouser legs.
Xia Mo lowered his head and noticed that the place where it rubbed his calf was higher than before. His face was full of joy: "You have grown taller?"
Jingjing howled, as if agreeing with her.
Xia Mo bent down and touched its head. It felt a little bigger than before, and its fur had become a little harder. "Are you still hungry? I still have Babuli rats in my backpack."
A qualified master can face any fear for his battle pet.
Although she was full of disgust towards the Babuli rat, it was one of Jingjing's favorite rations after all, so no matter how much she hated it, she still killed ten more before leaving the mine, just enough to fill up a whole backpack slot.
Hearing that there was still rat meat, Jing Jing immediately raised his tail happily. Seeing this, Xia Mo threw out two of them and said, "Fill your stomach first. I'll give you new ones after I finish my work."
Appropriately painting a rosy picture can help stimulate the enthusiasm of the little beasts to work.
After it had filled its stomach, the man and the beast stepped into the depths.
The reason why they were so cautious and even specially pulled out Jingjing to participate in the battle was that there was a mutated elite black bear deep in the [Black Bear Forest]. Not only was its level higher than that of ordinary black bears, at level 28, its attack power was also extremely high and its speed was very fast, which was completely inconsistent with its clumsy appearance.
She had never directly fought against this mutant elite black bear that year, but she was fortunate enough to watch it from the sidelines.
The feeling from the outside is that it is very tragic.
The two players were pinned to the ground by the black bear the entire time. Furthermore, because they weren't bound to their city stones, they could only rise from the spot after death. The black bear, having mutated and possessing a modicum of intelligence, saw that the two humans could only be revived from the spot, so it immediately stopped moving and remained by the corpses.
The two players were tortured terribly. Finally, Xia Mo couldn't bear it anymore and cast an invincible holy light on them, and then rescued them from the Black Bear Forest.
Thinking back to what happened back then, Xia Mo found it funny.
But she won't meet them this time, because from the timeline point of view, she entered the Black Bear Forest much earlier than last year. It is estimated that the two players have not entered the royal city yet.
It’s good that no one disturbs her, so she doesn’t get distracted.
As he walked and thought, a low roar came from the dark cave in front of him. It sounded like a tiger's roar or a dragon's roar. In short, the sound scared the birds near the cave entrance and they fluttered away.
Here it comes!
The target appeared from the cave entrance, and Xia Mo immediately launched an attack, using normal attacks, star shock, starlight, and comet storm. Except for the only group attack skill, Star Destruction, which was useless, she used all the skills she could use!
Jingjing also nimbly rushed to the black bear's feet and gave it a burst of skills!
The mutant elite black bear was hit so hard that it went into a rage. Suddenly, it dropped to the ground on all fours, with the strong muscles on its back arched high.
Xia Mo remembered this action, which was very similar to the warrior's [Charge] skill, and he could rush up almost in the blink of an eye.
If the player cannot dodge, he will be hit by the bear's paw like the two people back then, losing half of his blood, and at the same time he will fall into a coma and be unable to move.
What happens if you faint in front of a monster?
It goes without saying.
There was no way Xia Mo would let himself fall into such an extremely dangerous passive state, so the moment he saw his back arched, he immediately took medicine and retreated!
At the same time, he commanded his battle pet: "Jingjing, retreat!"
boom!
The black bear really rushed forward like a cannonball!
Fortunately, she retreated quickly enough and the black bear didn't hit her, but instead hit a tree behind her.
The trunk snapped and split in two.
The force is mutual. The tree was smashed, and the black bear itself was not much better off. Not only did a -100 damage value appear above its head, but it even felt dizzy and started spinning in place.
This is the opportunity Xia Mo was waiting for.
Without hesitation, she immediately ran and attacked from seven or eight meters behind the black bear.
After 3 seconds, the black bear recovered from its dizziness and turned to run towards her.
Seeing this, Xia Mo quickly withdrew his hand and ran away, while Jingjing ran and jumped on the tree.
She was like a nimble little snake, constantly moving among the trees.
No matter how agile the huge mutant elite black bear was, it was no match for her. Gradually, the distance between it and Xia Mo widened.
Xia Mo looked back, then suddenly stopped, turned around a tree next to her, and ran back the same way.
No one knew why she did this except Xia Mo herself.
This black bear is not an ordinary monster. It has some intelligence. Just now, Xia Mo pulled it out to try whether it would keep chasing him.
If she continued to chase it, she would pull it to an area with denser trees so that she could use the terrain to hide and attack; if she didn't continue to chase it, she would have to go back quickly to prevent the monster from giving up chasing her.
As it turned out, after the black bear noticed that she was running farther and farther away, it had already shown signs of giving up the chase.
In the wild monster setting of "Protoss", if the monster voluntarily gives up the pursuit, the damage previously dealt by the player will be restored to the full value after the system refreshes.
This means that if she doesn't turn back, her previous attack will be in vain.
That's why Xia Mo ran back quickly after seeing that the black bear was showing signs of trouble.
As the distance was shortened again, the black bear roared and chased her again.
With the experience from last time, Xia Mo now knew how to deal with it.
She circled back to the cave entrance in an S shape and deliberately stopped at a certain place. Seeing an opportunity, the black bear once again launched an angry straight charge.
However, Xia Mo had planned this time. She didn't even drink the medicine and dodged it.
The black bear slammed into the tree behind her again.
-100!
dizziness!
Two groups of words pop up at the same time.
Taking advantage of the 3 seconds when the black bear was stunned, Xia Mo threw out 5 skills in a row. At the same time, Jing Jing also launched two attacks.
Xia Mo quickly calculated that the total health of a level 28 mutant elite black bear is about 320,000-350,000. Her normal attack, excluding critical hits, has an average damage value of about 700. Including critical hits, the damage value can be raised to 1,000 points.
If you include Jingjing's attacks, the average damage can reach 1200.
In other words, she needs to attack 266-291 times to bite off this big guy.
It's a bit tricky, but Xia Mo is still eager to try.
If she defeats a level 28 mutant elite monster, I wonder how much experience points she will get!
At the thought of being able to level up quickly, Xia Mo felt his blood boiling, without any fear or timidity like other players facing high-level monsters.
The tree that was smashed by the black bear refreshed on the spot. Xia Mo's brows frowned, and he quickly ran to the front of the tree, continuing to lure the black bear to hit the tree.
Poor black bear, which has some intelligence but not much, is successfully lured time and time again.
It angrily crashed into the tree again and again, and fell into a 3-second stun each time.
Xia Mo seized this 3-second opportunity, launched a fierce attack at a high frequency, then withdrew, ran out, made a circle, and came back.
She repeated this process over and over again until two and a half hours later, when the black bear's blood was finally reduced to 5.5%.
As usual, 5% is the dividing point where many monsters go berserk. Xia Mo had a premonition that the black bear would explode, so after releasing the final blow, he immediately drank medicine and retreated!
However, at this moment, two light blue chains suddenly flew out from the side. Xia Mo had been running at high intensity for two and a half hours, and her mental and physical strength had declined. She did not react in time, and the chains trapped her feet!
Ice Chains, the elementalist's water control + damage skill, can lock the enemy in place for 3 seconds, unable to move or use any skills.
Even though it only takes 3 seconds, it is enough to decide the outcome for an expert.
Xia Mo frowned, feeling that it was impossible for him to give away the black bear he had worked so hard to get, and was about to use the life-saving item [Dragon's Reverse Scale] with great pain.
The next second, the system prompts: [You were attacked by the player "Sparta", you can launch a counterattack]
Sparta, Elementalist...
After a quick recollection, Xia Mo confirmed that this person was not on the elementalist list.
Since that’s the case, Xia Mo’s brows relaxed instantly, and he decided to save the precious reverse scale for later use.
She withdrew her hand immediately and let the black bear, whose health dropped below 5%, run away in anger!
As it roared, a circle of shock waves rumbled out!
The birds were frightened and flew away, and the insects and ants on the ground fled.
The violent wind, carrying sand and gravel, hit Xia Mo's face hard.
-2000!
-1800!
-2100!
The black bear's rampage instantly took away 5900 of her health!
At the same time, the 3-second chain time ends.
Instead of counterattacking the person who attacked her immediately, Xia Mo activated the damage-free skill [Ice Body Protection].
【Ice Protection: Protects the caster from physical and spell damage】
The moment the ice was released, a series of skills flew out from the corner simultaneously, but none of the skills hit her. Instead, they were all blocked by the ice in front of her.
The attacker hiding behind the tree never expected his attack to miss, and immediately shouted in the voice chat: "Fuck, she has a damage-free skill!"
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