Chapter 126 -125 Hai Lan’s Combat Power (2nd update! Please subscribe! Please vote for monthly tickets!)
Lyla raised her blood-hued longsword and thrust it into the throat of a Flash Wolf.
The longsword gashed a huge opening in the Flash Wolf’s throat, and blood sprayed out, splattering onto Lyla’s body.
After entering the Blood-stained state, Lyla fought valiantly against the two re-emerged Flash Wolves for half an hour. Along with her three hundred soldiers, she managed to slay both creatures.
Of course, Lyla paid a heavy price… Four of her soldiers fell in battle, and her own body became extremely weak due to the state of Burning Blood.
Nonetheless, she proved her honor and strength to that group of bizarre individuals.
“I should commend your abilities,” Lyla said, wiping the blood off her longsword. When she turned around to celebrate the victory with those strange individuals… they had disappeared.
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Along with them, the bodies of the Flash Wolves vanished, leaving behind only bones that barely indicated that they were the four slain Flash Wolves.
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But the fur, scales, teeth, claws, and such from the Flash Wolves were all gone.
What happened? Did a swarm of flesh-eating locusts pass through here?
Lyla searched for those individuals, but she couldn’t find them any longer, including Mo Shigui, who had previously inquired about the reward for killing four Flash Wolves.
“Each of these Flash Wolves had one to three common quality crystals inside. They’re all busy taking crystals back to exchange for rewards; of course, they couldn’t care less about you,” someone said.
Another voice sounded in Lyla’s ear, one she was familiar with. When Lyla turned her head, she saw Jiang Qiao, who had appeared nearby at some point, sitting on a Flash Wolf’s skull, with Hai Lan next to him, dressed in casual sportswear.
“Are you their leader?” Lyla ordered her soldiers to rest and recuperate, then she deactivated the Burning Blood state and walked toward Jiang Qiao.
The instant the Burning Blood state dissipated, Lyla’s body weakened to the point where she almost couldn’t stand steady… Jiang Qiao summoned a water spirit as Lyla was about to fall.
The water spirit hovered next to Lyla, extending its hand to support her. When Lyla tried to avoid the strangely short water spirit, she realized she had no strength left.
Jiang Qiao’s water spirit had two states: an icy battle form and a healing water form; currently, it was in the healing water form.
The Elemental Summoner, like nurses, could fight, tank, and heal, except they didn’t tank as well as Shield Warriors, hit as hard as Elemental Masters and assassins, nor heal as well as nurses.
Yet the healing power of the water spirit was sufficient for Lyla to regain her spirits temporarily.
“Your innate skill burned too much of your lifespan, and I can’t help you recover from that,” Jiang Qiao’s water spirit said as it touched Lyla. He sensed that something inside Lyla had been significantly diminished.
Jiang Qiao was no fortune-teller and couldn’t determine how much life Lyla had left, but she certainly couldn’t live to be a hundred years old.
“That’s none of your concern. Answer me, are you the leader of those people?”
After a dose from the water spirit, Lyla, who was close to losing consciousness, barely regained some alertness. She was more concerned about whether those strange individuals from before were soldiers under Jiang Qiao’s command.
When communicating with NPCs, Jiang Qiao would wear a different outfit with a mask covering half his face. With no ID or similar markers, Jiang Qiao wasn’t worried about being recognized by friends or other players.
“I’m not their leader. I guess you could call me their… guide and guildmaster?” Jiang Qiao took a while to think and couldn’t come up with a suitable descriptor.
Hai Lan’s lips moved slightly without making a sound… Judging from the shape of her mouth, Jiang Qiao surmised that she was mouthing the words “foreman.”
Indeed, a foreman—despite the Holy Spirits seeming glorious on the surface, this journey to Biland Island was essentially about construction and bricklaying, building their own stronghold on the island and in the inner world.
Then, these buildings… were actually all Jiang Qiao’s.
As a qualified foreman, Jiang Qiao had to ensure the safety of his ’employees’ as well as provide favorable living conditions for their wives.
So, for these two purposes, Jiang Qiao sought out Lyla once more.
The monsters on this island all had an average level above fifty, and although there was the initial stronghold as a last resort, Jiang Qiao was truly uncertain whether the players could really expand their territory on this island.
On one hand, there were flocks of Lord-level monsters, and on the other were the Magic Thieves. Jiang Qiao hadn’t been too concerned about the Magic Thieves before they set foot on the island, but after they did, he acutely felt… something about the island had changed.
“You must have some way to track the Magic Thieves. How about it, do you need our help?”
Jiang Qiao motioned toward the soldiers behind Lyla, who were completely exhausted after killing the two Flash Wolves. Pursuing the Magic Thieves in their state would be folly, and staying on this island would be no less risky.
“Help? Just the two of you? Not bringing the other Holy Spirits over?” After witnessing the players’ dramatic combat prowess, Lyla would have the confidence to delve deeper into Biland Island if Jiang Qiao summoned the other twenty-seven members.
“I might have trouble with some of the monsters on Biland Island, but it’s a different story for her,” Jiang Qiao said, pointing to Hai Lan standing beside him.
Jiang Qiao’s current battle level was only fifty, and even if he forcibly increased it, he could only reach fifty-five at most. In a one-on-one fight, he was no match for those lord-level monsters on the island.
Creator mode might be able to instantly kill lord-level monsters, but using creator mode in other worlds required a massive consumption of Creation Energy, and after creating his world, Jiang Qiao had only about ten thousand points of Creation Energy left.
These ten thousand points were also needed to maintain the operation of the entire Holy Spirit World.
But Hai Lan was different, unlike Jiang Qiao who was a pseudo-god, Hai Lan was a bona fide Devouring God, which was why Jiang Qiao had brought Hai Lan along.
“Her?” Lyla shifted her gaze to Hai Lan, who was wearing casual sportswear, and to be honest… Jiang Qiao gave Lyla a profound and unfathomable impression, while Hai Lan completely gave off the vibe, ‘This guy must be a goner.’
“Yes, I’m, wait… wait a minute! Jiang Qiao, did you pull me along to… to take down those monsters?” Hai Lan hadn’t had time to bask in Jiang Qiao’s compliments before she realized why Jiang Qiao suddenly brought her to farm the map.
“Yes, what’s wrong?”
Jiang Qiao remembered Hai Lan as the deity who even the Earth Mother Goddess feared greatly; theoretically, she should have no problem dealing with the island’s monsters, right?
“I… I do have the ability, but activating creator mode consumes a lot… a lot of energy,” Hai Lan said with some hesitance.
“Why does fighting consume Creation Energy for you? Okay… then what about your combat power without consuming Creation Energy?” Jiang Qiao pondered for a while, and it did seem to make sense; after all, Creation Energy was Hai Lan’s Divine Power.
“It’s also very strong, probably,” Hai Lan said, her voice filled with great uncertainty.
Jiang Qiao didn’t give Hai Lan a chance to argue and directly cast a scouting spell on her.
The scouting spell revealed Hai Lan’s data interface as a Devouring God, which Jiang Qiao had already seen. Jiang Qiao’s fingertip swiped, bringing up Hai Lan’s combat power in her normal state.
Hai Lan
Level: 1
Race: Devouring God
Constitution: 10
Strength: 5
Intellect: 9
Agility: 5
Spiritual Power: 21
Personal Description: If you’re hoping that Hai Lan will go to the battlefield to help you kill enemies, you might as well find a Husky to help you instead. It’s more reliable.
What kind of trash panel is this?
Although Jiang Qiao had an inkling, he was still stunned to see it. He had always been able to converse fearlessly with the gods of several planes, relying solely on the fact that Hai Lan was also a deity.
But this panel, forget being a deity, if you picked a random person off the streets of the Blue Planet, their attributes would be higher than Hai Lan’s, except for Spiritual Power which was twice Jiang Qiao’s. All other attributes were weaker!
“So the only advantage to your current state is staying up late?” Jiang Qiao poked Hai Lan’s little belly as he spoke.
“I! I can still fight!” Hai Lan protested, “But… that’s… that’s also why I wanted you to develop the players, I must… collect all the Divine Fragments to truly recover.”
“Sigh…” Jiang Qiao helplessly propped his forehead with his hand.
“Are you still going after the Magic Thief?” Lyla asked, following Jiang Qiao and Hai Lan’s conversation, now considering whether to retreat and regroup first.
“Of course, you can assign someone to guide us.”
Jiang Qiao planned to make contact with the Magic Thieves first, as Hai Lan’s wimpy combat power left him even less confident.
In other words, the strategy for conquering Biland Island could only rely on the players and Queen Mei and her followers.
However, Jiang Qiao still had a method to enhance Hai Lan’s combat power. The players needed to level up one grade at a time because their souls couldn’t endure such powerful forces all at once.
Hai Lan, on the other hand, had no such concerns.