Chapter 287: Chapter 183 Special Equipment - Abyss Lantern_2
[Its bisected body continued to convulse, but the eyes on its two heads had already dimmed.]
[You have defeated the ’Ancient Abyss Demon - Black Thorn Demon’, gaining a massive increase in experience!]
[The power in your shell begins to boil. The level of the ’Direct View Association President’s’ shell has increased, current shell level: 55]
[You have acquired ’Small Fragments of Enlightenment’*2]
[You have acquired ’Complete Forging Crystal Block’*1]
[You have acquired ’Black Thorn Demon’s Spine’ (Material)]
[You have acquired ’Black Thorn Demon’s Poison Fang’ (Item)]
[You have acquired ’Abyss Lantern’ (Special Equipment)]
Lin Xun let out a long sigh, feeling a sense of relaxation throughout his body.
Defeating the ancient demon made him kneel twice, but the indescribable sense of accomplishment after finally killing the BOSS was overwhelming.
[’Combat Angel - Valkyrie’ descends next to you, following the light emitting from the ’Thunder Dragon Staff Spear’ in your hand.]
[You look at the occasionally twitching bifurcated corpse...]
[The ’Ancient Abyss Demon - Black Thorn Demon’, a legend from ancient times when people lived underground to avoid disasters in the outside world. Terrifying screams echoed from the depths of the abyss at the end of the cave. Mistakenly believing they had angered the spirits of the underworld, people sacrificed live members of their tribe by throwing them into the bottomless abyss to pacify the spirits’ wrath. Perhaps the demon shell’s grotesque human face came from devouring too many humans. It died from a lethal injury to its critical weakness.]
The demon’s shell was blasted into two pieces by a powerful attack and did not meet the conditions for possession, and thus, no affinity or possession options were displayed.
Lin Xun was about to open the inventory to check the loot.
Suddenly, the game text appeared.
[With the death of the ’Ancient Abyss Demon - Black Thorn Demon’, you faintly feel a vibration under your feet.]
[The frequency of the vibrations becomes increasingly more intensive and the magnitude increases accordingly.]
[Countless rubble falls from the darkness, crashing down to the bottom of the abyss.]
[Feeling the ground shake, you look at the plummeting rubble and realize a severe earthquake has hit deep underground.]
[If you continue to stay here, both you and the Valkyrie will be buried here.]
[Do you want ’Combat Angel - Valkyrie’ to take you and escape from this place?]
"Isn’t it obvious?" Lin Xun thought.
Quickly pressing ’Yes’, he did not wish to lose two soul strengths for no reason.
[’Combat Angel - Valkyrie’ wraps her arms around you from behind, and with a flutter of her wings, you are flown upwards.]
[You continuously chant spells, releasing ’Knowledge Luminosity’ to illuminate the falling gigantic rocks.]
[As the Valkyrie carries your weight while also dodging the falling rocks, she can’t rise more than a hundred meters from the bottom.]
[You gaze upwards at the cliff in the darkness, which seems non-existent, a few tens of thousands of meters still lay between you and the starting point of the abyss.]
[You realize that only death can return you to the beginning of your journey.]
[Do you wish for ’Combat Angel - Valkyrie’ to drop you, to fall to your death in this endless darkness below?]
"Better one of us dies than both," Lin Xun thought.
Fortunately, Lin Xun had the Law Knight’s shell to spare.
He switched to the Law Knight’s shell and hit ’Yes’.
...
[An ordinary wandering soul is reborn in Multivision Association...]
"This BOSS is disgusting, forcing me to waste a point of soul strength even when it’s dead."
Lin Xun couldn’t help but grumble.
He opened his inventory, it was time to inspect the exciting loot.
No need to mention receiving the first drop of spirit and the ’Complete Forging Crystal Block’ that could be used to strengthen legendary equipment.
[’Black Thorn Demon’s Spine’ (Material): A section of spine bristling with black thorns, the sharp thorns make it an excellent material for forging high-quality weapons. Adding this material to the forging process will greatly increase the weapon’s power.]
The Black Thorn Demon’s dropped material was not a special material that would certainly generate special effects.
However, from the description, it’s a high-quality material, probably exclusively for melee weapons.
[’Black Thorn Demon’s Poison Fang’ (Item): A poisonous fang as long as half a forearm. The hollow fang is brittle and not suitable for forging. Its value might be in the black venom residue inside the fang.]
[Using this item will temporarily endow your weapon or armor with a potent poison. The monster attacking you or being attacked by you will be poisoned.]
Lin Xun doesn’t value the effect of poisoning weapons. Instead, smearing his armor with poison to poison the attacking monster seems amusing.
"Combined with a Blood Bull Warrior, it’s like activating a Thorns Aura, or wearing Reflected Damage Armor."
Lin Xun looked at the last piece of special equipment.
[Abyss Lantern (Special Equipment), a lantern made of flesh and blood, emitting a warm light. The shape of the lantern seems to be a smaller version of the bizarre body structure of the Black Thorn Demon.]
[Equipping this will significantly increase the probability of attracting monsters and can partly remove invisibility effects within the range of light.]
Lin Xun smiled slightly.
For others, attracting monsters might be a negative BUFF, but for him, he would rather have more small monsters coming at him for experience.
As long as he doesn’t use this equipment against the BOSS...
Moreover, the special equipment also has the effect of breaking invisibility, the value of this item is extremely high based purely on this effect.
Suddenly, a light flashed in Lin Xun’s eyes.
"No! This equipment is not for me to use, but for the Valkyrie!"
When faced with a brainless monster like the Mist Barrier Monster, the Valkyrie can go forward to constrain and output damage, thus providing casting space for the Mage.
But when faced with an agile monster like the Black Thorn Demon, the tactic of constraint may not work well.
If the Valkyrie wears this equipment, it may solve similar problems.
He summoned the Valkyrie and attempted to put the ’Abyss Lamp’ into the Valkyrie’s equipment column.
As a result, the Valkyrie’s ’Long Bow of Chanting Winds and Rhyming Moons’ was replaced.
[Combat Angel - Valkyrie is holding a flesh and blood lantern, and the warm light emitted by the lantern flame is particularly conspicuous.]
[Even during noontime when it’s fully lit, the brightness of the lantern is still eye-catching.]
[The Valkyrie swings the lantern twice as if she can’t believe a lantern could also be used as a weapon.]
"..."
Lin Xun was speechless.
The Valkyrie doesn’t have an item column like he does and can change weapons and equipment at will.
And since a longbow is a two-handed weapon, after equipping the ’Abyss Lantern’, the Valkyrie naturally can no longer shoot arrows with a bow.
"If the Valkyrie is close by, I can manually switch her equipment. But if she is in a battle state, let alone the problem of distance, just the operation of switching equipment back and forth will be quite troublesome."
"I wonder if there are any exclusive bags or backpacks for followers and Watchers, which can be used to store items and equipment."
He put away the ’Abyss Lantern’.
Unfortunately the Three-Headed Lion cannot equip equipment, otherwise this special equipment would be quite suitable for the Three-Headed Lion to use...
As for where to explore next, he had two options.
One was according to the guidance of ’Dark Dragon Knight’s Memory’, to proceed to the Hermit Canyon of the Bamogo Mountain Range and continue on the path of Dragon Knight’s inheritance.
The other was to use the teleportation scroll obtained from Master Maguire to go to a place called ’Chasing Star Corridor’.
Lin Xun estimated that the difficulty of the ’Hermit Canyon’ map was much greater than that of the ’Chasing Star Corridor’.
Following the order of exploration from easy to difficult, the next step should be to go to the ’Chasing Star Corridor’.
Once he had made up his mind, he opened his item column and clicked on the prop.
[Do you want to use the ’Teleportation Scroll of Chasing Star Corridor’ and teleport to the ’Chasing Star Corridor’?]
[Your current knowledge limit is insufficient to be teleported to the destination!]
"...I already have a knowledge limit of 5,200, isn’t that enough?"
The game from the underworld silently tripped him again.
Ever since he had cleared all the monsters on the map, his knowledge had not increased significantly for quite some time.
According to the game’s rules, he could gain knowledge from Seeker monsters and Star monsters.
But monsters like Master and President could not increase knowledge after the second encounter.
And reading materials will not gain knowledge again in front of the same information.
Just like he already knew the false way of becoming a god, when reading Maguire’s memoir, he would not gain knowledge again.
There are still some book props in his package, but it’s still far from enough to increase the knowledge limit.
"Do I have to go find the Ancient Dragon first..."
As the saying goes, good things come to those who wait.
Lin Xun originally intended to improve his strength to the current limit before exploring the Hermit Canyon for more assurance.
The sudden change was like a student who was studying hard with only one month left until the college entrance examination, but was unexpectedly told to bring their pen and admission ticket, to take the college entrance examination right here, right now!
