[Announcement (Blazing Ember City): "Ding~ Congratulations to players Rulebound, Liuli, Dragon Soul Dark Night, Dragon Soul Potato, Dragon Soul Great Emperor for clearing the dungeon Snake King Island! As the tenth team in Blazing Ember City to clear Snake King Island dungeon, all team members receive rewards: Gold +1, Reputation +10, Tenth Clear Grand Gift Pack +1!"]
The moment the tenth dungeon clear announcement rang out.
For the countless player teams currently trying to conquer Snake King Island, it was like the last lamp in the darkness had gone out. In an instant, all of them fell into endless darkness.
["Well, there goes the last clear reward!"]
["Wait, all ten rounds of dungeon rewards were eaten up by Rulebound and Liuli? That's insane!"]
["Where's the dev team? Someone's clearly hacking and nobody's doing anything? Devs, get out here and deal with these two cheaters!"]
["If Rulebound and Liuli aren't hacking, I'll livestream myself eating shit!"]
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Inside the dungeon—
By the time they cleared the tenth round of Snake King Island, it was already five in the afternoon.
They had been fighting nonstop for six or seven hours, not even bothering with lunch.
At this moment, Lin Mo and Ning Xi were both exhausted and starving, like drained ducks.
Grrr!
Ning Xi's stomach growled uncontrollably.
She lowered her head, looking completely out of energy, "I'm so hungry."
Lin Mo said, "Let's go. I'll take you to eat something good."
Hearing that, Ning Xi's eyes lit up, "Okay!"
So after finishing the tenth round, the two of them each crushed a Return to City Scroll and disappeared from Snake King Island dungeon.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Two beams of white light fell.
Lin Mo and Ning Xi returned to Blazing Ember City.
Even though he was starving, Lin Mo still forced himself to sort through all the loot in his backpack first.
Ten dungeon rounds in total.
Aside from the first round where he got one First Clear Grand Gift Pack, for the next nine rounds, Lin Mo received three gift packs each round, a total of 27 clear gift packs.
Depending on the clear ranking, the value of the gift packs differed.
From the First Clear Grand Gift Pack containing 30 gold coins, 100 snake galls, a C-rank skill book or magic scroll, to the Tenth Clear Grand Gift Pack containing 3 gold coins, 10 snake galls, an E-rank skill book or magic scroll.
Each tier's rewards decreased by 10%.
Even so, after opening all the gift packs, Lin Mo gained a total of 435 gold coins.
3 C-rank skill books; 2 C-rank magic scrolls.
5 D-rank skill books; 4 D-rank magic scrolls.
7 E-rank skill books; 7 E-rank magic scrolls.
Adding all that together, converted into RMB based on market value, it was roughly equal to 6 million+.
After calculating this number, Lin Mo felt thrilled.
In fact, this was just an ordinary dungeon.
Although its value wasn't low, personal profit would normally never be this high.
It was just that no matter how much the officials calculated, they never expected that the clear rewards originally meant for fifty players would almost all be taken by Lin Mo alone.
Someone didn't even get a sip of the soup.
Besides those resources, the snake galls dropped from dungeon monsters, plus those from the clear gift packs, added up to nearly 5,000 in total.
Without exaggeration: even if Chaotic World Guild sent ten thousand players split into two thousand teams into the dungeon at the same time, relying only on the 1% snake gall drop rate before clearing the dungeon, within five hours, they probably still wouldn't farm this many combined.
In reality, the value of these snake galls was even higher than the gold coins, skill books, and magic scrolls.
But Lin Mo didn't hesitate at all and used all the snake galls to upgrade Ning Xi's Venom set.
Without Ning Xi, relying on Lin Mo alone, getting a perfect dungeon rating would've been tough.
After all, even with Ning Xi's help, they barely scraped by with a perfect clear at 28 minutes.
And if the rating dropped below perfect, clearing with an Excellent rating would only give a 30% chance of snake galls dropping from poisonous snakes afterward.
That meant the final snake gall income would be reduced by 70% from what they had now.
"We've cleared Snake King Island. Next stop is Venom Swamp."
"As a level 36 dungeon, Venom Swamp is far more challenging than Snake King Island."
"I don't have much room left to improve for now. Next stage, it's all on you."
Ning Xi looked at Lin Mo's hopeful expression and nodded firmly, "I'll do my best!"
So all five thousand snake galls were poured in.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Waves of golden light flashed.
All eight pieces of Ning Xi's Venom equipment finally rose to gold quality.
With identical gear setups, mages naturally had higher attack growth than archers.
Right now, Ning Xi, only a level 26 Apprentice Mage, already had an attack stat that surpassed Lin Mo, the level 33 second-turn Soul Archer, reaching an astonishing 1900 points.
"Hiss!"
"With this attack power, combined with your tenfold damage talent, hitting someone must really hurt, huh?"
As soon as Lin Mo finished speaking, Ning Xi suddenly raised her staff and gave him a mischievous smile, "Brother Lin Mo, want to try?"
Lin Mo instantly felt a chill down his back, "Don't mess around."
With her equipment maxed out, Lin Mo picked out from the high-level skill books obtained from the dungeon a C-rank Fireball, a D-rank Hurricane, and a D-rank Ice Spike for Ning Xi to learn.
A normal mage's C-rank Fireball had 200% magic damage.
Ning Xi's C-rank Fireball had 2000% damage.
Equivalent to three of Lin Mo's SSS-rank Ice Snow · Extreme Cold Grip.
Combined with over 1900 attack power, Lin Mo didn't even dare imagine how terrifying the damage of one Fireball from her would be.
After snapping back to his senses, Lin Mo said, "Let's go. I'm treating you to hotpot!"
"Okay!"
As they spoke, the two logged out on the spot.
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At the same time, elsewhere—
[Human Race Level Three Main City, Wind Snow City]
With the help of four of the guild's strongest core members, Ling Xue completed the City Lord's quest, which had a difficulty rating in the four digits, and successfully repaired the underground warehouse.
She smoothly obtained the warehouse key from the City Lord.
After entering the underground warehouse, she actually found a crystal stone emitting an icy blue glow inside this long-abandoned storage.
"No way! It really is the Snow Crystal?"
The refined and elegant mage man, [Divine Nation, Donghuang Taiyi], exclaimed in shock.
The other three, while surprised, also began to see someone in a new light.
"These past days we practically turned Wind Snow City upside down and still didn't find any clues. How did that Rulebound know the Snow Crystal was hidden in this warehouse? He's not even a player from our Wind Snow City!"
As the tall and imposing knight man with sharp features, [Divine Nation, Erlang True Lord], finished speaking, the petite priest girl with a baby face but an extremely good figure, especially the full curves on her chest that made people dry-mouthed, [Divine Nation, Nuwa], said with a lovestruck look, "I heard Rulebound got perfect clears on Snake King Island ten times in a row! He monopolized all the ranking rewards by himself! That's seriously amazing!"
The sharp-eyed, extraordinary warrior [Divine Nation, Great Sage Equal to Heaven] crossed his arms and said thoughtfully, "Looks like this Rulebound isn't just powerful. His background isn't simple either. He really has something."
Ling Xue held the Snow Crystal as if she had found a treasure.
She immediately instructed the four behind her, "Go. Formally invite Rulebound to join the guild."
"As long as he's willing to join Divine Nation, promote him directly to K7."
The four looked utterly stunned.
Divine Nation, Donghuang Taiyi: "Wow, this guy! A newcomer just joining and he's K7 right away, equal footing with us veterans?"
Divine Nation, Nuwa: "Someone sounds a little unhappy? What, afraid he'll squeeze you down to K6?"
Divine Nation, Erlang True Lord: "Donghuang hasn't even finished this month's KPI yet. He's already under a lot of pressure. Stop messing with him before he breaks down and explodes on the spot."
Divine Nation, Donghuang Taiyi: "You damn dog, get lost!"
Divine Nation, Great Sage Equal to Heaven: "Tsk, refined scum."
Divine Nation, Nuwa: "Hehehehe…"
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