Chapter 1070: Gifting Cities

Translator: alyschu

After I returned to the NPC camp, I slapped Xinran’s shoulder once and said, "You can get down now. Why do you insist on riding my dragon when you have your own anyway? It’s bad manners, you know…"

Xinran was sitting in my lap when I asked her this question. Obviously reluctant to leave, she caressed the Ancient Divine Dragon’s head while answering, "Big brother, please promise me you’ll take Xinran on another dragon-riding journey one day. Your Ancient Divine Dragon smells so much nicer than the Winged Silver Dragon. That brute smells like it just got out of a cesspool…"

Said Winged Silver Dragon suddenly let out a painful screech before falling right on top of a hill of Dragonbone Mountain Range. At the same time, Bloody Finger patted his battle garment with a laugh. "You are as observant as you are intelligent, master. The bastard has just climbed out of a cesspool!"

What should I even say in this situation? Both the undead and the dragon Xinran "recruited" to her side were truly one of a kind!

……

I leaped down the Ancient Divine Dragon without even bothering to check out my surroundings. I wasn’t afraid that someone might be lying in ambush because mounting the Ancient Divine Dragon was way faster than mounting my Armored Ice Qilin Horse. The former took only 0.5 seconds to complete, while the latter took at least 1.5 seconds and thus was very risky to perform when in combat. Even better, summoning the Ancient Divine Dragon itself took less than a second to perform, and in the case my mount tenacity was emptied, it could be resummoned after just 5 minutes. High-rank mounts were OP like that.

I returned to the blacksmith, pushed the equipment in my bag into his hands and said, "Here you go. I want to exchange them all for refinement points, thank you!"

"Aha, you are back, my beloved undead warrior!" The blacksmith smiled like a flower.

Very soon, the Purple Ying Sword attained enough refinement points to undergo the evolution. The action wasn’t performed at the blacksmith’s action screen, however. I needed to tap on the weapon itself to evolve it!

I took the Purple Ying Sword backand watched as an "Evolve" button appeared in front of me. Once I tapped it, the weapon would begin its evolution.

My finger shivered a bit as I pressed the button. Immediately, a ray of light burst out of the Purple Ying Sword’s blade and shot into the sky. Not only that, the ground began to shake to its motion as well. God damn, I should’ve known that the evolution of a mortal weapon to a Divine Armament would be extraordinary!

Ding~!

System Notice: Congratulations, your item "Purple Ying Sword" has evolved into an Ancient Divine Armament!

……

I was overjoyed. I initially thought that it would evolve into a Cambrian divine weapon, but it skipped that tier outright and became an Ancient Divine Armament right away! Already, I could spot some minor differences in its appearance. A seemingly infinite amount of golden divine energy had seeped into the blade and made it look even more translucent than before. It was also surrounded by haloes of divine energy.

When I checked the Purple Ying Sword’s new stats, I was so happy I almost fainted on the spot—

Purple Ying Sword (Ancient Divine Armament, Outstanding★★★★★★★)

Attack: 8500~10500

Strength: +1950

Stamina: +1900

Agility: +1850

Tactics: +225

Passive: Increases user’s Attack by 175%

Passive: Increases user’s splash effect by 65%

Passive: When swinging the Purple Ying Sword, there is a 5% chance to deal 7 times more damage than normal. This effect can be stacked with critical hits.

Slots: 15 (15)

Outstanding Property: Mountain Crush. When attacking a target, has a small chance to destroy the opponent’s equipment durability and render it useless. When attacking a building or a mine, greatly increase the shatter effect.

Effect 1: Proficiency. Level Requirement is lowered by 35

Effect 2: Evolvable

Effect 3: Lifesteal. 20% of the damage dealt is converted into HP

Introduction: According to the legends of the ancient times, during the conception of the world, an ancient god transformed their body into hills, rivers and forests. Their bones however were used to forge the ancient Purple Ying Sword. The character "Ying" symbolizes the monarch, which is why the sword is also known as the Sword of Kings. Back in the day, wielded by divine kings, it was used to slay countless devils. Today, for an unknown reason, most of its power has been sealed away. Perhaps it can evolve into something stronger.

Level Requirement: 240

Reputation Requirement: 500000

……

My saliva nearly dripped down my lips. This was without a doubt the first weapon in the history of Heavenblessed ever to exceed 10k Attack. Not only that, it was a Level 240 Ancient Divine Armament. Its Proficiency effect lowered the Level Requirement by 35 and allowed me to use it despite being at Level 207, and its lifesteal had grown from 15% to 20%. If the Purple Ying Sword already had 20% lifesteal when I was fighting at Final Duel Valley, I might have been able to perform better during the fight at the forest.

Another great thing about the evolution was that its Mountain Crush effect had been drastically improved. Previously, the weapon had a super-low—possibly less than a thousandth—chance to trigger its Mountain Crush effect. In fact, I didn’t think it had triggered more than a handful of times since I came into possession of the weapon. Now though, its trigger chance had been upgraded to a whopping 5%, meaning that I could trigger it once every 20 swings or so. Even better, assuming that it triggered at the same time I landed a critical hit, I could deal as much as 14 times more damage than normal! How crazy was that?

I happily equipped the Purple Ying Sword and felt its incredible power surge into my veins. A shiver later, I checked my stats again and noted that my Attack was much higher than before!

ID: Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand (Title: Martial God of the Abyss)

Class: Undead Swordsman (Great Earth Swordsman)

Level: 207

HP: 419350

Attack: 18340~21170

Defense: 21215

Magic Resist: 18420

Reputation: 749400

Tactics: 1037

Luck: 74

……

𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

A player’s total attack power grew proportionally to base Attack, so to say that my offensive power had grown by leaps and bounds would be an understatement. My Tactics had also broken the 1000 mark, meaning that my Ancient Seal would be so much more deadly than it used to be. I fully expected it to one-shot everything when it reached the limits of its growth!

I was so happy I could hop like mad. After dancing on the knife’s edge that was Final Duel Valley for several days and getting within a hair’s breadth of dropping to Level 0, I was finally compensated for all the blood, tears and sweat I had shed. Now that I was armed with a new Divine Rank mount and weapon, I was actually looking forward to returning to Final Duel Valley. I would make the Japanese regret ever targeting Floating Ice City for eternity!

"Are you going to kill some more, big brother?" Xinran asked me.

I sheathed my weapon and smiled at her. "Not now. I’ve killed way too many people already in the past couple of days…"

"Mn mn."

She grabbed my hand and said, "Will you keep me company then, big brother? Once I return to God’s Domain, it’ll be a long time before I get to see you again…"

"Sire!"

I held her small hands tighter, and we strolled through the forest just like the day she wanted to become a priest and set off on her first ever journey. The Ancient Divine Dragon followed behind me, the Phantom Wolf King went into stealth and stood guard, and the Winged Silver Dragon and Bloody Finger followed us from the sky to protect their master from danger.

Winged Silver Dragon blinked its ugly big eyes as it watched us. "Yo skull head, do you see that? Our master’s older brother is holding our master’s hand! Do you think it’s… love? I’ve never seen her smiling this happy before. What is love anyway? The only connection I can think of is that young dragoness with pink horns I used to fancy when I was younger. Her cries were so sweet, and every time she took a bath by the waterfall I couldn’t help but—"

Pa!

Bloody Finger slapped the Winged Silver Dragon’s head immediately and said, "Shut the hell up, you perverted dragon! I can’t believe you did something like that! Love is not for the likes of you to sully! Hmph, there is only one woman I love in my life, and no one can ever replace her…"

The Winged Silver Dragon snorted. "Let me guess, Her name’s Sophie, and she’s the one who lopped off your damned head?"

Bloody Finger shuddered from head to toe. A while later, he answered, "Love may betray me, but I will never betray love…"

On the ground, Xinran suddenly looked up at the duo and said, "Quiet, you two!"

"Yes, my beautiful and innocent master…" the Winged Silver Dragon answered immediately.

……

I continued to walk along the small path, unafraid of the handful of Purple Grape City players watching me from the distance at all. This wasn’t Final Duel Valley, so killing me here wouldn’t be worth anything. Even if they tried, the chance of them killing me was a big fat zero.

I bet Purple Grape City was erupting like a volcano right now. The emergence of a divine dragon rider must’ve shaken the Japan’s server confidence like nothing before. It was bad enough that I had become unstoppable and near invulnerable, I had proven that even the likes of Copper Spear and the Giant Buck Cavalry were incapable of hurting me anymore. Who else could threaten me after today?

Red Maple, Cyan Frost, Purple Thunder and more were Level 0’d during the Nation War, Asura Period had lost almost 10000 Giant Buck Cavalrymen at Final Duel Valley, and the Descent of the One Hundred Gods made up of the top arena experts of the Japan server were sitting on single digits. This wasn’t just humiliation anymore, this was like a demon king daring the puny humans to test his mettle. Too bad for the Japanese, they no longer had the strength to challenge me anymore.

Had Red Maple and God’s Domain core experts still had their equipment and levels, then they might’ve been able to organize an attack that could potentially deal a fatal blow to me. That wasn’t the case, however. The War of Purple Grape City had greatly damaged the Japan server’s strength, making them at least 30% weaker than they had been a week earlier. Now, they were so weak that they had to watch all their borders at all times.

There was a saying called "there are no eternal allies, only eternal profit”. The reason Elephant City and Cyan Earth City of the India server cooperated with Purple Grape City at the beginning was because the latter had wielded enough power to be treated as equals. Assuming that I hadn’t abandoned Purple Grape City, the Indians might’ve betrayed the Japanese within the same period, riden across Soaring Flame Desert and Thunder Mountain Range, and taken Purple Grape City for themselves. This was how any true power should act.

……

"Are you tired, big brother?" Xinran asked me with a smile.

"No? What’s wrong?"

"I would like to rest for a bit. Is that okay?"

"Sure!"

I sat down on a fallen tree trunk while Xinran planted her Dragonbone Spear on the ground next to me. Shen then vanished into the leaves for a bit before returning with a handful of big mushrooms. She shot me a beautiful smile and said, "Big brother, if you can get me a wild pheasant, I can cook you a pot of chicken and mushroom soup…"

I licked my lips hungrily. "I really want to, but Wild Pheasant Ridge is just too far away from here. Maybe next time, Xinran."

"Yeah."

……

It was at this moment a red name player rode up to us and dismounted. She stared at me in disbelief and said, "Unbelievable. Is there any time you aren’t fooling around with girls?"

The newcomer was none other than Chaos Moon.

"What’s wrong?" I asked her.

Chaos Moon replied through gritted teeth, "Something terrible happened at Sky City!"

"What is it?"

"It’s Daybreak City. The tier 2 main city is about to become another country’s city very soon! Ah, it pisses me off so much just thinking about it!"

"What!? Who’s the attacker?!"

"It’s not that. Someone is trying to gift our city away!"

"What?!"

My eyes bulged in disbelief. "Gift our city away? You… you’re saying that a traitor has appeared in our server?!"