MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

The bosses from the world map were not like the bosses found in dungeons. In terms of rarity, world bosses were a lot more valuable than dungeon bosses.

Everyone could encounter the dungeon bosses as long as they enter the dungeon, but world bosses were extremely hard to encounter.

Most of the world bosses’ CD (cooldown) only happened once every 3 to 5 days, and the most ridiculous ones took a whole month to cooldown. Every time it was available, the players would fight tooth and nail to get to it.

World bosses did not belong to any one player, so everyone could fight it. However, whether or not you actually got to fight depended solely on the player’s true abilities within the game.

Holy Pure Eh’s team of knights had been fighting the Violent Ape King for the past few days, and they had finally brought its HP down to 5% when suddenly the Century Flower Guild appeared and killed them all, stealing away their boss.

Anyone would feel frustrated if something like that happened to them.

“I’m in a deathmatch with them right now, you free right now? Come help me out.”

“The Century Flower Guild has more than 200 people, and there are only 15 of you. You think you can beat them?”

“Even if we can’t, we still gotta do this. I need to vent this anger somewhere.”

“So dying for no reason will help you vent?”

“…I don’t care, I ain’t letting this slide.”

“Don’t be rash, old friend. Always remember one thing, in the game, brute force is the only hard truth. If you want to vent, then put everything into strengthening yourself and then pummel them until you’ve vented that anger. Don’t do what you’re doing now, the anger has gone to your head and muddled your brains.”

After Li Yi advised him, Holy Pure Eh slowly began to calm down.

His Knights were no match for Century Flower at all. Each time they rushed at the enemy, they would just die. If they continued at these deathmatches, every single one of the Knights would drop below Level 10.

“Thanks, old friend.” Holy Pure Eh snapped to his senses and immediately understood the situation he was in.

“What are you thanking me for? Just you wait and see, Century Flower will be knocked off their high horse before long.”

…

Li Yi looked at the corpse of the Masked Corpse and hesitated for a long time, reluctant to go up and loot it. His many Trash Hands had simply caused him to lose confidence in himself.

“It’s 1 Gold Coin each time, so I can just come back even I don’t get it. I have the EXP Pearl, so I can just treat it like I’m grinding levels here.”

Li Yi comforted himself and then went to loot it.

System Notification: [You have obtained a Trickery Ring.]

‘No… no way? I got it in one try?’

Li Yi held the Trickery Ring, his heart utterly exhilarated.

Although he had only obtained one item, this item was also the very reason he came to this dungeon.

[Trickery Ring (Gold)]

[No level requirements]

[Special Accessory]

Additional skill: Dark Devour. (Devours all of the player’s status effects, including buffs. Skill Cooldown: 3 minutes.)]

Special effect: Allows wearer to adjust false character attributes in order to trick and deceive others. Also immune to all recon-type skills.]

[Note: This is the source of the Masked Knight’s power. When wearing it, you will feel the strength of the dark power.]

[Drop rate 0.01%]

…

A one-in-ten-thousand drop rate…

Li Yi broke out in a sweat.

The truth was he had bought so many Antidotes for poison because he had been prepared to farm this place until he puked.

Although the Trickery Ring did not have any additional ATK, its additional skill, Dark Devour, made it the perfect PvP (player versus player) accessory.

His fight with Old Green had instilled in him a sense of danger. It was fine now, but as the players leveled up and the skills they could use increased, a successful sneak attack like that could be extremely dangerous.

Aside from Stealth, Thieves had another signature skill, Blunt Object. They would use Stealth to sneak up to an opponent and then knock them out with a blow of the Blunt Object, followed by a series of despicable combo hits. The victim of the Blunt Object would usually end up on the floor without even a chance to retaliate.

With the Trickery Ring, things would be different after an ambush. He just needed to use Dark Devour and then all the status effects on his character would be wiped away. Of course, this also included the Dizzy effect from the Blunt Object.

This ultimate PK accessory, the Trickery Ring, had first been obtained by a noob player in the fourth year of King of Pantheon’s run. Li Yi still remembered that this noob player had auctioned off the ring for 1000 Gold Coins at the Auction House (thank goodness he had not asked for a fixed price). As a result, within one short day, the price increased up to more than 1,000,000, and it was finally purchased by Confused Fox from the God Creator Guild for 1,800,000.

After that, with the help of the Trickery Ring, Confused Fox’s PK level just kept increasing proportionally until finally, he reached the top 50 in the server’s rankings.

Confused Fox was fully aware of the Trickery Ring’s value, so he mobilized the God Creator Guild and had them farm the Blood-colored Graveyard all day long. Unfortunately, the God Creator Guild ran the dungeon for an entire year and still could not get a second ring.

A one-in-ten-thousand chance did not mean you would get one after ten thousand tries. Probability was and had always been a very strange thing.

At first, Li Yi had planned to farm for ten days or half a month. If he really could not get it, he would try other methods, such as looking for that ridiculously lucky noob, Orchid Elf, and getting her to give it a shot…

Now his heart was at peace. He got it one try, that had to be a first for both this life and the last one…

Was his Trash Hand starting to take a turn for the better?

Li Yi equipped the Trickery Ring and adjusted his false information.

[Settings: Character level set at Level 13, all equipment to appear as white-colored.]

Now he did not have to worry about others checking his true stats.

Since he had gotten his hands on the Trickery Ring, there was no more reason for him to stay here. Li Yi chose to return to the city.

…

He had bought too many Antidotes. It was a waste to just toss them, but they would take up space if he did not…

Looking at his Backpack-full of Antidotes, Li Yi felt a headache coming on again.

“I’m buying Antidotes in bulk, I’ll take as many as you have. 30 Silver Coins for one, make it quick!”

Just as Li Yi was having a headache over it, a grating voice spoke from outside the Auction House.

Someone was buying Antidotes? Li Yi’s eyes lit up, and he immediately ran over there.

The person buying Antidotes was a Giant player with a full beard. He had an interesting name called One-shot Man.

“I’ll take as many Antidotes as you have! Don’t worry, I have the money, just worry about whether or not you have the goods!” One-shot Man’s loud voice attracted a lot of attention.

“Bro, why are you collecting all these Antidotes? They’re not useful in running dungeons, didn’t you know that even if you don’t use an Antidote on the Poison effect, it will still disappear after a while?”

“I’m using it as viagra, you got a problem with that?” One-shot Man glared and scared the one who had spoken into shrinking back.

“I have some!”

In the crowd, Li Yi sent One-shot Man a trade request.

“So many, haha, that’s great. Let me count how much that’ll be…”

One-shot Man calculated it for a long time and finally traded Li Yi 120 Gold Coins.

“It’s more or less that much, let’s cut the small change.”

“Sure, cut it if you like.” Li Yi was decisive as well, leaving as soon as he hit [Confirm].

“I don’t got any more money, so I’m closing shop for today. Move along, everyone.”

One-shot Man was so happy he could not stop grinning, and he ran into the Auction House, selling the Antidotes for 10 Gold Coins a set.

“That fella Dark Wing bought all Fire Leaves and Ice Lotuses a few days back, earning me a nice sum. Now he’s buying Antidotes instead, hehe, just watch me, I’ll earn your every last coin.”

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