Doom Lord 011 - 020 EN

Chapter 11- Test

After killing several waves of enchanted beasts the enchanted beasts stopped appearing. They waited for a minute, but still, no monsters came out.

Had the enchanted beasts stopped respawning? That shouldn’t have been happening right now. Cheng Yang knew, once the enchanted beasts appeared, they would never stop respawning, including near the city. If an enchanted beast was killed, in a short time it would respawn again in a nearby location. If the enchanted beast wasn’t killed, after a while, another enchanted beast would spawn, the spawn time would just be a bit longer.

“Everyone, sit down and recover!” Cheng Yang shouted. He felt something was off…

They sat down for less than 20 seconds before flashes of bright lights appeared at the East and West gate. The lights were brighter than those of the previous enchanted beasts’ lights that they saw before they appeared. At the same time, the other two gates also had some flashes of light, but it was a bit dimmer than the East and West gate.

Cheng Yang’s facial expression changed, clearly the lights were a sign that a more powerful enchanted beast appeared, it should have been around the first medium-order. How could a medium-order monster appear at this time though? It should have been half a month before the first medium-order enchanted beast spawned, how could this be happening right now?

Suddenly, Cheng Yang came up with an idea. Before, when he occupied Luo Feng station there was supposed to be a test, but at the time there wasn’t any enchanted beasts so the test couldn’t be taken place. Now, out of nowhere, there were two enchanted beasts of the first medium-order. This was most likely the test prepared for the occupation of the altar.

Of course, this was just a guess. More importantly, Cheng Yang needed to think of a way to overcome the current crisis fast. If they failed the test, the enchanted beasts would occupy the station, and then they would lose their occupations. In the worst case, they would be killed afterward.

Cheng Yang quickly processed his thoughts for the best solution available. He immediately dashed toward the East Gate, a distance of 80 meters took only four to five seconds to reach with his speed.

When he reached the East gate, the white light had faded and a Green Anorak that was ⅔ larger than normal appeared, it started dashing toward the gate very fast, its speed was not slower than Chang Yang’s.

Cheng Yang quickly shouted, “You, go to support the West Gate, that monster must be pinned down!” While at the same time, he formed a Magic Missile at the end of his wand and fired it toward the Green Anorak.

“BANG…!” the Green Anorak failed to avoid Cheng Yang’s attack. The Magic Missile hit it right in the abdomen, letting it instantly feel an intense pain.

Yu Kai had some slight hesitation but immediately rushed over to the West Gate with seven other people. Right now they didn’t have much of a choice, because they didn’t know what the current situation was. Other than listening to Cheng Yang’s instructions, they didn’t know what else to do.

Cheng Yang released another Magic Missile hitting the Green Anorak’s head. The enchanted beast released a piercing cry. Perhaps, due to the restrictions of the world’s rules, this lethal blow to the head couldn’t kill the monster, only making its head bloody. Also, none of its movement had been impaired either.

Looking at this Green Anorak’s speed, it should have been a first medium-order enchanted beast, but Cheng Yang didn’t have any inspection skills, so he wasn’t entirely sure. Enchanted beasts and humans had some differences; for enchanted beasts their stats aren’t fixed. They could be slow, but to compensate, had high health and physical attack.

Seeing the Green Anorak was only 10 meters away from the East Gate, Cheng Yang without hesitation, rushed out of the gate’s entrance.

Twice Cheng Yang’s Magic Missile had hit the Green Anorak making it form a deep hatred for him. So after seeing Cheng Yang rushing out and fleeing toward another direction, instead of continuing going toward the station, it went toward the direction of Cheng Yang.

Being in such a fight, Cheng Yang couldn’t count how many similar experiences he had before. While he continued running the Green Anorak chased him from behind. Cheng Yang’s distance from the Green Anorak gradually increased from it.

“SOU…! BANG…!” a Magic Missile was released and hit the Green Anorak, It let out a scream from behind him.

According to Cheng Yang’s estimation, his three Magic Missile’s had damaged around 28 hit points of the Green Anorak, which was about half the life of this first medium-order enchanted beast. His mana had only been consumed by one-fourth, if there weren’t any mishaps, the fight would be his overwhelmingly.

Cheng Yang knew his strength; with the station’s 10% bonus to movement speed the Green Anorak shouldn’t have been able to catch up to him. If they were both at the same speed, he wouldn’t even have a chance to shoot off a Magic Missile, let alone win.

Two minutes later, Cheng Yang shot off his eighth Magic Missile; there was no suspense as it hit the Green Anorak.

The Green Anorak couldn’t keep going; it released a miserable howl and fell to the ground, never to breathe again. Meanwhile, a large number of small lights emitted from the Green Anorak, integrating into Cheng Yang’s body.

He gained four power values from the lights, which was the equivalent of killing four low-order Green Anoraks. For the majority of new transfers, they preferred to kill ordinary low-order Green Anoraks, rather than fighting the higher order enchanted beasts.

As Cheng Yang finished his side of the fight, the fighting at the West gate was very tragic.

When he got to the West Gate one human transfer was already dead, it was one of the workers’ driver. He could be seen skewered on the end of the medium-order Green Anorak’s pitchfork. The enchanted beast had about 10 physical attack; it only needed to land three strikes to kill a new human transfer. The large Green Anorak had almost double the movement and attack speed of the rest of the group, being able to have only one person die under the Green Anorak’s pitchfork could be considered a good result.

Cheng Yang was satisfied, although the large Green Anorak had killed four people, the 17 people surrounding it didn’t lose confidence. The Warriors had formed a circle, with the Green Anorak tightly surrounded in the middle. After a person had been hit away, another person quickly filled the gap. The Archer and Magician transfers dared not to attack at this time, in case of attracting the Green Anorak’s rage.

But even so, they had only an hour’s worth of fighting experience. The Warrior’s shield had no special effects, but as long as they could block the enchanted beasts attack with it, the person holding the shield wouldn’t be inflicted with any injuries. If the enemy were too powerful, as in this case, the impact of the hit would cause the warrior to be blown back and experience momentary stiffness. In a one-on-one situation, this flaw would be fatal for Warriors.

Thankfully, this was not that kind of situation.

But, even with Yu Kai’s group cooperating with one another, almost all of them had injuries still.

Cheng Yang didn’t stop to restore his mana, rushing straight toward the other side of the battlefield. After reaching the West Gate he immediately raised his wand, a Magic Missile instantly shot out.

Cheng Yang’s attack had twice the damage that anyone else could produce, but after taking into account the large Green Anorak’s tough defense, the damage that could be caused by Cheng Yang would probably be three times as much as anyone else. After the Magic Missile hit, he immediately caught the Green Anorak’s attention and rage, a pair of dark eyes quickly fixing in on him.

“Get out of the way!” Cheng Yang shouted from the back as a Magic Missile was released.

The group had a moment of indecisiveness; they didn’t understand the meaning of Cheng Yang words. When they saw the Green Anorak rushing toward Cheng Yang however, they reacted immediately.

The two Warriors that were standing in front of the large Green Anorak moved out of the way, Cheng Yang immediately launched out a Magic Missile, hitting the Green Anorak’s chest. The Magic Missile increased the hatred that the Green Anorak had built toward Cheng Yang; it wanted to rip him up into tiny little pieces.

After successfully getting the enchanted beast’s attention, he rapidly retreated.

The remaining Archers and Mages weren’t fools, they quickly sent a variety of attacks to rain on the charging Green Anorak. Although their damage and attack speed were much lower than Cheng Yang, they won in numbers!

Before, they were afraid of attracting the Green Anorak’s rage, so they didn’t freely launch attacks. Now with the arrival of Cheng Yang, he was firmly holding the Green Anorak’s attention; they didn’t have anything to worry about.

Thus, the rate of damage instantly increased, causing the following fight to have no suspense. After just 10 seconds, Cheng Yang killed this big Green Anorak.

While Cheng Yang was killing the two large Green Anorak, the two other gates spawned a few low-order enchanted beasts, but the other groups quickly killed them.

After the two large Green Anorak’s died, several low-order enchanted beasts appeared one after another. Cheng Yang and the others decided to just earn more power value, since they couldn’t pose a threat to Cheng Yang and the rest of the group.

A few minutes later, Cheng Yang felt an instant contact with the land. He felt that he could control everything within a one-kilometer radius, and at the center of this was the altar.

This feeling was very strange to Cheng Yang.  But he knew that he had become the official Lord of Luo Feng Station, giving him perfect control over the entire territory.

Without hesitation Cheng Yang chose to close the four gates, so that the enchanted beasts outside wouldn’t be able to come in. In fact, even without closing the gates, Cheng Yang and all the other groups would be able to defend the four gates. But if another medium-order enchanted beast appeared, it would be dangerous. Cheng Yang also had other things to do.

Cheng Yang, seeing that the crisis had passed, once again ordered, “All long-ranged transfers, to the walls, and begin attacking the enchanted beasts outside. The rest of the Warriors will move all the timber scattered around near the altar. Afterwards, have the two men that were killed underneath the logs and those that were killed by Green Anorak buried.”

After the battle, Cheng Yang’s prestige had reached a high point. A group of 20 people failed to take down an enchanted beast of the medium-order, but Cheng Yang easily killed one his own, and another mostly by himself.

They all decided to listen to Cheng Yang’s orders without any objection. Even if they had any questions, they would wait until after things had calmed down before asking.

The only thing that suppressed the happiness of everyone was that their companions had died. This was different from the two men that got crushed by the logs. The others had died fighting next to them in their group, producing a strong sense of camaraderie.

Chapter 12- Profession Statue

After everyone left, Cheng Yang approached the altar and viewed the properties panel of Luo Feng station. Finding that the territory’s power values had reached 311, he knew immediately what he wanted to spend them on.

Cheng Yang came toward the Magician statue; the four major profession statues also have their own properties panel.

Building name: Magician statue

Level: Level 1

Profession Research:

Enhance Health (Level 1, not yet research): Increases the health of all Magicians transferred under this statue by 5%. Upgrade Condition: 100 power values.

Enhance Mana (Level 1, not yet research):  Increases the Mana of all Magicians transferred under this statue by 5%. Upgrade Condition: 100 power values

Enhance Magic Attack (Level 1, not yet research):  Increases the Magic Attack of all Magicians transferred under this statue by 5%. Upgrade Condition: 100 power values

Enhance Physical Defense (Level 1, not yet research): Increases the Physical Defense of all Magicians transferred under this statue by 5%. Upgrade Condition: 100 power values

Enhance Magic Defense (Level 1, not yet research):  Increases the Magic Defense of all Magicians transferred under this statue by 5%. Upgrade Condition: 100 power values

Transfer Quota: 7/20

One of the conditions for the territory itself to be upgraded was that the profession statues had to be upgraded first. If he wanted to be allowed to upgrade the territory he would have to research all the profession statues to the second level.

The Magician statue wasn’t the only one with the profession research; the other three statues also had the same type of upgrade options. The only difference was the attack research, since occupations that deal physical damage would have a “Physical Attack” research bonus, while occupations that deal magic damage had a “Magic Attack” research bonus.

The promotion criteria weren’t difficult to achieve, but also not that easy. To upgrade the four profession statues would take around 2,000 points. Although it just took them only an hour to earn nearly 400 points of power value, this was only because of the test to occupy the station.

In normal cases, the enchanted beasts refresh rate around the territory wasn’t this fast, and after the occupation of the station was complete it wouldn’t attract enchanted beasts like it had towards the station. So the only way to get quick accumulation of power values within a short time, was by killing enchanted beasts further away from the station.

Cheng Yang didn’t mind these difficulties, because this was the advantage of having field stations, as the territory station level rises, the field station transfers would be much stronger than the transfers from the main city due to the profession research bonuses. Maybe this was the God encouraging humans to develop field stations. (T/N: Main cities don’t have research bonuses)

Cheng Yang without hesitation chose to upgrade “Mana”. A six-hour countdown suddenly appeared, he couldn’t help but show a faint smile on his face. Until the end of the six hours, this statue wouldn’t be able to research other bonuses.

This is the advantage of occupying the station early, since the research time couldn’t be reduced, even if other people occupied a field station later, it would be impossible to raise the field station’s level high within a short time.

Afterward Cheng Yang chose to upgrade the Warrior’s statue and Summoner statue’s “Health”.

At this time, Yu Kai along with 12 other people were a 100 meters away carrying several huge logs toward him. It used to require heavy machinery to move these logs, but now they only needed four people lifting the logs on their shoulders to carry them over. After the transfer to Warriors, their strength increased by a lot.

In fact, this was normal. For an average human their Physical Attack power is 1, while a warrior would be at 5 Physical Attack power. The Physical Attack stat was the embodiment of their strength; after having five times an average human’s strength, if you had only changed a bit, would that not be strange?

Yu Kai asked, “I found some logs that fell into the river from the earthquake. Yangzi, what is all this timber going to be used for?” He threw the logs onto the ground and turned toward Cheng Yang.

Cheng Yang no longer needed to hide their usage and said, “This timber is needed to construct some buildings, such as the walls that suddenly appeared before. It consumes 100 cubic meters of timber to make. In a short time, if we want to harvest our own timber it will be difficult. But for now, this amount of wood is enough. This timber is enough for us to do a lot of things.”

Yu Kai nodded and suddenly came to a realization. In the absence of logging tools, being able to cut down large trees would indeed be very difficult.

Next, Cheng Yang opened the station’s property panel. He selected the construction of a house, and then chose to build 10 at once. After a short period of time, ten light-curtains rised near the East Gate, forming ten-cabin shaped outlines. A short time passed, the light-curtains dispersed and 10 houses had been successful built.

The wood was instantly consumed by 100 cubic meters, Cheng Yang felt a little helpless wishing he had bought more, but who could he blame except himself for having so little money? Being able to buy 300 logs is still considered pretty good though.

This scene surprised everyone, whether it was the walls or the houses that suddenly emerged out of nowhere, it was all too magical.

Cheng Yang took some time out to patrol the gates, finding that the frequency of the enchanted beasts re-spawn had become increasingly low. It took a minute or two to flush out a single enchanted beast, the same situation appeared around the entire station. Compared to before, it took 7 or 8 times longer to spawn out a monster. It left most of the people standing on top of the walls doing nothing.

Cheng Yang temporarily decided to let the people on the wall down. The walls had 5 defenses, these enchanted beasts of the first low-order were unable to break down the walls. He decided to wait until the enchanted beasts accumulated to a certain number, and then kill them before it gets too dark.

It was six o’clock now, only an hour before it got dark. Cheng Yang planned to gather everyone to talk about what to do next, as well as answer any questions they might have.

“After that battle, how do you feel now?” Cheng Yang asked, getting straight to the point.

All the people looked at each other, Lee Wanshan said, “Little bro, what you said before, the whole world has experienced the same disaster as us? Is that true?”

Cheng Yang nodded positively and said, “Indeed! This isn’t just a Xiangcheng City disaster, nor is it a national disaster, but a global disaster. Now, almost all of the buildings in the world have collapsed, the terrain has also undergone great changes. Mountains might have become a plain, or grasslands turned into an ocean. These aren’t the most serious changes; the biggest change is the World Rules of Heaven and Earth, which you previously experienced. It gave humanity an ability that we never thought would be possible before.”

Niu Bing suddenly asked, “Yangzi, how did you know these things would happen?”

Cheng Yang sighed; he knew someone would eventually ask this question. Fortunately, he was prepared, saying, “I can’t really explain it. This morning some information about the end just popped up in my mind. This information was very weird, as if it were directly engraved into my mind. At first I didn’t believe it, but news about the strange stone made me believe in it a bit, so just to be sure I made some preparations. What just happened confirmed some of the information, the rest of it I’m not too sure about.”

In fact, he really had no other choice; saying that he was reborn would be too weird. Cheng Yang had to create a more acceptable explanation for everyone to believe in.

Everyone around wasn’t fully convinced by Cheng Yang, but it seemed to be the most reasonable explanation available. Although it was a bit strange, the world had just turned into a global game; they had just seen a lot of bizarre things happen. At this point any other weird things happening wouldn’t make them too surprised.

The thoughts of a global disaster made everyone’s face filled with anxiety. After all, besides Cheng Yang, did they not all have families? An hour ago they were facing the threat of death, so they didn’t have time to consider their families; but now that they were safe for the time being, they couldn’t help but be anxious.

Cheng Yang roughly guessed everyone thoughts, calmly saying, “Right now your worry is useless, the most important thing to do now is to enhance your strength. Only by having enough strength in this new world, will you be able to saves your loved ones.”

Lee Wanshan frowned and said, “All of my family is in Xiangcheng City, it’s only four or five kilometers away. We have just killed the enchanted beasts around, as long as we fight together, those things shouldn’t pose a threat to us, right?”

“Yes, we should set out at once to Xiangcheng City, I can’t leave my family alone, my son is only five years old.” A 30-something truck driver said who looked anxious, he couldn’t wait to get back to Xiangcheng City.

Cheng Yang shook his head, said, “With our current strength, I’m afraid there is no capability to cross this area into the city. Although surrounding the station only appear scattered enchanted beasts, that’s because we killed most of the first wave already. In other places, with the passage of time, the enchanted beasts will gradually gather, eventually forming a large group. Now that the disaster has been over for more than an hour, outside right now most of the enchanted beasts have probably formed groups. Small groups of a few enchanted beasts we would be able to handle, but if it is a large group of dozens of monsters, I’m afraid we won’t be enough to even count as a snack to them.”

Seeing everyone’s expression was unmoved, Cheng Yang said, “You may think of me as an alarmist, but in a bit I’m going to take some people out of the station, you can verify whether what I just said is true or false.”

Lee Wanshan was suddenly overjoyed; he felt that if they worked hard, going back to Xiangcheng City wouldn’t be a problem.

Cheng Yang felt a bit sad, others may not know the difficulty of going back, but someone like him who already experienced the end already knew.

“Yangzi, tell us, what do we need to do now? All of us will listen to your command.” Liu Hao said.

Cheng Yang said, “This station will become our main base, but also where we settle down, so it is imperative that this station be developed. To develop the station, we will need to have enough power value.”

Cheng Yang told them the benefits from developing the station and the usage of the power value, finally ending with, “Time is of the essence, so tonight I’ll take half the people out of the station to kill the enchanted beasts in the forest. This approach is a bit riskier, but as long as everyone is careful, there will be no danger to anyone’s life. The remaining people will stay at the station and provide protection. They will also start learning cultivation.”

Chapter 13- Battle of Xiangcheng City

“Cultivation?” This was a familiar word, but in this new world people weren’t sure what he meant by it, so a lot of them were filled with questions.

Cheng Yang said, “It’s really cultivation, the world has turned into a game, but it’s still the real world; so killing monsters to upgrade experience doesn’t exist. People can only improve their strength through cultivation. If you open your list of skills, you will find a basic cultivation skill. There is a limit to cultivating. A person can only cultivate for four hours a day, any more than that would have no effect. So don’t waste any time and try to cultivate every day, it’s very important. Of course, if you have access to a certain amount of power values, you can increase the speed of your cultivation; for example, having a total of more than 100 power values would double the cultivation speed. At level 1, the basic cultivation skill consumes about 10 power values per hour to use. As to whether to you use power value for cultivation, you can decide yourself.” (T/N: Only by having a certain amounts of power values can you unlock faster cultivation speed)

Cheng Yang didn’t mention that they could use their power values to contribute to upgrading the profession statues. Partly, because these were their own power values, and they worked hard to obtain them; forcing them to donate wasn’t reasonable. He felt that in a short time by killing the surrounding enchanted beasts he would have enough power values to upgrade all the profession statues.

“In addition, while practicing cultivation in the log cabin, you can increase your cultivation speed by 10%. Every cabin can hold five people in one room; the rest of the cabins will be used for people that may come here later.” Cheng Yang finally said.

People didn’t have anything to say in response. Being able to have shelter over their head in this environment was good enough, why be picky about it? The only special one was Pang Shan, who had her own cabin. There was no other choice since she was the only girl here, and they couldn’t let her and a group of men stay together in one room. Later, when other women transferred, they would share the room with her.

“Yangzi, now that we have finished transferring occupations, and have the ability to fight with the enchanted beasts, are the people in the city also able to transfer occupations?” Yu Kai suddenly revealed a problem that had been on his mind.

Cheng Yang looked up at the sky and said, “There are indeed profession transfer statues in the city, but as of right now…… I’m afraid nobody has been able to reach them!”

What Cheng Yang had said was correct; right now Xiangcheng City was still in a state of chaos.

Facing monsters that appeared randomly in all directions, humans were getting slaughtered endlessly. Even former athletes, and boxing champions were treated as nothing in front of them.

Of course, humanity still had some ways to fight back. Unfortunately, due to Rule Change of Heaven and Earth, all electrical equipment had stopped working, but since firearms didn’t require electricity they could still be used, even rockets still worked.

But right now Xiangcheng City had no weapons of mass destruction. Just some light firearms; such as rifles, and submachine guns. After all, the military garrison wasn’t located in the city. For weapons such as rockets, and other heavy weapons most police officers were going to have access to these.

Xiangcheng City’s government spent ten minutes closing the Public Security Bureau building and then had the police run over to the Government building, giving most of them with guns. They were going to rely on these people to stabilize the current situation, but they had not yet set out, being disrupted by the sudden changes.

Enchanted beasts that had just respawned found a huge amount of people gathered in the city hall ruins, and directly rushed over.

This made everyone jump out of his or her skins; the armed police immediately fired their weapons. However, after getting hit by a bullet from their handgun, they discovered the monsters were still alive and kicking. Although they could make every bullet hit a monster, the monsters were fine even after getting hit by 3 or 4 bullets. The result was unacceptable.

At this moment people were still dumbfounded. The enchanted beasts took advantage, rushing into the crowds, and began to go on massive killing sprees.

Eventually humans were able to gain an advantage with the help of guns; slowly the enchanted beasts started dying. From their observations, every monster seemed to take around 15-16 bullets to kill.

This vitality was too OP, right? For now they didn’t know that the reasons these monsters were so hard to kill is because the world had changed, regular guns only do three points of damage to them, and even a sniper rifle would deal less than six points of damage. If you wanted to kill a monster with guns, naturally it wasn’t easy.

They hadn’t yet had a chance to make a detailed study of these monsters when suddenly another wave of monsters spawned. Police officers without hesitation, immediately opened fire.

At this moment, they found out they had a very serious problem, they were running out of ammo! They might be able to kill this wave of enchanted beasts, but what if there were another wave of monsters after this one?

They were left with only two solutions; look for a place to hide, or return to the Public Security Bureau building, and try to dig for ammunition buried underneath the ruins.

Everyone knew that heavy machinery had stopped working, to get the ammunition from underneath the ruins would be very difficult. Top government officials soon decided to find a place to hide, and wait to find out more about the situation in order to make a decision.

Fortunately, although the earlier earthquake had completely destroyed all the buildings, none were completely flattened to the ground. This left plenty of places for people to hide.

Soon, the crowded ruins soon became empty, with everyone looking for a place to hide. The remaining numbers of police officers were responsible for covering their retreat. After killing more than a dozen monsters, they also went to look for a hiding place.

In fact, even the ruins of government buildings were empty; everyone in Xiangcheng City had chosen to hide. They knew that hiding wouldn’t guarantee their safety, but it’s better than going out in the open exposed to the monster’s eyes, right? At least this way they could live a little longer.

If they could hang on until the rescue forces arrived, they had a hope of survival. At this point, their main source of comfort was knowing the military was coming.

At that time, the city center had a huge screen enveloping it, and around the screen were enchanted beasts gathered in all directions. However, they were unable to breach the light screen, they could only hang around the outside of it.

If someone wanted to reach the light curtain surrounded by enchanted beasts, it would undoubtedly be very tough.

From Cheng Yang’s memory of the past, he knew that tomorrow morning someone would find the light curtain. And at noon the day after tomorrow, the garrison troops outside the city would enter Xiangcheng City, using countless gunfire attacks to kill the enchanted beasts, enabling them access to the light curtain.

Not only was this happening in Xiangcheng City, almost all the main cities throughout the world, would take only two or three days after the disaster to fall back into human hands.

Afterward, would be the start of a new era!

Cheng Yang spent 10 minutes to answer any questions people might still have, and then selected a number of people to go with him outside of the station wall.

Lee Wanshan wanted to bring all the drivers and workers together with him to return, but was rejected by Cheng Yang. For now, a small team of no more than 10 people in the field was the safest, they wouldn’t be too big of a target and still be able to defend themselves. Even if something unexpected did occur, his strength would be sufficient to take care of whatever it was.

What’s more, Cheng Yang didn’t intend to return to the city, since presently that was an impossible task for them to achieve.

Cheng Yang promised them that if later he found the path to Xiangcheng City, he would take them to the city, and they agreed.

Cheng Yang took out a total of 16 people, split equally among the four professions. Doing it this way left Luo Feng station without a single Summoner remaining to defend it. Fortunately, the Summoner occupation only had the skill of summoning a Dark Wolf, and a Dark Wolf summon only had melee attacks; The Summoners wouldn’t play a big role defending the station anyway.

A 16-person team wasn’t too big, four summoned Dark Wolves respectively guarding the front and back of the team, four Warriors guarding the two sides, Archers placed within the inner circle, with the core holding the three Magicians.

The people were all workers and drivers of Lee Wanshan’s group, it wasn’t that Cheng Yang didn’t want to take Yu Kai and the rest with him, but their desire of wanting to return to Xiangcheng City was too strong.

Cheng Yang walked to the front of the group, it wasn’t very dangerous to him. After all, his health had reached 40 points, along with an Attack Speed of 2, and Movement Speed of 2.2 was enough for him to avoid attacks and effectively counterattack.

They decided to advance along the road. The earthquake had changed the terrain dramatically, but the change was usually perpendicular, causing the road to remain relatively intact, so as long as they followed along the road, they wouldn’t get lost.

The asphalt pavement was cracked all over at the moment, as if it had gone through intense bombing.

That wouldn’t be the worst that would happen though, Cheng Yang knew that after a month, the trees on both side would soon cover the road, that is when the true struggles begin.

After walking forward for about 100 meters, a mouse half the size of a Green Anorak appeared in the road ahead, Cheng Yang immediately rushed over.

Cheng Yang wasn’t kind, shooting a Magic Missile, hitting the mouse’s head. It instantly rolled over in pain on the ground. Cheng Yang’s attack couldn’t kill it just yet; it rolled over on the ground and bounced up again.

Behind him several other long distance transfers were making themselves useful, firing off three Magic Missiles and four arrows straight at the mouse. Three of the attacks failed, the rest landed on the mouse, it released a painful whining afterward.

At this time Cheng Yang was only 20 meters away from the mouse. With his mind forming another Magic Missile, it shot outward hitting the mouse, causing it to fall on its side. Some dim points of light from the mouse went into Cheng Yang’s body, and the rest went to the other long distance transfers that landed a hit on the mouse.

They hadn’t had any time to relax, when suddenly the sounds of winds were speeding through the air, a silk thread shot directly at Cheng Yang.

“Spotted Spider!” This enchanted beast was very familiar to Cheng Yang, he stretched out his left arm and grabbed a hold of the thread. With his wand in his right hand he condensed a Magic Missile, which was sent toward the treetops overhead.

“BOOM…!” A loud thud could be heard, everyone looked up to see what it was and couldn’t help but to be filled with dread. They saw a spider the size of a large boulder; its mouth released thread the width of a finger, attaching the thread around Cheng Yang’s arm.

Chapter 14- Moonlit Night

The spider was prepared to forcibly pull Cheng Yang toward it, but Cheng Yang fired off a Magic Missile, disrupting its rhythm. Without the silk’s retraction force, its own strength was no longer enough to pull Cheng Yang up in the air.

“Attack!” Cheng Yang ordered, releasing a Magic Missile straight at the treetop.

At the same time, the remaining other seven ranged occupations also released their attacks toward the tree. Soon, the spider was killed by the non-stop attacks; its body fell from the tree onto the ground.

Cheng Yang said warily, “A Spotted Spider is only a first early-order enchanted beast, but fighting it in the woods is very troublesome. It’s one of the few first-order enchanted beasts with ranged attack capability, and it likes to hide in the dark, attacking people when they are off guard. Its strength is strong enough to lift people up with its silk if they get caught, so be careful.”

The group almost didn’t need Cheng Yang to remind them, they also knew they needed to be careful; after all, such a huge spider made people terrified just from watching it. Nobody wanted to end up as food in its mouth.

So far Cheng Yang had already launched four skills, the rest of the long distance transfers had also used two skills. In order to avoid any unexpected situations, everyone sat down to recover for nearly 20 seconds so that their mana could completely recover, then they would move on.

After walking forward around 40 meters, Cheng Yang’s ears pricked up and his face suddenly changed, leading him to yell, “Watch out! Enchanted beasts are coming, get ready to attack!”

His voice had just faded away when 12 Green Anoraks burst out from the side of the woods. The previous fight had probably attracted this group of enchanted beasts’ attention.

Cheng Yang was the quickest to react, shooting a Magic Missile toward the front of the beasts. The Magic Missile hit a Green Anorak near the front, sending it flying to the ground. Thankfully everyone had plenty of fighting experience at this point. The group would attack the enchanted beasts together, as long as Cheng Yang’s attack and the rest of the groups’ attacks hit their target it would be an instant kill. Of course, this was based on the premise that all of their attacks landed directly on the beast; otherwise they would fail to kill it.

The Green Anoraks sprinting toward them were only 10 meters away from Cheng Yang’s group, so naturally every single attack hit the enchanted beasts. The first Green Anorak quickly died while still charging forward.

Cheng Yang continued to attack while Lee Wanshan’s group of four Warriors were preparing to use their shield to stop the Green Anoraks charge. As for the four summoned Dark Wolves, they had already rushed out toward the group of enchanted beasts; their current task was to be meat shields, and delay the advance of these Green Anoraks.

Although a Summoner could upgrade their own properties, their properties were really mostly for the summons, not them. Their own physical attack was just too weak; they couldn’t even break an enchanted beast’s defense if they tried.

This was the Summoner’s flaw, whose fighting ability was fully dependent on its summons. A summoned beast wasn’t afraid of death though; once it died it could be called out again.

Currently, there were more than 10 Green Anoraks who were blocked by the four Dark Wolves resistance, their momentum falling a bit. They then directly changed their attention toward the four Dark Wolves. Using the pitchforks in their hands, they constantly attacked the Dark Wolves.

How could Cheng Yang let such an opportunity go by? The group constantly launched a multitude of attacks, the Green Anoraks were being killed one by one; soon five Green Anoraks had perished.

At this time, all four Dark Wolves had died. The remaining six Green Anoraks again rushed toward Cheng Yang and the rest of the group.

“Quick! Summon your Dark Wolves!” Cheng Yang shouted.

The four Summoner apprentices took a moment to quickly launch their skills, four Dark Wolves soon emerged again, ready to confront the group of Green Anoraks. But at this time, the Green Anoraks had reached the front four Warriors; two Warriors suddenly suffered from attacks and were knocked down.

The four Dark Wolves quickly joined the fray, quickly stabilizing their formation. In such a situation, the Green Anoraks were unable to make a quick kill on any of the humans.

Ten seconds later, all the Green Anoraks had turned into power values, Cheng Yang obtained 12 points for himself.

The enchanted beasts didn’t directly drop equipment, so there was no need to sweep the battlefield.

Cheng Yang estimated that from the battle, all of the ranged occupations mana would be empty, but the Warriors would still have some left. As a tradeoff, the Warriors had ended up losing around 10 points of health each. If there had been no Dark Wolves in the fight, there would have most likely been casualties.

“Just from that battle you can see, if the number of monsters were two or three more, I’m afraid we would have been unable to deal with it. Perhaps the final victory would still belong to us, but having casualties would have been unavoidable, this type of victory is not what we want.” Cheng Yang said quietly.

Other people also understood the danger, having no mana would only lead to the long distance occupations waiting to die. For the Warriors, if they ran out of mana they would be unable to fight with a beast of the same order, weakening them considerably.

“Now, let’s take a break to restore mana and health.” Cheng Yang quickly finished, then sat down cross-legged on the ground, beginning his meditation technique.

In two minutes, all of the long distance transfers and Summoners stood up; their mana recovered quickly. As for the Warriors who were wounded, while in meditation, it took two minutes to recover one point of health. They had lost 10 points, so it would take at least 20 minutes for them to fully recover.

This location didn’t have the safety of the field station, so at any time there could be new enchanted beasts spawning. Cheng Yang dared not be far away from the group, they would need his help if anything happened. He stood patiently, waiting for the Warriors to finish recovering.

Soon, a group of 10 enchanted beasts came out of the woods; Cheng Yang’s group was able to quickly exterminate them though. After determining there weren’t any large groups of monsters around, Cheng Yang walked around a 100-meter circle by himself, and killed seven to eight lone enchanted beasts.

Lee Wanshan had finally fully recovered from the previous battle, but at the same time he had some lingering fears. Other long distance occupations could enjoy the pleasure of killing the enchanted beasts from far away, but Warriors, they were always in close contact with death; the two feelings were entirely different.

Lee Wanshan asked, “Cheng Yang, should we move on now?”

Cheng Yang looked in the direction of the highway, the time was close to seven, and the sky was already dark. But today was a near full moon, so they didn’t have to worry about it being completely dark at night.

Cheng Yang did not directly answer Lee Wanshan, but said, “The farther we are from the station, the longer it will take for us to travel a certain distance, and the chances of us encountering a monster group will increase along with the size of them the further we walk away from the station. With our current speed, after we walk away from here we would likely encounter a group of more than 20 enchanted beasts. And if we stay in this area, only killing the enchanted beasts in close proximity to us, the danger around this area would lessen. Enchanted beasts, even if they respawn, would usually appear alone, or only in groups of three or four, it would be of no threat to us.”

Everyone in the group felt their faces slightly tense up, they were afraid of what dangerous things could happen next.

Cheng Yang interrupted their thoughts and said, “In fact, we won’t be here for too long anyway, as long as we have enough strength, we will soon be able to return to Xiangcheng City. Right now, even if we returned to Xiangcheng City, there was not much we could do to help, let alone with everyone trying to find their loved ones in the chaos, even if they were found I’m afraid we would not be able to properly protect them.”

Lee Wanshan hesitated, clenched his teeth and said, “OK! I will stay here. I’ll wait until I’m strong enough and then go back to Xiangcheng City again…… I just hope my wife and kids will wait for me… F*** THE END!”

With Lee Wanshan’s strong statement, everyone else in the group decided to stay at the field station until they were strong enough before returning to the city. They also agreed with Cheng Yang, Xiangcheng City was so big, how would they be able to find someone? If their strength were not powerful enough, they were afraid before they could even find someone, they would have died along the way.

Next, under the leadership of Cheng Yang, the group went back into the woods.

From time to time, enchanted beasts sprang out from the bushes. Cheng Yang and the others easily killed them as they appeared. Even with the near full moon, the night had still slightly restricted Cheng Yang’s and the rest of the group’s sight; thankfully not all of the enchanted beasts had night-vision. This, coupled with the light coming from the Moon, made their only disadvantage at night almost unremarkable.

Of course, the biggest reason they weren’t in a lot of danger was that the world had turned into a game. After this happened, as long as they didn’t encounter powerful enchanted beasts that could one-hit kill, they wouldn’t encounter a life-threatening situation. Even if they were attacked by surprise, the most they would lose is a few health points.

After three to four hours later, Cheng Yang’s group had been wandering within one kilometer outside of the station, killing more than 400 enchanted beasts during this time. If it weren’t for the rest of the group having to wait for the Warriors health to fully recover, the efficiency would have been higher.

Cheng Yang was glad that in this four hours there weren’t any encounters with a first medium-order enchanted beast, otherwise they may have had casualties. In fact, this was actually normal, it was only the first day of the game world, and they were in the vicinity of the station. Naturally it would be hard for a first medium-order enchanted beast to appear. The two first medium-order Green Anorak’s that spawned around the station earlier, only appeared because it was the test for occupying the station.

After four hours of intense fighting, the group appeared to be suffering from a bit of mental fatigue. Cheng Yang himself wasn’t impacted, but for the others safety, he decided to return to the station.

After returning to the station, Cheng Yang found that those who had stayed behind at the station, besides the four patrols on the wall, were practicing cultivation next to the altars. This gave him a feeling of expectation, it appeared that these people’s ability to adapt was stronger than he imagined, he was just glad they didn’t have a total meltdown at the time of the end at least.

In fact, that was also thanks to Cheng Yang, without his guidance and help, he’s afraid these people would have already died in a monster’s mouth.

The earthquakes didn’t cause many casualties, but when the enchanted beasts had attacked Xiangcheng City, it caused the city’s population to drop by one-fifth. If it weren’t for the monsters not being too strong, and that they had to take time to eat, even more people would have been dead.

At this time, the people that were practicing woke up, including Yu Kai and the others. They saw that Cheng Yang had returned, and mobbed around him immediately. They urgently wanted to know what the situation outside was.

“Yangzi, how was it?” Yu Kai immediately asked.

Cheng Yang said, “The monsters outside were too much, we weren’t able to explore too far, and could only stay killing the enchanted beasts in the vicinity. Going to Xiangcheng City would have to wait for a couple of days…… But anyways, how was your cultivating?”

Yu Kai immediately said, “I had a total of 11 power values, all of which I had just recently used, and now my progress in cultivation has reached 2.4%. If I have enough power values, I should be able to qualify for the Archer apprentice medium-order in 20 days.”

Others repeated what their own progress was, and it wasn’t too different from Yu Kai’s. The fight in the evening had let everyone earn around 10-20 power values. 10 of the power values were repaid back to the territory, but this still left most of them with 10 power values or more remaining. With no exception, they all chose to double their cultivation speed.

Chapter 15- Instance

Cheng Yang expected this would happen. In this harsh and cruel game world, who wouldn’t want to improve their strength as soon as possible?

Cheng Yang quickly said, “I’ll take you guys out to hunt for enchanted beasts to earn as much power value as possible. As for Boss Lee and the rest, you’ll remain in the station to cultivate, everyone should have about ten power values, which is enough for you to have double the cultivation speed for one hour.”

For cultivators, practicing cultivation was also considered a way to rest, so it wouldn’t affect their state of minds for tomorrow.

Next, Cheng Yang opened the Archer statue’s property panel and chose to upgrade “Mana”. They had earned enough for the territory’s power value to reach 400 points, which was enough to upgrade one property for each of the four profession statues.

But, the profession statues had a cooldown period of 1.5 hours between upgrades of properties. Since Cheng Yang wasn’t prepared to wait any longer, he once again set off with Yu Kai’s group, and went out of the station.

They didn’t bring a Summoner with them, but Cheng Yang wasn’t really worried about their safety because Cheng Yang and Lee Wanshan’s group had cleared out the groups of enchanted beasts around the area already earlier. Although the enchanted beasts would still spawn out, the size of the group wouldn’t be as big as before.

After three hours of killing enchanted beasts, when Cheng Yang returned to the station to rest it was already two o’clock at night.

On the way back, Liu Hao complained, “Yangzi, what the hell is up with this ****** game?! There isn’t even a Priest to heal our health; this is such a pain in the ***!”

Cheng Yang curled his mouth into a slight smile, but didn’t say anything. This world was not without priests that can heal back health, they just hadn’t appeared yet. Pang Shan was someone with a Priest talent, so how could there not be a Priest occupation?

After returning back to the station, the Mage, Warrior, and Summoner property upgrades were finished. After the upgrade, the enhancement scale was raised to 8%. In other words, as long as the property was raised to level 2, you would receive 8% bonuses. Cheng Yang immediately chose an upgrade to a property in his respective profession statue. He chose to upgrade the Magician statue’s property of “Health”, while also upgrading the property of “Mana” for the Warrior and Summoner statues.

As a result, 300 points of territory power values were quickly spent. The remaining territory power value left was 351 points.

Cheng Yang was satisfied with the current situation, being able to scrape up over 1,000 points of territory power value in a single night was very praiseworthy. Cheng Yang clearly knew that this was entirely thanks to the world changing recently, causing a large number of enchanted beasts to appear. After two or three days, the respawn rate of the enchanted beasts around the station would fall back to its normal state. By that point, if you spent one day spent killing the enchanted beasts in a one kilometer radius of the stations territory, earning 500 points of territory power value was considered good. Of course, when the territory station gets upgraded the harvest would be larger, but the consumption of power value would also increase, and would make the power value obtained through killing enchanted beasts almost not worth mentioning.

At that time, in order to get enough power value he would have to depend on people’s donations.

After the Magician statue’s “Mana” property upgrade, Cheng Yang’s mana had now reached 63 points. The effect was not yet apparent though, because the 3-point increase was not enough for him to release an extra Magic Missile.

Next, Cheng Yang began his own cultivation method for the night.

At the moment, his power value had reached 413 points, which made him quite pleased. But since he was at the first medium-order sorcerer’s apprentice, and wanted to be able to practice cultivation with double the speed, it would consume twice the power value of a first low-order sorcerer’s apprentice, so four hours of practice would consume 80 power values in total. At the start of the disaster, almost no one could afford such consumption.

After the four hours of cultivation came to an end, Cheng Yang’s 1st medium-order cultivation had reached 3.2%, it was indeed better than the previous night’s practicing efficiency by two-fold.

When he opened his eyes it was already daybreak, after practicing for four hours his mental state had returned to its peak.

Cheng Yang looked around, and found that in addition to the four people patrolling the walls, the rest were still sleeping in the houses.

Cheng Yang made a wry smile; he couldn’t expect everyone to be like him right now. Being able to practice cultivation for one night without the need to sleep, for him it was a habit he acquired from his previous year in the game world.

Yu Kai was currently patrolling the wall with three other transfers. For now, only the remote distance transfers could patrol.

They saw that Cheng Yang had gotten up, so they jumped down from the wall, and ran directly in front of him to say hello. Cheng Yang was now the spiritual pillar of this group of people, they had nothing but heartfelt respect for him.

“Yangzi, what are we doing today?” Yu Kai asked.

Cheng Yang long ago having made a plan, said, “After we finish eating breakfast, we will set off to the south of the station toward Huimin Town to see if we can save some people. It’s only a kilometer away from here, and last night we had half that distance cleared of enchanted beasts. While the night also spawns out some enchanted beasts, it wouldn’t be as high of a frequency as when the disaster first started, so there won’t be that many hordes of enchanted beasts.”

Yu Kai stunned asked, “Where’s this breakfast at? Are we going to cook up the enchanted beast’s meat and eat it?”

Cheng Yang said, “Although most enchanted beast’s meat can be eaten, such as the Gray Wolves we killed last night, today we won’t need to eat that stuff. Do you see what this stuff is?”

Yu Kai looked at the direction Cheng Yang’s finger pointed, and found there was a large bag full of dry foods, such as biscuits. Yu Kai suddenly became overjoyed and said, “This is great, I’m so hungry from not eating anything at all last night!”

Indeed, for a second-generation rich kid to go hungry for one night was a very painful thing for him. Otherwise he wouldn’t be so excited from seeing these cheap biscuits.

Cheng Yang said, “Go wake everyone up, after breakfast we will immediately head out. This time I will take half of the group to Huimin Town while the rest will remain in the station, and kill the enchanted beasts around the surrounding area.”

Cheng Yang wanted to bring everyone to the town, but if the enchanted beasts around the station weren’t killed, then it would be a big waste. This was because if you wanted to have the highest spawn rate, the best way was to kill the enchanted beast the moment it appeared, or else its refresh rate would go down. This would later be summed up by the experience of countless people.

Suddenly, Liu Hao thought of an urgent issue and said, “Yoko, you should go look at what’s behind the altar. It appeared this morning all of a sudden; I looked at it for a long time but wasn’t able to comprehend what it was. I was afraid to touch it, in case something strange happened.”

Cheng Yang was slightly surprised for a moment, and immediately walked toward the back of the altar.

A two-meter high oval screen instantly caught Cheng Yang’s eyes; this was something he was very familiar with.

This portal was actually an entrance to the one of the game’s instances. (Think of it as an entrance to a dungeon.)

Cheng Yang couldn’t understand how the instance portal had suddenly just appeared inside the station; he didn’t remember such a thing existing here before in his memory.

Suddenly, Cheng Yang remembered one thing. Didn’t he move a strange oval stone yesterday near the altar and place it right around here? He recalled that in the aftermath of the earthquake yesterday it was still here, how come it was missing now?

Was it possible the oval stone was needed to activate and open the instance? Or was the stone itself the instance? This possibility was very large, it really was that or else Cheng Yang couldn’t manage to explain how this instance portal materialized in the station.

Thinking of this, Cheng Yang suddenly became annoyed, if he had known the instance was the stone, he wouldn’t have needed to waste two days looking for it. He knew that around Xiangcheng City were five other instances of the same grade as this one. If he had been able to bring all the instance initial-state stones back to the station, the advantages the station would have gained would have been enormous. But now, there was no possibility of that happening, after all; once an instance portal was formed it couldn’t be moved.

Looking at the portal, it was hard for Cheng Yang to keep his calm, this was probably the first time he had ever seen an instance portal inside of a station, and it also belonged to him.

When the station upgrades to a level-three village, there would be a Trial Hall building automatically built, Trial Hall would give out acceptable tasks to the transfers, and then send them somewhere to do the specific task. This trial was also a type of instance. But the power value earned in this type of instance was normally one-third of a field instance, and couldn’t be synchronized. So territorial power value wouldn’t be obtained from this.

What were the benefits of a field instance? First, a field instance could allow people to earn more power value. Secondly, as long as the portal to the field instance was within one kilometer of the station, the enchanted beasts killed in the instance would give out power value, and also give the territory power value. These things had already been verified, but at that time it was already nearing the end of the first year. At that point in time the United States had a station that had upgraded, and had its region expanded, the new territory region included the field instance within it.

Now, Luo Feng station from the start had such an instance, it would certainly greatly improve the upgrade speed.

Of course, the benefits of instances were more than that; they also gave out equipment, skill books, potions, and other rewards. In exceptional cases, one could obtain special rewards.

As far as this instance goes, Cheng Yang knew it very well. The instance was called the Scarlet Church; it belonged to an instance at the lowest level. In an instance at normal difficulty, most monsters would be at the first early-order, the elites would be at the first medium-order, and the final boss would be at first late-order.

If Cheng Yang remembered correctly, being the first to pass on normal difficulty would give you a special treasure; this was the main reason why Cheng Yang had worked so hard to find it previously.

This treasure was a Priest Statue, after the Priest Statue was used on the altar, the territory would receive an occupation Priest Statue where people could transfer to the career. Its benefits couldn’t be imagined. The first pass completion didn’t refer to being the first to pass this specific instance, but the first passage completion of the Scarlet Church all around the world. Only the first person to complete it would have a chance to get this Priest Statue.

Of course, there were other ways to get the Priest Statue, but later on after the end, this was considered the easiest way to get it. Basically, as long as whoever discovered this instance had sufficient strength, they would have no trouble clearing it and claiming the statue.

Cheng Yang had originally intended to go to Huimin Town, but after seeing this portal he instantly changed his decision. Being accompanied by a priest would make the journey to Huimin Town be that much safer.

If things were going according to normal circumstances, even if Cheng Yang commanded every transfer in the station to fight inside this instance, it still wouldn’t be enough to get through the instance; the final boss being at the first late-order was enough to massacre all of them. But Cheng Yang happened to know of a non-normal way of clearing this instance.

“What the hell is this thing?” Seeing Cheng Yang’s face suddenly change, Yu Kai immediately asked in response.

Cheng Yang said, “It’s a good item, you can think of it as a game instance. Go wake up Niu Bing, Liu Hao, and Boss Lee so we can beat this instance. After we are done, we’ll go to Huimin Town.”

After getting Cheng Yang’s instructions, he immediately turned around and went into the house to wake the rest of them up.

Chapter 16- Scarlet Church

Shortly afterward, five people had assembled together as Cheng Yang got ready to enter the instance. It was not that Cheng Yang didn’t want to bring more people in, but the Scarlet Church instance could only accommodate up to five people in a team when challenging it.

The people entering the instance needed to be in a party, if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be in the same instance. After the village was upgraded to level three, the Mercenary Association would emerge which allowed you to set up a mercenary guild. As long as it was within 10 meters of the instance, the rules were automatically set to make humans who were in the same guild into a party, and then deliver them to the same instance.

Currently, let alone Luo Feng Village field station, a Mercenary Association hadn’t even appeared in the main city yet. According to Cheng Yang’s previous experience after the end, 10 days later the Mercenary Association would appear in the main city. Not only would the Mercenary Association appear, but also a group of other buildings such as the Trial Hall.

But Cheng Yang had a secret method; it had taken countless people’s lives after the end occurred to discover this method. After all, people who wanted to go into the same instance were not necessarily in a guild or in the same guild, what were they supposed to do? It was very simple, they just needed to hold hands with one another to be counted as party members.

Immediately five people stood in a circle. While they were under the manipulation of Cheng Yang, they felt immediately that the surrounding environment has undergone tremendous changes.

This was a wide area filled with western-style buildings spread all around. When they looked forward they saw what looked like a large church. However, this church didn’t seem to be a place filled with peace and quiet; but instead somewhere filled with filth and chaos.

Cheng Yang’s group stood outside the church; at the door of the church could be seen two strange animals wandering around.

The strange animals had dark brown skin, pointy-heads, two small legs, and were holding a short spear.

This monster was called a Grell, which was the same as the Green Anorak; both were enchanted beasts of the lowest level category. Its strength was weaker than enchanted beasts in the same order, but their intelligence was much higher to make up for it. When humans fought with them, these monsters were usually more likely to kill them first.

Yu Kai didn’t know the circumstances of this specific church, but Cheng Yang was aware that the church covered an area of about one square kilometer, and was made up of three levels, all of which were filled with Grells. At the end of the second level was a first medium-order enchanted beast; while at the innermost level of the church was first late-order enchanted beast.

“Yangzi, what is this place?” Liu Hao asked as he looked around helplessly. Liu Hao knew that Xiangcheng City didn’t have these western-style buildings anywhere near it.

Cheng Yang said, “This place is not on Earth, specifically what or where it is, I really don’t know. You can just think of it as a game instance, and if you can clear such an instance, it will bring huge benefits.”

Liu Hao and the rest had no doubt that this was true, after all, whether it was games or reality, the first person to eat crab always got rewarded don’t they*? (T/N: Basically means someone who is able to get the benefits from taking a risk and being the first to try something new.)

This time, Cheng Yang no longer walked in the front, but let Liu Hao and Lee Wanshan the two Warriors lead, while he, and Yu Kai the Archer stayed in the middle. Niu Bing, this guy would summon a Dark Wolf to rush to the front, and hide himself at the back of the group. As of right now, the Summoners, in addition to summon animals were not much different from ordinary people.

The Dark Wolf rushed at the two monsters right away to attract the aggro. In the early stage, Summoners were better than Warriors in attracting the enchanted beasts aggro and taking hits, especially since there’s no place in Luo Feng station that sold any kind of potions.

For transfers the recovery speed of health was much slower than the recovery speed of mana, which made it easier for Summoners to block an enchanted beasts attack with their summons. Warrior could use their shield to block attacks, but it wasn’t always successful and an enchanted beast attack rate was extremely fast.

Often the Warriors couldn’t even keep up with the movement of an enchanted beast. Otherwise, just a row of Warriors standing in front of it would be able to kill it easily, but this phenomenon was impossible to achieve in actuality.

The two Grells rushed to the Dark Wolf, instantly tearing each other up. Maybe it was due to the rules of Heaven and Earth, but any magical animal a Summoner called out had a very high chance of attracting aggro. As long as no one attacked the enchanted beast first, it would usually go after the summoned monsters as their first target.

For now, because their level wasn’t high enough, whether it was the summoned monsters or the enchanted beasts, they possessed no strong fighting skills, so this fight relied mainly on their physical strength, using their teeth and claws as their only weapon.

A Dark Wolf naturally couldn’t win against two Grells; but don’t forget, there were also Cheng Yang and the others. Now, with Magic Missiles and Arrows shot at them, and with Liu Hao and Lee Wanshan also following up with an attack, in just a few seconds the two Grells turned into two corpses.

“Let’s go! Get inside the building!” After killing the two watchdogs, Cheng Yang immediately instructed, “Don’t rush, we want to proceed ahead steadily.”

The other four nodded, then the group entered past the door.

What they saw was a cloister2.

The corridors on both sides of them had a bunch of rooms; the number was no less than 100. In the center of this cloister was a wide courtyard, an area of about 700 or 800 square meters. Ten Grell were scattered around the courtyard near them.

“This could be a bit of trouble, there are at least ten Grells, and we won’t be able to fight against them!” Liu Hao had just stuck his head out, only to immediately shrink it back. Although the Grells distribution was scattered, they knew that if Cheng Yang and others showed themselves, these enchanted beasts would immediately swarm them.

The world had transformed into a game, but it still retained some patterns of reality in many places. Such as; there were specific distances you could stay away from certain monsters to not attract their aggro, but as long as you were still within their sight, you would be subject to the enchanted beasts crazy attacks no matter what.

Cheng Yang calmly smiled and said, “Don’t worry, these are just ordinary enchanted beasts. Although they are slightly smarter than other enchanted beasts, they are nothing compared to us. Do you not see the inside of this building? There are plenty of rooms around, as long as we go into a room, and then block them at the entrance of the room, we should be able to quickly kill them.”

Liu Hao’s eyes lighted up, and he said, “That’s a good idea. Wait for a bit, I’ll have a look to see which room is the most suitable to use.”

Having said that Liu Hao quietly stuck his head inside the main door, took a look inside, and then drew back from it quickly.

“To the left more than 10 meters away from one of the doors there is a room, but the door was closed, I don’t know if I can open it.” Liu Hao quickly said.

Cheng Yang confidently said, “Even if the door is locked, as long as you use your strength, and Lee Wanshan uses his, isn’t it easy to open the door?”

Liu Hao shook his fist, a smile suddenly emerging from his chubby round face, “That’s true, I forgot I belong in the same category as Superman now!”

Afterwards, Liu Hao described the Grells distribution inside, and they began to develop a strategy. In fact, the strategy they were going to use was very simple, they only needed Niu Bing to summon a Dark Wolf to rush at them, leading them toward the door, and then blocking them in the entrance.

Things went very smoothly, Niu Bing controlled the Dark Wolf to rush at the enchanted beasts, while Liu Hao led them toward the room.

Cheng Yang and Lee Wanshan followed right behind Liu Hao. As his punch blew open the door, the group rushed into the room.

At this point, the Grells had killed the heroic Dark Wolf, its corpse turned into energy that dissipated away into the air. This was the unique thing about the summoned animals’ manner of death.

At the same time, the Grells that had lost their target quickly changed their focus onto Cheng Yang and others, quickly running toward them. In only a few seconds, the Grells had already surrounded the door.

“Stop them!” Cheng Yang shouted, Liu Hao and Lee Wanshan without further ado directly carried their shields to the front of the group.

Intense fighting had begun, the most difficult jobs belonged to Liu Hao and Li Wan Shan, they weren’t fighting back at all, at the moment. Their hands were only carrying a shield to block the Grells in the front. Cheng Yang and the others in the room joined the fight by using their skills as quickly as possible.

At this time, Cheng Yang couldn’t help but appreciate the Warriors early advantage, their shield was simply too strong. It didn’t have any properties, but compared with any equipment they could pick up later, it contained a unique advantage, that it had no durability value. In other words, the shield could never be damaged.

This properties advantage wasn’t particularly obvious on other equipment, but on the shield it was very strong. Imagine that as long as the shield was at the front, the people behind it would not be harmed. Later on, the shield would no longer have infinite durability, when attacks landed on it the durability would drop very quickly. At this point, Warriors would have to rely on their skills and ability.

The door wasn’t very wide, it could only accommodate two people standing side by side, and the Grells bodies were about the same size as a human’s body, therefore only two Grells could launch attacks at the same time.

After some fighting, all of the Grells were eliminated. While Liu Hao and Li Wanshan were standing in the front of the battle, their face were contorted. It wasn’t from anger, but from pain. While the Grells attacks on their shields didn’t bring them any real harm, the several attacks seismic force alone made their hands go numb, and after killing more than 10 Grells, their arms felt like they had been fractured.

Right now, they didn’t dare to continue to move forward, everyone sat on the ground to recover. Liu Hao and Lee Wanshan started using their Yun Ling skill several times, after awhile the pain in their arms had finally lessened a bit.

This was just the first courtyard, after they had finished recovering they proceeded to the next courtyard inside one of the side doors, repeating the previous battle.

10 minutes later, they had finished raiding the eight courtyards, and finally saw a door appear.

This was the second level of the church, and behind that door was a 1st medium-order enchanted beast.

Cheng Yang didn’t feel too much pressure from this, even if he was the only one here, he was confident that he could solo it.

Cheng Yang went inside the door. Inside was a Grell that looked almost the same as the other Grells wandering around the door earlier, except its skin color was of a darker color than any ordinary Grell.

The Dark Grell soon discovered Cheng Yang; it began to howl as it ran over. Cheng Yang didn’t choose to stay still. He shot off a Magic Missile, turned around, and ran.

1 ED:(Here is the story behind the quote for anyone interested.) http://www.cultural-china.com/chinaWH/html/en/Kaleidoscope2789bye8008.html

2 ED:(A cloister is a courtyard with covered walks that is usually a place of religious affiliation, like a church or a monastery.)

Chapter 17- Clearance

“Long distance careers will shoot from the back, the warriors will be responsible for the protection.” Cheng Yang quickly shouted as he got ready to kite the Grell.

Cheng Yang led the first-medium order Grell around, while Yu Kai released arrows from behind. As for Liu Hao and Lee Wanshan, they were only soy sauce’s sake. They weren’t able to keep pace with the Grell, and the dark wolf summoned by Niu Bing suffered the same fate.

After several rounds of attack, the enchanted beast that would cause despair for almost everyone that tried to kill it at this early stage died on the spot, before they even had a chance to cheer a faint light screen appear and covered the Grell’s body.

After two seconds the screen dispersed, the Grell’s body had already disappear, and at the place of the original body was a wooden stick.

Yu Kai and Liu Hao looked at each other, what is that thing? The wooden stick seems to look somewhat similar to the one in Chang Yang’s hand.

The fastest to respond was chubby Liu Hao who had some gaming experience, he suddenly exclaimed, “Yangzi is this the equipment that the enchanted beast just burst out? I thought you say these enchanted don’t burst out any equipment?”

Cheng Yang calmly replied, “I only say those enchanted beasts outside don’t burst out any equipment, but in here is the instance and so it’s not the same as those enchanted beast out there. And according to circumstances, even the enchanted beasts in the instance would rarely burst out equipment. The stronger the enchanted beast is, the more likely it would burst out an equipment.”

They didn’t continue to dwell on this issue, but knowing that the enchanted beast could burst equipment was a joyous event.

“Yangzi, you’re lucky, it looks like this magic wand is for you to use.” Niu Bing stepped forward a few steps, and picked up the wooden stick.

Cheng Yang knew this equipment is a magic wand, in fact, before the Grell was killed, he could already guess the item that would drop. According to the rules summed up later, the person with the greatest contribution in the instance, was more likely to burst out their career-related items. There was no doubt that in the earlier battle, Cheng Yang’s contribution was the biggest, so the enchanted beast bursting out a magician related equipment was the most likely thing.

Cheng Yang took the wand from Niu Bing’s hand, and moment later its properties appeared in Cheng Yang’s mind.

Wither Wooden Staff: Ordinary single-handed weapon. Increase magic attack by 1, required early-order sorcerer’s apprentice or above to equip. Durability: 50/50.

It was worthy to be later criticized as the lowest grade equipment, increasing magic damage by only 1 points. But for now, this wither wooden staff offer Cheng Yang unparalleled advantages, it’s equivalent to having his attack raised by 10%. This wasn’t the most important matter, after the increased of 1 point of extra magic attack, those original early-order enchanted beasts that used to take four magic missile to deal with, now only needed three to be kill.

Cheng Yang without hesitation immediately replaced his old wand, his magic attack went up to 11 points.

With the excitement of bursting out a piece of equipment, Yu Kai was in high spirit, immediately rushed into the courtyard.

Subsequent fighting had no suspense, after this first-medium order Grell fell under Cheng Yang and others attack, they would have to face the most powerful monster in the Scarlet Church.

But after this Grell died, luckily it also burst out a piece of equipment.

Buckskin Wristband: Iron grade armor. Increase arm physical defense by 1, increase attack speed by 2, required apprentice order or above to equipped. Durability: 60/60.

After seeing this piece of equipment, Cheng Yang was overjoyed. It was an iron grade equipment! In general an instance at normal difficulty would only appear ordinary grade equipment, with only a minimal chance of bursting iron grade equipment.

It seemed that their luck was good. Of course, it could also be instance related. After all, they were the first team to enter the Scarlet Church instance, so getting some additional advantages were also reasonable.

For an increased of 2 attack speed, others may be at a loss. They may also feel this increase of stats is extremely strong, but Cheng Yang knew that this increase in two points of attack speed is not as people think.

For example, Cheng Yang’s attack speed was now at 2, this doesn’t mean his attack speed is twice as fast as other people. Instead, the gap is still very small, 1 point increase in attack speed is equivalent to an increase of 1%. Now this Buckskin Wristband increase attack speed by 2, which merely increase the original attack speed by 2%.

Perhaps this increase of 2% don’t seem to have any significant effect, but at the most crucial moment, this extra little speed may play a critical role. Cheng Yang on more than one occasion was able to appreciate this benefit.

This equipment also has no restriction of the occupation that can use it, in other words, this Buckskin Wristband can be used by all occupation.

After reading the attribute of this piece of equipment, Cheng Yang threw it to Liu Hao, said, “Haozi, this equipment is suitable for you, it can increase your arm physical defense and strengthen your arm resisting ability, which will be beneficial for you when resisting enchanted beast attacks.”

Liu Hao said, “Yangzi, how about you use this thing, right now the pillar of our strength is you, and if you get stronger we should be more secure right?”

Cheng Yang retorted, “Your way of thinking is wrong, this damn doomsday is very cruel, personal power in the last days has little value, now no matter how powerful I become, if I were to be surrounded by a dozen of enchanted beasts I would only be killed. So the most important thing now is having you and Lee be able to protect our security, only when our frontline is safe will we be able to concentrate on killing the enchanted beasts.”

After thinking for a bit Liu Hao accepted the equipment, he immediately put the Buckskin Wristband on his right arm.

Cheng Yang took one look at the crowd and said, “For the next fight you don’t have to participate, in the face of first-late order enchanted beast, you are still too fragile.”

“How can we do such a thing?” Yu Kai immediately said, “We enter this instance together, of course when advancing or retreating we will also do it together, how can we let you take all the risk by yourself?”

Niu Bing said, “Yangzi, I also agree with what Yu said, we need to stick together when fighting the final Boss and if it is very powerful that we won’t be able to contend, then we can just quit. There is no need to let you go adventure right? ”

Cheng Yang a wry smile, “Ok, don’t be so pessimistic, I say to leave it to me, because I am sure that I can deal with it. Otherwise, with my ability, in the face of an enchanted beast in the late-order would only need seconds to be torn apart by it.”

A late-order enchanted beast dealt around 20 points of damage, if it struck a first-low order sorcerer’s apprentice, and not counting the defense it was fully capable of spiking them. Even for Cheng Yang, he could only resist two attacks. Moreover, a late-order enchanted beast had double of Cheng Yang’s speed. Under normal circumstances, when facing such a presence, he would have no chance of escaping.

They were aware of this fact, but everyone present also acknowledged the ability of Cheng Yang. In their view, Cheng Yang was not a fool, so naturally it was impossible for him to do things that are suicidal.

Next, under the arrangement of Cheng Yang, Yu Kai and the rest stayed in the second layer while Cheng Yang alone entered the central courtyard.

This was the Scarlet Church central courtyard, and was also one of the largest courtyard. At the center of the courtyard there was a huge tree more than 10 meters tall with smooth and straight trunk, making it impossible to climb. Its foliage completely covered the entire courtyard

This courtyard was different from other places, in addition to a spacious yard outside, there was no corridor or any room. Of course, there was a door in the front of the yard, the door led to the most important building of this church, the prayer hall.

Cheng Yang was looking at the enchanted beast in this prayer hall.

This was also a Grell, but compared with the Grells from before, it had a famous name, it’s called the Chief Grell because under normal circumstances, the Grell’s highest level of growth was the first-peak, the first-peak Grell was the leader level. And a late-order Grell was classified as the chieftain level.

First, Cheng Yang checked the surrounding environment, and after making sure there weren’t any difference from his memory, he was able to put down his hanging heart.

After he was ready, Cheng Yang legs lept forward, and rushed straight into the prayer hall.  After entering the door, he saw a shadowy figure giving off intense pressure, he directly released a magic missile at it, then went toward the left side of the courtyard wall and ran off.

Here was only a few meters away from the wall, with his speed, to reach the wall took only a blink of an eye. There was a stone bench here, Cheng Yang used it as leverage and jumped up to the wall.

Extending along the wall was a branch, Cheng Yang grabbed a hold of it and climbed the big tree.

At that moment, a giant monster rushed out from the prayer hall, it looked like a Grell, but its height was nearly one meter taller than the ordinary Grell, which was really appalling.

After it went out the door, it saw Cheng Yang who was still climbing the tree, then it started to howl and rushed over.

Cheng Yang was now on one of the branches of the big tree, he was fifteen-sixteen meters from the ground, which is a branch of the tree closest to the ground.

See below the Chief Grell that kept on leaping upward, Cheng Yang’s face showed a hint of a smile. Although this was the game world, but it was also reality. If strange scenes occurred in the game world, the gaming company would try to fix that bug. But this realistic game world was very different, since it was reasonable, who let these Grell have such low IQ?

After a few minutes, the Chief Grell with 120 health was shot to death by Cheng Yang, before dying it still couldn’t find a way to get up the tree.

After this guy died, Cheng Yang went down along the branch and jumped off from the wall, he was eager to see his harvest!

An item is placed on the ground, a dark gray robe, it was the item burst after killing the Chief Grell, Cheng Yang quickly open its properties filled with anticipation.

Magic Robe: Iron grade armor, body magic defense increase by 1, mana increase by 10 points, required magic attack related professional occupations apprentice order or above to be equipped. Durability 60/60.

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Chapter 18- Priest Statue

Wow, what a good item. As far as magician was concerned there was a notion that they needed physical defense but that was not true. After all, magician didn’t need to fight enchanted beast up close like warriors, so they paid more attention to magic defense instead. The same thing with health and mana, compared with the two, the value of mana was more important. Although this equipment was just an iron grade equipment, but also was infinitely close to the value of a bronze grade equipment.

In the last world, Cheng Yang also received bronze gears. There was no doubt that a person who could wear a full set of bronze level equipment, their property will absolutely be against the Heaven. Bronze grade equipment, after all, are not so readily available. The vast majority of people would be happy just to get a iron grade equipment.

Cheng Yang immediately put on the magic robe, it added a mysterious charm. The feeling of wearing the robe was a bit weird, but Cheng Yang didn’t mind, after the end, survival was the most important matter, who cared what the robe looked like?

At this time, Liu Hao heard the noise inside disappear, and knowing that the fight was over, he walked in. After seeing Cheng Yang wear a dark colored dress, they couldn’t help but froze for a long time.

“Is that the equipment that bursted?” Liu Hao was the first to react.

Cheng Yang said with a smile, “I had some good luck, it’s a magic robe…”

Yu Kai looked around and said, “Yangzi, the instance is finished, right?”

Cheng Yang said, “Yeah, it’s over, but the harvest is a very rich. Out of the three pieces of equipments, two are iron grade equipments, perhaps for now these equipment may seems valuable, but in the future these will be the general equipment when doing the instance. For now, these will be our main source of equipment.”

Yu Kai immediately asked, “Can we do the instance over again?”

Cheng Yang said, “We can’t, each person can only enter the instance once a day, and there is a limit to the number of times you can clear it per day. This instance can be clear three times a day on normal difficulty. However, this number can be elevated, with the cumulative clearance times, the number of times per day clearance will also increase. There’s no need to worry, we can just take it slowly.”

Yu Kai nodded right away, they now understood that this instance for Luo Feng village’s development would play a vital role.

Cheng Yang went on to say, “Well, it’s time for us to go check this instance biggest benefits, after all, this is the world’s first instance clearance, if there’s no great benefit, it really can’t be justified.”

The others heard Cheng Yang said before that the instance would give out huge harvests, but they felt that obtaining three pieces of equipment was lucky enough, so there was no thought on getting anything else. After listening to what Cheng Yang said, they became overjoyed.

Cheng Yang immediately took the lead into the prayer hall, looking inside the hall on the high platform was a table, which was placed a half-foot tall white statue.

The white statue was carved in the image of a female Angel, her hands holding a scepter, which gave off an impression of holiness.

Cheng Yang gently picked up the white statue, fearing that he might accidentally break it.

Professional Statue (Priest): Priest career statue, after the sacrifice on the territory altar, the territory will appear a priest statue that allow people to transfer to the priest career.

So it was this thing, although Cheng Yang had already guessed he would obtain this statue, but his heart was still surging with endless excitement. With this thing, Luo Feng Village would become even more powerful. After the apocalypse medicine lost their usage, so the role of a priest wasn’t so simple, they would improve the safety of those that team up with them.

Liu Hao looked at Cheng Yang’s hands which was holding the white jade statue, wondering what it did. However, after a short explanation from Cheng Yang, his face showed the color of ecstasy. Especially Liu Hao, as a veteran gamer, his understanding on the value of priest was more thorough than the others.

Liu Hao chuckled, said, “So, in the future we will have a wet nurse.”

Niu Bing slapped the back of Liu Hao’s head, scorned him a glance at him and said, “What wet nurse, it’s called priest, remember that it is called priest.”

Liu Hao who suffered a slap was somewhat at a loss, then moment later he remember Pang Shan who didn’t get to transfer yesterday. He suddenly realized the cause for the slap, a wry smile appeared on his face, that one slap to the head was to avenge for his girlfriend. How could you say his brother’s girlfriend was a wet nurse? He immediately corrected himself, “Yes, priest, this is definitely the priest.”

Liu Hao’s words had not yet finished, the space around them began distorting, followed by a change in the surrounding environment, they had returned to Luo Feng Village.

The people in Luo Feng Village were anxiously waiting for them, because they simply didn’t know the situation of Cheng Yang and the rest in the Scarlet Church. After seeing Cheng Yang who suddenly appeared near the portal, people quickly mobbed the group.

The most excited was Pang Shan. After all, she was the only girl the village, and was the only one that hadn’t transferred. If someone had any thought of misconduct, she’s afraid she didn’t even have any room for resistance.

“Niu Bing, you came back.” Pang Shan felt relief after holding Niu Bing’s arm.

Niu Bing who felt Pang Shan’s worry began patting her back, comforting her, “Don’t worry, didn’t we just come back just fine? Even Yangzi is together with us, there won’t be any danger.”

Yu Kai suddenly on the side said, “You couple dare show your public affection deliberately to make all of us single people envious, huh?”

Cheng Yang interrupted them, “Well, you can talk all you want later. We don’t have much time right now. There is a lot of things we need to do.”

With that said, Cheng Yang placed the priest statue in his hands on the altar, then moment later the small statue quickly disappeared, and a white light emerged 50 meters away. The scene was exactly like when the four main statue appeared.

After the white light dispersed, a tall white statue appeared at the location, its appearance was identical to the small statue Cheng Yang had sacrificed. Only its location was on the outside of the four main statues.

“Pang Shan, you come here to transfer.” Cheng Yang quickly to Pang Shan said.

“I can transfer career?” Pang Shan got a little excited. After getting a positive response from Cheng Yang, she immediately went next to the priest statue, and transfer in accordance with the instructions from Cheng Yang.

At this time, Cheng Yang viewed the property panel of the priest’s statue. It was about the same as the other four primaries statues except for two differences.

The number for the transfer quota was different. The maximum number that could transfer to a priest was only five people. But this was within Cheng Yang’s expectation, after all from his memories he already knew this. Also the priest statue was like a special career, even for those in the main city, it was impossible to transfer to the priest profession.

The other difference was the profession statue scalable attributes.

Divine (level 1, not yet researched): Increase the healing of all priests transferred under this statue by 5%, upgrade conditions: 100 power values.

Cheng Yang didn’t remember the priest statue ever having this property. How could it have this attribute? Cheng Yang was puzzled, and could only ultimately attribute the cause for it being the world’s first non-primary statue.

Cheng Yang’s speculation was broadly accurate, and the reason he didn’t know in the previous world was because at that time the first non-main statue wasn’t a priest.

The priest statue had one more attribute than the other four main statues. Although this made it harder for the priest statue to upgrade, but at the same time it would give Luo Feng village’s priests a very distinct advantage. Compared with these advantages, increasing the difficulty of the upgrade mean nothing.

After selecting the option to upgrade the magic attack of the priest statue, he also upgraded a property from the four main statues. This time, he chose the attack attribute for all the profession.

Name: Pang Shan

Subordinate Force: Luo Feng Village

Occupation: Priest         Rank: Low-order Priest’s apprentice (0%)

Age: 19 Life: 110 years

Health: 20      Mana: 25

Physical Attack: 1 Magic Attack: 5

Physical Defense: 1       Magic Defense: 1

Attack Speed: 1     Movement Speed: 1.1

Talent:

 1. Each increasing a minor order, enhances magical attack by 3%.

 2. Each increasing a minor order, enhances priest’s skill effect by 3%.

Skills:

 1. Prayer: Level 1 (Priest’s basic skill, through prayer one can gradually enhance strength. Skill level increase associated with career-order ascension.)

 2. Light healing: Level 1 (Heal friendly targets, restoring health value by magic attack x2, effective distance of 30 meters, no special effect. Spell consumes 5 points of mana. Proficiency 0%.)

Equipment:

 +Novice scepter: Priest status symbol, holds no additional properties.

In addition to the priest early treatment capability, even the attack methods were missing. At the early stage, except teaming up with other professions, there was no other way to go.

Of course, this wouldn’t affect them earning power value. Because, according to rule heaven and Earth, as long as the priest healed their teammates in the fight, they would be able to take part of the power value, the specific value depended on how much of a role they played.

After dealing with Pang Shan, Cheng Yang began planning the matters to go to Huimin Town, after all, Luo Feng Village upgrade would depend on the population from Huimin Town.

After completing the Scarlet Church instance, the biggest benefit was obtaining a priest statue, followed by the fighting that earned them nearly 200 power values as well as the same territorial power value. And finally the three pieces of equipment.

Although for the time being, the three pieces of equipment looked like they played a huge role, but with the enhancement of people’s strength, these equipment would be worthless. So relatively speaking, the value of power value was more important. For future transaction, the purchasing power of more than two hundred point power values was also greater than the three pieces of equipment Cheng Yang obtained.

Now the time was eight in the morning, for the group to enter the instance a little earlier, they didn’t even get a chance to eat breakfast. Before the departure to Huimin Town, the food and clothing problem needed to be resolved.

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Chapter 19- Going to Huimin Town

In Xiangcheng City, the air was completely filled with the atmosphere of death.

From the start of the earthquake to now, only 15 hours had passed, however for the city’s residents, it seemed like a century.

That night, no one was able to sleep, they curled up in every corner of the city’s ruins, being on alert listening to the movement around. With a whiff of danger, they would be standing on the edge of death.

Everyone knew, currently the master of the city was no longer mankind, but those monsters. Not only did the monsters kill, but they also ate people.

Last night, many people were eaten by the monsters, even the bones are not necessarily left behind.

Last night, Xiangcheng City’s population of nearly 2 million people, 500,000 people failed to see the next day sun. Throughout Xiangcheng City’s ruins could be seen trails of blood everywhere, people that were still alive, considered themselves lucky.

However, after a night of hiding, most people were now hungry. After all, the vast majority of them did not eat last night, plus with a night without sleep, not being hungry was odd.

At this time, everyone knew that this was no ordinary earthquake. It had been more than 10 hours, and there was still no news from the outside world. If this were a real earthquake, this type of response was simply impossible, there should have been at least rescue helicopters at the scene when the disaster first emerged. But now, let alone a helicopter, even everyday flights couldn’t be seen in the air.

Now they were faced with a difficult dilemma, how to find food in the ruins full of monsters.

Presently, some monsters started crowding together, while the number of enchanted beasts spawning were gradual reducing, this gave an opportunity to some of the daring people. They slowly emerged from their hiding place in the ruins, carefully watching the movement of the surrounding, while searching for the stuff on the ground, anything that could be eaten is their goals.

At this moment, robbery and killing, didn’t only occur between man and monsters, but also between people. In order to survive, the ugliness of human nature were exposed.

Fortunately, there were still some people that were more restrained, they gathered together and helped one another, looking to survive in the endless ruins.

As more and more people came out of their hiding places, someone finally saw the city’s central road had a huge dome-shaped screens enveloping it. Nobody thought the light curtain appeared for no reason, it could be an opportunity.

Especially in the light curtain stood a few tall statues, it gave off radiance that make all the people from the bottom of their heart produce a sense of intimacy with them, these statues seemed to give them hope.

Some people in high places saw the inside of the screen was completely empty, and without a single monster roaming inside. Around the perimeters of the light screen, however, had been packed full with a variety of monsters. They were divided into different groups based on race, each occupying an area of non-aggression.

The scene from outside of the screen seemed peaceful, but in the eyes of humanity, this was hell. Everyone knew that once these monsters saw humans, their first response would be rushing at them to kill them, and then eaten as food or be stored away.

Soon, the message about the light curtain spread throughout Xiangcheng City within a very short period of time. People began thinking of ways to get inside the light curtain, but soon they would find that all tricks in the face of absolute power were useless. If they had enough weapons, or had some materials available, such as gasoline, perhaps they could smoothly rush in.

However, with the initial outbreak of the earthquake, almost all of the materials were buried underground, except for some foods remaining from the supermarkets. This was also to ensure their survival so that in a short time they won’t starve to death.

The time was already more than 8 in the morning, after Cheng Yang and the group ate breakfast, more than half of the big bag of food is gone, it seems they can only eat barbecue at noon.

This time Cheng Yang took Liu Hao, Niu Bing, Pang Shan, as well as Lee Wanshan and 10 other transfers along with him. While Yu Kai and the rest would stay at the station. According to Cheng Yang’s orders, during the time he was gone, Yu Kai would temporarily be in charge of the station, other people must obey his orders.

It was not that Cheng Yang had issues trusting them. But with the end of the world, Cheng Yang didn’t want any mishaps to occur that might be beyond redemption.

Fifteen people rapidly advanced along the road to the South, on the way they encountered several small groups of enchanted beasts that was easily taken care of.

After walking nearly 800 meters Cheng Yang suddenly discovered on the pavement in front a small porcelain vase which exuded a faint white light

“Really good luck!” Cheng Yang with a smile on his face, he walked quickly to the small porcelain vase to a distance about 10 meters away before looking around.

Suddenly, Cheng Yang lifted his wand, firing off a magic missile straight toward the trunk on the left side, soon there was a “POP!” sound, the magic missile hit its target. A half-meter long lizard fell down by the tree trunk.

The remaining remote distance careers followed up with their own attacks, the lizard on the ground hadn’t gotten a chance to recovered was soon killed by Cheng Yang and the others.

Cheng Yang knew that an enchanted beast would be guarding the small vase, because it’s a type of game item.

In games, items could be purchased from the shop in addition, such items also had some chances of appearing in the wild, but it was very low. And every place in the wild that had an item, there would be an enchanted beast guarding it. In contrast, obtaining items from the wild was much easier than getting it from the instance, after all, the strength of the enchanted beast guarding them was not very strong.

Cheng Yang picked up the small porcelain vase, above clearly states several characters: Mana Potion (Small).

Not only that, when Cheng Yang focused on the magic potion for two seconds, information about the item emerged in Cheng Yang’s mind: Mana potion (Small): Small recovery potion, after taking have a one-time instant recovery of 10 mana, afterward will have a recovery of 2 points of mana per second for 10 seconds.

A simple phrase that clearly illustrated the effect of the item, it was like the blue pills in games, which add mana.

In regular games, whether health potions or mana potions, they belonged to common goods, it could be brought everywhere. But in the real world, pharmacy items were extremely precious, at some point, they may play a life-saving role.

“Keep moving!” Cheng Yang with a smile on his face, “I hope we can find a few more items.”

Cheng Yang knew he was just deluding himself. Admittedly, around the world was indeed littered with a variety of items, but the number was extremely low. Being able to find a bottle of mana potion the next morning had been considered good luck.

After passing Luo Feng station 1-kilometer range, 20 enchanted beasts were killed along the road. Cheng Yang estimated they have about 400-500 meters distance left before reaching Huimin Town.

Huimin Town was a big town, if before the end, they would be able to see Huimin Town’s buildings from here. But after the earthquake, Huimin Town had been turned into ruins, and let alone buildings, it was hard to find a house still intact.

“Yangzi, why is this earthquake so weird? You can see that the terrain has been changed, but how are all these trees still intact?” Liu Hao walked along at the side, puzzled muttered.

Cheng Yang bitterly smiled, said, “Now the world have become so, what else can be more bizarre than these monsters? There will probably be more strange things happening in the future. Right now the most important thing to do is to enhance our strength, other things shouldn’t matter.”

Liu Hao looked at the sky, and said bitterly, “God, how did the world turn into this?”

If before Liu Hao was looking forward to the whole world turning into a game, now his only thought was about the previous lifestyle. He would preferred living in the dull campus, and not living such a dangerous life. But now, all of them didn’t have a choice.

Walking in the front Lee Wanshan stopped and said, “There is movement upfront!”

Cheng Yang immediately stopped and listened, and sure enough in front not far away there was some noisy stampede sound.

“Be careful, the number of these monsters would probably not be too little.” Cheng Yang face sank, then raised his dead wood staff.

His voice faded, a group of huge size wild boars rushed out of the woods, in an amount no less than twenty. This was a wild boar? Look more like a tiger.

“Damn it! Steel-haired Boars. You guys quickly retreat.” Cheng Yang shouted loudly, and then ran to the front of the group, standing between the group and the monsters.

Although the others still didn’t know what’s going on, but after hearing Cheng Yang’s shout, they knew the urgency of the matter, they immediately turned and ran the route toward the station. Especially, with more than 20 Steel-haired Boars were not what they could compete with at the moment.

Cheng Yang shot a magic missile, hitting a Steel-haired boar, it uttered a terrible cry.

The rest of the Steel-haired Boars became stimulated, not only without fear, but sprint more excitedly. How could Cheng Yang dare to stay? He followed the group toward the direction of Luo Feng Village station.

Along the way, it could be described as deserted, a few enchanted beasts spawning had just opened their eyes, a series of arrows and magic missile would begin impacting them, so by the time they checked their surroundings, they had already turned into a corpse.

Steel-haired Boars ran no slower than humans at full speed, people that ran slow would absolutely have no chance of survival.

Fortunately, people that had been transferred were enhanced overall, their physical energy was far greater than before, this more than 1,000 meters distance was enough for them to rush back. Of course, they could succeed, Cheng Yang also contributed, he had been at the rear, and every time he saw a Steel-haired Boar rushed to the front, a magic missile would be shot out. His mana has now reached 73 points, enough for him to fire off 14 magic missiles.

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Chapter 20- Rescue

After everyone rushed into Luo Feng Village, they became relieved. They were very glad there were some people left behind in the village, or else there would have been at least twenty-thirty enchanted beasts blocking the gate, at that time I’m afraid there would be a few casualties.

The gate instantly closed, the Steel-haired Boars that were chasing them were too late to stop, one by one crashed into the gate. The huge impacts made the whole wall shiver, sending forth a bunch of “zaza” sound, it made Liu Hao and the others worried incessantly. They feared the wall might collapse under the impact of these Steel-haired boars.

Cheng Yang knew that even if the numbers of the Steel-haired Boars were more, they wouldn’t still be able to breach the walls. After all, the walls had a five-point defense capability on them, making it impossible for the Steel-haired boars with first-early order strength incapable of breaking down the walls.

The next battle held little suspense, while attacking the monsters Cheng Yang explained, “The Steel-haired Boars are a first-early order enchanted beast that is more difficult to deal with, especially in the wild, if they aren’t killed before they get close, then it would be a huge disaster since warriors’ shields can’t block the Steel-haired Boars’ charges. This is the reason why I made everyone run immediately. In such a situation, even if we have more warriors, there would still inevitably be casualties. In the future, if you encounter swarms of Steel-haired Boars in the wild, the first thing to do is to run.”

Everyone paid close attention Cheng Yang’s advice. After all, for them this was life-saving knowledge.

After all the Steel-haired Boars were killed, Cheng Yang once again set foot on the road to Huimin Town. Before leaving, Cheng Yang saw his power values has reached nearly 600 points.

About 100 points were obtained from the Scarlet Church instance.

Now he was looking forward to his power value reaching over a thousand, when that happened he would be able to enjoy four times the cultivation speed. Of course, the corresponding power values consumed per hour would be more than twice the original consumption.

This time the trip went smoothly, although along the way the group encountered a few enchanted beasts. Even with the close proximity to Huimin Town, they met with a group of 11 Green Anoraks, but under the tacit cooperation of Cheng Yang and others, these enchanted beasts did not cause too much trouble for them.

After Liu Hao and the rest entered Huimin Town, their faces turned pale. Although they had some conjecture on the situations that doomsday might bring forth, along with Cheng Yang telling them about the cruelty of the disaster. But all of this was conceived in their brains, and now with them truly immersed, they found that they would be taking the end too lightly.

Huimin Town occupied twenty-thirty square kilometers, but now they couldn’t see a house standing. In the ruins, in addition to seeing some enchanted beasts wandering outside, not a single person could be seen.

It was not that they couldn’t find people, but were unable to find any living people. At their feet were laid several bloody skeletons, their flesh were eaten clean off, even the bones could no longer form a complete skeleton.

After living years in a peaceful environment, once they saw this scene, could only feel their stomach churning, everyone started bending over and vomiting. It was more unbearable for Pang Shan, after seeing such a bloody scene, she instantly was scared stiff. Moment after recovering, her mouth opened, ready to unleash a scream.

Cheng Yang quickly took notice her action, he rushed up to cover her mouth, lest they face siege of enchanted beasts.

“If you don’t want to die, don’t scream.” Cheng Yang said calmly, and then released his hand from Pang Shan’s mouth.

Pang Shan also realized their situation. Although her eyes were still filled with fear, she didn’t scream out loud. But she couldn’t help bending over, and along with Niu Bing, began vomiting onto the ground.

After Cheng Yang saw this scene, he didn’t have the slightest intention of laughing at them. When he saw such a scene in Xiangcheng City, he didn’t have much of a better performance than them.

Perhaps in the next few days they would be having nightmares, Cheng Yang sighed.

After a long time has passed, Lee Wanshan was the first to recover. Although his face was very pale, his eye became firmer. He looked at Cheng Yang, said, “Little brother, are you saying all the cities and towns around the world are like this?”

Cheng Yang nodded and said, “That’s correct, but the death toll isn’t much, only about one-fifth of the total population died. As long as you have slightly good luck, you will be able to escape death at the start of the disaster. But it won’t be the same in the future, it will depend on the individual’s ability.”

Lee Wanshan looked around the desolate scene, he said, “I understand that in order to survive, in order to be able to rescue my family as soon as possible, I will have to adapt to this world as soon as possible.”

At this time, the rest of the people also gradually recovered, except for Pang Shan who will still in shock.

Cheng Yang went on to say, “This time we are not here to kill enchanted beast, but to save lives. So we’ll try walking toward the areas with the least amount of enchanted beasts, and making at least much of noise as possible.”

The rest of the people immediately nodded, and then began slowly exploring the ruins.

In the process of moving forward, in order to avoid the enchanted beasts from finding them, everyone squatted their body, and slowly advance across the ruins. The warriors were split in all four direction, watching for any sign of movement in the distance. At the same time, they would also issue a whispered cry whenever they noticed anything, if a sound were heard, a group would go to help them.

Of course, if they encountered any enchanted beast they couldn’t escape from, they would not hesitate to lure it over, then surround and attack the monster, killing it with no pressure. Even luring two over at once, they would be able to kill them easily.

It also benefited that the scattered enchanted beasts around weren’t very dense, many of the enchanted beasts had already gathered together in groups, for this town, Cheng Yang was wondering how far these people had hidden.

A few minutes later, Liu Hao suddenly stopped, slightly excited said to Cheng Yang, “Yangzi, you quickly look over there.”

With that said, Liu Hao pointed to a place on the left more than 30 meters away, where there was a high-rise building that was in ruins. There were many caves between the walls, but at the moment inside a cave, a head emerged, his luminous eyes were watching Cheng Yang’s group of people.

Liu Hao was sure that it was definitely a person rather than a monster, so far they hadn’t seen any monster in the shape of a “human”.

Cheng Yang immediately made a gesture to the other party, first calming them down. The man in the cave excitedly nodded his head. He was only afraid that Cheng Yang would ignore him.

Cheng Yang looked around and found that at the rear of the person hiding place more than twenty meters away, there was a Grell wandering there. If the man emerged from the cave, he would inevitably attract the Grell’s attention, so in order to save him, they had to first kill that Grell

Everyone slowly moved forward for more than 10 meters, the Grell would soon enter their attack range, Cheng Yang did not hesitate to shoot a magic missile at the Grell, instantly knocking off 10 points of it health.

The remaining six remote distance careers weren’t slow, they shot almost exactly at the same time. In a blink of an eye blink, the Grell fell to the ground, never got up again.

“Come out!” Cheng Yang quickly said to the hidden man.

The man hesitated, he was scared from Cheng Yang’s attacks just now, in particular those few magicians, was that abilities that humans could have? He softly whispered, “You…… Are you human?”

Liu Hao immediately became unhappy, dark faced, he said, “You are not human! Your whole family aren’t human!”

The man didn’t only not get angry, but got more excited and immediately climbed out from the cave, he ran to the front of Cheng Yang’s group, and excitedly said, “Thank you, thank you!”

Cheng Yang said, “Don’t speak so loudly, or you will attract a large number of monsters, then we all die.”

The man’s face became pale, he remembered he was not completely out of the woods yet, then he whispered, “You…… Your bows and those lights shooting out, how did you do that?”

Cheng Yang didn’t want to take too much time to explain, said, “You can think of it as humans having the ability to evolve, but now is not the time to say these things, later on you’ll understand. Do you know anyone else hidden nearby?”

The man immediately answered, “I know…… I know a place that is hiding a lot of people nearby, but they are afraid to come out so I have to go find them. ”

The man finished, turned around and took a few steps, suddenly turn back to Cheng Yang said, “Brother, can you guys go along with me? Everywhere is full of monsters……”

Cheng Yang didn’t reject him, he took him along the group moving forward. Along the way, Cheng Yang learn that the man is named Zhao Chuan, he was a middle school teacher in Huimin Town before the end.

Under the leadership of Zhao Chuan, soon a dozen people from the surrounding caves came out. In fact, many of them heard the shouts of Cheng Yang’s group, but they didn’t believe someone will come to rescue them, so everyone was afraid to come out. After seeing Zhao Chuan and Cheng Yang’s group of ten people, they chose to stop hiding.

But after seeing Cheng Yang’s group have the ability to kill the monsters, no one had the slightest reluctance to join. They were grateful to follow behind Cheng Yang’s group.

With these people joining the team, the pace slowed down a lot, they had to act more cautiously. Fortunately, the entire Huimin Town, in addition to the monsters that were already in a group, the remaining amount wasn’t much. They also occasionally encountered one or two people who couldn’t stand the hunger and went out looking for food, these people, all without exception joined Cheng Yang’s team.

Actually some people initially didn’t want to join Cheng Yang and the others, because they felt that having too many people would make it more dangerous. But after Zhao Chuan explained to them how strong Cheng Yang and his group was, they didn’t have any comment.