After Blood Sea Boundless left, Wu Shaochen quickly checked the skill book in his hand.
[Holy Light Shield]: Consumes 200 mana to provide the target with a shield that reduces damage by 10% for 30 seconds. Cooldown time is 3 minutes.
Seeing this skill book, Wu Shaochen felt delighted. He liked this skill and handed the book to Wu Ziyin, saying, "Learn it quickly. Let's go and test its effectiveness on monsters."
"Okay." Wu Ziyin happily received it and started learning.
Leaving the city gate, Wu Shaochen summoned Silver Wolf and had Wu Ziyin ride it. The level 21 Silver Wolf had grown considerably, no longer looking as awkward as before.
The two, accompanied by the wolf, headed deep into the eastern forest once again. However, this time they weren't going to fight Blood Abyss Mad Lions but were planning to go even deeper to find higher-level monsters. They were already level 30, with only 2000 damage talent points. They could still gain another 400 points, so their target this time was level 35 monsters.
As they moved forward, not knowing how long they had walked but realizing they had gone quite deep, they finally saw their objective for this journey—the Icy Armored Earth Dragon.
[Icy Armored Earth Dragon]
Level: 35
HP: 200,000
Physical Attack: 1800
Physical Defense: 1400
Magic Defense: 1200
Movement Speed: 260
Skill 1: Tail Sweep: Sweeps the target in front with its tail, dealing 170% physical damage to all targets in front. Cooldown time is 30 seconds.
Skill 2: Ice Armor: Forms a layer of ice armor on its shell, increasing defense by 50% for 2 minutes. Cooldown time is 5 minutes.
"Let's do this." Wu Shaochen called for Silver Wolf to charge. With his current strength, dealing with this kind of monster was a piece of cake.
"Ziyin, just pay attention to Silver Wolf's health. I'll be fine." Wu Shaochen said. With the Netherworld Pearl, he didn't have to worry about his own health. With over 20,000 HP, the Netherworld Pearl regenerated over 1,000 HP per second. These sluggish Earth Dragons could only deal less than 200 damage with their normal attacks and less than 1,000 with their skills. He didn't need to worry at all.
"Ziyin, cast Holy Light Shield on me." Wu Shaochen requested.
Soon, a beam of holy light fell on Wu Shaochen, forming a shield. He looked at his status and his eyes widened. At this moment, his damage reduction reached a staggering 86%. In other words, Wu Ziyin's skill provided him with 46% damage reduction.
Watching Wu Ziyin proudly holding her staff, Wu Shaochen swallowed and said, "Ziyin, can your talent even amplify this kind of skill?"
"Of course. I can amplify it 3.6 times with my current 6,000+ mana." Wu Ziyin proudly replied.
Suddenly, Wu Shaochen felt like he had discovered a new continent. If that was the case, Wu Ziyin's talent seemed to be no worse than his own, and in the later stages, it might even be stronger than his talent.
"Ziyin, from now on, don't allocate points to Intelligence. Put them all into Spirit," Wu Shaochen suggested. With her talent, who needs Intelligence? In the future, there will definitely be Priest skills that increase health by a percentage, and she will soar directly.
"Okay, to be honest, I've been thinking that investing in Spirit is better than Intelligence. So, most of my points have been allocated to Spirit," Wu Ziyin replied.
"Smart," Wu Shaochen praised and continued the battle. With 86% damage reduction, he had no worries. Killing groups of Icy Armored Earth Dragons, poisoning them with two layers and moving on to the next, the speed at which they were farming monsters was astonishing.
Soon, one Icy Armored Earth Dragon after another fell to the ground, and the experience of both Wu Shaochen and Wu Ziyin visibly increased.
For each level above level 30, the experience gained from a level 35 Icy Armored Earth Dragon was 1,950 points. Half was given to Wu Ziyin, and 40% was given to Silver Wolf, leaving Wu Shaochen with 585 points.
However, Wu Shaochen wasn't concerned about that. Right now, he needed to quickly develop Wu Ziyin so that she could provide significant help when fighting bosses in the future.
They continued farming until 7:30 PM. In three hours, they killed 640 Icy Armored Earth Dragons. Wu Shaochen didn't level up, and his experience was at 1,799,500 out of 2 million for level 30. On the other hand, Wu Ziyin went from level 21 to level 23. As they reached the twenties, leveling up noticeably slowed down, but gaining two levels in three hours was still faster than anyone else. Silver Wolf also reached level 22.
Wu Shaochen's talent reached the maximum of 2,400 points. He increased his Immortal Body by 640 HP, bringing his total HP to 24,196. However, his Netherworld Power only increased by 280 points. It was a random increase, with a probability of adding a point to it every 2-3 times.
Wu Shaochen sold the two Bronze and four Iron items he obtained for around a hundred thousand in the auction house. Then he said to Wu Ziyin, "The Slaughter Battlefield is about to open. Let's go back, buy some potions, and then log out to have dinner. Make sure to come back before 8 PM."
"Okay," Wu Ziyin nodded.
Using a Scroll of Return, the two returned to the city. Wu Shaochen took Wu Ziyin to the drugstore and bought a large number of large mana potions for her. Wu Ziyin consumed a lot of mana, and she would be in the battlefield for a full four hours. Just relying on the Mana Pearl wouldn't be enough.
As for Wu Shaochen himself, he didn't need much preparation. The potions sold in the store were insignificant to him, and he had the Netherworld Pearl for automatic health regeneration. He rarely used damaging skills and didn't rely much on mana potions. After buying the potions, they logged out directly.
Wu Shaochen took off his helmet and habitually looked at his palms. There was nothing unusual. He looked at the finger that was cut at noon, but there was no trace of it.
"Is it really healing on its own?" Wu Shaochen didn't actually believe it himself, but he didn't dare to think in that direction.
Shaking his head, Wu Shaochen stopped thinking about these things and quickly went downstairs to eat something before returning. He had lunch late today and wasn't hungry.
Waiting for Wu Ziyin in Jinling City, it was 7:55 when Wu Ziyin finally came online.
Knowing that Wu Ziyin was far from the cafeteria, Wu Shaochen didn't say anything. The two of them waited quietly for a while, and soon the system prompt came.
"Ding, all players please note that the Battlefield of Slaughter is about to open. Please prepare all registered players."
"10, 9...3, 2, 1"
As the system countdown ended, all the figures of the registered participants disappeared in an instant.
Wu Shaochen looked at the environment in front of him. It was a huge primitive forest, with trees taller than humans towering into the sky. Fortunately, the trees were not dense, and the lighting was still good.
"Is this the Battlefield of Slaughter?" Wu Ziyin asked.
"Yeah, it should be," Wu Shaochen nodded.
Just as he finished speaking, there was a commotion nearby, and suddenly two creatures with sharp teeth and claws rushed out from behind a big tree. With their sharp teeth and claws, they frightened Wu Ziyin.
Wu Shaochen used his Insight skill.
[Bloodthirsty Beast]
Level: 30
HP: 80,000
Physical Attack: 1,500
Physical Defense: 650
Magic Defense: 500
Movement Speed: 450
Skill 1: Bloodthirst: Increases attack power by 20% and lifesteal by 20% for 30 seconds, cooldown time of 2 minutes.
Skill 2: Rend: Deals 165% physical damage to the target and causes bleeding, with 500 points of damage per second for 10 seconds, cooldown time of 1 minute.
High attack, low defense, and lifesteal. It seems that it won't be easy to score points in the Battlefield of Slaughter. However, that's relative to others. For Wu Shaochen, a level 30 monster still can't pose a threat to him. He can quickly take care of them. What surprised Wu Shaochen was that although these monsters didn't give experience points, they could give him Immortal Body and Netherforce. With this, Wu Shaochen would have the motivation to kill.
When Wu Shaochen killed two Bloodthirsty Beasts, a leaderboard appeared in front of everyone.
Leaderboard:
1st place: Chen Feng, Points: 2
Currently, he was the only one on the leaderboard. It seemed that the others hadn't started killing yet. The two people who had discussed it earlier decided that Wu Shaochen would be the one to take all the points in front. He had to make sure he could get first place in order to give points to Wu Ziyin, and Wu Ziyin fully agreed with this.