Chapter 44: Assala’s Judgement

The Swordtooth Nymph’s HP dropped bit by bit, and was unable to hold itself up soon enough.

Every member from Phoenix Down Studios and Bloodbath Studios were rather excited at that. It was a Level 26 Boss and a Rare monster after all—what items would drop from it? With Dancing Phoenix and Warsong unable to keep calm either, the ordinary gamers certainly wouldn’t be able to do so.

That being said, while all of them had casted the most damaging skills as well, the best damage they could deal amounted up to fifty only. They could not help breaking a sweat when they compared that to Nie Fan, who was only using the same few skills.

Meanwhile, Nie Fan had hastened his barrage of attacks, continuously unleashing Black Oil, Mini Fireball and Bloodthirsty Vines.

Another fire burst out with a bang, and the Swordtooth Nymphs’s HP Bar was finally empty. With a last miserable howl at the skies, its body dropped raggedly to the ground.

Only party leaders were allowed to collect dropped items since they had decided to auction the items within the party, although the items would also immediately be locked. After that, the party would decide the new owner only by a two-thirds party majority, which prevents the party leaders from taking the item for themselves.

Now, Nie Fan walked up to the Swordtooth Nymph and picked up the total of three items it had dropped.

[Assala’s Judgement (Gauntlet Swords): Dark Enchanted Bronze grade, Upgradable.]

[Item description: A weapon blessed by Assala the Phoenix Goddess that possesses the power of judgement’s will.]

[Attack +176, Agility +23, Strength +32, Lycanthropy +1 (weapon becomes claw in Morphing), +50% Attack in Morphing]

[Level 25 required, limited to Druid-class.]

Since it was a Dark Enchanted Bronze Druid item, every party member gasped when they saw it appear. It was the good stuff, worth at least sixty thousand bronze coins, and it wouldn’t be unusual to sell it at a hundred thousand.

Even Nie Fan felt his heart skip a beat when he saw the stats on the Gauntlet Swords. Still, he smiled bitterly since he would never afford it in the party auction because he could not even fork out ten thousand bronze coins even if he sold off every last item he had, although the Ring of Fate didn’t count since it was Soulbound.

Both Dancing Phoenix and Warsong were clearly excited too. Such an amazing item!

Aside from Assala’s Judgment, there was also Cyan Bronze-grade Warrior Greatsword. It was a fine attack with its +123 Attack, +25 Strength and Attack Buff +1 stats, although it dulled in comparison to Assala’s Judgement.

The last was an Agility Gem Piece, which adds +3 Agility when embedded into items. Although three gem shards could be fused to make one gem piece, there was a certain rate of failure, which was why one gem piece would sell for five gem shards in the market.

With such rich rewards, every gamer from the two studios was chattering away excitedly.

“Us Bloodbath Studios have decided to forfeit our right to the Gauntlet Swords. I personally suggest leaving it to our Brother Dark Night here since it is by his damage output that we took down the Swordtooth Nymph.” Warsong said, looking at Dancing Phoenix.

“I agree.” Dancing Phoenix replied. It was inconvenient for Phoenix Down Studios to take the Gauntlet Swords even if the item boasted impressive stats, because they would never have slain the Swordtooth Nymph without Nie Fan.

“But I can’t afford it even if you sell me off.” Nie Fan made a pained smile. Since they had decided the rule was to auction it, he should pay Warsong and the others or it would be most regular.

Nie Fan notwithstanding, neither Dancing Phoenix nor Warsong could afford to buy the Gauntlet Swords either. That being said, Phoenix Down Studios were relatively extravagant with their finances and just might be able to get it, but breaking the bank for the Gauntlet Swords, and saving it for an underling Druid? There’s clearly no way that’s happening!

“Let’s try taking a middle ground, then,” Warsong said. “Brother Dark Night will take the Gauntlet Swords, but he’ll have to labor a while for us—incidentally, there are a lot of Elite monsters and Minibosses nearby, so we’ll draw them here and have Brother Dark Night here take charge of dealing damage. Our studios will then share the additional dropped items, and consider it repayment.”

After all, in Warsong’s perspective, although one Dark Enchanted Bronze Gauntlet Swords was worth a lot of money for a studio, it would never be as useful as twenty more Copper items.

“Okay. That settles it.” Dancing Phoenix nodded in agreement since that benefits Phoenix Down too.

“Very well.” To Nie Fan, taking ownership of the Dark Enchanted Bronze Gauntlet Swords was an extremely exciting prospect, and laboring a little for them was nothing at all.

Later, Dancing Phoenix bought the Cyan Bronze Greatsword at nine thousand bronze coins, which was divided equally amongst all party members, Nie Fan was naturally excluded. Warsong himself claimed the Agility Gem Piece with three thousand bronze coins.

Nie Fan was beside himself with excitement now that he has two Dark Enchanted Bronze items. He would have to think of a way to Soulbind the Gauntlet Swords, or he would cry himself to death if it dropped. It would also be nice to get a skill tome for Lycanthropy as well, since with the Gauntlet Swords and the Ring of Fate’s buff, that skill would leap up to Level 3 once he learns it!

Still, he wasn’t sure how he should upgrade the Gauntlet Swords since its item description did not specify anything. It seems that he would have to figure that out later.

He put the Gauntlet Swords into his bag since he could only use it at Level 25—three more levels and he would be able to equip it.

Meanwhile, the hordes of fire goblins were more or less cleared out. Still, hordes of Black Nymphs were pouring forward from the rear, each Level 25 monsters that were much larger than the goblins.

This was the last wave!

Nonetheless, there were a lot of those Black Nymphs, and weathering through this wave was even more difficult than before. The four hundred players who were left had been reduced to around two hundred in the last wave, with many NPC militia having died too. In the end, the most impressive were those two Level 60 Elite Guards who were bringing death and carnage everywhere without losing much HP.

In the remaining time, Warsong, Dancing Phoenix, and the others would lure Elites and Minibosses while Nie Fan would take charge of damage. Once again, they witness his powerful offensive strength: his Bloodthirsty Vines, along with his Black Oil and Mini Fireball combo were dealing up to three hundred damage on the Elites and Minibosses, which was no different from a trampling! Each of them would drop like flies with just a few rounds of attack!

His damage potential wasn’t obvious in the assault on the Swordtooth Nymph, especially since it was a Level 26 Boss with extremely high defense. Now that he had switched to attacking Elites and Minibossess, the three hundred damage number allowed everyone to truly see how powerful his attack was.

At the same time, the three Druids of Phoenix Down Studios and Bloodbath Studios were musing about how they have to learn Black Oil when they returned. Vine spells were a lost cause, however, since they had Vine spells but it was just infinitely lacking compared to Nie Fan’s Bloodthirsty Vines. It was also very difficult to use it, and it would be months before they could level up that skill.

That being said, they would never reach the same level of effect as Nie Fan even if they did learn Black Oil, although it would help to have the Black Oil and Mini Fireball combo.

With so many monsters slain, Nie Fan glanced at his level.

Just 15% more until Level 23—the leveling progress was quite fast.