"The number one female emperor of the national server in my previous life really lives up to her name," Lin Mo could not help but sigh.
Ning Xi's single sentence, "sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight," had given him enormous direction and inspiration.
That was what made Lin Mo realize that since, with his current strength, he could not deal with Wang Junjie and the Chaotic World Guild under him, which commanded several thousand people and possessed overwhelming power, then he could use the method of activating the hidden dungeon Shadow Holy Hall to lure Chaotic World and Dragon Soul into conflict with each other.
As the two great giants of Blazing Fire City in his previous life, Dragon Soul and Chaotic World could be said to be evenly matched.
What was more, in his previous life, those two guilds had never gotten along in the first place.
As the saying goes, one mountain cannot hold two tigers. Dragon Soul and Chaotic World had vicious competition between them in all kinds of dungeons, quests, and bosses.
Small fights every three days, big fights every five days had long become the norm.
So in this life, Lin Mo knew that once the hidden dungeon appeared, it would definitely trigger a scramble between the two sides.
And what Lin Mo did was merely bringing forward a conflict that was bound to happen sooner or later anyway.
That being the case, "With Dragon Soul's people holding Wang Junjie back, I can peacefully go grind the Insect Nest Underground Palace and collect the Venom set."
As for whether the Shadow Holy Hall dungeon would ultimately really fall into Wang Junjie's hands, Lin Mo was not worried about that at all.
Because he knew that for players to enter the Shadow Holy Hall, not only did they need three Shadow Hearts, they also had to wipe out the Shadow Legion guarding the dungeon entrance, the Shadow Gate, within Shadow City.
And every time the Shadow Legion was wiped out, it would revive, refresh, and receive enhancements, for a total of about ten waves.
So just the Shadow Legion alone would be more than enough to give Wang Junjie a hard time.
Not to mention the three Shadow Hearts he needed to enter the dungeon, one of which was still in Lin Mo's hands.
Looking at the Dragon Soul and Chaotic World guild players outside the city, locked in fierce combat, Lin Mo laughed in schadenfreude.
"Take your time fighting. I'll be taking my leave first."
The time was frozen at seven thirty in the evening.
There were still thirty minutes left before the agreed time to grind the Insect Nest Underground Palace with Ling Xiao and the others.
So Lin Mo headed to the Insect Nest Underground Palace alone in advance.
At this moment, all the Chaotic World guards stationed at the Insect Nest Underground Palace had already been called away by Wang Junjie to Shadow City to fight against the Dragon Soul Guild.
Therefore, after Lin Mo turned in the second layer quest to Captain William of the guard and accepted the next layer's quest, he entered the third layer of the underground palace without any obstruction.
The mission on the third layer was still to collect ten bottles of venom.
And the poisonous insects here had already increased in strength to level 22 Venomous Scorpions—
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[Venomous Scorpion] (Physical · Normal Monster)
— Level: 22
— Physical Attack: 800
— Physical Defense: 520
— Magic Defense: 495
— HP: 3800
— Skills: Venom Sting, Pinch You to Death
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"Before Xia Wanwan and the others get here, finishing my own quest first shouldn't be a problem."
"Let me see what the actual combat effect of my second SSS-rank skill looks like."
Thinking this, Lin Mo excitedly took the Hero's Golden Bow off his back. He locked his gaze onto a Venomous Scorpion within attack range, its body as large as a bull.
SSS-rank skill: Ice Snow · Extreme Cold Grasp!
The moment Lin Mo selected the skill and drew his bow, a visible wave of extreme cold instantly coiled around his body.
Whoosh!
With one arrow released, unstoppable in momentum, wherever the ice-blue arrow streaked past, it was as if even the air itself was frozen solid.
Pshk!
The instant the Venomous Scorpion was pierced by the ice arrow, its entire body rapidly froze into ice.
-4227 (Critical)!
[Ding~ You have killed a level 22 Venomous Scorpion. EXP +1974 (141%)!]
"Hiss!"
Just as Lin Mo sucked in a cold breath, shocked by the terrifying damage of the SSS-rank Ice Snow · Extreme Cold Grasp—
Crash! Clatter!
The ground rapidly froze over.
Centered on the Venomous Scorpion that had been hit, everything within a circular area with a diameter of 100 yards was instantly frozen.
At the same time, Lin Mo locked onto two other Venomous Scorpions within the frozen zone and drew his bow again.
SSS-rank Heaven-Slaying · Seven-Star Volley!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Within a pentagram formation, seven golden star arrows rained down like thunder, piercing through the Venomous Scorpions.
-890!
-1379 (Critical)!
-1425 (Critical)!
-1472 (Critical)!
Roar! Roar!
Accompanied by a series of low growls, the two Venomous Scorpions instantly collapsed and died within the extreme cold domain brought about by the Ice Snow · Extreme Cold Grasp skill.
[Ding~ You have killed a level 22 Venomous Scorpion. EXP +1974 (141%)!]
[Ding~ You have killed a level 22 Venomous Scorpion. EXP +1974 (141%)!]
"Double kill?"
Previously, one Seven-Star Volley could only kill a single monster. Now, it had killed two Venomous Scorpions at the same time, which immediately filled Lin Mo with pleasant surprise.
"The large-scale defense reduction and damage amplification from the Extreme Cold Domain are actually this insane?"
While feeling shocked, Lin Mo also realized that
Extreme Cold Grasp and Seven-Star Volley, these two SSS-rank skills, seemed to be able to be combined into a skill combo.
By using Extreme Cold Grasp's large-area slow, defense reduction, and damage amplification to enhance the damage of Seven-Star Volley, the latter's burst damage could be greatly increased, achieving far more efficient monster killing.
Thus, next, Lin Mo began using this skill combo to hunt Venomous Scorpions.
Ice Snow · Extreme Cold Grasp!
Heaven-Slaying · Seven-Star Volley!
Crash!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
With one full combo, he could steadily take down three to four Venomous Scorpions at once.
And the cooldowns of these two skills were one at fifteen seconds, and the other only nine seconds, with the coordination of two SSS-rank skills, Lin Mo's monster-killing speed instantly increased two to three times compared to when he had only one SSS-rank skill before.
"This is way too overpowered," Lin Mo could not help but exclaim.
And the drop rate of venom bottles from the Venomous Scorpions on the third layer of the Insect Nest Underground Palace had already increased to around thirty percent.
Basically, every harvesting cycle, Lin Mo could gain one bottle of venom.
In just a dozen or so cycles, Lin Mo successfully collected ten bottles of venom and smoothly completed the quest.
And at this moment, the time happened to reach eight o'clock in the evening.
Ling Xiao, Xia Wanwan, Skinny Monkey, and Fat Dahai arrived as scheduled.
"Sorry, Senior Lin Mo, we're late," Xia Wanwan said somewhat apologetically.
Lin Mo did not mind, "It's fine. You came just in time."
With that, he created a party and pulled the four of them in.
Next, Lin Mo continued using the Extreme Cold Grasp plus Seven-Star Volley skill combo to mass kill Venomous Scorpions.
And when Skinny Monkey and Fat Dahai saw Lin Mo casually wipe out three level 22 Venomous Scorpions with just two skills, their jaws dropped once again.
"My god! It's only been the time it takes to eat dinner, and Senior Lin Mo seems even more freakish."
"He… what kind of skills is he even using? Insane damage is one thing, but these skill effects are just cool as hell!"
"Stop spacing out," Having just finished a round of combat, Lin Mo turned around and looked at the stunned Skinny Monkey and Fat Dahai, saying, "Go pick up the loot."
"Oh oh, got it," The two snapped out of it and immediately ran to the Venomous Scorpion corpses to loot the spoils.
As for Lin Mo, he waited for his skill cooldowns, preparing to start the next harvesting round in a little over ten seconds.
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At the same time, on the other side.
[Shadow City]
The battle between Chaotic World and Dragon Soul was growing ever more intense…
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