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Chapter 1101 - Chapter 1101 Chapter 1103 Insect Soldiers_1

Chapter 1101: Chapter 1103 Insect Soldiers_1 Chapter 1101: Chapter 1103 Insect Soldiers_1 Song Jian looked at the five hundred heads that appeared in his inventory, and suddenly felt a sense of unreality.

“Can quest items be traded too?” Song Jian couldn’t help but mutter to himself in a low voice.

These heads looked like enlarged insect heads, with large mouths and sharp fangs. Even though they were dead, their ferocious and intimidating aura still hit you in the face.

The five hundred heads could be stacked in the inventory, occupying just one slot.

Song Jian didn’t even know what the monster looked like. Right after he received the quest, he had taken out ten heads and lined them up in front of NPC veteran.

“Quest completed!” Song Jian said to the veteran indifferently.

The NPC veteran waved his hand, and the ten monster heads were immediately decomposed, turning into sparkling white light that slowly dissipated in the air.

He stared at Song Jian, nodding and said, “Indeed worthy of being a powerful adventurer, you’ve completed the task so quickly. These damn monsters reproduce too fast. Even if we kill a thousand, ten thousand of them, their numbers seem to never decrease…”

“Here is your reward. I hope it satisfies you. You know, I’m just an old soldier. Apart from having been in more battles, there’s nothing else I’m proud of!” With that, the NPC soldier raised his right hand, which looked like a dried-up twig that had lost all its moisture.

However, a faint milky white glow floated out from the palm of his hand and landed on Song Jian.

Song Jian glanced at it, his face showing a surprised expression. He had gained 6% of Experience Points for completing the quest. At level fifty-three, 6% Experience Points was enough for him to hunt monsters of the same level for more than a dozen days, but now, he had completed it in just a few minutes. Even if he had killed the monsters himself, it wouldn’t have taken that long. It was too good of a deal.

A hint of joy appeared on Song Jian’s face, and he immediately continued the conversation with the NPC veteran, “May I ask if there’s anything else I can help you with?”

The NPC veteran said, “Young man, please continue to bring me these beasts’ heads. This time, I need twenty!”

Song Jian took out another twenty heads and handed them over, quickly gaining a significant boost in combat experience.

Just like that, Song Jian turned in all five hundred heads in his inventory, directly elevating his Experience Points to the verge of level fifty-four at 94%.

Since the task was called an endless loop, it could be done indefinitely. However, as the NPC veteran started asking for more and more heads, some players found it tedious after leveling up a few times and chose to leave. But the players from the City of Hope kept grinding the monster heads there.

“There are no ready-made ones left, let’s go. Tianyu and the others should have farmed a good batch of heads again. City Lord, come with me to see how Luo Tianyu and the others farm the monsters,” Wang Qi said with a laugh.

The monsters here were all level sixty, and ordinary players found it difficult to farm them. Only elite teams could take on this task, but even after doing it a few times and leveling up two or three times, the elite team players would find it hard to keep up.

Wang Qi led Song Jian into the valley, where weathered stone pillars stood everywhere. As soon as they entered the valley, Song Jian heard a series of piercing screeches in the distance, sounding like fingernails scratching glass, which was irritating and chaotic. He couldn’t help but frown.

“It’s just ahead!” Wang Qi laughed.

Soon, the two climbed up a slope and looked down from the top. They saw a crack tens of meters wide on the valley cliff ahead, as if someone had viciously slashed it with a giant blade, creating a gorge about one hundred meters long.

At that moment, three or four agile players were using their Acceleration Skill, desperately running toward the depths of the gorge. Behind them, groups of monsters surged like a black tide, screeching angrily as they closely followed the agile players.

These monsters looked like oversized mantises, with serrated blades for forelimbs and robust, powerful hind legs. Their bodies were covered in a thick layer of black carapace. Running at great speed, they could smash small rocks to smithereens with their bodies, and they appeared extremely ferocious. Although they were just ordinary monsters, the vicious aura they exuded was even more intense than some elite and lord-level bosses.

With narrowed eyes, Song Jian began to check the attributes of these monsters.

“Fierce Insect Soldiers, ordinary quality, level 60, Vitality Points: 28000/28000”

“Let’s go, city lord, and take a look ahead!” Song Jian pointed to the cliffs on either side of the gorge up ahead.

The gorge was only over twenty meters high, and for players over level forty, it was quite easy to climb up from the valley floor with their bare hands.

At this time, the cliffs on both sides were full of ranged players. Luo Tianyu, clad in striking red armor, was confidently commanding hundreds of elite crossbowmen, aiming at the monsters that had entered the gorge.

The agile players were quickly climbing up the cliffs. Behind them, the Insect Soldiers converged into a mass, crashing against the valley’s end like a black tide.

Looking at the players above them, climbing the cliff, the Insect Soldiers raised their bodies and let out angry hisses. Then, droves of them started climbing as well, their forelimbs stabbing into the rock wall as easily as if piercing tofu and using their forelimbs’ strength to climb higher and higher.

“Free attack, fire!” Luo Tianyu waved the Square Sky Halberd in his hand, pointed toward the valley’s Insect Soldiers, and shouted loudly. In an instant, a multitude of crossbow bolts darkened the sky like a cloud, pressing down on the Insect Soldiers. Dozens of ranged players beside Luo Tianyu also began to release their skills. Some Mage players even started to chant lengthy spells, and the magical energy in the air boiled and stirred rapidly. Even Song Jian felt something unusual.

“These are level 60 creatures; most of us wouldn’t stand a chance in one-on-one combat, but by taking advantage of the terrain, we can kill Insect Soldiers in numbers several times, even dozens of times larger than us, without sustaining any losses!” boasted Wang Qi.

This method had been arrived at after dozens of experiments, with each attempt a tale of blood and tears, not to be shared lightly. Just luring the monsters had caused serious injuries to more than a dozen of their guild’s players–losing limbs, requiring costly potions for their limbs to regrow.

“Truly remarkable!” Song Jian couldn’t help but exclaim. This method had an uncanny similarity to how he used to farm monsters for leveling up, except his Thousand Swords Art was so powerful that even with so many people including Luo Tianyu’s crossbowmen army, their combined damage didn’t come close to one-third of the Thousand Swords Art. The bolts rained down in waves, but the Insect Soldiers were extraordinarily fierce, climbing up even over the bodies of their fallen comrades. Within minutes, the valley floor was carpeted with a thick layer of monster corpses, yet more creatures climbed over their brethren, drawing ever closer to the people on the cliffs.

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