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Chapter 196 - 168: Experience Points All Over the Ground_1

Chapter 196: Chapter 168: Experience Points All Over the Ground_1

"There’s no time, I’m going first!"

Before the helicopter could land, Mu You leaped directly from the door.

If they allowed the merfolk to break through their defense line, things would only get harder afterward.

After a teleport and subsequent roll to cushion his fall, Mu You immediately rose to his feet, holding up his magic wand. He cast his Small Fireball technique towards the merfolk that had already broken through the trenches and was rushing towards him ferociously.

"Boom!"

A massive fireball was launched, steamrolling over a row of merfolk in front of him.

The low-level merfolk died instantly, while the higher-level ones didn’t die, but were set ablaze. They howled in suffering; their bodies aflame ignited an even greater fury, driving them towards Mu You.

Mu You swiftly tossed a bindweed seed in front of him and used Rapid Growth. The bindweeds grew furiously, forming a large plant area that blocked the breached trench.

Any merfolk who stepped into it would immediately get entangled by the bindweeds, being immobilized. However, the merfolk behind were oblivious and kept surging forward, like zombies crowding around in a zombie movie.

At this moment, his teammates, too, quickly caught up.

Seeing that Mu You had stabilized the defense line, they hurried up to lend a hand. Spells and long-range attacks were cast, wiping out the merfolk that had climbed over the trenches.

"Old Liu, use your Convergence Curse!"

Mu You called out to Liu Chen, who stood beside him.

Having joined the Supernatural Bureau for quite some time, he knew that this supportive teammate had a useful high-level auxiliary magic called the ’Convergence Curse’. It could instantly gather all creatures in a certain area together, making it perfectly suited to be used in combination with his fireball technique.

Although his Small Fireball technique was also an area-of-effect spell that dealt powerful damage, it merely attacked in a single direction. It only has a four to five meter wide range of attack, which proved insufficient in such a broad-front battle.

But it became a lot easier with Liu Chen’s magic. His Convergence Curse could gather up all the monsters, enabling Mu You to concentrate his attacks. This was a far more efficient method.

"Alright."

Old Liu also agreed, nodding.

The merfolk were gathering in large numbers from a distance, and the bindweeds appeared barely able to hold them back anymore. Old Liu quickly raised his wand to cast his spell.

The merfolk had barely broken free from the bindweed blockade and were about to rejoice when they were suddenly pulled together by an invisible force, as though a giant hand had scooped all of them up and flung them in one direction.

A large number of merfolk were densely piled up at one point, forming a small hill of monsters.

At this exact moment, a colossal fireball from Mu You was launched, rolling over and hitting the center of the merfolk crowd with a huge explosion!

A huge number of merfolk were instantly engulfed in a sea of fire.

It wasn’t over yet; although the Fireball Technique inflicted high damage, it was still not enough to kill all the merfolk in one go. Mu You, before the merfolk could escape the range of the attack, quickly launched two more fireballs!

The natural magic power within the crystal was consumed rapidly, but the result was pleasing. With the three successive fireballs, all the merfolk were annihilated in an instant. Their screams echoed as they fell to the ground, turned into charred corpses.

"Wow..."

"Damn, that last hit was so satisfying!"

Exclamations of surprise came from the others. The last fireball cast by Mu You had directly killed more than fifty merfolk.

The sight of dozens of merfolk dying and turning into corpses all at once was undeniably shocking!

"It’s like the Jalapeño in Plants vs Zombies!"

A woman in the team couldn’t help joking.

The situation on their side was very critical initially. His team’s timely arrival helped a great deal, as did Mu You’s and Liu Chen’s cooperation to wipe out a large number of monsters. This stabilized the battle’s front line, which was on the verge of collapsing, relieving the pressure and lightening up the mood.

"Alright, let’s quickly clean up the battlefield, the merfolk will be back soon..."

Zhang Yang also chuckled and signaled everyone to come to the trenches and repair the broken defense line.

Mu You let his Little Spider out to devour the merfolk corpses outside.

These merfolk, having died on Earth, don’t resurrect. Unlike in the Star Spirit World where their bodies would disappear after death and only drop some materials. Here on Earth, their bodies would simply remain, becoming a self-service meal for the Little Spider.

Mu You followed behind, picking up any high-level materials he spotted, to prevent the Little Spider from consuming everything.

There wasn’t much leisure time as soon, the next wave of merfolk charged in.

This time, their numbers seemed even higher and fiercer than before – at least a hundred or so. And they only had six or seven people on the entire defensive line. The contrast was quite devastating.

Everyone was tense and ready for battle. No one spoke, the air thick with the suffocating tension preceding a major battle.

However, through Mu You’s eyes, he saw a field of experience points moving about.

The previous wave of merfolk had added almost 200 points to his experience in an instant!

Given our efficiency in slaying monsters, we could possibly level up ten times today...

Various aquatic creatures were approaching in a loose formation from a distance. Once they got within one hundred and fifty meters, two of our teammates, who had long-range offensive capabilities, could not help but make their moves.

Mu You also symbolically shot a few arrows.

In the game, he had already completed training for his ’Shooting Technique’, which doubled its range. Coupled with the additional range offered by the Delicate Gloves, he could now easily hit targets over one hundred and fifty meters away. Moreover, this range was within his effective range, which meant it would not affect accuracy.

However, the results of such long-range attacks were not very good, and the merfolk swiftly reached our defensive line.

When the merfolk came within fifty meters, Mu You threw a couple of seeds and stopped the merfolk’s charge about thirty meters away.

Old Liu, who was beside him, was ready. Once the merfolk gathered around, he decisively released the Convergence Curse.

THowever, due to the sheer number of merfolk this time, some of them exceeded the range of the curse. Liu Chen had to cast it a few more times, gathering the monsters into three groups.

The rest was left to Mu You.

Three fireballs swept away a batch of monsters, and he then produced nine fireballs in a row, which brutally eliminated all the merfolk in front. The scattered remnants, less than twenty, were dealt with by the other teammates before they could approach the defensive line.

A wave of ferocious monster attacks was thus easily resolved, giving our teammates a somewhat surreal feeling.

Of course, it only looked easy. In reality, such an explosive output was highly taxing.

After Mu You consecutively cast fifteen or sixteen Black Magics, the Magic Power in the crystal had depleted significantly. He had to sit down and meditate to recover so that the firepower wouldn’t be interrupted.

The situation was the same for Liu Chen. The Convergence Curse was a large-scale magic and it consumed a horrendous amount of Magic Power.

Zhang Yang quickly brought them a few potions for recovering Magic Power. These were some of the supplies sent by the higher-ups. The other teammates didn’t use much Magic Power just now, so the potions were given to the two of them.

Unfortunately, these potions weren’t of much use to Mu You. He was depleting Nature’s Power, not normal Magic Power, which he could only recover on his own.

Fortunately, the merfolk’s attacks weren’t always so intense. Besides the collective invasions every other hour, the rest was done by individual soldiers, adopting a piecemeal tactic. Mu You didn’t have to join in; the others could handle it with a bit of effort.

During this time, Mu You took every opportunity to recover. Unless it was a large-scale attack, he would use normal magic like Fire Circle and Snowball Curse to clear the monsters. When the merfolk launched a collective charge, he would team up with Liu Chen to wipe them out with Black Magic.

Three hours passed and their defensive line remained unbreached.

During this time, the command center had repeatedly offered them reinforcement, but Zhang Yang rejected it every time.

"Let the reinforcements assist somewhere else. Our K-city Special Bureau can handle it!" When Zhang Yang said this into his walkie-talkie, he couldn’t help but feel proud. He rarely had the opportunity to turn down command so grandly. It felt great!

Initially, he assumed that their small team of a few members would definitely need reinforcement. However, after seeing Mu You’s brutal style of slaying monsters a few times, he realized that it would be redundant to bring in other people. Besides stealing experience, coordinating between different teams could cause all sorts of problems. It was actually more comfortable working with a few familiar faces.

Mu You didn’t have time to bother about Zhang Yang’s situation.

He was meditating while checking his phone occasionally to see the game.

Just as he suspected, thanks to his violent slaying of monsters in the past few waves, his experience points had now reached their capacity - at level 9, 1280/1280!

Mu You swiftly leveled up to ten and quickly allocated his attributes. He then swallowed an Evolution Elixir on the spot.

After a brief sensation of warmth, the evolution process was quickly completed.

The experience bar, which would have been locked upon reaching level ten, was immediately unlocked. Meanwhile, his panel featured two new permanent buffs:

"All inflicted damage is doubled, and after doubling, damage is increased by an additional 5% (up to 100%)."

"All damage taken is halved, and remaining damage is decreased by an additional 5% (up to 50%)."

It was only after seeing this that Mu You understood. The additional 5% effect offered by higher-level Evolution Elixirs had a limit and couldn’t be stacked indefinitely.

"Eh? Mu You... Have you evolved?"

At that moment, Zhang Yang, who was wearing detection glasses, looked over and asked in surprise.

The detection device was not very accurate in predicting attributes, but it was easy enough to tell whether someone had evolved or not. The energy density of players who’d evolved was markedly different from that of normal players. When Mu You leveled up just now, he was immediately alerted.

"Yes." Mu You nodded. There was no need to hide this.

"Well... Actually, I already applied for an Evolution Potion for you. It should be approved in a few days... I didn’t expect that you’d get one yourself..." Zhang Yang said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

He’d noticed that Mu You had been delayed in breaking through, so he went out of his way to apply for an Evolution Potion, hoping to surprise Mu You. He didn’t expect that Mu You would get one himself.

"Then give the potion that we’ll receive to Old Liu!" Mu You said casually.

Today, thanks to Liu Chen’s assistance, he was able to level up so smoothly. But Liu Chen had spent most of the day working hard, while most of the experience points had gone to Mu You. It was only right to give him some compensation.

"Ah... To me?" Liu Chen was surprised and flustered.

There was no need to mention how precious Evolution Potions were. Many higher-ups were queuing up for them. Some people had even been stuck for a year and a half, with no hope in sight.

And him, a nobody in the bureau, had just reached level ten. Yet, he’d been set up to receive an Evolution Potion, news that would make many people green with envy.