[Divine Oracle World]
[Eastern Inferno City, Wilderness Area]
[Lv. 71 Moonlight Forest (Golden Tier Two)]
[Ding~ Esteemed second-ranked player on Inferno City's Heaven Ranking, Supreme Lord · Rulebound, welcome back to the Divine Oracle World! Your current location is the Ghost Clan Lv85–Lv95 Golden-rank Secret Realm: Land of Abandoned Ghosts!]
As the ethereal system notification faded.
White light fell.
Lin Mo logged into Divine Oracle and appeared in Ghost Domain City.
Everything around him was still dim, with daytime being like nighttime.
This was a characteristic of the Ghost Clan's territory.
At this moment, a notification panel appeared before Lin Mo...
[Ding~ Land of Abandoned Ghosts Secret Realm closure countdown: 13 days 21 hours 25 minutes 32 seconds!]
"Looks like, just as Ning Fei said, the countdown starts from the moment this secret realm is activated, and the secret realm can last for a maximum of 14 days."
"If I can't break through the secret realm during this period, then I can only wait until the secret realm's time limit ends before leaving the Land of Abandoned Ghosts."
Lin Mo murmured.
The latter would not merely cause Lin Mo to miss out on the extremely valuable rewards of a Divine Oracle Supreme Race Golden-rank Secret Realm.
It would also prevent him from continuing to participate in the God Creation assessment, causing him to lose this once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity to become a member of the Divine Oracle Supreme Race, the God Clan.
Failure of the SS-rank hidden quest Heart Knot.
Permanently losing Divine Descent Seraph · Siya.
Lin Mo absolutely could not allow these things to happen.
And Lin Mo's deduction was consistent with Ning Fei's calculation: the secret realm quest was hidden inside the manor in Ghost Domain City.
Since that was the case, Lin Mo's next task was to enter that manor and obtain the secret realm quest, then complete the quest as quickly as possible and clear the secret realm.
Thus, Lin Mo came outside Ghost Domain City.
Outside the city was desolate.
Corpses and bones were scattered everywhere.
Under the dim shroud.
One beast-like monster after another, their bodies emitting dark auras, moved through this territory without restraint, gnawing on those bones and making "crack, crack" chewing sounds.
It was chilling.
They were the Ghost Clan secret realm monsters sealed within the Land of Abandoned Ghosts by the God Clan and Angel Clan: Ghost Beasts.
The manor in Ghost Domain City had a level restriction requiring at least level 80 to enter.
Lin Mo was currently level 79 with 91.35%.
These Ghost Beasts outside the city were the only prey that could allow Lin Mo to reach level 80.
Without another word, he directly entered combat.
Lin Mo took the Tier 5 Golden Illusory World · Wrath of Thunder from his back and approached a Ghost Beast ahead that was gnawing on bones and resembled a cheetah.
Under the scan of the SSS-rank Eye of Insight, the Ghost Beast's data was completely revealed.
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[Bone-Eating Beast] (Physical · Ghost Beast):
Level: 85
Physical Attack: 78000
Physical Defense: 45500
Magic Defense: 42900
Health: 2600000
Skills: Shadow Strike (C-rank), Fatal Bite (C-rank)
Weakness: When the Bone-Eating Beast is in a feeding state, damage received is increased by 30%…
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Seeing the Bone-Eating Beast's data, Lin Mo vaguely felt a trace of pressure.
An ordinary level 85 monster already had considerable stats.
And the Divine Oracle Supreme Races possessed an approximately 30% bloodline enhancement effect.
This meant that although this Bone-Eating Beast appeared to be only level 85, its actual stat strength had already reached roughly the level of an 87–88 monster.
Its displayed level was six levels higher than Lin Mo's.
But its actual strength was more than 8–9 levels higher than Lin Mo's.
Whatever...
"Let's reach level 80 first!"
As he spoke, Lin Mo simultaneously summoned his two Ancestral-rank pets, Black Gold · Strong-Maned Pig and Divine Descent Seraph · Siya.
Clatter!
Just as Divine Descent Seraph · Siya raised her slender jade hand, golden magic surged as the Eternal Heart on her fair, slender wrist flowed with energy.
The effect of the Eternal Set was triggered.
The next moment, four layers of buffs instantly filled Lin Mo.
Physical Attack +9907!
Physical Defense +4272!
Magic Defense +4469!
Max Health +31824!
At the same time, the set skill Thunderous Myriad Strikes was activated.
Boom!
Lightning surged all around Lin Mo.
At his peak state, Lin Mo raised Illusory World · Wrath of Thunder.
He locked onto a Bone-Eating Beast within attack range ahead, which was feeding and in an exposed-weakness state.
Judgment · Soul-Devouring Arrow!
Ice and Snow · Grasp of Extreme Cold!
World-Shattering · Annihilation Shot!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Three SSS-rank skills carried powerful force and pierced straight through the completely unprepared Bone-Eating Beast.
The next moment, three blood-red damage numbers rose above the Bone-Eating Beast's head.
-53695!
-65796!
-59991!
Seeing this damage, Lin Mo was instantly dumbfounded.
"This Bone-Eating Beast's defense is too high!"
Lin Mo assessed himself. After receiving the buff from Divine Descent Seraph · Siya, his attack power had only barely reached a little over 32,000.
If not for the 50% armor penetration effect of the Thunder Set.
With Lin Mo's attack power alone, he would not even have been able to deal armor-breaking damage to the Bone-Eating Beast, which possessed more than 45,000 physical defense.
Fortunately, this attack was launched while the Bone-Eating Beast was feeding, triggering the weak-point attack effect and increasing damage by 30%.
Otherwise, the damage would probably have been even more unbearable.
At this moment, the Bone-Eating Beast, having been attacked, turned its head toward Lin Mo and let out a "roar."
It immediately abandoned its feeding and charged toward Lin Mo at extremely high speed.
Shadow Strike!
Fatal Bite!
Black Gold · Strong-Maned Pig held his Nine-Toothed Rake and stepped forward, protecting his master.
With the Peerless · Bloodbath Set skill Bloodbath Battle activated.
He took the Bone-Eating Beast's attacks for his master.
-46978! -32844 (Reflect Damage)!
-38367! -32844 (Reflect Damage)!
-44392! -32844 (Reflect Damage)!
+12348 (Passive Shield per Second)!
+12348 (Passive Shield per Second)!
"Brother Pig really is something else!"
Lin Mo could not help but sigh.
No one could question Strong-Maned Pig's tankiness.
His Ancestral-rank innate talent came with 50% final damage reduction, combined with the ten layers of permanent enhancement provided by the ten SSS-rank magic scrolls, Heavenly Defense · Eternal Stone Skin, that Lin Mo had fed him last time, giving him a total of 10% final damage reduction.
That meant a total of 60% final damage reduction.
Combined with his own extremely high defense.
Tanking the attacks of an Lv85 Ghost Beast was more than enough.
On top of that, Strong-Maned Pig's hard stats were ridiculously strong.
More than 3.28 million max health!
Plus a shield equal to his max health!
Equivalent to two health bars!
And 32,844 health recovery per second!
12,348 shield per second!
No matter how much the Bone-Eating Beast could one-shot more than 99% of the level 70-or-so players in Inferno City, it could not damage Strong-Maned Pig at all.
Thus, relying on Strong-Maned Pig to attract aggro in front, the Bone-Eating Beast was completely unable to get past Strong-Maned Pig and approach Lin Mo behind him.
Lin Mo locked onto the Bone-Eating Beast and took advantage of the perfect output environment created by Strong-Maned Pig, unleashing his full firepower.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
With the 220%+ basic attack damage and basic attack speed bonuses from the SS-rank divine artifact Black Dragon Emperor Ring.
Lin Mo stood in place and attacked continuously, one sharp arrow after another nearly forming a straight line, directly connecting him to the Bone-Eating Beast.
The damage was not high.
But its sustained output was strong.
Under Lin Mo's relentless, torrential assault, after enduring for half a minute, the Bone-Eating Beast finally let out a cry of agony and fell dead.
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