NOVEL NEXT Chapter 215 Purple Thunder
[Endless Tower Challenge Floor 11]
Mission Requirement: Inflict 0/300000 damage to the Desert Lord.
Fixed Rewards: Rare equipment for your profession Lv30×1; Gold Coins×50.
Star-Level Random Reward×1: Legendary equipment for your profession Lv25; Gold Coins×100; Epic equipment for your profession Lv30; Rare equipment for your profession Lv30; Ordinary equipment Lv30; Gold Coins×10.
Star-Level Requirements: ★★★ (Perfect): Eliminate the Desert Lord; ★★ (Excellent): Meet the mission requirement within 30 minutes; ★ (Average): No time limit.
Special Requirement 1: Death equals challenge failure.
Special Requirement 2: The use of any mounts is prohibited.
In a desert with sand swirling all around, the moment Lin Yi appeared, his feet immediately sank into the sand.
Feeling the scorching heat from the sand through his feet, a damage number kept floating above Lin Yi's head:
"-2" Burns~
"-2" Burns~
"-2" Burns~
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In the Endless Tower, the challenge difficulty increases further after every five floors.
The first ten floors had no special requirements, but starting from floor 11, every floor has two different special requirements.
After that, every ten floors add one more special requirement.
When faced with four or five special requirements later on, the difficulty of the challenges becomes extremely brutal, making Lin Yi's back subconsciously shiver just thinking about it.
Upon seeing the mission requirement, Lin Yi felt helpless as well.
As a fragile mage, traversing the desert is already challenging, and now he's restricted from using mounts.
Being unable to use mounts means that Nightmare and Elf Dragon are out of the question, leaving Lin Yi no choice but to ride on the back of the Nine Netherworld Tiger:
"Can't use mounts, but they didn't say anything about summoned creatures, did they? Hehe~"
It's fortunate that the Nine Netherworld Tiger is agile; although the loose fine sand does affect its movement, at least its speed is considerably faster than Lin Yi's.
It's worth noting that even the Nine Netherworld Tiger can't stay in one spot too long, or it would also sink into the sand.
Desert Lord Lv30
Life Value: 500000/500000
The so-called Desert Lord is nothing more than a gigantic desert scorpion.
Initially, Lin Yi was simply planning to get a ★★ and complete the task to proceed to the next floor.
Although the chance of getting rare items between ★★★ and ★★ is much higher, possibly even earning a level 25 piece of legendary equipment,
to the unlucky Lin Yi, a 0.8% probability doesn't feel all that different from a 0.1% one.
Killing it for ★★★ would just be a waste of time for Lin Yi.
Probably for many, getting ★★ is generally the first choice.
But when Lin Yi saw the equipment outline on the scorpion, he changed his mind.
A purple close combat weapon was particularly striking in Lin Yi's eyes.
Epic Weapon: A Longsword!
Lin Yi didn't expect to see this on the dungeon monster, a pleasant surprise indeed.
The dungeon boss, like the outside bosses, will also drop equipment and grant experience when defeated.
This is why many see the Endless Tower as more of a personal dungeon.
Besides this weapon on the giant scorpion, everything else isn't worth mentioning.
But for Lin Yi, having this is enough!
It should drop a level 30 weapon, allowing him to switch directly when he levels up to 30.
While the weapon he's using is still legendary, it's only level 16, way too low.
Its attributes are actually worse than a level 30 rare equipment, let alone epic.
Starting from level 30 equipment, the attribute difference is a qualitative leap over level 20, not to mention the teens.
Lin Yi controlled the Nine Netherworld Tiger to charge at the target.
Once the target entered his magic attack range, Lin Yi immediately cast a spell:
"Arcane Missile"
"-1203" Critical Strike~
After the spell exploded on the giant scorpion, a piercing scream came from its grim mouth.
The originally earthy-yellow body instantly turned green.
At this moment another spell landed on the giant scorpion's head with a loud bang:
"Arcane Explosion"
"-1130" Critical Strike~
With a roar from the giant scorpion, its tail swung across straight towards the running Nine Netherworld Tiger, kicking up a cloud of sand.
Lin Yi controlled the Nine Netherworld Tiger to leap and evade the sweep at the very last moment.
However, it failed to evade the venom sprayed from its tail:
"-490" Poisoned~
"-20"
"-20"
...
A series of damage numbers floated from the Nine Netherworld Tiger's head.
While evading the attacks of the giant scorpion, Lin Yi continually inflicted heavy damage on the giant scorpion with basic attacks.
As soon as skills came off cooldown, he'd cast them immediately.
Perhaps due to the terrain or the significant level difference, the giant scorpion's movement and attack speed were evidently faster than the Nine Netherworld Tiger's.
After all, the Nine Netherworld Tiger was only level 23, whereas the scorpion was level 30; a second transformation against a third transformation, with a power gap similar to that of equipment attributes.
Often, even when Lin Yi felt he could dodge an attack, the Nine Netherworld Tiger would still be half a beat slow and get hit.
When the giant scorpion's health was reduced to just over 100,000, the Nine Netherworld Tiger's health finally depleted and it fell.
Though unwilling, Lin Yi had no choice but to sigh and continue his assault on the giant scorpion.
Without the Nine Netherworld Tiger, it was noticeably harder to move, though he maneuvered more adeptly, dodging some non-targeting damage through subtle control.
Even if hit, the life-stealing attributes added by equipment kept his health roughly at 80%, fluctuating up and down.
After nearly twenty minutes, with Lin Yi bearing the berserk giant scorpion, he finally depleted its health when it was down to about 30%.
The experience gained from a level 30 scorpion made Lin Yi's experience bar advance a bit.
But this was not what Lin Yi cared about.
The instant the scorpion died, Lin Yi walked straight toward that longsword glowing with a purple hue.
[Purple Thunder]
Weapon
Tier: Epic
Physical Attack: 310-485
Critical Strike Chance: +20%
Critical Strike Damage: +50%
Power: +35
Accurate: +30
Usage Level: 30
Additional Attribute 1: Attack Speed +15%
Additional Attribute 2: When attacking a target, it carries the Thunder Attribute, dealing 20% of the attack as Thunder Attribute Magic Damage.
Additional Attribute 3: When causing damage to a target, there is a 25% chance to trigger a paralysis effect, lasting 1.5s.
"Endow the weapon with the power of nature, giving it new life—Dwarf Divine Artisan: Ary Hudson"
Lin Yi stared in shock at the equipment in his hand:
"Holy crap!"
While Lin Yi was drooling over the new weapon, he didn't realize a frenzy had erupted on the game forum.
Since Lin Yi entered the Endless Tower, someone had been monitoring the Endless Tower rankings, refreshing the latest ranking data in real time.
Basically, the list beyond the top 30 was constantly changing.
Some rose unexpectedly, others suddenly fell, even getting pushed off the list.
Occasionally, someone would break into the top 30, and very rarely, some might enter the top 20.
Only the top ten leaderboard was relatively stable; positions on it hadn't changed for over 12 hours.
This calm was suddenly shattered by a name.
The speed of this person's ranking ascent left everyone amazed:
Starting from 98, then to 81, 63, 41, 26, 15, all the way to the 2nd in the world rankings…
Players worldwide noticed this phenomenon, now everyone just wanted to see, between Feng Hua and Satan J, who was stronger.
Over in the Western Continent, Satan J also received the news immediately, and shortly thereafter it was reported on western forums that Satan J had once again walked into the Endless Tower.
A contest for the world's number one, awaited by many with bated breath, was about to be revealed.
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End of today's update.