Chapter 99: Da Qing Shan’s Decision

Chen Mo suddenly received four weapons and four skill books as rewards. However, after calming down from the series of System Notifications, he immediately realized these rewards belonged to the whole team. They were given to him only because he was the only one present at the scene.

Chen Mo glanced at the four weapons. He found that the rewards for clearing an unknown area as a team were really good. All four weapons were Level 15 Purple Equipment, and all four skill books could only be learned at Level 15.

After being rewarded with one level, Chen Mo was now Level 13. He just needed two more levels to equip the Frenzied Hand Crossbow and learn Blasting Trap.

Chen Mo looked at the attack power of the Frenzied Hand Crossbow, and his eyes lit up.

Frenzied Hand Crossbow

Description: A hand crossbow made from the body of a Frenzied Treant. The weapon carries the characteristics of the Frenzied Treant.

Equipment Quality: Purple

Restriction: Usable by Hunter and Assassin classes. Can be equipped at Level 15 or above.

Attributes:

Base Physical Attack Power 79 – 105

Base Magic Attack Power 68 – 87

Strength +30

Agility +25

Special Effect: 5% chance on attack to make the player enter a Frenzied state. In the Frenzied state, the player’s attack speed, movement speed, and critical hit chance increase, but damage taken from attacks also increases. The effect lasts 5 seconds.

Additional Skill: Frenzied Strike

— Frenzied Strike: Can be used after the player enters the Frenzied state. When the Frenzied Strike skill hits a target, it is guaranteed to deal the maximum damage of the player’s attack power, and has a 50% chance to cause a critical hit. Skill Cooldown Time is 60 seconds.

Not bad. The base physical attack power exceeded 100 points. The added special effect and skill were also very practical. Once he reached Level 15, he wouldn’t need to look for another weapon. Otherwise, the Level 10 Toxic Hand Crossbow he currently equipped would definitely not be sufficient at Level 15.

For other players, using a Level 10 Purple Equipment until Level 20 was completely fine. But if Chen Mo wanted to solo monsters, he had to switch to a powerful weapon.

The Frenzied Hand Crossbow was good, but the skill book “Blasting Trap” made Chen Mo feel that he really hit the jackpot this time.

“Blasting Trap”: Hunter skill book. Requires mastery of the “Trap Mastery” skill and reaching Level 15 to learn. After learning, the player can learn the skill “Blasting Trap”, which causes considerable damage to enemies in a small surrounding area and has a chance to cause armor-breaking damage.

This was an area-of-effect damage trap. Although he didn’t know the exact range, it definitely wasn’t like the special effect of the Sailor Gloves, where precise calculation was needed to cause area damage!

Not only that, Blasting Trap also had the possibility of triggering the special effect of armor-breaking damage. Armor-breaking damage ignored the enemy’s defense. Whether against players or monsters, the damage dealt when causing armor-breaking damage would be very considerable.

Once he learned Blasting Trap, the number of traps at his disposal finally increased a bit. He could truly be called a Trap Hunter now.

However, no matter how many traps he had, he still needed to find a way to improve his trap-setting ability. Otherwise, just like today, no matter how many or how powerful the traps were, they would be difficult to use.

Chen Mo also looked at the weapons and skill books for Golden Phoenix and the others. Since they were all Purple Weapons, the attack power differences weren’t very large, just adjusted according to their professions. However, the attributes of the hand crossbow weapon were almost the lowest among all weapons. The weapon attributes of Golden Phoenix and the other two were slightly better than Chen Mo’s hand crossbow.

Regarding weapon special effects, Golden Phoenix’s Frenzied Greatbow and Little Demon’s Frenzied Staff had the same effect as the Frenzied Hand Crossbow. Only June Rain’s Withered Staff had a different special effect. The Withered Staff came with a skill “Withering Technique”, which could steadily reduce the enemy’s health over a certain period. If the enemy was a plant-type monster, the user could also recover their own health proportionally.

The skill books for the other three were also very good skill books, not inferior to Chen Mo’s Blasting Trap at all. Not to mention June Rain’s Reviving Spring technique, a healing skill, both Golden Phoenix’s Triple Arrow and Little Demon’s Frenzied Fireball were very violent output skills. With these skills, the output of those two would immediately improve significantly.

The Area Elite did not drop any items. Chen Mo cleaned up the battlefield, picking up all the equipment and items dropped by the Four Seas Guild members into his backpack. The Giant Wood Tray was not a place to stay for long, so he left the Giant Wood Tray.

There was still some time before 12 PM. Chen Mo found a place to hide in the upper layer of the Giant Wood Maze and notified Golden Phoenix and the others to come find him.

He was in the Black Name Status. He needed to wait until nightfall to move under the cover of darkness. Moving during the day would make him an easy target for other players. While equipped with the Heinous Crime Title, one or two player teams couldn’t kill him, but Chen Mo didn’t want to kill more people. In the Black Name Status, killing people would continuously increase his Crime Value. By then, even if the time came to remove the Heinous Crime Title, he would still need to spend time cleansing the Crime Value.

Not long after Chen Mo left the Giant Wood Tray, a black crystal ball rolled out gurgling from the pocket of Cait’s corpse on the Giant Wood Tray. The crystal ball cracked with a snap, and a Black Caterpillar crawled out from inside. The Black Caterpillar looked around with its pitch-black eyes. After confirming no one was there, it opened its mouth and directly bit a black Spatial Rift in the air, then silently crawled into the Spatial Rift.

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Chen Mo hid and waited for almost an hour. Golden Phoenix, Little Demon, and June Rain found his hiding place.

The three looked well. Although they died once, they only lost a little Experience, so there was no significant loss. Especially June Rain, who looked even more excited. She thought she couldn’t complete the quest, but in the end, she did complete it and successfully obtained the “Heavenly Dew” skill book. With this skill book, her healing ability would be greatly improved in the future.

“What happened? Why is your name black?” The three exclaimed in surprise when they saw Chen Mo.

“A secret. It’s the price for killing the Four Seas Guild members.” The Heinous Crime Title was Chen Mo’s hidden ace that he couldn’t let others know about. He didn’t intend to say more.

“That’s quite a heavy price.” Golden Phoenix was very curious about how Chen Mo alone wiped out over ten Four Seas Guild members, but since Chen Mo already said it was a secret, asking further would be inappropriate.

“Here, these equipment and skill books are the rewards the System gave you.” Chen Mo traded the three’s weapons and skill books to them one by one.

“There are such good things too?” Golden Phoenix’s eyes lit up when she saw them.

The weapon was one thing; she could buy it with more money. But the Triple Arrow skill instantly excited her.

Having used Double Arrow often and knowing how powerful Double Arrow was, now she possessed Triple Arrow. Killing others would be even easier.

“Thank you.” Little Demon also liked the Frenzied Staff and Frenzied Fireball very much.

June Rain, however, hesitated for a moment. Chen Mo helped her with the quest for free. She completed the quest and received the reward. She didn’t contribute much during the entire quest. Now she was also receiving a share of the reward, which made her feel very embarrassed. But in the end, she couldn’t resist the temptation of the two items and accepted them, softly saying thank you to Chen Mo.

She wanted to say that no matter what difficulties Chen Mo had, he could ask her for help. But when she thought about the gap in their strength, she couldn’t say it.

Chen Mo gave the clearing rewards to the three. However, he didn’t intend to take out the pet potions obtained from Cait.

If they were other items, he could share some with the three. But these pet potions were useless to them, yet extremely important to him.

“What are your plans next? Level up together?” With good items in hand, Golden Phoenix also felt the urge to rush levels.

“No, my Black Name Status will last for quite some time. It easily draws aggro. Teaming up with me, you will have a hard time leveling. If someone attacks, I can’t just leave you behind and escape. The outcome won’t be good for anyone. It’s better for me to be alone. I can fight if I want, and leave if I want.” Chen Mo shook his head.

“Alright then, take care.”

Golden Phoenix thought it made sense. With his strength, she didn’t need to worry about him at all.

Golden Phoenix and the other two left. After another ten-plus minutes, Da Qing Shan appeared.

“Take these equipment and give them to your subordinates.” Chen Mo gave all the picked-up equipment to Da Qing Shan. Without the help of Da Qing Shan and his men, even if he equipped the Heinous Crime Title, he could only escape.

Da Qing Shan didn’t come to find Chen Mo for these equipment. He came from afar just to see Chen Mo once.

Chen Mo didn’t know what Da Qing Shan was thinking. After trading the equipment over, seeing that there was nothing else, he bid farewell to Da Qing Shan and left.

Da Qing Shan returned along the way. On the way, he met his group of loyal followers.

“Come, divide these equipment among yourselves. The expert sent them for you!” Da Qing Shan waved his hand grandly and took out all the equipment Chen Mo gave without missing a single piece.

“Hahaha, thank you, boss!” The group of followers began dividing the equipment with beaming smiles.

These equipment were clearly better than the ones they had dropped.

“For the battle reward against the Four Seas Guild, I also had someone transfer the money to your bank cards. Please confirm.” Da Qing Shan then said.

The group of followers immediately checked their respective bank cards upon hearing this. Then each one of them grinned from ear to ear.

“Alright, stop the noise! I have an announcement to make!” Da Qing Shan waved his hand, and the group of followers immediately quieted down, looking at Da Qing Shan with eager anticipation.

Every time Da Qing Shan said this, it meant they might receive generous rewards!

“I announce that the Qing Shan Guild is hereby disbanded!”

System Notification: The Qing Shan Guild you were in has been disbanded by the Guild Leader Da Qing Shan. You have left the “Qing Shan Guild”!

The group of followers froze, their expressions turning cold. They were all stunned.