Chapter 30: Magma Imp! Hellhound!

"Ding! You have entered the dungeon [Nightmare-grade · Lava Valley]!"

[The monsters in Lava Valley are extremely terrifying; here, you will find it difficult to move an inch, please proceed with caution!]

Several prompts flashed.

From the repeated dungeon prompts, one could see the danger of Lava Valley.

Su Liang looked around.

The surroundings were covered by a layer of thick red fog, and the field of vision was greatly reduced.

In the air, a scorching breath rushed toward his face, and rolling heat waves surged from the ground...

Making one feel extremely uncomfortable.

[Ding! Affected by the scorching lava, your health -10 per second!]

Normally.

One would need to take anti-fire potions to resist the effects of the scorching lava.

It's just that...

With Su Liang's high constitution, his automatic recovery speed per second was more than 10 points.

Fearless!

Su Liang's gaze shifted, and through the red fog, he saw sparks splashing in the magma river.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!!!

Clusters of magma blocks the size of fists, with little flame hands, rose rapidly into the air.

The quantity was dense!

Gathered together!

It was simply a gospel for people with trypophobia!

[Monster]: Magma Imp

[Grade]: Normal

[Level]: Lv45

[Skills]: Flame Shield, Flame Burn, Magma Jet, Magma Throw

[Introduction]: Magma Imps living in magma; they have extremely fast attack speeds, their attacks come with a burning effect, and they like to act in groups.

Magma Imps have poor attack and defense, and not many skills.

But they have a huge quantity; the Nightmare difficulty has nearly two hundred Magma Imps!

Moreover,

their attacks also come with a burning BUFF.

A pile of skills smashed over; although it didn't deduct much health, one would be covered in burning BUFFs.

The health lost per second was a terrifying number.

It's all about ants biting an elephant to death!

Still quite easy to deal with.

During his thoughts.

[Magma Jet]!

[Magma Throw]!

[Magma Jet]!

[Magma Throw]...

The Magma Imps had already launched their offensive.

Some Magma Imps sprayed small magma jets from their mouths.

Some Magma Imps waved their little flame hands and threw small magma stones.

Shoo shoo shoo shoo shoo shoo!!!!!

Countless magma, like fire rain filling the sky!

Incredibly dense!

Making one's scalp tingle.

Su Liang retreated dozens of meters, dodging the attacks while coating his blade with a layer of black mist.

Immediately!

He slashed horizontally with his sword!!!

Boom!!!

The longsword tore through the air in front, and a forty-meter sword aura, pitch-black and filled with the power of corruption and decay, was generated.

It was exactly Alex's skill—

Blade of Corruption!

[Blade of Corruption]: Slash out a 40-meter sword aura, dealing 500% attack damage to all targets within 800 yards in front. Cooldown: 20 seconds. Cost: 888 MP.

Whoosh!

The black death sword aura swept through the scorching air and slashed toward the Magma Imps at high speed.

They had no time to dodge.

The Blade of Corruption had already descended!

Boom!!!!!

The Blade of Corruption directly crushed all the Magma Imps, turning them into magma debris filling the sky.

[Ding! You killed a Magma Imp, gaining 17,000 experience points.] x188

The prompts scrolled across the screen.

The experience of Magma Imps is not as good as Level 40 monsters.

But relying on the large quantity, the experience gained was almost catching up to killing a Gold BOSS.

Making Su Liang's experience bar rise by a small section.

However...

It was still a bit short of the Ancient Royal City before Su Liang's bloody cleanup.

The terrain of the first stage of Lava Valley is complex.

It is covered with various stone pillars, like a maze, winding around...

After walking for nearly an hour.

Su Liang encountered more than a dozen waves of Magma Imps before arriving at the second stage of the dungeon.

Fortunately...

It still provided Su Liang with quite a bit of experience.

As for the BOSS, there wasn't one in the first stage of Lava Valley.

"Roar!!!"

"Roar!!!"

"Roar!!!"

Accompanied by a low, hoarse roar that seemed to come from hell and made one feel creepy.

Black-red hounds walked over from afar.

Magma seemed to flow on their bodies, their mouths were full of fangs, and toxic saliva dripped from their mouths.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle!!!

The crimson land immediately turned charred black.

[Monster]: Hellhound

[Grade]: Elite

[Level]: Lv48

[Skills]: Magma Armor, Venomous Bite, Magma Breath, Magma Spit, Enrage...

[Introduction]: A terrifying creature composed of magma and scorching lava, its mouth is full of fire poison and can spray magma attacks at extremely high temperatures.

The Hellhounds are all Elite monsters!

The number of this group of Hellhounds is about thirty or forty.

"This Nightmare difficulty isn't much either!"

Su Liang curled his lips; it wasn't even a fraction of the difficulty of the Ancient Kingdom Secret Realm...

In that place, Elite monsters were in huge swarms.

(Event period: October 1st to October 7th)

Su Liang slashed horizontally with his sword toward the direction of the Hellhounds!

The Blade of Corruption, which required no chanting, was also a large-scale group attack skill; at this moment, it had replaced Thunder Purgatory as Su Liang's new monster-clearing skill!

Su Liang had to sigh.

Alex is worthy of being an ancient king; his skills are truly great!

Really easy to use!

As the pitch-black sword aura tore through the red fog and landed in the group of Hellhounds.

The Elite monsters also had no power to resist.

One strike!

All instantly killed!

[Ding! You killed a Hellhound, gaining 58,000 experience points.] x36

[Ding! Congratulations to the player for triggering the "Empty-Handed" passive "Pickpocketing", stealing: "Enrage" (Skill)!]

Su Liang raised an eyebrow.

An unexpected joy; he actually stole a skill from the Hellhound.

[Enrage]: Attack interval shortened to 50%. Duration 30 seconds. Cooldown: 60 seconds, Cost: 100 MP.

This skill...

Too great!

Su Liang was ecstatic, and the corners of his mouth couldn't stop rising.

This unexpected joy was even greater than he imagined!

Although attack speed and attack interval both increase attack speed.

But!

They belong to two different entries!

With different entries, the effect changes from additive calculation to multiplication!

Shortening the attack interval to 50% can be treated as doubling the effect regardless of how much attack speed bonus there is.

Therefore!

The higher the attack speed bonus, the greater the benefit of the Enrage effect!

And those that come with attack interval effects are generally monster skills; professionals basically won't possess them.

This is why Su Liang had forgotten about this thing!

"Good dog, good dog!"

Su Liang smiled while looting the corpses.

The second stage of Lava Valley is very spacious.

It is easy to find the Hellhounds.

Quickly clearing the monsters.

Harvesting their dog lives.

Soon, he arrived at the entrance to the next stage.

A giant Hellhound four or five meters tall appeared.

And unlike other Hellhounds, this Hellhound had two heads and its whole body was covered in obsidian armor!

It looked very terrifying!

[Monster]: Hellish Two-Headed Dog

[Grade]: Gold BOSS

[Level]: Lv48

[Skills]: Magma Armor, Magma Recovery, Magma Devour, Magma Impact, Magma Cracking...

[Talent]: Twin Heads (B-grade)

[Introduction]: A terrifying creature wandering in hell, a devourer of magma, a loyal servant of the Fire Elemental Lord.

[Twin Heads] (B-grade): Grows two heads, which can calculate skill cooldown times separately, but will also take double damage.

A Gold BOSS with a B-grade talent.

This talent is quite interesting.

Double damage and control duration; it has an absolute advantage in 1v1 duels.

If,

continuous skill bursts are enough to instantly kill a portion of enemies, it can greatly reduce the flaw of taking double damage.

This is a double-edged sword talent!

If it were just this, Su Liang might still consider it.

But this talent clearly requires two heads to trigger.

Too strange.

Even stranger than eating a mysterious crystal and being covered in purple crystals.

Su Liang expressed his rejection based on ugliness.

Moreover,

mysterious crystals can be fed to other creatures.

And once a talent is stolen, it acts directly on oneself.

Just as Su Liang shook his head, rejecting it in his heart.

"Roar roar—!!!!"

[Magma Cracking]!

[Magma Impact]!

The Hellish Two-Headed Dog in front let out two roars, and both dog heads launched skills together.

Rumble—!!!

Just look!

The earth under Su Liang's feet began to crack, and scorching magma rolled and gushed out!

In the sky.

A loud noise was also made.

Rumble—!!!

A magma stone, wrapped in flames and dozens of meters wide, fell toward Su Liang's direction like a meteorite.

He took the two skills head-on.

Su Liang's health bar moved imperceptibly.

It didn't break his defense...

It only caused forced health deduction...

[Peerless]!

[Divine Concealment]!

[Berserk Aura]!

[Instant Body Stab]!

To prevent stealing the [Twin Heads] talent, Su Liang cautiously activated all skills with attack BUFFs.

He teleported to the back of the Hellish Two-Headed Dog and stabbed with his sword!

Puchi!!!

The greatsword pierced into the magma body, and Grace of Deliverance triggered 4x damage!

"Awooo—!"