"In the name of Midgard, Poison Mist." Lu Yang said, "That's the spell for the Serpent Venom Orb. Hurry up and try it."
Xiao Liang hummed in acknowledgment, held his arm straight out with the Serpent Venom Orb aimed ahead, and repeated Lu Yang's words.
"In the name of Midgard, Poison Mist."
The dark green Serpent Venom Orb suddenly burst forth with a dazzling green light. Great quantities of pale green poisonous mist drifted out of the orb. Upon encountering the rocks, it automatically split apart and continued spreading forward above and below them.
The three or four orcs wedged in the gaps between the rocks were the first to be struck by the poison. Their already dark green bodies turned a vivid pale green, but they showed no reaction at all. They merely focused all their aggro on Xiao Liang and continued desperately jabbing their clubs through the cracks at Lu Yang and Xiao Liang.
System Notification: An orc has been poisoned An orc has been poisoned An orc has been poisoned ...
Although Xiao Liang could not see how far the poisonous mist extended behind them, the countless system notifications on his display told him there were more than a hundred orcs.
"Boss, this poisonous mist has such a huge range!" Xiao Liang said excitedly.
"Of course," Lu Yang said. "It covers a 10 by 10 area, and the damage is high too. It drains 10 health per second and lasts for five minutes."
Xiao Liang did the math. "One orc has 2,000 health, and there are 60 seconds in a minute. That means I can kill around a hundred orcs in four minutes."
Each orc was worth more than 260 experience points. A hundred orcs meant 26,000 experience points, enough to raise Xiao Liang to Level 3.
"It won't take that long. Watch me." Lu Yang jumped onto the top of the rock, raised the Arsonist Staff in his hand, chanted an incantation, and unleashed the Arsonist Staff's built-in spell—Fire Wall.
A 2 by 2 Fire Wall erupted from the ground before the rock. The raging flames rose half a meter high, and the orcs caught within them immediately took damage.
Xiao Liang jumped up as well. Seeing the Fire Wall Lu Yang had cast, he said in surprise, "Boss, you actually have an area-of-effect spell."
Before the game had even launched, the media had revealed that Second World had deliberately restricted area-of-effect spells to Level 10 and above in order to limit players' leveling speed. He had never expected Lu Yang to have learned one at Level 5.
"I didn't learn this spell," Lu Yang said. "My weapon is powerful. This Arsonist Staff comes with Level 1 Fire Wall."
As he spoke, Lu Yang continued casting Fire Wall. Before long, the entire ground had turned into a sea of flames.
Fire Wall dealt 36 damage per second. Including Lu Yang's 110-point spell damage bonus, it actually dealt 146 damage per second to monsters.
Even while trapped in the sea of fire, the orcs did not scatter and flee. They merely paced about angrily in the flames. Unfortunately for them, the players in front blocked their path, leaving them unable to reach Lu Yang. Moreover, Fire Wall had a special trait.
According to the game's rules, Fire Wall inflicted damage on players in two ways. The first was contact damage: touching a Fire Wall counted as taking damage, and remaining within it caused damage once every second.
The other was that repeated contact was calculated separately. If a target walked from one Fire Wall into another, the damage was counted independently. As a result, many orcs standing at the edges of two Fire Walls, unable to attack Lu Yang, kept pacing back and forth between them. Each crossing counted as damage, and a single crossing took only 0.5 seconds.
In the end, in less than twenty seconds, before the Fire Walls had even burned out, the nearly one hundred orcs before them had all been killed by Lu Yang's flames and Xiao Liang's poison.
System Notification: You gained 282 experience points You gained 282 experience points ...
A long stream of experience notifications appeared. Lu Yang's experience bar jumped forward by a large chunk, while two golden lights flashed around Xiao Liang in succession, raising him from Level 1 to Level 3.
"Boss, that's so much experience!" Xiao Liang said in delight.
Compared to the players outside who were struggling to level in the Level 1 monster zones, Xiao Liang could not imagine leveling this quickly.
"Boss, at this rate, could I make it into the top ten on the Level Rankings too?" Xiao Liang asked excitedly. He was already ranked within the top ten thousand.
"That really is possible," Lu Yang said. "Let's give it a try and see whether we can knock those major guild leaders and big guild bosses ahead of us off the list."
"Yeah!" Xiao Liang was brimming with energy.
Lu Yang laughed. "Then hurry up. The next wave is charging in."
There were several hundred orcs in the hall. After the first batch died, the orcs behind them immediately surged forward to fill the gap.
Watching another batch of orcs wildly thrust their bone clubs through the cracks between the rocks, Xiao Liang was no longer afraid now that he had experience. Once the Serpent Venom Orb's cooldown ended, he began chanting the spell again.
Lu Yang also raised his staff and used Fire Wall to lay down another sea of flames. Just as he waited for the experience to come in, a beeping sound came from the voice chat in the lower-right corner. Lu Yang saw that it was from little Lan Yu. A smile crept onto his lips as he pressed the connect button.
"Little Lan Yu, what do you need me for?" Lu Yang asked.
Lan Yu was always helpless whenever Lu Yang spoke to her in that big-brotherly tone, yet she also felt an inexplicable happiness.
"Who are you calling little? I'm already in college," Lan Yu said, puffing out her cheeks.
Lu Yang could picture her expression as she spoke. "You're still a little girl. So, what do you need?"
Lan Yu rolled her eyes. "Expert, did you offend Black Blood from Eternal Bliss Paradise? That guy has gone mad, putting out a bounty for you all over the world."
Lu Yang chuckled. "Tell me about it. How's he putting out the bounty?"
"Word from Eternal Bliss Paradise is that you killed five of their elite players and took their bronze equipment, delaying their dungeon run. Black Blood posted a bounty announcement worldwide. Whoever kills you and provides a video will get 100 Credit Points," Lan Yu said.
Lu Yang was speechless. He had not expected Black Blood to be so childish. "Did he mention anything about a green orb?"
"What green orb?" Lan Yu asked.
Lu Yang was somewhat puzzled, but he quickly understood. It was only the second day since the server had opened. In his previous life, Black Blood and the others had probably obtained the Serpent Venom Orb by accident and had not known how to use it at first. They must have found the method through some other means.
In this life, Black Blood and the others had just acquired the Serpent Venom Orb when Lu Yang snatched it away before they even knew what it did. Therefore, Black Blood still did not know how great his loss was. He was only furious over the equipment of Golden Eagle, Wind Seeker, and the others.
"It's nothing," Lu Yang said. "Don't worry. Black Blood can't beat me. No matter how many men he has, it won't matter."
He was leveling in a Level 15 map. Even if Black Blood turned all of Flower Whisper Plains upside down, he would not be able to find him.
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