Radiant Light · Crown of Kings!

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TWest of Cloudside Town.

Lv10 Flowing Silver Temple.

By killing Flowing Silver Guards, Lin Mo soon collected 30 portions of flowing silver soul.

That left only the last material: silver iron!

He had collected silver iron before, when making the Flame Ring.

So even without checking the blueprint, Lin Mo knew he had to head to the Mine and kill Stone Lions to collect it.

He took Su Yingxia straight to the Lv10 Mine.

Meanwhile, in Cloudside Town.

A large number of players with "Troubled Times" in their IDs rapidly assembled, then hurried off in the same direction.

Ling Xiao, Skinny Monkey, and Pang Dahai had just finished restocking at the Potion Shop and happened to witness the scene.

"What are those Troubled Times guys... doing? Why all the commotion?" Pang Dahai scratched his head, looking bewildered.

"Whatever it is, it definitely isn't anything good!" Skinny Monkey grumbled.

"Let's follow them and take a look!" Ling Xiao said.

Pang Dahai asked in confusion, "What are we following them for?"

"I keep telling you to eat less. All you grow is fat, not brains!" Skinny Monkey smacked Pang Dahai on the head and said, "With a force that big, they're either doing some insanely difficult hidden quest or going after a big boss!"

"If we follow them, we might snag some scraps and hit the jackpot!"

Ling Xiao said gravely, "Even if we can't snag anything, we absolutely can't let Wang Junjie succeed. We have to ruin his plans!"

"Otherwise, I've lost for good!"

"That makes sense!" Pang Dahai finally understood.

"Come on, let's follow them!"

Lin Mo collected all three materials: silverlight gems, flowing silver soul, and silver iron, 30 portions of each.

After returning to Cloudside Town, he immediately went to the Blacksmith Shop, found the blacksmith Li Li, and handed over 1 Gold Coin, 30 reputation points, and the materials.

Following Lin Mo's request, Li Li began crafting the [Flowing Silver Crown].

Lin Mo took the opportunity to check his own status.

He was already level 11, with 33% progress toward the next level.

But the highest-level monsters within the beginner village were only level 10.

At Lin Mo's current level, killing level 10 monsters reduced his combat rewards by 10%.

And clearly, level 10 monsters could no longer meet his needs.

Once I've killed the boss, I'll head straight to a Level 3 Main City!

The beginner village was ultimately just a small place. Aside from hidden quests and bosses, it offered almost no other opportunities.

Players in the beginner village were like frogs at the bottom of a well.

A Level 3 Main City was where Lin Mo could truly spread his wings!

While Li Li worked on the equipment.

Lin Mo checked his mail and discovered that the Grade D skill book, Grand Fireball, the Purple-Grade Demon Bow dropped by Wang Junjie, and the other few pieces of blue equipment he had listed at the Auction House had all sold!

After deducting the 3% transaction fee.

Another ninety thousand yuan or so had landed in Lin Mo's bank account!

His bank balance had now reached 225,000 yuan!

In his previous life, earning that much in a single night would have kept Lin Mo excited for months!

But now, with fifty million to save up within three months, those two hundred thousand yuan were just a drop in the bucket!

Not enough. It's nowhere near enough. I have to earn more!

After a wait of a little over ten minutes, the equipment was finally finished.

Excited, Lin Mo accepted the gleaming, translucent Silver Crown from Master Li.

As expected.

With Lin Mo's luck, it was white quality again!

But that was fine.

"I like white!"

As he spoke.

Lin Mo deliberately sent Su Yingxia to buy potions, getting her out of the way so she wouldn't discover the secret of his SSS-grade talent.

Only after Su Yingxia left did Lin Mo use the more than 2,000 equipment evolution points he had accumulated by buying and incinerating large quantities of beginner equipment to evolve the [Flowing Silver Crown].

[Ding~ 20 evolution points consumed. Congratulations! Your level 10, tier 2 equipment, Flowing Silver Crown, has evolved from white quality to green!]

[Ding~ 40 evolution points consumed. Congratulations! Your level 10, tier 2 equipment, Flowing Silver Crown, has evolved from green quality to blue!]

[Ding~ 640 evolution points consumed. Congratulations! Your level 10, tier 2 equipment, Flowing Silver Crown, has evolved from red quality to gold (highest quality)!]

After six consecutive evolutions.

Whoosh!

The once-unremarkable white crown in his hands suddenly burst with dazzling golden radiance!

Thrilled, Lin Mo looked at the crown in his hands-

[Radiant Light · Crown of Kings] (Lv10):

Quality: tier 2 · gold

Defense: +255

Bonus attributes: stamina +70, stamina +70

Special effect: Radiant Light Protection (automatically forms a Radiant Light Shield around the wearer every 10 seconds, capable of blocking any one skill. Radiant Light Shields cannot stack.)

Description: The moment you put it on, you are destined to become the undisputed mightiest king of Oracle World...

"It actually has two stamina bonuses... what an incredible piece of armor!"

"And this Radiant Light Shield... in theory, wouldn't it even block SSS-grade skills? It could even... block Wind Soughs Sadly's Grade A self-destruct talent, Mutual Destruction!"

"Absolutely broken!!"

Lin Mo was ecstatic.

Without another word, he immediately put on the crown.

He watched his physical defense shoot up from 65 to an astonishing 474!

His magic defense also surged from 63 to 458!

At this stage, when over 90% of players across the server hadn't even reached triple-digit attack power.

Lin Mo's defense was downright absurd!

"This should be enough defense to withstand the Spider Queen, right?"

Assessing his attributes, Lin Mo nodded in satisfaction.

"It's time to take down the boss!"

Meanwhile, elsewhere.

In the wilderness north of Cloudside Town.

Dark clouds obscured the moonlight.

Amid the darkness stood a deep, shadowy cave, radiating a constant chill like the gaping maw of an abyss.

A large, imposing group of players hurried up to its entrance.

Even as they observed the cave from a distance, before approaching it, they couldn't help feeling chills down their backs!

"This place looks fucking creepy!"

"Is the only final boss in our Beginner Village No. 116, Cloudside Town, really hidden in there?"

"Holy shit! There isn't some man-eating female ghost hiding in there, is there?"

"If she's a pretty ghost, that's fine. I'm just worried she'll be old and ugly!"

"You don't even fucking care if she's human or a ghost! Why worry about whether she's ugly? Aren't they all the same with the lights off?"

As the Troubled Times Guild players whispered among themselves.

Wang Junjie, standing at the head of the crowd, shouted excitedly:

"Brothers, this is our make-or-break moment!"

"Help me take down this boss, and I'll give every one of you a hundred-thousand-yuan bonus!"

At those words, the more than five hundred Troubled Times players present were fired up!

"Holy shit! A hundred-thousand-yuan bonus!"

"Charge, brothers!"

"Everyone get out of my way! Let me at it!!"

"A hundred-thousand-yuan bonus! Here I come!!!"

At that moment, never mind a female ghost.

Even if a Thousand-Year Female Corpse were hiding in that cave tonight, she'd have to keep her butt tightly covered!

Amid a deafening wave of shouts, the army of Troubled Times Guild players swarmed toward the Shadow Nest.

Meanwhile, in the darkness ahead.

Bzzzz! Bzzzz!

Countless pairs of eyes glowing an eerie green suddenly opened.