I have an Apocalypse City - Chapter 687

Chapter 687: Chapter 687: Venturing Deep Alone

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Valley of the Undead

This is a small valley over two hundred kilometers from Doomsday City, so remote that it’s not even mapped. Currently, Song Jian and over twenty players from City of Hope stand upon a decrepit transmission array within this valley.

“We’ve already collected most of the nearby shadow stones. If we want a greater yield, we need to delve deeper into the valley,” Wang Qi said earnestly. “However, before we can enter the valley, we must first grapple with the calamitous poisonous mist pervading it.”

Song Jian nodded and began his careful scrutiny.

The valley was bereft of vegetation, filled only with pitch-black rocks. A grey-green mist permeated the valley, but around the transmission array – a radius of about three meters – a thin curtain of light kept the corroding mist at bay.

“What are the effects of this grey mist?” Song Jian asked.

“It causes continuous loss of vitality. Initially, you lose just one point every five seconds, but the deeper you go, the faster the loss. The effect is cumulative. Our team could only withstand up until we were losing ten vitality points every five seconds. Even with potions, we couldn’t hold on. Furthermore, there are many monsters inside…” Wang Qi explained, “There’s also a fixed effect reducing all attributes by 10%!”

Song Jian nodded. A 10% reduction in attributes he could handle, but the continuous loss of vitality, coupled with the increased speed the deeper one ventured, made further exploration impossible even with advanced healing potions. Given that the valley was also teeming with level thirty monsters, this place was strictly off-limits for players who were only around level twenty-seven or twenty-eight.

“Let’s go and take a look!” Song Jian decided, stepping out of the light curtain protecting the transmission array first. The moment the others followed him inside the valley, the grey-green mist swirling in the air surged towards them like a pack of sharks catching the scent of blood.

Soon, everyone was seeing “-1” damage figures floating above their heads, while words like “Immune” and “Resistance” floated over Song Jian’s head.

Checking his status, Song Jian noticed that he did not have the negative status of reduced attributes by 10%. He smiled faintly, pleasantly surprised by his talent skill “Thick Skin” yet again.

“Guild Leader, what’s going on?” The other players stared at the words floating above Song Jian’s head, speechless.

“You guys stay here. I will investigate alone!” Song Jian said.

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“Be careful, Guild Leader!” Wang Qi said.

Song Jian nodded and moved forward.

Watching Song Jian’s retreating figure, Wang Qi sighed quietly. From the moment he met Song Jian, he felt as if they were playing two completely different games!

Song Jian carefully explored the Valley of the Undead alone. He discovered that the valley’s mist not only decreased attributes and drained vitality, but also suppressed perception. Despite his currently potent mental attributes, his sensory coverage was restricted to a radius of just a few meters within the valley.

Soon, Song Jian encountered the monsters of the valley – two skeletons emitting a dark green aura.

“Toxic Skeleton, Level 31, Vitality 4000/4000, Traits: Toxic Attack.”

These mere level thirty-one monsters might have given ordinary players a headache with their additional toxic attack. However, they posed no threat to Song Jian.

Broken Wing Dance!

His Crimson Fire Heart Ape Sword radiated a sharp Sword Qi as it lunged at the two toxic skeletons. With his first-order combat capabilities, Song Jian made quick work of them.

Damage figures in the hundreds continually floated up from the two toxic skeletons, and in less than half a minute, they were reduced to mere bone fragments.

“Huh, a silver-grade weapon dropped? Nice!” Song Jian’s eyes lit up as he pulled out a double-handed sword from the pile of bone fragments.

“Blade of Deadly Poison, an attack with additional poison damage, and also two special effects. Not bad!” Song Jian smiled faintly. Unexpectedly, upon entering the valley, he had already found an excellent silver-tier level thirty weapon. He didn’t know whether it was because the drop rate here was higher, or he was just lucky.

Looking over the sword’s attributes, Song Jian hesitated, ultimately deciding to put it in his storage. Silver-tier weapons can also speed up the gestation progress of the Sword Spirit in his Crimson Fire Heart Ape Sword. However, the progress added by the silver-tier weapon is too little. Compared with the attributes of this long sword, it wouldn’t be worth keeping, so it’s better to sell this long sword and buy an ordinary gold-tier weapon instead.

After all, the price difference between an exceptional silver-tier weapon and a gold-tier weapon with standard attributes is not that significant.

After dealing with the two toxic skeletons, Song Jian continued forward. His exploration speed was significantly faster than the previous exploration team. On the one hand, he crushed any monsters he encountered, and on the other hand, he was not bothered by the calamitous poisonous mist and did not feel the same level of psychological pressure.

After encountering several more batches of monsters, Song Jian crushed them all with ease, only losing a little over a hundred vitality points in total. He didn’t even need to drink any potions. His vitality recovery speed alone was enough to refill his vitality pool.

However, the quality of the items dropped later was rather mediocre, mostly white-grade materials.

Continuing deeper, Song Jian found many quality shadow stones along the way. He realized that this valley was a treasure trove. Not only were there shadow stones, but there was also a shadow forest towards the north-western part of the vallet. As long as a player’s lumbering skill was at level eight, they could hack down the shadow trees in this area. Players could gain quality shadow wood from these trees. These possessed stronger defensive capabilities compared to ordinary wood and had high resistance to both fire and shadow damage, making them suitable for construction.

Soon, Song Jian crossed the perimeter of the Valley of the Undead and reached the central region. A shadow river extended from east to west, along which a seven-storey tower made entirely of superior shadow stones stood.

“Such extravagance. A multitude of weapons could be forged with all these shadow stones,” Song Jian remarked.

When he turned his gaze towards the shadow river behind the tower, his face took on a stupefied expression.

“Ge-Gems. There are so many gems?”

Song Jian noticed that the river’s bed was covered with a thick layer of gems of all colors. All of these could be embedded in weapons and gear. These gems were worth a fortune and were usually only dropped by Boss monsters. Before him, however, was an entire river bed filled with them, just waiting for him to collect.

“Strike rich! Just these gems alone could double the entire guild’s power. They can even foster the Sword Spirits in my five swords,” he thought, avarice lighting up in his eyes.

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