Heroes' Prison

Chapter 200 - 198 Feng Zhi’s Killing Intent

"System Prompt: You have obtained the mount, Headless Horse (Third Rank Intermediate)."

[Headless Horse] (Third Rank Intermediate, Level 50)

Speed: Third Rank Advanced

Attack: Third Rank Primary

Defense: Second Rank Top Tier

Health: Third Rank Top Tier

Offensive Mode:

Limb attack capability, can trample enemies with its four hooves.

Huang Yi finally had his first mount!

The quality of this Headless Horse was as high as Third Rank Intermediate! Far surpassing the common stock sold in the city beast stables, where most mounts are First or Second Rank. Third Rank mounts are very rare, and those reaching Third Rank Intermediate are even rarer.

The speed of the Headless Horse was already fast, about 30% faster than Huang Yi’s full-speed sprint. Now, Huang Yi’s racial talents, legendary boots, and Shadow Dance added up to give a 50% boost to absolute movement speed, which also synergistically increased the mount’s speed by a huge margin.

This horse had no head and looked very strange. It supported its entire belly on four hooves flaring with green ghostly flames, and that was all there was to it. But Huang Yi had a head. When he rode on the horse’s back, his head seemed to be the horse’s head. From a distance, Huang Yi appeared to have turned into a centaur.

"Eh? What kind of monster is that? Why is its lower body so familiar, yet its upper body so strange? Could it be that Lord Ming Gu has recruited a new minion?" Just then, a skeleton, tilting its cervical vertebrae and with two eye sockets flickering with ghostly fire, stared at Huang Yi, who was charging rapidly on horseback, and muttered to itself.

"Bang!" The response it got was a ferocious hammer that directly flattened its skull.

Huang Yi, riding the Headless Horse, charged straight into the depths of the Skeleton Ocean, trampling and knocking countless skeletons along the way, soon engulfed by the vast Skeleton Ocean. However, along the way, he left behind swathes of magma and the effect of Aeonic Plague, swiftly sweeping through the Skeleton Ocean.

Huang Yi moved in and out of the Skeleton Ocean seven times, like a dolphin gliding through the sea. Wherever the Headless Horse went, skeletons contracted Aeonic Plague and died en masse, speeding up the monster generation more than before!

Before long, his experience points skyrocketed to 70%, and he was ready to enhance his 7th Stage War Soul!

"System Prompt: To enhance the 7th Stage War Soul, you need to consume 70% of the current level’s experience points and an equivalent level Boss Crystal. The success rate is 10%. Do you wish to proceed with the enhancement?"

In the Third Phase, the success rate had dropped significantly; the 7th Stage had only a 10% chance of success!

Huang Yi used the Eye of Time to check the success rate, and this time, the energy value consumed shot up to 1000 points!

However, these 1000 energy points were not wasted. The determination he saw was a success, and it was the maximum value!

Huang Yi immediately chose to proceed with the enhancement, and his health points instantly increased by 8%!

Now, his Life Soul had cumulatively increased his health points by as much as 32%, almost a third.

But the next stages would be even harder to ascend. The 8th stage had a success rate of 5%, and the 9th stage only 2%. Even with the Eye of Time, it would take a long time to see a single success.

Besides, there was a bigger problem facing him - Energy Value!

Using the Eye of Time to check the 7th Stage, he already needed a whopping 1000 energy points, the consumption for the 8th and 9th stages would be even higher, and with numerous attempts required, he simply didn’t have enough energy points.

All he had were the 10, C-ranked Energy Stones he got from the first kill, each replenishing 3000 energy points for a total of just 30,000 points.

Apart from that, the only thing left was a "Special Energy Stone" blasted from the Ice General in the Sand Thief King’s Underground Palace, which could provide him with unlimited energy for a single use.

It could be said, without solving the energy value problem, it would be very difficult for his War Soul to continue to level up.

Next, Huang Yi continued to sprint back and forth in the Skeleton Ocean, reaping experience points, but Dragon City was still nowhere to be seen; the Skeleton Ocean was endless.

...

On the walls above the gates of Dragon Capital City, a man and a woman stood, looking down at the endless Skeleton Army below.

The woman was tall and slender, her face firmly masked, leaving her appearance a mystery, yet her gaze was commanding. She carried two axes on her back, her whole being exuding a lively and heroic air.

The man, on the other hand, was tall and large, clad in a suit of black armor and draped in a blood-red cape, resembling a general on the battlefield.

These two were the highest authorities at Dragon Capital City’s wartime command center. The woman was Qin Shiyu, and the man was Feng Zhi. However, the atmosphere between them was terrifyingly cold.

Feng Zhi, looking down at the vast Skeleton Army below, asked, "If these Skeleton Soldiers besiege us for a year, are we expected to remain trapped here for a year as well?"

"No, I believe reinforcements will arrive, and they will be here soon," the woman replied, turning her head to gaze in the direction of Xuanyuan Town.

"Hmph! Reinforcements?" Feng Zhi sneered, "Who would risk their lives to save this Lonely City? Dragon Capital City is simply a city of freedom with no affiliated powers; who will come to our rescue?"

"Hasn’t Instakill saved us once before?" Qin Shiyu retorted.

"But why hasn’t he cared about Dragon Capital City since then? He’s busy collecting Legendary Equipment and securing first kills. How could someone as busy as him remember a small place like Dragon Capital City?" Feng Zhi said. He turned to look at Qin Shiyu with a frivolous gaze, adding sarcastically, "A top-level player like him, why would he care about the lives of people like us? Do you think he’s your childhood friend who would travel thousands of miles and risk danger to save you?"

"Regardless, I believe he will come back," Qin Shiyu said, looking over the endless Skeleton Army with a calm and resolute tone.

"You’re gambling with the lives of a million people in Dragon Capital City!" Feng Zhi said angrily. "Look at the people in the city now; they’re listless, without a trace of fighting spirit. Even if Instakill comes, with his abilities alone, what difference can he make? Do you think he can kill all these skeletons? Do you think the Sand Thief King grew up on idle indulgence? He took the heart of the Sand Thief King; he’s a thorn in the king’s side. If he comes to Dragon Capital City, he’ll only draw the Sand Thief King here, and then no one will escape!"

"My defensive strategy may be conservative, but it at least gives a million people in Dragon Capital City a chance to survive. Your breakout strategy is just to sacrifice everyone in Dragon Capital City for a breakthrough path, allowing your 200,000 Half-Beastmen to escape unscathed. You’re just using Dragon Capital City for your own benefit! For the greater good, I will not compromise!" Having said that, Qin Shiyu turned and left without so much as a glance at Feng Zhi from start to end.

Feng Zhi clenched his teeth, watching Qin Shiyu’s retreating figure, a restrained killing intent rising in his eyes.

"So, she’s still unwilling to relinquish power?" Suddenly, a mysterious voice rang out.

Right after, a figure emerged from the air behind Feng Zhi.

The newcomer was a man in his twenties, dressed in tight leather armor, toying with a venom-coated dagger in his hands. The dagger flipped back and forth between his slender, fair fingertips without ever cutting his skin, showing off his extremely agile finger skills. He had peach blossom eyes that made him seem somewhat lecherous, yet those eyes darted left and right, always observant of everything around him.

"Wei Yangsheng, leave her to your Assassin Group," Feng Zhi said, as though he had expected the arrival, without turning his head.

"It’s rare to see a woman with such a fiery figure and lofty stature," Wei Yangsheng stepped forward to where Qin Shiyu had just stood, inhaled deeply and a sleazy smile appeared on his face, "A woman her scent... pity if she were to die, wouldn’t it?"

"But if she doesn’t die, none of us can live," Feng Zhi said coldly. "Right now, she’s got a bunch of supporters, and it’s a bit of a hassle to kill her. In half a month, it’s The Second World’s annual grand ceremony; everyone’s attention will be on the awards ceremony. If you strike then, the public pressure will be much less. And if you do it cleanly, there won’t be any evidence to prove it was our doing. After the awards ceremony, the public will naturally forget about this incident."

"Alright!" Wei Yangsheng nodded and toyed with his dagger. "Tell me, do you think the Blackmane Elder can unlock the secret of the Soul Prelude?"

"It’s up to fate. If the Blackmane Elder could unlock the secret of the Soul Prelude within this time, that would be ideal. With our own strength, we could break free. But if he can’t, then we’ll have no choice but to kill Qin Shiyu and seize power."

...

In the endless ocean of skeletons, Huang Yi rode the Headless Horse, moving as if he owned the place, searching throughout Dragon Capital City.

Wherever he went, magma and toxic fog followed, transforming all the surrounding skeletons into Experience Points. Only some of the Elite Monsters were able to briefly slow his pace.

"Damn you! Halt!" A roar came from a distance; an Elite Skeleton Knight charged at Huang Yi.

"Are you delivering treasure to me?" Huang Yi jeered. He maneuvered the Headless Horse to dodge to the side, brushing past the Skeleton Knight, and swung his hammer in a powerful strike.

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