Heroes' Prison

Chapter 782 - 746: Divine Artifact Fragment

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Soon, those cannonballs exploded around the distant dragon fish, with a splash of seawater soaring into the sky!

This sea area was already not peaceful, and now after such a round of bombardment, it became even more chaotic, with surging waves and sweeping tsunamis!

Even with its Heavenly Domain level strength, the dragon fish couldn’t withstand such a bombardment, its golden body floating up and down from the blasts! It roared angrily, immediately launching a counterattack, firing massive water arrows directly at the deep-sea demon flesh!

"Splash, splash, splash!" Those water arrows struck the deep-sea demon flesh with great force, blowing away the seaweed and moss growing on it, revealing the deep-sea demon flesh’s original form!

Indeed, the attack from a Heavenly Domain expert was extraordinary. Previously, no matter how the deep-sea demon flesh rolled, the rock layer covering it remained intact. Now, after being hit by the dragon fish’s water magic attack, it became vulnerable. If this hit the Cloud Sail Battleship, it would likely suffer significant damage.

After such an attack, the deep-sea demon flesh had a natural response, and its speed suddenly increased, charging towards the dragon fish with a tumultuous force!

The dragon fish was visibly panicked and turned to flee!

"Quick, attack the tentacles!" Suddenly, a voice shouted towards the Tidal Calling Siren Princess beside him!

The Tidal Calling Siren Princess was also a master of water magic, and her combat power would be even greater in this boundless ocean. She immediately raised her hands, summoning the power of the tides, causing the seawater to form water dragons that violently crashed into the deep-sea demon flesh’s tentacles!

This was a clever tactic. The Tidal Calling Siren Princess only had top-level Holy Domain strength, so she wasn’t much of a threat in front of the dragon fish or the deep-sea demon flesh. But if she focused all her attacks on the tentacles, it would be a different story! It instantly provoked the deep-sea demon flesh into a frenzy!

The speed of the deep-sea demon flesh skyrocketed, rushing towards the dragon fish, which struggled to escape, but its speed was no match for the deep-sea demon flesh and it was quickly caught up!

In the next moment, almost without any resistance, the deep-sea demon flesh brutally crushed the dragon fish beneath it, leaving no trace to be seen! The scene was like a tank crushing a mouse.

After a while, Huang Yi estimated that the deep-sea demon flesh had thoroughly crushed the dragon fish and promptly ordered the Tidal Calling Siren Princess and the crew to stop provoking the tentacles.

The deep-sea demon flesh, no longer stimulated, immediately calmed down, floating like a small island on the vast ocean.

"Water Demon, go check on the dragon fish!" Huang Yi instructed the Water Demon with a hint of anticipation in his voice. After such a brutal collision, the dragon fish was likely already dead.

"Yes, Master!" The Water Demon, waving its eight tentacles, jumped off the Cloud Sail Battleship and dove into the blood-red seawater, beginning to search for the Heavenly Domain level dragon fish.

"God of Slaughter!" At this moment, the Tidal Calling Siren Princess suddenly called out to Huang Yi with a hint of excitement in her expression, "There is a dragon ball inside the dragon fish’s head, can you give it to me? I’ve been stuck at the top-level Holy Domain for a long time, and a Heavenly Domain level dragon ball would greatly enhance us merfolk. By consuming it, I can break through to the Heavenly Domain level."

"No problem!" Huang Yi agreed without hesitation.

The growth patterns of NPCs differ from players, with little commonality in terms of equipment, skills, and talents. The leveling process is one major distinction.

Players level up by defeating monsters, but NPCs have a more natural way of leveling up, such as devouring Heaven and Earth Treasures. At one point, the Hero Guild’s main territory Guardian, Undead Flying Dragon, also at top-level Holy Domain, only broke through to Heavenly Domain with a drop of Little Dragon’s Golden Holy Dragon blood. The Tidal Calling Siren Princess is similar; once she obtains the dragon ball from the dragon fish, she can advance to the Heavenly Domain level.

However, even if they breakthrough to the Heavenly Domain level, they are still bound by the contractual power and remain as Huang Yi’s Guardians.

"Swish!" Suddenly, the sea surface splashed, and a huge octopus emerged from the water, dragging with it an extensively injured large fish!

This large fish was the dragon fish from earlier! By this time, it had lost its previous majestic aura, almost shedding all its golden scales and covering its body with horrifying wounds, with even half of its dragon head destroyed, only having a few breaths left.

"Want me to deliver the final blow?" Huang Yi thought as he saw this scene. He was just over Level 100, while this dragon fish was Level 221, a difference of over a hundred levels! Once he killed this dragon fish, he would gain a lot of experience points!

If he used his Level 174 before reincarnation to kill the dragon fish, he would only advance to about Level 176.

But now, using his Level 110 to kill the dragon fish, he would get an extra high-level gap bonus, allowing him to advance from Level 174 to 177!

This time, Huang Yi flipped his hand, taking out a magic bottle from the storage ring! This magic bottle contained an orange-yellow liquid, flowing back and forth at the bottom like a drop of orange juice.

[Double Boss Experience Potion] (Grade A, Magic Item - Potion)

After use, it doubles the experience gained when killing a boss, only effective once.

This potion had slowly developed in a bottle he had a long time ago. By killing a boss, you could gain double the experience. The dragon fish was such a boss, and with Huang Yi’s advantage of over a hundred levels difference, the double boss experience potion would grant even more experience!

He immediately consumed the potion, jumped off the ship, drew out the bloodstained war halberd, and began attacking the dragon fish.

"Heavy Judgment!" Huang Yi swung the bloodstained war halberd, slashing the dragon fish into pieces while putting it into a "Bearing Wounds" debuff state.

This was a new ability granted by Huang Yi’s Divine Class! The Heavy Judgment skill, once divinized, allows for the enemy to enter a bearing state, increasing the damage they receive by 20% for the next three seconds.

Huang Yi kept attacking over and over. Even though the dragon fish had Heavenly Domain strength and was on its last breath with decreased attributes, it still took him more than ten minutes to slowly wear it down and ultimately kill it!

At that moment, Huang Yi seemed to see a vast ocean of experience points rushing at him like the vast blue sea ahead!

Moreover, these massive experience points were doubled!

While he was currently in reincarnation and unable to level up, once it concluded, the accumulated experience points would be added cumulatively, elevating his level to unknown heights.

He speculated that just this one dragon fish alone might allow him to spike four to five levels above 174! Adding on the experience gained during reincarnation, as he cleared the high-level Tower of Pantheons ten times daily with the Commandment of the Pantheons, his leveling progress didn’t fall behind.

Now, everyone in the world believed that after reincarnation, he would be just Level 174. No one knew how much he had accumulated in experience during this period! If there were more opportunities to kill Heavenly Domain monsters over a hundred levels above him, he might advance fifty or sixty levels all at once after reincarnation! It could instantly elevate him to the rank of an Intermediate Celestial Realm Expert! Stunning the world.

Of course, the top players’ levels would still surpass his by then. After all, top players were gaining levels faster on the battlefield by killing enemies than through fighting monsters. Huang Yi was currently too low-level to engage in large-scale killings on the battlefield.

Next, Huang Yi searched inside the dragon fish’s head and finally found a golden bead about the size of a fist. This soft bead had a texture similar to demon cores within the Demon Clan but emitted a far more intense aura than any demon core he had seen. This must be the dragon ball the Tidal Calling Siren Princess mentioned.

Afterward, Huang Yi put the Water Demon away and switched to the Barbarian God’s replica, using the Level 60 Nefalem Skill [Demons’ Acupoints], absorbing the soul of the Heavenly Domain Dragon Fish into one of the Barbarian God’s acupoints.

Now, the Barbarian God contained several Heavenly Domain level souls, making it more powerful than the Blood God and Water Demon ranked before it.

The Barbarian God was a soul spirit of Huang Yi’s War Soul, making its enhancement reflect directly on his War Soul. The soul of a dragon fish thus had twice the enhancing effect.

After absorbing the dragon fish’s body, a shining blue crystal suddenly fell out of it, dazzling under the sunlight and looking like a treasure crafted by nature!

Huang Yi quickly grabbed the crystal. The crystal was diamond-shaped with pointed ends, emitting a vast aura far surpassing that of legendary and epic equipment, so pure it seemed like a sun condensed into a small crystal, almost burning to the touch.

[Sea God’s Pillar Fragment] (Special Item)

One of the ancient Sea God’s Divine Artifact pillars’ fragments, containing powerful divine power, enhancing equipment attributes or body strength after absorption.

Indeed, this was a Divine Artifact Fragment!

Divine Artifacts are the highest equipment tier, with only ten in the entire history of The Second World, and each God Sealer only has one!

A player cannot wear a full set of Divine Artifacts since a single player has over ten equipment slots, but only ten pieces of Divine Artifacts exist. Even if one person gathered all of them, it wouldn’t fill all slots. Moreover, some artifacts are of the same type.

Even a single fragment of such an ultimate item is considered priceless! (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to Starting Point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)