novelraw Chapter 136-3: Veiled Aberrations, Valkyrie’s Throat-Piercing Arrow (3)
Chapter 136-3: Veiled Aberrations, Valkyrie’s Throat-Piercing Arrow (3)
[Your body suddenly expands in size, and in the blink of an eye, you’ve become a towering giant over thirty meters tall!]
[But compared to the monster’s massive frame, you’re still like an undeveloped child, dwarfed in size.]
[Battle Angel – Valkyrie draws her bow like a full moon, and with a twang, the arrow transforms into a black night meteor, flying toward the monster…]
[You grasp the enormous Ancient Dragonfang Greatclub, brace your feet against the earth, and fully activate Blessing of Mother Earth!]
[Letting out a thunderous roar, your muscles bulge with explosive force, and your massive club crashes down toward the monster with terrifying pressure…]
[Green slime splatters everywhere as countless tentacles are smashed into a pulp beneath your greatclub.]
[The flying arrow pierces into the monster’s colossal body, leaving a huge gaping wound from which green fluid jets out like a high-pressure hose…]
[The Unknown Behemoth lets out a deafening roar as it suddenly rises, countless writhing tentacles lashing toward you…]
[You are bound by the tentacles around your limbs, unable to move.]
[You roar in fury, struggling with all your might, managing to tear apart many of the tentacles, but even more swarm in, tightly wrapping around you, constricting further and further…]Lin Xun felt a sinking dread!
A crimson death warning flickered faintly before his eyes.
As expected, the monsters in the mist were still too high-level.
Even in its wounded state, he was no match for this creature at his current strength.
[The tentacles lash toward Battle Angel – Valkyrie. She flares her refined copper wings and soars into the air, gracefully evading their assault.]
[Battle Angel – Valkyrie draws a Hurricane Arrow from her back.]
[She tilts her head and listens to the wind’s chant, then suddenly draws her bow to full moon. A swirling white cyclone gathers at the arrow’s tip like a raging storm!]
[With a twang, the arrow’s tail trails a cyclone of snowy white wind, streaking across the sky like a meteor through the night, and pierces toward the monster…]
[The meteor arrow punches through the monster’s body. Accompanied by a shrill wail, the behemoth collapses…]
[Your Watcher has defeated the Unknown Behemoth, and your experience has increased massively!]
???
Lin Xun blinked.
Was the Valkyrie really this powerful?
Before, it was always the Three-Headed Lion up front tanking while he dealt damage from the back.
Now it had reversed, he was the tank, and the Valkyrie was unleashing insane DPS from behind.
[The power within your shell begins to boil. The shell level of the Corrupted Earth Giant has increased. Current shell level: 36]
[You obtained Fading Chunk Spirit Essence of Insight ×1]
[You obtained Crystalline Core of the Knowledge-Seeking Veiled Aberration (Rare+ Grade Item)]
[You look toward the mountain-like corpse of the monster before you…]
[Knowledge-Seeking Veiled Aberration: A massive creature that lost itself in the Veil of Knowledge, driven by an endlessly swelling thirst for knowledge. It devours its own kind to increase the number or evolve the nature of its eyes. With each devoured kin, it grows more immense and deformed. It perished from an overwhelming force that shot through its body. Compatibility: 46% (+45%)]
The game text ended there.
Lin Xun frowned.
Only two items dropped?
This cursed game was ridiculously stingy.
For such a powerful monster to drop only two items clearly violated the unspoken rule of high risk, high reward that this cursed game usually followed.
He opened his inventory to check the loot.
[Fading Chunk Spirit Essence of Insight: A fading chunk of spirit essence left on the shell, holding a glimmer of insight. Grants 30,000 Spirit Essence upon use.]
Thirty thousand.
Lin Xun had never seen such a massive-value spirit item before.
One giant monster dropped 30,000 Spirit Essence, just how many of these behemoths were there in Sophia City?
That was a fortune waiting to be claimed…
He looked at the next item.
[Crystalline Core of the Veiled Aberration (Rare+ Grade Item): This crystalline core contains a tiny fragment of chaotic Divine Power from Omniscient True Knowledge. Combine three items of the same kind and grade to synthesize an Epic-grade Divine item.]
Lin Xun’s eyes widened.
A Divine item!
According to the description, just two more behemoth kills and he could synthesize an Epic-grade Divine item!
No wonder this monster only dropped two items, it was because one of them was a Divine item.
At this point, his soul talent Thousand Faces, Ten Thousand Forms had already reached level +3.
To advance it to +4, he would need a Legendary-grade Divine item.
But that didn’t mean an Epic-grade Divine item was useless to him.
After all, Divine items were immensely valuable and almost impossible to come by.
With just one spare Divine item, he could sell it for an astronomical amount of Spirit Essence at the Library.
However, officially registered Apostles rarely did that.
The Library’s trading tax was too steep, auction fees could reach as high as 10%.
Most registered Apostles used the transaction board on the Apostle Forum to sell high-value items.
That was because Apostles usually only visited the Library to browse the Book of Trade when they had specific needs while progressing through chapters.
Meanwhile, registered Apostles checked the forum frequently, basically every day, to look up guides…
The biggest advantage of the forum’s transaction board compared to the Book of Trade was that it only charged half the fee.
These transactions were mediated by the Apostle Security Council, allowing both parties to trade without ever meeting, much like online shopping deliveries.
Although this method was already fairly convenient, it was still a bit more cumbersome than the real-time delivery system of the Book of Trade.
Forum-based trades were more suitable for selling high-value items to reduce transaction fees.
And as an official Apostle, Lin Xun didn’t have to pay any fees at all when using the forum to trade.
However, official Apostles with extra Divine items usually handed them over to the organization in exchange for essential resources.
He’d heard from the black stocking lady that headquarters was in dire need of Divine items.
Right now, using Divine items to trade for resources would yield far greater returns than auctioning them off in the Library.