novelraw Chapter 219-1: The Otaki Estate, Karasu Tengu (1)
Chapter 219-1: The Otaki Estate, Karasu Tengu (1)
When several of the sword disciples entered the room, Lin Xun began a merciless slaughter.
The Master Instructor’s shell was so powerful that even without invoking karmic fire, it could easily dispatch the disciples relying purely on swordsmanship.
In no time at all, the few personal disciples lay dead, their bodies sprawled across the small room in a gory scene.
Four new skill books had appeared in the inventory: one Rare+ grade and three Rare grade.
“With nearly a fifty percent drop rate, this dojo really is a treasure trove.”
Lin Xun’s eyes gleamed.
He summoned the Valkyrie to block the dojo’s entrance and began a merry spree of farming skill books.
More than a hundred disciples in the dojo were all converted into experience and books.
Perhaps because the skill drop rate was so high, the disciples didn’t seem to drop much Spirit Essence.
It had been ages since Lin Xun last tasted the joy of harvesting, and he hadn’t expected to find that feeling again in the dojo.After wiping out all the disciples, he kept the Valkyrie stationed at the entrance.
Then he returned to the Resting Page, refreshed once, and reentered the dojo…
This time, all the ordinary disciples had respawned, but the personal disciples and the Master Instructor had not.
Lin Xun guessed the Master Instructor already qualified as a mini-boss, while the personal disciples were elite monsters, thus excluded from the respawn pool.
The process of wiping them out three times in a row took quite a while. If he hadn’t been worried about causing too much commotion, Lin Xun would have switched to the President shell long ago and reaped them all in one cast of Falling Starlight.
The fighting itself didn’t take as long as the work of possessing and looting equipment.
The disciples’ gear was poor quality, but there was so much of it that stripping everything still earned a tidy sum.
By the time Lin Xun finished sweeping the dojo, his inventory held 56 skill books and 127 sets of weapons and armor.
Unfortunately, the items were mostly low-grade; the highest skill books were Fine+ quality, with most only Fine.
The equipment was half a tier below the books, like scraping meat off a mosquito’s leg, but the sheer quantity compensated for the lack of quality.
A rough estimate suggested the weapons and armor alone could sell for sixty to seventy thousand Spirit Essence.
Even without counting the Rare-grade skill books, the rest would fetch at least 110,000 to 120,000 Spirit Essence, and including the Rare ones, the total could easily climb to 200,000.
“If I could find a few more places like this dojo, getting rich overnight wouldn’t be a dream.”
[You stood sword in hand. Rivers of blood ran through the dojo, transformed into a living hell with not a single disciple left alive.]
[As you stared at the carnage, memories in the shell began to stir…]
[…]
[On another battlefield just as bloody, you were the only soldier who survived.]
[In the crimson dusk over a mountain of corpses, you alone remained standing… when the Otaki clan’s retainers found you while cleaning up the dead.]
[At that time, you were hanging by a single breath, one step from death. The Otaki clan pulled you back from the brink.]
[From that moment, you vowed to serve the Otaki family for life.]
[The young clan head saw your talent and personally paid to send you to the Heartless Flow Dojo to study swordsmanship.]
[You did not betray his expectations. Your talent in the way of the sword was extraordinary, your strength advancing by leaps and bounds, and you became the clan head’s most trusted right hand…]
[Fifty years of life passed like a fleeting dream. Now, in your old age, the Otaki clan head who once drank with you was himself frail and sick.]
[You knew that barring any mishap, the vast Otaki family inheritance would pass to the eldest son.]
[But the eldest son was violent and arrogant, and if he took control, he would drive the clan to ruin.]
[By contrast, the second son was gentle and steadfast. Only he could preserve the clan’s glory.]
[The clan head knew this well and resolved to name the younger son as heir. But after years of illness, his power had long since slipped away.]
[The Otaki clan was already under the eldest son’s sole control, and supporting the second son was easier said than done… On his sickbed, the clan head entrusted you with all his hopes: do everything to see the second son inherit.]
[If the eldest son grew too strong to resist and the situation could no longer be reversed…]
[The clan head handed you a golden token, his voice resolute: If the situation becomes hopeless, go to the estate’s underground and break the seal of the Absolute Barrier.]
[With that, he fell into another slumber.]
[You looked at the token, its blood-red tadpole script glistening, knowing it was the key to the barrier.]
[And beneath the estate lay something sealed by the most powerful onmyoji: the Absolute Barrier of the Ten Directions…]
[You did not keep the token yourself, but entrusted it to your new master, the young and kind-hearted second son. It would be up to him to decide when to use this final measure, this last resort of mutual destruction!]
[The fragmented memory ended abruptly.]
[You have learned the precise location of the Otaki Estate!]
Lin Xun’s eyes lit up.
The Otaki Estate was very likely the highest-difficulty location in Fukoka Castle.
And beneath it lay the Absolute Barrier of the Ten Directions. Even when the technique was etched onto an ofuda charm, it carried a legendary-grade rating.
It was clear that whatever was sealed under the estate was no ordinary thing.
Lin Xun dismissed the Valkyrie and decided to go investigate the Otaki Estate.
[You slaughtered over a hundred people, yet your snow-white long robe remained spotless, unstained by a single drop of blood.]
[You walked out of the Heartless Flow Dojo, slowly closed the door behind you, sealing the infernal scene inside.]
[Then, guided by the memories, you set off toward the Otaki Estate…]
Lin Xun opened the panel to check the Master Instructor’s attributes.
The Master Instructor’s strength really was formidable. Although its quality wasn’t as high as some of his main shells, its level was quite elevated, and it possessed six sword techniques, each of Epic grade.
Before he had possessed it, this shell also had the special attribute Calamitous Fallen Karmic Fire, making it even more powerful.
Though Lin Xun hadn’t yet figured out how to use Calamitous Fallen Karmic Fire, he had another special attribute, Knowledge.
“If I were fighting in the President shell, the monsters in this chapter don’t seem to have much resistance to Knowledge…”
Lin Xun remembered when he’d used Pleasure-Hazed Sight on the Night Escort Dog, the little mutt had lost consciousness for a long while.
Using that skill against certain strong bosses would probably allow for quite lengthy crowd control.
Combined with Knowledge-based damage skills, like Infusion of Illusory Knowledge and Knowledge Spear, it could probably deal massive damage far beyond ordinary abilities.
“So the biggest profit from Hell chapters is actually special attributes. Since other chapter monsters don’t have dedicated resistances, using special attribute skills can inflict extremely high damage.”
“Damn… if only Mystic Eye of Instant Death also checked against Knowledge.”
Lin Xun was just fantasizing. There was no way this cursed game would leave such an obvious loophole.
While thinking, he had already reached his destination.