novelraw Chapter 262-2: The Might of the Black Dragon, Rescuing the Juvenile Nurarihyon (2)
Chapter 262-2: The Might of the Black Dragon, Rescuing the Juvenile Nurarihyon (2)
Shangguan Yu, Yin Linlin, and Du Cheng exchanged glances and ultimately decided to form a united front.
This business trip team-up, so long as he could get added to Lin Xun’s Book Friends, then it wouldn’t be a loss, and as long as it wasn’t a loss, it was effectively a huge gain.
Shangguan Yu and Du Cheng still didn’t know that Yin Linlin had already secretly achieved her goal.
Lin Xun squeezed back into the Celestial Pivot Palace through the main gate, now a gaping hole, and ended his transformation state.
According to the strategy guide, the first wave of Outer Demon assaults would last one hour, and after half an hour, the main force of the Outer Demons would arrive.
Only after wiping out the vanguard and the subsequent main force would it count as successfully repelling a wave of Outer Demons, allowing each Star Lord Apostle to use the Resting Page to recover their state.
Such Outer Demon assaults had to be fended off three times in a single day!
On the third day, successfully withstanding the ninth wave of Outer Demons would count as clearing the chapter.
Lin Xun was about to continue his mischief when a soft, pale hand suddenly reached over and gently grasped his palm.
He turned his head and saw Lu Caiyi, face bright red, head lowered, voice like a mosquito.“Thank you.”
Lu Caiyi knew perfectly well that Lin Xun’s actions earlier were obviously meant to stand up for her.
Those three elite Apostles had assumed she was just dead weight at the bottom of the ranks, but Lin Xun had immediately spoken up for her and then used that ‘forced support’ tactic to make the others silently choke back their resentment, unable to say a word.
In truth, Lin Xun hadn’t thought about it so much; he simply felt that stealing kills from his own people was hard to bring himself to do. As for the other three unfamiliar Apostles, he had no psychological burden about taking their kills.
“Ahem. The Outer Demon vanguard has been cleared out. Everyone, take a moment to reflect on your experience and rest up before the main assault arrives.”
The female superior sitting to Lin Xun’s right kept her gaze steady on the screen, continuing her operation.
The soft little hand immediately drew back. When he looked at Lu Caiyi again, the tips of her ears were bright red, almost steaming.
Lin Xun smiled faintly, switched into the shrine maiden Shell, and started healing the little dragonkin.
Transforming into the giant dragon form would gradually drain the little dragonkin’s health over time, and frequently using skills while transformed would accelerate the loss even more.
Normally, just three uses of Dark Dragonfire Breath were enough to put the little dragonkin into a state of ‘near-fatally injured.’
But now, with a full twenty stacks of Calamitous Fallen Dragon Embryo, not only had the skill’s power skyrocketed, the health drain from using it had also decreased somewhat.
After two uses of Dragonbreath, Lin Xun only received the hellish game’s notification that ‘you have sustained minor injuries.’
Unfortunately, even twenty stacks of Dragon Embryo couldn’t make the little dragonkin’s Art of Transformation perfect, or perhaps it was simply that the skill quality of the Art of Transformation was too low.
In any case, though the little dragonkin now looked a bit more humanoid than before, it still hadn’t managed to fully transform into the appearance of a real human.
[You shake the golden Kagura bell in your hand, open the ancient book inscribed with the blazing golden sun, and use Bell Kagura Dance to heal the Shell of the Knowledge-Seeking Primordial Hermit…]
[A pleasant ringing fills the air. Ripples of dark energy spread outward in waves…]
[The Shell of the Knowledge-Seeking Primordial Hermit recovers a small amount of health!]
[A pleasant ringing fills the air. Ripples of dark energy spread outward in waves…]
[The Shell of the Knowledge-Seeking Primordial Hermit recovers a small amount of health!]
[You feel a little fatigued…]
???
“Why isn’t it fully healed yet?”
Lin Xun wore a face full of confusion.
He remembered that last time in the shrine, the True Shrine Maiden had only needed to cast two healing skills to completely restore the Earth Giant, who’d been left with just a sliver of health.
He kept using Bell Kagura Dance until the shrine maiden finally collapsed from exhaustion. Only then did the hellish game notify him.
[The Shell of the Knowledge-Seeking Primordial Hermit has fully recovered!]
The Earth Giant’s health bar definitely exceeded that of the little dragonkin of the same grade, so faced with this situation, Lin Xun could only reach one conclusion.
Inside the shrine, supported by divine domain power, the shrine maiden was able to use that rare+ grade healing skill to restore the Earth Giant to full in just two casts.
Now that he was outside the divine domain, the shrine maiden’s healing revealed its true effectiveness.
Thinking about it, it made sense, how could a rare+ grade skill have such overwhelming healing power, enough to completely refill the health of an epic+ grade Earth Giant in two casts?
“Looks like if I want a more advanced healer Shell, I’ll have to go to Tenmei Grand Shrine in Sakura Falls Kyoto…”
Earlier, he had unlocked a hidden storyline involving his senior sister going undercover at Tenmei Grand Shrine, which might help him obtain a higher-grade healer Shell.
“Attention!”
“The main force of the Outer Demons is incoming!”
Lin Xun pulled himself together and returned to the fight.
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Three hours of fierce battle stretched all the way from afternoon until sunset.
For the three elite Apostles, the fight was almost like idling.
They had thought Lin Xun would at least leave them the boss leaders among the main force of the Outer Demons, but even the Outer Demon bosses couldn’t withstand the black dragon’s cataclysmic Dragonbreath.
Shangguan Yu even felt that Li Xingyue didn’t need to invite him at all, she could have just found a few Apostles with tank Shells to join.
As long as the tank Apostles could hold the line until Lin Xun wiped out the Outer Demons at the Celestial Pivot Palace and unleashed the black dragon from the palace, they could have steamrolled all the way to the end of the chapter.
Still, it hadn’t been a total loss. At least, after the three waves of Outer Demons that day, he finally got his wish and added Lin Xun as a Book Friend.
Being able to add a top-tier expert to his Book Friends, this trip had been well worth it.
Shangguan Yu, brimming with good cheer, proposed holding a ‘victory banquet’ that night, but Lin Xun had no intention of attending and declined with the excuse that he had something to do in the evening.
Since the main figure wouldn’t be joining the dinner, the rest of them decided to drop the idea as well. Under Li Xingyue’s arrangements, everyone returned to their hotels, planning to resume exploring the Easter Egg Chapter the next day.