16: Chapter 16 Magic Energy Destroyer

In the end, after being pierced by five massive arrows and hit by an unknown number of Venomous Arrows from Tang Mo, the Two-Headed Giant Rhino finally crashed to the ground.

[Killed Level 90 Two-Headed Giant Rhino, EXP +310,423, Poison Damage +2, Stamina +0.01]

Tang Mo's EXP bar shot up significantly.

"A Level 90 ferocious beast gives an incredible amount of experience. Just by applying some poison, I earned over 300,000 EXP."

When killing ferocious beasts, the EXP gained is distributed according to the proportion of damage dealt.

The credit for killing this Two-Headed Giant Rhino primarily went to that massive Ballista; Tang Mo had only received a small fraction of the EXP.

One could only imagine how terrifying a Level 90 ferocious beast truly was.

Scenes of Two-Headed Giant Rhinos sieging cities were not uncommon.

A vast number of high-level ferocious beasts had already gathered outside the walls of Jiangkou City, all of them frantically ramming against the city walls.

Ripples constantly shimmered across the Protective Formation on the city walls.

Tang Mo didn't know exactly how strong this formation was, but if things continued like this, it seemed like only a matter of time before it was breached.

The only thing Tang Mo could do was continuously release his skills as soon as their cooldowns ended.

Fortunately, Poison Barrier provided him with a steady stream of Spirit points.

Because the lethality of Poison Barrier was negligible against these high-level beasts,

and because it would obscure the vision of the defending soldiers, Tang Mo didn't dare to release it outside the walls.

Now, all Tang Mo could do was keep firing Venomous Arrows every time the cooldown finished.

The cooldown for Venomous Arrow was 8 seconds.

The Level 12 Venomous Arrow produced thirteen arrows made of venom at once. Although the damage dealt to these high-level beasts was very limited,

he could still gain a significant amount of EXP once the beasts died.

Soon, Tang Mo reached Level 13.

At Level 13, Tang Mo's Spirit reached 101.

The skill Poison Rain also rose to Level 2, with its coverage diameter reaching over 30 meters.

Furthermore, the duration of Poison Rain increased to 40 seconds, and the cooldown was reduced to 20 seconds.

This meant Tang Mo could release Poison Rain three times in a single minute, effectively extending the actual coverage diameter to nearly a hundred meters.

As the range expanded, the damage from Poison Rain increased as well, and Tang Mo's EXP gain speed accelerated.

Coupled with the small portions of EXP he occasionally gained from the Level 90 beasts dying near the walls,

Tang Mo's EXP bar soared like a rocket.

In just over ten minutes, Tang Mo's EXP reached 98% of Level 13, and he was on the verge of leveling up again.

Suddenly, the spells and skills atop the city walls became more frequent and intense.

The beasts attacking the walls were rapidly eliminated.

Tang Mo's level immediately reached Level 14.

After asking the soldiers, he learned that the army stationed near Jiangkou City had rushed over after receiving the news.

They would also be bringing in some weapons of mass destruction to completely quell this beast tide.

It had to be said that the combat strength of the Great Xia Dragon Country's army was beyond question.

With their arrival, the pressure of defending Jiangkou City was instantly relieved.

After Level 10, every time a Professional levels up, all their attributes increase by 10 points.

The attribute most relevant to their class increases by 15 points.

For instance, Tang Mo's Deadly Poison Master class is similar to a Mage, so after Level 10, Tang Mo's Spirit increases by 15 points for every level gained.

At Level 14, Tang Mo already possessed 116 Spirit points.

While this didn't add much to the skill damage, it was very useful for the skill's range bonus.

The range of Poison Rain expanded again, with its coverage diameter now reaching nearly 50 meters.

The coverage of Poison Barrier also expanded to over 140 meters in diameter.

The durations of both skills also increased.

The duration of Poison Rain had grown to 50 seconds,

and the duration of Poison Barrier had increased to one and a half minutes.

The majority of the poison damage came from the skill levels themselves.

Tang Mo could gain a portion of EXP from any beast affected by his poison damage.

This was much faster than going out into the wilderness to kill beasts himself.

Rumble~ Rumble~

The ground began to tremble even more violently.

Tang Mo looked back and saw dozens of enormous, monolithic machines being transported from the Jiangkou City teleportation array toward the city gates.

The magic energy assault cannons!

They were the national defensive treasures of the Great Xia Dragon Country.

They were created through the collaboration of dozens of highly skilled Artisans and dozens of master formation masters.

The energy source they used was Energy Crystals refined by Alchemists.

A single shot could destroy an entire city, which spoke volumes of its power.

Each shot consumed one Energy Crystal.

Due to the high demands for craftsmanship and energy, there were only about a hundred such cannons in the entire Great Xia Dragon Country.

The soldiers responsible for escorting the magic energy assault cannons quickly finished deploying them.

Once the Energy Crystals were loaded, the massive muzzles of the magic energy assault cannons began to fire thick pillars of white light.

Dozens of white light pillars fell in unison into the overwhelming beast tide.

BOOM!

Upon hitting the beast tide, the light pillars caused a violent explosion, making the earth shake fiercely.

The intense light produced by the explosion made it impossible for anyone to keep their eyes open.

Only after the aftershocks of the explosion subsided did Tang Mo open his eyes.

The beast tide that had previously blotted out the sky had vanished, leaving behind a massive pit that was almost too large to see across.

Seeing the power of the magic energy assault cannon with his own eyes for the first time, Tang Mo's heart couldn't help but tremble.

"This power is simply too overwhelming!"

Tang Mo checked his EXP again and found he had reached 70% of Level 14.

At the moment the magic energy assault cannons exploded, the kill notifications almost drowned Tang Mo out.

Because of this, he had harvested another massive wave of EXP, leaving him only 30% away from Level 15.

Looking at the barren, massive crater outside the city, Tang Mo felt both happy and sad.

He was happy that the beast tide threat was perfectly resolved, but sad that there probably wouldn't be any ferocious beasts in the wilderness of Jiangkou City for a while.

Where was he supposed to go to level up now?

Atop the city walls, after successfully repelling the beast tide, the high-level Professionals were all wearing smiles, as if they had just handled a trivial matter.

In fact, in the more than 1,000 years since ferocious beasts first appeared,

everyone had long grown accustomed to beast tides attacking cities.

Not only that, humans had even devised many countermeasures; after all, humans had long understood the principle of natural selection and survival of the fittest.

Lin Hanwen walked down from the city wall and saw Tang Mo again near the city gate.

He asked with some surprise, "You didn't go back..."

He stopped mid-sentence.

Because Lin Hanwen had already seen Tang Mo's level.

Level 14!

He clearly remembered that Tang Mo was only Level 12 when he first saw him.

Could it be that he also participated in the battle just now?!

Although it was hard to believe how a high school student who had just changed classes could have the courage to face a beast tide, everything before his eyes told him that this was the truth.