22: Black-striped leaf snake

“Hiss, hiss, hiss…”

After being attacked, the Flower Leaf Snake let out a pained hiss and counterattacked viciously. Three damage numbers popped up above Li Si’s head.

-44!

-10!

-188!

The first was physical damage, which was reduced to only 44 points after a 50% damage reduction for damage below 100, a 7.4% physical damage reduction from 8 armor, and a 2% all damage reduction.

The second was poison damage, 10 points per second, lasting for 20 seconds.

The third was skill damage from Poison Spray.

The Flower Leaf Snake’s counterattack caused Li Si’s health bar to plummet by one-eighth.

“Not bad.”

The damage wasn’t too high.

Li Si calculated the Flower Leaf Snake’s output; with his 1972 maximum health and 15 health recovery per second, he could only last a maximum of 20 seconds without dying.

It was already quite good.

Moreover, facing a level 20 Flower Leaf Snake was a good opportunity to farm Limiters.

Immediately, under Qian Duoduo’s terrified gaze, Li Si began to strafe back and forth in front of the Flower Leaf Snake.

He would leave immediately after his health bar was half-empty, replenish his health with health recovery and small health potions, and then continue to provoke the Flower Leaf Snake.

As time passed, Li Si’s tireless efforts finally paid off.

“Ding!”

“Heaven Rewards Diligence, your earnest struggle and will have moved the heavens and earth, and your attributes have increased.”

“Health permanently +200.”

“Health Recovery +2/s.”

“Mana Recovery +2/s.”

“Mana permanently +100.”

“Attack permanently +5.”

“Attack Speed permanently +0.2.”

“Movement Speed permanently +1.”

“Poison damage below 10 points reduced by 100%.”

“Spell damage below 300 points reduced by 30%.”

“Physical damage below 100 points reduced by 60%.”

“…..NB.”

This was an ultimate, massive improvement.

Li Si was in a good mood.

During this time, Qian Duoduo had become numb. Seeing Li Si visibly grow stronger, he was filled with questions:

Why could the big shot keep getting stronger, with increasingly higher damage and thicker health? It seemed like there was no upper limit, as if he could continuously become stronger.

“Big shot, what kind of talent do you have?” Qian Duoduo was extremely curious.

What kind of talent do I have? How could I tell you? Li Si smiled and replied, “Guess,” then continued to entangle with the Flower Leaf Snake, stacking attributes.

I guess?

How could I guess? Qian Duoduo muttered with a bitter smile.

Another ten minutes passed.

Li Si discovered a pattern: the higher the level and damage of a monster, the easier it was to trigger the Limiter.

However, there was a certain limit. Taking the Flower Leaf Snake as an example, when first encountering it, it was very easy to trigger the Limiter. As he became more familiar, the trigger probability quickly decreased.

“That’s about enough.”

As the Limiter became increasingly difficult to trigger, Li Si no longer forced it.

“Phantom Sword Dance.”

He directly used a skill to clear the Flower Leaf Snake’s remaining health.

“Ding!”

“Killed Flower Leaf Snake, experience +100. Killed 19 levels higher, additional experience +100.”

The experience was incredibly high.

Even if Qian Duoduo took half, one Flower Leaf Snake still gave 200 points. It was a pity it was only 19 levels higher; otherwise, there would have been an additional 100 experience points.

Afterward, Li Si began to walk sideways.

He hunted them one by one, unhurriedly.

“Ding!”

“Silverlight Set auction completed. After deducting a 5% handling fee, the remaining 780,000 RMB has been transferred to your character account. Current character account balance: b.”

“…..Boom!”

Li Si’s heart pounded violently.

The price of the Silverlight Set exceeded his expectations; it actually sold for a high price of 780,000. In an instant, his account balance was almost breaking a million.

Grandpa Li Si, now loaded with money, was happy. What kind of crappy rental house? I’m going to buy Sea City First Grade.

As time passed, Li Si killed most of the Flower Leaf Snakes in the forest.

At this point, he found that his experience points exceeded 500,000, and he only needed 5 more purple quality skill upgrade stones to upgrade Ghostly Swift Steps. Or he could continue to accumulate experience points to upgrade Phantom Sword Dance and Mana Conversion.

Meanwhile, Qian Duoduo’s level soared.

“Hahaha, this is awesome, I’m level 16!” He shouted excitedly. Level 16 was already here, so could level 20 be far off?

“Do you want to get on the Mingyue Village announcement again?” Li Si opportunely threw out the topic.

“I dream of it.”

“The usual?” Li Si raised an eyebrow.

“The usual!”

Qian Duoduo decisively agreed, then immediately opened his friends interface and reported the good news to Qian Miaomiao: “Sis, wait for it, I’m going to be on the regional announcement again.”

Qian Miaomiao: “?????”

Qian Duoduo: “The big shot agreed to let me be the first to reach level 20.”

Qian Miaomiao: “:)…”

Qian Duoduo: “Hahaha, you’ll be jealous. And my treasure map is almost cleared. When that happens, it’ll be a double surprise.”

Qian Miaomiao: “You’ve really latched onto Lawless Madman’s leg.”

Qian Duoduo: “That’s why, Sis, hurry up and use some means to get the big shot. Let him be my brother-in-law, I’m begging you.”

Qian Miaomiao: “…..Get lost, (▼ dish▼＃).”

Qian Duoduo: “Alrighty.”

……

Li Si was currently clearing out the loot in his backpack.

Killing over 200 Flower Leaf Snakes provided him with 3 gold coins and 5 pieces of equipment.

The equipment was level 20 white-grade, so he wasn’t in a hurry to sell it. Instead, he accumulated it in his backpack, waiting for players to reach level 20 before listing all of it at once.

Li Si felt that when Qian Duoduo reached level 20 and got on the Mingyue Village announcement, it would be a great time to sell the level 20 equipment.

Whether his character balance could break a million RMB depended on this wave of Qian Duoduo reaching level 20.

“Big shot, boss!”

In the very center of the forest, a massive giant snake lay coiled, flicking its tongue back and forth.

【Black Pattern Hua Ye Snake】 (Blue Boss)

Level: 20

Health: 23500 / 23500

Mana: 7600 / 7600

Attack: 145-150

Talents: 【Black Patterned Snake Poison】 【Boss Power】

Skills: 【Poison Spray】 【Brutal Constriction】

Description: A mutated Flower Leaf Snake with a powerful physique. Every drop of saliva in its mouth can poison a strong tiger to death.

“Big shot, a blue boss!”

Qian Duoduo was shocked. There was actually a blue boss in the Elf Secret Realm treasure map. What should they do? One had to know that the blue boss in Silverlight Forest was only killed after hundreds of players died grinding it down.

This boss in front of them was even stronger. Could the big shot and he kill the boss?

Uh…

He himself should probably be excluded.

Could the big shot kill it alone?

Qian Duoduo knew clearly that this boss should be the final test of the treasure map. Killing the boss would grant the treasure map’s reward.

“Big shot, how should we fight? You tell me.”

Qian Duoduo said, ready to die, preparing to fight with all his might.

“Go stand aside.”

Li Si said with a smile. He really wanted to laugh. His health was already over 2300+, and as long as he controlled his health, he definitely wouldn't be instantly killed.

This boss was simply an excellent tool for him to trigger the Limiter.

“Little Black Patterned, come on.”

Li Si held his sword and went in for a normal attack.

-65.

The damage was decent.

But it was truly insignificant in front of the Black Pattern Hua Ye Snake’s 23,000 health.

After one hit,

the boss’s health bar didn’t even drop.

However, this weak attack achieved Li Si’s goal.

The Black Pattern Hua Ye Snake was enraged and counterattacked fiercely.

-349!

-30!

-735!

It could only be said that the Black Pattern Hua Ye Snake truly lived up to its name as a level 20 blue boss.

The damage was simply unreasonable.

The first was physical damage. Under the 150% damage increase from Boss Power, a single normal attack deducted 15% of Li Si’s health.

The second was poison damage, 30 points per second, lasting for 20 seconds, accumulating to 600 points of damage.

The third was the spell damage from Poison Spray.

Even more unreasonable.

A single skill knocked off 32% of Li Si’s health.

In an instant, his health bar was reduced to only half.

“….Hiss, a level 20 blue boss is terrifying indeed.”