24: Exploding flames, lucky potion!

The mountains behind the Novice Village.

Lin Yue passed through the dimly lit cave entrance, killing many wild monsters along the way, his health points slowly stacking.

Now he could kill a monster with a single skill. While his efficiency had increased, there weren't enough monsters to farm.

He cleared his way through quickly, and in less than half an hour, the originally dark cave opened up, and his surroundings became much brighter.

A subterranean cave the size of a football field appeared, its walls covered in vines, with a dilapidated altar located right in the center.

The altar was covered in dried, scabbed dark blood; on the platform, one could even see many skeletal remains of limbs.

It looked as though no one had entered for a very long time.

Lin Yue walked forward with a frown; no matter how he looked at it, this environment seemed like some kind of evil sacrificial ritual.

Stepping up the stairs, a circular dial appeared before him. Around the dial was a ring of exactly ten small circular holes.

Beneath the dial was a line of text that an Adventurer could understand.

"Inject... blood... to open the divine... treasure!"

A few characters were blurry due to the erosion of time, but Lin Yue already understood.

"Injecting the blood of an Adventurer will open the Treasure Trove bestowed by the gods!"

As he softly recited these words, the altar seemed to undergo a strange transformation. Within the dial, the ten holes emitted a dark red glow, signaling the opener to fill all ten holes.

Bottle after bottle of blood was poured in. When the tenth bottle had completely vanished into the holes, the entire altar changed once more.

The entire cave began to shake, and the mechanisms within the dial started to turn, subsequently sinking into the altar.

"Blood... It has been a long, long time since I received an offering."

In the Void Realm, a gloomy voice rang out, and a blood-red phantom appeared above the altar.

"A wonderful taste, hahaha..."

The blood-red phantom's features were indistinguishable; all that could be seen was a mass of blood-colored light.

Phantom of the Blood God: ???

Attack: ???

Skills: ???

Status: Cannot be attacked.

Lin Yue looked at the phantom in the air expressionlessly. He was speechless; couldn't this kind of opening animation be skipped?

Fortunately, after seeing Lin Yue, the Phantom of the Blood God seemed to remember something.

"Very good, Adventurer, here is your reward!"

In the next second, light blossomed around the phantom, and a rainbow-colored treasure chest appeared on the altar.

“Ding! You have obtained the treasure chest of the gods. Do you wish to open it?"

"Open!"

"Ding! You have obtained 1x Special Skill Book for your class, 1x luck potion, and 1x mysterious fragment."

"Damn, that's it?"

Lin Yue found the items so simple despite such an odd quest requirement?

Taking a look at the Skill Book, Lin Yue immediately changed his mind.

Explosive Flame (Special Passive): 1-Star.

Effect: Your fire-element Spell attacks will carry the Explosive Flame effect. Currently, it can split into three flames that automatically attach to nearby enemies.

Flame damage is 70% of Spell Power, with a 100% chance to apply the Burning Effect.

Cooldown: None.

Cost: None.

Proficiency: 0/10,000

Simply put, one fireball could attach three Explosive Flames, and one Chain Fireball would be six. With the auto-attach function, one Chain Fireball from Lin Yue was equivalent to landing 8 Spell attacks, stacking 16 health points at once.

This skill could be called an essential special technique for stacking health points.

Alright, I misunderstood the gods. No matter how stingy they are, they wouldn't throw in trash to make up the numbers.

With this skill, Lin Yue's current combat power was incredibly monstrous. This kind of area-of-effect-like passive skill had no cost and provided a massive boost for clearing wild monsters and farming dungeons.

He then turned his gaze to the luck potion; this was a special potion.

luck potion: Special (Potion)

Effect: Permanent Luck +1.

In the Land of the Final End, the Luck attribute is a hidden stat, and its role is immense. Its most direct manifestation is the game's drop rate.

Aside from special talents, all players have a fixed Luck value of 1 point. Every increase in the Luck attribute brings about noticeable changes.

However, even in his past life, Lin Yue had never heard of many people obtaining a luck potion. This item's rarity was comparable to a Divine Artifact.

*Gulp!*

Drinking the potion in one go, his body seemed to feel much more comfortable.

The hidden attribute couldn't be seen now, but it would be clear after farming some monsters.

Walking out of the underground altar, the previously killed wild monsters happened to respawn. Lin Yue directly waved his staff and fired a Chain Fireball.

Boom!

Each fireball smashed into the monsters, while simultaneously, the dark red flames spread to the surrounding monsters like maggots on a corpse.

For a moment, the entire cave was filled with soaring flames, and the efficiency of clearing monsters instantly jumped by a large margin.

The path that originally took half an hour to traverse was cleared by Lin Yue in less than ten minutes.

This Explosive Flame is truly useful!

At the same time, the bonus effect of one Luck point was reflected in the drop rate.

If Lin Yue's original drop rate was only one in ten thousand, now it had directly increased to five in ten thousand.

Just one point of Luck could increase the drop rate fivefold; this amplification effect was simply terrifying!

Leaving Novice Village No. 1111, Lin Yue stepped into the teleportation array. This place no longer held any value, so he headed straight to the next Novice Village.

Entering Novice Village No. 2222.

Lin Yue first opened the leaderboard to check the players' progress.

1st: Feng Yun, Young Master Leng — Level 10, 19%

2nd: White Emperor — Level 10, 7%

3rd: Unremarkable Great Sword — Level 9, 37%

4th: Lonely Cigarette — Level 9, 15%

5th: Seven In Seven Out — Level 9, 8%

Feng Yun, Young Master Leng should have left the Novice Village, otherwise his experience points wouldn't continue to increase.

The progress of other players wasn't slow either; basically, the top ten had all reached Level 9. These were the first-tier players.

The second tier consisted of the elite teams and pioneering teams of various major guilds. At this time, they were at least Level 8.5; they should all be able to reach Level 9 in another half-day.

By tomorrow, second-tier players should roughly reach Level 10 and complete the quest to leave the Novice Village.

According to his memories from his past life, the treasure of the gods was discovered by chance on the fourth day after the game's launch by an independent player who liked to explore, right when most players reached Level 10. Only then did many players realize that the Novice Villages actually held many secrets.

Seeing the time approaching noon, Lin Yue chose to log off directly.

Although early game time was precious, Lin Yue had more important things to do.

"You have received a transfer of 500,000,000 yuan from Lin Xiaozhong."

Receiving the first cash installment of 500 million yuan from his father, Lin Xiaozhong, Lin Yue was moved but also fell into thought.

This 500 million yuan was initially intended for creating a club, but now he had a new plan and layout.

That was to buy stocks in the Overlord Invincible Company to earn a wave of profit first.