The Era of Gods - Chapter 62:
Chapter 62: Chapter 62: The Rules of Fusion Cards
Translator: 549690339
After ail, he planned to use this skill as a regular ability, and in the future, if he had the chance, he planned to strengthen it further – slightly enhance its power while significantly reducing its cooldown time. Ten minutes was still a bit too long.
As the third Salted Fish Charge was almost ready, he ordered his team to quickly catch up.
The Giant Sea Serpent seemed to sense something and suddenly turned its head to bite ferociously.
Caught off guard, two Naga were bitten, their bodies instantly turning black and green – the deadly poison had entered their bodies; there was no saving them.
Lin Xiao calmly backed away and continued to follow. The Sea Snake had focused on him, its more formidable body plowing through the water at him, but he snorted coldly and decisively turned to run. The Sea Snake couldn’t catch up for a moment and had to turn to bite at the Naga nearby.
Just then, his subordinate’s Salted Fish Charge Skill cooled down, and Lin Xiao, who had been waiting for this moment, quickly turned around, raised his gun, and roared:
“Kill!”
The Naga targeted by the Sea Snake didn’t hesitate to turn around. Their thick and powerful snake tails created an invisible undercurrent in the water that distorted the light. Using the recoil force of the water, they burst forth violently, the invisible currents spreading out layer by layer, like a torpedo launched straight at the gaping maw of the Giant Sea Serpent.
The faces of the two Naga, covered in scales, were filled with frenzy:
“To our most exalted Naga God above!”
Without any hesitation, they rammed headfirst into the mouth of the Giant Sea Serpent, which was several meters wide. As the serpent’s jaws snapped shut, the lower jaw slightly bulged as if a bubble had formed in leather, punctured in an instant, with dark green snake blood mixing with the tip of the spear piercing through the serpent’s mouth.
The Giant Sea Serpent violently swung its head, releasing a scream that rippled through the water in waves, spreading across the ocean depths of a hundred meters.
At the same time, the other Naga had taken their positions and surged forth, with hundreds of dark figures passing through the water, bombarding the Giant Sea Snake from all directions.
The behemoth twisted its body into an S-shape, rearing up with an even more piercing scream. Its thick neck whipped around to bite a Naga at its side. It crushed the Naga with mighty force and was about to swallow when Lin Xiao finally seized the opportunity. He burst forth, tearing through the water with the force of lightning, forming a hollow ring as he slammed brutally into the head of the Giant Sea Serpent, his spear piercing through the brain area of the serpent.
Under the explosive state of the Salted Fish Charge Skill, his strength, which was nearly seven times that of an adult man, increased fivefold in an instant, reaching thirty-five times that of a normal adult male. Driven by this terrifying force, the Fine Iron Short Spear pierced through the skull of the Giant Sea Serpent, snapping the remainder of the spear shaft from the sheer force.
Twisting his body and using the back of the serpent’s head to propel himself, he evaded the dying Sea Serpent’s final counterattack, slipped under its jaw, and dove into the seabed to distance himself from the Giant Sea Serpent that was now in its death throes.
With three explosive onslaughts, and his fatal blow, the Giant Sea Serpent was finally about to be slain by them.
It was now merely struggling in its last moments. A common snake can still bite after being decapitated, let alone such a massive creature; it wouldn’t die so easily.
The watch lasted nearly two hours. The Sea Serpent went from violently struggling to gradually weakening until it was finally floating in the sea tainted with dark green poisonous blood, left with only unconscious twitching.
Afterward, Lin Xiao waved his hand, and his subordinates surged forward to deliver another round of attacks, ensuring it truly couldn’t retaliate before they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Then came the exhilarating task of submitting the mission to the Divine Artifact Platform beyond their plane of existence.
After an evaluation lasting a minute, the Divine Artifact Platform confirmed that he had completed the second mission, rating the difficulty at eighty-two points, one point higher than the previous Fishman extermination mission, but the rewards remained the same — two extremely rare Five-Star Cards and three randomly graded Five-Star Cards of lower rarity.
The spoils of war, of course, were the carcass of the Sea Serpent, which was fifty to sixty meters long. He collected it straightaway.
Its other uses were still unclear, but one thing that interested Lin Xiao was the deadly poison contained within its body – it should be possible to extract it.
Moreover, he already had an unrefined idea in mind: to refine a concentrated essence of the poison from the Sea Serpent carcass and use it for some mischievous deed.
Hmm, I first need to study how toxic the concentrated sea snake venom is before I can make a decision, but now, let’s just receive the quest reward.
Just like the last time, five cards were directly transmitted into his hands, a straight flush with a flick of his fingers…
Cough, an extremely rare Weapon Card: Acquired two hundred high-quality steel single-hand swords.
A rare skill card: The ability to learn Basic Archery LV1.
A Rare Breed Card.
A common Biological Card: Summon a Fifth Level Armored War Bear.
A Fifth Level resource card: Five hundred sheep, half male, half female.
Emmm….
“It’s alright,” Lin Xiao could only say after staring at the five cards for a while. “It’s alright.”
The Breeding Card was probably included in every quest, one of the most practical and valuable cards for the students.
The resource card was still five hundred sheep, adding up to a thousand sheep from the previous time, Divine Realm could be turned into a pasture now.
The common Biological Card to summon a Fifth Level Armored War Bear was great, it was tough and could serve as both a tank and a charging unit, and even a mount. However, the problem was that it could only be summoned on land and was useless at sea, which was somewhat of a wasted opportunity.
It could only be stored for now, to see if it could be used later, or traded with other students.
The two rare quality cards weren’t bad, one Basic Archery and two hundred high-quality steel single-handed swords.
Perhaps knowing that the thousand Refined Iron Short Spears were about to run out, after so many years, due to occasional poor maintenance, rust, and corrosion from seawater, several hundred spears were naturally damaged. Now, many of the spears in the hands of the Naga had been refitted with new shafts, as the original shafts had long corroded in the seawater.
The strength of high-quality steel was much greater than that of iron, and it was also more resistant to corrosion; it should last much longer.
But this was not a sustainable solution, after all, there was a limited number of card slots, and Lin Xiao really wanted to acquire a Biological Card or a Species Card that could blacksmith, to designate a special area in Divine Realm to craft weapons for his Clan.
But such cards were too rare, not because the cards themselves were rare – a three-star card could probably summon a group of blacksmithing creatures but because this type of card was in high demand.
In this term’s final exams, there were definitely such card rewards, but the distribution was random; who knows if one could be obtained.
The most reliable way was to achieve a high ranking in the final exams and then specify one to receive.
Speaking of which, Lin Xiao really wanted to criticize the restriction of using a card only once a month, twelve times a year, which didn’t matter to the average student, but was a limitation for those with backgrounds.
But there was no helping it; newly opened Divine Realms were very weak, and the items within the cards were outside the rules of Divine Realm. Integrating them into Divine Realm would inevitably cause rule and spatial turbulence. A month’s time was required to stabilize the fluctuations in Divine Realm.
Generally, different cards caused different levels of fluctuations. For example, the impact, also known as influence, from a Species Card would definitely be greater than summoning some weapons, and a five-star Supreme Card would have a much greater impact than a one or two-star card.
