Nie Yan’s web line accurately flew through the air and stuck to the chestpiece . With a hard tug, he pulled it toward him .
Watching the chestpiece flying towards him, Nie Yan’s heartstrings were stretched taut . He extended out his hand and grabbed it . Not bothering to examine it, he directly stuffed it into his bag .
At this moment, Phantom Princess Ina was alerted by the noise . She immediately locked onto Nie Yan .
A malevolent expression warped her face . Her eyes burned red with rage .
Phantom Princess Ina chanted out an incantation in a long lost undead language . With a wave of her staff, a large net of black energy appeared in the air over Nie Yan .
“Got it . Time to go . ” Nie Yan attempted to activate his Unknown Transfer Scroll, only to have it fail . He glanced at his status bar . He was under a new status effect—Soul Lock!
Soul Lock was Phantom Princess Ina’s curse . It prevented the target from using any teleportation items .
“Dammit!” Seeing the black energy net about to trap him, Nie Yan leaped out of the way . He disappeared into stealth with Gale Step and fled toward the exit .
Since Nie Yan couldn’t use teleportation items, he had no choice but to escape the underground tomb by foot .
Phantom Princess Ina raised her staff . A black energy sphere flew into the air . Upon finding Nie Yan’s location, she swung her staff down . Immediately, black fireballs started whizzing down towards him .
BANG! BANG! BANG! Flames flew out everywhere .
None of the fireballs landed directly on Nie Yan . However, he was still hit by the splash damage . A damage value of 700 floated up above his head .
Nie Yan quickly drank a Master Speed Potion, causing his movement speed to instantly break past 1,000 . As he fled for his life, he quickly inspected Phantom Princess Ina . Phantom Princess Ina (Variant Lord): Level 100 Health: 8,000,000/8,000,000
“Shit! She’s a Level 100 Variant Lord now!” Nie Yan didn’t dare to dally . He took advantage of the effects of the Master Speed Potion to bolt out of the hall .
As Nie Yan neared the large stone door, he alerted the Sacrificial Blood Maidens . They conjured up red orbs of light in their palms and fired at him .
With no way to dodge so many projectiles, Nie Yan activated Shadow Waltz . He brushed past the Sacrificial Blood Maidens and fled out of the door .
Phantom Princess Ina charged out of the stone door . In the next moment, she disappeared from her original position and reappeared in front of Nie Yan . With a wave of her staff, the shadows in the vicinity shot up like writhing tentacles and wrapped around him .
“Tsk, she’s really tough to deal with . ” Nie Yan ignored the Shadow Bind with Death Exemption and rushed straight at Phantom Princess Ina .
Seeing Nie Yan close in on her, Phantom Princess Ina opened her mouth and let out an ear-piercing shriek .
Howl of Terror!
Nie Yan expected this move . He instantly activated Mind Immune .
The sharp scream swept past Nie Yan . His ears were ringing badly, as if someone sounded an air horn in his face .
Thankfully, he had activated Mind Immune just in time . If the fear from Howl of Terror landed, he would’ve had no hope of escaping alive .
Concussive Blow!
Nie Yan smashed the pommel of his dagger into Phantom Princess Ina’s forehead, causing her to wail out in pain .
Phantom Princess Ina had fairly high Evasion . If it weren’t for the fact she was vulnerable during Howl of Terror, Nie Yan would’ve had a difficult time stunning her .
Nie Yan circled behind Phantom Princess Ina . As he leaned to one side, he pushed off from his waist and channeled all his power into his arm .
Backbreaker!
KRACKK! Zennarde’s Sword was driven directly into Phantom Princess Ina’s spine .
Backbreaker was the most effective against humanoid monsters . Phantom Princess Ina was crippled for five seconds .
Trying to kill Phantom Princess Ina was a fool’s errand . Seeing Backbreaker had successfully CC’d her, Nie Yan didn’t dare to linger and fled for the outside . He was astonishingly fast at maximum speed, but he still felt like he was too slow . As he turned a corner, he spotted a horizontal beam under the ceiling up ahead . He took aim and shot out a web line .
As soon as the web line hit the beam, Nie Yan gave a fierce tug and shot up into the air like a rocket . He instantly covered 10 meters as his silhouette appeared to leave behind afterimages due to his sheer speed . The Dark Maidens who had already respawned didn’t even get a chance to react before he left their attack range . They ended up bunching up together in a chaotic pile-up .
Five seconds later, Phantom Princess Ina finally recovered from the cripple . Gazing around, Nie Yan was nowhere to be found . He had long since fled to who knew where . She immediately went into pursuit, only to discover the corridor was blocked by the Dark Maidens . With no way of chasing him, she could only scream out in anger .
Before long, Nie Yan made it out of the underground tomb . He summoned his Darkwing Dragon and climbed on its back .
With a powerful flap of its wings, the Darkwing Dragon took to the air . It flew into the distance and quickly disappeared behind the clouds .
Nie Yan glanced at his status bar . Soul Lock still hadn’t disappeared, so he couldn’t use Return Scrolls or Unknown Transfer Scrolls .
“Tsk, this is going to be troublesome… She probably has to be killed for this Soul Lock to disappear . If I don’t do anything about this, don’t tell me she’s going to keep chasing me forever? No way, right . . . ?”
Despite knowing what had to be done, Nie Yan knew he wasn’t a match for a Level 100 Variant Lord .
“Hmm… If I return to Calore, she definitely won’t follow me there . Only the most powerful monsters will attack a large city . Maybe I could lure her into a small town or village and have the NPCs kill her like I did with the Guardian of Order?”
Level 100 Variant Lords wouldn’t approach large cities, but instances of them attacking small towns and villages were quite common .
Nie Yan immediately thought of the ideal place . “I’ll lead her to Crassus!”
Crassus was a small town that few players frequented . However, the NPCs there were quite strong . They were all Level 90 or higher . The town had more than 300 NPCs . This force was probably strong enough to deal with Phantom Princess Ina .
“If I can lead her to Crassus, it should be fun . ” Nie Yan smirked . Like this, he could simply push aside most of the work to others . Having him deal with Phantom Princess Ina alone was undoubtedly suicidal .
No Comments Yet
Post a new comment
Register or Login