Chapter 528 - 495: The Surrendering Forest Demon
When Little Fei returned to unload and rest, Elena’s day of meditation was almost over. At this moment, the dwarfs were still snoring heavily in their sleep, though the snoring was gradually weakening.
Da Fei couldn’t believe they were about to wake up; it seemed more likely they were going to sleep themselves to death. It looked like he needed to step in. Alright! He felt guilty for acquiring four pieces of equipment without effort, and his hands were itching to work. It was time to get busy for real!
Finally, a flash of Demon Light appeared on Elena, and she slowly opened her eyes. Her eyes were as deep as an icy pool, clearly filled with formidable power.
When she saw Da Fei’s revealed form for the first time, she couldn’t help but smile, "Master, so you’re a human hero!"
Da Fei chuckled, "Yeah, a much stronger image than the dwarfs, right?"
Elena shook her head with a laugh, "No, compared to greedy, cunning humans whose populations are like rats, never-ending, I still find stupid, obnoxious dwarfs slightly more agreeable!"
Whoa! Is she saying this in front of me, knowing she’s my sweetheart? I need to set her straight! Da Fei hurriedly chuckled, "Mana fully restored, right? Now we can take off the Divine Artifact. I’ll equip you with four items. We must act now!"
Looking at the equipment Da Fei handed over, Elena beamed, "Truly worthy of being the Master, such good stuff! With all this, my power surpasses my peak condition back then!"
At this moment, Elena’s attributes after the equipment boost were as follows:
Command Power: 250
Attack: 0
Strategic Defense: 0
Personal Defense: 60 (Thunder God’s Three-piece Set bonus attribute)
Magic Power: 130 (Thunder God Set +70, Elemental Four-piece Set +40)
Knowledge: 120 (Thunder God Set +70, Elemental Four-piece Set +40)
Damage: 3-5
Life: 402 (Thunder God’s Three-piece Set bonus 300 life)
Mana: 5440 (80 knowledge before meditation provided 800 mana, Mana Source +260 mana, Thunder God’s Three-piece Set bonus 300 mana, a total of 1360 mana, after the Dark Ceremony mana doubled, Mana Source mana doubled again)
Additional Spell Damage Bonus:
Flame Magic +25% (Elemental Four-Piece Set +15% all spell power)
Thunder Magic +85%
Earth Magic +25%
Cold Ice Magic +25%
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Staring at Elena’s terrifying mana value of over five thousand, Da Fei froze on the spot! Damn! With an awesome set, a mage-specific mana regen Divine Artifact, and the race-specific mana regen for dark elves, she became such a monster! With mana over five thousand, she could freely spam those big spells costing 200 and 300 mana each! Da Fei always thought the Sea Soul Staff could store one or two thousand mana, which was already amazing, but it was nothing compared to her! So what if she’s level 1? She could totally overpower those level 60 or 70 mages!
Da Fei could now calculate how terrifying her Master-level Lightning Skill was!
The druid, known as a God-level Monster, naturally had high-level Destruction Magic called Lightning Skill. Damage = 32 + 15 × Magic Power, and it consumed 12 mana. As a unit type, the druid had 0 Magic Power, only dealing 32 damage, but with numbers over a hundred, the total Lightning Skill damage was 3200, enough to kill 320 archers with 10 health in one shot. The power was astonishing, mortals trembled!
Under the Master-level Destruction Magic, the Lightning Skill damage = 96 + 15 × Magic Power, consuming 18 mana. Elena’s current Magic Power was 130, making the damage 2046. And the dark elf had a God-level professional skill called Magic Enhancement.
—Magic Enhancement: Consumes double the mana to increase the magic power by 50%.
Meaning, by consuming 36 mana, the Lightning Skill damage reached 3069! Already achieving the combat effectiveness of over a hundred druids! Not to mention her Destruction Mage main skill could reduce the target’s Magic Resistance by 60%. With the current equipment bonuses, the Thunder Magic bonus was 85%, making the actual damage close to 6000! She could strike down 600 archers with one strike, or 1200 level 1 Demon Child soldiers that most spell players dreaded!
In other words, she single-handedly equaled 200 druids!
However, a hero’s value could never be measured by stacking the number of units. Units had just a few dozen points of mana, firing two or three shots even in one battle. Particularly against a mass of high Attack Speed Demon Child who could drain your mana dry, it was normal not to be able to cast even one shot!
In summary, Da Fei now was akin to having 200 druids with endless mana to lavish, spell bombardments from various elements could be unleashed repeatedly, let’s get to work!
Gazing at the dwarfs in the forest whose snoring was growing weaker, Elena shook her head with a sigh, "Such foolish dwarfs, while they deserve to perish, it’s a loss for the Master as well, with over a thousand slaves. There’s some value in rescuing them! Let me burn this forest; the enemy will surely reveal itself!"
As she finished, a fiery array spun in her hand, and with a wave of her hand—boom! A wall of fire spanning half the forest erupted in a roaring blast!
Under the scorching flames, the trees withered instantly, and painful screams faintly echoed from the forest. Only at this moment did Da Fei’s Reconnaissance Skill finally take effect, finally revealing faint red dots hidden among the burning trees!
The enemy had appeared!
Elena burst into hearty laughter, "I overestimated them; they’re just some Forest Demons parasitizing the trees! When the dwarfs leaned against the trees to drink, they got seduced into hypnosis right at close range!"
Da Fei suddenly realized! Indeed, looking at the monster situation with the Skyshattering Thunder event, Snow Monsters hide in the snow, Ghosts hide in the Otherworld, Fire Monsters hide in magma, Sand Monsters hide in the sand. It all had obvious patterns to follow! Meaning, the monsters here weren’t that advanced, just hiding in the trees!
Damn it! I was scared all day, thinking it was an Angel Envoy of the God of Wine hiding in dreams. This sweetheart Elena really loved to tell stories! I’m still young, don’t let her get away with it!
Just then, thick mist rose in the entire forest, and Da Fei’s radar was filled with red dots!
Da Fei was startled; was it time for the full army assault? Though the mist didn’t have much impact on Da Fei, who had the Demon’s Eye, the enemy outnumbered them, and there was a Boss. Damn! This battle wouldn’t be easy! Although Elena was like 200 druids, her health wasn’t at the Boss level. What was he waiting for? Hurry and escape the forest! Can’t we burn from outside the forest instead?
Facing the sudden mist, Elena gave a cold smile, "You think you can confuse us with mist?" With that, she waved her hand, and a large cloud of dark mist enveloped the surrounding forest.
—System Prompt: Your Vice Hero Elena used the Racial Special Skill "Shadow Veil"!
—Shadow Veil: The dark elf magician hero can use Shadow Veil once a day. It can cover the entire battlefield and affect the enemy’s vision. The higher the hero’s level and Magic Power, the better the effect of Shadow Veil and the harder it is to dispel. The skill can only be used in battle.
Damn! Is this dark elf equipping herself with Master-level Arcane Summoning Mist? However, it seemed like Elena was very confident in her combat strength; alright, I trust you this once!
Da Fei grabbed the Wooden Spear to protect Elena in front of him.
Amidst the dark mist, Elena’s hands didn’t stop; lightning flashed in her hands, and a Lightning Skill struck fiercely, causing numerous -50 damage and "Slow Paralysis" negative effects to float up in the forest!
Da Fei was suddenly delighted; this might work! Just slow and kill the small monsters, the isolated Boss wouldn’t withstand many bombardments!
Elena laughed, "It turns out they’re fire- and wood-elemental!" With that, her hands exuded icy cold, and she waved again, causing countless ice pillars to fall from the sky with a thunderous crash!
Although the visual effects looked exaggerated, it was actually just an Ice Pillar Spell of the same level as the Lightning Skill! Right now, Elena had just cast the Lightning Skill, and the Skill Cooldown was still in effect. Otherwise, she could keep firing lightning.
Boom! The forest roared with tremendous tremors! Numerous "-36", "Elemental Chain Damage -22", "Frozen Slowdown" damage texts floated up magnificently!
Elemental Chain Damage was the additional damage inflicted after the dark elf career skill "Elemental Vision" detected the opponent’s attributes and attacked based on attribute restraint. The combined damage exceeded even the strongest Lightning Skill with equipment bonuses!
This was the terror of the dark elf magician; with just two waves of her hand, she dealt over 100 damage to every unit of the enemy’s military, almost the health of a level 6 soldier, normally enough to knock down a cavalry corps!
Da Fei was excited! It could work! With a ground pierce, all these small monsters would fall! Eliminating the Boss was no problem! This was the power of a Human Cannon, in terms of output, the Magma Dragon was nothing compared!
Just then, a woman’s voice cried out from the forest, "Hero! We surrender! Please don’t harm us any more! We know you’re actually a kind person!"
—System Prompt: The "Forest Serenity" fears your strength and wishes to surrender. Do you accept?
Ah-choo! Da Fei spat out a mouthful of saliva!
Surrender? Could a Boss surrender on the battlefield? Even when outnumbered, could it surrender? Was this an extremely rare Boss surrender chance, or had a quest been triggered? But if even a Fishman Boss could surrender, what was stopping a group of Forest Demons from surrendering?
So Da Fei, after a moment of shock, immediately regained his senses, delightfully clicking—
—Accept!!!
—System Prompt: You accepted the "Forest Serenity" surrender! The battle ended, and you gained 300,000 battle experience!
—System Prompt: Forest Serenity and 212 Forest Demons have joined your team. Your reputation among the Forest Demon race has become "Revered."
—System Prompt: Congratulations! Your Vice Hero Elena has reached level 2, Magic Power +1, gained free attribute points +1...
Da Fei and Elena simultaneously laughed aloud!
To gain reputation for a surrender? Revered is understandable, but where does the reverence come from? Oh, I get it, they and the Vine Demons are close relatives of the Flower Demons. Maybe because my race reputation with the Flower Demon is high, it led to them having a good attitude towards me, increasing their surrender chances?
Come, let me ask clearly, hahaha!
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