Chapter 967 - 911: Feast of the Dragon Tomb
Just as Da Fei’s entire army was on high alert, a system prompt chimed:
—System Prompt: Your troops have entered the Arctic Center, and are affected by the "Extreme Cold" effect. Troops’ Attack Speed is halved, Move Speed is halved, Life Value decreases by 5% every 10 seconds, and Stamina decreases by 5% every 10 seconds.
—System Prompt: You possess the Holy Frost Body, and are unaffected by the Extreme Cold.
Damn, it’s the Extreme Cold again. This cold effect is even more severe than when we were in the Arctic Circle! But it doesn’t matter; even with my attack speed halved, it’s still at a normal level for someone like me. As for the health drop, with the near-infinite mana provided by the Sea Soul Staff and Selvia’s God-level Light Healing Skill thanks to the Sea Hymn talent, there’s no pressure at all. Not to mention the full recovery capabilities of the Angel Army, plus my Druid Army and Vine Demon Army can also heal, so it’s totally not an issue.
The only problem is the drop in stamina, which puts some pressure on the Power Angel’s recovery, but there always has to be some trouble. Ultimately, it’s nothing worse than the Hellfire River—it’s just an environmental issue, and not a real problem.
At this moment, the Radiant Wings flashed, and Renior awakened once again: "Warrior, even I can feel the piercing coldness in my soul. Is this the underground sea beneath the Arctic Ice Cap?"
Da Fei quickly replied: "Indeed, but there’s more to it than that. This is the legendary Dragon Tomb. Captain, are you aware of the Dragon Tomb?"
Renior was shocked: "Of course! It’s a mystery that all high-end explorers wish to unveil. Legends say the giant dragons of this world fly to the Dragon Tomb in old age, so their souls can peacefully return to the Dragon Realm. However, the Dragon Tomb is not a place mortals can reach. I never imagined a warrior could arrive here—my life has been worthwhile!"
Catherine quickly asked: "Old Captain, our compass needle is scrambled and completely useless. There’s ice above us, so we can’t use the stars for navigation. How do we get out?"
Renior said solemnly: "Don’t you know that at the very center of the North Pole, the compass needle always points north, making it useless?"
Da Fei replied with half understanding: "Uh, seems like it, right?"
Catherine confirmed: "But our compass isn’t pointing north; it’s swinging randomly!"
Renior seriously said: "I see. The Dragon Tomb’s powerful energy interferes with the Earth’s magnetic field, rendering the compass useless and disabling my global navigation skills. In other words, we are completely lost."
Damn it! Weren’t you supposed to handle everything? Da Fei urgently asked: "What’s global navigation?"
Renior explained, "There are two common animals in this world that never get lost. One is the sea turtle, and the other is the famous homing pigeon, because they have organs that sense the Earth’s magnetic field. They can know their location at any time, anywhere. But if a magnet is attached to them to disrupt the magnetic field, they get lost immediately. That’s our situation now."
—System Prompt: You have obtained information on the hidden skill "Global Navigation" from God-level Navigation Skill.
Damn, there’s actually a humanoid GPS of such high technology! The old captain truly has God-level Navigation Skill! Da Fei urgently asked: "So what do we do?"
Renior chuckled: "I feel the abundant energy aura. If we can absorb all the energy here, won’t that eliminate the Dragon Tomb’s interference with the magnetic field?"
At that moment, Tamilia appeared, expressing her excitement, "Indeed, Lord City Lord, this is a feast for us! The richness and purity of the energy here is unmatched by the sea monsters of the Nether Sea. If our Holy Vine absorbs this much energy, our Flying ship will grow to an unbelievable level, and perhaps your dream can be realized ahead of time!"
My dream? Isn’t it to build a Ship Village inside Flying? I have the "evil" Holy Vine, "Necromancer" Renior, and the "evil" Sea Soul Staff—afraid I won’t be able to consume this entire Dragon Tomb? In a flash, Da Fei finally understood what Samaster meant by "hope you grasp this one and only opportunity." That’s so high-end!
Da Fei excitedly waved his hand: "Good, let’s feast and eat to our satisfaction! So, where do we begin?"
Renior laughed, "Of course, start by finding a giant dragon skeleton!"
Exactly, skeletons! Da Fei scanned the surroundings, but it was pitch black without any skeletons in sight. However, there were four red dots on the radar approaching the fleet from all sides. Fine, let’s deal with the small monsters first. I want to see just how strong these monsters are here.
Now, the fleet immediately adjusted to a pin-shaped formation and drew closer to provide mutual fire support. The temporarily combat-incapable Golden Spearfish was protected in the center of the formation, while the Radiant Wings, equipped with narwhal horns, was at the front of the pin.
The ship’s weakness is that the Crossbow Cannon’s firepower is on the sides, so it’s weak against enemies attacking from the front and rear. So, we use the horn and the Hydra Cannon at the front to hold the line.
Then, the Blood Eagle soared into the sky towards the incoming red dots. Upon closer look, Da Fei was astonished—it was a piece of floating ice?
Indeed! It’s a floating ice piece the size of a small boat, spearheading like a torpedo! And faintly wrapped within the ice was a longsword!
Da Fei was stunned. Damn, is this the Dragon Soul Monster?
No time to think, the four "ice mines" surged aggressively into the fleet’s firing range, so let’s engage! The Blood Eagle’s Petrification Aura activated.
In an instant, all crossbow cannons fired, thousands of arrows shot out, and a series of "-3!" "-1!" "-2!" damage values and ice shards flew up! At the same time, the Blood Eagle’s Petrification Aura had no slowing effect on the ice monsters!
Da Fei’s brow furrowed with surprise—damn, this is solid ice—a construction attribute, a moving wall!
The wall not only has a Defense of hundreds or thousands, but also a Damage Reduction bonus against Light Weapons. After subtracting Defense, the Damage Value is directly reduced by 3 or 5 points, making the wall immune to the attacks of ordinary low-level troops.
Additionally, high-level walls have a recoil damage effect against melee attacks. In short, if not for an exceptionally powerful hero, one would never hand-dismantle a wall under enemy fire.
So when encountering a wall, you can only use a Catapult or units with heavy weaponry to barely deal with it.
At this moment, amidst a flash of cold light in the sky, a gigantic ice spike descended with a thunderous crash! With a loud boom, two ice blocks collided and shattered into pieces, and the surrounding sea was covered in frost and mud! A magnificent number of over ten thousand suddenly appeared.
——System Prompt: Your Vice Hero Alina has used the God-level Destruction Technique "Big Ice Seal Skill"!
Da Fei’s eyelid twitched in shock, damn it! Using a God-level Cold Ice Magic that can only be used once a day on a minor monster! And it seems it’s not dead yet?
Though it isn’t dead, wrapped in the surrounding frost and mud, this "torpedo" can’t move forward any further. The first enemy is barely defeated. But there are still three more!
Then use the high-tech teleportation capture Sea Monster Technique of the Flying to take down one, and tank the rest! I refuse to believe that the ramming horn of Radiant Wings, which has siege attributes to counter building attributes, would lose in a collision. The remaining load, with the durability of Jade Dragon, has no reason not to withstand it. If even their future technology can’t withstand this, then there’s no way to play this game.
Da Fei hurriedly said, "Flying, prepare to teleport!"
Tamilia hastily said, "Lord City Lord, the water here is shallow, not suitable for teleportation, but Nasir Ancient Tree can be deployed!"
Shallow water? Without further thought, Da Fei immediately ordered, "Then deploy Nasir!"
"Received!"
At that moment, a gigantic Space Gate immediately appeared in front of the floating ice monster charging toward the Flying, or more precisely, to the side front!
As the ice monster was about to whistle past the Space Gate, a huge wooden fist suddenly stretched out from the Space Gate and crashed down!
——Boom!!! Ice shards splattered! "Siege Damage -950!", "Trample Damage -1433!", "Crush Damage -2631!"
Having gotten used to the previous -1, -2 damages, looking at these three damages all exceeding a thousand from a single punch, Da Fei was wide-eyed and mouth agape in shock!
Nasir’s damage attribute is siege damage! Exactly, this is the effect of using structures to hit structures! Like a siege catapult, it ignores the target’s defense. Of course, this also means that when Nasir is attacking a structure, it is equivalent to a siege machine and is not affected by its own attack bonus, that is, however much damage it can deal. (Note: For catapult attribute descriptions, see Chapter 379 "The Siege Catapult Appears")
And trample damage is Nasir’s skill, as for crush damage, given Nasir’s absolute size, it’s almost guaranteed!
After being smashed by Nasir’s punch, the floating ice was directly knocked to the bottom of the water, losing its momentum. Then Nasir’s long-awaited figure appeared in the "waist-deep" water, with the holy vine on the ancient tree seizing the chance to capture and bind the floating ice monster, breaking through another way! But indeed, the water isn’t deep.
Now only the sea monster in front of Radiant Wings and the one on the side of Jade Dragon are left.
Da Fei gritted his teeth: "Tank them!"
Boom!!! Two loud explosions! "-1750!" "-34355!" Two vastly contrasting damage numbers bounced off the bow of Radiant Wings and the side of Jade Dragon respectively!
As expected, nothing happened to Radiant Wings! And Jade Dragon is also fine! As long as it doesn’t trigger the lousy "leaking" or "damage" effects, this mere 30,000 damage is nothing compared to its total durability of 500,000.
That’s right, for ships, if a single damage amount reaches a high ratio of the total health, like one-third, one-fourth, it could possibly directly result in a leak and take on water. The narwhal horn has special skills. That is to say, if it were an ordinary large ship with 100,000 health hit on the side by this monster, it would be extremely dangerous; this monster’s capability is truly formidable!
And without the momentum, the floating ice monsters seem to have no suspense. Under Da Fei’s full-team concentrated firepower, all four floating ice monsters were eliminated.
——System Prompt: Battle Over! You have defeated the Dragon Soul Treasure Monster, gaining experience +400,000, and obtained spoils of war "Ancient Warrior Dragon Soul Sword" ×4
——Ancient Warrior Dragon Soul Sword: S-rank troop equipment, troop weapon slot, Attack +10, Frost Damage +5, Special Skill Ice Armor. Equipment requirement: Master-level Armed Forces Skill.
Frost Armor: Adds a layer of frost armor to the equipped troops, capable of absorbing 300 points of damage and slowing down enemies in front. The shield disappears after absorbing 300 points of damage, and it can only be used once per battle.
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Treasure dropped! Da Fei was overwhelmed with joy; compared to killing countless sea monsters in the Nether Sea, only obtaining over a hundred Sea Demon Essences but nothing else, getting treasure as soon as arriving here was indeed a bit overwhelming for Da Fei!
Looking at the attributes of the drop, Da Fei was even more stunned, his eyebrows twitching madly. It was actually a weapon for troops! And it comes with a special skill, a 300-point frost shield; if equipped on ordinary angel troops, it would be equivalent to doubling the health of ordinary angels. Not to mention the slowing effect, this is truly worthy of being S-rank!
Looking again at the usage requirement, Da Fei was speechless on the spot; damn, it actually requires Master-level skills, are you kidding me! Are you trying to mess with me?
At this moment, Renior spoke, "I see, these weapons are treasures of the giant dragon. After the dragon’s death, some weapons gained the dragon’s Soul Power and turned into such monsters!"
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