Chapter 294: Ring of Giant Strength
World Announcement: Congratulations to player “Specially Treating All Dissent” for achieving the third Platinum Boss kill, earning 1 Evolution Stone, 1 Meteor Step Skill Book, and +50 Reputation Points.
It’s over…
Not deliberately paying attention to health, just maintaining the rotation was already the limit.
Specially Treating All Dissent was stunned, clearly just noticing this matter.
“Did you… die?”
“Yeah, I died.” Starry nodded.
The NPC on the ground had fallen into a coma, wounds hardened into scabs, health bar leveled out.
Although he was down a hand, the person was still alive, so it could barely be considered completing the task.
Confirming the boss was really dead, the swordsman laid weakly on the ground and sighed, “I’m exhausted…”
“How about… we have a duel another day?” Starry smiled, looking down at him.
“Sure! Let’s take a break for today, I’ll come find you next time.” After saying that, he confidently pulled out a return scroll.
“You’re… just leaving like this?”
“What’s wrong, you really want to fight me, right?!” As he spoke, this guy reignited his fighting spirit.
“What the hell! I mean, you don’t want the stuff dropped by the boss?”
“Of course I want it, but it wasn’t a solo kill. Besides… this Platinum third kill was intentionally given to me, right?” Specially Treating All Dissent swallowed hard, clenched his fists, and said, “I know you completely had the ability to solo that boss.”
This was no baseless remark; just one Frenzied Triple Slash knocked off 10% of the Ogre King’s health.
Not to mention, Starry held up the boss single-handedly for over a minute.
“You want to test my ability to see if I am qualified to compete with you, right?”
“…” Wow, your imagination really is something!
“Heh, next time, I’ll prove myself.” Specially Treating All Dissent snorted coldly, crushed the return scroll, and disappeared from the spot.
Leaving Starry alone in the wind, feeling messy.
However, if he doesn’t want the equipment… then I guess it will have to be claimed by me alone!
After losing protection, the equipment became unclaimed, and anyone could pick it up.
Stuffing everything into his bag relieved him quite a bit.
Now wasn’t the time to look at the items; he needed to get the people back first.
……
At the North Gate of Yishui City, Mingxiao and his group reunited with Starry to send C back together.
Zane noticed one less person, precisely the only priest in the group.
Seemingly sensing Starry’s confusion, Ming said sadly, “You’re right… there’s still an insider. He was left by Bingguo to keep an eye on me.”
“So, Yuhua and that person who appeared earlier are also…”
“Exactly… it was this person who leaked it. I’m sorry, it’s all my fault; otherwise you wouldn’t be red-named… this quest wouldn’t have been so hard…”
“It’s okay, I’m still alive, right?” Starry waved his hand, indicating not to worry.
Ming had helped him before; although the situations were completely different on both occasions… once he made the decision to do it, there was no regret.
“… Mingxiao’s group fell silent, they didn’t expect Starry to not care at all.
Clearly, this quest was almost completed by her alone.
“Starry, are you going to establish a guild in the future?” Mingxiao suddenly asked.
“Ah?” The topic jumped unexpectedly, and Starry paused for a moment, casually replying, “I’m going to establish it tomorrow, why?”
“What!? Tomorrow? Have you already obtained the guild establishment order?”
“Yeah, in a few days there should be many guilds appearing, so it’s better to build a third one early.”
“I want… to bring these people now to join you, is that okay?” Mingxiao looked directly at Starry.
“Join? No, no, you might have misunderstood…”
He briefly explained that this guild was intended for participating in activities and wouldn’t accept members regularly, limited to family and friends. For events that lacked participants, they could act as fillers.
With his skills, waiting a few days for more guild establishment orders to come in and recruiting again shouldn’t be a problem.
“It’s alright, we’ll try not to drag you down. While our individual combat power isn’t strong, I still have some confidence in coordination.”
So that meant, weak in solo fights, strong in team battles.
When they were ambushed earlier, it was thanks to them attracting enemy fire that he could manage the kills.
“I didn’t mean that… I’m saying you shouldn’t settle in a guild without aspirations.”
“Hahahaha!! Mingxiao has completely split; given what happened, there’s no way they can reconcile. What I want is just to provide a place for these brothers following me, that’s all.”
“Boss…” Lian Lian whispered.
“… Upon thinking carefully, letting them join isn’t a bad idea; it’s not like I’m dragging along hundreds.”
Starry had already reached 41 level with 95% experience, and would soon be at level 42.
The adventure group’s reputation points also increased correspondingly.
By the way, only S-level tasks can increase percentage experience points, so trying to level up quickly with adventure group tasks is quite difficult, given that there are only a few S-level tasks, and even with more adventure groups later, it’s still uncertain if they can grab them.
“Ding!”
System Notification: Due to your outstanding performance in this S-level task “Rescue Stan,” you received an extra reward: “Wind Force Scroll.”
Wind Force Scroll: Generates a wind force field with a height and radius of 100 yards in place, lasting for 10 minutes, scroll disappears after use.
Wind force field?
Another strange item.
After asking each other, Ziyu received a golden ring, while Ming, Tingfeng, Mingxiao, and Lian Lian each got a piece of Silver Tier equipment.
Others got nothing.
This contribution judgement was quite accurate.
They were about to continue with the next task, but the S-level commission in Danyao Valley had already been snatched by someone else, leaving the bulletin board empty.
Well, let’s divide first!
Under the expectant gazes of everyone, Starry pulled out the first piece of equipment, dazzling silver light shining brightly, even Shamin couldn’t help but look over.
“Ahem…” Seeing the players staring at her, she awkwardly turned her head.
Ring of Giant Strength:
Rarity: Platinum Tier
Required Level: 45
Physical Defense: 201
Magical Defense: 178
Strength: 208
Agility: 125
Spirit: 89
Trait: Boundless Strength, when attacking a target, if your strength exceeds theirs by 200 points or more, it produces a powerful knockback effect on the target, cooldown time 1 minute (this effect activates automatically and can be turned off).
Trait: Unyielding, during weapon clashes, immune to a knockback, knock-up, or knockdown effect once (this effect activates automatically and can be turned off), cooldown time 30 seconds.
Description: A hand ring used by the Ogre King, capable of granting the user infinite strength.
Boundless Strength is the passive skill of the Ogre King; no wonder they get knocked so far when jumping.
Additionally, Unyielding allows one to catch opponents off guard during clashes.
Although it’s not as good as the Ring of Skeleton, the Ring of Giant Strength is considered decent for a Platinum item.
