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Chapter 1099 - Chapter 1099 Chapter 1101 Return to the City_1

Chapter 1099: Chapter 1101: Return to the City_1 Chapter 1099: Chapter 1101: Return to the City_1 Skill Scroll: Heart of Slaughter, Effect: Upon use, one will master the Heart of Slaughter skill. Heart of Slaughter: Epic Skill, concentrates killing intent to enhance the user’s damage and uses the killing intent to unlock the Intention Skill Tree, learning Intention Skills by consuming killing intent.

The skill description was simple, but after reading it, Song Jian couldn’t help but gasp in astonishment. This skill was simply heaven-defying–it was as if he had opened up a whole new profession!

Previously, Song Jian had obtained the Book of the Abyss, which unlocked an alternative Abyss Skill Tree. This allowed him to consume battle experience to illuminate skills within the Abyss Skill Tree. If Song Jian could continue learning from it, the skills provided by the Book of the Abyss alone would not be weaker than any rare profession.

Song Jian had only learned a few basic skills from the Book of the Abyss before he stopped continuing down that path, mainly because learning the skills required a considerable amount of battle experience. Since leveling up in this game was slow and also required copious amounts of battle experience, there was a conflict between leveling up and learning Abyss skills, necessitating a trade-off.

However, this Heart of Slaughter was different; it focused on concentrating killing intent and using it to unlock another professional skill lineage. Learning this did not conflict with adventurers’ original professions and was all benefit with no harm, naturally attracting many to pursue it.

After examining the attributes, Song Jian was eager to learn the skill. As soon as he did, a new passive skill called “Heart of Slaughter” appeared in his skill bar.

Heart of Slaughter (Passive): During combat with enemies, one can condense killing intent. Once the killing intent overflows, the Intention Skill Tree will be unlocked!

After reading the skill description, Song Jian realized that this skill didn’t directly unlock the Intention Skill Tree upon acquisition. He would have to continually fight and condense enough killing intent to unlock the Intention Skill Tree. This Heart of Slaughter was merely a tender seed; to grow into a robust tree, constant battle was essential.

While pondering over this Heart of Slaughter skill, Song Jian walked towards the exit of the building.

Just then, an intelligent robot glided towards him–an intelligent robot designated for guiding within this building. They all looked identical, but each had its own name.

Even without a guiding task, these intelligent robots would still walk back and forth in the hall. Any person entering could stop them at any time to ask questions.

As Song Jian was about to pass by this intelligent robot, it suddenly stopped, turned its head towards him, and said, “Thank you for your help; I will remember you.”

Song Jian stiffened, recognizing that the voice was undeniably Nafiboja’s. By the time Song Jian turned his head to look at the guiding intelligent robot, it acted as if nothing had happened and glided slowly forward.

“Has it taken control of this entire building?” Song Jian thought in disbelief, “No, its aim must be more than just this building–it wants to control the entire city… What exactly have I escorted out!”

A look of shock appeared on Song Jian’s face. He had faintly sensed something amiss earlier but had never imagined that a mere broken mechanical skull could pose such a significant threat to a city.

“If I were to bring it to the City of Hope, with its strength, would it be able to resist the invasion?” he couldn’t help but ponder. After considerable thought, he realized that the City of Hope had only just been built and hadn’t had the chance to adopt such advanced technological aids. The overall technological level was so much lower than Fengming City’s that if Fengming City was akin to the real world of the 21st century, then the City of Hope was practically a medieval Manor Castle.

For a moment, Song Jian felt an absurd sense of pride in being technologically backward.

At this moment, Song Jian was no longer concerned about using the Transmission Array to leave. Instead, he reached into his bag and pulled out a gold-quality Teleportation Scroll. As soon as he tore it, his figure instantly turned into a streak of white light and vanished.

The Town Return Scroll had become a very common item for current players. However, most players would at most carry a white or green quality Town Return Scroll with them.

The quality and effect of the Town Return Scroll were directly proportional. The higher the quality of the Town Return Scroll, the better its effect. A white-quality scroll only worked within a hundred-kilometer radius after setting the return location, whereas the gold-quality scroll had an effective range of over three thousand kilometers.

This meant that even if Song Jian had been in Fengming City, upon using this Teleportation Scroll, he could instantly appear in the City Lord Mansion of the City of Hope, inside his own Manor Castle.

Within minutes after Song Jian’s figure disappeared, a sharp alarm echoed across the skies of Fengming City. The piercing alarm sounded as the city gates slowly closed, and the Transmission Array was completely shut down. A hazy layer of light appeared over the city, resembling a thin mist.

At this point, Fengming City had completely lost contact with the outside world, and nobody knew what had happened within its walls. But all of this was no longer Song Jian’s concern. Had he not made a swift decision to use a gold-quality Town Return Scroll, he might have been locked inside Fengming City by now, preparing to endure the city guards’ relentless searches.

Back in the City of Hope, Song Jian immediately summoned his motorcycle and rode out of the city. He didn’t stop until he was about ten kilometers away from the city, in the middle of a desert. There, he took out the “damaged mechanical skull” from his bag and smashed it vigorously until it was completely destroyed before he finally exhaled deeply.

The City of Hope was a place that he and a group of people had built up with much difficulty; it definitely could not be handed over to others so easily.

Now that the mechanical skull was crushed into powder, Song Jian buried this pile of dust deep in the ground, then prepared to return to the City of Hope.

Just then, his communicator suddenly rang. Picking it up, he saw that it was Wang Qi requesting to talk.

“I’ve already returned to the City of Hope. What happened?” Song Jian asked. Wang Qi usually wouldn’t contact him unless something significant occurred that required his input.

“City Lord, we’ve found a great place for monster farming and leveling up. Do you want to come check it out?” Wang Qi asked with a hint of excitement in his voice.

“A good place for monster farming and leveling up? What level are the monsters?” Song Jian curiously asked.

“Level fifty to sixty. It’s very safe to farm monsters here, and they respawn quite quickly. Most people in the alliance have already reached level forty-five…” Wang Qi said.

“What, level forty-five?” Song Jian said in surprise. It was well-known that the level-up speed of players in the City of Hope was actually very slow. Compared to those born in the City of Sin or other major cities, their average level was three to five levels lower. When Song Jian was at level fifty, most of the players were around level forty-one or forty-two. How could it be possible to gain three to four levels in just over half a month?

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