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Chapter 1219 - Chapter 1219 Chapter 1221 Curse

Chapter 1219: Chapter 1221: Curse Chapter 1219: Chapter 1221: Curse Song Jian glanced at the Death Lord that had turned into a pile of scrap metal and shook his head slightly. The previous strike had been its final blow. If it had hit him, even if it couldn’t have killed him instantly, it would have caused him serious injury, and Situ Kaiss might have taken the chance to turn the tables!

At this moment, Situ Kaiss had lost the ability to continue fighting. Half-kneeling on the ground, his whole body trembled, black mist continuously spewed from his wounds, and even from his facial features, black fog was drifting out.

With the Sky-breaking Sword in hand, Song Jian walked towards Situ Kaiss and swung his sword at his head!

Clang!

Song Jian’s brows furrowed slightly–his Sky-breaking Sword seemed to have pierced into a layer of transparent defense barrier, blocked and stopped three inches away from Situ Kaiss.

Situ Kaiss lifted his head, his crimson eyes full of madness as he laughed loudly, “Song Jian, you think you’ve won, you think you can kill me? Hahaha, naive…”

“What is this thing?” Song Jian’s vertical eye in his brow opened, wanting to see what ability Situ Kaiss had released that could possibly block the legendary Sky-breaking Sword, but after his vertical eye opened, he didn’t detect anything unusual, as if there was just a layer of transparent air wall around Situ Kaiss.

“Situ Kaiss, how much longer can you hold out?” A sneer formed on Song Jian’s lips, such a powerful defensive ability couldn’t possibly last very long. Situ Kaiss was only delaying his inevitable death.

“Song Jian, we shall meet again!” Situ Kaiss stared at Song Jian, his face showing a peculiar expression, and his Spell Blade suddenly burst into a dazzling purple-gold light so intense that even Song Jian couldn’t help but shield his eyes with his hands, stepping back two steps.

Crack~

A crisp cracking sound followed as a purple-red Teleportation Gate appeared in front of Situ Kaiss. He struggled to stand and fell towards the gate, his figure vanishing inside it instantaneously.

Song Jian paused, looking at the sinister Teleportation Gate, hesitation appearing on his face. He could clearly feel that on the other side of the gate was Abyssal Hell, a place he did not want to enter again.

A second later, the Teleportation Gate shrank into a purple-red point with a “swoosh” and then slowly dissipated into the air, as if it had never existed, taking Situ Kaiss away from this place with it.

“Summoning a Transmission Array to escape at the expense of the legendary weapon Spell Blade?” Song Jian recalled the burst of purple-gold light from the Spell Blade and a light of realization appeared in his eyes. Only a legendary weapon could have such a powerful force, allowing an originally magical-class profession to possess strong melee attack capability and, at the same time, use its destruction as a price to cast a Teleportation Gate that could be used from any location.

It’s worth noting that after entering the prison, all of Song Jian’s Town Return Scrolls had become ineffective.

“Hmph, even if he escapes, having lost the mechanical flesh Puppet Beast, the legendary weapon Spell Blade, and suffering heavy injuries, it’s questionable whether he’ll survive in Abyssal Hell or not!” Song Jian snorted coldly, thinking to himself.

Just then, a voice suddenly rang out in the prison, which sounded like Situ Kaiss’s, speaking in the language of the Abyss!

Mere moments after his transformation into the Abyssal Clan, he had already mastered the Abyssal language? Song Jian’s expression turned unsightly, realizing that this was not just ordinary speech of the Abyss, but an Abyssal skill.

“Abyss Curse?” Song Jian let out a cold snort as his figure flickered rapidly backward. Many powerful creatures of the Abyss, upon entering a near-death state, would cast the Abyss Curse skill on their enemies using their own flesh and even their souls.

The effects of the Abyss Curse could vary, including lowering luck, Vitality Points, Spirit Points limit, reducing the enemy’s own attributes, or even inflicting a permanent negative status on them.

The cost of releasing the Abyss Curse was immense, but its effects were also extremely strong, making it one of the most troublesome skills for players to encounter.

Song Jian’s face turned pale as he immediately opened his personal attributes to check his status bar. Sure enough, a “lose 5% Vitality Points every hour” negative effect appeared in his status bar.

This negative effect was even permanent, meaning that even if the player logged off the game, the effect would continue to take hold. This meant that if left unaddressed, not considering the natural recovery rate of Vitality Points, Song Jian would die within a maximum of twenty hours!

“Damn it, how can such a potent effect be triggered!” gritted Song Jian, just then, he suddenly felt a burning sensation all over his body, as if he had jumped into boiling water, with his skin turning red.

A series of system notifications appeared in the message bar. His innate skill Immortal Body was activated, which had an immunity effect to negative states below the epic level. Yet, the current situation clearly indicated that the Abyss Curse skill released by Situ Kaiss had exceeded the epic grade, otherwise it wouldn’t have shown up in Song Jian’s status bar.

After a while, the effect of Immortal Body slowly faded, and Song Jian’s skin, which previously seemed like a cooked shrimp, gradually returned to normal.

Opening the status bar for a glance, the originally permanent curse had now become one with a duration of twelve hours! Even if Song Jian did nothing, such a curse would no longer be a threat to his life!

Closing the personal attributes interface, Song Jian let out a breath. Situ Kaiss’s state when releasing the Abyss Curse wasn’t good, so the curse’s effect wasn’t very strong. If it had been cast at her peak, even Immortal Body might not have been able to weaken its effects significantly!

“What a pity, I didn’t get the manufacturing blueprint for the Mechanical Flesh Puppet Beast!” Song Jian thought with some regret.

The construction of a Mechanical Flesh Puppet Beast was quite complicated. First, a complete BOSS-level monster’s corpse was necessary, and the higher the monster’s grade, the better–ideally a Dominator-level BOSS–otherwise, the cost-performance ratio of the Puppet Beast would be too low. Additionally, a large amount of precious materials were needed.

But the power of a Flesh Puppet Beast was extremely formidable. Once it achieved perfect advancement, it not only retained all of its previous skills but also acquired the attributes of mechanical class BOSSes, greatly enhancing its power! Most importantly, such beings did not occupy a slot in the pet count, and there was no limit to their numbers, which was the most enticing aspect for players.

Shaking his head to cast aside this slight regret, Song Jian stepped towards the corpse of the Death Lord. As beings similar to combat pets, Death Lords wouldn’t drop any items when they died. However, the location where they fell was precisely where the bloodthirsty Dragon Lizard Beast had self-destructed, and being a Dominator-level BOSS, the loot from its death would be incredibly rich!

A purple Soul Crystal, an item Song Jian had anticipated, was among the loot. The rest included a radiant orb glowing with purple and gold light, along with a large pile of blue, green, and white-quality equipment.

“One hundred Purple Crystals, this Dragon Lizard Beast dropped quite a bounty!” Song Jian said with a smile as he looked at a small pile of Purple Crystals.

After picking up all the loot, Song Jian immediately received the quest completion notification. With all three Soul Crystals collected, the content of the continuous quest also changed.

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