Monsters Are Coming
Chapter 44: Underground Melee

Chapter 44: Chapter 44: Underground Melee

"Darn, another Life Soul suitable for magic output. Black Armored Snake players find this hard to accept."

"Hahaha, this Life Soul is really good. Eagle-Headed Demon + Bone Fire + Energy Absorption, significantly boosts endurance. I’m quite satisfied with this Primordial Monster. Brothers on the frontline, hurry up and kill it!"

"Finally, a relief from the no-mana dilemma. Grateful for nature’s gift of mana-regenerating Life Soul, the magic system is getting stronger and stronger!"

"Everyone stop, let me go up and hit it before you take your turn."

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A Level 12 Primordial Monster poses no threat to players at this stage.

The scene instantly becomes chaotic.

The benefits of killing a Primordial Monster are shared; even touching it gives you sacrificial power rewards. Players rush towards the Primordial Monster like crazy, quickly finishing off the Energy Absorption and completing the containment.

Learning that players up ahead have successfully contained a Primordial Monster through the live stream, players at the back are also extremely excited, especially those who play as long-range attackers.

Compared to the benefits gained from hunting Evil Spirits or monsters, containing a Primordial Monster is a shared benefit for all players, providing them with another option for Life Soul to embed.

The only dissatisfaction is that they didn’t participate in the hunt for the Primordial Monster, missing out on a share of the sacrificial power rewards.

This successful hunt also increases the steady income of sacrificial power for Qi Sheng.

After the interlude of hunting the Primordial Monster, the task of purifying the Dark Cave continues.

Qi Sheng is pleased to find out from the Guidance feedback that apart from Energy Absorption, there is also another Primordial Monster’s presence in the third layer of the cave.

As long as players continue to explore, containing this Primordial Monster will just be a matter of time.

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In a corner of the third layer of the Dark Cave.

Li Zheng and his brothers look at the long queue with a feeling of helplessness.

Just a week ago, they were sighing about the low number of players on their server.

Now, they have to queue up just to enter the mine.

But in comparison, they prefer an increase in the number of players on their server as it’s a great thing for the Working Party.

After guilds led by the wealthy ’Drunken Group’ and other big spenders appeared, there’s no worrying about selling sacrificial power.

Whatever the output is, the big spenders will buy it all.

Last time, he sold 50 points of sacrificial power to the leader of the Drunken Group "Vosni Butterfly," earning 5000 credit points.

After that, the price of sacrificial power soared, and he decided to temporarily stop selling sacrificial power to focus on improving his strength before considering profits.

Investing sacrificial power in strength enhancement is a sure win in Li Zheng’s view.

Only with enhanced strength can one hunt stronger monsters and gain higher sacrificial power output.

Taking advantage of the queue, he didn’t idle around and crazily hit the rock walls with a mining pick with his brothers, searching for possible Spirit Ore.

Nearby players were doing the same, chipping away at the rock walls, with the sound of metal striking echoing continuously.

Mining for Spirit Ore is the safest source of income in this game; the downside is it requires some luck. With good luck, one can find several Spirit Ores embedded in the rock walls in one day. But with bad luck, one might labor all day without any output.

Compared to the certain benefits of leveling up through fighting monsters, mining relies heavily on luck.

This is also why many new players choose mining as their primary way to earn income. After all, the weakest Blood Corpse in the waning moon scenario is at Level 10, new players struggle greatly with hunting, needing team cooperation.

"Hehe, got another one."

A rock near him crumbles away, revealing a glowing white Energy Stone, and his teammate Chi Tu looks triumphant.

"Don’t get cocky; your daddy is about to hook you up with a Level 2 ore." Standing on the other side of Li Zheng, Killing Intent said, picking up the speed of his mining pickaxe swings.

At that moment, a multitude of surprised shouts came from the back of the team.

Li Zheng and the others immediately stopped mining and looked back to see what had happened.

[Challenger Tips (Region): Congratulations to the player who mined a Level 5 Spirit Ore "Soul Crystal" in the Dark Cave - Third Sublevel, achieving the first player to obtain a Level 5 or above Spirit Ore achievement, with an extra reward of 500 sacrificial power.]

Soul Crystal: An ore that absorbs the dissipating soul power of the dead to nourish and repair damaged souls.

Usage: Forging, Consuming (eating it grants Body Refining Level experience), Sacrificing

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The emergence of the tip made Li Zheng and his team realize that a player at the back of their group had struck big through mining.

The displayed Soul Crystal is a Level 5 Spiritual Ore, importantly, it can be directly consumed to enhance Body Refining Level.

This is hugely tempting in the eyes of the players.

At this stage, it is extremely difficult to advance Body Refining Level, unlike the gradual increase in Star Vein Level advancement whereby more is consumed. From level 1 to 10 in Body Refining, each level requires ten thousand sacrificial power to advance.

This is also the first time players learned in the game that Body Refining experience could be gained by consuming special resources.

"Lucky them, too bad it’s not me." Chi Tu couldn’t help but feel envious as he watched the real-time cash purchase messages rapidly refreshing on the regional channel.

After the interlude, just as Li Zheng and the others were ready to resume mining, they found that the chaos in the rear ranks didn’t die down but intensified instead, with some players even transforming into their Monster Form and engaging in combat with other players.

"Darn, something’s not right!"

The rowdy scene made Li Zheng think of a possibility; he immediately turned his head to Chi Tu:

"Chi Tu, switch to your Perception View and take a look."

Upon hearing this, Chi Tu immediately nodded, his form twisted into that of an Eagle-Headed Demon, and he sent out spreading sonar waves towards the commotion in the back, his consciousness following the sound waves through the crowd to the center of the uproar.

The scene Chi Tu saw made his heart pound.

Embedded in the cracked and fallen rock wall were a great number of purple Crystal Stones, twinkling faintly in the flickering Bone Fire.

After withdrawing his consciousness, Chi Tu decisively turned to Li Zheng:

"Brother Li, the entire rock wall is filled with Level 5 Soul Crystal Ore, at least 20 pieces, there might be even more deeper in."

"No wonder it’s such chaos, turns out it’s a fight over the Spiritual Ores." The Family Shared Godfather standing behind nodded in realization, then turned to Li Zheng to ask:

"Brother Li, what do you think?"

"What else is there to think about? Of course, we snatch it. Emperor Zhao never specified that the finder keeps it; what we grab is ours."

"I’m a university student; I absolutely must get a piece of that Soul Crystal."

After a brief exchange, Li Zheng and others decisively switched to their Monster Form, rushing towards the group already in the midst of a melee.

Many players had the same idea as Li Zheng, all of them switching to their Monster Form to join the scramble due to the lure of benefits.

A large number of players got dissipated into black mist while struggling to seize the ore.

During this period, more and more players learned about the abundance of Level 5 Spiritual Ores on the third sublevel, and they kept rushing in waves, one batch falling only for another to take its place.

The battle even spread from the Dark Cave to the queue of players waiting outside the mine.

The trigger was a member of the Drunken Group who was killed by the Divine Wings Guild members during the ore snatch, who then immediately contacted Li Siyu, the head of his guild, to ask for reinforcements.

Afterward, a violent clash erupted outside the mine between members of the two major guilds.

Players with good relations with these two guilds also joined the melee, starting an open brawl in the wild.

And so, the first large-scale civil war in Monster World since the server launch erupted.

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