Chapter 489: Chapter 489: Upgrading

“Fiery Rain Skill”

Suddenly, Lu Mingyuan raised his Magic Staff, pointing in Lv Pei’s direction. Lv Pei instantly felt a surge of magic energy around him, causing his heart to sink.

Above Lv Pei’s head, a large patch of crimson clouds formed. The heavy clouds began to churn, absorbing surrounding magical elements. Soon, droplets of rain began falling from the sky, enveloping the demonic ants behind Lv Pei;

The wings of the airborne demonic soldier ants quickly burnt in the fiery rain, causing them to tumble down from the sky, and crash into the swarm of demonic worker ants below.

Dozens of demonic ants, covered by the vast fiery rain, shrieked and roared crazily. Each raindrop only inflicted a low amount of damage, about five or six points, on the demonic ants, but within the area covered by the fiery rain, hundreds of raindrops fell every second. This damage spread densely over the heads of the ants, causing unease to anyone with acrophobia;

Lv Pei rolled and crawled over, revealing a look of fear when seeing Song Jian. However, he soon calmed himself, deeply bowing to both of them, saying, “Thank you for saving my life!”

Song Jian glanced at Lv Pei and thought he looked somewhat familiar. Furthermore, he noticed that despite the fleeting expression of fear on Lv Pei’s face when he first saw him, the look was captured by Song Jian.

“Could it be that he was part of the group that attacked me within the Protection Black Mist?” A thought flashed across Song Jian’s mind, and his gaze became more playful as he looked at Lv Pei.

“No problem, we’re all players. We should naturally help each other…” Song Jian glanced at the charging demonic ants saying, “Let’s get rid of these demonic ants chasing you first, then we can talk later.”

The demonic ants who had experienced a round of Fiery Rain Skill were all wounded. They had lost more than a third of their Vitality Points. Moreover, most of the demonic ants were afflicted by the adverse “Burning” effect, their bodies turning crimson, and their surfaces ablaze with flames. The Burning effect would decrease 5 Vitality Points every three seconds. Every few steps, a burning injury floated above the head of these demonic ants;

With a sharp roar, before Song Jian could charge up, the Ant King Slave led the flight with its wings open, pouncing on the swarm of demonic ants. A stream of acidic liquid was sprayed towards the demonic ants, soaking several soldier ants from top to bottom. Then, its massive mandible crushed the head of a demonic worker ant, while its forelimbs brutally tore the unfortunate demonic worker ant’s body;

In no time, the Ant King Slave appeared like a tiger among sheep, wildly attacking the demonic ants. In a short while, the hatred that the demonic ants had for Lu Mingyuan was overtaken by the Ant King Slave;

Seeing the falling Vitality Points of the Ant King Slave, Song Jian was startled and hurriedly leaped forward to assist. Lv Pei hesitated for a moment, before drawing out a mechanical crossbow to attack;

Even though their level was much lower than the demonic ants, their momentum was like a rainbow. Further supplemented by Song Jian’s Ant Soul Orb, which reduced the demonic ants’ attributes, they immediately took the upper hand. The battle began a one-sided slaughter.

After about fifteen minutes, the last demonic soldier ant’s head was crushed by the Ant King Slave. The ant’s headless body convulsed as it was ripped apart by the Ant King Slave, finally bringing the battle to an end;

The souls of the demonic ants absorbed by Song Jian’s Ant Soul Orb reached three hundred, changing its special effect to reducing the defense of the demonic ants by 15%, inflicting 9% damage, and reducing the attack speed of the demonic ants by 9%.

A ray of light flashed by, and Song Jian’s level increased to 24 with 2% experience. Looking at his skills, only the Sweeping Sword Style had reached a proficiency of 100%. So, Song Jian directly assigned the skill point to Sweeping Sword Style.

Song Jian felt helpless regarding the upgrading of skills. Sometimes, two or three skills would reach 100% proficiency at the same time. On the other hand, sometimes he would have a skill point but no skills that met the upgrading conditions.

As of now, Song Jian had adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards upgrading skills. Anything that had a skill point and whose proficiency was at 100% would be upgraded without a second thought.

He was quite looking forward to what changes would occur when other skills reached 100% proficiency. Moreover, when the skills reached level 10, they could be evolved by melding with each other. Therefore, all skills were useful to him. Maybe merging two average skills could create a god-like skill.

Seeing Song Jian advancing another level, envy appeared in Lu Mingyuan’s eyes as he nodded at Song Jian, saying, “Congratulations!”

“Congratulations, congratulations!” Lv Pei also said, smiling broadly.

Having had a personal experience of Song Jian’s capability, Lv Pei was amazed by his ability to react instantaneously and avoid all harm despite being ambushed by so many people. Lv Pei admitted to himself that even if he increased his level by ten, he probably wouldn’t be able to react as quickly as Song Jian.

Lv Pei had originally escaped, using his Town Return Scroll to return to his safe house. However, after returning to Doomsday City, the more Lv Pei thought about it, the more frustrated he became. This was an epic quest, but he had failed at the very first step. He didn’t even manage to leave Doomsday City and even lost a Town Return Scroll in the process.

After thinking for a day, Lv Pei couldn’t accept his failure. So, he went to the Shadow Circus Troupe and found the old Beastman leader, who gave him one last chance, using the Transmission Array to teleport him out of the city.

As a result, Lv Pei was successfully teleported out of Doomsday City. His destination turned out to be less than a kilometer away from the Demonic Ant Nest. Song Jian and Lu Mingyuan hadn’t reached here yet so the area was teeming with demonic ants.

The moment Lv Pei appeared, a large swarm of demonic ants chased after him. Fortunately, he encountered Song Jian and Lu Mingyuan. Otherwise, without a Town Return Scroll, Lv Pei would likely have perished here.

Lv Pei was somewhat anxious, unsure if Song Jian recognized him. He spoke cautiously, not even explaining to the two why he had turned up here.

What he didn’t know was that his cautious demeanor only confirmed Song Jian’s suspicion that Lv Pei had been among the group that attacked him in the Protection Black Mist.

“Let’s move ahead, we’re likely very close to the Demonic Ant Nest.” Song Jian said;

The appearance of the demonic soldier ants indicated they were near their nest, and their current location was also the place where Song Jian had been ambushed;

To hunt the Demonic Ant King, they would have to delve deep into the nest. Previously, Song Jian was incredibly fortunate to encounter a Demonic Ant King that had left its nest to chase him.

After picking up the spoils of their battle against the swarm of demonic ants and waiting for Lu Mingyuan to finish dissecting them one by one, the three of them set off towards the Demonic Ant Nest;