Chapter 626: Chapter 626: Stone Man Battle Pet

The Earth Elemental Lord with its giant body over ten meters tall, crumbles and disintegrates every time it receives severe damage, only to reform anew. However, as it fragments into countless small stone spheres, its defense drastically weakens. Failing to deal substantial damage during this moment would mean its inevitable reconsolidation, by which all wounds on its body are healed as if new.

After several episodes of disintegration, Song Jian inflicted considerable damage. Each blow reduced the height of the Earth Elemental Lord.

Now, its body had shrunk from over ten meters to barely three. Moreover, as its height decreased to three meters, its defense became much weaker.

Thump!

The Earth Elemental Lord swung its arm, smashing violently towards Song Jian. Song Jian defended himself with his sword, but the moment it made contact with the blow, he was sent flying backward, taking more than three hundred points in damage.

“Although it has fallen in stature, its attack power remains unchanged…” Song Jian muttered, narrowing his eyes.

Broken Wing Dance!

The Crimson Fire Heart Ape Sword left traces in midair, slashing repeatedly at the Earth Elemental Lord. Its defense drastically reduced, the Lord was beset by a flurry of stone shards, with each hit doing over three hundred points of damage.

The smaller Earth Elemental Lord could no longer dodge attacks by relying on its huge yet unwieldy body. With its significantly lowered defense, even though Song Jian’s Immortal Sword Body had been activated, he could still compete briefly with the Earth Elemental Lord.

The vitality points of the Earth Elemental Lord plummeted rapidly. With its weakened defense, it stood no chance against Song Jian. A few minutes later, its vitality points dropped to zero, and deep cracks began to appear on its large body.

“Cursed human, the Earth Elementals will remember what you’ve done!” roared the Earth Elemental Lord, snarling its final wrath.

Boom!

With a thunderous explosion, the body of the Earth Elemental Lord splintered into countless fragments, scattering across a fifteen-meter radius.

System: The Earth Elemental Lord cursed you before its death, lowering your reputation with the Earth Elementals to indifferent.

Song Jian was left speechless. His reputation with the Dwarven clan had already dropped to hostile, and now his reputation with the Earth Elementals, one of the elemental beings, had dropped to indifferent. If he continued playing this game, he might gain the title of “public enemy”.

However, upon seeing the experience points he had obtained from the battle, he immediately placed his reputation with the Earth Elementals to the back of his mind.

“Such a large amount of experience?” Song Jian exclaimed, looking at his slightly elevated experience bar. His experience, which had initially almost reached halfway, had risen by an eighth, and was now almost 70% towards level 30.

After surveying his battle experience, Song Jian turned his attention to searching for the Earth Spirit Bead amongst the BOSS’s dropped items.

This BOSS dropped over a dozen equipment and items, amongst which was only one bead-like object. Song Jian picked it up and found that it was indeed an Earth Spirit Bead.

“Flawless Earth Spirit Bead (Silver Grade), Special Item – Effects: Constitution +3, Physical Defense +300; Possesses significant elemental earth energy, allows its bearer to disguise as an Earth Elemental being; The effects of the item are activated the moment it is placed in the equipment slot; Usage Level: 1; Can it be taken out of the game: Yes.”

“This Earth Spirit Bead has a much higher quality than the one sold by the goblin merchant!” A look of delight crossed Song Jian’s face.

The bead sold by the goblin merchant had no properties, it just claimed to possess a significant amount of elemental earth energy, enough to conceal someone’s presence. However, this bead not only has the property of “Constitution +3, Physical Defense +300” but can also allow its bearer to disguise as an Earth Elemental being.

With this thought in mind, Song Jian immediately placed the Earth Spirit Bead into his equipment slot and sure enough, a new skill named “Disguise as an Earth Elemental being” appeared.

After it was activated, Song Jian’s image instantly transformed into a dorky stone man. However, this was merely an illusion that was shaped by the elemental earth energy. The moment a battle begins, the surface layer of this energy will be disrupted.

Furthermore, this transformation skill couldn’t be used constantly. Its cooldown time was as long as half an hour. After trying out the transformation skill, Song Jian shifted his attention to other dropped items.

Very soon, the items dropped by the Earth Elemental Lord’s BOSS had been sorted out by Song Jian. Apart from the Earth Spirit Bead, there were six green-rated level 30 equipment, two blue-rated level 30 equipment, and a Battle Pet Stone that could summon a rock man from the Earth Elementals as a battle pet.

There was no limit to the number of players’ battle pets. Only when recruiting NPCs to become followers would the increasing number carry penalties.

Song Jian thought for a moment, then summoned the rock man himself.

Suddenly, a rock man under a meter tall appeared by Song Jian’s side. Luckily, the starting level of this rock man was already level 30, so Song Jian didn’t have to help it level up.

A level 30 rock man had attributes far superior to most players and could almost rival a level 30 elite BOSS.

“Squeak squeak squeak~”

This rock man, who only reached Song Jian’s thigh, began looking around curiously as soon as it appeared. Upon spotting Song Jian, it immediately ran over, hugged his thigh, made a sound similar to a chick’s chirping, and looked up at Song Jian pitifully.

“What do you want?” Song Jian inquired, looking down.

“Squeak squeak squeak~” The rock man hugged onto Song Jian’s thigh, looking very anxious. It then started to nibble on his leg. After a brief pain, a lightbulb lit up in Song Jian’s head as he realized something.

“Are you hungry?” Song Jian asked.

“Squeak~” The rock man nodded vehemently, a look of longing on its face.

“What do you want to eat? Dirt?” Song Jian pointed at the muck in the swamp as he asked.

The rock man looked to where Song Jian was pointing and immediately kept shaking its head, a look of distaste on its face.

“So, what do you want to eat?” Song Jian felt a headache coming on, feeling as if he had just adopted a baby.

The rock man looked around, and suddenly spotted the stone fragments left behind after the death of the Earth Elemental Lord. Its eyes sparkled, and it rushed toward the rock fragments, picking them up and starting to nibble.

“You eat rocks?” Song Jian was stunned, then took out a unit of rock from his inventory. Seeing the rock in Song Jian’s hand, the rock man immediately threw aside the rock it was eating, opened its arms and ran over to Song Jian. It let out a sound similar to a kitten’s meow as it eagerly embraced the rock in Song Jian’s hand.

Song Jian handed the rock over and the rock man grabbed it, starting to devour it with big bites.

“You’re actually quite easy to take care of.” Song Jian patted the smooth head of the rock man, chuckling to himself.

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