Chapter 1 Shadow Blessing

"Having Shadow Blessing is a real windfall." Looking at the scattered, glittering drops all over the ground, Shi Feng's eyes twitched slightly. For the first time, he felt that having 3 points of Luck was truly amazing. "Looks like I need to get more equipment that increases Luck in the future, specifically for killing Bosses."

If he could always get such a big payout like he did with the Scorching Serpent Woman, it would be much easier for him to make money and get rich.

In God's Domain, a so-called "big payout" simply means that the Boss drops more items, usually two to three times more than normal. This is the situation players love to see the most.

Unfortunately, in God's Domain, apart from the first clear of a dungeon, the probability of a Boss having a big payout is extremely low.

However, it will increase based on the player's Luck, although there isn't an accurate value for how much it increases. All that is known is that the higher the Luck, the greater the chance.

If Shi Feng's current Luck could be raised to over 10 points, he might be able to get big payouts like today even when fighting high-level Lord Bosses. For players, nothing is more exciting than getting more high-level equipment and items.

Because this was the Fiery God Cave, the value of a big payout from the high-level Lord Scorching Serpent Woman was greater than killing two or three other high-level Lords of the same level.

"This is outrageous. The number of Flame Crystals dropped by just one Scorching Serpent Woman is almost half of my previous earnings." After Shi Feng finished collecting the drops, he was shocked by the loot.

He had previously cleared out quite a few level 25 ordinary monsters, elite monsters, and special elite monsters, and only obtained a total of 223 crystals. But the Scorching Serpent Woman dropped 102 in one go. Converted to gold coins, that's 15 gold and 30 silver, and that's just the value of the Flame Crystals.

Compared to the Flame Crystals, the equipment and forging design were even more valuable.

"Isn't this the Flame Boots?" Shi Feng saw a pair of fiery red, exquisite boots, inlaid with three brilliant Flame Crystals, making them look incredibly gorgeous.

Flame Boots, Plate Armor Boots, Dark-Gold Rank, Equipment Level 25, Defense +175, Strength +21, Agility +30, Stamina +15, Movement Speed +8, Fire Resistance +5, with the attached skill Flame Dash, which increases movement speed by 100% for 10 seconds with a 2-minute cooldown.

This equipment alone was worth more than 20 gold. In addition, there was also a Dark-Gold Rank shield.

Daylight Radiance, Shield, Dark-Gold Rank, Equipment Level 25, Equipment Requirement 130 Strength, Defense +665, Defense Rate 41%, Defense Level +2, Strength +34, Agility +10, Stamina +32, Max HP increased by 15%, comes with the passive skill Heart of Protection, which reduces damage from the front by 20% and overall damage taken by 10%.

MT (Main Tank) equipment is generally very expensive, especially shields. Moreover, this piece of equipment had excellent stats. If sold, it would be worth at least 40 gold.

In addition, there were seven Mithril-grade items, three level 25 magic-based damage-dealing equipment, two level 25 healing equipment, one level 25 leather armor equipment, and one level 25 two-handed axe, each worth more than 3 gold coins.

And then there was the most precious forging design: Flame Armor.

This was the first time Shi Feng had ever seen this item.

When Shi Feng finished reading the description of the design, he was shocked.

The Flame Armor was a level 25 Mithril plate armor. Although the basic stats were ordinary, the Flame Armor itself was a good item, especially for MTs dealing with fire-based monsters. It could be said to be the best level 25 Mithril chest armor.

If used well, the design alone could be worth over a hundred gold. However, crafting the Flame Armor required Flame Crystals and rare Mithril ore, so the cost was not cheap. However, it would definitely be popular once crafted, especially when used in the level 25 large-scale team dungeon, the Fiery Nest. It would likely have amazing results.

Because the Flame Armor could increase fire resistance by 8 points and reduce fire damage by 20%, an effect that other Mithril-grade equipment could not match.

In addition to this equipment, there was also a fiery red skill book with golden divine runes engraved on it. The skill book had four large characters written on it: Flame Burst, which was exactly the skill used by the Scorching Serpent Woman.

Shi Feng had witnessed the terror of that skill firsthand, and he knew its power. Such a skill was actually a universal skill that any class could learn.

Without saying a word, Shi Feng chose to learn the skill, then opened his skill bar.

Flame Burst, 2-second cast time, accumulates all flame power into one point, dealing 300% damage to the target, attacking four times, 5-minute cooldown, Skill Level 1 (100,000 experience points required to reach Level 2).

Compared to other skills that required skill proficiency, Flame Burst was a special skill, so it needed experience points to raise the skill level.

Shi Feng was very envious of the Scorching Serpent Woman's Flame Burst. If he could have the power of the Flame Burst used by the Scorching Serpent Woman, he could instantly kill enemies of the same level with just one move. Just thinking about it made him feel great.

However, the skill level was too low right now, so it couldn't achieve such an effect.

Anyway, his level was quite high now, and the leveling speed was very fast. Shi Feng wasn't stingy with experience points at all, and he directly used 100,000 experience points to raise it to Level 2.

The damage of Flame Burst immediately increased to 350%, the number of attacks didn't change, and the cooldown didn't change. It would take 300,000 experience points to raise it to Level 3, and Shi Feng still clicked to upgrade, because he needed millions of experience points to level up once now, so 300,000 experience points was nothing.

Instantly, Shi Feng's level dropped to 15. The level 3 Flame Burst had a damage of 380%, the number of attacks increased to 5, and the cooldown was 4 minutes and 30 seconds, which was a clear improvement. It required 800,000 experience points to raise it to Level 4, but Shi Feng still chose to upgrade to Level 4, which had a damage of 400%, 5 attacks, and a 4-minute cooldown. It required two million experience points to upgrade to Level 5.

Shi Feng upgraded to Level 5 again, and the damage increased to 420%, with 6 attacks and a 3 minute 30 second cooldown. It was a huge improvement, but Shi Feng's own level dropped directly to Level 14. To upgrade to Level 6, it would require four million experience points. Even if Shi Feng dropped back to level 0, he couldn't upgrade to Level 6 Flame Burst.

"It seems I can only upgrade the Flame Burst skill after level twenty." Shi Feng still felt a little regretful, but the level 5 Flame Burst was already very powerful and was definitely a good trump card.

This time Shi Feng spent a lot coming to the Fiery God Cave. He used more than two stacks of Beginner Freezing Grenades, not to mention the used Sunfire Scripture. But with such amazing gains, the money lost didn't matter.

"There's still some time. After resting, let's go to the Orcish Armory." Shi Feng opened the system time and found that it was still early, so he could repair his equipment and put these things in the warehouse, and then come back to farm when he had time in the future.

The Boss of the Fiery God Cave usually respawns two days after being killed, which means that it can be farmed every two days. Not only can you level up quickly, but you can also get a lot of high-level equipment. It's completely a holy land in the eyes of players, and it's no wonder that the ranger who first discovered this place made a lot of money.

Outside the Orcish Armory, Silent Blade and the others were already discussing how to攻略 (gōnglüè - strategize/conquer) the dungeon.

During the time before Shi Feng arrived, they had challenged it twice more, but the result was still the same. Getting the first clear of a Hard Mode team dungeon was much harder than they imagined.

Although they had also cleared Hard Mode ten-man team dungeons, by the time they cleared it, other guilds had already cleared it first. Now the only remaining Hard Mode team dungeon was the twenty-man dungeon, but the Hard Mode twenty-man team dungeon was obviously much harder than the Hard Mode ten-man team dungeon.

After thinking about it, they had no choice but to wait for Shi Feng at the dungeon entrance, and also take the opportunity to rest the team.

Although Thorn Heart highly recommended him, Guild Leader Silent Blade didn't have high hopes.

After all, they were a top-tier second-rate guild, and there were many experts in the guild. Even with twenty experts gathered to攻略, the final result was that they were lying at the feet of the first Boss. What difference would one more free player with good skills make?

"Guild Leader, someone is coming." An Assassin scout from Assassin's Alliance suddenly said in the team chat.