Chapter 1 Killing the Necromancer

The rewards for killing the necromancer Bodman were obviously astonishing.

Legendary rank was a height ordinary players couldn’t reach. Even top-tier classes like magisters and holy swordsmen were vulnerable in the hands of a legendary mage.

Nie Yan’s gaze fell on his left hand. He had just gotten something with his spider silk.

Upon closer inspection, he found a dagger about three inches long. It was dark and dull, engraved with strange runes. The ancient dagger occasionally flashed with a chilling light, making one’s heart palpitate. It felt like being watched by a venomous snake.

An icy chill seeped from his left palm, making his left hand a little numb.

It felt like it was about to break free from his grasp. This weapon was full of a strange spirituality.

Nie Yan felt as if a soul was living inside this dagger. It was an extremely powerful and terrifying being, perhaps even more so than the necromancer Bodman.

He checked the dagger’s stats.

Blade of Death: Divine-grade.

Requirements: Strength 50,000, Agility 15,000, Divine Power 300 (cannot use)

Item Description: Off-hand item, Hades' treasure, key to open the gates of hell.

Stats: Attack 37,000, 50% chance of 30x critical strike, 60% chance of inflicting lethal effect, inflicts thirty level 20 dark curses, all dark skill levels +10, attached skill, Death Storm, summons a doomsday storm that destroys everything, range determined by the intensity of Divine Power.

This item cannot be stored, dropped upon death.

Seeing this Blade of Death, Nie Yan was stunned. What exactly was this thing? Its stats were too abnormal.

Nie Yan found it hard to imagine who could stand against someone who wielded this weapon.

However, it was clearly not meant for ordinary players. 50,000 Strength and 15,000 Agility? How many years would it take to reach that? Even at level two hundred, one would still be far off. As for what Divine Power was, he had never heard of it.

So Nie Yan temporarily didn’t bother with the stats of the Blade of Death. No matter how strong it was, it was irrelevant to him. His attention was focused on the item description: Hades' treasure, key to open the gates of hell. What did that mean?

Could this Blade of Death lead him to another world?

The legendary hell?

Thinking about it now was meaningless. Nie Yan put the Blade of Death into his bag.

Soon, Nie Yan received a message.

System: Talk to the Archangel Tyrael about the Blade of Death and you will get some clues. Before that, please keep the Blade of Death safe. Dark creatures from hell are looking for its traces everywhere.

Looking at this message, Nie Yan revealed a thoughtful expression. It seemed this Blade of Death was extraordinary. Finding the Archangel Tyrael was extremely difficult. Although he knew that Tyrael was guarding the passage to the underworld, no one knew his exact location.

This was definitely a difficult task, and there would probably be many subsequent quests. He could only do it later.

At this moment, the Darkwing Dragon in the distance slowly descended and stopped beside Nie Yan, letting out a low, mournful cry.

Nie Yan checked the Darkwing Dragon's injuries. It was severely wounded, and many parts of its body had been corroded by death energy. He estimated that the Darkwing Dragon would not recover in a short time. Surviving with such severe damage was already a miracle.

He carefully examined the wounds on the Darkwing Dragon. These wounds were somewhat strange. The flesh was scorched black, which was slightly different from the usual feeling of being devoured by death energy. On the black skin, some new flesh seemed to be growing.

Nie Yan’s heart stirred. After thinking for a moment, he put the Darkwing Dragon back into his pet space.

At this time, the surviving players of the Niu Ren Tribe began to clean up the battlefield.

On a distant mountain peak, Qin Han was staring at Cripps Fortress. Seeing the huge mushroom cloud produced by the bone dragon's self-destruction, he felt a surge of satisfaction. The Niu Ren Tribe’s guild headquarters was definitely finished!

Although he understood that he had lost, and that he would soon be wanted by the entire Greenland Empire and chased down to level zero, he still wanted to drag someone down with him, at least to make the Niu Ren Tribe remember him!

However, after a long time, he didn’t hear the news of the Niu Ren Tribe’s guild being downgraded, nor did the entire guild fall into unorganized chaos.

More than twenty minutes later, players from the Greenland Empire received a message stating that the Niu Ren Tribe’s guild headquarters had been moved to Okoron City at 7 a.m. and that it would become the Niu Ren Tribe’s headquarters.

Calculating the time, it was just over an hour before the bone dragon’s self-destruction.

Qin Han almost vomited blood upon hearing this news. He originally wanted to drag the Niu Ren Tribe’s guild headquarters down with him, but he didn’t expect Nie Yan to deny him even that opportunity. An indescribable despair rose from the bottom of his heart. Crazy Thief Nie Yan, you are ruthless. You even saw through this.

In the confrontation with Nie Yan, he had completely and utterly lost.

Qin Han eventually disappeared despondently from the mountain peak and quit the game. If he continued to stay here, guards from the Greenland Empire would soon arrive.

The Sword of Purgatory, the Guanghe Empire, and the Sacred Guardians also knew the situation here, and they were completely speechless. When the bone dragon self-destructed, they were secretly delighted, thinking that the Niu Ren Tribe would fall into chaos and that they would have time to catch their breath. However, they never expected that the Niu Ren Tribe would avoid the bone dragon's self-destruction in such a miraculous way.

The six million strong skeleton army had been wiped out. They really couldn’t imagine which other guild could shake the Niu Ren Tribe. If they really wanted to play, they obviously couldn’t beat the Niu Ren Tribe.

“I don’t know if Crazy Thief Nie Yan’s transfer of the guild headquarters was a coincidence or planned in advance. If it was planned in advance, that would be too terrifying,” Divine Sword Wushang said in the team chat.

“It shouldn’t be a coincidence. They were obviously prepared. They probably calculated that Qin Han wanted to perish together with the Niu Ren Tribe’s guild headquarters, so they prepared to transfer the guild headquarters in advance, using Cripps Fortress to lure the skeleton army’s attack and trap them there, and then pull a golden cicada cast-off,” Guanghe Yongzui analyzed.

Saint Flame and the others thought about it and agreed with Guanghe Yongzui’s statement. They felt a deep sense of fear. Nie Yan’s calculations were too deep.

“Forget it, I can’t help but admire him,” Saint Flame sighed. They had suffered too many losses during their time fighting the Niu Ren Tribe.

They could only choose to submit to the Niu Ren Tribe. Otherwise, the Niu Ren Tribe would definitely take care of them one by one. After the Monet Financial Group withdrew its investment, it also took away most of the guild’s assets according to the agreement in the contract, and it also caused them a lot of trouble in other aspects. They probably wouldn’t be able to be as glorious as before.

The obstacles facing the Niu Ren Tribe in the Greenland Empire had been swept away. Next, they could gallop freely on this land and expand their territory to their heart’s content.

The Niu Ren Tribe and its various branches began to recover lost territory and rebuild on the ruins.

It would take at least one or two months to completely unify the Greenland Empire and occupy most of the fortresses, but Nie Yan didn’t have to worry about any enemies threatening the Niu Ren Tribe for the time being. They could take their time.

In the next month, the Niu Ren Tribe, the Ares Tribe, the Crazy Battle Alliance, the Holy Roman Empire, the Garan Temple, and the Holy Light Flame began to divide their spoils. A total of eleven cities and more than two hundred and seventy fortresses were occupied by them, of which the Niu Ren Tribe received one hundred and sixty-two fortresses.

Among these two hundred and seventy fortresses, ninety-six fortresses were developed by the Dragon Leap Financial Group, and more than one hundred and thirty fortresses were developed by the Tianxia Group. Later, the Xie family’s Zhengrong Financial Group also participated in the cooperation, responsible for developing more than fifty of the fortresses. Although the two major financial groups and the Tianxia Group had strong financial resources, their financial resources were still not enough to support the simultaneous development of so many fortresses, so they pulled in many financial groups and companies, forming a powerful and solid alliance of interests.

Nearly half of the vast Greenland Empire was controlled by the Niu Ren Tribe, and the remaining cities were also infiltrated by the Niu Ren Tribe’s power. Their influence could be described as reaching the zenith.

The scale of the Niu Ren Tribe could only be compared to the Angel Domination of the Saturn Empire.

In addition, the Starlight Potion Shop had rapidly expanded, and its daily profits were frighteningly high. It fluctuated a bit at the beginning, but later stabilized at around seven million gold coins. With the support of strong capital, Nie Yan’s capital began to expand to other industries, and he hired a large number of senior alchemists, enchanters, mechanics, and so on at high salaries. Currently, about 30% of the alchemical items circulating in the market come from the Starlight General Store, and 20% of the enchanting business is also handled by them.

Nie Yan controlled such a large market, and when negotiating prices with upstream raw material suppliers, he also had enough qualifications to buy raw materials at lower prices and sell them at higher market-acceptable prices, which greatly increased profit margins.

The Greenland Empire had stabilized. Nie Yan used the influence of the Great Prophet and the Lord of Abernathy to seek an extremely high status for the Niu Ren Tribe in the Greenland Empire. The Niu Ren Tribe successfully advanced to an eighth-level guild, and the number of members also expanded to more than 300,000. At the same time, the NPC forces in Okoron City had expanded from more than 3,000 to more than 8,000. As for the major branches, the expansion was also extremely astonishing.

Nie Yan was quite satisfied with these achievements. Before officially contacting Angel Domination and the Century Financial Group, Nie Yan’s capital was rapidly accumulating. One day, he would shake those two behemoths of the Saturn Empire.