MMO: Pierce Heaven Til' It Breaks

“Lil Yi’zi, we’ve completed the quest to go to the Foreignland. Qian’er’s luck was much better than mine; she even got a +1 Holy quest item. Where are you?”

“I’m doing my quests.”

“Lil Yi’zi, Qian’er, I, and Uncle Fox are now busy snatching Ancient Sealing Runestones at the Foreignland Entrance. Wahahahaha, the situation here is so intense! All the killings here are so violent! What are you doing?”

“I’m doing my quests!”

“We’re not going to snatch Ancient Sealing Runestones anymore. There’re too many people here! We’ve been eliminated so many times by other players, and the dropped items aren’t too great either. It’s not a great deal at all. Now, we’re forming a party to attack the Foreignland so that we can level up while trying to locate a boss. Do you want to join us?”

“I’m not free. I’m doing my quests.”

“We’re battling the General Demon Pig. This thing is way too overpowered! It refused to die even after being attacked for more than an hour by over 500 people! Lil Yi’zi, Lil Yi’zi, come help, quickly!”

“I’m not free, I’m doing my quests!”

Li Yi was not free when Jiaojiao sent him a private message, and he was still not free when Confused Fox sent him a private message. No matter who the person behind the private message was, he only had one standard answer. He was not free.

He had been accumulating quests for over half a year already, and it was finally time for him to harvest the fruits. How could he even bother to care about anything else?

For two days, Li Yi had ignored everything else and focused on turning in one quest after another…

Even though he could not use Teleport in other countries, it must be remembered that he still had a metaphorical warehouse full of Random Teleportation Scrolls. With those things, the speed of him turning in the quests was not any slower than before.

After he had finished turning in his quests, Li Yi had risen to Level 111. When opening the World Level Rankings, there was no doubt that he was in the first place.

After the level cap has been increased, the original Continent Level Rankings were no more. Instead, the World Level Rankings were introduced. It was shared by players from all three Continents.

All players that made the Top 100 of the World Level Rankings would be able to collect a random daily reward from the Celestial Capital Quartermaster. From scrolls, treasure maps, potions to blueprints, the rewards available were very attractive.

When the game was initially opened to the public, Li Yi had always hidden his name while he leveled himself. The advantage of that approach was obvious; at that time, he was still very much alone. If he was too eye-catching, it would be easy for the major guilds to beat him down. However, he no longer had this worry anymore. Whether he was eye-catching or laying low, he was already very well-known in the Pantheon World, and there were only a handful of players from the three continents that still did not know of his name. Thus, there was no point for him to hide his name anymore.

No. 1 on the World Level Rankings, Archer, Dark Wing, Level 111.

Li Yi was four levels higher than Lonely Semi City, who was No. 2 on the Rankings. Do not underestimate those four levels; if a player did not accumulate so many quests to be turned in at once and had kept to levelling by farming, it would take at least half a month to achieve those four levels.

Of course, Li Yi would have never spent day and nights busying himself with quests if he were only aiming to lead the race by a few levels. There was still another reason behind his actions.

When he opened his Space Pearl, he found that almost over 300 boxes were filled with equipment of different color qualities. These were all equipment that was rewarded after completing a quest. Without exception, all of them had the Holy attribute. Li Yi did not even bother to place any equipment that did not have the Holy attribute into the Space Pearls. He disposed of them immediately.

By accumulating quests and only turning them all in once the Demonic Invasion had opened, there was a certain probability that the quest equipment obtained would have an additional Holy attribute. That was the true reason behind Li Yi’s hustle in doing quests.

The over 300 trash Holy Equipment was the biggest advantage that Li Yi had obtained from his quests.

On the other hand, the announcement that Li Yi had posted at the Auction House to automatically purchase all Holy Equipment offered to him still remained. Unfortunately, the results were lackluster. He had managed to only purchase a trash White-quality Equipment with Holy+1 after two days. It was a hopeless endeavor to rely on the Auction House.

Due to the opening of the new version, the Holy attribute was deemed to be greatly attractive to players. The Pantheon officials released a statement explaining that even a non-Territory player with enough Holy attribute could stand up against a Territory powerhouse.

Thus, Li Yi was not the only one that needed the Holy Equipment. In fact, all the players needed it. After testing it out for two days, the players had realized that no matter how bad the attributes of the equipment looked, gathering a full-body Holy Equipment set would allow them to kill demons more effectively than if they were wearing non-Holy Purple equipment. This remained true even if the Holy Equipment were just White quality ones.

The Holy attribute was too important!

After Li YI had turned in his final quest, he returned to the Invincible Continent’s Celestial Capital and went straight to the Auction House.

He intended to change the price in which he was purchasing Holy Equipment. Although he already had more than 300 pieces of Holy Equipment, it was still slightly behind the ideal number that he had initially wanted.

The information on his purchase was changed. Now, Li Yi was buying Holy Equipment at 200 Gold Coins per piece, with no limit on the number of purchases.

The moment Li Yi intended to leave after changing the price, he heard an ingenious voice shouting by the door of the Auction House. “Buying Holy Equipment with 300 Gold! All qualities are welcome as long as they have the Holy attribute! If you have any, just click on me and start a trade. Do it one by one, I can’t calculate your payment correctly if too many are traded at once.”

A competitor?

Li Yi turned to find a big-headed boy shouting with all his might while standing by the entrance to the Auction House. He was clad in full cloth armor.

Judging from his appearance, he could not be older than 12 years old, and he probably was a player under Level 20.

Currently, it was in the afternoon, and no one was outside the Auction House. The big-headed boy did not seem to mind as he continued yelling with effort. Li Yi approached him and stood listening to him by his side. After a while, he could no longer hold back his question.

“There’s no one here. What are you shouting for?”

The big-headed boy was taken aback for a moment when he saw Li Yi. He scratched his head for a long while and only huffed out a reply after thinking really hard. “No one would know that I’m willing to buy the equipment if I don’t shout. Do you have any equipment that you want to sell? If you do, click trade, and give it to me one by one. I can’t calculate the payment well if there’s too many of it.”

Li Yi was amused by the Big Head. Throughout the last 3 years since the start of the King of Pantheon, there were many players that stood near the Auction House to purchase items, and they would be there all day and night. However, it was the first time that Li Yi had witnessed someone that would purchase things like how Big Head would.

“One by one? Can’t I put two at once?”

“Two?” The big-headed boy was stunned and counted with his fingers for a good few minutes. Then, he nodded at Li Yi. “Two would be 600 Gold Coins. You can put it up now.”

“…” Li Yi was speechless.

After giving Big Head a careful once over, Li Yi realized that the boy was in fact not joking. Thus, he took two White-quality equipment with Holy+1 from his Backpack and sent the boy a trade request.

The trade interface opened, and it took Big Head around 10 seconds to put the 600 Gold Coins up.

“I’m done, you can click on ‘Confirm’ now.”

Li Yi clicked ‘Confirm’ and immediately received a notification that indicated the successful trade.

“By doing what you do, how many pieces of equipment could you get in a day?”

Big Head shook his head and looked at his fingers. “I never counted before this…”

Well, Li Yi had to stop their conversation right there and then. Otherwise, Li Yi might need to sell more equipment once the boy started counting with his fingers again…

As Li Yi went on to leave the Auction House, the big-headed boy shouted at him again. “Remember to come to me whenever you want to sell your equipment.”

With a wave of his hand, Li Yi left the Auction House.

After turning in all of the quests that he had accumulated for half a year, Li Yi went to the Celestial Capital Quartermaster to accept the ‘Enter the Foreignland’ Quest Series.

The Enter the Foreignland Quest was an easy one. This was a guidance quest for players that had yet to go to the Foreignland and would provide a step-by-step introduction to familiarize the players with the Foreignland’s origin and background. Ultimately, the guide would lead the players to the Foreignland.

To Li Yi, his ultimate goal in completing this quest was to learn the Miracle of Will, the special skill that almost all players knew.

The Miracle of Will was a common skill that all players could learn regardless of class. The requirements to learn the skill was not complicated either; players need to complete the ‘Enter the Foreignland’ Series Quest, then actually enter the Foreignland and kill a few Purple-named Bosses. They could learn the skill after that.

“The Abyssal Devil has the Imperishable Body. Only equipment with Holy attribute can harm them. Find a Holy Equipment, and I will tell you what to do.”

Outside the Foreignland Entrance, the white-haired Werewolf Hunter, Uravi, spoke to Li Yi with a kind voice.

Li Yi took out a rubbish Holy Equipment from his Backpack and passed it to Uravi.

Uravi smiled brightly and took that piece of trash Holy Equipment. Then, he nodded and said, “Mmhm. To fully utilize the true potential of the Holy Equipment, you will need to do whatever you can to increase the Holy value of the Equipment. As the Holy value increases, all of your other attributes will increase as well. The mysterious Territory power will also increase. With that, all damage you deal towards demons will definitely increase significantly.”

The quest was completed. As a reward, Li Yi had obtained EXP and Reputation, but that trash Holy Equipment that he gave had disappeared as well…

“Seek out Jolina, the White Elf Vagabond in Silvermoon City. She will tell you what to do next.” Uravi sent Li Yi away after he had practically stolen a piece of Holy Equipment from him.

Li Yi Teleported himself to Silvermoon City and successfully found Jolina the White Elf Vagabond. Jolina did not ask for another Holy Equipment. Instead, she gave him a letter and told him to deliver it to Augustus.

With Teleportation, clearing quests was a quick process. In an instant, Li Yi had travelled to and from the Foreignland Entrance and Silvermoon City.

After passing the letter to Augustus, the man continued to blabber about the past events involving the Foreignland. Only after he had finished rambling did he finally give Li Yi the next quest, which was for Li Yi to enter the Foreignland and slay a demon to prove his abilities.

Li Yi placed a coordinate by Augustus’ side before going to the Foreignland Entrance. The first thing he noticed was the countless players that gathered in the area, hurling abuse and insults at each other.

There were four different Foreignland Entrances, but players that intend to release their Ancient Sealing Runestones were limited to only one map. With players from all three continents gathered together and releasing their Runestones, peace and serenity were basically impossible.

The killings were already in full swing here. After Li Yi had entered the map, he immediately transformed into a Lightning Leopard and charged forward with Stealth. During his 3-minute long sprint, he had to evade numerous attacks to safely pass the death zone.

From the Foreignland Entrance, there was no demon in sight. In contrast to Li Yi’s first visit, there were now more players hunting for the demons than the demons themselves. Li Yi had to summon a mount and sprint for another ten minutes before he finally encountered a lone demon monsterling.

He tossed the Golden Hunt Target on it, drew the Powered-up Arrow, and shot a double attack. The demon monsterling was instantly killed.

Since it was sufficient to kill just one demon, he could already return to turn in the quest.

Li Yi rubbed a Reusable Teleportation Stone and returned to Augustus’ side.

Ding!

[Congratulations, you have completed the ‘Enter the Foreignland’ system quest! Now, you can freely enter the Foreignland to explore the secrets of the Demon World!]