Chapter 37: Can I Whip You Once?

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Numbers indicating recovery appeared above Liu Muxue's head one after another.

When she discovered that this Mole Person couldn't inflict any damage on her, she heaved a slight sigh of relief.

Then, she recalled the scene where Cao Xing had taught her how to fight previously.

While feeling a bit shy in her heart, she also gradually found the feeling of battle.

Thus, Liu Muxue thrust her sword out, hitting the Mole Person in the chest.

[ – 32 ]

The Mole Person's chest bled, and it kept letting out "Squeak, squeak, squeak" sounds.

It swung its iron pickaxe and performed another chisel attack.

Liu Muxue was knocked back two steps by the impact.

Then she raised her longsword and thrust it out again.

"Pfft!"

What followed was simple.

The Mole Person would give her a pickaxe strike, and then Liu Muxue would return a sword strike.

Both sides began a turn-based battle.

Watching this scene, Cao Xing felt like laughing.

However, it was already quite good that Liu Muxue could achieve this level.

One or two minutes later, the number of Mole People in the mine cave became fewer and fewer.

Watching his recruited creatures fighting in front, Cao Xing also raised his staff.

A large amount of frost energy condensed between his staff.

Then, three ice cones appeared in front of Cao Xing, each 40 centimeters long, with crystal clear surfaces exuding a chilling aura.

Cao Xing waved his staff, "Go!"

The next moment, the three ice cones shot out.

All of them hit one of the Mole Person miners.

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[ – 103! ]

The three ice cones took away over two hundred HP from the Mole Person miner.

Cao Xing was quite satisfied with this damage; after all, he was only a Level 4 Frost Mage right now.

However, compared to Sarah's casual slashes that dealt 700 or 800 damage, the gap was still too large.

Before long, the Mole Person miners here were all killed by them.

At this moment, the Mole Person overseer holding a long whip already had a look of fear in its eyes.

It turned around directly and ran toward the depths of the mine cave.

And just at this moment, Sarah appeared from the shadows.

Raising her right hand, she threw a pitch-black dagger, which directly hit the Mole Person overseer's back.

"Squeak!!"

The Mole Person overseer let out a miserable scream, and then a damage number appeared above its head.

[ – 843 ]

One slash directly depleted its HP.

Level 20 Sarah was simply too strong!

"Sarah, well done." Cao Xing praised from the rear.

Sarah responded with her usual cold indifference, though this time she added a line.

"The Shadow Temple guides my advance."

Cao Xing nodded and thought to himself, "Sarah's level has already reached the advancement requirement. If I can get a Tier 2 Heart of Strength right now, I could let Sarah advance into a Tier 3 creature."

"At that time, her strength will be able to double."

"However, a Tier 2 Heart of Strength isn't that easy to obtain. I'll see if there's a chance later."

After the battle ended, it was naturally time to clean up the battlefield.

Cao Xing prepared to start searching for loot under the bodies of the Mole People.

At this moment, a system prompt appeared again.

[Humanoid creature, cannot be decomposed.]

Cao Xing's mouth twitched.

Why does this system always think he would do something like that?

Searching under this Mole Person, Cao Xing managed to find quite a few things.

[Obtained Dry Rations * 5, Obtained Chaos Book · Weak * 1, Obtained Viscous Liquid * 1, Iron Ingot * 1, Iron Pickaxe * 1]

Cao Xing began to check the descriptions of these items.

[Dry Rations (White): Hard-to-swallow food, 1 piece of Dry Rations = 1 Food.]

…

[Chaos Book · Weak: Randomly increases one of the four basic attributes of a friendly unit by 1 point.]

(Note: Cannot be used on the Lord.)

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[Viscous Liquid (White): Blackish viscous liquid, function unknown.]

(It seems to be some kind of alchemy material. If you encounter a merchant in the wild, you can try to sell it.)

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[Iron Ingot (White): After decomposition, can obtain Iron * 5]

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[Iron Pickaxe (White): Attack Power 4~5, can be used for mining ore.]

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Cao Xing thought to himself, "This Chaos Book seems quite good. If enough of them drop, I could even stack the attributes of one of my recruited creatures to a terrifying level."

"It's a pity I can't use it on myself."

Then, Cao Xing spent about five minutes quickly cleaning up the battlefield.

Total obtained: [Dry Rations] * 130, [Chaos Book · Weak] * 3

Besides these, there were some materials and a piece of equipment.

[Viscous Liquid (White)] * 31.

[Iron Pickaxe (White)] * 27

[Iron Ingot (White)] * 4

[Mole Person Overseer Long Whip (Green) * 1]

What was interesting was that last piece of equipment.

[Mole Person Overseer Long Whip (Green): Special Equipment]

[Quality: Fine]

[Attack Power: 13~15]

[Attached Effect ①: Whiplash (Use the long whip to lash the target, speeding up work speed, increasing movement speed by 10% for the next 5 minutes)]

[Attached Effect ②: Pain Intensification (A whip coated in olive oil, increases pain sensation by 50% when lashing)]

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After reading the description above, Cao Xing's expression became a bit strange.

"This thing… it wouldn't happen to be a type of buff effect, would it?"

"If combined with my hidden talent, could it become a permanent state?"

Cao Xing decided to experiment first. After all, 10% movement speed was quite good.

Thus, amidst the surprised gazes of Liu Muxue, Andrew, and the others, Cao Xing lashed himself hard with the whip.

"Snap!"

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After a crisp sound, Cao Xing sucked in a sharp breath.

"Hiss!! So painful!"

Although this thing didn't deal much damage, because of the second effect [Pain Intensification], taking a lash was truly painful!

Before Cao Xing could recover from the pain, he received a system prompt in front of him.

[You have been affected by Whiplash, movement speed increased by 10%, effect lasts for 5 minutes.]

[Talent [Eternal Power] activated, [Whiplash] has become a permanent buff state.]

Cao Xing: "…"

Damn, it actually works?

Cao Xing was instantly stunned.

Then, as if he had thought of something, a look of pleasant surprise appeared on his face.

Because this way, combined with the [Snake-Man Berserk] skill, it was equivalent to being able to permanently increase the movement speed of himself and other friendly units by 30%!

This was a huge boost!

Liu Muxue and the others on the side were confused.

They had seen with their own eyes that after Cao Xing lashed himself, he was wincing in pain.

Then, his gaze suddenly became excited.

It was as if he had awakened some strange attribute.

And now, he was looking at them with that same excited gaze.

The upright Assam didn't know what had happened, so he asked, "Lord, what is wrong?"

Cao Xing raised his head, looked at him, and said, "Assam, can I whip you once?"

Assam: "…"

Liu Muxue: "…"

Sarah: "…"

Although this request was very strange, because of Assam's loyalty of 95, he would not disobey Cao Xing's order.

He seemed to have made a difficult decision and nodded, saying, "If you wish, Lord, you may…"

Cao Xing didn't stand on ceremony, swung the long whip, and lashed it directly onto Assam's body.

"Snap!"

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