Corpse Angler · Mahafnizam

Outside the Haicheng Ruins, at the bottom of the sea.

The edge of the Black Eye Volcano region.

A total of twelve players from Coconut Country were waiting here, somewhat nervously, for something.

Eleven of them were hiding behind nearby volcanic rocks. Only one skinny youth, 'Little Monkey', was at the edge of the Black Eye Volcano, constantly 'letting foul language fly from his mouth'.

'Boss, I don't think Little Monkey sounds like he's cursing someone out…'

'It sounds more like he's coquettishly whining to someone.'

'Ahem, that's just how Little Monkey is… His personality is too weak. If his father wasn't the old fisherman NPC, how could he have gotten into our team?'

'Is there a possibility… that's precisely why the old fisherman NPC took a liking to him?'

'What, the old fisherman likes girly types?'

'Hard to say…'

The group whispered amongst themselves.

Only the skinny youth 'Little Monkey' was out front spewing venom, first cursing Phoenix, then cursing Daxia.

Although his curses were soft-spoken, the emotions contained within were quite intense.

One could tell, this skinny youth held a deep-seated resentment towards Daxia; his curses were filled with genuine feeling…

And underwater, sound travels faster than in air!

This 'Little Monkey' had originally prepared himself to be killed by that level 45 Epic BOSS 'Lutil'.

But suddenly, without any warning, an intangible Shadow Blade arrived in an instant.

Thump!

-4,708,729,007 (Weak Point Attack)!

In the eyes of the 11 hiding Coconut Country players, they only saw an impossibly long string of damage numbers pop up above 'Little Monkey's' head.

Immediately after, Little Monkey's stream of curses abruptly cut off, and his corpse floated in the seawater…

'What the &*@#¥!'

'Am I seeing things? What kind of damage was that?'

'Good heavens, how many zeros were at the end?'

'Do Epic BOSSes have attack power that high?'

'It's fake, hahaha, this must be two damage numbers overlapping. Look, the first is 47087, the second is 29007, two instances of damage! Just a display bug. I can deal tens of thousands of damage too, what's the big deal?'

'Brother, are you a genius or an idiot?'

'Wait… it's Shadow, it's Daxia's Shadow! Check the guild channel notification!'

Initially, this group hadn't paid much attention to the guild channel notifications.

After all, their guild had quite a few members. The guild leader was one of Coconut Country's strongest Four Guardians. The guild channel was constantly flooded with system notifications of member Deaths.

In just these few short seconds, over a dozen notifications of member Deaths had already scrolled through the guild channel.

But soon, someone scrolled up the message log, finding the Death notification for 'Little Monkey'…

And was immediately dumbfounded.

This person discovered that Little Monkey had died to 'Shadow'!

Daxia's Shadow!

At the same time…

One by one, they saw a bizarre, crimson flower slowly bloom on Little Monkey's corpse!

'That's… Shadow's blooming technique!'

'It can suck away all lifespan!'

'Right! Even before Barren Wasteland, I'd read about Shadow's blooming technique!'

'If it's Shadow, then that damage number… is it real?!'

'Wait, why would Shadow come here?'

'Huh, yeah, this is the southernmost part of Daxia, a desolate stretch of ocean. There aren't even any monsters around this volcanic area…'

'Wah wah wah, it's Shadow! Are we all dead?'

'No, not necessarily. Wait, Little Monkey's father is about to arrive!'

'Oh right! Little Monkey's father is a super strong NPC. It's thanks to Little Monkey that we've managed to kill several Diamond BOSSes…'

'No matter how strong Shadow is, he's just a player! Even though he's killed a Legendary BOSS, as long as he's restrained by Little Monkey's father, we can surround and kill Shadow!'

Everyone began discussing fervently in English.

Right at that moment, on Little Monkey's corpse where the crimson flower bloomed, an image appeared—it was a pentagram magic circle!

A black-robed old man slowly emerged from the pentagram magic circle!

This old man had a fat, extremely short body, appearing in a seated posture. Most horrifying of all, his seat cushion was actually pieced together from a pile of corpses, eerie and bloody!

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[Corpse Angler · Mahafnizam (Lv50)]

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As soon as this old man's ugly, fat head emerged from the pentagram magic circle, a dense aura of Whispers and Stripping began to spread towards the surroundings!

The four dead-fish eyes lined up across his face immediately locked onto the invisible Qin Feng nearby!

And this wasn't because the old man's anti-stealth level was high enough, nor because he possessed soul-based anti-stealth abilities, but…

He possessed a rule-based ability.

One that could infinitely track the unit that killed his 'son', Little Monkey!

At this very moment, within this old man's four dead-fish eyes, he saw the blood-red outline of Qin Feng!

However, even so, this NPC couldn't directly attack Qin Feng.

He could only, according to the permissions and abilities retained for him by the God Forsaken Game… unleash Upper Affix energies of 'Whispers' and 'Stripping' towards Qin Feng!

He raised both hands.

His left hand erupted with a dense, pitch-black Whispers energy, while his right hand emitted a fog representing Stripping. Like two twisted serpents, they instantly surged towards Qin Feng!

This scene's appearance made the 11 hiding Coconut Country players tense to the point of holding their breath!

They each widened their eyes, gripping their weapons tightly…

'Everyone, pay attention!'

'Once Shadow is restrained, we can make our move and kill Shadow!'

…

'An NPC?'

At this moment, Qin Feng wasn't in a hurry to deal with the other 11 people.

Because when he had just killed 'Little Monkey', he sensed something was off about the corpse. Sure enough, this pentagram magic circle appeared, and an NPC teleported in!

Qin Feng had never heard of this fat, ugly 'Corpse Angler · Mahafnizam' before him.

But for such a sinister-looking NPC, Qin Feng was naturally on high alert.

'Abyssal Gaze Curse!'

Qin Feng's eyes instantly turned pure black. Within his field of vision, multiple combat attributes of the NPC were reflected in his sight!

'HP: 12.25 million.'

'Physical Defense and elemental resistance are both close to 100,000. Fixed Defense is 40%, meaning about 40,000 physical defense and elemental resistance are still effective…'

'damage reduction has a whopping 12 stacks. Combined with the Fixed Defense effect, the final damage reduction multiplier reaches 7980 times!'

'Additionally, there's a 9% injury limit. Single-instance damage can be at most 1.1025 million.'

'And why is this old geezer's Damage Block so high?'

'It's actually 25,000!'

Qin Feng slightly frowned.

25,000 Damage Block was practically unheard of.

Because Qin Feng's own Damage Block was only 679 points, and that came from a single piece of Mythic equipment.

Even if he wore a full set of such Mythic equipment, he couldn't possibly stack 'Damage Block' to 25,000!

Keep in mind, even the previous 'Skeleton God General · Great Swordsman Taromon' only had a fixed 10,000 points of Damage Block!

Of course.

While Qin Feng observed, his hands didn't stop moving.

When Qin Feng realized he had been discovered by the old geezer and targeted for attack, he reacted immediately, tightly gripping the Blade of Judgment and White Sprout Blade in his hands.

Bone Scraper Blade!

7 points of Divinity from the Blade of Judgment flowed directly into his hand. The Divinity Special Skill began to charge!