hotmtlnovel Chapter 509 Cannon Fodder
Chapter 509 Cannon Fodder
William's expert-like movements and fluid decision making were even more advanced than how he reacted in battle, the vials catching everything without letting a single drop go to waste. When one hundred vials of Solar Nectar were stored safely in his Space Ring, William returned his attention to the Boss.
Despite its best efforts to recover, the Sun Stone Golem was powerless to stop William. One by one, the Comet Pellet Spell destroyed its remaining three joints while William collected the Solar Nectar.
When the Sun Stone Golem used its vitality as a last resort, William simply allowed Atticus to phase through the Boss' forcefield and swallow it whole like it had last time. A few empowered Spatial Slashes later and the Boss was dead.
From a battle that took him several hours last time to barely a few minutes, William was ecstatic. His upgraded Talents were stronger than he expected, turning a tough battle into mere child's play. Even better, William had collected a total of 400 vials of Solar Nectar. Totaling that with the 180 he had from the last fight, William had 580 vials!
Three vials are worth 2 Spirit Jades, so... I have almost 400 Spirit Jades right here!
Of course, this was assuming William wanted to sell the Solar Nectar. With his hoarder mentality, William liked to know what an item was useful for before he tried to sell it. The Greater Fire Shards had mostly exhausted their usefulness to him, but Solar Nectar was different.
William didn't think about it too much and happily teleported to the treasure chest that had spawned, opening it to reveal fifty Quake Dungeon Gems and a single Ultimate Earth Root. There was no second Earth Root, nor was the Frozen Earth Tablet present. Seemed like a one-time thing.
Damn, the rewards aren't as good as last time. It seems there's some sort of first-kill bonus at play... William was slightly disappointed, but some loot was better than no loot.
He pulled out the Mana Gathering Staff and Cultivated, passing the night from inside the Boss Room while his Mana Reserves slowly filled up. Even after the morning came and the Potential Farms issued their daily rewards, William continued to Cultivate until ten hours had passed.
When the Cultivation session was over, William's Cultivation Base had increased by 3 billion, while his Mana Reserves had recovered to slightly over 58 million. With so much Mana stored up, William almost didn't know what to do with it all.
Well, there was one thing he could spend his Mana on. If William wanted to refine his Mana Circuits some more, he could connect another Greater Mana Point to his Mana Veins. That being said, it would cost more than 30 million Mana to do so.
Why am I being so negative? I can get that much Mana back in less than six hours! Who else in the Ascension Realm could say that? William had no reason to complain about his current situation.
He made a decision to only refine his Mana Circuits when his Mana Reserves were completely full, and only one Mana Point at a time. For the time being, the Quake Dungeon should be William's highest priority.
When the liquid went through the portal, it was instantly collected by a giant tungsten bucket that William created on the fly. The amount of Solar Nectar that each Sunny Pebblet dropped was nowhere near what the Sun Stone Golem had, but it was valuable nonetheless.
As William continued, he started fighting almost rhythmically, slaying one Magical Beast after another with increasingly fluid movements. His Spells quickly became a perpetual cycle, the gap between attacks so small that it would seem like constant Fusion Magic to an outsider.
Spatial Steps. Comet Pellet. Portal.
Spatial Steps. Comet Pellet. Portal. Rinse and repeat.
William reached the leftmost edge of the 16th floor in less than five minutes, so he followed each branching path to their end, hoping to find treasure chests or the like. Physical traps were hardly a threat to him, nor was the risk of being caught in an unknown Array Formation.
When projectile-related traps activated, William simply abused his Accelerated Reflexes Bonus Effect to dodge everything with ease. If it was an Elemental Spell, William had more than enough defensive ability to tank everything, while Ascended Recovery repaired the damage instantly.
If complex Arrays were involved, William was able to spot those well in advance. If they were Tier 6 or below, William comprehended the Runes and disabled the Array. If they were stronger, William simply marked the location mentally and planned to visit them later.
William spent the next two hours exploring the 16th floor like he was simply mowing his lawn. Row by row, hallway by hallway, William explored every hidden entrance and triggered just about every trap.
By the time he reached the stairway to the next floor, William had earned more than eight hundred Quake Dungeon Gems, dozens of treasures worth a total of 3 Ascended Points, and an unknown amount of Solar Nectar that he planned to quantify later.
William briefly checked his Mana Reserves, finding that he had actually gained seven million Mana during his killing spree. There was no need to rest, so he directly moved on to the 17th floor. When he spotted a group of three Sunny Pebblets just past the stairwell, William's vigor was renewed, and he went on another killing spree.
One hundred, two hundred, three hundred Sunny Pebblets were slaughtered. Their deaths became practice for William's Mana Control, improving his mastery of both Space and Earth Magic to a degree that the size of the group no longer mattered.
William's figure flashed through the hallways of the 17th floor like a ghost, storing the Solar Nectar from his victim's bodies before their knees even touched the floor. Whether it was three Sunny Pebblets, five, or even ten, all were mere cannon fodder before the loot goblin known as William.
-Title upgraded to Legendary: +50 PP