I have an Apocalypse City - Chapter 723

Chapter 723: Chapter 723: Limb Regeneration

Song Jian suddenly found that this Deepwater Crocodile Beast was extremely fast at fleeing, and had vanished into the lake without a trace after he hesitated for a moment.

Song Jian stood for a while, shook his head, and turned to walk toward the valley’s entrance.

The entrance of the valley was obscured by countless vines at this moment, and if Song Jian hadn’t known there was a small valley inside, he might not have dared to venture further in.

Pushing aside the vines, a narrow and winding path appeared before Song Jian. The path was difficult to traverse, full of protruding rocks with sharp edges like knives; just a little carelessness could result in an injury.

After walking along the path for about ten minutes, Song Jian’s view suddenly opened up, revealing a small valley about ten acres in size. Inside the valley was an open grassland where several rabbits were grazing on the grass. Hearing the commotion, they looked up towards Song Jian’s direction, stood still for a moment, and then vanished with a “swish.”

As Song Jian surveyed the valley, he quickly discovered a white crystal the size of a human head lying on the ground. Picking it up, he realized it was Sword Stone Ore, which could produce five or six blank Sword Stones!

However, at this moment, the ore was simply labeled “Special Ore,” and its properties were unknown. Most players would probably consider this kind of ore to be trash and sell it to the system store if it were given to them.

Only Li Ke’er thought these white crystals looked beautiful, so she picked up two and took them back. Otherwise, Song Jian might not have known that there was Sword Stone Ore here.

However, this area was inhabited by level 35 monsters, and even the large lake at the entrance of the valley housed a level 35 elite BOSS. Most players in the City of Hope Alliance had yet to reach level 30; venturing here to mine Sword Stone Ore would be nothing short of suicide for them!

Left with no choice, Song Jian had to gather the Sword Stone Ore himself.

Sword Stone Ore was scattered on the grassland throughout the valley, and Sword Stone Ore veins surrounded the valley. Song Jian first collected the scattered Sword Stone Ore on the grassland, then began to use his Mining Skill, sweating as he worked to gather more Sword Stone Ore.

Fortunately, after these Sword Stone Ores were mined, they were automatically stored in his inventory bar, with each slot capable of holding 200 units of Sword Stone Ore.

Song Jian spent three consecutive days in the valley, filling every remaining space in his inventory slots with over ten thousand units of Sword Stone Ore before finally stopping.

“These Sword Stone Ores are enough to refine more than 30,000 high-quality Sword Stones, which is more than enough to set up a Qingyun Sword Array!” Song Jian thought as he looked at his bulging inventory.

To learn the Sword Formation skill, one had to visit the world of Song Jian’s previous double S-ranked assessment mission, where it was unlikely any player could acquire the skill.

Moreover, the most important factor was that skills learned from the assessment mission world didn’t require skill points to upgrade; as long as the proficiency was reached, they could be directly upgraded.

In the assessment mission world, Song Jian had already achieved an advanced level in his Sword Formation skill. However, the skill level in the game world was different from that in the assessment mission world; an advanced level there was merely level eight in the game world.

Song Jian’s current Sword Formation skill was at level eight, with about a third of the proficiency still required before it could be leveled up again.

With this many Sword Stone Ores, Song Jian could raise his Sword Formation skill to over level ten in a short period of time.

Song Jian glanced at the valley surroundings. The amount of Sword Stone Ore he had gathered was a drop in the bucket compared to the valley’s Sword Stone Ore veins.

“I’ll leave the rest here for now since these Sword Stones are no different than regular rocks to other players at the moment,” Song Jian thought as he turned to leave the valley.

At the entrance of the valley, Song Jian thought for a moment and took out more than a dozen Sword Stones to set up a large concealment array, completely covering the entrance to the valley so that no players would accidentally come across it.

Having done all this, Song Jian left the valley;

The moment he stepped out of the valley, he suddenly heard an angry roar, and a huge shadow charged straight towards him;

Upon closer inspection, Song Jian realized it was the Deepwater Crocodile Beast from three days ago;

“This guy, it’s actually holding a grudge!” Song Jian thought, and four long swords appeared around his body, like shooting stars, slashing towards the Deepwater Crocodile Beast;

Four sets of sword techniques were executed simultaneously, with Sword Qi surging and constantly slashing at the Deepwater Crocodile Beast, stopping its attack;

“I didn’t pay close attention before and let you escape, but now you’re just asking for death by coming out again?” Song Jian snorted coldly, using the Surging Wave Breaking Sword to perform “Frosty Snowfall,” completely cutting off the Deepwater Crocodile Beast’s chance to escape back to the lake.

The other three long swords continuously executed their imprinted sword techniques, consuming virtually no energy from Song Jian. For now, Song Jian had only nurtured the Sword Spirit of three long swords, and the newly obtained fourth Surging Wave Breaking Sword didn’t have enough golden quality weapons to ferment a Sword Spirit;

Originally, the Deepwater Crocodile Beast was no match for Song Jian. However, during their last encounter, Song Jian had only slightly revealed some powerful damage, which scared off the Deepwater Crocodile Beast, causing it to misjudge Song Jian’s strength;

As a result, when the four long swords attacked it simultaneously, their power had increased several times since their first encounter, making the Deepwater Crocodile Beast terrified and trying to turn back and flee into the lake;

However, at this point, the area within several dozen meters was covered in a thick layer of snow, and even the edge of the big lake was frozen with a thick layer of ice over a distance of more than ten meters. Escaping into the lake like last time was now impossible;

In the end, the Deepwater Crocodile Beast found that its only choice was to turn and attack Song Jian, depleting some of his Vitality Points before dying;

Several minutes later, the Deepwater Crocodile Beast humiliatingly died in the thick snow, its body slashed with countless sword marks. If Song Jian knew the skinning skill, he would only get a worthless, tattered hide from it;

Looking at the two materials dropped by the Deepwater Crocodile Beast, Song Jian couldn’t help but look disdainfully at its corpse, as it was a level 35 elite BOSS with loot not even equivalent to a level 35 ordinary monster.

“Huh, strange?” Song Jian looked at the Deepwater Crocodile Beast’s corpse and suddenly felt that something was off. At this moment, he realized that the monster’s right claw was completely intact!

“Didn’t I cut off this elite BOSS’s right claw before? Why did it grow a new one? Could it be that the Deepwater Crocodile Beast has the ability to regenerate severed limbs?” Song Jian wondered;

However, he knew that the Deepwater Crocodile Beast’s size and strength should have already exceeded 60 points, but its recovery ability was really average, otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to kill it so easily;

Song Jian examined its right claw more closely and found that it had indeed just grown, and even the color of its skin was different from the surrounding areas.

Transparent flames slowly burned the Deepwater Crocodile Beast’s corpse, as Song Jian raised his head to look at the calm lake, a hint of curiosity in his eyes.

“I didn’t expect there to be unexpected surprises!”

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