Keep attacking girls and try not to be killed by them

The only advantage of being at this sparsely populated border junction is that there are many monsters, which makes it convenient for him to continue to gain experience and increase his level.

However, Jiang Ran recently encountered a problem that he had never considered before, that is, his level was too high and he began to experience "experience penalty".

For Jiang Ran, who has now reached level 136 of the fourth stage, all third-stage monsters can only provide half of the original experience points, and if it is a second-stage monster or below, then all of them will provide zero experience points.

Since Jiang Ran had no experience, there was no need for him to kill them in vain, let alone waste his stamina and magic power, unless they had no idea of ​​his own strength and rushed forward to seek death.

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However, those monsters who came to die on their own are not completely useless to Jiang Ran.

Although Jiang Ran is unable to completely recycle the monster's materials due to the weight he is carrying, he has no problem extracting the magic core.

When he was still in Sunny Town, Jiang Ran had asked craftsmen to use the magic cores and materials of monsters to create many excellent equipment. But now, because his level and strength have been improved, except for the magic cores of those "named monsters", Jiang Ran used the magic cores of other third-level and lower monsters to feed "Yan Mo Knight Sword·Lanzel".

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As a growing magic sword, Yama Knight Sword Lanzel has been with Jiang Ran for a long time.

Ever since it evolved through the "Pool of Evolution" in the "Maze·Green Ghost Lair", Jiang Ran has fed it a lot of magic cores. Its current experience value has reached "92/100". As long as it has four more magic cores from third-level monsters, it will be able to advance.

Jiang Ran walked forward while paying attention to the surrounding atmosphere, and then he really encountered a group of experience packs, oh no, they were "extremely vicious" monsters.

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Before the group of monsters appeared, Jiang Ran first heard a rumbling sound, as if something heavy was rolling on the desert.

Then, he saw a small group of things that looked like "giant wheels" rolling rapidly across the desert, raising a large cloud of dust!

However, even though this is the magical world of Prison Star, these "wheels" that are one or two stories high are still not in line with common sense. After these "wheels" approached, Jiang Ran used his identification ability to find out that this group of "wheels" turned out to be a monster called "Rock Iron Giant Snail".

When Jiang Ran was still in the touring caravan, he had heard from Grandma Cassie and the others that the "Rock Iron Giant Snail" was a monster that was very important to the equipment industry.

As the "Rock Iron Giant Snail" continues to grow, a large amount of composite metal called "Rock Iron" will accumulate in its huge shell. This metal has the characteristics of good ductility, easy shaping and high strength after forming, making it very suitable for making some small equipment, such as darts, grappling claws, etc.

The rock iron stored in the shell of an adult "Rock Iron Giant Snail" alone is enough to supply a small equipment store for one or two months.

However, although Rock Iron is good, the 'Rock Iron Giant Snail' is not easy to deal with.

Don't be fooled by their slow-moving snail-like appearance. Once they start moving, they can roll at a speed of over 80 kilometers per hour. Coupled with their weight of over 400 to 500 kilograms, even a third-level defensive professional may not be able to stop them.

In order to defeat these "Rock Iron Giant Snails" and obtain the rock iron in their bodies, in addition to having a way to control them and prevent them from rolling away, there must also be a way to cut or knock open their thick shells after killing them. Otherwise, the entire "Rock Iron Giant Snail" can only be transported to the town.

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At this moment, a small team of five "Giant Rock Snails" were rolling towards Jiang Ran at high speed. It was not easy to see so many "Giant Rock Snails" moving together.

Jiang Ran remembered that Grandma Cassie once said that the natural enemy of the "Rock Iron Giant Snail" was a monster called the Lava Armored Two-Headed Salamander. Their extremely high temperature flames could easily dissolve the hard shell of the "Rock Iron Giant Snail".

Generally speaking, if their territory was not invaded by the Lava-Armored Two-Headed Salamanders, the "Rock Iron Giant Snails" would not migrate long distances in groups. However, for Jiang Ran now, these ecological issues are not important. What is important is whether he has a way to stop these third-level "Rock Iron Giant Snails".

9.31 - Rock Iron Giant Snail

(These giant snails are so fast...it must be hard for them to brake and turn, right?)

Jiang Ran looked at the five rapidly rolling "Rock Iron Snails" very calmly, without any sense of nervousness.

A battle like this, which is not a fight to the death, is no longer considered a battle in Jiang Ran's eyes. It can only be said to be a hunt where he can advance and retreat at will.

Jiang Ran first used his own speed advantage to run to the side of the "Rock Iron Giant Snails" team, and used the "Shadow Stealing Technique" to obtain the skill "Iron Roll" that they were currently using.

The skill "Iron Roll" allows "Rock Iron Giant Snails" to roll at high speeds while also providing an additional 1000 points of temporary armor.

To understand the concept of 1000 points of armor value, just look at Jiang Ran's armor value of only 210 points. This is not just a symbolic addition of armor, but actually provides a good defense for the "Rock Iron Giant Snail".

After the armor value was increased, the total armor value of the "Rock Iron Giant Snails" reached an astonishing 4000 points, which was truly astonishing.

If it weren't for the fact that he had to roll at high speed when using this skill, Jiang Ran would have wanted to roll as well to feel what it felt like to have a high armor value (fog).

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(With such high armor value, it's a good opportunity to test the upper limit of the "Yanma Knight Sword").

Jiang Ran once again relied on his speed advantage to distance himself from the "Rock Iron Giant Snails", and then faced the direction where the "Rock Iron Giant Snails" were rushing, and successively used the two skills "Flame Horse Rush" and "Crimson Dragon Breath", summoning a large number of blue flame war horses and proud crimson flame flying dragons, swallowing the "Rock Iron Giant Snails" into the dark blue sea of ​​fire!

With these two skills that combined to deal 46,000 points of damage, Jiang Ran felt that it was enough to severely damage these "Rock Iron Giant Snails" that only had 6,000 to 7,000 health points. However, what he didn't expect was that within a few seconds, he saw the "Rock Iron Giant Snails" rushing out from the sea of ​​fire, continuing to move forward at a speed of more than 80 kilometers per hour!

Even though the shells of these "Rock Iron Giant Snails" were already burning red, their vitality was only reduced by 5810 to 6325 points. ( / )

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(Amazing! He really stands out for his durability.)

Jiang Ran put away the "Yanma Knight Sword" and instead materialized the "Disaster War Horn: Goblin Soul" in his hand.

It's not that the "Yanma Knight Sword" can't be used to defeat these giant rock snails, but the efficiency of using magic power is too low.

To deal with these thick-skinned and tough giant iron snails, you still need to use weapons specially designed to deal with them.

In addition to the skill "War Force" that previously shined in the Werewolf Territory, "War Horn of Disaster" also has two other equally good skills, namely "Inspiring Horn" and "Intimidating Horn".

If he only used these two skills, Jiang Ran would be able to control them without taking the "Imitation Ancient Snake Blood" in advance.

Facing the giant iron snails, Jiang Ran blew the skill "Intimidation Horn" of "Disaster War Horn". This skill can make all other creatures within a radius of ten meters from Jiang Ran, whose combat profession level is not higher than his, fall into the abnormal state of "frightened", resulting in all panel values ​​​​reduced by 500 points (not reduced to 0), and can last for 60 seconds.

After adding the negative status, Jiang Ran maintained a relative relationship of running parallel to the giant iron snails, put away the "Disaster War Horn", and then materialized another magical weapon "True Soul Blade Katana Soul Break".

The skill "Soul Slash Mode" of "True Soul Blade Katana: Soul Severance" allows Jiang Ran to bypass the indestructible defense of the Rock Iron Giant Snails and directly attack their endurance. In addition, they are now in a negative state and their data has been greatly reduced. According to Jiang Ran's estimation, it is more than enough to take down two or three Rock Iron Giant Snails within the 70 seconds of "Soul Slash Mode".

However, after Jiang Ran slashed out the first blow, he knew he was wrong.

Although the slashing blows in "Soul Slash Mode" will not be deflected by the hard snail shell, when it causes damage to the endurance of the Rock Iron Giant Snail, the damage will still be reduced by its extremely high armor value.

In other words, even in the "Soul Slash Mode", the damage caused by "True Soul Blade Katana: Soul Severance" is not "true damage" that ignores armor, and the effect is far lower than Jiang Ran expected.

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The idea of ​​relying on endurance to chop down the giant iron snails was shattered. Jiang Ran ran with these giant iron snails all the way. His situation was a bit embarrassing, but fortunately he was not seen by others.

Fortunately, the giant iron snails are herbivorous and scavenging monsters. They rely solely on this "Iron Roll" technique to kill and eat whatever they encounter, so Jiang Ran does not have to worry about them stopping in a hurry to attack him. In fact, it would be a good thing if they suddenly stopped because of their frustration.

At this point, Jiang Ran had set fire and chopped with a knife, but it was still a long way to go before he could stop the giant iron snail.

He had worked hard all the way here, and it would be too embarrassing if he gave up now. In order to restore his dignity, Jiang Ran's final weapon of choice was the "Beast Horn Greatsword Komono".

The "Beast Horn Greatsword Komono" has two "characteristics" that are very effective against the Rock Iron Giant Snail. They are the "Giant Killer Characteristic" that can cause double damage to large creatures, and the "Blunt Characteristic" that can ignore 500 points of comprehensive armor when hitting the target.

Based on these two characteristics, combined with the Beast Horn Greatsword's signature skill "Giant Beast Stomp", Jiang Ran believed that he could at least stop one Rock Iron Giant Snail, and this was also his last trump card and face!

(From now on, it all depends on your performance, Beast Horn Greatsword Komono!)

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Jiang Ran "awakened" the "sleeping" beast horn giant sword, then summoned a black shadow clone, endowed it with the "false shadow" feature, and then let it hold the beast horn giant sword and rush forward to use the skill "Giant Beast Stomp" towards the leading rock iron giant snail!

He staked everything on this one strike!!

With a loud "clang" sound, the giant beast horn sword hit the snail shell of the giant rock iron snail solidly. At the same time, a strange silver-white light flashed on the snail shell. Then, the giant rock iron snail continued to roll forward as if nothing had happened, and mercilessly knocked the black shadow clone to death.

Unfortunately, Jiang Ran lost this gamble.

(Wha-what?!)

If Jiang Ran hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he really couldn't believe this result.

The Beast Horn Greatsword's Behemoth Stomp skill has a 100% chance of causing any ground creature within a 3-meter radius to be stunned for 2 seconds!

Why were these giant rock snails fine? Why was the shadow clone killed?

Jiang Ran immediately rushed forward to steal the skills of the Giant Iron Snail, and the answer he got was that the Giant Iron Snail also had a skill called "Stun Resistance".

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"Stun Resistance" is a magical skill. When it is in a usable state, it will automatically activate as long as the main body is attacked by a stun state, making the stun state invalid, and then enter a 180-second cooling countdown.

In addition, stun resistance can also be used actively. As long as you are attacked in a stun state within three seconds after using the skill, the stun and damage will be rebounded to the inflictor, instantly reversing the situation.

After seeing this information, Jiang Ran was extremely glad that the giant iron snail did not have enough reaction time to actively use "stun resistance", and he was even more glad that he cautiously let the black shadow clone do the attack instead of putting himself in danger.

In terms of battle record, Jiang Ran can obviously beat the sixth-level Kenroshi Okami now, but when he meets an opponent who is incompatible with him, he can't even do anything to the monster that is one level lower than him.

There is a sequence in learning, and everyone has their own specialization. When monsters give up active attacks and focus on defense and escape, they can actually be so "powerful".

(There is no other way. It seems that I can only grind it slowly.)

Jiang Ran gave up the idea of ​​a quick victory and picked up the "Yanma Knight Sword" that was temporarily placed on the roadside. But at this moment, the leading giant rock snail suddenly collapsed, and then brought the other giant rock snails behind it to the ground.

9.32 - Yama Heroic Sword Lanzel (nd update)

(Huh? What's going on?)

Jiang Ran went forward to check, and found that it was the giant iron snail that rolled to the junction of the sand and gravel. Due to the uneven force at that time, it lost its balance and fell to the ground.

The extreme weight brought by the giant iron snail's super strong defense actually harmed itself at this time.

After falling to the ground, if the Giant Rock Snail wanted to get up again and use the skill "Iron Roll", it had to extend its soft body from the snail shell, but outside the snail shell, what was waiting for them was Jiang Ran's blue flame and sharp blade.

At this point, did the giant snails still have time to choose and hesitate? No, not anymore, because Jiang Ran had already drawn the "Yan Mo Knight Sword" and pointed it at the opening of the nearest giant snail's shell.

"Yanqi drives quickly."

The galloping blue flame war horses burned directly into the interior of the snail shell, forcing the giant rock iron snail to stretch out its soft body from the snail shell, and then it was cut into pieces by the sword of the Yama Knight.

Under this fierce attack, four out of the five giant rock snails died on the spot. Only one was lucky enough to use "Iron Roll" again before being spotted by Jiang Ran, and then escaped.

Jiang Ran did not launch a pursuit, because the magic crystals of these four giant rock iron snails were enough.

After struggling to pull the body of the giant rock iron snail out of its shell, Jiang Ran cut open their bodies one by one and dug out a total of four third-level magic cores.

With these four magic cores, "Yanma Knight Sword Lanzel" can finally evolve to the second stage.

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Just like before, Jiang Ran stuffed the four magic cores one by one into the gem crystal embedded in the hilt of the Yama Knight Sword. After the last magic core was absorbed, even though Jiang Ran did not use any skills, a blue flame ignited on the sword.

This blue flame did not hurt anyone, and Jiang Ran continued to hold the Yama Knight Sword without suffering any damage. Then after a few seconds, the blue flame faded away on its own, and the dark blue crystal decoration on the Yama Knight Sword became darker in color, and a layer of light fire patterns was quenched on the sword body, but other than that, there seemed to be no other changes.

Jiang Ran immediately used his identification ability to confirm, and then found that what had truly evolved was actually the inner workings of the Yama Knight Sword.

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[The image above shows the evaluation information for the evolved "Yanma Knight Sword: Lanzel," a whopping 900 characters! Also, red text indicates changes after evolution.]

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After evolution, the Yama Knight Sword was renamed Yama Knight Sword Lanzel, and its firepower output was taken to a higher level.

In terms of the details of usage requirements, the experience points required for the next evolution of Yan Mo Yingqi Sword increased from 100 to 200, and the stored magic power required to use special skills increased from 11000 to 15000. These are all acceptable to Jiang Ran.

As for the panel information, the physical attack power and magic attack power bonus of Yan Mo Yingqi Sword were increased by 100 each, and the wearer's attribute bonuses were all increased by 10 points. In addition, a new feature called "Flame Blade" was added. The damage was negligible, and Jiang Ran couldn't think of any useful use for it for the time being.

As for the characteristics of the "Magic Sword" and "Cursed Sword", they are the same as before, but the descriptions have become more specific.

With Jiang Ran's current intelligence attribute of 2874 points and vitality of 15090, he wouldn't even be able to let the "Backlash Flame" burn him for ten seconds. He would be dead after five or six seconds.

Finally, I must praise the enhancements to the three skills of "Flame Rush", "Breath of Crimson Dragon" and "Yan Mo Descent". Many damage coefficients seem to be only increased by 1 or 0.5, but the final calculated damage is actually doubled. And the newly added effect of "Yan Mo Descent" that reduces the cooldown time of the other two skills by half is even more powerful. Now, as long as Jiang Ran activates the "Yan Mo Descent" skill, he can burn a sea of ​​blue fire by himself in minutes.

The only thing that Jiang Ran wanted to complain about was that the experience value of the third-level magic core was reduced from 2 points to 1 point. Now it would be more difficult for the Yama Yingqi Sword to evolve... In addition, the experience value of the fourth-level and above magic cores, whether it was an arithmetic progression, a geometric progression, or some other progression, could only be known after Jiang Ran conducted his own experiments.

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After stripping out the magic cores, Jiang Ran couldn't just leave the remains of these four giant rock snails like that.

He thought about it, and then used the blue flame of Yan Mo Yingqi's sword to prepare himself a feast of baked snails with magic sword.

When he was still on Earth, Jiang Ran had heard many times about the deliciousness and nutritional value of snail meat, but he had never eaten it. Now that he had the opportunity to taste it, he felt that it was soft and crispy, a bit like eating snails.

As for the taste, if you put it in a high-level way, it has the fragrance of grass, but if you are honest, it has the smell of earth.

Jiang Ran didn't bring any seasoning with him, so he couldn't bear the earthy smell and continue eating too much. After eating some to fill his stomach, he continued on his journey.

Jiang Ran left the remaining remains of the giant iron snail and the extremely heavy iron here as a gift from nature to other desert creatures.

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