MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

However, even though he passed the first wave of the ant swarm, there were still a few more swarms waiting for him ahead.

Li Yi waited until the special skill’s cooldown was complete before he continued on his way.

Although the Fire Devil’s Emblem reduced 10% of the EXP he lost when dying, he still lost 10% of his EXP every time he died. Even though Li Yi was already prepared to proceed by dying, but if he could not die, that would still be his number one choice.

The second time he pulled aggro, Li Yi’s lucky streak ended. When the Mutated Small Wild Boar used its ultimate suicidal Taunt, more than ten Giant Ants resisted the skill. Their aggro could not be transferred, so they appeared in front of Li Yi in an instant, and with a single bite, they killed him in the blink of an eye.

‘I died…’

Li Yi felt exasperated. Releasing his soul, he appeared in the nearest temple.

Li Yi controlled his soul, leading it back to the Giant Ant Plain. He moved several dozen meters forward until the notification told him he could not resurrect there, and then he moved ever so slightly backward. After that, he waited patiently for the patrolling Giant Ants to leave, so that he could grasp the best chance to resurrect.

The Giant Ants weaved back and forth. Looking at the swarm of ants, Li Yi felt his scalp go numb. He could not resurrect like this, or he would be killed off as soon as he stood up.

This map was rather revolting in its design. The Giant Ants were monsters that lived in groups, so when any one of them was attacked, all the Giant Ants nearby would rush to the spot as well. They had powerful ATK and quick SPD, and they even had a venom that could force a player into hit recovery. Once someone was surrounded by these things, it would be quite difficult to escape in one piece.

Li Yi looked at the Giant Ants around him and calculated just how many times he would have to die in order to get through this area.

“Once, twice, three times… Six times, f*ck! Even if I do get across, I’ll have to die six or seven times. I’ll drop a level for sure.”

After he did his calculations, Li Yi could not help but feel slightly frustrated.

Li Yi raised his head to look at the sky, murmuring to himself, “Now, if only that thing could fly past just about now.”

“Roar—”

Just as Li Yi was murmuring to himself, an earth-shaking roar came from the sky suddenly. The Giant Ants on the Giant Ant Plain all scattered in fright, and Li Yi had the misfortune of getting found by the panicking Giant Ants. He was killed once again.

“Hahahahaha… Luck sure is on my side.”

In the air, a giant black dragon, pitch black and about a hundred meters long, flapped its wings and spat out a pillar of fire from its mouth. This burned all the Giant Ants on Giant Ant Plain to death.

Under the attack of the giant black dragon’s flames, the Giant Ant monsters with more than 200,000HP were instantly killed. However, when the ant swarm was completely burned to the ground, the Queen Ant, as large as a hill, crawled out from the ground. Suddenly, the giant black dragon gathered a black ball of power in its jaws and tossed its head hard. “Bang!”

It was Dragonspeak Magic!

The Queen Ant with more than 5,000,000HP was killed with one blow…

“Roar—”

The giant black dragon reared its head, rather pleased. With a cheer, it shook the crown on its head and flew off, flapping its wings.

Li Yi resurrected as quickly as he could. He then summoned the Crimson Tiger King and dashed forward as fast as he could manage.

The ground was covered with the charred bodies of the Giant Ants, including the Queen Ant. By now, not a single Giant Ant remained on Giant Ant Plain. The giant black dragon had killed them all. If this was not the best chance to leave this map when would be?

Since the Giant Ants were all burned to death by the giant black dragon, the players were unable to loot anything from the corpses of the Giant Ants. To the players, their number one benefit was that they could cross this map without obstruction.

How could Li Yi not be glad that he did not have to die six or seven times to pass this place?

“Missy Black Dragon is as majestic as ever, huh.”

Looking at the back of the black dragon in the air, Li Yi felt excited again.

According to the system design, the Black Dragon Princess Onyxia would rendezvous at Black Rock Mountain with her older brother Black Dragon Ferrian every few months. The official information stated that when Onyxia slept, she was always being disturbed by ants, so she hated ants with a passion. If she ever saw one, she would surely kill them…

Of course, the system was designed that way simply because the Giant Ant Plain was too difficult to traverse. A setting like that could fill out Onyxia’s and Ferrian’s statement while also helping the players. It truly was killing two birds with one stone.

Upon safely crossing the Giant Ant Plain, he came across a small NPC town called Polar Night Town. Li Yi controlled the Crimson Tiger King, leading it forward, but his thoughts lingered on the Black Dragon Princess Onyxia.

Could he obtain the Black Dragon Princess mount in this lifetime as well?

In the previous lifetime, not only did Li Yi possess a set of legendary equipment, but he was also famous for having the showiest mount — the Black Dragon Princess Onyxia Mount.

It only dropped one out of a hundred million times. In the past life, throughout the eight years of King of Pantheon’s operations, only Li Yi ever obtained it. Onyxia’s showiness and practicality were definitely second to none.

Onyxia’s power was relatively terrifying, even more so than her brother Ferrian’s. She could not be defeated with the power of one man alone. In fact, she could only be taken down by the collective efforts of several thousand or even tens of thousands of people.

In the past life, Li Yi did not have any friends, so he naturally could not gather an army of several thousand to defeat Onyxia. That meant, of course, that he had obtained the mount by trickery…

Back then, Onyxia had appeared in a royal city and used her Dragon’s Breath to attack the entire city. The Guild Master of the Dream Guild, Flower Underpants, had led his group into the counterattack. After three days and nights, and countless casualties, they finally felled Onyxia.

Flower Underpants looted her and the Onyxia Mount appeared. Li Yi, who was standing right next to him, then whispered into his ear, “Pantsie, show me the dragon…”

The only one who called Flower Underpants by his nickname was the Dream Guild’s commander, Shangguan Bailu. At the time, Flower Underpants was so excited that he could barely tell left from right, so he gave the mount to Li Yi without even thinking about it.

He really did not think too much about it. The situation back then had been very complicated. He had led the battle for three days and nights, so he had long since gone past the limits of his stamina. All he could say was that he had a moment of carelessness, and Li Yi took advantage of that.

Li Yi grabbed the mount, learned it, and then ran.

Li Yi would still blush whenever he thought of this incident. Even after so long, he still could not bring himself to meet Flower Underpants because of this incident. To be honest, Flower Underpants and Shangguan Bailu had treated him extremely well in the past life…

After that, Li Yi truly became Public Enemy Number One. Everyone thought of him as trash, and at the end, even he thought of himself the same way.

Li Yi clenched his fist tightly. “The past life doesn’t count at all. I was too ashamed to even ride my mount then. In this life, I’m going to earn her with my own strength!”

In the past life, since he had obtained the Onyxia Mount by trickery, Li Yi had never ridden her more than a couple of times. The reason for this was simple: Even he thought he had gone too far, so he did not deserve to own that showy mount.

Occupied as he was in his thoughts, Li Yi arrived at the Level 80 map before he even knew it. This was Black Dragon Ferrian’s old haunt, Black Rock Mountain.

Before him was a world of dark red. The ground was dark red, as was the sky. The floor was littered with Dragon Whelps, and the occasional larger Elite Dragon Whelp paced back and forth in patrol as well.

Although these Dragon Whelps were still underage, they were not to be underestimated. Anyone of them had the power to rival a small boss.

Li Yi proceeded forward carefully, avoiding the Dragon Whelps. Thankfully, Dragons were solitary creatures, unlike the Giant Ants who always moved in packs. He just had to stay further away from them.

He had already passed the hardest stage, which was the Giant Ant Plain. Although the Black Rock Mountain before him was covered with Dragon Whelps, in Li Yi’s opinion, it was still much less dangerous than before.

He successfully went around the Dragon Whelps. Following the narrow paths around the corners of Black Rock Mountain and heading east, he took 5 hours before he finally reached the South-eastern Ocean.

The wide-open ocean was right before his eyes. Li Yi gulped down an Underwater Breathing Potion and then dived right in.

The Sea God’s Palace was at the bottom of the ocean. Without the help of an underwater mount, Li Yi’s SPD was only 50% of his normal SPD on land. It was unbearably slow.

It was not safe underwater either. This was a special Level 90 map, so the monsters that spawned here were all Elites without exception. It was still fine if he bumped into a prawn or crab monster, but if he bumped into one of those speedy Hammerhead Sharks, there was an eight or nine out of ten chance that he would end up becoming shark food.

Li Yi sank his body to the very bottom, swimming forward as he stuck to the ocean bed. This was because he knew that Hammerhead Sharks would not swim to the bed of its own accord. It only ever stayed around the middle-upper depths of the sea.

“Psst! Psst!”

A brown Lugworm darted out from the ocean bed and sprayed out some white silk that twined around Li Yi’s calf, pulling him perilously downward.

[Silktwine Worm. It was a monster that spawns in the South-eastern Ocean. Level 90, 500,000HP. Rare. It has no ATK and can only trap enemies with its silk until the target drowns to death.]

The information about the Silktwine Worm flashed through his mind. Li Yi relaxed and drew his bow, aiming for the Silktwine Worm’s head.

“Pfft! Pfft!”

[−2121]

[−2511]

The Silktwine Worm was not an attacking type. Not only did it not have any ATK whatsoever, but its DEF was also very weak as well. Li Yi’s attack instantly caused it to panic, and it turned its body around, trying desperately to dive into the ground.

This thing was a classic case of hiding your face and forgetting your tail. It tried to run but it forgot to release the silk, thus revealing its large behind to Li Yi. It must be said then that attacks from the back were not only stronger in their potency, they also had a dramatic increase in their Crit Rate.

[−3124]

[−4313]

The brightly-colored Super Crit numbers kept appearing from the Silktwine Worm’s body. Its HP began to drop even more rapidly.

[−5321]

Its HP went down to zero!

“Hiss—” The Silktwine Worm wailed a few times, its fat body shrinking rapidly. After it died, its corpse became the size of a fingertip.

Li Yi picked up the Silktwine Worm’s corpse and put it away before unraveling the sticky silk around his leg.

The Silktwine Worm did not drop any equipment, but its corpse was an extremely rare material that could be used by all the lifestyle classes.

“Clang! Clang!”

When things went wrong, they would all go wrong. As soon as Li Yi finished off the Silktwine Worm, an Ironclaw Giant Crab that was even bigger than him rushed at him horizontally. It raised its claws high above its hand, flexing them and emitting some piercing sounds.

[Ironclaw Giant Crab: It was a monster that spawns in the South-eastern Ocean. Level 90, 1,500,000HP. Elite. Its ATK is extremely powerful and its SPD extremely normal. It specialized in using the sound waves from its iron claws to harm others.]

Before the Ironclaw Giant Crab swam up to him, Li Yi called out the Violent Bear King to block it while he turned around and ran…

The Ironclaw Giant Crab’s basic ATK was already over 20,000. The soundwaves’ damage was over 30,000, and the attack range reached up to 30 meters. If he did not run away in the face of this thing, he would die for sure.

“Bang!”

In order to escape, Li Yi even used his newest Engineering product, the Explosive Propeller. A spray of embers exploded on the surface of the water, creating a wave of air that propelled Li Yi a hundred meters away.

Although Engineering had many products, they all had one thing in common: they were all very unsafe.

The Explosive Propeller did achieve its purpose, pushing Li Yi more than a hundred meters away. However, Li Yi’s HP was also affected by the explosion and now there was not much left. Just then, however, he opened his eyes and saw that he was plastered against a Large Pistol Shrimp that was even larger than the Ironclaw Giant Crab.

“F*ck me!”

‘Engineering’s so damn frustrating!’

Li Yi cursed inwardly.

The Large Pistol Shrimp blew its top and raised its large claw, smashing it down on him.

“Clang!”