MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

The moment Li Yi brought both halves of the Heart of Water together, wave after wave of pale blue energy radiated from his hand into his surroundings.

The two halves of the Heart of Water had finally become one, forming a complete, crystalline heart. Furthermore, its hidden attributes had also been revealed.

[Heart of Water (Tool, Legendary), Holy +10]

[ATK +20%]

[DEF +20%]

[All class skills upgraded by 5 levels]

[Mystical Water (Passive): Has a random chance of being activated in battle, recovering the health and mana of the user by 20%]

[Water Clone (Special Skill): By expending half of the user’s mana, the user can summon an independent clone with the same stats. The clone will mirror the user’s movements in combat. Lasts for 20 seconds. Cooldown time: 30 minutes.]

[Note: Legend says, that within the mysterious Water World, there lies a mystical droplet…]

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‘It really is a divine item…’

Li Yi pondered over his conflicting emotions as he held the Heart of Water in hand.

Had he not lost the Mermaid Princess; he would be on cloud nine right now. Alas, with his Lil Mermaid abducted, it was hard for him to get excited, even though there was a divine item right in front of him.

Tools were extremely rare, and in the case of Legendary Tools, this was doubly true. The most overpowered part of these items was that they did not need to be equipped. In other words, as long as they were in the first slot of the backpack, they would immediately take effect.

(Note: Regardless of the number of tools a player had, only the tool placed in the first slot of the backpack would be active.)

Li Yi was forcefully booted out of the Water World, but he was not sent to the bottom of the lake where he came from. Instead, he was randomly transported to some other place.

Li Yi was surrounded by icy mountains, and he could make out a few Polar Ice Bears nearby.

The Glacial Crater at the North Pole.

It was the map with the most chaotic assortment of monsters in the North Pole Continent. Kobolds, murlocs, centaurs, and various other monsters congregated and waged war there almost every day.

Li Yi checked his friend’s list and noticed that Qian’er and Autumn Love’s icons were still lit up.

Li Yi did not attempt to contact them. Instead, he summoned his Holy Light Warhorse and proceeded onward along the glacial river.

The rare monster, Alenod the Smart had a spawn point nearby Li Yi’s location. Since Li Yi was already there, he would not squander the opportunity, and he went around in search of it.

After the Mermaid Princess was abducted by the Mermaid Queen, the summoning stone in his bag had also disappeared. This event perplexed Li Yi, as it happened so randomly and without explanation.

The Mermaid Princess had already become his mount, and he had not once heard of mounts disappearing in all his years of playing Pantheon. After all, it was the general consensus that unless released by their owners, the mounts would never disappear.

‘This smells fishy.’

Li Yi had originally intended to slaughter his way to the Mermaid Village, but that would prove a bit difficult without the Mermaid Princess’ assistance. Sure, Li Yi could breeze through the normal monster-infested maps, but the journey was arduous…

‘Even if I head there, I have to first settle all my matters in the North Pole before heading there.’

After traveling forward on his horse for almost half an hour, Li Yi was greeted with the view of an ocean. As he continued along the shore of the sea, he found a cluster of precious lifeforms.

A group of lifeforms that had two shades of colors, black and white. In other words, penguins.

In reality, penguins could only be found in the South Pole. However, within King of Pantheon, the penguins would only appear in the North Pole Continent.

The penguins were non-combatants, and they only 200 HP. As such, killing them was a cinch, all players needed to do was use a single AOE skill to wipe them all out…

The moment the Lil Penguins spotted a human, they instantly went into a panic. They flapped their tiny little wings and plunged underwater to flee.

Li Yi dismissed his Holy Light Warhorse, extracted a fishing rod and some fishing bait from his backpack, and put on his Wind-battered Fishing Hat. He then began to fish at the spot where the penguins had dived into the water.

Li Yi fished at an insane speed, as each catch took only 3 to 5 seconds. Ice Scale Fishes, Bone Scale Fishes, Red-scaled Fishes, were constantly caught by Li Yi, but they were also quickly tossed aside.

Li Yi did not want a single fish that he caught. Instead, he tossed them all to the shore.

The penguins that had fled earlier were still hiding underneath the water, and they were eyeing Li Yi with their beady little eyes. After about ten minutes, a few brave penguins waddled onto the shore and attempted to eat the fishes that Li Yi had tossed aside.

A smile crept onto Li Yi’s face as he continued to fish.

As the Lil Penguins would only consume freshly caught fishes, Li Yi had no choice but to go through the trouble of fishing batch after batch of fishes.

The brave penguins were now full. They patted their belly full of food and promptly moved aside to take a nap. By then, the timid penguins could no longer suppress their appetites. They surged up the shore and fought one another as they vied for the fishes that Li Yi had tossed aside.

While fighting over the food, the yellow names on top of the penguins slowly faded away. Gradually, they were becoming green in color.

Yellow represented Neutrality, whereas green represented Friendliness. The Lil Penguins were no longer afraid of Li Yi, and as such, they now surrounded Li Yi as they gobbled up the fishes.

Forming a good relationship with little animals was as easy as pie in King of Pantheon.

Li Yi continued to fish, and after three hours, the penguins’ Affinity towards him was now at ‘Intimate’.

Although Li Yi was still surrounded by multiple Lil Penguins vying for fishes, there were also quite a number of them who dove underwater. A moment later, the penguins that had disappeared underwater returned. One by one, they queued up orderly and gifted Li Yi items.

Items such as little pebbles, little ice cubes, little fishes, shrimps, little shells…

These were the rewards of Li Yi’s labor.

Alas…

Even if Li Yi gathered all the miscellaneous items together, they would not even be worth a single Gold Coin. Compared to the value of the fishes that Li Yi had caught for them, Li Yi was obviously in the red…

Li Yi did not even spare a single glance at the gifts that the Lil Penguins had provided him. Instead, he calmly resumed fishing.

The gifts were not what Li Yi was looking for.

“Squawk Squawk?”

“Squawk—?”

The group of penguins seemed to have some kind of revelation. They gathered together and appeared to be discussing something.

The moment Li Yi saw the scene, he was immediately invigorated.

Crash! Crash! Crash!

The penguins who had gathered together were now diving underwater and heading towards the depths of the ocean…

Li Yi checked his stock of fishing bait and confirmed that he had plenty left. By his estimates, he could still last for about a dozen hours.

‘I still have plenty of bait, and I managed to trigger the penguin gifting sequence. Does this mean that I’m about to trigger the quest sequence?’

The more Li Yi thought about it, the more excited he got. As he continued to fish, Li Yi suddenly had a bright idea. He activated the Water Clone special skill from Heart of Water.

A pale blue silhouette of him appeared.

Li Yi flashed a toothy green at his Pale Blue Copy, and in response, the Pale Blue Copy flashed him the same grin as well.

‘Nice, that’s some pretty good mirroring.’

Li Yi tossed his fishing rod underwater, and so did his Pale Blue Copy.

The clone’s actions were exactly the same as the original’s. Whatever Li Yi did, his clone would promptly follow.

“Thud!”

A fish was caught on the hook. With a powerful pull, Li Yi hauled up a Red-scaled Fish.

The Pale Blue Copy had done the same as well, but there was nothing on his hook.

‘Oh yeah, the clone can imitate my movements, but not the fishes…’

“Squawk…”

“Squawk Squawk!”

While Li Yi was lamenting his incompetence, a cacophony of joyous squawking could be heard. The Lil Rascals came up one after another onto the shore, and behind them, was a gigantic fat penguin. It tediously dragged its body forward, and made an arduous effort to climb onto the shore…

‘The quest has been triggered!’

Li Yi happily stood up.

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