The boring and blissful monster hacking and levelling lasted for a week.
During this week, Isabelle faithfully carried out Lu Yao’s instructions, frantically harvesting Corruptors in her Forest Sword form. When she was low on mana, she would retreat temporarily, waiting for nature to recover before continuing her attack.
Lu Yao estimated that, together with those that were reborn after death, he had slaughtered tens of thousands of them anyways.
However, Isabelle’s level was stuck at level 26 after which she couldn’t rise any higher.
“My lord, the Corruptors are too low in rank, fighting them can no longer bring me any more help or inspiration in terms of experience and ability.”
Isabelle explained thus.
Lu Yao felt a little bit of regret in his heart.
The routine of relying on Corruptors to give Isabelle a capped upgrade all the way to the top seemed to be out of the question.
But even so, this week of hacking monsters had brought extremely high gains.
Now when the Holy Sword is turned on, Isabelle’s battle panel looks like this.
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[Apostle Lv26] Sword of the Forest – Isabelle
Life: 325/325
Mana: 615/615
Damage: 39
Defence: 37
Speed: 18
[Wisdom Lv26
Wisdom is the key to an Apostle’s ability to listen to the will of the gods. The higher the level of Wisdom, the easier it is to enhance and comprehend the abilities.
[Mass Prayer Lv6] (30 Mana)
Praying to the Miasma Sea temporarily awakens the sleeping dead, thus gaining the help of the dead. The type of dead depends on the ability level and mana.
[Sword of the Forest Lv1] (100 mana)
[Isabel’s Exclusive Ability] Isabel summons the Holy Sword to fully increase her combat attributes, duration and increase depends on ability level and mana. After the battle, Isabelle will create some forest elemental creatures, the number and type depends on the ability level and the strength of the combat object.
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Isabelle’s stat level has increased dramatically.
Nowadays, just by relying on super-fast movement and extremely high attack frequency, she was able to take away the Corruptor with a set of consecutive slashes and piercings with her Holy Sword.
The entire battle was really Lu Bu riding a red rabbit and hacking away at minions.
On top of that, the additional effect of the [Sword of the Forest] was also activated frequently, creating an elemental creature named [Forest Wolf] from a large number of corrupted corpses.
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【Forest Wolf LV13】【Isabel Creation
Life Value: 248/248
Mana: 40/40
Damage: 8
Defence: 8
Speed: 7
[Evasion Lv7
Can evade damage caused by some attacks. The probability of this is higher when compared to one’s weaker beings.
[Swarming]
Generates stronger combat power when gathered together, the greater the number, the greater the increase.
Forest Elemental LV1
Forest Elemental creatures are beneficial to the rapid growth of forests, and all their attributes are increased while in the forest. The effect depends on the ability level and life value.
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The Forest Wolf’s individual panel is inferior to the Corruptor, and its attack is even inferior to the lower ranked [Spotted Lynx]. It wasn’t a single combat type, but the [Herd] ability was a powerful buff.
This time, Isabelle had created a total of 60 LV13 Forest Wolves by killing tens of thousands of Corruptors.
When these 60 forest wolves gathered together, the [Swarm Habitat] ability would change the forest wolf panel for a second.
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[Forest Wolf LV13] [Created by Isabelle].
Life Value: 248/248
Mana: 40/40
Damage: 10
Defence: 10
Speed: 9
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Lu Yao did some calculations with his calculator.
The number coefficient increase of the group ability was about 0.5%, which meant that 100 Forest Wolves gathered together to act, and each wolf would be able to exert 1.5 times the combat panel ability.
In the case of group combat, the forest wolves had an advantage against the Corrupted instead; the greater the number, the stronger the wolves were.
Considering that the Forest Wolves’ panels were very balanced, offensive and defensive, and their speed didn’t pull the crotch, they were an extremely talented fighting species.
Lu Yao ordered Isabelle to have the pack of Forest Wolves temporarily stationed in the mountains to cut off the necessary path between the Salt Pond Tribe and the Garlic Tribe. This would prevent the Corruptors from suddenly going berserk and attacking outside, affecting the Garlic Tribe.
The situation was basically under Isabel’s control, the newborn Corruptors of the Salt Pond Tribe no longer posed any threat to her.
The Corruptors had basically eaten enough dividends, and Isabelle’s level and strength had come up, so the next attempt could begin.
Lu Yao ordered: go to the castle and check out the situation.
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Isabelle killed the castle.
Lu Yao clicked on the castle and indeed entered another copy world screen.
The inside of the castle was much bigger than it looked from the outside. Inside was a hall paved with stones, with headless corpses hanging in the air and blood stains all over the ground, leading all the way to the depths of the earth.
Along the way, there were constantly corrupted people rushing out to attack, Isabelle killed the enemies one by one and continued to explore inside.
The ground was carved out one hole after another, each hole was filled with a kind of white dust, and from time to time there would be corrupted people crawling out from inside.
There were also Corruptors throwing all sorts of tattered corpses into these pits, seemingly using the corpses to create their own kind.
On the sides of these pits that spawned Corruptors, there was a kind of tiny ditch, and in the ditch there was a kind of slimy green liquid, as if some kind of evil ritual was being performed.
Following the tracks of this slime, Isabel killed her way into the deepest part of the crypt.
The place opened up, and a giant corpse was fixed with chains on the wide stone wall behind it.
The giant had four curved horns growing from the top of its head, its head had been reduced to nothing more than dead bone, and faint embers of fire flickered in its black eye sockets.
Its body was slashed with wounds, and the wounds and flesh had long since decayed, from which sticky green body fluids flowed out. These bodily fluids flowed all the way to the ground, turning the grooves along the ground into catalysts that allowed the Corruptors to be born.
Facing this rotting giant, an exclamation mark suddenly appeared above Isabelle’s head.
“Forrest?!”
Lu Yao took a look and it seemed like he had heard this name somewhere before.
Huh, wasn’t it the Chief Apostle of the Forest God?
It was actually this giant?
Lu Yao woke up the cactus ball in the potted plant next to him, “Little Fire, is Forrest a giant?”
The fairy ball attendant said respectfully, “Lord God, Mr Forrest is indeed from the giant race. He is a reliable and powerful apostle, and the Forest God’s most capable arm.”
Unfortunately, the God of the Forest had fallen, and the body of this Chief Apostle had been turned into an instrument for creating Corruptors.
Lu Yao returned his attention to the screen.
He noticed that the posture of the giant Forrest was strange. Forrest was in a kneeling position with his arms pulled up in the form of a cross, as if he was atoning for his sins or worshipping something.
Behind the giant’s carapace was an even taller stone statue.
It was a very strange statue that looked like a humanoid tree, which was covered with branches of varying lengths, yet had no leaves.
Lu Yao placed his mouse over the statue, and a line of names instantly surfaced.
[Whistle Blower Idol].
–Stranger, do you hear my whistle?
The line of words made his heart tremble as he read it.
Lu Yao finally realised what the stone sculpture really was.
It was a man covered in short whistles.
These whistles were like some sort of organs that he had spread all over his body, growing from the top of his head, shoulders, chest, arms, and face. Since the image was somewhat physically uncomfortable, Lu Yao subconsciously didn’t think in that direction.
On Forrest’s skull, a tall knight dressed in black armour slowly coalesced.
The top of his head displayed: [Blood Knight Nevid].
“Blasphemer, die.”
The Blood Knight held a scarlet greatsword and rushed towards Isabelle as a residual shadow.
