MMO: Pierce Heaven Til' It Breaks

Panda Novel

He killed monsterlings, bosses, and ran dungeons, but even after a ton of experimenting, Dolly’s EXP stayed at 0/100. It had not budged at all.

Li Yi summoned the Goddess and tried to ask her, but she just said one line before Li Yi forced her back into the Orange Quality Bow.

“You’ll have to figure out how to level her up yourself.”

She may as well have said nothing at all. What a pain…

Li Yi ran back to the Newbie Village and spent 3 Silver Coins to increase his Cuisine skills to Intermediate level.

It was slightly annoying to have to collect meat at the Beginner level, but once one got to the Intermediate level, leveling up Cuisine had become a piece of cake now.

As long as a player had enough Gold Coins, they could buy all the cooking ingredients they needed at the Auction House.

Li Yi bought more than 5000 pieces of meat at once, enough to level his Cuisine up to Advanced level, before he finally called it a day. He counted how much he had spent and found that he had only spent slightly over 500 Gold Coins.

Li Yi started a bonfire in the wild and continued to cook until he finished using all 5000 pieces of meat. With that, his Cuisine skill also reached the Advanced level.

An Advanced-level Cook could cook a banquet fit for many that would also temporarily increase the players’ Attributes.

In the Level 20 World Map, Grey Wolf Ridge, Li Yi held Dolly in his hand and pointed at a grey wolf in the distance.

“Dolly, attack!”

“Squeak!”

Dolly stretched lazily and showed no intention of attacking.

In an attempt to give Dolly more space to maneuver, Li Yi had gone to extra lengths to give her some Level 0 equipment. She was now wearing a dress made of animal pelts and holding a Small Wooden Bow, with a quiver of arrows on her back. She vaguely looked like a female archer.

Even so, she stayed as lazy as ever. It did not matter when Li Yi summoned her, she would only ever do two things.

She would eat, she would sleep, and she would do absolutely nothing else.

She was unbelievably lazy…

“Dolly, attack!”

Li Yi kept giving her commands stubbornly. He did not want his Legendary Pet to do nothing but eat, sleep, and pout, so even though he was getting dejected, he still refused to give up on trying.

Dolly yawned and lay down to sleep.

“Get up!”

Li Yi flicked Dolly’s tiny butt with his finger. He put a little force into it too, waking Dolly right up.

“Waaa… Waaa… Waaa…”

The little thumb-sized girl rubbed her eyes with her chubby fists, bawling loudly.

“Attack!”

Her heartless master ignored her tears completely and continued to wail.

When Li Yi flicked her butt again, Dolly finally understood through her tears. She hurried picked up the Small Wooden Bow, nocked a Small Wooden Arrow, and shot it at the grey wolf in the distance.

“Pfft!”

[-1]

The Winged Ones were the best archers in the world, and they naturally knew how to shoot an arrow from the day they were born. This was a fact, not a legend, so no matter how lazy and greedy Dolly was, she was still the real deal when it came to aiming her arrows. Her very first shot landed spot on.

“Aroooo—oo!”

The grey wolf was furious and it dashed at them quickly, frightening Dolly so much that she wriggled into Li Yi’s clothes. When Li Yi pulled up his collar, he saw her hiding her head in her hands, her butt sticking up as she tried to bury into him. Her whole body was trembling.

“You’re a Legendary Pet, a Legendary Pet! How can you be so cowardly? Get up!”

Li Yi picked Dolly up with his fingers and placed her back on the center of his palm.

He had long since released his Chrono Territory, and the Level 20 Grey Wolf could not even move in Li Yi’s Territory barrier.

He was ruthless. “Continue attacking or I’ll smack your butt.”

“Squeak!”

Dolly’s mouth trembled as though she was going to burst into tears, but eventually she drew her Small Wooden Bow extremely reluctantly and shot at the grey wolf.

“Pfft!”

[-1]

“Pfft!”

[-1]

The Level 20 Normal Grey Wolf monster had more than 600 HP, and Dolly shaved off 1HP every time. It took her a whole dozen minutes to shoot it to death.

When the grey wolf collapsed with a bowl, a ray of golden light circled around Dolly’s body and spun several times before finally dissipating.

Dolly had leveled up!

Li Yi checked Dolly’s Attributes and burst out laughing. “Hahahaha, I was right after all.”

[Name: Dolly (Orange Quality)]

[Race: Winged Ones (Descendants of the Gods). Race-specific Skill: Flight]

[Level: 5 (no max level)]

[Nature: Spoiled (underage)]

[Type: Legendary Creature]

[HP: 5]

[MP: 5]

[ATK: 5]

[DEF: 5]

[M-DEF: 5]

[AGI: 5]

[ATK SPD: 2.5 seconds]

[SPD: Fast]

[Special Skill: ???]

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Killing a Level 20 Grey Wolf gave Dolly four whole levels at once!

She gained 1 Attribute Point with each level, and in Li Yi’s eyes, that was far too little. However, it was not too big a problem; he believed that as long as Dolly could continue growing, she would surely gain more Attribute Points with each level, eventually.

“Squea-squeak!”

Dolly waved her Small Wooden Bow and bounced around Li Yi’s palm. She seemed a lot less lazy now that she had leveled up.

“Continue!”

Li Yi pointed at another grey wolf.

“Swoosh!”

Dolly shot out an arrow and the grey wolf in the distance suffered [-3] damage with a white damage number.

…

“If anyone has any Material Quality 80 or above Fire Element Shards, message me and I’ll buy them all!”

“Buying all Water Elemental Shard, regardless of quality. I’ll take mail!”

“Collecting Dark Earth Elemental Shard, as many as you have. I can collect them from other continents!”

Lately, the World Channel was filled with a lot more messages requesting Elemental Shards than usual. It was because the Emperor’s Mystery Quest had begun.

The first Emperor of the Continent, Little Elf from the Magical Realm, temporarily abdicated, and the new Emperor’s Quest had begun. Any player could accept it, and as long as they followed the steps, theoretically, any player could become Emperor of the Continent.

Of course, this was only theoretically. In truth, no player had ascended the throne of the Continent’s Emperor yet.

Li Yi was even better. He had not even accepted the Emperor’s Mystery Quest yet.

There was a reason why Li Yi had not accepted the quest yet. He now knew what the cost of becoming Emperor was, and he could not stand being a so-called NPC god’s puppet. That was what he was not interested.

However, the fact that he did not do the Emperor’s Quest did not mean that the other players were not going to do it. As soon as the Emperor’s Mystery Quest was introduced, it immediately became viral. Although many players knew that they could not be Emperor, they still put everything into doing this quest.

When a player got through half of the Emperor’s Mystery Quest, an NPC would give them the task of collecting Elemental materials. This segment was the worst because it required a load of money. Of course, they would be rewarded with some EXP after they turned in the materials too.

However, this quest took a very long time. They had to turn in materials every day, and several months had passed, but only a very few people managed to pass this segment. Most of them were still stuck in an infinite loop here.

That was right, this infuriating quest required a great deal of luck. Otherwise, it did not matter how many materials one handed in. All they would get was an unimpressive amount of EXP.

Many people in the Iron Alliance were doing this quest, including some key members like Jiaojiao and Flower Underpants. After all, everyone had dreams, and to most players, the almighty position of Emperor was the stuff of dreams.

Forget the leaders of the Iron Alliance, even Huashan’s Scumbag Wang was trying it out. However, his financial situation meant that he had not reached the point where he needed materials yet. He was still stuck in the early stages.

Grade 10 materials did not drop all that often anyway, and the popularity of the Emperor’s Mystery Quest meant that their prices continued to skyrocket. Materials that had once cost a handful of Gold Coins now sold for several hundreds or even thousands.

…

The Assembled Gods Continent’s Celestial Capital.

Only a few buildings were currently being restored in the Assembled Gods Continent’s Celestial Capital. The rest was still rubble.

National wars were costly businesses, and while large-scale Forbidden Curses may have impressive effects, they also cost an arm and a leg. Any random Forbidden Curse would cost thousands or ten thousands. In order to prepare for the previous war, Amber Sword Heart had used up all of the previous Fluttering Snow Alliance’s savings. Now the Assembled Gods Continent did not have the money or the manpower, so they had to resort to the most inefficient way of restoring their Celestial Capital, by having players do it themselves.

The other major cities were one thing, but if they did not fix the Celestial Capital’s buildings, they would not be able to use their Return City Stones or teleportation doors, and the tax rates would never come down. In other words, the Assembled Gods Continent players had spent the past few days cursing as they were forced to reconstruct their Celestial Capital’s buildings.

They were beginning to miss the days when Fluttering Snow Purple Water Chestnut had been Queen.

“If Fluttering Snow Purple Water Chestnut had been Queen, there’s no way our Celestial Capital would have been destroyed.”

“Sigh, Amber Sword Heart is such an idiot. With a King like that, our glory days are over.”

“Fluttering Snow Purple Water Chestnut, do you hear that? Come back, we’ll support you as Queen!”

“Abdicate, Amber Sword Heart! Abdicate!”

The National Channel was flooded with such messages every day.

This was what happened when a King could not bring prosperity to his nation.

Amber Sword Heart had been under a lot of pressure lately.

He had never intended to be King at first. It was Drifting Snow’s words that tempted him.

On the nineteenth day after the Assembled Gods Continent’s Celestial Capital was destroyed, Amber Sword Heart gave the throne to Drifting Snow and officially abdicated.

He had suffered innumerable insults every day, and he was sick of it.

However, Drifting Snow did not fare much better on the throne. His leadership skills were not even as good as Amber Sword Heart’s, and he was no super rich young master, so he could not provide the funds to build a country either. If someone swore at him, he would mute them, and if they went too far, he would throw them into jail. In just three days, resentment among the people was at an all-time high.

With a crappy King on the throne, everyone started to reminisce about their good old previous Queen. These people had completely forgotten how they had not spared Fluttering Snow Purple Water Chestnut any insults either when she had been on the throne…

Nevertheless, no matter how these people yapped, the Fluttering Snow Alliance stayed silent, and Fluttering Snow Purple Water Chestnut was practically MIA. Bai Xiaoya even publicly announced that the Fluttering Snow Alliance were not going to participate in any Throne Wars in the near future.

The country was now a mess, lacking money and resources. Taking the throne now would be nothing short of self-sabotage. Bai Xiaoya would never do something so foolish.

One month later, just when the Assembled Gods Continent’s Celestial Capital had finished rebuilding, Li Yi appeared at the Central Plaza and released 500 Imperial Guards and 25 Ancient Kings’ Souls.

“Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!”

“Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!”

The Assembled Gods Continent’s Celestial Capital was once more engulfed in smoke and flames. Four hours later, all of the buildings had been destroyed again.

‘I either go big, or go home. You’re the ones who provoked me first, so you can’t take it back now even if you tried!’

The Assembled Gods Continent’s Celestial Capital was once more reduced to rubble, and taxes all over the country rose again, while the teleportation doors and Return City Stones were disabled…

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