Rebirth of the thief who roamed around the world (BOOK 4)

Chapter 629 - World Heart!

In the blink of an eye, another 10 days passed by. On this day, Nie Yan completed Path of the Luminous Dancer 3. A notification popped up.

Path of the Luminous Dancer 4:
☐ Sneak into the World Heart.
☐ Retrieve the lost inheritance.

There was finally a break to the monotony! If Nie Yan was forced to grind mobs any longer, he would've gone mad! Rank 3 monsters were already pretty difficult to deal with, let alone Rank 4 or 5! However, this new quest wasn't necessarily easier. In fact, sneaking into the World Heart made the last three quests look like a walk in the park!

Staring at the World Heart in the distance, it appeared getting in without a flying mount would be impossible. Nie Yan looked at his pet space. The Darkwing Dragon was still fast asleep.

"Forget it. I'll just wait for the Darkwing Dragon to wake up." Nie Yan went all around harvesting materials and continued training his various artisan skills. Checking his progress, Engineering, Forging, and Spell Scribing were already Advanced rank, and it wouldn't be long before they reached Master rank. Besides this, Alchemy Master was already 52% of the way to Grandmaster. He could concoct even more different kinds of potions now.

As Nie Yan learned more and more skills, his knowledge of crafting grew deeper and deeper. An odd idea suddenly popped into his mind. "Is it possible to make my own weapons?"

Nie Yan took out some metal extract from his bag. With the help of the Forging skill, he gradually beat them into needles about three inches long and half a thumb thick. One of the needles was made exceptionally sharp, to the extent that it could easily pierce through any armour. Then with the Alchemy Master skill, he concocted a poison which glistened with an azure coloured hue and coated the needles in it.

"Not bad... They'll definitely come in handy if I encounter anything unexpected." Nie Yan pondered for a moment. "I could probably improve them even further." With the Engineering skill, he added a special property to these needles. Once they pierced skin, a mechanism would trigger to release serrated hooks. If you tried to forcefully pull it out, it would rip out a huge chunk of flesh.

This was a clever idea Nie Yan had come up with on the spot. While he was marvelling at his ingenuity, a notification popped up.

You have invented a new weapon. Attack power evaluation: Strength x 5 + 5,000. Special properties evaluation: deal 20% additional bleed damage every second for 10 seconds, chance to inflict cripple status effect. Please name this weapon.

Nie Yan checked the properties of the needles. He didn't expect them to have this kind of effect; the attack power in particular was quite astonishing. There was even an additional bleed and cripple effect. He had about 6,000 Strength. If he attacked an enemy with one of these needles, it would deal 35,000 damage and an additional 70,000 in bleed damage.

"What would be a good name for these things?" Nie Yan pondered for a moment. "Let's just call them Flesh Biters."

Naming successful!

You have successfully invented Flesh Biters. +500 skill proficiency to Forging and Engineering.

Two rays of light enveloped Nie Yan. It was the sign of something ranking up! He quickly checked his skill list. Forging and Engineering had both advanced to Master rank. He didn't expect to receive so much skill proficiency at once!

"Wow, my artisan skills are improving so quickly!" Nie Yan crafted another Flesh Biter. However, this time, he merely gained five skill proficiency in Forging and Engineering. It appeared only inventing something new would give such a large amount of skill proficiency.

Even so, crafting Flesh Biters provided much more skill proficiency than crafting ordinary weapons. Not to mention he could train Forging and Engineering at the same time. It was two birds with one stone.

Nie Yan suddenly felt that learning all these artisan skills was even more worthwhile than he originally thought.

Most players usually learned only one artisan skill. Even if they trained it to a high rank, they still had to find recipes and blueprints, unlike Nie Yan who could research and create high rank items all by himself. In general, high rank items involved at least two or more different technologies in their creation. Even concocting a new type of potion couldn't be done all willy nilly. You still needed the help of other artisans in obtaining specialized receptacles and other Alchemy tools.

The Flesh Biters turned out better than Nie Yan expected. They would become powerful supplementary weapons in the future. In a few more days, he could raise all his artisan skills to Master rank. At that time, he could come up with even more new inventions, which he could use to make himself stronger.

While Nie Yan was lost in thought, he felt a violent fluctuation as a powerful darkness energy overflowed out of his pet space.

"What's going on?" Nie Yan's heart trembled. Looking inside his pet space, all he saw was a dark haze spewing out from his Darkwing Dragon.

The Darkwing Dragon awoke from its slumber and got up on its feet. It radiated a domineering and invincible pressure. Standing taller than before, dense, grayish black scales now protected its body, reflecting a glossy black luster. With a beat of its powerful wings, two small tornadoes wreaked havoc in the pet space.

Nie Yan examined the Darkwing Dragon. All of its stats had risen by at least 30%. It wasn't far from ranking up, only a few Life Cores away. It would probably advance to Rank 7 in no time. At that point, its strength would increase severalfold.

At present, the strongest flying mounts other than his own were Rank 4 at best. With a difference of three ranks, his Darkwing Dragon could easily slaughter all of them.

The Darkwing Dragon was finally fully awake. For the time being, he couldn't feed it any more Life Cores. Nie Yan looked up at the World Heart. He needed to fly up there!

Nie Yan made some preparations, crafting over 50 Flesh Biters, a large amount of Master Health Potions, and some Advanced Combat Bandages. Afterwards, he chanted out an incantation and summoned his Darkwing Dragon.

When the Darkwing Dragon emerged, a wave of darkness energy swept out, causing all the plants in a 10-meter radius to wither and die.

Nie Yan looked up at the Darkwing Dragon, who now stood five meters high. He briefly admired the scales protecting its body. They seemed practically invulnerable.

Nie Yan hopped on its back. The Darkwing Dragon flapped its wings, then shot into the sky, instantly ascending more than several dozen meters in altitude.