Shen Lu: I've Mutated into Multiple Game-Breaking Abilities

Chapter 39: Entering Breeze Canyon

After wrapping up that topic. Ling Yi sat up and asked, “Don’t you really think there’s a chance you could become a player in the future?” Lin Shurou’s eyes flickered, and she looked at him in surprise, exclaiming, “So you really do want to come to our server?” “Don’t even think about it—it’s impossible. If you fail, the punishment will be severe.” He knew how difficult it would be, so he stopped beating around the bush. Instead, he asked, “I heard there’s a very mysterious treasure in the beginner maps...” [A new day has begun. You have gained 3 hours of Descent Time. ] June 3, midnight. The third day since the June session of Shen Lu opened. This time, Ling Yi entered with a specific goal in mind. He was heading to the Main Path to obtain a mysterious treasure that players had been raving about. As soon as he entered, he swiftly activated a teleportation talisman. The modified teleportation talisman could transport him up to ten kilometers in one direction; he set the destination toward the Main Path. The next second, the scene shifted. He found himself right in the middle of a canyon. The canyon was about two hundred meters wide, with flat ground flanked by lush, green mountains rising three to four hundred meters high. The area was teeming with monsters that floated like ghosts several meters above the ground, their entire bodies composed of a pale green, unknown gas. [Current Area: Breeze Canyon (Main Path, Stage 2)] [Monster Information: Wind Elementals (Lv5–Lv15), Gale Manipulators (Lv15, Boss)] Those monsters floating in midair were clearly Wind Elementals. Upon spotting a human appear here, they immediately broke out of their “wandering” state and flew toward him at full speed. Ling Yi’s target wasn’t them; he had no intention of wasting time on them. He immediately took off running. Although Agility is a Wind Elemental’s strongest attribute, even a Level 15 Wind Elemental only has 45 points in Agility. If Ling Yi hadn’t cast a support spell, there was a good chance they would have caught up to him. But there were no “ifs.” Right now, Ling Yi’s Agility was a whopping 100! Forget ordinary Level 15 monsters—even if a boss monster came after him, he’d dare to race it! “The teleportation scroll took me ten kilometers—I didn’t expect to end up right at the second checkpoint.” He pondered as he ran. ‘According to the information I’ve reviewed, that treasure is in a chest behind Boss in the second stage of the main path on the beginner map.’ ‘So all I have to do is open the chest as fast as I can and run away once it’s open.’ “I don’t need to fight them just yet.” The monsters on the main path are different from those in the wild or near treasure chests. On the main path once monsters die, they’re gone for good—they won’t respawn. The number of treasure chests, their locations, and their contents are all exactly the same. Unlike in the wild where monsters can respawn and treasure chests are completely random. Therefore, Ling Yi was quite certain that if he opened a treasure chest, he would definitely obtain that treasure. The only question was whether he could get past the interference of the second-level Boss, the “Gale Manipulator.” The biggest difference between the monsters on the main path and those in the wilderness is that the monsters on the main path are organized into groups. They cooperate and possess intelligence. Moreover, the monster leader can command all the monsters in this level. Ling Yi had no idea what would happen if he actually fought them. In any case, it definitely wouldn’t be easy! At the very least, his [Starfall] wouldn’t be so easy to land. As he ran deep within the canyon, the Boss monster, the “Gale Manipulator,” suddenly opened its eyes! This was a humanoid Boss. Standing three meters tall, its entire body was shrouded in a pitch-black cloak, revealing only a pair of eyes that glowed like blue flames. It sat cross-legged, floating half a meter above the ground. In its gaunt hands, which resembled rotten tree branches, it gripped a five-meter-long greenwood staff. Faint specks of light flickered across the staff’s surface, revealing its extraordinary quality. Perhaps sensing the player’s presence, it slowly soared into the sky, its eyes gazing into the distance. With that single glance, it spotted the human being chased by hundreds of wind elementals. Upon seeing this the Wind Manipulator slowly raised the scepter in his hand. As he raised the scepter above his head, sudden gusts of gale-force wind suddenly swept through the land! Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh The gale formed from the space behind him and blew toward the direction he was facing. The shallow-rooted grasses and exposed sand and silt on the ground were all swept up by the gale and carried off into the distance. On the other side, Ling Yi had been running. Suddenly, he saw a cloud of dust rising hundreds of meters away. “The Boss has made his move!” He had done his homework long before arriving and knew exactly what skills the Wind Manipulator possessed. Accordingly, he had prepared several targeted talismans. [Wind-Proof Talisman (E)]: Grants the user immunity to wind effects for 30 seconds. At that moment, while still running, he pulled one out of his backpack and activated it. Just in case, he’d bought ten of these Wind-Proof Talismans. At only 2 gold coins each, they weren’t expensive. After using it, a light blue character for “Avoid” appeared directly in front of his chest; the entire character emitted a dazzling glow from top to bottom before quickly vanishing. Ling Yi, who was already running at full speed, had been struggling to speak due to the headwind. As soon as he used the talisman, he immediately felt the difference. It was as if he were enveloped by a transparent shield; now, he could no longer feel the wind at all. His speed had even increased significantly! His clothes, which had been flapping noisily in the wind, had calmed down, as if he were running on a treadmill. When the gale unleashed by the Wind Manipulator blew straight at him, he felt nothing except for the specks of dirt that were swept high into the air and scattered across his clothes. In the blink of an eye, he was less than a hundred meters away from the Wind Manipulator. The latter’s figure was now clearly visible. Seeing that his previous attack had had no effect, the Wind Manipulator spun his staff, summoning one greenish-blue wind eagle after another. “Wind eagles? I can’t block these head-on.” The gale from earlier was just an ordinary strong wind; it wasn’t inherently harmful. But these wind eagles were no weaker than the summoned beasts of players at the same level. Ling Yi had to dodge them as much as possible. After all, his Earth Shield only had 30 uses. After 30 uses, with his physical constitution now no different from that of an ordinary person, he simply wouldn’t be able to withstand a single attack from his opponent. The Wind Eagle had a wingspan of three meters and was entirely composed of blue-green flames. As soon as it was summoned, it swiftly soared into the sky. Once it reached a certain height, it changed course and glided toward Ling Yi at high speed! Its speed was incredibly swift! Anyone with lower Agility would likely only see flashes of blue-green light streaking by. Even Ling Yi, whose Agility now stood at 100, couldn’t help but exclaim, “That’s fast!” Immediately afterward came his instinctive reaction. “Copy!” Whenever he saw a creature with high stats, he instinctively wanted to copy them. However, because the Wind Eagle was of a higher level than him, the copy attempt failed this time. A summoned beast’s level matches that of its summoner. A Level 15 Gale Manipulator naturally summons a Level 15 summoned beast. [Attribute Copy] can only copy creatures whose level is no higher than his own. “What a pity.” Ling Yi didn’t dwell on it. Faced with Wind Eagles diving and gliding toward him one after another, he had no choice but to halt his advance temporarily and dodge with all his might.