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Chapter 285: Regional Task

Chapter 285: Chapter 285: Regional Task

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Looking at the terrified expression of the feeble little fish-man in front of him, the burly fish-man felt something was amiss and was about to turn around. Suddenly, he felt a pang of sharp pain from his back.

Broken Wing Dance!

Whoosh, whoosh-

Two bursts of sword light flashed by, instantly slashing the vitality points of the sturdy fish-man significantly. Just as it was about to call out to its companions in fear and flee, a third attack came from the sky, cutting its head into two halves.

The thin little fish-man was so scared that he dropped his weapon. As he was about to turn and run, a blast of air from behind shot him into the air.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh-

Several more sword lights left dark red traces in the air. Song Jian easily took down this small fish-man too.

After casually picking up the materials dropped by the two fish-men, Song Jian was about to rush out. Suddenly, he saw a large group of fish-men storm into the neighborhood. With a slight frown, Song Jian slowly retreated back into a dark corner.

Soon, a few fish-men noticed the two dead bodies. After a bout of clamoring, they hoisted the corpses and retreated along their original path. It seemed the dead fish-men were no different from players and monsters in their eyes. They were treated as goods or food.

At this moment, Song Jian suddenly noticed a red warning light flashing in front of his system screen. Upon checking, he triggered a regional task when he killed the first fish-man.

System: You’ve killed an “LV15 Fish-Head Monster”, triggering a regional mission, The Food Crisis of Fish-head Monsters. Mission instructions: Due to their overwhelming numbers, the Fish-Head Monsters of Jinyang Lake have inadequate food storage and have started to invade their surroundings to plunder food. Mission objective: First stage – kill 50 Fish-Head Monsters, the second stage objectives will appear after you complete the first stage;

System: This is a special regional mission. It can’t be rejected or abandoned. Mission failure penalty: Random decrease of two points in personal attributes. Mission reward: Five hundred Doomsday Coins.

Looking at the mission targets, he had already killed two Fish-Head Monsters. He still needed to kill forty-eight more to complete the first stage of the mission.

Originally, Song Jian only wanted to evacuate. After all, in this large-scale monster tide, individual strength was essentially useless and could even potentially trap him.

However, upon seeing the words “special regional mission”, Song Jian immediately thought of the skill stone stele. The rewards from such sudden missions were considerable. Moreover, leaving now would result in an immediate loss of two attribute points, which was certainly unacceptable.

With this in mind, Song Jian summoned the Black Dragon hatchling. Now a level-nine elite BOSS, the hatchling could easily defeat a level-fifteen Fish-Head Monster in one-on-one combat. Its strength was not to be underestimated.

As for the Blood Crow and the Blood Zombie, it would be better to not summon these cannon fodders and save himself the embarrassment.

A tender dragon chant echoed, causing a few fish-men planning to explore the residential building to shudder. They looked at each other and simultaneously turned tail and fled. It seemed that Dragon Might was also effective against these Fish-Head Monsters.

With this, Song Jian’s confidence soared. He stepped out of the residential building and charged towards a group of five or six Fish-Head Monsters.

Weakness Potion!

A potion bottle shattered under the feet of the Fish-Head Monsters. A cloud of gray powder, looking like fog, enveloped them.

The Black Dragon hatchling pounced at them excitedly, continuously spitting out blazing Dragon Breath. The Monster’s club hit the hatchling, apart from reducing its vitality points by a dozen or so and enraging it further, it had no other effect;

Soon, these level-fifteen Fish-Head Monsters were killed by Song Jian and the Black Dragon hatchling. Although the experience points were not as rewarding as those from gene warriors, they were still decent. Song Jian had planned to level up by hunting down level-fifteen monsters.

The commotion of the battle once again attracted other Fish-Head Monsters in the residential neighborhood. Within a short period, a dozen or so Fish-Head Monsters were lured over. Song Jian slowly retreated towards the residential building. In an open area, even if his strength were to double, facing off against dozens of level-fifteen monsters simultaneously was beyond him.

Entering the residential building, its narrow staircase could only accommodate two people side by side. Once he secured such a terrain, killing the group of level-fifteen monsters was much simpler.

It took Song Jian more than half an hour to kill all these Fish-Head Monsters. Along with numerous material drops like “Fresh Fish Meat”, “Sharp Fish Bones”, they surprisingly also dropped three pearls for Song Jian.

Each of these pearls was over twenty millimeters in diameter and had a round and delicate texture. They were obviously invaluable. Even in the real world, they would be highly valuable.

“Exquisite Pearl (White): Valuable Item, Use Effect: Can be sold at the system store, each worth 100 Doomsday Coins, Can you take it out of the game: Yes.”

These three pearls amounted to three hundred Doomsday Coins, a small fortune for an average player. Song Jian played with them in his hand for a while. If he could find more pearls to make a necklace, the value would surely soar.

Packing the three pearls into his bag, Song Jian stepped out of the residential building.

At this moment, a Fish-Head Monster with a red crown was standing at the gate of the neighborhood, making a “ka-ji ka-ji” calling sound, seemingly signaling its companions who had entered the neighborhood.

After calling out a few times with no response, it looked puzzled. It stood in place, craning its neck and tried to scan around for a long time, but couldn’t find any abnormalities, so it turned around.

Song Jian had originally intended to rush out and kill it, in order to prevent it from noticing the odd situation and leading the Fish-Head Monster infantry over. Surprisingly, this creature was skittish and left merely after looking around for a bit.

Just as Song Jian was about to leave the neighborhood, he suddenly heard a hurried “ka-ji ka-ji” sound behind him. Turning around, he saw a Fish-Head Monster with a round club standing in front of the residential building he just vacated, wearing an expression of horror.

Its call was shrill and piercing, like an air-raid siren sounding throughout the vacant neighborhood.

“Damn it!” Song Jian quickly darted towards the Fish-Head Monster. The Crimson Fire Heart Ape Sword in his hand flashed silver, and three Sword Silks appeared, lashing out at the Fish-Head Monster;

A smack, smack, smack-

The three Sword Silks hit the Fish-Head Monster’s body, instantly shattering its scales. A huge force came over, and the Fish-Head Monster, now at half-health, was knocked flying like a ragdoll.

With a stomp of his foot, a tusk-like aura charged at the Fish-Head Monster, striking it hard against a wall and leaving a bloody human-shaped imprint on it.

The Fish-Head Monster struggled to get up and let out a piercing shriek. It turned to run into the neighborhood. Song Jian was about to pursue it when he heard a rapid “thump thump thump” of footsteps from behind. Turning around, he saw the Fish-Head Monster leader wearing armor and holding a long fork running towards the neighborhood.