<h4>Chapter 213: Heart of the Archer</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion <strong>Editor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion


    “Fatty, were you up at de Peak?”


    “Bro, I wanted to but I’ve yet to make it up there even after countless of deadly falls.”


    He contacted Chen Yang and confirmed that it was not him who had purchased the Universal Keys.


    Li Yi could not help but feel resigned.


    It seemed that many things had changed, followed by his reset in life.


    The first yer to climb up de Peak in the past life was Smiling Dummy. He fell to his death no less than a hundred times from fumbling to sess over half a year’s time. There was a change in this life, it took off earlier by more than two months.


    Li Yi sent Shen Lang a message to get him to investigate if it was indeed Smiling Dummy that climbed de Peak.


    It was not a big deal for other yers to conquer de Peak. As yer’s Reputation value peaked higher and higher, the secret of de Peak would quickly be known to all. Li Yi never intended to hog onto this secret because that was unrealistic. This was an online game, not an offline game.


    Li Yi summoned Ice Toad King and jumped down the mountain.


    “Pst pst pst pst pst shh—”


    Climbing was easy but getting down was hard. Prior to jumping, Li Yi thought he was all good but once he was up in the air, his confidence was torn by the harsh reality.


    When he was on the way up, there was a stepping stone that edged upwards. Now, jumping down, this stepping stone was at an inclined angle. It was quite steep.


    Ice Toad King did not get a good footing and lost bnce, falling...


    “Blop cha—”


    Li Yi dismissed Ice Toad King at a critical juncture, dispatching an Engineer made Cloak Parachute. Thank goodness, there were no idents here. The parachute opened with sess and Li Yi held on for a slow glide down.


    Exposed to the howling of piercing cold winds, Li Yi was in a dull mood. He wanted to get down to the Arena for a look around but great, he was now caught hanging midair.


    The model 250 Cloak Parachute was a basic creation of Engineering that could be mastered from the Beginner Level. But this thing had a high failure rate. It could potentially save one’s life at crucial moments but it was not a straw to clutch at.


    It may or may not work. Most importantly, the direction that the parachute would move was not something controble, it would dwindle with the wind.


    Li Yi was pushed by the wind as he fluttered andnded in a hanging cave on the mountainside.


    Li Yi was amazed. He had nevernded here in the past life. He had always ended up in the sea.


    “Oh, so mysterious. What could be hiding in there?”


    Li Yi summoned Violent Bear King and cautiously pried into the cave.


    In King of Parthenon, the riskier the ce, the bigger the rewards. A hidden cave like this must have been a refuge to a few treasure chest, there was no doubt about it. The developers would not simply leave a useless cave behind just to mystify the yers.


    It was a no-fly zone around de Peak. When he entered the cave, Li Yi noticed that there was no stepping stone of any kind. In other words, para-gliding was the only way into this cave.


    What a coincidence! What luck!


    There were phosphorescence elements within the cave. Although the cave was not well illuminated, Li Yi had full visual. It was not a long walk before he came across a treasure chest wrapped in glorious golden radiance.


    Li Yi still had quite a number of Universal Keys so he took one out to open the chest.


    “Ding!”


    [You’ve opened a treasure chest and found Heart of the Archer Skill Tome. You continue to rummage and find a Compound Elements Skill Tome.]


    A cheerful melody rang as Li Yi picked up these two Skill Tomes. For a moment, he was at a loss for words and could not express how he felt with this sudden stroke of luck.


    Heart of the Archer was the soul of Archers. No matter the path one yed, this skill was a must-learn for every Archer. As this Skill Tome was a rare drop, at least 90% of the Archer ss never learned this in the past life.


    Compound Elements was scarce as well. It was a despotic skill of Natural-Path Summoners. With this Skill Tome, Natural-Path Summoners could link with their pets to triple their ATK, effectively bing assassins.


    Compound Elements was great for Chen Yang while Heart of the Archer was used by Li Yi on the spot.


    Level 1 Heart of the Archer increased Archer’s ATK by 1% and shooting range by 5 yards.


    Li Yi was meaning to use up the remaining two Skills Points but forcefully held back.


    A Level 60 Archer could master a skill that lifted an abnormal state called Survival Instinct. An Archer was notcking in ATK, but rather CC and counter-CC skills. With Survival Instinct paired with the Trickery Ring’s special effect, these two abnormal state-dismissal skills would definitely increase the safety factor during PK and farming monsters.


    Ah, he really needed more Skill Points.


    Li Yi helplessly shook his head. He still needed 10 Skill Points for a legendary skill while Heart of the Archer needed another 19. This was not mentioning his other skills yet...


    Money could buy great pieces of equipment. Even the fairest game would bow to money but Skill Points was a different genre altogether. Money could not buy Skill Points.


    There was no further path ahead. Li Yi patiently searched around the treasure chest. Based on his years of experience in looting treasure chests, he concluded that this cave did not just have one treasure chest.


    Only one treasure chest at a hard-to-reach ce like this? It did not make sense.


    It did not take Li Yi long to find an answer. He found a line of words engraved on the wall behind the treasure chest.


    “As light departs, darkness enters. The dead returns from the jaws of death to the mortal world...”


    As Li Yi recited the engraved words, they radiated a sheer white light, reflecting on his body. Shh shh— At the sh of the white light, the line of words disappeared together with Li Yi.


    Li Yi appeared in a world of darkness. The soil beneath his feet was pitch ck in unison with the skies above. There was no sun, no ray of light but instead, endless cries of sorrowful spirits apanied Li Yi. They swayed to and fro the sky as the crippled undead roamed below.


    The Dwelling of the Undead!


    Apart frommon maps in King of Pantheon, there were also seven Secret ces. Legends spoke of those who triumphed over the difficulties ahead in a Secret ce would be rewarded with bountiful returns.


    One of the Secret ces, Water World was opened to the public once a year. The remaining six Secret ces were inessible to the public. It was up to yers to discover them for themselves.


    Fire Abyss, Water World, Wind Capital, Life Shrine, Heart of Earth Element, Mount Pantheon and Dwelling of the Undead were the seven Secret ces within King of Pantheon.


    Li Yi lifted his head and gazed into the distance. This ce that was crowded with the undead was known to be filled with treasure chest. So the legend of countless treasure chests in the Seven Secret ces rang true.


    Li Yi yearned for the Seven Secret ces legends the most in his past life. It was a shame though, that he had never encountered the other six Secret ces apart from Water World.


    It was revealed a few times on forums on how to enter the Secret ces but no one ever seeded in doing so. The reason was simple. The entry point into the Secret ce was at random. Li Yi may have entered through de Peak’s cave but the next time, the entrance to Dwelling of the Undead would not be within this cave. It would randomly shift to another hard to reach spot.


    The Seven Secret ces were shared by the four continents and any yer could enter. This was simr to Sea Ind’s Trading Center.


    Looking at the vast expanse of the undead, Li Yi was hot with emotions.


    The famous Fire Emperor Lonely Semi City was awesome in grinding levels at the early stages. He bloomed at theter stages result of entering into one of the Seven Secret ces, Fire Abyss. There, he mastered the Ultimate Fire Magic, then joined ranks with the top league.


    There were no disy of HP and levels of the undead and spirits. Li Yi gave it a thought before casting Mislead on Violent Bear King, then shooting an arrow before activating Pseudocide to drop the aggro from himself.


    One white skeleton walked over with the audible rattling of its bones while the other undead were not startled.


    Li Yi heaved a sigh of relief. HP and level aside, at least he could perform single pull.


    The white skeleton moved at a slow speed. Although Li Yi could only move in a small space (There were undead all around), there were no issues circling around with a single skeleton.


    After a minute in battle, the white skeleton fell into a heap onto the ground and was now truly dead.


    His EXP surged by 20,000, giving Li Yi a jerk.


    Wasn’t this EXP a bit too high?


    He became at ease after sinking into his thoughts. Though the white skeleton gave high EXP, its HP was quite high and took over a minute to kill. Leveling up here was not faster than in Underwater Remnants.


    Li Yi went up to loot but came up empty-handed. He helplessly shook his head. He used the same strategy to pull a second white skeleton.


    The way Li Yi saw it, the white skeletons did not move any faster than those fleshy undead. He would first take them down and widen his range of motion before handling the undead.


    Rattle rattle!


    A white skeleton limped over and wielded a fine sword in its hand, void-shing at Li Yi.


    There was a twenty meter-distance between the two parties. A sudden de re appeared before Li Yi. He instinctively dodged to the side but the re managed to hack his shoulder de, causing a -921 damage to appear on his head.


    “F*ck me, demaster skeleton?”


    Li Yi retreated a few steps before initiating Camouge to break away from the battle.


    In King of Pantheon, there were a handful of sses that were the eyes of envy and could not be learned no matter what. The demaster was one of them.


    demasters were proficient in every type of swordsmanship. Legend has it that the most skilled demaster could wield and manipte the attacks of a thousand swords simultaneously. The drive was so powerful and revered, it scored a 100 percent in the cool department.


    But it was a shame that yers were unable to choose this ss. The reasoning the developers had provided was uneptable too, the demaster ss had been wiped outpletely in the Ancient War of the Gods thousands of years ago...


    Li Yi waited until his HP was full before scouting the area around with a frown.


    The demaster ss monster’s ATK was terrifying. That de aura was child’s y. He was lucky the white skeleton did not initiate a 3-Combo de Aura or death would have followed.


    “F*ck me!”


    Just cruising by the demaster white skeleton was an undead zombie with a huge cross behind its back. This was another dream ss, the God-Chastised Pdin, that once again was an unyable ss.


    “Mother, don’t tell me this ce’s the Ancient War Ruins?” Li Yi could not help but curse under his breath.