Chapter 22

【Spider Queen】（Silver Boss Monster）

Level: 21

Attack: 0-0

Defense:100

Health: 50,000

Skill: 【Spawning Spider Eggs】

Description: The Spider Queen corrodes and feeds on the bones of the ancient deceased, absorbing the strength of the dead to produce unlimited spiderlings . This has filled the cave to the breaking point, therefore the Spider Queen must be killed to contain the epidemic of spiderlings in the South Tomb .

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I went silent . While examining the attributes of the Spider Queen, I was shocked by its stats . A 0-0 attack value for a level 21 boss monster . What kind of a monster was this? This indicated one thing, the Spider Queen would mass produce spiders, instead of directly attacking me, like a hive .

In the spider hall, besides the Spider Queen, there were also 12 level 21 poisonous spiders . I could probably attract the poisonous spiders to attack me without aggroing the Spider Queen . Then after finishing them off, I could finally aggro the Spider Queen . I could only hope that my healing capacity would be capable of keeping up with the consumption of my health points .

The plan had been set; I immediately started executing it .

I lured one poisonous spider after another, slaughtering them all 5 minutes later . Only the Spider Queen was left . Her huge body trembled slightly, but no spawning had been initiated . She didn’t seem to have been aggroed .

I started carefully examining the hall . The Spider Queen was encased in a huge coffin which touched the wall at an angle, making a 60 degree angle . If I could stand in the corner, only 4-5 small spiderlings would be able to attack me, while the rest would have to wait for their turn . So as long as I could sustain my health, this would be my chance!

Shasha

My foot slipped on some dust, and I slid to a distance of approximately 3 meters from the spider queen, thereby aggroing it . Her huge body began shivering, pushing out a small round green egg . It rotated a little and then ruptured, and out came a small poisonous spider .

I quickly examined its attributes…

【Small poisonous spider】（Ordinary monster）

Level: 20

Attack: 40-50

Defense: 20

Hit points: 100

Description: Spider Queen’s spiderling

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I was overjoyed! As expected, these small spiderlings didn’t pose a threat . With their low attack and defense, this quest was truly possible! Raising my sword I started slashing at the broodmother, and she shivered, losing 57 hit points . Her defense was so high that I almost couldn’t damage her at all

Meanwhile, the Spider Queen was constantly convulsing and twitching, and mass produced new spiderlings . It sure was fast, and the majority of them were poisonous spiderlings . They soon formed a small group around me, endlessly attacking . Unfortunately for them, each attack only took out 7-8 health, so my level 2 hemostasis could easily sustain me .

Pop!

Suddenly i felt a burst of pain from my ankle and lost over 30 points of health . When I took a closer look, a fire spiderling had appeared . It had an immense attack power of a hundred points . This amount of damaged posed a threat!

The Bramble Thorn sword sliced through the fire spiderling, dealing a fatal blow of a hundred damage . Problem solved . Without worry, I let the poisonous spiders hit me, while I continued to hit the Spider Queen .

As my striking power was limited, even though I was a healer swordsman, I could only deal around 2000 damage a minute . Because the Spider Queens had tough defensive abilities, my attacks were limited to around 50 damage every 1 . 5 second . This was going to be an extremely long fight .

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After a full half hour of constantly hitting, the Spider Queen health was down to 8% . However my cloak’s durability was only at 15% . Sooner or later my equipment would break . Hopefully it wouldn’t before the Spider Queen’s health dropped to rock bottom .

Fortunately, the Spider Queen didn’t have an enraged state, so a few minutes later its health was finally depleted .

“Please, drop Silver-ranked equipment…”I prayed deeply for high-end drops, knowing that even Green-ranked equipment was very rare, and that Bronze-ranked equipment was only a luxury for the top players . So how could a Silver-ranked equipment drop?

Whoosh!

My Bramble Thorn sword passed through the forehead of the Spider Queen, causing green slime and blood to splatter in all direction . The Spider Queen’s life quickly vanished and with it her spiderlings also dropped lifelessly to the ground .

I quickly cleaned my face of the layers of venom that had been sprayed on me, before looking towards the body of the Spider Queen for equipment drops . A golden ray emerged, announcing I rose to level 21 .

Pop!

Jumping over the corpses, I headed towards the sole two pieces of equipments . One was a pair of cloth boots, which were delicate looking and caused my heart skips a beat in delight . The other drop was a lightly glowing, oddly shaped, brass ring .

I reached out and picked up the equipment, quickly viewing the attributes of the boots

【Flame boots】（Green Tier）

Type: Cloth armor

Defense: 12

Magic Power: +5

Passive: Increases the effectiveness of healing spells by 10 points .

Requirement: Level 20 .

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I was overjoyed at how truly great this item was . First, it gave an extra 12 points in defense . Second, it gave an increase of 5 in magic power and lastly there were 10 extra points for my healing spells!

I immediately equipped the flame boots . They felt delicate and nice – Finally, I was no longer barefooted .

Continuing onto the glowing brass ring, I wiped it clean to reveal a golden surface . The attributes which appeared on the screen gave me a huge ear to ear smile .

【Ring of the Berserker】（Bronze）

Endurance: +12

Passive: Increase the attack damage of the user by 7

Required level: 20 .

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My mind went blank at the eye popping stats of the ring . It was a Bronze-ranked equipment! Amazing! Not to mention, it was a ring that was very suitable for me .

After equipping the ring I looked at my stats . They had increased quite a bit!

[Xiao Yao Zi Zai] (Trainee healer)

Level: 21

Attack: 131-149

Defense: 77

Health: 384

Mana: 290

Charm: 7

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12 points extra in endurance increased my HP by 84 . Although healers only got 0 . 7 health per point in endurance, 84 health was better than nothing, not to mention that it was almost ⅓ of my original health . There were also 10 extra points in effectiveness for healing spells from the boots, making this trip quite worthwhile, or should I say, I turned quite a good profit this trip .

As I proudly stood on top of the coffin, I picked up the spider fangs in the hall . Once I collected enough for my quest, I could not pick up any more . So I left to finish the quests, and to become the first healer to get promoted!

Pacha!

I accidentally stepped into a bush and a pair of dried out, bony hands shot out towards me . They grabbed my left leg, scaring my soul out of me! I swung my sword mindlessly, and shouted “Don’t try to harm me monster!”

The branches in the bush were chopped into pieces, scattered left and right… I looked closer, and I found out that it was only a corpse, sucked dry by the Spider Queen . It gave me quite a fright though… .

I turned around and left the spider cave . Ahh, the fresh night air from outside . Quite relaxing… .

Coming to the guard outpost at the graveyard, I handed the spider fangs to the NPC soldier captain . His mouth opened wide, “Wow! You actually killed that evil Spider Queen! That must have been quite the adventure, you are our hero! Come here, young adventurer . Collect your reward!”

“Ding!”

System Notification: You finished the quest [Spider Cave Slaughter], and you receive 7000 experience points . Since you also killed the Spider Queen, you receive and extra reward item: [Killer Bee Seal] .

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Oh, I even got a seal?

I took the new seal out of my bag, and waved my hand to use it . The seal turned into a flash of light and disappeared within my Seal Book . I clicked on it to check out the stats . Ohhhh, the Killer Bee was a lot better than the Silver-Feathered Bird . Pets really were one of the necessities for early game leveling~

[Killer Bee]

Attack：★★★★☆

Defense：★★★

Health：★★★☆

Agility：★★★★☆

Magic：★★☆

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Starting out with 4 . 5 stars worth of attack and agility, it would serve well as a player killing pet, though it could also make leveling up easier and more efficient! But to put use to this seal, I needed to find the actual Killer Bee . I wonder where the Killer Bee came from… I even opened up the official wiki, but I couldn’t find any information . The company for was so stingy . Trying to get information about was like trying to take a loan from a bank, they wouldn’t give money/information to a person who truly needed it .

Whatever, I would just return to the city to get my promotion!

I ran straight to Ba Huang City and found the healing instructor . The beautiful healing instructor was still standing tall with her staff, giving off a young vibe . She looked at me, and gave a charming smile, “Ah, my dear, have you finished your quest?”

I took out the sheepskin, already carved with the text from the gravestone, and gave it to her .

“I’m finished… . . ”

The instructor seemed shocked, “Okay, young healer . You’ve allowed me to see hope . Come, this reward belongs to you . You are now a real healer!”

“Ding!”

System Notification: Congratulations! You have finished your promotion quest . You have been promoted into a healer! Also, since you are the first player to be promoted into a healer . Special reward: Charm +5!

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I already had 12 points of charm, but I still don’t know what charm was for…

I kept on chatting with the instructor . At the same time, two learnable skills popped up in front of my face——

[Heal (LV-1)]: Recovers 150 HP of the target’s health, cooldown of 6 seconds, costs 10 mana . Requires level 20 .

[Therapy (LV-1]: Heals injuries(negative status condition), costs 10 mana . Requires level 20 .

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[Heal] was the upgraded version of [Hemostasis] and had a recovery power that was 3 times stronger than [Hemostasis] . Since I could also use the two skills in rotation, as long as I didn’t get one-shotted, I would be able to recover . [Therapy], I didn’t need to use for now . When players received a large amount of attacks, over a long period of time, they would produce injuries that reduced their fighting power . That was when [Therapy] came into use, but since players at this stage just died before injuries started to occur, [Therapy] was useless .

With the flick of my finger, I learned both skills . Now I was the first healer to be promoted in the entire server!

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“Ringring!”

I received the incoming call . It was Wan Er, “Li Xiao Yao, disconnect and come down . It’s pretty late, and I have some stuff that I want to say to you!”

“Coming!”