MMORPG: Divine Monster Transmuter - Chapter 405

Chapter 405: You’re Getting Arrogant

Bang! Bang!

Knocking sounds kept on coming from outside the Floating Palace.

Jiang Feng, who was sitting inside numbly looked behind him, and then smiled coldly. “King Zhou, stop wasting your breath. The materials used to build this Floating Palace were better than the Post-Creation Treasure level ore from Dragonquarry. You will not be able to break it open!”

King Zhou’s angry voice came from behind and said, “Shifter Emperor, I advise you to open this door. Otherwise, I will make sure that the Shifters will know no peaceful days!”

Jiang Feng then replied to him coldly, “You better take that back, or when I go out, I will mess up your Shang Dynasty!”

King Zhou. “Alright, come out if you are so courageous!”

Jiang Feng smiled coldly. “Come in, I dare you!”

King Zhou. “Come out!”

Jiang Feng. “Come in!”

King Zhou. “Shifter Emperor, you chicken!”

Jiang Feng. “King Zhou, you have a small d*ck!”

***

Shi Long listened to the ruler of Silvermoon and the boss of the Shifter faction yelling at each other across a door, and they seemed to be having a lot of fun.

“I am so angry! Ahh!”

King Zhou furiously roared and slashed the Nine Dragon Sword on the Floating Island, and the entire Island began to shake.

“Come!”

Seeing that Jiang Feng was no longer responding to him, King Zhou was no longer willing to stay on the island. He left with Shi Long.

It was pointless to wait on the outside.

When Jiang Feng entered the Floating Palace, he would eventually become the new owner of the Floating Palace. And if he were to activate the Defensive Array, even King Zhou would not be able to break through since the array on the Floating Island was built by Bobo. King Zhou could not break it apart.

***

When there were no longer any movements, Jiang Feng cleared his throat, stood up, and began to observe the Floating Palace.

There was a yard in the front, and it looked like it was in a fairy realm with yards, hills, streams, and pagodas all already available.

And in front of him was a building that was shaped like a carrot.

“Er… This is definitely made by Bobo!”

Jiang Feng felt speechless as he looked at the carrot-shaped building.

He walked toward the building.

When he came before the carrot-shaped building, he pushed open the door and entered.

Whoosh!

As soon as he entered the hall, a hostile aura and the scent of blood slammed him in the face, and it made all his hairs on his arms stand up.

The great hall was dark. On the two sides of the hall were six braziers each. In the brazier, blood-red flames were burning. And on top of each of the braziers was a ring, floating in midair.

The rings felt like they had been soaked in blood for many years. And it was so red that it was almost black. The smell of blood came from the rings.

What made Jiang Feng even more surprised was that on these dark-red rings, was carved a blood-red horse with a horn on its forehead with wings on its black.

“Holy, these are the rings for the Twelve Knights of Despair? This is so cool!”

Jiang Feng was shocked as he looked at the twelve rings, and then his hand extended toward one of them.

Hiss…

The moment he approached the ring, the blood-red horse on the ring suddenly enlarged and it raised both its hooves and kicked at Jiang Feng.

“Dimension Door!”

The moment that he was going to get kicked, he quickly teleported away.

If he was kicked by it, even if he did not die, he would be crippled.

“Is it because I am not the Floating Island’s owner yet?” Jiang Feng mumbled to himself.

If he did not become the owner of the Floating Island, then he would not be able to get the rings of the Twelve Knights of Despair, and he would then be unable to get the Twelve Knights of Despair. It was pointless to come here.

Helplessly, he gave up on obtaining the rings of the Twelve Knights of Despair and headed to the throne in the hall.

The throne was on a platform, and he would need to walk up a staircase.

Whoosh!

But the moment that he stepped on the stairs, Bobo’s figure had also appeared on the stairs. However, this was not the real Bobo, it was just a phantasm.

There was a crown on Bobo’s head, and he was wearing a yellow robe, and he looked quite majestic.

“Stop. Come any closer, and die!” Bobo stared at Jiang Feng and said coldly.

“Bobo, why are you here?” Jiang Feng was quite happy when he first saw Bobo’s phantasm. He was just going to climb up the stairs, but discovered that something was not right, and quickly stopped himself. Then, he said to Bobo’s phantasm, “You are not the real Bobo. You are just an image conjured using one strand of Bobo’s spiritual energy.”

Bobo remained expressionless and said, “Answer me these three questions, and you can then become the Floating Island’s Master.”

“Er…” Jiang Feng paused slightly, and immediately asked, “Tell me then. Which three questions?!”

Bobo then asked, “The first question. Why are we alive?”

“That easy?” Jiang Feng blinked and said, “For my family, for my beloved, and to live for the sake of being alive!”

Bobo then said, “Wrong. You have two more chances!”

‘Damn it, looks like I have to phone-a-friend.’

Other than those answers he gave, he could not think of any other answers anymore.

Even if he managed to google that answer, it might be part of some motivational bullsh*t. With Bobo’s head, he probably could not think of those kinds of motivational things.

As he was at a stalemate, he had to ask Bobo himself for the answer.

He sent a video call request to Ling Feiyu, and very quickly she accepted it.

“Feiyu, is Bobo next to you?” Jiang Feng asked.

“No, he is at the casino.”

“Can you find him? I have some questions for him!”

***

After a while, Ling Feiyu had finally found Bobo, and pulled him into the video call.

Jiang Feng looked at Bobo that was nibbling on a carrot, then pointed at Bobo’s phantasm and said to him speechlessly, “Bobo, what kind of questions did you set here? Quickly, tell me the answers!”

Bobo looked at the phantasm that he created, and then smiled. “I can tell you the answer. 20 billion pp!”

Jiang Feng rolled his eyes at Bobo. “Are you trying to rob in broad daylight? I helped you win so much money already! And all I need is a little help from you… Where’s the camaraderie?!”

Bobo then said, “No haggling. 20 billion pp!”

Jiang Feng. “You’re getting arrogant!”

Bobo then said, “Damn, that floating island is mine. I’m giving it to you for 20 billion, is that a lot? If you don’t want the answers to the questions, let me remind you, if you cannot answer the questions correctly three times, the twelve rings would attack you and kill you. Once you’re dead, and the Floating Island Schema has been dropped, no one else would be able to enter the floating island other than me!”

“Alright, alright. I’ll give you what you want!”

What Bobo said was true. Bobo had spent his entire lifetime building the Floating Island. Even 20 billion pp was a discounted price.

Not to mention that if it was just as Bobo said, he would die if he could not get the answers right three times, then he would never obtain the Floating Island.

Under his agreement, Ling Feiyu gave Bobo 20 billion pp.

When Bobo got the money, he laughed happily, and then he suddenly became all serious and asked, “You sure you want to inherit the Twelve Knights of Despair?”

“Yes!” Jiang Feng nodded in earnest.

He could not simply give up twelve pieces of powerful equipment such as these.

“Alright, I will tell you the answers. But remember, while the Twelve Knights of Despair are very powerful, they have quite a few weaknesses. I hope you will be able to control them. The answers are…”

After giving Jiang Feng a few words of advice, Bobo then gave the answers to Jiang Feng.

The answers that Jiang Feng got made him speechless again. Because the answers to the three questions were all the same. The answers were all the same, one word. “Kill!”

Chapter 406: Void Nightmare

“Kill!”

It seemed that Bobo really liked killing in the past. While the questions were very normal, when combined with the answers, they were filled with hostility.

“Not bad, I hope that you will spread the fame of the Twelve Knights of Despair!”

Bobo’s phantasm took out an order tablet and then gave it to Jiang Feng. It smiled coldly and slowly disappeared.

Ding. System Prompt: Congratulations on becoming the master of the Floating Island, and receiving the Floating Order!

Floating Order: Special Item

Equipping the Floating Order would allow the user to control the Floating Island as well as rule the Twelve Knights of Despair.

Artifact Spirit: Void Nightmare

Prerequisite: Shifter Emperor (Bound)

Once he had received the Floating Order, he slowly turned and with a smile, he waved the Floating Order in his hand and said, “Twelve Knights of Despair, return to me!”

Whoosh!

As soon as he had said that, the twelve rings on the brazier became a bolt of blood-red light and entered into the back of the Float Order, and inserted themselves into the twelve slots behind the Floating Order.

After taking back all the rings of the Twelve Knights of Despair, he took one of them out and checked on their stats.

[Twelve Knights of Despair]: Unranked Special Ring

Sacred Attack +300%

Sacred Mana +300%

When attacking, absorb 30% damage done as Sacred Health.

Critical Hit +30%

Evasion +30%

Attack Speed +30%

Movement Speed +300%

Active Skills:

Berserk: When you have entered the Berserk state, increase attack and movement speed by 100%, duration of 30 minutes, cooldown of 1 hour.

Slaughter: When you have entered the Slaughter state, all stats increase by 100%, duration of 30 minutes, cooldown of 2 hours.

Indifference: When you have entered the Indifference state, all stats increase by 300%, duration of 30 minutes, cooldown of 5 hours. When you have entered the state of Indifference, you will become emotionless and dedicated to slaughtering.

Reckless: When there’s only 10% or less Sacred Health remaining, you would enter Reckless state. During reckless state, all normal attacks deal splash damage in an area of 5 meters.

Blood Shield: Expends 100,000 Sacred Health to form a Blood Shield. The Blood Shield can block any attack once.

Blood Blink: Expends 10,000 Sacred Health to appear anywhere within 10 meters.

Blood Resurrection: Expends 100,000 Sacred Health permanently to revive in perfect condition after death!

Passive Skill:

Murderous Intent: Every time 100 enemies are killed, would receive one point of Murderous Intent. Once 100 points of Murderous Intent have been gathered, one could activate a Murderous Miasma Domain. Any enemies that are within the Murderous Miasma Domain would become terrified and all of their stats would be reduced by 5% every second.

Summon Spirit: Summon a Void Nightmare.

Prerequisites: No limits, except the owner of the Floating Order (Once equipped, will become bound. It cannot be removed unless its master is permanently dead.)

Void Nightmare: Level 250 Rank One Sacred Level

Steed Attributes:

Movement Speed +200%

Flying Speed +300%

Active Skills:

Void Dimension: Can move within a 100-meter square space, and can also stay within the space.

Combat stats:

Sacred Health: 400,000

…

“Huh… That’s so many attributes! But it really is powerful!”

Jiang Feng was sure that the Twelve Knights of Despair ring was the equipment that had the most stats.

Especially the Void Nightmare’s combat stats. It was so long that it was terrifying.

The Artifact Spirits of the Twelve Knights of Despair started as Rank One Sacred Level. But as their masters increase in power, so would they become more powerful as well. They were really powerful!

But what was most surprising was that the rings would have the Shifters’ three main statuses as skills, and they could activate them freely.

Looking at Indifference’s description, he could not help but breathe in a mouthful of cold air.

Increase all stats by 300%. That meant that it would increase the user’s overall power by 3 times. It was terrifying.

“Sigh… Unfortunately, I can’t equip these two rings.”

The Twelve Knights of Despair rings could not be equipped by the master of the Floating Order.

But if he could equip it, he would be invincible.

The equipment not only granted powerful attacks, they also granted powerful survivability.

The 300% bonus to Sacred Attack and Sacred Mana was almost at Deicide’s level. Blood Shield, Blood Blink, and Blood Resurrection, while requiring the expenditure of Sacred Health, especially Blood Resurrection that needed them to permanently sacrifice Sacred Health, but they would get immortality in return.

“Now that I have the Twelve Knights of Despair rings, who should I choose to be the Twelve Shifter Knights?”

Jiang Feng fell into deep thought as he looked at the twelve rings.

Once they become one of the Shifter Knights, they would no longer be able to escape his control. There might be very few players that would be willing to do that, so he would have to find someone among his followers or recruit some powerful generals. For example, Xiang Yu that Mu Xi recruited.

Of course, Xiang Yu’s power was still a bit low. While he would consider him, he might not be giving him one of the Twelve Knights of Despair rings.

“Ah well, I can choose who to be the Shifter Knights later. For now, I should go to Mechanus. If that old bastard King Zhou has really gone to Mechanus, then it would be in big trouble!”

When he thought of that, he summoned the Floating Island’s management panel and made it fly quickly toward Mechanus.

The Floating Island was quite small, and could not be compared with the Ancient City of the Shifter Emperor. However, its speed in the sky was very fast. It was even faster than the Ancient City as it could move around 25km per second.

In a short while, he had reached Mechanus.

When he reached Mechanus, he heaved a sigh of relief because King Zhou did not attack Mechanus.

He left the Floating Island and summoned the Void Nightmare.

“Neigh…”

The Void Nightmare’s body was burning with a dark-red flame, and it was emitting hostility. Its body was about twice the size of a normal horse.

“Go!”

He jumped and rode on the Void Nightmare. Jiang Feng said one word, and in the next moment, the Void Nightmare had disappeared in the air. When it reappeared again, Jiang Feng was already riding the Void Nightmare and had reached where the Machinist NPC was in Mechanus.

His sudden appearance had shocked the Mechanist NPC.

“Haha, what a great steed!”

Jiang Feng said excitedly after he had tried the Void Nightmare.

“Steward, you…” The Mechanist who was shocked by Jiang Feng looked at him.

“It’s nothing. I want to learn the Craft Mechanical skill.” Jiang Feng said.

“No problem. There will be a fee of 1,000pp. Rules cannot be broken.”

“Alright.”

Ding. System prompt: Congratulations, you have learned the Low-Level Craft Mechanical skill.

After learning the Low-Level Craft Mechanical skill, he then took out the Sacred Level Craft Mechanical Proficiency Scroll and increased his Craft Mechanical skill to Sacred Level.

“Since King Zhou isn’t here, I can go to Guanghan Lake next in peace!”

At the very beginning, he had already planned to go to Guanghan Lake. But he did not expect that when he was passing by Mechanus, he would meet Johns and his group looking for the Floating Island Schema, and he would fight with them over it and successfully obtain the schema, and even become the new steward for Mechanus as well as the owner and master of the Floating Island.

It could be said that his journey to Guanghan Lake was filled with mishaps.

Beep! Beep!

Just as he had returned to Floating Island, Jiang Feng controlled the Floating Island to head to Guanghan Lake’s direction. When he was on his way, his friend panel started to blink.

He opened it, and it was a voice message from Ling Luo.

“Shifter Emperor, how much longer do you want to lock me up in here!” Ling Luo complained.

“Er… Sorry.”

When he heard Ling Luo’s words, he felt kind of awkward because he had forgotten that Ling Luo was still in the Lianyao Flask.

“Right, Ling Luo is so powerful. I wonder if she wants to become one of the Twelve Knights of Despair since she should qualify!”

He quickly released Ling Luo with that thought in his mind.

Chapter 407: Sun Wukong’s Distress Call

Imperial Palace, Tianzi City.

“Scram, all of you scram!”

The angry King Zhou drove away all his concubines that wanted to be close with him, and then smashed some of the decorations on the table into the ground.

“Shi Long, lead an army to Mechanus and destroy it in my name! Let us see if the Shifter Emperor will come out then!” King Zhou said to Shi Long who was standing quietly on the side.

“Understood!” Shi Long replied and then he was going to exit the room and head out.

However, he had only taken the first step when Su Daji and Su Ningxiang walked in.

Su Daji walked over charmingly as she moved her waist and then came next to King Zhou’s side, softly stroking his chest and then asked him in a soft voice, “My King, what happened that could have made you so angry?”

When he saw Su Daji, King Zhou’s fiery emotion had slightly died down.

He did not know why, but he could not be angry at Su Daji. He would always be soft with her.

“It was all because of that Shifter Emperor. Not only did he obtain the Floating Island, he even humiliated me. I must destroy Mechanus!” King Zhou said angrily.

“My king, do not get angry. Also, do not send Shi Long out to war. Once our child is born, we will go and find that Shifter Emperor together, alright?” Su Daji said to King Zhou as she stroked her belly.

“What?! My beloved, are you saying that you have my flesh and bones within you?” When King Zhou heard Su Daji’s words, he was first completely stunned before it turned into joy.

“Yes,” Su Daji went into King Zhou’s caress shyly.

“Haha! Good! I shall have a child soon! When our child is born, he must be a very powerful child! Then, defeating the Shifter Emperor would be child’s play! Alright, I will leave him alone for now.”

King Zhou had bedded so many concubines, but none of them had his child. But his most beloved Su Daji had his child. That made him very excited, and would also obey everything that Su Daji had said.

Su Daji and Su Ningxiang exchanged a glance and heaved a sigh of relief. They managed to dispel Jiang Feng’s and Mechanus’s danger.

***

Floating Island.

Jiang Feng released Ling Luo from the Lianyao Flask with an awkward smile.

Ling Luo had only complained once, but when she came out from the Lianyao Flask and saw the beautiful scenery on the floating island, all her unhappiness had drifted away.

“The Floating Island! Shifter Emperor, how did you do it?” Ling Luo asked Jiang Feng with a smile.

Jiang Feng said with a faint smile, “Of course that is because I am very powerful.”

“Tsk.” Ling Luo rolled her eyes at him.

“Speaking of which, I have something I want to ask you!” Jiang Feng remembered the Twelve Knights of Despair rings and asked Ling Luo about them.

Ling Luo should be a player.

And players played games only to have fun. They definitely would not want to be bound to a piece of equipment. Many players would be very against it.

“What is it?”

“Are you willing to be one of Shifter Knights?”

“Shifter Knights? You mean, the Shifter Knights of the Twelve Knights of Despair?”

“Yes.”

“Sure, give it to me!”

***

After their exchange, it made Jiang Feng really surprised. Ling Luo did not hesitate at all. She even wanted it.

But after giving it a thought, he understood why. Ling Luo still did not know about the stats of the Twelve Knights of Despair rings.

“This is one of the Twelve Knights of Despair rings. Look at it first before deciding,” Jiang Feng said to Ling Luo, then took out one of the Twelve Knights of Despair rings and gave it to her.

Ling Luo accepted the ring with a blush on her face, and did not even think twice and immediately wore it on her middle finger.

The moment that the ring was worn on her middle finger, the ring immediately radiated a dark-red fire, and it skewered into her finger. She could not handle the pain, and she shuddered because of it.

Next, a drop of blood appeared on her finger, and it was then inserted into the ring slot behind the floating order where one ring was missing.

“You…”

Jiang Feng was shocked when he saw that she wore the ring without giving it a second thought.

“Tee hee, it’s quite pretty. I like it!” Ling Luo said with a smile as she raised her slender hand and looked at the ring.

“Fine, let’s go.”

When he saw that the ring on Ling Luo’s finger was already bound to her, he was not going to say anything else. Instead, he controlled the Floating Island to quickly head toward Guanghan Lake.

Ling Luo smiled playfully as he looked at Jiang Feng, who was standing on the edge of the Floating Island. She then thought to herself, ‘The Shifter Emperor is quite kind. He doesn’t want me to be controlled by a ring, and also doesn’t want my freedom to be restricted. I wonder what he would think if he knew that I can remove the Twelve Knights of Despair ring.’

In the end, she was still this game’s Lord god. Even if she had already become a player and could not control the game’s settings and other things, if she wanted to remove her own status as a player, all she needed was but a thought.

That was the backdoor that she had opened for her character when she became a player.

“Void Nightmare!”

She smiled and stopped thinking about it, and then summoned the Artifact Spirits of the Twelve Knights of Despair ring and experienced the power of the Void Nightmare.

“Haha! This Void Nightmare is so much fun!” Ling Luo, who was riding her Void Nightmare, was calling out as she had fun.

Jiang Feng turned around and looked at her, and then gave her a smile. He then sat on the edge of the Floating Island and lay on the ground, both his hands behind his head as he looked into the sky slowly turning yellow.

He thought back about what had happened for the past year. It was like a dream.

He was the poor kid who was bullied in school, and his life had changed ever since he picked up the Divine Dominion terminal, and his entire destiny seemed to have changed.

And he had gone through a lot of pain from being a dog to becoming the Shifter Emperor.

Even his sick and studious dad had suddenly become a boss, and he himself had become a second-generation wealthy kid. That had made him feel that it was all even more unreal.

‘I wonder where dad is? I wonder who is dad’s enemy? I wonder why dad never told me about mum?’

There were many questions in his heart, but there was no one that could answer his questions for him.

“Hm?”

Just as he was lamenting, thinking, and was puzzled by his own thoughts, a sunset appeared in the sky. There was an image in the sunset.

On the image was a Five Fingers Mountain that was ten times larger than the Five Fingers Mountain, and Buddhist mantras were written all over it.

Under the Five Fingers Mountain, next to a peach tree forest, a monkey head was stuck outside.

During Spring, the rocks next to the monkey head grew fresh and beautiful flowers despite its initial struggles.

During Summer, a group of grasshoppers was jumping around the monkey head, and there were the sounds of cicadas from far off trees.

During Autumn, the grasshoppers and the sounds of cicadas were all gone. There were only the falling leaves dancing in the air.

During Winter, heavy snow would bury the monkey. Hot tears flowed from the monkey’s eyes that would melt the snow, so he could continue to watch this world.

Many Springs and Autumns had passed. Many Summers and Winters had passed.

But the monkey was all alone being crushed under the Five Fingers Mountain, surrounded by loneliness.

But there was hope in his eyes. Hope that he could one day leave the bindings of the Five Fingers Mountain and return to the side of his wife and child.

The image then turned into a sunset, and the monkey felt like he could sense something. He looked into the sunset, crying, “Shifter Emperor, is that you?”

Jiang Feng’s body shuddered and he asked, “Great Saint, you can see me?”

The monkey was Sun Wukong, The Great Saint who Equates the Heaven!

Sun Wukong said, “You have fused with my body from my previous incarnation, that is why we can sense each other. Come to Dragonquarry quickly and save Violetglow and my Master, and the child in Violetglow!”

Jiang Feng said helplessly, “Great Saint, I can’t help even if I wanted to as I can’t go to Dragonquarry. But don’t worry, one of these days, I will save you and fight our way to Greater Linyin Temple*!”

Sun Wukong shook his head and said, “Shifter Emperor, now…”

Sun Wukong still wanted to say something, but the sunset had disappeared, and so did the image in front of them. Sun Wukong’s and his connection had been broken.

“Huff…”

He came to and heaved out a sigh of frustration. He did not expect that Sun Wukong still could not escape Tathagata’s hand on Dragonquarry. Perhaps it was because he had fused with Sun Wukong’s body, he felt extremely upset and angry!

T/L Note: Should be Greater Leiyin Temple, but I’m not sure at this point.