Chapter 61: Triple Lightning Arrow Rain!
“No, I waited at the cave entrance for a long time yesterday. There wasn’t a single sound from inside. The soup is almost ready, and I need to pee — we can use it to enhance the flavor.”
At that moment, a seated ogre stood up, lifted the beast-skin curtain in front of the cauldron, then pulled out something terrifying in size — visually estimated to be at least… forty to fifty centimeters long. Ahem…
[Mutated Ogre] (Enhanced Monster)
Skills: Immense Strength, Rampage.
Description: An ogre mutated after being infected by the aura of the Abyss.
Needless to say, enhanced monsters definitely had attributes powerful enough to be considered mini-bosses.
But Jiang Chen didn’t overthink it. He simply drew his bow and began his assault.
Blazing flames ignited on the glowing white arrow, then it soared through the air with a long tail of fire, striking the target with precision.
Not gasping in shock at this would be a disservice to the astonishing sight before him.
Just one arrow had dealt over 24,000 damage!
Upon checking the combat log, Jiang Chen discovered that not only had the “Phantom Strike” effect triggered, but it also landed a critical hit.
Phantom Strike x400% damage, Crit x200% damage, plus Jiang Chen had a 10% crit damage boost, and with the bonus from [Flame Infusion], the final damage exploded — a whopping 24,560 points.
If other players saw this kind of damage, they probably wouldn’t believe it.
Even Jiang Chen himself was stunned by the damage output.
With just one arrow, the ogre lost two-thirds of its HP in an instant. Clearly, that shot hurt. Roaring in rage, the ogre raised its massive axe.
Jiang Chen didn’t let up — flame arrows kept flying from his longbow.
Sure enough, ever since he got the Painted Sparrow Phantom Bow, his attack damage had risen to a whole new level.
The surrounding ogres also roared in anger and charged at Jiang Chen with weapons raised.
Jiang Chen launched a volley of arrows into the sky. But what happened next left him utterly shocked — every arrow in the barrage carried the Swiftfire Flame effect.
“Swish-Swish-Swish-Swish…”
A storm of arrows rained down upon the ogres’ location, engulfing the area in a sea of fire.
Flame Infusion boosts arrow damage by 20%. Don’t underestimate that — with Jiang Chen’s current attack power, that bonus amounted to at least 406 extra damage, which was equivalent to half a platinum-grade item.
If Triple Arrow Rain could replicate elemental arrows — say, if he switched to Frost Arrows — wouldn’t that be like a mage’s “Frost Zone”?
What about Lightning Arrows…
Jiang Chen’s heart skipped a beat.
Lightning Arrows dealt chain damage — could that effect spread through mobs like a chain reaction?
If so, Triple Arrow Rain would become terrifyingly powerful in Jiang Chen’s hands.
Since Triple Arrow Rain had a 60-second cooldown, Jiang Chen used it to wipe out all the mutated ogres before him and started looting the corpses.
The drop rate in Hope World was still tragically low. Even with Jiang Chen’s 200 luck, he didn’t get any equipment drops.
From 5 ogres, he only managed to collect 2,800 copper coins.
[Quest Progress: 5/500]
The ogres had indeed mutated, and from their description, Jiang Chen learned they had been corrupted by the aura of the Abyss.
Even so, Jiang Chen was determined to finish the kill quest. If he just turned it in now, he’d get next to nothing out of it — no way he’d waste a rare opportunity .
Plus, Han Gongque’s ‘Liver Emperor’ was still out there relentlessly farming monsters — Jiang Chen had no reason to slack off.
He continued deeper into the canyon. The quest required 500 ogres and 1 ogre chieftain — this would take time.
Soon enough, Jiang Chen found another group of mutated ogres. They spotted him from afar and charged at him with their axes.
“Not even in their aggro range, and they’re still chasing me?”
Jiang Chen was secretly alarmed — these monsters were getting more independent.
They now had their own behavior and logic, very different from monsters below level 30.
Previously, every monster Jiang Chen encountered would only attack if the player entered their territory or provoked them first.
Now? These monsters attacked just because they saw him.
It seemed the system was gradually upgrading the monsters’ AI.
A group of ogres swung their mighty axes at Jiang Chen, but to him, they were far too slow. Besides, no archer would let a melee brute close the distance.
“Lightning Infusion!”
Jiang Chen imbued his arrows with Lightning Infusion and fired a volley into the sky — time to test the power of this skill combo.
In the next instant, arrows rained down in a 3×3 meter area, and purple-white lightning bounced wildly between the monsters.
The area resembled an electromagnetic field, with lightning crackling everywhere. Each monster’s head began flashing with damage numbers.
Almost every monster was hit by 9 lightning bounces — and that wasn’t even the worst part.
Three waves of lightning arrow rain followed in succession.
What happened next was almost blinding — three seconds later, the area ahead had become a scorched wasteland.
Ten ogres barely hung on to life, but their HP ran out in the final moments. One after another, they collapsed, their bodies still emitting black smoke.
“Ding! Congratulations, you’ve killed a Mutated Ogre. Gained 1,324 EXP.”
“Ding! Congratulations…”
“Ding! Congratulations…”
The sweet chime of system notifications rang out one after another.
Level 33 enhanced monsters gave generous EXP — over 1,000 points per kill. A single wave was worth nearly 10,000 EXP.
At this rate, leveling up didn’t seem that hard — after all, Jiang Chen only spent about half a minute to wipe them out and clean up the battlefield.
Jiang Chen summoned his pet to help with the grind, and to level it up too. Once Xiao Rongyan hit level 20, it was bound to awaken new skills.
Killing monsters, looting, and finding new targets — before long, Jiang Chen noticed Triple Arrow Rain was off cooldown again.
This grinding rhythm is good.