[You see a group of Octopus Soldiers surrounding the Scarecrow up ahead, all of them swinging their tentacles, ceaselessly whipping the Scarecrow.]
[You notice that with each lashing from the octopuses, straw continuously fell from the Scarecrow’s body. However, the Scarecrow quickly restored its plump form and its torn clothing also swiftly restored to its former state.]
[You remained hidden in the distance, watching the Scarecrow endure nearly ten minutes of whipping, after which the octopuses seemed to have achieved a certain goal and left the Scarecrow behind...]
After all the nearby Octopus Soldiers had gone, Mu You finally began to control his character to check it out.
[You walk up to find the Scarecrow, who was just whipped to pieces by a group of octopuses, fully healed once more. The button eyes and stitched mouth portray a smiling face, as if to welcome your arrival.]
[Training Scarecrow (Low-Level): A special item with ten thousand durability points and superior healing ability. Non-flammable. Can be used to test various types of attacks and magic.
Unit level 10 and above, each attack on the Scarecrow ten times will receive 1 experience point. Each person can gain a daily limit: 1,000 experience points.
Each attack on the Scarecrow 1,000 times will permanently increase physical attack by 1 point. Obtainable limit: 50 points.]
"Permanently increase attack power?"
Mu You was taken by surprise. The effects of this Scarecrow were astoundingly good. It even allowed a permanent increase in attack power!
Attack power is purely physical damage. The higher your attack power, the higher the damage each punch, arrow or blade strike inflicted.
This attribute was directly linked to strength, and besides naturally becoming stronger, there were generally no way to increase it. But now a method to solely increase attack power appeared, and the increase limit was as high as 50 points!
Now, Mu You’s attack power hovered around twenty or thirty points. Even with the maximum bonus from his vampire skin, it did not exceed fifty points. But if he could get the full attack bonus from this Scarecrow, it was equivalent to doubling his attack power!
Now that Mu You finally understood why the attack power of those Octopus Soldiers was so insane. Standing guard over the Scarecrow, this divine artifact, even if they didn’t train everyday, showing up occasionally was enough to have maxed out the attack bonus here.
Not to mention, farming the Scarecrow also rewarded experience. A thousand points per day was much more efficient than battling monsters and competing with other players!
Mu You immediately controlled his character and stepped forward to try it out.
[You swing the Vampire Claws, launching an attack on the Scarecrow...]
[You attacked the Scarecrow ten times, experience points +1...]
[You attacked the Scarecrow ten times, experience points +1...]
Mu You checked his stopwatch and calculated that he could average three strikes per second. To hit ten times required a little over three seconds.
In addition, keeping this Scarecrow-farming status consumed one point of action power per minute. But since he now had food in prison to eat, he could continuously restore his action power. That wasn’t a problem.
Based on this efficiency, he could gain 18 experience points per minute. To max out at a thousand points would take 55 minutes. Including the time spent on ’farming food in prison,’ it would total nearly an hour and a half!
With this rate of one thousand experience points every one and a half hours, his efficiency was not much worse than when he massacred the Ratmen on the Rotten Grassland a few days ago.
It’s a pity that there is a daily max limit of 1,000 points. Otherwise, Mu You would commit to farming this 24 hours a day until it explodes!
While no one was nearby at this moment, Mu You immediately began to farm the Scarecrow right away.
Whenever Octopus Soldiers passed by in the middle of his mission, he would hide deep in a corner and reappear only after the Octopus Soldiers had moved on.
After he was exhausted, he harvested a batch of food in nearby jail cells and resumed his farming.
After a full hour and a half, Mu You finally maxed out his 1,000 experience points, and in the process, his attack power also increased by 10 points.
Of course, he could stay back and continue to increase his attack power. But based on today’s efficiency, he would only need five days to max out his attack power. There was no rush.
Right when a message also popped up indicating ’Octopus Soldiers approaching nearby,’ he left the spot and headed towards the ’Shell Helmet Cave’ indicated on the map.
[Following the map’s guidance, you arrive at a remote corner in the northwest of the second layer.]
[At the top of this moss-covered stone wall, you lift the surface water grass, discovering a hidden cave half a meter wide.]
Fortunately, it seems Shell Helmet Cave hasn’t been discovered by the Octopus Soldiers yet.
Mu You immediately controlled his character to crawl into it.
This cave was extremely narrow, and he was stuck just ten meters in. Mu You had no choice but to switch to his fortune teller skin, which barely made it passable.
[...After a stretch of pitch-dark cave, you see a sliver of light ahead.]
[You crawl towards the light and finally emerge from the exit of this cave.]
[You have arrived at the third layer of the Underwater Prison!]
While he successfully reached the third layer, before Mu You could celebrate, he was immediately startled by the pop-up toast message.
[Upon entering the third layer, you suddenly detect the surging of poisonous gas around you. The thick, eerie green mist permeates the whole third layer. Only those in the prison cell are exempt from the attack of the poisonous mist.]
[This is a corrosive poison released by the Octopus King’s kidney. In the midst of the poison mist, your HP will decrease at a rate of five points per second, and it accumulates faster and faster as poison builds up. Every 15 seconds, the toxicity effect on you will increase one level. It would be best for you to find shelter in a prison cell as soon as possible...]