Absolute Death Game-Chapter 223 - 13 Void Summoning Art

Xiao Buli had planned to set off immediately, but when he got to the exit of Mystic Hollow Palace, he hesitated. The reason for his hesitation was simple: the map of this game was so damn huge. He had no idea how long it would take to go to Black Stone Village and back.

Even riding a horse would take a day’s time, and if he were to proceed to Nine Dragons City afterward and spend some time in Black Stone Village, it might take at least two or three days to return. Although he had plenty of time now, he couldn’t afford to waste it.

Is there a faster way to travel? Xiao Buli wondered to himself. He did think of a method—using Cloud Thunder Leap to travel could cover several kilometers in one go, and as long as he equipped the Ethereal Armor in advance, he wouldn’t get hurt when he fell. One usage of Cloud Thunder Leap combined with the Ethereal Armor would consume 120 True Origin Points.

To recover these 120 True Origin Points through meditation would take about five minutes, but if he used restorative elixirs, it would only take tens of seconds to replenish them.

Although elixirs were expensive, ordinary food was very cheap. The good thing about True Origin Points was that he could recover them by eating anything. He could definitely bring more food with him and just eat something as he traveled.

With this plan in mind, he decided to go back to the valley to prepare and leave his mount in the Beast Pen. However, when he arrived at the Beast Pen, he saw Jingci amusingly playing with his pet—Maoqiu.

"Haha, you seem to be having a lot of fun with Maoqiu," Xiao Buli said with a smile. When he had previously left for Dahuang Village, he had specially left Maoqiu here because it was inconvenient to take pets along. So much had happened since then that he had almost forgotten about it.

When Jingci saw Xiao Buli coming over, his eyes lit up, "Ah, you’ve come at the right time. I just have a task that I need your help with."

Xiao Buli was immediately delighted, as he was in dire need of Contribution Value. He loved tasks from the Sect, but it seemed strange to receive a task as soon as he got back. How coincidental?

However, he still typed, "Senior brother, please speak freely. I will do my utmost to help."

A sly smile appeared on Jingci’s face, and he cleared his throat, "I am currently in need of a capable pet, so please help me find a green pet with growth attributes."

System prompt: Task ’Second Senior Brother’s Pet Collection’ triggered. Do you accept it?

Second Senior Brother’s Pet Collection: Find a special pet with growth attributes for the second senior brother. The task must be completed within one month. Task reward: 500 Contribution Points.

Xiao Buli was stunned for a moment. A pet with growth attributes? Did that mean Maoqiu? Damn, this guy must have taken a fancy to Maoqiu.

"Don’t you already have the Frost Claw Silver Wolf?"

"Haha, I’ve recently learned the Void Summoning Art, which allows me to summon and switch pets anytime and anywhere. The more pets, the better, of course."

"Void Summoning Art? What’s that?"

Jingci said, "You’ll see."

After finishing his words, he made a casting gesture, and a white light array suddenly flashed on the ground—"By my name, I summon your appearance, come forth, Frost Claw Silver Wolf!"

The silver giant wolf instantly emerged within the array, letting out an imposing long howl.

"How about that, impressive, right? Now I don’t need to carry pets around with me everywhere. I can summon pets to assist in battles anytime and anywhere."

Xiao Buli, seeing this, couldn’t help but be impressed. He pondered for a moment, and suddenly a glint of insight flashed in his eyes, "This must be a Combined Skill, isn’t it?"

Jingci was taken aback before smiling, "You’re quite clever. Indeed, it’s a Combined Skill, but as for which skills I’ve used for the fusion, that’s my secret—I can’t tell you. Of course, if you help me complete the task, I might just spill it in a moment of happiness."

Xiao Buli pondered for a moment and then said lightly, "If I’m not wrong, one of the skills must be Taming Skills, and since the other must be from the magic system, which skill would be similar to Taming Skills? I think it has to be a Summoning Skill. You’ve used Taming Skills combined with a Summoning Skill to create this, am I right?"

Jingci was speechless, "How is your brain wired? You’re correct, it is the combination of Taming Skills and a Summoning Skill. However, which Summoning Skill I used, you don’t know."

"Just experiment one by one, and the one with the highest success rate will be the correct one."

Jingci nodded earnestly, "You’re right, but the problem is, do you have the Contribution Value to exchange for skills?"

Xiao Buli was immediately left speechless.

"How about it, just give Maoqiu to me. Then you will have Contribution Value to exchange for skills. Plus, once you learn the Void Summoning Art, you can summon pets just like me anytime and anywhere."

Xiao Buli thought to himself that it wasn’t out of the question to consider Jingci’s offer, but after pondering for a while, he said indifferently, "It just so happens that I have a secret too. I know how to increase the success rate of combining skills. How about I trade this secret for your Contribution Value?"

Jingci was startled, hesitated for a moment but shook his head, "That probably won’t work."

Seeing this, Xiao Buli didn’t say another word and turned to leave. Jingci instantly panicked, "Wait, can’t you listen to me till the end? It’s truly not possible, not because I don’t want to trade, but because I’ve already used up all my authority to post tasks for the month. The task I just posted was the last one I could post this month, so I definitely can’t trade.

However, I can add a bit more to the task reward, how about 50 Gold Coins? Plus your secret."

He glanced at Xiao Buli and added, "What do you say? Will you take the task? It’s worth 500 Contribution Points, after all. It’s just a pet; you can always catch another one later. Moreover, pets are especially prone to dying, even if it’s a green pet, if it dies on the way, it’s worth nothing."

Xiao Buli was indeed a bit tempted; with those 500 Contribution Points, he could learn more skills. Currently, he didn’t know any third-level spells, and the only Heavenly Thunder Curse he had was used for skill fusion.

"50 Gold Coins, 1000 Contribution Points; otherwise, forget it," Xiao Buli put forth his price.

Jingci lamented with a bitter face, "Damn, you’re really robbing me blind!" Jingci was scratching his head and looking at Maoqiu with struggle evident in his eyes. "I only have 500 Contribution Points left. How about I add another 50 Gold Coins, making it 100 Gold Coins in total?"

After thinking it over, Xiao Buli nodded this time. After all, compared to a pet that required prolonged training to become combat-worthy, 100 Gold Coins and 500 Contribution Points were more useful to him. Since he was afraid of being killed, Maoqiu hadn’t been much used for a long time.

"Alright, it’s a deal!"

Jingci modified the task reward and once again released the task to Xiao Buli, who this time chose to accept it.

Xiao Buli clicked to accept the task and also chose to return the task.

System prompt: Completed the Sect task ’Second Senior Brother’s Pet Collection’, obtained 500 Contribution Value, 100 Gold Coins.

However, there was no increase in favorability. Xiao Buli sighed; it seemed that the result of bargaining was that favorability would not increase.

Xiao Buli watched as the suffix of Maoqiu’s name changed from (Xiao Buli’s Pet) to (Jingci’s Pet) and sighed. Ah well, for the greater good, I had to sacrifice you.

Maoqiu, oblivious to being sacrificed, happily followed Jingci, causing Xiao Buli to sigh inwardly.

With 500 Contribution Points and 100 Gold Coins, Xiao Buli now felt wealthy. He decided to first exchange for a few skills before heading to Nine Dragons City to do some shopping, hopefully to save some effort later.

"By the way, what exactly is that secret?" Jingci asked.

This time, Xiao Buli didn’t keep it to himself and shared his speculation about skill fusion. As a senior in the Cursed Swordsman career, Jingci found it very reasonable after hearing it and slapped his thigh, "Ah, so that’s the case. If only I had known earlier, I would have spared my good skills."

He then shared the fusion formula for the Void Summoning Art, which wasn’t the combination of Taming Skills + Summoning that Xiao Buli had guessed, but Taming Skills + Void Walking. This surprised Xiao Buli.

Going to Xuanxu Zi to exchange skills, he was momentarily stunned; Void Walking was a third-level spell and required 240 Contribution Points to exchange, which meant half of his 500 Contribution Points were gone in an instant. Xiao Buli didn’t dare to spend the remaining Contribution Points recklessly and decided to save them for exchanging for Magical Treasure materials and blueprints later on.

Apart from the main hall of Mystic Hollow Palace, Xiao Buli started another round of skill fusion.

He first invested all his remaining experience into ’Void Walking’, raising the spell straight to LV5, and then fused it with Taming Skills. As expected, he successfully created the Void Summoning Art.

Void Summoning Art LV1 (Void Sealing Technique): Uses ’Void Sealing Technique’ to seal a wild beast within the Void Spirit Realm and summon it to fight for you when needed, limited to once per day. Your skill level is 1, and currently, you can only seal one wild beast at a time.

Xiao Buli nodded upon seeing this skill, not bad, overall still a good skill. It seemed that as the skill level increased, multiple beasts could be sealed, and depending on the situation, different beasts could be summoned, thus fully utilizing them. However, it seemed that the sealed beasts would now only be used as expendables.

While pondering, Xiao Buli turned his gaze to the warhorse beside him, wondering if it could be sealed as well.

Actions speak louder than thoughts; Xiao Buli, who had long found it troublesome to lead the horse, used the Void Sealing Technique on it—With a flash of white light, the warhorse disappeared with a whinny. Xiao Buli thought to himself how convenient that was and decided it was time to leave.

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Thinking so, he performed the Cloud Thunder Leap, and with a startling thunderclap, he shot through the sky in a bolt of lightning and vanished.

PS: I was planning to update more, but I suffered side effects from taking acid-reducing medication and felt nauseous all day, so I really wasn’t in the mood to write. For now, I’m updating one chapter first. Once my stomach settles, I’ll definitely add more. (To be continued.

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