Omnipotent Overlord

Li Mo stopped.

Fight? He had been at it all this time, yet the enemy was back to full.

‘What was the point on fighting now?’

Li Mo fell back.

The pink snakey didn’t chase and returned in the grass to doze off. 

“This thing is a serious pain.” Li Mo felt a headache.

Ye Li asked, “Do you want to continue?”

“Yes!” Li Mo’s stubbornness reared its head.

“All of you step back..”

Li Mo chose to do without their help this time.

Li Mo charged again.

The snake took half hp with every attack and so did he. That hadn’t changed. What did was Li Mo taking another aproach.

In their fierce battle, Li Mo applied Poison whenever he sensed its speed dropping.

When the attack hit, the snake was poisoned, taking half its health every few moments.

Since any attack took half regardless, poison fell in the same category.

Whoosh~

The pink snake’s health plummeted, as did its speed. And just before Poison ran out, Li Mo managed to hit it four times. 

Venom Kiss took effect and the pink snake’s health was cut in half.

Li Mo was amazed.

This little guy was truly powerful. Even Venom Kiss’s eruption was turned into half health strike.

No matter the attack, the result would be the same…

Fortune had it that the poisoned snake was losing health every moment, far faster than Li Mo could attack.

The pink snake was about to break, then a white light shined.

Li Mo stabbed at that second and the light on the snake vanished.

Recovery had a 2.5 seconds casting. Any attack would disrupt it.

Whoosh~

The hp value above the snake soon became 2 then 1.

Thump!

When the snake fell, one item dropped.

“That was seriously hard.”

Li Mo picked up the item and froze.

The same white item and of the same size. An egg.

Li Mo took out the first one and placed it next to the second to compare. They were identical.

Ye Li walked over, “In all my years of gaming, that is known to be a pet egg.”

“What’s a pet?” Ji asked.

Ye Li said, “You’ve never seen a pet once in three hundred years? It follows you around and helps in battles…”

Ji paused, “I’ve seen tamed beasts, but I don’t know if they’re the pets you speak of.”

Ji said, “There’s no need for guesswork. We’ll have it appraised once we get back to Holy City.”

“Look there!” Ye Li cried in joy.

Behind the grass where the pink snake laid was a cave.

Under a closer look, a dazzling light came from within.

Li Mo walked inside, and his mood brightened.

The cave was filled with ores. White, blue, red, black, yellow… they were all here.

“Loot!”

Li Mo began tacking them all.

The three took an hour to take hundreds of kilograms of the five types of ore of over 90% purity.

Linnard needed only one blue and red ores, but who was to say the rest of them weren’t useful? Better safe than sorry. No one died from being over-prepared, anyway.

Hundreds of kilograms of ore were quite hefty, but Ji took out 8 backpacks and the matter solved by itself.

“My backpack has very little space. If I had a bigger one, everything would’ve fit right in.”

Ye Li sighed, “As a gamer myself, I just don’t know what to make of you.”

Playing for three centuries only to be wearing blue, and 8 backpacks. And how long did that took for Li Mo and Ye Li? 

Ji was unaffected as he laughed, “Yang demons aren’t known for their smarts.”

“Stop!”

The team left the mine to stumble into a group of weird fish, with scales all over and a long horn on their head.

They numbered a hundred and wielded bows or harpoons.

The much taller leader stepped forward and pointed his harpoon, “Leave everything behind and tell me how you killed the variant snake king and I’ll spare your lives!”

With the monsters in Viper Mountains poisonous, this area was very dangerous for the adventurers.

But with great dangers came great rewards. The five types of ores only came from Viper Mountains, which made for a very lucrative trade. There would always be those that were willing to venture the risk.

These merfolk were a prime example.

“Milky Way scum, don’t you know who we are? We are under Dipper’s boss!”

The leader stabbed the harpoon into the ground.

Dipper Galaxy had numerous races. Merfolk, Tauren, Gnolls and many, many more. What was rare was the fact they actually got along swell. This was the primary reason for the Dipper Galaxy becoming one of the five great galaxies in God Realm.

Dipper’s Merfolk weren’t impressive, but since they were from the Dipper Galaxy, hardly anyone touched them.

“Our leader told you to hand everything over! Are you deaf?”

“You have three second to comply. After we will just kill you!“

“One.”

“Two.”

“Three!” The Merfolk leader counted.

While he was doing his thing, Ye Li and Ji withdrew in the cave, leaving Li Mo alone to deal with them.

One man and his blade blocked the cave.

“Damn human, kill the rest, but leave one behind!”

Merfolk leader roared.

“Attack!”

One Merfolk stabbed with his harpoon, which Li Mo simply hacked.

Both attacks hit home. Li Mo’s health trickled a bit while the other was dead.

This one was a level 43, quite something in Holy City, but his stats couldn’t even reach up to level 30 Li Mo.

This was the power of a level 10 gift.

The Merfolk leader shouted, “He has a treasure! Everyone, kill him!”

“Charge!”

Some fired arrows, other threw harpoons. They dared come to Viper Mountains because they specialized in ranged attacks. 

Whoosh~

Li Mo used Flurry and Poison as he dashed at them.

Li Mo’s target was the one wearing the golden set, the level 50 leader.

A singular strike barely took any health from the Merfolk leader. The leader wore golden gear and had many times more stats than the one that died.

“Don’t be afraid. He can’t hurt me!” The Merfolk leader laughed.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, bam!

Li Mo’s fourth strike made Venom Kiss erupt and not only it plunged the leader’s health bar but damaged the Merfolk around.

Moreover, all affected by the eruption were now poisoned.

‘So, Venom Kiss is an area of effect.’

Li Mo perked up and kept on hacking the leader…