Mountain God?
In his previous lives, Daniel had rarely encountered such creatures.
They were scarce, nearly extinct, and usually gentle, never involving themselves in interspecies conflicts.
These special beings had mountain-like bodies, with absurdly high defenses. No one bothered them.
So why had it suddenly gone berserk?
Suppressing his doubt, he turned to Shadow Song.
"By the way, do you have any suitable skill recomndations?"
Shadow Song glanced at him and flipped through a skill book.
"This quest is actually cross-class. As an archer, taking it is a bit of a disadvantage. This might help you."
[Eagle Pierce (A-Rank)]
Effect: Fires a high-penetration arrow that ignores 30% of target’s defense and resistances.
Cooldown: 1 minute
Class Restriction: Special archer class
Price: 10 gold coins
Daniel’s eyes lit up. He imdiately purchased it.
He then opened the guild warehouse and sold the skill book to his own guild.
[Ding! You sold item to Doom Guild: Eagle Pierce Skill Book (A-Rank), 1 copper coin, triggering Millionfold Boost!]
[Sold item is skill book type; player selects Quality Boost!]
[Congratulations! You received 1 gold coin and obtained skill book: Aetherlance (SSS-Rank)]
[Aetherlance (SSS-Rank)]
Effect: Fires an arrow imbued with absolute penetration power. Ignores all defenses, shields, and damage mitigation, dealing 1000% damage to the target. Deals double damage to large creatures!
Cooldown: 1 minute
MP Cost: 2000
Daniel’s lips curved slightly.
Ignores all defenses and shields!
This skill might be invaluable for the upcoming quest.
And 1000% damage was no joke. Double damage against large creatures made it perfect for the Mountain God.
He learned the skill imdiately and then crushed the quest scroll.
A brilliant light enveloped him.
...
When the world ca into focus, Daniel was already at the foot of a towering mountain.
The sky was gray, clouds pressing low as if ready to collapse.
The entire mountain was shrouded in an eerie mist, faintly gray, flowing as if alive.
Animal bones littered the ground, so fresh with scraps of at.
At the foot of the mountain stood a stone tablet, inscribed in blood-red letters:
[Trespassers Die!]
Daniel glanced at it casually and stepped into the mountain.
After only a few steps, the ground trembled.
Massive boulders began to roll, snapping together with a series of clicks, as if an invisible hand were assembling blocks.
Debris scattered, dust flying. Soon, tall stone figures began to rise!
They stood over three ters tall, bodies of rough stone, thick limbs, no facial features, only a faintly glowing crystal core in their chest.
[Mountain God’s Minion · Stone Golem · LV70 (Iron-grade Monster)]
The mont they fully ford, nearly a hundred stone golems charged at Daniel!
The ground shook with their roar, even trembling beneath his feet.
Daniel didn’t hold back. He raised his bow and fired.
Shattering Cot!
A streak of light shot into the sky, suddenly splitting into dozens of arrows trailing golden flas, raining down like a teor shower.
Boom!
Arrows rained across the field, blasting stone golems apart.
So had arms shattered, so had chests blown open, others disintegrated completely.
[Ding! You killed Stone Golem ×26! Gained 579,494 XP...]
"Indeed, Shattering Cot stacks with explosion effects..."
Although killing these stone n wasn’t difficult, Daniel noticed sothing.
These creatures were purely rock; explosions did reduced damage.
Sotis two arrows were needed to destroy one.
Then, an idea ca to him.
What if he combined Shattering Cot with Arrowstorm?
Arrowstorm covered a wide area, 200% damage per arrow with explosions.
Shattering Cot split into multiple arrows, wider coverage but slightly lower single-arrow damage.
Stacking the two effects onto one arrow—what would happen?
He decided to try.
Another wave of stone golems approached, footsteps shaking the mountain.
Daniel inhaled deeply and drew his bow.
He released!
The arrow soared, trailing interwoven golden and blue flas, climbing to the clouds.
At its peak, it halted.
Swish swish swish!!!
The arrow split into dozens of streams of light.
But unlike a normal Shattering Cot, each stream exploded again into palm-sized golden sparks.
The sparks densely filled the sky, like a shower of falling stars.
Then they began to descend.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh—
Boom boom boom boom boom!!!
Explosions roared almost simultaneously, the entire hillside engulfed in golden fire.
Like a cluster-bomb strike, nothing survived in its path.
Golems charging forward were instantly swallowed by the inferno.
The explosion happened in just an instant.
When the smoke cleared, not a single stone golem remained.
Only shattered rocks and smoking craters covered the slope, dense like the lunar surface.
[Ding! You killed Stone Golem ×154! Gained 3,379,494 XP...]
Daniel stared, montarily stunned.
The power...
Although each arrow’s damage was lower than Arrowstorm, roughly 150%, the coverage was enormous, nearly unavoidable.
That previous wave covered at least 200 ters, wiping out over 150 golems.
And the best part—MP consumption.
Arrowstorm: 1000 MP. Shattering Cot: 1000 MP. But that single arrow only consud 1500 MP!
Effectively, he expended 1.5x MP to achieve the combined effect of two skills. Damage was slightly lower, but range doubled!
Insufficient firepower?
No problem—he had overwhelming numbers.
Daniel grinned wildly.
A single archer equaled an entire artillery regint!
He advanced further up the mountain.
The higher he climbed, the thicker the mist, reducing visibility.
Stone golems beca rarer, but they evolved: so carried shields, so hurled stones, and two even rged into larger forms.
Still, none of them posed a threat—one arrow often cleared an entire ridge!
This was the power of a humanoid artillery corps!
Half an hour later, Daniel reached mid-mountain.
Then he froze.
The sight before him made his pupils constrict.
It was a mountain... no, the entire mountain was the BOSS!
A colossal, hundred-ter-tall mountain creature, its body fused with rock and soil, blending with the mountain range itself.
A faint human-like face could be seen at the summit: two massive caves for eyes, a deep fissure for a mouth.
Every breath made the mountain itself rise and fall slightly.
[Fallen Mountain God · LV75 (Blackgold-grade BOSS)]
Daniel stood at its base, tiny as an ant.
He could even see the patterns on its rocky skin.
Traces left over countless years—the history of the entire mountain.
And now, within those patterns, a faint, sinister black glow pulsed.
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