Not long after the Great Lion left, the Players finally blew up the Marsh Drake's head.
While the Marsh Drake was related to the Swamp Hydra to a certain extent, it did not have the tenacious vitality of a hydra that could regrow two heads after having one severed.
That was why it was naturally dead after its head was blown up by the Players.
Xi Wei would not be stingy whenever the Players presented him with Wild Bosses that would not appear again after being defeated once and would provide him with a considerable amount of divine energy.
He extracted the heart nerves of almost a hundred human-faced fish monsters and forged them with divine energy into a sturdy bowstring, before plucking the ribs of the Barren Giant into a bow arm. Finally, he scraped some bone powder from the corpse of Rotten Bones and used it as a wedge imbued with divine energy into the bow arm and bowstring.
In the end, he forged those materials into a golden legendary warbow 'AWM' with unparalleled range and penetrative power, before throwing it to the Players with a sniper scope that could be adjusted.
While the Players were puzzled by the naming of the legendary weapon, it did not stop them from rolling desperately for the second legendary weapon.
"What the hell, why the hell would a warrior like you want a bow and arrow?!"
"Can't I swing it like a stick?!"
"Aaah, I can't use bow and arrow after changing my class to Shadow Blade!"
"This item is fated with me …"
"What do you mean fated? You're a mage, alright?!"
"I beg of you, be a ranger. We rangers are the weakest class, can't you have a little compassion?"
"Did you ever consider how Swordmasters and Kengyoku Players feel when they say rangers are the weakest?"
"Swordmasters are the weakest? Wash your neck and let's duel at the village entrance!"
* * * While the Players were scrambling over the second legendary weapon, Xi Wei had received the corpse of the Marsh Drake and tied it up with his tentacles, before starting to investigate the unusual corpse. (, Domain (Please remember _ 3)
First of all, there was no divinity within its body.
"I think so …" Xi Wei wasn't disappointed by the situation.
Rather, it would be a humiliation for the gods to be so easily destroyed by the Players after they had obtained a Divinity Shard.
Moreover, before the creatures of the lower realm became Legendary powerhouses, even if they obtained the Divine Spark, they would only be devoured by the Divine Spark and become nourishment for the Divine Spark fragments.
Then there was the fact that the Marsh Drake was imbued with a certain degree of divine power. That being said, the presence of divine power had strengthened the Marsh Drake to the point that it could easily kill fully-armored Players, but it had also begun to erode the Marsh Drake's body. Otherwise, it would have been difficult for the current Players to break through its defenses and deal a certain amount of damage.
Moreover, the presence of divinity left Xi Wei puzzled as well — the Marsh Drake was neither a minion of a god nor a Chosen One, much less a demigod. However, its body was so concentrated with divinity that it was almost at the level of a demigod.
Then, Xi Wei discovered another surprising piece of information.
The divinity in this thing was not the divinity of the Mossland Spirit, but a more primitive and ancient divinity related to beasts and woodlands.
"Could a subordinate god of Beifeng, the God of Beasts, have fallen nearby?" Xi Wei stroked the surface of the sphere, his mind working hard to come up with a reasonable explanation. "Then, this thing happened to find the land of the fallen god and was infected by its corpse, gaining this power?"
No, that did not make sense either.
A god was still a frightening being even if it was just a corpse. For example, the corpse of the Rotten Bones God, the lowest of the gods. Xi Wei had extracted its divinity and divine power every day for the Players to create dungeons, but after so long, its divinity had weakened to an undetectable degree. That corpse was probably enough for Xi Wei to use for a long time.
By the same logic, if a god had really fallen here, the Seira Marshes would have long since become a land of death far worse than it was now.
Furthermore, the Beast King God, Beifeng, was not the kind of God who was emotionless. Instead, he was very protective of his people. If a Subordinate God had really fallen here, he would definitely not leave it alone. Even with the barrier of the World Barrier, he would at least send his believers to guard this place.
And yet, there were no religious organizations near the Seira Marshes …
What puzzled Xi Wei even more was why the divinity in the Marsh Drake's body was so ancient and clearly not obtained recently. And yet, it had only gone berserk in the last few days, even causing its divine power to go berserk due to the swamp fishmen's worship to create that unusual divine spell that turned the swamp fishmen into human-faced fish monsters?
"No, it's getting harder to sort things out with more clues."
Xi Wei gave up on studying the Marsh Drake to find out the truth. "If I'm not wrong, there must be a clue hidden beneath the lake that the Divine Eye can't see …"
At that thought, Xi Wei simply turned to the Players, intending to assign them a quest to explore beneath the lake.
Be that as it may, the Players appeared to be having some weird meeting.
After listening to their conversation, Xi Wei realized that the bow and arrow had been rolled for by a cleric, but he said that he didn't need it, and that he was only rolling for it because he had a bad hand. Hence, he simply put it up for auction. 33m.33xs
Hence, before Xi Wei's auction house had even opened, the Players were holding the first auction in the history of the Church of Games out in the wild.
The players' forum was in an uproar. Vagabonds who had yet to change classes were begging other players on the forum to borrow money. They wanted to bid for the AWM so that they could say goodbye to their weak damage output and become the master of the game.
In the end, Gou Dan, who wasn't present, managed to borrow twenty thousand game coins from Marni despite not intending to bid for the AWM through his powerful connections, and had him buy the AWM on his behalf.
The entire process from rolling for the AWM to the end of the auction did not take more than half an hour. Aside from showing the Players' increasing initiative and execution, Xi Wei also suddenly realized that his Game System update was lagging behind the Players' ever-changing concept of action.
If this continued, something outside of Xi Wei's control might happen. While things like creative workshops would have greatly helped extend the lifespan of the game back on Earth, in this world, it meant that the authority of the gods was running amok.
"Looks like the game needs an update too …" Xi Wei sighed. "At the very least, I can't let the Players run like a horrifying ape that enjoys genocide."
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Chapter 175 CHAPTER 175
The Auction
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