Battle Online: My Luck Is So High It's Basically Cheating

Tianxing Lake.

Sunlight shone on the calm surface of the lake, scattering rays of light.

A gentle breeze blew by, stirring up ripples.

The lake water was clear enough to see the bottom, and fish swam happily underwater.

Lucien came here, naturally, to level up.

He was already level 21, and because of his super-high attributes, as well as to increase his level faster, he came to the level 30-40 monster area, Tianxing Lake.

In other places, there were too many players, and he would need to fight for monsters.

But Tianxing Lake was different; not many players came here to level up.

The monsters here were all underwater, and fighting underwater was not the players’ home turf.

Furthermore, due to the water’s buoyancy, the power of skills also changed.

Those who could come here were generally players who loved fishing.

After all, besides fighting monsters to level up, one could also level up by fishing.

Moreover, the quality of meat from caught fish was higher than that from directly killing monsters, and the items dropped were even better.

Also, because they were aquatic monsters, once caught, their attributes would be greatly reduced.

Even an ordinary player, if they could fish out a Silver BOSS of the same level, could take it down alone.

Furthermore, there were vast treasures in the lake, and one might obtain some precious items.

It was even rumored later that someone had fished out a God-grade plant from Tianxing Lake.

But ever since that rumor emerged, all lakes and rivers, big or small, had been occupied by people from the Nine Great Guilds.

All players had to hand over half of the gold coins and items obtained in lakes and rivers.

However, the Nine Great Guilds did not yet know about this treasure underwater, so there were no people from the Nine Great Guilds coming to cause trouble.

Fishing required a great deal of patience and luck.

Therefore, apart from fishing enthusiasts, few people were willing to come here to level up.

And Lucien coming here was naturally not to fish.

If he were just fishing, the speed of killing monsters would be too slow for him.

He had a dark gold skill, which was just right for dealing with the situation here.

Water Evasion (one of the Seventy-two Earthly Fiend Arts)

Grade: dark gold

Personal water attribute resistance +20%

Active: Effect 1: After use, one can travel underwater, consuming 10 spirit talismans per hour.

Effect 2: Can reduce surrounding water spirit energy, greatly lowering water-attribute attacks. Consumes 100 spirit talismans per hour.

Description: One of the Seventy-two Earthly Fiend Arts. Upon collecting all Seventy-two Earthly Fiend Arts, this skill will advance to Immortal Grade.

With this skill, he could travel through the water unimpeded.

He hadn’t tried this skill since obtaining it.

He might as well take this opportunity to test it out.

Lucien arrived at the lakeshore, and at this moment, a small number of players saw him.

These fishing enthusiasts had all rented boats from an NPC nearby and were fishing directly on the lake surface.

But when they saw Lucien go directly into the water, they couldn’t help but be stunned.

"Holy crap, is that player crazy? He actually went straight into the water?"

"Does he not know that fighting underwater can only be maintained for a few minutes? Then one must return to the shore, otherwise they will drown inside!"

"Could it be that he has some treasure for Water Evasion?"

"Probably another player who went underwater for the sake of treasure. These young people are too impulsive."

"What a pity, I estimate he will be killed and sent back soon."

Lucien did not know about the discussion among the players on the lake surface.

Instead, he performed the Water Evasion hand seal and went straight to the bottom of the lake.

Because of Water Evasion, he didn’t feel any discomfort.

Upon reaching the bottom of the lake, Lucien was immediately shocked; there were simply too many monsters underwater.

Because rarely did anyone grind monsters directly on the lake floor, the monsters underwater were much denser than on land; there was almost one monster every meter.

And there were all kinds of monsters, ranging from level 30 to level 40.

Lucien looked directly at the monster closest to him.

A monster with a human body and fish head, looking ugly.

Merman

Level: 30

HP: 10,000

Attack Power: 1000

Skills: Water Arrow, Water Heal.

Description: A common monster living at the bottom of the water. Once it appears on land, its own attributes decrease by 20%.

The monster’s attributes were very low, far inferior compared to the level 30 monsters in the Xuanming Pagoda.

This was normal; after all, the monsters here could only be considered ordinary wild monsters.

How could they compare with the monsters in the Xuanming Pagoda!

The level 30 monsters in the Xuanming Pagoda were monsters from a dungeon corresponding to Hell-level difficulty.

Lucien summoned six zombies directly. Because zombies didn’t need to breathe, they didn’t feel much discomfort underwater.

He directly commanded these zombies to launch an attack on the monsters in front of them.

However, due to the water’s buoyancy, the zombies’ normal attacks were still somewhat reduced.

They could probably only exert about 80% of their attack power!

However, even with 80% of their attack power on land, relying on Lucien’s super-high attributes, this Merman could not resist them.

It only took a few seconds for this Merman to be torn apart.

"Ding, you killed a level 30 Merman, 9 levels above your own, EXP +2000."

And the remaining dense swarms of Mermen also launched attacks on the zombies.

Looking at the strings of "Immune" text, Lucien wasn’t worried in the slightest.

Currently, ordinary level 30 monsters had no way to break his defense.

Besides the level 30 monsters, there were also a large number of monsters above level 30 behind them.

However, because they were blocked by the level 30s in front, the monsters above level 30 behind had difficulty launching attacks on the zombies.

Seeing this situation, Lucien didn’t stand on ceremony and directly commanded the zombies to attack the monsters around him.

Likewise, Lucien wasn’t idle either; he directly used Soul Fire Talisman to launch attacks on the monsters beside him.

"Ding, because you are underwater, the power of Soul Fire Talisman is reduced by 50%."

Hearing the system’s voice, Lucien frowned slightly.

Reduced by half the power?

This made Lucien feel very annoyed.

If this was the case, his speed of grinding monsters would be significantly reduced.

After all, this was directly equivalent to reducing his own attack power by half.

Did he have to abandon long-range attacks and use melee attacks instead?

His melee attack was not considered weak; if he used melee normal attacks, it seemed it wasn’t impossible.

He put the thousand-year peach wood sword back into his backpack and took out a level 20 Silver weapon.

First, he cast Lightning Rushing Thunder Fist on the weapon.

"Ding, due to the effect of the skill, your next nine normal attacks will carry lightning attribute attacks."

The originally silver-white weapon now had blue electric arcs radiating from the sword body.

Lucien could clearly feel the aura of destruction emanating from it.

This was the power of lightning; it lived up to its reputation as the most violent attribute.

Its attack power was definitely among the best.

Most importantly, because of his Nine-Fold Spell Casting talent, originally he only had one enchanted attack, but now because of the talent, the next nine attacks were all enchanted attacks.

Seeing this, Lucien couldn’t help but be overjoyed.

He didn’t expect that Lightning Rushing Thunder Fist could actually stack.

He was really going to strike it rich this time!

Lucien raised his hand and slashed at the Merman beside him.

-1300

-5000

-5000

-5000

Extremely high damage numbers jumped out directly from the Merman’s body.

Not only that, but because water could conduct electricity, all monsters within five meters of Lucien received lightning attribute attacks.

With just one normal attack, it actually hit ten Mermen.

It left Lucien dumbfounded; he didn’t expect it could actually be like this.

Lucien, who originally thought his melee attack would be very weak, didn’t expect it could be so outrageous.

It could even directly attack the surrounding monsters.

If he were on land right now, he estimated he would be so excited he’d want to do a few somersaults.

Thinking back to his past life, when he was level 30, he could at most deal a few hundred points of damage to level 30 monsters.

And in this life, he was only level 21, yet he could already deal such terrifying damage to monsters.

If he reached level 30, wouldn’t he be able to instantly kill ordinary monsters of the same level?