“Don’t dawdle, quickly chant Heavenly Fall!” Nie Yan said in voice chat.

“Heavenly Fall takes ten seconds to chant, there's not enough time!” Tang Yao said anxiously, estimating that these Rock Spiders would be upon him before he even finished chanting the spell.

“Just chant it, hurry.”

Tang Yao gritted his teeth, unlocked the Spell Text, and began to chant the Heavenly Fall spell, clusters of fire elements gathering towards him.

Scorching flames danced in the air.

Nie Yan led the twenty-odd Rock Spiders into the clearing at the crossroads, the Rock Spider swarm surging like a tide. He quickly retreated into the narrow passage where Tang Yao was, only one Rock Spider squeezing in and blocking the entrance.

“Stun!” Nie Yan turned back and cast Stun, causing the Rock Spider to enter a dazed state.

Ten seconds, nine seconds, eight seconds, seven seconds...

Time ticked by, the fire elements around Tang Yao becoming increasingly active.

Most spells requiring a string of syllables to chant are area-of-effect spells with significant damage. Nie Yan had seen this Heavenly Fall skill before. It was the only area-of-effect skill that arcane and fire mages could learn at level zero, a great tool for grinding monsters. Only one in a thousand fire or arcane mages might have Heavenly Fall.

The Rock Spider woke up and pounced on Nie Yan. Nie Yan raised his dagger and entangled with the Rock Spider, holding it back to prevent it from attacking Tang Yao and interrupting his spell.

Ten seconds, neither long nor short, just counting from one to ten, passed in a flash.

Tang Yao raised his staff, uttering a strange, drawn-out syllable that even he couldn't understand. A giant fireball crashed down from the sky with a bang, exploding in the spider swarm. Flames scattered everywhere like a celestial maiden scattering flowers. These sparks did not extinguish upon landing but continued to burn, dealing damage to the monsters every second.

After being attacked, the twenty-odd Rock Spiders let out chaotic squeals, but they couldn't attack Nie Yan and Tang Yao at all.

It turned out that Nie Yan had planned it all along. No wonder he dared to lure so many monsters at once.

Only the unique terrain of this intersection allowed Nie Yan to grind monsters like this. In a plain, luring so many monsters and bombarding them with area-of-effect spells would be suicidal. In an overly narrow place, the damage caused by Heavenly Fall would be extremely limited. Casting Heavenly Fall here was just right.

Tang Yao admired Nie Yan even more, that he had even thought of this.

After a second, another fireball fell, exploding.

The fire blazed into the sky.

After five consecutive fireballs, six Rock Spiders were directly smashed to death by the fireballs. The continuous flames burned fifteen or sixteen more spiders to death, leaving only those with low health. The damage of the Heavenly Fall spell was evident.

Looking at the Rock Spider corpses littering the ground ahead, Tang Yao stared blankly for a long time. Had he caused all this? Unbelievable!

“Nie Yan, did I do that?” Tang Yao asked foolishly, confirming only after seeing the screen filled with experience points that he had cast that powerful Heavenly Fall spell.

“What are you spacing out for? Clean up the remaining Rock Spiders.”

“I’m out of mana.” Tang Yao looked at his empty mana bar. He could still cast a few Arcane Missiles, but he couldn't even cast a Fireball.

Nie Yan then remembered that Heavenly Fall was very mana-consuming. It was already impressive that Tang Yao could cast it at all. There was no energy left to cast other attack skills!

In addition to consuming mana, a low-level Spell Text cost quite a bit of money. Constantly using the Heavenly Fall skill to grind and level up was expensive.

Nie Yan pounced on a Rock Spider with low health, using a Vital Strike to kill it, and quickly cleaned up the remaining monsters.

After a while, all twenty-odd Rock Spiders fell to the ground and died. Nie Yan collected the items on the ground, a total of three copper coins, without any equipment drops. He glanced at the system prompt bar. Experience points filled the screen. So many Rock Spiders had increased Nie Yan's experience by a full 3%.

“There are no more monsters around here. Let’s go further in,” Nie Yan said. They could only experience this kind of grinding once in a long time. The respawn rate of monsters nearby couldn't keep up.

“Go further in? Why?” Tang Yao asked in surprise.

“I’m going in to take care of something. This cave has a whole other world inside,” Nie Yan said with a mysterious smile. Only now that he was here did he vaguely remember something.

At the end of the Rock Spider Cave was a deep pool. The water was very deep, with many crisscrossing undercurrents connecting to an underground lake. Passing through the underground lake, one could reach another enclosed valley, where many strange herbs grew. Most importantly, there was also a page of the Chapter of Order, which countless players dreamed of obtaining.

Legend has it that the Chapter of Order and the Chapter of Chaos were divine objects that had been passed down since the Era of Co-Governance (873-1235), and had been circulating in the world for five or six hundred years. Its appearance was a mystery, and its writer was also a mystery.

Order and chaos represented the rules of the continent.

The Chapter of Order and the Chapter of Chaos each had six volumes and thirty-six chapters, representing two different forces, scattered throughout the world.

Legend has it that collecting all the Chapters of Order could rebuild the order of the gods and obtain powerful divine power. The owner of the Chapter of Order would become the common master of the Light Temples everywhere, the great Pope. And those who collected all the Chapters of Chaos could possess destructive power. They were destroyers of order, and collecting all the Chapters of Chaos would make one the powerful Dark King.

The Chapter of Order and the Chapter of Chaos were both legendary items.

When the six chapters of the first volume of the Chapter of Order appeared, the Greenland Empire and the Saturn Empire launched the first expansion pack, The Sealed History.

These six chapters of the Chapter of Order were the Chapter of Justice, the Chapter of Kindness, the Chapter of Courage, the Chapter of Wisdom, the Chapter of Justice, and the Chapter of Freedom.

These six chapters of the Chapter of Order fell into the hands of six people, all of whom occupied a place among the top 100 good and lawful players. The first, third, and sixth held the Chapters of Justice, Courage, and Wisdom, respectively. This made the Chapter of Order an item equivalent to a divine artifact in the eyes of players.

The Chapter of Order possessed great power, but it could not be stored in a personal warehouse and could only be carried on the body. When the holder of the Chapter of Order was killed by a player, the item was guaranteed to drop unless one could collect a volume of six chapters in total. Therefore, the killings caused by the Chapter of Order had hardly ever stopped.

The Chapters of Justice, Courage, and Wisdom fell into the hands of the presidents of three super guilds. The holders of the remaining Chapters of Order also possessed powerful forces. But they all kept a low profile when traveling and did not easily use the Chapter of Order in front of others. However, Nie Yan had seen the great power of the Chapter of Order in videos.

The holder of the Chapter of Justice, Angellic Feather, the president of Angel Corps, summoned sixteen Knights of Justice when facing hundreds of hostile players, single-handedly defeating a hundred-player team, becoming a legend.

The holder of the Chapter of Wisdom, Shihuang Killer, the Holy Word Mage, president of the Holy Judgement Guild, cast the forbidden spell Brilliant Radiance when resisting the undead invasion, purifying more than three hundred undead wizards at once, becoming another immortal legend of the Chapter of Order.

The holder of the Chapter of Courage, Half-Awake Fox, the Berserker president of the Holy Roman Empire, charged into the enemy guild's ranks during a guild war, killing one person every ten steps, slaying two hundred enemies, invincible.

Nie Yan felt his blood boil just thinking about it.

~~Reserving tomorrow's votes, the next part will be a small climax...