Chapter 16: No, He Died Without Even Meeting Face to Face?
[Defeated level 8 Silver-tier boss “Goblin Chief,” gaining an additional 50% experience bonus, experience points +14,400.]
[Congratulations to player “White Night” for reaching level 6. All attributes +1, skill points +1, free attribute points +15.]
The sudden system notification flashed by in a golden light.
Su Mubai stared blankly at his unexpectedly increased level.
“What… I didn’t even see what the boss looked like, and yet it’s dead?”
Quantitative changes lead to qualitative transformations, especially since the skeletons he summoned were no weaklings.
Aside from health and skills, each skeleton’s attributes surpassed those of the Silver-tier boss.
Judging by the distribution of skeletons in his mind, Su Mubai was certain that less than half of the skeletons participated in slaying the Goblin King.
“Sigh, invincibility—how lonely it is…”
He sighed, suddenly feeling a sense of solitude in having no worthy opponents.
He guessed that any one of his skeletons could match a player with an S-tier talent.
Such terrifying combat power—where in the novice village could there be any rivals?
After all, this was the combined effect of a unique hidden class plus S-tier and SS-tier skills, far beyond what a player with S-tier talent could rival.
[Defeated level 8 Enhanced Elite monster “Goblin Warrior,” gaining an additional 50% level difference bonus, experience points +180.]
[Defeated level 8 Enhanced Elite monster “Goblin Warrior,” gaining an additional 50% level difference bonus, experience points +180.]
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Experience gain notifications kept popping up, and the skeleton legion that had slain the Goblin Chief showed no sign of stopping.
Skeleton warriors wielded bone swords, pushing forward in layers, while sixty skeleton archers in the rear fired unerring volleys that could wipe out all the Goblin Warriors in one round.
Su Mubai leisurely followed behind the main force, continuously receiving various items brought by skeletons tasked with “cleaning up.”
After entering the instance, besides summoning skeletons, the most laborious task for him was freely collecting all the dropped items.
Now he no longer cared for the drops from small monsters, which at best were bronze-tier even after upgrading.
Such trash was better sold to the wealthy.
After upgrading all the items once, Su Mubai finally checked the Goblin Chief’s loot.
This fellow dropped six pieces of equipment in total, all still silver-tier.
Besides that, there were three skill books, some materials, and silver coins.
The drop rate for skill books in the Misty Forest was very high, clearly designed to allow players to equip more skills through this dungeon.
Su Mubai had chosen the Hell difficulty, so such rewards were to be expected.
However, all three were D-rank skill books, and the only one related to the Necromancer was of no use to Su Mubai.
[Enhanced Bone Shield]: (C) Level 1, active skill, summons a shield of bones to block incoming damage.
Shield value: 300 + 100% spell power.
Instant cast, lasts 60 seconds, cooldown 60 seconds, consumes 100 mana.
Su Mubai was too lazy to learn this skill.
In the World of Realms game, skill slots were not unlimited; each person could learn up to 20 skills.
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Including passive skills.
With an S-tier skill like [Life Sharing], how could he bother with a C-tier [Enhanced Bone Shield]?
Even with nearly 500 spell power, this skill’s shield value was less than 800, utterly meaningless to him.
There were two pieces of equipment he could use, which Su Mubai decisively equipped.
[Misty Cloak]
Cloak, Accessory
Level 5
Golden-tier
Durability 100/100
Physical Defense +28
Magic Defense +20
Constitution +10
Spirit +10
When equipped, reduces your presence and threat generation.
(Wear this, and you’ll be the coolest guy around.)
It was a green cloak with some black stripes.
If not for the +10 spirit, Su Mubai wouldn’t have wanted to wear it.
Green was the dominant color for this dungeon’s equipment drops.
Thankfully, in World of Realms, you could choose to hide headgear appearance; otherwise, the helmets dropped here would be worthless.
[Leader’s Emblem]
Emblem, Accessory
Level 5
Golden-tier
Durability 100/100
Health +200
Mana +400
Spell Critical Chance +5%
When your spell lands a critical hit, gain a buff: Spirit +20 for 10 seconds, non-stackable.
(A symbol of status.)
In World of Realms, players could equip ten main gear pieces.
These included main hand weapon, off-hand weapon, headgear, chest armor, shoulder pads, bracers, gloves, belt, pants, and boots.
Besides these, six accessory slots were available: one cloak, one necklace, two rings, and two other accessories.
Items like masks, emblems, and talismans belonged to the other accessories category.
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Anyone who has played games knows common armor drops most frequently, followed by weapons.
The rarest drops are various accessories.
“No wonder it’s Hell difficulty; two bosses dropped two accessories already.”
Happily donning the [Leader’s Emblem], Su Mubai now had three golden-tier pieces equipped.
Other players would definitely be stunned to see this.
He still allocated attribute points as 4 to Agility and 11 to Spirit, and put skill points into [Summon Skeleton Soldier].
The three primary stats of skeleton warriors and archers rose again.
With his profession, these two skeleton types no longer had spirit attributes.
But with the profession bonus, the skeleton warriors’ attack power had already broken the 1,000 mark!
“Leveling up requires more and more experience.”
Glancing at his experience bar, the figure of fifty thousand made Su Mubai frown.
Although the skeleton legion was strong, the monsters here were not dense.
After all, it was just a five-player small instance, so monster numbers wouldn’t be too high.
Fortunately, the upcoming monsters were all enhanced elite level, so Su Mubai’s leveling speed hadn’t slowed; it had actually increased.
This was also thanks to soloing; grouped players gained much less experience.
Additionally, experience lost upon death in the instance meant most players would not level up during their first run but actually lose experience.
However, for equipment and skill books, the Misty Forest was an unavoidable hurdle for all players.
Half an hour later, Su Mubai noticed his experience bar had stopped rising; all the skeletons began converging on a single coordinate.
At the same time, a roar echoed from deep within the Misty Forest.
“A bunch of bones? How dare you appear in my domain?”
“Could those damned necromancers be back again?!”
The voice was full of anger, tinged with an inexplicable fear.
Then a loud explosion rang out, and Su Mubai’s pupils contracted sharply.
He realized all the skeleton warriors’ health instantly dropped by half!
He quickly understood this was a boss skill mechanic.
Only dungeon bosses would deal such exaggerated percentage damage at low levels.
Otherwise, with the skeleton warriors’ health and attributes, even a final boss at Dark Gold tier couldn’t achieve this.
Su Mubai immediately rushed toward the coordinate, lest he miss the final boss’s last moments.
Yet, a sudden system notification caused him to halt in his tracks.
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