Chapter 47: Leveling Skyrocketing, the Cursed Crown Reunited!
Skeleton warriors stood in the outermost ring, continuously cutting down the wave of skeletons that rushed forward endlessly.
The next moment, a skeleton that had just fallen not far ahead suddenly emitted a pale grey light, and then exploded with a deafening roar.
Boom!
Rat-tat-tat...
The shattered bone spurs flew like bullets, instantly sweeping across a massive area within a radius of 30 meters.
-18062, -17998, -36984!...
Dense damage numbers flooded the screen. The front line of the skeleton sea was instantly cleared out in a huge swath, and broken bones were scattered everywhere.
[Killed a Level 20 Skeleton, gained an additional 50% level-gap bonus, Experience Points +30, "Far Ahead" takes effect, additional Experience Points +6.]
[Killed a Level 20 Skeleton, gained an additional 50% level-gap bonus, Experience Points +30, "Far Ahead" takes effect, additional Experience Points +6.]
...
With just a single skill, Su Mubai was shocked to find that his experience bar had abruptly surged by nearly 4%!
This meant that the [Advanced Corpse Explosion] he had just cast had instantly killed over two thousand skeletons in an instant!
Even though Su Mubai knew how overpowered he was, he was still startled by this effect.
Just now, he had consumed 10 skill points to upgrade [Advanced Corpse Explosion] to max level.
After upgrading this skill, neither the damage bonus nor the cooldown time changed at all; the only thing that increased was the skill's radius.
With each level gained, the explosion radius increased by 0.5 meters, and the casting range increased by 2.5 meters.
At max level, the explosion radius of [Advanced Corpse Explosion] reached 15 meters, with a casting range of 75 meters.
Coupled with the blessing of his class trait, Cataclysm, this resulted in a massive effective radius of 30 meters!
Even without calculating the damage increase from the [Book of the Dead], it was more than enough to instantly kill these skeletons.
"Bai Ye, you are so strong."
Rhode's words of praise pulled Su Mubai back to his senses. He smiled without speaking, continuing to command the skeleton legion to advance.
Every half a minute, a dull explosion would echo from ahead, and Su Mubai's experience growth rate was several times faster than before.
He even felt tempted to stay here and grind monsters indefinitely; after all, once he left, it would be hard to find a place where regular monsters were packed so densely.
However, after thinking it over, Su Mubai decided to finish exploring the Land of Oblivion first.
Leveling up had never been a problem for him anyway.
With [Advanced Corpse Explosion], the advancing speed of the skeleton legion increased significantly.
Su Mubai had not yet leveled up when he arrived at the location of the second Soul-Locking Coffin.
Except for its name, the boss inside this Soul-Locking Coffin looked like it had been carved from the exact same mold as Neil; it was also a semi-lich.
Su Mubai couldn't be bothered to waste time. Without waiting for the opponent to utter any grand declarations, he simply glared directly at it.
[Prompt: You used "Gaze of Death" on the Forgotten One - Carlos. It is determined that your life level is higher than the target's.]
-1200000!
"What is this... Ah!"
A terrifying gray-white number popped up. Carlos instantly clutched his head and fled in panic, his entire body trembling as he let out a painful roar.
All of his attributes were forcibly reduced by 40%, and his maximum health instantly plummeted to just 1.8 million.
The skeleton legion went all out with full firepower. Before [Gaze of Death] even ended, this semi-lich was thoroughly reduced to a corpse.
[Killed the Level 20 Dark Gold Boss "The Forgotten One - Carlos", gained an additional 50% experience bonus, Experience Points +750,000, "Far Ahead" takes effect, additional Experience Points +150,000.]
[Congratulations to player "Bai Ye" for leveling up to Level 12. Four-dimensional attributes +1, skill point +1, free attribute points +15.]
A golden light flashed, and Su Mubai leveled up once again.
Reaching out to take the [Fragment of the Cursed Crown] retrieved by the skeleton warrior, Su Mubai glanced at his experience bar.
Level 12: 21.67%.
To his surprise, the experience required to reach Level 13 hadn't doubled; it remained the same as before, only increasing by one million.
"The experience required before Level 19 should all be an increase of one million."
The reason Su Mubai guessed this was because levels ending in zero were generally considered bottlenecks.
In mid-air, the skeleton legion once again lured out another wave of skeletons, and Su Mubai turned to look at Rhode, who had returned.
Yes, this fellow had screamed and run away again when the Soul-Locking Coffin exploded.
"Where is the next one?"
"Let me think..."
The Land of Oblivion was always shrouded in dimness, fortunately, the system time could be used as a reference.
The sea of skeletons here was not endless as one might imagine. Not long after the fourth boss was killed, the skeleton sea was completely wiped out by Su Mubai.
At this point, the Land of Oblivion was covered with a layer of shattered bones. Every step Su Mubai took produced a crisp crunching sound.
Only, Su Mubai failed to notice that these bone fragments were slowly sinking into the ground at an extremely sluggish pace.
The Land of Oblivion remained in a state of eternal dusk. With no sun in sight, it was easy for one to lose track of the passage of time.
[Killed the Level 20 Dark Gold Boss "The Forgotten One - Walter", gained an additional 50% experience bonus, Experience Points +750,000, "Far Ahead" takes effect, additional Experience Points +150,000.]
When Su Mubai accepted the seventh piece of the [Fragment of the Cursed Crown] from the skeleton warrior's hands,
he glanced at the system time and was startled to realize that he had already spent more than ten hours here!
As for his level, it had surged from Level 10 when he first entered to Level 15 now.
Ever since entering the game, he hadn't rested for even a single moment.
Yet, Su Mubai didn't feel tired at all.
This was mainly because he hadn't expended much effort. Especially after the skeleton sea was wiped out, he didn't even need to use [Advanced Corpse Explosion] anymore.
He just needed to stroll leisurely behind the skeleton legion.
"Whew~ The map of the Land of Oblivion is truly massive."
Picking up the final fragment, Su Mubai couldn't help uttering a sigh of emotion.
It was no wonder Sutu Ji had given him a whole week to explore this place. If not for the existence of his class trait, Cataclysm, he wouldn't even have been able to completely clear the skeleton sea right now.
"For a map this difficult to clear, the attributes of this item shouldn't be too bad, right?"
Looking at the fragment in his hand, a glint flashed in Su Mubai's eyes as he retrieved the other six pieces from his inventory.
At this moment, Rhode also drifted back over from not far away.
Upon seeing Su Mubai's actions, his pupils suddenly constricted sharply. As if recalling something terrifying, he abruptly grabbed his head with both hands, his entire soul body beginning to distort.
After a moment, Rhode finally recovered his composure and shouted in terror toward Su Mubai:
"No! You will be corrupted by him!"
However, his warning came a step too slow. The seven fragments had already been reassembled in Su Mubai's hands.
Hum~
A tricolor light flashed, and the Cursed Crown, exuding an aura of death, appeared in Su Mubai's hands.
"It's over!"
The look of terror on Rhode's face grew even more intense.
The system prompt tone rang out at this very moment.