Chapter 60 Summoning the Headless Horseman!
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[Prompt: Please select promotion rank: Tier 1 / Tier 2 / Tier 3.] (Click to view details)
Just as Su Mubai was about to check the details, he suddenly remembered something and said immediately:
“Cancel.”
“Almost forgot about this.”
He opened the attribute panel and glanced at his remaining skill points.
“Unfortunately, neither Karkus nor Franklin dropped any intermediate skill books.”
Su Mubai frowned; he had originally hoped to gain some skill points from these two bosses.
However, including the 50 points rewarded for the solo first kill of the epic boss, he now had a total of 62 skill points.
Enough!
If he used them to upgrade “Death Drain Feedback,” he could raise it by six levels, while “Death Gaze” could only be upgraded by one level.
Obviously, it was more worthwhile to upgrade “Summon Shadow Knight.”
After all, when upgrading from an A-tier skill to an S-tier skill, the skill point cost increases.
Upgrading first and then promoting preserves the skill level, which is the perfect choice!
[Your profession far exceeds the learning requirement for this skill. You have learned a new skill: “Summon Shadow Knight.”]
Su Mubai didn’t bother to check the skill details and immediately upgraded the skill to its maximum level.
Like summoning skeletons, this summoning skill could only be raised to level 9, costing 18 skill points.
[Cataclysm!]
[Target: Summon Shadow Knight!]
[Prompt: Please select promotion rank: Tier 1 / Tier 2 / Tier 3.] (Click to view details)
Option 1: Promote to S-tier skill “Summon Headless Horseman,” no cost.
Option 2: Refine to SS-tier skill “Summon Abyssal Knight,” costs 100 million soul coins.
Option 3: Cataclysm to SSS-tier skill “Summon Death Knight,” costs 100,000 years of lifespan.
Though tempted by the SS-tier Abyssal Knight and the SSS-tier Death Knight, Su Mubai could only reluctantly make a choice.
“Promote to Tier 1.”
This pain of seeing but not having, always having to choose the free option—who understands it?
[Your A-tier skill “Summon Shadow Knight” has been promoted to S-tier skill “Summon Headless Horseman.”]
Before he could check the new skill’s attributes, an unexpected system prompt sounded immediately.
[Prompt: The Headless Horseman is an advanced commander-type unit. Your summoning space branch has been unlocked. Initial commander space: 1.]
“Commander unit? Branch unlocked? Commander space?”
This brief notification contained a wealth of information.
Su Mubai was momentarily stunned, then opened his attribute panel and looked at the summoning space section.
He noticed that below the original summoning space, there was now an additional summoning space, though the suffixes differed.
[Summoning Space: 340/1340] (Normal)
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[Summoning Space: 0/20] (Commander)
“Hm? Wasn’t the initial value 1?”
Looking at the newly added commander summoning space, Su Mubai’s eyes were full of confusion.
The normal summoning space had increased by 1,000 due to the “Wound of the Forgotten” attribute.
But the commander space was because of…
“Death Rally!”
Su Mubai immediately recalled this SS skill that came with his profession.
He quickly checked the equipment and skills that could increase summoning space.
Sure enough, with the summoning space branch unlocked, the descriptions of these equipment and skills had slightly changed.
The entries for “Summoning Space Expansion” and “Wound of the Forgotten” now included the word “Normal.”
Only “Death Rally” remained unchanged!
[Death Rally]: (SS) Passive skill, no levels.
Skill Effects:
1. Reduces casting time of summoning skills by 75%.
2. Reduces cooldown time of summoning skills by 75%.
3. Increases summoned creatures’ stats by 100%.
4. Increases summoning space capacity by 10 times.
It was precisely the fourth effect of “Death Rally,” combined with Su Mubai’s Cataclysm profession feature, that granted him 20 commander summoning spaces outright!
“No wonder it’s an SS skill.”
Having found the reason, Su Mubai proceeded to check the skill he had just learned.
Commander units—the very name sounded much more powerful than ordinary units.
[Summon Headless Horseman]: (S) Level 9 (0/5), active skill, summons a Headless Horseman to fight for you.
Casting time: 5 seconds; cooldown: 10 minutes; mana cost: 5,000 points.
(The Headless Horseman’s stats benefit from the player’s spirit attribute.)
“I want to see what makes a commander unit different.”
Su Mubai raised an eyebrow and waved his staff.
[Summon Headless Horseman!]
Thanks to the casting speed boost from “Wound of the Forgotten” and the fact that it was a summoning skill, the 5-second casting time was effectively just 0.28 seconds for Su Mubai.
In the blink of an eye, a pale gray portal opened beside him.
Frost, who was digesting materials on his shoulder, looked up briefly, then closed his eyes again.
Tap, tap, tap…
Two Headless Horsemen appeared side by side.
They wore black heavy armor, marked with the ravages of time and battle scars.
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One hand tightly grasped the reins, the other held a conical knight’s lance.
Their skeletal warhorses were tall and imposing, also clad in heavy armor; their hooves ignited with green flames, eyes glowing with eerie fire, radiating a chilling aura of death.
Though called Headless Horsemen, their necks wore metal helmets.
Only when the two lightly removed their helmets and respectfully saluted Su Mubai did he notice that beneath the helmets were merely two flickering souls of fire—no skeletal heads at all.
“This presence is definitely far mightier than ordinary skeletons.”
Admiring the imposing and majestic Headless Horsemen, Su Mubai nodded approvingly.
However, he didn’t rush to inspect their stats. Instead, he had a thought.
[Cataclysm!]
[Target: Headless Horseman!]
[Prompt: Confirm overwrite of previous effect and re-promote the skill “Summon Shadow Knight”?]
“Cancel.”
Getting the same answer as when he tried to duplicate the skeleton summon, Su Mubai frowned and glanced at Frost, who was calmly digesting.
Both were summoned creatures, so why could Frost promote again for free, but the skeletons and Headless Horsemen could not?
Could it be because the latter two were summoned via skills?
Or perhaps… those summoned by skills weren’t truly living beings?
At this thought, Su Mubai had a vague suspicion.
This was evidenced somewhat by their panels.
Frost had a life level, but the skeletons and Headless Horsemen did not.
No matter how strong their attributes, they were merely summons.
Just like the Headless Horseman and skeleton legion summoned earlier by Franklin—their panels always showed as summoned creatures, and killing them never granted experience.
Though he couldn’t get a free promotion this time, Su Mubai’s understanding of the Multiverse Game had deepened.
“Why can I upgrade again?”
Suddenly noticing that after promoting “Summon Headless Horseman,” the skill could still be leveled up, Su Mubai checked the Headless Horseman’s attribute panel and spent 5 skill points to raise the skill to level 10.
Yet, the skill level could still be increased!
Comparing the changes after upgrading, Su Mubai’s face lit up with understanding, and he immediately invested all remaining skill points into this skill.
Remaining skill points: 4.
[Summon Headless Horseman] Level 17.