Jiang Yan was already hiding against the wall, with limited places to take cover. With hundreds of Skeleton Mages scattered around, retreating too quickly would easily alert other Skeleton Mages in the area!
So he didn't dare to move too far back, only taking a few steps before turning to cast Lightning Bolt as soon as its cooldown ended.
At this moment, the Skeleton Mage's Dark Fireball attacked again.
Clearly, the Skeleton Mage's skill cooldown was faster than his!
Jiang Yan quickly rolled to the side, trying his best to avoid the Dark Fireball.
Boom!!
Three Dark Fireballs landed where Jiang Yan had just been, and the blast wave from the explosion took away more than half of Jiang Yan's HP!
-135!
At the same time, Jiang Yan's Lightning Bolt was ready!
Boom!
-1,140!!
[Ding~ Congratulations to the player for killing a Skeleton Mage above your level, experience +150]
Now there were only two Skeleton Mages left in front of Jiang Yan!
Jiang Yan didn't retreat further, because moving back any more would alert the Skeleton Mages behind him!
He took out a Health Potion and an Advanced Mana Potion, gulping them down. His nearly depleted HP bar began to recover at a rate of 20 per second.
The MP he had spent on Lightning Bolt was also recovering at a rate of 50 per second!
At this moment, the remaining two Skeleton Mages threw Dark Fireballs again!
The Dark Fireballs were fast, but fortunately, Jiang Yan was always on guard. With the +7 Agility from the Tiger Cloak, he rolled again to dodge before the Dark Fireballs hit, though he was still caught by the blast wave, losing over a hundred HP. But his Lightning Bolt cooldown was over!
Boom!
-1,140!!
[Ding~ Congratulations to the player for killing a Skeleton Mage above your level, experience +150]
Only one left.
This time, Jiang Yan didn't even bother to dodge, letting the Skeleton Mage's Dark Fireball hit him directly.
Bang!!
-350!
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The massive damage number rose above Jiang Yan's head, leaving his HP with just a sliver, and his MP was reduced by nearly a third!
"The damage is indeed high! Too bad you met me." Jiang Yan sneered, chanting Lightning Bolt.
Boom!
-1,140!!
The scarlet critical damage took away the Skeleton Mage's life, dropping a piece of equipment glowing with white light!
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Another drop?!
Jiang Yan was overjoyed, quickly drinking Health and Advanced Mana Potions while rushing forward to pick up the loot and clear the battlefield!
He hadn't expected the Skeleton Mage's drop rate to be so high. Out of just six Skeleton Mages, he had gotten two pieces of Common Gear and 11 Silver Coins!
[Wailing Armguards] (Common Gear): Magic Attack +3, Requirements: Mage, Priest! (Collect three pieces of Wailing Gear for an additional +2 Magic Attack, six pieces for +5, and nine pieces for +9!)
[Wailing Helmet] (Common Gear): Magic Attack +3, Requirements: Mage, Priest! (Collect three pieces of Wailing Gear for an additional +2 Magic Attack, six pieces for +5, and nine pieces for +9!)
"It's actually a set!!" Jiang Yan was overjoyed and immediately put on the two pieces of equipment. He opened his character panel!
ID: Jiang Taigong
Level: lv5 (1335/5000)
Class: Thunder Tyrant
Constitution: 8
Endurance: 7
Spirit: 32
Agility: 7+7 (Tiger Cloak)
Free Attribute Points: 0 (Four free attribute points per level)
HP: 160 (Constitution*20)
MP: 640 (Spirit*20)
Physical Defense: 15 (Constitution + Endurance) +2 (A Fang's Magic Leather Armor)
Magic Defense: 46 (Spirit + Agility) +2 (A Fang's Magic Leather Armor)
Physical Attack: 16 (Constitution*2)
Magic Attack: 64 (Spirit*2) +8 (Bronze Staff) +3 (A Fang's Magic Leather Armor) +6 (Wailing Armguards + Helmet)
Special Attributes:
Charisma: Hidden
Luck: Hidden
Talent: [Wrath of the Thunder God]: SSS Rank (details omitted)
Skills: [Lightning Bolt] lv1 (167/1000): Cast a bolt of lightning on the target after a 2.5s chant, dealing 180% of base magic damage! Mana cost: 25! CD: 2.5s!
[Mining] lv1 (0/100): Use a pickaxe to have a chance of extracting metal ore from ore veins!
[Gathering] lv1 (0/100): Use Gathering to have a chance of collecting herbs from the wild!
"Magic Attack is already at 81 points!!"
Critical damage was 1231.2 (307.8*400% critical damage bonus)!
An increase of nearly 100 in critical damage!
And this was just with two pieces; if he could get six pieces...
Jiang Yan's heart burned with excitement. Once his HP and MP were fully restored, he immediately started farming monsters!
Meanwhile.
At the Revival Point in Novice Village.
The sight of seventy to eighty players reviving at the same time was rare enough, and with these players being quite unruly, they started cursing Jiang Yan as soon as they revived. It wasn't long before the news of a high-level leveling area deep in the Left 2 Mine, where hundreds of Skeleton Mages were gathered, spread throughout the Novice Village!
Moreover, this leveling area was already occupied, and there were rumors that a staff and a cloak of what looked like Bronze Grade, possibly even Silver Equipment, had dropped!!
The rumors grew more exaggerated, and within half an hour, thousands of players were rushing towards the Northern Mine Cave.
Even Prosperous Young Master Wang couldn't help but consider relocating.
"Young Master Wang, unless we all reach level 5, there's no way we can take on hundreds of Skeleton Mages gathered together!" Prosperous Venomless advised, "Besides, there's still a Bronze Boss in Boarwood!"
"You're right, the Boss is more important!!" Prosperous Young Master Wang gritted his teeth, suppressing the urge to take over the mine, and asked, "Any news on that guy Jiang Taigong? How many times have our people killed him?"
"Well..." Prosperous Venomless replied, "We lost track of him once he entered the Northern Mine Cave, but..."
"But what?" Prosperous Young Master Wang hated it when people left sentences hanging, "Spit it out!"
"The player occupying the leveling area in the Left 2 Mine is likely him," Prosperous Venomless said. "If he can solo level 6 Tigers, he should be able to handle the Skeleton Mages in the mine."
"Damn! That bastard must be a Closed Beta Player!!" Prosperous Young Master Wang was consumed with jealousy. A hidden class, a high-level leveling area—how did all the good things fall into that damn Jiang Taigong's lap?!
"Send a hundred people to the Left 2 Mine. As soon as you see Jiang Taigong, surround and kill him! Even if you can't kill him, make him kill enough of you that his Red Name turns black!" Prosperous Young Master Wang ordered viciously.
"I'll arrange it right away." Prosperous Venomless sighed, turning to gather people.
Currently, the Prosperous Dynasty occupied all major leveling areas in the Western Forest. For the sake of leveling up, a large number of players joined the Prosperous Dynasty. In less than ten minutes, Prosperous Venomless gathered a hundred level 2 players and had Golden Rat, Green Rat, and White Rat, who had seen Jiang Yan, lead them to guard the Left 2 Mine!
Eastern Plains.
Dark Empire Leveling Area.
After receiving news from the mine, Heart of Darkness immediately thought of Jiang Yan and hurriedly sent a message to inquire.
Unfortunately, Jiang Yan was busy farming monsters and had no time to reply.
Southern Swamp.
A tall, stunningly beautiful female Archer player was soloing level 6 Anacondas!
Her name was Qing Yanwu, one of the Closed Beta Players of Pinnacle, and a core player of Drunken Beauties, one of Huaguo's five T0 Guilds, with an extremely high Sequence: internal rank 4!
Thanks to her Closed Beta experience, Qing Yanwu entered the game and immediately headed for the Southern Swamp. With her exceptional combat awareness, precise movements, and outstanding ranged attacks, she was frantically killing monsters above her level. She had already gathered half of the Swamp Set and was close to reaching level 5!
"Once I hit level 5, I can enter the mine, first go to the Left 2 Mine to get a Bronze Key, then head to the Right 3 Mine to open the Bronze Chest!" Qing Yanwu's heart burned with excitement. Due to the difficulty of opening a Bronze Chest, successfully doing so would guarantee top-tier equipment for her class!
With top-tier Bronze equipment for her class, and utilizing the terrain advantage, she should barely manage to solo the Bronze Boss deep in the swamp!