Chapter 47: Phantom Dance Steps
Ding~ System notification: Congratulations on passing through the first floor of the Death Bell Tower and now entering the second floor. The second floor has a time limit of 20 minutes. All monsters have to be cleared within 20 minutes. If you can't complete it within the time limit, a second wave of monsters will appear, and the time will reset. Only after all monsters are eliminated, the entrance to the third floor will be opened. If you die, you will be resurrected on the spot. After the resurrection, various attributes will be increased by 10% for 10 minutes. Good luck!
Skeleton Monster: Level 15 ordinary monster
Attributes: HP 1500, attack 92-103, defense 34
Jiang Ming looked around and found that the second floor was a little smaller than the first floor, but there were twice as many monsters. There were a total of sixty skeleton monsters altogether, all with the same attributes as the zombies.
It took him an entire half an hour to finish off the group of zombies. How could he possibly kill sixty skeleton monsters within just 20 minutes? What's more, if he couldn't kill all the sixty skeleton monsters within 20 minutes, another wave of monsters will appear. By that time, there would be even more monsters, and it would be even harder for him to kill them all. If this went on, he would definitely be killed by the skeleton monsters.
"F*ck, what's with this setting? This is just a monster area, isn't it? Why has it become a stage to clear?" Jiang Ming was upset.
Although he couldn't help but curse, seeing that the sand had begun to flow in the hourglass above the second floor, he knew that there was no way out now. The passage connecting the first floor to the second floor had already been closed, which meant he could no longer get out. The only way out was to fight them.
Taking out the Reaper's Scythe, Jiang Ming advanced towards the skeleton monster who was rushing towards him with its joints creaking.
With small steps, skilful manoeuvre and eyes that were constantly wandering on the skeleton monsters around him, Jiang Ming used the same footwork technique he had used on the first floor. Holding his Reaper's Scythe, he sliced towards the head of a skeleton monster at the forefront.
Lady Luck was definitely on his side as this attack directly triggered the rupture effect, slicing off the skull of the skeleton monster and taking away a large amount of HP. But the monster did not die, instead it dragged its headless body and continued to rush towards Jiang Ming.
Seeing the headless skeleton monster plunging towards him, his feet stomped hard against the ground, ejecting his body to the right. He kicked on another skeleton monster, which took several steps back under the force. Then, holding the Reaper's Scythe, he turned around and once again attacked the headless skeleton monster.
"One, two, three... Thirty-seven..."
Every time he killed a skeleton monster, he counted silently in his heart. And when he counted to thirty-seven, the sands in the hourglass above the second floor had finished flowing, time was up!
"Swish~"
A sound could be heard as the hourglass turned over, and the time was reset. On the second floor, 60 more skeleton monsters appeared. Including the 23 monsters that had not been killed, there were a total of 83 monsters.
'I'm done for!'
Although he had already increased his speed of killing monsters, he still could not meet the clearance requirements. Looking at the 83 skeleton monsters that appeared in the second round, Jiang Ming frowned and thought to himself.
He knew that he might die this time, but he still rushed towards the 83 skeleton monsters. He would die either way, so why not earn more experience points and equipment before he died?
This time, he only killed 30 monsters before he was killed in seconds by the skeleton army.
"Sh*t, I didn't expect that the Customised Reaper's Mission would be so difficult!"
After Jiang Ming was killed, he was resurrected on the second floor. After he was resurrected, he continued to rush forward to kill the monsters.
He failed again and again, and charged again and again. In the end, his level fell to level 5. If he hadn't gained experience points for killing the skeleton monsters, he would have fallen to level 0.
After more than ten hours of fighting, his footwork had become more and more proficient, and more and more uncanny. Although there were thousands of skeleton monsters on the second floor, he could still shuttle between such dense monsters at ease.
Ding~ System notification: Congratulations, with your unremitting efforts, you have created the 'unnamed' skill, please name it!
Unnamed skill: Active skill. When this skill is used, the footwork becomes uncanny and unpredictable, as if dancing a phantom dance. If used at the same time with the phantom step skill, movement speed will increase by 300%, dodge rate will also increase, and 10 MP will be consumed per second.
"Phantom Dance Step!" Jiang Ming said without hesitation after reading the skill description.
Ding~ System notification: Because you are the first player to create a skill, you will get 100 gold coins, 1000 reputation and a piece of bronze equipment. A global announcement will be sent, do you wish to be anonymous?
"No!" In order to make money with his fame, he did not hide his name.
Ding~ Global announcement: Congratulations to player "Misty River" for creating the "Phantom Dance Step" skill. Because he is the first player to create the skill, he will receive 100 gold coins, 1,000 reputation, and a piece of bronze equipment. We hope all players will continue to work hard and create your own exclusive skills!
"I lost 5 levels and created a skill. Although it's a good bargain, this skill has little effect on the current battle!"
Jiang Ming looked at the extra skill in his skill bar, then glanced at the thousands of skeleton monsters in front of him, and he did not know whether to laugh or cry.
Ding~ System notification: Someone is looking for you in the real world, do you wish to go offline?
Just as he was about to try out the effects of the Phantom Dance Step skill, the system voice sounded again. Reluctantly, he went offline.
After he went offline, the flowing hourglass and skeleton monsters stopped, as if frozen in time.
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He didn't know that after he went offline, this system global announcement caused quite a stir in the game.
Jin Tian, who was renovating the shop, heard the global announcement by the system. He was taken aback at first, then said with some excitement, "What the… I told this guy to be as high-profile as possible for the sake of advertising the shop in the future. But I did not expect him to be this high-profile. Creating his own skill? How did he manage to do it?!"
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Mu Baitang, who had traded equipment with Jiang Ming before, was dealing with seven or eight monsters in the job transfer dungeon after receiving the job transfer mission. His expression drastically changed when he suddenly heard the system voice of the global announcement.
Creating skills in the game was not as simple as imagined. He had tried many times but failed. This was why he was so astonished to hear that Jiang Ming, who had just separated with him for ten hours (game time), had actually created his own skill in such a short time frame. In addition to shock, his expression was also full of envy.
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In the Black Wind Canyon near the Blue Dragon City, which was a main city of the sacred faction, there was a man in a yellow shirt with golden radiance exuding from his body. He held a long sword that was overlapped by the shadow of a golden dragon, and he was shuttling nimbly between dozens of black bear monsters. His footwork was nimble, surpassing the Phantom Dance Step that Jiang Ming had just created.
This man was Jade Emperor who had accepted the Holy Saint's Inheritance Mission!
Ding~ Global announcement: Congratulations to player "Misty River" for creating the "Phantom Dance Step" skill. Because he is the first player to create a skill, he will receive 100 gold, 1,000 reputation and a piece of bronze equipment...
Ding~ System notification: Congratulations, with your unremitting efforts, you have created the 'unnamed' skill, please name it!
"Steps of God!"
Ding~ System notification: Congratulations, because you are the second player to create a skill, you will get 50 gold coins, 500 reputation and a piece of iron equipment.
The first two system sounds rang in his ears almost at the same time. After learning that he could have become the first player to create a skill if he were just a few seconds earlier, Jade Emperor was enraged. Waving his hand to attack a black bear monster, he said in a cold voice, "Misty River, it's this Misty River again! You dared to grab this jade emperor's limelight, don't let me meet you, or I'll kill you to level zero!"