Solitary Ghost Set.
A silent forest, a solitary figure ,cracking noises and a lonely... day? Again, what comes into a person's mind when they imagine this scene?
Yeah, you're right..... absolutely nothing.
But to the Undead in the forest this represented absolute nightmare. Skeleton Warrior, Skeleton Mages, Skeleton Warriors, everything that came into Cao Huang's path was decimated by the Force skill.
System: You have killed the [Skeleton Archer]. The Level difference is 5 so the Experience gained is increased by 500%. Gained 1000 Experience Points.
After killing his fifth Undead, he had accumulated 23 bronze coins, a Bronze Ranked Shield, a Bronze Ranked Sword and three Death Grass.
[Bone Shield] (Shield, Bronze Grade)
Level 10 Equipment
Requirements: Strength 10
Effects:
Defense +21
Defense Rate 23%
Strength +2
Endurance +4
HP +30
[Heavy Dust Chest-plate ] (Chest Plate Armor, Bronze Grade)
Level 10 Equipment
Requirements: Strength 15.
Restrictions: Guardian Knights, Shield Warriors.
Effects:
Defense +26
Defense Rate 33%
Strength +4
Agility +3
Endurance +3
HP +170
"What great pieces of equipment. Even though non of the players can equip it yet. When the time comes out will sell for a lot of coins." praised Cao Huang.
As he was the first one to explore this map, the drop rate was very high.
At some distance he spotted a single Bronze Treasure Chest and a single Silver Treasure Chest.
To the current players finding even a Bronze Ranked Treasure Chest would be no less than a miracle. Much less a Silver Ranked Treasure Chest.
"It would be quite difficult to get those Treasure Chests from the guy over there."
Standing besides the treasure chests was a figure clad in complete silver armor and a heavy looking Greatsword.
[Death Knight] (Undead, Two-star Boss) (Level 10)
HP 5000/5000
A Two-star Boss is 30% more stronger than a One-star Boss and four to five times stronger than the Undead he had previously faced.
"Alright then."
Cao Huang used the same method he had previously used. He used Silent Steps to arrive 20 yards behind the Death Knight. But once he did, he clearly realized his mistake. The Death Knight was not a simple undead. It's range of detection was clearly more than 20 yards. It's intelligence was also high as it allowed Cao Huang to arrive with in his range of attack.
It immediately arrived before Cao Huang and swung his greatsword.
_Whoosh!_
Cao Huang was able to react in the nick of time and barely dodged the Greatsword supposedly aimed at his neck. Cao Huang wanted to retreat to a safe distance but the Death Knight didn't gave him the time to. It reacted to Cao Huang's retreat and took a big leap forward to attack him, wanting to Slice Cao Huang in half from his waist. Seeing the strike, Cao Huang knew that there was no chance of dodging it. He immediately used Parry to block this. Even though he had blocked the attack, the momentum of the Greatsword Strike was still there. Cao Huang was sent flying. He used this momentum to gain distance from the Death Knight.
"Let's use the skills I gained from the Ring of Illusion."
Cao Huang used the cloning skill to create 3 clones of himself. Each of his clones possessed 30% of his real body attributes. But in this Undead Forest, even 30% of his attributes were equal to an average Level 5 player. This meant that Cao Huang had three Level 5 players by his side.
Cao Huang used the Force skill and quickly led the Undead Knight to an area filled with some large boulders.
Cao Huang's force skill had reached Level 1 after defeating the five Undead five more Levels above him. His total force reaching a staggering 490 Kg.
In the area filled with boulders, the Death Knight's movement was restricted. It wasn't able freely attack like he did in the open. Cao Huang then started the counter attack, he and his clones used Force and attacked from different sides. - 61, - 23, - 18, - 54, - 24... Under repeated attacks of Cao Huang and his clones, the HP of the Death Knight slowly started to wither down. Cao Huang couldn't rest as the Health recovery rate of the Death Knight was 30 HP per second. If he stopped, all of his efforts would go to waste. After two hours, the HP of Death Knight fell down to 10%. Cao Huang only had 21% of his health left and one of his clones was also killed. This was despite the 1% HP the 'Death Steals Life's effect of his title allowed him to recover from the damage he delivered.
As it's HP fell to 10%, the eyes of the Death Knight shined with red light and the evil energy in the air started to swirl around it. This was it's berserk skill [Evil Decimation], it allowed it to increase his Strength by 40% and Defence by 10%. In addition to the berserk skill, it would also use the [Decimation Slash], an attack skill that carries 150% of it's total Attack Power.
"Not good!" Cao Huang said as he hid behind one of the boulders to escape from it's attack.
_Bang! _
The boulder was blasted to pieces. Every boulder he hid behind was blasted to pieces.
"Crap! What powerful strikes. If I receive a single one of them, I am a goner." He started to sweat.
He could now only resort to using the Illusion Storm skill, if he wanted a chance to win against the Death Knight.
Just as he was about to use the skill, he felt that the Death Knight's movement was somewhat different. It looked like it was facing some difficulty to keep his balance. A realization dawned upon him.
The Boulder Pieces!
Although Death Knight was powerful but it wore heavy pieces of Armor and carried a heavy Greatsword. As the ground was littered with broken pieces of the boulders, it was becoming difficult for it to move around. One wrong step and it would come tumbling to the ground.
"Haha, A chance." Cao Huang smiled.
Cao Huang used his clone and lured the Death Knight to another large boulder. When the Death Knight was close to a jumping range from the boulder and was about to attack the clone, Cao Huang's real body ran and using the boulder as a step, delivered a running knee strike to it's chest. This caused the Death Knight to stagger back, it stepped on a piece of boulder and fell down. Cao Huang then went to stomp on it using the Force skill. After another fifteen minutes, the Death Knight had only 23 Health points left, while Cao Huang had 15 left. Suddenly Cao Huang's attack missed and the Death Knight sliced Cao Huang in half.
_Clang!_
_Clang!_
- 12 and -13 damages appeared on the Death Knight's head.
System: You have killed the [Death Knight]. The level difference is 5 so the Experience gained is increased by 500%. Gained 6200 Experience Points.
At the last moment, Cao Huang used Illusion Storm to make an illusion of himself dying confusing Death Knight for 2 seconds. He then proceeded to throw his broken daggers towards the Death Knight's head to kill it.
"Huff!, Huff!, Huff! This was just a Two-star Boss, what about a Three-star and a Four-star. I really have to up my game." Said Cao Huang while breathing hard.
"Now let's see, what it dropped." Cao Huang was really excited to find what a Two-star Death Knight had dropped.
In addition to 56 bronze coins, it dropped two pieces of equipment and a Heavy Greatsword.
[Greatsword of Decimation] (Greatsword, Silver Grade)
Level 10
Requirement: Strength 22, Endurance 7
Restriction: Berserker, Guardian Knight.
Effects:
Attack Power + 49
Strength + 23
Agility +7
Durability 45/45
Additional Skill:
Decimation Slash: A powerful sword slash carrying 150% of User's Attack Power.
"What an awesome Attack Power. If a player can equip this, then he may be able to solo a One-star Boss. To bad it's not suitable for me." Cao Huang said shaking his head.
"Now let's check the other equipments.
[Solitary Ghost Chest piece] (Light Armor, Silver Grade) (5 Piece Set Equipment)
Level 10
Requirement: Strength 16, Agility 14
Restriction: No restriction.
Effects:
Defense + 43
Defense rate 43%
Strength +12
Agility +7
Endurance +5
HP + 175
"Wow! A piece of a set equipment dropped."
"Hmm! I didn't expect a piece of the Solitary Ghost Set to drop. Looks like your luck is really good. Now see the other equipment." Said Vilariun.
[Solitary Ghost Helmet] (Light Armor, Silver Grade) (5 Piece Set Equipment)
"It's another piece of the Solitary Ghost Set Equipment."
"There should be a piece of the set equipment in the silver chest, while the remaining two should be with the two more Death Knights that are present in this forest. If you can collect all five pieces, it will reduce the Level Requirement by five Levels."
"It means that if I can collect all of them, I can immediately equip the set equipment."
"Yes."
Cao Huang first went to the bronze chest and opened it. Inside were more bronze coins, Level 10 one-handed sword and a piece of bronze cloth armor.
After that he went to the silver Treasure chest and opened it.
As Vilariun predicted, inside the chest was another piece of Solitary Ghost Set. In addition to that, there was also the thing he was looking for. A portion recipe for [Fear Negation Potion].
[Fear Negation Potion]
Effect: Reduces the effect of fear status by 10%
Duration: 20 minutes.
After two more days, the Level 10 dungeon, the Spider Queen Cavern is going to open. Inside the dungeon, the Elite Spiders just before death would attack the players with a [screech] skill. This would induce a fear effect on the players reducing their Defense, Attack Power, Movement Speed and Attack Speed by 20%. If a potion like the fear negation portion appears on the market, it will cause a frenzy.
This is Cao Huang's first step to get rich.
After grinding for 8 more hours, Cao Huang had accumulated a total of 140 pieces of Death Grass, the main ingredient for fear negation potion. In addition he had also accumulated several Level 10 Bronze equipment and a total of 2 Silvers of coins.