An expert!

"I got a B-Rank unique skill!"

Hearing her shriek excitedly, Noah finally paid attention to his raid party members again. The others who died at the end of the raid were already revived by the dungeon after it was successfully completed.

'Right, they got unique skills too'. He thought.

This unique skill challenge was for all of them. If he didn't perform so admirably and got an SSS-Rank rating, maybe if he got a lower rating, he would have missed out on his SSS-Rank unique skill but still gotten something powerful.

Unlike Noah who was quiet, just looking at them from where the corpse of the Pork Emperor already disappeared into motes of light, the others were incredibly excited as they showed off their unique skills.

They all got B-rank unique skills.

Considering the fact that most players in the game don't ever get the opportunity to get unique skills and most of those that did could only settle for D-rank unique skills, this was crazy.

B-rank unique skills are more common among pro level game accounts playing in the Pro Alliance, it was an extremely rare commodity among normal gamers in Warstar.

Healing Melody, the Cleric got a skill-specific unique skill that focused on her low-level skill, heal.

The heal skill is self-explanatory. It's a powerful burst of healing to restore a significant amount of health to 1 ally, mostly 30% health but this can go as high as 40% for specialized Clerics.

But after getting her unique skill, Healing Melody's heal skill could now heal 55% health at a go!

Despite the fact that her mana expenditure rose up with the increase, this was an overpowered unique skill.

Deadly Musician also got a powerful unique skill. His unique skill gave him the ability to enter the Super Armor state of red blood bosses for 5 seconds, becoming immune to knock effects but with a drawback of having a cooldown of 1 full day.

Death Note, the Elementalist got a unique skill that increased the range of the Earthquake skill by 3 times!

This meant that after leaving this dungeon, the first thing Death Note would do was going to purchase the Earthquake skill with his skill points.

The Blademaster, Silky Strings also got a B-Rank unique skill. This player's unique skill increased the duration of his Blade Dance skill by 5 seconds.

Blade Dance is a Blademaster skill that unleashes a flurry of rapid sword strikes, dealing heavy single-target damage.

In a PVP battle or even a boss battle, 5 additional seconds for a skill like that could easily mean the difference between victory and defeat.

The 4 of them excitedly talked about their rewards, including the drop rewards from killing the final boss and the hidden boss of the Pork Labyrinth, but this was when they discovered that Noah had been quiet since.

Deadly Musician paid attention to him.

At the beginning of this dungeon raid, this Blademaster saw Noah as a newbie with some skill. He even promised to carry him through the dungeon.

Thinking back on his words now, this player felt like digging a hole to hide.

But he had a thick skin so he was able to face Noah with a straight face.

One thing though was that after that rollercoaster of a boss fight, this raid party no longer looked at Noah the same way they did at the beginning.

'An expert!'

'A true expert!' This was the only thing ringing in their heads.

They bore witness as Noah created a miracle, not just with his personal combat ability but his impressive leadership, how he made them perform far better than they could on a normal day.

They all knew that everything, including completing this dungeon raid was only possible because of him.

"Boss, what unique skill did you get?" Deadly Musician asked.

"Nothing important, it's just so-so".

"So-so?" Deadly Musician looked at him, chuckling. "After that performance, they must have given you an A-ranked unique skill, you call that so-so? Boss, you really are so cruel".

{Haha}

Noah typed, causing a bubble of floating text to appear above him.

"…" The others stared speechlessly.

In the end, respecting his decision not to tell, Deadly Musician let him be but then it came to sharing the other spoils from completing the dungeon raid.

They instantly rescinded ownership of all the drop spoils, allowing Noah to take everything if he wanted but Noah refused.

'Boss is so cool, and generous'. They thought, impressed, but then…

"I'll only take the C-ranked Dragon Tooth Lance; it's a Battle Mage weapon. As for the others, you can take it," he smiled. "So long you pay me back in coins".

'F*ck! Shameless!'

'Generous my ass!'

Deadly Musician almost collapsed after he heard Noah speak, he chuckled. "Why not just take them?"

"I'm a Battle Mage; I don't need them".

This Blademaster controller's eyes twitched behind his computer. 'In essence, you're too lazy to go to the equipment market to sell them, so you want us to be your buyers. So shameless!' Deadly Musician truly felt like crying.

In the end, Deadly Musician bought everything, transferring coins to Noah's character account after they finished haggling.

Even the haggling…, the Blademaster preferred not to think about it any longer lest he burst into tears.

In the end, all of them sent friend invites to Noah which he quickly accepted.

"You still want to run the dungeon?" He asked them.

They all nodded profusely, they could not wait to start all over, letting him lead from the beginning and that was exactly what they did.

…

For the next few hours, Noah spent his time leveling up with this party in the Pork Labyrinth but they never encountered the hidden boss again.

After they all hit level 7, Noah finally proposed to go sleep.

The first dungeon raid already exhausted his mental reserves and the subsequent playing for hours left him totally spent.

The others were also tired as it was already morning in the real world, they've been waiting for him to propose going to sleep since.

By now, the fever of the 11th server's launch already died down significantly as night players went to sleep and day players came online.

Just before Noah could leave, Deadly Musician stopped him. "Boss, I just sent you a link to the Drizzly Concert".

Noah looked at the Blademaster. "Drizzly?"

This player seemed confused. "You don't know about the Drizzly Concert?"

"Well, never mind, let me just tell you the truth. I wanted to hide my identity at first but in truth, I am Nightingale".

"…"

Seeing the clueless look on the Combat Mage's face, Deadly Musician chuckled. "As in, Nightingale, the musician".

"…"

"The hip hop superstar".

"…"

Deadly Musician chuckled. "Boss, you're not pulling my legs, are you? You don't really know him? Or me in this scenario".

Noah looked at this player, honestly baffled.

"Who is Nightingale?"

"…"

Tears streamed down Deadly Musician's cheeks.