novelraw Chapter 161: Target Level 50
Chapter 161: Target Level 50
After Fist’s death, only a belt dropped.
However, this belt was merely purple gear, far from being comparable to the legendary belt that Heavenly Dao and his team had gotten on the 50th floor. Even on the 50th floor, only the first batch of pioneers who fought Fist could have dropped legendary gear. Now, if one went to fight the 50th-floor Fist, they would no longer drop legendary items, at most orange gear. However, the subsequent bosses have yet to be defeated for the first time by any team, so legendary items could still drop from them.
Huang Yi picked up the purple belt and directly stored it in his storage ring. He had grown indifferent towards purple gear, but in the auction house, purple gear was still very much in demand.
After Fist’s death, Huang Yi faced a choice of three paths, each leading to a suspension bridge toward the second, third, and fourth bosses’ mountains. He could freely choose any one of the paths, with each boss being approachable in any order, and after any one of the bosses was defeated, it would forge a path to the final boss.
Huang Yi randomly picked the third boss and proceeded onto the corresponding suspension bridge.
This suspension bridge spanned two mountain tops with an endless sea of clouds beneath. Some minor monsters obstructed the way, but Huang Yi cleared them brutally, flinging them off the bridge into the sea of clouds, their fates unknown.
Upon arriving at the mountain top where the third boss resided, Huang Yi activated Scorched Earth and circled the summit. Every 200 meters, he initiated a Judgment, the Aeonic Plague Effect spread, and swathes of minor monsters turned into experience points, with not a single corpse left behind. Wherever he went, monsters perished.
Before long, he stood before the third boss. This boss was clad in thick plate armor, wielding a bone shield and wearing a rust-covered helmet that was tightly secured, showing only a pair of ghastly white eyes with no hint of liveliness, emitting a faint stench of rot. Its name was "Zombie King, Iron Bone," and it was level 46, the same as Huang Yi.
Seeing the boss’s name and equipment, Huang Yi roughly guessed that this boss was likely a defense type, armored in plate and brandishing a shield; its physical defense was surely high. And given that the boss was called the Zombie King, it was very probable that it possessed the Zombies’ revival ability, able to resurrect after death, growing stronger with each return, necessitating several kills to permanently defeat it.
Huang Yi’s favorite were the bosses with revival abilities, because his orange weapon could directly Devour the enemy upon their death, depriving them of any chance to resurrect and needing only one kill. This was a very unique ability for this weapon, unseen in any other, and probably one of the rare attributes.
Huang Yi charged forward with a Pursuit, stunning the Zombie King, followed by a smash of his hammer.
However, his ferocious swing only inflicted a bit over a thousand points of physical damage—the Zombie King’s physical defense was indeed high. With Huang Yi’s attack power, which far exceeded that of other players of the same level, barely making a dent, a regular player would probably have to give up on this boss.
Yet, to Huang Yi’s surprise, the 20% fire attribute attack that came with his weapon dealt over three thousand points of high damage. It seemed the Zombie King was extremely vulnerable to fire attacks. Once hit by fire, it would suffer increased damage; a fire-based class was this boss’s nemesis.
The Zombie King quickly countered by slamming its bone shield into the ground, sending out a ripple that hit Huang Yi, but its damage was not considerable, even less than that of the first boss, Fist.
Huang Yi kept whittling down the Zombie King’s health, a boss without much difficulty—it was a matter of slow attrition, its true strength expected to reveal only after its death and resurrection.
"Death will only make me stronger!" Finally, the Zombie King was left with a sliver of health, but it didn’t activate any fury skills. It accepted death calmly, the corner of its mouth curling slightly, almost eager, as if awaiting a stronger self to resurrect and return.
In the next moment, Huang Yi’s hammer crushed it to death!
The Zombie King’s body burst apart, transforming into a surge of health points that replenished Huang Yi, utterly devoured with no chance of resurrection!
The Zombie King was actually very strong, but it could only show its true strength after dying and resurrecting. It would resurrect three times, with its strength being the strongest the last time. However, it met Huang Yi’s orange weapon with the Devouring Attribute, meaning once it died, it could not resurrect. It died with its full potential unfulfilled, a most wrongful death.
After killing the Zombie King, Huang Yi directly crossed the suspension bridge at the end of the mountain peak, arriving at the fifth boss’s peak without having to fight the second and fourth bosses.
After spending some time clearing out the smaller monsters, he came face to face with the fifth boss. This boss was a mage dressed in a black magic robe, holding an exquisite magic wand in his hand, and his name was "Rotten Dragon, Bart," with a high level of 51!
This level was completely beyond Huang Yi’s confidence. Level 50 was a major dividing line in The Second World, with both players and NPCs seeing a surge in strength. He estimated that the strength of these five bosses combined was likely stronger than the previous four.
The next moment, Huang Yi once again initiated pursuit, charging forward, determined to test the power of this boss.
"Whoosh!" Rotten Dragon, Bart, as agile as a thief, used Blink in the blink of an eye as Huang Yi initiated pursuit, appearing in another area, and then gently waved his magic wand at Huang Yi.
A purple light immediately struck Huang Yi! His Health Points dropped by 30%!
Rotten Dragon, Bart launched several attacks in a row, killing Huang Yi outright!
The entire process was as smooth as flowing clouds and water, as if it was all meant to be. The strength of the two was not on the same level at all.
Huang Yi resurrected at the entrance to the secret realm, gazing at the peak of Rotten Dragon, Bart, feeling a slight sense of powerlessness in his heart. If he tried a few more times, exhaustingly using various top-level magic items, he would have a fighting chance, but it would still be difficult to kill the opponent.
The best method was to quickly level up to 50, awaken his War Soul, and then killing would become much easier. Moreover, after reaching level 50, he could undergo his first Job Change. If that was successful, killing this boss would be even simpler.
Level 50, that was his most important goal right now!
Once reaching this level, awakening his War Soul, and completing the Job Change, he would be truly able to engage in battle on the same level as Dao Feng, Dragon Spike, Thunder God, and the like - a battle of strength!
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