Otherworldly Skeleton Evolution

Although Jiang Cheng hadn’t plundered any skills, he had plundered talents instead, rewarding him with 20 points of health and 1 point of defense—an extraordinary turn of events!

For players like him, attributes can only be improved through leveling up and consuming some rare treasures.

But these treasures are too precious. A single Mixed Yuan Fruit, which increases defense by just one point, costs at least 2 million yuan, and they’re so rare they’re practically priceless.

Only the wealthy can afford such luxuries.

But now, Jiang Cheng can plunder them directly!

“It seems like I can specifically target some wild monsters that can compensate for my weaknesses, kill them, and plunder their skills and talents.”

“Swish!”

The Burst Steel Bone Sword sliced through the neck of the Skeleton Bear.

“–183!”

[Congratulations on killing the Skeleton Bear, gaining 22 Evolution Points, and earning experience.]

“–183!”

“–183!”

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With Jiang Cheng’s current skills and awareness, killing Skeleton Bears hardly costs him any health.

He couldn’t be bothered to lure them one by one. Since they couldn’t break through his defense, no matter how many Skeleton Bears there were, he could charge straight in.

Like cutting melons and vegetables, he slaughtered the entire Fierce Bear Mountain’s Skeleton Bears.

One hour later.

[Congratulations on killing the Skeleton Bear, gaining 16 Evolution Points, and 16 experience.]

[Congratulations on leveling up, your level has increased by one, health points increased by 10, attack +1, defense +1.]

“Leveled up twice to level 9, but after killing for an hour, I’ve only earned 4000 Evolution Points. To reach the next level, I need 10,000 points. It seems like I should change locations after killing this Elite.”

After reaching level nine, Jiang Cheng’s experience and Evolution Points for killing a Skeleton Bear decreased to only 16 points.

Although his efficiency had improved significantly, the rewards had dropped drastically, which annoyed him greatly.

If the teleport function wasn’t still locked, and all maps had to be traversed manually, he would have had Zhang Mengmeng change locations long ago.

Seeing the Elite Skeleton Bear with the blue nameplate on the mountaintop, Jiang Cheng hid behind a huge rock, preparing to kill the Elite.

【Skeleton Bear Leader】

Grade: 10 (Elite)

HP: 3000

Attack: 60-100

Defense: 30

Skills: Bear Roar, Shockwave

Overview: The leader of the Skeleton Bears on Fierce Bear Mountain, known for its formidable attacks.

“Evolution Points are too few. I should evolve my skills first.”

He could rely on his positioning and god-tier awareness to slowly grind down this Elite monster, but there was no need.

At the start of the game, every second counts.

Dominance is the key!

[Spent 1000 Evolution Points, successfully evolving Assault Armor, raising its Grade to level 2.]

[Spent 300 Evolution Points, successfully evolving Swift Slash skill, raising it to level 4.]

[Spent 500 Evolution Points, successfully evolving Swift Slash skill, raising it to level 5.]

[Spent 600…]

[Spent 800 Evolution Points, Swift Slash raised to level 8.]

“Rare-Grade skills require 1000 Evolution Points to increase by one level, and the second level requires 2000, ten times more than Swift Slash.”

Since he had enough arrows, he chose to evolve the Swift Slash skill only to level 8, which cost him a total of 3900 Evolution Points, making him slightly regretful.

But after seeing the evolution effects, he felt it was worth it.

【Assault Armor】

Skill Grade: Rare

Current Grade: Level 2

Skill Effect: Upon use, for thirty minutes, allows weapon form change: Bone Armor, Bow and Arrows.

Effect: 60% of weapon attack power.

Requirements: Bone Powder.

【Swift Slash】

Skill Grade: Common

Current Grade: Level 8

Skill Effect: After use, increases attack speed by 240% for 80 minutes.

With 240% attack speed increase, his attack speed should reach around 0.8 seconds per strike, and the duration has also increased from thirty to eighty minutes.

That’s enough.

In The Great Wasteland game world, it’s not just about looking at the attack speed on the panel; it also depends on the player’s own ability to execute.

For example, if your panel shows an attack speed of 0.1 seconds per strike, theoretically, you could strike ten times in one second.

But in reality, an average player might only manage two strikes per second.

So simply stacking attack speed isn’t effective. It also depends on the player’s skill.

However, for Jiang Cheng, it’s not a problem at all.

In the Mythic game world, he broke the world record with thirteen strikes per second!

To this day, no one has surpassed it.

“Now that I have a sword and bow weapon, combined with such high attack speed, I can execute the Forced Combat technique.”

Forced Combat is a PK technique he invented in the past. It’s not part of the skill set; it’s just a fighting style.

Now, many gaming elites are imitating it, and many major gaming clubs use it as a criterion for recruiting and assessing talents.

Nowadays, not having this technique is embarrassing for a skilled player.

Forced Combat involves forcefully interrupting spellcasting during close combat and quickly switching to melee weapons to deal high damage in an instant.

For the Blade Master class, this move is simply divine!

Blade Masters rely on physical damage, but many of their skills have control effects, and their magical damage isn’t high, despite having stun effects.

But to balance the game, the casting time for Blade Master’s skills has been increased, mostly requiring around two seconds of casting time.

This makes many players feel frustrated.

They argue, “With those two seconds, I could have landed four or five strikes. Why bother with skills?”

But with Forced Combat, you can quickly interrupt spellcasting just as the skill is about to take effect!

The spell is interrupted, so it won’t deal damage, but the stun effect still occurs.

With this technique, a Blade Master’s combat effectiveness can increase several times over.

Later on, many players learned it and applied it in various professions, spreading its popularity.

However, mastering this technique requires high-speed weapon switching, mastery of magical abilities, as well as awareness, control, intuition, and decisive execution. Few people can master it.

It’s a symbol of being a gaming elite.

But as the inventor of this technique, Jiang Cheng naturally uses it with unparalleled skill, seamlessly connecting various spells and instantly switching between weapons, leaving people in awe.

“I should start collecting Bone Powder.” Jiang Cheng dragged the skeleton of a Skeleton Bear to the side of a large rock and began to grind it into powder using a Bone Blade.

One annoying thing about Assault Armor is that before use, you need Bone Powder. Without Bone Powder, you can’t activate it.

He could only slowly grind the Bone Powder.

Zhang Mengmeng, on the other hand, watched dumbfoundedly.

“Hey, Skeleton Big Brother, what are you doing?”

“Why suddenly want to grind bones?”

After witnessing Jiang Cheng’s terrifying skills and damage, Zhang Mengmeng changed her address for him from just “Skeleton” or “Skeleton Brother” to “Skeleton Big Brother.”

However, she didn’t quite understand what Jiang Cheng was doing.

All she knew was that he definitely wanted to take down that Elite Skeleton Bear…

“Skeleton Big Brother I know you’re incredibly skilled, slicing through enemies easily, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves, okay?”

Seeing Jiang Cheng charge all the way to the mountaintop with flames in his eyes fixed on the Elite Skeleton Bear, Zhang Mengmeng grew anxious again.

“How about this? I’m level nine now. After leveling up again, I’ll go back to learn level five and ten skills, Undead Enhancement and Summon Skeleton Archers.”

“Then, I can boost your attributes by 30%, and you’ll have archers under your command. How about we tackle the Elite Boss then?”