"I'm here to run dungeons, not to do deductions."

Shaking his head, Jiang Hao stepped into the room. He tried to avoid looking at the small mountain of corpses beside him, and under the protection of his summoned creatures, he passed through the spacious basement and entered another underground passage.

The stench here is milder than in that other room.

Jiang Hao encountered two more gnolls and cast a detection spell from a distance.

Ghoul-eating gnoll

Bronze-level elite

Faction: Hostile

Level: 18

life:

Physical attack: 3562

Physical defense: 505

Speed: 130

......

Seeing the familiar description, I can't say it's similar to the previous two bosses, but it's exactly the same.

Jiang Hao was momentarily at a loss.

"What the hell? Isn't this the boss?"

"If even the mobs are bronze-level, then the boss must be incredibly powerful! What's the point of an ordinary team fighting it?"

After grumbling a few times, Jiang Hao still sent his summoned army to meet them.

Nine against two, plus Jiang Hao's high damage boost from his talent, the battle ended in less than three seconds, and his talent level increased twice more. Jiang Hao frowned, wondering if he had made a mistake. Although he had selected Nightmare difficulty, the monsters in the dungeon were all Bronze level, which was indeed a bit abnormal.

However, I'm really reluctant to give up now.

Jiang Hao thought for a moment and realized that in order to deal with potentially stronger bosses later on, he would have to hold off on summoning his creatures.

He extended his finger and used the resurrection skill on the fallen ghoul.

"Resurrecting the current target requires 4660 mana. You do not have enough mana. Resurrection has failed."

Hearing the system notification, Jiang Hao was momentarily speechless. His current total mana was only 4620. Although he still had many free attribute points—enough to add a few to intelligence—Jiang Hao didn't want to use them for the time being. He felt these free attribute points would be very useful later. So he could only continue forward.

He traveled along the way, stopping frequently and eliminating any monsters he encountered. After killing nearly 50 monsters, Jiang Hao was suddenly enveloped in a flash of white light and leveled up.

"Congratulations on reaching level 11. You have gained 5 free attribute points and 1 skill point. Please allocate them wisely."

After leveling up to level 11, his health increased from 5890 to 5920, and his mana increased from 4620 to 4740. Just enough to revive a summoned creature. So Jiang Hao immediately revived a ghoul.

Skeleton Gnoll

Faction: Necromancer Summoned Items

Quality: Bronze-level Elite

Level: 18

life:

Physical attack: 4631

Physical defense: 656

Speed: 169

......

The skills remain the same, but the attributes have been significantly improved. Among the attributes, health and physical attack are currently Jiang Hao's most valued. With his talent's enhancement, although his summoned creatures rarely lose health anymore, Jiang Hao still has a particular fondness for summoned creatures with high health, unconsciously believing that higher health equates to greater strength. As for physical attack, it now directly impacts monster-killing efficiency; the higher the summoned creature's attack, the greater the boost to him.

Looking at the other gnoll corpse on the ground, Jiang Hao used his resurrection skill again.

"Why is this underpass so long? Did we take the wrong turn?"

Jiang Hao opened the map, compared the distances, and found that this passage was very close to boss number 3. So he led his summoned army forward again.

They passed five more levels in a row until the last two monsters were surrounded and killed by Jiang Hao's summoned creatures. A crisp system notification sounded in their ears.

......

"Player detected defeating a monster 5 levels higher than their own. Talent effect enhanced, stun duration increased by 0.01 seconds. Current stun duration 4.99 seconds, true damage points."

"Player detected defeating an elite monster of equal or higher level. Talent effect enhanced, damage increased by 100 points. Current stun duration 4.99 seconds, true damage points."

With just one more monster to go, the stun duration of his talent would be increased to 5 seconds, perfectly covering the talent's 5-second interval. Jiang Hao was incredibly excited.

Even though it's only 0.01 seconds off now, Jiang Hao still feels it's a deficiency.

I've always had obsessive-compulsive disorder!

There was a door in front of him. After pushing it open, Jiang Hao saw that there was only one monster in the huge room.

It was a much larger gnoll. Fortunately, the room was big enough that Jiang Hao didn't disturb it when he opened the door.

Unlike other bosses, this one doesn't exchange a few words upon first meeting. He's clad in silver-white armor, carrying a large sword, and simply stands there quietly, his red health bar above his head unusually conspicuous.

It was rare to encounter such a quiet boss. Jiang Hao, who was used to his boss's loud shouting, even felt that it was somewhat aloof.

With a thought, he cast a detection spell over.

Commander Dus

Silver-rank elite (Emissaries of Arda)

Faction: Hostile

Level: 18

life:

Physical attack: 7560

Physical defense: 1962

Speed: 204

Skill: Bite: Deals damage equal to 150% of attack power to the target and restores health equal to 100% of the damage dealt.

Stun: When attacking an enemy with your claws, there is a 30% chance to stun the enemy for 1 second.

Howl: Increases own physical attack and defense for 1 minute. Skill cooldown is 4 minutes.

Moonshadow: During a full moon, the gnoll's strength and health regeneration speed are greatly increased. (Passive)

Holy crap!

With nearly a million HP and an attack power of 7500, Jiang Hao couldn't help but gasp. This was definitely the most awesome boss he had ever seen. With its attributes, slaughtering a viscount's castle would be a piece of cake.

Jiang Hao himself was even less comparable; with nearly 6,000 HP, he seemed like a tragic joke compared to the boss.

After a moment of self-pity, Jiang Hao noticed some additional information.

Is Arda the gnoll king from the job quest system?

Jiang Hao lacked confidence, so he opened the career system.

Scrolling down the task list, I finally found information about Alda.

"Kill King Arda of the Gnoll Kingdom, reward 80 gold coins, 80 free points, 40 skill points, 20 class points, and one diamond-grade treasure chest."

"Solo kill of Alda: 800 gold coins, 800 free points, 400 skill points, 200 class points, and a legendary treasure chest."

Hiss~

Looking at the generous reward, Jiang Hao took a deep breath.

At the same time, Jiang Hao also realized the difficulty of this task.

If one of Alda's commanders is Silver-rank, then what rank should he, Wolf, be?

Although Jiang Hao was very confident in his talent, if the level was too high and the attribute values ​​were too explosive, he was afraid that his summoned creatures would not be able to reduce the opponent's health at all.

Shaking his head to banish these irrelevant thoughts, Jiang Hao waved his staff at Commander Duss in the center of the room.

Unsurprisingly, Commander Dus vanished from his spot, reappearing beneath Jiang Hao's staff with his massive body. The dizzying star effect was spinning rapidly.

-

The true damage effect of the talent appeared above its head, and nine summoned creatures—or more precisely, nine level 18 bronze-tier skeleton gnolls—immediately surrounded it, launching a relentless barrage of attacks on Duss.

Jiang Hao had been summoning Skeleton Gnolls since he reached level 11. He only stopped after all his summons became level 18 Bronze-grade summons. The new summons had an attack power of 4631, which, after deducting Duss's 1962 defense, resulted in 2669 damage per attack. Combined with their agility of 169, the Skeleton Gnolls could attack twice per second. Furthermore, the summons inherited half of Jiang Hao's talent damage. This meant that a single Skeleton Gnoll could take away 13,000 of Duss's health in one second.

Jiang Hao roughly calculated that killing Du Si would only take about ten seconds.

But as the battle progressed, Jiang Hao noticed something was wrong. While his summoned creatures were indeed dealing significant damage—the combined damage of all nine of them reaching 1.2 per second—Dus was still regenerating health every second, a staggering 10% of its total health per second!