The description is the same as the ghouls in the Howling Shadow dungeon, except their stats don't seem as strong. Jiang Hao guessed it might be because it wasn't a full moon.

He raised his staff. Yes, Jiang Hao knew for sure that he was raising his silver-grade weapon: the Shield Staff, but it looked like a gnoll raising a large sword.

This feeling is really strange!

With a gentle swing of his broadsword, the jackal vanished from its spot. When it reappeared, it was already beneath Jiang Hao's broadsword.

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White damage numbers floated above his head, his health nearly halved. A dizzying star effect spun rapidly above his head. Jiang Hao raised his greatsword again and gently brought it down once more.

Jiang Hao was quite pleased that this gnoll didn't regenerate health at a rate of 10% per second like the gnolls in the Howling Shadow dungeon. After two more strikes, the gnoll finally collapsed to the ground, unwilling to accept its fate.

Gained 108 experience points.

"Player detected defeating an elite boss of level or higher. Talent effect enhanced, true damage increased by 100 points. Current damage points."

Without any hesitation, Jiang Hao used the Resurrection skill on the fallen gnoll corpse.

The gnoll soldier Jiang Hao pulled over was one of the outermost soldiers. Even after a skeletal gnoll summon rose up beside Jiang Hao, the soldiers outside the ravine still hadn't noticed; one of their companions had already disappeared.

Skeleton Gnoll

Faction: Necromancer Summoned Items

Quality: Bronze-level Elite

Level: 18

life:

Physical attack: 3241

Physical defense: 460

Speed: 118

......

Summoned creatures always have significantly higher attributes than resurrected targets; this is without exception. Jiang Hao repeated the process, raising his broadsword and pulling over another soldier. This time, with a summoned creature assisting, the monster-killing efficiency was much higher.

Resurrect, pull monsters, kill monsters, resurrect...

This cycle repeated several times until the number of summoned creatures reached nine, at which point Jiang Hao stopped spawning new ones.

The disappearances of gnoll soldiers one after another had already attracted the attention of some gnolls. Jiang Hao saw a gnoll guard at the edge begin to run towards Dus, clearly intending to report this strange situation.

Jiang Hao raised his broadsword again and slashed down at the running gnoll from a distance. The gnoll's body vanished instantly. Several summoned skeletons had already formed a circle around it. As soon as the gnoll appeared under Jiang Hao's blade, without warning, their broadswords struck its head, killing it instantly.

But chaos reigned in the ravine. Several gnolls rubbed their eyes, unsure if it was their imagination or if a running gnoll had suddenly vanished. Jiang Hao noticed that the gnoll Dus was also looking in the direction where the gnoll had disappeared, clearly aware of the commotion but still unsure of what was going on.

"To catch the thief, first catch the king," Jiang Hao said, raising his broadsword at the bewildered Commander Duss.

In an instant, the gnoll Dus's body also vanished from the spot. Dus, who originally had more than 900,000 health, only had about 650,000 health left because he was not in full moon mode. At this moment, without the buff of 10% health regeneration per second during the battle, this gnoll commander, who was known for his courage and forbearance in Jiang Hao's eyes, soon fell to the ground unwillingly.

"Don't worry, I will avenge you."

Jiang Hao spoke to Du Si's corpse as if making a promise, and then used the skill to revive him.

[Skeleton Commander Dus]

Faction: Necromancer Summoned Items

Quality: Silver-level Elite

Level: 18

life:

Physical attack: 6880

Physical defense: 1785

Speed: 186

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)

Looking at the resurrected Dus, Jiang Hao's eyes narrowed involuntarily. It wasn't because he was intimidated by the attributes of the silver-level summon. Rather, it was because he realized that even with the enhancement from his resurrection skill, the skeleton Dus's attributes still couldn't compare to the living Dus in its full moon state. He clearly remembered that when he encountered Dus in the penultimate stage of the Howling Shadows, his health was a full 930,000, and his physical attack was around 7,500.

Looking at the fourth skill of the silver-level summon, Jiang Hao couldn't help but make a comparison. Resurrection could increase the original monster's attributes by 30%. The Full Moon state, however, could increase the gnoll's attributes by more than 40%, coupled with the terrifying mechanism of regenerating 10% of its health per second during combat. Jiang Hao gained a firsthand understanding of the gnoll's power.

Most importantly, Jiang Hao discovered that it seemed all the gnolls had this passive skill, meaning they all had a cheat code.

Although Jiang Hao thought it was just a game setting, he was still quite startled by his discovery.

No wonder the gnolls were able to build such a vast empire!

Thinking of this, Jiang Hao felt a sudden sense of urgency. Although he didn't yet know what the Heart of Immortality was for, since it was something their capital wanted, it must undoubtedly be a priceless treasure.

No wonder the Lingxu Administration Bureau is trying every means to sabotage the gnolls' plans; isn't that disrupting the game's balance?

Jiang Hao thought he had figured out the Lingxu Administration Bureau's position, and suddenly felt that 2000 professional points were too little!

"Let's get to work quickly, two thousand it is fine."

Although there was some unrest among the gnolls on the other side of the mountain pass, it was limited to the guards at the entrance. Since these guards were all from over 10,000 realms, the gnolls inside the pass didn't bother with them. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jiang Hao resumed his long-range monster-luring operation.

Half an hour had passed since the mage mentioned two hours. Fearing something might go wrong, Jiang Hao had no choice but to keep pulling monsters. He pulled one monster, which his summoned creatures hacked to death. The next second, Jiang Hao pulled another monster, which was also hacked to death by his summoned creatures. He continued this pattern, killing one bronze-level monster per second, and his experience points began to rise steadily. At the same time, his talent damage was also increasing at a rate of 100 per second.

One by one, the gnoll guards at the mountain pass began to disappear, and the commotion gradually grew louder. More than a hundred gnoll guards, without their commander Duss's guidance, had to watch helplessly as their comrades vanished one by one—the feeling was terrifying. What if they were next? Panic gripped the gnoll guards, and they swarmed back into the pass. But Imperial gnoll guards were also stationed inside the pass, leading to a scuffle. The commotion at the pass alerted the gnolls closer to the entrance. They dusted themselves off, curiously rising to their feet, wanting to know what was happening at the pass…

Jiang Hao noticed it too, but he couldn't be bothered to hide it. He continued to use his teleportation to pull monsters at a rate of one per second. After another two minutes, he had finally pulled away all 200-plus foreign guards wearing white armor at the entrance of the mountain pass.

This was a deliberate outcome. After all, these guards were disliked by the Imperial Gnoll army. As long as the gray-armored Gnolls in the ravine didn't disappear, the Imperial Gnoll army would at most watch with a spectator's attitude, perhaps wondering what new tricks they were up to, and at most complaining about the lack of manners of the higher realm soldiers. They would absolutely not offer any substantial help. Isn't that the mentality of those who consider themselves superior?