The system notification sound for Jiang Hao's talent upgrade kept ringing until much later when he finally heard the system's last notification.
"Player detected defeating a monster 5 levels higher than their own. Talent effect enhanced, stun duration increased by 0.01 seconds. Current stun duration 2.85 seconds, true damage 205 points."
Only the Shadow Wolf King remained in the arena, still in a dazed state. Jiang Hao finally revealed a cruel smile.
Five minutes later, the Shadow Wolf King finally collapsed and died, unwilling to accept its fate. It wasn't that the Shadow Wolf King had high health or defense; rather, it was because the Skeleton Gnoll, the main attacker among Jiang Hao's summons, was too low-level and missed too many attacks.
Gained 68 experience points.
Obtain the equipment [Shadow Wolf King's Claw].
Obtain the equipment [Shadow Wolf King Bone Pendant].
Obtain the equipment [Shadow Wolf King Breastplate].
Obtain the equipment [Shadow Wolf King Leggings].
"Player detected defeating a monster 5 levels higher than their own. Talent effect enhanced, stun duration increased by 0.01 seconds. Current stun duration 2.86 seconds, true damage 205 points."
"Player detected defeating an elite monster of equal or higher level. Talent effect enhanced, damage increased by 100 points. Current stun duration 2.86 seconds, true damage 305 points."
That's it?
After waiting for a long time without receiving any system notifications, Jiang Hao was somewhat discouraged. Whether there was a server-wide announcement or not didn't really matter; the main thing was that he hadn't received any rewards. These things couldn't be forced, so Jiang Hao had no choice but to give up.
So he opened his backpack and began to examine the equipment he had obtained. The first five items in his backpack, such as the [Shadow Wolf Claw] and [Shadow Wolf Belt], were common equipment with white borders, all dropped by Shadow Wolves. Jiang Hao didn't look at them closely, planning to put them directly on the auction house later. The last four items were the main attraction, and Jiang Hao began to carefully examine the first item.
Shadow Wolf King's Claw
Quality: Black Iron
Weapon: Dagger
Health +100
Agility +35
Equipment effect: Each attack absorbs 5% of the damage and restores the user's health.
Wearing requirements: Level 10
It's obviously an assassin's equipment.
Unless you're a melee archer.
Although the equipment's effects are very appealing, its stats are clearly inferior to those dropped by the gnoll Ryan, and with the level 10 requirement to wear it, Jiang Hao estimates that if this item were auctioned now, even if someone wanted to buy it, it probably wouldn't fetch a high price.
I'll just put it in my backpack for now.
Click to view the second piece of equipment.
【Shadow Wolf King Bone Pendant】
Quality: Black Iron
Accessories
Health +100
Strength +5
Agility +30
Equipment effect: Each attack inflicts a 1% bleed effect on the user for 5 seconds, and the effect can be stacked.
Wearing requirements: Level 10
Jiang Hao checked the chest armor and leg guards in succession and found that the four pieces of equipment dropped by the Shadow Wolf King had similar attribute values and all required level 10 to wear, which immediately made him feel frustrated.
I can't use it myself, and I can't get a high price for it at auction, so I can only leave it in my backpack to gather dust.
On the other hand, the five white-framed common items dropped by the Shadow Wolf had no wearing requirements, and Jiang Hao didn't even check their specific attributes before listing them on the auction house. Following the same pattern as before, he chose the bidding mode, with a starting price of 10 yuan, and the bidding time for the first item was set to 5 minutes, increasing sequentially for subsequent items.
After dealing with the situation, Jiang Hao looked at the Shadow Wolf King's corpse lying on the ground. He tapped his finger, instantly consuming 1720 mana points.
It almost wiped out his mana again.
A gray light enveloped the entire corpse of the Shadow Wolf King. After about a minute, the over-a-meter-tall skeleton of the Shadow Wolf King rose from the ground. A ghostly blue light ignited within the empty skull; Jiang Hao had finally obtained another powerful summon.
Skeleton Shadow Wolf King
Faction: Necromancer Summoned Items
Quality: Black Iron Elite
Level: 13
life:
Physical attack: 1394
Physical Defense: 257
Speed: 127
Shadow Clone: Releases two shadow skeleton clones that mimic the attacks of the Skeleton Shadow Wolf King.
Shadow Tear: Wields claws, dealing 80% of attack damage to all targets within melee range and inflicting 1% of attack damage per second of bleed damage for 20 seconds. The bleed has a shadow effect, during which the target cannot regenerate health.
Shadow Suppression: Normal attacks have a chance to inflict a shadow effect, preventing the target from healing and reducing the healing received by 30%.
Berserk: When health drops below 30%, the user will automatically enter a berserk state, increasing attack power and defense by 80% and attack speed by 50%.
Bloodlust, a melee skill and attack, restores 30% of the damage dealt as health. Duration: 20 seconds, cooldown: 1 minute.
Seeing the Skeleton Shadow Wolf King's explosive stats, Jiang Hao felt a surge of satisfaction. He had gone through so much trouble to defeat the boss, only to find it hadn't provided a single usable piece of equipment; how could he not be upset? Now, having obtained such a powerful elite summon, he felt that all his efforts had been worthwhile.
The entire valley has been cleared, and Jiang Hao has reached level 6, achieving his goal. The unexpected acquisition of the Skeleton Shadow Wolf King will certainly make his dungeon runs much easier.
Mounting Skeleton Deer No. 3, Jiang Hao immediately ordered the skeleton army to head towards the "Death Mine" instance. Only while on the way did Jiang Hao have time to check out the three newly added system functions.
The first feature is the map function. With just a tap of the map icon, a map of the current area appears before your eyes. It also displays your current coordinates, movement direction and speed, and most importantly, it shows the monster levels and distribution. For example, the area slightly to the left above the White Water River contains monsters of levels 14-16. The area slightly to the right above the White Water River contains monsters of levels 19-20. And he is currently in the lower left corner of the map, an area where monsters of levels 11-13 are distributed.
In addition, there are several dungeon locations. The level 5 dungeon, Deadmines, is located in the lower left corner, not far from it, marked by a skull. The level 10 dungeon, Howling Shadows, is above the area where level 14-16 monsters are distributed. The level 15 dungeon, Dark Canyon, is in the upper right corner of the map. The level 20 dungeon, Underwater Prison, is located at the mouth of the Whitewater River where it enters the Dragon Sea.
"Isn't this just a low-map version of Dede Maps without navigation?!"
From now on, leveling up, finding monsters, and dungeons will all become much more convenient.
The map function was very useful, and Jiang Hao was satisfied. He closed the map and opened the dungeon system.
The dungeon system, though called a system, is essentially a list of dungeons, displaying information such as dungeon level, region, and location, as well as entry requirements and refresh intervals.
Jiang Hao noticed that the dungeon levels were all multiples of 5; there were dungeons of level 5, 25, and 30. There might be one, two, or three dungeons of the same level. Scrolling down to the bottom of the list, he found a level 100 dungeon called Eternal Abyss, with a maximum capacity of 40 players and an entry requirement of level 90 or higher.
As for information about the monster factions within the dungeon, and the equipment and item drops, there's absolutely nothing available. It seems there's no way to find out without actually entering the dungeon and playing through it.
After closing the instance system, Jiang Hao opened the class system, which required specific conditions to be met to activate.
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