The pile of corpses suddenly exploded, catching the infected off guard.
All the infected in the inferno had perished, and the continuous stream of experience points filled the experience bar, allowing Liu Nian to successfully level up to level fourteen.
This wasn't what made him happiest. What made him happy was that his soul power was also successfully refreshed along with the upgrade.
He now has 140 points of soul power at his disposal.
Each skeleton consumes five points of soul power. Whether to summon it or not is a question that makes Liu Nian hesitate.
It remains the same old problem: the conflict between quantity and quality, Darth Vader or skeleton.
The Black Knight cannot be summoned at the moment; only boss-level corpses can be summoned.
The skeleton is available now.
However, the Black Knight allows him to be more composed when facing bosses.
Skeletons give him an advantage when dealing with large groups of enemies.
It's such a difficult contradiction to balance, but that's all the soul power we have.
I really want to be like that old man in the red hat and white beard, so he can say something as domineering as "I want them all".
Unfortunately, the system ignored him, preventing him from achieving his goal.
Ideals are lofty, but reality is harsh; achieving the best of both worlds is just a fantasy at this stage.
He had no time to hesitate. The remaining infected on the street and those who had come after hearing the explosion gathered together and rushed towards Liu Nian.
The army of undead summoned from the dark space has been gathered. There's still some time before nightfall, so let's go and clear out another wave.
The vampire, who had been holding back for a while, licked his lips excitedly as he watched the infected arrive, then commanded his summoned creatures to fight them off.
The Black Knight dragged his greatsword backward as he strode forward, blocking half the street by himself.
The infected who rushed over upon hearing the commotion were blocked by the Black Knight. With a swing of his greatsword, the unarmored infected were instantly sliced apart. The infected's dying struggles only managed to create a spark on the Black Knight's armor, leaving no trace.
The vampire languished in mid-air, seemingly disdainful of fighting the infected, and directed the rest of his summoned creatures to engage in battle.
Liu Nian, on the other hand, was even more lazy, constantly changing the bag that Da Hei was carrying.
Liu Nian directly upgraded the Raven Summoning skill to level 10, which is now his maximum level.
Anyway, two points of magic power are nothing to him right now.
Apart from releasing two ravens to continue setting up surveillance around the area, the rest of the ravens were searching for usable items in the pile of rubble.
As the leader, Dahei also learned to slack off. He carried a sack in his mouth and was responsible for collecting the items that his underlings had gathered, and then bringing them to Liu Nian.
I don't know if it's because of the event, but the drop rate of cards and crowns that I cleared out is much higher than when I was forced to leave the city.
In terms of crowns alone, they had already harvested several bags. Anyway, the upgrade mission had been completed, so Liu Nian didn't care much about the subsequent infected people.
While changing bags, Liu Nian also pets crows. She is very satisfied with her life now.
The space can automatically categorize items. Liu Nian only needs to throw the bag into the space, and the cards and crowns will be automatically placed in the corresponding areas.
Seeing the ever-increasing number of cards, Liu Nian decided to find a place to stay later and take another look.
After storing the last crown in his spatial storage, the Black Knight also cleaved the last infected in two. Looking at the infected who had been cut in two, Liu Nian was able to remain completely calm.
As we rode forward on horseback, we could no longer see any infected people on the road.
Seeing a five-story office building ahead, the tallest building in the area, Liu Nian decided to stay there for the night.
At 6 PM sharp, a system notification sounded in my mind.
Night is the death knell. All monster attributes are increased by 50%. Monsters will actively hunt players at night, so please proceed with caution!
Upon hearing the system notification, Liu Nian was slightly surprised. Did they change their planner for this very artistic copywriting?
Previous hints were always direct and aloof, but this one is so unusual.
The infected people in the office building must have all gone out to chase Liu Nian. They searched each room with their summoned creatures but found no signs of any infected people.
I walked up the stairs to the top floor, but the elevator had been out of service for a long time.
Walk to the middle room; it has the best view and you can see a lot of places.
I locked the door behind me, wondering if the rusty lock could still hold its ground.
Liu Nian quickly moved a desk over to block the doorway, which would at least prevent a surprise attack and also free up space inside the room.
The room smelled musty, which conveniently masked Liu Nian's scent.
The system says that monsters' attributes will improve, but I wonder if that infected person with the particularly keen sense of smell will come after me again.
The rotten curtains were drawn, and the whole room immediately became dark.
Liu Nian pulled out a bunch of fire-starting tools from the space and lit them in the corner between two walls. The flames gradually spread, and Liu Nian carefully added branches to them until the bright yellow flames danced in the room.
Seeing that the room had brightened up, Liu Nian stuck a few newspapers behind the curtains to make sure that the firelight did not see through the window before feeling relieved.
The system has issued a special warning to be careful, and the number of infected people has increased by more than half. There is no need to get into unnecessary trouble at night. It is better to be cautious than not.
Infected people can go without eating or drinking and won't get tired, but I'm different. I need proper rest; how can I survive without energy?
I opened the panel and took a look; it said that it would take 7500 experience points to upgrade to level 15.
Liu Nian discovered a pattern: at this stage, each level up grants an increase of 500 experience points, with a large increase only occurring at level 20, and roughly the same when leveling from one level to ten.
The same applies to skill levels; after level five, each level up increases the skill casting limit by fifty times.
It was still early, and Liu Nian couldn't fall asleep, so she took out the cards she had collected that day and examined them carefully.
Meanwhile, the sound of the explosion also attracted the attention of a temporary camp near the city. Dugu Xing quickly dispatched several scouts to move in the direction of the explosion, as they needed to go there to investigate the situation.
They launched another probing attack in the afternoon, but the results were not ideal, and they lost several elite members in the process.
The atmosphere in the camp isn't good right now because the victims were core members of other guilds, and some bad rumors are spreading in the camp.
What's most frustrating is the attitude of some large guild leaders. Although they outwardly support him, they've started to disobey many of his orders.
This explosion might be a turning point; if there are other forces involved, perhaps we can make some contact.
If they also fail to kill the Hellfire, they could appropriately express their willingness to form an alliance. It would be best if they could form an alliance to kill the Hellfire guarding the gate together.
The scouts, chosen with this mission in mind, mounted their motorcycles and headed toward the direction from which the explosion had come.
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