Chapter 5: The Skull Monster of Novice Village

  "Ding! You have discovered a new map, Netherworld! Reputation increased by 10,000!" The sudden system prompt brought Lingmu back to his senses.

  Is this the Netherworld? Ling Mu opened up his map and took a look, indeed the current location was displayed as "Netherworld???", he flipped back to the previous system prompt and could basically confirm that Tian Qi wouldn't make mistakes, this bug was actually the key to triggering this hidden quest!

  He instinctively reached out to touch his chin, but was startled by the bony palm that stretched out from his own hand. He hastily lowered his head to look at his body and found that he had indeed transformed into a small, thin skeleton with white bones. Especially when he touched the smooth, bare skull, Ling Mu suddenly felt a strange sense of desolation in the empty chest cavity...

  "Ding! You have been nourished by the Netherworld's Breath, all attributes increased by 1 point! This effect takes place every 10 minutes!"

  Suddenly another system prompt sounded, Lingmu's eyes lit up, all attributes increased? Opened the attribute panel to take a look, and was delighted.

  Character Name: Lingfeng Yushu

  Ethnicity: ??????

  Occupation: ?????

  Character level: 1

  Health: 1010

  Magic value: 210210

  Physical Attack: 2-2

  Magic Attack: 29-29

  Physical Defense: 1-1

  Magic Defense: 1-1

  Power: 2

  Physical Constitution: 1

  Agility: 3

  Intelligence: 29

  Spirit: 21

  There is also a status bar below the attribute panel, and Lingmu took a look at it, which is indeed the reason for the increase in all attributes.

  Nether Breath: As a deceased being, you are nourished by the Nether Breath, increasing all attributes slightly every 10 minutes.

  Suddenly, his own race and profession had become "???", Lingmu thought for a moment, it should be the skull of course no longer human, new race is not determined, as for the profession of course also lost with the race. Lingmu remembered that he hadn't looked at the triggered hidden task, so he opened the task panel to find it, and indeed there was a hidden task in an unclaimed state.

  Hope of the Netherworld: In the divine war ten thousand years ago, due to the downfall of the Nether God, the entire Netherworld fell into closure and extinction. Countless deceased lost their souls and turned into bleached white bones. The entire Netherworld was left with only endless seas of withered bones. You are the only deceased in ten thousand years to awaken in the Netherworld, shouldering the heavy responsibility of being the hope of the Netherworld!

  "Ding! Do you accept the hidden quest - Hope of the Underworld?"

  What's the point of dying 999 times? It was all for this moment!

  "Accept the mission!"

  "Ding! You have accepted a hidden quest - Hope of the Underworld!"

  "You have obtained profession - Underworld Disciple!"

  "You have obtained the title - Hope of the Underworld!"

  "You have obtained the talents - Netherworld Breath, Netherworld Body, and Netherworld Eyes!"

  "You have acquired the skill - Call of the Underworld!"

  A string of consecutive prompts proved that Lingmu was in a great mood, and he hurriedly took a look. The character attributes didn't change much, but the race and occupation were no longer "???".

  Race: Undead

  Occupation: Underworld Disciple

  Then there is racial talent, each race has a talent, equivalent to a passive skill.

  Netherworld Aura: You awaken from the Netherworld, carrying a strong aura of the underworld. Units around you are strongly affected - Undead creatures' all attributes increase by 50%, Dark faction's all attributes increase by 20%, and Light faction's all attributes decrease by 20%.

  Netherworld Physique: You have returned from the dead Netherworld, thus gaining a body that will not truly die - Undead Body: When you die, you will turn into a pile of bones, and after a certain period of time, you will reassemble and revive. The revival time is determined by the extent of damage received. Once your corpse is purified by holy light, it cannot be revived again.

  Netherworld Eyes: A pair of eyes invaded by the Netherworld's breath, possessing a certain ability to discern the true nature of things - Investigation Technique: Can investigate information about objects no more than ten levels below one's own level.

  Then there are the active skills, opening the skill panel Ling Mu surprisingly saw two skills, in addition to the newly acquired Netherworld's Call, there was also a Nether Fireball, which was actually one of the basic skills of the original Mage profession and had changed.

  Netherfire Orb: A fireball technique tainted by the Nether's breath, dealing corrosive damage.

  Call of the Underworld: You can summon a spirit from any corpse to fight for you from the underworld.

  It's just a low-level damage skill plus an undead summoning spell, the damage value and casting time are skills that Linmu didn't look at carefully, Linmu has always been someone who believes in his own judgment rather than looking at data.

  The last one is the title with the same name as the task.

  Hope of the Underworld: You are the hope of the underworld, so you will gain extremely high favorability from forces belonging to the dark camp.

  It didn't have any specific properties and now it's useless, so Ling Mu ignored it.

  The benefits have been collected, and it's time to get down to business. Ling Mu continued to observe this underworld, to see if there were any other discoveries that could be made. However, apart from the ground paved with shattered bones and the mountains formed by piles of shattered bones, plus the gigantic skeletal remains, nothing else was found.

  "I wonder if a skeleton counts as a corpse?" Ling Mu suddenly thought, and casually used the skill "Call of the Underworld" on a super-giant skeleton they were passing by.

  "Skill usage successful! Summon progress 110000000!"

  What the heck is this meme? The skill was successful, but what's with that string of 0s at the end, whose idea was it?

  Ling Mu was stunned and didn't dare believe that the skill he had obtained after completing the hidden task with great difficulty was actually useless. He hastily tried again.

  "Skill usage successful! Summon progress 1100!"

  This time's skill goal was a humanoid skull, and the result finally let Lingmu breathe a sigh of relief. It seems that this summoning progress is related to the strength of the corpse.

  "Huh?"

  Ling Mu suddenly discovered that ahead was a withered bone palace, which he had just thought was a withered bone mountain. Only after circling around to this side did he discover that there was a giant beast skull with an open mouth forming the palace entrance.

  Without saying another word, Ling Mu hastily moved his white and flower-like two stick legs "clattering" as he ran over.

  The forehead of the giant skull seemed to have a few words written on it, but Lingmu didn't recognize them and ignored them. As he walked into the palace, it was an empty and spacious hall, with no bone fragments on the ground, only clean stone flooring. The empty space surprisingly had several magic arrays carved on it. Lingmu hesitated for a moment before choosing one to step on.

  After all, just standing there and watching doesn't make sense, if you want to understand what this magic array is for, you have to try it out yourself.

  But unexpectedly, the expected prompt tone did not sound, and at the moment when Lingmu stepped on it, a white light rose directly from the magic array. Lingmu was not unfamiliar with this white light, which was the light effect of the transmission array.

  "What about the system prompt? Can it still force transmission? Damn, I'm going to be late for my date!"

  Ling Mu was overwhelmed by the sudden white light and only managed to let out a mournful cry. If he had another chance, he definitely wouldn't have stepped on it again. The Netherworld was just starting to be explored, and he was enjoying the comfortable experience of leveling up his points, which were all attributes! Who knew that transmission array didn't give any warning and activated as soon as he stepped on it...

  A flash of white light, and Ling Mu reappeared in another place that seemed a bit familiar. Upon closer inspection, wasn't this the resurrection point of Newbie Village? He had just lain there for half a day.

  No. 9191 Newbie Village Respawn Point, several players who happened to be passing by nearby stared blankly at the skull that walked out of the respawn point.

  "What is this? A Lich's summoning skull?" An archer stared blankly.

  "You idiot! This is a newbie village for humans, what's with the undead warlock from the dark camp?!" a warrior spat.

  "What did you say it was?"

  "I don't know either!"

  "You two are idiots!" The thief next to them couldn't take it anymore, "Isn't this obviously a Skull Monster? Can't you see the red name of the Underworld Disciple?"

  "Whoa! The monster ran into Newbie Village?"

  "There might be a mission! Grab it quickly and don't let it get away!" A crowd of people rushed up.

  As soon as Ling Mu walked out, he found a group of players staring at him strangely. He didn't mind, after all, he was now a skeleton and it was normal to attract attention. However, he didn't expect that in just a few words, this group of novice players wearing cloth clothes and holding wooden sticks would rush towards him together, with the momentum of wanting to dismantle his skeleton! Frightened, Ling Mu took off running.

  Fortunately, this is a novice village where everyone has little harm and skills that can't keep up. Except for a few fireballs and arrows shot at Lingmu's back, which didn't hurt much and didn't cause much damage to Lingmu.

  Ling Mu was running for his life, in the newbie village he only knew the direction of the village entrance so he rushed towards that direction with his head down, which created this peculiar scene in newbie village 9191.

  A skeleton monster rushed out of the village entrance, with a large group of players chasing after it. More and more players who were leveling up by the roadside joined in the chase, and the number of new players following behind the skeleton monster grew larger and larger. In this way, one skeleton led a group of players in a straight-line charge until they disappeared into the distance, leaving the players on the side of the road looking at each other in confusion.

  "What are you guys chasing after?"

  "Is there a Skull Boss up ahead?"

  "Does that skull have a hidden mission?"

  "Has the ultimate boss of Newbie Village appeared?"

  "Ah! The village chief is dead? Turned into a skull? Then how are we supposed to get to the main city to change jobs?"

  "A skeleton monster sneaked into Newbie Village and stole Old Man Wang's chicken? Old Man Wang issued a quest that whoever kills the skeleton monster will get his daughter's hand in marriage?"

  "Vice Guildmaster! We've found a Skull Boss outside Newbie Village!"

  "What are you waiting for, bring people to explode it! I'll be right there, this 'Divine' upgrade is really slow, and the explosion rate is even lower, after chopping monsters for half a day, only four levels were leveled up, and just two white boards exploded!"

  "This... I've found that there are quite a few players who have discovered this Skull Monster... The scout thief glanced at the dark crowd chasing after him and swallowed hard."

  "What are you afraid of? Let's put our name on the newspaper! I wonder who dares to grab the monster now? Where is the coordinate, I'll come right away!"

  "Whoa! This Skullbeast is fast, and it specifically targets high-level monster groups!"

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