Chapter 35: The Skull Mage

  I carefully counted my skills, apart from the passive skill "Swordman Frenzy", I only have three active skills: "Heavy Strike", "Combo" and "Ice Seal Slash". Compared to Xu Lin, a magician who can learn six magic skills as soon as she starts her job, I'm so ashamed that I don't know where to put myself. This is the embarrassment of being a swordsman or other close combat professions. I'm actually not bad off, the system rewarded me with an extra skill, probably most swordsmen only have "Heavy Strike" and "Combo" right now.

  It wasn't until then that I remembered the skill trainer next to me seemed to have an additional skill available for me to learn after my promotion, so I quickly opened up his dialogue interface, and one skill caught my eye: Suppression!

  Suppression: Passive skill, has a certain probability of increasing an extra attack opportunity after a physical attack, the probability increases with the level of the skill.

  Although the cost of learning skills is as high as 3 gold coins, I still gritted my teeth and learned it. The probability of suppression at level 1 is only 3%. Later, each skill upgrade will increase the probability by 3%, that is to say, when the skill is upgraded to level 10, the probability of suppression will be increased to 30%, which is not high or low. It makes sense, otherwise, if you make a 100% chance, other professions would not need to mix.

  After mastering the skill, it's time to go to the trading post and sell that green dagger, I believe it will definitely sell for a good price!

  The exchange is crowded with players, everyone is browsing the equipment and materials sold in the exchange, all equipment can be searched through equipment level and quality, which also greatly facilitates the player's purchase.

  I took a look at the dagger in the package, and its attributes aren't bad!

  Phantom Dagger (Green Equipment)

  Attack: 21-36

  Strength: +8

  Agility: +12

  Required level: 16

  Although adding 8 points of strength is a bit overkill, the attack power of 21-36 is already enough to make any player under level 20 drool, not to mention the additional 12 points of agility. For a rogue who pursues agility, this is no different from a sharp blade that can kill and loot with ease.

  I clicked on the consignment, quickly entered a floor price of 3000 RMB, and also didn't set an upper limit. Six hours later, whoever bids the highest price gets it. If no one buys it, it will be taken down and I'll come to pick it up.

  After selling off the items, I opened up the consumption goods auction house and was shocked to find that a set of red potions were being sold at an astonishingly low price. Other people's mid-sized red potion that adds 500 HP sells for 1 gold coin, but this person called "Peerless Little Pharmacist" is selling a large batch of mid-sized red potions at 30 silver coins per bottle.

  What a rare opportunity! I bought 10 bottles in one breath and spent 3 gold coins instantly, but I didn't feel any heartache at all.

  I've gathered my gear, I think it's time to take a look at the mission to rescue Princess Misha. If I can complete it on my own, then there's no need to waste everyone's leveling time helping me with the quest. Now that I have these 10 bottles of mid-red potion, the chances of completing the mission alone are even higher.

  ……

  The skulls in the plague cemetery are still patrolling back and forth, with my current level 21, I don't get much experience from killing them, so I just cleared a path and moved forward to the ghost house in the center of the cemetery.

  The area around the haunted house no longer spawns skull warriors, instead replaced by skull mages up to level 26. Fortunately, they don't appear in groups, otherwise my plan to complete the task alone would have been ruined.

  After measuring the good distance, I rushed towards the nearest skull mage. When it discovered me, it had already started accumulating fireball spell elements. Without hesitation, I first interrupted its magic with a combo, and then killed this anemic and poorly defended skull mage with a heavy blow. With my current attack of 120-155, I only needed two normal attacks to kill the 26-level skull mage.

  After clearing out dozens of skull mages around the haunted house, my level actually rose to 22, and my total blood volume has reached 720. Calculating based on each skull mage's fireball dealing 40 points of damage to me, I can withstand at least 18 magical attacks, which means I can take on three skull mages at the same time without dying.

  I pushed open the big door covered with spider webs and dust, took a look at the scene inside, and ran out without looking back.

  "Wow!!"

  At least 40 fireballs flew out behind me!!

  It's just as well that only a few fireballs hit me, otherwise I'd probably be back in town for free by now. Even so, I was beaten to less than 100 HP, and hastily used my talent - Ambush. After a few seconds, the skeleton mages finally calmed down, it seems this talent is still somewhat useful!

  I was so scared that I broke out in a cold sweat and sat there with my heart racing.

  After being full of blood, I walked to the door and found that the skull mages inside were staring at the outside with wide holes. Oh, sorry, they didn't have eyes, it was just big holes staring at small holes.

  With my current abilities, it's fundamentally impossible to kill them all off. At this moment, they're densely hiding in the house, and even the difficulty of luring monsters has increased a lot. If you want to lure a single monster, it's basically impossible. The setting in "Moon Constant" is very interesting - when monsters are clustered together, if one of them is attacked, the others will also follow it and counterattack. However, if no one attacks but instead someone approaches and lures them away, the other monsters won't move.

  Slowly approaching the skull sorcerer, all the skull sorcerers inside the house stared at the door, I don't know if they could see things in front of them. I was so nervous that my whole body trembled with fear, afraid that they would suddenly pile up fire and roast me!

  Finally! The three skull mages moved, and fire elements gradually condensed in their hands!

  I hastily turned around and ran back, closely followed by three large fireballs and three skull mages!

  As I saw the three skull mages coming out, I immediately turned around and killed one of them with a combo plus heavy strike. The Ice Seal Slash was released for the first time, and another skull mage was instantly frozen and stunned. A normal attack later, it was taken care of. The remaining one didn't pose much threat, and two normal attacks finished it off. I even got lucky and dropped an equipment!

  Intelligence Shorts (Green Equipment)

  Defense: +16

  Physical Strength: +8

  Intelligence: +14

  Required level: 18

  ……

  Something that adds 14 intelligence points, I've never seen it before, and this time Xu Lin didn't know how to be excited.

  I handed the attributes to Xu Lin, who immediately got excited and asked me to return to the city to trade. I had to comfort her for a while before she agreed to wait until I finished my task before trading...