Chapter 6: The King of Black Panther
When collecting 200 iron ore to hand in the task, if there are more than 10 refined iron in the backpack, a hidden task can be triggered!
Refined Iron is a rare ore that can be found in small quantities when mining Iron Ore. The chances of finding it are so low that even if you mine 1000 blocks of Iron Ore, you might not find a single block of Refined Iron!
Of course, there are also no high-quality iron ore veins, but first, the veins are scarce, and second, they must be guarded by powerful monsters!
Due to such a low probability, the hidden quest of the warrior series was never triggered until the game had been operating for three years. There was a mining maniac who would go online and do nothing but mine. He stayed in the novice village for half a year!
It just so happens that the profession he chose was a warrior!
The player, who had over 100 pieces of fine iron in his backpack, successfully triggered this hidden quest and stumbled through to the end, earning a "normal" rating and receiving a reward: a skill point and a skill book called "Horizontal Sweep".
A single skill point was enough to make people's eyes red with envy, and when he posted the explanation of his sweeping skills on the forum, all warriors were moved to tears!
Sweep: Attack all nearby enemies, dealing 100% melee damage to each target. Consumption: 20 rage. Cooldown time: 10 seconds. Requirement: Melee weapon.
Such a powerful group damage skill actually landed on a player who digs all day, what a tragedy!
But players soon thought: even if it's just a "normal" score, you can get such a rich reward, so what about a "good" or even "perfect" score? How tempting would the rewards be? Unfortunately, hidden tasks have uniqueness, that is, once someone completes them, there is no second person who can complete them!
Task evaluation has four levels: extremely poor, average, very good and perfect. However, only S-level tasks have task evaluations.
Zhang Yang first went to the alchemy store and sold all the miscellaneous items in his backpack, increasing his gold coins to 23. He opened the product catalog of the alchemy store, finding the so-called "red bottle" primary healing potion and the trial poison that was exclusive to Newbie Village, limited to one purchase per person forever.
"Basic Healing Potion" (White, Consumable)
Use: Restore 100 health immediately.
Poison Trial (White, Consumable)
Apply to a weapon, lasts for 60 minutes. Causes the target to become poisoned on hit, dealing 3 damage per second for 15 seconds with a 30% chance, stacks up to 5 times.
A red bottle costs one silver coin, and the trial poison is even more expensive, priced at 10 silver coins! Zhang Yang spent money like flowing water, and in one breath, he bought 10 bottles of primary treatment potion and 1 bottle of trial poison. Then he left Newbie Village and headed north towards the depths of the mountain.
He remembered that in a certain corner of the mountain, there was a refresh point for fine iron ore, which refreshed once an hour and could be dug up 2-3 blocks at a time! That was the only refresh point for fine iron ore in the novice village, and it just so happened to be inside the lair of the Black Panther King!
High returns always come with high risks!
The road was very long, and Zhang Yang spent more than half an hour before arriving at a mountain valley, surrounded by towering rocks of strange shapes.
At the bottom of the valley, a vein of ore with a bright silver glow strongly attracted Zhang Yang's gaze. It was the only high-iron ore that would refresh in Newbie Village. However, next to this vein lay a gigantic black panther, its body as black as ink and about two men tall and six men long!
This is the strongest BOSS in Novice Village, Black Panther King!
Black Panther King (Hei Tie Class Leader)
Level: 15
Health: 45,000
A blood volume that inspires awe and fear!
Zhang Yang took out the trial poison and applied it to the new sword. The originally rusty iron sword suddenly flashed with a green glow.
Poison, originally a unique feature of the thief profession! However, game developers have made trial poison available in limited quantities in the newbie village for other players to experience its charm. Since each person can only purchase one bottle permanently, it won't affect the game's balance.
But this became Zhang Yang's key to killing BOSS beyond his level!
Zhang Yang adjusted his state and then made a direct charge towards the Black Panther King.
Charge dizziness!
Zhang Yang swung his hand and a sword appeared, slashing onto the body of the Black Panther King.
“－6！”
Due to the huge suppression of levels, plus the extremely high defense of the leader-level monsters, Zhang Yang, even with 36-38 points of basic damage, could only deduct a pitiful 6 points of blood from the BOSS! And because the damage caused was too low, the rage value obtained was only 3 points. Even adding the extra 10 points of rage from charging, it was still far from enough to trigger a powerful strike!
Besides, even if you can launch a powerful attack, it won't cause much damage. To kill this high-level, high-armor BOSS, you can only rely on the power of poison!
Two seconds later, the Black Panther King woke up from his coma, angrily raised his claws and swiped at Zhang Yang.
Zhang Yang calmly dodged the monster's attack with a slight crouch, and immediately swung his sword out again, striking Black Panther King's body once more.
“－8！”
"Ding! Your attack has afflicted the Black Panther King with Trial Poison (1 layer), causing 3 points of damage per second!"
Poison belongs to spell damage and can only be reduced by magic resistance!
Zhang Yang's face revealed a hint of joy, the success rate of this poison was not too high, but as long as it was applied in one layer, within 15 seconds, another layer could be applied to continuously stack up and reach the full effect at five layers!
The blow missed its mark, and instead the enemy in front of him inflicted repeated injuries. The Black Panther King grew even more enraged, his forepaw striking out again, swinging fiercely at Zhang Yang.
Dodge!
Zhang Yang displayed the demeanor of a master, using footwork and movement to continuously dodge the BOSS's attacks, not wasting any opportunity to strike back with his sword, striking the BOSS again and again.
"Ding! Your attack has afflicted the Black Panther King with Trial Poison (2nd layer), causing 6 points of damage per second!"
"Ding! Your attack..."
The effect of the poison soon stacked up to five layers, and the Black Panther King's per-second blood loss reached 15 points. Although it was slow compared to its long health bar, as long as this state was maintained, after fifty minutes, this BOSS would eventually suffocate to death from the poison!
Zhang Yang didn't dare to be careless at all! His thin blood volume couldn't withstand the BOSS's light attack, and as long as he was hit by the BOSS once, he would definitely be done for!
One minute, two minutes, three minutes...... forty-five minutes!
The Black Panther King's HP had dropped to around 10%, and a blood-red glow suddenly flashed across this powerful monster's body. Its originally towering physique stiffened and expanded again, its attack speed faster and frequency higher!
This is what players commonly refer to as a "berserk state", the madness of monsters before they die, and only a few powerful monsters possess this berserk state.
Zhang Yang's nerves were highly concentrated, bringing his sharp motor nerves to the extreme, dodging the Black Panther King's attacks time and again with precision! At this point, the character's movement speed was clearly unable to keep up with his neural responses, and only by investing more attribute points in agility could he bring out the best effect of his advantages.
In this sense, Zhang Yang is more suitable for playing thieves!
Of course, in the later stages of the game, as equipment quality improves, the proportion of free attribute points in character attributes becomes smaller and smaller, and can eventually be ignored. A good piece of equipment is the key to improving a character's attributes!
“－15！”
“－15！”
“－6！”
Dodge!
“－15！”
“－15！”
“－7！”
Damage numbers kept popping up on the Black Panther King's head, and its blood volume was finally beaten to the bottom. With the last "?15" jump of the trial poison, the Black Panther King let out a mournful cry, turned into a white light, and fell to the ground dead.
Finally finished, Zhang Yang let out a sigh of relief, nearly an hour of high-intensity fighting had left him feeling quite exhausted.
"Ding! You killed the Black Panther King, gaining 90,000 experience points (double reward for inter-level kill)!"
"Ding! Congratulations, you have become the first player to kill a wild Black Iron-level boss outside. Your glorious achievement will be recorded in history! Would you like to make your name public so that people can praise your great feat?"
Zhang Yang was stunned. Because in his previous life, he had entered the game too late, so any level of BOSS first kill was beyond him, and he had never encountered such a thing!
The first reaction is to choose "yes". Raising the server's reputation and becoming an object of admiration for many players, isn't that every online gamer's initial intention? Moreover, becoming famous will also be more beneficial for him when creating a guild, as it can attract even more players.
But he immediately thought that he was currently a poor and unknown person, except for the uncontacted Han Baozi, there was no one around him. If at this time the Grand Duke "favored" himself and wanted to recruit him, could he say no?
Once you refuse the gang's recruitment, what awaits you is endless harassment and even encirclement and suppression!
It's not surprising at all! Zhang Yang clearly remembered that in his previous life, there was a Knight Templar called "Stardust", whose level was quite good, and although he was in a small guild, his achievement in the instance dungeon was enough to challenge those of super-large guilds. At first, various super-large guilds sent out invitations to Stardust, asking him to jump ship, but Stardust had strong feelings for his own guild and chose to decline all invitations.
As a result, Xing Guang Wu Xian and his guild were besieged by three major guilds, and in less than ten days, many members were unwilling to continue playing and chose to quit the guild. The small guild was thus disbanded, and Xing Guang Wu Xian was extremely depressed, choosing to delete his account and protest on the official forum.
The official response is that "Miracle" does not encourage private duels, so there are penalties for dropping levels and red names. If you want to PK, go to the arena; if you want to kill enemies, go to the battlefield. Absolutely no level or equipment will be dropped. If you want to engage in personal vendettas, you must pay the price.
No matter what the official reason is, it's always about not mediating players' personal grudges!
Zhang Yang didn't just "play" the game, he also used it to make money and accumulate wealth to the point where he could rival the Liu family and be on par with the Lin family. He knew the trends of the game, knew when certain materials were valuable, but this required being ahead of the majority of players in terms of level in order to manipulate them. For example, the best-selling low-level agility potion at level 20 had a formula that could only be obtained from opening silver-grade treasure chests!
To get this formula, you must have the strength to obtain a white silver treasure chest! Moreover, it must be obtained at the first time, otherwise, after the time has passed, even if the formula is made into a medicine, there will not be many players who need it!
Now, he needs an environment that is as undisturbed as possible until he establishes his guild and has the power to say "no"!
Zhang Yang finally chose "no"!
Suddenly, server notices in red font began popping up throughout the World Channel.
"Server Announcement: Player (name hidden) has successfully defeated the 15th-level Black Iron King, Black Panther King (China Server)! This achievement will be recorded on the Glorious Achievement Board! Let's give him a round of applause!"
"Server Announcement: Player (name hidden) successfully killed the 15th level Black Iron Boss, Black Panther King (China Server), and received a system reward of 10 gold coins!"
"Server Announcement: Player (name hidden) successfully killed the 15th level Black Iron King, Black Panther King (China Server), and increased reputation by 500 points for all races in the Alliance!"
A string of red words flashed on the screen, this effect is absolutely stunning!
"Ding! You have received an extra reward: Lucky value +1!"
He actually got a lucky value! Zhang Yang was somewhat surprised, the luck attribute cannot be improved through equipment, but it is a very important attribute! One of them is that the lucky value will affect the drop rate of monsters, and also affect the success rate of strengthening equipment and rune weapons. Of course, there is also the probability of a lucky hit.
Zhang Yang looked at the server announcement on the screen, which had been refreshed five times in a row. Even he felt a little dizzy. Then, his gaze shifted to the spoils of war dropped by the Black Panther King.
……
On the other hand, a sudden server announcement instantly set off all Chinese players.
"What the...?! I've been grinding for half a day and just reached level 5, but someone already killed the level 15 BOSS?!"
"Seriously? You're still going solo?"
"The server is so laggy, bro was reading messages and forgot to fight monsters, got killed by them!"
"Damn, he must be using a cheat, no way can someone solo a Black Iron boss!"
"Damn GM, come out and see God!"
"Got it, White! In 'Miracle', there's no GM, only supercomputer monitoring to ensure fairness and justice!"
"Get out of here!"
"Get out of here!"
"Get out of here! Speed upgrade is the way to go!"
"There are more freaks than people, how can I level up? I'm a Taoist priest, but until now, I haven't even cast a single spell, all I do is carry my staff and go beat them up!"
"Upstairs, shake hands, Brother Pastor, didn't even dare use magic, two seconds to cast a spell, how can we grab the monster!"
Soon after, someone posted on the forum that he had found the Black Panther King and discovered that its blood volume had reached an astonishing 45,000 points. A level 5 player like him would take around 230 points of damage from a single hit. He asked which player could fight it alone? Then he fired at the game company, questioning whether there were any external hang-ups or BUGs present.
Soon, the official had a response: In "Miracle", it is absolutely impossible to use external hanging, and BUGs can't be completely ruled out. However, according to the playback of game data, the player who first killed the Black Panther King did not take advantage of BUGs.
For a time, the forum was extremely lively, with everyone discussing and wondering what method that player had used to kill the Black Panther King!
