In the Otherworld, Professionals must complete world quests to challenge the world BOSS.
One of the two quests in the First World: collect 10 Silver Coins, which Zhang Yue has already exceeded.
The other: kill 1,000 monsters, and currently, the progress is only at 452!
“It seems I can’t kill the Boar King for now.”
Zhang Yue pondered, “Perfect, I’ll go level up the Ironclad Scorpion!”
Before leaving Doomsday Town, Zhang Yue visited the System Shop in the town.
He spent 40 Silver Coins to buy two Resurrection Scrolls.
Although with Zhang Yue’s strength, no new Professional in the First World could pose a threat to him.
However, in the Otherworld, life and death are unpredictable, so it’s necessary to keep two Resurrection Scrolls on hand to prevent accidents.
Additionally, Zhang Yue spent 3.6 Silver Coins to buy 10 bottles of Level 2 Instant Health Potions (instantly restores 200 health upon use) and 30 bottles of Level 2 Instant Mana Potions (instantly restores 100 mana upon use).
The total recovery amount of Instant Potions is the same as regular potions, but they provide instant recovery without the risk of being interrupted during continuous recovery, and their cooldown time is only half that of regular potions: 30 seconds.
Therefore, the price of Instant Potions is three times that of regular potions, reaching 9 Copper Coins per bottle!
Based on the exchange rate of 1 Silver Coin to 140 Copper Coins in the First World, this equates to 12.6 Copper Coins per bottle, which ordinary Professionals can hardly afford.
But Zhang Yue is different.
He can afford it.
After getting ready, Zhang Yue headed straight to the Level 10 wild area: Rage Forest!
Only Level 10 monsters could meet Zhang Yue’s needs now.
On the way to Rage Forest, Zhang Yue took out the skill book rewarded by the quest: Small Icicle Spell.
The D-grade Small Icicle Spell had unimpressive effects.
Zhang Yue directly used 1 million Psionic Energy to upgrade it to A-grade!
[Super Icicle Spell]
[Quality: A-grade (0/10)] (Currently cannot be upgraded)
[Effect: Condenses the power of frost, summoning an icicle from beneath the enemy’s feet, dealing 250% magic attack power as spell damage to the target]
[Special Effect: Skill hit freezes the enemy for 1 second/can interrupt enemy casting]
[Cost: 68 mana points]
[Cooldown: 5 seconds]
As a control-type skill with auxiliary functions, the damage of the Icicle Spell was obviously not as high as the Fireball Spell.
In the Otherworld, Professionals unlock a skill slot every 3 levels.
Currently at Level 8, Zhang Yue already had 2 skill slots and learned the Icicle Spell on the spot.
In addition, the quest also rewarded a Common Grade Pet Egg, which Zhang Yue opened to obtain a Common Grade [Venomous Spider].
“Adding this, I now have 5 pieces of feed.” Zhang Yue mused, “After completing this monster-killing quest, I should be able to gather the remaining 5 pieces of feed. By then, I can evolve the Ironclad Scorpion to Elite Grade!”
Soon, Zhang Yue arrived at Rage Forest.
Without further ado, he locked onto a Berserk Boar and started killing!
Boom!
The Super Fireball Spell landed on a Berserk Boar ahead, exploding in a burst of high red damage—
-546!
-50 ice damage!
Equipped with the Level 8 2-star quality [Destroyer·Frost Staff], Zhang Yue’s 240 attack power was far beyond the Berserk Boar’s 65 magic defense.
Moreover, the [Glory · Lord’s Battle Ring] added 20 points of penetration to Zhang Yue, effectively reducing the Berserk Boar’s defense to 45 points.
With one A-grade Fireball Spell, the Berserk Boar with 720 health was blasted away, losing four-fifths of its health!
Roar!
The Berserk Boar, under attack, let out a roar and charged at Zhang Yue, enduring the 66 points of burn damage per second from the Fireball Spell.
But before it could get close, it was burned to death halfway!
“Ding~ You killed a Level 10 Berserk Boar, Experience Points +40! Psionic Energy +!”
Without even picking up the few Copper Coins dropped by the Berserk Boar, Zhang Yue locked onto another Berserk Boar nearby and unleashed the Super Icicle Spell!
Whoosh!
A blue icicle shot up from beneath the boar’s feet, piercing through its body.
In the next second, the Berserk Boar’s body was covered in frost, completely frozen!
And above its head, a critical damage of 731 points popped up!
One-shot kill!
After killing the two boars, Zhang Yue went to collect the loot.
He picked up a total of 9 Copper Coins and continued to hunt boars.
With the golden attribute 2-star staff, Zhang Yue slaughtered his way through Rage Forest, reaping Berserk Boars one by one.
He constantly heard:
Experience +40!
Experience +40!
Experience +40…
Unknowingly, it was already noon.
Zhang Yue had lost count of how many boars he had killed, but looking around, the vast forest was littered with boar corpses!
At this moment, Zhang Yue opened the quest interface and found that the world quest of killing 1,000 monsters had been completed!
Meanwhile, the experience gained from killing boars had also leveled Zhang Yue up to Level 10.
The excess experience was used to level up his pet Ironclad Scorpion to Level 8!
After all, the leveling requirement for a Necromancer’s pet is only half of the normal amount.
At this time, Zhang Yue also successfully captured the tenth piece of feed.
In the pet space, there were a total of eleven Common Grade pets.
Zhang Yue clicked on the “evolve” button next to the Ironclad Scorpion’s quality.
“Ding~ Your pet [Ironclad Scorpion] (Common Grade) devoured the pet [Berserk Boar] (Common Grade), evolution value +1! Current evolution value 1/10!”
“Ding~ Your pet [Ironclad Scorpion] devoured the pet [Ironclad Scorpion], evolution value +1! Current evolution value 2/10!”
“Ding…”
After continuously devouring ten pieces of feed.
“Ding~ Congratulations, your pet [Ironclad Scorpion] (Common Grade) has evolved into [Silver Armored Scorpion] (Elite Grade), attribute growth enhanced: Physical Attack Growth +1 star, Physical Defense Growth +2 stars, Magic Defense Growth +2 stars, Health Growth +5 stars, Mana Growth +1 star!”
“Level-up bonus enhanced: 10 health +1 defense +1 attribute point → 15 health +1 defense +2 attribute points!”
“Learned skill [Thorns]!”
“Acquired Elite Grade pet special effect: Silver Armor Defense (increases Silver Armored Scorpion’s defense by 10%)”
“To evolve to [Rare Grade], it needs to devour ten [Elite Grade] pets!”
Whoosh!
Silver light radiated from the Ironclad Scorpion, and in a moment, its black carapace evolved into a silver one!
After evolving the Silver Armored Scorpion, Zhang Yue allocated the 8 attribute points awarded by the system to Constitution.
Then he spent 1 million Psionic Energy to upgrade its learned skill [Thorns] (reflects 5% damage) from D-grade to A-grade.
[Deadly Thorns] (A-grade): When the Silver Armored Scorpion takes damage, it reflects 30% of the damage back to the attacker.
Currently, both of Zhang Yue’s world quests were completed, and he could open the portal to challenge the world BOSS at any time.
“However, the Silver Armored Scorpion doesn’t have any equipment. In its current state, it might not withstand the Boar King BOSS’s attacks.”
As a defensive pet, the Silver Armored Scorpion only needed equipment for its head, legs, chest, and feet to increase defense and health attributes.
For the legs, it had [Iron Armor · Hero Guard].
For the chest, it had [Hero · Guardian Armor] dropped by Liu Yao.
Coincidentally, during the boar hunt, Zhang Yue had obtained several pieces of equipment, including an 8-star quality pair of boots, which he refined with Psionic Energy into the golden [Berserk · Boar Hide Boots]. He equipped these three items on the Silver Armored Scorpion.
Then he opened the status panel to check.
[Silver Armored Scorpion] (Level 8 Elite Grade pet): Attack 2, Physical Defense 74, Magic Defense 65, Health 610.
“These attributes should be sufficient.”
Saying this, Zhang Yue opened the quest interface and clicked [Challenge World BOSS] under the two completed world quests.
Suddenly, a system notification appeared:
“Ding~ System detected: You are initiating the world BOSS challenge in a solo state. The world BOSS is extremely powerful. Professionals can freely choose to team up with 1-100 people for the challenge. Soloing the world BOSS maximizes rewards but is highly difficult. The system recommends teaming up with others for the challenge!”
Zhang Yue resolutely ignored the system’s advice and clicked challenge again.
In the next moment.
Whoosh!
A three-meter-high purple rift appeared before Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue led the Silver Armored Scorpion and stepped into the rift.
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