Chapter 30: Evolution of the Skeleton Soldier!

The aftershocks rippled, and the dust settled.

Looking at the broken limbs and cave spiders with their bellies up all over the ground, and the skeleton holding the bone spear tightly, Luo Yan, who lowered his magic wand, nodded with an approving look.

"Not bad."

It seems this skeleton soldier can still be used for a long time.

Of course.

It was mainly because he kited well.

Looking at the mess all over the ground, Hu Wan, holding the bone spear, only felt his chrysanthemum tighten.

Seeing that the Demon King's chanting finally stopped, he breathed a sigh of relief and slid down from the bone spear.

Speaking of which, is this power?

When they were still calculating the attack rhythm of the cave spiders, the Demon King just waved his hand and slapped all these bugs to death.

Damn...

Did I enter the wrong profession, aspiring to be the number one thief in "Disaster OL"?

It wasn't just him who had similar thoughts.

Qian Li, standing on the side, was the same.

The Demon King's posture of calling the wind and rain left an indelible impression in her mind.

Should I try a Magic Swordsman? But before that, let's change the skeleton profession first.

In two days, she should be able to gather enough contribution points to upgrade her soul level, but she didn't know when the development team planned to open new professions.

At this very moment, the players didn't know that the ceiling of battle power in "Disaster OL" in their eyes was actually just the ceiling of the Beifeng Mine.

Luo Yan opened the attribute panel to confirm the gains and found that the experience points gained were less than he expected.

"... More than three hundred cave spiders only added twenty thousand-plus experience, is it because the level gap is too big?"

In his impression, Ye Zhiqiu and Hu Wan seemed to have ground ninety-plus cave spiders to go from LV0 to LV3.

Leveling up three times, 30,000-plus experience should be needed in total.

And this was still under the condition of two people sharing experience! Since contribution points were issued from Hearing You You's side, Luo Yan could be said to know the players' game progress like the back of his hand.

"Sure enough, if you want to get higher experience gains, you still have to challenge stronger monsters."

"Or—"

"You can only make up for the lack of quality with quantity."

Luo Yan took a small blue bottle from his bosom, bit open the cork, and poured it into his mouth.

A warmth spread from his abdomen to his whole body, finally gathering in the depths of his consciousness between his eyebrows.

The feeling of fatigue was swept away, and the originally exhausted mana bar was filled again.

When the medicine took effect, Luo Yan quickly cheered up and looked at the players on the side with an unfathomable look.

"Time to clear the next area."

While saying this, he took out four tubes of potion and threw them into their hands respectively.

"Go, attract the attention of those spiders... you know what to do."

With the demonstration of Brother Hu Wan earlier, the remaining four players didn't need anyone to teach them at all; they poured the potion on their foreheads as soon as they got it... obviously, they already knew what they were supposed to do.

Luo Yan was very satisfied.

Worthy of being high-level players, they are comfortable to use.

Unlike those idiots with strange IDs, who were either gesturing with the broken sword in their hands in front of the statue or eyeing the cat he kept.

What is called pattern?

This is called pattern!

Save up more contribution points, follow his necropolis to grow bigger and stronger, and when the time comes, what breed of cat can't you raise?

If you really can't kidnap one... you can just be one yourself!

Anyway, these players are operating soul mirrors, and reincarnating is as easy as changing a job in an MMORPG game.

Not only was Luo Yan very satisfied, but the players he ordered around were also very satisfied.

Doing quests, isn't it normal to be ordered around? Is that the same as working?

An NPC who speaks straight to the point, doesn't drag his feet, and doesn't speak in riddles is already very friendly.

This game's novice guidance was already scarce, if you still had to guess what the NPC wanted, that would be too frustrating...

In the next few hours, Luo Yan showed the players what efficiency is.

And the eager players were completely shocked by this Demon King's "not acting like a human."

Under the latter's command, they attacked separately, went deep into the corridor behind the main hall, marked the way along the way, and pulled all the monsters they encountered back to the main hall.

The thousands of ratmen fed not just the spiders in a single "labyrinth room," but a whole large area of the labyrinth below the Beifeng Mine! The abundance of food greatly stimulated the spiders' desire to reproduce. When the skeletons applied with pheromones entered their feeding area, those lazy bugs were instantly as excited as seeing a succubus 【Pig-headed Knight】.

They were almost screaming "Mine, mine!"

Even if it was just a pile of skeletons, even if they really caught these guys, besides getting covered in bone ash... it seemed they couldn't do anything?

In short, the players acting as tools also experienced the feeling of being a succubus in advance.

They each led the monsters to the main hall, and the next step was the Demon King's performance.

If the number of spiders wasn't large, he would wave his magic wand and throw bone spears to shoot them one by one.

If a large wave of spiders came at once, he would also throw a bone spear first, mark a safe zone on the open ground, and then directly release AOE skills to bomb the cave spiders in groups.

Besides that, occasionally he would sit down to take medicine and meditate.

And whenever this happened, the zombie minion following him would take his place, wielding the greatsword in its hand, and slash the spiders chasing behind the players one by one.

This game is simply too friendly to mages! The more Ye Zhiqiu observed, the more envious he became, wishing the game developer would immediately open a pay-to-win button.

His requirements weren't high.

As long as he could cast spells, he could accept being a skeleton soldier or a slime!

Time passed bit by bit, and the spider corpses lying in the main hall piled up into a small mountain.

Scarlet and pale yellow liquid gathered into streams in the main hall, adding a touch of terror to the main hall covered in spider webs.

As more and more cave spiders turned their bellies up, not only did Luo Yan's experience points rise, but the players responsible for pulling monsters also had a taste of the soup.

Although the experience contributed by each monster was not much due to the low damage share, it was better in quantity! With thousands of cave spiders added up, even if one spider only contributed two-digit experience, it was an increase of tens of thousands! The experience cap for Lv3 was only 30,000 in total, and Ye Zhiqiu's experience bar was filled unknowingly.

And the moment he broke through the LV3 bottleneck, a change that no one expected happened to him!

"What... is the situation?"

Emerald green light emerged from the void and wrapped around Ye Zhiqiu. In an instant, he felt stronger than ever before.

If the skeleton soldier he operated before was just a layer of skin changed on his real body, then he was terrifyingly strong now—whether it was reaction speed or strength!

A sticky old phlegm whistled over, and he, who originally needed full concentration to dodge, let it fall into empty space with just a flexible crouch.

That cave spider seemed to be startled by the change in him, and its originally galloping steps slowed down, as if it wanted to re-evaluate whether this difficult pile of bones in front of it was worth the risk.

Taking advantage of the sluggishness of those few spiders, Ye Zhiqiu jumped back a few steps to pull away the distance, then looked down at himself.

I don't know if it was his illusion, but he was surprised to find that the originally weak bones seemed to have become thicker! Not only that—

The sluggish joints were also like being oiled, no longer making creaking sounds when moving.

Suddenly realizing something, he immediately opened the attribute panel and sure enough found something unusual in it.

【

ID: Ye Zhiqiu

Race: Skeleton

Soul Level: Black Iron (Level Cap LV10)

Level: LV. 4 Experience: (18/4W)

HP: (300/300)

MP: (100/100)

Constitution: 3 (+1)

Strength: 6 (+1)

Agility: 3 (+1)

Intelligence: 1 (+1)

Spirit: 1 (+1)

】

All attributes +1!

Especially the mana bar, intelligence, and spirit, finally no longer 0!

Looking at the updated attribute panel, a look of ecstasy appeared on Ye Zhiqiu's face.

At the same time, a pale green pop-up appeared in front of him.

【Server Announcement: Congratulations to player "Ye Zhiqiu" for becoming the first player on this server to officially advance to "Black Iron-tier"! Hope other players will continue to work hard and create brilliance together with the necropolis!】

Looking at the announcement that appeared in front of him, Ye Zhiqiu was happy but also couldn't help but feel a bit shy.

Although he felt the sincerity of the development team from this server-wide announcement, if he had a choice, he still wanted to hide his ID.

He was a low-key person and didn't want to be too ostentatious.

At the same time, not far away, Long Xing Wan Li, Qian Li, Bai Li, and others who had just finished pulling a wave of monsters and were resting happened to see this announcement, and their faces all showed envious expressions.

"Got snatched ahead."

"His contribution points... actually already broke a thousand?!"

"I'm afraid so."

A pity.

He originally wanted to take this opportunity to make the "Long Xing Tian Xia" guild famous in "Disaster OL" and unite the "beta testers."

But now it seems, he can only wait for the next opportunity.

Wan Li: "There's no other way, I remember they started grinding cave spiders yesterday, I'm afraid their contribution points are far ahead of us, it's not a loss to lose."

Although they also tried to grind cave spiders, the efficiency was too low, and there were casualties.

In the final analysis, the physical quality of this skeleton frame was still too poor, even worse than the body he had in reality.

And the closed beta qualification for this game was limited, so he couldn't mobilize the guild's power, and all he could rely on was the power of Qian Li and Bai Li who also drew the closed beta qualification.

After weighing the pros and cons, they finally chose the easier-to-bully rats.

Although the efficiency of making money and gaining experience went up, it seems now that it might have been a loss.

Hu Wan on the other side didn't feel anything, instead felt that this server-wide announcement should have come earlier.

After all, early this morning, Brother Ye had already reached Black Iron, just a little short of experience.

"... It seems that just upgrading the soul level is not enough, you have to raise the actual level as well."

This is relatively fair to civilian players.

After all, cave spider corpses can be traded, whether it's underworld coins or contribution points, as long as you spend money, there is always a way to buy them. Now you can't buy them purely because there are too few people on the server, and there will definitely be private transactions in the future... this is something any game cannot avoid.

Only experience points, you have to fight for them yourself.

Even if you spend money to ask someone for help, if you don't deal any damage, you won't be able to leech experience.

Not far away, watching the Long Xing N Li group who had cheered up and rushed into the labyrinth, the smile of a certain big BOSS finally revealed that the plan had succeeded.

That server-wide announcement just now was less of a reward for "Ye Zhiqiu" personally, and more of a spur to the grinders across the server.

Take a good look, look at others, what is called "enterprise-level" version understanding!

Same starting with a skeleton frame, why did some skeleton soldiers rush to Black Iron in just one day, while some skeleton soldiers stopped at LV3 and couldn't move forward?

If you don't grind, if he doesn't grind, how can my Demon King territory upgrade? How can it grow bigger and stronger?

Do you still want this king to grind himself?

Unscrewing a small blue bottle again, Luo Yan poured it into his mouth and raised his arm to wipe the corner of his mouth.

However, what he didn't expect was that he caught a glimpse of a crimson red on his cuff from the corner of his eye.

Hmm? Nosebleed?

Just as he was stunned, a few drops fell next to the tip of his shoe.

"Lord Demon King, you should pay attention to your body... this kind of potion, it's not without side effects, right?"

Hearing Hearing You You on the side, Hearing You You looked at Lord Demon King with concern and asked with care in a low voice.

This was already the 7th bottle.

Intuition told it that always taking medicine wasn't good.

"I'm fine, it's probably mental network overload caused by frequent spellcasting... not necessarily the medicine's problem."

Maybe it's because his constitution isn't high enough? He saw demons pouring it bottle after bottle, and they were pouring veterinary medicine dosages, and they seemed fine...

Looking at the nosebleed dripping on the ground, Luo Yan felt a bit scared in his heart and didn't dare to mess around anymore.

"... Better rest for a while before grinding."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 31 =====