Once entering the Shadow Dancer phase, the concept of skills became different.
This was a whole new realm, a world that Nie Yan had never encountered in his previous life. He glanced at the effects of the skill “Release.”
Release: Status skill, upgradable. Automatically upgrades all skills in the player’s skill bar into freeform skills, allowing any action without skill constraints, and these actions have attack effects. Duration: 20 minutes. Cooldown: one full day.
After seeing the effects of the Release skill, Nie Yan was startled. The idea of all skills automatically upgrading into freeform skills was indeed amazing, but the second half of the description, “any action without skill constraints, having attack effects,” what exactly did that mean?
Nie Yan remained silent for a long time, a flicker of confusion crossing his mind. He speculated on its meaning, but he realized he would need to use the skill to confirm its actual effects; imagining it wouldn’t help much.
He decided to store this skill book for now, and it could only be used after successfully advancing into the Shadow Dancer class.
Nie Yan placed the Release skill book into his backpack. Obtaining this skill book made all the risks he had taken worthwhile.
He searched the stone chamber but found nothing else, then stepped out, accompanied by the paladin Livers and the golden earth drake, heading into the distance.
Along the way, many Dark Attendants respawned. As he advanced, this massive underground palace gradually unfolded before Nie Yan’s eyes. Its winding, continuous corridors resembled a maze. At the end of the corridor, a massive stone door appeared in the distance. This stone door was five to six yards tall, with a large demon bas-relief carved upon it, its eyes like copper bells, its expression fierce and menacing.
The door was half-open, just wide enough to allow one or two people to pass through. Looking closer, Nie Yan noticed more than twenty humanoid monsters wearing red robes moving about near the entrance. These monsters were clearly not Dark Attendants. Nie Yan dared not proceed further. He ordered the golden earth drake and paladin Livers to stay put while he stealthily crept forward.
He cast a scan on one of the humanoid monsters.
Sacrificial Blood Attendant: Level 120 elite, HP 500000/500000.
It was an elite creature. There were more than twenty of these elites here, and Nie Yan realized he probably couldn’t handle them all.
These Sacrificial Blood Attendants were different from the previous Dark Attendants. If more than twenty level 120 elites released their attack magic together, their powerful magical damage could instantly kill both the golden earth drake and paladin Livers.
The Sacrificial Blood Attendants guarded the entrance, wandering around and looking about, but the distance between them never exceeded two yards.
The golden earth drake and paladin Livers couldn’t pass through, but Nie Yan himself had a way.
After thinking for a moment, Nie Yan recalled the golden earth drake and also ended the summoning of paladin Livers. He had summoned paladin Livers for more than three hours, so the cost would be calculated as four hours, meaning he had to pay eighty thousand gold coins—an astronomical amount.
Selling the common loot would probably only fetch about fifty to sixty thousand gold coins. However, obtaining a Shadow Dancer skill book made it all worthwhile. The Shadow Dancer skill book was priceless; no amount of gold could buy it on the market.
Considering all this, summoning paladin Livers was still worth it. The paladin’s powerful combat strength was absolutely worth the cost.
An evil thought crossed Nie Yan’s mind: during the war against the Sacred Guardians guild, he would hire paladin Livers again, letting the Sacred Guardians experience the might of this incredibly powerful paladin. That would be quite satisfying.
He glanced at a corner of his backpack and saw he still had five random teleportation scrolls. If unexpected situations arose, they should be sufficient.
Although the random teleportation scrolls were in short supply within the Bullheaded Tribe and often insufficient, Nie Yan always had enough. After all, as a leader, Guo Huai would always reserve a certain quota for him.
Nie Yan took out the Crawler’s Ring, activated its skill, and sticking close to the wall, bypassed these Sacrificial Blood Attendants, reaching the top of the stone door, and slipped through the crack into the chamber.
Using the Crawler’s Ring to avoid monsters was highly effective and had never failed him.
Slipping inside the door, he looked into the distance and saw a vast, magnificent hall. At the front of the hall stood a giant statue resembling Brennigan. Entirely golden, it stood about five to six yards tall. The statue’s hand was open, and a silver-gray leather armor floated in midair. Made of unknown materials, the armor shimmered with a bright silvery sheen under the flickering lights.
After seeing the armor in the distance, the Holy Light Stone in Nie Yan’s accessory slot began glowing even more intensely.
It was this one!
The armor in the distance was one of the components of the Abak set that Nie Yan had been searching for, though he temporarily didn’t know its name.
On both sides of the hall were stone tables, each densely lined with many candles. The flickering lights filled the entire hall with a mysterious atmosphere.
The hall was very spacious, with no signs of monster activity. Could it be that this armor was simply placed here without any guards?
Nie Yan felt doubtful. This armor shouldn’t be so easily obtainable. He dared not descend directly, instead moving slowly toward it while sticking close to the wall.
After a while, a humanoid monster wearing a black robe emerged from behind a column, walking slowly along the red carpet in the center of the hall.
Seeing this humanoid monster, Nie Yan’s heart skipped a beat. That figure looked somewhat familiar. He immediately recalled: it was the Wandering Princess Aina!
The Wandering Princess would revive after thirty days, becoming even stronger, and she would always try to obstruct Nie Yan from obtaining the Abak set.
Calculating the time, Nie Yan realized that the Wandering Princess Aina had indeed revived.
He wondered what her strength was like this time.
Being targeted by the Wandering Princess Aina was a bit troublesome. After obtaining the Abak armor, he could use a random teleportation scroll to escape safely.
Thinking this, Nie Yan believed he had a way to bypass the Wandering Princess’s notice and obtain the Abak armor.
Looking ahead, the armor was about ten yards away from the nearest wall.
Nie Yan moved like a lizard, sticking tightly to the wall, slowly approaching the direction of the Abak armor.
The Wandering Princess Aina seemed to sense something and turned her gaze toward Nie Yan’s direction.
Nie Yan immediately pressed tightly against the wall, casting several stealth-enhancing status skills on himself, not daring to move an inch.
The Wandering Princess Aina’s gaze swept over Nie Yan’s location but ultimately found nothing, and she resumed her wandering.
Nie Yan continued his advance, getting closer and closer to the Abak armor—about ten yards away now. Using his feet and right hand to stick firmly to the wall, he stretched out his left hand, aimed at the distant Abak armor, and with a “swoosh,” a strand of spider silk shot rapidly toward the Abak armor in the distance.
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