Generally, any magic that allows a Magister to chant two or more sets of syllables is considered a highly powerful advanced spell, although it’s usually not a forbidden spell. Large-scale offensive forbidden spells require at least thirty sets of syllables.
Xie Yao uttered the final syllable. In the sky, a gate of light opened, and two angels with pure white wings flew out. A beam of white light poured down, covering an area of approximately 100×100 yards. All the skeletons below were dissolved by the holy light and vanished without a trace. The skeletons beyond a hundred yards trembled under the holy light, too afraid to move.
After a while, the two angels disappeared and the gate of light in the sky closed.
This was the first time Nie Yan had ever seen such a powerful advanced spell. Some advanced spells, although not forbidden spells, could only be learned after reaching the Magister level. Ordinary players rarely had the ability to cast them. Nie Yan had not encountered many Magister-level players before, and at that time, he had no qualifications to associate with such high-level experts. He had encountered them a few times in the wild, but each time he was beaten like a stray dog.
“This spell has impressive power,” Nie Yan remarked. As soon as he finished speaking, a dazzling golden light shone from the back of the golden earth dragon. The golden earth dragon had leveled up!
Nie Yan quickly opened the golden earth dragon’s attribute page. Its attributes, including health and defense, had significantly increased. Currently, its health had exceeded 260,000, and it had dragon armor, which provided high resistance to both physical and magical attacks.
Its high growth rate had led to this situation. Every level-up granted it several times more attributes than other players’ pets. After reaching level 100, the massive difference became apparent. It was said that both Zhushen’s Sword and Guang’an Empire had obtained golden earth dragons, but those dragons were far inferior to Nie Yan’s in terms of power. They were simply not in the same league. Although their golden earth dragons could intimidate some players with their appearance, they were not impressive in actual combat.
In addition to the attribute enhancements, the golden earth dragon gained a new skill called Intimidation, which caused all creatures within a 30-yard radius to enter a state of fear. Moreover, most of its existing skills were upgraded. The Counterattack Storm skill was upgraded to level 10, capable of dealing triple damage upon counterattacking, with an increased range compared to before.
At this point, the golden earth dragon had become a sixth-stage creature, fully capable of looking down upon ordinary monsters.
The golden earth dragon’s size had increased to six yards, and its scales gradually took on a purple-gold hue, giving it an invincible aura.
The group of thieves in the distance saw the leveled-up golden earth dragon and became even more fearful. This golden earth dragon was even more powerful than before.
After reaching level 100, Nie Yan could feed ordinary crystal cores to the golden earth dragon. Each crystal core consumed would slightly enhance the dragon’s attributes.
Nie Yan planned to raise both the golden earth dragon and the dark-winged dragon. Both creatures had high growth rates, and as their levels increased, they would become incredibly powerful.
After the evolution, the golden earth dragon became even more unstoppable. Wherever it passed, flames erupted from the ground, engulfing many skeletons behind it and turning them into ashes. Moreover, these skeletons could not surround the golden earth dragon, as doing so would continuously trigger its devastating Counterattack Storm ability. At level 10, the Counterattack Storm was even more terrifying than before. Previously, it dealt single damage per attack, but now it dealt triple damage, causing three times the damage within the same time frame. In no time, the ground was littered with shattered bones.
The continuously charging skeletons were not even enough for the golden earth dragon and Xie Yao to handle. As for the thirty paladins, Nie Yan was still analyzing their attributes. Each had unique abilities and skills, although they all possessed the basic paladin skills.
While Nie Yan and his companions were furiously defeating skeletons, approximately over a thousand yards away, a large group of skeletons gathered. There were about a hundred of them, including roughly sixty to seventy elite-level skeletons, thirty to forty lord-level skeletons, and two mutated lord-level skeletons.
Under normal circumstances, the more players a skeleton killed, the higher its rank would rise. It was said that when powerful skeletons such as lords and mutated lords were purified back into normal players, they would receive substantial attribute rewards, significantly enhancing their own abilities. This was a later development.
Out of thousands of skeletons, only one could evolve into a lord. Han Qin had gathered such a large number of lords and mutated lords, sparing no effort to eliminate Nie Yan.
After preparing the group of skeletons, they began advancing toward Nie Yan and his companions under the cover of ordinary skeletons. Although their size was much larger than that of ordinary skeletons, making them easily identifiable, with so many skeletons attacking and providing cover, it would be difficult for Nie Yan to detect them.
Under normal circumstances, even a lord-level skeleton was already very formidable, let alone a mutated lord. A mutated lord monster at level 100 was equivalent to a lord monster at around level 150.
Over a hundred elite and lord-level creatures were enough to pose a serious threat to Nie Yan and his companions.
Nie Yan, Xie Yao, and Tang Yao were unaware of the approaching danger, continuing to diligently eliminate the ordinary skeletons.
Nie Yan checked the levels of the three of them; they had all reached level 102. Training at such an intense pace was much faster than training elsewhere.
“Let’s tally up the kills. Xie Yao, how many have you taken down?” Nie Yan asked, turning to Xie Yao.
“Already over three thousand,” Xie Yao replied after checking.
“What about you, Yaozi?” Nie Yan turned to Tang Yao, who was likely the one with the highest kill count among them.
“I’m almost at five thousand…” Tang Yao began, but immediately corrected himself, “I’ve already reached five thousand.”
Nie Yan glanced at his own kill count. The golden earth dragon’s kills were all counted toward his total, which was already over three thousand.
“I’ve received a quest,” Tang Yao said with a frown. He had suddenly received a system message when his kill count had just surpassed five thousand.
“What’s the quest about?”
“It’s the Grilan Empire Rescue Quest. The first stage was to kill five thousand skeletons, which we’ve completed. The next stage requires twenty thousand. That’s a lot,” Tang Yao said in a depressed tone. They had only accumulated five thousand kills after so long of grinding. The second stage of the quest required an impressive twenty thousand kills.
“Are there any important terms or conditions for the quest?” Nie Yan asked. In a previous life, he had never heard of such a quest. Thinking about it, during the entire Undead Vengeance expansion, how many players had managed to kill over five thousand skeletons? It was estimated to be no more than a handful, so it was normal that no information had surfaced.
“Regardless of how much of the quest is completed, it seems you can receive rewards from the Grilan Empire Council. This quest was issued by the Grilan Empire Council,” Tang Yao said after checking the details.
The Grilan Empire Council had finally taken action. Nie Yan wondered whether the Undead Vengeance event counted as his prediction result. If it did, he might be able to obtain the title of Great Prophet. However, for now, he couldn’t return yet. He would have to wait and see. Haste makes waste.
If this quest only offered experience rewards, it wouldn’t be very meaningful. He hoped there would be other rewards. Such a large-scale quest should at least offer a sub-legendary item.
Nie Yan and Xie Yao’s kill counts had not yet accumulated to over five thousand, so they would have to wait a bit longer to find out.
Tang Yao continued to kill the skeletons with his Wall of Fire spell. Compared to other area-of-effect spells, the Wall of Fire was more cost-effective since he could simply keep it up. The Wall of Fire could eliminate all the skeletons charging toward them, and the spell had a relatively fast casting speed.
Another ten or so minutes passed, and Nie Yan also received a system notification. He assumed it was the same quest that Tang Yao had received, but upon casually checking his kill count, he found it was only around four thousand seven hundred, not yet reaching five thousand.
Hmm, what was that system notification?
Curious, Nie Yan opened the system notification, and golden lights flashed from his body, creating a dazzling display.
After checking, he realized it was an upgrade to his Advanced Demon Hunter title.
System: Your Advanced Demon Hunter title has been upgraded to Junior Light Arbiter.
Nie Yan examined the attributes of the Junior Light Arbiter. To his surprise, the Junior Light Arbiter title ranked even higher than the Holy Shadow Dancer title. It was a sacred paladin position, granting considerable status within the holy order.
In terms of title attributes, skills like Ultimate Intimidation received significant enhancements. Additionally, a new skill called Junior Arbiter Aura was unlocked, covering an area of approximately 50×50 yards. It dealt purification damage to all undead creatures within its range while boosting the attack power of all party members in the area by 30%.
This Arbiter Aura was clearly very beneficial.
A player might possess many active skills, but if they couldn’t be used effectively, they wouldn’t be very useful. Passive skills, on the other hand, were always advantageous. Generally, the more passive skills a player had, the better their performance in battle. Especially for warriors, once their defense reached a certain level, they would rely heavily on various passive auras for support.
Nie Yan was delighted by the change in his title. However, while they were focused on grinding monsters, he suddenly felt something was off. Several tall skeletons had crossed through Tang Yao’s Wall of Fire, withstood Xie Yao’s holy magic, and charged straight toward them. Xie Yao and Tang Yao’s attacks could only deal around ten thousand damage to them.
Nie Yan cast a Detect spell on one of the skeletons, which was three yards tall and entirely black.
Mutated Skeleton King: Level 100, Mutated Lord.
It was actually a mutated lord, and not just one. There were also many other lords. Nie Yan’s heart sank. These mutated lords and lords were likely sent by Qin Han to eliminate them.
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