Skills with no cooldown? I become the Undead Scourge! - Chapter 32

This was Lu Ran’s first time using the Blood Spear skill.

He never expected that for his first use, a skill other Necromancers could charge for at most eight seconds, he would charge for over ten hours!

Schiiing~

Like the sound of tearing cloth, the space above Lu Ran’s head suddenly ripped open.

The tear was pitch black, impossible to see through clearly.

The next second.

Something resembling a long spear shot out.

But its spearhead was much longer than that of a typical spear, flat and double-edged.

Its entire body seemed cast from blood—a deep crimson, darker than the blood spears of ordinary Necromancers. It was red tinged with black, a black so deep it shone!

Outwardly, the difference wasn’t huge.

But Ye Hongyi and the others instinctively shifted away, creating some distance.

They knew full well the power of Lu Ran’s Blood Spear. Remember, they weren’t in a party state right now. If Lu Ran’s skill hit them, it would calculate damage as if they were enemy units!

Lu Ran could one-shot any of them!
Lu Ran stared at the blood spear. After a brief pause, it—

Whoosh!

—pierced through the sky, vanishing in an instant!

At the same time.

Countless players were still attacking the Eight-Armed King Kong, though their output had noticeably decreased.

Someone shouted in frustration:

“The pace is way too slow now! If you’re not using ultimates, at least don’t hold back on the smaller skills!”

“How long is this going to take?”

“Plenty of people have already died. Stop dragging this out, damn it!”

“It’s below a quarter health now, everyone push harder!”

…

But just then.

Thud!

The Eight-Armed King Kong’s frenzied body suddenly froze as if solidified, locking in place.

The scene instantly turned eerily strange.

Soon, someone noticed something wrong.

“Holy crap, where’s the health bar? The King Kong’s health bar is gone!”

“Huh? It’s dead? Just like that?”

“How did it die? Who killed it?”

“What the hell? It still had nearly a quarter of its health left!”

“Seven million health, just gone?”

“Is this… a bug in the world’s data?”

…

The place erupted into chaos.

Because many had seen it clearly.

The Eight-Armed King Kong’s slowly decreasing health bar, still shy of the quarter mark, had suddenly been completely emptied in an instant!

Something must have dealt seven to eight million damage to the King Kong in one go!

Instantly killing it!
But in the current world, even the top global experts, the most powerful hidden classes—forget one skill, even unleashing their entire combo—couldn’t possibly deal that much damage!

Regardless of their disbelief, the Eight-Armed King Kong’s massive body, its health bar emptied, could no longer support itself. It crashed to the ground with a earth-shaking thud!

It would take ten minutes for its body to decompose and vanish.

Meanwhile.

Just seconds after Lu Ran released the Blood Spear, he received a series of prompts:
[Congratulations! You have successfully killed the Level 50 Field Boss Eight-Armed King Kong!]

[Congratulations! You have received 5,000,000 EXP!]

[Congratulations! You have received an equipment reward!]

[Level Up!]

[Level Up!]

[Level Up!]

A string of notifications buzzed in Lu Ran’s head.

“Five million EXP? Wow!” Lu Ran was shocked.

This field boss was incredible!

Three levels straight up!
Based on Liu Xinxin’s original estimate, grinding all day would have gotten Lu Ran at most a level and a half.

But now, instantly killing one field boss shot him up three levels!
Lu Ran was now Level 18!

And he had only awakened a few days ago!
“Lu Ran, how was it?” Lei Tai asked eagerly.

“Got five million EXP, jumped three levels! And there’s an equipment reward too, let me check.” Lu Ran immediately opened his inventory.

The benefit was that to prevent large-scale wild PvP over dropped loot or blocking the killer from retrieving it, the data-fied world directly deposited the equipment reward into the backpack of the player who got the last hit.

Furthermore, as a so-called “welfare boss,” the killer’s name wasn’t announced.

Otherwise, a Level 10-something Necromancer instantly wiping out nearly a quarter of the Eight-Armed King Kong’s health would be utterly terrifying!

“Five million EXP saves us a lot of time,” Lei Tai said excitedly.

“True. It’s a pity field bosses spawn randomly—random time, random location, random level. Otherwise, farming them for EXP would be a great method,” Liu Xinxin remarked.

“I’ll have people scout news in various main cities, keep an eye out. If a field boss appears, we can teleport over immediately. We should make it in time,” Ye Hongyi said thoughtfully.

Of course, the prerequisite was that Lu Ran had a charged Blood Spear ready.

It needed at least a few hours of charging to be a sure thing.

Lu Ran had cleared his backpack yesterday, putting all extra equipment up on the trading post.

Now, only one piece of equipment lay quietly in his inventory.

[Hades’ Crystal Skull]

[Slot: Helmet]

[Quality: Titan Epic]

[Level: No restriction]

[Class: No restriction]

[Intelligence: +250]

[Stamina: +100]

[Magic Defense: +170]

[Physical Defense: +170]

[Bonus: Increases base damage of Necromancy skills by 5%]

[Bonus: Provides passive ‘Between Yin and Yang’]

Lu Ran couldn’t fully grasp it, so he simply shared the equipment’s stats publicly for the experts to evaluate.

“Titan Epic!” Lei Tai was the first to exclaim.

Seeming to know Lu Ran wouldn’t understand, Liu Xinxin explained directly: “Epic equipment has categories too. Normal Epic is just called Epic. But if it has a prefix, its quality is significantly higher. Titan Epic is one such category.”

So that’s how it was. Lu Ran genuinely didn’t know this.

Ye Hongyi followed up: “A normal Epic has only one bonus property. A Titan Epic can have two. One of yours even boosts Necromancy skill damage. Although it’s only 5%, applied to your Blood Spear, that’s a geometric multiplier increase. Good, very good. A perfect fit for your abilities.”

Then, everyone looked at the other bonus.

“What is this ‘Between Yin and Yang’ passive?” Lei Tai asked curiously.

“Lu Ran, equipment bonuses like active skills, passives, etc., will appear in your skill panel after you equip the item. Put it on and check your skill panel,” Liu Xinxin prompted.

Lu Ran did as instructed.

Immediately, his head was enveloped by a crystal skull. It wasn’t scary, though—the crystal was translucent, giving it a strangely beautiful appearance.

It distorted the view, making Lu Ran’s face inside invisible.

It looked like a genuine crystal skull was standing there.

“You can hide the helmet’s appearance. Otherwise, it looks a bit… eerie,” Qin Wuyao said. She was closest, staring at Lu Ran when his head suddenly turned into a crystal skull, giving her quite a fright.

Lu Ran chuckled and chose to hide the helmet.

Then he opened his skill panel.

Sure enough, a new skill appeared in the passive list, already active.

[Passive: Between Yin and Yang]

[Cooldown: 24 hours]

[Effect: When the wearer suffers a fatal blow, they will not die immediately. Instead, their health is locked at 1, and they enter the ‘Between Yin and Yang’ state. In this state, they are immune to all attacks for ten seconds. After ten seconds, 30% Health and Mana are restored.]

Reading this, Lu Ran’s eyebrows shot up. He thought, “Combined with the summons from the Gourd, who can kill me now?”

At the same time.

Lu Ran received another prompt:
[Your equipment, Hades’ Crystal Skull, has entered the Global Equipment Rankings at #5. Display your personal information?]