YM778.TV Chapter 59: Death Charge, Fearless’
“Oh lucky me-, gimme a set of Hellish Puppeteer skills -”
Zi Liyuan talked to himself and seriously patted the chest lid before flipping it open with a sweep of his hand.
[Congratulations on opening the blue treasure chest. You have obtained a silver-quality skill book “Mana Annihilation,” a blue-quality skill book “Mana Overload,” a green-quality skill book “Mana Induction,” a white-quality skill book “Puppet Heavy Strike,” and a white-quality toy (Self-Destructing Little Robot).]
(O0O)…
“Oh-ho, praise the long legs of the Goddess of Fortune, (-5_3~) o’ r~.” Blessed by the Goddess of Fortune, Zi Liyuan was instantly overwhelmed with comfort.
“Mana Annihilation” (Silver): Puppet-exclusive loaded skill, upon activation, puppet self-destructs after 10 seconds, causing 200% of its maximum health’as physical damage within a range of 100 meters. Skill cooldown time: 30 minutes. After the skill enters cooldown, the puppet cannot be resurrected or summoned.
“Mana Overload” (Blue): Puppet-exclusive loaded skill, upon activation, all attributes increase by 20% for 1 minute. After the effect ends, all attributes decrease by 50% for 10 minutes. Skill cooldown time: 10 minutes.
“Mana Induction” (Green): Puppet-exclusive loaded skill, upon activation, all enemy targets within 10 meters around are forced to attack the puppet for 10 seconds and generate a large amount of aggro. Skill cooldown time: 30 seconds. “Puppet Heavy Strike” (White): Puppet-exclusive loaded skill, upon activation, deals a heavy strike to the target, causing 110% of physical attack damage. Skill’ cooldown time: 10 seconds.
Looking at the four skills, Zi Liyuan wanted to exclaim, “Well done!”
The silver-quality self-destruct skill, with the current LV40 of the Hellish Puppeteer, which had 420k health, a self-destruct would be like a small-scale forbidden spell bombing!
“I wonder if a Fourth Order Peak expert could withstand the power of this self-explosion.”
This was an absolute killer move. If used properly, who knew how many threats it could eliminate. For example, perhaps a visit to the insides of a certain Evil Organization for some small-scale nuclear tourism?
The other three skills were also very good: an explosive skill that boosts all attributes, a large-area aggro-pulling skill, and a conventional output skill.
With 8 skill slots now available, Zi Liyuan directly equipped these four skills. If better skills come along, he could just overwrite the current ones. It would only be a waste of a few skill books.
With “Mana Induction,” the Hellish Puppeteer was already a qualified tank. Not only was it tough, but its output capability was frighteningly high.
However, Zi Liyuan found it strange that the Hellish Puppeteer, clearly equipped with the Chief’s four-piece set, showed no external changes at all and the equipment’s appearance did not reveal itself.
The creature’s two massive iron palms were still heartily slapping left and right, smacking monsters in the face with a “slap slap” instead of pulling out a huge Chief’s Wolf Fang Club and going “boom boom” with a fierce pounding. With the Hellish Puppeteer present, monster grinding had already been fast but now with the group aggro skill, wherever it stood, all monsters were pulled in. This meant the Skeleton Knights were liberated; they were no longer mere cannon fodder and a bone wall for blocking monsters.
The more than two hundred Skeleton Knights, organized in a knightly formation, could also deal dozens of points of damage each under the Charge buff, but their sheer numbers were more than enough.
The Jackalwolf Elites were slapped around by the Hellish Puppeteer while enduring the charge of the Skeleton Knights, often not surviving the onslaught and getting trampled into a meaty mush, leaving behind equipment and materials.
As for the rare mini-BOSSes, although they lasted a tiny bit longer, they eventually followed the same fate, reuniting with their Jackalwolf brethren for a sightseeing trip to the Netherworld.
Plowing through recklessly and pushing forward relentlessly, they soon arrived at the center of the plains before a large, yet terribly dilapidated city.
The dilapidated stone walls, over three meters high, were already lined with groups of Jackalwolves, their faces set in a grim and vigilant watch over the approaching Skeleton Army.
“Holding the city with organization and discipline, are these still mere dungeon monsters?”
When previously slaughtering Jackalwolf squads, I had seen several instances of Jackalwolves coordinating attacks, a phenomenon that was absolutely non- existent in past dungeons.
“The Second Order dungeon has lifted the restrictions on monster intelligence by a few levels. If that’s the case, is the intelligence of the hero BOSS nearly on par with normal human beings, and if so, is it still bound by the hate mechanism?”
Scanning the city wall for Jackalwolf monsters, I saw many rare mini BOSSes but there was no sign of the hero BOSS.
“Are they hiding, or do they simply not care about the losses of the Jackalwolves?”
Just on one side of the wall, there were more than six to seven hundred Jackalwolves, and considering the orc race’s universal conscription, including the old, weak and young, there must be upwards of three thousand Jackalwolves inside the city.
“Skeleton Knights are only two and a half meters tall, their rib bone horses can’t jump, so a three-meter wall can completely block the cavalry charge. That’s why we need to change the type of troops for the siege.”
I left the hellish marionettes behind and formed a charging formation with over two hundred Skeleton Knights, carrying the resolve of cannon fodder, they accelerated towards the city wall.
A hundred meters from the city wall, a volley of crossbow arrows rained down from the sky.
The Skeleton Knights in the front lines were reduced to piles of ribs in an instant, scattered on the ground, only to be trampled by subsequent Skeleton Knights into flying bone fragments.
Of the two hundred plus Skeleton Knights, only about a hundred made it to the city wall after enduring the hundred-meter stretch under the volley of arrows.
In their ghastly green eyes, there was not a flicker of emotion as the Skeleton Knights, at top speed, recklessly crashed into the city wall.
The successive “crackling” sounds were endless; one after another, Skeleton Knights were shattered into bone fragments, spraying everywhere above and below the city.
A fearless death charge!
When over two hundred Skeleton Knights had all been reduced to bone dust, the city wall, too, had its layer of stone chipped away, yet it hadn’t caused the slightest harm to the Jackalwolves atop the wall.
“This stone wall, though looking decrepit, is actually quite sturdy. Well then Vulture Legion, your turn!”
With the seemingly unchanged stone wall in view, Zi Liyuan lost interest in sending more Skeleton Knights to continue the assault.
So, with a wave of the Magic Wand, 256 Vulture Skeletons appeared in a grand entrance amidst the huge summoning Array.
With a Nether Crystal Core in hand, I have ensured that my Skeleton summons are well-stocked for sea, land, and air.
Before, while running through dungeons, I would summon Vulture Skeletons for reconnaissance; later, when I could steamroll through dungeons, I found no need to summon them anymore.
Now, in the siege, Skeleton Knights are practically useless; to get over the three-meter-high walls, only the Skeleton Behemoth and Vulture Skeletons among my summoned Skeletons might be able to manage it.
The Skeleton Behemoth can run and jump. They are able to leap onto the three- meter walls, but approachingwithin a hundred meters of the wall would expose them to arrow fire; by the time they reach the base of the wall, they’d likely have lost more than half their number, especially since they don’t have the same physical resistance and vitality as Skeleton Knights.
But Vulture Skeletons are different; they can soar in the sky, are quite agile in the air, and can perform swift diving attacks. The Jackalwolves’ arrows have a limited shooting height, so to form an arrow rain that annihilates Vulture Skeletons like it did Skeleton Knights would be far more difficult.