Chapter 6: Mutations Caused by the Bug Amulet
Vorod's request was a little abrupt. But Lan Wu understood it very well.
Anyone born with bad luck would not even get gold coins. For an identification scroll to cost eighty gold coins, this is definitely a considerable expense. And he borrowed two at a time, one hundred and sixty gold coins. This is not counting the two used before.
"Okay." Lan Wu agreed very readily.
Vorod awkwardly took out two identification scrolls from the space bag, stuffed them into Lan Wu's hands, and hurriedly chased the survivors who escaped with his three skeletons.
Watching Volod leave in a hurry, Lan Wu was not in a hurry to chase. He unfolded the scroll, put it on the ground, and put the ring on it first. The magic power attached to the identification scroll flowed and rolled over the ring. With a flash of golden light, the ring returned to its original appearance.
The golden ring was engraved with dense and tiny runes, and the stream of light flashed in the runes from time to time. The huge ruby inlaid on the ring seemed to have washed away the dust and shone brightly again.
"Golden ring?" Lan Wu was a little surprised that his luck was so good. He just killed a fallen wizard, but he could get gold equipment. But he didn't take it too seriously. The monsters in the blood wasteland, even if they dropped gold equipment, were all garbage. If it were in the game, he would be too lazy to pick it up and sell it.
Lan Wu picked up the ring, looked around, and finally picked up the identification scroll and examined it carefully.
Stone Grip Ring (Seal)
Level requirement: 9
+2 Strength
+2 Vitality
+223 Life
+5 Mana
This ring is in line with the identity of gold equipment, with four attributes attached. In particular, the attribute of +223 life is completely beyond Lan Wu's expectations. Generally speaking, even if this kind of low-level gold ring adds life, it only adds a few points or more than ten points. At most, adding more than twenty points of life is the limit. But this ring adds 223 points of life at once.
The life growth of the necromancer is not high, and each level up only adds 1.5 life. Not counting attribute points, 223 life points is equivalent to a level up of 148. And one point of physical strength only adds 2 life points. In other words, 223 life points require an additional 111 points of physical strength.
Top-quality.
When Lan Wu saw this attribute, his first impression of this golden ring was that it was top-quality. The other three attributes were dispensable. More or less, it was not much. When he was satisfied, he suddenly saw that there were rows of question marks behind these four attributes.
Counted them, a full nine rows.
Lan Wu was stunned. This means that this golden ring has thirteen attributes. This is more than a top-quality, it is simply a divine weapon. If these nine attributes that have not yet been identified are not the useless attributes such as +1 point of endurance.
Looking at the attributes listed on the identification scroll, Lan Wu was a little dazed. He racked his brains to figure out why a mere fallen wizard would explode such a top-quality ring. Especially the level requirement is quite low.
Wait.
Lan Wu was startled and looked at the ring in his hand with his mouth wide open. This ring and the additional attributes look so familiar. Gradually, the memory in his mind began to overlap with the ring in his hand. He couldn't help but howl in a low voice.
"It's definitely that ring, definitely. It's rich, it's rich this time."
"Wait, this is just my guess, there's no need to get excited." Lan Wu forced himself to calm down. He looked at the ring in his hand and tried his best to restrain his involuntary divergent thoughts.
After a long time, Lan Wu finally regained his composure. He put on the ring. As soon as the ring was put on, the brilliance on the surface suddenly shrank into the ruby, and it turned into a gray appearance again, like a very ordinary ring. It's a pity that the level requirement has not been reached yet. He put it on, but the additional attributes had no effect at all.
He admired the ring on the middle finger of his left hand, and his eyes suddenly flew to another identification scroll. He was very hesitant, wanting to identify his current attributes, but he was reluctant to give up his research on the little skeleton. After weighing the pros and cons for a long time, he hardened his heart and gave up the idea of checking his attributes, and summoned the little skeleton to his side.
The identification scroll was attached to the back of the little skeleton. A minute later, Lan Wu took the scroll and unfolded it for a closer look.
Lan Ya (skeleton)
Level 2
HP 21
Damage 1-2
Hit 20%
Defense 20
Consume Mana 6
Experience value: 11/1000
The attributes of the little skeleton are very simple. After reading it, Lan Wu's expression was a little strange. This summoned skeleton actually has a name. From the name, this skeleton is obviously a female. No wonder the bones are much thinner than the skeleton summoned by Volod. The experience value described at the end made him understand a little.
The little skeleton can absorb experience (magic) like himself. This has been proven. And from the skeleton summoned by Volod, it is speculated that the skeleton summoned by the necromancer is only related to the level of skeleton resurrection. This change is obviously due to some reason.
The reason is not difficult to guess.
Lan Wu thought about it carefully and locked the scope on the fifteen BUG amulets in the pocket of his beach pants. Apart from these fifteen amulets, he couldn't think of any other reason to explain the mutation of the summoned skeleton.
"Fifteen amulets with +7 all skills mutated the skeleton I summoned into an upgradeable skeleton?" Lan Wu looked strange. After thinking about it carefully, he had to admit that although his point of view was bizarre, it was reasonable.
+7 all skills, this is to increase the upper limit of the skills learned by the character.
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No skill tree, this is his biggest regret. It is also the biggest flaw. No skill tree means no skills to learn. Even if the upgrade also gives skill points, it is useless to him.
"So I can only rely on the skills attached to the equipment to use skills?"
"If this speculation is true, then I can also use the skills of other professions through equipment?"
"If this speculation is true, then from the summoned skeleton, when I use the skills attached to the equipment, I can also absorb experience points to improve the skill level?"
"If this speculation is true, then these fifteen BUG amulets, a total of 105 skills, the effect is that I can practice all the skills of all professions to level 105?"
"It turns out that I have the potential to become a full-time master." Lan Wu sighed in his heart.
Mastering all professions means that teammates are no longer necessary. As long as you can collect various equipment with all professional skills, you can face various environments reasonably.
If you need melee, put on equipment with barbarian skills and transform into a barbarian melee.
If you need assistance, put on equipment with paladin skills and transform into a paladin.
If you encounter a special monster that is immune to magic and has a strong attack, then change to equipment with Amazon skills and transform into Amazon to perform long-range physical attacks.
If you encounter a special monster that is immune to physical attacks, then change to the necromancer's staff or the mage's staff to launch long-range spell attacks.
If you are surrounded by monsters, you can change to equipment with assassin skills and transform into an assassin to fight.
There are seven major professions, a total of 210 skills. As long as the equipment can keep up, you can match skills more reasonably to protect yourself to the maximum extent. Thinking of this, Lan Wu's heart surged.
These skills can be upgraded.
It cannot be denied that this upgradeable mode is powerful. But there is no perfect ending in the world. For some skills, being able to absorb magic energy to upgrade does not mean that the skill effect becomes stronger. For example, the necromancer's skeleton resurrection.
Skeleton resurrection can summon more skeletons as the skill level increases. Just like Volod, the level 3 skeleton resurrection can summon three skeletons to fight for him. And Lan Wu has tried it. He could only summon one skeleton, and it was a defective one.
Lan Wu remembered it very clearly. When he played the game, a level 99 skeleton resurrection could summon 35 skeletons. A level 99 resurrection skeleton mage could also summon 35 skeleton mages. The vast sea of skeletons of the summoning stream necromancer was near and far, with both physical and magical effects, and the combination of damage and deepening curses was enough to deal with all situations. But when the skeleton that could be summoned became one, the famous sea of skeletons naturally ceased to exist.
"It's a pity that there is only a novice staff with +1 skeleton resurrection now." Lan Wu was helpless. As far as the current situation is concerned, these BUG amulets have little effect on him.
With emotion, Lan Wu walked in the direction where Volod left. The little skeletons roamed around lively, and when they encountered anything that looked like a monster, they would quickly meet it and were very conscientious.
More than 20 minutes later, Lan Wu caught up with Volod. At this time, Volod had found the survivors. Seeing Lan Wu coming, he waved enthusiastically, then seemed to remember something, put down his hand awkwardly, and looked away.
Walking in front of Volod, Lan Wu solemnly made a request: "You can't take action on the way back to the camp. All the monsters are left to me."
A blush appeared on Volod's pale face, and he wanted to refute Lan Wu's discrimination against him. But thinking of the bad luck that was entangled with him, he had to nod his head resignedly.
"I need to upgrade." Lan Wu's words immediately added made Volod stunned.
"My level is too low." Lan Wu said solemnly again.
"Of course. After all, I just absorbed a lot of magic energy. And you only absorbed a little magic energy." Volod regained his original reserve.
"Then I will lead the way in front, and you take them and keep a distance from me." Lan Wu asked again. He thought about it and added a few more words: "They are just ordinary people. What happened just now has frightened them, and they should not be frightened again."
Volod's eyes swept over the survivors. Seeing that they did have a look of fear in their eyes, he readily agreed to Lan Wu's request: "Okay, I swear to the gods that I will never let them be frightened again."
Lan Wu smiled, strode forward with the little skeleton, and walked all the way to the west. Without the professional Volod next to him, he didn't care about the difference in the little skeleton's performance. Whenever he encountered a rotten corpse, he stood behind and carefully observed the little skeleton's fighting situation.
Facing the slow-moving and low-damage rotten corpses, the little skeleton performed bravely. Under the fast fighting, the rotten corpses had no power to fight back. Even if it was besieged by three rotten corpses, it was also at ease and killed the rotten corpses one by one.
The journey back to the Rogue Camp was long and difficult. The endless rotten corpses appeared like bamboo shoots after the rain, one group after another. Although the magic energy contained in these low-level undead creatures was not as good as the fallen demon, the amount was large. When Lan Wu saw the unique wooden fence of the Rogue Camp appear on the horizon, he had successfully upgraded to level 3. The spoils he got were enough to make Volod so ashamed that he wanted to hit his head against the wall and commit suicide.
Cloth armor, gloves, boots, round shield, and a hat. The rest of the junk, such as worn-out cloth armor, was thrown away. In addition, there were more than ninety gold coins as a bonus.
Although no magic equipment was dropped, at least a set of equipment was collected, saving the trouble of being naked in the Rogue Camp. Approaching the camp, Lan Wu decisively canceled the summon. The little skeleton turned into a pile of bones and fell.
Rogue Camp, finally arrived.