Novel Bin Chapter 59 - 59: 059 Skeleton Mage
Spring City, South Hill Base!
After holing up in his dorm for three days, Dean McKenzie finally stepped outside.
Because Anthony had given him a call.
He informed him of two matters.
The first was that the issue with the Bloody Church was temporarily resolved.
The second was that his reward had been requested, but it wouldn’t be handed to Dean right away. He needed to level up to Level 20 first!
Anthony did not beat around the bush but straightforwardly told Dean McKenzie about it.
The reward he had applied for Dean was related to his One-turn promotion.
This was critically important for Dean’s future career, so Anthony urged him to quickly level up to Level 20!
Thus, the Dean who hadn’t stepped out for three days finally did.
He followed the usual course of heading to the trading zone first.
He sold all the stuff he had gotten from the Goblin Uprising Instance that he didn’t need, including the replaced Bone Necklace, the Black Iron wind-themed magic wand he got from killing the Swiftwind Wolf King, as well as some potions made from Ashton Blackweed by the old Goblin.
A massive clearance sale led to Dean’s assets hitting an unprecedented high of 22 Gold Coins.
Pretty much about 2.2 million RMB!
This was a substantial windfall; one could buy a house in Spring City with this amount.
This was the closest Dean had ever come in his life to owning a house of his own.
Regrettably, he was about to blow through this money quickly.
“No issue, I don’t care. After all, I have land now – the Land of Bone. I’ll just build a big mansion on it later!
Let’s go grind some monsters!”
Subsequently, Dean, who was carrying the enormous amount of 22 Gold Coins, headed straight for the fourth map of the South Hill Base, the Mermaid Lake.
The Mermaid Lake, as the fourth map of the South Hill Base.
The monsters there range level from 15 to 20. It’s virtually impossible for the new generation of professionals to challenge them.
So, there’s practically no one in this map.
Dean was probably the only person in the whole map, monopolizing a map to himself again.
Although the environment of the Mermaid Lake was quite unique.
The entire map was surrounded by a large lake, with a massive Mermaid Island in the center. The island and the lake were connected by wooden bridges resembling blood vessels.
Upon entering the map, the spawn point wasn’t on the Mermaid Island in the middle, but randomly on one of the wooden bridges.
This environment was quite unfriendly to the professionals.
Because at any moment, a mermaid might pop out from the lake to backstab you.
Even if you could dodge their backstab, the mermaids could dive into the lake where you couldn’t touch them.
Not only could you not touch them, they might even mock you from a distance.
This map was extremely disgusting and messed with your mind.
Several professionals have had their mental state explode because of this map every year.
Countless professionals protested and demanded a different map, but the Spring City Officials refused to change it.
According to the Spring City Officials, this map could greatly enhance the vigilance of professionals and assist them in dealing with complex situations in the future.
Therefore, every professional from Spring City has developed a certain degree of disdain for fish after leaving the South Hill Base. Some even reached the point of wanting to slash any fish they saw.
But Dean wasn’t scared at all!
You’ve got to be kidding!
Deans’ Invisible Shield, coupled with the 25% boost from his Level 3 Bone Hardening Trait, brought his defense up to 160 points!
What does that mean?
Any attack under 160 points would not damage Dean nor shake his defense.
With this defense, even a One-turn Jay Murray wouldn’t be able to break it unless he used his ultimate ability.
He didn’t believe that with his defense, he would still get his mentality wrecked by a mere Mermaid Lake.
Then, upon entering the Mermaid Lake, Dean’s mentality exploded.
The main issue was that the mermaids in the lake were extremely sleazy, approaching sneakily and aiming for below Dean’s waist.
Even though Dean’s defense was established and they absolutely couldn’t break through it.
But no man could stand being poked around by a group of ugly-faced mermaids with a rotten stick, right?
Dean directly shot a super long-range Bone Fang, taking out the mermaids that once touched him and ran away, then surfaced to mock him from a distance of thirty to forty meters.
Then, Dean summoned all his skeletons from Doggy Two to Doggy Seven and sent them underwater.
Don’t get me wrong, Dean didn’t send them underwater to battle.
Although skeletons could go underwater, their agility was far less than that of the mermaids.
So, Doggy Two and the others’ main function wasn’t to fight, but to act as Dean’s eyes.
Dean could see where the mermaids were underwater through them. His 50 points of Penetration ensured that the trajectory of Bone Fang was pretty straight underwater, and then it would directly shoot out a Bone Fang.
Of course, this was just a strategy that Dean came up with on the spot.
In the beginning, Dean’s strategy wasn’t very effective.
After all, Dean couldn’t see what Doggy Two and the others were seeing. He could only roughly aim at the positions based on the feedback from them.
The miss rate was quite high.
In the beginning, only one out of ten shots hit the target.
And that was purely by luck.
If it wasn’t for the connection between Dean and Doggy Two and the others, which allowed him to generally sense their positions, he might have accidentally taken out Doggy Two and the others himself.
Although this strategy wasn’t very handy initially, Dean didn’t give up.
Driven by his hatred for the group of mermaids, Dean made rapid progress. Within half a day, he had basically achieved a success rate of thirty percent.
Thirty percent might not seem like a high probability, but it had substantial killing power.
Moreover, Dean’s firing range was as far as 65 meters.
A distance of 65 meters gave Dean enough time to fire several shots, thus, any target he set his eyes on was dead within three shots!
Once a mermaid was killed, Doggy Two and the others would bring the light points dropped by the mermaid, and even the body of the mermaid, back.
[You used the Talent [Extraction] on the [Carpfish Mermaid] (Level 15) (Ordinary), you gain 0.1 points of Strength, Agility, and Spirit!]
A single extraction lit up Dean’s eyes.
Finally, he found a monster from which he could extract spiritual power. Dean’s treasured [Fragile Skeleton Mage Template], as well as the sixth skeleton, could finally be enhanced.
Following that, Dean went on a massacre, continually extracting and imbuing.
[You spent 5 Silver Coins to initiate the enhancement of [Doggy Seven]!]
[You spent 5 Silver Coins to imbue [Doggy Seven] with 5 points of Spirit!]
[You used the [Fragile Skeleton Mage Template], your [Wraith Servant] Doggy Seven class-changed into the [Fragile Skeleton Mage], awakening the skill [Little Nether Flame Ball]!]
[You spent 20 Silver Coins to imbue [Doggy Seven] with 10 points of Spirit!]
[You consumed an [Elite Template], [Doggy Seven]’s Template has been upgraded to [Skeleton Mage]!]