Volume 1: The Second Coming (Remastered) Chapter 26: The Golden Coffin of Maltan
In the world of Ntagre, players can't know the enemy's information through simple clicks or observations (Yu Bin has a big doubt about whether there is such an action as clicking), just like in reality, humans can't visually determine how much health a dog has and how much damage a cockroach can bring to themselves. Therefore, when many players first enter this magical world, they often lose their lives because of the wrong choice of enemies, and after they pay a lot of money, they slowly learn how to judge the strength of the enemy.
How do you measure the strength of a goal? How much health does he have? How much damage can he deal to the player? If all of these require players to explore by their own bodies, then Yu Bin is sure that more than 99% of them will choose to live a career and live a safe life in the city.
Luckily, this is a world where magic exists, and the presence of magical power means that everything is possible!
Scouting skills, or in the words of the natives of the Ntagrean world, certain perceptual skills, have become an indispensable part of the player's reliance!
For example, the thief's [Detection Trap], the mage's [Mana Detection], the warrior's [Hostile Perception], etc., different classes have different perception skills, some of these skills can detect whether there are enemies around, and some can detect the fluctuation of mana, and use this to guess the strength of the enemy.
Compared with these, there are some perceptual skills that are more powerful, just like players can know how much strength and how much health they have through data, through these special perceptual skills, players can also understand the relevant data of the enemy clearly, and use this to draw up a battle plan, improve the success rate of the battle, and ensure the safety of themselves and their teammates.
The most famous of these is the All-Seeing Eye. As an exclusive skill of the special class "Prophet", [Omniscient Eye] can not only see the target's attributes and skills clearly, but can even spot weaknesses or predict the target's next move.
Of course, such a powerful skill is not something that players can easily start, in fact, the vast majority of players in the previous life could not even master a truly effective perception skill, they could only rely on a variety of low-level skills such as [Detection] or [Seeing Through] to understand the enemy and make corresponding battle plans, which is also one of the reasons why players in the previous life liked to huddle, and the lone ranger often means extreme danger and hardship!
From the beginning of entering the world of Entagre, Yu Bin was also troubled by this. Ordinary perceptual skills are not uncommon, but they are meaningless to Yu Bin, even if he relies on his rich experience, Yu Bin can roughly judge the strength of the enemy. What he needs is a perceptual skill that can really understand the attributes of the enemy, otherwise there will be a lot of uncertainty in the battle, which will lead to great risks.
Just like killing the zombie Orr in the Rotten Swamp before, if Yu Bin had a strong enough perception skill at that time, he could easily understand Orr's strength and make a suitable battle plan based on this, without having to be prepared to deal with various situations in order to ensure his safety, which is neither efficient nor economical!
After a few days of thinking about it day and night, Yu Bin searched for several suitable targets from his memory, but after considering the actual situation, he finally chose [Soul Touch].
This is a perceptual skill tailored for the undead, as we all know, after the undead ignite the soul fire, they have the ability to observe the world through the power of the soul, and its most direct manifestation is the unique [soul vision] of the undead.
In the state of [Soul Vision], there are only two kinds of objects observed by the undead, that is, those with souls and those without souls, such as stones, steel, rivers, flames, which are soulless substances, which are represented in pure black in the state of soul vision, which means that they have no soul fluctuations, while beings with souls such as trees and animals outline their physical characteristics in the blue of soul fire, the stronger the soul power, the brighter the color they see in soul vision, It is even rumored that some powerful angels appear to the soul to be in the form of a pure white human.
Therefore, the undead who have soul vision are the race that does not have to worry about the night, because in the eyes of the undead, as long as the soul is still burning, everything in the world is hidden.
Soul touch is a high-level use of the soul fire unique to the undead, by radiating its own soul power, directly perceiving the target's soul like a tentacle, so as to understand everything about the other party, this is the powerful ability of soul touch.
Depending on the difference in the strength of the souls of the two sides, it is even possible to perceive the minds of the other in this way, because the soul is the purest and the most difficult thing to disguise. And the undead are recognized, experts in soulology!
Of course, this skill is so powerful, naturally it is not something that ordinary players can easily learn, only a small number of powerful undead have the ability to teach this special skill, and the price of learning from them is extremely expensive!
Fortunately, a certain fragment in Yu Bin's memory gave him inspiration, and the tireless exploration of players in his previous life finally became Yu Bin's irreplaceable treasure.
After spending some gold coins, Yu Bin traveled to the border city of the Felta Empire, called Bersa, through the teleportation array.
Unlike the ancient Dia Empire, the Felta Empire is the youngest of the three undead empires, and its establishment time is less than three thousand years, which may be called a long history among human beings, but compared with Dia, which has been established for tens of thousands of years, it still seems very immature.
For the undead, time is equivalent to strength to a certain extent, and a long time can produce powerful undead long ago, according to this standard, the Felta Empire is also at the bottom of the military strength.
According to the history of the undead, the birth of this new undead empire originated from a factional war more than 3,000 years ago. At that time, humanity gained independence after the collapse of the Elven Empire at the end of the First Age, and gradually began to replace the declining Elves as the pillars of the Order Camp throughout the early and middle periods of the Second Age. In order to assert their strength and further cement the position of the entire human race in the Orderly camp, the three human empires that were tyrannical at the time convinced the elves to wage war against the demons.
Caught off guard, the demons quickly collapsed, and these violent creatures not only faced the attack of the orderly camp, but also had a serious split within themselves, which caused the combined forces of humans and elves to triumph all the way, and soon swept away most of the demon's territory.
Perhaps the victory stimulated the elves' desires, and when the demons were about to abandon their territory and return to hell, the elves carried a part of the human army to attack the undead who were watching from the sidelines, trying to completely sweep away these desecrated beings.
The faction war expanded in an instant, and almost the entire continent of Entagre was enveloped in war.
The outcome of this camp war must not be repeated, and from the fact that the Dia Empire is still intact, we can know whether the arrogant elves have gained the joy of success or the regret of defeat in this camp war.
The Felta Empire is the emerging undead empire established at the end of this camp war, compared with the ancient Dia, Feltado's territory is less than two-fifths, the entire territory is divided into four provinces: Fairman, Tallon, Simbis and La Rodos, of which Fairman and Talon are the foundation of the Felta Empire, the two provinces are located on the border of the Dia Empire, whether it is soil or environment has been undead, very suitable for the survival of the undead, Simbis and La Rodos were territories that the Felta Empire had conquered after thousands of years of expansion, and the Felta Empire was still digesting these two provinces in order to completely undead them.
The city of Bersa, where Yu Bin is located, is one of the several cities that belong to the province of Simbys, and due to its proximity to the border and the low level of undeadness, there are still many races from other chaotic factions that can still be seen in this city. This also makes the place look more prosperous, and the flow of people coming in and out of the gates means that the city is very prosperous in terms of commercial activity.
In the market area on the west side of the city, Yu Bin found his goal.
It was a corpse witch, dressed in a magnificent robe, wearing a fine tiara, holding a large bone staff studded with various gems and jewels, carrying a beautiful book on his waist, and two white bone palms full of rings inlaid with precious stones.
He is the person Yu Bin is looking for, a corpse witch named Maltan Golden Coffin, a money fan who was called a "moving lie" by players in his previous life!
The origin of this corpse witch is not ordinary, Maltan originally had the surname of Normen, and was a minor nobleman in the middle of the twelve human kingdoms of the Virgil Kingdom, relying on the shadow of the family, Martan Normen became the tax collector of the royal capital at the age of forty.
It's a pity that Maltan is an out-and-out money fan, after becoming a tax officer, he not only unscrupulously solicited and accepted bribes, but also put his brains on the head of the "glorious holy scripture" once a decade.
Every ten years, human beings who believe in light hold a "Glorious Sacred Ceremony" to celebrate the greatness and mercy of the God of Light and to ask for the blessings of the gods. At that time, the Kingdom of Virgil was hosting this "glorious holy book", and the whole kingdom regarded it as a once-in-a-century honor and prepared expensive goods for the celebration. And it was these possessions that gave Maltan a bad idea.
After a series of covert operations, Martan, whose quest for wealth had reached a pathological level, dropped most of the expensive props used in the celebration in low-cost fakes, and the embezzled possessions went into his own pocket.
The end result was that a large number of fakes were discovered by guests from other human countries, causing the prestige of the Virgil Kingdom to plummet, and the entire "Glorious Holy Text" also came to an indelible stain on the Virgil Kingdom.
The investigation pointed all the clues to Martan, who was serving as a tax collector, and Martan, sensing the danger, fled the kingdom of Virgil with most of his belongings overnight, and finally threw himself into the arms of death, voluntarily transformed into a corpse witch, and gave up his surname to change his name to Maltan Golden Coffin.
But even so, the undead Martan still can't get rid of his greed for money, and due to his low power, this undead money fan can only cheat everywhere, selling items and jewelry that look glamorous but are actually worthless. Especially after a large number of players enter the game, Maltan's deception is naturally aimed at players who are eager to improve their power, which is why he is called a "mobile lie" by players.
Although Maltan Golden Coffin is so unbearable, especially because he is obviously a corpse witch, but his strength is not even the third order, which can be called a shame among corpse witches, there is one thing that Yu Bin has to admire, that is, how to protect himself.
You know, cheating in the undead is not that simple. Unlike humans or elves, the undead are hardly moved by sweet words, and only the strength of the soul fire can affect them. In this environment, with less than the strength of the third order, Maltan was still able to mix and thrive, safe and sound, and obviously had his unique skills.
His biggest reliance is the special ability he created, which can disguise the strength of the soul, but disguise alone is not enough to ensure his safety, because many undead also have the ability to weaken the soul fluctuation and hide their strength, in order to ensure their own lives, or to discern which undead is easier to deceive, Maltan also created a special skill, which can use soul power to conceal the soul fire close to the target, and use it to understand the other party's information.
Yu Bin called it [Soul Touch (Pseudo)]!
Compared to the real soul touch, this special skill of Maltan obviously has several discounts, such as not being able to perceive the existence of too high strength, for example, being misled by the other party, resulting in misinformation, but in any case, this is also the closest to the same kind of skill of soul touch, in principle, the two are the same, the difference is only in the specific soul power use skills.
In fact, in previous lives, there were players who finally learned soul touch through this method, which shows the value of this skill!
Yu Bin's goal is precisely this [Soul Touch (Pseudo)].
If you want to make Professor Martin rely on his greatest life, ordinary methods are obviously impossible. This money junkie will only be interested in two things, one is a lot of wealth and the other is power.
I am afraid that no one is more desperate for power than Maltan, because he knows that with great power, he can better accumulate wealth, protect his huge wealth, and take revenge on the kingdom of Virgil!
And now Yu Bin can't come up with enough to impress Maltan's huge wealth, but he has better trading goods. And Yu Bin believes that Maltan will never give up on this transaction, even if he pays the skills he relies on for it!