Volume 1: The Second Coming (Remastered) Chapter 56: Advanced Challenge
The adventure of the Buried Bones cost Yu Bin a lot of effort, especially the last competition with the torturer Balil, in order to win, Yu Bin can be said to have exhausted all means, of course, the final result did make him very satisfied.
The rune sword death breath that Navik gave him is a purple legendary-level one-handed sword, and its attributes are also quite powerful.
[Death Breath]: Purple Legendary One-handed Rune Sword, Sharpness 6.8, Damage 100, Special Ability: Rune Power, This sword is engraved with three ancient runes on its body, each rune has a different effect, by consuming a certain amount of soul power, you can activate specific runes, so as to obtain the blessing of rune power to assist in battle.
The rune sword is a branch of the one-handed sword, which belongs to a more niche weapon type, compared to the ordinary one-handed sword, the rune sword has a thicker blade, and the width is often inconsistent, it is a typical Western-style long sword, which makes the rune sword heavier than the ordinary one-handed sword, and the user's strength requirements are also higher.
In addition, the most important part of the rune sword is the runes engraved on the weapon, and the runes in the world of Entagre can be roughly divided into two kinds, one is the words used by the gods, these words are the condensed embodiment of divine power, also known as divine words or divine words, and the other is that some great magicians through the study of ancient knowledge and magic skills, some specific rules and powers are expressed in the most concise way, and these symbols used to express are the so-called runes. The former is almost rare, so the latter is the normal meaning of runes.
Yu Bin happens to know the runes engraved on the death breath, because identifying runes is a very important knowledge reserve for players, and some high-level magic and equipment will use runes, and being able to identify these runes means that they can better understand the effects of these magic and the ability of equipment, which is a very important skill for players.
According to the statistics of the previous life, the total number of runes in the world of Entagri is about more than 400, of which 52 are commonly used, and the three runes engraved on this rune sword are Uruz, Thor and Omit, Uruz represents strength, Thor represents ice, and Omit represents damage.
After Yu Bin's test, activating the Uruz rune requires at least 20 points of soul power, and the effect is to temporarily increase Yu Bin's strength attribute by 10 points, the more soul power used to activate, the longer the duration of this effect, but it can also last for at least 30 seconds. Activating Thor requires 30 points of soul power, and the effect is to make the rune sword with a freezing effect, each attack can make the target take freezing damage, although these freezing damage is not high, but it can effectively reduce the target's movement speed, and multiple attacks on the same part can even cause freezing, which will last for at least 15 seconds after activation. And the activation consumption of the last Omit is the largest, it requires 45 points of soul power, the effect is to double the damage caused by the next attack, this effect is very strong, but the disadvantages are also very big, if you can't hit the target within three seconds, Yu Bin is equivalent to wasting 45 points of soul power in vain, which is undoubtedly a huge waste for Yu Bin, who has not much soul power.
In that competition, Yu Bin directly bit the soul bead in his mouth at the last moment, and the burst of soul power not only injured Balil who bumped into him, but also increased Yu Bin's upper limit of soul energy by 15 points again, and Yu Bin's soul energy also reached the level of 147 points, although Yu Bin explained it afterwards as a means to prepare just in case, but Karthas was still very angry and scolded him and took away the remaining 16 soul beads.
Before Yu Bin left the Falhala Palace, Karthas gave him a bead chain with 16 soul beads strung on it, according to Karthas, because of the lack of most of the materials, and the lack of time, he could only use magic to temporarily seal the soul power in these soul beads, and slowly stimulate it in some way, as long as Yu Bin usually wears this "soul chain", the soul power in these soul beads will be gradually absorbed by Yu Bin's soul fire, until the soul power contained in it is completely exhausted. Of course, when necessary, Yu Bin could also temporarily gain a huge amount of soul power by directly biting these soul beads, but Karthhas did not support this behavior.
The strength of the soul power directly affects the player's activity time in the world of Entagre, and ultimately determines the player's strength, so after getting this soul chain, Yu Bin did not hesitate to wear it on his body, fortunately, Karthas did not say that this soul chain can only be used as a necklace, so Yu Bin directly used it as an ornament for the belt and sewed it on the inside of the belt (simple addition of decorations does not require tailoring skills), so that it is convenient for Yu Bin to use these soul beads when needed.
In addition, the leaves of those Death Soul Orchids were also made into different quality props by Karthas, a total of more than 70 leaves, most of which were extracted and mixed with other raw materials to make a batch of potions, which Karthas called "Powerful Death Essence" Potions can restore a large amount of Yu Bin's health in a short period of time, of course, it can also be thrown out, causing a large amount of death damage to the target, these potions have a total of 20 bottles, enough for Bin to use for a lot of time. And those blades of the highest quality, almost completely spiritualized, were made into three bottles of "Powerful Soul Essence" by Karthas, each of which could be used to replenish all of Yu Bin's soul power, and allowed Yu Bin to temporarily obtain an additional 200 soul energy cap within two hours.
Coupled with some potions and equipment exchanged from the alchemy workshop and forging workshop of the Farhara Palace, Yu Bin can be said to have gained a great harvest this time. If it weren't for the fact that Yu Bin's plan was constantly postponed because he had been there for too long, he would still be eager to continue his "further study" there.
And an important reason that forced him to leave the palace of Farhala was the advanced challenge!
For a player, the advanced challenge can be said to be the most important battle in each level, the victory or defeat of the advanced challenge directly determines the success of the advancement, and each player in the same level only has three opportunities to advance the challenge, once all three failed, it means that the player can no longer be promoted to the next level, can only be maintained in the current stage forever.
Of course, there are very, very few players who will have this situation, because the advanced challenge will provide players with different difficulties as alternatives, from the highest orange epic difficulty to the lowest white normal difficulty, and if the player can't even complete the advanced challenge of white normal difficulty, then you can also apply to the race to which you belong "Advanced Test", you only need to pay a lot of gold and a certain amount of contribution, and the player can automatically complete the progression, However, the level that has been upgraded through the Advanced Test will not be able to enjoy the corresponding bonuses of that level, which means that the advanced player will not be able to obtain any attribute points and academic points even if they continue to level up in the future, and will not be able to regain the corresponding attribute and academic point bonuses until the player completes the advancement through normal means in the next advanced challenge.
But in fact, Yu Bin had hardly heard of anyone in his previous life who could return to the right path after passing the advanced test, which is very understandable, the player himself does not have enough strength to pass the advanced challenge, can the more difficult next advanced challenge be passed? You must know that players can't get any attribute points and academic points in this entire level, and their strength can be said to be inch-free, so if they can still pass the challenge, then why bother to enter the door of the level test in the last advanced challenge!
The higher the difficulty of the advanced challenge, the player will be given additional attribute points, academic points or some special exclusive skills after completion, so how to choose the right advanced challenge when advancing is a difficult problem that players have been unable to solve.
For Yu Bin, who is determined to stand at the top, of course, he must try to do his best in everything, and advanced challenges are no exception, he has only one goal, that is, orange epic difficulty!
After resting for a whole day in Naxxramas and making a brief arrangement for the development of the territory, Yu Bin returned to the Angfi Fortress through the teleportation array, as the first city he chose after being reborn, and finally Yu Bin chose this place for his own advanced challenge, instead of the Dial King City, the capital of the undead.
By the way, Naxxramas, who was free-ranged by Yu Bin, has gradually gotten on the right track, and the corpse witch Dorgil doesn't know what adventures he had, so he automatically obtained the title of manager, and also has some life academics such as [Architectural Planning] and [Administrative Processing], so the entire Naxxramas gradually has a clearer distribution, no longer like before, cutting wood for a while, and building houses for a while.
As for the automatically born undead civilians, they didn't disappoint Yu Bin too much, although the newly added undead civilians are not of high level, but the quality is good, except for a zombie who is completely a tabula rasa, the others have more or less some skills and academics, and there is even a blacksmith with low-level forging skills, which makes Yu Bin overjoyed, and quickly led people to build a simple forging room, and also spent a lot of gold coins to buy a set of lowest-level furnaces and forging tools from the Angfei Fortress, even if it loses money, Yu Bin is also ready to let this automatically born blacksmith first prop up the territory's forging industry, you know, now the skeletons transformed by Naxxramas are still patrolling shirtless, and the sooner you get some equipment, you can arm these soldiers one day earlier, and increase the defense and military strength of the territory.
Walking into the career area of the Angfei Fortress, Yu Bin found the Warrior Association, advanced challenges are not something that ordinary aborigines can provide, players must apply to the corresponding professional guild according to their respective professions, and the guild will select the appropriate advanced challenge for players to choose according to the different levels of difficulty, and finally judge whether it is successful according to the results of completion.
As a skeleton knight, Yu Bin naturally belongs to the jurisdiction of the Warrior Association, but when he enters the third order, the Warrior Association will not be able to manage it, and then he will have to report to the higher-level Undead Knights Guild and apply for the next advanced challenge there.
As one of the basic professions of the undead, the Warrior Association is a bit depressed compared to the wealthy Wizard Association, although the building where the Warrior Association is located is not much worse than that of the Wizard Association, but the gap between the two can be seen from the flow of people in and out. On one side, there is a flow of people in and out, and on the other hand, there are many doors!
Yu Bin stepped through the door, and there were only aborigines standing in the entire hall with less than one hand, and it seemed that even the staff of these associations had given up their positions and didn't know where to go.
"It's been a long time since a strange face walked in here!" A skeleton who didn't look good walked up to Yu Bin and looked him up and down, "You're here to train?" Or are you here to buy gear? Or is it here to test your strength? ”
Each professional association can provide some services for the corresponding profession, the more common is to provide training grounds and training instructors, sell some standard equipment, or be responsible for judging the strength of the strength.
"No, I'm here to apply for the Advanced Challenge!" Yu Bin said.
Brush! Yu Bin's words instantly made several undead in the hall look at him, and this sudden change made Yu Bin think that he had committed some taboo.
"Hey, hey, what are you doing! Hurry up and report to Minister Sinol, the first guy in decades to apply for an Advanced Challenge! The skeleton danced and yelled, and several of the other undead immediately ran towards the back of the guild, causing a splash of chickens and dogs.
"Haha, sorry, sorry, it's been a long time since we've encountered this kind of thing, you know, almost no undead will come here to apply for any advanced challenges now, and naturally born undead are either born strong and directly belong to the more advanced guild management, or they can't grow up because of their weak strength! Ah, I'm sorry, my name is Yemtlan, a skeleton warrior. The skeleton warrior Yemtran Balabala said a lot, so that Yu Bin couldn't find a chance to interject, "Speaking of which, I forgot to ask, you applied for a third-order advanced challenge, right?" ”
Yu Bin tugged at the corners of his mouth: "No, I'm only at level 0 now." ”
The skeleton warrior Yemtlan jerked his head as if he had heard a joke: "Haha, you're kidding, right?" You have such a good sense of humor! ”
"No, I'm not kidding, I'm here to apply for the Tier 1 Advanced Challenge!"
"Oh my God! No, Minister Sinol will screw my head off and kick it as a ball! Oh my God, what did I do! ”
But apparently the skull warrior had no time to make up for his mistake, and with a sound of footsteps, a black warrior with a large sword on his back rushed into the hall: "Who, who is applying for the advanced challenge?" ”
"Minister, Minister Sinor!" The skeleton warrior Yemtlan shrunk his head and whispered, "It's him, it's this guy who applied for the advanced challenge, the advanced challenge of the first order!" ”
The black warrior Sinor, who rushed over, obviously didn't expect this result, and his eyes covered by his helmet stared at Yu Bin deadly, as if he was blaming this little undead for daring to disturb himself with such a thing.
"Yes, that's me applying for the Tier 1 Advanced Challenge." Yu Bin took a step forward without fear, not even the high-level undead in the Farhara Palace, let alone the black warrior in front of him, "I apply for the advanced challenge of the orange epic difficulty!" ”
The soul fire in the eyes of the black warrior Sinore burned violently, as if there were two torches planted in it!