Volume V: The Elegant Tea Party (Remastered) Chapter Twenty-Five: Preparation

Yu Bin chose to leave the Psychic Academy and return to the Dia Empire, on the one hand, to temporarily get out of Kel'thugad's conspiracy and observe what this old lich was planning from the perspective of a bystander, and on the other hand, because he was about to face the third advanced challenge.

The experience gained by killing Arugao with his own hands made the level of Yu Bin and the Demon Bone Dragon Horse jump directly to level 120 of the second order cap, and there was even a lot of experience wasted. The leap in level also means that Yu Bin can once again advance perfectly.

In addition, although he didn't drop any loot after killing Arugao, Yu Bin got an unexpected hint.

[Hero's Qualifications: Each hero has unique traits, but all beings called heroes have the same characteristic, that is, they are not afraid of challenges!] You've proven yourself worthy of it! Go ahead and prove to Will Will that you have what it takes! 】

According to the hint, Yu Bin can take a special challenge to defeat one of the most powerful enemies he has ever killed so far, as an alternative to the advanced challenge. Once the challenge is successful, it will be equivalent to completing the difficulty selected by Yu Bin in the last Advanced Challenge, and in addition, he will be able to have a special talent called [Dreadnought].

Dreadnought: You have the potential to become a hero. Tier suppression will no longer have any effect in front of you, and unless your enemy is a strong player you've never challenged, you won't take any damage to them!

This is a very powerful talent, something that every advanced player in the previous life dreams of, and having this special talent means that Yu Bin will no longer need to be affected by the 20% damage reduction of each level, which can be called a rebirth for advanced players.

In addition to fearlessness, there are three similar talents, which are Soul Capture, Constant Wisdom, and Tenacity. Soul Capture gives the owner the opportunity to capture a portion of their Soul Energy and add it to themselves when killing enemies with high Soul Strength, which is the most desired talent for those Assassin players. Constant Wisdom is an ability that allows players to automatically increase magic damage by a certain amount according to the level difference between friend and foe when using any magic skill, which is a dream ability for mage players. The final tenacity is relatively simple, allowing players with this talent to get corresponding damage reduction and resistance to soul damage according to the difference between friend and foe, which is the best choice for players who like to use as a meat shield as a tank.

If there is no talent of fearlessness, when Yu Bin challenges an enemy who exceeds his four levels, the actual damage will only be forty percent of the theoretical damage, and if you count the damage reduction effect brought by physical defense and certain skills, the final damage can simply make people cry. This is also the reason why it is very difficult for players to kill monsters by leaping through the ranks. We all know that the experience gained from killing monsters at the next level is very high, but there are really few people who have the ability to do this.

The trigger of this talent is not difficult, as long as the player often crosses the challenge and kills enemies who are more than three orders higher than themselves, there will be a probability to trigger the prompt of this talent, and then after completing the challenge independently according to the prompt, you can obtain this special talent, but in fact, the effect of this talent depends entirely on the player's usual accumulation.

The most powerful monster a player can kill on a regular basis is a few tiers, and this talent allows the player to ignore the damage reduction dealt by that tier.

Yu Bin has always wanted to trigger this talent, but he has not moved, and he didn't expect to suddenly get a hint after killing Arugao, which has to be said to be a great irony.

On the plus side, as long as Yu Bin's challenge is successful, he can ignore tier-level suppression, including hero-level, unless the enemy is a Legendary or higher existence, Yu Bin can deal full damage to the target without being suppressed by any tier.

But on the downside, Yu Bin has to defeat a hero-level enemy on his own, knowing that he is now only a second-order player, and the hero level is six levels higher than him, and Yu Bin can only deal a quarter of the theoretical damage to the target in the challenge!

The only good news is that there is no limit to the number of times this challenge can be made, and there is no time limit, and the goal of the challenge will not change unless Yu Bin kills a more powerful enemy before the challenge is completed. Of course, I also know that this is almost impossible, and being able to kill Arugao is the result of Yu Bin's planning for a long time and good luck to pick up the leaks, so that he can kill a more powerful enemy in the actual situation, it is no different from sending him to death.

Although it was difficult to complete this challenge, Yu Bin decided to complete it as soon as possible after thinking about it. On the one hand, it is because as he gets deeper and deeper into Kel'thugad's plan, it is obvious that the enemies he will face in the future will be very strong, and whether or not he can obtain this talent will have a huge impact on his actual combat effectiveness, and on the other hand, because completing this challenge can be equivalent to completing a perfect progression of the highest difficulty, which is very important to Yu Bin, who is in urgent need of advancement now.

Different from the previous two advancements, this advancement challenge that has entered the third level can be said to be the first watershed that players encounter in the process of leveling up.

As we all know, in the eyes of the various races in the world of Entagre, soldiers from zero to the second order can only be regarded as cannon fodder, and they will not feel distressed even if they die more, while soldiers from the third to fifth orders can be called the main force, and they are the key forces used by various races to conduct wars, such as the janissaries and priests of the human race, the druids and treants of the elves, the corpse witches and reaper messengers of the undead, and the demon enchantresses and nightmares.

Therefore, the troops of the zero to the second rank are also called the low-level troops, the troops of the third to fifth ranks are called the medium-level troops, and the troops of the sixth and seventh ranks are the high-level troops.

From the second order to the third order, it is not only a change in rank, but also a change in status, any player, when he enters the third order, is no longer called a civilian, but is regarded as a citizen with complete rights, citizens can be exempted from a part of the tax, and have more rights and freedoms than civilians, but when the country starts a war, it must respond to the call to conscription.

Specific to the undead clan, Yu Bin, who has not entered the third order, has almost no status and rights, and any undead who exceeds the third order can turn him into his own slave, which is why Yu Bin would rather level up on a map other than the undead clan, or go to those inaccessible places to level up, rather than deal with those undead NPCs, who knows which guy has a brain pump, and he has to turn him into his own slave!

And once he successfully enters the third order, then Yu Bin has a minimum of freedom, and no existence below the hero level can enslave him without authorization, otherwise it will be a challenge to the laws formulated by the three undead empires. Only in this way can Yu Bin initially have the capital to deal with other undead NPCs.

Correspondingly, the difficulty of the second-order to third-order advanced challenges will also increase significantly, and players in previous lives have been stuck on this for an unknown number of people, and even many of them are unable to continue to level up because they cannot complete the advanced challenges.

For Yu Bin, this advanced challenge is originally difficult, and according to his plan, it must be completed with the perfect advance of the highest difficulty, so of course, he will choose to use this special challenge to replace the advanced challenge, after all, this special challenge is neither limited to the number of times, nor limited to time, even if the enemy to face is a hero-level existence, it is much easier than an advanced challenge that will be won or lost.

Of course, before that, he had to prepare as much as he could and try to complete this special challenge in the shortest possible time.

Because the third update of the world of Entagri is coming!

It's the end of May, and based on the experience of previous lives, the third update will take place on June 1st, along with the final Ring Arrival. This will be the largest of the Comings, with more than 30 million rings descending from Earth across the atmosphere, and with this Arrival, the number of players will grow exponentially, and various player groups and organizations will emerge.

If after the first advent, the player with the ring entered the world of Entagre to explore the way, then the player who entered after the second advent can be said to be groping, and the player who entered after the third advent obviously had a higher level of organization and discipline, many of which were elites selected by various countries and organizations in reality.

They will quickly grow themselves according to the skills that players who entered the first two times, and form a union one by one, and after going through the big waves, the ones that finally survived were those famous super large unions in the previous life. And after these elite players have mastered enough skills, with the help of a large number of low-level players, their level and equipment will grow rapidly, and it may not even take two months to go from Tier 0 to Tier 3.

In this case, if Yu Bin is still unable to break through and enter a higher level, he will inevitably catch up, or even open a bigger gap, so that the advantage he formed by entering the Entagri world in advance will be gone.

So there is only one way in front of Yu Bin, and that is to complete this challenge as quickly as possible, and then rely on the newly acquired special talent to continue to maintain his leading edge, and offset the quantitative advantage of those super-large unions with quality.

Fortunately, he is not without a chance, although Yu Bin in his previous life was not able to enter the hero-level realm, but in the last two years of the game, in order to resist the invasion from the bottomless abyss and the chaotic void, he has also fought against hero-level and even legendary-level powerhouses, and Yu Bin still has some experience in how to deal with them.

In addition, he had to be glad that it was Arugao who had turned into a werewolf who was killed by himself, not the archmage Arugao, otherwise, Yu Bin would rather gamble on the opportunity to challenge at an advanced level now. If you want to kill an archmage known as a spell turret independently, the difficulty can definitely make Yu Bin feel desperate.

And after the werewolfization, Arugao completely lost his ability to cast spells, and his combat effectiveness can be said to have plummeted, although his physical ability has been greatly strengthened, but he is an archmage after all, and it is impossible to exercise melee ability in normal times, and melee skills are undoubtedly very low.

On the other hand, on Yu Bin's side, although the enemy is strong, he has plenty of time to prepare various props, and constantly test the enemy's ability and various rules and restrictions when challenging with unlimited rules, plus Yu Bin was also a high-level player in his previous life, and his melee combat skills are definitely higher than a mage.

In order to improve his winning rate, Yu Bin exchanged some good things for himself as much as possible before leaving the Psychic Academy.

The first is the equipment blueprint [Death Stain - Giant Skeleton] that Kel'thugad gave him as a reward. Yu Bin already had two of the Death Scars set on his body, namely boots and breastplate, the former was a reward for Andrew Yasin to explore the secret realm of the Whispering Forest, and Yu Bin almost died in that secret realm. The latter had been lent to him by Elvia in advance as a reward for serving as the messenger between the Shadow Witch and Kel'thugad.

After rejecting Rice's invitation, Yu Bin took out some of the treasures he had scavenged from Martan's treasury and asked Professor Kasdinov of the Psychic Academy to forge the helmet for him, so that Yu Bin could be regarded as having three Death Scar sets.

In addition, in order to increase his combat power as soon as possible, Yu Bin did not put those high-grade materials that could not be used temporarily in the warehouse like ordinary players did. A large part of the wealth obtained from Maltan's treasury was used by Yu Bin to exchange with those instructors of the Psychic Academy for equipment and props that he could use, almost making Yu Bin look new from head to toe.

As for the props, the best at alchemy in the Psychic Academy is the dark dean Gadin, but Yu Bin is not familiar with this guy, so he didn't go to him, but found the ghost lady Farina, and bought some high-grade potions from Farina's hands at a low price, covering all aspects such as recovery, damage and status. In addition, the elf lecturer Marixia unexpectedly gave him a tree man seed, this thing is no stranger to Yu Bin, as long as he planted it, he could grow into a tree man in a few minutes. The tree man seed in Marixia's hand has obviously been transformed by the instructor's cold heart, and in addition to increasing its strength to the sixth order, the tree man planted also has additional frost attributes, which can be regarded as a good helper.

Of course, Yu Bin didn't forget to change some good drawings for his territory, needless to say about the ghoul factory drawings and gargoylee carving factory drawings, the most satisfying thing for Yu Bin is that through Rice, Yu Bin also successfully changed to the drawings of the crypt spider cultivation field, as well as the spider eggs of twenty crypt spiders and five crypt lurkers.

The Crypt Spider is a special second-tier class that belongs to the same tier as the Ghost of the Undead. But compared to the ghost who is fragile and eats by stunts, the crypt spider is much more practical. This spider is a species specially cultivated by Kel'thugad a long time ago, and while retaining some of the spider's habits and reproductive abilities, it also has the ability to use the power of shadow, and their attacks can produce shadow toxin, which causes continuous corrosion and venom damage to the target. In terms of practicality, the Crypt Spider definitely surpasses the Ghost as a popular undead class.