[Killed Undead Knight (Elite)]
[Received +80 EXP]
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Qin Chen looked at the Undead Knight in front of him, which had automatically turned into a pile of bone ash, and stood there in a daze.
Wait, you could actually do that?
He hadn't even continued attacking yet, and the opponent had directly surrendered and conceded defeat on its own.
This was the first time he had ever heard of such a tactic.
Re... really wonderful.
He didn't even have to lift a finger.
Qin Chen walked over to the pile of bone ash left by the Undead Knight and picked up the dropped item.
[Knight's Oath (Blue Tier)]: Badge
[Knight's Oath]: Bound by the knight's oath, the wearer will gain an additional 5 points to Strength, 5 to Intelligence, 5 to Stamina, 5 to Spirit, and 5 to Speed.
"I actually dropped something good."
Qin Chen looked at the exquisite badge in his hand with some surprise; he hadn't expected it to be a relatively rare item that boosted overall stats.
He immediately equipped the badge.
Then he allocated all 5 free stat points gained from leveling up into Stamina.
A mage is always better off being a bit tanky.
As he allocated the points, his attribute panel underwent new changes.
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Name: Qin Chen
Level: 3 (85/150 EXP)
Class: Mage
Attributes: Strength 155 (Base 15*10), Intelligence 21, Spirit 25, Stamina 211 (Base 20*10), Speed 19
"Good grief, boosted by two golden traits, my Stamina and Strength have actually reached a whopping 211 and 155 points."
No flashy gimmicks, pure numbers.
It's a pity that the stats provided by equipment are added separately, otherwise his attributes would be even higher.
With 211 points in Stamina, his current stamina stat was almost comparable to a level 20 Shield Guard class, or even surpassed it.
Good grief, he was plunging down the path of the tank mage and never looking back.
Who needs spell output as a mage? Just go full tank build and call it a day.
Qin Chen muttered to himself.
Next came another moment to look forward to.
Qin Chen rubbed his palms together eagerly.
[You have one chance to draw a golden trait. Do you wish to draw?]
[Confirm!]
As Qin Chen confirmed.
The familiar drawing scene appeared once again, countless golden seas of characters flooding his mind.
They transformed into a golden dragon swirling continuously.
[Acquired Golden Trait — All-Poison Mastery]
[All-Poison Mastery: Gain 80% overall attribute resistance; any attribute-based attacks have their damage reduced by 80%.]
Qin Chen: "???"
Qin Chen was utterly dumbfounded.
You can actually play like this?
Now he was really going to become a tank mage.
Eighty percent attribute damage reduction—what kind of concept was that?
It was practically cheating!
If an attribute damage value of 100 hit him, it would instantly drop to 20?
Good grief, how was the enemy supposed to play against this?
Qin Chen silently dismissed the prompt message on his data panel.
At this very moment, he was a Melee Mage.
The kind who directly smashed people over the head with a staff.
If anyone had any objections, a single club to the head would sort them out.
Let's see who would dare to be insubordinate then.
A trace of determination grew within his heart.
What was a Fireball? Sorry, he wasn't familiar with it.
Please don't try to get chummy.
Qin Chen brushed aside his complex thoughts and continued walking toward the Abyss Battlefield.
For some unknown reason, it seemed the Undead Knight's suicide earlier had caused a massive ripple effect.
All the way here, not a single small mob had appeared around him.
This directly dashed Qin Chen's hopes of continuing to farm mobs for experience.
A hint of awkwardness crossed his face.
Qin Chen arrived completely unimpeded at the center of the bloody battlefield.
Compared to the outskirts, the center was far more desolate and tragic; all sorts of shattered weapons and armor were scattered across the ground, and fierce beast carcasses of all sizes piled up on the earth.
The lingering bloodstains seemed not yet dry.
It gave one the illusion that this brutal war had only just taken place not long ago.
Qin Chen stepped into the central battlefield.
Immediately, the surrounding environment changed rapidly; a bloody sandstorm swept across the entire central area, and bloody mist shrouded the skies above the battlefield.
[Ding! You are afflicted by the erosion of the bloody aura.]
[Damage dealt -1]
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[Damage dealt -1]
[Damage dealt -1]
Qin Chen's expression turned to one of shock; this was actually a mandatory area-of-effect damage over time.
True to a disaster-difficulty dungeon, it could not be underestimated.
And this was with the buff of his golden trait [All-Poison Mastery], which reduced attribute damage by 80%.
If it were any other player, they would have been wiped out shortly after stepping in here.
Qin Chen looked at the unceasing health point alerts.
He mentally estimated that if it dealt -1 damage per second.
He could hold out for at most less than five minutes.
Without further hesitation, Qin Chen picked up his pace and headed deep into the central battlefield.
A hill-like figure appeared at the center of the battlefield.
It was a wildly ferocious Big-Headed Baby, clad in tattered, blood-stained armor. Its massive head was covered in dried blood, and numerous spears and arrows were jammed into its body, as if it had just come through a brutal war.
[Undead Remnant Soul (lv.10)] (Infected by Abyss Aura)
Type: BOSS
Skills: Head-butt, Roar, Trample
(A monster mutated by the infection of the Abyss aura, a cruel machine of war. Beware of its large head.)
Sensing the abruptly appearing presence of a living human, the Big-Headed Baby became instantly infuriated and roared up to the skies.
Then it violently slammed its massive head into the ground.
Immediately, the surroundings shook with an Earth-Shattering tremor, and dense cracks spread and rippled outward from the point of impact.
Qin Chen almost lost his footing and hurriedly braced himself.
He looked at the Big-Headed Baby's exaggerated, hill-like physique, and then looked down at his own slender body.
He subconsciously swallowed hard.
He wondered if his 211-point Stamina could hold out.
Yet he was currently being eroded by the bloody aura of the battlefield, losing health every single second.
He could only last for five minutes at most.
Without further hesitation, Qin Chen raised the staff in his hand and charged straight toward the BOSS's huge head.
"Bang!"
A club smashed fiercely down onto the Big-Headed Baby's toe.
The Big-Headed Baby's body instantly paused, and its toe began to twitch uncontrollably.
[Damage dealt -50]
Qin Chen looked at the twitching toe of the Big-Headed Baby with a hint of awkwardness on his face.
There was no help for it; the opponent's build was simply too huge.
He was reduced to using ankle-biting attacks.
Qin Chen's attack seemed to enrage the Big-Headed Baby. It abruptly lifted its foot and stomped down fiercely on Qin Chen where he stood on the ground, as if trying to squash an ant.
Qin Chen was already on guard and hurriedly dodged to the side, yet the splash damage generated by the Trample still clipped him.
[Suffered splash damage from Trample]
[Damage dealt -20]
Qin Chen looked at the prompt on the message panel and finally let out a sigh of relief.
"Good thing I can still take it!"
Right after that, he continuously used footwork and positioning, relying on his high Stamina stats to tank the damage.
In the end, he ground the Big-Headed Baby down, club blow by club blow.
With a miserable howl, the Big-Headed Baby's hill-like body crashed heavily onto the ground with a loud thud.
[Congratulations to the player for the first kill of the dungeon BOSS — Undead Remnant Soul]
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[Received bonus rewards]
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