At this moment, all Yi Qingfeng could see was the faint golden glow emanating from the elite rotting corpse’s skull.
Fortunately, there were not many ordinary rotting corpses left.
The elite rotting corpse, slow to move before launching an attack, had not joined the earlier battle at once.
That gave Yi Qingfeng the chance to stake his life against it.
The low growls of the remaining rotting corpses echoed through the tomb that had sunk into darkness.
It was undoubtedly a scene enough to stir the deepest fears in the human heart:
Profound darkness, monsters lurking on every side…
But in the end, that fear merely turned into a smear of ash within the blood-red haze before Yi Qingfeng’s eyes!
By comparison, the restriction on his vision brought by the darkness was a far more tangible problem.
Aiming at the golden glow that served as his anchor, Yi Qingfeng brought the warhammer in his hand crashing down without holding anything back!
As the first elite unit he had encountered,
this rotting corpse’s vitality was far sturdier than those he had dealt with before.
The two were like entirely different creations.
One was like moldy tofu, while the other was like a hardened lump of filth in a latrine…
There were points of overlap, but the feel was truly worlds apart.
In the next instant:
“Thud!”
With a dull, heavy crash, Yi Qingfeng nearly lost his grip on the warhammer!
In the darkness, he could not know the result of his blow.
All he could see was that the golden glow corresponding to the elite rotting corpse’s skull seemed to have shifted somewhat compared to before.
That abnormally swift pounce in his memory did not appear again…
The scarlet kill notification on his retina had not refreshed.
And so, even though the low growls of other rotting corpses were already approaching his ears,
Yi Qingfeng still swung down again toward the golden glow in the darkness!
“Integrated Network Notification: You have killed Walking Rotting Corpse (Enhanced Elite). You have obtained an additional drop: Lost Holy Covenant (Green/Rare).”
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Lost Holy Covenant:
Item Type: Class Accessory
Equipment Requirement: Divine-art classes, non-evil alignment
Equipment Level: Level 1
Equipment Effects:
1. Lesser Smite:
This equipment carries a lesser divine-art effect, capable of providing the wearer’s attacks with a small positive-energy bonus (current proportion of damage affected: 13.5%).
Once every natural day, the wearer may channel the power of this equipment to deal one instance of moderate holy damage to a selected evil unit.
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“Integrated Network Notification: Your class ability: Blood Ascension progress has changed. Current: 1/8…”
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Dealing with the remaining rotting corpses took far longer than Yi Qingfeng had expected.
Without the illumination of the headlamp,
even though the floor of this tomb could not exactly be called strewn with jagged stones,
Yi Qingfeng still had to be exceedingly careful when moving.
Most of the time, he could only rely on the rotting corpses’ low growls to locate them.
Or simply wait for these sluggish fellows to draw close…
From the looks of it now, perhaps the overall dark environment accounted for quite a sizable portion of the dungeon’s difficulty?
If the Integrated Network’s dungeons possessed some sort of constant coefficient for dungeon difficulty…
Yi Qingfeng thought as much.
With growing familiarity, he kicked away a rotting corpse that charged out of the darkness, as though swatting off an oversized cockroach that had flown onto his body.
Following immediately after was the warhammer, already filled with rotten tissue.
This was the last rotting corpse…
“Integrated Network Notification: You have completed the daily dungeon: Midnight Tomb. Based on your version trait, you have obtained 2 points of treasure-hunting talent.”
“Integrated Network Notification: You have obtained 1,000 killing experience points (version bonus 500%)!”
Yi Qingfeng looked at the notification refreshed on his retina.
With practiced ease, he took off the old cotton jacket on his body that had suffered battle damage, then quickly chose to exit the dungeon…
At this moment, the temperature had gradually taken on the chill of autumn, yet it still made Yi Qingfeng, who had abruptly returned, feel a trace of warmth.
Inside that dark tomb,
even wearing a cotton jacket, he could still feel that penetrating, bone-chilling cold.
Under the incandescent light of his rented room, Yi Qingfeng glanced at the warhammer in his hand.
Just like the goblin blood from before,
the filthy tissues belonging to the rotting corpses had now vanished completely.
Of course, due to the psychological impact,
Yi Qingfeng still decided to take a shower…
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Perhaps it was his current, not particularly healthy amount of health.
Or perhaps it was the intensity of having gone through two bloody battles in a single day.
After rinsing himself off, Yi Qingfeng began to feel a little drowsy.
But now was clearly not the time to sleep.
He opened the Integrated Network panel, then tapped the area for his class level with his finger.
The next moment, a new notification refreshed on Yi Qingfeng’s retina:
“Integrated Network Notification: Consume 1,000 killing experience points to raise Paladin level to lv2? Please note: this operation is irreversible!”
Yi Qingfeng directly chose confirm.
And following his operation in the void, new notifications refreshed on his retina:
“Integrated Network Notification: 1,000 killing experience points consumed. Character’s Paladin level has been successfully raised to lv2!”
“Integrated Network Notification: You have obtained one class baptism. Your basic life strength (maximum health, basic saves, etc.) has increased substantially!”
“Integrated Network Notification: Your combat divine power limit has changed to: 10/10…”
“Integrated Network Notification: You have obtained a new class skill: Most Holy Slash (Slaughter Variant).”
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Most Holy Slash (Slaughter Variant):
Skill Type: Class-restricted skill
Skill Cost: 2 points of combat divine power
Skill Level: lv1
Skill Effect:
A paladin who believes in primordial slaughter can consume combat divine power in battle to grant their next melee attack a substantial holy/pure (legendary) damage bonus.
Slaughter Variant:
Most Holy Slash cannot obtain additional alignment-damage deflection bonuses;
When this enhanced attack kills an enemy, the paladin gains one additional cost-free Most Holy Slash effect.
lv2: Most Holy Slash gains an additional +1 attack range.
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“Integrated Network Notification: Based on your version trait, you have obtained a new treasure-hunting constellation limit…”
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Yi Qingfeng looked at the notifications refreshing on his retina.
He could feel that some sort of change was taking place within his body…
He was becoming stronger—in a form that clearly did not quite conform to the traditions of Earth’s human race…
That wonderful sensation needed no words.
And in some transcendent dimension that was difficult to describe clearly, he could sense an indescribable enlightenment.
Most Holy Slash?
Yi Qingfeng looked at the detailed skill description on the Integrated Network panel.
From the looks of it, for now, it was like a—strengthened version of a basic attack?
He had no idea what kind of concept this so-called “substantial” damage bonus represented.
It was just that, right now, there was no opportunity for him to use it…
Yi Qingfeng lay down on the bed.
The inertia born from everyday life prevented him from falling asleep immediately.
But at this moment, his phone clearly could not satisfy his needs.
Replacing it was the endlessly surging Integrated Network player forum…