Chapter 261 - 159: A Boss with a Super-High Drop Rate and Consistent Gold Drops

Chapter 261: Chapter 159: A Boss with a Super-High Drop Rate and Consistent Gold Drops

Like a regular Leader-level Soul, this one had a 40% chance to advance a Boss-level creature.

However, it had a special property: if used by an insectoid Soldier Type, it granted an additional 10% Success Rate and even had a chance of awakening a Talent.

’With this extra property, this Soul is worth significantly more than a regular Leader Soul.’

’Excellent. Once this mission is over, I’ll sell it and purchase a large quantity of resources I can use.’

’That Tier Three Advancement Material is also exclusive to insectoid Soldier Types. I can trade it for something else.’

’Perhaps it won’t be long before the first Tier Three Expert appears in my domain.’

Shen Xing thought with great anticipation, then took out the last piece of loot.

SWISH!

A fierce whistling sound sliced through the air, carving a fissure over ten meters long into the ground in front of him.

Gazing at the scythe in his hands—a full two meters long, entirely pitch-black, its blade gleaming with a cold light—Shen Xing sighed softly.

"What an impressive weapon. It looks powerful, too."

He opened its attributes for inspection.

[Reaper’s Scythe]

[Quality: Gold]

[Equipment Level: 15]

[Equipment Attributes: Power +150, Agility +100, Armor Piercing +30%]

[Equipment Effect ①: Sawed Meat (The blade is lined with fine, sharp serrations that tear through flesh on impact, creating wounds that are difficult to heal. Applies 3 stacks of Bleeding, stacking up to a maximum of 10.)]

[Equipment Effect ②: Life Reaping (With each enemy slain by the scythe, you automatically absorb their dispersing Life Force, healing your injuries and increasing your Power by 10 (up to a maximum of 300). This effect lasts for 100 seconds.)]

(Note: "GRIND... GRIND..." —the sound of serrations tearing apart flesh and blood.)

...

Bleeding, Vampire, and a 300-point Power bonus.

’This weapon... it’s incredibly strong!’

But a scythe, especially such a massive one, isn’t something an ordinary person could wield.

Shen Xing turned to look behind him and asked, "This weapon, any of you interested?"

The marching generals looked up.

"Whoa! What a huge scythe!" Blood Roar’s eyes lit up. "Give that to me, and I could easily lop off our enemies’ heads!"

"But I already have a better greatsword. Best to leave it for one of the other brothers."

Hellish Roar also shook his head. "It’s a fine weapon, indeed, but it doesn’t suit me."

Shen Xing nodded. Just as he expected, none of the generals were interested in the weapon.

Just then, a deep, raspy voice sounded from the side. "My Lord, I would like to try."

"Hm?"

Shen Xing turned his head and saw that the speaker was Hei, mounted on his Skeleton Warhorse. He asked curiously, "Don’t you use a sword? Can you use this kind of weapon too?"

"I... can..." Hei nodded earnestly.

"Fine, it’s yours."

Shen Xing didn’t waste any words, simply tossing the scythe over.

Hei snatched the scythe from the air. The Power of Death automatically flowed from his body, completely enveloping the massive weapon.

You had to admit, with the scythe in his hand, combined with his full-body Black Armor and Skeleton Warhorse, he really did have the air of a Death Knight from the movies.

In terms of sheer presence, he had completely surpassed Xia Wanyin’s Light Knight.

SWOOSH!

With a casual swing from Hei, a black arc of light silently cut through the air, leaving a deep trench in the ground.

"Impressive."

Shen Xing praised, then added, "A win-win-win situation."

After that, the group continued on their way.

Soon, they arrived before the second giant skeleton.

Although they had the experience from the last battle, everyone remained quiet, not acting rashly, and silently awaited their Lord’s command.

Because he didn’t know what type of enemy would appear this time, Shen Xing needed to adjust his troop deployment and tactics based on the enemy’s strength.

CRACK! With a sharp snap, the tombstone in front of the skeleton was smashed to smithereens.

RUMBLE... RUMBLE RUMBLE...

The familiar tremors began once again.

The ground began to bulge in large swathes as numerous Dragon Tomb Watchers burrowed out from underground, then launched an attack on them from all directions.

As for the giant skeleton, it began to rapidly reassemble and fuse together, gradually forming the elongated silhouette of a monster.

WHOOSH—

The Soul Fire ignited, and grayish-white fascia and flesh rapidly grew over the surface of the bones, immediately followed by a covering of fine, white scales.

In the blink of an eye, a great serpent appeared. It was covered entirely in white Scale Armor, stretched over thirty meters long, and looked as if it had been cast from pure Silver.

Even more surprisingly, it actually had a pair of small, silver, fleshy wings on its back, which scattered specks of phosphorescence when they flapped gently.

[Silver-Winged White-Armored Great Serpent (Boss)]

[Level: 29]

[Potential: Leader★★★]

[Attributes: Power 4125, Spirit 3472, Agility 3819, Constitution 3692]

[Skills: Horizontal Sweep, Strangulation Entanglement, One-Stroke Slash, White Poison Mist, Silver Wing Phosphorescence, Cold-blooded Gaze, Molting]

(Skill Details: Click to view)

[Leader Skills: Dance of Decay (Unleashes 7 consecutive spinning strikes centered on itself. The area of effect of each strike increases, with the final strike knocking back all surrounding enemies.)

Silver Wing Storm (Rapidly beats its fleshy wings, whipping up a storm of silver phosphorescence with a 300-meter diameter. All enemies within the storm take continuous fire and poison damage for 10 seconds.)

Life-taking Strangulation (Locks onto a target and can instantly coil around it from up to one kilometer away, performing a fatal strangulation. If the target dies during the strangulation, the cooldown is reset.)]

[Talent:

1. White Scale Armor (Passive): Reduces all damage taken by 20% and grants immunity to Bleeding.