Xiao Yu gingerly approached the ruins and found a lost spirit wandering by it. This lost spirit was a bit different from the regular ones. It was pitch-black in color all over its body from head to toe, and it had a pair of red, murky eyes showing a crazed look.
This lost spirit had to be more troublesome to deal with than the others. Should he approach it and try to kill it? Xiao Yu was hesitant.
"I might not be a match for it," thought Xiao Yu. It would be a pity if he were finished here since he had already come so close to the site. He intended to go around the lost spirit. As he was about to take off, he happened to see a small, red patch of grass growing desolately in the ruins near the lost spirit. They looked like a snake's tongue as they swayed in the wind.
"The adder's tongue!" His heart skipped a beat. According to the description from Thief Teacher Ode, this small patch of grass must be the adder's tongue!
Xiao Yu figured that this lost spirit must be the guardian of this adder's tongue. If he wished to collect this adder's tongue, he had no choice but to finish off this monster.
Xiao Yu had no other option. He had to fight this lost spirit.
He made some observations about the area and made sure that no other lost spirits were close by. He found a proper position before the dagger spun in the air above his right palm and landed squarely in his hand.
Stealth travel!
Xiao Yu entered the stealth travel state and slowly traveled to the rear of the lost spirit.
The lost spirit had been patrolling the vicinity of the adder's tongue. All of a sudden, it spun its head around to sweep its gaze over the surroundings, its red eyes constantly rolling from side to side.
Seeing the lost spirit approach him, Xiao Yu stopped short. He could sense the sweeping gaze of the lost spirit and felt like his body was being penetrated by it.
The lost spirit looked around for a while but failed to discover anything. It turned its head back around and resumed wandering through the area.
After the monster let its guard down, Xiao Yu approached the beast slowly and carefully once again.
The distance between him and the lost spirit was reducing. A cold glow was emitted by the dagger in his right hand as Xiao Yu suddenly attacked the lost spirit as quickly as a lightning bolt.
Sneak attack!
The dagger squarely hit the back of the beast's head, knocking it unconscious.
Lost spirit: level 10 special monster.
The special monster's strength was between regular monsters and monster leaders, but its power was much formidable than the regular monsters nevertheless.
After checking the health of the lost spirit, he found it stood at 1200 points.
"It's quite high!" Xiao Yu didn't pause for a second and tore the back of the lost spirit apart by using the evisceration skill with the dagger in his right hand. The daggers in both of his hands generated the highest damage value in an instant.
Because his basic skill damage had improved and he used both daggers at the same time, the damage value of his attacks increased tremendously. A common attack could cause more than 30 points of damage. The 89% success rate of the evisceration skill had caused 118 points of attack damage.
Backstabbing! Reversed backstabbing!
His movements were agile, and he had inflicted a barrage of damage to the lost spirit.
The eyes of this lost spirit were fairly prominent, so they had to be the weakest part of the creature!
The dagger in his right hand changed its angle and pierced toward the eye of the lost spirit as fast as a frightened fleeing bird.
The lost spirit was also charging toward Xiao Yu.
With a grunt, Xiao Yu was struck once by the beast. Checking his own heath, Xiao Yu found he had 32% health left, meaning that the lost spirit had high attack damage. One strike had consumed most of his health.
Xiao Yu didn't have time to feel alarmed. The dagger in his right hand pierced into the eye of the lost spirit. Then, he twisted his wrist agilely and sliced the dagger downwards with all his strength after uttering a fierce shout.
Evisceration!
System: the success rate of the evisceration skill is 100%, causing 100% skill damage and 3.5 seconds of paralysis.
The time of the paralyzing effect had increased by 0.5 seconds after the evisceration skill was upgraded a level.
Making good use of the paralyzing effect, Xiao Yu went around behind the lost spirit as quickly as he could. He slashed the beast with the dagger in his left hand as he rotated his body sideways and jabbed the dagger in his right hand into the body of the lost spirit. He used backstabbing, which had a 92% success rate.
The injured lost spirit let out a dreadful cry.
"That's not good. The creature must be calling its kin!" His heart skipped a beat.
Reversed backstabbing!
Xiao Yu used his right hand to mount a reversed backstab that had a success rate of 100%. More than 600 points of damage popped up over the head of the lost spirit, making Xiao Yu baffled.
Did he just do a burst attack?!
The extraordinarily high damage had finished off the lost spirit.
This level-10 monster gave a lot of experience points, helping Xiao Yu gain 5% more in his experience bar.
Ding!
Xiao Yu finally heard the level-up notification after some time. After glancing at the performance panel, he found that he had upgraded to level 7. He didn't hesitate to add all five points to the agility stat.
He picked up the item dropped by the lost spirit. It seemed to be a ring. Having put away the item, Xiao Yu quickly entered the ruins and hid.
Five seconds later, several lost spirits arrived in a hurry. They searched the site for a while but didn't find anything other than the corpse on the ground. As such, they left the site one after the other.
Seeing the lost spirits disappear into the distance, Xiao Yu finally let out a breath. He emerged from the ruins and went before the adder's tongue. He bent down and started collecting it by following the instruction given by Thief Teacher Ode.
After he collected the adder's tongue, Xiao Yu gently put it in a medicinal vial and tightly sealed it. Then he placed it in his backpack.
He took out the item he received for killing the lost spirit, which was a ring.
Ring of Praying Spirit: green-level equipment; damage value +5; agility +3.
His luck was pretty good so far. He had gotten a green-level item with decent stats. Xiao Yu put the ring on his finger. As of now, he had equipped three green-level items.
Xiao Yu felt a little troubled. Though he had killed a lost spirit, it was rather lucky on his part. The lost spirit had such a powerful attack that it knocked out 68% of his health with a single strike. If he were struck one more time, he would have been finished. Should he continue with the task?
After some consideration, he figured that since he had just leveled up and found a green-level item, his strength was higher than before. As such, he would be able to withstand two of the lost spirits' attacks. Moreover, the damage he inflicted had increased as well. And he also found out that the eyes of the lost spirits were their weaknesses. Thus, he should be able to complete the task.
Now that he had started it, he had no intention of giving it up. It was not his style to give up when the going got tough. Xiao Yu decided to keep going.