A polluter was killed.
The pressure on Wang Meng and his team in the back row was reduced significantly.
The beautiful girl holding the staff, her eyes bright with excitement, exclaimed, "A big shot is helping us! Could it be the shadow on the leaderboard?"
It was hard to tell if the girl was truly pretty at this moment, as her face and body were covered in mud, and her health was nearly gone. However, her figure was still stunning, and her slender legs moved with grace, showing flexibility and strength.
"Hold on."
Wang Meng's skill cooldown ended.
With a determined look, he cast Holy Barrier!
A golden light enveloped his large body, making him invincible for three seconds, buying the team some time to evade the Sprinter's attacks.
Without the polluter, the long-range threat was greatly reduced.
Half a minute later, Yang Shung appeared behind another polluter.
He attacked instantly!
The polluter was killed once more.
"No evolution points..." Yang Shung muttered.
"Hand of Greed!"
"Hey, a skill book dropped?"
Yang Shung picked up the skill book from the polluter.
He checked the skill book in his inventory:
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[Poison Dart (Normal): Assassin skill. Throws a poisonous dart with a maximum range of 12 meters. Adds 40 attack damage and inflicts the 'Poison' status. Cooldown: 5 seconds. Learning requirements: Level 2]
[Poison: Causes 30% attack damage per second, no weakness bonus, lasts for 5 seconds, and cannot be stacked.]
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A solid attack skill!
For ordinary players, having such a skill early on would accelerate their growth. However, the chances of an ordinary monster dropping a skill book were low.
Yang Shung had killed many monsters, and this was only the second skill book he'd found.
Once, it was the Ice Cone from the first creeper, and now this one, thanks to Hand of Greed.
"Equipment and skill books drop more often from bosses…" Yang Shung thought. "But ordinary players would never have the gear or skills to take down a bronze-level boss."
He didn't waste time. With three evolution points, he immediately evolved the Poison Dart twice!
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[Poison Dart (Normal → Bronze → Silver): Assassin skill. Throws a poisonous dart, max range 12 → 13 → 14 meters. When it hits, it adds 40 → 80 → 120 attack damage and inflicts the 'Poison' status. Cooldown: 5 seconds. Learning requirements: Level 2.]
[Poison: Causes 30% → 40% → 50% continuous damage per second, no weakness bonus, lasts for 5 seconds, and cannot be stacked.]
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The skill's damage was significantly improved!
Yang Shung acted fast—picking up the book, learning it, and evolving it all in one smooth motion.
The final polluter turned, about to spray mud at Yang Shung, but he was faster.
He raised his hand, and a poisonous dart shot out, striking the polluter in the head!
It was a perfect shot!
If it had been anyone else, hitting the head from this distance would have been impossible. But Yang Shung, with nine years of experience in the God Forsaken game, had mastered such attacks.
The dart hit the weak spot of the polluter's head directly!
-237 (weak point attack)!
Though the damage didn't seem high, it was because there was no invisibility break, no back attack bonus, and no passive from Shadow activated. Nonetheless, Yang Shung vanished immediately after the strike.
As the polluter took the hit, it turned green.
Two numbers popped up:
-158!
-158!
With the poison's continuous damage, the polluter finally died.
"This continuous damage is high," Yang Shung noted. "And my invisibility lets the poison take advantage of my Shadow passive, doubling the damage?"
The third passive of the Shadow profession doubled the damage when the enemy couldn't see him. Since he was invisible, the damage had indeed doubled!
But the last polluter didn't drop anything useful.
Now, only the Sprinter, the bronze-level boss, remained.
At this moment, Wang Meng was drenched in sweat. "I can't hold on much longer!"
The middle-aged female priest in their team was healing him, but the effects were minimal.
Wang Meng's health was almost gone.
Despite reaching level 2, the team hadn't gotten any useful equipment or skill books, making their fighting tactics simple and ineffective.
Then, suddenly, a figure appeared behind the Sprinter.
Just as the Sprinter attacked Wang Meng, a poisonous dart flew towards its head!
It struck with precision!
-845 (weak point attack)!
Breaking invisibility, back attack, and weak point hit all at once—it was a devastating blow.
Wang Meng and the team froze, watching in shock as the Sprinter's health bar dropped by half in an instant.
"F*ck!" Wang Meng couldn't help but curse.
They had been fighting the Sprinter for so long, barely taking down 10% of its health. But this mysterious figure had brought it down by half with a single attack!
And that was just the base damage of the poison dart!
The next moment, the Sprinter took continuous damage.
-324!
-324!
-324!
-324!
As the Sprinter turned green, four damage numbers appeared one after another. It couldn't even struggle before collapsing in front of Wang Meng!
The team stared, unable to believe it.
"Is this still human?"
"Wait, is this the player who entered the game with us?"
"You didn't see it? The real key is how he hit the Sprinter's head perfectly, even while it was moving!"
"Right! We can barely land hits, but he hit the weak point without trouble…"
Wang Meng and the others gasped in awe.
They watched as the Sprinter dropped loot, but it was clear that only the one with the most damage would have the right to pick it up.
Since Yang Shung had dealt most of the damage, the loot was his.