[Instant Shadow Slash (Silver): Assassin skill. Flash in one direction (up to 15 meters) and enter stealth mode (lasts 5 seconds), causing 3 slashes to all enemies on the path. Cooldown 12 (10.43) seconds. Learning requirement: Level 4]
[Slash width: 2.1 meters. Each slash adds 100 attack points, and is 100% considered a back strike.]
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Yang Shung took the skill book in his hand and learned it directly.
If he had learned this skill earlier, he would have saved half the time to kill the silver-level curser!
The most important part...
This skill not only allows him to stay invisible, but it's also a ranged attack!
As for the cooldown time, 12 seconds is the basic cooldown, and 10.43 seconds is the actual cooldown.
"The attack range is 15 meters long and 2.1 meters wide."
"It's going to be very cool to attack monsters."
"Through evolution, the range should increase… But no rush."
Yang Shung focused on the 'Hand of Greed'.
The Hand of Greed had already evolved four times, and now it was evolving for the fifth time.
The evolution points needed were 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8 points respectively.
"So, the evolution points needed for each skill evolution are equal to the sum of the previous two evolutions?"
"If I'm right, the sixth evolution will need 13 points."
He used 8 evolution points and evolved the Hand of Greed again!
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[You consumed 8 evolution points, and 4 points remain.]
[Hand of Greed (Emerald → Diamond): Assassin skill. Can be used on monster corpses, with a 160% → 220% probability of obtaining an additional loot reward. The extra loot obtained has a 20%→40% chance to be upgraded by one grade.]
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Looking at the upgraded skill effect, Yang Shung took a deep breath.
"Now, every time I kill a monster, I will definitely get two more loots!"
"Killing one monster is like killing three!"
"And there's even a 20% chance of getting three more rewards…"
"Not to mention a 40% chance of upgrading one grade!"
The skill had become even more powerful!
When he looked at the next evolution of Hand of Greed, he saw that the next evolution would require 13 points.
Without Hand of Greed, Yang Shung might have struggled to get these 13 evolution points...
But now, with Hand of Greed, every BOSS he kills brings him evolution points!
"There are still 4 evolution points left. I should improve my combat power first."
Yang Shung noticed that he couldn't kill the silver-level BOSS in seconds. His combat power needed improvement. Otherwise, in a longer battle, he might get into trouble against higher-level BOSSes.
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[You have consumed 3 evolution points, and 1 point remains.]
[Instant Shadow Slash (Silver → Gold → Platinum): Flash in one direction (up to 15 → 18 → 21 meters), and enter the invisible state (lasting 5 → 6 → 7 seconds), causing 3 → 4 → 5 slashes to all enemies on the path. Cooldown 12 (10.43) seconds.]
[Slash width: 2.1 → 2.6 → 3.1 meters. Each slash adds 100 → 150 → 200 attack power.]
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"Evolving Instant Shadow Slash, no cooldown reduction?"
"It feels a bit off."
"But… with Instant Shadow Slash alone, I can be infinitely invisible."
"Three slashes become five slashes, the damage is crazy!"
There was still 1 evolution point left, but no skill to evolve for now.
Yang Shung looked at the remaining loot.
There was nothing useful, except for a silver-level warrior skill book 'War Cry', which increased the team's attack and defense by 20 points when activated.
"If this was a warrior in the past, this skill would've been invincible early on."
"But now, this skill book is just something to sell…"
Yang Shung remained invisible, scanning the area.
This dense forest was a level 4-5 monster spawn zone. The original level 2 curser had been upgraded to level 4 due to lifespan consumption, so Yang Shung would get level 4 loot.
In the shadows nearby, there were three rotten 'limbed crawlers', cautiously watching the curser's corpse.
Before they could react...
Instant Shadow Slash!
-725!
-725!
-725!
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Level 4 monsters had about 1,000 HP.
But Yang Shung used a flash shadow slash. His figure appeared for just a split second before instantly traveling more than ten meters.
On the path, the three 'limbed crawlers' were each hit twice and killed instantly!
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[You killed the 'limbed crawler (Lv4)'.]
[You gained 80 experience points.]
[You gained 5 days of life (tradable).]
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A series of system prompts sounded in Yang Shung's mind.
After easily killing the three monsters, he returned to their corpses and used 'Hand of Greed'...
"Good thing Hand of Greed isn't on cooldown."
"Too bad each monster corpse can only be looted once…"
If anyone knew what Yang Shung was thinking, they would probably scold him.
A 100% triple reward isn't good enough? Want to loot again?
After learning the "Instant Shadow Slash," Yang Shung's monster-killing efficiency went through the roof!
"It looks like I'll hit level 10 in just two hours."
Yang Shung smiled slightly.
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Back in reality...
People from all over the world reached level 3 and quickly returned to reality.
More and more people entered the God Forsaken Game as they fell asleep. In reality, their bodies became translucent, causing panic around them. Rumors about the end of the world spread fast!
But when level 3 players returned to reality...
The truth was revealed!
"After falling asleep, our consciousness ends up in a place abandoned by the gods?"
"God-abandoned game? Like an online game?"
"Become stronger by playing games? I, Zhuo Benwei, am invincible!"
"Don't be too optimistic. Most people die often, and each death costs half of their lifespan."
"You can gain lifespan by killing monsters? Does that mean immortality?"
"Who knows if that's true?"
"It might let everyone in the world enter the game after falling asleep. Who can explain this power?"
"There's an old man in my town who only had a few days left to live. He died several times when he went out. All players in town received a death notice. I don't know if he died in reality…"
Countless discussion threads appeared in countries worldwide and major online forums.
The God-abandoned game became the top buzzword on all websites around the world!
Jianghai City, Jianghai Normal University.
Yang Shung's sister, Yang Xiaoyou, and Chu Yan, who had returned to their dorm to rest, also learned about the God-abandoned game!