After Qin Churan and the Orient Loong God and White Tiger left, Lu Ming, along with Lin Youwei, continued heading towards their mission location: the Western Farm.
On the way, reflecting on the recent events, Lu Ming realized a problem.
"Currently, opponents over level 30 are the upper limit for the Undead Legion. Once we encounter those at level 40 or 50, it becomes increasingly difficult."
According to the settings of the Sky Abyss world, only players below level 50 can enter the second layer.
This means that level 50 is the highest-level opponent Lu Ming can encounter in the second layer!
As long as he possesses the ability to match a level 50 player, he will face no threats throughout the entire second layer!
"It seems I must reach level 20 as soon as possible! Once my talent upgrades to Lv3, I can ensure that there will be no threats within the second layer."
With this in mind, Lu Ming quickened his pace.
Soon, he and Lin Youwei arrived at the Western Farm.
While Lin Youwei was cooking lunch, Lu Ming seriously studied the strategy guide.
The reason for choosing this farm as their leveling ground for the afternoon, besides the [Collect Tiger Skin] quest, was another important reason.
"According to the guide, players can obtain summoning scroll fragments by killing Saber-toothed Tigers on this farm. With a complete summoning scroll, they can summon elite or even BOSS-level Saber-toothed Tigers."
Before reaching level 20 and entering the black market, he planned to slay a few more elite monsters and BOSSes to accumulate more gold coins.
With this thought, upon entering the farm, Lu Ming summoned all his Undead Warriors and instructed them to freely hunt monsters.
By consuming soul power, he filled the positions of previously fallen Undead Warriors.
A total of 360 second-tier Undead Warriors spread across the vast farm, hunting the ubiquitous level 30-31 [Savage Saber-toothed Tigers].
Previously, in the Wasteland, he had already slain level 30 Venomous Scorpions.
Now, with his Life Barrier upgraded from F-grade to E-grade, the survival ability of the Undead Warriors was significantly enhanced.
Thus, facing these level 30-31 Saber-toothed Tigers, which were 12-13 levels higher, posed no difficulty for the Undead Warriors.
[Ding~ Killed level 30 Savage Saber-toothed Tiger, Experience Points +660!]
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[Ding~ Killed level 31 Savage Saber-toothed Tiger, Experience Points +710!]
[Ding...]
As the battle notifications flashed rapidly.
Through the looting by the Undead Warriors, with each Saber-toothed Tiger killed, Lu Ming could collect 12-15 Copper Coins and three tiger skins!
In addition, there was this item—
[Summoning Scroll Fragment] (Special Item)
[Description: A mysterious scroll sealed with immense savage power. Collect 100 fragments to synthesize an Elite Saber-toothed Tiger Summoning Scroll; collect 500 fragments to synthesize a Bronze BOSS-level Saber-toothed Tiger Summoning Scroll; collect 1000 fragments to synthesize a Silver BOSS-level Saber-toothed Tiger Summoning Scroll.]
[Note: Fragments cannot be dropped or traded, but synthesized complete scrolls can be dropped and traded. Each player can only synthesize one scroll in their lifetime.]
The Sky Abyss world is indeed a land of gold, as the saying goes.
Items like these are toys for the wealthy and treasures in the eyes of ordinary players.
Ordinary players collecting these scroll fragments, even if they summon elite or BOSS Saber-toothed Tigers, often lack the strength to kill them and risk having them stolen, essentially serving them to others for free.
Therefore, they would rather sell the synthesized scroll directly!
Lu Ming checked and found that on the market, an elite-level summoning scroll was worth about three thousand.
A Bronze BOSS-level summoning scroll could sell for thirty thousand!
A Silver BOSS-level summoning scroll was valued at a staggering one hundred thousand!
While Lu Ming was reviewing this information, he realized that in just a short while, he had accumulated dozens of scroll fragments in his bag!
Having Lin Youwei's 200% drop rate bonus was indeed delightful!
Other players might have to kill 3-4 Saber-toothed Tigers to drop one fragment.
Lu Ming could basically drop one with each kill!
Before long, the fragments in his bag were enough to synthesize an Elite Saber-toothed Tiger Summoning Scroll!
Recalling his past life, where he worked tirelessly, grinding for 18 hours a day, sometimes only earning a few thousand a month.
Yet now, this three thousand came so easily!
This made Lu Ming deeply realize: hard work is worthless in the face of talent!
Lin Youwei, as usual, was off killing monsters with her staff to earn Copper Coins and fill her little treasury.
With the Undead Legion around, Lu Ming couldn't help but do nothing.
The only thing he could do was draw his sword once a minute.
Swish!
[Ding~ Sword Draw skill proficiency +1!]
Swish!
[Ding~ Sword Draw skill proficiency +1!]
With each draw and sheath.
Finally... it felt great!
[Ding~ Congratulations, your Sword Draw skill proficiency has reached 1000, and the skill quality has automatically upgraded to D-grade!]
Lu Ming eagerly opened the skill list.
[Sword Draw] (Unique Skill, Lv18)
[Grade: D-grade] (Upgradeable)
[Skill Effect: Upon drawing the sword, release a sword shadow, dealing (220% attack power +138) true damage that ignores defense to a single enemy within attack range; also increases own attack power by 20% for 10 seconds.]
[Cooldown: 60 seconds]
[Skill Cost: 98]
[Proficiency: 0/10000] (Each use of the Sword Draw skill automatically gains 1 point of proficiency, reaching full proficiency upgrades to C-grade)
The damage coefficient increased from 150% to 220%, combined with the twenty-fold enhancement from Comprehensive Amplification, effectively raising it from 30 times attack power true damage to 44 times!
What a terrifying amplification!
Of course, for Lu Ming, the auxiliary Trickster, the most important aspect wasn't the skill's damage increase itself.
It was the subsequent attack power boost effect!
From originally increasing attack power by 10% to 20%; for Lu Ming, it meant that after drawing the sword, he would gain a 400% attack power boost!
Targeting a freshly spawned Saber-toothed Tiger ahead, Lu Ming eagerly tested the D-grade Sword Draw effect.
Swish!
The still-impressive special effect, with a sword shadow as fast as lightning, pierced through the Saber-toothed Tiger.
-17808!
The Saber-toothed Tiger, with over 22000 total Health Points, saw its health bar plummet by 80% instantly!
Lin Youwei, who had just killed a Saber-toothed Tiger nearby, witnessed this scene and couldn't help but gape.
"Oh my, Nether brother, your damage has increased so much again!"
In fact, this wasn't even Lu Ming's peak damage.
Because just before drawing the sword, his attack power was still based on the previous round's E-grade Sword Draw 200% attack power boost.
Now, after using the D-grade Sword Draw, his attack power had increased from 342 to 570!
This meant that the next time Lu Ming used Sword Draw, it would be his peak damage level at this stage!
Thus, after waiting for the one-minute skill cooldown.
Lu Ming locked onto another Saber-toothed Tiger.
Swish!
D-grade Sword Draw—
-27840!
[Ding~ Killed level 31 Savage Saber-toothed Tiger, Experience Points +710!]
Instant kill!
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