[Ding~ You have activated the Tier 1 magic scroll: Claim as Your Own sealing quest. Please slay 100 monsters above level 22 within 60 minutes!]
[Ding~ You have activated the Tier 1 magic scroll: Breakthrough sealing quest. Please slay 100 monsters above level 22 within 60 minutes!]
[Ding~ You have activated the Tier 1 magic scroll: Fortune Seeker sealing quest. Please slay 100 monsters above level 22 within 60 minutes!]
[Ding~ You have activated the Tier 3 magic scroll: Strategize sealing quest. Please slay 1000 monsters above level 22 within 24 hours!]
Lu Ming activated four sealing quests simultaneously.
As for the sealing quest for the 1-star artifact, the Ring of Source Power, he needed to encounter an Elite Monster to activate it.
Otherwise, if an Elite Monster didn't spawn within ten minutes, it would be a waste!
In the next moment, Lu Ming summoned over five hundred Death Lords through his thoughts.
"Auto-slay."
As he issued the command, Lu Ming drew his sword and unleashed the triple formation of War Tread, Life Barrier, and Prison of Earth!
Despite the increase in level allowing Lu Ming to control more undead and expand his hunting range, the upgrade of his Comprehensive Amplification talent to Lv3 increased all his formation ranges by thirty times: a radius of 1500 yards!
Therefore, there was no need to worry about the Death Lords on the outer circle missing out on the formation bonuses.
The current Death Lords, though not yet strong enough to instantly kill level 50 monsters, could easily handle the undead between levels 46-50 in the eighth realm.
[Ding~ Slayed a level 49 Undead Mage, Experience Points +5250!]
[Ding~ Slayed a level 46 Undead Warrior, Experience Points +4880!]
[Ding~ Slayed a level 48 Undead Archer, Experience Points +5110!]
...
In no time, he had slain enough to complete the three Tier 1 magic scroll sealing quests and lifted their seals.
At this moment, despite Lu Ming's high mana pool of 4145 points, the massive continuous consumption of 39 mana points per second from the triple E-grade formations had drained it completely.
This was only manageable because Lu Ming had consistently allocated 3 points to Spirit with each level-up.
Among his five attributes, Spirit was the highest, reaching 128 points!
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According to the Spirit growth of a third-turn Trickster: each point of Spirit = 20 mana points + 0.2 mana recovery per second.
This equated to a mana recovery of 25.6 per second!
In this peak state, Lu Ming could barely sustain for five to six minutes each time!
Other players could rest to recover when their mana was depleted.
But Lu Ming couldn't.
If his formations stopped, the Undead Legion would face the risk of death!
So Lu Ming had to use potions to restore mana.
"A bottle of Tier 3 Mana Potion costs 50 Copper Coins, equivalent to a hundred bucks, it's really painful!"
But now, things were looking up.
"The magic scrolls are unsealed, and the mana shortage problem is finally solved."
Saying this, Lu Ming took out the level 8 Black Iron Equipment, the Moon Demon set, from his bag and used the Tier 1 magic scroll: Claim as Your Own.
[Ding~ You have acquired the limited-time set skill "Mana Recovery" (3/8), remaining usable time 2 days 23 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds...]
With the Mana Recovery three-piece set skill effect, plus the thirtyfold enhancement from Comprehensive Amplification, Lu Ming's mana recovery per second skyrocketed from 25.6 to 85.6!
Perfectly covering the 39 mana points per second consumption of the three formations!
Meanwhile, Lu Ming also used the other two Tier 1 magic scrolls: Fortune Seeker and Breakthrough.
[Ding~ You have acquired the limited-time skill: Breakthrough, Comprehensive Amplification talent activated: for 150 minutes, all skill cooldowns -300%, skill consumption -300%!]
[Ding~ You have acquired the limited-time skill: Fortune Seeker, Comprehensive Amplification talent activated: for 150 minutes, monster coin drop amount +3000%!]
Lu Ming exclaimed, "The enhanced effects from Comprehensive Amplification are terrifying!"
Using Tier 1 magic scrolls as if they were Tier 4-5!
Thus, Lu Ming wasted not a second.
While commanding the Undead Legion to continue slaying monsters, he also engaged in the slaughter himself.
With the Breakthrough bonus, all of Lu Ming's skills entered a no-cooldown, no-consumption state.
Including Sword Draw!
Whoosh!
Just then, three level 48-49 Undead Mages and Undead Archers spawned nearby simultaneously.
Lu Ming targeted those undead.
Sword Draw!
Sword Draw!
Sword Draw!
Slash, slash, slash—
-182988!
-182988!
-182988!
The three undead, each with only 110-120k health, were instantly slain!
At the same time, clatter!
Beside each undead's corpse, a small pile of Copper Coins dropped!
Under normal circumstances, a monster around level 50 would steadily drop 5-6 Copper Coins.
Previously, with Lin Youwei's 300% drop rate bonus, Lu Ming could drop 20-25 Copper Coins per kill of undead in the eighth realm, levels 46-50.
But now, each of these undead dropped a whopping 170-180 Copper Coins!
The little money-grubber Lin Youwei's eyes widened: "Wow! So much money! Did the monster drop rate increase?"
Thinking this, Lin Youwei couldn't wait to show her skills. Under the support of Lu Ming's three formations, she gave it her all and managed to kill a level 46 undead with some effort.
She eagerly ran to the undead's corpse, only to be disappointed to find that the drop rate was the same as before, with only 21 Copper Coins dropped!
Though not as much as Lu Ming's, Lin Youwei was still quite satisfied.
As for Lu Ming.
Since the kill rewards from the Undead Legion were calculated as if he made the kills, they could also share the drop rate bonus.
The unit price of 1 Copper Coin was 2 bucks.
Killing a small monster could yield over three hundred bucks.
Who could have imagined?
Thus, the money farming task was handed over to the Undead Legion.
Lu Ming had another, more important task.
Whoosh!
As another undead spawned before him, Lu Ming didn't rush to slay it with his sword.
Instead, he opened the status panel and activated PK Mode.
The next second.
Whoosh!
Sword Draw—
182988!
The damage exceeded the health limit of the level 48 Undead Warrior, but it wasn't slain, leaving it with 1 health point.
Without hesitation, Lu Ming drew his sword again.
Sword Draw!
Sword Draw!
Sword Draw!
In PK Mode, Lu Ming's attacks couldn't kill the enemy.
The Undead Warrior remained at 1 health point.
Meanwhile, Lu Ming's ears echoed with system notifications.
[Ding~ Sword Draw skill proficiency +1!]
[Ding~ Sword Draw skill proficiency +1!]
[Ding~ Sword Draw skill proficiency +1!]
...
Lu Ming was thrilled.
Originally, Sword Draw could only be used once every 60 seconds, gaining 1 proficiency point each time.
But now, in a no-cooldown state, Lu Ming frantically drew his sword repeatedly!
Skill proficiency soared!
When his right hand got tired, he switched to his left.
Slash, slash, slash, slash!
With Lu Ming's rapid Sword Draw, repeatedly thrusting and withdrawing, sword shadows pierced through the Undead Warrior's body continuously, leaving it in ecstasy...
Who knows how long it took.
[Ding~ Congratulations, your Sword Draw skill has been upgraded to C-grade!]
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