Stone Forest Center.
Jiang Chen stared at the loot he had picked up in his backpack, stunned.
[Heart of Firestone: The evolved heart of the King of Firestone, containing energy equivalent to a thousand Hearts of Firestone. Non-tradable.]
[Devouring Magic Robe (Platinum Level): Mana +1000.
Bonus: Each skill damage comes with a 10% mana drain effect; when Health Points drop below 50%, automatically triggers Mana Shield.
Mana Shield: All damage received is offset by an equivalent amount of mana.
Suitable for Mages, Priests, Summoners. Level requirement: 15.] (Reward for the final hit of the First Kill!)
[Thunderfire Staff (Platinum Level): Spell Power +120.
Bonus: Intelligence +40; each skill damage comes with a Thunderfire Paralyze effect.
Thunderfire Paralyze: Reduces target's attack speed and movement speed by 50%, lasts for 1 second.
Suitable for Mages, Priests, Summoners. Level requirement: 15.]
[Skill Divine Stone (Three-Star): Used to upgrade the star level of three-star skills (two same-level Skill Divine Stones can be combined into a higher-level Skill Divine Stone).]
"The Heart of Firestone is for submitting the quest."
"Two pieces of Platinum Level equipment... their bonus effects are incredible, and I can use both!"
"The Devouring Magic Robe's Mana Shield effectively turns mana into health, combined with the mana drain effect, it's even tankier than a tank!"
"The Thunderfire Staff's paralyze effect, though it only lasts for one second, can be continuously triggered with sustained damage!"
At this stage, this kind of equipment is practically invincible!
Without hesitation, Jiang Chen equipped the two items, replacing his Flowing Cloud Robe (Silver Level) and Cold Frost Staff (Gold Level).
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Intelligence: 170 (↑15)
Spell Power: 460 (↑100)
Mana: 2700 (↑1150)
Jiang Chen's attributes skyrocketed instantly!
"And there's also a Three-Star Skill Stone!"
Skill Divine Stones can be purchased from the Divine Quality Shop after players reach Level 20.
However, the Divine Quality Shop only sells One-Star Skill Divine Stones, each costing 500 gold coins.
Of course, two One-Star Skill Divine Stones can be combined into a Two-Star one.
Skill Divine Stones can be used to upgrade the star level of skills.
However, each skill can only be upgraded four times!
In other words, a One-Star skill can be upgraded to a maximum of Five-Star.
A Two-Star skill can be upgraded to a maximum of Six-Star.
And so on...
"A Three-Star Skill Stone can upgrade a Three-Star skill to Four-Star. At this stage, no one would likely buy it, so I'll use it myself!"
Looking at his skill [Small Holy Light Apocalypse Array (Three-Star) (Reverse)], Jiang Chen directly used the Skill Divine Stone on it.
Immediately, the skill's star level and effects changed:
[Small Holy Light Apocalypse Array (Four-Star) (Reverse): Releases a hexagram magic array with a 25-meter radius, reducing the Health Points of all enemy targets within the array by 250% of Spell Power per second.
The array lasts for 10 seconds, has a 20-second cooldown, and consumes 50 mana points. Priest skill.]
"The skill range increased by 5 meters, and the skill power increased by 50%!"
Jiang Chen was very satisfied with this.
"Let's go back to the main city!"
Jiang Chen immediately turned and walked out of the Stone Forest.
He needed to submit the Heart of Firestone to the Lord before the quest deadline to receive the reward!
Qing Ying and Tao Xiaoyao followed closely behind.
The three had not walked far when Jiang Chen suddenly stopped.
Qing Ying asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
"Never mind, let's go."
Jiang Chen took a deep look at a large boulder not far away, said nothing more, and walked straight out of the Stone Forest.
He knew there were two Assassins hiding under that boulder.
However, since the BOSS had already been defeated, as long as they didn't come looking for trouble, he couldn't be bothered with them.
Right now, submitting the quest was the priority.
After Jiang Chen and his companions left the Stone Forest.
Two figures emerged from beneath the boulder.
They were YouNet Feminine and YouNet Masculine.
The two exchanged glances, each seeing a trace of fear in the other's eyes.
"That Priest just looked at us, it was terrifying, felt like we weren't even in stealth..."
YouNet Feminine said with lingering fear, "Luckily, they didn't make a move."
"They probably didn't think we were worth their time."
YouNet Masculine also breathed a sigh of relief. That one look from the Priest had made him break out in a cold sweat.
"Let's head to the center of the Stone Forest!"
With that, the two quickly moved to the center of the Stone Forest.
As they had expected.
In the clearing, lay the massive corpse of the King of Firestone!
Although they had already guessed this outcome, seeing it with their own eyes still made their scalps tingle.
At the same time, their eyes were filled with excitement!
"Three people took down a Gold Level BOSS, the National Server's Number One Knight lives up to his name!"
"I wonder what the Heavenly Guild will think when they find out..."
"Hurry up and edit the video, upload it immediately!"
"This is definitely going to be a hit!"
...
In less than ten minutes.
On the homepage of the country's largest gaming news website, YouNet, a new video appeared.
Title: [National Server's Number One Knight's Team, After First Killing the Ancient Mystic Realm BOSS, Takes Down the Gold Level BOSS King of Firestone!]
And just before this video, there was another one:
[Major Guilds Challenge Silver Level BOSS King of Firestone, BOSS Evolves, Entire Teams Wiped Out! The Footage is Shocking!]
At the same time, these two videos were also posted by YouNet's official account on platforms like DouY and WeB.
In no time, the comments flooded in.
Within just a few minutes, both videos shot to the top of the trending list!
The entire internet was buzzing with discussion!