Chapter 30: The Plague of Jackals
After sitting at Ning Xiaoya's house for a while, Ma Yingjie said goodbye to Ning Xiaoya and his father and came to the river.
On the long bridge, there are occasionally a few pairs of wild mandarin ducks flying together. The breeze brings not only a refreshing pleasure, but also is accompanied by continuous sounds of "hmm" and "ah".
Alas, this is exactly: having fun at the bridge in June, with wild mandarin ducks caressing their faces in the breeze.
In this world where morals are declining, Ma Yingjie felt helpless. It was the time for Overlord to practice archery in the middle of the night, but he ran to the riverside to disturb people's thoughts.
Early the next morning, Ma Yingjie went online and looked around. Apart from the sound of wind blowing through the grass and the howling of jackals, there was no other sound.
The Fallen Bauhinia has not come online yet, and Lu Hao summoned Xiao Hei and walked towards the place where the grass is relatively short. Lu Hao did not dare to be careless along the way. This is a level 45 jackal, and he is only level 37. The level gap is a bit big. If it weren't for the heroic fighting of his puppet team yesterday, it would be good to reach level 36. The Fallen Bauhinia also rose to level 40 with his help. When he comes again this time, he should have learned the level 40 advanced skill of the archer, the triple arrow.
Thinking about the skills he would gain after reaching level 40, Lu Hao was filled with energy. Of course, this was just a thought. Lu Hao was not arrogant enough to think that he could challenge the jackal at level 8. The main attacker was still Xiao Hei. After all, he was a weak necromancer. He could not charge into battle and stand alone.
Parting the grass, a jackal was seen roaming not far away.
The two ears stood upright on the huge head, and the gray-brown fur covered the body like a torn Tibetan carpet. The gray-brown eyes also flashed with light from time to time.
Looking at the jackal's strong limbs, people felt a great sense of oppression. The moment it parted the grass, it heard the movement, let out a long howl, and rushed towards Ma Hao.
[Jackal] (Normal Monster)
Rating: 45
Health: 1800
Attack: 360
Defense: 117
Features: Fast speed, easy to make critical hits, and possesses elementary earth magic.
Skill: Earth Shield.
Earth Shield: Low-level earth magic that increases a certain amount of defense.
The defense is high enough, but it shouldn't be a problem for Xiao Hei to break it.
"Great God of Death, I use my blood as a medium to summon your boundless power to slow down the sinners before me - the art of slowness!"
As a black light sank into the jackal's body, the jackal's movement speed slowed down significantly. Seeing this, Lu Hao kept moving his hands and immediately released the Weakness Technique, Dark Sky Curtain.
"Dead spirits from the underworld, weaken your opponent's strength - Weakness Technique."
The jackal's speed slowed down again, and its various attribute pages were reduced a lot. Facing the jackal whose whole body was shining black, Ma Hao once again released his level 20 skill - Dark Sky.
Suddenly, the area within ten meters around the jackal was covered by black mist. Xiao Hei rushed over without waiting for Ma Yingjie's orders.
The jackal in the dark sky heard the sound of Xiao Hei's attack, but had no way to avoid it. The surrounding darkness affected its vision. Xiao Hei, as Lu Hao's pet, was not affected by the dark sky. In comparison, although the jackal was of a higher level, it did not have much advantage.
"Puch~!"
Xiao Hei rushed forward and slapped the jackal's gray-brown fur with one claw, causing more than 300 damage. It seems that when fighting monsters above the level, even Xiao Hei will be suppressed by the level. Otherwise, with Xiao Hei's attack power, he can at least remove one-third of the jackal's health. But even so, Lu Hao was satisfied. You know, the extra experience gained by killing monsters above so many levels is very much.
(This is different from killing a level 16 monster when you are level 10. Friends who have played online games know that the strength of monsters in the early stage is very weak, and the higher the level, the stronger it is. In the early stage, you can rely on the strength of the equipment to fight monsters of higher levels, but the gap in the later stage cannot be made up by some equipment alone. Haha, this is actually nonsense. It’s not that it can’t be made up, but the things that can make up for this gap are too valuable and cannot be used by ordinary players.)
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Some damage also appeared on Xiao Hei's head. Although it was not small, it was a drop in the bucket for Xiao Hei who had more than 23 HP. After Lu Hao released the state, he was not idle. The black light of the light of death kept coming out from the top of the dark spirit staff. It looked really impressive, but seeing the damage of -23-26- floating on the jackal's head from time to time, people really couldn't praise it.
"Hey~!"
A fatal blow, a yellow number floated up, and the jackal with little life left howled and fell to the ground unwillingly. Looking at the white clothes worn by the warrior that fell on the ground, Ma Hao directly equipped the ring and activated the automatic pickup skill.
Seeing the system prompt about obtaining 23 silver coins, Ma Yingjie was a little excited. These were all money, much more than the coins produced by low-level monsters. If he was strong enough, it would definitely be a good place to make money and get equipment.
Without saying a word, he threw a skill to summon a skeleton knight on the jackal's corpse.
"Undead spirits of the dark world, I, as the inheritor of darkness, summon you. Gather your broken bones into spears and your skulls into shields. Sweep this filthy world and let the majesty of Hades shine upon the entire world - summon the Skeleton Knights."
With a series of crackling sounds, the jackal's body seemed to be covered with corpse powder. It quickly withered and turned into a pile of dry bones.
A brand new skeleton stood up on the bone, holding a long bone spear in his right hand and a broken bone shield in his left hand.
Ma Yingjie wondered why the skeleton knight summoned this time was different from the last time. This skeleton knight was no longer a skeleton knight, but a skeleton spearman. He didn't know where its horse had gone.
Suddenly, the skeleton spearman roared at the space and stomped his feet hard. The ground beneath his feet began to loosen, and a small hill rose up in a short while.
An unknown creature covered with bones crawled out from inside. When the creature appeared completely, Ma Yingjie recognized that it was a group of horses with incomplete skeletons.
How to put it, this horse might have been lame when it was alive. The bones in one of its legs were severely shrunk, and it had trouble standing.
After obtaining this lame horse, the Skeleton Spearman regained the title of knight. Although it felt a little shaky when running, it still had the proper configuration of a knight.
We lured one in the same way. With the skeleton cavalry, Xiao Hei would naturally not be allowed to fight monsters. This guy kept shouting that he was a noble dragon and could not be compared with these humble monsters.
The skeleton cavalry rode on lame horses to block the jackal, while the bone shields in their hands protected the vital parts, and the bone spears in their hands occasionally brought up a smear of blood. However, the newly born skeleton knights were obviously no match for the jackal. Even with the support of Xiao Hei and Lu Hao, they could not hold on until the jackal died.
Ma Yingjie cast another bone dungeon spell, and a bone hand suddenly emerged from the ground under the jackal's feet. It reached out and grabbed the jackal's hind ankle, and the speed of the jackal that was rushing over was slowed down again.
"Aww~!" The jackal was almost tripped by the sudden force. When he saw clearly that it was a bone hand that almost made him fall, the jackal howled angrily, and a turbid mist suddenly came out of his body. He bit off the bone hand that was holding him, but in just a moment, his blood had been drained by Xiao Hei. With an unwilling roar, the jackal fell down.
After killing the jackal without any danger, Ma Yingjie continued his hunting activities. If Xiao Hei hadn't turned back and roared at Ma Yingjie from time to time to vent his dissatisfaction, this would have been a completely one-sided howl.
"Ding ding!" When Ma Yingjie released the nth jackal, the system prompt sounded.
System prompt: The player Withered Bauhinia has requested a call from you. Do you want to accept?
"accept!"
With a beep, the call was connected, and the dissatisfied voice of the withered bauhinia came from the other end.
"Where are you? Why don't you stay where you are? Do you think you are of a higher level?"
"I found a small lake in there. The water is quite clean. I'm taking a bath there!" I didn't expect that he cared about me so much.
"Wu Yu, come back quickly and help me with a task." The withered Bauhinia said impatiently.
"Aren't I helping you with the mission now?" Hearing the withered Bauhinia say this, Ma Hao was surprised.
"It's not the same thing. It's a job transfer task for level 40. Only those who advance to the advanced job of the archer - the sniper - can learn skills such as triple arrows and sniping."
"What is the mission?" Ma Yingjie asked briefly.
"Just give the head of the Jackal King to the job transfer master. However, the Jackal is a level 45 monster, and the Jackal King is at least level 50. We can't beat him at all. This job transfer task is too abnormal." The withered Bauhinia complained.
"It's quite difficult. Isn't Lost Wind already level 43? How did he complete it?"
"You can continue to level up without changing your job, but your strength will increase a lot if you advance to an advanced job, which will be of great help to our mission."
"What do you want me to do?" Ma Yingjie asked.
"I think together we should have a chance to get the head of the Jackal King." The withered Bauhinia's words were light but full of affirmation.
"Let's stop talking for now. I'm going back soon. We'll talk when I get there." Ma Yingjie said this and hung up the communicator.
I looked up at the sun that had already risen. The red halo burned half of the sky, and the red mist was as ferocious as a howling wolf's head.
The Jackal King won't let you wait too long.
Ma Yingjie grasped the dark spirit staff in his hand, his eyes full of yearning for the treasure of the Jackal King.
The boss's products must be high-quality. And only people with strength can get high-quality products.
The better the equipment, the faster you can kill monsters. The faster you kill monsters, the faster you can get better equipment. It's a cycle.
Anyway, those with poor equipment upgrade slowly and cannot get good equipment, and the cycle continues like this, with the advantages becoming more advantageous and the disadvantages becoming more disadvantageous, just like in reality.