Top-Tier Skill Book

Skill books are a great thing. They're even more precious than equipment. You can sell equipment when you don't need it anymore, but once you use a skill book, it's gone.

Xiao Liang quickly ran over to the Orc Warrior and picked up all the items the boss had dropped. He returned to Lu Yang's side and said with some frustration, "Boss, it only dropped two skill books, one is Shield Wall and the other is Goblin Guardian. The rest is just a bunch of instant recovery potions."

"What?" Lu Yang hurriedly looked at the skill books. When he realized they were really Shield Wall and Goblin Guardian, he said excitedly, "Bro, you're so lucky."

"What's so good about it? No equipment dropped," Xiao Liang said naively.

Lu Yang said, "Silly brother, one Shield Wall skill book is worth more than ten level 10 gold-grade equipment."

"Ah, so precious?" Xiao Liang said in surprise.

"Of course," Lu Yang was truly excited today.

Shield Wall: Reduces all damage taken by 40% for 8 seconds. Cooldown: 4 minutes.

This skill is a godsend for defense warriors. Even when warriors reach level 200, they still need to use this level 0 skill during group boss fights because it can reduce the boss's damage by 40%. Even if the boss goes berserk, you can still withstand its attacks.

A defense warrior can only be considered qualified if they have Shield Wall. Later on, when players all knew about the Shield Wall skill, no one would invite a defense warrior without it to join a dungeon group. As a result, this level 0 skill book was eventually sold for 50 gold coins.

However, the drop rate of Shield Wall is extremely low. The drop locations for skill books in Second World are limited, and many dungeons don't produce skill books. You can only find them in a few specific locations or by killing top-tier wild bosses. As a result, many defense warrior players reached level 50 and learned high-level skills, but they still didn't have the Shield Wall skill book.

"Learn it quickly. With this skill, I dare to take you to all kinds of high-difficulty dungeons. You can choose any gold-grade equipment you want," Lu Yang said.

"Okay," Xiao Liang quickly learned the skill book. A golden light flashed, and Xiao Liang learned the Shield Wall skill.

"Boss, what's the other skill book, Goblin Guardian, for?" Xiao Liang asked curiously.

"This is a priest's skill. It can increase earth-type defense for everyone in the group. It's also considered a godsend skill in the early stages. You can't use this book, so I'll keep it for now," Lu Yang put the skill book in his backpack.

"Okay."

Lu Yang looked at the monsters around him. There were still one or two hundred Orcs in the entire cave hall, all concentrated on the right side of the hall.

"Bro, I need to go out and do a quest. You stay here and kill monsters by yourself. Just use the method I taught you, use the bow and arrow to lure the monsters and then kill them with poison," Lu Yang said.

The bow and arrow were dropped by the hunter who was Black Blood's subordinate that Lu Yang killed earlier. It was just an ordinary bronze equipment.

"Boss, I'll go help you," Xiao Liang was almost level 6 and spoke with confidence.

Lu Yang said, "If you want to help me, level up as soon as possible. You'll level up faster here alone without me sharing the experience. Only when you reach level 10 can you help me."

"Okay, got it," Xiao Liang was full of motivation with a goal in mind.

Lu Yang watched Xiao Liang lure the monsters twice without any problems before he felt relieved and killed his way out of the cave alone.

Back in the Orc Hills, the sky outside had already darkened. Lu Yang took advantage of the night to run towards the west side of the map.

On the west side of the Orc Hills, there was a forest inhabited by a group of Trolls. Lu Yang's task was to kill the leader of the forest trolls, the Shaman Priest—Wokins.

However, Trolls are not so easy to kill. As the most difficult monsters to kill in the level 15 map, Trolls not only have the strong bodies of Orcs, but also the agile speed of Werewolves, and the Troll's HP regeneration speed is also the fastest among level 15 monsters.

Even if Lu Yang wanted to kill ordinary Trolls among them, it would be very difficult. But fortunately, Lu Yang had his own way.

Arriving at the edge of the Troll Forest, Lu Yang began to slow down. It was even more difficult to spot the existence of Trolls in the forest at night.

Like Orcs, Trolls also have green skin, and their mouths also have protruding fangs. However, Trolls are very strong, with well-defined eight-pack abs on their abdomens. They are also very slender, with red hair and beards, and the weapon they hold is a spear.

The reason why Lu Yang dared to come to the Troll Forest alone at level 7 was because the Trolls' attack characteristic here is that they only throw spears. All Trolls are ranged attack monsters. In this Troll Forest, as long as Lu Yang dodges properly, he can completely kill the Trolls without losing a drop of blood.

However, that was during the day. At night, Lu Yang couldn't find where the Trolls were hiding, let alone see the direction in which they were throwing their spears, so Lu Yang stayed where he was and waited until dawn.

When he was bored, Lu Yang initiated a voice chat with Lan Yu. At this time, Lan Yu was staring at the first boss in the dungeon in a daze. She pressed the answer button and asked.

"What?"

"How's your dungeon going?" Lu Yang asked.

"We've wiped three times," Lan Yu said dejectedly.

Lu Yang couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Lan Yu became even more depressed and said with a bit of anger, "You're still laughing."

Lu Yang quickly said, "Ah, sorry, sorry, I couldn't help it. Did you guys die when the boss's HP was at 30%?"

"How did you know?" Lan Yu asked in surprise.

Lu Yang thought to himself, of course I know, because this dungeon boss is the nightmare of all players in the newbie stage. In his previous life, I don't know how many elite players from big guilds thought that they could beat it by improving their tactics when the remaining HP was 30%, but they ended up wiping all night.

"You don't need to think of any other ways. There's no other way to beat this level. You can only rely on the warrior's own equipment to withstand it. There's absolutely no chance if your defense is less than 71 points," Lu Yang said.

The damage calculation in Second World is very complicated and cannot be explained clearly in a few simple sentences. It involves a series of things such as basic armor penetration, attack, defense, and damage results. For newbie players like Lan Yu and the others, the only thing Lu Yang can explain clearly is that they can't beat it if their defense is not enough 71 points.

Lan Yu said, "Okay, I'll go persuade Sister Yuwei and tell them what you said. I hope they'll listen."

The little girl sighed at the end. Lu Yang could imagine what the little girl looked like at this time.

"Go ahead," Lu Yang said.