Fear's Minion

Having finished taking stock of the loot, Su Jiang eagerly opened the main attributes panel.

Kurumi Incarnation's current attributes:

Level: Lv.8 (12% EXP)

Life Level: Kabbalah Spirit (Life Level slowly unlocking...)

Talents: Zafkiel (Advanced Talent), Charm (Intermediate Talent)

Skills: **"First Bullet (Aleph) LV.1"**, **"Second Bullet (Bet) LV.1"**...

Attack: 136 ((Strength + Intelligence) / 2, balanced development attack calculation)

Defense: 13.6 (Constitution × 0.1)

Health: 1360 (Constitution × 10)

Mana: 680 (Spirit × 5)

Time Value: 53

Attributes (Balanced Development): Strength 136, Intelligence 136, Constitution 136, Spirit 136.

Su Jiang switched back to his original body to check. All four of his basic attributes were 80, which was the normal attribute growth for players.

But as a Kabbalah Spirit, Kurumi's attributes were a full 1.7 times higher than his original body's. And with every level she gained, her attribute growth increased by 1. It was easy to foresee that the higher their levels became, the wider the gap between them would grow!

According to memories from his previous life, once everyone reached level 100, Kurumi Incarnation's attributes would be fully unlocked. By then, her four basic attributes alone would already be ten times those of ordinary players!

Of course, that comparison was only against ordinary players. After all, there were many ways to alter one's Life Level in the Meta World.

But even if they changed their Life Levels later and caught up in attributes, they would never be able to make up for the advantage gained early on.

Su Jiang thought happily and accepted several more rare quests before heading out.

Another day passed.

Su Jiang finally reached level 10.

Going from level 8 to level 10 required 37,000 EXP. Killing ordinary monsters of the same level only gave single-digit EXP. Kurumi's two guns were nearly shot to scrap before she finally reached level 10.

Now, all four basic attributes had reached 190. Her attack power had risen to 190, and her health had climbed to 1,900. If it had been the Rat King from before, it would now need to take at least ten of her attacks before dying!

At the same time, reaching level 10 automatically unlocked the Third Bullet skill.

Skill: **"Third Bullet (Gimel) LV.1"**

Cost: 30 Time Value

Passive Effect: Increases the user's basic attributes by 10%.

Active Effect: The target hit temporarily increases the passive effect to a 50% boost to basic attributes for five seconds. Cooldown: one minute.

Good. With this skill, she should be able to kill them within the time limit.

The Meta World was a miracle born from human consciousness, so many of its things and settings were influenced by humanity itself.

Among humans, there were good people and bad people.

Based on that, the Meta World evolved a self-consistent logic.

A war between the factions of good and evil.

All monsters of the evil faction came from humanity's evil thoughts, and as players, their mission was to eliminate them.

Fear's Minion belonged to the cannon fodder of the evil faction, usually used to fill out army numbers and handle errands.

There were as many of these things as one could want within the evil faction.

As for the other six deities, they were Nightmare, Joy, Wrath, Justice, Vengeance, and Death.

They each represented different authorities.

Su Jiang arrived at the dungeon entrance.

There were still many players testing the waters outside, constantly going in and out as they tried to figure out the dungeon's clearing mechanics.

Su Jiang's arrival drew no attention from anyone.

The moment he entered the dungeon, a classic scene fitting the evil atmosphere unfolded before his eyes. The ground was a stretch of black mud bubbling with blisters, while black grass and withered branches formed the dungeon's backdrop.

Outside a crude camp, several goblins wreathed in black mist wandered aimlessly, carrying wooden clubs and wooden shields.

Fear's Minion Goblin

Level: Lv.10

Life Level: Elite Monster

Attack Power: 300

Defense: 0

Health:

Skills: **Fear Possession**, **Intimidation**

Monster Description: Fear, fear!

Those were monsters possessed by evil. Su Jiang knew that simply killing the goblins would not truly kill the Fear Minions.

When the goblins were brought down to half health, the possessing Fear Minions would emerge on their own. Su Jiang had to kill the Fear Minions during that window, or they would return to the goblins' bodies and reappear at full health.

But physical attacks could not hit those soul forms. Only magical attacks carrying elemental damage could harm them.

So Su Jiang first had to find the group of nuns.

Bang, bang, bang...

Su Jiang had no intention of dealing with them one by one. Without an invisibility talent, he could not avoid their detection range.

Transforming into Kurumi, he fired a shot at several monsters wandering near the entrance, widening the gap between their speeds.

-209!

-418!

-209!

In less than a minute, Kurumi shot every monster wandering outside the camp once, then led them in a wide circle toward the distance.

Thanks to the powerful slowing debuff, dozens of demonic goblins could not catch up to Kurumi at all.

After circling around to the farthest point, Kurumi led them through another turn and charged back toward the camp.

The possessed goblins outside were merely ordinary cannon fodder, while the goblins inside the camp were slightly more advanced cannon fodder.

They could use throwing attacks. After Kurumi lured them all out, she had to constantly watch for attacks coming from behind.

Previously, Su Jiang had seen on the forums that other strategy players used the safest method: eliminating them one at a time before finally tackling the boss.

That method was indeed the safest, but players were generally low-level right now, and their equipment could not keep up. Naturally, their DPS could not keep up either. This prevented those players from destroying the possessing evil souls within the time limit.

Kurumi could use this method only because her skills had slowing effects. Otherwise, how could she possibly kite so many minor monsters?

"Yah!" "Ah!" "Aah!"...

Every goblin in the camp turned toward the intruder, waving the wooden clubs in their hands as they chased after Kurumi.

Before long.

Kurumi made a circuit through the camp, with more than fifty goblins following behind her.

She led them out through another exit.

When she reached the farthest edge of the camp and was about to leave combat range.

"City of Eating Time!"

A crimson domain instantly blossomed beneath her feet, and every monster's speed began to slowly drop.

The City of Eating Time was like a muddy swamp, leaving the goblins as sluggish as though their joints had rusted.

Now that the camp was empty, it was the perfect time to obtain the enchantment state!