Ding! Congratulations on killing the F-tier boss Minotaur Chieftain. EXP +100%!
Ding! Congratulations on reaching Level 5. Current EXP pool: Level 5, 28%!
Ding! The God of Strength's pity...
Ding! Congratulations on killing the F-tier boss Minotaur Chieftain. Myriad Races Bestiary activated. You obtained the F-tier talent—Minotaur Strength (+5% Physical Attack, +5% HP)!
Ding! Bestiary upgrade progress: cumulative F-tier boss kills 1/10!
Ding! You killed 150 minotaurs and gained 9% EXP. Current EXP pool: Level 5, 37%!
Ding! Your Novice Trial completion increased by 6%. Current: 30%!
Ding! Congratulations on killing 100 F-tier racial monsters, minotaurs. Myriad Races Bestiary activated. Congratulations, you obtained the F-tier skill, Trample!
Trample Tier: F-tier group control skill Effect: Upon activation, the ground within 3 meters cracks apart, causing hostile targets within the area to enter a 1-second rigid state! Stamina Cost: 50 Cooldown: 30 seconds
Xu Kun let out a long breath. Everything had gone according to his calculations, and he had easily wiped out the minotaur herd guarded by a boss!
Xu Kun had already grown used to the rapid-fire notifications. This time, the rewards were truly substantial!
He had obtained Minotaur Strength, an F-tier talent that could stack normally with his own talent, as well as an F-tier group control skill that became even more powerful when paired with his abilities. Though Trample lacked damage scaling, its area-wide rigid control greatly enhanced Xu Kun's close-quarters combat capability!
But that was not all!
After killing all 200 ordinary minotaurs in the herd, along with the boss, Xu Kun could now take his time dealing with the boss before him!
With one kick, he sent the mountain-like body blocking his path aside. Beneath it lay a huge glittering pile of loot, making Xu Kun swallow hard!
"Now this is a glorious haul! Let me see what goodies we've got!"
The first things he picked up were the most numerous glittering fragments. If nothing unexpected happened, these were Spirit Stone Shards, the universal hard currency among the myriad races!
E-tier Spirit Stone Shards ×20 Description: Crystals naturally formed from the power leaking out of the Haotian Pagoda. As lower-grade E-tier spirit stones, they easily fracture into shards. Every ten shards can be refined through special means into one complete E-tier spirit stone! Function: As crystals formed from the Haotian Pagoda's leaked power, spirit stones have a wide range of uses. They can be used as an energy source for crafting E-tier equipment, including setting up E-tier formations...
There were a full twenty shards, and thanks to the Heavenly Blessing: Child of Fortune bonus, they had been upgraded from F-tier to E-tier!
"F-tier ones already sell for ten thousand Human Race Currency each. These E-tier shards should be worth a hundred thousand apiece, right?"
Xu Kun happily put all twenty shards away. This was no small sum. By his calculations, these unremarkable fragments alone were worth at least two million!
That would be enough to cover both his and his mother's daily expenses for the rest of their lives!
Of course, such a meager haul alone would hardly do justice to a boss like the Minotaur Chieftain!
After collecting the Spirit Stone Shards, Xu Kun turned his attention to the other items!
There were not many left: a pair of gloves, an antique bronze ring, and a book!
Xu Kun rubbed his hands together. From their appearance alone, he could roughly guess what the three items were!
He picked up the gloves first, and as expected, they were a piece of equipment!
Minotaur Gauntlets Tier: E-tier Level: 5 Strength: +10 Physical Attack: +15 Durability: 100/100 Description: Gloves sewn from the toughest leather taken from minotaurs, providing decent attribute bonuses!
Xu Kun immediately curled his lip. With bonuses this small, they dared call them decent?
Poor Xu Kun had grown so accustomed to the A-tier set he wore that he actually looked down on this E-tier equipment!
Disdain aside, he could equip them at Level 5, so Xu Kun unceremoniously put on the rather plain-looking leather gloves!
He then looked at the antique bronze ring.
After checking its attributes, Xu Kun was even more disappointed!
Ring of Luck Luck: +1
That was it. No tier, no description, and not even any basic attribute bonuses—just a single point of Luck that Xu Kun no longer needed!
"Isn't this a total rip-off? At least give me some basic attributes!"
Angry as he was, Xu Kun was only upset because an equipment drop he had finally gotten turned out to be useless to him!
"Ha, I wonder what price this little thing can fetch!"
It did not even look good, and Xu Kun could not be bothered to wear it. He tossed it straight into his backpack to see whether he could sell it for a decent price later!
Still, a Luck attribute that was useless to him was probably something others would flock to. The price should hopefully meet his expectations!
All that remained was the book!
Two pieces of equipment in a row had failed to interest Xu Kun, but this final book made his eyes light up!
Charge Tier: B-tier Lock onto a target within 20 meters. The target cannot evade. Movement Speed ×2. Deal Physical Attack ×2 physical damage to the target and stun them for 3 seconds! Stamina Cost: 100 Cooldown: 10 seconds
"Isn't this an upgraded version of the Minotaur Chieftain's Minotaur Charge?" Xu Kun said, his eyes widening.
But after thinking it over, Xu Kun tapped open the metal wristband on his arm, entered "Charge," and began searching!
The information on the skill quickly appeared.
Charge was an essential skill for many melee classes after successfully changing classes. It boosted movement speed, locked onto targets, provided control, and had respectable damage scaling. As a result, whenever a Charge skill book appeared on the market, it was immediately fought over!
It might not be one book per person, but it was certainly an indispensable skill for melee-oriented classes. Whether in combat or while grinding monsters, it had remarkable effects!
Xu Kun flipped through many pages and even found opinions from big shots whose names were followed by levels over 100, along with all sorts of fancy practical applications for Charge!
Finally came what Xu Kun cared about most—the price of this skill book!
From various purchase listings, he could see that the price of Charge skill books had risen year after year. Ten years ago, they had cost three hundred thousand Human Race Currency, but last year, buyers were already offering one million!
Some people were even so eager to buy this skill that they had added notes saying prices could be negotiated through private messages!
According to relevant estimates, Charge would cost no less than 1.2 million Human Race Currency this year!
"Holy crap, that expensive?" Xu Kun clicked his tongue.
Still, it was understandable. After reading a mountain of posts, he realized that in actual combat, Charge was not merely a skill for closing in and killing enemies. It could also lock onto allies, allowing for incredible maneuvers to escape an encirclement!
Compared to it, his own A-tier skill Explosive Fireball was only better because it benefited from the Fire Attribute and had a follow-up burn effect. In terms of practicality, it was even inferior to this B-tier skill!
1.2 million! To Xu Kun, who had just graduated from high school, that was absolutely an astronomical sum!
But after only a brief hesitation, Xu Kun directly tore open the skill book, turning it into one of his own skills!
Everything external was fleeting. In this age of fierce competition, only improving his own strength was truly reliable. Even if he were going to sell one, he could not sell the first skill book he had yet to learn himself. With the Heavenly Blessing: Child of Fortune bonus, Xu Kun would have plenty of ways to make money in the future!
After dealing with the Minotaur Chieftain's drops, Xu Kun looked toward the small mountain beside him, at least three times his height!
Rubbing his hands together like a fly, Xu Kun approached the still-warm corpse of the Minotaur Chieftain!
"Hehe, time to loot the corpse! You're a boss, so it isn't too much to ask for a few more chunks of beef, right?"
Minotaur Chieftain: (????) Meeting you really was my good fortune. You killed my clansmen, slaughtered my beloved consort, and now you won't even spare my corpse!
Xu Kun did not care what lingering resentment the dead Minotaur Chieftain might have. Giving it a physical send-off was already the greatest mercy!
Ding! You picked up F-tier material—Minotaur Chieftain Meat ×10. Heavenly Blessing: Child of Fortune activated, upgrading it to D-tier material—Mountain-Cleaving Buffalo Meat ×10!
Mountain-Cleaving Buffalo Meat Tier: D-tier Function: After consumption, Strength +1. Maximum consumption per person: 3!
"Oh? Could it be because the Minotaur Chieftain was a boss, so its materials already counted as E-tier materials, and the bonus directly upgraded them to D-tier?"
Items that could directly increase basic attributes were good stuff. Even if each person could only eat them three times, giving them to a minor would mean an increase of 3 Strength, which was no trivial matter!
He just did not know whether it could exceed the limit of 10!
Judging from their value alone, these Mountain-Cleaving Buffalo Meats were worth an astronomical amount. No matter the era or race, there were always class divisions!
Those families with deep legacies would certainly spend vast sums to buy items that increased basic attributes, all so their descendants could pass the Novice Trial more easily!
This counted as a luxury good!
Its value was difficult to judge, but just as with Charge, Xu Kun naturally chose to strengthen himself first. Without any hesitation, he ate three pieces of Mountain-Cleaving Buffalo Meat. Strength +3. The satisfaction on his tongue and the improvement to his basic attributes made Xu Kun cry out in delight!
Such a massive boss corpse naturally contained more than one type of material, so Xu Kun continued looting it!
Ding! You picked up F-tier material—Minotaur Chieftain Hide ×1. Heavenly Blessing: Child of Fortune activated, upgrading it to D-tier material—Mountain-Cleaving Buffalo Hide ×1!
He peeled off the entire hide. The flesh had already been stored in Xu Kun's backpack, leaving behind a grim, gigantic skeleton!
Mountain-Cleaving Buffalo Hide Tier: D-tier Function: Material used to craft D-tier defensive equipment!
"Anything else in there, little bull?"
Unwilling to give up, Xu Kun continued feeling around the skeleton, which did not even have a shred of flesh left on it.
He actually pulled out two more items!
Mountain-Cleaving Buffalo Bone Tier: D-tier Function: A useless skeleton. Perhaps you can use it to make soup, or put it in a display case for exhibition!
Xu Kun: ...
Mountain-Cleaving Buffalo Horn ×2 Tier: D-tier Function: Can be used to restore the durability of D-tier and lower weapons!
"Durability?"
Xu Kun raised the Flame Spirit Sword in his hand. This A-tier weapon did not seem to have any durability stat, though the leather gloves he had just gotten did have 100 durability!
The materials were useless to him, but he could consider selling them. Plenty of people would surely want them!
The Minotaur Chieftain had been squeezed dry of every last bit of value. Only a pool of blood remained where it had stood, proving that it had come—and gone~
Master Xu, who plucked every feather from a passing goose, naturally would not spare the other ordinary monsters after looting the boss!
After a busy round of scavenging, he gained quite a few materials!
Scaled Buffalo Meat ×30 Tier: E-tier Function: After consumption, Physical Attack +10 for one hour! Scaled Buffalo Hide ×20 Tier: E-tier Function: Material used to craft E-tier defensive equipment!
The charred minotaur meat and torn minotaur hides were worthless junk. After picking up a few, Xu Kun lost interest in collecting any more!
Old Xu's standards were higher now, so naturally, he could not be bothered with this trifling trash~
As for the fifty pieces of Scaled Buffalo Meat and Scaled Buffalo Hide combined, they had naturally been collected from the fifty minotaurs Xu Kun had killed by kiting them earlier. This made Xu Kun sigh once again:
Wrath of the Fire Dragon really burned through money!
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