Dungeon Guardian

Putting aside the fact that the Dwarf with the red beard gave him a Visit Talisman that clearly belonged to Taoist traditions.

This Visit Talisman was also an Epic quality item.

The words in the message warmed Xiao Yang's heart.

After putting away the Visit Talisman, Xiao Yang replied to Redbeard here.

[Okay!]

Compared to meeting in person in the Myriad Worlds Trading Area, Xiao Yang was obviously more shy and aloof online. However, the outrageous bill that popped up from the God Game quickly shattered Xiao Yang's shyness and aloofness.

[Please receive the message and send the bill. Based on the distance and planar rule differences, sending this message requires 18532 Spirit Coins. Do you wish to send it?]

What the heck?!

Are you kidding me? Sending messages costs Spirit Coins too? And it's so expensive!

Xiao Yang finally understood what Redbeard meant when he said it was best to have more Spirit Coins on hand, as they were useful in all sorts of places.

Damn it, you God Game is such a money grubber!

However, Xiao Yang gritted his teeth and chose to pay in the end.

Watching the message being sent and the numbers disappear from his account, Xiao Yang's heart was bleeding!

"I really need to prepare more Spirit Coins!"

Xiao Yang gritted his teeth and let out this sentence through clenched jaws.

In the following days, Xiao Yang did not rashly challenge the Dungeon Guardian. Instead, he began to constantly drink Health Potions while clearing out the endlessly respawning Skeletons and Skeleton Warriors.

He wanted to test if there was a cap on the attribute increases from the Pot of Greed, and also to maximize his Health before challenging the Dungeon Guardian, which would be safer.

One bottle after another, almost non-stop, he drank Health Potions. In just a few days, the glass bottles of Health Potions were piled up haphazardly in the Safe House.

Xiao Yang found the cap when his Health reached two hundred points.

[Player Health has reached its cap. Please attempt to increase it again after advancing or breaking through level twenty!]

This was the prompt from the God Game. Not only the Pot of Greed, but even using the spare Attribute Points could no longer increase his Health attribute.

Two hundred points of Health was equivalent to an investment of twenty Attribute Points. It was not unexpected, or rather, it was a pleasant surprise. This meant that the effect of the Pot of Greed was unexpectedly good. The limitation was not because the Pot of Greed could no longer increase it, but because he himself had entered some kind of extreme state.

There was still room for improvement in Strength, Defense, and Agility. These three should all be able to reach twenty.

Of course, not twenty from equipment, but twenty in their extreme state. As for further increases, perhaps he would have to wait until Redbeard returned from the abyss, and Xiao Yang would have to ask his big brother.

It seemed he could advance once at level ten.

With this thought, he made his next plan: defeat the Dungeon Guardian, farm more materials, buy more potions to max out his attributes, enter the second level of the Skeleton Dungeon, and conquer the fully evolved Elite Corpse Mushroom.

Xiao Yang still had a lot of Health Potions left.

But they weren't wasted. These Health Potions would not become useless after Xiao Yang's Health attribute reached its limit. On the contrary, they would become a sharp weapon for Xiao Yang to conquer the Dungeon Guardian.

In the initial Safe House, Xiao Yang began to constantly stuff Health Potions into the mouth of the Pot of Greed. The excessive amount of potions made the Pot of Greed's mouth bulge exaggeratedly, displaying a posture as if it had been played with and broken, but its body was honest.

Dangerous, unstable Entangled Life Essences were continuously spat out by it.

Collected by Xiao Yang.

Almost all the remaining Health Potions were stuffed into the Pot of Greed's mouth and turned into these Life Grenades.

Of course, he didn't forget about his equipment. Xiao Yang had now equipped the three pieces of the Blackrock Prison set.

Justice's Condolence dealt eight damage, only two more than the Wilderness Hatchet. However, Justice's Condolence primarily inflicted negative status effects. As long as the enemy entered a flinching state, the Blackrock Prison Guard Badge would immediately increase Xiao Yang's damage by ten points and reduce the enemy's Defense by ten points.

This brought Xiao Yang's damage to eighteen points. Of course, this was not the limit. He still had to add the bonus from the Blackrock Prison Armament Manual. Besides increasing the enemy's fear and flinch chance, this manual also had the effect of converting Strength attribute into damage.

The Strength attribute could not directly boost damage; it required skill conversion.

For every two points of Strength above five, the Blackrock Prison Armament Manual could increase Xiao Yang's damage by one point. Xiao Yang currently had thirteen Strength points, which, after conversion, could provide an additional four points of damage. Add to that the doubling effect of the Heavy Strike skill.

With this, in its extreme state, Xiao Yang's maximum damage could reach forty-four. This was already a not insignificant number. In his extreme state, Xiao Yang could now kill a Skeleton Warrior with one hit and a Prisoner Zombies with two hits.

Even so, Xiao Yang still felt uncertain about the Dungeon Guardian. Perhaps it was because the Dungeon Guardian had left the deepest impression on him when he first entered the Skeleton Dungeon.

But no matter what, he had to overcome this hurdle.

After all, the tunnel behind it led to his home. How could he let the Dungeon Guardian block his door forever?

He hung Life Grenades all over his waist. Oh right, and the Screaming Chicken. Xiao Yang didn't actually pull out a screaming rooster from his personal inventory. Instead, he took out a futuristic-looking alarm clock shaped like a rooster from his personal inventory and hung it on his waist like a grenade.

Taking a deep breath, Xiao Yang gripped Justice's Condolence in one hand and placed the other on the black iron door of the Safe Zone.

"Alright! It's time to settle this!"

Xiao Yang said fiercely, then suddenly yanked open the iron door.

At the end of the not-so-wide tunnel, a tall Skeleton wielding a giant axe was disturbed by the commotion and slowly raised its head. Two blue flames flickered in its bony, deep eye sockets.

Under its gaze, Xiao Yang strode into the tunnel. As Xiao Yang entered the tunnel, an unexpected change occurred. The Safe Zone's door slowly closed, and Xiao Yang might not be able to retreat back into the Safe Zone.

Xiao Yang noticed this but didn't panic excessively. It was fine! As long as he killed the guy in front of him, everything would be alright!