Not long after the skeletal army in the plaza surged into the corridor, just as it was about to arrive and reinforce the fight, Xiao Yang landed his final blow.
The Skeleton Knight toppled heavily, unwilling to accept defeat. Until the moment it died, not one of the minions it had summoned had fallen. Xiao Yang had weathered its attacks and beaten it to death, blow after blow.
Xiao Yang was thrilled, but when he noticed the vast, dark mass of Skeleton Warriors surging toward him, he stifled his excitement, grabbed the Skeleton Knight's drops, and darted into the Safe House. Once Xiao Yang was inside, the Skeleton Warriors, with no target left to pursue, became a directionless swarm again.
Xiao Yang summed up the fight from inside the Safe House: "What a satisfying battle!" Though if the Skeleton Knight could talk, it probably wouldn't have agreed.
The Skeleton Knight had dropped quite a few good things for Xiao Yang.
A new green-quality material: a Wailing Soul Iron Fragment, a cold shard of armor. And that wasn't all. Xiao Gu had also dropped the Undead Knight's elbow-strike skill, the first green skill Xiao Yang had obtained.
Shove
Quality: Fine
Effect: Make a Strength check. If your Strength is greater than your opponent's, you can shove them away and make them stumble.
Description: In my life, I've elbowed this world ten times!
Another unrestricted, general-purpose skill—and one that could restrict an opponent, just what Xiao Yang needed. He learned it without hesitation.
To be honest, Xiao Yang was gradually realizing how limited his combat options were. Aside from swinging Justice's Condolence so hard it nearly took flight, there was basically nothing else he could do.
That wasn't good. He was desperate to find a class and learn some flashy, well-rounded skills. He couldn't keep watching other people fight with one complete set of moves after another—Heavenly Dipper Steps, Featherlight Sword, Universe-Sleeve Technique, and the like.
All he could do was charge forward swinging his club: first a shove, then a heavy strike, with the occasional thrust thrown in. Even a barbarian's fighting style seemed more methodical than his.
That wasn't what he wanted. Unfortunately, rare class advancement options weren't for sale in the Myriad Worlds Trading Area.
And ordinary classes weren't much use to Xiao Yang, either. The most valuable thing a typical class advancement offered was extra growth in a particular attribute.
For example, the Hunter class granted one additional point of Agility growth with each level.
But Xiao Yang didn't need that kind of extra attribute growth. It wasn't very important to him; he could easily push his attributes to their limits for his current stage with the Pot of Greed.
If he could choose, Xiao Yang would probably lean toward one of three kinds of classes.
First, classes with powerful passive abilities. Second, classes with powerful skill effects. Third, support classes.
A class with powerful passives, such as the Hunter's Trailblazing, Fleetfoot, and Beast Weakness abilities, would offer versatile, highly useful skills.
For powerful skill effects, he'd want a class like Monk, Swordsman, Taoist, or Mage—one that could learn a wide variety of skills and handle all sorts of situations.
Support classes were straightforward, too. After all, everyone was stuck in dungeons. Potion-making, equipment repairs, smithing, and material refining could all help Xiao Yang grow.
He would probably choose from those three categories. But there was no need to overthink his class options just yet. The truth was, wanting a certain class didn't mean he could actually get it.
He also had to come across one.
The Skeleton Knight had also contributed a piece of equipment: a black helmet mottled with reddish-brown rust. Up close, it had a faint smell that might have been rust—or blood.
Wraith Helm
Quality: Excellent
Requirement: 140 Health, 12 Strength.
Effect: Provides 5 Defense and the Skeleton Summon skill.
Description: This is a favorite helmet among Undead Knights. Wearing it lets you command those shambling skeletons. Perhaps you could gather a few more pieces to improve the effect. But be careful not to wear this helmet to bed, or you won't get enough sleep.
It was equipment Xiao Yang could use, so he put it on as soon as he got it, replacing his leather cap with its pitiful single point of Defense. His Defense now stood at 25.
He had to admit, it was a very handsome helmet, even if it looked rather comical with his mismatched gear.
He had a leather chestplate and leather pants that looked cheap, Adventurer's Armguards and Adventurer's Boots decorated with patterns and feathers, a bloodstained black cudgel in his hand, and a rusty knight's helmet on his head.
It was a very strange combination, but that was practically the player style. There was no helping it; for now, Xiao Yang could only equip whatever had the best stats.
Xiao Yang tested the Skeleton Summon skill on the Wraith Helm. At a thought, a gray-white magic circle appeared in front of him. Though perhaps it was just his imagination, it seemed smaller and simpler than the Skeleton Knight's.
A short while later, a skeleton with gray-white flames flickering in its eye sockets appeared before Xiao Yang. Sure enough, he had summoned a skeleton—a completely ordinary one, only level three, with a mere 10 Health.
It was a far cry from the squad of Skeleton Warriors summoned by the Skeleton Knight. Still, it would do. He wasn't really a Skeleton Knight, after all. At least the skeleton could scout ahead, and the summoning skill seemed like it might change once he collected more pieces of Wraith armor.
Comforting himself with that thought, Xiao Yang tried to get his summoned skeleton to move around the Safe House. But the poor thing had only taken a few steps when it hit the corner of the table, lost its balance, and fell flat on its face, scattering its bones everywhere.
After a moment of silence, he thought, Yep. A perfectly ordinary skeleton.
After entering the second level of the Skeleton Dungeon and enduring a long chase, Xiao Yang could finally sit down and properly choose his Advancement Reward.
There were two blue items and one blue box.
Unexpectedly, the Advancement Reward included something good—something he'd just been talking about: a class advancement token.
Ignoring the strange music box that could make people fall asleep, Xiao Yang turned his attention to the class advancement token.
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