He Was Practically a God of War!

At the end of another passage, Xiao Yang confirmed the bad news: what lay before him was another identical dead end. He tossed a torch into the fissure ahead, but unlike the broken passage on the other side, there seemed to be a platform below this one.

It was a recessed ledge piled high with shattered bricks, chunks of broken wall, and all kinds of debris. With his sharp eyes, Xiao Yang spotted an iron chest, half-buried among the rubble.

Unfortunately, although the ledge jutted out right below him and seemed easy enough to reach, he tossed down a small stone and it took a full two or three seconds to hit the ground.

It had to be at least twenty meters down. A drop like that was enough to make anyone's heart pound. Clearly, the ledge wouldn't be easy to reach.

He was short on the right tools. Xiao Yang remembered seeing pairs of climbing picks for sale in the Myriad Worlds Trading Area, and that was exactly what he needed now. For the moment, he'd have to retreat.

The second floor of the Skeleton Dungeon wasn't as complicated as the first. At least for now, there were only three routes. Xiao Yang had confirmed that two of them were impassable, leaving him with just one last option.

He'd have to charge the small plaza occupied by that skeleton army! Xiao Yang was practically a veteran at this sort of thing. And luckily, he'd already dealt with the biggest problem in the army right from the start: the Skeleton Knight, who could command the undead.

Xiao Yang tossed a torch into the plaza. In an instant, the Skeleton Warriors standing motionless there all turned their heads in unison. They weren't as easy to deal with as the Prisoner Zombies. They seemed to have a shared aggro mechanic, so Xiao Yang couldn't peel off a single one. When they charged, they charged together; when they retreated, they retreated together.

That made the Undead Knight's death seem especially undeserved. Sometimes, being smarter wasn't entirely a good thing. If the Undead Knight hadn't circled outside the Safe House and had instead retreated with the rest of the Skeleton Warriors, Xiao Yang probably wouldn't have been able to do anything to him.

But clearly, the knight's intelligence had let him sense something was wrong when Xiao Yang suddenly vanished. So he'd stayed behind, pacing back and forth where Xiao Yang had disappeared.

For being so clever, he'd gotten a reward.

The reward was getting ambushed by Xiao Yang, who came roaring in, swinging Justice's Condolence. A flurry of blows beat him to death and sent him straight to the afterlife.

After that, dealing with the foolish Skeleton Warriors became a simple matter of repeating the same steps.

Draw their aggro, break combat in the Safe House, then ambush them. Over and over.

You could call it exploiting a bug, but how could you call it exploiting a bug in the God Game? It was just making good use of the mechanics.

And so, this great horde of leaderless Skeleton Warriors got dragged around the passage like a pack of idiots. They surged forward, chasing Xiao Yang; he ducked into the Safe House, and they lost track of him and gradually retreated. Then Xiao Yang reappeared and launched a sneak attack, sending them surging forward again. They went back and forth through the passage, their numbers steadily dwindling.

Each ambush let Xiao Yang kill three or four Skeleton Warriors. After repeating the process a few times, the passage floor was already piled with a thick layer of skeletons. Xiao Yang was panting, and his hand trembled from all the heavy blows.

But the haul was excellent.

There was no need to mention all the different Large Bone Clubs. As for the weapons the Skeleton Warriors carried, most were green-quality, well-crafted items that dealt between six and eight damage. The Rusty Saber dropped by the skeletons carrying long blades inflicted bleeding and tearing effects, while the Bone Spear wielded by the spear-bearing skeletons came with five points of penetration.

In just one day, while Xiao Yang's hand went numb from all the pounding, the Skeleton Warriors dropped five or six Rusty Sabers and Bone Spears. He kept one of each type and planned to sell the rest in the next Myriad Realms Trading session.

With a new large-scale campaign opening up, it wasn't potions that had seen the steepest price hikes. Weapons and equipment were the real big gainers. Normally, even with their useful bonus effects, Rusty Sabers and Bone Spears were only green-quality gear, worth at most fifty or sixty thousand Spirit Coins.

But when everyone was scrambling to prepare for a major campaign, things were different. The price of a green-quality weapon like this had at least quadrupled. Now, each one went for over two hundred thousand!

That meant Xiao Yang's haul from this one day alone could be worth more than a million Spirit Coins.

And that wasn't even the end of it. There were so many Skeleton Warriors in the plaza that Xiao Yang couldn't even imagine how many Spirit Coins he'd earn from a single wave in the next Myriad Realms Trading session. He was cashing in on the war boom!

Of course, weapons weren't the only rewards the Skeleton Warriors could offer him.

Over the following days, Xiao Yang got fed up with how inefficient it was to keep drawing them out and ambushing them. He switched to another way of grinding: standing at the entrance to the Safe House and fighting the Skeleton Warriors head-on as they poured toward him.

In the narrow passage, their numbers were far less of an advantage. At the same time, the Skeleton Archers and Skeleton Crossbowmen couldn't bring their weapons to bear. With his high resistances and absurdly large health pool, Xiao Yang, standing at the Safe House entrance, was practically a true god of war.

He fought from dawn till dusk, holding the passage with the might of a single warrior against ten thousand. Of course, he couldn't keep that up forever. When too many Skeleton Warriors swarmed him, his health dropped quickly. To play it safe, Xiao Yang retreated to the Safe House to recover whenever his health fell below half, or in other words, below one hundred.

That was when the World Membrane (Life), his epic-grade treasure, came into play.

No matter how much health Xiao Yang lost, it restored a fixed ten percent per minute.

In other words, whatever the injury, Xiao Yang would be back on his feet in roughly ten minutes. With the World Membrane (Life) bolstering him, his ability to keep fighting was terrifying.

As long as his body and mind could take it, he could keep fighting nonstop. And, in fact, that was exactly what he did.

Over the past few days, Xiao Yang had practically gone berserk fighting Skeleton Warriors. He fought like mad, grinding away without sleep or rest, and the results were remarkable. In only a few days, the once densely packed Skeleton Warriors in the small plaza had thinned out dramatically. It wouldn't be long before Xiao Yang cleared the place.