The Dying Fire Mage [Seeking Recommendations and Collections]

Responding to it were three Wolf Cavalry who closed in rapidly, their sabers hacking into its body.

The three Wolf Cavalry simultaneously activated their combat skill, Saber Slash!

Three silver-white arc-shaped blade lights appeared, striking directly onto the back of the Mutated Ghoul.

Three instances of damage, boosted by a 1.5x multiplier, instantly appeared above its head.

[-85]

[-85]

[-85]

This dealt a massive 255 points of damage in total, and that was even with the Mutated Ghoul possessing 10 points of armor.

Otherwise, these three slashes would have been enough to kill the Mutated Ghoul instantly.

Now, the Mutated Ghoul had only a sliver of health remaining.

"Let me land the finishing blow!"

Zong Shen shouted, stopping Tie Zhu, who was just about to launch an attack from the shadows.

He was joking; if he landed the finishing blow, he would get half the experience, while the participating soldiers would split the other half.

He stepped forward quickly and swung his sword!

[-36]

The Mutated Ghoul's health bar was completely emptied.

It transformed into several clusters of light that hovered in place.

Among them, there was actually a blue light.

Besides that, there was also a man covered in mucus, who was on the verge of death.

This guy must have been swallowed by the Mutated Ghoul just a moment ago.

That was why the Mutated Ghoul's stomach had been so bloated.

Now that the Mutated Ghoul had been eliminated by Zong Shen, this lucky fellow was saved as a result.

[Killed lv16 Mutated Ghoul]

[Obtained 880 experience points]

[Obtained Mutated Ghoul's Fang ×10]

[Obtained Complete Green Soul ×1]

[Obtained Ring of the Ghoul (Blue) ×1]

[Obtained Cellar Construction Blueprint ×1]

[Key to the Runic Iron Door ×1]

Five beams of white light flashed simultaneously.

Tie Zhu, Zong Shen, as well as the three Wolf Cavalry and their Giant Wolves, all leveled up.

The Wolf Cavalry reached lv11, Tie Zhu reached lv5, and Zong Shen himself reached lv6, just a little under halfway to lv7.

Zong Shen took a quick look; Tie Zhu had added all his attribute points into Agility, while the Wolf Cavalry had added theirs into Strength.

Their strength had all seen a small increase.

As long as they went through long periods of combat.

Soldiers could also obtain continuous improvements in strength through leveling up and changing equipment.

Next, Zong Shen turned his attention to the equipment.

There was actually a piece of blue-tier equipment.

This was the first time he had dropped one.

The other items were not urgent; the equipment needed to be checked first.

[Ring of the Ghoul (Blue)]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Effect: Strength +3, Agility +3, Health +50]

[Skill: Summon Ghoul lv10 (Summon 2 ordinary lv10 Ghouls to fight for you, duration 10m, cooldown 8h)]

(Congratulations, blue quality, excellent grade, you deserve to have it.)

Zong Shen put the ring directly onto his finger.

After equipping it.

His Strength became 21 points.

His Agility became 11 points.

His Health also soared to 253 points.

His attributes had received a significant boost.

It was truly worthy of being blue-quality equipment.

It appeared to be a tier above green-quality, yet not as precious as purple-quality.

So far, Zong Shen had discovered six grades.

Damaged (gray), Common (white), Fine (green), Excellent (blue), Rare (purple), Legendary (orange).

A preliminary quality hierarchy had already been established here.

As for whether there was anything better than Legendary, that would require Zong Shen's continuous exploration.

Zong Shen followed his usual practice and put away the other rewards first.

He turned his gaze toward the man wrapped inside the mass of slime.

He was wearing a mage robe adorned with flame runes, and he held a short staff in his hand topped with a fiery red gemstone that looked quite valuable.

Zong Shen pondered whether he should strip this guy of his equipment first.

[Dying Fire Mage: Favis]

[Aptitude: Excellent]

[Level: lv10]

[Attributes: (Click to expand)]

[Satiety: 80]

[Loyalty: 0 (Original master deceased, ownerless state)]

[Occupies 2 points of Command]

[(Click to rescue and recruit)]

It seemed this guy must have been a soldier belonging to that previous unlucky lord.

He was a fire-element mage.

Unfortunately, he had been engulfed by the Mutated Ghoul.

Without powerful soldiers, that unlucky fellow naturally stood no chance against the Mutated Ghoul and was quickly finished off by it.

An average lord would find it very difficult to reach the level of personal strength that Zong Shen possessed.

As of now, Zong Shen's combat prowess was already approaching that of a Wolf Cavalry without his mount.

This had a lot to do with starting out with a strength-based build.

In that case, this dying mage could be recruited.

Zong Shen pondered secretly for a moment, then immediately opened the attributes.

[Fire Mage: Favis]

[Strength: 13]

[Agility: 12]

[Intelligence: 30]

[Charisma: 9]

[Health: 13/285]

[Mana: 27/385]

[Magic Damage: 46~49]

[Blunt Damage: 18~21]

[Head Armor: 0]

[Body Armor: 19]

[Leg Armor: 9]

[Magic Resistance: 9]

[Skills: Fire Rain (Chant time 10s, summons 10 waves of fire rain to attack a designated area, each wave deals a fixed 80 points of magic damage and 8 points of burn damage, consumes 100 mana, cooldown 30m), Magic Effect Amplification (Mana recovery speed increased by 20%), Small Fireball (Chant time 2s, consumes 20 mana, launches a small fireball, deals 1.2x magic damage and burn damage for 3 seconds at 0.1x magic damage per second), Explosive Fireball (Chant time 5s, consumes 50 mana, launches an explosive fireball, deals 1.5x magic damage and 1.5x explosion damage, plus burn damage for 3 seconds)]

Very strong; this damage output was simply off the charts.

Especially the Explosive Fireball.

Magic damage + explosion damage + burn damage.

In terms of skill output, this guy was even stronger than Tasia.

This was also the characteristic of a Fire Mage.

Fire-type magic possessed extremely high lethality.

Among all mages, it could rank in the top three.

I've gotten a bargain.

Facing such a powerful fire mage, Zong Shen naturally had no reason to refuse.

He decisively chose to save and recruit him.

[Please restore Favid's health to above 50 first]

"Lads, lift him up."

Zong Shen called out.

The next moment, several burly men gathered around...

Following that, Zong Shen took out a wooden bucket containing about 80ml of Moon Spring Water.

This was the Moon Spring Water Zong Shen had taken out to trade that morning; exactly 80ml remained, so he had brought it along as a backup.

Zong Shen had Colby pry open the fire mage's mouth, then poured half of the Moon Spring Water directly inside.

"Cough, cough..."

After a light cough from choking on the water.

Favid slowly woke up.

His expression, however, remained somewhat dazed.

"Was it you who saved me?"

"Where is my lord?"

Zong Shen leaned in front of him.

He hadn't expected the man to be such a handsome guy with blonde hair and blue eyes.

However, the smell on his body was truly hard to compliment.

Those viscous fluids emitted a pungent, putrid, and sour stench.

Zong Shen looked at him and revealed a smile.

"Brave mage, it was indeed I who saved you..."