After clearing this section, Wu Shaozhen found that there were no passages leading farther in. He returned to the central area and headed right, soon entering another mining area. Skeletons were scattered all across it. He cast Insight on one: a level 25 skeleton assassin with 720 attack, 65,000 health, and 560 defense. Its skill was the assassin-exclusive Backstab, but its version was clearly a little stronger than Wu Shaozhen's, ignoring 55% of defense and dealing 160% damage with a 25-second cooldown.
"An upgraded version?" Wu Shaozhen wondered. The name was exactly the same, and so was the skill, but all its stats were higher.
"Can skills be upgraded? But I haven't seen an upgrade button." Wu Shaozhen was puzzled. Whatever. He would find out eventually.
Wu Shaozhen stopped dwelling on it. These assassins had no crowd-control skills. Although a single Backstab could take over seven hundred health off him, he could still withstand more than ten of them. Besides, Silver Big Bad Wolf could occasionally use Inspire to boost his attack and defense, so farming them wasn't particularly difficult.
He kept grinding until after midnight, finally clearing out all 612 skeleton assassins. His experience reached LV23: 407742/600000, and Immortal Body added another 612 health, bringing his total to 16,319. Silver Big Bad Wolf reached level 17, with 96,400 health, 750 physical defense, 500 magic defense, and 1,250 attack. His speed was even more outrageous, reaching 500. Apart from health, those stats were already on par with a Silver boss.
All right, time to go back and run the dungeon. I should be able to get another piece of Gold Equipment, Wu Shaozhen thought. He used a Town Portal Scroll to return to Jinling City, then hurried straight toward the dungeon.
"Boss, Dustseal's back. He's heading toward the dungeon."
Wu