Qin Xiaoyou had never expected this outcome.
"What... what's going on?"
"I offered him a skill book, and he refused?"
Qin Xiaoyou was dumbfounded.
She couldn't quite understand it.
Someone actually turned down something free?
Seeing her dazed expression, Chu Yan couldn't help asking, "Xiao You, what happened?"
Qin Xiaoyou explained, leaving both Chu Yan and Zhang Wei stunned.
Zhang Wei said, "What the hell? He turned down a free skill book? Is there something wrong with his head?"
After thinking it over, Chu Yan comforted her. "Xiao You, maybe he's already learned that skill? Let's farm some more monsters and see if we can get any other skill books~"
Qin Xiaoyou sighed. "I guess that's all we can do..."
A few minutes earlier.
Qin Feng had returned to the game first.
Before he could even make out his surroundings, he heard waves of piercing howls.
I logged out by the sea.
The Demons around here shouldn't have respawned this quickly, should they?
Qin Feng was a little surprised.
As the darkness around him faded, he discovered several players scattering along the shoreline before him, fleeing for their lives!
Behind those players, a bizarre Demon roughly three meters tall was hunting them down!
-- [Golden Arthropod (Lv8)] [Grade: Gold] --
The Demon was pale gold all over, with a lower body resembling an eight-legged horse!
Its upper body, however, had dozens of arms like a centipede, each hand holding a rusty saber or sword!
Its head resembled a spider's, with hundreds of compound eyes tracking every fleeing player. It was utterly grotesque.
The Golden Arthropod moved at incredible speed, catching up to a Warrior player almost instantly.
Its iron sabers and swords slashed down in a crisscrossing barrage, chopping the Warrior player into dozens of chunks in less than a second!
"D-Dark Shadow?"
One of the fleeing players spotted a figure appearing ahead of her and was immediately delighted.
Qin Feng looked toward the voice and saw a mature, voluptuous woman wearing a fiery-red mage robe!
She had wavy black hair, and her beautiful eyes lit up with delight as she looked at Qin Feng...
It was Gray Rose, the wavy-haired beauty who had bought his Ice Spike earlier!
At the sight of Qin Feng, Gray Rose was delighted at first, then grew nervous. "Dark Shadow, this boss has Anti-Stealth. It killed our team's Assassin. If you're going to fight it, be careful!"
"..."
Qin Feng said nothing.
He would definitely fight a Gold Tier boss. After all, this boss meant 28 Evolution Points to him!
Golden Arthropod. If I remember correctly, this boss has level 2 Anti-Stealth...
Qin Feng narrowed his eyes.
But that didn't mean he no longer needed stealth.
After all, attacking out of stealth dealt more damage!
Shadowmeld!
Qin Feng swiftly vanished!
Seeing this, Gray Rose's beautiful eyes filled with anxiety...
The Gold Tier boss had scattered her entire team, so fighting it was out of the question. She couldn't tell whether Qin Feng intended to fight or flee, either. All she could do was keep running!
Still in stealth, Qin Feng passed Gray Rose.
As they passed each other, worry was plain in her beautiful eyes...
But Qin Feng paid it no mind.
He headed straight toward the Golden Arthropod.
Instant Shadow Slash!
His figure flickered into view, then instantly vanished again as he passed through the Golden Arthropod!
-1013! -3042 (Weak point attack)! -1013!
As expected, this boss can see through level 2 stealth.
My Shadow class effect didn't activate...
Attacks launched from outside the target's field of vision dealt double damage.
That effect couldn't activate when the enemy could see through stealth.
As a result, Qin Feng's damage dropped considerably.
But at the same time!
Thanks to the effect of Legendary Tier Coup de Grace, the Golden Arthropod's head and heart weak points were enlarged by 200%!
Of the nine strikes from Qin Feng's Instant Shadow Slash, three registered as weak point hits, dealing triple damage!
Exactly what I'd expect from a Legendary Tier skill!
I have to thank that girl Lin Liyu. Without her, I might never have found the Temple of Faith...
A single Instant Shadow Slash stripped 13,000 HP from the Golden Arthropod.
The boss's health bar dropped by roughly one-sixth in an instant!
Immediately afterward, Qin Feng turned and fired a Deadly Poison Dart!
He aimed at its head!
The Golden Arthropod tried to dodge, but Qin Feng's agility was too high, and the dart flew too fast. It struck with perfect accuracy!
-1785 (Weak point attack)! -223! -223!
Deadly Poison Dart was still only Silver Grade, so its damage simply couldn't keep up.
Of course, the main issue was that, against the Golden Arthropod, Qin Feng had lost his class's double-damage bonus.
The boss was also facing him now, so he couldn't get the 50% backstab damage bonus either.
I still need to advance my class and gain a higher stealth level...
Qin Feng thought to himself.
Once he had used both skills, the Golden Arthropod charged at him at incredible speed, all eight legs moving in unison!
At full speed, it could cover at least thirty meters per second!
In an instant, the dozens of iron sabers and swords in the Golden Arthropod's hands rained down on Qin Feng like a violent storm!
"Watch out!"
Seeing this from a distance, Gray Rose instinctively shouted, worry creasing her brow.
But in the next moment, not only she but all her nearby teammates who had been scattered by the boss widened their eyes!
They witnessed something they could hardly believe...
Under the boss's assault, Qin Feng sidestepped, backstepped, and rolled, executing the entire sequence in one seamless motion.
In that brief span, he actually dodged dozens of the boss's attacks!
"Holy shit, how is he that fast?!"
"It's not just speed. His reactions are insane, and he knows the boss's attack patterns inside out!"
"Exactly. He's only about as fast as the boss, but he manages to dodge every attack by just enough!"
"It's like he's fought this boss countless times..."
They had no idea that these were the fundamentals Qin Feng had honed over nine years in his previous life!
In his previous life, his class had been Warrior.
But being a Warrior wasn't just about tanking hits!
A truly top-tier Warrior had to dodge a boss's crucial skills. Often, they couldn't afford to take even a single hit, or they would put the entire team in danger!
Especially when the team's healer was Qin Xiaoyou.
Epic Grade bosses had plenty of large-area skills.
Qin Xiaoyou could barely dodge those skills herself. Expecting her to find time to heal Qin Feng as well? That was simply impossible!
So, in his previous life...
Qin Feng had often endured it all alone!
Anyone who thought Qin Feng relied solely on stealth to slaughter bosses was dead wrong.
With enough agility, even if his stealth failed, Qin Feng's movement skills would let him easily toy with the vast majority of bosses!
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