85: Huge gains

Playing games, right!

The most important thing is definitely skills, followed by equipment.

Today's harvest was huge, but looking at the time, it's already eight o'clock in the evening...

Shian didn't delay any longer and prepared to go back to check today's harvest one by one.

He sent all his other minions into the Emerald Dream, leaving only Wu Lun, Pigsy, and Feng Tiao.

The two of them each mounted a pig and hurried toward the Novice Village.

It's just not the same as a professional mount; Pigsy was all muscular, which not only chafed the buttocks but was also incredibly bumpy to ride.

Back on Blue Star, Shian basically belonged to the semi-shut-in group.

He didn't have any expensive hobbies either.

He had certainly never done an activity like horseback riding.

If he didn't have 100% control over the wild boar he was riding, he really wouldn't have dared to ride it...

When he dismounted by the river, Shian felt like everything below his waist was paralyzed!

His butt was completely numb.

"An Xixi has misled me! You call this a little uncomfortable?"

He struggled back to the You Jian Inn, gave instructions for Wu Lun to go to the Auction House to dispose of the items he didn't want, and then parted ways with him at the inn entrance.

Although riding a pig wasn't comfortable, Wu Lun wasn't as delicate as Shian and looked completely fine.

Returning to his familiar bed, he wasn't actually very tired, just feeling a bit mentally exhausted!

As expected, he couldn't get used to the life of a lone traveler; no wonder there's a saying that men and women working together makes the work less tiring...

Lying on the bed, Shian began to take stock of the harvest from this Dungeon trip.

He wouldn't look at the Black Iron Tier equipment... After running a few more days of Dungeons, the Black Iron Tier stuff would probably all be obsolete.

There were two pieces of Silver Tier equipment, so Shian looked at the "Flash-Step Leather Boots" first.

"Flash-Step Leather Boots" "Silver Tier" "Foot, Leather Armor" "Requirement: Agility 50, Strength 50" "Physical Defense +20" "Magic Defense +20" "Agility +10" "Strength +10" "Movement Speed +3" "Durability: 45/45" ("Put them on, and you'll be the flashiest kid in the whole place!")

As a piece of Silver Tier equipment, these boots could be said to have pushed all the boostable stats to the limit.

The only downside was that the "Airflow Soft Shoes" Shian was currently wearing were also Silver Tier...

"Robust Belt" "Silver Tier" "Waist, Chain Mail" "Requirement: Strength 60, Constitution 50" "HP +150" "Strength +15" "Constitution +10" "Durability: 45/45" ("A belt! How can it not have a slot for a health potion? Bad review!")

After looking at the most important pieces of equipment, Shian began to think about how to equip them all.

The good news was that clearing the Dungeon on elite difficulty for the first time granted Shian an additional 10 free stat points.

That gave him enough room to maneuver.

Currently, Shian's stats were Strength 47, Agility 45, Constitution 43, and Spirit 40.

Considering his actual situation and the requirements of these pieces of equipment, Shian added three points to Strength, five points to Agility, and two points to Spirit before starting to change his gear.

He equipped the new items in a specific order! Shian's stats changed drastically!

"Player: Shi Chuan (Shian)" "extra lifespan: 79 years 207 days" "Level: 6 (23.11%)" (23108 / 100000) "HP: 1490" "Mana: 660" "Strength: 78" "Agility: 66" "Constitution: 53" "Spirit: 33" "Physical Attack: 218" "Magic Attack: 66" "Physical Defense: 119" "Magic Defense: 110" "Current Equipment: Fish Bone Ring (Bronze), Deception Ring (Bronze), wolf fang necklace (Black Iron), Carved Leather Jacket (Black Iron), Boar Skin Leggings (Black Iron), Flash-Step Leather Boots (Silver), Framing Longbow (Bronze Level), Wolf Skin Cloak (Black Iron), Bloodslayer Pauldrons (Bronze), Robust Belt (Silver)."

With this change, Shian's stats had changed quite significantly.

However, his original "bucket waist" stat distribution plan had been ruined by the requirements of this Silver Tier equipment...

Of course, this was mainly because Shian wasn't wearing many decent magic-type equipment pieces!

Even the "Airflow Soft Shoes" that added ten points to Spirit had been swapped out...

That was what caused the current imbalance in his stats.

The main reason Shian made this choice was because most of the minions under his command were physical attackers.

Since he could provide them with stat bonuses, he naturally had to prioritize the physical type.

After a day of leveling up, Pigsy and the two crows had successfully reached level six.

Feng Tiao was also more than halfway through level five...

Originally, Shian felt that leveling from six to seven was a long way off.

He didn't expect the current leveling speed to be decent...

One trip to the elite Dungeon directly yielded nearly a quarter of the experience points and nearly thirty years of extra lifespan!

But from the situation in the elite Dungeon, one could also see the difficulty of the hell-difficulty Dungeon!

Shian already needed to start considering upgrading his main skills to Silver Tier...

He hadn't forgotten that there was still a Bronze Trial ahead that sounded extremely difficult!

After changing all his equipment, Shian took out the skill books he had obtained this time.

Shian was mainly looking at two: Healing Totem and Summon War Banner!

Judging by their names, these two could be considered summoning-type skills...

But in reality, Shian had seen them both, and they didn't resemble summoning at all!

Shian now had nine active skills! He could still learn three more!

The Summon War Banner skill was definitely a must-learn; this skill was simply heaven-defying, basically an enhanced version of Bloodlust!

"Ding, you have learned the skill Summon War Banner!"

"Summon War Banner: Level 1+3" Normal Skill

"Upgrade Condition: In combat against enemies of the same level, while the battle standard is active, deal massive damage: 0/10000"

"Effect: Summon a battle standard with 11 HP on the battlefield. It affects all friendly units within a five-meter radius, Taunt surrounding hostile units to attack, and grants friendly units the effect of 'Attack Speed increased by 26%'. 11 physical attacks can destroy the battle standard. If it is never destroyed, the battle standard will persist. Consumes 200 Mana, Cooldown 3 minutes!"

"Holy crap, this skill..."

"It's called Summon War Banner, so they actually count it as a summoning skill?"

"Didn't expect that my talent actually has the potential to achieve god-like concepts!"

Without a second thought, Shian spent 15 years of extra lifespan to upgrade this skill to Bronze Tier.

"You have successfully upgraded the skill 'Summon War Banner' to Bronze Tier. Ten years of extra lifespan have been deducted, remaining: 64 years 207 days."

The Bronze Tier skill didn't have any other changes for now, but the battle standard's area of effect had become a circular region with a 20-meter radius...

Checking the skill attributes, it could be counted as both a summoning skill and a summoning support skill!

In that case, once he went to the main city, he had already met the requirements to change class to Summoner...

However... he was so powerful that ordinary classes were no longer suitable for him!

After leaving the village, he still had to find a way to obtain a more powerful hidden class...

With this skill... Shian felt that if he faced Gemu Chew-Iron, the Bone Smasher at elite difficulty again, he could pin it to the ground and beat it up!

Before his excitement had even faded, the door to Shian's room was being pounded with a loud bang!

Along with it came Liu Lili's scolding voice...

"How come I didn't know you were so rude back on Blue Star?"

"Oh my... I was just joking with Shian..."