55: Skeleton suit, unexpected boss

Ye Xiao first melted the two newly acquired skeleton set pieces.

Then, he reopened his equipment panel to check them.

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【Skeleton Spaulders (Legendary)】

【Constitution +150】

【Intelligence +290】

【Melting Effect: Fire Resistance increased by 1000 points.】

【Effect: When attacked, there is a 15% chance to release a Wind Shield, absorbing 10% of elemental damage.】

【Wearing Level: Level 70】

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【Skeleton Crown (Legendary)】

【Agility +225】

【Intelligence +225】

【Melting Effect: Increases the projectile speed of all Fire skills.】

【Effect: When taking fatal damage, releases a powerful storm, repelling surrounding enemies and dealing 30% of fatal damage as area-of-effect damage.】

【Wearing Level: Level 70】

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Although the two pieces of equipment only had one effect attribute, the increase in their four-dimensional attributes was about 150 points more than the previous skeleton trousers.

The effects obtained from melting were not too surprising to Ye Xiao.

There were certainly improvements, and they were all quite good.

However, for Ye Xiao, who was already accustomed to Mythical Grade equipment, these three skeleton pieces were not irreplaceable.

But currently, he didn't have equipment for these three slots, so wearing them would still significantly boost his attributes.

After all, they were only Level 70 equipment, and together they provided Ye Xiao with 1190 attribute points.

It's worth noting that the total bare attributes of a Level 70 Professional were only 1184 points, so these three pieces of equipment doubled his attribute points.

This alone was worthy of their Legendary quality.

Of course, more importantly, these three skeleton pieces were actually a set.

After Ye Xiao equipped them, the set attribute was activated.

All Elemental Resistance +700.

After equipping everything, Ye Xiao opened his panel.

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【ID: Night Shadow】

【Level: 90】

【Profession: Mage】

【Free Attribute Points: 0】

【Attributes: Strength 272; Constitution 524; Agility 1518; Intelligence 3179】

【Health: 176290 / 176290; Mana: 34690 / 34690】

【Skills: Fireball, Mana Spring, Experience Surge... expand】

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After allocating free attribute points to Agility, plus the equipment bonuses, Ye Xiao's Agility had now also broken through a thousand, reaching 1158 points.

This already surpassed ordinary Level 70 Agility-type Professionals.

And he was a Mage.

He was also a tanky Mage.

Ye Xiao was slightly shocked by his own overpowered attributes.

Besides the visible panel, Ye Xiao's resistances were also heaven-defying.

Among them, the highest Fire Resistance reached 25407.

This resistance almost provided immunity to 90% of Fire damage.

Unless the opponent used a forbidden spell comparable in power to a nuclear bomb.

Next, the second highest was Poison Resistance, with 12168 points.

Poison damage is usually continuous frequency damage, with limited single-hit damage.

Therefore, even though his Poison Resistance was only half of his Fire Resistance, his immunity was quite a bit stronger than his Fire Resistance.

In fact, in Ye Xiao's opinion, with his current Poison Resistance, he could already be considered immune to all poisons.

The remaining prominent one was only Mental Resistance, at 9207 points.

Although equally powerful, he still had to continue stacking Mental Resistance when the opportunity arose.

As for other elemental resistances, they all came from Intelligence bonuses, as well as bonuses from several other equipment pieces.

All were uniformly 4615.

They were also about to break the 5000 mark.

Such resistances were naturally due to Ye Xiao's terrifying Intelligence bonus.

After all, an ordinary Level 70 Professional's bare attributes were only 1184 points; even if all were put into Intelligence, it would only be about one-third of Ye Xiao's Intelligence attribute.

After checking his attributes, Ye Xiao casually closed the panel.

Just then, a new wave of monsters appeared.

Ye Xiao glanced at them; the monsters were Level 81.

However, his current level had already reached the cap for the second advancement; he could only continue leveling up after completing the third advancement quest.

But the first phase of the Path of Exile was to last 24 hours, and not much time had passed yet.

Therefore, Ye Xiao had little desire to continue grinding monsters.

Coincidentally, the cooldown for Phantom Doppelganger had ended.

Ye Xiao simply summoned two clones.

Although the clones only inherited 30% of his attributes, they were more than enough to deal with the monsters in front of him.

Five minutes later, this wave of monsters was wiped out.

Seeing that the clones hadn't taken any damage, Ye Xiao felt relieved and let them clear out the monsters for him.

Ye Xiao himself sat to the side.

Earlier, the Eight Great Families had all sent representatives to the Path of Exile to intercept him.

Although ostensibly to recruit him, it was likely more to ascertain his true strength.

And he had ignored the Eight Great Families in front of everyone.

Clearly, the Eight Great Families had lost face.

It wasn't that Ye Xiao didn't want a peaceful resolution, after all, simultaneously facing several of the alliance's most powerful forces.

Even with his immense self-confidence, Ye Xiao still felt a wave of pressure.

He needed time.

Unfortunately, the assertiveness of the Eight Great Families was known to all.

Even if he had appeared earlier and said all the right things, as long as he ultimately didn't choose to join any faction, the outcome would be the same.

The Eight Great Families could not allow any Professional who might threaten them in the future to remain outside their control.

Blue Star did not need a ninth family.

This was something any faction would do for survival and advancement.

Ye Xiao largely guessed how the Eight Great Families planned to deal with him.

He had Bai Xiaoxiao to thank for her previous “reminder.”

Although Bai Xiaoxiao didn't explicitly say it, the current Path of Exile was clearly their best opportunity.

After all, this was the only chance they had to find him in theNewbie Area (newbie zone).

Of course, they didn't know that this was probably also their last chance.

Because upon leaving the Path of Exile, Ye Xiao would immediately advance.

Once completed, he would be able to leave theNewbie Area (newbie zone) and head to the Eternal World's primary area.

The primary area's territory was dozens of times larger than theNewbie Area (newbie zone).

At that time, as long as he didn't show himself, it would be almost impossible for the Eight Great Families to find him.

So, the Path of Exile was their only chance.

And these people would most likely choose to act against him when the second phase began.

However, relying solely on some newcomers who hadn't even completed their second advancement, even if some of them possessed S-grade or higher Talents, they posed no real threat to him.

After figuring this out, Ye Xiao's mood completely relaxed.

In fact, over the next half an hour, Ye Xiao continuously pondered a plan in his mind.

If the plan succeeded, perhaps he could take this opportunity to improve his Wind-type skills.

At the same time, after his two clones successfully annihilated the 10th wave of monsters, the expected elite monster did not appear.

Instead, the surrounding spatial fluctuations underwent drastic changes.

This fluctuation immediately brought Ye Xiao back to his senses.

His gaze swept around.

The surrounding darkness was continuously pouring into the ground.

Immediately after, a huge hole opened in the middle of the originally dim and narrow passage.

Ye Xiao was startled, his gaze sweeping over.

Below the hole, a giant, pale skeleton hand slowly rose.

Is this a boss?