57: Mythical Shadow Skeleton King's Wind Bone Staff

Seeing the dazzling light, Ye Xiao was overjoyed.

He quickly stepped forward to pick it up.

Besides the Mythical Grade equipment, the Boss also dropped five Skill Stone.

It was a huge harvest.

Among the five Skill Stone, three were Whirlwind Slash.

The other two were Dark-type skills.

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【Dark Night Soul Erosion (Advanced): Infuses the target with shadow energy, dealing 100 + 0.5 * (Intelligence) dark damage to a single enemy and applying a continuous Shadow Brand effect. Shadow Brand increases all damage taken by the target by 10% for a certain period, and reduces its movement speed and attack speed by 10%.】

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Dark-type skills, in terms of damage, were considerably lower than Fire-type skills of the same level.

Ye Xiao naturally didn't pay much attention to it.

The true power of Dark-type skills lay in their various functional effects.

Just like Dark Night Soul Erosion, while dealing damage, it could also apply a brand to the target, not only causing them to take more damage but also affecting their movement speed and attack speed.

If this skill were combined with advanced Wind-type control skills, a skilled Professional could even make the target almost immobilized and unable to attack.

It was undeniably powerful.

Moreover, Ye Xiao had two Dark Night Soul Erosion Skill Stone, and he now understood his God-tier Talent quite well.

He naturally knew the effect of two Dark Night Soul Erosion Skill Stone.

If Ye Xiao could stack Dark Night Soul Erosion to 10, then no other skills would be needed.

He could completely turn the target into a training dummy.

Of course, the premise was that the opponent had no skills or resistance to remove negative status effects.

But overall,

With these two Dark Night Soul Erosion Skill Stone, plus the crowd control effects of his equipment,

any enemy he faced would be quite a headache.

After learning all five skills,

Ye Xiao's gaze then fell upon the Mythical Grade equipment.

This was a level 90 staff.

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【shadow skeleton king's wind bone staff (Mythical Grade)】

【Intelligence + 500】

【Skill Cooldown - 30%】

【Effect One: Each time a target is hit, there is a 10% chance to apply Wind Entanglement, binding the target, reducing its movement speed by 50% and attack speed by 30% for 5 seconds.】

【Effect Two: Your attacks and skills gain a Dark effect, corroding the target and reducing its dual resistances by 20%.】

【Effect Three: Each time a target is successfully killed, Dark power will summon a Dark Skeleton Warrior from the target's corpse, possessing 50% of the caster's current health and spell damage, and 0.7 * (Intelligence) attack damage, lasting for 30 seconds.】

【Wearing Level: Level 90】

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Seeing the attributes of the shadow skeleton king's wind bone staff,

Ye Xiao's breathing became a little rapid.

This staff actually had three effects.

The first effect, Wind Entanglement, was mainly used for crowd control, reducing movement speed by 50%, which would make it easier for Ye Xiao to hit the target.

If he had this ability just now, dealing with the Skeleton King would have been much easier.

And reducing attack speed by 30% was also equivalent to indirectly increasing Ye Xiao's defense.

It was an effect that balanced offense and defense.

As for effect two, it was a very rare defense-reducing ability, which could take Ye Xiao's spell damage to the next level.

This effect was beyond words.

However, it was the third effect that surprised Ye Xiao.

This ability was somewhat similar to the rare branch of summoners, the Necromancer's ability.

It could only summon from the corpses of targets he killed.

And the ability of the summoned Skeleton Warrior was related to his own ability.

Ye Xiao glanced at his health — 176290.

The Skeleton Warrior possessed 50% of his health, which would be around 88,000 health.

This health was already comparable to a Boss.

As for the Dark Skeleton Warrior's attack power, it wasn't particularly outstanding.

But it was not something an ordinary level 90 Professional could easily ignore either.

Overall, the Dark Skeleton Warrior's role for Ye Xiao was more as a front-line tank.

For a moment, Ye Xiao had a strange feeling; he was clearly a violent mage, but why did he seem to be heading further and further in the direction of a tank?

Ye Xiao dared to say that with his current defensive capabilities, if he really were to go to the front line,

at this level, no one should be able to surpass him.

He shook his head, casting this strange thought aside.

Ye Xiao used the Smelting Furnace to begin smelting.

A moment later, red flames poured into the dark skeleton staff, making the intricate runic patterns on its surface even more eerie and bright, constantly emitting a chilling yet scorching aura.

Upon closer inspection, Ye Xiao noticed that in the crystal-clear obsidian at the tip of the staff, besides the original black and pale yellow energies that were blended together,

another fiery red energy had appeared.

The three energies intertwined and interlocked, instantly making the obsidian even more dazzling.

Ye Xiao checked the staff after smelting.

【Smelting Effect: Fire-type skill level + 3】

Ye Xiao blinked, and an unexpected joy welled up within him.

His original Goblin's Elite Staff's smelting effect was Fire-type skill level + 1.

Ye Xiao had been somewhat regretful that he would lose this smelting effect after equipping this Mythical Grade weapon.

However, he didn't expect the shadow skeleton king's wind bone staff to be so powerful, producing a smelting effect of the same type as the previous staff.

The effect was even two levels higher than before.

Looking at the attributes of the shadow skeleton king's wind bone staff, Ye Xiao realized that the quality of the smelting effect was probably also determined by the quality of the equipment.

The effect smelted from Mythical Grade equipment was much higher than that from Epic Grade.

Thus, Ye Xiao naturally had nothing to be conflicted about.

After equipping the shadow skeleton king's wind bone staff, none of the attributes that the previous Goblin's Elite Staff possessed were lost.

Instead, the effects were greatly enhanced.

Especially the 30% reduction in cooldown time, which was comparable to the second effect of the Goblin set.

This way, Ye Xiao's Fireball still had a 0.5-second cooldown.

At the same time, his future equipment changes would be more flexible, and he would no longer worry about losing set attributes.

After replacing his equipment, Ye Xiao glanced at his skills.

Since the staff's smelting effect was a 3-level increase for Fire-type skills, Ye Xiao's Fireball had now been enhanced 10 times.

He originally thought that his Fireball's single-shot damage should now exceed 10,000.

However, when Ye Xiao looked closely, he was surprised to find that his Fireball's damage had not increased but decreased, with a single-shot damage of 9566 points.

Although it was not much different from before wearing the staff,

the shadow skeleton king's wind bone staff had brought Ye Xiao a full 500 points of Intelligence attribute bonus.

Moreover, as the Fire-type skill level increased by +3, Ye Xiao's Fire Element Mastery also increased from the original 20% Fire Element damage increase to 40%.

Ye Xiao was a little dumbfounded.

However, this shock lasted less than half a second.

Ye Xiao suddenly noticed a very small note below the Fireball skill description.

【Your Fireball has evolved. Each time this skill is cast, three Fireballs will be shot simultaneously, with each Fireball dealing 80% of the single Fireball's damage.】