30: Efficient upgrade speed

Outside the dungeon, the pimp-like man stared with an expression of disbelief.

At these words, everyone showed a playful expression.

He truly had a death wish; a fragile mage, daring to choose nightmare difficulty alone.

Every year, not a few people died in dungeons due to overconfidence in solo runs.

Newcomers like Xia Qi, who didn't know the immensity of heaven and earth, were very likely to die inside.

The Zombie Mine, as its name suggested, was a dungeon with the terrain of a massive mine structure, teeming with hideous-faced zombies.

Upon entering the dungeon, there would be a circular light ring underfoot; stepping out of the light ring meant officially starting the dungeon.

About a meter away, a tattered zombie monster was roaring; it had already spotted Xia Qi within the light ring.

As soon as Xia Qi stepped out of the light ring, it would use its sharp claws to fiercely tear apart everything in front of it.

Without haste, he cast an Insight skill.

Copper Skin Zombie (Elite)

Rank: 14

Strength: 150

Physique: 150

Agility: 150

Intelligence: 20

Skill: Bite

As expected of a nightmare difficulty dungeon, the attributes were much higher than ordinary monsters.

Strength, Physique, and Agility were all as high as one hundred and fifty points.

If this were a Rank 14 A-Rank Talent holder, at most one attribute would be on par with the zombie, and other attributes would be far inferior to the Copper Skin Zombie.

No wonder the professional players outside all teamed up; they were still lingering here even at Rank 20 or higher.

However, Xia Qi was not worried; with three S-Rank Talents, and many other powerful Talents and skills, he would win no matter how he fought.

Thunder Breathing circulated, a puff of white Qi exhaled, and Xia Qi stepped out of the light ring, officially beginning his dungeon journey.

The Copper Skin Zombie's eyes glowed red, and upon discovering its prey, it excitedly charged forward.

Its speed was fast, but Xia Qi's lightning was faster.

Boom!

With a bang, the Copper Skin Zombie's body paused, entering a brief state of stiffness; with only 20 points of Intelligence, it couldn't understand why the enemy in front of it could summon such terrifying lightning.

After gaining the Mage profession, Frenzy Lightning's power increased by ten percent, instantly causing a tearing wound on the Copper Skin Zombie's body.

Although the Copper Skin Zombie was powerful, its Physique was only one hundred and fifty points, slightly lower than the one hundred and eighty points of the Treant King.

Facing the terrifying power of lightning, as long as Xia Qi wasn't touched by the Copper Skin Zombie, killing it was only a matter of time.

With a roar, the enraged Copper Skin Zombie attacked again with its claws; it wanted to fiercely tear apart the enemy in front of it.

But before it could act, the next Frenzy Lightning followed immediately.

One, two, three.

Xia Qi just stood in place; every time the Copper Skin Zombie tried to advance, a Frenzy Lightning would interrupt it.

This resulted in the Copper Skin Zombie failing to reach him, despite the distance between them being less than two meters.

It collapsed to the ground, dead, amidst unwillingness and roars.

Killed Rank 14 Copper Skin Zombie, Experience +4000

Seeing the prompt, Xia Qi showed a hint of excitement.

nightmare difficulty was indeed nightmare difficulty; the monster experience was ten times that of monsters of the same Rank outside.

Killing one Copper Skin Zombie was equivalent to killing ten ordinary Rank 14 monsters.

And the entire monster-killing process only took five or six seconds, so the efficiency was not low.

Calculated this way, the leveling speed was actually faster.

The mine's ground was relatively wide, and Xia Qi's battle with the Iron Skin Zombie naturally attracted other monsters, and new Copper Skin Zombies appeared again.

“Very good, today, not a single monster here will escape!”

As his words fell, Xia Qi was like a fierce tiger descending a mountain, slaughtering wildly all the way.

Killed Rank 14 Copper Skin Zombie, Experience +4000

Obtained Copper Claws x5

Killed Rank 14 Copper Skin Zombie, Experience +4000

Obtained Ordinary Ore +7

Information appeared one after another.

After possessing the S-Rank Lucky Talent, Xia Qi discovered that not only was the drop rate very high, but the quantity of dropped Materials also increased.

This was all money!

Seeing this, Xia Qi worked even harder to kill monsters, saving energy to the maximum extent possible, while Frenzy Lightning struck one after another, perfectly connected.

Advancing one hundred meters, after killing nearly a hundred Iron Skin Zombies, a light flashed on Xia Qi's body, and he leveled up without surprise.

“Rank 11!”

He originally had only twenty-five percent progress left, and Xia Qi filled it up in just ten minutes.

Name: Xia Qi

Profession: Mage

Rank: 11 (0.001%)

Strength: 120

Agility: 120

Physique: 120

Intelligence: 240

Equipment: None

Talents: Congenital Double Pupils (Lv2 Unique), S-Rank Thunder Control, S-Rank Instantaneous Movement, S-Rank Lucky, A-Rank Rapid Learning, A-Rank Bullet Speed, A-Rank Sword Heart Clarity, A-Rank Demon Bone Art, A-Rank Mechanical Transformation, B-Rank Wind Blade, B-Rank Weaken, B-Rank Energy Water

Active Skills: Frenzy Lightning (Level 3), Nine Heavens Thunderclap (Level 3), Lightning Flash, Adhesion

Passive Skill: Energy Reduction

After checking his attribute panel, Xia Qi nodded with satisfaction.

“Rank 10 is a watershed; after Rank 10, basic attributes increase again.”

“Strength, Physique, and Agility used to increase by 10 points each time, now they increase by 20 points.”

“Intelligence was 20 points before, now it's 40 points.”

“As my Rank increases, the gap between my attributes and those of other Talent holders will also grow larger and larger.”

The rules of the world were like this: the strong became stronger, and the gap between the weak and the strong would only grow wider.

“I must make money quickly and upgrade my Talents to SS-Rank, or even SSS-Rank, as soon as possible.”

With his goal firm, Xia Qi's desire for money grew stronger and stronger.

What he had seen so far was only the tip of the iceberg of this world; to truly reach the pinnacle in this world, his current strength was definitely not enough.

How strong an SS-Rank Talent truly was, he would know in a few days.

As for the legendary SSS-Rank Talent, perhaps he could find the answer at Shengjing University.

“It's useless to think about it now; making money and leveling up are the way to go.”

Due to limitations in knowledge, Xia Qi could not obtain more information now; everything would have to wait until more than twenty days later.

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, he continued to delve deeper into the mine.

The entire mine was not a single route, but had multiple branch routes, though each route connected to the others.

With Thunder Breathing and Bullet Speed, Xia Qi would not miss any path; even if it meant running a bit more, he would kill all the monsters.

As experience points rapidly accumulated, the energy within Xia Qi was also consumed at high speed.

The energy refilled upon leveling up would soon run out, but Xia Qi was not flustered.

In his storage space, more than twenty cups of Energy Water had been prepared yesterday in advance, with the purpose of killing monsters non-stop throughout.

After Xia Qi cleared all the monsters in all the passages, his Rank experience had already reached one-third.

Rank: 11 (33.03%)

It only took about forty minutes in total, an absurdly high efficiency.

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