Secret Realm Scroll, New Skill: Corpse Explosion
“Equipment: Goblin Magic Ring”
“Quality: Epic”
“Effect: Magic Attack +20, Mana +50, Spirit +5”
“Attribute: Binds one skill, reduces cooldown by 20%”
“Equip Requirement: Level 5 or higher magic-based profession”
“What a shame, it can only reduce the cooldown of a single skill.”
A 20% cooldown reduction, just this attribute alone could sell for 100,000 gold coins on the exchange.
It’s a pity it only applies to a single skill.
Fortunately, a professional can wear two rings, two bracelets, and two armguards.
Lin Xuan put on the ring.
With this, adding the ring that increases mana regeneration, Lin Xuan’s rings for the novice stage were considered complete.
“I won’t need to change them until at least level fifty.”
Thinking this, Lin Xuan didn't waste any more time.
He checked the attributes of the two Magic Cards.
There are many types of Magic Cards: skill, equipment, attribute, item, pet, mysterious, and various others.
The Magic Card Dragon Saliva and the Magic Card lucky revolver both belonged to the item type.
The effect of Dragon Saliva was simple: after equipping it, one would gain a skill that didn't occupy a skill slot.
After activating the skill, for two hours, one could avoid active attacks from monsters within ten levels higher than oneself.
The skill could only be activated once a day and used a hundred times.
It was rather ordinary, but extremely practical for the novice period.
Lin Xuan chose not to equip it.
He was currently in need of leveling up and couldn't afford to waste any encountered monsters.
As for the lucky revolver.
Lin Xuan felt this was his strongest item, besides his talent and the Lightning Power Magic Card.
“Magic Card: lucky revolver”
“Type: Item”
“Quality: Epic”
“Level: Lv1”
“Effect: After equipping, gain a revolver. After shooting, gain a short luck bonus.”
“Note: lucky revolver refreshes one bullet each month, can store a maximum of six shots.”
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Luck, Charm, Sin Value.
These were the three hidden attributes of a professional.
They were very difficult to obtain.
But all were extremely powerful and important.
Luck was related to all matters concerning a professional.
If luck was high, one might even drop epic or even higher quality legendary equipment just by fighting a common monster outside!
Charm, on the other hand, was related to a professional’s opportunities.
When clearing a dungeon.
Charm might influence a professional to trigger certain hidden mechanisms.
It would also affect the quality of pets a professional could capture and summon.
As for Sin Value.
Whether you acted proactively or passively.
Only by killing other professional players.
Would your sin value increase.
After reaching a certain level.
Your name would be unhideable, and you would be in a red-name state, unable to enter the main city.
Of course, killing a red-name player.
Could also make all their equipment drop.
It was also this hidden value.
That prevented professionals who gained extraordinary abilities from killing indiscriminately.
After all, outside the city, it was still not suitable for human survival.
Monsters, once killed, would quickly respawn.
Unless one could command many people to patrol continuously.
After opening the treasure chest, Lin Xuan equipped the purple Magic Card and the green attribute Magic Card.
Of the eight empty card slots, four attribute cards, one skill card, and one item card were already equipped.
Lin Xuan did not use the Dragon Saliva Magic Card.
Instead, he took it with him and went straight to the exchange.
He consigned all the extra equipment, Magic Cards, and materials he had.
In less than ten minutes, all transactions were completed.
A total of 130,000 gold coins were received.
130,000 might be a considerable sum for others.
But Lin Xuan still felt it wasn't enough.
He needed to cast spells continuously, and his mana consumption was very high.
Mana potions themselves were not cheap.
He glanced at his backpack.
Of the two stacks of potions he bought before entering the dungeon yesterday, only a dozen or so bottles remained.
Lin Xuan bought 70,000 worth of mana potions and 30,000 worth of health potions.
Then, he took out the Secret Realm Scroll.
The Secret Realm Scroll did not allow immediate entry into the secret realm space upon opening.
After opening, one would receive coordinates.
Typically, these coordinates would appear near the main city where the Secret Realm Scroll was obtained.
Therefore.
Lin Xuan needed to go outside the city.
However, he was almost level ten now, and only needed to clear one more dungeon to reach level ten.
After reaching level ten, he could unlock new skills and skill slots.
This was crucial for novice professionals.
So, Lin Xuan was not in a hurry.
Instead, he turned and went to the Goblin Castle dungeon entrance, entering the highest difficulty, World Destroyer level dungeon.
Approximately twenty minutes later.
Lin Xuan emerged from the dungeon, successfully leveling up to ten.
Level ten was the first transformation for novice professionals.
At this point, ordinary professions could choose one of two new skills from their skill tree.
Rare and hidden professions, on the other hand, could choose one of three.
Lin Xuan opened his panel and allocated his free attribute points to Spirit.
He opened the skill tree panel.
A giant blue-black tree was displayed on it.
This was the skill tree.
At this moment, two blue dots on the skill tree were glowing.
Lin Xuan checked them one by one.
“Skill: Corpse Explosion”
“Effect: Controls your summoned creatures to self-destruct, dealing 100% spell damage to all enemy units within range!”
“Note: Corpse Explosion has no cooldown and no cost.”
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“Skill: Bone Spikes”
“Cooldown: 2 minutes”
“Mana Cost: 20”
“Effect: Summons bone spikes at a designated location…”
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Before finishing reading the second skill, Lin Xuan directly chose the Corpse Explosion skill.
This was the core of an Necromancer.
After level five, Corpse Explosion could also unlock skill characteristics, allowing control over other corpses on the battlefield to explode.
There was no reason not to learn it.
Lin Xuan hadn’t expected his luck to be so good, refreshing it so early.
It was said that many professionals who reached level one hundred still didn’t have it.
“Now the cooldown of Summon Undead has been reduced to two minutes.”
“The skeletons summoned are walking bombs!”
Thinking of this, Lin Xuan put all five of his skill points into Summon Undead.
Then, he also bound the attribute effect of the Goblin Magic Ring to the Summon Undead skill.
Now, the Summon Undead skill level had increased to five.
Each time, he could summon thirty-two Skeleton Soldierss.
The cooldown was also only two minutes and seven seconds!
“If my mana value is sufficient, I’m afraid I could clear all novice dungeons with just this skill.”
Everything was ready.
Lin Xuan prepared his supplies and headed outside the city.
Jiangcheng was located in the central-southern part of Xia Kingdom, once known as the land of fish and rice.
Before the Great Cataclysm, the terrain here was flat and covered with a dense network of rivers.
After the cataclysm, various plants grew wildly, and the environment changed drastically.
Many small lakes also turned into swamps.
Therefore, once outside the city, vehicle-type conveyances were not very useful.
However, after a professional reached level fifty, they could tame and recruit mounts.
Currently, one could pay to ride out of the city.
Lin Xuan glanced at the coordinates on the Secret Realm Scroll.
It was about seventy kilometers from the main city.
Given his current physical fitness, he could probably reach it in about two hours.
There was no need to spend money on a mount.
However, seeing the rows of professionals at the city gate riding white tigers, lions, and black panthers.
Lin Xuan also felt a surge of envy.
That was truly cool!
This made his desire to level up even stronger.
“Level up, I must level up!”
“But after level fifty, should I tame a white tiger or a leopard, or should I tame an Iron-Eating Beast?”
Thinking of the black and white Iron-Eating Beast.
Lin Xuan felt a bit antsy.
After exiting the city gate.
He immediately summoned thirty-two Skeleton Soldierss and hurried to the location corresponding to the Secret Realm Scroll.
After this, Lin Xuan did not summon too many Skeleton Soldierss.
The distribution of monster levels outside the city was not uniform.
If the commotion was too great.
He worried about attracting high-level monsters.
“Killed Shadow Cat Demon, Experience +30”
“Killed Ghoul, Experience +30”
“Successfully cast Magic Barrier, Max Health +30”
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The journey was uneventful, and Lin Xuan quickly arrived at the scroll's location.
This place was at the edge of a lake.
Lin Xuan looked around and saw no one else.
He simply clicked to use it.
An oval door, two meters high, appeared in the void ahead.
Inside the door was a swirling blue vortex.
Lin Xuan leaned forward, preparing to enter.
The next moment, he froze in place.
This Secret Realm Scroll actually required at least two people to team up to enter!
“Where am I supposed to find someone?”
Lin Xuan frowned, looking at the Undead Contract in his skill bar.
Could it be.
He had to contract a monster nearby?
But he had seen the Monster Compendium last night.
Within a hundred kilometers of Jiangcheng.
There were no suitable ones.
He had originally thought of just entering the secret realm of the scroll to see.
Now this…
Just as Lin Xuan was pondering a solution, two flashes of light suddenly appeared not far away.
Immediately after.
The figures of two women appeared.
One of them, a woman in a fiery red tight-fitting outfit, saw Lin Xuan and instantly exclaimed in surprise.
“Student Lin Xuan, why are you here?”