Chapter 67 - 67: 067 Bone Fang Level 3
Chapter 67: 067 Bone Fang Level 3
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Land of Trials!
Within less than five minutes of receiving the system notification about the upgrade of his trial level to Nightmare level, Dean McKenzie was officially subjected to a Nightmare level trial.
[Your trial level has been successfully updated to Nightmare level, the trial mission has changed!]
[Your Taunt Aura will be pushed to its limit, please endure this state for at least
ihour!]
Two system prompts refreshed unremarkably.
The next second, Dean’s Taunt Aura was maxed out.
At that moment, the power of taunting materialized directly, Dean could clearly feel a force exploding from the top of his head, spreading out like waves, instantly extending several hundred meters.
Moreover, this force did not seem to have any intention of stopping; it swept all the way, disappearing from Dean’s sight.
Dean had no doubt that this Taunt Aura might have covered the entire Land of
Trials.
However, after the Taunt Aura was released, no monster immediately swarmed from Dean’s surroundings.
A period of calm ensued.
But Dean knew very well that this was the calm before the storm.
Sure enough, after a while, the Taunt Aura, which had been maxed out, started to work.
Kappas began to appear in the river.
Unlike before when Dean couldn’t find them no matter how hard he tried,
this time, Kappas came raging like a flood.
As if a nest of Kappas was stirred, hundreds, even thousands of Kappas continuously emerged within a few dozens of meters of the river section where Dean was. They rushed over relentlessly.
The scene was extremely terrifying!
Dean’s face darkened.
“I knew that the Nightmare mode of the trial would be harder than the Difficult mode, but I didn’t expect it to be this much tougher! This mode doesn’t seem to intend for anyone to pass, does it?”
Frantic, Dean tried to activate the Gate of Bone to summon the Skeletons.
But what responded to him was a cold system prompt.
[The Gate of Bone cannot be used while you are in the Land of Trials!]
Summoning was not possible!
Dean was already prepared for that.
“We have to run!”
Dean quickly had Doggy Two carry him and run away.
He was not arrogant enough to face-off against thousands of Kappas on his
own.
If he got surrounded, even with the powerful enhancements he had, he would be done for.
So, Dean quickly commanded Doggy Two to carry him while Old Seven, as a Skeleton Mage, began to flee all-out.
Generally, when enemies came from the river, Dean was supposed to run in the opposite direction.
However, Dean did not choose to go that way.
If he ran in that direction, without a water source, he would face grave danger if he encountered a large number of enemies while being out of Mana.
Hence, Dean commanded Doggy Two to go in the direction from which the enemies came.
Old Seven, Doggy Two, Doggy Three, Doggy Four, Doggy Five, and Doggy Six formed a blockade and ran while Dean and Doggy Seven were in charge of attacking.
To be precise, Dean was the one in charge of attacking.
The current situation was especially suitable for Dean.
His Bone Fang attacks were strong, had a penetration effect, and a long range.
He could kill several Kappas with one attack.
The only problem was that the attack speed was slow, although Dean was quite familiar with the chanting, it still took nearly a second to launch a Bone Fang attack.
Given the current situation, the output of Bone Fang was rather limited against the hordes of Kappas in the hundreds or thousands.
However, the situation that faced Dean was not entirely bad.
Under such circumstances, the pressure the Kappas put on Dean helped him to concentrate more on the chanting of Bone Fang.
This enabled Dean to level up his Bone Fang skill, which had been stuck at the end of level 2, to level 3 with a burst of effort.
[Your Bone Fang skill has been upgraded to level 3!]
With level 3 Bone Fang, the base damage increased from 1.5 times his Spirit plus 30, to 1.6 times his Spirit plus 40.
The power had increased considerably, but it was not much help for Dean’s current situation.
Dean was still in a state of being chased around by the Kappas.
It took him several hours to relocate to the place where the Nightmare mode was activated earlier, yet he fled back to the starting point in just 15 minutes.
His situation had not changed at all.
More Kappas were still chasing from behind, and not only was there no decrease in numbers, but it seemed like there were even more of them.
Dean could only continue upstream along the river.
However, soon, Dean had no choice but to stop.
There was no road ahead.
A huge stone wall had blocked the river, obstructing Dean’s path.
At this point, Dean had no choice but to abandon the river.
But by the time he wanted to abandon the river, it was too late. When he wanted to leave, he found out that the direction towards the forest had been blocked by the Kappas as well.
That is to say, Dean had reached a dead-end.
Now he only had two choices, either make a desperate last stand, or admit defeat and retreat the way he had come.
Unwilling to simply retreat, Dean had no choice but to fight.
All he could do was order Doggy Two to retreat towards the stone wall. They came to the foot of the stone wall and prepared to fight back with their backs against the wall.
Before the fight began, Dean put Old Seven, who was out of Mana, away. At the same time, he equipped two of his dogs with the highest agility with shields and made them responsible for direct defense, while the three dogs guarded the flanks.
Dean was the main attacker; one shot of Bone Fang took away a string of
Kappas.
With his formidable Bone Fang, Dean managed to fend off the Kappas at first.
But Dean knew his own situation.
This was merely because the Kappas behind them had not arrived yet; once they arrived, he would not be able to hold his ground.
“I must think of a solution, otherwise, it will be very challenging to hold on for an hour!”
As much as he said that, what could Dean do under such circumstances?
The only solution was his talent, and the remaining 24 Gold Coins. ”This money can still be used to upgrade a skill, but which one should I upgrade?
Bone Fang? Summon Skeleton? Or my Meditation skill?
Which skill is more suitable for our current situation?”
While Dean was contemplating on this, a cyan water arrow was shot towards him.
But the direction was slightly off, it was not aimed at them, but at the sky above Dean.
Soon, the cyan water arrow stopped in the air, then with a ‘pop’ sound, it split into seven or eight smaller water arrows and fell towards them.
“Plop!”
In Dean’s party, the unlucky Doggy Three was directly hit on the forehead, its skull was shattered, and it was instantly destroyed.
However, at this moment, Dean didn’t have the heart to feel sad. His eyes quickly shifted from Doggy Three and fell on the Kappa that had shot the water arrow.
After launching the appraisal skill, Dean’s eyes shone with excitement!