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In the room of the class leader, the only remaining skeleton double-blade captain and 6 skeleton sword and shield warriors posed a problem to Jiang Ran.
A level 50, second-order skeleton sword and shield warrior. Jiang Ran had defeated this guy in the boss room on the first floor, but there was only one such enemy at that time.
But now, when the six skeleton sword and shield warriors formed a team and acted together, the situation was different. These guys covered each other, making Jiang Ran, who already had a shortage of attack methods, even more helpless, not to mention the skeleton double-knife captain.
what can we do about it?
Jiang Ran can think of three strategies now.
The worst option: Use Shadow Step and Shadow Behind to fight the skeleton monsters.
Middle strategy: Use Shadow Steal to steal a few more skills and see if that doesn't work, then go to the worst strategy;
The best strategy: Go downstairs and trick the white wolf girl up. Since her combat profession is called "Werewolf Blood Witch", she should have some skills that can be used. If she is really hard to trick, you can steal her skills and use them.
According to common sense, Jiang Ran would definitely use the best strategy, but the current situation is special and he doesn't want to have another intersection with the White Wolf Girl so soon.
In order to maximize the usefulness of the White Wolf Girl Adela, Jiang Ran could only make things difficult for himself here.
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8.101 - Suicide Assassination
In the Prison Star world, the most efficient way to kill the enemy is to attack their weak points.
Through the experience gained from hunting skeleton monsters in the tower during this period, Jiang Ran learned that the skulls and entire spines of the skeleton monsters are weak points and can withstand twice as much damage as other parts.
In contrast, every skeleton monster has the skill "Bone Body", which allows them to convert magic power into vitality at a one-to-one ratio, using magic power to repair damaged bones - as long as the vitality has not reached zero.
Therefore, once Jiang Ran starts fighting, he must strive to kill the monsters in the shortest time possible. Otherwise, once they start repairing their bodies, it will become an endless war of attrition, dragging Jiang Ran into a dangerous situation.
So, how should we fight it specifically?
If Jiang Ran hid his true form and only sent his shadow clones to fight the skeletons, he would definitely not be a match for the skeleton captain with two swords and six skeleton sword and shield warriors.
If Jiang Ran himself also participated in the battle, he would have to endure the effect of "damage reduced by half" brought by "Curse: Hermit's Crown of Thorns", and would most likely enter into masochistic mode;
After much deliberation, Jiang Ran decided to pursue his career as an assassin... However, unlike ordinary assassinations, what Jiang Ran was about to carry out was a "suicide assassination."
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Relying on the effect of the "Black Jade Ring", Jiang Ran sneaked into the room of the class leader again, and then found the angle and used the glowing magic stone to project his shadow into the enemy team.
Here Jiang Ran had to sigh that the "Shadow Resident" effect of the "Black Jade Ring" was really powerful. As long as he didn't make any sound, even if he blinded the skeleton monsters' eyes, they would not be able to detect Jiang Ran's existence - but skeletons seemed to have no eyes, and no one knew how they formed their vision.
Then Jiang Ran had to complain again. When summoning shadow clones with the "Shadow Behind", he could only select "living targets within a 20-meter range". This meant that he could not summon "shadow clones" directly from the shadows of the skeleton monsters.
After some hard work, Jiang Ran finally completed the preparations before the battle. Then he seized the opportunity and summoned a shadow clone behind a skeleton sword and shield warrior.
As soon as the shadow clone appeared, it immediately snatched the enemy's sword and slashed at the enemy's spine, but the Skeleton Dual Blade Captain's reaction was not slow either. He responded in less than two seconds, turned around and swung his dual swords to slash at the shadow clone!
In this lightning-fast moment, the shadow clone first cut off the lumbar vertebrae of the skeleton sword and shield warrior, and then the skeleton double-blade captain's double swords cut off the shadow clone and the skeleton sword and shield warrior together.
Then, peace returned to the boss's room.
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(This reaction speed is incredible.)
Jiang Ran stayed quietly in the shadow by the wall, carefully summarizing the lessons learned from the first "suicide assassination".
First of all, in the first fight just now, although the shadow clone had caused damage to the enemy, the one who contributed most of the damage and achieved the kill was the Skeleton Dual Blade Captain.
The result was that Jiang Ran only got 3000 experience points, while if it were the full experience points, it should have been 25000 points.
Fortunately, the Skeleton Dual-Knife Captain did not upgrade because of this kill. If this guy, who is already at level 90 of the third stage, had upgraded, he would have evolved to level 91 of the fourth stage. This is no joke.
Secondly, in that short moment, Jiang Ran saw that the Skeleton Dual Blade Captain's magic value decreased twice, which meant that it used two skills in rapid succession, and Jiang Ran only stole the last skill, called "Double Flash in an Instant".
The effect of "Double Flash in an Instant" is to immediately add another identical attack the moment the attack hits, and this attack will cause an additional 200% physical attack damage.
Taking into account that the enemy is using two swords, the actual effect is actually four slashes in an instant, and each slash has triple damage, totaling 1200% physical attack damage.
With such a damage coefficient, the shadow clone, which had almost no armor, would be killed instantly if hit - and in fact, it was indeed killed instantly.
As a "bystander", Jiang Ran believed that the only way to avoid the attack of the Skeleton Dual-Knife Captain was to use the "Shadow Escape Step", but he couldn't take off his shoes to give them to the shadow clone.
What's worse is that "suicide assassination" is no longer suitable for use. If the Skeleton Dual Blade Captain is promoted to the fourth level, Jiang Ran will face an even more difficult challenge.
Jiang Ran’s next step must be to kill the “Skeleton Dual Blade Captain”.
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(In that case, let’s fight with our true abilities.)
As early as when he passed the first level trial, Jiang Ran overcame his fear of close combat.
Now, if Jiang Ran wants to defeat the Skeleton Dual-Knife Captain, he has no choice but to step into the realm of close combat again.
After the skill's cooldown was over, Jiang Ran seized the opportunity to use "Shadow Behind" again. This time, his target was the Skeleton Dual Blade Captain.
The Skeleton Dual Blade Captain's strength is not low, and the shadow clone cannot snatch the dual blades from him, but this is not a big problem - it can snatch the long sword from the skeleton sword and shield soldier next to him.
But at this time, the Skeleton Dual-Knife Captain had already noticed the existence of the shadow clone, and his sharp dual knives had already chopped down as he turned around!
However, this was also within Jiang Ran's expectations.
Just before dying, the shadow clone threw the stolen longsword behind the Skeleton Dual-Knife Captain. Then, Jiang Ran used the "Shadow Escape Step" to teleport to the shadow of the longsword, took over the longsword and stabbed the Skeleton Dual-Knife Captain's cervical vertebrae!
Almost at the same time, Jiang Ran stabbed the Skeleton Dual Blade Captain's neck, and this guy also killed Jiang Ran's shadow clone.
However, Jiang Ran's attack was not over yet. Before the enemy noticed his presence, he immediately used the stolen "Instant Double Flash" towards the lumbar spine of the Skeleton Dual-Knife Captain, completely cutting off the guy's ability to stand up again.
The skeleton sword and shield warriors reacted a little late, drew their swords and raised their shields as they surrounded Jiang Ran. Jiang Ran didn't take it seriously and continued to destroy the skeleton captain's skeleton until the swords of the skeleton sword and shield warriors were about to pierce him. Then he used his trump card skill "Double Shadow Escape Step" and teleported out of the encirclement in one fell swoop.
After escaping the encirclement, Jiang Ran immediately shouted loudly to attract the attention of the remaining five skeleton sword and shield warriors. As soon as they ran over, Jiang Ran immediately used the glowing magic stone to illuminate his own shadow, and summoned a shadow clone behind the enemy again, ordering it to finish off the skeleton double-knife captain until it was completely killed.
——『Successfully killed "Skeleton Dual Blade Captain - Lv90", career experience +225000, current experience value 225600 / 23200』
——『If the upgrade conditions are met, [Shadow Trickster - Lv62] will automatically upgrade to [Shadow Trickster - Lv69]』
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Once the Skeleton Dual Blade Captain died, the remaining Skeleton Sword and Shield Warriors were just walking experience packs in Jiang Ran's eyes.
After carefully accepting the five experience packs, the magic barrier leading to the third floor stairs automatically disappeared. And, unlike when the first floor was opened, this time a copper box inlaid with copper spokes appeared at the entrance of the stairs.
8.102 - Bottlenecks and Methods (Part )
(Treasure chest?)
Jiang Ran was quite surprised to see something like this after connecting the floors.
This "tower" is a bit too game-like.
Since it's so similar to the game, it wouldn't be surprising if something like a "treasure chest monster" appeared.
Therefore, Jiang Ran did not rush to open the box, but waited until the skill cooldown time was over, then summoned a shadow clone to open the copper box.
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As the shadow clone walked in front of the copper box, Jiang Ran held his breath.
But to his surprise, no accidents happened until the copper boxes were opened.
Jiang Ran went forward to check and found that the copper box was actually filled with dry food and full water bags, which was enough to sustain a person for about 8 days. If one ate sparingly, it should be no problem to sustain for 11 or 12 days.
The problem of food and water seems to be solved, but in fact it is not, because there is a white wolf girl on the first floor of the tower.
So, will there be such a supply box after clearing the third level?
Jiang Ran thought that it was possible to expect this, but it could not be assumed that it would definitely happen, so food and water had to be saved as much as possible.
While the White Wolf Girl had not yet reached the second floor, Jiang Ran first moved the food and water to the top of the stairs, and then while eating, he picked out usable equipment from the skeleton monsters.
Jiang Ran took a pair of white bows and arrows, physical attack power +20; a skeleton warrior shield, comprehensive armor +15; and finally the double swords of the skeleton double-blade captain, physical attack power +40 (x2). To sum it up, it is better than nothing, better than fighting the monsters on the next floor with bare hands.
Afterwards, he stuffed the remaining equipment into the copper box and pushed it aside, perfectly concealing the fact that there had once been food and water in the box.
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After the battle just now, Jiang Ran's level was raised to 72, but as mentioned before, the attribute improvement brought by the level increase cannot bring about a qualitative change in Jiang Ran's strength for the time being.
On the contrary, the increase in the number of floors in the tower will lead to an increase in the strength of monsters, which will make it increasingly difficult for him to move forward.
After eating and drinking, Jiang Ran took a nap to replenish his magic power, and then went up to the third floor to observe the situation.
It wouldn't have been a big deal if he hadn't gone up there, but after he did, Jiang Ran almost lost his life there.
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When he first arrived at the third floor, Jiang Ran saw the familiar black stone tablet. After walking around for a while, he confirmed that the overall situation was similar to the second floor. It was another whole floor of maze. However, for some reason, he didn't see any monsters after walking for several minutes.
But just as Jiang Ran was thinking this, a short red light warning suddenly appeared on his chest, but when he looked around, he didn't see any enemy at all.
(Could it be a wall-penetrating attack?!)
Without thinking too much, Jiang Ran dodged quickly, and at the same time activated "All-round Vision" and "Computing Power Boost·Overclocking".
Then, Jiang Ran saw a translucent figure emerge from nowhere and stab into the air - it was actually a skeleton assassin holding a dagger in both hands!
Jiang Ran now understood that the skeleton assassin was approaching using the invisibility skill.
When the opponent cannot be captured visually, the identification ability is useless. Fortunately, the red light warning saved Jiang Ran's life!
(The shadow behind!)
(Shadow Stealing!)
Taking advantage of the fact that there were no other enemies around, Jiang Ran immediately summoned a shadow clone and assigned it a single sword, instantly creating a numerical advantage of being more numerous against fewer.
Afterwards, with the tacit cooperation with the shadow clone, even with a 50% damage reduction penalty, Jiang Ran still quickly eliminated this third-order level 70 skeleton assassin, obtained 17 experience points, and continued to increase his level to level 5000.
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After he was in a safe situation, Jiang Ran retreated while checking the skills he had just stolen.
The last skill the Skeleton Assassin used before he "died" was called "Invisibility". Its effect was to make himself and all the equipment he wore invisible to the naked eye, but the invisibility effect would automatically stop when he launched an attack.
This skill consumes 500 mana points when activated, and another 50 mana points per second thereafter, allowing you to remain invisible until your mana is exhausted.
It is no exaggeration to say that this skill is exactly what Jiang Ran has always dreamed of. It is a pity that the stolen skill can only last for 60 seconds and then it will automatically disappear.
So, while the skill was still usable, Jiang Ran took the time to explore the floor in stealth mode. After the skill disappeared and the stealth mode was automatically lifted, he continued to use the effect of "Black Jade Ring·Resident in the Shadow" to cover himself and return to the stairs.
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After this exploration, Jiang Ran confirmed that there were four types of monsters on the third floor, namely the Skeleton Dual-Knife Captain, the Skeleton Sharpshooter, the Skeleton Fire Mage and the Skeleton Assassin. They were all at the third stage, around level 70, and were quite difficult to deal with.
With his current strength, if he wants to go to the room where the boss of the floor is, he can only keep fighting and retreating until all the monsters on the floor are killed to ensure absolute safety.
(Now I should be thankful that monsters won't be resurrected endlessly...)
Jiang Ran's sigh was not because he was overly cautious, but because it was indeed the case.
The monster combination on this floor is very difficult to deal with. The Skeleton Dual-Knife Captain has extremely strong frontal combat capabilities. The Skeleton Sharpshooter not only has an exaggerated range, but also has a strange skill that can make arrows refract in the air. In addition, the Skeleton Fire Mage's range flame attack is difficult to avoid. Finally, there is the elusive Skeleton Assassin.
As long as Jiang Ran encounters two or three kinds of monsters at the same time, he has no choice but to run away, otherwise his life will be in danger.
But these are not the most troublesome things. What really troubles Jiang Ran is that even if he reaches the maximum level of 90, he cannot change his current situation. And when he reaches the fourth floor, he may not even be able to reach the room of the floor boss.
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With the upper limit already blocked, Jiang Ran could only look for another breakthrough point outside of himself, and this breakthrough point was the white wolf girl who was still on the first level.
Jiang Ran finally realized how powerful the "Pope" was, because he really couldn't leave the White Wolf Girl alone. He needed the White Wolf Girl's combat power, even if it was just to be a "humanoid self-propelled skill package" that could steal skills at any time.
After Jiang Ran cleared the fourth floor, the White Wolf Girl was naturally rescued - this was equivalent to fulfilling Kenroshi Okami's wish: "Rescue Adela from the tower."
Jiang Ran was quite unwilling to accept this almost unavoidable fate. He didn't want Kenroshi Okami to use him as a pawn.
However, the problem is not really that big, because Jiang Ran has already thought of a way to counter Kenroshi Okami, and this is also closely related to the "plan" he is preparing.
Since Kenroshi Okami dared to let Jiang Ran, a "scumbag", save his most important sister, he must be prepared to pay the price for it.
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8.103 - Pancake Wars (Part )
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