Chapter Sixty-Five: Necklace of the Starry Sky
The atmosphere became tense for a moment.
Finally, Fenghuayue put down her bow.
“Um—” The Death Knight’s health was completely depleted, and even its skeletal horse collapsed to the ground.
However, the system did not pop up any corresponding information.
Zane understood this very well; this type of undead creature seemed to have the ability to be reborn, and as long as the undead fire did not extinguish, it could resurrect indefinitely.
He had witnessed it once when fighting the Skeleton Soldier.
Starry approached the Death Knight, aiming the Qiu Yue Sword at the faint flame in its eye socket.
“Don’t kill him!” Fenghuayue shouted anxiously, rushing over with the Dance of the Wind activated.
“Whoosh”
The Qiu Yue Sword hovered above the boss’s head.
She hurried over.
Then,
System Notification: ‘Fenghuayue’ has requested to join your party.
What is…?
“Hurry up! It’s going to revive!”
Hearing the word “revive” made Zane shudder, and he quickly clicked to agree.
System Notification: ‘Fenghuayue’ has joined your party.
“Alright, you can attack now.”
Zane felt relieved, and the Qiu Yue Sword decisively plunged down.
The pale green flame attempting to revive was ruthlessly extinguished.
With a flash of golden light, Zane and Starry both leveled up to level 20, while Fenghuayue returned to level 19; the others had died and returned to the city, so they couldn’t share in the experience.
Not only that, but reaching level 20 seemed to unlock something, as system notifications flooded the screen.
Moreover, the party was getting lively.
“Fenghuayue!??? What’s going on!” Endless Sea exclaimed.
“Achen, did you guys defeat that Death Knight?” Brother Shiu asked in confusion upon seeing their levels.
“Welcome, newcomers!” Youyoufen clapped happily.
“…”
…
Fenghuayue wore a slightly displeased expression and pouted, “If it weren’t for you guys butting in, I could have handled him alone.”
Butting in?
So, she did manage to bring the Death Knight’s health to low on her own!?
Alone??
“Does your expression question me?” Fenghuayue, having put away her displeasure, said solemnly, “I admit you have some strength. I originally thought you were an experience baby since you hadn’t changed classes.”
An experience baby refers to someone who lets others deplete a monster’s health, then swoops in to reap the rewards, allowing for efficient leveling without taking damage.
She paused for a moment, then drew out a fiery red longsword, pointing it at Starry, “Let’s duel! If your strength matches your rank on the leaderboard, I won’t take these spoils.”
What on earth! Sister, I’m the main character here! Zane thought to himself.
At the same time, Fenghuayue sent a duel request to Starry.
Duel mode has two types: the first is a friendly spar, where both parties’ states are fully restored, skills are on cooldown, and after a 3-second countdown, the battle begins until one side dies or surrenders.
In sparring mode, there is no penalty for dying like losing levels or equipment; the contrary is true for death matches.
In a death match, surrendering is not permitted, and dying has penalties, just like normal deaths.
However, the chance of dropping equipment when not in a red name state is minimal enough to disregard.
Refusal!
It’s not that Zane was afraid; he just thought there was no need for a duel after just finishing off a boss. Now was the time to reap the rewards! Who has time to fight you!
Starry waved her hand, “I don’t need to prove anything to you; being on the leaderboard isn’t my goal.”
Fenghuayue furrowed her brows and angrily said, “Do you look down on me?”
Ugh, this person is really bothersome.
“How about this? Let’s duel after you reach level 20, okay?”
Starry shook her head in denial, “No need, let’s start right now.”
Starry replied speechlessly, “I’m dead tired right now, and against you, I don’t stand a chance. Can we do it tomorrow?”
Who would have thought that, after serious consideration, Fenghuayue looked up and said, “Okay, it’s settled!”
At this moment, Zane walked over, “You choose the drops first. Without you, we wouldn’t have defeated this boss.”
Although he was a bit concerned about this Gray Wolf turned beautiful girl, gear was more important. He wasn’t polite and directly walked towards the boss’s corpse.
This Death Knight was strong, and its drops were generous; at a glance, at least six pieces of equipment had dropped!
Fenghuayue’s eyes nearly turned into the shape of money, as the high-gloss shine of the gear pierced into her heart.
I want to take them all!
However, she clearly knew that she couldn’t defeat this Death Knight alone—what she said earlier was merely bravado. She had previously been solo-killed by the Death Knight once, even if there was some unforeseen reason behind it.
Moreover, they weren’t just picking up scraps; they had discovered that the Death Knight still had 13,000 health when she died, indicating that during her downtime, the boss might have restored its health!
Based on this assumption, she was the one who had intervened midway, and her greatest contribution was merely two arrows.
For a moment, her face flushed a little; what had she done!? Did she steal the kill and then challenge someone to a PK?
Thinking back, she was just half an experience point away from level 20 and had even been killed once, causing her to simmer with anger and subconsciously believe that they were picking up scraps.
This went against her usual style.
But…!
However, her gaze was fixated on the sky-blue necklace and could no longer turn away.
She reached out to touch it, and its attributes appeared.
Necklace of the Starry Sky:
Rarity: Silver Tier
Required Level: 25
Strength: 38
Agility: 49
Intelligence: 24
Spirit: 31
Stamina: 25
Physical Attack: 75
Magical Attack: 60
Movement Speed: 7%
Special Effect: Increases ranged attack damage by 10%.
Special Effect: Starry Sky Power, has a 33% chance to add Starry Sky Power to attacks, dealing 150% damage.
Description: When you gaze at the starry sky, the brilliant stars gaze back at you.
Without a doubt, this is a necklace tailor-made for archers! Even mages can use it! Rangers are almost seen as an advanced class for archers, so this Necklace of the Starry Sky must be obtained at any cost!
“I want this one!” She announced the necklace’s attributes to the party, holding it possessively.
“…”
For a moment, everyone fell silent.
“If it’s not enough, I can pay extra!!! Don’t put it on auction!” Fenghuayue panicked; if it went to the auction house, her pocket money wouldn’t handle it—there were plenty of rich players in Dream of the Mists!
However, she clearly misunderstood.
Everyone was shocked by the necklace’s attributes, having never seen equipment that boosted all five main attributes this high! Even its attack power added a whopping 75 points, plus two explosive special effects, making its overall benefit about 126% increased damage for ranged attacks!
If it went to the auction house, it could probably sell for hundreds of thousands at this stage!
“You take it.” Zane said, although his heart was bleeding; without Fenghuayue, there would be no gear from this boss, so he still understood the reasoning.
