Chapter 52: Chapter 52: Wuhu, Take Off!

Translator: 549690339

The sniper bullets pounded against the bone shield, piercing through with bullet holes, but the damage they caused inside the Boss’s body didn’t reach the ideal value Zi Liyuan had hoped for.

Originally dealing 1200+ physical damage, he had anticipated inflicting 900+ damage per shot, yet after being blocked by the bone shield, it only caused 4.00+ damage.

Fortunately, with 20 bullets a minute, the Boss was continuously bombarded by the sniper rifle, and its health declined steadily, but its mana dropped even faster.

Summoning bone shields and targeting with the Corpse Explosion Technique both consumed mana heavily. The Boss’s mana regeneration speed couldn’t keep up with the rate of depletion.

On the other hand, Zi Liyuan simply raised his hand to summon a wave of Skeleton Knights, 256 in a single go, and let them Charge the Boss, using them completely as cannon fodder.

Such cannon fodder still managed to pin down the minions summoned by the Boss and grind them into the ground.

More outrageously, summoning a wave of Skeleton Knights only cost Zi Liyuan 30 points of spiritual energy—a pitifully small expenditure!

The only thing that delayed time was when the sniper rifle ran out of ammo, and it took a while to reload.

This draining battle continued amidst the Charges of the Skeleton Knights.

The Boss’s undead summons were wiped clean in the first round of charge, not because they were slain by the Skeleton Knights but because they were caught in their own Necromancer’s Corpse Explosion Technique and blasted to smithereens.

The power of the Corpse Explosion Technique depended on the total health of the corpse before death.

With the Skeleton Knights having 830 points of health, one Corpse Explosion could deal 4.98 points of physical damage to all targets within a ten-meter radius. After deducting physical resistance, it would usually inflict 430+ physical damage to each Skeleton Knight.

Just two Corpse Explosions were enough to obliterate a group of Skeleton Knights.

From the moment the first corpse appeared on the battlefield, the explosion sounds of the Corpse Explosion Technique never stopped.

Bones were tossed up in the air, and the fragments littered the ground; the entire surface was covered with a layer of bone shards.

Only after an hour did the explosions come to an end, and by then the Boss had squandered all of its mana and stood there awkwardly, waiting for its spiritual energy to recover.

The Boss’s sudden silence was like the sounding of a loud clarion call for attack.

Zi Liyuan began the countdown with a raise of his hand, condensing a massive force of darkness into an arrow. Transformed into a beam of shadow, it struck the Boss with pinpoint accuracy.

A terrifying ” -25536″ damage flew above the Boss’s head, and this powerful magic strike slashed the Boss’s health to below 50% in one shot!

After grinding for an hour, firing who knows how many bullets, and nearly using up all the ammo, they had only worn down the Necromancer’s health by 480,000.

Yet one LV9 Shadow Arrow dealt over 25,000+ damage—an utterly terrifying figure.

Unfortunately, the skill had a fixed 30-second cooldown, and upgrading it wouldn’t reduce the CD time, otherwise, he wouldn’t have needed to snipe at the Boss.

Zi Liyuan had used the Skeleton Army as cannon fodder upfront to exhaust the Boss’s mana, precisely because he feared the Lord Boss using single-target spells for execution.

With 3000 magic damage, plus the output damage of the skill, Zi Liyuan’s small frame couldn’t withstand several rounds of skill bombardment, even with 20,000+ health points.

Now that the Boss had run out of mana, trying to continue casting single­target spells was difficult. As long as Zi Liyuan aggressively consumed potions while waiting for the Boss to regain its mana, he could easily recover his health bar without any pressure.

Meanwhile, the Necromancer Boss gripped its thick magic wand, playing a game similar to whack-a-mole, continually striking at the Skeleton Knights beside it. Sadly, due to limited physical damage, it took about four hits to smash a single Skeleton Knight.

At this moment, Zi Liyuan certainly wasn’t idle; he had put away the sniper rifle and taken up the magic wand again, beginning to chant spells.

The basic spell, Shadow Arrow, once raised to LV9, also had an impressive damage of 2560+100% spell bonus, and it required only 2.1 seconds to cast.

Essentially, one Shadow Arrow could deal 2500+ damage to the Boss, significantly higher damage than the sniper rifle.

With every 30 seconds launching a devastating Shadow Arrow, the Boss’s health was spilling out like a breached dam, draining frantically.

In less than ten minutes, with a soul-piercing Shadow Arrow strike, the Boss unwillingly shattered into pieces amidst its indignation.

[Killed Necromancer (LV41, Lord Boss), experience +1,000,000]

[Congratulations, player, for clearing the Silver Hero Class Transfer Instance. Level lock has been lifted.]

[Congratulations, player, for successfully completing the second-class advancement by clearing the Silver Hero Class Transfer Instance. You have won a Necromancer Skill Fusion Card draw and a Puppet’s Nether Crystal Core.]

[Congratulations, player, for using the hero Boss’s blood to activate and clear the Silver Hero Class Transfer Instance, obtaining an additional 20% basic attribute enhancement (stackable with similar rewards).]

A series of four system messages made Zi Liyuan ecstatic.

One could say that in the battle against the Lord Boss, Zi Liyuan had taken a shortcut.

He had forcibly raised the Boss to the Lord level, but due to the Class Transfer Instance restrictions and the Boss’s suppressed intelligence, otherwise he would never have hoped to deplete the Boss’s mana completely.

Alongside Zi Liyuan’s two cheats in hand and a pile of mutated, enhanced skills, he managed to defeat a Lord Boss that was above his level and template class, thanks to his equipment and skills. What else could be expected when the Lord Boss didn’t possess any mutated skills?

[Player]: Zi Liyuan

[Level]: LV40 (98,000,000/220,000,000)

[Class]: Necromancer (Second Order, basic attributes enhanced by 40%)

[Attributes]: Physique 285, Spirit 348, Spiritual Power 306.

The base attributes had again skyrocketed by 20%, and the Necromancer’s skill tree, representing Second Order spells, was all lit up. What excited Zi Liyuan even more was that many skills were marked with a ” + ” sign.

They could be mutated and enhanced!

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Zi Liyuan opened his Spatial Backpack to check the two items he had just acquired.

[Necromancer Skill Fusion Card (Blue)]: Allows fusion and mutation of related Necromancer skills. The initial success rate of mutation is 50%, which decreases by 10% with each additional skill fused, with a guaranteed minimum success rate of 0.1%.

A great item!

While many of Zi Liyuan’s skills could be mutated and enhanced using Nether Crystal Cores, there were some Necromancer skills that couldn’t be. With this fusion card, at least one mutable skill could be obtained.

As for the guaranteed success rate of 0.1%, to him, wasn’t that essentially a 100% success rate?

However, which skills to fuse and mutate needed careful planning to maximize benefits.

[Puppet’s Nether Crystal Core (Silver)]: Use on a puppet to bestow upon it the Silver Hero template, with the puppet’s level matching that of the host.

A template item!

At this moment, Zi Liyuan was dumbfounded.

He remembered, his homeroom teacher once mentioned casually that template items were incredibly rare treasures.

Because such items could imbue summoned creatures with special templates, akin to enabling the creatures to undergo an awakening or class transfer, unlocking skill slots and equipment slots.

Zi Liyuan hadn’t expected that just by completing the Silver Class Transfer for his second advancement, he would receive a Silver-grade template item!

This was definitely a rhythm for soaring high into the skies!