Otherworldly Skeleton Evolution

Skill: Assault Armor (Active).

Grade: Rare.

Overview: Upon activation, for ten minutes, the user can transform their weapon into the Assault Bone Armor form, providing a defense increase of 6 and augmenting the weapon’s attack power by 20%. Next transformation: Bow and Arrow.

Requirements: Bone Powder.

“A Rare-Grade skill? Indeed formidable!”

A hint of joy flashed through Jiang Cheng’s mind.

In the world of The Great Wasteland, skills, much like equipment, are graded, but unlike equipment, skills are divided into nine grades.

Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Rare, Legendary, Mythical, Epic, Divine, Supreme.

This Assault Armor skill, capable of weapon transformation, turned out to be a Rare-Grade skill.

“This is a big win.”

In the game, not only is the drop rate of equipment low, but the drop rate of skill books is even lower.

While equipment can drop from defeating small monsters, skill books only have a chance to drop from defeating bosses or completing certain hidden tasks, with a very low drop rate.

A Rare-Grade skill like this likely holds a minimum value of several million yuan!

Even though he got it through evolution…

It doesn’t diminish his joy in the slightest.

Moreover, being able to change the weapon form with Assault Armor is like giving wings to a tiger for him.

In his past life, he was acclaimed as the Great Demon King of the Ladder because he could dominate the top ranks of the ladder across all professions.

Before The Great Wasteland was released, there was another game called “Mythic”, with a realism rate of 60%, boasting over five billion players.

Unlike The Great Wasteland, where each person can only create one character, in Mythic, there were sixteen professions, and one person could create sixteen characters.

He spent three years grinding, leveling up all sixteen characters, and climbed to the top of the PVP ladder rankings for all sixteen professions in the Mythic game era.

His accounts, all bearing the surname Jiang—Jiang Beiming, Jiang Beihai, Jiang Beikuo, Jiang Beilan, Jiang Beichuan, Jiang Beihuang—became legends in the era of Mythic.

For him, any weapon of any profession could be used with extraordinary skill.

In his hands, this Rare-Grade skill, Assault Armor, has the potential to unleash the power of a Mythical-Grade or even Epic-Grade skill.

The next level of Assault Armor’s effect is the ability to transform into a bow and arrow. With a bow and arrow, he won’t fear being kited by other players anymore.

His movement speed is too slow, making him an easy target for kiting.

With a bow and arrow, coupled with his archery skills and current strength, hitting the bullseye might be a bit difficult, but hitting the target consistently is achievable!

“Let’s check out Plunder.”

The surprise from Assault Armor had him hopeful for Plunder.

Skill: Plunder (Passive).

Grade: Advanced.

Overview: After killing an enemy unit, there is a 1% chance to plunder the opponent’s skills or talents, which can be upgraded using Evolution Points.

“This passive is powerful too!” Jiang Cheng felt a hint of joy.

Upon seeing this skill, he thought of many possibilities instantly.

After killing the opponent, he can plunder their skills and talents.

In other words, if he fancies the skills and talents of a certain monster, he can keep killing that type of monster until he plunders the desired skills or talents from it.

For example, if the Skeleton Bear’s skill is a roar, its talent should be tough skin.

Then he can keep killing Skeleton Bears until he plunders the roar and tough skin.

This means he’ll have an unlimited supply of skills and talents in the future!

“Only, a 1% chance is quite the gamble.”

“Never mind, let’s test the skill effects first. I must also hurry to earn Evolution Points.”

Glancing at Zhang Mengmeng, who looked unhappy, Jiang Cheng raised the Bone Blade in his hand.

He swung down with a slash!

“Ah! The Skeleton is rebelling against its master! The Skeleton is going to revolt!”

“Pfft!”

With his base attack of 64, plus the 30 attack from the Bone Blade Steel Sword!

A total of 94 attack power!

Critical hit!

“–183!”

[Congratulations on killing the Skeleton Bear, gaining 22 experience points and 22 Evolution Points.]

With one slash, Jiang Cheng directly killed a Skeleton Bear that had just spawned behind Zhang Mengmeng!

The full-health Skeleton Bear’s health bar was instantly depleted.

Jiang Cheng then crossed over Zhang Mengmeng, who was covering her eyes in fright, and headed straight for the depths of Fierce Bear Mountain.

Based on his years of gaming experience, areas with single-type monsters like this usually spawn some Elite-level monsters.

Since he was here, it made sense to take them on, hoping for some loot to test his ability to equip gear.

But after killing all the way here, he hasn’t even caught a glimpse of a shadow of a single piece of equipment…

It seems like he’ll have to rely on the first kill!

“Ah… scared me to death.” Zhang Mengmeng patted her chest, her heart beating rapidly.

Just now, she thought the Skeleton was going to find her a burden and was planning to kill her.

She got scared and covered her eyes, preparing for the impending death.

Unexpectedly, a Skeleton Bear respawned behind her.

“Hey, don’t leave me behind! Where are you planning to go?”

Zhang Mengmeng followed behind Jiang Cheng, continuously nagging.

Watching Jiang Cheng handle the skeleton, taking step after step towards Fierce Bear Mountain, she felt the Skeleton was about to perform another breathtaking feat.

“Brother, how about we just level up here, huh? Look at you, killing Skeleton Bears with a single strike, wouldn’t leveling be fast, right?”

“Being… a Skeleton, or anything else, it’s better to be steady, right, big bro? Don’t you think so?”

However, facing Zhang Mengmeng’s chatter, Jiang Cheng continued walking and killing monsters, ignoring her.

He must become stronger as soon as possible to ensure his safety. After all, he doesn’t know if he can still revive after death, and he doesn’t have any gambling chips.

“Thump!”

Jiang Cheng slashed down, directly hitting the Skeleton Bear’s neck as it stood up.

“–267!”

Triggering a critical hit, combined with the vulnerability of the neck, it’s a triple critical hit!

With 267 points of damage, Jiang Cheng directly cleared the Skeleton Bear’s health bar.

[Plunder successful from Skeleton Bear, increasing maximum health by 20 points and defense by 1 point.]

His increased size was a clear advantage. When he was only 1.58 meters tall before, he could only reach its shoulders when the Skeleton Bear stood up.

That’s why he chose to chop off the Skeleton Bear’s legs first and then wait for it to fall down before slashing its neck.

But after evolution, his height increased to 1.73 meters, enough for him to reach the Skeleton Bear’s neck when it stood up.

Now, even without triggering a critical hit or using Swift Slash, with his high attack power of 94, relying solely on the double damage from slashing the neck, he can also kill a 100-health Skeleton Bear with one slash!

And, to his delight, the Plunder passive actually triggered.

Its effect is exceptionally strong!