Otherworldly Skeleton Evolution

[Enhancement successful, Burst Steel Bone Sword has been upgraded to the Sky-Splitting Steel Bone Sword.]

With the prompt from the System echoing in his ears, Jiang Cheng’s Bone Blade on his right arm suddenly emitted a blood-red light. A crimson dot appeared at the juncture where the blade melded with the bone of his arm.

Following that, on the metallic-textured blade, a fine blood groove extended all the way to the tip, sending chills down one’s spine.

【Sky-Splitting Steel Bone Sword】

Quality: Rare

Attack: 60~80

Critical Hit Rate: 15%

Devastation: Critical Damage +30%

Void Split: Ignores 10 points of the opponent’s defense when attacking.

…

“Formidable.” Jiang Cheng couldn’t help but marvel at his new weapon.

Starting from Rare-grade equipment, there’s a chance for additional random attributes to be added to the equipment.

Attributes like Void Split and Devastation belong to these additional attributes.

However, generally, Rare-grade equipment only comes with one additional attribute. Legendary-grade has two, Mythical-grade has three, and so on.

Yet, his weapon, being only Rare-grade, already possesses two additional attributes!

“It seems like items enhanced with Enhancement Points are different from Common equipment,” Jiang Cheng thought.

With this blade and the Void Split skill, his efficiency in monster-slaying would at least double!

“It’s time to go to the main city for her class change.”

Jiang Cheng headed straight towards the Stone Forest.

He wasn’t heading back to the Undead Newbie Village but to Furywind City, as the newbie village lacked a class change NPC, making a return there pointless.

The Stone Forest is the path to the world of The Great Wasteland, one of the 108 main cities and a necessary passage to Furywind City.

The Great Wasteland game world is referred to as the second world, where three in-game days pass for every one day in reality.

Therefore, almost seventy-five percent of humans have flocked to The Great Wasteland game world, with over six billion players, causing the servers to be overcrowded.

China, being the most populous country in the world, boasts a player count of approximately 1.3 billion, accounting for about an eighth of the total.

One hundred and eight main cities are probably not enough to accommodate everyone.

But that was of little concern to Jiang Cheng.

His journey to the Stone Forest was not just a matter of convenience but also for leveling up.

The Stone Forest was home to level 15 Stone Men, creatures with exceptionally high defense of 30 points, equal to that of an Elite Skeleton Bear leader.

Typically, a level 15 player, even fully equipped with professional gear, would struggle to inflict damage on them.

However, compared to that, the Stone Men have low attack power but high experience points, making it a good place for leveling up, as long as… your attack can penetrate their defense.

Clearly, with the Sky-Splitting Steel Bone Sword, which has a total attack power of 135 and can pierce through 10 points of defense, Jiang Cheng can definitely slay them.

“Skeleton Big Brother, are you not keeping this equipment anymore?”

Jiang Cheng paused, nodded, and then continued walking downhill under Zhang Mengmeng’s excited gaze.

At this moment, a Skeleton Bear noticed him.

Jiang Cheng swung his blade in a fluid motion.

“-556!”

A critical hit at the bear’s neck, doubling the damage.

Triggered by a critical hit, the damage tripled.

With the Devastation attribute, critical damage increased by thirty percent, resulting in 3.3 times the damage!

Adding the Void Split attribute, the armor-piercing effect, directly reducing the Skeleton Bear’s 5 points of armor to negative 5 points, triggering The Great Wasteland game mechanism.

Any armor below negative 10 points increases damage by an additional ten percent!

A 3.4 times critical hit dealt 556 damage!

This was nothing short of miraculous!

After killing this Skeleton Bear, Jiang Cheng continued to head towards the Stone Forest to test the splitting effect.

At this moment, Zhang Mengmeng was still immersed in the joy of acquiring the equipment and hadn’t noticed the scene just now.

Even when she received the kill notification, she remained numb.

After all, Jiang Cheng’s high attack power had made it common for him to slay Skeleton Bears with a single strike.

She was busy equipping the Fierce Bear equipment set, mechanically following Jiang Cheng.

It wasn’t until she noticed the changing environment that she realized they had arrived at the Stone Forest.

Seeing Jiang Cheng heading towards a Stone Man, Zhang Mengmeng quickly checked the Stone Man’s attributes.

【Stone Man】

Level: 15

Health: 500

Attack: 1~15

Defense: 30

Skill: Stone Skin.

Overview: A Stone Man wrapped in stone, with extremely high health and defense. Upon defeat, it grants 200% experience and rewards.

“Wait… Why are you here, Skeleton Big Brother?”

“With such high defense, we can’t damage them—”

“Clang!”

Before Zhang Mengmeng could finish her sentence, Jiang Cheng had already approached the Stone Man and struck it with his blade!

“-230!”

Zhang Mengmeng: “…”