novelUndying, Changing the Goal
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Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
"Let's see what this new Undying passive skill is..."
[Undying II]
Type: Mid bronze passive skill
Your body no longer has any fatal areas. Even if your heart and brain are severely damaged, you will not die and will gradually recover in a day.
However, you have also obtained the weakness of being restrained by holy abilities and silver weapons. These things are a fatal threat to you. ]
"Not a bad ability, but it has a huge flaw. I'll deactivate it for now."
After reading the description of this passive skill, Zhou Chen decided to deactivate it, and activate it only when he needed it. Otherwise, if he was careless and used the Holy Light skill, it would be equivalent to suicide.
Zhou Chen looked at the new Dynamic Vision passive skill and found that this passive skill was the same as what it sounded like. It enhanced dynamic vision, allowing Zhou Chen to see objects moving at high speed.
After understanding these gains, Zhou Chen closed his character interface and began to deal with the vampire corpse.
Due to the corrosion from the holy light, this vampire's appearance could no longer be seen. Its entire body looked like it would shatter at the touch. Even the sturdiest claws and fangs were ruined.
"What a pity. I wanted to sell his fangs and claws for money."
Zhou Chen took out a ruby ring from this vampire's broken finger.
The reason why he could confirm that it was a ruby ring was not because it shone, but because his Dark Vision had been enhanced just now. He could now see the color of objects, and his vision range had also increased. From the previous black-and-white image, it had been upgraded to a colorful high-definition image.
In his upgraded Dark Vision, he saw that this ruby ring was elegant and seemed to be of high quality. Unfortunately, the system did not label it, indicating that it was most likely a gem ring without any magical attributes.
Zhou Chen took the ring to sell it when he returned to the city.
After searching the vampire's corpse and confirming that there were no more gains to be made, Zhou Chen continued forward.
As he walked, he drank a low-tier healing potion.
His chest was struck by the vampire. Although he did not suffer much damage due to his three defensive passive skills, Copper Skin Iron Bones, Monolith, and Wyvern Skin, his defense had indeed been broken and there were a few light wounds on his chest. Such injuries would heal soon, but considering that there might be a battle later, he drank the potion to be in peak condition.
His main goal in coming to the cave was to find the amethyst stone, but he had yet to even see its shadow, so this exploration would probably take a long time.
After walking for a while, Zhou Chen realized something.
He saw many human corpses lying on the ground. Some of the corpses had their necks bitten, some had their hearts dug out, and some were simply torn apart.
"It should be that vampire's doing."
Zhou Chen judged that these were the actions of the vampire he had killed just now. Although this vampire seemed to have been killed easily, it was only because of the Holy Light spell being its bane, its actual combat strength was quite high and it was very fast too. If not for the fact that Zhou Chen's defensive passive skills were strong enough, he would have been instantly killed.
Faced with these tragic corpses of various shapes and sizes, Zhou Chen began the familiar action: Corpse looting.
"Two gold coins, a necklace, a ring, and three silver coins."
Zhou Chen did not find any items marked by the system on these corpses, so he only collected the gold, silver, and jewelry, not caring about the weapons these people carried.
After searching more than ten corpses on his way, no more native corpses appeared on the following journey. Instead, he started to see some monster corpses.
Some of these monsters looked like bats, while others looked like lizards. All of them had sharp claws and fangs, and they were killed by sharp or blunt weapons.
"They're all dead. What a pity. Perhaps these monsters had good passive skills."
Zhou Chen felt a little regretful as he looked at these monster corpses. If only they had all died in his hands.
Zhou Chen occasionally found some native corpses among the increasing number of monster corpses. These natives looked very young, but they had died miserably under the siege of the monsters.
He continued forward past these corpses and passed some forks. After about an hour, he finally saw a second living monster.
It was a monster that looked like a combination of a bat and a spider. It flapped its ugly wings and pounced at Zhou Chen from the top of the cave with eight legs. But it was immediately stabbed to death by Zhou Chen with the steel ironwood spear.
However, it did not contribute any passive skill to Zhou Chen. Zhou Chen did not mind and continued to search for monsters.
Deeper in this passage, Zhou Chen encountered a few more monsters of the same type, and he had to spend some effort to deal with them.
He continued along the curved path, but before long, he realized that the path ahead was blocked.
He had no choice but to return the way he came. He marked the path and chose another path to explore.
This situation happened from time to time; Zhou Chen spent a lot of time, but did not obtain anything.
Two hours later, Zhou Chen stopped and sat down. He took out the coke bottle that was filled with water and a piece of dry bread from his pocket to replenish his energy.
"With my speed, I'm definitely deep underground now. I've searched many passages, but I still haven't found that amethyst stone. Looks like this thing is as rare as the rumors say. I might have to return empty-handed."
With Zhou Chen's strength and speed, his efficiency in searching was very high. However, he did not find any trace of the amethyst stone, making him feel that his luck was running down.
"However, the gains from killing that vampire are pretty good. Why don't I change my goal to kill all kinds of monsters here?"
Zhou Chen felt that relying on his Passive Plunderer talent was the simplest and most direct way to gain something. As long as he killed the monsters, he had a chance of gaining passive skills. It would be much more fruitful than looking for that amethyst stone.
Therefore, Zhou Chen no longer focused on going deeper to search for the amethyst stone.. Instead, he began to hunt the monsters.
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