"Take this Orb of the Souls with you and gather the souls of the enemies you have slain. Since you are fighting alone, you are very vulnerable to enemies but seeing you so confident, I will be expecting good things from you," the Knight Lich King said.
[You got "Orb of the Souls"(Quest Item)]
[Orb of the Souls(Quest Item)]
Description: An item given by the mysterious Knight Lich King that tasked you to collect the souls of the monsters killed in the dungeon. It emits a cold chill in the skin when touched and will glow bright red once it consus enough souls.
"Don't fail , boy. I expect great things from you," after that, he disappeared in thin air.
As soon as the Knight Lich King disappeared, an interface appeared before .
"Warning: If you die in this quest or log out in the middle of the ga, the quest will automatically fail and you will face punishnt. Please proceed carefully."
I almost cursed to the ssage in the interface. Who would have thought I would be accepting a punishnt quest?!
A punishnt quest is one of the gimmick quests in the ga. These particular quests have conditions you need to follow while doing the main quest that is given. If you failed to follow the protocol of the quest like this one where it prevents you to die while performing the mission, you will receive a punishnt that will be decided by the NPC that issued the quest. From what I can rember, there should be at least the reduction of stats punishnt and less experience debuff. But the most troubleso of the punishnt is the 1-month ban and the 1-year ban which stops you to play the ga, making you miss many events. I also heard that there was a punishnt that deletes your in-ga character permanently. It was a really harsh punishnt and one guy experienced it.
I am just hoping that this quest is not that kind of quest. Even though I am confident that I will easily clear this dungeon, there is sothing that might change in the enemies in this difficulty due to the addition of the Knight Lich King's appearance. I have to be cautious about it. The Knight Lich King is absent and nonexistent in the previous tiline so I am not sure who this NPC was.
I've been idle for a bit now. I have to start doing the work.
The next area I was about to visit is the Graveyard of the Damned which is one of the populated areas of monsters in the Insane Mode of the Lesser Purgatory, making it the best place to gather the souls needed for the Orb of the Souls. While going to the destination, the enemies are also appearing slowly especially the Skeleton Goblins which always act in groups.
[Skeleton Goblin]
Level 40
HP: 15,000/15,000
Attributes: Undead
These enemies are weak, they are weak to physical attacks and will easily die if you strike their heads with blunt weapons. They only pose a threat because they are nurous and they are good at attacking as a group which will prove to be annoying to many players.
"Here we go again," I sighed. Honestly, they are an annoying bunch.
The skeleton goblins launched an attack with their short swords and shields equipped. I have trouble with these bunch because their AI is able to predict player movents. As soon as I changed my weapon into a Hamr and swing it to the majority of skeleton goblins gathered, one of the skeleton goblins with the shield quickly deployed itself to the place where the hamr will fall.
BANG!
-16,000
The ssage of the kill appeared on my interface but it is only one kill. However, I didn't counterattack because I already predicted the attack. Quickly changing the Hamr into a Shield and Spear, I imdiately deployed the shield in front of .
PANG! PANG! PANG!
Arrows rained down upon and the lee Skeleton Goblins jumped behind with their short swords in their bony hands. Before the Skeleton Goblins can reach my body, I twirled the spear in my hands and spin it to the enemies, deflecting them to the attacks.
If this was just a Magic Sword, I would have a hard ti doing a simultaneous action while also defending. Good thing, the Versatile Weapon can change without maintaining its form allowing to perform combos.
As soon as the goblins are deflected, I charge the shield to the other Skeleton goblins before changing the form into a hamr once again. They might be annoying and good at team fights but they are slow. While they are still trying to recover from my counter, I already deal with damage to them. That took care of them.
I thought that only creatures like the zombies and evil beasts are counted to the soul count but the skeleton goblins were also counted. After my initial combat and annihilation of the Skeleton Goblin's group, I managed to get 35 souls. If that was the case, then getting the 200 souls will be an easy task. It will only involve destroying the dungeon's boss and killing every single mob.
Arriving the Graveyard of the Damned, the zombies quickly took notice of and started running at full speed. They don't walk slowly like the zombies in George Roro's films, they run like marathon athletes.
They pose a little threat this ti because they are lumped together which ans AOE attacks will be very useful in this situation. However, my instincts imdiately kicked in. Without thinking twice, I raised my Versatile Weapon and turned it into a sword.
KLANG!
I managed to block the attack but...
[You received 4,951 damage!]
The amount of damage I received made feel cold in my body.
'I almost died!'
My current HP is around 5,000 since I have yet to put the stat points. Which ans I am only one hit away before I die here. I imdiately backed off from my current position and pulled out a potion that would imdiately bring back to full health.
But what the heck did hit ?! If I didn't raise my Versatile Weapon instinctively, I would have died back then. And even if I managed to block it, a residue of the force that the attack made caused to receive damage which ans the enemy that attacked is capable of ignoring defense values.
But what enemy would be able to ignore defense in this dungeon? There was no enemy that can do that in here! Even the bosses don't ignore defense and can be easily defeated by tanks with good DPS back up! If there was an enemy that ignores defense, then Tanky players would just be walking piece of tal to these enemies that can ignore defense!
I changed my weapon into a Magic Sword and stab it to the ground. With the zombies coming here, I have to make sure that the enemy that attacked earlier can't just blend into the horde of zombies.
"Earth Fissure!"
As the ground cracked and shook causing the zombies to fall to the crack and die, I survey the area quickly to check any odd movents. I can't afford that enemy to kill with one hit. Even if I am now back to full health, having an enemy that can attack and ignore defensive values is worriso. Imagine having a full defense that can block any attack even those that are caused by bosses like dragons only to be killed in one hit because their attacks don't bother to notice your defense. It was like you are stripped off your armor and was attacked without rcy in your body.
Then, I noticed a very fast movent not that far from my position. It was swift enough that I can only see a blur on the movent. Since I am not able to see any movent, I will have to rely on my natural instincts. I also hope that I can trigger the passive skill, Parry. But I also hope that the attack is not a magical attack but a physical one to trigger it. The attack earlier that caused 4k damage on is very fast that I can't easily determine if the attack is a magic power or just plain physical one.
When the shadowy blur that attacked managed to get close, I gritted my teeth and countered the attack. When my sword and the attack hit with each other, I managed to deflect it but it still managed to cause 2,000 damage. And the Parry did not even trigger which is unfortunate. But it was alright, I managed to find the identity of the assailant.
[Shadow Assassin]
Level ???
HP: ???/???
Trait: ???
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