My talent is 1.

There are three blacksmiths in the weapon shop: an apprentice, a senior blacksmith, and a dwarf who is a master blacksmith.

After entering the main city, Zhong Wuyai also received information that monsters would not drop equipment after leaving the starting village; all equipment would have to be obtained through forging and blacksmithing, or purchased from NPCs.

Of course, there are also some quests available from the NPCs, and completing them will reward you with equipment.

Suddenly, Zhong Wuyai felt that he had been a bit wasteful in selling the equipment he had sold earlier.

Even a blank staff costs 1 gold coin to forge.

Needless to say, jewelry forging starts at 5 gold coins.

Damn it, with all that silver equipment, how many materials and how much money would it take to forge it...

It all went to that kid Xiang Yang.

As for casting, I don't have the materials right now, so I have to buy them. However, after looking at them once and comparing them...

My own ox bone staff is still better.

Reducing skill cooldown by 11 seconds is a feature that cannot be replaced.

Of course, equipment can also be dismantled.

The disassembler is right next to the weapon shop.

Zhong Wuyai directly disassembled the discarded equipment.

Ebony sword, wild boar hide armor, coarse cloth clothing... everything except the broken magic-gathering ring was dismantled.

As for why this was kept, Zhong Wuyai didn't believe that the mages under Xiang Yang didn't have this need.

Don't even think about it without at least 10 gold coins.

[Ding! Disassembly successful. Congratulations! You have obtained 35 White Crystals.]

10 points of durability on equipment can be disassembled into 1 crystal, and 50 points of health or mana can be disassembled into 1 white crystal. Once the attributes reach a certain level, they can be disassembled into green crystals, and even blue crystals.

The ebony sword and coarse cloth can only be broken down into white crystals.

The wild boar hide armor was broken down into 6 blue crystals.

What Zhong Wuyai didn't expect was that the jade necklace actually broke down into a piece of silver crystal.

This surprised Zhong Wuyai somewhat.

The attributes of the wild boar hide armor are significantly better than those of the jade necklace.

After dismantling all the equipment, Zhong Wuyai obtained 600 equipment fragments, 368 white crystals, 51 green crystals, 9 blue crystals, and one silver crystal.

Zhong Wuyai gave all the crystals to the master blacksmith, hoping to see if he could forge equipment...

At this point, the dwarf blacksmith spoke up.

"To forge weapons, you need silver materials, otherwise a lot of crystals will be wasted. Of course, you can also use these to enhance existing equipment."

"strengthen?"

"Yes, white crystals can only enhance basic equipment, green crystals enhance iron equipment, blue crystals enhance bronze equipment, and silver crystals enhance silver equipment..."

How to strengthen it?

Most of your equipment is made of black iron; if possible, it's best to upgrade it before doing the job change quest.

"Only master-level blacksmiths or forges can enhance equipment; I can only enhance it to +3 for you."

Sure, let's upgrade this equipment first.

Zhong Wuyai took out the Ghost Ring, and the dwarf blacksmith examined it.

"Requires five blue crystals and 5 gold coins"

Damn...it's so expensive...

Damn it, money is just an external thing, let's upgrade first.

After paying, the equipment and crystal were handed over to the blacksmith.

[Ding, equipment enhancement successful]

Zhong Wuyai took it out and looked at it, and found that the attributes had increased significantly.

Ghost Ring +1

Durability: 26/26

Grade: Bronze

Wearing level: 10

Magic Attack +251

Spirit +12

Soul Resistance +1

Increased magic attack by 10 points and spirit by 2 points.

This is a huge loss! If I had strengthened it first and then used the talent...

Damn it, why was I in such a hurry?

No, next time I'll enhance the skill first before using the talent.

Forget about the Moonlight Ring; besides, all my equipment has already been upgraded with talents, so there's no need to continue.

After looking around, there wasn't much left, and I'd already spent quite a bit of money.

Zhong Wuyai placed the crystal in the warehouse, put on the Moonlight Ring, and opened the teleportation scroll of the Bone Feather Ruins.

The Bone Feather Ruins were desolate, with the sky completely obscured by a layer of dark purple miasma.

My place is... a burial ground.

Huge skeletons were scattered all over the place.

The skeleton was surrounded by all sorts of monsters.

【Bone Crow】

Mutant Elite Monster

Rating: 12

Health: 14500/14500

Mana: 1800/1800

Physical attack: 44

Magic Attack: 128

Physical defense: 39

Magic Defense: 112

Power: 40

Agility: 70

Physical condition: 145

Intelligence: 64

Spirit: 280

Skill [Demon Beak Lv.1]

Passive skill

Normal attacks deal an additional 80% magic damage and ignore 30% of evasion.

Besides bone crows, there are also skeleton snakes.

The attributes are not much different; they all have high magic defense but not much physical attack or defense.

However, the attack deals magical damage.

The monsters aren't too hard to defeat.

After Zhong Wuyai put on the ghost ring,

With the blessing of the Apprentice's Book, his magic attack has reached 938 points.

Dealing with these monsters is a piece of cake.

Fireball... -7505...

This injury is quite frightening.

A critical hit would cost over 10,000.

Who the hell can deal over 7,000 damage at level 10?

Even SSS-level talent might not be enough.

Another fireball spell finished off the Bone Crow.

[Ding! Killed the mutated elite monster Bone Crow, gained 0 experience points]

This is ridiculous! They're not giving experience anymore before you can change jobs after leaving the starting area...

Nothing dropped, no experience points given, isn't this just a free beast of burden? They even deducted the minimum wage.

Zhong Wuyai was instantly furious...

Fireball~Fireball~Fireball...

[Ding! Obtained Fragment of Annihilation, Part 1]

Goodness, after killing five or six monsters, I finally got the loot.

The efficiency is alright.

After killing for about ten minutes...

The skeletal snakes and bone crows surrounding the giant skeleton were all cleared away.

The first fragment of Zhong Wuyai's ruined scroll has also been collected.

[Ding, mission updated]

[Mission: Find the Codex of Destruction]

[Phase Two: Enter the Bone Feather Ruins and collect the second fragment of the Destruction Scroll]

【Current Progress 0/10】

Okay, is there a third one after this...?

Zhong Wuyai didn't think that much about it, but what happened next caught him off guard.

The enormous skeletons stood up one by one.

So you were all sleeping before? Sorry to bother you, can you lie down again?

"Roar~..."

They're just skeletons with no vocal cords, so I don't know how they manage to make those roars.

[Skeleton Giant Elephant]...[Skeleton War Rhinoceros]...[Skeleton Python King]...

All 10 bronze bosses were just skeletons.

Zhong Wuyai glanced at them and saw that they could all break through defenses, and their physical and magical attacks were not low.

However, my physical and magical defense are ridiculously high, even higher than the BOSS's, especially my speed.

If you're careful, you can fly a kite.

Actually, you can use strategic positioning in the burial grounds. Zhong Wuyai didn't pay attention to the terrain.

This is also due to the inconsistency in attribute values.

A boss with tens of thousands of HP can be taken down with just a dozen or so fireballs.

The BOSS's skills are all passive.

Perhaps because it's a burial ground, neither the monsters nor the bosses have any active skills.

This gave Zhong Wuyai a lot of room to maneuver.

Fireball... Fireball... Fire Seed... Fireball...

Compared to Fireball, Fire Seed deals significantly more damage.

The only problem is that the ignition takes a long time to cool down.

The basic fireball spell is still the main source of damage.

Even if a normal player has 1000 magic attack, a fireball spell will only deal around 800 damage.

Zhong Wuyai, on the other hand, increased his profits tenfold.

Fighting a boss is not much different from fighting a regular monster.

Especially physical and magical defense.

No need for any reduction in damage; if there weren't so many bosses, there would be no need to keep your distance at all, you could just go straight for them.

[Ding! Killed Skeleton War Rhinoceros, gained 0 experience points, obtained Fragment of Annihilation II]

[Ding! Skeleton Mammoth defeated...]

With the first boss down, the subsequent bosses became easier to defeat, and soon they were all scattered into a pile of bones.

It has returned to its original state before it was buried.

[Ding, mission updated]

[Mission: Find the Codex of Destruction]

Phase Two: Defeat the Bone King and seize the third fragment of the Annihilation Scroll.

【Current Progress 0/1】

I knew it, there are three more, but there's only one task for the mistress, so it's no big deal.

Hehehehehe~……

All the bones were densely packed together in one place.

Whether it was the previous BOSS or the Bone Crow and Skeleton Serpent, all the bones converged towards the center of the burial ground.

【Bone King】

Golden BOSS [Attribute Enhancement]

Rating: 20

Health: 600000/600000

Mana: 310000/310000

Physical attack: 800

Magic Attack: 800

Physical defense: 420

Magic Defense: 270

Power: 400

Agility: 140

Stamina: 600

Intelligence: 400

Spirit: 200

Skill 1 [Body of Bones Lv.3]

Passive skill

Increases health by 150%, physical defense by 100, and magic defense by 100.

Skill 2 [Bone Claw Lv.5 (Max)]

Passive skill

Each attack results in two normal attacks.

Each attack deals an additional 50% magic attack damage.

Skill 3 [Crushing Bones Lv.2]

Active skills

The Bone King applies its full weight to its claws, slamming them into the ground to deal double true damage to targets within the area.

Consumption: None

Damage bonus: All attributes x2

Release distance: 10

Damage range: 30*30

Cooldown time: 3 minutes.

To be honest, if Zhong Wuyai hadn't been so fast, he wouldn't have had any hope of winning.

If it weren't for the fact that the boots were modified to increase speed, giving 140 points of agility, they would still be faster than me no matter what.

One basic attack and half of my health is gone.

If it were a skill... it would probably kill you instantly, since this is true damage across all attributes.

The Gold BOSS truly lives up to its name, deserving the title of "Gold" and "BOSS".

Even with an SSS-level talent, there might not be a chance to complete this task.

Just to be on the safe side, Zhong Wuyai took out the Hellfire Scroll.

The 20% talent bonus was changed to 210%.

Hellfire Scroll

Used 1/1

Within 10 seconds of use, all of your fire skills and attacks will be converted into Hellfire damage, and an additional 210% of your current fire damage will be added as dark elemental damage.

Ten seconds is ten fireballs; not a single one can be wasted.

Hellfire damage is largely unaffected by magic defense, and when combined with dark elemental damage, bosses without dark elemental resistance are completely defenseless.

After opening the Hellfire scroll...

Fireball!

-6094-12797

The two attacks instantly wiped out 18,000 HP.

Fireball... Fireball...

-12188 (Spell Critical Strike) -25594...

This is even more powerful now. With the critical hits earlier, the dark element damage is even more terrifying under the critical hit damage bonus.

Zhong Wuyai kept retreating, releasing fireballs as he went.

It also released a spark.

Compared to Fireball, Fire Seed deals more damage when enhanced by Hellfire.

It can deal 7211 damage per second.

It took away more than 30,000 HP in just five seconds.

With the addition of the fireball spell, a total of 25 HP was depleted from the BOSS in 10 seconds.

There's still a large portion left; we can only grind it down slowly.

Fireball...

-5878!

The damage was reduced significantly.

Without the blessing of hellfire, it's like scraping your skin.

It only takes away less than 1% of the target's health at a time.

Zhong Wuyai kept moving to avoid getting too close to BOSS 30.

Who knows if a crushing blow might send you flying?

After countless fireballs, they finally managed to defeat the Bone King.

[Ding! Defeat the Golden BOSS, King of Bones, gained 0 experience points and obtained the third fragment of the Annihilation Scroll]

[Server-wide announcement: Congratulations to player Zhong Wuyai for achieving the first kill of the level 20 Gold BOSS, Wan Gu Wang! Rewards include 5000 Reputation, 5 Free Attribute Points, and 1 Level 20 Gold Equipment]

[Ding, quest updated. Please deliver the Book of Destruction to Antonibudas]

Although I had no experience, the first kill reward was quite generous.

It's a pity. Killing a golden boss outside would surely yield a huge amount of materials and gold coins.

【Armor of Ten Thousand Bones】

Durability: 50/50

Grade: Gold

Wearing level: 20

Job requirements: None

Health +5000

Magic Points +2000

Physical defense +40

Magic Defense +40

Entry 1 [Ten Thousand Bones Shield]: After being attacked, a shield equal to 20% of the user's maximum health appears and lasts for 10 seconds. When the shield disappears, the remaining shield value is converted into health. This can be triggered at most once every 5 minutes.

Attribute 2 [Bone Armor]: Each time you are attacked, you gain 5 points of physical defense and 2 points of magic defense, up to 5 stacks, lasting for 10 seconds.

The rewards from the system are great! When I reach level 20, I can just get whatever I'm missing.

With 51000 health points alone, it's even more terrifying than unique items.

All the tattered fragments in the package disappeared and merged into a single book.

The Book of Destruction

Please give the quest item to Anthony Budas.

Okay, so Anthony's death has been changed to not being killed, right?

After exiting the Bone Feather Ruins.

Zhong Wuyai returned to the Temple of the Specialized Gods.

"Haha, I knew it, this kid could definitely do it."

[Ding! Congratulations on successfully changing your class to Ruin Mage]

[Ding! Your attribute growth has increased. You have gained 10 skill points and 5 skill slots.]

[Server-wide announcement: Congratulations to player Zhong Wuyai for successfully changing jobs! You are the first player to do so. Reward: 1 Job Skill Book and 2 Skill Points]

Suddenly, Zhong Wuya leveled up to level 11, having already accumulated enough experience.

Moreover, after changing jobs, growth attributes also increase significantly.

力量成长从1变成了2，敏捷从0.5变成了1，体质1到了2，智力则是从1涨到3。

The most exaggerated increase was in spirit. It rose from 2 to 5.

In other words, now each level up grants 2 points of Strength, 1 point of Agility, 2 points of Constitution, 3 points of Intelligence, and 5 points of Spirit.

Zhong Wuyai couldn't understand why the requirements for the mental attributes of the Destruction Mage were so high, and why their growth was so terrifying.

But after seeing the professional skills, I immediately understood.

【Zhong Wuyai】

Talent: 1

Class: Destruction Mage

Reputation: 16710

Rating: 11

Experience: 58410/200000

Health: 2350/2350

Mana: 4650/4650

Physical attack: 25

Magic Attack: 941

Spell critical strike chance: 5%

Physical defense: 234

Magic Defense: 228

Power: 27

Agility: 20

Physical condition: 23

Intelligence: 122

Spirit: 79

Armor Penetration: 7

Demon Slayer: 7

Soul Resistance: 1

Movement speed: 17

Health restored per second: 21

Mana restored per second: 23

Free attribute points: 37

Skill points: 14

Class Skill: [Power of Annihilation Lv.1]

Passive skill

Increases own mental strength by 10% in armor penetration and magic penetration.

Normal attacks deal 30% more magic attack damage.

Each skill attack deals damage and is followed by a normal attack.

All attacks ignore 10% physical damage reduction and 8% magic damage reduction.

Skill 1 [Fireball Lv.1]...

Skill 2 [Fire Seed Lv.1]...

Looking at his 14 skill points, Zhong Wuyai really wanted to get them to 141 and then max out all his skills.

But I held back.

You must hold back and unleash your ultimate move at the very end.

Zhong Wuyai never considered using his talent to enhance the power of destruction, unlike the fireball spell, which can be forgotten and relearned if you no longer want it.

Professional skills should not be forgotten unless you change jobs.

Armor-piercing and magic-piercing, as their names suggest, reduce the opponent's physical and magical defense when attacking.

Ignoring damage reduction is even more terrifying; even with 100% physical or magical immunity, damage can still be dealt.

When encountering a boss again, the Iron and Bronze level bosses no longer have damage immunity.

The damage reduction of the Silver BOSS will also be reduced from 15% to 7%.

Cut it in half.

The number of free attribute points for each level up has also changed to 7.

Hidden professions, they're that awesome...

This is only the first job advancement. During the second job advancement, all growth will increase, and the health, mana, and defense related to constitution and spirit will also increase.

The ratio of magic attack to physical attack in strength and intelligence will also increase.

Zhong Wuyai thought of many things and let out a strange laugh. Luckily, no one was around, otherwise this fantasy might have caused some misunderstanding...

"Oh right, there was also a job skill book as a reward."

Annihilation

Without even reading the introduction, just seeing those two words, Zhong Wuyai started learning without a second thought.

Class Skill 2 [Annihilation Lv.1]

Active skills.

Skill Strength: Level 3

For units with less than 500 health points, unleash Annihilation to eliminate the target.

Effective against invincible units; targets with invincibility skills or status strength below level 3 can also be directly annihilated.

Mana cost: None

Damage bonus: None

Release distance: 50

Cooldown: 60 seconds.

Damage range, single-target damage.

Each time a target is killed, Obliterate's cooldown is reduced by 5%.

What is this? This is an instant-kill skill...

Eliminate them on the spot!!!

It can even kill invincible units instantly...

Holy crap...

Zhong Wuyai's hands were trembling.

If the skill strength 3 were changed to 31, wouldn't all units be annihilated? But how strong is the NPC's invincibility again?

Below level 100, it's unlikely to exceed 10.

Actually, starting at level 100, the invincibility strength is only 3, with a maximum of 5.

If this were a level 31 skill, it would be even more powerful than a divine skill.

Even the Supreme God would do it for you.

"It's decided, I'm going to slay gods!"

Save up your skill points, and once you have enough, max out Annihilation first... then increase its strength...

Also, equipment must be strengthened first, and then upgraded.

Zhong Wuyai arrived at the mission hall.

Everyone can come here to accept quests after changing jobs, but the first person to arrive always has an advantage.

Zhong Wuyai interacted with all the NPCs.

Perhaps due to their own reputation, they discovered that everyone had B-level missions, or even A-level missions.

Zhong Wuyai accepted five A-level missions at once, leaving the B-level missions aside for the time being and focusing on completing the A-level missions first.

I looked at all the mission descriptions and then at the Cloudsea City map.

Zhong Wuyai decided to go to the cemetery outside the city first.

[Quest: The Undead's Unease (A)]

[Mission Description: At some point, the number of undead in the graveyard outside the city has been increasing, as if they've escaped from the graveyard. The exact cause is unknown. You need to kill the undead creatures to ensure they don't escape from the graveyard and harm people.]

[Mission Objective: Kill 200 undead creatures]

[Task Progress: 0/200]

[Task Reward: 1 Gold Coin, 3000 Experience Points]

Since I started killing skeletons in the starting village, I've been completely obsessed with skeletons. My job change quest involved smashing skeletons, and now, leveling up still involves smashing skeletons.

It's just that they didn't switch to necromancer, and they completely broke up or something.

Although I'm annoyed, I'll do the graveyard quests for the sake of experience and gold.

Along the way, Zhong Wuyai also encountered some wild monsters, such as man-eating flowers, pythons, and thorn rats.

Two fireballs will solve everything.

It's not like it's a boss; how could it possibly withstand Zhong Wuyai's terrifying damage?

Actually, one fireball would have crippled them, but not killed them instantly, so two were used.

The graveyard is mostly populated by skeleton archers and skeleton warriors, and you might occasionally encounter a couple of zombies.

The zombie has high defense and health, and 10% magic damage reduction. It took Zhong Wuyai three fireballs to kill it.

The rest... are two shots each.

The task was completed in just a few minutes.

"Damn it, the round trip took almost half an hour, while fighting monsters and doing quests only took a few minutes. The whole time was spent running around."

I definitely want to get a mount someday, preferably a flying one. With the right talents, it'll be super fast.

[Server-wide announcement: Congratulations to player Li Sihan for successfully changing jobs, becoming the second player to do so. Reward: 1000 Reputation Points, 1 Skill Point]

"Wow, people have already changed jobs so quickly. It seems there are quite a few talented people out there."

Zhong Wuyai murmured something and continued on his way.

"Sihan, I didn't expect you to be the one who changed jobs first, how annoying!"

As they were talking, another server-wide announcement came out...

The third player to change jobs received 800 reputation points, but no other rewards.

"Damn it! Just three seconds, in those three seconds of talking to you, and I lost 800 reputation points!"

"You idiot, how dare you say that?"

"Exactly, look at Sihan, she's much better than you!"

"Dad, can you please stop being so discouraging? I'm at least an S-level talent!"

"Ha, can it compare to Sihan's SS-level talent?"

"Alright, alright, stop complaining. This smart kid is just like Sihan from a young age..."

"Bro, didn't you notice the third person to change jobs? It's an American!"

"It's alright, I already found out. The first one, Zhong Wuyai, is from China. People from the Xiang Group are close to them. Dad, when will your subordinates arrive? We need to establish a guild and gather people as soon as possible."

"We're already in contact. At most a week, at least 10,000 people will enter the main city. Because of Sihan's SS-level talent, the higher-ups have decided to let me lead 5,000 people!"

"Haha, even in a fantasy world, the Dragon Kingdom is still the strongest!"

"Don't be too happy yet. The enemy we are facing is no longer human. We don't know what the beings who brought us to this fantasy world are thinking."

"Thinking so much is useless. We don't even have the slightest ability to resist. We might as well first establish a foothold and make life better for our people in this fantasy world."