This level had only one truly troublesome adversary for Huang Yi—the final BOSS, a Level 33 Murloc Assassin. Its dagger was exceptional, and Huang Yi had to use many magic items to kill it. However, the loot it dropped was also very impressive; it dropped at least two pieces of blue gear each time, and on the third time, it even dropped a purple cape.
Murloc Nightcrawler Cloak (Purple Gear, Armor Set - Cloak)
Physical Defense: 92
Strength +100
Critical Hit Rate +2%
Attack Power +1%
Each attack steals 1 point of the target’s main attribute and converts it into 0.1 of the user’s main attribute for 60 seconds. After 60 seconds, the stolen attributes are restored.
Durability: 570/570
Required Level: 33
Equipment Score: 185
Item Description: "I race through the night, but I cannot catch up to your receding figure."—In eternal memory of the Murloc Race’s great hero from Ancient Times, Murloc Nightcrawler Slark.
Murloc Nightcrawler Suit
Three pieces: Strength +100
Five pieces: Constitution +200
Seven pieces: Movement Speed +20% when out of combat.
This turned out to be a Level 33 set, which was much stronger than the assorted purple gear Huang Yi was wearing, surpassing it by several levels. This gear was also very suitable for Huang Yi, as it added exclusively attack-related attributes, which was actually a player-friendly setting by the system.
When the system determined the BOSS’s drops, it would consider the player’s class. Since Huang Yi specialized in chainmail, the system would not drop plate armor for him. And as Huang Yi played an aggressive attack-oriented class, the system would not drop defense-type equipment.
However, it was a bit different when in a group. The system would consider the classes of all players in the party and drop items within that range.
Additionally, this piece of equipment possesses an attribute that Huang Yi had never encountered before—each attack steals 1 point of the enemy’s main attribute, converting it into 0.1 of his own main attribute, lasting for 60 seconds. After 60 seconds, the stolen attributes are restored. This is a give-and-take attribute; if the enemy is intelligence-based, then each time Huang Yi attacks, he would reduce the enemy’s intelligence by 1 point, diminishing their strength, while increasing his own main attribute by 0.1, which is 0.1 of strength, which would be restored after 60 seconds. This attribute is quite useful, but it’s a pity the value is so small that it hardly shows any significant effect.
Moreover, when the BOSS died for the third time, it dropped another object, an ancient fragment of a sheepskin scroll, which Huang Yi picked up and examined.
This tattered ancient fragment of a sheepskin scroll emitted a vast historical aura as if it had drifted down from the river of countless years, came into possession of this BOSS, and was then dropped by Huang Yi.
[Slark’s Diary (Part One)] (Special Item)
An ancient fragment of a sheepskin scroll with some ancient script written on it.
Huang Yi brought the scroll fragment up to his eyes for a closer look. The writing on the scroll was in the common language of the continent, penned in an extremely ancient style, reminiscent of the Ancient Common Language—
"I feel that my body has grown strange organs and developed some weird scales. I am becoming uglier, but my strength is growing. I don’t know what to do. But every time I find my body becoming more grotesque, the pleasure of the increase in strength entices me, and I feel more and more distant from my former self. I’ve begun to dread the light I once loved, preferring every dark and damp place, perhaps in that way, she won’t have to see what I look like now..."
The text ends there, the rest torn off. To find out what comes next, the remaining fragments need to be acquired.
This Slark turns out to be the Murloc hero mentioned in the item description of the [Murloc Nightcrawler Cloak]. Since it is his diary, it must have been handed down from Ancient Times, no wonder it carries such a heavy sense of history.
Huang Yi stored the sheepskin scroll fragment in his storage ring, then equipped the [Murloc Nightcrawler Cloak] and exited the Tower of Pantheons. After resetting it, he teleported back to this level and continued grinding.
When Huang Yi did the grind for the fifth time, the final BOSS dropped another piece of the Murloc Nightcrawler suit, this time it was a belt, and on this belt was that very attribute—each attack steals 1 point of the enemy’s main attribute, converting it into 0.1 of his main attribute, for 60 seconds, after which the stolen attributes are restored.
Huang Yi speculated that this must be an attribute present in every piece of the [Murloc Nightcrawler Suit]. If he could collect all seven pieces, then in total, each attack would steal 7 points of the enemy’s main attribute and increase his own by 0.7, for 60 seconds! This scale could be considered substantial enough to see a decent effect.
This time, the BOSS also dropped a fragment of an ancient sheepskin scroll, clearly a continuation of the one he had found earlier, evidently the second part of Slark’s diary—
"Every daybreak, I hide in the black room of the basement. She always knocks on the door, crying, asking what has happened to me, but I can’t tell her. I can only press my ear, now covered in scales, against the door and listen to the beat of her heart. I can sense her pure and warm breath, which I once so adored. I long to hold her tight as I used to, to feel that sense of completeness, but I have become a monster now, and I do not want her to see what I look like. How I wish to tell her, dear Rosa, how much I love her..."
The diary ends abruptly there, indicating there are more fragments and content to follow.
Next, Huang Yi continued his relentless grinding, and finally unearthed the third fragment of the ancient sheepskin scroll—
"At last, on a cold night, I made a decision. I wanted to take her away from here, away from the homeland where we had grown up together. I found her, dressed in thick clothes and wearing a mask so she couldn’t see my current face. I took her hand tightly and ran madly through the night, just like those seasons filled with dandelions when we would laugh, chasing through the wind brimming with dandelions... At that moment, she suddenly reached out, pulled off my mask, and at that instant, the moonlight shone on my ugly face. I saw the horror in her eyes. She let go of my hand, her gaze turned alien, no longer warm, and she ran away screaming. I just watched her from a distance, watched her get farther and farther, watched as she exited my field of vision, all those happy times fading away with her into the night. I ran after her like a madman, for I did not want her to leave me, but seeing the desperation in her panicked escape, I stopped, standing there, stunned, watching her receding figure. Suddenly, I felt overwhelming sadness, I could only turn and leave for the lonely and desolate depths of darkness... Goodbye, my dear Rosa. In the night, I hurried on but couldn’t catch up with your retreating form."