Seeing Yang Tao's smiling face stained with a bit of blood, the three Professionals couldn't help but shiver, their minds constantly recalling various rumors about Necromancers.
"Captain, what should we do? He's coming over!!"
A Sorceress clutched her staff tightly, her beautiful face showing some panic. She was only level two and didn't want to die here.
She heard that Necromancers loved to play with corpses the most.
The captain of this small team was an Amazon warrior, holding a long spear, clearly preparing to go the spear route. Hearing her teammate's words, she calmed herself and comforted her:
"Necromancers are also normal Professionals. What you heard are just rumors, Maria, don't scare yourself."
However, looking at the blood-dripping stick in Yang Tao's hand and his 'Weird' and 'ferocious' expression, she herself felt uncertain.
She had seen many battles, but this was the first time she had seen such cruel torture of monsters, especially with a smile on his face after the torture.
On the other side, Yang Tao looked at the three of them, thinking maliciously, "It's three females, could they be 'good girlfriends'?"
An Amazon warrior, a Sorceress, and a Female Assassin hiding behind them.
Tsk tsk…
This setup was definitely a high-damage output team.
"Hello, my name is Yang Tao. As you can see, I am a Necromancer. It's a pleasure to meet you."
The three Skeleton Warriors cooperatively killed a few Fallen and ran to his side, circling around him.
He simply greeted them.
The other party nodded lightly and introduced herself, "My name is Diana, and these are my teammates, Maria and Lucy."
"We followed the torches on the wall; we didn't mean to disturb you."
Their gazes occasionally fell on the Skeleton Warriors. It was clear that these square-shaped Skeleton Warriors truly exceeded their understanding.
"I felt the cave was a bit dark, so I put up some torches. This way, I don't have to worry about being ambushed by monsters."
"Are the torches really yours? Such magic torches must be very expensive, right? Isn't this a bit wasteful?"
"Not expensive for me."
Yang Tao calmly showed off a bit, then asked, "Are you here to find Corpsefire?"
Diana nodded gently, a faint smile appearing on her face, and said, "Corpsefire is relatively weak, and the chance of dropping good equipment is higher. We planned to try our luck here. Whether we encounter him or not, we'll head to the Stony Field for training."
Upon hearing this, Yang Tao was slightly stunned. He originally thought these three were preparing to complete the skill point quest, but he didn't expect them to be 'experts' fishing in a small pond.
This news made Yang Tao's heart tighten slightly. Since these three had this idea, then others must be doing the same.
"In that case, then everyone can only rely on their own luck. I'll be going first."
With that, Yang Tao waved his hand and continued walking towards where Corpsefire would respawn.
After he left, the three women looked at each other. The Sorceress whispered, "What a strange guy, casually sticking precious magic torches on the wall. And his skeletons are different from what the books say; they're square and so cute."
Cute?
Diana turned to glance at her teammate. She couldn't see anything cute about the skeletons covered in the blood of the Fallen.
She hadn't expected that after knowing her teammate for so long, she would only now discover that her teammate's aesthetic sense was so powerful.
"Let's hurry up and set off too, so we don't make a wasted trip."
She glanced at the route Yang Tao took, and finally, she led her team to another respawn location.
After learning there were competitors, Yang Tao immediately transformed into a berserker, leading his Skeleton Warriors to eliminate monsters along the way, whether it was a team of Fallen led by a Fallen Shaman, or groups of three to five Zombies, or even solitary giant beasts.
Anything that appeared before him was instantly killed by him and his Skeleton Warriors.
Taking out a bottle of minor healing potion and drinking it, Yang Tao couldn't help but curse in a low voice, "This healing potion is such a rip-off!!"
If he didn't use a healing potion, relying on his slow self-regeneration, it would take about five minutes to recover one health point.
If he drank a bottle of minor healing potion, it would take about 10 seconds to recover one point.
If he hadn't been in a hurry just now and drunk a minor healing potion, he would have thought it was as fast as in the game.
"No wonder you need to team up. Just with this terrible healing potion, soloing is really too much of a pain."
Watching his health slowly increase drop by drop, Yang Tao took a deep breath, took out a torch, and stuck it on the wall, illuminating the ground covered in corpses.
"I still have to rely on the Skeleton Warriors to tank damage. This potion is truly too much of a rip-off."
Once his health was fully restored, Yang Tao continued running deeper. He was now very close to Corpsefire's respawn point.
Bang!
He killed a Zombie, equipped the dropped white belt, and continued to swing his staff, charging towards the Fallen Shaman nearby.
More than ten minutes later, Yang Tao again took out a bottle of minor healing potion and poured it into his mouth.
The strawberry flavor was quite good.
He glanced at his experience points.
820 / 2000
As expected, it was still best to farm monsters in the cave; the monsters were dense and numerous.
"I should be able to level up after another half a day of farming."
After leveling up, he would immediately put a point into Skeleton Mastery. This way, the skeletons' damage could be increased further.
After clearing the monsters here, the dropped items automatically flew into his backpack. Unlike the Diablo game, his backpack was similar in nature to Minecraft; no matter what equipment, it only occupied one slot.
"A blue magic item?"
Yang Tao looked at the boots lying in his backpack, a surprised expression on his face.
"It actually dropped a blue item? Did this small monster turn over a new leaf?"
He had already despaired of the drop rates in reality and planned to get 100% Magic Find later to have some fun, but he never expected this small monster to actually drop something.
He took out an identification scroll.
Boots
Required Level 1
Defense 3
Durability 15 / 15
+3 Life
Yang Tao: "…"
This item was definitely not worth an identification scroll. Better to have it than not, so he put them on his feet.
He stepped into the spacious cave where Corpsefire could respawn. It was about the size of two football fields and divided into upper and lower levels.
There were some thick support pillars in the cave, ensuring that the cave ceiling would not collapse.
There were many monsters inside, and a foul smell of sulfur and decay permeated his nostrils. This was the inherent smell of Nether Demons and Zombies.
Relying on the faint light of the torch, Yang Tao carefully scanned the entire cave but did not see any Zombies of a different color.
'None?'
Yang Tao was slightly disappointed, but the monsters here were enough for his experience to increase significantly.
Immediately, he waved the staff in his hand, aimed at the swaying Zombie walking towards him, and shouted, "Go, kill them!"
In fact, he didn't even need to command them. The moment they spotted the monsters, the Skeleton Warriors charged forward as if they had been injected with stimulants.