After more than three hours of monster grinding, Chu Tian finally obtained the quest item when his experience reached 5 levels and 98%.
Meng De Bi An had also reached level four, on the verge of level five, and could also undertake the quest. However, calculating her experience, she would need to grind monsters here until tomorrow morning to level up.
Although their relationship had developed well and the little sister was quite cute, Chu Tian was willing to teach her some combat experience. However, his time was precious. He could only bid her farewell and proceed alone towards the top of the lair to complete the subsequent tasks.
He moved stealthily, the Crow Claw monsters becoming increasingly dense. Many Crow Claw Scouts, visible with the True Eye, also appeared. He avoided them when possible, and when he couldn't, he fought them head-on, clearing the monsters before advancing.
After another hour or so, he finally reached the altar at the top of the lair.
There were no monsters on the entire mountaintop. Chu Tian stepped forward directly and lit the four bonfires around the altar. Chu Tian discovered that this tail feather was used to fan the flames, as the bonfires couldn't be lit otherwise.
"Quack quack... Who dares disturb my slumber? Outsider, you should not be here. I will tear you to shreds."
A shadow-like transparent Crowman appeared at the center of the altar, wielding a skull staff. Chu Tian cast a probe spell on it.
[Shadow of the Crow Claw Commander]
Level: 10
Attack: 0
Defense: 0
Health: 1500
Skill: Summon Crowmen (Chant time 120 seconds, or when health drops below 30%, it will instantly cast and summon 50-200 Crowmen to attack the enemy.)
Description: The Crow Claw Commander, slumbering in the Void Realm, can only use its soul projection to transmit the teachings of the Crowmen to its followers. The soul projection has no attack power, but it can summon its followers to fight for it.
"Ding... Subsequent quest triggered. Reduce the health of the [Shadow of the Crowman Commander] to 30% and escape back to the Druid camp in the Nature Forest while being pursued by the Crowman army."
Upon seeing the quest prompt, Chu Tian wondered if a fortuitous quest would be triggered by killing the Shadow of the Crow Claw Commander, something he hadn't heard of in his previous life.
However, in his previous life, he didn't have the ability to kill it. When its health dropped below 30%, it would summon at least 50 Crowman soldiers. At that time, escape was the only option; otherwise, he would die. No one had the chance to test it.
A certain Druid, at a higher level, once undertook this quest. Upon entering the lair, their level was compressed to level 6, and even their weapons were compressed to only the attack power of ordinary iron-grade white equipment. All other equipment attributes became invalid, making the quest even more difficult for that player than for lower-level players.
Chu Tian calculated that when the opponent's health dropped to 30%, which was 500 points, he would build up enough energy and use two consecutive Shreds plus Five-Star Ferocity, which could likely instantly kill the Shadow of the Crow Claw Commander, taking about two seconds.
At that time, he would see the distribution of the summoned monsters. If they could give him a little time and not surround him, he might be able to defeat it.
Chu Tian was currently only using Claw Attacks, calculating the health, and supplementing with Shreds, ensuring he had five energy stars and one hundred full energy points when the health dropped to 50%.
-56, -48, -105...
Because the opponent had no defense, a critical hit from a normal claw attack could deal over 100 damage.
Soon, the health of the Shadow of the Crow Claw Commander dropped to 513 points. Chu Tian followed up with a Claw Attack.
-101! A red critical hit damage.
With only 412 health remaining, the Shadow of the Crow Claw Commander let out a loud cry.
Its body began to emit red light particles, and it swung the skull staff in its hand.
"Come out... my followers, fight for me, and you shall gain eternal life!"
Swish...
The originally purple sky became even dimmer, and dense purple circles appeared on the ground. Figures emerged from these circles.
Chu Tian glanced around and saw over a hundred purple circles.
"Going all out..."
Ferocious Bite, excellent completion.
-145!
Shred, Shred, Ferocious Bite, excellent completion.
-98, -102, -65!
The last Ferocious Bite only had two stars, but with excellent completion, it still dealt 65 damage.
Two seconds had passed, and the Crowman soldiers had begun to surround him.
The Shadow of the Crow Claw Commander had only 2 health points left.
Chu Tian gritted his teeth and added a Claw Attack.
-2! (Excess damage 43 points.)
"Damn Druid, I remember your scent. Wait for my revenge!"
"Ding... System notification..."
A system notification appeared, but Chu Tian didn't have time to pay attention to it. He snatched an item dropped on the ground and turned to run.
His direction was the opposite of where he came from. That area was already surrounded by monsters with no gaps. The direction he ran was towards the cliff behind him, where there were also quite a few Crow Claw soldiers.
He had already determined a route and had not yet been surrounded by soldiers. However, they moved much faster than ordinary monsters. If they started at the same time, Chu Tian might even be caught up to with his movement speed.
Racing against time, he reached the cliff, dodged a double-handed sword swing from a soldier, and leaped forward.
He jumped directly off the cliff. He didn't expect to have to jump off a cliff again to escape. Fate truly played tricks on him.
At a distance of three hundred meters from the ground, Chu Tian opened the gliding umbrella he had bought for 50 silver coins.
He adjusted his direction and glided towards the Nature Forest. He first exited the enchantment of the Crowman lair and soon entered the enchantment of the Nature Forest.
Finally, he landed by Moonpetal Lake, having narrowly escaped danger. He had accomplished a feat that many Druids in his previous life had failed to achieve: killing the [Shadow of the Crow Claw Commander].
He opened his backpack to check the item he had just picked up:
[Staff of the Bound Dead]
Quality: Dark Gold
Equipment Level: No requirement
Equipment Requirement: Intelligence 800
Magic Attack: 800-1200
Intelligence: 800
Attached Skills: Undead Resurrection, Life Leech, Scourge Descent.
Undead Resurrection: Can resurrect killed creatures, possessing 70% of their combat power based on the corpse's level, lasting for 3 hours. Can summon a maximum of 10 undead creatures, not occupying one's own summon limit. (Player corpses cannot be resurrected, but player corpses can be destroyed. Players whose corpses are destroyed can only choose to revive at the graveyard.)
Life Leech: When attacking an enemy, can siphon 15% of the damage dealt as health to replenish oneself.
Scourge Descent: Summons meteorites to fall, causing stun effect for 3 seconds to all targets within a 50x50 meter range. After the meteorites fall, the ground will burn, causing any creature standing on it to take 5% of their maximum health as damage per second (affected by fire effects and monster quality, effect reduced by 40% for elite monsters, 55% for rare monsters, and 70% for Boss monsters), lasting for 30 seconds, with a cooldown of 6 hours and a casting time of 3 minutes.
Faction Restriction: Survivor Faction.
Class Restriction: Warlock.
Truly, the bolder one dares, the more one achieves.
Although this staff was only Dark Gold quality, its attributes were comparable to god-tier equipment.
However, the intelligence requirement was too high. It was estimated that a Warlock with full intelligence points would need to be over level 130 to equip it, unless they found a pile of passive skill books that increased intelligence and learned them to wear it earlier.
Chu Tian found it hard to believe that killing a level 10 quest monster could drop such high-level equipment.
But when he opened the system notification to check, Chu Tian completely lost the joy of obtaining the equipment. His eyes were vacant and dull as he cursed, "Self-inflicted!"