Chapter 1 The Skill

Once you enter the Shadow Dance stage, the concept of skills becomes different.

This was a brand-new realm, a world that Nie Yan had never touched in his previous life. He looked at the effect of the Release skill.

Release: Status skill, upgradable. Automatically upgrades all skills in the player's skill bar to free skills. Any action is not restricted by skills and has an attack effect. The skill lasts for 20 minutes and has a cooldown of one natural day.

After seeing the effect of the Release skill, Nie Yan was suddenly shocked. It was indeed awesome that all skills were automatically upgraded to free skills, but what did the second half of the sentence, “any action is not restricted by skills and has an attack effect,” mean?

Nie Yan was silent for a long time. A trace of doubt flashed in his mind, and he speculated for a moment, but he had to use the specific effect of the Release skill to confirm it. It was useless to just imagine it out of thin air.

I should put this skill book away first. I can only use it after successfully changing jobs to Shadow Dancer.

Nie Yan put the Release skill book into his backpack. Getting this skill book made all the previous risks worthwhile.

After searching the stone room and finding nothing else, Nie Yan came out and walked away with the paladin Leves and the golden earth dragon.

Along the way, many dark maids were refreshed. As he walked along, this huge underground palace was gradually revealed before Nie Yan's eyes. It was winding and curved, like a maze. At the end of the corridor, a huge stone gate appeared before him. The stone gate was five or six yards high, with a huge demon relief on the door, with eyes like copper bells and a ferocious face.

The door was half-covered, just enough for one or two people to pass through. Looking over there, there were more than twenty humanoid monsters wearing red robes walking around the door. These monsters were obviously not dark maids. Nie Yan did not dare to continue moving forward and ordered the golden earth dragon and the paladin Leves to stand by, while he slowly sneaked over.

He threw an Investigation at one of the humanoid monsters.

Blood Sacrifice Maid: Level 120 Elite, HP 500000/500000.

They were elite creatures. There were more than twenty elites here. With so many ranged monsters, Nie Yan wouldn't be able to deal with them.

These elite creatures were different from the previous dark maids. More than twenty level 120 elites casting attack magic together could instantly kill the golden earth dragon and the paladin Leves with their powerful spell damage.

These blood sacrifice maids guarded the door, looking around and walking around, but the distance between them never exceeded two yards.

The golden earth dragon and the paladin Leves couldn't get through, but Nie Yan had a way.

After thinking for a while, Nie Yan summoned the golden earth dragon back and ended the paladin Leves's summon. It had been more than three hours since the paladin Leves was summoned. The employment fee was calculated according to four hours, so Nie Yan had to pay 80,000 gold coins, which was a terrifying amount.

Selling ordinary spoils would probably only bring back 50,000 to 60,000 gold coins at most, but getting a Shadow Dance skill book was worth it. The Shadow Dance skill book was priceless and could not be bought on the market for any amount of gold coins.

Calculated in this way, it was still worthwhile to summon the paladin Leves. The paladin Leves's powerful combat power was definitely worth the price.

A vicious idea flashed in Nie Yan's mind. When fighting the Sacred Guardians Guild, he would hire the paladin Leves and let the Sacred Guardians people see this incomparably powerful paladin. It would probably be very enjoyable.

Scanning the corner of his backpack, there were still five random teleport scrolls. It should be enough if he encountered an unexpected situation.

Although the random teleport scrolls of the Mad Rogue Tribe were very tight and often not enough, Nie Yan always had enough random teleport scrolls. After all, he was the guild leader, and Guo Huai would definitely reserve a certain amount for Nie Yan each time.

Nie Yan took out the Creeper Ring, activated the skill on the Creeper Ring, stuck to the wall, bypassed the blood sacrifice maids, reached the top of the stone gate, and slipped in through the crack in the door.

Using the Creeper Ring to avoid monsters was very effective and could be said to be repeatedly successful.

After slipping into the door and looking into the distance, an open and magnificent hall appeared before Nie Yan's eyes. In front of the hall stood a huge bronze statue, somewhat similar in appearance to Branigan, gold-plated all over, about five or six yards high. The statue's palms were open, and a silver-gray leather armor was suspended in mid-air. This leather armor was made of some unknown material and emitted a bright silver luster under the light.

After seeing the leather armor in the distance, the Holy Light Stone in Nie Yan's accessory bar became even brighter.

That's it!

The leather armor in the distance was one of the Abak Set components that Nie Yan was looking for. Nie Yan didn't know what the leather armor was called yet.

On both sides of the hall were stone platforms, densely packed with many candles, and the flickering lights made the entire hall full of mystery.

The hall was very empty, and there were no monsters moving around. Could it be that this leather armor was placed here without anyone guarding it?

Nie Yan was uncertain. It shouldn't be so easy to get this leather armor. He didn't dare to go down and slowly moved towards that side while sticking to the wall.

After a while, a humanoid monster wearing a black robe walked out from behind a pillar, walking back and forth on the red carpet in the center of the hall.

Seeing this humanoid monster, Nie Yan's heart skipped a beat. This figure looked somewhat familiar. He immediately remembered that it was the wandering soul princess, Ai Na!

The wandering soul princess would be resurrected thirty days after being killed, becoming stronger. She would continue to hinder Nie Yan from obtaining the Abak Set.

Calculating the time, the wandering soul princess Ai Na had indeed been resurrected.

I don't know how strong she is this time.

It would be a bit troublesome to be targeted by the wandering soul princess Ai Na, but it should be no problem to take the Abak leather armor and use the random teleport scroll to teleport away.

Nie Yan thought, he did have a way to bypass the wandering soul princess's attention and get the Abak leather armor.

Looking ahead, the leather armor was about ten yards away from the nearest wall.

Nie Yan, like a gecko, stuck to the wall and slowly moved towards the direction of the leather armor.

The wandering soul princess Ai Na seemed to sense something and looked towards Nie Yan's side.

Nie Yan immediately clung tightly to the wall, cast a few stealth-enhancing status skills on himself, and dared not move.

The wandering soul princess Ai Na's gaze swept over Nie Yan, but ultimately found nothing and continued to wander.

Nie Yan continued his actions, getting closer and closer to the Abak leather armor, about ten yards away. He used his feet and right hand to hold on tightly, stretched out his left hand, aimed at the Abak leather armor in the distance, and with a whoosh, a spider silk shot out towards the Abak leather armor in the distance.