Death Walker, Skull of the Tyrant!

Chapter 520: Death Walker, Tyrant's Skull!

The chat channel was in an uproar because Great Lord Cao Xing cleared the tenth wave!

"As expected, this monster siege event was directly cleared all the way through by Great Lord Cao Xing!"

"Yeah—it's too abnormal! Not a single other region even successfully challenged the eighth wave, yet Great Lord Cao Xing directly cleared the tenth wave!"

"I heard that starting from the seventh wave, they give Bright Moon Treasure Chests. I really wonder what rewards the later waves will give. I'm so envious."

For a time, everyone sighed with emotion.

At the same time, that post on the world forum was updated once more.

Now everyone knew that Cao Xing not only successfully passed the tenth wave challenge, but was also the only one in the entire server!

Regarding this man's strength, even the top powerhouses of various regions had to admire him.

And at this moment, Cao Xing was excitedly tallying his gains.

"The rewards given by this monster siege are really a lot!"

"Ten rounds of challenges, plus the reward for first place on the leaderboard."

"Not only did I get over a thousand gold points, but there are also quite a few treasure chests."

"In this way, my backpack has 3 bronze, 3 silver, 6 gold, 3 Bright Moon Treasure Chests, and 3 ancient Bright Moon Treasure Chests that can be opened."

After arriving at this number, a smile couldn't help but appear on Cao Xing's face!

Moreover, the treasure chests were only one of the gains; the strength of the other members had also ushered in a rapid improvement in this siege battle.

After ten rounds of combat, the Dragon Speaker's level had skyrocketed from level 89 to level 96, its attack power increased by more than 7,000, and skill values increased by 70%!

It felt like coming for another monster siege could definitely rush it to the max level of one hundred.

Meanwhile, Sarah also rushed 9 levels in a row, directly reaching level 79, her attack power soaring by another chunk.

As for all the other new members, basically all of them reached the max level for their current stage.

For other people, the difficulty of the monster siege was extremely high. If they adventurously challenged high-difficulty wave numbers, they might usher in death if they weren't careful.

Therefore, when everyone challenged, they were cautious to the extreme!

However, for Cao Xing, this was simply a good place to farm treasure chests and experience!

Not only that, after knowing that his strength was sufficient to clear the tenth round of the monster siege, next time he could even more unscrupulously rush straight to the tenth round all at once.

Right now, Cao Xing couldn't wait to go over and open the treasure chests.

However, before that, he still needed to deal with some post-war matters.

Thus, he quickly ordered: "Everyone, following the old rules, the staff will go out to clear the battlefield and carry out leveling work."

"Leave a portion of combat personnel to protect the staff, and the others return to the territory."

"Understood!"

Most of the combat personnel obeyed the orders and headed back in the direction of the territory.

As for those staff members, they picked up tools and quickly went to clear the battlefield outside the territory.

Including the other core combat personnel, they also quickly returned to the territory.

Cao Xing flapped his wings, then flew onto the city wall of the South Gate, looking at Liu Muxue on the side.

In the battle just now, she had also participated as well.

Under the Battle Angel form, she rushed into the resurrected army and began a massacre in all directions!

Worth mentioning, Liu Muxue's Battle Angel form had a skill called [Dark Nemesis], which could deal an extra 30% damage to dark creatures.

These resurrected army seemed to also belong to dark creatures, being unilaterally suppressed by her.

And this also made Cao Xing wonder if he could continue to enhance Liu Muxue's angel form abilities,

after all—according to his speculation, if the frost dragon Zhuoma died, then the Death Dragon Zhaitan would come to the Western Continent.

At that time, it would definitely be an unprecedented disaster, far exceeding even the Blood Legion.

Therefore, before that, he had to make more preparations.

However, these were matters for later.

After all, what he currently needed to focus on dealing with was the 'Sinking Mist Disaster', the Watchers, as well as the Blood Legion-

"Muxue, you've worked hard tonight. Go back to the Lords Castle to rest first, and I'll come back in a while."

"Remember to draw the curtains well." Cao Xing instructed a bit.

"Mhm mhm."

Liu Muxue obediently agreed, then put the ancient precious sword back into her backpack, walking in the direction of the center of the territory.

As for Cao Xing, carrying an excited mood, he found an open space to prepare for opening the chests.

However, before that, he had to check that special title first.

[Death Walker (Title): Spirit +5%, all skill cooldowns -10%]

[Attached Special Effect: Death Resistance (Immune to all corpse poison and plague effects)]

[Title Introduction: A fearless warrior walking on the edge of death, challenging the limit of death with a tenacious will and unyielding spirit, becoming a beam of light illuminating the land of death.]

After reading the attributes of this title, Cao Xing was slightly startled.

"Huh? Immune to all corpse poison and plague effects?"

"Meaning that even corpse poisons of deity levels, or even true gods, are invalid against me?"

"Holy crap! This is a bit fierce!"

"In this way, the threat of those resurrected army is greatly reduced!"

Cao Xing was extremely excited; the ability of this title was unimaginably powerful, truly living up to being the reward for passing the tenth wave challenge first across the entire server.

"In addition, this title also has a 5% spirit attribute bonus and a 10% skill cooldown reduction."

"Especially that latter one, combined with the five [Flawless Purity] used previously, I can now reduce skill cooldowns by a total of 60%!"

His heart felt very satisfied.

"Next is the pleasant box-opening segment."

Cao Xing glanced at his backpack, and first took out all those bronze and Silver Treasure Chests.

Then he opened them uniformly.

However, most of them opened up some blue or purple equipment with little improvement, so he didn't look closely.

Then, he took out the remaining 6 gold treasure chests and opened them all together uniformly.

[Opening successful]

[Obtained: Vine-headed Turret Seed (Gold) *5]

[Obtained: Large Anti-Corpse Poison Potion *8]

[Obtained: Imperial Knight Training Camp Construction Blueprint *1]

[Obtained: Expert-level Lighthouse Upgrade Blueprint *1]

[Obtained: Behemoth Great Axe (Gold)]

[Obtained: War Research Institute Construction Blueprint (Gold)]

[Obtained…]

"Eh? This wave of box-opening is quite good; there are actually three blueprints."

Cao Xing first glanced at the attributes of these three blueprints.

Among them, the [Imperial Knight Training Camp] and [Expert-level Lighthouse] blueprints didn't need much explanation.

The former allowed the use of the [Imperial Knight Training Book] inside to train civilians into imperial knights.

It was still very good.

As for the subsequent [Expert-level Lighthouse], on the basis of the advanced lighthouse, it raised the durability and armor once again while also significantly increasing the illumination range.

Cao Xing decided to finish upgrading these lighthouses as soon as possible.

After all, this experience had already made Cao Xing realize the usefulness of lighthouses.

Then came the last blueprint.

Glancing at the attributes.

[War Research Institute Construction Blueprint (Gold)]

[Blueprint Introduction: A War Research Institute can be constructed in the territory, consuming resources to conduct reinforcement research, strengthening the attack power and defense power of all arrow towers and city walls in the territory]

[Current available research directions: Arrow Tower Reinforcement (each level can increase all arrow towers' attack power and range by 10%, upper limit of 5 levels), Wall Fortification (each level can increase all city walls' armor and durability by 10%, upper limit of 5 levels)]

[Building Area: 675 square meters]

[Building Height: 14 meters]

[Construction Required Materials: Energy Tower Level 11, Stone *100,000, Iron *50,000, Copper *10,000, Mithril *5,000, master-level elemental crystal *1]

[Construction Required Time: 231 hours]

[Maximum Staff: 0 / 4 people]

"50% attack power and range enhancement, even the city walls can be enhanced by 50%!"

"Good stuff!"

Moreover, this thing could affect the entire territory. It could be said that upgrading once could greatly increase the attack power of arrow towers and the thickness of city walls.

"Not bad, tomorrow I can have Du An build all these buildings."

Cao Xing patted his hands in satisfaction.

The items opened from the six gold treasure chests were very good, making him look even more forward to the subsequent chest openings!

Then, he took out 3 treasure chests shimmering with white light all over from his backpack.

[Unlocked Bright Moon Treasure Chest *3 discovered, open?]

Cao Xing directly clicked to open.

[Opening successful.]

[Obtained: Tyrant's Skull (Orange) *1]

[Obtained: Yul's Magic Ring (Orange)]

[Obtained: Master-level Heart of Power *3]

[Obtained: master-level elemental crystal *354]

[Obtained: Large Resource Pack *9]

"Huh? Aside from two orange items, three Master-level Heart of Power were actually opened out as well. This is quite good."

Although it was said that any item could be opened from a treasure chest, whether food, seeds, or even blueprints could be obtained,

but opening a Heart of Power was the first time Cao Xing had encountered it.

"Not bad, it just so happens that there are only two Master-level Heart of Power left in my backpack."

"These three came just in time, allowing several more master-level creatures to emerge in my territory."

Next, he took a strange thing out of his backpack.

That looked like a dark red helmet, as if made from some kind of creature's bones, filled with a bloody and tyrannical aura.

On both sides of the helmet were a pair of sharp bone spurs, looking like the fangs of some beast, and on its front were two sunken eye sockets, hollow and dark.

"This thing has quite a unique design."

Glancing at the attributes.

[Tyrant's Skull (Orange)]

[Quality: Epic]

[Equipment Slot: Helmet]

[Equipment Level: Level 70]

[Armor: 436 ~ 577]

[Bonus Effect ①: Strength +800, Constitution +500, Critical Rate +30%]

[Bonus Effect ②: Tyrant's Might (Reduces head damage taken by 50%)]

[Bonus Effect ③: Tyrant's Eye (Upon accumulating 10 instances of damage taken, it activates the power within the helmet, increasing own attack speed by 30% and critical damage by 50% for 60 seconds. Cooldown: 120 seconds)]

(Equipment Introduction: Tyrant Series Set, can form set effects with 'Tyrant's Hand', 'Tyrant's Armor', 'Tyrant's Raid', 'Tyrant's Foot', 'Tyrant's Ring'.)

(Note: No one dares to gaze directly into the eyes of Tyrant Lloyd. If you overcome this fear and make eye contact with him, you will glimpse his secret…)

"Oh? It actually turns out to be a piece of an Epic set, and it can also increase attack speed and critical damage by 30%!"

"This is quite suitable for melee units like Bjorn or Assam."

"However, Assam already has the 'Fearless Knight Set' now, so this equipment should be considered for someone else."

Besides this, Cao Xing also noticed the remarks on the equipment.

"Gazing directly into the eyes will glimpse the tyrant's secret ———— What secret is it?"

With a curious mindset, he slowly held the helmet in his hands and faced the front toward himself.

Then, he stared at the pair of pitch-black holes inside the helmet.

However, the inside looked pitch-black, and nothing could be seen.

Staring at each other for more than ten seconds, the helmet still showed no reaction.

Just when Cao Xing was about to give up.

From the holes of this helmet, a tyrannical aura suddenly emanated!

As if the eyes of this helmet had been lit up,

In an instant, red light erupted from within!

At the same time, Cao Xing felt a terrifying aura that made people feel a fear from the depths of their hearts, and even couldn't help wanting to escape from here.

But soon, the red light in those eyes dimmed.

And Cao Xing saw a string of text appearing inside the helmet through that fleeting light.

[Lloyd's Tomb: 81623.9172. 11932. ————]

Seeing the text above, Cao Xing instantly understood something.

"Lloyd's Tomb, which is this tyrant's tomb?"

"In other words, other set pieces might be found there?"

After reaching this conclusion, a smile suddenly appeared on Cao Xing's face.

"Great, great, great! I didn't expect that such an important location was actually hidden in this helmet!"

"This is not bad."

However, the mini-map function was blocked now, otherwise Cao Xing could check through the coordinates how far this place was from his own territory.

But it didn't matter; anyway, that tomb was right there and wouldn't run away.

It would be the same to go after the Sinking Mist Disaster ended.

Satisfied, he put it into his backpack, and then checked the attributes of another ring.

[Yuer's Demon Ring (Orange)]

[Quality: Epic]

[Equipment Level: Level 70]

[Bonus Effect ①: Spirit +300, Constitution +300, Magical Critical Rate +20%]

[Bonus Effect ②: Advanced Armor Penetration (When an attack hits an enemy, ignores 800 points of the opponent's armor)]

[Bonus Effect ③: Yuer's Blessing (Immune to Legendary or sub-Legendary stun statuses)]

(Equipment Introduction: An ancient ring containing a trace of the power of the Demon God Yuer…)

"300 points of spirit, plus 800 points of armor ignore, and stun immunity—this ring is really strong!"

"Speaking of which, I have quite a bit of immunity-type equipment on me."

"Dragon Zhuoma's scales are immune to physical attacks below Legendary level, and Crystal Dragon's scales are immune to all lightning-attribute attacks."

"Then the title on my head is immune to plague and corpse poison effects, and this ring can also be immune to stun."

"Come a few more pieces, and I'll become the King of Immunity."

Cao Xing thought happily.

Just right, the one he wore on his hand was still the original Level 15 Kingdom Holy Ring.

He directly equipped it, and his attributes improved by another notch.

"Not bad, the items dropped from the three Bright Moon Treasure Chests are also very powerful."

"Next is to open those 3 ancient Bright Moon Treasure Chests!"

Thinking of this, he took them directly out of his backpack.

"Clang! Clang!"

Three bright Bright Moon Treasure Chests appeared, exuding a deep luster.

In comparison, this kind of ancient Bright Moon Treasure Chest seemed to be different from contemporary Bright Moon Treasure Chests.

The patterns on the ancient treasure chests were more like some mysterious symbols, while on the current Bright Moon Treasure Chests, some lifelike patterns were carved.

Of course, the quality of items dropped from these two types of chests was actually about the same.

It's just that because an era separated them, the things inside were different.

Cao Xing stepped forward and directly clicked to open.

[Opened successfully.]

[Acquired: Stone Flux Pauldrons (Orange)]

[Acquired: Orb of Loyalty (Orange) * 2]

[Acquired: Laser Sight (Orange)]

[Acquired: Arc Star * 17]

[Acquired: Spoiled Drinking Water * 15]

[Acquired —]

"Hmm? What are all these things?"

The things in the ancient Bright Moon Treasure Chest were, as always, bizarre.

With a curious mindset, Cao Xing glanced at the attributes.

[Stone Flux Pauldrons (Orange)]

[Quality: Epic]

[Equipment Slot: Pauldrons]

[Equipment Level: None]

[Unique Effect: Strength Infusion (After wearing, increases base strength by 100%, attack speed – 50%)]

(Equipment Introduction: Pauldrons containing a certain special power, they can instantly turn you into a strongman!)

"This piece of equipment — is a bit interesting."

"If it's a 100% strength bonus, equipment on people like Assam and Bjorn can increase attack power by at least over ten thousand."

"If given to Malenia, it can increase attack power by about twenty-six thousand."

"And this -50% attack speed is a bit hurtful; after all, the main output of these people in the territory relies on powerful speed."

"So — these pauldrons are more suitable for those burst-type fighters."

Cao Xing pondered for a moment and decided to give it to Assam after all; his attack power was strong enough.

Since that was the case, he would directly boost his attack power to the extreme.

Coupled with Ilena's [Serpentfolk Berserk] which increased attack speed by 20%, it was equivalent to these pauldrons only reducing attack speed by 30%, which was still within an acceptable range.

If he equipped that [Tyrant's Skull] as well, it would be equivalent to having zero negative status.

Of course, it wasn't completely without any side effects.

After all, these pauldrons had no level and no armor bonuses; they were equivalent to pure attribute-bonus equipment, meaning Assam would have less armor.

Then, Cao Xing glanced at the second item.

[Orb of Loyalty (Orange)]

[Quality: Epic]

[Unique Effect: After use, can forcibly raise a territory member's loyalty to 100. If it is already 100, it will be further raised to die-hard loyalty.]

"Ideological steel seal?" This thought involuntarily popped up in Cao Xing's mind.

After all, this kind of thing that forcibly makes someone loyal is equivalent to changing the other person's thoughts.

And Cao Xing didn't have a chance to use it at present; after all, the creatures in his territory were quite loyal to him.

He put it back into his backpack and began to check other items.

[Laser Sight (Orange)]

[Quality: Epic]

[Equipment Level: None]

[Equipment Type: Head (After equipping this mask, you will not be able to equip helmets, hats, and other equipment)]

[Unique Effect: Dead Eye (When launching ranged physical attacks, if a critical hit is successful, an additional 100% critical damage will be added)]

"Holy shit! A full 100% crit damage bonus, is this thing so terrifying?"

From Sarah's [death gods dagger], you can see how terrifying a 100% crit damage bonus is.

And a single sight could have such an effect, truly terrifying to this extent!

However, the only pity was that this thing would only take effect for ranged physical attacks.

In other words, either arrows shot by archers, or hot weapon attacks like Tong Chuchu's.