Venomous Dart! A single skill to insta-kill the BOSS!

A Polluter was taken down.

The pressure on Wang Meng and his team's backline instantly decreased by a lot.

The beautiful young girl holding a staff had excitement and thrill in her beautiful eyes: "An expert is here to help us! Could it be Shadow from the leaderboard?"

In truth, one couldn't even tell if this young girl was beautiful right now; her body and face were covered in mud, and her health was nearly depleted.

Only her figure was still so hot, making it hard for people to resist taking a few extra glances.

Her slender legs moved continuously, positioning herself nimbly, appearing lively and bouncy…

"Hold on."

Wang Meng's skill cooldown finished.

With a solemn expression, he cast his skill, Divine Barrier!

A golden light enveloped his stalwart body, entering him into a three-second invincibility state, allowing him to hold out a bit longer under the Swift Runner.

The others also gained room to dodge.

With one less Polluter, the ranged threat was significantly reduced.

Nearly half a minute later, Qin Feng appeared behind another Polluter once again.

He struck instantly without warning!

Once again, he insta-killed the Polluter!

"No Evolution Points…"

"Hand of Greed!"

"Oh? A skill book dropped?"

Qin Feng casually picked up the skill book dropped by the Polluter.

He checked the skill book in his inventory:

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[Venomous Dart (Common): Assassin skill. Throws a highly toxic dart with a maximum range of 12 meters. Deals an additional 40 points of attack damage upon hitting, and inflicts the 'Venom' status. Cooldown: 5 seconds. Learning Requirement: Level 2]

[Venom: Deals 30% attack damage per second, no weak point bonus, lasts for 5 seconds, non-stackable.]

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Finally, an offensive skill, and a mid-range, damage-over-time one at that!

Even for an ordinary player, learning a skill like this in the early game would skyrocket their development speed.

However…

The drop rate of skill books from Common monsters was extremely low.

Qin Feng had killed so many Common monsters, yet he had only gotten skill book drops twice.

Once was from the first Crawler, which dropped the mage-type 'Ice Cone Technique'.

And then there was this time, which was still looted using Hand of Greed.

"Equipment and skill books still have higher drop rates from BOSSes…"

"But for ordinary players without a foundation of equipment and skills, it's virtually impossible to take down a BOSS, even the weakest Bronze-grade BOSS."

Qin Feng thought to himself.

He didn't hesitate. With 3 Evolution Points still on him, he directly evolved Venomous Dart twice!

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[Venomous Dart (Common -> Bronze -> Silver): Assassin skill. Throws a highly toxic dart with a maximum range of 12 -> 13 -> 14 meters. Deals an additional 40 -> 80 -> 120 points of attack damage upon hitting, and inflicts the 'Venom' status. Cooldown: 5 seconds. Learning Requirement: Level 2]

[Venom: Deals 30% -> 40% -> 50% damage over time per second, no weak point bonus, lasts for 5 seconds, non-stackable.]

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After evolving this skill twice, its total damage was directly more than doubled!

Qin Feng moved very quickly.

Picking up the skill book, learning the skill, and evolving the skill were all done in one smooth motion.

The last Polluter had just turned around, intending to spit mud at Qin Feng, but Qin Feng was faster.

With a flick of his hand, a Venomous Dart flew out.

It instantly struck the Polluter's head!

If it were any other rookie player, it would be absolutely impossible to have his level of accuracy.

But Qin Feng had struggled and fought for nine years in the God Forsaken Game in his previous life; this proficiency in ranged attacks had long been engraved into his very bones…

A casual throw of the Venomous Dart directly hit the weak point of the head!

-237 (Weak Point Attack)!

The damage number didn't look high. This was because he hadn't broken stealth, there was no backstab, and the target had even already spotted Qin Feng, preventing the 'Shadow' class passive from taking effect, resulting in no double damage…

But after Qin Feng attacked, he immediately concealed his figure!

After the Polluter was hit by the Venomous Dart, its entire body turned green.

Two damage numbers popped up in succession above its head.

-158!

-158!

After taking two ticks of Venom's damage over time, the Polluter finally died.

"This damage over time is quite high."

"And since I went into stealth after attacking, this damage over time actually benefits from my class passive, doubling the damage?"

Qin Feng was quite sensitive to damage numbers.

He immediately noticed this point.

The third class passive of Shadow was that when not within the enemy's field of vision, the damage dealt would be doubled.

Since he was in stealth, he naturally wasn't considered to be within the enemy's field of vision.

Therefore, it was perfectly normal for the damage over time to be doubled!

Unfortunately, this last Polluter also didn't drop anything.

Only the last Bronze-grade BOSS, the 'Swift Runner', was left on the battlefield. This was the main event!

By this time, Wang Meng was already drenched in sweat: "I can't hold on much longer."

The middle-aged female priest in the team was continuously casting Heal on him, but unfortunately, the effect was limited.

Wang Meng's health bar was still approaching rock bottom bit by bit.

Clearly, although this team had reached Level 2 by killing mobs, they hadn't gotten any useful equipment or skill book drops, leaving their combat style still very basic.

Right at this moment,

a figure suddenly appeared behind the BOSS, the Swift Runner.

Seizing the exact moment the Swift Runner launched an attack at Wang Meng, a Venomous Dart flew straight toward the Swift Runner's head!

It hit the head with absolute precision!

-845 (Weak Point Attack)!

Stealth break, backstab, and Weak Point Attack—all of them were fully triggered.

A single hit to the soul!

Wang Meng and the others were extremely tense, but when they saw the BOSS's health bar drop by nearly half almost instantly, their eyes widened in shock.

"Holy shit!"

Wang Meng couldn't help but swear.

Their entire team had been fighting the Swift Runner for ages and had barely shaved off 10% of its health.

Yet this mysterious figure directly took away half the BOSS's health with a single skill?

And this was only the base damage of the Venomous Dart!

What followed was the truly terrifying part.

-324!

-324!

-324!

-324!

As the Swift Runner's body turned green, four consecutive damage-over-time numbers popped up. Without even a chance to struggle, the Swift Runner collapsed right in front of Wang Meng!

Of course,

Wang Meng and his team couldn't see other people's damage numbers.

They could only see the health bar above the BOSS's head.

With every tick, that health bar plummeted by a huge chunk, causing Wang Meng and the others' hearts to skip a beat!

They watched helplessly as the Bronze BOSS, which had nearly wiped them out, was literally poisoned to Death right before their eyes!

"My god, this damage… is he even human?"

"Wait, is he really a player who entered the game at the same time as us?"

"You guys missed the key point. The key is that he could accurately hit the BOSS's head with a dart while the BOSS was moving around erratically!"

"Exactly. For our ranged attacks, even hitting the BOSS is difficult, yet he casually struck its weak point…"

All six of Wang Meng's team gasped in unison.

They watched the BOSS drop a pile of loot, but clearly, they did not have the permission to pick it up.

In the God Forsaken Game, the ownership of loot dropped by monsters belonged to the team or individual who dealt the highest damage.

Now, 90% of the Swift Runner's health had been taken down by Qin Feng.

Naturally, Qin Feng had ownership of all the loot!