BXBX NOVEL Chapter 297: Hidden Mission
Broken Wing Dance!
Song Jian wielded the Crimson Fire Heart Ape Sword, charging towards the zombie assassin. After three moves, the floating zombie assassin roared wildly, but it was unable to control its own body.
Rapid Sword!
Song Jian’s attack speed instantly increased a lot. Even though it was just a basic attack, it created an illusion as if he was using a skill. A series of damage numbers floated up from the zombie assassin’s head.
By the time the zombie assassin’s floating state ended and its body heavily fell to the ground, its vitality points had reduced to less than half. Then, before it even got up, a transparent psychic sword fiercely slashed towards it.
This zombie assassin didn’t even notice where the attack was coming from when it suddenly felt a sharp pain followed by the sensation as if its head was in a juicer. It immediately let out a mournful scream that made all the NPCs on the whole street shiver.
Oh my, that was brutal! What did you do to that poor zombie assassin to make it scream so horribly?
Several NPCs who originally poked their heads out of their doors were suddenly so scared that they shivered and immediately withdrew their heads. With a “bang”, they closed their doors tightly and hid inside the house, shivering with terror.
For irrational monsters, the fear of the psychic sword was not weaker than gene zombies. Watching the zombie assassin rolling on the ground clutching its head, Song Jian didn’t even bother using his skills and directly used basic attacks to harvest the remaining vitality points of the monster.
With a clear and crisp sound, a skill stone rolled out from under the zombie assassin’s body.
Song Jian picked it up and took a look, a smile appearing on his face. What a great start! The dropped skill stone was the core legacy skill of the assassin, Stealth.
An assassin without stealth was like a tiger without claws and teeth, not even as good as a “Hello KITI”. Almost all professions could bully them. However, assassins who mastered Stealth suddenly became top-notch killers, feared by all other professions.
In the auction house, the price of Stealth was consistently high. Some even directly offered 3,000 Doomsday Coins to purchase it but got mocked by a group of people. The price of such core skills was at least 5,000 Doomsday Coins, and they were rarely available.
“Good luck, the first monster dropped stealth!” Song Jian’s face was filled with a satisfied smile, putting the skill stone into his inventory. He had heard that someone had hunted zombie assassins here for three days and nights without getting Stealth. It really depended on one’s luck and face.
After killing the zombie assassin, those malicious gazes secretly staring at Song Jian from the shadows all disappeared. Such a ruthless person was not someone they could deal with.
Not wanting to wait, Song Jian directly opened his third eye and looked around. Soon, he discovered that there were at least a dozen stealthy zombie assassins wandering aimlessly on the whole street.
The names of these zombie assassins were all blood-red, belonging to the actively attacking monsters. Once a player entered their alert range, they would actively attack the players.
After opening his vertical pupil, Song Jian charged towards the nearest zombie assassin and struck it out of its stealth state with a single sword swing.
Without stealth, the zombie assassin lost many of its powerful first-move skills and could only fight Song Jian head-on like a warrior.
However, a zombie assassin that had lost its stealth and first-move skills had a strength barely comparable to a level 10 ordinary melee monster, and it was no match for Song Jian.
After a series of skills, Song Jian hadn’t even lost a tenth of his vitality points, yet he had already taken down a monster higher in level than himself.
Although the experience given by the zombie assassins was not as much as that of gene warriors, they were much easier to kill. Song Jian could even fight three or even four of them simultaneously. His efficiency was somewhat faster than hunting gene warriors.
Before long, Song Jian had killed a whole street full of zombie assassins. The mournful screams of the zombie assassins before death occasionally echoed through the entire street. Almost all NPCs hid in their houses, making the whole street deserted and forbidden.
Having killed so many zombie assassins, only a pile of cloth and about three hundred Doomsday Coins had dropped, not to mention skill stones, not even a single ordinary material had dropped.
However, being able to harvest one stealth skill stone made this monster-killing trip very profitable. Moreover, his level had also increased to 87% of level 14. He would soon reach level 15.
At this moment, an old man in a clean white robe, shakily leaning on a walking stick, slowly walked to Song Jian.
It was unexpected that an NPC dressed so spotlessly would appear in this street filled with garbage and sewage. There was a feeling of mismatch between this NPC and the environment.
“Thank you, heaven-sent divine follower, fearless warrior!” Expressed the old man gratefully to Song Jian, “Thank you for getting rid of the villains on this street. Because of these infected ones, we haven’t been able to leave our houses for a long time!”
Song Jian sneered in his heart. All the NPCs on this street were not originally from the Shadow District. The original inhabitants of the city were few and far between. Most of them appeared in the city only after the players showed up and under the arrangement of the system’s divine will.
This old man’s posture as if he was a native of the Shadow District made Song Jian feel disgusted.
“It’s nothing. It’s what I must do!” With an air of righteousness, Song Jian had naturally learned how to talk with these NPCs after being in the game for so long. He just needed to follow their lead to possibly get some side missions or even hidden missions.
Moreover, it was obvious that the appearance of this old man was a kind of hidden reward for killing all the zombie assassins in the entire street. He must be able to benefit from this old man.
“Fearless warrior, I am the speaker of this district. In the depths of the Shadow District, there is a hidden library. However, this library has now been occupied by demons. I wonder if you could help us drive away the demons there so that the children here can learn some knowledge?” The old man looked at Song Jian with hope in his cloudy eyes.
“Children? Are there any children here?” Song Jian muttered in his heart. The whole street was full of adults, and he had not seen any trace of children.
System: Do you accept the hidden quest “Clean the Library”?
“Of course, I am willing to accept this mission!”
Regardless of the complaints, the quest had to be accepted. The completion evaluation of the main quest was not only related to this but also the generous rewards of side quests.
“Please follow me, warrior!”
After Song Jian accepted the quest, a glimmer of light flashed in the old man’s eyes, and he walked towards the depths of the Shadow District with the help of his walking stick.