Volume 5: Protracted War Chapter 167 Artifact Trading (1)
Although the process was a bit difficult, the days of not having enough food and not sleeping well were really unbearable, and I even thought of giving up Khufu several times, but considering the future development prospects, in order not to lose more benefits, I still gritted my teeth and persevered. As Afeng said, only by being able to do what others cannot do can one become what others cannot do. Behind the superficial glory of every successful professional player, there is endless sweat and hard work.
After enduring the most difficult moments, we finally saw the moon at the end of the tunnel. In the end, Khufu and I teamed up to defeat the conspiracy of Hades, the Dark Dragon King, and successfully completed the evolution. Hades took great pains to set up a plan to "use 'tonification' as poison", but in the end he failed to gain anything and ended up losing more than he gained. Not only did he fail to take the opportunity to eliminate Khufu, but because of the large amount of pure magma energy erupted from the "magma hole|mouth", his strength went to a higher level, especially in terms of physical strength and fire attribute damage effects, which were significantly improved.
After completing his evolution, Khufu, who rushed out of the "Hell Magma Pool", should have been over three and a half meters tall. This appearance alone showed that this new pharaoh had extraordinary strength beyond his peers. His entire body was dark red, and if you approached within four or five meters of his body, you could feel a burning breath emanating from his body. This was a naturally formed ability called "burning fluctuations", which had the same effect as the "Hell Volcano" barrier and could speed up the loss of physical strength.
The title of "Big Mummy" has been replaced by "Pharaoh". The bald head is wrapped with layers of red cloth strips and a thick "cloth hat". Originally, there were only a few rags hanging in important parts such as the chest and waist. Now the whole body, including the arms, is wrapped with red cloth strips. The right hand, which was originally empty, now holds a fiery red skull bone staff, which is about two meters long, with a diameter of four or five centimeters, a pointed tail, and a hideous skull head. It has evolved from bare hands to a melee weapon for physical attacks. Obviously, the attack power has been greatly enhanced.
The big mummy has no skills, and only relies on strong defense and ordinary attacks with curse effects to defeat the enemy. After becoming a pharaoh, with the increase of strength, it also has two more skills. "Mad Staff Method" - Like going crazy, it hits 108 sticks at an attack speed more than twice the normal state. It can not only deal with group fights, but also focus on attacking a single target. The disadvantage is that it is not easy to control the accuracy of the shot, the hit rate is relatively low, and the activation rate of the curse effect is halved. "Thunderbolt Strike" - Gather 10% of the mental power to hit a thunder stick, the attack speed is doubled, and an additional 20% physical and fire attribute damage effect is added. According to my preliminary estimate, after a "big supplement" at the "magma cave mouth", it has turned out to be a blessing in disguise and further improved its strength. Khufu is almost equivalent to the ninth-level lower-level monster, surpassing the lowest-level green bone dragon and reaching the level of the bone dragon. It should be the most powerful alien undead on the "Hell Volcano" except for the Nether Dragon clan. With it taking the lead, if I choose to participate in the immersion qualification challenge held in two months as a team , unless Hades can organize a team of undead with comparable individual strength to Shaman to be my opponent, Taotao and the others should have a great chance of regaining the qualification to soak in the "Hell Magma Pool".
However, Khufu's leapfrogging has put me in an awkward situation - although I am lucky to have such a capable subordinate, I can only use him in the "Dead Space" for the time being. My mental power is not enough, and I cannot use "Dead Summoning" to summon him to the human world to help fight. As a hidden profession with a high demand for mental power, if you only rely on improving basic mental power to increase the mental power limit, it is simply impossible to meet the normal demand of the necromancer for mental power. You must rely on some equipment such as "Dark Demon Robe" or rings that have the attribute of increasing the mental power limit. In addition, many necromancer equipment above the level of holy artifacts have more or less the attribute of increasing the mental power limit. In theory, basically every necromancer master player above the seventh level of professional must at least double the mental power limit to have enough ability to compete with the excellent light professional master players of the same level. Because I have always focused on conquering my subordinates in the "Dead Space", I have not invested much time and energy in props and equipment. Apart from a low-level holy artifact "Dark Demon Robe" obtained in a lottery, which increases the upper limit of mental power by 50%, I can't find a second piece of equipment that can increase the upper limit of mental power. With two pieces of jewelry that I got earlier, which are already quite common for expert players, the total increase of the upper limit of mental power is only 58%. Even at this stage, it has fallen behind many of my peers. For me, the famous "No. 1 Undead Wizard ", it is too "shabby", which also affects my ability to exert my strength. Conquering powerful undead creatures and seeking equipment that can increase the upper limit of mental power to a greater extent are the necessary requirements for every Undead Wizard to improve their strength. You have to do both with both hands and both hands must be strong. Neither is indispensable!
With Khufu's current strength and status, unless Hades has the authority and ability to immediately trigger the "lava storm" of the "violent period", or the Hell Dragon openly provokes him, under the restrictions that the rules clearly stipulate that organized multi-person sieges are not allowed, even if Hades plays a trick and assigns two or three controlled alien undeads, Khufu, to siege, it is probably difficult to threaten it, and there should be no problem in protecting itself. Therefore, I did not let Khufu leave the "Hell Volcano" immediately after the evolution as planned, but chose to let it stay on the mountain. On the one hand, I took care of Taotao and Hader who still needed to continue to soak in the "Hell Magma Pool", and on the other hand, I used its experience and cognition of other alien undead to try every means to persuade those more powerful ones, especially those ranked in the top eight in the soaking qualification. It would be best if I could persuade them to join me. Even if that is not possible, at least I have to remain neutral and not let them join Hades' camp and become hostile to me in the new round of soaking qualification competition two months later.
After arranging these things, because of the mental excitement brought by Khufu's successful evolution, physical fatigue immediately took over. He felt extremely sleepy and as if he was about to fall apart. He could no longer hold on and hurriedly quit the game, wanting to have a good sleep and rest.
