Chapter 22
Tiger Soul Bow, Critical Strike Stone
Upon confirming that the mutated tiger king was dead, Jiang Yan's body went limp and he collapsed to the ground!
From the moment he began chanting the first lightning spell to the end of the battle, it took only a minute, yet it nearly exhausted Jiang Yan's physical and mental strength!
This kind of battle, where you dance with death, is not only exciting, but also incredibly grueling!
After taking a few deep breaths, Jiang Yan looked at the mutated tiger king. The huge tiger corpse lay there, and although it was dead, its tiger might still remained.
Beneath the tiger's corpse, a jumble of things had exploded on the ground, shimmering with white light, bronze color, and a moon-like radiance.
That is……
Jiang Yan was overjoyed and rushed over.
The moon-like light emanated from a longbow with an extremely exaggerated design.
The longbow has tiger claws at both ends, each claw tightly bound with a thin thread. The threads intertwine and connect with the opposite claw, forming a spiral-shaped, slender bowstring.
At the center of the bow is a roaring tiger's head!
【Tiger Soul Bow】(Silver): Attack +17, Attack Speed +10%, Requirement: Archer!
Silver equipment! Silver equipment has actually been released!!
Jiang Yan was overjoyed, but immediately began to grit his teeth.
Damn it, why is it a bow and arrow, and not a staff?
Looking at the Tiger Soul Bow's +17 attack attribute, Jiang Yan's mouth watered!
This attack is comparable to two of his bronze armor pieces!
Jiang Yan put the Tiger Soul Bow into his backpack with regret and continued picking up other equipment.
In addition to the silver equipment, the mutated tiger king also dropped a bronze piece of equipment!
[Tiger King Bracers] (Bronze): Attack +9, Requirements: Warrior, Archer!
"Shit!!" Jiang Yan was furious. This mutated tiger king is really doing nothing but shooting gear, huh?
He continued to look through the items and found five more pieces of unsold equipment, all with attributes between 3 and 4. Based on the current market prices, they could probably be sold for 8 gold coins!
Two of these items are magic-based gear. Because the Wailing Set provides additional attribute bonuses, Jiang Yan did not replace them and planned to sell them all to Darkfire.
After putting the equipment into his backpack, Jiang Yan continued picking up more items.
In addition to the seven pieces of equipment, the mutated tiger king also dropped five gold coins, a thick tiger bone, and a small red stone.
[Tiger bones from the mutated tiger king]: Can be used to brew wine!
[Critical Strike Stone] (Level 1): A legendary stone that increases critical strike chance. You can go to the blacksmith to have it imprinted on your equipment! (Three Level 1 [Critical Strike Stones] can be refined to Level 2 [Critical Strike Stones])
Upon seeing the red stone's attributes, Jiang Yan was overjoyed!
His hidden class and SSS [Thor's Wrath] talent together give him an 80% critical strike chance, just 20% away from 100% critical strike chance!
After entering the game, Jiang Yan searched for equipment and items that could increase the chance of critical hits through the game forum, but unfortunately he couldn't find any clues. Now, he finally found them himself!
[Critical Strike Stone]!!
Looking at the thumb-sized, red, hexagonal stone, Jiang Yan wished he could fly back to the blacksmith's shop immediately!
"I wonder how much the [Critical Strike Stone] will increase the critical strike chance!"
Jiang Yan was overwhelmed with emotion. Then he looked at the [Gemstone Seeker] on the top of the bronze staff in his hand and couldn't help but kiss it hard!
The fact that the mutated tiger king can drop silver equipment and [Critical Strike Stones] is most likely due to this [Gem Finder]!
"As expected of the legendary divine stone!" Jiang Yan stroked the [Gem Finder] embedded in the staff and thought to himself: Level 1 [Gem Finder] is already this powerful. If it is upgraded to level 2, won't he become the second Lucky One (the player who draws an S-level talent with a five-fold drop rate)?
Unfortunately, it seems that this divine stone only drops from bosses.
Suddenly, Jiang Yan caught a glimpse of a white exclamation mark out of the corner of his eye.
He turned around quickly, only to see the exclamation mark floating on the mountain behind the mutated tiger king, which could only be seen by looking up.
Jiang Yan stared intently, and a line of information slowly appeared above the exclamation mark: "Many purple-red flowers grow in the mutated tiger king's lair."
"A crimson flower?"
Could it be herbs?
Jiang Yan rushed up the mountain and, after searching, discovered a huge cave.
The cave is located in a sheltered spot and cannot be seen unless you go around it.
Jiang Yan carefully entered the cave.
The cave is not deep, only about thirty meters deep. The interior is clean and refreshing, with no fishy smell and a fragrant herbal aroma.
Jiang Yan quickly discovered the source of the fragrance: it was coming from the purplish-red flowers in the corners of the cave.
【Crimson Flower】: The main ingredient for making Red Magic Water and Advanced Red Magic Water!
Jiang Yan's eyes lit up slightly. He had seen Red Magic Water when he bought medicine at the pharmacy. It could restore 50 points of health and mana per second for 5 seconds and cost 1 silver coin per bottle!
As for the high-grade Red Magic Water, there's nowhere to buy it in the starting village.
This crimson flower must be very precious!
After confirming that there was no danger here, Jiang Yan immediately squatted down and used his gathering technique.
[Ding~ Player failed to gather resources. Gathering skill experience +1]
[Ding~ Player failed to gather resources. Gathering skill experience +1]
[Ding~ Player failed to gather resources. Gathering skill experience +1]
……
Holy crap, this thing has such a low success rate?
Jiang Yan looked at the series of collection failure messages and was speechless.
Fortunately, the crimson flower did not disappear after the failed harvest, otherwise he would have suffered a huge loss!
Jiang Yan squatted there silently and began frantically collecting the materials.
Despite repeated failures, my gathering experience kept increasing, and I quickly rose from Lv1 to Lv2.
[Ding~ Congratulations, player! Successfully gathered a Crimson Flower. Gathering Skill experience +5]
[Ding~ Player failed to gather resources. Gathering skill experience +1]
[Ding~ Player failed to gather resources. Gathering skill experience +1]
After a series of system notifications, a message finally appeared indicating successful data acquisition.
Jiang Yan opened his backpack and sure enough, he saw a small, vibrant purple-red flower lying on it.
[Ding~ Congratulations, player! Successfully gathered a Crimson Flower. Gathering Skill experience +5]
At this moment, Jiang Yan successfully collected the flower again, and a number appeared in the lower right corner of the small purplish-red flower: 2!
Before long, it became 3, then 4, 5, 6...
At the same time, Jiang Yan's gathering skill experience points also increased dramatically.
After more than half an hour, Jiang Yan finally collected all the purple-red flowers in the cave, obtaining a total of 87 purple-red flowers!
Meanwhile, his gathering skill is about to break through level 3: lv2 (776/1000)!
After collecting the crimson flowers, Jiang Yan carefully explored the cave again, making sure there was no hidden information before leaving.
Holding the [Critical Strike Stone], Jiang Yan was eager to return to the starting village and imprint this divine stone onto his equipment.
But he had already reached the end of the tiger territory. Further west was the earth bear territory. He wanted to go there to explore and level up to level 8!
Jiang Yan glanced at his level: lv7 (22600/30000), and then resolutely continued to venture deeper into the west!