Bear Paws, Skill Books

According to players who participated in the closed beta, the deepest part of the western forest of the starting village is the territory of the Earth Bears.

It was an even denser forest, with towering trees blocking out the sun, like a boundless sea of ​​trees.

Jiang Yan was attacked shortly after entering the Earth Bear Territory!

"roar!!"

A gray earth bear, standing upright and about three meters tall, roared and pounced on Jiang Yan.

After the battle with the mutated tiger king, Jiang Yan's combat awareness and experience have improved significantly.

Faced with the earth bear's pounce, he calmly moved to the right, raising his bronze staff and chanting a lightning spell.

boom!!

As the man and the bear passed each other, Jiang Yan finished singing.

A bolt of lightning struck down from the sky, hitting the earth bear on the head.

-1687!

Crimson critical damage numbers floated from the Earth Bear's head!

"Roar!!" The earth bear roared in pain and fury, its eyes turning blood red in an instant. Its claws danced in afterimages. Jiang Yan retreated frantically at the first moment, but still couldn't dodge. The earth bear slapped him twice on the head!

-250

-250

Two glaring damage numbers appeared above Jiang Yan's head. At that moment, Jiang Yan seemed to be stunned, frozen in place without moving.

[You have been attacked by the claws of a bear and are now stunned for 1 second.]

Damn it!!

Jiang Yan looked at the system notification, feeling both helpless and anxious, but could only watch as the earth bear bit his head!

-350!

Another massive damage notification appeared!

At this moment, Jiang Yan's health bar was almost empty, and his mana bar was only around 70 left!

Death is just one step away!

Fortunately, the dizziness ended and Jiang Yan regained his mobility. He immediately retreated frantically while taking out red potion and high-grade blue potion and guzzling them down his throat!

Seeing his health and mana bars recover at a rate of +20 and +50 respectively, Jiang Yan breathed a sigh of relief and then began to chant a lightning spell!

boom!!

-1687!

Amidst the crimson critical damage, the earth bear roared and charged at him once more!

Jiang Yan was speechless!

Is this earth bear the BOSS?

I've already dealt over 3,000 damage, and he's still not dead!!

Jiang Yan ran in an S-shape around the tree while waiting for his skill to cool down, all the while looking back at the earth bear.

Earth Bear: lv9

Life: 3500

Skills: Claws (uses powerful bear claws to strike the target repeatedly, dealing high damage and having a chance to stun the target), Charge (gathers all its strength to launch a death charge, dealing high damage and having a chance to stun the target)

Upon seeing the information about the Earth Bear, Jiang Yan was speechless.

Although there's only a 3-level difference, the Earth Bear's attributes are leagues ahead of the Tiger's!

Especially in terms of health points, the tiger only has 1000 health points, while the earth bear has a full 3.5 times that!

It's only because of him; anyone else would be unable to defeat the Earth Bear without a team!

At this moment, the cooldown of the Lightning Bolt spell ended, and the Earth Bear roared and launched its charge skill. Jiang Yan dared not be careless and quickly jumped onto the tree, climbing up the tree rapidly while chanting the Lightning Bolt spell.

boom! !

The earth bear successfully launched its charge, snapping the tree Jiang Yan was climbing. Fortunately, Jiang Yan's chanting had already ended!

boom!

Lightning struck, unleashing a crimson explosion of -1687 damage!

[Ding~ Congratulations to the player for killing the Earth Bear, a level above their own! Experience +350]

The earth bear howled and collapsed to the ground, dropping three silver coins and a bear paw.

There was nothing else besides that.

"That earth bear is so stingy! I even got a +1 increase in monster drop rate, and it still didn't give me any equipment!"

Jiang Yanbian continued to pour red potion and high-grade blue potion while picking up silver coins.

此时姜延身上已经有7金币19银币13铜币（铜币满100自动换算成1银币，银币满100自动换算成1金币）。

On game forums, some merchants have started buying gold coins with cash, with the current exchange rate being 1 gold coin: 50 yuan!

Jiang Yan's seven gold coins are worth 350 yuan, which is a day's wages for many white-collar workers.

Then Jiang Yan picked up the bear paw.

Bear paw: A rare ingredient!

"Ingredients? Can you even cook in 'Peak'?" Jiang Yan remembered that there was a hotel in the starting village, but it only sold alcohol, not food.

He put the bear paw into his backpack, puzzled.

Then, Jiang Yan continued forward!

Although the Earth Bear has high HP, high attack, and a built-in stun ability, and is quite stingy, its experience gain is really high!

姜延现在的等级是lv7（22950/30000），只要再打21只土熊，就能升到8级！

Moreover, fighting against the earth bear, which has a built-in dizziness effect, can greatly hone his combat skills and combat awareness!

Jiang Yan continued forward and soon encountered another earth bear.

"Roar!!" The earth bear could smell Jiang Yan's presence from afar. The moment it saw him, it pounced fiercely, its claws flashing like afterimages as it grabbed at Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan was prepared. The moment the foul wind rushed in, he immediately stepped on the trunk of a large tree next to him and used the force to move quickly to the right while chanting a lightning spell.

boom!!

Purple lightning struck the earth bear on the head!

-1687!

The crimson critical damage numbers floated out, and the earth bear grew even more enraged, charging fiercely towards Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan was completely focused, and the instant the earth bear charged, he immediately climbed up the tree next to him.

boom!

The next instant, the towering tree was smashed and snapped in two by the earth bear!

Jiang Yan fell from the tree, rolled over to dissipate the momentum, and then ran in an S-shape around the surrounding trees.

"Roar!!" The earth bear became even more furious when it saw that its two attacks failed to hit Jiang Yan. Its scarlet eyes seemed to shoot out demonic light as it relentlessly pursued Jiang Yan.

"The earth bear has high attack and high health, but it's not as fast as the tiger!" Jiang Yan analyzed as he fought. After dodging the earth bear's attack once again, he used his lightning spell.

boom!

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A pale red damage indicator appeared.

No critical hit this time.

Jiang Yan was not anxious; he simply calmly engaged with the earth bear.

Using an S-shaped movement and climbing trees, Jiang Yan successfully dodged the earth bear's three attacks, during which he unleashed two lightning spells, successfully landing critical hits and killing the earth bear!

[Ding~ Congratulations to the player for killing the Earth Bear, a level above their own! Experience +350]

After the bear died, it dropped three silver coins and a bear paw.

and many more!

And another book!

Jiang Yan noticed that there was an ancient book under the bear's paw.

He quickly picked it up.

[Great Fireball]: Consumes 10 mana to summon a giant fireball, dealing massive damage to the target! Requirement: Mage!

"No wonder the Earth Bear is so hard to beat, it drops skill books!" Jiang Yan was overjoyed. Although his critical strike damage was terrifying, he only had one skill. Due to the cooldown issue, he would often get stuck while fighting monsters, which made him very uncomfortable!

If he had a second skill, it would greatly increase his spell damage!

Without hesitation, Jiang Yan immediately tapped the skill book and learned the [Great Fireball] skill!

He then opened the skill bar:

【大火球术】lv1（0/100）：吟唱1s后召唤出一颗巨大火球，技能伤害为魔法基础伤害的130%！蓝耗：10！CD：2s！

The Fireball spell deals significantly less damage than Lightning Bolt and doesn't benefit from the hidden class bonus or the [Wrath of the Thunder God] attribute bonus. In other words, a single Fireball spell can only deal 156 spell damage (120 * 130% skill damage bonus), which is nothing compared to Lightning Bolt's critical hit damage of 1600+. However, it has the advantage of a casting time of only 1 second!

Jiang Yan's current Lightning Bolt spell has a cooldown of 1.25 seconds. This Fireball spell can fill that cooldown gap and give him extra spell damage!

Even though it only causes a little over 100 damage, a mosquito can still bite, no matter how small it is!