Online Game: Crazy Skeleton-Chapter 1621 - 1344: Reward in Hand (Two-in-One)_2

So far, this has been the easiest BOSS to kill, bar none.

Su Ran, satisfied, walked towards the light barrier. He believed that this kind of barrier only prevented entry and not exit, so it shouldn’t trap enemies. Upon touching the light barrier, he tentatively poked it with his finger, and as he expected, the barrier didn’t react at all.

Only at this moment did Su Ran truly relax. He stepped out of the forbidden area and began to clear the mud beneath his feet.

The recently defeated BOSS left behind some mud that wasn’t yet cleared by the system; Su Ran had to clean it up himself. While he was midway, a dark golden key appeared before his eyes.

"Hahaha, a dark golden key, now I can open the treasure box!"

Excitedly, Su Ran picked up the key. This BOSS surely didn’t disappoint him, offering up the key made the quest so much easier now. He was tasting the sweetness after the bitterness, proving that not giving up was the right move.

Until the very last moment, no one knows what the outcome will be. Su Ran had truly experienced this. At this moment, his heart was incredibly exhilarated, getting back 100 attribute points made him more thrilled than scoring full marks on a college entrance exam!

"Wow, so many gold coins!"

While cleaning up the mud, Su Ran found almost a hundred gold coins. This slightly surprised him. Having seen much in his life, he didn’t overreact to the gold coins. After picking them up, he also found two pieces of level 40 silver equipment, but sadly, he didn’t find the treasures he was coveting.

"Not bad at all, considering it was free, I’m satisfied!"

Killing this BOSS didn’t take much effort from Su Ran; it was mostly just a waste of words. Having these gains was already pretty good. Just as he was about to give up searching, a round mud ball rolled to his feet.

"Huh? Another one?"

Surprised, Su Ran picked up the mud ball and found it identical to the one Big Smoky Ghost found, which added some doubt in his mind.

It’s said that rarity brings value. He got two before even understanding their use, could it be just a common item?

The more Su Ran thought, the more he felt this was possible, feeling slightly disappointed, he casually threw it into the bladder, merged with the little zombie, and returned behind the light barrier to the forbidden area.

"Dark golden treasure chest, let’s see where you can run off to now!"

Armed with the dark golden key, Su Ran confidently approached the stone platform, inserting the key and turning it. As the key turned, the lid of the treasure chest sprung open, revealing the hidden treasures inside.

A throbbing gray heart, a token, a black Pet Egg, and a Skill Book.

"Heart of Mud!"

The first thing Su Ran saw was the gray heart, which was exactly the quest item he needed. Seeing the heart instantly relaxed him.

Hahaha, 100 attribute points are safe at last!

As for the token and the Pet Egg, they were all marked with question marks, but that didn’t matter; he would know soon enough.

The Skill Book didn’t need identification; a simple Detection Technique revealed the truth immediately.

[Elemental Resistance] (Passive Skills)

Learning this will permanently increase resistance to elemental damage, reducing elemental damage taken by 3%.

Note: Only female professions can learn this.

"Come on, what’s with this restriction, isn’t this just blatantly discriminating against males?"

Su Ran couldn’t help but complain, such a good passive skill yet restricted only to female players, what happened to gender equality?

Despicable!

Wait a second.

Su Ran remembered his skeletal body, which had no gender, could this hidden job potentially exploit a loophole in the system?

With this thought, Su Ran hastened to click and use the Skill Book. If he could successfully learn it, that would mean one more passive skill, how great would that be!

"Ding! As the player’s skeleton is identified as male, the Elemental Resistance Skill Book cannot be learned, skill learning failed."

The icy system notification sound echoed in Su Ran’s mind, breaking his hopeful delusion. Helplessly, he decided to drop the Skill Book into his inventory and perhaps let Wan’er decide how to allocate it later.

But speaking of which, this Elemental Resistance Skill Book seemed to have a fated connection with him. Initially, Youtong mentioned that this book could only potentially drop from the Octopus BOSS, and it was unexpected that it didn’t drop from the BOSS but appeared in this treasure chest instead—quite amusing.

This situation truly embodied the old saying: don’t force what’s not yours, what’s yours you can’t escape from!

"Back to the castle, to turn in the quest!"

This secret door adventure not only yielded the required quest items but also brought so many treasures that Su Ran felt completely satisfied, without any regrets. Seeing that there wasn’t much time left, he decided not to linger any longer and quickly headed towards the altar.

After the Mud Giant fell, a teleportation gate appeared above the altar, likely the passage way out of this space.

Su Ran jogged to the altar, encountering no further dangers, and after replacing his clothes with the Illusion Demon robe for safety, he confidently stepped into the teleportation gate and left the place.

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Mud Castle.

The golden mud reappeared on the throne at some unknown point, jumping around as if troubled, visibly agitated.

Suddenly, a gate of light manifested, and the familiar figure in a black robe appeared in the hall.

"Human, you truly didn’t let me down!"

The excited Big Mud slid off the throne and hopped toward Su Ran, shouting, "You had me worried sick. If twenty more minutes had passed without the Heart of Mud, my life would’ve been in jeopardy!"

"Elder, hold on, let me catch my breath first," Su Ran responded. freewebnoveℓ.com

Having just changed maps, Su Ran was still adjusting to the change in lighting, and curiously asked, "Elder, what were you doing just now? Why weren’t you on the throne?"

"I never left but was merely in an invisible state during hibernation, an act of self-protection, nothing to be surprised about," explained the Big Mud.

Anxious, the Big Mud twisted its body into a twist and urged, "Hurry up and give me the heart, let’s not waste time!"

"Elder, don’t panic, here it is," Su Ran said.

Thinking he was already in a hurry, Su Ran didn’t expect the Big Mud to be even more anxious. Without further hesitation, he handed over the gray heart to him.

"Finally, the day has come!"

With a trembling voice, the Big Mud swallowed the heart whole, and its entire golden body burst into a brilliant golden glow.

Su Ran was astonished to see the golden mud rapidly expanding right before his eyes, and he quickly retreated far back, fearing being engulfed as well.

After an unknown duration, the Big Mud finally stopped changing, the golden light retreated back into its body, and eventually, it took on the shape of a humanoid creature, now over three meters tall.

Just then, the system notification sound also joined in the excitement, resounding once again in Su Ran’s mind, this time with some good news. The damned timed quest had finally been officially acknowledged, and now there was no need to worry anymore.

"Ding! Congratulations to player Skull for completing a special hidden task, gaining Mud Tribe Friendship, a Dark Gold Treasure Chest, and 100,000 experience points."

Ha-ha, another Dark Gold Treasure Chest has been acquired – it’s indeed a double celebration. This elite dungeon endeavor could almost be described as a bountiful harvest!

You must know, this dungeon can be entered once per day. If each entry yields such grand rewards, calling it an ATM wouldn’t be an exaggeration!

Su Ran understood that he was merely lucky this time. It was his first time being a hostage, and he encountered this golden mud and managed to secure the special task. Most importantly, the ability to ignore the protective barrier was key to completing the quest. If it were someone else, they wouldn’t have been this lucky and would have already lost 100 attribute points, not to mention receiving a Dark Gold Treasure Chest as a reward!

The system probably never dreamed that the task would be completed in this manner...

"Human, thanks to your timely delivery of the Heart of Mud, I can continue to survive," said the Big Mud, moving its newly formed body, genuinely expressing, "I have another task here that I need your help with."

"What? Another task?"