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Chapter 33: Chapter 33

The boss was not easy to defeat. Even with 70 skeletons and at level 20, it took fifteen minutes to defeat it.

The reason is that the Wolf Boss has two skills.

[Frenzy Speed] and [Howling Madness].

With Frenzy Speed, it can increase its speed and disappear from the sight before the information gets registered by the brain. It gives it excellent oopurtunity to escape any predicaments.

Also, using that speed, it can easily mow through an army formation.

Howling Madness, makes it enemies lose brain function for a minute. When the boss uses this skill, it can disrupt the enemy's thinking capacity and puts them in a daze.

A momentary daze in battle is enough to be the cause of anyone's death.

Luckily, Aaron's army is skeletons. Though many had fallen, Aaron with his vast Mana Pool was able to bring in new skeletons. This kept the wolf quite busy for a while and slowly chipped away its health.

From the beginning, it kept hunting the skeletons. Only near the end did the boss see Aaron as the main target.

In its last moments, it ignored all attacks and targeted Aaron but he has a Sprint Skill and 100 in Agility, with which he easily escaped from its attacks.

If only it has discovered him as the main threat, it could have ended him and saved its own life but luck was not its side. Its Howling Madness was on cooldown and if only it had another minute, Aaron would have been lying there on the ground, not him.

[You have slain Wolf Boss.]

[Detected that it is your first time against this Boss.]

[Detected Solo Hunting.]

[Rewards being Calculated...]

"That was close, I should really get some good defense skills. If it had a few more minutes, I would be the lying down there", Aaron muttered to himself.

"Now let's wait for the reward. From what I heard, the first time drop would be very good", Aaron thought to himself.

This is why the system intervenes with those notifications. Outside of dungeon bosses, these notifications don't appear. Whatever drop that the monster would give, would drop without any notification about it.

This was only for Dungeon Boss.

Why?

No one knows and most don't care. What they cared about was the rewards that they could get for conquering the Boss Floor.

A few seconds later, the wolf's corpse disappeared and an item appeared on the ground. Aaron quickly picked it up.

[Rewards are distributed.]

It was a necklace.

Item: Wolf Fang Pendant

Description: Whether you can survive or not on a battlefield can be determined in a second or two. Even a moment of daze can end the battle in the opponent's favour. Wolf Fang pendant can protect the mind of the person wearing it against opponents with Mind Skills up to Rank-3.

Additional Benefit: +10 INT

"Huh, this is very good indeed", Aaron smiled and immediately put the pendant around his neck.

One of the Wolf Boss skills, Howling Madness is a Mind Skill that can disrupt the enemy's thinking for a while.

Though Mind Skills are rare, there are a few who have them. Anyone confronting them should have protection for their minds, or else they would be dead before they knew it.

Similar to how mind skills are rare, items that protect from mind skills are rarer than those skills. So, it is an excellent item for Aaron.

Though it can only protect attacks from Rank-3 and below skill rank, it is precious. Upgrading a skill is not easy for everyone. Having a Mind Skill above Rank-3 means, they are powerful enough to casually swipe away others.

So, unless Aaron reaches that stage, whether he has a higher protection item or not, doesn't matter.

In addition to protection of mind, wearing gives an extra benefit of +10 INT.

With the high stats that Aaron has, it is small but since he has only crossed 100 at this point, it is still useful, for now.

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Now that the Boss was defeated, there was one last thing that Aaron needed to do.

Roll the Dice.

Yeah, every time one ranks up, the hunter can get a skill.

The reason why it is called Roll the Dice is that the skill they get depends on luck. Sometimes they might even end up without any skill.

Though there is a chance that he might not get a skill, it's better to get on with it and be done about it. In this way, he can think what to do about later, based on whether he gets a new skill or not.

"Skill Dice, Roll it", Aaron announced.

[Skill Dice, rolling...]

[Rolling...]

[Rolling Stopped.]

[You have received a skill, Undead Summon.]

[Detected similar skill...Adjustment made.]

[Original skill is now Summon Skelton.]

[New Skill summon can be chosen from Ghosts, Zombies,...]

"Hmm, that's understandable", Aaron muttered as he read the notifications.

Unlike other skills, the Undead Summon skill can be used for different things. When he first awakened the class and got the skill, he chose to summon Skeletons. So, for that, it was locked.

Since he got the same skill again, now the option of choosing skeletons was gone and the old skill became Summon Skeleton skill.

"When I choose what summons I would get, probably the new Undead Summon skill might change or it would wait till I get this skill again", Aaron muttered.

"It doesn't matter. What matters is whether it was a useful skill or not and whether it is working or not".

"I choose Ghosts as my summons".

[Confirming Ghosts as summons for Undead Summon.]

[Adjustments are made.]

[Undead Summon is now Summon Ghost.]

After getting the confirmation, Aaron quickly checked his status to see the changes that happened by this.

"Status"

Name: Aaron Skyhart

Age: 18

Class/Profession: Death Mage, S-Rank

Rank: 1

Level: 20 > 21