Looking at the Level 4 One-Star [Man-eating Bug Boots] on his feet, Zhang Yi couldn't help but sigh: These boots came at just the right time!

However, since they were unidentified, he couldn't enhance or use them yet, so Zhang Yi placed the [Death's Boots] along with three other pieces of equipment into his backpack.

As for the other three pieces of equipment, Zhang Yi planned to auction them.

At this stage, selling a Three-Star piece of equipment for over 200 gold coins is not unreasonable, especially for weapons and rings, which are even more valuable.

Then, Zhang Yi turned his attention to the three skill books.

Surprisingly, two of them were blue skill books, and one was purple!

Zhang Yi first looked at the purple skill book—

[Undead Storm]:

Quality: Purple

Description: Chant a spell, and after 1 second of casting, summon a 20x20 rectangular magic array at any position within a 50-meter radius around the user. Countless undead will appear in the array, continuously attacking all hostile targets within the array, dealing 30% magic damage every 0.5 seconds and causing a 30% slow effect for 3 seconds.

Cost: 95 (calculated based on your level 23)

Cooldown: 120 seconds

Class: Mage, Beastmaster (damage reduced to 25% when used by Beastmaster)

Skill Slot Consumption: 4

Wow, it's a purple area attack skill!

As expected of a Boss, the first drop from the Golden Skeleton King is indeed impressive!

Zhang Yi was overjoyed.

In the Apocalypse world, area attack skills are already very rare, and the purple-quality [Undead Storm] is considered a divine skill at this point!

Although he was eager to learn this skill that he could use, the purple skill consumed a whopping 4 skill slots, and currently, Zhang Yi only had 1 skill slot left. Moreover, the Fireball Spell, Chain Lightning, and Blink were all very useful in the early stages, and replacing them with the Undead Storm, which had a cooldown of 2 minutes, seemed unwise.

Better to wait until he reached level 30 and had enough skill slots to learn it.

So, he put the [Undead Storm] into his bag and then looked at the other two blue skill books.

These two were not for him.

One was the Knight's [Undead Thrust], and the other was the Priest's [Undead Healing]. All three skill books dropped by the Skeleton King were undead skills.

At this stage, even green skill books are rare, and blue-quality ones are priceless. In the Apocalypse world, undead skills are damage-focused, highly sought after by players who pursue output. These two skill books could easily sell for hundreds of gold coins.

The key point is, after the recent Boss invasion battle, everyone in Zone 886 received a system reward of 3 gold coins, so people are not short of money now.

Additionally, the Skeleton King also dropped over 100 Level 2 Enhancement Stones and several [Premium] quality magic scrolls—

[Attack Buff Scroll] (Premium): Increases attack power by 20% for half an hour, effect cannot be stacked.

[Defense Buff Scroll] (Premium): Increases defense power by 20% for half an hour.

[Speed Buff Scroll] (Premium): Increases attack speed and movement speed by 20% for half an hour.

[Life Buff Scroll] (Premium): Increases maximum life by 20% for half an hour.

Two of each scroll, the Skeleton King dropped a total of 8 premium scrolls!

These premium buff scrolls are worth at least 5 gold coins each in the shop! And the shop might not even have them in stock, making these scrolls incredibly valuable!

Using such rare scrolls for daily monster grinding would be too wasteful; there will be occasions to use them later, so Zhang Yi put these scrolls into his bag.

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Using three spare Two-Star Keys from his bag, he opened the three Two-Star Treasure Chests dropped by the Skeleton King and rewarded by the system, obtaining three pieces of Two-Star equipment.

The market price for Two-Star equipment has dropped significantly now, with level 20 Two-Star equipment worth about five or six gold coins each. Three pieces could sell for a dozen or so gold coins, which is still pretty good.

The biggest hope left is naturally the Three-Star Treasure Chest and the rare Five-Star Treasure Chest from the first kill achievement reward!

The Three-Star Treasure Chest is expected to bring Zhang Yi another piece of top-notch Three-Star equipment, but what the Five-Star Treasure Chest might contain is unknown. However, whatever it is, it won't disappoint Zhang Yi.

If he could get a Five-Star piece of equipment, that would be a huge boost.

Zhang Yi only knew that a Five-Star Key wasn't cheap either, so when he went to identify the [Death's Boots], he planned to buy a Five-Star Key from the shop as well.

Overall, the first kill of the Skeleton King significantly boosted Zhang Yi's overall strength, making him invincible in Zone 886. Even in the entire King's World, no one could challenge him.

Zhang Yi also planned to complete a few important quests and end this novice journey in this life.

The Hidden Quest [Acquire Rare Materials], the Hidden Dungeon [Dragon Emperor's Tomb], and the upcoming regional dungeon [City of Energy] were all planned to be completed within a week.

If conditions allowed, he would farm an Undead Set in the Undead City, reaching level 30, and then head to the Main City.

After tallying up all the gains from the Boss invasion battle, Zhang Yi continued eating.

At this moment, several girls at a nearby table, all filled with admiration, cast their eyes toward Zhang Yi.

"I'm so envious of that girl who was protected by Yinuo Qingcheng in the Undead City!"

"Yeah, it seems like she's someone very important to Yinuo Qingcheng; otherwise, he wouldn't risk his life to protect her! Yinuo Qingcheng looks quite young, doesn't seem like he has a wife yet, probably a girlfriend!"

"Oh, if only I had such a powerful and clean-looking boyfriend! But if she's just a girlfriend, does that mean we still have a chance?"

"Come on, his girlfriend is so pretty, where do we get the confidence to compete with her?"

The girls rested their chins on their hands, looking at Zhang Yi, and sighed in unison: "Ah..."

Their conversation inadvertently reminded Zhang Yi of something.

Han Yaru... It seemed that after being killed back from the Undead City in the afternoon, Zhang Yi hadn't checked on her.

Opening his friends list, he saw that the only friend on the list, [Yaru], had a red number 1 at the bottom right of the avatar, indicating an unread message.

Zhang Yi opened the message, and five words appeared before his eyes.

"I want to see you."