The Rock Giant's biggest advantages are high defense, thick health, and a self-healing buff.
It's difficult for players to break through their defense.
Even if they can break through, with the Rock Giant's violent self-healing, it takes much more time to kill them.
Therefore, the Rock Giant is one of the most annoying monsters in the early game.
However, these advantages are useless in front of the Soul-Devouring Poisonous Stinger.
Because the damage dealt by the Soul-Devouring Poisonous Stinger is true damage, ignoring all defense.
Moreover, in a Poisoned State, it can prevent healing.
It perfectly counters all of the Rock Giant's advantages.
Not long after entering the Rock Giant Camp, Gu Nan was targeted by a Rock Giant.
The Rock Giant instantly used Boulder Impact, charging towards Gu Nan.
Gu Nan, who was always on guard, immediately used Windwalk, instantly increasing his speed by 50%.
As Gu Nan dodged, the Rock Giant, which had initiated Boulder Impact, charged right past him.
"That was close!" Gu Nan exclaimed.
The Rock Giant's Attack Power is around 150, and with Boulder Impact, its Attack Power can reach 200.
If Gu Nan, who is currently level 0, were to be hit by it, he would most likely receive a free trip back to town.
After dodging the Boulder Impact, Gu Nan didn't hesitate, immediately counterattacking with a Thief Assassination.
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Poisoned State applied successfully.
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Poisoned State applied successfully.
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Poisoned State applied successfully.
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After three consecutive Attacks, Gu Nan could clearly feel the Rock Giant's speed slowing down.
At the same time.
A series of:
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numbers began appearing above the Rock Giant's head.
After three stacks of Poisoned State were applied, 15 health points disappeared every 1 second.
The Rock Giant's health is 10,000 points, and one round of Poisoned can deal 900 damage.
It takes about 12 minutes to kill one Rock Giant.
Killing them one by one like this is too slow.
Gu Nan seized the opportunity and actively pulled monsters.
Gu Nan, at level 0, had limited speed, and kiting five monsters at once was his limit.
Any more would be overdoing it.
Gu Nan had nearly ten years of combat experience; although he didn't play a Thief in his previous life, many tactical skills were the same.
For example, the timing of crowd control skills.
And kiting monsters during their skill cooldowns.
After being slowed, the Rock Giant's biggest threat to Gu Nan was Boulder Impact.
Fighting five Rock Giants at once required precise timing of each Rock Giant's Boulder Impact.
Then, he would use Stealth and Windwalk to kite and dodge.
At the same time, he also had to avoid sudden Attacks from other Rock Giants.
During this, his concentration had to be highly focused.
He couldn't make any mistakes, otherwise, all his efforts would be in vain.
Finally, at eleven minutes and fifty seconds, the first Rock Giant unwillingly collapsed, turning into a ray of white light.
System Notification: Congratulations, you have successfully killed a Rock Giant and gained 500 experience points. As you killed a monster five levels higher than you, you receive an additional 100 experience points.
As the first Rock Giant fell, the remaining four Rock Giants also reached the end of their lives.
A minute later, they were successively Poisoned to death by the Soul-Devouring Poisonous Stinger.
System Notification: Congratulations, you have successfully killed a Rock Giant and gained 500 experience points. As you killed a monster five levels higher than you, you receive an additional 100 experience points.
System Notification: Congratulations, you have successfully killed a Rock Giant and gained 500 experience points. As you killed a monster five levels higher than you, you receive an additional 100 experience points.
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It takes 10,000 experience points to level up.
In nearly thirteen minutes, five level 7 Rock Giants yielded 3000 experience points.
Gu Nan's experience bar only reached 30%.
It's hard to imagine how difficult it must be for players who rely on killing level 1 Mutated Red-Haired Rabbits, which only give 20 experience points, to reach level 1.
Gu Nan sighed and began to check the items dropped by the five Rock Giants.
One Common grade equipment, 50 copper coins.
This... pitiful drop rate, Gu Nan was beyond complaining.
He checked the attributes of the Common grade equipment.
Weapon Name: Rock Stone Greatsword (Common)
level: 7
Attributes: Attack Power 18-25
Class Restriction: Warrior, Knight
Description: A weapon carried by Rock Giants, possessing terrifying Attack Power.
......
In Ten Thousand Races Continent, equipment level does not represent the equip level.
That is to say, a level 7 equipment can be equipped by a level 1 player.
The level only represents the equipment's production level, not its equip level.
However, weapons and equipment cannot be equipped arbitrarily.
To fully utilize the power of weapons and equipment, the level difference cannot be too great.
If the difference is too large, the weapon and equipment will not be able to unleash their full power.
If Gu Nan remembered correctly, players usually experience diminishing returns on equipment effects when equipping items more than 10 levels higher than their own.
The greater the level difference, the stronger the diminishing returns.
Therefore, when equipping, one cannot over-level too much.
Generally, ten levels is most suitable.
That is to say, Gu Nan's current greatsword could be freely equipped even at level 0.
Gu Nan certainly couldn't equip this Rock Stone Greatsword himself, so he simply put it up on the Ten Thousand Races Trading Platform.
Then he chose to trade in Hua Country currency.
In the early game, players didn't have much in-game currency, and high-level equipment like the Rock Stone Greatsword wouldn't sell for much if sold for in-game currency.
Besides, Gu Nan had just bought Shen Lingxiu and still owed 3.2 million in the final payment.
The reason Gu Nan agreed to pay the final payment within seven days was because, in the early stages of Ten Thousand Races Continent, even Common grade equipment could sell for exorbitant prices.
After listing the Rock Stone Greatsword, he changed it to Auction Mode.
Starting price 1000, each bid not less than 100.
Auction time, 30 minutes.
After setting it up, Gu Nan didn't pay any more attention.
He continued to pull and hunt Rock Giants.
Of course, Gu Nan wasn't pulling monsters haphazardly.
If someone had God's perspective, they would be surprised to find that Gu Nan's monster-pulling route was a winding curve.
Zooming in, this curve, to some extent, became a straight line.
And the final destination of this straight line was the Bronze Free Chest in the Rock Giant Camp.
Even with the experience of hunting five Rock Giants, Gu Nan did not choose to be greedy and rush ahead.
He still only attracted the aggro of five Rock Giants, then kited them while moving towards the Bronze Free Chest.
At this moment, Gu Nan was completely focused on kiting and didn't notice his constantly pinging inbox.
Nor did he notice that the entire Hua Country Server had gone completely crazy because of one Rock Stone Greatsword.