Rebirth of the thief who roamed around the world (BOOK 1)

Chapter 117 - Skeleton Kodo

After numerous attempts and losing several dozen Skeleton Fighters, Nie Yan had still not managed to succeed.

It seemed Undead Rite's success rate was also influenced by the level discrepancy between the caster and target. Wracking his brain to no avail, he finally decided to check the game's official website to see if there was any information regarding this skill. Surprisingly, he did find something, which was quite a rare occurrence. According to the information there, Undead Rite had a twenty percent chance of controlling the targeted undead if it was equal to the caster in level. For every level the undead exceeded the caster, the chance of success would fall by one percent. The success rate would further diminish when facing Leaders, Sub-Elites, and so on. In short, if the target surpassed the player by twenty levels or more, the success rate became nil.

Since this was the first time he had come into contact with this type of skill, he wasn't too knowledgeable regarding its intricacies. Apparently checking the official website every once in a while still held some benefits.

He was only Level 9 while the Skeleton Kodo was Level 23, not to mention a Leader-class monster as well, so his low success rate thus far was to be expected.

However, if he was incapable of controlling a Skeleton Kodo, he wouldn't be able to proceed with the next step of his plan.

As time gradually ticked away, Nie Yan grew increasingly impatient. The only consolation was that his experience was steadily rising. Killing the undead in this area also wasn't a bad way to level.

At this point, he had forgotten exactly how many Skeleton Fighters died as he didn't care to name them anymore. Was it twenty-seven or twenty-eight? Regardless, he ordered one of them to get a Skeleton Kodo's attention while he circled behind to cast Undead Rite.

The Skeleton Fighter gradually approached the Kodo. Once it got in range, the Fighter brandished its battle axe and charged forward.

Upon being struck, the Kodo violently lashed out in a rage fueled stupor.

「Bang!」The Skeleton Fighter was knocked flying away.

Taking advantage of this moment, Nie Yan cast Undead Rite!

As per usual, he began backing off after using the spell but halted his retreat when he noticed a change occurring in the Kodo's appearance. Did I succeed? He quickly pulled up the system announcements to check and soon found his answer. I did succeed!

He mentally commanded the Kodo to move, and almost immediately, it trembled and then began lumbering over to him.

"Haha! I finally succeeded!"

Having obtained his first Kodo, he was finally able to move on with the next step of his plan.

Undead Rite's duration on the Kodo was relatively long, so after thinking for a bit, he decided that he might as well do a bit of levelling.

「Where are you right now?」Nie Yan asked, sending Tang Yao a message.

「I'm levelling with Yu Lan (Blue Feather) and the others. Why, what's up?」Tang Yao responded. Since their first encounter several days ago, he had become much more familiar with Yu Lan and her team, even occasionally running a dungeon or two together with them. Furthermore, thanks to Nie Yan's guidance, their team's equipment progressively improved. They were even able to run Fallen Shaman Camp now.

「Return to the city,」Nie Yan said. He could only bring Tang Yao alone and not Yu Lan and the rest.

「Alright, let me say goodbye to them first,」Tang Yao said.