Chapter 79 The Ice Token
Then came what followed.
Alan seemed to start a frenzy of farming health points.
He consecutively killed nine Frost Werewolves, adding over seventeen thousand health points to himself.
With James' 10% passive talent and the Goddess of Life's Tear equipment providing an additional 20% health boost,
the seventeen thousand health points Alan gained actually provided him with over twenty-two thousand health points.
However, this increase in health points was still far from enough for Alan.
Next, something unexpected happened to Alan.
When he reached the tenth Frost Werewolf, it wasn't just one but two appeared!
'Is this the hell-level difficulty dungeon?'
Alan's eyes became serious.
As usual, Alan floated to kill one, then kited the other.
His health increased by over twenty-two thousand, accompanied by an increase in basic attack damage of over six hundred.
With Alan's current attack speed, this meant over three thousand extra damage per second.
This damage was still somewhat challenging against the Frost Werewolves with nine million health points.
But Alan was not afraid at all; his attacks were very fierce, maximizing his limited output capability.
Even facing two Frost Werewolves, Alan was still at ease.
His resilience allowed him to withstand their attacks, while his lifesteal attribute steadily recover his lost health.
After killing the first Frost Werewolf, it was the second one's turn.
Using the same strategy, there were no issues.
This time, Alan managed to slay eighteen Frost Werewolves in one go.
'Will there be three nexts?' Alan wondered aloud.
Although killing these eighteen Frost Werewolves added more than forty thousand health points to Alan, tanking the attacks of two Frost Werewolves simultaneously was still somewhat challenging for Alan at this point.
However, to Alan's relief, no more Frost Werewolves appeared.
It was still that same household.
The woman inside opened a crack in the window, saw that there were no Frost Werewolves outside, and then boldly opened the door.
"Brave adventurer, thank you so much. Without you, this winter would have been very tough for us."
Alan turned his gaze towards the speaker.
[Villager Amanda: Level 50.]
[Health: 1,000,000/1,000,000.]
[Attack: 985.]
[Skills: ???]
[Note: She is a villager living here, she might give you an unexpected reward.]
Alan was a bit surprised.
Not by Amanda's health bar or attack, but by her name.
With five years of gaming experience from his previous life, Alan knew very well that in Stellaria, there were almost no NPCs with names characteristic of the Jinse Empire.
To be exact, Alan didn't know of the existence of such an NPC.
In his previous life, some people had complained that servers in other countries generally had settings similar to their own countries.
However, in the Jinse Empire, only the gods and some entities related to the gods retained the characteristics of the empire. Everything else seemed to hail from other countries..
Alan felt a surge of excitement and nostalgia upon encountering a name from his homeland in this dungeon.
"Helping others is what I should do." Alan smiled.
"No matter what, you have helped me a lot. To thank you, please let me prepare a hearty dinner for you, okay?" Amanda said.
Alan was still not very clear about the mechanics of this dungeon, so he could only take it one step at a time.
"Alright." Alan followed Amanda into the house.
Amanda's house was somewhat simple, with a kitchen adorned by over ten pieces of smoked meat hanging, reminiscent of authentic Texas barbecue.
She busied herself in the kitchen, asking Alan to wait a while.
But this "while" turned out to be more than half an hour.
Having lived two lives, Alan's patience was better than the average person, so he waited quietly to see what kind of plot would unfold.
Before long, he food was served.
Barbecue, salad, borscht, steak.
Not bad at all.
"Try it, my cooking is average. If it doesn't taste good, please forgive me."
Alan smiled and waved his hand. "It looks delicious, and having a hot meal on such cold day is already very good."
Alan picked up a piece of barbecue and ate it.
[Attack power +5.]
Alan was stunned. 'Eating food increases attributes?'
He took a small bite of the vegetable salad.
[Attack speed +0.02.]
Alan got excited, these dishes could provide him with attributes!
To confirm the attributes added by these dishes, Alan tasted the borscht and steak.
Steak!
[Critical hit +1.]
Borscht!
[Movement speed +0.1.]
Alan was a bit excited. among these attributes, critical hit and attack power were not considerations, attack speed and movement speed were the most suitable for him.
He started to devour the food eagerly.
Soon, however, he regretted eating before tackling this dungeon.
Originally, he had been worried about being hungry while tackling the dungeon, but now he had messed up.
Although the food in the game wouldn't actually replenish energy, the feeling of fullness was real.
Alan ate as much as he could.
He polished off all the vegetable salad that increased attack speed in one go and it increased by one point.
But when it came to the borscht, Alan tried his best and only drank half of it.
If he drank more, Alan felt the food would come back up from his stomach.
As a result, his movement speed increased by three points.
As for the remaining food, Alan couldn't eat any more and had to give up.
What a pity.
Otherwise, his movement speed could have increased a bit more.
But because his movement speed had already surpassed ten points, the increase was halved, actually increasing his movement speed by only 1.5 points.
"Thank you for your hospitality." Alan wiped his mouth and said very politely.
"You are such a kind adventurer, leaving me so much meat. I don't know how to thank you."
Amanda felt a bit embarrassed, and to thank Alan, she rummaged inside the house for a while.
After a long while, she came out with a token in her hand.
Amanda said, "Young man, you are very impressive. This is something left to me by a powerful adventurer I once took in, I hope it will be useful to you."
Alan instinctively took the token.
[Frost Token: Special Equipment.]
[Requirements to wear: None.]
[Effect: Your attacks can slow the enemy unit's attack speed and movement speed by 20%, lasting five seconds.]
[Durability: 100.]
Alan's eyes lit up, this was a good item.
But then, Alan realized a very serious problem.
In this dungeon, hecouldn't use it at all.
The reason was simple, what he needed here were knock-up or heavy injury attributes, or high health-boosting attributes.
Slow attributes were useless here.