Chapter 190: I Heard You Have High Physical Defense? (1/2)

Gou Dan wasn’t deliberately giving Edward a half-hearted reply.

After all, being a war reporter, he enjoyed writing a huge chunk of text during quests and post it on the forum, only to have other Players would comment ‘TLDR (too long, didn’t read)’ beneath it.

In other words, he really wasn’t free at the moment.

Since almost twenty people were now chasing him down to kill him.

“We really run into them everywhere…” Gou Dan was leaping from tree to tree, but couldn’t resist turning to look at the words hovering above his pursuers’ heads.

They are from the Secret Eye Society.

“Tch. Fight me one by one if you have the balls! No gentleman lynches!”

As a matter of fact, Gou Dan really wouldn’t worry about those Secret Eye Society members individually, who were at best Level 30.

But there’s no way he could survive against all of them.

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It was just five minutes ago when Gou Dan found them sinisterly leading a bound young girl who was around ten years old, quietly heading towards the outskirts of the forest.

Her face was bruised here and there and obviously battered, and her eyes were full of fear.

Even so, she did not even dare to struggle now.

When Gou Dan saw that, he naturally leapt down to kill the hostiles immediately.

Initially, he had intended to take the Grand Hunter route after changing class to Junglewalker. However, it was not time to do so yet since he had not taken delivery of the AWM which he had gotten Marni to buy for him at the auction, and because the weapons he had at the moment were too crude to deal any serious damage as a Grand Hunter.

Therefore, he simply allocated some skill points down the druid—or more correctly, the Beastmorph branch, and would retrain himself as a Hunter King when he finally received that godly bow.

Although Beastmorph skills appeared to be all over the place, it was versatile and Gou Dan found them quite useful after adapting to it.

Including Bearmorph at Level 25, in which he assumes the form of an ordinary bear.

That in turn would beg the question: how powerful is a bear?

For that, one should note that when Gou Dan and the others first left their village, their party had killed a bear when their average Level was 5… And with Gou Dan’s current stats as a Level 40 player, the bear he morphs into would definitely be stronger than a normal bear, though that would be all there is to it.

Nonetheless, leveling the Bearmorph skill up to Level 2 (Player Level 30 required) would change the user to a twin-headed bear, a creature that was infinitely resembling of magical beasts with its thick hide and dragon fangs. It wouldn’t be a problem to defeat an Extraordinaire using that form strengthened with Player stats, but Gou Dan felt that he could break his own spirit if he used it for too long.

At Level 3, he would morph into a Steelchomper that easily chew through ores and bite through weapons with its overwhelming fighting force. It looked quite cute too, even if it could kill a bear with a single slap.

At Level 4—Gou Dan’s current Bearmorph skill level, he would immediately assume the form of an Earthen Ursa, a standard earth-element magical beast. Having the passive skills of stone skin and Earth’s Breath, he has stunning physical defense and could keep healing himself as long as he stood on the ground. With it, he surpassed Joe’s Spirit Swordsman class in terms of durability (which decreases max health) to become the team’s best meat shield.

If it wasn’t for the skill only lasting three minutes—after of which the life crystal before Gou Dan chest would start blinking and beeping a warning, Gou Dan is convinced that he could fight three other Players of his level albeit of different class alone!

And given that the Bearmorph skill goes up to Level 6, Gou Dan could hardly imagine what monster he would turn into at max level…

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Nonetheless, while Gou Dan had assumed that dropping from the skies in his Earthen Ursa form would definitely throw the Secret Eye Society members into disarray, scare them off so that they leave the girl and—should they resist—wipe them all out!