181: Chapter 181 A New Second Career

To awaken Death Authority, one originally needed to be repeatedly eroded to death by toxic demonic energy in the deepest part of the Hell layer.

This not only required repeated deaths but also relied on luck—even if one died from the erosion of demonic energy, the probability of awakening Death Authority was extremely low.

In The Original World, Patem gathering players from the Five Great Guilds was not without reason; relying on one person alone, it would likely be impossible to ever awaken the Authority.

Even Pegasus only awakened Death Authority after experiencing multiple deaths and relying on extremely good luck; if luck were slightly worse, it's hard to say how many years it would take for anyone among the Five Great Guilds players and Philip to awaken the Authority.

But this extremely low probability meant nothing to Fu Hao. In the face of the ultimate divine skill "Fates Luck", any extreme probability was effectively null and void.

[ Using the "Fates Luck" skill, the probability of awakening Death Authority is fixed at 100%. ]

The real problem lay elsewhere:

[ Received 650 damage. ]

[ Received 838 damage. ]

[ "Indestructible" title effect triggered, completely ignoring this damage. ]

[ Received 755 damage. ]

[ Received 3 attacks within 1 second, "Steel Skin (+10)" skill activated. Ignoring 70% of damage for 10 seconds. ]

[ Received 230 damage. ]

[ Received 192 damage. ]

[ Received 5 attacks within 1 second, "Super Speed Regeneration (+10)" skill activated. Recovering 30% of max HP, natural HP recovery increased by 1000% for 1 minute. ]

Due to having collected a large number of hidden items, it was very difficult for Fu Hao to die, even if he let himself be eroded by the toxic demonic energy.

His base defense and HP were already quite high, and with various +10 defense and recovery skills triggering one after another, it made one wonder if he could even die at all.

"It's so hard to even die..."

For Fu Hao, time was a hidden item, and pointless waiting pained him.

However, learned skills could not be undone, so he could only quietly wait for all the defense skill effects to wear off.

Leveraging his near-invincible state in the Hell layer, he had originally wanted to take the opportunity to rush to the deepest part where Patem was located, but unfortunately, the slow speed of demonic energy erosion did not mean he could move freely in the Hell layer—Xiao Jin and his flying artifacts could not move at will here either, so his only choice was to wait for his HP to hit 0.

After an unknown amount of time, his HP was finally cleared. After his invincibility skills triggered several times, he finally waited for the long-awaited death notification:

[ You have died. Login will be restricted for 24 hours. ]

[ Consumed "Amulet" item, preventing EXP loss. ]

[ Death Authority awakened. ]

[ Learned passive skill "Death Authority". ]

[ Forcibly resurrecting due to awakening Death Authority. ]

[ Resurrection successful, 24-hour login restriction invalidated. ]

[ "Death Overlord" quest completed. ]

[ Can change class to hidden class "Death Overlord". Change class? ]

The notifications that Pegasus had seen in The Original World were now being witnessed by Fu Hao one by one. His answer was naturally "Yes".

If "Death Overlord" could truly assemble an Undead Dragon Legion, he would keep this class; if not, he could just abandon it and switch to his originally planned "Summoning Beast Master".

Previously, Pegasus had kept completely silent about the class skills, so Fu Hao, full of anticipation for the "Death Overlord" skills, immediately pressed the class change confirmation button.

[ Class changed to "Death Overlord". ]

[ Generated skill "Death Brand". ]

[ Generated skill "Resurrection". ]

[ Generated skill "Corpse Explosion". ]

[ Generated skill "Death Domain". ]

[ Generated skill "Eternal Rest". ]

[ Generated "Life Core" bound to vitality. ]

[ Life Core cannot be stored in the inventory; if destroyed, death will be confirmed regardless of remaining HP or invincibility status. ]

[ When death is caused by the destruction of the Life Core, Death Authority and Death Overlord exclusive class skills will all be deleted. ]

"Oh."

Just looking at the skill names satisfied Fu Hao, and he exclaimed in admiration before even checking the details.

Although the number of skills was fewer than expected, they all sounded impactful based on their names.

He was already starting to look forward to the chemical reaction that would occur after using Skill Enhancement to boost them to +10.

However, he suppressed his anticipation for now and turned his gaze to the Life Core in front of him: "If this thing counted as equipment, I'd really want to try enhancing it... It's a pity."

In "otherworld", the Life Core was an extremely rare existence, so rare that enhancing it to +10 might produce unexpected changes just like with Subspace.

But it didn't even count as equipment; it was just an ordinary object and could not be enhanced at all.

"At least I don't have to worry about hiding it."

Fu Hao put the Life Core into his commonly used Subspace ring without hesitation.

This was another reason why he wanted to change to "Death Overlord"—if he hid the Life Core somewhere in the Inner World, no matter how well hidden, it could still be destroyed by sudden natural disasters or conspiracies, which would be like trading his near-immortal, tenacious vitality for an equivalent risk.

But for him, as long as he put the Life Core into the Subspace that no one could enter without permission, he could enjoy this bonus without any risk, which could be called a semi-invincible state.

Even the Five Great Guilds, which were once far inferior to him and Leonhardt, could rely on the Life Core to withstand the attacks of the Seven Legends and Leonhardt, so it was a given that Fu Hao, whose stats were now vastly different from before, could do the same.

Even if Leonhardt had obtained a God-rank hidden item in the Inner World, he would certainly not have an easy time facing Fu Hao, who had fully maxed +10 skills and the Life Core.

After safely storing the Life Core in Subspace, Fu Hao began to check his new class skills.

Fortunately, except for Death Authority, the other skills were all Mythical Rank.

Although the immediate burst power might not be as good as the Enhancement Master class skills, after enhancing them to +10, their potential might surpass the former.

[ "Death Brand" skill enhanced to level 10 successfully. ]

[ "Resurrection" skill enhanced to level 10 successfully. ]

...

With the confidence of infinite spending, enhancing Mythical Rank skills to +10 was effortless.

The effects of base skills and +10 skills were worlds apart; relying solely on the base skills, he wouldn't even see a shadow of an Undead Dragon Legion, but he was full of anticipation for the +10 effects—and this anticipation did not go unfulfilled.

"Undead Dragon Legion... feasible."

The core skill for assembling the Undead Dragon Legion, "Death Brand", had its usage limit removed directly after reaching +10, becoming unlimited.

Although he couldn't be entirely sure, theoretically, assembling the Undead Dragon Legion was no longer a problem.

The scene of a dragon flock composed entirely of bones flying across the sky was already emerging before Fu Hao's eyes.

He urgently wanted to possess the Undead Dragon Legion as soon as possible and immediately activated the Task Assistant skill—but what popped up was not the expected quest notification, but a bucket of cold water that extinguished his enthusiasm:

[ Starting to guide the "Gold Dragon Tomb" quest. ]

[ Quest completion conditions not met, unable to guide. Please try again after meeting the conditions. ]

"..."

The Task Assistant skill could only provide clearance guides after all; it could not turn theoretically impossible quests into possible ones.

It was originally a skill to assist with beginner quests, and logically, it shouldn't encounter this situation, but for people like Fu Hao and Leonhardt who could obtain all quests, this situation was not rare.

Leonhardt had seen this notification many times; after all, many quests he felt he couldn't complete on his own were theoretically impossible to begin with.

But Fu Hao had not expected the Task Assistant to malfunction at all.

It wasn't that he didn't understand the skill's principle, but rather he was full of confidence:

He had collected hundreds of ultra-rare hidden items that could only be obtained at level 1 or low levels, and monopolized dozens of Demon King Authorities that even the developers hadn't expected one person to collect, most of which were even enhanced to +10.

He had never thought that he would not meet the conditions for the Gold Dragon Tomb quest.

"Could it be that I'm stuck here again?"

No matter how smooth a plan is, there's no way around it if the path is broken halfway.

Either find another path or repair the broken path, but now he couldn't think of either.

The simplest way was to give up looking for the Gold Dragon Tomb and go look for dragon remains elsewhere, but were dragon remains that easy to find?

Besides Xiao Jin, the only existing Golden Dragon was Shuer.

According to Shuer, dragon races other than the Golden Dragon almost never leave their bones or any traces of themselves in tombs; most self-destruct upon death, completely erasing any traces of their existence.

Even if Fu Hao used Margo's blessing to draw another detector, the probability of finding other dragon remains was close to zero.