Chapter 64: The Unsolvable Overlord Equipment
After a strong sensation of spatial pulling, Su Xiao's eyes opened. He was still sitting on the bed.
[Blade Grandmaster has been upgraded to Lv.34.]
[Blade Grandmaster has been upgraded to Lv.35.]
[Blade Grandmaster: Lv.35 (Passive Skill)]
Skill Effect: Increases blade-type weapon attack power by 544% (increase of 18%), neural reflex speed +154% (increase of 10%), immunity...
Initial Additional Ability: Universal Rhythm X++
Lv.10 Ultimate Ability: Shadow Flash
Lv.20 Ultimate Ability: Soul Blade
Lv.30 Ultimate Ability: Blade Extreme
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The improvement of blade techniques was a gradual process. Only every 10 levels would a major change occur; the rest were accumulations. Yet even so, a single level difference in Blade Grandmaster meant a considerable gap in technique.
After upgrading his blade technique, Su Xiao checked his Golden Skill Points. The promotion quest he had completed earlier granted him 5 Golden Skill Points.
This time, Su Xiao planned to go all out. The combination of his blade technique and Dragon-Slaying Flash had already made him extremely strong in offensive capabilities. However, his previous battle with over four hundred contractors from Apocalypse Paradise had made him realize just how important survivability was.
Battle experience + sharp blade technique + powerful survivability truly allowed one to do as they pleased.
On the surface, Su Xiao's commonly used X-level ability was only one: Dragon Shadow Flash. But in reality, another ability was more frequently used: Spirit Shadow Constitution.
Dragon Shadow Flash's current strength was sufficient. As for Devouring Core and Supreme Blade, their existing power was also adequate. Especially Supreme Blade—the returns from further upgrading this ability were far lower than imagined.
Therefore, Su Xiao decided to allocate all 5 Golden Skill Points to Spirit Shadow Constitution. This ability, combined with the Soul Devourer talent, would give his mana a dual benefit.
Moreover, due to the existence of the Soul Devourer talent, Spirit Shadow Constitution had become a growth-type passive ability.
[Warning: If the Hunter allocates all 5 Golden Skill Points to the Spirit Shadow Constitution ability, he will bear certain risks.]
Seeing the prompt from Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao pondered for a moment, then chose to ignore it. As long as it wouldn't lead to death, he was willing to try.
[Spirit Shadow Constitution breaking through limits...]
Su Xiao didn't see any further prompts from Reincarnation Paradise. With his current 132 points of Stamina attribute, the moment he upgraded Spirit Shadow Constitution, he immediately fell unconscious, without any sensation of pain.
An unknown amount of time passed before Su Xiao slowly regained consciousness. He raised his arm with difficulty—just this simple action nearly caused him to faint again.
Just as Su Xiao was about to spend Paradise Coins to check his own status, the intense pain throughout his body quickly receded, replaced by a feeling of ease.
It felt as if Su Xiao had previously been wrapped in an iron suit all over his body, and now, having broken free from it, his entire body had become exceptionally light.
Not only that, Su Xiao sensed that his life force had grown stronger. The vitality of his organs, the toughness of his muscles and bones—all had improved.
Su Xiao grasped the hilt of Dragon-Slaying Flash. Without any visible movement, he slashed a light blue cross-shaped slash mark in front of him. The form of the slash was graceful, like two semicircular threads forming a cross.
Checking Spirit Shadow Constitution, Su Xiao understood why he had felt that sense of lightness.
[Spirit Shadow Constitution X++++++ (Passive Skill, can no longer break through the limit)]
Skill Effect 1: Mana and body have merged, creating a wonderful resonance. Mana and health form a good cycle. Health is greatly enhanced, increasing by 100% of total mana.
Note: Current mana is 10,676 points, increasing health by 10,676 points.
Skill Effect 2: Movement speed +12%, Dynamic Perception +65%.
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Su Xiao truly hadn't expected that a MAX-level ability could be pushed to its absolute limit.
The area where Spirit Shadow Constitution had improved the most was Dynamic Perception, which was a unified enhancement of over a dozen physical attributes, including neural reflex speed and dynamic vision.
Although Su Xiao wanted to find an opponent in the Arena right away, he still hadn't exchanged for the Overlord equipment.
Taking out three Overlord Essences, the equipment he could exchange for was completely random. At times like this, he naturally had to invoke the Lucky King state.
Lighting a cigarette, Su Xiao chose to exchange.
[You have consumed Overlord Essence × 3.]
[Hint: Overlord equipment is unique. It is absolutely impossible for identical Overlord equipment to appear.]
[Hint: Overlord equipment can be smelted. After smelting, you will obtain Overlord Essence × 2 and a trace of Space-Time Power.]
[Randomly drawing...]
[Reincarnation Paradise currently has 296 Overlord equipment items in stock.]
[Random drawing complete. You have obtained Blood Feather.]
[Blood Feather]
Origin: Overlord Creature · Holy Spirit Bird
Quality: Overlord
Category: Special Equipment
Durability: 10/10
Equipment Requirement: Charm attribute below 10 points.
Good Use Effect: Charm attribute below 6 points.
Best Use Effect: Charm attribute below 3 points.
Equipment Effect: Malicious Harm (Active): Blood Feather will shatter in a short time and attach to the enemy's body surface. Effect lasts 5 minutes. During this time, any healing-type skills released by the enemy will deal equal true damage to enemy personnel.
Hint: Blood Feather has extremely strong concealment, able to evade over 93.7% of detection effects, and cannot be purified or forcibly stripped.
Hint: If the enemy unit attached by Blood Feather releases a healing-type ability on the holder of Blood Feather (Su Xiao), this healing effect will be increased by 5 times.
Hint: If the enemy unit attached by Blood Feather does not use a healing-type ability within 25 seconds, an instant death effect will be triggered.
Hint: Malicious Harm (Active) has transmissibility. If the attached target dies, it will automatically attach to the next healing-type enemy personnel, resetting the duration.
Hint: Evil Elegance (Active) will consume 10 points of this equipment's durability.
Hint: This equipment's durability can only be repaired within Reincarnation Paradise.
Rating: 1000 points.
Introduction: The holy bird was stained by blood. Her dying lament decreed that only the wicked are worthy of using Blood Feather—Evil Elegance · Boswell.
Price: Cannot be sold.
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Seeing the effect of Blood Feather, even Su Xiao couldn't help but twitch at the corner of his mouth. This Overlord equipment was simply wicked to the core. No wonder the equipment prerequisite required Charm below 10 points to use and below 3 points to achieve maximum effect.
Blood Feather's ability seemed complex but was actually simple. When Su Xiao used Blood Feather, it would shatter and attach to the enemy's healer.
Blood Feather had high concealment and could not be forcibly stripped, or else that healer would die.
Once attached by Blood Feather, that healer's nightmare began. All their healing abilities would not only fail to restore their teammates' health but would also deal true damage equal to the "skill recovery amount."
Imagine Su Xiao in a chaotic battle with a group of sixth-rank contractors. The front-line main tank was barely holding on when the healer in the back "splurted" a heal on him. Not only did that tank not recover health, but he also suffered considerable true damage. What an incredibly frustrating feeling that would be.
If that healer discovered this and tried to heal Su Xiao instead, even better. With the fivefold healing effect, Su Xiao's health would be full in just a few uses.
As for the healer choosing to do nothing, sorry—if the healer didn't use a healing skill within 25 seconds, the instant death state would be triggered directly.
To make matters worse, this state would give a 20-second warning. No one wanted to die, so the healer had only two choices: heal their teammates or heal Su Xiao. All other targets would be in an untreatable state.
In short, once attached by Blood Feather, the original team's little angel healer would instantly become a team cancer.
And if they ruthlessly killed that healer, fine—Blood Feather would continue to attach to the next healer, until all healing-type personnel were dead or the 5-minute duration ended.
Those contractors were already besieging Su Xiao. Adding a poison healer into the mix made a team wipeout almost inevitable. If they encountered a healer with high healing output, a single skill's true damage could easily break a thousand, driving them to utter despair.
As for choosing to heal Su Xiao, a 5,000-point health recovery would cause that healer's teammates to die on the spot from rage.