Chapter 57: Hatred
Inside the rest room, Su Xiao sat on the sofa, reviewing Bubu Wang’s data. The information was as follows:
**Space-Rending Hound · Bubuteni**
- Class: Follower
- Health: 100%
- Mana: 450 points
- Strength: 93 points (increased by 4 points)
- Agility: 100 (True Attribute, increased by 6 points)
- Stamina: 95 (increased by 6 points)
- Intelligence: 51 (increased by 1 point)
- Charm: 131 (True Attribute, increased by 26 points)
- Skill 1, Gift of the Ice Goddess (Aura Lv.10): Generates an Ice Goddess Aura, restoring 270 Health per minute to allies and 10 Mana per minute to allies.
- Note: This skill has no cost, with a recovery range of 700 meters.
- Note: Recovery effect scales with Intelligence/Charm attributes (highest attribute prioritized, currently boosted by True Charm attribute).
- Skill 2, Life Energy Manipulation (Active, Lv.57): Bubuteni can forcibly control the trajectory of healing-type energy and alter the target of this healing effect.
- Note: This skill consumes 20% of max Mana.
- Note: This skill has a cooldown of 15 minutes.
- Note: Before controlling healing energy, Bubuteni must undergo a Charm attribute check against the enemy healer; upon success, control is established.
- Skill 3, Advanced Creature (Active X).
- Skill 4, Utter Loyalty (Passive X).
- Skill 5, You Can’t See Me (Passive, Self-Learned Skill): Bubuteni can hide based on any terrain, with 1,015 existing hiding methods (increased by 87 types).
- Skill 6, Canine Secret Peeping (Passive, Self-Learned Skill): When visually targeting an enemy from over 40 meters away, reduces the chance of being perceived by 80%. If the enemy senses Bubuteni’s gaze, Bubuteni quickly enters the ‘You Can’t See Me (Passive)’ state.
- Skill 7, Scent Tracking (Passive Lv.15): Can lock onto known scents/smells/tracks for tracking, with a maximum tracking range of 6.5 kilometers. If the enemy’s trail is not found within 5 hours of locking the scent, or if the distance exceeds 6.5 kilometers, the trail is lost.
- Skill 8, Howl (Passive, Self-Learned Skill): Bubuteni actively exits the ‘You Can’t See Me’ state, letting out a long howl to disrupt enemy minds, with a chance to attract significant enemy aggro.
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Bubu Wang’s improvement was considerable. Su Xiao suspected that Bubu had dumped all its enhancements into the Charm attribute.
Compared to the attribute boosts, Bubu Wang’s ability changes were also notable. The level of Scent Tracking increased, but the effect didn’t improve much.
The biggest leap was the Ice Aura, which elevated Bubu Wang from a third-rate healer to a second-rate one.
In terms of healing output, the Ice Aura’s 16,200 Health recovery per hour was quite impressive. The problem lay in the slow healing speed.
A typical sixth-rank healer at full capacity could restore 5,000 to 9,000 Health to the team’s tank within 1 to 3 seconds, whereas Bubu Wang could only restore 810 Health in 3 seconds—a significant gap.
However, in prolonged battles, especially when two armies clashed, Bubu Wang’s recovery boost to soldiers far surpassed over 98% of healers of the same rank.
In skirmishes, Bubu Wang was a second-rate healer; in protracted wars, it was a top-tier healer. The specialization was that severe.
As for Bubu’s new ability, ‘Life Energy Manipulation,’ it was very interesting—or rather, it was a skill that could break a healer’s morale.
If an enemy healer used a healing ability that required the healing energy to fly toward an ally, Bubu Wang could, through a Charm check, control that healing energy.
Imagine this: an enemy healer charges for 2 seconds, unleashes a big move to restore the team’s tank, but that healing energy suddenly veers off, slams into Su Xiao, and restores a chunk of his Health.
If that happened, the enemy healer and the tank barely holding on under Su Xiao’s blade would both lose their minds.
Of course, Bubu Wang could only control flying-type healing energy. For large-scale healing abilities like the Ascension Set, Bubu Wang couldn’t manipulate the energy.
If facing a team with the Ascension Set, Su Xiao’s Overlord-grade equipment [Blood Feather] would become a lethal weapon, combining with the enemy healer to convert healing effects into True Damage. The scene would be nothing short of tragic.
Controlling ‘flying-type healing energy’ was already shameless enough, and with Bubu Wang’s ability to blend into the environment, enemies couldn’t find it. Any adventure group encountering it would be driven to utter frustration.
Unfortunately, there was no way to test Bubu Wang’s abilities now. Within Su Xiao’s entire team, only Bubu had a healing-type skill, and it was an aura.
Su Xiao checked the time. There was still a while before the fourth round began. Since the storage space was now unsealed, he planned to open all the chests he had obtained, boosting his strength as much as possible before the fourth round.
Su Xiao had a total of 6 chests and [Alek’s Box], the latter obtained from killing the World Child, Alek.
He planned to open [Alek’s Box] last. Among the 6 chests, 5 were Legendary-grade, and 1 was Epic-grade.
Lighting a cigarette, with the Lucky King state active, Su Xiao opened the 5 Legendary chests and 1 Epic chest simultaneously.
[You have opened Legendary Chest ×5.]
[You have opened Epic Chest ×1.]
[You have obtained 102,000 Paradise Coins.]
[You have obtained 80,000 Paradise Coins.]
[You have obtained 145,000 Paradise Coins.]
[You have obtained Legendary Medal ×27.]
[You have obtained Soul Crystal (Large) ×3.]
[You have obtained Thirsty Skin (Legendary Material).]
[You have obtained Serrated Fang (Gold Quality Material).]
[You have obtained Eternal Will (Gem · Soul Obsession Sealed).]
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**Eternal Will**
- Origin: Holy Light Paradise
- Quality: ???
- Type: Gem
- Effect: After removing the soul obsession attached to the gem, this attribute becomes visible.
- Rating: ???
- Description: I actually died in the mouth of a sea beast. They just watched, smiling, as I was swallowed by that mouth full of layered fangs, watching me… sink into the deep sea. It was I who temporarily freed them from the world’s shackles, who brought them to the Viking Sea.
The fruit of the Void Tree is not something you are qualified to eat. Without the certification of a Paradise or the Void Tree itself, you natives of the Primordial World can only forever gaze at that fruit.
Wait for it. I come from Holy Light Paradise. Someone will come for you—maybe a divine stick from Sanctuary Paradise, a ranger from Death Paradise, or those terrifying madmen from Reincarnation Paradise. That would be best. Those madmen will drag you out one by one, make you taste true despair, and then take everything from you. I look forward to this scene, traitors.
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[Eternal Will] was a gem of undoubtedly high quality, once belonging to a contractor from Holy Light Paradise. From the description, that contractor was betrayed, severely injured, and then swallowed by a sea beast.
That sea beast was purchased by Su Xiao at Turtle Island, killed to obtain an Epic chest, which produced this gem.
Su Xiao looked at the red gem in his hand. To remove the soul obsession attached to it, he needed to complete a special task: avenge that contractor by killing all the traitors.
The description contained significant information. The betrayers were not other contractors but powerful beings from the Primordial World. They had entered the Viking Sea with the contractor to find the fruit of the Void Tree.
The result was that the fruit was found, but the contractor was betrayed. Moreover, according to the description, the fruit of the Void Tree could not be consumed without certification from a Paradise or the Void Tree itself. That was very intriguing.
“Void Tree fruit.”
Su Xiao tossed the gem in his hand. As the certifier of the Strongest Battle Royale, the Void Tree’s fruit was undoubtedly an extremely rare and valuable treasure.