# Chapter 3: Overlord Power: Exempt 25% Physical Damage, Exempt 25% Energy Damage
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If facing a physical-type opponent, Su Xiao would have a permanent 65% damage exemption. Adding the bonus from "Wild Hunt Night," the damage exemption could reach about 70%. This was the diminishing return effect of "Buff: Damage Reduction."
Among these, "Devouring Dark Soul Core" was naturally the strongest, but "Overlord Power" seemed to have further potential. If it could be upgraded to "Exempt 25% All Damage," then this ability would be exceptionally formidable.
Su Xiao also discovered one point: "Absolute Magic Constitution (Passive): Immune to 70% Magic-Type Damage." Its method of activation differed from the protective energy of "Damage Exemption." Absolute Magic Constitution was an advancement of one's own constitution. In more common terms, it was "True Magic Resistance." Since it wasn't in the same system as protective energy, they naturally couldn't stack.
A more intuitive understanding would be: Suppose Su Xiao received 3000 points of Arcane Eternal Star's magical energy damage. Absolute Magic Constitution would exempt 2100 points. The remaining 900 points of magical energy damage would then face the 40% "All Damage Exemption." As for why it wasn't around 70% energy attack exemption, Arcane Eternal Star's magical energy and ordinary magic were two different things.
To put it bluntly, magical energy and Abyss power were of the same rank. Magical energy was the "qualitative" form of elemental power.
After 900 points of magical energy damage went through damage exemption, it became 540 points. Then, facing Su Xiao's over 1000 points of physical defense, roughly 220 to 225 points remained. In other words, not even one-tenth of the damage could be dealt.
Furthermore, with Su Xiao's speed and various attack-evasion abilities, out of ten spellcasts, not even one might hit. Most would be residual damage.
Thought that was all? Not quite. In fact, before the magical energy attack hit Su Xiao, the first thing it had to face wasn't Absolute Magic Constitution, but Aoge Crystals.
The scene that made spellcasters gnash their teeth in hatred appeared. A 3000-point magical energy attack might only result in 80 to 120 points of magical energy damage.
Su Xiao still had over 130,000 Hunter Gold Coins. In the Title Shop, he could buy a large number of Nine-Star Titles. Previously, he thought Nine-Star Titles were the endpoint. Later, he discovered that reaching Nine Stars was only the beginning. The subsequent five "Title Refinements" were the qualitative transformation of the title.
[Title Chest (★★★)]
Use Effect: Upon opening, can obtain 1 designated characteristic Nine-Star Title.
Stock Quantity: -- (Unlimited exchange quantity).
Exchange Price: 300 Hunter Gold Coins.
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Su Xiao purchased one hundred [Title Chest (★★★)]. The ideal scenario was to obtain a "Damage Reduction" type defensive title.
If the entire title had only this one attribute, it would be the ultimate top-tier item. The reason was that the fewer bonus types a title had, the higher its single bonus would be. After all, the title energy within a title was limited.
The worst case was a title with six attribute bonuses. Even if it were a powerful title with 100% title potential, each bonus would only account for less than 17%. This was truly inferior to a title with 50% potential but only one title attribute.
Titles with five attributes were considered relatively good. Four attributes were particularly good. Three attributes were top-tier. Two attributes were extremely top-tier. One attribute was ultra top-tier.
For example, "Abyssal Shadow," "God Hunter," and "Original Sin Scholar" were all top-tier titles with three bonuses. "Old Hunter" was an extremely top-tier title. Of course, this had a prerequisite: the title must be upgraded to Nine Stars before this distinction could be made. Low-rank titles in the early stages, even if they had only one bonus, were because the title hadn't grown yet.
An intuitive way to judge a title's quality was: Title Potential ÷ Number of Title Bonuses. The larger the resulting number, the more top-tier the title. Of course, the first thing to consider was the title's type.
Su Xiao had two extremely top-tier titles with two bonuses: "Old Hunter" and "Peak Work." Among them, "Peak Work" even had 100% title potential.
[Peak Work]
Limit Refinement: Once.
Title Effect 1: Peak Artistry (Passive) — When performing potion concoction, your state can transcend limits. There is a 100% probability of concocting a "Perfect" grade potion, a 55% probability of concocting a "Miracle" grade potion, and a 10% probability of concocting a "Peak" grade potion.
Perfect Grade: On top of the potion's original best effect, additionally enhance effect by 20%.
Miracle Grade: On top of the potion's original best effect, additionally enhance effect by 40%.
Peak Grade: On top of the potion's original best effect, additionally enhance effect by 95%.
Title Effect 2: Transcend Self (Passive) — If you successfully concoct an Eternal Rank "Peak" grade potion, you will gain a deeper understanding and feeling of the Alchemy you have mastered, allowing you to transcend the Alchemy level limit.
Hint: Each time you successfully concoct an Eternal Rank "Peak" grade potion, your Alchemy has a 5% probability of permanently increasing by Lv.1.
Current Alchemy Level: Lv.95 (This is the conventional maximum level for Alchemy).
Hint: This ability can increase Alchemy up to Lv.100.
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A full-potential, two-bonus title was already this outrageous. If he got lucky this time and obtained a full-potential, single-attribute title, and that single attribute was to increase "All Damage Reduction," then...
Su Xiao abandoned this fantasy. He pondered for a moment and felt that exchanging 50 [Title Chest (★★★)] should be enough to get a decent defensive title. Well, to be safe, let's make it one hundred.
[You have paid 30,000 Hunter Gold Coins.]
[You have obtained Title Chest (★★★) × 100.]
Su Xiao opened all the chests he had just exchanged, selected the defense-type characteristic, and began browsing the title acquisition records. He skipped over titles with six to three bonuses, only looking for two-bonus or single-attribute titles. The more he browsed, the less optimistic the situation became.
Out of a total of 100 defensive titles, the best were 2 five-attribute titles. Not to mention single-attribute, he didn't even see a single four-attribute title.
After a few seconds of silence, Su Xiao exchanged another 100 [Title Chest (★★★)], opened them all, and continued examining the titles.
A moment later, Su Xiao stored the newly obtained 200 Nine-Star Titles into his title list, saving them for later use in upgrading his main title.
As the saying goes, misfortune might happen once or twice, but it shouldn't happen three or four times. He exchanged another 100 Title Chests and opened them all.
Opening these Title Chests, one after another, without a sound. Su Xiao silently stored the newly obtained 100 fertilizer Nine-Star Titles and glanced at the remaining 45,800 Hunter Gold Coins.
After deliberating for a moment, he exchanged Title Chests one by one and opened them one by one. After successively opening 10 Title Chests, this time, he couldn't even get a five-attribute title. They were all garbage six-attribute titles. This made him change his approach: exchange 10 Title Chests at once and open them simultaneously.
However, it was useless. They were all uniformly six-attribute titles.
With 39,000 Hunter Gold Coins remaining, Su Xiao simply exchanged another 100 Title Chests, selected the characteristic, and opened them all. The next second.
A deep, dark-golden light bloomed. This made Su Xiao slightly suspicious. He had seen light flash many times when opening chests, but he had never heard of light flashing when opening Title Chests, let alone such a unique dark-golden light.
Su Xiao browsed the title acquisition record. There was no need to observe as carefully as before. A line of dark-golden text stood out conspicuously among the mass of title acquisition information.
[You have obtained Guardian Soul.]