As a normal human being, Cheng Shaofeng has a different promotion system from the clone players. He needs crystal energy to upgrade and thus gain improvements in all attributes, which is different from players absorbing the life force of living things.
Theoretically, his ceiling is higher.
But... Cheng Shaofeng only gains 1 skill point for each level up, which is a bit insufficient compared to the player's 3 skill points.
Especially after Yaohu helped him BD a Shadow Guard, he felt that skill points were increasingly scarce.
At this time, Zero said: "Master, you are so smart that you must have discovered that the concept of 'skill points' simulated by our base... is actually the accelerated training of a certain combat skill you have learned. One skill point is equal to two and a half years of practice time."
Cheng Shaofeng: "Oh, 1 Kun Year!"
Zero: “?”
Cheng Shaofeng: "It's okay, I just suddenly thought of something interesting, you continue..."
Zero: "That is to say... whether you or the player, even if you don't have skill points, you can practice a skill to the full level through persistent training."
Cheng Shaofeng nodded: "I guessed it... But I'm too lazy to practice, just tell me how to increase skill points."
Zero: "Okay, Master. Our Scourge Base can absorb crystal energy to help you quickly practice a skill, saving you time in practice. The crystal energy required will vary depending on the difficulty of the skill, and the amount of crystal energy consumed is positively correlated to the difficulty of the skill."
Cheng Shaofeng: "To put it in human terms... it means that the higher the skill level required, the more crystal energy will be consumed?"
Zero: "You really have the ceiling of comprehension! You summarized it so well... I will record your words permanently in my database."
Cheng Shaofeng: “…”
"Ahem! Don't be so awkward. So, how much crystal energy do I need to upgrade each of my skills to level 1?"
Zero: "All skills are broken down into 5-level stages by the Scourge Base. Skills with a mastery slot requirement of 1 only require 500 units of crystal energy to level up. Skills with a mastery slot requirement of 5 require 1,000 units of crystal energy to level up. Skills with a mastery slot requirement of 10 require 1,500 units of crystal energy, and skills with a mastery slot requirement of 15 require 2,000 units of crystal energy... and so on, except for special skills."
"You currently need 6,000 crystal energy to upgrade from level 20 to level 21. If you use it to upgrade the skill in mastery slot 1, you can gain 12 skill points, which is much greater than the benefit you get from upgrading 1 level. So in your current situation... using crystal energy on skill points will improve your combat effectiveness more immediately."
Cheng Shaofeng: "Oh... I see. According to this algorithm, the Death Armor of the Necromancer class is a skill that requires a mastery of 5. I am currently level 7. If I want to upgrade it to the maximum level 12, I need 5 more skill points. 1,000 crystal energy can be converted into 1 skill point. I only need 5,000 crystal energy to upgrade it to the maximum level."
Zero: "Your mental arithmetic skills are comparable to a calculator!"
After figuring out the rules, Cheng Shaofeng had a general direction.
"So... at present, it is most cost-effective to learn low-level skills. It takes 2,000 crystal energy to upgrade a battle flag with specialization 15 by one level. It is best to use the skill points that come with my upgrade to learn, and low-level skills can be learned with crystal energy."
"Fuck! I ordered level 5 Skeleton Resurrection... What a loss!"
At present, there is still 20,000 crystal energies that have not been absorbed from the large piece of mixed crystal he purchased from the Colossus City Caravan.
"If I use all of it to learn the skills of the Specialization 1 level... that would be 40 skill points. Wow, one skill point is 1 Kun-year, that's 40 Kun-years, 100 years of hard training to achieve this!"
According to the hexagonal warrior BD given to him by Yaohu, there are quite a few skills that require specialization level 1...
Two-handed Blade, Ranged Expert, and Rhythm Strike are all three!
"Two passive abilities increase combat skills, and one strengthens weapon attack. It can be said to be very useful..."
"It's a pity that Shadow Guard has already left... Otherwise, I should at least assign some more skill points to him before he can fight in the arena. Considering the time... We only have a few hours to reach Feisha City. We can't waste a whole day. Let's fight a couple of games to see how strong the opponent is. If we can't beat him, we can summon a stronger one."
Looking back, Cheng Shaofeng thought about it again. With the attributes of a level 20 Shadow Guard and a level 5 fully-equipped clone Cheng Dafu, if he were to challenge a battle within the first-order evolvers, it would be difficult to lose...
"Take some crystals from the game and bring them back to base, then use them to upgrade your skills. Perfect!"
The arena in Feisha City is where Cheng Shaofeng earns crystal stones!
"But... to be honest, if I use crystal energy to upgrade the four new skills of the Inquisitor... it would be too wasteful, so I'll just get level 1 for free and leave it alone."
Next, it is the daily release of world announcements.
The Inquisitor profession has added 4 new skills, please return to the base to check!
... .
Phew!
Work together to kill the 'Chaos Priest', experience +300!
Whoosh whoosh~
Work together to kill the 'Chaos Priest', experience +300!
Xigou pulled the Tang sword from the little boss, Laobai stopped spinning, and the energy whirlwind around him disappeared.
The air in the maple forest was filled with the smell of blood.
The entrance of the former red-skinned monster's cave was in a mess.
Frozen trees, charred caves, and rivers of bloody corpses.
After careful planning and patient waiting, the Peak Team found an opportunity to trap these mutants in the cave and gave them a big fight. In the end, they ended the battle with an impressive record of 0 casualties, eliminating 45 'Chaos Cultists' and 2 'Chaos Priests'.
Each 'Chaos Cultist' gives 40 experience points, the summoned monsters give 10 experience points, the priest gives 300 experience points, and the big demon it summons gives 50 experience points. This wave... the peak team wins and everyone directly wins 3000+ experience points!
Huge profit!
The dog was covered in wounds. He drank a bottle of blood medicine to stop the bleeding and grinned, "Hahaha! Although the process was dangerous and the arrangements took a lot of time, but... this is much more fun than killing monsters one by one! It feels like I'm invincible."
Lao Bai: "Unparalleled? My whirlwind spin never stopped from the moment it started to the end! I killed from the front row to the back row without blinking an eye! I am the unparalleled one, okay!"
The fox corrected: "Actually, there will be a pause every time you drink the medicine... Also, your eyes will become dry if you don't blink all the time."
Lao Bai: “?”
The polar bear said, "You two are very strong, but the six skeletons of me and the fox also contributed a lot of damage, okay? Without our skeleton warriors' tracking and stun skills, the Undead Missiles, one of you would have been killed by the priest. As for how effective my full-level Aura Death Armor is... those who understand will understand, so I won't say more."
Lin Tang held up his rifle which had exploded and said, "My brother has been preparing for more than two hours, and the rifle has exploded. You forgot about me when you were talking about your contribution, right? If you don't give me a piece of the Godly Equipment this time, I will go on strike!"
Lao Ao smiled but said nothing. He healed the opponent when the CD was up, cast a few weakening curses, and then watched the show.
The experience just now... directly allowed him to reach level 7!
He has now successfully surpassed all the new players in their group and become the one with the fastest level increase!
Lao Ao's inner thoughts: "'Washing Machine', I admit that you are strong, but my teammates... are stronger. What tactics are there? Just find 5 big players to lead the team and we'll be done!"
After the battle, several people were chatting and relaxing when they heard the world announcement sent by the lord.
Lin Tang stood up with a start: "Fuck! 4 new skills!?"
"Come back quickly!"
Everyone pushed out carts from the back of the battlefield, loaded them with corpses and rushed back to the city.
After being pushed to a safe area, the cart was handed over to the people of Zhao Village, who transported it back.
The people of Zhao Village have now become the players' transport team, transporting wild animals in the valley during the day and transporting blue medicine and food to players who pollute farms at night. Players only need to give some food as a reward, which saves a lot of effort in running around.
And the people of Zhao Village are also very happy!
They are well protected by the players and no longer have to worry about food and clothing. They can even have a lot of things left over if they work so hard.
The players are generous and speak nicely, and I really like working for them!
Excellent hunters like Gangzi are often hired by players as thugs and earn more.
Some have skills and can help players mend equipment, make some simple snacks, and support their families in Hukou.
They are vassals of the Scourge Base and become a beneficial supplement to the Scourge Base, which is a win-win situation.
"Skills! My skills!"
Lin Tang shouted as he rushed into the base, squeezed into the crowd of Inquisitor players, and looked at the four new seals hung on the Inquisitors' skill wall.
Skill Seal: Bitter (Ice Rune Expanded Skill)
Strengthens the icy power of the ice rune. The extreme low temperature brings greater damage and slows down the enemy's thinking and reduces their defense.
Expand your skills
0/12th level
Piercing damage +10%
Cold Damage +10%
Reduces all enemy speed by 10% for 10 seconds
Reduces the enemy's defense by 30 points for 10 seconds
Applicable occupation: Judge
Required Inquisitor Professional Expertise Points: 10
Prerequisite Skill: Meg's Ice Rune
Lin Tang took a deep breath, "Expand skills! Strengthen the auxiliary skills of the main skills! The Ice Rune originally has piercing + cold damage. Level 1 of Fierce is equivalent to increasing the overall damage of the Ice Rune by 10%, plus two negative effects... The Ice Rune is epically strengthened!"
He has currently learned the 4th level of Meg's Ice Rune and has already felt the charm of this skill. As long as it is arranged in advance... he will be the god of traps!
The 5-fold super high burst at the trigger point, the large-area ice aoe, and the excellent concealment make this skill a nightmare for red-skinned monsters!
Without the Ice Rune, they wouldn't have been able to kill these red-skinned monsters before.
At this time, an exclusive expansion skill comes out, it's like an old lady crawling into bed - it makes me laugh!
Compared to Lin Tang’s silly joy, other Inquisitor players who did not use the Ice Rune were discussing the other two skills.
Skill Marking: Command Pain
Once you say this, your enemy will suffer from the erosion of elemental energy, and their souls will seem to be immersed in ice and fire.
Active Skills
0/16th level
Next level: 1
Energy consumption: 12
Duration: 8 seconds
Range: 3 meters
Fire Damage: 3
Cold Damage: 3
Movement speed reduction: 5%
Applicable occupation: Judge
Required Inquisitor Professional Expertise Points: 1
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Skill Seal: Words of Pain (Command of Pain expansion skill)
Fully unleash the potential of the elements, make the pain of the law more powerful, and extend the elemental sound of pain to further places
Expand your skills
0/12th level
Next level: 1
Energy cost increased: 2
Target area extension: 1.5 meters
Lightning Damage: 4~9
Fire damage +5%
Cold Damage +5%
Reduces the enemy's aiming ability
Reduces the enemy's health regeneration rate by 10%
Applicable occupation: Judge
Required Inquisitor Professional Expertise Points: 10
To be precise, these two skills are a set of skills.
Originally, Judge Lao Lei wanted to gradually teach Agent Feng the Law of Pain within 5 years, and then teach him advanced expansion skills... Unexpectedly, Agent Feng learned it immediately by engraving it with a seal. Lao Lei was shocked for a while... and could only teach this expansion skill to Agent Feng.
Agent Feng quickly left this set of skills at the base before setting off, giving later comers more options.
When the top team was reading their skills, the rookie leader 'Washing Machine' clapped his hands in praise.
"Great skill! Noble mixed damage attribute! It's also a 0 cooldown continuous damage skill that doesn't require continuous casting. The main body and expansion can apply a total of 3 negative buffs to the enemy... Although the damage on the panel is very low, if I'm not mistaken, the actual damage of this skill is much higher than the panel!"
Lin Tang felt a vague threat to his status, and his eyes narrowed: "Oh? What do you mean?"
'Drum Washing Machine' pointed to the description of this skill and said, "Because this skill has no cooldown... In other words, if you have enough mana, you can release the Law of Pain multiple times in an area, causing multiple rounds of damage to the enemy. The upper limit of the damage depends on your skill release speed!"
Lin Tang nodded: "Indeed... I thought so too."
From the few words of the drum washing machine, Lin Tang felt a sense of professionalism, a professionalism that was no different from his as a modder. In addition, this person's many strategy posts led 300 new players to the essence of the game, which was enough to illustrate his ability.
At present, the popularity of the guide for drum washing machines on the official website is second only to Xigou’s hardcore guide post.
Lin Tang asked: "Excuse me... What did Brother Drum do before? In the dark forum... I haven't seen your ID before."
The drum washing machine smiled and said, "Oh, I'm a developer and designer of the first generation of Diablo games at Duoyu Game Company. I'm currently a freelancer and a consultant for several game companies."
Lin Tang: “!!!”
Oops! The ragtag army meets the professionals!
No wonder it's so strong...
Lin Tang nodded without expression: "That's not bad... It's quite good, and it's fun. There's hope that you can catch up with me in the future."
Drum washing machine:
Lin Tang quickly changed the subject: "Look at the new skills! There is another skill... I feel it is the most practical and can be used by everyone."
Everyone's eyes are fixed on the last skill, which is also the skill that requires the highest level of expertise among the four skills!
Skill Mark: Ice Barrage
Enchants bullets with icy powers, freezing them completely upon contact.
Active Skills
0/10 level
Next level: 1
Energy consumption: 25
100% penetration of enemies
55% main hand damage
Puncture Damage: 14
Frost Damage: 14
Deals 20 frostburn damage per second for 3 seconds
Freeze target: 0.7 seconds
Applicable occupation: Judge
Required Inquisitor Professional Expertise Points: 15
Fox Demon: "Good fellow! I would like to call this skill—Lord's Joy! Don't learn it yet, I guarantee... it will be sold in the store!"
When everyone saw it, they found it was true and they immediately showed great respect to the fox demon!
Demon Fox: "No one understands better than me, Lord!"