Free Web NovelChapter 343: Chapter 173: Retaliation, Devouring Asking Dust
[Host: Lin Ye]
[Race: Beastman Shield Guard]
[Level: LV. 32 (396,414/600,000)]
[Evolution Tier: 1.65]
[Life Value: 5,000/191,238]
[Energy Value: 22,600/22,600]
[Physical Strength Value: 60,454/60,454]
[Boss Mechanics: Healing out of combat (White), Soul Furnace (Green), Crush (Green), Taotie (Purple), Phase Transition (Green), Unstoppable (Blue)]
[Current Phase: P1, P2, other phases not yet unlocked]
[Strength: 3,418.5]
[Agility: 3,490.3]
[Endurance: 3,725.7]
[Spirit: 2,887.4]
[Free Attribute Points: 0]
[Skill Points: 10]
[P1 Skills: Basic Attack (LV. MAX), Thick Skin (LV. 5), Charged Slam (LV. MAX), Cudgel Arts (LV. 5), Spear Arts (LV. MAX)]
[P2 Skills: Frenzy (LV. 12), Instant Body (LV. 9), Bloodline of Strife (LV. 5), Horizontal Slash (LV. 8), Thorns (Unlockable)]
[Temporary Skills: Crystalization, Shadow Scale, Silk Puppet]
[Passive Racial Trait: Furious Gaze Demon Suppression]
Lin Ye stared at the attribute panel before him. Even he couldn’t help but be slightly dumbfounded.
A health bar of nearly 200,000.
And his three primary attributes had skyrocketed to nearly 3,500 points.
He even suspected that if he just stood still and let an Early Stage of the Gang Condensation Realm Martial Artist attack him with all their might, it was doubtful they could empty his health bar even after exhausting all their Gang Sha.
Lin Ye clearly remembered that before breaking through to the Gang Condensation Realm, during the initial assessment when he joined the camp, his Qi and Blood index had barely scraped the 1,000-point threshold even after activating [Frenzy].
But now, he estimated that even without activating Frenzy, if he were to test himself on the Qi and Blood detector again, the number that popped up on the screen would probably break 4,000.
The standard Qi and Blood index for an ordinary Gang Condensation Realm Martial Artist was 600.
This meant that in his normal P1 state, he was already six to seven times stronger than an ordinary Martial Artist of the same realm.
And that wasn’t even factoring in his various skills and wide array of boss mechanics.
Lin Ye’s gaze fell on the last unlockable skill: Thorns.
With a thought, he opened the skill’s preview mode.
[Thorns LV. 1]
[Skill Type: Active]
[Cost: None]
[Toggle Skill]
[You can switch between the following two effects while out of combat:]
[Vengeance Must Be Taken: When attacked by a target with less Life Value than you, your maximum Life Value increases by 5%. You have a low chance to reflect damage back at the target, dealing damage equal to a certain percentage of your maximum Life Value and interrupting their combo attack on you.]
[Ten Years Is Not Too Late: When attacked by a target with less Life Value than you, all damage you receive is reduced by 5%. You can store a portion of the damage taken and release it at any time to enhance your next attack.]
[Current Vengeance Must Be Taken reflection chance: 10%]
[Current Vengeance Must Be Taken reflection damage percentage: 0.5% of maximum Life Value]
[Current Ten Years Is Not Too Late damage storage percentage: 10%]
[Current Ten Years Is Not Too Late maximum damage storage: 50,000]
[Remark: Make those who provoke you pay the price!]
’Interesting.’
Lin Ye stroked his chin.
Although he had a rough idea just from the names, he hadn’t expected the skill’s mechanics to be so interesting.
It was completely encouraging him to take a beating.
Perhaps for a proper Beastman Shield Guard, taking the hardest hits was the true essence of combat.
But those hits couldn’t be taken for nothing.
[Vengeance Must Be Taken] was for immediate feedback. It was a chance-based trigger that emphasized on-the-spot retaliation and could even interrupt the opponent’s attack rhythm, which would be miraculously effective against enemies with fierce combos.
[Ten Years Is Not Too Late], on the other hand, was about accumulating power over time, converting damage taken into his own strength to deliver an earth-shattering blow at a critical moment.
The power of this skill lay in the fact that it was a true mechanical oddity.
It not only had an active damage effect but also provided a passive defensive buff.
Setting aside the damage reflection and storage, just the temporary increase in maximum Life Value or the direct percentage-based damage reduction when getting hit was already top-tier.
Lin Ye dragged the level preview slider all the way to the max level of LV. 15.
At max level, [Vengeance Must Be Taken]’s maximum Life Value increase reached 20%, the reflection trigger chance soared to 50%, and the damage percentage became 8% of his maximum Life Value.
Calculated based on his current health of nearly 200,000, a single trigger would mean 16,000 points of reflected damage.
That amount of damage was enough to one-shot the vast majority of non-elite aliens.
As for a max-level [Ten Years Is Not Too Late], the damage reduction effect increased to 15%.
Including the 5% from [Thick Skin] in his P1 phase, the total damage reduction reached 20%.
The damage storage percentage also grew to 25%, and the maximum storage amount was a whopping 200,000 points.
200,000!
Lin Ye’s eyelid twitched.
This meant that if he maxed out this damage pool and applied it to his next attack...
...a simple basic attack from him might be able to one-shot several Chieftain-level aliens.
Of course, the skill buffed the "next attack." If he missed, all that painstakingly accumulated damage would have been for nothing.
How to use it specifically would depend on his on-the-spot judgment and timing.
After a moment of thought, Lin Ye made his decision.
He unhesitatingly spent 3 of his 10 skill points on [Frenzy].
[Frenzy LV. 15 (MAX)]!
As his level increased, Lin Ye became more and more aware of how terrifying this skill was.
There were no flashy effects, just the purest, most violent boost to All Attributes.
After maxing it out, Frenzy could now provide him with a massive 100% bonus to his attributes.
A burst skill that could instantly double his combat power would always be useful.
