Chapter 466 Cursed State

"There are so many kinds of curses..."

Wang Tao was a little confused when he saw the various curses.

He thought the curse was a state like "bleeding" that makes people lose blood continuously, or a state like "weakness" that reduces the enemy's ability in a certain aspect.

But after using it, Wang Tao found that he thought too simply. The specific state of this curse was not fixed. "Bleeding" and "weakness" were all included in the curse!

The reason why Wang Tao almost caused a death was because he wanted to see if the same person could suffer different curses, so he tried it on a death row prisoner.

Three curses soon appeared on the head of the death row prisoner at the same time.

[Curse: Bleeding]

[Curse: Poisoning]

[Curse: Burning]

All three curses deducted blood, and the death row prisoner's blood bar, which was not much, was almost cleared.

Although this prisoner was originally sentenced to death, it didn't matter if he really died. But this is the rule of the base after all, and Wang Tao is better not to break it if he can.

After releasing the dying death row prisoner, Wang Tao tried it on other prisoners. This time, he was much more cautious. He did not catch another sheep to pluck. Instead, he transferred more prisoners and tested them one by one.

After a while, Wang Tao understood this curse better.

First of all, it is certain that a person can only have three curses at the same time. After more than three curses, he will not have a fourth curse if he continues to attack with dark energy, unless one of the three previous curses disappears, then the subsequent dark attack will make up for a curse.

Secondly, the duration of these curses is not consistent, some are long and some are short, ranging from a few seconds to a few minutes, and the duration of the curse has nothing to do with strength. Regardless of strength, it takes that long.

Then there is the power of these curses. The specific power is not easy to test, but it is related to the strength of Wang Tao's attack. The less dark energy he uses, the weaker the curse. If he attacks with all his strength, the curse is strong, and there is no fixed value-maybe there is an upper limit, but these prisoners obviously cannot withstand Wang Tao's test of the upper limit.

Finally, how many kinds of these curses are there in total.

Wang Tao has discovered weakness, poisoning, bleeding, burning, blindness, slowdown, freezing, armor breaking, critical strikes... a lot of scattered ones.

Among these curses, there are those that directly cause damage, such as poisoning, bleeding, burning, etc.; there are those that reduce enemy attributes, such as weakness, armor breaking, blindness, etc.; there are also those that impose some strange states on the enemy, such as critical strikes - when attacked, the probability of being critically hit (double damage) is greatly increased...

Wang Tao thinks that these should not be all the curses, but he can't test them for a while, because the more powerful the curse, the lower the probability of occurrence. For example, there is a curse called "beheading", which looks very powerful, but it has only appeared once.

The lives of prisoners are also lives. Not all people are death row prisoners. It is not easy to explain if someone is really killed. I can only continue to experiment when killing zombies in the future.

Speaking of this [Curse: Beheading], Wang Tao thinks this should be the most powerful curse he has seen so far.

[Curse: Behead]

[Behead: Death when current HP is less than 20% of total HP]

This [Curse: Behead] lasts for 3 minutes. After a prisoner was cursed, the last 20% of his green HP bar turned dark green. As long as the HP was reduced to the dark green range, he would die immediately!

In other words, when the enemy is cursed with the beheading curse, he will only have 80% of his HP within 3 minutes!

This curse may not be useful for humans, but it is very useful for zombies and monsters with high HP and high defense!

For example, if a giant zombie with 400,000 HP can be hit, it is equivalent to losing 80,000 HP instantly! This undoubtedly greatly reduces the difficulty of killing.

But the duration of [Curse: Behead] is only 3 minutes, and the enemy's HP needs to be reduced to 80% within 3 minutes, otherwise it will be useless.

Of course, this is not a big problem for Wang Tao. If he is going to hunt an enemy, he usually goes when he is sure of it. It is impossible for the enemy to survive for more than 3 minutes. At most, the battle will end in 1 minute. If it takes more than 3 minutes, you may need to grind slowly, whether there is this curse or not...

After figuring out the effect of the curse, Wang Tao left the prison.

This new awakening [Heart of Darkness] is stronger than he thought, whether it is simulating various attacks or the effect of the curse, it is far beyond his expectations. It greatly improves his combat effectiveness.

But this awakening is not without shortcomings. The biggest shortcoming is that the ability fused by [Heart of Darkness] is [Fusion], and [Fusion] contains all of Wang Tao's offensive abilities. In other words, he can no longer use abilities such as shock waves without using dark energy.

If dark energy is used, similar moves can be simulated, and the power is greater, the range is wider, and the cooling time is shorter, but it consumes not mana, but awakening energy!

Wang Tao has 120,000 mana, but only 3100 awakening energy... This is very uncomfortable. This is equivalent to his burst being improved, but his endurance is reduced.

Especially when Wang Tao studied it carefully, he found that the three superpowers he had left were [Violent Amplification], [Fireball] and [Explosive Flame].

Among them, [Furious Amplification] is a fusion of various passive abilities, and does not consume mana; [Explosive Flame] is a fire ability that compresses all awakening energy and explodes, and does not consume mana. Only [Fireball] consumes mana, but it consumes mana and awakening energy at the same time, and the amount of mana consumed is not much...

In other words, Wang Tao's current 120,000 mana can only be consumed by this [Fireball] that does not consume much mana! So much mana is only used for this [Fireball] that does not consume much mana? Wang Tao was a little speechless, feeling that it was a bit of a waste.

However, there is no way, the ability with attributes will not be integrated into the awakening, [Fireball] and [Explosive Flame] cannot be integrated, only [Furious Amplification] and [Integration] can be integrated into the new awakening.

"In the future, it will be up to fate to increase the mana. It doesn't matter whether it is increased or not, but the awakening energy must be increased!"

Wang Tao said silently.

In addition to the fixed increase of the fusion crystal core, the increase in mana also depends on opportunities. But awakening energy is different. As long as there are awakening crystal cores or awakening energy beads, it can be continuously improved, but the consumption will increase as time goes by. If Wang Tao wants to increase his awakening energy by 100 now, he has to consume more than 30 awakening crystal cores!

"I don't know if there are awakening crystal cores for sale in the base... let someone pay attention to it later!"

Wang Tao originally wanted to ask Qu Shilin for help, but thinking that she was now in seclusion for research, Wang Tao sent a message to Gu Yun. As the mayor, he must know a lot.

Not long after, Gu Yun replied.

He told Wang Tao that awakening crystal cores were for sale, but the price was relatively high. After all, there are now some awakeners in the base, and this kind of crystal core is very necessary for them.

However, this high price refers to high-quality crystal cores, that is, crystal cores above purple. For example, blue crystal cores are much cheaper, and white crystal cores are even cheaper. After all, this kind of crystal core can only be used by awakeners, and awakeners are basically wealthy. There is no need to save money and cause more impurities in their bodies.

This is obviously good news for Wang Tao. After all, he can synthesize crystal cores, and white crystal cores can also be used.

So, Wang Tao went to the Awakening School and asked Nie Siyan to purchase low-level awakening crystal cores in the base in the name of the Spark Club. He is not short of money now, so he wants as many as he can.

Although it was still snowing, the Awakening School was busy.

Each building was almost full of people, all of whom came to register for the school. If it weren't for the cold outside, there would probably be more people.

Wang Tao didn't plan to come here, but since he was here, he took a look.

With such a large number, some people did have hidden attributes.

Gu Yun, who was sweating profusely, came downstairs to invite Wang Tao up. He looked at Wang Tao with a bit of resentment. In fact, this was originally the principal's job, but who made Wang Tao so capable? This kind of laborious work could only be done by him.

However, when Wang Tao casually wrote down some numbers and told him that these people were qualified, Gu Yun became happy again. Later, we will focus on examining the backgrounds of these people. If there is no problem with their backgrounds, they will be passed, after all, Wang Tao personally named them.

As for the others, I am sorry. No matter how clean their backgrounds are, the school will not accept them because they are not qualified enough. Wang Tao saved Gu Yun a lot of time.

Gu Yun almost wanted to let Wang Tao take charge of the school now, but he thought about it and didn't say it. It's okay to be tired. If you can really train a few awakeners for the base, it will be worth it.

After dark, Wang Tao took Ding Yuqin and others who came before back together.

"Wang Tao, congratulations!"

"Congratulations on the third awakening!"

Everyone had time to congratulate Wang Tao.

At the same time, they were also looking forward to it. Wang Tao has awakened three times now, how strong must he be?

Of course, they were also curious about what Wang Tao's new awakening was. They didn't ask before because there were so many people watching.

Wang Tao demonstrated it to everyone briefly. When they saw that Wang Tao could control the dark energy and make the whole car darker, even the lights were blocked, everyone felt very novel. This feeling is very similar to the previous black fog zombies, but not as uncomfortable as the black fog of the black fog zombies, it just purely blocked the light.

However, when Wang Tao introduced his curse ability, everyone felt a chill on their backs. If three curses appeared on the body at the same time, it would probably be uncomfortable.

But if it is facing zombies, it is another story! They wish there were as many curses as possible.

Wang Tao was thinking about whether his [Heart of Darkness] could be integrated with the previous two awakenings. Today, time is limited, so I just tested the curse effect. Whether it can be integrated has not been tested yet...

After returning home, Wang Tao started another test.

It seems that it is difficult to integrate [Heart of Darkness] and [Spiritual Development]. Wang Tao tried many times but failed, and he didn't know if it could be integrated.

But the integration of [Heart of Darkness] and [Sparks] is particularly smooth!

When Wang Tao activated [Sparks] and his whole body was ablaze with flames, the "Flame Shock Wave" he used became the "Dark Flame Shock Wave", using both fire and dark damage at the same time!

And the range is larger than the "Dark Shock Wave" and the cooldown time is shorter! And it also inherits the "burning" state of the flame shock wave and the "curse" state of the dark shock wave. This "burning" has nothing to do with "curse: burning".

That is to say, if you use the dark awakening under the spark, the enemy will have a burning state and three curses! If you add a little ice, you may add a frozen state!

Good guy, if five negative states can really appear at the same time... Wang Tao is looking forward to the effect in battle.

After the test, Wang Tao took a shower and came to his room. With a wave of his hand, a large number of high-quality crystal cores appeared.

Since he has successfully awakened three times and tested the awakening ability, the next step is to promote to the fifth level.

Wang Tao immediately began to improve his ability level, but suddenly, Wang Tao was stunned.

"No, I only have three abilities now..."

When Wang Tao was fusing the crystal core, he suddenly remembered that others only needed to upgrade one ability to the maximum level to be promoted, but he was different. He had to upgrade all four abilities to the maximum level.

But the problem is that he has enough crystal cores in his hand, but his [Heart of Darkness] has fused one ability, and now he only has three abilities... Can he still be promoted? Wang Tao has a bad premonition.

When he upgraded all three abilities to the maximum level, he closed his eyes and felt it for a while, then sighed helplessly.

He really couldn't be promoted, he still lacked one ability...

He had a lot of fourth-level crystal cores with abilities, but he didn't want to fuse any of them casually.

After the fourth level, there is a kind of crystal core with attributes, such as [Fireball] and [Explosive Flame], which can only be used by fire awakeners. Such abilities are obviously more powerful than ordinary abilities. Wang Tao also wants to fuse this ability, but he doesn't have a crystal core that he can use for the time being.

If you fuse a common crystal core randomly, you will become a fifth-order supernatural power after promotion, but Wang Tao does not have a fifth-order peeling crystal core to replace it...

Wang Tao was immediately very entangled. Should he first promote to the fifth order and then look for a fifth-order attribute crystal core and a fifth-order peeling crystal core, or wait a while before promotion and find a suitable fourth-order attribute crystal core first...

Ding Yuqin has been with Wang Tao all the time. Seeing Wang Tao's entanglement, she thought about it and said:

"How about you wait a while before promotion? Didn't you let the Spark Club purchase the awakening crystal core? By the way, buy some attribute crystal cores at a high price! There are so many people in our base. We may not have fifth-order crystal cores, but there are always some fourth-order attribute crystal cores, right?"

"It seems to be a solution..."