Chapter 136 『Drinking Blood to Trace the Origin』 and 『Soul-Breaking Sacrifice』
The feeling of breakthrough was even more bland than Luke had imagined. From a physical point of view, it was no different from the usual feeling.
The free attribute points did not increase, the number of ordinary skill points was exactly the same, and even the natural passive enhancement of the body was no different.
...Then this probably means that this special enhancement may be more special than he imagined, otherwise there would be no point in breaking through.
Luke directly opened his skill tree, and found that all of his skill icons were distributed in the southeast, northwest, and center, and there was a new special enhancement branch icon in the northwest position.
However, this time, you can directly see the special enhancement branch description without having to invest skill points directly to see it.
And from the description of "breaking through the first level limit" in the information record, there is a high probability that there will be a second and third time, which means that even if this special branch enhancement skill point is not only obtained by breakthrough, it is estimated to be very rare.
So the importance of this two-choice is a bit high.
"…What is he doing? Making gestures in the air?"
Half of the ninja brother Hayate, who had confirmed that Garuda was completely dead, first showed a subtle expression of joy on his face. Then when he looked at Luke, he found that he was tapping in the air, looking serious as if he was reading something, which made him very curious.
This is probably what it looks like when you play VR at home and your family members are watching you move around.
"Just think of him as some kind of tribal prayer ceremony. Don't worry about him. He will be fine in a while."
Since he has become Luke's mercenary, he is considered to be in the system, and he has seen Luke standing there fiddling with his panel. This is the answer given by Viper.
But what Viper didn't expect was that Luke was struggling for a long time.
Of course, it's not Luke's fault. He estimated that anyone would do the same if they were in his current position.
The special enhanced branch of "Finding Potion" is called "Drinking Blood and Tracing the Source".
[Drinking Blood and Tracing the Origin: You can use a fresh, unpurified monster corpse as a material and try to create a "bloodline potion" that can reproduce the monster corpse's abilities to a certain extent.
Those who drink bloodline potions will have the possibility of obtaining at least one of the following effects: "permanent bonus to basic attributes", "permanent bonus to basic resistance", "inheriting the monster's characteristics before death and converting them into their own skills", "benign mutation of the body", etc., and potions of the same monster bloodline can only be drunk once.
The probability of generating bloodline potions is half of the main skill, currently 27%.
When you succeed in making a bloodline potion, it will be regarded as an additional use of a normal search potion, with the same probability as the main skill. ]
Obviously, this is an enhanced branch that inherits the boss' abilities in disguise by turning the boss's corpse into a blood potion.
From the description alone, it can be seen that this enhanced branch has a high growth potential. It is the kind of ability that is more useful the earlier you click it, but it needs a certain amount of growth space in the later stages.
And Luke also noticed that this skill is to make potions, not to take effect directly.
This means that other people besides yourself can also use it with a high probability, which is an additional attribute for operating transactions.
It can be used for personal use and can be traded. If Luke really puts the extra blood potion on the blacksmith's shop one day, wouldn't the heroes go crazy?
You know, for heroes who have to face death at many times, blood potions, which are gambling-like things, will stimulate their desire to buy more.
But when Luke saw another enhancement, he thought carefully and it seemed to be no worse than blood drinking and tracing, and it seemed to be more practical for Luke himself.
The special enhancement branch of "Finding Items" is called "Soul-Broken Sacrifice Spirit".
[Soul-Broken Sacrifice Spirit: The Barbarian's Ancestral Spirit can help you capture and imprison the soul of a powerful monster corpse that you have personally participated in killing and has not been purified, forming a materialized "Monster Soul". When you need it, you can sacrifice the monster soul to the ancestral spirit by directly crushing it, so that you can temporarily obtain a "sacrificial spirit form" with all the characteristics of the monster when it was alive.
The sacrificial spirit form will temporarily change your appearance and have an independent health bar. Before the health bar is exhausted or actively released, you will be able to perfectly reproduce all the abilities and characteristics of the sacrificed soul before its death, and the final value will be determined based on the strengths and weaknesses of its original template. At the same time, you can still use most of the abilities of the original template.
Whether the health bar is exhausted or actively released, the crushed monster soul will dissipate permanently.
The ancestral spirit is only interested in the souls of the strong. The basic capture probability of the boss monster is 10%, the basic capture probability of the dark gold monster is 25%, and the basic capture probability of the super dark gold monster is 50%. The ancestral spirit will obtain an indefinite capture probability value increase based on your contribution to the killing of the monster and the monster's strength before its death.
When you successfully capture a soul, it will be regarded as an additional use of a normal search item, with the same probability as the main skill. 】
The conditions for using the soul-crushing sacrificial spirit are obviously more stringent than those of the blood-drinking tracing, from the ordinary living monster corpse to the powerful monster corpse hunted in person.
It seems that the souls of ordinary monsters are not taken seriously by the spirits of the ancestors. The leaders are not interested in them and the lowest starting point is dark gold.
To put it simply, if Luke clicks this branch now and directly captures Garuda as the target of the Soul Crusher Sacrifice and successfully captures him, then Luke can crush Garuda's monster soul anytime and anywhere and temporarily transform into the final boss of the Red Shadow Warrior scene.
And looking at the skill description, not only Garuda's three monster characteristics, but also his high resistance that only monsters have can be obtained together, and even his own template can be used to make up for his shortcomings.
You should know that in Diablo 2, the maximum resistance of the character that the player can control can only reach 75% normally, and only certain skills and special equipment can break through the 75% upper limit in small quantities, but the monster side does not have this limit. Once the value reaches 100%, it can be directly immune to the corresponding element.
In Hell difficulty, there are many monster units with various physical immunity, magic immunity, various elemental immunity, etc. If these items are placed on the player...
From the perspective of attacking bosses or saving lives, the practicality and functionality of Soul-Broken Sacrifice is obviously much stronger than Blood-Drinking Tracing, but it seems that only Luke can use it.
Blood-Drinking Tracing has strong growth potential. As long as the operation time is long enough, it will definitely be able to supplement the basic attributes that Luke lacks, but it may take a long time to achieve a qualitative change.
Soul-Broken Sacrifice sacrifices growth potential, allowing Luke to immediately obtain a means that can be used to attack dangerous bosses and to make a comeback in dangerous moments, but in Luke's opinion, there may be a possibility of snowballing.
To be honest, it is difficult to choose, but Luke finally made a choice.
"Well, it broke the record."
Seeing Luke finally raised his head again, Viper silently glanced at the time marked on the upper right corner of the mask.
Luke, who made a difficult choice, hurried to Garuda's body, whose head was almost carbonized, and conducted a final search.
Just as Luke finished the search, the portal appeared.
But Luke noticed that the appearance of this portal was not the same as the dark return scroll, but the digital shape of the entrance and exit of the regular monster nest.
... Fuck, we will not be thrown directly into the wilderness, right?
Luke suddenly realized that the situation might be a little wrong and had a certain ominous premonition.
"By the way, what are you going to do next? Continue to fight against evil and darkness?"
Luke temporarily put away his doubts and turned his head to ask the ninja brother and sister who did not disappear in the night immediately when Garuda.
Garuda's death already represents the destruction of the entire evil empire, and the normal ending of the two brothers and sisters in the original work is "the end of the death battle, defeating Garuda, in order to deal with the new battle, the two ninjas disappeared in the darkness", and because the Red Shadow Warrior did not have a sequel, there was no news.
"Yes, but we are no longer needed here. I can feel more powerful evil on the other side of this door."
Ji Feng stared at the portal of the monster's nest in front of him and said with a firm face.
Although the sister didn't say anything, her attitude was always consistent with her brother.
Good guy, is this a transformation from an NPC protagonist to a human hero?
Luke suddenly felt that this brother and sister might be the biggest gain of this challenge mission, of course, this is for the human camp.
Luke nodded after hearing this and no longer hesitated. First, he put on a layer of bone shield under the strange eyes of the viper, and then took the initiative to drill into the portal.
Luke froze.
This was not only because the scene in front of him was not Luke's room in the guild dormitory, but a large lush forest, but also because there was a sleeping behemoth less than 20 meters in front of Luke.
The huge creature curled up like a giant wolf, but its body was covered with a lot of scales and horny protrusions. Occasionally, a flash of electric arc would flash through its pure white mane.
And it was a wild monster from the "Monster Hunter" series that lived in the wild - Thunder Wolf Dragon.