Chapter 345: The Three Brothers at the Top of Mount Arreat
Why hesitate? Of course it's all enhanced group purification!!!
Any hesitation for a second is Luke's disrespect for the rules of experience acquisition.
Because at level 10, the skill gains the second casting mode, so Luke's guess before adding points is also based on this aspect.
He estimated that the skill would give him two new casting modes to choose from.
But Luke didn't expect that there were two strengthening directions, one was to bring out the infinite distance shouting potion that appeared once at level 10, and the other was to further strengthen group purification.
If the "enhanced group purification" effect this time was not so strong, Luke might really choose "telekinesis" as the third casting mode. After all, it's really cool to put items into your bag from a long distance.
But unfortunately, telekinesis was once again excluded from Luke's field of vision.
It's not that it's not good enough, it's just that enhanced group purification is better.
Strengthening group purification not only increases the range of Luke's group shout potion, but also provides a bottom-line effect, so that even if Luke fails to shout potion, he will not return empty-handed, and can also gain experience points as compensation.
Rather, because of the effect of directly converting the failure of shout potion into experience points, Luke hopes that the shout potion can fail more often, so that his level will soar faster.
However...
Luke glanced at his already high level 30 search potion delivery probability - 91%.
If possible, Luke hopes that his delivery probability can be directly halved to the level of searching for items.
This also leads to the higher level of Luke's search potion skill, the lower the probability of converting corpses into experience points... But there is an additional tip in the skill description.
That is, if Luke points the skill to level 60 and the shout potion delivery probability reaches 100%, then the potion delivery and experience conversion will become the permanent effects of "search potion" at the same time.
If you don't count the skill books that may be obtained later, theoretically, this condition can be achieved only when Luke himself reaches level 66.
It's really exciting!
Although I'm sorry for "Finding Items", Luke really needs the permanent double experience points!
However, at this moment, Luke couldn't help but start thinking about one thing, that is, if he had chosen "Telekinesis" instead of "Group Purification" before, what would the effect of "Enhanced Telekinesis" be?
... Could it be a forced disarming effect, taking away the enemy boss's weapons from a long distance or something?
Comrade Luke, who was thinking about some random things and showing his excitement at the moment without caring, didn't forget to manually summon the consumed weapon spirit and crow.
But at this moment, Luke's expression suddenly stagnated, and his eyes subconsciously tilted towards the upper left corner of his panel, and he found that the portrait frame representing the Barbarian Master was gone!
Dead?
Luke raised his hand quickly and summoned the Barbarian Master again, but the moment the Barbarian Master took shape, Luke noticed something wrong.
Although the newly summoned Barbarian Master still used Luke's original body in appearance, his standing posture holding a long-handled scythe was subtly different from the previous Barbarian Master.
Uh, I don't know if you can understand this description.
If the Barbarian Master in Luke's shadow appearance is compared to Leo, then the previous driver is Shilok, who is good at using a variety of melee weapons. Under his driving, Leo's fighting style will be infinitely close to that of Theo.
And the one holding the long-handled scythe in front of him gave Luke a very strong taste of the Death God Gundam.
But just when Luke was still wondering what this subtle difference in soul was, the Barbarian Master with the long-handled scythe suddenly spoke.
"Madoc's spirit is imprisoned."
"...You can speak?"
Luke, who didn't immediately react to what the words of the Barbarian Master in front of him meant, obviously focused on the fact that his Barbarian Master could actually speak.
But Luke soon came to his senses, because he was very familiar with the name of the Barbarian Master.
"Are you Kolik?"
Hearing Luke directly say his name, Kolik, who was essentially the soul of the ancient barbarian who took over the body of the Shadow Master, nodded.
Korlik, Madok, and Tallik, these three names may not be remembered by some old players of Diablo 2 for a while, but as long as the three ancient barbarians on the peak of the Arreat Mountains in the fifth act are mentioned, the memories of the old guys should be awakened.
The three are absolutely elite barbarians in the entire tribe, and they are responsible for guarding the World Stone. Players can challenge the three brothers in the mission.
Korlik holds a long handle and is good at jumping and attacking to kill with one blow; Maddock holds two throwing axes in one hand and likes long-range throwing and two-handed swinging; Talic holds a sword and shield in one hand and moves freely on the battlefield with whirlwind slash.
According to the setting, these three barbarians are the existence that even Baal has to avoid. If it weren't for the traitor Nihlathak who got Baal a holy relic that can enter and exit the Worldstone Fortress at will, Baal would have a high probability of being hacked to death by the three brothers on the top of Mount Arreat.
Although they are called the souls of ancient barbarians, the three brothers are not actually dead. They just accepted magic to guard the rules of the World Stone and turned themselves into stone statues, which greatly delayed the death of their mortal bodies. They will only recover from the stone statue state when the enemy invades or faces challenges.
But the body is fixed by petrification, but the soul is always in turmoil.
Just like the profiteer Kidd can contact Luke through his dark panel, the souls of the three brothers also establish a certain connection with Luke through skills in their spare time.
In fact, the "barbarian ancestor souls" mentioned by Luke in the "Soul-breaking Sacrifice Spirit" branch when he broke through level 10 before refer to the three barbarian brothers who were idle as stone statues on the top of the mountain.
As for Luke, the immoral barbarian who "violated the ancestral teachings" and rushed towards the mage route, the three brothers certainly wanted to drag him to the top of the mountain and beat him up, so that he would not think about the explosion of the corpse of the Lasma priest. Wouldn't it be nice to learn from them and become a truly glorious barbarian! ?
But when Luke accidentally created a body of the Shadow Master that could perfectly withstand the arrival of their three brothers' souls, they were silent, and then set a rule of one-for-one replacement, and began to take turns to release the wind through the body of the Shadow Master.
Luke's feeling was indeed correct. His Shadow Master was indeed controlled by the three ancient barbarians in rotation like Leo, and in a sense, it might be stronger than their original bodies. After all, all skills are level 10...
Oh, now it's level 15. If they were replaced by their original bodies at the same level, they would not have so many skill points to squander, so it's normal for them to have stronger combat power.
The one holding the double throwing axes before was the soul of Maddock.
At this time, the soul of Madoc was held in the hands of the demon monk Ping Qingsheng.
Since the health of the shadow master is linked to the skill level, the shadow master of level 1 is actually very fragile, so Ping Qingsheng, who was hiding in the dark, easily killed the barbarian master and imprisoned the soul of Madoc inside.
But the demon monk frowned at this time.
Because his magic that could brainwash even the souls of powerful and unparalleled generals was completely ineffective against humans with only residual souls in his hands!