Chapter 199 Unblocked, Blue King!

The afterglow of the setting sun stretched the shadow of the carriage very long.

Under Quinn's guidance, Ryan and his party arrived at their destination smoothly two hours later.

After getting off the brass carriage, Ryan raised his eyebrows at the old and dilapidated ruins in front of him, with thick tree roots crawling in the cracks of the stone walls.

His powerful perception allowed him to faintly feel the deep and oppressive fluctuations in the distance. According to this world, it is the breath of the soul.

"Lord Zifeng, we are here."

Quinn said respectfully: "This place is located in the north of the undead settlement. It used to be a very majestic town, but later because of the appearance of the monster, it became dilapidated and withered. The villagers fled one after another. Some villagers who were completely transformed into "gray corpses" turned back here. The specific reason is still unknown."

"As for the specific appearance of the monster here, there is no specific record in the Yellow Sect."

Quinn's expression was a little ashamed.

The monsters here are extremely powerful, even the foreign paladins have returned in defeat, and now the Yellow Sect has only one Paladin-level extraordinary person left, the head of the regiment, who is already busy with his own affairs and has no other energy and strength to deal with the monsters.

In fact, if it weren't for Lord Zifeng's request, Quinn felt that he would never come to this ghost place in his life.

"Yeah." Ryan nodded slightly: "I feel its presence."

"You can find a safe place nearby to wait for me."

After speaking, Ryan took a step and went to the depths of the ruins.

This scene made Quinn, Anya and Hosde feel so familiar. Yesterday they watched Lord Zifeng go to the Bronze Branch Temple alone.

The three people who had experienced it once were quite agile this time. Soon, they hid both the people and the carriage.

Walking on the ruined streets, there were stone houses on both sides with only some broken walls left.

Compared with the undead settlements that are mostly made of wood, the houses here are dilapidated, but the quality is still higher. You can see from a distance how prosperous this place was before it was deserted.

Along the way, Ryan saw a few gray corpses wandering in the streets and alleys. Some of them were holding plows, some were holding triangular forks, and so on. After seeing Ryan, they all rushed up like crazy.

It's a pity that such weak gray corpses don't even have the qualifications for Ryan to raise his hand.

With the sweep of the sword energy, these gray corpses were chopped into pieces dozens of meters away.

As the distance to the deep and oppressive soul breath in the perception approached, the number of wandering gray corpses gradually increased.

But the magical thing is that these gray corpses no longer actively attack Ryan. It seems that when they arrived here, their manic hearts have found some peace.

Ryan was puzzled, but since the gray corpses did not take the initiative to attack, he was too lazy to waste his spiritual power to kill such "miscellaneous soldiers" that brought almost no experience points.

Finally, Ryan stopped at the entrance of an extremely spacious courtyard.

Looking forward, what caught his eyes were the broken but unspeakably magnificent stone arches on the walls.

The bleak breeze blew, bringing up a few gray-white fallen leaves.

Looking in the direction of the fallen leaves, Ryan saw a black and strange tree that was tens of meters high.

Its trunk was extremely thick, and its branches were twisted, with only a few gray-white leaves hanging on it. The most eye-catching thing was the tumors wrapped around the trunk and branches.

Under this strange black tree, a large circle of gray corpses knelt, praying devoutly, as if kneeling to worship the gods.

Ryan stepped into this large courtyard, ignoring the gray corpses kneeling around him, and went straight to the front of the strange black tree.

"Tick...Tick..."

The sticky gray liquid dripped from the tumor on the tree and fell on the bodies of more than a dozen gray corpses.

This gray liquid seemed to have some incredible effect. The gray corpses that were dripped slowly stood up. The scarlet eyes in the shriveled and skinny eye sockets were so clear.

"Roar!"

The roars came one after another, and the dozen red-eyed gray corpses burst out with terrible speed, using weapons of various styles in their hands to smash Ryan fiercely.

The gray corpses, which were originally at most the first or second level, were so fast at this moment that even Anya and Hosde, who were at the warrior level, could not catch up, and they were faintly touching the threshold of the knight level.

Ryan was calm in front of him, and he didn't even move.

Warrior level, converted to level three, even the peak of level three, was pitifully weak in the eyes of the wandering clone.

The sword behind him was not unsheathed. Where Ryan's eyes passed, the speed of the red-eyed gray corpses that were rushing out suddenly slowed down, and the brilliance in their eyes completely dimmed. If someone could take a closer look, they would find a very tiny hole between the eyebrows of these red-eyed gray corpses.

"Boom..."

The ground cracked, and the large courtyard was shaking violently.

Ryan's footsteps slightly turned to avoid a huge crack that spread to his feet.

The billowing smoke and dust rose up noisily, and a huge black shadow emerged from it.

I saw that the black and strange tree that originally looked like a dead object actually pulled out two pairs of arms and thighs composed of thick branches and tumors from the ground. The thighs and one arm were used to fix the body and move, and the other arm was smashed towards Ryan in the air.

The air was exploding, and the ground under Ryan's feet had already begun to sag slightly before the wooden arm came to him.

"Some ability to increase gravity?"

Ryan's body sank, and this thought suddenly emerged in his mind.

Less than two meters tall, he looked so small under the wooden arms that even the shadow of the wooden arms could completely cover him.

Ryan raised his head and looked at the gray-black wooden arm and the nearly 100-meter-long green tree behind him, with a faint smile appearing on the corner of his mouth.

"This feeling is something I haven't seen for a long time..."

Since coming to this new world to travel, the enemies he encountered were all humanoid in size, which made Ryan feel quite uncomfortable fighting monsters that were far larger than himself in the world of monster hunting.

It's not that he's not good at fighting enemies of similar size, but, how should I put it, you know that uncomfortable feeling?

Now, that familiar and comfortable feeling, covered by the shadow of the wooden arm, has returned again.

Monster Hunter is back online!

"Boom boom boom!"

The ground of the large courtyard was broken layer by layer, and a terrifying giant pit with a radius of more than ten meters appeared under the wooden arm. Ryan stood on the back of the wooden arm, his eyes locked on the body of the strange black tree. In front of him, a panel appeared. tips.

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[Black Erosion Tree]: At the peak of the "Paladin", the undead settlement. The gray corpses infected with the "Gray Erosion Disease" will be affected by some unknown force and will gather in the large courtyard, and the "Gray Erosion Disease" in their bodies will "The pathogen, accumulated over many years, settled deep underground in the large courtyard, causing the big trees growing here to undergo horrific pathological changes.

The huge body and the tree body, which is stronger than steel, make the power and defense of the Black Eclipse Tree extremely terrifying. Even the "Peak Paladin" transcendent is no match for the Black Eclipse Tree. The tumors on the surface of the black-corroded tree contain rich gray rot disease liquid. Even "brave" level extraordinary people do not dare to be infected too much for fear of getting sick.

But everything has two sides. If you can ignore the infection of gray rot, then these tumors are the fatal weakness of the black-corroded tree. Attacking them will cause huge damage to the black-corroded tree.

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The prompts on the panel gave Ryan some confidence.

In terms of pure strength, the Black Erosion Tree is not much worse than the Brass Bishop Group. It is even much more dangerous due to the presence of high-concentration gray rot disease liquid.

Ryan has always been a little confused about "grey erosion".

The contagiousness of this thing should be extremely strong, and it can spread widely through the air alone.

Ryan has been in this world for a long time. If the "grey erosion" is really so contagious, he should have been infected long ago.

In Quinn, Lane saw some symptoms of "gray erosion".

It's just that Quinn's behavior is no different from ordinary people, not like ordinary gray corpses.

Could it be said that the stronger the extraordinary person is, the stronger his resistance to "grey erosion" is? Even if you get sick, can the outbreak be delayed a lot?

But Ryan didn't even have the slightest sign of being sick. This could be clearly seen from the status bar on the panel.

Excluding the possibility that "Gray Erosion" is not highly contagious, there is only one remaining reason, and that is - the particularity of Lane itself.

Involuntarily, Ryan remembered one of his special skills.

One of the incidental skills from [Trophy: Dark Jade of Dark Light Dragon] is [Abnormal Status Resistance lv.3 (max)].

——[Abnormal status resistance lv.3 (max)]: All attribute abnormal status caused by enemy attacks are invalidated.

The existence of this skill is not high, and Ryan has not paid much attention to it.

But after all, it is the skill of Lion's Dark Light Dragon Trophy, and its effect and rank should be quite high.

As for "gray corrosion", from the perspective of symptoms, it is not a big problem to say that it is an "abnormal state".

As a result, there is no tendency for me to be infected with "gray erosion". Is this the effect of [Abnormal Status Resistance lv.3 (max)]?

Ryan is not sure about the specifics, but he is certain that his resistance to "gray erosion" is quite high.

In this way, he could also try to attack the knobs on the black-corroded tree.

With this thought in his mind, Ryan's legs were slightly strengthened, and he jumped into the air, avoiding the other wooden arm that was smashed down by the black-corroded tree.

In mid-air, Ryan slashed out the big sword in his hand, and the detached half-moon sword energy hit the surface of the tumor on the tree trunk.

With a "pop" sound, the tumor shattered, and in an instant, a large amount of gray liquid splashed out, accompanied by a thick gray mist, spreading to an area of ​​hundreds of square meters.

The gray mist was expanding at an absurdly fast speed, and Ryan was in mid-air with nowhere to draw on, so it was inevitable to avoid it.

Being brushed by the gray mist, Ryan felt as if he was being swept across the surface of his body by some kind of aggregation of tiny organisms. He shuddered subconsciously. Other than that, he didn't have any bad feelings.

After glancing at the panel to make sure there was no sign of "gray erosion", Ryan's eyes lit up and he knew his guess was correct.

He has extremely high resistance to gray rot, and even the aggregated and purified pathogenic fluid cannot infect him.

On the other side, a large black-corroded tree that had been cut into a large tumor-like structure let out a low cry. Its huge body twitched and staggered, and it was stiff for a full second before it barely recovered.

Ryan's body fell to the ground and disappeared in an instant, arriving at another location of the black-corroded tree.

Even though it has extremely hard bark, under the premise that the gray rot solution is ineffective and has fatal weaknesses, the threat of the black rot tree is far less than that of the brass bishops.

Let alone Ryan, even an ordinary legendary professional can make the Black Eclipse Tree extremely painful.

Sword Qi broke through the air and smashed the tumors on the surface of the Black Eclipse Tree. The Black Eclipse Tree wanted to attack, but its body turned into slow motion frame by frame in the waves of severe pain and twitching.

When all the tumors on the surface of the body were broken, the Black Eclipse Tree wailed and its arms fell weakly.

Before Ryan could react, the next second, "boom", the courtyard began to shake, the ground cracked over a large area, and then the ground collapsed.

The large courtyard was very large, and Ryan, who was in the middle, could not rush out for a while, and could only follow the collapsed ground and fall into the deep cave below.

"Boom boom--"

Smoke and effusion rolled, and the gray pathogenic liquid made a violent "sizzling" erosion sound when it touched the blood barrier on Ryan's body.

The black erosion tree fell into the pathogenic liquid on the ground, and its body underwent further changes.

The tumor on its body surface that was originally chopped off by Ryan grew again, and not only that, it also grew an additional gray and slender strange hand.

The length of this strange hand was extremely exaggerated. As soon as Ryan landed, this gray and white strange hand pressed towards Ryan.

The gravity he felt before was further intensified. Ryan's eyes condensed. He did not dodge, but directly carried the big sword on his shoulder.

A bright blue energy giant hand appeared out of thin air, and interlocked with the gray and white strange hand that attacked. The energy giant hand appeared and dissipated. This change made the black erosion tree's limited brain capacity stunned for a moment, and the gray and white strange hand stopped in mid-air for a while before continuing to press towards Ryan.

However, its downward speed was slower than the initial one.

[Hand of Greed] took effect, suppressing the power and energy of the Black Eclipse Tree. At the same time, Ryan's physique and spirituality were improved in the same proportion.

The pale hand first acted on the blood barrier. After a brief stalemate, the blood barrier broke apart, followed by the "Hegemonic Blood Membrane".

After being blessed by [Hand of Greed], Ryan's [Physique] increased to nearly 600 points. The "Hegemonic Blood Membrane" with such a strong physique reached a new level of strength.

No matter how much the pale hand increased its strength, it could not do anything to the "Hegemonic Blood Membrane".

While the pale hand was competing with the "Hegemonic Blood Membrane", Ryan had already completed the accumulation of power.

The invisible ripples spread, and time seemed to be sluggish.

The third sword skill of Storm Sword Art - Split God, Slash!

The hundreds-meter-high super-giant spiritual giant sword fell with a bang, and the pale monster hand that was the first to bear the brunt of it was immediately shattered, followed by the body of the black erosion tree.

The extremely hard bark also fell apart under this sword. After the sword slashed, a gap that stretched thousands of meters into the distance appeared in the underground space and the surface above.

A short gray humanoid monster emerged from the body of the black erosion tree that was cut in half, and tried to escape in a panic.

It was not a human, but a product of the highly condensed gray erosion pathogen after mutation.

However, before it ran far, the surface of its body was covered with dark purple lines.

[Gospel Seal], Explode!

The phantom of the Grim Reaper wearing a tattered hooded robe and holding a sickle emerged, and the sickle blade swept across the body of the gray humanoid monster.

The color of the gray humanoid monster's body turned into a dead and dead white, and the fire of the soul was completely extinguished.

Ryan slowly put down his hand and came to the body of the gray humanoid monster.

On its head, a large gray and mixed deformed soul was suspended.

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[Soul of the Black Eclipse Tree]: A deformed soul with power formed by the aggregation of many souls. After using it, you can obtain a large number of [Soul Crystals], and you can also extract its true power through "Furnace Refining".

In the past, the sacred tree was the spiritual yearning place of countless people in Dawn Hills. It is said that the God of Wind will descend on the sacred tree.

But now, it has become the gathering place of the pathogen of "Gray Eclipse" in the undead settlement, and the most terrible pathogen is located in the body of the sacred tree. Slowly, the sacred tree began to mutate and became a black eclipse tree.

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After glancing at the introduction of the panel, Ryan directly crushed this deformed and twisted soul, turning it into a large number of [Soul Crystals], and converted these [Soul Crystals] into experience points.

The experience bar on the panel kept rising, 90%...95%...99...until 100%!

And the number on the level also jumped from "19" to "20".

The warm current of upgrading rushed through his body. Unlike the previous upgrades, this time the feeling was particularly strong.

"Level 20" seemed to be an extremely important level.

And the prompt on the panel also proved this.

[The level of the travel clone was upgraded to level 20, and the prefix title changed from "beginner" to "experienced", and the special skill [experienced] was obtained: the speed of skill proficiency improvement +100%. ]

[The level was upgraded to level 20, and the ultimate characteristic [Blue King] of [Blue Power] was unlocked. Please check the specific attributes later. ]

"Beginner...experienced?"

Ryan was a little confused. This prefix was the first time he knew it.

He shook his head. He didn't care about the prefix. The key was the new special skill [experienced].

Increase skill proficiency by 100%? What kind of increase method is it specifically?

Ryan couldn't figure it out for a while, and could only wait to experience it carefully later when he practiced swordsmanship.

Feeling the powerful power within his body, he looked at the panel.

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[Level]: 19 (88%) → 20 (2%)

[Spiritual value]: 11722635→13722635

[Spirituality]: 120.3

[Physique]: 528.8→666.58

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The sudden increase in [Physique] made Ryan lose control of his strength again.

He didn't care, he was used to this kind of thing.

Later, he only needs to practice sword skills for a period of time. With his master level, he will soon be able to control the skyrocketing power.

His eyes stayed on the level column, focusing on the "2%" progress after level 20.

The gap in hard power between the Black Corroded Tree and the Brass Bishops is not small, but with the addition of gray rot patients, the threat level is similar, and the experience points gained after defeating them are also very different.

The souls of the Brass Bishops give 30% of the experience at level 19. In other words, the Black Corroded Tree is almost 30% of the experience at level 19.

Originally, Ryan's level progress was 88% at level 19. After the 30% experience bar made up for the last 12%, the remaining 18% could only increase the level 20 progress bar by 2%. In other words, level 20 increased to The amount of experience required to reach level 21 is nine times that of level 19 to level 20? !

Such an exaggerated increase in experience points meant that Ryan had no chance of raising his level by killing mobs or ordinary elite monsters.

In order to quickly increase his level, Ryan must adjust to enemies whose minimum strength is similar to his own, or even slightly stronger than him.

"call……"

Ryan breathed a sigh of relief: "After level 20, it becomes more and more difficult to improve the level."

He shook his head and turned his attention to the skill bar on the panel.

He has been curious about the mysterious characteristics of [Blue Power] for a long time, and now, he can finally see its true appearance.

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[Holy Relic·Blue Medal]:...

——[Sublimation Effect-Power of Blue]: Passive/Active.

Passive effect: Each time a special species is defeated, the attack will deal an additional 1% true damage. (Current total 22%)

Active effects:

(1) Activate the blue power in the body and enter the "Blue Burst" state. Each time a special species is defeated, the duration increases by 1 second (currently a total of 22 seconds). During the duration of the "Blue Burst", the passive effect is doubled. If the enemy's HP is below 50%, the real damage will be doubled again (can be used up to once per day).

(2) Blue King (esoteric): Completely stimulate the power of blue in the body, and condense the "blue beast" with different images based on the hunter's personal experience, launching a devastating explosive impact on the prey, causing damage based on the upper limit of the enemy's vitality. 11% (based on half the number of monsters defeated) of true damage. If the enemy's HP is less than 50%, it will cause double true damage (can be used up to once per day).

ps: Blue starlight is the light of hope in desperate situations.

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Looking at the introduction about [Blue King] in front of him, Ryan's pupils dilated slightly in shock.

What an exaggerated effect!

Different from the previous additional real damage attached, [Blue King] directly causes high real damage based on the enemy's vitality percentage. The meanings of the two are completely different.

For example, assuming that the enemy's health is 10,000 and Ryan's attack power is 100, then the real damage attached to the ordinary blue power is 22 points. These 22 points of real damage will not be reduced by the enemy's defense, but if When encountering an enemy with strong enough vitality, even the real damage caused by the sword will only take away more than 1% of the enemy's vitality.

And [Blue King] can explode 1100 points of the enemy's vitality in one go. If the enemy's vitality is less than 50%, it can even explode 2200 points of vitality, which is extremely terrifying.

This effect is similar to [Gospel Seal], but does not require prerequisites. The only disadvantage is that it can only be used once a day.

And [Blue King] can also cooperate with [Gospel]. As long as the enemy's vitality is less than 40%, and the superposition of Gospel Marks is controlled well, the enemy can be dealt a wave of "large real damage" + "beheading". Carry away.

As a result, many enemies who will enter the second or even third stage after their vitality is low will be unable to use their methods and will be killed directly due to frustration.

Thinking of that scene, a smile appeared on Ryan's face unconsciously.

It can be said that the unlocking of [Blue King] gave him the ability to quickly kill enemies with majestic vitality.

Looking away from the panel, Ryan, who was in a good mood, was about to return to the surface when the corner of his eye was suddenly flashed by something exuding a dark red color.

what is that?

Ryan paused slightly, then flashed and came to the front of the thing.

What you can see is a dark red furnace that is mostly embedded in the rock mass.

The first time he saw this thing, Ryan's heart skipped a beat, thinking of the "Forged in the Furnace" in the introduction of the Brass Bishop Group and the Soul of the Black Corroded Tree...

It shouldn't be such a coincidence, right?

With expectation and curiosity, Ryan looked at the introduction on the panel.

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[Old Furnace]: Hundreds of years ago, the tower scholars and various major sects jointly created a smelting furnace using a taboo method. There are two of them, one of which is kept in the tower, and the other is circulated in various sects, but it was lost in several turmoil as time passed.

This is a taboo creation that only the "Lord of Fire" is qualified to use, which can refine souls.

By refining a deformed soul and solidifying its characteristics, it can be made into a special weapon or prop.

ps: Only those who use it in the wrong way will call it a taboo.

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Seeking monthly tickets~