Chapter 261

Tang Zheng's pupils reflected the sea of magma, and as the crimson light projected outward, he understood all too well the significance of the "Transcendence Technique" job skill.

"Isn't this just another way of 'washing' a job?"

In the game "Yggdrasil," there are many skills and spells that require the consumption of experience points to use, and once a player has no stored experience, these skills and spells cannot be used.

Tang Zheng remembered that if a player wanted to wash a job, under normal circumstances, they would need to do so by dying and losing levels.

This has a drawback: the lost levels are deducted first from high-rank jobs or the player's most recently leveled-up job.

This makes it extremely difficult to wash away jobs acquired in the early stages through death; otherwise, how would they sell microtransaction items?

Yet, Tang Zheng could actively choose which job to lose levels in.

"I originally thought 'Transcendence Technique' was just a way to increase sustainability and provide a backup plan through alternative spellcasting methods; I didn't expect this skill to be so game-breaking."

"However."

Looking at the experience in the 【Experience Slot: 1/510000】, after losing the level, the value had actually dropped directly to one. He had originally thought it would only subtract the consumed experience, not that it would be wiped clean.

To be precise, only 1 point of experience remained.

"So, is this considered an alternative skill penalty for using the skill to drop levels?"

Tang Zheng was thoughtful; it was indeed worthy of being a special job with a higher difficulty to obtain than the 【Valkyrie】.

"Are there still 2 levels left for 【Ninja】?"

"Status Sheet!"

Tang Zheng wore a pensive look, a thought stirring in his mind.

…………

【Ability Sheet】

Innate Ability: 【Player】

Comprehensive Level: 48lv

【Experience Slot: 471356/510000】

Skill Points: 66

(PS: Specific ability information has been updated in the comments section)

……

【Status Sheet】

Justice Value: 23 【Neutral】

HP: 580→725→710 (55%)

MP: 263→538→523 (40%)

Physical Attack: 373→518→503 (39%)

Physical Defense: 280→380 (29%)

Agility: 213→418→403 (31%)

Magic Attack: 293→523 (40%)

Magic Defense: 295→525 (40%)

Comprehensive Resistance: 445→465 (36%)

Specialization: 440→670 (52%)

Total: 362%

(The first number does not calculate the values of the 【Ninja】 and 【Magic Transcender】 jobs.)

…………

Even without looking at these increased values.

Tang Zheng could feel the surging magic and power within his body at this moment; a single special job provided a comprehensive improvement and strengthening.

"Magic Transcendence Power" further increased his MP, Magic Attack, and Magic Defense by an additional 130 points.

"According to current information, after the level drops, the skill points remain unchanged, but the values added by the 【Ninja】 job are lost."

Tang Zheng noticed that the four basic attributes on the panel had each dropped by 15 points.

"There are still a few pieces of information that cannot be confirmed."

"If a job is completely lost and disappears, will it affect the disappearance of skills or passives?"

Tang Zheng was most concerned about these two questions right now; the reason he chose to consume the 【Ninja】 level at the beginning.

Instead of choosing the 【Sword Saint】 or 【Shaman Mentor】, the two Mid Rank jobs, was precisely because he had considered these two questions.

The 【Sword Saint】 level was too high; if he used the Sword Saint to experiment, it would be too much of a waste of experience points.

The 【Shaman Mentor】 was only level one, but it concerned the "Totem Possession" skill. He could ignore other things, but the "Physical Armament" ability had cost him a great deal of effort.

If the 【Shaman Mentor】 were lost and the skill disappeared along with it, he wouldn't even have a place to cry.

The 【Ninja】 level was low, and the experience cost for the experiment was also low; even if it were lost, he could find Xia Tiya and Tina to acquire it again.

As for the Ghost-Eating Jieluo, the grass was probably already growing on his grave; he was just a pile of bones, and even a Seventh Rank resurrection spell might not be enough to revive him.

"Fortunately, the level isn't high right now, so I can experiment a little." Tang Zheng thought of this, but his heart still couldn't help but ache.

Swish!

Tang Zheng reached out and grabbed at the void, taking out a crimson fish scale the size of half a person from his item box; it was the scale of the Sun Anglerfish.

As a Sun Anglerfish with fire resistance, it was the perfect subject for testing the next skill.

"Word of Elemental Collapse—"

Tang Zheng first flicked his wrist, throwing the huge fish scale into the air, then used the 【Mad Mage】's passive ability to convert a Third Rank lightning ball into a fireball:

"Fireball!"

Boom!

In an instant.

In front of Tang Zheng appeared a phantom of a fire dragon, about three meters in size, burning with flames like a giant dragon, looking like a miniature version.

Magic surged!

A dazzling crimson fireball condensed in the mouth of this miniature fire dragon and was then spat out.

A red stream of light tore through the sky.

It struck the fish scale thrown into mid-air with precision.

Boom!

The flames exploded, and the fish scale, which originally possessed fire resistance or even nullification, was directly burned to ashes by the flames released by this fireball.

The whole process looked slow, but in reality, it was completed in the blink of an eye, with no significant difference from normal spellcasting speed.

"Is this a fire dragon?"

Tang Zheng came back to his senses, looking at the fire dragon phantom that had begun to dissipate, and was stunned for a moment:

"No, this image is closer to a lizard; is it the fire lizard Salamander?"

This was no ordinary phantom, but an elemental spirit representing one of the four great elements!

Water Elemental Spirit: Undine.

Fire Elemental Spirit: Salamander.

Wind Elemental Spirit: Sylph.

Earth Elemental Spirit: Gnome.

"Using the spirit representing the element to ignore the resistance of the original system is truly fitting. It's a pity the cooldown is 100 hours; it cannot be used as a regular skill."

He calmed his surprise.

"The effect is very strong; if used by surprise, it can easily severely injure or even kill an opponent."

Tang Zheng's gaze continued to look at the trump card skill of the 【Magic Transcender】; just from the information, one could see the terror of this skill.

"Goddess Kali..."

Tang Zheng whispered the incantation to prepare to cast the magic, but just as he spat out a few words, he stopped abruptly, his eyes slightly furrowed, and he remained silent for a long time:

"Who are you."

A phantom of water condensed from Tang Zheng's left side, turning into a female figure with flowing, wave-like water hair, a soft and beautiful upper body, and water ripples rippling from the lower body.

"You are fire."

The fire lizard's just-vanished figure reappeared, manifesting in front of him, its burning wings flapping gently.

"You are wind."

A translucent whirlwind phantom manifested like a storm on the right side, gradually condensing into the humanoid elf form with two pairs of wind-attribute wings. "You are earth."

A huge phantom like brown rock appeared behind Tang Zheng, turning into the appearance of a rock giant with scarlet eyes.

Four phantoms of different sizes circled Tang Zheng; although they were all false existences, there was a pressure that made people feel palpitations and suffocation, constantly permeating and spreading.

Even the sea of magma filled with violence below seemed to have been affected and calmed down.

"You are void."

The four phantoms rose up with a roar, colliding above Tang Zheng's head, revealing a brilliant light, and blending together.

"Everything at the end of the world returns to chaos, until you create again."

Tang Zheng spat out the last sentence of the prayer from his mouth.

The four phantoms representing the elemental spirits completely merged together, filled with virtualization; it was not black, nor white, but a deep phantom with starlight flowing, hands crossed over the chest.

"Sigh..."

A faint sigh sounded in Tang Zheng's ears.

!

The next moment...

Half an hour later.

Tang Zheng sat expressionless on the edge of the red-hot cliff, looking at the lava that had disappeared out of thin air for dozens of meters below, silent.

"This skill is a bit scary."

Tang Zheng inhaled the heat wave in the air; the effect of the skill was the same as in the introduction.

All elemental magic could not be used and ceased to exist, whether it was the normal four elements or the extended lightning attribute, sand attribute, etc.

Even composite elemental summoning was completely invalidated.

What was not affected were powers that did not belong to the four elemental attributes, such as holy attributes and negative attributes.

Like the non-attribute "Magic Arrow," it was not affected by this, but it could no longer be converted into other elements through the 【Mad Mage】's passive.

And things like "Hot Spring" and "Silver Knight Spear" related to water, and derivative elements in the earth element, would be directly invalidated.

Interestingly.

The skill "Gold Arrow" in the 【Five Elements Master】 job was not affected by this.

"The job system of the Five Elements Master is based on the five major attributes of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. The 'metal' attribute here seems to be an independent attribute, not the 'metal' derived from the earth element."

Tang Zheng was thoughtful; the complexity of the job structure in "Yggdrasil" was indeed far beyond imagination.

Think about it carefully.

Even the Cthulhu system exists, so it's not strange to have such detailed abilities.

In short.

"Kali's Breath" can definitely be called a trump card that settles the outcome, but it also requires analyzing the opponent's power system; otherwise, it's not as easy to use as "Word of Elemental Collapse."

Against Ainz, the effect of "Kali's Breath" would be very limited.

This point is a bit like "Death Clock"; strong as it is, once the opponent is not an elemental spellcaster type, the role it can play is limited.

Next.

Tang Zheng spent another day familiarizing himself with the newly added power and various passive abilities; except for the passive "Magic Master," which he had no clue about, he had completely figured out the other passives.

The other passives were completely clear.

The speed at which "Mana's Blessing" restores magic power far exceeded Tang Zheng's expectations.

Before this, his magic recovery speed was one point every ten minutes; now, in a non-combat state, the magic recovery speed was directly reduced to 1 point every minute.

Tang Zheng was startled.

Currently, his MP is 523 points, and it takes less than nine hours to fully recover; compared to the previous recovery speed, it is simply a qualitative leap.

Of course, it can't be compared to Ainz, who has over 1900 points of magic power and only needs six hours to fully recover, but for Tang Zheng, this is already a big enough leap.

After all, excluding the invalid jobs converted by 【Genius】, he only has two spellcaster jobs.

"There are still three years left, plenty of time to fight!"

Tang Zheng stood on the edge of the cliff in the lava zone, straightened his back, stretched his arms wide, and looked into the distance with a flash of heat in his eyes.

He currently has two special job builds.

【Cursed Knight】 · 【Valkyrie】

【Mad Mage】 · 【Magic Transcender】

There isn't much of a clue for what's next, but experience is still the main problem.

Shang Shuiyue.

January 12th.

Five days have passed since he left the Royal Capital on the 8th.

Two days were spent in the Abelion Hills looking for the Blue Maggot tribe, and another day was spent in the lava zone familiarizing himself with the increased power.

Tang Zheng first returned to the "Free Will" squad to confirm the location of the adventurer party and the distance to "Ye-Yi Wu'er."

Then he used teleportation magic to return to the Abelion Hills.

This time, he did not go directly to the territory where the underground karst caves and pits inhabited by the Blue Maggot race were located.

There were still two days left of the three days mentioned before, so he was not in a hurry; the strongest in the Blue Maggot race was the so-called "King."

There was no Blue Maggot race among the Ten Greats of the Demi-humans, so the strength of this "King" was probably at the level of Fourth Rank magic.

In the dense forest with lush leaves.

The chirping of birds and the chirping of insects sounded everywhere in the forest.

Although it was still winter at this time, the Abelion Hills and the Holy Kingdom had a much more suitable temperature because of their geographical location close to the sea and the barrier of mountains in the north.

The entire hilly area was not affected by the cold winter temperatures and was an extremely suitable place to live.

It was precisely because of this that it was enough to raise numerous demi-humans and heteromorphs to survive here.

As a thick-skinned troll.

Go-Jin had high adaptability to the climate, but he didn't like the winter of the Empire very much; if the temperature was too cold, it would have a certain impact on the warrior's actions.

Several broken, thick trees collapsed on the ground, and there were messy broken branches and leaves everywhere.

A bloody smell permeated the air.

It was clear that a great battle had just taken place here; even with the bloody smell, no beasts or monsters in the forest dared to approach here.

Go-Jin sat on a broken tree trunk, rubbing a sharpened branch hard with his rough palms, using the ancient method of drilling wood to make fire to light a bonfire.

The thick and heavy wolf-tooth club weapon, "Enchanted Metal Rod," was placed by his side, leaning against the tree trunk together.

There were spots of blood on it.

If you observe carefully, many of the nails attached to the front of the wolf-tooth club had gaps, and some were even worn flat.

This was the damage to the weapon left by long-term fighting without careful maintenance.

Go-Jin stared at the large elk gradually roasting on the bonfire, tore off a piece of venison with his rough palms, and ate it in big mouthfuls.

Blood splashed out as his teeth closed.

In fact, it would be more convenient to eat it raw, but Go-Jin was not an ignorant troll; the long-term luxurious life in the Empire had long ago abandoned the troll habit of eating raw meat and blood.

A faint trace of white mist drifted through the dense forest in the distance, causing only a few leaves to tremble slightly.

Go-Jin chewed the roast meat in his mouth and continued to stare at the elk on the bonfire, but his eyes became a little colder: "You've been following me for two days, before I get angry, you'd better get lost!"

A cold voice sounded in the forest.

The air became quiet, and only the "crackling" sound of the fire burning the branches and leaves could be heard.

(End of chapter)