Chapter 468

Li Yao couldn't help but cover his nose.

His teacher and the others were nowhere to be seen.

The Dungeon Escape Disk mentioned teleporting to a suitable dungeon.

His teacher and the others

should have been teleported separately to dungeons that fit their level ranges.

"Land of Evil."

He did have some impression of this dungeon.

It was a super-large dungeon located in the north of the Dragon Kingdom.

When the 【Goblin King's Heart】 dropped in the 【Goblin Nest】,

the introduction mentioned

that the Land of Evil could also drop hearts.

Here, Goblins were just the weakest group; there were many other evil things, and even the Goblin King was probably just a minor boss blocking the way.

Li Yao looked up at a high mountain in the center of the dense forest in the distance.

"I remember the final boss of the Land of Evil seems to be in a cave on the mountain."

"As long as I defeat it, I can leave this dungeon."

"No need to rush, though."

Li Yao sat cross-legged.

For him now,

a level 70 Master-level dungeon was like child's play.

It would be better to take advantage of the fact that no one was disturbing him

to check the harvest from the border trial.

What exactly was it

that was worth the Eagle Nation sending so many Seventh-Turn professionals to fight over?

Border trial rewards.

There were four items in his hand:

an adaptable SR skill book,

the title "God-Slaying Professional,"

the special item "Abyss Illustrated Handbook,"

and a small, exquisite brown tower about half a meter high.

The first thing Li Yao noticed was the yellowed, wordless ancient book.

"Adaptable SR skill book."

Li Yao suddenly had a bad premonition.

Adaptable...

Please don't let it be a summon-type skill book!

He possessed the ability to star-up, so even if it were B-grade or C-grade,

he could raise it to an SR-grade chess piece through gold coins!

If it were a summon-type, it would be a complete waste!

This premonition grew stronger.

Mainly because he still had a few vacancies for chess pieces.

"Adaptable" most likely meant filling this vacancy!

Just as Li Yao was thinking about how to solve this,

words gradually appeared on the yellowed ancient book:

【Nine-Tailed Fox Summoning Skill (SR)】

Li Yao was speechless for a moment.

The heart that had been hanging

finally died.

"However," Li Yao examined this skill book, "why does it feel like I've heard of this summon somewhere?"

Li Yao felt a bit suspicious.

He immediately checked the attributes.

"Hoo," a sound of gasping for air rang out.

Li Yao couldn't help but mutter:

"Adaptable really is the most adaptable skill right now."

Summoning-type skill books cannot show their full attributes before being learned,

but they will display some skills so that the Summoner isn't completely clueless when choosing skills.

The two skills displayed:

one was the Nine-Tailed Fox's passive, which significantly increased the spirit attribute,

and one was the innate ultimate skill!

A three-stage displacement with damage capability!

Li Yao had had an idea before:

to find a chess piece with a significant spirit attribute

to use for 【Shackles】 linking.

After his several perfect job changes, his main body's spirit attribute could already be 100% inherited by the main attributes of various chess pieces.

This was his unique advantage as a Cloud Top Chess Player!

And this Nine-Tailed Fox fit this condition perfectly.

Its spirit attribute was far higher than the other three attributes, and it even had a core passive skill that provided a percentage increase.

As long as the Shackles linked to it,

all other chess pieces could obtain an effect similar to 【Neighbors at the End of the World】,

perfectly exerting their own combat power!

"A passive skill with a percentage attribute bonus is simply impossible to appear on a low-level summon."

The SR adaptable skill turned into a summoning-type skill book.

Li Yao pondered the gains and losses.

"Even if I use gold coins to star-up, it's hard to judge whether this summon can comprehend this kind of percentage-bonus skill after starring up."

The more he thought, the brighter Li Yao's eyes became.

"An SR skill is certainly powerful, but what I get in exchange is a percentage boost to the spirit attribute, which means boosting the combat power of all chess pieces!"

"No matter how you look at it, it's a huge profit!"

The disappointment from just a moment ago completely disappeared.

Li Yao picked up the skill book and muttered in his heart:

"Learn!"

Brilliant light shone,

and the skill book turned into a stream of light, pouring into Li Yao's body.

【Chess Piece: Nine-Tailed Fox (Unnamed)】

【Level: 69】

【Grade: SR-grade】

【Bond: Scholar, Child of Destiny】

【Star Level: 1-star (SR-grade chess piece star-up requires X gold coins)】

【Health: /】

【Strength: 】

【Spirit: (Main Attribute)】

【Agility: 】

【Stamina: 】

【Skill 1: Deception Orb: The Nine-Tailed Fox throws out and then retrieves a soul orb, dealing 400% of main attribute as magic damage to enemies along the path; upon retrieval, it deals 400% of main attribute as true damage to enemies along the path; cooldown 4 seconds.】

【Skill 2: The Nine-Tailed Fox releases three fox fires to track nearby enemies, each fox fire dealing 400% of main attribute as magic damage; once the fox fire locks onto a target, it is guaranteed to hit; cooldown 10 seconds.】

【Skill 3: Charm: Confuses the target enemy. When the spirit attribute exceeds the target unit, the greater the difference, the longer the fear effect duration; deals an additional 40% magic damage to feared enemies; cooldown 60 seconds.】

【Skill 4: Spirit Rush: The Nine-Tailed Fox dashes flexibly and fires soul orbs at nearby enemies, dealing 1000% of main attribute as magic damage; can dash three times; killing an enemy not lower than its own level can refill one dash charge; duration 3 minutes; cooldown 12 hours.】

【Skill 5: Soul Steal (Passive): 30% of damage dealt by skills restores its own health.】

【Skill 6: Fox Spirit (Passive): The Nine-Tailed Fox is the destiny of the Fox race; before the Nine-Tailed Fox completely perishes, another Nine-Tailed Fox cannot be born; the Nine-Tailed Fox's main attribute is increased by 30%.】

【Skill 7: Nine Lives (Passive): One tail, one life; before the nine tails perish, the Nine-Tailed Fox cannot be killed; when the last life is about to perish, the Nine-Tailed Fox will obtain the most primitive energy of the Fox race.】

After reading the attributes,

Li Yao realized he had fallen into a misunderstanding.

Low-level summon skill books, even if they can be raised to high-level,

cannot influence the skills the chess piece comprehends.

Just like chess pieces such as the Azure Bird or the Immortal Thunder Rat,

even if raised to Overlord-level, because of skill disadvantages, they can only serve as auxiliary chess pieces and be used on specific occasions.

Like Kai'Sa, like Gainer-Yate, like this Nine-Tailed Fox,

born at a high level,

they can be fully cultivated as main forces.

The skill combination is perfect,

with output, healing, and displacement.

It forms a system of its own, a perfect closed loop.

"Auxiliary chess pieces aren't weak or useless; it's just that I'm not lacking in auxiliary ones anymore."

Li Yao muttered softly.

"If I contract low-level chess pieces later,"

"they must either be chess pieces within the bonds,"

"or like the Devourer, have infinite room for growth."

Otherwise,

I still need to find chess pieces that are high-level by nature as much as possible.