Chapter 53

Now that only they had ranged means,

they naturally had to compare who dealt more damage.

"Li Yao, where is your summoned beast?" Shang Hao asked.

"Wait a moment."

Li Yao had already commanded the Azure Bird to release [Glacial Storm], but not targeting the few in front of them.

Instead, it was targeting the very center of the ice field.

He could clearly sense that with the Azure Bird in this environment, the mana required for [Glacial Storm] was significantly reduced.

He was confident he could use [Glacial Storm] to cover the entire ice field.

"Alright, no rush. Shang Mingxu, lure a few more."

Shang Hao didn't mind; even if Li Yao didn't have ranged means, with Shang Mingxu's damage, the time consumed on this floor wouldn't be too much.

At the same time, the light on Shang Hao's shield flared, and its surface area expanded suddenly.

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The Ice Field Eagles' attacks on the shield only dealt double-digit damage.

As an A-rank professional with a set of fine equipment, dealing with level 20 ordinary monsters was a piece of cake.

If it weren't for the fact that they were flying monsters, they would have pushed through directly like on the first floor.

"No problem, Brother Hao."

Shang Mingxu nodded, and with a few more Fireball spells, he lured the surrounding Ice Field Eagles over.

He thought differently from Shang Hao.

As a Poison Mage, he could feel the rich elemental aura emanating from the Azure Bird; it was clearly a ranged-type summoned beast.

Li Yao asking to wait

was clearly because his own damage was too high, and he was afraid of losing face if he released his skills.

The smile on Shang Mingxu's face deepened, and he secretly cursed himself for being pathetic, actually comparing damage with a Summoner.

Under Shang Qian's Slow Aura,

Shang Mingxu's Fireball spells were almost always on target, and soon the first Ice Field Eagle fell to the ground due to excessive injury.

Shang Shang Yana looked at Li Yao and found that he remained unmoved.

She hurriedly stepped forward, taking the Ice Field Eagle's life with a few sword strikes.

Shang Qian looked down at the time and said with a smile, "At this speed, we might be able to kill 250 and move to the next floor before dusk."

"Xiao Xu, you might have to work a bit harder."

"Small problem." Hearing this, Shang Mingxu swung his staff even faster.

Among the group, his status in the Shang family was the lowest, so he naturally wanted to perform well now that he had the chance.

Actually, it was also thanks to Li Yao.

With a peer to contrast with, his damage value had more substance.

Just at this moment,

Shang Shang Yana suddenly sniffed and asked timidly, "Have you noticed that it seems to have gotten colder?"

"It is a bit," Shang Hao frowned. "Could there be a boss?"

"No way, this is only the second floor, how could there be a boss!"

Flakes of snow drifted slowly from the sky.

A bone-chilling cold followed immediately.

Shang Hao quickly moved closer to Shang Shang Yana, reminding everyone,

"No matter what, stay on high alert!"

The area where the snow was falling was still expanding.

Shang Shang Yana was the first to notice something wrong.

"Look, above those Ice Field Eagles."

Everyone looked up and immediately saw a shocking scene.

Every snowflake that landed on an Ice Field Eagle was followed by a damage value.

Countless Ice Field Eagles, dense damage values.

They weren't taking damage; instead, the monsters were.

Almost simultaneously, everyone turned back abruptly,

eyes wide, staring fixedly at Li Yao.

Li Yao's expression, however, did not change in the slightest.

"Didn't I say, wait a moment?" ===== CHAPTER 118 =====

The ice field was boundless.

The hail and snowflakes from [Glacial Storm] mixed with the falling snow of the scene; visually, it was as if the entire ice field was shrouded by one skill.

Damage values appeared once per second above all the Ice Field Eagles.

[-485]

[-514]

[-533]

[-479]

With Li Yao's equipment updates, the Azure Bird's Spirit attribute had reached over 460, plus the 15% damage increase from Goblin Slayer.

Each instance of damage hovered around five hundred.

The value wasn't high, but the frequency was much faster than Shang Mingxu's.

More importantly,

with such a large range, shrouding hundreds of monsters simultaneously, if these damage values were accumulated, the damage per second would be an astronomical figure.

Even if the Void Mantis were allowed to kill freely, it wouldn't reach this level of efficiency.

"Is this a skill released by this bird?"

Although he witnessed it with his own eyes, Shang Hao still couldn't help but ask.

Li Yao didn't answer.

They had all seen it; did he need to say it again?

"Impossible."

The sky-filling damage values made Shang Qian feel that the scene before her was somewhat unreal.

Even the Third Transition Poison Mage specifically responsible for bringing newcomers in the Shang family wasn't as fast as this Summoner, Li Yao, at killing these monsters.

"SS-rank! Definitely an SS-rank summoned beast."

At this moment, Shang Mingxu gritted his teeth, staring wide-eyed at Li Yao,

hoping to hear from the other party that this was an SS-rank summoned beast, to seek comfort.

It was perfectly normal for him, an A-rank Poison Mage, to be out-damaged by an SS-rank summoned beast.

It definitely wasn't his personal fault!

"Something like that," Li Yao glanced at him and said casually.

In any case, in his eyes, the Azure Bird was much more important than an average SS-rank summoned beast.

Large-scale damage, plus a slowing skill, perfectly compensated for Li Yao's lack of area-of-effect damage.

And it was only S-rank now; there was still a lot of room for improvement.

"As expected!" Shang Mingxu's emotions finally stabilized.

It really was an SS-rank summoned beast; he only had such damage because of the skill books his family found for him.

If I had an SS-rank skill, I definitely wouldn't be worse than him!

"And it should be the kind of SS-rank summoned beast that is powerful in the early stages but has weaker potential."

After some thought, Shang Qian gave the most reasonable explanation.

"Normally, at only level 20, neither a professional nor a summoned beast should have such range."

"Only those professions that are extremely strong in the early stages can have such capabilities early on. Being strong early often means being weak later; this summoned beast should be in that situation."

Shang Qian's analysis made the others feel it made sense. ===== CHAPTER 119 =====