Chapter 613: Legendary Equipment and the Reenactment of the Secret Realm

Feeling a bit dazed, Lin An thought his luck wasn't particularly good; he could only say it was a bit better than average.

His current strength comes entirely from effort, and a tiny bit of a 'cheat'.

Like a pie falling from the sky.

Looking at the Death God Mask in his hand, he couldn't wait to examine it.

This is his first truly legendary component!

Death God Crystal? That's just a defective product!

"Death God Mask: Green Set Component (1/6), Legendary-tier Equipment, Face Gear."

"Equipment Attributes: All attributes increased by 20%, spiritual perception range increased by 100%, spiritual power attack increased by 50%."

"Equipment Special Effect 1 【Condensing Spirit】: Spiritual power recovery speed greatly increased, and can consume life force to convert to spiritual power, and vice versa."

"Note: If the source energy for conversion is not one's own, efficiency is reduced."

"Equipment Special Effect 2 【Fear】: After equipping and displaying the mask, those below Fourth Rank cannot obtain your attributes, weaknesses, etc.; those at Fourth Rank or above suffer interference effects."

"Passive Effect: After displaying the mask, any unit with willpower lower than yours will suffer a continuous intimidation effect, causing fear toward you."

"Note: This effect targets the essence of life, ignoring whether the target has consciousness, e. g., (Mutants, Zombies, etc.)"

"Equipment Special Effect 3 【Death Breath】: After equipping the mask, you gain the effect of not needing oxygen; and when actively activated, each breath causes a concealed death-qi damage."

"Death-qi Damage: Continuously consumes the life force of units within range, and imposes a withering effect."

"Withering: Attributes reduced, perception decreased."

"Equipment Skill 1 【Face Death】: After activating the skill, enemies are caused extreme fear, entering an illusion to face the Death God."

"Based on spiritual power resistance, those unable to resist the fear die directly, ignoring armor and near-death effects."

"Can be activated once every 24 hours, affecting up to 9 target units each time."

"Equipment Skill 2 【Death God Declaration】: After locking eyes with the target, issue the declaration. The target unit will suffer a locking effect, and its coordinates will be continuously exposed for 24 hours."

"During the period of exposed coordinates, one cannot enter stealth or hidden states until death."

"Death God Declaration: You can customdefine the target's cause of death."

"Note: The more the cause of death deviates from feasible logic, the greater the cost; and depending on the target's strength, it may fail."

A series of explanations.

The Death God Mask's equipment special effects and explanation almost occupied half of the light screen.

He remained silent for a long time.

A piece of equipment that hasn't yet completed its set attributes, even alone, its effect exceeded his expectations.

Sure enough, is the Death God Crystal a defective product lacking a crown...

Three special effects, two skills.

Even a single piece of equipment can cause any Awakened One to undergo a qualitative change.

Just a random 【Condensing Spirit】 trait is equivalent to an enhanced version of the Seed of Death plus Death God Crystal.

Thanks to the trait of mutual conversion between spiritual power and life force, truly from now on one need not consider spiritual power consumption.

The 【Fear】 trait is fine; it's equivalent to an enhanced version of the Dragon's Might effect.

"【Death Breath】 is a group attack method plus a weakening aura."

And 【Face Death】, this skill is almost equivalent to Gao Tian's talent.

Or perhaps it's the group version...

I don't know if, after seeing this equipment, Gao Tian's heart would be filled with bitterness...

The only thing Lin An didn't find too hard to understand was the final equipment skill.

"【Death God Declaration】..."

What does it mean?

Does it mean I can customdefine how others die?

Is it a causality-type skill?

I want the enemy to die however I wish, and they will die that way.

If it weren't for the Secret Realm being in the closing and restarting phase, besides him and Zhang Tie there would be no other living beings.

Otherwise, Lin An really wanted to try it on the spot.

For such a skill beyond his cognition, he was truly extremely curious.

Could it be that if I customdefine the enemy's death by meteorite, a meteorite will fall from the sky and smash them?

Holding these doubts, Lin An struggled to calm his excited feelings.

The low-emotional-intelligence Xiong Hanzi anxiously scratched his ears and cheeks, occasionally poking his arm.

"Captain Lin, why don't you speak!"

"Is it a set or not!? Is it a set!?"

He poked his head out.

Zhang Tie, full of curiosity, was anxious as burning, he really wanted to know how strong the legendary-tier equipment really was.

After calming his mood, Lin An simply shared the equipment attributes with Xiong Hanzi to check.

After a while.

Lin An, in a daze, waved his hand in front of the wooden-like Xiong Hanzi.

He discovered the other was in a state of shock, crashed.

"My goodness...!!"

"Captain Lin! How is this thing so perverse!!"

Although he didn't fully understand some equipment explanations, just the equipment attributes often doubling, even half the increase, was enough to astonish him.

Good partner, one piece of equipment outweighs seven or eight pieces of full gear!

If they're all gathered, they combine into a set...

No wonder Lin Dui keeps muttering, gathering a full set of equipment, even a pig could become a "god".

Looking at Lin An wearing the Death God Mask before him, Zhang Tie couldn't help but shiver.

It's not fear of Lin An, but fear of the mask's special effect.

Clearly Lin An performed no operation, nor did he activate any traits.

But just the mask's passive effect makes him feel as if confronting his deepest fears.

"How am I supposed to fight you like this... boss..."

"Damn, just looking at it scared me piss..."

He muttered to himself.

Zhang Tie instinctively turned his head, no longer staring at Lin An wearing the mask.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but he feels that Lin An wearing the mask has become much stranger.

His whole body exudes a feeling of dissociation from the world.

It's like a deity statue enshrined on a table, full of mystery and unreality.

After putting on the mask, Lin An began to test it with interest.

It can hide, like being transparent.

In hidden state, it doesn't trigger the fear effect; in display state, the mask covering the whole face reveals a sinister intent.

Moreover, the 20% boost to all attributes surprised him.

It turns out to be an additional stacking method.

This 20% is not stacked onto base attributes, but onto equipment bonuses.

Originally thought it would add 40×0.2 = 8 points.

But actually the minimum bonus reached an exaggerated 12+ points.

Among them, his willpower attribute even broke through the exaggerated 60‑point mark.

My willpower attribute... could it be comparable to a third‑stage peak Awakened One?

Even, maybe a bit higher?

Does that count as Fourth Stage?

Without knowing the true information about third stage and above, Lin An cannot accurately estimate his combat level.

No way, the speed of strength increase is really too fast.

To be honest, he doubts that in the whole real world, besides Zhang Tie and Awakened Ones with Four Emperor potential can barely touch the lower limit of his strength.

Who else can stand on the same starting line as him?

This is no longer just development surpassing Shi Xian, but a crushing.

He felt some emotion.

Beside, Xiong Hanzi had the look of 'this suffering wasn't in vain', and couldn't help rubbing his head:

"Lin Dui, wait until we go back."

"Are we invincible now?"

"Besides, this damn dog Secret Realm, when will it finish restarting? I see no way out!"

Lin An heard the voice, closed the mask display, and turned his head to look at the somewhat anxious Xiong Hanzi.

"Invincible?"

"Among humans, pretty much."

"But don't forget, there are still many mutants and a series of special events."

Lin An neither affirmed nor denied.

At most, their strengthening speed surpasses the current time node, but they're still far from invincible.

He hasn't forgotten that in his past life, Fourth Stage when facing catastrophe was merely ants struggling to survive.

The horror of the Apocalypse is far more than what is seen at this stage.

In other words, humanity is still in the 'newbie protection period' of the current Doomsday Game.

After a brief pause, he closed his eyes, sensed a bit, then slowly spoke:

"Should be soon, at most a few minutes?"

"Also, there are prestige rewards; you can exchange them now, pick a few handy pieces of equipment."

Under the amplification of the Death God Mask when willpower reaches its limit.

Things originally almost imperceptible now are like color blindness recovering color perception.

Faintly, Lin An could already feel a soul‑capturing wave spreading from the endless darkness.

The Secret Realm is about to begin a replay.

And I am probably the first person in human history able to witness this shocking sight.

Open the prestige exchange panel.

Lin An suddenly recalled the sleeping black dragon.

For some reason, the black dragon that used to like snatching equipment to eat, after falling into dormancy recently, no longer has this demand.

Even the energy he scavenged from the Ascetic Practitioners seems unable to interest the little guy.

Is it that the equipment doesn't suit its 'taste'?

Or has it become too weak to digest equipment and energy?

In his thoughts, Lin An quickly searched the reputation exchange interface to see if there was a Props that could restore the black dragon's existence.