Chapter 33: Greed! The Possibility of Infinite Shields!

[Prompt: Your skill [Steel Shield] and skill [Dark · Blade Storm] fought for dozens of rounds, evenly matched, neither could do anything to the other!]

[Prompt: Your skill [Steel Shield] was furious and wanted to launch another attack, but was preempted by [Defensive Stance]!]

[Prompt: Your skill [Unyielding Fortitude] is sneaking up on [Dark · Blade Storm], waiting for an opportunity!]

[Prompt: Your skill [Savage Charge] watched the fight between [Steel Shield] and [Dark · Blade Storm], and seems to have gained some insight...]

Luo Chenyu was slightly surprised.

[Steel Shield] actually couldn't do anything to [Dark · Blade Storm]?

Was that skill that fierce?

Immediately, Luo Chenyu opened his skill panel to check the skill details.

But...

He was horrified to find that there was no sign of [Dark · Blade Storm] in the skill panel.

"Could it be that skills can only be learned successfully after passing the tests of other skills?"

An absurd thought surfaced in Luo Chenyu's mind.

If that were the case, wouldn't it be very difficult to learn new skills he wanted to keep in the future?

Before he could think further.

A prompt sound came from his mind again.

[Prompt: Your skill [Unyielding Fortitude]'s sneak attack on [Dark · Blade Storm] failed!]

[Prompt: Your skill [Defensive Stance] is dissatisfied with the shameless behavior of your skill [Unyielding Fortitude] and scolded it severely; your skill [Unyielding Fortitude] left in disappointment.]

[Prompt: Your skill [Savage Charge] observed the battle, absorbed combat experience, and is about to enter an evolutionary state!]

[Prompt: Your skill [Steel Shield] joined the battle, besieging [Dark · Blade Storm] together with [Defensive Stance]!]

[Prompt: Your skill [Unyielding Fortitude] is sneaking up again...]

"What a sneaky bastard!"

Luo Chenyu sighed helplessly.

Unyielding Fortitude?

The name sounds upright and honest, but its "skill" conduct is very unreliable, a true sneaky bastard!

……

[Prompt: Your skill [Unyielding Fortitude] took advantage of [Dark · Blade Storm] defending against the siege and succeeded in a sneak attack; [Dark · Blade Storm] was knocked down!]

[Prompt: Your skill [Unyielding Fortitude] used a "fusion" effect on [Dark · Blade Storm], but was interrupted by your skill [Steel Shield] and left resentfully.]

[Prompt: Your skill [Defensive Stance] gained insight during the battle, and the skill effect has been improved!]

[Prompt: Your skill [Steel Shield] successfully devoured the skill [Dark · Blade Storm], the skill transformed, gained additional skill effects, and activated the "Greed" state!]

[Prompt: You have lost the skill [Dark · Blade Storm]!]

Just when Luo Chenyu thought it was over.

Another sound came from his mind.

[Prompt: Your skill [Savage Charge] absorbed combat experience, successfully evolved, the skill transformed, and gained additional skill effects!]

"The coward is actually quite promising!"

Luo Chenyu smiled slightly.

"What are you giggling about? It's just a weapon and a skill, you're so excited..."

Ye Xingtong looked at Luo Chenyu's inexplicable smile and was speechless. After she successfully advanced her class, she wasn't this excited!

The smile on Luo Chenyu's face became even brighter, "You successfully advanced your class, of course I'm happy!"

After saying that, he opened the skill panel.

To check the changes in his skills.

First was [Defensive Stance]; its skill effect didn't change much, just improved its damage reduction and health recovery capabilities.

Allowing his survival ability to improve a little during the skill's duration.

Next was the coward [Savage Charge].

The skill had changed so much he almost didn't recognize it.

[Savage Charge]: Mutated active skill, charges quickly in one direction, ignoring all obstacles on the path, dealing massive charge damage to the final target, and causing the target to enter a brief stun.

Skill cost: 60 Mp!

Cooldown: 30S!

Stun duration: 2S!

Maximum charge distance: 100M!

Additional effect: After the charge ends, immediately gain a damage-absorbing shield equal to twice the maximum health, lasting 10 seconds. This shield can stack with [Steel Shield] and can be detonated. While the shield is active, the target loses 50% health recovery ability.

……

Luo Chenyu exclaimed, "Good heavens."

After all that learning, it just learned the shield ability of [Steel Shield].

You're a lunge skill, shouldn't you be evolving toward the direction of attack?

Coming out with a shield, what's that about!

However, with this, several shields stacked on each other, his defensive and offensive capabilities improved by several notches again.

At least, it evolved!

Finally, Luo Chenyu turned his gaze to [Steel Shield].

[Steel Shield (Greed)]: Mutated active skill, damage-absorbing shield, absorbs up to 30 times Constitution in damage, gains "Frenzy State" and "Taunt Aura" during the duration. After the shield disappears, increases defense value by 50% for 10 seconds.

Duration: 60S!

Cooldown: 10S!

Additional Effect ①: After the shield disappears or the skill is reused, deal Dark-attribute physical damage to a large area of targets around you. If Strength is greater than 50% of the target's threshold, it is guaranteed to cause a knockdown effect.

Additional Effect ②: If there are teammates nearby, give teammates a damage-absorbing shield, the effect is 50% of your own shield, up to five teammates; if there are no teammates nearby, your own damage-absorbing shield effect is increased by 50%.

Additional Effect ③: When activating the skill, cause a provocation effect on the target unit with the highest Strength in the range, reducing the target's defense by 50% for 8 seconds, and taunting for 1 second.

Additional Effect ④: During the shield's duration, all attacks can trigger "Blade Storm," dealing Dark-attribute physical damage equal to 10% of the current shield value to surrounding targets.

Frenzy State: All damage increased by 200%!

Taunt Aura: Range 50 meters, 8% chance to force the target to only use normal attacks and force them to attack you, lasting 2 seconds, can interrupt skill casting.

Greed State: During the skill's duration, convert 10% of the damage dealt into a shield, no upper limit!

……

Brutal!!

Additional Effect ① added a trigger condition, which meant that after he re-released [Steel Shield], the original shield could automatically explode, reducing his margin for error and operability.

Especially the newly appeared "Greed" state, combined with the effect of "Blade Storm."

Even more brutal!

You know, he now has 127 points of Constitution, so the initial shield value of [Steel Shield] is 3810 points. Theoretically, every attack can deal normal attack damage + 381 points of Dark-attribute physical damage to the target, and then it has to be multiplied by 200%.

Every attack will gain hundreds of points of shield.

And this is just the early stage!

If it reaches the later stage, will it evolve into an "infinite shield" state?

Of course, he doesn't know the specific mode yet, he has to wait until after testing to be sure.

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— Author's Notes —

PS: Seeking data!