Chapter 58

Luo Chenyu turned back and saw Facing Ye Xingtong enveloped in flames.

Above her head glowed crimson light, as if fire burned there.

"S-rank hidden class is incredible—even unlocking a passive skill creates a phenomenon!"

He sighed in awe and silently picked up the Dropped Items before him.

Three Items in total.

【Blood Yen Battle Armor】

Quality: A-rank

Level Requirement: None

Stat Requirement: Constitution 70, Strength 50

Stats: Constitution +30, Damage Reduction +2%

Extra Trait: Burning—deals 20 + 5% of target's max HP as fire damage per second to surrounding enemies; effect can be toggled off!

Durability: 130/130

……

【Blood Skull Pet Egg】

Quality: B-rank

Type: Pet Egg

Level Requirement: LV. 5

Effect: Can hatch a B-rank defensive pet, "Blood Skull," starting with three skills: "Cleave," "Guardian Shield," and "Life Drain!"

……

【Blood Yen】 (Tier 2), Mage Special Skill—deals massive fire damage to a single target with burning damage, and restores a portion of the caster's HP based on damage dealt.

……

"Whoa!"

After seeing the Dropped Items, Luo Chenyu was utterly stunned.

All three Items could be used by them.

Especially 【Blood Yen】—it was a Tier 2 Mage Special Skill, with high damage and spell vampirism.

"I have to say, Xiao Ye's luck is a bug!"

An elite monster drops three top-tier items? Is there any justice left?

Even when he fought the Abyss Boss, the drops weren't this insane!

Yet the most valuable item wasn't 【Blood Yen】 or 【Blood Yen Battle Armor】—it was the unassuming 【Blood Skull】 Pet Egg.

Pet Eggs are extremely rare; a single B-rank pet can rival a B-rank hidden class.

That's the terror of pets.

The only drawback: pets require a percentage of their master's experience to level up.

The higher the pet's quality, the more experience it needs—severely slowing the master's leveling speed.

From its initial skills, 【Blood Skull】 was clearly a defensive pet.

It offered little use to him, a tank.

Two of them taking hits together?

"Little Tongtong, come quick and split the loot!"

Luo Chenyu called out, then opened his skill panel to check 【Defense Posture】's effect.

【Defense Posture】: Mutated Active Skill, Status Skill—increases Defense by 100%, final Damage Reduction by 25%, 25% chance to restore 15% HP when attacked, reduces pain perception by 75%.

Skill Cost: 100 Mana.

Duration: 12 seconds.

Cooldown: 50 seconds.

Extra Effect: If HP drops below 30% during the skill's duration, instantly trigger Absolute Defense—ignore all attacks for 2 seconds and fully restore HP; this effect activates once every thirty minutes.

……

Invincible?

Tanks do have the skill 【Absolute Defense】, but it requires fifth transmutation to learn.

He hadn't expected 【Defense Posture】 to evolve this effect so early.

From now on, no one could one-shot him.

Invincibility every half hour—his survivability skyrocketed.

But…

Why were all his skills… never learning any offensive abilities?!

This "tank-and-take-it" fighting style made him look stupid!

【Prompt: Your skill 【Savage Charge】 senses your intense desire—it is striving to evolve!】

Luo Chenyu: "…"

It's just a dash-and-move skill—how could it possibly evolve further?

After a day of observation, Luo Chenyu had roughly figured out the personalities of his four skills.

【Steel Shield】: insatiable, constantly craving to devour, and fiercely competitive.

【Indomitable Will】: a cowardly schemer—hides behind the "big brother" when there's no benefit, but rushes forward to steal one when there is.

【Savage Charge】: cowardly as a mouse, yet always thinking of him and working hard.

【Defense Posture】: so far, it's clearly a masochist—the harder he's hit, the more excited it becomes.

"I hope some offensive skills appear later!"

This was Luo Chenyu's final wish.

……

"I'll take the 【Blood Yen Battle Armor】—give me that! You can have 【Blood Yen】 and the 【Blood Skull Pet Egg】!"

Without hesitation, Luo Chenyu handed the two Rare Items to Facing Ye Xingtong before him.

The stronger she became, the greater her help to him in the Secret Realm.

Besides… cough, cough, raising them isn't bad either.