Chapter 417: [Fish Bone Conch]

"Proficiency +1"

"【Gravity Control】 lv1: (35/100)"

"..."

"Proficiency +1"

"【Heavy Tide】 lv1: (72/100)"

"..."

Translucent characters flashed before his eyes.

Xia Nan just glanced at them slightly and stopped paying attention.

Keeping his heart vigilant, he panted and stepped forward twice, confirming that the Shashou, whose head had been blown apart by his force field energy on the ground ahead, was completely dead and there was no possibility of a "second phase."

Only then did he step on the opponent's thick, muscle-filled chest with one foot and pull the 【Ember Meteor】 straight sword, which had pierced into the monster's forearm, out of it.

As a system combat technique automatically learned when the 【Meteor Blade Hunter】 profession promoted to lv3, ever since Xia Nan entered the door of 【Heavy Tide】, this skill had become the main item in his daily training.

It was indeed a bit hard to bear; ever since 【Tooth Hunting】 was upgraded to full level, Xia Nan had fallen into a state of powerlessness and emptiness, and to some extent, it could be said that he couldn't find a direction for his efforts.

He considered himself incomparably self-disciplined; the concrete existence of transcendental power and the clear path of ascent granted by the attribute panel made him more diligent than at any time in his past life.

He got up earlier than the sun every day, and the sweat left in training seemed to be able to nourish the desert.

But during the entire period from when he promoted to lv2 until he reached lv3, his daily training entered a relatively awkward state.

The main items of his past training, 【Spinning Slash】 and 【Tooth Hunting】, no longer served as the main content of training after he mastered them, as there was no sense of achievement from proficiency improvement; daily life was more about the development and expansion of their casting methods.

【Gravity Etching】 had usage restrictions, so wanting to practice it more was impossible.

The long cooldown time of 【Ember Echo】 destined that it could only be trained through methods like meditation, which could be completed in the inn, and the progress was quite limited.

As for 【Gravity Control】, it went without saying; the extremely slow proficiency improvement speed was the one that brought the strongest sense of frustration among the combat techniques Xia Nan had mastered. No matter how hard he trained, he couldn't feel its improvement at all, and it only occasionally bestowed upon him one or two points of proficiency.

In this situation, the appearance of a combat technique that had no usage restrictions, did not consume too much energy, and even had no requirements for the training environment...

For Xia Nan, it was no different from a lost traveler in the desert seeing an oasis.

Counting from the moment he promoted to lv3 in Yangjiao Town and harvested the new combat technique, forty-five days had passed until now.

He had forcibly pulled the proficiency of 【Heavy Tide】 from "1/100" to "72/100."

Forty-five days, 71 points.

An average improvement of 1.5 proficiency points per day.

The efficiency could be called exaggerated.

And one must know that during these forty-five days, the schedule of traveling occupied the majority, and after arriving at Shoal Bay, he had also spent a lot of energy on familiarizing himself with the environment and gathering intelligence.

Having such an improvement speed in this situation also showed Xia Nan's desire for this kind of combat technique that could be repeatedly trained.

Taking gauze out of his waist bag, he carefully wiped his two long swords.

The Halfling Alton, his clothes stained with blood and mud, his expression of serious focus during the battle gradually relaxing with the death of the enemy, was standing near Xia Nan at this moment, cleaning the residual blood stains on the surface of his twin blades.

Nick, the captain of the "Silver Claw Osprey" squad, had his head pinched apart by the Shashou and had no possibility of survival; the Half-Elf Leda, who had been bitten in half at the waist, the lingering sound of her shrill screams still echoing over the cavern, had breathed her last almost at the same time as the Shashou.

In terms of survival time alone, she had actually lasted even longer than Nick.

It was just a pity that the healing spell enchanted by 【Tears of Spring Breath】 did not have the effect of regenerating severed limbs and was completely helpless against this kind of serious waist-cut injury where the body was broken into two sections; otherwise, the Half-Elf might have had a chance to survive.

"Hurry up, we should clean up the battlefield."

Beside him, Alton reminded him in a low voice.

The cavern was located by the sea, and the pungent smell of blood within it would easily spread under the drive of the sea breeze.

If it were to attract another monster, it would become very troublesome for the two people on the scene; it was better to finish the cleanup work and retreat as soon as possible.

For Xia Nan, he had only one loss in this battle.

The "battle-hardened" 【Infernal Pulse】 finally met its end of being scrapped in an intense battle.

To be honest, this piece of green-quality armor was more durable than he had imagined.

After all, according to past practice, it should have been damaged during his battle with the Crystal Priest in Yangjiao Town.

Being able to hold on until now and play such an important role in the battle, in his view, could be considered worth the price.

As for the harvest...

First, the most conspicuous one was the ritual staff in the hands of the Sahuagin Priest, whose head had been shaved off by Xia Nan with a sword and whose body had been cut into three sections at the very beginning of the battle.

【Fish Bone Conch】

Type: Staff

Grade: Common (White)

Effect:

1. When the user is in seawater, +10% spellcasting speed;

2. Evocation (Water) spell damage +5%.

Introduction:

A primitive staff made of fish bones and conch shells; to fully exert its performance... you need to learn to swim first.

Remark:

"Galu!"

A white-quality staff.

Xia Nan did not feel very disappointed.

In fact, being able to find this kind of spellcasting equipment that could absolutely sell for a price on the market on a Sahuagin Priest with a challenge rating of only "2," he was already very satisfied.

After all, not every monster in this world could be like the Bugbear he met when he first transmigrated, carrying green-quality enchanted accessories with it.

Otherwise, with the exaggerated efficiency adventurers displayed when facing wealth, high-quality equipment would not be so rare and expensive on the market.

The only thing he regretted slightly was that he thought later that perhaps it would have been better to let Alton loot the corpse.

From a metaphysical perspective, as a God-Favored of the Goddess of Luck, his luck must be much better than an ordinary person's. ===== CHAPTER 418 =====