Chapter 458: Improvement and Cleanup

"Proficiency +1"

"【Heavy Tide】 lv1 (100/100) -> 【Heavy Tide】 lv2 (0/100)"

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"Proficiency +3"

"【Gravity Control】 lv1 (40/100)"

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Xia Nan, whose plate-chain composite armor had residual scratches and who was covered in the blood and flesh of the Mermen, stood on the spot, with semi-transparent characters flashing before his eyes.

As a companion combat technique obtained when he raised 【Meteor Blade Hunting】 to lv3, 【Heavy Tide】 was the only combat technique of Xia Nan's that had not yet been raised to the full level and had considerable training value and rate, and it had become the main content of his daily training.

The speed of proficiency improvement was very fast.

Coupled with the quality of the several battles he had experienced since coming to Shoal Bay, which were not bad, and occasionally being able to go to the goblin lair to make up for lessons and do some extra special training, the proficiency of this combat technique had been soaring at an average rate of one to two points per day.

Now it was a matter of course that it broke through the critical point of "100" and upgraded from lv1 to lv2.

Although Xia Nan had just upgraded and hadn't had time to try and verify the changes after the upgrade.

But referring to the rules of combat technique promotion in the past, from lv1 to lv2, it could only be considered an ordinary quantitative change, making Xia Nan more proficient in using the combat technique and slightly increasing the power of the combat technique.

The first true qualitative change should wait until lv3.

At that time, if there were no accidents, he would receive a precious attribute reward.

【Heavy Tide】, as a professional companion combat technique, played a very big role in battle in daily use, and itself was at least a combat technique at the level of 【Gravity Etching】 and 【Fang Hunting】, so Xia Nan did not doubt the qualitative change at lv3.

Every point of proficiency from 0 to 100 was condensed with his sweat, and he watched it rise point by point with his own eyes.

As early as a few days ago, when the proficiency of 【Heavy Tide】 broke through 90, Xia Nan had already prepared himself for the promotion of this combat technique.

Now that it had been raised to lv2, it could be said to be a matter of course, and there wouldn't be too many surprises.

What really surprised him were the three points of proficiency from 【Gravity Control】.

Xia Nan didn't know what quality 【Gravity Control】, a capability that had already detached from the level of normal combat techniques, belonged to, but he could almost be certain that for 【Gravity Control】, every level of improvement was a qualitative change.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be worthy of the name and improvement speed of this combat technique.

You know, 【Gravity Control】 entered the door together with the professional companion combat technique 【Gravity Etching】 at the beginning, and the latter had long been practiced to full-level proficiency, while the former hadn't even gathered 50 points of proficiency at lv1, and this was under the condition that Xia Nan had already integrated the practice of this combat technique into his daily life.

And on the other hand, he also clearly remembered that among the conditions for the job change of some future advanced profession from the attribute panel, one of them was that 【Gravity Control】 must reach lv2.

Truthfully, perhaps because the quality of this combat technique was too high, the speed at which he obtained proficiency had slowed to the point of almost despair. Relying solely on daily training, it would take many days to struggle to gain one point.

Only occasionally in battle, when he had a flash of inspiration and achieved some unconventional operation through gravity, could he improve.

For these three points of proficiency that suddenly surged, Xia Nan guessed that perhaps it was because he had weakened his own gravity to reduce the burden on Haian when she was flying in a short time, increased gravity when falling to increase the attack power, and at the same time divided his mind to mobilize gravity to interrupt the Merman priest's spellcasting. Such fine application of the 【Gravity Control】 combat technique from different angles in a short time, coupled with the accumulation of stepping on water combined with 【Fang Hunting】 before, finally added a full 3 points to him at once.

Seeing that the proficiency of 【Gravity Control】 finally broke through the 40-point mark, and the upgrade progress approached 50 percent, Xia Nan couldn't help but feel a sense of achievement in his heart.

Even if there were no spoils of war after this battle, these three precious points of proficiency were completely worth it.

The thoughts in his heart were just for an instant, and the battle had not yet ended.

His attention just swept over the prompt information on the attribute panel, and then returned to reality.

A total of thirty-six Sahuagin, including a spellcaster priest and six elite Merman guards with obviously sturdier bodies.

Right now, at the cost of slight damage to his plate-chain composite armor, the 【Dead Line】 ring entering cooldown, and the consumption of four uses of 【Gravity Etching】, Xia Nan, who broke into the battlefield from the air, successfully completed the decapitation tactic.

Within a total of less than five seconds from falling from the air, he killed the Merman priest and two elite guards who were the core of the enemy team.

Leaving the enemy's core combat power with only four elite Mermen, and the rest were ordinary cannon fodder with a challenge rating of only "0.5."

The battlefield was an open beach by the sea, with a Druid who had transformed into a short-tailed albatross occupying the height advantage in the sky, assisting in control from the side; the teammates fighting side by side were senior professionals with blue-grade scimitars and a professional level of lv5 or higher.

The development of the subsequent battle could be foreseen.

In fact, at the same time Xia Nan landed, on the other side of the beach in the distance, there were already many Merman corpses.

Luo Lin, as a proper powerful adventurer who had made a name for herself in the Southern Islands through her own strength and was stepping toward the road of "Transcendence."

With the blessing of equipment, combat techniques, and her own physical fitness, facing these Mermen calling "Ga-lu," it could almost be described as cutting melons and vegetables.

The 【Scorching Temperature Domain】 around her—when these Mermen who had lived in the water all their lives stepped into it, the scorching temperature that even scorched their scales made their combat ability weaken by more than half.

That 【Scale-Fire Scimitar】 surrounded by scorching flames was like the sickle blade in the hands of a farmer in the field. With one back-and-forth in the air, it was a large area of blood and broken limbs.

Without the threat of the spellcaster in the distance, Luo Lin could also let go and fight.

Three minutes? Or five minutes?

It didn't even need the Haian in the sky to help anymore. Amidst the wolf howls and the "zi-zi" sound of moisture in the air being evaporated by heat, there was no longer the sound of Mermen on the beach.

Necks cut off, waist-cut, brains cut open...

The Mermen's blood dyed the surrounding beach into a fluorescent blue, and the ground was full of twitching and broken limbs.

"Pi-pa."

Sparks splashed.

The scorching temperature on the surface of the scimitar completely baked the filth stained on it, and after a slight wipe, it returned to its original spotless appearance.

Her nostrils flared, Luo Lin spat out a white mist and threw the cigarette butt into the chest and abdomen of a Merman corpse that had been dug open in the battle at her feet.

Her gaze looked toward the black-haired youth who had just sheathed his sword and beheaded the last Sahuagin on the field, with a touch of concern in her reddish-brown eyes.

Although she had previously learned about Xia Nan's strength through her crew members and Hela at the Three-Footed Sea Dog, knowing that the other party was a quite extraordinary professional and had already made a name for himself as "Sea Fang" in the town shortly after coming to Shoal Bay.

But this was the first time she had truly fought with the other party.

As a result... it was somewhat unexpected.

Not to mention what ability the other party used to allow the transformed Haian to carry him while wearing metal armor to fly, just the sword Xia Nan slashed down when falling from the air was something no one in the entire Oath-Breaker team could block except herself.

And even if it were Luo Lin herself, if she were suddenly hit like this without psychological preparation, she would probably suffer. ===== CHAPTER 459 =====