Chapter 236: Epic Tier, Server‑Wide Announcement

When the light faded, a gigantic beast over a hundred meters tall appeared before the two of them.

That is the physique scale possessed by the Epic Tier, corresponding to the Hall Form, and it is the Epic Form displayed when an Epic Tier Spirit Beast unleashes its full power.

However, like the Hall Tier, this form can be retracted.

It quickly shrank, and soon Shui Hua returned to its usual size.

Compared to before, Shui Hua now has prism-like bracers on its four claws, and crystal water-drop ornaments on its shoulders that trail flowing ribbons.

Its build is now more imposing and appears stronger.

【Spirit Beast Species: Abyssal River Spirit Dog】

【Spirit Beast Attribute: Water Element】

【Spirit Beast Level: Epic Tier Lv40】 (0/100000) 【Player Level reaching Epic Level can be upgraded】

【Spirit Beast Trait: Ceaseless Flow】

【Spirit Beast Race Value: 100000】

【Spirit Beast Affection: 100%】

【Spirit Beast Skills: Moon·Water Master (Passive), Moon·Undercurrent Bind (Active), Moon·Torrent Break (Active), Moon·Droplet Walk (Active), Moon·Vast Heavenly Waterfall (Active), Moon·Heavenly Water Clarify (Active), Moon·Sever Void Abyssal Current Slash (Active)】

【Equipment Affixes: Vast Expanse (Moon Halo Level 10), Tranquil Waves (Moon Halo Level 10)】

【Current Affix Usage/Cooldown: 15 minutes/5 minutes】

【Spirit Beast Introduction: The Water Element Spirit Beast Abyssal River Dog, evolved from the Mysterious Deep Hound, is unquestionably the top tier of Water Element Spirit Beasts in myth, its all‑round prowess enough to make opponents dread it.】

Gazing at the lines of text appearing before him, Qin Chuan drew a deep breath, his emotions surging.

Epic Tier! The race value jumped directly from 40,000 to 100,000, a rise surpassing every previous evolution, yet compared to Shui Hua's brand‑new traits and skills, it seems somewhat lackluster.

With an excited, trembling hand, Qin Chuan opened the new trait.

【Ceaseless Flow: Increases the recovery speed of strength consumption and damage, rises with water amount, no upper limit】

"Hiss…" After glancing at the trait, Qin Chuan couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air.

No upper limit! This means that in an environment like the ocean, where water is virtually endless, Shui Hua's recovery speed is nearly infinite.

Under normal use, the increase may be limited, but it is certainly not insignificant.

With this trait, Shui Hua's endurance has been stretched to an exaggerated degree.

As long as the opponent lacks the power to instantly kill Shui Hua, defeating it becomes very difficult.

What's more frightening is that this is merely one trait.

The surprise brought by the skills is even greater than that of the trait.

【Moon·Water Master: Passive skill, grants the Spirit Beast the ability to breathe underwater and condense and control water, greatly reducing the power cost of conjuring water out of thin air; non‑Water units within range suffer a 10% weakening.】

【Moon·Undercurrent Bind: Active skill, hides great power in water to produce binding or other control effects; power grows with water amount, up to 200%, each second of binding adds one layer of water‑flow mark to the target.】

【Moon·Torrent Break: Active skill, releases a water flow with tremendous impact to damage the enemy; penetration grows with water amount, up to 200%, each hit adds one layer of water‑flow mark to the target.】

【Moon·Droplet Walk: Active skill, when there is water underfoot, speed increases enormously and grants the ability to walk on water; speed grows with water amount, up to 500%】

【Moon·Vast Heavenly Waterfall: Active skill, instantly forms a heavenly waterfall that sweeps and shreds targets in range; power grows with water amount, up to 200%, each struck target gains five layers of water‑flow mark.】

【Moon·Heavenly Water Clarify: Active skill, emanates strong water waves from itself outward, imposing a 【Knock‑up】 effect on enemy targets, dispelling all buffs for 2 seconds, and each struck target gains three layers of water‑flow mark.】

【Moon·Sever Void Abyssal Current Slash: Active skill, launches a water‑flow slash at a designated target; calculates the target's water‑flow mark layers, each layer increasing this slash's final damage by 5% and restoring 2% of maximum HP.】

After reviewing all the skill effects, Qin Chuan could barely keep a straight face. First, the passive skill's enhancement.

After Star·Water Master was upgraded to Moon·Water Master, it gained an effect that weakens non‑Water units in range by 10%, and this effect cannot be cleansed or made immune to.

This means that when facing Shui Hua, most Spirit Beasts can only exert ninety percent of their strength even before the fight begins.

Then, the active skills' enhancement.

This enhancement is quite interesting.

Considering a single skill, the improvement to Droplet Walk should be the greatest among all active skills, as the speed‑increase cap with water amount rose from 200% to 500%, more than doubling the maximum speed.

Another single skill whose effect improved is Heavenly Water Clarify.

Although it merely adds one second to the buff‑dispelling effect, this effect can remove buffs from equipment affixes and player talents, and even one extra second counts as an Epic‑tier strengthening.

Besides that, Heavenly Water Clarify also gained an additional water‑flow mark‑adding effect.

This is also the sole effect added to the three skills Undercurrent Bind, Torrent Break, and Vast Heavenly Waterfall.

If it weren't for the new skill Sever Void Abyssal Current Slash, this round of skill enhancements would be disappointing.

But with the new skill, everything is different.

Each layer of water‑flow mark adds 5% to final damage.

Stacking 20 layers lets this skill's final damage increase by 100%.

This does not yet count equipment affix bonuses and other enhancements.

At first glance, 20 layers of water‑flow mark sounds like a lot.

But when Shui Hua was at the Hall Tier, it could already cast Torrent Break instantly in succession.

So actually applying those layers is not difficult.

Moreover, each time a water‑flow mark is resolved, Shui Hua recovers 2% of its maximum HP.

This rapid healing method is another important safeguard for Shui Hua's endurance.

Besides that, the duration and cooldown of equipment affixes changed from both being 10 minutes to 15 minutes duration and 5 minutes cooldown.

Following this trend, perhaps in the next stage equipment affixes will have no cooldown at all.

Although Qin Chuan had already overestimated the Epic Tier's might as much as possible, only after Shui Hua broke through to Epic Tier did he truly grasp the gap between them.

No wonder—without Time Stop, he couldn't even cross a tier.

Indeed, the gap between the two tiers is like a heavenly chasm, not easily crossed.

But now, things are different.

In Qin Chuan's eyes, a hint of sharpness flashed.

A Contract Spirit Beast broke through to Epic rank, giving him the confidence to face Epic rank head-on.

Ah!

Beside him, Yue Li cried out suddenly, snapping Qin Chuan from the huge delight of Shui Hua's breakthrough: "Luo, Shui Hua's breakthrough triggered a server-wide announcement!"

Huh? Qin Chuan paused for a moment, quickly opened the channel announcement, and then his expression shifted slightly.

【Congratulations to player 【Luo】 for their spirit beast's breakthrough to Epic rank!】

【Due to the appearance of a powerful Epic-rank spirit beast, the Dream World's capacity further declines; more numerous and higher-level spacetime rifts break free of suppression and are about to descend!】

【A new S-rank secret realm will appear upon the next opening of the Dream World Entrance!】——(End of chapter)