Chapter 311: Sixth Pet, Ascending the Heavenly Steps Again! (Combined)

Qin Chuan and Lin Yue, having completed the secret realm subjugation, did not linger in place, and quickly returned to the Luoyue Guild's headquarters using the guild's teleport function.

Just after returning, he was greeted by curious inquiries from the guild members about the SSS-level secret realm.

Regarding this, Qin Chuan had no intention of hiding it.

After learning of the existence of the Miracle Realm, everyone fell into shock and contemplation.

"So, in the future there may no longer be secret realms; once the Miracle Realm and Dream World merge, the Dream World we inhabit will expand, becoming a hundred times larger than it is now?" Leonhart couldn't help but ask.

"That's how it looks for now." Qin Chuan nodded. "By then, spirit beasts of the Hall Tier, Epic Tier, and Legendary Tier will be active in the expanded Dream World, no longer needing to survive in secret realms."

"They will be true spirit beasts of flesh and blood, just like the spirit beasts of the Dream World."

"Perhaps the game zones will also be redrawn then." Hongye showed an expectant expression. "The current Dream World has already been divided into ten thousand zones."

"If it expands a hundredfold in the future, will there be a million zones?"

"No no no, the range of the redrawn zones should be larger." Tiehua slightly shook his head, not accepting this guess. "A million zones would be too exaggerated."

Other guild members also chimed in, freely expressing their opinions.

For a moment, everyone felt a bit more anticipation for the future Dream World.

After explaining the SSS-level secret realm issue, Qin Chuan began upgrading Red Pupil.

Just like its predecessors, the newly born Red Pupil didn't have time to enjoy childhood; under a wave of resource boosts from Qin Chuan, it broke through rapidly all the way.

No, its breakthrough speed was even more terrifying than that of its predecessors.

Xiaohei and Pan Shi at least stayed at the Hall Tier for a while before gathering enough resources to break through to the Epic Tier, while Red Pupil consecutively completed two evolutions, directly reaching the Epic Tier.

If it weren't missing a Legendary Stone, it could have directly entered the Legendary Tier, catching up to its predecessors.

Its uninterrupted breakthrough also made Red Pupil the first contracted spirit beast in the team to reach 100% favorability on the day of contracting.

After two consecutive evolutions, Red Pupil's appearance underwent an earth-shaking change compared to its initial form; though it was originally just a little dough ball, it now has a more complex and powerful form, yet the retained steel helmet and crimson double eyes keep its before-and-after forms closely linked.

{Spirit Beast Species: Silverwhite Blade}

{Spirit Beast Attribute: Metal}

{Spirit Beast Level: Epic Tier Lv50} {Advance}

{Spirit Beast Trait: Absolute Sharpness}

{Spirit Beast Base Value: 250000}

{Spirit Beast Favorability: 100%}

{Spirit Beast Skills: Moon Blade Trace (Passive), Moon Silver Slash (Active), Moon Double Moon Slash (Active), Moon Flying Blade Assault (Active), Moon Sharp Momentum (Active), Moon Blade Dance (Active), Moon Return Blade Heaven Strike (Active)}

{Equipment Affixes:

{Blade Radiance (Moon Halo Lv10): Attack increased 140%}

{Sharpness (Moon Halo Lv10): Final damage increased 100%}

{Current Affix Usage/Cooldown Duration: 15 minutes/5 minutes}

{Exclusive Affix: {Ancient God: Possesses ancient power, has ancient attribute: Absolute Damage}}

{Spirit Beast Introduction: Metal spirit beast Silverwhite Blade, evolved from the Steelblade Beast, innate attacker, firmly believing that the strongest defense is offense! Attack, attack, and still attack! }

Silverwhite Blade…

Qin Chuan looked at Red Pupil's whole body covered in sharp blades and couldn't help but smile.

The description 'innate attacker' on the spirit beast introduction is indeed correct.

The Steelblade Beast, which evolved from the Steelhelmet Ball in the previous stage, already showed signs, but the current Silverwhite Blade is even more extreme.

It's just that this evolution method is somewhat strange.

It feels like a head gradually evolving into a body…

Forget it, this isn't important.

Strength is what matters most.

Red Pupil's two equipment affixes are pure enough to be frightening.

If the skill strength were just a bit higher, the damage would explode off the charts.

Thinking of this, Qin Chuan opened Red Pupil's trait.

{Absolute Sharpness: Damage dealt from attacks is converted 60% to absolute damage}

Compared to other partners who have undergone two evolutions, this trait's description seems overly simple, yet its power is quite terrifying.

This still needs to start from Red Pupil's exclusive affix {Ancient God}.

This affix differs from the previous {Draconic Descendant}, {Holy Spirit}, and {Fairy}; it does not directly grant any buff, but instead brings an ancient attribute that other spirit beasts lack: Absolute Damage.

Absolute Damage ignores defense, damage reduction, and final damage mitigation, directly subtracting from HP; the damage dealt is exactly the damage stated.

And under the influence of this exclusive affix, Red Pupil's trait is also related to Absolute Damage.

60% of damage being converted to Absolute Damage means that six-tenths of the damage Red Pupil deals cannot be reduced in any form.

Just this alone lets Red Pupil inflict considerable damage on any opponent.

And this is only the beginning.

No matter how strong the trait, it also needs sufficiently powerful skills to match.

And Red Pupil's skills are likewise not lacking.

{Moon Blade Trace: Passive skill, after dealing damage to a target, a blade mark forms in the wound area; attacking the blade mark area converts 20% of the damage to Absolute Damage. }

{Moon Silver Slash: Active skill, deals slash damage at 300% of attack. }

{Moon Double Moon Slash: Active skill, deals slash damage at 80% of attack twice; if both strikes hit the same spot, a Cross Blade Mark forms; attacking the Cross Blade Mark area converts 40% of the damage to Absolute Damage. }

{Moon Flying Blade Assault: Active skill, summons 100 blades to attack a designated range; each blade deals slash damage at 10% of attack. }

{Moon Sharp Momentum: Active skill, upon activation all damage converts to Absolute Damage; duration 10 seconds, cooldown 20 seconds. }

{Moon Blade Dance: Active skill, high-speed rotation of the body to perform a rotating slash on the target; duration 3 seconds, each second deals damage at 150% of attack; if uninterrupted during the duration, immediately after the duration ends add an attack at 300% of attack; cooldown 20 seconds. }

【Moon·Return Blade Heaven-Strike: Active skill, transforms into a huge blade descending from the sky, dealing slash damage to targets within range at 500% attack; targets in the center area receive double damage; after casting, the user enters 【Stiff】, cooldown 30 seconds.】

【Stiff: Unable to move or use skills, lasts 2 seconds.】

After reviewing all skills, Qin Chuan's gaze toward Red Pupils grew a bit strange.

In terms of skill system, Red Pupils and Ice Cream are actually somewhat similar; both are pure output as their main trait, but they also have differences.

Ice Cream has movement and control, appearing and disappearing without trace; all its combat is to set up for the strongest strike, and the moment that strike is unleashed, the battle can end.

Red Pupils lacks movement, control, and defense; its focus is pure toughness, aside from a skill that strengthens itself, all other skills are offensive.

Can only say it lives up to being Metal-type.

Passive skill Blade Mark can, while dealing damage, leave a blade mark on the wound; when attacking the wound again, 20% of the damage is converted to absolute damage.

Stacked with the talent Absolute Edge, that becomes 80% absolute damage.

Active skill Silver Slash deals damage at 300% attack to the target.

No other features; it mainly relies on numerical strength.

Comparing Silver Slash with Ice Cream's Breaking Frost Slash, Breaking Frost Slash deals damage at 150% attack to the target, and damage against 【Frozen】 opponents is doubled.

Silver Slash and the doubled Breaking Frost Slash against Frozen are on the same level.

Of course, in terms of actual strength, they are not comparable, because Ice Cream's attack-boost amplification far exceeds Red Pupils'.

Active skill Dual Moon Slash, the combined damage of its two strikes is only half of Silver Slash, but it has an extra effect: when both strikes hit the same spot, they can form a 【Cross Blade Mark】.

This is an enhanced version of the passive Blade Mark; attacking the area of the Cross Blade Mark converts 40% of the damage to absolute damage, and when stacked with the trait, damage can be 100% converted to absolute damage.

In actual combat, it can serve as an opening skill; after forming the Cross Blade Mark, following up with other skills yields higher damage.

Active skill Flying Blade Assault is a high-output ranged damage skill that synergizes extremely well with the passive Blade Mark.

It deals damage at 10% attack to the target; this effect on other spirit beasts is almost negligible, for example Ice Cream's Flying Frost Instant Splendor Dance.

But the existence of absolute damage ensures Red Pupils can never be a mere tickle; thus, Flying Blade Assault striking 100 times at 10% attack turns the tickle into a bone-scraping blow.

Moreover, it can instantly cause numerous blade marks to appear on the target, making subsequent output hitting those blade-mark areas deal even higher absolute damage.

Active skill Keen Momentum: when activated, all damage dealt within the next 10 seconds is converted 100% to absolute damage.

This effect appears to overlap with the second effect of Dual Moon Slash, but in fact it does not.

If every attack required first using Dual Moon Slash to create a Cross Blade Mark before proceeding, its limitation in combat would be great.

After Keen Momentum come Red Pupils' two ultra-high-output ultimate skills.

Active skills Blade Edge Frenzy and Return Blade Heaven-Strike.

These two skills have extremely high damage, but each has its own flaws.

Blade Edge Frenzy can deal up to 750% attack damage, but it may be interrupted midway; once interrupted, the damage is greatly reduced.

Return Blade Heaven-Strike, on the other hand, cannot be interrupted; it can deal 500% attack ranged damage, with the central area capable of 1000% attack damage; among all skills of the Six Little Ones, purely in terms of attack bonus, it is undoubtedly first.

But its own Stiff for two seconds means using this skill requires caution.

If a single strike fails to instantly kill the opponent, the situation becomes rather awkward.

Seeing Red Pupils' skill set that balances risk and power, Qin Chuan only had one thought.

Following Ice Cream's Blade Tip Dance trading defense for probability, Blood Bar Bounce and the enemy's blood-swap Little Black, the team gained a third problem child—Red Pupils, which explodes on the spot when controlled.

"It's fine, Little Green can remove negative effects." Lin Yue, having learned of Red Pupils' skill situation, chuckled and said, "With Little Green's assistance, the issue of Red Pupils possibly being controlled in battle can be resolved, leaving only ultimate output."

"That is indeed good news." Qin Chuan gave a wry smile, "But I worry that problems might arise during Spirit Descent."

"You don't need to worry about that even more." Lin Yue gently squeezed Qin Chuan's hand, "Rest assured, my and Little Green's Spirit Descent will be available soon."

"That fast?!" Qin Chuan showed an expression of surprise.

Although Lin Yue and Little Green's contract has been over a month, the past month, in order to trigger the 【Dragon Descendant】 effect with Qin Chuan, she has been striving to comprehend the Profound Mystery with Little White, and has not done any comprehension with Little Green.

Comprehension of the Profound Mystery can only be done with a single spirit beast at a time, cannot be parallel.

Therefore, Lin Yue and Little Green's comprehension of the Profound Mystery has, strictly speaking, just begun.

"The Wood affinity is not difficult, and moreover, I and Little Green have already reached consensus in many aspects." Lin Yue smiled, "In a few days, it should be enough."

"Once my and Little Green's Spirit Descent is activated, I can serve as support when needed and heal you." Lin Yue's eyes held a hint of anticipation, "Perfect, dual Spirit Descent can be one offense and one support."

"Then I'll wait for that day." Qin Chuan turned his head to look at Lin Yue.

The two exchanged a smile.

Luo Yue Guild members scattered like birds and beasts.

This dog food, can't even eat a bit! —

Time passed, five days went by.

During this period, Qin Chuan successfully obtained a Legendary Stone, raising Red Pupils to Legendary rank, and while unlocking a new ultimate skill, also gained an additional trait for it.

【Moon·Separate Blade Extermination Formation: Active skill, disperses into countless blades forming a killing formation that locks onto a designated target, dealing slash damage at 1000% attack with a 【Sure Hit】 effect; after casting, the user enters 【Stiff】, cooldown 30 seconds.】

【Additional trait: 【Absolute Kill: a single attack that reduces the target's HP by more than 90% of its current HP sets the target's HP to zero】】

Compared to the Epic-tier ultimate, the Legendary-tier ultimate is obviously stronger.

Not only does the skill's attack bonus reach the strength of Return Blade Heaven-Strike doubled, it also carries the 【Sure Hit】 effect; the only shortcoming is that this skill is a single-target attack.

The additional trait 【Absolute Kill】 is another surprise.

It effectively eliminates the possibility of the opponent surviving with a sliver of HP for a counterkill, unless the opponent possesses Little Black's additional trait 【Indestructible】-like temporary HP lock; otherwise death is certain.

Aside from maxing out Red Pupils, in those five days Blue Star saw many events.

The Special Affairs Group, after discussion, ultimately decided to disclose relevant information about the Race War.

Upon learning that the Race War has only one victor, defeat meaning extinction, the world fell into a certain degree of panic.

But officials of various countries were well prepared, and did not let the panic continue to spread.

Aside from an extreme minority advocating that alien races consume Blue Star's world origin, causing Blue Star to lose supernatural power to preserve the species' survival faction, the vast majority of supernaturals at this critical moment chose to step forward and fight for the Human Race.

In crisis, the Human Race was instead twisted into a rope.

At this critical moment, the SSS-level dungeon refreshed for the second time.

The dungeon's name remained Heavenly Stairway First Level, but its difficulty changed from 2-star to 4-star.

(End of chapter)