[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed":3,"chapter-how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-210":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","How Do We Play If This Boss Isn't Nerfed?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1617985,2083,"Chapter 210 - 134: Orc Warrior, The Might of the Horizontal Slash","how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-210",210,"\u003Cp>Every move he made now contained terrifying power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This surge of power left Lin Ye feeling both thrilled and captivated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye didn’t venture any deeper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he found a rocky cliff that sheltered him from the wind, where he stopped to examine his newly unlocked skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye selected [Horizontal Slash] and opened its preview.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Horizontal Slash Level 1]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Skill Type: Active]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Cost: 100 Physical Strength Value to activate \u002F 30 Physical Strength Value per second to maintain]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Effect: Your attacks become wide and sweeping, dealing a percentage of splash damage to surrounding targets when you damage your primary target!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Current Horizontal Slash Range: All other targets within a 0.5-meter radius of the primary target.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Current Horizontal Slash Damage: 30%]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye’s eyes lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was an active skill that could turn his single-target attacks into area-of-effect (AOE) attacks!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It cost 100 Physical Strength Value to activate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maintaining it cost an additional 30 Physical Strength Value per second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his current cap of 4,800 Physical Strength Value, he could easily keep this skill active for an extended period.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye knew this skill was almost useless in one-on-one combat against other Martial Artists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was essentially a dead skill in that scenario.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But it’s a true god-tier skill for leveling!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its effects would be amplified exponentially, especially when facing overwhelming hordes of monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he could go back to the time of the insect swarm outbreak in Linchuan, he estimated he could kill far more than just ten thousand of them in a single night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Maybe even hundreds of thousands!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye opened the skill’s upgrade preview.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The skill cap for [Horizontal Slash] was Level 15, just like [Frenzy] and [Instant Body].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once maxed out, the activation and maintenance costs would increase to 200 and 60 Physical Strength Value per second, respectively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the effects would also undergo a qualitative transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Horizontal Slash range would expand from a 0.5-meter radius to a 3-meter radius!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Horizontal Slash damage would also change from a fixed 30% to a value that fluctuated based on distance from the primary target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enemies closest to the primary target could take up to 100% of the original damage!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even enemies at the edge of the area would still take 40% splash damage!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’This is practically a god-tier skill tailor-made for grinding!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had accumulated some skill points recently, which, added to the five points from the mission reward, gave him a total of seven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had originally planned to put these points into [Frenzy] to further enhance his burst damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at this moment, he changed his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without a moment’s hesitation, Lin Ye dumped all seven skill points into [Horizontal Slash]!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ding! 1 skill point consumed. You have unlocked the P2 skill: Horizontal Slash!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ding! 6 skill points consumed. The skill ’Horizontal Slash’ has been upgraded to Level 7!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Horizontal Slash Level 7]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Cost: 120 Physical Strength Value to activate \u002F 40 Physical Strength Value per second to maintain]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Horizontal Slash Range: 2-meter radius]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Horizontal Slash Damage: Deals 85% damage to enemies within 0.5 meters of the primary target, 55% damage to enemies within 1 meter, and 40% damage to enemies at the outer edge of the range.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After raising it to Level 7, both the range and damage of [Horizontal Slash] had improved significantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After allocating the points, Lin Ye readjusted the Life Value distribution between his P1 and P2 phases.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised the Life Value for his P1 phase from 1,000 to 5,000.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The P2 phase was left with the remaining 27,880.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could switch between phases at will now anyway. Allocating more Life Value to P1 increased his margin for error, preventing him from wasting the automatic phase-shift mechanic on a simple ambush just because he only had 1,000 Life Value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After doing all this, Lin Ye felt the changes within his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This racial evolution, aside from the surge in power, also brought a good problem to have.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could clearly feel that the amount of unrefined, surplus Qi and Blood in his body had nearly doubled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Qi and Blood was pure and vast, surging restlessly through his meridians and even making him feel faintly bloated with power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I have to refine all this Qi and Blood through combat as soon as possible, then use it to open my Eight Extraordinary Meridians!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye’s gaze fell upon the deeper reaches of the great rift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, he was in a fallen zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This place lacked everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing it didn’t lack were the means to refine his Qi and Blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Source Crystals are everywhere here!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye took out the simple map that Chan Jiale had given him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the map, his current position was already very close to the core of the great rift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The straight-line distance was less than ten kilometers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Members of the Shadow Scale Race were appearing more frequently in the sandstorm, and they were growing stronger as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye was certain there had to be a sizable Shadow Scale Race tribe in the deepest part of the rift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From his previous battle with the Doctor, he could infer that the Celestial Abyss Race also needed Source Crystals to survive on Blue Star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, it was highly likely that a massive Source Crystal Vein existed where this tribe was located.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if a vein didn’t exist there naturally, the Shadow Scale Race would have scoured the fallen zones and stockpiled Source Crystals there, like ants building a nest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it was to continue leveling or to obtain more Source Crystals, he had to go there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having reached this conclusion, Lin Ye no longer hesitated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He put away the map, his body sinking slightly, the muscles in his legs instantly tensing like two fully drawn longbows!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, explosive power erupted from him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The immense force kicked up the yellow sand beneath Lin Ye’s feet, creating a wave that shot toward the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His figure vanished in an instant, leaving only a faint afterimage behind.\u003C\u002Fp>",1005,"2026-06-06T10:31:47.882Z",1,"novelbin.me","51c738610962ca59d8fa87149a0587e4f62dfe8e6260c7e9c4d207b2f2604a69","how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-211","how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-209",250,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhow-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-cover.jpg"]