Chapter 1688

Skill Upgrade Hall, in a skill upgrade chamber.

【Selection completed. If you need to improve 'Aura Release lv. 34', you need to pay 100,000 Paradise Coins + Soul Crystal (Large) x1. Yes/No to pay.】

The price of improving Aura Release is getting higher and higher, but Su Xiao doesn't care. For this ability, others can improve it by 1 level for 100,000 Paradise Coins and one Soul Crystal (Large), but he can improve it by at least 5 levels or more, which is a huge profit. Moreover, improving the "Aura Release" ability will also improve his aura intensity, so that the base damage of the Blood Beast will increase.

Su Xiao had just paid the fee when a feeling of transmission struck.

Blood-red land, sky full of dark clouds, what came into view were boundless corpses. Su Xiao arrived at the ancient battlefield again.

Before coming to improve the Aura Release ability, Su Xiao had already fully recovered his mana, so he directly converted 7,000 mana into Qing Gang Ying, thereby forming a temporary Devourer Core to absorb the blood energy drifting on the ancient battlefield.

Five minutes later, three energy lines were connected to Su Xiao's arm. Each energy line had more than a dozen micro-Devourer Cores inside to filter the blood energy. A simple version of the Devourer Core the size of a fist was also floating above him.

A blood energy vortex formed above him. Su Xiao converted a terrifying amount of blood energy, but for the entire ancient battlefield, the blood energy he absorbed could only be considered a drop in the bucket. If he absorbed all the blood energy of the ancient battlefield, then next time he meets Alice, she would only have the qualification to tremble before Su Xiao.

Blood energy filtered and purified more than a dozen times clung to Su Xiao's body surface and was gradually fused by his aura. He was wrapped in a layer of blood energy clothing. This kind of blood energy is not something that can be achieved by slaughtering living beings; it is a purer energy.

Blood-colored patterns appeared on Su Xiao's cheeks, and his pupils opened slowly, with red light flashing in them. This was reaching the limit. If he continued to absorb blood energy, heaven knows what problems would arise.

Snap!

The simple version of the Devourer Core shattered, and the blood energy above shrouded Su Xiao. He was eroded by the mottled blood energy. His only feeling at this moment... was wanting to slash everything within his sight to pieces.

A feeling of transmission emerged. After consuming 53,800 Paradise Coins, the blood light in Su Xiao's eyes faded. After meditating in the skill upgrade chamber for a while, his heart calmed down, and he was no longer affected by blood energy at all.

【Aura Release has been improved to lv. 35.】

【Aura Release has been improved to lv. 36.】

【Aura Release has been improved to lv. 37.】

【Aura Release has been improved to lv. 42.】

It was still an exaggerated improvement. Thinking about it, it is reasonable. With Su Xiao's speed of absorbing blood energy on the ancient battlefield, the improvement range couldn't be low.

【Aura Release lv. 42 (Active/Passive)】

Skill Effect (Active/Passive): Can continuously release aura, range 58 meters, perform a willpower judgment on all enemy units in this area. If the enemy fails the judgment, they will fall into a state of panic. The panic state can be lifted by using soul purification skills.

Prompt: If the enemy enters a state of panic, stamina consumption speed +40% (increased by 5%), physical defense -39 points (increased by 12 points). When the enemy releases a skill, there is a 12% chance of failure (increased by 2%).

Prompt: While improving this skill, it will increase aura intensity and slightly enhance willpower.

Prompt: Due to absorbing a large amount of pure blood energy, willpower +29 points (increased by 10 points).

Prompt: Due to absorbing a large amount of pure blood energy, willpower judgment tier +1.

Prompt: Due to absorbing a large amount of pure blood energy, aura can cause soul damage of willpower x10 to 'foreign object' enemies.

Compared to the comprehensive attribute improvement of Aura Release, Su Xiao cares more about his newly mastered ultimate move, the increase in the base damage of Blood Beast.

Blood Beast Talent Effect (Active): Use your own aura to generate a Blood Beast. The Blood Beast can be generated instantly and pounce directly at the enemy (requires the enemy to be within 10 meters), causing 2100 points of base damage (increased by 300 points) + Strength attribute x4.5 (450 points of damage) + Agility attribute x3.7 (370 points of damage) + Stamina attribute x6.8 (687 points of damage) of physical defense-ignoring damage to the enemy, and causing the target to be distracted or stunned for 0.3–7.5 seconds.

Total Damage: 2100 points of base damage + 1507 points of physical defense-ignoring damage (total damage intensity of 3607 points).

Su Xiao hasn't tested the power of Blood Beast yet. If this thing pounces, the enemy should die relatively cleanly.

The only thing that makes Su Xiao's mood not beautiful is that the Charm attribute, which was only 10 points before, is now only 3 points. That's right, the Charm attribute is only 3 points left. Su Xiao is prepared to rescue this pitiful attribute in the near future. If he lets it go, heaven knows if this attribute will become negative next time he improves blood energy.

Just as Su Xiao was preparing to find Sha to test the power of Blood Beast, Xiang Bubu Wang suddenly sent a message that the Epic-grade sniper rifle had arrived.

Receiving this news, Su Xiao was somewhat surprised because the time didn't match, but considering the special situation during the previous transmission, he didn't go into it.

Walking quickly back to the exclusive room, Su Xiao had just entered the door when he saw a sniper rifle that was pitch-black all over with several blue energy grooves on the surface. This gun had a sense of technology, about two and a half meters long, and was slender, much more convenient to carry than the Silence Duke.

Su Xiao pressed his hand on the gun body to check the attributes of this gun.

【Devourer】

Origin: Void · Seventh Energy Weapon Workshop

Quality: Epic

Category: Heavy Sniper Rifle

Caliber: 12.67mm (Special Energy Ammunition)

Magazine Capacity: 10 (Single shot/Burst)

Durability: 0/97 (Half-damaged, unusable, due to low damage, the performance of this weapon has not been reduced).

Attack Power: 219–327 (Silence Duke attack power is: 154–213, this is attack power after +13 enhancement.)

Equipment Requirement: Real Strength 90 points, Real Stamina 90 points, basic firearm skill lv. 35 or above.

Equipment Effect 1: Burst Mode (Active): Devourer has a built-in 3–59x adaptive scope, which can be adjusted automatically/manually. After opening burst mode, Devourer can reach the firing rate of an ordinary automatic rifle, and bullet attack power is not reduced (in burst mode, the gun volume can be reduced to 1.57m).

Prompt: This skill has no consumption and no cooldown.

Equipment Effect 2: Hunter Mode (Active), switch to energy-gathering mode, bullet attack power increased by 70%. This is a point-shot mode, and the bolt needs to be pulled again for each shot (in Hunter mode, the gun volume cannot be reduced, theoretical range is 6750 meters, actual record is 6625 meters).

Prompt: This skill has no consumption and no cooldown.

Equipment Effect 3: Hideous Laughter (Active), this is the ultimate ability of Devourer. After opening this ability, the anti-gravity kinetic energy magnetic field inside Devourer will be fully activated, and the bullet flight speed will be increased by 800%, with the effect lasting for 30 seconds.

Prompt: This skill consumes 480 mana, cooldown time is 10 hours.

Rating: 695 points (Epic equipment rating 530–700)

Introduction: Even in the Void, this is still a notorious weapon, having been banned from production more than a dozen times.

Price: 387,000 Paradise Coins

It can be said that this sniper rifle named Devourer can be considered perfect. The firing rate is close to an automatic rifle during burst, and the attack power is not reduced. In Hunter mode (single point shooting), the bullet attack power is increased by 70%. Considering the attack power of 【Devourer】, the attack intensity of Hunter mode is almost exaggerated.

What surprised Su Xiao even more was that this gun actually had an ultimate ability, increasing bullet flight speed by 800%. Even if it was only for 30 seconds, it was enough for Su Xiao to fire 10 shots in Hunter mode.

May I ask, what is the biggest problem with ultra-long-range sniping? The answer must be bullet flight speed. When the distance exceeds 2 kilometers, you have to start predicting the enemy's actions, and more than 3 kilometers is even more anti-human, having to guess the enemy's action trajectory for a period of time in advance.

And after opening an ability like 'Hideous Laughter', even for a shot at a distance of 5 kilometers, the actual flight time of the bullet is actually similar to shooting a target within 700 meters, after all, the flight speed has been increased by 800%.

The problem at the moment is that this sniper rifle, which can be called a contraband in the Void, is damaged at the moment. Su Xiao had wondered before why killing a Blind Saint Blade with similar strength to him could obtain an Epic-grade sniper rifle. Until now, he finally understood that this gun was a contraband in the Void and was slightly damaged, resulting in it being unusable.

If one wants to repair a sniper rifle, finding Reed might not be as reliable as Su Xiao repairing it himself. This is not a game, and not all things can be repaired by knocking with a hammer.

To repair an Epic-grade sniper rifle, one must naturally find a professional.

Twenty minutes later, Mechanical Street, in a small alley piled with discarded parts.

Bang, bang, bang.

Su Xiao patted a metal door, and the rust on the door was patted away. With a creak, the metal door opened, and a girl with messy golden hair, wearing a white shirt and super-short denim shorts, stood in the room.

"I knew it was you just by the knocking. Come in."

The mechanical girl scratched her messy golden hair. Although her exposed forearms were fair, one could faintly see the muscles. Although this girl's appearance was top-notch, she survived by real ability. Even the leader of a large adventure group would politely say hello when seeing her. Su Xiao only finds the mechanical girl to repair equipment related to technology because she is professional and reliable.

"What's the matter with coming to me?"

"Repair a sniper rifle."

"I knew it. Take it out and let me see. We are old friends, I'll give you a ten-fold discount."

"..."

Su Xiao took Devourer out of the storage space.

"Good stuff. However... if you want to repair this thing, you'd better be prepared to go bankrupt. This thing is produced in the Void. The pitfall is that this thing is a contraband in the Void. It seems it once sniped some prince or something. Anyway, it's a very strange thing, which makes the parts for this thing super hard to get."

The mechanical girl became interested immediately after seeing this Epic-grade sniper rifle, Devourer. More importantly, she knew the origin of this gun, which is professional.