Chapter 2803

The surging blood energy caused large swaths of the walls in the exclusive room to collapse, various furniture shattered, wood chips flew everywhere, and the carpet on the floor was torn and flying about.

"Roar!"

A blood beast formed behind Su Xiao and let out a roar. The debris flying around was instantly devoured, the originally messy exclusive room was cleared, and a layer of the walls, floor, and ceiling disappeared.

Located at the center of the blood energy, Su Xiao was covered in black-blue smoke; this was caused by the automatic activation of the Devourer Core. Among Su Xiao's many abilities, the Devourer Core was the hardest to control. This was even with him having already resolved the Blade Demon energy; previously, every time he used this ability, there was a risk of being "Blade Demon-ized." Fortunately, this problem had been permanently resolved by him.

【Hint: Detected that the Hunter's Charm attribute has reached -1 point.】

Seeing this hint, Su Xiao, whose eyes were glowing red, felt much more at ease. This hint explained many things.

First, his Charm attribute had reached -1 point, not "slid" to -1 point; there was a huge difference between the two.

If it were a slide, it would be a complete debuff, but reaching it meant that wanting the Charm attribute to be -1 point was itself a very difficult thing to achieve.

Su Xiao had previously obtained the 【Exemption Badge】, which could exempt the debuffs brought about by Charm, Willpower, and Luck attributes falling below 0 points.

Of course, this was aimed at himself, such as the reduction of summon slots, etc., while the debuffs in terms of negotiation could not be exempted by the 【Exemption Badge】, as this involved external influence.

The 【Exemption Badge】 had a limit; once Charm, Willpower, or Luck attributes reached -10 points, the exemption effect of this 【Exemption Badge】 would become invalid.

At the current stage, the effect of the 【Exemption Badge】 was enough. Since there was this type of special equipment, it was very likely that equipment capable of exempting higher negative attribute penalties existed.

【Because the Hunter's Charm attribute has reached -1 point, you will be unable to summon all summoned units of the Lawful Good faction.】

【Located within Derived Worlds and Native Worlds, your reputation with the Lawful Good faction is initially indifferent or mildly hostile. You cannot reach negotiations with plot characters of the Lawful Good faction through normal means (excluding forced means).】

【Your summon slots are permanently -3. Charm attribute derived summon slots 0/0, Real Intelligence attribute derived summon slots 4/5 (Permanent summoned unit · Shadow of Hunting · Benny occupies 1, followers will not occupy summon slots).】

【Your summon slots will slide to 1/2.】

【Hint: Exemption Badge has triggered, this debuff has been permanently exempted.】

【You will be unable to wear/use all equipment and items with Charm characteristics, and you cannot master Charm-type skills.】

【Hint: Exemption Badge has triggered, this debuff has been permanently exempted.】

【Charm-type resistance tier -2.】

【Hint: Blade Master passive effect has triggered, Hunter can exempt this debuff.】

【Hint: Exemption Badge has triggered, this debuff has been permanently exempted.】

【Exemption Badge has completed all exemptions, this special equipment has been consumed.】

The 【Exemption Badge】 floating in front of Su Xiao shattered. Although this badge was a consumable, it provided a permanent exemption effect, which was very rare. As for the debuffs triggered by Charm attribute -10 or higher, that would require thinking of other ways.

Charm reaching -1 point had many debuffs, totaling five types. Fortunately, except for the reduction in initial reputation with the Lawful faction, the others were all permanently exempted.

【Detected that the Hunter's Charm attribute has reached -1 point, you will gain the following permanent bonuses.】

【Willpower +10 points.】

【Charm judgment tier +3.】

【Self aura intensity +15 points.】

【Killing Intent Tremor (Passive): When you reveal killing intent and lock eyes with an enemy, the enemy will be subjected to an unexemptable forced Willpower judgment.】

【If the enemy fails the judgment, the enemy will suffer debuffs such as fear, cowardice, and panicked flight. If the enemy's Willpower is too weak, they may fall into a deep coma.】

【Hint: This ability has no cost and no cooldown.】

【This ability will not be categorized into the skill list and cannot be raised through conventional means.】

【Hint: If the Hunter releases their own aura, this effect can also be triggered without locking eyes.】

The black-blue smoke on Su Xiao's body dissipated, and the blood energy was also retracted. Having not fully released blood energy for too long, this time the blood energy being out of control was an inevitable result.

The exclusive room was a mess. Judging from the degree of destruction, it would take at least a hundred thousand Paradise Coins to repair.

Su Xiao sensed his own blood energy; it was already fine. Regarding 【Killing Intent Tremor (Passive)】, he had no way to experiment with it for the time being.

Compared to this ability that could not be raised through conventional means and was not even included in the skill list, Su Xiao's aura release ability had recovered at this time, and its characteristics had changed.

【Aura Release Lv. 1 (Active)】

Skill Effect: Release your own aura, dealing 860 points of defense-ignoring blood energy damage to all enemies within 105 meters, and causing the enemy's stamina consumption speed +12%, effect lasts 30 minutes.

Hint: During the period of the enemy's accelerated stamina consumption, the enemy's physical defense will also decrease by 0.5 points per second, until it is reduced by more than 45%.

Hint: This physical defense reduction has priority.

Hint: This is a non-judgment ability, only resistible through aura.

Although Su Xiao had long felt the general effect of aura release, after checking it, his mood was also quite good. When fighting enemies, he did not need to keep releasing his aura, but rather perform a high-intensity blood energy release to crush the enemy's aura defense, allowing the blood energy to deal damage to the enemy while also causing continuous reduction to the enemy.

It could be said that aura release made up for Su Xiao's weakness of not having large-scale abilities. Although Ring Severance was a large-scale ability, it was not easy to use when facing some small-sized, numerous enemies.

Although releasing Blue Steel Shadow energy had lethality, it was not as high as after burning the enemy's body energy. The current aura release solved this problem, and it was also a 360-degree dead-angle-free large-scale killing effect.

Besides killing enemies, blood energy release was even stronger when fighting powerhouses. Su Xiao did not fear clashing auras with Ancient Gods, and besides, he had a unique skill to raise blood energy, so he did not worry about blood energy being unable to affect the enemy.

The enemy's stamina consumption accelerated, coupled with continuous physical defense reduction; for Su Xiao, who fought with blade techniques, the weaker the enemy's physical defense, the greater his advantage.

Su Xiao was sensing his own blood energy when, with a bang, a broken door slammed onto the floor behind him. He turned his head to look; in the empty room, Xiang Bubu Wang, Benny, and Baham were almost huddled together, Xiang Bubu's twitching hind legs were particularly eye-catching, while Amu stood in a nearby corner.

"It has recovered."

"Woof."

Xiang Bubu Wang walked out of the room, the scene before its eyes leaving it unable to recover for a moment.

"Repair it."

Su Xiao traded 20 Soul Coins to Xiang Bubu Wang; the surplus could be considered pocket money.

Walking into the alchemy laboratory, which had been specially reinforced and thus had not been affected at all, Su Xiao checked it and found the Void Tree fruit products were fine; he just needed to wait.

Su Xiao prepared to go raise his aura release ability and visit the long-lost ancient battlefield. The Blade Demon often went to the ancient battlefield; he wondered if he could encounter it this time.