Chapter 3705: Overdraft

In the inner hall on the second floor of the ancient castle at the Lord's Manor, the fire in the fireplace was burning. After receiving a prompt, Su Xiao took a silver sealed box out of his storage space. At this moment, the blood patterns on it had vanished, and it was in an openable state.

As he opened the box, specks of silver moonlight drifted out. Looking into the box, a mass of semi-fluid metal was floating inside. This metallic semi-fluid was silver-gray and looked as if it had an antique feel from being scorched. Upon touching this object, Su Xiao checked its attributes.

【Silver Moonlight (3/3 Set)】

Origin: Void · Silintis Dwarf.

Quality: Origin-level · Set (Unique · Not fully awakened state)

Category: Ring/Badge/Pendant.

Equipment Requirements: Silver Moon Wolf/Shadow of the Law-Breaker, or pass the Wolf's Trial.

Equipment Form: Not yet switched. Can choose one of three states: "Wolf Ring", "Deep Blue Badge", or "Moon Heart Pendant".

Set Effect (Activated).

Set Effect 1, Soul of Technique (Passive): The damage tier of all technique-type abilities is +1, and it comes with one of three effects: "Sharp", "Heavy Strike", or "Absolute Penetration".

Sharp Effect (Can be triggered by Blade Mastery, Sword Mastery, etc.): After dealing damage to an enemy with a melee weapon, the enemy's physical defense is reduced by 10 points. This effect can stack up to five times (this is a high-priority absolute reduction; even the physical defense of a Supreme-level being cannot exempt this reduction).

Hint: If this equipment is in the "Wolf Ring" form, the defense reduction will increase from 10 points to 15 points (stacking up to 75 points).

Heavy Strike Effect (Can be triggered by Melee, Brawling Mastery, etc.): Triggered when attacking an enemy using one's own body as a weapon. The damage intensity of such attacks increases by 10%–15%.

Hint: If this equipment is in the "Deep Blue Badge" form, the damage intensity bonus will increase from 10%–15% to 15%–23%.

Absolute Penetration Effect (Can be triggered by Energy, Elemental Mastery): When attacking an enemy with energy, it will carry energy penetration intensity equivalent to the level of this technique ability (increases energy penetration intensity by 70 points).

Hint: If this equipment is in the "Moon Heart Pendant" form, the energy penetration intensity will increase from 70 points to 110 points.

Set Effect 2, Abyss Warden (Passive): Damage dealt to Abyss units is increased by 20% (this bonus is ineffective against a certain Abyss unit).

Set Effect 3, Combat Awakening (Passive): This set is in an unawakened stage. Every time you engage in a life-or-death battle with a powerful enemy, this set will awaken to a certain degree.

Set Effect 4, Perfect Parry (Core · Passive): Your parries with melee weapons will be considered Perfect Parries. Each level of technique-type ability you possess will increase block correction by 1 point; currently, it is 218 points of block correction.

Hint: The cooldown for Perfect Parry is 10 seconds.

Hint: Perfect Parry cannot completely negate the shock damage and energy damage brought by enemy attacks, but within the range of block correction, you are guaranteed not to have your block broken.

Score: 3000+ (Origin-level equipment score 1500–3000 points.)

Sale Price: Cannot be sold after equipping.

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The "Soul of Technique" effect of Set Effect 1 is actually easy to understand. For Su Xiao, it means his blade slashes can reduce defense, increase the power of his straight kicks, and increase the penetration of his Blood Smoke Cannon.

However, the form of the set can enhance these three characteristics. The "Wolf Ring" state is certainly good, but the problem is that Su Xiao is already wearing the 【God's Judgment】 ring. Everyone does have ten fingers, but there is only one ring equipment slot. Wearing two rings at the same time would indeed make both effective, but the key is the issue of ability interference and stability.

No one can be sure that the characteristics of 【God's Judgment】 and 【Wolf Ring】 won't interfere with each other. If they interfered the moment he put them on, that would actually be fine; the fear is that they would be fine at first, but then suddenly start interfering during a life-or-death battle with a powerful enemy, which would put Su Xiao in grave danger.

Therefore, Su Xiao chose the "Deep Blue Badge" form, which focuses on increasing the power of his straight kicks. As he made his choice, the Moonlight Set transformed into the "Deep Blue Badge" form. This way, it is convenient to wear; he can set it in the medal equipment slot and then use it as a hanging ornament, which can be hung anywhere on his body.

The second effect of the Moonlight Set is simple and brutal: it increases damage against Abyss creatures. And Effect 3 is equally practical; as long as he fights powerful enemies, this thing can grow.

The most powerful one is actually Set Effect 4, "Perfect Parry". This ability looks like a parry bonus at first glance, but if one knew what parry correction, or rather block correction, is, one would definitely not think so.

The block correction of this ability is derived from the sum of the levels of all of Su Xiao's technique abilities, which is Blade Mastery Lv. 74 + Melee Mastery Lv. 74 + Blood Gun Mastery Lv. 70 = 218 levels of technique ability.

These 218 points of block correction can be simply understood as: as long as the difference between Su Xiao's strength attribute judgment and the enemy's is not more than 218 points, then as long as he successfully blocks the incoming melee attack or long-range single-target attack, his block is guaranteed not to be broken.

For example, when fighting the Wolf God before, as long as the Wolf God's strength attribute did not reach a terrifying 518 points or more, Su Xiao could successfully block that sword strike with his own physique and the protective energy brought by his technique abilities.

Even if he suffered high shock damage as a result, causing his health to drop by more than 20% suddenly, that is still far better than having his defense broken and being killed in one hit by a sword. No, the two are simply incomparable.

Of course, this kind of block is not power that Su Xiao obtained out of thin air, or some kind of blessing from the Paradise, but rather the protective energy brought by all his technique-type abilities being fully mobilized within his body, thereby temporarily enhancing his own blocking power and endurance, thus blocking attacks that would have been absolutely impossible to block before.

However, this "Perfect Parry" ability is not without its flaws. The protective energy derived from the technique abilities within Su Xiao's body has a limit. Therefore, this ability triggers once every 10 seconds; that is, every time the protective energy is used, this energy needs a 10-second buffer to gather into a sufficient scale within Su Xiao's body to be used for one "Perfect Parry".

Not only that, this "Perfect Parry" ability also consumes stamina, but compared to the benefits it brings, these are nothing.

Another point is that if the enemy's powerful attack is a long-range single-target ability, then it is not a judgment between Su Xiao and the enemy, but a judgment between Su Xiao and this "powerful long-range ability". As long as this "powerful long-range ability" does not exceed the scope of his block correction, and he blocks at the correct timing, he can naturally block it.

This is the characteristic of the "Perfect Parry" ability. If the timing is chosen well, it is a divine skill. But if one cannot grasp the timing, the effect of this ability is not great. However, for Su Xiao, who is a triple technique master, grasping the timing is simply too easy.

Besides this, Su Xiao has an ability derived from his real strength attribute that also fits the "Perfect Parry" ability very well, and that is "Perfect Counter".

"Perfect Counter (Passive): In melee combat, if you successfully parry an enemy attack and the difference in strength attribute with the enemy is less than 20 points, you will be immune to the knockback effect, the shock damage suffered will be reduced by 83%, and a strength counter-shock will be formed, slightly knocking back the enemy while temporarily reducing the enemy's strength attribute by 5 points. This effect lasts for 6 minutes, has no trigger cooldown, and can be stacked up to three times, with each time doubling the duration."

With the "Perfect Parry" ability, when Su Xiao blocks a powerful enemy's attack, the strength attribute judgment of "Perfect Counter" becomes a base judgment value of 300+218 points to judge against the enemy's strength attribute. As long as the difference is less than 20 points, he can counter.

If the enemy's attack intensity is too fierce, the shock damage reduction of "Perfect Counter" will inevitably be greatly reduced; reducing it by 83% is unlikely, but at the very least, it can be reduced by 50%.

As for whether he can temporarily reduce a powerful enemy's strength attribute, this remains to be tested, but this is not the point. When facing some enemies whose attacks are extremely fierce, "Perfect Parry" + "Perfect Counter" will definitely have miraculous effects. Added to the fact that Su Xiao fights with Blade Mastery as his core ability, with the cooperation of these two abilities, he truly has the spirit to face the Abyss Greatsword in the Wolf God's hand.

Besides blocking melee attacks, Su Xiao actually wanted to block Serphilia's Li-element ultimate move. Although that would be very thrilling, there is a not-low probability of blocking it.

After careful consideration, Su Xiao decided that before he becomes a Supreme-level being, he had better not try it. Serphilia is different from conventional spellcasters; her Li-element ability is more like a long-range physical system and basically has nothing to do with magic damage. If he failed to block it, he would be finished.

After equipping the "Moonlight Set", Su Xiao could clearly feel the protective energy derived from the technique-type abilities he mastered. This energy existed before, but he didn't know how to mobilize it.

Su Xiao leaned back in his seat and began to think about his subsequent plans. After killing the Soul Reaper and visiting the Wolf Tomb, half of his purpose for coming to this world had been completed. The remaining two tasks were to rescue the Dwarf King and kill a Supreme-level spellcaster.

Regarding the competition for the "Initial Mark" fragments, there is no need to worry about that; just wait for the "Immortal Brawl" to happen. After consulting, Su Xiao learned that he cannot bring the Beast Legion to participate in the Immortal Brawl, because the Beast Legion cannot enter that temporary notarized area.

The most urgent matter to resolve right now is rescuing the Dwarf King. For this matter, Su Xiao really doesn't have a very good way. The Dwarf King is in the Sea Clan's main city, Atuo City, and is in the workshop area of the inner city. The defense there is terrifyingly tight.

After learning that Su Xiao's follower Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had come to this world, they had also set up corresponding defensive measures there. Within a few kilometers around the workshop area, it was filled with invisible soul threads. When something touched these soul threads, it would immediately be eroded by soul poison, thereby dying suddenly within a short time.

This, of course, couldn't stop Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang. What really blocked it outside was the Vibration Formula. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang is most afraid of one kind of attack, which is continuous and high-frequency attacks. This has a not-low probability of making it detach from its environment integration.

Furthermore, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, as the tech-dog of Su Xiao's team, would cause a lot of inconvenience if it were away for a long time. For example, the high-tech equipment in the team storage space is not really used by anyone else.

Fortunately, there is another candidate for reconnaissance in the Sea Clan's main city this time. When Su Xiao went to the Soul Library before, the administrator agent, the little fairy Popoli, mentioned one thing, which was that his younger brother is very good at infiltration and assassination.

As for who Popoli's younger brother is, it is naturally the irritable little fairy, the fairy race's quality representative who can fight Baham to a draw.

Su Xiao took out 【Fairy Will】. This full-score, Origin-level, Charisma-type equipment is truly indescribable.

【Fairy Will】

Category: Gloves (Extremely rare)

Equipment Requirements: Real Charisma 230 points or more, Real Intelligence 200 points or more.

Equipment Effect: Fairy Contract (Core · Active), summon a random auxiliary-type fairy race member to assist you in battle. The assistance time will depend on your compatibility with that fairy, at least 24 natural days.

Hint: Only one little fairy can be summoned at a time, and more than 99% of the little fairies are polite and friendly.

Introduction: A reliable and friendly ally.

……

Su Xiao put it on his right hand. These leather gloves were exceptionally tight, feeling almost the same as medical rubber gloves. Clearly, these gloves were meant for those weak summoners.

Snap~

Su Xiao released the edge of the glove, and the wearing was successful. The durability of this equipment immediately slid from 80 points to 78 points, and then continued to drop at a speed of 1 point every 10 seconds. This didn't matter; as long as the summoning was completed, he could take it off.

As Su Xiao activated this equipment, a space vortex appeared in front of him. The next second, a figure flew out from inside, rolling a few times on the table with foam.

This time, the irritable little fairy wasn't wearing leather clothing with metal studs. To be precise, he wasn't wearing anything at the moment, but his ears were still full of small earrings, and there were tattoo marks that added abilities on his neck and arms. From that face full of defiance, one could tell at a glance that this little fairy wasn't to be trifled with.

After the irritable little fairy Diagu was summoned, he was completely confused. The foam on his head hadn't been washed off yet. He subconsciously picked up the towel on the table and draped it over himself, looking somewhat awkward. Thinking about it, anyone who was humming a dirty song while taking a bath and was suddenly summoned to a strange place would be confused and awkward.

A moment later, the irritable little fairy Diagu, who was sitting in a wooden washbasin as if he were in a hot spring, let out a long sigh and asked with a bit of a rogue attitude: "Speak, what do you want with me?"

The irritable little fairy Diagu's pair of dead fish eyes, combined with his naturally smoky eyeshadow, made him look very much like a delinquent teenager who had gone astray, making it hard to believe that this was actually one of the princes of the Fairy Kingdom.

"Go and investigate someone's situation. I don't know if you dare to go."

"Tch, is there any place I don't dare to go?"

The irritable little fairy Diagu crossed his legs, his face showing a bit of disdain.

"This is the Wind Sea Continent, and the target I'm looking for is in the Sea Clan's main city."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, the disdain on Diagu's face faded a bit. He hesitated a little and wanted to refuse, but for so long, even if some fairy summoners had been unlucky enough to summon him, they had all been unable to out-curse him and had been so angry that they were trembling when they canceled the summoning formula. This was the first time a summoner had given him a task, not counting assassination commissions.

But going to the Sea Clan's main city, and the workshop area where the main city's guard was the tightest, this difficulty was too high. Even for the irritable little fairy Diagu, he didn't have full confidence, at most a 70% success rate.

The irritable little fairy Diagu said "wait a moment" and then opened a summoning channel and entered it. When he returned, he had changed into that leather clothing full of metal studs and had also blown his hair into a mohawk style, with a 30-centimeter-long cone spear on his back.

"I'll take this job. Let's talk about the reward."

The irritable little fairy Diagu kicked the teacup over with one foot and then sat on the bottom of the overturned teacup, crossing his legs with a smirk on his face. The meaning was clearly an invitation for Baham to spar, and Baham responded with a middle-finger claw gesture.

"……"

Su Xiao didn't speak, just took out a bottle of 【Fairy Secret Medicine】 and stood it on the table.

The irritable little fairy Diagu made a "tching" sound. Although he wanted it very much in his heart, he said hypocritically: "With just this reward, you want to..."

Originally, the irritable little fairy Diagu wanted to raise his own price, but Su Xiao put a set, which was 12 bottles of 【Fairy Secret Medicine】, on the table. This made Diagu's sitting posture subconsciously straighten, but he still refused to soften his mouth:

"Still considered sincere. Wait for my good news."

The irritable little fairy Diagu jumped off the table and reached outside the window in the next instant. When he was more than ten meters away from Su Xiao, Su Xiao found that the little fairy's aura began to blur and then disappeared.

Su Xiao naturally wouldn't pin all his hopes on a little fairy he was cooperating with for the first time. He had already ordered Ergein to capture the "Crystal Forest" as soon as possible and then head towards the Sea Clan's "Ancestor Lighthouse" to attract the attention of the Sea King and the Council of Elders in this way, so as to facilitate the rescue of the Dwarf King.

If there really was no opportunity, he would adopt the most ultimate means: assassinating the Sea King to attract the attention of all the Sea Clan's high-level officials, and then take the opportunity to rescue the Dwarf King in the workshop area.

While Su Xiao was pondering this matter, he suddenly discovered that a large amount of silver moonlight had erupted in his storage space. After checking, he found that 【Silver Moon Blade】 had completed its promotion.

【Silver Moon Blade】

Origin: Hegemon Creature · Silver Moon Wolf

Quality: Hegemon-level.

Category: Secondary Equipment

Durability: 3/3 points.

Equipment Requirements: After using this equipment, there is a chance of temporary Moon Wolf transformation during battle (will suffer energy erosion when Moon Wolf transformed).

Hint: Due to the Hunter's personal reasons, this effect is permanently invalid.

Equipment Effect: Moon Oath (Active), use this blade to cut your palm. If the equipment requirements are met, you will not suffer substantial damage. For the subsequent 30 minutes, the weapon held by the user will be blessed with the "Moon Blade" effect.

Moon Blade (Passive): Within 30 minutes, increase weapon sharpness by 150 points and weapon attack power by 45 points.

Hint: Each time you bless your weapon with the "Moon Blade" effect, your weapon will permanently increase its sharpness by 50 points and attack power by 15 points.

Hint: The upper limit of this increase depends on the weapon being upgraded (estimated that Zhan Long Shan · Origin-level can permanently increase sharpness by 300–450 points and weapon attack power by 120 points or more through this characteristic).

Hint: Each time "Moon Oath (Active)" is used, it will consume 1 point of this equipment's durability. If this equipment's durability reaches zero, it will not shatter; after reflecting moonlight, the durability will gradually recover.

Warning: If the equipment requirements are not met, each time "Blade Cutting" is performed to bless the Moon Blade effect, the user will permanently reduce their maximum health limit by 5% (the Hunter is the Shadow of the Law-Breaker and has already met the equipment requirements for this equipment).

Score: 6000 points (Hegemon-level equipment score is 1–6000 points).

Introduction: We are willing to use moonlight to illuminate the darkest abyss for you, hoping you can be safe and sound.

Price: Cannot be sold.

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Zhan Long Shan currently has 1012 points of sharpness and 594–698 points of attack power. Normally, weapon sharpness is one-third of attack power, and better ones reach one-half. As for weapons where sharpness is higher than attack power, judging from the somewhat puzzled look of the Demon Blacksmith last time, there shouldn't be many such weapons.

Now that 【Silver Moon Blade】 has reached the first tier of Hegemon-level equipment, it has begun to be able to permanently increase Zhan Long Shan's sharpness. This is undoubtedly good news. And looking at the content of the attributes, it seems that when Zhan Long Shan is upgraded to a higher quality, the improvement of 【Silver Moon Blade】 to Zhan Long Shan will be even greater.

Putting away 【Silver Moon Blade】, Su Xiao took out a 【Gloomy Treasure Chest】 from the team storage space. This time, using World Thunder to clear out the dark creatures on Floating Light Island, he harvested a total of 865 【Gloomy Treasure Chests】. Now it was time to open them.

However, there was a problem: Su Xiao had obtained these 865 【Gloomy Treasure Chests】 through World Thunder strikes, and World Thunder is related to luck attributes, fortune, etc. Under normal circumstances, Su Xiao wouldn't actually be able to explode so many 【Gloomy Treasure Chests】. It was only by borrowing the characteristics of World Thunder that he had such an exaggerated explosion rate.

Everything is relative. While obtaining this number of 【Gloomy Treasure Chests】, Su Xiao's fortune over the last day or two had also been severely overdrawn. This resulted in the fact that even if he used 【Fate Dominator】 to bless his luck state now, he couldn't achieve the effect of using this equipment normally. He would have to wait a few days to recover.

Su Xiao picked up a 【Gloomy Treasure Chest】. Seeing this, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, Baham, and Xian Lulu all gathered around.

【You have opened the Gloomy Treasure Chest.】

【You have obtained Dark Calculus.】

【Dark Calculus】

Category: Curio.

Durability: 10/10 points.

Origin: Calculus inside the body of a dark creature.

Introduction: Can be thrown at enemies, thrilling and exciting.

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Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Baham, and Amu all had normal expressions. Xian Lulu's expression twisted for a moment. She really wanted to laugh, but because she was a bit afraid of Su Xiao, she didn't dare to, which resulted in this kind of facial art.

Su Xiao looked at the 【Dark Calculus】 in his hand and knew that his current fortune was not suitable for opening these 【Gloomy Treasure Chests】. But with his fortune over the last two days, it was too dangerous to rashly unfold his plans. It would be better to study how to maximize the benefits of these 【Gloomy Treasure Chests】.

Although Su Xiao couldn't open them himself, he could find others to open them, such as Hao Mei. He had heard Hao Mei say more than once that she often bought treasure chests to open and made a profit from them. Thinking about it, she must have means in this regard.

He had just contacted Hao Mei, and a few seconds later, Hao Mei replied, and also guaranteed that she would take the teleportation tower to Twilight Winter City within half an hour.

Hao Mei was very punctual. It took no more than 20 minutes in total for her to knock on the door of the flower room on the fourth floor of the ancient castle. Su Xiao, who was sitting cross-legged on the floor, opened his eyes.

Morei, Moon Apostle, and Hao Mei walked into the room one after another. Everyone was interested in opening treasure chests.

"White Night, I want a cut."

"……"

Su Xiao didn't speak, just took out a 【Gloomy Treasure Chest】. After Hao Mei took the chest, she used equipment to add states and took out various pendants. Finally, she opened the 【Gloomy Treasure Chest】 in her hand with a solemn expression and made the chest-opening prompt public.

【Opened Gloomy Treasure Chest.】

【Obtained Precipitated Glaze x1.】

……

This kind of profit made Su Xiao interested in the 【Gloomy Treasure Chest】. Although he guessed that he could open Abyss products from this thing, he didn't expect to be able to get Precipitated Glaze. With enough Precipitated Glaze, there were many good things in the Abyss Shop that could be bought.

"I only want the Precipitated Glaze. 20% of the other things opened belong to you."

"The Precipitated Glaze belongs to you, I want 30% of the other things. By the way, how many of these treasure chests do you have..."

Before Hao Mei finished speaking, Su Xiao took out all the 800+ 【Gloomy Treasure Chests】 in the team storage space, and the treasure chests piled up into a large heap.

"I... I'll be damned!"

Morei was shocked. She had never seen so many treasure chests piled together in her life.

"Alright, I take back what I just said. The Precipitated Glaze belongs to you, I only need 20% of the other things."

With this number of treasure chests, 20% of the profit other than the Precipitated Glaze was already very generous.

Just as Hao Mei took out several more pendants to add states to herself, Morei picked up a 【Gloomy Treasure Chest】 and asked: "Can I open one?"

"……"

Su Xiao didn't speak, which counted as tacit consent.

Morei opened the 【Gloomy Treasure Chest】 casually. The next second, golden light bloomed.

【Opened Gloomy Treasure Chest.】

【Obtained Precipitated Glaze x12.】

【Obtained Soul Money Bag x1.】

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Morei held a piece of Precipitated Glaze with a normal expression and even looked at it against the light. But soon, she noticed that the atmosphere was wrong. She looked around at the few people and said: "What are you looking at me for? It's very normal for a flash to occur once every three or four treasure chests, isn't it?"

Hearing this, Moon Apostle, Hao Mei, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, Baham, and Xian Lulu all fell into confusion. You look at me, I look at you, and then they all became even more confused. Su Xiao also didn't speak, because this problem had truly already involved his knowledge blind spot.

PS: (Sunday, rest for one day to prevent old illness from recurring. Readers, please forgive me.)

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