Lord-Class Combat Strength
As soon as the message was sent out, the entire Evergreen Inn was immediately surrounded by people.
Tens of thousands of players flooded into the inner city at once, almost making the Prefect of Jiangling Prefecture think that there was a riot in the city!
Upon seeing this, Lister quickly left the inn in the inner city and went to sit in a certain area of the outer city.
This can be seen as indirectly waiving the entry fee for some ordinary players.
"Count Merrick, please teach me the Merrick Saber Technique."
At first, everyone would politely communicate with him, but as more and more people joined in, including Lister himself, he found the process of teaching skills tedious.
Later on, it became a matter of exchanging money, with Lister repeatedly clicking the "skill transfer" option on the system panel.
"Count Merrick, I only have 4 gold and 100 silver coins. I haven't had time to exchange the silver coins for gold yet. May I learn...?"
The learning fee is 5 gold coins.
The indifferent voice made the player turn away awkwardly.
In fact, Lister had just attempted to teach by clicking on the link.
Unfortunately, the rigid system requires the other party to pay five gold coins.
Lister now deeply regretted the settings he had made when imparting skills.
What kind of stupidity is it to set the level requirement at level 10 and require an additional 5 gold coins for learning?
Although the line of people waiting to learn skills seems endless, the number is definitely not that large.
For ordinary players at the bottom, who have barely reached level ten, it might take selling all their equipment and items to scrape together just 5 gold coins.
But who would sell everything they own just to learn a skill?
Anyway, Lister thought it was unlikely.
If he had known this would happen, he should have set the threshold at level 0 and 1 copper coin. He believed that the number of "leeks" he could have harvested would have multiplied.
System notification: To better address the issue of skill instructors passing on skills, a new feature, 'Batch Transfer,' has been enabled for you.
The ability to suddenly teach dozens or even hundreds of people at once greatly relieved Lister's teaching burden.
For six consecutive days, I worked as a skills instructor in the outer city from 9 am to 9 pm.
Finally, the queues were visibly shorter today.
By the afternoon, players no longer needed to queue to learn skills from him, and Lister could even occasionally take a break.
After so many days of hard work, the rewards for him were naturally incredibly generous.
"Skill Instructor Merrick: Can teach the skill 'Merrick Saber Technique' (Rank C), currently taught to 274,312 players."
In just one week, a total of 270,000 players were taught.
Compared to the current 60 million players, this is less than 0.5%, far below his minimum target of 2%.
However, the main reason is not Lister, but rather that the average player's level has not yet been raised, and it is also relatively difficult to accumulate gold coins.
Lister believed that after his initial deliberate exposure, it wouldn't be difficult for over 800,000 players to learn from him.
Congratulations, you have gained 10 experience points (from skill transfer).
Congratulations, you have gained 40 experience points (from skill transfer).
[Remaining Experience Points: 8,952,932]
Looking at his nearly nine million usable experience points, Lister felt a sense of satisfaction.
Isn't this much faster than grinding monsters?
It even gave him more experience points than the Main Quest where he rebuilt Merrick's glory.
All players who have learned Merrick Saber Technique are currently at an average level of LV3.
The chives haven't fully grown yet; once they've reached that stage and continue leveling up, they'll gain even more experience points.
"Brother Chen, I've gotten my hands on a few Skill Books, do you want them?"
A message popped up in my friend's chat window; I knew without guessing it was from Chen Shanqiang.
Ever since Lister helped him those few times, Chen Shanqiang had been thinking about rewarding Lister and not treating him unfairly.
Unfortunately, gold coins and Federation credits were useless to Lister.
As for the treasures and props, they were so rare that Chen Shanqiang didn't even have enough for himself, let alone give them to others.
In the end, they were still willing to give him Skill Books. Every few days, they would send him some of the collected Skill Books so that he could choose first, which suited him just fine.
There are currently four Skill Books in the message box.
Lister glanced at the first three Skill Books. Although they were rare C-level skills and quite valuable, they were worthless to him.
It was the last book that caught his eye; it contained the visualization method.
[Sharp Blade Visualization Method (Passive, No Grade): Limited to sword and blade attack buffs, increases Sharpness trait by 1% per level. (Note: Sharpness trait can penetrate enemy defense, dealing a certain amount of defense-ignoring damage.)]
This is great stuff!
A passive buff exclusive to swords and blades, dealing damage that ignores defense.
Although it's far inferior to the true damage of the Yellow Court Saber Art, Lister is more than satisfied. He welcomes all passive abilities of this type, the more the better!
"I want that Sharp Blade. Do you need me to give you the extra gold coins?"
"No need, Brother Chen, your help those times has been a great help to me."
"In the end, it even caused your Merrick Saber Technique to be exposed. How much is a mere Skill Book worth anyway!"
Chen Shanqiang felt guilty that the Merrick Saber Technique had been exposed by the strategy team and was now about to become a universal martial arts technique.
They believed that it was because he asked them to take action that the skill learning method was made public.
In fact, this was something Lister did on purpose.
Of course, it's fine to just let things continue as they are.
Without exploiting the other party's guilt, whether we'll even see this Sharp Blade today is another matter entirely.
Having received the Skill Book via the system, Lister ended the skill instruction early today.
Back in his room, he learned the Sharp Blade and prepared to use his 9 million experience points.
While the accumulated experience points may seem enormous, after being allocated to the eight passive skills already available, they are completely insufficient.
After much hesitation, Lister finally decided to max out the Yellow Court Saber Art Visualization Method first.
His current level is 40, and the level barrier for all his skills is currently 40.
Congratulations! Your Yellow Court Saber Art Visualization Method has been upgraded!
[Yellow Court Saber Art Visualization Method (Passive, No Rank) LV1→40 (1/400000): Increases true damage of sword techniques by an additional 40%.]
Just by temporarily maxing out this one skill, eight million experience points were instantly consumed.
Lister allocated all of the remaining one million experience points to Killing Intent Wave.
Congratulations! Your Killing Intent Wave Visualization Method has been upgraded!
[Killing Intent Wave Visualization Method (Passive, No Rank) LV1→LV14 (1/140000): Increases additional perception by 14% and Killing Intent Perception by 42%. Can actively release killing intent against enemies whose strength is far below one's own, dealing area-of-effect damage equal to 42% of the user's base damage.]
Congratulations! Your overall rating has been improved.
[Overall Rating: B→A (Lord Tier)]
Having only fully mastered the Yellow Court Saber Art Visualization Method, Lister's overall rating had already reached the Lord Tier.
Among 4th-tier Class Holder, he is now truly at the top of the pyramid, an absolute humanoid super boss.
This made Lister feel even more at ease, and he became more relaxed about the possible attitude of Yongping Emperor of the Great Chu Imperial Dynasty.
After some reflection, he silently assessed his own perception after the upgrade of his Killing Intent Wave.
A 14% improvement in perception is quite significant; one becomes much more sensitive to the surrounding space.
The sounds outside were amplified, and the cacophony rushed straight into my ears.
He could even roughly judge the movements of people outside, and Lister's own reaction speed was also slightly improved accordingly.
As for this special Killing Intent Perception, Lister was not originally able to experience it.
Suddenly, a strong and offensive wave rushed into his perception range.
Judging from the distance, it was several tens of meters away from me, and it was now constantly approaching me.
The sensation was extremely clear; the fluctuation quickly entered the Evergreen Inn, and the once bustling inn suddenly fell silent.