Bai Pu's Skill Combination

White Bone Dungeon is a copy made based on the Intersection Lands. The injuries, lost mental power, and energy values that the Awakened suffer inside are all real, which is why combat expertise and skill proficiency improve.

Of course, the Awakened have extraordinary physiques. After leaving combat, with the recovery of health, minor injuries can heal quickly. The higher the stamina, the stronger the recovery. For example, Bai Pu, whose fractured sternum no longer hurts.

"No rest." Bai Pu refused decisively, "I want to get the rewards faster, especially the skill books, to study and comprehend them well."

"Sigh, as expected of a newbie, full of energy." Qilin said with a smile, "I used to be so full of passion."

"And now?" Bai Pu was very curious. The strength of the Awakened is data-driven, and even the slightest improvement in strength can be seen. What could be more motivating than visible progress? Qilin scratched his head: "A bit lazy... No way, the strength improvement is too slow, and I feel like I've hit a bottleneck. After half a month of hard training, the proficiency of various combat skills has only increased by about 10%..."

Black Tiger said, "You still have to go to the real Intersection Lands or Spirit Realm to improve quickly. The spirit energy particle intensity of Earth is only 1.1, which is still a bit low."

After the two explained, Bai Pu also understood what the world intensity of 1.5 in the [Flesh Plague: Origin] plane meant.

World intensity represents the spirit energy particle intensity of that plane, usually meaning the general strength of the natives, as well as the danger level of various beasts and ruins in the world. Even the density (weight) of mountains, rocks, and flowing water, and the energy intensity contained in plant fruits, are affected by the world intensity.

The world intensity of Earth is about 1.1. High-level Awakened among humans can split mountains and rivers on Earth, and a casual blow can cause the earth to tremble. A powerful leap is as light as a flying bird, and the constraints of gravity seem to not exist. But in the Spirit Realm planes with high world intensity, it is impossible to have such superhuman exaggerated performances.

Bai Pu also understood why the stones in the Flesh Plague: Origin plane seemed heavier and harder than the stones in reality.

According to Black Tiger, training in places with high spirit energy particle intensity (world intensity) will lead to faster strength improvement.

Qilin sighed and said, "I'm not like you. Berserkers can withstand attacks and deal damage, and they can thrive as lone wolves. I'm a support Words of Power master, learning auxiliary, control, and protection skills. The Spirit Realm is not a place you can just go to."

Su Xiaoxiao interrupted Qilin's complaints: "Alright, alright. Xiao Bai Pu, let's get down to business. How should your rewards be arranged? Those virtual rewards that you can't use can be exchanged for Honor Points."

Bai Pu said, "Can you let me see the introduction of [Unstable Shield]?"

"Oh, a rare skill." Su Xiaoxiao said with a smile, "You didn't have this permission before, but now that you've received this reward, you naturally have the permission to view it. You can check it on the terminal yourself."

Bai Pu glanced at the personal information terminal, which projected a red light for iris recognition and unlocked after a second.

"Hello, Master, the intelligent assistant is at your service..."

It is inevitable to set it up when starting it for the first time. Bai Pu named the intelligent assistant "Xiao Bai."

Then Bai Pu gave the command: "Xiao Bai, search for information on [Unstable Shield]."

The light screen projected by the personal information terminal quickly provided the information.

[The following is the relevant information found from the 'God Strategy Army Logistics Exchange List' based on your permissions:]

[Unstable Shield: Two-Star Skill. Creates a shield to protect yourself, lasting 10 seconds. After a 3-second delay, you can detonate your shield, dealing shock damage equal to the shield value to all nearby enemies.]

Offense and defense in one! Group attack skill! Shock damage!

Bai Pu's ability to extract information is extremely strong. After looking at it, he keenly discovered the advantages of this two-star skill.

Shock damage is a type of "physical damage" and will be reduced by armor. But shock damage has one advantage: affected enemies will be slowed down or even stunned! It is equivalent to having its own control ability.

"Damn, what a great skill."

Black Tiger and Qilin both came over, very envious.

The star rating of a skill only determines the priority. As for the practicality of the skill effect, it has nothing to do with the star rating. Of course, it is also true that the probability of three-star skills producing high-quality products is much greater than the probability of one-star skills producing high-quality products.

"This skill, did you get it from a level three virtual treasure chest?" Black Tiger was eager to try, "Which monster dropped it? I'll go try it next time I enter the White Bone Dungeon."

"It was a skeleton warhorse." Bai Pu didn't have anything to hide.

"Skeleton Warhorse? Holy crap, that's a 'Nightmare'. You actually managed to kill a Nightmare; that horse is a Level 3 Enhanced Elite, and its master, the Black Knight, is even more powerful, the guarding BOSS of the third level of the White Bone Dungeon!" Black Tiger's eyes widened.

"Just lucky, the Black Knight wasn't around, and the horse happened to be near the entrance," Bai Pu said.

"Then I'll try my luck next time..." Black Tiger muttered, "I'm Level 4 now, considered an intermediate Awakened... Yeah, dealing with a Level 3 Enhanced Elite shouldn't be a problem."

"Don't dream, even if you kill a Nightmare and get a Level 3 virtual treasure chest, the chance of opening a rare skill is very low," Su Xiaoxiao mercilessly shot him down. "The dungeon rewards take into account the challenger's strength. Xiao Bai Pu is a Level 1 newbie, exploring the White Bone Dungeon for the first time, so the drop rate is so high."

Ignoring Black Tiger and Qilin's envy, Bai Pu exchanged a few words with Su Xiaoxiao, outlining his plans for the rewards.

The two-star skill [Unstable Shield] and the one-star skill [Leaping Strike] were redeemed. Other useful rewards were redeemed as well, while the rest, such as duplicate standard equipment or skill books with mediocre effects, were all exchanged for Honor Points.

In the end, Bai Pu spent all his Honor Points and used 300 Honor Points of credit to redeem another two-star skill from the armory – [Whirling Throw].

This skill has a ranged interrupt effect, and its cooldown time is the same as [Leaping Strike], two minutes, which is quite practical.

The reason for choosing skills over equipment was mainly to improve combat power. Comparing the [Leaping Strike] and the [Ram] skill attached to the Iron Thorn Shoulder Guard, the cooldown time of Leaping Strike is only 120 seconds, while Ram is a full 12 hours! Instead of spending more than 1000 Honor to redeem an ordinary elite-level equipment, it is better to redeem a highly practical two-star skill book.

Of course, the skills that an Awakened can learn are not unlimited.

According to Su Xiaoxiao, although the Spirit Realm Will does not limit how many skills an Awakened can learn, skill books have a "comprehension success rate"! And in the event of comprehension failure, the skill book will not be returned.

The more and stronger skills an Awakened has already learned, the lower the comprehension success rate of new skills. Generally speaking, a low-level Awakened is limited to learning three skills. To learn a fourth skill, wasting several skill books may not be successful.

This is also related to the Awakened's hidden attribute – Comprehension. With high Comprehension, the success rate of comprehension is higher under the same conditions. Of course, Comprehension cannot allow an Awakened to learn skills indefinitely.

Therefore, Bai Pu decided to temporarily learn only three skills: Leaping Strike, Unstable Shield, and Whirling Throw.

Besides the reason of comprehension success rate, there is also the saying that one cannot chew more than one can swallow. Learning too many skills will slow down the growth of skill proficiency.

More importantly, using combat skills consumes profession energy!

Under normal circumstances, a standard template ordinary Awakened can support three to four casts of one-star skills in a battle, and then it becomes difficult to continue.

As an enhanced elite profession, Bai Pu's profession energy, Blood Battle Qi, is about twice as thick as that of an ordinary Awakened. However, the Unstable Shield and Whirling Throw he wants to use are both two-star skills, which consume more energy.

With Su Xiaoxiao, the quartermaster, busy with everything, Bai Pu quickly got the three skill books he wanted.