Piercing Shot's Power

Ding! As your Destined Divine Weapon grows, you have learned a new skill - Piercing Shot

Piercing Shot: Consumes 20 mana. Fires a magical bullet with piercing effect, dealing 150% attack damage to multiple targets. The bullet's damage decreases with distance and the number of targets hit. Cooldown: 10 seconds. (Note: Can only be used when a firearm is equipped.)

"Damn, I finally have a skill!"

Nan Feng was overjoyed. It was like a pillow being delivered just when he was about to fall asleep!

This Piercing Shot could barely be considered a group attack skill, which could greatly improve Nan Feng's efficiency in hunting ferocious beasts.

Rubbing his hands excitedly, Nan Feng looked at the weapons in his hands again.

His Desert Eagle and wooden dagger could also be upgraded as the Destined Divine Weapon leveled up.

Desert Eagle:

Current Grade: F-Rank Peak (Increases with the Dilapidated Armory)

Type: Weapon

Attributes: Strength +20, Spirit +16

--Each attack consumes 3 mana, dealing 120% attack damage to the hit enemy.

--Equipment from the Dilapidated Armory.

Wooden Dagger:

Current Grade: F-Rank Peak (Increases with the Dilapidated Armory)

Type: Weapon

Attributes: Strength +24, Agility +6, Constitution +6

--Each attack deals 110%~130% attack damage to the enemy.

--Slightly increases bleeding effect.

--Equipment from the Dilapidated Armory.

These two pieces of equipment didn't change much, only some basic attributes were increased.

However, it's worth mentioning that the Desert Eagle's normal attack damage has increased to 120%. This means that Nan Feng's attacks are now 1.2 times more damaging than before, and each attack only consumes 3 mana.

This is a huge improvement!

"Nice."

Nan Feng glanced at his attributes and nodded in satisfaction.

His Strength had reached 48 points, and his Attack Power had reached 240 points, which was simply terrifying.

Name: Nan Feng

Level: 4 (162/1800)

Health Points: 280/280

Mana Points: 340/340

Attack Power: 240

Defense: 93

Strength: 48

Agility: 22

Constitution: 28

Spirit: 34

...

Apart from the slightly low Health Points, all other attributes were very high.

"I still have 10 free attribute points, should I add them all?"

Nan Feng received 5 free attribute points each when leveling up from level 2 to 3 and from level 3 to 4, and he had been saving them.

Now Nan Feng decided to put all the points into Strength, maxing out his damage!

Strength: 58!

Attack Power: 290!

With 10 free attribute points spent, Nan Feng's Attack Power instantly reached 290 points!

"Awesome, this time I, Nan, am going from a peashooter to a cannon!"

Take off!

Nan Feng had used Eye of Insight to check the Cave Spider King's attributes earlier. The big spider had 210 Defense, so Nan Feng couldn't damage it at all before.

But Nan Feng's current Attack Power was enough to break through its defense.

He could go back and take a risk.

Putting the Crude Disassembler back into his backpack, Nan Feng cautiously walked towards the cave.

Cave entrance.

Nan Feng cautiously peeked around for a while, but didn't spot any sign of the Cave Spider King.

However, there were many small Spiderlings slowly crawling out.

"Spiderlings..."

Nan Feng activated his Eye of Insight to get the stats of these little spiders.

"Level 3, 280 HP, 65 defense..."

Nan Feng quickly calculated in his head:

(290 * 1.2) - 65 = 283.

Nan Feng could kill a Spiderling with one shot.

In that instant, the Spiderlings transformed into adorable little experience pinatas in Nan Feng's eyes.

All that delicious experience!

Thwack! Without hesitation, Nan Feng raised his hand and fired!

-311!

Ding! You have killed a Level 3 Common Beast Spiderling, gaining 15 experience points.

Nan Feng was taken aback. "Huh? Why's the damage so high?"

This wasn't quite what he had calculated.

Nan Feng briefly recalled his previous battles and realized that when hunting beasts below his level, his damage was indeed increased.

About a 10% damage boost?

Shaking his head, Nan Feng stopped dwelling on the details and began focusing on hunting the Spiderlings.

He still had 300+ mana, enough to kill at least 100 Spiderlings, which was equivalent to 1500+ experience!

Nan Feng even felt like he might reach Level 5 today!

Time to get to work!

Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!

Nan Feng raised his Desert Eagle and picked off the Spiderlings one by one.

Occasionally, a shot or two would miss, but it wasn't a big deal.

Ding! You have killed a Level 3 Common Beast Spiderling, gaining 15 experience points.

Ding! You have killed a Level 3 Common Beast Spiderling, gaining 15 experience points.

Ding! You have killed a Level 3 Common Beast Spiderling, gaining 15 experience points.

While killing monsters, Nan Feng continued to advance, quickly approaching the previous fork in the road.

Nan Feng cautiously glanced down the right passage and, not seeing the Cave Spider King, breathed a sigh of relief.

If the Cave Spider King was still guarding this place, he'd have to turn back.

Opening his panel, Nan Feng sent a message to Su Ziran: "Bro, how's it going on your end? Can you hold out?"

After waiting a while, Su Ziran replied: "We can hold out for half an hour at most. There are too many spiders, we can't kill them all, and we can't recover our mana."

Mana recovery potions only restored 50 mana every 10 minutes, and in such an intense battle, 50 mana would probably be used up in 30 seconds. How could that be enough?

Wu Yuansheng and the others had already started resorting to melee combat.

Nan Feng glanced at the left passage and saw a dense swarm of Spiderlings.

"Perfect time to test out my new skill."

Nan Feng lay down on the ground, positioning the Desert Eagle about 5 centimeters above the ground.

He pulled the trigger!

Thwack!

20 mana surged from Nan Feng's body into the Desert Eagle, and an 8-centimeter-long, spiraling magic bullet shot out of the barrel!

Piercing Shot!

The Piercing Shot whizzed along the ground, piercing through 17 Spiderlings before stopping!

"Awesome!"

The power of the Piercing Shot far exceeded Nan Feng's expectations.

Especially in an area with such a high concentration of beasts, Piercing Shot was practically a godsend!

It was just a bit mana-intensive.

Nan Feng checked his status bar and saw that he had 127 mana left, enough for 6 more shots.

In addition to his mana, Nan Feng also noticed his experience points (1092/1800).

"I'm still 708 experience points away from leveling up, which translates to needing to kill 48 more Spiderlings."

For Nan Feng, who has Piercing Shot, killing 48 Spiderlings isn't difficult at all.

Nan Feng immediately fired another Piercing Shot.

This time, the luck wasn't great; it only killed 9 Spiderlings before the bullet got stuck in the wall and disappeared.

39 more to go!