Insane Stats, Sky-High Confidence!

After successfully changing classes, Xu Kun's five base attributes were:

Strength: 73; Spirit: 70; Vitality: 70; Agility: 60; Focus: 60!

The total was 333 points!

They had now all been converted into free attribute points, which he could allocate according to his class's growth rates!

Normally, after resetting one's attributes following a class change, one would naturally prioritize the attribute with the highest growth rate. But Xu Kun was troubled, because even the lowest of his five attribute growth rates was four stars!

The highest was Spirit, with a conversion rate of five and a half stars!

And for now, Xu Kun had no obvious weaknesses. How to distribute his points left him hesitating for quite a while!

But when he noticed the greatest feature of the Magic Warrior class—the Magic Warrior Force—his allocation direction immediately became clear!

Strength +0, Spirit +100, Vitality +100, Agility +70, Focus +63!

If an ordinary person saw Xu Kun's allocation, they would definitely cry, "Holy shit, are you crazy?"

But Xu Kun had no hesitation whatsoever. Only an allocation like this could maximize the utilization of his free attribute points!

After allocating his points, Xu Kun's stats were:...

ID: Kun

Talents: Myriad Races Bestiary (F-tier), Child of the Wind (SS-tier), Corrosive Poison (E-tier), Minotaur Strength (F-tier)

Level: Tier 1, Level 0

Class: Magic Warrior

Strength: 165 (+165) — Numbers in parentheses are equipment bonuses; percentages are skill/talent bonuses!

Spirit: 125 (+25)

Vitality: 175 (+75)

Agility: 1504 (+165 +640%)

Focus: 108 (+45)

Luck: Max

Magic Warrior Force: 3920 — Physical Attack 2515 (+5%) + Magic Attack 1405

HP: 11687 (+5% +20%)

Stamina: 4620

Physical Defense: 2110

Magic Defense: 1060

HP Recovery: 35/S out of combat, doubled while meditating

Stamina Recovery: 21.6/S out of combat, doubled while meditating (HP/Stamina recovery remains Vitality/Focus ÷ 5 per second. After leaving the beginner phase, the time needed to naturally recover HP and mana greatly increases. Likewise, at higher levels, other types of recovery potions can be obtained!)

Hit Rate: Based on target's Evasion

Evasion Rate: Based on target's Hit Rate

Attack Speed: Extremely Fast

Movement Speed: 781 M/S (+30%)

Special Attributes:

Fire Attack: 450 (+200%)

Fire Resistance: 90 (+200%)

(Dragon Body and set immunity attributes calculated separately)

Poison Attack: 198 (+10%)

Poison Resistance Ignore: 33 (+10%)

Wind Attack: 1924 (+640%)

Wind Resistance: 20

Wind Resistance Ignore: 70

Equipment:

SS-tier (Cheng Ying Sword)

A-tier (Zenith Blazing Spirit Armor, Supreme Ember Spirit Boots, Wind Breath Bracer)

B-tier (Locust Stone)

D-tier (Soul Chaser, Soul Seizer)

E-tier (Minotaur Gauntlets)

Skills: SSS-tier (Unyielding Starfire)

S-tier (Blade Storm)

A-tier (Explosive Fireball, Blazing Prairie, Azure Sand Palm, Blood Poison Myriad Miles, Bone-Melting Palm)

B-tier (Charge)

F-tier (Swift Attack, Spirit of Grass, Bleeding, Paralysis Poison, Trample, Blue Silver Entanglement, Flying Sand and Rolling Stones, Shadow Skim, Fire Line, Poison Marsh, Poison Source Conversion)

After reviewing his status panel, Xu Kun took a deep breath, his eyes gleaming.

These numbers could only be described with two words—explosive!

First, let's explain Xu Kun's seemingly unreasonable stat allocation. It was because he had just discovered what Magic Warrior Force actually was!

Magic Warrior Force was a value created by combining Physical Attack and Magic Attack Power!

The Magic Warrior class had actually fused the two core attributes of melee and ranged classes into one!

After understanding the purpose of Magic Warrior Force, Xu Kun nearly burst out laughing.

For example, the three major AoE skills Xu Kun currently possessed were Blazing Prairie, Blood Poison Myriad Miles, and Blade Storm!

Two of those A-tier AoE skills calculated their bonuses based on Magic Attack Power plus attribute attack!

Blade Storm, on the other hand, calculated its bonuses based on Physical Attack plus Wind Attribute attack!

But after the Magic Warrior class combined Physical Attack and Magic Attack Power into one, the damage formula for all three AoE skills became Magic Warrior Force plus attribute attack!

This discovery meant Xu Kun no longer had to agonize over whether to invest his points into Strength or Spirit!

Strength converted into Physical Attack. With Minotaur Strength's 5% bonus, 1 point of Strength equaled 10.5 Physical Attack!

But after Xu Kun fused with the B-tier Doomsday Poisoner class, 1 point of Spirit equaled 11 Magic Attack Power!

The difference was only 0.5, but it added up. Investing 100 free attribute points into Spirit gave him 50 more Magic Attack Power. Why not?

As for Minotaur Strength eventually upgrading from an F-tier talent to E-tier, or even a higher D-tier later on, that could wait. Living in the present was the philosophy of life. Besides, while climbing the Haotian Pagoda, this would not be his only chance to reset his stats. Xu Kun would have plenty of opportunities to make adjustments in the future!

The benefits of Magic Warrior Force did not lie solely in merging Physical Attack and Magic Attack Power into a higher Magic Warrior Force value!

The Magic Warrior class was melee-based. Xu Kun's basic attacks could not take the form of ranged attacks, but every one of his normal strikes directly used Magic Warrior Force. With 3920 Magic Warrior Force, who wouldn't feel pain after getting hit?

Against those Eternal Stone Statues with over ten thousand HP earlier, Xu Kun would not even need to use any major skills. With a low-tier skill like Swift Attack, he could easily take down two statues!

"Unfortunately, because the Magic Warrior class is melee-based, my normal attacks have to account for the target's Physical Defense. And most races place great importance on Vitality as a core attribute. The higher their level, the lower their Physical Defense won't be!"

Xu Kun smacked his lips. Even though he had not invested a single free attribute point into Strength, the SS-tier high-grade divine artifact Cheng Ying Sword, along with a full set of Physical Attack equipment, had still pushed his Strength to a staggering 165 points!

Although Spirit had a slightly higher conversion rate, the only equipment Xu Kun possessed that added Spirit was the D-tier ring Soul Seizer and Cheng Ying Sword's +15 to all attributes. Even with his stat allocation, it only reached 125 points!

After conversion, his Physical Attack was still over a thousand points higher than his Magic Attack Power!

Originally, due to these external factors, Xu Kun had seriously considered following Ling Feng's example and putting all his points into Strength. But that would have greatly diminished the value of skills that received magic-based bonuses!

But now, things were different. I, Xu Kun, cultivate both magic and martial arts. Once Magic Warrior Force emerges, who can stand against me?

And aside from the huge surprise that was Magic Warrior Force, Xu Kun's HP had now reached a terrifying level!

11687!

Even the Eternal Stone Statues, which had the highest HP on all of Mist Island, had less health than Xu Kun now!

Besides allocating 100 free attribute points to Vitality and having the same five-star conversion rate, the largest increase came from the Zenith Flame Spirit Set's two-piece 20% HP bonus and Minotaur Strength's 5% HP bonus!

His HP had leaped from just over 8000 to this level in one go!

If he added a Fire Dragon Barrier on top of that, 20% of his HP would amount to an additional 2337-point shield. Although that shield had no defense whatsoever, Xu Kun judged that monsters of the same level would still need a considerable amount of time to break it!

After unequipping the Supreme Ember Spirit Sword, the Zenith Flame Spirit Set only lost the sword's own attributes and the three-piece set effect, Basic Simple. The other bonuses granted by the set remained unaffected!

Set effect, one piece: Fire Attribute attack +50

Set effect, two pieces: 50% immunity to Fire Attribute attacks; HP +20%

It had to be said that this was the best possible outcome. The Basic Simple set effect had been a godsend to the level 0 Xu Kun, but after reaching level 0 of the first tier, it had lost all value!

"What a pity. Other than Wrath of the Fire Dragon, which can still be used once every hour, the Flame Spirit Sword's decent splash special effect will be wasted because I'll definitely be using the far more powerful Cheng Ying Sword!"

The Supreme Ember Spirit Sword would ultimately be reduced to something kept at the bottom of his inventory, useful only as a one-time item!

Among the five core attributes, Xu Kun had focused on Spirit and Vitality—damage and HP, the things most sought after by the masses—while assigning fewer free attribute points to Agility and Resolve!

Xu Kun had carefully considered assigning 63 free attribute points to Resolve. It was not for the few hundred points of Magic Defense. If a ranged class could wear Xu Kun down with basic attacks, he might as well commit seppuku and quit playing!

What he wanted was his current 4620 Energy!

Although Xu Kun was a melee fighter, he possessed more skills than 99.99% of ranged classes at the same level. And after breaking through to the first tier, his natural recovery rate had not received the massive boost that his other attributes had!

Xu Kun could no longer fight like he had against the Blue Silver Grass swarm—bombarding them with skills, then meditating to recover Energy!

With an Energy recovery rate of 21.6 per second, even doubled through meditation, he would still have to wait a long time!

With such high Energy consumption, besides always carrying Energy recovery potions, the more important thing was having a sufficiently large Energy pool!

When rich, unleash overwhelming firepower. Charging recklessly at powerful enemies was not cherishing one's own life. The best solution was to kill the enemy from a thousand miles away. If I can crush you with skills, I'll never swing my sword one extra time!

Compared to his 11687 HP, 4620 Energy naturally did not seem like much. But Blade Storm, his most Energy-consuming S-tier AoE skill at present, only cost 200 Energy. His current Energy was enough for short-term expenditure!

Among the five core attributes, Xu Kun had only added 70 points to Agility!

Yet even so, Agility's base value had still reached a terrifying level!

1504!

After the four-star Agility conversion of the magic-warrior class, his attack speed became extraordinarily fast. His Movement Speed, bolstered by Agility * 0.4 and the 30% Movement Speed bonus from the Supreme Ember Spirit Boots' Dragonstride, had reached a terrifying 781 M/S!

What kind of absurd figure was 781 M/S?!

Not even twice the speed of sound was that fast!

Earlier, he had still envied Ling Feng's Movement Speed of 365. Now, by comparison, even a freak like Xu Kun found this number freakish!

He had even given himself a title!

The fastest man at level 10!

The current Xu Kun could run all the way from the level 1 monster zone to the ruins of the Desolate Shrine in just a few minutes!

At the same level, Xu Kun found it hard to imagine anyone who could even touch him. With such a high Agility bonus, his evasion was downright terrifying!

"With my current evasion, even if Senior Ling Feng were still alive, it probably wouldn't be easy for him to touch me, right?" Xu Kun thought, rubbing his chin.

This was the terror of an SS-tier talent!

And as an SS-tier talent that granted dual bonuses, Child of the Wind gave Xu Kun not only an incredibly terrifying Agility stat, but also a staggering 1924 Wind Attack!

Fortunately, Xu Kun had not changed classes into a Gale Sword Soul like Ling Feng. The only skill he possessed that could apply Wind Attack was the newly acquired Blade Storm!

Xu Kun calculated Blade Storm's current damage...

It could deal 7012.8 Wind Attribute damage per second to everything within its range!

!!!

Xu Kun was dumbfounded the moment he reached that conclusion!

"Originally, I thought Wrath of the Fire Dragon dealt 5,000 damage per second, for a total of 50,000 damage over ten seconds. Once I advanced to Tier 1, Unyielding Starfire might be able to catch up to that number. But now there's no need! With Blade Storm alone, even if all the enemies in its range die and Storm Gathering's special effect can't be triggered, the total damage still reaches as high as 70,000!"

Compared to Blade Storm, Xu Kun's S-tier skill, the special skill Wrath of the Fire Dragon attached to the Supreme Ember Spirit Sword only retained the advantage of having a wider range. As Xu Kun grew stronger, its 5,000 Fire Attribute damage per second would be left far behind!

"Haha, then Wrath of the Fire Dragon will have even fewer chances to shine in the future. I won't have to worry about picking up junk materials ruined by it anymore!"

Xu Kun both loved and hated Wrath of the Fire Dragon. It was a Fire Dragon skill, so its high damage was naturally great, but why did it have to come with a destructive attribute?

Agility and Wind Attribute Attack were absolutely unique on Xu Kun's attribute panel, all thanks to Ling Feng's Child of the Wind talent!

But Xu Kun's own Fire Attack and Poison Attack were no weaker!

Although he had lost the Ember Spirit Sword's 30 Fire Attack, he had gained another Blazing God's Heart Shard, which added 100 Fire Attack. Rather than decreasing, his Fire Attribute Attack had increased!

With the bonuses, it had reached 450!

His Poison Attack had not changed much. After fusing with the Doomsday Poisoner class certificate, it increased by another 50, reaching 198!

Don't be fooled by the fact that the combined values of Fire Attack and Poison Attack were not even a fraction of Wind Attack!

For the current Xu Kun, these two special attributes were far more useful than Wind Attribute Attack!

The reason was simple. Among the skills Xu Kun had that received attribute bonuses, the majority were boosted by Fire Attack and Poison Attack. In contrast, the only skill related to the Wind Attribute was Blade Storm!

As for Fire Attack, aside from Xu Kun's strongest skill and trump card, the SSS-tier skill Unyielding Starfire, even the F-tier skill Fireline relied heavily on Fire Attack!

With 5% of Fire Attack added to his basic attacks, 450 * 5% meant Xu Kun's normal attacks naturally dealt an additional 22.5 damage. That was without even accounting for critical hits or Fire Attribute critical damage bonuses!

As for Explosive Fireball and Scorching Prairie, the skills Xu Kun used most often, they also depended on Fire Attack bonuses!

"I just used up all 100 stacks of Starfire Imprint I had collected on Senior Ling Feng, leaving me with 0 Starfire Imprints right now. If I fully stack them, my Fire Attack will reach 1450, second only to my Wind Attack. But it will definitely have far more applications!"

With 1450 Fire Attack, just counting the F-tier skill Fireline, his basic attacks would deal 72.5 additional Fire Attribute damage. How terrifying was that?!

And though Poison Attack had the lowest numerical value, it actually matched with the most skills!

Azure Sand Palm, which carried 100% Poison Attack!

The A-tier AoE skill Blood Poison Myriad Miles, and the A-tier single-target skill Bone-Melting Palm.

As well as the two F-tier skills Poison Marsh and Poison Source Conversion. Combined with the 50% Poison Attribute Attack bonus gained after absorbing the Poison Soul, his 198 Poison Attack had greatly elevated both Xu Kun's offensive methods and damage output!

A full five Poison Attack skills!

After looking over all his attributes, Xu Kun let out a heavy breath!

"Even if Senior Ling Feng were at his peak, he would have no way to deal with me now!"

This was not arrogance. After receiving an SSSS-tier rating, the current Xu Kun was many times stronger than before!

"The beginner trial lasts a week, but I've only spent less than half a day so far. Sigh, how boring. I have such powerful attributes, yet I still have to wait so long before entering the second floor of the Haotian Pagoda. I can't wait to let the racial monsters on the second floor see what I'm capable of!"

Xu Kun shamelessly bragged to himself.

"Alright, I'll first take a stroll around floor 0 of the Haotian Pagoda and deal with the things in my backpack that I don't need!"

"But before that, since I've accepted someone's request, I must see it through. Senior Ling Feng is gone, but I still have to fulfill his final wish for him!"

After saying that, Xu Kun broke into a dash, turning into a clear breeze as he swiftly arrived before the throne.

"Senior A Qing, forgive my offense!"