Hearing the notification by his ear, Xu Kun's jaw dropped in shock!
He had to admit, a max Luck stat of 49, combined with the bonus from Heavenly Blessing: Child of Fortune, was simply incredible!
It had directly upgraded him from a mediocre newbie set at slingshot level to an A-tier Zenith Blazing Spirit Set at cannon level!
He hurriedly took out the three pieces of equipment from his backpack.
Zenith Flame Spirit Set
Grade: A-tier
Level: 10
Strength: +30
Spirit: +30
Fire Attribute Attack: +30
Physical Attack: +60
Magic Attack Power: +60
Description: Forged from the spine of a Blazing Dragon with an SS-tier talent. The blade had been infused with a Blazing Dragon Soul!
Trait: Splash—Normal attacks splashed 20% of their damage onto enemy units within five yards!
Special Skill: Wrath of the Fire Dragon—Had a 1% chance to summon a Blazing Dragon Soul, releasing Fire Dragon Breath that dealt 5000 Fire Attribute damage per second within a 500x500 area. Skill duration: 10 seconds;
Energy Replenishment Time: One hour
Set Effect (One Piece): Fire Attribute Attack +50
It was actually a top-tier Fire Attribute weapon suited for both physical and magic attacks!
Zenith Blazing Spirit Armor
Grade: A-tier
Level: 10
Vitality: +30
Fire Attribute Resistance: +30
Physical Defense: +60
Health: +300
Description: Forged from the scales of a Blazing Dragon with an SS-tier talent. The armor had been drenched in Blazing Dragon Blood!
Trait: Dragon Body—Negated 20% of physical, magical, and Fire Attribute attacks.
Special Skill: Fire Dragon Barrier—Generated a barrier equal to 20% of the user's Health. Once the barrier shattered, it entered cooldown;
Cooldown: Ten minutes
Set Effect (Two Pieces): Immunity to 50% of Fire Attribute attacks; Health +20%
Supreme Ember Spirit Boots
Grade: A-tier
Level: 10
Agility: +30
Willpower: +30
Stamina: +300
Magic Defense: +60
Description: Forged from the hide and tendons of a Blazing Dragon with an SS-tier talent.
Trait: Dragonstride—Movement Speed +30%.
Special Skill: Blazing Dragon Blink—Automatically evaded one lethal attack;
Cooldown: Thirty minutes
Set Effect (Three Pieces): Basic Simplicity—Reduced the required level to use the Zenith Flame Spirit Set by 10 levels.
Divine equipment!
At that moment, those were the only words Xu Kun could use to describe the Zenith Blazing Spirit Set he had gotten from the newbie gift pack!
The base attributes provided by the set alone gave him +30 to each of the five basic attributes.
Of course, for an A-tier set at level 10, those base attributes were nothing special!
But an A-tier set did not merely boost basic attributes—it also added panel attributes!
Not to mention the special traits and skills built into every piece of equipment, as well as the most important set effects!
With the Basic Simplicity set effect, Xu Kun ignored the level 10 equipment requirement and put on the three-piece set. His previously blank personal panel underwent a dramatic transformation!
ID: Kun Talent: Myriad Races Bestiary (F-tier) Level: 0 Class: None Strength: 30 Spirit: 30 Vitality: 30 Agility: 30 Willpower: 30 Luck: MAX Physical Attack: 120 Magic Attack Power: 120 Health: 720 Stamina: 600 Physical Defense: 120 Magic Defense: 120 Health Recovery: 6/S after leaving combat, doubled while meditating Stamina Recovery: Same as above Hit Rate: Based on the target's Dodge Rate Dodge Rate: Based on the target's Hit Rate Attack Speed: Normal Walking Speed: 4M/S Special Attributes: Fire Attribute Attack 80, Fire Attribute Resistance 30 (Dragon Body and set immunity effects calculated separately) Equipment: Zenith Blazing Spirit Set (Three Pieces: Sword, Armor, Boots) Skills: None
With attributes like these, fighting level-one monsters would be nothing but a slaughter!
Not to mention the three traits built into the equipment: Splash, Dragon Body, and Dragonstride!
And the three special skills: Wrath of the Fire Dragon, Fire Dragon Barrier, and Blazing Dragon Blink!
Other than the 50% Fire Attribute immunity that did not show up on the panel, the set effects also included Basic Simplicity, which reduced the required level by 10 and allowed Xu Kun, a level-zero rookie, to wear this entire set!
His whole body seemed wrapped in flames, and the design looked overwhelmingly imposing. Xu Kun did not even need a mirror to imagine how handsome he looked right now!
"If Jian Jian saw this equipment on me, wouldn't he drool with envy?" Xu Kun said narcissistically.
"I wonder what kind of chemical reaction the 1% trigger chance of Wrath of the Fire Dragon will have with my max Luck!" Xu Kun stroked his chin, his face full of curiosity!
But he had not finished checking the items from the newbie gift pack. Under normal circumstances, newcomers were supposed to receive a three-piece newbie set and one basic skill!
He already had his three-piece newbie set, so what surprise would this remaining ball of light bring him?!
What, you said the Zenith Blazing Spirit Set did not count as newbie equipment and that this was cheating?
Brother, do you know what a Child of Destiny is?
I, Xu Kun, was not cheating. The Zenith Blazing Spirit Set was my newbie equipment!
He reached out a finger toward the final ball of light.
Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained the A-tier special item—Flame Spirit Heart!
Ding! Heavenly Blessing: Child of Fortune bonus activated. Flame Spirit Heart level +1, upgraded to the S-tier special item Blazing God's Heart Shard!
Blazing God's Heart Shard:
Grade: S-tier
Description: After the God of Fire, who controlled flames, fell, the gods waged a divine war to fight over the Blazing God's Heart, his origin. In the end, the Blazing God's Heart shattered into seven fragments. Only those with immense fortune could obtain them!
Collect all seven Blazing God's Heart Shards to obtain the complete Blazing God's Heart and receive the God of Fire's origin inheritance!
Blazing God's Heart Shard:
Effect One: Fire Attribute Attack +100%;
Effect Two: Fire Attribute Resistance +100%;
Effect Three: Critical damage from Fire-type skills became 2.5 times;
Effect Four: Randomly comprehend three Fire-type skills!
Without any hesitation, Xu Kun crushed the ball of fire in his palm amid his shock. The Blazing God's Heart Shard immediately turned into a streak of light and burrowed into the area around Xu Kun's heart!
Ding! Blazing God's Heart used successfully!
Xu Kun immediately felt his body temperature rise rapidly. A surge of heat rose from his lower abdomen, as though it were about to burn his entire body!
His body trembled. When Xu Kun opened his eyes again, flames flickered within them.
Fire Attribute Attack +100%
Fire Attribute Resistance +100%
Ding! Congratulations, you have comprehended the A-tier Fire-type skill: Explosive Fireball!
Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained the A-tier Fire-type skill: Wildfire Scorches the Plains!
Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained the SSS-tier Fire-type skill: Unyielding Starfire!
Explosive Fireball:
Grade: A-tier
Dealt Fire Attribute damage equal to Magic Attack Power + 1.5x Fire Attribute Attack to a single target, then inflicted a 5-second Burning effect that dealt Fire Attribute Attack Power/10 damage!
Stamina Cost: 50
Cooldown: 10 seconds
Xu Kun's current Magic Attack Power was 120, while his Fire Attribute Attack was 160 due to the Blazing God's Heart's +100% effect. Calculated together, one Explosive Fireball could deal 360 single-target damage!
That was without factoring in a critical hit. Once it crit, the Blazing God's Heart's 2.5-times critical damage would instantly inflict a terrifying 900 damage!
The subsequent Burning effect could also deal 16 points of Fire Attribute damage per second!
For targets without Fire Attribute Resistance, it was simply a nightmare!
With Xu Kun's current Stamina, he could cast it twelve times in a row without considering recovery!
Wildfire Scorches the Plains
Grade: A-tier
Area-of-effect skill. Dealt Fire Attribute damage per second equal to (Magic Attack Power + Fire Attribute Attack Power) x1.2 within a 50x50 area. Skill duration: 10 seconds.
Stamina Cost: 100
Cooldown: 300 seconds
A group-damage skill usable once every five minutes. Each use could deal 336x10 damage according to the panel, for a total of 3360 damage. It was absolutely a perfect divine skill for farming groups of monsters!
What Xu Kun looked forward to most, of course, was still the SSS-tier skill Unyielding Starfire!
It did not matter that his talent was only F-tier. What mattered was that he had obtained an SSS-tier skill at this stage!
Xu Kun swallowed, then continued reading with great anticipation.
Unyielding Starfire
Grade: SSS-tier Passive + Active Skill
Passive: Each target killed collected one Starfire Imprint. Imprints could stack, up to a maximum of 100!
Current Stacks: 0/100
Active:
Starfire: Concentrated the collected Starfire Imprints and injected them into the target, detonating them instantly to deal damage equal to the number of imprints x (Magic Attack Power + Fire Attribute Attack Power)!
Unyielding: Concentrated the collected Starfire Imprints on the user and released them, restoring Health equal to the number of imprints x (Magic Attack Power + Fire Attribute Attack Power)!
Stamina Cost: None
Cooldown: None
Looking at the description of Unyielding Starfire, Xu Kun fell into a long silence.
Damage or recovery!
If he collected all 100 Starfire Imprints, then after using Unyielding Starfire, Xu Kun's instant damage against a target would reach a terrifying 28,000!
Question: Were there monsters in the newbie trial with 28,000 Health?
Another question: How many times could 28,000 healing save Xu Kun's sorry life?
And this was only Xu Kun's damage output and healing at level zero. One could imagine that after Xu Kun's level increased, this value would rise geometrically!
With this skill, Mom would never have to worry about him fighting bosses alone again. As long as an attack did not kill him instantly, he could heal himself right back up in an instant!
Even if something could one-shot him once, he still had Blazing Dragon Blink to give himself another layer of insurance!
Who else could compare?!
Of course, the prerequisite for accomplishing such a feat was that Xu Kun needed to kill one hundred monsters and collect enough Starfire Imprints. Otherwise, he would not be able to display the wonder of this skill!
This would test how quickly Xu Kun could kill monsters!
Xu Kun clenched his fists, unable to calm down for a long time. "So this is the power of an SSS-tier skill!"
"Then, let my newbie trial begin!" Xu Kun declared heroically.
Before entering the Haotian Pagoda, he had been extremely anxious. He had been afraid that if his awakened talent was too poor, he might fail the newbie trial!
But now, he had thrown all those worries to the back of his mind!
What he needed to consider now was how to achieve the best possible result in the upcoming novice trial!
"I wonder how my equipment and skills compare to those SSS-tier freaks!"
"First, set a small goal: earn an SSS-tier rating in the novice trial. That way, I can at least make it into the top twenty on the Heavenly Rankings!"
Xu Kun encouraged himself before finally looking toward the place where he would undergo this trial.
He was currently on the first floor of the Haotian Pagoda. According to the experiences of those before him, this floor was extraordinarily vast and contained all manner of bizarre maps!
The maps came in every conceivable form: deserts, rainforests, cities, islands...
For the same map, a random group of trial takers from different races would be selected and sent into their respective passages. The number varied, but everyone was on their own, and the monsters they encountered during the trial could differ drastically!
Only the final objective was the same. This meant that while every trial taker appeared to be playing a single-player game, they were actually competing against one another!
Because only one trial taker could receive an SSS-tier rating on the same map!
Xu Kun looked around and immediately identified the environment of the map he was in!
"It's actually an island map!"
Xu Kun hurriedly raised his arm and touched the metal bracelet assigned to him before the trial!
It contained map data from humanity's novice trials throughout the ages. With the information supplemented by generation after generation, it could provide tremendous help to those who came after!
Perhaps that was the benefit of those before planting trees so those after could enjoy the shade!
Humanity had also relied on this kind of inheritance, passed down like an unextinguished flame, to gradually rise again beneath the oppression of the myriad races!
However, even for island-terrain maps, humanity's eight-hundred-year database contained no fewer than tens of thousands of variations. Whether the relevant information had been recorded, and whether it was detailed, all depended on luck!
The bracelet beeped continuously as it scanned the surrounding environment to match the relevant data!
While waiting, Xu Kun carefully examined his surroundings.
He was currently at the edge of the island. Before him stood layers upon layers of trees dozens of meters tall. Through the branches, he could see thick white mist hanging over the island, refusing to disperse...
The fog was so dense that it felt as if one wrong step would leave him lost within the overlapping forest!
Only the small path before Xu Kun was free of the white mist's cover, as if it were telling him: "Come on, kid! This way!"
"This seems to be... the Mist Island map?" Xu Kun frowned and muttered to himself.
Very soon, the metal bracelet finished scanning the surroundings and matched the corresponding information.
You are currently on the map: "Mist Island"
It really was Mist Island, the map that had taken up an entire page in the textbook and that the teacher had emphasized repeatedly!
Mist Island Map: Difficulty: Extremely high! Humanity's overall completion rate: 10% SSS-tier rating: 1 person (520 years ago) SS-tier rating: 3 people S-tier rating: 16 people A-tier... Map Trial Guide: Follow the forest toward the center of the island, and eliminate the level 1–10 monsters along the way. The maximum completion rate is 60% (61% earns an F-tier rating, which counts as passing the trial)! Possible creatures on the map (varies each trial): Cavern Giant Rat...
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