Iron Will

[Iron Will]

[Level: 1 (0/100)]

[Effect: Active skill. After use, your will becomes like steel, increasing Defense by 100 and Defense by 10%. Lasts 1 minute. While using this skill, you can negate one control effect. Cooldown: 1 minute. This effect cannot stack!]

It increased fixed Defense by 100 points and percentage-based Defense by 10%. Most importantly, it could negate one control effect!

This was practically a Divine Skill!

What did any Professional fear most?

It wasn't insufficient damage, nor was it low Defense. It was getting caught in an enemy's chain of control effects and being controlled to death!

With this skill, it was like having an extra life!

"Let's give it a try!"

Without hesitation, Yang Yu activated Iron Will with a thought.

Buzz!

A layer of pale golden light instantly covered the skin across his body, as if he had donned an invisible suit of armor.

It instantly filled him with a sense of security.

[Congratulations! Your skill Iron Will has increased to LV2!]

[Iron Will]

[Level: 2 (100/200)]

[Effect: Active skill. After use, your will becomes like steel, increasing Defense by 150 and Defense by 15%. Lasts 1 minute 5 seconds. While using this skill, you can negate one control effect. Cooldown: 55 seconds. This effect cannot stack!]

"Fuck!"

Yang Yu was utterly stunned.

The fixed Defense bonus had shot up directly from 100 points to 150!

The percentage-based Defense had also risen from 10% to 15%!

The duration increased by five seconds, while the cooldown was reduced by five seconds!

The bonus per level was this terrifying. Once it reached Level 10, with the addition of its two special-effect skills, just how terrifying would this skill become?

Yang Yu scarcely dared to imagine it.

Unfortunately, the cooldown was still too long—an entire fifty-five seconds.

It seemed he couldn't rush leveling its proficiency by relying on this skill.

He could only improve it slowly in battle.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, he turned his gaze toward the Wild Boar King's Mask in the Panel Space.

Now that he was Level 10, he could finally equip this rare helmet.

With a thought, he took out the mask.

The ferocious Wild Boar Mask settled over his head and instantly fitted his face perfectly.

A cold, weighty sensation washed over him.

The next second, Yang Yu's entire aura underwent an earth-shaking change.

His head seemed to have truly transformed into that of a raging wild boar. Two tusks glinting with cold metallic light protruded from either side of the mask, leaving only a pair of scarlet eyes visible.

Together with the Black Iron Barrier on his body, he looked utterly imposing.

[Wild Boar King's Mask]

[Quality: Rare]

[Defense: +50]

[Constitution: +10]

[Special Effect: Wild Charge. Your first attack while charging deals an additional 30% damage.]

His Defense rose by another fifty points.

His total Constitution had already reached a terrifying ninety-four points!

And this time, it even came with a special effect that increased damage!

"Awesome!"

Feeling the surging power and solid Defense within his body, Yang Yu's spirits soared.

He did not linger in Wild Boar Forest any longer.

After farming monsters for so long, it was time to test his true strength.

He was Level 10 now. It was also time to challenge that legendary Elite-level Dungeon!

He opened the Personal Terminal on his arm and checked the map.

The entrance to the Boar Cave Dungeon was not far from his current position, only about one or two kilometers away.

So, he put away his weapon, took long strides, and ran toward the Dungeon.

At the same time, two figures quietly appeared along the route Yang Yu had taken while farming monsters.

They were Leng Yuan and her young partner, patrol members of the Professionals Association.

"My god..."

Lu Fei stared at the wild boar corpses strewn across the ground, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.

There were at least a hundred wild boar corpses along the way. Their blood had nearly dyed this entire stretch of woodland dark red.

The air was saturated with a blood stench so thick it would not disperse.

"Th-this... who on earth did this? Isn't this too brutal?" the young man exclaimed in disbelief.

Leng Yuan said nothing. She merely crouched down and inspected a wild boar corpse.

A long, narrow wound on the corpse's neck was as smooth as a mirror.

It had been killed in a single blow.

And it was Sword Qi.

The image of that top-tier powerhouse who had instantly killed the Wild Boar King involuntarily surfaced in her mind!

This was Sword Qi Projection again!

The fervor in Leng Yuan's eyes remained undiminished.

But as she examined the traces left on the corpses along the way,

that fervor gradually turned into shock.

"These wild boars didn't die far apart in time, and they were spread over an extremely wide area... How did he gather so many monsters together, then kill them all in such a short time?"

Lu Fei could not make sense of it either.

Leng Yuan did seem to think of something.

She said incredulously,

"War Cry!"

"Could it be... that he has also trained a Warrior's War Cry skill to an extremely high level?"

The moment she voiced that guess, even she was startled.

The fact that this being was farming monsters here proved that his level was not high.

But despite being low-level, he had trained two skills to such a terrifying degree at the same time?

What kind of perseverance would that require?

He wasn't human at all. He was a monster!

When they finally reached the place where Yang Yu had last cleared out all the monsters, the sight of over thirty wild boar corpses densely packed across nearly the entire clearing left them both speechless.

The battle traces here were the most brutal and the most concentrated.

"This is just too powerful!"

"To kill so many monsters in such a short time..."

Lu Fei was so shocked that he could not speak for a moment.

After inspecting the area again, Leng Yuan became even more certain of her guess.

This being had definitely trained the War Cry skill to an extremely advanced level as well.

"Judging from the traces... that expert should have headed in that direction," the young man guessed, pointing toward the Dungeon in the distance.

"That's the entrance to the Boar Cave Dungeon. He should have gone to farm the Dungeon."

Lu Fei turned to look at his captain. A rare trace of conflicted emotion appeared on Leng Yuan's normally icy face, and he asked tentatively, "Sister Leng Yuan, should we... go take a look?"

Leng Yuan's delicate body trembled slightly, and an unnatural flush unexpectedly rose to her cheeks.

She immediately put on a stern face and coldly rebuked him, "Look at what? What's there to see!"

"Our duty is to patrol, not to chase celebrities!"

With that, she turned and headed toward the Dungeon without looking back.

Her hurried steps exposed the turmoil in her heart.

Watching his captain's retreating back, Lu Fei scratched his head and muttered under his breath, "Saying one thing and meaning another..."