Life Sharing (Third Update)

After absorbing the souls of two Boss Tier and some Elite Tier Remnants soldiers that Bai Xiaowen had Kill Contribution, the Black Soul Stone's growth rate increased to 80/1000, and it currently has 115 Soul Essence.

This victory also filled Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi's combat experience bars to the brim, allowing them to level up to level 4.

They were currently within the Spirit Realm, where leveling up was possible. So, on their way back, they chose to advance.

Bai Xiaowen's Strength, Agility, and Constitution increased by 2 points, and her Spirit attribute increased by 5 points. Li Shuyi's Strength and Constitution increased by 2 points, her Spirit increased by 1 point, and her Agility increased by 4 points.

Immediately afterwards, Bai Xiaowen received a notification from the Spirit Realm Rules:

"Your job level has been promoted to (4) level."

"Your [Mind Link] skill has been upgraded once. Do you wish to use it?"

In the Spirit Realm storyline, powerful characters and monsters advance from beginner to intermediate level after reaching level 4, experiencing a significant increase in strength. The improvement is even greater upon reaching level 7. As for Awakened Ones, their class skills are enhanced, which aligns with the consistent rules of the Spirit Realm Rules.

Li Shuyi also received a chance to draw a skill enhancement item.

With many people around and eyes watching, Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi chose not to draw lots for the time being.

Upon returning to Blackrock Fortress, Prince Nicholas ordered the entire army to rest. The nine lords of the Northern Frontier were all assigned accommodations within Blackrock Fortress. Although the accommodations were rather small, they were far superior in terms of security and comfort to the commanders' tents along the three lines of defense outside the city.

Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi did not linger at their residence in Blackrock Fortress, but instead returned to the commander's tent at the front line. Compared to the numerous nobles and elaborate rituals of Blackrock Fortress, the two felt that the front line was better and more free.

Although he inherited some fragments of the former young lord's memories, if he spends too much time among a group of nobles, Bai Xiaowen, this imposter, will inevitably be exposed and arouse suspicion. It would be better for him to stay on the front lines with the soldiers, where he can earn a reputation for sharing weal and woe with the warriors.

The female lord Cecilia did the same, staying on the third line of defense with her soldiers, eating but not sleeping...

Moreover, her gaze towards Bai Xiaowen softened considerably. Bai Xiaowen's decision to give up the comfortable life in Blackrock Fortress and choose to suffer on the front lines with the soldiers should have been something this White Rose greatly admired, though she simply didn't say it aloud.

Inside the tent, Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi began drawing prizes.

The first thing to be drawn is the enhancement of professional skills.

Spirit Realm Rules Message:

"Detecting your combat experience acquisition methods from levels 1 to 3..."

"Test complete."

"During your promotion from level 1 to 3, the experience gained from killing lords was 0%, killing Boss Tier accounted for approximately 23.41% (22.05% from killing enemies above your level), killing Elite Tier accounted for 19.66% (16.92% from killing enemies above your level), and killing ordinary enemies accounted for 7.91% (5.34% from killing enemies above your level)."

"During your promotion from level 1 to 3, Hero Quest experience accounted for 11.40% (11.40% for B-Tier Hero Quest), Elite Tier Quest experience accounted for 13.68% (13.68% for S-Tier Elite Tier Quests), and Standard Quest experience accounted for 23.94% (10.12% for S-Tier Quests, 13.53% for A-Tier Quests, and 0.29% for B-Tier Quests)."

"Based on your evaluation, the roulette wheel has been generated. Please draw your roulette wheel within one minute."

A roulette wheel appeared in front of Bai Xiaowen. The wheel still had four sections: Normal, Excellent, Outstanding, and Perfect.

However, unlike before, the white roulette wheel area representing "ordinary" only occupies less than 10% of the area, the area representing "excellent" is about 20%, while the area representing "outstanding" occupies a full 60%! It occupies most of the area.

Finally, there's the black area representing "perfection," which is a little over 10%.

"It seems that the lottery draw on this roulette wheel is based on past performance. The more times you kill monsters above your level and the more high-difficulty missions you complete, the greater your chances of drawing a high-quality enhancement," Li Shuyi said from the side. "This is great news for Awakened Ones who challenge high-difficulty missions, like us."

After a pause, Li Shuyi continued, "So, in the future, if we encounter ordinary monsters and low-difficulty quests, can we selectively abandon them?"

Bai Xiaowen shook his head and laughed, "It's not that exaggerated. This roulette wheel is just a small compensation for Awakened Ones who venture into high-difficulty challenges. If you slow down your strength growth just for this little bit of chance, that would be penny-wise and pound-foolish."

Li Shuyi thought about it and realized that made sense. She smiled sheepishly and urged, "Hurry up and smoke."

Bai Xiaowen moved her fingers along the pointer of the roulette wheel.

The pointer eventually came to a slow stop, settling in the "excellent" 60% range.

"You have extracted the job skill enhancement effect of job level 4."

"Your skill ' Mind Link ' has gained an exceptional effect: Life Sharing."

[Life Sharing: You can designate a summoned creature to share your Life Value (this creature must be in combat). When you take damage or receive healing, your Life Value percentages will remain synchronized until you disconnect Life Sharing. Each time this effect is disconnected, it takes 24 hours before you can designate another creature.]

There is one more special note at the end:

"One of the targets in the Life Sharing will not be instantly killed when subjected to Vital Strike, but will have 100% of their current Life Value reduced."

What does this mean? For example:

Bai Xiaowen shares life with summoned creature A, and currently has 200 Life Value points. If Bai Xiaowen is hit by Vital Strike that deals more than 1/3 of the theoretically instant-kill value, he will not die immediately, but will suffer a high damage of 200 points, which will be shared between Bai Xiaowen and summoned creature A.

"That's a great special effect!"

Li Shuyi said with delight, "I've heard that for Summoner Class, this ' Life Sharing ' effect, although it's only of the Excellent level, is even better than some 'Perfect level' effects, greatly enhancing the safety of Summoner Class. If you designate a tank, such as the Stitched Monster Fatty, as the target for Life Sharing, you and Fatty will essentially share 600 points of total Life Value, enough to render any Decapitation tactic ineffective."

"That's definitely a great special effect..."

Bai Xiaowen squinted and said, "Actually, targeting Fatty isn't the best choice; Rageclaw is the optimal target! Rageclaw's LV4 enhancement effect is ' Blood Frenzy,' which increases its critical Critical Hit rate as its Life Value percentage decreases. However, Rageclaw itself has very low Life Value, making it vulnerable to being instantly killed when its Life Value percentage is low. If I Life Sharing with it, its safety will be greatly improved, and it will be more willing to sacrifice health for damage!"

When faced with the same skill effect, most people would first think of defense, but Bai Xiaowen thought of offense – that's the difference. Being passively attacked has never been Bai Xiaowen's style.