Consolidation and Improvement
Two months have passed, and summer vacation has finally arrived.
In recognition of Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi's contributions to the University Team, Jinghai University has granted Bai Xiaowen the privilege of retaining her Taoran Residence after graduation, and the right to use the Jinghai University's affiliated Psionic Training Ground without affecting the University Team's training.
This is a great convenience.
The Super God Guild also has Psionic Training Ground, but the space is very small, with a maximum capacity of only five people. If more than this number is reached, the training ground will become unstable, affecting the training effect.
The Super God Guild's main team has been using this training ground, often with all five members at full capacity.
Bai Xiaowen has not yet created a league team and therefore cannot enjoy the resources allocated to his team by the guild under his contract. In this regard, Li Beihai specifically reminded Bai Xiaowen to confirm the five members of his team and submit it to CADL (China Awakener Development League) before October of this year, because October is the month the league starts.
The Development League is commonly known as the B-League, and its English abbreviation is CADL. In contrast, CAA is the abbreviation for the Class-A League.
By the way, there's actually a lot of dissatisfaction within the Super God Guild regarding Bai Xiaowen starting a new team. Super God Guild is a small guild with limited resources and weak Awakened members, so it simply can't support two teams. It would be better to integrate them together, and the league results would definitely be better.
However, Bai Xiaowen's insistence, coupled with Li Beihai's final decision, made it a reality for Bai Xiaowen to form his own team.
The two teams of a guild will naturally face competition for resources. The main team, represented by Nie Kong, certainly does not welcome the arrival of competitors, and Bai Xiaowen did not expect them to voluntarily give him some of the training ground's usage slots.
Since we haven't built a team yet, we have no reason to compete, so we can only temporarily use Jinghai University's Psionic Training Ground.
In exchange, Yan Xiaoxin requested that Bai Xiaowen regularly guide the University Team's training—his summoned creatures were of all types, melee and ranged, physical and magical, humanoid and beast-like, making him the best sparring partner.
Furthermore, Bai Xiaowen has excellent tactical thinking and can guide the University Team members to maximize their strengths and minimize their weaknesses.
Over the past two months, Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi's Battle Specialty and skill levels have also been continuously improving.
Needless to say, Li Shuyi focused on practicing combat. Compared to the National College Entrance Examination season a year ago, her strength, agility, and physique have greatly improved, and her Combat Specialty have also progressed rapidly, reaching the advanced level 6, which is on par with her original level.
Afterwards, Li Shuyi practiced Shield Mastery for a period of time. Due to the short time, she only reached the advanced level 3, but it was still enough.
As for combat skills, Li Shuyi's Double Slash was leveled to LV6, and Savage Charge and Shadowless Slash were both leveled to LV5. Of particular note is the Shadowless Slash LV4 enhancement effect draw; Li Shuyi obtained a Common Tier enhancement:
Dual Blades: During the duration of Shadowless Slash, at least two slashes will be launched. If there is only one enemy within melee range, the enemy will take damage from both slashes, but the damage of the second slash will be halved.
The original Shadowless Slash would launch a single slash at each enemy within melee range. If there was only one enemy within melee range, it would only slash once.
Now that the minimum number of slashes has been increased to two, this means that when facing a single enemy, the damage output of this skill has increased by 50%. Considering attack effects such as Critical Hit, Demonfire Dance, Thunder Mark, the damage output is even more than 50%.
If there are two or more enemies, the Shadowless Slash remains Transformation compared to the initial version.
For Common Tier enhancement effect, you can't expect too much.
Bai Xiaowen's progress is far greater than Li Shuyi's. The boost from the title of "Overwhelming Domination" is already twice as high as that of Warrior's Star," and Bai Xiaowen can also share memory fragments related to Battle Specialty with summoned creatures. He can quickly learn any Battle Specialty memories that summoned creatures originally possessed.
Shield Mastery has been upgraded to LV4, which is higher than the Skeleton Sword-and-Shield Soldier's original Shield Mastery Specialty.
The Combat Specialty has been upgraded to LV6, matching the job level.
Swordsmanship Specialty upgraded to LV6.
Shooting Specialty leveled up to LV6 -- Shooting Specialty is not shared with summoned creature memory fragments; it's purely due to Bai Xiaowen's long experience as a ranger, accumulating proficiency little by little. By the end of the CUAA league, Bai Xiaowen's Shooting Specialty had reached 80% of LV5 proficiency. Later, using the title of "Overwhelming Domination," it took him nearly a week to reach LV6.
The above-mentioned special abilities do not include the Ultimate Academic Ace " bonus! In other words, with the Ultimate Academic Ace Achiever" bonus, Bai Xiaowen's main combat special ability can reach an astonishing LV7 level, which is a leap forward compared to LV6. It's just that Bai Xiaowen is in a leveling-up phase and has been using the "Overwhelming Domination" title, and hasn't changed the title yet to experience the thrill of LV7 special abilities.
Bai Xiaowen also wanted to learn other special skills, such as Two-Handed Swordsmanship and Lightning Spell Mastery, but he couldn't.
First, let's talk about the two-handed Swordsmanship Specialty. Currently, among Bai Xiaowen's summoned creatures, only the Skeleton Champion uses a two-handed greatsword. However, the Skeleton Champion has not yet devoured the souls of powerful beings and does not possess any memory fragments of Battle Specialty.
Bai Xiaowen could only start practicing from the basic Two-Handed Sword Specialty. After spending some time, he reached the basic level 5 and automatically switched to the advanced level 1.
With Bai Xiaowen's current level 6 Awakened strength, he can train basic special skills very quickly! However, he can't do that with Advanced Specialty, and Bai Xiaowen hasn't continued to invest time in that area.
During combat, thanks to the boost from the Ultimate Academic Ace, the level 1 advanced Two-Handed Swordsmanship will automatically upgrade to level 2, which is still somewhat useful, but it doesn't reach the level of Ouyang Heng's effortless greatsword skills.
Similarly, Bai Xiaowen could only start practicing his Polearm Mastery Specialty from the basics. After reaching level 5 in the basics, he automatically switched to level 1 in the advanced stage and then abandoned it.
Li Shuyi's previous joking statement that she would teach Bai Xiaowen to Polearm Mastery Specialty was just empty talk. Li Shuyi had studied the Sword Classic, but she only obtained the first level of Polearm Mastery Specialty. She had never used it and would not have made any progress.
As for Lightning Spell Mastery, the Bone Warlock had devoured the soul of Zhu Zhi, the Yellow Turban Army's great physician, and thus possessed fragments of memory related to Lightning Spell Mastery. However, Bai Xiaowen himself did not possess any lightning magic and had no way to learn it.
Compared to the rapid improvement in his Battle Specialty, Bai Xiaowen's skill improvement speed was much slower.
Having reached LV5 in Intimidation, LV4 in Talisman Switching, and LV5 in Summon Angerclaw, there aren't many surprises besides further reducing cooldown time. Even with the bonus from the Ultimate Academic Ace, it doesn't reach LV7, so naturally there are no enhancement effects to draw.
After two months of preparation, in addition to the improvement of soft power, there is also some exciting news: a milestone betting agreement with Virtual Battle Company.