After obtaining Amber of the Rock Dragon Beast, Lu Xingshi left the Royal Capital once more.
While traveling, he tinkered with it and roughly figured out its attributes: the three basic attributes were Spirit +1, Perception +1, and Vitality +1.
However, he could not summon the Rock Dragon Beast at this stage. It required a certain amount of time.
With a new growth equipment item joining Glory, Lu Xingshi's Glory Lord changed once again.
Glory of the Earth: When you wield Earth King's Shield, wear Mountain Monarch's Domination, and carry Amber of the Rock Dragon Beast and Gobi Elf's Kiss, you will gain the effects of Super Armor, Spirit King, Rock Dragon, and Power Strike.
Because Amber of the Rock Dragon Beast surpassed Gobi Elf's Kiss in both level and quality, Glory had placed this equipment's name and effects further back.
The Rock Dragon effect was rather domineering. With every attack, Earth Shadow would form a Dragon Shadow, and true damage would gain knock-up, knockback, and other effects. If there was an overwhelming disparity in strength, it would inflict a hundredfold critical hit with a hundred percent certainty.
When defending, however, Earth Shadow enhanced by Rock Dragon would begin accumulating temporary resistance and defense boosts. They would rise according to the intensity of the attacks received, and there was no upper limit to the increase.
There was a time limit, though. It could only last one minute, but if he suffered an attack within that minute, the duration would restart. In theory, it could stack endlessly.
The reason it was only theoretical was because there was a drawback: Lu Xingshi had no way to stack it on himself.
He had tried injuring himself to stack the resistance and defense boosts brought by Rock Dragon, but it had failed.
Attacking himself