Lord of Cinder
60 seconds.
It passed in the blink of an eye.
Lu Xiu returned to the Construction Space.
She gently shook her head, suppressing the thought in her mind.
There's no way to get information right now, so thinking about it is pointless.
Even if the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up.
Instead of worrying about truths that even the think tanks at the Coordination Bureau couldn't figure out, she should think more about how to build the next instance and what the rewards would be like in this one.
After all, no matter what happens in the world, it's always right to make yourself stronger.
Lu Xiu composed herself and turned her gaze to the settlement panel in mid-air.
[Copy verified!]
[System rating generated--]
[Instance Name: Dark Souls]
[Instance Rating: SSS]
[Instance Type: Action/Combat/Role-Playing]
[Ticket Price: 1500 Survival Points]
[Instance Description: This is a world where the fire is about to be extinguished, the light will soon be unable to shine on humanity, and the Dark Age is about to arrive. The cursed Darksign has begun to appear among the people— the Darksign means that those who possess it will be cursed with immortality, and they are called the Undead.]
In the kingdom, all the undead will be arrested and sent to the north to be imprisoned until the end of the world.
But legend has it that a very small number of chosen undead can leave the Undead Asylum and travel to Lordran, the ancient Lordran, for a pilgrimage.
[Dungeon Feature Tag: Kindling]
[Potential rewards: Valuable skills; Valuable items; Attribute point rewards.]
[Creator: Lu Xiu]
"SSS------I've taken another step forward."
Lu Xiu wasn't surprised to see the rating.
It just seemed perfectly reasonable.
She had a premonition when she raised the difficulty of the entire instance.
Although the ending couldn't be like [The Witch], the scale of this dungeon was simply too large, coupled with its theme and difficulty—getting an SSS rank was quite normal.
She continued looking down.
[Construction rewards are being settled--]
[Dungeon Rating SSS, Dungeon Completion SSS--]
[Construction Experience +3280]
[Spirit attribute points +10]
[You have been promoted to Level 10 Architect! The Placement Function is now available!]
[You are the first Architect in Nine Provinces to create an SSS-rank dungeon! Special rewards are being calculated—Congratulations! Based on your performance during the dungeon verification, you have obtained the special skill [Lord of Cinder]!]
"Ah?"
Lu Xiu was stunned when she saw the special skill reward given by the system.
----So he became the Lord of Cinder himself?
She immediately clicked to take a look.
[Special Ability: Lord of Cinder]
[Rating: Mythic Grade]
[Type: Rule Class/Domain]
[Ability Description: The player uses themselves as the First Flame to extend a Lord of Cinder Domain with a radius of 500 meters. Within the domain's coverage area, all targets deemed allies by the player will receive the following bonuses:]
1: Kindling Enchantment: All attacks by allies will be imbued with the First Flame, ignoring any defense bonuses on the target, and increasing base damage by 200%.
2: Undead: If an ally suffers a Deadly blow within the area, they will be resurrected at full health next to the caster (First Flame).
3: Zombie Transformation: Allies are immune to all physical knockback, hit-induced stun, and any form of mental shock or fear interference.
If the user's health reaches zero during the domain's duration, the domain will not disappear but will instead enter a state of Burn to Ashes. For the remaining duration, the domain's radius will expand to one kilometer, and the bonus effect will be doubled.
After the Burn to Ashes state ends, the domain collapses, the user can be resurrected, but will be forcibly retained with 1 point of health and will be in a weakened state for ten natural days (all attributes -50%).
[Activation condition: Consumes 30% of maximum health to activate.]
[Cost: When activated, continuously deducts 1% of the user's maximum health per second.]
[Maximum duration: 300 seconds.]
[Cooldown: 10 calendar days.]
[Note: The king is burning, the king is burning, the king is burning—knights, with this borrowed fire, burn away all the enemies that invade the world!]
After reading the skill description, Lu Xiu parted her red lips slightly, somewhat taken aback, then suddenly realized what she meant and exclaimed, "What Lord of Cinder! This is clearly Fire Keeper! No! This is a self-propelled living Bonfire!"
But complaints aside, to be fair...
That's really impressive!
After all, this is Mythic Grade —but the first mythical skill the system gave her was a domain, which Lu Xiu hadn't expected.
This skill instantly deducts 30% of your maximum health upon activation, and then deducts another 1% every second thereafter.
Judging from the panel alone, without any external recovery methods, she can only last for a maximum of seventy seconds.
During those seventy seconds, she will become the absolute core of the entire battlefield, a live target that will attract the hatred of all enemies.
Because as long as she doesn't fall—her teammates are a group of berserkers who ignore defense, resurrect infinitely, and deal true damage with Berserker.
The most outrageous thing is that she also has death pronouncements.
in addition.
This skill doesn't seem to restrict her movements as the skill's initiator—meaning she can move around with the domain?
If that were possible, that would be really fun.
I'll give it a try if I have the chance.
Previously, she had always envied Wei Yidong and others for their Chosen Skill.
Now it's all right.
No need to be envious.
That's right.
It doesn't seem very practical—given her current condition, the environments in which she can use it are limited.
After all, she's currently all alone, and when she fights, she either has to overwhelm the opponent with standard skills or simply throw Audience.
While the [Lord of Cinder] domain is powerful, it's only truly effective in large-scale battles. We can't expect her to run to the front lines every ten days, burn for five minutes, and then return, can we?
Normally.
Where is she going to find so many teammates?
You can't just randomly gather a group of players and leave them to play.
"However, as a trump card, this skill is indeed powerful—it will definitely come in handy. We'll see how it goes in large-scale battles; there will always be a chance to use it."
Lu Xiu shook her head, banishing the adjectives describing the self-propelled Bonfire from her mind. After reviewing the skill details for a while, she opened the next window.
[You have cleared the Dark Souls dungeon!]
[Instance Completion: 100%]
[Overall Customs Clearance Rating: SSS]
[Experience Points Gained: 3810, Survival Points: 8600]
[Items/Equipment Obtained: Estus Flask, Ring of Favor and Protection, Ancient Lord Soul Shard]
[Special Rewards: Agility +7, Strength +7, Stamina +5]
[First clear of the dungeon, obtain SSS rating reward: Sunlight Spear]
Settlement completed.
"Huh? This is a miracle?"
Lu Xiu was slightly taken aback when she saw the reward for clearing the dungeon for the first time; she was somewhat surprised.
This miracle cannot be obtained through dungeon runs.
This is what you get for finally clearing the game?
She clicked on it immediately.
[Special Skill: Sunlight Spear]
[Rating: SSS]
[Type: Rule/Actively Triggered]
[Ability Description: The user raises their arm and briefly charges up. Endless lightning gathers from the void into their palm, condensing into a javelin made purely of lightning. During the charging period, the user is in a super armor state, immune to conventional knockback and hit stun.]
The Sunlight Spear ignores defense, block, immunity, invulnerability, and damage immunity. Except for its absolute invincibility mechanism, as long as the target is within the skill's range, it will lock on and hit, and the hit will penetrate, causing massive true damage.
After the throw, the user's arm will experience a brief period of numbness and weakness (5 seconds).
[Skill Range: Locks onto a maximum throwing distance of 300 meters. All targets along the path take the same amount of damage, ignoring defense. Upon hitting the locked target or reaching its maximum distance, the lightning spear explodes, creating a lightning storm area with a radius of 10 meters centered on the explosion point. All enemy units within the area simultaneously suffer one instance of lightning damage, ignoring defense.]
[Cooldown time: 12 hours]
[Consumable: None]
[Note: In the battles that marked the beginning of the Age of Fire, King Gwyn's Sunlight Spear could pierce Ancient Dragon scales.]
Lu Xiu's beautiful eyes suddenly lit up.
As I just mentioned, the application scenarios for Domain Skill are limited.
The Sunlight Spear completely made up for her lack of long-range firepower in solo combat!
Ignore everything!
The only slightly troublesome thing is that your arm will go numb after throwing.
This is a bit troublesome when facing multiple enemies.
Also, the cooldown time is a bit long.
But that's already very strong!
Now, in melee combat, she has [Audience] which forcibly pulls people into a small dark room to fight with knives and iron, and in ranged combat, she has [Sunlight Spear] which can absolutely penetrate from 300 meters.
With so much ignore damage and true damage, it should be able to instantly kill most players, right?
Hmm----Let's try a recapture battle later!
Let's see if we can just use a single Sunlight Spear to physically exterminate the Chosen Player from the Prison Rock.
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