The 32 Evolution Points, added to the 3 left over from before, gave him a total of 35.
Greedy Hand needs 210 points for its next evolution... I'll leave it alone for now.
This Temple of Faith might be dangerous. I'll evolve my passive evasion first.
To improve his chances of survival, Qin Feng chose to evolve Ghostly Blur!
[You have spent 1+2+3+5 Evolution Points. Remaining: 24.] [Ghostly Blur (Gold Tier → Epic Grade): Assassin skill. Passively grants 15% → 75% evasion. Triggering evasion negates all damage.]
Once a skill reached Epic Grade, the Evolution Points needed to evolve it again increased tenfold.
It would normally only cost 8 Evolution Points.
But since it's going from Epic Tier to Legendary Tier, it needs 80 points...
Qin Feng shook his head and left the skill alone for now.
A 75% evasion rate was already very high.
He then continued evolving Instant Shadow Slash, raising that skill to Epic Grade as well:
[You have spent 13 Evolution Points. Remaining: 11.] [Instant Shadow Slash (Diamond Tier → Epic Tier): Blink in one direction (maximum distance: 27 → 30 meters) and enter stealth (duration: 9 → 12 seconds), dealing 7 → 9 slashes to all enemies along the path. Cooldown: 12 (8.8) seconds.] [Slash width: 4.1 → 5 meters. Each slash gains 300 → 500 additional attack power.]
Going from Diamond Tier to Epic Grade increased Instant Shadow Slash's bonus attack power by a full 200 points.
The number of slashes also increased from 7 to 9.
Its total damage had nearly doubled yet again!
That's insane...
In his previous life, Qin Feng had only learned Epic Grade skills several years into the game.
In this life...
He had Epic Grade skills right from the start!
Although their stats weren't particularly high because of their low levels, these skills could evolve infinitely!
Still, going from Epic Grade to Legendary Tier costs ten times as many Evolution Points.
So the higher a skill's starting grade, the better value I get from evolving it.
Qin Feng did the math.
If a skill started at Epic Grade, advancing it to Legendary Tier would be its first evolution. The base cost would be 1 Evolution Point, and even multiplied by ten, that was only 10 points.
He could quickly evolve it to Legendary Tier, Mythic Tier, or even... Ancient Tier and Immortal Tier!
But if a skill started as an ordinary skill, he would have to evolve it seven times before it reached Epic Grade.
By then, the base cost would be 21 or even 34 Evolution Points.
Multiplied by ten, that became 210 or even 340 points.
What a terrible deal!
Still, there's one advantage. No matter what grade of skill I learn, I can evolve it to Epic Grade at very little cost.
In other words, all my skills will eventually be at least Epic Grade!
He still had 11 Evolution Points remaining.
After some thought, Qin Feng evolved his starting skill, Shadowmeld.
[You have spent 3+5 Evolution Points. Remaining: 3.] [Starting skill: Shadowmeld (Silver Tier → Gold Tier → Platinum Tier). Enter stealth for 16 → 20 → 24 seconds. The attack that breaks stealth gains 90 → 120 → 150 attack power. Cooldown: 26 → 24 → 22 seconds.]
The skill's final base cooldown was 22 seconds.
But with Qin Feng's 35% cooldown speed stat, its effective cooldown was 16.3 seconds.
This stealth skill's cooldown is still too long.
And the bonus attack power when breaking stealth is a little low...
I'll definitely have to replace it later.
Having finished spending his Evolution Points, Qin Feng turned his attention back to the maze before him.
The Devout Believer crawled forward on its belly at a fairly brisk pace.
As it rounded a corner, a huge iron ball suddenly shot out of the wall beside it and sent it flying!
-6666!
-99999!
The first instance of damage came from the iron ball's impact.
The second came from being slammed into the wall. The Devout Believer was flattened on the spot, a gruesome sight...
Qin Feng stopped advancing for the moment.
He waited where he was for the cooldown on summoning a Devout Believer.
This maze is a tangled mess, full of danger.
I can only have my summon scout ahead like this.
Qin Feng sighed.
It would waste quite a bit of time, but this Temple of Faith clearly had something to do with his Eye of Judgment. He had to explore it to the end.
Otherwise, there was no telling what secrets he might miss...
While Qin Feng was exploring the temple...
At the temple entrance...
The long-legged beauty, Gray Rose, cautiously returned with her teammates, two men and three women.
They had prepared themselves to face the two Silver Grade minibosses, only to discover, to their astonishment, that both bosses were already dead!
Gray Rose had curly black hair and wore a gray robe that wrapped around her slender figure.
The sight of the two Devout Believers' corpses made her frown!
"Someone actually killed them?"
"At this stage, the only person who could take down two Silver Grade bosses this quickly has to be Dark Shadow, right?"
"Dark Shadow actually came here?"
Behind Gray Rose, her teammates were all stunned.
Looking at the two Devout Believers' grayish-white corpses, they began talking, all feeling a little relieved...
Even though they had come prepared, they had still been afraid they would lose and die again!
Only Gray Rose seemed puzzled by the sight.
"Last time we came here, I think I saw someone talking to the Silver Grade bosses..."
"Was that Dark Shadow?"
"Did I see it wrong, or...?"
The last time they came, Gray Rose had already stepped halfway into the hall.
She had caught a glimpse of a dark silhouette that seemed to be speaking with the two Silver Grade bosses...
But when she heard the Silver Grade bosses roar, she immediately backed out. In the end, she had still been burned to death by their green flames.
Thinking back on it now, had that dark silhouette been Dark Shadow?
Gray Rose was deeply suspicious!
"I'm sure I didn't see it wrong."
"But why didn't those two Silver Grade bosses attack Dark Shadow?"
"Could Dark Shadow have some way of confusing bosses?"
"Is that how he's managed to kill so many of them?"
No matter what Gray Rose guessed, she could never arrive at the truth!
As time passed, more and more players teleported to Shell Town, and the town was already overcrowded...
A town could hold no more than ten thousand people.
Shell Town had now almost reached that limit.
As a result, there were nowhere near enough Demons around the town for everyone to farm.
There were nearly ten times as many players!
The Crawlers, Polluters, and other monsters had never imagined that so many people could come to this town!
They scattered, fleeing and hiding.
But the players still scoured every inch of the area, hunting them down and killing them...
Under these conditions, even an elite team like Wang Meng's couldn't farm monsters quickly.
After a full three hours, they had only reached level 5.
Lin Liyu's Gold Tier skill couldn't even shine!
Wang Meng frowned. "Looks like we'll have to teleport to another town with fewer people if we want to level up faster."
Lin Liyu said, "No problem. But before we leave, we need to wait for Dark Shadow and trade with him."
Wang Meng nodded. "Yeah."
Beside them, Qin Xiaoyou quietly listened to their conversation, unable to keep the corners of her mouth from curling upward!
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