Elemental Lord's Crown

System notification: You have learned a new skill, which you can set in the skill bar.

Xiao Yu eagerly opened the skill menu, and this time it was still a choice of three.

Skill 1: Frost Orb. Releases an energy orb sealed with the power of ice to attack enemies, dealing massive cold damage and inflicting 1-3 stacks of the Cold effect. This effect can stack; after stacking 5 times, the target Freeze for 3 seconds. Even after the Freeze effect is lifted, the target will still be affected by the Cold effect.

Skill 2: Blazing Orb, releases an energy orb sealed with the power of flames to attack enemies, dealing massive fire damage and causing an explosion that results in splash damage in a small area.

Skill 3: Bursting Orb - Releases an energy orb sealed with the power of ice and fire to attack enemies. After the energy orb hits its target, the ice and fire power inside will cause a violent explosion, dealing explosive damage to enemies in an area.

Xiao Yu was very familiar with the first two of these three skills.

After the Frost Orb is upgraded to a BOSS skill, it will become Frozen Orb. After being released, it will continuously release Frostbolt in the surrounding area during its flight. It is a variant of the area-of-effect skill. When he was still a fire elemental, he often fought against Water Elemental and saw a Water Elemental Lord use this skill.

Blazing Orb is somewhat similar to Pyroblast. After being upgraded to a boss skill, it becomes Great Blazing Fireball with high single-target damage and an area-of-effect effect. It is also fast to cast. Basically, all Firelords know this move.

However, this was the first time he had ever seen a third Bursting Orb.

This so-called explosion damage, I don't know if it counts as fire damage, physical damage, or a combination of both. Well, forget about Blazing Orb in the sea, and while Frozen Orb is not bad, in the spirit of seeking innovation and change, let's stick with Bursting Orb.

Xiao Yu chose to comprehend the Bursting Orb and then directly advanced the BOSS skill. Previously, he had only advanced two BOSS skills, deliberately reserving one skill point just in case a useful skill appeared.

System notification: Your Bursting Orb has been upgraded to -- Fission Orb.

Fission Orb: Releases an energy orb sealed with a large amount of ice and fire power to attack enemies, dealing massive mixed damage to the target. After the energy orb hits the target, the ice and fire power within it will undergo fission, dealing area-of-effect true damage to enemies within an eight-yard radius. Targets directly hit can suffer secondary damage.

(True damage! Holy crap, this is awesome!) Xiao Yu was incredibly excited as he looked at the skill description.

In the Sky World, every type of damage has a corresponding defense. Fire damage can be reduced by stacking fire resistance, ice damage can be reduced by stacking ice resistance, and physical attacks can be defended against by stacking armor. In addition, there is damage reduction, which can reduce all damage effects, as well as armor-type damage reduction.

Therefore, no matter how high the damage value of a skill is, it will always be reduced by several factors after it is used, and it is really hard to say how much will be left in the end. For example, when Xiao Yu was the Flame Demon Lord, his Great Blazing Fireball could theoretically deal tens of thousands of damage, but after the opponent stacked fire resistance, it suddenly became only a few thousand damage.

Of all damage types, true damage is the only exception. No resistance or damage reduction effect is effective against true damage; the amount of damage dealt is exactly what is dealt to the target.

Xiao Yu only knew that some special NPCs possessed such abilities, but he never expected that he would also have the opportunity to obtain such a move. Hahaha, this is so awesome! Now those adventurers will dare to be arrogant with him again. Let's see if they don't die a ghost.

Excitedly thinking this, Xiao Yu raised his hand and fired a Fission Orb towards a dragon turtle in the distance. The Fission Orb had an eerie blue-purple hue.

This dragon turtle had ridiculously high ice resistance and armor, which Xiao Yu had previously avoided. However, this Fission Orb instantly took away a third of its health, and two more followed up to finish off a level 40 dragon turtle with over 10,000 health.

(Haha, that's really powerful.) Xiao Yu thought to himself.

After finishing his skill experiment, Xiao Yu decided to head back home. Unexpectedly, before he even reached Hydra City, he saw Wotkud coming to greet him.

Wotkud (Elder of the Water Elemental): "Your Highness, Lord Neptulon's envoy has arrived."

Neptulon's envoy? Xiao Yu frowned upon hearing this, thinking to himself, how could he have forgotten this? Neptulon's mission for him was to defeat the Naga and destroy the Hydra, not to occupy this place. Moreover, more than two thousand of his Elemental Legion were theoretically still Neptulon's subordinates; he only had command authority. Now that the war was over, was he going to take back his command? That wouldn't do.

(Damn it, if all else fails, we should just kill the envoy in a fit of rage. We absolutely cannot let that envoy take back the military power. But it's best not to do that unless it's absolutely necessary.)

As he entered Water Elemental Hydra City, Xiao Yu saw Neptulon's envoy waiting there. Unexpectedly, this Neptulon was an old acquaintance.

The siren Ashali was the one who led Xiao Yu into the Throne of the Tides.

Azathoth (Water Elemental Prince): "Ha, it's been a long time! Welcome to Hydra City. Ashali, right? I haven't had a chance to thank you for showing me the way to the Throne of the Tides."

Ashali (Neptulon's Emissary): "It is my honor to serve you, Your Highness. Congratulations! You have successfully defeated the Naga invaders and averted the crisis in the Water Elemental Plane. Neptulon has ordered me to reward you for your achievements and has also sent this gift to you."

As he spoke, he handed an ice cube to Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu was thinking, "What the hell? They gave me an ice block." He looked into the ice block and saw that it contained something, which he could vaguely make out as a helmet-like object. The moment he took it, Xiao Yu heard the system notification.

System notification: Obtained story item - Elemental Lord's Crown.

[Name: Elemental Lord's Crown]

[Category: Protective Equipment - Helmet]

[Quality: Legendary - Story Item, No Level Requirement]

[Function: None (Bind on Equipment)]

[Equipment Effect (Active): Lord's Coronation - The Elemental Lord's Crown was forged by the first Elemental King using the power of the four elements: wind, fire, water, and earth. It was specially bestowed upon the Elemental Elders who had won great victories for the Elemental race in war, granting them even greater power of rule and glory. In the Elemental Plane, it is a symbol of absolute power. Wearing this crown, you will be crowned an Elemental Lords.]

[Note: The power of gale, ice, fire, and earth all converge in this crown.]