Witness the Power of Pure Water
As Xiao Yu descended from the towering cliff, his elemental creatures bowed to him in respect. Qin Shiyue and her mermaid followers also paid their respects. The adventurers, in particular, respectfully moved aside to both sides of the road, afraid that if they were too slow, they might block the path of this terrifying BOSS.
Xiao Yu walked straight to the middle of the square and looked at the BOSSes under his command.
Azathoth (Water Elemental Lord): "Go, wipe out the remaining enemies on the island, rebuild the defenses, and restore the rule of Yarvis City. The Naga shouldn't be coming again for a while, and I also need some peace and quiet. I'll be leaving for a bit and staying in the Lost Temple. No one is to enter without my permission."
After saying that, he walked straight into the Booty Bay chamber inside the Lost Temple.
He had experienced so much and gained so much in one day. First, he conquered the Lost Island and obtained four treasures. Then, he encountered an attack from the Naga army. Next, he went deep into the sea to seize the artifact. Then, he single-handedly repelled the Naga army's attack. All these events kept him in a state of extreme excitement. Now, he urgently needed to digest everything and calm down.
Upon returning to the Booty Bay chamber, the first thing he did was organize the treasures he had. The Scourge of the Ocean (artifact) would be his main weapon from now on. The Magic Mirror of True Knowledge (legendary) could be used to find treasures and scout enemy positions. The Magic Ship in a Bottle (legendary) was not used for the time being, but it might come in handy later. The Water of Life (legendary) could heal Sgelari. Finally, there was the Seed of Elements.
He put everything else away and took out the Seed of Elements. Looking at the football-sized Seed of Elements in his hand, Xiao Yu was quite emotional. He had gone through so many hardships just for this little thing. Now it was time to absorb the power within the Seed of Elements.
As he thought this, Xiao Yu forcefully pressed the Seed of Elements into his body. The soccer ball-sized bead disappeared into his body instantly, and immediately, a system notification sounded in his ear.
System notification: Having absorbed the Seed of Elements, this item will generate an additional source of primordial elemental energy within your body. Please select the type of primordial elemental energy you wish to generate.
This time, there are still four elements to choose from: wind, fire, water, and earth. There are also matching upgraded appearances later on.
Selecting Wind – System notification: You will mutate into an Unstable Water Elemental. This Unstable Water Elemental looks almost identical to Boiling Water Elemental, except that it is constantly flashing with electricity, giving it a very unstable appearance. (Pretty cool, huh?)
Selecting Fire – System notification: Your fire power has been enhanced. You are now defaulted to a water/fire elementalist, and you can switch between the two. (Seems rather useless.)
Choosing Water – System prompt: This power will elevate you to a higher rank, granting you greater strength. (Advancing to four skeletons? A tempting choice, but it feels too ordinary.)
Select Earth -- System prompt: You will mutate into a Boiling mud elemental. Its appearance is a brownish-black Water Elemental, its body seems to be made of mud, and it is constantly bubbling as if Boiling. If you had to find a suitable adjective, it would be like the unidentified liquid that is constantly bubbling in the pot of the old witch in Western fairy tales.
(Holy crap, this is awful! It's even more disgusting than mud.)
After comparing these four options, the result was self-evident. Originally, if Xiao Yu wanted to advance to the Chaos Elemental, he only had two attributes to choose from: wind and earth. After comparing the two styles, Xiao Yu decisively chose the former.
System notification: You have absorbed the Seed of Elements, generating a new elemental energy within your body. You have gained a new skill category, which you can view in your skill bar. Your racial talent [Elemental Body] has mutated to [Unstable Elemental Body].
[Unstable Elemental Body: The energy within you is growing increasingly immense, but it has become unbalanced, causing your body to become increasingly unstable. Your skills will randomly gain a 1%-100% power boost or a 1%-100% power reduction.]
The talent is a bit of a letdown, but if they cancel each other out, there doesn't seem to be much difference. However, Xiao Yu is still looking forward to the new skills. Before, with two attributes, he already had three skills to choose from, so now with three attributes, wouldn't that mean six attributes to choose from?
Water-based skills, fire-based skills, wind-based skills, combined water and fire skills, combined water and wind skills, combined wind and fire skills—who knows what kind of bizarre skills will be generated this time?
However, Xiao Yu was somewhat disappointed after opening the skill list; it was originally a choice of three, and it was still a choice of three.
There are only three elemental skills to choose from: water, fire, and wind. There are no compound skills. Looking at the skill descriptions in the skill bar, there is this text.
Because the elements within your body have lost their balance, they can no longer effectively fuse together, and you have therefore lost the ability to perform fusion skills.
(Damn, this is a bit of a rip-off, but let's see what options are available this time.)
Like level 20 skills, level 40 skills allow you to choose between lord skills and regular skills. It seems you can get a lord skill every 20 levels, so Xiao Yu naturally chose the lord skill.
Skill 1, Witness the Power of Pure Water: Your power is so great that it can effectively influence your surroundings. Unleash the icy power within you, creating a massive Frost Barrier within a 300-yard radius. Any enemy within this area will be continuously affected by the chilling effect, taking minor chill damage and gaining a Chill effect every 10 seconds. Each stack of this effect reduces the target's movement speed by 10%. After five stacks, the target will be Freeze for 5 seconds and the effect will start accumulating again. Within the Frost Barrier, the power of ice spells is increased by 30%, and the power of fire spells is decreased by 30%.
Skill 2, Let This World Burn: Your power is so great that it can effectively influence your surroundings. Unleash the fire power within you, creating a massive Flame Barrier within a 300-yard radius. Any enemy within this area will suffer continuous fire damage and gain a Scorching Heat effect every 10 seconds. For each stack of this effect, the target's damage is reduced by 10%. After five stacks, the target will be stunned for 5 seconds and the effect will start accumulating again. Within the Flame Barrier, the power of fire spells is increased by 30%, and the power of water spells is reduced by 30%.
Skill 3, Gale—Obey My Command: Your power is so great that it can effectively influence your surroundings. Unleash the power of the gale within you, creating a massive Wind Control Barrier within a 300-yard radius. Any enemy within this area will be affected by the gale, reducing their movement speed by 30%, while friendly units within this area will gain the Swiftness of the Wind effect, increasing their movement speed by 30%, and the power of wind-based spells within this area will be increased by 30%.
This time, no compound skills appeared, but these three skills were all quite powerful, each looking incredibly awesome. As expected of Lord skills, when Xiao Yu was playing with fire elemental skills, he only advanced to the BOSS template at level 40+, and ended up only learning one Lord skill. Now, looking at these three Lord skills, Xiao Yu was finding it difficult to choose.
(Damn, what a difficult choice! I wish I could learn all three.)
After much deliberation, Xiao Yu finally chose the first skill. There was nothing he could do; he was essentially a Water Elemental. Although he could use fire and wind skills, his main skills were ice-based, and even his composite skills leaned more towards water. There was nothing he could do about it. After making his choice, he immediately upgraded the skill to a BOSS skill.
He's now a 3-Skull level BOSS, and has gained the opportunity to acquire three advanced BOSS skills. This lord skill is so powerful, of course he won't let it pass him by.
System notification: You have learned the Lord skill, Witness the Power of Pure Water, and you have upgraded it to a BOSS skill. Please select the direction you wish to enhance.
1. Frost Chills to the Bone: Enemies within the Frost Barrier will gradually receive increased cold damage, up to a maximum increase of 100%.
2. Frozen for Ten Thousand Li: Enemies within the Frost Barrier will be Freeze and unable to thaw on their own.
Xiao Yu decisively chose the second option, leaving behind a trail of ice sculptures as he walked. Just thinking about it was exhilarating; at least when dealing with adventurers, this skill was a devastating weapon.
Next up are the level 45 skills, again a choice of one out of three.
Skill 1: Blizzard. Summons a Blizzard to descend upon the enemy, dealing continuous frost damage to enemies within a 30-yard radius for 12 seconds -- channeling required.
Skill 2: Rain of Fire. Summons a Rain of Fire to fall on the enemy's head, dealing continuous fire damage to enemies within a 30-yard radius for 10 seconds -- channeling required.
Skill 3: Tornado. Summons a continuously rotating Tornado Tornado will move randomly, pulling in enemies along its path, dealing continuous damage and immobilizing them for 30 seconds.
Xiao Yu had some experience with these three skills. After Rain of Fire was upgraded to a BOSS skill, it became known as the most gorgeous ultimate move - Meteor Storm. It was extremely powerful and lasted a long time. The only downside was that it required continuous channeling, and each meteor's damage was calculated separately. Theoretically, if a person's movement was skillful enough, it was possible to dodge all the damage without losing a single drop of health.
He hadn't seen the Blizzard before, but it should be similar. Based on the usual characteristics of ice and fire skills, the damage would definitely be lower, but it would come with a slowing and freezing effect, so it was practically guaranteed. There was a mage version of this skill; he wondered if it was the same.
As for the third one, it was quite novel to him. He had never seen the Tornado skill before. However, judging from the skill description, it seemed to be a very powerful crowd control skill. It was just that the random movement feature reduced its value. But the good thing was that it didn't require any channeling. Once it was released, he didn't have to worry about it. It would be better if it could hit an enemy, but even if it couldn't, it could still restrict the enemy's movement. So after considering it carefully, Xiao Yu thought to himself, "This is the one." Although its power was much weaker than the first two, at least it was less troublesome.
After learning the skill, Xiao Yu immediately advanced to the next level of BOSS skills.
System notification: You have learned a new skill, Tornado.
System notification: Your skill Tornado has been upgraded to the BOSS skill, Furious Tornado. When the Furious Tornado moves, it generates a huge suction force, pulling nearby enemies into the Tornado and dealing additional lightning damage to them.
P. S.: There's a lot of data, so I added 400 extra free characters. Don't think I'm padding this out!