Frostfire Bolt
Xiao Yu opened the skill list and was immediately pleasantly surprised.
Originally, elemental creatures would automatically gain one skill every five levels, with no choice whatsoever. But now, one skill has become three.
Frostbolt: Deals cold damage to a target and slows their movement speed. Its power depends on your elemental power.
Fire Bolt: Fires a Fire Bolt that deals fire damage to a target and inflicts a continuous burning effect. The specific power is related to your elemental power.
Frostfire Bolt: Fires a projectile composed of fire and frost power, dealing fire/frost damage to the target (the exact amount depends on whether the target has lower fire or frost resistance).
[System prompt: You can only choose one skill as your Elemental Arrow skill.]
"Holy crap, that's awesome!" Xiao Yu thought to himself that his choice was definitely right; even the Frostfire Bolt had mutated.
This Frostfire Bolt is actually a hidden skill for mages. It's a hidden skill that can be unlocked if both the Fire and Frost talents are maxed out. It can replace Frostbolt and Fire Blast. I never thought I'd get to enjoy it! No need to ask, it's you! Although Frostfire Bolt doesn't have a slowing or burning effect, its damage is undoubtedly very reliable. Most monsters or players either stack Frost or Fire resistance, and an elemental creature's damage becomes very low if it's countered (like against the Firelord). But now—hehe, let's see how you deal with me then.
Moreover, this skill is also very helpful for him to level up quickly.
The way elemental creatures level up before level 10 is very tedious. Basically, they just need to find and mine elemental minerals and crystals to increase their strength. The elemental world is full of elemental materials of various grades. These minerals contain elemental power. In the early stages, the only way for elemental creatures to level up is to collect these elemental crystals to gain experience.
The problem is that this thing is very scattered, and upgrading it is very slow.
While you can level up by killing monsters, the problem is that the creatures in the Water Elemental Plane have incredibly high frost resistance, and the main attack method of Water Elemental is frost damage. As a result, if two Water Elemental want to kill each other, they could probably shoot Frostbolt at each other for a hundred years without getting hurt.
Of course, some Water Elemental possess physical attack abilities, such as the Ice Golem which can engage in melee combat, and others have charm skills, such as the Song of the Ocean of the Water Sprite and the Siren. However, these skills have almost no impact on damage, so leveling up elemental creatures is a very painful experience.
Only after reaching level 10 and gaining the right to be summoned can one be summoned to the Prime Material Plane to kill monsters and gain experience.
But now that he has Frostfire Bolt, things are different. He can kill monsters and level up in the Water Elemental Plane without worrying about anyone stealing his kills.
[System prompt: You have selected Frostfire Bolt as your regular attack skill. Your character template is the Intermediate Boss template. You can upgrade two skills to Boss skills. Do you wish to upgrade these skills?]
Xiao Yu hesitated for a moment, but did not choose to advance. Although Frostfire Bolt was useful, it was only a single-target skill after all. Advancing it to a BOSS skill would probably not provide a significant improvement. He could only advance two BOSS skills at the moment, so he decided to wait until he had better skills in the future.
The most urgent task is to upgrade as soon as possible.
With that thought in mind, he left his hiding place and began searching for his prey.
Water Elemental and water sprites could be seen searching for elemental minerals from time to time, but Xiao Yu didn't target these creatures. After all, it would cost him reputation, and the Water Elemental Plane was his stronghold. He didn't want to incur the wrath of the masses. Fortunately, in the Water Elemental Plane, besides intelligent elements like Water Elemental, sea elementals, and water sprites, there were also many lowly creatures that lacked intelligence and acted purely on instinct. These creatures were somewhat similar to the beasts of the Prime Material Plane, beings without human rights. Xiao Yu's target was this type of creature.
They hadn't gone far when a giant sea serpent with three heads came into Xiao Yu's sight.
Nine-Headed Sea Serpent: Level 16 (Normal Monster), 3250 HP, Large Marine Life.
(Why is it called the Hydra when it only has three heads?) Xiao Yu couldn't help but think to himself.
With a massive size of six or seven meters, thousands of health points, and over 80% ice resistance, it was something that ordinary Water Elemental wouldn't even want to touch. At this moment, it was slowly crawling in the shallow river water, absorbing the elemental ores visible around it.
Occasionally a Water Elemental would pass by, but it would always avoid it from a distance. However, Xiao Yu wasn't afraid of this enormous monster.
In terms of health, Xiao Yu, who has already reached level 5, has nearly 5500 health. In terms of skills, Frostfire Bolt, with its 40% damage bonus, is definitely not weak. Although the opponent is huge, it is still just an ordinary monster. If he, the mighty Water Elemental Prince, can't even take down a sea serpent, then he shouldn't be in this game.
Thinking of this, Xiao Yu moved towards the three-headed sea serpent. The three-headed sea serpent had a large range of vigilance and seemed to have immediately discovered this strange Water Elemental. However, habit made it ignore the threat in front of it and continue to greedily devour the elemental water.
Frostfire Bolt! Xiao Yu suddenly raised his hand (if that thing could be called a hand), and the frostfire power within his body suddenly condensed together. A strange red and blue missile flew out and hit the sea serpent's huge belly with a thud.
-527! A huge number popped up.
Xiao Yu glanced at the combat log. "You dealt 527 points of fire damage to the target, with 0 points of damage reduced."
Haha, your fire resistance is 0? Well then, don't blame me.
This attack nearly took away a fifth of the giant sea serpent's health. The sea serpent regained its senses and roared as it charged forward, unleashing a freezing breath. Xiao Yu had thought he was immune to the damage and didn't dodge at all, but when the breath hit him, he felt a chill run down his spine.
-284!
Huh, why am I losing health? Xiao Yu was surprised, but this damage was nothing to him, and he Frostfire Bolt.
-498.
The opponent also unleashed a cold breath, but this time Xiao Yu, having learned from experience, quickly sidestepped and dodged, then fired another Frostfire Bolt.
They exchanged fire several times, one after the other. Xiao Yu and the Nine-Headed Sea Serpent clearly outgunned. There was nothing the serpent could do; its size made it impossible to dodge. Xiao Yu, however, was able to evade the serpent's attacks frequently. The Nine-Headed Sea Serpent seemed to be enraged, and suddenly all three of its heads rose high.
Puff! Puff! Puff! Three icy breaths were exhaled in succession. Xiao Yu dodged the first one, but was hit by the second and third in succession, instantly losing more than 500 health points.
However, it was all in vain. At this point, Xiao Yu still had more than 3,000 health points left, while the Nine-Headed Sea Serpent's health points were almost depleted. Another Frostfire Bolt finished him off.
System notification: Killed the Nine-Headed Sea Serpent, gained 845 experience points.
He glanced at his experience bar and saw it had instantly increased by a third. Heh heh, this was much better than collecting those elemental minerals! But why hadn't he been immune to the opponent's icy breath earlier? He checked his attributes.
Azathoth (Water Elemental Prince)
Monster Category: Elemental Creatures (Intermediate BOSS Template)
Affiliation: Water Elemental Plane.
Monster level: 5.
Monster Talents: Elemental Body, Extreme Deep Cold, Big Build
Health: 3579/5500.
Elemental Power: 50.
Skill: Elemental Body (Mutation). As an elemental being, you are immune to spells that directly affect the soul, such as Fear, Charm, and Mind Control. Your unique elemental attributes allow you to take normal damage from any elemental attacks.
Frostfire Bolt: Fires a projectile composed of fire and frost power, dealing fire/frost damage to the target (the exact amount depends on whether the target has lower fire or frost resistance).
The original effect of the Elemental Body skill, which granted immunity to freezing damage while doubling the damage taken from fire, is gone. But thinking about it, it makes sense, since I now have both ice and fire attributes within me, so the positive and negative effects are essentially negligible.
However, it doesn't matter if he doesn't have freeze immunity; with his current strength, he's already capable of soloing the monsters in this area.
Next, Xiao Yu continued his monster-slaying journey. As it turned out, the Nine-Headed Sea Serpent he had encountered earlier was already a very powerful monster in this area. After all, this was a beginner area, and most of the monsters were between levels 5 and 15, with only a few hundred health points. Xiao Yu could almost kill them instantly, taking them down in two hits at most. To be on the safe side, he didn't touch those big guys anymore. Although he was 99% confident that he could easily kill them, for someone who was clearing the game in one life, even a 1% risk was unnecessary.
The creatures of this Water Elemental Plane were in for a rough time. They were used to the gentle Water Elemental with similar attributes to themselves, and when they suddenly encountered a freak like Xiao Yu, they were completely unprepared. Xiao Yu cut them down like butter. Of course, he also absorbed a few elemental minerals that he happened to encounter, but each one only gave him a few dozen or a hundred experience points, which was not as satisfying as killing monsters. Later, he simply stopped absorbing them. In just one hour, Xiao Yu leveled up to level ten.
System notification: You have reached level 10. As an elemental creature, you have gained the ability to respond to summons. You can configure this function in the summoning system.
System notification: You have learned a new skill. Please select it from your skill list.
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