bigabreads Chapter 977 - 847: Skills in Actual Combat
Chapter 977 - 847: Skills in Actual Combat
As the tricolored skill stone in his body gradually dissipated.
Kane, sitting cross-legged in the transparent house, opened his eyes.
Slowly stood up, and then waved away the small house.
Seeing Kane start to move, a wolf head in black and white ink style emerged from the space.
Looking at the wolf head that popped out, Kane couldn’t help but break into a laugh because it looked silly.
He suspected Lulu did it intentionally, deliberately passed on this obviously weird-themed Cloud Wolf to him.
It truly, truly looked like a "smart" husky.
Kane walked over silently and pushed its head back into the space.
But behind him, the smart head soon emerged again, its long tongue sticking out from the side.
Seeing this situation, Kane could only hold his forehead and shake his head in helplessness.
This situation had happened countless times before, and he already had plenty of experience in dealing with it.
He spoke to the leisurely figure below, "YuYu, let’s go."
"Alright, master."
Seeing Kane leave directly, seemingly uninterested in playing with it, the smart wolf head looked a bit puzzled.
What is this? Continue to push my head back!
Seeing Kane not intending to return, the wolf head could only retract back, silently following beside Kane, hiding in the crevices of space.
Though it seemed silly, it always fulfilled its duties seriously.
Otherwise, Kane wouldn’t keep it by his side.
Lulu wouldn’t have passed it on to him.
At this moment, a beeping sound echoed in Kane’s mind.
Without pausing his steps, he picked up the device at his waist and began to check while walking.
Seeing the message on the pager, Kane looked a bit shocked.
"Could it be that this time Longbei’s group will be the luckiest?" he murmured inwardly.
The message displayed was exactly about Longbei’s group, describing their encounter with a living World Fragment this time, complete with a fully formed community.
Even with quite a few Gold-ranked beings present.
Obviously, this would become a Gold-level dungeon later.
Moreover, there was a crisis event solved by them.
Combining both, it amounts to a mid-upper level contribution.
Exploring outside the Mist, just over half a month had passed, and Longbei’s group had already gained so much.
Among the three groups, they lead by a long shot.
Ironically, the ones falling behind are the actual Mist’s Children, Lulu’s group.
Who knows how Lulu would react upon seeing this message now.
Surely she’d be quite anxious by now.
Hahaha, really would love to see it.
Staying in the middle, neither top nor bottom, Kane couldn’t help but have a spectator’s mentality.
After all, everyone could admit their skills might be inferior to others, or in some aspects not as good as others.
But few would admit their luck is worse than others.
Information exchange with teammates always brings a pleasant feeling, Kane smiled as he reattached the pager to his waist.
Thinking about this, Kane couldn’t help but look at the World Fragment he was currently in.
Soon, this dead World Fragment was about to be fully explored by him.
He could already see the distant Wall of Mist.
This World Fragment also yielded no harvest, not even any useful precious minerals have been found.
However, Kane wasn’t discouraged, for no gain is the norm.
Gradually reaching the end, a kilometer away was the Wall of Mist, this dead World Fragment was almost entirely explored.
Once again a white Fog Ball appeared in Kane’s hand.
"Awoooo~"
A faint yet clear wolf howl echoed in his mind.
The action in his hand did not cease, Kane smiled at the Fog Ball in his hand.
Watching it slowly condense and finalize.
Gently tossing it upwards, at the moment it was tossed, Kane shattered the Fog Ball, the white mist passing through his fingers.
His body suddenly hopped sideways and retreated.
An attack mingled with electric light protruded from the space beside Kane, directly cutting through the air with a slit.
Within it mixed three blue-purple conical spikes that shot toward Kane simultaneously.
In the air around Kane suddenly appeared three hexagonal small blocks directly blocking the conical spikes, wrapping them and dissolving them in the air.
It must be said, this sudden attacker was indeed cautious enough, the melee ambush also launched simultaneously with the ranged attack.
And in such close space.
Previously telling Longbei and them to be careful, didn’t expect within half a month, he too encountered it?
Seems like there are indeed some issues outside.
Fortunately, with the new fairytale elements provided by Lulu.
Earlily warned Kane.
It must be said, targeting these entities always hidden in space, ambushing, is indeed a great countermeasure.
Kane’s sudden dodge truly startled the sneak attacker, he hadn’t expected such a concealed ambush to be dodged.
Moreover, it looked as if the opponent had anticipated it rather than reacted overly sensitively.
But now the attack had been launched, couldn’t give the opponent any breathing space, the whole figure directly leaped out from the previously hidden space.
Rushing at Kane once more at extreme speed.
No, it can no longer be described as extremely fast; he appeared directly in front of Kane in a flash.
There was no interval of time, directly closing in on Kane.
Holding a long-handled dagger as long as his forearm, he gripped it backwards and stabbed down fiercely towards Kane’s head.
A small slit on Kane’s forehead suddenly split open.
A dizzying vertical pupil suddenly opened.
This vertical pupil was black and white in color, with no whites or pupils in the eye; the entire eyeball swirled like a vortex, twisting like a mist.
This eye couldn’t be described as charming at all, it might even make people feel physically uncomfortable and dizzy.
The shape of the eye was meticulously designed by Kane, intended to open suddenly during combat to exert psychological pressure on the enemy.
And now, this eye was being used in combat for the first time, achieving the effect Kane desired.
The enemy’s breathing paused noticeably for a moment.
Yet there was no pause in the attack at all.
This eye, appearing on his forehead and staring intently at the enemy’s face, also revealed the enemy’s specific appearance to Kane.
The enemy appeared to be a humanoid intelligent being with light blue skin, and irregular line patterns on the exposed skin of the face and body.
A bit like the pattern of lightning striking on the body.
Judging by the enemy’s attack method, it seemed to be a racial or class innate lightning effect.
The eyes were completely white, but not pure white, resembling a crystalline luster.
A blood-colored cloth was wrapped from below the nose, concealing the specific features.
Watching as the long dagger flashing with blue electric light was about to stab Kane’s head.
Clang!
A crisp ring was heard.
Clearly, the dagger did not attack Kane as the enemy had wished.
A shield made up of three hexagonal translucent blue blocks appeared at the point of the stab, firmly blocking the dagger.
The lightning accompanying the dagger’s attack spread on the hexagonal grid and was then absorbed.
The enemy’s attack strength was definitely not weak, but the shield composed of three hexagonal blocks was obviously more solid, defending against the dagger point immovably.
Rendering it unable to penetrate any further.
Kane slightly lifted his head and gave the enemy a friendly smile.
It warmed the enemy’s heart.
Seeing his sudden attack still blocked, the assailant realized that this person was not someone he could quickly take down and jumped back.
A few rolls saw him appear a hundred meters away from Kane, crouched and holding the dagger, vigilantly watching Kane.
Kane had no intention to pursue; instead, he watched the enemy in front of him with a smile.
A voice emerged from his mouth, transformed by magic power into the voice of the soul, entering the enemy’s ears.
"Sorry to disappoint you; your timing for the surprise attack was just unfortunate."
He had just gathered a new skill when he encountered the enemy, proving to be unlucky for him.
A tri-color level skill is not something negligible.
It is a new creation, a greater fusion of the rule chain comprehended during the entire gold phase.
From Kane’s understanding, entities at the tri-color level typically only have two such skills on average, at most not exceeding three.
The rule chain comprehended during the gold phase is fundamentally geared towards the first skill.
Thus, the first skill is actually the easiest to comprehend, though it still takes approximately 1 to 3 years.
The second skill becomes extremely troublesome as the chain of various rules integrated during the gold phase is already enough for the first skill.
The second skill must significantly differ from the first skill, supplementing one’s weaknesses or enhancing one’s strengths.
This is the point during the colorful phase where further comprehension of the rule chain is required.
The time consumed for the second skill multiplies.
Depending on different ideas, the time varies from 5 to over a hundred years.
It mainly depends on individual needs and ambitions for the second skill.
Even a colorful magic stone can only save the time spent on aggregation and integration, reducing the time by about 3 to 5 years.
And now that they have reached outside the mist, no shortcuts remain in rule comprehension.
Even for someone like Kane, time is still needed to comprehend.
The reason Kane obtained the second skill so quickly was because the rules comprehended during the gold phase were diverse.
Moreover, thanks to mastering five very versatile authorities, he automatically comprehended many related rules, saving him much time.
This led him to naturally possess rules beyond the rule chain, allowing him to plan a combination of previous rule chains to form new skills.
But if Kane wants to acquire a third skill, he will need to spend a large amount of time comprehending new rules and ponder through prolonged battles.
Or gather a skill overlapping with his current skills.
Therefore, he does not know how long it will take before he can use the third colorful magic stone in his possession.
If using the previous skill attributes to display Kane’s second skill.
It would be approximately like this.
[Name: Automatic Combination Module]
[Category: Active/Passive Skill]
[Color: Tri-color]
[Explanation: Expends magic power to create an equilateral hexagonal combination module with a side length of 1 dm and a thickness of 5 mm, or an equilateral triangular module of the same size and thickness.
Combination Module: Material hardness reaches tri-color level, excellent physical resistance, superior magic resistance, possessing soul resistance and wave skill blocking effect. It also has extremely strong energy conductivity, allowing the formation of different magic paths within it by expending a certain amount of effort to achieve different effects.
Under active mode, various functional structures can be constructed through the combination of modules.
Under passive mode, combinations will automatically arrange and combine in real-time according to pre-set conditions based on the situation.]
[Introduction: A peculiar technological creation mixed with massive rules.
Manufactured using the thought process of technological creations combined with powerful magic construction knowledge, each module is infused with autonomous AI souls.
It is the pinnacle creation of a Grandmaster level of magic technology.]