Tokyo underground city

Chapter 194 Curse of Loneliness

In the next three days, Lin Huaien and the others kept trekking in the forest.

Because of the support provided by the Crow-faced Doctor, they moved faster, unless it was a shadow camp that had to be eliminated before they could move forward. Or in order to exchange supplies from the crow-faced doctor, they would stop briefly in the camp and sweep away the shadows inside.

However, as a result, their upgrade progress has been greatly slowed down. Unless it is the "Shadow" that invades every night, it will be difficult for them to get enough time to extract all the [Alienation Crystal Ingots].

"But I'm almost at the max level, and Hara Yumu is not a combat-oriented explorer. It won't have much impact if I level up slowly."

Lin Huai'en looked at the [Alienated Pure Water] in his hand and pushed it into his arm while thinking about it.

If there is any problem, it is that after he reaches the full level, he needs almost double the [Alienation Crystal Ingots] consumed in the previous upgrade to activate his "shadow" and escape from the coercion of "Dark Forest" Get out...

"However, we will reach the center of the forest tomorrow...this plan is no longer useful."

After injecting all the [Alienated Pure Water], Lin Huai'en stood up and looked at the shadow of the forest in the distance.

There, something unusually huge stood there, and just looking at it, he felt a strong sense of oppression.

Ziyuan looked at him, obviously worried: "Tomorrow is the last day. "Dark Forest" will not let us go easily. "Specialized Slaves" like "The Hangman" will also be at the exit of the forest. Waiting for us everywhere.”

"And there should be more than one."

"Have you thought about how to deal with them?"

Hearing Ziyuan's inquiry, Lin Huai'en turned around.

Looking at her, he shook his head: "I don't know. Soldiers will stop us, and water will cover us."

After dismissing Zi Yuan, Lin Huai'en looked at his attribute column.

After injecting all the [Alienated Water], he also gained a new optional list of skills.

There were so many golden combat skills that he felt numb, but there were not many valuable things in them. After removing the useless things, there were probably the following skills.

[Drawing Technique (Gold)], [Elemental Cutting (Silver)], [Imitation (Psychic)]

Needless to say, [Drawing Sword Technique (Gold)], this is something that can open up an entire skill system.

The disadvantage is that once this skill is selected, it basically means that his weapon will be the katana as the main weapon, and various combat options will also be subject to some restrictions due to the "hidden sword" characteristic of the sword drawing technique.

Although [Elemental Cutoff] is only a silver skill, like [Enhanced Perception], it is an active performance skill. The description of the skill is to block the "elemental conduction" from the weapon within a few seconds after using the skill.

This skill should be due to the fact that when he faced Li Muen's [Nine Thunder Flash], he was almost burnt to a crisp by the lightning from the Gray Fury.

"After using this skill, I should be able to 'cleave' the enemy's spell attacks."

Although this skill has an inconspicuous name, it is a very important core skill for swordsman explorers.

There are not many people who are qualified to acquire this skill, most of them are extremely outstanding swordsmen.

"The elementary element cutting only blocks the flow of spells; the intermediate element cutting can cut off the enemy's spells and let them flow to both sides of the body; the advanced element cutting can destroy a group of spell attacks with one blow. The origin of the spell, making it lose its effect.”

"And my elemental cutting is 'Silver level', which means that as long as I upgrade normally, I can reach the intermediate stage without bottlenecks. It is a very outstanding active performance skill."

In Lin Huai'en's view, this skill is a bit like the magic version of "anti-counterattack" and requires a higher foundation of swordsmanship, so it is not surprising that he can obtain this skill.

"In the end it's [imitation]..."

Lin Huaien looked at the last skill.

[Imitation: Get your enemy’s combat skills. 】

The description of the imitation skills is very simple, but it gives Lin Huaien a somewhat different sense of power.

The comments in the offline database are also very clear——

[Imitation], psionic skill, the primary effect is to store a skill, which can be the enemy's or a teammate's, provided that it must be "completely mastered".

Generally, [Psychic Skill·See Through] is needed for support.

The power of the skill is related to the imitator's magic power conversion efficiency. Among the psionic skills, there is a specialized [mimicry] that can convert the explorer's [psionic power conversion efficiency] into the [magic power conversion efficiency] of a certain element.

Combined with [Mimicry] and [See Through], [Imitation] can even turn a melee explorer into a mage!

[Of course, the primary "imitation" can only store one skill, and the conversion efficiency of psychic energy and magic power is as high as 300%. 】

[But the intermediate level "Imitation" can store two skills, and the conversion efficiency of psychic energy and magic power is also reduced to 200%. 】

[Full-level "Imitation" can store four skills, and the spiritual energy conversion efficiency is reduced to 80%. If there are other skills or equipment that improve spiritual energy efficiency, the spiritual energy conversion efficiency of this skill can become even lower. 】

unbelievable!

After reading the skill description of [Imitation], Lin Huai'en only had this thought.

Most of the psionic users use their own psionic conversion efficiency. The basic value is about 150%, which is equivalent to the attack power of 100 psionic powers. They are born with about 50% more spell power than magic attacks.

With [Mimicry] and [Empowerment] that "increases the efficiency of psychic energy conversion", the magic power conversion efficiency of any spell used by a psyker can easily exceed 300%.

Although it is not as good as a mage-type explorer with extremely high points and full-body relic-level equipment, it is a very powerful ability line for magic swordsman-type explorers.

With [Imitation], Lin Huai'en is equivalent to having a skill slot that is "somewhat restricted, but can be changed at any time". Whether it is equipped with "Nine Thunder Flash" or "Fireball Technique", it is a good choice. .

As for the prerequisite skill [See Through] of the [Imitation] skill...

Lin Huai'en took a look at his [Sword Theory] skill and already knew why [Imitation] appeared in his skill list.

"What a coincidence... I didn't expect that after turning on [Spiritual Will] and adding [Sword Theory], there would be such a big change..."

Lin Huai'en closed his skill list with some emotion.

[Psychic Skills] There is no "color", and it is clearly stated in the offline database——

[The core of psychic skills is attribute value, which is spiritual will. 】

[Because they cannot be improved through talent points, most psykers are stuck at the attribute bottlenecks of 2.5, 5.0, and 7.5. 】

[It can be considered that psykers below 2.5 are "apprentice psykers"; 2.5 to 5.0 are "junior psykers"; 5.0 to 7.5 are "intermediate psykers"; 7.5 to 10.0 are "advanced psykers" ". 】

[The intensity of psionic skills increases accordingly with the attribute level of the psyker. There is no "skill bottleneck". 】

[In other words, when a psyker breaks through the attribute limit of 7.5, it is equivalent to all his psionic skills being upgraded to gold level; conversely, if the attribute value cannot exceed level 2.5, then all the psionic skills of the psyker will be upgraded to gold level. All skills are only bronze level. 】

[By the way, since psychic skills have no "color", they do not occupy "gold skill slots", but correspondingly, there is no such thing as "rainbow skills". 】

"Are there any restrictions on abuse of force..."

This was Lin Huaien's first thought after reading these notes.

After all, if every psionic skill is of gold level and can be synthesized into rainbow skills, then all psykers should improve their psionic skills and stop studying other skills.

"But it's obvious that even among high-level explorers, no one does this... Although psychic skills are powerful, they still have flaws, so they can only be used as a powerful auxiliary, not as a core."

After gaining a relatively clear understanding of psychic skills, Lin Huai'en turned his attention to his real core skills -

[Curse Body].

After seeing [Drawing Technique], [Element Cutting] and [Imitation], he did not immediately choose which skill to learn.

Because he still has to see the result of his [Cursed Body] being upgraded to level 4.0.

"After [Cursed Body] is upgraded to 4.0, the scar of pain will be as high as 400%. Counting the enhanced curse of Gray Fury, it will be 800%..."

"And my curse resistance is 90 points, plus the 60 points of White's wristband during wartime, for a total of 150 points."

Although he has become accustomed to the existence of [Scar of Pain], Lin Huai'en is still speechless when he sees his increasing pain.

However, the Cursed Body is only 0.2 talent points away from level 4.0. No matter what, he will upgrade it to level 4.0 before making other considerations.

"I hope I can give you good characteristics like at level 3.0..."

"No! New features of the level of [Absorb Curse] and [Grudge Haunted] are not enough! Please give me a new feature that surpasses the first two, and preferably reaches the level of [Using the True Power of Cursed Items]! "

Lin Huai'en knew that he was a little wishful thinking.

But according to Wilderness House, level 4.0 skills at the silver stage should be more than twice as improved as those at the bronze stage.

It can be said that only after acquiring enough level 4.0 silver skills can new explorers truly leave the trainee explorer stage and enter the new level of red card explorer!

And [Cursed Body] is Lin Huaien's first intermediate skill in the true sense!

"The heavens and the earth are spirited, and although I'm not superstitious, spirits will appear soon!"

Lin Huaien prayed without sincerity and pressed the upgrade button of [Cursed Body].

At that moment, he felt a strange swelling sensation.

The thick black fog spread out from him like a cassock. At that moment, he felt strong, but suddenly he felt weak.

"team leader?"

Noticing the movement on his side, Yuan Ximu came over in surprise.

But every time she took a step closer, Lin Huaien felt a strong dizziness and involuntarily took a step back: "Wait, you... don't come over!"

Yuan Ximu froze on the spot.

While the girl was stunned, Lin Huai'en unfolded his skill description and took a quick look.

【Curse of Loneliness】

[Characteristic description: All attributes increase by 100%. 】

[When there are any friendly creatures within 50 meters around you, the experience value acquisition efficiency is -50%, and all attributes are reduced by 150%. 】

[Note: This curse will be affected by the "enhanced curse"; increasing the curse resistance can reduce the curse effect. 】

[Current weakening rate: -105%]

"The Curse of Loneliness!"

When Lin Huai'en saw the name of the new feature, he gasped.

He quickly opened White's wrist wheel and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the weakening of his attributes increased from -105% to -75%.

If you include the 100% increase in attribute value from the Curse of Loneliness, he is almost 25% stronger than before.

"And..." Lin Huaien raised his eyebrows.

He noticed that there was no change in his attribute panel, which showed that the attribute value increased by [Curse of Loneliness] could break through the increase suppression!

"This new feature is equivalent to the 'transformation' skill of some elite explorers..."

Lin Huai'en has heard that starting from the blue card stage, some explorers will choose to transform into a werewolf or a giant bear in order to break through the ascending suppression effect. In this way, while the basic attributes remain unchanged, they can perform far better than conventional exploration. fighter’s combat effectiveness.

And his [Curse of Loneliness] seems to be a skill of this type.

Thinking of this, he looked at the black mist spreading over his body and nodded slightly.

The curse of loneliness... Schopenhauer's "Everything is perfect in loneliness"...

Thinking of this, Lin Huai'en couldn't help but have a headache.