84: Death Scythe

The next day.

Xu Le was awakened early by the sound of Little Silly Crow's prayers.

"God, the matter you instructed before, the divine statue and I have completed it."

"What matter?"

Xu Le didn't recall it for a moment.

Little Silly Crow: "..."

It quickly controlled its inner thoughts and gave itself a fierce slap with its wing.

'God is occupied with a myriad of affairs, yet He still trusts us not to be corrupt!'

'Little Silly Crow, you must always remember God's grace...'

After a bout of self-hypnosis, it presented three pure crystals—one large and two small.

"God, these are the memory fragments you asked us to purify earlier."

"There were more Soul fragments from the Necro-Murlocs, barely enough to aggregate a General Skill;"

"The Soul fragments of the Necro-Minotaur only purified into two Specialized Skills."

Xu Le took them and began to check.

[Skill] Reaper's Scythe

[Quality] Mythic * General

[Learning Conditions] Believer of the Reaper, Reaper Bloodline, or Divine-Grade Creature

[Skill Description] Summons a phantom of the Reaper's Scythe to perform a Soul Harvest on enemies within range, dealing 100,000 + 100 × Spirit points of damage.

[Cooldown] 24 hours.

Xu Le's gaze was instantly drawn to the first skill alone.

The 100,000 fixed damage alone was terrifying; combined with a hundred times Spirit damage, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it invincible in the mortal world.

The only downside was that the learning conditions were too steep; he didn't seem to meet a single one.

However, his talent 'Innate Divinity' seemed to satisfy the condition of being a Divine-Grade creature.

Xu Le chose to use it.

In the first second, the crystal disappeared, and the method of using the Reaper's Scythe appeared in his mind.

This time, the Innate Divinity talent did not provide any additional buffs to the skill.

Xu Le looked at the remaining two skills with some anticipation.

[Skill] Great Earthquake

[Quality] Epic * Pet

[Skill Description] Consumes 300 Mana. Strikes the ground with full force, dealing (Strength + Physique) × 1.2 damage to enemies within a one-meter radius and stunning them for one second.

[Cooldown] 120 seconds

[Skill] Bull Charge

[Quality] Epic * Pet

[Skill Description] Consumes 300 Mana. Launches a full-force charge, dealing 1 to 5 times Agility damage to enemies collided with along the path. Can cause a knockback effect on beings smaller than oneself. The further the charge distance, the more terrifying the damage.

[Cooldown] 180 seconds

Both skills were decent, but unfortunately, there was no 'Indestructible Soul' skill; otherwise, they would be at least Legendary skills.

Who should he give these skills to?

For the first skill, he first ruled out the two birds, then the wretched Little Dog and the even more wretched Little Peach Tree.

That left the Little Black Snake and the divine statue... Xu Le imagined the Little Black Snake rushing into a crowd of enemies and slamming the ground with its tail or head—hiss... However, the divine statue's shortcoming was also obvious; with its speed, the enemies would probably be long gone before its foot even landed.

But... he glanced at the Destiny Link skill again.

He frequently shared the divine statue's skills lately. If the divine statue learned it, wouldn't that mean he learned it too?

Arranged!

After giving the 'Great Earthquake' skill to the divine statue, the second skill, 'Bull Charge', was even harder to assign.

For the same reasons, he ruled out the first four little ones, and then ruled out the divine statue—with its measly bit of Agility, it wouldn't even kill someone by ramming them for a second.

Even he himself didn't want to share this skill.

He couldn't just go around ramming things everywhere, could he?

It lacked style!

Moreover, with his human body, besides having a slight advantage over most humans, he only had disadvantages against most monsters.

Ultimately, this skill fell onto the Little Black Snake's head.

The Little Black Snake bounced around excitedly, hissing wildly.

Ever since the divine statue joined, its 'Meat Shield' attribute had been outclassed to the point where nothing remained. It had enough for self-preservation, but against experts like Liu Rufeng and Ghost Executioner, its array of skills had no place to be used.

These past few days, its biggest worry was being forgotten by its master.

It hadn't expected to be bestowed a skill.

It secretly decided that after going back, it would constantly hone the skill and must fight on the front lines in the future.

In fact, it wasn't that the Little Black Snake was too weak, but that its Rank was too low, and its Agility attribute was suppressed by both Ghost Executioner and Liu Rufeng.

After all, both were SSS-rank Professionals and possessed talents.

After washing up, Xu Le chose to head to Chenghui Mall.

As it was also a property of the Chu family and he was a Gold Card member, he naturally wanted to enjoy some privileges.

This was just a branch, smaller in scale than the one in the Ninth District.

However, the quality of the two Qipao Misses who received him was higher. After he showed his Gold Card, the manager here was quickly called over.

"Hello, Mr. Xu! I am the manager here, Chu Chu. May I ask what your needs are?"

"Hello! I need to select pets, Contractor skills, and General Skills."

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Xu Le stated his purpose.

"Alright, please wait a moment."

Although Chu Chu was a woman, she acted with swift resolution and soon sent someone to bring over two tablets.

Xu Le then began to browse the pets and skills available here.

Compared to the Ninth District, there were no fewer pets here.

"I want to choose a pet that can weaken enemy defense, or one with very strong basic attacks like a Sword Immortal or Assassin type. Quality isn't important. Do you have any recommendations?"

Xu Le was getting dizzy from looking and directly asked the professional.

Previously, to tackle the Dinosaur World dungeon, he wanted to choose a pet that weakened enemy defense. As it turned out, the Little Silly Crow he bought at the bird and flower market was cheap, but it stubbornly didn't have a single defense-reducing skill.

Now, killing the Dinosaur Lord was easy, but he would inevitably encounter stronger monsters later, so it was better to be prepared.

Chu Chu thought for a moment and began operating the tablet. Soon, information on over thirty pets appeared.

Xu Le looked through them one by one and developed an interest in three of them.

[Pet] Azure Dragon Divine Fish Hatchling (22 days)

[Grade] S-Rank

[Description] Contains a faint trace of Dragon Clan Bloodline. Adept at using Water Spells and possesses decent melee combat ability. The drawback is that it can only fight in water.

[Evaluation] Loyalty can only be guaranteed after contract if you defeat it in water; otherwise, the rebellion rate is as high as 80%.

[Pet] Dolphin Demon Fish Hatchling (18 days)

[Grade] SS-Rank

[Description] A Dolphin Demon Fish with Sea God Bloodline. Like a Siren, it is adept at sonic attacks. Its sweet singing can not only lower the enemy's desire to attack but also reduce the entire enemy party's defense.

[Evaluation] An extremely kind pet. If you are also kind, it will almost never refuse a contract and will not betray you.

[Pet] Golden Silk Demon Monkey Cub (Approx. 1 year and 6 months)

[Grade] S-Rank

[Description] Loves fighting, especially skilled with clubs and stone-throwing. Agile movements and adept at climbing.

[Evaluation] Has a violent temperament. It is recommended to feed it peaches, bananas, or fine wine, then suppress it with absolute martial force. As long as there are many battles, even with a little help from external forces, it will not betray you.

Of the three pets, the first two had defense-reducing skills, the second one even had a rare group weakening skill, and the third one was adept at combat.