102: Chapter 102 Using Blood as a Blade

With all eight pieces of Epic equipment equipped, the blood-red armor clung to his body, and a biting blood aura swirled around him. The originally pitch-black battle axe was directly replaced by the blood-red long blade, the crimson abyss blood blade, and his entire aura had undergone a heaven-shaking transformation.

The next second, the complete set bond was fully activated.

[Crimson Abyss Blood Ash eight-piece set collected, set bond activated: Blade of Blood, Ascend to Godhood at Low HP!]

[Set Effect: For every 10% of HP lost, movement speed increases by 5% and physical lifesteal increases by 5%; when HP is below 20% in the desperate state, all blood-type damage and lifesteal effects are directly doubled, and you will not die from self-harm skills!]

Looking at the full set effects, Lin Yan understood.

This set of equipment was the ultimate low-HP blood battle set.

The active skill Peak State, which drains HP and reduces dual resistances, perfectly triggered the full set's blood loss passive; the lower the HP, the higher the attack, the fiercer the lifesteal, and the more terrifying the damage.

At the same time, the set came with a guaranteed effect of not dying from self-harm, perfectly offsetting the risk of sudden death brought about by the self-harm of Peak State.

The two complemented each other, completely shaping him into an immortal battle god at low HP.

The crimson abyss blood ash set fit his body perfectly, and a biting, dense blood aura swirled around him. Lin Yan raised his hand to bring up his complete attribute panel. Lines of clear values came into view, and he casually added 3 points to agility.

[Current Level: 24]

[Current Attributes: Constitution 220, Strength 373, Agility 250, Spirit 10, Luck 40]

[Current HP: 134014 / 334014]

[Current Mana: 1000 / 1000]

[Physical Attack: 8608]

[Magic Attack: 100]

[Physical Defense: 7430]

[Magic Defense: 7458]

[Speed: 5000] (Bonus 100%)

[Talent: F-Rank Weak Constitution]

[Skills: Hardened Skin (Fixed reduction of 1486 points of physical damage), Blood Burning Strike, Titan Strength (Increases physical attack by 1670 points), Rend, Life Gift, Tyrants Body, Rage of the Barbarian King, Blood Qi Perception, Peak State]

[Equipment: crimson abyss blood blade · Level 20, Crimson Abyss Blood Skull Helmet · Level 20, Crimson Abyss Ash Blood Armor · Level 20, Crimson Abyss Rend Blood Bracers · Level 20, Crimson Abyss Bathe Blood Knee Pads · Level 20, Crimson Abyss Blood Trace Boots · Level 20, Bloodthirsty Blood Abyss Pendant · Level 20, Ash Blood Killing Ring · Level 20, Bloodthirsty Pendant · Level 15, Giant Belt · Level 15, Ring of Ignorance]

[Crimson Abyss Blood Ash Set Effect: Blade of Blood, Ascend to Godhood at Low HP! For every 10% of HP lost, movement speed increases by 5% and physical lifesteal increases by 5%; when HP is below 20% in the desperate state, all blood-type damage and lifesteal effects are directly doubled, and you will not die from self-harm skills!]

[Current EXP: 40000 / 500000]

[Free Attribute Points: 27]

[Items: Ancient Giant Heart · Level 30, Unwavering Until Death · Li Wanqing · Level 15, Point Teleportation Scroll, Level 15 tyrant set, Unwavering Until Death · Zhao Yue · Level 15, Samsara Reincarnation Jade, Dungeon Core, Several Props, Several Food Items]

[Cumulative Points: 1200000; Bounty Points: 50000; Total Points: 1250000; Dungeon Ranking: 53]

[Hex: Magic to Physical Conversion, Physical-Magic Dual Cultivation (Current Level 0)]

Lin Yan looked at his equipment. Theoretically, unless there were special circumstances, every Awakened could only learn ten skills and equip ten pieces of equipment. He hadn't expected the Ring of Ignorance not to count among them.

His gaze lingered on the Dungeon ranking column, and Lin Yan frowned slightly.

A full 1.2 million points was the generous reward he had earned from clearing eighteen rounds of the Samsara Demon Slaughter Arena and slaying countless high-level monsters and a level 35 ultimate BOSS. He had thought his ranking would at least be firmly in the top tier, but the leaderboard ranking was stuck at only fifty-third place.

It seemed that although he was frantically accumulating points, other Contestants weren't stopping either. Countless geniuses were simultaneously accumulating points crazily, and the threshold for the leaderboard was constantly being raised, which was why he had abundant points but his ranking was still low.

Moreover, Wen Xiaoyou's points had already surged to over 4 million. This hidden area must have shared all the points and experience.

This kind of luck was truly unreasonable. If not for her heaven-defying props, he would probably have been eliminated too.

Lin Yan chuckled, put away his attribute panel, and turned to look at the void rift stably flowing at the edge of the arena; it was the passage leading to the main combat zone of the Chaotic Battlefield.

The two rested briefly, preparing to leave this Samsara Demon Slaughter Arena and return to the main battlefield.

What Lin Yan didn't know was that not long after they had entered the hidden space, a cold system announcement rang out across every part of the Chaotic Battlefield.

[Global Large-Scale Event: Ten Thousand Beast Tide Attack · Defend the Stronghold!]

[Event Trigger Rules Announcement: 1. A massive wave of high-level monsters will spawn synchronously and continuously across the entire war zone. The base strength of the monsters will continue to rise in stages according to survival time. The sole goal of all monsters is to destroy the central altar of each major safe stronghold; 2. The only stable channel for Contestants to obtain points: guard the stronghold altar. Killing incoming monsters will accumulate points in real-time. The longer the altar survives, the higher the point yield; 3. The maximum capacity of a single safe stronghold is thirty people. Once the stronghold population reaches the threshold, other Contestants cannot enter. (Teaming up during this period will not trigger penalties.)]

The announcement was broadcast on a loop, and the entire Chaotic Battlefield instantly became restless. Countless Contestants gave up searching for scattered resources and rushed at full speed toward the nearest marked safe strongholds. Top geniuses from major war zones scrambled to occupy strongholds, starting a long battle of defending the strongholds.

...

More than twenty Contestants had already poured into the twelfth stronghold. A large number of high-level monsters were constantly attacking the stronghold's defense line, and the scattered Contestants were fighting on their own, with the defense line teetering on the brink of collapse.

Just then, in the center of the crowd, Victor Raymond, with his silver-gray short hair, slowly looked up. His sharp gaze swept across the entire beast tide.

"Outdated weapons will eventually be eliminated by the era."

As his voice fell, A-Rank Talent [Mechanical Era Transition] activated.

Hum— A light blue data stream rose from under his feet, and the modular battle armor on his body suddenly disintegrated.

Countless mechanical components hovered in mid-air, then reassembled and combined at a speed far exceeding common sense.

This was Victor's special ability. [Mechanical Era Transition]—capable of allowing his equipment to break through its original technical limits and temporarily transition to a higher-era technological form.

Ordinary firearms in his hands could evolve into energy weapons. Ordinary armor in his hands could transform into future war weapons.

The next second, silver-white streamlined mecha completely covered his entire body, and the leg thrusters shot out blue tail flames.

Boom— Victor instantly shot into the sky, his entire person turning into a blue stream of light that swept across the battlefield.

Before the monsters could react, the armor on both his arms unfolded simultaneously, and dozens of micro-tracking missiles poured out. [Swarm Missiles]

Boom boom boom boom— Explosive fire bloomed one after another, and large swaths of monsters were instantly swallowed by the sea of fire.

However, this was just the beginning. Victor hovered in mid-air, the chest armor unfolded to both sides, a dazzling blue light quickly condensed, and the surrounding air twisted crazily. [Fusion Beam Cannon]

The next second, a thick torrent of energy swept across the land, and monsters within a range of hundreds of meters along the path were directly evaporated. The entire front line was cleared, and a huge gap immediately appeared in the beast tide.

But just then, several high-level elite monsters broke through the artillery blockade and lunged over at high speed.

Victor's eyes didn't fluctuate in the slightest. "Melee mode."

Click— The full-body armor transformed again, his arms thickened rapidly, the shoulder armor contracted, and the thruster power surged. The original long-range firepower form instantly switched to the heavy combat form.

Boom! He swooped down from the high sky, smashed down with one punch, the ground collapsed with a bang, the shockwave spread for dozens of meters, and a large number of monsters were directly blown away.

Immediately following that, the thrusters fired continuously, and Victor's figure shuttled through the beast tide at high speed. Every punch was accompanied by mechanical amplification, and every impact was like a cannonball explosion. Looking from afar, he seemed like a steel god of slaughter from a future battlefield.

At the same time, data streams constantly flickered in his pupils. [Target Analysis...] [Armor Structure Scan Complete.] [Weak Point Localization Complete.] [Weapon Module Optimization in Progress.]

As the battle continued, the surface of the arm armor constantly reorganized, automatically adjusting the weapon structure according to the monsters' characteristics, and the armor-piercing efficiency continued to climb. The more he fought, the stronger he became.

With Victor sitting in command, the pressure on the entire twelfth stronghold was drastically reduced. Blue beams crisscrossed in the sky, and steel figures flashed at high speed on the ground. Large swaths of monsters fell in batches, and the entire stronghold seemed to have turned into a mobile war fortress. Impregnable.

...Meanwhile, at other strongholds