116: Epic skills

After catching ten more venomous spiders, Xu Shian encountered the first pet he found acceptable.

【Broodmother Spider】

【Level: 10】

【Rare Elite】

【HP: 9000】

【MP: 2000】

【Physical Attack: 240】

【Magic Attack: 300】

【Physical Defense: 100】

【Magic Defense: 100】

【Strength: 80】

【Agility: 100】

【Constitution: 90】

【Spirit: 100】

【Skills】

【Web Weaving】 Weaves a transparent spider web at the target location. As long as the Broodmother Spider stands on its own web, it gains terrain-ignoring movement, significantly increased health regeneration, movement speed bonuses, and stealth effects. Up to three webs can be cast simultaneously, and they persist for a long time.

【Spawn Spiderlings】 Injects eggs into a target unit (enemy unit or insect egg), causing 100 poison damage per second over time. If the unit dies while infected, five "Spiderlings" will hatch from its body to attack enemies.

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Xu Shian looked at this Rare Elite, feeling a sense of déjà vu.

"Shouldn't it have skills like Paralytic Bite and Extreme Hunger?"

"Why are they missing?"

"Bad review..."

Xu Shian checked the attributes of this Broodmother Spider.

Although he could catch this thing using the Hunter's 【Tame Beast】, it was useless!

Because Xu Shian's Contract Pet skill was simply too strong... This thing would be destined to sit on the bench forever if he caught it!

He still had to find a way to use 【Contract Pet】 to capture it!

【Ding, please confirm if you want to spend 80 years of extra lifespan to upgrade the Golden Grade skill 'Contract Pet' to diamond grade?】

"Confirm!"

【You have successfully upgraded the Golden Grade skill 'Contract Pet' to diamond grade. 80 years of extra lifespan have been deducted. Remaining: 2671 years and 129 days!】

Check the skill changes for 【Contract Summoning】.

diamond grade bonus: All pets gain the passive skill, Combined Strike!

Combined Strike: Every time a Contract Pet attacks, it has a 10% chance to trigger Combined Strike; delivering an attack that gathers the power of all contract summons.

This skill looked a bit trashy at first glance.

Upon closer inspection, it was terrifyingly strong.

【Contract Pet】 could now summon 6 pets.

Take the Silver Wolf as an example!

【Silver Wolf】

【Level: 10】

【HP: 2360+500】

【Physical Attack: 412+100】

【Physical Defense: 44+50+25】

【Magic Defense: 44+50+20】

【Strength: 75+28】

【Agility: 65+23.5】

【Constitution: 30+29】

【Skills: ...】

Right now, Silver Wolf's 512 attack power would barely deal damage against a BOSS with 300 defense after subtracting the defense.

For a BOSS, 200 points of damage is no different from scraping.

But as long as Combined Strike is triggered, it can immediately deal 512 * 6, totaling 3072 points of damage. Even after subtracting 300 defense, there is still 2700+ damage!

Note that this is a passive skill, and every contract summon has a 10% chance to trigger it...

In other words, all contract summons now have a 10% chance for a six-fold critical hit!

And as Xu Shian's strength increases and the number of summons grows, this critical multiplier will continue to increase...

However, it was a pity that the entry he wanted didn't appear...

Simply, since he had a lot of lifespan recently, why not go all the way!

Xu Shian first spent 160 years of extra lifespan to upgrade the skill to Dark Gold Grade; then he spent another 320 years of extra lifespan to upgrade the skill to epic-tier in one go!

【Ding, please confirm if you want to spend 320 years of extra lifespan to upgrade the Dark Gold Grade skill 'Contract Summoning' to epic-tier?】

"Confirm!"

【You have successfully upgraded the Dark Gold Grade skill 'Contract Summoning' to epic-tier. 320 years of extra lifespan have been deducted. Remaining: 2191 years and 129 days!】

Continue!

【Ding, 'Contract Summoning' is a basic common skill, it can only be upgraded to epic-tier!】

Hmm?

Basic common skill?

Does that mean everything I've learned so far only counts as a basic common skill?

Then... what is an uncommon skill?

There was no answer, so Xu Shian had to pull his attention back and check the summoning skill!

【Contract Summoning: Level 8+3】 epic-tier Skill

【Upgrade Requirement: Kill creatures of equal or higher level, 10414 / 25600】

Skill Effect: Can contract a wild unit (Beast race) whose life level is not higher than yours!

Level 11 skill bonus: Summon count +2, HP +500, Attack +100, Physical Defense +50, Magic Defense +50.

epic-tier special effect (Summary): You can now contract any non-BOSS level wild unit (excluding the Heavens player race); your summons will gain 50 free stat points each time they level up; the amplification of each stat point for summons is five times.

Five times?

It was enhanced again?

Enhancement is good... Enhancement is great!

For Xu Shian, this was also incredible news!

And, if there are 50 free stat points every time they level up...

Compared to ordinary Black Iron Tier BOSS monsters, they are almost no different!

He could completely choose the race he likes, match his existing skills and system, and cultivate all his own career systems.

It took five seconds to recruit the unwilling 【Broodmother Spider】 into his ranks!

Just kidding, it wanted to use the skill 【Web Weaving】 to hide its figure...

Could I let you get away? Does he think his Ink Shadow's Eye of Truth is just for show?

After catching the Broodmother Spider, Xu Shian began to go deeper.

Perhaps because not many people have ventured deep into this entire swamp, Xu Shian actually discovered another Elite monster here.

【Venomous Arrow Frog】 (Rare Elite)

Checked its skills!

Not bad, it can fire three poison arrows at once and spit out a poison gas cloud with a radius of two and a half meters...

Caught it...

Arranged for the army to clean up the scene, and what remained was the grudge between Xu Shian and the BOSS!

【Lord of Rot · Grog】

【Black Iron Tier BOSS】

【Level: 10】

【HP: 80000】

【MP: 80000】

【Physical Attack: 600】

【Magic Attack: 800】

【Physical Defense: 150】

【Magic Defense: 150】

【Strength: 150】

【Agility: 150】

【Constitution: 200】

【Spirit: 200】

【Skills】

【Toxic Saliva】 Grog sprays a ball of high-speed mucus at the current aggro target. Deals 300% Magic Attack as poison damage to the target and creates a "Acid Pool" that lasts for 12 seconds at the target location, dealing 300 poison damage per second to targets standing in it.

【Venomous Tongue Ejection】 Grog extends its sticky long tongue and ejects it at the farthest non-Class player. After the tongue hits the first target, it deals 280% physical damage, sticks to it, and pulls it back to Grog's side, while simultaneously bouncing to the next farthest target, bouncing up to 3 times. Hit players will be immobilized for 2 seconds.

【Rot】 (Passive) Releases its own poison gas, causing enemies within five meters to take 100 poison damage per second, reducing movement speed by 20% and attack speed by 30%; and reducing double defense by 50%.

【Devour and Digest】 Grog swallows the target into its belly. The swallowed target cannot move and takes 300 nature damage per second, lasting until Grog's HP drops by 5%; if the target dies during this period, Grog randomly devours one of the target's stat points for one hour.

【Rotten Feast】 Grog erupts all the poison gas in its body at once, dealing 400% poison damage to all targets within a 45-meter radius!

【Wild BOSS Trait】 Recovers 1% HP per second!

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Seeing this BOSS's attributes, Xu Shian clicked his tongue in wonder!

Grog was indeed quite strong, but after weighing the strength of both sides, Xu Shian felt that as long as he chose the right lineup and his 【Contract Pet】 worked together, he could beat this thing to death!

But thinking about it, he had spent so much of his extra lifespan, and it was now an epic-tier skill!

If he couldn't even beat a Black Iron Tier BOSS of the same level, wouldn't that be too useless?

Fortunately, when facing the BOSS directly, Xu Shian intuitively felt his own power.