2: Crazy stacking of skills, attribute explosion

The online exchange is a feature available in the Novice Area of the Eternal World, designed to facilitate transactions between new players.

However, the exchange has transaction limits, only allowing Professionals within the same Novice Area to trade, not across regions, and once new players leave the Novice Area, they can no longer use this function.

Therefore, there aren't many items on the exchange.

Furthermore, the maximum single transaction price on the exchange is only 50 million, and a 15% handling fee is charged for online consignment.

Of course, the items in the Novice Area themselves are not highly valuable, so this upper limit is practically non-existent.

Everyone speculated that this was something the Eternal World implemented to maintain its energy balance.

Of course, this currently has nothing to do with Ye Xiao.

He was a poor man.

At this moment, the forefront of the exchange panel was filled with Experience Surge related Skill Stone.

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【Experience Surge (Normal): Each time a monster is killed, an additional 10 experience points are gained. Price: 100 eternal coins】

【Light of Knowledge (Normal): Experience gained is additionally increased by 20%. Price: 100 eternal coins】

【Sage's Revelation (Normal): Experience gained is additionally increased by 15%. Price: 100 eternal coins】

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Due to the skill slot limitation, these functional low-level Skill Stone were largely ignored, and their prices were naturally incredibly low.

Ye Xiao only had the 10,000 eternal coins new player welfare issued by the school.

But it was enough.

After some careful selection, Ye Xiao bought 30 Experience Surge related Skill Stone in one go.

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【Ding! You have learned Experience Surge (Normal), gaining an additional 10 experience points each time a monster is killed.】

【Ding! You have learned Light of Knowledge (Normal), gaining an additional 20% experience.】

【Ding! You have learned Sage's Revelation (Normal), gaining an additional 15% experience.】

...

Suddenly, a row of effects appeared at the bottom of Ye Xiao's panel.

An additional 120 experience points are gained each time a monster is killed.

Experience gained is additionally increased by 300%.

At the same time, his Intelligence attribute also increased by an additional 30 points.

Looking at these powerful effects, the smile in Ye Xiao's eyes could no longer be suppressed.

The experience points required for a player to level up from 0 to 1 is 100 points.

And a level 1 monster in the Eternal World yields about 10 experience points upon defeat.

But now, after learning a bunch of experience-boosting skills, the experience points Ye Xiao gained from killing a level 1 monster directly became 520 points.

This was fifty-two times the normal amount.

Although he was mentally prepared, Ye Xiao was still greatly shocked by his own god-tier Talent.

At the same time, Ye Xiao also discovered something magical.

He had clicked too fast when buying Skill Stone just now, accidentally buying the same skill repeatedly.

The result was that he actually learned it successfully.

Can identical skills be learned repeatedly?

This was something Ye Xiao hadn't expected.

Instantly, a magical thought burst into Ye Xiao's mind.

What would happen if he learned another Fireball?

As soon as this crazy thought arose, it could no longer be suppressed.

So, Ye Xiao opened the exchange again.

After a search.

He finally found 10 Fireball Skill Stone.

This item is automatically acquired after a mage's class change.

So it's very unpopular.

He spent another 1000 eternal coins.

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【Ding! You have learned Fireball.】

【Fireball: Consumes 10 mana, deals 60 + 0.3 (Intelligence) fire damage to the target. Cooldown: 1 second.】

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Without stopping, Ye Xiao continued to learn.

Soon, including the one given for his class change, a total of 11 Fireball skills appeared in his skill bar.

Ye Xiao studied them for a while but found no difference.

He thought about it, it seemed he could only test the effects when he encountered monsters.

So, he temporarily put these Fireball skills aside.

Then he searched the exchange again.

Soon, he bought another two dozen functional Skill Stone.

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【Treasure Hunter's Eye (Normal): Activates Treasure Hunter's Eye, item drop rate increased by 10%. Price: 100 eternal coins】

【Golden Hand (Normal): Each touch increases item drop rate by 8%. Price: 100 eternal coins】

【Lucky Star (Normal): Gains the blessing of the stars, item drop rate increased by 9%. Price: 100 eternal coins】

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After learning all of them, Ye Xiao's item drop rate bonus reached 220%.

He glanced at the mere 3500 eternal coins remaining on him.

To increase his Intelligence attribute, Ye Xiao decided not to save them.

After another search, he finally found some Skill Stone that caught his eye.

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【Mana Accumulation (Normal): Passive skill, gains Mana Accumulation aura, permanently increases mana cap by 200 points. Price: 100 eternal coins】

【Arcane Ascension (Normal): Passive skill, gains Arcane Ascension aura, permanently increases mana cap by 300 points. Price: 100 eternal coins】

【Energy Penetration (Normal): Passive skill, your skills can penetrate 3% of enemy defense. Price: 100 eternal coins】

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He bought them directly.

After using them, Ye Xiao opened his attribute panel.

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【ID: Night Shadow】

【Level: 0】

【Profession: Mage】

【Free Attribute Points: 0】

【Attributes: Strength 10; Constitution 11; Agility 10; Intelligence 115;】

【Health: 160 / 160; Mana: 3150 / 3150】

【Skills: Fireball... (Expand)】

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Every new player entering the Eternal World starts with 10 points in all four core attributes, gains 1 point in each attribute per level, and also receives 5 free attribute points.

This is the most equitable aspect of the Eternal World.

Previously, upon changing to the Mage class, the system granted 1 point in Constitution and 3 points in Intelligence.

1 point of Intelligence increases the mana cap by 10 points.

In other words, the 2 skills granted by the class change, plus the 100 skills he just purchased and learned, not only gave Ye Xiao a bonus of 102 Intelligence attributes but also an additional 1020 mana points.

Coupled with the skill effects, his mana directly soared to 3150 points.

At the same time, during his recent search, he also learned 8 skills similar to Energy Penetration.

He can now deal 18% penetration damage.

He believed that given enough time.

He could completely stack penetration damage to 100%.

Just thinking about it made Ye Xiao's blood boil.

Besides these, Ye Xiao also bought 4 skills that increase mana regeneration rate.

The effects provided were:

Restores 5 mana every 3 seconds.

Restores 1 mana every 1 second.

Restores 7 mana every 5 seconds.

Restores 2% of maximum mana every 10 seconds.

Including the basic 1 mana restoration every 5 seconds.

In total, Ye Xiao now recovers 11 mana per second.

This already exceeds the mana cost of Fireball.

After completing all of this, Ye Xiao checked his status statistics.

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An additional 120 experience points are gained each time a monster is killed.

Experience gained is additionally increased by 300%.

Item drop rate increased by 220%.

Spell penetration increased by 18%.

Mana regeneration increased by an average of 11 points/second (including the inherent regeneration).

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He closed the attribute panel with a lingering sense of unfulfillment.

Only then did Ye Xiao take a moment to look at the admission ticket in his backpack.

With attributes and various BUFFs far exceeding those of his peers.

Ye Xiao's confidence suddenly grew.

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At this moment.

In the Eternal World, Yunhai Town Professionals Hall, inside a luxurious lounge.

"Miss, entering the Novice Realm from this private room grants a 20% bonus to all attributes."

"Also, this is the Level 1 Sacred Priest set that the family head asked me to bring you. When you wear it, the effects of beneficial BUFFs will be doubled, and their duration will be tripled."

Bai Xiaoxiao, sitting on the sofa, took the set handed to her by the man in front of her and nodded faintly.

She was somewhat surprised.

This Sacred Priest set was only Level 1, and while its attributes were quite excellent, it could at most only be barely used until Level 30.

Yet, its market price was as high as five million.

If it were just that, it wouldn't be much.

The people in front of Bai Xiaoxiao were all Level 150 Professionals.

It should be known that Yunhai Town is an initial town, an activity area for Professionals below Level 90.

And high-level Professionals entering low-level areas in the Eternal World require a considerable price.

If one were to simply calculate it in eternal coins.

Just these 15 people in front of her would cost fifteen million.

She hadn't expected that the family head, whom she should call grand-uncle, would be so generous.

As a collateral member of the Bai family, when had she ever received such treatment?

And all of this was definitely not something Ye Xiao could have given her.

"I'm sorry, but now, you don't even have the qualifications to stand by my side. Blame only this world where martial arts reign supreme."

She was glad for her rationality.

Wearing the complete set of equipment, Bai Xiaoxiao gradually exuded a divine aura.

This was another effect from her SSS-rank Talent, Sacred Heart: equipment effects doubled.

"Begin."

As Bai Xiaoxiao spoke, the man in front of her, along with a dozen other Level 150 Professionals, all made their moves.

"Holy Light Shine!"

"Iron Wall Tide!"

"Vigorous Blood!"

...In an instant, various colored buff skills were all cast upon Bai Xiaoxiao.

Spellcasting finished.

"Miss, these have already made your attributes comparable to those of a normal Level 10 new player. The family head has high expectations for you and believes you can break the highest record of the Novice Realm."

Bai Xiaoxiao nodded upon hearing this, then walked to the nearby realm teleportation point.

Immediately after, a soft light glowed, and Bai Xiaoxiao's figure disappeared with it.