42: All beings are equal in front of Lu Ran!
Chapter 42: Before Lu Ran, All Beings Are Equal!
Lu Ran wasn't unfamiliar with it, having already tried Bone Storm in Endless Tower.
Moreover, the current Bone Storm's range wasn't the basic thirty meters; it had an additional thirty-four meters from the Broad Sky perk.
This was because Lu Ran unlocked the perk after clearing the 17th floor.
From the moment it was unlocked, every BOSS he killed afterward added one meter to its range.
By the fifty-first floor, the perk had added thirty-four meters to Lu Ran's range.
So, Lu Ran's Bone Storm now had a range of sixty-four meters!
This was already an incredibly exaggerated range!
Lu Ran stepped out of the safe zone.
His staff glowed, and he targeted the nearby Elemental Fire Spirit and Magma Giant, casting Bone Storm.
Instantly, pale white bones appeared out of thin air, then were swept up by a whirlwind, beginning to rage like a storm!
Driven by the whirlwind, the bones within were like the sharp blades of a meat grinder; the Elemental Fire Spirit and Magma Giant's health began to drop, and not slowly.
Although these were the stats of monsters from the highest difficulty Abyssal Dungeon!
Lu Ran's magic attack power was still quite high.
Behind him.
The Three Guild Leaders looked at each other, somewhat puzzled.
"That's Bone Storm, alright, but... it seems a bit different somehow?"
"The range looks much larger?"
"Bone Storm's range is thirty meters, but the Bone Storm Lu Ran cast is at least sixty meters in range."
"So, this is a perk effect?"
"Could the perk effect be doubling the skill's area of effect?"
...
The few of them speculated.
If it really was doubling the skill's area of effect, while still impressive, it seemed a bit ordinary when applied to Lu Ran?
The three continued to watch.
After Lu Ran cast Bone Storm, the Elemental Fire Spirit and Magma Giant within were attacked, immediately drawing Lu Ran's aggro, and they rushed over in a frenzy.
Lu Ran remained unhurried, casually casting an Undead Touch.
Instantly, the Elemental Fire Spirit and Magma Giant within the area stopped moving.
Immediately after, Lu Ran calmly cast Bone Storm again, one after another, interspersing Undead Touch to control the monsters.
He didn't use Skeleton Soldiers.
Because he simply wanted to test the effects of Bone Storm and the perk.
Even so, with the continuously stacking Bone Storms, they were so dense that the monsters' figures were almost invisible to the naked eye.
Only some faint firelight could be seen amidst the rapidly churning bones.
"The range of Undead Touch has also increased, similarly exceeding sixty meters," Liu Xinxin murmured.
At this point, the health of the Elemental Fire Spirit and Magma Giant finally hit rock bottom.
[Team killed Elemental Fire Spirit, gained 880 experience!]
[Team killed Magma Giant, gained 1100 experience!]
[Team killed Elemental Fire Spirit, gained 880 experience!]
[Team killed Elemental Fire Spirit, gained 880 experience!]
[Team killed Magma Giant, gained 1100 experience!]
...
As the kill notifications continuously appeared, the experience gained was indeed substantial.
But Lu Ran still didn't stop.
He walked forward, continuously casting Bone Storm and Undead Touch.
Within the skill's area of effect, all Elemental Fire Spirit and Magma Giant could only stand rooted to the spot, passively taking damage.
But at this moment, the Three Guild Leaders had already noticed something was amiss.
"Lu Ran's Bone Storm, the range has increased!"
"The range of Undead Touch also seems to have increased!"
"What does that mean? Lu Ran can control the skill's area of effect?"
"This is the first time I've seen Lu Ran solo a dungeon, this is too outrageous!"
"This isn't soloing a dungeon, what's the difference between this and strolling down the street..."
...
The three continued to watch and speculate.
Only Liu Xinxin seemed to have figured something out, looking at the raging Bone Storm in the distance.
And Lu Ran, seeing that the skill's trigger range had indeed increased, felt a great sense of relief.
He couldn't be bothered to continue playing around.
He looked up into the distance and began to indiscriminately cast Bone Storm throughout the entire Flame Land dungeon!
Of course, also Undead Touch!
Although the skill's area of effect hadn't grown yet, the skill's casting range was tens of kilometers!
Lu Ran cast them randomly across the entire map.
As far as the eye could see, it was all Bone Storm!
The entire Flame Land seemed to be submerged by bones, with fierce winds howling, and all the monsters within had nowhere to escape, their health bars plummeting wildly!
[Team killed Elemental Fire Spirit, gained 880 experience!]
[Team killed Magma Giant, gained 1100 experience!]
[Team killed Elemental Fire Spirit, gained 880 experience!]
...
As Lu Ran's Bone Storm raged, more and more Elemental Fire Spirit and Magma Giant began to die.
And the death of monsters would increase the range of Lu Ran's Bone Storm.
This was a virtuous cycle.
Lu Ran's Bone Storm range continuously expanded, stacking upon itself, and the Elemental Fire Spirit and Magma Giant's health bars dropped even faster!
The faster their health bars dropped, the faster they died, and the larger Lu Ran's skill range became.
Liu Xinxin had said before that in the Abyssal difficulty of Flame Land, not counting elites and BOSSes, there were five hundred ordinary Elemental Fire Spirit and Magma Giant alone!
Once Lu Ran finished rampaging through all the ordinary monsters in Flame Land, his skill range would reach over five hundred meters!
A li (0.5 km) achieved!
Behind him, the three gradually began to understand.
Liu Xinxin said, "It seems I was right. Remember Lu Ran has a Perk: Broad Inclusion perk? It increases skill casting range, meaning the greater the distance, the farther it can be cast, and it increases by one meter of casting range for every monster killed."
Lei Tai and Ye Hongyi nodded.
Looking up, Lu Ran's Bone Storm now had a range two or three times larger than when it started!
It was at least two hundred meters!
"So, Lu Ran's new perk should be for the skill's own area of effect. Currently, it seems to also be one meter of area of effect increase for every monster killed," Liu Xinxin mused.
Although Lei Tai and Ye Hongyi had already guessed this by now.
But hearing this, they still couldn't help but gasp.
This was far more terrifying than the previous Perk: Broad Inclusion!
Perk: Broad Inclusion could cast skills incredibly far, to unimaginable distances.
But the skill itself didn't change.
It needed to be infinitely stacked through no cooldown to increase its effect.
But now, Lu Ran's skill's area of effect could actually increase!
This was truly terrifying!
"Just imagine, after the National War begins, Lu Ran casts a Bone Storm covering hundreds of kilometers onto the Eagle Country's army. Lu Ran can definitely do it, after all, his skill casting range can easily reach hundreds of kilometers too," Liu Xinxin said.
Lei Tai and Ye Hongyi gulped.
Ye Hongyi said, "Not only that, his skills have no cooldown, so he's not just casting one Bone Storm! He can stack them infinitely! And Undead Touch can also be stacked infinitely!"
Lei Tai said in astonishment, "Damn, I'm feeling defeated. The three of us are the Guild Leaders of the three major guilds, so why are we so useless in front of a level twenty-three Undead Mage?"
Ye Hongyi said with a wry smile, "It's not just us who are useless; before Lu Ran, Global professional players will all be useless!"
Liu Xinxin took a deep breath.
She said, "This is great, there's no suspense now. On the day of the National War, other countries won't even think about executing their battle plans, they won't even be able to move!"
At that time, before Lu Ran, this Undead Mage, all other countries across the Global will be equal!
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