11: Chapter 11: Dual Skill Advancement!!!

[Parry (Level 100): Use a weapon to Parry an enemy's physical attack within 0.5s, reducing physical damage by 119% and reflecting 54.5% of the physical damage.]

[Obtained Advancement Effect: Solid as Gold]

[Solid as Gold: Physical damage reduction advances to all-attribute damage reduction, and reflected damage becomes True Damage.]

Parry has finally advanced!!

These attributes haven't let down the sweat I've poured in!

From now on, I am Emperor Kai with invincibility frames!

Listening to the notifications flooding his mind like a waterfall, Lin Mo was filled with motivation.

"Again!" Lin Mo beckoned to the herd of boars.

The wild boar herd was enraged.

Over a dozen frenzied giant beasts took turns attacking.

Charge, bite, trample.

Bang!

-0!

Clang!

-0!

Qin Lan watched from the sky for a full two hours.

From her initial heart-pounding fear to later numbness, and now... her worldview had shattered into a floor full of glass shards.

"Impossible... absolutely impossible..."

Qin Lan muttered to herself, her gaze dull.

"Even a Level 50 Shield Fighter with high-tier defense talent wearing no equipment should have their defense broken when facing the Charge of so many Level 30 monsters."

"He's just a Blank Slate Warrior with one point of health left, so why is he completely fine?"

"Does he have some hidden defense talent?"

She didn't understand.

She completely didn't understand.

What on earth was wrong with this world?

Just as Qin Lan was questioning her life, the battle below stopped.

It wasn't that Lin Mo couldn't hold on, but that the wild boar herd couldn't.

Over a dozen Steel-Toothed Wild Boars lay sprawled in the mud, foaming at the mouth with vacant eyes.

Their tusks were broken, their snouts were flattened, and they didn't even have the strength left to grunt.

"Useless already?"

Lin Mo kicked a wild boar playing dead at his feet, looking dissatisfied.

Too little stamina.

He glanced at his status panel.

[Berserk state ongoing, obtained 40,000 skill experience points!]

[Ding! Berserk has reached Level 100, obtaining advancement effect.]

Following Parry's advancement, Berserk had finally advanced as well.

[Berserk (Level 100)]

[Effect: While active, gain 69.5% Tenacity, 69.5% Physical Lifesteal, and increase Strength and Speed by 99.5%.]

(For every level, Tenacity increases by 0.5%, Physical Lifesteal by 0.5%, Strength by 0.5%, and Speed by 0.5%.)

[Cooldown: None]

[Cost: Consumes 10% HP per second; health will not drop below 1 point.]

[Obtained Advancement Effect: Advent of the Berserk God!]

[Advent of the Berserk God: Each attack during the skill duration stacks 5% Attack Speed, up to 20 stacks. At max stacks, gain Berserk Intent (All Attributes *3).]

Holy crap! These stats!

Strength and Speed increased by nearly 100%, plus the 300% independent multiplier from the advancement effect Berserk Intent.

As long as he maxes out the 20 stacks of Attack Speed, he'll have 6 times his speed and strength!

That's fucking ridiculous!

If he raises Tenacity and Lifesteal to 100%...

Wouldn't he become an ultimate buffed version of Emperor Kai, Broli, with an invincibility frame every 2 seconds, full-time Super Armor, and maxed-out Lethal Tempo lifesteal?!

Invincible!

These stats are simply off the charts.

Anyone who even looks at them would explode!

He was mainly training Berserk and Parry just now.

But Lin Mo hadn't forgotten that his greatest reliance was his talent: Block.

Only when the level of Block was high enough could he truly have no worries.

For training Block, the wild boars' attack frequency was still too slow, far from the efficiency he wanted.

"Since the mobs aren't pulling their weight, I'll have to rely on myself."

Lin Mo picked up a Boar Tooth Longsword that had just dropped from a wild boar on the ground.

He held the berserkers axe in his right hand and the Boar Tooth Longsword in his left.

In the sky, Qin Lan finally came to her senses. Seeing Lin Mo's strange behavior, her brow furrowed.

"What is he trying to do?" Qin Lan wondered to herself.

In the next second, Lin Mo extended his neck and placed the blades of the battle axe and the longsword on the carotid arteries on both sides of his neck.

Slash slash slash!!

Using both hands!

The two blades exploded with wind-like speed, crazily cutting both sides of his neck.

The blades blurred into afterimages, as if he were holding two saws and frantically cutting an old wooden stump.

Qin Lan's pupils suddenly constricted, her breathing snapping to a halt.

"What are you doing?!"

Her urgent roar pierced through the clouds.

The teleportation scroll in Qin Lan's hand activated instantly!

Does this kid want to die?!

However, Lin Mo didn't stop even when she appeared beside him.

He was like a machine without a sense of pain, pulling the two blades back and forth with force and madness!

Screech! Screech! Screech!

Accompanied by the hair-raising sound of cutting, dazzling sparks actually flew between Lin Mo's neck and the blades!

-0!

-0!

-0!

A dense string of zero damage numbers popped up frantically.

[Triggered Block! Experience +40,000!]

[Triggered Block! Experience +40,000!]

...

"You..."

Qin Lan looked at the dense -0s above his head!

She froze on the spot.

If she hadn't seen that the damage was all 0, she would have intervened already.

This scene was too horrific.

Who saws their own neck like that? Even if there's no damage, it's far too perverted.

Lin Mo stopped his movements, touched his neck—which didn't even have a white mark left on it—and turned to look at Qin Lan.

"Didn't the Special Envoy see?"

Lin Mo's tone was flat.

"I'm practicing."

"You call sawing your own carotid artery with an axe 'practicing'?!"

Qin Lan completely lost it, showing none of the poise of a Rank 5 powerhouse.

"Are you sick?! What kind of Awakened trains their skills like this?!"

Lin Mo frowned.

"Special Envoy Qin cares so much about my actions, could it be you've fallen for me?"

"Unfortunately, my wife is younger and cuter than you. I'm not interested in you."

"You!"

Qin Lan was choked with rage, pointing at Lin Mo's nose for a long time without being able to speak.

She took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down.

"This is a crooked path! Even if you train your Block talent like this for a month, how many experience points can you gain?"

"That's none of your concern."

Lin Mo turned his head and continued to press his neck against the two blades.

Screech!

Sparks flew from both sides of his neck.

The advancement effect of Berserk was simply too useful.

His speed of farming experience had clearly doubled.

"Special Envoy Qin just needs to be prepared to admit defeat."

Arrogant.

Extremely arrogant.

Qin Lan sneered repeatedly.

"Good, very good!"

"I'll see just what kind of results you can achieve! I'll stay right here and watch how you court death!"

After saying that, Qin Lan took two steps back, her hands moving quickly on her phone to start a video call.

"Little girl, look at how your man is mistreating himself."

"Hey hey hey! Using underhanded tactics is way too despicable!"

Lin Mo's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Waaah! Lin Mo, what are you doing?"

Seeing Lin Mo sawing his own neck, Su Xiaoli almost burst into tears from fright.

"Don't do this, if you're going to die, I'll die with you."

Lin Mo: "..."

After an explanation from Lin Mo and showing her the 0 damage above his head...

Su Xiaoli finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"So, it really is just practicing a skill."

"Don't believe this menopausal old woman's words. I'm perfectly fine; she's just trying to use you to manipulate me."

"So that's how it is! I understand now!"

Su Xiaoli gave a sweet smile.

"Menopausal... old woman..."

Qin Lan felt like she'd been struck by lightning...

"You hateful brat!"

Touching her flawless and beautiful face, she felt doubt about her appearance for the first time.

Time passed minute by minute.

The sun dipped in the west, and the blood-red afterglow of dusk spilled over the withered woods of the Black Blade Buffer Zone.

A full half-day passed.

During this half-day, Lin Mo was like a tireless perpetual motion machine.

As long as a wild monster passed by, he would rush up and give it a lesson.

Once the monster was dead, he would immediately start sawing his neck.

Qin Lan gradually became numb and finally got completely used to it.

"This guy... is not a normal person at all."

This was the only thought left in Qin Lan's mind.

Under the setting sun, Lin Mo finally stopped.

He twisted his somewhat sore neck and pulled the battle axe out from a gap in a tree.

Glancing at the flickering pale gold data on his retina, Lin Mo couldn't suppress the corners of his mouth.

[HP: 1600]

[MP: 1600]

[Talent: Block (Level 1105)]

[Strength: 390]

[Stamina: 160]

[Spirit: 160]

[Speed: 160]

[Skills: Parry (Level 123), Berserk (Level 205)]

[Experience Multiplier: 40,000x]

——

[Berserk (Level 205)]

[Effect: While active, gain 122% Tenacity, 122% Physical Lifesteal, and increase Strength and Speed by 152%.]

[Cooldown: None]

[Cost: Consumes 10% HP per second; health will not drop below 1 point.]

——

[Parry (Level 123)]

[Use a weapon to Parry an enemy's attack, reducing all attribute damage by 142% and reflecting 66% as True Damage.]

[Cooldown: 2 seconds]

[Cost: 30 MP]

Level 1105 Block!

Each time it can Block 11,050 points of damage!

Parry can now reflect 66% as True Damage!

Berserk is even more ridiculous; not only has Tenacity exceeded 100%, but the Strength and Speed enhancement effects have reached 152%!

It has both the mechanics and the stats.

This terrifying speed of improvement was truly hard to keep from smiling about.

Fortunately, today is finally over; it's time to go back.