85: Chapter 85 is too brutal! What the hell is this surprise?!

Zhang Jian rummaged through his backpack.

He sorted through his gains.

He discovered that among the various skill books he had obtained from clearing the dungeon several times, three were of legendary rank.

And among them, one happened to be of the attack type.

In that case, he was only missing one!

Zhang Jian's fighting spirit ignited.

"Keep it up, brothers!"

Wang Fei didn't know why Zhang Jian had suddenly become so excited, but he was happy to see it.

Having mastered Zhang Jian's latest data, he commanded even more enthusiastically.

36 minutes.

35 minutes.

34 minutes.

The speed of clearing the dungeon was getting faster and faster.

Watching the massive amount of experience points constantly increasing, the group was completely immersed in the joy of continuous gains.

As for the leaderboard, did they even need to look at that?

"Got it!"

After killing the BOSS once more and picking up the drops, Zhang Jian shouted in surprise.

The skill books were finally collected!

While resting to recover, he chose to use them immediately.

"Do you want to upgrade the trait quality of the excellence Rank skill [Whirlwind Sword Slash]? After the upgrade, the original skill level will be reset, and the max-level trait will disappear. Do you want to upgrade?"

Zhang Jian did not hesitate at all.

"Yes!"

Although this upgrade meant that the over 600,000 experience points spent on leveling up the skill were wasted, it didn't matter much given his current reserves of tens of millions of experience points.

Saying it was a drop in the ocean might be an exaggeration, but a drop in a bucket was probably reasonable.

The only pity was that [Hurricane Mark], a very practical max-level trait, would also cease to exist.

However, Zhang Jian quickly threw this thought to the back of his mind.

Out with the old, in with the new!

The next one would be even better!

Several rays of purple light drifted up and gradually faded.

Then they slowly transformed into orange light, and finally became clear.

Zhang Jian took a deep breath and looked at this legendary rank trait skill he had high hopes for.

[Sky Storm Slash] (legendary rank)

LV0 / 6

Consumes 120 Mana to release a 5m * 5m * 2m Thundercloud Vortex within a hemispherical Domain in front of you. Every second, 6 Thundercloud Sword Qi strikes descend from the sky, each dealing 20% of Attack Power as special Thunder and Sword dual-attribute damage to all monsters in the area, and applying the [Paralysis] effect: Defense reduced by 20%, Movement Speed reduced by 40%. After combat within the vortex ends, any target that enters this area will automatically be slowed by 30% for 3 seconds. During skill release, you gain the [Storm Protection] status: Immune to knock-up, knock-back, and slow effects.

Cooldown: 180 seconds.

(To upgrade skill effect: Use this trait to kill 0 / 1 monster)

(To upgrade trait quality: Requires 4 epic Rank attack skill books)

The skill name was very cool, but as for the effect, it still needed to be tested.

After entering the dungeon, Zhang Jian didn't rush to use it.

Instead, he consumed his experience points directly to max out the skill level first.

[Sky Storm Slash] (legendary rank)

LV6 / 6

Consumes 120 Mana to release a 12.5m * 12.5m * 5m Thundercloud Vortex within a hemispherical Domain in front of you. Every second, 6 Thundercloud Sword Qi strikes descend from the sky, each dealing 50% of Attack Power as special Thunder and Sword dual-attribute damage to all monsters in the area, and applying the [Paralysis] effect: Defense reduced by 50%, Movement Speed reduced by 100%. After the vortex damage ends, any target that enters this area will automatically be slowed by 75% for 9 seconds. During skill release, you gain the [Storm Protection] status: Immune to knock-up, knock-back, and slow effects.

Cooldown: 180 seconds.

Max-level trait:

[Storm Resonance]: If the attacked target is directly killed, a Thundercloud Chain is triggered, dealing an additional 30% of the damage the target received upon death as true damage to all targets within the vortex. If the same target is hit by 3 or more Thundercloud Sword Qi strikes, the following effect is triggered: Immediately deal 300% of Attack Power as damage and re-apply the [Paralysis] effect.

(To upgrade skill effect: Use this trait to kill 0 / 1 monster)

(To upgrade trait quality: Requires 4 epic Rank attack skill books)

After reading the skill effects, Zhang Jian had only two words: Surprise!

A damn surprise!

Just reading the text description made it feel incredibly powerful.

After the first wave of monsters arrived, he didn't rush out like before.

Instead, he signaled to Wang Fei, "Let all the monsters come over!"

Although Wang Fei didn't understand why, he obeyed obediently.

To cooperate with Zhang Jian, Wei Donglai and Yan Han also didn't take any action, waiting patiently.

Until all 30 Thugs of the first wave entered Zhang Jian's line of sight.

He took another step forward, adjusted his position, and visually estimated that he could cover all the monsters.

Only then did he calmly raise the weapon in his hand.

The moment he raised his sword blade, the sky instantly darkened.

The already dim factory became even darker in an instant.

Clusters of thunderclouds appeared out of thin air, gathering continuously.

Zhang Jian seemed to have turned into the center of a storm, with flashing light alternating between bright and dark on his body, making Wang Fei and the others unable to help but take a step back, looking at this scene in astonishment.

The next moment.

The thunderclouds exploded downwards violently!

It turned into a large vortex, enveloping all the monsters.

Rip!

The chainsaws in the Thugs' hands were still running, but the noise that had once given everyone a headache seemed insignificant in the face of the roaring thunder.

Above the monsters' heads, blue-purple sword shapes were gathering rapidly.

The monsters within the vortex seemed to feel the danger and took large strides, wanting to escape.

But the storm had already arrived; how could they retreat?

Under the [Paralysis] effect, they were completely unable to move.

Instead, the weakening of their defense made them look terrified and extremely helpless.

No sooner said than done.

The first Sword Qi shot out violently from the thunderclouds and fell rapidly.

As it got closer to the monsters, this Sword Qi also gradually divided.

10. 20. 30.

Until it locked onto all the monsters, the shape of the Sword Qi became completely clear.

After completely entering the vortex, the thirty Sword Qi strikes each slashed down towards a monster.

-12919!

-12919!

-12919!

How could the Thugs with only 2000 HP withstand such a fierce impact? They were immediately torn into two halves by the thunder light.

"Your trait skill effect has been upgraded!"

"Your trait skill effect has been upgraded!"

Accompanying two consecutive notifications that quietly floated by, it represented the death of at least 11 monsters.

And in fact.

Inside the Thundercloud Vortex, there was no one left.

The corpses of the Thugs all over the ground had already been whipped by the subsequent five Sword Qi strikes.

Until they were completely blasted into fragments.

"Too brutal!"

Wei Donglai clutched his chest, his expression pained.

"I feel like a new recruit in front of Brother Jian!"

Yan Han made a bitter face, also wearing a comical expression.

Wang Fei looked blank, his mouth wide open.

With you performing like this, how am I supposed to command?

Wouldn't that just make me redundant?