86: Chapter 86 Skill Coverage? The Road to Legend! The Top Ten Rise Again!

After testing the skill's effects, everyone was thrilled.

Zhang Jian was even happier, thinking that with the effects of Wang Fei's Support skill, he could use his skill once every wave, which would surely significantly increase their clear speed, right?

But when the second wave of monsters arrived.

He was shocked to discover that the skill was still on cooldown.

He focused his mind on the skill's description and finally discovered the problem.

"The Support skill [ Strategy and Tactics ] and [ Sky Storm Slash ] have a significant difference in quality, so the corresponding effect is reduced by 50%."

Because there was no extra bonus from the number of party members, after the skill was enhanced, it could only reduce the cooldown time by 30%.

And after being attenuated by the quality difference, it directly became 15%.

Even with the enhancement from Zhang Jian's exclusive trait [ Brothers Are Awesome ], it was still only 30%.

The original 180-second cooldown time was only reduced to 126 seconds.

Even counting the 1-minute rest period between waves, he still needed to wait 60 seconds before it could be cast.

Fortunately, after Wei Donglai and the other person used their skills to forcibly drive and gather all the monsters together.

Under the roaring thunder Sword Qi of [ Sky Storm Slash ], they could still easily kill all the monsters within the vortex.

At least there was no need to cast it a second time.

It was just that after the first Sword Qi killed the monsters instantly, the remaining five Sword Qi continued to be released without stopping.

This "corpse-whipping" effect caused the skill to last for a full eight or nine seconds.

Adding in the waiting time for the cooldown, the overall efficiency was actually much worse than before.

After clearing the level again and coming out, Wang Fei couldn't help but check the time.

55 minutes!

Zhang Jian sighed; he had been too impatient.

He had been thinking about quickly leveling up his skills, but had forgotten about the issue of matching them with Support skills.

Wang Fei saw that Zhang Jian's expression wasn't right, and after asking about the situation, he looked ashamed.

"Brother Jian, I'm holding you back."

Zhang Jian shook his head.

"It's not your problem."

Yan Han asked confusedly, "Isn't this easy to solve? Brother Fei just needs to learn another excellence-Rank or legendary rank Support skill."

Wang Fei sighed.

"I've already learned three skills, so I'm full. Do I have to level up now?"

At this, even Wei Donglai had a strange expression.

"Big brother, don't you know that skills can be overwritten?"

"Huh?" Zhang Jian and Wang Fei exclaimed in surprise simultaneously.

Wei Donglai rolled his eyes. They were so strong, yet they didn't even know this kind of basic knowledge.

Yan Han quickly explained.

"Under normal circumstances, you need to use forgetfulness-type items to change skills."

"But there is another situation: when the number of skills at your current Rank is full, you can directly use a higher-quality skill to overwrite a lower-quality one."

Wang Fei was overjoyed, "Why didn't you say so earlier?"

Yan Han felt a bit aggrieved. "I thought you knew."

Wei Donglai also tried to smooth things over.

"It's not Brother Fei's fault for not knowing; this method is indeed rarely used."

"Because each slot can only be overwritten once, basically you only use the highest quality to overwrite. After overwriting, the skill disappears directly, and experience points are not returned, so it's indeed quite a loss."

Wang Fei, however, looked excited. "The [ All-Around Buff ] and [ Strategy and Tactics ] I learned are both rare-Rank, so it's not a pity to overwrite them."

This remark directly broke Wei Donglai's composure.

You've been using rare-Rank skills to Support Brother Jian all this time? Doesn't that mean Brother Jian could still be this powerful even without you?

Yan Han was also very shocked. He used two rare-Rank skills to get himself onto the Galaxy Academy assessment list. Doesn't that make it seem like he was just too weak to begin with?

After understanding the situation, Wang Fei was about to excitedly start looking for suitable skills, but was persuaded by Yan Han to stop.

"If you want to make all your skills before Rank 10 legendary rank, there's no turning back."

Wei Donglai also nodded. "This means you must walk the Path of the legendary rank!"

Seeing that Wang Fei and Zhang Jian both looked clueless, Wei Donglai felt helpless. How could they become so strong when they didn't know anything? Heaven is truly unfair!

He simply found a quiet place and explained everything to them in detail.

...

Under the Star Gate, it was full of candidates resting. Most people's gazes would occasionally fixate on the latest leaderboard to see if they had a chance to enter the top ten.

[ Speedrun Points Leaderboard ]

1. Zhang Jian, Huaxia, Total Points: 10498

2. Wang Fei, Huaxia, Total Points: 7830

3. Wei Donglai, Huaxia, Total Points: 7140

4. Yan Han, Huaxia, Total Points: 7140

5. Zhu Jiuxiao, Huaxia, Total Points: 6060

6. Yue Linyuan, Huaxia, Total Points: 5500

7. Sun Yu, Huaxia, Total Points: 5320

8. Ashina, Samarkand, Total Points: 5300

9. Kamishiro Chio, Japan, Total Points: 4620

10. Han Xueyao, Dahan Country, Total Points: 4620

Zhang Jian, who was far ahead of everyone else, had completely driven everyone to despair. No one felt they had any chance of surpassing or even approaching him.

However, the rankings below him had small gaps, so quite a few people still held onto hope.

Zhu Jiuxiao and Yue Linyuan sat side by side and sighed.

"Before coming here, I was thinking I had to take first place!"

Yue Linyuan also shook his head.

"Who says otherwise? I didn't expect the two of us to drop to fifth and sixth!"

"Do you think we still have a chance to catch up to those few?"

Zhu Jiuxiao pondered.

"Are you talking about Zhang Jian or Wang Fei?"

Yue Linyuan rolled his eyes.

"Are you crazy or am I crazy?"

"It's definitely the two below them! I've already inquired clearly; Wang Fei is Zhang Jian's childhood friend. As a Support Professional, his contribution definitely won't be low. Don't look at the fact that the gap between us isn't big; as long as Zhang Jian casually gives up some contribution, we have no hope at all!"

Zhu Jiuxiao nodded.

"Although the other two are both Mages, as far as I know, they are just riding coattails and can't provide much contribution, so there is indeed hope to catch up."

Yue Linyuan looked down again, his expression grave.

"However, let's not get ahead of ourselves; that guy Sun Yu below is also chasing very closely!"

Zhu Jiuxiao frowned, "Then for the next few waves, you should put in more effort to boost your contribution."

The two quickly reached a consensus, stood up, and entered the Star Gate.

Not far away, Sun Yu looked a bit exhausted.

Having cleared the dungeon more than 20 times in a row, even though he was becoming more and more familiar with it and had the BUFF in front of the Star Gate to restore his stamina, the constant feeling of mental tension still made him feel a bit breathless.

But whenever he closed his eyes, he could seemingly see his father's concerned gaze.

And because of Long Province's overall poor performance in the Unified Examination in recent years, no outstanding talents had emerged. This led people from other provinces to generally look down on people from Long Province. Professionals from Long Province were also extremely unwelcome when adventuring in the wild.

A flash of unwillingness flickered in Sun Yu's eyes.

He took a deep breath and stood up abruptly.

"Zhang Jian, although you are strong, I am not weak either."

"I will let all of Huaxia know that Long Province is not a desolate land for Professionals!"