33: Chapter 33 Shen Qingci: Who exactly is the ranged class?

Lu Yang did not know what Lance and Zhu Tongchen were thinking; he clapped his hands to pull everyone's attention back: "Alright, let's start the raid."

The four of them, including Shen Qingci, nodded, and the expressions on their faces turned serious.

Unlike the welfare dungeon.

In the welfare dungeon, dying meant dying; you could resurrect anyway, and aside from a bit of pain, there was no real loss.

But in other dungeons, if you died, you truly died.

Therefore, every single battle must be fought with everything you have!

Rebecca held her half-shield in front of her chest, gripped a golden longsword, and stepped forward to the very front of the team.

Her white heavy armor emitted a chilling metallic sheen under the dim light of the cave, and the spikes on her helmet cast a few distorted shadows on the rock wall above.

Beneath her face mask, her deep blue eyes flashed with a vigilant and solemn light, looking like a completely different person from her usual cheerful and playful self.

Zhu Tongchen did not make a sound. A thin layer of black mist suddenly surged around his body, wrapping around his tall, slender figure like a living creature, seeping through the gaps in his leather armor, and then blending himself entirely into the surrounding gloom along with his whole person.

In merely the blink of an eye, only a wispy trail of undissipated black vapor was left in place.

Holding a white staff, Shen Qingci stood at a distance neither too far nor too close to Rebecca, just within the protective range of the shield while leaving enough casting space.

With a twist of her wrist, a flash of blue light illuminated the crystal at the tip of her staff. Ice-blue mist gushed from the shaft, rapidly condensing around her body to form a crystal-clear frost armor, wrapping her from neck to ankle.

The surface of the armor gleamed with a faint cold light, and tiny ice crystals trembled gently with every breath she took, emitting wisps of white vapor.

Standing at the very back was the little chubby guy Lance.

He gripped the black wooden staff with both hands, took a deep breath, and waved it repeatedly as his mana surged.

Every time the staff waved, a soft milky-white light would light up at its tip.

After leaving the tip of the staff, that light transformed into streaks of radiance, flying out one after another to merge into the bodies of Lu Yang, Shen Qingci, Rebecca, and the already stealthy Zhu Tongchen.

Lu Yang only felt his body warm up, as if something gentle was flowing through his blood vessels all over his body.

Immediately afterwards, he clearly felt that his strength had increased by a notch, and his physical fortitude seemed to be much stronger than before.

He glanced at his status bar and saw that two new buff effects had appeared on him.

"[Elementary Endurance Blessing]: Endurance + 20"

"[Elementary Strength Blessing]: Strength + 10"

Lu Yang took a deep breath, looking somewhat surprised.

The effects of Elementary Endurance Blessing and Elementary Strength Blessing shouldn't be that strong, right?

Schools would teach some basic and common class skills.

Blessing-type skills were one of them.

Lu Yang remembered clearly that Elementary Endurance Blessing could only increase endurance by 4 points, and Elementary Strength Blessing could only increase strength by 2 points.

As a result, the buff effects here were increased by a full five times!

Shen Qingci and Rebecca apparently also noticed the abnormality in the buffs and both turned to look at the little chubby guy Lance.

Being watched by several people, Lance showed a hint of smugness on his round face.

He grinned and explained: "This is the effect of my Soul Talent, which greatly enhances buff effects on allies, up to a maximum of five times."

Lu Yang and the others were immediately somewhat surprised.

Shen Qingci looked at Lance and smiled: "Your Soul Talent has such a strong buff effect on the team. No wonder you were able to enter the Dawn Pioneering Team."

For a pioneering team, a Soul Talent that enhances such buff effects had too obvious an advantage in team combat.

After all, this could greatly elevate the combat capability of the entire team!

Right now, Lance's Rank was still low, and the buff skills he could learn were few and not strong enough.

Once Lance's Rank increased and he could learn more powerful buff skills, especially those percentage-increasing buff abilities,

then his Soul Talent would definitely shine brilliantly!

Praised by such a pure and sweet girl as Shen Qingci, Lance's round face instantly turned completely red.

He scratched his head and smiled somewhat sheepishly with a chuckle: "Classmate Shen Qingci flatters me."

Shen Qingci smiled and didn't say much more. She glanced at Lu Yang, a trace of curiosity flashing through her pure and bright eyes.

She was very curious about what Lu Yang's Soul Talent actually was.

Solo clearing the Nightmare-difficulty Withered Forest, and even being able to have Shangguan Yunshu personally act as a guardian... What kind of talent on earth could match such treatment?

However, she did not ask it out loud.

After all, a thing like a Soul Talent was considered a core secret for professionals.

If someone didn't want to talk about it, no one else could pry further.

Not only Shen Qingci, but Rebecca, Lance, and Zhu Tongchen were likewise very curious about Lu Yang's Soul Talent.

Lu Yang noticed the gazes of several people, but he didn't speak up either.

After all, according to Sister Shangguan, it was better for him to mention his Soul Talent as little as possible, lest he couldn't cover his story later.

He just silently activated his Frost Aura and Flame Aura.

Two circles of red and blue halo patterns quietly unfolded from beneath his feet.

The orange-red of the flames and the deep blue of the frost overlapped, spreading a large swath of dazzling light and shadow in the dim cave. The damp rock wall overhead was reflected with intertwined red and blue ripples, and even the grayish-brown stones and moss on the ground were stained with color, as if someone had splashed a ladle of glowing paint in this gloomy underground world.

After adding Lance's Strength Blessing, Lu Yang's attack power at this moment reached as high as 164 points.

This meant that with Lu Yang as the center, within a radius of 164 meters, all monsters would suffer the damage effects of the dual auras!

As soon as the aura spread out, a series of damage numbers suddenly popped up in the darkness of the deep cave.

" - 154!"

" - 239!"

"..."

In merely a single second, everyone heard the System prompt.

"[Ding! Lu Yang killed a Hobgoblin, gaining some experience, Hobgoblin's Fang (Excellent) * 1, Wolf-Tooth Bone Club (Excellent) * 1]"

"[Ding! Lu Yang killed a Goblin Hunter, gaining some experience, Goblin Shortbow (Excellent) * 1, Bone Dagger (Excellent) * 1]"

"[Ding! Lu Yang killed a Goblin Thrower, gaining some experience, Goblin Leather Boots (Excellent) * 1, Goblin's Hand Bone (Excellent) * 1]"

"[Ding! Lu Yang killed a Goblin Shaman...]"

The prompt sounds rang out densely, one after another, clanging incessantly. Shen Qingci and the others were all stunned for a moment.

Then they widened their eyes, looking in astonishment towards the direction deep in the cave where those damage numbers drifted from.

There was only a dim rock wall and a few hanging stalactites over there. They couldn't even see the shadows of the monsters, only seeing the red and blue damage numbers lighting up and extinguishing one after another in the darkness, like silent fireworks in the distance.

Lance swallowed a mouthful of saliva, opened his mouth, and exclaimed: "Such a long attack range?! What kind of skill is this?? It's already over a hundred meters away, right??"

As a ranged attack class, Shen Qingci's mind was filled with question marks at this moment. Her pure eyes widened into rounds, and her cherry lips slightly parted: "...Lu Yang, aren't you a warrior?"

Are you kidding me?!

Which warrior's attack range could exceed a hundred meters??

Her own attack range wasn't even that far, okay!

You must know that her Soul Talent was also very powerful.

"[Frostbite (Orange Epic)] All frost-type skill effects are increased by 200%. When frost damage hits an enemy, there is a 30% chance to inflict the [Frostbite] effect on the target: lasts for 8 seconds, taking additional frost piercing damage of (Attack Power * 50%) per second, and this damage ignores 30% of defense value."

Although the skill effect was increased by 200%, the skill's range had not changed. With her current Rank and skill Rank, her farthest Ice Spear could only hit less than fifty meters!

If her skill wanted to hit a hundred meters away, it would probably require reaching around Tier 1!

And yet what about Lu Yang?

As a warrior, he hit farther than her!

Furthermore, she didn't even see how Lu Yang used his skills or how he attacked!

Who on earth is the ranged class??

Rebecca and Zhu Tongchen were likewise filled with shock.

Both of them came from close-combat classes and had never imagined that Lu Yang, as a warrior, could actually have such an attack range.

It was simply absurd.

Facing everyone's shock, Lu Yang smiled slightly, his heart actually feeling a bit smug.

Showing off in front of others, who wouldn't like it?

Isn't living just for the sake of showing off?

He said casually and calmly: "It's nothing amazing, just an aura-type skill."

Rebecca and the other three were slightly taken aback.

Then Rebecca tilted her head somewhat suspiciously, her deep blue eyes sizing up Lu Yang, and said uncertainly: "Aura-type skills... have a range that far?"

Lu Yang was covered in black lines.

Come on, sister... Don't be so smart, alright?

What difference does it make to be a little bit dumber?

He could only vaguely explain: "The skill quality is relatively high, and the Rank is also quite high."

Seeing Lu Yang explain it this way, the four of them reluctantly accepted it.

As for how Lu Yang managed to learn high-quality skills and raise their skill Ranks during the novice stage before even reaching Tier 1, they still found it somewhat incomprehensible.

However, upon second thought, this probably had something to do with Lu Yang's own Soul Talent?

After all, even Shangguan Yunshu came to act as a guardian for him. Anything unreasonable about him seemed to become reasonable.

Just at this moment, Zhu Tongchen, who had been stealthily lurking on the side, spoke faintly: "...Haven't you guys noticed that the drop rate of the monsters killed by Lu Yang is exaggeratedly high?"

The other three were startled, and then immediately checked that long string of drop prompts.

When they saw that the things dropped by all the elite monsters were entirely green Excellent-grade items, one question mark after another popped up in their minds.

Very quickly, question marks completely filled their entire heads.

Something's not right!

Something is extremely wrong!

Isn't this drop rate too absurd??

How could all elite monsters drop green items?!

And many of them are even equipment???

Come on, bro... Are you cheating?!