Chapter 645 - Modify the New Spell (1/2)

It was a perk, not a skill or a special “move.”

So, Roland was quite shocked when he realized that it was a perk. It was well-known that perks couldn’t be silenced.

Spells, as skills, could be silenced or restrained.

However, when a perk was activated, it could hardly be restrained as long as its requirements were met.

So, it was not something that everybody could do, to transform an ability that was clearly a skill into a perk.

However, considering that this might be the Nether God’s ability, transforming a skill into a perk probably agreed with the rules of the magic world.

What ordinary people couldn’t do might be possible for the gods.

Roland was even more delighted by the description of the perk.

Supreme Dark Dimensional Slash: Special active perk. When you hold the Nether God’s Scythe, you can perform an attack of divine rules at a cost of at least 3,600 points of magic power, dealing a dark elemental damage of (10 * enemy level + consumed mana / 10) to all targets in the area. Additionally, it will cause spatial rapture damage depending on the size of the spatial crevice opened. The crevice will be connected to the Netherworld and absorb the souls within a certain range into the Netherworld.

It was the most powerful skill that Roland had seen. But of course, its consumption was unbelievably high too.

Roland had a total MP of no more than 1,100 even if he put on the best MP equipment with the most powerful magic power runes. Yet, this ability consumed at least 3,600 points.

For ordinary people, this was a fancy yet useless skill that they wouldn’t have a chance to use.

But Roland was different. He could receive enough magic power from the magic power bricks to activate the ability.

However, the magic power bricks were very precious, and Roland could only get an uncertain number of them every one or two months.

So, Roland would never use this ability unless it was absolutely necessary. Besides, the stats that the Nether God’s Scythe provided were enough for him to deal with most battles.

After the ability was recorded, the black sphere that protected Roland dwindled and completely disappeared into his body.

He rose from the pit, and the players gathered around him. Most of them were girls.

Earlier, the girls of the Phoenix Guild were always angry when they saw him.

However… most of them looked at him with admiration if not adoration at this moment.

“What happened just now?” Solisa looked at Roland curiously. “Was the super massive attack your new invention?”

“I’m not sure. It seems that my scythe still carries the Nether God’s will, and she doesn’t like the devils.”

Roland didn’t want to reveal his secret, so he didn’t confess the whole truth.

That explains a lot!

Many people were convinced.

Roland was still a Master. Even though he could invent powerful spells, the attack just now reeked of the power of gods.

They had played the game for more than three years and read about other people’s experiences on the forum every day.

Also, the players were good at summarizing. So, most of them had much more battle experience and common sense than the natives of this world.

Many of them could tell that the enormous woman formed by the dark cloud earlier had a higher energy level.

It was believable that she was the Nether God.

“Then did you reap anything from the black ball? I felt that you were evolving.”

“What evolving? I’m still level twelve,” said Roland calmly. “It was just a protective barrier.”

Roland knew magic better than anybody else. Who could argue with him if he claimed that it was a magic barrier?

The person who asked the question wasn’t malicious but simply curious.

However, Roland wasn’t sure that the audience of the stream were all kindhearted.

Some people simply didn’t want good things to happen to others.

So, it was necessary to hide one’s wealth and secrets just to be safe.

It wasn’t because they were cowards, but because they would rather not invite unnecessary trouble.

Roland looked around and found that the army of devils had already retreated, so he asked, “How is it going in the breeding city?”

“The rescue is ongoing,” said Solisa. “But a lot of people are feeling tired.”

Roland heaved a sigh; it couldn’t be helped.

It was easy to do good things once in a while, but it was not easy to persist in doing that.

It was not because those people weren’t kindhearted, but because the natural instincts for survival they inherited from their ancestors would warn them.

Such a warning manifested as their tiredness in their kindness.

One could endure selflessness for a while, even with their instinct for survival, but one couldn’t do that forever.

That had been engraved into their DNA.

To cope with such instincts, one had to be resolved and dignified.

So, Roland didn’t feel that those players were wrong. “Should we establish an incentive mechanism?” Moogle squeezed out of the crowd.

“That’s not good.” Roland shook his head. “Why don’t we take turns? Since many more players are coming to this place, they can take over the rescue work for now.”

Moogle heaved a sigh. “I guess that’s all we can do for now.” Roland teleported back to Delpon. He had received more than seven thousand Reputation points for killing the devils.

He exchanged for twenty points of MP and 0.4 Magic Power Regeneration in the Reputation Store.

For someone at his level, it was impossible to quickly increase his stats. He could only build them up bit by bit through equipment, perks, enchantments, titles etc.

At this moment, he could also obtain stats from the Reputation Store.

Also, Roland discovered that the exchange of stats didn’t have any limitation in the Reputation Store.

It meant that, as long as Roland killed enough devils, he could easily increase his stats to a crazy level

He would be able to accumulate a large sum of Reputation by performing a few more Dark Dimensional Slashes at the cost of magic power bricks.

But there was only a finite number of magic power bricks, and it would be a shame to use them so casually and affect the development of the floating city.

Therefore, it was necessary to improve crowd attack spells.

After he returned to Delpon, he instantly devoted himself to the modification of crowd attack spells.

It was impossible to strengthen the blue fireball anymore, not because the blue fireball had reached its peak, but because Roland wasn’t strong or knowledgeable enough to continue the research.

Or to put it more frankly, he didn’t know how he could further improve the spell yet.

Now that the blue fireball was at its limit, it was possible to try other spells.

For example… he could try to improve Whirlwind.

To be honest, if he could unleash a tornado, it would be quite destructive. It wouldn’t be as powerful as a nuclear explosion with the blue fireball, but it could last much longer

If it swirled in the enemy troops for half an hour, it could cause much more damage than the blue fireball would.

He might as well improve this one!

After he got a target, Roland began to parse the patterns of Whirlwind and infer the possible effects.

He also posted a thread in the Suggestion & Feedback section of the forum.

About the unreasonableness of Reputation Acquirement.

Roland’s thread basically went like this: “It’s not good that the Reputation Store only acknowledges the number and quality of devils one kills. Many people in the logistics division worked very hard too and the vanguard couldn’t have fought as well without them, yet they weren’t getting any Reputation. Same goes for the rescue party, who did the most arduous and caring job for nothing in return. That’s unfair. I hope that the devs can change the data and formulas in the game so that those people can get Reputation too.”