Chapter 593 - : Combination Scroll (2/2)
The moment the Boss collapsed, more than half the team increased by a level. As the Boss of the final dungeon, it brought about a vast amount of EXP.
“Ziliang, search the corpse.” Lin Jie said before proceeding to the Abyss Totem. After the Boss’ death, the Abyss Totem reappeared, but could no longer shine with the same intensity, and some faint cracks could be observed.
The Abyss Totem was one of the methods the Devil Tribe used to soak up faith—it was in a way similar to ancient China’s Sage status. With more people that paid pilgrimage, the greater the Abyss Totem’s concentrated power. Once the totem’s power reached a certain level, it would then be shifted to the Boss’ clone, serving as ultimate protection.
In fact, there were many Hero-level NPCs in The New Age that were capable of evolving a duplicate or clone. However, it was usually with the help of Mother Nature’s powers, instead of the Demon of Destruction’s method of using its followers.
The Abyss Totem had been absorbing the Ice Half-Centaurs’ faith for more than 1,000 years, so in other words, the totem’s power was abnormally large!
“Jie, there is an interesting item, have a look.” Zheng Ziliang hurled a scroll at him. This was a Spell Scroll, marked by a blood-red eye, bestowing it with some creepiness.
[Combination Scroll•Strength Absorption]
Item Description: Requires Ascetic Priest, Shadow Priest, Weapon Specialist, and Berserker, each of Level 50. 3,000 Mana Points will be depleted.
Skill Attributes: Absorb all the energy in a certain region. After absorbing the Abyss Totem’s energy, a Frost Marble will be produced. It can give a unit 30 seconds of immunity against Ice Magic attacks at the Hell Gate.
“Bu Yi, Qiu Yuan, Netherblue, come over for a moment.” Lin Jie called players of the three other jobs over and stood at the locations stated on the scroll as they began to unleash the skill.
Domestic Fat Cattle noted the situation and spoke grumpily. “Sh*t, leader, you are really enjoying it, right! Just from using a scroll, you can work with the three beauties! Why can’t it be me?”
Lin Jie was rendered speechless when he heard that. ‘Why would you wanna involve yourself? You are a fire mage, and the scroll required a Berserker. If you can, just switch to become a Berserker.’
“Hang on, there something weird with this scroll!” Hardworking Pants’ brows furrowed as he said, “Other than the energy-absorbing runes, there seem to be other knacks. Let me have a look… This, isn’t this the energy shifting rune trail? 70% of our absorbed energy will be teleported into a black hole and this black hole’s coordinates… here, what the f*ck!? It must be heading to the final Boss’s body! What the f*ck!? This Boss is tricking us!”
Lin Jie was surprised. There was something like that? He then pondered, ‘The Demon of Destruction seemed to have a skill where it was capable of summoning a temporary clone to fight. No wonder, because theoretically, the clone would not be able to do this under normal circumstances once it was destroyed. The Boss lured us to absorb the totem’s energy with a Frost Marble so that it could get back 70% of its energy to reform a clone.’
After thinking everything through, Lin Jie sneered—it seemed like this Boss was rather scheming. If his team didn’t have a Rune Master like Hardworking Pants, they would have fallen for that trick. Although producing another clone would not lead to their failure or deaths, they would have to spend a whole load of effort and time on it.
“Pants, do you have a solution?”
“Of course! I just have to re-pattern the rune trails, something that’s not hard for an expert like me. This is an ancient rune as well, so it will be of use to me.” Hardworking Pants took out his rune-carving knife and went straight to work as the strand of rune trials separated from the scroll and were reapplied again after arranging.
Ten minutes later, the scroll transformation was done, and a hidden black hole appeared in the middle of the rune trails.
“All done! An ovation, please.” Hardworking Pants smiled.
“Well done, Pants.” Netherblue clapped cooperatively.
“Really? If you give me more time, I can improve it further,” Hardworking Pants said energetically.
“Alright, alright, Pants, you are already very powerful. Let’s start now.” Lin Jie interrupted, and everyone got into place and activated the Combination Scroll.
The Warrior’s Blood Vigor, Power Vigor, Ascetic Priest’s Holy Light, and the Shadow Priest’s Cursed Power coagulated into a huge pitch-black palm with an eye in the middle. After it was formed, a tremendous absorption power followed suit!
The Abyss Totem’s power was being absorbed in a crazy rate as it deflated and fell onto the ground like a normal piece of wood.
The only thing left behind was pure energy! This energy seemed to be harboring life, which was trying to break through the barriers and escape!
Suddenly, Hardworking Pants exclaimed, “This is the power that’s sufficient for creating a clone! Leader Lone Wolf, accept its resistance and form a clone!”
“A clone?” Lin Jie was stunned.
After scuttling around for a while, the ball of energy seemed to have found its master as it hurtled towards Lin Jie and brought along a gust of rotten smell!