Chapter 244: Purple Dragon Howl (1/2)
Ding~!
System Announcement: Player ”Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand” is the first player to reach Level 80 and trigger the new update patch 1.20 ”World Famous Generals”. It will be updated alongside the Floating Ice City–specific update patch, ”Return of the King”. Player ”Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand” obtains the following reward: Luck +2, Level +3, and ”Purple Dragon Howl”!
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My mind turned blank for a second. Two system messages in a row, and the first player to reach Level 80 in the entire China! I never thought that the day I would become famous would come so soon!
Not only was I now Level 83, I also got an item out of the achievement. I wondered what Purple Dragon Howl was exactly. Was it an armor, a weapon or something else? At any rate, it sounded cool as heck!
I opened my bag in a hurry and found no new armor or weapon whatsoever. However, I did find a purple skill book I had never seen before. Holy shit, it’s a skill?!
I pulled it out of the bag and waved my hand across it. The details of the skill it provided immediately appeared in front of me.
Purple Dragon Howl (Legendary): gather a large amount of purple dragon energy and discharge a draconic howl to deal massive damage to your enemies. Skill Requirement: 100% HP and 100% MP. Upon usage, the player then enters ”Weakened” state for 3 seconds, their Defense reduced to 0. Cooldown: 12 hours. Level Requirement: 80. Class Requirement: Warrior. Luck Requirement: 5. Reputation Requirement: 30000!
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Fuck, if this isn’t a godly skill, I don’t know what is! Not only is it an AoE skill, I bet that its damage was out of the world. There was no way its skill requirements would be this stringent otherwise. Even better, I met all the requirements already! I was Level 83, a warrior, with 7 Luck and over 50K Reputation, muahahahaha!
I activated the skill book, making it disappear. Immediately, a new skill was added to the list.
Purple Dragon Howl I: Attack +20%
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Tsk tsk, a 20% Attack boost at Rank 1? Could it possibly boost my Attack by 200% at Rank 10? What in the world?
That being said, the skill had a 12-hour cooldown. It would take at least a year or two to get it to Rank 10. Still, that wasn’t a problem. I had all the time in the world right now.
Speaking of which, the server was supposed to undergo a 10-hour maintenance in 30 minutes, and that time was almost up already. I might as well go out and test my new skill!
Before I left, I turned to look at Xinran. She was still curled into a ball at the bed corner.
I walked up to her and gave her a hug. ”Xinran, I need to leave now. I’ll come back and see you in a while, okay?”
”Mn. Bye, big brother…”
Xinran didn’t look up. She was still sobbing to herself.
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It didn’t take too much running before I found a bunch of Level 80 Wildfire Greedy Wolves. They were common mobs, and they had about 10k health or so!
I ran toward the mobs and lured a bunch of them to me. Then, I put some distance between myself and them before turning around. Purple Dragon Howl took about one to two seconds to cast. The spell would cancel itself if I was interrupted during this time, so I couldn’t afford to get hit even once.
Purple Dragon Howl was finally unleashed. A tremendous amount of energy suddenly swelled inside my body, making me feel like I would explode if I didn’t direct it toward something. The next second, the energy gathered at the tip of my Purgatory Sword and transformed into a purple dragon, ready to be fired at a moment’s notice. It looked like the skill gave me the freedom to hold the energy for a moment and fire it at any direction I wished!
How wonderful! How humane! The potential of this skill was endless!
I swung my sword at the Wildfire Greedy Wolves charging toward me. The purple dragon immediately took off toward my target!
”Roar!”
The purple dragon swelled bigger as it let out a mighty roar. It engulfed the Greedy Wolves and dealt an insane amount of damage—
10874!
11667!
12271!
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Hmm, it looked like the skill had some base damage of its own, not just the 20% boost. Otherwise, there was no way it would deal over ten thousand damage per target.
By the time the purple dragon had finished its rampage, over 50 Greedy Wolves were killed by the skill. However, some of them managed to avoid a direct hit and continued to run toward me. Even worse, I was assaulted by a sudden sense of dizziness and exhaustion!
Ah shit, I forgot that I would enter a ”Weakened” state for 3 seconds and lose all of my Defense! I was as fragile as a chicken during this time!
I hurriedly retreated and raised the Purgatory Sword defensively in front of me. Guard was the only skill that could keep me alive now!
The Greedy Wolves finally reached me and swung their claws. But—
765!
213!
1!
984!