Chapter 433 Talent Fusion (1/2)
There was a reason for Rhode's hesitation because from the start, he had no intention of building the Hell Lord Talent.
Compared to the Summoning Master Talent and Soul Messenger Talent, the Hell Lord Talent was a much more mediocre talent focusing on self-sufficiency and comprehensive development. But, as the saying goes, there's nothing perfect in this world. The Hell Lord Talent's comprehensive development was configured in a way that the damage output wouldn't be as powerful as the Soul Messenger Talent and it wouldn't be as efficient as the Summoning Master Talent in terms of providing assistance. There was once a player who had filled all the skill points in the three Talent Trees as an experiment. In the end, he concluded that the output from the Soul Messenger Talent and Summoning Master Talent was stronger than the Hell Lord Talent. Furthermore, all the damage output of the Hell Lord Talent was in team battles; in dungeon battles or PK, it wasn't impressive at all. The only merit was during individual missions where its endurance abilities would bring a certain advantage.
To be frank, this advantage wasn't attractive to Rhode, nor most other players. However, there were some lone rangers who were used to playing games alone and treated MMORPG games as single-player games. Furthermore, they often explored the gaming world alone and were unwilling to bicker with others over the distribution of spoils. This was why the Hell Lord Talent was considered cost-effective for them as they loved to go on adventures alone and lacked support in many aspects. With certain probabilities, the Hell Lord Talent could provide them with Soul Cores and save them a lot of time and money from spending on auction purchases.
Compared to the other two Talent Trees, the Hell Lord Talent allowed the holder to summon the most spirits by using its talent 'Spirit Disaster'. This talent allowed the holder to manipulate corpses within a certain range into using own summoning spirits to engage in battles. Furthermore, this would only consume a low amount of spiritual energy and usually, this skill would be enough to turn the tide in battle.
However, the biggest drawback of this talent was that the holder could summon spirits of the undead attribute only. This also signified that when the holder with this talent met a Fire Elemental Mage, Holy Knight, or Cleric, he could only prepare to lose…
It definitely wasn't Rhode's style to hang himself on the tree, which was why he had no intention of building the Hell Lord Talent.
But Rhode had to reconsider everything. The Hell Lord Talent's only advantage was its endurance and right now, wasn't that what he needed the most?
Will it be worth it to waste precious skill points on this talent just for the sake of this endurance ability alone? Rhode couldn't decide. In terms of endurance, it wasn't that the Summoning Master Talent and Soul Messenger Talent had none. The Soul Messenger Talent had another Talent, [Legion Soul], to work in collaboration with [Legion Horn]. Rhode just needed to fulfill a condition and he could cast [Legion Horn] without exhausting any spiritual energy. As for the Summoning Master Talent, there was a Talent, [Intense Meditation], where Spirit Swordsmen could increase the rate of spiritual energy recovery during battle.
However, this was where the problem was. These two talents were located in the later and deeper stages of the Talent Trees. Even though Rhode received two skill points every time he leveled up, he needed to be at least level 40 to 50 before he could activate these talents. On the other hand, the [Soul Territory] could be filled to its maximum as it was located on the First Stage on the Hell Lord Talent.
However, it wouldn't be that simple as Rhode had pre-planned the build for his two Talent Trees and most importantly, he didn't know if he would be able to reset his skill points in this world. This was why he had been cautious in distributing skill points. After all, Talent Trees must be interrelated, where active skills could stimulate passive skills and passive skills could influence active skills, increasing probabilities, and damage. All these affected how one handled these skills effectively and required paying particular attention to. Itd wasn't as simple as just increasing the skill points of whichever talent that seemed great. The entire Talent Tree was like stacking blocks where the entire block would collapse if one drew three blocks from the bottom.
If Rhode moved these three skill points to the Hell Lord Talent, that would mean that he had to give up part of the other Talent Trees. To Rhode, this was a question of whether it was worth it or not. Was it necessary for him to make such huge changes for the sake of endurance in an extra Talent?
Rhode had two choices: to modify his existing plans and add the three skill points to the Hell Lord Talent or to continue focusing on developing one Talent Tree and achieve the specific talent that he wanted in the shortest time.
In the end, Rhode made a decision.
As his levels increased, it was getting incrementally harder for him to increase his levels as the EXP requirements were much higher. The EXP that he received from killing Vulture and the Necromancer had increased his level by two and even if he managed to complete the two upcoming 5 Star Missions, the EXP might not be enough to successfully raise him to level 40. His endurance ability was a problem which he needed a solution the most. Furthermore, Rhode needed to conserve his spiritual energy for the next 5 Star Mission. Considering the importance of priority, Rhode made a self-evident decision.
”Talent, activate.” The Talent Tree system emerged before him as he commanded. The Soul Messenger and Summoning Master Talent were abnormally glaring while the Hell Lord Talent was dimmed fully. Rhode reached out for the Talent Tree before him and slid across.
A line of system prompt emerged.
[Consuming 3 skill points on selected Talent Tree — Hell Lord unlocked]
[Hell Lord First Stage Talent Unlock: Soul Territory. Bone Signal. Death Incantation]