["Ding~ Congratulations on obtaining the Ghost Tower SSS-level clearance reward: Level +3 (current level has reached the upper limit of the World 19 level, gained experience has been stacked), Gold Coins +1 million, Energy +300 trillion!"]
["Ding~ Congratulations on obtaining the reward: Mythical-grade treasure [Ghost Shield]!"]
["Ding~ Congratulations on obtaining the reward: SSSS-level unique skill book [Shatter · Ghost Eye]!"]
Mythical-grade treasure.
4S-level unique skill book.
This wave of rewards utterly shocked Zhang Yue.
Although he had already expected that the Ghost Tower's clearance rewards would definitely be extremely valuable, Zhang Yue never thought it would be this abundant.
Either of these two items alone, placed at the current stage, would be priceless treasures.
And in fact, this was because when Zhang Yue previously cleared the Ghost Tower, from the first to the tenth floor, every floor was cleared with the highest SSS rating.
So the final clearance reward was also the highest.
If any of those floors had failed to achieve an SSS rating, perhaps he wouldn't have been able to obtain such rewards.
Zhang Yue opened the storage space to check the prizes.
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[Ghost Shield] (Mythical-grade treasure)
[Effect 1: The bearer gains level *2% damage reduction (this is an enhanced effect below level 100; for wearers at level 101–200, the effect is doubled)]
[Effect 2: The bearer's effective damage reduction increases to 90%]
[Effect 3: The bearer is immune to all control effects]
[Description: Forged through the condensation of endless ghost spirit souls, the bearer shall receive the protection of the ghost clan...]
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As one of fewer than thirty Mythical-grade treasures ever created in the world, its strength is truly terrifying.
Based on Zhang Yue's level of 110, he could obtain 440% damage reduction attributes.
Compared to that, this is still secondary.
According to the settings: in the otherworld, whether it's professionals or monsters/BOSSes, effective damage reduction can only go up to 70%. That is to say, no matter how high your damage reduction attribute is, you must bear 30% of the enemy's attack damage and cannot fully negate it.
The Ghost Shield can raise effective damage reduction to 90%, nearly perfect reduction.
Add to that control immunity... flawless.
Zhang Yue himself didn't need that much damage reduction, as in his daily battles, he rarely even had a chance to get hurt.
To ignore the other two effects of the Ghost Shield just for control immunity would be a waste of a divine treasure.
In comparison, the Ghost Shield seemed tailor-made for the Ice-Sealed War God.
So, this Mythical-grade treasure was directly given to the Ice-Sealed War God.
Give him a little sweetness, at least let him know: follow Zhang Yue and there's meat to eat.
Next, Zhang Yue's gaze landed on the first 4S-level skill book he had obtained in his life—
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[Shatter · Ghost Eye] (SSSS-level unique skill, passive)
[Effect: Gain the Ghost Eye, allowing you to perceive the enemy's weaknesses, increasing final damage dealt to enemies by +30%]
[Special Effect: The Ghost Eye grants you pursuit ability. When using any single-target attack to kill an enemy, you will deal 50% pursuit damage to another nearby enemy, up to 3 pursuits] (Note: This effect can be upgraded. Every successful pursuit kill gains 1 experience point; currently, 10,000 experience points are needed to improve)
[Class Restriction: Available to all classes]
[Cost: Each pursuit consumes 10,250 mana points]
[Cooldown: None]
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'Goodness!'
Does this skill mean Zhang Yue is about to gain AOE damage?
And it even adds 30% final damage.
The gap between final damage bonus and regular damage bonus is huge.
For example, Zhang Yue's current damage bonus can reach up to 5100%.
Gaining this 30% final damage boost would directly leap him to 6630%.
Without a word, Zhang Yue learned this skill on the spot.
The next second—
WHOOSH!
A wave of eerie undead spirit energy surged from Zhang Yue's body.
The skill's visual effect was indeed cool.
"Let's test how powerful this skill is in actual combat," Zhang Yue's gaze turned toward the Soul Devourers all around.
Though they no longer dared to provoke Zhang Yue, that didn't mean Zhang Yue would spare those who had previously tried to kill him.
WHOOSH!
A flash step entered effective attack range.
The next second, the staff swung.
SSS-level unique skill, Thunder · Lightning Dance!
BOOM!
Intense lightning struck down from the sky, hitting one of the Soul Devourers.
-340 million!
The massive damage instantly emptied the full HP bar atop that Soul Devourer's head.
Compared to before, Zhang Yue's damage nearly doubled.
The seventh skill extracted by the Transcendent Set, Soul Hunter: When mana is full, excess mana can be stacked, up to 12 times the mana.
And on Zhang Yue, there was an epic-grade treasure [Holy Grail], whose effect is 1% max mana recovery per second.
So at this point, without needing to intentionally use potions to recover, 12x mana had already been fully stacked through the Holy Grail.
In addition, every extra 1% mana can be converted into 1% damage boost, equivalent to 1200% bonus damage for Zhang Yue.
Plus the Ghost Eye's 30% final damage bonus, Zhang Yue's damage skyrocketed, completely within reason.
After killing with a single-target attack, pursuit was triggered.
BOOM!
Another Thunder · Lightning Dance struck a nearby Soul Devourer, dealing 50% of the previous damage: -170 million!
Kill! Second pursuit!
-86.35 million!
Kill! Third pursuit!
-43.18 million!
Under the effect of [Shatter · Ghost Eye], Zhang Yue almost instantly unleashed four Thunder · Lightning Dances.
The first three directly resulted in kills, and the last left the Soul Devourer heavily wounded.
Mainly, the pursuit damage decreases by 50% each time, so it gets lower and lower.
But each subsequent pursuit has no cost and requires no extra operations.
So this skill can be defined as a divine skill.
Later on, through upgrades, the pursuit damage and pursuit count should both increase. In the late game, it can definitely be used like the apocalyptic black dragon's [World-Radiance · Immortal Body] splash attack.
Although he was eager to try the thrill of unlimited pursuit in the late game, the experience requirement told Zhang Yue that enhancing the Ghost Eye's pursuit effect would be a massive project, not something that could be completed in a short time.
At this point, there was nothing left worth lingering for in the Ghost Tower.
Zhang Yue then left the Ghost Tower.
And just as Zhang Yue had barely left the Ghost Tower, before long, a mass of dark clouds descended from the sky, falling into the Ghost Tower.
From all directions, the corpses of Soul Devourers piled like mountains began to emit rays of faint light, all absorbed by the dark cloud.
Moments later, from within the dark cloud, emerged a dark shadow radiating an aura of darkness all over.
After absorbing all the resentment that the Soul Devourers, slain by Zhang Yue within the Ghost Tower, had built up against him at the moment of their death, red-black ashes gradually appeared on the shadow's body.
Its aura clearly grew much stronger.
"Didn't expect this, did you? As long as I follow you, I can grow faster!"
"Once I break through to the king rank, it will be your death day!"
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