Chapter 4: Damage Skyrocketing
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 4: Damage Skyrocketing
The massive damage overflowed severely, instantly obliterating all the clones the Slime King had produced after triggering Infinite Division.
With just a single strike, the giant slime was reduced to piles of sludge.
A glob here, a glob there—it was a truly pathetic sight.
Witnessing the Slime King’s miserable end, the other slimes that had been summoned were terrified out of their wits. They scattered instantly, scurrying into the deepest recesses of the area, not one of them daring to show its face.
[You have slain the Slime King (Lv.10)]
[Triggered Gluttony's Blessing: Strength +0.5, Constitution +1, Intelligence +0.12, Agility +0.08]
[Triggered Reaper: Obtained Spirit Mass * 20]
[Obtained 2,000,000 Gold Coins]
[Obtained 500,000 Experience Points]
[Obtained Slime Crown 2, Slime Core 2, Gold Quality Equipment Selection Box 30... Slime Mucus 20,000, Free Attribute Points 200, Skill Points 100]
Since Pride had already helped Xie Bai remove her level cap, the 500,000 experience points didn't go to waste. Every bit of it was funneled into her growth.
Xie Bai’s level began to skyrocket, soaring to an incredibly high rank.
[Leveled up to Lv.38!]
[Total rewards: Free Attribute Points 1,640, Skill Points 820, Gold Coins * 686,000]
[Current Level Progress: Lv.38 (79,500/90,000)]
A dense barrage of system prompts rang incessantly in Xie Bai’s ears. It sounded like firecrackers during a festival; though it made her ears ring, her heart was racing with excitement.
"What just happened? Was I always this powerful?"
After a brief moment of awe, Xie Bai opened her character panel.
[Xie Bai Lv.38]
[Class: Reaper]
[HP: 1,100/1,100]
[Mana: 138,101/138,101]
[Strength: 13,944.03]
[Constitution: 11]
[Intelligence: 13,810.12]
[Agility: 32.12]
[Charm: 99]
[Luck: -1]
[Talent: None]
[Skills: Soul Capture Lv.1, Echo Lv.1, Spirit Form Lv.1, Acting Cute Lv.13]
[Equipment: Ring of Seven Curses (■■), Funeral Rites (Divine Artifact)]
[Time until Closed Beta begins: 89d 20h 12min]
"How... how much?!"
Over ten thousand in Strength and Intelligence?!
Where the hell did that come from?
And what was up with those extra skills?
Seeing the abnormal attributes and the new skills, Xie Bai immediately realized something was up. With a mix of confusion and thrill, she opened the detailed descriptions for the Reaper class and Funeral Rites.
[Reaper]
[Soul Capture: When you kill a unit, convert its soul into an equivalent amount of Spirit Mass.]
[Suppression: Units attacked by you cannot recover HP until they exit combat with you.]
[Judgment: When attacking a unit with less than 10% HP, execute them instantly.]
[Ascension: Gain a class-exclusive skill every ten levels. At level 100, the Reaper class will undergo a profound transformation.]
Walking the rift between good and evil, harvesting the corruption deep within the soul.
[Reaper Unlocked Skills]
[Soul Capture Lv.1]
[Release a soul shockwave with a radius of (Level 10) meters, dealing (Level 100) True Damage to hostile units within range.]
[Cooldown: 1s / Cost: 100 Mana]
[Echo Lv.1]
[Consume any amount of Mana to empower your weapon. Your next basic attack will deal additional True Damage in a radius of (Mana Consumed * 10%) meters. This additional damage is equal to half of the total damage of the basic attack.]
[Cooldown: 30s]
[Spirit Form Lv.1]
[Enter an Spirit Form. In this state, you cannot be detected or damaged, but you also cannot deal damage. Grants flight and phasing abilities.]
[Cooldown: None / Cost: 100 Mana per second]
*
[Funeral Rites]
[Quality: Divine Artifact]
[Type: Scythe]
[Requirement: Lv.300 (Ignored)]
[Strength Bonus: 10,000 + (Level * 100)]
[Intelligence Bonus: 10,000 + (Level * 100)]
[Triple Strike: Basic attacks deal 300% Strength as Physical Damage, 300% Intelligence as Magic Damage, and True Damage equal to the sum of the first two.]
[Return to Burial: Slain units cannot be resurrected. Loot dropped upon their death is doubled.]
[Soul Devour: Can absorb soul-related items to grow accordingly.]
A ritual to write the final chapter for all things. Where the wielder of this scythe walks, the soul finds its final resting place.
[*Can only be used by one wearing the Ring of Seven Curses.]
After reading the descriptions, Xie Bai felt a chill run down her spine.
"Wow... this is just broken..."
"Every single one of these entries would be insane on its own, but they’re all on me."
"Am I really this strong?"
After her brief excitement, Xie Bai suddenly remembered a fact. When she obtained these items, several entries of the Ring of Seven Curses had been enhanced.
Realizing something was off, she re-examined the detailed information of the Ring of Seven Curses and found the upgraded entries.
[Pride's Curse: 1. Reputation with all factions starts at -1,000. 2. You cannot gain Reputation through any means other than conquest.]
[Sloth's Curse: Stamina and Mana consumption are increased tenfold.]
[Greed's Curse: 1. Death penalties are increased tenfold. 2. Your single-instance damage cannot exceed the amount of gold you possess.]
[Pride's Blessing: 1. You can ignore any restrictions to forcibly obtain qualifications. 2. Entities with a lower level than you cannot damage you.]
[Sloth's Blessing: 1. Your experience gain and level-up rewards are increased tenfold. 2. Every hour of sleep randomly removes one debuff.]
[Greed's Blessing: 1. Your gold acquisition is increased tenfold. 2. Your inventory has infinite storage space.]
Seeing that Greed's Curse limited her damage, Xie Bai instinctively checked her gold balance.
[Gold: 2,741,390]
With over 2.7 million gold, she didn't have to worry at all.
However, the reason she had so much gold was entirely thanks to Greed's Blessing and Funeral Rites.
The Slime King was a regional boss, and its loot was normally distributed based on damage contribution and the final blow. Since Xie Bai had soloed the Slime King, she received the entire regional share, which was naturally massive.
The base gold reward alone was 100,000.
Combined with the tenfold increase from Greed's Blessing and the double loot from Funeral Rites, a single Slime King had dropped two million gold for her!
Adding in the gold rewards from leveling up, Xie Bai’s wealth had reached a terrifying level. At the very least, for a newbie who had only been in the game for four hours, this amount was utterly absurd.
What kind of newbie starts a game by farming over two million gold?
If one were to farm regular slimes, they would have to kill over two million of them. It was doubtful if this entire region even held two million slimes, let alone farming that many.
"Based on the rewards, the 'Return to Burial' effect of Funeral Rites doubled every drop from the Slime King except for experience points."
"Even the Spirit Masses exclusive to the Reaper class were doubled."
"For now, the Funeral Rites provided by Sloth is the biggest help to me."
People often said that percentage bonuses were better than flat bonuses, but that only applied when the flat bonuses weren't high.
Funeral Rites didn't just have multipliers; it had astronomical flat stat boosts.
Combined with the "Triple Strike" effect, a single basic attack from Xie Bai could deal over 1.6 million damage. If she used the Echo skill, that number would increase by another fifty percent.
2.4 million damage. Xie Bai couldn't even fathom it.
To think that four hours ago, she was a weakling who could only deal 10 damage by throwing stones, only able to bully Level 1 slimes.
And now?
Gulp...
"Is this what they call stat inflation?"
"It's only been four hours."
Xie Bai was beginning to understand what the Ring of Seven Curses meant by "a demigod walking the earth."
And this was only after four hours of grinding. What if she kept grinding until the official beta started?
"No... I can't laugh yet..."
Xie Bai tried her best to suppress her grin. Unknowingly, she was already falling under the influence of the Sin of Pride.
Growl...
Xie Bai’s stomach let out a loud rumble.
"Ugh, I'm so hungry..."
Well, thanks to the deepening of Sloth's Curse, her stamina consumption had also been increased tenfold.
Now, it seemed she was about to fall under the Sin of Gluttony.