Chapter 665: Chapter 665: God of Destruction
Li Yao also made his choice, a necklace for physical output.
Suddenly, a cluster of blood-red light gently descended. Everyone looked at it, revealing a bizarre necklace with a truly evil aura seeping out.
Upon closer inspection, what people originally thought were regular red beads were actually gruesome, blood-red skulls that looked like transparent crystals.
The skulls were lined up one after another, ghastly but with an enchanting power that attracted everyone’s gaze.
The pendant of the necklace was a purple-black scorpion, which was also crystal-like, clear and transparent.
Moreover, there was a sense of eeriness among the crowd as if the scorpion was alive, rather than an inanimate object.
God of Destruction·Hell War Beast
Quality: Golden Legend
Attack: 50%
HP: -25%
Defense: -25%
Resistance: -25%
Bloodthirsty Rampage, consumes 15% of HP to amplify one’s own strength and destructive power by 800%, lasts for half an hour. When activated in non-combat status, HP consumption doubles.
Blood Light Swirl, encased in a swirl of blood light, all enemies within a radius of a thousand yards are afflicted with a Blood Curse, increasing the damage they take by 30%. The effect reduces the wearer’s HP by 25% when activated, but increases blood-sucking effect by 500%. Deactivating the effect costs 25% HP. All enemies within a thousand yards will be infected with the blood plague, allowing the wearer to sense their location for an hour.
Blood Battle Scorpion, summons a Blood Battle Scorpion. The Hell Battle Scorpion has the quality of a three-star advanced boss. Summoning requires a boss-level flesh or soul as sacrifice. A living being must be sacrificed to the summoned Battle Scorpion within one minute, otherwise, it will backlash and absorb the summoner’s flesh.
Equipment requirement: Dark physical output jobs
Equipment level: 25
Li Yao’s necklace doesn’t grow with level advancement, but it has no level cap restriction.
Seeing this necklace, everyone felt at a loss as what to do.
If you talked about its effects, they were excellent. After all, increasing damage output by 50% was practically defiance of the heavens. This was a total damage increase, not just for a specific skill.
But on the flip side, annoyingly, one’s HP, defense, and resistance all decreased by a quarter upon wearing it. It seemed absurd.
Hunter Thieves were already squishy, with this they would be even squishier than a mage.
However, mages have their Magic Shield, Hunter-type jobs don’t have such a shield, they lack any sort of lifesaving skills.
With this necklace, the damage output increased, but the wearer could hardly stand their ground or survive. Even if the output is high, what’s the use if they can’t survive? Especially when faced with boss-level area-attack, or a chaotic battlefield, the slightest carelessness will undoubtedly lead to a horrible death.
The sight of Li Yao’s face turned everyone speechless.
The Peerless Beauty said: “Only you would be happy to see this. Any other player would probably agonize over whether to wear it. It’s simply asking for death.”
Sister Li also said, “Forget about the attribute decrease, look at these three special effects. They all consume your own health. The first one is optional, but the second one takes a quarter of your health when activated and another quarter when deactivated. That’s half the health gone before a fight even starts. How do you propose we play with this?”
“The blood-sucking effect is rare for jobs other than specific ones, like vampires. And the shadow priest, but the shadow priest is a spell-based job, and can’t wear it.” The Fruit Knight said, shaking his head at the necklace.
“What you’re saying isn’t wrong, but don’t forget about my Touch of Darkness, and my elite profession. As long as I ask the queen to upgrade my passive level, the blood-sucking effect will be considerably beneficial. Combined with Touch of Darkness, being enhanced by 500% blood-sucking effect, even with reduced HP and becoming squishier, it wouldn’t be easy for me to die as long as I’m not instantly killed.” Li Yao removed his small artifact necklace and put on the new one.
Instantly, his defensive attributes decreased greatly. But his attack horrifyingly increased. His current attack power was already unbelievably strong, coupled with this necklace, even a tank with a shield wall would probably be instantly killed.
“Alright, then what about the third effect? This so-called Hell Battle Scorpion, its summoning requires a boss corpse. That’s ridiculous. Summons are supposed to help with battle. If the boss is already dead, then what’s the point of summoning? To jerk around?” The Guardian Angel continued to complain: “And also, it requires sacrifice after being summoned. If there’s no sacrifice, it will backlash. What the hell? The battle is over, what are we supposed to sacrifice? This special effect is utterly ridiculous.”
Li Yao explained, “You’re wrong. If no boss corpse is available, souls can be used. Boss souls, as we know, can also be substituted with Head-Level Crystal Cores.”
“Damn it, even the cheapest Head-Level Crystal Cores in the auction house cost hundreds of Gold Coins. Only a freak like you can afford to play this way. I guess nobody else wants to play like this.”
The cost of summoning was just too high, hundreds of Gold Coins, which could buy several high-quality purple equipments of level 25 or above. That was several times more extravagant than a Necromancer summoning an Iron Stone Demon.
“Alright, we cannot discuss this with a freak. Then what about the sacrifice of living things?” The Peerless Beauty asked.
Li Yao laughed cunningly, “It says it wants a living thing. Isn’t that simple? Just buy some cheap and useless pets, summon them and feed them to it.”
Everyone fell silent, but still had a wait-and-see attitude towards the necklace.
In his past life, Li Yao had some memory of this equipment. It was ranked among the top 100 most frustrating items.
These kinds of equipment often looked appealing but had harsh use conditions.
Despite their high quality, they were often set aside, unused.
But Li Yao knew very well how powerful this necklace was.
Back then, players weren’t skilled enough to utilize it properly. By the time they improved, better equipment had become available, and the high level players lost interest in such low-level gear, leading to such negative comments.
But Li Yao was a reborn person. His skills were more than sufficient. He was completely confident in controlling this seemingly suicidal necklace.
“I can still make do with this little artifact. If anyone lacks a good necklace, they can take it.” Said Li Yao.
Tong Tong suggested: “Give it to sister-in-law, her necklace is trash, and she couldn’t find a suitable replacement.”
Li Yao nodded and handed the little artifact to Sister Li. Sister Li was not modest and put it on straight away. The effects of this necklace were pretty powerful. It might not be good enough for Li Yao, but for others, it was top-tier.
After that, everyone focused on eating and drinking while watching the official live broadcast, where they had the opportunity to observe a lot of strong teams in awe.
Li Yao continuously explained which ones were skills, which were equipment, the performances of each team, pointed out their advantages and disadvantages, and presented the most effective methods to break their strategies.
Everyone gained a lot from his explanations.
Feng Yi exclaimed, “You really should go back to being a commentator. You would undoubtedly be the brightest star in the industry.”
Li Yao smiled but didn’t say anything.
As time passed, figures of players started to appear on the stone platforms.
Soon, Li Yao’s platform was full, followed by the other square platforms. With the ending of the first round, countless teams scattered onto various squares…