Chapter 89 : Mutated Sawtooth Crocodile
Mutated Sawtooth Crocodile
As for the last active skill, Chen Zixuan felt rather conflicted.
【Enhance: Claws (Left)】(Lv.1)
Minimum Learning Level: 8
Class Restriction: Vampire Duke
Mana Cost: 100 points
Max HP Cost: 10%
Cooldown: 240 seconds
Effect: Activate the Vampire's original ability to transform your left hand into razor-sharp claws, dealing physical damage equal to that of your weapon when attacking for 60 seconds.
During this period, you gain an extra opportunity to unleash [Gut Ripper].
【Gut Ripper】: Stab your claws into the target's body and launch a powerful attack, dealing 4x attack as magic damage, and severely injuring the target, inflicting a 60-second 'Weakened' state.
While Weakened, the target's physical defense, magic defense, and attack power are reduced by 30%, Agility by 50%, and HP regeneration rate by 50%.
......
From the effects, this was also a very strong debuff-type skill. Not only did it give him another offensive method, the attached skill could even inflict an incredibly severe debuff on enemies.
However, the high mana cost of 100 points and the long 240-second cooldown meant that this skill could only be used once in a short time, which made Chen Zixuan feel troubled.
If he only wanted to clear out small mobs, there was absolutely no need to learn this skill. What Chen Zixuan actually lacked now wasn't damage but rather large-scale AoE attacks.
However, thinking about the upcoming battle with the D-rank World Boss, the【Sawtooth Demon King Crocodile】, the debuff effect of this skill seemed very important.
Not only did it deal magic damage, but it also broke through both defenses by percentage and heavily reduced attack, Agility, and HP regeneration.
He hesitated for a long time, but in the end, Chen Zixuan still chose to learn this skill.
Forget it, he would have to learn all these skills eventually. Learning them now wouldn't waste any allocatable stat points.
As for passive skills that didn't require active activation, Chen Zixuan actually had quite a few.
There was [Blood Banquet], which restored his HP when he attacked enemies, [Dagger/Short Dagger Mastery], and [Blood Magic Mastery].
And then the most ridiculous ones: [Housekeeping] and [Maid Outfit Mastery].
These two passives even started out fully maxed right from the beginning.
Every time he saw this, Chen Zixuan couldn't help but feel a stab of pain in his heart.
You know, that was a full 10 allocatable stat points, wasted just like that.
He didn't even have a house in the game right now—what was the point of [Housekeeping]?
Was it for cosplaying a weak yet seductive silver-haired twin-tailed maid girl so others could do as they please?
Spare him already...
He let out a gentle sigh, then slowly shifted his gaze to the last skill he had upgraded last night.
【Blood Magic Mastery】 (Lv.2)
Class Restriction: Vampire Duke
Mana Cost: None
Cooldown: None
[As a noble Vampire, you can learn powerful "Blood Magic" from your mentor; casting Blood Magic consumes 10% of your max HP, storing it as 【Blood Ki】 in the【Blood Pool】.(Current max storage: 0/120)]
After leveling up this passive skill from Lv.1 to Lv.2, none of the other aspects had changed. The only improvement was the storage capacity of the【Blood Pool】.
It had increased from Lv.1's (0/100) to Lv.2's (0/120).
Although Chen Zixuan still didn't know the uses for【Blood Ki】and【Blood Pool】, he guessed that the greater the pool's capacity, the more powerful the effect of this passive skill would become.
After all, it was a unique class on the entire server, so there were no guides online for reference.
He could only slowly study it more when he had time in the future.
Closing his character panel, at that moment, a bush below suddenly rustled.
Next, an enormous, sinister head stuck out, wobbling as it walked in Chen Zixuan's direction.
It was a solitary mutated Sawtooth Crocodile.
Seeing this, the girl crouching on the cliff flashed a cold light in her eyes. She stared intently at the crocodile below, her back arching like a wildcat, ready to pounce.
Ten meters... five meters... three meters...
Here it comes!
The moment the Sawtooth Crocodile reached the base of the cliff, a dark red scarf flared up, and the silver-haired girl leapt down!
At that very instant, the pitch-black dagger in her hand burst with a brilliant red blood glow and stabbed fiercely into the sturdy nape of the Sawtooth Crocodile.
Just before the fall, Chen Zixuan had already activated [Wound Tear], doubling the damage of his next melee attack and converting half of the value into magic damage.
-1!
A red number representing physical damage floated up.
-243!
A blue number floated up, representing the magic damage dealt by this strike.
Seeing these numbers, the silver-haired girl frowned deeply. Compared to the Sawtooth Crocodile's 4500 HP, this strike's damage was really too low.
Meanwhile, with the activation of the skill, Cecilia's HP bar also suddenly dropped by one tenth.
However, this HP was not directly deducted. Instead, it became a wisp of dark red blood smoke, which slowly poured into a dry, blood-colored magic well within her body.
【Blood Pool】Current storage (10/120)
Chen Zixuan finally understood—the unit for【Blood Pool】storage wasn't calculated by 1 HP, but by 1% of his max HP.
This meant that, in order to completely fill the【Blood Pool】, he would have to cast skills 12 times, sacrificing 120% of his max HP.
That's even more than a whole life bar.
Wasn't this just giving him trouble...?
A wave of frustration surged in his heart.
But it only lasted an instant—Chen Zixuan quickly cheered up.
If it was so hard to fill【Blood Pool】, then the effect after filling it must be tremendously powerful. Maybe it could become his deadliest trump card for now.
At this moment, the bleeding effect of【Wound Tear】had also been triggered. The Sawtooth Crocodile's nape wound started gushing red blood, and its HP began ticking down at 1% per second.
-45
-45
-45
......
Suddenly attacked, the Sawtooth Crocodile roared in pain, opened its bloody maw, and hurled Chen Zixuan off its back.
After two rolls, the silver-haired girl landed steadily and returned the【Blood Moon Slayer's Dagger】to its sheath at her waist.
With 220 physical defense, ordinary attacks could barely scratch the surface.
Sure enough, to kill monsters on this map, he could only rely on magic.
Thus, Chen Zixuan slowly raised his right hand and aimed at the still【Bleeding】Sawtooth Crocodile.
【Blood Extraction】—activate!
In the next second, as the girl's hand clenched into a fist, a brilliant blood flower suddenly bloomed on the Sawtooth Crocodile's huge body!
A dark blue damage number floated up.
-738!
Simultaneously, Chen Zixuan's HP bar dropped by another tenth, but in the next moment, it shot back up to full like a spring.
+248!
With a critical hit of【Blood Extraction】, and aided by the passive【Blood Banquet】, Chen Zixuan's HP instantly returned to full.
【Blood Pool】Current storage (20/120).