Chapter 17 : Chapter 17
Chapter 17: The Fifth Trait: Battlefield Legend! Elite Fiend!
In less than ten short minutes after entering the Contaminated Land, Ye Ze had already gained several hundred experience points!
He had reached level 5.
If other students preparing for the college entrance exam found out about this leveling speed, they would probably die of envy.
As usual, Ye Ze added all 5 free attribute points to Spirit.
Then he began another Trait draw!
With a single thought, the glittering sea of golden Traits surrounded Ye Ze once more.
“Please give me a combat-type Trait!”
After all, the defining feature of the Contaminated Land he was currently in was danger and uncertainty.
No one knew what kind of crisis or stroke of fortune might appear the next second.
The stronger his combat power was, the more confidence he would have when facing sudden changes.
With that thought in mind, Ye Ze reached into the sea of Traits and drew...
【You have drawn the golden legendary Trait: Battlefield Legend!】
【Battlefield Legend: A legendary existence with outstanding military achievements on the battlefield! Your combat experience is unparalleled, and your combat techniques have reached perfection!】
Ye Ze felt a surge of excitement. “Damn, my luck is insane!”
There was no doubt that the Battlefield Legend before him was a top-tier combat Trait!
Battlefield combat experience was often the hardest thing to improve...
Why was the Demon Suppression Army generally stronger than the Class Users out in society?
One of the reasons was that they had been tempered by countless Abyss battlefields.
Take Scout Camp Commander Xu Feng, for example. He was obviously a veteran of countless battles.
Compared to rookies like them, even at the same realm, he could suppress them with ease. That was the gap created by superior experience and technique.
And Battlefield Legend was clearly even stronger than the level of a battle-hardened veteran!
Ye Ze thought for a moment and decided to assign it to Panda.
Panda fought on the front line, so it had the greatest need for improved combat experience and technique!
【“Battlefield Legend” Trait assigned successfully!】
【Summoned Beast: Kung Fu Panda advanced from (orange epic☆☆) → (orange epic☆☆☆☆☆☆)!】
Epic 6-star!
For Rare-grade and Outstanding-grade quality, 5 stars was the highest level; for epic quality, the maximum was 6 stars.
It was only one step away from golden legend!
If other Summoners learned about this rate of advancement, they would probably go mad.
At the same time, the attribute increase it brought was enormous:
【Strength】: 113 → 153
【Constitution】: 77 → 127
【Agility】: 92 → 142
【Spirit】: 64 → 114
【Obtained Talent Skills: Battle-Hardened, Legendary Renown!】
“Even though it didn’t evolve, it gained two Talent Skills instead!”
Ye Ze examined them one by one with great interest:
【Battle-Hardened (Legendary)】: Reduces skill cooldown, skill consumption, and stamina consumption by 50%, while reducing the effects of negative status effects by 80%!
【Legendary Renown (Legendary)】: Includes yourself and all nearby allies. Attack increased by 25%, attack speed increased by 40%, and morale greatly increased!
The consumption of all attacks had been reduced by a full 50%!
It had practically doubled Panda’s sustained combat ability!
Originally, Panda’s Taiji skills had a one-minute cooldown after use. Now they only needed thirty seconds.
And on top of that, it had gained the effect of an aura skill.
Ye Ze looked at the status bars for himself and the squirrel, and sure enough, there was now an extra entry:
【Legendary Renown (Aura)】
Aura effects remained continuously active on all targets within a certain range.
And suddenly, an idea occurred to Ye Ze: Perhaps he could use the Spirit Pact Ring to copy Panda’s aura skill!
“Wouldn’t that let the two auras stack on each other?”
If it worked, then double legendary auras would feel absolutely incredible!
He raised his hand and used the Spirit Pact Ring to copy Panda’s Talent Skill—Legendary Renown!
【Spirit Pact — You have copied Kung Fu Panda’s Talent Skill “Legendary Renown”.】
【Copied skill: “Shadow Meld” has been replaced by “Legendary Renown”.】
The copy succeeded, and Ye Ze looked at the status bar again:
【Legendary Renown (Aura) — from Kung Fu Panda!】
【Legendary Renown (Aura) — from Summoner Ye Ze!】
50% attack bonus, and 80% attack speed bonus!
“So it really works! Double the buffs!!”
Joy appeared on Ye Ze’s face.
With the doubled attack and attack speed bonuses, his monster-clearing speed instantly rose by a huge margin!
“Keep leveling!”
“Let’s try to gain another two levels before today is over!”
Temporary scout land-clearing missions were not always available, and at most they only lasted two or three days.
Ye Ze needed to seize the time and farm monsters as quickly as possible.
But with the experience from the last wave, his efficiency this time was far higher!
The squirrel’s Shadow Clones lured in monsters, and then Panda’s area attacks wiped them out!
Perhaps because Corpse Fiends only had 1 point of Spirit and were not very clear-headed, the monster-luring process went exceptionally well.
And now that Panda’s attributes had skyrocketed, one palm strike could wipe out an entire group!
Ye Ze’s experience kept rising rapidly...
The only problem was that the number of Corpse Fiends was gradually becoming scarce.
...
Meanwhile, back at the Scout Camp, Commander Xu Feng remained stationed there and had several clerks monitoring abnormalities in the Contaminated Land.
In front of them were rows of vital-sign monitors.
Although the instruments could not detect Fiend fluctuations, they could monitor the scouts’ conditions and record the progress and problems of the land-clearing operation in real time.
On a virtually constructed sand-table model, dozens of glowing points representing scouts were steadily advancing forward.
Some progressed quickly, while others moved slowly.
Xu Feng muttered to himself, “Is No. 19 Contaminated Land really this difficult?”
“This is only the first wave of Fiends, but the advance speed is already half as fast as it was in No. 18...”
As he watched the glowing points, some had been obstructed and were advancing very slowly, while others were even being driven back step by step by the Fiends.
Xu Feng shook his head and looked elsewhere.
The very next second, he froze, and an indescribable shock appeared in his eyes.
The glowing point representing Ye Ze was leaving all the others in the dust!
Most of the other scouts had only advanced a few hundred meters.
But Ye Ze, in just one hour, had already fought his way four or five thousand meters into the depths of the Contaminated Land!
That speed of advance was seven or eight times faster than the other teams!
And judging from that single glowing point, he was alone.
That meant his solo-clearing speed was actually faster than everyone else’s team-clearing speed!
Xu Feng rubbed his eyes and looked again...
He had not seen it wrong! That glowing point’s land-clearing progress was still continuing!
That speed was practically even faster than the Demon Suppression Army’s most professional scouts!
Xu Feng’s eyes went wide. He pointed at that glowing point and asked, “Who is this person?”
“Check that person’s badge for me. I want to know exactly who this monster is!”
The glowing points came from vital-sign records, and once the badges transmitted feedback to the camp, the corresponding target could be identified.
A Scout Camp clerk checked and reported:
“It’s that third-year student from War Academy, Ye Ze.”
Hearing that answer, Xu Feng looked completely baffled, because he remembered that name!
“The level 4 Summoner—the weakest one?”
“Yes, level 4, Summoner class... though he’s already level 5 now!”
The clerk glanced at the information being sent back by the badge and confirmed it.
Xu Feng sucked in a sharp breath.
“A Summoner? Isn’t that supposed to be a late-game class?”
“At level 5, and he’s already this fierce???”
“Whose general is this guy?”
Could he be some rich second-generation kid whose family had provided him with an Outstanding-grade summoned beast?
Even that would not explain this kind of strength!
Xu Feng could not make heads or tails of it.
“Damn it, when I first saw this level 4 Summoner, I thought he was some connected brat who got in here to polish his résumé...”
Taking part in Contaminated Land land-clearing operations counted as a bonus item for many universities.
There had indeed been plenty of wealthy students in the past who had come to the Scout Camp just to gild their credentials.
But those people only had equipment and skills. Their combat level and mental fortitude were terrible.
There was no way they could have this kind of solo-clearing ability!
Xu Feng thought to himself, He’s a promising seedling...
Then he instructed the clerk, “Keep a close eye on him.”
“Right now, he’s only dealing with ordinary Fiend Soldiers.”
“But his level is low, and he lacks battlefield experience. If he runs into an elite, he might suffer a major loss!”
“If that happens, notify me immediately.”
The monitoring clerk replied, “Understood!”
...
“My experience is already over eighty percent!”
Inside the Contaminated Land, after one full hour of nonstop grinding, Ye Ze looked at his rapidly rising experience bar and was in excellent spirits.
Beside him, Panda struck out with a palm. With its current attributes, it easily crushed the last remaining Corpse Fiend nearby.
【Killed Corpse Fiend, EXP +90!】
【Level: 5 (1755/2100)】
“There still aren’t enough monsters in the Contaminated Land...”
Ye Ze could not help sighing with a thoroughly inhuman complaint.
But for him, if there had been just a few more monsters, he might have leveled up already.
After all, with Panda’s Battle-Hardened ability, its stamina consumption remained at the absolute minimum. It was as though it simply could not grow tired.
As for Ye Ze, he did not even have to lift a hand. He was starting to feel sleepy...
At that moment, intelligence came back from one of the squirrel’s Shadow Clones, instantly waking him up.
“An elite Fiend has appeared at the eight o’clock direction?”
To scout monster positions efficiently, Ye Ze had dispatched twelve squirrel Shadow Clones according to the twelve directions of a clock face, conducting a full-area search!
The moment anything moved nearby, he would know immediately.
He decisively set off and quietly approached under the guidance of the Shadow Clone.
Sure enough, it was a small boss!
A skeletal monster more than two meters tall stood there, its entire body assembled from countless blood-red bones. Pale blue flames burned within its empty eye sockets, and its fingertips ended in sharp bone spikes.
【Blood-Skeleton Fiend (lv.15)】
【Type: Elite Fiend】