Chapter 53 : Chapter53
Chapter 53: Martial Dao Mastery After Advancement! The Twelfth Trait!
Even if someone was capable of dealing with a level-30 Special Elite, they still could not avoid a long, grueling battle.
Just like Ruan Xiaoyou back then—she had needed a long time to deal with the Cursed Knight as well.
Only the very best among those around level 30 could kill one quickly.
And yet Ye Ze, a rookie who had still been level 7 the day before yesterday, had only taken a single minute to kill one?
Xu Feng found it impossible to believe.
What Ye Ze wanted to tell him even more was...
That minute had been spent waiting for Position Swap to come off cooldown. The enemy itself had been killed with a single punch.
Still, no matter what, seeing Ye Ze grow stronger—and seeing the Scout Camp gain such a powerful reinforcement—put Xu Feng in a much better mood.
"That makes sense. I remember you were already able to kill level-25 Elite Fiends before."
"Now that you have gotten a bit stronger again, it is only natural!"
Xu Feng happily patted Ye Ze on the shoulder. "Then I will not stand on ceremony with you!"
"Quick! Assign the high-level Fiends to Ye Ze!"
Xu Feng began issuing orders to the clerks of the Monitoring Division, which suited Ye Ze just fine as well.
With the Monitoring Division already in wartime status, every order was carried out with extreme speed.
Not long after, a capable-looking female clerk in her early twenties brought over a tracker.
"Hello, this can help you locate your target Fiends in real time."
"For now, we need you to clear out eight Special Elites in the East 1–7 sectors. They are all level 30. Would that be acceptable?"
As she said it, the female clerk even felt a little embarrassed.
Eight Special Elites—an extremely difficult assignment—was being handed over just like that to a young man... but there was no helping it. Too many Fiends had appeared!
They were even distributing trackers specifically to improve the efficiency of the powerful experts serving in support roles.
Ye Ze accepted it readily and nodded.
"Let us start with those."
The female clerk pursed her lips, her expression turning rather strange...
Why did this suddenly feel like taking someone’s order?
Was this not supposed to be serious work in the fight against the Fiends?
She had even asked because she was afraid eight Special Elites might feel too difficult and troublesome for Ye Ze.
But with that one sentence from him, it suddenly sounded as though she were a waitress in a restaurant... Serve eight first, and if they were not enough, order more later?
Naturally, she did not show any of that on her face.
Ye Ze’s willing acceptance still made her happy, whether for the sake of the Contaminated Land or for the safety of everyone here.
Once the targets were confirmed, Ye Ze ordered the squirrel Shadow Clones to move into position.
At the same time, he used the Spirit Pact Ring to copy the panda’s skill:
Martial Dao Mastery.
It was not because he wanted to fight personally, but because this skill had originally advanced from Battle-Hardened.
——【Battle-Hardened: Reduces skill cooldown, skill cost, and stamina consumption by 50%, and reduces the effects of negative statuses by 80%!】
Battle-Hardened had originally already possessed effects such as cooldown reduction.
Now that it had advanced into Martial Dao Mastery, not only had it gained increased martial damage, its original effects had not disappeared—they had grown even stronger instead!
【Martial Dao Mastery: Reduces skill cooldown, skill cost, and stamina consumption by 80%, and ignores the effects of negative statuses...】
The cooldown of the exclusive skill "Swap" dropped from 1 minute to 12 seconds!
The time it had once taken to use it once could now accommodate five uses!
The skill cost also dropped from 50 Mana to 10!
At the same time, even the Cursed Statue’s "Curse—Sluggish," which had been marked as "cannot be dispelled," disappeared!
After a brief moment of surprise, Ye Ze realized what was going on.
Although the Cursed Statue’s curse could not be dispelled, the power behind Martial Dao Mastery came from a Higher-order Trait.
Its priority was higher!
The 30% Movement Speed reduction and the loss of 30 Agility both returned!
"I may as well just keep copying this one Trait all the time! It is absurdly strong!"
Ye Ze let out a heartfelt sigh.
At the same time, the squirrel Shadow Clone arrived in position.
Ye Ze switched places and began hunting!
...
On the eastern side of No. 19 Contaminated Land,
a full five-man temporary Scout team was being chased down by a Special Elite, which was, once again, a Lich.
When he saw Ye Ze approaching, a university-aged male student in his twenties shouted:
"Is support here? Damn it, why is it just a kid?!"
"Do not come any closer! Stay back!!"
Ye Ze might have been young, but his strength did not match his age.
A sharp tearing sound split the air as the Martial Saint panda shot out like a cannonball, the very picture of a charging panda!
The Martial Saint Aura coating its body alone crushed the Lich Fiend into pieces on impact.
In just a little over a minute, the panda had already killed enemies from seven different positions.
【You kill Special Elite—Wicked-Hand Lich and gain Experience: 1050!】
【Ding! Your level rises to: Level 12!】
【Level: 12 (360/15600)】
【Talent—You gain one draw chance for "Infinite Golden Traits"!】
"How strange. Every one of these Special Elites has turned out to be a Lich?"
Ye Ze muttered softly to himself.
But nearby, the five people were so shocked by his instant kill of the Special Elite that their eyes nearly popped out of their heads.
Especially the young man who had shouted earlier. He edged over and said weakly:
"Brother, I was a little loud just now. Please do not take it to heart..."
With strength like that, what child could he possibly be?
At this point, if someone told him Ye Ze had simply grown young again, he would believe it!
Ye Ze waved a hand dismissively, then switched to the next location...
The last Special Elite was, once again, another Lich.
So he simply called out the mantis and let it have some fun with this one.
Meanwhile, Ye Ze began drawing his twelfth Trait...
【You draw a Golden Legend-grade Trait: Lord of Elements!】
【Lord of Elements: All elemental skills are automatically maxed. Elemental skills gain the following effects: Cooldown -70%, Cost -70%, Range +300%, Damage +100%, Special elemental effects +100%!】
A godsend for mages!
Elemental skills, as the name implied, included fire-element, water-element, lightning-element skills, and so on...
For example, Heavenfall Thunder, which belonged to the fox, was a lightning-element skill.
For a mage, nothing could have been more fitting.
He decisively bestowed the Trait directly upon the fox.
【Trait "Lord of Elements" bestowed successfully!】
【Summoned Beast: Three-Tailed Demon Fox (Epic☆☆☆☆☆☆) advances → (Legend☆)】
All four attributes increased by 40 points.
Moreover, the skill Foxfire rose from lv.5 to lv.10, while Heavenfall Thunder rose from lv.1 to lv.10!
With the added effects of Lord of Elements, it was already beginning to take the shape of a spell turret.
At the same time, the last Special Elite was finally toyed to death by the mantis.
【You kill Special Elite—Frost Lich and gain Experience: 1050!】
Eight Special Fiends, plus drawing a Trait, had taken only a little over two minutes in total.
Ye Ze felt thoroughly exhilarated. "At this rate, I am more worried that there will not be enough Fiends left to kill!"
He needed to start grabbing more assignments!
He switched positions once again.
Watching Ye Ze suddenly reappear in the Monitoring Division—and dump out the corpses of eight Special Elites—
Xu Feng felt as though his whole mind had gone blank.
Did the world really change this quickly?
The Ye Ze who had still been a level-7 temporary Scout the day before yesterday had become like this today?
Why did it feel as though he might not even be weaker than Xu Feng himself, a third-advancement Class User?
"Just over two minutes... eight Special Elites?"
"Could you possibly be any more absurd?"
As Xu Feng said that, he suddenly had the distinct feeling that the new generation was overtaking the old.
And he himself was the old generation.
The female clerk who had just assigned the task was equally stunned, and even the way she looked at Ye Ze had changed.
At that moment, however, red warning lights began flashing throughout the Monitoring Division!
BEEP—BEEP—
"What is going on?"
Everyone abruptly turned to look at the monitoring sand table.
Amid the clusters of black points, each about the size of chess pieces and representing Elite Fiends...
there appeared a flashing black point nearly the size of a fist.
Xu Feng’s eyes went wide, his voice filled with disbelief.
"Why has a Fiend General appeared in No. 19 Contaminated Land?!"