Chapter 64 -64-Obtaining Curse Resistance
[You killed the Level 100 cleric of Storm City. EXP +1,000,000, gold coins +50,000!]
[You plundered the S-rank skill "Divine Radiance"!]
[Divine Radiance] (S-rank)
[Effect]: After use, dispels all vision-obscuring fog within a 500 × 500 area, and inflicts a debuff on enemy targets that causes -100 HP per second for 10 minutes.
John immediately maxed out its effects through modification.
The 500 × 500 range was directly changed to 50,000 × 5,000!
The 100 HP lost per second was changed to 10,000 HP per second.
And the duration was altered from 10 minutes to 1,000 minutes!
...
Just as John thought those were all the rewards for killing the cleric,
another notification rang out a moment later:
[You plundered the Level 100 cleric’s Curse Resistance, gaining immunity to 50% of curse damage!]
John froze for a moment, then a look of delight appeared on his face.
He had not expected to plunder Curse Resistance here.
Without the slightest hesitation, he directly modified it to 100%!
[Curse Resistance]
[Effect]: Gain 100% immunity to curse damage. All curses will be ignored by you!
...
At this point,
of the four major resistances required by his Class Advancement Quest, only Drowning Resistance remained uncollected.
"Bastard!"
At that moment,
a furious shout rang out beside John’s ears.
He looked up and discovered that at some point, he had already been surrounded by tens of thousands of NPC city guards.
Looking at the mass of black-clad NPC guards, John revealed a cold smile.
If it was only this many, it seemed they still would not be enough for him to kill.
Ignoring the NPC guards who had already begun charging toward him,
a huge amount of smoke once again erupted from John’s body.
This time, with the cleric gone, those NPCs no longer had any means of dealing with his smoke.
John’s figure rapidly vanished from where he stood.
The NPC guards, like headless flies, began spinning around aimlessly inside the smoke.
And at that moment,
a blinding crimson divine light suddenly shone forth.
In the blink of an eye, it rapidly spread across all the NPCs within the smoke.
Before they could even react,
they began suffering 10,000 HP of damage per second!
[-10000!]
[-10000!]
[-10000!]
The horrifying pain drove those city-guard NPCs to the brink of collapse.
Under the illumination of that eerie divine light,
their skin began to rot, and breathing became difficult.
And because the divine light’s area of effect was so enormous, almost the entire city’s players and NPCs were struck by the damage-over-time effect.
Just a few minutes later,
dense waves of notifications began ringing beside John’s ears.
[You have killed player "Susi." Gold coins +1000. Wager Decree has taken effect!]
[You have killed player "Rivis." Gold coins +2000. Wager Decree has taken effect!]
[You have killed player "Baisula." Gold coins +3000. Wager Decree has taken effect!]
[You plundered the A-rank talent: Invincible Collection!]
...
[Invincible Collection] (A-rank)
[Effect 1]: After killing any target, you may immediately collect that target’s drops into your inventory.
[Effect 2]: Based on the player’s current largest-area damage skill, you may collect all unowned drops within that area.
[Effect 3]: For every 100 items collected, you trigger one additional collection reward.
...
"There’s actually a talent like this?"
John raised an eyebrow slightly.
Then he directly used system points to modify the "100" in Effect 3 into "1."
In that case, as long as he picked up a single item, he would immediately gain an extra reward!
Almost the instant he finished modifying it,
a dense stream of notification sounds rang out beside his ears.
[Invincible Collection talent activated. You collected ’S-rank equipment: Holy Knight Greatsword’!]
[This collection triggered an additional collection reward. You gained 1000 gold coins!]
[Invincible Collection talent activated. You collected ’S-rank Healing Potion’!]
[This collection triggered an additional collection reward. You gained 1000 gold coins!]
[...]
With Invincible Collection, even if John just stood still, he could collect every drop in the entire city.
As the smoke gradually dispersed,
not a single figure remained visible around him.
There were only drops all over the ground, continuously being sucked into John’s inventory.
At the same time,
a notification rang beside John’s ear:
[Storm City has been completely conquered by player "John." War state ended!]
This war had ultimately ended in John’s overwhelming victory!
At this moment,
the items in John’s inventory could no longer be measured with simple numbers.
The belongings of nearly 100,000 Zone 4 players, the equipment of tens of thousands of Storm City NPC guards...
all of it was piled inside John’s inventory.
This harvest was nothing less than a mountain of treasure!
John looked around.
There was not a single enemy left in sight.
Perhaps this was the loneliness of invincibility.
And at that moment,
the system’s notification suddenly sounded in John’s mind.
[Congratulations, Host. Your cross-zone city massacre has altered the World Anchor, triggering a special reward: a one-time opportunity to use system points to modify the four core attributes!]
John was stunned for a moment, then delight appeared on his face.
"I didn’t expect the system to trigger another reward!"
"And this reward actually lets me modify the four core attributes!"
Previously, system points could only be used to modify numerical values on equipment, skills, and items.
The four core attributes could not be modified.
But now,
because of John’s act of massacring the city, the system had actually rewarded him with one chance to modify the four core attributes.
That meant John could now directly raise his own four core attributes all the way to their upper limit!
And right now, he only needed to modify Agility.
The other three attributes would all rise by the same amount.
On top of that, John had barely used any system points during this period,
so he had already stockpiled nearly one million system points.
There was no need to worry at all about running short.
"Then let me see where the limit of the four core attributes really lies!"
John immediately opened his status panel and began adding points to Agility.
Its original value was 8985, and John started increasing it.
10000!
15000!
20000!
...
Only after it had risen all the way to 28985
did the system finally pop up an upper-limit warning.
This single round of point allocation had increased John’s four core attributes by a full 20,000!
What a terrifying value!
The corners of John’s mouth curled upward uncontrollably.
He opened his panel and looked it over.
...
[Player]: John
[Level]: 50 (12.13 million / 500,000: EXP severely overflowed)
[Class]: Chrono Assassin
[Talents]: Wrath of the Raider (SSS), Absolute True Damage (SSS), Wrath Sovereign (SSS), Lord of Beasts (SSS), Dominion Lord (SSS), Universal Synthesis (SS), Heart of Thorns (S)...
[Attributes]: Strength 28986, Agility 28985, Mind 28986, Stamina 28985
[Skills]: Godshadow (SS), Sunpiercer (SS), Lightning Double (SS), Lightning Chain (SS), Annihilation of All (SS), Phantom Blink (SS), Curse Resistance (S), Fall Resistance (S), Poison Resistance (S), War Smoke (A)...
[Equipment]: Divine Protection (S), Thousand-Faced Mask (A), Bloodfang (A), Lightning Robe (A)
[Wallet]: 205,839 gold coins, 946 silver coins, 907 copper coins
[Items]: S-rank Chest, A-rank Chest, Pass Permit, Pillage Order