Chapter 45: SS-Rank Ultimate Skill, Clearing the Screen with a Single Move!
Thirty... forty... forty-seven!
Li Yao was filled with ecstatic surprise. This was already equivalent to the gold coins gained from advancing a hedge fund by 20 levels!
This was an unexpected windfall!
Before this, he had never dropped gold coins from monsters.
"It seems it requires a Lord-tier or above?"
Li Yao thought to himself.
He just didn't know what the drop rate was, and whether the 47 pieces dropped this time could be considered many or few...
Adding the 10 gold coins obtained at level 15, along with what he had left over previously, he now had a total of 67 gold coins in his possession.
There was still some distance to go before reaching the 100 gold coins required to upgrade the Void Mantis to four stars.
Li Yao intended to wait a little longer.
During his previous battle with Yan Gaojie, he had also discovered his own shortcoming.
A movement skill.
By using a movement skill to create distance, Yan Gaojie could easily dodge his attacks.
If he had a movement skill, it wouldn't have taken nearly this much time to deal with Yan Gaojie.
Once the Void Mantis advanced to four stars, it might awaken a movement skill, so Li Yao planned to save his gold coins first and prioritize upgrading the Void Mantis's star rating.
However...
Li Yao also thought that besides gold coins, equipment parts could also be obtained from monsters.
Since even the Lord-tier didn't drop any, could it be that it required something even higher than the Lord-tier?
"Interesting!"
Li Yao curved his lips into a smile.
Input equals output; this saying held true at any time.
With the acquisition difficulty being so high, the Teamfight Tactics series equipment surely wouldn't be bad!
However, given his current level, he couldn't reach monsters above the Lord-tier just yet, so Li Yao withdrew his thoughts and looked at the several treasure chests.
Among them, the Tongue-Ripping Empress's chest was the one Li Yao anticipated the least, and he opened it immediately without hesitation.
After all, no matter how one looked at the Tongue-Ripping Empress, she didn't seem like a summon-type monster.
The treasure chest opened.
As expected.
Two pieces of equipment.
One Platinum-tier assassin-type leather armor, and one Gold-tier warrior-type helmet.
Li Yao tossed them into his storage space.
Any single one of these Platinum-tier pieces of equipment could stir up bloody storms in the outside world, let alone those produced from a Purgatory-tier Primordial Dungeon.
Would it be a bit too slow in efficiency to hand them over to the Qin family one by one for processing?
Li Yao pondered.
Should he save up a few more and go to Sangyu Main City to hold an auction?
An auction where no money is accepted, and items are only exchanged for things a Summoner can use?
Or gather them together to exchange for an item surpassing the Platinum-tier?
As a sewer class, a Summoner's equipment and skills were both much cheaper than other classes.
It was not impossible to exchange for an item surpassing the Platinum-tier!
The more Li Yao thought about it, the more excited he became, and he decided that this trading convention would be held the day before the Martial Examination.
By then, with the Martial Examination imminent, those scions of noble families would be even more prone to impulse buying.
In a moment of heated impulse, they might even take out Dark Gold-tier items!
However.
Li Yao could already imagine Qin Yue's frantic expression when he took back all the high-quality equipment from the Qin family.
"I'll just have the Qin family help manage it then; anyway, I don't have any connections in that field."
Thinking this, Li Yao opened the two First Clear treasure chests.
These two were his own and Song Anqing's.
First Clear treasure chests would also increase in quality based on contribution value; Yang Junfei's 1-contribution chest would be kept to trade for the Yan family's heads.
That could be considered putting everything to its best use.
The treasure chests opened, and in an instant, brilliant light dazzled his eyes.
A skill book, three pieces of equipment, and a scroll.
A Primordial Dungeon, a First Clear treasure chest, and it was even Purgatory-tier difficulty—the buffs were stacked to the maximum.
He wanted to see just what kind of good things would come out!
[Beast King's Robe (Upper Garment)]
[Quality: Platinum]
[Equipment Requirements: Level 20, Spirit 200]
[Equipment Attribute 1: Spirit +120, Stamina +40]
[Equipment Attribute 2: Beast King's Call (Active): Summons 10 Silver Moon Wolf phantoms (B-rank) to fight for the wearer. The phantoms' level increases with the wearer's level, duration 60 seconds, cooldown 12 minutes.]
[Equipment Attribute 3: Beast King's Aura (Passive): Designates one summoned creature. Within a 50-meter radius of this creature, all summoned creatures have their main attributes increased by 2.5%, and the designated summoned creature's main attributes are increased by 5%.]
[Durability: 240/240]
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[Heart-Protecting Mirror (Pendant)]
[Quality: Platinum]
[Equipment Requirements: None]
[Equipment Attribute 1: Spirit +100]
[Equipment Attribute 2: Heart Protection (Active): Triggers an invincible state for the designated target. Duration 1 second, cooldown 24 hours.]
[Durability: 100/100]
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[Wishing Staff (Weapon)]
[Quality: Platinum]
Healing-type equipment, omitted.
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[Devoted Heart (SS-rank Active Skill): A moving bond between summoned creatures. Designates one summoned creature while recalling all non-designated summoned creatures back to the summoning slot. The designated summoned creature inherits the sum of the main attributes of all recalled summoned creatures. Duration 6 seconds, cooldown 12 hours.]
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An excited heart, trembling hands.
Li Yao didn't even know how to describe his current mood.
A huge explosion, an unprecedented massive explosion!
Among the three pieces of equipment, there were two that Li Yao could equip himself.
And both fit Li Yao's current situation exceptionally well.
After exiting the [Shackles] state, the equipment [Goblin's Proof of Courage] automatically unequipped and returned to the storage space.
His upper body position was still wearing ordinary casual clothes.
The [Beast King's Robe] just happened to fill this vacancy.
Moreover.
For ordinary Summoners, summoning ten B-rank summoned beasts might be the core point of this piece of equipment.
The five percent main attribute boost from the Beast King's Aura was just a dispensable extra.
As for Li Yao.
This five percent effect was huge; the Void Mantis had over two thousand strength points, which translated to more than a hundred points of strength, becoming stronger the later the stage!
More crucially, this was a passive skill that could trigger continuously.
Just like the [Goblin's Proof of Courage], it provided a percentage attribute boost.
Even if it were only a level 15 Gold-tier equipment, Li Yao would keep it in his storage space forever for unexpected needs.
As for the other piece of equipment, the [Heart-Protecting Mirror], needless to say.
An invincible skill, even for prestigious aristocratic families like the Yan family, existed as a foundational asset.
It was an equipment capable of saving the Void Mantis's life at critical moments!
Li Yao immediately swapped out the [Bloodthirsty Pendant].
His three attributes decreased slightly, but his Spirit attribute skyrocketed by 100!
Actually, the [Bloodthirsty Pendant] wasn't bad either; it possessed lifesteal capabilities, and although it was Silver equipment, trading it for top-tier Gold equipment definitely wouldn't be a problem.
As for what truly made Li Yao so excited, it had to be the final skill book.
Among active skills, there was a well-known type of 'ultimate' skill.
Such 'ultimates' often came with a certain limited cost in exchange for unleashing unimaginable power.
The first punch Yan Gaojie blasted at Li Yao was such a skill.
An ultra-long charge-up time, requiring the combination of [Fire Prison] to restrict Li Yao's movement, and having to be released at close range.
These were all limitations of an ultimate.
If he hadn't been in an invincible state, even Li Yao wouldn't have dared to take that strike head-on!
Similarly, [Devoted Heart] was such a skill.
Using the recall of all summoned creatures as a restriction, it forged a single ultimate summoned creature in a short period!
Right now, with only three chess pieces, it wasn't very obvious.
What about later stages?
Five, or even ten pieces?
Even right now.
If Li Yao sacrificed the Void Mantis's strength to the Azure Bird, by then...
It wouldn't be impossible for the Azure Bird to level the entire dungeon with a single skill!