Reincarnation Paradise Park

Chapter 1180: Chapter 65: Demonic Hunt Time

Rumble.

The forging furnace started to operate, and the high temperature spread throughout the alchemy lab, causing some nearby test tubes to shatter.

[Equipment upgrading, takes 3 hours and 28 minutes.]

Su Xiao paid 30,000 more Paradise coins to ensure the B-level Forge Furnace wouldn’t be suddenly recalled. During this period, Su Xiao just needed to wait, although the furnace operates automatically, it’s better not to leave during this time.

Su Xiao moved to an empty area nearby and took out Dragon Slash to start his daily sword technique practice.

Su Xiao’s knife practice was not a mechanical chop and stab, but a free swinging, seeking inspiration to develop new moves.

A long time ago, Su Xiao discovered that self-developed moves were different from skills learned from scrolls, with scroll-learned skills always having a cooldown period. Forcing a skill before the cooldown ends could cause severe backlash, potentially resulting in death.

However, self-developed moves are different. Most self-developed moves, once refined, are of MAX level, meaning they’re full-level abilities, and they don’t have a cooldown period.

For example, Su Xiao’s Ring Break, as long as his arm could take it, could be used several times in succession, but doing so didn’t have much practical significance.

After long-term development, Su Xiao had developed several sword techniques that he frequently used in combat. When using these moves, he didn’t habitually roar, just slashed directly.

Among these moves, Ring Break and Breaking Void were the most striking; the others appeared to be ordinary slashes but varied in force and angle.

Zheng, zheng, zheng...

The speed of Su Xiao’s swings suddenly accelerated, and silver slash marks appeared in the air. This was a move he developed a long time ago, one he never named, simply calling it Rapid Slash. The principle was to overdraft stamina in a short time, placing a considerable burden on his right arm, increasing the slicing speed. Without moving, Su Xiao could slash dozens, even hundreds of times in a short period.

Su Xiao rarely used this move unless it was needed to break the enemy’s defense quickly. In situations where he could directly slash the enemy, he never used it.

Although the extremely fast attack speed paired with Blue Steel Shadow’s true damage seemed great, it was only superficially so.

When Su Xiao injured an enemy, the Blue Steel Shadow energy invaded the enemy’s body and annihilated their energy, causing damage in the process — this was the source of true damage.

Thus, the true damage from Blue Steel Shadow didn’t explode immediately with each slash; a one-time true damage per slash was impossible. True damage required an annihilation energy process.

So even if rapid slicing allowed a large amount of Blue Steel Shadow energy into the enemy’s body, annihilation energy was a process; it wasn’t about how many slices Su Xiao could make in a second to annihilate that many times.

Therefore, pursuing high-frequency attacks in close combat was meaningless. In contrast, during high-frequency slashes, Su Xiao’s bodily movements would stiffen, giving enemies a chance to counterattack.

Slashing the enemy’s chest ten times for ten times the damage was far less effective than one full-powered slash to open them up.

No matter how fierce the battle, as long as there’s not much disparity in strength between opponents, killing an enemy usually only requires a few critical slashes. A flurry of flashy attacks hardly holds any practical value.

Su Xiao took a deep breath and slashed forward. As the blade tore through the air, he vanished, leaving behind a slash that continued forward.

This was Su Xiao using Dragon Shadow Flash to penetrate space. When he reappeared, he faced the previous slash.

As Su Xiao appeared, he slashed again.

Zheng.

The two slashes collided, and Su Xiao took several steps back.

This front-and-back slash was ”hard to deal with” and quite impressive.

”Another lousy move, but it has refinement value. Maybe after refinement, it could be used in actual combat.”

Su Xiao murmured, continuing to swing his blade. The move had a fatal flaw: the power of the first slash gradually weakened, sometimes even weaker than a blade aura, and the second slash had a rigid angle. Upon Su Xiao’s sudden disappearance, the enemy would instinctively guard their rear.

Su Xiao gradually immersed himself in the research of sword techniques, which was his passion, so he didn’t find continuous sword swinging tedious.

Boom... boom... boom.

The momentum of the forging furnace gradually lessened, and Su Xiao paused his sword-swinging, looking toward the furnace.

[Upgrade in progress, 23 seconds remaining.]

Su Xiao sheathed Dragon Slash and quickly approached the forging furnace, knowing success or failure would be revealed in 23 seconds.

After assembling the Demon Hunting Suit, Su Xiao had, of course, inquired about upgrading it. Although the information was scarce, one valuable piece was that its shape after evolving into a Golden Suit was unique, unlike any other Golden Suit.

Soon, the forging furnace came to a complete stop.

[Upgrade complete.]

Seeing these four words, Su Xiao breathed a sigh of relief — it meant the upgrade succeeded.

With a soft whir, a metal tray extended out. Su Xiao looked over and was momentarily stunned by what he saw on the tray.

”Where are the Demon Hunting Gun and the nameplates?”

Su Xiao’s hand reached forward to pick up a ring from the tray.

[You have obtained the King of Demon Hunting.]

[King of Demon Hunting (3/3)]

Origin: Cannot be directly produced within the Derivative World.

Quality: Gold (Set)

Category: Ring/Necklace/Gun

Durability: 76/76 (Ring), 70/70 (Pendant), 78/78 (Gun).

Attack power: 133~153 (Gun·Not Activated)

Equipment Requirements: True Strength 80 points, True Agility 80 points, complete a Hunting Trial (achieved).

Equipment Effect 1, Resistance (Passive): When King of Demon Hunting is in ring form, all abnormal status durations are reduced by 40%.

Equipment Effect 2, Unyielding (Passive): When King of Demon Hunting is in pendant form, if life value falls below 10%, entry into the brink of death state is delayed by 20 seconds.

Equipment Effect 3, Death Penalty (Passive): When in gun form, after a Blood Bullet hits an enemy it will explode, reducing the enemy’s physical defense by 8%, healing effect by 6%, and moving speed by 3%. The effect lasts 4 minutes,

Note: Death Penalty (Passive) effect can stack up to five times, with the maximum reduction effects being body defense by 40%, healing effect by 30%, moving speed by 15%, sustaining for 20 minutes.

Note: The gun form has a maximum capacity of 5 bullets; killing enemies generates a number of bullets based on the enemy’s strength, up to a maximum of 5 bullets.

Inlay effect:

Heart of the Sea (Light Gold Gem), Mana Value +400, Mana Recovery Speed +36 points (per hour).

Rating: 400+

Introduction: The upgraded Demon Hunting Suit is a symbol of the Demon Hunter’s honor.

Set Effects (Activated)

Set Effect 1, Power of Truth (Passive): True Strength +5, True Agility +4, True Stamina +3.

Set Effect 2, Witch’s Nightmare (Passive): Increases all close combat damage by 60%, maximum life value by 35%, all abnormal state resistance by 28.

Set Effect 3, Demonic Hunt Time (Passive/Active)

Passive Effect: When out of combat, after the energy within the holder is restored to the cap, it will overflow, and the overflowed energy will be stored in the King of Demon Hunting.

Current stored energy (Mana Value): 0 points.

Active Effect: When the stored energy in the King of Demon Hunting reaches 6000 points, ’Demonic Hunt Time’ can be activated. In this state, all self-mastered abilities enter a no-cooldown, no-consumption state.

Note: Active effect lasts 100 seconds post-activation.

Note: Active effect cooldown is 10 natural days.

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