Chapter 1017: Chapter 1017
While the sea routes were being fully developed, Du You’s Eye of the Death God finally completed its evolution. Du You stood in front of the Skill Hall and took out the Eye of the Death God skill, integrating its power into himself.
But this time, the advancement was different from before, as it wasn’t completed instantly. Du You discovered that after a new force merged into his body, he began to glow. A red light twisted around him, constantly changing. Above his head, a huge black eyeball also emerged, its pupil utterly indifferent.
Just then, the eyeball suddenly turned and looked in Du You’s direction. In the next instant, the red aura on Du You’s body soared and was wholly absorbed by the eyeball.
The eyeball remained pitch-black, only the red light within the pupil deepened slightly, with some subtleties visible upon close inspection. At this moment, Du You felt his body lighten quite a bit.
"Could it be that the Death God’s curse has been removed? That’s really great," Du You breathed a sigh of relief, summoning the Death Scorpion to perform Sandification around him, indeed showing no more signs of poisoning.
"Master, how are you feeling now?" The two sisters anxiously looked at Du You.
Du You laughed loudly, "Hahaha, it’s finally resolved. I won’t have to worry about desert conditions anymore. That damn guy, one day I’ll make him pay." Du You referred to the Desert Death God.
Even if that guy was a god in this world, in Du You’s view he was merely tier seven. Sooner or later, Du You would reach tier seven as well, and that would be the time for his revenge. Du You was not worried about not reaching tier seven at all; if he couldn’t, then even less so could anyone else.
"With the curse lifted, let’s check out the changes in the skill," Du You said as he opened his panel. Although he could figure out the ability of the skill without looking at the panel, that would require time and luck, which was true for everyone.
Eye of the Death God: The gaze of the Death God is upon you, focusing the Eye of the Death God on the enemy. Under the gaze of the Death God, if the enemy fails the willpower test, an instant death effect will occur. After passing the test, they receive specific damage, along with soul injury. Passive effect: When encountering curse attacks, the Eye of the Death God will automatically break the curse, with a very high chance of backlash to the curser. Active use consumes 20% Magic Power each time, cooldown 12 hours, passive effect without consumption. (Level 36, 10 stars)
"Before, passing the test wouldn’t result in damage; now it’s different, with regular damage. Even if the enemy has strong Spiritual Power, they will still be injured, and it also carries soul damage," Du You said as he read the description.
This skill is a special instant death type of skill, a rule skill. Rule skills typically either have effect or none, but this time it seems there were some changes.
"And the chance of a curse backfiring has become very high. If someone casts a curse on me in the future, I’ll certainly teach them what politeness means," Du You joyfully remarked upon seeing the changes in the skill.
Lin Yucha also commented, "The limitations on the skill have been greatly reduced. It used to consume 25% of Magic Power, now it’s only 20%, although it’s still quite a lot. The cooldown time has also been halved to 12 hours."
Du You nodded slightly, yet even with the shortened cooldown time, this skill was still not one to be used routinely. The time was too long, just like the Death Scorpion’s Death Raid; they were meant to be used at crucial moments.
Only, Du You thought, with his current power, there didn’t seem to be any situation where he could use this skill. Against tier five experts, the skill was utterly useless. But against tier four individuals, there was no need for this skill at all.
Du You felt that his current power, even if not unbeatable in tier four, was almost there, and he couldn’t imagine when he would need such a high-level skill. Unfortunately, this skill was a single-target one, able to kill only one person. If he was surrounded by a multitude of experts, the skill would still be useless; was it meant to intimidate others?
Well, even if somewhat of a white elephant, at least it was a powerful trump card. Besides, what Du You valued most was not the offensive ability, but rather the passive defense against curses.
Next, Du You put the scale and Lin Yucha’s whirlpool arrow into it. The evolution would take seven days; indeed, related to the possessions of a tier seven powerhouse, the evolution time became much longer.
But he believed that the skill evolved from these materials would be better than those evolved from ordinary ones.
On the second day after the new skill was inserted, Du You suddenly received a message that the Sea Serpent Tower he had been building was finally completed.
"Let’s all go and take a look," Du You said, taking the two sisters to the nearby inland lake. Although the towers were also built at sea, they were too far away; it was better to focus on what was right in front of them. It was a pity, though, that constructing such structures required tier five materials and resources, and their construction cost Du You dearly.
To build these hundred Sea Serpent Towers, nearly half of the resources accumulated within Du You’s territory had been consumed. Now, it was time to test the true power of the Sea Serpent Towers. For origınal chapters go to 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵·𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖·𝙣𝙚𝙩
"Is this it? It looks like a ring," Lin Yushi commented. The Sea Serpent Tower was a ring floating on the water surface.
"Yes, that’s it, don’t worry, let’s test it out," Du You replied.
Sea Serpent Tower (Tier Five):
Requires a water environment to construct. The Sea Serpent Tower forms three water current-based heads of a sea serpent. The heads fire high-speed Water Element cannons with impact and explosive effects. Range 5 kilometers, each head has an attack interval of 0.3 seconds.
At Du You’s command, the water within the ring swelled and coalesced, with three huge serpent heads raising up, so lifelike that, if not for their transparent color, one could believe they were real sea serpents.
Suddenly, the three sea serpents opened their mouths and spat out three water spheres in layers. The spheres seemed unimpressive, but upon hitting the distant rocks, they exploded and blasted the surrounding stones into fine pebbles.
"Though the range isn’t wide, this power is definitely comparable to a tier five combat spell."
Lin Yucha nodded in agreement, "Yes, perhaps the power is slightly less, but the firing speed and density are so high. With several more Sea Serpent Towers, I fear that even a squadron of tier five warships would have difficulty approaching. It’s just a pity that it requires a water environment, or else it could be constructed in many more places." Lin Yucha felt a bit regretful.
Du You felt even more regret that such a good thing couldn’t be built on Earth, as Central City did not have the water environment necessary to construct these defenses.