Chapter 1295: Chapter 1295
Ignoring the bubbles, Du You immediately changed into his equipment. The tier-six gear he had initially burst out was finally useable. He exchanged the light blue Yinying Ring for the deep black Insect King Ring.
Yinying Ring: Spell power increased by 42, Dark Spell power additionally increased by 37, casting speed increased by 20%, Dark Spell casting speed additionally increased by 10%. (Light blue)
Insect King Ring: Spell power increased by 57, casting speed increased by 30%, absolute Magic damage 50. Comes with Insect King Summoning skill, which can summon a swarm of level 57 Magic Beetles, lasting 24 hours. Also comes with Magical Doppelganger skill, which can summon a doppelganger identical to oneself, carrying one skill from the original. (Deep black) Orıginal content can be found at 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡✶𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚✶𝙣𝙚𝙩
In terms of his casting abilities, there was a significant boost. Most crucially, the skills attached to the Insect King Ring. With a wave of his hand, a swarm of Magic Beetles appeared, at level 57—higher than his own level.
It would indeed be challenging not to use the beetles for restraint if it came to a real fight.
For others who had just broken through to tier-six, they would definitely not be a match for this swarm.
Waving the ring again, a person identical to himself appeared—this was the Magical Doppelganger. From the aura, one could not distinguish any difference at all, sufficiently serving as his stand-in. For future dangerous meetings, he could use this doppelganger instead, remotely controlling it with his consciousness attached.
Of course, without his control, this doppelganger only had combat instincts.
"What a pity, although the Magic Power is abundant, if Magic Power recovery skills aren’t added, it will still run out."
This was a problem for Du You himself, as many of his skills were high consumption, and it seems he couldn’t put them on the doppelganger. Otherwise, the Magic Power would be depleted in a few moves, which would be rather embarrassing. However, adding skills with lower consumption wasn’t a problem. Also, the doppelganger was very fragile if not endowed with defensive skills.
Since the doppelganger could only carry one skill, it appears a choice must be made according to the situation.
Moreover, the strength of this doppelganger had its limits, defined by the limits of the Insect King Ring. Du You hadn’t reached those limits yet, so he couldn’t test them. But under most circumstances, this skill shouldn’t need to be used.
Then, Du You examined his skills, each of them upgraded to level 51, and it only took adding one Crystal Coin. What disappointed Du You was that none of his Summoned Beasts had gained any new skills. It was merely an equivalent enhancement of their existing skill powers, with no new skills to look forward to.
However, his own skills did begin to undergo changes upon upgrading. Starting with the summoning skills, most skills remained unchanged, but two Undead Summoning skills transformed.
Demonic Flame Skeleton King: Create Demonic Flame Skeletons from corpses, which naturally possess Demonic Flames skills that can burn nearby enemies. Demonic Flame Skeleton level 25, level cannot exceed the corpse’s pre-death level by 5. Casting range is diameter (level × 10) meters. No limit on the number of Demonic Flame Skeletons, no duration limit, cannot be recalled into summoning space, Light Attribute damage doubled. Sacrifice 1,000,000 Demonic Flame Skeletons to obtain a level 47 Demonic Flame Bone Dragon, Bone Dragon possesses high intelligence, with an unlimited existence duration. (Level 51, 10 stars)
The level of Demonic Flame Skeletons had risen by two levels, from 23 to 25, although the increase wasn’t significant, the maximum level excess over the corpse’s pre-death level had changed to 5 levels.
This means, from now on, he could summon level 25 Demonic Flame Skeletons from level 20 corpses. This represented a significant overall strength increase for the Demonic Flame Skeleton group, even though Du You mostly used them to create Bone Dragons.
However, changes had now occurred in producing Bone Dragons as well; a one-time sacrifice needed to reach 1,000,000, but the summoned Bone Dragon was now level 47, reaching late tier-five.
Du You sensed that trying to sacrifice 100,000 to summon a level 40 Bone Dragon, as before, was no longer possible.
While skill variation could become freer, this kind of equivalent exchange summoning clearly didn’t fall under this case. But after some thought, Du You didn’t mind because one tier-five Bone Dragon was much more powerful than ten tier-four ones.
Du You took the time to experiment and discovered that his Bone Dragon controlability had also strengthened compared to before.
Previously, a tier-four Bone Dragon could only control one million Demonic Flame Skeletons, but now, the Bone Dragon could directly control not only Demonic Flame Skeletons but other Undead as well. And this control number had increased to five million at once.
Basically, Du You wouldn’t leave so many Demonic Flame Skeletons around; so many bones were better transformed into a more useful Bone Dragon.
The Dragon Tomb Guardian skill also underwent slight changes as it leveled up.
Dragon Tomb Guardian: Sacrifice 50,000 deceased or Undead to summon a level 40 Dragon Tomb Guardian, with an unlimited existence duration. (Level 51, 10 stars)
One level difference made a huge impact. The sacrifice remained at 50,000—neither more nor less, but the level had increased to 40.
If the improvement of the Demonic Flame Skeletons brought some regret to Du You – that he couldn’t summon a tier-four Bone Dragon anymore, there were no downsides to the change in the Dragon Tomb Guardian skill, although it changed only in one aspect.
The strength of a level 40 Dragon Tomb Guardian could take on several of the previously summoned guardians alone.
Next, there were changes in other Spells. The duration of Devouring Swamp had changed from three days to five days. Spell Splitting Skill had automatically adjusted, and at tier six, it was temporarily of no use.
The maximum number at once for a Hellfire Spider summon had changed from one hundred to one thousand, and their duration had changed from ten days to thirty days, equivalent to one month. However, this change was not of much use to Du You.
He generally used trap skills like the fire spiders for short durations; the increase in spider numbers was fine, but their power was not particularly remarkable. Also, the duration of the Dissolution Spell had increased to 30 minutes.
The duration for Dark Beetles remained at 30 minutes, unchanged. However, the duration for Dark Beetle matrons had changed from 24 hours to five days, multiplying the duration by five.
Dark Absorption had changed from absorbing 20% of the enemy’s Magic Power to restore oneself to 30%.
Lastly, the Constant level skill Dark Resurrection had its cooldown time halved, from 24 hours to 12 hours. Those resurrected would still be weak for 30 days. Other skills seemed to have no changes, at least none visible from the panel data. The specific changes in power would have to be tested in battle.