Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons

Chapter 984 - 854: Forming a New Skill

Kane opened his eyes on the shore.

The colorful Magic Stone on his chest had long since vanished, and even the Skill Stone that had recondensed inside his body had likewise dissipated, completely absorbed by him.

He felt the newly condensed Skills.

A smile couldn’t help but appear on his face.

With this Skill as a lubricant, it could reconcile his 1st and 2nd Skills.

Kane’s current strength was equivalent to being stronger than those who possessed two Skills, but still weaker than those powerful beings with three Skills.

After all, his 3rd Skill was somewhat watered down; compared to other people’s Skills that were truly condensed from a completely different third Rule Chain, there was definitely quite a gap.

Other people’s three Skills complemented one another, reaching a state of having no weaknesses, or making a certain strength extremely prominent.

Whereas Kane’s three Skills were for making the first two Skills cooperate with each other even better.

Having completed the Skill condensation he wanted, Kane disappeared from where he stood.

He returned to the Platinum Palace.

At this moment in the palace, Kane only saw Meizike using his tricolor-level Alchemy Tools to refine a Potion.

With the help of the tools, the whole process flowed like clouds and water, smooth and unhurried, as if watching a painting completed in a single breath.

Kane just watched from the side without interrupting.

Until the refined potion liquid, under Meizike’s control, poured into a crystal-clear Potion Tube and was corked.

Holding the Potion, a huge amount of Magic Power surged from Meizike’s hands; these Magic Power threads flowed out around him and twined, then entered the Potion one strand after another.

Even the body of the Potion Bottle itself began undergoing other changes along with it.

The long, tube-shaped Potion Bottle changed.

Its shape went from a long tube to a cone like Crystal.

Strange Magic Patterns inexplicably surfaced on its surface, and the liquid inside turned clear as water, yet crystal-bright.

A wisp of red aura slowly rotated in the middle of the liquid.

Looking at this Potion in his hand, a clear smile appeared on Meizike’s face, then he directly tossed the Potion toward Kane.

Kane hurriedly caught the Potion.

Seeing the look Meizike threw over.

He lowered his head to look at the Potion in his hand and directly appraised it.

[Brilliance Power] (Surging)

[Consumable]

[Color: Tricolor]

[Effect: After drinking, all Attributes will be enhanced, and every attack will produce a strange power that adjusts itself according to the Attributes in the surroundings at that time.

While the Potion remains surging, its effects will be greatly boosted, and any side effects will be greatly reduced.]

[Description: Meizike’s Grandmaster work. He has firmly set foot on a certain path. The strange Surging Power will make the Potion exhibit effects it absolutely should not have.]

If you had to say what was most different about this Potion, it would be the two characters "(Surging)" carried after its name in the appraisal.

And both the effect and the description stated that this Surging Power was an addition made by Meizike.

The effect was obvious—it let the Potion display even more outrageous power.

If Twin Power were made to surge, then its side effects would definitely be greatly reduced, while its effect would be violently improved.

Directly pushing an already very powerful Potion to an exaggerated level.

In other words, with this effect one could refine those kinds of Potions that have extremely strong positive effects but also come with intense negative effects.

Then use Surging to enhance the positives and weaken the negatives.

Seeing this, Kane raised his head, stared at Meizike, and asked, "This is the Skill you condensed?"

Meizike nodded.

"Impressive," Kane couldn’t help saying.

He then asked, "Just you alone? Where are Kreya and Longbei and the others?"

"In the training grounds."

Kane nodded. "Then I’ll go in and take a look too. You coming?"

Meizike also nodded, and the two of them disappeared from where they were.

After entering the Guild, Kane noticed.

There were rather few members in the Guild Hall today; normally at this time it would already be lively inside.

But he didn’t think too much of it—if there were really any problem, Adoma would have notified him long ago.

He went straight into the training grounds.

As soon as he entered, Kane felt a wild battle aura and looked toward that direction.

It was a huge circular field.

Kane went straight to the edge of the field.

Sister Lulu was sitting there, watching the battle in the middle of the field.

At the very center of the field, pure black flames were burning on the ground.

And Longbei’s body, around five to six meters tall, had already turned into a form like lightning all over.

His entire body had become composed of plasma, and even the Shield and Iron Hammer in his hands had likewise turned into plasma.

They weren’t weapons and Shield condensed from plasma, but rather the weapons and Shield themselves had turned into plasma forms along with him.

Lightning overflowed under his feet, constantly clashing against the black flames around him.

And Kreya had no intention of playing guerrilla with Longbei either, engaging in head-on combat without pause.

The two three-meter-long black and white twin blades were constantly swinging in Kreya’s hands.

One Sword Blade was pure black, like burning flames.

One Sword Blade was pure white, in a burning flame-like state.

The two giant blades alternated in their swings, at an extremely fast speed.

Longbei’s way of responding looked really strange too.

He would always use the electric hammer in his hand to block the pure black blade, and likewise, he would use the Shield in his other hand to block the pure white blade.

No matter how Kreya alternated her attacks, no matter how she changed up her offense,

Longbei would always block in this exact way.

At this time Sister Lulu was commentating for the two of them on the side, in case they couldn’t understand what was going on.

"Longbei’s already been taken out by Sister Lulu several times. If the black blade hits the Shield, it will directly ignore the defense and cut Longbei to death.

If you use a weapon to block the white blade, the weapon will be shattered instantly, and then you’ll be cut to death."

Sister Lulu’s words were that straightforward, simple and easy to understand.

Kane understood immediately.

In other words, the black blade should have a defense-ignoring effect.

Whether it’s the Shield or the Armor on his body, none of it can stop the black blade from going straight for the body.

And the white blade should have some kind of powerful destructive effect; Longbei’s hammer simply can’t block it and will be chopped to pieces.

It should be that the black and white flames had developed different strange effects.

At this moment, white flames suddenly appeared and wrapped around Longbei.

Seizing the chance, the black and white twin blades merged as one and lunged forward in an instant.

This situation left Longbei at a loss for how to defend, and he instinctively raised his Shield in front of him.

And then he was run through by the twin blades.

The body condensed from lightning was directly torn apart and turned into a sky full of electric light.

"Ah, Longbei died again."

Sister Lulu spoke as if she’d seen it too many times to feel anything about it.

The black flames on the ground vanished as well.

Longbei reappeared in the center of the arena.

Having just resurrected, he couldn’t help clutching his head; he couldn’t figure out what had happened with that last strike.

By now Kreya had already returned to her normal state and walked over at a leisurely pace.

Longbei ran over as well.

He couldn’t help asking, "What was up with that last strike? What happens when your Black and White Blade merges together? Why could both blades pass straight through my Shield?"

A series of questions came spilling out of Longbei’s mouth.

He really was curious.

If you said that when the two blades combined, only the black part ignored his Shield and hit him, he could still understand that.

But the white blade, which had always been blocked by the Shield, also came through, and that he just couldn’t get.

"Their Attributes stacked."

Kreya said with a smile.

Hearing this, Longbei couldn’t help saying in frustration, "Then you really are a Defender killer now."

Kreya gladly accepted that title.

Looking at the approaching Kreya, Kane said with a smile, "Your Skills look really powerful."

"Of course." Kreya stared at Kane and smiled as she spoke.

"Want to let me take a swing at you?"

"Haha, I’ll pass, I’ll pass."

Kreya had talked with Kane before about her ideas for her Skills.

So after seeing Kreya’s Skills in actual combat, Kane more or less understood what her Skills should be like.

It should be that she completely infused her Rule Chain into the black and white flames.

Because of the last Golden Skills Kane had given her earlier,

her black and white flames could separate and produce different effects.

That led to the Rule Chain being infused and the black and white flames gaining different effects; they could separate or merge, letting the effects fully blend together.

This gave Kreya’s offense an enormous element of deception.

The differing Attributes of the black flames and white flames would produce a powerful first-time kill effect.

And when there are many enemies and enough lives are spent to figure out the different effects of black and white and come up with counters,

that’s when the black and white flames merge again and give the enemies a huge surprise.

And since the flames have a defense-ignoring effect, they can potentially inflict massive damage on Defenders who don’t understand them.

After that, Kane also asked about Longbei’s Skills.

The Skills Longbei condensed seemed to be some kind of Titan lightning.

Very simple and direct.

It can turn his whole body completely into lightning, and the lightning form can still use his original Skills.

This greatly makes up for his weakness of moving slowly.

And the lightning can spread to his Shield and weapon, turning them into lightning as well for him to control.

Moreover, the lightning he turns into isn’t elemental lightning, but a strange kind of flesh-and-blood lightning that also has defensive properties.

It resists Magic, resists physical damage, resists Soul Damage, and the switching between the lightning’s tangible and intangible states can also evade different kinds of damage.

It’s just that Kreya’s black and white flames have peculiar damage effects.

If it were Sister Lulu, Meizike, or Kane attacking Longbei, then Longbei would be happy to stand there and let them hit him.

Of course, Kane can also use borrowed Divine Power to simulate Kreya’s flames, fusing Universal Energy to produce a somewhat similar Rule and use it to attack Longbei.

Afterwards, Kane shared with everyone the information he had obtained in the council.

"For my next Mist exploration, I’m planning to directly join one of the outer patrol teams. What do you all think?"