Chapter 618: Divine Might Passive, Boost to All Stats

“There are so many people in the safe zone, they won’t miss me!”

“If I hide and don’t take part, I lose less!”

“Either way, if the city falls everybody gets the same penalty, and if we hold it everybody gets the same reward!”

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To keep everyone from thinking this way, and to get players involved, the system had a thorough and humane rule built into every citywide defense event against monsters invading a safe zone.

if the safe zone is destroyed and the defense fails, the final penalty a player receives is reduced according to their contribution to the defense.

For example, if a player dies five times in a Level 2 Main City’s defense and loses 5 levels in a row, then after the defense fails they only suffer a -5 level penalty;

and if the safe zone is held and the defense succeeds, extra rewards and compensation are handed out according to each player’s contribution too!

So the players who rushed in even knowing they couldn’t win were not hotheads.

They charged precisely because they knew about this humane rule of the system.

On top of that,

for some guilds, clubs and studios, this was also a real chance to prove their strength and build up their glory as free advertising.

Outside the city,

behind the Ghost Royal Guard,

Super God Athena watched the players of Purgatory City charge out of the city without a thought for their lives to hold off the Ghost Royal Guard’s invasion.

A trace of contempt rose in her blue eyes.

“What a bunch of idiots!”

“A bunch of rookies who are barely past Level 70, and you think you can hold off the Ghost Royal Guard?”

To the side, Lonely Island had just received word that Ji Ningshuang had betrayed him, and he was bitterly disappointed.

“Liuli finished the quest after all.”

“At this rate, it won’t be long before Mo Shouchenggu: Rulebound clears the secret realm and comes out of the Land of Abandoned Ghosts.”

Super God Athena shrugged it off. “Then we’ll make it quick! We’ll break Purgatory City before Mo Shouchenggu: Rulebound gets out!”

Holding the SS-Rank Angel Race Divine Artifact [Heavenly Gu], Lonely Island ordered Ghost King Soul-Commanding Envoy · Sade, floating above the black mist, “Full assault on the city.”

“As you command.”

Ghost King Soul-Commanding Envoy · Sade, who had been implanted with a Death Gu and had to obey every command of the one who planted it without condition, no matter when or where, took the order.

He turned into a mass of black cloud and swept over the great army.

In the form of the Ghost King, he personally led the army of ten thousand Ghost Swordsmen

straight for Purgatory City…

The Ghost Race Gold-tier secret realm, the Land of Abandoned Ghosts.

Lin Mo, who had learned that the Ghost King was leading the Ghost Royal Guard in a siege of Purgatory City, sped up his monster-killing even more.

Because he knew well:

“Once Purgatory City is breached, under Divine Oracle’s rules every player in the city gets a 10-level penalty and a 30% cut to all stats, me included.” The source of this chapter is novelping.com.

“If I take that penalty, my level drops from 80 back down to 70!”

Losing levels wasn’t the problem.

The problem was that once he fell below Level 80, Lin Mo couldn’t equip the Level 80 Peerless · War God Set!

Without that gear, Lin Mo couldn’t keep clearing the Land of Abandoned Ghosts secret realm, and things would go right back to how they were when he was trapped.

So,

no matter what,

Lin Mo had to finish the quest and break the Land of Abandoned Ghosts secret realm before Purgatory City fell!

Otherwise, everything would be for nothing!

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

With one SSS-Rank skill after another, Lin Mo harvested Bone-Devouring Beasts of Levels 85 to 87 one after another with ease.

In just a dozen or so minutes,

the progress of the secret realm quest [Annihilation] had shot up to 10% at an absurd rate.

Without a doubt,

the Peerless · War God Set really was powerful!

Armor break where he needed armor break!

Damage where he needed damage!

With the necklace Peerless · War God Heart’s affix cutting skill cooldowns by 50%, one of Lin Mo’s SSS-Rank skills had a cooldown of only three or four seconds!

For a Soul Archer who lived mainly on normal attacks, Lin Mo’s skill recovery rate had nearly reached that of an Elemental Mage built around skills!

But that brought a huge problem too.

Lin Mo couldn’t keep up with the cost.

With the set skill Divine Might active, it automatically burned 980 MP every second!

True, the affix on Peerless · War God Heart cut skill costs by 50%, and the Golden title Resourceful cut skill costs by another 30%.

Between the two, Divine Might’s cost per second had dropped sharply to 196 MP.

But with no way to bring in supplies from outside, Lin Mo’s mana potions had run out long ago.

Without mana potions to keep him going, even with an amazing max MP of 161,200, a moment would come when he ran dry.

As he hunted Ghost Beasts,

Lin Mo thought, “The 30% boost to all stats from Divine Might is a must.”

“And the Divine Might passive, the 0.01% to all stats per kill, only stacks while Divine Might is active.” Enjoying the story? Read on at novelping dot com.

“So Divine Might has to stay on the whole time. Turn it off, and I can’t stack the passive to ten thousand layers, the full 100% boost to all stats, while I clear the secret realm. Then I can’t meet the Ghost King and the Ghost Royal Guard at my full strength!”

After weighing it,

Lin Mo decided to stop using every skill!

Even with 80% off skill costs, SSS-Rank skills still cost a lot.

Especially with Lin Mo firing skills constantly, his mana bar was plummeting!

“Apart from Mages, who recover faster, every class in Divine Oracle regains mana at 0.1% per second. With my max MP of 161,200 under Divine Might, that’s 161 MP recovered per second!”

“That’s almost enough to cover Divine Might’s cost of 196 per second!”

“As long as I don’t use any other skills, natural recovery should basically keep Divine Might on the whole time!”

Giving up SSS-Rank skills would cut Lin Mo’s killing power by a lot.

But luckily, Lin Mo had the Black Dragon Race’s SS-Rank Divine Artifact, the Black Dragon Emperor Ring!

With the Black Dragon Emperor Ring’s 250% normal attack speed bonus,

whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Lin Mo locked onto a Level 87 Bone-Devouring Beast and arrows rained down.

-955236 (Critical)!

-956798 (Critical)!

-967942 (Critical)!

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[Ding~ You killed a Level 87 Bone-Devouring Beast. EXP +4.2 million. Black Dragon Emperor Ring normal attack damage +0.001%. Divine Might passive all stats +0.01%!]

Seeing his own damage, Lin Mo couldn’t help saying, “Whoa! I never thought normal attacks would hit this hard!”

Lin Mo had almost forgotten:

the Black Dragon Emperor Ring gave a 260% normal attack damage bonus;

and the Peerless · War God Crossbow’s affix added another 100% Physical Damage;

so a single normal attack of his could easily hit with a 460% damage coefficient.

It took several normal attacks to kill one Bone-Devouring Beast.

It wasn’t as smooth as one SSS-Rank skill killing one Bone-Devouring Beast per arrow.

But the two ways of killing were almost the same speed!

Because the Black Dragon Emperor Ring’s attack speed only worked on normal attacks.

When Lin Mo cast skills, he didn’t get the Black Dragon Emperor Ring’s 250% attack speed bonus!

Most important of all: normal attacks cost no mana at all!

So from then on,

Lin Mo switched from skills to normal attacks and began a new round of ultimate slaughter!