Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 715 Preparation and New Ideas [6.3k words]

"285:21:34"

Dark Shine Continent, Eastern Wilderness.

"Mr. Lion Fang, good morning." "Haha, it's Mr. Antoine? How was your sleep last night?"

A not-too-blinding light fell from the gap in the dome of the abandoned fortress. Inside the abandoned fortress, a lion-haired man with bandages wrapped around his body was carrying a large metal box in one hand. He looked at the oncoming old teacher and greeted him enthusiastically.

"Well, thanks to you all, my children and I slept peacefully last night."

Hearing this, the old teacher smiled and nodded. One could see that beneath that wrinkled face, his eyes looked much more energetic than before.

"Haha, there's no need to ask for help. If it weren't for you, Mr. Antoine, who led us to this abandoned fortress, we would have been a piece of rotten meat in the stomach of the pyroxene beast by now."

"Honestly, now that I think about it, it's incredible. Guys like us have managed to survive in the wilderness for so long with almost no casualties."

Upon hearing this, Shiya smiled heartily, and at the same time looked at the dome above his head and the slightly gray sky. There was a hint of reminiscence in his eyes, as if he was remembering what they had experienced during this period of time.

"Indeed, even I myself sometimes feel that this journey is full of absurdity..."

When the old teacher heard this, a hint of emotion also appeared in his old pupils, and his mind could not help but recall the scene of their group finding this abandoned fortress. In the scene, the ragged exiled pyroxene disease patients hugged each other, looking at the food and water in the entire storage warehouse and crying, as if they were believers who had found their own salvation.

"It was only three days ago, but it feels like three centuries ago..."

"Haha, to be honest, I feel the same way. I feel like I've taken more risks in the past half month than I have in three lifetimes!"

Shiya laughed heartily, and then suddenly seemed to remember something. He slapped his head, sighed, looked at the metal box on his shoulder, and said:

"Ouch! Look at my memory. I was so busy chatting that I almost forgot what I came here for!"

Boom——! !

As Shiya spoke, he exerted a little force on the arm that was carrying the large iron box, took a few steps forward, and then placed the iron box, which was as tall as a person, steadily on the open space of the house where the old teacher rested. He pulled the upper door, grinned, pointed at the scene inside the iron box, and said to Antoine:

"Come here! Mr. Antoine! We collected this especially for you!"

"This is……"

Antoine looked at the contents of the iron box. He saw that in the iron box, which was as tall as a person, many old books were quietly placed inside.

"Look, we have been exploring this fortress for the past two days, and we accidentally discovered a well-preserved library at Black Eagle's place. It seems to have been left by some important person."

"Then I looked at the pile of books and stuff inside, and thought that you, Mr. Antoine, might be very interested in these things, so I just asked them to pack them all up and send them to you. By the way, I heard from Black Eagle that there are some books in here that are thousands of years old?"

Books from thousands of years ago?!

"Really?! Let me see!"

Upon hearing this, the old teacher's slightly cloudy eyes suddenly lit up, like an explorer who had seen some treasure. He excitedly rushed to the iron box, quickly looked around, and then carefully took out a book that looked extremely old and even had a material different from ordinary animal skin paper. He wiped off the dust on it with care, and turned one of the pages with an extremely gentle movement like a devout believer.

"it is true…!"

Lines of text full of an ancient feeling fell into the old teacher's eyes. As he looked at the content in front of him, an extremely excited look suddenly appeared in his eyes. The lion-haired man looked at this scene, breathed a sigh of relief, and a relaxed smile appeared on his face.

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Dark Shine Continent, Southern Plains.

Clang——! !

The resounding sound of swords clashing could be heard from the plain that had been repaired and reinforced by rock magic. Under the pitch-black sky, three different figures were seen colliding and fighting each other at high speed.

“Stop, stop, stop… How about we stop here today? If we keep practicing, I’m going to fall apart!?”

Time passed bit by bit. Half an hour later, when the three men retreated from each other in a confrontation again, Randy, who was already exhausted, looked at the two men who were quickly adjusting their breathing, and hurriedly seized the opportunity to speak.

Upon hearing this, Xin Lailai and Bai Mo looked at each other, then looked at each other, nodded slightly, and took a half step back at the same time, putting the weapons in their hands back into the storage space. Seeing this, Randy finally breathed a sigh of relief, and didn't bother to care about his image anymore. He just sat down on the ground and lay back, as if he was using the ground as his bed.

"Huh...! It's finally perfect! BYD, don't you two get tired? You practice for half a day at a time?!"

Randy was lying on the ground, looking at the dark sky in front of him, cursing and greeting. The white magic next to him seemed to completely ignore him and just sat cross-legged on the spot to meditate. On the other side, Xin Lailai took out a carpet and sat down, touching his chin, and lowered his head to think about what he had gained from today's training.

Almost three days had passed since they returned from the slumbering place.

During these three days, he had been conducting various practical trainings with Randy and the White Demon. Sometimes the three of them were fighting against each other, sometimes he and Randy teamed up to deal with the White Demon, and sometimes he asked the White Demon and Randy to gather a group of overlord creatures to train with the three of them.

Through these trainings, the three of them gradually figured out each other's abilities and moves. Although they still couldn't form a perfect coordination, at least they could work together without interfering with each other.

At the same time, Xin Lailai had also roughly figured out the strengths and weaknesses of the three of them when they formed a team. For example, as a master of the standard three skills of swordsmanship + kicking + blood, the White Mage was undoubtedly best at melee suppression and super destructive power of slashing, but in long-distance movement, range attacks and various auxiliary abilities, he was obviously no match for him and Randy.

As for Randy, as a roaming hunter who is a triple master of firearms + fighting + space, his system can be said to cover a very wide range. He is proficient in close combat, good at long-range attacks, and even has a good research on various techniques. He also has good auxiliary and home combat capabilities. From an overall evaluation, he has developed pulling and harassment to the extreme, but his frontal combat capability is relatively weak.

By the way, Randy's Gun Master is very special. Unlike the extreme route taken by conventional Gun Masters, the opponent's Gun Master can be said to be extremely comprehensive in terms of comprehensiveness. Not only does it have the basic characteristics of enhanced gun attack power, but it also has trap placement, bullet shaping, energy manipulation, hits and other characteristics. It can be called a casual player among Gun Masters.

As for why it developed like this, it is closely related to the other party's inheritance. Simply put, for the same firearm attack power bonus, other mechanical people may need a wide-range bonus that can enhance pistols, snipers, cannons... and other firearms, while the roaming hunter only needs the bonus effect of the pair of small double guns in his hands.

The same goes for traps, bullet plasticity, energy manipulation, etc. The Wandering Hunter does not need a trap master, ammunition master, etc., which cover a wide range of areas in a single field. Instead, he needs a panacea that can just cover the part he is good at.

It can be said that as long as the above conditions are met, the Wandering Hunter can even achieve the level of being a master of firearms but not being able to master the structure and manufacturing methods of firearms, because this kind of knowledge is actually of no use to the Wandering Hunter who is tied to a pair of double guns all his life.

As for the fighting and space masters, the former's opponent follows a different judo route from both him and the White Mage, focusing on force unloading and agility, and his main focus is to ensure his own survivability in close combat, not to mention the latter, which is the core ability of the roaming hunter. It can not only ensure that he can carry out various spatial movements without restrictions in battle, but also cooperate with the firearms master to set up various space traps, and even form a matching roaming fighting technique with the fighting master, as well as a roaming gun fighting technique that combines the characteristics of the three master techniques.

I can only say that if you have to say what is wrong with the opponent's route, it is probably that the style of play is too despicable. The main attack is to slide without holding back in close combat and to kite you continuously in the long-range. When there is a chance, they will backstab you twice from different angles, and there are countless various ultra-long-distance sneak attacks.

For example, the causal killing bullet developed by the opponent based on the hit characteristics and bullet plasticity derived from the ultimate ability of the Firearms Master LV.20 + the space shuttle characteristics provided by the ultimate ability of the Space Master LV.20 + the causal killing ability inherited from the Wandering Hunter is a rogue sneak attack move that can be easily tricked by the opponent if you are not careful.

On the whole, if the White Mage's position in the BOSS battle is melee + strong attack, then Randy's position is undoubtedly long-range + harassment. As for Sinlailai himself, in Randy's words, he is a super jack of all trades who has to cling to others and beg for a team even in the outer-level echelon. From melee strong attack, damage resistance and aggro to long-range harassment, treatment and buffing, there is basically nothing he can't do, especially the space replacement with secondary invincibility effect, which can be regarded as a team-level magical skill.

Including their training in the past few days, they said it was to learn from each other, but in fact it was more about letting White Mage and Randy keep up with his auxiliary rhythm. Yes, it was to let White Mage and Randy, who were the main melee and ranged forces respectively, adapt to his rhythm.

After all, he and Ling Yuzi are the only ones among the three who have large-scale and high-precision perception capabilities... that is, they have opened the God's perspective. Coupled with their strong team support capabilities, they are like the brains of the team when it comes to boss battles. And when it comes to team battles, it is always the brain that commands the cerebellum and the cerebellum does better, rather than the cerebellum dominating the brain and the brain giving up thinking.

"Brother Randy, last time you talked about using the Wandering Hunter's spatial intuition and using spatial miasma to achieve range perception. Can I ask a few more details about that?"

On the plain, Xin Lailai remained motionless in a contemplative posture for a long time, then suddenly raised his head and asked Randy.

In fact, although the success of the training in the past few days not only made White Magic and Randy realize their outrageous team support capabilities, they also realized several extremely obvious shortcomings of their own in the process of fighting with White Magic and Randy.

Not to mention its intuition and energy intensity, the flaws of this thing had already been clearly exposed during the battle with the White Mage. The focus lies in Xin Lailai's newly discovered problems and new ideas.

breath.

Unlike Bai Mo and Randy, his royal might is not actually closely tied to his own master ability like their blood and space miasma.

At first glance this may seem like nothing wrong, but if you think about it carefully, this is actually an extremely fatal flaw.

Even though he seemed to be on par with White Demon and Randy in the previous breath duel, in fact, it was entirely because the two's blood and space miasma did not play their true role. Taking White Demon as an example, the real use of the opponent's blood is actually to cooperate with the Blood Master to condense it. Simply put, it is to compress a huge amount of blood in the body and weapon in an extreme way, so as to greatly increase the strength of one's own slashing. As for the so-called breath duel, it is just the most basic effect of the opponent's blood... or even a marginal effect.

But even so, their Wang Wei could only suppress the opponent's blood and energy with a slight advantage in the previous breath battle. It was equivalent to that they had used up all their strength, but in the end they could only tie with the opponent's half-strength. This was the disadvantage brought about by the breath ability not being deeply bound with the master's ability.

If the opponent's blood is the core ability that can produce various wonderful reactions with its own ability system, then their Wang Wei is currently just an auxiliary ability that is independent of their system.

Although at present, due to the low rank of everyone and the fact that their Grandmaster abilities have just started, there is no noticeable difference in the aura contest between them, but if this continues for a long time, their aura abilities will inevitably become an extremely obvious shortcoming in their system, which is definitely not what Xin Lailai wants to see.

As for how to solve this problem, there is actually a simplest way, which is to learn another breath-type master passive skill, but Xin Lailai only considered this method for less than three seconds before denying it.

It's not just about money...Okay, maybe money is also a very important influencing factor, but more importantly, they have already developed five grandmaster-level passive abilities, and their origin's carrying capacity has actually reached its limit. If they are forced to develop a sixth grandmaster-level passive ability, it is likely to lead to irreversible serious consequences.

In fact, normally speaking, unless one has some extremely special talents, the maximum number of Grandmaster abilities that a normal individual can withstand that reaches the upper limit of the current rank is three. The situation like him and Ling Yuzi who can upgrade five Grandmaster-level passive abilities to LV.20 at the same time at the third level is entirely due to the fact that their origins are synthesized from two people.

Otherwise, unless the fusion is done by weakening the effects of individual Grandmaster passives like the Battle Grandmaster, it is impossible for a normal individual to bear five Grandmaster-level passives that have been developed to the limit.

As for Yan Yi's situation of having eighteen master-level passive skills? This is certainly not a coincidence, or rather, this is the truly terrifying part of the talent of late bloomer.

If you think carefully about the so-called "negative effect" of late bloomer, you will know that you need to consume 3 or even 5 times the attribute points to get the same improvement as others. This effect seems to be a "pitfall" on the surface, but if you think about it the other way around, you will understand that when attribute points can neither be created out of thin air nor disappear, how solid will the foundation and origin of a body that is strengthened by consuming 3 or even 5 times the number of attribute points of an ordinary person be?
This is the truth behind the talent of late bloomer, and it is also the reason why Yan Yi is the only one in the entire paradise and even the entire star realm who has achieved the feat of integrating 18 master-level passive abilities without weakening any effects.

Not only did the opponent accumulate a huge amount of resources by relying on perfect planning and slowing down the branding upgrade speed by 90%, but more importantly, apart from the opponent who had the talent of late bloomer, no one else could carry so many master passive abilities at the same time.

Of course, these have nothing to do with Xin Lailai. In other words, being able to carry five master passive skills is already an extremely outrageous thing in the eyes of many people. As for developing another aura master? Just think about it in your dreams.

In short, relying on the passive ability of the sixth master to make up for the shortcomings in aura is definitely not feasible. In this case, there is only one route left:

——That is to integrate their royal might into the Grandmaster-level passive they have already used!

That's right, just like what they did with the spiritual field at that time, as long as Wang Wei became one of the core abilities of their soul master and transformed it into a breath-type skill with soul energy intensity as the core, the problem of breath-type abilities would naturally be solved. Even when Xin Lailai thought of this idea, he had already vaguely thought about the specific operation direction in his mind.

Energy activity.

According to the system planning direction provided by 83203, after their Soul Master was formally formed, he should have gone directly in the direction of using soul energy to suppress energy activity. However, due to problems in the psychic field, their Soul Master had to develop the characteristics of perception first and temporarily deviated from the direction of suppressing energy activity.

But this does not mean that they have to give up this route. On the contrary, after communicating with Randy and the White Mage, Xin Lailai gained a lot of new inspiration about his Soul Master LV.30 ability.

According to his original idea, after their Soul Master developed to LV.30, he should normally be able to point out an ability to use soul energy to suppress the activity of other extraordinary energies. However, he had not previously conceived the specific appearance of this ability, he only thought about its direction.

But now, Xin Lailai felt that he had vaguely found an extremely specific idea, which was to allow the soul pressure transformed from soul energy to have the effect of suppressing energy activity from the aspect of "suppression", and even further develop various unique functions.

Not only that, the soul pressure route also made Xin Lailai suddenly realize another direction that they had previously overlooked when developing their intuition abilities:
——That is to start from the perspective of the Soul Master himself and find a way to reverse the Star Domain, which is a domain perception ability, into intuition.

Previously, they all thought from the perspective of the perception ability itself, thinking about how to make a field-type perception ability obtain an intuitive form, but they ignored the fact that their Star Domain itself was just an ability that came with the Soul Master.

Simply put, assuming they can find a way to reverse the entire Soul Master effect just like they did with their own charm attribute barrier bonus, then theoretically, the Starry Field, which is an additional ability of the Soul Master, will also be reversed.

Of course, this kind of thing is definitely unlikely. To reverse the entire Grandmaster's passive effect, such a heaven-defying thing is already a product of the level of violating notarization rules. Even if it really exists, they are not qualified to touch it at this level.

However, if you just want to reverse a single additional ability... for example, first let their Wang Wei become one of the core abilities of their Soul Master, and then use "Disguise the Evil Face" to reverse the charm attribute, let Wang Wei be reversed into a negative charm characteristic, and then get the process of how the additional ability of a Soul Master is reversed, it is completely possible to achieve.

As long as there is a ready-made reversal process of the Soul Master's additional ability, they can completely rely on studying this process to reversely find a way to reverse the Star Luo Realm, which is also an additional ability of the Soul Master, and then develop an intuitive form of the Star Luo Realm, solving their current perception problems in one fell swoop.

This is why Xin Lailai asked Randy for details about the space miasma and the other party's space intuition. Not only Randy, he actually also asked Bai Mo in these three days... or asked the two of them to cooperate with him to conduct a lot of tests on breath and intuition, and thus gained a lot of data and inspiration.

Even during this process, Xin Lailai had a vague intuition that if they could really succeed in their current attempt, their soul master abilities would likely undergo some kind of huge transformation beyond imagination.

However, this kind of thing certainly cannot be decided casually, so everything will have to wait until they go back and ask 83203.

"Tsk, why do I feel like our profession and route are just like a patch? We always have to patch up wherever we go?"

Xin Lailai looked at the large amount of data and inspiration recorded by himself on the branding interface, and couldn't help but complain in his mind.

Intuition, breath, professional energy, killing ability...

Although it is clear that this is an inevitable gap that will appear after reaching the third level, the stage where various top professions begin to exert their strength, but after really listing all the defects that exist in their current system, the huge psychological gap is still difficult to avoid.

"Heh... well, just treat it as a small test for myself."

After briefly organizing his thoughts, Xin Lailai let out a long sigh and took out a fifth-level spell theory book. The distracting thoughts in his mind quickly disappeared and his eyes became focused and concentrated again.

Be it intuition or aura, these are ultimately just thresholds on the road to becoming the strongest.

If you cannot overcome even this small setback firmly and feel confused, then the so-called strongest is nothing but a joke.

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(End of this chapter)