From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 368 Upgrading skills and releasing S-level skills

After leaving the Longwei base, the four members of the team went home.

They said they were going home, but only Xie Shien left the team to visit his wife.

The remaining three decided to go together, first going back to see their parents to report their safety, then having dinner together, and after dinner they gathered in the training room at Qionghua Tianlu Lake to count the spoils.

The spoils are mainly crystal cores, as well as some props from the abyss world.

When in the Siren’s territory, after Lu Heng’s reminder, Lin Zeyu collected a large number of fire-attribute crystal cores.

Although the price of fire attribute crystal cores among the Siren Clan is relatively low, the quantity is relatively large, and the added price is not low.

He didn't have that much Siren currency to exchange, so he couldn't buy it originally.

However, after experiencing the incident with the Fire Demon Gross, the team of human recruiters led by Lu Heng has become the VIPs and allies of the Sirens.

Lin Zeyu went to see the high priestess Sona, and after a brief conversation, the Sirens agreed to give him credit.

Therefore, he was the one who harvested the largest number of crystal cores from the Siren World, but they were not obtained through battles, but through trade.

Lin Zeyu was very satisfied with this trip to the Siren World. He smiled proudly and said, "Guess what the total value of the fire attribute crystal cores I brought back from the Siren Clan is on Blue Star?"

Judging from his smug expression, the price must be quite high.

Su Muyu raised a finger and responded casually: "One?"

Lin Zeyu shook his finger and said, "Who do you look down on? Am I the kind of person who makes a billion-dollar business?"

Lu Heng could roughly estimate how many there were, and replied, "It should be more than ten."

Lin Zeyu nodded immediately: "I estimated that there are at least thirteen. That is to say, there are not many fire-attribute crystal cores produced in the deep sea, otherwise we can earn more."

The Tidal Sea is an ocean environment after all, and the chance of producing fire-attribute crystal cores is indeed relatively small.

The batch of fire-attribute crystal cores he collected were accumulated by the Sirens over several years.

In addition to the crystal cores, destroying the Fire Demon Gross may produce a batch of forging materials and quenching materials.

Lin Zeyu then asked: "What did you choose as the world mission reward? I plan to go to the Siren World for trade frequently in the future, so I chose the Space Beacon."

Lu Heng replied casually: "My other two options are not cost-effective. Considering that I will help Master Guru meet his people in the future, I also chose the space beacon."

The two looked at Su Muyu, curious about what her world quest reward was.

Su Muyu covered her mouth and smiled: "I might be a little bit lucky, it's another skill slot reward."

"What? It's not that outrageous. Then you have eight skills?" Lin Zeyu's eyes widened suddenly.

Su Muyu counted the number of skill slots on the data panel one by one with his fingers, nodded and replied: "Yes, eight. Now there is one skill slot empty."

Lu Heng was also a little surprised, because her luck was really too good. She had five initial skill slots, and the subsequent world quest added three more, which was simply outrageous.

At this stage, among all the psychics on the entire Blue Star, there should be no one who has more skill slots than her.

Lu Heng actually has quite a few skill slots, six in total.

However, one of them was increased by using the [Skill Slot Expansion Crystal Core].

That was more than a year ago, when it was still the early days of the Abyss, and the major forces and psychic organizations did not know how precious the [Skill Slot Expansion Crystal Core] was.

In fact, just by looking at the data introduction of this super crystal core, most people know that this super crystal core is very valuable, but they don’t know how scarce it is.

It is now the beginning of July in the second year since the Abyss came, and there are only a few rumors about the [Skill Slot Expansion Crystal Core] circulating in the psychic circle.

The reason why Lu Heng was able to obtain this super crystal core from the Gong family in the beginning without any major forces intervening was because the superpower organization at that time had not yet realized the scarcity of this crystal core.

The three of them took out the crystal cores they had obtained, checked their properties, and looked for usable crystal cores.

Prepare to find a suitable crystal core for Su Muyu so that she can equip her eighth skill slot with a skill.

However, the level of each skill in Su Muyu's current skill set is not low, so it is not easy to obtain a powerful skill crystal core.

Most of the skill crystal cores obtained from the Abyss Battlefield are of D and C grade. There are very few B grade ones, let alone A grade ones.

At this stage, A-level skill crystal cores are also very scarce.

With Su Muyu's current skill set, skills below level C would basically not be considered.

Although Lu Heng can upgrade her skills later, D-level and C-level skills need to be upgraded two or three times to reach a powerful level. Not only does it consume divine energy, but it also takes a long time to train skill proficiency.

In other words, if she chooses a skill below level C now, it will take about half a year for this skill to show its limited combat power.

Instead of doing this, it is better to directly look for A-level skills, or B-level skills with very suitable skill effects.

A-level skills with strong skill effects are indeed difficult to find, but B-level ones are much easier.

After the three of them checked the crystal cores they brought back from the Siren World, they found nothing particularly suitable.

Lu Heng thought about it and said, "Leave this skill slot empty for now. During this time, use our channels to collect a crystal core of the perception system, the spirit system, or the summoning system. The higher the level, the better. If it is a B-level crystal core with a particularly good effect, that's fine too."

Lin Zeyu rubbed his hands and agreed: "No problem, I will definitely get a top-level crystal core for our young lady. Next, is it time to upgrade the skills? I have accumulated a lot of divine energy."

When this guy is preparing for the abyss battlefield, all the materials that require the consumption of divine energy have to be purchased with money or exchanged for resources.

He kept all of his divine energy, waiting to upgrade his skills.

Since the skill levels of several team members are very high, the amount of divine energy consumed in order to upgrade their skills is increasing.

Especially for A-level skills, if you want to upgrade to S-level, you need to consume 5000 points of divine energy.

In an abyss battlefield with a danger level of 7, even if all the main quests and challenge quests are completed, you can only gain 3600 divine energy points.

It is conceivable how high the cost of upgrading A-level skills is.

"What skills do you want to upgrade?" Lu Heng asked.

"I want to upgrade [Energy Hook] first. This skill is C-level. It is the skill I have at the beginning and has never been upgraded." Lin Zeyu wanted to upgrade this skill first.

[Energy Hook] This skill is very practical. It shoots out an energy hook, hooks onto buildings and trees, and pulls the skill user over.

With this skill, the psychic has the ability to climb mountains and cross rivers and reach many strange locations.

This skill is indeed practical, but compared with Lu Heng and Su Muyu's skills, this skill is not good enough.

After all, it’s just a C-level skill, but the fact that Lin Zeyu has been able to use it until now and it hasn’t been eliminated is already quite powerful.

Lin Zeyu paused for a moment, then continued, "Actually, I have thought about replacing this skill. This skill has no attack power, and you all can fly, but I am still using the grappling hook. I haven't seen the reward option to delete a skill before, otherwise I might have deleted it."

Lu Heng thought for a moment and asked, "Do you want to upgrade this skill now, or delete it later?"

Lin Zeyu scratched his head and replied, "I haven't thought about it yet, so I want to ask for your opinion. Should I delete this skill? Or upgrade it? But I feel that even if the energy hook is upgraded, it doesn't seem to have any particularly strong effect." Lu Heng shook his head and smiled, "That's not necessarily true."

Lin Zeyu's eyes lit up and he asked, "What do you mean? Is this skill going to be very powerful after it's upgraded?"

“You can give it a try. Anyway, it only takes 600 divine energy to upgrade a C-level skill. You should have saved up quite a bit of divine energy. Even if 600 points are wasted, it won’t hurt too much.” Lu Heng actually knew an upgrade route after this skill was upgraded, and the effect was very strong.

600 points of divine energy is indeed less than one-tenth of the divine energy that Lin Zeyu has accumulated now.

He thought about it for a moment, nodded and agreed: "Okay, then let's upgrade it once and see. If the upgrade effect is not good, we can delete it."

Lu Heng helped him open the skill lock of [Energy Hook] and allowed him to upgrade the skill.

After a few minutes, the skill upgrade was completed.

Lin Zeyu raised his eyebrows and looked at the upgraded skill effect, his expression unclear whether it was surprise or shock.

"What is the name of the upgraded skill?" Lu Heng asked.

"This skill seems to be quite powerful. It has been upgraded to [Void Hook]." Lin Zeyu was still reading the skill introduction, word by word, and had not yet fully understood the effect of this skill.

When Lu Heng heard the name of the upgraded skill, he already knew what the effect would be.

[Void Hook] To put it simply, it can launch an energy hook into the void.

There are usually two ways to use it.

The first is to shoot the energy grappling hook into the void and tie up the creatures hiding in the void.

For example, the Void Stealer encountered in the Elf World. This abyss creature has no attack power, but can hide in the void for a long time. A psychic without void power has no way to deal with this thing.

If you have the skill [Void Hook], you can directly shoot out the hook, lock the Void Thief, and drag it out of the void.

Of course, if the creature hiding in the void is very powerful, it can cut off the void hook. It all depends on who has stronger hard power.

In addition, [Void Hook] has an even more powerful effect.

Before being upgraded, the [Energy Hook] needs to hook onto buildings, trees and other objects in order to fix it and pull the user over.

[Void Hook] Not necessary. Once launched, it can hook into the void, fix the hook, and pull the user to any location, even if there are no buildings at that location.

In other words, Lin Zeyu can release the [Void Hook] with both hands at the same time, and pull himself into outer space with both hands.

Lu Heng commented: "The upgraded skills are pretty good. What's the longest distance of the hook?"

Lin Zeyu looked at the data and replied: "Five times the source energy level, which is... more than two hundred meters."

Lu Heng smiled and said, "Not bad. If you practice well, you can use this skill to fly in disguise."

This skill can indeed allow you to "fly" in disguise. Use both hands to hook into the void and swing all the way like a swing.

After listening to the explanation, Lin Zeyu already had a picture in his mind. He widened his eyes and said, "It can actually be done this way. This skill is quite amazing."

Immediately afterwards, Lin Zeyu upgraded another skill.

Consume 1500 points of divine energy to upgrade the B-level [Plasma Armor Explosion Bomb] to [Plasma Explosion Bomb], which doubles the power and will produce a range explosion.

When a sniper uses this skill, he can originally only kill one person with one shot, but with the effect of this skill, he can blow up the target and splash surrounding targets at the same time.

Subsequently.

Lu Heng began to think about the skills he wanted to upgrade.

Currently, several A-level skills have full proficiency, but there has been no divine energy upgrade before.

After all, an A-level skill needs to be upgraded to S-level, which requires 5000 points of divine energy.

The proficiency of [Wind God Step], [Bullet Time] and [Damage Replay] are all full, so you need to consider which one to upgrade.

This time when I came back from the Siren World, the divine energy I gained, plus the original one, totaled 7200 points of divine energy.

It's only enough to upgrade one A-level skill, so you need to make a choice.

All three skills are very powerful. [Wind God Step] can increase speed, [Bullet Time] can perform miraculous actions during battle, and [Damage Backtracking] is a life-saving trump card.

If I didn't have the skill [Damage Backtracking], one of my legs would have been crushed by the Skeleton Lord when I faced him before.

After careful consideration, Lu Heng focused his attention on the skill of [Bullet Time].

This skill is very effective, but when facing a demigod-level being, the effect of this skill is not enough.

When facing the Skeleton Lord, he had already activated [Bullet Time], but one of his legs was still crushed by the Skeleton Lord.

I have mastered this skill to its full proficiency a long time ago, and it is time to upgrade it.

However, Lu Heng was not sure in which direction this skill would improve after the upgrade. He would know only after seeing the effect after the upgrade.

After thinking it over, Lu Heng closed his eyes, opened the skill lock of [Bullet Time], introduced 5000 points of divine energy, and merged it with the original energy of the skill.

The two energies blended together and slowly merged into a ball, spinning rapidly in the skill slot to form an energy vortex.

At the moment of complete fusion, Lu Heng closed the skill lock and successfully upgraded the skill.

After the skill was successfully upgraded, I saw the name of the skill [Time and Space Stasis].

The moment he saw this skill, Lu Heng's eyes lit up.

As expected, none of the S-level skills are weak.

The skill effect of [Bullet Time] is very strong, but its essence is to improve one's own nerve reaction speed, enter a super-sensory state, and gain the ability to dodge bullets.

Strictly speaking, the skill [Bullet Time] only affects yourself and cannot really slow down the opponent.

[Time and Space Stasis] is different. This skill can really slow down things around you.

【Time and space stagnation】

[Skill level: S level]

[Skill consumption: 200 energy points]

[Duration: 10 seconds]

[Skill range: 10 meters in radius with the user as the center]

[Skill Effect: After activating the skill, the user enters a super-sensory state, and the speed of nerve reaction is greatly improved. At the same time, a time-space stagnation force field is released, which greatly reduces the speed of surrounding objects. ]

(End of this chapter)