From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 369 Skill Effect, Su Muyu's S-level Skill

The A-level [Bullet Time] was upgraded to the S-level [Time and Space Freeze], consuming 5000 points of divine energy.

There are still 2200 points of divine energy left, which is not enough to upgrade other A-level skills. I have to accumulate divine energy slowly.

For a danger level 7 call-up with all main quests and challenge quests completed, the reward for divine energy is usually only 3600 points.

Most people with special abilities are not capable of completing all the challenging tasks.

This shows how rare S-level skills are.

This is because Lu Heng has the talent of [Divine Evolution]. If other psychics want to upgrade an S-level skill, they not only need 5000 points of divine energy, but also need to complete the world mission and choose the reward option for upgrading the skill.

There is an essential difference between S-level skills and A-level skills.

Because S-level skills are close to the power of a demigod.

Lu Heng now has two S-level skills, one is [Divine Incarnation], and the other is [Time and Space Stagnation].

It can be seen from the effects of these two skills that there has been a huge gap in divinity between these two skills and general skills.

"What happened? Was the upgrade successful?" Su Muyu leaned in to observe Lu Heng's expression. She felt that it must have been successful because there was light in Lu Heng's eyes.

"I'll show you a magic trick. Watch carefully and see if you can spot the flaw."

As Lu Heng spoke, he took two glasses, picked up a mint from the tray on the coffee table, put the mint into one of the glasses, and finally turned the two glasses upside down on the table.

The preparation is complete.

When Lin Zeyu saw this, he pointed at the glass with the mint candy and asked, "Are you planning to transfer the mint candy in this glass to another glass?"

Lu Heng nodded and replied, "Yes."

"This magic trick is too simple. You can find many videos on how to crack it on the Internet." Lin Zeyu has not learned this magic trick, but similar magic tricks can often be seen on TV. It is not new.

Lu Heng smiled and added: "I didn't use my hands the whole time. I just held my hands in front of my chest without moving."

As he said this, he crossed his arms over his chest.

After listening to this, Lin Zeyu widened his eyes and asked in confusion: "This is unlikely, right? Are you sure it's a magic trick, not magic?"

Su Muyu thought seriously for a while and asked, "Can I use the perception skill to observe?"

Lu Heng nodded and replied: "Okay, what I want is for you to activate your perception skills and see if you can find any clues."

Lin Zeyu immediately became interested: "Wait a moment, wait for me to release the Eye of Void."

As he spoke, he began to rub the Eyes of Void with his hands, stood up, and placed them around. In total, he placed more than a dozen of them, surrounding Lu Heng and leaving no blind spots for observation.

After placing the Eye of the Void, he sat back in his seat and said, "Please start your performance."

Lu Heng smiled and glanced at the two of them, then said, "Then I'll start, watch carefully."

As he spoke, he activated the [Time and Space Freeze] skill.

A layer of space-time stagnation force field expanded with itself as the center, covering an area of ​​ten meters in radius.

In an instant, everything around slowed down, including the wind blowing into the house, which froze in mid-air.

The slight sinking and floating in the sunlight also stagnated.

It is not entirely correct to say that it is stagnant. In fact, it is still floating according to inertia, but the speed is very slow, basically reduced to one percent of the original.

Not only the surrounding environment, but also Su Muyu and Lin Zeyu were frozen in a state, like two statues, maintaining the same posture as before the skill started.

Su Muyu still had her mouth slightly open, her eyes staring at the two cups and mints on the table.

At the same time, Lu Heng entered a super-sensory state, and his nerve reaction speed increased significantly.

The increase in nerve reaction speed is an original effect of [Bullet Time], and the space-time stasis force field is an S-level effect that appears after upgrading to [Space-Time Stasis].

Under the effect of [Time and Space Stagnation], the heartbeats of Su Muyu and the other person slowed down by a hundred times.

Under the effect of the skill, only Lu Heng's speed will not be slowed down, which is equivalent to a hundred times acceleration.

Lu Heng observed the two of them for a few seconds, then quickly moved the mint candy in glass No. 1 into glass No. 2, then withdrew his hand and returned to his original folded-arm position.

The skill was then turned off, and everything around him froze for 5 seconds before returning to its original state.

Su Muyu raised her eyebrows immediately, because she clearly felt that there was a very strong energy fluctuation appearing around her, but when she wanted to try to sense it, the energy fluctuation disappeared instantly.

The entire process of Lu Heng activating the skill lasted for 5 seconds, but due to the effect of the space-time stagnation field, for Su Muyu and Lin Zeyu, the previous 5 seconds were equivalent to 0.05 seconds in their world, which was just a moment.

In other words, in Su Muyu's perception, the energy fluctuations caused by the stagnation of time and space only appeared for 0.05 seconds before disappearing.

Lin Zeyu stared at the mint in glass No. 2 with wide eyes, and leaned close to the glass to stare at it, and said in surprise: "Oh my god! How did you do it? I saw that the mint was teleported to the second cup. Did you master the ability to teleport objects?"

Lu Heng smiled and shook his head: "It's not teleportation."

Lin Zeyu just stared at Lu Heng with a dozen Void Eyes, but he saw nothing. In his eyes, the mint candy was teleported to glass No. 2.

This effect occurs because the frame rate at which the human eye observes things has an upper limit.

Usually 60 frames per second is basically the limit. That is to say, if a person can complete an action in 1/60 second, the observer will not be able to see it.

This situation can often be seen on the wheels of moving cars. When you see a car passing by on the road, sometimes it feels like the wheels are not turning, and sometimes it even feels like they are turning backwards.

This happens because the wheel speed has exceeded the observation frame rate limit of the human eye.

Lu Heng just activated the [Time and Space Freeze] skill for 5 seconds, but he didn't spend all 5 seconds changing the mints.

In fact, it takes less than half a second to replace the mints. Under the effect of [Time and Space Stagnation], the action of replacing the mints is completed in 0.005 seconds.

This is far beyond the observation limit of the human eye, and even Lin Zeyu's Void Eye could not observe it.

Lu Heng looked at Su Muyu and asked, "Did you see the process?"

Su Muyu frowned and said thoughtfully: "I just felt the energy fluctuation for a moment, you must have used a skill.

"Also, the positions of the two cups have slightly changed, which means you should have touched the two cups."

When Lu Heng replaced the mints, he needed to pick up both glasses. In order to achieve the fastest speed, he did not calibrate them precisely when putting them back in place, so there was indeed a slight change in position.

However, only a perceiver of Su Muyu's level could notice this change in position, and Lin Zeyu did not notice it.

"Anything else?" Lu Heng was curious whether she could guess the truth of the magic.

Su Muyu turned around and pointed at the electronic wall clock behind her and said, "The seconds on this clock are now 22 seconds, which has also changed." Lin Zeyu stared at the electronic wall clock with wide eyes, his face full of confusion: "Is there something wrong with this clock? The numbers are moving, 30 seconds, 31, 32... Isn't this normal?"

Su Muyu pointed to the door of the room at the back and said, "The electronic clock in the last room is 5 seconds faster than the one in the living room."

Lin Zeyu was even more confused: "Is there any problem with this? It's normal for the clock time to be a few seconds different."

Su Muyu shook her head and explained: "I have calibrated the electronic clock here myself, and it is synchronized to the second. The electronic clock in the living room is now 5 seconds slower than the electronic clock in the room.

"Based on this information, we can infer that Lu Heng just used a skill to slow down the time on the living room's electronic clock by 5 seconds.

“Taking all these together, we can draw a conclusion.

"This skill should be a skill similar to the time-stopping effect. The skill lasts for 5 seconds, and the skill coverage range should be... no more than 10 meters."

Lu Heng gave a thumbs up and praised: "You guessed it right."

"Time-stop skill? So powerful that it can even stop the electronic clock for 5 seconds?" Lin Zeyu widened his eyes, shocked by the effect of this skill.

Lu Heng smiled and explained: "It's not a time stop, but actually a stagnation of time and space. The speed of things is probably slowed down to one percent of the original speed."

"It's slowed down so much that it's almost like stopping time. What level is this skill?" Lin Zeyu's eyes were full of envy.

"It's marked as S-level, but the effect can be considered S+." Lu Heng replied.

There are no levels such as A+ and S+ on the skill data panel, but these levels are often used when communicating among the psychics.

S+ is actually equivalent to the stronger S-level skills.

Of course, the psychic's judgment on the strength of skills is subjective.

When psychics take out crystal cores to sell, they will definitely exaggerate their quality, often using levels like B+ or A+ to describe them.

After Lu Heng upgraded his skills, it was Su Muyu's turn.

"How much divine energy have you saved? Is it enough to upgrade your skills?"

Su Muyu developed a hamster personality due to his childhood upbringing, so he is most active in saving divine energy and will not spend it if he can avoid it.

"Yes, it's enough, more than six thousand." Su Muyu nodded and replied.

"Which skill are you going to upgrade?" Lu Heng asked.

Su Muyu pursed her lips and muttered, "I haven't thought about it yet. My skill proficiency is basically maxed out, but I don't know which one to upgrade first. If I upgrade a B-level skill, I can upgrade two or three, but if I upgrade an A-level skill, I can only upgrade one."

The upgrade of an A-level skill to an S-level consumes too much divine energy, more than three times that of a B-level skill.

In other words, if you use this divine energy to upgrade B-level skills, you can upgrade three, but if you use this divine energy to upgrade A-level skills, it is only enough to upgrade one.

Will the combat power improvement gained by upgrading three B-level skills to A-level be greater than upgrading one S-level skill?
This is something that needs to be considered.

Su Muyu has two B-level skills: [Invisible Force Field] and [Energy Fluctuation Perception].

There is only one A-level skill, which is [Double-headed Bird].

The skill of [Double-headed Bird] is quite special. Its original skill level is indeed A-level, but this skill has been strengthened by the two classes of [Eye of the Sky] and [Lord of the Sky].

Many abilities of these two classes are reflected in the [Double-headed Bird], allowing this skill to achieve a quasi-S-level actual effect at an A-level.

In addition, she has several C-level skills, [Prism Force Field], [Elemental Arrow·Fire], and [Life Vine Trap] are all C-level.

Su Muyu brought out the idea in his mind for discussion: "If I don't upgrade the Chongming Bird, my divine energy is enough to upgrade the other skills. Should I upgrade other skills or the Chongming Bird?"

Lu Heng replied very straightforwardly: "Promote Chongming Bird."

Su Muyu also hoped to obtain an S-level skill, because she had seen Lu Heng's S-level skills, and each one was a killer move.

Lu Heng continued, "The Chongming Bird is an A-level card with a near-S-level effect. If it is upgraded to S-level, it will be a near-SS-level power. So it won't be wrong to upgrade this skill."

Su Muyu suppressed the excitement in her heart, nodded and agreed: "Okay, then I will upgrade to Chongming Bird."

Lu Heng reached out, held her palm, extended the source energy into her body, and helped her unlock the skill lock of the Chongming Bird.

The moment the skill lock was released, it was as if a divine bird's cry pierced the sky and vibrated on the spiritual level.

Su Muyu quickly concentrated his attention, channeling the divine energy into his skill slot and merging it with the energy of the double-headed bird.

This time the fusion took a long time. It took a full half hour to finally complete the fusion.

After the fusion was completed, Su Muyu let out a long breath, with a happy smile on his face: "Success."

"What effect did the upgrade have?" Lu Heng and Lin Zeyu were very curious and asked in unison.

"The name after the upgrade is very impressive, it's called [Blue Luan Divine Bird]." While Su Muyu read out the name, he was staring at the data on the skill panel.

【Blue Luan Bird】

[Skill level: S level (class enhancement)]

[Skill consumption: 200 energy points]

[Duration: Unlimited]

[Skill Effect: Summons a mythical blue phoenix bird to conduct reconnaissance and combat in the sky, call the wind and rain, and control lightning. The blue phoenix bird can carry 2000kg, and the caster can use the bird to fly in the sky.]

[Attributes: Detection range = 30 × perception; attack damage = 20 × mental strength. ]

[Chongming Bird Skills: Blue Luan Flowing Light, Solar Wind, Blue Luan Di Tian]

[Blue Luan Flowing Light: When unloaded, the Blue Luan bird can transform into a stream of light and travel at a speed of X meters per second. Speed ​​coefficient = 30 × mental strength.]

[Solar Wind: The Blue Luan bird blows up a solar wind, irradiating a 50-meter range, causing a temperature of X degrees. High temperature coefficient = 300 × mental strength.]

[Blue Luan Crying to the Sky: The Blue Luan bird lets out a cry that pierces the sky, releasing the bird's might, which creates mental pressure on creatures that hear the cry. The closer the distance, the stronger the mental pressure. Creatures that cannot withstand the mental pressure will faint. The highest mental pressure intensity = 1× mental power.]

Su Muyu read out the skill effects of [Blue Luan Divine Bird], and at the end, there was an expression of surprise on his face.

The upgraded [Blue Luan Divine Bird] is much stronger than the [Double-headed Bird]. All its abilities have doubled, and it also has an additional powerful skill [Blue Luan Crying to the Sky].

According to the effect of this newly added crying skill, the intensity of mental pressure is 1× mental power.

This means that the target who hears the cry needs to undergo a mental test, and the opponent whose mental strength is lower than Su Muyu will faint directly.

With Su Muyu's current mental strength, the number of psychics in the entire human world who can withstand this skill can be counted on one hand.

(End of this chapter)