Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

After collecting all the spoils, Liu Nian teleported back to the Anvil Outpost. He greeted everyone, then went to Mekkatorque to complete the mission and leveled up three times.

现在已经来到了39级，身上9个技能点没用，把大地轰鸣加到满级：半径12米範围内的所有敌人造成（65％攻击力 + 25％最大生命值）的物理伤害。

Lightning Kick upgraded from level 2 to level 5: (8-second cooldown, 170 mana cost): You unleash a swift triple kick on a single enemy, each kick dealing (50% Attack Damage + 55% Ability Power) lightning damage. The third kick inflicts Paralysis, reducing the enemy's movement speed by 45% for 3 seconds.

Shadow Strike upgraded from level 1 to level 5: You anchor to an enemy within an 18-meter radius, instantly blinking to their side, dealing (100% attack damage) physical damage and reducing their movement speed by 50% for 1.5 seconds.

There's one skill point left unused, because all skills except Endless Fury are already maxed out.

Liu Nian could only keep it for now, thinking he would wander around the outpost later and see what skills he could learn.

He still had one silver skill stone left. He had already enhanced all his innate skills with the silver skill stone. After thinking for a while, Liu Nian decided to try enhancing the skills he learned in the game to see what the effect would be. So he used the skill stone on the skill [Vast Mind], which was affected by health points.

[Silver Skill Stone Activated]

[Effect 1: After activating the Vast Mindset, your basic attack becomes an area-of-effect attack, dealing equal damage to all enemies within a crescent-shaped area in front of you.]

[Effect 2: The cooldown of "Boundless Mind" is increased to 60 seconds, but the bonus from basic attacks is increased to 25% of the target's health.]

[Effect 3: Vast Mind no longer enhances basic attacks, but instead grants a rapidly decaying shield equal to 140% of maximum health, lasting 3 seconds.]

Looking at these effects, Liu Nian nodded secretly. Not bad, the enhancement was not compromised.

After thinking about it, I decided to choose effect one to enhance the area damage.

Effect 2 has too long a cooldown, and Effect 3 has too short a duration, so Effect 1 is more stable.

After the reinforcement was completed, Liu Nian met with Wu Zhan and the others to discuss the next steps.

With the arrival of the Blue Star players and the breaking down of the teleportation array barrier, humanity has finally gained a foothold in the second layer of the Underdark.

However, their weakness is still obvious: they do not have their own base, so they are unable to engage in direct combat with the goblins who have been established for a long time, possess strong fortresses, and have a large number of heavy units and modified beasts.

But conversely, this is also an advantage.

Since they have no base, it means they don't need to defend themselves and are completely uninhibited. The goblins can't find any footholds for humans, so they naturally can't launch attacks.

Therefore, everyone agreed that Liu Nian's previous suggestion to use the genius-like guerrilla tactics of "when the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy retreats, we attack; when the enemy is tired, we harass; when the enemy flees, we pursue" was indeed quite suitable for their current situation.

To reiterate: the entire area surrounding Sulfur Smoke Canyon, and even the wider region, will become a guerrilla zone for human players.

Goblin players' supply lines, mining sites, patrols, and hunting parties will all face attacks from human players!

Each "guerrilla squad" will become a nightmare for goblin players.

The players have gotten on track. With most players reaching level 40 and having access to a large amount of high-level equipment from the Anvil Outpost, the human players, who are not short of money or materials, have seen their strength increase dramatically!

The Dragon Abyss Guild has roughly figured out the situation on the second underground level, so now a large number of players can take initiative and carry out activities on the second level of the Dark Region.

The Dragon Abyss Guild is focusing on missions for the Frost Giant faction, while the Dragon Soaring Guild is focusing on missions for the Fire Lizard faction.

Yelena refused to leave, intending to frantically increase her favorability with the dwarf faction in order to receive higher-level missions. Wu Zhan didn't dare to kick her out, because if he did, she would start making a fuss about wanting to get back together with him.

Wu Zhan was helpless; his back was bad, so he could only avoid her.

Liu Nian walked around the outpost, trying to find a skill that suited him; he was currently stuck on a skill level...

Due to the limitations of his class template, he can only learn all his skills to level 5.

Therefore, he needs to learn new skills, otherwise all the skill points he uses to level up in the future will be wasted.

Although his current skills are powerful enough, they still have weaknesses. Besides, who would complain about having too many skills?

Putting aside other things, some powerful passive skills, such as Titan Bloodline, Giant's Grip, and War God Bloodline, can all significantly increase health and defense proportionally. Learning any one of them will greatly improve his performance.

Of course, in Cyber ​​Hell, the number of skills players can learn is not unlimited; generally, there are ten skills before level 100. However, due to his template, Liu Nian can learn twenty skills: ten active skills, five passive skills, and five support skills, which is exactly 100 skill points.

While Anvil Outpost does sell skill books, it is ultimately a military base and engineering station. Most of the skill scrolls and books sold are related to engineering, firearms use, mechanical maintenance, or specific gnome magic, such as constructing shields or precisely manipulating mechanical creations. Some passive skills only increase things like crafting specialization, ranged specialization, and repair speed.

These skills either require a high level of intelligence or engineering expertise, or their effects heavily depend on dwarf technology creations, making them extremely unsuitable for a pure melee fighter like Liu Nian.

Liu Nian inquired with several dwarf quartermasters and administrators, and the feedback he received was basically the same: the dwarf race itself is not known for its close combat skills; their fighting strength is more reflected in their excellent equipment, coordinated firepower, and various engineering creations.

In fact, the races that truly excel in pure strength, defensive skills, and melee combat are, aside from some human playstyles, mainly the massive bear race players, the tough pigman players, and the troll players.

However, the Demon Bear Clan is far away and has almost no actual communication with the human camp, so it is unrealistic to try to obtain skills from them.

Troll players are not one of the six races in the Ascension War at all. They only appear sporadically through methods like spatial rifts, and they don't even know where their specific territories are.

So, the remaining "options" seem to point to the pigmen—currently humanity's greatest enemy on Earth.

"How about we go and explore the pig people's territory?" This thought began to linger in Liu Nian's mind.