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

If it were a martial arts battle, he might have chosen the second option without hesitation, but Liu Nian chose the first option without any hesitation.

It's not that he's selfish, but rather that the two of them are completely different in personality.

Wu Zhan was more composed and conservative, relying on the strength of the collective. But Liu Nian believed that offense was the best defense; if you wiped out all the enemies, no one would bother you anymore.

Moreover, Liu Nian's health is already high enough, so this skill is even more cost-effective!

Without hesitation, I chose to learn the skill and leveled it up to level 5. The effect became: convert 100% of maximum health into spell power.

法术强度立刻飙升到了335亿5493万0636，受益最大的是龙封万疆和势不可挡，前者面板伤害飙升到889亿2055万3191，后者570亿4336万3673。

This damage is off the charts!

Hector looked at him, a satisfied smile appearing on his blurred face.

"I believe you can complete the remaining trials as well," he said. "The future of Ascalon rests in your hands!"

His soul began to become transparent, like a wisp of smoke, slowly dissipating in the golden light.

After sending a message to Wu Zhan, Liu Nian teleported back to the floating city.

In the city lord's room, Liu Nian looked at the pink egg and, still steeling himself, chose to hatch it.

The eggshell began to tremble.

Tiny cracks appeared at the tip of the eggshell, spreading outwards like a spiderweb. A brighter pink light shone through the cracks, accompanied by a faint, chirping sound, like a chick pecking at its shell, growing clearer and clearer…

Liu Nian leaned closer and held his breath.

A small hole was pried open at the top of the eggshell. A wet, pink thing poked its head out of the hole.

It is a pair of tentacles.

Two slender, translucent, pink tentacles, each tipped with a small pink orb of light. The tentacles swayed in the air, as if probing their surroundings. Then, more tentacles emerged from the hole, six in total, forming a circle like a blooming flower.

The eggshell continued to crack, and the thing's true form was finally revealed.

It was a round, pink dumpling.

It has no limbs, no wings, no tail; it is just a fluffy ball about ten centimeters in diameter, covered with a layer of fine, soft down that shimmers with a faint pinkish glow under the light.

Its face—if it can even be called a face—has only two large, black eyes and a small, pink mouth. The eyes take up two-thirds of its face, and are watery, like two black grapes. The mouth is so small that it's almost invisible, only appearing when it yawns.

It rolled out of its eggshell, bounced twice on the control panel, and then came to a steady stop in front of Liu Nian. Six antennae swayed gently on its head like antennas. It looked at Liu Nian with its large black eyes and then let out a sound:

"Wait, wait, wait?"

"This thing..." Liu Nianxia didn't say a word.

Surprisingly...quite cute.

"Things are always cute when they're small, I just hope they don't grow up to be..."

Liu Nian took a deep breath and opened its attribute panel.

[Abyssal Energy-Devouring Beast (Unnamed)]

【Quality: Eternal】

[Level: None (This unit cannot be upgraded)]

[Type: Support Pet]

【property:

Health: None (This unit has no health and cannot be killed)

Energy: None (This unit has no energy and cannot learn or use any active skills)

【Skill:】

【I. Experience Aura (Passive): Provides the master with a 300% experience bonus. Aura range: 100 meters.】

[II. Energy Conversion (Passive): Feeding the user any energy source or creature will produce an equivalent number of experience orbs based on the strength of that energy source/creature. Cooldown: None.]

[III. Experience Collection (Passive): Collects excess experience points gained by the master when defeating monsters and converts them into experience orbs. The master gains an equal amount of experience points after consuming an experience orb. Storage limit: Unlimited.]

Compared to Arachne's overly long panel, this panel is pitifully simple!

But this thing is incredibly powerful!

This thing doesn't have a health bar, so it can't be killed!

This thing doesn't have any active skills, and it can't learn any active skills either; it only has three passive skills...

But these three passive skills are just too awesome...

It provides a 3x experience bonus, generates experience orbs from eating, and can store the experience points gained from defeating Liu Nian...

That's incredible!

If you throw him onto some energy source (like the Heart of Terra or some mineral vein) and let him devour it, wouldn't that be equivalent to AFK farming experience?

With this, Liu Nianka's level cap can be held up without any psychological pressure!

Previously, he had wasted experience points when killing monsters, but with this little thing, those overflowing experience points could be collected and stored into experience orbs, which he could then consume all at once when he wanted to level up! If he stored enough, he could easily level up dozens or even hundreds of levels at once!

Liu Nian was quite satisfied with the pet!

"I'll call you Little Tuantuan!"

Little Tuantuan seemed to sense Liu Nian's approval of it, and made a "Puwaibibabu~" sound, then rolled to his hand and rubbed its antennae against his fingers.

Its antennae are very soft, like feathers.

Liu Nian couldn't help but reach out and poke it...

Mmm, it's soft.

When it was poked, all six tentacles stood up at the same time, the light sphere at the top lit up briefly, and then dimmed again, as if it liked it very much.

Liu Nian was poking and interacting with Xiao Tuantuan's soft belly when his private chat suddenly lit up. He opened it and saw a message from Wang Mian:

"I didn't disturb you while you were doing your mission. Carol messaged me earlier saying that the person you asked them to keep an eye out for has appeared."

"Carol? Who is Carol?" Liu Nian didn't remember knowing such a person.

"Carolotaur, the centaur patriarch."

"Oh...oh!" Liu Nian understood. "Carol is a nickname, right?"

"What?!" Wang Mian exclaimed anxiously, "It's a nickname! An abbreviation... Don't talk nonsense!"

"Alright, tell me the details."

"They're currently engaged in an upgrade war. They were almost wiping out that troll army, but suddenly they received strange reinforcements—a group of incredibly powerful insectoids, all over level 100. Carol found it odd and investigated, discovering that some of them are hidden among powerful players who can become invisible! Furthermore, they're investigating an Abe Bee-man and a centaur player named Theshuan. She remembered your earlier message and contacted me."

Liu Nian's expression turned serious.

It seems that the previous concerns have come true. The other side has not given up and has even sent more players to infiltrate the competition area this time.