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

The gate is tightly closed.

"How do we get in? Should we knock?" Yun Xiangrong asked.

Liu Nian found an inconspicuous gear-shaped identification device by the door. He took out the blood-stained dwarf gear from his backpack and tried to put it close to the identification device. The miniature mark on the gear flashed a faint light.

Click...click...boom...

The heavy metal gate made a dull thud as it slowly slid open to one side, creating a gap just wide enough for one person to pass through. Bright engineering lights shone through, along with a familiar smell of engine oil mixed with metal.

Liu Nian slipped in first, followed closely by Yun Xiangrong and Jiang Yi.

As soon as they entered, the gate closed rapidly behind them, and the external camouflage was put back into effect.

Behind the door was a brightly lit metal corridor, in a typical dwarf style, with walls covered with pipes, wires, and constantly flashing instruments.

A squad of fully armed, wary dwarf guards were aiming their muskets and engineering cannons at them, but their hostility lessened considerably when they saw Liu Nian, likely due to the dwarf faction's goodwill towards them.

"Humans? How did you find this place?" A dwarf officer stepped forward, his tone still full of vigilance.

"I am Liu Nian, and I am a friend of Mekkatorque, the master craftsman of Toothpick City!"

Liu Nian stepped forward and identified himself.

"Mekkatork's friend? What a coincidence! He's in our camp!" The dwarf officer paused for a moment, then quickly confirmed via his internal communicator.

His expression quickly relaxed: "I've already confirmed with him. Please come in; the master craftsman is in the command room!"

When Liu Nian told the dwarf officer that they had just assisted him, the dwarf officer was filled with respect: "Thank you so much! Your help was so timely, especially that thunderstorm, it was like divine punishment! Without your assistance, many of us would probably have died!"

[Ding! You have received a thank you from the dwarf officer Dino! Anvil Outpost reputation +1500]

[Ding! You have obtained a Legendary Enhancement Gem for Passive Skills.]

Liu Nian truly didn't expect such an unexpected surprise.

Actually, the previous harassment was all done by Yun Xiangrong and Jiang Yi; as a melee fighter, he had no chance to make a move.

However, since the three of them were in a team, they were naturally regarded as a whole.

The other two also received the gem.

This gem is different from Liu Nian's skill enhancement gem. Liu Nian's skill enhancement gem opens up a three-way enhancement pool for skills.

This simply provides a random enhancement effect, but as a legendary enhancement, even if it's not as good as the prismatic effect, it's at least no worse than the gold enhancement.

The only downside is that this legendary enhancement gem can only enhance passive skills.

[Passive Skill Legendary Enhancement Gem: Use it on one of your passive skills to grant it a corresponding active effect.]

The dwarf officer led the three to the command center.

On the way, Liu Nian will use the 3 skill points he gained from leveling up, and put 1 point into Endless Fury (level 3, 100 CD): You will refuse to die for 8 seconds and your health will not drop below 1 point. After the effect ends, you will recover a certain percentage of your health based on the total damage you received during the effect (up to 55% of your maximum health).

The remaining 2 points were added to Earth Roar, which increases the effect to: deal physical damage equal to 63% of attack power + 23% of maximum health to all enemies within a 10-meter radius.

Then they used this legendary gem.

Liu Nian has only one passive skill, which is Hell Curse.

[Ding! Legendary enhancement gem activated. Your passive skill Hell Curse now gains an active effect: Abyssal Hell]

【Abyssal Prison: You will forcibly drag up to 5 hostile players within a 5-meter radius into the Abyssal Prison. This space is an independent octagonal cage space with an area of ​​100 square meters. Unless you are killed or actively close the space, the enemies will not be able to escape from this space.

Once inside this space, all additional bonuses from equipment, titles, gems, bonds, divine grace, buffs, etc., are disabled, and pets, summons, mounts, war beasts, vehicles, etc., cannot appear in this space.

This space can exist for a maximum of 30 minutes, with a cooldown period of 6 hours.

"Holy crap?" Liu Nian suddenly stopped in his tracks.

This is clearly an extremely powerful control skill!

Moreover, the fact that so many effects were blocked is a nightmare for others, but a blessing for him!

This means that everyone in this space is essentially fighting without any equipment, unable to use the powerful bonuses from gear or other external effects.

This is a hellish nerf, especially for players like goblins who are physically weak and heavily reliant on external equipment and vehicles!

Most importantly, this space can imprison the enemy for 30 minutes! During those 30 minutes, the opponent can neither fight back nor escape, and can only obediently take the beating!

Liu Nian had always had the idea of ​​tying opposing players to tree stumps to use as training dummies to farm Heartsteel, but it was very difficult to do in practice. But now it's different!

They'll lock the other person up in this inescapable hell, so they won't be able to escape!

Five enemies, triggering Heart Steel every 30 seconds, can be farmed continuously for 30 minutes! Assuming that equipment and other bonuses are removed, and only attribute points are considered, a level 45 goblin should have a standard HP of around 30,000. So, theoretically, how much HP can be farmed in 30 minutes?

The answer is 27.

Of course, this refers to a precise, machine-like brushing method. In actual brushing, many factors need to be considered, but at the very least, brushing 20 times within 30 minutes is absolutely no problem!

This skill has a 6-hour cooldown, which means you can use it at least twice a day!

It will gain at least 40 health points per day, which is 400 million in 10 days. When the upgrade battle comes, it will definitely give teammates and enemies a huge surprise!

On the other hand, this is also an extremely powerful life-saving skill!

Within 30 minutes, he was essentially out of his original space, making him an untargetable enemy outside...

If he encounters a dangerous situation where he is surrounded by a large number of high-level enemies, he can simply target a weaker enemy, which will buy him at least 30 minutes of buffer time.

"What's wrong, Liu Nian?" Yun Xiangrong asked.

At this moment, her expression was also full of surprise, because she and Jiang Yi had also obtained the gem to enhance their skills, and they had obviously gained a lot as well.

"It's alright, let's keep going!" Liu Nian said, suppressing his surprise.

Led by the dwarf officer, the three passed through a heavily guarded passage and arrived at a spacious room that resembled a frontline command center.

Various maps, sand tables, communication equipment, and engineering control consoles are set up here, and many dwarf engineers and officers are busy at work. Meanwhile, in front of the command platform, a familiar figure stands with his back to them, deep in thought, gazing at the sand table.

"Master, your friend has arrived; he's the one who helped us earlier," the officer reported.

The figure turned around, his signature goggles, well-tailored robe, and gears woven into his beard, though now his body and face were covered in grease—it was none other than the great craftsman Mekkatorque!

However, to Liu Nian's slight surprise, this NPC, who was previously only level 20, now had a level of LV.50 displayed above his head!