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After briefly adapting to the state of being unable to use her arms, Serena installed the "Thirteen Constraints Two" as a plug-in on the Demon King's Cloth. Her overall attributes also doubled out of thin air.
"Feeling... lighter?"
The improvement of the overall attribute brought Selina a very subtle feeling. Although she couldn't tell exactly what it was, she found that her speed had obviously increased a lot.
"Then there's this Dark Essence thing... I'm not familiar with the Mage profession. In that case, I might as well choose a profession in a MOD."
Since I won’t be able to use it anyway, I might as well choose a profession that doesn’t take numerical balance into consideration.
[Nightmare skills unlocked]
[Professional Certificate: Nightmare Priest (Obtained)]
【Current career update...】
【update completed】
[Current Occupation: Nightmare Priest]
[Professional skills acquired]
[Tentacle Entanglement (Lv.1): Releases a nightmare tentacle to imprison your enemy for 10 seconds.]
[Dark Curse (Lv.1): Curse an enemy, reducing all attributes by 50% for 15 seconds.]
[Nightmare Bullet (Lv. 1): Shoots a nightmare bullet, causing (10-100) points of nightmare damage.]
"this......"
Looking at the suddenly updated character panel, Selena was stunned for a moment.
"Although I'm mentally prepared, your profession is a bit too abnormal, isn't it? You start with a strong control skill with no trigger probability limit, a curse skill with a very high amount of damage, and a lucky hit left-click attack... If I remember correctly, the mage's initial magic bullet attack can only cause 3 to 5 points of damage. Even the charged fireball given at level 10 only causes 30 to 40 points of fire damage. You start with 100 points of nightmare..."
You should know that nightmare damage is a content that will only appear in the late stage before the server of Fallen Ark is shut down. There are two core mechanisms. First, when hit by nightmare damage, you can stack layers like poison attacks, and every 10 layers will reduce the target's maximum health limit by 1%. This is why the Dark Floater will become the ceiling of the boss skills in the entire game. Because as long as it is touched, the 20% maximum health limit will be gone directly, so nightmare damage is also jokingly called the iron fist of numerical planning by players, and the guaranteed god of war for civilian players.
Its second mechanism is that it does not have a layer limit like poison. Its limit is the source of damage. For example, the nightmare damage caused by your critical hit can reach a maximum of 100 layers, while the nightmare damage triggered by your lucky hit can only reach 50 layers. So, do you have to make a choice? Of course not, the nightmare damage from these two different sources is calculated separately. In other words, as long as you have enough ways to cause nightmare damage, it is no problem for you to cause hundreds of layers on others' heads...
The only drawback of this thing is that compared to those popular schools, it has a slow startup, low initial damage, and is slow to hit anything.
Others have already finished the map in 30 seconds, but you are still scratching the first elite...
But now, everything has changed!
Selina has now successfully achieved the ceiling of the boss skill T0, Dark Floater. How come the number of layers of nightmare damage is just like a piece of cake for her...
(PS: The story of Time Remnant probably won’t last long!)
(PS2: So you should hurry up and shiver...)
Chapter 259 Mask of Desire?
After getting the new equipment, Serena stood there and waited for a few minutes. As the upper limit of 12 floating guns was filled, she maintained the stealth state granted by the cloak and went straight to the boss room on the third floor. The smooth journey made her very satisfied with this equipment, which was not of high level but had a very pleasing effect. Those monsters seemed to be blind. Even if she danced in front of them, she was so beautiful, the monsters were completely unaware of her existence.
"Fuck, this is too cruel!"
Then, the invincible Dark Floating Cannon showed the value of version T0 right in front of her...
【Desire Puppet】
【Level: 135】
[Shield: 0/8000000]
【HP: 876519/12000000】
"800 million shields plus 1200 million health, almost wiped out by a volley of fire... Oh, and there's 1200 layers of nightmares hanging over my head!"
Serena was almost stunned as she stared at the Ruins BOSS that she had easily defeated in one encounter. Although she knew that the Dark Floater was very powerful, she had never expected it to be this powerful! What was even more exaggerated was that the Floater seemed to be regarded as a summon, so when it attacked, it did not remove the stealth effect she had obtained through the Nightmare Cloak. However, the twelve Floaters did benefit from the Nightmare Cloak's bonus of 350% nightmare damage when in stealth...
"Too cruel, too cruel... Wait, this unknown dungeon boss. Don't move around here for now. Wait for me to go back, steal the box, talk to the female knight to reset the dungeon, and then come back to play with you, okay?"
While saying strange things, Selina rushed out of the BOSS room on the third floor of the ruins and headed straight for the ruins hall not far away. Her mind was full of freeloading...
[Congratulations on obtaining: Mask of Desire (Lv.125), Seven of Thirteen Constraints (Lv.125), Nightmare Sacrifice (Fashion), Gold Coins x12000]
[Mask of Desire (Lv.125): After wearing it, you will gain a sense of position, recalculate and distribute the current attribute points. When all attributes are less than 200 points, increase each attribute to 200 points. When all attributes are greater than 200 points, calculate the excess, and increase the (Nightmare/Darkness) damage by 1% for every 1 point of additional attribute.]
[Thirteen Constraints Seven (Lv. 125): Choose to lock a piece of equipment and make it unremovable and indestructible. For each restraint kit, the nightmare damage received by the enemy unit will be increased by 100%. Note that this is a set item.]
[Nightmare Priest (Fashion): A special outfit obtained after defeating the Nightmare Priest. After using it, it will automatically unlock the new equipment series appearance 'Nightmare Priest'. ]
As the third treasure chest emitting a dim glow completely disappeared, Selena's backpack now had three free items.
"Tsk...why do I suddenly feel guilty after doing something bad?"
After looking at the three keys still quietly in her inventory, and then at the descriptions of the newly acquired items, Selina confirmed that these equipments also had no wear level restrictions, and then she directly selected the newly acquired "Desire Mask" in her backpack.
"Let me see how effective this thing is... Damn, isn't this a bit too simple and crude?"
After checking out the equipment effects of 'Mask of Desire', even Selina, who is well-informed in the game, couldn't help but be astonished.
"Attributes that are less than 200 points are forcibly increased to 200 points... This is pure numerical weirdness. Even my 200-level character, with extreme point increase, the highest attribute column is only a little over 300 points. Even the few pieces of equipment in the test server that didn't survive the official update didn't have such an outrageous effect."
Looking at the invincible special effect affix of "Mask of Desire", Serena became a little melancholy for a moment. When the Fallen Ark was still alive, it was necessary to consider balance, so items with too outrageous values could not appear. But now that the game is dead, all kinds of outrageous items have become more and more with the addition of various MODs.
"Well, I'm too lazy to think about those unnecessary questions. Just let me experience it. What is it like to have the attributes of others at level 1 at level 500... Ugh?!!"
After a moment of reminiscing, Serena just chose to equip the "Mask of Desire" when she felt something sticky suddenly appear on her face. Countless wriggling tentacles, like liquid, rushed madly towards her ears, nose, and mouth.
"Goooo..."
A strong feeling of suffocation appears, accompanied by nausea caused by foreign objects invading the throat.
Selina subconsciously wanted to reach out and take the mask off her face, but the 'Mask of Desire' did not give her any time to regret. In less than half a second, it completely covered her face and stuck to it tightly.
"Woo! Woo!"
Can't speak, can't breathe, can't hear anything...
Selena could only tear off the mask on her face in vain with her hands, because she found that after losing her vision, she couldn't even see her equipment bar and backpack!
"Uh... huh?"
Fortunately, this terrible feeling did not last too long. Just when Selina thought she was going to suffocate, the slightly musty air in the ruins hall suddenly appeared in her five senses along with a third-person perspective.
"woo woo woo woo?"
Although she still couldn't speak, Selena could indeed see the surrounding environment and hear sounds through a slightly strange perspective.
"Woo..."
Selena tried to turn her perspective, and she found that the clear world in her eyes also began to move.
"This feeling... is like being back in front of the computer again!"
After spending some time to adapt to this new perspective, Selina was surprised to find that she could even turn the camera to herself! In the dark and dark ruins hall, it was as if the darkness did not exist. She could clearly see that some kind of pure white object completely covered her entire head, leaving only her long platinum-colored hair. The gelatinous substance formed a hard shell on her face, just like a doll. The surface of the mask did not have any traces of facial features, only a slight bulge at the nose, which looked very strange.
"Woo?"
She tried to reach out and touch the strange mask on her face that looked like Kig's skull. The smooth texture was something Selena had never touched before.
"Uh... oh... uh..."
What followed was a feeling of fullness that kept surging throughout her body, and she felt that she suddenly had endless energy.
"Can I talk now?"
Selina was stunned for a moment. She clearly felt something blocking her mouth, but she did make a sound now.
"this......"
But that was obviously not her original voice. Different from the energetic girl's voice, the voice she made now was the queen's full-bodied accent.
(PS: Mask? KIG head shell? The best match!)
(PS2: Then he stretched out a hand, put it in the bowl and started waiting for the tickets...)
Chapter 260 Temporary becomes permanent.jpg
"So strong... It's like it suddenly went from being a baby carriage to a rocket carrying people!"
Selina stood in the hall of the ruins, looking at her body in disbelief, which seemed to have hardly changed. She had just kicked a stone from the corner of the hall, sending it flying into the air, and then she began to run quickly along the wall of the hall. When she ran three full circles on the wall as if she were walking on flat ground and successfully returned to the original place, the stone she kicked into the air was still suspended in the air. There was still a full 17 centimeters of distance before it would touch the ground...
"The attributes of the Mask of Desire are calculated before the 'Thirteen Constraints Two', so my current strength, speed, and endurance are all 400 points, and the total attribute is an astonishing 2000!"
But this is not her real speed now. Don't forget that the Nightmare Cloak also provides a 200% speed increase in stealth mode. In other words, her current burst speed is equivalent to 800 points of agility! Even the Sword Master of Helen, who was known as the fastest NPC in the game, only has an agility value of 500 points...
"Another item from the Thirteen Restraints series, I don't know... Shit! Don't!"
The small lock that suddenly appeared on the side of the mask and fastened it to her body through her earlobe made Serena scream. The Desire Mask that could have been used to remove the equipment now had the word "locked" on it.
"It's over, it's over! How can something controlled by the mind be accidentally touched?"
Selina was completely shocked. When she was looking through the effects of 'Seven of Thirteen Constraints' in her backpack, she subconsciously dragged the introduction page to the left side of her field of vision. However, she accidentally clicked the equipment button next to the introduction page while moving, and directly installed this thing on 'Mask of Desire'!
[All the transmogrification effects of Nightmare Sacrifice have been activated]
What's worse is that in her panic, she accidentally opened the fashion and put it on herself.
"this......"
Selena stared in amazement at her own appearance which had suddenly changed due to the accidental shaking of her hands, and she was unable to recover for a long time.
"But...it seems pretty good?"
The original platinum-colored hair of the initial character turned silver-white. The silver-white mask of desire turned into black and gray with rose patterns. Dark purple lipstick and eyeliner outlined the original mouth and eyes. Her skin seemed to have become much paler and duller, more inclined to cold gray. The novice suit that was originally incompatible with the straitjacket and cloak also changed its appearance at this moment. Black latex boots matched with hollow fishnet black stockings. The cloak that was originally only used as a shawl now completely covered her upper body and could even be dragged on the ground. And the twelve dark floating cannons just floated quietly beside her. She looked like some kind of evil big boss at the end of the copy...
"How should I put it... It's like she's gone from being an innocent rookie wizard girl to a mysterious bad woman!"
Fortunately, Selina quite likes the evil character of the bad woman...
"But this mask has become permanent skin and I can't take it off my face!"
However, this excitement did not last long, as it was successfully broken by the 'mask of desire' that could not be removed. She was a little crazy when she thought that she could only show herself as a faceless woman in the future. It was because the attribute bonus of this mask was first-class and could give her some insignificant psychological comfort, otherwise she would really faint on the spot...
"Andre...why do these big shots from the city like to order others around so much? They are just preparing to line up to explore this suddenly appeared ruins, but they specifically called us over to explain it to us."
Cole, who had just come out of the Adventurer's Guild and returned to the entrance of the ruins, complained to Andre beside him in a slightly unhappy tone. As the guards of the town lord, these matters should not be handled by them. But since the people who came were all big shots that the town lord could not afford to offend, they had no choice but to run around like a group of animals at their beck and call...
"Why don't you just get ready and bring the team here? Can we stop them here? To be honest, I really don't understand why those rich kids are so concerned about such a boring thing. Don't they know how to write the word death?"
Hearing what his good friend said, Andre couldn't help but sigh. They were adventurers before, but unfortunately, they didn't seem to have the talent to be adventurers. Although they are 35 and 36 years old this year, in fact, their strength is almost the same as when they were 26 years old. Although their strength is enough to stand out in the small town, for those knights and wizards from big cities, they can only get a job as a gatekeeper. But that also depends on the comparison object. You know, no matter how bad the two of them are, they are still junior professionals. And those noble young masters whose heads are full of knight novels are probably not even as good as junior professionals...
Even if you have to call them master, it is only because of the difference in status, not because your strength is inferior to others.