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Chapter 685: Chapter 685: Sword Core

Up till now, Song Jian had not come across a skill book of epic quality or better, let alone legendary quality.

The opportunity in front of him represented a certainty of getting a legendary skill book tailored for his chosen profession. However, since there was also a possibility to draw from the divine quality skill books, Song Jian naturally hoped to land one of the three divine-quality skill books displayed on the wheel.

As the wheel spun, Song Jian stared at it nervously. Once the wheel began to spin rapidly, all the icons on it became colors as brilliant as a flowing rainbow.

The wheel was a reward from Song Jian’s assessment task, only visible to him. To others, it looked as if Song Jian randomly waved his hand in the air and then continued to gaze tensely at the empty space in front of him.

“What’s going on with Boss?” Ma Yu whispered.

Wang Qi shook his head slightly. Having not seen Song Jian for a few months, he found Song Jian had changed quite a bit and was hard to read.

At that moment, everyone saw Song Jian burst into loud laughter as a look of wild joy flashed across his face.

“Skill Book – Casting Soul Sword Gallbladder Jue (Divine Myth). Skill book, Use: Can learn Casting Soul Sword Gallbladder Jue skill; User restriction: Sword Master; Casting Soul Sword Gallbladder Jue: Can condense the essence of five elements to forge a sword core, which can be hidden in the soul during usual times to immunize from all types of soul damage. Sword Core is a soul attribute equipment that doesn’t occupy an equipment slot, and only one can be forged in a lifetime. It can accumulate power and after three hours, it guarantees a critical strike on the target. Attributes of Sword Core will vary based on the forging material, and the better the material, the stronger the Sword Core’s attributes. Please use a weapon endowed with Sword Spirit as priority for forging.”

“A divine myth-class skill book! I can’t believe I actually won a divine myth-class skill book!” Song Jian exclaimed with a beaming face. However, as he examined the skill book carefully, his eyebrows furrowed.

“This skill will merely give me an additional weapon, although it carries accumulative effect, guaranteeing a critical strike. But the fact that I am required to forge the sword core in advance…”

Song Jian hesitated, considering the skill book a bit of a white elephant. His current weapon set was of golden quality, and if collected as a complete set, that would mean attacking with the force of five long swords. Thus, gaining the skill from this book would only grant him one more scoring weapon, ‘Sword Core’. He didn’t expect a significant increase in his power.

“Maybe it’s because the Sword Core can protect the soul?” Song Jian speculated.

His passive skill “Thick-skinned” could only counter unfavorable conditions, but it was ineffective against soul damage.

Song Jian glanced at the ‘Shackles Mark’ skill in the Book of the Abyss, its most terrifying attribute being that once a target is marked with the Shackles, regardless of its formidable strength, it disperses the target’s soul instantly, killing on the spot.

“There must be similar soul-attacking methods in this game…if I encounter those…” Song Jian’s expression suddenly turned serious.

The condition of deploying a Shackles Mark requires not only the target’s true name but also a form of horrific blood sacrifice, making it extremely difficult. Yet, once executed, it creates a defense that is impossible to break, indicating an impending attack not to be taken lightly.

“Forging a sword core does seem to be a good precaution,” Song Jian secretly thought.

Just then, the skill book in his hand, which was radiating a flowing, multicolored light, started to vibrate slightly. A piece of information was transmitted from the book and shot straight into Song Jian’s forehead.

Suddenly, an image appeared in Song Jian’s mind.

A middle-aged man in a white robe stood alone in the void, his feet resting on a long sword. Around his body, a metal ball the size of a nail was constantly revolving.

In front of the middle-aged man, hundreds of monsters of the same level swarmed towards him like a tidal wave.

“Go!”

With the man’s commanding shout, the revolving metal ball expanded instantly to form a dagger three inches long.

Whiz~

A dazzling blade three feet long flew from the dagger towards the monsters, leaving a long-lasting white mark in the air.

This three-inch blade flew among the monsters, slitting their throats as though it had a consciousness of its own. A fountain of blood spurted out as it moved unstoppably through the monster crowd, with a slew of damage points popping up, almost overflowing Song Jian’s field of view.

“How…how is this possible?” Song Jian stared dumbfounded. Even those in the profession with the strongest AoE attack, would not be able to confront hundreds of same-level monsters simultaneously.

Critical Strike, Critical Strike, Critical Strike!

All the monsters had taken critical strike damages.

“Is this the result of Charge Up? No, the Charge Up effect only guarantees critical damage for the first attack, yet not all of these attacks are critical…” As Song Jian closely observed, he finally figured out why all the floating damage points were critical strikes.

“Every Sword Core attack hits the enemy’s weak point. So, it could automatically locate and attack the creature’s weak point?” Song Jian exclaimed in surprise, “It must be the Sword Spirit! The Sword Spirit must have played a key role!”

A small Sword Core alone slew hundreds of monsters, leaving them all sprawled on the ground, defeated. The man in the white robe, throughout the ordeal, remained standing in the empty air, stepping on his flying sword.

“This…this is beyond cool.” Song Jian was amazed and his eyes lit up with a fervent glow. “I must make this Sword Core! As expected of a divine myth-class skill!”

With the Sword Core, he didn’t need other weapons. Glancing at the three long swords in his dantian, Song Jian made up his mind. “Since I’m going to make a Sword Core, I am going to make the most powerful Sword Core!”

With this thought, Song Jian chose to use the skill book. A burst of multi-colored light sank into his forehead. Then the skill “Casting Soul Sword Gallbladder Jue” appeared in his skills column.

Upon opening this skill, a slot for an item appeared along with a system prompt: “Please choose a weapon equipped with Sword Spirit to forge the Sword Core!”

“I can only put in one weapon. Seems like the higher the quality of the weapon, the more formidable the Sword Core that’s forged.” Song Jian thought to himself.

Song Jian’s current three long swords are all set weapons. Each one alone is of gold level, but if he could collect all five long swords, they would become an epic level weapon set.

“I need to collect the remaining two long swords so that I can use the complete set to make the Sword Core!” Song Jian planned in his mind.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

“Wang Qi?” Song Jian called out, “Start collecting weapons of gold level or above, level 25 or higher. The more, the better!”

“Gold level weapons?” Wang Qi’s face changed. “Boss, that would require a large sum of money. Our alliance is currently focusing on upgrading to a Level 1 city. If we start purchasing weapons now, it will put a strain on our finances.”

Song Jian frowned slightly. Upgrading the Alliance’s territory was also a crucial matter. Any delay would have significant repercussions.

“Won’t we have more than enough funds after we’ve taken down the Valley of the Undead?” Li Ke’er interjected;

Song Jian’s eyes lit up, and he respond immediately, “Let’s arrange this quickly then. We’ll go to the Valley of the Undead tomorrow to examine the situation and aim to seize it directly!”

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