Chapter 466 Curse Status
“There are so many kinds of curses...”
Wang Tao was a little confused when he saw the various curses.
He originally thought that the curse was a state like "bleeding" that caused people to continuously lose blood, or a state like "weakness" that reduced the enemy's ability in some aspect.
But after Wang Tao used it, he found that he thought too simply. The specific state of this curse is not fixed. "Bleeding", "weakness" and so on are all included in the curse!
The reason why Wang Tao almost killed someone was because he wanted to see if the same person could suffer different curses, so he tried it on a death row prisoner.
Three curses soon appeared on the head of the condemned prisoner at the same time.
[Curse: Bleeding]
[Curse: Poison]
[Curse: Burning]
These three curses all deduct blood, and the condemned prisoner's already small health bar was almost cleared.
Although this prisoner was originally sentenced to death, it doesn't matter if he is really dead. But this is the rule in the base after all. It is better for Wang Tao not to break it.
After letting go of the dying prisoner, Wang Tao tried it on other prisoners. This time, I was much more cautious. Instead of catching another sheep, I brought in more prisoners and tested them one by one.
After some time, Wang Tao understood the curse better.
First of all, it is certain that a person can only have three curses at the same time. After there are more than three curses, if he continues to attack with dark energy, the fourth curse will not appear. Unless one of the previous three curses disappears, then subsequent dark attacks will make up for a curse.
Secondly, the existence time of these curses is not consistent, some are long and some are short, ranging from a few seconds to a few minutes, and the duration of the curse has nothing to do with strength. No matter how strong or weak it is, it takes so long.
Then there is the power of these curses. The specific power is not easy to test, but it is related to the intensity of Wang Tao's attack. He uses less dark energy, and the curse is weaker. If he attacks with all his strength, the curse will be stronger. There is no fixed value - there may be an upper limit, but these prisoners obviously cannot bear the upper limit tested by Wang Tao.
The last thing is how many kinds of curses there are.
What Wang Tao has discovered so far is weakness, poisoning, bleeding, burning, blindness, slowing down, freezing, armor breaking, critical hits... a lot of them here and there.
Among these curses, some directly cause damage, such as poisoning, bleeding, burning, etc.; some reduce the enemy's attributes, such as weakness, armor breaking, blindness, etc.; and some impose some strange effects on the enemy. Status, such as critical hit - when attacked, the probability of being critically hit (double damage) is greatly increased...
Wang Tao felt that this might not be all the curses, but he couldn't test it for a while, because the more powerful the curse, the lower the probability of it appearing. For example, there is a curse called "Beheading", which looks very powerful, but only appears once.
The life of a prisoner is also life. Not everyone is a death row prisoner, and it is difficult to explain if someone is really killed. I can only continue the experiment when killing zombies in the future.
When it comes to this [Curse: Kill], Wang Tao feels that this should be the most powerful curse he has ever seen.
[Curse: Execute]
[Execute: Death when the current blood volume is less than 20% of the total blood volume]
This [Curse: Execution] lasts for 3 minutes. After a prisoner was hit by this curse, the last 20% of his green health bar turned dark green. As long as his blood volume was reduced to the dark green range, he would Die immediately!
In other words, when the enemy is hit by the killing curse, he will only have 80% of his health within 3 minutes!
This curse may not be useful to humans, but if it is against zombies and monsters with more health and higher defense, it will be very useful!
For example, if a giant zombie with 400,000 health was hit, it would be equivalent to losing 80,000 health in an instant! This undoubtedly reduces the difficulty of killing a lot.
But [Curse: Execution] lasts only 3 minutes, and the enemy's health needs to be reduced to 80% within 3 minutes, otherwise it will be useless.
Of course, this is not a big problem for Wang Tao. If he is going to hunt an enemy, he usually does it when he is sure. It is impossible to keep the enemy alive for more than 3 minutes, and the battle will be over in 1 minute at most. If it takes more than 3 minutes, you may need to grind it slowly. It doesn't matter whether there is this curse or not...
After roughly figuring out the effect of the curse, Wang Tao left the prison.
This newly awakened [Heart of Darkness] is stronger than he imagined. Whether it is simulating various attacks or curse effects, it is far beyond his expectation. greatly enhance his combat effectiveness.
But this awakening is not without its shortcomings. The biggest shortcoming is that the fusion ability of [Heart of Darkness] is [Integration and Penetration], and [Integration and Penetration] contains all of Wang Tao’s offensive abilities. In other words, he can no longer use powers such as shock waves without using dark energy.
If you use dark energy, you can simulate a similar move, with greater power, wider range, and shorter cooling time, but it consumes not mana, but awakening energy!
Wang Tao has 120,000 mana, but only 3,100 awakening energy... This is very uncomfortable. This is equivalent to an increase in his burst, but a decrease in battery life.
Especially when Wang Tao studied it carefully and found that the three remaining abilities on his body are [Frenzy Amplification], [Fireball] and [Explosive Flame].
Among them, [Frenzy Amplification] is a fusion of various passive abilities and does not consume mana; [Explosion Flame] is a fire power that compresses all awakening energy to explode and does not consume mana. Only [Fireball] consumes mana, but it consumes both mana and awakening energy, and the amount of mana it consumes is not much...
In other words, Wang Tao's current 120,000 mana only consumes this mana. There are not many [Fireballs] to consume! So much mana only serves this [Fireball] that doesn’t consume much mana? Wang Tao was a little speechless, feeling that it was a bit of a waste.
But there is nothing we can do about it. The abilities with attributes will not be integrated into Awakening. Neither [Fireball] nor [Explosion] can be integrated, only [Frenzy Amplification] and [Integration]. Who can Let the ability of [Integration and Comprehension] be integrated into the new awakening.
"In the future, we will just let it happen when it comes to increasing the amount of mana. It doesn't matter whether we increase it or not, but the awakening energy must be increased!"
Wang Tao said silently.
In addition to the fixed increase in fusion crystal core, the increase in mana amount also depends on opportunities. But the awakening energy is different. As long as there are awakening crystal cores or awakening energy beads, it can continue to increase, but the consumption will increase the further it goes. Wang Tao now needs to consume more than thirty awakening crystal cores if he wants to increase the awakening energy by 100!
“I don’t know if there are awakening crystal cores for sale in the base... I’ll let people pay attention to it later!”
Wang Tao originally wanted to ask Qu Shilin for help, but he thought that she was in retreat now. To do research, Wang Tao sent a message to Gu Yun. As the mayor, he must know more.
Not long after, Gu Yun responded to the message.
He told Wang Tao that awakening crystal cores are for sale, but the price is relatively high. After all, there are now some awakened people in the base, and this kind of crystal core is a very needed thing for them. However, this high price refers to high-quality crystal nuclei, that is, crystal nuclei above purple. For example, blue crystal cores are much cheaper, and white crystal cores are even cheaper. After all, this kind of crystal core can only be used by awakened people. Awakened people are basically relatively wealthy. There is no need to save money and cause more impurities in their bodies.
This is obviously good news for Wang Tao. After all, he can synthesize crystal nuclei, and white crystal nuclei can also be used.
So, Wang Tao stopped by the Awakening School and asked Nie Siyan to purchase low-level awakening crystal cores in the base in the name of the Spark Club. He is not short of money now and can take whatever he has.
Although it was still snowing heavily at this time, the Awakening School was a busy scene.
Every building is almost crowded with people, all of whom come to the school to register. If it hadn't been so cold outside, there would probably have been even more people.
Wang Tao didn't plan to come over originally, but since he is here, he took a look.
With such a large number, we can indeed see that some people have hidden attributes.
Gu Yun, who was sweating profusely, came downstairs to invite Wang Tao up. He looked at Wang Tao with a somewhat resentful look. In fact, this was originally the principal's job, but who gave Wang Tao the strength? He could only do this kind of laborious work.
But when Wang Tao randomly wrote down some numbers and told him that these people had acceptable qualifications, Gu Yun became happy again. Later, we just need to focus on checking the background of these people. If there is no problem with their background, even if they pass, it is Wang Tao who named them personally after all.
As for other people, I’m sorry. No matter how clean their background is, the school will not accept them because they don’t have enough qualifications. Wang Tao suddenly saved Gu Yun a lot of time.
Gu Yun almost wanted to say that Wang Tao would be in charge of the school now, but after thinking about it, he still didn't say it. Just be tired if you are tired. If you can really cultivate a few awakened people for the base, then it will be worth it no matter how tired you are.
When it got dark, Wang Tao took Ding Yuqin and the others back who had come before.
“Wang Tao, congratulations!”
"Congratulations Sanjue!"
Only then did everyone have time to say congratulations to Wang Tao.
At the same time, we are all looking forward to it. Wang Tao has awakened three times now. How strong must he be?
Of course, they were also curious about what Wang Tao's new awakening was. Before, people were so confused that they didn't ask.
Wang Tao briefly demonstrated it to everyone. When they saw that Wang Tao could control dark energy, making the entire car darken and even the lights being blocked, everyone felt very novel. This feeling is very similar to the previous black fog zombies, but it is not as uncomfortable as the black fog of the black fog zombies. It just purely blocks the light.
But when Wang Tao introduced his curse ability, everyone felt a chill on their backs. It would probably be uncomfortable if three curses appeared on the body at the same time.
But if you face zombies, that’s a different story! They wish they could curse as much as possible.
Wang Tao was thinking about whether his [Heart of Darkness] could be integrated with the two previous awakenings. Today's time is limited, so I just tested the curse effect. Whether it can be integrated has not been tested yet...
After returning home, Wang Tao started some tests again.
It seems difficult to integrate [Heart of Darkness] and [Spiritual Development]. Wang Tao has tried many times without success, and he doesn’t know if they can be integrated.
But the integration of [Heart of Darkness] and [Catching Fire] is particularly smooth!
When Wang Tao activated [Catching Fire] and his whole body was ignited with flames, the "Fire Shock Wave" he used turned into a "Dark Flame Shock Wave", using both fire and dark damage at the same time!
And the range is larger than "Dark Shockwave" and the cooldown time is shorter! It also inherits the "burning" status of the fire blast and the "curse" status of the dark blast. This "burn" has nothing to do with "curse: burn".
In other words, if you use the dark element to awaken under Catching Fire, the enemy will have one burning and three curses! If you add a small ice, it may add a frozen state!
Hey guys, if five negative states can really appear at the same time... Wang Tao is looking forward to the effect in battle.
After the test, Wang Tao took a shower and came to his room. With a wave of his hand, a large number of high-quality crystal nuclei appeared.
Now that I have successfully awakened three times and tested my ability to awaken, I will advance to the fifth level.
Wang Tao immediately began to increase his power level, but suddenly, Wang Tao was stunned.
"No, I only have three powers now..."
While fusing the crystal core, Wang Tao suddenly remembered that for others to be promoted, they only need to have one power raised to the full level. , but he is different, he has to upgrade all four abilities to full level.
But the problem is that the crystal core in his hand is enough, but his [Heart of Darkness] is fused with a superpower, and now he only has three superpowers... Can he still be promoted? Wang Tao had a bad feeling.
When he raised these three powers to full level, he closed his eyes and felt it for a while, then sighed helplessly.
It is true that he cannot be promoted, he still lacks one superpower...
He has many fourth-level crystal nuclei with superpowers, but he does not want to fuse any one randomly.
One of the crystal nuclei after the fourth level has attributes, such as [Fireball] and [Explosive Flame], which can only be used by fire awakeners. Such powers are obviously better than ordinary powers. Even more powerful, Wang Tao also wants to fuse this kind of power, but he currently does not have a crystal core that he can use.
If you fuse an ordinary crystal core at will, it will become a fifth-level superpower after promotion, and Wang Tao does not have a fifth-level stripped crystal core to replace it...
Wang Tao was immediately confused, whether to promote to fifth level first level, and then look for the fifth-level attribute crystal core and the fifth-level peeling crystal core later, or wait for promotion and find the suitable fourth-level attribute crystal core first...
Ding Yuqin has always been with Wang. Next to Tao, seeing Wang Tao's entanglement, she thought for a while and said:
"How about you wait a while before being promoted? Didn't you ask the Spark Club to purchase the awakening crystal core? By the way, buy some at a high price. Attribute crystal cores! With so many people in our base, we may not have fifth-level crystal cores, but there are some fourth-level attribute crystal cores, right?”
“It seems to be a way...”
(End of this chapter)