Chapter 64: Assassin's Crest! Exclusive Attack Special Effect [Critical Hit]!

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【Perfect class advancement successful!】
【Fate Upgrade: Summoned creatures inherit attributes 40% → 60%】
【Obtained Class Advancement Exclusive Skill for Tactician of the Conflux: Needle Cluster Shower (SS)】
【Chess piece population +1】
【Perfect class advancement reward: Free attribute points gained upon leveling up doubled; Hextech Lottery × 1 → Hextech Designated (Gold) × 1; Obtained exclusive item for Tactician of the Conflux: Spatula】

System notification sounds rang out endlessly.

"So many benefits from a perfect class advancement?"
"No wonder everyone strives for a perfect class advancement."
Li Yao was pleasantly surprised.

Every single one of the three rewards was a massive boost for him.
However, this Spatula...
Li Yao looked at the golden item floating in front of him.

[Spatula]
[Special Item: Collect two to increase chess piece population, or fuse with an exclusive item to become a chess piece class advancement voucher.]

"Same effect as in the game."
Li Yao held it in his hand, feeling a bit helpless that he hadn't even caught a glimpse of any equipment yet, let alone a second Spatula...
Wait!
Li Yao suddenly remembered.
Earlier, the Butcher Cavalry had dropped forty gold coins.
Surely the Dark Wing wouldn't drop nothing at all?

Li Yao hurriedly walked over to the spot where he had previously slain the Dark Wing.
"There really is something!"
A large pile of gold coins was scattered on the ground, along with a grey glove-like item.

At the same time,
four balls of light were floating in the air.
These were the clearance rewards the Dark Wing had offered for Li Yao to choose from. Li Yao put them into his storage ring and then turned his attention to the glove item.
This thing was the key!

[Gauntlet (Unknown Item)]
[Equipment Requirement: Must be worn by a chess piece]
[Attribute 1: Evasion +10%]
[Attribute 2: Grants exclusive attack effect: Critical Strike. Triggering a critical strike increases current damage to 175%; Critical strike chance +20%]
[Attribute 3: Can be fused with similar items]

Before obtaining the equipment, Li Yao had imagined its effects would be strong.
He just hadn't expected them to be this absurd!
Exclusive attack effect: Critical Strike?
Triggering a critical strike directly increases damage by seventy percent?
If a critical strike triggered during a weakness attack, the damage... Li Yao didn't even dare to imagine!
And this was just a basic component; what if it were fused into a completed item...

No sooner thought than done!
Li Yao immediately took out the Spatula and fused the two together.
After a few seconds,
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an emblem-like item appeared before Li Yao.

[Assassin's Emblem (Unknown Item)]
[Equipment Requirement: Must be worn by a chess piece]
[Attribute 1: Evasion +15%]
[Attribute 2: Grants exclusive attack effect: Critical Strike. Triggering a critical strike increases current damage to 175%; Critical strike chance +25%]
[Attribute 3: Equipped chess piece gains the Assassin Trait]

Both attributes had increased by 5%, which was a solid upgrade, but the real key was the Assassin Trait.
Now, Li Yao had two trait effects he could activate.
Void and Assassin.

[Void Trait]
[Three Void: Summons a Void creature, Void Remora]
[Five Void: Summons a Void creature, Void Herald]
[Eight Void: Summons a Void creature, Nashor the Dragon]
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[Assassin Trait]
[Two Assassin: Critical strike rate +10%, Critical strike damage +20%]
[Four Assassin: Critical strike rate +25%, Critical strike damage +35%]
[Six Assassin: Critical strike rate +40%, Critical strike damage +50%]

"Invincible!"
Li Yao could think of no other adjective to describe this.
The former involved summoned creatures; judging by the difficulty of activating traits, the summoned creatures would definitely not be weak.
The latter provided a solid, tangible increase to damage.

After a brief moment of thought, Li Yao decided to give this first piece of equipment to the Dark Winged Black Dragon.
It would trigger the Assassin Trait with the Void Mantis, strengthening both of them!
Afterward,
Li Yao turned his attention to the four balls of light.
Just as he expected:
The Platinum-tier hammer was the exclusive weapon of the Butcher Cavalry.
Its attributes were very strong, but it didn't suit Li Yao, so he could use it as a centerpiece at the auction house later.
The two beads were S-tier special materials that could enhance bonus attributes when forging equipment.
Such materials were extremely precious, their value rivaling even that of skills.

"These are all centerpieces for the auction house!"
Li Yao sighed with emotion and carefully placed these items into his storage ring.
The longsword and the skill book, however, made Li Yao's eyes light up because he could use both of them!

[Inheritor (Weapon)]
[Quality: Dark Gold]
[Equipment Requirement: Level 25, Spirit 300]
[Equipment Attribute 1: Wearer's highest attribute increased by 200]
[Equipment Attribute 2: Inherit (Active): Choose a piece of equipment to inherit its affix attributes; cannot be repeated, original equipment is destroyed]
[Equipment Attribute 3: Inherit...]
[Equipment Attribute 4: Inherit...]
[Durability: 300/300]
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[Earth Tremor (S-tier Active Skill): Strikes the ground heavily with a weapon, creating a strong shockwave. All hostile creatures within a ten-meter radius fall into a stun state (stun duration depends on the target's spirit attribute). Cooldown: 60 seconds.]

"As expected, wanting it all is the right choice!"
Out of four choices, taking two—Li Yao would have felt immense heartache abandoning any of them.
Even the hammer and the beads—
even if Li Yao couldn't use them, any class professional who needed them would undoubtedly treat them as priceless treasures.
The remaining two items were practically tailor-made for him.

A skill book filled the gap in Li Yao's lack of crowd control.
At critical moments, a crowd control skill could exert a battle-turning effect.
If Li Yao had possessed this skill when dealing with the Dark Wing,
those six seconds would have been entirely sufficient to deal massive damage, preventing him from being slammed into the wall by the Dark Wing and wasting time.

And then there was this longsword.
Three inheritable attributes—
it was equivalent to fusing the essences of three pieces of equipment to forge a divine weapon perfectly suited for himself.
Li Yao almost instantly thought of [Goblin's Proof of Courage].
In a combat state, if an equipment skill was used, switching equipment would cause the skill's effect to dissipate.
When dealing with the Dark Wing, he used the [Beast King Robe] to cast the summon Silver Moon Wolf skill, and the attributes the Silver Moon Wolf buffed Li Yao with were as high as 1,500.
Coupled with the other attributes of the equipment itself, Li Yao had been forced to abandon the 30% strength buff brought by the Proof of Courage.
With this longsword, such a situation would never occur.

Li Yao chose to inherit.
The [Goblin's Proof of Courage] instantly shattered.

"In that case, the White Jade Bone Blade is of no further use."
It was a bit of a pity.
The White Jade Bone Blade only had such effectiveness because of Li Yao's exceptionally high strength value.
Replaced with an ordinary class professional, the poison attribute damage dealt would be negligible at best, and it wouldn't fetch a good price at an auction house—calling it a Platinum floor tile was no exaggeration.
Thinking of the origin of the White Jade Bone Blade, Li Yao felt somewhat consoled.
After all, it was only dropped by a minor boss in a primal dungeon.

"Having accompanied me for so long, I do feel a bit reluctant to part with it."
Li Yao gently stroked the blade.
"Rest assured, I'll definitely sell you for a good price!"

At this point, the Dark Wing's drops had been fully inventoried.
Next came the rewards obtained from the class advancement!
This was an SS-tier skill!
[Devoted Heart] went without saying—Li Yao was able to defeat the Dark Wing almost entirely thanks to this skill.
Presumably, this [Needle Cluster Shower] would not disappoint him either.

"However..."
"Why does this skill look somewhat familiar?"
It seemed to be...
The ultimate move of Gwen, the little seamstress?
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