Chapter 123 Skill: Triple Projection
The Black Robe Leader's palm turned into a blur, each strike dealing over a hundred thousand damage, and within a second, Alan's health bar dropped by nearly a million.
Alan raised an eyebrow and sneered, "You've got some skills; let me show you some of mine."
As soon as Alan finished speaking, his arrows poured out.
In one second, Alan's health bar recovered eight hundred thousand points, nearly full health!
With its one percent max health lifesteal and twenty hits per second, the Bloodthirsty Necklace could potentially lifesteal over seventy thousand.
The Ninefold Longbow's five percent damage lifesteal, ten thousand per second, added up to eighty thousand health recovery, which was absolutely terrifying.
The Black Robe Leader's pupils contracted, shocked by Alan's damage and healing abilities.
Thick health bar, high damage, ridiculous healing.
He couldn't see any weaknesses in Alan now.
If there was a weakness, it might be his defense.
But was that really a problem?
It seemed not at all.
No one could threaten Alan's life.
"Ice King, I was just testing your strength, don't misunderstand, now I'll change the mission," the Black Robe Leader said.
"You think you can just test me? I'm not that easy to deal with." Alan's voice wasn't loud, but it carried a strong sense of pressure.
"Ice King, we should be friends." the Black Robe Leader added.
"I used to consider you a friend, but you're too dishonest," Alan said coldly.
"It was just a joke..." The Black Robe Leader clearly didn't want to fight Alan anymore.
But Alan remained unmoved. "Jokes come with a price. How about this, I won't make a fuss if you give me the dungeon key."
Hearing this, he Black Robe Leader narrowed his eyes, staring at Alan. "Ice King, I'm really curious, who are you? You know my infinite black smoke teleportation so well, and you know I have the dungeon key."
Alan didn't explain much and directly asked, "So, are you giving it or not?"
The Black Robe Leader's expression turned serious, he looked at Alan, not saying a word for several minutes.
"I can give you the dungeon key, but the mission remains unchanged."
Alan shook his head. "That's a joke condition. If you want me to help you establish a regime in Stellaria, you'll need to offer more benefits. Otherwise, I'll just kill you and take the dungeon key myself."
The Black Robe Leader clenched his fist. In that moment, he yearned for another round with Alan, not for any particular reason, but because he found Alan's demands to be unreasonable.
He couldn't accept any of them!
However, he had to make a choice now.
'Fight or compromise?' the Black Robe Leader pondered.
If they completely fell out with Ice King, not just him, but their entire dungeon would suffer greatly.
Agreeing to his request could also potentially lead to befriending Ice King. If he don't agree, the outcome could be very troublesome.
Even if he were to take down Ice King now, it would be inconsequential, given that Ice King could resurrect.
The Black Robe Leader decided to concede. "Fine, I'll give you the dungeon key, what benefits do you want for helping us establish a regime?"
"That depends on what you can offer," Alan replied.
The Black Robe Leader laughed. "I thought you knew everything about me, didn't expect there were things you didn't know."
"Cut the crap, if you can't offer what I want, there's no deal," Alan said.
The Black Robe Leader raised his hand, revealing a withered flower.
"Do you recognize this?" the Black Robe Leader asked.
Alan frowned, it looked familiar.
Then, he showed a look of disbelief.
"The Talent Evolution Flower!" Alan exclaimed.
"Interesting, Ice King, I'm getting more curious about you, who are you to recognize this?" the Black Robe Leader commented.
Alan didn't explain but said, "If it's this, then the deal is on."
"Good," the Black Robe Leader said.
The Talent Evolution Flower could evolve a person's talent.
Though it was hard to evolve a whole grade at once, it was not difficult to get a certain boost.
For example, James' Bonding Talent could increase from binding 10 to 11.
Additionally, it could also increase the inheritable attributes of Health, Physical Defense, Magic Defense from three to four.
The same goes for Robert, his free attribute points could double from five times to six or even seven times.
In any direction, the Talent Evolution Flower was a very powerful item.
'Just don't know if the Talent Evolution Flower will work on my super-god-level talent,' Alan thought.
According to Alan's knowledge, the higher the talent, the less effective the Talent Evolution Flower.
Specific values weren't documented in the past life, as only around twenty instances had come to light.
Except for one who evolved from intermediate to advanced, no one else had such a grade leap.
Most just had their talent effects enhanced.
One god-level talent user only got a slight boost.
[The Black Robe Leader has issued you a mission.]
[Mission Requirement: Help the Night Walkers establish a regime in Stellaria.]
[Mission Penalty: Unknown.]
[Mission Reward: Talent Evolution Flower.]
[Do you accept?]
"Yes."
Alan accepted the mission without hesitation and then took out the mission scroll. "Shouldn't you modify this?"
The Black Robe Leader waved his hand, and the mission on the scroll changed.
From helping the Night Walkers establish a regime to giving the Black Robe Leader a Copper Coin.
Alan tossed a Copper Coin to the Black Robe Leader, and the pre-mission scroll for the Blessing of the Gods was completed.
After completing this mission, Alan smiled. 'Finally got the Blessing of the Gods again.'
"Use the Blessing of the Gods."
[You have received the Blessing of the Guardian of Time.]
[You have acquired the skill: Triple Projection.]
Alan was shocked.
His luck was incredible!
'How could a Blessing of the Gods from the Black Robe Leader be the Blessing of the Guardian of Time? Could it be...'
Thinking back to the Blessing of the God of Love he received earlier, Alan had a bold guess.
That these pre-mission scrolls for the Blessing of the Gods were obtained from the ancient Jinse Empire, so the blessings were all from Jinse Empire's deities.
And they had little to do with the person who provided the scroll.
In the later stages of the game, the key to the Blessing of the Gods was related to the person who provided the scroll.
For example, the Black Robe Leader clearly had nothing to do with the Guardian of Time, so he couldn't have received the Guardian of Time's blessing.