Lin Mo didn't know how that Heavenly Ranking player in his previous life had defeated the Blood Emperor, cleared the Third Hall, and obtained the SS-rank magic scroll Incubated Clone.
Maybe they had found some method that perfectly countered the BOSS's healing. After all, the BOSS's strength lay in its recovery. As long as it couldn't heal, its Blood Frenzy skill would become useless.
Or maybe they had used some kind of magic scroll to win in a single strike.
In the world of Divine Oracle, there exists a type of magic scroll with a "blood severing" effect, capable of dealing true damage based on a percentage of the enemy's maximum HP.
Generally, as long as the rank reaches A, it can achieve a 10% blood sever effect on a BOSS.
But Lin Mo had no way to perfectly block the BOSS's healing, nor could he, from the countless varieties of magic scrolls in Divine Oracle, find this kind of percentage-based blood severing scroll in such a short time.
For him, the most direct and effective method was to train Ling Xiao and have him use his A-rank talent, Mutual Destruction, to blow up the BOSS.
True damage was the most overbearing type of damage in Divine Oracle, bar none.
Because it ignored all forms of damage reduction.
Even Ning Xi's SSS-rank talent Supreme Sovereign's 90% damage reduction, or Strong-Maned Pig's 90% damage sharing, were completely ineffective against true damage.
[T/N: Nine-Five Supreme has been changed to Supreme Sovereign.]
At first, Lin Mo hadn't thought of Ling Xiao.
It was Strong-Maned Pig who gave him the idea.
Just earlier, Lin Mo had planned to let Strong-Maned Pig use the skill [Armor Explosion] from Burst · Vajra Sacred Armor to blow up the BOSS.
But after calculating, Strong-Maned Pig could only deal a little over 110,000 damage per explosion, nowhere near enough to take 10% of the BOSS's HP.
So that led Lin Mo to think of Ling Xiao's A-rank talent, Mutual Destruction.
Armor Explosion was basically a weaker version of Mutual Destruction.
Because the Pig could only explode 25% of HP, while the Ling Xiao could explode 100%.
Moreover, Pig had little room for further growth in the short term. Ling Xiao, however, still had huge potential for growth.
And it wasn't just for blowing up the BOSS, Lin Mo had already intended to train Ling Xiao into a "nuclear bomb."
Right now, blowing up the BOSS and training Ling Xiao was like hitting two birds with one stone.
Without another word, Lin Mo immediately sent Ling Xiao a WeChat message, ["Show me your stats panel."]
Not long after, Ling Xiao, who was online, sent a screenshot from the game.
The panel showed: Ling Xiao's current HP was 51,250.
As a level 50 second-class Knight, Ling Xiao's HP was already higher than most knights of the same level.
But to blow up the Blood Emperor, it was still far from enough. It needed to be increased further.
Without hesitation, Lin Mo immediately issued a retreat command to Strong-Maned Pig, who was holding the BOSS at the front.
"Is there really no other way?"
Seeing that they were just one step away from success, Ning Xi said with some regret.
"We need to prepare."
"Pull back first."
So the two of them decisively withdrew from the Hall of Yama.
At that moment, Ling Xiao sent another message, ["Boss, do you need me to do something?"]
["Yeah,"] Lin Mo said, ["I need you to use your talent to help me blow up a monster."]
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[Inferno City]
Just past midnight, as the purchase limit for Super God Arena tickets reset, countless players rushed to participate in matches. The arena was bustling with activity.
Relying on his A-rank talent Mutual Destruction, Ling Xiao exploded anyone he faced. No player could withstand 51,250 true damage.
According to the system's judgment: in a PK state, if Mutual Destruction is used to perish together with the opponent, the one who activated the talent is counted as the winner.
As a result, Ling Xiao easily achieved a ten-win streak in the solo arena.
Seeing Lin Mo's message, Ling Xiao felt a surge of excitement.
After all, Lin Mo had previously helped him get Xia Wanwan out of prison, and up until now, he hadn't repaid him in any way, instead constantly consumed his resources.
At this moment, Ling Xiao thought: he finally had a chance to be useful.
["No problem!",] Ling Xiao replied without hesitation, ["What monster do you want me to blow up?"]
["A Tier 4 BOSS."]
[???]
Lin Mo's answer left Ling Xiao stunned.
'Come on, boss! With this talent, you want me to blow up Wang Junjie, no problem.'
'But you want me to blow up a Tier 4 BOSS?'
Of course, Lin Mo fully trusted Ling Xiao.
After all, in the later stages of his previous life, Ling Xiao had even managed to blow up an 11th-tier Corpse Emperor BOSS.
So what was a mere Tier 4 BOSS at 10% HP?
The main issue was, from Ling Xiao's stats panel, Lin Mo immediately saw the problem: he hadn't yet found his direction.
He hadn't completely abandoned attack and defense to fully stack HP.
Of course, Lin Mo understood, every time Mutual Destruction was used, Ling Xiao himself would also die. Unless necessary, this talent couldn't be used lightly.
So in daily monster grinding and combat, to ensure his own survivability, Ling Xiao had also invested quite a few points into defense.
He had even added a bit into attack.
["Wrong."]
Ling Xiao was confused, ["What's wrong?"]
Lin Mo said, ["Your direction is wrong."]
["Go wait for me at the auction house."]
———
With that, Lin Mo crushed a return scroll and went back to Inferno City.
He headed straight to the auction house.
From the wide variety of Knight skill books, he selectively purchased several passive skill books that increased HP for Ling Xiao.
[Life Fortification] (Knight universal, D-rank passive): HP +15%.
[Convert Attack to Defense] (Knight universal, D-rank passive): Reduces attack by 10%, increases HP by 25%.
[Strengthen Body] (Magic Knight, C-rank passive): Physical defense -20%, converted equally into magic defense, and HP +35%.
[Holy Body] (Knight universal, D-rank passive): Physical defense +5% (Paladin exclusive), and for every 1 point of physical defense, gain an additional 5 HP.
[Magic Body] (Knight universal, D-rank passive): Magic defense +5% (Magic Knight exclusive), and for every 1 point of magic defense, gain an additional 5 HP.
Since the number of players in Inferno City had just reached 2 million, not even one-fifth of the maximum capacity of a main city and over 90% of the wild zones, dungeons, and secret realms outside the city remained unexplored due to players not meeting rank requirements, resources in this secondary main city were scarce, so these were all Lin Mo could find.
When Ling Xiao and Xia Wanwan arrived at the auction house, Lin Mo handed all the skills to Ling Xiao, "Learn all of these."
Skinny Monkey glanced at the skill books and said in surprise, "Huh? They're all HP-boosting passive skills?"
"Players have limited skill slots. To learn these passives, you'd have to overwrite and give up other skills. That means Brother Xiao won't have any output or defense left in the future, just a pure HP tank."
"No attack, no defense," Lin Mo directly stated his requirement to Ling Xiao, "Your core is explosion."
While Skinny Monkey and Fat Dahai were still weighing whether this trade-off was worth it, Ling Xiao didn't hesitate for even a moment.
He said firmly, "Alright! From now on, I'm the boss's demolition man."
"Whoever the boss wants me to blow up, I'll blow them up!"
After saying that, Ling Xiao decisively took all the passive skills Lin Mo bought for him and overwrote the various active skills he had learned before.
Except for the A-rank skill [Soul Stomp], which Lin Mo had gifted him earlier from the Dark Ruler, and the Magic Knight ultimate skill [Magic Shield], which couldn't be overwritten, Ling Xiao's skill list was now filled entirely with passive skills, without a third active skill in sight.
Next, Lin Mo took out a D-rank [Reset Scroll] from his bag (usable by players below second class; resets all attribute points gained from leveling after use).
"Reset your stats, then put everything into Constitution."
"Okay," Ling Xiao took the scroll and used it immediately. Following Lin Mo's instructions, he put all 150 level-up attribute points into Constitution.
Lin Mo asked, "How much HP now?"
Ling Xiao opened his status panel and checked, "146,000!"
Compared to before, his HP had nearly tripled.
But Lin Mo frowned slightly, as if this increase still didn't satisfy him.
"To blow up the Blood Emperor, your HP needs to exceed at least 255,000."
"With your current HP, you're still short of that target."
So Lin Mo immediately posted a message in Inferno City's main chat channel.
[Rulebound (Lv55 Tier 3 Soul Archer · Rank 1 on Heavenly Ranking): "Buying Magic Knight HP passive skills. Price isn't an issue. Send screenshots in private."]
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