Their previous challenge progress had already cleared the Fourth Hall, Hall of King Wuguan.
So this time, after arriving at the Yama Hall, Lin Mo and Ning Xi headed straight into the Fifth Hall: Hall of King Yama.
Inside the gloomy hell, countless skinned evil ghosts wandered everywhere.
Waves of miserable crying echoed nonstop, making people shiver.
The monsters in the Fifth Hall, [Evil Ghosts], had levels set as the average level of the top 100,000 players on Inferno City's level ranking +9.
And on top of that, the first four layers of auras stacked together, all monsters gained 5000 Armor Penetration.
5000 Armor Break!
100% increased recovery!
50% control resistance!
As well as the new King Yama Aura: 50% damage reduction.
The overall difficulty kept rising.
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[Evil Ghost] (Lv63 Physical-Type · Normal Monster)
Physical Attack: 11900
Physical Defense: 7100
Magic Defense: 6800
HP: 244000
Skills: Evil Howl (C-rank), Ghost Pounce (D-rank)
Weakness: Evil Ghosts bully the weak and fear the strong. While attacking Evil Ghosts, loudly shouting and covering up the ghosts' crying can reduce their defense by 20%
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After seeing the Evil Ghost's attributes that Lin Mo had shared in the team channel through his SSS-rank Insight skill, Ning Xi's eyes lit up like she had discovered something new, "Brother Lin Mo, shouting loudly can lower the Evil Ghost's defense."
Looking at the Evil Ghosts ahead crying everywhere, just imagining shouting together with them made the scene seem no different from a bunch of monkeys.
"Forget it. That's way too embarrassing."
Besides, Lin Mo didn't need that mere 20% defense reduction effect anyway.
As he took out Illusion World · Thunder Fury, Lin Mo activated the set skill, Thunder Force.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Lightning wrapped around his body. In an instant, Lin Mo looked like the God of Thunder himself.
He locked onto an Evil Ghost ahead.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The extreme speed brought by 3010 agility, combined with the 203.25% basic attack speed bonus from the SS-rank Black Dragon Clan divine artifact Black Dragon Emperor Ring, pushed Lin Mo's attack speed to the limit, firing four arrows per second.
-75738 (Critical)!
-75738 (Critical)!
-75738 (Critical)!
-75738 (Critical)!
[Ding~ Killed Lv63 monster Evil Ghost. EXP +480000 (Divine Artifact Nirvana Luck Value +0.01%, Divine Artifact Black Dragon Emperor Ring Basic Attack Damage permanently +0.0001%)!]
Watching the Evil Ghost ahead let out a cry and collapse to the ground, compared to yesterday in the Fourth Hall, where even three SSS-rank skills could only barely kill one Lv61 Chanting Corpseman, Lin Mo couldn't help feeling shaken inside.
"The Black Dragon Emperor Ring's basic attack damage boost combined with the Tier 5 full gold Thunder set... the damage is insane."
Not to mention that compared to the Chanting Corpseman, the Evil Ghost also had the King Yama Aura with 50% increased damage reduction.
It was just that this aura effect happened to be canceled out by the Thunder set's 50% physical damage increase.
Otherwise, Lin Mo's damage would have been even higher.
His normal attacks were already this strong, there was no need to mention his skills.
After killing one Evil Ghost with basic attacks, Lin Mo immediately locked onto another group of several Evil Ghosts gathered together.
He raised Thunder Fury and released an arrow.
SSS-rank ultimate skill, World Destroyer · Storm Arrow Rain!
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
A sky full of arrows rained down, covering the group of Evil Ghosts.
A huge wave of blood-red damage crazily devoured their HP bars.
-105674 (Critical)!
-105674 (Critical)!
-105674 (Critical)!
In an instant, all seven Lv63 Evil Ghosts inside the Storm Arrow Rain were wiped out.
At that moment, even Ning Xi beside him couldn't help opening her eyes wide in surprise, "So strong!"
It had to be said, Tier 5 sets really were outrageous.
"No wonder Ming Yuexin spent over a hundred million on these two equipment sets," Lin Mo sighed.
This entire set on him was the lifetime of countless people.
Or rather, ten lifetimes.
At that moment, Ning Xi also raised her staff and targeted an Evil Ghost.
A-rank Fireball!
A-rank Gale Spell!
A-rank Ice Spike Spell!
Although she didn't have Lin Mo's SSS-rank talent Soul Flame to evolve a full set of SSS-rank skills, Ning Xi's overall strength was already very high compared to ordinary players.
After the tenfold damage enhancement from the SSS-rank talent Nine-Five Supreme.
A series of impressive damage numbers exploded above the Evil Ghost's head.
-36852!
-37289!
-39999!
With the five auras stacked together, especially the King Yama Aura's 50% damage reduction being too overbearing, even after three skills, Ning Xi still hadn't taken away even half the Evil Ghost's HP.
Ning Xi stuck out her tongue, "I'm so weak!"
Lin Mo said nothing. He only silently finished off the heavily injured Evil Ghost.
Then he opened his backpack and took out a staff, a mage robe, and a skill book before handing them to Ning Xi, "Equip these."
Ning Xi took them and looked at them, instantly opening her eyes wide.
"Brother Lin Mo, where did you get Tier 5 orange equipment?"
"And also... an S-rank skill?"
Because Ning Xi knew: the equipment and skills evolved through Lin Mo's talent were bound after evolution and could only be used by him, not traded.
Without counting talent evolution, tier 5 orange equipment was basically a divine item at the current stage.
And S-rank skill books were priceless treasures
In truth, the Level 55 Tier 5 orange-quality Heaven Defying Magic Staff; the Level 56 Tier 5 orange-quality Heaven Defying Mage Robe and the S-rank Elemental Mage skill book Dragon Command Spell were all dropped yesterday by the Heaven Defying Demon Dragon inside the Dragon Hall Secret Realm.
One could say they were tailor-made for Ning Xi.
At Ning Xi's current level of 57, she already met the equipment requirements for both items.
So after equipping the two pieces of equipment and learning the skill book, Ning Xi raised the Heaven Defying Magic Staff glowing with purple magic light and once again locked onto an Evil Ghost ahead.
S-rank Dragon Command Spell!
ROAR!
Accompanied by a loud dragon roar.
A silver dragon shadow dived down from the sky and swallowed the Evil Ghost.
-343580!
[Ding~ Your teammate Liuli killed Lv63 monster Evil Ghost. You gained 440000 EXP!]
'Holy shit!'
Seeing the instant-kill damage Ning Xi dealt to the Evil Ghost, Lin Mo couldn't help sucking in a breath.
"The SSS-rank talent Nine-Five Supreme really is overbearing!"
One had to know: Ning Xi only had a Tier 5 orange weapon equipped, plus a robe mainly focused on HP stats, yet she could already unleash this kind of insane damage.
If she copied Lin Mo's full gold equipment set, even Lin Mo, with Strong-Maned Pig taking 90% of the damage for him, probably wouldn't survive one S-rank Dragon Command Spell from Ning Xi.
'As expected of the number one female empress of the Dragon Nation server in the previous life.'
'With just a little guidance, she can soar straight into the sky!'
Lin Mo thought to himself.
At that moment, Lin Mo also remembered the large amount of magic scrolls [Practice Makes Perfect] that Lin Miaomiao had sent him earlier.
It was said Ming Yuexin had spent over two hundred million buying them across more than two hundred Level 2 main cities throughout the Dragon Nation server.
Originally, they were intended to help Lin Mo quickly level up his SSS-rank ultimate skill.
But what Ming Yuexin didn't know was: Lin Mo's ultimate skill had already reached SSS-rank long ago.
So these scrolls were best used to level up Ning Xi's ultimate skill instead.
"What kind of effect will your tenfold damage enhancement talent have once it's applied to an SSS-rank ultimate skill?"
Lin Mo suddenly looked forward to it, "Come, let's level it up and see."