Chapter 423: Chain Hidden Quest, Crusade Against the Soul Emperor!
["Ding~ Congratulations, your 15-star Legendary·Transcendent Set has evolved into 16-star Legendary·Transcendent Set, equipment attributes have been improved, set skills [Void Shield], [Thunder Power], [Enchantment], [Abyss Breath], [Thunder Electric Shield], [Water Shield] effects have been enhanced..."]
The upper limit of enhancement for the Transcendent Set has been lifted, possessing the ability to improve infinitely.
Each star upgrade grants significantly noticeable bonuses.
However, after 15 stars, a new skill slot is no longer unlocked with every star upgrade.
Only after upgrading the Transcendent Set's prefix from [Legendary] to [Mythical] can the seventh skill slot be unlocked.
For Zhang Yue, that's not a big deal.
Anyway, the current six set skills are already enough.
Temporarily, there are also no good set skills worth transferring over.
With the boost of the full-body 16-star Flowgold-grade Transcendent Set, Zhang Yue's stats have once again received a substantial increase.
Besides that, the strength of the six set skills has also been greatly enhanced.
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[[Void Shield]: Converts 100% of inflicted damage into a shield; the maximum shield value cannot exceed ten times the HP cap of the Protector. While the shield exists, increases the Protector's attack power by 65% and damage by 300%.]
[[Thunder Power]: Increases Thunder-type skill damage by 600%, and reduces all Thunder skill cooldowns by 50% and energy cost by 50%.]
[[Enchantment]: Enchants the weapon, consuming 1% of maximum HP per second, increasing damage by 600%, and additionally increasing 200% armor penetration/piercing and 100% crit rate.]
[[Abyss Breath]: The higher the HP, the higher the bonus. At full health: +600% damage and 500% damage reduction.]
[[Thunder Electric Shield]: Every time a Thunder-type skill is used, provides up to eight nearby teammates with four layers of electric shield; each layer grants +600% damage bonus and 400% damage reduction, stacking up to forty layers.]
[[Water Shield]: Active skill. Applies a water shield to self, pet, or teammate. When the protected target is attacked, reduces the attacker's damage bonus by 400%, armor penetration/piercing by 300%, and crit rate by 130%. While the water shield exists, consumes 1,980 mana per second; each additional protected target increases the cost by 50%.]
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Equipment enhances attributes.
Set skills increase damage potency.
With this round of upgrades, hudging by eye, Zhang Yue's damage output should increase by about 10 million.
Previously, with the 15-star Transcendent Set, Zhang Yue's strength could barely draw with the God of Wrath • Jie'e.
If Zhang Yue now fights the previous God of Wrath one-on-one, his win rate should be over 80%.
But Zhang Yue also knows.
The God of Wrath definitely won't stay stagnant.
Since last time, the God of Wrath has not come for Zhang Yue again.
It's easy to guess, it must be growing sneakily in some corner.
When the time is ripe, it will come out to take revenge on Zhang Yue.
So Zhang Yue's current strength is still not enough.
He must become even stronger to face the ever-growing God of Wrath.
The God of Wrath's previous identity was the supreme King-level BOSS of Otherworld.
With its awareness, if it wants to strike Zhang Yue, it will definitely choose to do so in the Death Territory, a place high-level professionals cannot enter, to avoid Zhang Yue "switching to main account" and crushing it.
Secondly, Zhang Yue doesn't want Wolong to intervene.
If Wolong acts, suppressing a level-100 monster with a max-level professional would completely exhaust the value of this King-level BOSS.
In the end, it would simply be killing the King-level BOSS, without being able to gain any benefit from it.
So ultimately, this enemy must be personally dealt with by Zhang Yue.
This King-level BOSS, he is set on taking it down.
Currently, the Soul Hunter level has reached Tier 5. He needs to reach Tier 8 to complete the world quest.
Estimated, one afternoon should be enough.
Thinking like this, just as Zhang Yue was preparing to leave the Wraith Forest and head to the higher-tier area of the Death Territory for exploration, that Soul Hunter Mu En suddenly said to Zhang Yue, "Warrior, your strength is so powerful, I wonder if you could help me with another favor?"
'Yo!'
'Chain quest?'
Zhang Yue felt a slight excitement.
Because as far as he knew: chain quests in Otherworld have an extremely low trigger rate.
And the value of chain quests usually exceeds the previous quest.
If a follow-up chain quest is triggered from a normal quest, then the next must be a hidden quest.
And what Zhang Yue just completed was a hidden quest.
'A follow-up chain quest to a hidden quest, is it... a Super-God level hidden quest?'
Zhang Yue said, "What kind of help? Say it."
Mu En fell into reminiscence, "City of Light is overcrowded, more and more survivors are homeless."
"So three months ago, we launched a migration plan, and built a new city elsewhere, named Watch City, meaning to guard the last hope of humanity."
"But just as Watch City was about to be completed, it was suddenly attacked by an army of Soul Devourers led by the [Soul Emperor]. The Soul Emperor's power was too strong; we human Soul Hunters were no match. In the end, thousands of humans in Watch City were all slaughtered, and Watch City was transformed into the [Soul Palace] by the Soul Emperor."
Mu En looked at Zhang Yue with a bitter gaze and said, "That Watch City... was originally our hope."
Zhang Yue seemed to understand, "You mean, you want me to take back Watch City from the Soul Emperor."
Mu En nodded repeatedly, "Exactly!"
"The Soul Emperor is too powerful. Countless Soul Hunters have formed teams to attack the Soul Palace to defeat him, but none have returned."
"Warrior, can you help us with this favor?"
"As long as you're willing to help, I am willing to give you everything I have, even a pair of underpants!"
Zhang Yue: "Your underpants are already mine."
Mu En: "Then it'll be my wife's underpants!" [T/N: 😱]
"..."
["Ding~ Congratulations, you have triggered the Hidden Quest [Crusade Against the Soul Emperor] (System detects extremely high difficulty coefficient for this quest. Recommended that professional form a party to execute). Accept?"]
'Still a Hidden Quest?'
Not the Super-God level Hidden Quest Zhang Yue had hoped for.
Zhang Yue felt a little disappointed.
But actually, it was within reason.
Worldwide, in the past hundred years, Super-God level Hidden Quests have appeared less than thirty times, how could they be encountered so easily?
Zhang Yue accepted the quest.
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[Crusade Against the Soul Emperor] (Hidden Quest)
[Difficulty Coefficient: 10120]
[Description: The high-ranking leader of the Soul Devourer clan, Soul Emperor, led a Soul Devourer army three months ago and occupied the human territory Watch City, transforming it into Soul Palace. They slaughtered countless human Soul Hunters. Please proceed to the Soul Palace, find and kill the Soul Emperor.]
[Quest Progress: 0/1 (Soul Emperor)]
[Quest Reward: Unknown]
[Quest Time: 48 hours]
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'Five-digit difficulty?'
Compared to the previous Hidden Quest [Vengeance for Family], the difficulty coefficient increased by about 30%.
And according to Zhang Yue's knowledge, ten thousand, hundred thousand, million, ten million difficulty coefficients are all thresholds.
Every time a threshold is crossed, the quest's overall difficulty and value will multiply.
From this view, although this quest is not a Super-God level Hidden Quest, for Zhang Yue, it is still attractive enough.
Thus, Zhang Yue held the quest and followed the quest guide, immediately heading toward the Soul Palace.
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