Eye of Death should be the first rare-quality skill that Zhang Yue had ever obtained in his life.
Currently, the SS-level fusion effect is +100% spell penetration.
It had accompanied Zhang Yue for a long time. At first, it could simply be called a divine skill.
Because at that time, there was no way to obtain the extremely rare attribute of [Spell Penetration].
But ever since high-level attributes were unlocked later, and spell penetration could be obtained through various means, for Zhang Yue who now already possesses 460% spell penetration, the 100% spell penetration brought by the Eye of Death has become dispensable and no longer "rare."
However, Zhang Yue always believed: the potential of this skill is immense.
He opened the skill list again and checked the evolved "Eye of Death."
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[Eye of Death • Thunder God] (SS-level Unique Passive Skill)
[Skill Effect: Spell Penetration +200%. When using lightning-type skills, this penetration effect is doubled]
[Special Effect: Eye of the Thunder God can see through the enemy's weakness. When the bearer uses any lightning-type skill to attack a target, they will ignore the target's 300% penetration resistance]
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As expected, facts proved: the potential of this skill is indeed immense.
It's equivalent to turning the original 100% spell penetration into 400% spell penetration. After all, most of Zhang Yue's skills are lightning-type, focusing on lightning stream, so the skill effect is directly doubled.
Additionally, it comes with an effect that ignores 300% penetration resistance. From another perspective, that's equivalent to attaching another 300% spell penetration.
Just one SS-level skill, and it adds 700% spell penetration.
Don't be fooled, before this, even with the Eye of Death, Zhang Yue's spell penetration was already enough to completely penetrate most monsters at this stage, even the emperor-level boss just now, directly causing true damage that ignores defense.
But if we go further up.
Take the pseudo-king-level boss Ice-Sealed War God Weikano encountered last time in the Ghost Tower, for example.
At that time, Zhang Yue was not a match for Weikano. The main reason was that the spell penetration effect Zhang Yue had could not fully pierce Weikano's resistance, which caused the damage Zhang Yue could deal to Weikano to be minimal.
If Zhang Yue had the skill [Eye of Death • Thunder God] at that time, he wouldn't have needed to use [Demon Contract]'s sacrificial death effect to kill Weikano in a mutual death.
Although in the end, the Ice-Sealed War God Weikano was indeed killed.
It always felt like a somewhat dishonorable victory.
Ever since the deeper map [Death Territory] appeared after the update of the Otherworld, god-level, emperor-level, immortal-level, and even king-level bosses will keep emerging one after another.
When encountering powerful bosses later on, he can't always rely on the death contract to counter-kill the opponent, right?
After all, resurrection scrolls can only be used twice per cycle, and Zhang Yue can't revive infinitely.
He still needs to have some stable strength on his side, that's the strongest protection talisman.
Soon, Zhang Yue will face a powerful opponent.
That is, Lord of Wrath · Jie'e!
The Lord of Wrath has been quiet for so long. Presumably, he must've developed quite a bit by now.
But actually, during their previous confrontation, Zhang Yue did have the ability to kill the Lord of Wrath.
Letting it go on purpose, Zhang Yue's goal was to wait for it to develop a bit more.
As the saying goes, fatten it up before slaughtering.
Zhang Yue's original plan was to use the counter-kill effect of [Death Contract], directly sacrifice himself to counter-kill the Lord of Wrath.
With the [Eye of Death • Thunder God] skill, once the Lord of Wrath shows up, Zhang Yue doesn't even need to use the death contract's effect, he's fully confident he can directly take out the Lord of Wrath.
Unless its power leaps beyond the pseudo-king level and becomes a quasi-king-level boss.
If that happens, then it'll be even more interesting…
After killing the Demon Hunter Belial and completely ending the battle of the Nightmare Abyss, Zhang Yue came to the demon hunter's corpse and picked up all the loot it dropped.
For Zhang Yue, who had already tasted pseudo-king-level bosses, emperor-level bosses no longer held much appeal.
Still, it was quite nice.
The total drop was three 20-star Nightmare Set Choice Boxes, a rare skill book, and an epic-level treasure, plus a large number of rare materials and gold coins.
Thus, the journey through the World 20's Nightmare Abyss came to an end.
Next, he could challenge the world boss, and then march into the World 21.
So, Zhang Yue and Athena withdrew from the Nightmare Abyss.
Just as the two had left the Nightmare Abyss, the next second, a dark cloud descended into the 100th-floor Nightmare Abyss.
After absorbing the fury inside the corpse of Demon Hunter Belial, the black cloud gradually morphed into a humanoid shadow: Lord of Wrath Jie'e.
Zzzzt!
After absorbing the massive fury stored within the emperor-level boss Demon Hunter Belial's body, the Lord of Wrath Jie'e began to surge with massive lightning all over.
"Hahahahaha!"
Accompanied by a chilling laugh, Jie'e looked over his body proudly, "I have finally recovered my strength to the pseudo-king-level boss."
"There's still one more step to reach the king-level boss, but I already can't wait to deal with you personally."
After thinking for a moment, the Lord of Wrath still gave up that idea.
"Forget it. That guy just killed the Ice-Sealed War God in the Ghost Tower a few days ago."
"The Ice-Sealed War God is the same as me, both pseudo-king-level. Since he could kill the Ice-Sealed War God, then with my current power, I may not be his opponent unless I wait a bit more and restore my strength to quasi-king level. By that time, I could kill him with a snap…"
"But that would take too long!"
"Looks like I need to find another way."
The Lord of Wrath Jie'e wandered through the abyss.
After a while, he seemed to have come up with an idea.
He immediately turned into a dark cloud and disappeared from the Nightmare Abyss…
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Time froze at 8 p.m.
Night fell.
In the season of winter, at night, the cold wind blew gently.
At this time of day and weather, everyone habitually curled up in bed playing with their phones, browsing websites and news.
Thus, during this peak traffic period, the video Zhang Yue had Ning Tiantian publish on the international web once again rode the momentum and became a hot topic.
Coupled with the strong rise of Dragon Nation, launching counterattacks against the seven major nations in various worlds, the two major news combined, it was like pouring oil on fire.
The online situation was becoming increasingly unfavorable to the seven major nations.
But it wasn't just online.
In reality, the situation in the Otherworld was even more unfavorable to them.
After Zhang Yue distributed the trillions units of Energy nationwide, domestic professionals rose powerfully with the momentum, suppressing the seven major nations in various Death Territories, seizing dominance over the Death Territories.
Once again, Zhang Yue, relying on his personal strength, reversed the entire world situation…
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