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[Arcane Art·Lightning Summoning] (SSSSS-level Forbidden Spell)
[Effect: Summon the power of thunder to protect yourself for 60 seconds. During the descent of thunder, all passive skill effects are doubled]
[Passive (Permanent): The holder takes -50% final damage from all lightning-type attacks, all lightning-type skill cooldowns -50%, lightning-type skill final effects +50%, lightning-type skill consumption -50%]
[Cooldown: 1 day (recovers 1 charge every 24 hours, up to a maximum of 3 charges)]
[Charges: 0/3]
[Cost: None]
[Note: In the otherworld, professional skill cooldown and skill consumption buffs cannot exceed 50%. During Lightning Summoning's effect, this limit can be bypassed]
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That was the pre-upgrade, 5S-level Lightning Summoning.
Now compare it to the post-upgrade, 10S-level version—
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[Arcane Art·Lightning Summoning] (SSSSS-level Forbidden Spell)
[Effect: Summon the power of thunder to protect yourself for 600 seconds. During the descent of thunder, all passive skill effects are doubled, and all skills are forcibly converted into lightning-type damage effects]
[Passive (Permanent): The holder is immune to all lightning-type damage, lightning-type skill cooldowns 50%, lightning-type skill final effects +200%, all lightning-type skills have no cost]
[Cooldown: 1 hour (recovers 1 charge every hour, up to a maximum of 30 charges)]
[Charges: 27/30]
[Cost: None]
[Note: In the otherworld, professional skill cooldown and skill consumption buffs cannot exceed 50%. Lightning Summoning ignores this limit]
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This strength could only be described as world-ending.
Even Zhang Yue felt scared looking at it.
The most outrageous part was how the original limit of one stored use every 24 hours, up to three uses, had become one stored use every hour, up to thirty uses.
Arcane Art·Lightning Summoning wasn't like Wolong's Heaven-Destroying Earth-Annihilation.
This forbidden spell of Zhang Yue's focused on passive amplification instead of direct attacks.
Zhang Yue honestly couldn't imagine what kind of damage he could unleash with a full set of 10S-level skills combined with the 10S-level Lightning Summoning passive effect.
All in all, Zhang Yue was extremely satisfied with the enhancement effect from this God Scroll.
Because the amplification was in no way inferior to the boost from the previous transcendent equipment evolution.
Of course, the two enhancements each had their own strengths, and it wasn't about which one was better.
Because no matter how high your skill strength was, it had to be built on top of strong attributes to produce high damage.
Like: 7000% damage on 1 point of attack versus 7000% damage on 1000 points of attack. The difference was absurd. The latter was literally a thousand times stronger.
So evolving the transcendent equipment was necessary.
Evolving the skills was also necessary.
And now that both had been combined, the result was even more unstoppable.
Invincible.
The boosts from the second God Scroll filled Zhang Yue with confidence for the upcoming challenge.
And made him even more excited about the third God Scroll he would very likely obtain after clearing this round.
Zhang Yue gripped the Purgatory·Transcendent Staff and set his sights on the Divine Tomb ahead.
Only now did the viewers in the livestream start noticing the environment again through Zhang Yue's perspective.
They were all stunned.
["Wait… what's going on? Didn't the streamer already clear the Divine Tomb? Why is he still inside?"]
["Don't tell me it's not over. Is this a new round of challenges?"]
["Seriously… is he going to fight through it again?"]
["So that means this dungeon works in stages, and this is the first stage restarting again?"]
When the viewers noticed the monsters appearing ahead in Zhang Yue's line of sight, the God's Apostles, they all froze.
Because after the second reset, the dungeon difficulty had doubled again.
The current difficulty was now triple that of the first run.
And the God's Apostles on the first floor, originally lord-level bosses in the first round, had become normal bosses in the second round, and now… all of them had evolved into god-level bosses.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
A thousand God's Apostles, a thousand god-level bosses, their overwhelming aura washing across the entire Divine Tomb.
The viewers were dumbstruck.
["Holy crap! All god-level bosses? And this is supposed to be the first floor? Are you sure this isn't the final floor?"]
["You fool, before the reset the last stage boss was an immortal-level boss. Compared to that, these god-level bosses are nothing."]
A whole bunch of god-level bosses truly weren't much.
And for Zhang Yue, they weren't any challenge at all.
The real problem was the skill they all possessed: God's Awe.
No matter how much the God's Apostles were upgraded or evolved, their only skill, God's Awe, never changed.
It still applied a wide-area intimidation buff to all enemies: reduces the target's output by 0.01% and increases their damage taken by 0.01%.
Exactly the same threat as the previous two rounds.
Once the intimidation buff stacked to ten thousand layers, then even with a full 60-star transcendent set and all 10S-level top-tier skills, Zhang Yue wouldn't be able to withstand the God's Apostles.
The first floor's challenge required quick, decisive combat, finishing the fight before the intimidation stacks built up too high.
So the moment he entered the battlefield, Zhang Yue started the fight.
Ahead, countless god-level God's Apostles, wielding their blades, charged at him.
On their way in, they casually activated God's Awe.
In an instant, Zhang Yue had one thousand layers of the buff.
Of course, that couldn't be avoided.
There was no way he could kill all of them before they released the first wave of intimidation.
A thousand layers meant his damage was lowered by 10%, and his damage taken increased by 10%.
But at this level, it didn't matter at all.
The next moment, Zhang Yue raised his staff and cast rapidly.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Silence·Thunderous Might!
Sanctuary·Flame of Thunder!
Thunder·Lightning Dance!
Shatter·Heart of Thunder!
One world-shattering 10S-level lightning skill after another slammed into the closest God's Apostles with overwhelming force.
In an instant, blood-red numbers exploded above their heads—
-12.2 trillion! Critical!
-11.7 trillion! Critical!
-11.9 trillion! Critical!
-12.1 trillion! Critical!
Crash!
Those God's Apostles who hadn't even reached him yet had their full HP bars instantly deleted.
They collapsed into piles of bones scattered across the ground.
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