What Blaine was truly curious about now was the thunderstorm skill that could paralyze enemies when it erupted in a circular area. As for Dragon, Blaine already had the Flood Dragon Trident's Dragon Roar. As for the prehistoric Bounty Hunter's direct attack techniques, those were bound to be extremely expensive in the system's market anyway, so he decided to wait and see how much balance he had left at the end.
[[Lightning Everywhere] can be upgraded as a skill. Price: 100 billion units.]
It really wasn't cheap, but using such a disgusting skill in battle did seem worth the price.
"Then what exactly does it do? Introduce it in detail."
[[Lightning Everywhere]: when used at level one, it instantly releases a circular thunderstorm within a ten-meter radius centered on the host, with no blind spots.]
[This thunderstorm can paralyze enemies and ignores their strength. During paralysis, the enemy can only think. The body cannot move, including the soul. The paralysis effect is inversely proportional to the enemy's strength. For enemies below the host's level, this skill can be used to kill them in a single strike.]
[Friendly reminder: [Lightning Everywhere] consumes a large amount of energy. And the duration is short. It is recommended to upgrade in advance.]
The system was surprisingly humane, explaining everything in great detail.
"Yeah, good, good,"
"There are pros and cons, and the pros outweigh the cons,"
"It's just that 100 billion is a bit expensive,"
"Put it in the waiting area for now."
After obtaining this skill, Blaine would finally have his own trilogy.
If one day Blaine were to suddenly encounter an opponent he couldn't defeat, and had no choice but to kill them for some reason, then this skill would become extremely useful.
However, when Blaine recalled the battles of the prehistoric Bounty Hunters, he noticed something strange: they seemed able to release the trident's subsidiary skills at will, without waiting for any cooldown at all.
By comparison, Blaine's Flood Dragon Trident only had a 0.001% chance of triggering such effects. In other words, after attacking a thousand times, it might release a subsidiary skill once—and even then, it would randomly trigger either Flood Dragon Roar or Ice and Sky Burial. There was no way to control which one appeared, nor could it be used freely like the prehistoric Bounty Hunters' abilities.
Therefore, Blaine lacked stable control over Flood Dragon Roar. But so what? One must not forget that Blaine possessed another skill capable of achieving a similar effect.
That skill was Soul Tracking. That's right—when facing an enemy, Blaine could silently plant a spiritual seed in the opponent's mind without anyone noticing. When the time was right, he could detonate it directly. Although it couldn't kill the enemy, it could still stun them.
Then Blaine could seize that moment, leap forward, and close the distance in an instant. By the time the enemy regained their senses, lightning would already be erupting everywhere, linking control effects one after another. At that point, there was no need to say anything more.
With Blaine already right in front of them and their body unable to move, could the enemy do anything other than watch themselves be slaughtered? In such a situation, Blaine could easily become the butcher, toying with the fish on the chopping board.
This trilogy would officially become one of Blaine's trump cards in the future.
After securing [Lightning Everywhere], the next thing awaiting Blaine was the skill he wanted most—the one he was currently looking forward to the most.
Before making any purchases, Blaine deliberately checked the discount section. If there was one place he missed the most, it was definitely here. Back then, Blaine had obtained his first set of Bounty Hunter equipment for only tens of millions of meter knives. Not to mention something as good as a Hunter suit—even just teleportation alone had been enough to make him happy for a long time.
After all, when Blaine used to go on missions, the rewards were only a few million, tens of millions, or at most billions. And how much had teleportation been worth back then? One hundred billion—a full one hundred billion meter knives. That was no small amount. Although now, one hundred billion was barely enough to buy a minor skill for fun, at the time it had been an unimaginable number for Blaine.
Not only Hunter suits and teleportation, but even the massive discount on Hunter Space had come from the discount section. So every time he bought something, Blaine habitually glanced at the discount area or asked about it. Unfortunately, it was still empty this time.
Thinking back to the tempting slogan from before—"Original price sale, current price sale, continuous discounts, continuous surprises, continuous price reductions, authentic discounted products, buy now!!!"—Blaine still remembered it vividly. It was just a pity. He didn't know whether it was intentional on the system's part, but ever since Blaine started earning more and more, he had never seen those offers again.
"System, show me skills that can make the body bigger or smaller,"
"Something similar to Ant-Man's super ability."
Even if there was nothing in the discount section, skills still had to be bought.
Moreover, this size-changing ability was indispensable for Blaine and could be considered the fulfillment of a long-standing wish. After all, it was a skill priced at a cosmic level. Once he bought it, he wouldn't have to worry about that kind of embarrassment in Wakanda ever again.
[[Cosmic Skill: Arbitrary Transformation], cannot be upgraded; can upgrade skills. Price: one trillion.]
[After use, the host can arbitrarily enlarge or reduce the body in two forms. The maintenance time is proportional to the host's mental strength. Simply put, the host can last for three minutes in the maximum form. The same applies to the minimum form. In addition, after becoming larger or smaller, the mass of the host's body remains unchanged. For example, the damage dealt by the host's attacks in the original form is no different after becoming larger or smaller.]
[The only difference is that when enlarged, the enemy's force-bearing area becomes larger, and the attack range increases. The same logic applies when reduced. This time, before Blaine could even speak, the system took the initiative to explain everything. Damn it—one trillion? Even bank robbers wouldn't dare talk like that.]
One trillion was simply too much for Blaine. You had to know that even a single energy gem was only worth one trillion. Looking at Blaine's current balance, even without buying [Lightning Everywhere], he only had around four hundred billion—far from enough. Now Blaine had reason to suspect that the system arbitrarily adjusted the prices of skills based on his earning ability.
"Hey, wait a minute,"
"What does it mean that it can upgrade skills but cannot be upgraded?"
[Because there is a bug in this skill, upgrading is temporarily unavailable.]
[After upgrading, the host would not only be able to freely change the size of the body, but also die.]
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