One minute later.
Qin Feng had consecutively slain two Gold-level BOSSes, following the sequence of characters from the 'Ancient God of Calamity, Utos', but...
Those two Gold-level BOSSes revived immediately after.
This left Qin Feng a bit puzzled.
"Seems like it's not the sequence?"
Anyway, he could go invisible.
After the failed experiment, he went invisible and began exploring the surrounding map.
But after circling around the Deadwater Lake, he found nothing suspicious.
Soon, he realized something he had overlooked...
"Wait, I haven't explored inside the lake yet?"
Qin Feng approached the lake's edge.
He found the lake's surface as smooth as a mirror, completely obscuring the view of what lay beneath...
Qin Feng first cast the 'Blacklight Shield'.
As he raised his hand, his entire dodge rate transformed into 10 layers of black barriers, surrounding and protecting him!
Then he jumped into the water.
At the center of the lakebed, he saw an ancient stone tablet locked in place.
It was indeed the Ancient God Slate!
Surrounding the tablet were seven other stone tablets, each bearing a symbol... identical to the symbols on the seven BOSSes!
"You have to kill the Gold-level BOSS with the matching symbol near the corresponding stone tablet."
"To unlock the seal on that tablet?"
Qin Feng acted on his thought!
Quickly, he lured the first Gold-level BOSS into the lake, beside the stone tablet with the matching symbol.
This BOSS was the 'Cursed Flat Mouse Man', a dried, emaciated figure that kept spewing black-green mucus in the water, launching ranged attacks at Qin Feng...
The other BOSSes were temporarily led elsewhere by Qin Feng's 'Ghostly Night Wolf'.
"Almost there."
"Kill!"
Qin Feng turned back and executed a Shadow Blink Slash, slaying the 'Cursed Flat Mouse Man' once again!
This time, the BOSS finally dropped loot and granted Qin Feng experience and Evolution Points!
"Not bad, seems like the approach is correct."
When the BOSS was killed, the symbol on its body glowed with black light, resonating with the identical symbol on the stone tablet underwater.
This directly shattered that stone tablet!
The chains on the central 'Ancient God Slate' finally had a portion broken...
...
Over ten minutes later.
Qin Feng repeated the process, luring the other six BOSSes to the corresponding stone tablets and killing them.
Now, he could confirm the BOSS mechanism of the Ancient God Slate.
"You have to first kill those seven BOSSes simultaneously, then the symbol of the Ancient God of Calamity will appear on their bodies."
"Then lure them to these stone tablets and kill them accordingly."
"If the official team were to study this, it would take at least ten days or half a month, and the losses would be extremely heavy..."
Qin Feng shook his head.
Most importantly, the difficulty for other players to defeat the BOSSes was too high.
Just tackling a Gold-level BOSS was extremely challenging, with fewer than ten teams in Jianghai City capable of doing so.
Not to mention dealing with seven BOSSes simultaneously, meeting various conditions...
Incredibly difficult!
But for Qin Feng, from the moment he arrived in this valley, it took just about fifteen minutes to solve all the puzzles.
These seven BOSSes were all level 10 Gold-level BOSSes.
After he took them all down, he gained a massive amount of experience, lifespan, and Evolution Points!
He directly leveled up to 14!
Even his Evolution Points increased by 294 points in one go!
"Counting the previous ones, I now have 325 Evolution Points."
"Currently, Shadow Blink Slash is my main output skill."
"In that case, I'll spend 210 Evolution Points to evolve this skill to Legendary level and see."
Currently, the Epic-level Shadow Blink Slash, combined with the active effect of Gift of Liberation, 'Throat Slash', could already deal a total of five to six hundred thousand base damage!
What would happen if it evolved further?
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[You have consumed 210 Evolution Points, leaving 115 points.]
[Shadow Blink Slash (Epic → Legendary): Blink in one direction (maximum 30 → 40 meters) and enter stealth mode (duration 12 → 15 seconds), dealing 9 slashes to all enemies in the path. Cooldown 12 (8.8) seconds. Level 4]
[Slash width: 5 → 6 meters. Each slash adds 500 → 700 attack power.]
[New: Each successful slash grants a shield equal to 100% of max HP, stacking up to 9 layers! Shield lasts up to 60 seconds.]
——
Longer distance, wider width, larger range.
The number of slashes didn't increase.
But a new effect was added: each successful slash grants a shield, effectively doubling the health!
"Holy..."
"Doesn't this mean that with one Shadow Blink Slash, as long as all nine slashes hit, my effective health instantly becomes ten times the original?!"
Qin Feng was stunned.
He knew that Legendary skills in the Abandoned Gods Game all had unique effects.
And the effect of this Shadow Blink Slash...
Directly maxed out his survivability!
Of course, some skills in the Abandoned Gods Game had extra damage to shields, and a very few could even penetrate shields...
But the former had little impact, and the latter wouldn't appear on Common skills, at least not until Epic-level.
"The margin for error when fighting many BOSSes is also much higher."
Qin Feng was quite satisfied with this effect.
The only pity was that the damage increase from Epic to Legendary level for Shadow Blink Slash wasn't much.
But with Qin Feng's current combat power, he wasn't lacking in damage...
"I'll keep the remaining hundred-plus Evolution Points for now, save up for a larger evolution later."
With his current combat power sufficient, Qin Feng decided to always keep some Evolution Points on hand.
He could evolve as needed in critical moments, allowing for more flexible responses to various situations.
After evolving 'Shadow Blink Slash'.
Qin Feng's attention shifted to the 'Ancient God Slate', whose seal was gradually being lifted!
Once the seals on the seven surrounding stone tablets were broken, the dark chains entwining the central Ancient God Slate also began to disintegrate.
After waiting a moment, Qin Feng reached out and grasped the ancient stone tablet, about the size of a laptop!
The moment he touched it, chaotic whispers and murmurs echoed in Qin Feng's mind...
——
[Congratulations on obtaining the 'Cursed Slate of the Ancient God of Calamity'!]
[Cursed Slate of the Ancient God of Calamity: This slate contains the cursed power of the Ancient God of Calamity, Utos!]
[Active Use: Add a 'curse' to any equipment, which will randomly provide a beneficial affix based on the equipment and your class characteristics, but will also grant a negative affix.]
[After killing a certain number of monsters while carrying the Ancient God Slate, the usage count will reset (allowing it to be used on any equipment again, but the same Cursed Slate can only curse one piece of equipment at a time. When reused, you can choose to keep the old effect or the new effect.)]
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The Ancient God Slate is divided into 'Blessed Slate' and 'Cursed Slate' types.
The former purely adds beneficial affixes to equipment, but the effects are relatively weak.
The latter adds a curse to equipment, resulting in both a beneficial affix and a negative affix!
"The effect of one Ancient God Slate can even double the attribute of an equipment affix, and with luck, it might even roll a powerful affix that changes class characteristics."
"And as long as you carry it while killing monsters, you can reuse it. If you're not satisfied with the affix, you can refresh it indefinitely..."
Having obtained this Ancient God Slate, Qin Feng immediately opened his equipment list.
"Let's test the effect first!"