Lin Bei's mouth curved into a bitter smile, a mix of emotions swirling in his heart.
From heaven to hell, it's but a single thought.
However, what's done is done; there's no turning back now.
"Alas, perhaps this is fate. Forget it. At least it's an Avatar ability after a 2000x Critical Hit. Even if it didn't reach the Legendary Level... it's still passable."
Lin Bei sighed deeply and opened his Attribute Panel to check the new abilities he had just acquired.
[Grasp of Death: Epic Level skill, condenses Shadow Power to release Death Energy, controls the target's movement ability, and continuously reduces the target's maximum health.]
[Death Stealth: Epic Level skill, allows free stealth movement in shadows, completely silent. During stealth, Death Energy can be continuously accumulated within the body and released all at once upon attacking, with astonishing power.]
[Mark of Death: Epic Level skill, condenses Shadow Power to place a Mark of Death on the target. While marked, attack power against the target is greatly increased, and all damage effects the target deals to oneself are simultaneously weakened.]
[Execute: Legendary Level skill, can directly Execute and destroy the soul of targets with less than 20% health, or directly deal 10% of the target's maximum health as damage. Note: This ability is ineffective against beings above the Legendary Realm, and can only be used once per day on the same target.]
[Teleport: Legendary Level skill, allows free Teleportation between any areas with a spatial marker/imprint. The greater the Teleportation distance, the higher the energy consumption. Note: Can carry others during Teleportation, but consumption will greatly increase.]
[Death Avatar: Epic Level skill, condenses Shadow Power to create a Death Avatar. Each Avatar can possess 10% of the main body's health Attribute and master all Shadow-related abilities of the main body.]
Note 1: Avatars cannot wear equipment, cannot use other skills, and cannot condense Spirit power.
Note 2: The main body can use the Teleport ability with Avatars to swap positions at any time.
Note 3: Upon death, Avatars will cause a violent explosion, releasing "Mark of Death" and "Execute" abilities on all surrounding targets.]
Lin Bei looked at the skill attributes he had learned after using the scrolls, his mouth involuntarily opened, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.
"Strong! Too strong!"
Lin Bei couldn't help but exclaim.
Originally, he was still bothered by having hit the pity timer several times, but now, after seeing the skill effects, where was there any dissatisfaction in his heart?
These skills had movement, control, burst damage, and true damage—they had everything he could ask for!
He felt that with these abilities, his strength had increased by several times compared to before, at the very least!
Additionally, the two Legendary Level skills were also incredibly powerful!
Execute goes without saying; it's simple and brutal, capable of executing all targets not exceeding the Legendary Realm with less than 20% health. Even if not saved for a finishing blow, it can instantly shave off 10% of an opponent's health.
This ability was simply a BUG!
The only minor flaw was that it could only be used once per day on the same target.
Otherwise, with this skill, he would be invincible.
"However... even though it can only be used once per day on the same target, if combined with the Avatar and Teleport abilities, with proper execution, using it once every day, at most ten days... no, at most nine days, I can take down a Legendary Level expert!"
"Execute is truly outrageously strong!"
"And the Teleport ability is also incredibly exaggerated. It can Teleport freely, ignoring space. Doesn't this mean I can occasionally sneak into High-Level Survival Worlds to 'beat the autumn wind' in the future?"
"The key is... I can use the Teleport ability on my Avatars, swapping positions with them at any time, which completely maximizes my operational space!"
"As long as Teleport is used well, even a Legendary Level expert can't do anything to me!"
Lin Bei's eyes were bright, his heart filled with joy.
"The only uncertainty is the consumption of these skills and whether they have cooldown restrictions."
"However, these abilities were all learned through using Shadow Scrolls. Although they mutated, it's uncertain whether they now require Shadow Points to cast."
"I still need to test them."
Lin Bei thought to himself, then began to test the skills he had just acquired one by one.
He found that, apart from the two Legendary Level skills, all Epic Level abilities with the prefix "Death" could actually be cast by consuming Shadow Points.
As for Teleport and Execute, they had to consume his Spirit and health.
However, Lin Bei had enough health and Spirit, so this was a disguised improvement for him.
"Not bad. Besides Death Avatar, the other Death skills don't consume much Shadow Points."
Lin Bei tried out all the skills one by one, then slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
Aside from Death Avatar requiring 2000 Shadow Points to summon one Avatar, the other skills only consumed a maximum of 100 Shadow Points per use, which was almost negligible.
The key was that these Death skills seemed to have no cooldown. As long as his hand speed was fast enough and he had sufficient Shadow Points, he could continuously cast them.
However, the special effects of each skill could not be stacked. Otherwise, if Lin Bei continuously applied Mark of Death to the same target, he would probably be able to shatter a planet with one punch.
"Hmm... if it's a planet the size of the moon, with my current strength... if I unleash my full power, it seems I might just have a chance to shatter a star with one punch."
Lin Bei muttered to himself.
He glanced at his current Attributes; his health had already exceeded 100 billion points, reaching the Epic Level four-star tier.
However, he currently had no concept of such high Attributes.
He also had no intuitive feeling or general idea of the damage he could inflict with a full-power strike.
There was nothing he could do about it.
Because ever since he stepped into the Epic Realm, he had never used his full power again.
Coupled with his Combat Power skyrocketing, he had no concept of how strong he truly was.
"Perhaps... this is the trouble of increasing strength too quickly?"
"All the enemies I encounter are too weak."
"Even Xue Yi only had 300 million Combat Power; I could make him vanish into thin air with a single breath."
"Indeed... the life of Survivors is so simple, unadorned, and yet so boring."
Lin Bei sighed helplessly.
However, he quickly thought of a graceful figure.
"Right, I wonder what Aleria's strength is?"
"I already noticed before that she couldn't peek into my mind through her wristband. Now that my strength has surged, could it be that she's no longer my opponent?"
A clear-faced girl with long pink hair appeared in Lin Bei's mind. His mouth twitched involuntarily as he let his imagination run wild.
"Speaking of which, my current Combat Power is already very high, and it's time to switch to a new unit of measurement."
"Big Black's main body only has 50 million Combat Power, which is no longer suitable."
"I can barely use Xue Yi as a benchmark."
"My current Combat Power is approximately 80 billion, which calculates to... hmm, roughly equivalent to the total Combat Power of over 260 Xue Yis."
"Although Combat Power isn't simply additive, there doesn't seem to be a better comparison object."
As his strength increased, Lin Bei felt it more and more clearly.
Even with the same 300 million Combat Power on the panel, there was still a very obvious gap in strength between the two combatants.
These gaps came from talent ability, Combat skills, and equipment.
In short, after Combat Power exceeded 100 million, even a difference of only ten or twenty million Combat Power could mean a very significant disparity in strength.
For example, his Mental Barrier before could easily restrain enemies with hundreds of millions of Combat Power but weak Spirit power.
Xue Yi, after all, was an expert sent by the Order Faction. The reason he was instantly killed was entirely due to Lin Bei's overwhelming Mental Attribute.
Therefore, a strong person cannot have obvious weaknesses.
Otherwise, a slight carelessness could lead to a disastrous defeat!
Lin Bei glanced at his Attributes, his brows furrowed.
His current health was very high, exceeding 100 billion points.
In contrast, his Spirit was pitifully low.
Only over 20 billion points!
This was a clear weakness!
But there was nothing he could do about it.
After all, most of the Survivors he had killed primarily cultivated health, and their Mental Attributes were generally very low; having one-fifth of their health was considered very high.
Most people's Mental Attributes were only about one-tenth of their health Attributes.
It was precisely for this reason that the Mental Attributes he plundered were far lower than his health Attributes.
"Forget it, for now, it can only be like this."
"In the future, I'll need to find a way to separately increase my Mental Attribute."
"The Spirit cultivation methods do record many rare treasures that can boost Mental Attributes. I'll see if I can get some later."
"Otherwise, if I continue plundering like this, the gap between my health and Spirit will only grow larger, contradicting my training plan as a well-rounded warrior."
Lin Bei thought to himself.
At the same time, he glanced at his Shadow Points cap, which was currently only 10,800 points—still too low.
So, he planned to take advantage of his Super Lucky State to Refine all the shadow crystals he had obtained earlier, using them to increase his Shadow Points cap.
Normally, one shadow crystal could be directly converted into 100,000 Shadow Power, or used to increase the Shadow Points cap by ten points.
However, for Lin Bei, who could Critical Hit, it was a different story.
He directly took out the remaining seventeen shadow crystals he had. Without hesitation, Lin Bei chose to Refine them all to increase his Shadow Points cap.
The shadow crystals in his hand gradually melted, transforming into a black mist that merged into Lin Bei's body.
At the same time, a series of notification messages sounded in his ears.
[Notification: Successfully Refined a shadow crystal! You triggered a 2000x Critical Hit effect!]
[Notification: Your Shadow Points cap +20,000!]
[Notification: Successfully Refined a shadow crystal! You triggered a 5000x Critical Hit effect!]
[Notification: Your Shadow Points cap +50,000!]
[Notification: Successfully Refined a shadow crystal! You triggered a 10,000x Critical Hit effect!]
[Notification: Your Shadow Points cap +100,000!]
[Notification:...]
Notification messages kept ringing in his ears.
Lin Bei watched the numbers in the Shadow Points section of his Attribute Panel continuously soar. By the time he had Refined all the shadow crystals, about ten minutes had passed.
And at this moment, his Shadow Points cap had reached 1 million points.
This time, he was lucky, triggering a 10,000x Critical Hit effect six times. Plus, he conveniently consumed some of the Shadow Power he had, just enough to make his Shadow Points a round 1 million.
"With such a high Shadow Points cap, if I used it all to summon Death Avatars... wouldn't I be able to summon five hundred Avatars at once?"
"And each Avatar can possess 10% of my health Attribute. Although they don't have Spirit power, they can use all the Shadow-type abilities I've mastered."
"If there's a bit more coordination, the strength of this army of five hundred Death Avatars could probably easily sweep through all Survivors and Reborn Ones in the thirty-six main cities!"
Lin Bei exclaimed with emotion.
His current health was as high as 135.8 billion points!
Even if only one-tenth was calculated, that was a full 13.58 billion health points!
Even without Spirit power, the Combat Power of each Death Avatar he summoned would be as high as 6.79 billion!
This was equivalent to the Combat Power of more than twenty Xue Yis!
Even with obvious weaknesses, deploying five hundred such terrifying Combat forces at once... the scene was still unimaginable!
Lin Bei felt delighted. He casually summoned a Death Avatar to stay in the stronghold to manage things, while he hummed a little tune and directly used his Teleport ability to arrive deep within the Dark Forest.
He was already quite familiar with the Teleport ability.
It allowed him to Teleport to any place he had been before, and also to leave spatial markers in places he had never visited for long-distance Teleportation.
Thus, with just a thought, he appeared deep within the Dark Forest.
As for the energy consumed, it was almost negligible.
All together, it only consumed 100 points of his health and Spirit.
It was simply a drop in the ocean, insignificant!
What's more, he now possessed the Primal Level skill "Absolute Defense." During the skill's downtime, a "Fountain of Vitality" state would automatically activate on him, restoring 1% of his health and Spirit per second.
In other words, as long as his health and Spirit consumption didn't exceed 1 billion points per second, he wouldn't feel any weakness at all!
Not for a single second!
Deep in the Dark Forest, Lin Bei directly summoned hundreds of Death Avatars, scattering them to venture deeper and hunt down all Shadow creatures they encountered.
Since he had such a useful skill, he naturally wouldn't let it go to waste. Of course, he would make good use of it to help him create more value.
These Avatars could help him obtain many reward packages and Shadow Power in a short time, and if he was lucky, he could also get a lot of shadow crystals.
Then, he could absorb the shadow crystals, increase his Shadow Points cap, and summon even more Death Avatars!
If he continued to develop, he would be able to summon an astonishingly large army of Death Avatars!
By then, he wouldn't even need to act himself. Wherever the Avatar army went, nothing would be left standing!
"Hehe, just thinking about it is exhilarating!"
Lin Bei grinned, a flicker of anticipation in his eyes.