Chapter 367: Chapter 74: Affix: The Small Head is also a Head (Part 2)

Qin Feng: "..."

Although these two Otherworld Weapons had seen a massive leap in both their base combat power and the power of their traits after being upgraded to Level 4, the amount of Dog Food required for upgrades had also become increasingly absurd.

The main issue was that upgrading a Level 4 Otherworld Weapon to Level 5 actually required sacrificing a full one thousand Level 4 Otherworld Weapons.

Compared to the beginning, when upgrading a Level 1 Otherworld Weapon only required consuming ten Level 1 weapons, this new requirement was terrifyingly steep.

However,

when he looked at the astonishing Attribute bonuses and powerful Equipment Traits—whose effects were comparable to a Divine Artifact—that he gained from the upgrade, such terrifying upgrade requirements seemed perfectly reasonable.

Take the Beheading Sword, for example.

These days, Qin Feng rarely relied on Close Combat Skills to engage enemies. Instead, he would directly unleash the various Magic Skills of his Gray Lord Profession while simultaneously using the Ranger’s different Archery Skills, combining them with his Multi-shot Arrow Talent to suppress groups of enemies.

Therefore, the Beheading Sword’s greatest use was to significantly boost the damage of his Ranger Profession through Equipment Traits like "Beheading," "Critical Strike," "Endless," "Beheading Ripple," and "A Small Head is Still a Head."

Of course, this came with a prerequisite.

Qin Feng had to hit an enemy’s critical weak spots—like their head, heart, or "little head"—with his arrows to trigger all the damage-increasing effects of the Beheading Sword.

But with his Legendary Level archery, aside from a few enemies who had maxed out their Dodge and movement speed, Qin Feng could essentially hit whatever he aimed at. The possibility of missing a headshot was practically nonexistent.

Even against headless enemies, thanks to the "A Small Head is Still a Head" Equipment Trait, as long as they had a weak spot anywhere on their body, he could still benefit from the massive damage bonus of a Beheading Attack.

This included the Ranger’s Big Move—Kunos’ Arrow—which specifically locked onto and pursued an enemy’s heart.

After the Beheading Sword was upgraded to Level 4, Kunos’ Arrow could also trigger the special effect of a Beheading Attack.

As a result, when Qin Feng used his Ranger Skills and Basic Attacks, on top of all his existing attack and damage bonuses, he now gained an additional 400% headshot damage bonus, as well as an unstable but equally powerful 400% Critical Strike damage bonus.

More importantly, if this Beheading Attack killed the enemy, it would also trigger a small AOE explosion, dealing damage equal to 60% of the initial Beheading Attack to all nearby enemies.

Thus, empowered by the Multi-shot Arrow Talent that sent arrows flying everywhere, and combined with the innate AOE explosion of Kunos’ Arrow, Qin Feng had now become a human reaping machine. The more enemies there were, the more astonishingly efficient his reaping became.

Of course, the Beheading damage from the Beheading Sword itself was what was truly Heaven-defying, directly dealing 1100% headshot damage.

Although Qin Feng wouldn’t use the sword itself against massive hordes of enemies, when facing tough foes with high health and defense, combining the Beheading Sword with his Sigmar Combat Priest Profession became an extremely powerful and efficient method for killing them.

Add to that the "Blocking Damage Reduction" trait, which, at Level 4, could reduce any incoming damage by 40%.

Qin Feng had only one word to describe the Beheading Sword.

Invincible.

As for the Lion Armor,

its most crucial Equipment Trait was "Lionheart Defense," which increased physical defense and Magic Resistance by 200%, on top of a 50% direct damage reduction.

This was enough to make Qin Feng half as tough as Evil Dragon Jinli or Void Envoy One, giving him a sturdier body than even a Valkyrie with a damage reduction Talent. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

As for the new traits unlocked when the Lion Armor reached Level 3 and Level 4,

although their effects weren’t bad—boosting both his personal physical attack power and stacking his physical defense and Magic Resistance—they paled in comparison to the powerful upgraded traits of the Beheading Sword or the Lion Armor’s own starting trait, Lionheart Defense. They were almost lackluster.

’I remember now.’

’According to MC,’

’the damage calculation in Lord World is based on the attacker’s current physical or Magic Attack Power. Then, you stack damage bonuses from various skills, Talents, and equipment. After that, the target’s physical defense or Magic Resistance is subtracted using a specific formula. Finally, various damage reduction effects from hit location, Talents, and skills are factored in to get the final damage value.’

’So,’

’physical defense and Magic Resistance are actually very important.’

’It’s just that after becoming a Transcendent, everyone’s attack power and damage output are so ridiculously high, while physical defense and Magic Resistance are scarce and difficult to increase. This leads to most fights being mutual one-shot kills, which makes those two stats seem useless.’

’If I can stack those two stats to an extremely high level, it’s basically equivalent to a substantial damage reduction effect.’

’And this kind of stat-based reduction doesn’t conflict with other independent damage reduction abilities like ’direct damage reduction,’ ’Blocking Damage Reduction,’ ’physical mitigation,’ or ’magic mitigation.’’

’In other words, I don’t have to worry about ’dilution’ or ’diminishing returns’ like in some gacha games.’

’Hmm...’

’Come to think of it...’

’My physical defense and Magic Resistance are already so high... ’

’As long as I don’t run into special damage types that ignore both defenses, like Bleeding, Poison, paralysis, or true damage...’

’Even without any extra damage reduction effects...’

’I’m probably tanky enough that a single hit wouldn’t even take off a few hundred points of my health...’

At this thought, Qin Feng couldn’t help but sigh internally at how incredible it all was. Without even realizing it, he had grown to such a terrifying level.

Now, he could both one-shot thousands of enemies and withstand the frenzied bombardment of hundreds, making him top-tier in both offense and defense.

Combined with his Heaven-defying Blood Bar that was approaching 700,000 health,

Qin Feng felt he truly had a chance to "punch up" and kill Phase Three Lord Players and their Divine Chosen Soldiers.

However,

even though Qin Feng was straying further and further down the path of "Cheating,"

he was still keenly aware of his own weaknesses and knew what methods his enemies could use to kill him.

For instance, abilities that infinitely stacked poison, similar to Plague Power; Bleeding effects that could also be stacked indefinitely; and certain Divine Gift abilities that dealt Percentage Health Loss and could ignore ’Level 0 damage reduction’ were all threats he needed to be wary of.

Therefore, confidence was one thing, but he absolutely could not let it make him arrogant.

In any case, Qin Feng had already made up his mind. No matter what kind of enemy he faced in the future, if he could swarm them, he would never fight them alone. And if there was a way to avoid danger, he would never allow himself to be put in even the slightest bit of peril.

And so, with the thought, ’This Lord is clearly strong but overly cautious,’ in mind, Qin Feng waited quietly in the Void Realm. He finally saw the return of Void Envoy One, who had been resurrected through some special means, along with a new batch of Void Creatures spawned from its body.

This time, Void Envoy One had clearly learned its lesson. It no longer relied on the Void Realm’s "Void Arena" ability to insist on a one-on-one Beheading duel with Qin Feng. Instead, banking on its own insane recovery and damage reduction abilities, it intended to crush Qin Feng head-on, along with the Holy Empire army under his command.

However,

what Void Envoy One didn’t expect was that Qin Feng had already figured out all its secrets. He didn’t even need to deploy his strongest boss-killing squad, the "Wood Elf Army." He could rely on the regular archers from the Holy Empire army to kill Void Envoy One in a matter of seconds.

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