Fate Reignites: My Rampage in a World Where Time Stops-Chapter 126: A True One-Hit Kill

"What's wrong?"

Noticing Qin Chuan's gaze fixed on Xiao Qing and Xiao Hong, Yue Li asked curiously.

"I've made a discovery." Qin Chuan simply shared with Yue Li the hypothesis he had formulated based on the ice cream's situation, "After evolving, the traits of the Spiritual Beast change in correlation with the Starshine Equipment."

"It does seem so." Yue Li pondered a bit and agreed, "Xiao Qing's trait has changed from Energy Vision to Wind Dancer, where the faster the flying speed, the higher the flying flexibility; this matches perfectly with the Starshine Equipment Entry on it."

"Xiao Hong's new trait is Careful Arson, which allows for more precise control of fire temperature; it also matches a Starshine Equipment Entry."

"It seems to be correct." Having Yue Li's confirmation, Qin Chuan nodded knowingly.

"How about Ice cream's skill effects?" Yue Li curiously pressed on.

"Let me check." Qin Chuan gradually opened Ice cream's five new skills, and his expression became increasingly intrigued.

"Star·Frost Cold: Passive skill that lowers temperature within a certain range around the Spiritual Beast, enhancing ice and snow's resistance to melting."

"Star·Frost Breaking Slash: Active skill where a sword swipe releases a strong cold air to instantaneously freeze a target and slice through it, doubling the damage against opponents in the 'Frost Freeze' state."

"Star·Seek Frost Trace: Active skill dispersing oneself into countless snowflakes; within ten seconds, you can appear at any flake's location and the next attack after reappearing boosts damage by 20%."

"Star·Snow Shadow: Active skill creating an identical snow and frost clone of oneself, which cannot attack and automatically shatters after 20 seconds; the next attack after the clone shatters is enhanced by 20%."

"Star·Frost Snow Gauze: Active skill enshrouding oneself in a garment formed of extreme cold, which shatters upon touch, freezing the contactee in the 'Frost Freeze' state; the next attack after the garment shatters is enhanced by 20%, and regenerating the garment takes 10 seconds."

"Frost Freeze: The target cannot move, lasting 2 seconds."

After repeatedly reviewing one passive and four active skills, Qin Chuan couldn't help but inhale sharply.

This wave...

Ice cream's increase in strength is somewhat terrifying.

Starting with the passive Frost Cold's enhancement, the added resistance against melting to ice and snow truly made Ice cream live up to its name.

It seemed inconsequential, but Qin Chuan suddenly recalled his first display of Seek Frost Trace in front of Ji Huai.

Having seen it only once, Ji Huai pointed out the flaw in Seek Frost Trace, reducing the number of snowflakes using fiery burns, ultimately forcing him out of his hidden form.

Now, with the gathered ice and snow more resistant to fiery burns, this represented a significant boost for Seek Frost Trace, substantially mitigating its previous flaw.

Ice cream's previous three active skills also had their impressive boosts within this enhancement wave; both Seek Frost Trace and Snow Shadow had added effects of powerfully increased damage on subsequent attacks.

Combined, they represented a boost of 40%, nearing the increase when Starshine Equipment is activated, without a critical hit.

The new effect of Frost Breaking Slash needed to be considered in conjunction with the fourth active skill, Frost Snow Gauze.

Frost Snow Gauze, like Seek Frost Trace and Snow Shadow, also offered a 20% increase after breaking, plus inflicting the two-second 'Frost Freeze' status on any contactee.

And under these circumstances, Frost Breaking Slash's damage could be doubled.

When all the buffs were stacked together, and combined with Brave Heart's guaranteed critical hits from the Starshine Equipment Entry...

Ideally, Ice cream's maximum single attack could reach 244% of normal status, and with damage doubled, this might hit 488% effectiveness—nearly five times a regular attack!

That was a truly fatal blow.

The next moment, Qin Chuan's eyes filled with a touch of regret.

Unfortunately, the skills he carried could not cause as high damage in reality.

Without the boost from Starshine Equipment Entry, he could only take up to three active skills; thus, his all-out single strike could merely cause a 280% damage effect; even with the enhancement level resonating at 3, it still fell far short of Ice cream's damage coefficient.

Gathering his thoughts, Qin Chuan reported Ice cream's new skill effects to Yue Li.

Likewise, Yue Li's mouth fell slightly agape, her expression mixed with a bit of astonishment.

Water Flower, Xiao Qing, and Xiao Hong all showed perplexed expressions.

After breaking through to the Elite Rank, everyone had gotten significantly stronger.

But who had become this strong?!

Take "Frost Annihilation"'s 9% critical hit rate, for instance.

With the amplification from Prayer and every strike being a critical hit, what was the difference?

Damn it, after this wave, the latest to evolve, Ice Cream, had actually become the son of the version!

"I have an idea!" Yue Li suddenly spoke after snapping out of her thoughts. "Right now, we are the only two Elite Level players in the world, but we both don't have enough Experience Gems to upgrade a Contracted Spiritual Beast directly to Elite Rank Lv30."

"I want to see as soon as possible what the requirements are for breaking through from Elite Rank to Hall Rank, so..." Yue Li softly suggested. "Why don't we combine our Experience Gems and use them on a single Spiritual Beast?"

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The two of them had saved up quite a number of Experience Gems from the day's tally, enough together to max out the level of one Elite Rank Spiritual Beast.

"What do you mean?" Qin Chuan couldn't help but look towards Ice Cream.

He had realized Yue Li's choice.

"Ice Cream's explosive power is the strongest among the four of them at this stage." Yue Li comforted Xiao Qing and Xiao Hong in a soft voice. "Enhancing its strength first could strengthen both of our overall power and better handle unknown risks, achieving two goals at once."

"And this is temporary." She chuckled lightly. "We have four Elite Rank Spiritual Beasts on the list; from the day's tally of Experience Gems, we can soon max out the levels of the other three, too."

Under Yue Li's reassurance, Xiao Qing and Xiao Hong were quite stable emotionally and agreed to the plan of enhancing Ice Cream to the highest level first.

Seeing this, Qin Chuan patted Water Flower on the head and gave an inquiring look.

"Woof!"

Water Flower responded affirmatively with her gaze.

"Yip~"

Ice Cream's eyes brimmed with emotion as it looked at its friends, and then its gaze gradually became resolute.

After getting stronger, it would never let down its friends' expectations!

"I'll give you the Experience Gems I receive later, until we max out either Xiao Qing or Xiao Hong's level." Qin Chuan no longer demurred, taking it as initially borrowing Yue Li's Experience Gems.

The two pooled their Experience Gems together, and soon Ice Cream's strength climbed steadily.

[Spiritual Beast Species: Frost Battle Spirit]

[Spiritual Beast Attribute: Ice Attribute]

[Spiritual Beast Level: Elite Rank Lv30][Breakthrough]

[Spiritual Beast Traits: Brave Heart]

[Spiritual Beast Species Value: 10000]

[Spiritual Beast Affinity: 92%]

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The Elite Rank species value cap was 10000, which was consistent with the expectations of the Special Affairs Group.

Qin Chuan looked at the Breakthrough requirements following the Spiritual Beast Level and paused for a moment.

Just an advancement?

He had initially thought that moving from Growth Rank to Elite Rank needed an advancement and evolution, and that advancing from Elite Rank to the higher Hall Rank would also be the same, perhaps even with more conditions.

Unexpectedly, there was no longer a requirement for evolution, only for advancement.