30.2 - Exclusive Skill: Three Mysterious Transformations of the True Dragon

Chapter 30: Exclusive Skill: Three Mysterious Transformations of the True Dragon

After all of the players from Shenyao and God of the Underworld had retreated, the three guildmasters asked their own members to guard their outer perimeter before they approached.

Yiting Kan Yue stretched his hand out and spoke to Xiao Ran with a bright look on his face: “This is the young Xiao Ran? I’ve admired his name for so long. It’s true that heroism appears during youth.”

Shen Ding and Shenyao, because the two had similar names and were both in the top three guild rankings, often fought against each other. The bad things that Shenyao did were blamed on Shen Ding, and the bad things Shen Ding did were blamed on Shenyao. The members of the two guilds were constantly warring with each other. Their situation was the most serious amongst all of the guilds. When they heard that Jun Heqiu’s ticket fragments had been snatched away by Xiao Ran, Yiting Kan Yue was the person who felt the most excited. When he grasped Xiao Ran’s hand at that moment, he naturally felt that everything about the young man was pleasing to the eye.

Yiye Feihua calmly reached in front of Xiao Ran’s arm and took hold of Yiting Kan Yue’s ugly hand, speaking with a polite smile: “Thank you for your assistance this time.” 1

Lingjia Jiutian smiled as he spoke: “Of course, ah. It’s rare for the God of Slaughter to ask for something, so how could we refuse? But were all the things you mentioned in the private messages true?”

Yiye Feihua: “You all have helped us greatly, so of course I will keep my word.”

The surrounding players couldn’t help but feel odd when they saw the guildmasters and Yiye Feihua happily enjoying themselves. Weren’t these guys fighting to the death a few months ago? Sure enough, a great person’s mind can’t be figured out, ah.

Only Xiao Ran, who had listened in from the sidelines, could understand what the guildmasters were talking about. It seemed that the three guildmasters had come to his rescue this time because the great god had privately promised them something. Only after the four of them had reached some kind of agreement or consensus did they came to his aid.

Furthermore, it was just a position on the instance team. That didn’t mean that they would definitely be able to get a piece of orange equipment. It would be too naïve to think that they could convince the three guildmasters to go against Shenyao and God of the Underworld just by relying on that.

Sure enough, a great god always has his ways.

Yiting Kan Yue and Lingjia Jiutian were both chatting with Yiye Feihua. Only Yihai Yuntian glanced toward Xiao Ran with slight regret as he spoke: “Entry into the Pan Long Underground Palace instance is due to your efforts.”

“It’s nothing, really.” Xiao Ran spoke humbly. Of course, 90% of ‘his’ efforts were actually the great god’s. Xiao Ran was just carried along. He knew that very well, but didn’t know where the regret in Yihai Yuntian’s eyes came from.

Xiao Ran was slightly baffled.

Of course he didn’t know that Xigua Jingling had recommended him to Yihai Yuntian, who hadn’t taken it to heart back then. Who knew that this kid would be not just capable, but also have great skills!

At first, he thought it was amazing that Xiao Ran could get an Entry Ticket Fragment from Jun Heqiu, but little did he know that the most talked about Entry Ticket 1 in the world was also in his hands!

If only he had listened to Xigua and tried to win him over! If Xiao Ran joined Juyi Court, then the other slots to enter the instance would belong to their Juyi Court. How could he compete with Yiting Kan Yue and Lingjia Jiutian for this person?

It’s hard to offer aid in times of need, but it’s easy to add icing to a cake. His current worth was probably not even comparable to Juyi Court’s elite team.

Yihai Yuntian couldn’t help but sigh regretfully.

However, he was very open minded. Since it was in the past, he didn’t worry about it anymore, and spoke to Xiao Ran: “I just saw that that guy from Underworld wasn’t willing to accept his loss. It’s possible that after today, he’ll arrange for people to cause trouble for you. Although our Juyi Court isn’t ranked among the top three on the guild rankings list, we are still a super guild. There are many people under us, so I will tell the players in my guild that if they see Shenyao or God of the Underworld players stalking you in secret, they should definitely step in to stop them.”

Yiting Kan Yue interjected: “The same goes for Shen Ding. We will be allies from now on, and we are also responsible for your safety.”

Lingjia Jiutian also smiled and added: “Lingfeng Pavilion as well.”

Yiye Feihua and Xiao Ran thanked them one by one.

At that point, the alliance between those five people had been solidly established, and the problem where Xiao Ran was being hunted down had been entirely resolved.

From then on, he could go wherever he wanted to, and he no longer had to worry about anyone stabbing him in the back.

Yiye Feihua stroked the young man’s back and felt more and more that he had made the right decision to form an alliance with those three guildmasters.

After the people from Shenyao and God of the Underworld had left, people from the three top guilds also left one after another. Only a few players who were watching the drama were still lingering in the career center, reluctant to leave.

Xiao Ran ran to the old painter and turned in his task. A beam of light shot out from his head, and the border around his experience bar glowed bright red before disappearing. He could now continue to gather experience points.

At the same time, he was also given a reward with the Shen Bi Level 40 mandatory skill: Pen Spirit Summoning.

Xiao Ran took out the black skill book and claimed it without hesitation. An icon appeared in his skill bar, and simultaneously, a system option box also popped up.

Pen Spirit Summoning is a Free Skill. Players must select a pen spirit before it is officially available.

Pen spirits were divided into six elemental pen spirit types: wind, fire, lightning, water, wood, and earth. For the first level of Pen Spirit Summoning, players could only select a pen spirit of a single elemental type as their guardian spirit.

Xiao Ran had already made up his mind to select a lightning type pen spirit with no hesitation. Thunder can be hidden within the clouds, so combined with his cloud paintings, there should be a good bonus effect for the skills.

After his selection was complete, a blue-grey elf floated out of the skill bar and hovered in front of Xiao Ran.

The elf looked like a girl in a hanfu with long waist-length hair and a beautiful face. She had a lightning strike pattern drawn between her eyebrows, and her eyes were slightly closed in that moment. Xiao Ran still needed to set up the pen spirit skill to successfully awaken her.

Paintings Become Reality, Pen Spirit Summoning, Shen Bi Ma Liang, One Thousand Troops and Horses…… Although they were all free skills, the limitations set for each skill were different. For instance, Paintings Become Reality could not create living objects, and it also had a time limit. Pen Spirit Summoning could only use the six elements, and it was only usable once with no reset period.

There were seven or eight basic skill models for the pen spirits of each major element. Players could make additional designs or edits to the existing models, or they could create completely new skills, but they must be within the scope of the six major elements.

For the lightning type pen spirits, the one that most players selected was the Thunder Ball, followed by Electric Beam. Xiao Ran chose the simplest Chain Lightning as his model. Because it was the simplest, the system allowed players to add a hidden attribute.

In the skill editor, Xiao Ran added the hidden attribute ‘multiple targets within a certain range will be attacked by chain lightning in sequence’ to his Chain Lightning. After turning his ordinary Chain Lightning into a ranged group attack skill, the first skill of his summoned pen spirit was formed.

Xiao Ran named his skill ‘Hidden Thunder’.

The first level Pen Spirit Summoning allowed him to set up three skills of the same type as the pen spirit, or he could upgrade one skill three times in a row.

Xiao Ran chose to upgrade Hidden Thunder to level three. By doing so, the damage of the group attack increased by a lot.

After completing the setup of the most important Shen Bi skill for his level, Xiao Ran took a long breath and suddenly noticed another skill in his skill bar.

That cracked skill! 2

The last time he checked it was 70 or 80 hours away. It should be completely cooled down by now!

Xiao Ran lowered his head and saw that the cracked skill icon had indeed returned to its normal small square frame, but although there was no longer a crack, it was still grey.

[Exclusive Skill: Three Mysterious Transformations of the True Dragon

Level Requirement: 60

Skill Effect: ????]

Three Mysterious Transformations of the True Dragon? Max level skill!

Xiao Ran’s heartbeat thumped uncontrollably.

Footnotes

ugly as in Yiye Feihua is jealous when he uses a skill and it enters cooldown, or if a skill is otherwise unable to be used, the icon becomes cracked to show it is currently unusable