Chapter 55

In terms of basic attributes, compared to before the class change, the attack power has increased slightly, but the magic defense and physical defense have each increased by two points.

This is the strength of the Ice Mage. The reason for the increase in these two defense points is due to the Ice Armor. This is a unique skill of the Ice Mage and the most obvious distinction between the Ice Mage and other classes.

Of course, another significant change is in the talent. Originally, Cheng Yang's magic attack increase was 3%, but after becoming a specialized Ice Mage, it was forcibly increased by 1%.

This also raised Cheng Yang's talent to a higher level, something that never happened in his previous life.

In his previous life, there were people who successfully changed to special classes, but none of them had S-rank potential. After all, the number of people with S-rank potential is very small, and the number of special classes is even smaller. The probability of someone having both is extremely low.

However, Cheng Yang was now puzzled. In his previous life, the strongest talent was S-rank, and the highest increase in a single attribute was 3%. How could he suddenly have a 4% increase? Could it be a bug?

Additionally, there were some subtle changes in Cheng Yang's attributes. For example, Magic Missile and Wind Bind were completely altered. Although the changes didn't seem significant, they turned the two originally attribute-less spells into ice spells.

There were benefits to this, such as the Magic Missile gaining a special attribute to slow down enemies. Although this attribute only had a 30% chance of appearing, it could play a significant role against powerful opponents. Additionally, the Ice Freeze spell was more powerful than the original Wind Bind. As long as the opponent's attack power was not twice his own, the skill would take effect.

However, perhaps because the skill's effect was too good, a restriction was added: the casting time.

Cheng Yang was very clear about the concept of casting time. Once a skill has a casting time, the user must stand still to successfully cast the skill.

Undoubtedly, with this restriction, the practicality of the Ice Freeze spell decreased. However, it was still much more powerful than the Wind Bind.

These changes were just the initial changes for an Ice Mage. The true strength of the Ice Mage lies in other factors. Once a special class is chosen, the character will have a unique skill learning system.

However, Cheng Yang was unclear about what specific skills the Ice Mage had. He then opened the Ice Mage's panel.

Originally, Cheng Yang just opened it to check, but he was pleasantly surprised to find a learnable skill.

Regardless of the skill's practicality, having an additional skill in the early stages was a good thing.

Ice Spike: A large area of ice spikes descend from the sky, covering a three-meter radius, dealing 50% magic damage to all enemies within the area. Casting interval: 2 seconds. Learning conditions: Intermediate Apprentice Ice Mage, 200 Spirit Points.

Cheng Yang's eyes widened; it was a ranged spell!

He didn't expect to have a ranged spell so soon. The excitement in his heart was indescribable. In his previous life, the combatant who obtained the Spirit of Ice and Snow also learned this ranged spell, but at that time, he was already a初级士级. Everyone thought this skill could only be learned at the士级, so they didn't pay much attention to it.

But now Cheng Yang realized that this powerful ranged spell could be learned at the Apprentice level, which was a significant difference.

How large is a three-meter radius? In a dense area of monsters, a three-meter radius could accommodate seven to eight mutated beasts. If it were the skeleton soldiers in the Valley of the Dead, it could hold over ten. With Ice Spike, Cheng Yang only needed two rounds of attacks to kill all the monsters in this area. This efficiency was much faster than using Magic Missile.

Cheng Yang immediately spent 200 Spirit Points to learn the Ice Spike skill. After learning it, he found that while the Ice Spike skill was indeed powerful, it also consumed a significant amount of magic power, requiring 12 points each time it was cast.

Next, Cheng Yang instructed Yu Kai and others to collect the 4,000 Spirit Points he had lent them during the second half of the night, then left Phoenix Landing Village.

Cheng Yang's night sweeps had now extended to a region about four kilometers from the existing wall. In closer areas, the large monster groups had been mostly eliminated. Although new monsters were constantly spawning, they no longer met Cheng Yang's needs. Besides, if he killed these small groups of monsters, what would the combatants in the territory kill?

During the night sweep, Cheng Yang obtained nearly 2,000 Spirit Points. The action was quite dangerous; he accidentally entered a group of about 600 monsters. After a fierce battle, he consumed most of his magic potions. The subsequent battles relied on the magic potions he had refined himself.

The significant harvest this night was also due to the power of the Ice Spike skill. Whenever monsters gathered, Cheng Yang used the Ice Spike skill to clear them. The efficiency was more than doubled. Of course, his Ice Armor also played a crucial role. The strong defense made him fearless of ordinary monsters, allowing him to withstand their attacks while casting the Ice Spike skill.

According to the system rules, when defense is 30% higher than attack, the attack is completely ineffective. When the defense is within 30% higher than the attack, there is a chance of forced damage, which is 1 point of damage. This chance decreases as defense increases.

With Cheng Yang's six points of defense against the mutated beasts' maximum attack of five points, the chance of complete immunity was very high. He could withstand the attacks of a large group of mutated beasts without much trouble.

After returning to the territory, Cheng Yang retrieved the 4,000 Spirit Points from Yu Kai and others, then began his training for the day.

After a night of training, by morning, Cheng Yang's training progress had reached 13.4%. The previous night, his progress was only 9.9%, meaning he had improved by 3.5% in one night, which was an extremely high efficiency.

Suddenly, Cheng Yang frowned, sensing something was off. According to the data from his previous life, a level 3 Meditation skill should normally increase training progress by 0.5% per day. With the sixfold training speed, plus the 2-level house and his talent, the training progress should be around 3.2%. Why was it 3.5%?

Previously, Cheng Yang had observed the daily training progress, but since it was not significantly different from his expectations, he didn't pay much attention. However, now the 0.3% difference was significant. It was equivalent to a 50% increase in his training efficiency.

Based on his previous life's experience, the doubling of Spirit Points and the house's efficiency boost had been verified many times and would not be problematic. The only possible variable was his talent.

After detailed calculations, Cheng Yang reached a conclusion that made him ecstatic. The training speed increase from his talent was not additive but multiplicative. If it were additive, his current training efficiency would be 6.29 times, but if multiplicative, it would be nearly 6.8 times.

Don't underestimate these decimal places; it's just because his level is too low. Once his level reaches a high level, it could potentially double his training efficiency.

Even more amazing, this efficiency boost did not require additional Spirit Points.

Cheng Yang was no longer calm. His talent was incredible, and it would play an immeasurable role in enhancing the territory's strength. Given enough time, Phoenix Landing Village would surely stand at the pinnacle of the world. No, by then, it would no longer be Phoenix Landing Village but Phoenix City.

After a while, Cheng Yang suppressed his excitement and walked out of the house. The 720 Spirit Points consumed during the night's training were completely forgotten.

This was the ninth day after the apocalypse. Cheng Yang felt a sense of urgency, as the longer time passed, the higher the chance of human survivors dying.

Fortunately, most cities' humans had already reclaimed their main cities from the monsters. If they hadn't, it would be difficult for them to reclaim the main city on their own, leading to a catastrophic disaster for the survivors in that city.

Cheng Yang didn't think too far ahead. He only hoped to save more refugees in Xiangcheng City while there was still time. At the same time, he wanted to earn more Spirit Points to quickly enhance his and the territory's strength.

Next, Cheng Yang transferred all 10,000 Spirit Points to Yu Kai's team. This wasn't to let Yu Kai enjoy the sixfold training speed but to allow him to select 10 people for fourfold speed training.

According to Cheng Yang's plan, the training of Phoenix Landing Village's teams would follow a certain order, with each team training at fixed times. This would maximize the use of Spirit Points and efficiency while not affecting the team's unified actions.

This time slot was for Yu Kai's team. After Yu Kai's team completed their training, it would be Niu Bing's team's turn.

After making the arrangements, Cheng Yang entered the Blood Church dungeon. After a battle, his Spirit Points reached around 1,400.

Cheng Yang left 1,000 Spirit Points for training and then left the territory with Li Wanshan and others. After a day of class changes and the increase in the territory's Spirit Points, all the class change slots in Phoenix Landing Village were used up, and each team had reached the full 167 members. At this point, there was no need for Li Wanshan to stay in the territory.

However, the territory's Spirit Points were also depleted due to the class changes. Fortunately, he had just cleared the Blood Church dungeon, or he would have had to wait until the evening to upgrade the Priest Statue's last attribute.

The group retraced their old route back to Xiangcheng City. This time, Cheng Yang specifically chose a path he hadn't taken before. They encountered many monster groups along the way, but with Cheng Yang's area attacks, these monsters were quickly eliminated. They seemed to exist only to increase Cheng Yang's Spirit Points.

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End of the chapter.