Chapter 85

Cheng Yang put the ring on his finger and then attached his consciousness to the ring. Instantly, he felt as if there was an independent space in front of him. It was not large, with dimensions of one meter in length, width, and height. Although it could not store large items, it was very suitable for holding potions.

Moreover, the storage ring was different from ordinary equipment; it did not increase the user's personal attributes and did not count towards the number of equipped items.

After putting away the ring, Cheng Yang prepared to leave. The shop owner couldn't help but say, "Lord, do you really not need to buy anything else? We have..."

"No, not for now. I'll come back another time if I have the chance," Cheng Yang smiled and then left decisively.

Next, Cheng Yang began his training for the night.

Cheng Yang was already very satisfied with the current eightfold training speed. To achieve a higher training speed, he needed to accumulate one million spirit energy points. Without any windfall, it would be impossible for him to accumulate one million spirit energy points in a long time.

After a period of training, Cheng Yang's training progress reached 13.1%. If he continued training under the current conditions, he would need at least 40 more days to smoothly advance to the Scholar level.

This was already a very fast speed. In the previous life, the apocalypse lasted for a year, and the strongest known human was only at the initial Scholar level. Cheng Yang could enhance his strength to the Scholar level by the 50th day of the apocalypse, which clearly demonstrated his significant advantage.

When the sky was bright, Cheng Yang came out of his private courtyard and went to upgrade the attributes of the five occupational statues. Now, only one attribute of the four main occupational statues remained unupgraded. Once the final attribute was upgraded, these four main occupational statues would reach level 4, and the number of people each statue could transfer would surge. At the same time, Cheng Yang did not forget to upgrade the attributes of the priest statue.

After completing the upgrades, Cheng Yang began to prepare for the attack on the Blood Cathedral dungeon.

With Cheng Yang's current strength, clearing the difficult level of the Blood Cathedral dungeon was no longer a challenge. He set his sights on the nightmare level. This was the fundamental reason why Cheng Yang chose to use the divine favor privilege to enhance his strength first.

In the previous life, someone had already cleared the initial level of the nightmare difficulty. The strongest monster inside was a second-stage early demonized beast.

However, the nightmare difficulty was called such not only because the monsters had the strength of a second-stage early demonized beast but also because the final demonized beast to be killed introduced the concept of a game boss. In other words, under the nightmare difficulty, the final boss could not be measured by ordinary monsters.

According to the classification of the previous life, the boss under the nightmare difficulty could be considered the most ordinary boss. Its health points were ten times that of a second-stage demonized beast, and its defense was twice as strong. Its attack power did not change much, but the increase in health and defense firmly established its status as a boss.

To fight such a boss, one needed both offensive and defensive capabilities, as well as a priest to heal. Especially the priest, if the warrior relied solely on health potions, they might not be able to withstand the boss's attacks, unless the warrior could carry over a hundred health potions.

Cheng Yang had been thinking about how to clear the nightmare difficulty of the Blood Cathedral dungeon for a long time. However, at that time, his strength was insufficient, and there were no experts in the territory to help. After he advanced to the peak magic apprentice, everything changed.

Under normal circumstances, the health points of a second-stage early demonized beast should be around 480. With ten times the health, it would reach 4800 points. At the same time, its defense would increase from 16 to 32, which was a very frustrating change.

If it were just an increase in health, human combatants could use health potions to endure and eventually wear down the boss. However, with the defense doubled, even high-level apprentices could not cause any damage. Even ordinary peak apprentice combatants, without equipment, could only deal single-digit damage to this boss, making it almost impossible to defeat it with 4800 health points.

Cheng Yang's current attack power had reached an astonishing 64 points, and the damage he could deal to the boss would be very significant. If the five people entering the dungeon all had the same attack power as Cheng Yang, they could deal 160 points of damage per round. They would need 30 rounds to completely defeat the boss.

During these 30 rounds, as a second-stage early demonized beast, the boss's attack power was an astonishing 80 points. Even a warrior known for their defense, after reaching the peak warrior apprentice level, would only have 16 defense points, and even with armor, this number would hardly exceed 20. This meant that the warrior would take over 60 points of damage per round, and a peak warrior apprentice's health points were only 250, allowing them to withstand only four rounds of attacks.

At this point, if the warrior used health potions to endure, even with medium-sized health potions, they would need to drink one potion per attack to ensure their health did not decrease.

Nearly 30 health potions, for a team attempting to clear the nightmare difficulty, was not an unbearable cost. However, the above assumptions were based on ideal conditions. If the boss used any special skills, the battle could take a different turn.

Therefore, Cheng Yang decided to bring a priest, which would not only increase their attack power but also provide crucial support in critical moments.

He not only called a high-level priest apprentice from the territory's guards, who was also the first priest summoned, but also brought Chen Yun and the other three to ensure a smoother passage through the dungeon.

Chen Yun and the other four had been summoned for three or four days. Yesterday, Cheng Yang had already spent 1000 spirit energy points to teach them high-level apprentice skills. These included the warrior's Charge, the archer's Strong Attack, the priest's Holy Guard, the summoner's Enhanced Phantom Wolf, and the first summoned mage's Wind Bind.

Charge: Shield forward, increasing speed by 200%, can stun the target for 1 second, effective range 25 meters, ineffective against targets with more than twice the attack power, skill cooldown 1 minute. Higher skill levels increase stun duration and reduce cooldown. Learning condition: High-level warrior apprentice, 200 spirit energy points.

Strong Attack: Focus will, increase physical attack power by 10%, skill duration 1 minute, skill cooldown 90 seconds. Higher skill levels increase attack power, learning condition: High-level archer apprentice, 200 spirit energy points.

Holy Guard: Summon the light of faith to protect allies, increase allies' dual defense by 5%, skill duration 2 minutes, skill cooldown 30 seconds. Higher skill levels increase defense and duration, learning condition: High-level priest apprentice, 200 spirit energy points.

Enhanced Phantom Wolf: Passive skill, enhance the summoned phantom wolf, increase all attributes by 10%. Skill level increases with the summoning skill level. Higher skill levels increase defense and duration, learning condition: High-level summoner apprentice, 200 spirit energy points.

Undoubtedly, these four skills were very practical and played a crucial role in enhancing the combatants' fighting power.

The only frustrating aspect was the priest's Holy Guard, which would only frustrate the priest, not the other combatants. This meant that even at the high-level apprentice stage, priests would not have any attack skills, which was very frustrating for them.

However, this would make the priest profession even more sought after, especially the priests of Luofeng Village, who could heal, defend, and increase attack power. This was a significant advantage. Once these skills reached higher levels, the role of the priest would be infinitely expanded.

Cheng Yang was now in such a mood. He was not very concerned about whether the priest had attack power. As long as the priest could significantly enhance the territory's combat power, it was much better than increasing personal attack power. After all, the number of priests that could be transferred from the statue was limited, and the attack power they added did not significantly enhance the territory's combat power.

When Chen Yun and the other four arrived, Cheng Yang first went to the alchemy room to purchase a large number of mana potions and health potions, then came to the entrance of the Blood Cathedral dungeon.

Cheng Yang opened the dungeon entrance's teleportation list and chose the nightmare difficulty without hesitation.

In an instant, Cheng Yang and his team entered the dungeon.

In the previous ordinary or difficult levels of the Blood Cathedral dungeon, the sky was only slightly dark. However, this time, the environment was completely different.

This change was not in the buildings but in the overall environment.

The moment Cheng Yang and his team entered, they all felt a sense of solemnity. The sky was tinged with a pale red, making the atmosphere extremely oppressive.

In the previous life, the highest difficulty people cleared was the nightmare level. As for the final hell level, although some people entered, no one cleared it. Most people died at the hands of the final boss, and only a few survived by hiding and enduring until the end of the dungeon.

The sky and earth of the hell level Blood Cathedral were entirely blood-red, hence its name. Therefore, Cheng Yang was not surprised by the current environment.

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