CXnovel Chapter 234 Bottlenecks and Opportunities: The Path to Advancement for Hidden Professions
Chapter 234 Bottlenecks and Opportunities: The Path to Advancement for Hidden Professions
She meticulously reviewed planning drawings, approved resource lists, listened to progress reports from each team, and made key decisions... striving for perfection in everything she did.
"Sister Weiwei, this is the preliminary list of members suitable for participating in the core city defense battle. There are two hundred people in total, all of whom are level 25 or above, and their equipment and skills have been verified." The deputy handed her a list.
Li Weiwei took the list and carefully browsed through it, occasionally circling a few names or raising questions: "This 'Li Xiaoyu,' her mistake in the last team dungeon led to a wipe, her mental fortitude needs to be reassessed. 'Yi Wu' has high DPS, but she's too prone to over-aggroing; what's needed for a siege battle is stability. Put them in the reserve team and let Qiangwei observe them for a while longer."
Her meticulousness and attention to detail convinced everyone.
They knew that the guild leader wasn't being picky, but rather taking responsibility for the future of the entire guild.
As night fell again, Li Weiwei stood alone in a clearing in the center of the Moonlight Forest.
She clutched the founding token tightly in her hand; its icy touch kept her perfectly conscious.
Mirror Moon Lake reflects the starry sky and the bright moon, as well as the burning ambition in her eyes.
The guild has achieved the first permanent honor for a guild, which is certainly enviable.
But the second guild is equally significant! It represents the strength and potential that follows closely behind!
She, Li Weiwei, the founder of Blood Romance, will never be content to remain forever in second place.
Lin Tian gave her this opportunity, and she must seize it firmly and transform it into a solid foundation for the rise of Blood Romance!
"Resources, defenses, personnel, tactics... everything is in place." She murmured to herself, her cool gaze sweeping over the land that would soon be theirs. "Next, we just need to wait for the most opportune moment."
She won't face the challenge under the spotlight like the War Alliance did.
What she wanted was to quietly lay the foundation, and then, in that destined-to-be-difficult city defense battle, make a name for herself and announce the power of Blood Romance to the entire continent!
Under the moonlight, her figure stood tall and resolute, her courage and wisdom, which were no less than those of men, quietly gathering a force that could not be underestimated in this tranquil woodland.
The seeds of the second guild have been sown, waiting only for the moment they sprout.
......
Just as the entire continent was abuzz with activity and undercurrents over a small token for establishing a guild, the source of this storm was a desolate and isolated place.
Cursed Wasteland.
This area is outside the territory of Luoxia City and is marked as a high-level danger zone for levels 50 and above.
The sky is always a suffocating leaden gray, as if a huge, dirty rag is hanging over our heads, not letting in a single ray of sunlight.
The cracked earth was littered with pale white skeletons, some humanoid, others of various strange creatures, who knew how long they had been exposed to the sun.
The dry wind, carrying the smell of sulfur and decay, blew endlessly, stirring up gusts of dust and making sounds like the wailing of wronged souls.
Here, vitality is a luxury.
The only creatures roaming about are undead and elemental monsters corrupted and twisted by chaotic energy.
The decaying corpse, dragging its broken body, wanders aimlessly among the sand dunes;
The [Wailing Ghost] is like a translucent shadow, emitting a piercing shriek.
Occasionally, shadow demons, composed of pure shadow energy, would drift in the distance like will-o'-the-wisps.
For ordinary players, this is an absolute no-go zone.
Putting aside the monsters' level and strength, the suffocating environment and the persistent "Despair Aura" (which reduces health regeneration and has a small chance of triggering fear effects) are enough to deter any elite team.
However, for Lin Tian, this is the perfect place to level up at this stage.
He hovered several meters above the ground, his robes automatically absorbing the faint light from the surroundings in the cold wind, making him seem to blend into the gray world.
At the top of the [Star Devouring Staff] in his hand, the deep, dark core slowly rotated, emitting a heart-palpitating energy fluctuation.
He doesn't even need to use those S-rank or SSS-rank ultimate skills with long cooldowns.
With only basic skills, he unleashed a relentless storm of destruction in this land of death.
"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"
One after another, crimson fireballs, far larger than usual and packed with terrifying energy, shot out from the tip of his staff like a machine gun, precisely striking the area below where the monsters were most concentrated.
His terrifying intelligence attribute of up to 75 points allowed these basic skills to unleash power comparable to forbidden spells in his hands!
The fireball exploded, instantly vaporizing the main target, and the resulting fiery storm cleared out a large area around it!
Those sturdy, decaying zombies, fragile, howling ghosts, and even elite-level shadow demons were all rapidly melted and annihilated by these seemingly ordinary fireballs, just like ice and snow being exposed to the scorching sun!
【Arcane Missiles】are like precision-guided sniper bullets, picking off those scattered individuals or those who managed to escape the inferno by sheer luck.
Each flash of purple arcane light was accompanied by the complete demise of a monster.
The experience bar was growing slowly but steadily at a visible rate.
The monsters here offer far more experience than those in lower-level maps, but for Lin Tian, who needs a massive amount of experience to level up from 50 to 51, it's still a drop in the ocean.
Lin Tian remained expressionless, his eyes as calm as two bottomless ancient wells.
For him, this efficient killing was no different from breathing and drinking water; it was simply a necessary process to achieve his goal.
While mechanically repeating the spellcasting actions, he also spared some attention to examine his own attribute panel, which was beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.
In the skill bar, each skill is at least S-rank, and there are even some god-level skill icons that shine brightly.
In the equipment slots, god-tier or SSS-tier equipment such as the [Star Devouring Staff], [Annihilation Ring], and [Immortal Ring] emanate breathtaking power fluctuations.
It can be said that his current strength has far exceeded the limits that players in the current version can understand.
But he was not satisfied; instead, he vaguely touched an invisible barrier.
It's not a class barrier, but a professional barrier.
What he possesses are the more unique [Dominator] and [Starry Sky Mystic] skills, which transcend ordinary hidden professions.
These two forces seem to have reached a certain limit at the current stage, and their growth has begun to slow down abnormally, as if they are missing some kind of key to unlock the next stage of evolution.