(The Dark Elemental Enhancement looted in the previous chapter has passed the [Under the Shade] bonus.) ）

In the previous battle of more than two hours, Chu Ge found that, like the moss lizard before, when he killed the third Dark Elemental Elf, he could no longer obtain SP points from them.

When he came to the end of the Dark Elemental Reversal Zone, close to the location of the Ice Zone, Chu Ge saw the object on his side quest list.

There was a giant beast skull, and the revenant Merkel stood beside it.

Compared to the lower Dark Elemental Elves of the Silt Creature, Merkel's body composition is more pure.

It was wrapped in a pitch-black cloak, the upper half of its body was exceptionally tall, and the lower half of its body was suspended in mid-air like a ghost, and its face was somewhat blurred, but it could vaguely distinguish the appearance of a man.

Chu Ge hid behind a boulder not far away, quietly observing the other party.

"It's really a high-level element, and I thought I was wrong when the side quest was first released......"

Seeing this high-level element whose appearance was not much different from the one in his memory, Chu Ge was a little surprised.

It's not because of anything else, but this Revenant Merkel is too weak, and this strength in the early stage of the third order is not at all in line with the identity of the high-level elemental elf.

In Chu Ge's impression, as a high-level existence among elemental creatures, normal high-level elements almost all have super-level strength, and the weakest high-level element he had seen in his previous life also had the strength of the third-order peak.

"Although it has a 30% Dark Elemental damage reduction, with my current attack power...... No, it's too much. ”

Whether it is health, defense, or even other attack speed and movement speed, Chu Ge can make up for the gap with the dark element, but in terms of attack ability, he is definitely not the opponent of the dark element.

Of course, if Flame Herrick is compared to a berserker who can resist and fight, then Merkel is a high-blooded assassin. If you can reduce the attack power gap between yourself and your opponent as much as possible, you may be able to kill them before their health is deducted.

After staring and observing quietly for a while, Chu Ge quickly calculated, thinking about how to allocate the remaining more than 300 SP points in order to allow himself to obtain a boost that was enough to kill the revenant Merkel.

"It's like this......"

After glancing at Merkel floating in the distance, Chu Ge looked in the opposite direction again, where a lower-level dark elemental spirit was moving slowly.

[Consumes 105 SP points, basic swordsmanship Lv4→ Lv7]

"Hint: The basic swordsmanship proficiency reaches a critical value, and additional attribute extraction appears."

"You can choose one of the following three."

[Draw attribute A: When attacking with a greatsword/epee weapon, the damage is increased by 10%, and the attack speed is reduced by 4%]

[Draw Attribute B: Increases damage by 5% and attack speed by 3% when attacking with a short sword/dagger weapon]

[Extraction attribute C: When using a sword weapon to block, the success probability is increased by 10%, and the block damage is reduced by 5%]

"Select Attribute A!"

The three draw options were equal, but considering the next battle situation, Chu Ge chose the first one.

[Basic Swordsmanship Lv7 (0/55): You never know when your last sword will be swung, so don't slack off and try to swing the next sword; Strength +0.5, Constitution +0.5, Agility +0.6, Increases damage by 7%, Block, and Hit Rate by 7% when attacking with sword weapons (including but not limited to epee, short sword, and dagger). 】

[Extra attribute extraction omitted.] 】

(Because the basic swordsmanship was the earliest passive skill to have, the overall attribute was low at that time, so the improvement was higher, and now the improvement of these three-level attributes is not much.) ）

After raising the basic swordsmanship to Lv7, the silver-forged swordsmanship has also reached the prerequisites for further improvement.

[Consumes 165 SP points, Silver Forge Swordsmanship Lv3→ Lv6]

"Hint: The proficiency of the Silver Forge Sword Technique has reached a critical value, and additional attribute extraction appears."

"You can choose one of the following three."

[Extraction attribute A: The active effect of Silver Casting Swordsmanship has its charge time reduced by 50%, and the source energy consumption has been reduced by 30%; Attacks can be performed while charging. 】

[Extraction attribute B: The additional damage value of silver sword qi is increased by 10%, and the first attack after each charge will cause a knockback effect, and the knockback state can be triggered by selecting yes/no; Attacks can be performed while charging. 】

[Extracted attribute C (rare): After each charge, the number of additional attacks of the silver sword qi is increased by one. 】

Because of the consumption reduction of lapis lazuli, attribute A is Chu Ge's relative favorite, but in order to increase his attack strength as much as possible, he chooses to draw option B.

[Silver Casting Swordsmanship Lv6 (0/85): Effort represents a reward, although this ability requires a lot of sweat, but it will never let the effort be disappointed; Strength +1.2, increases base damage by 15% and chance of block success by 25% when attacking with a sword-type weapon.

[Active: After charging for two seconds, each of your next attacks will be accompanied by a sword energy impact, with an additional (3.5 + Strength * 2.5 + Constitution * 1) damage, and the attack range will be slightly increased. Charging consumes 16 source energy points, and each charge can maintain 3 attacks, and the continuous charge time is halved. 】

[Extra attribute extraction omitted.] 】

The Silver Casting Swordsmanship has a precondition for the basic swordsmanship Lv10 to be promoted to Lv7, but even if it is not, with Chu Ge's remaining SP value, it is not enough to continue to upgrade.

The reason why I didn't choose to increase [Ghost Step] is because the mobility increase and additional dark elemental damage it brings are not enough to have a significant effect on this battle, so it is better to pour all out SP into sword attacks.

After receiving two consecutive boosts, Chu Ge's strength attribute reached 5.5, but this was only the first step in his plan.

[Nightmare Marker], release!

This position is the cast range limit of the Nightmare marker, under the influence of [Weaken Evil Thoughts], the three attributes of Revenant Merkel's defense/evasion value/movement speed are reduced by 11%, and the first effect of [Chaos Verdict] is the selected spirit attribute, and the reduction is 0.9 points.

Then, Chu Ge sat directly on the ground like this, leaning against the boulder with his back and closing his eyes, and waiting quietly.

In addition to the high-tier priority, the Nightmare Mark has two other very powerful features:

[This ability does not consume source energy value, once the mark is successful, unless the caster actively cancels or marks the target to death, the ability cannot be purified/weakened by external forces in any form, and only one target can be marked at the same time.] 】

[The fluctuations generated when this ability is released are extremely secretive, and it is difficult for even those who are marked to notice that they have been weakened.] 】

In other words, as long as it is hit by the Nightmare Marker, if Chu Ge does not remove the mark, the target unit will always be affected by the [Chaos Ruling] and will continue to be reduced by the base attribute value.

[Chaos Verdict: Marked units will be continuously disturbed by the power of sin, and a random base attribute will be reduced by 10%. This ability is activated repeatedly, twice as often as the previous interval, with an initial interval of three minutes. If an attribute is selected repeatedly, the effect of the drop becomes 1/3 of the previous one, and the minimum deduction for a single attribute will not be less than 0.3, and the maximum will not exceed 1.5. 】

What Chu Ge has to do now is just wait quietly.

*****

Time passed, and after forty-five minutes, the chaotic verdict was finally triggered for the fifth time.

Chu Ge's luck is neither good nor bad, although there are two duplicate attributes in the five triggers, the selected attributes are all those that Merkel is good at, namely agility, mystery, and spirit, and the decline is about 1 point.

“…… The result is okay, you can move on to the next one. ”

He patted his ass and got up from the ground, and instead of walking towards Merkel, he ran to the other side of the boulder, where the lower dark elemental was still moving.

The maximum increase of [Crazy Battle Intent] is twenty times, and the refresh duration is five minutes, and he has to stack his talent ability to the full value on this dark element.

Under Chu Ge's special control, the Dark Elemental Elf finally withstood a full twenty attacks before it shattered and disintegrated, and he also gained a 40% attack speed and a 20% movement speed temporary increase.

And that's not all, in the Frozen Prison, he gets some extra loot from the puppeteers of the Barka Academy. Now, the silver locket syringe was being placed on the vein in his arm.

【α type rapid injection, hormone mixture】!

Three seconds later, a rush of heat poured out of his body, and a muscle in his temples and legs began to beat slowly.

"Hint: The host is infused with a mixture of hormones, which reduces pain perception by 50%, increases attack speed by 15%, increases movement speed by 15%, increases critical strike chance by 3%, and increases critical damage by 20% for 15 minutes."

After completing the injection, he pulled out a golden wine glass encrusted with blue and green gemstones from the storage space, filled with clear white wine!

"One last step...... Now, let Heaven be on my side! ”

[Every time the holder drinks with it, they will receive Lucky Favor, which will last for 15 minutes, and Lucky Favor will take effect once every three days at most.] 】

Chu Ge held the huge golden cup in both hands, held it up as if worshipping, and then took a deep breath and drank the slurry inside.

"Hint: The host has been blessed with the mysterious state [Blessing and Misfortune], the specific effect is unknown!"

Since he didn't have the money to buy high-quality wine, he could only pray for luck with ordinary alcohol.

Experiencing the unspeakable feeling that enveloped his body, Chu Ge rubbed his wrist, which contained unprecedented power.

Now he has reached the current strongest state, in addition to the liberation of the shadows, the only hole cards that can be used at will are the active ability of the dark gold leggings.

"If you have a powerful weapon, why do you have to do so hard......

This thought had already appeared in Chu Ge's mind more than once, and now his desire for high-level weapons was getting stronger and stronger.

Everything was ready, he didn't wait any longer, and directly charged towards Merkel's side!

Because considering that he would use the Silver Casting Sword Technique many times, he didn't start the Ghost Shadow Step in order to save the source energy value, but even so, with his current running speed, if he wasn't a professional who was good at agility attributes, even if his strength reached the peak of the second order, or even the early stage of the third order, it was inferior to him!

When Chu Ge appeared in Merkel's line of sight, the high-ranking elemental elf immediately became vigilant, and with a wave of his thick arm, a pitch-black scythe more than half a person tall instantly appeared in his hand, and the restrained edge was surrounded by a vague death.

In just a few seconds, Chu Ge rushed to Merkel's side, and held the two-handed sword shining with brilliant silver with sufficient strength, and Merkel was unequivocal, swinging the black sickle and about to cut off his head!

However, just as the superior element raised the scythe to the highest point, a groan of pain suddenly spread out from Chu Ge's body, like a breeze blowing across Merkel's body.

At this moment, a strange emotion was born from the depths of the mind of the superior element, exploding like a galloping gale, an emotion called "fear" that it had never felt before.

[Doomsday Lv 2]!

"Hint: The high-level elemental spirit [Revenant Merkel] is affected by the aura ability, and the will attribute is ...... in the judgment"

"Hint: [Revenant Merkel] will attribute is below 3, and the Doomsday Coming judgment will take effect. Affected by the tide of fear, [Revenant Merkel]'s Battle Spirit is reduced by 20%, and its base defense is reduced by 20%. ”

During this short pause, Merkel was already empty, Chu Ge was already ready to meet this situation, a bottom-up oblique slash hit Merkel's chest squarely, and then he retracted his strength and slashed again, Lv6's silver sword qi directly left two shiny marks on Merkel's chest!

“……”

The pain of her body being torn and eroded immediately woke Merkel from that unknown emotion, and while avoiding Chu Ge's third attack, she quickly slashed down with a black scythe, targeting Chu Ge's neck without any armor!

Feeling the surging killing intent attached to the scythe, Chu Ge leaned forward with his knees short, and narrowly dodged Merkel's attack with a standard tactical roll.

He had no intention of using an air elemental shield right now, and in the few hours just now, the wind elemental shield had only recovered one side, leaving only two chances to save his life.

After rolling, Chu Ge came behind Merkel, but the other party didn't give him a chance to sneak attack, and directly twisted his upper body like a robot, and slashed it again!

What does not match Merkel's strong body is that its every move is extremely fast, even Chu Ge, who has various strong bonuses, will be steadily suppressed by it in terms of shooting speed.

However, Chu Ge had already seen the trajectory of the opponent's attack this time, he jumped back lightly to avoid the black sickle, and was not injured except for feeling a gust of wind pressure like a knife blowing on his face, and a few strands of hair fell out.

Seizing the opportunity for Merkel's attack to miss, he held the long sword in one hand, propped it up to the ground with the other, and bounced forward with his legs, and the blade once again flashed silver, slashing across Merkel's lower body.

But this time he was not so lucky, and after successfully hitting Merkel, the opponent's counterattack also came immediately!