When You Become an NPC That Might Die Any Moment in the Novice Village-Chapter 140 - 68 Task settlement, the true White Reaper [5.5k]
After receiving the task completion prompt in the car, Bai Fu didn't rush to settle the task.
The road from Bagalos to the Goli Desert mentioned by Julia was mostly abandoned, and traveling it was bound to involve encounters with various mutants or desperados roaming the wasteland.
She worried about encountering unexpected trouble while settling the task, so she waited until she drove the car to a small settlement before beginning to check the rewards from her trip to Bagaros.
The Camp Conflict Task [Bagaros] had a total of five branch goals.
Branch one [Explore the Reality] involved scouting the interior of Bagaros Base, which Bai Fu incidentally completed while playing a game of cat and mouse with Basque.
Since many players were involved, her Contribution wasn't especially high, only a bit over 30%, earning her 5,000 Experience Value as a reward and 2 additional attribute points.
This amount of Experience was negligible for her, but the attribute point reward was a pleasant surprise, which she decided to add to her Constitution first.
Branch two [Merciless Slaughter] and branch three [Beheading Action] were already settled while she was still at Bagaros Base, so Bai Fu ignored these two and focused her attention on branch four [Team Power] and branch five [Eliminate Bagaros Base].
In this round of action, she and other players made an indelible Contribution, almost completely turning the tide of the battle.
For this, the game directly awarded her an [Excellent] rating.
The reward for branch four was 100,000 Experience Value, and branch five's reward was 150,000 Experience Value and a new Skill.
"Apart from Experience and a new Skill, there are no other rewards?"
Bai Fu was momentarily stunned.
Although the task settlement gave her a lot of Experience, rewards beyond Experience seemed a bit cursory.
She selected the newly acquired Skill and began examining its description.
[Otherworldly Erosion]: Your skills inflict the [Otherworldly Erosion] effect on the target after each instance of causing Spiritual Ability damage, which can stack up to 5 times. Each stack causes additional Spiritual Ability damage equivalent to 1% of the target's maximum Life Value over 5 seconds. Upon reaching three stacks, reduce the target's total resistances by 10%. At five stacks, the Otherworldly Erosion effect becomes highly unstable, detonating within 3 seconds and dealing Spiritual Ability damage equal to 10% of the target's maximum Life Value (+Inspiration*1), with a cooldown of 5 seconds after detonation.
[Note: This Skill can evolve into an exclusive Talent]
"Holy shit!"
After reading the Skill description, Bai Fu's earlier gloom vanished, her eyes shining as if she had won 5 million in the lottery.
Isn't this similar to the passive ability of the Fire Mage?
Before, she was purely a support, able to exchange blows with enemies only due to her tankiness, but with this passive, everything changed.
If her opponent had a maximum Life Value of 500, then with her current attributes, after attacking the target with five Spiritual Ability attacks, the passive effect of Otherworldly Erosion alone would cause 110 points of Spiritual Ability damage to her opponent.
Of course, this 110 damage was just a theoretical value, as opponents all have some level of Spiritual Ability Resistance, so the actual damage inflicted would be less.
But even so, it was still impressive. The Skill itself also had base damage, so after five hits, she could nearly take away 200 points from the opponent's Life Value!
But this wasn't the limit of Otherworldly Erosion.
After just one glance, Bai Fu thought of a new way to use this Skill. She could first stack the Otherworldly Erosion passive on one target, then immediately after reaching five stacks, use [Chain Reaction] to bind that target to others.
The cooldown of Chain Reaction was 1 second, while the countdown for Otherworldly Erosion's explosion was 3 seconds, meaning if she was fast enough, she could explode the passive effect on three people at the same time.
Chained boats, the burning of the Red Cliffs!
"Now my nickname, White Reaper, is truly earned."
Bai Fu was in a great mood; now, she had completely distanced herself from the ordinary Elite monsters, but she still had a way to go to reach the level of a BOSS.
To be a qualified BOSS, relying on tankiness alone wasn't enough; one also needed a bunch of perverse Skills that could torture players to death and back, just like Julia.
Bai Fu planned her next steps.
Before trading with Julia at Goli Desert's Shelter 11, she intended to learn a few offensive Spiritual Ability Skills for self-defense.
Currently, the only offensive Skill she possessed was Spiritual Ability Boiling, but the damage it caused was physical and couldn't trigger the Otherworldly Erosion passive.
"From Bagaros to the Goli Desert, there are many large settlements along the way. When the time comes, I can ask around those places and should be able to find Skill Books or Profession Tutors. If all else fails, I can post a Task on the Dark Web, especially since I still have 300,000 Credit Coins."
Bai Fu closed the Skill description and invested Experience to raise her Spiritual Ability Prayer Master from Lv7 to Lv9. With just over 20,000 more Experience, she could level up again.
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However, more than just leveling up, she eagerly awaited acquiring the Spiritual Ability Knowledge she desired from Julia, which would unlock the [Apprentice Spiritual Artist] Profession. The upgrade that came with an even rarer Profession was much greater than just increasing a level or two.
After closing the attribute panel, Bai Fu opened the task panel again, and after some maneuvering, the Contribution towards the plot Task [The Unknown Truth] increased from 0.28% to 1.19%.
Having destroyed a base, but the progress increasing by less than 1%, it seemed this base wasn't that important to the Truth Society.
