SSS Grade Saint Knight - Chapter 153

Chapter 153: Choosing Talents! Rapid Casting!

TL: Rui88

“Sure enough, refreshing the Abyss-level dungeon clear record would yield a new talent!”

Zhou Yi’s eyes brightened.

Three A Rank talents!!

Each of them had a very impressive effect!

First was the ‘Toughness’ talent!

A 40% physical damage reduction, which was extremely suitable for a tank role!

The second, ‘Thorn Aura’, was also very compatible with the tank role.

Suffering the fiercest blows, reflecting the greatest damage!

“A conventional Saint Knight was indeed an auxiliary heavy tank, but for me, it was not…”

The physical damage reduction from the ‘Toughness’ talent looked good, but Zhou Yi already possessed the ‘Holy Light Guardian’ skill, which could absorb physical damage.

Moreover, under the effect amplification of the S+ talent Protection of the Holy Angel, the cooldown time of ‘Holy Light Guardian’ had already been reduced to roughly 40 seconds.

There was absolutely no need for the ‘Toughness’ talent.

As for the second, ‘Thorn Aura’, it was even chicken rib.

With that effort, one could have simply chopped it with an axe; why resort to using reflected damage to slowly wear it down?

Of course…

As A Rank talents, the effects of ‘Toughness’ and ‘Thorn Aura’ were regarded as formidable.

Had there not been any better talents, Zhou Yi might have chosen one of them.

However…

With the ultimate Rapid Casting available, Zhou Yi naturally did not choose these two talents.

“As a fusion of melee and caster, if a Saint Knight possessed the ‘Rapid Casting’ talent, my strength would further increase…”

The range of spell skills was vast, and skills such as ‘Holy Storm’ and ‘Light’s Punishment’ were definitely included.

And the signature buff skills of the Saint Knight were likewise subject to the talent’s effect amplification.

In other words, as long as this talent was chosen, most of one’s skills would benefit from it.

Without further hesitation, Zhou Yi directly chose Talent 3!

Buzz——

Instantly, countless pieces of knowledge regarding spell skill casting flooded into his mind.

It was a very peculiar feeling, as if he had always known these pieces of knowledge, only now did he remember them.

This feeling came quickly and left just as fast.

After the knowledge had been fully imbued, Zhou Yi felt that his understanding of spells had ascended to a new level!!

“The Rapid Casting talent was mine now!”

Zhou Yi immediately conducted several experiments.

The casting time for ordinary buff skills had been reduced by a full 80%!!

The chanting time for high-level spell skills such as ‘Holy Storm’ had been reduced by approximately 50%!!

“Sure enough, a good talent brought an immeasurable boost to a professional’s strength!”

“Unfortunately, each professional could only obtain an achievement talent once in the same dungeon.”

“Otherwise, one could obtain new talents infinitely.”

Zhou Yi involuntarily thought so.

In fact, after learning the news last night that the Abyss-level challenge difficulty had been opened, he had used his 001 Sequence ranking privileges to check the relevant information on the school’s official website.

The answer he got was exactly that.

Even if the dungeon clear record was refreshed for a second time, the same professional would only obtain the achievement talent once.

There was no way to obtain it multiple times.

“Indeed, if achievement talents could be obtained without limit, the nation would have long since used this feature to mass-produce geniuses.”

Shaking his head, Zhou Yi began to pick up his loot—a dark black wolf tooth club.

[Weapon: Shattered Gold Wolf Fang Club]

[Quality: Gold☆☆]

[Level Requirement: Level 22]

[Attributes: Strength +42, Constitution +44]

[Race Restriction: None]

[Profession Restriction: Warrior, Knight]

[Effect: Each attack inflicted additional bleeding damage.]

It was obvious that this Gold-grade Shattered Gold Wolf Fang Club was the very one in the Goblin King’s hand.

“The wolf tooth club was useless to me; once I got back to the villa, I would immediately list Xiao Hui on the School Mall.”

It was undeniable that the School Mall was extremely convenient.

The Gold-grade ‘Totem Stone Pillar’ that Zhou Yi had obtained in the Bear Monster Dungeon had been sold by a student for 300 credits just a couple of days after being listed.

Although 20 credits had been deducted as a fee, the 280 credits of income still made him feel quite satisfied.

He planned to list the ‘Shattered Gold Wolf Fang Club’ as well.

After stowing the equipment into his backpack,

Zhou Yi then allocated all of his newly acquired free attribute points.

As for skill points, he had left some remaining.

After finishing his point allocation, he looked at his information panel.

[Name: Zhou Yi]

[Profession: Saint Knight]

[Level: 19 (18768/54000)]

[Talents: Protection of the Holy Angel (S+), Death Resistance (S+), Rapid Casting (A), Focused Aura (A-), Titan Divine Markings (B-), Magic Immunity (C+), Stone Skin (D-)]

[Skills: God’s Hand LV1 (S Rank), Light’s Punishment LV9 (A Rank), Holy Flame Halo LV1 (A Rank), Holy Light Guardian LV5 (B+ Rank), Holy Fist Combo LV4 (B Rank), Holy Light Cross LV7 (B Rank), Holy Storm LV7 (B- Rank)…]

[Attributes: Strength: 243, Constitution: 251, Agility: 234, Intelligence: 262]

[Special Bloodline: Frost Titan]

[Secret Technique: Titan Divine Body (S+)]

In addition to the new talents and a considerable increase in his four core attributes, his experience had also increased by roughly one-third.

“Hmm, even clearing an Abyss-level difficulty only increased my experience by one-third, it seemed that at level 19 I had already entered a stage where leveling up became considerably more difficult.”

For professionals, levels 1 to 10 were the easiest stage for leveling up.

During this stage, only some special items provided by the state were needed to complete leveling up.

From level 10 to 19, the experience required for leveling up was still very little, and one could rise in level quickly.

However, once attempting to level up from level 19 to 20, the experience needed became significantly more.

It could be said that, across Zhongxia Country, many professionals had been stuck at level 19…

As for levels above 20, the difficulty of leveling up was even greater!

Indeed, high-level professionals could be seen everywhere within Suhang University.

Even some senior students were above level 20, with some even reaching second-transfer!

But one had to remember that this was one of the nation’s most prestigious universities!

It was completely normal to have so many high-level professionals.

In a typical domestic professional university, having an average student level of 19 was already excellent…

“I still needed two-thirds of the experience to level up to 20.”

“Then I’ll wait until I had a surplus of credits later.”

All in all, only two months had passed since the College Entrance Examination.

In two months, he had advanced from level 10 to his current level of 19.

It could be said that Zhou Yi’s leveling speed was nothing short of terrifying!!

And recently, he had spent 800 credits to refine an Extreme Cold Pill, and now entering the dungeon had cost another 400 credits.

He now only had roughly 1000 credits remaining to use.

1000 credits might seem like a lot, but in actual use, they would be expended very quickly.

Now that he had secured the crucial achievement talent, Zhou Yi was not in a hurry regarding leveling up.

“Phew, it was time to head back.”

After taking one last look around and ensuring nothing had been left behind,

Zhou Yi then vanished from the spot using a return scroll.

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Chicken rib = things of little value or interest.