"In just a few days’ absence, your strengths have remarkably advanced. I find that too dreadful. What do you think, are you still not willing to join the student council? Our student council needs people like you."
Min Xi extended an invitation to Du You, who simply shook his head.
"I’ll consider it, after all, joining the student council means I’ll have to walk with the academy’s corps. I’m not quite used to that."
Min Xi shook his head. He genuinely didn’t understand Du You’s perspective. Wasn’t it good to be with the academy’s corps? It would give them more access to information and better completion of tasks, leading to greater gains.
At this moment, Min Xi still didn’t make his move, but instead switched to another aura, the Holy Light Aura.
This aura only has minor healing capabilities, including some degree of purification of its own dark power that can prevent certain curses or debuff skills.
But when facing demons, these powers of Holy Light offer strong resistance to the attacks of demons, particularly spell-based attacks. By having the power of Holy Light affixed to one’s body, one’s melee attack power can be increased, and it can also cause passive attack effects. After activating this aura, its effect on demons was particularly apparent.
This was far more helpful than the previous Strong Speed Aura. The addition to the team’s combat strength was better than ever.
The shows of prowess from Du You and the sisters were becoming more apparent as the number and levels of the demons increased. Some academy elites discovered that their fighting capabilities were far from matching those of the trio, even if Du You only used one skill.
Du You was well aware that their strengths had indeed skyrocketed. Still, both Lin Yucha and Lin Yushi did not see much improvement because their primary skills had not increased as there were no demons.
This was merely because both of them were Demon Hunter Shooters and their attacks were particularly effective against demons; so other people severely overestimated their powers.
Meanwhile, the sisters occasionally hunting down some of the fallen demons attracted no particular attention. After all, skills vary quite a bit and it wouldn’t be unusual to touch the corpses. As for what they could get from the corpses, no one knew. Items not typically dropped would generally be useless.
Others may not be aware, but the sisters have been secretly choosing the abilities they needed under the radar. When the defensive magic array was activated at night, with Du You’s help, the sisters began to transform their skills.
"Ah, the gains from teaming up are truly too limited. Thankfully, the cost of transforming demonic abilities isn’t too high."
Du You felt helpless. Despite the team’s considerable size, and killing numerous demons that day, he only received fewer than a hundred Crystal Coins as his final loot.
This was only because he had killed too many demons. Otherwise, there would not have been such a haul. The sisters’ skills were successfully transformed, but Du You didn’t have any more Crystal Coins to help them upgrade their skill levels.
Rapid Run: Increases running speed, each level increases by 2% (1 level, 8 stars). Fresh chapters posted on 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝~𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖~𝕟𝕖𝕥
Piercing: A passive skill that forms a sharp magical layer of magic power at the surface of the arrows, enhancing their penetrating power. (1 level, 8 stars).
Thunderstorm Arrow: Stores compressed thunder power within the arrows. The severe electrical damage and paralyzing effects are produced after the arrow hits the target. The effects are highly damaging and require a passive skill in Thunder Attribute. (1 level, 8 stars).
These were the new skills the sisters had developed over the past two days. Both sisters had developed Rapid Run. This came after they encountered a demon that moved incredibly fast during their journey, and the sisters coveted that ability.
After a few rounds of absorption, they finally gained this fast ability and hence the development of the same skill. The rest of the skills aren’t shared between the two sisters.
Lin Yucha developed the Piercing skill, which increases her bows’ power. The passive skill, once leveled up, will provide a massive boost to Lin Yucha’s attack strength eventually providing her a stronger long-range sniping ability.
Regrettably, there are no Crystal Coins left to upgrade the skill level. Otherwise, its effects would have been immediately noticeable.
The skill Lin Yushi developed was the Thunderstorm Arrow. She already possessed the Hell Blood Demon Thunder passive Thunder Attribute skill, which allowed her to perfect this. The skill almost exhausted Du You’s remaining Crystal Coins.
Still, the skill’s effect was quite exceptional as the arrow hit the target and burst open from within. This is an explosive kind of skill, the closer to the center, the higher the power. Combined with Lin Yushi’s innate thunder and lightning abilities, it guarantees an extraordinarily terrifying effect. For small scale, clustered targets, this is definitely more practical than Explosive Scattering and uses less energy. This technique is similar to Lin Yucha’s whirlpool arrow in terms of effect, but they are entirely different. Now excluding defensive skills, almost every type of skill is available to the sisters.
Unless they encountered very special skills, both of them stopped adding useless skills.
After all, every added skill increases Du You’s burden.
As more and more skills accumulate, every upgrade level on the skill level will consume a large amount of Red Crystal Coins, and future consumption will only increase.
Being a powerful Professional, as long as one’s skills support each other to produce the best effect, there is no need to pile on unused skills and no need to fill up skill spaces.
This is something Du You realized early on. His skill slots have never been filled up, not even half-filled. However, each one of his skills are top-notch and useful.
Early the next morning, everyone got up again. Outside the defensive barrier, a horde of demons had surrounded them. If it wasn’t for the barrier’s ability to block their presence, they wouldn’t have had a peaceful night.
While the people around him removed the magic array, Min Xi loudly said, "The Demon Great Rift is up ahead, we will definitely reach it today. Once we enter the Demon Great Rift, we can no longer operate as one, for we have no idea how many Demon Gates await us. So, everyone be prepared, this is the weapon to destroy the Demon Gate."
Min Xi took out a bunch of talismans, which were specifically used to seal the Demon Gate.
"I don’t need it." Du You waved his hand. "We three will act together, we don’t need to follow others."
He didn’t have enough Red Crystal Coins left. If he teamed up with others again, he didn’t know how he could carry on.