According to the rules of Divine Oracle, the life skill Detection can only automatically level up alongside each class advancement.
In his previous life, Lin Mo never knew what max-level Detection looked like, even up until his death.
Because under normal circumstances, a player would have to reach level 255 and complete seven class advancements before detection could upgrade to the max-level SSS Eye of Insight.
And when Lin Mo died in his previous life, he was just a little nobody barely over level 100.
Lin Mo had never imagined that in this life, at only level 20, he would already possess the highest-tier SSS Detection skill.
Lin Mo said excitedly, "The Eye of Insight still only costs 1 point of mana?"
"So what exactly does this 'insight into monster weaknesses' effect do?"
As he spoke, Lin Mo used Eye of Insight on a poison bee in his line of sight.
Previously, Detection required throwing out a light orb to obtain monster data.
But now, as Lin Mo activated Eye of Insight, a flash of golden light passed through his eyes.
"SSS-tier Eye of Insight, even the way you use it is this high-end?"
The next second, the poison bee's data panel appeared before his eyes—
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[Venomous Bee] (Magic-type · Normal Monster)
— Level: 27
— Magic Attack: 1520
— Physical Defense: 810
— Magic Defense: 760
— HP: 5500
— Skill: Poison Sting (E-rank)
— Weakness: The Venomous Bee's stinger can deal heavy damage and cause a mild paralysis effect. However, for 2 seconds after launching its stinger, it enters its weakest state. Attacking the Venomous Bee during this period increases damage dealt by an additional 30%
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"So insight into weaknesses really means I can directly see a monster's weakness like this?"
"Then doesn't that mean I can see the weakness of any monster?"
Lin Mo couldn't help but feel excited.
That said, the stats of this level 27 poison bee were truly insane.
If this were earlier, when Lin Mo was still using the level 8 tier-two orange Hero's Golden Bow, he probably wouldn't even be able to scratch this thing.
Luckily, what he was holding now was the level 15 tier-two golden Skyvault · Venomous Crossbow, so Lin Mo still had some confidence.
Locking onto the poison bee ahead, Lin Mo deliberately waited for it to attack first.
Poison Sting!
The poison bee flicked its stinger at Lin Mo from its tail.
Whoosh!
Miss!
Lin Mo leapt aside to dodge the attack. Looking up, he saw that although the poison bee showed no visible change, through Eye of Insight he already knew that the two seconds after firing its stinger were its weakest moment.
"Now!"
Opening move, SSS-tier, Heaven-Slaying · Seven-Star Volley!
Whoosh!
One arrow tore through the air, transforming into a pentagram formation.
The next second.
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
Seven star arrows glowing with golden light pierced straight through the poison bee's body like world-shattering thunder.
-870!
-896!
-1384 (Critical)!
-1413 (Critical)!
Three critical hits plus four non-critical hits, totaling over 8000 damage, instantly emptied the Venomous Bee's mere 5500 HP bar.
[Ding~ You have killed a level 27 Venomous Bee. EXP +3948 (141%)!]
"Level 20 tier-two golden weapon, plus weakness attack."
"The damage this puts out is just explosive!"
Compared to when he was farming the seventh floor earlier, where two SSS skills could only barely kill a single level 26 poison bug, the difference was night and day!
Lin Mo realized, "Actually, the poison bugs on the first seven floors probably all have weak points. That's why my damage kept fluctuating. When it was high, I must have accidentally hit a weak spot."
"It's just that ordinary players have no way of knowing where those weak points are! But now that I have Eye of Insight, I can target the weaknesses and steadily increase my damage."
While feeling pleasantly surprised, Lin Mo walked over to the poison bee's corpse and picked up the 8 copper coins it dropped, along with one bottle of venom.
Lin Mo muttered, "The eighth floor's 80% venom drop rate really is high. It's almost 100%."
But in the end, it was only almost, not truly 100%.
And Lin Mo's pursuit had to be perfection.
That meant the tenth floor's 100%.
So the Seven-Star Volley just now was merely a test.
What followed was Lin Mo's real stage.
After the hardship of the fifth through seventh floors, Lin Mo finally regained the familiar rhythm he had when farming the first through fourth floors.
He synchronously selected three poison bees within range.
Waiting for them to use the [Poison Sting] skill and enter the two-second weakened state.
Lin Mo drew his bow and fired.
SSS-tier, Ice Snow · Extreme Cold Grasp!
SSS-tier, Heaven-Slaying · Seven-Star Volley!
-6112!
-1675!
-2567 (Critical)!
-2599 (Critical)!
Weakness attacks, combined with the area-wide defense reduction and damage amplification from the extreme cold domain, forcefully elevated the damage of Seven-Star Volley to an entirely new level.
Buzz~ Buzz~
Accompanied by a burst of buzzing, the three poison bees dropped dead instantly.
Nearly 12,000 experience points caused Lin Mo's EXP bar to jump up by a full percentage point.
On the ground lay a scattered pile of copper coins and 2 bottles of venom.
So, after waiting for the skill cooldowns, in the next round, Lin Mo repeated the process, using the two SSS skills in succession to synchronously reap another three poison bees.
This efficiency was insanely fast.
So fast that before Ling Xiao and the others even finished lunch, Lin Mo had already collected 10 bottles of venom and solo-cleared the eighth floor of the Insect Nest Underground Palace.
By the time they finished eating, logged back in, and traveled from Blazing Ember City to the Insect Nest Underground Palace, Lin Mo had already cleared the ninth floor.
This time, through the quest rewards, Lin Mo finally obtained another piece of equipment he needed, Archer Venom Set series: level 20 tier-two green-quality · Venom Boots.
"Heaven has eyes!", Lin Mo couldn't help but tear up with excitement.
Without another word, Lin Mo immediately evolved the Venom Boots.
Since they were already green quality, one evolution was skipped.
Then, after five consecutive evolutions, a dazzling golden light burst forth from the boots.
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[Skyvault · Venom Boots] (Lv20)
— Quality: Tier Two · Gold
— Agility: +255
— Additional Attributes: Agility +80, Stamina +80
— Special Effect: Poison Conversion (For every 1 point of poison-type effect the wearer has, gain +0.1 Agility)
— Class: Archer
— Description: One of the Archer Venom Set components.
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"255 base Agility!"
"That's a full 213 points higher than the level 5 Holy Light Mage Boots I was wearing."
Lin Mo said excitedly.
"This Poison Conversion effect also seems kind of interesting?"
For example, right now, the only piece of equipment on Lin Mo with a poison effect was the Venomous Crossbow, whose special effect added 280 poison damage to each attack.
"That means Poison Conversion can turn that 280 poison damage from the weapon into an extra 28 Agility for me?"
At first glance, 28 Agility didn't seem like much for a level 20 tier-two golden piece of equipment. It even felt a bit underwhelming.
But, right now, Lin Mo only had one piece of equipment with poison-type effects.
As the name Venom Set implied, it was inseparable from poison.
Later on, the other slots like rings, helmet, armor, necklace, belt, and pants would definitely all have poison-related special effects.
By the time he equipped the full Venom Set, stacking all the poison effects together and then applying the conversion rate from the Venom Boots,
It was hard to imagine just how much Agility Lin Mo would gain.
Without another word, Lin Mo immediately replaced the level 5 tier-one golden Enchanted · Holy Light Mage Boots he was wearing with the level 20 tier-two golden Sky Vault · Venom Boots.
At that moment, a system notification suddenly sounded in his ears—
[Ding~ The two-piece set effect of the Archer Venom Set has been activated!]
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