After returning to Blazing Ember City, Lin Mo hurried straight to the Class Hall.
At the Archer Mentor Selina, he submitted his second class advancement quest.
"I asked you to kill one hundred monsters to prove your strength, yet you killed five hundred?"
Mentor Selina looked at the kill data Lin Mo submitted, a pleased smile appearing on her face, "It seems you are destined to become a very outstanding archer."
As soon as Selina finished speaking.
A pleasant system prompt rang out beside Lin Mo's ears—
[Ding～ Congratulations on completing the Archer second advancement quest · Class Confirmation! Please choose your second advancement class!]
In the Divine Oracle, once all classes reach level 30, they have two advancement paths.
For example, the Warrior class can advance into a Sword-and-Shield Warrior or a Berserker. The former balances offense and defense, while the latter has high attack but weaker defense, focusing on burst damage.
Another example: the Knight class can advance into a Holy Knight or a Demon Knight. On top of strong defense and survivability, the former has higher physical resistance, while the latter has stronger magic resistance.
Another example: the Assassin class can advance into an Assassin or a Thief. The former kills without a trace, while the latter can vanish and slip away.
Aside from differences in attribute growth and traits, the two branches of each class also learn different skills.
And standing before Lin Mo, the Archer's advanced classes were divided into Sharpshooter and Soul Archer.
The further you progress in the game Oracle, the higher the operational demands on players.
Especially for long-range classes like Archers and Mages, a certain level of prediction ability and accuracy is required. Otherwise, when facing high-agility enemies with flashy movement, hitting them is harder than reaching the sky.
Sharpshooters are born with extremely high hit assistance, famous for never missing a shot, very friendly to players with poor control and weak awareness. Their downside is slightly lower damage.
Soul Archers, on the other hand, pursue extreme burst damage.
As long as your control is solid and your awareness is sharp, they are basically invincible.
Lin Mo's control… was hard to describe.
But, he had high Agility.
Agility is a key attribute that affects operational ability.
Simply put, no matter how good your awareness or mechanics are, if your Agility points are low, you cannot show off.
But as long as your Agility is high enough, even if you run around blindly with your eyes closed, you can still make your opponent's scalp go numb.
So Lin Mo confidently chose Soul Archer.
[Ding～ You have officially advanced to: Second Advancement Soul Archer! Rewards obtained: Skill Slots +2, Selina Favorability +1, Normal-grade Pet Egg Claim Scroll +1! Because you overcompleted the advancement quest, Selina highly acknowledges your strength. Additional Favorability +30! Additional reward: Skill Slots +3!]
[Ding～ Level cap increased to 50. Second Advancement Soul Archer attribute growth: 1 Strength = 1.8 Attack Power! 1 Endurance = 1.4 Physical Defense + 1.2 Magic Defense! 1 Constitution = 25 HP! 1 Spirit = 10 Mana!]
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Two consecutive beams of golden light poured down over Lin Mo's head.
As the level cap increased, all the experience that had been stuck after level 30 was fully released. Lin Mo's level jumped straight from level 30 to level 32.
The next second, a loud system announcement descended from the sky, echoing throughout the entire Blazing Ember City—
[System Announcement (Blazing Ember City): "Ding～ Congratulations to player Rulebound for completing class advancement. As the first player in Blazing Ember City, the level 3 main city of the Dragon Nation server's human race, to reach level 30 and complete the second advancement, you receive the Leveling Ranking First Place rewards: Cash reward 300,000! Lottery draws +3! Reputation +300! Title obtained: [Leveling Maniac] (Purple)!"]
[System Announcement (Blazing Ember City): "Ding～ Attention all players: Since the level rankings have been revealed, the Wealth Ranking, Equipment Ranking, and Reputation Ranking will be revealed within 24 hours. Keep up the effort and fight for ranking rewards."]
As soon as the announcements came out, the Blazing Ember City chat channel exploded.
[Internet Addict Teen (Male, level 16 Priest): "Big shot 666! I'm only level 16! The big shot is already level 30 and done with second advancement!?"]
[Mist and Rain Jiangnan (Male, level 23 Assassin): "The one above is trash! My 80-year-old grandma is already level 20!"]
[Suzhou Liu Ruyan (Female, level 20 Mage): "Hey! These ranking rewards are so generous! I really want that 300,000 prize money! Who will carry me on the rankings? I can reward him by doing it once without wearing a little raincoat!"]
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[Blazing Ember City, Class Hall]
Lin Mo finally reached the long-awaited level 30.
He eagerly spoke to Selina, "Mentor, may I learn the class ultimate skill now?"
"As long as you reach level 30 and complete the second advancement, you can learn the class-exclusive ultimate skill. This is a path every class professional must go through to grow."
Selina looked at Lin Mo gently, her clear eyes flowing with anticipation, "The power of a class ultimate skill is extraordinary. Are you ready?"
Lin Mo nodded, "I'm ready!"
"Then come!", Selina waved her right hand.
A skill learning panel immediately popped up before Lin Mo—
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[Gale Arrow Rain] (Soul Archer Class Ultimate Skill)
— Rank: E-rank (Rank increases with proficiency)
— Effect: Select a designated point within the attack range as the center, releasing a circular arrow rain with a radius of 50 yards for 3 seconds, dealing 50% physical damage per second to all enemies within the area.
— Special Effect: Each attack has a 10% chance to inflict Paralysis on enemies for 0.5 seconds (Paralyzed enemies cannot perform basic attacks or cast skills).
— Cooldown: 60 seconds
— Cost: 10% of maximum mana
— Proficiency: 0/1000
— Learning Cost: 1 gold coin
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All class ultimate skills have a unified 60-second cooldown.
In his previous life, someone had calculated it specifically, ("If you cast your ultimate once per minute and gain 1 proficiency point each time, even if you do it nonstop 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it would still take a full ten years to raise an ultimate from E-rank to SSS-rank.")
("Unless you use special magic scrolls to boost proficiency. But those scrolls are extremely expensive and very hard to obtain, completely out of reach for ordinary players.")
Fortunately, these problems were not within the scope of concern for Lin Mo, who possessed the SSS-rank talent Soul Flame.
One gold coin, according to Oracle's current official exchange rate, was equivalent to 8,900 yuan.
Ordinary players, when facing such an expensive ultimate skill learning cost, would hesitate in pain. Many players would choose to wait until later stages, when gold coins depreciated further, before learning their ultimate.
Lin Mo did not even blink. He took out 1 gold coin and learned the Soul Archer ultimate skill from Selina.
Immediately after, he used the more than 300 remaining Skill Evolution Points obtained earlier from burning the basic class skill books Qin Feng had helped purchase from the newbie village, and evolved Gale Arrow Rain.
An ultimate skill evolves no differently from ordinary skills.
[Ding～ Consumed 1 Skill Evolution Point. Congratulations, your class ultimate skill Gale Arrow Rain has evolved from E-rank to D-rank!]
[Ding～ Consumed 2 Skill Evolution Points. Congratulations, your class ultimate skill Gale Arrow Rain has evolved from D-rank to C-rank!]
[Ding～ Consumed 4 Skill Evolution Points. Congratulations, your class ultimate skill Gale Arrow Rain has evolved from C-rank to B-rank!]
[Ding～Cosumed...]
[Ding～ Consumed 64 Skill Evolution Points. Congratulations, your class ultimate skill Gale Arrow Rain has evolved to SSS-rank — Annihilation · Storm Arrow Rain (Maximum Rank)!]
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