In his previous life, even up until his death, Lin Mo's ultimate skill rank had only barely been raised to C-rank.
At that time, Oracle had already descended for two full years, and players whose ultimate skill rank reached S-rank or above were extremely rare across the entire world.
And in this life, Oracle had only been open for four days, yet Lin Mo started at the peak.
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[Annihilation · Storm Arrow Rain] (Soul Archer Class Ultimate Skill)
— Rank: SSS-rank
— Skill Effect: Select a designated point within the attack range as the center, releasing a storm arrow rain with a radius of 50 yards for 3 seconds, dealing 300% physical damage per second to all enemies within the area.
— Special Effect 1: Each attack has a 100% chance to inflict Paralysis on enemies for 1 second (while paralyzed, enemies cannot perform basic attacks or cast skills).
— Special Effect 2: Enemies within the storm arrow rain have their physical defense reduced by 40%.
— Special Effect 3: During the release of storm arrow rain, increase your attack speed and movement speed by 40%.
— Cooldown Time: 60 seconds
— Skill Cost: 10% of maximum mana
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"Hiss!", Lin Mo could not help but suck in a cold breath, "A SSS-rank ultimate skill really is outrageous!"
He dared not imagine this being on Ning Xi, combined with her talent's tenfold damage… It would simply destroy heaven and earth.
After learning his third SSS-rank skill, Lin Mo's total of 27 skill slots instantly dropped to just 3 remaining.
"SSS-rank skills really eat up skill slots."
But no problem. Lin Mo had prepared for this long ago.
He opened his inventory, took out the S-rank magic scroll rewarded from the Shadow Holy Hall dungeon quest, and crushed it.
[Ding～ You have used the S-rank Magic Scroll · Skill Expansion. Permanent skill slots +8!]
There it was, another slot for an SSS-rank skill appeared.
"I can equip a fourth SSS-rank skill now."
While excited, Lin Mo immediately took out a bowman universal E-rank skill book he had prepared long ago, [Fire Arrow].
Seven consecutive evolutions, consuming 127 Skill Evolution Points—
[Ding～ Congratulations, you have evolved an SSS-rank skill: Burning Heavens · Spark Ignites the Plains!]
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[Burning Heavens · Spark Ignites the Plains]:
— Rank: SSS-rank
— Skill Effect: Fire a blazing arrow to attack a single enemy, dealing 600% physical damage and inflicting Burn for 3 seconds, losing damage equal to 20% of this instance of damage per second.
— Special Effect 1: The blazing arrow ignites a field of fire around the enemy for 3 seconds, dealing 100% physical burn damage per second to all enemies within the fire field.
— Special Effect 2: Basic attack damage dealt to burned enemies increases by 30%.
— Special Effect 3: Skill damage dealt to burned enemies increases by 30%.
— Cooldown Time: 11 seconds
— Skill Cost: 122 mana points
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Facts proved that: Any insignificant E-rank trash skill, once evolved to SSS-rank, could become a heaven-destroying, god-defying divine skill!
Lin Mo nodded in satisfaction, "SSS-rank skills really are insane."
Only because it was Lin Mo, just barely over level 30, could he have space to slot four SSS-rank skills.
Otherwise, for a normal level 30 second-advancement player, calculating by unlocking one skill slot every 3 levels and gaining one extra slot per advancement, all 12 skill slots would barely be enough to equip a single SSS-rank skill.
However, for Lin Mo, four SSS-rank skills were still not enough.
"I still have to use every feasible method to keep expanding my skill slots."
"The more SSS-rank skills I have, the stronger I'll be!"
In the world of Oracle, each player can use at most one [Skill Expansion] magic scroll of each quality in their lifetime.
That means from E to SSS rank, a total of eight expansions can be used.
At present, Lin Mo had only used one S-rank scroll, as well as an A-rank one obtained earlier from the level 10 leveling reward lottery.
At this moment, Lin Mo took out from his inventory an E-rank and a D-rank skill expansion that he had bought back from Dragon Soul Aoshi, used them, and gained another 3 skill slots.
A total of 38 skill slots.
Excluding the 32 already occupied, there were 6 empty slots left.
"As long as I get two more skill slots, I can learn another SSS-rank skill," Lin Mo was thrilled.
Skills were taken care of.
Next, pets.
After completing second advancement, every player can obtain an E-rank magic scroll called [Normal-grade Pet Exchange Voucher] as a reward.
With this magic scroll, you can go to the Pet Ambassador in Blazing Ember City and receive one normal-grade pet for free.
So Lin Mo, carrying the exchange voucher obtained from Selina, headed to the north city of Blazing Ember City to find the Pet Ambassador.
Along the way, he casually counted his gains.
The system achievement title [Leveling Maniac] for being the first to reach level 30 had already been obtained by Lin Mo back when he was the first to reach level 10 in the newbie village.
The only difference was that back then it was white quality, while this time it was a purple-quality Leveling Maniac.
The former only gave a 1% increase in monster kill experience.
The latter provided a 10% increase in monster kill experience.
"What a pity. For identical title effects, only the highest one takes effect. This white Leveling Maniac is basically useless now."
"And the purple title Hidden Player rewarded for clearing the Shadow Holy Hall dungeon also conflicts with the white Hidden Player I got earlier from completing an E-rank hidden quest in the newbie village."
Lin Mo could not help but sigh inwardly, "If only my talent Soul Flame would unlock title burning and evolution someday."
As he thought this, Lin Mo shifted his focus to the most anticipated reward.
That was the three lottery chances from the second round of the leveling event.
There were a total of seven prize tiers.
It was said that during the first round of the leveling event, a player from a newbie village hit the first prize and drew an SSS-rank skill book, resold it for thirty million RMB, and stepped straight into the peak of life overnight.
SSS-rank skills, although for Lin Mo, who possessed the SSS-rank talent Soul Flame, did not carry that extreme temptation other players felt, but an SSS-rank skill drawn from the lottery was very different from one evolved.
The latter was automatically bound and could only be used by Lin Mo himself.
The former could bring Lin Mo a massive amount of top-up funds. [T/N: The dumbest decsison of his life. If it really sells it.]
"I'll trade Su Yingxia being single for fifty years in exchange for a first prize draw!"
After a round of praying, Lin Mo spun the giant wheel in front of him.
[Ding～ Congratulations, you drew the seventh prize: Gold Coins +3!]
[Ding～ Congratulations, you drew the seventh prize: D-rank Skill Book · Fire Arrow +1!]
Two consecutive lowest-tier prizes.
Just when Lin Mo felt despair and had no expectations at all for the final remaining draw, Ning Xi's soft whisper suddenly came by his ear, "Brother Lin Mo, do you want me to help you draw one?"
Lin Mo glanced at Ning Xi.
'Maybe the female emperor really did have better luck?'
At the very least, it could not be worse than a seventh prize!
So Lin Mo said, "Alright, you do the draw for me."
Ning Xi walked up to the wheel, raised her right hand, and spun it.
Whoosh!
The pointer jumped rapidly.
Just as Lin Mo held onto a sliver of hope, wishing the female emperor could at least draw him a fourth or fifth prize so he would be completely satisfied, the wheel slowly stopped, and the pointer froze firmly on an area that was almost invisible to the naked eye, a golden zone.
[Ding～ Congratulations, you drew the first prize: Divine Artifact · Nirvana +1!]
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