Chapter 450: Obtaining Two New Powerful x100,000 Skills!

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Normally, after consuming these monsters, he wouldn’t gain much. He wasn’t expecting more than one skill and talent, but due to the double effect, he’d guaranteed two skills and two talents instead.

The difference was enormous.

Previously, he had been forced to rely on luck to obtain something useful from his consumptions. Although the rewards were often valuable, there was no guarantee that he would receive anything particularly interesting.

However, with the upgraded Authority, the process had become far more reliable.

Riven couldn’t help feeling excited.

If this was the result of consuming the monsters he had accumulated so far, then he could only imagine what would happen when he consumed even more powerful creatures.

He looked at the skills first.

Ding!

[Fallen King fully consumed.]

[Elder Lich fully consumed.]

[Jack-o-Knight fully consumed.]

[Puppet Master fully consumed.]

[Lizardman King fully consumed.]

[Genesis-AMALGAMATION fully consumed.]

[Skeleton Warrior fully consumed.]

[Skeleton Wizard fully consumed.]

[Skeleton Archer fully consumed.]

[Cursed Puppets fully consumed.]

[Floating Pumpkins fully consumed.]

[Giant Sunfish fully consumed.]

[Voracious Shark fully consumed.]

[...]

[Talent Devourer: Success.]

[Skill Acquired: [Cursed Apostle of Death – Level 1]: You’re an Apostle of Death itself, cursed forever to serve death. You have an affinity with the dead. Undead will follow your command as long as you suppress their souls with your own ghostly aura. And your very existence makes life decay.]

[Skill Acquired: [Fallen Ruler – Level 1]: You are a Ruler who failed to protect his people and became bitter and forever cursed to be fighting forever. Increases your stats and attack power the more of your allies die in battle.]

Riven read the notifications with a curious expression.

These were terrible skills, and it seemed they were connected to the two siblings from the Endless Battlefield Dungeon.

The descriptions were rather depressing, especially the one belonging to the Fallen Ruler.

A ruler who had failed to protect his people and became bitter, forever cursed to fight...

It was certainly not the kind of fate Riven wanted to experience.

Still, the abilities themselves were interesting.

The first skill allowed him to command undead creatures, while the second increased his stats and attack power whenever his allies died in battle.

Both abilities had considerable potential, especially if he could find a way to improve them.

However...

[x100,000 Reward Multiplier Activated!]

[Skill: [Cursed Apostle of Death – Level 1] has been multiplied by x100,000!]

[You have learned the Skill: [Vessel of the Angel of Death, Azrael – Level 1]: You are the living embodiment and vessel of the Angel of Death, Azrael himself. The angel clad in black wings, who takes the lives of those who have lived enough, he carries a sharp scythe to judge the dead. With this skill you can cultivate and accumulate Divine Death Essence from the decay of all your energies and the combination with other dark energies like Miasma and Nether. Divine Essence can be imbued into attacks to increase their lethality, talk to the dead, see souls that cannot be found, send souls to the afterlife peacefully, or purify them. Undead become your allies almost instantly upon seeing you unless you don’t want to and will obey you until the end. You can make a fragment of Azrael’s Authority to descend into your body, increasing All Stats by 2500% temporarily, while constantly consuming accumulated Death Essence, and granting access to several unique Abilities to Azrael, such as "Death Scythe", "Judgement of the Sinful", "All Ends In The Same Road", and "Death Comes to All" to deal devastating damage.]

[Skill: [Fallen Ruler – Level 1] has been multiplied by x100,000!]

[You have learned the Skill: [Netherworld Ruler – Level 1]: You are a ruler who has inherited a fragment of the authority of the Netherworld, commanding the dead and those who have lost their place among the living. Your existence establishes a connection between the realms of the living, the dead, and the forgotten. Undead creatures under your authority receive a substantial increase in their attributes, while your control over Nether Energy, Death Essence, and Miasma increases by 1500% and their restoration speed by 3000%. You can establish a personal Netherworld Domain, summon Netherworld Gates, and gradually develop your own Netherworld Legion. The more powerful souls you command, the stronger your authority becomes. Your Netherworld can expand by absorbing suitable territories, souls, and spiritual remnants.]

There it was.

Two insane skills because his multiplier had gone off the rails from x10,000 to x100,000!

A massive difference.

Every new evolved power seemed to draw upon some kind of divine power that shouldn’t even belong to him to begin with.

Riven stared at the notifications, trying to process what he had just acquired.

The first skill allowed him to summon an angel of death, or rather, a piece of his Authority, into his body?!

And it seemed that it would complement his scythe called Azrael even better, if that was the case.

He already possessed a weapon with the same name, and the idea of combining its power with an actual fragment of the Angel of Death’s Authority was certainly interesting.

He could imagine how powerful his attacks would become if he managed to use the two abilities together.

However, the second skill was perhaps even more interesting.

Then the other was... summoning his own Netherworld?!

Riven couldn’t help staring at the description.

A personal Netherworld Domain was something that sounded far beyond what he had expected to acquire from consuming monsters.

He had already possessed his Spirit Dungeon Realm, but this was something entirely different.

The Netherworld was a realm connected to the dead, and it seemed that he could gradually expand it by absorbing territories, souls, and spiritual remnants.

That alone was quite extraordinary.

"Here it is, I finally got something like proper Necromancy, huh?" he wondered. "A Netherworld Legion... It seems overwhelming, but I feel like it could have its uses, depending on how strong they are..."

He wasn’t particularly interested in creating an enormous army of weak undead.

However, if he could recruit powerful souls and strengthen them through his Authority, then the potential was enormous.

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