Chapter 756 - 354: Team Passive! Advanced! (Part 2)

He could only hold on for a dozen minutes or so, nowhere near lasting until the Blood Spear burned out completely, so he never got to witness the form where the Blood Spear fully fused with the Doomsday Tyrant.

"Damn, how terrifying must that be?!"

Saint Martial marveled inwardly.

Just having part of the Blood Spear melted already gave him power that was insanely terrifying; he couldn’t even endure until the Blood Spear was fully burned out, yet that time Hephaestus actually burned and melted the Doomsday Tyrant’s Blood Spear completely.

That final awakened form...

Probably left a really deep impression on him...

"Sigh!"

Hephaestus poured himself a glass of liquor, then downed it in one go, his expression pained. One could easily imagine how much he suffered when he encountered the Pangu True Form back then.

If it hadn’t been because he was interested at the time, so he didn’t go all out from the start and chose instead to slowly, bit by bit, force out the opponent’s full trump cards during the fight, the Blood Spear might never have had the chance to be gradually melted and trigger the Pangu True Form state.

If that were the case, he wouldn’t have lost.

Manual operation worse than AI auto-combat!

How is he supposed to accept that?

There was nothing he could do. He was the defender in the challenge, so he didn’t get a second try and could only surrender his Celestial-Burning Fire Seed.

By the time he encountered the Doomsday Tyrant again, the other party had already advanced to Tier Two, their overall strength had undergone a qualitative transformation, far stronger than in Tier One. Truly proving that saying: you’re the real challenger here!

Hephaestus really did become the challenger!

And he still lost!

After that, the two Divine Race powerhouses kept chatting on about the topic of the Doomsday Tyrant, getting more and more excited as they talked, with no end to the topics they could bring up.

....

[Prompt: Team advancement challenge complete. The Spirit Realm will award points based on performance within the world]

[Team ranking: 1]

[War evaluation: SSS+]

[Final challenge points: 100]

[Prompt: Challenge points have reached 100, meeting the team advancement requirement. Advance? Yes/No]

Yes.

[Prompt: Team advancement successful]

[Hunting God has advanced to Tier Two. Team passive limit raised to Tier Two. Team passive slot +1]

Ye Mingqiu glanced at the two Team Passive Advancement Cards Frost Moon had prepared in advance in the Storage Space, and couldn’t help but smile as he used them directly.

[Prompt: Confirm using Team Passive Advancement Card on Basic Passive – Divine Monarch? Yes/No]

Yes.

[Use successful]

[Basic Passive – Divine Monarch Tier increased]

Basic Passive – Divine Monarch

Tier: Tier Two

Level: max+

Effect: Abnormal Status Resistance increased, Control Effect Resistance increased, Body Basic Potential +[2→4], Soul Potential +[1→2].

After the team’s Basic Passive advanced, the Passive Effect directly doubled. The boosts to Body Basic Potential and Soul Potential increased significantly, and Abnormal Status Resistance and Control Effect Resistance should also have risen quite a bit. These are all precious attributes.

The whole team got a massive upgrade!

Even though the numbers look small, they can greatly raise the upper limit. The probability of Profession evolution during Level advancement becomes much higher, which is something no amount of raw Attribute bonuses can compare to.

Moreover, Body Basic Potential itself determines the upper cap of Basic Attributes. Under normal circumstances, Attribute growth effects all depend on Basic Attributes.

So, Basic Attributes are very classy—way stronger than bonus Attributes.

Not only that...

After the team reached Tier Two, a brand-new slot was unlocked, allowing them to generate a brand-new Basic Passive.

—— Team Channel ——

Other Shore: @Divine Monarch

Other Shore: [Team - Basic Passive Transformation Card]

Other Shore: Take it, Vice Leader-sama, give us a top-tier passive!

Other Shore: Next, I’m gonna push for my third passive! I’m a Soul System powerhouse; maybe I can roll a Soul Potential Amplification attribute!

Other Shore: Leave it to me, you can’t go wrong!

Qing Yu: Hey, screw you! You think you’re the leader? Better give it to me! Maybe I’ll roll a percentage boost!

Frost Moon: Better give it to me than to you.

Yuan Chu: Actually, I can do it too....

Lu: Stop arguing! Stop arguing! I’ll take the lead for you guys—I voluntarily withdraw from the competition!

Short-tailed Cat: You trying to kill me laughing?

Short-tailed Cat: Hahahaha!

Short-tailed Cat: (*≧▽≦)

....

The mood in the team was incredibly cheerful. Obviously, everyone had high expectations for this team passive, and they were all confident in their own strength, believing they could make the team even stronger. That was a good thing.

Use [Team - Basic Passive Transformation Card]

[Prompt: Confirm using [Team - Basic Passive Transformation Card] on Broken Star? Yes/No]

Yes.

[Prompt: Team Basic Passive – Broken Star has been generated]

Basic Passive – Broken Star

Tier: Tier One

Level: max

Effect: Abnormal Status Resistance – Penetration Effect increased, Control Effect Resistance – Penetration Effect increased, Body Basic Potential +1.

[Prompt: Use Team Passive Advancement Card on Basic Passive – Broken Star? Yes/No]

Yes.

[Use successful]

[Prompt: Use Team Passive Advancement Card on Basic Passive – Broken Star? Yes/No]

Yes.

[Use successful]

Basic Passive – Broken Star

Tier: Tier Two

Level: max+

Effect: Abnormal Status Resistance – Penetration Effect increased, Control Effect Resistance – Penetration Effect increased, Body Basic Potential +3.

Obviously, Broken Star’s Basic Passive Amplification values weren’t as crazy as Ye Mingqiu’s, but as long as it adds some Body Basic Potential, that’s already more than enough.

Besides, her Basic Passive attributes also provide the relatively rare dual-penetration. Dual Resistance plus Dual Penetration are both quite valuable attributes; it’s just that in most cases, dual resistance is slightly more important. Not everyone needs penetration, but everyone definitely needs resistance.

—— Team Channel ——

Short-tailed Cat: Holy crap!

Short-tailed Cat: The vice leader’s this strong too? She can also boost Body Basic Potential?

Other Shore: Damn, what’s her Attribute growth? How much Attribute growth does she need to roll something like this?

Yuan Chu: I’m really curious!

Qing Yu: +1

Broken Star: 32.

Frost Moon: ?

Frost Moon: That’s already past the Divinity line, right? That Attribute growth is a bit absurd.

Lu: Then what about the leader?

Other Shore: Now I’m even more curious.

Divine Monarch: 40.

Qing Yu: Holy crap! No wonder you can be a Godslayer! These Basic Attributes grow faster than a damn Divinity’s!

Divine Monarch: 30 is just the Divinity lower limit. Normal Divinities aren’t that weak. Don’t take that lower bound too seriously.

At least, among the Divinities Ye Mingqiu had seen, there really weren’t many hovering near the lower limit.

Even Sajia in her juvenile stage didn’t have low Basic Attribute growth. That was probably because her previous incarnation was very strong, so as a newly born God, Sajia’s Basic Attribute growth wasn’t low either. She was only weak simply because her Level was too low and she hadn’t really developed her Ability.

After all, as a faith-path Divinity, she somehow ended up being played as a Mage, yet still managed to grow to her current level. Her Talent was already quite good.

Most normal Divinity Level powerhouses have Attribute Transformation passives. Ye Mingqiu has a Basic Passive that increases Attributes proportionally, and other Divinity Level powerhouses have similar things. It’s not unique to him; it’s just that the boosts other Divinities get aren’t as terrifying.

Broken Star: You’re being modest.

Other Shore: We’re used to it. No need to take his words to heart. This guy’s just pathologically modest.

Divine Monarch: ....

Short-tailed Cat: Oh right, leader, your status now is completely different from before. How does the team plan to develop from here? There’s definitely going to be a bunch of people applying later.

Divine Monarch: Just develop normally. I don’t want to spend too much effort managing the team. A small circle is nice—we don’t have to deal with a bunch of random crap.

Broken Star: True.

Broken Star: Earlier I even saw a team application saying "Succubus little sister, free to book." I blocked them on the spot. People like that annoy me the most.

Short-tailed Cat: Hahahahaha!

Other Shore: Hahahaha!

....

On the other side, Ge Wu, who was sitting at home cultivating Curse, suddenly felt his body undergoing some kind of anomaly, as a surge of vigorous Life Force erupted continuously inside him.

"What’s going on?"

He was completely puzzled.

He then checked the cause and finally discovered that it turned out to be because the team’s Level had risen, raising the Level of the passives, and the new team passive was insanely strong for a Curse System powerhouse like him.

"Th-this... is this what ’lying down and winning’ feels like?"

Ge Wu muttered to himself.