Novel Full Chapter 241 - 174: Arrival at Yunjiji Island
Chapter 241: Chapter 174: Arrival at Yunjiji Island
Shooting Proficiency +30%
Firearm Accuracy +25%
Leader Skill Level: 3
Currently, the investment in Luo Kuan’s leader skill has already reached 3 Lord Points.
Fang Yu plans to unlock Luo Kuan’s high-level skills in one go before considering investing in other crew members.
The previous investments in Ma, with the current wealth sharing, have brought significant returns to Fang Yu.
This is equivalent to an experience card, ensuring the rapid development of the Salted Fish.
With development underway, Fang Yu’s main focus will likely shift to enhancing combat power.
Both Luo Kuan and Du Ran have leader skills that are combat-oriented, but comparatively, Luo Kuan has a larger impact on the current battle situation. So for now, Fang Yu decided to invest in Luo Kuan, while for Du Ran, there’s no hurry, it can progress gradually.
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In the following days, Fang Yu observed the crew members of his own ship.
The one with the fastest experience growth, naturally, was Luo Kuan.
Someone similar to Luo Kuan is actually Ma.
In almost every battle, Ma would use his Brain Domain Sharing.
However, the threshold for gaining experience from this skill is also high. It requires the sea ship to enter a state of combat before gradually gaining experience.
Things like projecting Wang Qing’s perspective are actually not conducive to experience gain.
As a result, even though Ma frequently uses this extraordinary ability for Brain Domain Sharing, it only provides him with personal experience during wars when it serves as an aid.
Nevertheless, due to frequent wars, Ma’s accumulated experience is not insignificant.
Among the four core crew members, Ma’s growth speed should rank second.
The third place is Luu Yuan.
Luu Yuan also has quite a few scenarios in which he could be utilized.
Resisting rough sea waves during bad weather, laying underwater mines in advance, diving with Fang Yu into enemy sea ships using water-based extraordinary abilities, and releasing torpedoes from the Salted Fish, among others.
However, compared to the urgent need for ship cannons and Brain Domain Sharing, Luu Yuan’s frequency of using extraordinary abilities is somewhat less frequent.
In terms of growth speed, he ranks third.
And the last one… ironically, is Du Ran, who was initially the most useful.
The scenarios for using Du Ran’s skills are gradually shrinking.
In the beginning, almost every mission required Du Ran to carry supplies; sometimes, he even needed to engage in close combat. But now, with sea ships often engaging in long-range bombardments and distant confrontations,
Du Ran’s situation has become awkward.
Physically… he is not enough to withstand ship cannon attacks of this level.
In close-quarters combat, Du Ran is quite invincible, but there’s hardly any opportunity for him to engage in it.
This situation has reduced Du Ran’s ways of gaining experience, leaving only the option for general experience shared with the crowd.
Despite Du Ran’s efforts, during port stays, he started purchasing various equipment, trying to break into the enemy sea ships for close-range attacks.
However, the effects have been fairly mediocre.
As a result, even though Du Ran was one of the first to join Fang Yu’s team and is a core crew member, Du Ran’s experience has indeed fallen behind.
Currently, Du Ran is only at level 18, lagging about two levels behind the first tier.
This means the difference of two levels from 18 to 20, which isn’t a small amount in terms of experience scale.
Du Ran feels quite frustrated and somewhat downhearted.
Seeing this, Fang Yu didn’t say much, just grabbed a bottle of wine, patted Du Ran on the shoulder, and the two of them sat on the deck, watching the surrounding seawater swiftly recede, eating some peanuts, and chatting.
Fang Yu understands this situation.
It’s not really Du Ran’s fault.
The main issue is…
The progress of Fang Yu’s sea ship is just too fast!
According to the normal growth trajectory for strength-talented crew members, it’s envisioned like this:
Before level 30, when the sea ship is still at the cargo ship stage, they would exert their strength advantages to contribute to the ship’s cargo transport.
Before level 30, crew members with strength talents could exert their significant roles.
Once past level 30, their talent upgrades to Top-Tier Talent, and along with extraordinary abilities, reach a new level, enabling these strength-talented crew members post-30 to start engaging in warship-level battles and transition from cargo transport to close-combat warriors.
But the progress of the Salted Fish was too fast.
Basically, by levels 18 or 19, it had already finished the delivery phase typical of cargo ships and directly transitioned into a state of warfare.
This forced Du Ran, not yet at level 20, to find a way to adapt to war.
A strength-talented crew member at 20 can’t fully utilize their physique in 30+ level warship combat, right?
According to Luo Kuan’s assessment of Du Ran…
It’s like parents on the Blue Star expecting a child who can’t control their bladder to learn advanced mathematics.
A pure challenge.
It threw Du Ran into an emotional spiral…
“Ah!! When the hell will I be able to level up?”
Du Ran wailed, startling the seagulls resting on the ship’s railing to immediately spread their wings and fly away.
The earnest man’s face was filled with worry.
Fang Yu glanced at him silently.
This guy.
He’s had too much to drink!
…
There’s no helping it; the crew’s roles are just this transitional.
For Du Ran’s situation, Fang Yu doesn’t have any particularly great solutions, so he can only wait patiently for the day Du Ran levels up enough to join the battlefield.
The sea ship continued its voyage for about a day, and the day after encountering the Evil Flesh Battleship, it arrived at Yunjiji Island.