Chapter 61 -61-Fire Serpent Evolves: S-Rank Fire Dragon!

Chapter 61: Chapter61-Fire Serpent Evolves: S-Rank Fire Dragon!

His voice echoed across the battlefield, amplified by magic.

John had already stacked [Overcharge] to its maximum of ten layers.

The instant his staff struck the ground, every damage multiplier erupted at once.

[Overcharge activated! Physical Attack +100%!]

[Full-Health Hunt activated! Final Damage +100%!]

[Forerunner active! Final Damage +20%!]

[Cleave activated! Final Damage +300%!]

Boom—!

The ground instantly caved in.

A circular shockwave exploded outward, skimming across the surface.

[-20,304!]

[-20,304!]

[-20,304!]

A dense sea of five-digit true damage instantly filled the battlefield.

The Shadowblight Beast Hunters, with barely over a thousand HP, exploded on the spot.

Even the elite crystal beetles with more than ten thousand HP couldn’t survive the triple-powered Cleave.

Soil, shattered rocks, and monster corpses were blasted high into the air.

Within a radius of several meters around John, an open area was instantly cleared.

Standing atop the wall, Nero’s eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

For an ordinary mage, dealing two or three thousand damage with a single Fireball already counted as impressive.

Yet this gray-robed old man had merely struck the ground once with his staff.

The smallest damage number nearby was already over 20,000.

[Impact Guard ×2 activated!]

[Double Resistance Shield +10,152!]

[Double Resistance Shield +10,152!]

Two thick defensive shields instantly enveloped John’s entire body.

The next moment—

A pale golden radiance spread outward.

[Sanctuary of Defense activated!]

The gray-robed elder pulled his wooden staff and longsword from the ground before charging through the dust.

Whoosh!

The staff swept horizontally.

A fully healthy Hunter took the blow head-on.

[-20,304!]

Its body was struck as if by a siege ram and exploded into a shower of flesh.

The Cleave shockwave spread outward.

[-20,304!]

[-20,304!]

[-20,304!]

More than a dozen Dark Realm monsters were blasted into the sky simultaneously.

The longsword followed immediately afterward, piercing through the gap in an armored monster’s shell.

Although the chipped longsword lacked the SSS-rank weapon terms of the Void Staff, John’s 1,230 Strength still allowed it to effortlessly pierce straight through the creature’s skull.

More monsters lunged toward him.

Claws and fangs slammed into the double resistance shields.

[-86!]

[-112!]

[-74!]

The damage they desperately dealt wasn’t even enough to scratch the shields.

Hundreds of black arrows and dark-energy beams shot toward him from afar.

Buzz—

Every projectile stopped the instant it touched the edge of the Sanctuary of Defense.

Then they shattered one after another.

John didn’t even bother turning around.

"Fire Serpent."

Boom!

Two enormous Fire Serpents burst from the tip of his staff.

[Projectile Split activated!]

[Projectile Amplification ×2 activated!]

...

A flood of activation notifications rang out.

Originally, Fire Serpent only possessed a 240% Wisdom scaling.

After being amplified twenty-fivefold by the two Projectile Amplification terms, then further boosted by Cleave, its damage instantly reached an absurd level.

The two Fire Serpents slammed into the monster tides on the left and right.

[-635,904!]

[-635,904!]

Two damage numbers exceeding 600,000 rose simultaneously.

Every monster struck directly by the Fire Serpents vanished completely.

Neither corpses nor ashes remained, as the intense heat and magical impact vaporized them outright.

The power of Cleave then erupted outward from each impact point.

A huge swath of nearby Dark Realm monsters was crushed apart simultaneously as though squeezed by an invisible giant hand.

As long as John’s attacks landed, his HP and MP instantly overflowed back to full.

His attacks continuously generated shields and healing fields.

The Dark Realm monsters simply had no hope of wearing him down.

John charged immediately behind the Fire Serpents.

His wooden staff swept.

His longsword slashed.

Each melee strike produced another heavy, thunderous impact.

Meanwhile, spell after spell poured endlessly across the battlefield.

Fire Serpent.

Binding Chains.

Void Spear.

[-211,968!]

(Fire Serpent without Cleave dealt over 200k damage; with Cleave, it exceeded 600k.)

[-211,968!]

[-883,200!]

A black-and-gold Void Spear descended from the sky.

It struck a Siegeburrow Worm with 12,000 HP squarely in the front.

The elite monster didn’t even leave behind a complete corpse.

More than 880,000 damage instantly reduced both it and dozens of surrounding monsters into a crimson mist.

Several player recruits nearby stared blankly at the damage numbers.

"Eight..."

"Eight... hundred... eighty thousand?"

"That worm only had twelve thousand HP..."

Another player glanced at the [-438] floating above his own Fireball and quietly lowered his staff.

John became more and more exhilarated.

[Military Merit +1!]

[Military Merit +2!]

[Military Merit +1!]

[Military Merit +5!]

His Military Merit began skyrocketing.

Nero, standing atop the wall, had completely forgotten to cast spells.

Gripping the battlements with both hands, he stared at the battlefield below with his mouth hanging open.

The mage who had just claimed he didn’t know Fireball was now charging through the monster tide with nothing but a wooden staff and a longsword.

Every swing dealt more than twenty thousand true damage.

Every casual spell exceeded half a million damage.

"What kind of mage..."

Nero looked down at the staff in his own hands.

For the first time in his life, he felt that everything he had ever learned was meaningless.

John cast Fire Serpent again.

Two Fire Serpents roared into the enemy horde.

[-635,904!]

[-635,904!]

[Fire Serpent has been cast 100 times!]

[Voidwalker Hidden Trait activated!]

[The Voidwalker masters all things and commands all magic!]

[After any skill has been used 100 times, it will automatically advance in quality once!]

[A-Rank Skill "Fire Serpent" is evolving!]

John paused briefly.

A hidden trait?

Ever since becoming a Voidwalker, the system had never once mentioned such an ability.

Who would have thought that simply casting a skill one hundred times would directly evolve it?

[Skill Evolution Complete!]

[You have obtained the S-Rank Skill: Fire Dragon!]

Fire Dragon

Rank: S

Effect: Condense elemental flames to summon a massive Fire Dragon that attacks enemies ahead.

Damage: Deals magic damage equal to 300% of Wisdom.

Fire Dragon Size: 50% larger than Fire Serpent.

Burning Trail: The Fire Dragon leaves a blazing path wherever it travels.

Duration: 5 seconds.

Enemies standing within the trail suffer burn damage every 0.5 seconds equal to 5% of the Fire Dragon’s original damage.

Base Cooldown: 8 seconds.

Its damage multiplier had increased from 240% to 300%.

Its size had grown by fifty percent.

It now left behind a burning trail wherever it flew.

John looked toward the still-dense sea of monsters ahead.

He raised the wooden staff.

"Fire Dragon."

ROAR—!

A deafening dragon’s roar echoed across the battlefield.

Two colossal Fire Dragons, each more than a hundred meters long, appeared simultaneously.

Crimson scales gleamed vividly.

Massive wings unfurled within blazing flames.

Skimming just above the ground, they charged straight into the monster tide.

[Projectile Split activated!]

[Projectile Amplification ×2 activated!]

[Overcharge activated!]

[Full-Health Hunt activated!]

[Forerunner active!]

[Magic Damage +15%!]

The first Fire Dragon slammed into the monster horde on the left.

The second crashed into the horde on the right.

[-794,880!]

[-794,880!]