Chapter 436: Everyone’s Awakening Skills Upgraded

Chapter 436: Everyone's Awakening Skills Upgraded

"Congratulations to Blaze's Shen Que for successfully securing the final kill on the final boss, Nightmare Ferris Wheel, in the current-world instance [Horror Amusement Park]. This instance clearance rating: SSS-level."

"Calculating instance rewards..."

"Distributing rewards to all players who participated in the instance..."

Strangely, the system scrolled for a while, yet no one could figure out what rewards the instance had granted.

Zhang Peng, "They already gave out weapons and spirit energy. There’s more? This is just too overpowered!"

The first to discover the instance rewards was A Ni, who exclaimed in surprise, "I gained an extra awakening skill?!"

A Ni immediately activated her newly acquired awakening skill on the spot: King of Ten Thousand Gu (venomous insects).

Instantly, countless enormous Gu insects roared out from the void, spreading corrosive and burning venom wherever they passed.

A Ni screamed excitedly, "Oh my god!! I can actually become an archmage too!!"

Xiya discovered that her awakening ability had also changed. Originally, her puppets could only be used as bombs, but after an iterative upgrade, her awakening skill now allowed her to summon an entire army of puppets for battle, with each puppet possessing different combat abilities.

Xiya said dreamily, "I’ve actually become a puppet summoner."

Xiao Huai, "My awakening skill is a poison curse. Paired with a voodoo curse, it can apply crowd-control damage and continuously inflict an HP-draining debuff."

The three of them simultaneously looked at Wu Xiuli.

Wu Xiuli, "My original major poison skill has been upgraded to an infinite major poison at critical health. In short, the lower my health, the higher the damage. The damage stacks continuously, and the bleeding debuff also accumulates higher."

"Wow!! That sounds so cool!! Our Desert Rose won’t have to hesitate to solo instances anymore!"

Xiya urged Wu Xiuli, "I noticed that Blaze has a girl named Xisha who’s a powerful warrior. She coordinated really well with us in battle just now. Let’s recruit her. With her, Desert Rose will have no weaknesses in instance runs!"

Wu Xiuli remained calm. "Don’t rush, someone else is even more eager to recruit than we are."

Desert Rose wouldn’t take the lead on this—let another guild make the first move.

Charles gained a party-wide buff enhancement awakening skill. By switching, it could provide overall improvements to maximum attack, attack strength, and attack speed.

Frank’s awakening skill was a hard crowd-control immobilization skill, while Sally’s healing skill was iterated into a growth-based major healing spell. Currently, what Falcon lacked most was an archmage.

Charles had long had his eyes on Rex and Huo Jieming. During the five branching lines earlier, Jian Suiyu had indeed assigned these two to their line.

Falcon lacked archmages, and Sirius lacked archmages too.

Now, the configurations of Falcon and Sirius were interestingly similar. What both sides lacked most was high-damage dealers.

From the moment everyone confirmed their awakening skills, Rex and Huo Jieming felt countless eyes fixed on them, eyeing them greedily.

Jiang Yuhua said warmly, "What are your awakening skills?"

Rex said happily, "My lightning ability has been upgraded to group lightning attacks, and it also comes with an additional probability-based lightning-based crowd control."

Huo Jieming nodded in agreement. "Group fire attacks, but it’s been upgraded from ordinary fire to lava-based attacks."

Miss Jiang immediately linked arms with Jian Suiyu. "Sui Yu, as you know, Sirius has always been short on archmages."

Jian Suiyu feigned surprise. "Is Miss Jiang trying to use a beauty trap on me now?"

Jiang Yuhua's face flushed slightly, and just as she was about to let go of Jian Suiyu, he reached out and wrapped his arm around her waist.

Jian Suiyu leaned closer to her. "Your seduction tactic doesn’t seem sincere enough."

Jiang Yuhua shyly replied, "There are too many people around."

Jian Suiyu tightened his arm. "Then let’s go. When we get home, I’ll see how sincere you really are."

Jiang Yuhua blinked. "You agree?"

Jian Suiyu smiled. "With Blaze’s current setup, the top tier already has more talent than we need. If they have better opportunities, Blaze should congratulate them."

Jiang Yuhua asked, "What about Shen Que?"

Jian Suiyu lowered his voice and kissed Jiang Yuhua. "Shen Que has been considering downsizing for a while, though he hasn’t said it outright."

Since both Jian Suiyu and Shen Que had given their approval, Jiang Yuhua immediately shot a look at Jiang Mubai and Jiang Qian. No sense letting talent go to outsiders! They had to act fast and recruit them directly!

As soon as Charles noticed the Jiang family making their move, he pushed Sally forward. "Sally, you’re cute—go call them 'big brothers' and get them to join Eagle."

Pfft, as if they were the only ones who could use a seduction tactic? As if Eagle doesn't know how to do that?

Zhang Ze frowned and stopped Sally. "Captain Charles, are you stupid? Sally’s still young—what does she know? How could you send her to use a seduction tactic? Weren’t you helping her compete for weapons earlier? Now you’re making a young girl do this—aren’t you ashamed?"

Charles’s expression shifted subtly. He had indeed suggested Sally use a seduction tactic, but who it was aimed at and whether she’d take the initiative or let others make the first move—well, that was another matter.

He hadn’t misjudged—Zhang Ze, who’d been willing to help Sally compete for weapons earlier, must have had something in mind during their time up north.

Didn’t Sally rush to save Zhang Ze when he was hit by a stray bullet in the first round of combat?

Charles felt the need to explain. "I held back from helping Sally compete for weapons because those here are the key contributors to the S4 effort. It wouldn’t be right to help her before others had their share—it could cause internal conflict."

Zhang Ze said, "Sally was kidnapped by Long Xi as a child for experiments. Long Xi’s plan was for her to replace Yi Na when she came of age. If not for Sally’s own... pure heart had kept her from being corrupted. Otherwise, Wu Yue wouldn’t have brought her here."

Zhang Ze suddenly stopped talking. Feeling everyone's curious glances, and catching sight of Sally blinking in confusion beside him, he turned and walked away.

Dammit... Charles almost tricked me.

Charles immediately raised his voice. "So it's decided then. Once you go back, come to Eagle and train a whole fleet of skimmers for us."

Zhang Ze didn’t look back. "Go to hell. Who said anything was settled?"

Chun Ya and Shang Baiyi exchanged a glance, and Shang Baiyi quickly chimed in, "Exactly! Zhang Ze isn’t going to Eagle. He has someone he likes in Blaze!"

Damn!!

Zhang Ze was utterly exasperated!!

He stared disbelievingly at Shang Baiyi. What the hell, man! I helped you out at a critical moment, and you just shoved me into the fire!!

Seeing this, Chun Ya and Shang Baiyi—both old hands—immediately understood. They exchanged a knowing look.

Shang Baiyi: Zhang Ze must have a thing for Sally.

Chun Ya: The unruly, god-level skimmer pilot and the adorable, timid, innocent little healer.

Oh, so shippable.

And the cutest thing is,

Sally actually listened to Charles and went to find Rex and Huo Jieming to ask them to join the Falcons, "Elder brothers, can you join our Falcons?

The Falcons really need powerful mages. Our homeland is still under fire, but we have never given up. We have been fighting hard against hostile forces."

After speaking, Sally looked at Jiang Qian and Jiang Mubai, clasping her hands together, "Elder brothers, could you please not compete with us? Pretty please~"

What's even more intriguing is that this innocent bunny of a girl, due to her difficult early experiences, has always received help and support from Charles. She is wholeheartedly dedicated to helping Charles revitalize the North, making her a gritty and focused individual who, despite her timid nature, is willing to go all out!

So, Sally risked her life to save Zhang Ze simply to snag a skilled pilot for the North, completely unrelated to personal feelings.

Oh my! No wonder Zhang Ze had his eye on her so quickly.

Even more shippable!