sinovels Chapter 119 Lu Yan, you are a true genius!
Chapter 119 Lu Yan, you are a true genius!
After a full day of forced rest, everyone's spirits had recovered considerably, but the experience of facing the myth still left a deep impression on everyone's character.
Zhao Leiguang was the first to lose his composure. He placed the huge tower shield on the ground, causing the entire conference room to tremble.
"I mean, we went through all that trouble, practically made our way to the underworld, only to open a coffin and release a powerful figure whose face we didn't even get a clear look at?"
He scratched his head, his face full of bewilderment. "No equipment, no materials, not even a completion chest. That's incredibly stingy!"
His shout made everyone laugh.
Xiao Qianyu picked up the military-style thermos, blew on the steam inside, and glanced at him.
"A resurrected Chinese war god, in your eyes, is less valuable than a few pieces of equipment?"
"This achievement is worthy of being recorded in the annals of Chinese history, and it is more significant than any visible reward."
"That makes sense..." Zhao Leiguang muttered, "but it's too abstract. I still think that equipment you can actually use, things that can genuinely improve your combat power, are the most reliable."
"Actually, what Lao Zhao said isn't wrong." Wen Yue, who had been quietly wiping the crossbow arm, spoke up for once. "Visible benefits always make people feel more at ease."
The discussion eventually converged at the end of the conference table.
There, Lu Yan was sitting quietly.
Xiao Qianyu looked at him: "And you? Did you sleep well after you got back?"
"Not bad." Lu Yan looked up from his personal terminal screen. "I didn't sleep much; I was researching the new skills."
"A new skill?"
These words immediately piqued everyone's interest.
Even Lin Chuxue, who had been calculating something, stopped tapping on the calculator and quietly perked up her ears.
Lu Yan's "research" was, in the first team's case, equivalent to "having a new toy."
"What kind of skill? An aura-type skill?" Shen Xinglin asked curiously.
"You'll know once you try," Lu Yan said with a mischievous grin as he stood up.
You finally asked. I didn't know how to bring it up if you hadn't asked me.
……
Fifteen minutes later, at the base's highest-level Class A heavy equipment training ground.
On the sturdy alloy walls, there were still gruesome scratch marks left from the last test. In the center of the arena stood a heavy target made of high-strength shape memory alloy, specifically used to test the destructive power of S-class Awakened.
The crowd stood in a row, as if waiting for a good show.
"Brother Lu, what exactly are you up to? Why are you being so mysterious?" Zhao Leiguang had already taken out his double shields, assuming a stance ready to be a sparring partner at any time.
Lu Yan ignored him, simply took a few steps forward, stood fifty meters away from the target, and then raised his hand.
There were no dazzling light effects, nor any powerful energy fluctuations.
He simply snapped his fingers.
A small creature, half a meter tall and engulfed in flames, appeared out of thin air at his feet.
It looked like an unstable blob of jelly, with blurred features, short limbs, and wobbling as if it would fall apart at any moment.
"Fire element?" Lin Chuxue, a top-tier magic damage dealer, recognized it at a glance. "Isn't that the first skill of a summoner? I don't remember there being a single famous summoner on Earth."
The fire elemental seemed to receive a command, and with its short legs, it huffed and puffed as it ran towards the heavy target in the distance.
The speed... is very slow.
The posture... is hilarious.
Zhao Leiguang's eyes twitched as he watched.
"No way, Brother Lu, you've been working on this all night and this is all you've come up with?" He couldn't help but ask, "This thing is too weak. It doesn't last long, its attack power is low, and it can't even run as fast as me... This..."
He hadn't finished speaking.
The swaying fire elemental, when it was about a meter away from the target, suddenly expanded, and then—
"puff."
A crisp popping sound.
Like a large firecracker that has been punctured, it scatters a small ball of sparks, leaving a coin-sized, shallow blackened mark on the hard alloy target.
Su Yunqing and Wen Yue exchanged a glance, both seeing a hint of confusion in each other's eyes.
Only Xiao Qianyu frowned slightly; she felt that things weren't so simple.
"This is your new skill?" Zhao Leiguang finally found his voice, his tone filled with incomprehension. "Brother Lu, did something affect your brain in Fengdu Ghost City?"
Lu Yan did not answer.
He merely lifted his eyelids, glanced at the dark mark on the target, and then raised his hand again.
This time, he didn't snap his fingers.
A faint, almost negligible magical glow shone from his fingertips.
next moment.
Puff. Puff. Puff puff puff...
A series of soft popping sounds rang out in front of him.
One after another, the wobbly fire elementals were rapidly produced, like canned goods on a production line.
One, two, five... ten!
In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen identical flame-shaped jelly balls appeared in front of Lu Yan, crowding together and filling the empty space in front of him.
Without the slightest hesitation, the moment they were summoned, they collectively took off on their short legs and, with a fearless and perfectly synchronized posture, launched a... charge towards the distant target.
The scene was less like a charge and more like a group of orange-red slimes running a comical 100-meter race.
"Is it not over yet?" Zhao Leiguang learned his lesson this time and didn't mock him anymore, but just muttered under his breath.
Lin Chuxue's expression, however, slowly changed from initial confusion to a solemn one.
Her gaze was fixed on the group of running fire elementals, and the data stream flashed by in her eyes.
Not right.
Something's wrong with these fire elements!
The first fire elemental has reached its destination.
Without pausing, it crashed headfirst into the target.
puff!
The same soft sound as before.
But then came the second, the third, and the fourth!
Puff puff puff puff—
A dense, continuous series of explosions, like festive cannon salutes, resounded in front of the heavy target.
Small sparks kept splashing out at the same spot on the target.
At first, the sound seemed somewhat comical.
But as the explosions continued to occur, the quantitative change finally led to a qualitative change.
boom!!!
A loud bang, completely different from the previous ones, suddenly exploded in the training field!
Everyone only felt a flash of fire before their eyes, and then a wave of scorching heat rushed towards them.
The heavy target, made of high-strength shape memory alloy and strong enough to withstand the frontal bombardment of a tank cannon, was actually blasted into a hole the size of a bowl after being attacked by more than a dozen fire elementals in a continuous "suicide" attack!
The edges of the hole were made of molten metal that had been melted by extremely high temperatures and then quickly solidified, giving it a glassy texture.
"I...go..."
He only managed to utter those two words before he could say nothing more.
Wisps of smoke still rose from the melted hole in the target, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of burning. The training ground was so quiet that even breathing could be clearly heard.
Lin Chuxue stared intently at the charred gap, her memories of equipment attributes surging wildly in her mind, finally settling on a few obscure attributes that mainstream awakened players had discarded like trash.
"I can tell..." she murmured to herself, her voice trembling uncontrollably.
Then, she turned to Lu Yan, her speech accelerating: "It's true damage! You used those useless affixes that increase summoned creatures' health but strip them of their attack abilities!"
"That special attribute called 'Sacrifice,' right? The explosion when a fire elemental dies is no longer a fixed value, but true damage based on a percentage of its maximum health! You can stack their health to an absurd level, and then use the forced death mechanism to turn the weakest summons into bombs running around everywhere!"
By the end, the French-style C's voice was almost cracking: "To piece together a bunch of scrap metal into this kind of interlocking structure, Lu Yan, you're a genius!"
Zhao Leiguang's face visibly turned red.
The mocking words from just now were still echoing in my ears, but now they felt like a slap in the face.
But he didn't care about saving face at all; all he could think about was the shock that made his scalp tingle.
"To play with skills and useless attributes like this..." Zhao Leiguang grabbed a handful of hair, his rugged face full of admiration. "Old Lu, I take back what I just said. Compared to your brain, I'm just a frog in a well."