[Ding~ Congratulations on participating in the kill of the Level 80, Tier 7 BOSS, Snake Clan Lord · Queen Medusa! Reward: +80000w EXP, +10000 Reputation (Golden Title double bonus already applied)!]
Boom!
The moment Queen Medusa crashed to the ground, Lin Mo couldn't help but marvel again.
"Ah Li is still way too overpowered."
After all, barring any accidents, this should be the first Tier 7 mega-BOSS in the entire server.
Even if Queen Medusa didn't have the Petrification talent and couldn't become immune to physical and magical damage.
With Lin Mo and Ning Xi, two number-one Heavenly Ranking players who both possessed SSS-rank talents, it still wasn't certain that they could kill it.
Yet Ah Li had actually solo-killed Queen Medusa in just two and a half minutes.
Along with his shock, Lin Mo also felt extremely fortunate.
"Luckily, we spent several days earlier specifically completing all the growth quests for Ah Li, raising her to the Ancient Immortal rank and greatly increasing her strength."
Otherwise, on this trip to the secret realm, Lin Mo and Ning Xi could only have followed the system's instructions, sneaking into the Snake King Palace, stealing the secret realm quest scroll, and obtaining the secret realm quest.
Then they would have had to complete the quest in secret.
If they happened to alarm Queen Medusa even slightly during the process, there was a very high chance that Lin Mo and Ning Xi would both be killed.
The secret realm attempt would fail, and they would have to farm the five major Snake Clan dungeons again, obtain the marks all over again, and then re-enter the secret realm.
At this moment, the most explosive moment arrived.
Ning Xi activated her SSS-rank talent, Supreme Emperor, to trigger a tenfold reward increase for the BOSS drops.
[Ding~ SSS-rank talent Supreme Emperor effect triggered. 1,012,365 Reputation consumed. Congratulations, you have increased the rewards from the Level 80, Tier 7 BOSS, Snake Clan Lord · Queen Medusa. Tenfold drop increase triggered!]
The Reputation cost for a tenfold reward increase on a Tier 7 BOSS had already exceeded seven digits.
Later on, when facing Tier 10, Tier 20 or even Tier 30 mega-BOSSES, the cost of a tenfold increase would inevitably rise to an astronomical figure.
It seemed that upgrading the Divine Might Tower to Level 10 and permanently obtaining the Divine Artifact [Heavenly Might of the Life Token] for Ning Xi, which granted Reputation rewards just by killing monsters, was very necessary.
After all, the more Reputation the increase cost, the higher the value of the increased rewards.
Using the increase only consumed some Reputation.
Not using it would mean losing out on an additional nine times the already incredible rewards.
At this moment, Lin Mo and Ning Xi's attention was focused on the piles of loot dropped beside Queen Medusa's corpse.
After the tenfold increase, there were so many rewards that their hands couldn't keep up.
[Ding~ You picked up Gold Coins +51,290!]
[Ding~ You picked up Level 80, Tier 7 Purple Equipment · Snake King Staff +10!]
[Ding~ You picked up Fantasy Mage Class SSS-rank Skill Book · Medusa's Eye +10!]
[Ding~ You picked up SSS-rank Magic Scroll · Stone Skin +10!]
Tier 7, it really was Tier 7 equipment.
Lin Mo was ecstatic.
This thing, at a time when even Tier 5 equipment was still a rare commodity, what difference was there between this and a Divine Artifact?
Not to mention, it was also a weapon usable by all magic-based classes.
"Brother Lin Mo, this Snake King Staff is only Purple quality, but its Attack stat is already higher than this Level 70 Tier 6 Gold-quality Yama Staff I'm holding," Ning Xi said excitedly.
Lin Mo said, "It's Tier 7, after all."
In the field of equipment, the value of rank far exceeded that of quality.
Ning Xi, however, was a little regretful again, "It's a pity. If I equip the Snake King Staff, it'll break my Yama Set Skill."
The Tier 6 Yama Set Skill, Hellfire, could increase final skill damage by 30% and increase skill cooldown speed by 30%.
Giving up such a powerful set skill just for the extra bit of Attack from one weapon would indeed be a bad trade.
Lin Mo said, "Just keep using the Yama Set for now. You won't outgrow this set of equipment until Level 100."
"Mm-hmm."
Ning Xi nodded, then said, "But this weapon can be given to Sister Ling'er, Xia Wanwan, and Fatty Dahai. They're all magic-based classes."
That was indeed a good idea.
After all, with Ning Xi's tenfold reward increase, Queen Medusa had dropped ten Snake King Staffs at once.
More than enough.
Thus, Lin Mo said to Ning Xi, "You hand them out."
"Why?", Ning Xi asked in confusion, "Brother Lin Mo, weren't you always the one handing things out to them before?"
"Besides, they all recognize you as their boss."
Lin Mo said, "It's the lady boss handing them out. It's the same."
Ning Xi covered her mouth and laughed, "All right, then!"
Lin Mo's plan was to help Ning Xi become the Empress faster.
Because through the Divine Might Tower, Lin Mo had discovered that Ning Xi was better at winning people's hearts.
Whether in his past life or this one, her Empress-like aura seemed to be something she was born with.
Lin Mo didn't want to become the reason that Ning Xi's path to becoming the Empress was cut short.
Besides, Ning Xi was already his wife.
Once Ning Xi became the Empress, having a wife who was an Empress revered by billions of people, wouldn't that be wonderful?
In addition, the SSS-rank Skill Book Medusa's Eye dropped by Queen Medusa was a Fantasy Mage skill. It could turn a target into a snake while making it immune to physical and magical damage.
This skill had great versatility. Used on an enemy, it could make them lose their ability to move.
Used on an ally, it could protect them by making them immune to damage.
"This Medusa's Eye can only transform one target. But if it's combined with Ling'er's SSS-rank talent, Thousand Changes, then we can turn our whole team into snakes."
"During a team battle, when facing the enemy's AOE ultimate attacks, turning the entire team into snakes and making them immune to damage would be perfect."
Thus, Zhao Lingyun gained the most this time
She obtained both a Tier 7 weapon staff and an SSS-rank Skill Book.
At this moment, Lin Mo unexpectedly discovered that the SSS-rank Magic Scroll Stone Skin dropped by Queen Medusa was actually a rare type of scroll.
According to the Divine Oracle data, this scroll was guaranteed to be at least SSS-rank.
"A rare magic scroll with such a high minimum rank is hard to come by."
Lin Mo suddenly had an idea, "If I evolve it to SSS-rank, its permanent enhancement effect should be even more overpowered than an ordinary SSS-rank scroll evolved from an E-rank magic scroll, right?"
"Let's give it a try."
Once he decided to do it, Lin Mo immediately acted.
He activated his SSS-rank talent, Soul Flame, and began evolving the scroll.
[Ding~ 64 Scroll Evolution Points consumed. Congratulations, you have evolved the SSS-rank Magic Scroll Stone Skin into SSS-rank Heavenly Defense · Eternal Stone Skin!]
Lin Mo eagerly looked at the evolved scroll.
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[Heavenly Defense · Eternal Stone Skin] (SSS-rank Magic Scroll)
Effect: After use, gain 90% final physical damage reduction and 90% final magical damage reduction for 12 hours.
Permanent Enhancement Effect: Each use of this scroll grants a permanent 1% final all-damage reduction effect (including physical and magical damage reduction, excluding true damage), stackable up to 90 times.
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Just as Lin Mo had expected.
Indeed, all SSS-rank Magic Scrolls provided permanent bonuses based on final stats.
But 1% final damage reduction.
Compared with final enhancement effects such as 1% final Attack, 1% final Defense, and 1% final HP, it was on a completely different level.
At this moment, Lin Mo looked at the Dark Gold · Strong-Maned Pig beside him, and an idea flashed through his mind.
"Strong-Maned Pig's talent already gives him 50% final damage reduction."
"If we max out these ten Stone Skin scrolls, his final damage reduction can be increased to 60%."
"His tankiness will increase again!"