Chapter 1413 Dark Ghost

Under Shi Feng's control, the two Level 52 Tier 3 demons quickly cleared out all the petrified giant rats in the stone chamber hall.

With a crisp system notification sound, Shi Feng was enveloped in a golden light, finally reaching Level 36. His free attributes increased by 10 points, which he immediately allocated to Agility, somewhat compensating for the 25 Agility points lost due to the previous penalty.

Petrified Giant Rats were Level 60 Elites, and the items they dropped were quite good. In addition to some materials, they also dropped a lot of Level 50+ Common and Bronze equipment. Outside, it would take who knows how many monsters to farm to get them.

"Hmm, a Tier 2 skill book!" Shi Feng picked up a book inlaid with silver threads from the ground, slightly surprised.

Most basic class skills in God's Domain are learned from instructors. Some good skills are obtained by completing quests, but higher-tier skills are generally exchanged for with Inheritance Skill Points given by the system.

Tier 0 skills can generally be obtained in the wild and in dungeons, but Tier 1 skills hardly ever drop, making them much harder to obtain.

Most Tier 1 skill books dropped by monsters can actually be exchanged for with Inheritance Skill Points. If you have a skill book, you can unlock the skill without using Inheritance Skill Points, saving a lot of points that can be used to learn other skills.

Learning a regular Tier 1 skill usually costs two Inheritance Skill Points, and players only get one Inheritance Skill Point every three levels. Two points require leveling up six times to obtain.

If Tier 1 skills are like this, Tier 2 skills are even more so.

Even the most ordinary Tier 2 skill requires four Inheritance Skill Points to learn, a full 12 levels to learn one. So in God's Domain, skill books are very valuable.

Currently, a regular Tier 1 skill book on the market is comparable in price to a Level 30 Fine-Gold equipment. If it's a powerful Tier 1 skill, such as a skill for survival, AoE, control, restriction removal, or burst damage, it's worth more than a Level 30 Dark-Gold weapon.

Weapons and equipment are phased out as levels increase, but skill books are not.

It never hurts to have more skills. No one would complain about having too many.

The drop rate for Tier 1 skill books in large-scale Hell-mode team dungeons is about 2%.

But in large-scale Hell-mode team dungeons for Level 50 and above, the drop rate for Tier 2 skill books is no more than 0.3%. Getting one is purely luck.

So Shi Feng was shocked that the Petrified Giant Rat actually dropped a Tier 2 skill book.

Shi Feng checked the skill book. It was the Tier 2 melee common skill, Shadow Fiend.

When attacking, it can divide into four, dealing damage to the target simultaneously. Each clone has 100% of the original's damage, lasting 4 seconds with a 2-minute cooldown. The tier requirement is Tier 2 or above.

"I remember this Shadow Fiend skill book was once traded for a decent Epic item. I didn't expect it to drop here," Shi Feng marveled secretly.

Common skill books are more valuable than class skill books because they add more variables to combat.

Especially the Shadow Fiend skill. After use, it divides into four. Who would dare to get close?

So the Shadow Fiend common skill ranks quite high on the Tier 2 common skill charts and is sought after by many melee players. Using it at a critical moment can turn the tide of battle.

"It's a pity I'm only a Tier 1 class now and can't learn it yet. I'll have to wait until Tier 2," Shi Feng said contentedly as he put away the Shadow Fiend skill book and continued to control the Tier 3 demons to advance.

The second underground level of the Dragon's Maw Hammer resembled a giant maze, making it extremely difficult to navigate even with a map.

Nests of Petrified Giant Rats could be seen from time to time along the way.

Shi Feng had no choice but to clear them out, or he wouldn't be able to move forward.

The Tier 3 demons that were attacked by the Petrified Giant Rats became increasingly difficult for Shi Feng to control due to petrification. Eventually, he simply let them be attacked. Relying on the Tier 3 demons' HP and the Life Bloom skill Shi Feng used, the Petrified Giant Rats couldn't kill them.

Although killing Petrified Giant Rats was a waste of time, Shi Feng was willing to kill them because they could drop Tier 2 skill books and provide a lot of experience points.

While Shi Feng was exploring the second underground level of the Dragon's Maw Hammer, he also had the Dark God Legion, which had been training and improving, move out and continuously delve into the inner areas of the Stoneclaw Mountains.

The Stoneclaw Mountains were a Shura-level regional dungeon, so they naturally had something special about them.

Not only were the monsters inside more powerful and had better drops, but there were also magic crystals, and, more importantly, Barrier Crystal Balls.

With enough Barrier Crystal Balls, players could form a barrier to suppress opponents within it, just like Qing霜 and her team did when they fought the Level 40 Great Lord, Noah, using the Devil Suppression Barrier to greatly reduce Noah's combat power, making it much easier to conquer. The Barrier Crystal Balls were similar.

However, Barrier Crystal Balls were slightly different from magic scrolls. Magic scrolls could generally only be used once, but Barrier Crystal Balls could be used multiple times, but would consume a lot of magic crystals.

In the early stages of God's Domain, players' tiers were very low, and they felt helpless against high-level lords, let alone Great Lord-level monsters. Perhaps the Main God System took this into account. If players' strength increases were limited, then the only way to kill these Great Lord-level bosses was through suppression.

And the only way to suppress Boss-level creatures was through quests.

Back then, many large guilds in the Star-Moon Kingdom were stuck on large-scale team dungeon bosses. However, after the Stoneclaw Mountains were revealed, the major guilds obtained Barrier Crystal Balls from the inner areas of the Stoneclaw Mountains, which greatly reduced the difficulty of conquering large-scale team dungeons, and the speed of conquering large-scale team dungeons exploded.

A guild only had so many experts, and only these people could barely get through large-scale team dungeons. And large-scale team dungeons had cooldown times, so the production of top-quality equipment was scarce.

But if the difficulty was lowered so that players close to the level of experts could get through, the production of top-quality equipment would naturally increase many times over. After all, the number and strength of experts formed a pyramid shape. The more top-level experts there were, the fewer there were. But if the strength decreased by one level, the number would increase geometrically. If more people could grind dungeons, they would naturally obtain more top-quality equipment.

Shi Feng wasn't confident in dealing with the Seven Sins Flowers, but he was quite confident in dealing with the Starlight Alliance. The best way to quickly defeat the Starlight Alliance was to improve the guild's overall strength. After all, guild battles couldn't be easily changed by individuals.

Currently, the major guilds were all grinding monsters in the outer areas of the Stoneclaw Mountains, believing that the inner areas were too dangerous, so they didn't go there.

The Seven Sins Flowers were already in the preparation stage, so Shi Feng couldn't let the main force members develop the Stoneclaw Mountains, but the Dark God Legion could.

With the full force of the team's Dark Power, plus the Dark God Legion's own strength, they could easily step into the inner areas of the Stoneclaw Mountains and obtain Barrier Crystal Balls.

Under Shi Feng's secret command, and because no one was competing with them, the Dark God Legion easily obtained dozens of Barrier Crystal Balls, enough for several hundred-man teams to grind Hard-mode hundred-man dungeons.

Time passed, and Shi Feng spent more than a day to finally reach the staircase leading to the next level of the Dragon's Maw Hammer. By this time, he had reached Level 37, and the 25 Agility points he had lost earlier had been fully recovered.

As soon as Shi Feng stepped onto the teleportation staircase, his vision blurred, and he arrived in a city shrouded in mist. Suddenly, a system notification sounded in his ear.

System: Player has discovered the Imperial Capital Ruins.

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