A round of skills, and the Rupture skill was already cooled down again. Nie Yan continued to cast another round of skills.

The Mad Bull Warrior kept swinging its giant axe to attack Nie Yan, seemingly mighty and fierce, but it could never touch Nie Yan’s side. Nie Yan kept dodging the Mad Bull Warrior's attacks with the techniques of Shadow Dance, while executing one skill after another. The Mad Bull Warrior simply couldn't keep up with his rhythm and was helpless against him. The speed of the two was not on the same level at all.

As the Mad Bull Warrior swung its axe down, Nie Yan suddenly moved his body to the side and performed a Shadow Evasion Assassination. The Zannard Sword in his hand pierced the Mad Bull Warrior's throat with one strike.

The Mad Bull Warrior let out a low moan, and with a thud, it fell to the ground.

It took about two minutes to kill the Mad Bull Warrior, which was quite exhausting.

System: Shadow Evasion Assassination has been upgraded to level three.

When attacking the Mad Bull Warrior, the skill proficiency could be described as soaring. It increased in segments, which was extremely satisfying.

After being upgraded to level three, Shadow Evasion Assassination could add 100% attack and cause a 5% chance of a critical strike effect. Each level increase could increase the attack damage by 50% and the critical strike effect by 1%.

If Shadow Evasion Assassination could be upgraded to around level seven, it would add 300% attack damage and a 9% critical strike effect. Coupled with Nie Yan's current high attack, it could be described as perverted!

Currently, Nie Yan's five free skills, Rupture and Shadow Evasion Assassination, were already level three, Backstab was level four, and Instant Strike and Counter were level two. He had never had time to properly train these skills before, so he was not very familiar with them and did not use them smoothly. But now, Nie Yan could use them more skillfully, and the completion rate could reach more than 60%.

As for how to make the completion rate higher, there seemed to be some other tricks, but Nie Yan had not yet figured them out.

The Mad Bull Warrior seemed to have dropped something. Nie Yan bent down and picked it up. It was a warrior's skill book, Tendon Rupture Enhancement. After learning it, it would be applied to the Tendon Rupture skill, which could increase the effect of the Tendon Rupture skill by 30%. This skill book was relatively rare and could not be found on the market.

A good thing. I wonder if Dao Guang and Yantou have this skill. I'll ask them when I get back, Nie Yan thought, and threw the skill book into his backpack.

The harvest was not bad. The only thing that made Nie Yan a little depressed was that the Mad Bull Warrior did not give experience after being killed. Such a thick blood volume and such a high defense did not give any experience points, which was too stingy. It also meant that if Nie Yan continued to train his skills here, he would not be able to level up at all.

Nie Yan looked at his level, ninety-seven. Only two people on the level榜 (bǎng - list) were over eighty. Once they reached level eighty, the difficulty of leveling up was several times higher than before. If they wanted to catch up, it would be impossible in a month or so. It may take two or three months for those who level up slowly to reach level ninety.

So even if he stayed here for twenty or thirty days, he wouldn't have to worry about the levels of the players behind him catching up.

Let's practice the skills first! Having made up his mind, Nie Yan continued to look for the next target.

On the distant plain, another Mad Bull Warrior was wandering around.

Nie Yan slowly sneaked over, reaching the back of the Mad Bull Warrior, about five yards away from the Mad Bull Warrior.

Close at hand, the structure of the Mad Bull Warrior's armor all fell into Nie Yan's eyes. He could vaguely determine the various parts of the Mad Bull Warrior: the shoulder blades, the heart, the abdomen, and the central spine.

Nie Yan suddenly had some strange ideas. Free skills should have some unique meanings. Rupture, the name of this skill, like skills such as Backstab, has a very strong literal meaning: severing the opponent's spine, causing the opponent to fall into a crippled state.

All along, he thought that as long as he attacked the spine, he could follow the description of the skill and perform it in a proper manner, but the completion rate had been hovering around 60%, and sometimes even only around 50%.

Could it be that the Rupture skill has some tricks?

Looking at the back of the Mad Bull Warrior, Nie Yan couldn't help but wonder, what would be the effect if some fighting techniques were integrated into these skills?

Many skills in Faith were derived from reality. For example, the leg kick skill. If the leg kick was on the leg, the effect would be relatively weak. If it happened to kick at the joint, it could cause a feeling of soreness and numbness, and the effect would be much stronger than usual.

Some memories resurfaced in his mind. In his previous life, when he was level 160, he had fought against a Shadow Dancer. That Shadow Dancer basically didn't use any powerful skills, but used the simplest leg kicks, backstabs, and assassinations. He played in such a way that he had no chance to fight back. A leg kick made his legs sore and numb for five seconds. How could he fight?

That Shadow Dancer master was very skillful when kicking. That guy was wearing pointed boots. He didn't kick his leg or knee, but kicked the depression next to the kneecap, which crippled Nie Yan all at once.

Looking back now, that Shadow Dancer might have used fighting techniques.

Nie Yan was a little dazed. He had mastered many Shadow Dance techniques, and could be said to be a quasi-Shadow Dancer, but what else could he learn after being promoted to Shadow Dancer? What kind of system was that? Why were the Shadow Dance players in his previous life always so secretive, and no information could be found on the game forum?

Nie Yan had to explore these things little by little.

Staring at the back of the Mad Bull Warrior, Nie Yan slowly approached. At this time, he completely forgot that the other party was a monster, but regarded the Mad Bull Warrior as a burly man.

If the other party was a burly man, what kind of techniques would he use to make the other party lose resistance if he attacked from behind?

Nie Yan seemed to have realized something. He moved his body to the side, accelerating with a sixty-degree lateral spin, using force in his waist, and waving his arm violently.

This was a fighting technique, using lateral spin to increase the force of the hand. Using force in the waist could concentrate the power of the whole body on the arm. Just as Nie Yan completed this action, a small heat current was generated out of thin air in his body, like ants, drilling randomly in Nie Yan's body, and pouring into his arm. The power of his arm suddenly increased a lot.

What is this? Nie Yan was shocked in his heart, but the skill that was half-cast could not be interrupted.

Rupture!

Nie Yan shouted in a deep voice, and stabbed the sword into the spine of the Mad Bull Warrior's abdomen.

With a thud, the Mad Bull Warrior was penetrated by a powerful force, staggered a few steps, and fell into a crippled state, unable to move.

System: Rupture skill completion rate 73%, dealing 150% damage, causing 3 seconds of stun, and gaining 100 skill proficiency points.

Unexpectedly, the completion rate of this Rupture skill could reach 73%, 150% damage and 3 seconds of stun. This effect was too strong. With the successful use of Rupture, the skill proficiency points gained were also doubled compared to usual.

This is the real Rupture skill!

Nie Yan was overjoyed in his heart. He had figured out the trick a little bit. In fact, he could perform it better. This was the first time he had used the Rupture skill in this way, and his movements were not particularly skilled. He still needed to explore it a little bit.

But this successful use of the Rupture skill undoubtedly opened a door in front of him, and what was presented in front of him was a brand new world.

It turned out that the use of skills in the game was common with some fighting techniques in reality. Combining the two could form new combat techniques, which could maximize the lethality of the skills!

After figuring out the trick of Rupture, Nie Yan decided to practice the Rupture skill and proficiency. As for skills such as Backstab, he would explore them later. With a successful precedent, those skills should not be difficult to practice.

Nie Yan used the Shadow Dance technique to dodge the Mad Bull Warrior's attacks. After a while, the Rupture skill cooled down again.

Nie Yan gave the Mad Bull Warrior a Counter, and then quickly retreated.

The Mad Bull Warrior roared and pounced up, raising the giant axe in his hand high and chopping down towards Nie Yan's head.

Nie Yan used a Phantom Dance Step to dodge the Mad Bull Warrior's attack and reached the back of the Mad Bull Warrior. He accelerated the lateral spin, used force in his waist, and this time the movement was much smoother than the previous one, and it felt more powerful. He only felt a terrifying and surging force gushing out along his arm, and the force was much greater than before. With a muffled thud, the Mad Bull Warrior staggered a few steps forward and fell into a crippled state.

A crisp system prompt sounded. The Rupture skill has been upgraded?

Nie Yan was slightly surprised, how could it be so fast. He looked at it and the system prompted that the Rupture skill had been upgraded to level four, and then he looked at the previous system prompt.

System: Rupture skill completion rate 93%, dealing 270% damage, causing 5 seconds of stun, and gaining 300 skill proficiency points.

This system prompt surprised Nie Yan a little. He only used one skill, and he got 300 skill proficiency points. This was too terrifying. If ordinary players wanted to get 300 skill proficiency points, it was estimated that they would have to practice for a whole day.

Under normal circumstances, when using the Rupture skill outside, when the completion rate reaches about 60%, you can get 1 skill proficiency point, when the completion rate reaches about 70%, you can get 2 skill proficiency points, and when the completion rate reaches 90%, you can get 6 skill proficiency points. In this map, the skill proficiency points you get are fifty times higher. Therefore, after using the Rupture skill, he immediately gained 300 skill proficiency points. So many skill proficiency points made Nie Yan's Rupture skill rush to level four at once.

The basic damage of the Rupture skill is 120%, and the completion rate reaches 93%, and the damage reaches 270%. This skill effect also made Nie Yan a little excited.

In his previous life, he heard that Shadow Dancers could kill lords above level 100 by skipping levels. Nie Yan thought it was just a vague legend. Lords above level 100 were not the same as the Scale Toads that Nie Yan had killed before. Now it seems that as long as you learn enough free skills and the completion rate keeps up, such high damage can easily break through the defense of high-level monsters, and killing lords by skipping levels is no longer an unattainable myth.

If he can upgrade all five free skills to level six or seven, his combat power can be at least doubled. Thinking of this, Nie Yan couldn't help but feel ambitious.