Chapter 317: Chapter 202: The New College Entrance Examination Copy! (Two-in-one, 2/5)_2
Directly reducing dual defense? So if I summon a million of them, could I potentially lower the dual defense of all surrounding enemies by a million? This passive ability is pretty ruthless! With this power, anything below the fourth-transition essentially has no dual defense.
Although Chen Mo possesses the Almighty Converter, this tool does have its limitations. On the other hand, this passive ability is always active, which is not the same.
Moreover, reducing dual defense and changing damage types to ignore defensive power are two different things.
Physical Defense, Magic Defense, attack power, Health, and Energy can all potentially be parameters for calculating skill effects.
Like the basic Skill ’Shield Charge’ of the tank profession.
The damage of ’Shield Charge’ is calculated based on Physical Defense, and the coefficient is even higher than attack power.
Similarly, Passive skills like Thorns and reflect damage also rely on defensive power to increase reflect damage.
Furthermore, some support effects also require dual defense as a parameter for computation.
In this world, where professions are as numerous as the stars in the sky, the types of skills are extremely diverse.
Any numeric value can potentially be used as a parameter for effect calculation.
Chen Mo’s new passive ability directly reduces the opponent’s dual defense. If he encounters a unit that needs to calculate skill effects based on dual defense, he can completely cripple most of the opponent’s combat strength.
The biggest difference between reducing the enemy’s dual defense and changing his own attack type to ignore defensive power is that reducing the enemy’s dual defense is a significant boost for allies, significantly enhancing their damage.
This passive skill is very useful in Chen Mo’s view.
He is very satisfied with the two new skills he unlocked.
At that moment, Chen Mo couldn’t help but look forward to the skills he could unlock in the future.
He immediately checked the conditions for unlocking subsequent skills.
"Next Skill unlock condition: Unlocked when breaking through the eighth-tier bottleneck."
Eighth-tier? So that means I have to reach level 40? It seems I won’t be seeing new skills for a while.
However, level 40 isn’t too far away. Based on Chen Mo’s current strength, it wouldn’t take long to grind to level 40.
But to grind a considerable amount of experience points, he would have to enter a good dungeon in university first.
Otherwise, unless he could find a Random Rift Dungeon or participate in a Heavenly Dao event, grinding experience points elsewhere would be quite difficult.
I hope nothing will go wrong with tomorrow’s college entrance exam dungeon.
Chen Mo grumbled before heading into the bathroom to wash.
However, the problem with this college entrance exam dungeon was caused by him, so he should hope not to cause a mess himself.
「After a good night’s sleep, the next day.」
Upon arriving at the school assembly, Chen Mo found that Yan Yingyue had returned.
As both Earth’s upper echelons and the Aliens already knew that Yan Yingyue definitely wasn’t the one who triggered the sound of the great path.
This Milky Way event helped rule out most of the suspected individuals.
After all, it was evident where these people were when the Milky Way event started, and everyone could investigate this clearly.
In the Milky Way event participants, it was explicitly shown that Earth’s entrants were five-star professionals.
Just based on this, all five-star professionals who were still on Earth during the event time had their suspicions cleared.
Naturally, they no longer needed special protection.
After all, the Aliens now had to be very careful on Earth; they couldn’t afford to lose any more manpower.
They didn’t have enough people to investigate those two exceptional talents, let alone sending personnel out to assassinate ordinary five-stars.
This time, they captured a few Aliens. After some torture, a few confessed and revealed many of their compatriots.
This enabled Earth’s side to eradicate a lot more hidden Alien forces.
Now Rangu was experiencing a massive headache; on one hand, he had to accelerate the investigation into Earth’s two talents, and on the other hand, he had to tighten manpower.
This contradictory situation made it challenging for him to take action.
「Inside Seaside Second Middle School...」
Since they were not classmates, Yan Yingyue did not go over to Chen Mo in school, but simply greeted him from afar with a smile and a nod.
Chen Mo responded with a smile, and then Fang Datong elbowed him.
Turning his head to look, Chen Mo was greeted with Fang Datong’s smug smile. He asked, speechless, "What kind of expression is that?"
"HEH HEH HEH, what expression indeed, you sneaky devil," Fang Datong laughed and teased.
Chen Mo rolled his eyes and changed the subject. "Stop daydreaming. By the way, do you have any news about this college entrance exam’s dungeon?"
Due to the alteration of the examination dungeon for the first time, the students couldn’t help but speculate about the nature of the new dungeon.
Chen Mo was also curious. What kind of dungeon could be as fair to every type of combat profession as the previous one?
"Haven’t you heard?" Fang Datong said. "It seems they decided just yesterday afternoon. I heard this dungeon is just a temporary stand-in. It’s not entirely suited for the exams in the future, but to preserve the rights of the current candidates and not make everyone wait another year, they decided to go with it for now.
"In the future, they will construct a fair exam dungeon."
So it seems it can’t guarantee absolute fairness.
Seeing that most of the students had arrived, Principal Shen Rulong stood on the podium and said, "Students, I have some information to share with you beforehand about this college entrance exam dungeon.
"This concerns your future, so listen carefully."
Hearing that it was about the exam dungeon, everyone immediately quieted down and listened attentively.
"Due to the special nature of the college entrance exam, which is meant to test everyone’s abilities, we have not yet found a perfect dungeon for this. Therefore, a turn-based system is adopted reluctantly.
"If you are confident in your abilities, you may choose to participate alone.
"For duos, there’s a limitation: you can only participate with one support-type profession and one output profession.
"Because it’s a duo, the difficulty will be higher than solo participation."
"Principal, can you tell us what type of dungeon it is this time?"
"Of course, I was just about to."
Shen Rulong, smiling, nodded and said, "This time, the college entrance exam dungeon will be a Slaughter Challenge..."
"What!? A Slaughter Challenge?"
"Doesn’t this mean many people will die?"
"Why would the college entrance exam dungeon use such a dangerous mode?"
The students were all scared witless by the previous "Survival of the Fittest" Slaughter Mode.
It was exciting to see the extraordinary Earth prodigies defeating their alien counterparts. However, whenever they realized even these powerful beings struggled to survive in such dungeons, they inevitably associated this mode of dungeon with fear.
Seeing the students grow restless, Shen Rulong, smiling, gestured with his hands, saying, "Everyone, calm down, I haven’t finished yet.
"This Slaughter Challenge is not the same as the one you’re thinking of."
At the Principal’s words, everyone fell silent, their gazes all focused on him.
"As this is a college entrance exam dungeon, we will naturally try our best to ensure everyone’s safety. The chosen dungeon won’t actually pose any real-life danger to you.
"If you die in the dungeon, you will simply be teleported out safely, without any penalty, so rest assured.
"By ’Slaughter Challenge’, I mean the main mission mode of this dungeon is slaughter!"
Seeing that everyone was listening attentively, Shen Rulong continued, "Let’s talk about the content. When the dungeon starts, the map will spawn monsters based on the number of people participating; this is the first round.
"After the initial round of monsters is defeated, they will respawn, but with slightly higher attributes. This is the second round, and this continues.
"For example, if you’re in a team of two, you start by killing two monsters, then comes four, six, and so on.
"If you are alone, it starts with one, then two, then three and so on...
"When you are defeated and expelled from the dungeon, your scores will be calculated based on the number of rounds you completed."