Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons-Chapter 771 - 674 Skills Upgrade

As night fell, the Guild Hall welcomed the most bustling time of the day.

The expanded Guild Hall no longer seemed cramped as before.

But the coming and going of guild members.

The crowded tables and chairs, and the aroma of delicious food wafting through the entire space of the Guild Hall.

Despite so many people standing outside each table and chair, it didn't feel noisy.

It's because each position now had a soundproof barrier.

This barrier was one-way; it didn't transmit the noise from the seats outside, but external sounds could clearly pass in.

This was something the guild members came up with themselves, given that some people like the hustle and bustle, while others prefer quiet.

Since everyone was part of the same guild, it was necessary to consider the feelings of others.

As for Kane, after a simple meal, Kane returned to his personal space.

Lying on the soft cloud bed, he snapped his fingers, and the entire space plunged into darkness.

After a busy day, he could finally have a quiet moment of rest.

The quiet surroundings calmed Kane's mind.

Having finished all the arrangements, Kane finally had time to review the spoils of his recent battle.

In this battle, Kane Squad alone obtained a total of 8 Golden Magic Stones.

Plus, another 6 were obtained by other members.

So in this battle alone, they acquired as many as 14 Golden-level Magic Stones.

After reviving the fallen Golden members and the consumption of just-purchased Golden-level Bottleneck Secret Medicine.

There were 9 left, marking this as the most Kane had obtained in the current stage.

How to allocate these 9 was something Kane needed to consider carefully.

First, consider which skills needed upgrading.

Honestly, the skills in the skill grid now offered limited enhancements to Kane's power.

After all, there were only so many skill grids, and switching skills had a one-hour cooldown.

In one battle, at most, you could switch once.

This meant many skills were of little use in combat.

Kane's combat style and usual skills were pretty much set.

Now, extracting skills or upgrading some other Silver Magic Stones didn't significantly boost Kane's strength.

Unless there was a skill equivalent to Divine Power.

It was more about enriching Kane's tactics, allowing him to cope confidently in specific situations and times.

Ensuring no weaknesses and avoiding situations where he couldn't fight back.

More Skill Stones could enable Kane to handle more strange crises.

Moreover, a period of peace was expected, allowing Kane to focus more on understanding rules, which was crucial.

The Rule Chain Kane thought about was just one rule puzzle piece away; by then, his Origin Skills could almost replace most of Kane's attacks.

After some thought, Kane sat up and opened the Book of Adventure.

Flipping to the Skill Warehouse, he checked the skills inside, filtering those that might be useful and needed upgrading.

Compared to extracting unknown quality skills, Kane preferred choosing useful ones from Silver-stage Skill Stones and upgrading them.

Silver-stage Skill Stones were mostly very useful.

[Death Gaze] could be upgraded to Golden level; after all, it's an excellent single-target burst skill.

Compared to [Celestial Punishment], this skill is more adaptable to most situations, given that [Celestial Punishment] has a severe delay.

It's hard to hit and use in a duel with opponents of the same level.

But it's top-tier for large-scale damage and psychological intimidation of enemies.

After back and forth selection for a long time, Kane finally chose 3 more skills for upgrading.

Other Skill Stones would have to wait unless Kane had plenty of Golden Magic Stones.

Even though there was some spare, Kane decided to use only 4 Golden Magic Stones for Skill Stone upgrades.

Magic Stones are almost always insufficient until the last moment.

The Magic Stones decided for upgrade were.

[Death Gaze], [Limb Multiplication], [Dragon Bloodline - Blue Dragon], [God of All Machines - Right Index Finger].

[Limb Multiplication] was a skill Kane had long wanted to upgrade, but it didn't significantly impact Kane's combat.

Now that there are surplus Magic Stones, it's natural to upgrade it.

[Dragon Bloodline - Blue Dragon] continued to supplement total magic power, rarely used in combat now. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

But at certain times, when Kane needed a large amount of magic power, this skill was essential.

For example, when using resurrection earlier, it required a lot of magic power.

At that time, Kane used this skill, just concealed its appearance.

The choice of some Death Soldiers was because Kane's total magic power was limited.

And to revive these Death Soldiers, there was a time limit.

So Kane focused on selecting some members for revival.

If reviving those fallen Golden members, perhaps one would drain Kane's magic power dry.

Once this skill upgrades to Golden, it would be possible to revive more fallen personnel in the future.

To Kane's own people, the principle was always to save as many as possible.

Whether it was worth saving, or the cost of saving was worthwhile, was a matter for future consideration.

[God of All Machines - Right Index Finger] was a skill that had to be upgraded when there was ample time and Magic Stones.

Kane's current magic technology is mostly derived from the knowledge and inspiration obtained from this.

This is just one index finger, and even this index finger has not been completely researched by Kane.

Because he has already fallen into a research bottleneck, some of the most internal mechanical structures and magic runes have completely surpassed Kane's understanding, let alone reverse analyzing them or knowing their purpose.

If it upgrades to golden, there is no doubt that it will unlock a larger sealed space, allowing access to more sealed parts.

Naturally, it will also make Kane's magic technology more powerful, providing him with more inspiration.

In this way, he can gradually cycle and unravel more core knowledge.

Open the Book of Adventure to the extraction page, then throw in 4 Skill Stones and 4 Golden Magic Stones.

He also took out 4 Silver Magic Stones as auxiliary materials from his Space Equipment.

[Upgrade Skill Silver → Copper?]

[Yes] [No]

Yes

[Array is operating, please wait…]

[Upgrade completed]

As the array circulated, golden light surged in front of Kane, lines surrounded the array, began to outline, and flowed along with the array.

After a flash of brilliance, the golden light brightened greatly, and then all the special effects disappeared.

Four golden translucent metal pieces appeared in Kane's hands.

Feeling the weighty Skill Stones in his hands, a smile unknowingly appeared on Kane's face.

He then proceeds to check the attributes one by one.

[Name: Scythe of Death]

[Category: Active Skill]

[Color: Golden]

[Explanation: Spend a large amount of Magic Power to enhance the next attack. All damage caused by this attack will be comprehensively transformed into the enemy's most fatal attribute.

If the enemy does not have a weakness attribute, it will all be transformed into the attribute that can cause the most damage.

Part of the attack will completely transform into Soul Damage, ignoring external Physical Resistance and Magic Resistance.

This attack has a 10% chance of causing Soul Harvest.]

[Description: Derived from the rules of death in the world, it has lethal damage to all living beings. Owning it is like holding the scythe of the Death God, life becomes insignificant before you.]

(Soul Harvest belongs to instant death damage.)

Right off the bat, a big catch from the upgrade.

It's clearly an upgraded version of Death Gaze, and the description explicitly tells you this skill is imbued with the rules of death.

Capable of causing instant death damage, with a 10% chance, indicating that the rules of death are not weak.

If the enemy does not have Instant Death Resistance, they might unluckily hit that 10% chance and die on the spot.

More importantly, this skill itself can cause significant damage, part of which directly causes Soul Damage that ignores resistance.

Of course, at the golden level, most have a certain degree of Soul Resistance, although it's much lower compared to Magic and Physical Resistance.

But there's no denying that this is a single-target burst damage, and the damage surely won't disappoint Kane.

The promising start made Kane very happy.

Move on to the next piece.

[Name: Dragon Bloodline - Starlight Dragon]

[Category: Active/Passive Skill]

[Color: Golden]

[Explanation: Passive Effect: Place the skill in a Skill Grid, improve Constitution, enhance Strength, increase Agility, boost Magic Power, amplify Spell Strength. Also, master the dragon language magic of the starry sky.

Active Effect: Once every five days, after activating the skill, the appearance will change, displaying features of the Starlight Dragon; the enhancements from the passive effects will double. Current Magic Power doubles, this effect is for final calculation. Duration 10 minutes, cannot end early, nor extend use, fixed value.]

[Description: Star Realm Dragon Race, living in the void and cosmos, a noble top-tier dragon bloodline. Known among their kind for wise minds and mighty magic.

Born with golden power, upon maturity in all worlds can be called a god.

Acclaimed as one of the most beautiful beings in the multiverse.]

(Due to its noble bloodline, using this state cannot stack with any other states.)

Just mentioned, unless a skill stronger than Divine Power appears, and then it came to Kane right away.

Various attributes clearly stated, just using this skill offers a clear experience.

But what intrigues Kane most is the note below.

It means using this skill prohibits using the Divine Power's god state.

They exist in mutual conflict.

With such a note, it's highly possible that the skill state may even surpass the god state of Divine Power.

If it doesn't match the state of Divine Power, then the skill seems lackluster.

Yet, according to this description, it's at least a skill that equals Divine Power.

After all, the race with golden power at birth, mature and revered as gods in all worlds.

Many world gods may be powerful in their own realm, but in higher-tier or stronger worlds, they may only be called strong individuals.

And the source of this bloodline, post-maturity, is genuine godhood.

Meaning at maturity, at least it's a five-color or even seven-color existence.

The more he thinks, the more he finds the skill formidable, tempted to use it right away.

But Kane held back.

No rush for now.