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[Protection] (Exclusive Talent of Piggy Pig)
— Quality: Normal-grade
— Effect: When the master takes damage, shares 10% of the damage for the master.
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This was the talent of the Normal-grade Piggy Pig before evolution.
Now, Lin Mo opened Black Gold · Strong-Maned Pig's talent panel—
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[Heavenly Marshal] (Exclusive Talent of Black Gold · Strong-Maned Pig)
— Quality: Ancestral–tier (Highest Tier)
— Effect 1: When the master takes damage, shares 90% of the damage for the master
— Effect 2: Final damage reduction +50%
— Effect 3: Whenever taking any damage, deals true damage to the attacker equal to 1% of its own maximum HP (can also trigger when sharing damage for the master)
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"Wait!"
Seeing Strong-Maned Pig's first talent effect, Lin Mo instantly felt goosebumps rise.
"Sharing 90% of the damage is basically giving me 90% damage reduction in disguise. Isn't this Ning Xi's SSS-tier talent all over again?"
Before, Lin Mo had always envied Ning Xi's 90% damage reduction. As a fragile mage, she could both deal damage and tank hits.
Who would have thought that now, Lin Mo also had his own high damage reduction.
Although Ning Xi completely negated damage and Lin Mo's was damage transfer.
But in theory, as long as Strong-Maned Pig was tanky enough, there would be no problem at all.
And with the monstrous growth of an Ancestral–tier pet, plus the 50% final damage reduction attached to the talent, Strong-Maned Pig's durability was guaranteed to be sky-high.
Even better, combined with the third talent effect, Strong-Maned Pig didn't even need to stack attack. If he just stacked HP, he could still deal solid damage.
Don't underestimate 1% max HP reflected per hit.
This reflect effect triggered every time he was hit.
And it was true damage that ignored defense.
As long as Strong-Maned Pig's HP was stacked high enough, the counter damage would definitely be terrifying.
Lin Mo could not wait to see the real combat performance of this Ancestral–tier Black Gold · Strong-Maned Pig.
Unfortunately, while Strong-Maned Pig looked fierce, he was still only level 0 and couldn't do much yet.
He needed to level it up first.
So when Ning Xi finished her yoga and logged in, the two of them returned to the Venom Swamp dungeon.
While collecting Poison Gas Bottles to upgrade Ning Xi's Poison Set, they could also level up Strong-Maned Pig.
Once Ning Xi and Strong-Maned Pig's strength rose, clearing Corrosion City would definitely be easy.
As for now, Lin Mo also wanted to see how much his own strength had increased after upgrading the Poison Set from level 20 to level 35.
Soon, they arrived at Venom Swamp.
Paid 20 silver coins for tickets and entered the dungeon.
[Ding~ Players Rulebound and Liuli, welcome to the level 36 dungeon Venom Swamp!]
Whoosh!
Two beams of white light fell.
The two appeared inside the dungeon.
Looking at the level 36 Giant Lizards scattered everywhere, the Empress acted without wasting words.
She raised her staff and started blasting.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
-21938!
-21938!
-21938!
Ning Xi's output was as stable as ever.
One normal attack, one kill. The level 36 Giant Lizards were as fragile as chickens in front of her.
At the same time, Lin Mo raised his level 35 Poisonous Crossbow and locked onto several Giant Lizards in the area to his right.
With no less presence than Ning Xi, he opened with his ultimate.
SSS-tier Annihilation · Storm Arrow Rain!
Swish! Swish! Swish!
A massive arrow formation covered a wide area.
Countless sharp arrows rained down, instantly turning the five Giant Lizards inside into pincushions.
-10410 (Critical)!
-10410 (Critical)!
-10410 (Critical)!
Roar!
Along with pitiful cries all five Giant Lizards were instantly killed.
Seeing this, Ning Xi could not help but exclaim, "Brother Lin Mo, your damage increased so much."
Indeed. Before, he needed to combine Ice Snow · Extreme Cold Grip with his ultimate combo to wipe out a wave.
Now, he didn't even need a combo. Just one ultimate was enough to instantly clear a group.
Clearly, upgrading the Poison Set by 15 levels had greatly boosted Lin Mo's strength.
Facing Ning Xi's praise, Lin Mo casually waved his hand and said lightly, "Small stuff. Keep it low-key."
[Ding~ Killed level 36 Giant Lizard. EXP +15400 (110%), Divine Artifact Nirvana luck +0.01%!]
[Ding~ Killed level 36 Giant Lizard. EXP +15400 (110%), Divine Artifact Nirvana luck +0.01%!]
While deployed, pets gained the same combat EXP as their master.
As Lin Mo gained EXP, Black Gold · Strong-Maned Pig also received a massive amount of EXP.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
After just one round of battle, over a dozen white lights fell over Strong-Maned Pig's head.
His level shot up instantly from 0 to 16.
This speed was even more outrageous than when Ning Xi was killed back to level 0 and Lin Mo helped her kill the level 28 Tier 2 Saber-Tooth Tiger King, where she jumped 15 levels at once.
"The Favor of Fortune buff stacked with the golden title Supreme Lord. An 80% EXP reduction is insane."
Amazed, Lin Mo continued the next round of combat.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Under the combined power of two SSS-tier talent holders, Lin Mo and Ning Xi, the Giant Lizards of Venom Swamp seemed to face total extinction.
They turned into massive amounts of EXP and Poison Gas Bottles, absorbed by the two.
As for Strong-Maned Pig, even if he looked like he was just tagging along now, once he reached level 20, there would be a qualitative change.
And that goal came quickly.
After all, Strong-Maned Pig's EXP requirement was only 20% of normal.
After killing over a hundred Giant Lizards across more than ten waves—
Whoosh!
Another golden beam fell.
[Ding~ Congratulations! Your pet Black Gold · Strong-Maned Pig has reached level 20.]
Lin Mo, who had been waiting for this moment, immediately took out the equipment he had prepared long ago.
Except for skill differences, pet equipment followed the same setup as player equipment.
Tank pets corresponded to Knight equipment.
So Lin Mo had already bought a full set of level 20 Tier 2 Knight Poison Set from the market.
All white-quality pieces, easy to buy and cheap. Just over 30,000 RMB.
After all, big spenders only chased blue and purple-quality Poison Sets. They looked down on these white trash items.
But in Lin Mo's hands, these "trash" items were treasures.
Using his SSS-tier talent Soul Flame and consuming about 20,000 equipment evolution points, Lin Mo evolved the entire Poison Set into gold quality.
Then equipped it onto Strong-Maned Pig.
Opening the pet panel, Strong-Maned Pig's stats exploded at a glance.
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[Black Gold · Strong-Maned Pig] (Pet)
— Quality: Ancestral–tier
— Role: Physical · Tank
— Master: Rulebound
— Level: 20
— Strength: 270
— Agility: 110
— Constitution: 510
— Endurance: 430
— Spirit: 110
— Physical Attack: 1390
— Physical Defense: 2920
— Magic Defense: 2700
— Mana: 4200
— HP: 61800
— Skills: None
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Only level 20 and his HP had already exceeded 60,000.
More than ten times the HP of same-level Knight players.
Full gold Poison Set combined with an Ancestral–tier pet was simply explosive.
Or rather, SSS-tier Soul Flame was just too broken.
Lin Mo then allocated the 60 free attribute points Strong-Maned Pig gained from level 0 to 20 entirely into Constitution.
With Strong-Maned Pig's 100 HP growth per point, that translated into another 6,000 HP.
His maximum HP rose to a shocking 67,800.
"That's enough."
Lin Mo looked at Black Gold · Strong-Maned Pig beside him and said, "Pig Bro, you're a mature pig now. It's time to stand on your own."
"Go on. Pull the monsters!"
Pet equipment did not visually appear.
Even after equipping the Poison Set, Strong-Maned Pig still wore his original golden armor, majestic and imposing.
Following Lin Mo's command, he gripped his nine-toothed rake, snorted loudly, and charged toward the group of Giant Lizards ahead in long strides.
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