"I wish I had an SSS-rank talent as outrageous as yours."
Lin Mo looked at Ning Xi with a face full of envy.
Then he opened his talent panel and glanced at his own SSS-rank talent.
He murmured to himself, "Oh!"
"Not bad."
"I actually do have one."
To unlock the fourth stage of Ning Xi's talent required consuming 30,000 gold coins.
With Lin Mo's current conditions, there was no way he could afford to raise it.
Seeing how powerful the new effect was after Ning Xi's talent advanced, Lin Mo couldn't help but feel even more anticipation for his own talent.
Unfortunately, his SSS-rank talent Soul Flame required 5,000 reputation points to advance to the fourth stage.
And the reputation he currently had had only just reached 3,180.
Ning Xi's more than 120,000 reputation points really made Lin Mo itch with temptation.
'With that much reputation, if it were all given to me, my talent could probably unlock several new incineration effects instantly.'
At this moment, Ning Xi handed the divine artifact Nirvana back to Lin Mo.
He hadn't expected that Ning Xi's reward amplification effect could even affect growth value. That actually surprised Lin Mo quite a bit.
Originally, upgrading Nirvana from E-rank to D-rank required 10 growth points, and each lottery draw could only give 1 growth point.
But just now, when Ning Xi used tenfold reward amplification during the draw, it instantly gave Nirvana 10 growth points in one go.
As its quality improved, Lin Mo clicked to check the prize probabilities and found that the chances of drawing higher-tier prizes had all doubled—
Seventh Prize: 90% → 80%!
Sixth Prize: 6% → 12%!
Fifth Prize: 3% → 6%!
Fourth Prize: 0.9% → 1.8%!
Third Prize: 0.09% → 0.18%!
Second Prize: 0.00999% → 0.01998%!
First Prize: 0.00001% → 0.00002%!
"That means originally you'd need about ten million draws to possibly get one first prize, but now you only need five million to get one?"
"Hahaha! What a promising fu—freaking future ahead."
However, it was worth mentioning that upgrading Nirvana from D-rank to C-rank required 50 growth points. Normally that meant drawing 50 times, and who knew how long that would take before it reached C-rank.
But now, with Ning Xi's tenfold amplification, as long as every time the luck value filled up he let Ning Xi do the draw.
She would only need five draws to gain 50 growth points and upgrade Nirvana to C-rank.
'As expected of the number one female Empress of the Great Xia server in my previous life.'
'Ridiculous! Absolutely ridiculous!'
From this moment on, Ning Xi's importance in Lin Mo's heart rose even higher.
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It was noon.
Lin Mo and Ning Xi returned to the city and logged off.
To celebrate the new talent effect that would bring Lin Mo tenfold profits in the future, Lin Mo took Ning Xi downstairs to a restaurant and treated her to a good meal.
After eating, they went back online and continued farming the Corrosion City Dungeon.
Although the ten-round clear rewards of Corrosion City had already all been taken by Lin Mo.
He still needed to collect Corrosive Agents by killing dungeon monsters, the Corrosion Corpses, in order to upgrade Ning Xi's and Strong-Maned Pig's Poison sets to Tier 3 before moving on to the final dungeon: the Lv48 Scorpion Empire Dungeon.
After Lin Mo's Poison set upgraded from Tier 2 to Tier 3, all attributes gained about a 50% increase.
With his strength skyrocketing, his efficiency at killing Corrosion Corpses also became even higher than before.
At the same time, during the monster-killing process Ning Xi discovered something.
"The drop rewards from normal mobs can also be amplified tenfold through my talent."
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
With one round of Annihilation · Storm Arrow Rain, Lin Mo instantly wiped out the dozen or so Corrosion Corpses surrounding Strong-Maned Pig.
Then he looked at Ning Xi and asked, "How much reputation does each amplification cost?"
"Ten points."
Hearing Ning Xi's answer, Lin Mo frowned slightly.
'That consumption is really quite high.'
But each amplification meant getting ten times the reward.
And the thought of one Corrosion Corpse dropping ten bottles of Corrosive Agent was incredibly tempting.
The main issue was that they were currently carrying the heavy task of saving up 280,000 reputation to amplify the A-rank hidden quest.
Otherwise, there wouldn't even be any need to hesitate.
After all, with Ning Xi's hundredfold reputation gain rate, casually killing a Tier-2 boss could easily yield six or seven thousand reputation.
Lin Mo hesitated for a moment, then decisively said, "Amplify!"
"We should reduce the time spent farming dungeon materials as much as possible. Taking down the final dungeon, Scorpion Empire, is the top priority."
As for the reputation problem, Lin Mo had already thought of a plan.
At worst, he could spend some money later in Liuhuo City to buy information about elite monsters and bosses.
Then combine it with memories from his previous life and take Ning Xi to complete several hidden quests.
With her hundredfold reputation gain ability, gathering 280,000 reputation shouldn't take too long.
So from then on, every time Ning Xi finished a kill, she used her SSS-rank talent Ninth-Five Supreme to apply tenfold reward amplification.
This meant that every Corrosion Corpse killed by Ning Xi would reliably drop ten bottles of Corrosive Agent.
Even Lin Mo couldn't help but exclaim, 'If other players saw this, they'd probably start questioning their entire lives.'
Because under normal circumstances, before players cleared the Corrosion City dungeon, the chance of Corrosion Corpses dropping Corrosive Agent was only 1%.
Which meant: the amount of Corrosive Agent Ning Xi obtained from killing a single Corrosion Corpse would require ordinary players to slaughter an entire thousand Corrosion Corpses just to possibly match it.
In Lin Mo's eyes, after Ning Xi's tenfold reward amplification, were the Corrosive Agents dropping from Corrosion Corpses really just Corrosive Agents?
No! They were stacks of shining white RMB.
Corrosive Agent was a precious resource used to upgrade Poison equipment tiers.
On the market, each bottle was currently worth at least five or six hundred.
Which meant every Corrosion Corpse Ning Xi killed reliably brought in five or six thousand yuan.
Lin Mo couldn't help but exclaim again, 'Even a money-printing machine isn't this good.'
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Thus, in just one afternoon, Lin Mo and Ning Xi successfully collected enough Corrosive Agents to upgrade two full Poison sets from Tier 2 to Tier 3: 16,000 bottles.
Compared to the morning, their collection efficiency had doubled.
After all, this time there were no dungeon-clear gift pack rewards. Everything relied purely on monster drops.
And the Corrosion Corpses killed by Lin Mo couldn't trigger the tenfold drop.
Everything depended on Ning Xi carrying the workload.
Out of those 16,000 bottles of Corrosive Agent, at least 15,000 were Ning Xi's contribution.
After fusing those 16,000 bottles.
Both Ning Xi's and the Dark-Gold Strong-Maned Pig's Poison sets upgraded from Tier 2 to Tier 3.
All attributes received massive boosts.
Ning Xi's core attribute, Magic Attack, increased from 3,000+ to over 4,400.
Two hundred points higher than Lin Mo.
Even though both Poison sets had exactly the same tier and quality.
Ning Xi's set was only level 30, five levels lower than Lin Mo's.
And Ning Xi herself was level 34, six levels lower than Lin Mo who had already reached level 40.
Yet her attack power was actually higher than Lin Mo's.
This was the terrifying aspect of the profession universally recognized in Divine Oracle World as having the highest burst damage, the second-class Elemental Mage with its extremely high attack growth.
Strong-Maned Pig's core attribute, HP, skyrocketed from 150,000 to 240,000.
Its tankiness continued to rise.
The A-rank hidden quest Eliminate the Darkness had only three days left.
And for Lin Mo, at this third-tier main city stage, aside from this A-rank hidden quest and the divine pet White Fox, there wasn't much more room for development.
So completing this quest as soon as possible, obtaining the White Fox, reaching level 50, and advancing to a second-tier main city was Lin Mo's most critical goal right now.
Not only because second-tier main cities had richer resources and greater development space.
But also because, the S-rank talent user Yu Jin, betrayed by his brothers and left with a broken family.
The national-server top-100 SS-rank talent expert Zhao Ling'er, abandoned by her own family.
And the world's first hidden class holder, Shadow Sword God · Black Night, who walked down a desperate road to save his daughter suffering from leukemia.
These top experts who perished on the eve of Divine Oracle's descent in Lin Mo's previous life were all waiting in the second-tier main city for Lin Mo to redeem them.
At the same time, they were all indispensable elites for Lin Mo to build his national-server guild.
Just in time.
'Once Ning Xi uses reward amplification to obtain the tenfold rewards from the A-rank hidden quest and the Tier-5 boss Dark Ruler, I'll have enough capital to build a guild.'
Time was tight.
Lin Mo said, "We move to the Scorpion Empire dungeon immediately!"
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