Equipping the level 55, tier 5 golden-quality Burst · Vajra Sacred Armor, combined with the SSS-grade passive skill Bloodbath · Bronze Wall's 100% HP bonus, Black Gold · Strong Maned Pig's maximum HP shot up from 326800 to 448000.
The massive boost to durability was actually secondary.
Lin Mo immediately used his mind to control Strong-Maned Pig and activate the equipment skill.
"ROAR!"
Strong-Maned Pig charged toward a fire snake.
The moment the nine-toothed rake in his hands struck the fire snake.
Crack!
A cracking effect appeared on the armor covering Strong-Maned Pig's body.
At the same time, a blood-red damage number popped up above his head.
-44800!
Equipment skill, Armor Burst!
Consumes 20% of own maximum HP to deal true damage equal to 25% of own maximum HP to the enemy.
BOOM!
A burst of blood light exploded inside the fire snake's body.
The next second, a white true damage number appeared above its head.
-112000!
The fire snake's HP bar instantly dropped by four-fifths.
Seeing a tank like Strong-Maned Pig deal this kind of damage, Lin Mo couldn't help but feel excited.
Although it couldn't instantly kill a monster, this level of damage was more than enough to blow up any level 50+ third-class player or pet.
A tank-type pet capable of one-shotting a same-level player, what more could Lin Mo ask for?
"Too bad true damage isn't affected by any damage increase or reduction effects."
"Otherwise, combined with the 100% damage boost from 100 stacks of Dark Devour, Strong-Maned Pig's Armor Burst would double in damage and instantly kill the fire snake."
So, Lin Mo used an SSS-grade Blazing Heaven · Starfire Prairie to finish off the low-HP fire snake.
[Ding~ Fire Snake kill progress has reached 100%, you can now challenge the third hall of Hall of Yama!]
Looking at the system prompts popping up in front of him.
Lin Mo said with excitement, "The final stage."
"Clear the third hall, and we'll get the scroll reward!"
'Wait!'
A sudden bold idea flashed through Lin Mo's mind.
He looked at Ning Xi.
"Based on previous amplification results, your talent's tenfold reward amplification should work on any non-unique reward item in the Divine Oracle world."
"And in this world, only SSS-grade magic scrolls are unique. Anything below SSS-grade is not unique."
Ning Xi immediately understood, "Brother Lin Mo, you mean when we clear the third hall and obtain the SS-grade magic scroll Incubated Clone, I use my talent to trigger tenfold rewards… and get ten Incubated Clone scrolls?"
Lin Mo thought it through, "The clones created by the Incubated Clone scroll are probably time-limited, there's no way they're permanent."
"Even if a player can't have multiple clones at the same time, extra scrolls can be used to extend the clone's duration."
Using clones to build forces and form alliances definitely wouldn't be something done overnight.
So if extra scrolls could extend the clone's duration, it would greatly expand what the clones could accomplish.
After understanding Lin Mo's plan, Ning Xi said, "Amplifying an SS-grade magic scroll tenfold should consume a lot of reputation. I still have over 500,000 reputation on me, not sure if it's enough."
"Just for amplifying the scroll, it should be enough," Lin Mo said.
Fortunately, through grinding the Hell Arena and the Super God Arena these past days, Ning Xi had accumulated a lot of reputation through win streak rewards.
Thinking that clearing the next hall, the third hall, would let him obtain the Incubated Clone scroll and move forward with the plan he had been preparing for a long time.
Lin Mo couldn't wait as he and Ning Xi stepped into the third hall of Hall of Yama.
[Ding~ You have entered Hall of Yama Third Hall, Hall of Song Emperor King!]
The layout of the third hall was still largely the same but the difficulty jumped up by two levels.
Because the third hall not only stacked the anti-penetration aura from the First Hall Qin Guang King and the armor-breaking aura from the Second Hall Chu Jiang King, but also added a new aura, exclusive to the Song Emperor King, increase all monsters' HP recovery effect within the aura domain by 100%.
On top of that, at this moment, the average level of the top 100,000 players on Inferno City's level ranking had already surpassed level 51.
The monster level of the third hall was determined by average level +7.
Therefore, the monsters in the third hall, [Blood Demons], had already reached level 58.
Compared to the level 56 fire snakes in the second hall, their level had increased by another 2.
Lin Mo ignored the doubled difficulty.
His only focus was: once the Blood Demon kill progress reached 100%, they could immediately clear the third hall.
He then took down the Poison Crossbow from his back.
"Let's begin."
"Okay!"
With that, the two of them, together with Strong-Maned Pig and Ah Li, locked onto the Blood Demons and began the slaughter.
Aside from their strong stats, Blood Demons also had a troublesome passive skill, Blood Soul: every time a Blood Demon is attacked, it restores 5% of its maximum HP.
Combined with the Song Emperor King's aura in the third hall, which increases healing by 100%, every attack would restore 10% of its max HP: over 16000 HP.
Ah Li's talent happened to counter healing, making her naturally effective against this type of monster.
However, her quality was still too low, her talent only reduced healing by 20%.
Even when attacked by Ah Li, the Blood Demon could still recover 8% HP.
Instead, this healing ability of the Blood Demon directly crippled Ah Li.
Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!
Ah Li used the same method as before against Hellhounds and fire snakes.
She rushed close to the Blood Demon, used nimble footwork to dodge its giant axe swings, jumped onto its back, and launched a flurry of claw attacks.
-3057!
-3057!
-3057! -3057 (combo)!
+13120!
+13120!
+13120! +13120!
After a full combo, the Blood Demon was still at full health.
Because Ah Li relied on rapid normal attacks to frequently trigger her talent for damage.
And the Blood Demon healed every time it was attacked.
If a single hit couldn't exceed the healing amount, then every attack was basically recharging it.
Seizing the opportunity, the Blood Demon swung its axe and sent Ah Li flying.
-12985!
With Chu Jiang King's armor-breaking aura combined with the strong attack of a level 58 monster.
That single strike instantly knocked out more than half of Ah Li's HP.
BOOM! BOOM!
The Blood Demon strode forward, raising its axe and rushing toward the low-HP Ah Li lying on the ground.
At the critical moment, Strong-Maned Pig stepped forward, blocking in front of Ah Li.
Armor Burst!
BOOM!
-112000!
+13120!
From the backline, Ning Xi cast a tenfold amplified A-grade Fireball and killed the Blood Demon.
She quickly ran over and picked Ah Li up in her arms.
Ah Li said guiltily, ["Sorry, sister, Ah Li can't hurt it…"]
Ning Xi looked distressed, "It's okay, Ah Li. Leave it to us."
With that, Ning Xi recalled Ah Li into the pet space.
From here on, Strong-Maned Pig pulled aggro and tanked damage, Lin Mo and Ning Xi handled the kills.
At this moment, the value of the A-grade magic scroll Dark Devour fully showed.
With 100% increased damage and 100% increased skill range, Lin Mo and Ning Xi could deal double damage from over 100 yards away, not even giving the Blood Demons a chance to trigger their healing.
Relying on overwhelming damage, Lin Mo and Ning Xi rapidly wiped out the Blood Demons.
In just two hours, they killed 500 Blood Demons.
At that moment—
Rumble!
Accompanied by a tremor shaking the ground, from within the hall ahead, the Hall of Song Emperor King, a roar erupted.
Lin Mo knew: "The BOSS has spawned!"
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