After receiving the mission completion notification in the car, Lily was not in a hurry to settle the mission.
Most of the roads from Bagaros to the Goli Desert, which Yulia mentioned, were already abandoned, and it was inevitable to encounter various mutated creatures or desperadoes wandering in the wilderness along the way.
She was worried about encountering an accident while settling the mission, so she waited until she drove the car to a small settlement before checking the gains from her trip to Bagaros.
The Faction Conflict Mission [Bagaros] had a total of five sub-objectives.
Sub-objective One [Investigate the Truth] involved exploring the internal situation of the Bagaros Base, a task Lily completed incidentally while playing hide-and-seek with Bask.
Since many players participated, her contribution to this mission was not particularly high, only a little over 30%, and she ultimately received 5,000 experience points and 2 additional attribute points as rewards.
These experience points were negligible for her, but the attribute point reward was an unexpected surprise; she would add them to her Constitution for now.
Sub-objective Two [Ruthless Slaughter] and Sub-objective Three [Decapitation Operation] had already been settled before she left the Bagaros Base, so Lily ignored these two and focused her attention on Sub-objective Four Directions [Team Strength] and Sub-objective Five [Destroy Bagaros Base].
In this operation, she and the players made indelible contributions, almost completely turning the tide of the battle.
The game directly gave an [Excellent] rating for this.
Among them, the reward for Sub-objective Four Directions was 100,000 experience points, and the reward for Sub-objective Five was 150,000 experience points and a new skill.
"Is there no other reward besides experience and a new skill?"
Lily was stunned for a moment.
Although the mission settlement gave her a lot of experience, the rewards beyond experience still seemed a bit perfunctory.
She selected the newly acquired skill and began to check its description.
[Extra-dimensional Erosion]: Each time your skill deals Spiritual Energy damage to a target, it applies the [Extra-dimensional Erosion] effect to the target, stacking up to 5 times. Each stack continuously burns the target for an additional 1% of their maximum health as Spiritual Energy damage over 5 seconds. At three stacks, it reduces the target's all resistances by 10%. At five stacks, the Extra-dimensional Erosion effect becomes very unstable; it will explode within 3 seconds, dealing 10% of the target's maximum health (+ Inspiration * 1) as Spiritual Energy damage. After explosion, the cooldown is 5 seconds.
[Note: This skill can evolve into an exclusive talent]
"Holy crap!"
After reading the skill description, Lily swept away her previous gloom, her eyes shining as if she had won 5 million in the lottery.
Isn't this similar to Brand's passive?
Before this, she was a pure support, relying on her tankiness to fight back and forth with enemies, but with this passive, the situation was completely different.
If her opponent's maximum health was 500, then with her current attributes, after 5 Spiritual Energy attacks on the target, she could deal 110 Spiritual Energy damage to the opponent just by relying on the passive effect of Extra-dimensional Erosion.
Of course, this 110 damage was only a theoretical value; since opponents all have a certain amount of Spiritual Energy resistance, the actual damage dealt would be discounted.
But even so, this was very exaggerated. The skill itself also had base damage. With a five-hit combo, she could almost take away 200 health points from the opponent!
But this was not the limit of Extra-dimensional Erosion.
With just one glance, Lily thought of a new use for this skill: she could first stack the Extra-dimensional Erosion passive on one target, and then, after reaching 5 stacks, immediately use [Chain Reaction] to link this target with other targets.
The cooldown for Chain Reaction is 1 second, while the explosion countdown for Extra-dimensional Erosion is 3 seconds, meaning that as long as she is fast enough, she can explode three people simultaneously with one passive stack.
Linked Ships, Burning Red Cliffs, isn't that it!
"Now I can live up to my nickname, White Death."
Lily was in a good mood. With this, she had completely widened the gap with Ordinary Elite Monsters, but she still had some distance to go before becoming a BOSS.
To become a qualified BOSS, being tanky isn't enough; one also needs a bunch of abnormal skills that can torment players to death, just like Yulia.
Lily had decided what to do next.
Before heading to the 11th Shelter in the Goli Desert to trade with Yulia, she planned to learn a few offensive Spiritual Energy skills for self-defense.
Currently, the only offensive skill she mastered was Spiritual Energy Boiling, but the damage dealt by Spiritual Energy Boiling was physical damage and could not trigger the Extra-dimensional Erosion passive.
"From Bagaros to the Goli Desert, this journey will pass through many large settlements. I'll ask around in those settlements, and I should be able to find skill books or professional mentors. If not, I'll post a mission on the Dark Web; after all, I still have 300,000 credit points."
Lily closed the skill description and invested experience to raise Spiritual Energy Prayer Master from Lv7 to Lv9. She only needed to accumulate another 20,000-plus experience points to level up again.
However, compared to simply leveling up, she was more looking forward to obtaining the Spiritual Energy knowledge she desired from Yulia. This way, she could unlock the [Apprentice Psionic Painter] profession, and the improvement brought by a rarer profession was much greater than gaining one or two levels.
After closing the attribute panel, Lily opened the mission panel again. After some effort, the destruction contribution for the plot mission [Truth Unknown] increased from 0.28% to 1.19%.
She blew up a base, but the progress only increased by less than 1%. It seems this base wasn't very important to the Truth Society.
Lily pouted. She still needed to step up her efforts.
The Truth Society wanted to kill her, but she, Lily, was by no means a kind person.
"Excavation Princess."
After finishing her own business, Lily called Excavation Princess over; she had urgent matters to discuss.
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The assassination of Bask's confidant by Convert to My Lily in the tavern caused a sensation.
The Gene Primordial officers at the scene almost fainted from anger. They swarmed towards Convert to My Lily, but before they could tackle Convert to My Lily, Convert to My Lily shot himself twice.
Want to catch me?
I'm not playing with you guys!
When Convert to My Lily fell to the ground, both those who were hostile to Lily and those who were not, felt as if they had been suddenly doused with cold water, feeling completely chilled to the bone.
Lily wasn't even dead yet, and her followers were already so resolute. If Lily died, they couldn't even imagine what kind of revenge these people would unleash.
Those big figures at the top usually had a bunch of guards with them when they went out, so they might not fear retaliation, but how could these small fry withstand such torment?
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