Chapter 82: You Came to Ye Ze the Moment You Found Danger?
【“Reaper” + “Hunter's Vision” + “Death Verdict” (Can be synthesized)】
Three assassin-type Traits.
There was no question about it: anything that required three Traits to synthesize was bound to be no ordinary thing...Ye Ze did not hesitate for even a moment and immediately chose to synthesize them!
【Synthesized Golden Legend · Higher-order Trait: Terminator!】
【Terminator: The embodiment of destruction and finality, the nightmare of all enemies.】
“As expected of a higher-order Legendary Trait. Even the aura feels much grander...”
While Ye Ze was marveling at it, he naturally assigned the synthesized Trait to the mantis.
A sinister dark-violet light flashed, wrapping around the mantis like a sphere. A few seconds later, it emerged once more...as though it had undergone a complete evolution.
【Summoned Beast: Void Hunter (Golden Legend ☆☆) evolved → Void Terminator (Golden Legend ☆☆☆☆)】
A second four-star Legendary summoned beast!
It was said that even one of China’s top fifth-rank Summoner experts only had a single four-star Legendary summoned beast.
And now, at level 17, he already had two four-star Legendaries and one three-star Legendary!
Moreover, judging from the mantis’s current condition, it was not far from becoming a five-star Legendary either.
At the same time, its attributes finally received another major boost:
【Strength: 380 → 440】
【Constitution: 310 → 350】
【Agility: 378 → 458】
【Spirit: 300 → 340】
【Skill: Void Slash → Annihilation (Legend · Higher-order)】
【Skill: Void Traverse → Void Traverse (Legend · Higher-order)】
【Skill: Compound Eyes → Void Killing Eyes (Legend · Higher-order)】
With only a single piece of equipment, for the mantis to have attributes like these was simply heaven-defying!
It could be said that it had restored glory to the assassin path.
Now, with a single strike, it could instantly kill an ordinary third-rank Class User.
But compared to Martial Saint Panda, the mantis’s attributes still lagged far behind...After all, Panda had gained an enormous amount of attributes through You Are What You Eat!, and with two pieces of Legendary equipment, his average attributes had long since exceeded five hundred.
Still, when it came to skills, each had its own strengths.
The evolved slashing skill, Annihilation, had its damage doubled.
The quality of Void Traverse had also risen to “Higher-order.” If Liu Anran used Spatial Lock again now, it would be very difficult for her to trap it.
What shocked Ye Ze the most was the final skill...In addition to enhancing the effects of Compound Eyes and incorporating Hunter’s Vision, it had also gained a special effect:
【Void Killing Eyes: When the target enemy’s HP falls below 30%, Void Killing Eyes triggers the power of termination and executes the target instantly!】
A low-health enemy would die from a single glance!
Among execution-type skills, this effect was absolutely terrifying.
The evolved mantis looked even more sinister and terrifying than before. Hovering in midair with its figure flickering in and out of sight, it quietly savored its newfound power.
From within the Summoned Beast Space, the magic dragon said oddly, “How did it suddenly become this strong in such a short time?”
Just yesterday, it had still believed it could fight the mantis evenly. Now it felt certain it would be completely crushed!
“Don’t worry. Your turn will come too.”
Ye Ze had just replied when he suddenly felt his vision blur for a moment. Immediately after that, his pupils flashed with golden light on their own, as if they were defending against something...
Ye Ze frowned. “What’s going on?”
【Ding! Eye of Insight — It has detected that you are being affected by an illusion.】
An illusion!?
Ye Ze’s expression turned grave, because this was Linyuan City. No one here would casually release illusion-type skills, much less interfere with others at will.
That meant there was only one possible explanation...The Fiends were behind it!
But what felt wrong was that among all the Fiends recorded so far, there had never been a type that could use illusions.
“A new kind of Fiend that hasn’t been recorded yet?”
Just as Ye Ze was thinking this, a burst of urgent knocking sounded outside.
The knocking quickly stopped, and a ripple of spatial fluctuations spread through the air. Three people teleported directly in front of Ye Ze.
They were Liu Anran, Teacher Liu Boyan, and the petite girl from Central China, Luo Yao.
Ye Ze was startled. “Hey, teleporting straight into my house is way too disrespectful of a man’s privacy, isn’t it!?”
“It’s an emergency!” Liu Anran did not respond to that and said seriously, “Fiends have appeared in the city!”
Hearing that, Ye Ze immediately grew serious as well, realizing that things were exactly as he had suspected.
“I obtained an item from headquarters that can offset the effects of illusions to a certain extent...”
“And today, while I was on the streets, I saw several corpses bearing traces of Fiend attacks, but no one else could see them at all!”
Liu Anran said with certainty, “This is definitely an illusion!”
“And on top of that, we can’t even send messages out anymore.”
“I believe a massive illusion space has enveloped all of Linyuan City!”
As a Tactician, Liu Anran immediately made a judgment about the current situation.
Ye Ze gave a slight nod after hearing her out.
Liu Boyan’s face instantly filled with outrage. “Fiends have come? Why didn’t you tell me sooner!”
Early that morning, Liu Anran had brought him here, saying only that the situation was urgent and there was no time to explain it in detail.
He had never expected that Fiends had actually entered the city!
After all, Liu Boyan was a retired veteran. The moment he heard that the enemy had invaded, he immediately grew indignant.
“I’m still third-rank, aren’t I? I may be retired, but my strength hasn’t declined!”
“Dad, the reason I didn’t tell you earlier was precisely because I was afraid you’d react like this!” Liu Anran sighed helplessly.
Ye Ze asked, “Did you try finding the City Lord?”
“I did,” Liu Anran replied. “But City Lord Wan isn’t here. It seems he left suddenly last night.”
“A lure-the-tiger-away-from-the-mountain tactic.”
Ye Ze stood up and stretched lazily, his tone utterly certain.
Don’t be fooled by how mentally unstable and grotesque the Fiends looked. Their combat thinking was not much worse than humanity’s.
Liu Anran looked at Ye Ze’s expression with great curiosity.
“You don’t seem nervous at all.”
Not to mention ordinary people—even she, as a Tactician who had to remain calm, had become tense after discovering that Fiends had entered the city.
Ye Ze smiled faintly and explained, “If the Fiends had to lure the City Lord away, that means the Fiends inside the city are limited in strength...” “This may not be unwinnable!”
“No!” Liu Boyan shook his head and rejected the idea at once. “It’s too dangerous!”
“Even if those Fiends can’t defeat City Lord Wan, they still aren’t enemies you can handle!”
He still believed that Ye Ze was just a child who had only awakened a few days ago. No matter how strong he was, how strong could he really be?
Beside them, Luo Yao tugged on Liu Anran’s arm.
“Sister Anran, the help you said you were going to find... could it be Ye Ze?”
Hearing that, Liu Anran gave a slight nod.
After seeing Ye Ze’s strength for herself, she truly felt that rather than seeking help from the third-rank or fourth-rank City Defense Forces, it would be better to come straight to Ye Ze.
When he was your opponent, it felt utterly hopeless...But when he was your ally, it was a completely different feeling.
Even though Liu Anran still had mixed feelings toward Ye Ze, and even though he often joked around, reason told her...Coming to find him had been the right decision!
Seeing his daughter make her position clear, Liu Boyan was stunned at first, then utterly shocked!
After discovering danger, she had not first told him, her own third-rank father...and the very first person she had come to find was actually Ye Ze?
What was going on?