Whoosh!
As Ning Xi activated the Yama Set's exclusive set skill, Hellfire, dark crimson flames burst into bloom around Ning Xi.
Already extraordinary in bearing, Ning Xi's presence instantly rose to another level with the set skill's special effects.
Even Lin Mo, standing beside her in his level 50, fifth-tier Thunder Set, as the number one player on Inferno City's leaderboard, with his own set skill Heavenly Thunder fully activated, seemed to have no presence at all.
His aura was completely overshadowed, making him look like nothing more than one of the Empress's followers.
"So Tier-6 set skill effects are this cool?"
Looking at the outstanding Ning Xi, Lin Mo was genuinely envious.
He suddenly felt that his own fifth-tier Thunder Set wasn't all that impressive anymore.
But that was fine, once he completed Siya's S-rank hidden quest Heart Knot, he would obtain a seventh-tier set.
When the time came, it would completely outclass Ning Xi's Tier-6 Yama Set.
Of course, it wasn't just the visual effects that were amazing.
The Yama Set's skill, Hellfire, was equally powerful.
After activating the set skill, the user gains the blessing of Hellfire, automatically consuming 150 Mana per second while granting 30% final skill damage and 30% skill cooldown acceleration.
If it were just a basic 30% skill damage increase, it wouldn't be particularly noteworthy.
But the key point here was that Hellfire's skill damgge bonus was a final multiplier.
In Divine Oracle, Elementalists generally have higher skill damage multipliers than other classes.
Take Ning Xi's S-rank Fireball as an example.
An Elementalist's S-rank Fireball normally has a base damage multiplier of 500%.
With Hellfire's 30% final bonus, it became 650%, effectively reaching the level of an SS-rank Fireball.
And that was for an ordinary Elementalist's S-rank Fireball.
Ning Xi's Fireball was another matter entirely.
Because she possessed the SSS-rank talent Supreme Emperor, which granted tenfold damage.
That meant after activating Hellfire, the damage multiplier of her S-rank Fireball increased from 5,000% to 6,500%.
Its damage rose from fifty times Attack to sixty-five times Attack.
In other words, this set skill alone increased the damage of Ning Xi's skills by another fifteen times her Attack.
The sheer number made Lin Mo's scalp go numb.
After all, even Lin Mo's SSS-rank skills, enhanced by his golden title Master Strategist, only dealt around nine times his Attack in damage.
The damage increase from Ning Xi's set effect alone already far exceeded the damage of one of Lin Mo's SSS-rank skills.
On top of that, there was also 30% skill cooldown acceleration.
That was equally outrageous.
For example, Ning Xi's S-rank Fireball originally had a 3-second cooldown.
With the 30% cooldown acceleration, it only needed 2.1 seconds.
And Ning Xi also had tenfold casting speed.
At this moment, Lin Mo couldn't even imagine how terrifying Ning Xi had become.
Looking back at the Blood Ghoul King, only sympathy remained in Lin Mo's eyes.
At that moment, Ning Xi gripped the Hell · Yama Staff and walked toward the Blood Ghoul King.
The Blood Ghoul King's fury erupted as though it wanted to tear Ning Xi apart.
Once she entered its effective attack range of fifty yards, Ning Xi gently raised her staff.
With the tenfold casting speed granted by her SSS-rank talent Supreme Emperor...
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
In just one second, she unleashed nearly ten spells almost instantly.
S-rank Fireball!
S-rank Ice Spike!
S-rank Hurricane!
S-rank Thunderstorm!
S-rank Dragon Command!
In an instant, the Blood Ghoul King suffered unprecedented damage.
Its HP bar plummeted.
A flood of crimson damage numbers exploded above its head.
-1,073,695!
-1,113,697!
-1,093,457!
The Blood Ghoul King had a total of 15 million HP.
After Ning Xi's full combo, with one seven-digit damage number after another, its HP bar instantly dropped by two-thirds.
Watching the Blood Ghoul King get blasted backward repeatedly by Ning Xi's S-rank skills, nearly dying on the spot, Lin Mo, standing in the rear, sucked in a cold breath.
"Holy..."
"That's insane!"
The Blood Ghoul King was a Tier-6 Boss with over 28,000 Defense.
And Ning Xi had dealt all of this damage purely with her own base strength, without any buffs whatsoever.
Meanwhile, even with the two SSS-rank buffs from the Divine Advent Seraph, the damage Lin Mo dealt to the Blood Ghoul King wasn't even one-tenth of Ning Xi's.
Only now did Lin Mo realize, the Yama Set hadn't simply improved Ning Xi.
It had completely transformed her.
The Blood Ghoul King was utterly stunned.
For a moment, it didn't even know how to fight back.
Even so, it still stood firmly outside the cabin.
"Damn it!"
"As long as this king still has one breath left, none of you will take even half a step into the cabin behind me!"
Ning Xi remained calm as still water as she lightly raised her staff.
After waiting for one round of cooldowns, she was just about to cast another combo of S-rank skills to finish off the Blood Ghoul King, whose HP had dropped to only thirty percent, and end the battle, when suddenly...
Click!
The cabin door behind the Blood Ghoul King opened.
A middle-aged NPC man dressed in Beastfolk clothing suddenly rushed out of the cabin.
He spread his arms and used his own body to shield the heavily wounded Blood Ghoul King.
He pleaded with Ning Xi and Lin Mo, "Please, don't kill it!"
Seeing this scene, Ning Xi was slightly startled.
Not because she couldn't understand why the NPC was protecting a monster.
But because of the blue ID above his head.
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Lv.50 Blacksmith · Mo Chen (Normal NPC)!
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At that moment, even Lin Mo walked over from behind.
"The Blood Ghoul King imprisoned you in this sunless underground city for twenty years. We've come today to rescue you and give you back your freedom. Why are you still protecting it?"
Mo Chen shook his head and explained, "It has never harmed me. On the contrary, it's been protecting me all this time."
"If it weren't for the Blood Ghoul King, I would've died long ago."
Mo Chen's words were unbelievable.
But thinking back carefully, the Blood Ghoul King's refusal to leave the cabin even a single step earlier seemed to prove that it had indeed been protecting the person inside the cabin, Mo Chen.
What exactly was the relationship between them?
How had Mo Chen become connected to a monster?
Just as Lin Mo and Ning Xi couldn't make sense of it, a voice suddenly called out from behind them.
"Mo Chen!"
They turned toward the voice.
The moment Mo Chen saw the Divine Advent Seraph Siya standing behind Lin Mo, his entire body froze in disbelief.
"Your Highness!"
"I-Is it really you?"
"Your Highness... you're alive!"
The Blood Ghoul King looked at Mo Chen, then at Siya.
It scratched its head.
Then, in astonishment, it asked Mo Chen, "So... she's the Seventh Princess of the God Clan you've spent the last twenty years trying so hard to save, Lord Mo?"
Mo Chen nodded excitedly, "It's her!"
The Blood Ghoul King's expression changed dramatically.
Inner thoughts, 'So that means... I just personally attacked the Seventh Princess of the God Clan?'
'I attacked the benefactor who saved our Blood Demon Clan during that catastrophe twenty years ago?'
'It's over!'
'Everything's over!'
The Blood Ghoul King hurriedly dropped to its knees before Siya.
"Please forgive me, Your Highness! This king was blind and failed to recognize you!"
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