After leaving the auction house, Huang Yi immediately headed to the Teleportation Field of Thornbush City and then teleported to a solo room on the 27th floor of Tower of the Pantheons.
He immediately took out the two Rune Treasure Boxes and slowly opened them.
First, he picked up the Silence Rune, a rune that added a silence effect to a single target skill.
Huang Yi immediately absorbed the rune and bound it to the skill he learned at level 25, "Disarm"!
System Prompt: Congratulations, you have successfully fused the Silence Rune into the skill "Disarm".
"Disarm": Consumes 20 points of Rage, temporarily seizes the opponent’s weapon, preventing the opponent from using weapons for the next 10 seconds, with a cooldown of 1 minute.
With the Silence Rune effect added: Silences the opponent for the next 2 seconds.
Now, the Disarm skill had become much more powerful, with the added two-second silence effect that could prevent the opponent from casting chant-based skills within the next two seconds, resulting in another control method for Huang Yi.
He then picked up the Plague Rune.
Once absorbed, this rune would inflict one with the much-dreaded Plague, but its effect was also extremely powerful, comparable to some Holy Domain Skills.
The risks and opportunities were both very high!
The next moment, Huang Yi took a deep breath and ultimately decided to absorb the rune. This was a secret realm; even if he died, there would be no penalty.
The skill he chose to bind it to was "Judgment," learned at level 15.
System Prompt: Congratulations, you have successfully fused the Plague Rune into the skill "Judgment". Due to the defect of the Plague Rune, you have acquired the negative Plague effect, which will disappear upon death.
"Judgment": Grasping the weapon, spin rapidly around oneself, forming a Whirlwind Slash that deals damage equal to 30% of Attack Power per second to surrounding enemies, consumes 10 points of Rage per second, and additionally draws 1 point of Rage for each enemy hit.
With the Plague Rune effect added: Inflicts Plague damage equal to 10% of the attacker’s Attack Power every second on enemies within a 200-meter radius, lasting 10 seconds.
Now, Judgment had become a skill with an exceedingly large area of effect! Before, this skill only had a range of about ten meters, but now it had expanded to 200 meters, an increase of 20 times!
However, to gain this effect, Huang Yi had also acquired the negative state of the Plague!
Huang Yi felt his condition and instantly discovered that there seemed to be an underlying evil energy inside him, spreading to every limb and penetrating every cell, beginning to invade his entire body.
He seemed to see countless viruses wreaking havoc inside him, damaging his systems, and gradually hurting him! His Health Points began to slowly decline.
Huang Yi paid attention to the Health Points he was losing and was startled to find that the Plague only dealt 5 points of damage to him each second!
At that moment, he finally breathed a sigh of relief!
He had won the bet!
Everyone has an attribute called "Life Recovery Speed", which allows for the regeneration of Health Points even without drinking potions, even in the midst of battle.
Huang Yi’s Health Points recovery rate was 5 per second, but now the Plague only inflicted 5 points of damage per second! That is to say, originally the Plague dealt 10 points of damage per second to him, but after canceling out 5 points worth of Health Points recovery rate, only 5 points of damage remained!
This meant that the Judge’s "Legal Protection" Class Talent had taken effect! It only allowed Huang Yi to suffer up to 10 instances of damage per second!
Each virus of the Plague only caused 1 point of damage, and others died because countless Plague viruses erupted within their bodies. If there were 10 million viruses inside, then that would mean suffering 10 million instances of damage per second, and even 1 point of damage each time would be enough to be fatal!
Right now, Huang Yi was only suffering the top 10 instances of damage each second! The number of Plague viruses had completely lost their significance; no matter how many viruses there were, they could not inflict any more damage on him!
Of course, the "Legal Protection" talent, which bore the top 10 instances of damage, had that "top" limitation. If Huang Yi received higher damage, then he would prioritize enduring that higher damage.
However, he was still in danger. Losing 5 Health Points each second would definitely lead to death if it continued, so Huang Yi immediately took out a Magic Potion from his storage ring and gulped it down.
This bottle of Magic Potion could increase his Health Points recovery rate by 5 points per second for 24 hours, which is one of the common potions that players generally kept on hand, and it was not expensive.
At this, Huang Yi’s declining Health Points finally stopped dropping!
With the cost of just one potion, he had halted death! From now on, he only needed to drink one potion each day. Moreover, as he leveled up in the future and his own Health Points recovery rate increased, once it broke through 10 points, he could survive without drinking potions.
With this, the flaw of the Plague Rune was completely resolved, and Huang Yi gained an effect comparable to Holy Domain Skills through the rune!
All of this was made possible thanks to the Judge’s "Legal Protection" talent; without that talent, there would be no solution to the flaw of the Plague!
Next, Huang Yi took up the Barbaric Hammer and charged straight at the group of monsters ahead. He smashed one monster to death with a single hammer blow. He could instakill most of the monsters on this floor with just one hammer blow.
After accumulating some Rage, Huang Yi immediately activated Judgment!
Suddenly, his body started spinning rapidly, his weapon created whirlwinds around him, within which scattered green poison mist swiftly dispersed and spread out by the wind!
The mist quickly spread to a two hundred meters radius around him. The entire field looked as if a poison gas bomb had been dropped, misty with green poison fog everywhere!
Within the two hundred-meter radius, all monsters were afflicted with Plague, with Health Points rapidly declining, losing 10% of Huang Yi’s Attack Power each second for 10 seconds, tantamount to each monster suffering a full-on attack from Huang Yi.
After 10 seconds, the poison fog dispersed, and within a two hundred-meter radius, all the monsters lay dead on the ground! Corpses were strewn about everywhere, in a chaotic mess; looking around, it was like the Doomsday had arrived with rivers of blood, living beings in torment!
At the same time, Huang Yi’s Experience Points soared visibly!
This was the power of the Plague Rune! More potent than the Holy Domain Rank top-level runes!
Now, Huang Yi’s Level Grinding speed was insanely fast!
Generally speaking, the leveling speed of a Mage is the fastest, especially for Fire Mages, who can cast sea of fire, rain of fire, and possess many area-of-effect skills. But now, Huang Yi’s leveling speed was even faster, his attack encompassing a two hundred meters radius in an instant, something regular Mages don’t have access to! Unless it’s a Holy Domain Mage or some Magic Attribute Rare Class Holders’ Exclusive Skills, but those Exclusive Skills required Energy Value to use, and they would not be willing to use them for Level Grinding.
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