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178: Chapter 178 Soul FusionAlthough the cultivation of the World Tree and the black hole transformation of the Subspace both ended in failure, Fu Hao did not fall into confusion. While waiting for the cooldown of Fates Luck, he silently collected hidden items scattered everywhere. During this period, the most eye-catching one was undoubtedly the +10 Vampirism skill.

[Enemy killed.]

[Through the ’Vampirism’ skill effect, absorbed the ’Swift Steps’ skill from the enemy.]

[Enemy killed.]

[Through the ’Vampirism’ skill effect, absorbed the ’Tenacious Will’ skill from the enemy.]

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Even when killing the same type of monster, as long as the opponent possessed enough types of skills, it was not uncommon to absorb over a dozen skills at once when clearing the field with area-of-effect skills.

Thanks to the unlocking of the Skill Enhancement function, Fu Hao could directly enhance skills to +10 after obtaining them. Many ordinary skills that would have otherwise been overshadowed by others broke through the practical level, leaping to become incredibly powerful skills.

Type: Active

Grade: Rare

Mana Cost: 800

Cooldown: 10 minutes

* 30 seconds movement speed increased by 29.2%.

* Movement speed buff +30%

* Movement speed buff +30%

* Movement speed buff +30%

* Will not trip when moving after skill activation

Type: Passive

Grade: Hero

Cooldown: 1 day

* When remaining HP is below 10% of maximum HP, all stats increase by 25.8% for 1 minute

* Stat buff +30%

* Stat buff +30%

* Stat buff +30%

* When skill is activated, one random stat buff +500%

”Two good cards in a row, the luck is too good.”

Obtaining two powerful skills in succession, a full smile bloomed on Fu Hao’s face. Skills absorbed from monsters via the Vampirism skill were often difficult to use immediately, but it was completely different after enhancing them to +10.

For Fu Hao, who already had overflowing movement speed, skills like ”Swift Steps” would normally only add clutter to his skill bar. However, the ”will not trip when moving” effect added at +10 was like finding a treasure for him.

Previously, he was often restricted in battle because his speed was too fast for precise control. This effect alone was enough to make ”Swift Steps” one of the core skills that changed his combat style.

Even for players who didn’t have overflowing speed like Fu Hao, not tripping while moving was an effect everyone would covet.

In the ”otherworld,” losing balance meant falling just like in reality, which was why having fast movement speed wasn’t necessarily a good thing.

But with this effect, even if he fought with circus-like acrobatic poses, as long as his feet touched the ground, he could maintain maximum movement speed, and even make 180-degree sharp turns without slowing down. It was equivalent to using the system’s power to forcibly perform movements impossible for humans.

This might have limited use when fighting monsters, but when facing super-spec players like Leonhardt, or human NPCs, Demon Kings, and others who required precise control and strategy, it would definitely come in handy.

”Swift Steps is not bad, and Tenacious Will is not bad either.”

For Fu Hao, who possessed multiple invincible skills, ”Tenacious Will” was a match made in heaven. When encountering a strong enemy that required activating an invincibility skill to tank, if the +10 effect happened to land on a key stat, he might just be able to seize a moment to counterattack.

Through collecting hidden items, Fu Hao’s total stats had steadily broken through 3000, and his Strength and Agility had even broken through 4000. Although there was still a gap from his original stats, considering he was still stuck at level 1, these values were already astonishing.

As his level increased in the future and stats continued to accumulate, plus the stat buffs from ”Tenacious Will,” even he himself couldn’t estimate what level he would eventually reach.

Fu Hao was stuck at level 1 because he sacrificed experience points in exchange for a skill that increased item drop rates—he had completely locked his level growth for hidden items that could only be obtained at level 1.

Unable to level up, and with items and gold coins not being of much use, grinding monsters was originally a meaningless act. But the +10 Vampirism skill and the Skill Enhancement function made him unable to resist clearing out monsters along his hidden item collection route.

The surprises didn’t stop at these two powerful skills. The +10 Vampirism skill not only gave a bunch of powerful skills but also brought a new hidden item:

[First time achieving ’Possess 1000 skills’ achievement.]

[Obtained title ’Skill Tycoon’.]

Those skills gathering dust in the skill bar had actually contributed to the first achievement and title.

”Skill Tycoon?”

This title had never appeared on community intelligence networks or hidden item collection events; it could be called secret.

Fu Hao wasn’t sure if it hadn’t been made public, or if no one in The Original World had collected 1000 skills at all, but the latter was more likely—after all, without an outrageous skill like +10 Vampirism, it was impossible to gather 1000 skills.

Even in the Inner World where hidden items were everywhere, gathering 1000 skills would take over a month. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say it was a super high-difficulty hidden item unique to the Inner World.

High difficulty didn’t necessarily mean a strong effect, but the effects of most hidden titles were proportional to their acquisition difficulty. Fu Hao looked forward to checking the effect of ”Skill Tycoon” with anticipation:

* Generates active skill ’Skill Deletion’.

Type: Active

Grade: Super-tier

* After deleting 1 skill, randomly increase 1 stat (Deleted skills cannot be re-obtained).

Unlike expected, the title effect didn’t enhance skills or improve practicality, but instead gave a ”Skill Deletion” that seemed to reduce practicality.

Just like when he obtained the ”Money Scatter” skill via the ”Refuse” title, this time he got a ”Skill Deletion” via ”Skill Tycoon.”

But unlike Money Scatter (Hero grade), Skill Deletion was a Super-tier skill—perhaps because the acquisition difficulty was outrageously high, even the attached skill was given a Super-tier rating.

For Fu Hao, who possessed two Creation-grade skills and had experienced various Creation-grade skills, a Super-tier skill wasn’t shocking in itself, but Creation-grade skills couldn’t be enhanced to +10, while Super-tier skills could—this was the key difference.

”Whatever it turns out to be, it’s all good!”

Fu Hao didn’t have time to dawdle, and like enhancing other skills, he instantly completed the +10 enhancement:

Type: Active

Grade: Super-tier

* After deleting 1 skill, randomly increase 1 stat (Deleted skills cannot be re-obtained).

* Stat buff +1 when deleting a skill

* Stat buff +1 when deleting a skill

* Stat buff +1 when deleting a skill

* Trigger ’Skill Storm’ after deleting 5000 skills via ’Skill Deletion’.

”Skill Storm?”

The +10 effect was neither a god-tier effect that could be seen as outrageous at a glance, nor useless trash, but a ”Skill Storm” that left people guessing. Fu Hao was curious about what this effect was, but there was no additional information in the skill description, making it impossible to infer.

”Even ordinary skills occasionally produce strange effects at +10, a Super-tier skill at +10 surely won’t be mediocre.”

Fu Hao looked forward to the moment he collected 5000 trash skills to delete, temporarily suppressed this curiosity in his heart, and turned his focus to the matter at hand—the cooldown of Fates Luck, which he had waited for again and again, had finally ended.

[’Fates Luck’ skill cooldown has been reset.]

”Finally able to enhance.”

Fu Hao took two identical sword of sealing from his backpack and stared at them nervously. Enhancing both sword of sealing to +10 required a total of 4 uses of Fates Luck. Even with the help of the ring of the sage, at least 3 consecutive cooldown resets were needed.

Although the Enhancement Master’s ”Equipment Destruction Repair” skill could allow him to not rely on Fates Luck before tier 7, the repair took too long, and Emperor Endel’s soul would definitely strongly object—destroying equipment was not in the plan.

But unexpectedly, the ring of the sage triggered cooldown resets one after another like a bug:

[ring of the sage effect triggered, ’Fates Luck’ cooldown has been reset.]

[ring of the sage effect triggered, ’Fates Luck’ cooldown has been reset.]

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Even after both swords were enhanced to +10, the cooldown was still resetting, and Fu Hao suddenly fell into the happy trouble of ”having nowhere to use Fates Luck.” But compared to pondering new uses, he was more curious about the effect of the Enhanced Item Synthesis skill, so he started the synthesis skill first.

The moment the skill was activated, two water-drop-shaped light orbs appeared in front of Fu Hao. He put the two swords into the light orbs respectively, the light orbs instantly fused, and the synthesis success prompt popped up:

[Synthesizing ’sword of sealing (+10)’...]

[’sword of sealing (+10)’ synthesis successful.]

[Obtained ’+10 Guaranteed Enhancement Ticket’.]

”+10 Guaranteed Enhancement Ticket?”

The synthesis result was too unexpected, and Fu Hao wanted to check the details of the enhancement ticket with a blank face, but before he could click it, new prompts followed one after another:

[Proceeding with ’Emperor Luo Ender’s soul’ fusion...]