Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!

Gushan is a thorough defensive battle, with most of the skills he has learned primarily focused on team cooperation.

Even if he could hit Yang Yu with some weakening or control skills, Gushan didn’t have any powerful attack methods to swiftly end this duel.

Throughout the continuous battles, Yang Yu gradually figured out his skills, and Gushan could sense that Yang Yu was becoming more adept. If the fight continued to the end, the outcome was difficult to predict.

Therefore, Gushan ended the duel on the grounds that the fight would last a long time.

”Thank you, Senior Gushan, for your guidance. I still have to bother you next time.”

Yang Yu smiled and put away his sword and shield, since he wanted to learn skills from Gushan, he naturally had to give Gushan some respect.

Pulling out the shield from the sand, Gushan said, ”No need for pleasantries.

It’s truly impressive that at such a young age, you can lead a team to become an S-Class adventure group.

The skills I used, did you see them clearly?

The simplest way to know the power and effect of a skill is to personally taste it.

I won’t force you to take on every skill with your body.

Everyone has their own methods and talents for training, and their understanding of skills varies.

I can see your understanding of different skills in you, and also see your determination to become stronger.

Strive to climb upwards.

Some views can only be seen after reaching the peak.”

It’s been a long time since an S-Class adventure group capable of threatening the position of [Dragon God’s Might] has emerged.

Gushan did not feel irritable or uneasy; on the contrary, he felt it was a rare opportunity, for only opponents of similar strength can urge a person to progress.

Those who meet the standard of [Dragon God’s Might] need to go through layers of selection to become part of [Dragon God’s Might].

Those who become part of [Dragon God’s Might], in the first ten years, still have a great deal of room for improvement, but as time passes, it becomes increasingly difficult to surpass oneself.

They gradually become restless and fall into stagnation, and it’s rare for someone to break free from the shackles and further grow.

Some members retreat after knowing the difficulties, gradually becoming content with their current situation. After all, the people active on the scene are basically not their opponents, so there’s no need to improve their strength further.

While some... choose to continue cultivating, looking for other ways to break through.

Re-positioning himself, Gushan demonstrated one by one the skills he hadn’t used with Yang Yu before.

Yang Yu earnestly observed each skill Gushan used, and the system panel popped up with message after message:

[You can already use skill points to learn [Defense Link]; would you like to spend sixty skill points to learn it?]

[You can already use skill points to learn [Rapid Cover]; would you like to spend eighty skill points to learn it?]

...

After leaving the Blood Lion’s mansion, Yang Yu didn’t learn many skills in total; his skill points were still relatively abundant.

But, they were not abundant enough for Yang Yu to squander recklessly.

Moreover... in the future, he might face opponents that require specific skills to defeat.

Yang Yu didn’t want to find himself in the awkward situation of needing a specific skill to make a fight much easier but lacking the skill points to learn it.

In some games, you can reset your points and retrain, but here, that’s not possible.

After careful consideration, Yang Yu learned [Heavy Strike], [Shattering Rock Shield Strike], [Immovable Rock], and the later demonstrated [Defense Link] and [Rapid Cover] from Gushan, a total of five skills.

[Defense Link] as the name implies, can establish a connection with friendly forces within a certain range, with the friendly forces receiving a total of 50% of the skill user’s dual defense bonus, and 50% of the damage taken is transferred to the skill user. If the skill user’s blood volume is below 20%, or insufficient to bear this 50% damage, the damage cannot be transferred.

To explain, 50% of the skill user’s dual defense bonus means that one person gains 50% of Yang Yu’s dual defense, two people each gain 25% of Yang Yu’s dual defense... and so on.

Yang Yu’s dual defense couldn’t reach Gushan’s level, but being able to shoulder damage for teammates while strategically reducing his own blood, this skill is still quite practical.

As for [Rapid Cover], its mechanism of action is very similar to [Protective Assistance Charge], but in comparison to the flash of [Protective Assistance Charge], [Rapid Cover] is a legitimate dash skill. One wouldn’t suddenly disappear but would move rapidly along a certain trajectory; if it encounters any obstacles midway, it might be forced to stop.

But [Protective Assistance Charge] doesn’t completely outperform [Rapid Cover].

[Rapid Cover] also, when moving towards teammates, has a fixed movement time that isn’t affected by slowing effects, even slow warriors can speed like the wind, and after using it, they receive a short boost effect; used well, it can directly shield against coming slows, and utilize the gained speed for defensive counterattacks.

Having mastered these five skills, Yang Yu asked Gushan to practice these five skills a bit more, and shortly after began practicing them earnestly, quickly ”learning” them.

Seeing that Yang Yu grasped the skills after only a few tries, Luo Bei was dumbfounded, mouth agape, thinking he was already a genius, only to find someone even more talented than himself.

Could he really have that so-called relic on him? I thought he was just exaggerating...

Ignoring Luo Bei’s astonishment, Yang Yu expressed his gratitude to Gushan:

”Thank you, Senior Gushan, I’ve learned it all.”

These five skills are not easy to acquire high-order skills, only high-level defensive battles like Gushan would simultaneously possess these skills.

Unfortunately, Yang Yu still hasn’t learned [Taunt] or [Taunt], the kind of skills that can forcefully draw an enemy’s attack onto oneself.

Although he didn’t learn these two skills, Gushan still gave Yang Yu some clues:

”I also often thought, ’If at that time, the enemy attacked me, it would have been better.’

I also searched for the skills you mentioned.

I heard that these two skills can only be learned through skill scrolls.

Very few people can make such skill scrolls, all of them residing in a mountainous area, and the skill scrolls they make are mostly consumed internally, making it extremely difficult to obtain one.

With a try, I looked for that village.

But when I inquired about the village’s whereabouts, it had already been destroyed for some reason.

The skill scrolls from that village circulating on the market also disappeared shortly afterward.

If you could find any survivors from that village and obtain their skill scrolls... you should be able to learn those two skills.

Alas, it’s indeed too difficult, I have searched for a long time without finding any information about them.

Additionally, there is also work to be done, so I gave up on those two skills.”