Ding!
Congratulations! You have learned the “Sunflame Holy Shield” skill!
Due to your talent, the information for your “Sunflame Holy Shield” skill has changed.
Sunflame Holy Shield: While in Combat State, it generates a Shield equal to 50% of Maximum Health every 5 seconds and deals damage equal to 50% of Maximum Health to enemies within a 100x100 area.
After learning the Skill, Xia Miao closed the window and discovered that everyone else was staring at her expectantly.
“Uh... what...” Xia Miao looked confused. She scratched her hair and asked, puzzled.
“What Skill did you choose? Let us see it. If we can’t learn a new Skill, we can at least look at one.” Nangong Wen rolled her eyes, voicing everyone’s thoughts.
“Oh, right!” Xia Miao realized, then sent the skill information to the party interface.
“Sunflame Holy Shield? An enhanced version of Holy Shield? The name alone makes it sound weak. Why didn’t you choose a Skill with offensive power... holy crap! What the hell is this?!” Handsome Hua Manlou began grumbling after seeing only the Skill’s name. Before he could finish, he saw its values and nearly bit his tongue in shock.
“These values... they can’t be right, can they?” Imperial guards rubbed his eyes as well, thinking he was hallucinating.
“So... so powerful!” Spirit-Calling Snail exclaimed.
“Another Passive Skill... Little Shrimp Sprout, do you have a Talent that strengthens Passive Skills?” Hua Luo Hongchen studied the Skill Information for a moment before asking.
She figured it out already?
Nangong Wen felt a flicker of surprise and could not help admiring Hua Luo Hongchen’s keen intuition.
No one except Xia Miao had seen her Attribute Panel. Hua Luo Hongchen had guessed correctly from observation and the Skill’s values alone, showing remarkable insight.
“I do, but...” Xia Miao hesitated.
She was willing to show everyone her Attribute Panel. The problem was that the name of this Talent was difficult to say aloud. She could not tell them that she had gained it by lazing around and sleeping on the first day after the game’s launch, could she?
How embarrassing!
“I understand. Everyone has their secrets, so you don’t need to force yourself.” Seeing this, Hua Luo Hongchen assumed that Xia Miao was unwilling to reveal her attribute panel and understandingly patted her hair.
What do you understand?!
Xia Miao stared blankly as Hua Luo Hongchen walked away, wishing she could smack her on the butt.
Afterward, the tulip studio members left the dungeon through the teleportation portal.
When they emerged, they saw a large crowd of players still gathered at the Outdoor Instance’s entrance.
Some players had come to watch the excitement. Most were from Major Guilds that had investigated the Dungeon and sent more teams to test the waters, hoping to claim a larger share.
The moment the Tulip Studio Members emerged from the Dungeon, countless players noticed them, and waves of astonishment and sharp gasps swept through the crowd.
Everyone who suffered a team wipe or accepted the reward from the Skeleton NPC and left the Dungeon voluntarily revived at the Respawn Point.
Being able to walk out of the instance entrance completely unharmed was undoubtedly treatment reserved for those who had completely cleared the stage.
The first two teams belonged to the Firmament Guild and the Supreme Imperial Dynasty Guild’s elite teams. Logically, the third team to emerge should have been the Hundred Flowers in Bloom Guild’s elite Raid Team.
Although some people recognized Hua Luo Hongchen and the others as members of the Tulip Studio under the Hundred Flowers in Bloom Guild, how could a mere Gaming Studio be the third group to clear such a difficult Outdoor Instance?
The Three Great Guilds currently held the greatest prestige and possessed the most powerful forces in Gods: the Firmament Guild, the Supreme Imperial Dynasty Guild, and the Hundred Flowers in Bloom Guild.
Every Guild had enormous financial backing and resources far beyond the reach of Ordinary Players.
Yet members of a Gaming Studio under the Hundred Flowers in Bloom Guild’s banner had crushed its elite team. No one had expected that.
“Did they really clear the stage? Could they have used an item that let them retreat from the Dungeon unharmed?” Big Dipper had taken the reward from the Skeleton NPC and left early, then returned to watch the excitement. When he saw the Tulip Studio Members emerge from the Instance Entrance, he rubbed his eyes in disbelief.
As Hua Luo Hongchen’s old friend and longtime rival, Big Dipper knew the abilities of the people in Tulip Studio well.
At best, they ranked above the second tier but below the first. Only an exceptional performance could let them barely match a first-tier team.
With an ordinary or poor performance, even the team Big Dipper had assembled could defeat them with ease.
The outdoor instance was far too difficult. Even Big Dipper had only dared to take the reward from the skeleton npc and leave, unwilling to venture any deeper.
He had heard that the BOSS had brutally mauled many first-rate Raid Teams from the Three Great Guilds, leaving a pile of failed attempts behind.
How could those good-for-nothings from Tulip have done it?
Big Dipper stared at the Tulip Studio Members and checked their information one by one.
The familiar faces were unchanged except for gaining one level. Nothing else stood out.
Then Big Dipper saw the two new players who had joined Tulip: Nangong Wen and Xia Miao.
Name: Wen Wu Shuangquan
Level: 20
Class: mage
Name: Shrimp Sprout
Level: 20
Class: knight
Level 20? And both of them were level 20?!
Weren’t they only level 17 yesterday?
Big Dipper was dumbfounded. To avoid returning empty-handed from today’s Dungeon raid, he had spent a considerable sum hiring two level-18 experts from a Guild to hold down the fort.
Before the Dungeon opened, he had even bragged to Hua Luo Hongchen about them. Yet they had nearly suffered a team wipe when they encountered an Elite Goblin inside.
He had never expected that she had already taken two level-20 experts to butcher the BOSS.
Big Dipper suddenly felt as though he looked like a ridiculous clown.
“How is that possible? It can’t be! It was only one night! Even grinding all night shouldn’t let them level that quickly, right?”
Big Dipper sank into deep self-doubt. He could not understand it—he truly could not understand it!
He did not know that if Xia Miao and Nangong Wen had truly grinded through the entire night, they would probably have surpassed level 20 by now.
“There’s a level-20 mage and a level-20 knight! No wonder Tulip Studio was able to clear the dungeon third!”
“Did Hundred Flowers in Bloom split two experts from its elite team off and give them to Tulip?”
“Even so, that shouldn’t be enough to let a gaming studio under its banner be the first to clear the outdoor instance. That’s a considerable blow to the guild’s prestige.”
“Is Hundred Flowers in Bloom planning to support Tulip Studio?”
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Some players naturally checked the Tulip Studio Members’ player information and discovered Nangong Wen and Xia Miao. Their discovery drew considerable attention.
Hua Luo Hongchen frowned as she listened to the players around them discuss the matter.
Although the “Selectable Personal Skill Book” was valuable, it seemed inappropriate to steal the Hundred Flowers in Bloom Guild’s limelight because of it. Moreover, the entire Tulip Studio belonged to the Hundred Flowers in Bloom Guild.
It was a subordinate slapping its superior in the face.
It was a complete violation of the natural order!
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