Even with Shi Feng's level 43, the skill Thousand Blades Flowing Light hadn't dropped his level back to 42 after being upgraded to Tier 1.
However, once a skill reached Tier 1, both the experience required and its power underwent a qualitative change.
Thousand Blades Flowing Light, an active skill with a 5-second channel, dealt 700% physical damage and 700% lightning damage in a frontal cone for 5 seconds. Its initial range covered a 50-yard area, had a 10-minute cooldown, and was currently at Tier 1, Level 1. (The experience needed to advance to Tier 1, Level 2 was two hundred million.)
Originally, Shi Feng wanted to continue upgrading the skill, but doing so would have dropped his level from 43 to 42, causing all his stats to decrease. This would have negatively impacted their upcoming entry into the Titan Holy City, so he decided against raising Thousand Blades Flowing Light further.
After learning the skill, the librarian, Valen, teleported Shi Feng out of the library, sending him directly to the main gate.
By the gate, everyone else had also finished learning their skills and magic, their faces alight with excitement.
The Titan Library contained a vast number of skill and magic books, many of which were incredibly rare. Even being allowed to choose just one book from the outer section could significantly boost one's combat power.
"What's got you all so excited? What powerful skills did you learn?" Shi Feng asked Zero Wing's members with a smile.
"Guild Leader, you won't believe it! Water Color passed the restriction to the inner section and has now mastered a large-scale destructive spell! Ziyan also passed the inner section's restriction and learned a group healing spell! Even though Fire Dance only made it to the inner section without learning a group skill, she learned an extremely powerful disabling and debuffing skill that even bosses can't resist!" Ke Le explained.
The difference between skills learned in the outer and inner sections of the library was like night and day.
One was filled with common Tier 2 rare skills, while the other held ultimate Tier 3 techniques. The two simply couldn't be compared.
This was especially true for the skills learned by Water Color Rose and the others, which represented a massive upgrade for the team. Ziyan Liuyun's group healing spell was particularly significant.
Currently, all the healers in the Divine Realm only knew single-target healing magic. Not a single one possessed a group heal. With Ziyan Liuyun's group healing spell, she alone could replace an entire group of healers. In the future, when running dungeons and fighting bosses, they wouldn't have to worry about being unable to heal the whole raid in time, leading to unnecessary casualties.
Out of the full 100-person raid, fourteen members had successfully entered the inner section (not counting Shi Feng).
From Zero Wing, there were three. Dark Crow's group also had three. The group led by You Bai Ye had a full five members. A Smile for the City contributed another three.
This left Zero Wing's members stunned.
They knew a bit about Dark Crow's group, but they were completely in the dark about the group led by You Bai Ye. The fact that five of their members had entered the inner section showed just how formidable their team truly was.
"I have no idea where the Guild Leader found these experts," Water Color Rose thought, looking at You Bai Ye and his team with undisguised astonishment. "But for a team of just fourteen people to have so many powerhouses..."
She had previously had some understanding of You Bai Ye's group's strength and knew they were no ordinary players, but their performance in the Titan Library made the true power of his team crystal clear.
Not far away, You Lan was equally speechless, as if she were seeing Zero Wing for the very first time.
She knew exactly how difficult it was to pass from the outer section to the inner one. She had exerted tremendous effort just to barely make it through herself. The only other two who had succeeded were Cang Lang Zhan Tian and Teng She. Everyone else had been stopped dead once they reached the 80-yard mark.
Yet, out of Zero Wing's fifty members, while she didn't know exactly which area Shi Feng had reached, he had clearly entered the inner section with ease. If she calculated, Zero Wing had a full twelve people who had passed into the inner section. The gap in their team's strength was simply despairing. You Lan even suspected that if you scoured the entire Star Moon Kingdom and gathered the power of all the guilds, you still wouldn't find a team that could rival Zero Wing.
"Since everyone's here, let's go to the final trial of the entrance examination now," Shi Feng said, sweeping his gaze over the group to confirm everyone was present before leading them toward a teleportation array not far from the Titan Library.
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