- Online Game : God Level Assasin, I am The Shadow!
- GTA Chapter 125
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[Lineage: Soul Devourer]
[Strength Modification: Each point of strength converts from 1 → 3 points of physical attack]
[Constitution Modification: Each point of constitution converts from 10 → 50 health points, 1 → 5 points of physical defense]
[Agility Modification: Agility effects increased by 32% (movement speed, attack speed, casting speed amplification)]
[Mental Modification: Each point of mental converts from 1 → 3 points of elemental attack power, 1 → 5 points of elemental resistance]
[Lineage Skill 1 – Devour: Allows the consumption of any learned skill, granting additional ‘attribute modification’ values based on the skill’s quality.]
[Lineage Skill 2 – Maw: Summons a blood-red maw that devours enemy projectiles, healing based on the damage of the projectile. Cooldown: 60 (27.9) seconds.]
[Lineage Skill 3 – Gluttonous Follower: Your appetite is increased by 200%, but you passively gain 15 points of all superior resistances.]
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After reviewing the attributes of the Soul Devourer lineage, Qin Feng exhaled with relief.
“As expected, it’s just like I remember.”
“The key is the core skill ‘Devour.’”
“By consuming learned skills, I can gain additional attribute modifications!”
For players, the primary function of a lineage was ‘attribute modification.’
Originally, each point of strength converted to 1 point of physical attack power for a player.
But with a lineage, this value would increase!
“The Soul Devourer lineage focuses on defense…”
“Health, defense, and elemental resistance have been boosted fivefold.”
“But physical and elemental attacks only tripled.”
Technically, an assassin-class character should opt for lineages with higher attack conversion rates.
For instance, ‘Assassin’s Creed,’ ‘Abyssal Lone Wolf,’ or ‘Prideful Blood Disciple’ lineages.
Those lineages had higher attack conversion rates, and their skills were tailored to assassins.
However, Qin Feng’s talent allowed him to infinitely evolve skills!
“The variety of skills in the Forsaken God Game is immense.”
“I can keep all the passive skills.”
“But it’s impossible to utilize hundreds of active skills simultaneously…”
“I only need to keep the most useful ones.”
“The rest can be devoured by ‘Devour!’”
“Moreover, I can evolve skills to epic-level before devouring them for even stronger effects…”
Qin Feng recalled.
If he used ‘Devour’ on a low-quality or common skill, the attribute modification would be minimal—barely noticeable.
For example, converting 1 point of strength into 3.05 points of physical attack.
While consuming many skills would have an effect, it wouldn’t be very significant.
But what about devouring an epic skill?
Qin Feng checked the ‘Devour’ skill notes:
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(Note: Skills devoured cannot be used and cannot be relearned. However, once per day, a devoured skill can be restored, with corresponding attribute modifications deducted.)
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“Restoring a devoured skill once per day.”
“This way, even if I accidentally devour the wrong skill, I can fix it.”
Qin Feng didn’t hesitate.
He used Greedy Hand on the Soul Devourer’s corpse.
Five extra loot drops emerged from the boss’s remains, with a few items gleaming with diamond-like brilliance!
Additionally, slaying the emerald-tier boss granted Qin Feng 60 evolution points.
The touch of Greedy Hand added another 300 points.
This brought Qin Feng’s total evolution points to 696.
After all, he’d previously defeated a platinum-tier ‘Strong Acid Muscle Giant’ and cleared countless mobs on the Terrifying Ghost Ship, earning a substantial number of evolution points.
“Let’s evolve this skill to epic-level first.”
Qin Feng focused on a skill called ‘Poison Blade.’
This skill started as bronze-tier, was a melee attack with a long cooldown, and wasn’t in Qin Feng’s plans to use.
He spent 32 evolution points to evolve it to epic-level!
“Sure enough, even as an epic-level ‘Poison Blade,’ the damage isn’t that high. No need to keep it.”
“Upgrading to legendary would require 210 evolution points…”
Qin Feng hesitated.
Then he quickly decided to devour the epic-level ‘Poison Blade.’
In his previous life, he hadn’t thoroughly explored the Soul Devourer lineage, so he wasn’t certain how much each skill tier would yield in terms of attribute modification.
This meant he’d have to find out for himself.
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[Do you wish to use ‘Devour’ on skill ‘Poison Blade (Epic)’?]
[Yes/No]
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When Qin Feng chose ‘Yes,’
The ‘Poison Blade’ skill in his skill bar turned gray (unusable).
Then, the system provided a prompt:
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[You have used ‘Devour’ on skill ‘Poison Blade (Epic)’!]
[Your strength modification: Each point of strength converts from 3 → 4.2 points of physical attack!]
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An increase of 1.2 in strength conversion!
“That’s incredible.”
Qin Feng was amazed.
If this continued into the late stages, his attribute conversion could surpass everyone else by hundreds of times!
Of course, this was expected.
He was devouring an epic-level skill!
Without his ‘Infinite Evolution’ primal talent, he wouldn’t even consider using Devour to consume epic-level skills.
To put it into perspective, Qin Feng only possessed one initial epic-level skill, ‘Gifted Liberation.’
In the Forsaken God Game, any initial epic-level skill was exceedingly rare.
Normally, using the Soul Devourer lineage to devour such a skill was unthinkable—even diamond or emerald-tier skills were too precious to consider.
But Qin Feng…
With his Infinite Evolution talent, could fully leverage the potential of the Soul Devourer lineage!
“If I consume enough skills, this lineage will yield greater benefits than any other!”
What’s more, in the Forsaken God Game, players weren’t limited to just one lineage.
With level progression and meeting certain conditions, they could acquire a second or even third lineage.
“For now, I’ll focus on boosting my basic attributes.”
“When the second lineage unlocks, I’ll consider one that’s more tailored to assassins.”
Next, Qin Feng selected another skill.
It was an initial silver-tier skill, ‘Marginalize,’ which reduced a monster’s aggro toward the player…
It was mainly for assassins in team battles, to prevent bosses from focusing on them.
But Qin Feng mostly played solo, rendering this skill unnecessary.
“Spend 19 evolution points to evolve it to epic-level.”
“Then spend 130 evolution points to upgrade it to legendary-level.”
As a legendary skill, ‘Marginalize’ unlocked an effect that reduced 90% of a monster’s aggro while invisible.
Still, it was of no use to Qin Feng.
“Devour.”
Qin Feng activated Devour.
Then, a notification that shocked him appeared:
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[You have used ‘Devour’ on skill ‘Marginalize (Legendary)’!]
[Your constitution modification: Each point of constitution converts from 50 → 70 health points, 5 → 7 points of physical defense!]
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Each point of constitution now yielded an additional 20 health points and 2 more points of physical defense!
When Qin Feng first activated the Soul Devourer lineage, his max health jumped from 2,648 to over 11,000 points, and physical defense rose from 334 to 1,158 points.
After devouring the legendary ‘Marginalize’ skill, his max health soared again, and physical defense climbed to 1,570 points!
Physical damage reduction increased from 25.03% to 61.09%!
“It seems that devouring defensive skills boosts my constitution conversion.”
“And devouring attack skills boosts my strength conversion…”
From these two skills, Qin Feng discerned a potential pattern.
Originally, without skills, he was fragile.
Now, however…
High health, high defense, and high evasion—he was tougher than the tankiest warriors!
This was the transformative power of a lineage!
Players with a lineage and those without belonged to completely different leagues.
“Great, let’s keep devouring!”
Qin Feng turned his attention to more skills in his list, prioritizing offensive skills.
Against the emerald-tier ‘Soul Devourer,’ his current damage output wasn’t enough for an instant kill.
While it was natural for an emerald-tier boss to be tanky, Qin Feng was far from satisfied.
He needed more power!
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