Chapter 290: Chapter 185: The Difficult Tower Climbing Challenge, Seeking the Stars Corridor_1
Reviewing the illusion book again, the illusions in it have been reset.
Not only do I have to go through the Scholar’s storyline again, I also have to challenge the Star Tower from the first floor again.
Lin Xun quickly rushes from the first to the tenth floor.
However, after killing the guardian on the tenth floor, he doesn’t receive a memory tool again.
"What a pity, if I could get repeated rewards, I could max out my knowledge limit to 99999 here ..."
Lin Xun sighed and continued to challenge upwards.
Although the guardians in the ’Star Dome Tower’ get stronger on each floor, the increase in power between each floor isn’t very noticeable.
However, after every ten floors, the power of the guardians vastly increases.
Before the twentieth floor, he could use the special skill of his eye, ’Illusion of Knowledge Infusion’ to kill the guardians in one hit.
It’s worth mentioning that the reward from the twentieth floor, ’Memory of Starry Sky’, can increase the knowledge limit by 2000 points!
When he used the memory tool, the ’Almighty True Knowledge’ didn’t cast its gaze on him and didn’t dispatch ’Chaos Knowledge Beast’ to correct him.
It seems that he can use ’Memory of Starry Sky’ without any hinderance.
He killed the twenty-floor guard and continued to challenge upward.
However, the guardian of the twenty-first floor gave him a little surprise.
After he started the challenge, the Scholar guard without saying a word, used a ’Pre-stored Magic Ring’-like item, and raised a ’Knowledge Grating’ to protect itself.
Fortunately, the Epic-level ’Knowledge Brilliance Staff’, inherited from the Knowledge President, can ignore the enemy’s magic resistance. It has a strong destructive power against knowledge-based defense skills like ’Knowledge Grating’.
Instead of using ’Illusion of Knowledge Infusion’, he uses a ’Knowledge Spear’ to break the grating and kill the guardian.
After a long while...
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[The giant spear formed by characters instantly penetrates the guardian’s body, tearing it into two parts.]
[You defeated the ’Guardian of the Thirtieth Floor of the Star Tower’, you haven’t gained any experience.]
[You feel a bit tired!]
[The star glow formation under your foot slowly rises, taking you upward.]
[The dazzling star river flowing overhead is closer to you. You look up at the star river, observing countless stars, and you seem to have some realizations.]
[You have obtained ’Memory of Starry Sky’ (item)]
Lin Xun saw the ’Fatigue’ warning on the display text, and his heart shivered.
The higher the quality of the skill, the greater its power, but it also consumes more mental energy.
After his frequent use of ’Illusion of Knowledge Infusion’ and ’Knowledge Spear’, the mental strength of his Shell body had been consumed a lot.
He now understood why two Presidents with such strong power stopped at the thirty-ninth floor.
Even the disappointing Scholar who he had just confronted,, implied that it was not that he couldn’t beat the guardians but that he wasn’t able to hold up any longer, causing him to fail in the tower climbing.
It turns out that the main reason most of them stop climbing the tower is because they run out of mana...
"It’s a pity that I can’t summon the Valkyrie in the Knowledge Illusion."
Previously in the ’Dark Dragon Knight’s Illusion’, Lin Xun tried summoning the Three-headed Lion in the face of countless monsters.
The result was that the underworld game told him that the Knowledge Illusion can only be entered by one person and he can’t carry summoned creatures to clear it. It’s also impossible to summon creatures within the illusion.
Otherwise, Lin Xun could let the Three-headed Lion and the Valkyrie take turns to challenge the guardians and achieve automatic tower climbing.
The ’Memory of Starry Sky’ rewarded at the thirtieth floor is even better than before, increasing the knowledge limit by as much as 3000 points.
After using it, Lin Xun’s knowledge has reached a terrifying 600/11200.
He continues to challenge upwards.
After a huge increase in the maximum limit of knowledge, the power of his knowledge-based skills has greatly increased.
However, the power of the guard on the thirty-first floor has also soared. The guard uses ’Knowledge Grating’ to withstand his first ’Knowledge Long Spear’ attack and fiercely counter-attacks him.
If it were not for Lin Xun’s magic shield being cast instantaneously, he might have ended up turning over in a ditch.
Only after using the ’Knowledge Long Spear’ a second time was he finally able to break the grating and kill the brittle skin guard.
[You have defeated the ’Guardian of the Thirty-First Floor of the Star Tower’...]
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"According to this usage frequency of skills, even if I conserve my mana, I estimate that I can only climb to around the forties..."
Although the attack power of the Shell body is strong, there is a limit to the mental fatigue. Lin Xun decided to switch to the Earth Giant’s body to attempt the challenge.
With the Earth Giant facing ’Knowledge Grating’ on the thirty-second floor, he endured the enemy’s magic attack, broke the grating with several hits from the ’Indestructible Flames’ hammer, and killed the brittle skin chicken.
"Without magic penetration, it’s really hard to break the grating..."
’Flowing Fire Burning Eye’ and ’Knowledge Spear’ are both Epic+ skills, but it lacks the magic penetration effect and knowledge volume amplification compared to the latter.
This makes the power of ’Indestructible Flames’ far less than that of ’Knowledge Spear’ when targeting a single opponent.
Lin Xun stroked his chin and thought.
The Earth Giant’s consumption of physical energy in combat against a single monster can be ignored, but if he fights while bearing the enemy’s magic attacks, over time his health bar will also be exhausted.
The Shell runs out of mana when facing an enemy and the Earth Giant has to worry about the health bar.
"Ah, I’ll start with the Earth Giant first, and switch to the Mage’s Shell when I can’t hold on."
"It’s a pity the dancer is so trash, if I had a strong assassin’s shell, I could just use Stealth and take out these fragile Scholar guardians in one hit."
In order for the Earth Giant to climb higher, Lin Xun took off the Shell’s robes and equipped them onto the Earth Giant.
The robe can increase resistance to Knowledge skills, so after equipping it, enduring magic attacks shouldn’t hurt as much.
