My stats are higher than yours!

To improve your skills as quickly as possible, you must fight stronger enemies and fight with all your might. Only in this way can your skills improve at the fastest speed!

It's done!

Let's fight!

Chapter Eighteen: The Laughter Factor

Private training room

"Jie Jie Jie!"

"So it's Xia Yanxin? Watch how I deal with you! Today I'll make your projection kneel down and humiliate you severely! Hahaha!"

Bai Shuodong sat in the rest area, took out the training rifle he had prepared earlier, and casually glanced at the basic information of the training rifle.

[Training with long spears]

Rank: First Rank

Quality: Black Iron

Effect: When using it for training, the rate at which long weapon proficiency increases by 5%.

Description: A brand new long spear. When using it for training, you can better feel the power exertion and slightly amplify the training effect.

whispering sound!

As expected, it's a mass-produced, standardized item. The panel and description are practically identical to the training wooden sword from before.

Bai Shuodong smiled, then a white light appeared on his hand as he silently recited something.

Imprint the decomposition.

[Note: After being marked, the training spear cannot be traded or abandoned in any form. If stolen or looted, the equipment will be automatically disassembled to generate temporary skills.]

[Imprint Limit: 1/3]

[Confirm/Decide whether to assign the mark?]

confirm!

Suddenly, a feeling similar to that when he imbued the decomposition mark came over him. Bai Shuodong seemed to see through the root of the training spear through the power of the decomposition mark and felt a wisp of core power originating from the root.

And this peculiar feeling seems to be the core of decomposing the mark.

[Note: The mark has been applied. You can check the temporary skill effect at any time.]

[Imprint Limit: 2/3]

"Check!"

[Gun Skill Channel (Passive)]

Rank: First Rank

Skill Quality: ★★★

Skill Level: 6

Skill origin: Training with a long spear

Skill effect: When training, the proficiency growth rate of long weapon specialties is increased by 600%, and the difficulty of breaking through the bottleneck of the first-tier specialty level is greatly reduced.

Duration: Half an hour.

Is it really a skill of the same type as the Sword Technique Channel? After all, it's standard equipment from the same series as the training wooden sword, so it's not surprising that it can produce this kind of skill.

but...

This skill only lasts for half an hour, but its level is 6. If I'm not mistaken, the skill level doubles after the duration is halved, so the overall strength is still relatively balanced.

The specific reason is still unclear. It may be due to the randomness of the disassembly process or slight differences in the nature of the equipment itself.

Then, Bai Shuodong placed his hand on the laughing mask.

Imprint the decomposition.

[Note: After imprinting the mark, the Laughing Mask will become untradeable and unabandonable in any form. If stolen or looted, the equipment will be automatically disassembled to generate permanent skills.]

[Imprint Limit: 2/3]

[Confirm/Decide whether to assign the mark?]

confirm!

Bai Shuodong suddenly felt the world before him blur. In the dim light, he saw a clown in a black suit laughing wildly. The laughter was incredibly eerie and terrifying. Even though it was just an illusion, he felt that he could hear the laughter.

Faced with this eerie laughter, Bai Shuodong suddenly turned angry and shouted, "Shut up!"

The next moment, the illusion of maniacal laughter shattered, and the surrounding environment returned to normal. The mask of maniacal laughter was still on his face, but the feeling of being affected by laughter had disappeared.

Was it broken down?

[Note: The mark has been applied. You can check the temporary skill effect at any time.]

[Imprint Limit: 3/3]

"Check!"

[Laughter Factor (Passive)]

Rank: First Rank

Skill Quality: Special

Skill Level: None

Skill Source: Laughing Mask

Skill effect: Increases base health recovery speed by 20% and base stamina recovery speed by 20%. After activating the Laughter Factor, restores 0.2% of maximum health per second.

Advanced requirement: Resonate with the Laughter Factor.

"Laughter Factor?"

Bai Shuodong muttered to himself.

Compared to the Laughing Mask, the Laughing Factor is much weaker, but its advantage is that it has no side effects, is a purely positive upgrade, and has room for further improvement. Decomposing it into permanent skills is a win overall.

but...

It cannot be broken down now!

Bai Shuodong stretched his body, his joints making a "crack" sound. He walked towards the combat area of ​​the private training room and said, "Generate a projection."

"Projection generated."

A mechanical female voice rang out.

Then, Xia Yanxin's blue projection formed on the battlefield in the training room. The once arrogant and unrestrained girl was now expressionless, simply gripping her greatsword and staring at the enemy in front of her.

The training room can create projections, but these projections lack the emotions of real people; they merely mechanically replicate the opponent's combat skills and basic abilities.

"idiot."

"Xia Yanxin, when you were applying for the card, you probably never imagined I'd get the Laughing Mask from that old man in the logistics department, right? Hahaha!"

"100% base stamina recovery, 100% base health recovery, and 1% maximum health recovery during the Laughter phase—did you know that? A slow burst with 5% fixed health damage reduction stacked with stamina and health recovery is terrifying! That's the power of numbers!"

"I am now terrifyingly strong!"

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

Bai Shuodong raised his hands and let out a wild laugh. A continuous stream of power surged from the laughing mask, and the feeling was simply exhilarating.

"..."

Xia Yanxin's projection remained motionless.

The mechanical female voice sounded again.

"Start the challenge?"

"Ah!"

Bai Shuodong smiled, then picked up a training spear, activated the mark, and decomposed another training spear into a skill.

"bring it on!"

"Become my nourishment!"

"Let me see how sweet you are!"

"Start the challenge!"

As Bai Shuodong gave the order, the mechanical female voice immediately responded, "The challenge will officially begin in 3 seconds. Please prepare for battle."

Bai Shuodong lowered his body slightly, gathering his strength.

[Slow and steady wins the race] Building momentum!

"3! 2! 1!"

"Battle begins!"

Xia Yanxin took a step to the side, and crimson flames suddenly ignited on her body. Her aura underwent a qualitative change, and the sense of oppression increased exponentially.