A Comprehensive Network: An Endless Adventure Begins as a Wanderer

Chapter 97 The Moment of Execution and the Assassination of the King

Cheng Yi stared at the story skill tree panel in front of him, lost in thought.

First of all, the current story points are very valuable.

Therefore, there are no spare points to invest in chef-related branches.

Moreover, these two chef-related skills are not very versatile.

【Battlefield Cooking】 requires a little story points. Its effect is roughly that when performing magical cooking, the number of magical dishes produced will increase by 30%, and the basic effects of cooking will be slightly increased.

As for the chef's malice, that's a more subtle matter.

[Chef's Malice Type: Story Skill/Cooking Description: Your magical cooking has left a deep impression on soldiers from many nations. Even though the effects of your magical cooking are excellent, quite a few people still developed a mild phobia of paella after the war.]

Effect: When a creature eats or smells your magically cooked food, it must make a basic Constitution saving throw or it will become "Nauseous" for 1 minute. However, the base effect of your magically cooked food will increase by 30%.

Unlock Cost: 2 Story Points PS: I said good medicine tastes bitter! What? This is a restaurant? That's not important—

[Manager of Imprint City Alchemy Herbal Cuisine Buffet]

Cheng Yi's lips twitched, and he silently dismissed it.

His attitude towards cooking is simple: as long as he feels comfortable eating it, that's fine; if it's beneficial, that's best, but if not, it doesn't matter much.

There's no need to use story points to unlock chef-related branches.

However, there is one thing: except for the skills in the first story skill tree which have prerequisites and progression, the skill trees in later ones do not have this requirement.

The quality of skills in the first story skill tree is also exceptionally high due to the first-time reward.

Cheng Yi's gaze moved downwards.

Next is the Fairy branch.

[Fairy Knight Type: Story Skill/Fairy Description: You received the "Silver Sword of Lumibia's Lake" from a fairy in the boundless fairy wilderness. During battle, you used the holy effect of the Silver Sword of the Lake to severely damage the demons that were destroying the fairy wilderness.]

Effect: When you are holding a weapon, you can summon a weapon spirit phantom with a standard action. This phantom will deal damage in sync with you, but only 50% of the damage of the original weapon, lasting for 1 minute. When the duration ends or you no longer hold the summoned weapon, the phantom dissipates and enters a cooldown period of one natural day.

Unlock cost: 2 Story Points PS: Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora!!!

[Unintelligible battle cry]

Cheng Yi's eyes lit up.

This [Fairy Knight] skill is equivalent to a 50% damage increase for one minute, making it an excellent burst skill.

He made a mental note of it and then continued reading.

【Feast of Laughter】also requires 2 story points, and its effect returns to cooking.

[Feast of Laughter Type: Story Skill/Fairy Description: You attended a fairy banquet in a dream world. From then on, surprises and frights seem to prefer visiting your table.]

Effect: Once per natural day, you can temporarily upgrade a magical dish to the "Fairy Feast" version, doubling its base effect. However, there is a 10% chance that consuming it will randomly teleport you to a nearby safe location—a prank by the fairies.

Unlock cost: 2 story points. PS: They just thought it was fun.

[Permanent Observer of the Dreamland]

Finally, the [Blessing of Dreams] costs 1 story point and grants the user the ability to have lucid dreams, giving them an advantage when fighting against dream-related abilities.

Cheng Yi shook his head; these abilities were of little use to him.

Laughter and revelry have some use, but lucid dreams are somewhat ambiguous in their meaning.

Cheng Yi then looked down and came to the Assassin King branch that he was most looking forward to.

【The Gravedigger of the Empire】 is a relatively general plane-limited skill with decent stats, but it only works on units of the Holy West Empire.

But now, not to mention whether Cheng Yi will ever return to Calipis, even if he does, the empire will have long since fallen apart.

The evaluation is "finished".

But the next two story skills brought Cheng Yi a pleasant surprise.

[Execution Moment Type: Story Skill/Crimson/Instant Death Description: Some are bound to a high platform, awaiting their predetermined death. The justice or evil of the judgment is irrelevant to you; you have merely brought forward the moment of execution —]

Effect: When your attack hits and deals more than 75% of your target's maximum health, the target must make an instant-death check based on their Constitution attribute. If the check fails, the target dies instantly. If the check succeeds, the target is immune to this effect for the next 24 hours.

Unlock cost: 3 Story Points PS: The moment of execution has arrived!

Judge of the Underworld, Osti

[Assassinate the King Type: Story Skill/Legendary Glory Description: A war that swept across the entire plane was ended prematurely by your sword. Assassinating the King, isn't that another way of bringing peace to the world with a single sword strike?]

Effect: You are skilled at ending those who bear the name of royalty, divine blood, or dominion. You gain the following effect:

1. You have an advantage on attack rolls against creatures with the "Legendary" attribute, or those with the rank of leader/elite/divine blood.

2. When you hit this type of target with a weapon attack, the target cannot use "Legendary Resistance" to counteract any effects caused by the attack. If the target uses any reaction action (such as "Shield", "Parry Counter", etc.) to deal with the attack, the reaction action will automatically fail.

3. Your weapon attacks will penetrate the damage resistance of such targets; if the target has damage immunity, it is considered to have resistance. This effect can stack with other similar effects.

Unlock cost: 5 story points. PS: The fate of the entire world is dancing under my sword.

Swordholder, Executioner of the End, Ethan

Instant kill ability!

And the ability to break through immunity!

Cheng Yi almost instantly thought of one of the special effects of the Shadow Slash.

"Shadow Slash ignores Dark Corrosion Resistance."

Combined with the Assassin King's Killing Technique, it ignores immunity.

Moreover, the ignoring of legendary resistance!

Unfortunately, it only works for specific targets.

But she's definitely supermodel material!

Composing himself, Cheng Yi looked at the last branch.

A devil's plot.

【Conspiracy Identification Type: Story Skill/Insight Description: In the boundless fairy wilderness, you pry open the devilish conspiracy behind the Church of the Fathers of War from a paladin.】

You have developed a certain ability to discern ulterior motives.

Effect: You gain a +3 bonus on saves against and against spells of deception and manipulation. Additionally, you gain an advantage on saving throws against spells of deception, charm, or mind control.

Unlock cost: 1 story point. PS: I smelled a lie in your words.

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The remaining [Devil's Enemy] is a replica of the Murloc Enemy that Cheng Yi unlocked before.

When facing a demon, both attack and damage rolls against it receive a bonus.

It's truly a regular feature in the story skill tree.

As for the final [Ritual Destroyer] —

What does it mean that "the ritual or ceremony you preside over or participate in has a 50% chance of failure, a 25% chance of the ritual's effect being greatly weakened, and a 25% chance of leading to unpredictable results"?

All I did was destroy a small blood sacrifice ritual.

Cheng Yi sighed. This ability was generally referred to as a "team wipe engine" in tabletop role-playing games.

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