Fatal Shot

Chapter 173: Rare Skill: Sneak Attack

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Crystallized Spit of the Desert Rock Lizard (250G)

Grade: Perfect

First, Feng Luo confirmed the light-yellow, diamond-shaped crystal, and luckily, it was the objective of his mission this time. Moreover, it was a lot more than the 100g requested by Lin; the grade even reached the “Perfect” grade.

The materials, core crystals, and other consumable items had a system evaluation just like equipment. The only thing was that the evaluation standard was slightly different from that of gear. For materials, core crystals, etc., the system’s evaluation was categorized into four categories—namely, Defect, Normal, Excellent, and Perfect.

However, there was one similarity: For the same items with different grades, those having the Perfect grade were much more expensive than the Normal and Excellent-grade items.

After he picked up the light-yellow, diamond-shaped crystal, the system notified Feng Luo that the mission “Lin’s Request (Two)” was five-sixths completed. Then Feng Luo rested his gaze on the core crystal emitting strong Earth Energy.

Desert Rock Lizard Commander Core Crystal (Earth)

Class: C

Grade: Perfect

The core crystal of a Level-38 Commander monster. Moreover, the grade was similarly of the Perfect Grade. Although it was an Earth Energy Core Crystal that was worth less, due to its evaluated Perfect grade, its selling price was still higher than the Level-39 Fire Ant Commander’s core crystal that the stubble-bearded Merchant had been selling before. Of course, that meant its normal market value, not the ripoff price that reached 60,000 credits.

As for the third item, the translucent chip, even if Feng Luo hadn’t checked it out, he still would’ve guessed what it was.

It is definitely a rare skill chip!

A “Rare skill chip” with a market price of over 100,000 credits. For some unique or special skills, the price would even be pushed to over a million credits.

Sneak Attack (Unique Skill Chip)

Skill Effect: Increases the Destructive Power of the first attack on the target by 5 percent and final damage by 5 percent under the condition that the target does not know the presence of the skill user. (Beginner Level. Can level up).

Level Requirement: Level 35

Required Profession: Sniper

Sneak Attack. Increases Destructive Power and Final Damage!

Upon seeing the stats of the chip, Feng Luo’s eyes brightened. He had heard of this type of rare skill chip before. It had appeared once during an auction, and the final bid had been 400,000 credits.

Although it was only 400,000 credits and seemed to be some distance away from the rare skills that cost over a million credits, for Feng Luo, this type of skill chip was undervalued. Especially for someone like him—who had a high probability of dealing incredibly high damage on the first shot—the value of this chip was definitely not limited to the “millions” category.

It was important to note that although Snipers could deal incredibly high damage in War, to really get rid of an enemy in one shot was practically impossible if the level of equipment was not too far apart. That was because the game still needed to be balanced, after all. If they allowed Snipers, the profession with the longest attack range, to easily fire “fatal shots,” then most of the other low-HP professions would have no chance of defeating Snipers. That was why, under most situations, when the level of equipment was similar, Snipers would need two to three shots to kill their opponents.

However, Feng Luo was different. Due to the 100-percent bonus to his Final Damage, Feng Luo, who possessed the “Lethal” talent, had a very high chance of one-shotting an enemy if he dealt lethal damage. If he were to add the effects of this skill chip, then it was quite possible for him to achieve the one-hit fatal shot that many Sniper players dreamed of. That was also why Feng Luo remembered this skill chip.

Of course, the prerequisite of a fatal shot was that the skill level had to be increased to a certain level! After all, the 5 percent destructive power and final damage bonus of the beginner level was inconsequential. It was also probably one of the reasons it was not highly sought after by the player population.

However, the most probable reason was probably that it was only a Level-35 skill!

Level 35 did not mean that it was a low-level skill. The power and strength of skills in War were not related to the levels at all. Any skill with which a player had a high enough familiarity level would be very powerful.

For example, the Level-15 basic skills of Manipulators—Fireball, Wind Blade, and others—could be even more useful than some Level-40 ultimate skills, in reality.

The reason why a Level-35 skill was troublesome was that almost all Sniper players learned the Ambush skill at Level 35. Learning the Sneak Attack skill would replace this skill.

If it were any other skill, replacing it would have been fine. However, the Ambush skill was not one that people could easily abandon, since the skill description for it was, “When the user remains stationary, there is a certain probability for avoiding the effects of detection skills; reduces the probability of being discovered by monsters.”

This passive Level-35 skill and the Sniper’s Level-25 skill, Quick Sneak, could be described as the core skills of Snipers. They were considered indispensable. That was because the combination of the two skills allowed Snipers to remain in dark, hidden locations—to a certain degree—whether the Sniper was moving, camouflaged, or stationary. They were the two skills that Snipers relied on the most when PKing against the detection skills of their “brothers from the same house,” the Scouts.

As such, if he only had to replace a skill like Rapid Shooting, a skill that Feng Luo did not really care much about, he wouldn’t have even thought twice. But when it came to replacing Ambush, most Snipers would be put in a dilemma.

“Ah, what a headache!” Feng Luo stared at each of the skills listed on his skills interface and felt a migraine coming on. “Hmm. Perhaps...”

At that time, he suddenly saw the Level-45 skill that he had yet to learn since leveling a while ago. An idea came to him. After that, he temporarily put the Level-35 rare skill chip inside his backpack and decided to deal with it when he returned to Storm City after completing the mission.

Next, he rested his gaze on the last “trophy.” It was a muddy yellow ring with a rock lizard sculpted pattern.

“I never would have thought that there would be a ring!”

Feng Luo could not help but lament his luck. Then when he picked up the muddy yellow ring. Question mark symbols flooded the stat column, which meant that the ring needed to be appraised.

“A ring that needs to be appraised!”

As Feng Luo studied this situation, his face showed joy that could not be contained. Items that needed to be appraised were mostly great items!

This was especially the case when it was something dropped from a Commander-grade monster like this, it had a higher chance of being a rare item.

A rare ring. Just how much will it be worth?

A high price. One might even consider it a high-demand item with no supply.

It was mentioned earlier that among equipment in War, the most valuable ones were decorative items, which included a pair of rings, badges, and necklaces. A Level-40 mainstream Fine ring with decent stats would be sold for more than an Excellent piece of equipment at the Exchange. As for a Level-45 Excellent ring, it could definitely fetch a higher price compared to a Rare main weapon.

As for a Rare-grade ring, it was, without a doubt, in short supply! One might even have said that under normal circumstances, Rare rings would not even be sold at the Exchange. Instead, they would be sold for a high price at auctions. Especially if one possessed a set pair of Rare ring items that granted a “set bonus” after equipping them—then it would definitely be used as the grand finale item of a large-scale auction.

Due to the fact that there was a small chance that this ring was a Rare-grade ring, Feng Luo felt uncontrollable joy.

This battle, which had incurred substantial losses, had also produced returns that exceeded his imagination!