Chapter 167
Chapter 168 A Trap in the Public Dungeon
The three sets cost a total of 330 credits, equal to 33 billion Starcoins.
All the items were stored in her personal inventory. At first, she planned to upgrade Power Siphon. But after meeting the Wraith Bride, the gear she looted gave her a new idea.
As Joanna kept hunting wraiths, the items they dropped opened her eyes even
more.
The way these wraiths attacked was very similar to Spirit Lash.
That gave her a clear thought. She could turn Spirit Lash into a full spectral domain.
Joanna quickly set her upgrade path. She took out her skill upgrade stones and began improving Spirit Lash step by step.
“Spirit Lash (Dark Gold-tier) promoted to Lash Purgatory (Legendary-tier p>
“Lash Purgatory (Legendary-tier): The user uses mental energy to pull enemies into a mental domain. Inside this domain, enemies suffer endless strikes, as if trapped in purgatory.
“When Lash Purgatory is activated, time inside the mental world stretches infinitely. One second in the real world equals one hour inside the domain. The extreme pain can cause total mental collapse.
“Note: This skill evolves from Spirit Lash. It gives up all recovery effects and becomes a powerful area damage skill p>
There was a saying in the Space Alliance: Physical injuries can be healed with a potion, but damage to the soul is permanent.
Soul potions were extremely expensive.
Worse, most soul-based attacks dealt true damage. Without special defense, it was like having no defense at all. Even a Substitute Scarecrow could not reset the state.
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“I just don’t know the exact effect yet,” Joanna muttered. “And these monsters keep getting wiped out in one hit. I barely get a chance to test it p>
As she was pondering this, Joanna suddenly felt a sharp wave of killing intent.
Every hair on her body stood on end.
Half an hour earlier.
After some kind students returned from the Gate of Hell plane and shared what they saw, many students struggling for credits rushed into public dungeons.
After all, grinding a Nightmare-tier dungeon could take over ten hours if luck was bad and sometimes only earn one credit. Public dungeons were far more efficient.
More importantly, Joanna was leading the team. They didn’t even need to fight. Just staying in the safe zone, they could earn 1 point per hour.
In Star Domain Battles, people complained that top players never shared points.
But in a public dungeon, if they ran into Joanna, they wanted to thank her.
All of this information, however, caught the attention of certain people.
Keith.
On his first day in the program, he caused a stir. In the end, he became a joke, but he gained nothing from it.
Those who stayed active in the group chat became close allies.
They formed a tight team. All of them were strong, and they cleared Nightmare- tier dungeons very fast.
They also shared one habit. They often spoke badly about Joanna.
Talking badly about the same person brought them closer. It gave them a shared
enemy.
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“Joanna went to a public dungeon,” someone said. “Her three pets aren’t with her. She’s alone p>
“She’s solo p>
“Fuck yeah! If we catch her now and make her hand over her credits, wouldn’t that be perfect p>
“Is that even allowed? Wouldn’t that count as malicious PvP p>
“Even if we don’t get the credits, I just want to teach her a lesson,” another said. “She probably has a Substitute Scarecrow. Breaking one of them to vent some anger, what’s wrong with that p>
“So who’s in? Let’s move. Group up p>
Very quickly, a five-person team formed.
Keith, Crispin, Perry, Herbert, and Alfie.
Among them, Alfie had been instantly defeated the moment he entered the arena before. He believed he hadn’t shown his real strength. His class was Monk, one of the strongest combat classes in duels.
As an SSS-rank talent, he had long known about skill mastery.
His skills had already evolved into advanced techniques, with terrifying power.
“I’ll go first,” Alfie said confidently. “I’ll let her taste my staff p>
Keith grinned lewdly. “Does anyone here have a crowd-control ability? Preferably one that can restrain her in a rather suggestive position. Then we can use SpyBee to capture a full range of images and threaten her. If she doesn’t hand over the credits, we’ll expose her photos p>
“Haha, that’s a great idea,” Perry agreed.
“She has a lot of followers on her profile,” Crispin added. “Let them see what their goddess is really like p>
Herbert hesitated. “Hey, this is going too far. Isn’t killing her once enough? What if
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this causes trouble?” He was backing out; their method was too wicked.
He was upset about losing before and just wanted to regain his pride by beating Joanna once.
He didn’t want to destroy a female classmate using such dirty methods.
Crispin snapped back angrily, “What? So you’re a pussy? Just admit it p>
“I’m not scared,” Herbert said firmly. “I just won’t do this. I’m out. You all can go without me p>
“Hmph. We don’t need you,” Crispin sneered. “Useless p>
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