Chapter 24: Unlocking the Exclusive Skill Tree! A God-Tier Skill Is About to Descend!

The world channel exploded once again.

"Hell Difficulty hidden dungeon? Wait, is this even normal? I’m still fighting goblins right outside my territory!"

"Forget it. From today onward, I don’t believe in anyone else. I believe in Tyrant. The Church of Tyrant begins now!"

"Godfall System: External cheat detected... Scan complete. No abnormalities found.

Tyrant: It’s hard to explain, but this is simply reality.

System: Understood, Father."

"Brothers, stop being jealous. The more I look at this, the more hopeless it gets. I suggest everyone just lie flat. After all, only the top 10% survive. Ten million Tyrants... wait, wait, fortunately there’s only one Tyrant."

John directly blocked the world channel.

Immediately afterward, a system notification sounded beside his ears.

[Ding!]

[Congratulations to Lord "Tyrant" for obtaining the exclusive Hell First Clear reward: Hero Compass x1!]

A palm-sized brass compass instantly appeared in his inventory.

The compass had no markings.

Only layers of concentric circles and a dark golden pointer floating in the center.

[Item Name: Hero Compass]

[Type: Special]

[Description: A secret treasure from the ancient era used to search for the remains of heroic spirits. By consuming specific basic resources, it can detect the exact coordinates and rank of all hidden Hero’s Tombs within N kilometers centered around the current location. The more resources invested, the larger the detection radius.]

After seeing its effect, John’s eyes lit up.

This was truly a valuable item!

In Godfall Continent, units determined the lower limit, while heroes determined the upper limit.

For ordinary players who wanted to recruit high-tier heroes, they could only rely on Hero Recruitment Scrolls and gamble on luck.

Or search for places where heroes had fallen.

But how easy were such places to find?

Even John had only discovered the Ancient Dragon Battlefield because of his previous life memories and the accumulated knowledge of other players.

There were definitely many undiscovered Hero’s Tombs still hidden throughout the continent.

Now, with this compass, as long as he had enough materials, he could locate them.

And it only consumed resources.

John opened his resource panel.

[Gold Coin: 283,572]

[Meat: 32,400]

[Wood: 11,860]

[Stone: 13,400]

[Iron Ore: 15,900]

After killing the lord-level Rask in Ancient Dragon Battlefield and clearing Odin Town, the amount of gold coins he had obtained had already reached an absurd level of over one hundred thousand.

Compared to that, his other basic construction resources looked rather ordinary.

However, John was not worried.

His troops were still collecting resources in the wilderness.

He would only be able to calculate the final gains after returning.

Furthermore, he still had many resource selection packs in his inventory.

Even if, hypothetically, all of that was still insufficient—

It did not matter.

The server had only recently opened.

Most players were desperately short of gold coins.

When the time came, he could simply visit the regional trading market.

With enough gold coins, what resource would he fail to acquire?

While John was thinking, lines of pale golden text appeared one after another.

[Class Advancement Trial Completed!]

[Congratulations to Lord "Tyrant" for completing the Undead Sovereign Rank Advancement Trial. Trial Rating: SSS!]

[Level restriction removed. Congratulations, player level increased to Lv14!]

[Class advancement certificate detected. Reconstructing your class authority...]

[Reconstruction complete!]

[Your hidden class "Undead Sovereign" has undergone a source-level advancement. Exclusive class talent unlocked: Infinite Legion!]

[Infinite Legion (Exclusive God-Tier Talent): The lord opens an independent legion subspace. The legion space has unlimited capacity and can freely store, organize, and deploy all unit types belonging to the lord. Units stored within the legion space enter a dormant state and consume no marching capacity. Entering and leaving the space has no cooldown. Deployment and recall can be performed instantly according to the lord’s will.]

John looked at the talent description and was pleasantly surprised.

This reward was truly excellent.

In Godfall Continent, the biggest problem with long-distance troop movement was the difference in movement speed.

Low-tier Spearmen were extremely slow on foot.

Infantry could not keep up with cavalry.

During marches, not only were armies vulnerable to enemy lord ambushes, but the entire front line would also be stretched out, consuming massive amounts of travel time.

But with Infinite Legion—

No matter how many troops he possessed, he could store them all with a single thought.

He could ride his dragon alone to any destination.

Then his entire army could instantly descend there.

Before John could fully examine the talent, another system notification sounded.

[Lord rank advancement detected. Class Skill Tree System has officially activated!]

[You have obtained: Necromancer Exclusive Skill Tree!]

[Skill Tree Description: Consume corresponding territory resources and gold coins to freely unlock any available nodes on the skill tree.]

A gigantic skill tree unfolded in the air.

The entire tree was divided into three sections:

Roots.

Trunk.

Crown.

Different circles covered the branches.

Inside each circle were various symbols.

The lowest layer contained basic mage spells, represented by white icons.

Such as:

[Frostfall]

[Slow]

[Armor Enhancement]

And so on.

The higher the position, the brighter the colors became.

Representing higher skill tiers.

At the very top, hidden among clouds and mist, were ten golden icons.

John only needed to look at their names to know they were extraordinary.

[River Styx Crossing]

[Eternal Corpse Explosion]

[Apocalypse · Skeleton Cataclysm]

[Embrace of Death]

[Soulfire Communion]

[Descent of the Underworld]

[Ten Directions Annihilation]

[Birth of the Underworld King]

[Nine Nether Bone Prison]

[Blood Sacrifice of All Souls]

Every one of these skills possessed world-destroying descriptions.

But their unlock requirements were equally terrifying.

For example, [Apocalypse · Skeleton Cataclysm] required countless advanced materials and resources that were not currently unlocked.

The only requirement John could currently satisfy was gold coins.

But even that required—

50 million gold coins.

"I really got carried away. I’m only level ten and I’m already looking at these."

John withdrew his thoughts and continued examining the lower sections.

Suddenly, his eyes stopped on the talent section of the skill tree.

There was only one gray passive talent node.

It was currently locked.

[Next Stage Exclusive Talent: Thousand-Layer Slaughter (Locked. Requires Lord Level Lv20 to unlock.)]

[Talent Effect: After entering combat state, the lord automatically gains one Slaughter Mark every second.]

[Mark: Each layer doubles all spell damage dealt by the lord. Maximum 10 stacks. Full stacks can be reached within 10 seconds. Marks reset after leaving combat.]

[Maximum Effect: Spell Damage × 21? = 1024 times.]

John’s breathing stopped for a moment after reading the description.

"1024 times?"

What kind of concept was that?

For example, suppose he used a spell with only 1,000 base damage.

After stacking ten Slaughter Marks:

1,024 × 1,000 = 1,024,000 damage.

A thousand points of spell damage could become over one million.

Meaning that if he encountered a lord-level boss like Rask again at the same level—

He could potentially kill it instantly with this skill!

Not to mention that as his level increased, equipment improved, and more skills were learned, his base damage would continue rising.

How terrifying would his final damage become?

Furthermore, John had a serious suspicion.

This talent skill might grant him another awakening opportunity every ten levels.

However, there was no way to verify that yet.

After all, he had not even reached level twenty.

John shifted his attention back to the lower-tier skills.

After some consideration, he finally selected one.

[Frostfall (Tier 2 Spell)]

[Effect: Consumes mana to summon an extreme blizzard in a designated area for 8 seconds. Enemies within range take 300 Frost Spell Damage per second and suffer 60% movement speed reduction and 40% attack speed reduction.]

[Learning Requirements: Basic Stone x5000, Basic Iron Ore x5000, Gold Coin x15000.]