An Ancient-Grade pet skill, things are heating up!

hell fruit can allow pets and mounts to unlock random skills.

However, the number of hell fruit required to unlock new skills will increase more and more.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5…

Of course, if you want to refresh an unlocked skill, you can; refreshing a skill costs the number of hell fruit required for the current new skill plus one.

For example, Osirio has now unlocked a Legendary 'Hell Tremor' skill using hell fruit.

This skill can cause enemies within 200 meters to take 20% increased damage…

The effect is good, but for late-game battles, the range of this skill is too small.

"Refreshing this skill now only costs 2 hell fruit each time."

"But if I unlock the second skill first and then refresh, it would cost 3 hell fruit."

From this, it can be seen that when using hell fruit to unlock skills for pets and mounts, it's best to refresh the skill to a good one before unlocking a new skill.

Otherwise, the cost for subsequent skill refreshes will be even greater!

Of course, regarding whether to refresh a skill, Qin Feng was very democratic and would give his pets and mounts a choice…

After receiving 'protection fees' totaling 280,000 years of lifespan from the 'White Bull Altar' guild and surrounding guilds in New York City, he returned to the Evil Spirit Academy with the hell fruit he bought from Demon Tamer – Madman Nuk.

Combined with what Qin Feng had saved before, there were now a total of 15 hell fruit.

It was time to give the mounts and pets a proper makeover.

"Old Ao, do you want to wash away this 'Hell Tremor' skill?"

Qin Feng asked Osirio.

Osirio held his head high: "Just this Legendary support-type damage-boosting skill? No, no, it doesn't fit my status as a king!"

Qin Feng nodded: "Alright, then I'll refresh it for you first… but a heads-up, the three of you will have to take turns using the hell fruit until they're all gone."

Excluding taxes, the final price Qin Feng paid for these hell fruit was 37,500 years of lifespan each.

These 15 fruit together cost a full 560,000-plus years of lifespan.

Fortunately, Qin Feng had just collected a round of 'protection fees' globally, bringing in over a million years of lifespan.

Currently, besides these 15 hell fruit, Qin Feng had just over a million years of tradable lifespan on hand.

"Although ten days were spent in the Calamity Ancient God's survival challenge."

"But during those ten days, there were no expenses, so the accumulated income is quite substantial…"

Based on Osirio's opinion, Qin Feng directly gave him two hell fruit.

Then, the fellow stretched out his dragon claws and crushed the two heart-like fruits. As the fruit's energy merged into his body, he waited eagerly for the skill refresh result…

A moment later, both Qin Feng and Osirio heard the system notification.

His original 'Hell Tremor' skill was replaced by another skill:

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[Skill from Hell: Hell Whistle (Legendary) — Blow a whistle from hell to provide your summons/mounts/pets with a 40% final damage bonus and a 40% extra damage reduction rate! The whistle effect lasts for 300 seconds, with a 60-second cooldown.]

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"Whistle?"

"Blowing a whistle?"

Osirio was stunned when he saw the skill description: "No, man… why is it another support skill?"

He was a mount himself!

Did he really need to blow a whistle to give his subordinates final damage and damage reduction?

In his view, it would be better if this skill were given to Qin Feng; that way, it could be applied to him!

But with the skill on him, it could only be applied to his 12 underlings… what's the point?!

Compared to this, the skill was even less useful than the previous 'Hell Tremor'!

This made Osirio almost burst into tears.

Qin Feng also felt it was a pity but didn't dwell on it too much. After all, it was inherently difficult to wash out high-grade skills, so not getting a useful one was normal.

"Now it's Grey Chicken's turn."

Qin Feng tossed two hell fruit to Grey Chicken, who was also waiting expectantly nearby.

The fellow looked pitiful: "Your Majesty, I would like to keep that Mythic 'Hell Torment' skill from before… is that okay?"

Qin Feng took a look and saw that the skill it had unlocked previously was the Mythic 'Hell Torment', which had a passive effect of increasing its damage over time by 127%.

From the perspective of Grey Chicken's individual combat capability, this skill was indeed very good.

After all, its main damage skills were primarily focused on damage over time.

"Alright."

Qin Feng was very democratic.

Anyway… his mounts and pets getting stronger was equivalent to him getting stronger as well.

As for hell fruit, as long as there was enough lifespan, there would be plenty in the future, so there was no need to be stingy.

So Grey Chicken suddenly jumped up.

Consuming two hell fruit, it obtained its second skill from hell!

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[Skill from Hell: Hell Blaze (Ancient-Grade) — Make yourself and surrounding allied units 'ignite'! Ignited units will have all Upper Affixes increased by 200%, and their own superior meter accumulation speed slowed by 50%! Effect lasts for 100 seconds, with a 300-second cooldown.]

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When Qin Feng saw this skill description, he was a little surprised.

An Ancient-Grade skill actually appeared?

Moreover, it was a skill related to Upper Affixes.

"It can make oneself and allied units ignite."

"All Upper Affixes are increased to three times their original value, and the speed of superior meter accumulation is slowed by 50%!"

Honestly, this effect is really good.

And it's not just useful for Qin Feng; it's also useful for Grey Chicken itself.

After all, Grey Chicken's attacks carry the 'Chaos' affix.

Furthermore, as a battle pet, Grey Chicken already has high Superior Resistance; with another 50% reduction in superior meter accumulation speed, it would be basically impossible to fill the superior meter in a battle of the same level.

At this moment, Osirio poked his large head over, excited and nervous, his deep green pupils glowing: "How is it? How is it? Did a skill come out?"

The system notifications for unlocking and refreshing skills can only be heard by the pet itself and Qin Feng.

So Osirio didn't know the result of Grey Chicken's skill unlock yet.

Grey Chicken coughed: "Dragon Bro, just like you, I unlocked a support skill."

Hearing this, Osirio immediately breathed a sigh of relief and laughed: "Not bad, not bad!"

It seemed he was truly afraid that Grey Chicken would unlock a useful skill…

Then Grey Chicken said leisurely: "Dragon Bro, but this support skill is Ancient-Grade, and it works on me too…"

Upon hearing this, Osirio's expression instantly changed: "What? Ancient-Grade?!"

Both are support skills.

But Legendary and Ancient-Grade, those are not the same concept at all!