Mythic Thieving Hand of the Saint, No Cooldown!

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Qin Feng rode Osirio all the way to a spot not far from the long-tailed snake goddess statue.

Osirio landed directly on a semi-collapsed stone pillar.

Qin Feng jumped down and proceeded through the ruins.

Occasionally, teams of East Capital players would pass by quickly, all in a great hurry.

Right now, these players weren't in a rush to level up; instead, many were operating in guilds, searching more frequently for Hideouts.

After all, once the Barren Wasteland began spreading, people quickly realized…

That even in 'Mild areas' in reality, the protection of a Hideout was necessary.

And the higher the level of the Hideout, the better!

By now, however, the Platinum-level Hideouts in every City Ruins had basically been occupied.

Even those that hadn't been found were located in extremely hidden spots, making them difficult to discover…

"This statue doesn't seem to have any interactable options."

Qin Feng arrived in front of the long-tailed snake goddess statue, observed it for a moment, and then frowned.

None of the East Capital players passing by realized that 'Shadow' was right in front of them…

Every male player passing by couldn't help but steal several glances at the long-tailed snake goddess statue; there was no helping it, the statue's curves were impossible to ignore…

However, these male players didn't take any further action.

"Do I need to communicate with her?"

"Forget it, I won't show my face for now."

Qin Feng thought about it and decided against the idea.

He summoned Grey Chicken and then used 'Integrate into Darkness' to pull it into a state of permanent invisibility with him.

Furthermore…

Grey Chicken now possessed the advancement effects of Qin Feng's 'Shadow' class.

Even if it attacked, it wouldn't break invisibility!

Of course, this was just a precaution; Qin Feng was actually just having it scout here to see when Comrade 'Tejima Ichiro' would show up.

"Gah? You're leaving your subject here to freeze in the wind?"

Grey Chicken raised a wing and scratched its head, looking completely bewildered.

"I need to take time to level up."

Qin Feng said, "You also want me to reach level 40 quickly so we can go find your mom, right?"

Hearing this, Grey Chicken immediately became obedient.

Regarding its Double-headed Phoenix mother, Lutil, Grey Chicken naturally had impressions from its inherited memories and longed to reunite with her!

Immediately, Grey Chicken stood at attention and bowed: "Your subject obeys the decree!"

…

Speaking of 'Mom', Qin Feng was reminded of the Tower of Divine Authority back in Magic Capital.

"It was right around the time the Barren Wasteland started that people finally discovered a way to get god-given books for free from 'Mom'."

"They started heading to the challenge in pairs, one male and one female…"

He would make his move as soon as he returned, hopefully bringing 'Mom' Virginie into the Judgment Land before others found out.

This was an experiment.

If it succeeded, Qin Feng would gain more insight into the use of the 'Blade of Judgment'.

So, leaving Grey Chicken by the long-tailed snake goddess statue, Qin Feng rode Osirio outside the East Capital Ruins to find a place to level up.

While countries all over the world were in dire straits…

Qin Feng was leisurely clearing out monsters and mini-bosses outside the East Capital Ruins.

As long as it was a leveling area above level 25, Qin Feng didn't skip it; since he was level 30 now, killing level 25 monsters wouldn't result in diminished experience.

His experience points continued to grow.

His nightmare resistance stacked continuously.

evolution points were also being accumulated non-stop.

Finally, a day later, he had saved up 8,900 evolution points, enough to evolve the 'Thieving Hand of the Saint' skill from Legendary to Mythic!

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【Thieving Hand of the Saint [1] (Legendary → Mythic): …Use on a single target to permanently steal 3 random four-dimensional attributes. Required Level: 20. Attribute points obtained through this skill: 330/1500 → 330/3000】

【Legendary Effect: 'Just Give It Here' (Temporarily steal 20% of the target's current attributes for 10 minutes)!】

【Mythic New Effect: Removes the cooldown for this skill.】

【…】

(Note: The same target can only be stolen from once by this skill!)

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Qin Feng had been using this skill consistently.

The attribute points stolen through this skill had reached 330 points. On average, each of his four-dimensional attributes had increased by about 80 points; with the skill doubled for both left and right hands, that was an increase of about 160 points.

Once evolved to Mythic, the total attributes it could steal increased from 1,500 points to 3,000 points, meaning 6,000 points for both skills.

That averaged out to 1,500 points per attribute!

Most importantly…

Upon reaching Mythic level, this skill actually added an effect that removed the cooldown!

"Even though it can only be used once on the same target…"

"With no cooldown, I can quickly steal the full 6,000 attribute points. It's also much more flexible to use; I don't have to worry about not having the skill ready when I encounter a BOSS!"

When fighting the Epic-grade Giant Octopus last time, Qin Feng hadn't started with Thieving Hand of the Saint.

That was because he had used Thieving Hand of the Saint to steal attributes from other monsters before the fight started, and it hadn't finished cooling down yet.

But now, he didn't need to worry about that happening.

"So if I just steal from about two thousand monsters, won't I have stolen the full 6,000 attribute points?"

Qin Feng suddenly became very interested.

This boost was terrifying!

One should know that Qin Feng's current four-dimensional attributes—specifically Strength, spirit, and Agility—had all reached over 1,700 and were perfectly balanced thanks to the effect of the Legendary 'three-phase ring'.

If he maxed out the 6,000 points from Thieving Hand of the Saint, Qin Feng's Strength, spirit, and Agility would skyrocket to over 3,200, nearly doubling!

"It's a pity the attribute points stolen by Thieving Hand of the Saint are still random."

"Otherwise, if I could put them all into Agility, wouldn't it be explosive?"

Qin Feng sighed.

It was a shame, but there was nothing he could do; the skill was already strong enough as it was.

"Evolving it to Ancient-Grade next will require 144,000 evolution points. I basically can't even think about that for a while."

"After all, it started as an inferior skill, so it's normal for it to require so many evolution points…"

"I'll consider other practical skills first."

However, Qin Feng was still looking forward to this skill reaching Ancient-Grade.

After all…

When would the restriction of only being able to use it 'once on the same target' be removed?

"But if that restriction were removed, it would be too broken…"

"That probably won't happen, right?"

Even though Qin Feng was speculating this way, he naturally still held some expectations in his heart.

Thus, Qin Feng farmed monsters while using 'Thieving Hand of the Saint'.

Before each monster was insta-killed by him, he would reach out from a distance and take something!

Especially in places where monsters were clustered, Qin Feng remained invisible, swish, swish, swish, swish!

He kept striking!

Every strike brought 3 random attribute points into his hands!

The monsters that had their attributes stolen were all left bewildered. What was going on? Why did their attributes suddenly drop for no reason?

Unfortunately, no matter how alert they were, they couldn't discover Qin Feng in his invisible state!

…

As Qin Feng continued to kill monsters, his evolution points slowly accumulated again.

At this time, Qin Feng planned to continue evolving some of his commonly used skills to enhance his regular strength.

And so…

On the third day after the Barren Wasteland began.

Qin Feng had saved up over a thousand evolution points again and decided to evolve 'Dual Blade Mastery' and 'Shadow Blade'!