Skills with no cooldown? I become the Undead Scourge! - Chapter 51

Yu Qingcang was utterly stunned.

When he first met Lu Ran, the young man was only Level 10. Now, after just a few days, he had already reached Level 24!
He unlocked a new entry at Level 10, and another at Level 20.

This speed was simply unbelievable!

He looked at Ye Hongyi and the others in astonishment. “You three have really been going all out, haven’t you? This is incredibly fast. But even with a Platinum Party Contract, it shouldn’t be this quick, right? What exactly did you do?”

Ye Hongyi replied, “The field boss. Lu Ran landed the killing blow and got five million EXP. And you must have heard about the global ranking in the Endless Tower by now.”

Hearing this, Yu Qingcang immediately nodded. “Right, right! The Endless Tower ranking. That Necromancer… it’s really Lu Ran?”

“Guaranteed authentic!” Ye Hongyi said proudly, pulling Lu Ran into a side hug.

The two older sisters, Ye Hongyi and Liu Xinxin, had different personalities and ways of showing affection.
Ye Hongyi was bold and straightforward, while Liu Xinxin was more reserved and shy.
But Ye Hongyi’s daring actions often sent a certain restless heat stirring in Lu Ran’s lower abdomen.

“Wait, wait! Let me process this,” Yu Qingcang raised a hand, trying to organize his thoughts.
Leveling up this fast, skyrocketing to global 7th in the Endless Tower, taking down a field boss, and unlocking not one, but two new entries?!
The information overload was a bit much.

“Let’s take this one step at a time. First, the field boss. How did you secure the final hit?” Yu Qingcang finally managed to ask.

“Effect of one of my entries,” Lu Ran said simply.
He then directly displayed the entry for Yu Qingcang to see for himself, figuring it would be easier than explaining.

“Boundless Skies… This… this thing increases skill coverage area? That can be increased too? There was an entry before that increased skill cast range, right?” Yu Qingcang stared at the entry panel, his eyes wide with disbelief.

[Entry: Boundless Skies]
[Effect: From the day this entry is unlocked, for every enemy unit killed, the area of effect for all skills increases by 1 meter. No upper limit. (Current Bonus: 21,355 meters)]

The number at the end made Yu Qingcang’s head spin.
A skill coverage of over twenty thousand meters!
That was twenty kilometers!

“Correct. Skill coverage area,” Lu Ran confirmed.

“We’ve already tested it,” Liu Xinxin added, knowing exactly what shocked Yu Qingcang. “Currently, Lu Ran’s Bone Storm and Spectral Touch can completely cover any dungeon. Aside from bosses or monsters with special trigger mechanics, everything else can be hit indiscriminately. Furthermore, Spectral Touch, combined with his no-cooldown entry, allows for complete crowd control across the entire dungeon, while also enabling infinite stacking of Bone Storm for multi-layered damage.”

Yu Qingcang’s breathing became rapid, his chest heaving.
He looked at Lu Ran again, his eyes shining with a new light.

This newly unlocked entry was actually this terrifying!
Back when he first met Lu Ran, the ability to spam skills infinitely with unlimited cast range was already fearsome enough.
But now, even the skill coverage area could be increased!
This was an exponential enhancement for Lu Ran!
In just a few days, his Bone Storm could cover twenty kilometers!

“So… when the Nation Wars come, Lu Ran’s Bone Storm could cover any other nation’s army?” Yu Qingcang asked, almost as if muttering to himself.

“That’s the idea,” Ye Hongyi chimed in. “But I think, given enough time for Lu Ran to grow, covering the entire Nation War battlefield shouldn’t be too difficult either.”

Gulp.
Yu Qingcang swallowed hard.

He said subconsciously, “And paired with the equally large-area Spectral Touch for constant crowd control… how are other countries supposed to counter this?”

“Counter what?” Lei Tai grumbled. “These past few years, our international situation has been delicate, with several nations hopping around provocatively. Now that Lu Ran is here, they shouldn’t bother thinking about counters. They can just wait for their doom.”

Yu Qingcang pressed on, “Then… the field boss? How did you get the final hit?”

Ye Hongyi reminded him, “Did you forget? There’s another entry.”

Oh, right!
He had been so completely captivated by the ‘Boundless Skies’ entry that he almost forgot Lu Ran had unlocked two new entries.
He shifted his gaze back.

[Entry: Biding Time]
[Effect: Removes the maximum charge time limit for chargeable skills. Charge time becomes infinite.]

This entry was much shorter, with no numerical explanation.
Yu Qingcang didn’t grasp its implications immediately.

He muttered, “Removes the charge time limit for chargeable skills… Chargeable skills? For a Necromancer, that’s the Blood Spear, with a maximum charge time of eight seconds, right? Infinite charging for Blood Spear? What?“

As he spoke, his eyes widened again.
As the leader of the Heavenly Dao Alliance, Yu Qingcang instantly understood the key point.
Infinite charging for Blood Spear meant its damage could stack continuously, without any upper limit!

To give Yu Qingcang a more intuitive understanding, Liu Xinxin provided the numbers:
“Currently, Lu Ran’s Spell Attack Power, after we geared him up last time, is 1,700.”
“Blood Spear’s charge increases its base damage by 50% per second.”
“One minute of charging equals 30 times the base damage, resulting in 51,000 spell damage. Ten minutes would be 510,000!”
“One hour would be 3.06 million!”
“Charging overnight, let’s say ten hours, would yield over 30 million damage!”

…

The calculations were clear, and Yu Qingcang understood them perfectly.
But each word and number felt like a heavy hammer, pounding his mind into a daze.
Over 30 million damage from a ten-hour charge!

“I see,” Yu Qingcang said, the pieces falling into place. “The Eight-Armed Vajra… if I recall, it had over 30 million HP? So that’s how it was ‘one-shotted’?”

If he weren’t standing right in front of Lu Ran, he would have found his own question laughable.
One-shot a field boss? What a ridiculous joke!
“Lu Ran’s Spell Attack wasn’t quite this high at the time,” Liu Xinxin recalled. “But a ten-hour charge still yielded over 10 million damage. So that day, we waited until the Eight-Armed Vajra’s HP dropped below a quarter before Lu Ran launched the Blood Spear.”

The principle was the same.

Yu Qingcang looked at them all, utterly flabbergasted. “I am… truly impressed. With Lu Ran around, who else could ever hope to claim the field boss reward?”

Then, he remembered the Endless Tower ranking.
What had seemed incomprehensible before now made perfect sense.

Nodding, he said, “So that’s also how he climbed the Endless Tower. A Level 24 Necromancer, already reached Floor 56! I’m only on Floor 59! But I think I understand why Lu Ran isn’t rushing to higher floors immediately. He’s waiting for the Blood Spear to charge, right?”

Unexpectedly, Liu Xinxin shook her head. “Don’t underestimate Lu Ran’s no-cooldown entry. Even without using Blood Spear, combining infinite summons and Corpse Explosion with the perpetual crowd control from Spectral Touch makes clearing floors quite manageable. Using Blood Spear is just more certain. Additionally, by using this climbing method, I aim to pressure Nana Sheng into attempting higher floors herself. Best case, she dies trying. Worst case, she remains suppressed by Lu Ran. It’s just a way to gain some momentum before the Nation Wars.”

Yu Qingcang, being the leader of the Heavenly Dao Alliance, was no fool.
He instantly grasped Liu Xinxin’s intention.

He couldn’t help but laugh wryly. “It’s just like you. Your little ‘momentum’ probably has Nana Sheng fuming, ready to spit blood.”