Chapter 40: If I keep acting this perverted, won’t my account get banned?

[Death Gaze]: (SSS) Level 1 (0/50), Active Skill.
Gaze at a target to incinerate their soul.
Skill Effects:
1. Deals 500% spell power as true damage per second for 10 seconds.
2. The gazed creature will be continuously affected by a Fear effect.
3. For all creatures with a Life Level lower than yours, all attributes are forcibly reduced by 20% the moment they are gazed upon. This effect is determined solely by Life Level and cannot be mitigated by any resistances.
4. Creatures killed by Death Gaze will suffer extreme agony and enter a Weakened state upon resurrection, with all attributes reduced by 40% for 12 hours.

Instant cast, 60-second cooldown, consumes 5% of maximum mana.
No channeling required after activation, maximum attack range of 100 meters.
(Where your gaze falls, death follows like a shadow.)

The skill description of Death Gaze left Su Mubai dumbfounded.
Is this what an SSS-rank skill is like?
500% true damage per second, continuous Fear, a forced 20% reduction in all attributes, and a 12-hour Weakened state upon resurrection.
Any one of these effects alone would constitute a powerful skill.
Furthermore, this skill is instantaneous and requires no channeling.
It is simply heaven-defying!

"It takes effect just by looking at the target?" Su Mubai couldn't help but mutter.
"Isn't this a god-tier skill where whoever I stare at dies?"
He found it hard to imagine any player who could withstand 500% of his spell power in true damage.
Even more terrifying was the small mark in the bottom right corner of the [Death Gaze] skill icon.
This mark, a humanoid silhouette, represented the influence of Su Mubai's Cataclysm class trait.
The effect is doubled!
10 times the true damage per second, with an attack range of 200 meters.
At this moment, Su Mubai only wanted to ask: who else is there!
With [Death Gaze], he was finally no longer solely dependent on his skeleton army for damage.

His only lingering question concerned the description of the third skill effect.
"I wonder how Life Level is determined?" Su Mubai rubbed his chin, a hint of confusion in his eyes.
But he quickly shook his head.
This wasn't something he could figure out just by looking at it; he would naturally understand it after using it a few times.
Moreover, this was not the final form of [Death Gaze].
Su Mubai took a deep breath, feeling slightly nervous.
This was his first time "freeloading" an upgrade to an SSS-rank skill, and his anticipation was second only to when he exploited bugs during character creation and obtained the Cataclysm class.

[Cataclysm]!
[Target: Death Gaze]

However, this time, the system prompt that echoed in Su Mubai's ears was completely different from before.
[Sorry, this skill has reached the limit of the God-Forbidden Land; it cannot be further subjected to Cataclysm.]

It actually failed!
Since discovering the bug-level [Cataclysm] talent, this was only the second time Su Mubai had encountered such a situation.
The first time was when he tried to upgrade [Cataclysm] itself, only to have the Myriad Worlds game patch that bug directly.
He still remembered that system prompt:
[Sorry, the grade of this skill has exceeded the limit; it cannot be subjected to Cataclysm.]

Although both attempts failed, the descriptions were vastly different.
"The limit of the God-Forbidden Land?"
He scrutinized every word of the system prompt, forming a few guesses in his heart.
It seemed that to raise a skill beyond SSS-rank, he would have to leave the God-Forbidden Land.
At the same time, a question occurred to him.
When he used [Cataclysm] on [Harun's Crystal Ball] in the Misty Lands, there were indeed three options!
He had chosen the free upgrade at the time, elevating that quest item from Epic to Legendary.
If the second option represented the so-called highest rank—Mythic—then what were the three options?
An item that transcends Mythic? What rank is that?
And why can equipment transcend Mythic, while skills cannot transcend SSS-rank?
"Is the SSS-rank actually one grade higher than Mythic?"

With many thoughts flashing through his mind, Su Mubai could only make rough guesses for now. Regardless, the final outcome was that SSS-rank skills were the current limit.
Unable to "freeload" the upgrade, Su Mubai had to let it go.
However, thanks to his Cataclysm class trait, even with an SSS-rank skill, his effects were twice as potent as those of other players.

Advancing from level 9 to 10, though only a single level, brought a earth-shattering change to Su Mubai's strength.
With his Spirit attribute meeting the requirements, Su Mubai donned the [Death Speaker's Robe].
A deep black robe immediately covered his frame, and the pale gray inscriptions adorning it added a touch of mystery to his appearance.
A faint aura of death lingered around him, giving off a "keep away" vibe.
Su Mubai summoned his attribute panel to examine his now monstrous stats.

[Attribute Panel]
[Player: White Night]
[Level: 10 (0%)]
[Class: Death Sovereign] (Exclusive Hidden Class)
[Sub-class: Intermediate Appraiser]
[Spirit: 490]
[Agility: 286]
[Constitution: 261]
[Strength: 211]
[Health Points: 1/1] (For unknown reasons, the cap cannot be permanently increased.)
[Life Sharing: 100 Million/100 Million] (Specific value 100,584,000; the sum of all skeleton health points, doubled.)
[Mana Points: 38,900/38,900] (1 Spirit = 60 Mana)
[Spell Power: 2,497] (1 Spirit = 3 Spell Power)
[Spell Critical Hit: 35%]
[Critical Damage: 250%]
[Physical Defense: 467]
[Magic Defense: 1,825]
[Elemental Resistance: 10% for all elements]
[Exclusive Talent: Cataclysm (Unique Forbidden Grade)]
[Class Skills: Scorch (E), Summon Advanced Skeleton (B), Summon Space Expansion (B), Advanced Death Aura (A), Life Sharing (S), Death Summoning (SS), Death Drain Feedback (SS), Death Gaze (SSS)]
[Summoning Space: 340/340]
[Equipment: Omitted]
[Class Exclusive: Death Codex Lv10]
[Lifespan: Less than three years]

Su Mubai closed the attribute panel with trembling hands; he was so shocked by his exaggerated stats that he didn't know what to say.
What kind of world is Myriad Worlds, really?
Is this panel truly something a level 10 player should have?!
He hadn't even finished equipping his gear yet!
The [Death Codex] and his two pieces of Legendary equipment alone provided a +200 boost to all attributes.
His Strength, which started at 1 and had never been increased beyond the 4 points gained per level, was now at 211.
His spell power was nearly 2,500, and his mana had broken through the absurd threshold of 30,000.
But these were nothing compared to the terrifying number in his Life Sharing health bar!
That value exceeding 100 million was stuck in Su Mubai's mind.
The combination of qualitative and quantitative leaps had created a bug-level existence.
All of this was due to his two Cataclysm traits.
Compared to the skills in the Myriad Worlds game, the Cataclysm traits were absolute bugs!
He even began to wonder: if there were a level 10 Mythic-grade boss, would its health bar be as long as his?
"If I keep developing like this, will I get banned by the Myriad Worlds game?"
As soon as this thought arose, Su Mubai's pupils shrank violently.
A white light flashed before his eyes, and a figure stepped out from within it.
"I didn't expect a Descender to awaken such power."
"Little one, you are very lucky, and yet, very unfortunate."