Chapter 29: Chapter 29: All Attribute Enhancement

After Duke learned of Hewen's death, he still felt a bit sentimental. After all, they had entered the Nightingale together and were quite familiar with each other. Hewen had climbed up step by step from being a slave. He had decent talent and worked very hard, yet now he had suddenly died like this. Duke realized that he was actually just like Hewen, both ordinary people striving hard to live and to become stronger. If it weren't for his own Skill Tree, he would most likely have perished last night. In this era, the lives of ordinary people are so fragile, lacking the ability to cope with the whims of fate. Despite just experiencing a hard-fought battle, Duke didn't take much rest and continued to grind proficiency in the Breathing Technique and Dragon Spine Burning Wave Sword Technique. Duke is now working harder than before, allowing himself only six hours of sleep each day, fully immersing in training during the rest of the time. Duke held a Longsword, a layer of white Fighting Spirit attached to the blade, with an extended white sword light at the tip. The entire blade's white Fighting Spirit continued to vibrate and rotate, exuding a captivating aura. This is the change that appeared after mastering the Dragon Spine Burning Wave Sword Technique to proficiency, the high-speed vibration. Duke felt for a moment and thought to himself, "Isn't this like a chainsaw?" He discovered that the current effect is essentially akin to a chainsaw, with strong cutting and destructive capabilities. After mastering this ability, Duke could pose a threat to enemies even wearing full body armor. Ordinary armor could only withstand for a while before being pierced under such a sword light. However, this also greatly consumes Fighting Spirit. While maintaining the vibration state, his Fighting Spirit gets depleted rapidly, lasting at most three minutes before being exhausted. He plans to use it as a killer move, not yet as a regular offensive method. [Dragon Spine Burning Wave Sword Technique: LV3 (one over three hundred)] [Dragon Spine Burning Wave Sword Technique level up, constitution +0.2, strength +0.2, agility +0.2] Duke noticed that the attribute points gained from this level-up were quite limited. Now his constitution, strength, and agility all reached 8.9, just 0.1 short of nine. He vaguely felt that nine should be a small checkpoint, crossing it would likely result in a qualitative change. Based on his experience over time, Duke estimated that nine should be the body attributes of an Official Knight Level. [Giant Whale Breathing Technique: LV3 (one thousand four hundred seventy-one/one thousand five hundred)] He glanced at the Giant Whale Breathing Technique's progress, only a little more proficiency to level up, staying up a bit longer tonight would max it out. Duke decided to forgo sleep, pushing the Breathing Technique's progress first. By morning, Duke saw in his mind's Skill Tree, a new green leaf growing on the branch representing the Giant Whale Breathing Technique. This is the first time Duke has seen a skill growing two leaves, previously it would blossom after growing a leaf. [Giant Whale Breathing Technique: LV4 (one/one thousand seven hundred)] [Giant Whale Breathing Technique level up, constitution +0.3, strength +0.3, agility +0.3] [Free Attribute Points: three] Duke clearly felt that after reaching the fourth layer of the Giant Whale Breathing Technique, his physique had bulked up a notch. His entire stature was also taller than before, roughly from one meter eighty to about one meter eighty-three. Height enhancement was secondary; the body's muscles underwent a qualitative change. Duke took a deep breath, then grunted as his arm and shoulder muscles instantly swelled up, becoming much larger. With a thought, the muscles contracted back to their original size.