This was indeed the best outcome. Now that White Stone Hill had just "annexed" Black Rock City and seized the wealth accumulated by the Ironthorn family for generations, they needed a long time to digest it. At this stage, White Stone City was expanding again. Although Bai Xiaowen had already formulated a series of plans and completed the most difficult initial stage, the situation was still complicated.
If Cecilia could continue to oversee White Stone City, Bai Xiaowen would feel more at ease.
If Cecilia could not stay in the Cain Dimension after signing the follower contract, Bai Xiaowen had also thought of a way out. That was to let Knights Tim, Mark, and Phil form a five-member council with Berita, Dr. Zombie, and the others to jointly manage White Stone City. If there was an emergency, they would send a signal to Bai Xiaowen to solve it.
This was a last resort. Of course, it was not as safe as Cecilia continuing to stay in White Stone City.
After Cecilia became Bai Xiaowen's follower, her personal skill information had also changed.
[Cecilia (Hero Level 7)]
[Race: Humanoid/Human]
[Profession: Archer Commander]
[Attributes: Strength 40, Agility 71, Constitution 34, Spirit 22]
[Specialty: Advanced Equestrian Skill Level 7, Advanced Shooting Skill Level 8, Advanced Combat Skill Level 4, Advanced Workmanship (One-handed Swordsmanship) Level 4]
[Profession Skill: Equestrian Shooting: Passive. When mounted, your long-range physical damage is increased by (10 – 30%). The faster your movement speed, the higher the damage bonus.]
[Skill 1: Sniper Arrow: After a short period of charging, a fatal arrow will be shot. It ignores 50% of the target's armor and causes actual damage (the longer the charging time, the higher the damage bonus). LV4 Special Effect: Powerful Shot: The Sniper Arrow will cause a knockback effect to the target. The knockback distance is determined by the difference in strength between the two sides. LV4 Special Effect: Stinger: If the target touches an obstacle during the knockback process, it will suffer additional impact damage and enter a state of imprisonment.]
[Skill 2: Arrow Formation: Passive. The long-range physical damage of Cecilia and her allies is increased by 10%. Active activation of the arrow formation can increase the long-range shooting speed of Cecilia and her allies by 20% for 30 seconds. (This skill upgrade only increases the duration of the Arrow Formation's active effect and reduces the cooldown after activation. There is no enhancement effect.)]
[Skill 3: Continuous Shooting: The attack speed of Cecilia's next three long-range attacks will be increased by 150%, but the single target damage will be reduced. Special effect: Deadly Continuous Shooting: The single target damage will no longer be reduced under Continuous Shooting. [LV7 Special Effect: Barrage Shooting: After Cecilia activates Rapid Shooting, each long-range shot will have an additional (3) miniature arrows.] Each miniature arrow deals physical damage equal to 1/2 of the main arrow's damage.]
[Skill 4: Bloody Rose: Passive. Cecilia's long-range attacks are infused with rose toxin. Each stack of rose toxin will last for 10 seconds, dealing a total of (20) poison damage. Maximum stacking of (10). By activating Bloody Rose's skill, it could detonate and remove all the layers of Rose Toxin in one go. The toxic damage would restore Cecilia's HP by the same amount. (This skill upgrade only reduces the cooldown time after activating the active effect of Bloody Rose, and there is no strengthening effect).]
The most obvious point was that Cecilia had changed from a "leader" to a "hero class".
Leaders and heroes were of the same level, but there was clearly a difference.
High-level Spirit World Leaders didn't have any class skills, but they had general skills that could increase their HP and toughness by a large amount. Therefore, high-level Spirit World Leaders were generally more resistant to beatings, had high HP, and were less affected by control skills.
Now, after Cecilia became Bai Xiaowen's follower, the general skills that increased her HP and toughness were removed, but she had an additional class passive skill, Mounted Shooting. She was basically similar to the Awakened of the hero class.
Bai Xiaowen felt that it was a pity. It seemed that this Mounted Shooting skill wasn't as practical as adding a few hundred HP and high toughness … but there was no other way.
Bai Xiaowen looked at the other four combat skills. Compared to the skills of the Awakened, the biggest characteristic of Cecilia, who had changed from a Spirit World Leader, was that her skills were very compatible. They were all shooting skills.
The "Arrow Formation" and "Bloody Rose" skills both had passive and active effects. These skills were obviously much better than those purely passive or active skills. One skill could be used as two, and it was considered a superb skill. However, these skills also seemed to have limitations. After leveling up to LV4 and LV7, there were no additional strengthening effects.
Bai Xiaowen thought of the "Poison Explosion" skill book assigned to Li Shuyi. It was very similar to the "Bloody Rose" skill. Perhaps after Li Shuyi learned this skill, there wouldn't be any strengthening effects?
In any case, even if there weren't any strengthening effects, this type of skill was superb enough and must be learned.
The passive effect of the "Arrow Formation" could increase the shooting ability of allies. As an ally, Bai Xiaowen naturally enjoyed this bonus effect. It was better than nothing. If there weren't a large number of friendly archers, the effect of this skill wouldn't be outstanding.
The "Bloody Rose" skill was considered a big skill. After active activation, the cooldown time was very long. Even after the cooldown was reduced by 30% at LV7, the cooldown time was still 21 minutes. Basically, it was very difficult to activate it a second time in a Boss battle. However, the additional blood-sucking effect was really powerful. Even if there was only one poisoned target, it could instantly restore about 100 HP (taking into account the opponent's resistance).
However, don't forget that Cecilia had a range of attack. Coupled with the special effect of the "Continuous Shooting" skill, she could poison multiple enemies at the same time! If multiple enemies were poisoned with ten layers of Bloody Rose poison, it wouldn't be a problem to instantly restore all of their HP from zero to full.
As for the first skill, "Sniper Arrow", it was a powerful single-target skill. At the same time, it also added a certain amount of crowd control ability. It was also very good.
Overall, Cecilia was worthy of being an archer who specialized in damage output. She was much stronger than Bai Xiaowen, who was a dabbler.
Bai Xiaowen's main advantage was the accumulation of equipment. Yamazaki Ryuji's combat gloves, the + 7 special effect of the Desert Eagle, and the first blood effect of the Blood Essence Stone complemented each other. Cecilia's terrifying first shot was incomparable. However, Bai Xiaowen's subsequent long-range physical damage output was not comparable. After all, Dexterity was her weakness. With 71 Dexterity, Cecilia's natural critical hit rate against targets with low Dexterity was extremely high. Her continuous damage output was far greater than Bai Xiaowen's, unless Bai Xiaowen was lucky enough to trigger the special effect of the Blood Essence Stone.
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