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Chapter 761: Original text - Twenty-One Above Nine Days Modified - 21 Above 9 Days

Chapter 761: Original text: Chapter Twenty-One Above Nine Days Modified: Chapter 21 Above 9 Days

Looking at the skill book in his backpack, Xiao Jie felt a surge of joy.

This was a great find—shapeshifting demon arts of the flying type were all worth a fortune. He remembered seeing this book in the auction house back then, selling for a whopping 1,999 taels of silver. At the time, he thought they were crazy to sell it that expensively.

But who would have guessed that Long Xingtianxia actually bought it for him? That’s really a hefty price to pay.

Xiao Jie speculated that it probably didn’t actually cost 1,999 taels, right?

It had been so long, maybe the price had dropped...

No matter what, he was still very pleasantly surprised.

Without much hesitation, Xiao Jie promptly learned the skill book.

He opened the skill bar to check the specific effects.

[Eagle Transformation (Third-tier Demon Skill)

Use: Transform into a Gray Eagle. Duration (Unlimited).

Skill Cost: 180 mana points.

During the transformation, you can only use the action modules available to the creature, as well as compatible skills and spells. After transforming, you will receive the following attribute adjustments.

Constitution decreased by 30%, Agility increased by 50%, Spiritual increased by 20%, Perception increased by 200%.

Basic skills: High-level Flight, Dive Attack, Eagle Claw Strike, Eagle Claw Capture, Ear-piercing Scream.

Special skills: Eagle Eye Skill, Hunting Mark.]

Xiao Jie quickly took it all in. He had to admit, the combat ability of this eagle was quite normal. Few skills and a pitiful amount of attribute boosts, with even a decrease in Constitution.

Probably pretty average combat ability.

Might not even beat the Gray Wolf Transformation.

But even so, just the flying ability alone made it worth it.

It’s a terrain-crossing displacement ability. It could be said to change the game’s mechanics directly.

Impatiently, Xiao Jie immediately prepared to test it out.

He found a wide street and directly activated the skill.

Sorcery—Eagle Transformation!

A flash of green light covered him, and in the blink of an eye, he transformed into a Gray Eagle. Xiao Jie pressed the space bar and shot straight into the sky.

Ascend—Accelerate—Left roll—Right roll—Dive—Xiao Jie quickly mastered the controls for flying as an eagle.

Xiao Jie had played many games with flying functions before. The most typical one was the flying mounts in WoW. This flying mode was completely different from the flying mounts in WoW.

To stay airborne, you had to keep flapping your wings, and flapping your wings moved you forward. So, unlike WoW’s flying mounts, you couldn’t hover in the air.

It felt more like the mechanics of Dragon Taming Skill that appeared later, or the feel of flying a plane in War Thunder.

He had to say, the feeling of soaring in the sky was truly exhilarating.

Looking down at the vast fields below, the bandits among the trees, the beasts, Xiao Jie thought how much more convenient this would make grinding for levels. He could go anywhere he wanted.

Treasure hunting and exploring secret locations would also be much easier. Many dangerous maps he couldn’t reach before were now within his reach.

Indeed, he was very satisfied with this grand gift from Long Xingtianxia.

Xiao Jie tried out the other skills in the eagle form.

Eagle Eye Skill!

Upon activating the skill, the scenery on the ground rapidly zoomed in. Since it was a biological skill, in eagle form there was no cooldown for Eagle Eye Skill, and it didn’t consume mana, so it could be used indefinitely.

This made the Gray Eagle very effective as a scouting unit.

The Hunting Mark skill was somewhat like the Hunter’s Mark in WoW. The marked target would always appear on the mini-map and be highlighted.

When the Dive Attack skill was activated, if players didn’t manually control it, it would automatically target the marked enemy for an attack, and had an increased likelihood of dealing a Vital Strike to the marked target.

This was probably meant for newbie players to lock onto targets. Being a pro, Xiao Jie preferred manual control.

Dive Attack, Eagle Claw Strike, Eagle Claw Capture, Ear-piercing Scream... all were very common combat skills. Dive Attack needed to be activated during a dive, dealing 200% beak attack and gaining speed damage bonus.

It was somewhat similar to a General’s Riding Spear Charge.

Eagle Claw Strike was a standard melee skill. The damage bonus was decent, but the eagle’s damage was too low to be remarkable.

However, Eagle Claw Capture was interesting; it could capture a target and take it into the air. Dropping it from mid-air would cause falling damage.

But it couldn’t be used on large units...

Ear-piercing Scream was used to interrupt the enemy’s current action, a rather optional skill.

Besides the standard eagle skills, some sorceries could also be used in eagle form, such as First-tier Demon Technique Feiyu Arrow.

After playing for a while, Xiao Jie slowly descended back to the ground.

His heart was filled with joy.

Although flying in a game was cool, he hadn’t yet experienced it in real life. His eyes involuntarily turned to the sky outside the window—who could resist the allure of soaring above the vault of heaven?

Moved to action, Xiao Jie exited the game, walked to the window, gazed at the sky outside, and slowly closed his eyes, feeling the new memories in his mind.

Those memories about the Eagle Transformation.

He quickly searched for the relevant information in his mind.

So that’s how it was... so simple, not much different from Gray Wolf Transformation. The only difference was the animal transforming into. From his past experience, this should be no problem.

He suddenly opened his eyes and turned to look at Gu Feiyu, who was seriously playing the game.

"I’m heading out for a bit, you play by yourself—don’t leave the village."