NOVEL NEXT Chapter 211: Eternal Divine Weapon! (Five-in-one, 5/10)_2
Even without factoring in critical hits, the Skeleton Monsters could instantly kill previous monsters. However, this new foe would be different; critical hits would be essential. But with Chen Mo's God-Grade Critical Strike Aura active, it was impossible not to land a critical hit.
Once the two million Skeleton Monsters unleashed their critical hits, paired with the effect of the Balanced Magic Wand sharing Critical Damage, a single round of burst damage could reach 219 trillion without any reduction. The total Health of this blood-red creature was only 36 trillion.
In a single exchange, Chen Mo easily dispatched the opponent, who didn't even get a chance to react.
The Ninth Floor, originally considered quite difficult, was practically a freebie for Chen Mo. He completed its trial within seconds.
This final stage of the extreme trials seems much simpler than the leader trial of the second stage.
After quickly dealing with the BOSS on the ninth floor, Chen Mo easily stepped onto the tenth floor.
I wonder what trial will be set for me on this final floor.
Chen Mo was looking forward to the trial on the final floor.
As Chen Mo stepped onto the last floor, The Heavenly Path's Hint followed closely.
[The Heavenly Path's Hint: The trial of the Tenth Floor of the Trial Tower has officially begun. The trial of the tenth floor is the extreme trial.
The enemy on this floor has attributes equivalent to a level 20 first-transition Golden BOSS, and its Divine Power is 100 points higher than yours. Every minute that passes, the opponent's Divine Power will decrease by 1 point.
If you feel you cannot overcome this challenge, you may press the 'End Trial' button at any time!]
That's ridiculous! His Divine Power is 100 points higher than mine. Doesn't that mean I can't inflict any damage? So, I have to suffer for a minute?
The peculiar impact of Divine Power stems from its application at the very end of the damage calculation, not during any intermediate steps.
To illustrate an 'intermediate step,' consider having 100 attack power against an opponent with 150 defensive power. Your damage would be reduced by their defense, perhaps to around 50 points. If both parties also had damage increase or reduction effects at this point, these would further alter the damage. For instance, if the opponent also possessed a 50% damage reduction effect, you might only inflict about 25 points. However, if you were dealing true damage, you could bypass both defensive power and damage reduction, directly inflicting the full 100 points of true damage.
In these three scenarios—whether you deal 50 points of normal damage, 25 points after damage reduction, or the full 100 points of true damage—the damage output is determined after all influencing factors (like attack-defense differentials, damage modifiers, damage types, critical hit probability, etc.) are compiled. This result is typically considered the 'pre-Divine Power final damage.'
Usually, at this stage, no further data participates in the settlement. However, a few exceptional effects can still modify this value. These are final damage enhancement, final damage reduction, and Divine Power.
These three factors have the lowest calculation priority, with Divine Power being the absolute last. In other words, Divine Power only comes into play after all other damage calculations are complete.
At that stage, any damage increases, true damage properties, or Critical Damage bonuses are effectively irrelevant for this specific step. This is because those parameters have already been factored into the preceding calculations to determine your base damage output. Once all other calculations are done, if your base calculated damage is 100 points, but your Divine Power is 99 points lower than your opponent's, you will only inflict 1% of that damage—just 1 point. And if this Divine Power disparity reaches 100 points, you will inflict 0% damage, meaning you can't deal even a single point of damage.
This is the origin of the saying that 'everyone below the fifth-transition is an ant.' As long as a fifth-transition individual possesses 100 Divine Power, all your abilities against them will result in 0% effectiveness. Whether you apply status effects or deal true damage, the final outcome of any calculation will be zero; you cannot harm them in the slightest.
This illustrates the power of Divine Power as a final damage adjudicator. Of course, while Divine Power is exceptionally potent for defense due to its final calculation step, this isn't always advantageous on the offensive side. For example, if your initial damage is 10 points, but it's completely nullified by the opponent's stacked damage reduction before the Divine Power step, then the damage value to be amplified by Divine Power is zero. In this case, no matter how high your Divine Power is, amplifying zero still results in zero damage. Conversely, if Divine Power were to be factored in earlier in the calculation, your damage output could be significantly higher. This highlights the double-edged nature of Divine Power: the defensive advantage it provides through late-stage calculation can become an offensive limitation.
However, this offensive drawback is generally quite manageable. For instance, if you deal true damage, you can bypass an opponent's defensive power and damage reduction, ensuring high base damage. This damage would then only be affected by final damage reduction. The impact of final damage reduction is typically much lower. Then, a subsequent boost from your own Divine Power can further increase your final damage output. After all, the maximum effect of final damage reduction differs from standard damage reduction; final damage reduction caps at 50%, whereas standard damage reduction can go as high as 99%.
Chen Mo was now facing an enemy whose Divine Power was a full 100 points higher than his own. This meant Chen Mo couldn't inflict any effective damage whatsoever. Whether he tried to apply status effects or deal direct damage, any attempt would be nullified by the sheer disparity in Divine Power.
This was the chasm between gods and mortals! A 100-point difference in Divine Power represented the inviolable majesty of gods!
However, this kind of situation was significantly mitigated within the Tower of Eternity. The Tower of Eternity contained numerous chaos treasures and Eternal Divine Weapons capable of bridging such Divine Power gaps.