novelraw Chapter 502 - 487: Alloy Body
Chapter 502 - 487: Alloy Body
The Bronze Divine King almost succeeded.
Just one step away, he could have replaced the world’s will.
But at the critical moment, the Golden Divine King and Silver Divine King, who were supposed to be allies, betrayed the Bronze Divine King, causing his efforts to fail.
As for why the Golden Divine King and Silver Divine King betrayed the Bronze Divine King, only those involved know, and outsiders are clueless.
The most widely accepted guess is that "the Golden Divine King and Silver Divine King did not want the Bronze Divine King to sit above them."
Xiaoruan gave everyone a crash course on the deeds of the Bronze Divine King.
After the explanation, Black Flame Horse asked, "Is there a connection between Rusty Bronze and the Bronze Divine King?"
Li Cunxu said, "After the Bronze Divine King died, his body transformed into a colossal Bronze Divine Mine, and Rusty Bronze is the derivative pet beast from it."
"Rusty Bronze was born from the Bronze Divine Mine?"
Black Flame Horse was a bit incredulous. How could a pet beast as useless as Rusty Bronze arise from a mine transformed from a Divine King’s death?
Li Cunxu said, "Gods have divinity, and Divine Kings possess eternal and indestructible divine essence. Theoretically, a Divine King with an immortal divine essence cannot be killed. But the Bronze Divine King provoked the world’s will, which cast down the power of ’Temporal Rust,’ filled with the great force of time, to completely kill the Bronze Divine King.
After the Bronze Divine King died, the Temporal Rust didn’t dissipate and remained within the divine body. As a result, the divine body turned into a divine mine, and due to the Temporal Rust, the divine mine became a rust copper mine."
Understanding the cause and effect, the crowd of pets realized why the Rusty Bronze species behaved so uniquely.
Xiaoruan stared at the rusty bronze sword and said, "Rusty Bronze is affected by Temporal Rust, so it’s probably not very suitable as a pet beast!"
"Indeed, it’s not suitable, but Rusty Bronze forged from a hundred tons of bronze is different. It has an exceedingly rare talent to change fate."
Li Cunxu looked at the panel of the bronze sword. Its talent bar flickered with ominous gray and radiant white light.
[Pet Beast]: Rusty Bronze
[Attribute]: Metal
[Level]: Black Iron Level 0
[Talent]: Temporal Rusting (Gray), Metal Assimilation Body (White)
[Status]: Healthy
[Skills]: None.
[Potential]: Low Black Iron
[Description]: A Rusty Bronze that is perpetually rusting.
The bronze sword has two talents, one is a gray negative-grade talent, and the other is a white normal-grade talent.
Gray negative-grade talents have powerful side effects, and having such a talent is worse than having none.
This grade is below the white normal-grade and is extremely rare, a hundred times rarer than legendary-grade talents. Of course, this excludes the Rusty Bronze species. Due to the rarity of talents of this grade, even the professors who compile textbooks don’t know much about it, so it wasn’t included in the textbooks.
Temporal Rusting, the Rusty Bronze is perpetually in a state of rust, accompanied by a hundredfold increase in rusting speed.
Li Cunxu ignored Temporal Rusting and focused on the white normal-grade Metal Assimilation Body.
This talent is the key for Rusty Bronze to defy fate.
Metal Assimilation Body, this body can assimilate with any metal. The more metals it assimilates and the higher the quality, the stronger the body becomes.
Although Metal Assimilation Body is only a white normal-grade talent for now, Li Cunxu believes it won’t be long before it evolves into a golden legendary-grade talent.
Metal Assimilation Body is the easiest talent to evolve. Its evolution method doesn’t even require understanding, as it’s too simple.
It just needs to continuously assimilate metals, especially high-quality metals, and the talent will evolve on its own.
As for the strong negative effects of Temporal Rusting, they can be ignored. As long as Metal Assimilation Body continues to assimilate metals, the negative effects can be overlooked.
Every time Metal Assimilation Body assimilates a metal, the bronze sword, having fused with other metals, looks much newer. Temporal Rusting increases the time it takes for other metals to rust a hundredfold. Although it’s a hundredfold increase, it takes a long time for a metal to rust completely and become useless. Therefore, as long as the assimilation is fast enough, rusting can’t catch up.
It’s like a pond being evaporated rapidly by the sun; as long as water is continually added, the sun can never dry it up completely.
Assimilating metals is like adding water.
Rusty Bronze forged with a hundred tons of bronze possessing Metal Assimilation Body was discovered by a quirky game blogger in his past life. This blogger loved fiddling with unconventional and bizarre things.
He uploaded the discovery to a gaming forum, which went viral on the internet, sparking a nationwide Rusty Bronze contracting wave.
After all, as long as enough metals are assimilated, one can obtain a pet beast with a legendary talent.
During that time, Li Cunxu made a fortune by farming Rusty Bronze fragments in dungeons and selling them to wealthy players who couldn’t be bothered to farm themselves.
Li Cunxu remembers this period very well. More memorable was the fact that, at that time, he also contracted a Rusty Bronze which took the form of a magic staff.
By assimilating metals, Metal Assimilation Body allows the Rusty Bronze to acquire some characteristics and abilities of the metals.
Li Cunxu used this to make Rusty Bronze integrate a lot of toxic and cursed metals, cultivating a three-attribute pet beast of poison, curse, and metal types.
"Xiaoruan, Annihilation Bomb."
Li Cunxu pointed at the furnace and said softly.
Xiaoruan dropped an Annihilation Bomb, and a massive mushroom cloud rose, obliterating the makeshift stone furnace without a trace.
Without needing further instructions, Curse Crow disturbed the temporal flow here, preventing anyone from time-reversing this location.
Li Cunxu had no intention of letting the method to obtain a Rusty Bronze with Metal Assimilation Body be exposed by traces left here.
"I might be able to collect more Rusty Bronze with Metal Assimilation Body. A pet beast with a legendary talent is a rare resource that can be traded for many otherwise unobtainable resources."
Li Cunxu’s eyes gleamed. He was considering collecting all the Rusty Bronze on the Four Gods Continent, then remelting them into Rusty Bronze with Metal Assimilation Body.
Conveniently, Rusty Bronze is located on the outskirts of the Four Gods Continent, making its collection relatively safe.
"Unfortunately, after the great disaster, the rust copper mine that continuously spawned Rusty Bronze disappeared. Otherwise, I’d have an endless supply of Rusty Bronze."
Li Cunxu initially contemplated contracting the bronze sword, but suddenly raised his head to look into the distance.
In the distant sky, a small black dot was rapidly approaching.
...
"Sitting at home, disaster comes from the sky."
"Unlucky, unlucky, unlucky!"
Ji Tiansao muttered resentfully as he flew at full speed on his Flying Broom, pursued by three Venerable King-level Bloodsucking Great Demons.
A moment ago, Ji Tiansao was still meditating in the Alliance Base, and the next second, he was teleported to the Bloodsucking Great Demons’ castle, leading to an exhilarating chase.
But why was he teleported while in the Alliance Base?
It all ties back to his cursed legendary talent.
His legendary talent brought him unparalleled bad luck, causing him to offend a spatial-type monarch pet beast. This monarch pet beast was also adept at curses, so it placed a chaotic teleportation curse on Ji Tiansao, causing uncontrollable random spatial teleportation.
"There’s a mushroom cloud over there."
"Let’s head there."
Upon seeing the mushroom cloud, Ji Tiansao instinctively ran in that direction.
He didn’t actually know which way to run, as there was no navigation map for the Four Gods Continent.