Heroes' Prison

Chapter 528 - 517: Creating a Demon God

[Demons’ Acupoints] (Level 60 Skill): Each Demonic God Clone possesses nine great acupoints, and each acupoint can absorb a soul to enhance its own power. After personally killing an enemy, you can use this skill to confine the enemy’s soul within the acupoint of the Demonic God Clone. The stronger the soul, the more significant the increase in the Demonic God’s power; souls can be replaced at any time. Each use requires the expenditure of 1 point of the Power of the Nefalem.

[Demon God Fusion] (Level 90 Skill): You can fuse with a Demonic God Clone. After fusion, the Demonic God no longer counts as a Summon Contract Partner. At any one time, you can only fuse with one Demonic God. Each use requires the expenditure of 10 points of the Power of the Nefalem.

After examining the talents and skills of the Nefalem’s Bloodline, Huang Yi was astounded. This was indeed the bloodline that he had eagerly awaited for an entire year to awaken. Such a bloodline was truly worthy of the title "Strongest Bloodline."

When he had awakened 50% of it, he had only acquired two benefits: immunity to 50% of darkness-based damage and a 10% darkness-based damage bonus to normal attacks. But now, after full awakening, the benefits differed as much as heaven and earth!

Merely the first bloodline talent among these three already surpassed the benefits he had received at 50% awakening.

In the future, darkness-based damage would be something he could completely ignore, with an immunity of 100%! This was like his mutated Half-Beastman form’s 100% immunity to diseases and toxins, an absolute immunity! Even if The Seven Archdemons personally used darkness-based attacks against him, they would be ineffective!

The most skilled and terrifying ability of demonic creatures had thus been rendered moot against him, greatly reducing the threat those of similar strength posed to Huang Yi in the future. They would have to resort to common means such as physical attacks or magic attacks. Of course, this only referred to demonic creatures whose strength was comparable to his. If the opponent were as strong as a Fallen Messenger, even a casual physical attack could instantly kill him!

Furthermore, the bloodline of the Nefalem is a combination of godly and demonic elements; though Huang Yi leans towards the demonic side, he also has some holy aspects, granting him an immunity to 40% of holy damage.

Apart from survivability, the first talent also significantly enhances Huang Yi’s attack power. His normal attacks now carry an additional 20% darkness-based damage and 10% holy damage. This ratio is quite high; Miyamoto Musashi’s Martial Emperor Title adds only 15% darkness-based damage, and the Martial Saint Title only adds 10% holy damage. Even if you combine the attributes from these two titles, they are still less than the bonus granted by this talent.

As for the second bloodline talent, it provides Huang Yi with a direct increase in strength. This talent is based on level; for every level up, it gifts attribute points equal to that level. For example, reaching level 100 grants 100 attribute points, and reaching level 101 grants an additional 101 attribute points. This amount far exceeds the typical gains from leveling up...

Now at level 114, Huang Yi was also eligible to retroactively benefit from this talent. He instantly received all the attribute points he should have gained from leveling up to this point, a total of over 6500 Free Attribute Points, equivalent to more than 65 Holy Domain Attribute Points! He could distribute these points freely, whether to strength, constitution, agility, or intelligence.

Without any hesitation, Huang Yi added all those 65 Holy Domain Attribute Points to strength!

And with that, all his strength-related derived attributes skyrocketed, most notably his Attack Power! Those 60-plus points of Holy Domain strength were worth almost half a piece of Legendary Equipment!

What’s more, those attributes were all added to strength, which he needed the most. Legendary Equipment distributes its attributes across various properties, such as constitution, critical hit, attack speed, and others, not solely to strength.

The last talent, [Demon God Contract], was all about enhancing the abilities of Contract Partners. Huang Yi had many Contract Partners; the raptor and velociraptor he had previously captured, and the Two-Headed Lin, which now served as his mount, all were his Contract Partners. The efficacy of this talent depended solely on the strength of the Contract Partner. If the partner was not inherently strong, then even a 30% increase in several key attributes would be ineffective. But if the mount was powerful, that 30% could be terrifying!

The three Nefalem Bloodline Talents each targeted different areas. The first talent boosted his own combat power, the second focused on his growth potential, and the third augmented the strength of his assistants.

However, his Nefalem Bloodline Skills were somewhat more complex.

He had already seen Xiao Chunzi’s Nefalem Skills before. The first was Level 30 "Returning Light," which upon use on a target, allowed for a full health resurrection on the spot with no level loss or equipment drops within ten days of death, without any losses. The second was "Skill Copying," which allowed the target to copy any skill they had seen within the last ten days. Both of Xiao Chunzi’s Nefalem Skills were supportive and could directly aid in battle.

However, Huang Yi’s Nefalem Skills were different. These three skills were part of a set, affecting each other, and they were not like combat skills, but rather seemed more like crafting life skills. They required a long time to create, not like Xiao Chunzi’s skills which could be used anytime and instantly make an impact.

The first skill was the creation of Demonic God Clones. Among the Demon Realm’s one hundred and eight Demon Gods, all were true gods, each with celestial-like abilities and specializing in different powers! Their replicas would undoubtedly also possess great strength. Huang Yi suddenly thought of his father, the Beast God, who must also be one of these one hundred and eight Demon Gods. Moreover, the creator of the Heroes’ Prison—the Death God—was also a Demonic deity, and one of the strongest at that.

To create their replicas required large amounts of powerful materials which, for others, may have been an insurmountable challenge, not knowing how many years it would take to gather the materials to laboriously create a single Demonic God Clone. But Huang Yi was different, as he had a large number of strong corpses in his Heroes’ Prison, piled up in the morgue, ready to be used directly. This hardest step was simply skipped for him! If he wanted, he could start creating the first Demonic God Clone right now! The talent afterward listed the creation methods and required materials for the one hundred and eight Demonic God Clones. The process wasn’t long; if he had the materials, he could create them very quickly!

His only restriction was the Power of the Nefalem. Creating one Demonic God would use up 10 points. Currently, at level 114, he had a total of 114 points of the Power of the Nefalem, allowing him to create only 11 Demonic Gods. And since the Power of the Nefalem recovered very slowly, with only one point given per level-up and an additional point every three days through passive recovery, this was a significant limitation.

At this rate, without considering the increasing difficulty of leveling up later on, even if Huang Yi could level up 114 levels every year plus the naturally recovered Power of the Nefalem all used for creating Demonic God Clones, it would still take four to five years to complete the process! By then, he would probably have achieved Divine Enthronement. Therefore, he could only pick those suitable for him to create, not every single one, unless he could find other means to recover the Power of the Nefalem to withstand such consumption.

The second bloodline talent skill was akin to an advanced War Soul. The nine great acupoints of the Demonic God Clone were equivalent to the nine layers of a War Soul, and the absorbed souls were like the Soul Spirits of a War Soul—the stronger the soul, the stronger the Demonic God Clone would be. This was essentially a Demonic God version of a War Soul!

This skill would only be needed after creating a Demonic God Clone and would be frequently used, consuming 1 point of the Power of the Nefalem for each soul absorbed. For all nine acupoints, that was nine points! If he wished to replace the souls, the consumption would be even greater!

The last Nefalem Bloodline Skill was to fuse with a Demonic God Clone. This skill had two benefits. The first was to enhance one’s own attributes, becoming very powerful after fusion. The second advantage was that after the fusion, the Demonic God would not take up a spot for summoning Contract Partners. In battle, a player could typically summon only one Contract Partner to assist them, with hunters being an exception as they could summon three. However, after fusing with Huang Yi, he could still summon another Contract Partner for battle, effectively gaining two Contract Partners in total.

If that were added to Huang Yi’s Racial Skill: Call of the Wild, summoning Hunting Dogs and Falcons from the void, he would have three creatures in total, an arrangement nearly resembling that of a hunter. If he carried a bow and arrow and wore leather armor, he would indeed create quite the convincing facade!

But he likely wouldn’t use this skill more than a few times in his lifetime because each use required a whopping 10 points of the Power of the Nefalem!

In short, these three bloodline skills working together would be incredibly powerful, practically elevating him to a level several times stronger than his own, but the Power of the Nefalem was a serious limitation. It was countless times more difficult to obtain than Energy Value, which at least had Energy Stones for quick replenishment, whereas the Power of the Nefalem could only be accumulated slowly.

Fortunately, those three bloodline talents could continue to aid him without the need to consume the Power of the Nefalem.

Huang Yi took a deep breath and looked around the dark and damp Abyss. This year-long awakening journey had come to an end, and he now possessed a power just as formidable as the Heroes’ Prison!

Huang Yi glanced over at the progress of his incarnation. At that moment, one hundred Holy Domain Warriors and five Celestial Realm Experts were still working hard, desperately suppressing Barbarian’s self-destruct power.

The dazzling light emanating from Barbarian had dimmed significantly. It seemed that in another ten or so hours, it could all be suppressed!(To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to Starting Point (qidian.com) to cast your Recommendation Tickets and Monthly Tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)