novelraw Chapter 350-1: Divine-Grade Greatsword, Damaged Umbilical Cord (1)
Chapter 350-1: Divine-Grade Greatsword, Damaged Umbilical Cord (1)
After Lin Xun saw that this shell’s level was a full ten levels higher than his current overall level, he immediately removed his original Leader, the Fire-Worshipping Palace Master of Iya Palace, and appointed the Purgatory Angel as the new Leader.
The hellish game popped up a whole bunch of ‘level increased’ text. All shells in the Shell Slots followed the Leader and directly jumped up to Level 80.
The higher the shell quality, the more attribute growth it gains when its level increases.
Shells like the Heartless Ninja master, which are Legendary grade, would gain more power from the level increase than the Knowledge-Seeking President of the Direct Vision Association and the Corrupted Earth Giant.
He began to carefully browse the Shell Panel, analyzing the new shell’s attributes and skills.
The Purgatory Angel’s Spiked Exoskeleton Combat Armor had absurdly high defensive power. Even when it hard-tanked the combined ultimate attacks of Valkyrie, Lin Xun, and the Nine-Tailed Fox, it still held.
Although this equipment had no Equipment Trait, could not be removed and resold, and even dragged down the shell’s speed, it was still more than worth it for defense this strong.
If defense was not needed, he could also actively melt the combat armor to gain a huge boost in speed.
The skills named Destruction Demon Claw and Cruel Thorn Bone Spikes were both extremely powerful output skills. The former was a burst single-target attack skill, the latter a large-area AOE skill. Basically there was no output weakness.
And Gangrene Throat-Grip, which interrupts charging skills and can also seal the enemy’s skill, did not look that strong, but this skill was the most BUG like existence.With this skill, Lin Xun was the natural enemy and hard counter of all mages.
Every high-damage mage skill required charging and casting, requiring a not-short casting time.
And Gangrene Throat-Grip perfectly countered all casting skills. Interrupting alone was already strong enough, and it could also seal the skill and turn a mighty mage into a useless mage.
As long as the enemy did not have mythic-grade spell skills, in the future, anyone who saw Lin Xun would have to detour.
As for the final mythic-grade skill Purgatory Angel Holy Descent.
To be honest, Lin Xun did not expect he could obtain nearly demigod power this quickly.
Although the transformation probability of this mythic-grade skill was so low it was outrageous, with a fate-changing artifact in his possession, even if it were only a 1% probability, there would still be a very high chance of transforming successfully, briefly ascending to demigod level!
“When did this hellish game become so generous?”
The map in front of him was indeed a hidden map, and the prerequisites to enter it were extremely harsh. First, he needed to defeat the Crawler Broodmother, and second, he had to gamble his luck and use the Shriveled Replica Umbilical Cord to obtain the location of the Wet Nurse’s Umbilical Cord in order to enter.
But after entering the hidden map, the gains exceeded the risks by far.
It made Lin Xun suspect the hellish game had taken the wrong medicine.
With Flanda by his side, facing a clone body that had not yet reached demigod, it was undoubtedly a guaranteed victory.
The only issue was that if he fought personally, the drop rewards would be better. If he let Flanda do everything, he would probably only get some Spirit Essence like with the Spider-Type Hunter.
With the Star Lord’s Crowned Diadem’s bonus, maybe one material would also drop.
But no matter how he thought about it, being able to obtain this nearly demigod shell made the risk and reward feel mismatched…
“Not right. The most critical point is on Flanda!”
Lin Xun immediately understood.
To free Flanda and make her an allied support, he had to let Firefly see that an Apostle had the possibility of defeating the Desire Wet Nurse. Only then could this situation be achieved.
If the story advanced normally, until the end of this chapter, Flanda should still be trapped in the Abandoned Ancient Nest.
If an Apostle walked the Firefly route, only Kim could become support. Therefore, normally defeating the Purgatory Angel was almost impossible.
Ordinary Apostles could not defeat the Purgatory Angel and could only use the operation platform to keep injecting Firefly factors, making the BOSS’s flesh body collapse to complete the strategy objective.
But the result was that not only could they not get rich rewards, they could not even get the most important thing, the shell.
Even if they had the strength to push the Purgatory Angel into phase two, the BOSS would fail its ascension, factor collapse would destroy the flesh body, and they still would not be able to obtain the shell.
To obtain the Purgatory Angel shell, having the Ascended Full-Adaptation Parasite was only the most basic condition.
Most important was having the ability to instantly kill the BOSS, needing a demigod present to prevent the BOSS from entering phase two, in order to obtain such a powerful shell.
Missing even one of the above conditions would not work.
This showed how difficult it was to obtain the Purgatory Angel shell. It was not that the hellish game suddenly became generous once, but that it set an extremely high threshold.
[Flanda sees that you have successfully ‘parasitized’ the clone body’s shell, and signals that you must leave immediately. Killing the Prototype Purgatory Angel is very likely to draw the Desire Wet Nurse’s attention.]
[Seeing that the only reward in the laboratory has been obtained, you quickly leave the laboratory and ride the military mole cricket to flee underground…]
Lin Xun took this chance to check the spoils he had just obtained.
The Fading Trace of World Wandering Spirit Essence dropped by the BOSS was worth 750,000 Spirit Essence, slightly worse than the Great General’s one million Spirit Essence.
It should be because the BOSS’s probability of ascending to demigod was too low. It was not like the Great General, whose third stage could steadily enter demigod.
The BOSS also dropped two high-grade materials and a Forging Stone for strengthening equipment.
The Purgatory Angel itself had Legendary+ grade equipment and did not lack armor or defense.
The shell’s attacks were also strong enough, but if he could forge an exclusive weapon, it would be like adding wings to a tiger, pushing its strength up another step.
However, the Imperial Swordsmith’s forging level could only make Legendary grade weapons and could not cross tiers to forge Legendary+.
For the Purgatory Angel, with the panel full of nothing but Legendary+ grade entries, if it only paired with a Legendary grade weapon, Lin Xun felt it was not quite perfect.
Fine, he admitted it. His perfectionism was acting up.
To obtain an exclusive weapon that matched its quality, either he had to find a stronger blacksmith shell, or he had to obediently pay the hellish game and have the Book of Craftsmen craft it.
“Huh, did I forget something?”
Lin Xun scrolled down the Inventory and quickly found that divine-grade artifact that had been eating dust for a long time, Scarlet King’s Sword.
This awesome weapon was not a fake divine-grade artifact like Amateru Sakiina’s Harvest Sickle.
It was a genuine mythic+ grade weapon, the weapon of King’s Sword Itan, once at the peak of demigod and now already a god.
He tried to move the weapon into the Purgatory Angel’s weapon slot, and as expected, received a game prompt.
[You have not yet reached the demigod realm and cannot equip this weapon!]
[If you forcibly equip it, you cannot use the weapon’s effects or traits, and the weapon’s attack power will also drop accordingly based on the equipped shell!]
Lin Xun ignored the weapon description that said, ‘The entire greatsword weighs ten thousand jun. Those without inborn divine strength cannot wield it,’ and forcibly equipped this mythic+ grade equipment.
[You have forcibly equipped Scarlet King’s Sword (mythic+ grade weapon)!]
The Purgatory Angel itself was Legendary+ grade. Even if the weapon dropped in quality along with the shell’s quality, he could still get a high-quality weapon for free.
Compared to a Legendary grade exclusive weapon, if he ignored weapon traits, a higher-tier Legendary+ grade weapon’s attack power was undoubtedly stronger.
The military mole cricket’s abdominal cavity was very spacious, about the size of half a basketball court.
After equipping the new weapon, Lin Xun felt itchy and could not hold back. He took the chance to possess the Purgatory Angel and try playing with and swinging the weapon.
[…]
[You possess the shell of the Ascended Prototype Purgatory Angel!]
[In your sharp bone claws, a gigantic greatsword appears, its blade as wide as a door panel!]
[The greatsword is wrapped all over in a blood aura like crimson ribbons. Just staring at it makes you feel parched, and a bloodthirsty impulse crazily grows from the depths of your heart!]
[You only feel your arm sink. Even using all your strength, you can only drag the greatsword forward step by step. Only with effort can you barely swing it. It is not like you are driving the greatsword, but the greatsword is dragging you to attack.]
[Facing the enemy in such a forced state, your speed advantage will vanish entirely.]
[After barely swinging the greatsword twice, the military mole cricket lets out an uneasy cry. The abdominal cavity trembles, as if it is afraid of the greatsword’s power…]
“Ignore the risk, continue, failed…”
Lin Xun was somewhat helpless. Maybe the Purgatory Angel’s Strength attribute still did not meet the requirement.
Forcibly equipping the weapon not only did not make him stronger, it instead made him weaker.