novelraw Chapter 361-1: Painbearer Kim, Firefly Radiance (1)
Chapter 361-1: Painbearer Kim, Firefly Radiance (1)
[You obtained Transcendent-World Large Chunk Spirit Essence x1]
[You obtained Resplendent Forging Crystal Chunk x1]
[You obtained Demi-God’s Broken Scorpion Tail (Material)]
[You obtained Heart of Pain Fragment (Epic+ item)]
[You obtained Sluggish Toxin Gland (Legendary item)]
[You obtained Brutal Bone Spike Ram Horn (Legendary+ item)]
[You obtained Belatu’s Painful Soul (Mythic item)]
[You obtained Writ of Audience (Key)]
[You obtained Tattered Map of Sacred Nest Seventh Layer (Map)]
Lin Xun exhaled deeply. He had finally defeated the enemy.Obtaining Complete Wet Nurse’s Umbilical Cord and using it to promote Purgatory Angel to the demi-god realm had finally allowed him to equip the Scarlet King’s Sword.
This overwhelmingly powerful divine-grade artifact had indeed not disappointed him. A single Bloodthirsty Judgement costing 80 Bloodshed Points had instantly killed Belatu.
Well, even if it was a Belatu who only had a sliver of HP left, hanging on by a thread…
After killing the boss, the Shell Level had rocketed up five levels in one go, which showed that Belatu’s own level had to be at least over 100.
[…]
[Flanda returns to the form of a human girl. Her white gauze dress is tattered and stained with blood, and her body is covered in horrific wounds of all shapes and sizes.]
[She cannot hold herself up and collapses to the ground, staring blankly at Belatu’s massive corpse.]
[Shell of Ascended Painbearer Belatu: A Belatu cloned with Ascended factor, abandoning flesh factors. The Wet Nurse did not allow the clone to self-generate a consciousness, nor did she inject any other soul. As the cruelest punishment, she poured Belatu’s true soul into the clone’s body, then branded it with endless madness and bloodthirsty intent, forcing it to endure eternal torment. Compatibility: 59% (+55%)]
This Shell could not be possessed, and parasitism was also impossible because the Shell’s body was far too large.
He had originally thought the real Belatu was long dead. He had not expected that at the Forbidden Lake, the Wet Nurse had not erased Belatu’s consciousness, but had preserved his conscious soul and injected it into the monster before them.
In other words, what he and Flanda had killed was not a clone, but the real Belatu.
“No wonder Flanda took out the dancing shoes and left Belatu at a loss and dazed… So Flanda had realized long ago that the clone was actually the real Belatu.”
[At the side, Kim gives you a thumbs up and shouts loudly that you did great. It has finally killed this clone monster. Can you parasitize this container? If you cannot, then leave it to him.]
[Although this container is huge and ugly, it cannot accept just watching you fight while it sits on the sidelines doing nothing…]
[Kim suddenly stops halfway through its words, because it sees Flanda lower her eyelids, clasp her hands over her chest, and silently pray toward Belatu’s corpse…]
After Lin Xun fused the Complete Wet Nurse’s Umbilical Cord, the name of Purgatory Angel had changed as well. The words Prototype had vanished without a trace, turning into Ascended Purgatory Angel.
Now that the angel Shell had leveled up, thanks to the effect of Visage of the Leader, it had dragged the other Shells up with it. The healer had also recovered from fatigued unconsciousness back to full state.
He switched to the healer Shell and healed Flanda.
Even exhausting all stamina, he only managed to restore a small portion of her injuries.
As for the weapon special trait Bounty of the Harvest Goddess, it could only be refreshed for another use upon respawn or rest reset.
[You pat Kim on the shoulder and quietly tell it that the body of the clone monster contains Belatu’s true soul…]
[Kim suddenly understands. It scratches its head and stands rooted to the spot, unsure whether to advance or retreat.]
Lin Xun opened his Inventory to check the loot he had just obtained.
By common sense, although he had participated in the battle, his contribution was basically only restoring HP for Flanda and delivering the finishing Bloodthirsty Judgement, so a large portion of his rewards should have been reduced.
Yet the loot Belatu dropped was beyond massive just in sheer quantity, enough to directly flood the screen.
“Could it be that killing above your level improves reward quality, and then combined with the effect of Star Lord’s Crowned Diadem, that one swing ended up showering the ground with drops?”
Transcendent-World Large Chunk Spirit Essence was worth two million five hundred thousand Spirit Essence, the most valuable Spirit Essence item he had ever seen.
In one go, it pushed his small treasury balance all the way up to four million.
“A super boss really is something else. If I could farm a few more of these, I would be taking off on the spot, right here…”
Resplendent Forging Crystal Chunk was shown as an item that could enhance Mythic equipment, and Demi-God’s Broken Scorpion Tail was a Material for forging equipment.
[Heart of Pain Fragment (Epic+ item): The clone’s enormous heart has mostly evaporated through the gaping hole in its chest, leaving behind only a small fragment. It contains a single strand of twisted, painful divinity. Collect three Epic+ items of the same name to combine them into a Legendary Divine item. Disassemble this item to obtain three Epic Divine items of the same name.]
“Damn! The reward really was nerfed!”
Divine items were quite rare and precious. Generally speaking, the drop rate of divinity from kills was very low, and the quality of divinity that did drop from kills would also be somewhat downgraded.
Chapters like the World of Omniscience, where you could repeatedly farm divinity, were probably unique.
Most Divine items existed in the form of hidden rewards, such as the divinity on the Blood Sun sculpture, the divinity under the Idyllic Pleasure Quarter, the divinity at the Firefly Spirit Temple, and so on.
Belatu, as a top demi-god, having already dropped a Divine item, should, reasonably speaking, have dropped a Legendary Divine item.
But this hellish game had only awarded an Epic+ Divine item instead. The reward quality clearly had been cut down.
Lin Xun sighed helplessly. Fortunately, his superior in the organization, Li Long, had already reserved a Legendary Divine item for him. Otherwise, relying solely on himself to raise his soul talent would have been unbelievably difficult.
[Sluggish Toxin Gland (Legendary item): Belatu’s toxin gland sac. Using the venom inside to coat your weapon, your next attack will have a very high chance of inflicting the Sluggish negative status on the enemy. Remaining uses: 3/3]
“Tsk, yet another nerfed reward.”
Belatu’s sluggish toxin was potent enough to numb Flanda’s limbs and slow her movements. How could it possibly be only Legendary rank?
Lin Xun thought for a bit and quickly understood.
Star Lord’s Crowned Diadem combined with the huge level gap in the kill had indeed increased the rewards, but because his combat contribution had been relatively small, while the number of reward items had increased, their quality had correspondingly dropped in many cases.
“The quality is too low. Might as well sell it for money instead.”
[Brutal Bone Spike Ram Horn (Legendary+ item): The massive ram horn bone spike on Belatu’s head. Using this item, you can leap across certain ranks to destroy any wall, building, rock, or other inanimate object blocking your path.]
[This item is consumable and cannot be used on living beings. The rank leap is random in nature.]
“Hm? A one-time-use item that can leap across ranks?”
Items that could exert power across rank boundaries were extremely rare, but items of this sort always came with significant limitations. This one, for example, could only be used on inanimate objects.
[Belatu’s Painful Soul (Mythic item): A soul trapped in endless suffering. Its name is Belatu. Using this item, you can summon the soul form of Ascended Painbearer Belatu to serve you for a short time.]
[You can gift this item to a related story character to obtain an unknown reward.]
“A summoning item, and another nerfed reward… Gifting it to a story character should mean giving it to Flanda.”
The remaining two items were a key and a map.
[Writ of Audience (Key): A writ of audience bestowed by the Wet Nurse upon her offspring. Holding this item allows you to freely enter the Sacred Nest Ninth Layer.]
[Tattered Map of Sacred Nest Seventh Layer (Map): A tattered map that records the specific location of the the Angel Mother Nest.]
Originally, killing Belatu could also have rewarded a Mythic item, Complete Wet Nurse’s Umbilical Cord, but that item had been stolen ahead of time by Flanda’s Dragon-Touching Cloud-Snatching Hand technique.
Complete Wet Nurse’s Umbilical Cord should be the greatest harvest of this battle, allowing him to obtain demi-god power ahead of schedule.
Switching back to the Purgatory Angel Shell, Lin Xun saw that the Purgatory Angel’s transformation state had already faded.
It seemed the duration for maintaining the demi-god realm transformation skill was quite short. It could not be treated as a standard skill, only as a trump card.
“I still have not obtained a demi-god Shell. Even if Purgatory Angel can temporarily ascend to demi-god, it still does not meet the minimum requirement for absorbing and controlling malice.”
“I wonder if there will be any demi-god-realm Shells inside the Angel Mother Nest?”