novelraw Chapter 377-2: A Great Haul, Disciple War (2)
Chapter 377-2: A Great Haul, Disciple War (2)
[Touch of Pleasure (immortal grade item): the authority to control the utmost pleasure of flesh, and one of the great Desire Wet Nurse’s authorities.]
[Using this item allows you to inflict pleasure or extreme pleasure upon a specified target.]
[Pleasure will massively increase the specified target’s favorability toward you, while extreme pleasure will inflict a long-duration control state upon the specified target and has a high probability of causing an instant kill against targets below immortal grade.]
[This item is consumable and may only be used once.]
“…So this is a demigod killer?”
The effect of Touch of Pleasure was somewhat perverse. Setting aside the special function of boosting favorability, the ability to instantly kill any enemy below immortal grade alone was terrifying.
As for the success rate… in front of a cheat-level power, success rates were always treated as being full.
Even against enemies at the demigod realm and above, it could inflict a long-duration control state, leaving the target at the mercy of others.
Although the effectiveness of this kind of item would sharply diminish against enemies whose grade exceeded that of the item, with this in hand, Lin Xun was now qualified to face deities head-on.
From what the Librarian had revealed, after demigod came pseudo god, then true god, and then the main god at the top.Demigod corresponded to mythic grade, pseudo god should correspond to immortal grade, and true god to eternal grade.
Even though there was only a one-word difference in titles between each level, the gap in strength was enormous, enough to be called a massive chasm.
With this item, he now had some room to operate even when facing immortal grade pseudo gods.
[Flesh Factor Mask (immortal+ grade item): when you hold this item, you may preset a Flesh Disguise. Whenever any detection-type skill is used on you, you will sense it and present the preset Flesh Disguise information to the detector.]
[This item has a permanent effect. It is guaranteed to take effect against detection-type skills of equal or lower tier. Against detection-type skills higher than immortal+ grade, its effect will be reduced.]
Lin Xun was stunned.
Then he immediately used the item and clicked open the Flesh Disguise text.
In an instant, the game popped up a stat frame identical to the Shell Panel.
The only difference was that its header prefix was Flesh Disguise, and all content within it could be edited and modified at will.
Lin Xun tried changing the Shell Name to Giant of Light Diga, Shell Quality to eternal+ grade, and typed a string of 9s into the Level field, and he could actually click confirm and have it take effect.
“This is absolutely ridiculous…”
Not only that, even the Shell Equipment and Shell Skills could be edited and modified, then preset as the Flesh Disguise.
“If this were not just a Flesh Disguise but actually changed the real stats, would that not basically be a save editor?”
Lin Xun’s imagination ran wild, and he could not help thinking of cheat tools and golden-finger style hacks.
In the end, he set the Flesh Disguise values to a style similar to a Corrupted Earth Giant, slightly raising the Shell Quality by a tier, the Shell Level a bit higher, and making a few minor tweaks to equipment and skills.
With this setup, even if he got into a fight in reality or in-game and was hit by a detection skill, he would look like an utterly unremarkable fifth or sixth difficulty Apostle.
“This is not just a tool for showing off, it is also perfect for luring the enemy by feigning weakness…”
Lin Xun turned his gaze toward the final reward, which was also the highest quality among them all.
The eternal grade Desire Divinity.
[Desire Divinity (eternal grade item): A portion of divinity scattered after the death of the main god Desire Wet Nurse.]
[Using this item will grant you 1 point of Divinity.]
“…”
“That is it? That is really all the description?”
The corner of Lin Xun’s mouth twitched as all his anticipation and joy turned to nothing.
He had originally thought that possessing the Desire Wet Nurse’s dropped Divinity would at least raise his soul talent by several levels, but the item description was no different from that of the lowest Epic-grade Divine items.
He understood how this Divinity item was really meant to be used.
Only when his soul talent had leveled up so high that even immortal grade Divinity could no longer enhance it would this eternal grade Divinity truly come into play.
Using it now would be equivalent to wasting it.
It was like when an Apostle had soul talent at +1 and could clearly use an Epic-grade Divine item to improve it, but insisted on using a legendary-grade Divine item instead, which was no different than using a cannon to shoot a mosquito.
“Divinity that does not have a plus sign also cannot be dismantled…”
Narrowing his eyes, Lin Xun thought for a moment and then dialed his superior Li Long’s number.
There were some things he could not handle alone that required the organization to step in.
He asked Vice-Chairman Li whether there had been any news of his legendary-grade Divine item.
However, the reply was not what he had hoped for.
Li Long told him that, because of his special identity, his priority had already been raised to the highest.
Those who could spare a legendary-grade Divine item were either standout elites among the Senior Councilors or big shots at Director level.
The organization had already issued a notice to these people. If any of them obtained a legendary-grade Divine item to spare, it would be handed to him first.
As soon as Lin Xun heard this, he immediately abandoned his idea.
He had wanted to use the Desire Divinity to exchange for more lower-tier Divinity, but it was not that the organization was unwilling. It was that they really could not bring out a resource that everyone was short of.
The organization could not forcibly order Councilors who needed legendary Divinity for themselves to give up their Divinity so that it could be allocated to someone else.
Only when some big shot obtained an extra legendary Divinity in the game and turned it in would he be able to receive the one legendary Divinity they owed him.
As for the next legendary Divinity after that, who knew how many years he would have to wait.
Using the Desire Divinity to exchange for other resources was not appealing either. He had no shortage of Spirit Essence or equipment. To Lin Xun, nothing was more precious than Divinity.
After hanging up, he had just shifted his attention back to the game when he received a message from Amos.
“Bro, what you said is… Disciple War?”
Lin Xun felt a jolt in his heart. Amos had mentioned the Disciple War to him before.
Yet there should have been quite some time left before the Disciple War began.
Over the other, dedicated phone line, Amos’ solemn voice came through. “Yes. According to past patterns, once the last Disciple selection is over, the organization will start the next round of Disciple War.”
“Originally, it should have been three months after the last-seat Disciple succeeded in the selection, that is, after the last-seat Disciple held their first Offering Ritual, before the Disciple War was held.”
“But this time, for some reason, Master moved the timing of the Disciple War forward.”
“Now you have half a month to prepare. In half a month, all Disciples will take part in the Disciple War.”
“You have not held an Offering Ritual since you took office, have you? Hold one quickly and properly strengthen your own power…”
“Uh, bro, I already culled a batch… no, I mean, I have already held one Offering Ritual.” Lin Xun was somewhat puzzled. Why was the Disciple War suddenly brought forward?
In his original plan, by the time the Disciple War arrived, he should have already cleared the seventh difficulty. Even if a little slower, he would have at least cleared most of it.
The prematurely arriving Disciple War had disrupted his plan.
After a brief thought, Lin Xun said, “Even though I just held one Offering Ritual not long ago, it is not impossible to hold another.”
Amos was clearly silent for a while before continuing, “The participants in the Disciple War are far from just the twelve Disciples. The trusted retainers each Disciple has cultivated can also fight alongside them.”
“I know that you have been keeping a low profile, and you do not have many capable hands under you…”
“But if you squeeze the lambs in your pen that hard and drain them dry, how will you pick any retainers from among them to fight at your side in the Disciple War?”
“Bro, thanks for the reminder. I will be more careful next time.”
“…”
After hanging up, Lin Xun revealed a cold smile.
“Heh. A bunch of conceders trying to become the evil gods’ lapdogs.”
“This so-called Disciple War… is just a gu-raising competition. They are only afraid of being too weak for the evil gods to fancy them.”
“Do not worry, I will send every last one of you to meet the evil gods sooner or later…”
“For now, I will just use this as a test of my blade.”