novelraw Chapter 379-1: Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil, The Most Expensive Accessory (1)
Chapter 379-1: Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil, The Most Expensive Accessory (1)
“Cursed game, bless me. Don’t let this fail again.”
Muttering under his breath, Lin Xun once more pressed the use option for the fate-changing artifact.
[You take out an ancient hook-shaped magatama gathered with immense Luck Value and pray devoutly…]
[…]
[You have consumed 88 Luck Value from Sakura Falls Yasaka Curved Jewel, massively increasing your own Luck attribute.]
[Suddenly golden light descends from the heavens, shrouding you within. A hundred flowers bloom around you and seven-colored radiance bursts forth, as if countless celestial cranes and phoenixes are calling in unison…]
[Please note, this enhancement effect lasts for a very short time.]
“Holy crap, my luck finally exploded!”
Overjoyed, Lin Xun watched as, after more than a week of struggling, the fate-changing artifact finally rolled triple sixes.
He immediately clicked Clone Cultivation Pod. This Shell item had long since been hungry and thirsty.[You have used Clone Cultivation Pod (mythic-grade item).]
[The turbid cultivation fluid within the pod boils and surges. The human figure gestating inside gradually becomes clearer from its former blur.]
[Shell generation in progress, please wait…]
Lin Xun did not even dare to take a deep breath, staring fixedly at the text.
A Shell item’s random generation included not only Shell Quality but also the Shell Skills that came with it.
The upper limit of Clone Cultivation Pod was to generate a Legendary+ grade Shell with five randomly generated skills.
With the blessing of the fate-changing artifact, barring any accidents this Child of Evil Shell should have a maxed-out setup.
But what the Shell Skills would turn out to be was still an unknown.
[…]
[Shell successfully generated.]
[A hand bursts out of the pod, then both arms clutch the fleshy membrane of the pod as a man’s naked body squeezes out.]
[The moment it leaves the pod it collapses to the ground, without the slightest sign of life, as if breaking the pod just now was entirely an unconscious reflex.]
[You look at the naked Shell on the ground and know this is a masterless Shell with no soul.]
[You have discovered the Shell of Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil.]
[Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil: A Child of Evil born of a demigod and a mortal. Although its strength and grade do not surpass its mother, its potential is immeasurable. Having fused three life factors, Desire Wet Nurse’s, Primordial Firefly’s, and Extreme Delusion Fruit’s, the Child of Evil can perfectly display the life traits of all three different factors. Compatibility: 154% (+55%).]
[Do you want to Possess this Shell?]
Lin Xun immediately clicked Yes and opened the Shell Panel to check.
[Shell: Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil]
[True Name: Adam]
[Compatibility: 154% (+55%). Compatibility exceeds the critical threshold, Shell Quality increased.]
[Shell Quality: Mythic grade]
[Shell Level: 90 (+30)]
[Shell Equipment: None]
[Shell Skill: Flesh Power Fountain (Legendary+ grade skill): Part of the Wet Nurse’s Flesh Authority has also been fused into the Child of Evil’s Shell. Possessing this skill causes flesh power to be generated in an endless stream, allowing any actions, attacks, skills, etc. that consume Shell stamina to consume nothing at all, keeping your stamina value permanently full.]
[Please note, energy-type skills are not included in this effect.]
[Shell Skill: Firefly Power Fountain (Legendary+ grade skill): Part of Firefly’s Hive Consciousness Authority has also been fused into the Child of Evil’s Shell. Possessing this skill, when your consciousness (soul) is stronger than the target enemy, the damage you deal to the enemy will be greatly increased. When your consciousness (soul) is weaker than the target enemy, you can greatly weaken the enemy’s hostility toward you and have an extremely high chance to evade the enemy’s first attack on you.]
[Shell Skill: Extreme Evil Power Fountain (Legendary+ grade skill): Part of the Evil Fruit’s Extreme Evil Authority has also been fused into the Child of Evil’s Shell. Possessing this skill, each time you kill an enemy, you can savor the delicious flavor of their despair in the instant before death, thereby increasing the amount of malice within you. When the malice accumulates to a critical point, the quality of this skill can be increased. The quality of this Shell will increase along with the upgrading of Extreme Evil Power Fountain.]
[Please note, this skill also has the ability to actively absorb masterless malice. When the source of the malice lies elsewhere, your active absorption will be sensed by the owner of the malice.]
[Shell Skill: Flesh Boil (mythic-grade skill): Using this skill will consume a large amount of Shell stamina and produce a powerful buff effect, Flesh Boil. During the duration of this skill, a large amount of stamina will be continually consumed until the Shell’s stamina is exhausted or the skill is manually turned off.]
[While under Flesh Boil, your maximum HP will be increased by 100%. Every active attack you make (non-energy-type attacks) will definitely deal 150% critical damage. In addition, when you suffer lethal damage, your flesh body will explode, dealing devastating damage that ignores physical defense to enemies in range.]
[Shell Skill: Extreme Evil Assault Demon Claw (mythic-grade skill): Drive the source of malice hidden deep within the Shell or the malice in the surroundings to condense into a claw of Extreme Evil, dealing massive damage to the enemy.]
[This skill has two consumption modes.]
[1. Consume the malice source within your body to release this skill. When the stored malice source is exhausted, you must wait for it to recover on its own before you can cast this skill again. While the malice source is exhausted, the effect of Extreme Evil Power Fountain will be weakened. Killing enemies will prioritize replenishing the malice source.]
[2. When there is a large amount of malice energy near the Shell, you can drive the external malice energy to release this skill without any consumption.]
Just reading the Shell Skill descriptions took Lin Xun quite some time.
When he finally understood the real effects of the five skills, he could not help but sigh in admiration.
“As expected of a Shell that has fused three life factors. This is ridiculously strong…”
The fusion of the Wet Nurse’s life factor gave this Shell infinite stamina. He no longer had to worry about maxed-out fatigue values and collapsing from exhaustion.
Although the infinite stamina did not include energy attacks and was limited to the flesh body, it was in itself a very practical and powerful passive ability.
Let alone when combined with that utterly broken mythic-grade skill Flesh Boil.
During its duration, Flesh Boil was essentially a Musou mode, with the additional broken effect of doubling maximum HP.
[T/N: Musou is a japanese word meaning ‘unrivaled, peerless or matchless,’ often referring to a single incredibly powerful attack or a genre of hack and slash video games like Dynasty Warrior.]
Even better, it carried an ultra high-damage self-destruction effect upon death. Whether against monsters or humans, it was a top-tier finishing move, ridiculous to the point that even ridiculous’s mother would open the door for it. It was ridiculous from start to finish.
Flesh Boil’s Musou state was originally a buff similar to a transformation skill. Activating it required consuming a large amount of stamina, and maintaining the effect required constant stamina consumption. It was the kind of trump card killing move.
But combined with Flesh Power Fountain’s infinite stamina, it was essentially a passive skill that could be kept active permanently. The option to turn it off might as well not exist.
“This set of skills really meshes too perfectly. The fate-changing artifact really can defy heaven and change fate.”
Firefly Power Fountain, derived from the Firefly factor, was also a passive skill. When the consciousness soul was stronger than the enemy’s, it could suppress them and deal greater damage.
When weaker than the enemy, he could turn into a transparent little coward, weakening the enemy’s hostility. Even if he ran up with a knife and tried to chop them, there was a high probability that the enemy’s initial counterattack would be dodged.
The only thing was that Lin Xun had no idea how the strength of consciousness and soul was determined. It was easier to judge between Apostle players, but what about monsters?
“Huh, if that’s the case, then monsters’ souls must also have gradations of strength. In that case, can they also, like Apostles, use powerful souls to buff their Shell strength?”
Lin Xun thought back to the sight of the Wet Nurse’s main god soul descending into the Child of Evil. The boost such a powerful soul gave the Shell was terrifying to an extreme.
To boost a Legendary+ grade, at most mythic-grade Shell to such an overwhelmingly powerful existence was almost incomprehensible for an Apostle.
“Even if an Apostle got every Ultimate Relic from difficulty one through nine, they still couldn’t raise their soul to that level, right?”
“Could there be some other way to strengthen the soul?”
Lin Xun felt there must be some hidden truth here. He simply did not have enough information regarding the soul. With so few clues, he could not extrapolate any reasonable explanation.