novelraw Chapter 381: Flesh Growth, Divine Artifact Bee Queen Visage!
Chapter 381: Flesh Growth, Divine Artifact Bee Queen Visage!
Once he had saved up enough Spirit Essence, he could forge an exclusive accessory for the Child of Evil.
Spending Spirit Essence to purchase all the forging materials, Lin Xun clicked on the Book of Craftsmen to begin forging.
The mask master’s forging speed was indeed fast, but at most it could only forge Legendary+ grade equipment. Mythic-grade equipment was beyond its capabilities.
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[Based on the materials above, by spending 1,125,000 points of Spirit Essence, you can create an accessory suited to this Shell. The quality of the accessory created will be mythic grade.]
[When forging this equipment, you added Desire Wet Nurse’s Special Spirit Essence. The Awakening success rate of this Special Spirit Essence is 100 percent. It is guaranteed to generate the Flesh Growth Awakening effect.]
[Awakening this accessory with Desire Wet Nurse’s Special Spirit Essence requires an additional 562,500 points of Spirit Essence.]
[Begin forging?]
The Book of Craftsmen’s forging fee alone was over one point one million, and the Awakening would cost another five hundred thousand-plus Spirit Essence. He waved his hand grandly and clicked confirm anyway. After all, he was spending money he had freeloaded.
[Equipment currently being forged…][Equipment successfully forged.]
With a whoosh, the Book of Craftsmen finished forging in an instant.
[You have obtained Tears of Starflesh (mythic-grade accessory).]
[Tears of Starflesh (mythic-grade accessory): A teardrop-shaped pendant forged from many precious materials. Not only does it contain the highest-quality material, Lubricating Slime of the Child of the Stars, it has also been Awakened using a portion of the main god Desire Wet Nurse’s Spirit Essence.]
[Equipping this accessory will grant you an additional 30 percent experience after killing monsters.]
[Accessory Trait – Starlight Protection: When you receive spell-type (energy-type) damage, this Trait activates, generating a defensive starlight layer over your body. All spell-type (energy-type) damage is greatly reduced after passing through the starlight.]
[Awakening Effect – Flesh Growth: When a skill you possess requires accumulating a related value in order to be used or upgraded, possessing this effect doubles the accumulation rate unconditionally.]
[The skills you currently possess that meet the conditions are Heaven and Earth Flash, Sinking Shackle, Bloodthirsty Judgement, Fountain of Blood, Hermit Bloodline, Star Commander Spirit Pivot Demon-Banishment Grand Art, Extreme Evil Power Fountain.]
“…This thing is a bit too broken, isn’t it?”
The base effect and Trait of this mythic-grade accessory were fairly standard. An extra 30 percent experience gain, plus an increase to magic resistance, could only be called reasonably in line with the role of an accessory-type piece of equipment.
The truly ridiculous part of this accessory lay in the Awakening Effect called Flesh Growth.
As expected of Special Spirit Essence from a main god, it was anything but ordinary.
This Awakening Effect could double the efficiency for accumulating related values for skills like Heaven and Earth Flash, which required Bloodshed Points, and for weapon Traits like the Bloodthirsty Judgement, which required Bloodshed Points as well.
Of course, that was still not the most terrifying part.
The most terrifying part was that the Awakening Effect actually applied to BUG-level skills like Hermit Bloodline, Star Commander Spirit Pivot Demon-Banishment Grand Art, and Extreme Evil Power Fountain, which permanently upgraded skill quality and Shell quality.
For example, if Lin Xun obtained a mythic+ grade item containing dragon bloodline.
With this accessory, when the little dragonkin’s Hermit Bloodline absorbed the item, it would be equivalent to absorbing two mythic+ grade items, allowing the Shell quality and both Shell Skills to be raised to mythic+ grade at the same time.
Greedy Wolf Star Lord and the Child of Evil would also benefit enormously, because their Demon-Banishment Merit and malice also counted as related values.
Originally, the Demon-Banishment Merit and malice increased after killing monsters would now receive a double bonus, greatly speeding up the rate of promotion for both.
Lin Xun immediately moved the accessory into the Child of Evil’s equipment slot.
[You have equipped Tears of Starflesh (mythic-grade accessory).]
[You have become even stronger.]
He glanced at the Inventory. The fate-changing artifact’s Luck Value was still recovering. It would probably return to full in about one more day.
“Everything is ready, just waiting for the fate-changing artifact to kick in…”
Now, there were six days left until the Disciple war.
Unused exclusive items naturally went without saying. With the fate-changing artifact’s blessing, they would definitely roll very good stats.
As for why he had not yet Solidified any Relics, it was because Lin Xun’s current Soul Enhancement had already reached 170 percent. Solidifying more equipment Relics would make it break through the 200 percent critical threshold.
The Soul Secret he gained for breaking through 100 percent Soul Enhancement, The Fire Never Dies, was a guaranteed enlightenment, and even that fixed Secret was equivalent to a get-out-of-death-free card.
If he had possessed a Soul Secret earlier, Lin Xun would have dared meet the Servant of Knowledge again at the end of the World of Omniscience chapter, without needing to fear a tragic end of soul annihilation.
For gaining another Soul Secret by breaking through the next threshold, he had to treat it carefully no matter what. If he did not have his cheat-like fate-changing artifact flip fate for him in such a situation, that would truly be a waste.
“Ding-dong.”
His phone received a text message. It was from Little White Deer Lu Caiyi.
The text held only two short words: I’m here!
Lin Xun smiled faintly, tidied himself up, and left the manor villa.
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The next day.
Lin Xun, refreshed in body and mind, logged in again.
At this time, the fate-changing artifact’s Luck Value had finally recovered to full.
Muttering under his breath, filled with anticipation, he pressed the option to use it.
[You take out an ancient hook-shaped magatama that gathers great Luck and pray devoutly…]
[The Lucky Gold Coin you carry suddenly flickers with light.]
[You consume 93 points of Luck Value from the Sakura Falls Yasaka Curved Jewel, massively increasing your own Luck attribute.]
“Eh? Does harvesting leeks actually improve my luck?”
“No, maybe Little White brought me good luck…”
The sudden activation of the Lucky Gold Coin directly pulled the Luck Value up by over ninety points.
Lin Xun did not have time to think about it. He immediately clicked on the exclusive item generator, Firefly Radiance.
[You use Firefly Radiance (mythic-grade item).]
[Generating exclusive item…]
[…]
[Exclusive item successfully generated.]
[You have obtained Bee Queen Visage (exclusive item).]
[Bee Queen Visage (exclusive item): Even if you possess Thousand Faces, Ten Thousand Forms, those countless faces cannot all appear at once. You will always need one face like the bee queen, a face that rules over many bee drones.]
[While carrying this item, you may designate any Shell in your Shell Slots as the bee queen. All remaining Shells will become bee drones.]
[When you possess the bee queen Shell, you may use the skills of any bee drone Shell in the Shell Slots.]
[After a skill is used, the bee drone Shell manifests behind you in the form of a consciousness body to cast the skill you selected, until the skill has finished being released.]
[When the bee drone consciousness body takes damage, the damage is calculated using the bee queen’s current Defense attribute panel and deducted proportionally from both the bee queen and the bee drone Shell’s Vitality. When the bee drone consciousness body takes lethal damage, its Shell will also die.]
[This item is an exclusive item and has already been bound to your soul. It cannot be traded, gifted, discarded, dropped, etc.]
“This… this is righteous gang-beating?!”
Lin Xun stared wide-eyed, shouting that it was impossible.
The Child of Evil was his strongest Shell at the moment, so he decisively chose the Child of Evil as the bee queen.
[You have designated Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil as the bee queen. All other Shells in the Shell Slots will by default become bee drones.]
[You may now use any bee drone Shell’s skills.]
[If you wish to change the designated bee queen, you can only reselect after the current bee queen Shell dies or refreshes.]
Originally, when he was possessing the Child of Evil, the quick skill bar in the game only displayed two active skills: Flesh Boil and Extreme Evil Assault Demon Claw.
After obtaining Bee Swarm Visage, however, dozens of skills suddenly popped up in the quick skill bar, directly filling it to the brim.
“…I really am a walking cheat.”
Lin Xun stood up and walked into the garden behind the villa, then manifested the Child of Evil Shell.
At the command of his will, a graceful, alluring female figure appeared behind him.
Wearing multicolored ceremonial robes and holding a small sickle, Saio Chisoku-hime’s figure was hazy, like a dream.
Under Lin Xun’s mental command, she began to dance gracefully, casting Urayasu Kagura Dance…
The dark karmic fire flashed once, and circles of dim ripples spread outward with the captivating dance, like wavelets on the surface of a lake.
Affected by the healing skill, Lin Xun’s spirit lifted. Even though he was already at full health and in peak condition, he still felt vigorous vitality bursting inside his body.
He narrowed his eyes, twisted his waist, turned around, and suddenly hammered a fist toward Saio Chisoku-hime’s chest.
The brutally fierce punch tore the air, even triggering a powerful sonic boom. Before the fist itself arrived, the exploding shockwave it brought had already turned the garden into a mess, as if a hurricane had swept through.
The Child of Evil’s Shell was incomparably strong. Even without using skills, just a simple auto attack like this was not something a squishy healer could withstand.
Never mind a squishy healer, even the world’s most heavily armored main battle tank would be like paper in front of the demigod-level Child of Evil.
Before such a ferocious punch, it was not hard to imagine what sort of fate awaited the slender body of Saio Chisoku-hime.
Judging by common sense, one punch should have turned one Saio Chisoku-hime into countless Saio Chisoku-himes.
Like a watermelon run over by a heavy truck…
Boom.
The fist slammed into her chest, and the brutal force exploded in an instant.
Saio Chisoku-hime clutched her chest and stumbled backward, her cheeks flushed red as if she had suffered only a minor injury.
At the same time, Lin Xun felt as if someone had hammered his own chest hard. His breath caught and he felt extremely stifled, with a faint metallic taste rising in his throat.
Once the Urayasu Kagura Dance ended, Saio Chisoku-hime’s body quickly faded and vanished.
Opening the Shell Panel to check, he discovered that both the Child of Evil and Saio Chisoku-hime had lost only a tiny sliver of health, and the percentage of health lost by both was exactly the same.
The damage from that punch was equivalent to landing on the Child of Evil himself, and the percentage of health deducted from the Child of Evil was then copied onto Saio Chisoku-hime.
Seeing this, countless dirty tricks instantly popped into Lin Xun’s mind.
Dirty tricks that were enough to multiply his combat strength several times over.
He saw many skills in the skill bar: the transformation skill Purgatory Angel Holy Descent from the Purgatory Angel, the Mage President’s Falling Starlight, Greedy Wolf Star Lord’s Northern Dipper Heaven’s Sword Technique Manual, and even Saio Chisoku-hime’s weapon Trait Bounty of the Harvest Goddess, the Ninja Master’s weapon Trait Heaven and Earth Flash, and so on and so forth.
Even including equipment Traits and the various special skills brought by eyeballs from the World of Omniscience, he could now use all of them without possessing any other Shells.
“The fate-changing artifact really is insane. It can even generate an exclusive item like this.”
Many of these dirty tricks were not that convenient to use in real life and could only be tested in the game.
In the game, the Library he was in was an absolute safe zone where he could not launch attacks or skills.
He immediately clicked on The Book of Salvation and teleported into a new sci-fi chapter to begin testing the specific effects of the exclusive item.
After a round of testing, Lin Xun arrived at the conclusion that this exclusive item’s effect was too monstrous and honestly somewhat broke the game’s balance.
Of course, the exclusive item also had a few shortcomings, but its powerful functions completely overshadowed them.
For example, some charging skills, such as the Ninja Master’s Heaven and Earth Flash and the Mage’s Falling Starlight.
While charging, the bee drone consciousness body also possessed the same Defense attributes as the Child of Evil, far stronger than its own original Shell.
Lin Xun could completely use the Child of Evil’s Shell to charge in and tangle with enemies in close range.
Unless the enemy had an interrupt skill or the power to instantly kill the Child of Evil, they could only watch helplessly as the bee drone charged up.
Another example was the healer Shell, which was originally a very fragile Shell. In battle, Lin Xun had to make sure someone was drawing enemy fire at the front before he dared possess the healer Shell to heal and restore health.
Otherwise, it was easy for aggro to go out of control and result in the healer being instantly killed.
Now, though, he did not need to worry about such problems at all, because the healer had the same Defense attribute as the Child of Evil.
Lin Xun could even let the healer use group healing skills to restore the health of both bee queen and bee drone Shells at the same time.
The phantom consciousness body disappeared after casting its skill.
However, for transformation skills like Purgatory Angel Holy Descent, even if the consciousness body vanished, when Lin Xun used the Purgatory Angel’s Cruel Thorn Bone Spikes again, the manifested consciousness body still appeared in its transformed state.
Only once the transformation duration expired would the consciousness body’s Purgatory Angel Holy Descent state disappear.
Of course, the exclusive item also had its flaws. For example, when a bee drone took damage, it not only lost its own health proportionally, but the damage was also reflected back onto the bee queen.
For example, using additional skills also consumed each bee drone Shell’s Fatigue Value.
For example, only one consciousness body could be present at a time. While one consciousness body was still casting a skill, he could not use any other bee drone’s skill.
“If I could obtain a thick-skinned, heavily armored tank Shell as the bee queen, as long as it could withstand the enemy’s attacks, wouldn’t I be able to kill opponents using bee drones alone?”
“I could have the healer constantly use group heals to keep the health of the bee queen and the bee drones up. Even if I faced an incredibly powerful enemy, as long as we were not instantly killed in one blow, with over a dozen consciousness bodies and dozens of skills, we could grind the enemy to death.”
At this point, there were only five days left before the Disciple war.
As Lin Xun pondered the uses of the exclusive item, he let out a cold chuckle.
“Heh, Disciple war?”
“What are you going to use to fight me?”