novelraw Chapter 183: You Listen to My Explanation, I Really Don't Want to Become a Deep Sea Ancient God
Chapter 183: You Listen to My Explanation, I Really Don't Want to Become a Deep Sea Ancient God
[Rift Settlement in Progress...]
[The Rift Has Collapsed, Current Mutation Rate 0%!]
[Survival: As a second-tier Transcendent, your survival is already a fortunate event, isn’t it? Reward +30%
Outstanding Employee: You completed your superior’s commission by finding the Sea Lamp design sought day and night by Bonfire Energy Company, reward +50%
Pain, So Much Pain: Although you failed to stop the Illusion Beast’s descent and did not cause it any substantial physical harm, you inflicted tremendous spiritual damage on the Illusion Beast, reward +70%]
[Settlement complete, rated A. You may choose one affinity from Floral, Lamp, or Phantom to draw a skill card treasure chest. (Legendary 80%, Epic 20%)]
[Additional Reward (Lamp): When drawing skill cards, you can imagine the skill card you want, increasing the probability of drawing a similar skill card.]
A maker of pain, spiritual damage...
Can it really be like this? Chen Qi’s eyelid twitched.
Because he dealt spiritual damage to the final boss Illusion Beast, he received a higher evaluation.In a C-tier rift, earning an A-rank rating means he can now reliably obtain high-tier skill cards!
Completing the extra task is equivalent to choosing one reward by himself. Unfortunately, there’s no chance for rare rewards, otherwise he could have used Shapeshifter Palu’s dice... Chen Qi pondered carefully.
[Which affinity skill card treasure chest do you choose?]
“Lamp affinity.”
Chen Qi decided.
Floral affinity skill cards mostly relate to art, charm, and nature. As a Transcendent who follows the Lamp affinity path, he desperately needs a powerful Lamp affinity skill.
What he needs most now is a skill to reshape the Spiritual Core!
Reshaping the body and the Spiritual Core is the most critical task for a second-tier Transcendent!
It’s also a hard requirement for becoming a third-tier Transcendent and mastering Release techniques later!
A tiny flame ignited at the tip of Chen Qi’s index finger, followed by the appearance of a fiery red card.
The front of the card showed a burning heart aflame, with a candlestick on the back.
[You obtained a legendary-level skill card, Bonfire Heart.]
[Bonfire Heart:
Affinity: Lamp
Description: The heart is a burning bonfire; the bonfire is the soul’s blossoming.
Learning Conditions: Minor Lamp affinity comprehension, Inspiration 60, and mastery of a high-level Lamp affinity meditation technique.
Effect: Reshape your source of spiritual energy, comprehensively enhancing your spiritual power’s strength, recovery speed, and perception. After mastery, you will gain Lamp affinity comprehension.
In dangerous situations, your spiritual power will ignite to grant powerful perception!]
Finally got it! Chen Qi’s heart leapt with joy.
After mastering this Spiritual Core skill, all his skills would gain a strength boost, and he could learn skills with large spiritual energy consumption!
This means his own strength would significantly increase.
Moreover, this skill grants Lamp affinity comprehension.
It can be said this is the most important skill for the late second-tier Transcendent stage.
He also meets the Inspiration 60 requirement for learning this skill.
The only trouble is that this skill requires mastery of a Lamp affinity meditation technique.
Previously, due to time constraints, he only knew a common meditation technique found everywhere on the market.
He would have to head to the Rift Sea to get a new meditation technique... Chen Qi excitedly clapped his hands, putting the skill card into his Backpack Card, then looked at Little Crow:
“How about you?”
Like him, Little Crow barely killed any monsters in this rift.
Perhaps I should comfort her... Chen Qi thought.
Suddenly, Little Crow’s eyes widened, and in her hand appeared a Goblet affinity skill card. Shaking slightly, she said:
“2%...”
A 2% chance, yet she drew a Goblet affinity skill card on a single pull!
Although the skill card wasn’t very useful to Little Crow, it was still a decent gain.
She tried to hide her smile as if fearing that if Chen Qi drew a bad skill card, it might hurt him:
“Not bad... How about you?”
“I was very lucky; I drew the skill card I wanted most—the one to reshape the Spiritual Core.”
Chen Qi smiled faintly and stored the skill card.
“Spiritual Core.”
Little Crow was stunned. A skill card for reshaping the Spiritual Core is priceless and rarely available!
Even in C-tier rifts, obtaining a Spiritual Core skill card is a small probability event.
“Congratulations!”
She happily looked up at the sky.
Though it was dangerous, overall, both of their gains were not bad.
As the rift ended, they were actually above the Witch Sea region.
A sea breeze gently blew through their hair, and the two of them blanked out, staring dumbfounded at the sky.
Listening to the sound of the waves, watching seagulls fly beneath the Illusion Beast.
Until, under the blaze of daylight, the giant body of the Illusion Beast began to slowly burn, emitting a soft glow.
“Fireworks...”
Little Crow excitedly sat up.
A massive song echoed through the Storm Gorge.
The ribbons on the Illusion Beast kept falling, eventually like a meteor shower, like falling fireworks, dropping piece by piece onto the sea.
The falling ribbons burned on the sea surface, finally forming one special mirage-like spectacle after another in the flames.
Countless ribbons danced in the wind!
A dreamlike scene.
“Goodbye, Illusion Beast...”
Chen Qi whispered.
Then, he curiously looked into the distance.
He had never seen another’s dream before.
In the distant flames, a blurry mirage-like scene slowly appeared.
“???”
Chen Qi was startled.
A ship covered in black feathers was speeding across the sea!
At the bow stood a fierce-looking pirate princess, about 1.8 meters tall, holding a scalpel and a flintlock pistol, looking heroic and dashing.
At that moment, Captain Blackeye’s Sawshark appeared before the Crow’s ship.
The pirate woman at the bow wore an expression of three parts dominance, seven parts arrogance, as if saying:
“Dare the mere Sawshark approach this pirate!”
Slash!
The pirate woman lightly raised her hand, and the Sawshark was cut in half at the waist. Captain Blackeye trembled and knelt on the deck, taking out all his gold coins.
But obviously, this pirate princess didn’t care about the money. She pulled out her flintlock, pulled the trigger, and blew the treasure chest to pieces.
Bang!
She lightly blew the smoking barrel, treating money like dirt.
Then she lightly jumped onto the Sawshark, kicked open the slave quarters’ door, and freed the slaves.
Suddenly, she grabbed a young boy and threw him onto the deck!
“Fuck!”
At this moment, Little Crow looked up and screamed involuntarily!
That pirate princess was the one she had dreamed about before!
Many dreams in life are absolutely forbidden to be shown to others.
On the ship, the black-haired boy suddenly went berserk, punching the pirate woman hard and knocking her into the sea. The two began a fierce fight!
Though fighting, the pirate woman showed a joyful expression?
What’s this? Is this pirate woman the dream’s protagonist? Why would she dream of being beaten? Chen Qi was stunned by the bizarre scene before him.
This fierce-looking pirate woman couldn’t be Little Crow, right?
Chen Qi glanced at Little Crow.
In appearance, these two people couldn’t be said to resemble each other; at most, they were completely unrelated.
“Uh, uh, uh...”
Little Crow’s face turned as red as an orange, her small hands flailed uncontrollably, then she placed her hand on Chen Qi’s face!
Behind, she would throw that boy into the operating room.
“Calm down, calm down, calm down...”
Little Crow babbled incoherently, wanting to bury herself in the ground.
She could only be grateful that the Illusion Beast’s dream was relatively normal.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t be able to live in this world.
However, accompanied by the sea breeze, the illusory scene dissipated like wind.
“Good, good, phew, phew...”
Little Crow sighed deeply.
“...”
Chen Qi fell into deep thought.
He hadn’t expected Little Crow to have such a dream.
But the dream should be considered normal; after all, Little Crow was a doctor who studied sea beasts.
Wait... Chen Qi suddenly felt a trace of alertness.
What kind of dream would he have?
In this world on the brink of destruction, power is paramount.
Right now, his personal strength was already very strained against White Cloak, let alone facing Big Mom, the Pillar of the Abyss, Abyssal Merchant, Blood Hunter, these bosses.
And the Whale Father, Sea God, Ice Witch, and Deep Sea Hunters, these monsters beyond legends, he couldn’t even look at them directly.
Only power can keep one alive, only power can change everything.
Perhaps he would dream of becoming a fourth-tier Beast Tamer, roaming the seas, or becoming a Deep Sea Hunter, slaughtering all monsters and pirates.
Or maybe, he’d dream of having a happy family, or dream of the Flower Witch, dream of Whale Father? Dream of his hometown?
No! Many dreams are forgotten.
I wouldn’t subconsciously be having some strange dreams, right?
Chen Qi felt a flicker of unease.
It should be normal, shouldn’t be strange dreams... Chen Qi thought secretly, ready at any moment to use Water Spirit Number Three to cover Little Crow’s face.
On the vast boundless sea, the sky’s color gradually shifted from deep blue to heavy lead gray, as if heralding some unspeakable power about to descend.
Waves rolled, one after another, smashing against the ship with deafening roars, interwoven with the sharp cries of distant seagulls, forming a chaotic yet solemn symphony.
Above the sea was a massive merchant ship. Noble merchants were in the dining hall, clinking glasses.
In the storm, a man in yellow appeared. The moment he appeared, the waves stopped rolling, quietly crouching like a tamed beast at his feet.
Is this White Cloak’s dream? Why wear this clothing... Chen Qi felt a hint of doubt.
The man in yellow raised his hand gently. Boom!
Countless black, twisted tentacles stretched from the sea surface like giant Pillars of the Abyss, then swiftly rushed toward the merchant ship.
In the blink of an eye, all the important figures on the merchant ship were tightly wrapped by tentacles!
No distinction of gender! No distinction of age! No distinction of beauty or ugliness!
Under the tentacles of the man in yellow, these people first showed pained expressions, then their faces grew increasingly comfortable, like mindless sheep.
At this moment, many powerful navy forces rushed at the man in yellow, but at the moment of their strikes, a snap of fingers easily subdued them, and they all collapsed on the ground, unable to rise.
Then the man in yellow lightly stepped over the waves and snapped his fingers.
A huge wave completely swallowed the merchant ship.
The illusion in the flames zoomed in, and the face of the man in yellow became clearer.
The blurred face under the yellow clothing was Chen Qi himself.
“...”
I dreamed that I became a Deep Sea Ancient God? And with a beautified face too!
Why do I look like a big villain? Why do those people show pleasure after being tangled?
I can’t be dreaming this... Chen Qi tapped his forehead with a finger.
“No...”
Chen Qi turned his head toward Little Crow, struggling to organize his words:
“Listen to my explanation...”