Defying the Fate of Beheading
Chapter 735 - 381 Next Stop, Monet Kingdom
"To deal with him, we need the most elite necromancers and experts skilled in information warfare." Olivia said, frowning.
Louis understood the meaning of Little Swan.
Each profession has its own unique characteristics.
Even those professions called Tier 0 in the current version can easily surrender when encountering a counter profession.
It's even more troublesome if one's abilities inherently restrain the opponent's system.
It's not that it can't be fought, but it really is hard to target.
Just like Louis, if an ordinary warrior wants to engage him in a head-on collision or attrition warfare, Louis would really dare to stand out and say, "I can fight all day."
A succubus's stamina recovery combined with the physique of a dragon, even a Titan Giant would shake their head.
Haven't you seen how Little Swan gets so scared just thinking about certain things that she can't move her legs?
On the battlefield, it's even more so.
Louis hasn't even used the stamina-draining magic inherited from the succubus ancestry.
Even so, he has attained almost perpetual endurance.
In battles, he always ends up in a weakened state due to magic power depletion, but in terms of stamina, he truly hasn't met an opponent yet.
During the battle on the Giant Plain, the lightning war of Golden Land, or the rapid assault during the tri-nation support on the Eastern Plateau of Lokeshi Empire, he didn't rest at all, cutting his way through from start to finish.
No one knows better than him how to suppress with pure numbers.
But similarly, he also faces the same problem as the Sword Master; most of his skills are focused on physical destruction.
Destroying an enemy on a physical level is not difficult for him.
Most of his methods can be termed as the epitome of violence.
Yet, he indeed lacks effective means to control things related to the mind and soul.
In terms of targeting, he may not even be as effective as Little Swan.
At least Little Swan has mastery over sufficient magic and can always select magic that targets the mind and soul from so much magic.
If Little Swan is willing to use her shared half of the physical qualities granted by [Desire of Sanctity], she might have a chance for a single-combat victory.
——Provided that guy's methods are indeed based on soul or information as Olivia mentioned.
Therefore, he decisively chose to utilize the intelligence personnel he controls to investigate the events of that day.
And he quickly discovered a very interesting piece of information——
The Snake Family's secretly passed down incantation, bloodline curse · Rebirth.
The effects are exceedingly simple yet effective, nurturing a magical creature in advance and implanting one's own flesh-and-blood beacon in it.
Typically, this flesh-and-blood beacon carries portions of the caster's bodily essence.
This ensures that once the upper echelons of the Snake Family discover that the enemy is stronger than anticipated, they would readily abandon their own bodies, transfer their soul back into the flesh-and-blood beacon, and then invoke the beacon to release their cellular essence to quickly reconstruct a body.
This Secret Technique is almost unheard of being used by members of the Snake Family, or rather, most who have witnessed this technique are dead.
If it wasn't for the matter relating to the Great Sin · Jealousy, the Snake Family wouldn't willingly expose their trump card to reverse the situation.
Even if the ones aware of this method are allies, it remains the same.
With Louis's reminder, they began to follow this line of thinking and sorted out the Great Sin · Jealousy's network of relationships.
Then a rather interesting situation caught their attention.
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"You say the Great Sin · Jealousy might only have been one from the start?"
Louis looked surprised at Bart Jean.
Patriarch Bart certainly wasn't referring to the recent frenzied changes in appearance, physique, even gender and race, of the Great Sin · Jealousy.
"Could it be that since the first generation of the Great Sin · Jealousy entered the Lokeshi Empire there have been issues? Subsequent generations of this Great Sin might very well all just be disguises of the same person?"
He wasn't doubting the existence of such a possibility.
In fact, since he previously noticed the unfathomable characteristic of being nearly impossible to kill, he's been having Alice's brother help with the investigation.
The discovery that each generation of the Great Sin · Jealousy had incidents of amnesia when inheriting the power raised suspicions in his mind.
However, looking at Patriarch Bart now, it seemed not just a suspicion, but he already had critical evidence.
Bart Jean saw the contemplative look in Louis's eyes, remained silent for a while, then said:
"Your Highness Louis, you are aware of the existence of Godly artifacts. Unlike the Divine Artifacts other countries lucked into obtaining, Lokeshi Empire's Godly artifacts were designed and built from scratch by us, ultimately cultivated into today's ultimate weapons."
"Did you verify the identity of the Great Sin · Jealousy through the Godly artifacts in reverse?"
Louis suddenly realized.
Previously during cooperation with Lokeshi Empire, he had the hard-won opportunity to learn the Jean Family's visualization method, as that method relies directly on the Godly artifact Draconic Pearl, drawing on the memories of strong individuals across generations of the Jean Family to congeal it.
Back then, he already realized that while the Godly artifacts of the other thirteen houses can't be easily discussed, within the Guardian Stone five houses, the Jean Family had indeed embedded the capability to act as a data collection center into their Godly artifact.
Draw memories from strong characters across the Jean Family's lineage to perfect their visualization method, such an endeavor, couldn't possibly be realized like in those sci-fi movies of past life, turning people's memories into data or even transforming into AI and fed into machines.
He had observed long ago that due to the development traits of the Star Continent, no one has steered towards this research direction at all.
The Mage Tower's tower spirit being the quintessential example.