Heroes' Prison-Chapter 1083 - 1027: Origins of the Queen of Agony
Huang Yi reached out and accepted the Wings of the Sun Chaser.
As soon as he held it, he clearly felt the spirit within the wings, the Feathers of Johns in his hand gently pulsated, as if eager to spread its wings and fly.
Huang Yi eagerly checked the attributes of this pair of Wings of the Sun Chaser—
[Wings of the Sun Chaser] (Special Equipment, restored to the first phase)
Flight Speed +50%
Light Harvesting: When there is sunlight, the Wings of the Sun Chaser can absorb sunlight and convert it into any of your attributes. The higher you fly, the faster the absorption speed, but the higher the risk of damage. The currently default converted attribute is: Strength, with an initial absorption speed of: 1 Heavenly Domain Point/second. After losing sunlight, the converted attribute will dissipate. Weather conditions and time of day will affect the performance of these wings.
Item Description: Only when you lose your wings will you understand how to fly. —— Sun Chaser, Icarus
Indeed, these wings did not disappoint Huang Yi!
This is the strongest special equipment Huang Yi has obtained so far!
A player’s conventional equipment slots are only twelve, namely weapon, headgear, clothing, bracer, belt, pants, shoes, cloak, two rings, necklace, and waist pendant. However, special equipment does not occupy equipment slots and is equivalent to an extra piece of equipment beyond others.
But special equipment is generally very weak, only providing slight auxiliary functions, such as facemasks, eyepatches, earrings, glasses, etc., and does not bring significant attribute bonuses.
However, these Wings of the Sun Chaser bring extremely strong attribute bonuses and introduced a brand new [Light Harvesting] attribute!
Before this, Huang Yi had only heard of "Borrow Light," where some high-quality equipment contained the "Borrow Light" attribute, allowing users to borrow starlight and convert it into any attribute to fill in gaps as needed.
For instance, if attack speed is insufficient, it can be converted into attack speed; when defense is needed, it converts into defense; when travel is too slow, it converts into movement speed, highly flexible.
However, the attribute conversion magnitude of Borrow Light is fixed, and as the level increases, that small attribute conversion becomes negligible, so Huang Yi has basically stopped using Borrow Light.
In contrast, Light Harvesting is obviously more advanced; theoretically, as long as there is sunlight, it can keep converting endlessly, infinitely enhancing one’s power!
Considering the default strength, the initial speed has already reached 1 Heavenly Domain Point per second. If Huang Yi uses the Wings of the Sun Chaser to fly continuously for 10 hours under the sun, his strength would at least skyrocket by 36,000 Heavenly Domain Points! This increment far exceeds Epic-level equipment of the same level, reaching the attribute bonus level of a Divine Artifact!
If Huang Yi takes the risk of wing damage to fly as high as possible, the absorption speed will get faster, and the attribute bonus will be higher!
However, under normal circumstances, Huang Yi wouldn’t be idle enough to fly continuously for 10 hours. Losing sunlight causes the bonus attribute to dissipate, and sunrise and sunset have fixed times; when night falls, sunlight disappears. To maintain this bonus attribute continuously, he’d have to keep chasing the sun, circling the world to never let it set, which wastes too much time.
Moreover, weather is an uncertain factor; if it’s cloudy, rainy, or snowy, these wings become useless.
Overall, these Wings of the Sun Chaser remain very powerful equipment. In some situations, they can perform like a Divine Artifact, but in others, they may just be an adornment on Huang Yi’s back.
Next, Huang Yi couldn’t wait to put on the Wings of the Sun Chaser.
The Wings of the Sun Chaser have a chest buckle, allowing them to be worn like clothing. The metal skeleton of the wings is inscribed with magic runes, automatically sensing the range of motion of the shoulder blades, thereby adjusting the flapping speed, angle, direction, etc., very flexibly, as if they were wings originally grown on his body.
After wearing the Wings of the Sun Chaser, Huang Yi clearly felt his body become lighter, as if his weight disappeared, and his whole being turned into a feather, ready to drift in the wind at any moment.
He couldn’t help but twitch the position of his shoulder blades, and the Wings of the Sun Chaser immediately flapped gently. Each Feather of Johns on them gently fluttered, lifting Huang Yi into the sky.
Meanwhile, the sunlight all over the sky, like flowing water, converged on the Wings of the Sun Chaser, absorbed by the thousands of Feathers of Johns on these wings, and then converted into strength, transmitted along the wing’s metal skeleton into Huang Yi’s body.
Huang Yi clearly felt an external powerful force slowly strengthening his body, spreading to his limbs and bones, making his strength increasingly powerful.
The omnipresent sunlight has become his source of power!
He couldn’t help but increase the frequency of his wing flapping. The Wings of the Sun Chaser immediately lifted him rapidly to the high sky, and sunlight was absorbed ever faster, transforming into his strength.
This comfortable feeling made Huang Yi close his eyes, flying freely under the sunlight, enjoying the bath of sunlight.
"These wings are truly magical, allowing you to also possess the perfect ability of the Chase Sun Clan!" At this moment, the voice of Dawn Brilliance Chalkris sounded beside him.
Huang Yi opened his eyes and saw that Chalkris had somehow also risen back into the air, flying alongside him under the sunlight. The golden wings behind him were also continuously absorbing sunlight.
However, Chalkris was already accustomed to absorbing sunlight and wasn’t as engrossed in flying as Huang Yi. At this moment, he circled around Huang Yi, observing the Wings of the Sun Chaser with a curious expression.
Chalkris showed a child-like smile, longing, "I really want to meet this Sun Chaser, Icarus. You once said that later, our Feathered Race declined, lost our wings, and said goodbye to the sky. Yet this Icarus was able to make our Feathered Race fly again this way. Truly, he is a great hero of our race."
"Perhaps it is only by losing wings that one can understand the meaning of flight!" Huang Yi suddenly remembered the description on the Wings of the Sun Chaser.
Sometimes, when you already possess something, you tend to overlook how precious it is.
It is only after losing it that you truly understand its significance.
In the era of Sun Chaser, Icarus, perhaps it was precisely because they lost their wings that they understood the meaning of flight.
After flying for a while, a small figure suddenly appeared on the horizon in the distance, rapidly approaching Huang Yi and Chalkris.
This rapidly flying figure sparkled with bright points of light, wearing gems that glimmered in the sunlight.
"Hmm? That’s Xia Moyu; wasn’t she and her husband monitoring that black hole in the south of the continent? Why is she here?!" Chalkris also recognized the distant figure and immediately slowed his flying speed, waiting for her arrival.
Soon, the distant figure was in front of Huang Yi. Indeed, it was Fallen Star, Xia Moyu, one of the six great messengers of the Feathered Race, a female demigod from the Feathered Race’s Falling Star Clan.
"God of Slaughter!" Xia Moyu nodded slightly at Huang Yi and got straight to the point, "I came to personally tell you some bad news. While we were monitoring that space black hole, we discovered this thing!" Saying that, she produced a spike-like object, reaching out to hand it to Huang Yi.
Huang Yi reached out to take it and examined it carefully.
This spike was about a meter long, like a needle, not metal nor stone, resembling part of some organism, with some sticky flesh at one end.
"What is this?" Huang Yi asked curiously.
"If I guessed correctly, this should be a tail sting left by the Insect Race," Xia Moyu said seriously. "The Insect Race is one of the most powerful races in the universe, deeply connected with the Demon Clan. So when we found this tail sting, we immediately took it seriously and came to inform you personally."
"Oh? What connection do the Insect Race and Demon Clan have?" Huang Yi continued to ask.
Xia Moyu took a deep breath and said, "Perhaps you already know the Seven Archdemons originate from different races. The body of the King of Hell is Dragon Clan, the body of the King of Curses is the Black Phoenix, the body of the King of Greed is the Starry Behemoth... and the body of the Queen of Agony is from the Insect Race! The Insect Race is one of the earliest life forms in the universe. The first Insect Race is known as the ’Ancestral Mother,’ the ancestor of all Insect Races, feared even by the Heaven Realm’s demigods. But the ’Ancestral Mother’ has long slept in the Land of Origin, not seen for countless years. This Ancestral Mother had three outstanding daughters, known as the three great queens of the Insect Race: the Spider Queen, the Queen Bee, and the Ant Queen, ruling over the three royal clans. The Queen Bee is the Queen of Agony!"
As Xia Moyu spoke, a look of disgust appeared on her face as she continued, "The body of the Queen of Agony is a giant beehive, filled with an endless number of bee insect larvae. These larvae are like maggots, but as adults, they transform into bees with stingers. Upon encountering enemies, they sting with their stingers, at the cost of their own lives, as the stinger, along with their innards, gets torn out, leading to quick death. The sting we discovered should be left by an adult bee insect, which must have died, but the Insect Race always acts in groups. There might be more bee insects infiltrating The Second World, posing endless threats."
"So, the Queen of Agony is one of the three great queens of the Insect Race?" Huang Yi suddenly realized.
Earlier, when he teamed up with the Thunder God, Dao Feng, Sharp Sword, and Dragon Spike to kill the Queen of Agony’s clone, the Queen of Agony had torn her clothes, revealing her body.
Her body was covered in lumps, from which maggot-like insects flew out—now it seemed, those insects should have been the larvae of bee insects.
