I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature-Chapter 1779 - 1246: Only 20?

Within the subtle feeling brought by the flame, Zheng Yichen discovered that other powers seemed to have lost their ’sensation’, including the body’s life force; only the powers of Oblivion and Life Creation remained noticeable.

As Zheng Yichen delicately experienced this extraordinary sensation, Tia approached, pressing the God’s Core in her hand and the box containing the Oblivion Crystal into place.

The God’s Core in the front, the box at the back, immediately fused into each other, turning into a fluctuating substance resembling asphalt.

Then, under the flame, this substance gradually took shape, transforming into the form of the God’s Core, without altering a single detail, except its surface turned black.

If it previously resembled a small star, now this God’s Core has become a small black hole, causing the flame itself to become unstable.

At the instant the God’s Core took shape, Tia pressed it into Zheng Yichen’s body, causing him to shiver, and his flame-covered body regained normal sensation.

However, the feeling of being filled made him extremely uncomfortable. The God’s Core was stuffed into Zheng Yichen’s body, and the fluctuating flame stabilized once again.

"Thirty seconds." Tia’s voice came through, and Zheng Yichen nodded with a twitch at the corner of his eye.

Earlier, his feeling was neither good nor bad, but now it’s beyond that range; he can sense his body is ’dying’. Although this death is offset by his own regenerative ability, the speed of dying surpasses the speed of regeneration.

However, this dying doesn’t affect his regenerative ability but rather his ’lifespan’. The so-called regenerative ability is also the passive increase in lifespan bringing about recovery.

Regarding his lifespan, Zheng Yichen was never concerned before as he couldn’t feel it.

After all, his soul and body were once at their peak, seemingly locked in perfection, with no signs of decay and even capable of improving further.

Now, it’s different, with obvious decay making Zheng Yichen feel like there’s a countdown in front of him, displaying his life numbers.

Maintaining this state, if he doesn’t find a way to enhance himself, he will only have two hundred years to live!

This is under the premise that he possesses the Life Furnace. However, Zheng Yichen can sense that his body’s lifespan is now around two hundred years, while his soul remains unaffected.

The burden brought by the new God’s Core is entirely borne by the body. If the body dies, then the soul will inevitably follow.

The Yang lifespan is two hundred years, the Yin lifespan... can’t be calculated without dying before.

In thirty seconds, Zheng Yichen quickly explored his condition.

The lifespan associated with the Collective World now directly degraded to two hundred years; isn’t this akin to a robust young man suddenly nearing death?

Stepping out of the flame, the sustained flame gradually extinguished, and the surroundings blackened by the flame returned to ’dawn’.

"It’s fine now, let’s go out." Zheng Yichen said, clenching his fist.

He has already taken this step and cannot speak of regret, as it was his own decision.

Although there is no substantial enhancement in strength, the use of strength has changed.

Zheng Yichen’s other powers can still be exerted as usual. The God’s Core’s strength did not alter due to the Oblivion. Honestly, using the material from the Oblivion Crystal, and the God’s Core’s strength not weakening, made Zheng Yichen admire the Dusk’s technology.

Although Zheng Yichen perceived no technology after observing the Dusk’s manufacturing process, Dusk’s direct material combination restructuring surpassed any technology.

If we talk about the biggest change for him, the Oblivion impression that has integrated with him has gained a new reinforcement, becoming more comprehensive, closely resembling the Oblivion process he once observed directly.

Furthermore, the utilization of the Oblivion force seems entirely unrestrained.

When using the Oblivion force again, there is no burden at all; he doesn’t need to worry about excessive use of the Oblivion force causing the body to die from Oblivion’s backlash.

Now, he is already in a state of lifespan dying due to the strengthening from the Oblivion Crystal, although this dying period is lengthy, no impact would be made to his physique during this dying.

But this is the dying brought by Oblivion. With such an abnormal state, similar anomalies cannot be superimposed.

As for what will happen after two hundred years? Two hundred years is not a short time; take time to solve it. Without resolving the Extermination Order, he wouldn’t even have twenty years.

Moreover, there’s the matter that Zheng Yichen feels is problematic: his God’s Core can no longer be detached.

The association Tia spoke of has become incredibly close; it’s not a typical closeness.

The God’s Core, which was supposed to be plug and play, has become inseparable from him, and even he, the user, cannot strip it away.

This implies that in the future, even if there’s no Boundary Breaking Organization, when Proxy Agents can semi-retire, he won’t be able to escape the dying effects brought by Oblivion by giving up the God’s Core and some power.

"Can the God’s Core be stripped by Dusk?"

Returning to the normal environment, Zheng Yichen asked Tia this question.

"Not anymore, the God’s Core is too closely connected to you; removing it would result in a dying outburst."

"Even Dusk can’t do it?" Zheng Yichen was a bit tongue-tied; such an answer he encountered for the first time.

Tia continued to explain: "Because you are now ’Oblivion’ itself."

"That’s impressive." Zheng Yichen grinned slightly, looking at the little book Tia held in her hand; his merit points now exceeded 150,000.

As for how many merit points this battle with numerous Boundary Breakers will bring him, that will have to wait until after the Extermination Order to find out, since the merit points reward for the Extermination Order is fixed.

In other Extermination Orders, upon completion, the Proxy Agents receive returns significantly higher than the normal problem-solving returns.

However, when executing the Extermination Order in the Great World, how much the merit point returns will be is unknown until it’s over.

The Extermination Order is akin to a large story mission, not like a dungeon where beating monsters earns experience, but during large story missions, beating monsters doesn’t yield any return.

But after the story mission ends, the task rewards given are much richer.

Zheng Yichen felt a bit regretful about this. Previously coming to the Great World, since it wasn’t a mission-executed world, dispatching those Boundary Breakers was like solving local strong enemies normally, yielding no merit points.

If he randomly entered other worlds being broken and assigned tasks by Dusk, he might be able to gain a bit of merit point profit from the task.

But the Great World has no executed tasks, so the Extermination Order is different from regular tasks, which makes Zheng Yichen quite regretful.

He doesn’t lack merit points; what he lacks are primordial points, which can be exchanged for retention counts.

Even if, due to great differences in strength, killing a bunch of Boundary Breakers yields little merit, he crushed so many Boundary Breakers at once... wouldn’t granting him a hundred retention counts be fair?

Alas, those are just thoughts. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Zheng Yichen, a bit wistful, said to Tia: "Sigh, wouldn’t it be great to settle the rewards in advance now?"

"Complete the task, and you’ll settle it."

"Alright then, let me see this strengthening expense... 20??" Zheng Yichen widened his eyes at the final number deducted in Tia’s little book, sure he hadn’t read wrong.

"Is there a problem?"

"Too big a problem!" Zheng Yichen was prepared to spend thousands or even tens of thousands more merit points directly, but the final cost was only twenty points?

Isn’t this ridiculous?

In an instant, Zheng Yichen suspected something was off with the Dusk nun in front of him.

"It’s normal, you directly participated in this strengthening, you belong to the reinforcing participants, and on the other hand, what’s expensive isn’t the merit points, but the materials." Tia’s tone carried no change, and her explanation was easy to understand. The person benefiting from the strengthening is Zheng Yichen, but this strengthening required Zheng Yichen’s ’assistance’; otherwise, a stable product couldn’t be created here.

With Zheng Yichen involved, he essentially became an insider, hence getting a discount.

Furthermore, the old topic remains: at Dusk’s on this side, the expensive part was never the processing fee, as there is no brand or manual premium, but rather the always-missing materials.

Without the corresponding materials, a large amount of merit points needs to be consumed to make up. With such materials, it is the normal price.

Even so, a processing fee of 20 merit points still felt excessively cheap to Zheng Yichen.

However, the strengthening concluded, and the merit cost was deducted, so just let it be for now.

Zheng Yichen left the Dusk Territory, immediately returning to the battlefield front lines. In the eyes of those unaware, the battlefield front line maintained by Proxy Agents looked bright and promising, with the Boundary Breaking Organization thoroughly surrounded by them.

Next, all they need to do is slowly erode the Boundary Breaking Organization to completely eliminate this malignant group.

But in reality, the Proxy Agents in this location can only watch helplessly; without breaking that defense, even if the Boundary Breaking Organization is ’trapped’ here, they can still continuously develop.

New Boundary-broken worlds merge into the Great World every moment.

Under such enhancement, the protection maintained by the Boundary Breaking Organization will become increasingly stronger, making their situation more difficult.