Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 642 - 323: Ancient Nest, Moth Mimic’s Blending Liquid_2
[You have discovered the ’Feathered Moth Mimic’!]
[If the ’Moth Mimic’ fails to strike, it immediately flutters its scale-covered wings, rushing at you again...]
[You give a furious shout, your feet planted in the ground, a barbaric strength permeates throughout your body!]
[You raise the ’Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace’, and swing it down with all your might...]
[Accessory special skill ’Power of the Titans’ activated!]
[Your attack caused a power suppression on your enemy, triggering the ’Stun’ effect in ’Power of the Titans’!]
[Behind you, a towering giant avatar appears, holding the weapon of terror with you and bringing it down forcefully...]
[A loud thunderous sound rings out!]
[The ’Moth Mimic’ was smashed into the ground without any resistance. It seemed to want to flutter its wings to pull itself out, but its wings were as if out of control, fluttering wildly. Instead of freeing itself, it just sank deeper...]
[...]
[As the fluttering of its wings gradually weakens, the ’Moth Mimic’ twitches a few times before slowly becoming still...]
[You have defeated the ’Feathered Moth Mimic’, and your experience points marginally increase!]
[You have acquired an ’Enlightening large piece of spirituality’*1]
[You look down at the body of the feathered creature resembling a flying moth...]
[’Feathered Moth Mimic’s Shell: A feathered being from the ancient nest, gifted with excellent mimicking abilities and toxicity. Unfortunately, due to its fragile wings and massive size, it is neither suitable for warfare nor stealth assassinations, gradually falling out of use. Compatibility: 66% (+55%)]
"Barely counts as an elite monster."
Lin Xun shakes his head, feeling that this hidden map is too simple.
If the monsters in the ancient nest are all of this standard, wouldn’t he be able to simply steamroll over them using Star Lord Canis or a Ninja Master’s shell?
[Shikigami ’Snow Woman’ hands you the object fished out from the treasure chest...]
[You have obtained ’Moth Mimic’s Ritual Blood’ (Special Item)!]
[’Moth Mimic’s Blending Liquid’ (Special Item): The bottle holds a blending liquid used for feathering promotion, with tiny egg-shaped objects floating inside.]
[By using this item, you have a certain chance to enter the ’Moth Mimic’s’ feathering process!]
[The feathering process is related to the compatibility of your shell, which will gradually drop during the process. When the compatibility falls to a critical point of no longer possessing, the feathering process will forcibly terminate.]
[Please note, feathering has a risk failure, and although successful feathering can enhance the shell, it will change the shell prefix and form. Please use this item with care!]
Lin Xun looks at the item description thoughtfully.
This tool seems to be an advanced version of the ’Ritual Blood,’ which can be used to enhance the shell.
As the feathering process proceeds, the shell shape will change accordingly, until the shell compatibility falls to the critical point of almost being unpossessable.
So the higher the initial compatibility, the more enhancement the shell can undergo.
Simply reading the text description doesn’t help to comprehend the enhancement effect of the blending liquid tool clearly.
Lin Xun decides to use the ’Maggot Man’s’ shell to test it first, since the ’Moth Mimic’ isn’t very strong, and the Maggot Man happens to have a degrading reset ability.
The feathering blending liquid has a certain failure rate, but he has the ’Life-Changing Artifact,’ and he can easily manage this kind of lottery draw.
[...]
[You have possessed the ’Feathered Maggot Man’s’ shell!]
[You have used the ’Moth Mimic’s Blending Liquid’ (Special Item)!]
[A pain that permeates your entire body suddenly surges, the skin on your body slowly peels off and falls away, replaced by a sturdy outer skin covered in fluffy hairs...]
[Feathering in progress...]
Lin Xun stares closely at the compatibility value on the shell panel.
The original Reaper’s compatibility has reached 86% after talent enhancement.
After the Maggot Man shreds its ’Reaper’ shell and resets its points, its shell quality drops to ordinary level, but the compatibility greatly improves, reaching an astonishing value of 135% (+55%).
In other words, there is 55% of excess compatibility that can be used for feathering to drop...
"I wonder to what extent a 55% excess compatibility will enhance the shell?"
Lin Xun stares at the compatibility value while reading the game text.
[You can’t help but let out a painful wail, curling up on the ground...]
[The skin on your back tears open, growing wings, and your hands and feet transform into long, sharp walking feet...]
"Huh?"
Lin Xun couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise.
The compatibility value remained at 135%, with no decrease due to the feathered transformation.
"The shadow game is out again.... No, wait!"
"Damn, I almost forgot, the Thousand Faces and Million Forms can lock the panel..."
It was only then that Lin Xun remembered that his own soul talent had an infrequently used function of locking the panel.
It’s not accurate to call it a panel lock, more accurately, it means that the compatibility value of the shell body he inhabited could only increase and would not decrease.
For example, when the Little Dragon’s bloodline was promoted, it became more and more like a Western Dragon, but the compatibility value remained unchanged, staying at the status when he initially inhabited.
Otherwise, the shell of the Little Dragon would have reduced its compatibility to below 80%, resulting in being unable to be inhabited.
"Doesn’t this mean that the Maggot Man shell can be feathered to the limit form of Blending Liquid?"
[Your black and white pupil becomes compound eyes, your lips also transform into a siphon-type mouth apparatus...]
[Your body gradually swells from a thin humanoid shape, gradually becoming a gigantic moth shape...]
[...]
[Feathering successful!]
[You have promoted from ’Feathered Maggot Man’ to ’Feathered Moth Mimic’ in perfect state!]
Lin Xun opens the panel, checking his attributes.
[Shell - "Feathered Moth Mimic"]
[True name: Broken Bone]
[Compatibility: 135%(+55%) Compatibility exceeds critical point, shell quality improved!]
[Shell Quality: Epic Level]
[Shell Level: 66 (+36↑)]
[Shell Equipment: None]
[Shell Skill: Homing (Special Skill): ...]
[Shell Skill: Molting (Special Skill):...]
[Shell Skill: Environmental Mimicry (Epic Level Skill): Use this skill to imitate the color and pattern of your surroundings, beguiling the enemy and making yourself undetectable.]
[Shell Skill: Highly Toxic Sting (Epic Level Skill): Use this skill to launch an attack with a poison gland connected tail stinger, injecting highly toxic venom into the enemy.]
The shell quality has been promoted from the Maggot Man’s original Ordinary Level to Rare+ Level.
With the blessing of compatibility, the shell quality was further improved, promoting to Epic Level, and two additional skills were also obtained.
It is necessary to say that the ’Blending Liquid’ item is more advanced than the ’Ritual Blood’.
’Ritual Blood’ can only undergo the first stage of feathering with mediocre shell quality, while ’Blending Liquid’ can directly feather to the final form, advancing from Ordinary Level to Epic Level in one fell swoop.
"The only thing that feels a bit unfamiliar is that this shell is totally without a human figure, it’s just a big moth with a stinger."
"According to the description, the moth is also big in size... this can’t even exist in reality."
Lin Xun scratches his head. If he wants to manifest a moth, he can only let Snow Woman or Sly Ghost act as trainers while playing the part of a Pokémon.
The summon is a large moth, that makes sense, right?
"This kind of Blending Liquid item can improve shell quality and give comprehension of skills, it should be a very rare item."
"I wonder what level the other apostles can feather to... even if it just grows a pair of wings or some special organ without improving shell quality, it will still have great value."
After pondering over the new form of the Maggot Man, Lin Xun switches to the shell of Star Lord Canis and continues his exploration.
[...]
[You enter what looks like an elevator on your own, the carriage trembles slightly, beginning to ascend slowly...]
[With the ascending carriage, you have come to the second floor of the nest.]
[Here is still a circular-closed ring-shaped hallway, with most of the ’incubation sacs’ on both sides showing signs of damage, empty inside.]
[You walk out of the carriage and follow the hallway, only to see a few silhouettes floating in the sparse incubation sacs.]
[You step up boldly to observe them through the semi-transparent fleshy membrane...]
[Inside the incubation sac is a naked human with their eyes tightly closed. There is no manifestation of insect organs and there is no strangeness compared with normal humans.]
[You discovered the ’Feathered First Generation Parasite’!]
Lin Xun frowned.
"Parasite?"
He had a faint premonition that the ’Abandoned Ancient Nest’ hid a profound secret.
