Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 652 - 327: Lin Xun’s New Container and Jinmu’s New Container_2
[You are integrating into this massive dead shell, connecting all its neural ganglia...]
[...]
[Parasitism successful, you now have complete control of this vessel!]
[Your shell ’Feathered Fully Adaptive Parasite’ has temporarily been replaced by ’Feathered Brutal Prison Warden’!]
[If you wish to return to being a ’Feathered Fully Adaptive Parasite’, please use the special skill ’Perfect Metamorphosis’.]
Lin Xun opened the panel to check the attributes.
[Shell --- ’Feathered Brutal Prison Warden’]
[True Name: Heavy Hammer]
[Compatibility: 137% (20%)]
[Shell quality: Epic+ Level]
[Shell Level: 68 (↑+3)]
[Shell Equipment: Prison Warden’s Bone War Hammer (Epic Weapon): ...]
[Shell equipment: Brutal’s Exoskeleton Mask (Epic+ equipment): ...once this equipment is worn, entering combat status will automatically generate a shell covering the whole body.]
[When an area causes you physical damage, it will initiate a judgement. If the enemy’s attack (weapon or skill quality) is lower than the equipment’s quality, there’s a high chance of being immune to the physical damage, and even for higher quality physical damage, there will be some degree of reduction.]
[This equipment is currently damaged and needs to be repaired before use.]
[Shell skill: Heavy Charge (Epic+ skill): Launch a devastating charge at the enemy, the higher the strength and physical attributes, the higher the damage inflicted on the enemy.]
The Prison Warden’s panel attributes are very strong, making it a powerful meat tank warrior.
The ’Brutal’s Exoskeleton Mask’ is undeniably a great surprise. Even if he doesn’t use this equipment himself, selling it would earn him a lot of spirit essence.
As for its damaged state, it can be repaired by activating the residual activeness in the equipment through the ’Hive Mind’.
"Huh?"
Lin Xun suddenly furrowed his brows.
The vessel’s compatibility not ’137% (+55%)’ but ’137% (20%)’.
The 137% compatibility is the Fully Adaptive Parasite’s compatibility value, and 20% is the vessel’s own compatibility value, this part is easy to understand.
However, the familiar line ’Compatibility exceeds the critical point, shell quality improves!’ had not shown up.
In other words, without a compatibility increase, this Prison Warden’s vessel had already achieved Epic+ level shell quality.
After a bit of thinking, Lin Xun roughly understood the parasitic mechanism.
Parasitism is like a pilot operating a Gundam. Exceeding the critical point improves the driver, the Fully Adaptive Parasite’s shell quality, but cannot improve the performance of the Prison Warden’s Gundam.
Unless his compatibility improves significantly, reaching the threshold where his Wandering Soul can possess the Prison Warden, no matter how high the parasite’s compatibility is, it can’t be transferred to the vessel.
"The parasitic skill is still far behind Thousand Faces and Million Forms."
"If my soul talent could level up once more, I could directly possess the Prison Warden. If it could level up even more, I could pull the Warden’s quality up to Legendary Grade, making it one of my main shells..."
He couldn’t help but envision the future.
[Do you want to open the metal gate and go to the underground prison area?]
He had finished the battle too quickly, Jinmu was probably still fighting the guards down in the underground prison.
Lin Xun, who aims to explore the full map, naturally won’t just stand here waiting for Jinmu to return.
[You lift the massive metal gate easily. The heavy gate is like a small wooden plank in front of you.]
[The screams from the underground prison have stopped at some point. The stairs leading to the underworld are dark and silent.]
[With your parasitic vessel known as the ’Feathered Brutal Prison Warden’, you head underground...]
[The spacious underground passage appears narrow and cramped in front of your form. You have to crouch down to get in.]
[You go down the stairs to the underground...]
[In front of you is a deep, dark corridor. In the corridor lay several bodies of ’Feathered Elite Guards’. The floor is littered with severed limbs and glowing spirit essence residuals.]
[On both sides of the corridor are large metal cells, in which numerous Feathered criminals can be seen. They are severely injured, and barely hanging on. ]
[Seeing you arrive, they shrink into the corner, fear prominent in their eyes.]
[Suddenly, one of the Feathered gathers up the courage to come to the edge of the bars and whispers to you, Warden, the demon who dared to break into the prison killed many guards and ran deeper into the prison...]
[You nodded to signify you understood, and the feathered criminal flushed with joy, seemingly anticipating your reward which would exempt him from punishment.]
[Suddenly, a heavy bone hammer crashed down, not only smashing through the cell bars, but also pulverizing the feathered criminal into minced meat...]
[You drew out the ’Refined Copper Sand Hammer’, and the ’Combat Angel Valkyrie’ fluttered its refined copper wings, approaching you...]
[You issued a command to her to eliminate all offenders without exception!]
Lin Xun ignored all sorts of deathly upgrades from the underworld game along with the text about experience and spirit gains popping up, forging deeper into the prison all the same.
As he ventured deeper, he picked up the spirits left by the dead guards along the way.
With Jinmu clearing the path ahead and Valkyrie sweeping the area behind, his only job was to collect spirits and items.
When Jinmu returned, Lin Xun merely pocketed the spoils that Valkyrie had brought in.
"Tsk, did I just turn this underworld game into a farming game..."
[...]
[You quickly march ahead, ignoring the prisoners in the cells on either side of the corridor, and soon reach the next detention area.]
[This place isn’t a communal cage that houses multiple criminals behind the same bars; instread, it consisted of numerous separately confined prison cells.]
[Through the long, narrow window in the cell door, you can see feathered criminals, whose status and power both seem to exceed those of the previous criminals.]
[You entered the body of the ’Fire Worshiping Lord of Yiye Palace’!]
[You wield the shikigami ’Nine-tailed Fox’ in your hands...]
[A barefoot woman, shrouded in violet light, comes at your call, stepping through the air!]
[You give ’Nine-tailed Fox’ the command to attack, instructing her to exterminate every criminal here without exception!]
[You quickly leave the surging, violent purple thunder behind you and march deeper into the detention area...]
[...]
[You arrive in the deepest part of the underground prison, where the candlelight is dim and the atmosphere is eerily silent.]
[Your eyes move over a dozen dead elite guards lying on the ground, focusing on the deepest part...]
[A large prison cell lies at the deepest end, its metallic gate forcefully broken with locks lying on the ground, slightly ajar without any audible movements from within...]
[Do you want to enter the last cell?]
"Did something happen to Jinmu?"
Lin Xun frowned slightly, switched his inhabited body to that of the prison chief, and decisively entered.
[As you stepped forward to kick the door open, it was pulled open from the inside...]
[A slender female insect-like creature strolled out, draped in the familiar black robe of ’Jinmu’ and wearing a similarly colored exoskeleton mask on her face, and in her hand was a sharp needle resembling a Western-style sword.]
[You noticed that there were streamline-shaped transparent wings on her back.]
[The ’Mutated Missionary Jinmu’ seeing your arrival, she raised her needle to attack you without hesitation.]
[While moving her wings, her speed was as fast as a shooting star, before you could even react, the sharp needle had already come right in front of your face...]
[The needle penetrated your body entirely before being swiftly pulled out, leaving a trace of blood.]
[The ’Missionary Jinmu’, repeatedly stinging you, leaving bloody holes...]
[A frustrated female voice came from under the mask, cursed jailer, did you kill her companion?!]
Switching the corners of his mouth, Lin Xun looked blankly.
"Wait, was that War General just a female bug?"
While horrified, the underworld game alerted him that ’you have been seriously injured!’.
[You quickly yell at Jinmu, trying to explain who you are, but Jinmu just gave you a look as if you were an idiot and kept on attacking...]
[You entered the body of the ’Star Lord Canis of Desire’!]
[As the sharp tip of the stinger was infinitely magnified before your eyes, just as you were about to ward off using your sword, Jinmu suddenly stopped, freezing her needle at less than a fist’s distance away from your forehead.]
[Jinmu looked at you in disbelief, she stiffened all over, quickly put away her weapon, covered up her mask and flew past by you without looking back...]
[As she flew by, she yelled out loud, stating that she’d rather confront the Hive Queen at the center of the Holy Nest than stay here and be humiliated!]
Lin Xun felt this scene seemed somehow familiar.
