Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 989 - 460: Test Reward, Despair of the Dragon Clan in the Abyss
[Soul Talent: Thousand Faces and Million Forms +5, your soul has a unique taste, embracing all forms, rejecting none. Possessing any shell becomes effortless. Talent effect: Significantly increases shell compatibility (+65%), shell slots +16.]
"Embracing all forms, rejecting none..." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶
Lin Xun pondered as he looked at the description of the Soul Talent.
The Soul Talent had been with him since the beginning of the game, and it was crucial for him to rapidly enhance his strength.
This talent was undoubtedly monstrous, as it allowed him to increase compatibility and possess monsters after killing powerful enemies, and even elevate half a grade in shell quality when compatibility broke through the critical point.
Although compared to other Soul Talents that directly increased combat power, like Lu Caiyi’s ’Endless Strength’ and Vesinu’s ’Overspending Evolution’, the effects of Thousand Faces and Million Forms were less significant in battle; however, its auxiliary ability, or the ability to quickly enhance strength, likely far surpassed all Apostles.
But now, having reached the ’Immortal’ level among the gods, the effects of Thousand Faces and Million Forms were starting to falter.
The most obvious sign was that after breaking through the critical value of compatibility, it was no longer possible to elevate the shell’s quality.
Whether it was Flandre, or facing the Great Sage, or even the recently acquired Executor, Thousand Faces and Million Forms was unable to elevate the shell’s quality to ’Immortal’ through a compatibility breakthrough of one hundred percent.
Even when Lin Xun possessed the Executor, while the effects of ’Beginning of the Holy Spirit’ had not yet faded, that is, while his own Flesh Authority still remained at the Divine Realm, the panel showed the Executor’s shell quality as ’Immortal’ without any promotion to ’Immortal+ Level’ due to the compatibility bonus.
"Is Thousand Faces and Million Forms a Soul Talent that shows strong early performance but becomes weak and feeble later on?"
Although the description of the talent was just two lines of text, by associating the words with the underlying Authority, he vaguely felt that his own Authority was not so simple.
Either the talent was indeed as initially presumed, outstanding in the early stages but useless and weak later; or the hidden power behind this talent was so immense it could exceed all expectations...
"The current ineffectiveness and weakness of Thousand Faces and Million Forms is likely due to the slow progress I’ve made in enhancing the talent, causing it to remain at a +5 level."
According to known information, Soul Talents would be truly developed at +7, revealing significant improvements.
Soul Talent +7 requires Divine Tools of the Mythical Level to elevate, and according to the unwritten rule of reducing one level from the Divine drop, Mythical Level Divinity corresponds to ’Immortal’ gods who wield Authority.
It is estimated that only when Soul Talent reaches +7 will one’s Soul Talent be able to evolve toward the direction of Authority.
[...]
[The ’Librarian’ sees that you have gained some understanding and removes his monocle. He then takes out a bookmark from his chest and hands both items to you...]
[You have obtained ’Librarian’s Monocle’ (Item)]
[You have obtained ’Anchoring Bookmark’ (Item)]
[The ’Librarian’ tells you that normally, it is impossible to receive any physical rewards during a test, but this special test is a bit different. Because you have already gained Authority beforehand, the test rewards have become the physical rewards of defeating the Executor and the shell, so the bookmark reward is not bountiful...]
Lin Xunxin thought that if he hadn’t timely activated ’Beginning of the Holy Spirit,’ using Flesh Authority to piece together a corpse, this divine shell would have been out of his reach.
However, upon further thought, the dismembering of the Executor was due to the Apostles’ own misconduct, although it was impossible for the demon army to show mercy in the heat of such a fierce battle...
The compatibility of the Executor’s shell, after removing the compatibility enhancements, reached 82%, clearly indicating it was a reward shell given by the Underworld Game.
A ’Immortal’ divine shell with adequate compatibility is truly invaluable; one cannot say that the test reward was meager but rather too generous.
As for the Anchoring Bookmark... he had already successfully obtained one through the internal channels of ’New World,’ allowing him to anchor and enter the Evil God Chapter after completing this section.
The rewarded Anchoring Bookmark seemed somewhat redundant, but from another perspective, this item had significant uses and was certainly better to have in abundance rather than shortage.
[The ’Librarian’ continues, Apostle, the test has been successfully concluded, the rewards have been distributed, and his task is also completed. It is time to say goodbye.]
[When you truly achieve ’Immortal,’ remember to find his main body in the Library, and you will learn more about the true nature of Doomsday.]
[Saying this, the ’Librarian’ chants a spell, his figure fades and disappears, and along with him, the bookshelves and the vine chair outside the Library’s doorway vanish...]
[You were just conversing with the ’Librarian,’ leaving the ’Demon Shaman’ hanging aside for a long time, but it showed no dissatisfaction; instead, it patiently awaited your response to the ’massacring the Polar Star Association’ proposal...]
[After all, as the ’Child of the Abyss,’ your return to the surface, coming to the human world, is to claim the blood debts for the demon clan.]
[Yet, the surface world is too dangerous, and if the Knowledge School discovers a large number of demon lords and the presence of the ’Child of the Abyss,’ what awaits you is annihilation.]
[Once the Polar Star Association has completely repaid the blood debt, you have no reason to stay in the human world any longer, and will obediently follow them back to the Abyss...]
[Do you want to agree to the ’Demon Shaman’s proposal?]
After careful consideration, Lin Xun chose to refuse.
