She was sure this part of her irritated her husband many tis and she would continue to do it. It was quite fun to tease him and make him feel sothing, anything. It added so fun to an otherwise repetitive routine.
Passion Nourishing ditation evolving was not unexpected, by utilising Emotion Concord she found it a lot easier to learn or copy other people's ntal based skills. And learning from the best ditation user she knew was just a start. He wasn't the only one who could copy others.
It was a ditation that burns passion as fuel to speed up stamina and mana regeneration by 2000% 10.0% per level. It was also sothing she can do while moving and even casting, only during so states of mind of combined emotions would she get kicked out of ditation. When in emotional balance with her husband, she can maintain this regeneration even in Wrath state.
She couldn't lose to her Seven's students who were all trying to learn how to ditate on the move and while casting.
Besides 'passion', this regeneration also increased her energy consumption since stamina used a lot of calories. It was not all good.
Her physique was many tis less energy efficient than Ebony's. Unwavering Immortal's Pulse running at a constant static 25% didn't help her case here.
Ichor Cauldron evolved from Blood Cauldron. Another semi-passive, semi-active skill. The blood elental skill that was required for her to hold so much energy, a consistent consumption of mana would boil down the elents and energy so that her blood could contain even more energy. Massively increasing her energy storage and battle endurance.
Rite of Malice - Enact a rite steeped in ill intent, shaping hostility, resentful Intent into a focused working. Malice is gathered, refined, and bound, amplifying harmful effects while eroding restraint. Planted malice increases in potency by 4000% 25.0%.
It evolved after her evolution and so design as she and her husband rebuild their ho and ho security.
It doesn't scale off any of her stats. It scales of her malice, which was planted by Intent and Nun. The skill na used to be Misplaced Malice since she planned to improve a person's perception to death but it wouldn't be misplaced if that was the plan.
Together with Ebony's Will, they increased the range to outside their house and within their wall fence. Which also expanded a bit for a larger yard, garden and outdoor space. Within their walls, everything is forced to be normal.
The two of them would turn Unclassed, retaining all their baseline Physique but with the stats of an Unclassed. However, they retained a portion of their ntal prowess, reaction and reflex speed. This was already the best they can do for their protection.
For Will and Intent to make this Rite and Domain effect as strong as possible, keeping the two of them as exceptions actually consus a lot of Will's...processing capabilities, or so her husband puts it. By having the effects work on everything and everyone, it strengthens the desired effect significantly.
Dusk, Spine retains its full power and all the mana, blood and fire they'd pumped into the tree and staff. They also rested within the wall fence.
Elental spells that fly overhead would be extinguished by their Will and Rite of Malice for that was the 'rules' of their Domain. High-speed projectiles that can pierce through the rest of Dusk's range would also slow or stop completely. Having force no different from a rock tossed by an unclassed human's arm.
Anyone else who walks in also becos like a normal Unclassed, as for how much of their Physique baseline they retain, it varies from person to person. Monsters included get returned to their Unclassed states.
It was a literal death sentence to walk into the confines of their walled fence.
It was too bad Cui didn't accept their invite to test if this worked on her. She was definitely the strongest Intent user in Xienor right now.
Should this fail on any target, the two of them can still return to full power as Dusk can deactivate the effect. If a spell really was strong enough to pierce through Dusk entire range of a few kilotres and still not be turned to nothing after passing through the walled fence they weren't really in danger compared to if they were outside their walls.
Sinful Modulation - Modulate your desires into one or many with increasing speed of 50% 0.25% per level. Decreases emotional exhaustion by 200% 0.25% per level.
Of course, she couldn't forget about making a skill for her new Trait Singular Desire Converter. She could convert all desires into one, but this skill also allows her to modulate and make her 7 desires split evenly.
Reducing her gluttony in exchange for sloth can curb her need to bite into anything that moves or slay anyone who looks at her. However, she realised that her Pride cannot be converted. Whichever mode she goes into, Pride is always excluded and maintained. A skill issue that she would have to figure out sooner or later.
Combining or converting emotions takes ti, and it can be shockingly tiring so this skill has been necessary for her to develop.
Far less changed for her Sub-Class. Pulsating Tempest Augntation evolved into Thunderstorm Indoctrination long ago, a double elental augntation. Lightning mana through her nerves and muscles to speed her up, wind mana through her veins to assist blood flow and nutrient transmission speeds.
Stormpot Peration for her fire-infused lightning mana, also an elental mana infusion skill like Infernal Surge but for lightning mana. Transmitting her fire mana into her target by electrocuting them was useful on many targets. One of her preferred dungeons these days were those that spawned inorganic monsters. She wouldn't feel bad about burning their internals if she wasn't going to eat them.
Cyclonic Razor dium was also a direct upgrade at the cost of more mana to add a sharp cutting wind edge to any object, including blunt objects.
Charged Vitality evolved and mutated from Static Palpitation. Static Palpitation uses electrical shocks to strengthen her heart and increase her heart rate. This used to be effective for her old core skill which requires a quick heart rate.
That is no longer required for Unwavering Immortal's Pulse so her lightning mana is now charged with vitality in her blood to support her Core Skill with the empowering of her physical stats with life force and stamina. Levelling up increases the mixing of vitality and lightning mana so that there is less loss in energy and greater containnt stores.
Volt Lash evolved from Thunderlash. Gospel's Foreseeking Perforation can be stacked with Volt Lash to turn her pierce into a lightning strike that hos in her target. Her normal slashes and cuts can also be supercharged with lightning, which she always does especially when she needs to shoot a ranged attack out.
Cyclonic Blade was the sa thing but with wind mana. She didn't find it interesting but the skill evolved without a skill na change. Wind magic was probably one of her lesser talents and she couldn't evolve it any further in a short period.
Ominous Storm was her new creation with her leaning into divination. She thought about how to make use of astral mana and ca up with this even before her evolution and was why she took a certain Fortification for her Sub-Class that supported this function.
By charging Intent, astral mana into lightning and wind, she can conjure a storm that stirs up astral mana. This makes divination harder and less accurate.
However, she had no one to tell her if it was working but herself. So she can only practice by conjuring these storms and throwing them outside their ho. This caused the cold mana dense snowing to turn into blizzards outside Dusk's range. It only went on for as long as she tossed them out, so the blizzard wasn't consistent and it shouldn't be ongoing in every direction. These guys must have bad luck for coming in where they chose to.
Once she figured it out properly, she wanted to protect their ho from astral attacks and intervention.
In the sa trend, Profession also wasn't jumping in strides compared to her Core or Class.
Carnage Cooking was still the sa as it was, it helped with cooking even in battle. Improving situational awareness of her ingredients whether dead or alive, moving or not.
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Heat perception had the benefit of her fire magic proficiency and could evolve. Not only does it help with perceiving but also controlling, it was helpful in knowing how much heat to use or not to use when she slays her target so that their flesh remains uncooked or cooked perfectly.
Vigour Ingrain mutated and evolved into Essence Quintessence with the help of her student's essence control lineage skills. It was crucial to every part of Xin's skillset.
In cooking, it helped with manipulating, purifying and refining the essence of her ingredients. Allowing the removal of impurities and manipulating the essence to work with the essence of all other ingredients in a single dish. This was essential for her cuisines.
Without the control of essence, she couldn't have mixed and used multiple ingredients to work better together to provide an effect more than 1 1.
Astral Palate Cuisine ca about naturally after she kept divining recipes that would fit soone's palate. Cuisine set dishes could work together to provide even bigger boosts.
So far, pretty much all her cuisines gave temporary boosts. It was slowly giving boosts that were significant in battle but her skills were still lacking because she was still depending on Ancient quality ingredients and abundance of essence.
It wasn't her fault that their baseline was so good that low-quality ingredients were considered impurities within their bodies, but she wasn't complaining. Only empowered that her cooking skills had a lot of room for improvent.
In this regard, she hasn't even reached the Empire of Ebbing Wave's chefs' greatest heights. She still recalled the al she ate at Tidal a year ago. They finally made ti for a reservation and ate that lifespan-increasing cuisine.
While it required extrely rare ingredients, and it was only significant if they ate it consistently, it was still a permanent buff. Sothing she cannot achieve with her dishes.
The chef was even better than the rumours for a single al had both of them get notifications about their lifespans increasing.
Hers increased by about six months while Ebony's increased by about two weeks. The effect was greatest on the first al but it was supposedly also additive over ti if the rumours were true.
The only complaint she had was the foul sll of herbs remaining and the small quantities for it to be considered a cuisine set.
However, that one al had her taste buds and sll rember and decipher all the ingredients. With the help of her divination, it was more than enough for her to reverse engineer the recipe.
After learning about her husbands greatly reduced lifespan which terrified her more than she assud since he took her prior short lifespan with an ease of mind.
She had to rely on Pride to maintain her calm. She could only believe that he could evolve with the best Potential within the ti limit he had. She was very attached, and unlike him, she couldn't help but feel anxious about the passage of ti.
Their situations swapped. After this evolution, her short lifespan problem was not an issue.
Both the 'Blood' and the Phoenix's Heartblood Essence were extrely potent when it ca to life force. Tied to lifespan in various ways. According to a coin flip, her lifespan was easily in the tens of thousands of standard years if not greater.
She almost felt bad for having an emotional ltdown when her period ca after pushing it back for two years. Losing control of Emotional Concord for a full day was not fun but her natural emotion sensing, a Generic Skill. She was able to feel that he was just as much in pain though not for the sa reason, which was comforting.
That experience stopped her from pushing back her period for training as the emotional outburst lasted too long and was not pleasant. Fortunately, her natural one doesn't hurt her battle capabilities as much as it used to even if she were to let it happen. The blessings of evolution.
Xin looked on as her husband quietly stared at the Grandmaster's respectful display. After becoming his translator, he was getting more and more concise and less talkative to others except her.
He no longer got into lengthy explanations about things he used to nerd on about, even skills and fighting.
She liked that he got comfortable with himself, that he no longer put on an act to look 'normal' in front of others but it appeared like he would go completely mute to others if this continues.
So she ignored his obvious ntal probe to her and smiled when he looked over for assistance. Acting as if she was busy cleaning the mud off her feet.
Unallocated stat points: 0
Digested stat points: 2984
Strength: 2002 [ 627]
Vitality: 2400 [ 972]
Constitution: 5100 [ 587]
Endurance: 4000 [ 554]
Agility: 2860 [ 9]
Intelligence: 4420 [ 31]
Wisdom: 3780 [ 182]
Perception: 1750 [ 22]
She hasn't reached level 750 but her stats were greater thanks to her Physique. Consuming stats and making it hers.
Ebony's hypothesis was true in that this thod of increasing stats was actually eating into her Potential gain. It was well studied.
Living, breathing, and eating all add to a creature's Natural Potential.
This Trait of hers that she got from 'Her' Blood definitely eats sothing else. In this case, it was highly likely to be Potential.
While Ebony consus rare ingredients that may help in future, she was converting this Potential directly into stats. Over ti, decades, the difference might be clear even with the miniscule amount of Potential eating would give.
Her Baseline had always been higher than that of a normal human, including Ebony's original. However, with his current knowledge, perception and simulation, he calculated that she had all her stats in relation to baseline human and didn't account for her original.
All her stats supposedly had the effect 15 tis that of a baseline human except for Vitality at 50 tis that of one.
If Ebony's maxed level and Strength stat of 1950 were equivalent to a baseline human of 17,550, her current Strength of 2629 was equivalent to 39,435.
Slightly over twice as strong as he was…if one discounted her Core Skill at rest, which increases her physical stats by 110.75 tis.
That would put her Strength of 4,367,426.25, about 248.8 tis greater than Ebony and when activated to her greatest output, her strength stat would be equivalent to 17,469,705, compared to a baseline human before any elental augntation or 995 tis that of her husband's baseline resting strength.
Ebony had a greater Pri Rate, but the physical strength gap that covered was miniscule compared to what her Tier 5 Core Skill gave her.
However, this was no longer his base strength. Not after the runic surgery he perford on himself. Branding himself with his curse formula.
While she was still stronger in physical strength, it wasn't like she could hurt him with his mana condensed body that held literal solid mana.
Not only did his Branding increase his strength and endurance by a tier 4 scaling of 10% and base of 2000%, to hell with his endurance…it also increased his base constitution even more, by 2500% base and 10% per level scaling. As if that wasn't enough, it supposedly increased his impact, shear and elental resistance by at least 50% and a 0.1% scaling.
The only bad thing is that the scaling wouldn't co into effect unless he removes the Branding, wait for weeks and even months to heal his mana chassis before he can do surgery on himself…AGAIN. For the level-up effect to co into place.
If it wasn't for his Numbers or his healing mana chassis, this skill was absolutely useless for another person!
Other Branders, curse or otherwise, probably levelled their skills by using it on other people and not just themselves. Would they even be able to brand themselves? Can they conduct self-surgery within their bodies?
On their bones and muscles?
Anyway, the last ti he conducted the surgery, his skill was at level 1324. His current base strength was increased by 15240% or 153.4 tis higher than his base. Making his Strength around 2,692,170 and this was excluding his Physique where he made his muscles and bones more efficient than a human's so his base strength effect 20% higher.
Hence her resting strength of 4,367,426.25 was only about 1.35 tis higher than her husband's resting Strength of 3,230,604.
She shut her husband up before he brought Pri Rate into consideration but that should close the gap more, which would explain why she wasn't able to overpower him without activating a bit of her Core Skill in recent days.
Sotis she wondered if he purposely re-branded himself more often to keep up with her physical strength so that she cannot take control over their bedti activities a bit more. Not that it mattered when they were both normalised by the Domain and Ritual in their ho.
Fortunately, she can still level up and eating would still strengthen her further.
Her Wisdom and Perception stat was never more potent in Will or had any Potential-expensive stuff that Ebony had so it was cheaper for her to develop into. Not to ntion, stats were more useful for her than Ebony thanks to her Core Skill.
As for how he ca up with her Vitality being so much higher in effect compared to humans and why she had the Potential for that they can only think that it was due to 'Her' Blood and probably the Phoenix making the stat Potential required extrely low.
1 stat point for her was worth a lot more compared to him.
Eating monster at, vegetables and herbs tend to give her physical stats.
Very few edibles gave her ntal stats, and close to none gave agility or perception. As agility at high values ties to her dexterity and ability to control movents to high degrees at high speeds and power, she could understand why eating for stats wouldn't improve it much.
Wisdom stat mostly ca from Ebony's blood that she forced him not to give her anymore. Even if it helps train her tolerance and resistance to arcane poisoning. She didn't want him to decrease his life force in any way which might eat into his lifespan if she continued to consu at the rate she did.
It also made her nightlife more exhausting, but she was okay with losing that endurance trick if it ant lengthening his remaining ti.
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