Chapter 245
CHAPTER 245
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
[ . . . Analyzing . . . ]
As soon as Etvenya vanished completely, a familiar, robotic voice echoed inside Lino’s mind as he turned his attention over to it, temporarily putting her face into the back of his mind .
[Achieved the Aeonian Ascension . . . ]
[Fifth Gate Opened . . . ]
[Gained access to the Law of Soul in addition to the Laws of Lightning, Ti, Death and Perception . . . ]
[ . . . Analyzing . . . ]
[Eshen’s Essence Assimilated Further . . . ]
[Calculating . . . ]
[Current Rate of Assimilation: 22%]
[Bearer’s Strength is permanently increased by 15%]
[Bearer’s Endurance is permanently increased by 15%]
[Bearer’s Soul’s Strength is permanently increased by 20%]
[Bearer’s Divine Sense range increased by 50%]
[Bearer’s resistance to Illusions permanently increased by 40%]
[Bearer’s resistance to Dark Elent increased by 10%]
[Bearer’s affinity to Darkness increased by 60%]
[Bearer’s affinity to Light decreased by 15%]
[Bearer’s affinity to Spirit World decreased by 15%]
[Fewer Primal Spirits will be willing to accept the Bearer as their Master]
[ . . . ]
[ . . . Analyzing . . . ]
[Obtained two Martial Arts: and ]
[ . . . Analyzing . . . ]
[Four Primal Spirits have answered the call . . . ]
[ . . . Two Primordial Spirits of Darkness have answered the call . . . ]
[Bearer will be sent into the Primal World to make his choice . . . ]
Lino sighed inwardly for a mont as the tried to process all the information he had received, yet before he even had a chance to go through the first few lines, he felt his soul being sucked out of his body and thrown into an entirely new reality .
As he opened his eyes, he was t with soul-stirring darkness, frigid beyond description . His whole body shuddered as an onset of fear crippled him for a mont . It has been a while since he’d felt a genuine sense of fear, which is why he was startled further . He almost withdrew his weapons from the void world and readied himself for a battle, but managed to hold back in the end . However fearful he may be, the reason within him told him that the Writ wouldn’t have sent him here just to die .
Just then, two slithering shadows wrapped in smoke approached him . Looking down, Lino realized he couldn’t distinguish their overall shapes, rely distorted shadows . He remained staring for a mont before pulling himself out, deciding to inspect the Primal Spirits .
[Primordial Spirit Un -- born shortly after the forty sixth Pri, Un is one of the oldest Primordial Spirits of Darkness . Being accompanied by it results in tenfold increase in affinity to the Darkness and its associated elents, but also heavily decreases affinity to the opposing elents . The Beholder has to assimilate Un further in order to learn all its secrets]
[Primordial Spirit J’ok -- one of the youngest Primordial Spirits of the Darkness, J’ok’s existence is largely unknown . Being accompanied by it results in a mild increase in affinity to the Darkness and its associated elents, but results in no decrease in affinity with the other elents . J’ok’s initial affinity affords the Beholder a single question in regards to its capabilities a year; further assimilation will result in better understanding]
Lino didn’t need to contemplate any further as he almost imdiately chose J’ok . While having a rather old Primordial Spirit on his side would definitely be beneficial, he was simply unwilling to devote himself entirely to a singular Elent . He’d already learned through Ashta how powerful Primal Spirits of Light can be, and he liked to keep his options open for the future .
Un disappeared back into the surrounding darkness imdiately after as J’ok darted and entered into Lino through the latter’s forehead . After a brief state of dizziness and a rather substantial headache, Lino was thrown out of the Primal World back into the reality, finding himself back in the vast, ruin-decorated world of the Trials .
He almost imdiately searched for J’ok to ask him a question, but to no avail . Growing confused, he dug even deeper only to find the Spirit resting directly inside his Singularity .
"Don’t bother," the Writ’s voice resonated inside Lino’s head as the latter tried poking and probing the Spirit carefully . "This is J’ok’s first ti being assimilated with soone . As it had never been nourished by Qi, it requires excessive amounts of it in order not to die . "
" . . . yo . Maybe you could have told that prior to the fact?!" Lino growled angrily .
"Would that have changed your choice?"
" . . . no, but--"
"Exactly . "
" . . . fuck, you’re irritating . " Lino sighed, deciding to give up and just wait . "How long will it take?"
"Depends . If you stay at the current realm, roughly sixty thousand years . "
" . . . yeah, go fuck yourself right in the dirt . "
"Every subsequent increase in realms will decrease that wait ti," the Writ said . "As the matter of fact, if you reach the Realms of Godhood, it would take less than a day . "
" . . . hah, good to know . " Lino scoffed, deciding to drop the subject . "Alright, leave alone now . I need to inspect all my rewards properly . "
Disregarding the Writ, Lino went back over the whole lot of information he had gathered . As for the increases in stats, he imdiately realized they were simply modified numbers from the initial increase when he first assimilated Eshen’s Essence -- they didn’t stack . Though slightly disappointed, even small increases in percentage for him was monuntal . Looking over his base stats now, he’d realized that his Strength was actually nearing six digits -- this was without wearing any armor or wielding any weapon, just his pure, raw strength .
Hannah’s face imdiately popped in his mind as he tried imagining her reaction once he told her . However, as he didn’t wish to ruin his own surprise, he held back and instead went on to inspect the two new he’d gotten . It was one aspect of his that he sorely lacked; relying entirely on just basic Spear and Sword arts, and auxiliary boosts like left him feeling rather empty . To his dismay, however, neither of the two Martial Arts were actually attack-oriented .
-- Passively increases body’s base regenerative capabilities by 200%
Passively increases body’s base resistances to the Elents by 25%
Passively increases body’s base Defense by 50%
Passively increases body’s base Stamina by 60%
Activating the Art will temporarily grant immunity to ALL effects, increase Defense, Resistance to Elents, Regeneration and Stamina by 600%, and will imdiately heal ALL wounds . Lasts for 15 seconds; requires two hours for re-charging .
The effects, though beyond wonderful, left Lino wanting more . Once he etched [Titan’s Heart] into the chest piece, in addition to the , his defensive capabilities would be uniformly insane . He wagered that soone would have to be at least 400 Levels above him, in full gear, with at least a Legendary Weapon, while Lino stood still and let it happen for them to even move him an inch .
Using the Active component of the art would render him virtually immortal; he very much suspected that even if Ella, Eggor and Hannah combined and attacked him at the sa ti, they would be unable to harm him for those short 15 seconds . Still, even with all that . . . he was just a really good punching bag . And being a punching bag has never and will never be cool .
-- removes ALL restrictions on the user when it cos to weapons; weapons’ stats, however, are subsequently lowered for differences in Levels between the two
Passively increases damage with ALL weapons by 20%
Passively increases attack speed with ALL weapons by 15%
Passively decreases weight of ALL weapons by 50%
Activating the Art will temporarily grant the user an increase of 300% to damage of ALL weapons, 100% increase to Attack Speed, and entirely remove weapons’ weight; in addition, Soul Weapons will relinquish their Will completely to the user . Lasts 3 minutes, requires 6 hours re-charge period .
Similarly to the , the -- annoyingly so -- fit Lino perfectly . Yet, he was still feeling rather dissatisfied . He shouldn’t be, though, and he knew it; after all, if he activated , , , [Ironborn] effect of the [Heaven-cast Armor Set] and the [Bloodbath] effect of the [Dragon Slayer], he could effectively battle soone roughly a thousand tis stronger than base him .
By all accounts, he was currently a powerhouse who could go tit-for-tat against the Chosen Children of the Holy Grounds . He’d also slowly began to understand why Hannah often told him that the reason others hated fighting Empyreans was not because of their overwhelming strength but rather the fact that they simply couldn’t be killed . He was very much becoming the sa, despite not wanting to .
In the end, his battle style remained entirely the sa -- charge in, flay about, and exhaust them to death . The only remotely useful ability he had was ’ ability to warp himself about, and his Wings’ special effects . It was extrely limiting, he grunted inwardly, as even a child could see through him within a first few minutes of the battle .
Most of the people he’d face in the future wouldn’t be Body Cultivators -- they wouldn’t be restricted as he was . And while, for now, he can make up the difference through sheer stats alone, eventually it won’t be enough as of his opponents will also grow in grade and strength . Just fighting Hannah, who held back, was already a nightmare; her ability to warp about at will forced him to always push his body to the extre just to catch up, to say nothing of her wild array of attacks . He was never able to predict what she would do next as she simply had too many options, unlike him .
Realizing that this flaw most-likely won’t be redied by the Writ any ti soon, Lino realized he only had one choice: make up for the lack of diversity . . . by literally making diversity . Although he felt bad about it, he decided to extort so more materials from Hannah after the Trials and craft himself an arsenal of items that will make up for everything he was lacking .
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