Chapter 304: One of Us?
Wu Zhonglin said with a slight smile,
“That’s not very fortunate, as both of us were excellent participants in the last Sumr Camp. If I could be here, you definitely could too.”
Lin Xiao laughed heartily, not dwelling on this point, but rather looked eager to test his skills as he said,
“We talked about having a skirmish last ti, didn’t expect to et here. Why wait for another day when today is as good as any, how about today?”
Wu Zhonglin’s eyes imdiately lit up with a fighting spirit as he replied,
“I couldn’t agree more!”
“Right now?”
“Right now!”
“Hey, wait a second…”
The dozen or so n and won who ca with Wu Zhonglin snapped out of their daze, and the man in the center with a peculiar mark on his forehead, looking a bit amused and helpless, put a hand on Wu Zhonglin and said,
“Hold on, I was here first.”
He then addressed Lin Xiao,
“I heard you’ve recently been listed on the subsidiary list of the Celestial Talent List, with a higher rank than mine, and I must say, I’m not convinced.”
Lin Xiao sized up the man, who, from his tone, also seed to be a high-level contender listed on the subsidiary of the Celestial Talent List, and he was quite surprised.
Before he was on the list, it was rare to et one; and now, soon after being listed, he instantly t another. If it weren’t for the fact that there are only thirty-six positions on the Celestial Talent List, and that they’re carved up by the four great powers of the Main World, he would have thought it was an era where becoming a Celestial Talent was a di a dozen.
Since he was also a super elite listed on the Celestial Talent List, Lin Xiao’s attitude was naturally different; he clasped his fists in salutation and formally introduced himself:
“Lin Xiao, from Elite Class 1 of the Shining High School Departnt.”
“Yan Huang War Zone number five, First Expeditionary Army, Third Division, Nirvana Battle Group, Elite Second Lieutenant—Luo Shuang, codena Draco.”
Draco…
That codena sure has style, and this guy nad Luo Shuang turned out to be from the military rather than an academy, which is why I hadn’t heard of him before.
“This isn’t the place to fight, follow .”
Luo Shuang turned and walked away, with a crowd of military elites following him in a flurry, and soon only he and Wu Zhonglin were left looking at each other, with Wu Zhonglin making a gesture of invitation as he walked and talked:
“In the military, reality prevails, respect is given to the strong. Although you’ve just made it onto the Celestial Talent List, you lack actual combat achievents, they will certainly not respect you. If you want them to respect you as they do , you’ll have to defeat them with strength, convincingly.”
“I understand.”
He knew this well, not just in the military but even in Shining as well. Wasn’t his title as ‘Shining’s Number One’ gained by directly defeating elites like Li Xiushen and Dongfang Piaoxue? Without absolute strength, who would respect him?
“By the way, now that you’re on the subsidiary list of the Celestial Talent List, traditionally, you can pick a codena for yourself.”
“A codena?”
“Yes, one that resonates like thunder when people hear it. To put it in a more boastful way, it’s called swagger.”
Lin Xiao turned his head in surprise, finding it strange to hear the words ‘swagger’ and ‘show off’ coming from Wu Zhonglin. In his mory, wasn’t this guy always low-key and quiet?
Could it be…
He wasn’t calm and silent but secretly pretentious?
Curious, he asked,
“Everyone has a nickna, what’s yours then?”
Upon asking, he saw Wu Zhonglin reveal a strange smile and, after a mont, spit out two words:
“Dragon Emperor!”
“Ah…”
Now he was sure, this guy was truly secretly pretentious.
However…
A codena full of swagger could indeed be quite interesting.
As a super elite listed on the subsidiary of the Celestial Talent List, tradition states you have the right to a swaggering codena, and no matter how arrogant it is, no one would think you’re just showing off because you truly are aweso.
After all, out of the countless young elites in the vast Main World, being one of the top thirty-six was indeed an explosion of awesoness.
In fact, in addition to the Celestial Talent List, many elites on the Unique Talent List of 108 and even the Majestic Talent List of 3000 have their own codenas, just not as bold as theirs, they dare not use too pretentious ones.
For example, a codena like Dragon Emperor is not sothing that an elite on the Majestic Talent List would dare to claim; they could be challenged by others at any minute.
Having a badass codena that you can’t live up to won’t be recognized by others and can only serve for self-amusent. If you dare to publicize it, you’ll constantly have people coming to beat you up until you change it.
As for his own codena, Lin Xiao didn’t have one in mind yet.
He had just heard about this and couldn’t think of a suitable codena at the mont; he’d consider it when he had so ti.
Luo Shuang hurriedly led him to a room reserved for challenges within the Military Divine Domain warriors, randomly picked a login pod, lay down in it, and said to Lin Xiao as she closed the pod door:
“This is the internal LAN, my number is UG14854510, let know when you’re ready.”
Lin Xiao gave her an ‘OK’ sign with his hand and also lay down.
He returned to the Divine Realm with practiced ease, first checked the changes in the Divine Realm during this ti, then pulled up the Extraordinary Magic Network list, and thought for a bit while looking at the two extraordinary abilities listed. He flipped his hand, and a stack of glittering gold cards appeared in his palm.
Facing his first challenge against a Celestial Talent List participant, he needed to be thoroughly prepared, to have an assortnt of extraordinary abilities for the Clan to summon.
There were only two extraordinary abilities listed on the Extraordinary Magic Network at the mont, Foreknowledge and Godspeed.
Before, he didn’t have the ans to get them, but now he had three Quality Ancient Cards and more than twenty Mythical Quality Five Star Cards in his hand, especially the ten Mythical Quality Five Star Cards that Jin Sisi, his horoom teacher, awarded to him. Half of those were the various ability cards he had requested, which would co in handy right now.
With a flick of his hand, he floated a stack of cards in the air and quickly drew a line across them with his hand. The twenty-five gold cards aligned neatly and his gaze swept over them, picking out three decent ability cards as enhancent bases.
The three cards were a Water Elental Call Card, a Berserk Card, and a Fireball Technique Card.
The effect of the Water Elental Call Card was to randomly summon one to three Super Large Rank 6 Water Elentals, which is not a spell but the innate Talent ability of Super Large Rank 6 Water Elentals.
Indeed, whether it’s Water Elents or other elents, they naturally possess the class spell ability to automatically summon like elents.
Class Spells are the innate talents of various creatures.
The ability itself is quite good, and when infused into the Creation Magic Cube, with the Creation Energy added…
A full ten units of Creation Energy were infused, which is the limit for enhancing a Rank 1 Transcendent ability.
Through exploration, Lin Xiao discovered a pattern: the limit for enhancing a Rank 1 Transcendent ability is ten units of Creation Energy. Any enhancer consuming less than ten units won’t produce abilities exceeding Rank 1.
If it exceeds even by 0.1 unit of Creation Energy, then the level of the extraordinary ability will surpass Rank 1 and temporarily beco unusable.
The summoning ability can theoretically be enhanced to a very high limit, as elental creatures have no upper limit in strength. Rank 10 elental Lords equivalent to Demigods are aplenty in the Chaotic Void of the Crystal Wall Universes, including those surpassing Rank 10 and equivalent to True Gods, the Elental Gods. Theoretically, it’s possible to infuse an infinite amount of Creation Energy for enhancent.
However, that is just theory. In practice, such enhancent isn’t feasible. Lin Xiao guessed that the most one could go was to enhance it to summon a Rank 10 elental Lord equivalent to a Demigod, and it’s impossible to summon an Elental God.
Or rather, even an elental Demigod Lord would be extrely difficult to summon, as elental Lords of that caliber have the autonomy to decide whether to respond to a summon—and if they are unwilling, no summoning spell, however powerful, can bring them forth.
Most summoning spells of that level involve personally communicating with the Elental Deity, establishing a contract, and offering tributes to summon their Incarnation; it’s almost impossible to summon their True Body.
Of course, Lin Xiao had no intention of enhancing to that extent. He would focus on enhancing to the peak of Rank 1 for now, considering the enhancent to Rank 2 or even Rank 3 on the Extraordinary Magic Network for later.
With ten units of Creation Energy spent, a sparkling card erged before him.
Enhanced Summon Water Elental: Pay sufficient spiritual power to randomly summon three to five Elite Rank 7 Water Elentals. The base duration for the Water Elentals is one hour; if the ti is exceeded, it will consu the summoner’s spiritual power to maintain presence. If the spiritual power is insufficient, they will return to the Elental Plane.
The second card, the Berserk Card, derives from the innate Berserk Talent of trolls. The original effect provides a 30% increase in the troll’s attack speed and movent speed upon activation, slightly reduces pain, and marginally increases resistance to negative states, the effects intensify based on how grave the injuries are, peaking at a 50% increase.
While Berserk, their rationality decreases—the deeper the Berserk state, the greater the loss of rationality; in the case of trolls, whose rationality isn’t high to begin with, they virtually beco berserk, recognizing no kin.
Lin Xiao used this talent as a basis and spent ten units of Creation Energy to enhance it, resulting in an enhanced Berserk nad Transcendent Berserk.
Transcendent Berserk: Pay sufficient spiritual power to increase one’s own attack speed and moving speed by 100%, significantly reduce pain, and greatly enhance resistance to negative states. The stronger the hits taken, the more potent the effects, providing up to an immunity against most negative states with a cap increase of 200%.
The ten units of Creation Energy don’t seem to provide a high degree of enhancent, primarily because most of it went into eliminating the negative effect of rationality reduction. In other words, this enhanced Berserk won’t reduce rationality, which greatly increases its utility.
The third card, the Fireball Technique Card, cos from a fire-attribute creature’s innate class spell, similar to the Spell Fireball Technique.
A normal Fireball Technique is a fire spell resembling a shell with a small AOE range, like a small room in size, and decent power.
After ten units of Creation Energy enhancent, Lin Xiao focused most of the Creation Energy on the explosion range rather than power, resulting in an enhanced Fireball Technique with an extrely wide explosion radius.
Cloud Burst Fireball: Pay sufficient spiritual power to conjure a powerful fireball to inflict direct explosion damage on enemies within a thirty-ter diater, causing both imdiate and sustained burning damage over several seconds, with more potent effects than the Fireball Technique.
The enhancent of the three Transcendent abilities used up thirty units of Creation Energy, which were then loaded into slots consuming forty-seven, forty-five, and forty-four units of Creation Energy, respectively. After tallying, this move in total consud one hundred sixty-six units of Creation Energy, leaving four hundred sixty-nine units of Creation Energy remaining.
“Being rich feels so good!”
Having spent so much Creation Energy and still having so much left, over four hundred units of Creation Energy were enough to continue filling up the remaining five slots on the Extraordinary Magic Network.
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