Chapter 184: Bending
Grey looked down at the bent spear, then back up toward Ji, then back toward the spear, then back up just one more ti.
"Are you serious? What the hell am I supposed to do with this thing?"
Even if the spear were whole, its durability was terrible. Grey didn’t care how strong that elixir Joaquin guzzled made him. Soone in the Proving Class bending a spear like that—not even with raw power, but completely by accident instead—was ridiculous.
That was the key, here. Joaquin hadn’t even bent the spear on purpose, he had just been trying to use it normally and his belly got in the way. How was Grey supposed to trust this thing to cut down enemies even if he fixed it?
"Study it." Ji said with his patented stupid grin. "There’s a lot you can learn from an item that has a Harmonic Stat slot available."
"In case you haven’t noticed, I don’t have ti for any of this shit."
"Make ti. You’ll have more than enough money anyway."
Grey shook his head and put the spear back. He once again felt like Ji wasn’t telling him everything, but he just let it slide for the ti being. Obviously the guy wasn’t planning on being too forthright even after whatever had changed him.
Still, Grey decided to listen to Barkeep Ji. Did he trust the barkeep? Honestly, he couldn’t say yes or no too clearly. He did feel like Ji wasn’t lying, though. And the idea that his mysterious sponsor might be related to this sohow made him curious.
At the very least, he didn’t lose anything by not selling items he would be keeping anyway.
After he finished selling everything of the Vector Class, he ended up with 92 million credits. It wasn’t exactly the sa as lying in a vat of gold or doing a cash spread, but seeing the pretty numbers in his status screen was cool.
To think he was complaining about the cost of rent just a few hours ago.
’Well, even if I had the money, it’s a matter of principle. Now...’ Grey rubbed his hands together.
There was no point in selling his blueprints at this point.
If he could sell the weakest blueprint in the chanical Jaw lineage’s to for 25,000, a Prosthetic ch blueprint would at least be an order of magnitude greater. If he tried to sell one of the stronger blueprints, to say that he would get billions was an understatent.
That vampire pimp Instance was really the gift that just kept giving. No wonder the Producers didn’t want him to enter the safe room early.
"Now, show
what I can buy." Grey said with a grin.
"The list is long. It would make more sense for you to decide what you need first, and then buy it."
"I need a Fra that can replace one I already have, or maybe evolve it into sothing better. It’s kind of dead weight right now."
"Improving a Fra is not a simple matter. Even if I gave you—."
"Hey, hey, I get it, you’re in a very giving mood with your advice right now. But the more I talk to you people, the more I realize that it’s better if I decide what I do with my Fras, alright? Just show
what I want."
The barkeep raised an eyebrow. "Alright. As Sir Temolt commands."
There was a flicker of pixels across Grey’s status screen, and then a shift as a list of things appeared. They were divided into two main categories. The first were Cyber Warps that could download Fras into your body, and the other were Skills.
"What happens if you download the sa or a very similar Cyber Warp?"
"If there’s a lot of overlap, nothing. If they can cover for one another’s weaknesses, it is possible to get quite a powerful Fra built from several pieces."
"Soone told
that there’s such a thing as a ’Perfect Fra’. Is that really true?"
"Yes, but there are still tiers of differences between Perfect Fras decided by how far in tiers it can progress. The reason you felt [Branching Blood] was more powerful than your current Ability is likely because [Branching Blood] originates from a Fra of a far higher tier."
Grey nodded slowly.
What he really wanted to do was fill in the weakness he felt Magnetic Hero was leaving him with. But the problem was that he wasn’t sure how.
Right now, he had two buckets of Abilities without a "ho". There were the tal abilities he had gained from eating Stella’s arrow, and then there was Wind Glider that had co from huffing grass.
"Okay." Grey said after going through the entire list. "I have a Fra called Magnetic Hero."
Barkeep Ji’s eyes narrowed. Grey had just said he had a Fra called Vampire Lord. Was he claiming to have more than one Fra?
A bloodthirsty grin spread along his features. Grey was so quick on the uptake it made him want to split the child’s brain open and see what was going on inside.
Grey was a lot looser with his words here, and there was very good reason for that.
Barkeep Ji himself was the reason.
Whatever Ji was doing right now, he was bending the rules—and he was doing it a lot. He had even managed to attack in a Safe Room without losing his head. So, Grey had made quite the gamble. He bet that...
The Producers either weren’t listening right now, or they were having a very hard ti of it.
And he was very much correct.
"But it’s worthless compared to my other Fras. I have several tal-based abilities that aren’t combined with it, and a strangler of a wind Ability. Is there any way for
to combine magnets, wind, and tal with this combination of things?"
"You tell . Does that combination sound like it makes any sense?"
Grey shook his head. "You people have no creativity at all. Of course it does. I think you people have so much fun torturing people that you lost all your imagination."
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