Chapter 59: Nightmare Marker
The smoke and dust dissipated, and Chu Ge leaned against the wall and gasped, the blood on his arm slowly sliding down his fingers.
The longsword was resting on the beast's chest at the moment, adding a bit of tragedy to the alienated corpse.
Although it was not obvious at all, he could indeed feel that at the moment when the beast was completely dead, something strange emerged from the corpse and quietly flowed into the back of his right hand.
The mark of "Sin's Power" that emits a gray glimmer on the back of his right hand is the best proof of this!
"Is this how the members of the Enemy of the Living increase their strength? So what's the point of hunting alienated people in reality? β
Chu Ge couldn't help but wonder a little, since he was able to strengthen himself in this way, why did he risk double danger to kill the alienated in reality?
Righteous faith? Perhaps this is not the only reason.
He tugged at the corners of his mouth weakly, watching the imprint on the back of his hand dissipate again, thoughtfully.
Even though he couldn't call out the attribute template, he could feel that he still hadn't been able to acquire new skills, and it seemed like killing an Alien wasn't enough.
"Is this what Eddie calls the power of feeling the enemy of the living? But how on earth am I going to get out of here, I don't really have to learn both skills, do I? β
"Is it true that the nerves of the enemies of the living are so strong?"
He shook his head, walked over to the corpse, drew the sword little by little, looked at it in the firelight, and then crouched down and tentatively inserted it back into the body of the greatsword.
"Two forms...... Is it to deal with enemies of different sizes? β
After pondering for a long time, he finally understood how this combined sword operated.
"If I have enough strength, I'd love to take you on a walk......"
Putting down the giant sword body, Chu Ge turned around and left this dungeon, holding the long sword in his hand, and set off towards a new clue.
With the powerful recovery ability brought by [Blood Locking], it doesn't take too long for the injuries on his body to heal and merge, but the source energy recovery is a little troublesome, and it is estimated that it will take about ten minutes to fully recover.
"Let's hope it doesn't last long."
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"Gross! Vomit! β
After kneeling on the ground and vomiting wildly at the toilet, Chu Ge finally stood up with a blushing face, and staggered to the side of the bed and fell down.
After spending about four hours in Dream Town, he finally returned to the continent of Orlanca.
The moment he woke up, the dizziness of the reversal of heaven and earth suddenly surged up like a tide, and he couldn't hold on for even a second, so he directly chose to leave the Orlanka continent, didn't even go to Noah's Hall, and immediately returned to the real world.
However, the disgusting feeling of vertigo has been maintained until reality, the stomach is squirming wildly without the control of the body, and the throat and eyes are like a water pipe with a broken valve, incessantly tilting towards the outside world.
It wasn't until his throat was already a little painful that Chu Ge eased up a little, and it was estimated that there was not even sour water left in his stomach.
He lay on the bed breathing weakly, using his gradually awake brain to remember little by little what had happened in the dream town.
Ever since killing the Alien, he had begun to wander the streets of the town, occasionally stumbling into two open houses and taking a look, but to no avail.
The dark street seemed to distort his senses, and the road that had been visible at a glance became incomparably long.
After a long time, he finally met another Orthostatic Alien in an empty clock tower, not much different from the previous one.
The alien was firmly bound to a corner of the clock tower by the iron chain, and although it kept struggling, the chain was quite tenacious, and there was no intention of letting go except for the constant sharp impact sound.
Although Chu Ge's wide field of vision made it impossible for Chu Ge to use the sneak attack again, his advantages were also obvious.
However, it wasn't until the battle really began, and after experiencing the ferocity of a heyday alien, that he was glad at how wise his initial sneak attack was, and at the same time feared how lucky his victory was!
When the claws and legs are used as weapons to attack, the danger level of the alien rises by at least a small notch!
Of course, it is also possible that the original alien has been restrained for a longer period of time than the second one, and its state has been weakened a lot...... In short, when dealing with the other end of the clock tower, Chu Ge didn't feel that easy, even though he already had a pretty good weapon.
In the following time, he killed two more aliens of the same kind one after another, although it was not difficult to kill, but it was too time-consuming to find, and when he searched for the fifth, the dream was over.
Through Noah, he learned that he had been in Orlanka for four hours and seventeen minutes longer than usual!
With this level of timeout, if it weren't for the fact that his consciousness had not been in his physical body, he estimated that his spirit would have been torn into countless pieces by that long-term dizziness.
"Whew...... It's a nasty feeling, and if you want to succeed in learning that skill, I'm afraid I'll have to do it again tomorrow. β
Chu Ge held his forehead and sat up from the bed, although he didn't know if he had a talent for learning the power of the enemy of the living, but at least he could feel that as long as he killed five or six more aliens of that appearance, he would definitely be able to enter that ability into his skill template!
"For some reason, I seem to have been just wandering around the periphery of that town, unable to go deeper than I could no matter how I walked...... Why is that? β
He now has a lot of questions in his mind that he wants to question Eddie, but the other party is still enjoying life with that plump and sexy beauty in his arms on the bed...... I couldn't be happier at all!
Suddenly, as if he realized something, he frowned and immediately summoned the character template, moving his gaze to the top:
[Bloodline: Human (pure)]
"Whew...... Fortunately, there were no moths, and I was really shocked when I thought about that possibility. β
After seeing that his bloodline was not linked to something like the ancient gods, Chu Ge let out a long breath.
If he wakes up from sleep and his attribute template suddenly becomes [Bloodline: Human (Miscellaneous), Ancient God (Weak)], his mission this time will be a big loss.
Eliminate the bloodline of the old gods? This kind of living enemy and healing church has been studied for hundreds of years, and there seems to be no universal means unless it is adopted for its own use as it is done by healing the churchβwhich is undoubtedly fraught with risks.
If you want to really eliminate it, the Templar may have a way, but the price will definitely not be low!
Although the power of the ancient god's bloodline is not weak at all, this kind of power is definitely an existence that everyone shouts at in Orlanca, for him, even if he really gets some of it, he will only lose more, and many things will be insulated from him in the future, which is more than worth the loss.
Although the enemies of the living are encircled, it is only the Imperial officials and the Templars who do this, and other forces rarely do such thankless work.
But the Healing Church, which has completely fallen into the minions of the ancient gods, is different, even in the Hutton Federation, where all races are in harmony with each other, the Healing Church is at the top of the blacklist, and it is absolutely synonymous with chaos!
Even the power of Neven Moore is not rejected by everyone, even if it is the Holy Church, it is just instinctively disgusted, as long as Chu Ge does not deliberately provoke them, they will not deliberately take action against Chu Ge.
After all, it has long disappeared from the torrent of history, like the forgotten, long lost in the memory of the world.
(In the previous life, after using the liberation of the shadows, the Holy Church had sent someone to investigate Chu Ge, and after discovering that he had no connection with the ancient gods, he left with a calm face.) οΌ
It is worth mentioning that it is now dawn outside, and if nothing goes wrong, Kagawa High School has now started the second class in the morning.
"Fortunately, I used my foot injury as an excuse to take a few days off......"
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Two days later, early in the morning.
I don't know if it's my own delusion, Chu Ge always feels that the daylight in the manor is brighter than the outside world, and the air is a little better.
"Tonight is a bonfire, Ino you will definitely look forward to it!"
Hannah wiped the beads of sweat from her brows, and her blushing face was full of youthful vitality.
She enjoys her job more than ever.
Although the other party is younger than herself, this handsome young man with quick hands and feet has attracted her.
Clumsy and hardworking, in order to do his job better, he will often ask things about the manor - this is the definition that Hannah has set for Chu Ge in her heart.
Although he is just a servant like me, he is so diligent in his work that he should not be bad in the future. β
Hannah was momentarily ashamed to realize that she had such an open and bold idea, but then she was overshadowed by the happiness of fantasy.
Chu Ge smiled and replied:
"yes, I'm looking forward to it!"
He naturally knows what the other party is thinking, and it has reached this level that even people who have not experienced love can smell the smell of hormones wafting in the air.
He didn't pay much attention to it, but quietly glanced at the blood gem in his pocket.
Obviously, the drop of black blood in it has become less, and the original seal the size of a grain of rice is now less than half.
'Is this the price of falling asleep......?'
Last night and the night before, he had gone through two more dreams, and after killing enough aliens, he finally completely condensed the [Sinful Power] mark on the back of his right hand and gained new abilities!
[Nightmare Mark Lv1 (?) /οΌ ): The Enlightener has turned his sad doom into a killing power, the vengeance of the power of sin against the Old Gods! γ
[The caster uses the imprinted energy condensed by the power of sin to mark the target, causing the opponent to sink in a twisted will!] Marked units will be trapped in two ailments: "Weaken Evil Thoughts" and "Chaos Judgment"! γ
[Weaken Evil Thoughts: Draw three of the six abilities of the marked unit's attack power/defense power/hit value/evasion rate/movement speed/attack speed to reduce by 3%~15%, and the reduction depends on the difference in constitution between the two sides and the difference in rank. γ
(The drawn combination will only appear: Attack + Hit + Movement Speed or Attack + Dodge + Attack Speed or Defense + Hit + Movement Speed and the like, attack and defense cannot be drawn at the same time, dodge and hit are also the same reason.) οΌ
[Chaos Ruling: Marked units will be continuously interfered with by the power of sin, and a random base attribute will be reduced by 10%, with a minimum of 0.3 and a maximum of 1.5.5.] This ability is activated repeatedly, twice as often as the previous interval, with an initial interval of three minutes. If an attribute is selected repeatedly, the drop becomes 1/3 of the previous one. γ
[Enemy of the Old Gods: This ability inflicts an additional 50% effect on low-level alienators, and has no bonus on high-level alienators.] γ
"Tip: This ability does not consume source energy, but only one unit can be marked at a time, and when the target is unmarked or the target is dead, the ability will enter a fifteen-minute cooldown."
"Tip: Once marked, the ability cannot be purified/weakened in any form by external forces, but there is a possibility that the immune effect may appear when released."
"Hint: The fluctuations generated when this ability is released are so stealthy that even the marked person will hardly notice that they have been weakened."
"Hint: This ability has a priority of Tier 5! The initial skill rating is silver, when it is upgraded to Lv4, the skill rating is upgraded to dark gold, and when it is upgraded to Lv7, the skill rating is upgraded to legendary! (Homage to the forgotten muscle blast)
Priority of the fifth order! As long as this kind of keyword appears on any skill, it means that it must have the potential to promote the legendary ability!
"It's a pity that you can't use SP to improve this ability."
Chu Ge sighed regretfully, needless to say that he also knew that the improvement of this ability was related to that dream town, or rather, to kill the aliens.
When he first acquired this ability, he tried to add up to his remaining SP points, but was warned by Noah that this action might cause the ability to be forgotten.
The gold potential point should have an effect on this skill, but Chu Ge has the ambition to use the gold potential point to increase this skill to Lv4 after raising it to Lv3, although he doesn't know how much effort it will take to upgrade to Lv3, but he won't be willing to try it this way.
Just as he pondered whether to find someone to try out the effects of his new ability, a distant noise drew his attention.
"Beware! These treasures are all expensive and high-quality goods, as long as one is broken, it is enough for you to lose half of your life! β
Under Emily's supervision, a foreman in a blue uniform shouted at the group of workers.
Looking at that scene, Chu Ge couldn't help but be a little curious, and asked Hannah:
"Expensive goods? Losing half of your life? I guess the vegetables and fruits were grown on this estate instead of Emerald Gold, or was Midgar's labor so cheap that it was? β
Hearing Chu Ge's question, Hannah couldn't help but laugh and explained:
"It's true that there is no gold on the estate, but the vegetables produced in that yard are as valuable as gold!"