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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 370

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:24:20 AM


Chapter 370: Role

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Chapter 370: Role

Assassin and Ultimate Speed werent really normal roles, but that was just how Sage had thought of them when Guan Zhenyan explained the combinations. The abilities in each of the concepts were actually not anything new, especially since Sage had already packed most of them into his body in the past. It was actually more of a methodology in how to allocate Body Power and also how to shape his physical body. For example, if he wanted to focus on defense, a body shaped like a tortoise would be a more optimal shape than a butterfly. Ñøv€lRapture marked the initial hosting of this chapter on Ñôv€lß¡n.

Most of the combinations seemed pretty obvious for the most part. The Tank was a focus on thick scales or plates and healing factor. There was also a variation to include the Warp Worms energy swallowing along with the Qi Nozzles to reflect energy attacks. For DPS, he could combine the Qi Nozzles with the recently recovered breath weapon attack. As a bonus, he could add wings and even take on a classical western dragon appearance. That brought him a smile.

A Controller was a little more complicated and also dependent on future improvements. This would be the build where he focused upon the Soul Fragment ability from the Myriad Wyrm, combining it with the Black Enhydros. As for his physical body, all of his Body Power would be focused into his Hypnotic Eyes except for a small amount to keep his second set of poison meridians around. Guan Zhenyan was a Poison Master and there were more than a few that could reduce resistance to mental attacks. This combination would be putting to use a rare ability as well as Guan Zhenyans expertise, but the heavy specialization would make the rest of his body pretty weak.

The Assassin build would take advantage of all the stealth related abilities that Sage had accrued to perform powerful ambushing attacks. The color changing skin of a chameleon, wall crawling from the Viridian Gecko, the pheromones from the Succubus Beetle, and also the Cerulean Mist technique to hide him from Spirit Sense. From there it branched into a few other choices. He could add webbing to capture foes, the firing spikes from the Thorn Hornet as a ranged option, blades from a mantis, acid from the centipede, and of course the option of poison meridians to make them more lethal. Sage found this idea pretty appealing since, in his opinion, the best defense was for no one to even know you were there.

So many options. Sage couldnt really decide on which was the most advantageous. They were all pretty appealing. He was very against being killed, and the Tank would protect him the most. Or, he could just focus on never being seen at all and just let use minions as a distraction while he shot people in the back with a poison dart. Then of course, he could just forgo acting personally and hypnotically command an army of golems and insects that couldnt betray him. Lastly, the most dangerous option, both to himself and others, is the pursuit of extreme speed. If he could get moving fast enough he could just toss a pebble and it would hit with the force of a bullet. Even if guns werent actually that threatening to high level cultivators, it doesnt mean he couldnt keep progressing. With enough mass moving at a high enough speed it could cause damage at the level of a nuclear detonation.

Guan Zhenyan let him stew over it for a while before he spoke up, Dont worry too much about it. As I said before, we can always find more beasts in the future to improve you. As for which to choose now, I have a requirement of my own. Whichever direction you decide to go, you need to keep that second set of poison meridians. You wont be much of a test subject if you die from the testing, understand?

That new information limited Sages options. An Assassin or Controller build were the only ones that included poison, but then again he hadnt planned on completely sticking to the builds that Guan Zhenyan outlined. He wasnt planning on leaving out the Fat Grass Worms healing factor no matter which build he went with, it was just too useful. He wouldnt devote too much Body Power to it, but he was still planning to include it. With that same line of reasoning, he could choose any build he wanted, but hed just need to also include the poison meridians. With Guan Zhenyan wanting to use him as a poison testing dummy, it might be more useful to do that anyway. It could be very dangerous to base his combat power around a constantly fluctuating test poison. Was he crazy enough to constantly gamble that his poison would be effective?

In the end, Sage leaned towards the build that gave him the best growth rate. If Guan Zhenyan was keeping him around, then surely the man would protect him, right? In that case, instead of the choice with the greatest strength he would pursue the option that had the greatest growth rate!




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