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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 485

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:19:19 AM


Chapter 485: Ego Forge

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Chapter 485: Ego Forge

Unfortunately, only the name and a simple impression came to him directly. He didnt see a vision, hear a description, nor was he imparted with a manual. Instead he just seemed to instinctively know what the technique would do. It was a method to reforge a magical tool. It wasnt imparted to him in those terms, but he simply knew it. Of course, he didnt actually earn the technique, that would require him studying the symbol and learning to manipulate his Spirit Power according to the blueprint it laid out. Along the way to unlocking the technique, he spent 248 more Psionic Crystals, the actual symbol being five layers away from the main path, which required 8, 16, 32, 64, and then 128 crystals, respectively.

From some studying and wasting of Psionic Crystals, Sage learned that the first eight only unlocked a general type of power. Only upon adding 16 was an actual technique available. After wasting a few hundred more crystals, Sage found the main ring that seemed to be telekinesis. Upon inputting the following sixteen it unlocked a simple telekinetic ability. One of them was a wide area push, another was levitation, while a third acted like a second skin. The push power had further divisions into a wall and a fist-like force. There were many others, but Sage didnt want to waste all the crystals that quickly. Under the levitation branch there was a power to float objects in the air, and another to toss them. The second skin branch had a strength boost, a defense boost, and a speed boost. In the strength boost specialization, it divided into arm strength, leg strength, and many others. Ñøv€l-B1n was the first platform to present this chapter.

Sage didnt have a respec button and he didnt have any guides to tell him what everything was. He wasted more than a thousand Psionic Crystals before he stopped. After finding the basic Telekinesis power, he explored what other abilities it led to. With that experimentation, he now had a decent idea of how the Spirit Tree worked, but he could still only make guesses about what routes to take in the future.

At that point, the mantis finally reached the first mine. The guards had grown lax, given how well hidden the location was. Sage easily subdued them and put them in to join the other Flares. Then he took some time to rebuild the Blacksilver Pawns. His dozen Soul Fragments had not been destroyed, but they had been damaged by the Samsara Flame. Sage had to devote all of his effort to nurturing them with the dark water from the Eye of the World for a few weeks before they were finally restored. Thankfully, the location truly was quite secure and not a soul approached the mine during that time. When the Blacksilver Pawns were rebuilt they quickly collected the supreme-grade Psionic Crystals as well as the Astral Realm Fragment.

They quickly moved on to the next mine location and repeated the process. The second mine was more heavily guarded, but a few hundred Flares were not able to stand up to him now. Only a few of them were able to resist his Hypnotic Eyes even with dark lenses over their eyes, but they were easily handled by the Blacksilver Knight.

The last of the Scyzur in the base were particularly difficult to conquer.

Once there were only a few dozen of them left they knew something was very wrong and huddled up in their makeshift fortress. A fortress that happened to be built into a fallen building. A building with tens of floors, it had toppled and the Scyzur remodeled the interior into a stronghold. It was quite odd to see staircases, doorways and hallways in a horizontal position, especially since the Scyzur had turned the place into a shanty town. The floors were previously spread out in a horizontal fashion, but now they were turned vertical. That meant the rooms had extremely high ceilings. To make use of it, the Scyzur had constructed platforms with rope bridges and ladders running between them. They built little shacks out of random scrap and junk on top of these platforms to make some sort of strange treehouse village. At least it would be if you could call a shed made out of junk a treehouse, and a fallen building a tree.

With them refusing to move around outside, Sage had to invade their home. He hung back and used the Blacksilver Knight to slog through a hail of projectiles and knock out the Scyzur one by one. After a powerful initial resistance they pulled back. The Knight went deeper into the base and finally found what looked like a village square or tribal hall. Yet, what awaited him was what looked like a shield wall.

The Scyzur were wearing armor made from Astral Silver, just like hed seen on those Scyzur cavalry once before. Only this time, they werent on the backs of giant cockroaches. There were twenty of the ratmen wearing armor and they were all on foot. They were kneeling behind a row of large shields, using them as shooting stands for their Shard Rifles. Upon a closer look the shields were actually more like a pavise, with a spike stabbed into the floor to hold them up. Their rifles also had large bayonets attached to their ends, which were large enough to qualify as small swords.

Very impressive!




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