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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 487

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:19:16 AM


Chapter 487: Prospector

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Chapter 487: Prospector

With the Scyzur base captured, Sage used their knowledge to find other Scyzur bases. He didnt feel like wasting his time slowly taking down everyone in the base this time. Instead he used one of the weaker Scyzur and convinced him that he needed to have a private conversation with one of the important Scyzur in the base. With the suggestion implanted, Sages Scyzur met up with the other Scyzur and made friends with them. The rat man had completely forgotten that he carried a golden ring in his pocket and schmoozed with his people. After a few days he managed to befriend one of them and they had a drink in the important Scyzurs tent. At that point, Sage hopped out and hypnotized him. This chapter made its debut appearance via N0v3lB1n.

From that ratman, Sage learned who was in charge of the base and the Universe Ring was passed over. The new Scyzur repeated the process to get some alone time with the boss of this base and Sage took control of the boss after exhibiting his full strength.

Sage was a little annoyed that this method took about the same amount of time as his original one, but on the plus side he only had to act a few times. The rest of the few weeks were spent training while a Scyzur did all the other work for him. With the boss under his control, Sage got the location of all the Psionic Crystal, Astral Silver, Indigo Quartz, and Lunarstone deposits that this Scyzur group knew of. Even better, he had the boss go and contact the other groups they knew of. With the tribe chief under his control, it was far easier to get some alone time with the chiefs of other tribes and Sage also hypnotized them.

From the information he gathered, Sage gained the location of dozens of mines. Along the way, he also learned a bit about the Scyzur. They were from another world that had the Astral Realm spilled into it many many generations ago. Over time they learned to make use of their own shattered world and eventually they even began to thrive. The groups operating on this planet were actually their version of prospectors. They were so experienced with the Astral Realm that they could track where it spilled over to and then send their people there to mine the resources it created. Every decade they would be able to reconnect with their homeworld and send back the spoils of their labor to benefit their home tribes.

With his better understanding of the Ego Forge Technique, Sage turned it inward and focused upon the little seed-like magical tool that was sitting inside his Spiritual Sea. The device couldnt record anything going on inside his body, but it was watching everything that was happening on the outside. Sage had to modify the Memory Seed to edit out the Universe Ring and he also wanted to modify the quantities that it recorded him collecting. He didnt want to hand over all the Astral Realm Fragments he was gathering, and he decided not to let the Thundercloud Sect know about the Shard Rifles.

He carefully experimented and soon found the knack for it, but it certainly wasnt easy. If operating a Memory Altar to edit a Memory Sphere was like using digital editing software, then reforging the Memory Seed with Ego Forge was like making a scrapbook. It was many times slower and more difficult. Sage carefully edited his memories, replacing the times in the Universe Ring with him walking into a camouflaged tent and cultivating. Then he changed it so that the Scyzurs Shard Rifles disintegrated whenever they died. The time he infiltrated the Hexacrats and went on a mission with them, he changed the Shard Rifle into one of the Gauss Rifles that the Hexacrats could build. Sage had captured a few of them during the last few months. They were present in Scyzur treasuries, which Sage had raided after he had a Tribe Chief under his influence. All Sage had to do was hypnotize the Chief to have the urge to check on his tribes treasury. Once Sage was led to the right location he could use his many tricks to take what he wanted and then sneak back out again.

Sage wanted to remove the times he took his true form, the usage of the Blacksilver Pawns and even his possession of Heavenly Materials. After thinking about it for a while, he finally decided to leave them in. If the Memory Seed had recordings of him showing off some of his greatest trump cards, then the Thundercloud Sect would be far less suspicious of him. Some of his abilities would surely be looked down upon by most, so it would become a card they could use to threaten his reputation. With that assurance, they would be more likely to trust him in the future. His beast form had already been revealed when he was on the run, so anyone who really wanted to investigate him could likely find the information anyway.

If he let them feel like they already had control of him, then they wouldnt need to create their own real leverage.




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