Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
This time, he didn’t opt for Decomposition, but instead, Extraction, to extract the ability from the card.
Hence, when the cube rotated for a moment, what] appeared was not the Energy of Creation that cropped up earlier on after the Decomposition of the 3-Star Resource Card. Instead, it was a tiny ball of light.
Subsequently, Lin Xiao, once again, extracted the ability ‘Excruciating Pain’ from the final 2-Star Ability Card, turning it into an even tinier light sphere.
His idea was very simple. Using Thrust as the main ability, he would merge it with Excruciating Pain, and enhance the fused ability with the nutrients acquired from the 3-Star Resource Card’s decomposition, so as to obtain an ability that would combine the perks of both Thrust and Excruciating Pain that was even more powerful besides.
Having the required operations conceived in his mind, as Lin Xiao prompted, driven by the power of the cube, the two ability light balls slowly approached each other. Like two water bubbles, they swiftly fused into one. Subsequently, the Energy of Creation that suffused the space of the cube poured into the light ball, and the white sphere of light began to brighten rapidly as it absorbed the Energy of Creation.
“Huh? It even has two strengthening paths?”
Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows. After a moment of thought, he went for the first option.
Ten seconds later, all of the Energy of Creation fused into the ball of light, and the cube stopped rotating. He extended his hand to hold the cube. The cube quickly shrunk in his palm and eventually disappeared, replaced by yet another light sphere that emitted a dazzling light. It gradually flattened before his eyes and turned into a card that was exuding a faint brilliance.
5-Star Ability Card—— Unknown Ability (Epic): Limited to piercing-type weapons. Attacks a target at super-fast speed across a distance of fifty yards, inflicting five times MAX attack damage. Ignores 50% defense.
This was the strengthening path which he chose- pure burst damage.
The other strengthening path only caused three times the damage, but the attack ignored 50% defense and would inflict four debuffs of Pierced, Armorbreak, Bleed, and Tear.
Comparing these two, Lin Xiao ultimately opted for the five times burst damage.
He randomly gave this newly combined ability the name of ‘Salted Fish Spike’ and left it aside for the time being. Then, he took out the two cards that he put aside earlier on, the 4-Star Murloc Card and the 5-Star Breeding card. These two cards could also be fused.
With the Greymist Murloc summoning card as the main, by disintegrating the Racial Breeding Card, extracting the Breeding Rule contained in within, and fusing it with the Greymist Murloc Card, he would acquire a…
He tossed the Greymist Murloc card into the ball of light refined within the cube with haste, and then hurled the Racial Breeding card into it to have it decomposed so as to extract the Breeding Rule contained within the card.
It was a golden ray of light thinner than a strand of hair that radiated a fascinating charm.
Strictly speaking, if this Breeding Rule was strong enough, by investing it with a lot of Worship Value and Divine Power, there was a chance to refine it into the Divinity of Breeding itself, which he could then use it as his foundation to become a demigod, and subsequently, by further investing a huge amount of Divine Power, turn it into the Divine Role of Breeding at last.
Unfortunately, Lin Xiao didn’t have much Worship Value at the moment. Besides, this Breeding Rule was also incomplete. Completing the rule was simply a feat that was too difficult for him to pull off.
Shaking his head and tossing all the random thoughts aside, Lin Xiao controlled the ‘Divinity of Breeding’ strand and fused it into the Greymist Murloc summoning card. Swiftly, a new card appeared in his palm.
5-Star Racial Card—— Greymist Murloc (Epic): Summons 400 Greymist Murlocs with twice the fertility rate and survival rate of their kind.
The number of summons remained intact, and the effect of the Breeding Card was nerfed by 50%. However, the effect had altered from a BUFF that would last for a decade into a racial passive. This alone meant that the immediate value of this card was more than ten times higher than the combination of the two cards he had started with, while its potential value was even more than a hundred times higher.
Lin Xiao stretch out his palm to look at the cube outlined with streaks of light and couldn’t help but bite his lip, “This is so OP.”
After all, this card was of the Epic grade.
Following a move of his golden hand, the cube merged into his palm. Lin Xiao rose up into the sky and appeared in the empyrean. The two cards were placed in front of him. He rubbed his hands. He didn’t load it immediately. Instead, he first expended 10000 points of Worship Value to have this ability pre-loaded.
The so-called pre-loading meant to load it advanced into the bodies of designated Spawn in the Divine Realm. However, it couldn’t be used just yet. Certain conditions had to be met before it could be activated.
The conditions that Lin Xiao set up were very simple. The pre-loaded ability could be activated only if one’s faith arrived at True Believer level.
For Gods, the hierarchy of believers from high to low was——
Disciple, Fanatic Believer, Devout Believer, True Believer, Pan-believer, Fake Believer, and Non-Believer.
Needless to say, Disciples were extremely hard to obtain. Even True Gods may not have disciples. Fanatic Believers were the most fervent type of believers that regular demigods and weaker True Gods would have. Devout Believers served as the backbone. They were usually pastors of a religion. True believers, on the other hand, were the core group of believers, which was also the largest group among believers of a God.
Going down, Pan-believers, also called Shallow Believers, were basically not worth much. Even ten Pan-believers weren’t comparable to one True Believer.
There was even less to say about Fake Believers. This was the group of entities that didn’t believe in the specific God on usual days who would only hold their palms together and pray when they see other people worshipping. Gods wouldn’t classify this group of entities as their own believers.
Normally, a divine life like Lin Xiao who had just opened up their Divine Realms was incapable of showing miracles. It was difficult for them to empower their religion. It was courtesy of these Greymist Murlocs’ bonuses of being an initial spawn that Lin Xiao was able to garner so many high-quality believers. If one were to start by spreading their religion to natives of Outland, they might not be able to establish their religion even with ten years of effort.
After the ability was loaded, Lin Xiao once again loaded the other Racial Card into his Divine Realm. Then, he morphed into a ray of golden light, descended into his Divine Realm, and immediately possessed the vessel that he commonly used.
The Murloc leader who was fishing with its tribemates paused for a moment. In the next second, its pupils flashed in golden light and then returned to its original state. The surrounding Murlocs were swimming around in the shallows chasing after schools of sardines. They didn’t even notice that their leader had become a different person.
Lin Xiao quickly amassed the Murlocs who had been fishing for half a day. At the same time, he activated the pre-loaded ability, thus becoming the first Murloc to master the Salted Fish Spike ability.
Midway, passing through a field of reefs, he suddenly made strange sounds and shouted to the other Murlocs,
“Just now, the Great Lord of the Grey Mist has bestowed upon me a brand-new power.”
The other Greymist Murlocs looked at him with confused eyes. Lin Xiao pulled out a Bone Sword from his waist and pointed at a stone pillar protruding two meters above seawater that was blackened by prolonged submersion. In the next second, the seawater beneath his feet exploded, and a Murloc phantom could be seen tugging a long belt of wind and severing the stone pillar that was half-submerged in seawater.
“Boom!”
The thick stone pillar exploded from its core, and countless stone fragments splattered more than ten meters away.
All the Greymist Murlocs looked at him dumbfounded, remaining completely still with their mouths open in shock. After some time, as Lin Xiao slowly turned around, he raised the Bone Sword that was left with half a segment high up into the air and unleashed a thundering bellow. It was at this moment that the Murlocs came to their senses, rushed forward to surround the stone pillar that he shattered with one single strike excitedly, and began gossiping in croaks.
Ten minutes later, a group of Greymist Murlocs had Lin Xiao surrounded as they returned to the tribe. They rushed to the central altar of the tribe amid the bewildered eyes of their other tribesmen, knelt down before the altar, and prayed constantly.
Almost instantly, Lin Xiao sensed that more than ten Threads of Worship thickening. Ten Shallow Believers became True Believers.