章 56: Chapter 56: A Great Harvest!!

Chapter 56: A Great Harvest!!

[Executor: Alex]

[Dimensional Points: 0]

[Crystal Energy: 40]

[Equipped Soul Stone: Kerrigan]

[Activation Count: 5]

[Gains: Heart of the Swarm (Permanent), Psionic Manipulation (Permanent)]

[Equipped Title: Sacred Guardian]

[Strength: D++]

[Agility: C+]

[Constitution: B+]

[Perception: C+]

[Charm: C++]

[Equipped Skills: None]

[Skill Specialization: Weapon Mastery]

[Talent Ability - Perfect Body (D): You possess a legendary perfect body with immense growth potential (recovery speed increased by 20%, defense increased by 20%, learning speed increased by 20%, additionally gains the skills "Awakening" and "Regeneration", all attribute improvements come with an inherent amplification)]

[Talent Ability - Gene Absorption (D): You can absorb the genetic sequences of powerful beings to enhance your own strength, reaching the pinnacle of evolution (with a certain chance to capture and absorb the genetic sequence of a designated target)]

[Talent Ability - Time Manipulation (E): The power of time flows within your body, allowing you to sense and harness its mighty force (can freely manipulate the flow of time within a five-meter radius for up to 10 minutes)]

[Exclusive Task: Homeland]

The Swarm yearns for its own homeland, and as their ruler, you must find a place for the Swarm to propagate and develop — In the next three instances, find and occupy a region for the Swarm's nest. Success will unlock Exploration Mode, failure will consume three uses of the Kerrigan Soul Stone.

Huge Profit!!

After seeing the completely new attribute panel, Alex couldn't help but clench his fists in excitement.

This adventure was absolutely worth it in his eyes! Not only have all aspects of his body's attributes been greatly enhanced, but he also got rid of the shell that made him uncomfortable. However, the most important part is the three talent abilities!

The "Perfect Body" is a pleasant surprise for Alex, especially with its inherent abilities of "Awakening" and "Regeneration".

"Regeneration" is a passive skill that quickly recovers any damage Alex takes. "Awakening" is an active skill. When Alex triggers "Awakening", all his attributes are elevated by one level. Moreover, during Awakening, Alex transforms into a form similar to Kerrigan, the Queen of the Zerg.

However, perhaps because Alex hasn't mastered psionics, his "Awakening" enhancements are more focused on physical attributes.

When awakened, Alex's entire body will be covered in pitch-black scales, even growing a long, lizard-like tail and a pair of enormous, bat-like black wings.

In this form, Alex cannot use psionics but possesses incredibly strong defensive capabilities, making him immune to grenades and rockets. The tough scales form a thick armor, protecting Alex from any harm.

What excites Alex the most is the final description of "Perfect Body": "All attribute improvements come with an inherent amplification."

As the designer of the "Map of Myriad Dimensions" system, Alex is naturally aware of the framework of attribute displays he designed — attributes are tiered.

For instance, Strength D is definitely inferior to Strength C. However, within the same tier, victory is not so simple, hence the amplification setting.

This means that for the same strength attribute, Strength D and Strength D+ in a confrontation, the former will definitely be inferior to the latter.

But don't misunderstand, amplification itself is merely an auxiliary attribute. To illustrate, it's like a person with innate strength who fights using only their instinct; their strength is D.

But if they learn Iron Palm, they become stronger because Iron Palm amplifies the destructive power of their existing strength, turning their strength to D+.

However, amplification is still just amplification. No matter how much you train your strength to D+++, it will never match the power of Strength C. It's like you might be able to break a towering tree, but you can't smash a mountain with one punch.

As for "Gene Absorption", it was within Alex's expectations. Since Miruune used Zerg genes to integrate time gene sequences, Alex would definitely have Zerg abilities too.

"Gene Absorption" is the most representative power among them, so Alex is not surprised. However, he is a bit worried... after all, the process of Zerg gene absorption is... well... not very pleasant to look at.

However, to his surprise, after carefully pondering this ability, Alex found it much more useful than he initially thought. Unlike other Zerg who need to devour the target's flesh, Alex can directly acquire the target's genetic sequence to enhance himself.

Given the process, Alex clearly doesn't intend to use it on humans—absorbing someone else's genetic sequence into his body is revolting, even to think about.

As for "Time Manipulation," it was Alex's goal in "Edge of Tomorrow," and he has now successfully acquired it. After using it, Alex was astonished to find it even more powerful than he imagined!

Initially, Alex was disappointed that time manipulation could only be used for ten minutes and within a ten-meter radius. However, after experimenting, Alex discovered its terrifying potential. He can fast-forward, rewind, and even pause time within those ten minutes.

Wow, this ability is insanely powerful!

Realizing this, Alex was dumbfounded. He thought the alien boss was an idiot. This power, if used even slightly better, could have been a massive threat to him and the Zerg.

Yet, that fool only knew how to save and reload? This must be a Hollywood movie world—no way a boss in the real world would be this dumb.

On second thought, Alex realized it might not be the boss's stupidity. Maybe they hadn't fully researched this power.

Otherwise, they wouldn't just have save and reload functions for the main unit and its branches. Either way, this power now belonged to Alex, giving him a powerful weapon.

Alex also found that manipulating time within ten minutes was effortless. However, exceeding ten minutes would significantly increase the strain, draining his strength. Even if he gritted his teeth, he could only hold on for another three seconds.

Alex considered manipulating time in short bursts to exploit the system, but after testing, he found it didn't work that way.

The cooldown was proportional to the duration of time manipulation. If he manipulated time for thirty seconds, the cooldown would be thirty seconds.

If he used it for a minute, the cooldown would be a minute. Well, that made sense—there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Alex used this opportunity to test the "rarity" of his skills.

Talent abilities and skills' rarity can't be judged by appearance, but Alex knew a method to test it—Dimensional Points!

In the "Map of Myriad Worlds" system, players could use Dimensional Points to improve skills' proficiency and levels. Each skill's proficiency required a different number of points. The rarer and more powerful the skill, the more points it consumed.

Alex had designed a rather extreme setting—each increase in proficiency and level would require five to ten times more points than the last!

For example, the first increase might cost 1 point, the next 10 points, then 100 points...

Given this, Frostmourne didn't waste points by raising Alex's swordsmanship to A...

Alex tested his skills' rarity using this method.

"Perfect Body" required 500 Dimensional Points to level up, which seemed reasonable from (D) grade.

"Gene Absorption" needed 100 points. Although useful, it wasn't rare.

But "Time Manipulation" needed 1000 points to level up from (E) to (D)...

Okay, that's rare.

As for the "Homeland" exclusive task, Alex couldn't let Miruune stay on Earth to develop. Miruune agreed to leave out of respect for Alex.

But Zerg are Zerg—you can't turn them into rabbits. As their ruler, Alex must find them a home. He could only wait and see which unfortunate world the Zerg would target next.

Despite some frustration, Alex couldn't deny his huge gains in "Edge of Tomorrow." The minor frustration was easily overshadowed. With everything sorted, Alex was ready to return to the main world.

(End of Chapter)

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