Chapter 237-4: Containing Godshift, Creating the Inherited Soul (4) |
Meanwhile, at a corner of Colorful Mist Coast.
Tong Xin the Kindergarten Principal sat on a reef in the shallows and took out the Darkborn space crystal from his personal satchel.
In the undersea war, the Darkborn legion was ultimately wiped out.
He, too, died four times in a row.
Now he needed to revive the Darkborn warriors from death.
But this was no small expense.
It was not that there was no energy to resurrect.
Quite a lot of vitality clusters absorbed by Darkborn warriors from slain monsters were stored in the Darkborn space, as well as Darkborn power crystals sent by Anstar before death.
But the problem was that this method of resurrection consumed too much Darkborn power.
He finally understood why the Darkborn legion could not make it in Monster World.
All the cheat-enabled factions are rule-grade resource producers, but Darkborn warriors start from zero after death and simply cannot compete with those top forces.
For example, the Black Tide can grow stronger through war by devouring, and Evil Entities can even reclaim after death.
War has never been an obstacle to the Black Tide, only nourishment for becoming stronger.
But it was different for the Darkborn legion. War was not growth, but consumption.
The Darkborn legion’s death plugin talent would surely be a protagonist-grade cheat in a small world, but in Monster World, a super world where all sides are in melee, the consumption is too high and movement is difficult.
So, what method could solve this problem?
After this period of contact, he already understood the structure of the Darkborn legion very well.
The energy required for Darkborn warriors to grow was mainly divided into three types.
The first type of energy was called Darkborn Battle Merit.
This was energy created by the Reincarnation rule, which needed to be generated by Darkborn warriors through acts such as slaughter and plunder.
It was somewhat similar to the Battle Soul power of the Ancient God Arena and the Power of War of the Anti-Tide legion. All of these are energies nurtured by aligning certain behaviors with rule logic.
Darkborn Battle Merit cannot be extracted for use. It is recorded within the Reincarnation rule.
Whenever a Darkborn warrior dies, its consciousness is guided back by the Reincarnation rule and life is reshaped there.
At this time, the Darkborn warrior can use battle merit to exchange for it’s next life’s attributes, talents, skills, and so on.
The amount of battle merit a Darkborn warrior amassed in the previous life determines the starting point of the next life.
After selection is completed, consciousness enters a chaotic state, waiting to complete reincarnation remolding once there is sufficient energy.
The second type of energy is called Darkborn energy.
This is a special energy extracted and crafted from various resources such as spirit plants and spiritual ore, and it is also the cornerstone for constructing the Darkborn space.
It can also be used to craft weapons and equipment.
Darkborn energy is also the energy that drives the Reincarnation rule to operate, bringing dead warriors back from reincarnation and reshaping their bodies, though it can be replaced by other energy.
The third type of energy is vitality energy.
After Darkborn warriors die and are reborn, they need to rapidly grow by devouring vitality energy.
Without sufficient vitality, they can only remain in infant form.
If there is enough vitality infusion, the growth of Darkborn warriors will be exceedingly swift, rapidly inflating like balloons into a youth state.
But such growth is not without an upper limit.
Every reincarnation brings a new growth bottleneck.
This is completely different from the life structure of players.
Players’ growth has no upper limit. As long as there is sacrificial power, it can be increased without restriction.
But the growth of Darkborn warriors has bottlenecks.
For example, if in the previous life one climbed to level 100 and then could not break through level 100 no matter what, then one needs to do a self-kill reincarnation and use stockpiled battle merit to raise the life growth ceiling for the next life.
After starting anew in the next life, perhaps at level 105 or 110, one falls into a bottleneck again.
At that time one must reincarnate again.
In essence, the Darkborn race is not strong. It became a cross world predatory force entirely by holding the Reincarnation rule long term and growing through rule plugin methods.
What Tong Xin now faced was that Darkborn energy might not be enough.
Vitality energy was still manageable. He could lead Darkborn warriors to grow quickly through hunting.
Although troublesome, at least hunting did not cost money.
Moreover, Darkborn warriors are not choosy about vitality energy. Whatever impurities are in the blood all get sent into the body and can become part of their own power.
They as players, however, are pure bodies. The energy obtained from hunting is all refined before being absorbed.
A player on the forum had analyzed and explained this point.
Now the problem is how to obtain Darkborn energy. He cannot go to the Trading House to buy large quantities of spirit materials every time he revives Darkborn warriors.
More importantly, he also has to master the method of producing Darkborn energy.
This is truly too troublesome.
But if he does not do this, the stock of Darkborn energy will be exhausted by him sooner or later.
After all, exploration and combat outside are far too frequent.
Even if they do not actively participate in high-intensity wars, they might encounter monsters of over level one hundred during exploration and get wiped in one wave.
So how to obtain Darkborn energy became the top priority.
“Eh, if only they could revive without loss like us players.”
While sighing, Tong Xin suddenly turned to look at the Guide water sphere floating beside him.
He almost forgot about Guide, this personal-grade cheat.
Perhaps it had a way to solve this problem.
“Brother Guide.”
[Speak.] Guide opened its eyes listlessly.
“Do you have a way to rapidly produce Darkborn energy, preferably cheaper? If it is too expensive, I cannot make it. Or a way to let Darkborn warriors revive with no consumption… Best would be to let Darkborn warriors preserve vitality strength and truly revive without loss. Whatever their hunt level was at death would be the same upon revival, saving the need to re-level. Only then would the Darkborn legion have real combat strength. Otherwise, re-leveling every time is too troublesome.”
After listening to Tong Xin’s explanation, Guide said helplessly.
[Didn’t I tell you last time that the faith power produced by the Divinity Inherited soul can replace Darkborn energy? Just pour it directly into the Reincarnation rule. It can fully be used to revive Darkborn warriors.]
“But that method is also very costly. The Darkborn warriors’ death rate in war is too high. My faith relationship with the Darkborn warriors is only at the first stage, and the faith power produced is far from enough. I had originally hoped to earn sacrificial power through the Darkborn warriors, but now all the faith power produced by the Divinity is not enough even if I throw it all in, and I still have to chip in sacrificial power.”
Hearing this, Guide nodded in understanding.
[Having analyzed your current situation, the faith of the five hundred Darkborn warriors toward you is all at the first faith stage. The faith power produced each day is only enough to revive eight warriors. If we assume all die once every ten days, you can at most support eighty Darkborn warriors. Yet you acquired five hundred Darkborn warriors at once. Of course it is not enough. The Darkborn warriors increased too fast, but the devoutness of faith did not keep up.]
“Is there a way to solve this problem?” Tong Xin asked with great expectation.
[There is, naturally. Perhaps you can learn from the Pain Brothers and craft the portion of the Reincarnation rule granted by Anstar into a special Inherited soul for socketing. Darkborn warriors bound to the Reincarnation rule will then also be bound to you. Going forward, Darkborn warriors can be revived by consuming sacrificial power or faith power.]
[Furthermore, the vitality of each warrior after death will be retained after impurities are refined out, roughly more than 50 percent will be kept. After you revive a Darkborn warrior, you can directly use the residual vitality to raise the warrior’s hunt level and help them grow quickly.]
“It really works.” The Principal was instantly excited.
But then he curiously asked.
“Brother Guide, why can only a bit more than 50 percent of vitality be retained? Why not all of it?”
[The player system does not accept impurities and waste. The vitality energy absorbed by Darkborn warriors is only simply converted and contains too many impurities. This portion of energy will be filtered and broken down in part by the player system’s extraction. Being able to retain a bit more than 50 percent is already very good. In fact, for Darkborn warriors this only has benefits and no drawbacks. Pure vitality will allow them to have a higher upper limit, although they will still end up eating a lot of trash during growth later.]
“It is indeed good, but it would be even better if they could revive without loss like us players.”
[Darkborn warriors are not fit to enter the player system. Even growth-type pets are far stronger than Darkborn warriors.]
The Principal: …
In fact, there was another reason Guide did not say aloud.
Darkborn warriors were already bound to the Reincarnation rule. Wanting them to interface with the Challenger System like players would mean their life form would have to be completely remolded.
They could only start from level 1, discarding everything they originally possessed.
But the initial life potential of the Darkborn warriors was not high in the first place. Recruiting five hundred Darkborn warriors was not as good as Earth recruiting five hundred Ultimate Newbies.
More importantly, each Darkborn warrior had experienced hundreds and thousands of reincarnations through the Reincarnation rule and had accumulated quite a few skills, talents, and attribute potential by relying on battle merit.
Remolding directly would undoubtedly waste the rule energy accumulated in the early stage.
Guide’s idea was very simple. This set of systems could continue to exist, but it could only exist as an Inherited soul.
It could not enter the Challenger System directly as an independent system within the Challenger framework like the Power of War granted by the Anti-Tide legion to the Grind Kings.
It could only become an attached system within the Challenger System framework.
Through Guide’s explanation, Tong Xin, who already understood the reason, asked with great expectation.
“Brother Guide, so how can I craft the incomplete Reincarnation rule into an Inherited soul?”
[With your ability, you certainly cannot craft it. I can help with this, but you have to pay the cost.]
Hearing that Guide was willing to help, Tong Xin was overjoyed.
“Brother Guide, how much sacrificial power is needed to craft it?”
[Not much, only one million two hundred thousand sacrificial power.]
Hearing the price, Tong Xin’s eyes widened at once, even suspecting he had misheard.
“One million two hundred thousand?”
“Brother Guide, did you add an extra million?”
Guide did not answer and looked at Tong Xin as if he were a fool.
“Last time I heard the Pain Brothers say that branding that Pain Inherited soul only cost three hundred thousand sacrificial power, right?”
[The Pain Inherited soul is essentially not a Rule Brand. It is only a pseudo-rule. What you have in your hand is an already formed rule. The reason it requires one million two hundred thousand is because this is only a part of the Reincarnation rule. If it were the complete Reincarnation rule, can you guess the price?]
“How much?”
[Before dying, Anstar split the Reincarnation rule into one hundred portions. Each Darkborn legion commander received one portion. What you have is one of them. For the complete rule, you do the math yourself.]
After mentally calculating the price, Tong Xin drew in a sharp breath.
Seen this way, one million two hundred thousand sacrificial power is really not expensive.
But what he was curious about was whether there would be functional defects after crafting the incomplete Reincarnation rule into an Inherited soul.