harleyscars Chapter 696 - 493: No. 2’s Strange Innate Ability_2
Chapter 696 - 493: No. 2’s Strange Innate Ability_2
Vmm!
With the Crystal Coins feeding in power, the entire summoning array lit up.
[Dear buddies, no need to rush, take it slow!]
[I can handle it!]
Li Pu had to admit, No. 2’s encouragement took even more pressure off Gan Xiu and the other senior.
So next, under the lead of Gan Wenlun as the chief surgeon—no, chief welder—there was a crackling frenzy of operations aimed at No. 2’s insides.
During this time, electric sparks, scorched smoke, and No. 2’s blessings all kept popping up nonstop.
"Uh, junior..."
Yet after just 10 minutes, Gan Wenlun suddenly stopped what he was doing.
"Looks like the Crystal Coins aren’t enough. Add another 20k in."
It wasn’t that he wanted to stop, it was that he realized there was no energy left.
Honestly, that was pretty weird.
He was considered an old hand when it came to mechanical-type Summoner beasts’ rebirths.
From 1st Transfer to 4th Transfer, he’d done close to a hundred times combined as core or support.
But it was his first time seeing a 1st Transfer that guzzled energy like this, almost on par with a 4th Transfer.
He had no idea where all that energy went; in just 10 minutes it had been sucked clean.
But Gan Wenlun knew the tools in his hands had fixed energy consumption, which meant the unexpectedly high drain came from the summoning array.
And the array’s energy usage depended on the Summoner beast’s own situation.
But now wasn’t the time to dig into that; he had to finish the entire rebirth process first.
Sure enough, what came next went just as Gan Wenlun had said—the progress sped up.
After activating the Rebirth Array, it took less than 50 minutes for the entire rebirth project to be completely finished.
It was just that the energy usage went far beyond what he expected; it actually burned through nearly 100k of Li Pu’s Crystal Coins.
[So comfy, so comfy, so comfy!]
When No. 2 impatiently closed itself back up, Li Pu even hallucinated that this guy was covered in cold sweat, though it had no sweat to speak of.
"This is my first time handling such a difficult 1st Transfer project. Truly worthy of being an A-rank Mecha."
"But don’t worry, the project was very successful."
Wearing a white lab coat, Gan Wenlun walked up to Li Pu with a cheerful grin.
For a second there, Li Pu thought he was saying the surgery had gone well.
"Thanks, Senior."
He slipped a wad of Crystal Coins into the lab coat pocket without drawing attention, thanked him, and then left.
As soon as he stepped out of the Mechanical Department, he summoned all his Summoner beasts and headed for the training ground.
Once at the training ground, Li Pu first had Strawman—the one with hands—set up the rebirth arrays for BoBo and Ugly Little Wolf, then quickly boosted No. 2’s level to max before casually opening its panel.
"Whoa! Huh?"
At first glance, he was stunned, then puzzled.
No. 2: 1st Transfer LV40, Berserk
Strength: 359→3018, A
Attribute: 10 Mech
Innate Abilities: [Backup Unit] [Void Stance] [Recycle Progress]
Skills: [LV1 Encryption 2887 (A)] [LV1 True Artillery (A)] [LV1 Healing Art (B)] [LV1 System Lock (C)] [LV1 Treasure Nurture (A) -13%]
Enchanted Gear: None
The part that amazed him was naturally that No. 2’s strength value had actually broken the 3000 mark.
This number even surpassed Strawman.
He could clearly feel that when No. 2 didn’t suppress its aura, a rather solid and refined pressure spread around it.
If he took it to somewhere like East Wilderness Ridge in the South Forest, this level of aura could directly suppress a bunch of magical beasts without even lifting a finger.
To reach this level at just 1st Transfer, Void Stance beast really lived up to its name.
But as No. 2’s Summoner, he also knew that if it didn’t self-destruct, No. 2 might not even be able to beat a lot of 0-Transfer beasts.
[Void Stance]: Greatly boosts strength value.
This innate ability had no other function; it was purely for jacking up the strength value.
What mainly puzzled him was that No. 2 had also gained an unexpected innate ability.
This should be something it came with as part of its own growth; no matter what rebirth plan he chose, it would show up.
[Recycle Progress]: 25%
It was just that Li Pu had no idea what this innate ability meant.
Maybe the reason Senior Gan mentioned the unusually high energy consumption was hidden right here.
He shelved the question for now, planning to look up some data later to see if he could find an answer.
Besides that, there was another change: the skill [Treasure Nurture] actually displayed a progress of 13%.
Li Pu guessed this should represent the nurturing progress of the [Stone of Human Demon].
No wonder the Sacrifice just now had burned through more related materials and Crystal Coins.
He often boosted Strawman from LV1 to LV30, and he long had the amount of materials and money needed memorized.
He’d originally thought No. 2 was just particularly costly, but now it seemed the extra portion had been sacrificed to the [Stone of Human Demon].
It was a pity he had already laid out various plans and currently had no spare cash or related materials on hand; otherwise, if he kept sacrificing to No. 2, he should be able to raise the [Stone of Human Demon]’s progress even further.
[Cai cai cai~]
Just after he finished browsing, Li Pu suddenly heard a jarring sound.
Jarring, because none of his Summoner beasts made that kind of call.
Looking up, he saw that the little rainbow fox was actually helping him prepare the rebirth setup.
Strawman, who was supposed to be doing this job, was lying sideways on Fufu’s soft, fluffy belly, drinking soda.
As Fufu’s belly rose and fell in sleep, Strawman bobbed up and down with it, looking pretty darn laid-back.
Turns out after Li Pu ordered Strawman, Strawman ordered BoBo, BoBo ordered Ugly Little Wolf.
No. 2 was staying by the Summoner, so Ugly Little Wolf could only order Fufu.
But Fufu didn’t buy it at all; one word—[Quiet]—and it brushed him off and went right back to sleep.
Luckily, the rainbow fox showed up and became Ugly Little Wolf’s stand-in.
"You guys are really too much, you know."
Bossing each other around internally, he could still accept.
But how could they let an "external hire" do this kind of thing? It felt a bit like bullying.
However, the rainbow fox seemed to be the speed-type; it worked very efficiently, and in just a short while it had finished all the arrangements.
It then walked over to Ugly Little Wolf and lay down obediently by its side.
[Houlle bobo!]
Ugly Little Wolf was completely shameless, pressing one paw on the fox, posing like a victorious strongman.
The rainbow fox, on the other hand, had "You’re so domineering, I like it" written all over its face, leaving Li Pu utterly speechless.
But since everything was already set up, he couldn’t very well tear it all down and have Strawman or Ugly Little Wolf re-do it.
At a time like this, it would only be right to pull out something suitable to reward the rainbow fox, but Li Pu realized he didn’t seem to have any appropriate feed on hand.
Come to think of it, his Summoner beasts were actually pretty low-maintenance.
No. 2 directly ate Crystal Coins—around a hundred per meal—and so far it had only eaten once, which had lasted it three days.
Fufu was even more impressive; it slept all day and ate nothing.
It would occasionally sit and circulate its breath a bit, but would inevitably fall asleep mid-meditation, then declare itself full.
Seen that way, BoBo was the only relatively normal one—it actually ate real food.
"Not sure if this suits your taste."
Thinking it over, Li Pu took out a piece of savage beast meat.
This was the freshest piece of magical beast meat he had on him.
[Cai cai?]
Seeing Li Pu hand over the savage beast meat, the rainbow fox didn’t even sniff it; it just turned its head away and walked off to the other side.
It was obvious it didn’t like this stuff.
"My little Rainbow doesn’t eat meat."
"It only drinks morning dew off rainbow leaves."
Just then, a human voice suddenly came from behind Li Pu.
He turned around and saw that at some point, someone had appeared at his side.
The man was handsome and tall, with a ponytail and a rather dashing air about him.
"Oh? Void bug carapace, cloud dragon’s tendrils."
"That’s quite a big-spending rebirth you’ve got there."
Seeing the main rebirth materials Li Pu had just taken out, the man raised an eyebrow.
"Teacher..."
Li Pu judged from his age that he wasn’t young, around thirty or so.
From what he’d just said, he should be the Summoner of this little rainbow fox.
Was he here to call them out for Ugly Little Wolf bullying his partner?
"No, I’m not a teacher."
But the man unexpectedly wagged his finger with a smile and said, "You should call me Senior."
"Let me introduce myself: fourth year, Liu Jisheng."
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