NOVEL NEXT Chapter 341: Soul Gem
[Ding! Congratulations on obtaining the item: Infinity Stone - Soul Gem!]
[Item]: Infinity Stone - Soul Gem
[Effect]: Able to steal, manipulate, modify, or create souls.
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Ren immediately felt that the 100 guaranteed spins were worth it. He took out the Soul Gem, an orange, oval-shaped gem. But in an instant, he frowned. He sensed that this thing seemed to have a consciousness and even wanted to leave.
"Heh heh." Ren sneered. "Run? I'll melt you in the doom furnace!"
He immediately threw the Soul Gem into the furnace.
[Ding! Do you choose to consume 500,000 doomsday points to smelt the Soul Gem?]
"Yes."
[Ding! 500,000 doomsday points have been consumed!]
[Please select the smelting direction!]
"Ability Smelting."
[Ability Smelting has begun!]
After about five minutes, the prompt appeared. [Ability Smelting successful!]
[Congratulations on obtaining an SS-grade Ability Crystal, Source of Soul (Lv8)!]
[Do you wish to fuse?]
"Fuse."
A sensation of soul sublimation and clarity filled his entire body; he even had a comfortable feeling of his soul detaching. The feeling came and went quickly. In just a moment, the fusion was complete.
His personal information showed a new ability.
SS-grade: Source of Soul (Lv8)
Possessing powerful abilities already, he accepted the new one very easily. A simple sensation allowed him to understand that it targeted souls: stealing, manipulating, modifying, or creating them.
If the demonic beasts he created were living beings, they merely acted according to the instincts he set. But if he added souls he created, then they would become true living beings.
Obtaining a new powerful ability was worth celebrating, but he glanced at his personal information.
[Human]: Ren
[Points]: 53.25 Million
[Doomsday]: Cognitive (12-Star), Abnormal (12-Star), Uncertainty (12-Star)
[Abilities]:
B-grade: Physical Enhancement (Lv4), Five Thunder Rectification (Lv4), Six Styles (Lv4), Armament Haki (Lv4), Observation Haki (Lv4)
A-grade: Sixth Sense (Lv6)
S-grade: Primal Stone Vector Manipulation (Lv8), Zanpakuto Dominator (Lv8), Gluttony (Lv8), King of Chronos (Lv8), Limitless God (Lv8)
SS-grade: Ten Thousand Realms Death Perception Eye (Lv9), Chaos Wings (Lv8), Source of Space (Lv9), Source of Soul (Lv8)
He had a large number of abilities, and the lower-grade ones seemed somewhat redundant.
"It would be great if I could remove or fuse these."
[Ding! Detected that a group member has the idea of integrating abilities. The Doom Integration Device function is now open!]
...
Ren seriously suspected that this Doomsday Chat Group might be his 'I Think Therefore I Am' power. So, with a testing mindset, he came up with a few more ideas.
"It would be great if I could become a god with a single thought."
"It would be great if all abilities could instantly reach max level."
After several heaven-defying thoughts, Ren sadly found that no prompts appeared. "It seems I was just fantasizing."
He smiled bitterly and opened the Doom Integration Device. There was nothing inside but a deep blue prismatic crystal.
[Doom Integration Device]: Each use consumes doomsday points. The device will cause the user to enter a state of essence analysis, allowing them to comprehend ability integration on their own.
"Comprehend on my own?" Previously, the Chat Group could handle everything, but now it required self-comprehension.
"Interesting." Ren became thoroughly interested and chose to use it.
[Ding! Using the Doom Integration Device requires consuming 10 million, 100 million, or 1 billion doomsday points. Please choose.]
"Whoa, that expensive?" This was the most expensive function yet. The lowest tier was 10 million. Adhering to the principle that anything from the Chat Group must be a premium product, he chose the 10 million tier.
[Ding! 10 million doomsday points have been consumed!]
[Ding! Friendly reminder: You will now enter a state of self-essence analysis. Please try your best to comprehend and integrate your abilities!]
Less than thirty seconds later, the crystal rotated, and a blue light beam shot directly into his glabella.
"This is..." Ren only felt his physical body, mind, and soul ascending. In an instant, everything disappeared and turned into nothingness.
When he opened his eyes, it was like stars being born. One by one, light points of varying sizes and colors were scattered throughout the void.
"Is this me?" Ren, in the void, clearly felt that this void was him, his essence.
Looking again, the essence of every light cluster was one of his powers.
Through an ice-blue light sphere, he saw a cold, death-like iris above a shattered world. That was the essence of his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
Through a black and white light sphere, he saw all things extinguished, shrouded in sin, and all things sacred, lifted by grace. That was the essence of his Chaos Wings.
"So, self-comprehension and fusion mean this." To understand his essence within his own essence, integrate it, and shape a new self.
Ren felt the large light spheres were not so easy to deal with, so he decided to start with the smaller ones.
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