NOVEL NEXT Chapter 291: Slash
The Hero charged headlong into the azure stars blocking the way, and the surrounding scenery quickly turned from bright to dark.
In this personal abyss, various senses that shouldn't have been felt were transmitted—cold, flowing, deep, and heavy.
These clear senses told of the unfamiliar environment around, and the Hero understood in her heart that she had never been here before, yet she distinctly felt an intimacy and familiarity coming from deep within her bloodline.
In this contradictory feeling, she opened her eyes again, instinctively—
1. Wiggled her fins
2. Retracted into her shell
3. Snapped her pincers
4. Couldn't move
5. Wagged her tail
6~8. Anchor
9. Locked eyes with another head
10. Critical Success/Extreme Failure
D10=d10(3)=3
♛: Snapped her pincers
Watching her pincers open and close, the Hero couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
'This is...?'
1. Crab
2. Shrimp
3. Mantis
4. Claw
5. Axe
6. Fang
7. Horn
8. Knife
9. Cannon
10. Critical Success/Extreme Failure
D10=d10(5)=5
♛: Axe
Amidst her thoughts, the Hero's mandibles subconsciously rubbed and collided, producing a subtle clattering sound underwater.
She looked at her brand-new limbs with eyes full of wonder.
Deep beneath the sea where sunlight struggled to reach, her large pincers emitted a mysterious blue radiance.
The lower edge of the pincers grew into a crescent moon-shaped blade, like a gigantic chopping axe, though the axe's edge bore many jagged nicks, it did not diminish its piercing sharpness and lethal edge.
As if sensing something in the unseen realm, the floating Hero slowly lifted her pincers and merged them steadily together.
The pincers, shaped to fit perfectly, formed a colossal chopping axe, with just the axe face alone far surpassing the size of the Kingdom's largest warship on water.
'——This is an axe.'
[Former Beast: R7+]
1.5. Sea Shrimp
2.6. Sea Mantis
3.7. Nether Road Crab
4.8. Ghost Axe Helmet
9. Broken Abyss Armor Dragon
10. Critical Success/Extreme Failure
D10=d10(1)=1
♛: Sea Shrimp
[Sea Shrimp R7+ LV79]
Strength: 675
Agility: 359
Constitution: 495
Intelligence: 102
Perception: 231
Charm: 137
→☆→☆→☆→✧←★←★←★←
Looking at these pincers, the Hero suddenly realized.
'I am a shrimp!'
Without mentioning elemental lives and conceptual lives, creatures like arthropods, porous, and soft bodies that differ greatly from humankind's structure were originally impossible for a Beast Spirit Mage to capture as transformations.
Sea Shrimp was naturally one of them.
Yet the current Hero felt no discomfort or mismatch, as if this had once been her true self.
Fixating on the giant axe formed by the combined pincers, a surge of restlessness suddenly arose within her heart.
——An urge to chop something.
With the axe blade not yet swung, the surrounding seawater began to boil, releasing a terrifying might.
Understanding her own essence, the Hero's shrimp eyes, hidden beneath her shell, swiveled to gaze at the pitch-black, icy seabed, something suddenly clicked in her mind.
Then, her thick and sturdy shell began to vibrate, and from the gaps in her armor, a vast amount of Magic Power erupted like volcanic lava, surging and stirring up tsunami-like waves in the deep sea, providing her with a colossal push akin to deep ocean currents.
[The Hero has acquired a special power skill]
1. Water Grasp (can grasp non-solid substances)
2. Empty (can strike from a distance)
3. Rigid Force (higher armor break coefficient)
4. Fierce Collapse (can add strength and agility, but receive counter damage)
5. Swimming Body (absorb force when defending)
6. Skillful Transmission (increased throw damage)
7. Roaring (sound can cause damage)
8. Wrestling (forceful strength duel upon contact)
9. Soft Finger (gentle touch can restore stamina)
10. Critical Success/Extreme Failure
D10=d10(10)=10
Note: Critical Success further increases effect, Extreme Failure reduces applicable range or adds conditions
D2=d2(1)=1
[Hero activated skill: Omen Light]
D191=d191(135)=135(+3)
[Hero has acquired special power skill (Critical Success+3=Double Critical Success)]
1. Water Grasp——Wave Splitting——Sea Control (strength can control water within range)
2. Empty——Piercing Sky——No Space (strength attacks within perception range ignore distance)
3. Rigid Force——Iron Fist——Bad Strike (additional destructive damage)
4. Fierce Collapse——Extreme Rush——Sacrifice (Sacrifice allows agility stacking)
5. Swimming Body——Power Absorption——Wheel Rotation (counterattack during defense + enemy force exertion)
6. Skillful Transmission——Magic Throw——Star Throwing (increased throw damage, accuracy, range)
7. Roaring——Heaven-shaking——Heart Sound (your voice can strike directly at the spirit)
8. Wrestling——Heavy Pressure——Mountain Pointing (considered as sealing upon touching opponent)
9. Soft Finger——Touching Dreams——Spiritual Touch (you can touch concepts with gentle movements)
10. Critical Success/Extreme Failure
D10=d10(4)=4
♛: Sacrifice
[Hero's skill Sacrifice has been enhanced]
[Hero's strength-related skills have been enhanced]
1.5. Blaze Power
2.6. Gale Power
3.7. Gentle Killing
4.8. Ceasefire
9. Sacrifice
10. Critical Success/Extreme Failure
D10=d10(1)=1
♛: Blaze Power
[Hero's Blaze Power has been enhanced]
Integrated into Sacrifice.
[Sacrifice]
Strength D2, can be combined with Constitution, Agility, after the attack Constitution and Armor are halved, receiving = opponent's Armor counter damage. When stacking three attributes simultaneously, that round consumption is *2, and counter damage is *3. Destructive damage can reduce counter damage evaluation. Exhausted after continuous use (cross-job leveling + reincarnation) times.
→☆→☆→☆→✧←★←★←★←
Sea Shrimp began to advance.
Advance, advance—until its mountainous and towering massive body was dyed a fiery red as if melting, even the originally mysterious blue chopping axe was enveloped in blazing flames.
At the moment when all of her Magic Power, all of her strength pushed to the utmost, at the pitch-black seafloor unreachable by sunlight, Sea Shrimp defiantly raised the giant axe high and slashed fiercely forward.
As the axe fell, the blackness of the deep sea was overturned into blistering pure white.