NOVEL NEXT Chapter 131: Spiritual Fusion
"Wow, these two talents are seriously insane!"
Sivis couldn't help but exclaim.
The second talent was essentially a permanent exclusive skill: "Summon Guardian," which would grow alongside the strength of its lord!
That was absolutely crazy!
You see, in this world, every unit undergoes a qualitative change whenever it advances by a major rank: from Bronze to Silver, Silver to Gold, Gold to Platinum. Each of these jumps caused a dramatic increase in power.
A Gold-1st-rank entity could easily outmatch hundreds of Silver-Rank units.
A Platinum-1st-rank unit could crush hundreds of Gold-Rank units!
This talent had no upper limit, which meant that in the future, Sivis could use it to strengthen Legendary-Rank, or even semi-God-Rank monsters!
These two ranks required a certain amount of luck to break through. Potential alone wouldn't be enough!
Although the Dominion Power talent didn't offer a huge short-term boost.
Sivis could use "Summon Guardian" to create Silver-Rank forces, and he could also directly obtain Silver-Rank monsters through the system's "Search Monster" function. However, in the long run, this was an extremely powerful and terrifying talent for increasing combat power.
As for... Conquest Blade.
The system's description of it was quite brief, but Sivis knew its strength was not to be underestimated.
He had played "Conquest Blade" in his previous game. This talent basically allowed him to gain extra combat power every time he participated in a campaign. The loot he received often included rare resources that were hard to collect normally, such as unusual materials needed for guardian transformation ceremonies, some special spellbooks, and some special egg incubators for rare monsters.
As long as he kept launching wars, the strength of Conquest Blade was absurdly high, matching Dominion Power in power.
Unfortunately, if Sivis had chosen "Corpse Resurrection" instead of "Soul Sacrifice" when he got his talent at the second level, he would have definitely taken "Conquest Blade" without hesitation.
Now, his development path was still stronger with "Dominion Power."
But when he saw the third talent option, his eyes suddenly widened —— What's this?!
The previous "Extraordinary Dark Energy" was already a rather special ability that hadn't appeared in the Monster Lord talent pool of his previous game. Now there was another one like this ——
Named "Spiritual Fusion."
Sivis looked at the description above, and his body couldn't help but tremble.
It wasn't because of anything else — this talent was just too crazy!
[Spiritual Fusion]
[Effect: A lord who possesses this talent can combine with an opposite-sex unit that has strong qualities and luck, and through physical union, both sides will gain extra benefits.
Each time a Spiritual Fusion is performed, a bonus will be gained based on the other person's qualities and talents, and this bonus can be stacked infinitely.
The talent allows the user to actively check the benefits they can gain from combining with a specific unit, after combining with a specific unit, in addition to the basic benefits of the union, there's also a chance to obtain an extra reward after reaching a specific number of times.]
At first, Sivis didn't even realize what this talent meant, but after a moment of thinking, he finally understood —
Wasn't this just a way for him to sleep with those women and get rewards?!!
Sivis guessed that the rewards must be pretty high — the three talents that appeared during the fifth-tier special talent draw had different focuses, but their overall value and strength were similar!
Thinking about "Dominion Power" having a bug-like amplification effect, and "Conquest Blade" having a rapid development ability, this "Spiritual Fusion" must be no less powerful!!
Sivis was a bit "hesitant" in front of the three talents, but it was just pretending to be uncertain.
A second later, he quickly clicked on the "Spiritual Fusion" button: "I'm not choosing this for any other reason — 'Dominion Power' is a late-game talent, and it's not obvious right now. 'Conquest Blade' requires frequent wars, which doesn't fit my path."
"I have no choice but to pick this one as a backup."
He thought his reasoning was solid and completely faultless.
As he made his choice, a powerful force rushed into Sivis's body, and he felt a brilliant golden light appear in his spiritual sea, slowly breathing in positive energy waves, making him feel more energetic and mentally refreshed.
Sivis felt his consciousness return to reality, and even just looking around, he could see many things he had never noticed before — for example, he could sense a faint energy vortex on every woman, and as soon as he focused his mind into it, a message would pop up immediately, showing the benefits that both he and the woman could gain from their union.
Sivis looked up at the young maid Reina, and on the girl's small body, a series of characters appeared:
[Benefits from combining with the current unit: You will gain +3 in cultivation progress, the other person will gain +1 in cultivation progress.]
"Is it really giving direct cultivation progress?!" Sivis's eyes lit up. After reaching Silver-Rank, cultivation could no longer be as easy as in the Bronze-Rank, where he could just rely on talents to progress effortlessly.
Even with high talent, it still took a couple of years of steady effort to complete the promotion — cultivators needed to store a large amount of Extraordinary energy from the world into their bodies.
Vikalina had suffered from that — she had excellent talent, but since she had started cultivating later, after reaching Silver-Rank, she had to slowly accumulate energy, and she was only at around Silver 2nd Rank now.
According to the game's trajectory, the female knight would only reach Gold-Rank after one or two years. But this talent called "Spiritual Fusion" could accelerate Sivis's cultivation speed, and also speed up the cultivation of the other person he fused with.
"That's pretty useful," he was a bit surprised.
But Sivis quickly thought again—according to the talent description, each person's bonus was different, so not everyone would be as strong as Reina. He looked at Vikalina, and sure enough, a prompt popped up on the female knight:
[Completing Spiritual Fusion with the current target will grant you +8 cultivation progress, +1 flame and holy light quality.]
"More than Reina!" Sivis was surprised, and he understood.
Reina was just a regular maid, but Vikalina was the chosen one of this world. It made sense that her bonus was higher.
Also, it seemed that every time he fused with an opposite-sex unit, it would give him a base amount of cultivation progress.
But Sivis was still a bit confused: "So, +8 or +3 cultivation progress—what's that even mean? What's this 'flame and holy light quality'?"
As he thought this, a detailed light screen popped up before his eyes:
[Current host's cultivation: Silver Rank One, cultivation progress: 0/15. Each time you gain cultivation progress, it fills this bar. The host can also increase the number by self-cultivation. When the number reaches the max, the host can break through to Silver 2nd Rank.]
[Quality System: The host can gain various qualities through Spiritual Fusion, enhancing resistance and output in corresponding magic or martial arts.]
[Current host's holy light quality is Level 2: 0/150, flame quality is Level 1: 0/100.]
[For every quality level up, the host will gain approximately 10% damage reduction and 10% damage increase when fighting enemies of the same major rank.]
"The bonus is really strong."
Sivis calculated and came to a shocking conclusion—according to this, if he fused with the female knight about 20 times, he could immediately reach Silver 2nd Rank!
What was 20 times? Even if he and Vikalina spent nearly an hour each time, he could do it seven or eight times in one night. In two or three days, he could break through to Silver 2nd Rank!
And if he kept it up for ten days, he could significantly boost his holy light and flame qualities, which would have a huge impact on his combat power!
"This talent might not be as powerful as 'Dominion Power' in reinforcing an army or as good as 'Conquest Blade' in giving extra resources, but it's insane for personal strengthening. It's also very good for the women around me. This is super valuable."
Sivis thought to himself. If he could fuse with women of Vikalina's level all the time, he wouldn't take long to break through to Gold Rank. It was like cheating in cultivation!
And even better, while he was cheating, he could help Vikalina break through as well.
As for the female knight possibly returning to the church later, Sivis didn't worry at all—based on his guess, since Reina could give +3 cultivation progress, someone like Saint of Light Werner, who had higher quality than Vikalina, would give even more.
Werner was tied to Sivis's domain and couldn't escape at all.
She was just there for Sivis to "use" whenever he wanted.
"The only small problem is that Werner might quickly break through to Silver Rank due to the Spiritual Fusion effect... but that's a minor issue. I can just take good care of her."
"Make sure Werner doesn't even think about running away!"
Sivis thought, "The rewards from 'Spiritual Fusion' are just too high. There's no way I can let Werner go. I even started imagining, 'If that's the case, is there a chance to use this talent with the reincarnation of the Fallen Angel God?'"
"According to the theory that higher quality leads to greater rewards, the reincarnation of a Divine being would probably bring in some huge benefits..."
"How terrifying would that be!"
Sivis doubted it, but he knew that Vikalina, as the inheritor of the Spear of Holy Flame, could provide flame and holy light qualities. And the reincarnation of the Fallen Angel God was a being with divinity hidden inside their body.
Maybe, in a Spiritual Fusion, they could directly provide divine power!!
Sivis looked at Vikalina by his side and Reina in the distance, and a smirk curled on his lips.
He knew, from the moment he chose "Spiritual Fusion," his power-up speed would be absolutely terrifying!
Sure, the way to level up was a bit ridiculous...
He probably had to spend a lot of time with women.
But in this world of survival of the fittest, what was more important than "cheating-level cultivation speed"?
Fame?
I don't want it anymore!