Chapter 56

Player: Fang Zheng

Dimensional Points: 0

Crystal Energy: 40

Equipped Soul Stone: Kerrigan

Activation Limit: 5

Additional Buffs: Heart of Swarm (Permanent), Psychic Energy Control (Permanent)

Title: Holy Guardian

Strength: D++ (It’s easy for you to kill a bear with just a punch)

Agility: C+ (Your enemies can only see your afterimages)

Constitution: B+ (As long as your head isn’t blown up, you should not be afraid of death)

Perception: C+ (Nothing can hide from your senses)

Charm: C++ (You have charming assets and strength)

Equipped Skill: None

Mastery: Weapon Specialization

Innate Ability – Perfect Body (D): You have a perfect legendary body. Its growth is incalculable. (Recovery speed increased by 20%, defense increased by 20%, learning speed increased by 20%. Additional skills – Awakening and Regeneration. All attributes will be increased by an additional amount whenever they grow.)

Innate Ability – Gene Absorption (D): You can absorb powerful gene sequences to enhance your strength and reach the pinnacle of evolution (You have a certain chance of capturing a specified target’s gene sequence for absorption).

Innate Ability – Time Manipulation (E): The power of time flows through your body. You can perceive its existence and control its powerful power (You can freely manipulate the flow of time within a radius of five meters up to 10 minutes.)

Exclusive Mission: Homeland

[The Zerg swarm longs for a home of their own. And you, as their master, must find a place for the swarm to multiply and develop. In the next three instances, find and occupy areas as the swarm nests. The success of this mission will open the exploration mode while a failure will consume the activation count of Kerrigan soul stone by three.]

I hit it big this time!!

Fang Zheng couldn’t help but clench his fists in excitement, having looked at the completely new attribute panel. In his opinion, his adventure this time was simply too worthwhile!

Not only had the attributes of the body improved greatly, but the skin that made him uncomfortable had been replaced. But the most important things were the three innate abilities!

Perfect Body came as a pleasant surprise, especially the two built-in abilities, Awakening and Regeneration. Regeneration was a passive skill that would help Fang Zheng quickly recover from any injuries. Whereas Awakening was an active skill. When Fang Zheng’s Awakening was triggered, all his attributes would be raised by one level. Not only that, but Fang Zheng would also transform into something similar to Kerrigan’s Zerg Queen form.

Maybe because Fang Zheng didn’t master the psychic energy, his Awakening enhancement was more focused on physical attributes. After Awakening, Fang Zheng’s whole body would be covered in dark scales. He would even grow a long tail like a lizard and a pair of pitch-black wings like a bat. In this form, Fang Zheng could not use psychic energy but he possessed extremely powerful defensive capabilities. Even grenades and rockets could not harm his body. The hard scales formed a thick armor that protected Fang Zheng from any harm.

But what excited Fang Zheng the most was the last sentence of the Perfect Body stating, “all attributes will be increased by an additional amount whenever they grow.”

As the designer of the Dimensional Code system, Fang Zheng certainly knew what kind of attribute setting he had designed. The level of attributes was hierarchical. For instance, D-level strength wasn’t as good as C-level strength. However, the rivalry between the same level wasn’t that simple, so there was an increased setting.

In other words, in the same strength attribute, if someone with D level strength confronted someone with D+ level strength, then the former would definitely not be good as the latter.

But one must not misunderstand. The growth itself was just an auxiliary attribute. Let’s take someone with the innate supernatural ability for instance. If he relied on his abilities to fight, then his strength level was just D. But if he learned Iron Sand Palm, he would certainly grow stronger because the Iron Sand Palm would increase the lethality caused by his strength. And in this way, his strength level would become D+.

However, an increase was just an increase at the end of the day. Even if one trained their strength to D+++, he would never be an opponent of someone with C level strength. In simple words, one might break a towering ancient tree with a punch but it was absolutely impossible to smash a mountain.

As for Gene Absorption, it was within Fang Zheng’s expectation range. After all, Mylune had used the Zerg gene to fuse the time gene sequence. So, Fang Zheng would definitely have the ability of the Zergs. And the Gene Absorption was one of the abilities that best represented the Zergs. But he was still a little worried. After all, the way the Zergs absorbed the genes was, well… truly disgusting.

Fortunately, after deliberation over this ability, Fang Zheng discovered that it was much easier to use than he had imagined. In fact, Fang Zheng himself didn’t need to devour the target’s flesh and blood like other Zergs. He could directly obtain the target’s gene sequence to evolve himself. After thinking about this process, Fang Zheng did not intend on using it on humans, obviously. After all, it was too disgusting to absorb another person’s genetic sequence into his own body, even just thinking about it was downright disgusting.

As for Time Manipulation, it was Fang Zheng’s goal in the Edge of Tomorrow instance, which could now be regarded as complete. After a first-hand experience, Fang Zheng was surprised to find that this ability was more abnormal than he had thought!

In the beginning, Fang Zheng discovered that the Time Manipulation could only be extended to 10 minutes and its range was limited to 10 meters at most, which he found disappointing. But after a first-hand experiment, Fang Zheng was surprised to discover that this ability was far too terrifying. Although Fang Zheng could only manipulate time for 10 minutes, in these 10 minutes, he could fast forward, rewind, or even pause time as he wanted.

‘F***, this ability is amazing!’

Fang Zheng was completely dumbstruck after he realized this. He really felt that the alien boss was an idiot. If this ability was used well, it would have definitely posed a threat to himself and the Zergs. But that idiot only knew how to save and reload!?

Such was the world of Hollywood movies. Where in the normal world would one find such a stupid boss?

But after having given a second thought, Fang Zheng felt that it might not have been that the boss was stupid but that they might not have studied this ability thoroughly enough. Otherwise, even the boot soldiers would have the ability to manipulate time rather than the host and its extension just saving and reloading. But in any case, Fang Zheng got this ability cheap now. It could be regarded as his ace in the hole.

Fang Zheng also discovered that if it was within 10 minutes, he could manipulate the time with no pressure at all. But once he went past the 10-minute limit, he found that the pressure redoubled and most of his energy was consumed. Even if Fang zheng gritted his teeth, he could only hold for another three seconds at most.

Fang Zheng also thought of using it for one minute and then stopping, and then using it for another minute after a second, using this shameless method to endlessly manipulate time. But unfortunately, after experimenting, he realized that it was just a pipe dream. Fang Zheng discovered that regardless of whether he was manipulating time for one minute or 30 seconds, the skill would enter a cooldown. And the cooldown period was also determined according to the time Fang Zheng manipulated. In other words, if Fang Zheng manipulated time for 30 seconds, then the cooldown of his skill was also 30 seconds. If he manipulated for one minute, then the cooldown was one minute. Well, this was only right and reasonable.

After all, there was no free lunch in the world.

And taking advantage of this opportunity, Fang Zheng also tested the rarity of his skills.

Of course, one couldn’t tell how rare an innate skill and mastery was from the outside. But Fang Zheng knew a way to test the rarity of his skills.

That was the trial method of dimensional points!

As stated once that in the Dimensional Codex system, players could use dimensional points to increase their skill proficiency and levels. But as a matter of fact, each skill proficiency consumed different amounts of dimensional points. Among them, the rarer and stronger a skill was, the more dimensional points were required to upgrade its level. Moreover, from the very beginning, Fang Zheng also made a rather crazy setting. That was that the number of dimensional points required to increase skill proficiency and level was five to 10 times that of last time!

In other words, if the first increase required one dimensional point, the next increase would require 10 points, and the next would be 100 points…

In light of this, Frostmourne raising Fang Zheng’s swordsmanship to A was well worth it…

And Fang Zheng used this very method to test the rarity of his skills.

The Perfect Body required 500 dimensional points to increase its level, which was well within reasonable limits, considering that Fang Zheng was upgrading it from level D.

Whereas the Gene Absorption required 100 dimensional points. After all, it was only an ability of the Zergs. It might have seemed very useful but it wasn’t that high in terms of rarity.

However, the number of dimensional points required for increasing the level of Time Manipulation caused Fang Zheng to vomit blood. To upgrade the Time Manipulation level from E to D, it required 1,000 dimensional points.

Well, it was very rare.

As for the exclusive mission, Homeland, Fang Zheng didn’t have any choice either. He couldn’t ask Mylune to stay on Earth and develop. The other side was obeying just because he was their Master. But at the end of the day, Zergs were Zergs. You could never convince them to be harmless rabbits. As the ruler of the swarm, Fang Zheng had to find a home for them for sure. Fang Zheng was left with no choice but to wait and see. Which world would be unlucky enough to be taken care of by the Zergs?

He might have been a little depressed but he had to admit that Fang Zheng hit it big time in the world of Edge of Tomorrow. So, he didn’t care much about this little depressing point. With everything finished, Fang Zheng was also ready to return to the main world.