Zhang Chen lay on the ground, on the verge of death, his last wisp of core energy struggling feebly.
Yet, this slender thread of energy was no match for the immense suction force emanating from his fingertip... it too was slowly slipping away from his core...
At this moment, a woman in a qipao, wearing high heels, walked slowly from the doorway.
The man crawling on the ground, upon seeing the woman's face, instantly showed a look of horror.
He instinctively covered his head with his hands.
But the woman paid him no mind. Instead, she walked past him with elegant steps, her waist swaying rhythmically with each stride.
The woman approached Gromos and slowly raised her right hand.
It was not a human hand, but an incredibly sharp claw!
Just as her claw was about to strike.
Suddenly, Gromos's body began to convulse violently. Its eight tentacles curled uncontrollably, as if enduring immense pain.
Its massive eyeballs were rapidly rolling, as if trapped in a terrifying nightmare, blue blood vessels quickly filling its white eyeballs along the veins.
Visible, dense blue energy surged into Gromos's pupils at an astonishing rate.
Subsequently, a bright, pure white energy replaced the blue energy, filling every vein in Gromos's body.
This energy, following the blue blood, rushed into its pupils.
However, in less than a second, the white energy retreated from the pupils, followed by the blue energy.
The energy flow had reversed!
The energy that had been continuously flowing from Zhang Chen through Gromos into the parallel world was now flowing in the opposite direction.
Energy from the parallel world was continuously surging back into Zhang Chen's body through Gromos!
This is...
The woman's eyes widened in astonishment, her face filled with disbelief.
As more and more energy poured into Zhang Chen's body, he suddenly opened his eyes.
His gaze was filled with strands of pure white energy, and his entire body seemed enveloped in a sacred glow!
Zhang Chen had looked at himself in the mirror when he activated Absolute Sight.
Besides connecting to his limbs, his energy core also had a stream of white energy connected to the meteorite core in his storage ring.
At the moment Zhang Chen's energy core was about to extinguish, the immense energy of the meteorite core surged out of the ring and into the original position of the energy core, replacing it.
The current Zhang Chen was, in essence, the meteorite core itself.
If Zhang Chen had merely obtained the meteorite core before, he had now finally achieved initial fusion with it.
The energy flow within his body had been completely revitalized by the meteorite energy.
The deep azure had turned into pure, bright white!
I feel like I've become different...
Zhang Chen said slowly.
As he lowered his head to examine himself.
A line of prompts slowly appeared beside him:
[God (Tier 2) · Advanced Transmuter Stage One. Pure energy of the meteorite core flows within him. All attributes increased by 200%. Energy attack skills' damage increased by 100% (no bonus to auxiliary energy skills like Soul Burn and Energy Barrier). Gains unique auxiliary skill: Apostle Modification! And obtains 500 Modification Points!]
[Apostle Modification: Can see the target's loyalty towards oneself, and can strengthen and improve life forms absolutely loyal to oneself (loyalty greater than 95), significantly boosting their strength, talent, skills, etc.!]
Note:
1. When an apostle's loyalty to the modifier drops below absolute loyalty, the modification ability automatically disappears.
2. Automatically gains ability [Disassemble]: Has a chance to disassemble target's abilities and gain modification points by defeating survivors with Epic Talent or above, or mutated V-type monsters with special abilities!
Hoo!
Zhang Chen let out a long breath, having just returned from the brink of death.
After being reborn, his strength was even greater!
Pop!
Zhang Chen slowly retracted his finger, interrupting the flow of energy from the异世界 into his body.
This energy could not be directly absorbed by the body and required the meteorite core to release energy to neutralize it, rendering it largely useless.
At this moment, Gromos was completely paralyzed by the acupoint pressure.
A stream of pure white energy gathered at the acupoints, rendering Gromos immobile.
Zhang Chen gazed at the white energy on the acupoints, and soon another prompt appeared:
[Current energy blockage breakthrough distance, remaining 75 hours 22 minutes 35 seconds...]
A single touch was enough to paralyze Gromos for three days, which felt quite good.
Since it was paralyzed, as long as it didn't die, it couldn't level up.
And as his own strength increased, the duration of its control would inevitably become longer.
Such an unbeatable ultimate monster had been defeated just like this!
Zhang Chen looked up, finally noticing the slender woman standing before him, Xu Ruina.
Long time no see~
Zhang Chen greeted her with a smile.
I didn't expect you to be able to control the meteorite energy!
Xu Ruina said, her eyes full of surprise.
Probably luck!
Zhang Chen replied with a smile, while also feeling slightly surprised.
Because Xu Ruina could actually speak, and her voice was very pleasant, with a hint of an older sister's tone.
The last time they met, she had only just regained her consciousness.
It is luck, but also inevitable!
If you hadn't decisively gone to retrieve the meteorite core during the first phase of the apocalypse, you would have certainly died today!
No matter how much energy you had in your body, it wouldn't have been enough for Gromos to absorb.
Because you were facing not just a mutated V-type monster, but another world connected to it.
The nature of biological energy is that lesser energy is attracted to greater energy.
No matter how strong you are, you cannot possess the energy of an entire world, so you were destined to be drained dry!
However, the appearance of the meteorite energy reversed the situation, causing the energy of the parallel world to surge towards you...
Xu Ruina's beautiful eyes, as she looked at Zhang Chen, were filled with envy and surprise, mingled with a touch of curiosity.
Uh...
Zhang Chen did not like Xu Ruina's curious gaze.
Because he could deeply feel that Xu Ruina's curiosity was not directed at Zhang Chen himself, but at the peculiar phenomenon that had occurred with him.
It was akin to a scientist's curiosity towards a strangely looking white rat.
Zhang Chen still remembered the fate of the first white rat Xu Ruina had used for experiments in her video...
Xu Ruina's claw fiercely pierced into Gromos's body, and she dragged it to a specially made glass jar. She lightly tapped the tip of the claw against it a few times, seemingly inputting settings.
Soon, the jar opened, and she casually tossed the massive Gromos inside.
As the jar slowly closed, a line of prompts slowly appeared beside it:
[Mutated creature storage jar containing Gromos. As a technological product of the Progress faction, it can be connected to the contained creature and stored together in the Progress faction's weapon arsenal!]