Chapter 223: Appraisal Vision (1/2)
Soon enough, the azure comet landed on the ground and the frost energy dispersed. From inside, a one-tailed clone of Rakna stepped out with a roll of his shoulder. He and his original-self gazed at each other for a moment before snickering at the same time.
”How was it?” Rakna ultimately asked and the clone huffed.
”Pretty fruitful,” he said with a hum. ”First of all, Harvester isn't available to me but there is no problem using Scavenger. But it has reduced effects. I can also use Wings of Collapse but it costs me more; my MP reduction is half of yours; 25%. The same applies to my senses; the multiplicators have all been halved. And as we expected, Ascension of the Titan is out of the question.”
”What about our Traits and Magic?”
”Hm, well, all the Traits are usable. The only difference is the shapeshift. The Werewolf form only increases my attributes by 40% instead of your 62%. The Wolf form's speed boost is reduced to 60% from 82%. As for our magic, Sloth and Mystic are unavailable. But that's it, otherwise. I can use our spells like normal; granted, with reduced magical damage and extra mana. Ah, but, count the Manifestations out. They don't appear on my spell list.”
Rakna quietly processed what his clone was telling him. ”I see. There are several more decrements than I anticipated but it's not too bad.”
”I agree. For skills and our knowledge, it's all the same except for soul-related stuff. I only have a shard of your soul, perhaps even just a copy in the form soul power only, so it doesn't allow me to use the Core or the Decree. Then, our titles. Most of the buffs apply, but titles like Wolf Emperor, Imperial Designation, Chalice of Wishes, and The Kind Demon's Kin are only yours.”
”Makes sense. And our experience?”
”Oh yeah, I can't gain any exp,” the clone said with a scowl. ”Kind of disappointing.”
”Well, we can't be too greedy. Anyway, we already confirmed that you could use System privileges like messages, your status, and Plateau teleportation. Now, the only thing is…” Rakna trailed and conjured a frost crystal barbed spear with energy confined inside.
He whirled it and opened his mouth. ”Gungnir,” he uttered and threw the spear at the sky, where it exploded grandly. He then glanced at his clone who was already checking his status without him asking.
”We're good,” the clone let out a satisfied smile. ”Our mana is shared but not our cooldowns. I think the only time we have identical cooldowns is the moment we split up. For example, since you still had Horologium on cooldown when you made me, I also have it.”
Rakna nodded at the clone's observation, which also made him remember the long cooldown of the Horologium constellation. It was obviously a very powerful spell and Ceres had also divulged that time-related abilities usually had escalated cooldowns. In Horologium's case, it was exactly 200 hours, or in other words, approximately 8 days.
He sighed. ”Whatever. Let's merge back. We should just meld our memories for the rest.”
The clone nodded. ”Sure,” he said and walked to his original. He placed his hand on his shoulder and instantly, his body began to lose consistency and it momentarily appeared like an amalgam of nano-machines before it shrunk and slithered over Rakna's shoulder on its own. It went to his tail bone and transformed back into a normal tail; returning the count to four.
Right away, Rakna felt a rush of information enter his head which was readily swallowed, filtered, and sorted by Eye of Symphony in a blink. He mused at the new information and removed one of his gloves for a moment. He then watched as his hand became metallic with blue lights traversing the linear traces of the material.
He then willed it to change shape and it followed his orders. One of his fingers turned into a blade at first, and then the whole hand followed. He inspected it carefully and with a thought, it detached itself from his wrist.
Immediately after, his body began to undergo a strange process. The density of the material across his limbs and other body parts seemed to decrease to reconstruct his lost hand. The process only took about three seconds.
”And now it's recreating new resources…” Rakna muttered to himself. From what he understood, and from the observations of his clone, his body seemed to have a sort of 'capacity'. The material he was made of could go up and down in density without altering its properties.
Whenever an injury is detected, the resources are spread out to fill the gap. What is used to close wounds or regenerate limbs is the mass of the body. As long as it has enough density, regeneration will occur in a fast and costless manner. But when the material hits its lowest reasonable density, mana will begin to be used to keep up.
However, in both cases, once the injuries are fixed, the density will thereafter be reconstructed passively over time by expending insignificant amounts of mana.
”Together with my Star Reinforcement, this really makes me hard to kill,” he commented.
”{Truly. At this point, your only vital area is your brain. But even then, thanks to Eye of Symphony, there are chances that your brain can be healed as long as it is not important parts.}”
”Or someone could use an attack powerful enough to destroy my entire body,” Rakna casually said as he crouched to pick up the dark blade he had created from his own physique. ”If that were to happen, even turning my body into star energy wouldn't save me. I can also be defeated if I'm out of mana to regenerate.”
[Rakna,] Ceres spoke up with a certain curiosity in her tone. [Would you please use Appraisal on the blade you are holding?]
He blinked at her question but then realized that might not be a bad idea at all. And so, he followed through her suggestion and a window appeared in front of him.
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Unknown Fragment…
Quantifying…
System Item Approved.
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Designation: Material/Weapon/Blade
Name: Prima Materia Shard
Rarity: Exotic
Attack Power: ~50
Durability: 100%
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Perks:
- Eion Energy Production: This item constantly generates energy and is incidentally able to regenerate the systems composing it with time.
- Eion Energy Decline: If this item gets more than ten meters away from the original material it was created from, its production of energy will shut down and then reverse, eventually decreasing the durability of the object until it hits 0.
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Description:
A discarded part of a Prima Alkahest Materia Physique uniquely possessed by the Host, Rakna Xiorra, to this day. It possesses miraculous properties for those capable of harnessing them.
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You have used Appraisal on an Exotic Item!