Chapter 981: Active Abilities Are Insane! (1/2)

Krune and the Seamstress spent a couple of months understanding their active abilities.

Even an active ability was still limited by their mortal bodies. If they expend all their stamina, they would be able to condense the Supreme Monster forming their active ability. Plus, the size of the monster created dictated the strength the Supreme Monster wielded.

When summoned, just like the Checkpoint Turtle summoned by Gehen, they were able to compress air in their bodies to launch an attack.

The Seamstress's active ability was called Great Dipper, which came from one of the adults. It was capable of high-speed flight between multiple points. It was a great advantage in the presence of numerous enemies.

Its special ability was inhaling and compressing air before shooting them out of the stinger-like bullets. And, each air bullet packed a lot of punch, enough to make a hole 10 centimeters deep into the rock pillar.

On top of that, the stinger itself was covered with a poison that would paralyze the stung foes. These were the abilities the Great Dipper possessed. While summoning it, the Seamstress could use it to ride freely in the air.

If she activated her active ability without summoning the Great Dipper, she was able to secrete the poison in its stinger. Upon understanding the potency of the poison, she stored it within her coral sword, improving it further.

Overall, she obtained numerous abilities that made her insanely stronger when compared to before. At present, her stamina wasn't enough to summon the Great Dipper in its largest form. Still, even when it was smaller, it retained all its abilities.

In any case, the Seamstress usually summoned it in a tiny form to use it like a mobile gun.

As for Krune, he had long since overcome his depression, now brimming with a childlike grin as he experimented with his abilities in excitement.

At its maximum size, the Cloud Whale spanned 20 meters in length and had a horn of 5 meters long on its forehead. Its primary ability was related to the Motor Fish. Though, as all Supreme Monsters wielded air, it was able to generate air currents to move in the same way a Motor Fish moved in water.

And by using its expandable wings, it was able to glide over long distances, only expending minimal energy. It wasn't able to travel like the Great Dipper, though. It was only capable of traveling in straight lines and took a lot of time and space to make a turn.

Nevertheless, it was the best bet to travel long distances at a minimal cost.

By inhaling and compressing air in its body, the Cloud Whale was able to shoot out a stream of air from its horn that was thin and possessed tremendous penetrating power. It wasn't able to shoot in multiple bursts like the Great Dipper, and had to expel all the compressed air in one shot.

In any case, it was the most powerful when mowing down things in a straight line or creating a tunnel through a thick piece of rock. After experimenting, Krune figured out that even after expending all five rings of his Ocean Heart, he was only able to summon it to a length of 18 meters, short of its maximum.

Even with all his energy, he still wasn't able to summon it in its most powerful state, but this only caused him to beam in joy. Because that meant he could still train and grow a lot.

Last but not least, the final segment of this active ability caused him to be unable to control his excitement. Just like how the Seamstress was able to generate poison when activating the active ability without summoning the Great Dipper, Krune was able to do the same.

And in his case, the ability he got was the Cloud Whale's ability to generate air currents. Even though the air currents he generated weren't powerful enough to make him fly, it was still strong enough for him to glide through the air for long distances.

That was just one part. While running, he was able to boost his running speed by making use of the air currents. It also allowed his attacks to become faster and stronger, giving him a boost in speed overall.

Even though it was an exhausting technique, since air was 800 times less dense than water—to achieve the same effect as in water, he would need to exert more—but it caused his strength to grow even further.

Now, Krune was confident of only relying on the air currents to go toe-to-toe with a Monster King and emerge out victorious. He was still unsure of facing a Monster Emperor. He would only have a guarantee of winning if he summoned his Cloud Whale.

As for a Supreme Monster, Krune still not dared face one alone. Upon obtaining one himself, he knew just how ridiculously strong a Supreme Monster was. It made him wonder just how a mortal was able to face against a being of such a level.

'Just how did Gehen kill a Checkpoint Turtle within two years of arriving at Layer 3?' Krune thought about it so many times over the past two months while training. As for him, even though his plans were conservative, it still took him 17 years before he obtained an active ability.

Given that he nurtured a Supreme Monster from scratch and did not kill it through other means, he took a longer time. But even otherwise, he had chosen this path because he didn't have confidence in killing a Supreme Monster.