362 Success 2 (1/2)
Chapter 362: Success 2
Garen withdrew his hand and glanced at the totem panel. The Dual Headed Salamander’s icon remained there. It did not turn grey nor disappear.
He thoughtfully withdrew his hand and immersed his body in the nutrient pool, which had turned to clear water. The blood stains on his body were quickly washed off with the slightly vibration, revealing his white fleshed body beneath.
Suddenly, he noticed that although the Dual Headed Salamander's icon remained, some strange changes had quietly taken place.
He carefully looked at the totem’s introduction symbol. Suddenly, his pupils shrunk.
”What is this!!??”
The explanation on the front of Dual Headed Salamander’s totem icon suddenly evolved into a core totem!
”Core totem - Dual Headed Salamander: Third evolution of Deep Swamp Croc. Third Form Creature, Ultimate Totem, Cannot be evolved.
Abilities: Maze Mining, Life Tear, Dragon’s Roar, Dragon Skin, Parasitism.”
Suddenly his heart skipped a beat, Garen gradually gathered his martial arts aura.
As the Myriad Water Jasper Technique continued to operate, a faint red aura slowly formed. It was a blood-like, thickened fluid, spreading all over the ground.
Garen could clearly feel a huge blood red pattern forming on his back. It was the pattern of the Dual Headed Salamander's body outline.
Garen extended his arm to look at his fair but abnormally tough skin. His five incredibly sharp fingernails on his left hand turned into devil-like red. Garen naturally realized that his left fingernails were the parts that could use Life Tear. Once the five red fingernails pierced any living being, it would replicate the effect of the Dual Headed Salamander’s Life Tear and draining the being’s life force to restore his own.
”This is the real way to use totems?” Garen felt enlightened in his heart.
His heart skipped a beat as the red Dual Headed Salamander behind him suddenly let out a fierce howl.
Sshhhh!!!
A circle of clear sound waves originated from him and spread throughout the perimeter.
”This is Dragon’s Roar.” Garen, without any change in expression, jerked his left arm forward. Chii!! His five fingernails naturally extended, leaving a red shadow,. It was like a lunging, ferocious bite towards prey.
”This is Life Tear.”
He abruptly leapt out from the pool in a blur. He landed in front of a clothing rack on the right side of the cave. He grabbed a grey robe and wrapped it around his body.
In a flash, Garen’s whole body was wrapped in the grey robe. His dripping wet golden hair was draped over his shoulder. His eyes were faintly glowing in red, but the most noticeable was the three red dots on his eyebrows which were still faintly emitting red fluorescence.
With a beat of his heart, the gigantic Dual Headed Salamander totem slowly dissipated. The three red dots on Garen’s eyebrows also stopped glowing, reverting to a normal three dot birthmark, like a cinnabar.
”Looking at it, once I stop using the totems, there won’t be any strange signs on my body.” Garen had an epiphany.
The bizarre existence of the Dual Headed Salamander was similar to the primitive totems of Luminarists.
The only difference was while Luminarists used silver as the material for totem creation, Garen relied on blood; large amounts of the Dual Headed Salamander’s blood.
The similarity was both had an activated and deactivated form.
”Luminarists use a storage device to keep their core and secondary totems. While it seems that my current method is to combine the totem with my body as one?” Garen cautiously sensed the changes of his body. The Dual Headed Salamander totem seemed to be in the three red dots on his forehead.
He had a vague feeling that he was on the path of the legendary warlocks.
”If the way of the Luminarists retains the totem’s life as an independent being, my way of integrating the totem into the body to obtain the abilities of a core totem causes the totem to lose its independence. It will be totally dependent on the host body for nutrients.
He looked at the half-opened door in the distance. Komodo left it opened as he was fleeing. It was still lightly swaying from the air flow in the cave.
”Next, let’s see whether I have really surpassed my limits.”
Garen focused and concentrated on the most important point.
The sign of surpassing his limits was tied to the increment of his attributes with potential points. This was the thing that he cared for the most. As for the core totem’s inability to evolve, there would be solutions in the future.
Even a Luminarist’s core totem could be changed once in five years. Maybe this form of core totems would be able to as well.
After focusing, Garen shifted his attention towards the attribute pane.
”Let me try it on vitality first.” He glanced at ”vitality” on the pane.
His vitality had already raised to 2.97 after the heart transplant.
He focused his gaze for three seconds.