681 Obtain 1 (1/2)
Chapter 681: Obtain 1
”How strong is an army level individual?”
Garen asked as he walked out of the secret chamber.
‘You were close to an army level when you activated your fifth star…' Black Sethe pondered for a moment before responding.
”Then why is there the need to learn the Peacock Technique?” Garen casually put on the shirt on the hanger by the door.
It was already night time outside.
The silver moonlight shone through the window and settled on his face.
‘Secret Technique isn't just strength,' Black Sethe muttered.
”That's because that strength isn't powerful enough,” Garen rebutted.
Black Sethe went silent. Recently she’d been reacting strangely and would keep quiet instead of speaking up.
However, Garen understood that the illusion created by his overwhelming increment in strength, the feeling of being able to force everything to go his way was nothing but an illusion of the strength that overflowed from his body.
His current limit was still thirty points. This wasn't just because of the genetic limitation, it was his soul limit as well.
A weak and fragile soul would not be able to handle a powerful body. Similarly, a weak body would not be able to contain a powerful soul.
A weak soul would be easily affected by the status of the physical body. One would most likely lose oneself and become a beast. On the other hand, a weak physical body would not be able to contain a powerful soul. If one were to fully utilize the strength of the soul, one would die as due to the overexertion of one's body.
”I can only reach the limit of a human by purely increasing the strength of my physical body. I still sleep, need oxygen to breathe and these are all my disadvantages. By practicing Secret Techniques, I can mimic other advanced beings and obtain their advantages so that I could completely eliminate any weaknesses that I have.”
Garen had finally woken up from his obsession with strength and he suddenly felt that his body had become taller and stronger. After activating the fifth star, his body was affected by the potential points once more and had become even stronger. Perhaps this was the aftermath of achieving ten points in Vitality as well.
Just as he’d upgraded himself, a battle arrived at his doorstep. Under these circumstances, Nadia was easily defeated by him.
Perhaps this was due to the masks' suppression on Nadia, which prevented her strength from reaching the limit of thirty points of strength. For her to go against Garen who had thirty points, she was completely oppressed and Garen managed to win the fight with a decisive punch.
He gently touched his forehead where he'd been struck by Nadia's Ominous Space Path. The Ominous Space Path's unique feature was that she would counter the attack without fail if he were to attack her.
Garen was blocking the opponent's huge sword but his forehead had been slashed by it. However, as he was in the fifth-star state which allowed him to possess the upper limit of strength, his whole body was as tough as an alloy or even better.
It was because of this that he was able to withstand that slash.
”How can I defend against such an attack...?” Garen stood under the moonlight as he pondered.
”There are three ways. Firstly, I should not let her have the opportunity or time to draw her sword at all, then this technique would be useless against me. However, that's impossible. Traitors are a subset of Void Creatures and they can appear at any moment. No one would be able to predict when they will appear or disappear.”
Garen walked towards the window and opened it to allow the cold night air to enter the stuffy room.
”The second approach is to decrypt the mystery of this technique and find a way to counter it. There is no perfect technique in every world but this is something I'm not able to do at the moment.” Garen shook his head as the Ominous Space Path was the strongest technique he'd ever seen. To be able to counter-attack while being attacked and attack through spacetime. All the mystery was packed in that instant and his five senses weren't able to process everything in that instant. Hence he wasn't able to understand its mystery.
”Then the third approach would be distraction…” Garen reached out his hand and looked at his ashen palm.
Fantasy Fist was a horrifying fist technique that would misguide the opponent's target. If he could use it against all living beings…
This fist technique could be used on humans as its principle was to affect and oppress the nerves in the brain. If he could find a way to extend this effect to the soul, perhaps he could lift the original limit to beyond living beings.
However, he didn't possess the knowledge to modify the technique at the moment, as he was too unfamiliar with the nature of the Void Creatures.
If this were to be completed, he would be able to distract Nadia's power and misguide her to attack other places or even other targets. This was distraction.
After thinking of ways to counter her technique and not achieving anything, Garen looked back at his Attribute Pane.
He had 234 potential points remaining and it would have very little effects if he were to use it on his attributes as he couldn't exceed that thirty points limit no matter what. He should use it for other stuff.
He had a few options. He could add them to the Secret Technique but he was unable to increase the core of the Hellfrost Peacock Technique and he would most likely encounter the same situation if he were to change to another Living Secret Technique.
He could use it for what he had been doing all these while, which was to recover his injuries to prevent any incidents.
Another option was to focus on one attribute point. When it reached a certain height, a unique feature would appear.
For example, when his intelligence reached twelve points in the Totem World, it had the effect of Double Critical Attack. It wasn't a strength that could be achieved by using the Seven Star Life's Secret Point. He would need to possess such characteristics in order to achieve it.
With the Double Critical Attack, he would produce twice the amount of strength with his fists. What seemed to be a single fist would have the strength of two fists superimposed onto each other. It was the effect of disrupting the nervous system at a high level.
That was the first time he'd obtained an ability from his attribute. Even when other attributes had reached twenty points, he didn't obtain anything at all. Up until now, he knew that twelve points of intelligence would give him an ability.
After pondering for awhile, he chose to increase his Intelligence.
He focused his gaze on Intelligence and it immediately jumped from seven points.