Chapter 498: Talent Extraction And Skill Synthesis
Is it possible that the information I’m asking the system for is way above what I can handle?
Leo thought that was the most likely possibility because he had indeed noticed that, in contrast to its previous complete silence, the system now responded to many of his queries.
So that’s what it is...
Setting that thought aside, Leo imdiately began extracting the talent from the other beastcores.
But he did notice that whenever a talent or skill was extracted, no essence was extracted to boost a similar beastcore. In other words, it was a trade-off.
He could get a talent, a skill, or the soul essence—one at a ti.
Neither all three together, nor even two. Just one of the three.
He completed the extraction of the remaining 3 cores, out of which only one was successful in talent extraction; the other two gave the skills [Fla Orb], [Fireball], and [Flathrower]. The last core had given two skills at once.
Ding!
>Talent—[Ashfire Shaman] - 2 star, has been successfully extracted!
"Now it’s a 2-star talent, but of the sa kind."
He noticed that he now had 3 different types of extracted skills.
[Fireball] × 4
- The first true fire spell. A fist-sized ball of fla capable of a small-scale explosion on impact. It flies steadily and bursts upon contact, making it useful against lightly armoured foes.
Mana: 10
[Fla Orb]
- A dense sphere of fire ford through interdiate mana control, capable of exploding on impact and producing enough force and heat to injure multiple enemies standing close together.
Mana: 50
[Flathrower]
- Releases a continuous torrent of raging flas from the user’s hands or weapon, engulfing everything in its path. The sustained stream excels at area suppression, forcing enemies back while inflicting relentless burn damage over ti.
Mana: 100
So... if I bestow this skill on an individual without an affinity, will they be able to use it? Leo asked.
>No. Skills without the given elental affinity are useless. Unless the beast essence itself has been combined with the blessed individual, they cannot utilise the skill.
>Additionally, the sa skills that can be used by multiple elents will adjust accordingly to the beings blessed with those skills.
Leo nodded.
It’s like having a very good ga to play, but my system cannot handle it.
Leo interpreted it in his own way, recalling the tis when he couldn’t play a good ga because his PC’s specs were too low back in his previous world.
He also realised that the only reason Shyra could use so many skills with different elent was because he had directly assimilated the beastcores into her being. The only instances where he had bestowed skills separately were [Golem Construct] and [Scream].
Of those, [Scream] was non-elental and depended on the beast’s physical aspect. The second, [Golem Construct], could be used when an individual possessed a hard, physical, elental-manipulation skill.
Since Howl had Earth Manipulation, earthen golems were ford. If Niri were to receive that skill, the golems would erge as wooden ones.
"Wait... on that note, doesn’t Howl even have tal Manipulation? He should be able to form tal golems too!"
Leo suddenly froze as enlightennt struck him.
The only reason he couldn’t make—or had never tried to make—a tal golem was because he lacked the generation aspect of tal. But that didn’t stop him from having tals outsourced.
"Not to ntion I even have the 10 tonnes of raw tal that I received from that one colossus in Trial City and Howl!"
Leo’s eyes brightened imdiately at the thought. A tal golem would be far superior to a rock golem in durability at the sa star realm.
A simple Peak 2-star tal golem made out of adamantium would be able to contend with 3-star beasts or even higher, depending on the circumstances.
But that would require a huge investnt. If it were made of iron, a simple 10-ter golem classified as a Pseudo 3-star golem would require more than 100 tonnes. That was an astronomical cost for a single construct.
What Leo didn’t take into account, however, was that a golem made of tal would only need to be about 2 to 3 ters tall to be classified as Pseudo 3-star. Unlike brittle rocks, tals were significantly stronger.
Leaving the matter for another day, Leo returned his attention to the skills and talent.
"So I need to bestow these talents and skills on an individual together. Hmm... 4 fireballs..."
System, can these 4 [Fireball] skills be combined to form higher-tier skills? Leo asked, already convinced it was possible because it had happened before.
>Affirmative. The host’s talents allow skill synthesis. A sub-ability born of the main ability to integrate beast essence into other beasts.
Leo was delighted by that answer.
But he also realised just how much heavy lifting the system did for him. Without it, he wouldn’t know the exact details of the extracted talents or skills. He wouldn’t even have figured out the skill synthesis sub-ability, let alone have access to the user-friendly interface that allowed him to work with both of his talents.
He silently thanked the God-Beast once more and proceeded with the skill synthesis.
Ding!
>[Fireball] [Fireball] = [Fla Orb]
"Oh? So [Fla Orb] is a higher version of [Fireball]. Interesting... What if I combine the 2 [Fla Orb] skills?" Leo muttered before proceeding.
"Surely it shouldn’t be [Flathrower], right?"
Ding!
>[Fla Orb] [Fla Orb] = [Scorch Burst]
[Scorch Burst]
- The explosion radius expands considerably. Flas spread across the ground after detonation, turning the surrounding area into a temporary hazard.
Mana: 500
"Oh! Nice! Now this is interesting. But..."
Leo looked at the mana requirent and imdiately realised it was an extrely expensive skill.
If he used the average person with a Common Soul as the benchmark, it was virtually impossible for a Peak 1-star individual to cast it, as their upper limit was only 100 mana units.
Even at Peak 2-star, a person could only cast it once, since they would have exactly 500 mana units. Not to ntion they would collapse imdiately afterward.
"If they have an Uncommon Soul, the upper limit would be 1000 mana units. At that point, the skill could at least be cast safely once," Leo muttered.
Only then did he realise that synthesising skills without reservation wasn’t necessarily a good thing, and he regretted it after receiving a warning from the system.
>Note: [Scorch Burst] is the maximum limit of the 2-star talent [Ashfire Shaman]. During the skill cast, the user would need to exert all their strength just to handle the skill’s output and would collapse the next mont. It puts them at mortal risk every ti they cast the skill.
"Damn..." Leo muttered under his breath.
Now even an Uncommon Soul—or a higher-ranked one—wasn’t enough because the talent itself imposed the limitation on the body.
It was only now that he realised just how many fortunate stars had aligned for him to possess a hidden Mythical Soul that did most of the heavy lifting in the background.
It’s like having a futuristic ultra-performance Gen-7 computer processor in dieval tis, where only Gen-1 computer processors exist in general.
Leo thought with a chuckle.
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A/N: I will publish the next Chapter soon.
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