Chapter 235: This Medal is Superb!
In tonight’s night sky, the moon was a dish.
As the watery moonlight passed through the window, it sprinkled into the captain’s room.
The captain’s room had no lights on, though the dragonman youngster wasn’t asleep.
He sat in front of a desk, listening to the sea waves slapping the hull, the occasional mercenaries patrolling on deck giving orders to each other.
With Zong Ge presiding over them, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps had far more discipline than any normal mercenary corps.
The half beastman treated and educated them entirely as troops.
The desk had a teapot that was boiling tea.
The dragonman youngster was looking at the medal in his hand.
It was the Grand Arena Medal.
It seemed to be made of silver and from dense material, even the dragonman youngster felt it was quite heavy.
It was silver level equipment, and its influence was quite large, for it concerned the Abyss.
Its main function was twofold.
The first was to amplify the wearer’s growth, including strength, speed, defense, attack, recovery, and more. It also had another property, the more people that were watching the fight, the better the growth rate.
The second function was that absorbed a defeated opponent’s battle experience, skills, and so on, pouring them all into the medal’s holder.
The dragonman youngster during the day personally experienced the benefits of this equipment.
He had requested that he spar with Chi La and Men Shi.
With everyone watching, he vividly felt the Grand Arena Medal amplify him.
To the extent that he could more effortlessly defeat two silver levels fighting together.
He was now using the second function after the sparring finished.
At that moment, a great realization flooded into his mind from the medal.
He obtained much usage experience in using two-handed war hammers, a few dwarf battle skills, and the real combat experience concerning how to use those battle skills in battle.
These experiences mainly came from the dwarf Men Shi; the rest came from the human gunner Chi Lai.
The dragonman youngster’s eyes closed as he analyzed to himself, “This medal can absorb a defeated opponent’s experience and instill it into the wearer.”
“Therefore, the source of these experiences are Men Shi and Chi Lai.”
“Furthermore, the pertinent substance relates to how many times Men Shi and Chi Lai them.
“I obtained battle skill experience, all of them were the ones Men Shi and Chi Lai frequently used during the fight.”
“If in the future I want to acquire Chi Lai’s shelling experience, he’ll need to use a cannon during sparring.”
After the spar, the dragonman youngster spent time alone to covertly use a two-handed war hammer.
After using it, he felt he was once an expert war hammer wielding soldier who had taken a break from fighting for many years and stopped training, then suddenly one day, he picked up a war hammer again.
He completely stepped over the blankness of a novice starting out.
But after some training, the dragonman youngster acutely felt something else: despite the experience being real, during genuine practice, his personal performance still had a bit of a disparity to his experience.
The dragonman youngster analyzed, “The experience in my mind came from Men Shi, he is a dwarf, while I am in the body of a dragonman. His experience is too incompatible with me; therefore, it caused this disparity.”
“If I want to solve this problem, I’ll have to absorb war hammer experience from more people or transform into a dwarf.”
No matter which was used, the dragonman youngster could attain both of them.
“Commander, a three ringed turtle has been lured over.” At that moment, the dragonman youngster’s communication device transmitted Zi Di’s voice.
“Good, I’ll come at once.” The dragonman youngster’s eyes flashed as he stood up to leave.
He picked up his prepared tea and drained it in a gulp.
This tea was not ordinary, the clear tea had kelp like tea leaves floating in it that emitted a silver level aura.
It was silver level Fragrant Gil Tea!
The dragonman youngster activated the Bloodcore.
With a burst of red light, he transformed into a four meter long snake and slithered out the window, quietly falling into the sea.
He transformed into a silver level tide snake.
On Snake Rat Island, he had gathered much of the tide snake’s bloodline.
100%
The Bloodcore already had 100% of the tide snake’s silver level bloodline.
If he was in the dragonman form, it wouldn’t be easy to enter the water quietly, but it was effortless and natural in the tide snake form.
The ship’s patrolling mercenaries didn’t notice anything.
The tide snake youngster entered the seawater, immediately triggering the Fragrant Gil Tea’s effects.
Bronze level Fragrant Gil Tea could give a person the ability to breathe underwater.
Iron level Fragrant Gil tea could not only give underwater breathing, but it could also give one dark sight, very suitable for underwater combat.
While silver level Fragrant Gil Tea could not only give the user underwater breathing and dark sight, but also water perception!
The tide snake youngster entering the water had an entirely different feeling.
He could sense and control the water next to him.
Not just that, every time he moved his snake body, his mind could foresee how the surrounding water would subsequently change.
Thus, although this was the first time he used the tide snake form in water, he was able to rapidly dive through the seawater.
However, his swaying body looked very strange and unnaturally uncoordinated.
After all, he was still inexperienced in using his snake body.
With Zi Di’s directions, after the tide snake youngster swam for a bit, he smoothly found his target – a silver shell three ring turtle.
This turtle appeared to be the size of a carriage, and its turtle shell looked to be dark silver.
It was a silver level oceanic magic beast, and after seeing the tide snake youngster, it instantly became vigilant, and its silver turtle shell produced a faint light, a warning signal.
But the tide snake youngster had come to find trouble with it.
The youngster opened his mouth and shot out Ice Ray.
It was the tide snake’s racial magic.
Although the youngster didn’t have a magic crystal, the Bloodcore was the perfect substitute.
By expending the Bloodcore’s magic, the youngster hit his target with Ice Ray.
The silver shell three ringed turtle was infuriated, and its turtle shell unexpectedly broke apart into eight soaring long silver lumps.
The silver lumps shot towards the tide snake youngster, causing the latter to swiftly evade and continue attacking with Ice Ray.
After a dozen seconds, the tide snake youngster was in a difficult situation.
He was besieged by more silver lumps.
Compelled by circumstances, he was forced to turn back into a dragonman.
“A humanoid shape is still the most comfortable!” The dragonman youngster sighed, he brandished his fist and tangled with the silver lumps flying at him.
He used Surge, traveling through the ocean like an artillery shell.
Along with Demolition Fist, he hit the silver lumps or the turtle, instantly pushing the other party into a disadvantageous position.
The silver shell three ringed turtle used all of its strength, and silver lumps came together to form three rings around it.
The rings rotated in the water, forming three tight defensive lines to withstand the dragonman youngster’s offense.
The dragonman youngster added the spurting smoke dragon transformation, utilizing the ring mounds to accelerate and increase his offensive.
The silver shell three ring turtle couldn’t withstand it, and with a whine, it recalled the silver lumps and turned around to escape.
The dragonman youngster didn’t kill it yet, instead he hung back and activated the Grand Arena Medal.
The experience from the loser poured from the medal into him, entering his mind.
This experience was how to swim, how to separate one’s turtle shell, and how to use one’s shell to confront one’s enemy.
After taking it in, the dragonman youngster caught up to the silver shell three ring turtle and beat it up.
The three ring turtle was thrashed and unable to retaliate as it tried to escape persistently.
After the dragonman youngster hit it for a spell, he stayed his hand and tried to absorb experience from the medal again.
This experience only had the turtle striving to swim and doing its utmost to escape.
The dragonman youngster repeated that process.
The pitiful turtle quickly shrank back into its shell, its head red and swollen.
Realizing its desperate situation, the turtle began to counterattack wildly.
The dragonman youngster shouted and the blows to the turtle churned the seawater with ceaseless booms.
After a few minutes, the turtle’s corpse slowly sank to the seafloor.
The dragonman youngster used the Bloodcore to completely absorb it.
Thus, the Bloodcore gained the Many Ringed Turtle bloodline, the silver level one was only 15% complete.
The Many Ringed Turtle was a magic beast bloodline, it contained the water and magnetism nature, and if medicine was used to measure it, it would react to water and earth path magic medicine.
The highest the many ringed turtle could reach was the saint level.
Starting out with bronze level copper shell one ring turtle, then the iron shell two ringed turtle, next was the silver shell three ringed turtle, then the gold shell four ringed turtle, all the way to the saint shell five ringed turtle.
Through this battle, the dragonman youngster gained a lot of experience with how the Grand Arena Medal worked.
The less intense the battle is, the longer it goes, the less experience is acquired.
Frequently doing battle with the same enemy will yield less experience every time they are defeated.”
“Perhaps this is the Grand Arena Medal’s true usage.”
The dragonman youngster’s perspective seemed to suddenly widen.
Before, after escaping Mystifying Monster Island, he analyzed that the Bloodcore’s best use was with humanoid forms.
But now, paired up with the Grand Arena Medal, he could absorb numerous magic beasts and magic plants, then utilize the experience he absorbed, able to rapidly form all new military power within a short timespan!
“This medal really is superb!” The dragonman youngster exclaimed in sincere admiration.
Meanwhile.
The Iron Lump slowly stopped at a shore.
Cagng Xu was standing on the ship’s bow, looking at Pine Wind Island in the night.
Pine trees covered everything the eye could see, and they swayed gently in the wind, integrating into a dark green wave of tress that was a magnificent sight.
What pleased Cang Xu the most was the squall that was everywhere on Pine Island.
The squall was full of negative energy; this was an incomparable pleasure for the necromancer.
By contrast, Qing Xin next to him had already formed a mild cyan defensive cover.
“Where exactly is the undead gathering site?” Cang Xu wrinkled his eyebrows, somewhat awkward.
Qing Xin knew the undead gathering was here, but not where it took place exactly.
Cang Xu still had to go find it himself.
“Do you really want to go with me?” Cang Xu looked at Qing Xin, “I believe staying on the ship will be better for you.”
Qing Xin shook her head, “If something happens to you, as such a big target, how can I avoid the attack and retreat in a timely fashion?”
“I am also a member of the Wisteria Merchant Alliance, with that position, there shouldn’t be any trouble.”
“We need to concentrate our strength, that will increase our success rate of this operation…hold on, a person!”
Qing Xin suddenly warned.
Cang Xu quickly took precautions.
From the pine trees came a zombie.
The zombie was expressionless, “You two, I have come to lead you to the gathering site.”
“You are?” Cang Xu looked surprised, he saw what the person looked like. They were unexpectedly an acquaintance from Two Eyes Island!