Mecha Battle: Why Do You Use Body to Destroy Stars?

Chapter 341: Chapter 225: Perfecting the System, The Road to the Future_2

The base power value shot up to 30 billion!

The bonus from the [Extreme Battle Soul] and Mythical Specialization took effect on top of the 30 billion base, multiplying the power by eight.

The power soared to 270 billion.

Then came the support of Three Heads and Six Arms, totaling nine beams of light.

Added to the continuous ray attack from the Crystal of Divine Punishment, as long as the energy source was not cut off, it could continuously cause damage…

All these factors combined together.

They successfully eliminated a near 9th Rank legendary Asura in an instant.

“This is just from absorbing once, a 1st Rank module!”

“From now on, all the modules I control can finally unleash power that matches my strength!”

Jiang Chen’s face was filled with joy.

The Adaptation Power, truly worthy of being a Mythological Trait, directly produced the most suitable effect for him!

Of course, this enhancement in power wasn’t without its drawbacks—

The energy consumption was too high.

To elevate a 1st Rank ability to the current strength,

Jiang Chen paid a hefty price in physical energy consumption.

As a result, after releasing the Crystal of Divine Punishment just nine times, he had completely exhausted his physical strength!

“What if it was Void Splitting?”

Jiang Chen took on the second challenge.

Right off the bat, he teleported close to unleash tens of thousands of Void Splitting, forming a net of Spatial Slashes that shredded the legendary enemy into pieces.

“Similarly, the power ceiling was removed, greatly enhancing the power…”

“But Void Splitting didn’t increase the energy consumption by much.”

“With high-speed recovery, it’s even negligible.”

Jiang Chen nodded slightly.

Quite clearly.

The Adaptation Power trait worked by consuming large amounts of physical strength to increase module power.

The lower the module’s rank, the more physical strength it consumed.

In other words, when a module’s power was no longer capped,

absorbing it repeatedly wouldn’t increase its power, but reduce energy consumption instead.

The more times absorbed, the lower the energy consumption, until it returned to normal.

“This is completely acceptable.”

“It’s much better than previously when my strength increased too quickly and the module power could never keep up.”

Jiang Chen was quite satisfied.

And furthermore…

Due to the impact of Adaptation Power, the way module power was calculated also changed.

Previously, the quality of the module was linked to the module’s power ceiling, affecting the strength of the ability.

After the removal of the power ceiling…

The quality of the module was linked to the [attribute bonus].

A module of ordinary quality typically converted 1 point of attribute into 1 point of power.

An excellent quality module, like the previous Seed of Flames module, converted 1 point of attribute into 2 points of power.

An exceptional quality module, like the Crystal of Divine Punishment, converted 1 point of attribute into 3 points of power.

The higher the quality, the more efficient the attribute’s performance.

With an ability of mythical quality like Void Splitting,

1 point of attribute could be converted into 7 points of power!

Following a full day of accumulation, Jiang Chen’s attributes had increased to 99 billion+.

Upon removing the limit, the base power of the Void Splitting released was nearly 700 billion!

After the double trait bonuses, the power approached 5600 billion!

“According to this method of calculation…”

“In the future, when loading weapon modules, the quality, attributes, and effects all need to be considered.”

…

The Mythological Trait [Adaptation Power] that was upgraded.

Could be called the “core trait,” it nearly changed Jiang Chen’s combat system.

To be more precise…

It perfected his ability system.

In the midst of battle, he no longer needed to engage in close combat often, instead, he could enrich his own combat logic, matching different abilities.

Even if engaging in close combat again, even when throwing punches…

It would be through combat module techniques like [Instantaneous Explosive Strike], rather than ordinary fighting.

It was on a completely different level.

It was for this reason Jiang Chen tested himself in a full round once again.

He took out all of his most powerful abilities, used them one by one, reviewed the operations, and did some combinations.

Only then, with great reluctance, did he end the challenge.

He returned to the spectator area and his gaze fell on another mecha challenge.

After one day’s time, three mechas had fought a total of seven challenges—mainly because after each fight, they needed three hours for mecha repairs.

The actual battle process didn’t take much time, and they still couldn’t win many battles.

After all, let’s not talk about needing extra combat power to achieve consecutive victories in the Endless Challenge, basic attributes didn’t have any impact…

Even though Zero had increased several tens of millions in attributes, when compared to the several billions shared by Jiang Chen, the impact was really not significant.

Therefore, Zero averaged a 6-second increase in mecha soul strength per battle.

After seven battles, the mecha soul strength had increased by 42 seconds, reaching 76 seconds.

According to theory,

only 60 seconds of mecha soul strength are needed to reach the level of a “Talent Mecha.”

Now that Zero was ready for a second mecha upgrade, it was more than enough to awaken the Mecha Talent.

However, mecha upgrades were irreversible.

To be safe, Jiang Chen took the three mechas and did mecha challenges for more than two days.

He increased Zero’s mecha soul strength to 180 seconds.

You must understand, under an 8-fold Velocity Mecha Soul Fusion, Vitaz could only last for 60 seconds… This was already three times the endurance!

If switched to Time Deceleration Fusion, Zero could already maintain the enhanced posture for 9.6 hours!

“With this in place…”

“By the time of the second upgrade, Zero would be one hundred percent certain to awaken the Mecha Talent.”

By then, more than twenty days had passed since Jiang Chen’s last rank advancement trial.

There were less than forty days left until the Civilization Wonder “Shining Star Torch” was completed.

Big shot Li Xiao was exploring the alien demonic planetary domain, working hard to gather the materials needed for the Civilization Wonder. The progress was rather slow.

Therefore, Jiang Chen planned to start his rank advancement as soon as possible.

First, he would increase his strength to above the 12th Rank, join big shot Li Xiao in the alien demon instance, and farm the materials for the wonder…

That was the top priority.

However, before leaving the Purgatory level, Jiang Chen also made a detour to the area of the Abyss Levels Traveling Merchant—

The “Adaptation Power” trait had already finished evolving, and for now, it was just slowly assimilating the Mythical power and enhancing the Mythological Body.

The “Extreme Battle Spirit” trait was also rapidly improving in proficiency with the help of many Asuras.

Especially the Non-Divulge Conscious Soul, Jiang Chen was becoming increasingly skilled in using it through the “Void Annihilation” talent, getting very close to mastering this ability.

These two traits were already on the right track.

However, the other two traits: “Mechanical Soul” and “Mecha-Pilot Symbiosis,” were not only still ordinary traits but also had no path to advance.

So, after Jiang Chen upgraded his traits the other two days,

Taking advantage of the time for mecha repairs, he found the Abyss Levels Traveling Merchant and inquired about information related to these two traits.

Unfortunately, he didn’t find any relevant information.

Therefore, Jiang Chen entrusted the Abyss Levels Traveling Merchant to find a mecha pilot with the “Legendary Trait Slot.”

Through trade, he would obtain further information about these two traits.

In the Purgatory level, there were countless mecha pilots above the 10th Rank who possessed a Legendary Trait Slot.

The Abyss Levels Traveling Merchant didn’t have to exert much effort to strike a deal with a few of the mecha pilots.

Now, Jiang Chen came over and successfully obtained the information he sought.

“Mechanical Soul”→”Innate Machine Spirit”

[Type: Legendary Trait]

[Effect: Endow a mecha pilot with the Innate Machine Spirit trait, enabling communication with any Mechanical Soul, greatly improving efficiency and affinity.

When fusing with the mecha soul, it can awaken its latent power, granting it a temporary upgrade.]

[Description: Take this, for it is our bond!]

…

“Mecha-Pilot Symbiosis”→”Mecha-Pilot Fusion”

[Type: Legendary Trait]

[Effect: Endow a mecha pilot with the Mecha-Pilot Fusion trait, allowing one’s own symbiotic mecha to undergo temporary fusion.

The fusion effect will vary depending on the leader.]

[Description: All is one, one is all.]

The advancement effects of the two ordinary traits were undoubtedly revealed under the effect of the Legendary Trait Slot.

However, this didn’t mean it would be easy to advance—

If it were that simple, the Legendary Path would not be categorized as “advanced knowledge” by ancient civilizations.

“Let’s take it slowly, at least now I know the path to advance.”

“If I had no idea and was blindly searching, that would be a real torture…”