I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 646 - 481: It Depends on Personal Performance_1

Chapter 646: Chapter 481: It Depends on Personal Performance_1

"Unfortunately, this doesn’t directly help my injury." On the way to the laboratory, Zheng Yichen had Lilith drive while conducting his own power tests through a disguise projection, and a part of the White Light was also within the scope of Order·Right. After the attribute reversal, as Zheng Yichen had thought, it did not become the Black Light he could use.

Instead, it was a chilling light. The color hadn’t changed much; the healing aspect had turned into harm, and the offensive aspect had not undergone any change. Overall, the transformation was not as dramatic as that of Black Light, probably because Light type powers themselves are only tangentially related to Order·Right.

There weren’t as many parts that could be reversed, since attribute reversal, after all, is not the same as converting offense to defense. Offensive powers remain offensive even after reversal; only their attributes are altered. Therefore, the transformation of Light type’s White Light is not significant.

It merely gained an additional offensive effect, turning its original healing properties into harm. The defensive and offensive effects remained the same.

The situation with Black Light was much clearer. This type of dark radiance became more inclusive after reversal. The originally erosive harmful aspect transformed into inclusive healing. Black Light could embrace the injuries of those affected by it. Although it lost that additional eroding damage, this inclusive healing reminded Zheng Yichen of some similar abilities.

For example, the berserker’s ultimate in DotA or Shallow Grave, those abilities that prevent one from dying during the duration of the skill’s effect, leaving the recipient with a sliver of health. Black Light’s embrace of healing might not be as exaggerated, but it could absorb a substantial amount of damage through this darkness that envelops everything.

Then there was the impact of Black Light on negative emotions. The original Black Light amplified negative feelings, while the reversed Black Light, although not diminishing them, proved more useful in its manifestation. It embraced negative emotions, with the individual’s negative feelings merging into the darkness.

As long as it didn’t exceed the endurance limit of the darkness’s embrace, the individual’s mental state would remain stable. This form of embrace effectively provided a fixed damage reduction for those affected, regardless of external psychological influences.

If an individual’s negative emotions were not triggered beyond that fixed value, the mental impact they suffered would always be zero!

Aside from that, Black Light’s offensive and defensive qualities remained the same as before. However, with the attribute reversal, the nature of its attack and defense changed. Black Light, when used offensively, originally had an erosive effect, but now that erosive quality had turned into inclusion following the reversal, thus altering the nature of its attacks.

Under this transformation, Black Light’s originally White Light-specific super-strong protection became more adaptable, not limited to White Light alone anymore.

Conversely, after the attribute reversal, White Light’s defensive properties weakened a lot, but its offensive power was strengthened. This change occurred because, after the reversal of White Light’s healing aspect into harm, the healing process worked through a permeating effect.

Light, after all, can permeate through any small gap. This type of permeation is not corrosion, unlike Black Light. When comparing the two, Black Light’s inherent erosive nature could be considered innate armor reduction, and to apply a debuff of armor reduction to a target, you first have to hit the target.

The permeative nature of White Light after reversal is akin to inherent armor piercing—it doesn’t require prior success in hitting the enemy’s defenses, as long as it hits, it inflicts sufficient damage.

Blackening enhancement, whitewashing weakening... Zheng Yichen’s attitude towards the reversed Black Light and White Light wasn’t so biased. White Light, after becoming Black Light through reversal, simply became more lethal, while its functionality and protective properties became weaker. This wasn’t considered an enhancement from becoming ’blacker,’ it was more like reassigning points based on the original structure.

The overall value hadn’t changed, just the emphasis had been altered. The same goes for Black Light. After the reversal to ’white,’ its lethality indeed weakened, but its functionality improved, and the resulting effects were quite powerful, accomplishing parts that White Light couldn’t.

Hellfire transformed into a faint red flame, which still possessed enough lethality and didn’t stop being flame due to the attribute reversal. A piece of meat thrown into it would still be roasted or charred, but after changing properties, the flames no longer consumed Life Force and souls, but instead burned the Power of Death and matter.

Hellfire that uses Life Force as fuel becomes stronger, making it difficult to extinguish when it burns living things. The destructive power of flames is always strong against living beings, so long as the living being isn’t immune to fire. When alive and imbued with Life Force, catching Hellfire can be likened to an oil drum catching fire.

An oil drum can withstand a certain level of high temperature, but the oil inside is different. Hellfire’s extra killing power isn’t related to temperature or intensity of flames, but rather to its characteristic of using Life Force as fuel.

Hellfire reversed is the opposite – when ignited, it doesn’t use gasoline as fuel but the drum itself. If there are other substances inside the drum, then the flames will burn longer.

Between the two fires, reversed Hellfire is seemingly the kinder. Normal Hellfire burns Life Force and souls, in addition to the fact that the living entity itself has a body of flesh and blood. Hellfire also has the properties of normal flames, so naturally, the victim’s physical body gets burned alongside.

When the soul is completely burned away and the body is reduced to ashes, the victim’s death is utterly thorough.

The reversal of Hellfire could only burn away an individual’s body; the soul’s Life Force was not within the direct burning range of this flame. Unless Zheng Yichen deliberately used the fire to burn a target’s soul, creatures killed by this kind of flame would still retain their souls and Life Force, only their bodies would be gone.

When dealing with normal creatures, the effect could only be considered average, slightly stronger than ordinary flames, which are not as potent as the reversal of Hellfire in igniting materials.

However, when this flame was used against beings that possessed the Power of Death, its effect would be greatly enhanced.

The characteristics of the reversed Hellfire would make it easier for Zheng Yichen to collect souls in the future. After killing a wide area with Hellfire nothing would be left behind, but after killing a wide area with the reversed Hellfire, the entities that were burned to death would still retain their souls and Life Force.

Without a carrier, Life Force would dissipate into the environment, but if he had a way to collect Life Force, he could attempt to capture it on a large scale from the surroundings.

Abilities like Feeding enhancement belonged to that neutral type, useless when reversed, and of course, some abilities like attribute reversal were not his own but inherent in weapons and equipment. It was possible to reverse abilities that could extend externally through weapons and equipment, but those that were fully effective on himself might not be affected by the equipment.

Abilities on the equipment would not grant him a new skill just because he held or wore it.

Even so, upgraded equipment still provided him a great boost, offering him a leap in diversity.

Arriving at Ahn Ke’s research lab, he scanned his face and went straight to the lab where Ahn Ke was located. The staff here were used to it, except some newcomers who were puzzled, but the newcomers here weren’t foolish. Seeing the attitude of their experienced peers, they wisely said nothing.

"I’ve got something new here."

"Something worth your trip?" Ahn Ke stopped her research, took the storage disk passed by Zheng Yichen, looked at the interface, and found a universal read-write interface to access the information inside.

"Life Preservation Technology?" She glanced at the information, seemed slightly stunned for a moment, then read it seriously. The technology wasn’t mature, but it was highly viable. The Great Evil God fragment supplied by Zheng Yichen filled in the last missing parts, and determining how to assemble the scattered parts into a whole would require further research.

"This is good stuff, I like technology like this," Ahn Ke said. She personally felt there were several parts in this piece of technology that needed modification, but there was no need to boast her own ability by pointing out the shortcomings of this technology.

Besides, she believed the parts she thought needed changing were not due to a lack of technology, but rather a matter of research style. The technology had simply brought together the necessary components, and when faced with a bunch of uncombined parts, without a specific instruction manual and only a result to aim for, anyone capable of assembly would have their own methods.

The point was being able to assemble the required object.

The ultimate goal of this technology was to assemble a vast array of parts into a functioning car that could run, requiring at least ninety percent of the parts to be used, with core parts absolutely necessary, thus directly excluding those who would attempt to cobble together a toy bicycle out of a pile of building blocks.

After weeding out the slackers, what remained was a matter of personal performance. The talented could use the plethora of parts to assemble a supercar or even a levitating vehicle, while those of average ability could still produce results after hard work, though their creations would just be ordinary cars. An ordinary car is still a car, and if it could transport people, it was considered adequate.

So Ahn Ke now thought the parts of the technology that required modification and adjustment were purely a matter of personal style.

This technology was clearly from another world. They shared some knowledge while also differing in other respects, not to mention individual habits and styles. What others found appropriate she might not, and that’s why there was such editing and adjustment. That wasn’t a reason to denigrate the provider of the technology.

Zheng Yichen asked, "When can specific results be produced?"

"...You don’t need this stuff, right?" Ahn Ke looked at Zheng Yichen somewhat speechlessly. Did Zheng Yichen need Life Preservation Technology? He had a better, similar ability himself.