I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 653 - 488: Too Self-Sacrificing After the Reversal_1

Chapter 653: Chapter 488: Too Self-Sacrificing After the Reversal_1

"This is a Spatial Bag."

"Here it comes, the most classic item in the world of magic!" Zheng Yichen got excited when he saw the item the fire dragon took out. He had always wanted to create something like a Spatial Bag, which didn’t even exist in the Firmament Wheel world, and he hadn’t seen it in any of the other worlds he visited.

And now, at last, he had encountered one!

"Forget it, this thing isn’t as convenient as you imagine," the fire dragon rolled his eyes. "The built-in space is huge, but it’s also affected by the environment. If you carry this bag into a battle, it can easily be damaged by the forces generated in the fight, and then your equipment will explode!"

"Isn’t there a better one?"

"Of course there is," the fire dragon explained to Zheng Yichen, "but even the better ones need the environment to sustain them. This thing would quickly become a normal bag in the world of Hazy City. You don’t think the expanded space comes without any energy consumption, do you?

Even if you don’t put anything in it, a bag like this can last about three or four years. But after that time, it will turn into a regular bag and must be re-infused with Magic Power to be reactivated."

Zheng Yichen opened the bag and looked inside. The space within was about one cubic meter, while the bag itself was the size of a palm, just like a small wallet – very convenient to use.

"Can my motorbike be modified with one of these?"

"It should be feasible, but in a low-magic environment, the bag will lose its effect quickly. You should be able to sense that."

Zheng Yichen nodded and then said, "No problem. As long as I remove what’s inside before it loses effectiveness, there should be no impact, right?"

"That’s right."

After getting a definitive answer from the fire dragon, Zheng Yichen felt at ease. As long as the star core battery inside his motorcycle didn’t exceed its limit, that thing was more powerful than a nuclear power station, and even in a low-magic environment, it could sustain the consumption. If the environment was too incompatible, such as a world with an extremely low energy level, he would take out the items beforehand.

"Take a few of these bags and use them first," said the fire dragon. "They might not be the best, but they are good enough for now. Hmm, I’m going to reorganize the protection around my nest."

After saying that, the fire dragon left the area. His dragon’s nest, unlike a Mage’s magic workshop, had much higher defenses. Magic workshops were generally within cities, but his nest was on a volcano, where the abundant fire Elements were fully utilized.

Not to mention anything else, as long as it’s a first-class giant dragon, they are very adept at territorial magic. Mature giant dragons must venture out, and while their direct combat abilities are formidable, having qualified territorial magic ensures that they can secure their place in many situations.

As the fire dragon strengthened the territorial magic of his nest, he incorporated some powers and knowledge from alien worlds. The knowledge obtained by Ahn Qi’s hunters group was jumbled and chaotic, but even in the chaos, there were still useful insights to be found. The fire dragon would often organize those pieces of knowledge as a consultant during his leisure. While organizing, he also learned a lot of new knowledge from alien worlds.

Now, the small techniques he added to the defensive magic he was laying down around his nest made those magics even more difficult to break through. For those who wanted to invade a dragon’s nest, such tricks became deadly surprises.

On Zheng Yichen’s side, he distributed one Spatial Bag to each person. After knowing the effect of the bag, Ahn Ke said, "My Second Brother will be very interested in this."

"Interest is one thing, but whether he can use it is another," Zheng Yichen warned. "This item requires extra energy to use, and in the environment of Hazy City, to maintain its effectiveness for an extended period the energy consumption is probably hundreds of times higher than here."

Zheng Yichen estimated this based on the rate at which the bag’s energy dissipated and the energy level of the environment. After asking Lilith to conduct further calculations and taking into account the effective time of the related items provided by the fire dragon, Lilith’s calculation showed that the bag’s energy consumption would be between 100 and 120 times higher in Hazy City – and that’s when the bag is empty.

The energy consumed increases when items are stored inside, but that increase is just an additional few to several times higher than the initial rate.

"If it’s just about electricity, it’s not a big problem," Ahn Ke added.

"The key is, this thing doesn’t use electricity." Zheng Yichen rubbed his fingers together, and sparks appeared in his palm. He didn’t use his Elemental manipulation ability often, but the Elements power he could control included lightning. The lightning he was currently conjuring could charge more than a dozen electric bikes, yet the energy he expended to create it was negligible."

However, such abundant lightning might not be enough to convert into the energy he used to create it. Therefore, even if this item could be maintained with electricity, the electrical energy required would be immense. It’s not that electricity as an energy source is insufficient; rather, it’s because the power systems are different, leading to a huge disparity in the conversion efficiency unless there is a better way to convert it.

Just like the current lightning Zheng Yichen created, the reason his energy consumption is negligible, besides his own strength, is that he forms the lightning from the Environment’s lightning Elements - his consumption is equivalent to flipping a switch, though even flipping a switch is a form of energy expenditure.

Unless there was a suitable method, he could indeed maintain a special cycle where he pressed a switch to generate enough external force and then used that force to restore his own consumption... Tch, in that case, why not bypass this step and directly extract energy from the environment to replenish himself?

Zheng Yichen had such a method, which was inherently part of his abilities, though not as comprehensive. Soul Devour Enhancement, Earth Devourer, both were active abilities that could obtain external power to restore and enhance himself, but they weren’t comprehensive enough for full extraction.

The comprehensive method he thought of for extracting environmental power was ’Unity of Heaven and Man’.

Zheng Yichen once wanted to use blood containing Sky Pillar’s energy to strengthen himself, but alas, the cost was too high, out of his league. He only got some related information, but later he found a shortcut, which was to eliminate those Boundary Breakers that made extensive use of Sky Pillar’s energy, thereby gradually achieving the same enhancement effect he would have gotten in Dusk, or at least reducing the cost of enhancement.

The issue was, based on ’Unity of Heaven and Man’ information from Dusk, this ability didn’t seem to be an active one. The ’Unity of Heaven and Man’ abilities he got from the Boundary Breakers he killed were extremely incomplete; most of the time, he didn’t feel any direct changes in his power, probably because it was too weak.

In the world of the fire dragon, he had felt some changes, which could be described as a higher elemental affinity, but it wasn’t very noticeable, let alone extending it into an actively usable ability.

The attribute reversal effect brought by his equipment was useful to the powers he used.

Whether it was the cat spirit cloak or the fishing rod, or even the noise pistol, they could all be effective, though the fishing rod had the strongest effect. However, the powers that these pieces of equipment could affect all had a prerequisite: the ability to be actively released.

White Light, Black Light, soul control, Soul Devour Enhancement, and Earth Devourer were all of the type that could be released externally and could use weapons and equipment as an additional medium for release. Abilities like concealment, Feeding enhancement, and Burst Mode, on the other hand, were not affected by attribute reversal; these are powers that act directly upon oneself.

Unless he himself possessed an ability like attribute reversal, he couldn’t utilize it. Elements manipulation wasn’t affected because this power was inherently neutral, and his own passive abilities were even less to say, out of question.

As for externally-released abilities, well, soul control, Soul Devour Enhancement, and the Earth Devourer, when affected by attribute reversal, seemed a bit self-sacrificing.

Soul control became Soul Release, freeing those souls that had been subject to its control. Other effects remained unchanged as they were of a neutral nature. Soul Devour Enhancement turned into Soul Release Enhancement, which perfectly embodied the self-sacrifice; the original ability was to temporarily enhance oneself by plundering the soul power of the outside world, much like Feeding enhancement.

The difference was that it could absorb externally rather than directly consuming...although eating with the mouth was also an option.

Reversed into Soul Release Enhancement, it consumed one’s own soul power to enhance a chosen soul, yet again a self-sacrificing act. As for the fishing rods’ Soul-Subduing effect, which was enhanced by Soul-Subduing magic stones, the reversal effect was also Soul Release, targeting those souls that had been sealed or suppressed, effectively breaking the restrictions placed upon them with ease.

This was different from Zheng Yichen’s reversed Soul Release, which had no particular effect on powers that suppressed or sealed souls, but was specifically effective against forces that dominated spirits. Correspondingly, the fishing rod’s reversed Soul Release had no direct effect on forces that dominated spirits.

As for Soul Release Enhancement... consider it a ranged blood transfusion ability.

Earth Devourer was similar to Soul Release Enhancement, consuming one’s own power to repair damaged earth. Land that was turned into a desolate wasteland by the Earth Devourer could be restored by its reversed form, but at Zheng Yichen’s expense.

It was too self-sacrificial!

It’s better not to reverse it at all and keep the effects normal.

Based on the new discoveries in this world, Unity of Heaven and Man should be the kind of ability where one could use as much power as the environment offered. If it could be transformed into an actively released form, it would be akin to requesting or begging for more power on top of what was already available.

On this basis, if one used reversal, two possibilities arose: the first being that requests became lootings, with one’s skill determining how much could be gained, potentially obtaining more or possibly nothing; the second being that the surrounding environment grew hostile towards him, transforming into a lawless wasteland with him at its center.

Zheng Yichen didn’t see this situation as bad—in a lawless wasteland, dragging enemies into close combat wasn’t bad.

The problem was that all of this was still in the realm of speculation. He first needed the conditions to carry out subsequent operations. For now, he’d make do with the Earth Devourer.

Unity of Heaven and Man is a consideration for the future. What he needed to think about now was securing a foothold, waiting for the fire dragon to present a suitable target to strike, while also upgrading his motorcycle on the side.

Up until now, the bike had been enhanced with technology; it was time for some magic enhancement.