Four Split Personalities

Chapter 2554: Chapter 1206: Use It or Not?

0.18%!

This number is the experience value that the [Dawn · Ruthless Sword] gained after the sparring session between Motan and Dabus. Note that this experience is solely for the sword form. In other words, the experience gained by [Dawn · Pure Snow Spear] and [Dawn Demon Polearm] is not this number.

Considering the appearance ratio of the three forms, Motan could easily guess without looking that the experience values gained by the spear and polearm forms would be even lower, possibly less than 0.1%.

In other words, if Motan wants to advance the sword form he is most skilled at, to upgrade the quality from [Shattered] to [Common], then he would have to engage in battles like the previous one at least...

555.555556 battles!

To step back, it’s five hundred fifty-five and a half battles.

To step back further, it’s over five hundred battles.

And beyond that, there is no further retreat.

No need to mention the instant calculation of the accurate number by Dabus, even Ya Ya, who wasn’t sensitive to numbers, shivered, her small face turning pale, looking greatly shocked.

"No... really not!"

Dabus swallowed his saliva with difficulty and said dryly, "After the last battle, it didn’t even increase by 0.2%. Isn’t the upgrade requirement for this thing a bit too harsh?"

Motan smiled bitterly, nodding helplessly, "It seems to be the case, and if I use other weapons before completing the upgrade, the experience values of all the [Dawn] forms will be directly reset."

"This is just advancing from [Shattered] to [Common]."

Dabus, looking as if he’d seen a ghost, stared at the gray longsword in Motan’s hand, eyes wide open, "And then, there are levels [Excellent], [Superior], [Epic], [Legendary]—a whole four more stages, right?"

Motan shrugged, nodding, "I don’t know what its limit is, but somehow I feel this weapon is at least capable of reaching epic, and even imagining going to legendary isn’t impossible... probably."

"Honestly, I feel that even if you focus on just one thing, trying to upgrade this to a legend might take half a lifetime, and very likely until The Realm of Innocence shuts down, it still wouldn’t be done."

Dabus, holding his chin, gave a quite reasonable reply and then asked, "By the way, how many forms does your [Dawn] have?"

"Eight forms."

Perhaps because the 0.18% hit too hard, even with his current resilient personality, Motan’s expression was not great, answering gloomily, "Sword, spear, knife, dagger, polearm, axe, staff, fan—a total of eight forms."

"Emmmm..."

Dabus was silent for a long while, and then with a complex expression, he patted Motan’s shoulder, "Well, brother, listen to a word from me, maybe we should just forget about it?"

Motan opened his mouth, but nothing came out, why didn’t he say anything? That’s because he didn’t say anything.

Logically speaking, Dabus’s suggestion was quite reasonable, after all, given the current status of [Dawn], its shattered-level attributes truly cannot deal any significant damage. At least in the states of Ruthless Sword and Pure Snow Spear, having personally experienced them, Dabus didn’t even have to break his defense, and the life points lost before and after were basically the lower limits of the skills.

In other words, the damage Dabus suffered—even if Motan held a stick in his hand—as long as he could successfully put the skills out, it would basically be that number.

So although Motan took about twenty percent of Anthony Dubs’ life using the [Ruthless Sword], this damage actually doesn’t have much relation to the weapon itself, all relying on skill bonuses.

As for situations without the skill bonus, we can reference his combat using [Pure Snow Spear], where the momentum of thirty-something shots only dealt 6% damage.

However, the output ability of the [Asura Halberd] form is somewhat respectable; at least when the weapon’s inherent skill is activated, that is, [Demon Howl], Motan temporarily possessed Asura’s Extreme Intent, which indeed allowed relatively strong normal attacks. But according to the current status, not to mention this ’strength’ is just comparable to when he uses handy weapons like [Corona Slash Sword], the key point is this thing also has a time limit!

At most for half a minute, using [Asura Halberd], Motan would have to completely lose combat power due to exhaustion of physical strength value, becoming fish on a cutting board, vulnerable to slaughter.

As for the remaining five forms, even though Motan hasn’t tried them in actual combat, their unreliability is likely not to vary much. Summarily, they are—very much in line with their shattered quality—low capable weapons.

These facts are not unknown to Motan, but truly making him abandon [Dawn], as if the equipment doesn’t exist, is not easy to work with...

Firstly, given the nature of this equipment as [Soul Binding], Motan fears it would be hard to sell it at a high price to an organization that would definitely be interested in [Dawn], like the Alchemist Association. Stepping back, even if he could actually give this thing away, those researchers who are not bound might not manage to transform [Dawn].

Secondly, Motan feels that this weapon suits him very well. Though modest, he does have a certain understanding of his own level and wouldn’t deceive himself into thinking he doesn’t possess the talent to wield [Dawn]. In fact, he knows very well that this weapon is almost tailor-made for him.