Chapter 367: Chapter 182: Testing the Skill, Ranked Matches Reopen
Lin Ye stepped out of his own private villa.
As the Chief Student, his living quarters were exceptionally fine. The grounds were so immaculately kept that you couldn’t find a single fallen leaf.
This thwarted his little plan to find a target for testing his new skill.
He strolled toward the townhouse complex where the regular students lived.
Things were much messier over there. Before long, Lin Ye stopped beside a half-full trash can.
A Green-headed Fly was perched on the rim of the can, tirelessly rubbing its forelegs together.
’This is the one.’
All life within the Nirvana Tower had been utterly annihilated in the eruption of the Doomsday Volcano. For now, Lin Ye could only use these common creatures to test the effects of Fungal Dominion.
His choice of the fly was, of course, deliberate.
Not only could the creature fly, but it was also tiny, making it a perfect match for reconnaissance and for use as a teleportation anchor.
A purple, crystalline needle, so fine it was almost invisible, materialized from thin air and instantly streaked toward its target.
The fly, still rubbing its legs, suddenly went rigid as the crystalline needle pierced it, pinning it to the plastic side of the trash can.
The next moment, Lin Ye sensed that a brand-new creature template had appeared in his [Fungal Dominion] skill panel.
He turned and returned to his villa, shutting the main door behind him.
With a thought, Lin Ye began to summon his first minion.
To his surprise, the process was far more complex than he had imagined.
Even for something as small as a fly, creating it out of thin air was no easy task.
He felt as if his Spiritual Power had become a pair of invisible hands, meticulously constructing every physiological structure of the fly according to the template in his mind.
From the veins in its wings and the lattice of its compound eyes down to the tiniest hairs, every part required an investment of his Spiritual Power to manifest.
Small but perfectly formed.
「A minute or so later.」
BZZZ BZZZ BZZZ...
To the faint sound of beating wings, Lin Ye felt 50 points get deducted from his maximum Life Value.
A living Green-headed Fly materialized out of thin air on the table in front of him.
The very first creature he had ever created was born.
Lin Ye immediately perceived the fundamental difference between [Fungal Dominion] and [Silk Puppet].
First, the fly required no portion of his focus to be micromanaged; it possessed a high degree of autonomous intelligence.
Any thought from Lin Ye was perfectly executed by the fly with almost zero latency.
He had a thought, and the fly took to the air, precisely following the ventilation duct above the villa’s living room and flying outside.
At the same time, the visual signals captured by the countless lenses of its compound eyes were projected into Lin Ye’s mind, down to the last detail.
It was a 360-degree panoramic view with no blind spots. Even the subtle sensation of the breeze brushing against the fine hairs on its body as it flew was fed back to him with perfect clarity.
The next moment, Lin Ye noticed the fly’s body color darken slightly in mid-flight.
The black spores implanted in its body had taken root and sprouted in that instant. Countless fungal hyphae rapidly proliferated, reaching full maturity.
Outwardly, the fly didn’t look much different.
But Lin Ye knew that from this moment on, even if someone swatted the fly into a pulp, it could instantly revive itself thanks to the hyphae within its body.
He pulled up the attribute panel for his first minion.
[Minion: Unnamed]
[Race: Green-headed Fly]
[Evolution Tier: 0.05]
[Life Value: 2/2]
[Strength: 0.002]
[Agility: 0.01]
[Endurance: 0.001]
[Spirit: 0.001]
[Racial Traits: None]
[Special Skills: None]
’As expected, it’s just an ordinary fly. Its base stats are downright pitiful.’
But the power of Fungal Dominion lay in his ability to transfer a portion of his own maximum Life Value and attribute points to strengthen his minions.
[Ding! You have consumed 50 max Life Value, 3 Strength, 5 Agility, 3 Endurance, and 3 Spirit to strengthen your minion!]
This was the absolute limit of reinforcement the fly’s template could handle.
Even so, Lin Ye had personally created a... battle fly!
VREEE—!
A piercing shriek exploded in Lin Ye’s mind.
The fly, which had just left the villa, suddenly increased its speed by several hundred times!
In Lin Ye’s shared vision, the scenery around it instantly blurred into streaks of light.
Lin Ye discovered an interesting phenomenon.
For an ordinary adult, the baseline for the Agility attribute is about 1.
If an ordinary person had 5 points in Agility, their running speed might reach the level of a world champion like Usain Bolt.
But when those same 5 points of Agility were applied to the fly’s template, the effect was a world of difference.
’The template itself is an attribute amplifier!’
’At this rate, the fly could probably cover a hundred meters in just two or three seconds!’
As he mulled this over, the fly he had summoned reached the pinnacle of its fly-life.
It hovered over the summit of Lingxiu Mountain, a peak over three hundred meters high located behind the training camp.
An ordinary fly, after all, could never maintain continuous long-distance flight, let alone reach such a high altitude.
The next moment, with another thought, Lin Ye created a second fly minion on the table in front of him.
After this minion was summoned, Lin Ye gave it no commands, simply letting it rest quietly on the table to act as a beacon.
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