I am the Clone of a Death Row Inmate

Chapter 479: Chapter 314: Tier 6 Wondrous Item, Bastard?

This was Su Ze’s first time absorbing a Tier 7 material, so he was a little nervous.

Fortunately, his body was powerful enough that even the energy from the Tier 7 material didn’t place too great a burden on him.

A moment later, he had absorbed all the energy from the Tier 7 horn material.

The ivory-white long horn immediately lost its luster, turning a waxy yellow color.

Meanwhile, after a surge of energy rushed through his body, Su Ze successfully upgraded the skill.

The skill he upgraded was Rhino Charge.

The originally Tier 4, S-rank Rhino Charge skill jumped two levels at once, becoming a Tier 6 skill!

This caught Su Ze by surprise, but on second thought, it was perfectly logical.

After all, he had used a Tier 7 material for the upgrade.

Using a Tier 7 material to upgrade a Tier 4 skill to Tier 6 was perfectly reasonable.

Moreover, both Tier 4 and Tier 6 were still within the same power level—they were both Saint-rank skills. So, despite being two tiers apart, the actual gap wasn’t that significant.

This was unlike the jump from Tier 3 to Tier 4, or from Tier 6 to Tier 7, which represented a qualitative leap—a jump to a whole new level.

As a result, while the Tier 6 Rhino Charge was an improvement, the change wasn’t overly dramatic.

Rhino Charge (Tier 6, S-Rank): Locks onto a target within range and initiates a charge that ignores terrain. All life forms hit during the charge suffer impact damage and are afflicted with Dizziness. The primary target suffers double impact damage and the Dizziness effect. The user is immune to all damage and control effects during the charge.

The most significant change to Rhino Charge after the upgrade was its effect during the charge. Previously, it only granted immunity to physical damage and increased evasion. Now, it granted immunity to all damage and control effects.

In other words, the charge could not be interrupted or stopped—it was a state of true invincibility!

This opened up many more possibilities for the skill. It was no longer just an engagement tool, but also a formidable defensive ability.

He could use the invincibility to block an enemy’s fatal attack or the immunity to counter their crowd-control skills.

Su Ze was extremely satisfied with these new effects. As for the fact that the skill’s damage and control effects had also been enhanced along with its tier, he didn’t care much about that.

He had rarely used the skill for its damage or crowd control anyway.

After absorbing the horn material, Su Ze immediately picked up another upgrade material: a cylindrical piece of metal.

The metal’s shape was so regular that Su Ze felt it couldn’t be natural; it looked more like it had been artificially polished.

Su Ze already had a hunch about this upgrade material, as he could feel a familiar electrical energy from within it.

The cylindrical metal felt like a huge battery, storing a terrifying amount of electrical energy.

The current within was different from the one in Su Ze’s body. ’It seems... higher-grade?’

In any case, it possessed a more destructive aura than the current in his own body. Su Ze guessed this was a higher-grade form of electrical energy.

As he began the absorption process, Su Ze was extremely careful. He proactively sent his own current into the object, establishing a connection with the current inside the "large battery" until they fused into one.

Unlike the current in Su Ze’s body, the powerful current from the "large battery" was tinged with black. It was more active and volatile, and it began to flow back into Su Ze’s body.

Su Ze controlled the speed of the backflow, maintaining a slow but steady pace. This allowed the black current to trickle into his body, letting him absorb it slowly and without any strain.

Even with his powerful constitution, Su Ze still felt threatened by this black current, so he didn’t dare absorb too much at once.

The process lasted for a full half-hour before Su Ze completely absorbed all the current from the cylindrical metal.

The cylindrical metal, which had resembled a large battery, instantly took on the appearance of an ordinary stone. It lost its luster, and its surface became pitted and uneven.

Meanwhile, the electrical energy stored within Su Ze’s body began to transform as the black current merged with it. It gradually took on a blackish hue and became more volatile and active.

Su Ze could clearly feel that the electrical energy within him had grown more powerful.

Along with this, his Thunder God Body skill was also comprehensively strengthened, upgrading to a Tier 6 skill!

Another double-tier jump, going directly from a Tier 4 skill to Tier 6!

Given the precedent with Rhino Charge, Su Ze was naturally not surprised.

Thunder God Body (Tier 6, S-Rank): Stores electrical energy within the body, which can be freely controlled. The user is immune to lightning damage and can absorb external energy, converting it to electrical energy to recharge.

The skill had jumped two tiers without gaining any new effects; all of its basic attributes were simply enhanced.

His energy storage capacity, charging speed, and absorption-conversion rate all increased.

The most significant change, however, was the qualitative transformation of the electrical energy within Su Ze’s body. The black current now faintly radiated an aura of destruction, and its power had risen by a huge margin.

The skill had always been this way: simple yet powerful. Even when it upgraded from Tier 3 to Tier 4, the only new effect it had gained was the ability to absorb external energy to recharge.

Su Ze estimated that for Thunder God Body to gain any new effects, he would probably have to upgrade it to a Tier 7 God-rank skill.

After that, Su Ze absorbed the few remaining enhancement materials he had on hand. This gave several of his skills a minor boost, though it wasn’t enough to accumulate for another skill upgrade.

With all that done, he couldn’t find anything else to do and could only look over at Mr. Ya.