Chapter 298 297: New Index Finger
Inside one of the rooms in Oscar's headquarters, Corey sat on a bed in a cross-legged position with a frown etched upon his face.
"So I was right. It truly isn't there."
Corey's frown deepened as he took notice of an abnormality in his status screen.
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*SKILLS*
Talent Skill: Record, Focus, Eyes of Omniscience, Ears of Omniscience
Title Skill: Eyes of Dreams and Nightmares (Passive-Active, Basic), Somnambulism (Passive), Dreamwalk (Active, Basic), Dream Healing (Passive-Active, Intermediate), Dreamfire Manipulation (Active, Basic → Novice)
Passive: Silent Steps (Intermediate), Paragon Body, Cosmic Soul
Active: Super Jump (Intermediate), Lightning Movement Art (Ancient, Lv 2, Novice), Full Counter (Legendary, Novice), Hexagon Barrier (Master) Teleportation (Intermediate → Advanced), Miasmic Wind (Basic)
Passive-Active: Plague Whispering (Basic), Toxic Familiar (Basic)
Knowledge Skills: Undercover (Novice), Lock Picking (Expert), Paragon Martial Arts (Novice → Intermediate), Herbal Knowledge (Novice), Anatomical Knowledge (Novice) Elemental Breathing Technique (Novice)
Intents: Axe Intent (Basic → Intermediate), Killing Intent (Basic → Intermediate)
Manipulation Skills: Poison Manipulation (Basic), Vibration Manipulation (Novice → Advanced), Fog Manipulation (Novice)
Forbidden Skills: Soul Entropy (Basic), Cognitum Erasure (Transcendent), Painful Echo (Novice)
Unknown Skill: Obscura Force
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[A/N: I forgot to add the skills he got from the Emporium treasury in the previous status screen. Sorry.]
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As Corey gazed at his status screen, there were a few things he realized he had overlooked and ignored.
First of all, the forbidden skill section.
His main attention was on the Cognitum Erasure skill which had a mastery that was at the transcendent stage.
Corey was not shocked by this since he couldn't count the number of times he had used this skill on himself in the first tribulation of hell.
Having a transcendent mastery over Cognitum Erasure was not shocking to Corey, though, it was surprising.
He never knew his mastery over the skill would be that high.
What Corey did not know was that Cognitum Erasure was created to be used on other people, not on the owner of the skill.
So many things could go wrong when using the skill with a poor mastery. But Corey had used the skill so many times that he had unknowingly attained a transcendent mastery over the skill.
A feat which would shock the gods and immortals alike.
One should not forget that the grades of skill mastery were:
Basic, Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert, Master, Unparalleled, Transcendent, Origin & Creation.
Corey was on the cusp on attaining complete mastery over a forbidden skill and it was a feat which would completely stun the top powers in the Universe.
Asides from his transcendent mastery over Cognitum Erasure, Corey noticed something he had overlooked in the past.
Corey looked at his right index finger which was different from all his other fingers.
His right index finger had changed after he consumed the strange finger he took from the desert of mysteries.
Corey recalled the pain he went through after he consumed the finger and he trembled.
He never wanted to go through such pain again.
As Corey observed his right index finger, he noticed it now had strange markings and carvings that changed irregularly.
Asides from the changing carvings and markings, there were no other changes to his finger.
"The Universal System did not include the abilities of the finger in my status screen. Is there a reason for that?"
After Corey swallowed the strange finger from the desert of mysteries, his finger did not just change for appearance.
He had gained abilities from the finger and those abilities shocked Corey to his core.
One of the abilities he gained from the finger was the ability to alter the physical structure of any living being that was at his tier or lower with a touch.
Although, this ability was extremely powerful, the ability had its drawbacks.
It used something called soul essence and the rate in the change of his enemy's physical structure was not fast.
Though, if he poured more soul essence into the finger, he could speed up the rate of the physical alteration.
Corey did not know what soul essence truly was, but Nina told him it was an extremely precious energy and he had a lot of it.
In fact, she said he had way too much of it.
And the reason was due to his baptism under the Eye of God in the first tribulation of hell.
Although, Corey had a lot of soul essence, Nina told him he could use two different types of energies instead of his soul essence.
Apparently, the natural regeneration rate of soul essence was extremely slow and using it for the finger's ability was a waste in Nina's eyes.
The substitute energies were nightmare energy or dream essence.
When Corey asked how he could get the two energies, Nina told him he had to enter the World of Dreams and Nightmares.
When Corey heard that, his lips twitched.
Although he could enter the world of dreams and nightmare anytime he wanted since he was a walker, he had held off on doing so for numerous reasons.
The main one being that his instincts were telling him that he was too weak to survive the world of dreams and nightmares at his current level.
Corey trusted his instincts on things like this. Besides, he had no reason to rush into the world of dreams and nightmares.
Altering the physical structure of living beings at the same tier was not the only the ability that came with the finger.
Corey could store nightmares and abominations in his finger.
The number was limited though, and mainly dependent on Corey's tier, physical capabilities, and soul capabilities.
With Corey's current tier, physical capabilities, and soul capabilities, Corey felt he could store up to 50 tier 3 nightmares and abominations in his finger.
He could store more nightmares and abominations in his finger if they were lesser than tier 3 since the stress on him would be less.
If the owner of the finger knew that Corey could store 50 tier 3 nightmares and abominations in just one finger as a tier 2, it would be shocked to its core.
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