Soul Trigger

Chapter 316 Evolution, Expansion, and Development (I)

You discovered three secondary structures:

1. World Tree Expansion Module: consumes spiritual essence to allow the World Tree to infinitely proliferate outward and construct buildings.

2. World Tree Defense Module: World Tree can automatically launch a surprise attack with its tentacles against unauthenticated targets that enter its territory.

3. World Tree Migration Module: The World Tree can move freely.

The first one consumes spiritual essence to proliferate infinitely and has a beautiful vision of the future. Perhaps one day he will be able to rule the world, but this is inconsistent with the current situation.

Although the second defense module can save manpower for city defense, Ji Li believes that strengthening the ability of being a turtle cannot solve the current situation.

To sum up, Ji Li decisively chose the third one.

Amid the sudden and dense sound of mechanical clicking, Ji Li continued to respond to the vibration of the red crystal. The raid on the camp and the settlement of the mission of the advance army gave him two chances to choose his characteristics.

He originally thought that this would add two new arms to his legion, but he didn't expect that none of the three features he "discovered" for the first time had the option to add new arms:

1. Affinity Mastery (Discover a new skill)
2. Leader (discover a new leader skill)
3. Yan Mo Jin Mie (discover a special weapon)

The first and third options emphasize the increase of individual combat power, which is not of much help to him under the current Lingbo Prison rules.

Even though the third option was somewhat tempting and was an option that had never appeared before, Ji Li still chose the more suitable second option.

The second time, the three characteristics were all military types, but considering the characteristics themselves, they were not very helpful in the battle situation. So Ji Li chose the "Sad Strain" which he thought had strong scalability and might bring him surprises.

[I have acquired a new lord skill: Lead Dance]

[Lead Dance: Continuously consume spiritual essence, strengthen friendly units within a certain circular range with myself as the center, and enhance them. The more the affected units recognize me, the more amplification they get, and induce binary pollution. ]

【Can be turned off or on freely. 】

[I got a new soldier: Fungal Beast]

[Fungal Beast: Can infect the environment, proliferate the Sorrowful Bacteria, and gain extremely strong vitality. The more negative emotions there are around, the stronger the environment for the Sorrowful Bacteria to proliferate and the spiritual essence of the Fungal Beast will be.]

The new type of troops seems to be a combat unit that is very suitable for large-scale battlefields, but it is obviously not certain whether it can play a decisive role.

Ji Li thought about it and summoned one casually. The spiritual energy consumed was actually lower than that of the Soul-sucking Ghost, which means that the spiritual energy strength of this type of soldier itself is probably limited.

As the black gas rose, a pitch-black follicle emerged from it, and then suddenly expanded, exploding into a black creature in the shape of a wild beast.

It looks like a canine, but also has the characteristics of a lizard. It has no facial features, but it constantly changes into various streamlined shapes, and the hyphae flow repeatedly like liquid:
[Fungal Beast: Lv.20]

"Let's look at something else first."

[Leader] This feature comes from the gift of Kurari's cognitive golem. The effect is to release the corresponding emotional enhancement effect on the human spirits within a certain range based on its own emotional state.

The reinforcement effect will be different depending on the emotion.

The reason why it is emotion is because the core theory of the generation of ectoplasm is also related to the high intensity of emotions in the human spirit. The focus of this characteristic is on the power of emotional transformation.

This skill called Lead Dance has a similar effect to the original Leader, and is even simpler and more brutal, but this binary pollution...

Ji Li casually consumed his spiritual essence and summoned a most ordinary faceless skeleton.

With the change of the core of the Demon King's Castle, the Demon King's army that was transformed into Odin's Guards not only improved in appearance and law, but their levels were also improved compared to the initial level. However, they were only his lowest-level summons after all, and their levels were still only in the single digits.

Then Ji Li turned on the halo.

The spiritual quality of the faceless bone suddenly increased dramatically. As its level climbed all the way to level 15, the hard surfaces of the bones all over its body opened up in large numbers, and finely sprung machinery and various bionic materials emerged.

In a flash, the little skeleton turned into a technological humanoid covered with a mechanical exoskeleton. The entire body was made of black, white and gray bionic materials, interspersed with a transparent shell and a small amount of spreading and covering exoskeleton.

There is also a tactical scarf made of highly reflective twill material on the neck, and a shawl extends out to cover the body.

Although it is still based on human bone structure, it has changed a lot, with deformable melee weapons stored in various places. If the Faceless Bone was originally a medieval fantasy aesthetic, and then became a grotesque science fiction aesthetic, it has now completely transformed into the bionic mechanical aesthetic of Murphy's megastructure:

【Faceless Bone (Binary Pollution): Lv15】

"The appearance has changed a lot, and the degree of enhancement is also quite high..."

Ji Li used the Skynet map to check the changes in Odin's Guards across the entire map, and sure enough, all types of troops had changed.

The transformed evil spirit follower is based on the current faceless skeleton appearance, with an additional humming spirit fire machine under the exoskeleton armor on the chest.

Through the transparent shell under the ribs, you can see the high-speed ups and downs of the mechanical changes. The Black Ice Armor is covered with a hard surface style with a strong industrial feel, completely abandoning the shape of magic armor and turning fully to the Murphy megastructure.

As for the Ghost Commander, his body is taller than that of the Ghost Servant, and his body no longer has the translucent hard surface material that allows one to see the mechanical internal structure.

Instead, it is replaced by a fully covered exoskeleton armor that generates an additional layer of clear black ice.

The biggest change is the knight's sword.

Not only has the overall appearance become somewhat larger, but it is actually an industrial dagger. The black ice is condensed from the energy released from the dagger, and its specific level has reached Lv.28.

The soul-sucking ghost's body size doubled, and its body was covered by a long hood with a hexagonal molecular lattice pattern.

On the chest is a high-speed rotating vortex device, and the vibrant red light emanating from it is transmitted all the way to the mechanical gaps and facial features throughout the body.

From time to time, red light from some kind of thruster would be emitted from under the long cape on the back, and its level had reached 30.

The newly obtained fungus beast did not look much different overall except that its level had been increased to 32. It just had an extra layer of metallic reflective dust particles on its body, swirling in the constantly flowing mycelium.

"Now they can all be called villains...but the style of the painting does match the World Tree."

In addition to changes in appearance, they each have some new extension capabilities.

While Ji Li was relying on the Ascension Protocol, he was distracted and testing them on the Skynet map.

While opening the last reward, which is the building reward given after capturing the front-line command center.

Although the effects of the new skills seem good, it is still unclear how they will perform in actual combat.

On the basis of the further continuous consumption of spiritual essence, considering that the Outlaw Leader himself is a level 43 lord, the worst-case scenario is that the individual levels of his legion must start at at least level 40.

There is also the existence of the Freemasonry Knights...his enhancement is obviously not enough.

"Then let's see what the last building unlocked is--"

I can now discover a new building:

1. Atrium Snake (Logistics and transportation facilities, through the "Atrium Snake" extended from the World Tree, it shuttles through the land of the world and transports materials and personnel at an extremely fast speed)]

"It's actually this thing..." Ji Li was a little stunned.

The Atrium Serpent System is a logistics system that World Tree has deployed on most major planets in the solar system.

The principle is that people and materials are swallowed up into it through a serpentine elevator and shuttled directly underground, transporting the contents of the belly from one location to another.

In addition, it can also suddenly deploy combat troops from underground during a conflict war, provide long-distance support, and turn the tide of the war. The shortest launch time in history is only three seconds, and the fastest record is three minutes to deploy support troops across thousands of kilometers to the surface of a planet.

But it didn't work.

[2. Hephaestus Research Institute (a scientific research facility that consumes spiritual essence to enable the built-in AI to crush technological factors, copy and expand the technological blueprint, and immediately integrate and extend existing technologies in an ultra-standard manner)]

[3. Nidhogg Sky (military facility, planetary-level super-giant aerospace ship, flagship of the Spine Fleet, capable of mass training of the Spine Fleet)]

Ji Li's breathing stopped for a moment.

(End of this chapter)