Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 485 Your Gastly moveset is a bit dirty.

A psychic is someone who guides themselves into a trance-like state, enabling them to communicate directly with the spirits of the dead, nature spirits, and even deities.

In the context of our country's power system, this is what is known as invoking a deity (divine intervention) or being possessed by a ghost.

The ability used by Xiao Zi from Team 996 is "Possession" from the Shaman King system. The target of his Possession is Gastly, which is essentially a ghost unit.

This possession and fusion allows the target to merge with oneself in the form of a "single-sphere spirit body," thereby gaining the abilities of the spirit body before and after death.

I must say, that's a really good idea.

Or rather, it is precisely because the player base does not have a strong stereotype about the abilities of these different works that they are able to think more creatively and combine different ability systems to form combo skills that even Cheng Tian found surprising.

Cheng Tian estimated that the intimacy level between this little purple contestant and Gastly should correspond to the synchronization rate percentage of the fusion. The higher the synchronization rate, the higher the fidelity of the user's use of soul abilities.

...Which Shaman King game could it be?
Cheng Tian was very curious.

As an old anime IP, Shaman King has actually spawned some games, but most of them were released in the early 2000s, and Cheng Tian has only actually played three of them.

One is a fighting game on the PS1 platform, and the other two are Shaman King: Master of Spirits 1 and 2, which are Metroidvania-like side-scrolling beat 'em ups on the GBA platform.

Master of the Mind is a masterpiece by Konami, and the gameplay is quite good. From the UI to the characters to the damage numbers, it has a strong "White Night Concerto" feel to it.

If derivative characters are included, the NDS version of "Jump Force" should also barely meet the criteria. It's just unclear whether Xiao Zi's ability comes from a dungeon or from some extra lottery from the game.

However, if this little purple is suspected to be a Pokémon Trainer and a psychic, why did it only use the Possession Fusion method and not the more advanced Super Spirit Form?

Looking at Xiao Zi, whose body was already emanating ghostly energy, Cheng Tian became even more curious.

Simply put, "super spirit" means no longer fusing the spirit with itself, but instead fusing it with some kind of object to form a soul-materialized weapon with special powers. It is also the main form of power in the mid-to-late stages of the original work's power system. Compared to it, "possession fusion" is a very early-stage ability.

Or is it that, in the current situation, possession and fusion are clearly superior to super-spirit bodies?

Cheng Tian accurately captured this key point!
"Iori Yagami! Against! Komurasaki!"

"Ready~GO!"

The moment he finished speaking, Iori Yagami flicked his wrist, and a ground-based shockwave formed from crimson flames shot out at high speed, skimming along the ground—

One Hundred and Eighty-Style Secret Destruction!
Aside from the color of the flames, his move is almost identical to Kyo Kusanagi's in terms of form, power, and speed.

However, Xiao Zi lightly touched the ground with both feet, and then floated into the air like a volatile balloon. The dark blade that was gliding close to the ground whistled past her feet without causing any real damage.

Yagami reacted quickly, almost immediately realizing that his opponent's current state allowed him to ignore Ground-type attacks, so he immediately charged forward, preparing for close-quarters combat.

But Xiao Zi had already made a follow-up move. Floating in mid-air, Xiao Zi made a grasping motion with one hand, and then her ghostly spiritual energy condensed into a nail the size of a forearm and a hammer of similar size. To the astonishment of countless spectators, she actually turned the nail around, aimed it at her forehead, and swung the hammer down fiercely!

With a crisp metallic clang, half a nail was driven directly into Xiao Zi's forehead!

However, something strange happened. Not only did Komurasaki, who was self-harming, not show any pain, it was as if she had nailed a wooden board instead of her own forehead and frontal lobe. On the contrary, Iori Yagami, who was rushing forward, suddenly stopped and showed a look of pain on his face!
"Xiao Zi is incredibly skilled! She dodges the Dark Wave with her Floating Body! And immediately follows up with the Self-Damaging Curse! The team's battle strategy is beginning to take shape. It seems they are planning to use their numerical advantage to gradually wear down Yagami. A very steady approach!"

On the stage, Xiao Zi, who heard Cheng Tian's announcement, felt her heart skip a beat.

As expected, I was seen through!

Upon hearing the precise skill names "Floating Body" and "Self-Mutilation Curse," and hearing Cheng Tian's tactical insights laid bare, Xiao Zi knew that his abilities had been completely exposed... But based on his experience, he could also vaguely sense that Cheng Tian's broadcast seemed to be holding back.

By fusing with Gastly through Possession, Little Purple effectively gains a pre-configured set of four unique moves and one Pokémon ability.

One of the Pokémon's moves is "Levitate," which makes it immune to most Ground-type moves and also allows it to avoid terrain, traps, barriers, mechanisms, and other things that exist on the ground.

If floating has a high enough priority, Komurasaki could even become the nemesis of Yashiro Nanakase on the dry land!
The effect of the self-harm curse is clearly very targeted.

By consuming 50% of their own health, the user inflicts a curse effect on the target that is difficult to dispel with regular skills. As long as the target remains in the arena, they will directly lose 25% of their maximum HP at the end of the battle.

It's not your current HP, but 25% of your maximum HP!

In other words, as long as the curse is not dispelled, even if Xiao Zi does nothing and immediately leaves the field, Iori Yagami will immediately lose a quarter of his health. Theoretically, as long as the game drags on to the third match, the opponent will be forced to fight against their own general with only 50% health.

Of course, dispelling this curse isn't difficult; simply leaving the arena will immediately remove it.

The problem is that Iori Yagami has no teammates and no one to replace him!

As a player, and one with a generally high sense of self-esteem, Xiao Zi naturally wouldn't give up so easily.

The hand that had just been used to injure himself was now pointed back at Iori Yagami, who had slammed on the brakes due to the curse, and his index finger began to rotate clockwise.

An incredibly strong drowsiness, like that that comes from staying up all night in an internet cafe for several nights in a row and reaching the limit of mental endurance, suddenly attacked Iori Yagami's brain. His upper eyelids felt as heavy as if they were being held by two huge rocks, and they began to fight fiercely with his lower eyelids.

Iori Yagami managed to hold on for a little while, but some of the audience who witnessed the little purple hand gesture on the big screen had already fallen to the ground in various different ways.

Hypnosis!
Xiao Zi looked smug, because the hypnosis technique, with a survival rate of less than 30%, had actually hit its mark. Now she could start eating—

Before the smug look on his face could last even a second, a magatama shadow flashed across Iori Yagami's chest, and then Iori slapped his forehead!

Blood splattered everywhere!
(End of this chapter)