Chapter 375 Completing the Mask
Alex answered all the questions Venedikt and Andrei had, telling them about being awakened and how one could become one, what he knew about the changing world and big powers, but keeping his knowledge about the ancient world to himself.
When asked if he believed the virtual world was real, Alex lied, knowing it would do his brothers no good, but he didn't shy away from sharing how anything their avatar naturally had in the ancient world was also in their arsenal in the real world, while also sharing about the galactic system and the number of awakened individuals and related information.
The information Alex acquired from the galactic shop made it clear that any human can be awakened if their body can survive exposure to pure filtered mana directly pumped into their body.
If not, then the result would be a severe illness that, if not appropriately handled, would result in a long, painful death, and both the process of awakening and, if failed, curing the individual was by no means cheap.
Zero was also generous enough to share that only one among a thousand individuals could awaken, and the cost of awakening a single individual ranged from 10 to 200 million galactic coins, which didn't include the price of the Awakening Pod, each costing twenty million.
While the time of awakening could range from a day to a year, varying from person to person, and after knowing all this, it made sense why there were only 431 awakened members.
In the past few months since Alex had joined, the number of awakened had grown by 92, which was being seen as an amazing expansion by the awakened individual in chat compared to previous months. n0velbIn
Alex thought the sudden increase could be because the number of players in the last five months had tripled, but it could also be because players had started to advance to the fourth Rank.
Alex believed it to be the latter because the fourth Rank was a milestone that less than 1% of players would achieve, but even if he was wrong, he didn't care because he had the means to build an army of awakened who were loyal to him and become free from the fear of powers who controlled things from the shadows.
The training plan for Venedikt and Andrei required them to spend four hours after a grueling training session inside the Awakening Pod, which was similar to the Awakened exclusive VR capsule but didn't have the feature to connect to the Ancient world.
In the four hours spent inside the Awakening Pod, the exhausted bodies of Venedikt and Andrei would be supplied with a steady stream of pure mana to force them to adapt to mana and use, and only when this process ends will they receive a diluted version of the Life Serum treatment to heal them enough so their bodies don't collapse from fatigue.
The process was brutal, as with every passing session, the physical and mental fatigue would only increase, and the only way to fully recover was to take multiple Life Serum treatments and long rest.
However, the silver lining in this process was that unless one's health was neglected, a person would not succumb to fatigue or mana poisoning.
So, with the things explained and the preparation made, Venedikt and Andrei started their assigned workout while Alex returned to the Ancient world as seven hours had passed since he logged out.
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{In the Elven Room}
"Sir Erlan, How long before you think he would regain conciseness," A calm voice tinged with concern inquired.
"Guardian Liayra, I have healed all his injuries that I could, but as other healers said, his internal injuries are beyond my capabilities of healing,"
Equipment Type: Mask
Quality: Legendary (???) Bound: None
Rank: Fourth Rank ⁌━━━⁍
•Skills:
•➊-[True Record] Record any being, humanoid, animalistic, physical, or ghostly, capturing their appearance, voice, physique and their nature to their core detail. {Recorded specimens (6/50)
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•➋-[True Reality Shift] Transform into a recorded specimen, gaining some of their physical attributes and bloodline abilities. The shift is mana-intensive and challenging, even for the strongest users. Repeated use would affect the user's mind as they become accustomed to the instincts of recorded specimens.
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•➌- ?????? (Locked): One Law Core of a pure-blooded Aegisian Morphosphinx is required to unlock the skill.
•➍- ?????? (Locked) Three Law Core----.
•➎- ?????? (Locked) Seven Law Core----.
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•Description: A unique mask forged by the Monarch of the Forge from the essence of a king among the Aegisian Morphosphinx, an elusive race lost to the annals of history, who was feared for their bloodline ability to replicate any creature's form flawlessly to its very core.
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'I knew it, I knew it,'
'This is a broken item,' Alex thought as he laughed and checked the details of the skills.
There were no new skills, but the boost to the two original skills was tremendous as previous limitations were gone. Now, he could record a specimen to his very core, which required some extra steps, with the main requirement being the blood and their mana signature, but additional requirements included samples of core, brain, and things unique to various species.
With the limitation of species gone, Alex could now turn into an Ant or a literal Giant, and on top of that, could gain their abilities, depending on how detailed the recording process was.
Despite the considerable mana drain, the pain during transformation, and the untested struggle with primal instincts, the undeniable truth remained that the skills were exceptional and unparalleled.
