Chapter 306: I'm going to stack two Familiars together! Xyz Summon!
Under the permanent buffs from his class change, Cheng Tian's base Mental attribute had already reached the current cap of 50 points, and Cheng Tian indeed vaguely felt as if he had hit a wall.
It was precisely because of this wall that equipment-based Mental attribute increases no longer appeared on his stats; even when wielding his twin swords and wearing his mask, his Mental attribute remained at 50 points.
However, Cheng Tian currently had no idea how to break through it. Perhaps going with the flow and completing the main monthly trial quests provided by the Space would be the best approach.
The weapon in his hand, which had transformed from matter into a spear, also constantly switched between light and darkness, just like Cheng Tian.
Cain Factort, while claiming his two sons were useless good-for-nothings, named his skills after these two 'useless' sons.
Holy Spear Yug / Demonic Spear Thor.
At the end of Thor's storyline in the original work, Cain, no longer concealing his identity, used this spear to instantly kill Dalles, descending from the sky and piercing him with a single strike!
Of course, Dalles was actually in a low-health state at that time. While Cain seemed formidable, he was essentially a kill-stealer.
Interestingly, Cheng Tian brought up the data for "The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky" from his mind and compared it with the appearance of the magical spear in his hand. He found that the spear's model was exactly the same as the "Shadow Spear" model from Trails in the Sky!
A classic case of asset reuse!
It was a pity that Yug and Thor, those unfortunate brothers, were still in a time-frozen state as NPCs. Otherwise, Cheng Tian would have definitely dangled this spear in front of them.
At this juncture, players weren't paying much attention to Cheng Tian because they were all engrossed in the PVE team battle treasure chests they received after participating in the kill of Demon Lord Dam.
Regardless of whether their damage dealt was zero, they did provide crucial assistance throughout the quest. Without their extensive experience in various dungeons, White Tower wouldn't have spawned so many unique NPC projections.
As the ones who piggybacked on the assists, they almost all showed satisfied expressions, indicating how high the rewards were for participating in the attack on Demon Lord Dam.
On the other hand, Cheng Mouren, who had burned away the boss's entire health bar, naturally wouldn't be given a pile of useless trash.
Cheng Tian opened a golden treasure chest with a Demon Lord's head embedded in its keyhole. As the chest opened, five pieces of equipment and items transformed into brilliant streams of light and shot into Cheng Tian's inventory, filling it to the brim.
Since Demon Lord Dam had previously absorbed three bosses, killing him was equivalent to opening four chests, and the item drop pools came from Cain, Dalles, Kishugal, and Saba respectively.
Cain dropped a book and a badge—Book of Ys Heart (Off-hand equipment) and Factort Family Badge (Necklace accessory).
Dalles dropped a staff—Staff of Darkness (Polearm, Two-handed Staff).
Kishugal dropped a chunk of ice encasing axe fragments—Asura Ice Soul (Consumable, Skill Stone).
But what Cheng Tian was most interested in was a peculiar musical score dropped by Saba, the lovesick woman obsessed with Dalles's good looks—Devil's Concerto (Consumable, Skill Scroll).
『Devil's Concerto: Purple Rare, Skill Scroll, Consumable. Usage: Use from inventory, or tear and swallow (do not swallow).
Devil's Concerto contains the essence of Dark Magician Saba's understanding of familiar manipulation, allowing the user to gain the ability to merge with their summoned creatures.
Upon use, you will learn 『Devil's Concerto』 B-rank / Lv1.』
『Devil's Concerto: B-rank Skill / Lv1, Active Skill. Among all magicians, Saba is a relatively rare specialist in controlling summoned familiars. She possesses the ability to make familiars combine in battle, and even for her own body to merge with a familiar, unleashing greater combat power.
Select one of your summoned units as a target, then merge with and control it—
The target will receive a 25% increase to all attributes from you; the familiar's skills will be comprehensively enhanced based on your abilities; all damage you take during this period will be borne by the currently merged summoned unit.
When there is a second summoned unit within a 50-meter radius, you, while in a merged state, can forcibly swap positions with that summoned unit. Cooldown: 60 seconds, no cost.
Each merge consumes 25 MP; after each unmerge, you need to rest for a duration corresponding to the merge's active seconds;
Select two of your summoned units to merge with each other—
The merged unit will take the maximum attribute values from both familiars and simultaneously inherit the ability characteristics of both. It may break through its current form to become a new entity, but the fusion can only last a maximum of 50 seconds (equivalent to Charm attribute * 2). Familiar fusion consumes 50 MP, cooldown is 15 minutes.』
『Detected that you possess the additional skill 『Chariot Master』—』
『If you learn 『Devil's Concerto』 and merge with a summoned unit with the "Vehicle" tag, the relevant effects of 『Chariot Master』 will also be triggered simultaneously.』
『Additional evaluation: Your next chariot may not necessarily be a chariot.』
Since his class change and perfect clearance each granted a fixed skill slot, Cheng Tian immediately used Devil's Concerto.
As the skill infused him, Cheng Tian already understood its magical operation mode and the skill system of Saba, the skill's origin.
Saba's method of controlling her head-familiars was somewhat similar to a pilot operating a machine. Not only could she merge with them to provide additional abilities, but she could also make the familiars completely bear the damage she was supposed to take.
Additionally, at critical moments, she could swap positions between summoned creatures, avoiding fatal attacks, which was a form of short-range teleportation ability with a lot of room for manipulation.
Currently, Cheng Tian's summoned creature types primarily fall into two categories.
One type is human units transformed into zombie units through the Ten Commandments infection control, and the other is summoned units generated either randomly or according to a formula through the Hundred Demons' Night Parade.
The former clearly has little control value; it would be better to directly combine them into two-headed zombies, perhaps even hearing voices like "Are we still good?" "Of course!" and so on.
But the latter clearly has a lot to say.
Currently, Cheng Tian has already had the experience of summoning a vehicle. Although it was a flesh-and-blood chariot mixed with hellish and zombie characteristics, it was still a vehicle chariot!
In other words, if Cheng Tian could find a way to add the vehicle tag to his summoned creatures, then Chariot Master would also take effect.
Based on this skill description, the War Elephant Mammoth is the one that immediately fits Cheng Tian's skill target!
Cheng Tian, brimming with curiosity, disregarded the gazes of other unfamiliar players around him and immediately chose the War Elephant Mammoth as the fusion target for Devil's Concerto.
For some reason, a scene from "Digimon Tamers" suddenly popped into Cheng Tian's mind, where a tamer merges with their Digimon to evolve into an Ultimate form.
And when the light on Cheng Tian's body dispersed, what remained was neither pure human nor pure elephant.
If there were any players who liked journey to the west, upon seeing Cheng Tian at this moment, they would most likely be unable to resist shouting out such a title—
The Second King of Lion Camel Ridge!
Moreover, Cheng Tian also had the title "Origin Hero" above his head at this time.