Chapter 598
Chapter 598 - 578: Legal Intelligence Reduction
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Fight head-on? There’s no way to win that way.
The hundreds and thousands of petrified lizards group is just too much of a cheat.
With the ability of "Petrification Vision," once the number piles up, it really could instantly kill high-level professionals.
As for this "tricycle," as long as the numbers stack up and come pouring down like a landslide, the pressure alone could kill you.
The Stone-Dragon Lizard, an evolved version of the petrified lizard, has twice the size which greatly increases its territory; the dragon prefix gives it a substantial boost to its life force; its melee combat capability has improved much more than double.
The tricycles have turned into a bunch of tanks, and with the tank swarm lined up, one wouldn’t even want to charge forward.
"Set a fire?"
"Everything here is stone; can it even burn? That being said, everytime something goes wrong, you think of setting the fire; is this how you want to be a Gardener?"
"So, throw in a Hungry Ghost Blood Pool?"
"Sounds good, kill without burial, completely solve the problem of Channel No.6. Maybe everyone won’t have to come here in the future, and perhaps the local area will evolve into an ultra-petrified Bloodvine... Why do you always think of ’nuclear flattening’ as a solution?"
Big Cat disapproved of one decision after another by Lu Ping’an.
The Dragon Species Rule is, in a sense, exceptionally simple and crude, but also shockingly unsolvable. The intensity of relying on group talent makes it difficult to overcome when piled up, except by brute force.
"...In most cases, the Dragon Attribute is actually a negative BUFF." Chris muttered words that Lu Ping’an couldn’t comprehend.
"Divine power is actually the same; overly powerful traits often attract targeted killing moves... The problem is, you don’t have a Dragon-slaying/Divine Weapon right now."
If there were targeted weapons and professions for dealing with dragon descendants, the difficulty would be greatly reduced... but reality is not a game; the dragon-slaying skills are mostly useless, and in relatively safe areas, no one would buy the costly messy dragon-slaying weapons.
"...Regular abilities are basically useless against these quasi-rule level demons."
Lu Ping’an couldn’t observe the specific combat power of humans, but guessing, at most there were only a few Decree-level individuals...while the Mother of Stone-dragon is sprinting towards Rule-level.
The comprehensive boost of the dragon descendants is nauseating. High magic resistance and high physique are simple and crude; even now, when they have not fully evolved, the Decree-level abilities would be severely discounted, let alone Copper-Iron Curses.
Lu Ping’an’s combat power is piled up from various professions; a bunch of 1-tier and 2-tier powers act together to create a combined strength greater than the sum of their parts, elevating Lu Ping’an’s overall combat power to the Decree-level standard. But without a true Decree, relying solely on professional abilities, there’s practically no hope.
"...We can’t wait any longer, let’s give it a try first, and if it doesn’t work, we’ll slip away."
So, Lu Ping’an took out a bone, a huge fork bone from some kind of demon.
[Bane’s Bird Fork Bone (Lower Gold Rank Cursed Object):]
[Features: A 30 cm-long bone surrounded by shadows; anyone who stares at it for a long time will feel as if they are being watched by a giant shadow bird...]
[Bane, the most beloved messenger bird of the supreme lord of the Shadow Plane, is famous among gods for its talent in poetry and word games. However, few people know that it prefers to display its extraordinary wisdom while working as a messenger, playing with its textual tricks. Many times, it has misled its master’s followers and opponents with ambiguous "riddles" and played with the fate of those "misunderstandings" with great joy, watching them descend into confusion and destruction... until one day when it played with the words of its master’s avatar...]
Skipping over the lengthy introduction, Lu Ping’an is only interested in the actual function of this item.
Initially, Beast God Priest Marian almost died because of this object. And even a series of subsequent events were caused by this object.
[Unique Function: Shadow Messenger’s Deathbed Regret (Lower Gold): Touch a target, whisper the passphrase "Stupid Bane, your self-righteousness has finally killed you. If there’s a next life, I wish I could be stupider, like a bird that can only remember three things," grant the listener "Bane’s Bird-Head Curse" and they will fall into an intense senile dementia (amnesia) state.]
As far as Lu Ping’an knows, this thing points to whoever gets cheated, and there is no exemption success so far.
It is a Lower Gold Rank Cursed Object. In theory, even the Mother of Stone-dragon should be unable to resist such a powerful curse.
[Bane’s Bird-Head Curse (Lower Gold Rule-level Curse): You will receive the Sound of Rules and forget everything else except three things.]
[For some people, memory is like quicksand; the harder you try to grab it, the more it slips through your fingers.]
It’s quite simple to use. Just touch the opponent with the bone and then recite the passphrase that seems to be bird god Bane’s dying words.
But the other side of its power lies in the side effects.
[Unique Curse, Unrepentant Bane (Upper Gold Curse): During the curse duration, Bane’s ghost will constantly come back to you, giving you a riddle... If you guess correctly, there is no reward, but if you guess wrong, you will permanently forget one thing/skill. The first time you do, your brain will be ’hammered,’ and the third time, you will enjoy the death curse personally cast by Bane’s master.]
[Curse-breaking Method: The curser dies, or the cursed person touches the Bird Fork Bone and says the passphrase, "I’ve caught you, Stupid Bane"... In case the second method is used to lift the curse, the Bird Fork Bone will be unusable for a period of time.]
From the previous owner, Lu Ping’an learned the technique. He also personally tested it himself; use this object to curse opponents, and in the 10th, 30th, 60th, and 100th minutes, a phantom bird will jump out and ask you to guess at its cryptic words with a riddle.
If you guess right, even though there is no reward, the cursed object’s Amnesia Disease will worsen... Behind the four correct answers, the opponent is likely to become an absolute idiot.
If you guess wrong, the three punishments become increasingly severe.
This wave of riddles consists of four, and if you guess two wrong, you’ll have to endure one round of mental torment; if you guess three rounds wrong, a taste of the Upper Gold-level Death Curse; mostly, the person is done for.
If you survive the first wave of four curses by guessing right or toughing it out, after six hours, it will start another round of curses in an infinite loop.
This item is very powerful; it can basically turn a strongman into a fool. But if you can’t deal with this fool quickly, you may end up dead.
If this curse can be made to affect the Mother of the Lizards, then the Beast King will immediately become the most unstable factor on the field.
The beast swarm formed by the beast king who has a low IQ will once again turn into instinct-driven beasts if the beast king becomes a fool...
"Heh, it’s bound to be entertaining."
But how can this bird fork bone touch the giant lizard and recite the overly long passphrase?
— End of Chapter 598 —