Dark Light Chaser.

Chapter 494 The Price of Power

Peng Yuan looked utterly disappointed: "So, this mission is just a formality for me?"

Chuck shrugged: "Think about what I just said. Right now, you might not even be able to complete the simplest task in the organization. Don't overestimate yourself."

What you need to do now is accumulate experience—experience in dealing with all sorts of situations. The organization needs a fusion warrior, not a kid with weird powers.

Chuck stared at Peng Yuan with a playful look: "I hope you can completely abandon ordinary thinking within two years."

In this bizarre world, there are no superpowered battles, and no epic tales of heroes...

Do you know what the greatest wish of all the Monster Hunters and Fusion Warriors is?

desire?

Peng Yuan carefully considered what Chuck had just said.

He pondered for a moment, and after dismissing his own fantasies, tentatively asked, "Overcome the strangeness within my body?"

This was the most likely answer Peng Yuan could think of at that moment.

Whether they are fusion warriors or ordinary users of strange objects, their bodies will be eroded by the strange.

It's simply a matter of the degree of erosion.

If we could control the eerie power to slow down or even stop this erosion, wouldn't we be able to possess this power while retaining our consciousness?

So this must be the wish of the fusion warrior and the weirdo.

Peng Yuan thought to himself.

"Defeat the supernatural? No one except the Apostles has the right to say that they can defeat the supernatural."

Looking at Peng Yuan, who harbored unrealistic fantasies about the supernatural, Chuck sneered disdainfully, "Let me tell you, in reality, no fusion warrior dies of old age."

Their greatest wish wasn't to control the supernatural; they simply craved to die like normal people while still conscious!

Chuck's icy words caused Peng Yuan's pupils to involuntarily contract: "Want to die?"

"What do you think those strange things are? Transformation devices that grant humans powers for free?"

Chuck smirked: "If we compare the supernatural to a candle flame in the dark, then the fusion warriors are the candles, and the supernatural's adaptability is like the size of the candle."

They wield bizarre power at the cost of burning themselves; as for the level of pain… to put it mildly, you can imagine the feeling of skinning someone alive, tying them to a horse, and dragging them along.

After hearing Chuck's analogy, Peng Yuan subconsciously imagined it for a moment and couldn't help but shudder: "Are you sure this is the lightest?"

"Of course, this is a side effect of the earliest fusion warrior technology, and things are much better now than before."

As long as you don't use power at the level of a Fusion Warrior, generally speaking, you'll just experience some mental adjustment issues.

"But do you think the organization needs a fusion warrior who can't utilize the power of a fusion warrior?"

Chuck's words were not alarmist, but factual.

However, he used the example of the fusion warriors from the past.

Many organizations received the fusion warrior technology that originated from Theo back then.

However, only the Countermeasures Bureau, the Special Affairs Bureau, and the Sea Heart Society improved upon it.

Among them, the Asia Union's Strategy Bureau has the strongest technical capabilities.

Yue Yangyan not only minimized the side effects of fusion warriors, but also developed a revolutionary technology called external bizarre armor.

The combination of the Mysterious and the Mysterious Armor allows an ordinary fusion warrior to possess Apostle-level combat power.

If both the fused anomaly and the anomaly that created the armor are Apostle-level, then against Apostles like Disciples or Tricksters who are not good at fighting, they would be one-punch opponents.

For example, when the game is nearing its end and only the armor is in heat death, the disciple's lethal protection is knocked off right at the start.

Before his death, he faced the Magician and his disciple, and even managed to restrain his own Tyrant, nearly achieving a three-for-one trade.

It can be described as extremely brutal.

This is the main reason why, apart from spatial apostles like Janus, very few other apostles come to the Alliance of Asia.

The Special Affairs Bureau is second only to the Countermeasures Bureau in terms of technology.

The Special Bureau's technology isn't as bizarre or outrageous as the Asia Alliance's.

The Special Bureau adopted a cost-sharing approach, distributing the mental pollution of the fusion warriors to everyone in South America in some way.

In a sense, the fusion warriors of the Special Bureau only need to pay attention to the degree of physical corruption, and do not have to worry about mental pollution at all, so they can fight without restraint.

Finally, it was the Sea Heart Society, where Chuck and Peng Yuan were located.

Hai Xin Hui is different from the Countermeasures Bureau and the Special Bureau. The latter are supported by two large political entities, while Hai Xin Hui relies entirely on its own efforts and a little bit of luck.

Their fusion warrior technology was developed by a researcher codenamed Y, and the experimental subject named DX818A was created by Y.

The Fusion Warrior technology of the Sea Heart Society has the characteristic of increasing the chances of survival and reducing strange side effects.

It can be described as very mediocre.

Even so, the Haixin Society is the third largest organization in the world.

Because without an organization capable of improving technology, no matter how much combat power you possess, it will only be a flash in the pan and you will always be second-rate.

The earliest fusion warrior technology had a lifespan of only about twenty years. If they frequently used their power in combat, they wouldn't even live for three years or even a year.

In comparison, the Fusion Warriors of the Sea Heart Society, though their lives were tougher, at least lived for several more decades.

The level of pain wasn't as scary as Chuck described.

Chuck did this simply to intimidate Peng Yuan and make him feel awe and caution.

Peng Yuan bit his lip, his gaze wandering: "Actually, being a monster user isn't so bad. With my physique, I can definitely unleash the full power of monsters, so..."

"So what?" Chuck asked, a smirk playing on his lips.

Peng Yuan forced a smile: "...So, is it too late for me to withdraw from the Fusion Warrior Transformation Program now?"

Even if he didn't become a Fusion Warrior, Peng Yuan could still control strange creatures and possess strange powers, and these powers would have few side effects, although his power would be lower than that of a Fusion Warrior.

Compared to real pain, the power of a fusion warrior doesn't seem so appealing.

Seeing that the intimidation had achieved its purpose, Chuck nodded in satisfaction.

He continued to explain, "You've already undergone the first phase of transformation and you still want to quit? Don't worry, what I just told you was the earliest fusion warrior technology."

After so many years of improvements by Haixin, the side effects of this technology have been reduced to a very low level. Didn't you see that before the surgery, there were still batches of body modifications?

Furthermore, only when the output of one's abilities reaches a certain level will one feel the eerie erosion.

So the more experience and skills you accumulate now, the better you'll prepare for the future. Learn everything you need to learn now so you can suffer less in the future.

Once you become a fusion warrior, you'll only need to undergo simple adaptation training.

“I understand.” Peng Yuan nodded solemnly.

This time, he answered more seriously than ever before...

(End of this chapter)