Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 153 Shadow Evolution
"Do you know who helped you to make the contract with me?" Xia Shou asked.

Alice shook her head. "I don't know. A large part of my memory is gone. Even my memory of my life is gone... I, I only remember that I... I was a maid."

Xia Shou felt Alice's hands on her neck begin to tremble slightly, and her voice trembled a little, as if recalling this kind of thing made her feel very uncomfortable.

"If you can't remember, forget it. It's not a big deal."

Xia Shou looked at the complex and exquisite magic circle on the ground and the few unlit candles, and refocused his attention on the upcoming fusion ceremony.

Just as Alice analyzed, [Intelligence Defense] is the most useless skill at the moment, but what skill should it be combined with?

The skills this time, unlike the blood skills from last time, have extremely high compatibility. No one knows what will happen when they are combined together.

Without the skills obtained from the blood demon, the only thing that can be used in battle is mirror magic.

Mirror magic is indeed powerful, but that is only for mirror magicians who have no price.

For someone like Xia Shou, who would be snapped by the Splitting Shears every time he used teleportation, the effect was similar to that of the Seven Injury Fist.

The skill refresh effect of [Reaching the Pinnacle in No One] cannot now exert its full power, because the only skills with cooling time are Seeking Death and Intelligence Defense.

Headache……

My own skill configuration is a bit too rubbish.

Before returning the skills lent to Su Weiyu, Xia Shouxian began to feed the black shadow.

He had accumulated a lot of residues during this period. The one-time skills used in the Blood Demon House had turned into residues, and the time he killed Neilg in the bar had also worn out a lot of garbage skills.

He fed all the residue to the black shadow in one breath, and a progress bar of the black shadow's evolution appeared in front of him.

The residues produced by a one-time skill consumption are about ten, and the residues obtained by grinding subsequent skills are about twenty for each skill. The total number of residues is currently more than a hundred.

As residues continue to be added, the progress bar of evolution continues to advance.

10%...

23%...

38%...

Xia Shou had plenty of time, and feeding the residue was much smoother and easier than swallowing it.

After consuming one hundred residues, the progress bar finally reached 100%, and a more detailed text appeared in front of Xia Shou.

[The black shadow's chewing ability has become stronger. It no longer chews slowly, which may cause many valuable foods to be chewed into a pulp.

However, Black Shadow's enhanced digestive power also allows it to extract more complete nutrients from more precious ingredients. Food that was destined to become waste in the past may become power that can be used many times. 】

[Name: Black Shadow——???]

[Introduction: It is your shadow. It eats garbage as fast as lightning, but can chew delicacies slowly.]

[Current stage: Stage 2]

[Effect: When devouring a level 4 monster (including extraordinary ones), you can gain skills.

When swallowing a level 3 monster, you can obtain multiple skills, which will be converted into high-level residues after use. (High-level residues combined with a large amount of low-level residues can directional reverse the optimization direction of skills)

When swallowing a level 2 monster, you will gain a one-time skill, which will be converted into residue after use.

When swallowing a level 1 monster, only residue can be obtained. 】

[Price: unknown]

[Note: It may not be able to digest the sixth level of weirdness. In addition, the swallowing result of the black shadow may not be completely consistent with the effect. Sometimes the black shadow will be in excellent condition, and sometimes it will have a poor appetite. ]

"This makes it much clearer." Xia Shou nodded repeatedly.

The ability to have words appear in front of his eyes should be his special ability, because when Xia Shou was fighting against An Gang Xiongwu, there was a very short period of time when he was unable to read the words he wanted to know in his heart.

But what exactly is the effect of his supernatural power?

Panel description? Xia Shou silently recited in his mind, showing the effect of my own ability in the form of text.

However, this time the information he wanted to know did not appear before his eyes.

"No way? Never mind." Xia Shou shook his head and stopped insisting.

He began to deeply analyze Black Shadow's potential and think about the future direction of his own strength development.

The difficulty of acquiring skills has increased exponentially now. Except for the permanent skills that can be obtained by devouring level 4 monsters and extraordinary beings, monsters below level 4 can only provide "consumable skills", which will turn into residue after use.

Therefore, the idea of ​​frequently updating the skill library through devouring can be discontinued.

At this time, Xia Shou felt that he had foresight in not allowing the black shadow to evolve before the battle with An Gang Xiongwu, otherwise An Gang Xiongwu's [Superpower Bank] would have been chewed into slag.

"Although the difficulty of acquiring skills through devouring has increased, there is an additional way to obtain skills through the bank, which makes up for the lower update frequency." Xia Shou said to Alice.

"Yes, I think this is a good thing. It can extract high-level residues and reverse the direction of skill optimization, making skill optimization more convenient. If the cost of [Reaching the Pinnacle in an Unmanned Place] is reduced, Lord Xia Shou will definitely become stronger." Alice encouraged, feeling sincerely happy for Xia Shou.

"But the first thing to optimize must be [Superpower Bank], the freezing period of this skill is too long."

If the depositor dies, the supernatural power will belong to Xia Shou, but the skill will be frozen for two months.

Xia Shou was very dissatisfied with the long waiting time.

He must definitely optimize this cost!

Although he didn't expect to use the deceased's inheritance immediately, he didn't want to wait as long as two months.

It was a pity that he didn't have any high-level residues on hand, and even the low-level residues were in short supply.

Furthermore, there must be sufficient inventory of low-level residues, because transforming back to human from [Second Self: Blood Demon Mode] also requires the consumption of residues.

If there are not enough residues, he will not be able to transform back into a human being and will only become a monster without reason.

Outside the balcony of the unfinished building, the setting sun cast a layer of rough gold on the concrete floor. Xia Shou sat on a spread sheet, with a smiling Alice floating behind him.

Xia Shou sat cross-legged on the ground, his hands on his knees, stroking his chin, thinking quietly.

Alice said nothing and accompanied him in silence.

Time passed minute by minute, and a skill return prompt appeared in front of Xia Shou.

"Wei Yu's skills are back." Xia Shou said. Of course, Alice couldn't hear this.

It was strange that when Alice was asleep, she seemed to be able to sense Su Weiyu's presence.

Xia Shou still remembered the time when Su Weiyu moved in and wanted to live in the same dormitory with him, and Alice pinched his neck to warn him of the danger.

But when Alice woke up, she seemed completely unaware of Su Weiyu.

If you think about it arbitrarily, you can come to a simple and rough conclusion, but Xia Shou doesn't think that is the correct answer.

Inhuman when asleep, human when awake - could the truth really be that simple?

"Let's start the ceremony first!" Xia Shou clenched his fists lightly to cheer himself up.

Just then, he suddenly heard a strange, sticky, inhuman sound coming from the stairwell of the unfinished building.

It was human language, but mixed with gurgling sounds, like the strange sound of boiling and bubbling mucus.
"Chijiji...or...Gujiji...should we start...a moment (ceremony)...Chijiji..."

It's imitating itself speaking!

Xia Shou's pupils suddenly contracted.

Alice's hands suddenly clenched around her neck.

"Lord Xia Shou, please ignore it and just do your own thing. Don't let your rhythm be disrupted." Alice leaned over and whispered in Xia Shou's ear in a voice so soft that it was almost inaudible.

(End of this chapter)