Douluo Continent: On Becoming a God Through Science

Chapter 70: Digesting the Mission Rewards, the Starbone Dragon's New Martial Soul Characteristics

When You Chen saw the Stardust Dragon's form, he belatedly realized that he had regained his "sight".

Immediately afterwards, he discovered his current appearance—the appearance of a Starbone Dragon.

But what he could sense was not only himself in the Starbone Dragon state, but also his true form as a Soul Master.

However, this feeling seems to be completely opposite to what is usually the case.

Normally, Soul Masters can sense the state of their Martial Soul, but now that Soul Masters have become Martial Souls, their perception is similar to that of normally sensing their Martial Soul.

It's as if... the Martial Soul has become the physical body, while the Soul Master has become the Martial Soul.

This strange situation makes it hard to distinguish between martial spirits and soul masters.

Humans transformed into dragons, and dragons transformed into humans...

Even if a soul beast were to transform into a human, it would never have such a miraculous understanding.

In this wondrous experience, You Chen's understanding and control over the power of his martial soul's origin were rapidly increasing.

In a fleeting moment, he saw the beautiful white dragon once again.

This time, however, it charged straight at You Chen, crashing into him as if trying to merge with him.

Looking into those golden eyes at such close range, time seemed to slow down dramatically, almost to the point of freezing... You Chen could even sense the will contained within those bright golden eyes...

Like a fleeting dream, yet also like several days and nights had passed, when he came to his senses, You Chen had already broken free from that mysterious state and returned to a mode dominated by a Soul Master.

Then, he naturally realized that he was maintaining the state of being possessed by a martial spirit, absorbing the starlight in the sky in an extremely perfect and carefree manner.

Without any formal instruction, he guided and condensed the pure power that drew in the starlight. In the blink of an eye, his right leg, which was originally human with dragon features as a secondary element, transformed into a thick, powerful dragon's right leg with deep blue horns at the knee!

More than a month ago, when his martial soul had just evolved, You Chen sensed that its characteristics or special abilities had changed, but without confirmation, he only gave it a score of ? in this category.

Since then, he has certainly conducted research and evaluation on this matter.

He was no stranger to the power of guiding starlight. This ability could be stored in his martial soul as a reserve of soul power, and it could also be used to heal himself. He called this ability "Starlight Charging".

But now it seems that he only achieved the most basic development.

After this "seeing the origin," You Chen gained a deeper understanding of the power of the martial soul's origin, and only then did he truly comprehend and master the essence of the new characteristics of the martial soul.

Thus, he naturally learned the ability to transform other bodies into dragons as well.

Moreover, like the Dragon Wings, this skill is not a "consumption" skill.

Although this dragon transformation ability doesn't seem to be like the dragon transformation of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Martial Soul, where each dragon transformation part grants a corresponding special soul skill, it has the advantage of not having the restriction of only adding a new part every 10 levels.

After You Chen used starlight to charge his body and gradually solidify his dragon transformation ability, he was able to achieve a "small-scale martial soul true body" before becoming a Soul Saint!

Moreover, You Chen's martial soul is currently only "Star Bone Dragon", not "Star Dust Dragon"! Whether it will generate additional special abilities after the martial soul evolves again is still unknown!

If "dragon wings" is considered a 2-point ability, then "autonomous control of dragon transformation" is definitely a 3-point ability!

The highest score among all the special abilities currently listed is 3 points.

As for the difference between these 2 and 3 points, and how much it differs, and what the algorithm is, we need to go back to the indicators that You Chen listed for the special ability scores.

This indicator is not directly related to the five dimensions in the six-dimensional chart. Even abilities completely unrelated to combat can get high scores, which is why it is called "bonus points"!

The evaluation criteria can be roughly categorized into four dimensions: functionality and support, combat capability enhancement, targeted capabilities, and anything that cannot be easily classified into these categories is categorized as "other".

1 point (weak performance) A special ability that is dispensable or has a clear target.

2 points (general-purpose performance): Ability to significantly enhance combat power, functional ability with good auxiliary properties, ability to target relatively general attributes, and ability to target specific attributes in an extreme way.

Alternatively, a martial soul possessing multiple special abilities with "weak performance" might also be counted in the 2-point category.

3 points (top performance) After use, it can greatly enhance combat power, achieving an effect similar to improving the quality of a martial soul. It is a highly versatile functional ability, and an ability that is extremely targeted at relatively general attributes.

Similar to the 2-point algorithm, it has the general performance for complex numbers and may be able to calculate up to the 3-point column.

But from this point onward, things start to change. It's not that a score of 4 represents a higher level of capability, and that multiple top-level performances are also included in this category, and so on down to 5 points, 6 points, and so on.

4 points (top all-rounder) Multiple top-performance capabilities.

5 points (Super Performance) Possesses at least one absolute ability in some aspect.

A score of 6 (god-level performance) indicates the possession of multiple super performances, or a single super performance that has a significant advantage over most super performances.

The reason for this classification is that, in You Chen's view, abilities that can reach the super performance level are basically the ceiling of the Douluo world in terms of sheer power. No matter how many top-level abilities there are, they can still create an effect similar to a dimensional reduction attack.

At first glance, there may be differences in strength between the same super performance, but in reality, it is not a difference in the strength of the ability, but rather a difference in the strength of the Soul Master.

In other words... there are only useless Soul Masters, but no useless Superpowers?

Of course, it's only natural that different abilities have a relationship of mutual restraint.

As for why it was specifically pointed out that "a single super performance has an advantage over the vast majority of super performances and is listed as a god-level performance"?

The reason is simple: if there really is an ability that can suppress almost all other abilities of the same level, then even if it is still in the same tier as other abilities in terms of numerical value, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a higher-level ability.

Although You Chen didn't know if such an ability existed, this was the leeway he left for the rating chart.

You Chen's special abilities can now be divided into two categories: dragon transformation and starlight charging.

Dragon transformation, or full dragon transformation, is considered top-tier performance, while Starlight Charging is only considered general-purpose performance. Together, they still fall within the 3-point range.

The "Dragon Transformation with Special Effects" of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Martial Soul can be regarded as a phased growth skill.

If the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master reaches the Title Douluo level, he will have nine more Soul Skills whose strength will increase with the Soul Master's level, and one of them is an amplification Soul Skill that keeps up with the times... He truly deserves to be the strongest offensive type Beast Soul.

Its overall strength is absolutely unmatched; You Chen believes it deserves a 5 out of 10 and should be placed in the category of super performance. Of course, some people might think it's not strong enough and can only be considered a special kind of "top-tier all-rounder," and You Chen wouldn't disagree.

(End of this chapter)