Chapter 216: The Beautiful Witch's Pendant, Aister's Close-up (10K, 1/2)_3
Therefore, Kael formed a comparative screening group, with the same type of monster corpses being directly transformed into Bloodline Essence by the Rangers' Slimes and absorbed, the related changes that occurred before and after in the Slimes constituted one group.
The commonalities and individualities that the Bloodline Essence of the same monster group exhibited in different Rangers' Slimes formed another set of comparisons.
The commonalities and individual features between absorbing monsters and Bloodline Essence constituted yet another group.
The similarities and differences between various races directly absorbed by Aister and those acquired after consumption by ordinary Slimes constituted yet another group.
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In short, both the common ground and the differences needed Aister to assist Kael in deducing and judging, in order to ultimately find the key elements hiding the "racial expertise."
If one could eventually determine the specific elements and changes, it might be possible to achieve a breakthrough in expertise.
Although Aister was reticent, as Kael's Arcane Pet, she was naturally all too aware of her master's obsession with power.
Aister could feel that the master's obsession with power stemmed from insecurity, and so, most of the time, Aister had given up on most of her thinking.
Aside from a small part of her consciousness maintaining the Queen's body functions, all of her analytical and computational abilities were devoted to the research Kael wanted to complete.
Whether it was to directly replicate the expertise of other races or to simulate the power of expertise through magic casting, it would all advance her master's strength further.
Aister too could feel that such behavior was beneficial to her own growth and evolution.
And so, she became more and more silent.
Until today, when she sensed a very dangerous aura and thus, after leaving the Lion Heart Castle, she actively stopped her analysis and calculations.
"Number 0 is considered one of the most special among all Godslayer Artifacts,"
It seemed because Aister hadn't spoken for a long time, she had to slightly adjust her state before finally being able to speak smoothly.
"Where do your memories of the Godslayer Artifacts come from, the Scarlet Dream Blade?"
Aister exited her armor state, transformed into the figure of a girl, and leaned against Kael's thigh, tilting her head and saying:
"No, it's the biological chip within the Scarlet Dream Blade... After absorbing that chip and simulating its operating method, Aister gained a lot of knowledge from it."
"Including the Scarlet Dream Blade and other Godslayer Artifacts?"
"Yes, although the core of each uses the same flesh, due to different manufacturing processes, each Godslayer Artifact possesses a completely different form of expression.
Number 0, utilizing special materials like the Dragon Core of the Space-Cutting Agate Dragon, operates by activating the Dragon Core transformed by the Evil God's Flesh, to simulate the special breath of an alien dragon species—the Space-Cutting Agate Dragon.
This breath can slice through space, overlay spaces, and shatter the spatial barriers between different coordinates, creating unstable wormholes; as long as one's physical condition meets the standards, they can directly pass through the wormhole to another coordinate point.
Because it is imbued with the special power of concentrated Evil God's Flesh, the space-cutting attack, once sufficiently powered, is theoretically the most likely to sever a Divine Body."
Perhaps because she spoke too much all at once, Aister's words began to trail off intermittently.
At this point, Kael fell silent for a moment.
"But it's damaged now."
Even in the future era of magic when Mage Academia was rapidly developing, space magic belonged to a rather high-end application.
The renowned Space Slice was even said to cut through anything outside of a Domain, and without opening a Domain, even a Holy Land could not withstand the cutting damage of a Space Slice.
Not to mention a Godslayer Artifact with inherent anti-God properties.
"This pendant must have been given to you by that creature exuding a strong aura, wasn't it? I can feel a power similar to hers on it," Aister said, moving even closer to Kael and speaking softly.
"Are you talking about Sister Franca? The one who was just speaking with me?"
"No, although that person is very powerful, she is not a monster," Aister whispered.
"I'm referring to the white-haired woman you encountered before, master. She was strong, and I didn't dare to emerge."
"Olivia? Yes, this amulet was indeed given by her," Kael confirmed with a nod.
Back then, right after Kael had completed his first [Embers of the Empire] campaign, he who had just acquired the Scarlet Dream Blade had briefly clashed with Olivia.
Without using magic, Kael, relying on his combat experience from his past life, fought against her and was quite defeated.
This was the first time since arriving in this world that Kael had experienced what was called top-tier combat capability.
Logically, even though Kael in his past life was the type of Mage Assassin, since Mage Assassins ultimately had to engage in close combat to deal the highest damage, he had to be more careful up close due to his frailty in his previous life.
So in essence, Kael's own close combat abilities should be strong even among those who are Legendary, and even if most of his combat spells relied on Magic Silk Thread, he shouldn't have been suppressed.
But the fact was, he was suppressed.
Because Kael was very aware that the two major factors for a Curse Swordsman to exert destructive power included the special expertise simulated under the curse power cycle, as well as the high corrosiveness of the curse power itself when launching an attack.