The Era of Gods
Chapter 440 - 440 Terrifying New Talent

Chapter 440: Chapter 440 Terrifying New Talent

After pondering for only two seconds, he decided to merge these two talents into one and then enhance them.

Lin Xiao’s enhancement style had always been to take the minimalistic route, combining elite with simplicity, just like how he used to merge a multitude of talents into a single, powerful Dominator’s Body.

Time is money: an Ancient Goblins Talent, allowing goblins to maintain the highest efficiency in whatever they do, akin to someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

This talent can’t directly increase strength but is highly practical by enabling goblins to stay efficient in whatever tasks they undertake.

Afterglow of the goblins: an Ancient Goblins Talent, granting Ancient Goblins an extraordinary talent in areas such as Alchemy and Engineering.

Ancient Goblins had an incredibly powerful talent in Alchemy and Engineering, creating a splendid culture. At its pinnacle, the Goblin Empire even managed to create beings like virtual deities who could stand shoulder to shoulder with deities.

These two talents, originally belonging to the Ancient Goblins, were extracted, then continuously infused with streams of Creation Energy, blending and merging. The indescribable special power of Creation Energy melded into the talents, causing a kind of change that even deities couldn’t explain.

Previously, Lin Xiao couldn’t understand these changes and could only rely on the Creation Rubik’s Cube for adjustments.

Now, with Godhood of Creation, his understanding had reached an astonishing 18 percent or more, an extremely impressive mastery level that a Creator nearing Medium Divine Power might have.

This level of mastery over Creation Law had led him to an astonishing understanding, allowing him to see, at a glance, the various changes occurring within the Creation Rubik’s Cube as the two talents merged with Creation Energy.

“A marvelous change!”

Even with such mastery over Creation Law, the changes within the Creation Rubik’s Cube still seemed miraculous to him.

Lin Xiao observed the transformations inside the Creation Rubik’s Cube with great care, attempting to understand these magical changes using the knowledge he had mastered.

The enhancement through the Creation Rubik’s Cube was, after all, not a part of his own understanding of Creation Law. It was one thing when he was naive and clueless, but now that he was powerful and had begun to comprehend, he could no longer remain ignorant. He must grasp the intricacies within these changes, hoping that one day he might create a Sub-legendary or even a true Legendary species on his own, without relying on the Creation Rubik’s Cube.

When that time came, it would be his moment to ascend to Powerful Divine Power.

Any True God with Godhood of Creation, who could independently create a new Legendary Being, would receive enough feedback from Creation Law to ascend to Powerful Divine Power.

Within the Creation Rubik’s Cube, as Creation Energy was ceaselessly supplied, the two talents began to undergo significant changes amidst indescribable mysterious transformations. This also led to a dilemma for Lin Xiao.

That was the conflict between the talent “Time is money” and “Afterglow of the goblins.”

The talent “Time is money” ensured that goblins maintained the highest efficiency in all endeavors, while “Afterglow of the goblins” provided them with an extraordinary talent specifically in the realms of Alchemy and Engineering.

One was broad, the other effective only in Alchemy and Engineering.

The crux of his dilemma was where to place the emphasis, whether on a well-rounded development or to continue specializing in Alchemy and Engineering.

Now that these two talents were to be merged and enhanced, he had to choose a focal point.

So…

Lin Xiao fell into deep thought.

In this regard, almost no one could offer him advice.

Those who could give advice were not close enough, and those who were close did not have the expertise to advise, including his homeroom teacher, Jin Sisi.

Creating a Sub-legendary species was a high-end creation technique beyond Jin Sisi’s reach.

Moreover, he didn’t dare mention it. Telling someone as a newly ascended Demigod that he was creating a Sub-legendary species and asking for suggestions would not elicit advice but confusion about how and why he was creating such a species.

Even Jin Sisi couldn’t avoid this confusion. She could help keep the secret, but she definitely wouldn’t be able to provide suggestions.

Hence, this choice was solely his to make.

He didn’t have long to wait, as he didn’t have much time to ponder while in the midst of adjusting the cube. In less than five seconds, he made his decision—comprehensive development.

The talent “Time is money” took precedence over “Afterglow of the goblins,” favoring an all-around development, indicating that the new species was gradually becoming less related to goblins.

After making his choice, Creation Energy streamed into the cube to merge and begin enhancement.

One unit of Creation Energy…

Five units of Creation Energy…

Ten units of Creation Energy…

Ten… seventeen units of Creation Energy, and then the supply of Creation Energy stopped abruptly, unable to continue enhancing.

Apparently, seventeen units of Creation Energy had reached the enhancement limit for this talent.

As the last unit of Creation Energy merged into the chaotic orb within the Creation Rubik’s Cube that represented the talent, the orb brightened and solidified, and its attributes appeared before him.

Unknown Talent: Maintain the highest efficiency in whatever you do, and your keen sense of discernment will greatly enhance while in this focused state, temporarily obtaining exceptional talents.

“True Scholar State!”

Lin Xiao whimsically gave this new talent a very apt name.

The True Scholar State means that upon activating this talent, one would be as focused as a true scholar, including possessing superior learning abilities.

Very good.

Lin Xiao was extremely satisfied with this talent—retaining the advantages of the original two talents while significantly strengthening and expanding the scope—almost perfect.

Then came the synthesis of the second talent; Lin Xiao glanced over the remaining myriad of talents. His keen insight, honed by multiple talent syntheses, instantly revealed a very promising fusion idea.

That is…

The combination of Son of the Sun, Son of the Moon, Spiritual Power Genius, Spell Talent, the powerful spiritual power talent from the Spirit Absorbing Monster, and exceptional Wisdom—five talents into one.

These talents all relate to magic-based abilities, whether it’s the Spiritual Power Genius, Spell Talent, or exceptional Wisdom, and the Son of the Sun and Son of the Moon are the talents of the High Elves of the Sun Elves and Moon Elf, which give them a powerful talent in controlling sunlight and moonlight, respectively.

Merging these into one and integrating them with Creation Energy, what would one get?

Lin Xiao was very much looking forward to it.

Compared to the previous talent, True Scholar State, this talent would be stronger, and accordingly, the consumption of Creation Energy would also be higher—he didn’t even blink when fusing twenty units of Creation Energy at once.

At this time, Lin Xiao had no shortage of Creation Energy, a substantial amount of more than fourteen hundred units to spend to his limits.

Eventually, fusing these five talents according to his ideas and strengthening them used up fifty-two units of Creation Energy, which indeed came as a slight shock.

With the enhancement complete, the talent was presented before him, and he felt it immediately.

Unknown Talent: This species is favored by the power of the stars, naturally possessing an immensely powerful spiritual power talent, able to effortlessly control the force of the stars and transform elemental energy into the power of the stars stored within its body, significantly reducing the damage and effect of elemental spells.

There were no actual data on the talent, just a few descriptive phrases, but Lin Xiao was thrilled after reading it.

Now it’s difficult to describe how perverse this talent is. Looking forward with great anticipation, Lin Xiao named this talent Child of the Star and merged it with the True Scholar State talent, then loaded it into the chaotic mix of bloodlines that had already merged the Sun Elves and Moon Elf as well as the bloodline of the Wise Goblins, and then… continued to enhance the remaining three class spell talents.

Life Absorption.

Spiritual Power Absorption.

Energy Absorption.

Life force, spiritual power, energy absorption—it basically included all aspects of a life form’s essence and spirit.

Lin Xiao put the three similar talents into the Creation Rubik’s Cube for fusion and then added Creation Energy for enhancement.

Soon, a new talent that combined all the advantages of the three emerged before him.

Unknown Talent: Constantly devouring the target’s life force, spiritual power, and energy to replenish oneself, and also capable of transferring one’s own life force, spiritual power, and energy to companions, with the freedom to choose the type of essence to extract or transmit.

The meaning was simple: it could drain the essence and spirit of enemies or transfer one’s own to allies, and it could freely select whether to extract only life force, or spiritual power, or energy, offering very flexible use.

“Let’s call it Essence Transition!”

Then came the final step of bloodline enhancement and fusion.

Pure bloodline enhancement was simple, infusing one unit of Creation Energy at a time into it until it could be strengthened no more, then solidifying several talents within the bloodlines.

Thus, a new species bloodline that had altogether consumed one hundred twenty-nine units of Creation Energy took shape. At his whim, it condensed into a card and reloaded into the Divine Realm.

As this Species Card was reloaded into the Divine Realm, the force from the great beyond pulsated rapidly and spread throughout the Divine Realm, with the golden light of the card radiating brightly. Inside a tower within the Divine Realm where the Hero of the Wise Goblins, Alemente, was busy designing the interior of the Floating City, he suddenly looked up and murmured.

His voice traveled through a special channel, and all the Wise Goblins in the Divine Realm sensed it, putting down their work, relaxing their minds, and preparing for the impending great transformation.

As the pulse of light waves slowly spread throughout the Divine Realm, one by one the Wise Goblins began to form light cocoons, entering a state of transformation.

Lin Xiao looked over the Divine Realm with great expectations, watching those light cocoons attract surrounding elemental energies and convert them into the power of the stars.

The transformation had only just begun, yet they were already starting to absorb surrounding energy and convert it to the power of the stars, which proved this talent was even stronger than he had imagined.

“Boom!”

The Void Battleship suddenly lurched violently, leaving Lin Xiao, who was conducting experiments, speechless before the shattered bottles in front of him.

After shaking the corrosive liquid off his hands and wiping them with a towel, he opened the door to see a soldier standing at the threshold, about to knock.

“What’s going on?”