Chapter 505 - 317: King Arthur and Master Ma Come to the Prosthetic Clinic

Lin Qi recalled the S-Artemis Neuro-Driven Storage Prosthetic Body he saw before leaving. King Arthur had ripped it off Ning Hao and casually tossed it into the distance.

If Baili Xueyuan had left in a hurry, preoccupied with preventing another incident with Ning Hang, she might not have had time to search the scene carefully.

’That thing has already become an Extraordinary Item. And if I saw correctly, judging by the spiritual particle adhesion effect, it’s at least Tier Three, possibly even Tier Four.’

’If Baili Xueyuan didn’t notice it and take it, and it was left on United Pharmaceutical’s territory, then it belongs to United Pharmaceutical. As a director of United Pharmaceutical, appropriating a company item wouldn’t really be a violation.’

Lin Qi made up his mind. He was going to work tomorrow!

Even though the United Pharmaceutical headquarters was now a ruin, as a director, he felt obligated to visit the company’s former site, for reasons both personal and professional.

Besides...

There were still the bodies of old friends inside the company.

At this thought, Lin Qi’s sense of relief from resolving the incident vanished.

Lin Qi remembered the scene at United Pharmaceutical all too clearly.

Amid the ruins of the building, covered in tentacles and slime, lay hundreds of company employees.

The Exotic Spiritual Particles in their brains had erupted, destroying most of their brain tissue and turning it into Crimson Crystal Stones.

Their fate was exactly as Lin Qi had predicted: they had degenerated into mindless monsters, essentially the same kind of Zombies found in the Doomsday World.

Among them were Wei Wei’s father, Wei Wutao, the director of the United Medical Prosthetic Engineering Department, as well as the colleagues who had taught Lin Qi so much about Prosthetic Engineering.

They had been on the lower floors, and under the sole Bearer’s deliberate protection, they weren’t killed by the first wave of S-Class Weapons. But this wasn’t fortunate; in the end, they died from mutation caused by the Exotic Spiritual Particles.

"Sigh..."

Lin Qi sighed and deliberately forced himself to stop thinking about it.

Lin Qi made himself think about other things to wash away the feeling of loss.

’Even though I got involved in today’s battle by accident, it served as a good test of my current Abilities and how to use them.’

’Spiritual Vision goes without saying. Even against a Tier Four Peak like Baili Xueyuan, as long as she doesn’t have a detection-type Ability, she can’t notice my surveillance.’

’The synergy between my other Abilities and Spiritual Vision also played a crucial role.’

Lin Qi reviewed the Abilities he had used in the battle.

Aside from Momentum Manipulation, Spiritual Power Materialization, and Emotion Weapon, all of his other Abilities had come into play.

Blood Manipulation, acquired at Tier One; Rapid Growth, Decomposition Mimicry, Splitting, and Hardening, acquired at Tier Two; and Spiritual Power Absorption, acquired at Tier Three.

Of these Abilities, the ones that surprised Lin Qi the most were the synergy between Splitting and Decomposition Mimicry, and the new application for Hardening.

’The biggest drawback of using the clones from Splitting to fight is the drain on my Spiritual Power. But if someone else provides me with extra Spiritual Power, the visual effect created by Splitting and Decomposition Mimicry is truly stunning.’

’The terrifying, several-hundred-meter-tall body, as well as the layer of flesh armor I attached to King Arthur and Master Ma—I could control it all at will, and its strength was linked to the target I’d decomposed.’

’This time, it only demonstrated Tier Three strength. But in the future, when my Spiritual Power breaks through again, I’ll be able to control a deformed entity with Tier Four strength. Then I could form a true giant, and that combat power would be terrifying.’

In many cases, mass and volume meant absolute power.

Tier Three flesh and blood couldn’t support a hundred-meter-tall form, but at Tier Four, Lin Qi could truly unleash the shock and awe of a giant upon others.

By then, leveraging the advantages of size and mass, the resulting combat power might even surpass that of the original target of his decomposition.

’As for Hardening, that was a truly pleasant surprise. I’d never thought of using it that way before; I just had a flash of inspiration today.’

’Hardening my own body is pointless, but having the deformed entities from Splitting entangle a target and then hardening them—that’s a fantastic method of control.’

’If I had to give it a name, maybe I could call it Vine...’

Lin Qi shook his head and gave the move a proper name: "Hardened Flesh Entanglement!"

A Tier Three deformed entity, when enhanced with Hardening, would have its strength approach Tier Four.

Even a Tier Four Extraordinary would struggle to break free if caught by this move, unless they were a Physical Enhancement Type.

The monster Ning Hao had turned into today was the most direct example of this.

After reviewing the course of the battle, Lin Qi came to a proper understanding of his true strength.

’Below Tier Four, I’m probably invincible.’

Even if he just replicated today’s tactics, and even without the boost from extra Spiritual Power, Lin Qi couldn’t think of any Extraordinary Profession that could withstand such a combination of blows.

’Even if they could withstand it, they’d still have to find my real body.’

’Anyone who can’t even find me doesn’t deserve to be called my opponent!’

’Spiritual Power Absorption is also quite useful. Today, I only absorbed it from two willing Tier Fours, but in a crisis, I could actually lock onto a large number of targets and absorb from them simultaneously.’

’Even ordinary people have some Spiritual Power, more or less. It’s just that draining them dry would likely cause permanent brain damage.’

It wasn’t just below Tier Four; even against a Tier Four, if Lin Qi played all his cards, he stood a fighting chance.

Lying in bed, Lin Qi thought with a sigh, ’I still have far too little combat experience. That simple exchange with King Arthur back then barely unlocked any of my potential.’