Chapter 63: Devourer
The Honor Store was just like that—fast hands got the goods, slow hands didn't even get a chance to look.
[You have paid 4x Reincarnation Tokens.]
[You have obtained Overlord Equipment: Devourer.]
[You have obtained Origin Stone: Moon Crown.]
[You have obtained Apocalypse Paradise Advanced Enhancement Device Usage Rights: One Time (Ultra-Rare Permission).]
[You have obtained Living Metal (Class Item/Buff Item).]
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[Devourer]
Origin: Ancient Calamity: All-Devouring Demon Dragon.
Quality: Overlord Rank.
Category: Adaptive.
Durability: 1000/1000 points (This item will self-restore durability during use).
Equipment Requirements: None.
Equipment Effect: Devour (Unique, Passive), this Overlord Equipment can devour any single piece of equipment, thereby gaining the ability possessed by that equipment, while amplifying that ability by 2 to 5 times. During this period, this equipment will enter the "Digestion" phase. While in the "Digestion" phase, this equipment will continue to provide the enhancement bonus of the devoured equipment. After "Complete Digestion," the devoured equipment disappears, and this equipment will enter a phase with no bonuses, requiring the user to provide new equipment for this equipment to devour.
2x Effect Bonus: Stable digestion speed.
3x Effect Bonus: Moderate digestion speed.
4x Effect Bonus: Fast digestion speed.
5x Effect Bonus: Gluttony phase, fastest digestion speed.
Tip: The higher the quality and rating of the devoured equipment, the longer the digestion time.
Equipment Debuff 1: Fullness (Passive), when a sufficiently powerful piece of equipment is successfully digested, "Devourer" will enter a fullness phase. During this time, "Devourer" will crave blood, draining 100,000 to 120,000 points of the owner's health per natural day.
Equipment Debuff 2: Intense Fullness (Passive), after Devourer digests multiple pieces of equipment, there is a chance it will enter an "Intense Fullness" state, thereby invading the owner's heart, replacing its function after devouring it, and gradually devouring the owner from within until the owner dies.
Warning: If the heart is replaced by Devourer, attempting to remove Devourer has a very high probability of causing the owner's immediate death. During this period, Devourer will tightly bite the host's soul.
Equipment Debuff 3: Severe Fullness (Passive), when Devourer's fullness value reaches 100%, it will enter a "Severe Fullness" state, immediately replacing the owner's heart or other vital organs, and devouring the owner completely within the following minutes.
Warning: During this period, Devourer will share health with the owner. Attacking it will also reduce the owner's health, and injuries corresponding to the attack's intensity will appear at random locations.
Equipment Debuff 4: Evil Bite (Passive), upon obtaining Devourer, it will tightly bite the owner's main soul, making it untradeable, undroppable, and untransferable. Attempting to damage or attack this equipment will cause it to immediately share the owner's health, rapidly increase fullness, and enter the "Severe Fullness" state in a short time.
Current Fullness Value: 0%.
Rating: 6000 points (Overlord equipment rating is 1 to 6000 points).
Introduction: The "Ancient Calamity" that brought countless disasters to star realm beings. Even after its fall, with its heart crafted into Overlord Equipment by a mad artisan, it remains so vicious and brutal.
Price: After choosing to activate this equipment, it cannot be traded, dropped, or transferred.
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The viciousness of this equipment was beyond doubt. As a top-tier Overlord Equipment, its corresponding level was upper-middle Supreme Rank. That meant, when activated, even a Supreme Strong could capsize if they were the slightest bit careless.
Equipment, unlike dangerous objects, required the body's energy to be in a state of instinctive non-defense to gain its bonuses. This was why [Devourer] was particularly dangerous.
[Hunting Heart] was the most suitable equipment Su Xiao had ever obtained for his core perception ability, "Instinct." Now, he intended to use [Devourer] to devour [Hunting Heart].
[Devourer] was entirely dark red, as if woven from dark red tentacles. When this vicious Overlord Equipment was used on [Hunting Heart], the dark red tentacles climbed onto it and deeply pierced into it.
After a few minutes, the appearance of [Hunting Heart] changed. It was still a hunting belt with a scabbard strap, but now it had many dark red patterns. It could be felt that it was being consumed by [Devourer].
[Devourer]
Origin: Ancient Calamity: All-Devouring Demon Dragon.
Quality: Overlord Rank.
Category: Hunting Belt.
Durability: 1000/1000 points (This item will self-restore durability during use).
Equipment Effect: Perception Stimulation (Core, Passive), increases the rate of improving the Instinct ability by 100 to 1050 times (1050 times in combat, 475 times in dangerous environments, 100 times in safe environments).
Tip: When you fight in the unique "Specific Environment" corresponding to this equipment, this equipment's effect will receive a "Super-Massive" increase, and there is a chance to immediately raise your current perception ability by 5 levels, until the perception ability reaches X, after which this bonus will no longer trigger.
Tip: If you raise your "Instinct" ability to X through this equipment, your "Instinct" ability will undergo a qualitative transformation...
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Very good. It started with the "Gluttony Phase." It seemed [Devourer] sensed that this owner was not to be trifled with and didn't intend to coexist for long, opting for a quick resolution.
Su Xiao took out the "Book of Original Sin" and sealed [Devourer] onto the ninth page. Time ticked by. Half an hour later, he took [Devourer] out.
The dark red tentacles on the hunting belt writhed—not with evil, wanton movement, but with convulsive, shock-like struggles. When removed from the "Book of Original Sin," all the tentacles drooped limply, as if drained of all strength.
Su Xiao checked [Devourer]'s attributes. It still amplified [Hunting Heart]'s ability by five times, but the devouring speed had slowed to a crawl. If the original tearing and devouring speed was 8900 to 10000, now it was at most 2 to 3.
Why wasn't it eating? Was it a loss of appetite due to a bad mood? Or did it not like the equipment this time?
Clearly, [Devourer] had realized it had encountered a monster this time and chose to observe the situation for now.
Determining that [Devourer] wouldn't cause trouble for the moment, Su Xiao set up several layers of passive-trigger sealing runes on it before re-equipping it. As for letting it devour one of his core pieces of equipment, that was impossible. Not to mention how long [Devourer] could swallow its pride, the equipment it devoured could not be regurgitated. Once eaten, it was lost forever.
[You have submitted Origin Stone: Moon Crown.]
[You have obtained 210 Supreme Potential Points.]
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An Origin Stone at its peak with 13,800 durability points—submitting it was indeed a huge profit.
With 6945 "Supreme Potential Points" in hand, much could be done going forward.
Su Xiao gave [Living Metal (Class Item/Buff Item)] to Bubu Wang. This was a good thing for mechanics. It could be used as a class template seed, though that depended on Bubu Wang's tech-side talent. If his talent was high, absorbing this might grant him a tech-side basic ability above Lv.85.
This was the strength of the tech side. Unlike Technique Grandmasters, who had to accumulate bit by bit to build power, receiving a large amount of resources at once couldn't lead to a massive short-term improvement.
The tech side was the opposite. With a high enough class seed or sufficient resources, system abilities could be raised to a very high level in a short time and achieve peak effects.
Bubu Wang was enamored with such a large piece of [Living Metal]. He had absorbed it before, which was how he created tech-side creations like Little Bu. But that time, Bubu Wang had absorbed a grain-sized piece. This [Living Metal] was the size of a soccer ball.
As for whether Bubu Wang would become mechanized after absorbing [Living Metal], that wouldn't happen at all. [Living Metal] was actually a crystallized form of a special energy. In the end, it was a buff-type energy, not metal in the true sense.
[Apocalypse Paradise Advanced Enhancement Device Usage Rights: One Time] was kept for now. He already had something in mind for it. Only then did Su Xiao have time to check the other items in the Honor Store.
[Primordial Core (Complete)]
Category: Primordial Power.
Price: 7500 ounces of Space-Time Power (Discounted Price).
Personal Stock: 12 pieces.
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[Power Source Matter (Supreme Rank, One Standard Unit)]
Category: Source Matter.
Price: 45,000 ounces of Space-Time Power.
Personal Stock: 1 portion.
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[Soul Supply Box (★★★★★)]
Effect: Upon opening, obtain 100x Soul Crystal.
Price: 8200 ounces of Space-Time Power (This is a "Significantly" discounted price).
Total Stock: 0 pieces.
Tip: This item's stock will refresh after each World War victory.
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[Absolute Strong Rank Passive Skill Scroll Chest]
Effect: Upon opening, obtain an Absolute Strong Rank Passive Skill Scroll.
Price: 500 ounces of Space-Time Power.
Total Stock: 3 pieces.
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[Supreme Treasure Box]
Effect: Upon opening, obtain two of the following items (randomly drawn).