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Chapter 44: New Uses
🕑 Added 2025-06-11 10:47:40 +0000 UTCEthan looked at the case of potions, a thought occurring to him. "Hey, Sis Lily, with the credits you have for ten advanced-grade potions, why not just buy an Aura Core? Wouldn't that be more cost-effective in the long run?"
Lily rolled her eyes and said irritably, "I have no need for such a low-level Aura Core now. Every time I get one from a mission or training exercise, I exchange it all for school credits. Where would I have any left over to give to you? Besides," she added, "the Skill Aura Core I gave you is one I've kept since my first year at university. Who knew it would be so hard to get a decent Aura Core in this small city?"
Ethan scratched his head, feeling a bit embarrassed. "Ahem, speaking of which, Sis Lily, you're pretty amazing. Just these things alone wouldn't be cheap at all. By the way, what exactly are school credits?"
Lily smiled and explained, "School credits are a type of special currency used at Pinnacle University. They can be used to exchange for various high-level resources and exclusive opportunities, and in many cases, they're much more useful than standard credits. You can only obtain school credits by completing official university missions, participating in inter-collegiate competitions, excelling in exams, and so on. And different levels of school credits can be exchanged for items of different values. So, for university students, school credits are very, very important. You'll understand when you get to university."
"Oh," was all Ethan could say. After politely sending his aunt out of his room, he couldn't wait to once again experience the wonderful feeling of being a "pay-to-win player."
One word: Awesome~~
Before, he had to channel Aura according to a slow, routine process, and in one full day, he could at most increase his cultivation progress by about one percent. Now, using a single advanced-grade potion with his transformation-absorption technique, he could increase it by five percent in just one hour. Wasn't that just too great? His current progress had already reached sixty percent of the way through Level Eight. Very soon, he would be able to break through to Level Nine.
The following week was spent in a grueling cycle of Ethan training and then getting mercilessly thrashed by Lily. She called it "improving his practical ability." During this time, Lily also witnessed firsthand just how heaven-defying Ethan's ability truly was. A full eight different, distinct forms that he could switch between almost at will. Even at a place like Pinnacle University, a hub for the nation's greatest talents, she had never seen or even heard of anything quite like it.
"Alright," Lily said after their final session, "after a week of this tempering, you should have a much better understanding of these alien forms now."
"Indeed," Ethan said, rubbing a fresh bruise. "I understand them much more deeply than before."
In the past, every time Ethan used his alien hero abilities, he would only use them in a fixed, straightforward way. The Plant Magnetic Field he had discovered with Wildvine could be said to be the only extra, creative ability he had developed on his own. But after this week of continuous, high-level fighting against a far superior opponent, he had gained a completely new understanding of the abilities of his various alien heroes and had also developed some other, more nuanced abilities.
For example, when he was Heatblast, Ethan could now use his own spirit, his own will, to control the flames he generated, making them hover in the air, change direction, or split apart, instead of just letting them fly straight out and hit something. This way, Heatblast's attack methods would become far more flexible and varied, causing a much greater threat to any enemy. And for Stinkfly, he himself already had the ability to fly, but now, in battle, he could not only quickly flap his wings for speed but also coordinate that movement with his own psionic energy to release a special, focused sound wave. This sound wave was similar to an ultrasonic wave; it couldn't be seen or heard by most, but it had extremely strong destructive power and could turn a solid wooden board into fine powder from a distance.
In addition, for his special forms like Diamondhead and Upgrade, their functionality was extremely powerful and basically relied on imagination and creativity to be fully utilized. These abilities could not be improved simply through raw battle but required constant testing and trials to master. Furthermore, based on his original foundation, Ethan had developed a whole new use for Wildvine. This new method allowed Ethan not only to absorb the life force of other plants and convert it into the psionic energy he needed, but also to inject his own psionic energy into the bodies of other plants, converting it into raw life force to promote their rapid growth.
Once, to test this, Ethan used this method to make an ordinary blade of grass grow to a towering height of one to two meters in seconds, which had greatly shocked Lily. Ethan could even control that small blade of grass to perform various simple actions, no different from how a normal wood-type psionicist might control their plants. Seeing this scene, Lily couldn't help but be curious. She took out an Aura Bloom seed she had been keeping, carefully buried it in the soil, and asked Ethan to try if he could ripen the psionic plant.
What no one expected was that this attempt was actually a great success! In order to fully ripen the Aura Bloom, Ethan had nearly exhausted all of his psionic energy, but in the end, to everyone's joy, the Aura Bloom successfully entered its mature stage in just five short minutes. You have to know, the value of a mature Aura Bloom is not low. The fact that Ethan could ripen it meant that the benefits of other, even rarer, psionic plants would naturally also be within his grasp in the future. The potential benefits contained within this single, unique ability were simply immeasurable!
Just how great were the benefits? One could tell just by looking at the way Lily was now staring at Ethan, as if she were staring at a solid gold ingot that could walk and talk.
Being stared at like this by Lily made Ethan feel very uncomfortable, and he always had the nagging feeling that he was about to be sold. "Ahem, Sis Lily, my rank is too low right now. Ripening one Aura Bloom is already my absolute limit. You can't possibly expect me to bring you much benefit with this right now."
Lily thought for a moment, her excitement calming. "Alright, it seems I was being too hasty. The cultivation of psionic plants is very difficult. Even a high-rank wood-type psionicist can only accelerate its growth on the original basis, but no one can ripen an Aura Bloom from a seed in just five short minutes. At least, it's not possible for anyone in New Veridia."
Ethan theorized, "It could be because Wildvine itself is a true plant lifeform and thus has a very high, natural affinity with other plants. For other people to do this, they would either need a very high-ranked wood-type talent, or they would need a plant-type monster or mutated creature as a bonded partner to replicate my method. Otherwise, it would be absolutely impossible."
Lily nodded, impressed. "Not bad. It's good to know that there is always someone better out there, and a heaven beyond heaven. You're not arrogant or complacent, despite your power. This is a very precious quality, Ethan. I hope you can always maintain it."
Ethan puffed out his chest slightly. "Ahem, I'm very self-aware. Before I become truly invincible throughout the world, I will absolutely not be arrogant!"
"You," she said, flicking his forehead, "a little Rank One dreg, can't even beat me, and you're already thinking of becoming invincible throughout the world? You wouldn't even dare to have such a daydream."
"That's why I said before. Just because I can't do it now doesn't mean I can't do it in the future!" Ethan was very confident. After all, with the Omnitrix in his hand, the higher his rank, the more alien heroes he would unlock, and his innate talent level would also gradually increase. In the future, it might even be possible for him to advance to the legendary Mythical-rank. When that time came, who in the world would be his opponent?
Hearing his incomparably confident tone, Lily, for some reason, actually had a fleeting impulse to believe him. She then shook her head, casting this strange impulse out. Confidence is a good thing, she thought, but how could an Earth-rank talent possibly achieve that level? Still, in the future, just in this city of New Veridia, he could also be considered a minor powerhouse.
"By the way," she said, a curious glint in her eye, "speaking of which, your Wildvine form can absorb the life force of plants. Can it do the same for animals?"
Ethan was stunned. He really hadn't thought about this point before. "I… I don't know either."
"You wait here a second." As soon as she finished speaking, Lily transformed into a gust of wind and flew out the window.
Ethan watched her go, a sigh of envy escaping his lips. "I'm so envious of an ability like that."
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Ritesh Jadhav
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