Wasteland Border Inspector - Chapter 933

Chapter 933: Chapter 298: Mountain Body, Rune Revolution!

Cheng Ye pondered, “Previously, searching for Level 1 and Level 2 skills had threshold restrictions. Now, it only requires 1% compatibility to search. Individual low-level skills are limited in use to me, but what if I fuse five, ten, or even twenty of them?”

“A change in quantity always incites a change in quality. When there’s enough fusion, perhaps it could break through the current limitations!”

Currently, searching for a Level 1 skill only needs 10% of the charging value, which is equivalent to 80 kilowatt-hours of electricity.

Moreover, people possessing Level 1 skills are so numerous, like cattle and sheep. Just within Dapo Town, Wenlu County, and Dongping Town, at the very least, I could find hundreds without repetition.

In terms of fusion energy consumption, each skill consumes 35% charging value, totaling 280 kilowatt-hours of electricity.

As long as the alarm is set correctly, without wasting any charging value, I can supplement 5800 kilowatt-hours daily, enough to synthesize 20 skills!

“The plan is set. Next, it’s just about executing it step by step…”

Closing the panel, Cheng Ye sat on the console and opened the legion’s documents to continue browsing.

Counting the time carefully, it truly seems increasingly inadequate, with everything piling up together.

While researching runes and enhancing strength, preparations for negotiations with the Heavy Machinery Faction must also be made.

Even if negotiations go smoothly and the Heavy Machinery Faction is willing to wager on stationing troops, before the army moves to Dapo Town, a qualified military area must be pre-planned and built.

Besides this, equipment development and iteration, combat concept updates, and personnel configuration adjustments, each of these requires a great deal of effort.

Additionally, as the field operation window draws nearer, pertinent intelligence from Guang Province must be gathered, field operation supplies prepared, and the destination and core mission of the trip finalized.

“Once in Guang Province, I must bring back a batch of talents…”

Cheng Ye set his resolve in mind, even prioritizing this task before the field trade.

As dusk approached, the Collector’s charging value was replenished once again.

After recharging energy, Cheng Ye opened the panel and began attempting skill fusion.

Compared to the excitement during Fusion Body integration, this time his mood was exceedingly calm.

Unlike Fusion Body, which requires multiple mutations to achieve the goal, Iron Body had never been upgraded before, and the fusion path was not completely determined, so this time he only needed to progress toward reducing pain.

Moreover, his main goal was no longer the change in Iron Body but to verify whether the disassembly of runes from the Celestial Human Martial Domain was feasible.

The left side of the panel transformed into a human-like phantom, roughly resembling Dai Zun at first glance but different upon closer inspection.

Noticing the phantom’s brows and eyes gradually approach his own appearance, Cheng Ye was slightly jolted.

Could it be that talent, like a skill, can slowly modify the body over time, integrate into the body, and eventually not occupy a skill bar slot?

Judging by the extent of modification, even with the Lv2 rare Iron Body, it would take at least a year or two to fully integrate.

Stronger Perfect Level talent or Level 3 talent would probably require three to five years, or even over a decade.

This speed is too slow; in the future, I’ll have to keep an eye out to see if there’s a fast-track method.

He placed the Stone Body skill into the right side of the panel. The manifested image was not the tall mountain from the Water Stopping Martial Domain, but rather an oval boulder.

Cheng Ye carefully examined and compared the image’s details he had previously noted, quickly recognizing this boulder as the base core at the mountain’s foot used to counteract the impact of water flow, the most prominent and impact-resistant part of the whole mountain body.

Bearing the impact of water flow day and night, the boulder’s toughness is imaginable; it makes sense to match it with the Iron Body.

Cheng Ye pressed the fusion button, and the boulder on the panel slightly trembled, transforming into a faint yellow stream of light that seamlessly merged into the humanoid phantom on the left side.

The two completed the fusion without any conflict, but in terms of form, the human shape was not preserved.

The yellow stream of light clearly dominated, gradually transforming the human silhouette into a boulder!

[The current Information Fusion process is complete, Fusion Result: Perfect]

[Would you like to record the fusion skill: Mountain Body (Lv2; Perfect)]

[Random mutation mechanism can be triggered with the current Collector’s charging value, do you choose mutation?]

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“Mountain Body?”

Cheng Ye was stunned for a moment as the fusion of iron and stone directly evolved into a trait suggesting the whole mountain.

The image on the panel also shifted accordingly, gradually coalescing into a few-meter-high iron-stone mound.

Though the human shape was no longer visible, the overwhelming sense of heaviness made him choose to collect without hesitation.

Opening the Skill Bar, the light red “Mountain Body” skill appeared in the selection box.

He replaced the Toughness Blessing in the skill bar, and immediately a disorienting sensation swept over him, as if he suddenly plunged into a vast abyss.

Once the feeling of weightlessness dissipated, Cheng Ye looked up, seeing an iron-stone mound standing right before him.

This was the Mountain Body’s manifested form.

“Huh, no rune?”

Cheng Ye’s gaze swept over, surveying the mound, attempting to find traces of a rune, but after circling the mound, he couldn’t discover any stroke marks similar to the Water Gathering Rune.

Hold on… Why does this iron-stone mountain’s form seem a bit odd?

Cheng Ye furrowed his brows. As the thought dawned, his vision suddenly soared high as if being lifted by an invisible force dozens of meters into the air.

Looking down again, the shape of the iron-stone mountain became clear, surprisingly revealing a symbol that left him shocked:

“Is this a dot in the rune strokes or part of a certain stroke?”

Familiar special fluctuations lingered, Cheng Ye deliberately shifted his gaze, yet this “” shaped rune didn’t vanish from memory but became even clearer.

Compared to the part obtained from the Heart Lake Martial Domain, the rune borne by Mountain Body seemed pitifully insignificant, roughly only a quarter of the former in length and size.

Yet it’s still a rune, undeniably proving the acquisition of eligibility to bear another rune.

Moreover, aside from acquiring a rune, what excites Cheng Ye more is

A perfectly replicable, clear pathway to collect more runes has unmistakably laid out before him!

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