Chapter 100: The True Epic Stage

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Boom!

Wei Huo sat on the Black Dragon’s back with his legs crossed. Countless memories entered his mind the moment he swallowed the soul gem. The memory of a Black Dragon, the memory of a multi-headed snake, and the memory of a snowman…

Countless memories rushed toward Wei Huo’s soul. His Culinary, Manufacturing, and Art Skills’ EXP kept decreasing rapidly. His level also started dropping quickly until it finally reached zero!

Skills such as Shooting, Construction, and Medicine also started dropping levels rapidly. They stopped at level three.

Countless memories flooded Wei Huo’s soul. He digested them crazily and accepted the mental strength that was stuck in them.

Countless memories and mental strength flowed into Wei Huo’s mind. The mental strength kept strengthening his soul.

Wei Huo opened his eyes. There was human intelligence in his eyes, as well as Black Dragon ruthlessness, snowman perseverance, and multi-headed snake cruelty.

“New Skill: Dragon Flame Control!”

“New Skill: Frost Resistance!”

“New Skill: Poison Resistance!”

Wei Huo suddenly felt an itch in his throat. He spat out a few dragon flames after coughing. The dragon flames were extremely hot, but they could not hurt him at all. He could control them and change their shape. He could even control the dragon flames and make them move about.

So that was it!

Wei Huo understood now. Those were the inestimable consequences of directly consuming a soul gem. One could lower one’s skill level at random and obtain new skills!

Wei Huo looked at his skill table. He thought of pandas and tigers when he saw beasts, but he also thought of Crawling Dragons, Giant Pythons, and Ice Elementals. When he saw food, he thought of Lu Qiqi and egg fried rice. At the same time, he thought of roasted meat, bloody meat, and snowballs.

Wei Huo looked at the sky and the ground before looking at the five Void Overlords.

Wei Huo’s murderous aura spread out wildly. The Black Dragon, the Ice Queen, and the Spatial Overlord were all trembling against the murderous aura.

Wei Huo lifted his head and a tremendous aura surged into the sky. It was as if it wanted to penetrate the sky.

Then, strange emotions welled in everyone’s hearts. They felt an indescribable loneliness, and there seemed to be a trace of violence hidden behind that deep loneliness!

Wei Huo instantly understood that this was the real imposing aura!

No matter how Epic-ranked it was, the imposing aura was not something that could be explained by weakening the enemy’s attributes.

The so-called Epic-ranked imposing aura was merely a kind of halo that could strengthen a person and weaken their enemy.

However, the real imposing aura should be just like Wei Huo’s at that moment. He had the ability to influence the minds of living creatures around him. It was just like a Qi Master that would have an aura around them. Normal people would feel happy and calm in its presence.

Wei Huo understood that the so-called Epic stage in the Divine Realm was just a sham. The system just gave them a halo and increased their strength, speed, and reaction speed. They thought that they had reached the Epic stage.

Unbeknownst to them, the imposing aura could be fake, and the realization could also be fake. Could one suddenly have an epiphany when reading a book? Could one suddenly reach the Epic stage?

No! That was only the Epic stage set by the system!

Wei Huo knew that he had already become an Epic-ranked expert. If he had the real imposing aura, he would reach the Epic stage!

Although there were no soul gems in his body and no notifications from the system, his attributes did not improve either.

However, Wei Huo understood that he was completely different now!

Due to his imposing aura, it seemed like the Gods set up by the program had changed a little. They were all confused.

The mysterious old man was the most confused. Upon feeling Wei Huo’s imposing aura, the old man asked in disbelief, “This is a real imposing aura field, but why don’t you have a soul gem? Isn’t the core of the imposing aura a soul gem?”

“That’s not it!” Wei Huo glanced at him and said, “This setting is mainly meant to kill monsters and drop soul gems. Players would be unhappy if nothing was dropped after they killed a monster. Plus, with a soul gem, they can create Epic-ranked creatures indefinitely. I wonder if Legendary-ranked creatures are like that too?”

The mysterious old man seemed like he had not heard Wei Huo’s words. He mumbled to himself, “Can a different path be forged this way? Are you a 10,000-year-old genius God? No, a genius?”

Wei Huo smiled. He knew that the other party could not hear the words ‘player’ and ‘mission’. Now that he possessed the imposing aura, Wei Huo could suddenly feel other people’s emotions and use their emotions to influence others.

That was why he saw a lock. There was a lock in everyone’s mind. A Thinking Lock!

The lock was unusual. Once Wei Huo mentioned words like ‘game’ or ‘quest’, the lock would flash. Once the other party reached the quest-issuing state, the lock would flash a little, and they would become sluggish and mechanical. After the quest was completed, they would return to their original state.

How did humans obtain information? One could see with one’s eyes and the signal could be turned into a signal for the brain, and one’s ears could turn sound into a signal to send it to the brain. If a lock was added to the brain and could change the signal at will, the world in the eyes of humans would change dramatically and human behavior would change dramatically as well.

For example, if the lock refused to accept someone’s information, the person with the lock in their brain would ignore that person no matter what they did.

Some people would sometimes feel as if their bodies were being pierced by needles, but they could not see anything. Why? Some people could feel someone behind them but did not see anything when they turned around. Why? Are there really ghosts? Or did your brain not receive the relevant visual signal?

That was the truth behind the game system controlling NPCs. If the game creator wanted to stop thinking, he only needed to control the lock and lock the minds of all humans.

Another example would be if Classmate A was standing in front of a player. If the game creator changed his mind lock, the player would think that he was Classmate B.

That was the lock the game creator had added to humans and many intelligent Epic-ranked creatures. However, it seemed like the lock had no way of controlling a real imposing aura. For example, Wei Huo would not be affected by the Thinking Lock as long as he activated the imposing aura.

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