"The effect has been completely changed?"
One hundred points of stamina exchanged for one hundred points of mental power.
In a way, this effect was equivalent to nothing happening at all. In fact, because it consumed stamina, it could put one's life in an even more dangerous state.
But...
This ability wasn't exactly weak.
For many Train Conductors, mental power was roughly equivalent to strength.
No matter what kind of special ability you wanted to unleash.
Magic, Taoist arts, talismans, magic arrays, curses...
The vast majority of all ability effects were released by consuming mental power.
Ye Qiyan dabbled in both to some extent, but more often than not, his mental power consumption was greater.
If not for the ridiculously fast mental power recovery speed he possessed, he couldn't have grown this quickly and entered so many Advanced Stations in such a short time.
"It really is a strange sword."
Ye Qiyan murmured softly, reaching out to touch the hilt, intending to pull it out for a proper look.
But Mingming let out another series of sounds tinged with anxiety.
"Ding ling ling!"
"Hmm? You mean, you want me not to touch this sword?"
It nodded, its small form looking utterly exhausted, on the verge of dozing off.
"Alright, then I'll leave it with you."
Although he didn't know the reason, Ye Qiyan still refrained from touching it.
And so.
This Trickster Play Sword missed its chance for Sublimation.
It seemed... Mingming had been trying to stop him from performing Sublimation on the Trickster Play Sword from the very beginning.
With the Trickster Play Sword settled, Ye Qiyan began taking stock of his next piece of loot.
He went up to the roof and opened the Armament Space.
The [Abyss Mech-soldier] stored within was summoned by Ye Qiyan.
[Abyss Mech-soldier (Dormant State)]
[Race: Wasteland Species]
[Current Status: Overloaded, Damaged]
The gnome technology that had once been mounted on the Abyss Mech-soldier was completely destroyed along with the death of the Goblin God.
In the center of its forehead, a palm-sized black gear was also in a stopped state.
Eve, standing guard on the roof, retrieved the gear for Ye Qiyan.
[Abyss Gear (Level 10)]
[A mechanical material from the abyss, used for crafting machinery. Perhaps it has other uses?]
Other uses, most likely referring to controlling and binding this Abyss Mech-soldier.
Without hesitation, Ye Qiyan proceeded to bind it.
Unlike other things, what this item required for binding wasn't mental power, but blood.
A rather surprising point was.
The Goblin God had not bound itself to the Abyss Mech-soldier.
However.
What it wanted wasn't to use the Abyss Mech-soldier as combat power, but as a vessel to carry its own gnome body, which had weak potential.
So, not binding it wasn't all that hard to understand.
A drop of blood merged into the gear.
It was reinserted into the Abyss Mech-soldier's forehead.
As strands of black electric current flickered across the Abyss Mech-soldier's body.
The gear began to rotate.
[Binding Successful]
[Obtained Abyss Mech-soldier Control Authority]
[Abyss Mech-soldier]
[Consumes Electrical Power]
[Configured Weapons: None]
No weapons, no special effects. This entity called the Abyss Mech-soldier was just a pure, bare machine.
All the props the Goblin God had originally mounted on it had already turned into a pile of debris. One could say, apart from the pitch-black electric current attached during attacks, it didn't have any more special abilities.
A faint will existed within the Abyss Mech-soldier, the minimal intelligence bestowed by the machine crisis.
Ye Qiyan stroked his chin, gazing at the fifteen-meter-tall behemoth before him.
"No particularly useful weapons, but in terms of pure physical strength, it's a bit more formidable than the Scoundrel."
"Right, I still have two cores. How about..."
He took out the two mechanical cores obtained from the previous station.
Just as he was about to install them onto the Abyss Mech-soldier.
The Abyss Mech-soldier's weak intelligence actually showed signs of resistance.
It was rejecting the Divine Cores.
Rejecting the residual power left behind after a god's death.
Why?
Ye Qiyan frowned slightly.
He casually tossed the two special mechanical cores in his hand.
"Forget it, since you don't want them."
"Then, the Scoundrel gets to benefit again."
He shook his head with a wry smile.
Putting away the cores, he stretched out his hand and placed it on the Abyss Mech-soldier's body.
"You reject divine power, but what about this?"
[Sublimation——]
A stream of azure-blue light flowed from his hand.
They converged into one, heading straight for the Abyss Mech-soldier.
Rumble——
Pitch-black electric currents flickered incessantly.
The Abyss Mech-soldier's body trembled violently.
Its entire fifteen-meter frame, wrapped in the power of Sublimation, gradually shrank.
Until it had shrunk to less than ten meters, the Sublimation ended.
[Abyss Mech-soldier → Core-Restricted Abyss Mech-soldier]
[Stamina: 220→200] [Mental Power: 260→180]
[Can alter its own body size within a certain range]
[Can activate Core Restriction Release through electrical overload. During combat, all electrical power is converted into Abyss Plasma.]
[After each use of Core Restriction Release, a certain period of electrical power replenishment is required]
"Just a simple enhancement and upgrade of some abilities."
"One hundred points, much less than I imagined consuming."
Thanks to the extra 20 points of mental power and stamina gained from the Golden Tribe's Courage.
His current upper limits were 220 and 260 respectively.
This single Sublimation couldn't make him consume too much.
"Or is it that the real thing needing Sublimation is this?"
Ye Qiyan's gaze fell upon the black gear in the Abyss Mech-soldier's forehead.
The Abyss Gear, a Level 10 material.
"I'll take it slow later."
The Abyss Mech-soldier was recalled into the Armament Space.
Since he was already on the roof, he simply summoned the Scoundrel.
Compared to the Abyss Mech-soldier's rejection of those two Divine Cores, the Scoundrel's reaction was completely opposite.
The Decay and Lava Shield it possessed, along with that steam core which was only considered a Demigod's, triggered a resonance state the moment these two brand-new God Mechanical Cores appeared.
The radiance they emitted reflected and connected with each other.
Like the chirping of cicadas in summer.
Or like mournful sounds in a deep mountain wind valley.
The pure white mech-soldier bowed its head towards Ye Qiyan.
Yearning to obtain this new power.
"You're not picky at all."
"Heh, with these two, that makes four pieces of equipment transformed from God Mechanical Cores."
"This is really... if others found out, would they die of envy?"
Ye Qiyan chuckled dryly.
He reached out and tossed the gnome and Ghost Shark cores towards the Scoundrel's head.
Crack! Crack!
The same scene as before.
The cores shattered! All the fragments after their breakage began to fuse and reorganize with the Scoundrel's body.
Two brand-new Divine Core Armaments were thus born.
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