Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot-Chapter 1142 - 464 Third Awakening_2

Wang Tao had a total of four Hidden Attributes—oh no, to be exact, five; [Plant Affinity] had been replaced by [Dark Element].

[Body Strengthening] was his earliest Hidden Attribute, but it never played a part in any Awakening, while the later Hidden Attributes each had their turn to awaken.

Wang Tao thought that this time it would be [Body Strengthening]’s turn, but unexpectedly, it was the [Dark Element] he had just acquired yesterday…

However, for Wang Tao, [Dark Element] wasn’t bad either, since there was a lot of Dark Attribute mist in those rifts. If he had a Dark Attribute Awakening, he should have some advantages when he goes into the rifts.

While pondering, Wang Tao lay in this dark space, feeling cool as numerous black lights burrowed into his body.

Not knowing how much time had passed, the black light ceased its infusion, and he slowly opened his eyes.

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Upon opening his eyes, Wang Tao saw a girl leaning on the table, staring at him with big eyes.

“Bro! Congratulations!”

When Jiang Shixue saw Wang Tao awake, she immediately came to the bedside happily.

“Where are they?”

Wang Tao was surprised to find only Jiang Shixue in the room; usually, others would be there waiting, too.

“Gu Yun called them to school to help. Turns out there were way more enrollments than anticipated, and they couldn’t keep up… Should I call them back?”

“No need for that, let them be busy. Let’s examine my new Awakening.”

Wang Tao said with a smile as he patted Jiang Shixue’s hair, then looked at his Attributes.

[HP: 180,000/180,000]

[Mana: 120,000/120,000]

[Level: Level 4]

[Abilities: Fireball, Explosion, Berserk Enhancement]

[Hidden Attributes: Body Strengthening]

[Awakening: Starfire Prairie, Mental Development, Heart of Darkness]

[Awakening Energy: 3,100/3,100]

His [Dark Element] Hidden Attribute was gone, the Ability [Mastery Fusion] was also gone, but he had a new Awakening [Heart of Darkness]!

[Heart of Darkness: Dark Manipulation Ability greatly increased, inflicting Curse damage while using Dark Series Attacks]

Reading this Awakening’s description, Wang Tao was excited but also confused, not quite understanding what this “Dark Manipulation Ability” meant, and what exactly was “Curse damage”? Could it be similar to the Curse Status once on former City Hall Mayor Yao Guodong?

Wang Tao and Jiang Shixue headed out to the yard together, quietly feeling into his new Awakening, trying to use the Dark Manipulation.

After a moment, Wang Tao took out his Sharp Long Knife, and with a thought, the blade was immediately enveloped in Black Light as if it were flames of burning black fire!

He lifted the long knife and swung it casually, sending out a black glow from the blade that vaporized the snow in the courtyard with a shockwave, revealing the ground below.

Then he stabbed towards the sky, and a slender black edge detached from the tip of the knife, instantly flying into the air and vanished after vaporizing countless snowflakes.

“Ha ha, I’ve understood it!”

Wang Tao burst into laughter.

This “Dark Manipulation” ability is about using Dark Energy to simulate various Attack effects, somewhat similar to his Mental development.

Since his Heart of Darkness had Awakened through Mastery Fusion with the Ability, and since this Mastery Fusion Ability itself was a Fusion of various Attack Abilities like shockwaves, Continuous Slash, instant movements, Air Bullets, high-frequency vibration, Wang Tao found it relatively simple to simulate those Abilities he already knew. If he wanted to simulate Abilities he didn’t know before, then he would need to practice slowly, just like he did with Mental development.

The original Abilities were No-attribute, and if used under [Wildfire Spread], they would become Fire Attribute, for instance, turning into a “Flame Shockwave.” Now, through his Dark Manipulation, these Abilities have become Dark Attribute, such as turning a shockwave into a “Dark Shockwave.”

And it was not just a simple Attribute change.

The Abilities that he simulated compared to the native Abilities were not only different in Attributes, but their Attack power, range, and Speed also saw a significant increase! And they would also carry “Curse damage!”

However, what gave Wang Tao a real headache was that although the damage had indeed increased a lot, this was not a passive Awakening; it consumed Awakening Energy!

[Wildfire Spread] would start at 100 Awakening Energy upon activation, and after 10 seconds it would continue consuming Awakening Energy. [Heart of Darkness] was different; it only consumed Awakening Energy when used.

This might seem like a good thing, but in some intense battles, if Wang Tao launched a whole set of Attacks in a short time, the energy consumption wouldn’t be low and might even exceed that of [Wildfire Spread].

Of course, even with high consumption, the improvements in damage, Speed, and other aspects were tangible, resulting in a significant overall strength increase, so the consumption was justified.

Moreover, given the previous situation where [Wildfire Spread] and Mental development were activated together for the “Fusion technique: Hellfire,” Wang Tao thought that the new Awakening might also be tried for Fusion with these two, perhaps developing some new Abilities.

But that would require a process, and might not be completed in a short period.

For now, Wang Tao still had one last doubt—what exactly does this “Curse” Status entail.

This thing, like Yang Changhong’s [Mind Slash], couldn’t be used on non-living things. It required experimentation on living things to see the effects.

“Brother, experiment on me!” Jiang Shixue was eager to try.

But Wang Tao knocked on her head in annoyance.

“This Ability is a ‘Curse’; it doesn’t sound like anything good. Even if it’s not life-threatening, it could still make someone miserable. How can I let you take such a risk! Let’s borrow some people from the City Hall!”

There was a prison inside the base. Although the rules within the base were strict, there were still people who were short-sighted or thought they were smart and challenged the rules; the prison had never been empty since the foundation of the base.

So Wang Tao planned to borrow a few prisoners to test his Awakening.

Thus, Wang Tao and Jiang Shixue went to the City Hall together. Gu Yun was at the Awakeners School and not at the City Hall, so Wang Tao looked for Jiang Hui.

Jiang Hui was now the chief of police, with great authority. Wang Tao originally said that he wanted to borrow a few people, but Jiang Hui took him straight to the prison, indicating that Wang Tao could experiment with any prisoners there. Even if someone were killed by accident, there was no need to worry; he would take care of it. After all, none of those caught and put in prison were innocent…

Wang Tao shook his head and smiled; it was just a “Curse” experiment, which should not be lethal.

However, for safety’s sake, during the experiment, Wang Tao did not use Attacks like the Dark Shockwave, because no amount of prisoners would be enough for him to kill. Instead, he used Dark Energy to simulate some very minor Attacks—hardly even worthy of being called Attacks, just touching someone with a bit of dark energy.

Even so, he almost caused an incident.

It wasn’t an operational error by Wang Tao, but rather the Curse turned out to be random…

[Curse: Weakness]

[Curse: Blindness]

[Curse: Bleeding]

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