Shen Lu: I've Mutated into Multiple Game-Breaking Abilities

Chapter 48: Skill Fusion Feature

Before long. In the living room, Ling Yi completed the final spell removal for Lin Shurou. With that the nightmare curse that had been缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕缠绕 “Thank you.” After the curse was lifted, Lin Shurou bowed to Ling Yi once more. She was now wearing a snow-white, loose-fitting summer nightgown. Bathed in the warm glow of the late-night lighting, a casual glance made it difficult to distinguish the boundary between her nightgown and her skin. She was nothing short of a snow-white beauty. Ling Yi pulled up a wooden chair and sat by the window. Seeing this, he waved his hand and smiled, “No need—you’re too kind.” It was already quite stifling late at night in June, and sitting on the sofa wasn’t comfortable. The observant Lin Shurou noticed how hot Ling Yi was. Realizing his room didn’t have air conditioning, she pursed her lips and said, “Why don’t you just sleep on the floor in my room tonight?” “My room has air conditioning.” Although Shen Lu offers many extraordinary items designed to make life more convenient for the public the vast majority of ordinary people still rely on their traditional everyday items. This is because the prices of these extraordinary items in the real world have been driven up so high that ordinary people rarely choose to buy them. Take the E-class item [Area Cooler]. In the Divine Path Store, it costs only 80 gold coins—which converts to about 4,000 Global Coins. However. Air conditioner manufacturers, in collusion with certain interest groups, enlisted various experts to cite all sorts of reasons, and managed to artificially inflate its market price by half. Bringing it to around 6,000. This has deterred many people from buying it. It’s not that they can’t afford it—it’s just not worth it. “Uh… no thanks. I’ll just pick up a random item from the store.” Ling Yi didn’t really care much about whether it was hot or not. His mind was on skill fusion, the Mutant Battle Banner, and finding a scouting skill. These were the three things he planned to do next. “Okay.” Lin Shurou nodded gently, then rolled her eyes and asked curiously, “By the way, what exactly does that protective formation around our house do? Can it still keep bad guys from sneaking in?” “I just heard someone in the neighborhood group chat say that another villain with a bounty of three or four million has escaped into our Firefly Town. I’m afraid…” After being protected by this mysterious formation yesterday, she realized it wasn’t the “useless thing” she’d thought it was. A sense of understanding naturally welled up within her. “Another one?” Ling Yi, who was standing by the window enjoying the breeze, raised an eyebrow and asked with a puzzled look, “When was the last time?” “Last time… was four days ago, I think—someone with a bounty of over a million. The time before that was a week ago—twenty million. And the time before that was half a month ago—I think it was eight or nine million…” Lin Qingyu tilted her head as she recalled. Zhao Ze, who had broken into his home yesterday, was just a petty thug—he couldn’t possibly compare to these bounty-hunted criminals. Ling Yi knew full well the power of the “Home Protection Talisman” and wasn’t nervous, but Lin Shurou didn’t know that, so it was only natural for her to feel anxious and afraid. Right then. He explained the talisman’s detailed functions to her. “What!? There’s such a powerful talisman in the Shen Lu? How come I’ve never heard of it?” After hearing Ling Yi describe its effects, Lin Shurou couldn’t help but express her skepticism: “You aren’t exaggerating, are you?” “Whether it’s an exaggeration or not, you’ll find out soon enough.” He didn’t want to spend time explaining it all to her. It was enough for her to know what it could do. “So where did you get this thing?” “It’s a secret.” “... Oh.” Seeing that Ling Yi wouldn’t say more, Lin Shurou didn’t press him further. However, she still remained skeptical about the functions he’d just described. It wasn’t that she didn’t trust Ling Yi—it was just that the effects he described sounded far too outlandish! Never mind the rest, but was that “invincible defense that even a Level 100 player can’t break through” really true? There wasn’t a single Level 100 player in the whole world right now—how dare he make such a claim? The more Lin Shurou thought about it, the more absurd it seemed; the more she thought about it, the more she felt it was just his exaggerated way of speaking. ‘But since he’s willing to exaggerate that much, this talisman can’t be all that weak.’ ‘If a Level 100 player can’t break through it, a Level 50 player should be able to, right?’ She let out a soft sigh, feeling as though asking the question had been pointless. Although her worries had lessened somewhat, they were still there. ‘Oh well, some protection is better than none. I’ve made it this far safely without any protection before, so I should be even safer now.’ With that thought, Lin Shurou managed to put her mind at ease. At the very least, it was better than before. The two didn’t stay in the living room for long. People’s sleep patterns aren’t so easily disrupted; it was past 3:00 a. m. , the time when they should have been fast asleep, and both were feeling a bit drowsy. They exchanged a few words and then went to their respective rooms. However. As soon as he got back to his bedroom and lay down on the bed, Ling Yi felt wide awake again. “... That’s strange. I was so tired and sleepy out there, but the moment I got into bed, I wasn’t sleepy at all...” He turned off the bright incandescent light in the room and switched on the small bedside lamp. As the warm yellow glow illuminated the small area by his bedside, Ling Yi leaned back against the headboard and let out a soft sigh of relief. The white light in the dead of night was a bit harsh; he preferred this soft glow. Figuring he couldn’t sleep just yet, he decided to go ahead and finish the few remaining tasks he hadn’t completed today. “First, those two skills...” He’d already decided a moment ago to fuse the [Howling Gale] and [Fiery Demon Body] skills, so without further delay, he spoke softly into the air before him “Shen Lu, open the skill fusion interface.” No sooner had the words left his mouth than a virtual screen—mysterious and dazzling like a summer night’s starry sky, in shades of purple and blue—appeared silently before him. At the top of the screen were the four large characters “Skill Fusion”; in the center were two boxes containing “+” signs; and at the bottom was a “Fuse” button on a yellow background. —Skill Fusion is the fourth and final action players can perform on skills, following Learning, Recycling, and Trading. Based on 20 years of player experimentation, here’s how it works: Players can fuse any two skills to create a single random skill. The star rating of the resulting skill will be no lower than the lowest star rating of the input skills and no higher than the highest. For example, fusing a 2-star skill with a 5-star skill will randomly produce a skill ranging from 2 to 5 stars. Fusing two 5-star skills will only produce a single random 5-star skill. Because the results are random, this skill fusion feature has been the subject of frequent player complaints. Some players have fused two Ice-type skills to produce a Fire-type skill; others have fused two movement skills to produce a healing skill; when fusing a high-star skill with a low-star skill, the result is almost always a low-star skill... For these reasons, the fusion feature isn’t widely used among most players. Many players have only used it a few times even after playing Shen Lu for one or two years. Those who use it frequently are mostly major factions that want rare skills and have ample skill reserves.