Chapter 140 — Everyone's Strength Skyrockets
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It simply couldn't harmonize the relationship between the hardened matter and the electromagnetic lightning field.
Put plainly, Eleven's command over the metal type was strong enough, but when it came to the lightning type, it still fell a bit short.
And so Shi Jin thought of the Thunder-Calming Stone, wanting to see whether max-level Hardening could absorb the properties of the Thunder-Calming Stone.
If it could pull that off, then in its hardened state, Eleven would essentially gain a second attribute: lightning.
When that day came, whether it was the Thunder Armor secret art or the Railgun secret art, both would undergo a qualitative transformation.
For now, he would just use Thunderstone as a stopgap... once he had money later, he would buy higher-grade metal resources with stronger properties, and alter the nature of the hardened substance.
...
BOOM!!!
BOOM!!
The ruins space.
When Shi Jin arrived with the ginseng baby, the giant Eleven and the ice dragon Buggy were locked in a frenzied exchange of ultimate moves.
"Ahem."
Shi Jin gave a dry cough, immediately bringing Eleven and Buggy to a halt.
At that moment, the giant Eleven caught sight of the large crate in Shi Jin's hand, and its eyes lit up at once.
"Awoo!!!"
It shrank down in a flash and came scampering over, tail wagging, while Buggy too returned to its normal form and crawled over.
And as Buggy crawled, its head was held high and proud.
Feeling that the gap between itself and its leader was gradually closing, it was thrilled.
"Eep?"
After running over, Eleven pointed at the Thunderstone in the crate, asking whether it was for it.
Shi Jin nodded. The next moment, Eleven rubbed its hands together, picked up a piece, and popped it into its mouth.
Hooray.
Finally, it could test out the properties of max-level hardening.
"This is a tier-four resource... theoretically meant for commander-rank creatures. Go easy on it."
Shi Jin warned.
"Awoo, awoo." Eleven nodded hastily. Still, there was no real danger, since inside the ruins space, combined with Absolute Sleep, its nutrient absorption was excellent—no trouble with indigestion.
"Crunch, crunch." After a few bites, Eleven swallowed a piece.
Then its eyes lit up.
Delicious!
It simply went ahead and kept eating, its whole body still in its hardened state.
Crunch.
Eleven ate with great relish—after all, it had just been through a fierce battle, and this was exactly when it needed to replenish nutrients.
As it ate, a sudden change occurred.
A bolt of deep blue lightning abruptly coursed across Eleven's fully hardened body. Yet Eleven felt nothing unusual and kept eating.
"Eee..." "Chirp..." The ginseng baby and Buggy looked at the Thunderstone. Was this thing... really that tasty?
After about three pieces, Eleven gradually felt that the nature of its hardened substance was slowly changing. It raised its head slightly and looked at Shi Jin.
Shi Jin nodded, then turned to Buggy.
"Let's try it."
"Buggy, use Spatial Shackles on Eleven."
"Chirp!!"
Buggy had no idea what was going on, but nodded anyway.
The next moment, a room-sized three-dimensional spatial barrier appeared around Eleven.
Master-level Spatial Shackles!
This was even stronger than the Void Crystal Butterfly's Spatial Shackles. During their earlier battles, Eleven had found it a real pain to smash through.
With this move, Buggy, working in tandem with the ice dragon phantom, had given Eleven no end of grief.
As for now...
Staring at the transparent spatial wall before it, the one-meter-tall Eleven wore a serious expression. Slowly it raised its chubby arm and aimed its palm forward.
Then, just beyond its palm, a black sphere began to condense.
For the moment, Buggy and the ginseng baby were still calm.
But the next instant—
Ssskrak!
A startling arc of electricity burst into being along Eleven's entire hardened arm, coiling around it loop upon loop with a violent crackle!
Then the whole arm lit up, and the black sphere floating before its palm was abruptly wreathed in powerful current. At that change, Buggy's and the ginseng baby's expressions shifted ever so slightly.
What they did not know was this: the level-thunder nature, working in concert with the high-voltage current of the thunder palm, was rapidly generating a magnetic field—and that field was now granting the hardened sphere an acceleration! An acceleration far greater even than Eleven's doubled strength!
BOOM!!!
At last, the railgun that Eleven had attempted so many times and never completed was, in this very moment, fired for the first time.
"Awooo!!!" Eleven let out an excited howl as it launched.
BOOM!!!
At the same instant, it was as if a thunderclap went off in the depths of Buggy's and the ginseng baby's hearts.
Their eyes flew wide. All they saw was a streak of blue light slicing past—and then, with a crack, space itself seemed to shatter. The spatial fetter Buggy had woven collapsed in an instant, spreading from a single point through the whole of it, crumbling wildly in the wake of that bolt of lightning!!!
And the next moment, the bolt was still accelerating. In the blink of an eye the streak of light had reached the distance, and a horrifying roar came rushing back with the vanishing light. An instant later, a fierce wind came howling in from afar on the heels of that roar, blowing the spatial fragments away until not a trace remained!
"Chiii!!!!"
Buggy: ヾ(;?;Д;?;)??
Seeing the spatial fetter collapse so feebly, Buggy's eyes went wide at once. What the hell.
What just happened!
The ginseng baby was likewise frozen stiff, utterly baffled, and nearly blown away by the aftershock.
Meanwhile Eleven stood where it was, back to normal, its black-and-white fur whipping in the strong wind. First bewildered, then delighted, it stared at its own palm.
"Awo-wo-wo-wooo!!!"
Success!!
It caught Shi Ying's smiling look as well.
The second attack secret art!! The railgun!!
"Awo! (Buggy, come fight me!)" Eleven turned to Buggy, eyes blazing with battle lust.
Buggy: ???
Chiii!!!! Are you sure that thing won't kill me if it hits me?!!