MM Racing Chapter 40 Freshmen
Chapter 40 Freshmen
Amidst the shattered remains of the hibernation pod, blue stasis fluid mixed with sharp shards of glass lay a white-haired youth slumped in the pool of blue liquid.
His wet, white, tousled hair clung messily to his pale cheeks, obscuring most of his handsome face.
Those deep blue pupils remained open, the glimmer of light in their depths undiminished.
He deliberately severed the [Berserk Lv.2] effect at its maximum duration. His soaring blood pressure plummeted, and his swollen muscle fibers rapidly contracted. Luo Lan dragged his exhausted body toward the young man.
Reaching between the fragments of the wrecked hibernation pod, he gently pulled the white-haired youth out of the blue liquid.
After carefully placing the cold body flat on a clean, silver-gray metal floor.
Taking a deep breath, Luo Lan gave the command in his mind.
[Casting - Assembly]
[Consumed Chaos Essence: 4396]
[Current Chaotic Essence: 436]
This is probably the most extravagant [Condensation] Luo Lan has ever done since he transmigrated to this world.
A large number of purplish-black particles surged out of Luo Lan's current stitched-up corpse body like a flood bursting its banks.
The source energy gathered in mid-air to form a dense, purplish-black cocoon of light, which completely enveloped the white-haired youth lying flat on the floor.
The remaining blue stagnant liquid adhering to the youth's body surface was forcibly washed away and evaporated completely the moment it came into contact with the source substance.
Immediately afterwards, the purplish-black cocoon covering his entire body began to shrink rapidly.
All the source particles flowed along the young man's body, eventually converging on his left arm like rivers flowing into the sea.
The young man's entire left hand, starting from the middle of his forearm, gradually vanished into nothingness. Purple-black particles engulfed all the contours of his bones and muscles, yet not a single drop of blood flowed out, leaving only a smooth black hole at the end of his left arm.
Looking at the prepared spot, Luo Lan raised his bleeding right hand, still covered with fragments of the [Spider Spear Fist Blade].
"Pfft!"
Without hesitation, Luo Lan raised his right hand, and the sharp fragments of his fist blade plunged directly into the gaps between the bones and flesh in the chest of his current stitched-up corpse.
Dig deeper and deeper.
Luo Lan grasped the bone hand, the very body of his soul, which was buried deep within the [Dark Gold Skeleton] and was his true soul anchor.
With a forceful tug, dark red blood splattered.
The skeletal hand was dragged out of the stitched-up corpse's sternum cage.
The moment the bone hand was pulled out, the spinous body, which had been full of vitality just a second ago, seemed to have its spine ripped out instantly.
The heavy body completely lost all vitality and fell backward with a crash.
In mid-air, the skeletal hand that had been pulled out, guided by the purplish-black particles, stabbed straight towards the dark gash in the white-haired youth's left arm.
Without any sense of rejection from the flesh and blood binding it together, the bone hand pierced directly into the depths of the gap.
The bone and tissue fragments fit together perfectly without any extra adjustments.
[Assembled: The remains of the "Former Hero"]
[Rank: Gold]
Specialties: Mastery of military equipment, proficiency in heavy armor, Pale Holy Light Path
[Skills: Templar Knights Basic Swordsmanship Lv.1, Holy Kingdom Military Physical Combat Lv.2, Holy Light Lv.?]
[Military equipment proficiency: An ingrained instinct, enabling skilled use of various military equipment such as swords, shields, hammers, and axes.]
[Heavy Armor Proficiency: A well-trained body will not have its agility affected when wearing heavy armor.]
[Pale Holy Light Path: Once baptized and purified by the power of immortal gods, this path of holy light has now lost its divine favor, leaving only paleness. A certain amount of holy light energy can be stored within the body.]
[Templar Knights Basic Swordsmanship Lv.1: The basic swordsmanship required to join the Templar Knights; concise, efficient, and practical. Skill proficiency increases with skill level.]
[Holy Kingdom Military Physical Combat Lv.2: Standard Holy Kingdom close-quarters combat technique, abandoning all flashy but impractical skills and focusing on power generation efficiency when fully armored. Combat stance improves with skill level.]
[Holy Light lv.?: Pray to ██!]
"clatter."
In the deathly silent water tomb, the young man's body lay flat on the floor, and the end of the left hand, exposed outside the skin, twitched and trembled slightly.
Then, bracing himself against the silver-gray metallic floor, the white-haired youth sat up halfway up the floor.
Luo Lan has "come back to life".
Before I could even process the long list of specialties and skill descriptions that came with my new body, my mind was already filled with them.
Another notification sound rang in my mind:
[Order Dust - K201 (Permission - True Sight Lv.1) has been activated]
[True Sight lv.1: Analyzes the source of what the eye can see. (When the observed target's level exceeds that of the host, the amount of information displayed decreases. The greater the level difference, the less information is displayed.)]
The [Order Crystal Dust-B213] that comes with Luo Lan's Bone Hand has activated [Permission-Forging].
The [Order Crystal Dust-K201] in the azure eyes of this body grants an ability called [Authority-True Sight lv.1].
With the arrival of Luo Lan's soul, [True Sight lv.1] automatically activated in her pupils, and the faint light deep within her azure eyes gradually brightened.
The world before Luo Lan's eyes changed once again at this moment.
Just like when I looked directly into the reflection in the young man's pupils—no, even more detailed than before.
It's too detailed, so detailed that it exceeds the limits of what living beings can bear.
The stale air that is naturally exhaled from the mouth drifts to the front of the eyes, and this airflow is infinitely broken down and expanded.
Every single dust particle in the air is labeled.
The trajectory of carbon dioxide molecules leaves a translucent trail in the field of vision, followed by the clearly discernible outline of the electron cloud of oxygen atoms, then protons, neutrons, electrons, and even individual quarks...
As far as the eye can see, the entire world is analyzed.
With her mind buzzing, Luo Lan tried her best to close her eyes.
With the visual signal input cut off, Luo Lan tried to control the newly acquired [True Sight lv.1], at least to prevent it from going out of control.
Several minutes passed before Luo Lan tentatively opened her eyes again.
The bright blue light in his pupils subsided, and his eyes turned into a deep, clear azure.
My field of vision returned to the level of a normal human, and what I saw was normal optical imagery.
"Phew... I should practice how to use this ability in the future."
Luo Lan slowly stood up. His voice, as he spoke to himself, was clear and bright, characteristic of a young man, no longer the deep, resonant sound of a stitched-together corpse's skull vibrating.
I looked at the shattered remains of the hibernation pod and the mangled remains of the thorn-stitched corpse lying to the side.
This mutilated body was the capital Luo Lan had risked his life to acquire, and it was filled with extraordinary demonic organs. He couldn't just leave it here like that.
He walked toward his former mutilated body, his movements still somewhat awkward.
Luo Lan bent down and touched the exposed [Dark Gold Skeleton] of the stitched corpse with his right hand.
His left hand, a bone claw, simultaneously rested on the scattered, sharp fragments of the Spider Spear Fist Blade on the ground.
[Condensation Casting - Melting Casting]
[Consumed Chaos Essence: 201]
[Current Chaotic Essence: 235]
With the ability activated, the dark gold skeleton was transformed back into flowing liquid gold upon contact with the purplish-black particles, and the scattered iron fragments on the ground also melted into liquid iron. The two torrents of metal intertwined and recombined in mid-air, eventually becoming an alloy liquid with an iron-gray exterior and dark gold patterns inside.
The liquid alloy crawled up the ground and onto Luo Lan's exposed left hand claw, spreading along the bones of his left hand and throughout his entire body.
From the arm bone to the collarbone, and then to the ribs, every inch of the bone surface was coated with a layer of metallic white luster, while the bone marrow inside was infiltrated with a trace of dark gold substance.
[Smelted and Forged: Dark Gold and Alloy Fragments]
Specialty: Dark Gold Skeleton → Steel Bones
[Tier: Iron+ → Silver]
[Steel Bones and Bones: Bones forged from a mystical alloy. Greatly increases the toughness of the entire skeleton, enhances resistance to negative status effects such as decay, corrosion, and curses, and increases tolerance to alchemical potions.]
The moment the skeletal reconstruction was completed, Luo Lan felt a sudden sinking of her feet.
The body, which was originally light and slender, gained more than ten kilograms in weight.
But this heavy feeling actually brought Luo Lan a sense of security from the bottom of her heart.
With the [Steel Bones], even with the bone hand itself exposed, it was the hardest part of Luo Lan's entire body at this moment.