Chapter 116: The Gap in Affinity
Grantham's question made Ferdinand's first reaction confused and shocked, but then he felt ecstatic.
Because Grantham's behavior actually gave him an opportunity to do something big.
Meredith also showed a shocked expression. He saw that the situation was developing in an unpredictable direction and began to worry about how this matter would end.
Ferdinand's view represents the mainstream view of most priests of the Knights of Time and Space. After all, everyone's understanding of synesthesia is still very limited. On the surface, manipulating space-time creatures does not seem complicated or difficult, but only after becoming a manipulator and dealing with space-time creatures, will you understand how difficult this matter is.
Because space-time creatures themselves are difficult to understand and even more difficult to control.
Forcibly suppressing space-time creatures may cause the space-time creatures to run away and cause backlash, and if you obey the space-time creatures in everything, these space-time creatures will be arrogant and turn the manipulators into their puppets and slaves.
All the members of the Spacetime Knights are trying their best to establish affinity with the spacetime creatures and drive them to fight, but so far no priest or knight has been able to truly establish a completely sympathetic connection with the spacetime creatures.
Don't the other branches of the Spacetime Knights know that raising these spacetime creatures requires a large amount of spacetime particles and other resources, and there are also very serious safety risks?
They obviously know, but the problem is that even if they know this, they have to do it, because this is a necessary means to maintain the standing of these branches.
At this time, Grantham actually said shamelessly that he had established a perfect affinity with the spacetime creatures, so there was no need to raise these spacetime creatures in the branch?
In Ferdinand's view, this is just like an ordinary middle school student saying that he has perfectly mastered all the courses in college and even graduate school, so there is no need to review seriously.
Ferdinand couldn't help but smile meaningfully. Since Grantham took the initiative to hand the knife to him, it would be unreasonable for him not to use it.
"In that case, can you please show me the perfect affinity with space-time creatures, what kind of state is it?"
"If you can really achieve this perfect affinity, of course it would be the best, but if you can't, it means that there are huge loopholes in the daily branch construction of the Liming City branch, and there are big problems in the cultivation of combat power."
Gransome smiled slightly, "Okay."
"In that case, let's each take out the original space-time creatures with level 3 energy fluctuations to compete with each other, what do you think?"
Ferdinand is also a manipulator, but his energy fluctuation level is much higher than Chen She's current energy fluctuation level and is consistent with Grantham's original strength, both of which are level 5 energy fluctuations.
As a manipulator, the affinity with space-time creatures is very high.
When these manipulators manipulate space-time creatures, they generally use two methods. One is conventional summoning, which uses space-time particles and various resources to summon wild space-time creatures from space-time rifts and manipulate them.
The advantage of this manipulation method is that it can leverage very powerful space-time creatures through a large amount of resources, but the problem is that the space-time creatures summoned in this way are often uncontrollable. Although it is powerful, the risk of losing control will also be greatly increased. It is a means of mass destruction used in emergency situations and is basically not used at ordinary times.
Another way is to establish a deep connection with a space-time creature and continuously cultivate the affinity between the two. This is the so-called original space-time creature.
Compared with wild space-time creatures, this kind of space-time creature is more like a domesticated one. They are all cultivated from a space-time creature with relatively weak energy. As the strength of the manipulator continues to increase, the space-time creature that Grantham now has like a little mouse belongs to this category.
The energy fluctuation level of this kind of space-time creature is relatively low, basically the same as or slightly lower than the manipulator, but due to long-term cultivation, the affinity with the manipulator is very high, and the most important point is that because it is nourished by the manipulator, it has a certain connection with the manipulator's own strength.
This kind of space-time creature will not die completely, but every death will weaken the manipulator's ability to a certain extent.
Ferdinand couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, "Okay, then let's use the third-level energy fluctuations to compete."
Ferdinand knew very well that Grantham's current attitude was obviously hostile to him, and he wanted to take this opportunity to completely subdue him.
Neither side was convinced by the other. At this time, whoever had a deeper understanding of synaesthesia knowledge and a stronger affinity for space-time creatures would have a greater say.
Ferdinand originally thought that Grantham would retreat and make some concessions, but now it seems that Grantham was not scared off by him, but instead faced the challenge and wanted to fight him head-on.
For Ferdinand, this was exactly what he wanted. After all, in his opinion, Grantham must have suffered heavy damage in the previous series of battles, and although both sides were fighting against space-time creatures with third-level energy fluctuations, he would definitely have a certain advantage.
If this opportunity could be used to directly injure Grantham's original space-time creature and further weaken Grantham's strength, then the position of the black priest would be further away from Grantham.
Meredith obviously didn't expect that the two men would not give in to each other and would make such a mess in a few words, but he had no choice at this time, after all, he couldn't stop this matter by himself.
The Space-Time Knights have always respected strength, and whoever has a harder fist can naturally occupy a high position.
Both of them have ideas about the position of the black priest, and they will fight sooner or later.
Under the witness of Meredith, the two people each summoned their own space-time creatures.
Ferdinand limited his space-time creature to about the third level of energy fluctuation. From the appearance, it looks a bit like a large hound, with both speed and strength, and with black space-time matter flowing on his body, it looks extremely ferocious.
And Grantham once again showed his little mouse.
Ferdinand couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, feeling angry and amused.
He didn't expect Grantham to look down on him so much. Although the smaller the size of a space-time creature, the easier it is to control, if it is too small, it will inevitably have a great disadvantage in strength.
Grantham actually used such a small space-time creature to fight against him. He was not confused.
"Are you sure you want to fight with it? Once the original space-time creature dies, it will also cause certain damage to the operator. You should be very clear about this." Meredith reminded him kindly.
But Ferdinand obviously didn't want to give Grantham any chance to regret. Before Grantham responded, he had already controlled this hound-like space-time creature to rush towards the little mouse in front of him!
He obviously wanted to take the initiative and bite the little mouse to death directly to end the battle as soon as possible.
Meredith couldn't help but frown. He saw that Ferdinand had no intention of holding back at all, and at this time Meredith didn't know whether to stop him.
However, the next second, a scene that shocked Meredith appeared.
The little mouse actually jumped up at a very fast speed and dodged the attack of the hound. Not only that, the little mouse evaded and moved around the hound with ease, and his movements were extremely flexible!
And every time the little mouse passed by the hound, it could always bite off a lot of space-time matter.
It can be clearly seen that although the hound is very fierce, its movements are half a beat slower, and each attack is very clumsy. It has no way to deal with this flexible little mouse, while this little mouse can always easily avoid the attack and find the best time to counterattack.
The battle between these two space-time creatures is like a strong man without any fighting skills, who is played around by a fighting master, and has no strength but can't even touch the corner of the opponent's clothes!
Ferdinand's face instantly became ugly, because he didn't expect that this battle would be so one-sided.
But he still didn't give up, because this kind of battle gave him an illusion that as long as the space-time creature he controlled bit the little mouse, the battle would end instantly, which gave him a kind of illusory hope.
But soon this illusory hope was shattered. After the little mouse teased the hound-like space-time creature for a while, it suddenly attacked, bit the hound's throat from bottom to top at an extremely tricky angle, and drilled directly into the hound's body!
The hound almost lost control instantly, struggling madly and crashing into the surroundings. The space-time matter on his body seemed to boil and expand continuously, as if it was on the verge of losing control.
Ferdinand's face became extremely ugly. He tried his best to control the space-time creature, and even some space-time matter appeared on his body. This was because the loss of control of the space-time creature also had a certain impact on his body.
But even so, Ferdinand's attempt to regain control of the space-time creature completely failed, and the space-time creature soon became on the verge of losing control.
Just when Meredith wanted to kill the out-of-control space-time creature, the little mouse rushed out from the back of the space-time creature again, ending the life of the space-time creature.
With a "puff", Ferdinand sprayed a lot of black space-time matter from his mouth.
Then he forcibly suppressed these space-time matter back.
Obviously, the death of this original space-time creature caused him some trauma. Although there was only a third-level energy fluctuation, once this deep connection was damaged, it would still have a serious impact on the operator.
Meredith, who was standing aside and witnessed the whole process, was completely stunned.
He did not expect that this battle would be a completely one-sided crushing situation.
It stands to reason that both sides used space-time creatures with third-level energy fluctuations. Although these two space-time creatures have differences in speed, skills, strength and other aspects, the overall difference will not be very large. The reason for this disparity is entirely the difference in the control of the space-time creatures by both sides.
In other words, Grantham's affinity and control ability for space-time creatures are far higher than his opponent's, so he can resolve the battle so cleanly.
Ferdinand's eyes are still full of disbelief. He can't believe that Grantham has completely crushed him in terms of affinity for space-time creatures.
It can even be said that in terms of controlling space-time creatures, the skills shown by Grantham have surpassed all the priests Ferdinand knows. This can be said to be an incredible phenomenon.
After a moment of stunned silence, Meredith hurriedly praised: "Mr. Grantham, your ability to control space-time creatures really opened my eyes. It seems that the red priest favors you for a reason. I have benefited a lot from this visit. I hope that we can discuss more synaesthesia knowledge in the future."
Chen She controlled Grantham and nodded with a smile. "Of course, popularizing synaesthesia knowledge for everyone is the mission left to us by Lord Epsilon."
He could clearly feel that Meredith's attitude towards him became closer. After all, in the Space-Time Knights, a strong affinity and synaesthesia for space-time creatures is not only a reflection of future combat power, but also a necessary condition for mastering the right to speak in the Space-Time Knights.
After becoming the top leaders of the Space-Time Knights, there will be almost no fatal conflicts between them. At this time, whoever has a strong affinity and synesthesia for space-time creatures will also have greater power.
Meredith seemed to have seen that Grantham, the rising star, was rising. Just relying on this strong affinity for space-time creatures, it means that the strength of the branch led by Grantham will continue to grow, and even this model will be popularized in all branches in the future.
Meredith has clearly felt the gap between himself and Grantham, so he has become more respectful and friendly.
As for Ferdinand, he obviously has a lot of reluctance. But in this battle of space-time creatures, he was indeed beaten without any ability to fight back. Realizing that there is indeed a world of difference between himself and Grantham in this aspect, although his energy fluctuation level is very high and his strength is very strong, he cannot get angry and start in this situation.
He can only swallow his anger and temporarily retreat to the defensive.
Chen She controlled Grantham and took Meredith to continue walking inside.
Meredith found that some of these followers were trying to control space-time creatures, and the control method seemed to be exactly the same as Grantham's method, but it was very different from the traditional methods of other branches.
This is enough to show that the branch of the Space-Time Knights in Dawn City seems to have mastered a special method of controlling space-time creatures, and the effect is much better than the traditional method.
In addition, there are some people who did not train in synesthesia, but instead trained in physical fitness and shooting techniques.
These people do not seem to have any synesthesia, but genetic or mechanical pathways.