Chapter 153 Shadow Evolution

"Do you know who helped you make the contract with me?" Xia Shou asked.

Alice shook her head: "I don't know. A large part of my memory is gone, even my memory before I died is gone... I, I only remember that I... I was a maid."

Xia Shou felt Alice's hands on her neck begin to tremble slightly, and her voice trembled a little, as if recalling such things made her feel very uncomfortable.

"If you can't remember, don't think about it. It's not a big deal."

Xia Shou looked at the complex and exquisite magic circle on the ground and the unlit candles, and refocused his attention on the upcoming fusion ceremony.

As Alice analyzed, [Intelligence Defense] is the most useless skill at present, but what skill should it be fused with?

This time, the skills, unlike the blood skills last time, have extremely high affinity, and no one knows what they will fuse together.

Without the skills obtained from the blood demon, the only thing that can be used in battle is mirror magic.

Mirror magic is indeed very strong, but that is for the mirror magician who has no price.

For someone like Xia Shou who would be snapped by the Split Shears after using a teleport, the effect is similar to that of the Seven Wounds Fist.

The skill refresh effect of [Reaching the Peak in No One] cannot be fully exerted now, because the only skills with a cooldown are Seeking Death and Intelligence Defense.

Headache...

My own skill configuration is a bit too rubbish.

Before the skills lent to Su Weiyu were returned, Xia Shou started to feed the black shadow.

He has accumulated a lot of residues in this period of time. The one-time skills used in the Blood Demon House have become residues. The time when he killed Nierg in the bar also ground a lot of garbage skills.

He fed all the residues to the black shadow in one breath, and the progress bar of the black shadow's evolution appeared in front of him.

The residues generated by the consumption of a one-time skill are about ten, and the residues obtained by grinding subsequent skills can get about twenty for each skill. The total number of residues is more than one hundred.

As the residues are continuously invested, the progress bar of evolution is also constantly advancing.

10%...

23%...

38%...

Xia Shou has plenty of time, and feeding with scraps is much smoother and easier than swallowing.

After consuming a hundred scraps, the progress bar finally reached 100%, and a more detailed text appeared in front of Xia Shou.

[The black shadow's chewing ability has become stronger. It no longer chews slowly, which may cause many valuable foods to be chewed into pieces.

But the black shadow's enhanced digestive power also allows it to extract more complete nutrients from more rare ingredients. Food that was destined to become scraps in the past may become a power that can be used many times. ]

[Name: Black Shadow——? ? ? ]

[Introduction: It is your shadow. It eats garbage as fast as lightning, and can chew slowly when tasting delicacies. ]

[Current stage: Second stage]

[Effect: When swallowing a fourth-level monster (including extraordinary people), you can gain skills.

When swallowing a third-level monster, you can gain multiple skills, which will be converted into high-level scraps after use. (High-level residues combined with a large amount of low-level residues can directional reverse the optimization direction of skills)

When swallowing a level 2 monster, you can obtain a one-time skill, which will be converted into residue after use.

When swallowing a level 1 monster, you can only obtain residue. 】

[Cost: Unknown]

[Note: It may not be able to digest level 6 monsters. In addition, the swallowing result of the shadow may not be completely consistent with the effect. Sometimes the shadow will be in excellent condition, and sometimes it will have a poor appetite. 】

"This is much clearer." Xia Shou nodded frequently.

This ability to have text appear in front of his eyes should be his ability, because when Xia Shou was fighting An Gang Xiongwu, there was a very short period of time when he could not read the text he wanted to know in his heart.

But what is the effect of his ability?

Panel description?

Xia Shou silently said in his heart, showing the effect of my own ability in the form of text.

However, this time, the information he wanted to know did not appear in front of him.

"No, forget it." Xia Shou shook his head and stopped insisting.

He began to analyze the potential of Black Shadow in depth and think about the direction of his future strength development.

Now, it is more difficult to obtain skills. Except for swallowing level 4 monsters and extraordinary people, which can obtain permanent skills, monsters below level 4 can only provide "consumable skills", which will become residues after use.

So the idea of ​​frequently updating the skill library through swallowing can be stopped.

At this time, Xia Shou felt that he had foresight at the beginning. Before fighting An Gang Xiongwu, he did not let Black Shadow evolve, otherwise An Gang Xiongwu's [Superpower Bank] would definitely be chewed into dregs.

"Although the difficulty of obtaining skills by swallowing has increased, there is an additional way to obtain skills by using the bank, which can be regarded as making up for the reduction in the frequency of updates." Xia Shou said to Alice.

"Yes, I think this is a good thing. It can extract high-level residues and reverse the direction of skill optimization, making it more convenient to optimize skills. If the cost of [Reaching the Peak in No One] is reduced, you, Lord Xia Shou, will definitely become stronger." Alice encouraged, sincerely happy for Xia Shou.

"But the first thing to optimize must be the [Superpower Bank], the freezing period of this skill is too long."

If the depositor dies, the superpower will belong to Xia Shou, but the skill freezing period is as long as two months.

This waiting time makes Xia Shou very dissatisfied.

He must optimize this price!

Although he didn't expect to use the deceased's legacy immediately, he didn't want to wait for two months.

Unfortunately, he didn't have high-level residues, and even low-level residues were insufficient.

And there must be enough low-level residues in stock, because it is also necessary to consume residues to transform back to human from [Second Self: Blood Demon Mode].

If there are not enough residues, he can't transform back to human, and can only become a monster who has lost his mind.

Outside the balcony of the unfinished building, the setting sun coated the concrete floor with a layer of rough gold. Xia Shou sat on a spread sheet, and Alice with a smile floated behind him.

Xia Shou sat cross-legged on the ground, his hands on his knees, touching his chin, thinking quietly.

Alice said nothing and accompanied him silently.

Time passed by, and a skill return prompt appeared in front of Xia Shou.

"Wei Yu's skills are back." Xia Shou said, of course, Alice couldn't hear this sentence.

It was strange that when Alice was asleep, she seemed to be able to sense Su Weiyu's presence.

Xia Shou still remembered the time when Su Weiyu moved in and wanted to live in the same dormitory with him, and Alice used the method of pinching his neck to warn him of danger.

But when Alice woke up, she seemed to be completely unaware of Su Weiyu.

If you think arbitrarily, you can come to a simple and rough conclusion, but Xia Shou doesn't think that is the correct answer.

When asleep, it is not a human, and when awake, it is a human - is the truth really that simple?

"Let's start the ceremony first!" Xia Shou clenched his fists lightly to cheer himself up.

Just then, he suddenly heard a strange, sticky, and inhuman sound coming from the stairwell of the unfinished building.

It was human language, but mixed with chirping and gurgling, like the strange sound of mucus boiling and bubbling

"Chijiji... or... gurgling... should it be (starting)... for a while (ritual)... chirping... right."

It was imitating its own speech!

Xia Shou's pupils suddenly contracted.

Alice's hands suddenly clenched around his neck.

"Master Xia Shou, please ignore it and do your own thing. Don't let it disrupt your rhythm." Alice leaned over and whispered in Xia Shou's ear, in a voice so soft that it was almost inaudible.