Virus King - Chapter 141

Chapter 141: Darklight Awakening Progress: 10%! New Abilities!

TL: YYang

Chen Bai’s eyes calmly opened.

However, his eyes had no whites, nor any visible movement of pupils, as if the entire eyeballs had been hollowed out.

What remained was only darkness.

Soon, a thread of black and red mycelium carpet slowly emerged.

Subsequently, an eerie red-glowing pupil gradually took shape and surfaced within.

Chen Bai exhaled deeply and glanced at the time. This breakthrough in awakening was significantly faster than the previous one.

It made sense. This time, he was breaking through to 10% awakening progress, whereas the previous breakthrough was only at 1%.

The first time adapting to the immense power of the Darklight Virus indeed took considerably longer.

A sour and aching sensation coursed through his cells and blood, but the overwhelming strength from rapid enhancement made him momentarily struggle to control his power.

He did not attempt to get up but continued lying on the bed, feeling the changes in his strength. He began acclimating to this surge of power while also turning his attention back to the evolution of the Darklight Virus!

[Darklight Virus: Initial Awakening in Progress. Current Awakening Level: 10%! To evolve further and increase the awakening progress by +1%, 20 evolution points are required. Evolution points can be spent to unlock other evolutionary branches of the Darklight Virus.]

[Strength +150, Agility +150, Constitution +150, Spirit +120, Health Recovery Rate +500%!]

(PS: The current level cannot sustain perfect control over the continual enhancement of the Darklight Virus. Awakening progress can only proceed after a profession transfer!)

The attribute enhancements were not extraordinarily exaggerated.

At this level, the Darklight Virus’s power extended far beyond mere attribute increases!

Upon reaching 10% evolution, Chen Bai finally saw new, faintly obscure options emerge on the talent tree of the Darklight Virus!

The talent tree expanded further, opening up new abilities that could now be unlocked!

Chen Bai focused his consciousness on these abilities. Instantly, various talent branches appeared within his perception.

[Aerial Dash: Perform a mid-air dash by leveraging force in mid-air. Movement speed depends on Agility and Constitution. Activation requires 50 evolution points. Requires ‘Wall-Running’ and ‘Elven Speed’ to activate.]

[Devour Camouflage: Utilize muscle cells to transform into the humanoid form of a devoured lifeform. Activation requires 50 evolution points. Requires ‘Combat Intuition’ to activate.]

[Thermal Tracking: Use the Darklight Virus to sense and track any lifeform. Activation requires 50 evolution points.]

[Claw Form: Condense the Darklight Virus to transform both hands into clawed forms! In this form, Agility gained from the Darklight Virus increases by +50%. The claws possess extremely high sharpness! While in this form, hand equipment and weapons cannot be used. Activation requires 75 evolution points. Requires activation of ‘Wall-Running,’ ‘Elven Speed,’ ‘Combat Intuition,’ ‘Aerial Dash,’ and ‘Thermal Tracking.’]

[???: ??????] (Details unlockable after profession transfer.)

“Hiss!”

Even though Chen Bai had mentally prepared himself, he couldn’t help but draw in a sharp breath.

The enhancement brought by the Darklight Virus was undoubtedly the most significant boost to combat capability imaginable.

Each of these abilities maximized combat effectiveness.

But then there was the Claw Form…

Its effect was truly extraordinary.

Under this form, the Darklight Virus granted a +50% increase to Agility.

This meant that in the current state, unlocking Claw Form would directly boost Agility by 75 points.

However, there was a catch: in this state, hand equipment and weapons could not be used.

Hand equipment was one thing, but he had just completed crafting his Biochemical Disaster weapon.

More importantly, the effects of the Biochemical Disaster actually seemed to surpass those of the Claw Form.

Yet, compared to Biochemical Disaster, the Claw Form undeniably held greater potential for growth.

In the future, its impact would likely be even greater.

Fortunately, Biochemical Disaster could evolve into a Soul Weapon through killing.

Once it became a Soul Weapon, there would be no need for excessive concern.

Of course, Chen Bai understood that worrying about this now was somewhat premature.

The Claw Form’s unlocking conditions were so stringent, and since he didn’t need it immediately, there was no rush to unlock it just yet…

Thinking this, Chen Bai shifted his focus and checked his evolution points once more.

Earlier, progressing from 8% to 9% awakening consumed 19 points.

Reaching the threshold of 10% required an even greater expenditure—25 points in total.

Thus, after completing the evolution, he still had 160 evolution points remaining.

This was a considerable amount for the earlier Chen Bai.

But after seeing the evolution point costs required to unlock the new abilities, he no longer felt so well-off.

However, after noticing the potential feedback from the Darklight Virus, Chen Bai didn’t hesitate.

In an instant, his 160 evolution points dwindled to just 10 points!

Aerial Dash!
Devour Camouflage!
Thermal Tracking!

Three new talent abilities, fully activated!

The Darklight Virus relayed information about these new abilities from within his genes, prompting Chen Bai to exhale deeply.

The 10% awakening progress felt just about right.

With such attributes and abilities, he wouldn’t dare claim to be the strongest in the world just yet, but at this stage, Chen Bai was confident that few, if any, could surpass his attributes and skills. It was time to consider attempting the transfer to one of those SSS-Rank Professions!

Moving forward, his entire focus would be on this.

It was urgent!

Still, speaking of the Darklight Virus, why was there a gene-locked talent ability that required a profession transfer to be unlocked?

Virus Sovereign, as an SSS-Rank Talent, and clearly a combat-enhancing one, seemed to hold secrets even he didn’t know about!

Chen Bai wasn’t sure, but…

Everything would become clear after the profession transfer. He just hoped it wouldn’t disappoint him when the time came.

After adjusting to the changes in his body and power, Chen Bai got up from the bed. He didn’t rush to test out the three new abilities.

At the moment, the construction of White Emperor City seemed to be of even greater importance!