Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 277 - 097. Give them a taste of the Dominator System Shock

Chapter 277: 097. Give them a taste of the Dominator System Shock

Although DM-303 was effective instantly, the likelihood of encountering rare Arcane Energy significantly decreased. Li Aozi injected thousands of Arcane Awakening Elixirs, among which Alpha and Beta level Arcane Energies accounted for as much as 70%. Most of them were not usable or couldn’t match the current strength of Li Aozi.

Even under his current attribute stacking — which boasted a notably high 106.6 in Charm — a plain Beta-level Arcane Energy like Electric Discharge could manage to wield the effect of a thunder strike. Yet, instead of painstakingly uncovering its potential, it was better to crush it into Gene Fragments and feed it to something more useful.

However, there were indeed some surprises.

Within seven days, Li Aozi combined formulas from his memory and the summaries of absolutely dedicated players, and integrated several useful or potentially promising Arcane Energies:

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"Pegasus Power": Lambda-level (Λ, the eleventh Greek letter) Arcane Energy, double benefits in Constitution and Charm. The fantastical Pegasus is graceful and handsome yet immensely powerful. It’s said that the chariots of the gods are pulled by them.

Arcane Performance:

Active Activation — Majestic wings of a Pegasus appear on your back, your physique becomes more robust, and you lose your individual ’weight’, meanwhile your flight is unaffected by air resistance.

Passive State — You will receive the blessing of the Pegasus, the higher your Charm attribute, the lower the damage from ’divine’ targets;

"The sight of Pegasus galloping across the galaxy is known to mortals as ’Meteor’."

The origin of "Pegasus Power" is Sequence 98: Phantom Beast. Although it’s a lower-ranked Omega-level Arcane Energy, it matches very well with the attributes of the Meteor Fall Master pathway and can bolster Li Aozi’s fragile frame.

Oh, even though it’s Sequence 98, this one can still outclass the ’Bloodline’.

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"King’s Carriage Displacement": Kappa-level (κ, the tenth Greek letter) Arcane Energy, double benefits in Intelligence and Charm. There’s a special play in chess where each in a game the players have one chance to move their king and a rook at the same time, this is called castling.

Arcane Performance:

Active Activation — Creates an illusionary incarnation, within a 500-kilometer radius, you can switch places with it at any time.

Passive State — Increases 10% Intelligence bonus.

"A delightful game requires my joy and the opponent’s breakdown."

"King’s Carriage Displacement" is a very practical Arcane Energy. Li Aozi specifically upgraded it to Kappa-level to reduce its cooldown to 3 minutes. With this, a three-minute positional swap is enough for him to cause a major stir at the Nine Dragons Gathering.

"King’s Carriage Displacement" is essential in professional competitions, every Professional Brother has one. Even if not part of the Dominator System, they specifically add an Arcane Energy.

Simply put, this Arcane Energy is far too useful.

Such immense life-saving ability equates to an additional Death Exemption Token, enhancing error tolerance to the maximum, or like a dogfight in aerial combat, always managing to get behind the opponent. Many brilliant maneuvers and last-minute turnarounds are executed using "King’s Carriage Displacement".

But compared to what comes next, the dramatic effect of "King’s Carriage Displacement" doesn’t seem like much.

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"Death Link": Rho-level (Ρ, the seventeenth Greek letter) Arcane Energy, double benefits in Constitution and Charm. You have mastered the patterns of death and begun to play with this universally equal end—now, you are truly an artist.

Arcane Performance:

Active Activation — You may select several targets, and if by judgment, you can bind their "death" together.

Passive State — Any damage you receive that exceeds your maximum health points will not take effect immediately; 55% of it will be converted into a "fading" effect and will be slowly deducted over 15 seconds.

"I’m playing with death, are you mad?"

Originally just a Delta-level Arcane Energy, Li Aozi forcefully elevated it to Rho level, which, for him, was the most shameless and outrageous Arcane Energy in the early stages.

At first glance, linking death effects might seem to only kill a person and then transfer the damage received to others; it seems quite useless.

Indeed, this Arcane Energy is so common that only assassins use it, and it’s not even valued or effective.

After all, if you are looking for mass destruction, isn’t it easier to just drop a nuclear bomb?

True, but there’s a problem with nuclear bombs: they can’t cause effective damage to underground fortifications.

And the most outrageous aspect of the \"Death Link\"... it has no range limit, nor does it have any sort of ’barrier.’

Notice its text description: select several targets.

No distance, no upper limit on numbers, no obstructions, no restrictions on species or categories.

That is, theoretically, the Rho-level \"Death Link,\" if judged successfully, can let you select any target.

Living people, corpses, stones, cars, houses, warships, even planets.

On the other hand, Li Aozi knew a very advanced way to use this Arcane Energy:

Choose to use it on oneself, transferring one’s own ’death’ to the target you intend to bind with so that if you receive fatal damage, that target will bear the damage instead of you.

This technique is particularly suitable for roles like \"Mechanic,\" \"Biochemist,\" \"Summoner,\" and \"Spirit Medium,\" who have many minions and pets; it’s a strong damage-absorbing skill.

For Li Aozi, the formal appearance of \"Death Link\" meant that his ’Blood Demon Style’ was fully constructed.

In his past life, a Mutant player had a wild idea to combine the common Arcane Energies \"Life Absorption\" and \"Death Link.\"

The result was not only consecutive victories in single combat but also increased effectiveness in one-against-many situations, and, unless specifically targeted by \"Biochemists,\" it was easy for a group of people to gang up on a Blood Demon Style Mutant and get slowly worn down to death.

\"Severing Life\" drains life and deals percentage damage while \"Death Link\" provides damage transfer and area damage.

Even more sinisterly, you could choose to set yourself on fire right from the start and then bind yourself with the opposite side.

Since \"Death Link\" only transfers the death effect and damage, and does not consider healing and health regeneration, the result is that your own rapidly dropping health is transferred to your opponent, while the life lost by the opponent is absorbed by \"Life Absorption.\"

However, the perceptive quickly noted that this tactic, if lacking high-damage Arcane Energies like \"Spontaneous Combustion,\" lacked explosive power yet was absolutely accessible and could turn a close-quarters spellcaster Mutant into a Heavy-Armored Warrior.

"The Nine Dragons Gathering is about to open; it’s time to come out of the mountains."

Li Aozi’s top-tier ’Blood Demon Style’ is about to give a small, Dominator System shock to the arrogant People of Sky Ring.