Mountain Sitting Immortal
Chapter 406 - 406: Special Vs Additive Bloodline Enhancement.

The comment made Arthur chuckle and say, "Let's just hope that I don't have to prove them right."

Thor wagged his eyebrows and said, "And your voice, I don't think I've ever heard you speak like that. It was cool and deep. You were like "fire and brimstone."

He even copied Arthur's voice and imitated his posture when Arthur made that statement. The sight cheered Arthur up.

Then Thor said, "I don't ask for much. As long as you can replicate this scene when you face Princess later, I will be very satisfied."

Arthur could only shake his head in pity for Princess and say, "She messed with the wrong vengeful person."

The two of them chatted amidst grass that was now almost one meter in length. They joked with each other as if 13 people hadn't nearly had their legs and thighs crushed to pieces.

But the people on the field couldn't forget what had just happened. It was a memorable event that couldn't be forgotten so soon.

The disciples were talking about it for a while. Even the elders that were far above them in the air were also talking about the display of power.

Elder Calcetti's eyes in particular looked about to pop out of his skull because of the shock. The shock he had felt when he sensed the power of Augustus's outburst was so great that it exploded his mind, stunned him mentally, and threatened to push away the eyes in his socket.

He murmured, "That's not normal at all. Is his divine strength so great?"

The supreme elder of the family, who happens to be the nominal leader of the Dyson and the strongest person in the family on the surface, chuckled and said to Calcetti with some jest, "Don't be surprised yet. That's just his normal state of power."

Elder Calcetti turned to the leader of the family and asked in shock, "What? There's more?"

The leader shook his head in pity and said, "Don't forget that he is not at the third mortal coil yet and hasn't fused with his armament. That means that outburst was just his normal state without any amplification, and he can still fuse with an armament to increase his power."

"When he fuses with his armament, his power will be greater. And from what I can sense, that armament appears to be made from the corpse of a rank 3 beast. So the boost to his power should be more than double."

Elder Calcetti cursed, "Fuck."

Then he quickly apologized to the leader. "I'm sorry about that."

He was apologizing for cursing like that in front of the leader of the family and someone who was like his grandfather.

The leader didn't mind the cursing. He even chuckled and said, "It is alright. I can tell that your emotions are not stable. It is perfectly understandable. I was like that when I first saw him 20 years ago. I just couldn't wrap my head around him."

Elder Calcetti's emotions were truly in disarray. The light intensity of his glowing hair was fluctuating wildly, which goes to show that his emotions were not stable.

He tried to understand how Arthur could be so strong. He knew Arthur was stronger than his peers even before he entered the sect. This was made evident by the extraordinary strength that Arthur displayed during the regional sect examination 25 years ago.

At that time, Arthur was just at the tenth transformation of the first mortal coil, but he could already fight enemies that were twice as strong as him. Arthur's body was also strong enough to match those of cultivators at the third mortal coil without using life force.

These two things were already impressive, but Elder Calcetti didn't think that Arthur's extraordinary power would continue to increase. In fact, he thought that Arthur's strong body would lose its advantage by the third mortal coil.

He thought that Arthur's advantage in terms of power was physical and it was temporary because this is how such benefits usually are.

There are various types of abilities gained from the awakening of bloodlines from long-lost and long-forgotten ancestors. But abilities that grant physical enhancement, like Arthur's, are usually additive.

Being additive means that they grant an additional piece of strength that doesn't change. If that were the case for Arthur, it would mean that at the tenth transformation of the first mortal coil, his divine strength gave him an advantage of +10 to his strength.

+10 to strength is a lot of power at the first mortal coil, as it represents a 100% increase to power. But at the third mortal coil, where the foundation is capable of different kinds of things, +10 will fall to just a 50% boost in power. NovelFire is the home of this chapter

The foundation of Elder Calcetti, for example, increases the speed of his energy attacks. His energy attacks become so fast that a +10 boost to his power will surely account for less than 50% of his power.

This drop is the best-case scenario for Arthur's divine strength. Things will get only worse when he reaches the fourth mortal coil.

Things will get worse at the fourth mortal coil because at that point, the strength of the bodies of cultivators can reach 100 points. So a boost of +10 will only count for a measly increase of 10%.

This is usually the fate of bloodlines that enhance power directly. They continue to lose their influence as the individual grows stronger.

This gradual decline in the significance of the help of bloodlines is normal. After all, the individual is already growing strong enough to become capable of matching the ancestor who the bloodline came from in the first place.

Surely, a bloodline can't make someone stronger than the source of the bloodline. It can only grant a special advantage at the beginning of cultivation.

Only bloodlines that grant special attacks like Princess's spiritual attack and special talents like Thor's ability to communicate with metals will be able to maintain their usefulness and significance right until the individual becomes as strong as the ancestor who the bloodline came from.