Chapter 133 Spirit Tentacles

Suren dragged Yuta along as they ran, looking slightly disheveled, but he wore a relieved and relaxed expression on his face.

Because he had been prepared, the quick kill plan hadn't gone wrong.

This time, he had successfully hunted a fourth-tier Mind Flayer Lord, and his third-tier alchemical implant finally had a home. He had achieved his greatest goal in coming to the Northern Ice Plains.

Suren was naturally in a good mood.

Although the raging Hell Ratchet behind him was a bit of a problem, the monster's main body was almost immobile. As long as they avoided the tentacles that emerged from the ground, there was no danger.

Because they had prepared an escape route in advance, Suren and Yuta ran out of the swamp smoothly.

They ran into a dense forest and stopped.

The ground here was solid, and even if the monster's tentacles could reach, they would be easily spotted.

...

The two gasped for breath. Yuta caught the relaxed expression on Suren's face and asked with a smile, "Did you succeed?"

"Yes!"

Suren nodded.

Without the Dalu tribe's information and Yuta risking her life with him, he wouldn't have gotten this great opportunity.

The Mind Flayer was the most ideal material for Spiritual Tentacles. He was very much looking forward to seeing what amazing effects the successfully refined implant would have. The refinement of this implant was very special, and it had to be done while the Mind Flayer's brain cells weren't completely dead.

He didn't dare delay. "Let's go find a safe place. I need to refine the implant as soon as possible."

Yuta smiled, revealing her little fangs. "Okay."

Before long, the two found a wolf den cave.

Yuta scouted the vicinity and found no traces of high-level magical beasts.

Only then did Suren feel relieved.

Because the main material was hard to find, the refinement process of the implant couldn't be disturbed and didn't allow for any mistakes.

Yuta could also tell that this implant was very important to Suren. She didn't disturb him and thoughtfully stood guard outside the cave.

The corpse was still fresh, and Suren didn't dare waste any more time. He took out the Mind Flayer's body.

Because the other ingredients were prepared in advance, he could start at any time.

Once the Eight-Armed Spider Spear was released, a fusion formation needed for refining the implant was drawn on the ground.

The fiery red hexagram formation lit up. Suren held a scalpel and precisely removed the Mind Flayer's complete brain. Then, following the refinement sequence on the blueprint that he knew by heart, he began refining the implant.

Before long, a flickering orange-red light shone in the huge cave.

This refinement lasted three days and three nights.

...

Spiritual implants were very niche, very troublesome to refine, and required a lot of energy.

Fortunately, Suren was proficient in all areas of forging, so he could refine it alone.

He was now multitasking, doing the work of seven or eight people.

He himself was a master craftsman, rune master, enchantment master, material analysis master... One person was worth an entire large forging team.

His super-strong mind control allowed him to form the implant in an orderly manner.

Finally, on the evening of the third day.

Suren looked at the finished product floating in the alchemical light and smiled with satisfaction.

It was a translucent tentacle implant that looked like a jellyfish.

[Mind Flayer's Spiritual Tentacles]

Details: Dark Gold Quality Alchemical Implant; Third-Order Containment Value Rating S+ or higher, Fourth-Order A+, Spirit Power no less than 750, Aberrant Mutation Rate less than 5%; After fusion, gain the ability of Spiritual Tentacles, Spirit Magic Resistance +88, Spirit Strength +70%, Spirit Magic Penetration +10%, Neural Reaction Speed +22%, Intelligence +5%, Brain Development +0.3%;

"Tsk tsk... The fusion conditions are very demanding."

Suren identified the attributes of the implant, and his eyes couldn't hide his joy.

Some of the attributes of this finished implant were even better than he had expected.

Spiritual resistance and spiritual spell penetration were very practical spell ability improvements. After the successful fusion of this implant, the mental control effect he wanted to achieve would be even more perfect.

At first, Suren just wanted to get a third-tier spiritual lord monster, but he didn't expect to encounter a fourth-tier Mind Flayer.

Under normal circumstances, he would have to use materials to downgrade the implant to "Gold Quality" or "Silver Quality" to ensure that he wouldn't mutate after fusion.

But because his own spiritual power had already mutated, he had super high spiritual power. This was just enough to meet the fusion conditions that he would normally only meet at the fourth tier.

It could be considered a blessing in disguise.

Suren looked at the newly made Spiritual Tentacles implant, meditated to recover his dark spirit power for a while, and then immediately began the fusion.

He arranged a hexagram alchemical array, pure crystals were placed on the six star points, mysterious patterns were drawn with mercury and lizard powder, and the entire array was activated with the Mind Flayer's blood.

Suren stood in the center of the hexagram array. He picked up the implant in his hand and chanted, "Following the law of equivalent exchange of all things, praising the glory of the original creator, witnessing the miracle of creation with alchemy..."

A burning light covered the entire cave, and a wonderful fusion reaction was taking place violently.

This wasn't the first time Suren had fused with an implant, so he was calm. His body also had enough tolerance, and even though the process of fusing with the spiritual implant was drowsy, he successfully fused with it.

Two hours later, the light of the fusion array completely dissipated, and Suren suddenly opened his eyes from meditation, "It's done!"

As expected, he had perfectly fused with this tentacle implant.

Suren couldn't wait to try out his new ability. He pinched the double surgeon seal and whispered, "Implant Release!"

In the next instant, a white hexagram array lit up from under his feet, and Suren immediately felt a difference.

The Spiritual Tentacles were invisible and had no physical form.

But Suren could still see a faint white halo surrounding his entire body in the mirror.

He also clearly felt the invisible tentacles that he could control at will, just like his spider spears!

The tentacles could be thick or thin. Suren condensed a strand of spiritual power into the shape of a hand. Then, he tried to pick up a stone on the ground.

A magical scene immediately happened before his eyes.

The stone floated up from the ground as if it were defying gravity, slowly rising to in front of his face.

"Spiritual Telekinesis..."

Suren's eyes narrowed slightly.

Although it felt very difficult, he couldn't hide the joy in his eyes.

"Spiritual Telekinesis" and "Qi Telekinesis" were completely different.

Because qi was a physical entity, professionals who knew a little bit about controlling qi would have some knowledge of it, such as sword qi, saber qi, and shock waves.

But the means of sensing spiritual power were completely untouchable by normal people.

To put it simply, it ignored obstacles and couldn't be blocked!

Qi left traces that could be blocked, but spiritual power left no trace.

If this ability was developed well, it would definitely be a great weapon for killing people invisibly.

But now it was obviously just the beginning.

Suren held the stone for a while, wanting to move it further away, but it was as if a child was holding a heavy object, unable to bear the weight.

With a "clang," the stone fell to the ground uncontrollably.

But even so, Suren was very satisfied.

If his spiritual power became stronger in the future, his ability to control objects from a distance would also become stronger.

However, telekinesis was just an extra for the Spiritual Tentacles implant.

What Suren really wanted to care about was the ability of the tentacles to control living beings!

...

"Huff... I've never looked forward to anything so much."

Suren's eyes were deep, and he muttered to himself, "I hope it works..."

He formed the double surgeon seal again and released the Thousand Threads implant.

At this time, strands of light blue silk thread floated out of his hand.

Suren tried to use his spiritual tentacles to climb onto the silk threads, and they spread over smoothly.

"As expected, this idea is feasible!"

Suren was overjoyed at the successful attempt.

He had tried it before. The hair of witches was a very good conductor of spiritual power.

He thought that the combination of hair and tentacles would produce an amazing qualitative change.

Sure enough, he succeeded!

It was like installing some wires on a battery. He could transmit the "current" to a farther place.

This would instantly increase the control distance of his spiritual tentacles several times, dozens of times!

It also became controllable, penetrating, precise, stable, and not easy to collapse!

This was also one of the most important reasons why he chose this implant for advancement.

Implants should not only fit the profession, but the combination of multiple functions would also explosively stack the practical performance of the implant and produce some wonderful effects.

This was also why those ancient families had their own set of exclusive "advancement sequences." After thousands of years of trial and error, they tried out certain combinations of implants and occupation materials that could exert the greatest combat power.

While his thoughts were still racing, Suren immediately planned to put it into practice.

At this moment, he took out a living corpse from his storage space.

Then, he carefully touched a thread attached with spiritual tentacles to the nerve on the back of the living corpse's head.

He had previously read various human anatomy diaries of Forensic Gerald in detail, and now he knew almost everything about the human nervous system.

At that moment of spiritual tentacle contact, Suren immediately felt like he was holding a Transformer in his hand, which he could play with at will.

He transmitted a "control signal" to raise his arm in his mind, and the living corpse raised one arm as expected!

Moreover, it wasn't clumsy because it was the first time. He tried various controls very skillfully.

Because, when Suren killed the Mind Flayer three days ago, he also peeled off the "Spiritual Tentacle Control Experience" in that monster's soul!

The Mind Flayer's ability to control any intelligent creature was a mythical bloodline talent. Although Suren couldn't peel off the talent, he also peeled off its usage experience.

He had sufficient proficiency in how to control it.

Under Suren's control, the living corpse in front of him began to perform various complex movements.

The movements were as smooth as a living person, without any stiffness at all.

It didn't look like a puppet on a string at all!

If one wasn't enough, then two, three, four...

Suren didn't even need to hook his fingers to control the threads like before. Those living corpses perfectly made the same movements as the "control signals" he sent out.

Nerve signals precisely mobilized muscles, controlling the surge of spiritual power...

"Now my Puppet Master profession is really taking off."

Suren's eyes trembled.

Seeing this, he truly saw that the path he had planned for his future was feasible.

One thread controlled one living corpse. The controllability of the puppet legion was finally coming!

Although it seemed that he was controlling living corpses before and now, the essence was completely different.

Before, it was physical control. He needed to control hundreds of threads to control the living corpse and make it make the desired movements. But because it was external force control, some movements were greatly restricted, and the flexibility of the living corpse was very poor.

Now, only one thread was needed to directly make the living corpse truly come alive.

It was as flexible as his own shadow.

This also meant that Suren had freed up a lot of threads and could control more puppets at the same time!

This also meant that the living corpses controlling the scythe were no longer stiff, and the chance of hitting the target was greater; the heavy mecha no longer needed countless threads, one thread could solve it, and it was more flexible...

...

Before long, the entire cave was filled with various blue-skinned living corpses.

They were like a banquet, some dancing, some beating time, some...

Although there was only one living person, it was very lively.

Suren enjoyed such a terrifying scene.

He gradually became familiar with the control skills of the new implant Spiritual Tentacles, and also tried out some shortcomings.

For example, the control distance, the farther the distance, the more inaccurate the signal transmission would be.

Also, he who had previously thought that the ability of multitasking was enough, suddenly felt that it was not enough!

One thread could control one living corpse. No matter how much he distracted himself, it wouldn't be more than the number of threads.

But these were not big problems. In the future, when his spiritual power increased, these would slowly improve.

"Tsk tsk..."

Suren was very satisfied with his new ability.

However, although this Spiritual Tentacle was strong, it also had a problem, that was, it could only control living bodies.

Now, in addition to the living corpse controlling the black scythe, the other puppets were all wooden or mechanical.

This Spiritual Tentacle couldn't exert its strongest combat power in a short time.

"When will I be able to get Raphael Duke's 'Neural Mechanical Technology' and create a mechanical puppet legion, that's when it will really take off..."

Suren looked at the mechanical armor that could be easily controlled by stuffing a living corpse into it, and sighed in his heart.

Now that he had taken the first step, the future was promising.

...

Before long, Suren collected the living corpse group and finally walked out of the cave for the first time in three days.

As soon as he walked out of the soundproof barrier, he heard movement. It was Yuta, who was guarding on a tree branch.

Yuta obviously also found him and jumped down from the tree excitedly.

She looked at Suren, who had a happy expression on his face, "Mr. Suren, did you successfully fuse with the implant?"

"Yes."

Suren nodded and looked at her, "Thank you for your hard work these past few days."

Yuta smiled gently and didn't care that she had been on the tree for a few days.

She didn't mention this topic and instead asked with concern, "Suren seems to be in a good mood now. Is the new implant very powerful?"

She was also very curious about what it would be like to refine a monster like the Mind Flayer into an implant. After all, that was an evil creature that even the clan leader thought was helpless.

"Want to see it?"

Suren smiled and suddenly thought of something. He raised his hand and pointed slightly.

Yuta blinked her eyes and was a little curious, thinking she would see something.

But suddenly, she was surprised to find that her hand was uncontrollably raised?

Suren didn't dare to try it directly on Yuta's main nerve, but only cut off the nerve signal transmission of her arm, controlling her to make the movement of raising her arm.

"Huh..."

Yuta uttered a soft cry and immediately understood something, greatly shocked, "This is that monster's control ability!"

"Yes."

Suren nodded with a smile and asked, "How do you feel?"

Yuta thought for a while and said, "I can feel the spiritual power invading. Hmm... If I rely on my will, I should be able to break free from the control."

"Yes."

Suren nodded, lost in thought.

The Mind Flayer had a mythical bloodline talent and could control many spiritual puppets.

Suren himself was a human being, so even if his spiritual power reached the same level as it, the effect would be much worse.

He estimated that he could now control third-tier, or even fourth-tier, professionals with all his strength.

But the degree of control was hard to say.

The target's spiritual power, willpower, equipment, and other factors would all affect the control effect.

The more dispersed they were, the harder it would be to control.

Some specific data still needed a lot of practice to try.

However, it was not a big problem.

Suren originally wanted to use this implant to control living corpses.

...

It was already evening when Suren came out, and the two didn't plan to travel in the forest at night.

Yuta seemed to have prepared prey for Suren to come out, it was a cheetah. Before long, golden, oily barbecue was fragrant on the campfire.

The quiet primitive jungle had birds and flowers, which was a suitable scene for a tryst.

The two hadn't seen each other for a few days, so they were affectionate for a while, and the red firelight outlined a graceful and wild figure.

Yuta asked, "Where are we going next?"

Suren thought for a while and said, "I want to go to 'Curse Valley' and see."

He now knew that a troop of the Luyin Empire was already in the ruins, and also roughly knew the situation there. Although it was dangerous, now that he had new methods, his ability to protect himself was stronger.

It was natural to go and see such a large ancient ruin.

Moreover, Mr. Jing had also asked him to confirm some things.

Yuta listened and nodded, "Okay."

She also had the idea of going to see if there were any hopes left by the Dalu ancestors in the ruins that could revitalize the clan, just like her ancestors.