CHAPTER 126: CHAPTER 42: ENHANCEMENT (DOUBLE-LENGTH CHAPTER)

Lady Inid walked over with a smile and naturally helped him straighten his clothes, whispering, "That’s good. If you need anything else, let me know anytime."

"I will," Su Ziyu nodded.

The dinner had some new faces, including three elves, two men and one woman, as well as a middle-aged human Su Ziyu had never seen before, sporting a lush beard, possibly a Druid.

After dinner, Su Ziyu returned to his place.

The Three Rich Sisters came by as usual for a visit, bringing some delicious snacks, but this time Melissa didn’t make sarcastic remarks, as Nicole had prepared a small cake for her.

Heh, women.

Did a little cake change your stance?

Su Ziyu watched Melissa, who had started to actively greet Nicole, shook his head, and directly closed the door.

He closed his eyes to access the data stream in his mind.

He began contemplating how to further strengthen his power; maintaining a focus on swordsmanship for melee and spiritual enhancement for ranged combat was essential.

Bullets were running low.

Spiritual energy was best further enhanced, ramped up to the level where it could be used in direct combat.

—"Spiritual Energy LV4"

After spending eight points of Source Power Value to elevate his spiritual energy to LV4, Su Ziyu felt his spiritual ability limit had increased significantly.

—"Static Field!"

—"Thunder Strike!"

A mass of data streamed various bits of knowledge into Su Ziyu’s mind, and pale blue electrical arcs danced all over his body at this moment.

"Static Field: Enhances one’s own static field, increases affinity and control over lightning, and reduces the consumption when using spiritual lightning."

"Thunder Strike: Consumes a significant amount of spiritual energy to launch a powerful thunder strike on the target!"

Each of these sub-abilities consumed 2 points of Source Power Value.

Except for some particularly powerful skills, ordinary sub-abilities only required 2 points of Source Power Value.

"There are still 6 points of Source Power Value remaining," Su Ziyu muttered.

Accumulating Source Power Value was difficult, but consuming it was swift, almost disappearing in a blink.

Sizzle.

Lightning flashed across Su Ziyu’s palms, and after enhancing these two abilities, his mastery over lightning seemed to have improved significantly, and the consumption when using spiritual lightning had reduced a lot. Currently, he focused primarily on spiritual lightning, while the enhancement of telekinesis had to wait because the current Source Power Value he acquired was limited.

Telekinesis enhancement paths were relatively rich, but the lethality was much weaker than the spiritual lightning branch.

The lethality of telekinesis was directly linked to the Spiritual Enhancement Level.

—"White Crow Swordsmanship LV3!"

Su Ziyu pondered, and still spent 4 points of Source Power Value to upgrade White Crow Swordsmanship to LV3, as melee enhancements were very useful for daily combat, and this aspect couldn’t lag behind.

He had 2 points of Source Power Value left.

As Su Ziyu was contemplating whether to spend the 2 points of Source Power Value now or save them for later, suddenly.

The data stream in his mind had some fluctuations, and on that massive skill tree, light dots emerged one after another.

"Authority achieved! Skill tree unlocked!"

A line made up of light dots connected to the ’Time Acceleration’ ability, then gradually linked to the ’Spiritual Lightning’ branch in the spiritual enhancement path, and a unique skill appeared at the top of the skill tree.

—"Divine Speed [Lightning Divinity]: Insufficient authority, insufficient divinity, spiritual enhancement not achieved, cannot unlock."

The transformation didn’t stop there.

From the just-illuminated ’White Crow Swordsmanship LV3’, a line of light dots extended, gradually linking to the spiritual enhancement branch, and turned into a light cluster at the top of the skill tree.

—"Spiritual Light Blade [Spiritual Master]: Insufficient authority, insufficient spiritual energy, related technology not acquired, cannot unlock."

Whoa!

Su Ziyu’s expression was probably like this—Σヽ(ﾟДﾟ;)ﾉ!

It seemed like as his accumulated authority level got higher, the abilities unlocked became more and more exaggerated, yet the prerequisites for unlocking them became increasingly demanding, with just the ’Lightning Storm’ enhancement route already draining all Su Ziyu’s reserves.

"Spiritual Light Blade? Does it even need technological unlocking?" Su Ziyu rubbed his head in mild frustration.

Currently, he could only detect one prerequisite for unlocking Spiritual Light Blade, which was that spiritual enhancement should reach LV6, a goal hard to achieve with normal monster farming, unless he managed to obtain another bit of Divinity Value somehow.

As for the ’Divine Speed’ at the top of the skill tree, Su Ziyu decided not to think about it for now.

"I still need to investigate how to obtain Divinity Value," Su Ziyu took a deep breath.

The first time he obtained Divinity Value was too unexpected.

Since then, Su Ziyu hadn’t encountered any monsters that dropped Divinity Value.

Slight arcs flickered and danced along his fingers.

Su Ziyu clenched his hand, dissipating the currents around him.

At present, he wasn’t feeling sleepy, so he might as well head to the garden to reflect on how to gather Divinity Value from evil god rituals.

However, looking for too powerful an evil god was unwise; it would be best to seek out those close to fading away.

The garden was quiet.

Su Ziyu had just arrived there when he saw Lady Judy sitting alone in a wicker chair not far away, having a drink. He greeted with a smile, "Why not asleep yet?"

"Can’t sleep." Lady Judy replied with a smile, raising her glass, "Care for a drink?"

Red wine he could handle a little.

Su Ziyu nodded, reached out for the glass, and sat beside Lady Judy.

Tonight Lady Judy wore a light red silk nightgown, appearing freshly bathed, her smooth long hair cascading down as she reclined leisurely enjoying the gentle night breeze.

"You’re quite different from other Demon Hunters." Lady Judy, tilting her head to study him, softly said, "Sometimes I really wonder if you’re a Demon Hunter."

Could he have unwittingly exposed something?

Su Ziyu’s hand holding the wine glass paused slightly, uncertain whether to respond.

"Have you truly lost emotional capacity?" Lady Judy leaned in a bit closer, her gaze rather tender, seemingly sympathetic. She reached out to gently touch Su Ziyu’s face, and as she made contact, it was as if she felt a slight shock, her fingers tingling a bit, and even her heartbeat skipped a half beat.

Among the Demon Hunters, some do suffer from emotional deficiencies, lacking certain emotions compared to ordinary people.

It might be familial love, romantic love, possibly even compassion, pain, pleasure, or more.

Su Ziyu didn’t answer, just shook his head.

A subtle fragrance captivated him, and his gaze involuntarily lingered on Lady Judy’s curvaceous form.

A soft laugh echoed.

"Seems like you haven’t," Lady Judy straightened her posture, stretched languidly, appearing quite proud and extremely charming.

She stood up and walked toward her room.

After taking about five or six steps, she suddenly turned back, flashing Su Ziyu an enigmatic smile, asking, "Fancy a game of Gwent Card?"

Gwent Card, huh?

Truth be told, it had been about two days since he last played.

Su Ziyu set down his wine glass and stood up, following Lady Judy with an easy pace into the room.

A night passed without words.

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