Chapter 441 - 253: Luminous Beauty Butterfly

Chapter 441: Chapter 253: Luminous Beauty Butterfly

But once injured, their Combat Will would activate, and they would instantly become terrifyingly savage,

giving them the strength to fight a gray wolf to the death!

Combat Will was a very broad and general concept.

If Combat Will weakened, it would become difficult to display one’s combat techniques, or even one’s combat instincts.

Furthermore, any entity that witnessed the Luminous Beauty Butterfly’s dance had a chance to fall into a Charmed state, pending a soul-based judgment.

When combined with the Skill Pearl Pity Soul Stealing, enemy targets in a Charmed state would be unable to damage the Luminous Beauty Butterfly itself.

They would become like empty shells, their souls blinded by beauty.

If a Guardian Beast contracted by a Guardian Beast Master fell under the Luminous Beauty Butterfly’s Charm effect,

it would react sluggishly to its master’s commands and have a high chance of breaking free from their control.

The Luminous Beauty Butterfly could also use its soul to launch a basic Soul Shock at an enemy.

This was an Ability that almost all Soul Element Guardian Beasts possessed.

However, when the Luminous Beauty Butterfly’s soul attack landed on a Charmed target,

it was a perfect case of being "cruel to be kind."

It could potentially push the Charmed target into a state of Deep Charm.

Once in a state of Deep Charm, these targets would obey the Luminous Beauty Butterfly’s commands,

becoming captives of beauty and affection!

They would fight to protect the Luminous Beauty Butterfly and win its favor.

With these two Skills alone, the Luminous Beauty Butterfly would become an absolute menace in battle, a major headache for any opponent.

Lowering Combat Will and inflicting Charm were not considered curses,

but they were far more troublesome than many curses!

As an Extraordinary Tier, Silver Quality Guardian Beast, this Luminous Beauty Butterfly not only had two Skills,

it also possessed two Exclusive Traits.

One of them, the Exclusive Trait Soul Butterfly Protection, was obtained upon advancing to Bronze Quality. It worked by charming enemy targets to release Soul Butterflies.

The number of Soul Butterflies it could release was equal to the number of Charmed enemy targets.

These Soul Butterflies could protect one’s soul, and Zhong Ling currently had no other means of soul protection.

While protecting Zhong Ling, the Guardian Beast Master, a large number of Soul Butterflies could also protect the other Butterfly Guardian Beasts under her control.

If not used for soul protection, these Soul Butterflies could restore the Luminous Beauty Butterfly’s own spent Soul Power,

allowing the Luminous Beauty Butterfly to continuously use Skill Pearl Butterfly Dance and Zhu Lian’s Soul Stealing, enabling it to handle battles of attrition with ease.

The Exclusive Trait Swarm of Butterflies, obtained when the Luminous Beauty Butterfly advanced to Silver Quality, further elevated its value.

Within a specified range, every Butterfly Guardian Beast could contribute its soul to the Luminous Beauty Butterfly.

These souls would increase the Luminous Beauty Butterfly’s own Soul Strength.

The Luminous Beauty Butterfly relied on its own Bloodline to inflict Charm on enemies, but success was determined by its Soul Strength.

The higher the Luminous Beauty Butterfly’s Soul Strength, the greater the chance the Charm would take effect.

The Blade Butterflies and Blade Princess Butterflies that Zhong Ling currently controlled were not Guardian Beasts that relied on their souls to fight.

Even if they contributed a part of their soul to the Luminous Beauty Butterfly, their combat performance would not be affected at all.

Liu Shu had clearly stated that this Luminous Beauty Butterfly was severely injured, on the verge of death, and could not recover.

Zhong Yi did not think he could save this Luminous Beauty Butterfly.

When the time came, the Luminous Beauty Butterfly would become one of the Undead Creatures controlled by Zhong Ling through her Rule Authority, Eternal Life of the Fallen Crown.

Undead Creatures controlled by Eternal Life of the Fallen Crown, even if killed and destroyed in battle, would not truly die.

This way, the Undead-transformed Luminous Beauty Butterfly would be able to safely return the soul contributions from the other Butterfly Guardian Beasts.

Seeing that Zhong Yi had decided to take this dying Luminous Beauty Butterfly, Liu Shu first pursed his lips, then said softly,

"I actually raised this Luminous Beauty Butterfly myself."

"To raise it, I spent nearly twenty thousand Divine Origin Value on materials alone."

"For you to trade for it... I suppose it’s finally found a good home."

"This booklet is full of all sorts of Butterfly Guardian Beasts. See if there are any that catch your eye."

Zhong Yi began to carefully look through the booklet in his hands.

After looking through the entire booklet, Zhong Yi decided that in addition to trading for the Luminous Beauty Butterfly for Zhong Ling,

he would also acquire a Butterfly Guardian Beast called the Cyan Gold Artisan Butterfly.

According to the booklet’s description, the Cyan Gold Artisan Butterfly was a special type of Butterfly Guardian Beast whose Bloodline could not be improved.

Furthermore, improving the Cyan Gold Artisan Butterfly’s Tier or Quality was extremely slow.

It also needed to be fed large amounts of Cyan Gold Ore.

As a Gold and Earth dual-attribute Butterfly Guardian Beast, the Cyan Gold Artisan Butterfly was similar to how the Gale Sky Flash Butterfly could use Incense Wind Butterfly Dance to increase the speed of other Butterfly Guardian Beasts.

The Cyan Gold Artisan Butterfly could Enchant the bodies of other Butterfly Guardian Beasts, increasing their physical hardness and the sharpness of their wings.

In the eyes of many Guardian Beast Masters who contracted Butterfly Guardian Beasts, the Cyan Gold Artisan Butterfly was mostly a very niche choice.

Firstly, it only had one function.

Secondly, most Butterfly Guardian Beasts did not rely on their physical bodies to fight.

But this Cyan Gold Artisan Butterfly would be an extremely good fit for Zhong Ling’s combat style for a long time to come.

With the Cyan Gold Artisan Butterfly enchanting the Blade Butterflies and Blade Princess Butterflies, their lethality could be greatly increased.

For now, choosing two support-type Butterfly Guardian Beasts for Zhong Ling was enough.

Once Zhong Ling achieved some success on the Virtual Source Network,

Zhong Yi would also have Zhong Ling choose a faction to join.

In the future, Zhong Ling could use the Divine Origin Value she earned to purchase Butterfly Guardian Beasts on the Virtual Source Network herself.

Zhong Yi then started looking through the other booklets that recorded all kinds of Guardian Beasts.

Because Zhong Yi used the Soul Taming Seed to form Contracts with Guardian Beasts, it meant he was not at all picky about the type of Guardian Beast.

Seeing that Zhong Yi didn’t mention wanting to pick any specific type of Guardian Beast, Liu Shu felt it was not his place to make any more recommendations.

Zhong Yi spent nearly an hour flipping through the eight booklets.

The variety of Guardian Beasts in the Pursuing Light Dragon Palace Treasure Vault was simply staggering!

Many of them were Production-type Guardian Beasts, capable of steadily producing resources.

These Production-type Guardian Beasts were a bit more expensive than Combat Types.

Because they were generally at the Mortal Beast Tier and either Unranked or Bronze Quality, even if their price was higher than Combat Types, very few Production-type Guardian Beasts exceeded five hundred Divine Origin Value.

It was true that Production-type Guardian Beasts could produce resources.

But for a Production-type Guardian Beast to produce resources, it also needed to be supplied with them.

For example, there was a Guardian Beast in the booklet called the Fire Crystal Magpie.

The special feathers produced by this Fire Crystal Magpie could effectively increase a Fire Attribute Guardian Beast’s affinity for its Element.

But for the Fire Crystal Magpie to grow these special feathers, it needed to be fed Middle Grade or higher Anomalous Fires.

The Exotic Fire Guardian Beast World had them, so there was no need to spend Divine Origin Value to buy them.

But a single Middle Grade Anomalous Fire cost several million Federation Coins.

Zhong Yi had not personally seen the special feathers a Fire Crystal Magpie produced after consuming a Middle Grade Anomalous Fire.

He could not be sure how much of a boost these feathers gave to a Fire Attribute Guardian Beast’s elemental affinity.

But from a general utility standpoint, it was not as good as the Elemental Activation Potion researched by Wu Qing.

The Elemental Activation Potion could increase the elemental affinity of all types of Elemental Guardian Beasts.

Zhong Yi did not plan on buying a Production-type Guardian Beast like the Fire Crystal Magpie right now, as its value was not particularly high and its utility was not very broad.

When Zhong Yi had more Divine Origin Value on hand later, he would consider buying some Production-type Guardian Beasts like the Fire Crystal Magpie.

Even with their drawbacks, these Production-type Guardian Beasts still represented the foundation and resources of a faction.

Right now, Zhong Yi only had a small amount of Divine Origin Value, so he had to spend it sparingly!

Zhong Yi had just gotten two great treasures from Liu Shu on credit; he could not possibly ask for Divine Origin Value on credit as well!