Its strength continued to rise, reaching 14 points before it stopped moving. The Salamander's head also stabilized at the eighth head, no longer increasing. However, a new bump had grown out of its back, and it was likely to become its ninth head.
Garon carefully observed the Salamander's way of existence. It seemed to be illusory, without a physical body. The Eight-Headed Salamander indeed did not have a physical body, and could not touch anything. However, when it appeared, the Salamander's abilities that he could use would greatly increase. Its strength was almost twice as strong as before the totem was released.
This new giant beast was named the Eight-Headed Dragon by Garen. Although it only had eight heads, he believed that anyone could clearly see the bulge on the ninth head. Sooner or later, the ninth head would grow.
The Dual Headed Salamander's second head brought the Life Tear ability, but the other new heads did not have any additional special abilities. Perhaps it was because they did not have a physical body, or perhaps it was because of other reasons, but these additional heads did not bring any other abilities, but all of them were Life Tear!
After all these heads grew out, Garon felt that the Life Tear ability on his left hand had been strengthened to a terrifying level. Although he did not know the specific effects, it was equivalent to six times the original Life Tear ability. No matter how weak it was, it would not be too bad.
The evolved Eight-Headed Dragon not only brought Garon an increase in strength, but also a new ability — — Gravitational Vortex.
Garon wore a grey robe, stretched out his right hand and flicked his finger.
Chi!
A formless vortex of air suddenly flew out, floating less than a meter in the air in front of him.
This vortex was more than a meter in diameter, and it spun the air around it, pulling everything in the surroundings towards it. At the center was a small unknown cave entrance, and he did not know where it led to.
Garon calculated that he could release a total of eight of these vortexes, the same number of heads as the Eight-Headed Dragon.
Looking at the eight vortexes in front of him, the high speed rotation of the vortexes created a strong gravitational whirlwind in the cave. The moment all the vortexes were released, a large number of items flew towards the vortexes at full speed. It was as if a strong and terrifying tornado had been created.
Very soon, a large amount of clothes, wooden shelves, experimental equipment, and waste water from the nutrient solution were all sucked into the vortex. Only a few things that were firmly fixed were left in the cave.
Garon withdrew the vortex and rubbed his stomach with a strange expression, as if there was something extra in his stomach.
He felt that these whirlpools were absorbing a lot of things, as if they were all going into his stomach.
These things seemed to have been refined in some way, and then the essence was transferred into his stomach.
"Could it be that these eight vortexes are the eight giant mouths of the Eight-headed Dragon?!" Garon guessed.
He began to carefully test the eight vortexes.
After a period of testing and inspection, Garon finally understood how these eight whirlpools existed.
Indeed, it was as he had imagined. These were the eight mouths of the Eight-Headed Dragon. They could devour everything in the outside world, including stones, miscellaneous items, dangerous sharp weapons, and so on. Moreover, it could also turn the sundries it devoured into pure energy to replenish the totem power it consumed.
One had to know that releasing totems, whether it was a core totem or a secondary totem, would cause totem power to be consumed. The more totems released, the stronger they were, and the faster the totem power would be consumed. A normal form one totem user could release their totems for a whole day and still be fine.
However, a form two totem user could only release it for half a day. A form three totem user would consume even more. A normal form three totem user would not release their totems for no reason, and would only release them when needed. Moreover, many totem users relied on low level secondary totems as consumables to reduce the consumption of totem power. This was also the reason why so many assembly line totem markets existed.
As for stronger spiritualized totems, just like Beckstone's spiritualized Sunflower totem, he was exhausted after releasing it for a short while, and this was with the support of heirlooms. Although this was related to his own lack of ability, it also meant that the spiritualized totems consumed a lot of energy.
The reason why Garon wanted to solve the flaw of the Crystal Derivator was because he could not bear to part with it. Relying on the Crystal Derivator to control the Silver Totem, it did not need to consume totem power at all. Instead, the totem could eat and rest on its own to recover. This was one of the biggest advantages.
Of course, this had its pros and cons. Although the Silver Totem did not consume totem power, the amount of food it required was still a huge problem. Just the large number of Deep Swamp Crocs and Parasitic Beetles consumed a lot of meat every day. Once it could not eat normally, it would cause weakness, and even starve to death. It was not as convenient as the primitive totems, which did not need to eat and rest and could be carried around.
Garon was not sure what level he was now. But he was definitely stronger than before, and much stronger.
He felt that the way his core totem existed was similar to the legendary form four, complete elementalization. In this era where spiritualization was rare, a form four complete elementalization was simply a legendary level. Moreover, he did not take into account his own attribute strength. His attributes increased to 14 points of strength and 10 points of vitality. Under these limits, he himself was a fiercer existence than the totem.
Garon walked to the side of the nourishment pool and carefully examined his current appearance. He looked soft and weak, slender and handsome, giving off the feeling of a delicate and beautiful young man. This was very confusing when facing an enemy. He was very satisfied with his current appearance. His arms did not look strong, but in fact, they had a terrifying strength that could make any creature tremble.
"Reylan once mentioned that the Elemental Generals of the Obscuro Society were all spiritualized beings. Each of them had to have at least two or more spiritualized totems to be considered an Elemental General. This did not include the number of general-level generals that they could control. Looking at it this way, an Elemental General was equivalent to an army of spiritualized totems. There were many form three monsters under his command. And there were still monsters that could kill an Elemental General. Obviously, there were form four monsters among them. It was just that they were too rare that I had not encountered them. And the Marshall Commander of the Obscuro Society, who could take back their territory and make the monsters flee upon hearing the news, should be an existence stronger than an elemental, at least form four or five. This way, the true level of the Obscuro Society's strength is clear. "
Garon organized his thoughts.
"We don't have to worry about the Marshall Commander level for now. That is the pinnacle existence that controls the situation of many countries. They are directly responsible to the strongest person in the Obscuro Society, Hellgate. They basically would not appear in one place because of the situation in one place. I have never heard of a form four or five Marshall level appearing. Normally, the strongest person in charge of a country or a region would be an Elemental General level, which is the spiritualized level. Looking at it this way, my current totem strength has already reached a peak level. "
He had a clear understanding of his current position. Before the hidden old monsters appeared, his totem was already at the strongest level. Even if those old monsters appeared, they would have to fight to know who was stronger and who was weaker.
Looking at the messy experiment cave, Garon's gaze fell on the Dual Headed Salamander's corpse. This old dragon was all skin and bones, with almost no muscles.
"Komodo." He turned and walked towards the door. "Pack your things."
A tall figure carefully poked his head in from the door. Seeing that it was Garon, Komodo immediately relaxed.
"Yes, Sir." He saw that Garon was safe and sound, and his mood instantly lightened up. This meant that his future was secure again.
Garon strode out of the cave door, and could faintly hear Komodo's cries of pain coming from inside.
"Oh … I just cleaned up the cave …"
Garon smiled, and quickly went up the stone steps of the experiment area. His speed was brisk, and almost every step he took was several sections. His whole body faintly left behind a trace of afterimages.
A few seconds later, he stood at the exit of the underground experiment area, and gently pushed open the disguised door.
Whoosh.
The bright golden sunlight from outside shone in, dazzling Garon's eyes.
He narrowed his eyes, and strode out of the experiment area, and the door behind him closed automatically.
It was noon, and a hot wind blew in from the balcony. The green leaves of the potted plants by the wall were constantly trembling from the wind.
Garon walked into his bedroom on the right, and took out a set of underwear from the closet. Then, he picked out a set of secret service armor given by His Majesty the Emperor.
This was a set of solid, grayish-black full-body armor that looked like it was made up of many small square pieces. It had a black hood, and there were pauldrons on both sides of the shoulders that extended outwards.
There were black standing collars on both sides of the neck, and the left side of the collar was embroidered with Kovitan's national flower, the golden iris.
This was Garon's first time seeing the iris. Even if he counted the times on Earth and in the Secret Technique World, it was still his first time. The iris embroidered on the armor was completely golden, and as a whole, it was a perfect equilateral triangle, as if two golden clovers were stacked together to form the petals. The two clovers stacked together formed an even more perfect triangle, and the stamen in the middle formed another perfect equilateral triangle, giving off a delicate and symmetrical beauty.
He touched the embroidered decorations, and it seemed to be made with golden thread.
He put on a full set of full-body armor. The upper body was hard armor, and the lower body was a black skirt armor. He even paired it with a pair of black lined trousers and shiny boots.
Garon stood in front of the full-body mirror and looked at himself. After this transformation, his body was much thinner and slimmer, and could already be considered well-proportioned. He put on the hood and a pair of black gloves, and even his face could not be seen. He could only see a pale and delicate chin, and dark red lips.
The armor did not need a person's body to support it, and it looked similar to anyone. If he lowered his head slightly, he could not tell who was who.
After putting on the hood and gloves, Garon did not feel stuffy. It was already midsummer, and the sun was shining brightly outside. Waves of heat kept coming in from the balcony.
He checked the armor on his body, and found signs on both pauldrons. Both pauldrons were actually engraved with a simple Solidifying Tactic. This armor seemed to be similar to the War Chain, and could be embedded with Solidifying Tactic to produce Tactic effects.
Garon analyzed the theory of the armor. It seemed to be able to absorb the trace amount of totem power that the totem user naturally emitted, and used it to supply the armor's Tactic's thermostat function. The reason why it was designed to be so enclosed was, one, to camouflage and another, to prevent the natural loss of totem power from being wasted.
No matter if it was a Luminarist, a totem user, or a forger, as long as they had totem power, in their daily life, they would naturally emit and lose a very small amount of totem power. This was a normal phenomenon. Just like how the human body would naturally lose a certain amount of body heat.
And this armor, was to maximize the amount of this loss, and use it.
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