doitstory Chapter 597 - 587: Soul Touch
Chapter 597 - 587: Soul Touch
Watching the tentacle of Puki slowly extend forward, Norris’s heart couldn’t stop accelerating.
Can’t blame him for being timid; the survival experience in the Mushroom Garden over the past two years tells him that when the boss happily calls him over alone, it’s never a good thing!
The last time he was electrocuted by the cultivated Pika Puki, he was paralyzed all over and couldn’t move, lying on the fungal mat.
Kind Sister Hei dragged him back to the Mushroom House, but he lost quite a few scales from bumping along the way.
What’s it this time?
Despite his fear, Norris forced himself not to withdraw his hand, as that would be worse...
Puki’s tentacle slowly approached... slowly... approaching...
Norris was originally prepared to face a sharp blow, yet the tentacle kept approaching but never really wrapped around him, which instead made him even more nervous!
Thirty seconds later, the feeling finally entangled his wrist.
In the past, although the soul existed within the body, physical contact could never touch the soul.
But this time...
[Soul Touch LV1]
Lin Jun’s soul followed the contacted part, turning into countless threads, slowly covering the surface of Norris’s soul orb.
Without the corresponding perceptive ability, Norris was completely unaware of this, only nervously moving his eyes around, trying to figure out what the boss intended to do?
The entanglement speed wasn’t fast, presumably because it’s only LV1.
Just by holding for three minutes, the surface of Norris’s soul was covered by Lin Jun’s soul.
Attempting to pull out a Charm Mushroom from the nearby fungal mat, with the power turned to maximum, Norris was unaffected.
It was equivalent to Lin Jun becoming his spiritual armor.
However, its practicality is low because Lin Jun must focus her spirit on Norris to maintain this soul garment.
When Lin Jun’s consciousness shifts, the soul quickly returns to its original state, back to a non-interfering status.
After letting go of the bewildered Lizardman who left scratching his head, Lin Jun moved the experiment to the second stage.
This part wasn’t suitable for Norris to attempt.
...
"I...I can’t feel my legs anymore! What are you doing? Stop! Don’t touch me anymore——!"
In the depths of the cave with glowing dots, layers of intertwined mycelium covered the entrance, absorbing all sounds completely, with no sound infiltrating the outside world.
Since it’s possible to touch the soul, naturally there are multiple uses!
Destruction, pulling, piercing...
Consuming around ten precious individuals, Lin Jun roughly understood the feasible uses.
Destruction is the simplest, touching then colliding for consumption.
Essentially it’s a behavior of injuring the enemy while causing self-loss; fortunately, Lin Jun has a big enterprise, capable of enduring it.
Victims of soul damage wouldn’t feel physical pain but would fall into a state of mental distraction, listlessness, and inability to concentrate on casting.
As the damage worsens, they gradually lose control of certain body parts, not necessarily the touched part; it could be a suddenly immobile left hand or inability to feel the breath from the nose.
Similar to Lin Jun, ordinary people’s souls also possess self-repair abilities, but the speed is slow, and the heavier the damage, the slower the recovery.
When the damage reaches the limit, it becomes like the guy at hand.
Puki’s tentacles entangle the man’s body, continuously and steadily grinding his already fragmented soul.
He doesn’t feel pain, yet feels like he’s disappearing from his limbs, as if his body is gradually becoming a hollow shell unrelated to him.
This assassin, once known for being ruthless, now cries out like a child, incoherent threats, and ultimately pleas.
His voice becomes lower and more indistinct, eventually only meaningless drool runs from the corner of his mouth, the last glimmer in his pupils extinguished.
His soul was thoroughly crushed.
It didn’t disappear, but it’s no longer within this body.
The shattered soul merged into the world, perhaps in some distant, unknown place it will gather again.
But anyhow, this humanoid flesh in front, though still breathing, even lost its panel, it’s essentially dead.
After decomposing this body with a completely shattered soul, unsurprisingly, no skills were absorbed.
As for trying to transform one’s own soul into threads to drill into others’ souls for control, the experiment failed; this skill doesn’t have such advanced abilities.
Simply put, as long as Puki can embrace a thigh, even a god, Lin Jun can show you how to kill them!
Of course, this is just theoretical.
Lin Jun spent full four minutes to crush the soul of that D Level personnel.
And anyone who can be enveloped by Puki for four minutes, even without using [Soul Touch], Lin Jun can deal with them easily.
Would there be such powerful beings unable to move, just there for Puki to embrace?
Lin Jun’s vision involuntarily moved to the center of the Divine Wood Dungeon, atop that small sapling...
No, still not enough.
Lin Jun is still unclear about Old Deng’s means, this [Soul Touch LV1] is likely not threatening it.
Disregarding Old Deng, this skill currently has low output power, doesn’t instantly kill others just because Lin Jun’s soul is massive, probably due to the level being too low.
Moreover, regarding the soul destruction effect, there’s no distinction from the target’s strength level.
Effectiveness entirely depends on how large the target’s soul is.
In this world, the vast majority have souls with not much size difference.
Crushing a Level 20 guy takes about four minutes, same as crushing a Level 40 guy.
Additionally, Lin Jun found that [Soul Touch] couldn’t touch the souls of ordinary plants, trees, and demons, as if those weren’t considered souls.
As for the Yellow-covered Book, Lin Jun touched it.
Could actually touch it!
Yet the tactile feeling was odd, unlike Norris’s proper soul.
Regarding defense, although Lin Jun can’t maintain the "soul garment" for long-term protection of others, at critical moments, using it for emergency isolation or removal of certain negative mental states proves quite effective.
For instance, facing the charm control of the Yellow-covered Book text version, even if the target was completely dominated, as long as Lin Jun envelops with her soul, forming a barrier isolating the inside and outside, external mental links would be forcibly severed, control naturally lifted.
Overall, Lin Jun was quite satisfied with the effects of this test.
With skill level improvements, this ability to touch the essence of souls might indeed become his hidden card against those top-tier beings.
The only problem now: the skill growth requires frequent collision consumption.
The house’s D Level personnel, seem not sufficient...