Chapter 208 Second Ring Cleanup Complete
If an outsider asked this question, it would undoubtedly be a great transgression.
However, Bai Qilan was different; she belonged to Su Han.
"It's difficult to answer,"
Su Han pondered, organizing his perceptions of his talent before saying, "If it involves enhancement, then in the short term there's definitely no limit. Continuous fusion would strengthen my body incessantly. However, if I want to keep fusing continuously, I feel I may need to be cautious."
"Are there limits?"
"Yes, the capacity for absorption and enhancement need to be balanced, and the monster souls are somewhat troublesome."
Su Han spoke lightly, but he himself could feel the deadly desire for slaughter and twisted madness from the Scythe Bug's will.
Since he had chosen Spirit Melding, and even used the Scythe Bug's soul as a reserve, he inevitably had to face their mental shocks head-on.
In the prison where he defeated the Scythe Bug was one battlefield, and in the space of spiritual consciousness at the Spiritual Energy Lake, it was another.
Here, the fused monsters constantly initiated mental disturbances, relentlessly resisting.
If his strength was insufficient, unable to withstand, as more and more monsters accumulated, he would completely lose control, with nobody knowing what might happen.
Of course, the stronger his power, the greater his resistance. As the fusion process moved forward, the monsters' souls would be transformed into spiritual power and thoroughly integrated into Su Han's body.
Hearing this, Bai Qilan said, "The potential of this Spiritual Power Talent is the most critical. It's okay to be a bit slower, don't push yourself too hard."
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Su Han hadn't expected to awaken such a talent, not entirely combat-oriented, yet it was currently the biggest potential in the Tree Domain Camp.
Even without an Angel Envoy, he was confident he could keep growing stronger with this talent.
After a preliminary test, Su Han and Bai Qilan tacitly avoided further mention of the talent.
It was simply that both understood this talent would be Su Han's trump card.
Others could know he had a talent, but they absolutely could not know or fully understand what kind of talent it was.
Being neither an intuitive nor a Spiritual Power Shaper—talents easily seen through—it was undoubtedly best kept hidden.
After the Talent Awakening, Bai Qilan continued her research, while Su Han went to the Second Ring Area to participate in a monster clearing operation.
He was the solo team, didn't bring anyone, even the Scorpion Spider Demon was stored in the Book of Blood Spirit.
Wearing the Floating Pagoda Black Armor, he didn't take his Pu knives, just chose a direction to sweep through alone.
Monsters sensed Su Han's movements, rushing out one after another from buildings and corners.
There were numerous First Order monsters, and a few Second Order.
Yet facing Su Han, they were severely outmatched, easily killed in close combat.
And in this struggle, the talent of Su Han as a Soul Fusionist activated, continuously melding the spiritual energy from the monsters through the whirlpools in his hands.
One after another, the spiritual energy was sapped, the physical bodies destroyed, and even their souls extracted and imprisoned deep within his consciousness.
Every monster became nourishment for Su Han, his physical abilities enhancing at all times.
However, soon Su Han tested his limits, after merging with over a hundred monsters, including three Second-grade Monsters.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
The roar from deep within his Sea of Consciousness grew increasingly piercing, and the surging spiritual energy inside his body vaguely agitated.
He knew he was on the edge of balance.
The restlessness at present could easily be suppressed, but if he continued to enhance his spirit melding, there was a possibility of losing control, so there was no need to go on.
Erasing the will contained in so much spiritual energy was not an easy task, and others would probably be at a loss.
However, for Su Han, he just needed to complete the fusion with more monster spiritual energy.
It would probably take three days, and after three days, the spiritual energy of nearly a hundred monsters could be completely merged.
Of course, he could also choose to merge while fighting, which wasn't a problem, it would just be a bit hectic.
Su Han focused on honing his own talent, and among the three Angel Envoys, aside from the Scorpion Spider Demon who was closely protecting Su Han, the Blood-winged Alligator Dragon and the Nine-Snake Mother Tree were both committed to clearing the Second Ring Area.
The Blood-winged Alligator Dragon possessed a Blood Spring Skill, and also had tactics like the Chang Crocodile Prison; even in alley or street fighting, it could play a significant role.
Its massive body couldn't enter buildings, but the Blood River could, and the Evil Crocodile could as well.
Therefore, after being equipped with a patrol team, its clearing speed was one of the fastest within the whole clearing team.
The Nine-Snake Mother Tree was even more straightforward and brutal; as soon as its vines sensed movement, they would come swiftly, strangling the monsters there.
With a significant increase in the reach of the vines, more vines in the Second Ring Area found their use, killing a large number of monsters, which were then dragged into the tree pits.
For a full seven days, from the takeover of the Second Ring Area to a few days after Su Han's Talent Awakening, the Second Ring Area was finally cleared substantially.
The clearing team killed nearly 30,000 remaining monsters, captured fourteen Second-grade Monsters, and during the process, no fewer than fifty people were injured, provided with no less than two hundred suits of plate armor, and various supplies, involving the deployment of the Vine Giant Rats over a thousand times, and used no fewer than twenty thousand Crossbow Arrows.
One can only imagine how massive the resources spent were.
However, compared to the gains, such expenditures were obviously very worthwhile.
Across the vast Second Ring Area, although previously overrun with monsters, the existence of small-scale Survivors' Camps and the Snake-headed Vine Puppets rounding up monsters resulted in quite a large number of survivors, so many that Su Han found it hard to believe.
According to the statistics from Yan Meiyu, the Second Ring Area accounted for supplies for more than 5300 people, almost matching the population of the Tree Domain Camp.
With the newly rounded-up survivors, the population of the Tree Domain Camp had now exceeded ten thousand, reaching twelve thousand.
This was an immensely significant number, providing a timely replenishment of population for the entire Tree Domain.
In terms of supplies for the Tree Domain Troops, even though the base-level warriors would not be replenished immediately and would need a lot of screening before being properly filled,
still, among the scattered survivors, there were a few who were fairly strong, contributing six Second-order Contractors.
Since they had reached the Second Order, they didn't have many choices, but were instead assigned by the organization.
This had little to do with their will, but rather it would be a waste of resources not to use such combat power.
Therefore, except for one or two who were really not suitable for continued frontline combat, the remaining Second-order Contractors began to join search teams, patrol teams, reserve forces, and so on, occasionally participating in missions.
On Yan Meiyu's side, having received a large number of people, she tirelessly arranged for the restoration of production.
Agriculture, animal husbandry, and forging all needed to be restarted.
In terms of agriculture, Yunling Mountain needless to say, was always a valued farmland.
And in animal husbandry, with the inclusion of the Second Ring Area, Nanwang Lake was also within the territorial range; it would be a real pity not to farm Evolved Kind fish in such a large lake.
Beyond that, what was more important was the recovery of production and manufacturing.