Chapter 464: Developmental Skills
Lin Ye immediately followed the mental connection back into the rat's body. At this moment, the rat's body had suffered a large number of attacks of different natures and was hanging by a thread.
A group of cultists wearing robes of different styles and different kinds of masks on their faces stood not far away, launching their second wave of attacks.
Xiao An and the Divine Principles Bureau staff were already lying dead on the ground. Only the Captain was barely still standing, but his body was riddled with holes.
The reason Lin Ye could still stand was that he had inscribed a Protection rune on the rat's body during its enhancement. Otherwise, he would have died under the first wave of attacks.
Xiao An had reacted quickly. The moment she sensed Lin Ye's situation, she didn't dodge the attacks. Instead, she immediately performed the Alien Deity ritual to summon Lin Ye, using that piece of mental energy as her sacrificial offering.
Some Red Frogs hopped into the bodies of the injured and began repairing them.
Lin Ye controlled the Explosion Red Frog and other Red Frogs to charge at the cultists while using his Special Ability: Development.
The Explosion Red Frog was blown up before it could get close. At this moment, those spiritual entities called Alien Deities were possessing these cultists. They looked at Lin Ye with cold eyes, clearing away the Red Frogs that approached them.
Lin Ye's size suddenly swelled, and the various mutation organs inside his body also began to undergo bizarre, uncontrollable changes. His mutation organs were originally specially crafted, premium versions. The Development skill mutated them to a degree even he couldn't comprehend.
The Development soon ended. Just as the cultists finished clearing the Red Frogs, they saw a three-meter-tall dinosaur standing not far away, staring at them. 'So why a dinosaur? Because they both have tiny arms?'
Lin Ye shook his disproportionately small arms. He didn't need Adaptation; relying on instinct, he figured out the functions of the various mutation organs inside his body.
These mutation organs were like a set of perfectly matched, precise machinery, possessing a unique kind of beauty.
A cultist suddenly appeared in front of Lin Ye. It tried to touch Lin Ye's body, but Lin Ye bit its head off with one bite.
This wasn't an ordinary bite, but an attack coordinated by various mutation organs. The cultist's head was directly sucked into his mouth, unable to even make a move to resist.
Lin Ye didn't just kill this cultist with one bite; he also obtained a special piece of loot through the bite.
The surrounding cultists launched attacks of various different properties at Lin Ye, but those attacks all hit empty ground. Lin Ye had already silently moved behind one of the cultists.
This was originally a special skill Lin Ye formed on the rat's body through mutation organs. Now, it appeared on a Tyrannosaurus rex, and it fit surprisingly well.
Lin Ye easily tore apart the body of the cultist in front of him with his two small arms. A very beautiful crystal fell to the ground.
The cultists hurriedly tried to distance themselves from Lin Ye, but Lin Ye's speed was ridiculously fast. With one tail swipe, he pierced through the vital points of three cultists.
The reason Lin Ye could be so at ease was mainly because those spiritual entities had never seriously cultivated their subordinate cultists, treating them merely as tools for collecting mental energy.
Simply put, these cultists were defective products among castrated versions, which was why they were so easily defeated.
These spiritual entities had clearly never seen a monster like Lin Ye. They kept unleashing abilities of various properties, but due to hardware limitations, they couldn't even touch a hair on Lin Ye's leg.
Lin Ye skillfully controlled the Tyrannosaurus rex body, unleashing various skill combos like playing a fighting game.
Slide step, backstab, tail swipe, bite, claw strike...
The Tyrannosaurus rex body was far more useful than the rat's. Lin Ye couldn't be bothered to use various runes, relying solely on the mutation organs inside his body to crush them.
'These mutation organs coordinate so smoothly.'
While studying the mutation organs inside his body, Lin Ye cleared out the surrounding cultists. He could sense the anger of the spiritual entities inside the cultists, but it was meaningless because their abilities simply couldn't hit Lin Ye.
At that moment, the cultists not yet killed by Lin Ye suddenly exploded together. A massive wave of mental attacks landed on Lin Ye.
Lin Ye shook his head. With a physical body present, such mental attacks could hardly harm him. However, the opponent's goal wasn't to attack his spiritual entity, but to create an environment saturated with mental energy.
A giant spiritual entity appeared before Lin Ye. It consumed a massive amount of mental energy to use the concept of 'Piercing' on Lin Ye. Lin Ye's body was instantly pierced through by spiritual energy spikes, and his heart was punctured and exploded.
But this didn't stop Lin Ye's advance. Instead, being on the brink of death stimulated the dinosaur body's potential, allowing him to pierce through the core area of the giant spiritual entity with a single tail swipe.
This piercing attack, imbued with mental energy, directly killed the giant spiritual entity, not even giving it a chance to escape.
In that instant, Lin Ye completely comprehended the concept of 'Piercing,' and by extension, learned various techniques related to piercing.
'So killing spiritual entities yields this kind of benefit.'
Excited, Lin Ye tore the giant spiritual entity to shreds. The scattered mental energy was gathered together by him using his own mental energy, and he fashioned this mental energy into a Mental Red Frog.
'If only a few more spiritual entities would come over.'
Several Red Frogs hopped into Lin Ye's chest, and his heart began to rapidly repair itself. However, at that very moment, another spiritual consciousness invaded the dinosaur's brain from within the Red Frogs and began fighting Lin Ye for control of this body.
'So this is your backup plan? Fighting me for the body?'
Lin Ye lifted the seal on the Abyssal Eye. That bloated spiritual consciousness was instantly corrupted by the Abyss and fell into its depths.
This was the first time he had encountered such an idiot who dared to fight him for control of a body.
After dealing with the spiritual entity inside him, Lin Ye turned the corpses of the surrounding cultists into Red Frogs before going to check on Xiao An and the others. He had given them preliminary treatment with Red Frogs earlier, so they wouldn't die anytime soon.
Lin Ye quickly repaired their bodies. The others were fine, but only Xiao An didn't wake up. Her consciousness seemed to be trapped in some kind of abnormal state.
'Is this some kind of mental attack?'
Lin Ye fused the Mental Red Frog into Xiao An's spiritual consciousness. Through the Mental Red Frog, he infiltrated Xiao An's mental world.
In the mental world, Xiao An was still trapped in the cult's base dungeon. Under Lin Ye's control, the Red Frog easily dealt with the cultists inside the base, including Director An and some Divine Principles Bureau members.
Lin Ye controlled the Red Frog to merge into Xiao An's consciousness. Xiao An didn't resist. With the Red Frog's help, the cult base completely collapsed, and Xiao An returned to her home. A woman who looked very much like her appeared before her.
"...Mom?"
Xiao An's spiritual consciousness suddenly produced violent fluctuations, forcing the Red Frog to detach from her mental world.