Chapter 1745: with translation of chapter title

Drop fusion completed.

New ability: Mass Effect

I don't know if it's because I've gotten used to the fusion, but after the first time, forcibly implanting a rule isn't as painful anymore.

His stature sank.

Lin An only felt his Thought Space slightly expand, and within less than two seconds, a layer of gray-yellow light appeared around him.

At the same time, something resembling a complete star core also appeared simultaneously in his mental space.

Looking at his current mental space, the originally empty and dark mental space had already undergone a great change.

At the bottom, like a tide, the rule power surged and churned.

The blue-silver electromagnetic and eternal rule, like two colors, burst into splendid, dazzling points of light upon collision.

And in the uppermost part of the sea of rules, it was bluish-purple, like rippling lightning that flashed and vanished.

In the middle, silver light flowed, and the omniscient domain and soul fire formed a white and black-red energy-constituted illusory sphere.

Inside, it happened to be that newly added star core.

"Mass Effect? What is this thing that appeared? A mass point?"

Lin An glanced a few times at the new changes in his mental space, somewhat surprised, and couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

"Mass Effect:"

"After using this ability, you can gain varying degrees of all-effect resistance based on your own mass, and whenever your mass exceeds the critical value, you can change your structural form."

"When the ability is activated, mass increases passively, and you can also actively increase it by consuming rule power."

"Warning: Changing form may lead to unknown consequences."

"Warning: You can change yourself according to any target's structure, effect unknown."

Two rare warnings.

Looking at the newly added mass effect, Lin An quickly understood it.

It wasn't much different from what he had expected, but compared to the Fifth Stage beings he had killed, the ability he had gained had undergone a fundamental change.

"The assimilation effect has become: see something, and you can become it."

"In theory it's stronger, equivalent to directly strengthening the body. The downside is... originally it was condensing into a shield, but now it's the self turning into a shield..."

"If one bears an attack exceeding the rule limit, the main body will also be severely injured, even die."

Lin An nodded thoughtfully.

This effect is quite a significant drawback.

Fifth Stage beings, in battle, use defensive rule to condense a shield; if it's broken, they condense another. As long as rule power is not exhausted, they can keep doing this endlessly, making it very flexible.

But now, it's become very rigid.

However, for Lin An, this drawback is actually not a big problem.

The Rule System's flesh is feeble and fragile as paper; theoretically, a large-yield nuclear bomb could blow it up.

But Lin An himself originally relied on his flesh to resist injury.

With point recovery in hand, as long as he isn't instantly killed, any injury is irrelevant.

As for the remaining two points of the ability, one is changing one's structure according to mass, and the other is that greater mass yields higher defense; these two suit him quite well.

"If mass exceeds the critical point, the structure changes—does that mean that once I become heavy enough, my body will turn into something like a star or black hole?"

"The heavier the mass, the stronger the defense; this can be used together with repulsive expansion."

"The bigger, the harder; the harder, the bigger..."

Lin An couldn't help but chuckle wryly, feeling that this effect was rather interesting.

Out of caution.

After a brief thought, he raised his left hand, attempting to apply the new ability to his fingertip.

As for the chosen target, Lin An simply selected the stone gate.

Looking around, theoretically the hardest things are the system light sphere above his head and the surrounding buildings; but even thinking with your toes, you know his ability definitely can't turn into that.

Moreover, Lin An even suspected that if he tried to turn himself into a system-made object, he would probably be instantly drained into a dried-up corpse.

Almost the instant the thought arose.

Lin An only felt the rule power within his body surge out instantly, like a whale gulping, consuming wildly.

Before he could react, in an extremely short time Lin An's face turned deathly pale; a feeling of unprecedented weakness and emptiness instantly made him barely able to stay standing.

Fuck..

Instantly realizing this, Lin An hurriedly halted the transformation effect.

Barely, just as the Eternal Body rule had a tiny bit left, it stopped then.

What a high consumption!

His face pallid, Lin An strained to lift his fingertip, and a flash of surprise instantly crossed his eyes.

He originally thought that turning himself into the stone gate's material would consume a lot, but not excessively; yet he never expected that this instantaneous transformation would nearly drain him to death!

"Looks like, this gate is more mysterious than what I've seen..."

Taking a deep breath, Lin An also felt somewhat helpless. Fortunately he was cautious enough; he only transformed his fingertip, otherwise that earlier move would likely have been enough to toy with him to death.

Suppressing the miscellaneous thoughts in his heart, Lin An raised his finger.

Completely different from the weight when he manipulated the stone gate, at this moment he felt as if a Mount Tai rested on his hand.

That fingertip portion had even turned into the same bluish-gray as the stone gate.

"So heavy..."

"Just that fingertip-sized portion, the mass is probably over ten thousand tons..."

"But with such high mass, hasn't it reached the critical point yet?"

Trying to raise his finger in front of him, Lin An hesitated slightly, then directly swung a sword at his own finger.

"Ding!"

Following a dull metallic clang, a huge recoil force simultaneously came from his fingertip and right hand.

Yet under a sword strike capable of cleaving an island, his fingertip, transformed into the substance of Stone Gate, bore not even a mark.

Moreover, just like Stone Gate, the spiritual energy he unleashed was directly devoured by that fingertip's grain-sized structure.

This defense power is a bit abnormal..

Lin An gasped, a thought flashing through his mind.

He knew Stone Gate's defense; theoretically, even Shattered Star level would be hard to destroy.

But he never expected that after the transformation, the devouring effect would also be inherited, and his flesh could become this strong!

Thinking this way.

Lin An's eyes suddenly narrowed, and he immediately realized the greatness of this ability.

"If my whole body turned into Stone Gate's structure, wouldn't I be able to walk sideways beneath the Sixth Rank?"