Chapter 188: Simulated Sword Cultivator

Lin An led the group, excluding Mo Ling, and stood far away on the road, patiently waiting.

In the distance, surging death energy condensed into a vortex, and countless zombies packed together like a school of fish, burying the little girl underneath.

One strike cleared the field, taking out the frontmost Corpse Horde, about a thousand or more.

Even with tremendous power under telekinetic control, the alloy long sword could only instantly kill zombies in a straight line.

Back-and-forth penetration, including Lin An's final experimental blast, still had limited range.

For the endless Corpse Horde, the remaining work ultimately still needed Mo Ling to do it.

After all, no matter how strong Lin An is, he's still only double First Level so far.

He still couldn't slaughter tens of thousands of zombies in just a few seconds.

Nevertheless, this did not in the least diminish the shock in everyone's hearts.

This was probably the most extravagant "performance" they had seen so far.

Behind him, Zhang Tie chattered excitedly, while the other Awakened Ones gathered together, unable to resist whispering to each other.

Lin Dui! I'll damn well regret not bringing a camera!

Holy shit, you have no idea how cool that strike just was!

A swoosh and a whole bunch die, that sword is like light and damn special effects, swoosh swoosh swoosh!

Just watching it is damn satisfying!

Zhang Tie waved his arms and kicked his legs, saliva flying.

In his excitement, it seemed as if that earlier strike was his own doing, making him even happier than Lin An.

The base trainees nearby stared at Lin An with blazing eyes, occasionally turning to whisper to their companions.

Damn, this is straight up better than watching a blockbuster!

When we get back to base, we'll tell them about what we saw today, and those country bumpkins will have their jaws drop.

The tank-top-wearing boy shook his companion violently in excitement, his eyes seeming to glow.

Damn it, a sword cultivator! Holy shit! I actually saw a living sword cultivator!

Do you even know what a sword cultivator is? The kind from novels!

If he weren't afraid to act rashly in front of Lin An, he would love to shout it out loud.

For today's youth, what could be cooler than being a sword cultivator?

The fire-system Awakened One he was holding couldn't break free, so he just let the tank-top guy shake him.

I know... I know!

If only those guys who slice wind blades and throw stones were here. They usually brag about how awesome they are, acting like supermen...

They usually just show off a skill in front of the girls' dorm, being smug as hell.

He thought of those Awakened Ones back at base, and by comparison he felt a bit embarrassed.

Indeed, compared to Lord Lin An, not even mentioning strength, just appearance-wise they're not on the same level.

I really wish I had this ability...

When the fire-element Awakened One looked at Lin An's back, his envy nearly overflowed.

Lin An let out a helpless laugh, but he didn't pay much attention to everyone's gazes.

He too was on a whim, wanting to test whether he could achieve what he imagined.

The effect was indeed quite formidable.

If it weren't for insufficient mental energy, he couldn't continue controlling it.

Give him another ten or so seconds, and these zombies before him could be wiped out clean.

He never expected that the mental energy he previously thought had no use would now become a shackle on his strength.

Charging the Soul Shriek likewise suffers from insufficient mental energy.

Controlling weapons at high speed to slay enemies requires coordination with combat instinct.

With his current mental energy, he can last at most four seconds before it's depleted.

With Wen Ya around, it would be about six seconds, still somewhat hard to bear.

With a single sword he could last a bit longer, but each additional sword greatly increases mental energy consumption.

What a pity.

The attributes from combat instinct can't all be poured into one place; otherwise, putting all 12 points into will would skyrocket his power.

Insufficient mental energy also leads to not enough weapons being controlled.

Three weapons are already the limit of what he can control.

Moreover, he must be in a combat instinct state.

Otherwise, trying to do three things at once would make precise control impossible.

However.

Perhaps once he upgrades to third level and unlocks the gene lock for a huge attribute boost.

He could then control over a hundred weapons at once, simulating the legendary 'Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Sect'.

Lin An felt somewhat moved; he never expected that the accidentally obtained mana crystal would actually compensate for his lack of area-of-effect means.

Although simultaneously controlling weapons to kill enemies, it can only be considered pseudo area-of-effect.

Moreover, during the control process he cannot divert attention to fight with his own body.

However, under telekinetic control, the high-speed flying alloy long sword, with its flexible and precise penetration, is enough to crush any Awakened One's area-of-effect skill at this stage.

Although it can only instantly kill ordinary zombies, it cannot match the Soul Shriek, which can instantly kill mutants in an area.

But for Lin An, it's already more than enough.

He no longer needs to, as before, hack enemies to death in close combat one strike at a time.

Now, you only need to stand in place; within the range of your mental power, it is death.

It's a shame I didn't obtain any skills related to psychic power or sword technique; otherwise the effect would be even better.

Lin An himself never imagined that the curse energy crystal and the skull of resentment—two top-tier mage items—would actually be used by him.

By relying on spiritual power to forcibly imitate a sword cultivator, likely only he in the entire world could pull this off.

I suppose it's just a coincidence.

In my past life, there indeed appeared Awakened Ones similar to false sword cultivators, but that was already a matter of second level or higher.

Many agility-type Awakened Ones are fond of using daggers or sword-type weapons.

Thus, many people attempt to imitate the attack style of sword cultivators.

However, without psychic power to cooperate, few can achieve void sword control.

As for changing weapons controlled by psychic power.

For example, controlling thin metal wires or large weapons to increase the killing range...

Lin An simulated it and found that, in fact, it's not as good as an alloy longsword.

The psychic power converted from spiritual power consumes according to the size, weight, area, and quantity of the controlled object.

In short, there are many limitations.

Void object control simply means wrapping the weapon with psychic power.

Therefore, a slender alloy longsword is quite suitable.

Unless he switches to a dagger, perhaps the effect would be a little better.

But with the soul-soothing sword sheath nurturing the longsword, sword-type weapons are still more convenient.

Just that.

Lin An glanced at the weapon inside the ring.

There is still one last alloy longsword.

Last time he returned to the base, he specially replenished four of them; this is the base's entire stock.

If it weren't for the sword dao club at the academy previously, there wouldn't be much inventory.

He's afraid he could only control an iron rod or a fire axe...

Just thinking about that scene, Lin An felt it was too eerie...

"Lin An, you can go in now."

"Be faster."

Mo Ling's voice came over the team channel, signaling them to move the weapons as quickly as possible.

The remaining corpse horde is too large; even with Wen Ya continuously supplying her with spiritual power, they couldn't hold out for long.

Lin An raised his head and glanced at the lifeless small town, suddenly feeling an inexplicable palpitation.