Chapter 2963

【Lightness】

【Elf Race Swappable Talents】:

【Fearless】

You can swap in Fearless!

The Lightness talent reduces fall damage by 30%, which is actually very useful for elves.

Elves love trees, and they also love the Archer class.

Archers have a better view from high ground and gain increased range, so they really like standing up high — the most common high ground they frequent is the tops of great trees.

Of course, they don't just stand there; they also frequently move and leap back and forth between the great trees.

Falling out of a tree is hard to avoid.

Having the Lightness talent reduces a lot of fall damage — once they fall, it's basically a scratch or a light injury at worst, so they can keep moving and attacking. That's why it suits elves so well.

Moreover, this talent doesn't just mean less damage — it also means they can stand higher, able to withstand falls from even greater heights.

Still, that side of things is easy to solve.

Just wear Terrain High Heels — they grant 330% terrain adaptability, so even if the elves are flipping and jumping upside-down through the trees, they can stay perfectly steady.

Or wear Anti-Fall High Heels, which reduce fall damage by 330%. Not only does this drastically cut the damage, it also lets elves survive falls from very high treetops.

Or just wear All-Purpose High Heels, which give a boost to both abilities — that works too.

In short, their Lightness talent can be perfectly replaced.

And Fearless is just too strong.

Even with Fearless, one can still feel fear and tension — but they won't retreat or rout.

Even in the most desperate situation, having Fearless lets them organize a counterattack and always maintain a certain level of combat effectiveness.

Throughout history, there have been many cases of the few defeating the many.

A clearly weaker side can chase down a stronger one and turn defeat into outright victory.

That's always because the stronger side suddenly suffers a devastating morale blow, causing total collapse of morale — and so they lose.

If the stronger side had Fearless, many of those classic weak-beats-strong battles might never have happened.

On the other hand—

If the weaker side has Fearless and fights to the death without retreating, the stronger side is very likely to be intimidated and dare not take them lightly.

In that situation, the odds of the weak defeating the strong would be greatly increased.

In short: must swap.

Select 【Fearless】

This is a pre-swap, so Zhao Chi only needs to select it — no cost whatsoever.

Next, set the genes.

【Elf Race Genes】:

【"Vigilance" "Agility" "Tree Affinity" "Tree Shelter"】

【Swappable Taoyuan Race Genes】:

【"Soft Body (Enhanced)" "Bone-Gathering Revival (Enhanced)" "Night Vision" "Over-Limit Load (Enhanced)" "Extreme Desire Body Scent (Enhanced)" "Strong Body Odor" "Fire Creature (Enhanced)" "Leap" "Underwater Breathing" "Water Affinity" "Tribe Summon" "Equipment Fusion" "Silver Moon Transformation" "Self-Healing (Enhanced)" "Tough Bones (Enhanced)" "Limb Regeneration" "Carrion Stomach (Enhanced)" "Dynamic Vision (Enhanced)" "Dark Affinity" "Robust Pectorals" "Lubricated Skin" "Brute Strength" "Human Slayer" "Charging Heavy Strike"】

【Swappable Reserve Genes】:

【"No Taboo" "Dragon Yang Lily" "Foul-Smelling Slime" "Wrinkled Hard Skin" "Luxuriant" "Arrogance" "Simple Brain" "Simple Mind"】

A long string of genes.

Zhao Chi's eyes went dizzy reading them.

He hadn't expected that, apart from the Taoyuan Race genes, all those genes he hadn't yet put to use could also be swapped in.

But Zhao Chi is different from other players — other players might have some excellent genes in hand, but with insufficient match rating, they've always been reluctant to use them for modification.

But the genes Zhao Chi has left over are basically all ones with heavy negative effects.

There are a few good ones, though.

Among them, "Wrinkled Hard Skin" increases skin surface area by 100% while also boosting skin defense by 30%.

By effect it looks excellent, with no debuffs whatsoever — but there's no way he'd use it to modify Taoyuan or elf women.

They'd all end up covered in loose, wrinkled skin — far too ugly.

"Luxuriant" is also a good gene.

This gene comes from treants and increases branch, leaf, and hair growth speed by 300%.

For treants that's wonderful, but for those women it's unnecessary.

There are also two more genes — one is "Simple Brain" from giants, the other "Simple Mind" from strong beastmen. Both races really are simple-minded: one effect boosts loyalty, the other boosts mood.

But both come with unbearable negative effects, so forget it.

There's also one gene, "Arrogance" — this is Su Qin's. After she completely became Zhao Chi's vassal, it became shared between Zhao Chi and Su Qin.

But this gene is useless too.

Still, some genes aren't on the list.

For example, "Lightning Resistance" and "Hard Skull."

Zhao Chi didn't understand at first, but after reading the hint he got it.

These two are individual genes, and the Eternal Tree's breeding settings require racial genes — so these two individual genes can't show up in the breeding settings.

Doesn't really matter, though.

Skip the reserve genes.

Just look at the Taoyuan Race genes.

Before he knew it, the Taoyuan Race already had this many genes.

And they're all good genes.

However, Zhao Chi noticed that among the options there were only the genes he himself had improved, and not the individual genes of Gu Qing, Qi Yue, and the others.

For example, Gu Qing's "Therapeutic Fluid" and Qi Yue's "Polymerization Auxiliary Arm" were not among them.

These were all individual genes as well.

Although a few branch races possessed them, that was because race-lords like Gu Qing had them — the actual source was Gu Qing and Qi Yue themselves, not the race's genes.

Among them, one called "Strong Pectoral Muscles" was originally also an individual gene, improved for Gu Qing; originally only the Silk Race possessed it.

But later Zhao Chi decomposed a drop of original Taoyuan bloodline, so he decomposed this gene out of the Silk Race, and it ultimately became a race gene.

So now all the women of the Taoyuan Race have had their bust size increased by one cup, and they're all perfectly rounded.