Chapter 249: with translation of chapter title

Nice! The probability of obtaining it has increased, that's basically a sure thing!

Looking at the content displayed in the appraisal result, Su Hao's face showed a hint of joy.

According to his experience, if it were an extremely small probability, the success rate would basically be zero; but if it were a relatively large probability, as long as his luck wasn't too bad, using it would grant him a skill.

Moreover, after this synthesis, the number of obtainable skills increased from one to two; besides being able to obtain Giantification, there is also a chance to gain a skill called Titan Avatar.

Titans are legendary giants, so Titan Avatar would mean being able to incarnate as a giant? Su Hao stroked his chin, his eyes filling with anticipation; then he stopped thinking further, pried open his own jaw, and stuffed that huge heart into his mouth.

The next moment.

Su Hao then felt a surging energy burst forth from that heart, filling his body.

Even with his current physique strength, he felt as if his body were about to burst.

If the consumer's physique is below Fourth Rank, after eating the Titan Heart, his body will instantly be burst by this energy, ultimately scattering flesh and blood everywhere.

But as long as he can withstand this surging energy, he can gain astonishing benefits.

Moments later, that surging energy actively drilled into Su Hao's entire body's cells, causing his physique to rapidly increase at a visible speed.

Ultimately, his physique rose from just entering Fourth Rank to the middle tier of Fourth Rank.

After all, Su Hao's original physique had only just entered Supernatural Fourth Rank; wanting to maximize the benefit from consuming the Titan Heart was still somewhat difficult.

Even so, after consuming the Titan Heart, the improvement to Su Hao remained enormously great.

Even among all Supernatural Fourth Rank beings, his current physique places him at an upper-middle level!

Moreover, the Titan Heart is not something that can only be taken once, with no effect on a second use.

After this use of the Titan Heart raised his physique to the middle tier of Fourth Rank, taking another Titan Heart might allow his breakthrough to reach the upper tier of Fourth Rank.

If that still doesn't work, just keep taking it until his physique reaches the upper limit that the Titan Heart can raise it to!

Anyway, with infinite cells, the swollen muscle used to synthesize the Titan Heart can be replicated infinitely, so there's no need to worry about material shortages.

The only real cost is the energy crystals consumed to replicate the material, and the number of syntheses.

Compared to the benefits brought by the Titan Heart, this expense is hardly a problem.

This consumption of the Titan Heart did not end after his physique reached the middle tier of Fourth Rank.

As that surging energy flooded into Su Hao's entire body's cells, a large portion of it split into two streams, flowing into the depths of his soul and forming two distinctly different runes.

The first rune takes the form of a single character, entirely earth-yellow in color.

Although Su Hao had never seen this character before, the moment his eyes met it, he understood its meaning—it was 'big', giving a feeling of limitlessness, infinite hugeness.

The second rune depicts a withered tree and a blood-colored giant standing amidst continuous mountains.

Against his backdrop, those towering peaks could only reach his knees; this astonishing contrast gives a more direct and profound sense of the giant's majestic height.

What exactly these two skills do remains to be seen; immediately, Su Hao's mind stirred, and he first opened the skill details panel for Giantification.

【Giantification】

Supernatural Grade: Fourth Rank

Effect: By mobilizing mental energy and blood qi, one can enlarge a body part, a held weapon, or a specific skill, increasing its size, strength, and weight.

The strength and duration of the Giantification effect are proportional to the amount of mental energy and blood qi consumed, and can be controlled according to one's will.

There is no upper limit to the size of enlargement; as long as one can bear the corresponding consumption, the degree and effect of Giantification can be continually increased.

……

"Holy crap, no limit? This skill is too overpowered!"

Looking at the content displayed on the information panel, Su Hao's eyes widened instantly, showing surprise and ecstasy.

Although Giantification does not boost all attributes, it only increases strength and weight.

But for Su Hao, this is a tremendous improvement.

As long as he activates his gravity field, even adding just one or two kilograms of weight will cause his destructive power to increase geometrically.

Moreover, the target of Giantification is not limited to Su Hao's own body; it can also be applied to his weapon and the skills he uses.

From now on, as long as Su Hao wishes, a small dagger in his hand can become a forty-meter-long great saber.

The pale bone claw can also transform into a giant hand over a hundred meters long, and the crimson tentacles can likewise become even larger.

For physical attacks, the larger the size, the greater the destructive power.

A pale bone claw several hundred meters long, merely swung down, is beyond what an ordinary Third Tier supernatural can withstand.

Combined with Su Hao's own strength and the amplification from Giantification, plus the added weight from his gravity field, even a casual strike from him would require Supernatural Fourth Rank beings to treat it cautiously; a slight mistake could leave them seriously injured.

More importantly, the magnitude of this enlargement has no upper limit.

As long as Su Hao's mental energy and blood qi are sufficiently abundant, let alone turning the pale bone claw into a hundred-meter giant hand; even several kilometers or tens of thousands of meters might not be impossible.

However, the exact situation and how much mental energy and blood qi it consumes still need to be determined through experimentation.

First, Su Hao used Giantification on his right hand.

He easily enlarged his right hand to a massive hundred-meter scale, with the consumption throughout the process not being large.

With his right hand enlarged, he felt his strength markedly increase; a casual sweep shattered large swaths of surrounding trees at the waist.

This destructive power is several times greater than when he hadn't used Giantification! At least when using Giantification, a single sweep from him could not destroy so many trees.

Next, he summoned a pale bone claw and applied Giantification to it.

He enlarged the pale bone claw to a hundred-meter length, increasing the consumption of mental energy and blood qi by roughly three times.

Afterward, Su Hao took out a First Rank supernatural weapon to test Giantification.

Perhaps because the supernatural grade was too low, Su Hao hardly incurred any noticeable consumption this time, and the weapon quickly grew to a hundred meters long.

After further experiments on more weapons, his hypothesis was confirmed: indeed, the lower the supernatural grade of the weapon, the smaller the required consumption.

When he attempted to enlarge the Supernatural Fourth Rank Divine Light Heavy Axe, he clearly felt consumption spike dramatically, nearly ten to twenty times that of enlarging his right hand.

Yet the destructive power displayed by this enlarged heavy axe is also astonishing; merely the free fall of the axe head can shatter vast swaths of forest.

Finally, Su Hao consumed a large amount of mental energy and blood qi, first enlarging both his arms to over a hundred meters long, then he expended nearly all his mental energy and blood qi to enlarge the Divine Light Heavy Axe to over five hundred meters.

Then.

Su Hao gripped the Divine Light Heavy Axe with both hands, sprinted forward over a hundred meters, then leapt high. His muscles tensed all over, veins bulging.

The giant axe traced a fierce arc in the air, carrying a howling wind, and with the effect of the gravity domain increasing weight, it suddenly chopped toward the ground.

"Boom!"

A deafening roar shook the ears, and the area within several kilometers trembled violently as if an earthquake had occurred.

The ground, unable to withstand this immense force, instantly shattered, sending stones flying and dust rising.

After the dust settled, a giant pit several kilometers in diameter appeared beneath the axe.

"Tsk tsk tsk, this power is really awesome!"

"If I had this skill while fighting the crystal stone giant, I wouldn't need to use the Death Scythe; just enlarging the Divine Light Heavy Axe would be enough to cleave it to death!"

Looking at the devastated forest and the huge pit beneath him, Su Hao panted heavily, nodding in satisfaction.

The only downside is that after using the Giantification skill at full power, the consumption of mental energy and qi-blood is too great.

After that final axe blow, his mental energy was basically exhausted, his qi-blood was depleted about seventy percent, and perhaps his mental energy would improve a bit only after reaching the intermediate level of the fourth supernatural rank.

Meanwhile, over at the Iron Lump Tribe...

Feeling the tremor coming from the ground, Geda, Tie Huzi, and the other dwarves' faces changed slightly.

"Is this an earthquake?"

Although they said that, they all knew this was impossible.

As dwarves, they have an innate sense for earthquakes, yet beforehand they had not sensed an impending quake.

After the tremor arrived, they also detected no signs of an earthquake.

This indicates that this tremor was not caused by an earthquake but by some external force—that is……

Near this tribe, an unknown powerhouse was fighting, thus causing this disturbance.

Since the Iron Lump Tribe had a unit of pale undead creatures guarding it, after a brief discussion they took that unit and headed toward the source of the vibration.

Within the Iron Lump Tribe's settlement, there is a Sun Furnace and a vast deposit of Nengyuan Shuijing Kuang.

These are things Su Hao cares deeply about; if they were damaged by accident, they feared provoking his displeasure—a consequence they could not bear under any circumstances.

To avoid this, they must first check what happened; if the threat is something they can handle, they will eliminate it.

If they cannot handle it, they will quickly retreat to defend, protect the Sun Furnace and Nengyuan Shuijing Kuang, report the matter to Su Hao, and have him send reinforcements.

Su Hao had no idea what was happening with the Iron Lump Tribe; after a short rest, he opened the information panel again and looked at another skill.

The effect of the Giantification skill is so powerful that even after taking a Titan Heart, Su Hao's physique did not reach the intermediate level of the fourth supernatural rank, yet his overall strength at least tripled.

If the Titan Avatar skill has an effect comparable to Giantification, then Su Hao's combat power could likely increase by about double on top of his current base.

Afterward, Su Hao's mind stirred slightly; he opened the details interface of the Titan Avatar skill.

【Titan Avatar】

Supernatural Grade: Fourth Rank

Effect: By burning the qi-blood within the body, the user can transform into a Titan Giant.

After becoming a Titan Giant, the size of the form is related to the user's physique strength; the stronger the physique, the larger the Titan Giant's form after transformation.

The duration of the transformation depends on the upper limit of the user's qi-blood.

When the Titan Avatar state ends, due to massive consumption of qi-blood, the user falls into a period of weakness; if qi-blood is completely exhausted, the flesh body temporarily loses the ability to move.

The user can, according to their own will, voluntarily terminate the Titan Avatar state; after ending early, according to the amount of qi-blood consumed, the user will fall into a corresponding degree of weakness.

In the Titan Avatar state, the user's size increases significantly, and strength, defense, and all attributes related to the flesh body receive a great boost.

Furthermore, all skills that rely on qi-blood for activation also receive additional enhancement in the Titan state.

……

"This seems to be a skill that pairs with Giantification!"

Su Hao stroked his chin, his eyes flickering slightly.

In previous experiments, in order to lift the enlarged Divine Light Heavy Axe, Su Hao still needed to enlarge his own arms first.

But if he transformed into a Titan Giant, perhaps he wouldn't need to go through all that trouble.

Thinking this, Su Hao immediately swallowed a handful of scarlet essence blood; after his qi-blood and mental energy recovered, he then communicated with the Titan Avatar skill rune deep in his soul.

The next moment.

Su Hao's body rapidly expanded, bursting his clothes; even the Blood Wolf Robe was blown off, not to mention his undergarments.

Soon after, he became a naked little giant about five meters tall, and his size continued to grow.

At this rate, before long his size will exceed the surrounding trees, giving the nearby creatures a demonstration of strolling birds in the trees.

"My precious jewels haven't even been seen by my own wife—how could I let outsiders look at them?"

Su Hao, quick-eyed and quick-handed, grabbed the Blood Wolf Robe that had been blown away, enlarged it, and put it on himself.

Although it was a bit chilly, at least it protected his precious jewels.

About three seconds later, Su Hao's size had already surpassed the surrounding trees, and it continued to increase at an even faster pace.

After another five seconds or so, Su Hao had become a giant over five hundred meters tall.

At the same time, he discovered that mysterious, inscrutable runes had appeared on the surface of his skin, greatly enhancing his defense.

Even attacks from some fourth-rank supernatural beings could not break through his defense.

Even against soul-targeting attacks, with such a powerful flesh body he could offset most of the damage, thus protecting his soul from the side.

Furthermore, these runes could greatly enhance Su Hao's qi-blood and physique, making his strength greater, his speed faster, and skills that consume qi-blood easier to cast and more powerful.

For example, enlarging his Blood Wolf Robe to this extent caused him no burden.

But just as Su Hao was preparing to further test the changes brought by becoming a Titan, his peripheral vision unintentionally caught sight of Geda and the others standing dumbfounded several kilometers away, and he abandoned the idea of continuing the test.

He grabbed the mechanical transport ship beneath his feet and strode toward Geda and the others.

(End of chapter)