The importance of talent is incomparable.
Along with the Contract Meditation Technique and Contracted Spirit Beast, it forms the foundation of the Spirit Master system. The three complement and support each other, containing limitless possibilities.
Just like the well-known Purple Talent, serial number 763, "Dragon's Heart," which, although it almost restricts a Spirit Master to contracting Dragon-type Spirit Beasts, has a similarly powerful effect, enhancing the abilities of Dragon-type Spirit Beasts comprehensively, improving communication efficiency, and greatly amplifying the power of their skills.
These talents, which specialize in one area while excluding others, generally have a strong supporting effect on their associated field, and the "Heart of Terra" is no exception.
Lin Guang can similarly enhance the capabilities of Terra beings, and the proportion of this enhancement does not decrease; it even increases with his level, growing stronger and higher.
This is why many powerful Spirit Masters can stand among the strong with only one or two Spirit Beasts, exploring dangerous Secret Realms filled with wild Spirit Beasts and returning unscathed.
Because the boost from talent in "Spirit Battle Chronicles" is a noble and independent multiplier!
But that is not the end.
The next moment, Lin Guang opened his hand again, and with a white brilliance, a seed-like shadow floated above his palm.
W suddenly sensed something, feeling an unknown impulse in her chest, and widened her eyes: "This is—"
"This is our contract, and also your past."
She murmured: "Past..."
Lin Guang looked at the seed in his hand and said softly, "In your previous world, you already had your own extraordinary ability, which you called 'Source Stone Artistry.'
"After crossing over, it seemed to disappear, but it only lay dormant in your body, turning into potential, waiting to be activated."
"Hold onto it and reclaim your past."
The ethereal fluctuation spread, and she instinctively raised her hand, grasping the seed—only to see a Spirit Pattern appear on the back of her hand, golden particles floated in the air, gathering to form a weapon, which the girl held.
It was an entirely black hand cannon, about 25 centimeters long, with a large-bore barrel, looking very rough, filled with dissonant splicing marks, as if forcibly assembled from many parts.
In the Terra World, firearms are rare items. A Sakaz without status or name almost had no chance of obtaining an intact firearm from Ratlan, and the splicing marks on it proved its origin.
Although it is unclear how many owners it had, this was the first cannon W owned.
[Your partner W has learned the skill: Explosive Shot · Green]
"Huh?!"
W showed a look of surprise, rubbing her hands on it.
This cannon was her favorite weapon when on the Terra Continent—although it was stolen from someone else.
Lin Guang explained: "It looks like an item, but in fact, it is composed of my Spiritual Power, talent, and your Ether, and can be regarded as a part of you… or what the Otherworld calls a Magic Staff, a casting medium, a Superpower Organ, that sort of thing."
Pausing, he pulled out his phone and tapped it twice. Soon enough, another weeping scarecrow was brought over, wearing a blue tattered shirt with a dusty white baseball cap, significantly larger than the previous one, at level 10.
In other words, it had become a Tier One Spirit Beast.
Just like humans, Spirit Beasts undergo a qualitative change every 10 levels.
Lin Guang pulled W to the other side of the room and then stood beside her, saying, "Come on, try it out."
W didn't speak; she simply turned around, raised her cannon in one hand toward the massive scarecrow.
A familiar yet unfamiliar feeling filled her heart, Ether danced as if lightly stepping, joyfully infusing the weapon held in her hand, only to see a dark red glow slowly brighten at the muzzle.
This charge lasted a full 10 seconds, and the fire attribute's ethereal fluctuation almost overflowed.
Then, pull the trigger!
BOOM!!
The next instant, a dark red bullet shot out from the muzzle, crossing over twenty meters in an instant, the dull firing sound and the deafening explosion ringing almost simultaneously.
The explosion's firelight and impact, accompanied by billowing smoke, enveloped the room completely, causing W and Lin Guang's clothes and hair to whip violently, and three seconds later, the crying sound suddenly began.
"Waaah—"
Unlike the previous vitality, through the smoke, the cry of this level 10 scarecrow seemed so weak, as if it had been beaten nearly to death.
Under the fierce interaction between different Ether attributes, even the crying's trait was weakened, merely causing the duo's actions to pause slightly.
"Cough, cough..."
The surrounding exhaust system quickly activated, replacing the thick smoke with fresh air, revealing the full extent of the strike site.
In the blackened area, the scarecrow's clothes had completely disappeared, and including its head, only about thirty percent of its body remained, regrowing at an extremely slow pace, barely visible to the naked eye, likely taking several days to recover.
[Your partner W has defeated a Gray Level 10 enemy, the Star Shard progress bar has increased.]
[Star Shard progress bar 100%, gained 1 Star Shard.]
--Directly settled, it seems it nearly got destroyed.
"Such strong power."
Lin Guang slightly opened his mouth, clicking his tongue: "Thankfully, incidents have happened before, and now the official regulations require impact absorption devices linked with Spirit Pattern Barriers in training rooms, otherwise, using such skills in an enclosed space, I might be maimed if not killed."
"Hahaha... hahahahahaha!!!!"
Through the contract, Lin Guang could feel the Ether in W's body had been entirely exhausted, even her legs seemed to tremble slightly from exertion.
Yet she couldn't help but laugh wildly, jumping up to clap Lin Guang's shoulder with effort, her eyes full of excitement: "Interesting! Very interesting!"
"Ah, you should've been much stronger than this before, to be this excited?"
W found it hard to suppress the excitement on her face, lowering her head, unable to resist gripping the cannon again: "It's a hard-to-describe feeling… but I can feel it."
"I've become stronger!"
Lin Guang opened the panel, confirming W's ability had improved by one level, nodding: "That's right, you've leveled up."
To be honest, although there's only one level difference from level 3 to level 4, the higher the potential of a Spirit Beast, the slower it levels up. For instance, under the same circumstances, the growth rate of a Gray inferior-level Spirit Beast is several times that of a Blue Elite Level Spirit Beast, and Lin Guang didn't expect W would gain an upgrade in just two battles.
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