"If Unique Skills were categorized, Learner should be considered a high-level Unique Skill, just like Predator."
"And Leader and Capturer, which have developmental potential, would be considered mid-level Unique Skills."
Don't let the flaws of Leader and Capturer fool you; they are far more powerful than the Reincarnators summoned in the original work.
I remember that in the original work, there were three people from other worlds who were summoned.
Shougo's Berserker, Hoshina's Madness speaker, and Kyouya's Severer.
In Bai Luo's opinion, the Unique Skills of these three couldn't compare to Leader and Capturer.
These types of Unique Skills are more like power-based ones, possessing considerable combat power as soon as they are acquired.
However, the drawbacks of Berserker, Madness speaker, and Severer are also very obvious: they lack staying power.
In Bai Luo's view, the true power of Unique Skills should manifest after breaking through Special A-Rank.
Just like Bai Luo's Leader and Capturer.
Even after becoming a Demon Lord Seed, Bai Luo can still rely on these two Unique Skills to continuously strengthen himself.
"According to this classification, Peng Peng's Destroyer is actually a low-level Unique Skill."
Bai Luo pondered, then opened his current status panel.
[Bai Luo]
Race: Dragonkin (Pseudo)
Level: A-Rank Upper Demon (18060 EP)
Profession: Madness speaker
General Skills: Life Magic, Healing Magic, Elemental Magic, Pokémon Magic, etc.
Inherent Skills: Adaptability, All-Profession Mastery
Additional Skills: Dragon Eye, Explosion Magic
Unique Skills: Traveler [Broken-level], Leader, Capturer, Learner
Special Skills: Magic Element Solidification, Star Particle Manipulation
Subordinates: Egui Peng (1 / 12)
Marked Worlds: Pokémon World, Konosuba World
The types of skills, arranged from low to high according to strength and rarity, are General Skills, Additional Skills, and Unique Skills.
Special Skills are an exception; they cannot be simply measured by strength and cannot be replicated by others.
Furthermore, Additional Skills are also called Supplemental Skills or EX Skills.
And Inherent Skills are mostly passive abilities or racial traits.
"Over 18,000 magic essence, and the number of subordinate slots has increased from the original 6 to the current 12."
"3 at C-rank, 6 at B-rank, and now that I've broken through A-rank, the subordinate slots have reached a total of 12."
Bai Luo's original plan was to go to other worlds to find subordinates, just like Egui Peng.
"The increase in slots is faster than I expected."
Bai Luo secretly thought: "In that case, it seems there's no need to cling to other worlds."
"The Cardinal World also has many potential individuals worth taking as subordinates."
For example, Zhu Cai, Shion, Hong Maru, and Cang Ying from the Great Ogre Clan; in the original work, they all possessed the aptitude to awaken ultimate abilities.
Among them, Cang Ying's magic essence value in the future exceeded 1.2 million, and Shion and Hong Maru, when equipped with their exclusive weapons, could even break through 5 million.
Leaving aside Zhu Cai, the combined magic essence of just Shion, Hong Maru, and Cang Ying reached a staggering 11.2 million.
With a 50% feedback rate, if Bai Luo took the four of them as subordinates, he would receive at least 6 million magic essence in feedback in the future.
So, allocating four subordinate slots to them would not only not be a loss but would result in a substantial gain.
"I'll use half of the subordinate slots in the future to cultivate talented followers in the Cardinal World."
Bai Luo didn't forget the remaining 250-plus Great Ogre Clan members: "Even if I can't develop them into subordinates, as long as they are followers, Leader can draw a portion of power from them."
Subordinates 50%, Naming 15%.
Ordinary followers, depending on their loyalty, provide magic essence feedback ranging from 1% to 3%.
Excluding the B-rank children among the Great Ogre Clan, the remaining 200-plus individuals have an average magic essence of around 6500.
Even if calculated at the minimum of 1%, that's 65 x 200, nearly 13,000 magic essence.
If luck is good and the Great Ogre Clan genuinely submits, it would be 40,000.
"However, meeting the conditions for subjugation definitely isn't that simple."
While Leader's ability to gather the power of all beings is a BUG, it's not without limitations.
At the very least, it's impossible for someone to simply say 'I pledge allegiance to you' and be recognized as a follower.
To achieve a magic essence connection, there must first be genuine and sincere submission.
The Great Ogre Clan worships the strong, but worship does not mean approval.
"Is there a way to quickly gain the loyalty of Pokémon?"
"That's right!"
Soon, Bai Luo thought of a solution: "Naming!"
Yes, Naming!
This was Bai Luo's chosen method, the most direct and simplest way to gain the loyalty of the Great Ogre Clan.
Bai Luo currently possesses 18,000 magic essence.
Excluding the immovable 10,000 boundary line, he only had 8,000 magic essence left to bestow names.
Currently, the strongest among the Great Ogre Clan were Bai Luo and the Red Ogre leader.
Their magic essence was higher than the other Great Ogre Clan members, reaching 9,000 and 8,500 respectively.
This meant that Bai Luo only needed to use 2,500 magic essence to bestow names upon them.
"Once their magic essence reaches 10,000, Bai Luo and the Red Ogre leader can evolve into Ogres."
"And based on the fact that the namer can receive 15% of the magic essence back, I can at least get 3,000 magic essence in return from them."
"So, this deal is not only not a loss, but actually a net gain of 500."
In other words, for Great Ogre Clan members whose magic essence value exceeded 8,500, Bai Luo suffered no loss when bestowing names.
"Bai Luo, your aura suddenly became much stronger!"
"Mm."
Bai Luo smiled and said, "Thanks to you, Peng Peng, I was able to successfully evolve."
"Now, I am an Upper-Rank Demon, just like you, Peng Peng."
Egui Peng was happy about Bai Luo's evolution, even more so than her own breakthrough and strengthening, which pleased her even more.
"Peng Peng, go help me get Hong, uh..."
Bai Luo originally wanted to say 'Hong Maru', but then remembered that they didn't have names yet.
Helpless, Bai Luo had no choice but to describe Zhu Cai, Shi On, Hong Maru, and Cang Ying's appearances, and then asked Egui Peng to bring them over.
"Peng Peng is going now!"
As soon as the little girl received the order, she bounced out.
"Slow down, be careful not to fall!"
"I won't! Peng Peng is not a fool!"
Egui Peng turned her head and stuck out her tongue, "Only a fool would trip on flat ground!"
After speaking, the girl not only did not slow down, but ran even faster.
"This girl..."
Watching Egui Peng's playful demeanor, Bai Luo couldn't help but smile.
His thoughtful little cotton jacket was always so lively and cheerful, and even Bai Luo was infected by her.
Indeed, no matter when, as long as he was with Egui Peng, his mood would inexplicably improve.