#537Chapter 537: Quack! It's the God of the Feminization Field!AI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 537: Quack! It's a Great God from the Gender-Bending Domain!
Hundred Demons' Night Parade, Midnight Bliss/Dark Delight, and Goddess's Origin/Primal Beast Form.
These three skills are the three most famous mandatory transformation abilities in the fighting game genre, and Cheng Tian has successfully acquired two of them.
"Hundred Demons' Night Parade" can transform opponents into demons or yokai, while "Midnight Bliss" can forcibly temporarily change the target's gender to female and inflict a vampiric strike.
As for "Goddess's Origin," the source of this move actually comes from Athena Asamiya's ancestor, "Goddess Athena." When Goddess Athena defeats or kills a target, the target will be forcibly transformed into a corresponding wild animal unit.
For example, Mai Shiranui would be turned into an equally voluptuous, black and white spotted… cow.
Chun-Li would be turned into an ostrich with long legs, Terry would be turned into a raccoon wearing a hat, and so on.
[Midnight Bliss: B-rank skill / Lv1, active skill. Dimitri, the demon world vampire warrior's signature move, can forcibly transform any biological unit into a female unit, then perform a vampiric strike on her.
You can actively cast "Midnight Bliss" on any target unit, then ignore resistance to forcibly transform the target into a female unit, dealing 200 damage, and converting 50% of it into a vampiric healing effect. The skill consumes 50 MP and has a cooldown of 15 minutes.
When the target you transform is a male unit, his Strength attribute value will swap with his other lowest attribute value. The transformation lasts for (your Charm attribute - target's Charm attribute) * 5 seconds.
When the target you transform is a female unit, her armor-type equipment (chest armor + pants) will temporarily be transformed into a random fashion item and lose the corresponding bonus effects. The transformation lasts for (your Charm attribute - target's Charm attribute) * 2 seconds].
[Additional comment: What would happen if this were cast on units that inherently have no gender?]
Cheng Tian couldn't help but be stunned when he saw the final additional comment.
Cheng Tian remembered that Midnight Bliss could even transform the Martians from Metal Slug in the game, turning the originally drab gray Martians into pink Martians with small flowers on their heads. But this was probably because Martians looked like a combination of mushrooms and octopuses, and actually had gender distinctions.
As for purely genderless units... Ditto?
He'd have to try it when he got the chance~
Cheng Tian learned Midnight Bliss, while Aileen chose a skill called "Demonic Burst Strike."
This skill could summon a large number of self-detonating demon bats in a short period to launch a concentrated suicide attack on the target.
But interestingly, during the teaching process, Aileen's skill actually underwent a low-probability fusion mutation event.
The purely offensive summoning skill "Demonic Burst Strike," which was supposed to occupy Aileen's last free skill slot, actually merged into the purely reconnaissance-type auxiliary summoning skill "Owl Spirit," becoming a skill named "Burst Owl."
The maximum number of summoned owls increased from 1 to 4. While still possessing semi-invincible armor and long-range observation capabilities, each one also came with controllable sentry and self-detonation skills.
Sentry allowed the owl to completely lose its flight ability, using a sufficiently large green plant as a foothold, fixing itself there to become a "reconnaissance eye" that could constantly link its vision with the main body, similar to the tree-planting owls of the Night Elf Huntress.
And self-detonation, as the name suggests, meant it could detonate itself at any time to create a small-range "soul shockwave" effect on surrounding targets, equivalent to its Spirit value.
The power of the explosion wasn't particularly outstanding, but the soul shockwave had the effect of interrupting spellcasting. If four self-detonating owls rushed at the same target together, with segmented, chained self-detonations, the threat level would be quite significant.
The skill's enhancement was visible to the naked eye, and it also saved a precious empty skill slot, but it also placed higher demands on Aileen's usage.
With just one owl, she would have to physically synchronize herself, flapping her wings. With four additional visual overlays, wouldn't she be on the verge of a mental breakdown?
Incidentally, Cheng Tian's mutated bloodline was perfected into "Sunwalker," while Aileen's profession, due to her victory in the Raxshir ritual, ultimately transformed from "Windrunner" to "Stormwalker"... Tsk tsk~ These two lovebirds~
Although Aileen didn't possess genuine Orochi blood, through her victory and plunder in the ritual provided by the quest, she also acquired a part of the original power of the 'Breath of the Storm' ability.
By analogy, it was somewhat similar to the "Psycho Power Battle Style Origin" that Cheng Tian obtained from Vega, belonging to a kind of instinctive-level enhancement where she could instinctively control wind, even if the skill was forbidden.
The enhancements brought by the ritual victory were not limited to this; the effects and judgments of all wind-related skills significantly increased, and her professional skills, needless to say, each received an almost 50% qualitative change.
Originally, Aileen was a bit envious that Cheng Tian could forcibly stay airborne with the help of his stand-in. Now, she only needed to activate Windwalk, with a little assistance from the wind, to soar relatively freely in the air, without needing to rely on Lightning Rhythm to achieve it.
Coupled with her Agility attribute, which Cheng Tian had forcibly raised to S-rank in the settlement evaluation and had already broken through its extreme barrier, she could now easily reach 60 Agility in minutes.
It was no exaggeration to say she had undergone a complete transformation.
Additionally, Cheng Tian and Aileen both now had 15 attribute points and 6 skill points in reserve. Cheng Tian, in particular, had an extra 2 golden skill points, but in their current cleared state, they were not in a hurry to allocate points.
At the same time, these attribute points from the clearance settlement were also projected proportionally onto Bazett, Utan, and Mina, with many areas still requiring further discussion.
The wrap-up work for the King of Fighters world was actually quite complex.
However, what surprised Cheng Tian was that a few players, who had no previous contact with him, actually came to the research institute to greet him... or rather, to apologize and atone for their actions.
Cheng Tian didn't even have to speak; these people adamantly declared that they would absolutely not spread any information about him, as if they were drawing a clear line with others who were likely to sell information to recoup their costs.
Cheng Tian didn't care about information leaks; if they hadn't brought it up, he wouldn't have even remembered it.
But their initiative mention of it piqued Cheng Tian's interest.
He also wanted to know the extent of the spread of his actions in the King of Fighters instance, and in which player communities it was most widely disseminated.
As for the 996 team, who had a slight disagreement with Cheng Tian, they immediately fled after the settlement, which left Cheng Tian somewhat regretful, as he had wanted to ask them about things like Oversoul.
But it must be said, the 996 team was quite decisive and straightforward in their actions.
Playing dead and disappearing are often the optimal ways to deal with conflicts. If the other party is a true big shot, they will eventually forget all about you.
After arranging the laboratory's upcoming operational plan, Cheng Tian, along with his people, disappeared from the King of Fighters instance, enveloped in a descending silver light.