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Mud, sand, and humus churned up from the bottom of the water. The pool water near the shore, which covered Merlin's knees, began to turn turbid.
From time to time, enthusiastic small fish and shrimp leaped out of the water. A smile appeared in Merlin's eyes:
"Since fish and shrimp live here, it proves that the possibility of an electric eel haunting this place is not small."
So he increased his efforts.
The blade in his hand scraped against the mud and water plants underwater along the shore. Instantly, sections of cut water plants floated to the surface.
Merlin patted his way around the shore. After circling three times, the look in his eyes became subtle.
However, Merlin didn't get discouraged and persisted with this set of actions. Maybe the electric eel hadn't gotten up yet, or maybe it was still asleep in its hole.
As time passed, just as Merlin was circling for the tenth time, suddenly, a black monster fish about 2.3 meters long leaped out from near the center of the pool. A bzzzt sound of electric current suddenly burst out.
At this very moment, Merlin's body stiffened abruptly. The current released by the electric eel conducted from the pool water to his body, and a stinging numbness instantly flowed through every part of his body.
At this moment,
The corners of Merlin's mouth rose.
Just as his body fell towards the shore, black flames flared up on his body surface. The numbness on his body paused. Merlin steadied his figure. The paralysis Calamity appearing in his body began to confront the black flames. Merlin's consciousness controlled the black flames to start analyzing and understanding the composition of this Calamity.
The electric eel's power generation and discharge were bio-electricity. Merlin had known this for a long time. So at this moment, he perceived this pain Calamity caused by current through the black flames.
At this time, the electric eel in the center of the pool discharged again, and the numbness struck again. However, Merlin was not alarmed but delighted. This current couldn't cause his consciousness to faint; it would only stimulate Merlin's consciousness to be more focused.
A moment later, Merlin gradually understood this current paralysis Calamity. Then Calamity Absorption took effect, and the Calamity in his body was absorbed.
At this moment, as the black flames on his body surface disappeared, Merlin's gaze quietly focused, staring deathly at the position where the electric eel had disappeared from the center of the pool just now.
At this moment, an instinctive sense of crisis appeared. Merlin held the blade, the blade body submerged in the water.
And in the water three meters away, Merlin could perceive a crisis approaching.
Standing quietly in the water, one second, two seconds... ten seconds. Suddenly, the monster fish appeared on the outside of Merlin's calf. As it made contact, a bzzzt sound of current, mixed with wisps of extremely faint blue-white electric arcs, leaped from the water surface. In an instant, a more stinging numbness spread throughout his body.
However, right at this moment, under Merlin's keen reaction ability.
As the electric eel contacted Merlin underwater and discharged electricity, the Calamity Black Flames ignited with a whoosh! At the position on the side of the leg where the electric eel touched, the black flames instantly wrapped around it.
Calamity: Crimson Pain.
In the blink of an eye, a touch of crimson appeared in the water by Merlin's leg. Several fatal cuts instantly appeared on the electric eel's body.
At the same time, its own current surged in along the wounds. The biological insulation layer on its body surface was damaged. It turned belly up in an instant and fainted, floating to the surface.
Merlin glanced at the electric eel floating on the water, which had become stiff. The black flames had already absorbed his own Calamity. His left hand shot out like lightning, grabbed the electric eel's head, and threw it fiercely out of the pool.
At the same time, Merlin waded through the water, walked quickly out of the pool, and came to the black electric eel that had fallen into the grass on the shore.
Black flames spread on his feet, stepping on the electric eel's body, absorbing the Calamity in its body at this moment, ensuring that it couldn't die.
At this time, as the electric eel's injuries healed, Merlin bent down and pressed his hand on the electric eel's body.
Immediately after, with a movement of consciousness, the electric eel disappeared from the spot and appeared in the second slot of the Equipment Slot.
[Name: Unconscious Electric Eel]
[Effect: After equipping, enables you to obtain the biological characteristics possessed by the electric eel.]
[Synchro Value: 1%]
[Evaluation: A strong and cunning male electric eel. As an absolute hunter in shallow waters, it possesses the ability to release bio-electricity. After equipping for a long time, there is a probability of permanently obtaining the special biological expertise possessed by this electric eel.]
Checking the data introduction of this electric eel in the Equipment Slot, a gleam flashed in Merlin's eyes. The point he valued most about the electric eel was the ability of bio-electricity.
After carefully reading the equipment introduction of the electric eel, as the Equipment Slot disappeared, Merlin frowned slightly at this time, having an ominous premonition. He took out the pocket watch he was wearing from his neck and looked at the time.
"..."
"Am I blind?" Only when he placed the pocket watch ten centimeters in front of his eyes could he clearly see the time on the watch: 7:00 PM.
Merlin was very speechless in his heart at this moment. Although he knew that the electric eel's vision could be described as blind, he didn't expect the impact on him to be so great after equipping it.
Five meters away was completely unclear; three meters away, people and animals couldn't be distinguished; only within half a meter could he see ordinary-sized things clearly.
What was the difference between this and being blind?
Moreover, this was under the circumstance that he now held several specializations and his vision had been passively improved. Only then did he have this level of vision.
The corner of his mouth couldn't help twitching instantly.
After equipping the [Electric Eel], it brought more negative states completely. Even the improvement in physical fitness was almost non-existent.
Of course, this was also related to the fact that he had become stronger now.
Hearing was slightly sharper, but as for smell, taste, and touch, needless to say.
Merlin opened his eyes wide at this moment. "Eyes open but blind"—that described him exactly. A helpless feeling of wanting to cry but having no tears welled up in his heart.
Fortunately, this boost brought by the [Electric Eel] equipment was only temporary.
Otherwise, he would suffer in the future.
However, Merlin's consciousness moved slightly at this moment. Black flames lingered in his eyes, beginning to analyze this boosted weak-sight Calamity. Fortunately, it didn't take long for this visual impairment Calamity to be understood thoroughly and absorbed.
Instantly, "light" appeared in his eyes again. However, it was like the dark light color of wearing sunglasses.
"Fortunately, Calamity Absorption can indeed absorb this negative body state boosted by [Equipment]."
At this moment.
His understanding and cognition of this biological equipment were inevitably deepened.
It seemed that biological [Equipment] could not be used casually in the future.
If he had bad luck and obtained this weak-sight specialization permanently, that would be really unlucky.
And at this moment, even without a mirror, Merlin knew that his eyes must be terrifying right now.
After all, whose normal person's eyes would have black flames burning in them?
It seemed that he might have to wear sunglasses for a while.
After all, this weak sight was a continuous characteristic boost. As long as the black flame absorption was canceled, he would become blind again.
Merlin shook his head, clearing the messy thoughts in his mind at this moment, and then carefully experienced another ability boost added to his body at this time.
An instinct-like feeling appeared, like the tactile sensation of an alternative limb. In the next moment, with a thought, bzzzt—
Boosted by Merlin's physical fitness.
Blue-white electric currents instantly spread over his body surface.
"Fuu—"
A slightly out-of-tune angry voice instantly squeezed out of his throat. At this moment, a stinging numbness like high-voltage electrocution suddenly appeared from inside and outside his whole body.
Merlin suddenly fell to his knees, opening his mouth wide and panting heavily. At this moment, wisps of thin black smoke escaped from his mouth and nose.
Palpitations, dizziness, buttocks clenched tight—he nearly lost control of his bladder and bowels.
In an instant, black flames gushed out from his body and swept back instantly. Merlin turned over and lay flat on the ground, panting.
Eyes wide open, looking at the sky appearing blurry and dark in his field of vision, hundreds of millions of alpacas ran through his heart at this moment.
"My body is only boosted by the biological characteristics of the electric eel, but it does not inherit that body structure that can insulate electricity. Just like even if I equipped the lynx, I wouldn't have a tail and long hair all over my body."
"Then doesn't this become like the Seven Injuries Fist? To hurt others, hurt yourself first?"
A strong feeling of entanglement appeared from his heart. Merlin panted heavily. The stinging sensation of general paralysis just now was very annoying, just like being paralyzed:
"Should I give up?"
Merlin's eyes became obscure. The creature electric eel was the fastest way he could think of to obtain this kind of transcendent power, which was rare.
However, the negative effect was too great.
No, it couldn't be said to be great.
At this time, Merlin took off the glove on his right hand with his left hand. He placed his right hand over his eyes. As the black flames spread, the crimson color on his five fingers began to fade, and the pain Calamity stored in his right hand was released.
With a wave of his hand, the ball of black flame in his hand was thrown out immediately, falling on the grass beside him, burning out quietly.
The Calamity "ammunition" stored in the ten fingers of both hands—whether absorbing, storing, or releasing—all depended on his own thought.
And after this period of development and use, with the continuous increase of Synchro Value, the potential of the fruit ability was constantly excavated. Merlin could already achieve this: as long as he didn't want the Calamity "ammunition" stored in these ten fingers, he could completely attach them to the black flames and throw them out. As he cut off the connection with the black flames through consciousness, the detached black flames without his energy supply and the Calamity "ammunition" attached to them would completely dissipate in a short time.
Just by consuming some energy, the "magazines" of the ten fingers could be completely emptied, allowing for reloading of "ammunition."
At this moment, with a movement of consciousness, the current poured into his body again. Merlin lay on the ground trembling like a stranded fish or shrimp. His consciousness soon blurred, but under the burning of the black flames, this negative Calamity on his body was absorbed completely again.
Calamity Storage.
At this very moment,
Panting, Merlin raised his right hand, looking at the additional blue-white, dense, irregular branch-like texture on his thumb.
His heart moved slightly.
Calamity: Current Paralysis.
A brand new Calamity "ammunition" was born from this.
At the same time, feeling the double energy consumption in his body at this moment—discharge and Calamity.
Suddenly, a thought moved in Merlin's heart:
"If I carry out this electric shock tempering for a long time, can my body adapt to this current infusion?"
"Or, find a chance to learn Life Return (Seimei Kikan) in the future, thereby controlling my own cells, using the electric eel's discharge ability as a bridge channel, and thereby controlling bio-electricity?
"I seem to have heard that the electric eel's current is a form of application of bio-electricity in the body?
"And in every aspect of the human body, bio-electricity is flowing. Using this as a medium, through electric shock activation and sensing bio-electricity in the body, thereby learning to manipulate bio-electricity, or bio-electric fields?"
"Seems quite promising?"
Merlin's thoughts drifted, suddenly feeling that this kind of self-harming current upon use didn't seem so bad anymore.
Moreover, electric eels sense prey through electric fields. Bio-electric field sensing.
Furthermore, the Haki ability innate to all creatures in this world seemed to be awakened through intense stimulation of emotions.
Thinking of this, a gleam flashed in Merlin's eyes immediately.
At this time, he climbed up from the ground, holding Night Earl in his right hand, black flames burning in a pair of eyes, and walked towards home.
Biological life activities.
Cannot be separated from bio-electricity.
Merlin thought so in his heart.