NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 174: Polyglot
Bane of Infections? Does that mean that my new Mage LifeSkill is effective against Infection Canzers?
Atlan wanted to check out his new LifeSkill, but he knew that he couldn't. Tarish and the others wouldn't be able to take another shot of surprise from Atlan. Their psyches would break once they learned that Atlan had other LifeSkills in his Soul System, with some already consolidating the 5th stage.
He put his focus next to the Genuses he obtained.
It took 126 1-star Sapient Canzer Genuses and 33,000 Upgrade Points to upgrade it all to a 7-star Genus.
[Atlan]
[Bloodline: Angelic Reaper of Souls]
[Genus]
—4x (1-star) Sapient Canzer
—2x (1-star) Flora
—10x (1-star) Pseudo Canzer
—1x (3-star) Human
—1x (6-star) Pseudo Canzer
—1x (7-star) Sapient Canzer
—1x (7-star) Flora
—1x (9-star) Gatekeeper
—1x (10-star) Grim Reaper
—1x (10-star) Angel
[You have obtained a new (7-star) mutation: Sapient Canzer Polyglot]
[Mutation]
— (4-star) Canzer Mother Tongue
— (6-star) Pseudo Canzer Whisperer
— (7-star) Photosynthesis
— (7-star) Sapient Canzer Polyglot
— (10-star) Gluttonous Soul
— (10-star) Dimensional Lightspeed Angel Wings
Atlan welcomed his new mutation with open arms.
By the name itself, he knew that it was an ability that allowed him to converse with Sapient Canzers.
With all of his mutations, he could now understand and talk to any kind of Canzer he came across.
If he had this mutation before, then he would have been able to talk to the Sapient Infection Canzers and warn them not to make him angry.
Of course, the fact that he could speak their language would make them extremely shocked and furious. They would consider it as a transgression that would ultimately lead to them attacking. Either way, Atlan would have liked to see their shocked faces once they realized that he could talk to them.
This was an extremely important skill to have in missions. Understanding Canzers already proved to be a life-saving measure that could help him figure out a Canzer's weakness, just like his time in the Pocket Remedium.
By now, he was sure that every Remedium he entered would be plagued with anomalies. He expected to see Sapient Canzers appear rather than a mission preceding as normal.
And during those times, he and his team would be caught with no way to defeat their enemies. They'd be helpless with no suitable Operator construct in their hands.
However, if he was able to talk and understand the Canzers, he could figure out what kind of weakness they had. Even if they won't give it out voluntarily, everything would get easier with a little bit of violence.
It wasn't guaranteed that every Sapient Canzer he came across would die from his Cherubic Retribution.
Although all Canzers were weak against Angel power, he came to know that some Canzers had different weaknesses too. The Giant Werewolf Canzer was weak against Silver and Angel Power, while the Ifrit was weak against Water and Angel Power.
He got lucky this time. The Sapient Infection Canzer's weakness was only its hidden root.
If he wasn't able to figure out that it had that kind of weakness or if he wasn't able to find it underground, then he wouldn't be able to defeat them with just his Cherubic LifeSkill. He'd be too exhausted activating it tens of thousands of times in a short amount of time.
I need to know how Operators know about a Canzer's weakness.
Encountering another anomaly strengthened his resolve to learn more about Operators and their jobs.
Although most Vanguards blamed the 'Quills' for always misjudging the difficulty of a mission, Atlan knew that it wasn't their fault.
Even the anomaly in this mission couldn't be attributed to their mistake. No one knew that it was possible to be placed in a Remedium outside the City walls.
Only by learning what the Operators do, will he be able to anticipate these kinds of anomalies or even prevent them from happening altogether.
He could only do that by going to the University where he could immerse himself in everything Operator related.
He would have gone by himself, but with the tensions between the 'Quills' and the 'Knives' being so high right now, he was advised not to go there without an escort.
He hoped that Pterina would be finished with her job and take him there.
However, with another anomaly like this, Pterina's job was most likely even more congested than before. She'd have to question him and the rest of Tarish's team about what happened.
"Look! There's another ray of light over there!"
One of the mages pointed out another beam that rained down at a specific place in the ruins of Masamune district. It pointed at a place that was buried by two skyscrapers that crashed into each other.
Tarish and her team slowly walked over to the beam of light and unearthed the wreckage of cement rubble and bent steel beams.
After a few minutes, they finally came across a ruined blacksmith workshop. And surrounded by metal debris in the middle was an unbroken circular construct that they were all too familiar with.
Their shoulders eased up when they saw a dark shimmering liquid inside the area, signaling that the portal still worked!
"Yes…thank you, Genesis God!"
"Sob..sob…I thought we'd get stuck here for years!"
The 6th stage Saviors couldn't hold back their emotions as they finally saw the light at the end of their arduous tunnel.
They didn't waste another second as they ran through the portal and stepped back into the comfort of the real world.
Atlan followed them soon after.
Once he went over the portal, a clear and cool breeze of fresh air hit their faces.
They slumped on the ground out of exhaustion. Even though their bodies were rid of any injuries, their minds were still too traumatized from the Sapient Canzers' torments.
The soldiers on the other side of the portal immediately stopped what they were doing when they saw the Saviors come back out of the portal.
They would have thought that they retreated from a failed mission, but once everyone was out of the portal, the black shimmering liquid on the circular construct dissipated in the air.
This signaled the mission's completion! Somehow, they killed the Canzers inside even with an anomaly!
"How did you guys finish the mission?" The reinforcement Saviors tasked to save them stopped their preparations. Explore stories on empire