bdsm-fiction Chapter 76 Who can resist RGB lighting?
Chapter 76 Who can resist RGB lighting?
The character customization issue has been resolved.
Luo Lan slowly lowered his head, his gaze falling on his skeletal left claw, which he had always concealed with [Optical Camouflage] or heavy armor gauntlets.
[Since you can customize even the face, can't you do the same with other body parts?]
Although, in Luo Lan's personal aesthetic view, this bone claw with its cold metallic sheen is really cool when it activates its skill in battle.
However, in human settlements, the left-hand bone claw would be too conspicuous if it were exposed.
Although in this era, because the [Ripples] have appeared more and more frequently, the various abilities that adventurers have obtained from the [Ripples] have become increasingly strange, leading many people to become accustomed to all sorts of bizarre appearances.
For example, in the Central Continent alone, the residents of [Boundless Harbor] or [Sky Empire] would not care at all about the minor, unique appearance of "a bone claw".
However, for Luo Lan in the Holy Kingdom where he is currently located, and for the Emerald Council where he is going next, the bone claw is still a major drawback in terms of appearance, which is a "black magic stereotype".
Luo Lan touched the flesh-and-blood part of her left arm with her right hand.
If flesh and blood could grow, given the malleability of the [Semi-liquid] skill, it wouldn't be theoretically difficult to mold a left hand that's indistinguishable from a normal person's.
[But where did such a large lump of flesh and blood come from out of thin air?]
Luo Lan stared at her bare left forearm for a few seconds, and a sudden, ingenious idea popped into her head.
[What if... we consider the "lack of flesh and blood" itself as a wound?]
The essence of self-healing is repairing physical damage. If the body's default state should include flesh and blood, then a lack of flesh is naturally considered damage.
Luo Lan tried to treat the entire left forearm, lacking flesh and blood, and the bone claw as a single "large wound," and activated [Self-Healing lv.2].
The next second, a large amount of biomass energy in the body was consumed rapidly.
A spasmodic emptiness came from my stomach, as if I hadn't eaten for several days.
Luo Lan then took out a piece of black bread from her storage space with her right hand and started eating it, while observing the changes in her left hand.
Clumps of dark red, soft, and sticky flesh squeezed out from the gaps in the bones and upper arm, as if they had a mind of their own, wriggling and spreading towards the fingers along the pale metal claw.
Flesh and blood flowed through the wrist joint, enveloping the metacarpal bones and filling the gaps between the five finger bones.
The entire bony hand was covered in dark red gel, which quickly solidified, revealing the texture of tendons and the elasticity of the subcutaneous fat layer.
The mucus tissue on the surface then rapidly cools and differentiates into a layer of slightly whitish, delicate skin.
This scene is somewhat similar to the change that occurred when my left hand was covered by the rampaging slime of the evil thoughts.
However, at this moment, it is Luo Lan's will that is in control, not the evil thoughts of the Outer God.
Luo Lan looked down at the newly "grown" slightly pink left hand.
I tried moving my fingers, and my five fingers flexibly bent gently in front of me.
Five fingers, complete, round and full.
Fingerprints, palm prints... everything is there.
There was one thing that was wrong: the fingertips were bare, missing something—there were no nails.
The semi-liquid flesh can mimic the texture of skin and muscles, and can differentiate pores and palm lines.
However, it cannot create fingernails, which are composed of keratin and trace mineral elements.
Luo Lan stared at the five fingers of her left hand, which resembled a "pseudo-human," and examined her palm several times, turning it over and over.
[No, wouldn't it be even stranger if someone were to look closely?]
One hand has fingernails, the other doesn't.
It's less eerie and more jarring.
Five bare fingers were laid out there, and anyone with normal eyesight would notice something was wrong at a glance.
Luo Lan pondered how she could make herself "grow" fingernails.
He checked his skill list one by one.
Physical skills, swordsmanship, berserk mode, sonic shockwaves, bone spike bursts, red lightning storms... all combat skills, none of them have anything to do with "long fingernails".
After scanning several combat skills and feats, his consciousness finally settled on a low-level skill.
【Pale-light crystal cluster lv.1】
This skill involves consuming a small amount of biomass energy to create luminescent crystals of various shapes.
Deep within the previous underground palace's rift, a low-level monster known as the "Gem Crystal Worm" used this skill to form crystal-shaped eggs or elytra.
Crystalline. Hard. Moldable.
[What if we consider the shape of fingernails...as a type of crystalline structure?]
Since it can create crystal-like objects at will, it is only natural that it can also shape a few "nails" that are close to the fingertips.
"despair."
Luo Lan raised her left hand and snapped her fingers.
The faint light of the crystal cluster leaked out from between the fingers, and in the blink of an eye, five thin crystal flakes shaped like fingernails grew on the five fingers of the left hand.
Each nail is a different color.
The chip on the left thumb glows with a pale blue fluorescence, the index finger is warm orange, the middle finger is greenish, the ring finger is purplish-red, and the little finger is cool white.
Five colored lights flickered on and off in the dimly lit third level of the Rift Ruins, creating a striking RGB lighting effect reminiscent of Blue Star gaming peripherals.
"Wow, they even have iridescent nail art! Not bad."
Luo Lan spread out the five fingers of her left hand and looked at her five "RGB nails" with full lighting effects, but didn't take the high-profile visual effect too seriously.
【Pale Light Crystal Cluster lv.1】As a lv.1 Black Iron tier lighting skill, the emitted faint light can only last for a little over ten minutes at most.
Once the light effect fades, these five chips will turn into ordinary crystalline flakes with a faint, iridescent sheen, visually indistinguishable from real fingernails.
As long as it works, that's fine. Luo Lan doesn't care much about the essential differences in details.
After dealing with "Newborn's" left hand, Luo Lan put the armor back on both arms.
As the nail plates closed, the last glimmer of the five iridescent nails flashed before being completely obscured by the stainless steel gauntlets.
"Rumble..."
As soon as the gauntlets were fastened, a muffled, thunderous tremor came from beneath Luo Lan's feet.
On the third floor of the crumbling ruins, dust from the cracks in the ceiling tiles was shaken and fell down in a flurry.
Several new cracks appeared on the rock walls on both sides of the passageway, and a strange wind, carrying a peculiar smell of lime, blew in from the newly opened fissures.
The Ragdoll cat leaped up from the ground, its four paws landing lightly on Luo Lan's shoulder armor:
"Observation: The core of the rift has been absorbed, and the rift has lost its energy source for a stable spatial structure. It is expected to collapse within two planetary rotation cycles..."
The neutral synthesized sound stood out clearly amidst the cacophony of falling pebbles.
Recommendation: Leave now.
Luo Lan sheathed his broadsword and tightened the hidden clasps on his heavy armor.
"Well... wait a moment."
With nearly two thousand points of Chaos Origin Essence remaining, Luo Lan could perform several more [Condensation] processes within this Rift Ruins.
Originally, Luo Lan planned to try to see if he could directly "condense" away the [Holy Judgment Mark - Remnant] in his body.
This would solve the problem of being wanted once and for all.
But after the lesson learned from carelessly creating the evil thought slime, Luo Lan is now extremely cautious about anything that is tainted with "divinity".
The "Mark of Holy Judgment - Fragment" is the mark left on this physical body by the Church of Holy Light, and it is also inseparable from "divinity".
Who knows if melting the mark originating from the power of the Lord of Holy Light will also attract the attention of the Lord of Holy Light.
Victor was able to save Luo Lan once, but that doesn't mean he can do it every time.
It's best to be cautious about anything that contains elements of "divinity."
Having figured this out, Luo Lan turned around and walked towards the blood sacrifice chamber, which was already mostly collapsed, not far away.
His eyes shone with a deep blue light, and he temporarily expended his mental energy to keep [True Sight lv.1] constantly active.
Luo Lan's gaze swept back and forth across the ruins, trying to find the remains of the skeletal priests who had been swallowed by the evil slime in this desolate battlefield.
The technique used by those skeleton priests in the previous battle, which could directly penetrate armor and attack the soul, was something that Luo Lan really coveted and wanted to get his hands on.
Unfortunately, there was nothing there.
The blood sacrifice chamber was in complete disarray. Shattered altar stones were scattered everywhere, and the air still reeked of decay and sourness.
Luo Lan walked around the base of the wall, the blue light of [True Sight] sweeping across every inch of the ground and every corner.
However, no remains were found that could be used for [forging]: no skeleton priest bone fragments, no fel staff remains...
[Was it completely digested by the evil slime aggregate?]
In the previous battle, the Skeleton Priest's head, inside the Evil Slime aggregate, unleashed [Soul Drain] on Roran.
Luo Lan had no choice but to command Ah Gou to grab the Exploding Crystal and fling it into the slime's body, instantly blasting the skulls into dust in order to salvage the situation.
Afterwards, the skeleton priest fragments, which had lost their ability to cast spells, seemed to have been completely digested by the evil slime, which used them as energy sources.
[Never mind... there will be other opportunities to encounter similar abilities in the future.]
Since no other usable extraordinary components could be found in this third level of the Rift Ruins, Luo Lan turned around, stepped on the broken tiles and rubble, and walked straight towards the stone staircase leading to the second level of the Rift Ruins.