Chapter 2021: The Marvelous Free Stat Mode
Luke was very satisfied with the outcome of his little test of 100 Mental Strength on Selina.
Of course, it wasn’t him in the dream, but an illusion created based on his typical behavior.
This was because after his Mental Strength skyrocketed, Real Dream became even closer to reality, and he had more room to operate in it.
He could even enter it to ‘observe’ Selina’s every move, unlike before, when he could only set up a rough template for the scene.
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Of course, he only ‘observed’ this one time; after all, that dream could be considered Selina’s private affair.
He wasn’t a peeping tom, and didn’t need to be one.
After his stats reached 100, Luke wasn’t in a hurry to allocate the extra stat points. Instead, he carefully experienced this marvelous realm.
In any case, the extra points weren’t going anywhere.
The perfect body and mind were striking a delicate balance, which felt amazing.
This was his only chance, and he didn’t want to ruin it too quickly.
Four months later, it was early October 2013.
After Luke was done researching his 100-stat condition, he started increasing his stats.
The perfect body gave him immense control.
Originally, when he broke the 100 threshold, he temporarily suppressed the additional increase in points from the Kunlun Chi Refining Technique.
Now that he had released that restriction, his stats started to increase.
He first allocated part of the extra stat points to Strength so that it was the first attribute to break 120.
The second attribute to break 120 was Mental Strength.
Luke then ‘borrowed’ 10 points he gained through the Chi Refining Technique after breaking 120 and put it in Dexterity.
In the end, he had 120 Strength, 118 Dexterity and 120 Mental Strength.
Luke was very satisfied with the free stat mode.
By shuffling his stats here and there, he was able to ‘make up’ two 120 attributes in advance.
Otherwise, he could only wait until he reached level 41 to increase his Strength to 120, and then increase his Mental Strength to 120 after he reached level 42.
These level-ups would require more than 38 billion experience points, which was equivalent to fighting Thanos twice. Who knew how long that would take. After all, there was only one Thanos in this universe. If he went to another universe to cause trouble, who knew what backlash from s.p.a.ce and time that would cause.
Now that two of his stats had reached 120 in advance, he could deal with Thanos, who might come to Earth in a few years, and it would be possible for him to obtain a higher contribution rate.
The experience and credit points would definitely be a lot.
There was also the reason why he had chosen to break past 120 in Strength and Mental Strength.
The body was everything, especially for Luke, who had a self-healing ability.
After his Strength reached 80, he first learned four types of Intermediate Self-Healing from Alice, Carol, Wade and Killian.
After mastering them, he combined them together, but didn’t obtain Advanced Self-Healing.
When his Strength reached 100, Luke vaguely sensed something with his perfect body when he used the four-in-one Intermediate Self-Healing.
There was a huge difference between Advanced and Intermediate Self-Healing; a 4-in-1 self-healing wasn’t enough to achieve a qualitative change.
However, the combined Intermediate Self-Healing was of a very high quality, and was close to Advanced Self-Healing.
Thus, Luke chose to increase his Strength to 120 and break through with brute force… As if.
In truth, after his Strength reached 120, he felt that the path toward Advanced Self-Healing was clearer, but there were still a lot of shortcomings.
But in the end, two proper paths became clear to him: Firstly, he could slowly acc.u.mulate experience, and his Self-Healing would level up like his combat skills one day. The shortcoming of this was that it would take a long time.
Secondly, he could find an opponent with Advanced Self-Healing and win their ability.
It was like calculating the sum of 1 to 100. If he counted it on his own, it would take a lot of time, but it wasn’t hard.
Getting a ready-made answer from others was like using Gaussian’ method of addition to easily come up with an answer.
In truth, it was rare to find someone in the universe who could teach Luke Advanced Self-Healing.
He could only do it the hard way. In any case, he wouldn’t lose out.
Besides, his current Intermediate Self-Healing was much better than Elementary Self-Healing before.
Regenerating broken limbs was child’s play – even regenerating an entire arm would take less than a day.
Half of the Level 2 clone’s body had been crippled, and it was used in various experiments.
As long as the vital parts like the heart and brain weren’t completely destroyed, recovery would only take a day or two.
What was even more rea.s.suring was that his main body and clones could ‘sync’ their thoughts. As long as their heads weren’t blown up at the same time, they wouldn’t lose any memories.
Also, after his Strength reached 80, he could summon a Star of Justice Level 3 clone with stats of 40.
After his Strength reached 120, the actual coefficient effect was 12 times, so 40×12 = 480.
Before 2023, Luke’s maximum Strength was only 71, and the actual effect was six times higher.
The combat ability of the Level 3 clone was enough to crush all of Luke’s previous stats.
Naturally, such a powerful clone couldn’t be allowed to remain idle. It took over the fieldwork once Luke started experimenting on the Level 2 clone.
One of the reasons why Luke adjusted his Mental Strength to 120 was so that he could easily handle this current ‘four-mode operation.’
As for a five-mode operation after obtaining a Level 4 clone? Luke could keep dreaming.
The system had made it clear that with his stats, he would never be able to summon a Level 4 clone before he graduated at level 50.
To put it another way, how he summoned a Level 4 clone at that time would be his own business, and would have nothing to do with the system.
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In terms of 120 Dexterity, there were no intermediate abilities he could work with.
However, 120 Mental Strength allowed Luke to derive Ebony Maw’s Intermediate Telekinesis and enter the advanced level.
However, Ebony Maw’s Intermediate Telekinesis clearly wasn’t as perfect as the 4-in-1 Intermediate Self-Healing.
Without a new source of telekinesis, it would take several times or even dozens of times longer for his Advanced Telekinesis to level up.
However, obtaining an intermediate ability mainly depended on luck.
Luke felt that he, who was obsessed with doing good, had always been lucky.
He was only 28, and would live for at least 300 to 500 years. There was no need to be impatient.
What was worth mentioning was the Elementary Tempering ability, which could only be learned with 80 Strength.
Its original owner was Iron Hide Creech, whose head Luke had blown up with an M500 a long time ago.
At that time, Luke, who had still been very weak, had coveted this ability. In the end, it had been stuck at the bottom of the list for almost seven to eight years.
However, Elementary Tempering was still very attractive to him.
Intermediate Self-Healing, Muscle Enhancement, Muscle Control, Muscle Expansion, Mimicry and Taffy enhanced Luke’s body in all aspects, making him very resistant to beatings.
But none of them really focused on defense.
Elementary Tempering made up for this last shortcoming, and could be combined with Mimicry and Taffy.
As he familiarized himself with and mastered his body and abilities, it was completely possible for him to achieve forms like the Iron Muscle Monster, Iron Hide Taffy, and even Iron Muscle Hide Taffy.