160: Million times superposition

Permanently obtain the "Growth" status.

Triggers once every twenty-four hours.

Lin Yu held this card, looking at it back and forth several times.

He even wondered if he was hallucinating and misread the description because he hadn't slept for three consecutive days.

Maximum Health +1.

That's it?

Is that all?

He spent three days and three nights, sleepless, burning materials worth hundreds of millions, and deducing tens of thousands of failed combinations.

In the end, what he created was such a... laughable effect?

Give a minion one point of Health every day.

What's the use of that?

Not to mention those powerful professionals, even a newly-transferred apprentice's casual attack skill deals more than one point of damage.

This daily one-point increase doesn't even count as interest; at most, it's an insignificant decimal point in a bank account.

Lin Yu held the card and fell into a long silence.

Was his direction wrong?

Was the path of creating formulas a mistake from the very beginning?

No.

The path itself was not wrong.

He succeeded. He did indeed create a brand new, unique card.

What was wrong was the effect of this card.

It was too weak.

So weak it was infuriating.

So weak it made him feel like his three days of effort were an absurd self-indulgence.

Lin Yu's thoughts were somewhat sluggish.

He needed a reference point to more clearly understand how useless this [Growth] card truly was.

A reference point... He recalled the strike he unleashed at Chen Ao not long ago, which was blocked by the two visitors from the Abyss Domain.

That strike utilized a [Lightning Spell] of the [Gold Proficiency] tier.

A basic Lightning Spell's base damage fluctuates between fifteen and thirty points.

Very low.

But after being amplified by his skill proficiency, it was completely different.

A skill progresses from white, to green, blue, purple, and then to gold epic.

Each major tier increase signifies a several-fold increase in power.

The damage of a Gold-tier [Lightning Spell] had already increased a thousandfold.

That is, fifteen thousand to thirty thousand.

This was already a destructive power that many high-level professionals found difficult to achieve.

But this was just the beginning.

Lin Yu's core was always the [Ghost Card].

A one million forty-eight thousand five hundred seventy-six-fold amplification.

One thousand times multiplied by one million times.

One billion times.

Base damage, multiplied by one billion, is fifteen billion to thirty billion.

Lin Yu's calculation ability, at this moment, was even struggling to keep up with the speed of his own ability's amplification.

No.

It's not over yet.

This was merely the pure energy multiplication brought by the [Ghost Card].

He also had an even more crucial amplification.

The [Eight Desolations Return to Origin] of the [Archaic] tier.

It could provide a huge amplification for all elemental damage.

How much this "huge amount" was, there was no clear numerical value.

But based on Lin Yu's own perception, a conservative estimate would be at least ten thousand times.

Fifteen billion, then multiplied by ten thousand.

How much is that?

Is it one hundred fifty trillion to three hundred trillion... ah... no, the base damage hasn't even accounted for the mental attribute bonus.

Lin Yu's mind was a bit muddled.

He gave up on precise calculations.

In short, it was an astronomical figure.

A terrifying energy sufficient to easily wipe Linzhou City off the map, and even threaten the stability of the Earth's crust.

That strike was also deflected by Chen Ao's technique and then directly absorbed by the black-clothed man from the Abyss Domain with a strange shield.

Although the opponent also spat blood and the shield showed cracks.

But he ultimately caught it.

This meant that the enemy's strength had reached a level where they could contend with him head-on, or even higher.

Now.

Let's look at this card again.

Every day, one point of Health.

How long would it take to rely on this insignificant increase to withstand his world-ending Lightning Spell?

How long would it take?

Would he need to live for over three hundred trillion days?

Three hundred sixty-five days in a year.

That would be... nearly one trillion years?

The lifespan of the universe, it is said, is only thirteen point eight billion years.

He would have to repeat the universe's birth to destruction dozens of times to accumulate enough Health to withstand a casual Lightning Spell from him.

What the hell... Lin Yu almost burst out laughing.

The little card he had painstakingly deduced was truly useless.

Fortunately, he still had a way to remedy it.

Spending three days to make such a card, no matter how you look at it, was a loss.

But just as he said, he could afford to lose.

What if he used the [Growth] card again on a minion that already had the "Growth status"?

What would happen?

He looked at the [Growth] card in his hand, and then at the Vampire Bat on his shoulder, which was preening its wings.

His other hand had already uncontrollably reached for the mountain of [green base consumable].

He was going to make another one.

No.

He was going to amplify it a million times!

Then, he would use them all on the same bat!

The moment this thought appeared, Lin Yu's entire body's blood began to warm.

Absurd.

Crazy.

This was his unique path!

If a joke is repeated a million times, will it still be a joke?

No.

It will become a myth!

Lin Yu immediately took action.

[The effect of your next card will be repeated twice]

He applied the multiplication effect to one of the [Ghost Card]s, and then used this [Ghost Card] to replicate another.

Two becomes four.

Four becomes eight.

Sixteen.

Thirty-two.

Sixty-four... This process, which he had repeated countless times and was familiar with to his bones, played out once again in the Insect Dwelling.

In the room, cards flew, and light and shadow intertwined.

Finally.

When the number of cycles reached twenty.

One million forty-eight thousand five hundred seventy-six.

This familiar number was achieved again.

Lin Yu stopped all movements.

In his hand, a card lay quietly.

It was a seemingly unremarkable [Growth] card.

But Lin Yu knew what was contained within this card.

It stored the effect of "Growth."

And what it was about to unleash was one million forty-eight thousand five hundred seventy-six instances of "Growth."

Lin Yu slowly raised his hand and aimed the card at the little bat on his shoulder, which was still curiously observing him with its red eyes.

"Use."

He softly uttered two words.

The card transformed into a soft green light and merged into the Vampire Bat's body.

There was no earth-shattering phenomenon.

No world-destroying energy fluctuations.

Not even a slight breeze was stirred.

The palm-sized little bat merely trembled slightly, then tilted its head, as if nothing had happened.

Everything was eerily quiet.

Lin Yu's breathing paused at this moment.

Did it fail?

Could it be that this conceptual effect could not be multiplied?

Just as this thought arose.

A brand new stream of information exploded in his consciousness.

[Your minion 'Vampire Bat' has gained the 'Growth' status]

['Growth' status stacking...]

['Growth' x2]

['Growth' x4]

['Growth' x8]

...['Growth' x1,048,576]

[Status stacking complete]

[Current maximum Health daily natural growth: 1,048,576 points]

Lin Yu's pupils contracted to their extreme in an instant.

He looked at the last line of text.

Daily natural growth... one million forty-eight thousand five hundred seventy-six points of Health.

Oh my!

This data looks much better!!