Volume One: Frostmourne Chapter 432: The True Artifact
Chapter 432 The real artifact
Year after year passed, Gu Nansheng, in addition to routine meditation practice every day, was exploring the fusion of Frostmourne and Eye of Scardy. The higher the level of the artifact, the longer the time required for refining or fusion. The longer it goes, with the Lich King's powerful cultivation, it took more than ten years of hard work to refine Frostmourne, but this time Frostmourne is fused by itself, so it will only take longer.
Fortunately, Gu Nansheng has the Fountain of Life. He smears a little of the Fountain of Life on the Frostmourne Sword every other month. The essence of the Fountain of Life is the spiritual origin, and the sword soul also exists based on the spirit, so the life The effect of the spring in nourishing the sword soul is very significant. As the sword soul becomes stronger, Frostmourne's ability to absorb ice energy will naturally increase.
Over the years, Gu Nansheng had used up nearly one-third of the fountain of life in the magic bottle in order to refine the sword soul of Frostmourne. On this day, as usual, he poured out a small bottle of the fountain of life bit by bit. On the edge of Frostmourne's sword, however, what is different from usual is that this time the fountain of life does not freeze, but instead rolls on the sword with a faint tendency to boil.
Gu Nansheng looked at the rolling green water droplets and felt strange. Just when he was about to open the Eye of Sargeras and observe it with his senses, a trace of ice-blue flame suddenly jumped out of the surface of Frostmourne. The flame turned into a light curtain, The fountain of life enveloped it and burned slowly.
What was very strange was that the flame not only did not have any burning sensation, but instead exuded a biting cold air, which even Gu Nansheng felt a little unbearable.
The droplets of the fountain of life quickly disappeared into the flames, but the cold flame did not disappear. Instead, it began to rotate on its own, and the rotation became faster and faster, driving the surrounding ice elements to rotate together. After a while, the restlessness The energy and flames gradually formed an icy blue vortex on the surface of Frostmourne.
Immediately afterwards, a wisp of purple mist rose up from the vortex, condensing into a dreamlike light group in mid-air. The light group expanded and contracted, beating like a heart.
Gu Nansheng stared at the ball of light. After a moment, he hesitantly stretched out his hand. After his fingers touched the ball of light, a circle of energy fluctuations visible to the naked eye rippled like water ripples. The ball of light suddenly disappeared into Gu Nansheng's palm. Disappeared.
Gu Nansheng was slightly startled, but he did not take any action to resist. Instead, he allowed the light ball to turn into a cold current flowing along his arm towards his spiritual sea. Gu Nansheng closed his eyes slightly and completely opened the spiritual sea. Feeling something with his heart, he knew that the light ball that had just entered his body was the sword soul of Frostmourne.
After a moment, the ball of light slowly emerged from the center of Gu Nansheng's eyebrows, separated from Gu Nansheng's body, and submerged into Frostmourne again. With a clear roar like a dragon's roar, Frostmourne suddenly bounced up, and the entire sword body trembled. non-stop.
"Hoo" a tongue of icy blue fire suddenly jumped out, and Frostmourne burst into flames. As soon as the flame appeared, the wooden table under Frostmourne immediately turned into broken blue ice crystals.
A flash of surprise flashed in Gu Nansheng's eyes. He reached out and grabbed Frostmourne without hesitation, and the feeling of blood connection immediately spread throughout his body.
He knew that Frostmourne had finally completely absorbed the Eye of Skadi and transformed it into a real artifact. This was the first artifact that truly belonged to him.
Gu Nansheng indulged his perception in Frostmourne, and was surprised to find that Frostmourne's attributes had disappeared, and even the system prompts had disappeared. What was going on? Why did Frostmourne suddenly lose all its attributes?
After Gu Nansheng equipped Frostmourne, he was shocked to find that his attributes dropped drastically. The attributes originally attached to Frostmourne had clearly been deducted.
Akasha also discovered this, her face changed drastically, and she said in horror: "Master, how could this happen?" Gu Nansheng is about to have a decisive battle with Deathwing. If there is an oolong incident due to the failure to upgrade Frostmourne at this time, then
There is no need to fight at all.
Gu Nansheng's expression was confused. He also didn't know what was going on, but what made him feel a little relieved was that he could feel more powerful energy fluctuations from Frostmourne than before. It was certain that the upgrade of Frostmourne was absolutely successful.
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But why did the attributes not only not increase but disappear completely? Is it true that as the old proverb says, the ultimate of an artifact is to return to nature?
"Artifact..." Gu Nansheng chewed on these two words and fell into thinking. He had only seen two pieces of equipment that were truly worthy of being called artifacts - the Dragon Soul and the Eye of Sargeras. If they were refined,
If the spirit produced can also be called an artifact, then Archimonde's spirit (purple limit) can also be added.
The above three things, Gu Nansheng tried his best to exert only a small part of their power, especially Archimonde's essence is completely useless now. Archimonde's essence is the Lich King.
The refined ones, although the refining is not complete, will definitely not only have that little power. The inability to exert them can only be due to Gu Nansheng's own problems.
These three things have two things in common: first, equipping them will not increase any attributes of the hero, and second, equipping them will not conflict with other equipment (the hero can only use up to six pieces of equipment at the same time, and any more will generate energy.
Conflict, these are the rules set by the Titans).
Gu Nansheng's eyes fell on Frostmourne. Could it have become this type of equipment?
He immediately asked for the Evil Scythe from Akasha, and equipped him with the Ashbringer, the Armband of the Ghoul King, Aghanim's Scepter, the Hand of Ragnaros the Firelord, the Blade of Destruction and the Evil Scythe. See clearly.
After acquiring the attributes, he picked up Frostmourne and used the Aphotic Shield. Three white arcs of light jumped out calmly. Sure enough, there was no energy conflict.
Gu Nansheng gradually understood what a real artifact was.
To put it bluntly, the attribute list and "system" prompts are all rules - rules formulated by the "system". So-called "artifacts" such as the evil scythe and the armband of the Ghoul King all rely on the Titan's consciousness and "system" abilities.
The existing equipment, to put it bluntly, is just a bunch of data symbols inside the "system". The "system" can create these equipment at will for the trialists who are in the final test to redeem them with honor points, but the "system" cannot.
Create real artifacts.
This universe is like a huge online game, in which every intelligent life is a player. In order to distinguish the strengths and weaknesses of players and equipment, the "system" has formulated digitized attributes for each person and each piece of equipment.
Existences that are separated or separated from these digital attributes to a certain extent can be called gods.
Titans are the creators of the "system". Of course, they can be completely independent of the "system", which means that their strength is not described by attributes at all. Even now that Gu Nansheng was given 100 million attribute points by the system in the final test,
He can't beat Sargeras and Amanthel, just like players can never beat GM.
As for the Lich King, Deathwing, Archimonde, Kil'jaeden and others, they are not Titans and cannot completely break away from the "system", but they have both spiritual origin and powerful strength, and can be independent of the Titans.
They exist outside of consciousness and can challenge the rules set by the Titans to a certain extent, so they can be called "god-level powerhouses".
As for the seventh-level powerhouses such as Malfurion, Cenarius, and Antonidas, the situation is even worse. They have no spiritual origin and cannot exist apart from the Titan's consciousness, so they will never be able to advance to the god level.
Artifacts are also equipment that can exist independently of the "system". They do not need to use the data given by the "system" to define their strength or weakness, nor do they need to abide by the rules set by the "system" to equip a maximum of six items.
After realizing this, Gu Nansheng finally calmed down. His current strength has actually been divided into two parts. One part is the strength of the "system" that is digitized, and the other part is the strength that exists independently of the "system". And
Only this independent strength is the power common to all universes, and it is also his only basis for killing the Titans.
After thinking of this, Gu Nansheng couldn't help but sigh. The gap between him and the real Titan was too big. It would take years and months to cultivate this power to a level strong enough to kill Amanthel.
He subconsciously touched his right eye, which was where the Eye of Sargeras was. If he could truly master the power of the Eye of Sargeras, it would only take a matter of minutes to kill Deathwing.
Akasha was still uneasy in her heart. Seeing Gu Nansheng gradually calm down, she asked: "Master, what happened?"
Gu Nansheng told Akasha one by one what he had guessed. After hearing this, Akasha was shocked at first, and then showed a look of surprise, "Congratulations to the master. With this real artifact, the master's strength must have improved a lot."
It's half past one, and we are more confident about defeating Deathwing."
After hearing this, Gu Nansheng smiled bitterly, "Don't forget that Deathwing also has a divine weapon. The Dragon Soul is a treasure tempered by the essence and blood of the five-series divine dragon. Even though it is broken now, I'm afraid it is not inferior to Frostmourne.
Deathwing must have mastered all the power of the Dragon Soul a long time ago. I didn't expect that the two Dragon Soul fragments in my hand could achieve the same effect. This time Frostmourne Awakening only allowed me to follow up on the artifact.
Deathwing is just the same..."
After hearing this, Akasha looked disappointed. The fire of hope that had just been ignited was extinguished. Naturally, she felt uncomfortable in her heart. "Is there really no other way?"
Gu Nansheng sighed and shook his head slightly. Although he had always been very confident in his own strength, he also knew that the victory rate was slim. The gap between the demigod level and the god level was really too big, even if Deathwing was stronger at the god level.
Ranked at the bottom of the list, it was far from what Gu Nansheng could compare to.
"I just hope that after Deathwing's resurrection, his strength will not reach its peak in a short time..." Gu Nansheng took a deep breath and murmured.
