PDLP Chapter 118 The Summoner's Limit
Chapter 118 The Summoner's Limit
Seeing that he looked exhausted, Miao Yin knew that if this continued, he might suffer irreversible damage, so she took a blue crystal core and told him to absorb it immediately.
Yan Shuzhou held the crystal core and began to absorb it. After his power was replenished, his complexion finally improved.
So he explained to Miao Yin what had just happened.
It turned out that just as she was silently contemplating, Yan Shuzhou once again sensed the fluctuations of the Immortal Kingdom.
This fluctuation is a feeling he experiences only when he can summon new small animals.
In his supernatural world, the gates of the city-state slowly opened, and he could clearly sense the presence of some kind of creature inside. As long as he called out, the creature would come out.
Because of absorbing the crystal core, his superpowers have been greatly enhanced, and two new summoned creatures have already sent him messages.
He had intended to explore what the new small animals were like, but just as his consciousness approached the city-state, the aura of a third creature suddenly appeared.
The aura of this new creature was extremely faint and intermittent, seemingly coming from a very distant place.
Even with just this slight fluctuation, the immense power far surpassed the other two auras, as if the ancient abyss had sighed softly from afar, and the aftershocks had reached here.
Yan Shuzhou should have chosen the two safer scents, but at that moment, he suddenly felt an impulse.
Whether it's the decisive Tu Hao or the useful Lei Ji, now there's another powerful wood-type ability user. Compared to them, his ability seems particularly useless.
Often, it doesn't matter whether the Nine-Tails Rabbit detects danger or not, because the team members are strong enough that they have no need to fear the dangers ahead.
Then wouldn't his existence become a completely useless mascot?
Yan Shuzhou was terrified of such a thing from the bottom of his heart; he didn't want to be someone who contributed nothing to Miao Yin.
The guilt, resentment, and cowardice deep in his heart, along with the urgent desire to do something in return for others, made Yan Shuzhou act impulsively.
So, he followed his instincts and touched that dangerous presence.
The moment it was touched, a powerful sense of intimidation instantly swept over.
Something beyond his current capabilities opened its eyes, and golden particles flashed by.
The city-state was like a dark, bottomless pit, emanating a tremendous suction force that engulfed his consciousness.
Before they could even react, all the power in the energy pool was drained!
But that creature was never satisfied and kept thirsting for power!
As the owner of the superpower, Yan Shuzhou clearly felt that his power was not even enough to make it stand up.
With his life threatened, Yan Shuzhou forcibly severed the connection and struggled to escape from the vortex.
The moment he regained consciousness, he felt dizzy, his vision blurred, and he experienced sharp pain in his chest.
The consequence of his depleted powers was vomiting blood; he collapsed to his knees, coughing painfully.
A damp, cold sigh echoed from the city-state of the supernatural world, as if mocking his overestimation of his abilities.
The Nine-Tasseled Rabbit that had always been by his side also disappeared due to insufficient supernatural power.
Miao Yin's eyes lit up immediately after hearing his words.
Yan Shuzhou has reached the limit of his summoned creatures!
She had heard about this kind of thing before when she was researching summoners' superpowers.
Simply put, every summoner has their own tier of summoned creatures.
As their superpowers grow stronger, the summoned creatures also become stronger, but eventually, they will all reach a final summoning limit—S-rank.
This S-rank is not the limit for summoned creatures, but the limit for ability users.
In the ten years since the apocalypse, the highest level of superpowered individual is universally acknowledged to be S. After reaching this level, no one has been able to go any higher.
This includes Miao Yin herself.
She ascended to the S-class rank in her seventh year, and since then, her supernatural abilities have remained unchanged.
Therefore, it has long been generally accepted that S-class is the highest level of superpowered individuals.
But summoners are different; the level of their summoned creatures is not the same as the level of the summoners themselves.
An A-rank summoner might be able to summon a creature comparable to an S-rank ability user, while an S-rank summoner might be able to summon a creature with abilities far exceeding S-rank.
Summoners have limits, but summoned creatures do not.
Therefore, people generally define the summon that an S-level summoner needs to risk their life to obtain as their limit.
This is the strongest being that this summoner can summon in his entire life.
The price is the summoner's life.
Yan Shuzhou had just inadvertently discovered his limit, and that moment of decisiveness almost cost him his life.
Fortunately, he managed to stop his losses and escape in time; otherwise, he probably would have died on the spot before the summoned creature appeared.
"Xiao Zhou, you've really given me a big surprise!" Miao Yin suddenly laughed.
Completely unaware of what had just happened, Yan Shuzhou looked at her in confusion.
"Xiao Zhou, remember this: that thing that made you vomit blood is the limit of what you can summon. From now on, don't touch that dangerous being again without my permission, understand?"
Yan Shuzhou nodded: "I understand."
Having gone through it once, Yan Shuzhou understood his limits, and he would never touch that thing again until he was absolutely certain of his success.
Miao Yin put all the crystal cores back into the bag and then handed it to him.
"Absorb all of these crystal cores. Don't summon any new animals for a while. If there are any changes in your abilities, keep me informed."
"Are they all for me? What about you, sister? What about the others?" Yan Shuzhou asked with some worry.
He certainly knew how important the crystal cores were to people with special abilities, especially so many of them. Judging from the current situation, it would be better to give them to anyone else than to him.
Miao Yin said, "You can give Ji Yuanzhou one, that's all. Don't worry about this kind of thing, you're a summoner, you can't be compared to us."
“Ling doesn’t need crystal cores, and You Wenwen’s healing ability isn’t so bad that it’s worth going to great lengths to upgrade. Tu Hao, Ji Yuanzhou, and I, besides using crystal cores to increase our power, need to practice in actual combat, otherwise we will lose control.”
Just like when she finished absorbing the crystal core and went to draw the curtains, she accidentally pulled the entire curtain down.
Superpowers need to be developed gradually; without practice and control, they will only go out of control and become rampant.
She had encountered similar situations before.
There was someone in her Divine Command Squad who was similar to her, a fire-controlling ability user who stole the crystal core from a monster that someone else had defeated.
Thinking he was invincible after gaining power, he lost control of his abilities and burned himself to death while fighting another mutant.
It can be said that they tried to steal a chicken but lost the rice instead.
Therefore, Miao Yin didn't feel any remorse at all when she gave away this bag of crystal cores.
Compared to these crystal cores that she could only look at but not touch, she cared more about Yan Shuzhou's limit.
If things could turn out as she envisioned.
Then she can take Ling away.