Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 857 - 407: Reset Points? Starlight Prison (Thanks to the book friend ’Update without Killing’ for the two Alliance Leader rewards!)

Chapter 857: Chapter 407: Reset Points? Starlight Prison (Thanks to the book friend ’Update without Killing’ for the two Alliance Leader rewards!)

[In a daze, you hear the words of the ’Starlight Priest’ and you snap to full alertness, as if the anaesthetic drug had lost its effect on you.]

[You realize it was your reflexive use of ’Flesh Authority’ that caused your blood to reject the anaesthetic...]

[You feign unconsciousness from the anesthesia until the scalpel’s tip touches your chest...]

[You immediately use ’Flesh Authority’ again, blocking most of the pain sensation.] 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

[The cold scalpel glides across the center of your sternum, slicing the skin, then the breastbone is sawed open, the ribcage is lifted, and the pericardium is breached...]

[You can clearly feel your heart exposed to the air, beating vigorously.]

[You hear the ’Starlight Priest’ muttering a complex and lengthy incantation, and then a trace of icy breath is injected into your heart, causing your blood flow to slow and your heart to gradually stop beating...]

[Alas, such a perfect specimen’s heart goes to this fellow, what a pity indeed.]

[Priest, you have repeated that several times now. Whether this person can survive with the specimen’s heart is still unknown...]

[Unknown? What a fool! The specimen it created is perfect, it was just that the previous few people were too weak to withstand the power of the heart, and that’s what caused the accident...]

[...]

[The voices of the ’Starlight Priest’ and ’assistant’ reach your ears.]

[Suddenly, the cold tip of the knife falls, severing several thick blood vessels connected to the heart...]

[The ’Starlight Priest’ moves quickly to remove your original heart and stuff an utterly alien object into your chest cavity...]

[The chanting starts again, with starlight infused with healing power seeping into your flesh, causing the blood vessels to wriggle and knit together.]

[Fresh blood flows into the weakened heart, beginning to beat again slowly...]

[The ’Starlight Priest’ doesn’t hurry to close your chest cavity, as if waiting for something, but you are utterly unable to pay attention to it...]

[Because you feel as though there are flames roaring in your chest, the searing, explosive force of furious power surging tumultuously, far more than your frail mage body can withstand.]

[It’s as if a horse pulling a carriage could make the entire vehicle sprint smoothly on the road, but if you replace the horse with a rocket, the carriage would fall apart because it cannot withstand the violent speed.]

[The will to survive drives you to use ’Flesh Authority’ once more, attempting to make the carriage a bit more sturdy...]

[Your physical strength gradually increases, muscle fibers become firmer and thicker, but as you strengthen only slightly, your ’mental power’ begins to slowly dissipate.]

[Not just a temporary loss, but a permanent one!]

[You realize this is a sign that you don’t have sufficient control over ’Flesh Authority’...]

[When you continue to enhance your body beyond your current level of control, you can only burn the rest of your potential as fuel to boost your physical strength.]

[And right now, what you’re burning is your most potent mental power...]

[Please note, the intelligence attribute of the current Shell has drastically decreased, while the strength, constitution, and stamina attributes have increased slightly!]

[The ’Starlight Priest’s’ voice, filled with surprise, rings out again...]

[This ’Star Favored’ has endured far longer than previous subjects, and if this trend continues, he will surely perfectly accommodate the ’eyeball heart’.]

[Congratulations, Priest, the experiment has finally succeeded.]

[Hehe, this ’Star Demon’s eyeball heart’ is indeed perfect, and as long as one reaches the strength of a top ’Star Favored’, they can bear it... I believe even beings as powerful as ’Star Spirits’ and ’Star Realm Envoys’ could easily endure it!]

[I didn’t expect to overcome the challenge of ’Heart Strengthening’ so quickly. Once this fellow wakes up, we’ll properly test the physical enhancements brought by the new organ...]

[...]

[After you burned nearly half of your intelligence attributes, your body was enhanced to an incredible degree, which here, relative to your previously frail form, is indeed ’incredible’.]

[The new heart in your chest beats violently, each contraction and expansion pumping blood throughout your body, bringing a sense of power like you’ve never felt before.]

[The ’Starlight Priest’, seeing the transplanted organ finally stabilize, laughs joyfully, and for a moment, its raspy laughter echoes throughout the spacious ’Transplant Room’...]

[In a while, it will replicate another eyeball heart to offer to the ’Star Realm Envoys’, surely fetching a handsome reward!]

[The ’assistant’ by the side reminds, Priest, we are running low on corpse materials, and to gather enough materials for replication, we will at least need to wait for the next batch of bodies to arrive for distribution.]

[The ’Starlight Priest’ pauses, then something comes to mind, and it stares at the heart in your chest cavity with a sly grin, hehe, then we’ll just remove this heart after the testing is done!]

[A pair of rough palms stitch the incision in your chest closed, and with chanting, bits of starlight merge into the wound, causing the gory gash to heal rapidly.]

[Your Shell’s attributes have changed drastically!]

[The quality of your Shell has decreased!]

[Due to the successful transplantation of the ’Star Demon’s eyeball heart’, you have comprehended the special skill ’Star Shattering Storm’ (Legendary Grade Skill)!]

[You have comprehended the special skill ’Demonic Strength’ (Legendary Grade Skill)!]