[Salvos] 676. New Titles (Removed for KU)
Added 2024-03-19 20:46:51 +0000 UTC(Removed for KU)
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I wish she would make at least a temporary portal to the mortal realm and sync-up with her clone there, because as things are now, her companions and friends don't even know if she's alive, and she is completely unaware of everything that's going on there. As far as she knows, they are all fine, no Elf invasion, no Centinel invasion, no lvl 170 primeval demon in Inoria, since she left them in safety. Also, as far as they know, she got killed by Regnorex. That still might happen, but nevertheless. :)
Danijel Turina
2024-03-22 09:18:53 +0000 UTCI have no idea why you are so certain of your statements when there is no evidence for them in the text.
Danijel Turina
2024-03-20 22:10:57 +0000 UTC[Worldbreak] just shatters surrounding space to some degree. Belfagor's version is just a regular skill of lvl200+ augmented by a bit of divinity. Salvos' version is surely far weaker. Your ideas are just weird and non sensical.
Alexey Gladkich
2024-03-20 22:08:36 +0000 UTCFrom what I can tell, we will have a glorious battle ahead, with possibly several lesser ones before it, of the kind where she pushes herself to the absolute limit and almost dies.
Danijel Turina
2024-03-20 20:11:24 +0000 UTCI don't think System is Evil in Amelia's case but more of a typical self serving manipulative power. Perhaps, neutral or mildly evil, but it didn't do anything to be called straight up Evil.
Alexey Gladkich
2024-03-20 20:02:46 +0000 UTCConsidering what we know from how Tera, Belphegor and Samuel used grand skills and physical strikes to neutralise corruption, you basically need multiple grand skills of the most powerful beings in the universe to deal with a corrupted voidspace or hellspace. I'm afraid to even think what [Worldbreak] does, but I'd guess somewhere in between creating a corrupted hellspace and creating the wall of infinite corruption. Essentially, I would bet that whatever Regnorex has, it's too weak to make a difference, and my main concern is possible damage to the world, not who wins.
Danijel Turina
2024-03-20 20:00:48 +0000 UTCCorruption is effective against magic and weak against divinity. Nothing indicates it being good or bad vs physical attacks or demonic essence.
Alexey Gladkich
2024-03-20 19:56:24 +0000 UTCAlso, Regnorex doesn't know shit about corruption. He never saw it, he doesn't know how to fight it, he'd be in the position Salvos was with the cursed boulder, while Salvos is essentially one of probably five leading experts of Nexeus on corruption, I would even go so far as to state that she's *the* expert, considering that she can both wield it and fight it. Yes, Regnorex can dispel corruption with strong divinity-based strikes, but a combination of space magic and corruption will inconvenience the hell out of him and he might not even have Hartia's skill set there. Basically, he's strong, she's skilled; he can break things, she can break spacetime. Even without Haec, I think they are an equal match now, but he's fighting on his territory, in his domain, surrounded by an army of lieutenants, essentially a thousand of lvl 150+ demons, most with grand skills, while her grand skills are on cooldown. Also, she needs to fight him now because she's out of time. However, if she manages to bring in the Beast as a diversion, all those demons are going to run away and it's going to be total chaos where she will have all the advantages because that's how she usually rolls, while Regnorex likes plans and schemes and structure.
Danijel Turina
2024-03-20 19:47:09 +0000 UTCShe currently doesn't have [Protection of the Corruption], but she has [Corruption Mastery] and I guess she can create a shield skill ad hoc, which would protect her from, essentially, any non-divinity magic attack. That Regnorex might not actually fight her personally is a distinct possibility, but it's actually a bad move because he's going to lose all of his "ministers" and "generals", because, honestly, with her current skill set she might just run circles around them decapitating everybody. Also, she's going to level rapidly. What I'm actually afraid of is the fact that his domain might prevent her from using quite a bit of her skillset, the way Avaritia handicapped her until she teleported him into the forgotten prison. Corruption will work, but if he uses divinity he's going to cut through it. I expect him to be stronger and more resistant, and I expect her to be faster and much more versatile in advanced space magic - considering how he needs to sacrifice people to make inferior portals, and she is almost at Devil's level of skill, she might actually break space around him, deport him into the Void and fight him there, on her terms, and he'd be incredibly fucked.
Danijel Turina
2024-03-20 19:37:34 +0000 UTCDemonic Essence Resistance should protect greatly against his forces and potentially weaker Primordial Demons in his employ. Also, Regnorex's strongest attacks are likely centered around Demonic Essence as well but I doubt we'll see much of Regnorex direct involvement.
Alexey Gladkich
2024-03-20 19:28:30 +0000 UTCIt did, but everybody's assumption that the Beast is just a brainless force of nature might be very much off. It was mentioned that it is scared and tries to find its way home, presumably somewhere underground, and as far as I can tell nobody actually tried to talk to it.
Danijel Turina
2024-03-20 14:42:13 +0000 UTCDidn't the beast have divine essence? Or salvos thought it might have divine essence?
somerandomperson 29
2024-03-20 14:39:34 +0000 UTC... and she mentioned her clones searching for "it" across the Netherworld, "it" presumably not being some particularly crunchy bug. :)
Danijel Turina
2024-03-20 14:22:13 +0000 UTCInfluencing wild demons 'The Beast' is a wild demon.
Q-Riff
2024-03-20 13:51:17 +0000 UTC"It was tempting. After all, it would help me with my current plan too. Even now, my clones were still flying across the Netherworld, searching for it. " - yeah, she's definitely trying to get the Beast to nuke Regnorex. It's actually a good plan, but it has the same disadvantage as attracting the Zerg to the position of your enemies and hoping that they don't turn on you.
Danijel Turina
2024-03-20 12:20:13 +0000 UTCWhat the Devil said was that the skills become similar to Primeval GS not as she approaches lvl 200 but after evolving to Primordial demon. That's a big difference.
Gonvas
2024-03-20 11:30:56 +0000 UTCThe corrupted sentinel title looks like one of those traps that say "how far into the dark pit of doom are you willing to go if it offers you free candy?" :)
Danijel Turina
2024-03-20 10:56:44 +0000 UTC"I hope she does something with her newfound influence over wild demons beyond setting the Beast on Regnorex!" - If she manages to actually befriend the Beast at some point I'm going to laugh my arse off. :)
Danijel Turina
2024-03-20 10:35:09 +0000 UTCnegligent increase -> negligible increase
Danijel Turina
2024-03-20 09:25:27 +0000 UTC[Demonic Essence Resistance] might prove crucial, because, obviously, the System gave her exactly the title skills she will need against Regnorex, and we all somehow expected his divine essence to be the biggest problem, but the System doesn't seem to think so. He might be something like Ira or Haec with those demonic essence grand skills, relying on those primarily, and honestly, I don't even pretend to understand how such a selfish, insane and shitty person got to have divine essence in the first place. I would expect the ability to draw on divine essence to be based on empathy, love and the ability to identify with the world, but Regnorex seems like the polar opposite of that. With Salvos, it is very clear - sure, she thinks she's selfish but for all intents and purposes she is the sword and the shields that stands between friends and danger, and she loves the world and instinctively protects it from harm. Regnorex, on the other hand, is more like Belzu - he's like a steam roller that goes through things and wrecks them, and Haec made a good observation that the entire kingdom of Regnorex orbits around Regnorex. His world is divided into himself, useful tools and obstacles to be overcome.
Danijel Turina
2024-03-20 09:14:38 +0000 UTCI think the main trend we see here is reducing her dependence on her grand skills for surviving combat with high-levelled opponents. Also, we see the increase of grand skill cooldown, which means they became impractical to rely on. Also, she is close to level 170, where she gets another grand skill point, and considering how much she used space magic lately, that one goes to [The World of My Mind]. There are obvious signs of that trend the Devil hinted, that her normal skills will become close to grand-skill strength as she approaches 200, and grand skills becoming less important. They were an excellent crutch when she was weaker, but this trend seems to be shifting.
Danijel Turina
2024-03-20 08:59:00 +0000 UTCThat's true, and if she had more time before Regnorex commenced that sacrifice/ritual, I would say it's the way to go, however going into Regnorex's territory and attacking his units to level, that sounds like entering a hornets' nest in order to kill a few hornets and counting on all hornets not overwhelming you instantly. Somebody is eventually going to raise an alarm and then all shit is going to hit the fan at once. Hunting for powerful wild demons in order to level, inciting the Beast or Great Agarus to attack the Demon King territory in order to sow chaos and deplete their forces, using guerrilla tactics to strike and GTFO, plant rumours about Regnorex just killing everybody with his crazy plans in order to create discord, that would all work if they had time. They don't. Also, dragging tens of thousands of demons with them between multiple points within the kingdom is just slow and inefficient. What would work is her and Haec teleporting around, seeking vulnerable high-level demons and killing them before they can raise the alarm, then free their slaves and repeat that multiple times. Dragging the whole army along is just inefficient. Also, yeah, Haec can multiply his power that way, but it went down as a lead balloon once Hartia figured out it also multiplies his vulnerabilities.
Danijel Turina
2024-03-20 08:11:24 +0000 UTCThe part that contradicts this theory is the ability of a title to reduce the process significantly. This means it can't be limited by the availability of ambient mana, and it can't be strictly time, but something in your body that needs to be reset or regenerated, that a title can influence. I don't know, it doesn't sound like an elegant explanation.
Danijel Turina
2024-03-20 07:53:38 +0000 UTCShe just needs to be outted as a corrupted "being" and she becomes the enemy of the nexus. She doesn't technically need to be doing harm against it to get that.
Kit Kat
2024-03-19 23:45:20 +0000 UTCI like your theory. Salvos is special. She regularly does things Most would be happy to achieve once in a lifetime. Although those around her also keep up. That reminds me of a passage where someone recalls that people exposed to Haec change.
Dragonmaster_42
2024-03-19 23:41:02 +0000 UTCWell she needs to power level. They canβt do anything against right now. One easy way to find high level demons is to seek out the legions.
Derek Walker
2024-03-19 23:38:28 +0000 UTCIt would be funny if she gets a title after killing a ton of corruption, β Corruption Queenβ which gives the right to command all corruption. This would be much much later on.
IdolTrust
2024-03-19 22:59:05 +0000 UTCIt would be interesting to know If the cooldown of (grand) skills come from factors based in subjective time or in world time. My head cannon says cooldown comes from skills absorbing ambient mana to accumulate the energy needed for their activation. This would mean it is related to world time and works fastest in natural planes and dungeons, as well as on the battlefield.
Dragonmaster_42
2024-03-19 22:58:53 +0000 UTCI think both Enemy of the Demon King and Corrupted Sentinel are fundamentally similar. They allow Salvos to avoid attention under some circumstances and trigger it in others. To me, they seem to belong to the same family.
Dragonmaster_42
2024-03-19 22:52:26 +0000 UTCThanks for the chapter! I feel like many of the recent chapters were missing a certain something. Don't get me wrong, I liked the story development. The writing maybe felt a bit rushed? But this chapter feels complete. It feels as amazing as I've come to expect from Salvos. Now I just need more of that π
Dragonmaster_42
2024-03-19 22:48:28 +0000 UTCThe 50% cooldown is massive. Other than that, Enemy of the Demon King and Corrupted Sentinel seem to be the same title, one for demons, the other for corruption. Although Corrupted Sentinel would have firmly pushed her over the edge into corruption territory. I hope she does something with her newfound influence over wild demons beyond setting the Beast on Regnorex!
Dragonmaster_42
2024-03-19 22:42:39 +0000 UTCHaec will get power for each demon under him, so this plan will boost their top power as well.
Dragonmaster_42
2024-03-19 22:29:36 +0000 UTC"But System is evil" - I don't think that has been determined even in Amelia; it's been suggested as a possibility, but the evidence was mostly indirect. It's definitely self-serving.
Danijel Turina
2024-03-19 21:59:44 +0000 UTCThere are what, 50 legions under Regnorex? So they will seek them out, one by one, defeat the guardians, try to get the slaves to join them. That doesn't really deplete Regnorex's power, but wastes time and increases their exposure. If they defeat Regnorex, all those demons would be freed, and if not, it doesn't matter much anyway. That doesn't look like a well thought-out plan. Also, how much time do they have?
Danijel Turina
2024-03-19 21:57:03 +0000 UTCBut System is evil :)
UΕΌytkownik PrzeciΔtny
2024-03-19 21:50:07 +0000 UTCI think it might be function of "what you keep using, you get more of".
Danijel Turina
2024-03-19 21:26:35 +0000 UTCNah, Enemy of the Nexeus will never happen; it goes against her instincts. She already feels guilty about damaging the world with the corruption and mops it up whenever practical, and she makes friends everywhere and, if anything, Valda's guess that she's a [Hero] is not that far off the mark, if premature. I think she might eventually get the [Hero] or [Champion] class. Also, I have a weird theory for which I have no evidence whatsoever, but the theory is that she (and also possibly Haec) are so special because some of Via's blood, essence or whatever leaked out from her non-decaying body into that pool of demon blood they were born from. We don't know where that body is, but we were told that it persisted without decaying for millennia.
Danijel Turina
2024-03-19 21:24:47 +0000 UTCI find it funny that her titles are dead set on giving her some form of taunt skill at all times.
Lazy Monster
2024-03-19 21:23:16 +0000 UTC"she must be favoured by the System/World huh?" - Before all this corruption arc, I would answer with a resounding "yes", but now, I think things are on the edge and might go either way. She is definitely the best bet for actually solving the corruption problem, but with her space magic and literally world-breaking skills, she might inflict more damage than anyone since Trico. We don't know how prescient the System is, in a sense of seeing the future, or at least the alternative timelines. I think the System saw a possible timeline where she fixes things and is possibly tweaking things in order to make this timeline the dominant reality - making her intersect paths with just the right people, from Daniel who helped her assimilate in human society and not get killed, the Devil who just happened to get into that cultist cave when she was there, she got guided into the remnants of the First Kingdom, and so on. Also, she has more than the common share of good fortune.
Danijel Turina
2024-03-19 21:19:29 +0000 UTCYay, she no longer has a corrupted title, that's a small relief. Also, I got this one right. :) The problem is, she no longer has a 50% reduced cooldown on her grand skills, and they are presently on cooldown. Maybe wrap herself in a time bubble, speed up her personal time while it's seconds for the rest of the world?
Danijel Turina
2024-03-19 21:04:55 +0000 UTCThat was the benefit of the Devil' Daughter Title.
Ihaxlikenoob
2024-03-19 20:56:32 +0000 UTCThis is an interesting scenario, first we've seen Salvos change her Title to something worse with the intention to switch back to the upgraded version later. And man, what an upgraded Title it is, she literally just got friendly fire problems and the System just decided to hand her the solution just like that. Between that and the new line of classes Salvos made she must be favoured by the System/World huh?
Ihaxlikenoob
2024-03-19 20:56:00 +0000 UTCWait didn't the sentinel title let her take the daughter of the devil title as well?
aiden c Mason
2024-03-19 20:54:10 +0000 UTCSalvos is now officially the Enemy (of the Demon King) and soon enough she'll become the Enemy (of the Nexeus). Can't wait. Nice chapter.
Azrie
2024-03-19 20:53:34 +0000 UTCThanks for the chapter!
Wensber
2024-03-19 20:47:46 +0000 UTC
