[Detected Core Component: Body of Light]
[Status: Intact/Fractured]
[——Connection, repair, completion... Let us regroup!]
The process of Ian recovering the ’Body of Light’ was very simple, even so swift it left him somewhat bewildered.
He merely activated the Silver Chip, attempting to touch the bright white gem in his hand, which immediately turned into a dazzling light entering Ian’s body.
Then, he heard the reconnection sound of the Silver Chip—immediately afterward, Ian obtained the Body of Light and became aware of its abilities.
Perhaps it was because of the Silver Chip, or the Pioneer had foreseen that someone might arrive here in the future and wished to entrust their final inheritance... making everything proceed so smoothly.
And the abilities of the Body of Light were also very straightforward.
That is, to grant the bearer the ability of ’Etherized Body’.
On the surface, it seems simple... but in reality, this is an unusually powerful ability.
"Etherized Body... Ether Phase Transfer... Subspace Folding Technique... Void Jump..."
Closing his eyes, Ian softly muttered to himself, recalling the main functions of the ’Body of Light’ that surfaced in his mind, and he gasped: "So terrifying!"
This was no joke from Ian to ease his tension; the capabilities of the Body of Light were indeed terrifying!
Radiance of the Stars, or using a familiar name, Silver Chip.
It’s an auxiliary identification system, plus a search engine linked to humanity’s collective subconscious, even the Aether Stream Data Reserve, capable of helping Ian improve his skill proficiency, store various knowledge, and inscribe Origin Structures.
Most importantly, it can copy the second inheritance and enhance the ’Heartlight Body’ in future simulations.
All these abilities combined are auxiliary.
Though very strong, the bearer must possess firm ’belief’ to maximize the Silver Chip’s usage, to become stronger.
The Silver Chip may have had many owners, but currently, only the Pioneer, Inega II, and Ian have accomplished significant things, whereas previous obscure holders probably saw the Silver Chip merely as a tool for profit and identification manuals.
As for the Grand Master... he was truly a mortal, unrelated to the Silver Chip. Ian felt the Grand Master was like the Newton plus Da Vinci of Terra, possibly with a bit of Gauss added, having the vibe of someone bare-equipped yet still overpowering others.
No wonder even the Avatar of the Thousand-Star Beast identifies itself as a monster, thinking carefully, surpassing a humanoid plugin surely indicates there’s truly an issue.
Compared to the Radiance of the Stars, the abilities of the ’Body of Light’, or should I say ’Aether Body’, are greatly simple, brutal, and powerful.
Etherized Body, as the name implies, it lets Ian consume a certain percentage of his maximum aether capacity to transform his body into an ’Aether Body’ that can directly traverse material and void domains. Simply put, it follows the template of the material body that the derivative of the Thousand-Star Beast, ’Elg’, uses to freely enter and exit the void domain, but more refined and with some additional features.
But this is merely the foundation of the Body of Light. The subsequent ’Ether Phase Transfer’ is even more exaggerated.
Essentially, it’s a kind of aether-based ’Phase Transfer Armor’, which can redistribute an attack focused on one point across the ’soul,’ ’body,’ and ’Heartlight Body.’ Simply put, if a super-powerful sniper bullet were to hit Ian, the force that would have penetrated his body would instead become a small jolt making him step back a bit, with minor vibrations in the soul and Heartlight Body.
For ordinary people and even ordinary Sublimators, this ability isn’t particularly strong. Even when distributed, a sufficiently powerful attack could kill off or exhaust a Sublimator with this ability.
Moreover, for high-energy level Sublimators, a single punch might be larger than a person’s body, making it impossible to evenly disperse such an attack through Ether Phase Transfer, potentially causing disturbances in the soul and Heartlight Body.
This ability is meant for the already powerful Sublimators, serving as a cherry on top.
As for the Subspace Folding Technique... Ian looked into it and found that it might pair with the Fourth Energy Level’s ’Aether True Body’ ability, and other Sublimators in Terra also possess it... the disciples likely inherited the Pioneer’s mindset from back then.
This ability serves to contain the overwhelming power of Fourth Energy Level or higher Sublimators, which merely by existing can affect reality, within their own portable subspace fragments to release as needed.
If this capability could be perfectly realized, the oppressive force of Aether True Body on a Sublimator’s lifespan would be alleviated... yet even the Body of Light requires an extremely strong belief to open up one’s own subspace fragment.
"It can allow me, after ’Aetherization,’ to have my body like a soul, transferring through the thought domains of the void to the other side and returning to reality, achieving a physical space transfer?"
At this moment, Ian inexplicably thought of Chairman Yafarda’s spatial transfer ability.