Chapter 32 – The Limitations of the Faceless

Volume 3

After naming his Fourth Soul Pet, Wen Yu finally began examining Faceless's Skills.

Faceless:

Level: Early Level 4.

Its original form is an unknown Human Creation, an aggregation of various plants, fungi, microorganisms, and other life-forms. Only after being catalyzed and transformed by Demon Qi did it become the unknown creature now before him.

Skill One: Human Creation (F-Rank, passive Skill): It is a life-form produced by human hands. Although it has signs of life, it has no soul, only a small amount of instinct. This life-form can evolve by devouring the corpses of Mutant Creatures, but after evolving, it cannot acquire Skills. It can only obtain Skills through special channels.

Skill Two: Manipulation (A-Rank, Active Ability): It Splits white threads from its own body and sends them into another organism. The white threads will enter the target's brain and directly control that life-form. However, it cannot control creatures of the same level as itself or creatures higher than itself.

Skill Three: Perfect Replication (SSS-Rank, Active Ability): By absorbing the body tissue of other creatures, it can transform into their appearance. However, the creature being replicated cannot exceed its own level. In addition, certain special creatures cannot be replicated.

After reading Faceless's introduction, Wen Yu immediately frowned.

This thing was indeed a living creature, but it was actually a Human Creation!

"Right, One-Eye. What did you say that Black-Robed Man's organization was called?"

"Woof, woof."

"It was called the Demon Worship Cult!"

Hearing One-Eye's answer, Wen Yu nodded.

The name Demon Worship Cult was simple and direct, laying bare the essence of this religious group at a glance.

Moreover, from Faceless's introduction alone, he could tell just how powerful the force behind this so-called Demon Worship Cult had to be.

A man-made creation that could even earn the Ruler's recognition-Wen Yu would never believe this cult had no special talents or methods hidden within it.

He briefly reviewed Faceless's three Skills again.

The Human Creation ability was practically useless. It was nothing but restriction after restriction, with no reason at all for Wen Yu to use Soul Pet Empowerment on it.

Manipulation was fairly decent, but unfortunately, it offered no improvement to Wen Yu himself. Even if he empowered himself with this ability, it would still be better to simply release Faceless and let it use the Skill on its own.

Perfect Replication, on the other hand… the description of this ability was somewhat interesting.

After thinking for a long while, Wen Yu spoke directly to Star beside him.

"Bleed a little."

At that moment, Star was still worried that Wen Yu had noticed his little trick earlier. He looked absent-minded, and it took him a good while to understand what Wen Yu meant.

Star forcefully tore open his own scales and barely squeezed out a bit of blood, letting it drip onto Faceless, which Wen Yu had handed over.

The moment the bright red blood entered Faceless's body, it was like a drop of boiling water falling into a pan of hot oil. Faceless's entire body began to ripple violently.

After a long while, once Faceless had completely digested Star's blood, it did not transform into Star's appearance. Its body merely grew slightly larger.

Seeing this, Wen Yu's brow instantly furrowed. After a long silence, he spoke again.

"Do it again. More this time!"

Star scrunched up his face, muttering nonstop under his breath. Reluctantly, he tore open the scales on his arm. A large amount of blood flowed out and was then completely absorbed into Faceless's body!

Faceless's entire body looked as if it were about to explode. Scarlet dragon blood surged through its body, then was slowly assimilated and absorbed.

And then…

Still, nothing happened.

Wen Yu let out a heavy breath of stale air, his expression turning a little grim.

Faceless's Perfect Replication Skill could only copy the abilities of ordinary life-forms. But Star, Wen Yu's strongest combat asset, was nothing like an ordinary life-form.

According to Wen Yu's calculations, Divine Beast Species should fall under the category of special life-forms.

That made sense. If Faceless's Perfect Replication could even perfectly copy the power of a Divine Beast Species, then this ability would absolutely be a foundation-level Skill, not merely SSS-Rank as it was now.

Looking at Faceless in his hand, Wen Yu pondered for a long while. Then he slit open his own finger and let a few drops of blood seep into Faceless's body.

After devouring Wen Yu's blood, Faceless immediately underwent a change completely different from when it had swallowed Star's blood.

Its body kept shifting shape. The blood enveloped inside Faceless's body slowly dispersed, and then Faceless's body began stretching out. At the same time, all kinds of organs started forming inside it.

The sight was a little disgusting, but fortunately, Faceless did not take long to shape itself. After only about ten seconds, it had already taken on Wen Yu's appearance.

"Attack me."

Wen Yu gave a simple order, but Faceless did not move at all.

He frowned slightly. Only then did Wen Yu realize that Faceless had no intelligence and could not understand what he was saying.

Then what about communicating through the power of the Soul Contract?

As Wen Yu's thought swiftly transmitted into the Fourth Soul, the fake Wen Yu before him finally moved.

The Wen Yu that Faceless had transformed into threw a punch at Wen Yu, and the two quickly exchanged several moves.

"Stop!"

As Wen Yu's thought flashed by, Faceless instantly halted. Only then did Wen Yu summarize Faceless's performance.

"Its Physical Attribute is exactly the same as mine. It even perfectly copied my Combat State. On top of that, it completely inherited the Soul Beast's Skills. From the looks of it, aside from being unable to copy the power of Divine Beast Species, Faceless can copy every other life-form for now. I wonder about the Demon Race?"

Unfortunately, Wen Yu did not have any Demon Race body tissue on hand right now. Otherwise, he could have tested whether Faceless could copy the Demon Race's power.

"Disperse."

Following Wen Yu's simple command, the fake Wen Yu immediately began to melt. In a short period of time, it returned once more to the shape of a lump of dough.

Wen Yu directly withdrew Faceless into the Fourth Soul Realm, then nodded in satisfaction.

Although it was indeed a bit of a pity that it could not copy Star's power, being able to copy One-Eye and the power of Class Holders was more than enough.

After all, One-Eye's current combat strength definitely stood at the peak of this world. Finding a Soul Pet no weaker than One-Eye would be extremely difficult.

Not to mention that Faceless could also copy the power of Class Holders.

At that thought, an idea suddenly arose in Wen Yu's mind.

If he could make Faceless copy the power of Sequence 1, then no matter how strong Sequence 1 was, he would absolutely never be able to defeat Wen Yu.

Wen Yu looked at Star and One-Eye, who were standing obediently where they were, then sank his consciousness into the Fourth Soul Realm. Watching Faceless lying motionless inside the Soul Realm, Wen Yu nodded in satisfaction.