The Level Seven crystal was completely digested, yet did not allow Frenzy to break through the critical threshold. Su Changxing followed this by consuming over eighty Level Nine crystals and more than ten Level Eight crystals to push the process forward.
Each time it felt like it was just a little bit short, then as the Extraordinary crystals continued to be digested, it felt like an endless abyss.
Until the final Extraordinary crystal was absorbed, Frenzy was enhanced, as if piecing together the broken Genetic Chain slowly, making it complete.
Frenzy v1—Frenzy v2.
[Frenzy V2 (Divinity): First stage of divinity, gaining incredible transformations.
Truth: Each zombie within the Undead Tide will gain extraordinary resistance, reducing the influence of Extraordinary Power.
Thick-skinned V1: Each zombie in the Undead Tide gains stronger Life Force, with Resistance increased by 20%, Anti-Puncture Ability increased by 20%, Impact Resistance increased by 20%.
Marching Speed v6: The Undead Tide moves faster, each zombie’s Speed increases by 35%, Agility increases by 35%, Resilience increases by 35%.
Thirst v1: After entering battle status, the Undead Tide continuously devours targets’ Life Force, recovering 1% every five seconds, while zombies in the Undead Tide devour enemy flesh during combat, recovering 2% of their own Life per second, including physical form and body integrity.
Note: This Ability can continue to grow.]
From v1 to v2, Frenzy differs from before with a major enhancement, gaining an additional plug-in Ability, Thirst.
In this calculation, a major enhancement is essentially equal to gaining a Divine Inheritance, or in other words, gaining a Divine Inheritance is akin to promoting Frenzy a Level, not reflected in Level, but directly gaining an additional plug-in Ability.
Thirst is the self-healing ability zombies lacked; 2% per second doesn’t seem much but thinking about it critically seems suspicious, if a zombie is unharmed, it can fully recover within fifty seconds of combat.
This is the maximum scenario.
More importantly, this Ability doesn’t consume anything from the zombies themselves, acting as a passive Ability that automatically activates upon entering combat status.
As for the 1% recovery per second for the Undead Tide, Su Changxing hasn’t figured out what it means yet.
Could it be like the Undead Legion, where originally fallen zombies would rise again from the ground?
Su Changxing’s face showed a peculiar expression, feeling that with this Ability, the Undead Tide and the Undead Legion seem indistinguishable, like a replication of the Undead Legion.
Theoretically, as long as the Undead Tide is immense, if the damage done by enemies does not exceed the recovery limit, it becomes an immortal existence.
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Su Changxing noticed that red lines appeared on the pale skin of zombies within the Undead Tide, resembling blood vessels imprinted on their skin, becoming increasingly noticeable.
However.
In other aspects, there doesn’t seem to be much significant change either.
Then, he attempted to control over a hundred zombies to fight an Extraordinary Creature resembling a crocodile in the sewers.
These were the most ordinary zombies, arranged to test the Ability of Thirst, without involving Extraordinary Zombies in the combat.
This was an Extraordinary Tier Nine creature not considered strong; normally, one to two hundred zombies may have a chance to kill it, although they would inevitably suffer heavy losses themselves.
But these weren’t ordinary zombies; they were zombies enveloped in the Frenzy Aura.
The narrow spaces in the sewer provided advantageous terrain for the crocodile, without facing too many zombies simultaneously, only confronting five or six at once.
If it were smart enough, choosing a kiting method could possibly allow it to eliminate all these over one hundred zombies single-handedly.
The crocodile lunged, knocking down two zombies in front, biting the head off one. Blood burst in its mouth, resembling the sensation of a giant popping boba, bursting with black juice inside its mouth.
The other zombie was sent flying, hitting the wall, its left leg’s bone fractured, yet still stumbling up from the ground.
Initially, there seemed nothing special, then things turned odd.
The staggering zombie was blocked by other zombies, unable to make direct contact with the crocodile, resorting to pushing from behind; from limping, it gradually appeared normal, the fractured leg bone surprisingly healing swiftly during the process.
Most unexpected for Su Changxing was the zombie’s rotted left face starting to heal and restore during the process.
Only then did he realize that zombies within the Undead Tide, lacking self-healing Ability, were inherently at less than full Life Force, resulting in triggering Thirst making them more complete than before battle, even turning them into a completely healthy zombie.
Su Changxing stroked his chin, finding this notion somewhat odd, but the fact remains that these zombies were indeed unhealthy, a significant portion lacking limbs, with holes here or missing components there, yet miraculously capable of moving and maintaining some combat capability.
The battle continued.
The crocodile certainly wasn’t weak, with many zombies knocked down, but its own body grew increasingly scarred, its back bearing a long bloodstain from a zombie’s scratch, bleeding continuously.