It was a good thing that he had escaped, but this incident had also served as a warning to Roy.
It seemed he still had to be careful when being summoned to other worlds.
Although even a Lower Demon was stronger than many Monsters in the Human World, that did not mean demons could wreak havoc without restraint. Demons had powerful enemies too.
The ones who summoned demons were often humans, yet in the Human World, demons were usually targets that people found hard to accept. Even when humans wanted to borrow demonic power, they still despised and feared demons. Many exorcists even made it their mission to kill demons. On human turf, demons were naturally at a tremendous disadvantage. This was called home field disadvantage.
What left Roy feeling most helpless was precisely this. He had a human mind but a demon's body. He could not regard demons as his own kind, yet when he went to the Human World, humans could not regard him as one of their own either. Even if he truly did nothing bad, people would see his appearance and immediately want to kill him.
Roy had realized this clearly long ago, which was why he could bring himself to strike at demons and at humans alike. He knew full well that he was isolated, unable to benefit from either side. If he wanted to live well, he had better not harbor any naive ideas.
After seeing Gabriel's Angel form, Roy had been afraid, but deep down, he had also felt rather envious. Why hadn't I been reborn as an Angel? If he had been reborn as an Angel, then even if he let Monsters torment people for centuries, as long as he appeared at the end and casually did something, he would still earn the worship and gratitude of countless people... How could it be like this now, where his very appearance caused panic and made people desperate to kill him...
Just thinking about it... gave him such an indescribable feeling! Damn it, looks really were justice!
Because I'm so beautiful, I'll be forgiven no matter what I do... right?
Shaking his head, Roy left the altar and climbed out of the volcano. He planned to find somewhere to settle down before examining his gains.
Roy had stored both Gabriel's Sacred Soul Fragment and Lucius's Corrupted Soul in the system. He did not dare take them out for close inspection. He knew that if either of these things appeared in the Abyss World, they would probably incite the local demons into a frenzy. Only by storing them in the System Space could their scent be isolated.
He had originally thought he might obtain a Fallen Soul and a Noble Soul this time, but he had not even seen a trace of the Noble Soul. Instead, he had ended up with a Sacred Soul Fragment. Did that count as losing in one place and gaining in another?
Since Fallen Souls and Noble Souls both belonged to the category of High-Quality Souls, what level was a Sacred Soul? What could it be used for?
Roy did not know the answers to these questions for the moment. He would need to test them himself.
After flying out of the volcano, Roy found a Flying Demon's nest against the vaulted wall of the cavern ceiling. The nest was really just a cave entrance, and it looked as though it had been abandoned for quite some time. Its former owner had probably been hunted while out hunting, so Roy simply claimed the nest for himself.
It was actually quite spacious inside. After Roy crawled in, he found that it could hold roughly two or three bodies his size.
After settling into the nest, Roy began studying the system.
Sure enough, just as Roy had expected, once he obtained Lucius's Corrupted Soul, the 3D and AE function interfaces opened and became usable.
Roy studied them while consulting the system, and he quickly figured out what the two functions were for.
The 3D function was for creating models, while AE was for creating effects and generating videos.
Moreover, the two functions were meant to be used together. Roy could use the 3D function to create a Character Model of himself, draw different Action Poses, then overlay them to form a continuous action sequence. He could then add effects through AE, generate a video, and extract a sequence of frames from it to create a GIF image file.
Simply put, the GIF images generated through these two functions were actually Skill Effect Demonstrations! After saving this material, Roy could use the skill in the GIF, and even the effects it produced would be exactly the same!
Once Roy understood what these two functions did, he could not help feeling a little dumbfounded. Damn Wang Dachui, it could actually be used like this??
Roy was immediately intrigued and hurriedly began tinkering with them.
3D Modeling was rather tedious work. Before drawing his own Character Model, he had to first decide what different movements he needed to make in the skill demonstration, then draw every one of those movements.
At the same time, if Roy wanted those movements to come with effects, he also needed to model those effects. For example, if Roy wanted Flame Effects, he had to create the flames' path of movement too. Would they spread outward, or surge toward the sky? In short, the various sub-functions of these two features combined together formed an animation production process.
Thus, while creating the models, Roy was also thinking about what sort of skill he wanted to make.
Since it was an Original Skill, Roy could draw it however he wanted. However, he had to consider two issues. The first was the amount of Corrupted Soul in Lucius's soul. Manifesting skills consumed this type of High-Quality Soul, so the more complex the effects, the greater the consumption of High-Quality Soul.
The second issue was his own demonic energy. Roy had already asked the system about this: the power of a created skill ultimately depended on the amount of Roy's own magic power.
He could completely draw a skill where spitting on the ground caused a Nuclear Explosion, but even if he truly made it, given the amount of demonic energy he currently possessed, it would probably only have the power of a grenade at most. His demonic energy might even be completely drained after one use, making it impossible to achieve the effect shown in the skill demonstration.
After thinking it over, Roy felt that his first skill should preferably have simple effects and be something he could use continuously with his current demonic energy. Once his demonic energy increased in the future, he could gradually modify the effects to make it more powerful.
In other words, this skill was best suited to be a [Q] skill...
It was easy enough to say, but when he truly began designing it, Roy suddenly found himself at a loss. What kind of Q skill should he make?
This first skill could also be considered Roy's first spell, a novice level skill. So at first, Roy had considered effects such as Fireball or Shadow Arrow. Skills like those would be fairly easy to create, and regardless of the amount of demonic energy, he should be able to perfectly achieve the effects he had set when firing them.
But the problem was, he felt that skills like that did not seem cool enough...
For the first skill, if anyone had any good ideas, feel free to leave a comment and discuss them.
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