The moment Leo received the New Godslaying Staff Godslaying Staff, he already knew its power.
New Godslaying Staff:
1. Elemental attack power increased by 60%, up to a maximum of 2,000,000 points;
2. When using the Shadow Talent, the talent is enhanced by 45%;
3. The length can be freely varied, but the maximum length cannot exceed 2000 meters;
4. Possesses terrifying durability; it cannot be destroyed by an attack power not exceeding 1,200,000 points.
5. When used as a weapon for physical attacks, its attack power is 20,000 to 700,000 points;
6. With each breath, the staff head's heart beats once, absorbing a certain amount of energy and storing it within. This energy can replenish the body's mana consumption or supply the staff's energy needs.
7. Control the puppets. Based on the driving energy, consume the branches and leaves on the staff. The number of puppets that can be controlled is no more than 10 for level 3, no more than 4,000 for level 2, and no more than 100,000 for level 1.
8. The staff itself is the Tree of Life, possessing growth potential. With sufficient energy, it can evolve by up to 1% every hundred years.
The power of the new Godslaying Staff flashed through Leo's mind, his eyes gleaming. He was so excited that his mouth even felt dry; the new staff was too powerful.
The first six abilities are clearly an evolution of the original Godslaying Staff. With the fusion of the branches of the Tree of Life and the World Tree, the original power limit of the Godslaying Staff has been increased to a level that even Leo finds frightening.
The Godslaying Staff originally only increased elemental attack power by 40%, but now it's 60%, a 20% increase, and the cap has been raised to two million points.
The original Godslaying Staff Godslaying Staff an amplification cap of 10,000 points, but now it has increased that cap by 2 million points, which means Leo can use it all the way up to level six.
The second boost to Shadow Talent only increased by 5% from the original level. After all, the fused branches of the Tree of Life and the World Tree are not Shadow-side energy beings, so their boost to Shadow Talent is very limited. But for Leo, an additional 5% boost is already quite good.
An additional 5% increase would greatly enhance his domain system's combat capabilities. If the Godslaying Wizard Robe's amplification were also increased, the original six domains might increase to seven or eight.
The third amplification comes from the Tree of Life's own abilities. Before Leo turned it into a staff, its length on the ground exceeded 1,500 meters, and if you include the length underground, it might exceed 10,000 meters. Now it can directly extend to 2,000 meters, but it retains the strongest part.
But think about a weapon that's two thousand meters tall, which is equivalent to the height of a six-hundred-story building. Even if you don't dare do anything, just placing it on the ground and pushing it flat would crush a group of low-level creatures.
The fourth condition is that it cannot be destroyed if the attack power is less than 1.2 million points. The original Godslaying Staff could not be destroyed if the attack power received was less than 40,000 points. As a result, not only the level 3 limit Tiger Beastmen, but also the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard, left deep scars on the Godslaying Staff.
If Leo hadn't nearly shattered the Godslaying Staff during his battle with the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard, he wouldn't have been forced to fuse the Godslaying Staff with the Tree of Life.
The fifth item is the increase in damage during pure physical attacks. The increase is still straightforward, with a lower limit of 20,000 points and an upper limit of 700,000 points.
Leo had just transformed into the Vengeance Giant and had already sensed that when attacking with a purely physical weapon, he could now increase his attack power by 30,000 points.
Even without considering other enhancements, the weapon itself provides a 30,000-point boost. Leo is eager to test his skills against an opponent and see who can withstand his current attacks. He'd be doing a Godslaying Staff if he didn't smash their head open!
The sixth item fully inherited the power of the Godslaying Staff. The damaged heart of the Goddess of Darkness was repaired by the Tree of Life with its own branches. Now, this heart is no longer a simple organ of flesh and blood, but a combination of plant and flesh.
The rate of energy absorption has also changed from once every ten breaths to once per breath, making the energy absorption rate ten times faster.
Aside from the first six abilities which evolved from the original abilities of the Godslaying Staff, the seventh and eighth abilities were added after fusing and absorbing branches from the Tree of Life and the World Tree.
The seventh ability is to control puppets. The moment Leo grasped the Godslaying Staff, he knew the casting requirements for this ability.
The number of puppets that can be controlled is strictly limited depending on the amount of driving energy.
At that time, the Tree of Life was burned by lightning and fire, its branches and trunk were stripped off, leaving only a few branches, trunks, and leaves. These are the key mediums for controlling the puppets.
The main trunk of a tree branch can control up to ten level-three life forms, with sufficient energy. Branches can control up to four thousand level-two life forms, while leaves can control up to one hundred thousand level-one life forms.
The puppets that can be controlled can be either dead or alive, but living puppets are much more difficult to control than dead ones, and the energy required is many times greater.
Just like in the Homo Sapiens World, the entire world was a puppet controlled by the World Tree, which controlled all living beings.
Controlling the life of the entire world—only a cosmic-level life form like the World Tree could accomplish such a feat.
The dead merely control corpses, while the living need to control their entire lives.
Leo can't even control a living level 3 puppet now. At most, he can control two dead level 3 puppets, and the puppets he controls can only maintain 80% of their strength from the time he was in the province.
As for transformations similar to those of Homo sapiens, and merging with one's own Tree of Life to become a berserk plant state, these were not inherited.
It's likely that this particular branch of the Tree of Life lacks that ability.
In short, Leo's ability to control puppets is only a simplified version of that ability.
Leo was not disappointed or resentful because he only inherited a simplified version of the puppet-controlling ability. Leo already very satisfied with just gaining the ability to control puppets.
Benji was retrieved from the Ice Seal Shadow Space, his body still bearing the large burns and horrific wounds inflicted by Benji, visible beneath the thick layer of ice.
Leo pointed his finger at the ice, and the thick ice began to melt, revealing the body of Benji beneath within minutes.
The somewhat hastily Godslaying Staff was placed on Benji's corpse. His magical power surged out, and the thickest branch at the top of the Godslaying Staff began to extend, like a nimble snake burrowing into Benji's body from various parts of his body.
Leo could sense that his magical power and a portion of his spiritual power flowed into Benji's corpse through the Godslaying Staff.
Originally, only a tree branch was inserted into Benji's body, but after it was inserted, fine fibers grew from the branch and spread throughout Benji's body.
These spiderweb-like fibers threaded through Benji's wounds, as if the most skillful weaver had stitched Benji up.
It emerged from the burned area on Benji's corpse and instantly grew hair identical to the surrounding hair.
A tail that was only half left was also woven out, its color exactly the same as the other tails.
When there were no wounds left on Benji's body, and he was completely flawless, Leo stopped surging with magic power, and the branches extending from the Godslaying Staff broke off. Benji staggered to his feet, and even his eyes vividly surveyed everything around him.
If it weren't for the fact that one couldn't sense Benji's soul, one might really mistakenly believe that Benji had been resurrected.
Leo stroked his companion who had been with him since his apprenticeship. He could completely control Benji, make him transform, and make him fight, but he couldn't make him speak.
"Follow me, let's fight side by side once again."
Benji swayed as he followed behind Leo Leo, just as he had done countless times before.
The seventh ability has been understood: it involves combining one's magical and spiritual power into a small command system, which, under the control of the branches and fibers of the Godslaying Staff, forms a tight control mechanism, enabling the puppet to achieve 80% of its former abilities.
As for controlling living puppets, level three is indeed not possible, but controlling a few level one puppets is no problem, it's just that level one puppets don't have much effect.
The eighth ability of the new staff, the Tree of Life, although uprooted from the ground and transformed into a small staff in Leo's hand under his control, is actually not less active at all. It can immediately transform into a towering tree when placed on the ground.
Even if it's not planted in the ground, it can continue to evolve by replenishing the energy absorbed by its heart, but the rate of evolution will be small; even with sufficient energy, it can only evolve by 1% every hundred years.
As for what constitutes sufficient energy, Leo released all the energy in his heart, directing it towards the staff, allowing the Godslaying Staff to absorb it and sensing its internal absorption rate.
Judging from his absorption rate, only by finding another branch of the World Tree and placing it below him for him to absorb can he reach his evolution limit. After all, he was originally Tree of Life over 1,500 meters tall, not a sapling, and his evolution requires a massive amount of astonishing energy.
Based on the current energy supply his heart can provide, it would be good if he could evolve by 0.1% in a hundred years. In other words, without the intervention of other energy sources, it would take a thousand years for the Godslaying Staff to reach an evolution level of 1%.
Given Leo's current abilities, this ability cannot be effectively utilized. He doesn't even have enough energy for his own use, so how could he possibly provide it for the evolution of the Godslaying Staff?
After reviewing the entire power of the Godslaying Staff, Leo could only conclude that it was a staff that would allow him to use up to the level of Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizard, provided he could live that long.
" Leo, your new wizard robe has arrived."
Just as Leo finished reviewing the new abilities of the Godslaying Staff, Yaoyao appeared on Leo's shoulder, dragging a semi-illusory shadow.
"Is this my Godslaying Wizard Robe?"
Leo looked at the Godslaying Wizard Robe that Yaoyao was holding in her claws, which seemed not to be a physical object but a shadow.
It was dark and mysterious; the sunlight shining on it seemed to be sucked in.
That's no longer his tattered wizard robes!
He couldn't find the familiar look of the wizard's robe at all. If it weren't for the lingering feeling of Bloodline connection, Leo would have suspected that Yaoyao had gotten a fake wizard's robe.