Chapter 140: Chapter 116: Fusion! 3x1 Form! The Little Paper Man’s Three Sword Style!_2
Any small component that required a Paperman to transform and assemble would necessitate Su Ping designing it in its entirety, let alone a gigantic Gundam. Even a humanoid robot would need countless components. Paper Swords, however, were quite simple, only requiring three parts: the sword core, hilt, and blade. That was all there was to it.
But for the colossal body of a Gundam, constructed by tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands to millions of Papermen, the components needed for such a massive machine would be difficult to produce even if my brain were cloned ten times, wouldn’t they? After all, he would have to start designing from the individual components. Besides, Su Ping was not optimistic about the combat performance of paper merging into a human form for battle. On the contrary, using simple transformations to create Paper Swords, as he was doing now, was, in a sense, an easier and more straightforward way to achieve effective results.
However, this was just the beginning. In the future, once I make the abilities of the Paperman public, countless Beast Tamers will perfect it. As for how to further demonstrate the effects and power of this assembly at present, Su Ping almost immediately had an answer: Matryoshka dolls and enhancing the ’components’ of the Paperman itself. The former went without saying; Su Ping’s main focus was on enhancing the components. The components themselves were the bodies of the Papermen that had comprehended ’Paper Body Joint.’ This meant that upgrading the power of the Paperman itself, or even allowing a Paperman that had comprehended ’Paper Body Joint’ to evolve, would suffice. It looked simple, but the evolution of the Paperman was the greatest challenge for all Undead Cultivators. As mentioned before, the only known evolutionary form of the Paperman was the deformed Armored Paperman. After becoming an Armored Paperman, it could no longer use Paper Body Folding. Without the ability to fold, it naturally could not be assembled, which indeed made it a useless evolutionary form.
Thinking of this, Su Ping had a plan. It was just as the Advanced Level Undead Beast Tamer Mu Yu had said: No matter what, first increase the Paperman’s soul foundation, then improve its Realm! After all, in cultivation theory, there were no examples of a basic Pet Beast evolving at a low level. At the very least, evolution could only be accomplished when nearing the race’s Racial Potential limit. With this in mind, Su Ping picked up the Paper Sword, which was less than three feet long. He made a light chopping motion. A clear sword mark appeared on the ground; the bluestone slabs offered no resistance to the Paper Sword.
Su Ping smiled.
"Disassemble!"
He issued the command via Telepathic Communication. If it had been before this, the three Papermen would definitely not have understood what this meant. Their souls were too weak, and their self-awareness was like that of insects from his previous life on Earth, only capable of following racial instincts. But now, after combining, they could somewhat understand the meaning of words spoken via Telepathic Communication!
Immediately, starting from the blade, the hardened paper body slowly softened without Su Ping having to dismantle it by hand. Like a loose, spread blanket, it fell to the ground. Afterwards, the components reverted to the form of the Papermen. The hilt and the sword core transformed from parts of a Paper Sword back into their original Paperman shapes, a process completed in three breaths!
ABABA ABABA...
Looking at the three Papermen that had returned to their original forms before him, Su Ping blinked.
He once again activated the Eye of Truth:
[Paperman (Wild) (Basic State)]
[Attribute: Undead]
[Current Level: Ordinary Second Rank]
[Racial Potential: Common Tenth Level]
[Skills: Paper Body Folding (Beginner), Paper Body Joint (Beginner)]
Indeed, they had returned to their original state.
But before he could think further, the Myriad Spirit Beast Atlas, which had been quiet for a long time, suddenly began to turn slowly in his mind. Then, the pale Origami Man Record suddenly lit up. Beneath this record, in the log where entries were recorded, a special prompt appeared that had never been associated with Papermen before:
[Discovery and contact with Paperman, intimacy requirement met, Catalog Level Experience +10*3!]
[Discovery and cultivation of Paperman’s special Racial Skill: Paper Body Joint, Catalog Level Experience +100 points!]
[Origami Man Record Experience Points: 617/500! Experience meets Catalog upgrade requirements. Upgrade?]
Enough experience?
Su Ping was slightly startled but then smiled. After all, just discovering Qian Yi had already granted 350 experience points. Compared to the 500 points required for the Catalog to advance from LV1 to LV2, this truly wasn’t a big deal.
Yes!
With a thought, the Origami Man Record before him reacted just like the Forest Wolf’s had. The pale record itself began to be tinged with green. Soon, this touch of green replaced the previous white of the record, signifying the successful upgrade of the Origami Man Record.
At the same time, just as Su Ping had expected, after it was upgraded to LV2, the Myriad Spirit Beast Atlas provided him with the most direct feedback in the depths of his mind:
[Catalog ’Paperman’ level upgraded. Current Catalog Level: 2. Received Origin reward: Connection Sharing (Paperman)]
[Connection Sharing (Paperman): An ability born from the Myriad Spirit Beast Atlas. Allows connection and sharing with Papermen recorded in the Catalog that meet intimacy requirements. Connected Papermen share skills training, skill usage, and skill enhancement experience.]