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After investing six points, when the gravity manipulation reached (+7), Roland discovered that it could no longer be enhanced.
However, Roland understood after sensing it for a moment.
It's not that the maximum skill enhancement level is seven points, but rather that his current God Group Center bonus is only Lv7 (35 people level up), so the skill can only be enhanced to +7.
The future God Group Center bonus has been upgraded, and this limit can also be upgraded.
As for the specific upper limit of skill enhancement, that's something he can't reach yet.
Having understood this, Roland also briefly experienced his current level of gravity manipulation.
Previously, even a slight enhancement was a huge boost, but this time, six enhancement points were invested in one go. Roland has pushed the already simple skill of Gravity Manipulation to an extremely terrifying level in terms of strength.
Although Roland didn't dare to conduct the experiment directly in the solar system, he felt that he had already vaguely touched the threshold of black holes!
Moreover, it's not a Honkai world, but a fake black hole like the Ninth Herrscher or the Herrscher of Geo, which expands across a large area of Earth but doesn't cause any devastating damage.
It's the real deal!
This excited Roland, and he also intentionally tested his own effort and recorded it.
After all, if a black hole were to accidentally open on Earth, the consequences would be terrifying.
It will have varying degrees of impact on time, space, and even the size of the Earth, as well as the positions of celestial bodies in the solar system, with a devastating impact on the atmosphere and Earth's magnetic field.
If Roland hadn't been forced to retreat into the virtual realm and lose the ability to travel between stars once he lost the planet's support, he would have been a true star-level combatant.
After all, if you were inside a black hole, even if you only spent a few seconds inside a planet like Earth, that planet would be destroyed.
If you keep going for too long, the planet will collapse into the black hole.
And this is only +7 gravity manipulation.
If it were enhanced even further, or even enhanced to the maximum skill level, how powerful would it become?
Just thinking about Roland makes me excited.
However, he could only upgrade to +7 for now, so he looked at the remaining six upgrade points and glanced at the other skills.
Once you reach +7 in gravity manipulation, you need to be a little more careful when using it on planets.
So Roland wanted to create a skill that wouldn't require so much caution to use, and then directly add it to +6!
In this way, the next time he gets enhancement points, he only needs to enhance this skill to its temporary limit, and his strength level will be sufficient for now. Roland will then be able to rely on the lottery to increase his ability level again.
Roland ultimately locked in two skills that were easy to use and had both high and low limits.
The first one is Dragon's Shadow.
This skill is very flexible. Although Roland has always used it in Shadow Dragon form, he can also use it directly without using Shadow Dragon form.
Furthermore, once this skill is enhanced, Shadow Dragon will also be enhanced accordingly.
The second is the invisible hand.
This skill is also very straightforward; the more hands you have, the stronger it becomes. It's simple and easy to control.
Roland hesitated between the two skills for a while, but ultimately chose the former.
After all, being able to enhance Shadow Dragon while being easy to use makes it more cost-effective.
Afterwards, Roland possessed imaginary number magic, shadow familiars, gravity manipulation, the shadow of a dragon, and could transform into a shadow dragon. He could also create black holes and was equipped with various powers—such a level of strength was sufficient for the time being.
With this in mind, Roland immediately upgraded Dragon's Remnant to (+6)!
With this improvement, Roland used the Reincarnation Puppet currently with the Firemoth to sense the changes in the Dragon's Remnant. He could clearly feel that his Dragon's Remnant was no longer a dragon that could be described using the concept of Vortigern.
It seems to be moving in a higher direction.
Roland could feel his shadow becoming extremely terrifying; if he had to put it another way, it was as if he had gradually transformed from a dragon in the Type-Moon world into a dragon in the Little Garden world!
However, he had never been to the Little Garden and didn't know what Leticia and the Dragon Lord's Dragon Remnant felt like, so Roland was just guessing.
However, this +6 also made Roland realize something.
That is, after Gravity Manipulation reaches +7, it barely reaches the threshold of being able to create a black hole, so the improvement of Gravity Manipulation from +6 to +7 is a qualitative change.
And his own Dragon's Remnant seems to be the same.
+6 did significantly enhance the power of Dragon's Relic, but Roland always felt that it was still a step away from a higher level, a qualitative leap, leaving it somewhat stuck in the middle.
Roland breathed a sigh of relief upon realizing this.
He calmed himself down and tried not to be so impatient.
Then he began to ponder.
This group of twelve was his first wave of gains here, but there was actually a second wave to come.
After all, even Su wasn't in this first wave.
After that, Sue is fine, Kevin is fine, Kosmo is fine too—Gresh is too young, we'll see how things go. We can take her along, but we can't force her to grow to the point where she's ready to join the gods.
Roland isn't in such a hurry.
Compared to Gretchen, Hen and Daisy Dobby are actually better.
The former was Gretchen's father and an old member of the Firemoon, who died in the Ninth Great Collapse.
The latter, as Sue called him, was destined to become one of the Heroes of the Ages if he hadn't died prematurely—and it seems he already possessed telekinetic abilities before becoming a Fusion Warrior.
She was a blonde girl with a single ponytail who died in the Eighth Great Collapse.
They're both still alive and on the Firemoth, probably with Kevin and Kosmo.
So Gretchen doesn't need to rush.
In this world, even without considering the Herrschers, one could probably still reliably obtain 4 more enhancement points, which would add four more members to the God Group.
At that time, the blessing from the center of the divine group will be upgraded, and the level cap of skills will also be increased. With 4 enhancement points, you can upgrade both Gravity Manipulation and Dragon's Remnant to +8, and then you can draw a prize again.
Thinking of this, Roland smiled.
"Alicia and the others have only just become members of the Gods, so they'll probably need some more time to get excited and adapt. Let's take advantage of this time, before the Eighth Great Collapse, to go and finish things off at the Fire Chaser."
Roland had always had symbiotic partners among the higher-ups of the Firemoth, so he knew very well that if the Firemoth were to perish, the powerful nation behind it would seize the opportunity to intervene in Anti-Entropy.
For them, supporting the moth that chases the flame and supporting the anti-entropy are the same thing.
All they need is a tool that can be put together to fight against the Honkai and also generate profits.
So even if all the high-ranking members of the Firemoth faction are killed, the outcome will not change.
If they're not all dead, then once the major powers start getting involved with Anti-Entropy, these guys might even be parachuted into Anti-Entropy to become high-ranking members.
That's not what Roland wanted.
Therefore, before the Firemoth officially came to an end, Roland wanted to give it a proper send-off.
Keep what you need, and throw everything you don't need into the trash.
As for the various major powers behind the moth that chases the flame
Thinking of this, Roland's eyes flickered with an uncertain light.
They can forget about interfering with anti-entropy!
Then... whether the Ninth and Tenth Great Collapses can be resolved together depends entirely on how they perform.
.....again..
121. The moth drawn to the flame is committing suicide.
Before Mebius left the Firemoth, Roland specifically established an internal department within the Firemoth, ostensibly to capture Anti-Entropy traitors, but in reality, it was Roland's way of getting in touch with certain people and things, and also a preparation to completely ignite the internal conflicts within the Firemoth.
So after Roland actually established this department, he used the pretext of arresting traitors within Anti-Entropy to arrest people everywhere and profit from it.
At first he tried to cover it up, but after a few actions, Roland stopped trying to hide it altogether.
The same applies to the work targets set for my subordinates: as long as you meet my targets, whatever extra benefits you can get from the anti-entropy traitor are entirely yours.
Because of this premise, after Roland took the initiative to lead the team a few times, the staff who were familiar with the process began to act spontaneously.
The high-ranking members of the Firemoth were parachuted in after various major powers intervened in the Firemoth, so they are divided into many factions and represent the interests of many major powers.
Once this process was established, these individuals began to leverage the resources behind them, based on the interests they represented, to continuously attack other factions.
Roland's role was to intervene in this process from multiple angles, stirring up trouble from within and without, while remaining behind the scenes, and even switching symbiotic partners—in order to profit from it while causing chaos among the moths drawn to the flame.
Roland stopped hiding his work during this period.
After all, he knew very well that while some of the officials parachuted into Moth Chaser from major powers were there to gain experience and were the kind of people who could be easily dealt with, there were definitely some truly intelligent people among them.
Who can blame them when the high-ranking officials on the side of the Fire Moth are a microcosm of the great power game?
Sending a bunch of idiots and still expecting profits?
So those smart people must have figured out what Roland was doing, but none of them stopped him. Even the major powers behind Roland's symbiotic goals tacitly approved of this behavior.
The reasons all stem from the rise of anti-entropy.
Anti-Entropy had a large number of fusion warriors, and then Eden took away a lot of wealth. Mebius went there, Alicia went there, and now Mei and Cecilia have also gone there.
Even Einstein, Roland took advantage of his position to contact her and organized a plan and arrangements for her to switch jobs to Anti-Entropy.
Under such circumstances, the effects of the Herrscher's three consecutive major collapses and two consecutive major collapses were all resolved by anti-entropy.