Permanent Summon Information
Name: A Ling
Race: Zombie/Evolutionary
(Hint: Permanent Summon A Ling has improved body attributes and skill levels due to consuming the flesh and blood of the Superior individual Tyrant, and a new virus crystal core has regrown within its body.)
Health: 96%/100%
Mana: 400/420
Strength: 34
Constitution: 37
Agility: 31
Intelligence: 42
Charm: 32
Luck: 1
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Skill 1 (Passive): Zombie Lord, LV.8
Skill 2 (Passive): Fatal Virus, LV.7
Skill 3 (Active): Summoning Roar, LV.10
Skill 4 (Passive): Lord's Dominion, LV.9
Skill 5 (Active): Zombie Lord Aura, LV.12
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Current Loyalty: 33
Hint:
1. Loyalty ranges from 0 to 100.
2. If the summon's loyalty is below 90 points, it will not unconditionally execute all commands from the Contractor;
3. If the summon's loyalty is below 50 points, there is a possibility of betraying the Contractor; the lower the loyalty, the higher the possibility of betrayal.
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After killing Zhongli Yi, Mu Bei only took the virus crystal core from the corpse's skull and the dropped treasure chest, leaving the rest of the corpse where it was without further attention.
Although the Side Quest 'Surrender' was completed, because the one who killed Jinzhou City Lord Zhongli Yi was Mu Bei and not A Ling, Mu Bei did not receive that extra loyalty reward;
As a result, A Ling's loyalty to Mu Bei is currently so low.
If possible, Mu Bei would, of course, want A Ling to kill Zhongli Yi with her own hands.
But at that time, A Ling was not by Mu Bei's side, and Mu Bei did not know A Ling's exact location;
Furthermore, Zhongli Yi's helicopter was already about to take off, leaving Mu Bei with not much time.
How can there be a perfect solution in the world?
Many people are too greedy when faced with various choices and possibilities.
Wanting this, and that, and also the other, ultimately getting nothing.
Such examples are everywhere, countless.
Therefore, Mu Bei gave up on joining forces with A Ling and chose to kill Zhongli Yi alone.
Of course, if Mu Bei was lucky, A Ling might have arrived in time and joined the battle midway while he was fighting Zhongli Yi.
But the fact is, Mu Bei was very unlucky; let alone having A Ling arrive during his fight with Zhongli Yi, he fought all night and didn't even catch a glimpse of A Ling.
In this situation, if Mu Bei still wanted A Ling to kill Zhongli Yi with her own hands, then he would have to capture Zhongli Yi alive by himself.
And the difficulty of capturing someone alive is completely different from the difficulty of killing them.
World Child Zhong Li Yi only needed to consider how to fight desperately, while Mu Bei, who wanted to capture him alive, had much more to consider.
If Mu Bei really wanted to capture Zhongli Yi alive, he would have to control the force of his attacks to avoid killing Zhongli Yi.
This would inevitably make Mu Bei hesitant and cautious during the battle.
And this would create the possibility for the World Child to perform a miracle and turn the tide!
At that time, Mu Bei would be like the villains in those anime, TV shows, or movies, killed by a "protagonist" who is much weaker than himself.
How could Mu Bei not understand this? He had seen many works where "weak justice" would eventually triumph over "powerful evil."
Those villains who had many opportunities to directly take the protagonist's life in the early and mid-stages of the plot, but repeatedly chose to spare the protagonist for various nonsensical reasons, in Mu Bei's opinion, had a kind of brainstem-deficient beauty.
What's there to be cautious about?
Is it forcibly lowering the villain's Intelligence to prolong the plot?
Mu Bei had thought more than once that if he were the stronger party, he would not give his opponent any chance of winning against him.
And when facing World Child Zhong Li Yi again, Mu Bei was indeed the stronger party.
Finally, facts proved that Mu Bei was indeed a person who acted on his words.
It was just a little loyalty reward; Mu Bei would not disregard his own safety for this little thing and hold back in the life-and-death battle with World Child Zhong Li Yi.
Anyway, A Ling's virus crystal core was in hand, so a little lower loyalty was fine; she was just a tool to lure monsters, why need such high loyalty?
This was Mu Bei's thought at the time, but there was one thing he did not anticipate, and that was--
The zombie's crystal core could actually grow back!
To be honest, A Ling herself didn't know this before, because she was the first zombie whose virus crystal core had left her body, survived, and regrown a new crystal core.
A few hours ago, when Mu Bei completed the Side Quest 'Surrender', a lot of information suddenly appeared in A Ling's mind, information that almost shattered her worldview:
Order Paradise... Derivative World... Permanent Summon... Was her memory, the world she lived in, her love, her hate, all fake? Was it, all fake!!!
In a daze, A Ling followed the instinct of the virus within her body and came to the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion.
When she saw the corpse of Tyrant Zhongli Yi lying on the ground, besides the overwhelming hatred, there was more of an uncontrollable craving.
A Ling simply couldn't control her urge to eat the Tyrant's flesh and blood, and of course, there was no need to control such a good thing.
After eating the Tyrant's corpse until almost only a skeleton remained, A Ling's consciousness was freed from the state controlled by craving and returned to clarity.
At this moment, she felt herself getting stronger, stronger than ever before.
Even if her past love and hate were fake, and this world was fake, at least this strength was real, and becoming Mu Bei's permanent summon was also real.
So, Contractor Mu Bei, are you qualified to be my master?
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