Published: February 7, 2025
“Ability 1, Damage Sharing. The bearer of the military merit medal shares damage proportionally.”
This ability is somewhat similar to the spirit woman and her cat, but the difference is that the spirit woman and her cat have genuinely achieved life sharing, while the damage sharing from the military merit medal is far less impressive—it only shares a portion of the damage, and once a limit is exceeded, it stops sharing.
“Ability 2, Communication. The bearer of the military merit medal possesses the ability for short-range real-time communication.”
This ability is easy to understand; it functions like a walkie-talkie. However, after glancing at the explanation, Ye Zhongming realized that this ability is more practical than a walkie-talkie. He is not affected by adverse weather conditions; as long as he is within the specified range, he can communicate. Of course, it can still be interfered with by other means.
The communication function is quite good. In his previous life, many major powers had similar equipment, making it a very practical ability.
“Ability 3, Skill Borrowing. The bearer of the military merit medal can use one of the primary bearer's abilities, with power proportional to the amount of military merit contributed.”
There is no doubt that Ye Zhongming is the primary bearer, and others can gain access to some of his abilities through the medal. Although this borrowing has a cooldown period, which Ye Zhongming noted was quite long—one week. The power is also tied to military merit, and these abilities cannot be borrowed at random; they must not conflict with the borrower's main attributes, cannot borrow equipment abilities, cannot exceed the highest level of one’s own skills, and must comply with weapon types, etc.
There are many restrictions, but are they useless? Quite the opposite; they are very useful.
For example, Xia Lei is a blade master. If she borrows Ye Zhongming's professional skills during combat, she could not only use her triple blade but also gain the abilities of Ye Zhongming’s radiant seal blade master, effectively giving her an additional professional skill. Moreover, this skill is quite powerful, as Ye Zhongming's profession is a prestigious one.
For instance, if Teacher Park is a bearer of the military merit medal, being a completely support-type evolver, her only offensive power comes from her staff. If she can borrow Ye Zhongming's abilities, then she could gain an additional attack skill, significantly enhancing her self-defense capabilities.
These examples clearly illustrate how this ability enhances overall strength.
“Ability 4, Military Merit Aggregation. The bearer of the military merit medal provides the primary bearer with a physical quality boost; the higher the military merit, the greater the boost, and the more bearers there are, the greater the boost.”
Seeing this, Ye Zhongming knew it was a unique benefit for himself.
He looked closely; the boost isn’t very high. If he had to quantify it, a basic bearer could provide about a one percent increase in physical quality relative to their own.
Don’t underestimate this one percent; it’s proportional. Just to use the current situation as an example, the individuals Ye Zhongming records in the military merit box are definitely core members of Cloud Summit. These members are all five-star evolvers. What is one percent of their physique? What is the total when five come together? And as the box level increases and more bearers are added, the boost will increase even more.
Thinking about this made Ye Zhongming feel a surge of excitement; he has a hunch that as this item levels up, it might even directly elevate his evolution level by an entire tier.
Of course, this is still a long process, so there’s no rush—it has to be done gradually.
“Ability 5, Military Merit Accumulation and Exchange.”
This ability is quite special; to be precise, the upgrade of the military merit box does not rely on external forces but on the military merit of the bearers.