Chapter 153

  Over the few days, Jake leveled up several times, moving from level 63 to level 72 and accumuting 45 skill points in total. He allocated some of them to his attributes.

  Body: 60 → 70

  Mind: 60 → 70

  Magick: 64 → 70

  Many of his skills and abilities underwent some ges as well. Those that were on—Swords, Bded Tentacles, Smashfists, Enhanced Reflexes, Enharength, Enhanced Regeion, Feral Instincts, and Enhanced Durability—were ready to be elevated to Unon, which would give them an additional upgrade to unlock. These skills and abilities did not o be at Rank II when he evolved to Stage II, meaning they could be manually upgraded from on to Unon by allog 1 SP to each. The only requirement for the upgrade was that he o have evolved to Stage 2: “Savage Ast,” which he had done quite some time ago. He spent 8 SP to raise each of these eight skills and abilities from on to Unon and then allocated another SP to each to increase them from Rank II to Rank III. Each of these skills and abilities could nress once more and had an additional upgrade to unlock. He also spent three more skill points to upgrade Gravity Leap, Cloak, and Adhesive Secretion from Rank I to Rank II, making them more powerful. To perform an upgrade to the Rank, specific attribute requirements o be met, but by that point, he had raised all his attributes to a suffitly high level, easily fulfilling every requirement for Rank upgrades.

  At the moment, Jake g to the front wall of a high-rise building, positio the third-floor height, Adhesive Secretion securely holding him in pce. Cloak was active, blending him seamlessly with his surroundings and making him appear transparent and virtually invisible. It was high noon. He had just returned from the depths of the sewers, where he had spent the m hunting down mutated rats and devourers. Before tinuing with his day, he wao check his stats. He closed his eyes and summohem with a thought.

  Name: Jake Turner

  Race: Ex-Human Morphus

  Evolution Stage 2: “Savage Ast”

  Level: 72

  HP: 100%

  XP: 6,565/8,875

  SP: 0

  MP: 81,775

  Body: 70

  Mind: 70

  Magick: 70

  Cws: Rank III (34%) (Upgrades: 4 of 4) (Unon)

  Swords: Rank III (27%) (Upgrades: 3 of 4) (Unon)

  Bded Tentacles: Rank III (17%) (Upgrades: 3 of 4) (Unon)

  Mind Reader: Rank II (85%) (Upgrades: 4 of 4) (Unon)

  Smashfists: Rank III (13%) (Upgrades: 3 of 4) (Unon)

  Gravity Leap: Rank II (4%) (Upgrades: 4 of 4) (Unon)

  Cloak: Rank II (11%) (Upgrades: 4 of 4) (Unon)

  Enhanced Senses: Rank III (30%) (Upgrades: 4 of 4) (Unon)

  Enhanced Agility: Rank III (33%) (Upgrades: 4 of 4) (Unon)

  Enhanced Intelligence: Rank III (39%) (Upgrades: 4 of 4) (Unon)

  Enhanced Reflexes: Rank III (15%) (Upgrades: 3 of 4) (Unon)

  Enharength: Rank III (13%) (Upgrades: 3 of 4) (Unon)

  Enhanced Regeion: Rank III (17%) (Upgrades: 3 of 4) (Unon)

  Feral Instincts: Rank III (15%) (Upgrades: 3 of 4) (Unon)

  Enhanced Durability: Rank III (18%) (Upgrades: 3 of 4) (Unon)

  Adhesive Secretion: Rank II (11%) (Upgrades: 4 of 4) (Unon)

  He noticed that the Mind Reader ability was currently at 85%. When it reached 100%, he would be able to upgrade it to Rank III. In the past several days, he had ambushed and sin several groups of Los Demonios, using Mind Reader on some of his victims. Currently, this ability allowed him to view only a few hours of a target’s most ret memories, which was why he had so far failed to glean anything useful about the gang. He still didn’t know where their base was located, where to find the gang leaders, or where captured survivors were kept, let alone what the gang hem for. However, Jake hoped that by upgrading Mind Reader to Rank III, he would be able to view much more of a target’s memories and therefore learn more about the gang.

  He then checked once more the requirements he o meet to evolve to Stage 3: “Apex Maion”.

  Requirements for evolving to Stage 3

  Level: 75

  Attributes: Body 70, Mind 70, Magick 70

  Skills:

  Enhanced Senses - Rank III

  Enhanced Agility - Rank III

  Enhanced Intelligence - Rank III

  Enhanced Reflexes - Rank III

  Enharength - Rank III

  Enhanced Regeion - Rank III

  Feral Instincts - Rank III

  Enhanced Durability: Rank III

  He was getting there. Each of his attributes was at 70, and all of the required skills were already at Rank III. So all that was left to do was level up three more times to Level 75, and he would finally be able to evolve into the form. He couldn’t wait. He figured it would take him only two or three days to gain those three additional levels. He was really excited about the stage of evolution.

  Over the past few days, he had accumuted a substantial amount of MP, and he decided it was time to use some of it to purchase new skills and abilities. With a sihought, he summohe sed se of the Geic Development Interface.

  Evolution Stage 2: "Savage Ast" (Level 25)

  Abilities: 3 of 6

  Skills: 2 of 4

  Ability: Acidic Spit

  Requirements: Body 45, Magick 45

  Cost: 20,000 MP

  Ability: Serpentine Form

  Requirements: Body 50, Mind 45, Magick 50

  Cost: 25,000 MP

  Ability: Spikes

  Requirements: Body 60, Magick 65

  Cost: 30,000 MP

  Skill: Toxic Resistance

  Requirements: Body 45

  Cost: 23,000 MP

  Skill: Adaptive Armor

  Requirements: Body 55, Magick 50

  Cost: 27,000 MP

  Ability: Mind Reader

  Requirements: Mind 30, Magick 25

  Cost: Already Owned

  Skill: Enhanced Durability

  Requirements: Body 30

  Cost: Already Owned

  Ability: Gravity Leap

  Requirements: Body 43, Mind 40, Magick 37

  Cost: Already Owned

  Skill: Adhesive Secretion

  Requirements: Body 40, Magick 35

  Cost: Already Owned

  Ability: Cloak

  Requirements: Body 45, Mind 55, Magick 60

  Cost: Already Owned

  At his current level, he aimed to keep his MP above thirty thousand. Therefore, he decided to make only two purchases: the Acidic Spit ability and the Toxic Resistance skill, spending a total of 43,000 MP, which left him with 38,775 MP. He noticed that only two abilities—Serpentine Form and Spikes—and one skill—Adaptive Armor—remained in the sed se of the Geic Development Interfaow. He po review them ter when he was ready to purchase them.

  One by one, he examihe ability and the skill he had just acquired.

  Acidic Spit: The mutant gains the ability to spit a glob of corrosive acid that dissolve obstacles and enemies.

  Upgrades: 0 of 4 (Unon)

  Requirements: Body 45, Magick 45

  Cost: Already Owned

  He had high hopes for this ability. It was his first ranged ability, and if it performed as well as he hoped, he would be using it in bat pretty frequently.

  Toxic Resistahe mutant acquires resistao acid and poison, enhang their ability to withstand chemical-based attacks.

  Upgrades: 0 of 4 (Unon)

  Requirements: Body 45

  Cost: Already Owned

  Each of these two was Unon and had a total of frades avaible for unlog. However, since he didn’t have any more skill points at the moment, he decided to examihe avaible upgrades at a ter time.

  The st thing Jake did was check his curreances.

  Elemental Resistances:

  Indiary - 10%

  Cryo - 10%

  Shock - 10%

  Explosive - 10%

  Corrosive - 30%

  Radiation - 10%

  Other Resistances:

  Pierce - 14%

  Poison - 30%

  Mana Bleeding - 9%

  Mind trol - 0%

  Stun - 0%

  Chaos - 0%

  Ethereal - 0%

  Thanks to Toxic Resistance, his Corrosive and Poisoances increased from 10% to 30%. He also noticed that Pierd Mana Bleediances had also gone up a little, the former from 12% to 14% and the tter from 7% to 9%. Pierd Mana Bleediances increased automatically each time he ied skill points to Body and Magick respectively.

  After reviewing the information, Jake finally opened his eyes, making all the details vanish, and then he resumed his journey.

  Happy holidays all! :)