Salazar had never felt pain like this before.
He somehow managed to stumble out of the cart and crawled , ( if it was possible to do so ) out of harms way, off to the side and lay there , enduring the pain that came with his evolution.
It was so intense that he slipped in and out of consciousness as his body transformed. His flowing mud skin slowly solidified , and took on a vague humanoid silhouette, but more than that , his power increased drastically.
Meanwhile, the humans packed up and left after excavating more than 70% of the mine. The moment they left , and with no one to control them , the monsters started running wild again. They began to fight each other for the precious resources that would help the boost their strength.
It was a few hours later that Salazar slowly came to.
He sat up , before realizing that he could. In his Mudman form , he'd had no legs. He started to inspect his body.
His golem form although better , was almost as grotesque as his Mudman form. But , now he had limbs. Like actual arms and legs and claws. He almost leaped with joy.
'So this is how a golem looks like. '
Suddenly remembering , he quickly opened his status window
Name: Salazar Midgard.
Race: Golem
Class :none.
Title : Monster shifter , Alpha
Level : 20
Hp: 115/115
Mp :70/70
Agility : 25/25
Strength: 45/45
Intelligence: 80/80
Defense 125/125
Stamina :75/75
Transformations: Silver furred wolf , lesser giant , three eyed Centipede, red eyed rabbit , Predatory crab.
Rank :E
Racial skills: Reformation, Universal translator, reinforcement.
Unique skills: Assimilation, All seeing eye.
Acquired skills : mana manipulation, network, shred, mana sense.
Evolution points: 0/10000
Huh.
He was stunned for a moment.
He couldn't believe his own eyes. Although his level hasn't changed , the increase in his stats was unbelievable.
If he had these abilities earlier , he would have been able to go toe to two with the three kings in a one on three battle and still win. He shivered from excitement.
Reinforcement
By infusing your body with mana , one can strengthen it exponentially. He boost in your defense would depend on the amount of mana used.
Hmmm. Not bad.
Then he remembered something and turned to scan his surroundings... and nearly fainted from the shock.
Blood dyed the ground red a few meters ahead of him and human corpses littered the floor. Using his mana sense , he could tell that the amount of magic used was great. Far surpassing his own.
Just who were those guys. They're super scary. I really hope that I don't meet them in the future.
Using [ All seeing eye] he tried to find his followers. It was only then that he noticed the traces of their battles with one another. And he got pissed.
Those damn animals. I'm gonna skin them alive.
He was about to march off in search of them( the survivors had drifted off ) when he paused as he was passing one of the humans corpses.
'It's a shame that it's not a monster. I'd really like to get a human form. '
He completely walked past before he stopped and came back.
[VOD, is it possible to use assimilation on a human. ]
[Response : Assimilation is the ultimate skill of the Monster king , that allowed him to gain strength from all sorts of life forms- demons , humans , monsters , elves and other greater and lesser races. ]
A simple yes or no would've sufficed but whatever.
An anticipatory look entered his eyes as he activated [Assimilation]
Just like when he was still a Mudman , his body once again dissolved into sludge that engulfed , processed and absorbed the dead corpse.
[The host has absorbed his first human. It would take sometime to digest the essence. ]
[Storing into the food chamber ]
[ You have gained 10 evolution points. ]
[ You have gained 2 intelligence]
[ You have gained 5 Mp ]
What the... 10000 evolution points just to evolve again. Wha the heck. Yeah , it's a scam.
It took him several months just to become a golem. Just how long would it take for him to evolve again. Moreover , the stat points he gained from the human.
So disappointing.
As Salazar reformed and saw the notifications , he felt like cursing. Weak ass monsters give me even more stat and evolution points than this.
This is a freakin human. A homo sapien. How can all it's attributes be so low. The more he thought about it , the more he felt that there was a trick to this.
As he travelled back to his base of operations , he pondered over this dilemma. Could it be because of the evolution , and so I require more quality 'food' to improve myself.
If that the case , it could be that I am currently stronger than this human was when he was alive. He felt smug , but tried not to show it. Though there was no way to show it was he didn't have facial features.
He mentally noted this new theory and promised himself that he would confirm it soon as possible. He had a feeling it would be very helpful to him in the future.
It took two days for his skill to finish digesting the human, who from his memory fragments, he discovered his name as Foaly. He was thin man , an archer bandit , when he was alive.
And through him, Salazar finally figured out a way to leave the dungeon.