Returning to his room, Lucifer sat on his bed and felt a sudden sense of peace.
His entire body relaxed as he flopped to his bed. Without knowing when, he dozed off without washing up.
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The sky was dark and the whitish-silver rays from the half-moon was blocked by layers and layers of clouds.
Within a silent dilapidated hut, a muffled growling sound rumbled, and clanging sounds of sharp metals against each other sounded.
In the darkness of the room, two glowing predatory red-eyes peered through its surroundings as though scanning for its prey before setting its eyes at a spot a few meters away.
Its head tilted to the side and in the blink of an eye, the eyes blurred, appearing right at that position. Before the creature was a sleeping young man.
The sudden sounds of clothes shuffling startled the creature, making it retreat backwards. It was the snoring young man adjusting his sleeping posture to a more comfortable position.
But soon, its hesitation faded and a sudden brutality in its eyes overcame its cowardice as it stretched its sharp claws towards the young man's neck.
"Shiiiiing!"
Before the creature could realize what was happening, there was a flash as a blade glinted in the dark.
"Pppfft!"
Blood splattered all over the room, staining the wall and producing an astonishing blood art in the wall as well as on the ground.
Lucifer's cross shape eyes were cold, but neither did they blink as the blood splattered all over him. He watched the red-eyed rabbit fall in the ground with a heavy thud.
"I need a bigger cage."
Staring at the red-eyed rabbit, it no longer had the cute appearance it had before. It's fur had changed from white to grey and it's thin body had produced muscles. It's fingernails had been transformed into pure steel claws, capable of ripping through steel metals and its two bunny like ears had shortened drastically.
Lucifer was slightly surprised by its appearance. The red-eyed rabbit had actually advanced to a Fiend Creature. But it was still weak compared to a true level-3 Fiend creature judging by the fact that he succeededbin killing the beast on one fell swoop.
It didn't take much at all for Lucifer to tidy up his room. But he was very excited for the meat of the the level-3 red-eyed rabbit.
Within thirty minutes, Lucifer had a large pile of level-3 flesh meat boiling in a large pot, cooking in his backyard.
Like a ravenous beast, he consumed the flesh without minding the heat radiating from the flesh in his hands and mouth.
He wanted to rare the beast until it reached level-4 but who would have thought the cage wouldn't hold out against a beast such as that.
[Flesh of Fiend Creature, Red-eyed Rabbit eaten. Evolution Progress increased by 3% ]
[Flesh of Fiend Creature, Red-eyed Rabbit eaten. Evolution Progress increased by 8% ]
[Flesh of Fiend Creature, Red-eyed Rabbit eaten. Evolution Progress increased by 1% ]...
Before he knew it, he had consumed two-third of the flesh and had gained about 12% more evolution points.
Lucifer let out a burb, drank a bit of grade-d water which contained an edible amount of toxic radiation. Then continued eating.
Suddenly, he felt his entire body warming up and his genes undergoing subtle changes. Lucifer's eyes widened slightly. "There's actually a gene catalyst within this meat."
He immediately closed his eyes to feel the information of his gene.
[Evolution Progress: 199%]
[Origin: Combat-1, Psionic-1]
[Genes: Gold Flesh(3), Light Feet(3), [Feather Weight](3)]
[100% Evolution Progress = 1 Evolution points]
Three genetic abilities? Lucifer couldn't almost believe it. Was it because of the shriveled finger?
Lucifer stared brightly at the shriveled finger like a bagger who has just found gold. Not only could the finger increase the evolution of animals, it could also increase the probability ratio of gene catalyst within the flesh. It was simply breathtaking!
With its new found function, didn't it mean he could gain high-level gene with more practical use?
Like the Fire-Storm gene from Blaze-Lion...
The wing-gene from the Four-Winged bird ...
Storm gene from the Storm-Eagle ...
Four-arm gene from the Eight-arm Ape...
Life-drain gene from the vampiric bat...
True-sight gene from the Twin-headed Eagle...
Lightning gene from the Electric Eel
The web-slinger gene from the Arachnid-Mother spider and so on.
These aren't even the rarest of genes, they are just the genes Lucifer had heard about and would absolutely love to have. But the question is, how and where would he get his hands in such creatures?
It's not as if he could just walk up to them, feed them the finger and then wait for them to offer themselves to be killed. They would absolutely rip him to shreds the moment he walk up to them as some of these creatures were even beyond the Primeval level!
Closing his eyes, he tapped the ability deep within his gene and suddenly, his muscles squirmed and he felt the cells in his entire body lightened up. It was a though he had stripped off his original weight, allowing him to become weightless in the process.
Suddenly, Lucifer exerted a bit of force as he jumped up.
"Whoosh!"
It was as though he was gliding through the air. As he landed 50 meters away! He could now move so fast and quietly. With this, he had received another boost to his speed.
When he relaxed, his cells slowly went back to their former state, he could now feel the weight of his body. It had been slightly uncomfortable feeling almost as light as a feather and now, he felt a bit complete with his weight on himself.
Lucifer happily went back to his meal to complete it. Sadly, he wasn't able to gain any progress in his evolution. This frustrated him to no end. He needed only 1 more percent and he would be able to evolve to the second level of combat origin.