Drayan was at the edge of the sea. The light breeze of the wind passed through his hair. The smell of wet sand could be smelled. The beautiful sea horizon stretched into the distance, and clouds hovered above the sea. But Drayan wasn't focusing on the landscape at the moment.
"What kind of skills can I acquire? Aura-type genes? It would be great to have the mutant shark's instinct and strength, even if it is temporary. Or maybe I'll get the body growth genes? Or even whole-body mutation genes? No, it is very rare to acquire a full-body mutation. Whatever, I'll discover the first skill now."
"Come, shark's first skill!" — Drayan raised his left arm to the sky.
Within moments, a layer of blue skin covered his left arm. The skin that appeared was a bright blue color, sharp spikes grew on the side of his arm, on both sides. The ends were 4 centimeters long. They were like the long nose of the saw shark.
"Body growth type genes?! Is this serious?!"
Drayan was surprised. He had achieved something quite powerful.
"This is like a gauntlet."
Drayan closed and opened his hand. His arm felt heavier, however, the moist and at the same time warm sensation made him comfortable.
He then looked at half of his right arm.
"Can I recreate my right arm with this?"
If he could do that, Drayan would already consider himself a more than happy man.
He looked at the stump of his right arm, and activated his body genes.
Thus, a long bone was created. Red flesh wrapped around Drayan's arm bone, as if it were a snake clinging to a thin tree trunk. Soon after, the arm was covered in light blue skin, which covered all the red flesh. In a matter of seconds, Drayan had a sharkskin arm.
Drayan fell to his knees.
"I can grow an arm... I can... Have an arm again..." — Drayan looked at the sea, and...
"HAHA HA! GET READY, CREATURES! I WILL KILL ALL CREATURES NOW! HAHAHAHA! AS LONG AS I EXIST THERE WILL BE NO CREATURE IN THE WORLD THAT IS NOT HUNTED BY ME!"
He was emotional, but instead of crying, he felt enormous motivation filling his body. Drayan was full of energy.
He had gotten the growth-type body genes, which was great. But now, the second skill still needed to be discovered.
He took a deep breath, and raised his right arm forward. Then he used the skill genes to activate the saw shark's second skill.
Something moved in his palm, as if there was some kind of worm inside it. In the next moment, a blue spear bathed in blood shot out from his palm.
Drayan was already used to having his hand pierced and devoured every time he summoned Cent, so he didn't care much about the pain.
The spear was 60 centimeters long. It was sharp like a sword, and it had thorns on the side too.
"Weapon-type body genes?! Are you kidding me! What happened? Did I just use up all my luck right now?! I think all my suffering from before is being compensated now!"
He wasn't buying it. Drayan was finally getting out of his misery. Drayan was getting stronger than he expected.
"Haha ha! I am invincible! To kill! I will kill all! I'm going to cut off Fluo's head with this!"
Drayan's way of showing that he was happy was different from normal. He was almost a lunatic for blood, death and revenge. Or maybe he was just slowly losing his sanity.
After all the happiness, Drayan started to feel exhausted. As if he had run down a long road without stopping.
Shit... I remembered now that I can't leave my skill genes active for a long time, especially when I'm using two skills at the same time...
Drayan deactivated his hand spear, which was sucked into his palm, and his right arm turned to goo and was sucked into the stump of his arm. Drayan also deactivated the ability genes in his left arm. The blue skin melted like ice in the sun, and was sucked into his white skin.
Drayan fell to the ground, his body wet with sweat. Leaving your cells activated made them agitated, as they were always trying hard to maintain the activation of skill genes, and because of this, your body got tired quickly.
But what made Drayan tire so quickly was the creation of his right arm. He used many cells to create just one arm. And on top of that, he even used the saw shark blade, while leaving his saw shark gauntlet activated on his left arm.
Drayan was pushing his body to the limit. If he hadn't deactivated his abilities in time, he would have passed out, or in the worst case, he could have died.
"I get tired very quickly when using these two skills at the same time. Damn it! If I get into a fight! I won't be able to use my skills properly! If I had a stronger body..."
Drayan was really mad at himself. But he couldn't complain, he still had a long way to go. He only had a low-level modified body. With just this body, he couldn't do much on his own. In the end, he was just at the beginning of his strength.
Drayan hadn't yet used all the nutrients he got from the saw shark. He could use these remaining nutrients to feed his cells and make his body stronger, however, he wanted to save the nutrients in case of emergency.
Anyway, if he had a stronger body, he could maintain the body type's ability genes for a longer time.
But Drayan knew that it was only a matter of time before he had a strong enough body to be able to use both shark ability genes at the same time without getting tired quickly.
It was about time. Drayan had already tested his new abilities and felt prepared enough to go to the city of 'Mast'.
But first, he decided to kill several black beetles. The beetle's nutrients were no longer having an effect on his cells, Drayan had reached the beetle's nutrient limit.
After feeding heavily on a specific creature, the cells begin to deny intake of these repeated nutrients. This is because cells naturally want to consume the best nutrients. There comes a certain point when cells think that a certain nutrient is no longer suitable for consumption.
It's like if a child ate an apple every day for a year, but at some point the child will grow up and will need more food to keep his body healthy and energetic, but for that he will need to eat something that gives him more energy and strength for your body.
For the cells, feeding on the beetle's nutrients is no longer worth it. In fact, Drayan's cells increasingly do not want to feed on evolved-level nutrients. Just modified or better.
Which means that each time Drayan's body evolves, the more demanding his cells become for nutrients. The stronger your body is, the more food it will need to maintain a healthy and strong body. But there will come a time when your cells will only be able to feed on the highest level of nutrients, as this is the nutrient necessary to keep them alive.
Your body has strong cells, and it needs good nutrients.
Drayan already knows this. You don't feel like your body is getting stronger when you ingest the nutrients from the black beetle. Then Drayan precisely hunted 100 beetles, so he could capture the microorganisms and train the creature's summoning.