Chapter 15
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"I became a Rank 2 Micro Jellyfish, and a new Ability called 'Razor Whip' appeared in my Ability section… Hmm… System, can you pull up information on this 'Razor Whip'?"
[Ding! Certainly!]
[Level 2: Razor Whip (Active Slash-type Ability)] - (Slashes out with razor-sharp tentacle pads: capable of inflicting |500% Energy Damage| on anything within the Jelly Sea.]
"Oh, nice. So this means I have an attack nearly twice as effective as |Jelly Lash|, which had an Energy Damage percentage of 300%."
Although he had not yet learned exactly what the 500% Energy Damage meant, Astaroth at least understood that larger numbers were better. After all, bigger would always be better!
"Probably… I mean, size matters, but after fully ascending to the Human World, I doubt whether the size of something will be able to fully detail the strength of an organism. Hmm, how odd everything works…"
While in the midst of his own thoughts, Astaroth was also dodging the Jelly Lashes that were coming at him from multiple directions. The attacking Micro Jellyfish were beginning to become aggravated at the constant evasions of the prey, but that only served to fuel the power put behind their Jelly Lashes.
However, no matter how much they swung at the similarly-sized Micro Jellyfish, none of their attacks made contact with a single skin fiber of his.
"Ai… Well, it's best to just try out the attack and see how it performs, no?"
Side weaving to the left, Astaroth narrowly escaped being hit by over two hundred paralysis tentacles. A coldness emerged from the depths of his existence, and he activated |Razor Whip|.
SLASH!
With just that single ability activation, more than five different Micro Jellyfish were sliced up into mince meat!
[Ding! You have absorbed 12,500 (G6) Energy from a Lvl 3 Micro Jellyfish!]
[Ding! You have absorbed 14,000 (G6) Energy from a Lvl 3 Micro Jellyfish!]
[Ding! You have absorbed 16,000 (G6) Energy from a Lvl 3 Micro Jellyfish!]
[Ding! You have…]
"How interesting…" Shifting his piercing gaze toward the other jellyfish, Astaroth just knew there was some good loot to be had.
Swiftly and like a slippery slime shadow, he used |Undulation Zoom| ten times in a row. He appeared behind a dozen Micro Jellyfish, and dripping down his tentacles was the translucent blood of the Jellyfish.
All of them had been cleanly cleaved in half, and they died without even knowing where their prey had gone to…
"Ho? I was under the impression that these jellyfish didn't bleed, but it looks like after a certain Energy Level, they developed a blood stream. Around 16,000+ Energy, I think?"
[Ding! You have absorbed 260,000 (G6) Energy from 10 different Lvl 3 Micro Jellyfish!]
"Yeah, I think it was after 16,000. Well, I guess that means the Jelly Sea is about to get real bloody."
The higher-level Micro Jellyfish were already raining blood down on all the lesser beings, but with their immense statures, it was hard to differentiate a skin cell from a droplet of blood. Therefore, it wasn't until now that Astaroth figured out the Jellyfish could bleed.
"Anyway, now that I can confidently kill and absorb Lvl 3 Micro Jellyfish, I just need to keep on working my way up to the top. Though one slow step at a time, I have no doubt that I will reach it."
Astaroth looked above him, only to see giant kraken-like titans battling it out with each other, not caring a single bit about insignificant bugs like him and the others.
Glancing below himself as well, he also saw tiny Micro Jellyfish attacking and devouring each other.
Both perspectives left Astaroth in a weird state of mind. It was tough to describe what it was like to be both small to some and big to others. Though it was a universal principle to have some who were better or worse than others, it was still surreal to have it viewed in such a way.
Unlike anything in existence — that was how any earthling would describe this feeling.
"If this is the way of the world, then I just need to become the largest and strongest… I need to become so insurmountable that no amount of growth would allow something to see me as anything less than the all-encompassing universe around them."
With big goals in his heart, Astaroth had them act as the guiding light that would pave the way toward Infinite Evolution.
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