After successfully merging, Finn felt himself back in the physical world, on top of the dome-shaped barrier.
The results of merging with another mind and soul was still taking a toll on him. Luckily, the Jellyfish creature had a weak mind and soul. Finn knew that after a while passed, he would fully merge with its core flawlessly.
Finn's view now made him truly realize he was in a new body. Similar to when he was in his spirit body, Finn was using his entire physical body to 'see'. He lacked normal sight now.
Before checking his status, Finn decided to check how this body worked and how his core was.
Learning to move in this body was so easy that Finn felt like it was natural.
Next was his core… The changes were phenomenal.
'What a win! What a win!' Now lacking a mouth, Finn jubilated inwardly.
'My core capacity's limit increased! My current core size is so far from reaching the limit, I can't even sense my limit!' Unknowingly, Finn had achieved one of the minor goals he had. 'Thanks Mr. Jellyfish. Your sacrifice is appreciated!'
Finn didn't think much again. All feeling of fatigue and pain had cleared by the good news. He immediately began cultivating Mana again.
'I… I have an affinity now! Water to a large degree and Earth to a mid degree… My Mana Senses have also improved!' Merging with the Jellyfish core had given Finn all of its qualities.
As he wallowed in the results of this battle, Finn instantly decided to check his status panel, willing it to appear.
In an instant, a flood of other notifications appeared:
[You've merged with another being.]
[Your Soul has been strengthened.]
[Your Spirit Body and Astral body have been strengthened.]
[Skill "Spectral Healing" is merging with skill "Physical Healing".]
[Skill "Perfect Healing" has been acquired.]
[Skill "Echo of God" is influencing skill "Mana Sense".]
[Skill "Mana Sense" has evolved to "True Mana Sense".]
[Two traits within your soul are reacting strongly.]
[Inherent Skill "Shape Shifting" has been acquired.]
[Skill "Possession" is influencing skill "Shape Shifting".]
After the overwhelming information stopped, Finn held his surprise as he looked at the information about himself.
Name: -
Race: Great Phantom
⤷ Status: Inhabiting Converged Organism
Rune Gift: -
Inherent Skills: [Possession], [Perfect Healing], [Shape Shifting]
Secondary Skills: [Echo of God], [True Mana Sense], [Mana Veil]
As Finn read the details on the screen, he found the name of the Jellyfish creature odd. With piqued interest, he concentrated on the name, causing a description of the creature to appear.
[Converged Organism: Multiple organisms that were deeply influenced by a God's mana evolved to formidable creatures. These organisms were naturally converging with one another. With each encounter between these creatures, they continued to absorb each other until they became the Unique Creature they were.]
'Ahh… So this is another reason why there weren't many strong creatures. Still… was it less intelligent because of the conflicting minds. I can still sense its influence within me, but it's being suppressed.'
The description of this creature made him believe that it was naturally stronger than Finn. The creature might have defeated him if it was slightly more intelligent than it was…
'No,' Thinking further, Finn condemned the fact that it was intelligence superiority that made him win.
What created an opportunity for Finn to 'possess' it was the weird skill that activated unwillingly again, causing the Jellyfish's will to weaken.
'Echo of God… This is a deep imprint within me, close to my soul. That's what brought the Jellyfish creature to me too! Hmm, I believe the God's influence left on me is more superior to this organism. This imprint scared it…'
Finn could only sigh. Things were painfully complex. Unlike his other skills, he didn't know when he got this skill. The only guess he had was that the God who brought him to this world blessed it for him.
At that point, he noticed a not-so-obvious change in his status. 'Echo of God once had "dormant" beside it, now it's gone.'
[Echo of God: This grants you a strong false identity in various cases.]
'How direct. It's best I leave this for when I get a lead.'
He proceeded to go through his new skills.
[True Mana Sense: Your perception of Mana is perfect.]
[Perfect Healing: Healing of your physical, spirit and astral bodies have been improved by a large, intermediate and small level respectively.]
[Shape Shifting: You can take the form of any being. The results depend on your understanding of the physiology of the target being.
You can flawlessly transmute to the form of beings you have possessed.]
He concluded reading the information and decided to take a break before continuing his cultivation.
Since the beginning, he has desired more mana quantity, with the opportunity in his front, it would be regrettable to not increase his core as much as possible.
He would spend coming days or even months cultivating his core. Based on the description of the creature whose core he absorbed, the core was a result of multiple organisms with unique cores merging together.
This means the probability of his current core limit being way beyond reach was high.
Finn could not imagine the amount of opportunities that this had open for him.
Resting his Jellyfish body on the barrier, Finn proceeded with his cultivation.
Initially, he wanted to drop the talk about God behind since he had no lead to follow, until he eventually recalled that this barrier was very likely to be made by said God.
He would attempt entering the barrier, but that was going to be after he was stronger.
He didn't know what he'd encounter within the barrier, he had to be prepared for anything.
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After almost 7 months that he had gotten into this new world, Finn's core size was ten times the size it was before he left the Fenrir's body.
His control over mana had increased to a large degree, the same goes for his mana sense accuracy. When actively using the True Mana Sense skill, the limit for which he could sense covered kilometers.
Finn could actively cultivate his mana core while also moving around now.
For his water mana usage, Finn could manipulate it to create certain results, albeit there was a limit to that.
He had spent days doing nothing aside from cultivating and these were the results.
Now, Finn believed he was ready to breach the barrier.