A small heap of cores lay in front of Amon. They belonged to the roaches inside the hole and it had taken them a couple of hours to find all the bodies and extract all the cores.
He slowly brought his palm towards the pile of cores and saw a familiar message.
[Would you like to dissolve the cores into Stream points?]
[Ding! Detected 87 monster cores!]
’How much will I get for them?’ Amon asked inwardly and didn’t get a response.
With a sigh, he dissolved all the cores into stream points and saw the numbers go up.
A total of 8700 stream points.
With his shop now at E+ rank, they could be put to good use.
Amon let the corpses be split between Nyx and Mike equally before heading back home. There was still a lot of time left for the night to come to an end but Amon didn’t wish to work too hard.
The hunt went great and it was time to rest.
Once inside, Nyx and Mike went for a nap while Amon sat cross legged on the floor. The last time he awakened, it was due to a system reward and he wasn’t sure how he’d be able to undergo another mutation by relying on the system again.
That was where the black book came in. It had information on undergoing mutations by using monster cores and the body.
"Nyx, take out the E rank roach’s body for me please." he said and the girl readily did as she was asked. The body was huge and it filled up most of the bedroom so they had no choice but to take it back into the spacial ring and bring it out in the storage room.
Amon climbed on top of it’s body and sat cross legged with his palms facing upwards. One hand was placed on the other right with the E rank core on top.
He took a deep breath and circulated his mana. There was no core in his body but he could sense mana inside. It was everywhere.
He slowly moved it in a predetermined pathway that was mentioned in the book, making most of the mana concentrate at the top of his head, at the center of his forehead, his throat, his heart, his solar plexus, near his sexual organs and lastly, under his ass.
A small concentrated ball of mana formed at these locations and each of them signified a ’chakra’ based on Amon’s previous life’s knowledge.
They were the Crown chakra, Ajna chakra, throat chakra, heart chakra, solar plexus chakra, the sex chakra and lastly, the base chakra.
It took him some time to keep the mana flow stable but once that was done, he extended some of his mana outwards through his palms.
As his pure mana passed through the monster core, it was tainted with it’s corrupted mana before going back inside his body. Starting with just a little bit of corrupted mana, he quickly absorbed every last bit of mana from the core.
There wasn’t any drastic changes other than the difficulty of controlling the mana. It went from light blue to having a lot of black areas that slowly seemed to be converting the blue mana into black.
Amon didn’t panic as he already had a solution right in front. The system screen had long been in his mind, showing him various classes that he could switch to. As he had absorbed more and more mana, the number of classes had also increased.
With everything absorbed, he didn’t hesitate to read through the classes.
[Please choose your mutation class.]
<Armoured Roach>
<Winged Bug>
<Cockroach>
<Iron Skin Roach>
[Extra Classes added from System’s core absorption.]
<Glider>
<Black Back>
<Waste Eater>
<Diggeroach>
<Fume Breather>
<Chitin Back>
[Extra Classes created from System’s Core Absorption and Mutant’s Mana Circulation.]
<Roach>
<Roach King>
Armored roach, black back and Chitin back all provided different armors. Black Back leaned more towards stealth while having no damage boosts. A failure of a class.
Winged bug and glider were similar. Glider seemed more like a worse version as it didn’t enable proper flight.
Waste eater and Fume breather were similar with both of them being able to eat anything they wished to. Waste eater could recover health this way while the fume breather could turn the eaten matter into toxic fumes for offence.
Diggeroach gave him the ability to dig into the ground. Unfortunately it wasn’t fast enough to be of much use so Amon tossed it out of his mind.
The last three were Cockroach, roach and roach king.
Cockroach came from the E ranked monster he had killed. In a way it was the one that most resembled a cockroach that Amon remembered.
It gave him +20% vitality effectiveness, and a skill to digest most organic matter without an issue. As long as it wasn’t poisoned.
Roach and Roach King were straightforward, offering only stat effectiveness and skills.
[Roach]
Stat Effectiveness: +30% Vitality
Skills Unlocked: Survivor
[Roach King]
Stat Effectiveness: +100% Vitality, +50% Defence
Skills Unlocked: The Last Survivor (U)
As for Iron skin roach, it would turn him into a monster so he didn’t even consider taking a look at it.
’What does U stand for? Ultra?’ he mused as he checked both the skills out of mere curiosity. He had already made up his mind.
Survivor (FFF): Upon taking a fatal hit, the user will not die and will be left with 1 HP. Cooldown: 24 hours
The Last Survivor (Unique): Upon taking a fatal hit, the user will not die and will recover all HP. You will not take any damage for 1 second. Cooldown: 6 Hours.
’Unique...’
[Unique skills are one of a kind. They cannot be upgraded.]
’A recorded message? This system shouldn’t have any sentience should it? Oh well... let’s go. Roach King.’
[Would you like to keep the Stat bonuses of Humanoid Skeleton active?]
Amon didn’t mind as long as his skills didn’t disappear. Humanoid skeleton gave him +10% for strength and agility, both of which he didn’t really use much at the moment.