Chapter 274 : : A New Option

[The three targets successfully eliminated]

The cold mechanical sound from the Smart Band broke the pin-drop silence and attracted everyone's attention.

[Collecting data from the previous counter…..]

[System had made a mistake in analyzing the threat level of the enemy]

[Re-analyzing threat level…..]

[Threat Lvl 0+ Confirmed]

[System apologize for the earlier mistake, but the fault was clearly in the creator. The system will make sure that such a mistake doesn't happen again]

"…" (Everyone)

For some reason, the words from the Smart Band felt like sarcastic comments to all the people present.

If Rex was here and heard these words then, he would have also noted it down in his <Rose Is Full Of Thrones> dairy he wrote to settle his account with Rose later on.

To make things faster, he only gave the basic idea, structure, and logic he wanted to work the system AI with, the rest was left to Rose, if Rex started to do that himself then it would have taken years which was clearly a waste of time, and because Rose did that, the things the AI spoke were indirectly related to Rose.

[Preparation for the second wave are complete]

When the words sounded, everyone looked at the three cannons whose back shell suddenly opened, inside it there were several square containers arranged in matric formation, every container had a metallic ball similar to the scouting bots in their initial state, the only difference was that they had a white skull mark on them.

Just like scouting bots, these balls also transformed and flew towards the fighters standing far away, they were still thinking if they should run away they actually wanted to run away but on the other hand, they feared that they will be heavily punished if they went back empty-handed.

"What are you all thinking? don't let the fear get to your head, they had used such a powerful technique so it's oblivious they had paid a big price and can't use it again for a long time, and think if we took back such strong technique from them and gave it back to Lord Kebel then we will definitely receive a huge reward," One man suddenly said when he saw that the other people were thinking of running away.

He was one of the strongest after the three generals, it wasn't like he was not afraid of their opponent, the reason he said this was because….

Now that the three generals had died Sir Kebel need to appoint someone else as a general and if I somehow complete this mission then my merits would be enough for me to become a general …. was what he thought.

…Clank… x 3

When he was speaking he heard the sound of metal clashing, he turned around and saw that instead of listening to him, the other fighters were digging the body of the main general frozen inside a big chunk of ice with the weapons in their hands.

These fighters were not so loyal or sympathetic towards the general that they would go through all these efforts to get his dead body and give him a proper funeral, what they really wanted was the storage ring and the spirit grade equipment on his dead body.

They never thought about doing what the man just said, as long as they weren't blind they could see what does he want, even if they successfully complete the mission the one who may truly get rewarded would be their captain not them, so why not just take the expensive equipment on the general and run, after all, if they sell them then they would have enough money to enjoy their life for years.

The man was angry, he wanted to shout at them but then he heard a strange buzzing sound and looked at the sky, he saw that several metal balls with a skull on them were flying towards them.

A ray of wisdom flashed through the man's eyes.

'I see, now I understand how they were able to target as from so far….. general ignored these bug-like things saying that they were useless and can't do anything to us, I won't repeat the same mistake again,' He thought.

"Everyone, whether you want to fight or run, if you let these things remain close to you the enemy can use the strange technique like before again and target us from far away so… destroy them," He shouted and alerted everyone.

This time everyone stopped what they were doing after hearing his words.

His words sound reasonable…. they thought.

They all looked at each other and reached a tactic understanding, they took out their weapon and rushed towards the flying metallic balls.

The man that alerted everyone smiled, feeling satisfied with himself, he then took the lead and struck the ball near him with his giant ax.

If the current scene needs to be defined with an example, it would be just like how a moth chases a flame only to get burned by it.

The second the sharp edge of the ax touched the metallic ball…..

…BOOOM….. x 6

When the first ball exploded, it triggered the chain reaction and all the other balls also exploded.

The black balls were… Suicide Bots.

They were initially mini energy cells housing the Qi from C grade battery, the energy inside them wasn't of good quality and the container themselves were of poor quality, instead of improving them Rex decided to transform them in Suicide Bots, the restless Fire Qi inside was like RDX, after adding the detonating formations Rex copied from Exploding Talismans to it and combining them with Scouting Bot blueprint resulted in the invention of Suicide Bots.

To increase their lethality, Rex further added the homing system that makes the Suicide Bots track the target they locked onto until they explode.

[All targets elimination confirmed]

[Collecting information from the battle...]

[City Defense System Deactivated]

The combat Bots that were on stand by returned to their storage array space without even having to fight.

When Jiang Shuang still looking at the last message on Smart Band, he suddenly felt many unfriendly gazed directed at him, he turned around only to see Aeneas, Aiden, and all other beastman staring at him.

They felt like they are being made fun of again and again.

"Hehe… it's the third time isn't it," Fred gave a hollow laugh.

It was the third time that they had to build up their resolve to fight but had to act as bystanders instead, the first time was at Monster Hunting Sect, the second was when The Reaper killed Kebel's man at City Lord Mansion and the third was at the moment.

Jiang Shuang shrugged his shoulders awkwardly, he didn't know what to say to comfort them.

Adal was in no better situation than him, the Archers stationed on the wall were shooting a glance at the three strange Cannons then at the low-quality bows in their hand and finally, they looked at him, the meaning was clear…

They felt like they were just mascots playing their role as decoration by standing on the city wall.

"Well, for now, isn't it better to focus on retrieving the spoils of battle," Jiang Qing lightened the mood.

Both Jiang Shuang and Adal immediately nodded in agreement.

...…

It has been nine days since Rex went into seclusion, actually, it only took him six days to completely refine and absorb the suppressed blood drops only leaving a small part of one drop left for researching, later on, he spent the remaining three days to ingest the last few remaining drops from one bottle of Elixir Of Life.

After he completely finished the one bottle of the Elixir Of Life, his whole status increased although the main increase of the Elixir Of Life was in VIT and END, his other status also increased by a little, his AGI, which was stuck at 49% until last week had finally surpassed 50% just now.

Ding…

[Required conditions met]

[Congratulation, due to your strong constitution your special basic skill 'Dash' has evolved into 'Accel']

'Accel?' (Rex)

Rex read the description of Accel and was quite satisfied with the mentioned effect, he then stood up and stretched his muscles getting ready to experience it beforehand.

'Accel' (Rex)

All of a sudden Rex's figure turned blurry then a distorted shadow of him appeared several meters away from his original position but before the shadow could become clearly visible it again disappeared and several meters towards its right, the shadow disappeared and appeared again, this happened again and again repeatedly before Rex finally appeared in his original position.

'Amazing, the defect Dash had of only traveling in one direction is not there anymore, the range has also increased to 50 meters and it only consumes stamina to cast with my current END it's like a non-costing skill,' Rex thought with visible excitement in his eyes.

After checking the change in his status he again set down and started looking through the Evolutionary tree list, although he already decided on one but after he got so many DNA signatures there bound to be few more options that got added to the list and even if they weren't suitable it still didn't hurt to check.

Rex was disappointed when checking those option, every option was guiding him towards a new species of Spirit Beasts he had no intention of stepping down from his weaponized body race, there were also some options which only had some small diversion and not going in a different path but the benefits he would get them was lower compared to his current choice… Blue-Tier Lesser Elixirior Human.

Just when Rex almost finished checking the list and was looking at the last option he paused then a surprised look appeared on his face.

'What is this,' (Rex)

[16. Blue-Tier Lamiarious Carbonite Human(Unique)]

[Blue-Tier Lamiarious Carbonite Human:-

Description: A unique variant species form the hybrid of Green-Tier Mind Carbonite Human and another hybrid variant of an unknown species, this species has the character of both the parent species but is unique at the same time.

This race will provide a 13% bonus to all the attributes except INT and WIS coupled with Innate Darkness Immunity and Innate Shadow Immunity inborn traits, under their effect any attack from the opponent of the same cultivation base that uses Dark or Shadow attribute and has the same quality of Qi or same mastery of Law as you, would be nullified by 70%.

These two inborn traits work by increasing the Dark and Shadow element affinity of your body to an extent that your body will develop an auto-damage reduction feature when experiencing these two type attribute attacks.

Requirement: Strong mental strength, all physical status should be at least at D or above in grade]

'A hybrid and a variant too? and unknown species… Little Rose you need to do some explaining here,' (Rex)

[It's just what it looks like, a hybrid is a result of two different species that has gained the characters of both the parents, but the variant is when someone had gone through a mutation and had gained characters that their species normally won't possess… right?]

'Of course, I know that stupid, that's the reason you also know it, what I am asking is why that unknown parent and this race are both the hybrid and variant?' Rex snorted.

[I am coming on that, it's an extremely rare case even among rare ones, let's take an example a hybrid between a male lion and a female tiger is a liger that possesses the characteristics of both of them, then let's say because of any natural or unnatural mutation happened and it became a variant from birth like it can be a liger with two tails or is bigger than a normal liger.

A hybrid has normal genes from both the parent but a variant has mutated genes in them that are different from them, if we take an example from the cultivation world a special physique holder is highly similar to a variant.

Little Aru is a variant, he became a variant because of your interference but think if he had a father of a different race and mother from a different race and you had interfered before his birth then he would be both a hybrid and variant]

'You know, I really didn't like the last example,' Rex raised his eyebrow.

[It was just an example]

'Although I already had the idea who is this unknown species individual here is, you haven't even given a name to but would you like to make it clearer for me my Rosey,' Rex said while extending his tone by the end of the sentence.

[It's Zakiya, I didn't give a name to her species because I am really confused by the DNA signature, normally she should be Nine-Tailed Fox but now I think it was more like one of her parents was Nine-Tailed Fox but I don't know anything about the other one, she possess the characters of both of her parents and her genes had gone through a mutation so my conclusion is that she is both a hybrid and a variant …an extremely real case, it is no less than a miracle of nature.

As for why I haven't given a name to her species, it's because I don't know about her other parent and even if I do she is variant so I can't just fuse both names, that's why I left it as unknown.

And about this race option, it's a unique case that shouldn't normally exist in nature… well your current race and precious one is also coming in the same category so it isn't actually that much different case]

'Is my base scale of weirdness has increased to a big value without me knowing it,' Rex wondered.