Perk of Evolution
Sling!
The cabin closed as his family watched him fall asleep with trepidation. Raaz was also there to see him off.
Seth has no choice but to tell them what he understood about the same game. One Aspect of it was Hive Mine, it governed around Mental Power and he was in a situation that required him to use his Mental Power a lot which resulted in Power Surges.
For that, Raaz explained that Nutrients Solution and the Cabin Rank help support people in the game, so as Seth was in that situation he needed special care.
For the second time, Raaz put Rank A Nutrient Solution in his cabin, in case he needed it.
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The wind was silent this time. And sun rays permeating through the crevices of the cottage made the room a bit warm.
With great difficulty, Seth sat and leaned on the log wall, observing the room. The water has mostly dried but looking at the meat, some parts have begun to spoil.
He sighed, as he crawled to them while also gulping soothing water from the gourd and packed anything bad and threw them out.
Then, he also spread those that are good in the sun to dry. Finishing all that, he managed to come and lay down.
That… took him 2 hours to accomplish.
He laughed at this realization, at the very least at every interval of long rest he practised Aura Sight. And the best part was from the beginning to the end he didn't feel discouraged at all.
Lying back on the dried bed, he glanced at his Womb and read through the changes. It is now staged 4 and its glow has increased as well as other attributes.
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[The Womb]
Status: Dormant and Empty
Stage: 4
Attribute: Distant Charging, Harsh Element Immunity, Protective Halo, Control.
Health: Great > Optimum
Capacity: 1 Fetus
Stimulation Force: Charged(100%)
[The Womb is ready to be fertilized with a Dragon]
[Proceed To Stage 5 (Yes/No)]
[Mental Fortitude Requirements: 900 points]
[Activating the stages will give unexpected surprises]
[Note: Defeat a Dragon and throw the womb at it. The womb will be automatically fertilized.]
[Note: There will be a Mental Tug Of War between the Dragon and You. Win the War to successfully have Reign over the Fetus]
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Control? With a thought, the Womb moved toward him. With a thought, it moved out of the cottage and came back. It seemed that he can control the movement of the womb with ease, easier than controlling his arm.
Then he made it come close to him and thought of increasing the Protective Halo, and that made it brightly lit, almost blinding him.
Not only that, the bed he was in creaked as it was pushed back by the Halo. Strangely enough, Seth doesn't feel the push.
So he tested it more. He made the Womb stand behind the Cottage door and then increased its Halo. The light from the Halo pushed the door and it slammed close.
Protective Halo was tangible protection that can affect tangible items if increased. Seth tested other things apart from that.
What he read through the most about the Womb was its Health: Optimum. As someone who lacks common health, things related to that allure him more than anything.
The Health Status gave him an understanding of how weak he was in comparison to other players. Even with his little staff and other Arms, he needs to tread with care. Thankfully, he wouldn't be meeting any Players. Not any time soon of course.
But the Beasts, or whatever monstrosity he will be facing in the Dead Lands will be one hell of hard to kill. The best bet for him was to kill them with one shot. Never engage in a frontal fight.
He sighed and removed the control and the womb floated above him. He lay there looking at it, then he said.
"Yes!"
That was to proceed to stage 5. Nothing happened. He then made it come close, it was pulsing with light with every heartbeat beat the expected head drilling was nowhere to be found and then he called the status.
[The Womb]
Status: Dormant and Empty
Stage: 4
Attribute: Distant Charging, Harsh Element Immunity, Protective Halo, control.
Health: Optimum
Capacity: 1 Fetus
Stimulation Force: Charging (18%)
[After 100% stage 5 will be unlocked]
[Activating the stages will give unexpected surprises]
[Note: You can deactivate the connection to Stimulation at any time]
[Note: Charging will be disconnected after 100%]
[Activating the stages will give unexpected surprises]
[Note: Defeat a Dragon and throw the womb at it. The womb be fertilized]
[Note: There will be a Mental Tug Of War between the Dragon and You. Win the War to successfully have Reign over the Fetus]
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"Eh!" Seth's eyes almost popped out. Not only did he feel no head drilling, but the charging was also faster than the first charging.
He had no idea that to unlock his potential more, the cabin had mixed Terran Energy and Nutrient Solution to supply his entire cells with enough energy and direct them to support his monstrous capability.
It was an automatic upgrade to the Game Cabin. All Rank 5 Cabins are capable of doing that but they don't have the relevant Software to initiate it.
But the creators have known what they wanted and they knew that those that underwent an outstanding feat that may be needed in the game, may end up generating TE in abundance.
And to generate that, one must have an abundance of Mental Power. However, naturally, the body and brain may not survive the squeeze and the burden.
The solution was a mixture of TE and Nutrient Solutions to elevate and upgrade the body. However, it may come with a lot of complications which they were ready to accept.
In the now-known Game, the great feat was obtaining Temporal Pearl or having a Class.
Seth has suffered just because of holding the Pearl, and for that, the Software that will provide aid was downloaded and initiated.
In another word, Seth has evolved in the real world without knowing. Not only that, there was no apparent complication but only success.
Seth was gawking at the passing percentage trying to understand what the hell was happening and…
[The Womb]
Status: Dormant and Empty
Stage: 5
Attribute: Distant Charging, Harsh Element Immunity, Protective Halo, Control, Variant.
Health: Optimum
Capacity: Fetus
Stimulation Force: Charged(100%)
[The Womb is ready to be fertilized]
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"It was... not even 25 minutes!" Seth stammered.
The thing was everyone has talent. One just needs to search for it. If Seth was born in an era that has no VR and diving technology, he will just be another cripple burden in society.
If he was born in Spartans, well, he would have been thrown off a cliff as he was unworthy to be part of them.
But his luck was pretty good as he was in the era where his talent can be manifested in the right way.
At that moment, he remembered his struggles to push back that Asteroid that was moving to destroy his continent. He was a kid then and had a limited understanding of things but one thing stuck to him was that he would have pushed it but for an unknown reason, he couldn't.
It's like knowing that he can lift a chair but his hand was strained or held by something and couldn't do it. He has the notion that the amount of mental force he was inputting made the damn Headgear overloaded and the technology has no way of processing it.
"So, stage 5 is the limit?" Seth wondered as he didn't see the prompt to keep charging.
The health was still optimum, so that was the limit of Heath. And the next thing was the Variant attribute and the 1 fetus was now just a fetus.
Reading it, Seth was delighted. It has already hinted that he can nurture and give birth to a Beast other than the Dragons. The requirements were still the same, defeat it and absorbed it in the womb.
But, now the case has become apparent. He can nurture any kind of beast and the womb will not be used off. Yes, as long as he didn't nurture a Dragon he can nurture other beasts. And there was no limit cap.
Seth wouldn't take their word for it as there might be a requirement.
But then he said, instinctively, "Proceed to the next stage!" Nothing happened.
"Evolve!"
The feeling was there is more to it. But after calling out and nothing happened he just lay there to sleep.
What he didn't notice was that the Womb was still pulsing with light but the intense light from the sun masked it.